Ceasefire will be broken before the printer finishes spitting out the first copy. We’ve all seen this screenplay.
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As of this day, in the interests of saving electrickery, I have declared that electrick bikes and scooters may not…
Just read the ABC story on the Nullarbor green hydrogen hub. The usual WA “sustainability” experts including Professsor Peter Newman,…
Not to knock the freight companies but they probably use the Armed Forces logistic model, and employ ex army people…
True, but do all these young talents hate their country and the sport, and have the same political leanings as…
From the dead fred …
Err, wut?
Not about politics?
So why call two ministers who had fuck all to add to the case?
Should be handed over to the old and the bold of the Foreign Legion, for a lesson in the use of Anne Marie L’Amperage.
I’m not sure you can distinguish between an accused tactics and that of their barrister. The barrister, of course, would provide advice on strategy but like a solicitor be bound by instructions from their client. Agree, it is unlikely to have made any difference in the Pell case.
My experience surrounding my Canberra protest arrest suggests this is very definitely a thing. All 3 AFP witnesses have given detailed and matching descriptions of what I did, and what the scene looked like. The only problem is my video shows different – at best, all 3 remember what the scene looked like later in the incident (cones out, traffic control signs etc) and have ‘mis – remembered’ it being so at the start. Funny thing is, if they bothered to look at their own body cam vision they would know that.
Are there any currencies not circling the drain?
Hahaha, I’m a prophet! Said some time ago that the purple e-bikes which mysteriously infested my suburb would turn out to be a disaster. Which was an easy prediction, since that’s what happened everywhere else.
E-bike failure says Lake Macquarie residents | NBN News (18 Oct)
They’ve spread all over the place usually lying on their sides despondently. They never seem to be collected, recharged or serviced. I’ve been wondering with all the rain whether they’ll start exploding like those EVs in Florida.
The story reports there’ve been 270 of the wretched things distributed. Not much change from half a million then. And the company proudly says they’ve done an aggregate 15,000 km! Wow! Which is less than 60 km each in several months.
And now, the story says, our council is going to trial hired e-scooters. Oh joy. That will not only be a disaster but also send kids to hospital. They have ‘way too much torque and if you are heavy on the throttle you will go over backwards and hit your head on the concrete.
“satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt Ms Higgins didn’t make up the allegation”
Interesting wording.
Shouldn’t it be “satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that L raped Miss H”?
The standard of proof in criminal trials must apply to both proving the act and disproving the defences; the prosecution has to prove save brittany was raped and didn’t make up the allegation.
Why do I keep recalling A Passage to India?
Because its E. M. Forster’s second best novel.
Me too Mater, spent the night in a flooded car between Murchison and Violet Town.
Now there’s another line of bullshit.
Britnah claimed she was afraid to make a complaint because “Lehrmann was well connected”.
Mmmyes.
So well connected he was told by his ministerial chief of staff to pack his things in a Xerox box and fuck off.
I saw a muslim woman today at a shopping centre, wearing a pretty full covering suite of clothing.
Not a burka per se, but at least nicab, shawl, skirt, nothing showing.
Question: if a sister is this observant, shouldn’t she also have a male relative along with her?
I stopped off at Echuca on my way back from Victoriastan. There are some serious levees around the place. Wandering down to the river the paddle steamers were about 10m below the level of the dock. It is a serious river (as is the Clarence when you get further north). Nothing much like it in SW WA.
Is it too much to expect that m’learned Judge would direct the jury as to where responsibility for proving their case beyond a reasonable doubt rests, if not explicitly outing the prosecution for attempting to reverse the onus of proof?
Hilarious!
I was sitting on a car roof on the same stretch of road…slowly drifting into a paddock.
Listed as AWOL.
On witnessess…
years ago during detention training we ran an excercise where 3 of us did a violent 15 second long “play” in front of 20 people who were told to watch and write down what they saw/heard. No swapping notes or talking.
from memory
Out of the 20 about 5 were semi accurate, but had some things in wrong order/ people saying things.
10 were just jumbled series of parts of what went on.
5 were just wildly out there, no resemblance to what occurred or completely swapping out victim from perp.
Taught me that if theres ever an incident where all the witnesses agree on every detail its a stich up.
Also taught me treating witnesses as the “gold standard” of proof is fraught with peril.
Its a great party trick if you are caught in a boring training session and can figure a way to work it in.
“Labor for a better future.”
Thanks Anthony.
When did that last happen?
Amendment: when did that last happen without active co-operation of the conservative side of politics?
do not play the bit-part you are assigned
never discuss anything using their terms of reference
if anything they say is based in logical fallacy, tell them they’re full of shit and to fuck off
end of conversation
when their rhetorical play resolves to threat, which it always does
tell ’em to bite you
make your plans and sort your stuff out and let natural consequences take their toll
I was working out for the first time at the gym earlier when this stunning young blonde walked in. I asked the trainer standing next to me “What machine should I use to impress that hot woman over there?” The trainer looked me over and said “I’d recommend the ATM in the foyer.”
😀
Quite so.
Women are like pianos. When they’re not upright, they’re grand.
– Benny Hill
The USD may be the ‘cleanest dirty shirt in the hamper’ (h/t Peter schiff) but it still ain’t clean. At some point, people will realise that and start looking outside the hamper entirely. That should see gold and BTC attract attention.
I bet that annoyed the media.
Play the game or we will shaft you!.
Now you’ve got me wanting to return to Florence, but Spain’s the next drink on the bar (after Iceland and Norway).
On witnessess…
Von Braun and the Peenemunde gang very quickly learned to take movies of every attempted rocket launch otherwise three witnesses would come up with 3 different stories of how the rocket behaved before blowing up.
“They’ll get a slap on the wrist as the victim is white.”
For the rape and murder of a twelve year old in France.
Seems a little unlikely.
Another triumph in televisual stupidity. The Erin Molan whingefest that Sky have been endlessly spruiking for what seems like months has just come on.
Result? Television immediately turned off.
Grate work you, clueless dunderheads.
They’ll make up some sob story for them.
Bloody commas …
I was going to say…child murder in France attracts a mandatory life sentence.
I just was privileged to try a portable XRF on a bunch of various coins and metal objects. For those who find this fun:
WW2 general service medal – 75 Cu, 25 Ni
1935 English crown 68.9% Ag
1959 Aus sixpence 57.9 % Ag
Gotta get some 1966 Australian round 50c and see what Ag that has!
