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A lot of ducks are in a row…

Stories from here, why you always need a knife and fork user up front:

New runway was essentially complete but could not yet be used because some buildings in proximity needed to be demolished.

New runway had big flashing X’s at either end and they had used white geofabric held down by timbers and I beams to create huge X’s along the runway length. There was also a Notam out saying that the new runway was not yet in use.

So what happens?

Indian low cost carrier (A320) lines up and lands on the new runway which results in timbers and I beams flying everywhere and Geofabric tangled up in landing gear. Miraculously the brakes didn’t ignite the geographic and there was no FOD damage or other damage to the aircraft. The runway did however sustain a long and deep gouge when the entangled Geofabric launched an I beam at it.

How did this accident happen?

Pilot: I saw such a big beautiful runway, it looked ok, I couldn’t resist, so I went for it!

…… somebody who believes gays should go to hell …..

There’s no ‘should’, Barrie.

Feel that hatred, and it ain’t coming from Christians.

Mr Mayor Adams must have rocks in his head.
Compare and contrast to USNS Comfort, deployed to the Hudson for what appeared to be a genuine crisis at the time… because Carlson et al certainly will, and I’m sure the God Emperor will make some modest allusions.

I was going into the local shopping centre when a dishevelled beggar jumped in front of me. Beggar: “Any change mate?” Me: “I don’t have any change”. Beggar “C’mon…” Me: I don’t have ANY change”. Beggar: “I can’t accept that”. Me: “Sigh! You can’t accept that? jeez…okay okay, will you take a note?” Beggar: “Sure… that would be great!” he said with a grin. So I took a piece of paper and a pencil out of my briefcase, wrote “I don’t have ANY FUCKING CHANGE!” handed it to the prick, and walked off.

Jorgesays:
October 5, 2022 at 11:46 pm
…… somebody who believes gays should go to hell …..

Feel that hatred, and it ain’t coming from Christians.

Too true and it comes from those followers of Islam…………………And they shag goats and camels…………….FFS

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

– George Carlin

Cassie of Sydney: 10.33am 5th October 2022:

A brilliant post…you speak for me too.

Bring jihadi families home at our peril

PETA CREDLIN

If, as seems likely, the Albanese government has decided to bring 16 “jihadi brides” and their 42 children to Australia, it has weighed the wellbeing of terrorist sympathisers and their dependants against the safety of the Australian community and concluded a serious risk to people who rejected their country justifies the risk to others and the ongoing expense of bringing them back.

I don’t come to this issue as a mere commentator. I was the prime minister’s chief of staff when Australia took on the war against Islamic State and committed our military. I sat through high-level security briefings (including imagery I will never forget) laying bare the group’s violent depravity and bloodlust in pursuit of a terrorist caliphate.

When we consider bringing these women home, it’s those images I can’t forget or the evidence I heard time and again about the involvement of women and youths in the work of Islamic State. It was women, in many instances, who reached out online and helped radicalise young Westerners to join their cause. It was women who fled their countries to join the death cult and act as the breeders for a new generation of jihadis.

Sure, now they tell us they recant this ideology of hate, but who among us wouldn’t when confronted with life in a Syrian prison camp versus the comfort of the Australian suburbs with housing and welfare payments and healthcare laid on?

That’s certainly the wager the Albanese government is making, hoping that, having tasted life under Islamic State and the other uncompromising regimes of the Middle East, these women will have thought better of their fanaticism and will settle quietly back into Australia.

Maybe some of them will. But bitter experience may not be enough to shake the kind of fervour that drives people to forsake normal life for jihad or to be an accomplice to it. It wasn’t as if they were not aware of the sort of violence Islamic State deployed in its cause before they fled, given the group’s slick and easily available videos of slaughter, is it? Indeed, the high-production values were a powerful tool in Islamic State’s recruitment drive. This week The Australian has run a series of quotes from these women in Syria and almost all profess to have had a change of heart.

Child and adolescent psychologist Clare Rowe says the reintegration of children of Islamic State fighters from Syrian camps is a “complex and difficult issue”.

But past experience shows us a different reality. Of the 25 suspected terrorists and terrorist trainees who returned to Australia from Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban two decades back, 15 subsequently were involved in terrorist activities here and nine were convicted.

