Golly gosh, that was a cool 50 minutes. It is not everyone’s cup of tea. I can understand that. Cool…
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Great stories you are writing. Cyclones in the southern hemisphere to ice on the windscreen in Scotland. Stay well and…
Lizzie, Those service places used to be called TravelHotels last time we were driving through Scotland and northern England, very…
Gorn! The other double tonner from last test out bowled to the Paki who plays for Rhodesia, Sikander Raza. Good…
We are in a horrible small Costa Services just outside Glasgow. The first one for a rest stop after Hairy…
He’s used so much it’s paralised the frontal cortex
Dr F.
I don’t think there is much doubt that the chap in question is a cad and a bounder, and possibly also a dickhead.
Which would not necessarily make him a criminal, and nor would it distinguish him from the general Parliament House population.
No worries, shaterzzz.
Daily Mail.
Courts are a lottery in Australia.
Depends in the jurisdiction, depends on who you draw as a judge.
Pretty disturbing the way the whole system has gone.
Are these the same local cops who tip off citizens about the Mexican drug cartel HQ at the end of the street?
Laugh of the day award.
Nuclear found to be the most ‘disputed or uncertain’ and ‘expensive’ option (Sky News, 5 Oct)
ACF: wrong for the last fifty years and still going strong at it.
AEMO: blackouts R us.
CSIRO: scientific fairies at the bottom of the garden.*
* Having worked with CSIRO peoples for several decades I know what they’re like. They mean well, in a clueless otherworldly sort of way.
Test!
In my former life as an anaesthetist, I got very good at guessing a patients age and weight. Notably, 2 groups looked older than their years: smokers (ciggies destroy elastin, giving them more wrinkles) and those who had recently lost a lot of weight – their stretched skin being no longer filled out by subcutaneous fat. If Albo retains his trim figure for any length of time, it is almost certainly the result of either a change to keto/carny diet, or a lap band. I wonder if its the latter, given how few ‘experts’ know about keto/carnivore diet.
yeh – well they reported that wrong.
Bunched dress was during the alleged assault.
When found in the morning, she was starkers.
it is almost certainly the result of either a change to keto/carny diet, or a lap band. I wonder if its the latter, given how few ‘experts’ know about keto/carnivore diet.
Good point.
Maybe the healthy living story is cover for the easy way out (surgery).
And the ubiquitous trial-by-press process which runs pre and concurrent to the court one.
How’s it going Zatara?
Is the power all back on & everything?
I’d back that up.
I’ve crossed paths with a few and they’re mostly of the harmless, slightly bemused, professor with pipe types.
Test!
Seems to have worked!
you never know if they will spring a woke activist on you. law and order has ceased to exist in the west.
I kicked the tyres on this project fifteen years ago and they’re still doggedly fighting through the red and green tape. Fairly large but low grade copper deposit. The gold makes it worthwhile though.
Both sides dig in as EPA’s final decision on Pebble Mine nears (Phys.org, 4 Oct)
I find it amusing that Greens, who lurve EVs and distributed power sources, die in ditches like this to oppose copper mines – when all their pet Gaia-icons desperately need lots and lots and lots of copper.
Oh and the other amusing thing is Macquarie Harbour in Tassie. It’s an aquaculture hot spot…despite most of a century-worth of copper tailings on the bottom of it from Mt Lyell.
Carlton were proddies/Freemasons?
Seems weird, after Silvagni & Pitura.
Anyway, folk in my family could play for Collingwood & Essendon, goat riding Knights of Columbus.
Found, in the morning, after crying through the whole process the night before, feeling “trapped, not human”, telling him to stop at least six times, and she assured the security guard she was “O.K.?”
The ACF relies on the CSIRO GenCost22 report for this conclusion.
Rather strangely, this report observes that there is no real cost experience with SMR’s – but then heroically goes on to produce a Levelised Cost of Electricity forecast much higher than any other technology (other than burning hydrogen in reciprocating engines).
The same report forecasts that CCS technology is just about to boom. Despite there being no real cost experience with CCS, it’s refreshingly cheap, apparently.
Probably nothing at all to do with CSIRO’s multiple CCS research projects – remnant wafts of Kevin Rudd’s Karbin Kaptcha Institute brainfart.
Children in the attic.
I hope they explode when lasered, that would be epic.
Using AI to target a laser for killing roaches (Phys.org, 3 Oct)
I’m not sure what is sillier: using HAL 9000 to laser cockroaches or that there’s a scientific journal called “Oriental Insects”.
To tell the difference, see what he is eating:
If its the usual shite, but in small amounts = surgery
If its steak and eggs, in unlimited amounts = keto/carny
Royalties for Regions in WA has caused massive freeway interchanges to be built in Albany (much more massive ones in Perth of course) that must have meant big bucks for the unions’ favourite contractors. Recent widening of the highway through the big state forests are back to 80km/hr in large lengths due to edges giving up under high wheel loadings, and look like they are going to get repaired when the bridge replacement crews get a minute.
The back roads run on shire budgets are suffering big time though.
FTB
It’s still a najor mess down in south/central Florida but they have a huge army of power company people who came in from all over the country to work on restoring electricity. They’ve done miracles already to be honest and restored power to probably half the outage areas but now the real work starts as instead of just patching lines and such they are having to rebuild from the ground up.
Lots of roads and bridges have been trashed as well so that is limiting movement until the military can get in and do temporary repairs. But that’s moving along pretty well all things considered.