Pennies…
British 1d of 1865, 1866 were 81% Cu, 5.5% Sn, 1.4 % Zn, 2.5% Al and 6.4-6.8% Si (!).
1921,1922 Australian 1d were 93-95% Cu, 5.5-4.5% Sn. But the 1945 penny had upped the Zn from 1.4 to 3.3% and reduced Sn to 3.5%. Saving on tin perhaps, then mostly sourced from Malaya?
Also, diecasting in WW2 strongly favoured ‘Mazak’, an alloy that was mostly Zinc plus a bit of copper and Al; the ribbed grip of the Sykes Fairbairn commando dagger and the foregrip and magazine housing of the Austen SMG were made of that alloy. Zinc was a co-product at Mt Isa and Broken Hill mines so much favoured for wartime production.
After that… 1990s ‘silver’ coins from Australia, Britain AND Zimbabwe were all close to 75% Cu, 25% Ni.
And then for fun, a dore gold bar: 89.8% Au, 10.2% Ag.
And a couple of iron tsubas; one had 3.6% Si in the iron (sorry no C can be read by this instrument). I am guessing it is a craft iron product. It looks rough, until you realise the roughness is deliberate; there is a relief spider carved above the iron! I wonder if that is an inlay or not.
The other has a few tiny scraps of gold inlay. I detected the gold but was excited to discover silver inlays still there, but hidden against the blackened iron by black oxidation! Darn. I cannot clean it to see the design!
H B Bear and others
Much might turn on how McCalllum CJ instructs the jury. Although not obliged to do so, she will probably follow the model direction in the Judges Bench Book. That model is very short and expressed in language that laypeople find hard to grasp. And then, what tone of voice will she use, and will she make eye contact with the jury?
OTOH, she will probably also tell the jury to use their common sense.
Here, the jury saw Higgins cross-examined over days, and called a liar. I have no problem with that, but the jury may make an unfavourable between her experience and Lehrmann’s decision to avoid cross-examination.
Some years ago, in Penang, Malaysia, a Muslim woman, in the full rig went para sailing, and became entangled in a tree. In the subsequent confusion, she was revealed to be wearing a red G- string under the full rig…..her husband was not a happy man that Westerners may have beheld his chattel’s taste in underwear……
Enjoy your travels, calli. And keep the travelogues coming. Along with Elizabeth’s, they are great reading.
Why would anyone take medical advice from a government who thinks women can have penises?
The jury may do lots of things. If you are going to proceed with jury trials the extent to which the court system can protect all parties is necessarily limited.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
October 18, 2022 at 6:38 pm
The story reports there’ve been 270 of the wretched things distributed. Not much change from half a million then.
Those e-bikes cost, and I’m talking China manufactured and bulk buying, about $225-275 each. Beam (the purple company) would buy them in the thousands as they have operations across Australia, almost all of Asia including Japan, and Turkey, so their buy price would be even less. At most, Beam might have paid around $48-50,000 for the bikes (say, $185 each, top).
e-scooters of that power and style are about $200 – $240 but again, Beam would buy them in the thousands so the actual price paid would be less.
….. send kids to hospital. They have ‘way too much torque and if you are heavy on the throttle you will go over backwards and hit your head on the concrete.
As for power, they are gutless. Laws vary between states but the public rental versions typically are only 250w. Top speed is electronically limited to 25km/h, which they struggle to achieve on a good day with a following wind, and some states enforce geo-tracking so the ebike/scooter power system won’t work in busy pedestrian malls. And helmets are mandatory for the vertically challenged.
——
I’ve owned and been riding an e-scooter for almost four years. I don’t use it a lot but it will come as no surprise when I say that it has substantially more power than 250w with a top speed well in excess of 25km/h.
Interested in standing as a One Nation candidate?
The Britnah Believers in the ABC are doing their best.
The newsreader even raised her eyebrows with a incredulous look when she related that the defence claims that the rope never happened but donned the serious face set for Britnah’s dire story.
The ABC is a clown show for kids.
Micron is already making excuses:
Not to be confused with the Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VecinjfP8Bk
Another similarity is the possibility of another person having committed the crime, with the victim misidentifying the culprit.
Even more so in Pell’s case, where J testified that he got into the wine, which was kept in the priests’, not the bishop’s, vestry. Pell was too busy with talking to parishioners, but another priest might have had a better opportunity.
I have no problem with that, but the jury may make an unfavourable between her experience and Lehrmann’s decision to avoid cross-examination.
Don’t wet your panties yet.
Judge will yell Jury they mustn’t draw any unfavourable conclusions from Brucey’s not giving evidence, but the facts are he’s told a few lies in Statements.
Why would he go back to the Office to drink whiskey?
Didn’t he keep any at home?
Why did he leave Higgins at Parliament House when he’d told others he was taking her home?
What were the circumstances of his previous Security Breach?
Was he accompanied by an extremely drunk woman then, as well?
Another similarity is the possibility of another person having committed the crime, with the victim misidentifying the culprit.
There were only the security Guards, Higgins and Brucey in the building at the time.
If you’re excluding The Brucester and not fingering a security guard, then who was it?
The ghost of Harold Holt?
“Even more so in Pell’s case, where J testified that he got into the wine, which was kept in the priests’, not the bishop’s, vestry”
In the circumstances when the alleged crime moved from after choir practice mid week and from one year to another, seems unlikely.
Especially when there was significant movement around the sacristy after mass, and almost no time for the boys to ‘get into the wine’ let along be assaulted.
Liz Truss polling as the worst PM in UK history.
And that was just before she did another u-turn, jettisoning her energy price cap policy which would have seen household bills stabilised for two years, providing much needed relief from cost of living pressures.
The manner in which the Tories have squandered their 2019 electoral advantage over Labor is astonishing.
The ALP, which has nothing like such an advantage, will ignore UK developments at their peril.
And the likelihood of that seems to be Peter Dutton’s chief strategy.
“Micron is already making excuses:”
Or perhaps one thing has nothing to do with the other.
It is in fact the anniversary of the Paris massacre on 17 October.
Groogs on the case!
but also runs more sinister operations under the nose of local authorities
Under nose?
More likely with full support.
The ACT is woke as, but surely the judge must warn the jury of the forensic disadvantage to L because of H’s failure to say anything about assault until the following Thursday. By then, Parliamentary Services had organised a deep clean of the minister’s office: as no one knew that it might be an alleged crime scene, they very sensibly decided that removing the smell of stale puke took priority. Hence there is no forensic evidence. Then there was the famous dress that she washed, so that forensic tests in it were inconclusive.
