Open Thread – Weekend 29 Oct 2022


Still Life with Dahlias, Zinnias, Hollyhocks and Plums, Eugène Delacroix, 1835


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Roger
Roger
October 29, 2022 11:42 am

Again, we’ll just have to wait 20 years and find out what the actual advice to Cabinet was.

Iirc the public service advice to Fraser was not to proceed with the “Lebanon Concession”, which was originally intended for Maronite Christians, few of whom availed themselves of the opportunity. But Fraser & his Cabinet thought they knew better, and so we ended up with Lebanese Muslim hillbillies instead.

Roger
Roger
October 29, 2022 11:46 am

I don’t know if they ever copped any penalty – he was sharing a house with the two harpies, and they set him up to get him out of the house.

Who’d have thought women could be capable of such devious behavior?

Cough.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 11:48 am

Iirc the public service advice to Fraser was not to proceed with the “Lebanon Concession”, which was originally intended for Maronite Christians, few of whom availed themselves of the opportunity.
Selection was done by the UNHCR, and since there weren’t any Christians in the Refugee Camps they were running, we were sent who we were sent.
By the way, Roger, Catholic Maronites are far from being the only Christians in Lebanon.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 11:48 am

Groogs, so your repeated gluten-fuelled idiocy should be inadmissible?

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
October 29, 2022 11:52 am

H B Bear says: October 29, 2022 at 12:13 am

The thread will be panty free.

Sancho Panzer says: October 29, 2022 at 11:21 am

Well, at least he was wearing panties.

Not even 12 hours.
And of course it would be Panzer.

mc
mc
October 29, 2022 11:56 am

The moral of the story is ‘dont shag a female unless you have a water tight contract drawn up by a QC ‘.

You mean like a marriage contract?

Roger
Roger
October 29, 2022 11:57 am

By the way, Roger, Catholic Maronites are far from being the only Christians in Lebanon.

Have at that straw man, Ed.

Knock yourself out!

MatrixTransform
October 29, 2022 11:58 am

Amazingly courageous. The lived experience would be incredible

sheriff, seriously I only said one throw-away line

and I only took took the piss outta one of the clowns a little bit

then all of a sudden Yosemite Sam started hollerin’ and shootin’

a bit later this Chihuahua named sancho started yap, yap, yapping

looks like the whole clown-posse is gonna be galloping today

… yeehar!

Tom
Tom
October 29, 2022 11:58 am

This one had me pissing myself.

Yep, Makka, it’s a ripper. It’s been around since Musk first proposed buying Twitter seven months ago.

No-one does meme-ditties like the right!

PS: Leftards can’t do ’em because they’re humourless morons who’ve tried to ban laughter because it’s subversive (if you’re a humourless moron).

Makka
Makka
October 29, 2022 12:00 pm

Iron Ore (futs) down 15% this week. China’s FXI down 10% – GFC low territory.

Our bad cards keep piling up.

Winston Smith
October 29, 2022 12:03 pm

Makka:

The punishment is the process. She’s already won.

My few brushes with the law have not really increased my knowledge of the subject, but does the young bloke have any chance of clearing his name and restitution of the costs?

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
October 29, 2022 12:03 pm

Statistics on rape globally cant be believed until you read the laws on each country to understand what constitutes and is defined under law what is rape.

Roger
Roger
October 29, 2022 12:04 pm

There is a lot to be gained by teaching again in the Quaestio format.

I would imagine some alternative educators are on to that.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 29, 2022 12:07 pm

Ed now thinks the costs of a quality defence against a sketchy allegation makes you a winner.
Any more thoughts on the meat trade?
I’m dying to know.

Roger
Roger
October 29, 2022 12:08 pm

Well, it’s a peach of a day here, but “the Bureau” informs me that it’s merely an interlude before more rain next week; so, like calli, I’m heading outside to enjoy. Life is good!

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 12:16 pm

Ed now thinks the costs of a quality defence …
He’s not in Jail, so, yeah, he’s a winner.
against a sketchy allegation makes you a winner.
Nothing sketchy about the allegation, the Cops, Prosecutors thought it was strong enough to go to Trial and that Higgins would be a good witness.
They were right.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 12:18 pm

Any more thoughts on the meat trade?
I’m dying to know.

That’s sad to hear.
Perhaps give Vegetarianism a miss for a while and see if you perk up?

johanna
johanna
October 29, 2022 12:21 pm

My few brushes with the law have not really increased my knowledge of the subject, but does the young bloke have any chance of clearing his name and restitution of the costs?

Nope.

If he is acquitted, he could try to sue her in a civil action. But, since she has no money that we know of, it would be pointless.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 12:21 pm

Groogs don’t disappoint us. What’s up in the mutton world?

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 12:25 pm

You do pick up some costs in a successful defended criminal matter. My one and only case we got $800 but gave it to an ex girlfriend after pleading guilty to throwing a beer bottle at her. Easy come easy go.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
October 29, 2022 12:28 pm

”My few brushes with the law have not really increased my knowledge of the subject, but does the young bloke have any chance of clearing his name and restitution of the costs?”

If it was proved she was lying , or the prosecution was with holding evidence, or the claim was vexatious then from my limited education he could sue the DPP in the State or Territory for costs .

johanna
johanna
October 29, 2022 12:32 pm

Roger says:
October 29, 2022 at 12:08 pm

Well, it’s a peach of a day here, but “the Bureau” informs me that it’s merely an interlude before more rain next week; so, like calli, I’m heading outside to enjoy. Life is good!

They’re saying that an Arctic blast is on the way, complete with scary warnings. There may well be such a blast on the way, but their PR people would make the British redtops blush.

Like others here, I have been the recipient of dire warnings that never eventuated in the last few weeks. For example, there was a warning of ‘severe’ winds and 100 mm for the other night. It was pretty calm, and we had a light sprinkle.

To say that the BoM has lost its way is an understatement. When even a Labor government hauls you over the coals (see the grilling of the CEO in the Senate a couple of days ago) there is no doubt that something is very wrong.

It’s the inevitable result of an unaccountable body with guaranteed funding.

m0nty
m0nty
October 29, 2022 12:33 pm

after pleading guilty to throwing a beer bottle

Stay classy, Bear.

Zatara
Zatara
October 29, 2022 12:34 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 12:35 pm

Colonel Crispin Berkasays:

October 29, 2022 at 11:52 am

H B Bear says: October 29, 2022 at 12:13 am

The thread will be panty free.

Sancho Panzer says: October 29, 2022 at 11:21 am

Well, at least he was wearing panties.

Not even 12 hours.
And of course it would be Panzer.

I just gotta call it as I see it.