Lots of people are living rough or have moved to rellies in other states for now as shelter, food, and fresh water are a bit hit or miss at this point. I’m sure you’ve seen the videos. Lot’s of destroyed homes.
The emergency folks had a good plan and it’s being well executed. Will probably be a year or two before things are sorted totally but no time seems to be wasted.
In all, it could have been worse.
To be fair, I wouldn’t want any ‘help’ from a security guard after any kind of embarrassing fail.
Impossible! Unthinkable!
(I had contact with this some time ago, it was like watching dwarves drooling in front of Smaug’s pile of gold. Quite amusing.)
Dunno about Essendon but my GGFather was a committee member at Carlton and donated heaps to them and he was a staunch catholic, maybe it was his money but he was well liked and respected there. One of his sons and a grandson also played for the Blues.
Zyconoclastsays:
October 5, 2022 at 10:17 am
Link doesn’t work.
Try this one instead
https://tbdailynews.com/quincy-mother-films-herself-pulling-12-year-old-by-the-hair-so-her-daughter-can-stomp-on-her-face-calls-her-dumb-white-ho/
Its good to know the AFP are on the ball.
Elbow lost between 13 and 15kg, he claims from cutting out cards, including alcohol.
Claiming he must have had lapband surgery seems a bit of a stretch.
James Campbell in today’s Hun:
Daniel Andrews has made it clear he thinks the anti-gay and anti-abortion beliefs of the City on the Hill church are “absolutely appalling” and “just wrong”.
Fair enough.
But if that is so, then why has he — and other members of his government — sent his children to Catholic schools?
Maybe he hasn’t been listening in church but the doctrines of the denomination he professes to be a member of, are basically the same as those have got Andrew Thorburn sacked as CEO of Essendon.
And if the views of the Catholic church on gays and abortion are so awful why has he opened buildings at Catholic schools that teach them?
Incidentally, these “absolutely appalling” views are also taught by the overwhelming majority of Muslim clerics and Orthodox Jewish Rabbis.
This latest turn in the ongoing farce that is the Essendon Football Club has suddenly turned serious.
What has happened in the past 48 hours has implications for our society that go far beyond football.
In his statement accepting Thorburn’s resignation, Bomber’s chairman Dave Barham tried to claim “this is not about vilifying anyone for their personal religious beliefs”.
But that is exactly what has happened.
Thorburn has lost his job not because of anything he himself has said, or how he acted towards people — indeed he was unaware of the offending sermons — but simply because he holds an office in a church that teaches these beliefs.
Is everyone who attends a church, mosque or synagogue that exposes religious opinions which within living memory were accepted by the vast majority of the world’s great monotheistic religions, now unemployable?
Perhaps that’s going too far.
Perhaps you can keep your job if you just go to such a church.
But clearly holding office in one is now grounds for dismissal.
Taking the collection plate around on Sunday or doing the flowers?
Clearly a grey area and probably best avoided.
The Premier’s comments and the actions of the Essendon board represent sea change in our attitude to religion.
For most of our history politicians have gone out of their way to respect different religious opinions.
Not because they agreed with them, but because, among other reasons, they understood that for the sincerely religious, belief is not something that can be trimmed to suit the fashion of the day.
If you believe — really believe — that God has decreed abortion and homosexuality to be sinful, you are not going to be argued out of it.
People have suffered and died throughout history for their beliefs which is why smart politicians have always understood it doesn’t do to push believers into a corner.
Even leaders who have sought to impose a monopoly of the public displays of religion have frequently tolerated things in private, following the example of Queen Elizabeth I who said “I have no desire to make windows into men’s souls”.
When Daniel Andrews says of Thorburn’s church’s beliefs about homosexuality and abortion that “to dress that up as anything other than bigotry is just obviously false” he is not just saying he doesn’t think these view should be expressed publicly, he’s actually saying he doesn’t believe their views can be sincerely held.
That’s a big change and a very dangerous one.
First world prices and Scandinavian taxation, Bangladeshi infrastructure!
We’re a third world nation pretending to be a First World nation.
Jab jab booster…………………….sheeple.
You’d think it would be big news? Deaths in Australia are running a lot higher than expected. After ticking like a metronome for years, they’ve suddenly jumped 12% or even higher. This is above and beyond normal deaths and deaths listed as “Covid”. Something mysterious or new has killed around 10,000 Australians in the first half of this year. This is eight times worse than the national road toll, (and in half the time) yet this phenomenon has barely rated a mention in our news reports.
When a car crash kills three people, we hear about it on the six o’clock news. But when 10,000 lose their lives… crickets.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/10000-mysterious-excess-deaths-in-australia-that-no-one-wants-to-talk-about/
The lasers/cockroaches thing was in David Brin’s SF novel “Earth”, only it was lasers/mosquitos.
StarLink works well. Just finished setting it up. Dish currently on back lawn. Dish on the roof next week.
Sensational, and comforting.
Black Ball says:
October 5, 2022 at 1:39 pm
James Campbell in today’s Hun:
Daniel Andrews has made it clear he thinks the anti-gay and anti-abortion beliefs of the City on the Hill church are “absolutely appalling” and “just wrong”.
Fair enough.
But if that is so, then why has he — and other members of his government — sent his children to Catholic schools?
Plus 100.
CSIRO is a sheltered workshop. Full of useless lazy types who can’t get a real job in industry. Same as CASA. Full of aviation industry wannabees who were too incompetent to get a job in the industry.
