Open Thread – Weekend 8 Oct 2022


The Battle of Lepanto, Paolo Veronese, 1572

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 9, 2022 2:06 pm

Murkowski is the sitting Senator.
Tshibata can’t win, but she can stop Murkowski

Yes, Ed, I do know about such things. Tshibaka is ‘way ahead of the female RINO.

Projection Predicts Trump-Backed Kelly Tshibaka Will Defeat 21-Year Incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska (7 Oct)

Na8 Ag says she has a “slight edge” which means she’s way ahead, since the mainstream pollsters Na8 relies upon are to the left of Stalin.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 9, 2022 2:07 pm

Proved my case Cow.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 9, 2022 2:15 pm

Duncanm.
That security chick in the ABC story is going to get a right hammering by defence.
Claiming you just followed procedure and let a staggering drunk into a minister’s office won’t wash.
Her story is as false as her eyelashes.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 2:19 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
October 9, 2022 at 11:09 am
Please Dover.
Can we have a thread dedicated specifically to “Bruises, Lubrication and Penetration”.
Thanking you in advance.

It went from idle speculation to some tacky MAFS episode.
We are so lucky to have such deep thinking influencers.
The conser

cohenite
October 9, 2022 2:22 pm

If the Post Turtles who lost their seats on May 21 were only half as shrewd as Birmo, we wouldn’t be lumbered with an idiot Government lurching from crisis to crisis, and 31 months of insanity still to go.

Birmingham is an idiot. The other linos who lost to the teals were exactly like birmingham.

Good piss taking though.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 2:25 pm

The ‘conservative’ movement is such good hands.
/sarc.

cohenite
October 9, 2022 2:26 pm

Tshibata can’t win, but she can stop Murkowski, meaning a Pro Abortion Democrat will win and Biden will hold on to the Senate.

Murkowski is strongly pro-abortion; she supported codification of Roe. Now STFU ed.

Zipster
Zipster
October 9, 2022 2:34 pm

WHY Success is DESTROYING America
Black Pigeon Speaks

rosie
rosie
October 9, 2022 2:35 pm

It was no problem at all Lizzie, in fact a timely opportunity to register my next trip and get my free travel insurance policy issued 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 9, 2022 2:41 pm

That security chick in the ABC story is going to get a right hammering by defence.
Claiming you just followed procedure and let a staggering drunk into a minister’s office won’t wash.
Her story is as false as her eyelashes.

“Do you know who I am? I’ll have your job for this!”

Zipster
Zipster
October 9, 2022 2:43 pm
custard
custard
October 9, 2022 2:43 pm

Trump finishes after speaking for an hour and a half.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 9, 2022 2:44 pm

Celebrity and Notable Deaths of 2022
Among others, Nurse Ratched finally got hers, Loretta Lynn is brown bread,
golfing wildman Tom Weiskopf made it to 79, Earnie Shavers hit the canvas for the final time, Queen is dead, and Dodgers Shortstop Maury Wills called out at 89.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 9, 2022 2:44 pm

Tinta, earlier and on Mr Lehrmann’s potential defence:

‘No, because I am a gentleman, the Plaintiff was inebriated to the point where she lost consciousness and I could not take advantage of her in that condition, and besides in that drunken state I noted her to be quite plain and not in the least alluring.’

Or:

‘No, because in a moment of clarity I realised that I’d be stuck with it for the next six months at least, and the risk vs reward analysis of being further seen in public with those burgeoning bingo wings was more than I could bear.

‘Then she spewed chockies all over the couch, and I just thought “I am out of here”.’

custard
custard
October 9, 2022 2:45 pm

He takes a straw poll of attendees asking if they would like him to finish rally with Q music to WWG1WGA

Overwhelming yes!

So the music was played.

m0nty
m0nty
October 9, 2022 2:46 pm

I fully support the GOP committing to nutcases like Tshibata to turn red states into purple. Every state race should feature a Herschel Walker style disaster of a candidate running the Republicans into the ground.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 2:48 pm

Zipstersays:

October 9, 2022 at 2:34 pm

WHY Success is DESTROYING America
Black Pigeon Speaks

I agree with him except on voting rights.

cohenite
October 9, 2022 2:48 pm

I fully support the GOP committing to nutcases like Tshibata to turn red states into purple. Every state race should feature a Herschel Walker style disaster of a candidate running the Republicans into the ground.

It’s all relative dickless: for true insanity you always go left: aoc and the squad, pelosi, everyone’s favourite maxine waters, those rats promoting ban the cops while investing in personal bodyguards and of course demented biden. Fuckwit.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 9, 2022 2:50 pm

Murkowski is strongly pro-abortion; she supported codification of Roe.
Sadly, very few care.
Running Anti Abortion candidates like Tshibaka just ensures that the fanatically pro abortion til birth and beyond Democrats hold onto the Senate for another 2 years at least.

johanna
johanna
October 9, 2022 2:50 pm

A man of principle:

Michael Gunner will take on a new role with Australian billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest’s renewable energy company, six months after resigning as the Northern Territory’s chief minister.
Key points:

Michael Gunner will join Andrew Forrest’s renewable energy company
Mr Gunner stepped down as NT chief minister in May and resigned from politics in July
Ministerial restrictions mean he won’t be able to start work until November

Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) said Mr Gunner would act as the head of a new arm of the company in Northern Australia.

Mr Gunner served as chief minister for six years before making a shock resignation in May, following the birth of his second child.

Despite announcing the new job today, Mr Gunner will not start work until next month due to the NT’s ministerial code of conduct, which prohibits former ministers from taking up work within six months of leaving office if that work relates to any of their former ministerial portfolios.

and

During his tenure as chief minister, Mr Gunner controversially lifted a moratorium on fracking in the Northern Territory, subject to recommendations made as part of a scientific inquiry, including that the NT and federal governments seek to ensure no net increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
Fracking set to resume in NT

The NT Government lifts a moratorium and enforces a strict set of recommendations on the fracking industry.
A flame spurts out from a gas well in Amungee.
Read more

Environment Centre NT co-director Kirsty Howey said Mr Gunner’s new role was at odds with some of the major projects he had pushed for during his time in office.

“The Environment Centre NT congratulates former chief minister Michael Gunner for finally seeing the light on climate,” Ms Howey said.

Saw the light, huh? Illuminated, no doubt, by burning a few $100 notes.

Zipster
Zipster
October 9, 2022 2:51 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 9, 2022 2:53 pm

I personally don’t give a flying fuck about Higgins, I am more concerned about a man who is being dragged through the mud and as a result, unemployable.

Dunno BB.

I reckon Lehrmann could (and should) apply for the highest-paid consultant/sinecure gigs going around. If he’s acquitted and hasn’t any other relevant history his probity check will come back clean as a whistle.

‘I would like this job.’
‘Well, you’re not really the person we’re loo -‘

‘Careful now. I will scream bloody murder throughout every press mechanism in the country that I’m being unfairly dealt with because of bad press about something I was acquitted of by twelve men good and true. I will ensure this selection process takes three years, minimum. I am, however, prepared work under a pseudonym.’
‘Welcome aboard.’

duncanm
duncanm
October 9, 2022 2:56 pm

Peter FitzSimons

Ian Chappell had him pegged
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSykfcbLwZE

rickw
rickw
October 9, 2022 2:56 pm

Michael Gunner will take on a new role with Australian billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest’s renewable energy company, six months after resigning as the Northern Territory’s chief minister.

Swamp @ Work

You wouldn’t even contemplate employing a bulging eyed loon like Gunner as a janitor.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 9, 2022 2:58 pm

Richard Cranium

Here’s the reality:
The top 4 placegetters in the Republican Primary automatically get their names on the ballot, as well as candidates from other parties.
If Tshibata splits the Republican vote, a Democrat will win.

Let me fix that for you.

Here’s the reality:
The top 4 placegetters in the Republican Primary automatically get their names on the ballot, as well as candidates from other parties.
If anyone splits the Republican vote, a Democrat will win.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 9, 2022 2:59 pm

Richard Cranium

We can take it to the Duelling Thread.

Off you go, if I get bored, I might drop over there.

johanna
johanna
October 9, 2022 3:02 pm

Add in the “Brewers Droop” factor to the time factor, and the case becomes less likely.

TMI, Boambee John. 🙂

I have personal experience of men who do not get brewer’s until they are unconscious.