Rafiki
Rafiki
October 29, 2022 12:36 pm

The ACT government might, probably should, make an ex gratia award to Lehmrmann to cover his costs to date. Fat chance of course.

rosie
rosie
October 29, 2022 12:37 pm

“I presume your silly eye-rolling comment is directed at mine.”
I would have thought it was fairly obvious that it was directed at ed case.
Did you make a comment about remote communities?
I didn’t see it.
What is it with people who always assume people are talking about them?

Damon
Damon
October 29, 2022 12:39 pm

It bothers me that a country as rich and educated as America apparently voluntarily elects a. bunch of decrepit ideologues to run the country. Biden would fail as a used car salesman, and Pelosi would not be allowed to run a lolly stand at a local fair.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 12:40 pm

My one and only case we got $800 but gave it to an ex girlfriend after pleading guilty to throwing a beer bottle at her. 

Emu Export?

johanna
johanna
October 29, 2022 12:41 pm

15C here just now, less with wind chill.

30C maxima are not unusual at this time of the year, 25C frequent.

It’s rained every second or third day.

The Global Warmening cult relies a lot on cyclical drought conditions.

Arky
October 29, 2022 12:42 pm

Musk is extremely unwise.
It’s one thing for users who have been on the end of the banning apocalypse to express glee over Twitter firings, it is completely another for the new owner to get caught up in it, with “Ligma Johnson”. Stupid.
Why unwise? Two words: Postal workers.
Remember the 80s when every few weeks some postal worker would go nuts and show up at work and attempt to hunt down their perceived tormentor? And usually their prey would be out for the day and a whole bunch of innocent coworkers would get brassed up instead.
There is good reason why companies outsource firings and use a bunch of bland jargon around such events. Postal. Workers.
As deserving as the little darlings at Twitter might be of ridicule, it isn’t the boss’s place to do anything other than feign sympathy for the individuals about to be loaded into the big redundancy canon and shot out the door.

Crossie
Crossie
October 29, 2022 12:47 pm

It took me three hours to wash the windows and fly screens. I don’t have a big house, just lots of windows.

I have planned to do this for several weeks and every time I get ready it rains. Today was a perfect day for it, sunny and a soft breeze, the way spring used to be.

Now I can have an ice cream.

Next a shower and get ready for a grandson’s Confirmation later this afternoon.

Crossie
Crossie
October 29, 2022 12:48 pm

I’ll read this morning’s comments later so I don’t miss any important discussions.

Zipster
Zipster
October 29, 2022 12:51 pm

John Gray Part I: Revenge of the technocrats
02:23 – 06:25 – Does Prime Minister Rishi Sunak herald the revenge of the technocrats?
06:25 – 22:17 – How do you explain the British Conservative Party’s failure to harness the political realignment and Brexit populism?
22:17 – 29:01 – Are technocrats taking back control?
29:01 – 34:26 – Where does the Labour Party fit in?
34:26 – 42:17 – Does Britain need new parties, proportional representation, or something else?
42:17 – 42:44 – Concluding thoughts

Johnny Rotten
October 29, 2022 12:51 pm

This ageing man was on the operating table awaiting surgery and he insisted that his son, a renowned surgeon, perform the operation. As he was about to receive the anaesthesia he asked to speak to his son. “Yes Dad, what is it?” “Don’t be nervous, son, do your best and just remember, if it doesn’t go well, if something happens to me… I’ve left instructions for your mother to come and live with you and your wife…”

Johnny Rotten
October 29, 2022 12:52 pm

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

– Marcus Aurelius

Zipster
Zipster
October 29, 2022 12:52 pm

John Gray Part II: Welcome to the era of tragic realism
01:09 – 06:37 – Philosopher John Gray’s take on wider European politics
06:37 – 18:02 – The European Union is a deeply flawed End of History project
18:02 – 24:40 – Has the West made tensions over Ukraine and Taiwan worse?
24:40 – 28:32 – Would Putin use a nuclear weapon?
28:32 – 43:17 – What does the future hold for the Russia-Ukraine conflict?
43:17 – 58:34 – Will America and China go to war over Taiwan?
58:34 – 01:04:43 – What does John Gray’s ‘tragic realism’ mean for the UK and other medium-size countries?
01:04:43 – 01:15:47 – How can you strengthen the state without infringing on people’s freedoms?
01:15:47 – 01:18:15 – Concluding thoughts

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 29, 2022 12:52 pm

Arky – The twits by and large are green-progressives who hate firearms. So he’s fairly safe doing this. They might come back and hurl bottles of their own urine or something, but going postal isn’t likely. You never know though since green-progs are usually mental cases already.

Zatara
Zatara
October 29, 2022 12:53 pm

… the individuals about to be loaded into the big redundancy canon and shot out the door.

… right after being relieved of their ID cards for the entry door security scanners.

Chance of them returning for that last ride into glory ~ zilch.

Johnny Rotten
October 29, 2022 12:57 pm

A nun and a priest were crossing the Sahara Desert on a camel. On the third day out, the camel suddenly dropped dead without warning.

After dusting themselves off, the Nun and the Priest surveyed their situation. After a long period of silence, the Priest spoke “Well, Sister, this looks pretty grim”.

“I know, Father. In fact, I don’t think it likely that we can survive more than a day or two…”

“I agree,” says the Father. “Sister, since we are unlikely to make it out of here alive, would you do something for me?” “Anything, Father.”

“I have never seen a woman’s breasts and I was wondering if I might see yours.” “Well, under the circumstances I don’t see that it would do any harm.”

The Nun opened her habit and the Priest enjoyed the sight of her shapely breasts, commenting frequently on their beauty.

“Father, could I ask something of you?” “Yes, Sister?” “I have never seen a man’s penis. Could I see yours?” “I suppose that would be okay,” the Priest replied, lifted his robe, and almost immediately he was sporting a huge erection.

“Sister, you know that if I insert this in the right place, it can give life.”

“Is that true Father?”

“Yes, it is, Sister.”

“Oh Father, that’s wonderful… stick it in the camel and let’s get the fuck out of here!”

Johnny Rotten
October 29, 2022 12:59 pm

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

= William Arthur Ward

johanna
johanna
October 29, 2022 1:00 pm

Remember the 80s when every few weeks some postal worker would go nuts and show up at work and attempt to hunt down their perceived tormentor?

Bullshit. In the 80s, every few weeks a post workere did not go apeshit.

Liar.