I’m in the market for a cockroach killing laser, in fact I’d be happy with a cockroach killing flame thrower.
Zipster
Google “Scooby Doo Girls Go Wild”.
I look forward to your critique.
“Fair enough.
But if that is so, then why has he — and other members of his government — sent his children to Catholic schools?”
I have a leftist progressive boss. He reads the Guardian and watches their ABC. Back in 2017, when that grub Tim Minchin penned that ghastly song about Cardinal Pell, all designed to add to the pile on of Pell, my boss arrived at work singing the song in a loud voice, and then he stood in front of me and said that Pell should come back to face the music and that the church was hiding him in Rome. I gave him a withering look and asked him, “given your hostility towards the church, why then did you send your children to Catholic schools?” It shut him up and he never mentioned Pell again.
The left are easy to shut down, all you have to do is expose and confront them with their eternal stupidity and hypocrisy. You never turn the other cheek to them.
I’m in the market for a cockroach killing laser, in fact I’d be happy with a cockroach killing flame thrower.
As long as you don’t mind the collateral damage.
Louis Litt says:
October 5, 2022 at 1:50 pm
Zipster
Google “Scooby Doo Girls Go Wild”.
I look forward to your critique.
FMD you are a very sick puppy, with no chance for recovery.
Interesting use of the word “staged”. Or Freudian.
Those Labor politicians that live in waterfront mansions and have sizeable portfolios of investment properties spring to mind.
Most bariatric surgery is a gastric sleeve nowadays. Occasionally a gastric bypass.
If Mortein doesn’t work fast enough you can turn it into a flamethrower with a Bic lighter.*
..
*May void house insurance.
I could write the final report, already. Words like “Effects of colonialism” and “inter-generational trauma” will feature prominently.
Having a week ago lost my mother to undiagnosed metastasized lung cancer and seeing the number of people who couldnt come to her funeral because
1 sick themselves
2 attending another funeral
3 suffering difficult to diagnose hospitalisations
4 Other cancer
5 On deathwatch for spouse in hospice with heart failures
I think a LOT of the excess is due to failure to get early medical attention and doctors’ focus on the wrong things due to covid hysteria.
30 years ago, perhaps.
Not sure I would give them that they mean well. CSIRO has been part of the problem for years now. Public servants in lab coats.
Correct. Socialised health care and the complete clusterfuck that is the health system is where the blame lies.
It’s good to see President Brandon recognising the need for deescalation and a speedy end to the war in Ukraine!
https://mobile.twitter.com/oleksiireznikov/status/1577384047289966599
The powers that be were made well and truly aware that pavement failure was going to occur on the Trawalla/Beaufort sections.
Those who have been predicting that Russia would hold Kherson better not read the news.
Twitter again as a fucking source for the war.
I wasn’t asking for other sources earlier, just ridiculing that, m0nty in particular, just links to fucking twitter for all his war takes.
Then the 2 other sources were some obscure blog and fucking youtube.
Give it a fucking rest, none of you have a fucking clue whats going on.
I did work experience at the UWA Dept of Agriculture or somewhere with greenhouses. Lots of boffins, lab coats and tweed. I recall my report said I should probably look elsewhere. Good advice.
Harrym0nty-fa (and many others) still have not twigged that the first news from a battlefiled is never reliable. Both sides will make the best story they can, until the dusrt settles, neither are reliable.
But Chickenhawks like m0nty-fa have orgasms over each separate announcement.
Return fail. Put Harry on a separate line to the rest.
Are you f—— kidding!? Pretty much the only sources from pro-Putin commenters on here have been copy and pastes of “Armchair Warlord”, “Geroman” and “Big Serge”, all Twitter cranks.
Some of it was people not going the extra mile to insist on medical treatment (a definite factor in older males) or medical services just not being readily available.
A huge part of this was the push to “protect the NHS”, starting mainly in Britain but extending to Australia and the US. Initially this was part of the “flatten the curve” narrative, which would supposedly ensure that hospitals wouldn’t be overwhelmed. However, this quickly morphed into ‘elf professionals (who were at minimal risk) ignoring the genuinely sick so that they would not catch a bug which, for the vast majority of them, would have been two weeks of discomfort.
Oh, and TikTok videos.
Cool! When are you selling a RV with one on the roof?
“Grey Nomads Online” is a very attractive idea.
Not me, I have too many mendicant birdies.
mUnty should stick with trusted bloggers.
Yep, I was aware of that, I did a weekly bariatric list for years – got very good at anaesthetising 180kg 5’4″ specimens without killing them – something ALL anaesthetists need to be good at nowadays – wasnt sure this forum would know what the sleeve was however….
The latest bout of wet weather has absolutely done it in.
Anything west of the ‘rat is a goat track.
And of course, immune escape of conditions previously kept in check by a normally functioning immune system – cancer in particular.
You never turn the other cheek…..but let them inject you!?
Ah yes, you are a local obviously! And as far as I can tell, the only ‘road work’ they are doing is permanently placing speed limit reduction signs.
Did Benalla to Wodonga on Hume couple weeks ago. Used to be the best kept freeway in the country. Even with rain damage was a hotch potch of patches. I won’t even start on the feeder roads across country through Shep. Meanwhile Dan busy building trains to nowhere…
Denialism alive and thriving here.
The extra deaths are causes by
A) the Salmon mousse.
B) mean words.
C) Holidaying in Thailand
D)no one’s dying
D) 0ne yearly check up being missed
Or the fucking poison you also have now doing damage inside you.