But that would be traditional British justice, which as all politically correct persons know is patriarchal, sexist, colonialist, racist etc etc.
Some years ago, in Penang, Malaysia, a Muslim woman, in the full rig went para sailing, and became entangled in a tree. In the subsequent confusion, she was revealed to be wearing a red G- string under the full rig…..her husband was not a happy man that Westerners may have beheld his chattel’s taste in underwear……”
I remember about five years ago, on a stinking humid February Sydney day, I went down to Bronte Beach with a friend for a swim, it was late afternoon. Bronte Beach has always attracted lots of migrant families, it has a beautiful park, very good BBQ facilities and, whilst the beach can be rather dangerous, Bronte boasts a gorgeous natural rockpool and ocean pool which are both very safe for swimming. It’s a perfect beach for families and children. Growing up, Bronte always attracted Italian and Greek families, now it attracts Western Sydney adherents of a particular ideology.
Anyway, walking down the path to the beach I noticed a family, the women fully attired in hideous black burkas, the men just in singlets and boardies. It’s hard not to notice the pervasive “gender” inequality. My first thought, given how oppressively hot the day was, how on earth do they cope wearing such heavy black attire in the heat? Anyway, my friend and I plonked ourselves on the beach and we went for a swim in the rockpool, then afterwards we sat on the beach chatting away but our gaze was suddenly drawn to the sight of three of the black burka clad women walking slowly (you can’t run in such attire) onto the sand and then into the water. My friend and I watched them walk into the water, all the way up to their necks, and I blinked because I was sure I saw the water part because the three were like hideous black leviathans and I remember thinking maybe that’s how the Red Sea parted. Anyway, whilst the women were bobbing up and down you could clearly see how the burkas constricted their movements, their men folk were splashing, frolicking and swimming. It was a bizarre scene and I remember saying to my friend that all it would take would to suck these women away forever would be one freak wave.
Ain’t multiculturalism great?
Ed Casesays:
October 18, 2022 at 7:40 pm
Another similarity is the possibility of another person having committed the crime, with the victim misidentifying the culprit.
There were only the security Guards, Higgins and Brucey in the building at the time.
If you’re excluding The Brucester and not fingering a security guard, then who was it?
The ghost of Harold Holt?
The ghost of Harold Holt would explain why the security CCTV cameras (which were only at the entrance, not in either the ministerial corridors nor offices) didn’t pick the real offender up.
So, we know that Reynolds was told to sack Brucey.
So why did she go after Higgins?
Why not let sleeping dogs lie, rather than create an ongoing drama that saw her demoted to DogCatcher, and still be trying to damage Higgins during the Trial?
Old Lefty
Then there was the famous dress that she washed, so that forensic tests in it were inconclusive.
The famous dress that she didn’t wear again, until she did, that received a token wash before being thrown away, that re-appeared some 17 months after being thrown away, for forensic investigation, which found nothing? That famous dress?
Perhaps in Victoria, rick, but I’d be surprised if NSW police were up for circumventing international law on the extradition of foreign nationals to a jurisdiction like China.
And if they never let them in, we wouldn’t be discussing either case at all.
Speedy – That’s amazingly cheap. I mentioned a week or two ago I lifted one up to prop it against a post, they’re extremely heavy. What with the electronics and battery I would have thought an easy couple thou retail. But I have zilch experience of such things. (My basic treadly would be at least $1200 now, Cannondale. I got it new five six years ago for $850 I think.)
On the other hand if they’ve done 60 km each on average I don’t know how that could be much more than ten or twenty bucks, gross. People wouldn’t pay more than 30c/km to ride a bicycle I would’ve thought. I’ve no idea what the rate charged is.
The famous dress that she didn’t wear again, until she did, that received a token wash before being thrown away, that re-appeared some 17 months after being thrown away, for forensic investigation, which found nothing? That famous dress?
Did Lisa dictate that part of Higgins Statement?
It sounds like something a nutcase like Jeannette Winterson would write.
There’s an account of that massacre in Alistair Horne’s classic “A Savage War Of Peace.” For years afterwards, the official line was that three people had died…
And if they never let them in, we wouldn’t be discussing either case at all.
The history is:
While the Franco Prussian War was raging in the streets of Paris, Parliament sat, and passed a Law making the French Colony of Algeria part of Metropolitan France.
Looks like the Nazis are back in power in the Fatherland.
https://gettr.com/vision/p1umrv3a305
Btw the e-bike was still there today when I walked past on usual walking route. Still where I’d propped it up. As a business model it really sucks. But council munni from my rates is the pot o gold I suppose. Labor controls the council of course.
Irrelevant to the claim that the French would give the murderers and rapists of a twelve year old girl ‘a slap on the risk’ because they were Algerian and she was white.
Woomera Rocket city – 1962
Went to a auction there, lots of old machine tools also took the family to the and pub regularly.
Quite a common sight in Malaysia – the women following behind in said hideous black burka’s, their lords and masters striding ahead, just in singlets and boardies, slobbering over Western girls in bikini’s…
Ain’t multiculturalism great?
It’s grotesque how the focus is on the isis skanks and their brats when islam itself in its entirety is the problem. Sometime ago professor Clive Kessler looked at whether islam had moderates capable of living in and by the laws of the West. He concluded it didn’t. People who let in muslims are traitors.
Bullshit.
Alannah McTeirnan. A blast from the past
Rudd counted on Heather Locklear (HT Tim Blair) on winning the seat in 2013.
Alannah McTeirnan. A blast from the past
Wasn’t she the one who had the campaign poster that made her look like a Charlie’s Angel, when in reality she looked like Madeline Albright’s ninety year old sister?
Result? Television immediately turned off.
Ditto – big fail Fox with Erin.
Richard Cranium
Did Lisa dictate that part of Higgins Statement?
Shirley with your wide range of contacts, you could ask them?
Indeed.
Daily Mail.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
October 18, 2022 at 8:00 pm
I’ve done a reasonable amount of bulk importing from China and those e-scooters/bikes are ‘junk’ – built for a price by the thousands in a factory somewhere. Much of the weight will be the battery but the bike/scooter frame has to be strong ‘cos they are often roughly treated.