Winston Smith
October 29, 2022 1:03 pm

IT help needed.
I have a Galaxy Note N8000 which got a whole lot of Google crap on it and I found that unknown to me, it was sharing all kinds of my photos, documents etc with other devices.
Trying to remove all the Google crap and it resisted to the point of locking up the device and refusing to let me use it.
I did a hard reset and it has refused to allow any of my passwords to unlock the device.
Then went for another type of reset press the off button for 2 minutes.
No go.
A pity – it still has quite a good battery and screen and I only use it for Kindle – which seems to run into problems when the library goes above 8-900 books.
Are there any other OS I can use – which will have to be downloaded through a desktop because the damn N8000 refuses to allow me internet access unless I download all the Google crap which is why I tried to get rid of it before.

rosie
rosie
October 29, 2022 1:04 pm

Hire and fire is much simpler in the US.
Both parties can terminate at will.
If that was sufficient for ex employees to go postal there would be hundreds of attacks every day.

Arky
October 29, 2022 1:04 pm

Going postal is an American English slang phrase referring to becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence, and usually in a workplace environment. The expression derives from a series of incidents from 1986 onward in which United States Postal Service (USPS) workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public in acts of mass murder. Between 1970 and 1997, more than 40 people were killed by then-current or former employees in at least 20 incidents of workplace rage. Between 1986 and 2011, workplace shootings happened roughly twice per year, with an average of 1.18 people killed per year.[1]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal

Arky
October 29, 2022 1:06 pm

Between 1986 and 2011, workplace shootings happened roughly twice per year, with an average of 1.18 people killed per year.[1]

..
..
Twice per year = every 26 weeks.
That is, “every few weeks”.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2022 1:08 pm

pleading guilty to throwing a beer bottle at her

Define ‘throw’.

rosie
rosie
October 29, 2022 1:08 pm

“then-current or former employees”
Ie the incidents aren’t necessarily related to termination.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 29, 2022 1:11 pm

The great teacher inspires.

That used OK until woke teachers started to inspire students to be dumb, protest against convention and conservatism, destroy the West, ridicule Christianity, and to accept the sexualisation of young students.

Tom
Tom
October 29, 2022 1:16 pm

It bothers me that a country as rich and educated as America apparently voluntarily elects a. bunch of decrepit ideologues to run the country.

Rest easy, Damon.

America didn’t elect those ideologues to run the USA. No democracy would vote for what has been inflicted on the country in the past two years.

Zipster
Zipster
October 29, 2022 1:17 pm

If it was proved she was lying , or the prosecution was with holding evidence, .

not aware of single case where the police will go after an accuser. The only case I am aware of where a female confessed to a friend she lied and was dobbed in and prosecuted and this was not in oz.

johanna
johanna
October 29, 2022 1:19 pm

TheirABC muddies the waters of proper conservation yet again by appealing to young girls who want a pony. These people have adopted a few hundred of the many thousands of feral brumbies – virtue signalling rools, OK?

Ms Levin said she had embraced the opportunity to give the animals a new lease on life.

“It means the world to me,” she said.

At least we know who it’s all about.

“After [setting up the rescue], I had people contacting me left, right and centre saying, ‘We wish we could do what you’re doing, we wish we could take on a brumby’.

“There’s been over 300 brumbies in two years that we’ve rehomed.”

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 29, 2022 1:20 pm

If you’re not in jail you’re a winner.
If I get sick of kicking your arse, does that make you a winner?
Logic Ed style.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 29, 2022 1:21 pm

Tom

PS: Leftards can’t do ’em because they’re humourless morons who’ve tried to ban laughter because it’s subversive (if you’re a humourless moron).

Yet using humour against your enemies was one of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Still, if they are incapable, they are incapable.

Arky
October 29, 2022 1:25 pm

rosie says:
October 29, 2022 at 1:08 pm
“then-current or former employees”
Ie the incidents aren’t necessarily related to termination

..

The independent commission was created in 1998 by Postmaster General William J. Henderson to “detail concrete steps the Postal Service can take to make its 38,000 post offices and related facilities the safest possible environment.” The USPS is the second largest civilian employer in the country, delivering some 3.4 billion pieces of mail weekly.

The commission conducted a meticulous examination of the 29 incidents of workplace homicide involving postal workers as either victims or perpetrators from 1986 to 1999. This revealed that 15 postal employee perpetrators killed 34 postal employees; 19 nonpostal perpetrators killed 14 postal employees. Fourteen of 15 postal perpetrators had troubled histories of violence, mental illness, substance abuse and/or criminal convictions. Five exhibited behavior prior to employment that should have excluded them from being hired.

Motives included robbery, intimate relationships, and terminations.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
October 29, 2022 1:26 pm

Just finished watching a History channel docco ‘Countdown to the end of the Berlin Wall’. It focused on the 12months leading up to its demise. The East German regime subjugation of the masses looked eerily familiar. Compliant press, spying on the populace, riot controls, restrictions of movement and many of the peoples believing there is nothing wrong. Then I realised I live in Melbourne in the Danocratic Peoples Republic.

Figures
Figures
October 29, 2022 1:28 pm

Joe Hildebrand showing us all what a feckless dick he is.

Apparently the anti-vaxers were at fault for the lockdowns because they, ummm, magically I guess, forced Dan Andrews to keep Victoria shut.

Never mind that only around 20 per cent of the population opposed lockdowns and, of those, 99 per cent of them were anti-vax.

It appears that the moment you take a single vaccine you lose any ability to engage in logic.

Winston Smith
October 29, 2022 1:29 pm

Makka:

Taken individually, the present structures will evolve as their own internal circumstances permit and influence.
My money is on the Anglosphere to emerge as the better of the bunch. Not without it’s pain and misery though.

A very good point – culture defines (in this matter) outcomes.
Which is why it’s our culture which is under attack from all sides.
In the long run, a cold winter and a bankrupt economy can be overcome although with some effort and casualties. But as long as the underlying culture isn’t harmed beyond repair, it will come roaring back.
And now you know the reason for the out of control illegal invasion, and the reason it isn’t being stopped in any meaningful manner – the aim is to dilute, disrupt, and destroy Western culture.

Figures
Figures
October 29, 2022 1:31 pm

And Hildebrand’s article doesn’t allow comments.

Instead he will just find one dumb comment somewhere in opposition to him and use that to prove he’s a genius.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 29, 2022 1:31 pm

Ed Casesays:
October 29, 2022 at 12:16 pm
Ed now thinks the costs of a quality defence …
He’s not in Jail, so, yeah, he’s a winner.
against a sketchy allegation makes you a winner.
Nothing sketchy about the allegation, the Cops, Prosecutors thought it was strong enough to go to Trial and that Higgins would be a good witness.
They were right.

Because there’s nothing quite the quality of a witness who keeps changing the story (see the adventures of the white dress).

And there’s no victory quite like being a couple of hundred G out of pocket, with a re-run coming up in three months.

You idiot.

Winston Smith
October 29, 2022 1:32 pm

J.C:

Amazingly courageous. The lived experience would be incredible.