Of course, these were former fighters rather than the partners of fighters. And the returning jihadi brides won’t slip immediately back into the community the way their Islamist forebears mostly did, especially if, as is reported, all of them have agreed to submit to control orders. But I wouldn’t want any Australian to think control orders are a panacea. They require judicial approval and that’s not always guaranteed; they’re subject to resourcing constraints and a heavy cost to taxpayers. In the end, even most convicted terrorists end up back on our streets.

Talk, too, that some of these women might actually be charged with terror offences needs to be weighed against the difficulty prosecutors face getting enough evidence, years on, out of a war zone to meet the standard of proof required in an Australian court.

And for all the talk this week that we can just deradicalise Islamic State sympathisers, it’s far from clear any of these deradicalisation programs actually work.

After two recent terrorist attacks in Britain (including the 2019 London Bridge attack by someone who had been through multiple deradicalisation programs) a House of Lords committee looking into them cited a 2018 Home Office evaluation that concluded 95 per cent of them were “ineffective”. Notwithstanding the appointment to British prisons of 22 specially trained imams, supposedly to help terror offenders see the error of their ways, some prisoners, the Lords report said, “simply refused to engage with attempts to turn (them) away from violence”.

In Australia we’ve spent many millions on deradicalisation programs, including $61.7m in February under the Morrison govern­ment, for a range of “countering violence extremism” programs with little in the way of publicly available assessments as to their efficacy. In government, I often asked questions about the millions being paid to community groups, and when I asked “Are we sure these groups are sound and their programs work?”, I got little back in the way of concrete assurances – more like “we hope so”.

Without knowing more about the particular individuals who are to be repatriated, it’s hard to be specific about their exact roles in supporting Islamic State. Yet there’s no doubt that some women have been recruiters for the death cult, acted as decoys for terrorist attacks and in some cases acted themselves as suicide bombers. As well, adolescent boys, the “cubs of the caliphate”, also have been involved in serious terrorism. It’s possible that none of these potential returnees has been much more than an unwitting dupe of their jihadi partner or parents, but without a briefing from the security agencies that have been monitoring their cases we just can’t know.

I am not sure enough of us understand that serious monitoring of a suspected potential terrorist involves upwards of 12 full-time specially trained police and/or intelligence officers, which is why it costs in the region of $2m per individual a year. An ankle bracelet may tell authorities where suspects are but it can’t interdict a potential offence. Given that there are already numbers of seemingly unreformed convicted terrorists soon leaving prison, the former defence minister, now Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, rightly raised concerns this week that bringing home these jihadi families could gravely overstretch police resources.

But it’s not just the risks to the Australian community should they return. Given the lawlessness of that corner of the Middle East, the rescue mission itself could put Australian personnel at significant risk if reports of earlier would-be hostage-taking of rescue teams are accurate.

If the Albanese government really is convinced that bringing one-time terrorist supporters back from Syria is a humanitarian imperative, why was this not even mentioned during the recent election campaign?

I am not blind to the arguments about the right of Australian citizens to return home and am sympathetic to the cause of the children caught up in this hell that is not of their own making.

But I am hard-line on adults who threw away their chance to live in a country such as Australia and to whatever degree signed on to helping build a terrorist state. The fact they risked their lives to get to the Islamic State heartland is evidence enough for me of the strength of that commitment.

Just because we have been focused on Covid-19 and the great-power belligerence of Russia and China, it’s easy to assume the threat of terrorism has passed. Just because jihadism has dropped from public attention doesn’t mean it has gone away.

The continued radicalisation of young people here in Australia means it’s wrong to assume we can readily cope with more proven Islamic State supporters in our midst, however contrite they may seem.

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Peta Credlin AO is a weekly columnist with The Australian. Since 2017, she has hosted her successful prime-time program Credlin on Sky News each weeknight at 6pm. For 16 years, Peta was a policy adviser to Howard government ministers in the portfolios of defence, communications, immigration and foreign affairs.

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1. The NRL Welcome to Country was openly boo’ed because it was delivered by a bloke in a suit. Wouldn’t have happened to a woman, a child or someone in white slap and red nappy.

I think he was booed because of how long it went on for.
It wasn’t your typical welcome to country.
It just didn’t stop.

Bring jihadi families home at our peril

The risk of having them commit more terrorism has to be balanced against the warm glow of virtue from being forgiving.