The 70s was a great education in human diversity.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 9, 2022 3:02 pm

Nuckle Dragger — better still, I’d go with that one

‘No, because in a moment of clarity I realised that I’d be stuck with it for the next six months at least, and the risk vs reward analysis of being further seen in public with those burgeoning bingo wings was more than I could bear.

‘Then she spewed chockies all over the couch, and I just thought “I am out of here”.’

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 9, 2022 3:03 pm

Knuckle — ooops my fatfingeritis is chronic at the moment

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 9, 2022 3:04 pm

I fully support the GOP committing to nutcases like Tshibata to turn red states into purple.
This should be engraved on Mount Rushmore.

Every state race should feature a Herschel Walker style disaster of a candidate running the Republicans into the ground.

Herschel Walker, staunch AntiAbortionist:
[from Wiki]
Abortion allegations

In October 2022, The Daily Beast published allegations from a woman who said that Walker impregnated her and paid for her abortion in 2009 when they were dating.[148] The woman supported the allegation by producing a picture of a personal check from Walker, a get-well card with purported Walker’s signature, and a $575 receipt for an abortion.[148][149] The Daily Beast said that it corroborated the story with a friend of the woman, who “took care of her in the days after the procedure”.[147] Walker stated, “I never asked anyone to get an abortion. I never paid for an abortion.” When asked about the check, Walker said, “I give money to people all the time, because I’m always helping people”.[147] Walker said he would sue The Daily Beast for defamation.[150][151] After Walker said that he did not know the identity of the woman accusing him, The Daily Beast reported that the woman is the mother of one of Walker’s children; she told The Daily Beast that she had another child with Walker years after the abortion, despite Walker stating that it was not a convenient time for him to have a child, a sentiment he also raised prior to the abortion.

You couldn’t fucking make this up, but there it is.

2dogs
2dogs
October 9, 2022 3:05 pm

If anyone splits the Republican vote, a Democrat will win.

How does the vote get “split” in Alaska? It has preferential voting like in Australia.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 9, 2022 3:12 pm

A total clown says:
Let me fix that for you.

Here’s the reality:
The top 4 placegetters in the Republican Primary automatically get their names on the ballot, as well as candidates from other parties.
If anyone splits the Republican vote, a Democrat will win.

Here’s the reality:
If the losers have any loyalty at all, they’ll take their names off the Senate ballot paper before the time limit expires if they’re unable to endorse the winner and allow the winner to get a clear run.
Tshibaka hasn’t done that, ensuring a Democrat win in Alaska and making a retaking of the Senate less likely.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 9, 2022 3:15 pm

There is one thing missing from the Britnah case.
I was expecting her to arrive at court at the head* of a phalanx* of proud, fearless wymminses wearing either Handsmaid Tales hoods or white cocktail dresses with an off-white splodge on the back and a dribble of Cadbury Classic Caramel down the front.
Where are they?
I know Mrs Bandana can’t because witness.
But where are the rest of the grrrrls?
Could it be that they know?
………
* Deliberate.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 9, 2022 3:17 pm

How does the vote get “split” in Alaska? It has preferential voting like in Australia.
Tshibaka is running against Lisa on Lisa’s voting record, meaning Lisa isn’t getting any worthwhile preferences from Tshibaka.
That’s why McConnell is spending a fortune to discredit Tshibaka.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 9, 2022 3:18 pm

Herschel Walker has picked up points after the latest smear. Fuck off Ed

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 9, 2022 3:21 pm

One thing is for sure.
It is good to be able to discuss the Britnah case without some screeching bint arriving squealing “All men are wapists!”.
Some things I don’t miss.

Crossie
Crossie
October 9, 2022 3:21 pm

Space Armageddon: Why the Pentagon fears Russia and China’s star wars weaponry

Then why did they allow Clinton and Obama to give them you technology? More recently they even allowed Chinese students into their weapons programs. That sort of stupidity is what gets a lot of people killed.

The next Republican president must sack everyone in Pentagon and start again, certainly as far as the generals and chiefs of staff go. This looks like the FBI and the CIA are not the only agencies that need cleaning out.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 3:23 pm

Kanye West dared to ‘go stand in any hood in America’ with his ‘White Lives Matter’ shirt on

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 9, 2022 3:25 pm

It is good to be able to discuss the Britnah case without some screeching bint arriving squealing “All men are wapists!”.

Oh yes. Yes indeed.

Even with Ed October involved, there’s a degree of sanity through most of it.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 3:26 pm

It is good to be able to discuss the Britnah case without some screeching bint arriving squealing “All men are wapists!”.

Who?

Crossie
Crossie
October 9, 2022 3:28 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
October 9, 2022 at 10:15 am
Perhaps members of the military, current and ex, would be particularly interested in signing in order to protect the sacred memory of their comrades at arms.

Lizzie, you are a card. I laugh when I think of that “high heels” Morrison guy and can’t see him standing up for anything.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 9, 2022 3:28 pm

I was expecting her to arrive at court at the head* of a phalanx* of proud, fearless wymminses wearing either Handsmaid Tales hoods or white cocktail dresses with an off-white splodge on the back and a dribble of Cadbury Classic Caramel down the front.

I did expect such a turnout, from the sisterhood, yes.

Razey
Razey
October 9, 2022 3:31 pm

Just found out a relative has myocarditis, likely from the 4th clot shot.

Another victim.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 9, 2022 3:32 pm

Lizzie, you are a card. I laugh when I think of that “high heels” Morrison guy and can’t see him standing up for anything.

Michael Smith pointed out that, an officer who didn’t have an Infantry Combat Badge was expected to volunteer for a parachute course, and show parachute wings as a substitute – Morrison sported neither.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 9, 2022 3:42 pm

A positive side of the Britnah case is the further illumination of what a disloyal turd Scummo was as leader.
I hope staff and ministers drops buckets of shit on the Milan Brych of politics.

cohenite
October 9, 2022 3:45 pm

Latest from Jihad Watch:

Islamic scholar: ‘If you do not beat your wife, she might end up beating you’
‘Palestinian’ in Israel kidnapped, brought to ‘Palestinian’ territory, beheaded for homosexuality
Pakistan: Muslims chase Hindu from hospital, cop beats him and throws him into well, where he dies

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 9, 2022 3:45 pm

Russian propaganda video taking the piss out of America.

From the Comments

– Sorry can someone point out the propaganda part to me?

– It looks pretty accurate to me, and it is not just in the US, this can apply to all of western society.

– There is more truth in that video than propaganda.
The SJWs will be outraged!
…”How dare Russia use truth against us”!

Johnny Rotten
October 9, 2022 3:46 pm

Ed Casesays:
October 9, 2022 at 10:20 am
Can we have a separate J Rotten joke thread?
Send Rotten to the Duelling Thread.

LOL Dick Head. And I am not duelling. You lot are doing that on your own in this Fish Bowl that you think is so important. Keep up the good work and have a nice day. If my jokes annoy you then I will send even more……………………….JR

Johnny Rotten
October 9, 2022 3:47 pm

A new, environmentally-conscious farmer starts using manure in place of fertilizer on his crops.

He gets the manure from his own cows, and within weeks notices a significant change with his wheat and other grains. They begin to flourish like he’s never seen before, and he quickly begins heavily using this alternative method.

The blossoming crops attract the attention of an agriculture company nearby, and they send an infiltrator to try and get some secrets to success out of the boy.

The farmer gladly welcomes the businessman and cheerfully tells him about how well his manure works. Astounded, the man asks him if he’d be willing to set up a deal for this miracle-poo. The young man talks money after a while, and they come to a conclusion of $10 bucks per week in exchange for weekly pickups of manure from the company. Assured he got the better deal, the farmer walks away thinking “I’m gettin” a bit of extra money for literal bullcrap? It’s my lucky day!”

Two months later, the young man’s older, more experienced father comes by near the beginning of the harvest season he’s impressed with how well the crops have outgrown his own. “Son” he says “This manure of yours is top-notch! You could be making a pretty penny off of this!”

Proudly, his son puffs out his chest. “Pa, I’ve been doing that for a while now! Selling it to the farmin” corporation not too far from here!” “Really?” his father asks. “For how much?”

The younger farmer tells him. His father’s face flushes red.

“Boy! That’s criminally low! My manure aint half as good and I get paid 3 times as much! You’ve been scammed!”

Stunned, the son collapses in a lawn chair turned towards his cattle pasture. He looks at the collecting pile of poop gathered in a corner.

“Man” he says “I’m not getting’ paid enough for this shit”.