The thing about pricing is that ebikes/scooters don’t charge on distance, they charge on time. And, believe it or not, they even use ‘surge pricing’. So, if you want to rent during peak times, you pay more. Standard rate is about $1/minute plus a ‘journey’ fee (about $2.50). Fees vary so I can’t be precise.
If you don’t return the helmet to its cradle, you will be charged $15. At the conclusion of the rental you have to take a photo of the bike/scooter at its stopping location to prove geo-location. No photo = the $ charging continues as the rental is not concluded.
So, if the bikes/scooters in your area have done limited time rental, they may not be viable but distance is irrelevant. By the way, collection/re-charging/repairs is mostly subcontracted out. I knew a person who collected scooters during the evening and charged and re-positioned the scooters according to the Beam edict. He earnt about $5 per scooter collected/charged/re-positioned.
Some scooters are fished out of rivers and drains and are usually a write off but city based scooters and bikes make a lot of money and pay for themselves after only, say, 3-4 hours of use. There are ongoing costs but this is a profitable business. Also, the scooter companies pay a licence fee to the local council which is why your council is going to allow scooters. Always follow the money Bruce!
I have ridden public scooters on two occasions and each ride, in Brisbane CBD with lots of people on the footpaths, cost me about $12-15 for 10-12 minutes. City based scooters are probably hired at least a dozen times or more per day…… day after day……. week after week. The raw cost of each scooter is likely recovered within 2-3 days. It’s not that simple of course ‘cos there are ongoing costs but you can do the maths for the probable income generated per scooter depending on its life expectancy.
Finally, I am on my second e-scooter as I gave my first scooter to my eldest son. My latest cost around $1700 but is very quick (1800w) with excellent suspension and disc brakes.
January 27: Sat down for a six-hour conversation with Lisa Wilkinson.
That’s 6 hours she’s never getting back.
January 28: Told Daniel Try, her chief-of-staff in Michaelia Cash’s office, that she was at a psychologist appointment the previous day – rather than being interviewed by Lisa Wilkinson.
Big. Fucking. Deal.
January 29: Ms Higgins resigned from her job as assistant media advisor for Senator Cash.
Good for her.
Early February: Filmed her TV interview with Lisa Wilkinson for The Project.
Possible mistake, but turned out okay.
You can’t cheat an honest man/woman.
February 5: Ms Higgins ‘recorded a conversation with her Michaelia Cash – a federal minister – without her knowledge.
So what?
February 6: Ms Higgins told Senior Constable Emma Frizzell that she wanted to re-open the investigation into her alleged assault.
That took guts.
February 15: News Corp story was published and Lisa Wilkinson’s interview went to air.
It didn’t help the Liberal Party, that’s for sure, but they’d already had 2 years grace, and they spent that hating the victim.
The raw cost of each scooter is likely recovered within 2-3 days.
oops. No, the raw cost of the scooter is likely recovered in a day being, say, 12 trips per day @ $15 income/trip = $180. Thereafter are repairs, recovery cost, licence fee, admin etc.
Just breaking in a new laptop. Forgive the this test and intrusion into the weighty matters under always-civil discussion
Zulu, these would be tourists, almost certainly Saudis.
It was explained that, yes, they were Saudi’s – they like to holiday in a Muslim country, so they visit Malaysia.
Last time we were there, we were dining out one night, and the couple on the next table demanded to be moved, because we had wine on the table.
What happens when they emerge from the water after? Doesn’t the wet fabric…cling. Doesn’t it reveal shape?
BJ:
The famous dress [that she put in a plastic bag under her bed for 6? months] that she didn’t wear again, until she did, that received a token wash before being thrown away, that re-appeared some 17 months after being thrown away, for forensic investigation, which found nothing? That famous dress?
That story has too many similarities to Monica Lewinsky’s dress story – apart from the lack of real evidence on it.
Heh, this is in large part due to them having a much harder time getting into the states since 9-11
Not all of ’em remain clad in their household drapes. Quite plenty will dress in jeans, lay around the pool in bikini, etc.
Shopping centres sometimes have bench seats facing a curved wall, so the bedraped ones may roll up their face covering & eat, without stray blokes seeing their face.
What was Lewinsky’s dress story?
That story has too many similarities to Monica Lewinsky’s dress story – apart from the lack of real evidence on it.
Higgins had the dress drycleaned, probably several times.
Someone else suggested the story, probably counting on Higgins [b. 1996]
never having heard of Monica Lewinsky.
It came back to bite her, but she fessed up rather than double down on stupid.
I’d say the Jurors didn’t think it was discrediting.
The ‘believability’ of the accuser
“I’m not a monster”
But that particular description wasn’t levelled
Perhaps a conscience letting slip that such a fabrication is monstrous
Cassie of Sydneysays:
October 18, 2022 at 7:51 pm
Cassie, some years ago my mum and I were visiting a coastal beachey suburb in Sydney – a place where my mother’s family came from. We went down to the small park right on the water and not far from where she grew up. There were a number of people already in the park who belonged to two ethnically different groups – Chinese and Islanders. Both groups had cordoned off their areas with roped boundaries.
That’s because you’re an idiot.
Wow, Speedy, those fees are staggering. I had no idea. No wonder the ones here don’t get used much. Who would pay a buck a minute with $2.50 flag fall to ride an e-bike? Get a taxi!
The only time I’ve ever seen one actually being ridden was a kid coming home from school. I doubt she understood what she was paying…or perhaps her parents were paying.
For no reason at all:
Honey Hush- Big Joe Turner ATLANTIC 45-1001 [YouTube]
And thanks, Speedy, for the effort to write that all up. Fascinating. For me it’s a window into another world since I’ve no interest in e-bikes, scooters or skateboards. Have done skates and of course bicycle, but that’s fun exercise, which is different.
My tip for our Britnah……..
Whybrow KC will excoriate her tomorrow in final closing so”reasonable doubt” won’t be an issue.
Except for the doubt of the wyminnes ‘er honour and a loaded ACT wyminnes jury.
If a travesty occurs it will will be a HC 7Nilligan all over again.
But, ‘Er Honour may have an eye on this and instruct the jury accordingly.
Not Guilty.
Ed Casesays:
October 18, 2022 at 9:02 pm
What was Lewinsky’s dress story?
There is something that Richard Cranium doesn’t know? ROFLMAO.
Google it.
But that particular description wasn’t levelled
Perhaps a conscience letting slip that such a fabrication is monstrous
Look out, Sigmund Freud has joined the fray.