And you’ll never know because you don’t have the guts to even try to find out.
And before you go on with your usual “I don’t want you to talk to me” only one person here tells me where I can and cannot post.
And you aren’t him.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 29, 2022 1:33 pm

Arkysays:
October 29, 2022 at 1:06 pm
Between 1986 and 2011, workplace shootings happened roughly twice per year, with an average of 1.18 people killed per year.[1]

..
..
Twice per year = every 26 weeks.
That is, “every few weeks”.

A “few” used to be defined as three to eleven (one, two, a few, a dozen, a score, two score …).

Johnny Rotten
October 29, 2022 1:33 pm

A man and his wife are discussing what they think their son will be when he grows up.

“I have an idea!” says the father. He puts a ten-dollar bill, a bottle of whiskey and a bible on the coffee table…

“If he takes the money, he’ll be a banker. If he takes the whiskey, he’ll be a wino and if he takes the bible, that means he’ll be a preacher”.

So the man and his wife hide just before their son comes in the door, and watch from where they’re hiding.

The boy saunters over to the coffee table.

He picks up the ten-dollar bill, looks at it, then sets it down.

He picks up the bottle of whiskey, uncorks it, sniffs it, then sets it down.

He picks up the bible, leafs through it, and sets it down.

Then the boy takes the money and stuffs it into his pocket, grabs the whiskey and walks off with the bible under his arm.

“Well, how do you like that!” exclaims the father. “He’s going to be a politician!”

Johnny Rotten
October 29, 2022 1:36 pm

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

– Leonardo da Vinci

rosie
rosie
October 29, 2022 1:38 pm

“Motives included robbery, intimate relationships, and terminations.”

Which was my point that not all post office incidents related to termination.

Johnny Rotten
October 29, 2022 1:40 pm

J.C:

Amazingly courageous. The lived experience would be incredible.

And you’ll never know because you don’t have the guts to even try to find out.
And before you go on with your usual “I don’t want you to talk to me” only one person here tells me where I can and cannot post.
And you aren’t him.

Well said indeed. JC you are a right Tosser and a left Tosser as well. This is not your Blog so STFU.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 1:40 pm

Hi Winston
Yeah, it’s me, stop posting for a while.

rosie
rosie
October 29, 2022 1:43 pm

Not to mention “19 nonpostal perpetrators killed 14 postal employees”
Which clearly had nothing to do with termination.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 29, 2022 1:43 pm

Good article on disfunction in Defence management at Quadrant On-Line. Having lived through some if the period discussed, I have some sympathy with the author.

Until I came to this bit (my emphasis):

In part, this is due to the reality that the ADF has been an expeditionary force engaged in far-off “wars of choice” for its entire history and thus separate from the concerns of a Department of Defence operating on home soil.

Until the April 2022 China-Solomon Islands security agreement there has been no regional crisis to concentrate civil-military minds on the nation’s direct defence as an existential Australian concern. </em

The early 1940s seem to have not registered on the author.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 29, 2022 1:44 pm

Ooops, Italics fail, the last sentence is mine.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 1:45 pm

If you’re not in jail you’re a winner.
Chris Dawson would agree.
He was convicted on far less Evidence than The Brucester faced.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
October 29, 2022 1:51 pm

The biggest African-American welfare queen in America today is… Elon Musk! Apparently.
https://youtu.be/idwfa17xHfs?t=6148

It’s funny, but can’t agree because ultimately these are contracts awarded on demonstrated merit, and the gap between SpaceX and the traditional space packhorses (Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins(now Boeing), ESA) is significant in mass-to-LEO costs. The origin of the money being taxation is a whole other kettle of fish which is not sufficient to make Elon a welfare queen.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
October 29, 2022 1:51 pm

Your taxes at work again on ‘our’ ABC:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-29/act-abortion-inquiry-hears-of-difficulty-in-access/101588636

An uncritical propaganda piece for the abortion industry dressed up as news reporting.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 1:52 pm

Arkysays:

October 29, 2022 at 12:42 pm

Musk is extremely unwise.
It’s one thing for users who have been on the end of the banning apocalypse to express glee over Twitter firings, it is completely another for the new owner to get caught up in it

Classic soft bug-man comment.
“Oooh! Better outsource the icky stuff.”
FMD.
And how the hell do you think Musk could disguise the sacking of a CEO in his own private company as anything but his own decision.
Good on him for owning it and not playing the PR game of a wishy-washy “spend more time with the family” statement

Winston Smith
October 29, 2022 2:01 pm

Not sure anyone’s noticed, but the amount of Indians in twitter is phenomenal!
Are we looking at entryism on a grand scale?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 2:04 pm

Tom.
Speaking of “Process is the Punishment” all those conspiracy charges against horse trainers Darren Weir and Jarrod McLean have been dropped.
Four years later and careers destroyed.
All that is left is a few minor face-saving charges to be heard in the Magistrates Court.
I always wondered which big punting politician Weir pissed off by winning the wrong races.

Arky
October 29, 2022 2:04 pm

Boambee John says:
October 29, 2022 at 1:33 pm
Arkysays:
October 29, 2022 at 1:06 pm
Between 1986 and 2011, workplace shootings happened roughly twice per year, with an average of 1.18 people killed per year.[1]

..
..
Twice per year = every 26 weeks.
That is, “every few weeks”.

A “few” used to be defined as three to eleven (one, two, a few, a dozen, a score, two score …).

..
The last two postal incidents happened less than six weeks apart in 1991.
Any more for anymore?

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 29, 2022 2:06 pm

not aware of single case where the police will go after an accuser. The only case I am aware of where a female confessed to a friend she lied and was dobbed in and prosecuted and this was not in oz.

This is one case where the accuser came a cropper – Sarah-Jane Parkinson

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 29, 2022 2:07 pm

When coming to an intersection in the US Lizzie, the tradie’s mantra is your friend:
Leftie Loosie; Rightie Tightie.

Hairy believes, and has done so for a very long time, that left and right are foreign concepts to me.

It was always a test of nerves for him to drive with me in America. Best left alone now. 🙂

cohenite
October 29, 2022 2:07 pm

Bullshit on stilts.
Rape accused can expect to be named, Trials may be reported on by the Media.
The BruceSter got a fair Trial, he’s out on bail awaiting a new Trial, where is the problem here?

Crotchless panties on pubic hair! It’s been established you have the legal insight of a gnat and that comment illustrates that. Which begs the question: do gnats wear crotchless panties.

Tom
Tom
October 29, 2022 2:15 pm

Speaking of “Process is the Punishment” all those conspiracy charges against horse trainers Darren Weir and Jarrod McLean have been dropped.

Absolutely fucking disgraceful.