Let’s see what a denialist would chose?
Not a local (I don’t take to fog in summer).
I just know a bloke on the inside of the hole (pun intended) shitshow.
Tick tick tick…..
Where’s choo choo?
You were told.
You scoffed.
You submitted to tyrants.
Are we supposed to give a shit now…all us nanna killers?
Harry, I do have a clue. The pute just called me and reckons he’s fucked. 🙂
Grandma, has just arrived.
I could write the final report, already. Words like “Effects of colonialism” and “inter-generational trauma” will feature prominently.
You forgot .. more money, lotz more money .. LOL!
Lets not forget he paid to NOT build a freeway to somewhere as well.
A couple of distant relatives by marriage were saving up for ‘sleeves’. I think one has had hers, not sure about the other.
If bogan are calling them sleeves I guess everyone knows what they are.
I think a LOT of the excess is due to failure to get early medical attention and doctors’ focus on the wrong things due to covid hysteria.
If the system was working properly I should have had a hospital (Nepean) generated cancer check-up around June .. haven’t heard from them but as I’m feeling great haven’t followed thru .. I’m guessing lotza folk like me slipping thru the cracks cos the health system is getting over-loaded so the pre BAT FLU back-log isn’t being chased up ..
https://www.starlink.com/rv
Excerpt, from the West Australian.
If only all those young people now dead had just had their check ups during lock downs that they weren’t going to have anyway
struth have you considered a change?
You used to be must-read but a thousand ‘Ï wuz right nya nya nya’ postings have obliterated your cred.
the replacements are already on the way from the subcontinent
Trawalla/Beaufort
I dragged a hay macerator back home from Inverleigh not a week back on that road. At three metres wide, I found most of pot holes as I pushed off to avoid trucks.
Get with the program.
Higgins’ account of the night remains consistent. That’s extremely odd since she was falling down drunk at the time and passed out, according to her statement.
When you’re that pissed you remember the before and the horror of waking up but not much in between.
Consistency or any clarity reeks of a constructed story.
1) For clarity, in future, perhaps best not to ask for ‘other’ sources in your post if you aren’t looking for other sources then?
2) A US Colonel with a Phd and multiple publications in International Strategy was not ‘the droid you were looking for’?? Or, more likely, you didn’t even trouble to look at the source??
Methinks, instead, his contrarian view was not the droid you were looking for…
Does that mean I must switch from remonstrating with people worth having, to just abusing the Montster?
duk wins the day.
In due respect to Struth, I have got to say that for some of us – the unvaccinated – it has been quite a struggle to deal with the blows we received in the last two years. Sure – everyone has suffered. I realise that. Indeed, many have lost loved ones to Covid or the vaccines. But I have only recently begun to realise the trauma of these years and the emotional damage it has done. This has probably a lot to do with the fact that the restrictions and much of the angst have now been diminished. It is a sort of post traumatic thing.
Sadly, after 32 years in the system, it became pretty clear to me that the reason the public health system is failing is in the title
1) The ‘public’ themselves are failing – way too many are old, fat, lazy and have spent decades destroying their own health – it cannot be fixed
2) Its not a ‘health’ system, its a chronic disease support system (just the way big pharma wants it btw) – the great bulk of its ‘production’ does not provide health.
As such, I have advised all my relatives to assume that the public system no longer exists, and you MUST carry private insurance as well. Regard the medicare levy (and whatever other proportion of your taxes goes to ‘health’) as stolen money, long gone.
Neil Mitchell championing Thorburn’s right to religious freedom this morning and rightly calling TaliDan an A grade hypocrite.
Mitchell is such a windvane.
Bashes catholics at every opportunity and was one of the voices that made it impossible for Pell to get a fair trial
duk wins the day…
and with nary a swear word used – in contrast to my reply to APHRAs recent ‘show cause’ letter regarding my COVID crimes – although I did suggest they perform a romantic interlude with a pineapple 😉
harry, I gave you a Daily Mail (UK) link, if you’re not happy with that then you need to tell me what will sate you.
Chris …he who laughs last and all that!
You can’t handle reality. …scroll.
I won’t lose any sleep. .
Promise.
Fiascos like the Higgins “Gat Famous” trial make boors of us all.
I blame the Romans 😛
Thanks Vicki. PBFPTS (Post Bat-Flu Political Trauma Syndrome) is affecting us all. I prescribe a year of beach and river fishing, with regular cups of tea and occasional sandwiches.
Zero COVID is destroying China
the musk of change
The War Has Just Begun
When you’re that pissed you remember the before and the horror of waking up but not much in between. Consistency or any clarity reeks of a constructed story.
As a recovering alcoholic (42 years, 1980) whenever queried about my 10 “lost” years I tend to be extremely vague and fall back on the, old chestnut, “too drunk to remember” excuse .. sadly, I was one of those unfortunates who could/can remember most of it! .. not a pretty set of memories so I prefer to keep them to myself ..
I can’t fathom why anyone would go public over something they claimed not too remember the following day but months later start recalling, selective, bits & pieces expecting sympathy and to be believed …!