Ed Casesays:
October 18, 2022 at 9:06 pm
That story has too many similarities to Monica Lewinsky’s dress story – apart from the lack of real evidence on it.
Higgins had the dress drycleaned, probably several times.
She claimed that she gave it a “symbolic” wash and threw it away after six months in a plastic bag under the bed (except that she had worn it out after two months). Then around 17 months after she supposedly threw it out, it mysteriously re-appeared for forensic examination.
The details are relevant only to the extent that she is revealed to be a practised liar.
I wish I shared your confidence.
Brittany’s witness statement didn’t go around in decreasing circles by any chance?
Iranian drones are dropping in on Ukrainian civilians.
The US is pushing ahead with the time table to reintegrate Iran into the global economy.
Iran knows they can do whatever the fuck they want.
This is pure insanity.
My tip for our Britnah……..
Whybrow KC will excoriate her tomorrow in final closing so”reasonable doubt” won’t be an issue.
He won’t be doing that, he’s already trawled through her rubbish bins, and the best he’s got is Higgins went to a Knees Up for Ciobo rather than attend a psychologist appointment.
A whole lotta nothingburgers won’t make a Beef Wellington, which is what he needs.
PS if you’re going to use the bathroom on the old thread, can you light a match?
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/scott-morrison-joins-global-speaking-group-for-postprime-ministership-engagements/news-story/de7856695b6ed47ce0c8b7ecae703aff
Scott Morrison as “global thought leader”…
Not only does that really f…en p1ss me off, it reminds me of Sheldon Cooper’s opinion of Apple’s geniuses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMry6QT4XY8
I don’t even know why they bother with court cases. The scamdemic proved that we don’t have any human rights, so why bother with this embarrassing charade?
Tonight on Sky Rowan Dean has said it best. Whilst we look aghast at those two climate vandals in London who threw soup at Van Gogh’s masterpiece, it isn’t these young fanatics throwing soup at pictures, vandalising supermarkets by pouring milk around or locking themselves to steering wheels who are the real vandals here. Nope, they’re just the rank amateurs. Rather, as Rowan Dean has said tonight, the real vandals are…
1. Those who were in positions of authority and governance, who could have counteracted this madness by insisting that the world is not about to end because of fossil fuels but instead they chose to play along with the climate fantasy.
2. The same people who could have demanded teachers stop terrorising young minds with climate cult activism but instead they couldn’t be bothered fighting the climate and culture wars.
3. The same people who could have stripped funding from the ABC but instead they chose not to do anything and in fact they increased funding.
4. The same people who could have stopped funding universities who groom young kids into the climate cult but instead they chose not to do anything.
5. The same people who could and should have explained to farmers, tradies, small businesses, mums and dads, and all large corporations that all emissions reductions come at a hefty price and you will pay through the nose but they chose not to and instead chose to stoke the panic around fossil fuels, to pander to the neo Marxists even though many of them will tell you in private that it’s all a load of nonsense.
6. The same people who’ve allowed greedy renewable investors and international hedge fund managers to dictate the policies of this nation despite getting a clear mandate from the people….they are the real vandals.
7. The simple reality is that there is no difference between passionately believing in climate and pretending to believe in climate change or even simply pandering to the belief in climate change.
8. You desecrate the truth, you vandalise the future.
Superb Rowan, thank you.
Remind you of anyone or a particular party?
A party full of such people lost power on 21 May 2022.
Rowan Dean is excoriating the Liberals and Beetroot. He just summed up Beetroot very well, saying his sell out last year over net zero emission was because Beetroot preferred to be inside the tent betraying core principles rather than being outside the tent sticking up for core principles.
Nice….very nice.
If it had, Lehrmann would have been completely destroyed.
Here’s the words to Honey Hush, just in case anyone could figure out what Big Joe was sayin’:
Protester Pulled Into UK Chinese Consulate, Beaten; Beijing Won’t Renounce Use of Force on Taiwan
China in Focus – NTD
00:56 Protester Pulled into UK Chinese Consulate, Beaten
04:08 Beijing Won’t Renounce Use of Force on Taiwan: Xi
06:15 China Kicks Off 20th Communist Party Congress
08:03 NY Fines Shein’s Owner $1.9M Over Data Breach
09:31 Texas Teachers Pension to Cut China Stock Allocation
10:02 ‘Russia Is the Storm, China Is Climate Change’: German Spy Chief
10:58 Germany: Decoupling from China ‘The Wrong Answer’
11:57 Chinese Citizens Asked to Wear Masks While Eating
13:23 U.S. Weakness Causes Opponents to Rise: Expert
Bruce of Newcastle says:
October 18, 2022 at 9:10 pm
I can’t speak for other places but in Brisbane CBD, they are everywhere. Seriously. People ride scooters, in particular, a lot. e-bikes are far less popular and rarely seen. I didn’t know the costs until I downloaded the app and hired a scooter and yes, expensive, but also efficient especially if you just want to go a few city blocks. And people will pay $10-15 for the convenience and not having to walk (also taking just a few minutes to ride).
Scooters, especially, are very profitable. The sub-contractor I knew told me that Beam don’t even pay for the electricity to re-charge …..the subcontractor picks up the scooter and re-charges at their home, or wherever, but it’s not usually Beam’s premises – that privilege is reserved for the principal subcontractor and selected others. The scooters just have to be delivered to the nominated deposit location by about 6am.
As a postscript – several years ago I used to import replacement front bicycle wheels that had an electric hub built into them. Easy conversion – remove original wheel, fit replacement wheel, connect battery pack (batteries secured to carrier over rear wheel), replace right hand handle grip with twist throttle, attach controller anywhere on frame.
Any bike would reach 30-35km/h without pedalling but bloody dangerous ‘cos no adjustment to standard suspension or brakes. Sold hundreds of kits. Landed cost ex China about $35 each.
By happy coincidence I was also importing mountain bikes by the container load. 18 speed Shimano, all alloy frame, disc brakes front/rear, reasonable long travel front shockers and excellent paint job……$105 landed cost.
(I didn’t buy many but those little pink girls bikes with the 12″ wheels but $20-25 landed. Big W would buy them by the hundreds – imagine what price they would be paying!)
Make no mistake – the retail margin in bikes/scooters is very worthwhile if you can find a good manufacturer with a reasonable product.
H B Bear
In this instance, the risk of the jury ignoring (or just not understanding) the CJ’s warning is not down to the court system, but to Lehrmann’s decision not to give evidence and face cross-examination.