That is up there with Vicpol’s persecution of Cardinal Pell — one of the fascist Andrews regime’s tailor-made loose cannons.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 29, 2022 2:16 pm

This is one case where the accuser came a cropper – Sarah-Jane Parkinson

She had “grown bored” with her boyfriend and hoped to be given his house when he was arrested. Words fail me.

cohenite
October 29, 2022 2:16 pm

Chris Dawson would agree.
He was convicted on far less Evidence than The Brucester faced.

You don’t just wear crotchless panties, you eat them too. I won’t go through the manifest evidence Dawson faced but it was considerably more than save brittany’s accused faced. And the main point was the media commentary which demonstrably undermined the trial process; Dawson did not have that. Hedley Thomas’s documentary, Teacher’s Pet, was removed well before the trial began; save brittany’s trial was connected with the media before it began and during it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 29, 2022 2:24 pm

Don’t put Cassius Turvey case at risk, warn West Australian police
Holly Thompson
By Holly Thompson
October 29, 2022 — 7.14am

Western Australia’s police commissioner has said he is “horrified” by the alleged murder of 15-year-old Noongar boy Cassius Turvey, but has warned against making statements that could prejudice future court proceedings.

In a statement to media on Friday afternoon, Police Commissioner Col Blanch said justice for Cassius was a top priority and that WA Police were dedicated to stamping out racism in the state.
Cassius Turvey, before and after the alleged attack.

Cassius Turvey, before and after the alleged attack.

But he said people needed to be mindful not to put future court cases at risk.

“When it comes to this case, we all want justice for Cassius. The best way we can do that is let the court process take its course. Why would any of us put that in jeopardy?” he said.

“We’ve seen it in the past. Juries can be let go, trials can be adjourned. Justice can be delayed. None of us want that for Cassius.

“The community would not accept a commissioner of police damaging a judicial process because I had views before they were found in court. That is not my role as commissioner, that is not the role of police.

“I would caution everyone in commenting directly on the motivations of this case. They may be true but at the end of the day, that’s for the court to decide.”

But he apologised for comments he made earlier in the week that Cassius was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

“I regret the impact of my words,” he said. “Cassius was an innocent victim of a violent attack, resulting in his death.

“This is a tragedy, but it is a very rare tragedy.

“We must bring the confidence to those families, to the community, to know that it is safe for kids to be out there. But there is no doubt because of this tragedy, there will be fears among the community.

“It is my job as commissioner to lead the police to provide that reassurance and comfort and that sense of safety.”

But Indigenous leaders have spoken out in an open letter, calling for a better response from police and the state government.

“The premier and police commissioner are telling us to be quiet. We know attacks on our children are real. They are minimising this horrific killing of young Cassius. This is wrong and dangerous, especially as our people are not selected for juries,” the letter reads.

“We as a Noongar Nation are outraged by this mindless, inhumane, cowardly racist act against an innocent child. We call on government to meet us now.”

The 21-year-old accused, Jack Brearley, will appear before court next month. He was also charged with aggravated assault occasioning bodily harm and stealing.

It will be alleged Brearley assaulted a 13-year-old boy who was with Cassius by hitting him with a metal shopping trolley handle.

Police will also allege the man stole the boy’s walking crutches and his cap.

Now, why would Noongar people not be selected for juries?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 2:28 pm

The question isn’t precisely how many people went postal in the 80’s and 90’s, and for what reasons.
The original question was whether Musk should hide behind the skirts of an “outplacement professional” when handing out his DCM pink slips.
Good on him for having the balls to do it himself.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 2:35 pm

Arkysays:

October 29, 2022 at 12:42 pm

Musk is extremely unwise.
It’s one thing for users who have been on the end of the banning apocalypse to express glee over Twitter firings, it is completely another for the new owner to get caught up in it

To avoid any problems for our host I will hold off naming who was believed to be behind that particular stitch-up.

JC
JC
October 29, 2022 2:47 pm

And you’ll never know because you don’t have the guts to even try to find out.
And before you go on with your usual “I don’t want you to talk to me” only one person here tells me where I can and cannot post.
And you aren’t him.

This is not you concern.
You snitched to Sinclair and demanded he set up rules that we don’t speak. That was fine with me. All you want to do now, you worthless lump of shit, is talk/ grovel to me , try to join or initiate a stoush

Go take some iodine and hide the bread knives, you zero. You embarrassment.

Winston Smith
October 29, 2022 2:50 pm

Maricopa County Elections Center DropBox Concealed With Tarp – Heavily Armed Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputies Assigned To Watch Dropboxes And Prevent Patriots From Observing Or Recording Potential Fraud
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/maricopa-county-elections-center-dropbox-concealed-tarp-heavily-armed-maricopa-county-sheriffs-deputies-assigned-watch-dropboxes-prevent-patriots-observing-recording-potential/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=the-gateway-pundit&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=2022-10-28

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 29, 2022 2:51 pm

She had “grown bored” with her boyfriend and hoped to be given his house when he was arrested. Words fail me.

That particular resident of the bestiary caused so much damage, heartache, she destroyed the relationship between the parents of the man she falsely accused, they lost their marriage, their house and as for the man falsely accused he was so traumatised that in no way would he seek any kind of re-dress, probably wise in the circumstances. I am not sure that any of the scum that helped the beast were ever sacked or in any way punished for their perfidy.

Moreover we must remember that this all was upended when a FEMALE detective was put on the case and didn’t believe the bullshitter and her accomplices in her criminality, which ultimately ended his incarceration and exoneration. Anyone buy the #believeallwomen?

Winston Smith
October 29, 2022 2:51 pm

In Blow to Democrat Ballot Traffickers: Federal Judge Rules That Watching Drop Boxes For Voter Fraud Is Protected Under The First Amendment In Arizona After Marc Elias And Attorneys File Lawsuit
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/blow-cheating-democrats-federal-judge-rules-watching-drop-boxes-voter-fraud-protected-first-amendment-arizona-marc-elias-attorneys-file-lawsuit/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=the-gateway-pundit&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=2022-10-28

Winston Smith
October 29, 2022 2:56 pm

Transgender Murderer Who Raped, Tortured, and Killed 13-Year-Old Girl Released From New York Prison
30 years for raping, torturing, and then murdering a 13 year old girl.
Of what possible benefit is there to society by letting this freak out?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/transgender-murderer-raped-tortured-killed-13-year-old-girl-released-new-york-prison/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=the-gateway-pundit&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=2022-10-28

JD
JD
October 29, 2022 2:56 pm

What a fortnight!
First we have hammered girl without knickers
Then we have knickered guy with hammers!
Wonder what’s next 🙂

Winston Smith
October 29, 2022 3:00 pm

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/huge-covid-vaccine-injury-payments-explode-australia-80-times-higher-last-year/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=the-gateway-pundit&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=2022-10-28

Payouts for Covid-19 vaccine injuries are set to explode more than 80-fold to nearly $77 million by July next year, Tuesday’s budget papers reveal.