Johnny Rotten
October 9, 2022 3:49 pm

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

– Benjamin Franklin

Johnny Rotten
October 9, 2022 3:50 pm

An Arizona Highway Patrol officer stops a Harley for traveling faster than the posted speed limit, so he asks the biker his name.

“Fred” he replies.
“Fred what?” the officer asks.
“Just Fred” the man responds.

The officer is in a good mood, thinks he might just give the biker a break, and write him out a warning instead of a ticket. The officer then presses him for the last name.

The man tells him that he used to have a last name but lost it.

The officer thinks that he has a nut case on his hands but plays along with it. “Tell me, Fred, how did you lose your last name?”

The biker replies “It’s a long story, so stay with me”. I was born Fred Johnson. I studied hard and got good grades. When I got older, I realised that I wanted to be a doctor. I went through college, medical school, internship, residency, and finally got my degree, so I was Fred Johnson, MD. After a while I got bored being a doctor, so I decided to go back to school. Dentistry was my dream! Got all the way through School, got my degree, so then I was Fred Johnson, MD, DDS. Got bored doing dentistry, so I started fooling around with my assistant and she gave me VD, so now I was Fred Johnson, MD, DDS, with VD.

Well, the ADA found out about the VD, so they took away my DDS. Then I was Fred Johnson, MD, with VD. Then the AMA found out about the ADA taking away my DDS because of the VD, so they took away my MD leaving me as Fred Johnson with VD. Then the VD took away my Johnson, so now I am Just Fred”.

The officer walked away in tears, laughing.

Johnny Rotten
October 9, 2022 3:52 pm

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

– Isaac Asimov

Crossie
Crossie
October 9, 2022 3:57 pm

Zipster says:
October 9, 2022 at 2:58 pm
Elon Musk blames woke colleges for turning his transgender daughterson against him
GBNews

That then makes it personal for Elon Musk so I hope when he gets his hands on Twitter he does something about it.

Johnny Rotten
October 9, 2022 3:58 pm

It seems a farm boy accidentally overturned his wagon-load of hay.

The farmer who lived nearby heard the noise. “Hey, Will!” the farmer yelled. “Forget your troubles. Come in and have a bite with us. Then I’ll help you get the wagon up”. “That’s mighty nice of you” Will answered. “But I don’t think my dad would like me to”.

“Aw, come on”. the farmer insisted. “Well okay” the boy finally agreed, and added “But dad won’t like it”.

After a hearty dinner, Will thanked his host. “I feel a lot better now, but I know my dad is going to be real upset”. “Don’t be foolish!” the neighbour said with a smile. “By the way, where is your old man?”

Will replied “Under the wagon”.

That one was for Stencho Pantyhose from Benny Hill and Dave Allen who send their best Regards………….LOL

Johnny Rotten
October 9, 2022 4:01 pm

A new, environmentally-conscious farmer starts using manure in place of fertilizer on his crops.

He gets the manure from his own cows, and within weeks notices a significant change with his wheat and other grains. They begin to flourish like he’s never seen before, and he quickly begins heavily using this alternative method.

The blossoming crops attract the attention of an agriculture company nearby, and they send an infiltrator to try and get some secrets to success out of the boy.

The farmer gladly welcomes the businessman and cheerfully tells him about how well his manure works. Astounded, the man asks him if he’d be willing to set up a deal for this miracle-poo. The young man talks money after a while, and they come to a conclusion of $10 bucks per week in exchange for weekly pickups of manure from the company. Assured he got the better deal, the farmer walks away thinking “I’m gettin” a bit of extra money for literal bullcrap? It’s my lucky day!”

Two months later, the young man’s older, more experienced father comes by near the beginning of the harvest season he’s impressed with how well the crops have outgrown his own. “Son” he says “This manure of yours is top-notch! You could be making a pretty penny off of this!”

Proudly, his son puffs out his chest. “Pa, I’ve been doing that for a while now! Selling it to the farmin” corporation not too far from here!” “Really?” his father asks. “For how much?”

The younger farmer tells him. His father’s face flushes red.

“Boy! That’s criminally low! My manure aint half as good and I get paid 3 times as much! You’ve been scammed!”

Stunned, the son collapses in a lawn chair turned towards his cattle pasture. He looks at the collecting pile of poop gathered in a corner.

“Man” he says “I’m not getting’ paid enough for this shit”.

More yokes for Stencho Pantyhose and JC……………………………..LOL

Johnny Rotten
October 9, 2022 4:05 pm

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

– E. B. White

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 9, 2022 4:07 pm

Benny-spam.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 9, 2022 4:09 pm

Brittany is going off faster than a bag of Xmas prawn heads in the neighbour’s bin. She will struggle for an invite to the Xmas party.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 9, 2022 4:20 pm

I like JR’s jokes. Some of them are funny because they’re so bad, but I laugh anyway. Keep ’em coming, Johnny! 🙂

rosie
rosie
October 9, 2022 4:22 pm

Is the alleged victim in the witness box again tomorrow?
I wonder if, over the weekend, the prosecution have been gently probing for any more misrememberences in her statement.

rosie
rosie
October 9, 2022 4:24 pm

They can be just as funny in a thread of their own without constantly interrupting the flow of the open forum.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
October 9, 2022 4:26 pm

… without constantly interrupting the flow of the open forum.

Hohoho. No way that JR can better that joke.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 4:28 pm

We should distinguish national loyalty from nationalism. National loyalty involves a love of home and a preparedness to defend it; nationalism is a belligerent ideology, which uses national symbols in order to conscript the people to war.

– Sir Roger Scruton

Via insta OT

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 9, 2022 4:29 pm

Me thinks britnah likes probing, look how far she’s got so far.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 4:31 pm

What flow?

Graham
Graham
October 9, 2022 4:33 pm

Is the alleged victim in the witness box again tomorrow?
I wonder if, over the weekend, the prosecution have been gently probing for any more misrememberences in her statement.

The rule is that when a witness is in cross-examination the party who called the witness (here the prosecution) cannot be in communication with the witness. Therefore the ACT DPP will not have been speaking to her over the weekend.

rosie
rosie
October 9, 2022 4:37 pm

It’s more a torrent than a flow.
Incidentally drove past Ricketts Sanctuary today, closed since Mid last year.
Apparently it was a cyclogenesis storm event aka a bomb cyclone that did all the damage in the Dandenongs last June.
Much more exciting.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 9, 2022 4:37 pm

I wonder if, over the weekend, the prosecution have been gently probing for any more misrememberences in her statement.

Should imagine prosecution would view that pastime as yielding the same enjoyment as playing eighteen holes on their favourite golf course.

rosie
rosie
October 9, 2022 4:38 pm

Thank you Graham.

johanna
johanna
October 9, 2022 4:40 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
October 9, 2022 at 3:15 pm

There is one thing missing from the Britnah case.
I was expecting her to arrive at court at the head* of a phalanx* of proud, fearless wymminses wearing either Handsmaid Tales hoods or white cocktail dresses with an off-white splodge on the back and a dribble of Cadbury Classic Caramel down the front.
Where are they?

See Michael Smith’s site for a rundown of her supporters at court, including the head of the ACT Victim Support Unit, and a Labor spinner.

That said, those who claim that she was part of some secret plan to infiltrate the Libs and orchestrate a pretend rape are off with the pixies.

Who knows how or by whom she was hired, but it helps to have family or Party connections. Then again, plenty of morons get hired without those.

It is revealing that she complained about how low she was on the totem pole at the office. (And yes, I know that this is the reverse of how totem poles actually worked).

As others have confirmed, messy and drunken sex is far from rare among the developmental adolescents who inhabit Ministers’ offices. It has ever been so.

To those who demand that only old people be allowed to to those jobs – there is a reason for this, as said before, but here it is again.

Ministerial staff work (even if they are doing nothing, they have to be there) very long hours, and to be on call for the rest of them. They have to travel frequently and at short notice.

It is not a job for anyone with a family that they want to keep, or who is not prepared and able to be on duty 18 hours a day.

That’s why they hire kiddies with no responsibilities who have the energy and enthusiasm.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 9, 2022 4:43 pm

Graham at 4:33.

The rule is that when a witness is in cross-examination the party who called the witness (here the prosecution) cannot be in communication with the witness. Therefore the ACT DPP will not have been speaking to her over the weekend.