As I suspect you know, the common sense reasoning I outlined in my first post is available in civil cases. In other common law jurisdictions – England for example – it is also available in criminal cases. Here too, think it should.
And there is a question of whether we should abandon the jury system. Apart from the knowledge that they often behave irrationally, they don’t work well in ‘multi-cultural’ societies.
It looks like the Russian strategy is to take down Ukraine’s entire power grid.
No doubt the intention is for Ukraine to have no power over the course of the winter.
Numbers like that blow my mind. The raw metal price alone would be twenty bucks, LME aluminium etc. Yet they can produce a finished delivered mountain bike for that amount of money.
One reason why the US prevailed in WW2 was their sheer ability to make stuff quickly and cheaply. Looks like the Chinese have taken that lesson on board, in spades. That’s not going to be good.
Thoughts and prayers with Echuca residents as they battle a one in a 200,000 year flood event bomb.
The last time this happened the custodians of the land, who had arrived the week before, pushed aside the waters with their fleet of hovercraft and then recorded this spectacular achievement by drawing on a rock.
you’re a funny bastard KD
BoN – I had a quick look at wholesale prices and they haven’t really gone up very much. Same bike now would be around $AU130 plus import duty, shipping, insurance and other assorted fees. Landed probably about $AU170-175 per unit. Good looking bikes (now 21 speed Shimano!) that would sell for $350-375 on Ebay. If I remember correctly ~400 adult size bikes per 40′ shipping container.
e-Scooter prices around $US150 ex factory.
And again, if you are Beam and ordering hundreds or thousands, the prices will be trimmed. The Chinese love to do a deal on price/volume.
Are you suggesting the bike shortage during covid lockdowns is now over?
Yes rosie. You can pedal away to your heart’s content.
I see this was spoken of earlier today, but:
Hmm. This bit:
Might be the best journalism this country has produced in twenty years. Anyway, names in the hat are said to include:
Department of Apocalypse
Bureau of Revision
Climate McClimateface
Are you suggesting the bike shortage during covid lockdowns is now over?
I wish. I ordered a flat bar road bike from a big bike shop in February this year. Supposed to be ready in May. Now pushed out until March 2023.
A Sober Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccines | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Gigi Foster #CLIP
John Anderson
there will be a frozen gap between Russia and Europe that won’t thaw for a decade
I thought was obvious in Feb
The Elite’s Hypocrisy on Russia
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Western elite have moralized about doing the right thing in the conflict. They have posted videos of themselves speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, released statements glorifying Zelenskyy, and demonized any skepticism. Crises like these bring out strong emotions, and leaders using their charisma to inspire efforts is necessary in any war. But crises like these should also bring reflection of how the world got to this point and what its leaders can do to avoid it in the future. The global elite’s inability to discuss their role in enabling Vladimir Putin shows they are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
About a year after Putin’s formal election, new U.S. President George W Bush met with Putin and famously said, “I looked the man in the eye. I found him very straightforward and trustworthy – I was able to get a sense of his soul.”
Two decades later, Bush, who has largely avoided political discussion on any of the contentious issues he championed as president, released a self-serving statement about how he met with Zelenskyy and called him the “Winston Churchill of our time.” If that is true, does Bush’s earlier Putin comments make himself the Neville Chamberlain of our time?
In 2012, Obama mocked Romney for considering Russia a major threat. Obama also told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev he could deal better with Russia once he won re-election. There was no reason for Putin to take Obama seriously after these statements, and Putin did not. After Obama won re-election, Putin annexed Crimea and Obama failed to galvanize an international response. So much for being the leader of the free world.
Biden and his staff helped shape this policy in Obama’s administration, so they of course continued it when Biden took office. After Russian hackers attacked U.S. gas pipelines, Biden told Putin what places he would like Russia not to attack. Biden was really giving Bush a run for his money for this century’s Chamberlain. Biden also lifted sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in a bid to appeal to European allies.
Various European leaders and diplomats laughed at Trump when he urged Europe to do more to defend themselves and not be reliant on Russia for energy. And yet, Germany has no plan to wean itself off Russian oil. Politico recently ran a piece titled, “When will Europe learn to defend itself?”
With Russia, there is no going back in time; the world must accept these past mistakes. But Russia is not going to be the last threat the world deals with. In every region, there are emerging threats. Based on the track record of the “leaders” and their staffs described in this article, history is likely to repeat itself.
Todd Carney is a lawyer and frequent contributor to RealClearPolitics. He earned his juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.
Director Christopher Wray’s use of FBI jet amounts to ‘embezzlement,’ current and ex-agents allege
By Miranda Devine
THIS is how they want to run your life.
How to Calculate Your Individual ESG Score
White House Covid czar calls on seniors to get omicron booster now — It ‘literally could save your life’
I played Bridge with a lady today who is consoling a friend whose husband recently dropped dead with no warning at age 65. Her previous partner had similarly died with no warning a couple of months ago. She confirmed that they had both had the shot. She herself has had 2 and said she would never have another. After the first one she felt as if her head would explode and after the second she had a severe nose bleed with blood clots appearing. She believes that she would have died if they had not been expelled.
BoM = Climate McClimateface.
Hahaha – darts KD
Australia drops recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
White House ‘plans to release another 15 MILLION barrels of oil’ from the US’s emergency stockpile this week in a bid to balance markets and crack down on rocketing gas prices
Of course.
yeah well, we cut the energy costs for a certain building in half
and that is approximately $500k per year.
cant be bothered working in back to energy and GHG emissions
but lets just say
it’s shit-loads
anyways, after they finish the refurbing the amenities on L10 which include new pools, spas, saunas, gymnasiums etc at an estimated cost about $2M
it means I’m essentially in ESG credit for a bloody long time
if CO2 bubbles become currency, I’ll shout youse all a ski-trip in Japan
utter, utter fuckwits
Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet also has the alleged rape of a young English woman in India as one of its main threads. Really great novels.
The Palestinians have rejected all offers of a Two State since the late 1930’s….
A suicide bomber died and went to Paradise, as foretold. When he arrived there, he said to Allah that he was ready to claim his 72 virgins, as promised. Out of curiosity he asked Allah why there were so many virgins in heaven. Allah regarded him for a moment, then replied “Actually, the 72 virgins are here in heaven because people like you murdered them before they could experience the pleasure of sex. So you’re here to service them. Since they’re virgins, they’re quite sexually ravenous and, frankly, you’ll be on constant, exhausting duty. I shall banish you from Paradise should you fail!” The bomber responded “Well, I guess I can live with that. How hard can it be to keep 72 women satisfied for all eternity?” Allah replied “Who said they were women?”