Trouble is, the warm inner glowies and those at risk are different ppl. The political/parasite class gets to feel the glow of virtue, while us peasants get to bear the risk.

DrBeauGansays:
October 6, 2022 at 6:30 am
Bring jihadi families home at our peril

Trouble is, the warm inner glowies and those at risk are different ppl. The political/parasite class gets to feel the glow of virtue, while us peasants get to bear the risk.

I would locate them in residences as close as possible to all of those Federal LayBore and Green ‘Pollies’. There. That should give them plenty of inner glows………………….

John Hinderaker at Powerline:
“ Human history has largely been a struggle to get enough to eat. Starvation was an ever-present threat, almost everywhere, until very recently. Only in the last century or two has even part of the world learned how to produce an abundant and reliable supply of food. It requires a scientific approach to hybridization, crop rotation, intensive fertilization, pest control, and more. As a result of these modern farming methods, for the first time ever the vast majority of the world’s population is not imminently threatened by starvation.

But that could change. The international “environmentalist” movement is determined to outlaw modern farming practices, ostensibly for the sake of our climate. ”
Read it all.

Keep in mind this wouldn’t be an issue if Malcolm didn’t derail Abbott’s plan to strip them of citizenship.
Also, this wouldn’t be an issue if Abbott had the backbone to tell Malcolm to fuck off.

Also, I can’t believe we haven’t done a deal with the Indo’s by now to have dickhead Aussies serve their sentences in Australia.
Hats off to Israel doing deals all over the world to allow their citizens to serve their sentences in their own country.

Trumps Sues CNN

From Armstrong Economics –

“Former President Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN. It is of no surprise that the network repeatedly bashed the president before, during, and after his presidency. Trump’s attorney claims the network “has sought to use its massive influence — purportedly as a ‘trusted’ news source — to defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically, culminating in CNN claiming credit for ‘[getting] Trump out’ in the 2020 presidential election.” Trump is seeking $475 million in damages.

Some believe this may be a publicity stunt as defamation suits are notoriously difficult to win. However, we cannot deny that CNN was running a smear campaign against Donald Trump. They reported on the Steele Dossier, Russian collusion, and other completely fake stories as if they were factual. It seemed as if CNN was running a 24/7 channel designed for the purpose of bashing Trump.

Trump’s lawyer also claimed that CNN told their viewers he was a cult leader, associating his likelihood with that of Adolf Hitler. Under this umbrella, the current White House and every other media outlet should be punished for defamation. Joe Biden himself declared MAGA Republicans the biggest threat to democracy, and violence against conservatives has ensued. Let us also not forget how CNN treated Trump during his debates.

This would be a huge step in the right direction for journalism at large if CNN lost. It is unlikely that CNN will completely lose, but they are in the wrong. Journalism has become nothing more than a tool of propaganda that cannot be trusted.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/trump-sues-cnn/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

– George Carlin

Geraldo Rivera says Gov. Ron DeSantis will ‘soon feel the wrath of Florida’s Latino voters’ (opinions vary)

After checking into the hotel, Father Murphy finds a Bible on the bedside table.

He reads it for a couple of hours and then leaves his room and wanders into the lobby. There he strikes up a conversation with the pretty young receptionist.

After she has finished work, they share a few drinks in the bar and then retire to Father Murphy’s room, but when the priest starts removing her clothes, she begins to have second thoughts.

“Are you sure this is alright?” she asks. “I mean, you are a priest”. “Don’t worry, my dear” he replies “it is written in the Bible”.

She believes him and the two of them spend a very pleasant night together.

But in the morning, as the girl is preparing to leave, she says “You know, Father, I don’t remember that part in the Bible you mentioned last night. Could you show it to me?”

So the priest takes the Bible from the bedside table, opens the cover and points to the bottom of the title page, where someone has written in pencil ‘The girl in reception is a bloody great root!’

Tweeter risks wrath of some of America’s most privileged lib journos in order to expose their efforts to hide their backgrounds from the public; UPDATE: The blowback begins

Auction of ex military equipment, plenty of lathes there for those who maybe interested.

https://www.pickles.com.au/trucks/item/search/-/listing/listSaleItems/44001700#!/search-result?q=ProductType.General%20Goods.&sort=Product_Type_Sequence

Plus a few low km Unimogs, don’t know what I’d do with one.

https://www.pickles.com.au/optimisedsearch/-/optimisedsearch/afm?utm_source=Pickles+Auctions&utm_campaign=e9f7690eb8-EDM2022-10-05InduNatiOnliEx-Mary&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c5ce844364-e9f7690eb8-178583945#!/search-result?q=ProductType.Trucks.