Ah yes.
Sometimes the greatest ally of the cross-examiner is … the long pause.
And the weekend is a very long pause.
But what odds the rules of cross-examination might have been breached by a junior DPP officer to warn Britnah of the pitfalls which might be coming.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
October 9, 2022 4:52 pm

Milton of 7.43am today.
As being part of the 1st/2nd generation of non English speaking migrants from middle/Eastern Europe, the English and local Aussies on the whole treated me and my family better than others.
How long do bloodies last in a Mediterean soccer club – I’d give you one month at most.
Once I got in to the broader community with work
And footy I had plenty of opportunities.
Thanks.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 9, 2022 4:53 pm

See Michael Smith’s site for a rundown of her supporters at court, including the head of the ACT Victim Support Unit, and a Labor spinner.

That wasn’t really the point. They are merging into the background and there as a defensive measure to ensure Britnah doesn’t fold.
I was talking about the very symbolic march to court as a public demonstration of grrrl-power.
Hasn’t happened.

Ministerial staff work (even if they are doing nothing, they have to be there) very long hours, and to be on call for the rest of them. They have to travel frequently and at short notice.

They have their phone on all the time.
I don’t call that “hard work”. If they were genuinely on call, they wouldn’t be guzzling shots until all hours or off to a long lunch once a week.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 9, 2022 4:56 pm

Ministerial long hours? Having a larf?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 9, 2022 4:59 pm

I wonder if, over the weekend, the prosecution have been gently probing for any more misrememberences in her statement.

I wonder if, over the weekend, Brittany may have been reflecting that “No – one ever believes a man, when he says he didn’t commit rope” wasn’t the smartest advice she may have received.

P
P
October 9, 2022 5:01 pm

custard says:
October 9, 2022 at 2:45 pm

He takes a straw poll of attendees asking if they would like him to finish rally with Q music to WWG1WGA
Overwhelming yes!
So the music was played.

He asked the crowd at the Minden Rally if they would like him to finish with music (prompted)

This was the music played Mirrors by Will Van De Crommert

m0nty
m0nty
October 9, 2022 5:02 pm

How does the vote get “split” in Alaska? It has preferential voting like in Australia.

It’s optional preferential voting. In the recent state election there, 10% of voters went for the third-placed Republican with their first preference but didn’t put a second preference, thus exhausting their vote and electing a Democrat.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 9, 2022 5:18 pm

From the Oz – I’ve posted the whole article.

Little room for mistakes in Louise Milligan’s pursuit of change GERARD HENDERSON

11:00PM October 7, 2022

Most successful journalists are aware types. Not all, alas, are into self-awareness.

Last Saturday, ABC television investigative reporter Louise Milligan (who currently works on Four Corners) was interviewed by Jamila Rizvi for The Briefing news podcast. It was a soft discussion of the kind to be expected when one journalist interviews another about journalism. But it did have its revealing moments.

First up, Milligan declared that “one of the fabulous things about working for Four Corners is we have this rare and magical ability to make really important change”. In other words, she sees the program as a change agent that is into advocacy. Milligan claims not to be an activist. But activist journalists, of whatever gender, are change advocates.

Milligan is perhaps best known for her 2017 book Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell, which followed a 30-minute ABC TV 7.30 episode presented by her on Pell that aired on July 27, 2016.

Both were regarded by the cardinal’s supporters and opponents alike as presenting a case for the prosecution.

In 2020, Milligan’s second book, titled Witness (Hachette), was published. Its prime focus was on Pell and the author herself, although two cases of sexual assault were discussed at some length. In Witness, Milligan failed to mention that all her allegations against Pell on 7.30 or in Cardinal came to nought.

Pell was charged and convicted on five counts of historical child sexual assault – which formed the basis of Cardinal. But the conviction was overturned in a unanimous judgment of the High Court of Australia, which made the unusual statement that an innocent man may have been falsely convicted. Usually an appeals court would simply state, in such a circumstance, that guilt had not been established beyond reasonable doubt.

The remaining allegations covered on 7.30 and in Cardinal either were not proceeded with by Victoria Police, were dropped by the Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions or were abandoned by the DPP following a decision in the County Court of Victoria as to the admissibility of evidence.

In Witness, the author indicates that she does not agree with the High Court’s seven-zip decision or with the devastating forensic destruction of the prosecution’s case by Justice Mark Weinberg in his dissenting judgment in the Victorian Court of Appeal.

But Milligan has never explained how the (alleged) crimes could have taken place in a crowded public place such as St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne at a solemn high mass on a Sunday.

On November 20, 2020, Milligan reported the Inside the Canberra Bubble program for Four Corners. This was essentially an attack on two ministers in the Coalition government – attorney-general Christian Porter and education minister Alan Tudge – that alleged sexual impropriety but not criminality.

Subsequently, on February 26 last year Milligan posted an article on the ABC website titled “Scott Morrison, senator and AFP told of historical rape allegations against Cabinet Minister”.

Shortly after, in the midst of widespread rumour, Porter identified himself as the anonymous minister but denied all allegations that he had raped a recently deceased woman some two decades previously.

On May 31 last year, the taxpayer-funded public broadcaster issued a statement containing the following words: “The ABC did not contend that the serious accusations (against Porter) could be substantiated to the applicable legal standard – criminal or civil.”

In other words, Milligan did not prove her case beyond reasonable doubt or even to the lower standard of guilt on the balance of probabilities.

The ABC paid Porter’s mediation costs plus its own costs for outside legal advice. Porter made no payment to the ABC.

Now, there can be no more serious allegation than being accused of child sexual assault or murder. Yet, when referring to the Pell and Porter cases, Milligan claimed it was her critics who had got things wrong. She added: “Sometimes when you draw it to their attention and you, you provide information to correct the record, they simply refuse to – and that is really, really chilling to me.”

No evidence was provided to support the claim.

When I first read Cardinal, I wrote to Milligan asking 11 questions concerning errors and the scholarship in her book. She not only went into “no comment” mode but passed my email to her publisher, Louise Adler, who effectively told me to back off.

The list of questions are in my book Cardinal Pell, The Media Pile-On & Collective Guilt (Connor Court, 2021). They remain unanswered today.

Frank Brennan is the author of Observations on the Pell Proceedings (Connor Court, 2021), one of a trio of considered books written after the High Court decision that the ABC has effectively censored. Brennan has written a paper setting out changes in the material presented in the first and second editions of Cardinal.

Milligan has never explained, or even acknowledged, the inconsistencies. Yet she criticises others for their (alleged) errors that are not acknowledged or corrected by them.

As Sophie Elsworth reported in The Australian on September 12 this year, Milligan told the 2022 Melbourne Writers Festival: “If we make mistakes we must correct it immediately and people who don’t should hang their heads in shame.” This is not a practice that she follows.

It’s much the same with apologies. Milligan does not do regret. In March last year, on her private Twitter page, she repeated an error that (then) Liberal MP Andrew Laming had “upskirted” a female shop attendant. Milligan backed away from the accusation but declined to apologise. In the event, the ABC paid about $200,000 of taxpayers’ money to Laming for damages plus costs.

In her conversation with Rizvi, Milligan acknowledged that journalists had to be “extraordinarily careful in our practice” since they had a capacity “to destroy a person’s career” and/or “harm their reputation”. But Milligan’s campaigns against Pell, Porter and Laming did precisely this – despite the fact she was not able to establish her case to any known standard of proof.

Yet the ABC’s star journalist feels what she told The Briefing is “despair” that she has been criticised for mere journalism. Talk about giving lack of self-awareness a bad name.

Gerard Henderson is executive director of the Sydney Institute. His Media Watch Dog blog can be found at theaustralian.com.au.

Johnny Rotten
October 9, 2022 5:22 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
October 9, 2022 at 4:07 pm
Benny-spam.

LOL. More like Stencho Pantyhose Spam………………………..

johanna
johanna
October 9, 2022 5:23 pm

Ministerial staff work (even if they are doing nothing, they have to be there) very long hours, and to be on call for the rest of them. They have to travel frequently and at short notice.

They have their phone on all the time.
I don’t call that “hard work”. If they were genuinely on call, they wouldn’t be guzzling shots until all hours or off to a long lunch once a week.

You don’t know what you are talking about, and I do.

Being a Ministerial staffer involves many hours of reading government documents and press releases, scouring social media, and interacting with whingers and supporters. They all compete for attention from the Boss, like hungry chicks in a nest.

The ones who got their jobs because of connections get cut a lot more slack than the ones who were hired on merit. You can imagine what the culture is like.

Do keep up.

MatrixTransform
October 9, 2022 5:26 pm

They can be just as funny in a thread of their own without constantly interrupting the flow of the open forum

3/10

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 9, 2022 5:28 pm

As others have confirmed, messy and drunken sex is far from rare among the developmental adolescents who inhabit Ministers’ offices. It has ever been so.