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
– Confucius
23:10 here in Brisbane and 16:10 in Moscow. Mrs Speedbox and Miss Speedbox have just landed at Domodedovo airport in Moscow.
Interesting comment, reference the Higgins rope trial – the defence called no witnesses.
According to Daily Mail the issue for Netball Australia and Hancock funding relates to something said by Gina’s father 38 years ago ! Seems an Aboriginal player who was not born when he said it is offended.
Seems Gina has done plenty to support Aboriginals since then but words of her father counted against her.
Truly pathetic.
Scott Morrison has unveiled his new gig as a “global thought leader” as the former PM prepares to rake in the cash following May’s election defeat.
Scott Morrison has signed with a talent agency that charges organisations up to $100,000 for speaking engagements with “global thought leaders”.
Who would pay to hear Scumo speak?
Absolutely fucking no one.
This is the fucking laundering operation for Scumo’s payments for being an obedient globalist.
Get a fucking load of this abortion .
and by 2030?
We’re fucked.
and
That’s 3% of the population.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/88bn-blowout-in-ndis-budget/news-story/103da99c3bd7bc3b1b6a997e0e47d9fd
Lotocoti:
Can you enlarge on that claim please Lotocoti?
That’s 3% of the population.
Why work when you can be disabled?
50 bill a year is 1 bill a week (close enough)
That’s 200 million each working day the taxpayer has to fund. We wake in the morning and owe NDIS $200 million.
DuncanM:
Lovely bit of deflection there.
As you say, the issue is “Did a rape take place?”
Not “Did Higgins lie about the rape.”
It seems to be something that is becoming quite common in the adversarial society we are living in – a subtle reframing of the facts of a matter that distorts and muddies the waters under the guise of clarifying the issues.
Andy Detwieler tribute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4TPNwIcNEU
Old Bloke and Old Ozzie, sorry for mixing you up. Can’t possibly think of why that happened.
And thanks Old Bloke for bringing my attention to anything Arthurian you find that seems new. Sadly, I couldn’t check out your video link because the internet here sailing down the Mexican coast has serious conniptions if you try to use internet video. I will have a look later sometime. As I’ve said, the source of their information is likely to be speculative as written records for this period are almost non-existent or at best dubious. The main point is the name has been used and stuck and there are more than a few instances of this for the early Dark Age period. Geoffrey of Monmouth was by no means the first user of this name as it litters much of Welsh folklore in The Mabinogion, which although collected late does seem in its language and names to have an earlier provenance than Geoffrey. It’s from these tales that Geoffrey collected and elaborated and invented much of his data.
Well said, Winston, at 3.17, and Calli earlier above.
Language ‘seeding’ a rape which never existed is definitely an attempt to confuse the jury.
Crossie:
You can’t shake them off, Crossie.
They’re like a tick infestation – pull them out and the head detaches, leaving a toxic sore that rapidly becomes septic.
All you can do is prepare for the disaster that will come.
John Spooner.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Christian Adams.
Steve Bright.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Matt Margolis.
Yeah.
Statists are parasites. You can’t win in a late stage democracy. Follow Epictetus.
The masses are incurably deluded. The elites are incurably corrupt.
The best you can do is live outside the city in the company of friends and family and enjoy good food and wine.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Glenn Beck never really pissed me off too much until now.
Jason Whitlock is rambling in about how Tom Brady must retire to “fix his family”. He’s talking to some nobody in an orange prison outfit.
My advice:
1. Shut the fuck up.
2. All that matters is that Mrs Brady wants to no longer be married for a frivolous reason.
3. Conservatives, not women worshipping cucks, value the sanctity of marriage.
A pastor who loves to golf has three golfing buddies who don’t go to church constantly telling him how good the golf is on Sunday mornings. “The course is almost deserted” they tell him “and, the weather is always nice”. Finally, the pastor gives in and on Saturday evening calls the Associate Pastor and in a hoarse voice says “I’m really sick, can you preach tomorrow?” The Associate says “Certainly Pastor, take it easy and get well”. The next morning the Pastor is on the links with his friends, bright and early. He steps up to the first tee, a par 4 450-yard straight fairway. He hits the ball with a monster shot, which then hits a cart path taking a monster bounce, then hits an irrigation pipe bouncing once again right up onto the green and into the hole. Meanwhile, in heaven, Saint Peter looks at God and says “I don’t understand”. To which God grins slightly and asks “Who is he going to tell?”
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
– Margaret Mead
Costs have blown out due to the ramped up costs of requiring individuals to spend their allocated money on NDIS Approved providers.
Two things should happen to immediately nip this program back to reasonable size.
Firstly some limits on funded services need to be made. This will involve immediate cuts. Provision of services for those people not classed as extremely disabled (ie. requiring much carer assistance) should be limited to immediate physical care needs not psycho-social services. The full gamut of services should only be for the totally and permanently disabled. Currently quite well and quite well-off people are getting free government services for purely private living expenses.
Secondly, funds allocated could be spent more efficiently if individuals could freely use their allocated funds to buy the services they desire from any provider offering them rather than ‘accredited’ providers, who may charge much more. The accreditation process seems to require a company structure with much paperwork and removes individual carers (who would often offer much for free or at least at a cheaper rate) from the picture. It could even bring in more kinship carers. The accreditation is supposed to ensure quality of service and stop rorting but it does not. Let people be their own judge of quality and of how their funding is best spent.
My experience of the NSID is with two grandchildren who get some limited funding for Autism Spectrum Disorder. The funding is valuable in providing early intervention speech and other targeted therapies, but it is not interchangeable, so if more speech therapy would be useful and the occupational therapy seems to be less so, the frayed parents cannot shift the overall amount they are granted into more speech therapy. The parents are the ones who really know the child’s needs, so why not let them make the decisions?
Most Australian students writing at lower levels, with spelling the only metric to buck the trend, report finds
I wonder when Israel is going to inform Canberra that they have decided the Capital of Australia is to be in Sydney. Fair’s fair in the change about, isn’t it?
rosie:
Where have you been the last twenty years, rosie?
Asleep or in a coma?
LOL
No one cares where Canberra or Sydney is.
Not even CCP strategic missile targeting.
Penny Wong & Labor are pandering to the vocal anti semites in their base.