The FDA Misled the Public About Ivermectin and Should Be Accountable in Court, Argues AAPS

Geraldo Rivera says ….
Fox News must just keep him on as a panelist to play the vaudvillain!
His opinions aren’t worth much more than Monty’s.

The Greens really are a Marxist cancer in society.
They are problematic, but without media and political chicanery they would have had little effect.

This may come as a shock to the Canberra ponytails, but not every swarthy ME type is cheering the return of IS to our shores (the Tele):

The Albanese government’s decision to repatriate the family members of Islamic State fighters has been slammed as “irresponsible and offensive” by members of western Sydney’s largest Assyrian community, many of whom fled Syria and Iraq to escape ISIS atrocities.

“ISIS raped our women and burned down our churches and homes,” said Fairfield Deputy Mayor Reni Barkho, an Assyrian who migrated to Australia in 1994 and has a number of family members who escaped Islamic State.

“We can never forgive or forget or welcome those that travelled to help persecute us in our own homes in Iraq and Syria,” he said.

And:

In 2015, ISIS made headlines globally when it attacked the Assyrian village of Tel Tamr in the country’s north-east, killing 64 defenders and kidnapping 231 men, women, and children while also destroying 11 churches.

That same year, the government of Tony Abbott issued 12,000 visas to persecuted religious minorities fleeing ISIS, with the majority going to Assyrians and many of them settling in the Fairfield area. Fairfield sits in the heart of Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s electorate of McMahon.

The Mayor of Fairfield, a chap by the name of Frank Carbone spake thusly:

Fairfield Mayor Frank Carbone said of those being brought back to Australia, “they will never be welcomed in our city where so many have fled to seek refuge after being persecuted by ISIS.”

“Anthony Albanese should never forget that many here have had their families killed and homes burned to the ground.”

“If Albo loves ISIS sympathisers so much, he can put them up in his own neighbourhood, or maybe send them to Scotland Island,” he said.

Bravo, Mr Carbone. A Martha’s Vineyard moment. The dynamic in Fairfield is a bit different to regional Syrian villages. No convoys of technicals. No hundreds of armed yet poorly-trained dickheads enslaving the populace.

The Syrians have had almost eight years in the heart of illegal semi-auto firearm acquisition country (ie, Fairfield) to set up networks and do all the things they should. It should come as no surprise when ventilated and headless former IS corpses start turning up in the streets.

In regard to my gripe about CCI .22 subsonics last night.
Replies:
-Bad shot
-dirty barrel
-general poor maintenance of firearm
-poor ammunition sorting
Tail between my legs I’m heading to the workshop to clean the gun and sight it in.

Australia spent more than $1 billion building COVID-19 facilities. What happens now they’re closed?

A politician tells us:

Victorian Minister for Police Anthony Carbines said the Victorian Quarantine Hub had served its purpose in keeping people safe from COVID-19.

“Its closure is another step in our recovery from the pandemic,” he said.
“Australia needed these facilities before the pandemic first hit – but this important facility now exists as an insurance policy in the event of a future pandemic, or to provide accommodation in emergencies like natural disasters.”

An Expert tells us:

Professor Tim Harcourt, professor and chief economist at the University of Technology Sydney, says there are a few angles to consider when evaluating whether the hundreds of millions of dollars was money well spent.

“I suppose there’s an account and an accounting aspect, which is, did you build up the most efficient way you could?” he said.

“But then there’s the economic question, which is, what happens if you hadn’t built them? What happens if there was another pandemic in the future – which is quite possible – and you knock them down and rebuild them again, that will probably cost more.”

Professor Harcourt says economically, the facilities can be viewed as a “sunk cost”.

“Now we’ve got them, economists call it a sunk cost … you’ve got them now and hindsight’s a wonderful thing; let’s see what we can re-purpose them to use them for.”

Technical Note: In the private sector, capital decisions taken like this would result in share price collapse, auditor’s qualifications on carrying value, sackings, forced resignations, and shareholder/ASIC questions about the proper exercise of director’s duties.

A BEcon from UTS must be a thing to behold.

Should we take bets on who’s next?