Johanna:
Bruce Lehrmann, the defendant here, has vehemently denied any sexual intercourse took place that morning.
Try to keep up and remember, he deserves a fair go.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 5:28 pm

Just remembered my ex Sil worked security at parliament. Won’t be giving her a call though. My eldest brother treated her like dirt.

Sick deviant prick is dead, good.

JC
JC
October 9, 2022 5:29 pm

MatrixTransform says:
October 9, 2022 at 5:26 pm

They can be just as funny in a thread of their own without constantly interrupting the flow of the open forum

3/10

11/10.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 9, 2022 5:29 pm

Great article Zulu.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 9, 2022 5:31 pm

Adam Bandt flies in the face of Green ideals
NICK TABAKOFF

Last week, Diary brought you the adventures of an unmasked Adam Bandt – one of the most foremost campaigners in the media for mask-wearing – in the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge at Canberra Airport.

We noted that while he was safely away from the cameras in the Chairman’s Lounge, Bandt was happy to shed his Covid-shielding mask. But as soon as the Greens Leader left the anything-but-socialist confines of the lounge to join the general riff-raff of Canberra Airport, his fashionable black mask came straight back on.

In response to Diary’s item, some federal MPs have contacted Diary to regale us with yet more stories of Bandt’s intrepid adventures with the Flying Kangaroo.

One tale suggests that even for the Greens leader, the climate emergency can sometimes take a back seat to personal in-flight comfort.

Witness accounts relayed to Diary from fellow business-class travellers suggest Bandt has for some time been known to have a fondness for life behind the little curtain up the front of the plane in Qantas’s first three or four rows.

A variety of studies suggest that travelling business class emits between two and four times more greenhouse gas emissions than economy.

Bandt’s apparent fondness for the front of the plane appears to be borne out by his considerable expenditure on domestic airfares, as per his parliamentary declarations. For the first three months of this year, Bandt spent a chunky $10,664.85 on domestic scheduled fares.

That’s not the sort of amount you’re going to clock up booking Qantas Red-e deals in economy, and indicative of a pretty decent carbon footprint.

We called Bandt’s spokesman on Sunday to ask about the Greens leader’s allegedly close relationship with the front of the plane, but didn’t receive a response.

Oz

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 9, 2022 5:32 pm

You don’t know what you are talking about, and I do.

Sure.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 9, 2022 5:36 pm

Great article Zulu.

Thanks BB. I’m ordering a copy of Henderson’s book, on the strength of said article – should make damnfine reading.

calli
calli
October 9, 2022 5:37 pm

I just had a thought. Did you magically turn presbyterian on crossing the Scottish border? ?

Ahaha! No. But back in Oz we worship with the Pressbuttons.

So a sort of hybrid with CofE, or more accurately Low Church Anglicans. My great uncle was a Loyal Orangeman…definitely not a Celtic supporter.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 5:38 pm

Wife says no that’s your other brothers ex girlfriend.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 9, 2022 5:41 pm

You don’t know what you are talking about, and I do.

It’s hardly top secret. Parliament House has more people go through it than Julia Gillard at National Conference.

johanna
johanna
October 9, 2022 5:41 pm

Oh, and Lizzie and the truth are not strangers, they are mortal enemies.

Despite numerous exposes of her chronic lying, some people here behave like Democrats – doesn’t matter, she’s on our side.

Sucked in by sentiment, we have an 79 year old woman who fed the old blokes here with dishonest soft porn ‘perky tits.’ And they loved it, suckers.
See Johnny Rotten’s jokes about tits on old women.

Cassie of Sydney
October 9, 2022 5:43 pm

“Cardinal Pell, The Media Pile-On & Collective Guilt (Connor Court, 2021). “

It’s an excellent book, but quite depressing. What Nilligan, their ABC and others in the MSM did to Cardinal Pell wasn’t just scandalous, it was an outright lynching.

France had l’affaire Dreyfus, Australia has L’affaire Pell.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 9, 2022 5:43 pm

johannasays:

October 9, 2022 at 5:41 pm

Oh, and Lizzie and the truth are not strangers, they are mortal enemies.

Bing-Bong!
Paging johanna.
Johanna to the Duelling Thread, please!
Bing-Bong!

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 5:44 pm

interacting with whingers and supporters. They all compete for attention from the Boss, like hungry chicks in a nest.

I call it the wall of cronies. Didn’t bands have a not so polite word describing groupies?

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 9, 2022 5:44 pm

Is the alleged victim in the witness box again tomorrow?
According to the website, Friday is the next Hearing Date.

SCC/0264/21 R v BRUCE LEHRMANN 14 Oct 2022 10:00 AM

I wonder if, over the weekend, the prosecution have been gently probing for any more misrememberences in her statement.

Let’s put it this way, if the Prosecutors offer Lehrmann a Nolle provided he signs a paper absolving them of any blame for his being Charged & etc., he’d be out of his mind to say

Go and get fucked, I’ll see you in Court.

Cassie of Sydney
October 9, 2022 5:46 pm

Goodness me, Lizzie makes an appearance here and the pathetic woman from Queanbeyan is obsessed once again. What a sad sack.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 9, 2022 5:47 pm

Johanna to the Duelling Thread, please!

This is not one of those 80s jelly wrestling things is it? I might just wait for the video.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 9, 2022 5:50 pm

What Nilligan, their ABC and others in the MSM did to Cardinal Pell wasn’t just scandalous, it was an outright lynching.

One of the key differences between R v Pell and R v Lehrmann is the level of deference accorded the star prosecution witness.
Witness J was permitted to give evidence remotely with a fluffy support kitten, his truthiness advisors and convenient link drop-outs at critical times. Richter was totally hamstrung in putting any question to J regarding his propensity for making shit up.
He was also not required to repeat evidence at the second trial which would no doubt have exposed inconsistencies.
Britnah, on the other hand, has had to face open court and face legitimate questions about her general credibility. OK, the judge is drawing some boundaries there, but J simply didn’t have to face any questioning of his veracity.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 9, 2022 5:51 pm

France had l’affaire Dreyfus, Australia has L’affaire Pell.

Here’s the problem with that comparison:
All the Evidence, now that the heat has mostly gone out of the issue, is that, yeah, Dreyfus was passing documents, such as the French Order Of Battle, to the Germans.
Pell, though, he’s in the clear and is likely to stay there.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 5:51 pm

I thought this was Dover’s blog.

Razey
Razey
October 9, 2022 5:51 pm

French General Pays Tribute to the Unvaccinated: ‘They Embody the Best of Humanity, They Are Superheroes’

They are of a particular kind; these are the soldiers that any army of light wishes to have in its ranks.

https://rairfoundation.com/french-general-pays-tribute-to-the-unvaccinated-they-embody-the-best-of-humanity-they-are-superheroes/

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 9, 2022 5:52 pm

This is not one of those 80s jelly wrestling things is it? I might just wait for the video.

I’ll take the audio only thanks.
Or, better still, the written account in tomorrow’s paper.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 9, 2022 5:53 pm

The ones who got their jobs because of connections get cut a lot more slack than the ones who were hired on merit. You can imagine what the culture is like.

It looks like Drumgold KC is planning to shine a spotlight on that culture.

…the following Tuesday, when he was questioned about why he had entered parliament by Reynolds’s office manager Fiona Brown, a breach of security protocol, he said he had returned “to drink some whiskey and had [about] two glasses”.

[…]

[In the] police interview Lehrmann allegedly said both that he had purposely left the keys to his apartment at the parliament before going out on that night, and that while out drinking he remembered he had to “attend the office to do some work”.

That work, Drumgold said, involved sticking tabs on a briefing document for the minister.

All sounds very high flying…

Razey
Razey
October 9, 2022 5:54 pm

They did what others could not do; they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination, and social exclusion.

Rabz
October 9, 2022 5:55 pm

Miss Ellie, turning the sexiness up to eleventy …

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 9, 2022 6:00 pm

is that, yeah, Dreyfus was passing documents, such as the French Order Of Battle, to the Germans.

The fact that Dreyfus wars exonerated, and a bloke called Esterhazey was found guilty doesn’t really matter, does it Grogs?

Rabz
October 9, 2022 6:02 pm

The marxists are at it again bringing down another great institution. This time the Australian War Memorial. They will now recognise the “frontier wars”. FFS.