And throw in a dash of fuck Trump too.
It’s all so they can giggle over a glass or ten of sauv blanc at their next dinner party.
Or so they can raise it on their next taxpayer funded trip overseas when they are applying for their jobs post politics.
Someone posted ScoMo’s career move here yesterday.
Because of the US subs deal, ScoMo never has to worry about money again even if a US sub is not delivered in his life time.
He’ll give a few speeches a year an get paid half a brick in passive income.
Congrats to Phillip Morris for donating 500,000 packs of cigarettes to the Ukrainian military.
Unlike Raytheon, US taxpayers aren’t footing the bill for their product.
David Frum proposes the US government nationalises Starlink.
The Cathedral fears Elon.
Looks like the Netball women and the Cricket men have both caught the CELEB-22 virus.
It makes them feel powerful but robs the brain of whatever common sense it had.
That’d be a shame. It currently works, and provides decent value for money.
And that is a harsh and sad truth.
I’d throw in factors such as a corrupted education system, too.
I was speaking to women yesterday about the case, one who I believe/d to be smart, sensible and conservative. She claimed to be following the case closely. Her first statement was that since they both agree that intercourse occurred, it all comes down to consent.
WTF!
When I told her that he denies intercourse ever occurred, she got frazzled and just cut to the chase by saying:
“She was hot, he was not, of course he had sex with her after getting her drunk. He’s a creepy looking guy, that’s what they do.”
That is the typical jury you are faced with, if someone points a bone at you.
I live in fear of being falsely accused. I hope I’m not considered ‘creepy looking’ or ugly. Seems like a heavy burden in our justice system.
Let’s follow these absurd premises logically.
So women rape men with their hotness? Think of all of the rapes Lauren Bacall must have committed.
Also, men cannot have standards – and culpability is reversed if the man is below average?
This absurdity encapsulates the stupidity in “modern” “thought”, that women are to be admired but have no accountability.
It is like returning to a Stone Age age of tribal savagery and mother goddess worship.
Judging a book by the cover.
This is the thinking that gave us Kevin Rudd and why Trump lost.
Been thinking about the population increase since 2000, the gov says that no one could enter in 2020 and 2021. In 2000 the pop was 19.15 million, now it’s 25.69 million, so 6.45 million more in 20 years. So that’s around 325,000 per year. Everyone tells me that our birth rate is running at around replacement, so all those extra people must have migrated here.
The Libs have run the country for much of that time. Has anyone here heard that we were importing that many per year? It seems way above official migration figures. No wonder our housing markets and cities are stuffed, and what’s left of Australian culture is rapidly diluted and washed away.
This!
So that’s around 325,000 per year.
Student migration is has been one of many factors.
It seems that important strategy now is to strongly suggest someone else may have done it. Calling her a liar will lose sympathy with the jury. Suggesting mistake instead will focus the jury more on the actual evidence.
And that is a harsh and sad truth.
I’d throw in factors such as a corrupted education system, too.
Ideally any defendant/respondent should be able to choose either a judge or jury.
Do some homework: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/migration-australia
A thought for the day.
No amount of political appeasing by Wonk, Albasleazy, Burqa and others to buy the votes of adherents of a rather nasty religious ideology that mainly lives in Western Sydney votes will ever alter the following indisputable fact……
Jerusalem has always been and always will be the eternal capital of the Jewish people and the capital of Israel.
The end.
Haha, Charles has decided to live in a slightly smaller palace because it is ‘more environmentally sustainable’.
‘Not sustainable’: King Charles III refuses to call Buckingham Palace home
Here’s his new pad:
Clarence House (wiki)
Less cramped than St James Palace eh? Maybe he could put a wind turbine on the roof. It’s certainly big enough.
Atlas might shrug.
Elon already moved some business from California to Texas. There are alternatives to the US.
In the olden days I thought it would be a good idea for citizens to have to pass a civics test before they could get a licence to vote or be eligible for jury duty.
I now know that would be pure idiocy.
Any regime like that wouldn’t be set up to filter out the morons.
It would be used to filter out the wrong-thinkers.
David Frum should be in jail.
But instead he draws over a mill a year is passive income from various beneficiaries of his policies he was the architect of.
“The Libs have run the country for much of that time. “
Yep. By the way, last night Rowan Dean excoriated the Liberals and Nationals very well. I copied his words last night in a comment above.
Just remember the difference, in five months Labor hasn’t wasted any time implementing its agendas. In nine and a half years the Liberals tiptoed delicately around, more often than not too scared to do anything. They managed a few things under Abbott, and yes I know he flunked and failed on Section 18C, but then under the false messiah from Point Piper and Billy Bunter from the Shire, they didn’t just flunk and fail, when they weren’t implementing the left’s agendas such as net zero emissions, they did fuck all.
I don’t think those voters such as myself who flocked to minor parties will return to the Liberals any time soon.
““She was hot, he was not, of course he had sex with her after getting her drunk. He’s a creepy looking guy, that’s what they do.””
Hmm, I think Billy Shorten is a creepy looking guy.
I remember someone saying similar to me during the Pell case, it was along the lines that “he looks like a pedophile, therefore he is a pedophile”.
Harvey Weinstein boned Newsom’s wife.
Ew.
Harvey Weinstein, why not.
If Britnah is hot, so is Harvey.
Yeah, I got that one, too…from several acquaintances. Cold, abrasive, unfeeling, emotionless, were all reasons why he was apparently guilty.
You simply can’t afford to be ‘different’ in today’s society. We may value ‘diversity’ nowadays, but it can sure as shit see you put in jail for no good reason, too.
It makes taking the stand a very risky proposition, regardless of innocence or guilty.
Witness a Saturday night Hen’s and you’ll soon work out which gender is “creepy looking and ugly”.
How about Braless Betty yesterday, flopping her newly released boobs about the office and expecting the men there not to look?
Creepy looking and ugly.
‘Crazy hot’ was the actual description, but, to be fair, it was moderated with a comment that she isn’t so much anymore. Apparently “she got fat”!
Now that ‘she’s fat’, does it make her more truthful…or less?
A question for the ages!
The UK Conservatives are heading for an electoral routing similar to what happened to the Liberals in WA.
As Rowan Dean said last night, that’s what happens when you abandon core principles, when you desecrate truth and when you spit in the faces of your base.
Don’t start dissing those hen’s Calli.
I’ve been pleasantly accosted by a few in the past. When there’s marriage in the air the girls tend to get needy.