George Soros-backed DA realizes that soft-on-crime ‘reforms’ are a failure
BACKFIRE! In Only 2 Days, New York Times Hit Piece on a “Conspiracy Theory Target” Becomes “TRUTH”
FLASHBACK: CIA Sabotaged Soviet Pipeline to Europe in 1982 – US Software Caused Massive Explosion in Siberian Pipeline Seen From Space
Biden will attend a fundraiser at Rupert Murdoch’s son James multi-million dollar Manhattan home on Thursday to raise more money for Democrats in bid to avoid midterms bloodshed
I’d pay to watch livestream electrokutations of corruptocrats
How is that even possible…. given the rapid decline into ‘negative efficacy’ with ours?
132andBushsays:
October 5, 2022 at 2:58 pm
Meanwhile Dan busy building trains to nowhere…
Lets not forget he paid to NOT build a freeway to somewhere as well.
No he didn’t. IIRC, Turdballs covered the payment with a special Commonwealth grant. This was a clear sign of the absolute uselessness of Turdballs.
m0ntysays:
October 5, 2022 at 3:35 pm
harry, I gave you a Daily Mail (UK) link, if you’re not happy with that then you need to tell me what will sate you.
It might not have been you, but one of the regular lefty trolls used to be quite contemptuous of the Daily Wail.
Dams will never fill
.. and yet
good, the chinese need to be pushed to overthrow the ccp
.0
Just tuned into the radio when out in the car, and the news comes on. First up:
“A warning – this next item may be distressing. In the trial in the ACT…”
Expected some new detail, but no. Words to the effect of she testified “it was forceful” when she “slept with” the accused.
Then “ring 1300 RESPECT” if you need to.
flyingduksays:
October 5, 2022 at 4:07 pm
Zero COVID is destroying China
Beijing has refused to approve foreign vaccines, opting instead to provide only less effective homegrown ones to its 1.4 billion people
How is that even possible…. given the rapid decline into ‘negative efficacy’ with ours?
The Chinese ones start with “negative efficacy”?
Interesting take on the next few months in Ukraine from the above ‘The War Has Just Begun’ – suggests the Ukes have had their best shots and Russia will again be rising…
Ours probably do too, given that 1/2 the ‘sudden deaths after vax’ occur within a couple of days, and 80% within a few weeks. They hid this, of course, by classifying the ‘newly vaxxed’ as ‘unvaxxed’ until 2 weeks after their second shot!
harry, I gave you a Daily Mail (UK) link, if you’re not happy with that then you need to tell me what will sate you.
Says the idiot without a dick.
“In due respect to Struth, I have got to say that for some of us – the unvaccinated – it has been quite a struggle to deal with the blows we received in the last two years. “
Sure Vicki, but with respect, I know that for some of us here, those who chose to be vaccinated for a multitude of valid reasons, it’s been quite a struggle putting up with the incessant insults, jeers and cries of “Nazi collaborators” we received over the last two years.
Not once have I ever sneered at someone for being “unvaccinated”, I respect their decision but that respect has not been always been reciprocated by some here.
As with the wider community, there’s been much discussion here about whether the covid-19 jabs are safe and effective. This movie – Safe and Effective – only came out last week. It’s 55 minutes. If you’ve got an hour it’s worth watching, but on many fronts it ain’t pretty.
https://odysee.com/@OracleFilms:1/safeandeffective:4
132andBushsays:
October 5, 2022 at 2:58 pm
Meanwhile Dan busy building trains to nowhere…
The Hunchback has gone all out to bankrupt the State and has achieved his goal. Please do no expect any roads or bridges to be built or satisfactorily maintained until 2048.
GMH, stop using Hunchback. I made it up and don’t you using it. Fuck off. Go find Liz somwhere.
Aspiring lawyer = “worked in a legal office…and wanted to complete legal services studies”
One step up then from “aspiring rapper”
Sydney mum sentenced for dealing cocaine in eastern suburbs
An aspiring lawyer didn’t realise the job she signed up for was dealing drugs around Sydney’s glitzy eastern suburbs until the day she was busted, a court has heard. But that was not the only crime she committed.
A court heard Zara Lauren Lees soon learned that job was dealing cocaine across Sydney’s glitzy eastern suburbs — and no small amount.
The day Lees discovered what the work entailed was her first day on the job. Lees got into the driver’s seat of her Toyota Camry with her friend in the passenger seat and nearly 24g of cocaine hidden behind the panel of the front door’s armrest.
It was also the day police busted them, making Lees’ first drug run her last, Waverley Local Court heard.
The 21-year-old single mother from Rosehill in Sydney’s west initially pleaded not guilty to supplying more than an indictable but less than a commercial amount of cocaine, being 23.89g, as well as dealing with the proceeds of crime worth $1,000. She also pleaded not guilty to driving with an illicit drug in her system, being THC.
But she changed those pleas to guilty before being sentenced for them on Wednesday.
According to agreed facts, Lees and her friend were stopped in her car by police doing drug and alcohol testing at Rawson Rd, Vaucluse, at 6:10pm on November 27 last year.
Lees appeared nervous, with her hands fidgeting and having a slight tremor.
She told police she was driving her friend around as she does hair braiding — but police soon found the cash and cocaine stashed behind the front door’s armrest panel and knew that was not the case.
Lees’ lawyer told the court her client could not afford childcare, and in desperation, accepted her friend’s offer to deal drugs.
Magistrate Clare Farnan said she was caught with a “significant” quantity of cocaine and could not be treated as immediately remorseful given her initial not guilty plea.
“She was involved in the offending for financial gain, having trouble making ends meet,” Magistrate Farnan said.
“This, in combination with her own drug use of cannabis, contributed to her offending. She’s since been granted bail and has undertaken counselling as she suffers from depression and anxiety.”