How do you recognise something that never happened?

johanna
johanna
October 9, 2022 6:06 pm

A chap with first name ‘Shane’ and second name ‘Van Gisbergen’ just won Bathurst.

Ya get that.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 9, 2022 6:10 pm

Zulu:
FFS, get your facts.
Esterhazy was found Not Guilty.
See below:

After evidence against Esterhazy was discovered and made public, he was eventually subjected to a closed military trial in 1898, only to be officially found not guilty. Esterhazy retired from the military with the rank of major in 1898—presumably under pressure—and fled by way of Brussels to the United Kingdom, where he lived in the town of Harpenden in Hertfordshire until his death in 1923.[2]

Wiki

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 9, 2022 6:11 pm

How do you recognise something that never happened?

For shame! Don’t you know that 100,000 Aboriginal men, women and children died in those wars, and vanished, leaving not a trace behind them?

Rabz
October 9, 2022 6:11 pm

That security chick in the ALPBC story is going to get a right hammering by defence. Claiming you just followed procedure and let a staggering drunk into a minister’s office won’t wash

Yet she, her security colleague and Britnee weren’t all summarily sacked the following Monday morning.

If I blundered into my work’s office at 1:00am on a Saturday morning with an inebriated young floozey I’d have been unceremoniously jobsacked the following Monday.

But yeah – our monstrous ruling class are different and they have different rules. At our expense (again).

JMH
JMH
October 9, 2022 6:12 pm

Rabzsays:
October 9, 2022 at 6:02 pm

The marxists are at it again bringing down another great institution. This time the Australian War Memorial. They will now recognise the “frontier wars”. FFS.

How do you recognise something that never happened?

Exactly. Where’s the bloody proof? The ‘tards need to cite – or it never happened.

woolfe
woolfe
October 9, 2022 6:12 pm

Bridge reopens for vehicles, trains will be running latter.

Davey Boy
Davey Boy
October 9, 2022 6:13 pm

Who owns Australia? Part 24,032:

Neighbour down the road wants to build a house on a block of land, private property which they own outright. At the front (uphill) is a council street. At the back (downhill) is a main-ish road – managed not by council, but by Transport for NSW (TfNSW). Water tends to flow downhill, so a stormwater drainage solution was proposed, to connect the property to the gutter of the TfNSW road, instead of pushing it uphill to the council street. Ultimately, all the local stormwater ends up draining to the same destination anyway, a big mother of a stormwater channel in the near vicinity.

However – the footpath of this particular TfNSW road (at the back of the property) is a small strip of Crown land. To get an easement (to put 1m or so of drain pipe under it) the requirements turn out to be:
– get written proof of extinguishment of native title interest over the land
– and written proof of no undetermined Aboriginal Land Claim(s) on the land
– and obtain a valuation report for the Crown land from an approved independent registered valuer
– and obtain Crown Lands NSW approval of an application for easement
– then based on the valuation, pay the NSW government ‘compensation’ for the (1m or so of) easement under the footpath
– and get written permission from TfNSW to send stormwater to ‘their’ gutter

All costs have to be met by the people who want to build the house on their land, and then if they’re lucky they might get the necessary approval for the easement.

Looking at the above, seems that pushing it uphill is what government inevitably forces you to do, regardless of common sense, practicality and cost.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 9, 2022 6:14 pm

A chap with first name ‘Shane’ and second name ‘Van Gisbergen’ just won Bathurst.

Won Bathurst? Like in a raffle?

Motor ‘sports’ are not sports. By that rationale, the space race in the 60s was a sport, complete with world championship.

Motor sports are competitions between car makers and computer geeks. The drivers are formulaic at best, and frontmen at worst. They’re like triangle players in orchestras, cossetted from their pre-teen years in a manner worse than AFL players.

People – well, quite a few people – only watch them to see the accidents anyway, and even then the prangs are pissweak in this day and age.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 9, 2022 6:15 pm

They did what others could not do; they were the tree that withstood the hurricane of insults, discrimination, and social exclusion.

This could be embarrassing. Insults and discrimination have zero effect on me, and I enjoy social exclusion. Who’d want to be part of a society that votes for Desperate Dan and the rest of our incompetent parasites? Fact is, I had not the slightest problems dealing with the minor inconveniences that followed from the insane orders from our ignorant, arrogant “leaders”. Locked out of a restaurant or two was all it amounted to. Irritating, but no more.

It did have the advantage of seeing just how authoritarian our parasite class can be given half a poor excuse, and also how compliant and fearful so large a fraction of the population can be. Natural born slave material. But I already had my suspicions on both scores.

So no, kindly don’t credit me with superhuman courage, my natural quota of contumacity was quite adequate.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 9, 2022 6:16 pm

Miss Ellie, turning the sexiness up to eleventy …

Definitely worth a wolf whistle.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 9, 2022 6:18 pm

…the following Tuesday, when he was questioned about why he had entered parliament by Reynolds’s office manager Fiona Brown, a breach of security protocol, he said he had returned “to drink some whiskey and had [about] two glasses”.

So he signed in at the ministerial entrance, was escorted to the office (accompanied by a security officer and a woman who could hardly walk), had two whiskeys, did the dirty on Mizz White Dress, and walked back to the ministerial entrance, all in 22 minutes? Busy boy.

Rabz
October 9, 2022 6:21 pm

even then the prangs are pissweak in this day and age

Let’s go back to when they weren’t. Legendary stuff.

“Bill Brown”. No doubt related to Charlie.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 9, 2022 6:22 pm

Gentle essay for this gentile:

It’s Not Nomadic Hut Appreciation Week* (Lidblog, 7 Oct, via Instapundit)

As mentioned above, Jews aren’t great with tools. For many of us (like yours truly), the last time we picked up a tool or climbed up a ladder was last year’s Sukkot. If you peek out your window and watch a Jewish neighbor build their Sukkah, make sure you have no food in your mouth. You will probably snort, or belly laugh your food out your nose. Building a Sukkah is the construction version of the “Keystone Kops” (only funnier).

If the annual building project is proceeding horribly, some of the builders can be heard screaming about their failure in strange tongues. Last year my neighbor Larry, a huge Star Trek fan, hit his thumb with a hammer and screamed, “vaj ghorDu’, which is Klingon for “oh crap, that hurts.” My friend Ed screamed, “ó cacamas a ghortaíonn” the exact phrase as Larry’s but in Irish. Ed is not Jewish. He’s an observant Catholic and has never built a Sukkah. His Irish scream was just to show sympathy for his Jewish friends.

A Sukkah must have a semi-see-through roof built from something that grows in the ground (NO, not cannabis). That roof is called sechach, a beneficial word.

One reason for living in a flimsy hut with a see-through roof is to remind Jews how they lived in the wilderness after being freed from slavery in Egypt. We are reminded that in those ancient times, just as today, the frailty and transience of Jews depended on God. Our dependence on God is necessary to protect us.

Have a great Sukkot, Jewish friends. I like that when God provided food in the desert they called it manna, which means in Hebrew “what is it?” That became its name.

* I’ve used the subheading not the actual heading, because it’s more fun.

Jorge
Jorge
October 9, 2022 6:25 pm

I was talking about the very symbolic march to court as a public demonstration of grrrl-power.

Jeeze, I dunno,Sancho, have a look next time they are filmed arriving in court.

She’s always escorted by the same two wymmins, each with a Julian Assange brave but bearing up nobly tight little smile on their dials. You’d think they think it’s all about them.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 6:26 pm

contumacity

9/10

I does help when all previous attempts failed.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 9, 2022 6:30 pm

KD
People – well, quite a few people – only watch them to see the accidents anyway

Guilty as charged m’lud.
The big wet and consequent accidents sucked me in.
Although, you’re not an Australian if you don’t watch Bathurst and the Sydney to Hobart at some stage of your life.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 9, 2022 6:31 pm

By that rationale, the space race in the 60s was a sport, complete with world championship.

Indeed it was. Watch the documentary Apollo 11. Best thing CNN ever did. The bit where the camera from the Eagle shows the surface approaching and then the motion ceases and there is silence. Awesome.
Also the bit on the way home in Columbia where Neil gives a little smile for the camera. How would it feel knowing you are the FIRST MAN, ever and forever, to set foot on another world besides Earth?
Neil wasn’t just first man on the Moon.