The figure was quietly buried in the Services Australia portfolio budget statement, in a table detailing third-party payments from the agency “on behalf of other entities”.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 29, 2022 3:07 pm

Boambee John says:
October 29, 2022 at 1:33 pm
Arkysays:
October 29, 2022 at 1:06 pm
Between 1986 and 2011, workplace shootings happened roughly twice per year, with an average of 1.18 people killed per year.[1]

..
..
Twice per year = every 26 weeks.
That is, “every few weeks”.

A “few” used to be defined as three to eleven (one, two, a few, a dozen, a score, two score …).

..
The last two postal incidents happened less than six weeks apart in 1991.
Any more for anymore?

Keep re-defining your terms, eventually you will make that every few weeks look OK.

But if two were less than six weeks apart. doesn’t that make the averages between the rest (discarding the outliers) longer?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 29, 2022 3:11 pm

JDsays:
October 29, 2022 at 2:56 pm
What a fortnight!
First we have hammered girl without knickers
Then we have knickered guy with hammers!
Wonder what’s next ?

We have a bloke here most days without any pants.

Arky
October 29, 2022 3:14 pm

Boambee John says:
October 29, 2022 at 3:07 pm

..
Fascinating discussion of the definition of “a few”.
Really riveting stuff.
It happened often enough that the phrase “going postal” was coined.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
October 29, 2022 3:14 pm
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 29, 2022 3:24 pm

Hairy believes, and has done so for a very long time, that left and right are foreign concepts to me.

Lizzie, you and my wife must have been separated at birth. Recently I was giving my wife directions, when you get to the 80kph sign turn left then left again. Reply, but which street is it. There are no other streets.

rosie
rosie
October 29, 2022 3:25 pm

Same with fast food in Los Angeles Dover.
You realise you might be in the wrong suburb when the interior looks like a bank with little turntables to exchange payment and receive your order.
First time I went to the US I sent a lot of stuff home via the US postal service, most were fine considering the shipping method, sea mail was comparatively rare, one in LA, was a pain, and rather than engaging in fruitless argument I simply went to the one in the next suburb. After that I used a shipping broker.

rosie
rosie
October 29, 2022 3:30 pm
Tom
Tom
October 29, 2022 3:41 pm

Lefists can’t stand it when they’re made fun of. The left seized political power in America in 2020 so it made sure no-one was allowed to make fun of those in charge in the digital town square – social media sites like Twitter. All that has now changed. Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 3:48 pm

Sorry.
My comment at 2:35 relates to the stitch up of the horse trainers.
My copy and paste didn’t clear from the previous comment.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 3:49 pm

Mr Sulu sez:
I won’t go through the manifest evidence Dawson faced but it was considerably more than save brittany’s accused faced.
Because there isn’t any.
There was no body, no witness, the family didn’t go to the cops for 14 years.
A Criminal testified that Dawson had asked him about having his wife murdered in about 1977.
That’s evidence?

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 3:51 pm

If I wrote this storyline yesterday you wouldn’t have believed me.
I woulda believed you.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 3:51 pm

What do you do with your bodies Groogs?

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 3:53 pm

It happened often enough that the phrase “going postal” was coined.
Perhaps?
I’m interested in the racial breakdown of the killers who were Post Office employees.
Mostly/all Blacks?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 29, 2022 3:54 pm

JDsays:
October 29, 2022 at 2:56 pm
What a fortnight!
First we have hammered girl without knickers
Then we have knickered guy with hammers!
Wonder what’s next ?

Police Dispatch Audio: Paul Pelosi When Calling Cops Said ‘He Doesn’t Know Who the Male Is but He Advised that His Name Is David and He Is a Friend’

“RP [Reporting Person] stated that there’s a male in the home and that he’s going to wait for his wife. RP stated that he doesn’t know who the male is but he advised that his name is David, and that he is a friend,” the dispatch official said. “RP sounded somewhat confused.

Later in the day, the FBI visited a Berkeley home linked to DePape, which neighbors call the “hippie collective,” NBC Bay Area’s Jaxon Van Derbeken reported.

From the Comments

– When you go for the gay on line you never know what’s in the box of chocolate.

– So not only is the perp gay, he is also a ‘friend’ who Paul Pelosi said he didn’t know but added that his name was ‘David’….

Paul Pelosi got some ‘splaining to doooo!’

– I have to hammer this home….Paul’s into 42 year old male prostitutes.
Nailed It. ?

With finally the Piece de Resistance

– “David” identifies as early Roman, with the name of Biggus Dicicuss

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 3:54 pm

I suppose his being found in his underpants should have been a clue.
If I wrote this storyline yesterday you wouldn’t have believed me.

Panties.
We call them panties here.

miltonf
miltonf
October 29, 2022 3:56 pm

Hard to think of more hateful garbage that the Pelosis. Fucking evil trash.

miltonf
miltonf
October 29, 2022 3:57 pm

People SFO vote for that foul old witch.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 4:02 pm

Nearly November and 14.4oC in Perth with an apparent temp of 10.9 oC. Not beach weather.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 4:02 pm

Not to mention “19 nonpostal perpetrators killed 14 postal employees”
Which clearly had nothing to do with termination.

Some undoubtedly were revenge for termination of a relationship, some involved Drug dealing, some were Gang murders, the rest were robberies.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
October 29, 2022 4:02 pm

Nancy will seek solace and time out in her $35000 fridge full of ice cream.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 4:08 pm

A theory on the aftermath of the Big Night Out in Canbra.
Britnah was angry with Bruce.
Why?
Was it over an assault?
Maybe not.
It was his idea to go back to the office and it was his fault that she blew chunks of Roses chocolates all over the ministerial Chesterfield instead of in her own bog at home.
Now she was going to lose her job all because Bruce wanted to guzzle a bit of free scotch and coke.
Snot fair!
So, when shit gets real on the Wednesday and the Chief of Staff tells Bruce to clear his desk, she needs a story to save her brilliant career.
What’s the harm?
A little white lie which won’t go past the boss and HR.
Look, Brucey is gone anyway and, fuck it, the whole shit-show wouldn’t have happened but for Bruce needing a nightcap.
Of course, The Little Lie That Grew then sprouted legs and developed a life of it’s own.
Very telling that she said she didn’t think this would get to court.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
October 29, 2022 4:10 pm

”H B Bearsays:
October 29, 2022 at 4:02 pm
Nearly November and 14.4oC in Perth with an apparent temp of 10.9 oC. Not beach weather.”