The court heard Lees worked in a legal office before becoming pregnant and wanted to complete legal services studies.
She was convicted of the drug supply, proceeds of crime and drug driving offences and sentenced to 11 months imprisonment to be served in the community by way of an intensive corrections order.
Daily Tele
7u5g99
I’m increasingly thinking that their AFL needs a Kerry Packer to shake up the sport that belongs to Australians (not the AFL Corp).
Sure Vicki, but with respect, I know that for some of us here, those who chose to be vaccinated for a multitude of valid reasons, it’s been quite a struggle putting up with the incessant insults, jeers and cries of “Nazi collaborators” we received over the last two years.
Quite so, Cassie. I do recognise that us unvaccinated have not been vilified here – although many of those who chose, as you say for many reasons, to be vaccinated – have been.
On the other hand, this is a very contained circle. I was referring principally to the wider community. Again, I do concede that, for various reasons, neither my husband or I have not personally suffered rejection by family or friends. But the isolation and publicised demonisation of the unvaccinated does, surprisingly, take its toll.
Some guy calling himself “Big Serge” who no doubt has an impeccable track record of analysis!
BJ
The other side of the same coin.
Fisk
There’s a huge risk that Rasputin will use small nukes, and as the heroic Soviet forces of the Proletariat are pushed back, this could become increasingly likely. At that point he has nothing to lose.
Something interesting about those photographs.
There’s probably enough evidence to establish that by Mz Shitfazed did not have the capacity to give “true consent,” given how drunk she was, but that’s still not enough evidence to suggest that anything happened…
close contacts???
JC
They can use thermobaric first. The impact will resemble a (very) small nuke, but without the political complications.
B John
I presume that’s like the American’s Daisy Cutter? From what I read Uke’s troops are reasonably well dispersed, so small anything may not work much.
I took the trouble to read his last couple of months of posts …. sounds like you didn’t? Still, ad hominems are easier than actual counter arguments, aren’t they?
which might explain him denying it happened, rather than arguing it was consensual?
I didn’t realise that 2020 and 2021 were a walk in the park for the vaccinated, lockdowns, curfews, ring of steel, 5km limits, allowed outside for an hour of day of continuous walking, no church services for months, no baptisms, no birthdays, no seeing new babies and new mums interstate, no visitors in hospital for family facing life threatening illnesses and major surgeries, elderly relatives stuck in aged care with no family for months on end.
Yep it was all just a barrel of fun for those who got vaccinated.
Talk about history revisions.
Knock yourself out. Do both.
JC
From Wiki:
A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, a vacuum bomb or a fuel air explosive (FAE),[1] is a type of explosive that uses oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion. The fuel–air explosive is one of the best-known types of thermobaric weapons.
Thermobaric weapons are almost 100% fuel and as a result are significantly more energetic than conventional explosives of equal weight.[2] Many types of thermobaric weapons can be fitted to hand-held launchers,[3] and can also be launched from airplanes. The largest Russian bomb contains a charge of approximately 7 tons of a liquid fuel that when detonated creates an explosion equivalent to 39.9 tons of TNT.[4]
Indeed Duk.
Easily admissible that she wasn’t in a state to give consent after 10-15 drinks! But certainly no evidence she needed to give consent.
I’m just waiting for a star witness who happened to be passing by the Min’s office and heard her saying “no.”
Otherwise, whether you like or agree or disagree with our justice system, there is reasonable doubt a mile wide.
Trump has to establish malice which is defined as knowledge that it (the written or broadcast libel) was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not ( New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)). That sounds simple but given the expertise that CNN reporters (sic) have in lying and believing what they’re saying are not lies it may take some corroborative evidence; that could include the full text or video where a selective piece has been taken out of context. Manipulating by excluding contradictory context is sufficient evidence of malice. The other problem Trump has is getting a decent Judge.
JC
From Wiki:
A thermobaric weapon, also called an aerosol bomb, a vacuum bomb or a fuel air explosive (FAE),[1] is a type of explosive that uses oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a high-temperature explosion. The fuel–air explosive is one of the best-known types of thermobaric weapons.
Thermobaric weapons are almost 100% fuel and as a result are significantly more energetic than conventional explosives of equal weight.[2] Many types of thermobaric weapons can be fitted to hand-held launchers,[3] and can also be launched from airplanes. The largest Russian bomb contains a charge of approximately 7 tons of a liquid fuel that when detonated creates an explosion equivalent to 39.9 tons of TNT.[4]
The combination of heat and blast over-pressure can cause mass casualties.
Yea B John. I think it’s the same thing as what the Americans have . I don’t know the name of the updated model, but they used the Daisy Cutter in Vietnam. I think the US used these fuckers in their recent wars. Basically, they suck your organs out of your mouth if you’re caught in the radius of death. Nasty things they are.
but
uh huh.
A muslim lady not knowing how to extract $$ childcare subsidies?
Colour me not convinced.
The central issue with the free Brittany case is whether she was too pissed to give consent; you can’t give consent if you’re unconscious or blotto but you can still have consent inferred despite being pissed. It’ll be interesting and this is why free Brittany’s team are spending time on this. In fact given the lack of contemporaneous forensic evidence of an assault this will be a key point.
The knife went in.
In the 80’s – watches LA Law on a Thursday night. They must have edited out all the scenes involving photocopiers.
I do wonder how Europe will fare in the coming years. They will be left with deindustrialised nations, a severe shortage of energy, and the United States won’t be able to offer much help as they will be facing their own problems.