Rabz
October 9, 2022 6:32 pm

Fatty Trump finishes after speaking for an hour and a half

Custard, here’s hoping he made more sense than the pathetic illegitimate syphilis addled ol’ cretin who replaced him.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 9, 2022 6:32 pm

had two whiskeys, did the dirty on Mizz White Dress,

Embrace the power of male multi tasking skills.

rickw
rickw
October 9, 2022 6:33 pm

All costs have to be met by the people who want to build the house on their land, and then if they’re lucky they might get the necessary approval for the easement.

My sister had to gain approval for repair of a private bridge, dealing with private land, state and crown land, and yorta yorta tribe consultation. FMD. I don’t think the original bridge had any approvals, they just built the darn thing.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 9, 2022 6:38 pm

Heard of team sports, KD?

Johnny Rotten
October 9, 2022 6:39 pm

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

– Charles Dudley Warner

Actually, I thought that it was Mark Twain who said that…………………………….

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 9, 2022 6:39 pm

She’s always escorted by the same two wymmins, each with a Julian Assange brave but bearing up nobly tight little smile on their dials. You’d think they think it’s all about them.

Minders, there to protect the Guilty.
Basically, Ms Higgins is on her own.
I wouldn’t loan some ex Rudd staffer cum First Nations Jobsworth 2 bob until payday.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 6:39 pm

Eyrie

I was to young for the moon landing but the first flight of the shuttle was my moment of escape.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 9, 2022 6:44 pm

HB Bear @5.47
I might just wait for the video.

Best leave your glasses off.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 9, 2022 6:47 pm

I was to young for the moon landing but the first flight of the shuttle was my moment of escape.

Watched that too. I was at uni for Apollo 11. We got lectures cancelled and there were all the TV monitors on. It was a historical divide. Before men walked on another world and after.
John Young (Gemini 3, and 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS 1 and STS 9) was my favorite astronaut. Consummate professional who didn’t use the astronaut thing to get into politics or go back to the military to gain promotion.

cohenite
October 9, 2022 6:50 pm

Speaking of religion The Barchester Chronicless makes good viewing. 7 hour episodes on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDawi-HzNF8

rickw
rickw
October 9, 2022 6:54 pm

Sheriff Grady Judd tells hurricane victims to shoot looters until they look ‘like grated cheese’

Shane Patton says: If you touch anyone committing a crime, you’ll be infringing on our turf. You will be pursued mercilessly through the courts and intimidated at every opportunity. We will make your life a misery as a lesson to yourself, and everyone else.

Luzu
Luzu
October 9, 2022 6:57 pm

My dear future BIL taught Shane van Gisbergen maths back in NZ and is a fervent supporter of his. Funny how six degrees of separation can often be a lot less…

calli
calli
October 9, 2022 6:58 pm

Off on our walking tour soon. No opportunity to go to the gallery, Faustus, but we’ll be back in Glasgow in June next year and that will be the priority stop.

On cards and rip offs. We notify the bank a week before, easy for us because we can go through our business manager as the cards are linked. A boon a few years ago when we lost the lot at the London Eye (naughty Rooshians). Just happened to have an ancient Visa card in the stack that could be topped up pending re-issue. It’s very discombobulating to be far away and penniless.

Dull grey Autumnal skies over Glasgow today. Hopefully the rain holds off until I see Saint Mungo and a glimpse of Lister’s hospital.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 9, 2022 7:01 pm

Heard of team sports, KD?

Yep. Car racing isn’t a sport. It’s a carmaker competition.

It might be a sport, but then you’d have to classify the activity on TV where people make little radio-controlled robots out of Roombas and battle them to the death in someone’s garage as a sport as well.

rickw
rickw
October 9, 2022 7:01 pm

The elite don’t give a shit about climate change. Sacrifices are for the little people to make.

Sitting here watching another private jet park on the ramp. At a location that’s supposedly going to going to be drowned by sea level rises.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 9, 2022 7:02 pm

Cafe fun. The kookas arrived a short time ago and started chuckling on my clothesline. Which means “dinner please” in kooka.

So I go outside into the back yard with appropriate supplies. On the way a noisy miner lands on my left shoulder. That’s a first. It’s the kid who learned a couple days ago to perch on my arm. So I had to stop and feed the young noisy on my shoulder, who sat there happily consuming bread bits and a few tiny morsels of mince for variety.

Then gave the kookas their dinner with noisy still on shoulder. Surreal.

The kooka family don’t appear interested in using the Cafe nest box this year, but there’re a couple of new termite mounds in trees not too far away. One has a hole drilled into it and I think I saw a kooka beak protruding when I was out walking yesterday. Dunno how the nest went overnight, we had two inches of heavy rain in a couple hours – which isn’t good for balls of wood granules stuck together with termite spit.

calli
calli
October 9, 2022 7:02 pm

You can also ring the card provider direct, or there is an on-line option. Prefer to speak to a human because I always seem to mess up somewhere in the process – the red signal to go back because a field is missing.

JC
JC
October 9, 2022 7:22 pm

Yet when JC/Sancho/EdCase/BB/Rotten/Monty are calling each other to the Duelling Thread

That’s untrue, Berka. I’ve never called any of the folks you mention to the duel thread. Please strive for accuracy.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 9, 2022 7:22 pm
calli
calli
October 9, 2022 7:27 pm

Speaking of wrestling, the hotel cable had a wrestling station, AAW from memory. Flicking through all the dross and it was better than watching the BBC telling me the world was about to blow/burn up.

Most entertaining and perfectly choreographed. It would give the ballet a run for its money. Dirty tricks abounding including eye gouging and balancing delicately on the ropes before “landing” on the prone opponent’s solar plexis.

Last time I’d watched such a display was channel 9 in the late 60’s – Killer Kowalski and Gorgeous George and a bevy of other exotic names. From memory Jack Little did the commentary.

calli
calli
October 9, 2022 7:32 pm

The Duelling Thread is so far back in the blog log you’d struggle to find it.

I called out DocDuk in a fit of stupidity. Won’t do that again. A flash in the pan and it was all over.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 9, 2022 7:33 pm

JC would use olive oil in the Ancient Greek tradition. That would get mUnty salivating.

rosie
rosie
October 9, 2022 7:34 pm

What date did fitzsumthink say he met the alleged victim and offer to find her a book deal?

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 9, 2022 7:34 pm

Two advocates from a climate protest group have been arrested after gluing their hands to a priceless piece of art, triggering an evacuation at one of Australia’s biggest galleries.

A 49-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man from Extinction Rebellion Australia (ERA) glued their hands to the glass of a framed painting by Pablo Picasso, titled Massacre in Korea, at midday on Sunday at the National Gallery of Victoria.

The pair stood either side of the 1951 piece each with a hand glued to the glass and above a banner reading ‘climate chaos = war + famine’.

Daily Mail

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It seems the abuse thread isn’t sufficient outlet for some.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 7:36 pm

I called out DocDuk in a fit of stupidity

Why?

You spoke your mind and there is nothing wrong with that, Calli.

calli
calli
October 9, 2022 7:39 pm

Bespoke, DocDuk’s response on the duelling thread completely disarmed me with its humour and good-naturedness.

How could I resist such a smoothie? 😀

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

What date did fitzsumthink say he met the alleged victim and offer to find her a book deal?

It was early in the piece.
They key point however, is this came to light only after Ms Wilkinson had been publicly stating that she had not made any approach & she’d been (paraphrased) minding her own business behind her desk when outta the blue Ms. Higgins initiated contact.

JC
JC
October 9, 2022 7:40 pm

lol

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

how do you feel about Liz being piled-on

Not your concern.
Now piss off back to Pakistan…. oops, I mean, the abuse thread.

Indolent
Indolent
October 9, 2022 7:46 pm
Indolent
Indolent
October 9, 2022 7:48 pm
Roger
Roger
October 9, 2022 7:50 pm

We called Bandt’s spokesman on Sunday to ask about the Greens leader’s allegedly close relationship with the front of the plane, but didn’t receive a response.

So the little Marxist turd using the Greens as a cover is exposed as a hypocrite.

Colour me surprised.

Long may Mehreen Faruqi & Lydia Thorpe make his politicial life miserable.

Davey Boy
Davey Boy
October 9, 2022 7:52 pm

Further to Who owns Australia? Part 24,032 at 6:13pm

The fix – how it’s done:

Other neighbours (by simple observation, at least three) in the same street have already built stormwater drainage (downhill) from their properties, under the previously-described Crown land strip, to the Transport for NSW (TfNSW) road gutter.

So these other three properties must have obtained easements, under the strip of Crown land, right?

When a land title search for the strip of Crown land in question is done – there’s no mention of any easements (normally, easements are recorded in a Land Title).