KLIMATE CHANGE…its going to get colder, hotter, wetter , drier, windier,ETC….and if we dont do something we’re all gunna die.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 4:11 pm

82 years old and still Flaming?
His clacker would look like the side pocket on a Snooker table.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 29, 2022 4:12 pm

Quite amazing the comments coming out, even on fairly staid sites

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/in-re-the-pelosi-story.php

IN RE: THE PELOSI STORY

Decent people will want to avoid politicizing the story of Paul Pelosi’s assault by a clearly deranged person who likely should have been institutionalized or in jail, although it is worth pointing out that Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Tweeted out after Rand Paul was assaulted that “Rand Paul’s neighbor was right.”

But a Canadian newspaper story (Pelosi’s assailant is an immigrant from Canada) just had to include this:

The intruder’s shouts in Pelosi’s California home were an unsettling echo of the chants during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. capitol, when rioters trying to stop Joe Biden’s election searched menacingly through the halls for the Speaker.

Yeah, sure, this apparent nudist protester from the Castro district of San Francisco is somehow a right-wing Proud Boy “insurrectionist.” I guess they can’t figure out how to play the race card with this story, though you’d think it wouldn’t be that hard to throw down “white supremacy.”

From The Comments

– Paul Pelosi and DePape just had a homosexual lovers quarrel at 2am because Paul P didnt want to pay DePape for Mr Pan (cant type the first name of Neverland’s most famous boy in tights) and was feeling robbed. DePape was in his underwear and Paul P was in his Harvey Weinsrtein robe with matching pumps. Nancy’boy Paul has a hankerin’ for boy when Nancy is away. DePape didnt sneak into Paul P’s place, he was invited in. We’ll find out that the security cameras were all offline or Paul “forgot to turn them on” (that happens all the time when Nancy is gone). It’s San Franfeces, anything goes.

– Some common sense hammer control laws would’ve made all the difference.

– Let’s see if the actual events are reported. At this point, a guy, who Pelosi first said he did not know, then said his name is David and is a friend. David is in his underwear in Pelosi’s house at 2 AM. Yet again, late at night when Nan’s away and Paul is again getting hammered. Time for Nan to put a lid on this one.

– We need to see the surveillance footage. In that neighborhood, there’s got to be plenty around, even if Pelosi claims she does not have any cameras. How did the guy get to that part of town at that time of night? Did he walk? Did he take a taxi or an Uber? Too many questions

– More details are emerging but the picture isn’t, um, let’s just say Paul should stick to driving the wine country in his Porsche, he gets in less trouble that way.

Steve says decent people will not want to politicize the unfortunate attack on Paul Pelosi. Sadly, Democrats are not decent people.

calli
calli
October 29, 2022 4:15 pm

JD says:
October 29, 2022 at 2:56 pm

Perfect! 😀

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 4:17 pm

I think the big witness in R v Lehrmann 2.0 could be the Chief of Staff (the first person to hear the allegation of assault).
Although called as a prosecution witness she didn’t seem overjoyed at her treatment by Britnah or the DPP.
What if she says something like this?

“Well, I am bound to follow through on an allegation of this nature – and I did – but my personal feeling was that the allegation was self-serving and disingenous.”

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 4:17 pm

So, when shit gets real on the Wednesday and the Chief of Staff tells Bruce to clear his desk, she needs a story to save her brilliant career.
No, the truth was good enough, it usually is.
What’s the harm?
A little white lie which won’t go past the boss and HR.

Nup.
Reynolds, Brown and others implied that if Higgins went to the cops, her career with the Liberal Party would be over.
They were in no doubt that her story was true.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
October 29, 2022 4:18 pm

klimate change made Paul drink to much and crash the porsche….’we’re all gunna die’ if we dont do something about climate change.

calli
calli
October 29, 2022 4:18 pm

Sipping a well-earned G&T, watching debbildebbil motor racing. Unashamed carbin generation.

So far no “activists” have glued themselves to the starting grid. I wish they would.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 4:20 pm

”H B Bearsays:
October 29, 2022 at 4:02 pm
Nearly November and 14.4oC in Perth with an apparent temp of 10.9 oC. Not beach weather.”

Maybe it’s trouser time.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 4:21 pm

“Well, I am bound to follow through on an allegation of this nature – and I did – but my personal feeling was that the allegation was self-serving and disingenous.”
Except that wasn’t true, she bought Higgins story, but she was focused on the CoverUp, 2 weeks before Morrison called an Election.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 4:23 pm

But, hey, the Defence coulda ran that line of questioning in their crossexamination.
But they didn’t.
Ever wonder why?

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 29, 2022 4:24 pm

Arky

Fascinating discussion of the definition of “a few”.

An expression actually introduced by you, I was just being a bit of a pedant.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 29, 2022 4:25 pm
Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
October 29, 2022 4:25 pm

The most common comment from passers by on my morning walk in Perth is along the lines of ” When are we going to get some global warming? fuck it’s cold.”

I see snow forecast for the south east next week, surely we will see evidence that Gerbil Warming causes more snow and cold weather soon.

FMD sheeple are stupid, I am constantly amazed that sheeple are way stupider than I thought they were.

Anchor What
Anchor What
October 29, 2022 4:26 pm

Sky News has taken the Democrat version hook, line and sinker.
They had Chris Wray saying that there are proper ways to express your anger at the way things look, violence isn’t the right way.
They even coughed up lumps of alleged “online posts” from the arrested one that supported Mike Lindell and questioned the 2020 election.

JC
JC
October 29, 2022 4:28 pm

Nice and tidy response, B John.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 4:29 pm

PointsBet adverts with Chenille O’Neill.
Possibly the most annoying TeeVee adverts ever.

rickw
rickw
October 29, 2022 4:29 pm

America didn’t elect those ideologues to run the USA. No democracy would vote for what has been inflicted on the country in the past two years.

Makes you wonder about Australia, always shit stain politicians, the only thing that varies is the colour.

JC
JC
October 29, 2022 4:30 pm

He’s such good value.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
?
Comedy is now legal on Twitter

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 29, 2022 4:33 pm

Bizarre: Police Dispatch Audio Concerning Attacker at Pelosi’s Home

“RP stated there’s a male in the home and that he’s going to wait for his wife,” the audio says. “RP stated that he doesn’t know who the male is but he advised that his name is David and that he is a friend.”

Now here’s that audio.

It also notes that “RP sounds confused.” When you click on this it takes you to a page of audio clips. If you hit autoplay at the bottom left of the page, you can hear the clip.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 29, 2022 4:34 pm

Reynolds, Brown and others implied that if Higgins went to the cops, her career with the Liberal Party would be over.
They were in no doubt that her story was true.

The great! The wonderful! The mysterious Richard Cranium can read the minds of people from 1000 kms away, tuning in accurately on conversations he didn’t know were going to take place. Roll up, roll up, see the mysterious Richard Cranium. Regular customers can refer to him more familiarly as Dick Head.

miltonf
miltonf
October 29, 2022 4:37 pm

The Pelosis are mafia grifters- calling them dirt is an insult to dirt.