I think that the EU might disintegrate, many of the European nations went along with the sanctions regime in the belief that it was only a short term sacrifice but it would all be rosy when the Russian economy collapsed. The Austrian Chancellor was recently bemoaning their situation until Ursula ordered him back into his box, maybe he should get in touch with his neighbour, Viktor Orban, and reconstitute the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The situation in Europe will be pretty dire for many years and I don’t expect a recovery until the various member states ditch the EU and stand on their own feet as independent nations once again.
But there’s no physical evidence the assault took place.
And it’s started raining again at Cafe Bruce. Ungh. More rain. But the nice thing about it is it reminded me of a gentle little song. So I’ll put it up. It’s from Lamb’s nicer half.
The Rain – Lou Rhodes (2007)
so, random screening for a non crime lead them to search her car for another victimless crime? How did they know to go far enough to pull the trim? When SAs original RBT law went through, it was partly on the promise that it was ONLY to screen for alcohol … not other crimes
Have just complained under the Commercial Radio Code of Practice to the Australian Communications and Media Authority re the news broadcast above. Complained amongst other things it was making a pre-judgement on the accused. Will be interesting to see if anything happens.
Musk Twitter Purchase Back on Table, Unfortunately with Plan for Everything App
According to agreed facts, Lees and her friend were stopped in her car by police doing drug and alcohol testing at Rawson Rd, Vaucluse, at 6:10pm on November 27 last year.
Metadata.
It’s amazing how many police stops just happen to find a stash.
Seriously, it’s a statistical impossibility.
The cops are reverse engineering the stops.
Australia needs probable cause laws.
EU agrees to impose price cap for Russian oil – Politico
Twelve reasons why universities need to drop their COVID mandates now
rosiesays:
October 5, 2022 at 5:09 pm
I didn’t realise that 2020 and 2021 were a walk in the park for the vaccinated, lockdowns, curfews, ring of steel, 5km limits, allowed outside for an hour of day of continuous walking, no church services for months, no baptisms, no birthdays, no seeing new babies and new mums interstate, no visitors in hospital for family facing life threatening illnesses and major surgeries, elderly relatives stuck in aged care with no family for months on end.
Yep it was all just a barrel of fun for those who got vaccinated.
Talk about history revisions.
Everyone suffered under those rules and controls. But unlike the jabbed, over many, many months the un-jabbed were made into outcasts by the govt and in a lot of cases by their friends and families. Medical treatment was denied and all sorts of services were withdrawn.
Community service announcements and daily updates by politicians and ‘elf bureaucrats, as well as by “friends” and “family” in some instances, berated those who would not conform. FFS these were normal, everyday Australians who were not allowed to leave their homes simply because they were unvaccinated.
Yes, those history revisions need a bit of work.
Skeletal remains, including a human skull, have been found near Katherine in the Northern Territory.
A member of the public came across the scene about 15km north of the remote town and reported the discovery to police on Tuesday afternoon.
Probably a local, but then again Mr Falconio is somewhere….
But there’s no physical evidence the assault took place.
That’s what I said so the case will be he said\she said and if the court accepts there was rumpee pumpee then if she can establish consent was not possible then that’s the second stage.
Seems that’s the second skull that has turned up in the Territory this week..
Surprised someone didn’t shoot all of them:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has revealed how three of the four looting suspects that were arrested in Lee County were in the United States illegally.
The Republican executive made the revelation during a news conference in Fort Myers on Tuesday as he gave an update about the response to Hurricane Ian.
DeSantis focused on ‘law and order’ in southwest Florida and drew a connection between that at his opposition to President Joe Biden’s immigration policies.
‘These are people that are foreigners, they’re illegally in our country, but not only that, they try to loot and ransack in the aftermath of a natural disaster,’ DeSantis explained.
Daily Mail
How about the poms who were fed to the crocs in South Africa?
Put that on your tourist website, yarpie.com
Yes, though the other remains were at Lee Point, which is up near Darwin.
Top Endersays:
October 5, 2022 at 5:34 pm
Let us hope NT DNA Labs have not been compromised to the extent we have seen with Queensland’s. (With thanks to Hedley Thomas.)
From a Dr Joerg Storm.
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
Well, because that’s the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads. Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that’s the gauge they used. So, why did ‘they’ use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that same wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?
Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break more often on some of the old, long distance roads in England . You see, that’s the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads?
Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.
And what about the ruts in the roads?
Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or run the risk of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.
So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder ‘What horse’s ass came up with this?’, you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses’ asses.)
Now, the twist to the story:
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses’ behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature, of what is arguably the world’s most advanced transportation system, was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse’s ass. And you thought being a horse’s ass wasn’t important? Ancient horse’s asses control almost everything.
Yes, and my comment was rhetorical, which I would’ve imagined you would have picked on.
1. How can the court establish there was a bonking?
2. How would it then establish she didn’t consent? Was Lisa Wilkinson.
US Col. Richard Black Asks: Did U.S/NATO Blow up the Nord Stream Pipelines?
Whoops Damn Iphone
Was Lisa Wilkinson in the room.
Dover
Apologies, I have just noticed that a random letter crept into my email address, causing recent posts to go into moderation.
Now fixed.
a random letter crept into my email address
Q?
Passed the windfarm off Wick yesterday. Rank upon rank of towers in the North Sea.
I was told that “young people” go out in tour boats (presumably wind powered /sarc) to look at them, it has become a business.