I’m sure we can lay odds with respect to amount of boosters received….

From the Credlin article.

Talk, too, that some of these women might actually be charged with terror offences needs to be weighed against the difficulty prosecutors face getting enough evidence, years on, out of a war zone to meet the standard of proof required in an Australian court.

Strangely, this “difficulty” does not seem to apply to the cases of accused Special Forces soldiers.

After several years of serving the church in a faraway land, a priest is requested to report to his new assignment at a church in the South Bronx, New York.

He set out immediately to learn the new culture by taking a walk down the street in plain clothes.

On his way, a loose looking woman approaches him and in a lowered voice says “Hey Buddy… blow job 25 bucks”. The priest glares at her confused and says “What’s a blowjob?” The woman is just as confused and says “What are you? A comedian?” and walks off.

The priest, undaunted, walks on to the next block and again another seedy looking woman confronts him and again repeats “Hey mister, blowjob 25 bucks?” The priest quickly replies “What is this blowjob!?” The woman looks at him surprised and thinking something’s wrong hurries off.

The priest, now very curious, returns to the church to ask anyone he can find what exactly a ‘blowjob’ is.

The priest sees the mother superior and says “I have a question: what’s a blow job?” Mother superior quickly goes to shut the door and upon returning to her seat she replies in a whisper “Same as on the outside… $25 bucks!”

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

– Groucho Marx

Of course you are all innocent? !

The world is better off without those willing to be the privileged group in a segregated society.
Fuck you.
Tick tick tick

ICAN has now obtained CDC data for the approximate 10 million v-safe users.

As explained in our prior update, v-safe is a new smartphone-based CDC program that allows users to register after getting a Covid-19 vaccine and provide health check-ins.

ICAN wanted to obtain this data. So, it deployed its legal team, headed by Aaron Siri, to obtain the v-safe data.

After suing the CDC twice, and following months of legal wrangling, the CDC finally capitulated, resulting in a court order that required it to produce this data. The first batch of data, containing 144 million rows of health entries by v-safe users, has now been obtained by ICAN and you can search it using a user-friendly interface that ICAN worked around the clock to create.

https://www.icandecide.org/ican_press/breaking-news-ican-obtains-cdc-v-safe-data/

AFL: “there is no place for bigotry”

This is an Andrews speciality which he picked up from Goebbels.

Smear with lying innuendo as in heartless bigots are causing young people to take their own lives.

No evidence ever given.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

– Groucho Marx

Yep.
Exactly what I said.
No hiviz here fuckhead.

Gez,
Cleaning a 22?…that is a bit extreme isn’t it?

You are cut from the cloth of the greatest who ever lived, those heroes born among ordinary men who glow in the dark.”

– Gen. Christian Blanchon (8 September 2022)

Aw, shucks. It was nutt’n.

No hiviz here fuckhead.

Suuuure there’s not. You big old fake.

Denialist scum conveniently forgetting how they treated those who argued hard day in and day out for two years to not take tbe jab.

I remember how many were ‘treated’ by squealy cloak-wearing protest cover song writers and failed conspiracy party candidates with no skin in the game, who demanded (as opposed to ‘argued’) that people in vastly different circumstances throw their families into the street because of said aspiring totalitarians wanted to keep their boats.

Public, angry failure was and is unseemly.

because of said

Hmm. That ‘of’ shouldn’t have been there. It’s a mystery.

I’ll just put that in the same file as ‘stolen freeDom votes’.

mc.
The way this threads going, duelling may commence.
I’m not going with a dirty gun.

Aw, shucks. It was nutt’n.

Have you printed out your participating certificate yet?

Labor continuing to show their contempt for the “f-cking Balts” so described by Saint Gough.
Mr Kham fled Vietnam as a refugee in the 1970’s

Child and adolescent psychologist Clare Rowe says the reintegration of children of Islamic State fighters from Syrian camps is a “complex and difficult issue”.

Don’t worry, they’ve got their best men on the job
Can someone ring the Diversity Assessment Squad for me?

The reason why you bring citizens home to serve their sentence is because it becomes a better use of resources.
You don’t have to burn embassy/consulate resources non stop.
You don’t have to deal with the family travelling to wherever it is.
The other part is you take the family out of being some way productive as their life becomes the care of the incarcerated family member overseas.
Israel makes it work.
Australia could too.