That’s not all – apparently, when you search local Council database records for these other three houses in question – all quite new – the related Development Application records are all “gone” – there’s no record of any DA approvals, when/by whom etc. They’ve been ‘disappeared’.

Lol.

Rabz
October 9, 2022 7:54 pm

Jennee said when she was just 5 years old
There was nothing happening at all
Every time she puts on the radio
There was nothing going down at all, not at all …

Then one fine morning, she puts on a New York station
You know, she don’t believe what she heard at all
She started shaking to that fine, fine music
You know, her life was saved by rock and roll … 🙂

woolfe
woolfe
October 9, 2022 7:57 pm

Twitter have this trick of locking your account if they don’t like a post and only unlocking it if YOU remove the offending post. Alex Berenson says he wont play their stupid games and will wait till Elon takes over.

Roger
Roger
October 9, 2022 7:57 pm

Gentle people…take it to the duelling thread.

Please.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 9, 2022 7:59 pm

Poms 0-128 off 11 Oz overs in Perth.

bons
bons
October 9, 2022 8:00 pm

Can anyone recommend a utilitarian replacement for PayPal which I use daily?
I wanna quit PayPal but I hate exposing my card details to various vendors.
Silly fear no doubt, there is no doubt that PayPal has already provided my feeble financial details to Wong’s employers.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 8:01 pm

She’s freaking harmless and never has a nasty word against anyone here unless provoked 

Sure! Like you.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 8:03 pm

PayPal but iv never used it, bons.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 8:03 pm

Paypass

JC
JC
October 9, 2022 8:07 pm

bespoke says:
October 9, 2022 at 8:01 pm

She’s freaking harmless and never has a nasty word against anyone here unless provoked

Sure! Like you.

No, he’s not lick me at all, Bepoke. She’s fare nicer then me and very polit to peeple.

bespoke
bespoke
October 9, 2022 8:08 pm

Hi lurkerettes, enjoying the show?

Roger
Roger
October 9, 2022 8:10 pm

Jennee said when she was just 5 years old

Lou Reed -even when with the Velvets – was never really my cup of tea.

But nobody could do more with just three chords than him.

Rabz
October 9, 2022 8:13 pm

Rog, not to mention “that li’l D thang”, which Lou was also very fond of.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 9, 2022 8:14 pm

The Project issues rules for Lisa Wilkinson ahead of rape trial court appearance

Ten’s flagship panel show, The Project, has privately issued a series of key “rules” for Lisa Wilkinson to observe as she prepares to give evidence in the trial of the man accused of raping former political staffer Brittany Higgins.

Sources close to The Project have told The Australian that the rules are designed to protect Wilkinson, and help her to avoid any possible legal dramas.

It is understood that the new rules for The Project’s star host have been put in place to avoid any risk of compromising the trial of Bruce Lehrmann, who is accused of the alleged rape of Ms Higgins.

Wilkinson is listed as a key witness in the trial, which got underway last week in the ACT Supreme Court.

The Australian has learnt that The Project’s first rule — which Wilkinson apparently already started to observe last week — is that as long as the trial is making news, the star host won’t be reading the headlines on Ten’s flagship panel show.

As a second rule, Wilkinson will not appear on The Project in any way on the days that she is scheduled to give evidence.

However, apart from that exclusion, Wilkinson will — as much as possible — keep to her regular timetable of hosting The Project on Sunday, Thursday and Friday nights.

To eliminate any confusion, The Australian also understands that The Project has advised key on-air personalities — including Wilkinson, Waleed Aly and Carrie Bickmore — not to engage in discussions about the case other than reading headlines.

Media sources suggest Ten’s decision is a sensible move, given that it is already clear that The Project’s past interactions with Higgins form an important part of the court case.

Already in the first week of the trial, both Wilkinson and The Project have been brought up several times in relation to the show’s recording of their six-hour sit down interview with Higgins on February 2 last year. According to the evidence, The Project’s interview was recorded two days before Higgins contacted police.

At one point in evidence on Friday, Higgins said that she was approached by Wilkinson and her husband, Peter FitzSimons, at an event where FitzSimons offered to act as her agent in March last year.

Ms Higgins told the court that “within a day” of the couple’s approach, FitzSimons had brought her an offer of an advance of $325,000 for a book outlining her experiences.

Oz

areff
areff
October 9, 2022 8:14 pm

Jack Little did the commentary

He did indeed, and your mention of his name just brought the aroma of fresh-baked scones to mind.

Gran would always be getting them out of the oven when we got back from 11 o’clock Mass. We’d slather ’em with jam and cream and watch Dominic Denucci throwing people around until the roast was ready.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 9, 2022 8:14 pm

Poms 0-128 off 11 Oz overs in Perth.

I’ve given up following wokericket, wokeball and wokethletics.
Wake me up when there’s an unwoke sport.
Not WWE, that’s ballet. #calli

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 9, 2022 8:17 pm

Threatening all arvo but looks like something substantial has stood up on the ranges tonight. No doubt it will collapse when it comes off the escarpment at Harveys Range but noice, summers on the way.

areff
areff
October 9, 2022 8:18 pm

Roger, one thing Lou can’t be faulted for is his timing. He’s right up there with Sinatra in that regard.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 9, 2022 8:18 pm

KD at 6:14.

People – well, quite a few people – only watch them to see the accidents anyway, and even then the prangs are pissweak in this day and age.

Damn right.
The guys these days don’t prang like Senna and Lauda did.
That was true entertainment.
Senna’s was excellent in terms of raw impact, but I’m giving it to Lauda because of the flames.
Everyone loves a good fire.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 9, 2022 8:23 pm

A 49-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man from Extinction Rebellion Australia (ERA) glued their hands to the glass of a framed painting by Pablo Picasso, titled Massacre in Korea, at midday on Sunday at the National Gallery of Victoria.

They displayed exquisite taste there.
Picasso was a degenerate and all his work is crap.

Rabz
October 9, 2022 8:26 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 9, 2022 8:29 pm

Faustus at 5:53.

That work, Drumgold said, involved sticking tabs on a briefing document for the minister.

All sounds very high flying…

Mmmyes.
And what happens next is the pubic serpent, three sheets to the wind, fires off an email to all and sundry:-

“Document [xxxxxx] has been reviewed and annotated and is available for review at the Minister’s convenience.
Regards.
Bruce”

Despatch time 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
And thus the myth of the overworked 24/7 advisor is born.

Rabz
October 9, 2022 8:30 pm

Picasso was a degenerate and all his work is crap.

Opines an indivegetable who’s never achieved anything in his pointless existence.

Thanks, Eddles.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 9, 2022 8:30 pm

Well clearly the stoush thread idea didn’t work.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 9, 2022 8:31 pm

Arguing amongst yourselves like this, when your country is being destroyed.

You sick denialists, mentally ill pooftah-pansies the lot of you.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 9, 2022 8:33 pm

Someone call a medic because one is needed.
Yep.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 9, 2022 8:33 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
October 9, 2022 at 10:15 am
Perhaps members of the military, current and ex, would be particularly interested in signing in order to protect the sacred memory of their comrades at arms.

Lizzie, you are a card. I laugh when I think of that “high heels” Morrison guy and can’t see him standing up for anything.

Crossie, I had in mind here current serving members and ex-members of the armed forces, not politicians of any stripe, nor the top brass who are in their pockets. I’m hoping that ordinary diggers will rise up to protect their own and sign this petition if the word about it gets around. Unless there is some law that prevents serving members from expressing such views. I don’t know of any such law.

So everyone please send it around.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 9, 2022 8:34 pm

The Project issues rules for Lisa Wilkinson ahead of rape trial court appearance

The prospect of the likes of Lisa Wilkinson attracting a few pointed remarks from the Bench, for some of her more incautious statements, does much to soothe my twisted soul.

Rabz
October 9, 2022 8:37 pm

Sacré bleu, I’ve inadvertently blundered into another multi personage Cat Stoush (again) 😕

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 9, 2022 8:37 pm

Apropos of Fat Arse Lisa:

I sincerely hope, in the interests of witness credibility that questions will be asked of her, under cross-examination and in the witness box, about the flat out falsehoods presented as fact in her tome ‘It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This’.

There will be tears. Sweet, sweet Lisa tears. Mark my words.

JC
JC
October 9, 2022 8:38 pm

dover0beach says:
October 9, 2022 at 8:34 pm

Off to the Duelling thread. I’ve been deleting comments here for the last 15 mins and will continue to do so.

Thanks Dover.

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