It then occurred to me. It’s the new religion. Where once you would visit a significant church, you now pay homage to technology as saviour.
Why does there need to be an inquiry into War Powers?
Introduce the legislation now to ensure any deployment needs to be passed by parliament.
feelthebernsays:
October 5, 2022 at 6:03 pm
a random letter crept into my email address
Q?
T.
It crept in on the QT.
Or, more accurately, by me typing too fast and hitting the wrong button.
If only people listened to the ‘experts’ and stopped getting old.
Chuckle!
Speaking of going out in boats, I’m off to the Orkneys today. Blue skies, but that might not last.
Culloden was an eye opener yesterday. Like all the battlefields I have visited in the past, it was small. The battle that decided the fate of the Jacobites was over in under an hour.
It’s wistfulnesses and loneliness reminded me of that sad hillside at Little Big Horn.
Was Lisa Wilkinson in the room.
What a ghastly thought.
Dress bunched, dress there in place, or dress not there at all?
It’s a mystery.
I read somewhere that there were more Scots fighting for the Crown then there were the Jacobite’s..
inklushun, diveshity and equeeti in acshun
Never met a person more deserving:
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/arrest-warrant-issued-for-former-wa-one-nation-senator-rod-culleton-20221005-p5bnb2.html
This guy is a piece of work. Not only did he rip off heaps of farmers in the Great Southern (and is yet to pay them back), he wrongfully locked out the new owners of the property that he bankrupted on and then told the AEC a bit fat lie that he wasn’t bankrupt (despite saying so on 60 Minutes some months earlier).
I received numerous shouty phonecalls from this douche telling me if I didn’t do X, I’d have a lot of angry farmers “turning up with guns.”
As it turns out, they were after getting their money back.
I can foresee some problems with that.
What if parliament is not sitting?
An extraordinary sitting would have to be called which, along with the debate process, could delay a deployment and thereby increase the mortal risk to the forces being deployed.
Then there is the potential for politics to derail the national interest. What if, for example, the Greens and likeminded other pacifists held the balance of power in both houses? The nation could be paralysed at a time of dire need for decisive action.
Then also, by the nature of the subject matter, not all parliamentarians will have the security clearances required to view all material relevant to a deployment. Nor should they, for obvious reasons.
Parliament has a role to play in reviewing such decisions, and that should keep those entrusted with exercising these powers honest.
For these reasons, war powers are best left where they sit – with teh G-G and the government of the day.
I received no negative feedback from family and friends. Although I didn’t carry on like I had a cross on my back.
After being told only the unvaccinated suffered under the covid regime now I’m being told it was just as bad for people in rural NSW and rural Queensland as it was for people in lockdown central Melbourne (and Sydney).
No it wasn’t, yes there was and is a tail end of things being more difficult for the unvaccinated particularly if they were forced out of employment.
But for self funded retirees on a property in rural NSW, spare me your crocodile tears.
More than 1,000 cases of death after receiving Sputnik V vaccine,
concerned doctors ask Putler to cease compulsory Vaccination of soldiers.
Edward Slavsquat.
You can’t know that.
Sure we do, Mr Ed. We know every bit of evidence that’s going to be presented to the court, you blockhead.
No.
It’s a democracy or it isn’t. If the PM isn’t “vetted”, you have surrendered to the deep state – if it didn’t exist, you have just created it.
Wars should get an affirmative vote but defence powers can be vested in the cabinet (the PM can be the head of state, we don’t even need a “President”, reserve powers can be split between the PM, cabinet, High Court, Senate, House and Parliamentary officers…but anyway)…
If you run out of money, no war. If the GG has the defence powers, then vesting it in cabinet (along with the one of a few ways/ an ability to depose of a PM), there shouldn’t be an issue.
Human Faeces on Captain Toms memorial
This cult is getting wackier and wackier.
Well, I reckon she has skin like an elephant held taut by a system of cables, pulleys, and levers. It has that sickly sheen.
Lysandersays:
October 5, 2022 at 6:24 pm
Never met a person more deserving:
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/arrest-warrant-issued-for-former-wa-one-nation-senator-rod-culleton-20221005-p5bnb2.html
This has always been a major problem for One Nation: candidate selection. They’re now calling for candidates. I really hope their selection process is better:
https://nsw.onenation.org.au/become-a-candidate/
Groogs, are you going to provide us with your advice on evidence or wait till the trial is over?
Cassie of Sydneysays:
October 5, 2022 at 10:33 am
“far-right”, code for ordinary Australian voters that the Liberal Party doesn’t want. Again, I will repeat here what Peter Dutton said on Sky News last night when he was asked about CPAC and how some Liberals were heckled…
Cassie, a vid you might be interested in:
Trey Gowdy: Why is it ‘ultra-conservative’ but not ‘ultra-liberal?’
Victor Davis Hanson: This is why the left feels ‘morally superior’
For example, if the PM isn’t vetted and it is considered undesirable…
Is what I meant.
It’s a representative democracy.
Yeah totally agree Cohenite – PHON need to get a better recruiting program!!!
Although Malcolm Roberts didn’t seem too bad?
Grigs – the resident wrongologist at it again.
remind us of your previous Pell predictions!
You can’t complain about the composition of a deliberative chamber then, surely?
Peter Dutton has grave security concerns over rescue of terrorist families.
Meanwhile, Albanese refuses to take questions on the issue.
I nominated my concerns. I think they’re reasonable.