JC
JC
October 29, 2022 4:39 pm

Can someone figure this out. Musk is also flogging perfume?

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
·
Oct 19
28,700 bottles of exquisite Burnt Hair perfume already sold!

Only 1,300 left of this unique, limited edition, collector’s item.
Quote Tweet
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
·
Oct 12
The finest fragrance on Earth!
http://boringcompany.com/burnthair
Show this thread

JC
JC
October 29, 2022 4:41 pm

No need, he is selling fragrance. Well , I’ll be

https://www.boringcompany.com/burnthair

Zatara
Zatara
October 29, 2022 4:47 pm
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 29, 2022 4:47 pm

rosiesays:
October 29, 2022 at 4:36 pm
The end of Europe’s energy crisis is in sight
What a negative gas price tells us about economics, capitalism and the future

What a Depressing Journalist – Cheering the Destruction of Industry in Germany

It was economists who came closest to understanding the likely effect of Putin’s energy aggression; people and industries tend to respond to price incentives so they predicted that consumption was likely to fall.

Economic circumstances will still be difficult across Europe this winter, but that is exactly what has happened. The gas-hungry process of producing ammonia for fertiliser — a low value added business — ceased until a couple of days ago, with the bulk chemical imported from the US.

Dirty coal and clean renewables have been used to substitute for gas in electricity generation. Analysis by Ember, a consultancy, has found that there was a record year-on-year increase in solar and wind electricity generation across the EU between March and September.

Most impressive of all has been the reduction in consumption of gas by both industrial and domestic consumers, not merely related to the mild weather. In recent weeks, Germany’s industrial use of gas has been around 20 to 25 per cent down on a year ago while its production in the sector was 2.1 per cent higher in August year on year. German household gas consumption is down similar amounts as families compete to see how far into autumn they can go without turning on the heating.

It is true that the prevailing view in the energy sector is that though there might now be enough gas this winter to avoid shortages and blackouts, the real worry is next winter because gas storage will not be replenished in the summer without Russian supply.

It is not often I am able to deliver good news, but these forecasts are also likely to be much too pessimistic.

But most important, higher prices will lower demand for gas, both by encouraging the development and use of other means of generating electricity and, directly, by crushing the amount consumed.

No one should feel delighted they are paying more for energy this winter, but the price signal has done its job. It has forced Europe to adapt. Advanced capitalist economies are remarkably successful in this regard.

calli
calli
October 29, 2022 4:52 pm

A glance at that website, JC, tells me he’s having fun.

“Prufrock” indeed!

I grow old… I grow old…
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

Flamethrowers and burnt hair.

Make of it what you will. That’s the intention.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 4:54 pm

Maybe it’s trouser time.

You’re not wrong. Tracky daks and bed socks today.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 29, 2022 4:56 pm

Zatarasays:
October 29, 2022 at 4:47 pm
A day in the life of a Twitter employee

About to go to my red wine on Tap – bottle of Bare Bones Great Western Shiraz and pour a glass and watch recorded F1 GP Mexico Practice 2

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 4:58 pm

Boambee Johnsays:
October 29, 2022 at 4:24 pm
Arky

Fascinating discussion of the definition of “a few”.

An expression actually introduced by you, I was just being a bit of a pedant.

Quite so.
In any case, the frequency of postal shootings 30-40 years ago is totally irrelevant to the key point being raised – a ‘non-secateur’ if you will.
That is, the ridiculous assertion was that Musk should engage an outplacement consultant to cut a swathe through the C-Suite, to avoid a potential postal attack.
Like people aren’t going to know that Musk made the decision.
And furthermore, the sort of pissweak behaviour being advocated (deflecting blame by buck-passing responsibility for hard decisions) is the sort of thing which is criticised here loudly and often.
And rightly so.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:00 pm

Mmmm. Press reports have Brittany out a Bumble date (who leaves) before meeting Lehrmann and some guy he had dinner with. You go grrrl.

calli
calli
October 29, 2022 5:02 pm

It had better be good, Old Ozzie.

The Beloved is about to order some on your say so. 😀

JC
JC
October 29, 2022 5:03 pm

Press reports have Brittany out a Bumble date (who leaves) before meeting Lehrmann and some guy he had dinner with. You go grrrl.

Bear, can you put this in eastern seaboard English please.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:04 pm

So many stouches. So few fucks to be given.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 29, 2022 5:05 pm

‘Deeply thankful’: First group of IS families lands in Sydney from Syria
By Mary Ward
Updated October 29, 2022 — 4.03pmfirst published at 11.57am

Four Australian wives of Islamic State fighters are expected to spend several days being questioned by authorities after arriving in Sydney in the first stage of a highly sensitive operation to repatriate a group of 60 women and children from a northern Syrian refugee camp.

The women and their 13 children arrived at Sydney Airport early on Saturday morning and were taken to a secure location where they will be questioned by authorities about their activities while abroad.

The group are the first Australian family members of IS fighters to be repatriated since 2019, when eight orphans from the conflict were returned home.

A further 43 women and children being held in the al-Roj refugee camp in northern Syria are scheduled to be repatriated in the coming months.

Kamalle Dabboussy, whose 31-year-old daughter Mariam Dabboussy was among the four women who flew in on Saturday morning, told reporters in Sydney it was an overwhelming day.

“It was hugs and tears; it was a very emotional moment,” the Bankstown man said.

Dabboussy has publicly campaigned for the repatriation of the women on behalf of all of their families. He said his three young grandchildren were jet-lagged but excitedly opening presents during his 90-minute visit to the family’s accommodation on Saturday morning.

The next steps for the women were “a little bit unclear”, Dabboussy said, with health checks and police investigations needing to take places before the women can return to live with their families.

In a statement released by Save the Children, the women said they were deeply thankful to be home in Australia with their children and “excited to have the opportunity to rebuild their lives as a part of the Australian community”

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:05 pm

JC, ask a young person.

calli
calli
October 29, 2022 5:06 pm

Is this you, Bear?

And may I remind you, I do not approve of rude language.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:07 pm

From Syria to Bankstown. Plus ca change.

JC
JC
October 29, 2022 5:07 pm

That’s why I’m asking you Bear. 🙂

Vicki
Vicki
October 29, 2022 5:08 pm

About to go to my red wine on Tap – bottle of Bare Bones Great Western Shiraz and pour a glass and watch recorded F1 GP Mexico Practice 2

Hope P 2 better than P1 – which was just a free practice run for the new Pirelli tyres that will apparently be used next year.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:09 pm

Is this you, Bear?

I hope I would have hotter groupies.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:11 pm

Next you’ll be asking me to set the clock on the VCR so it stops flashing 12:00.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2022 5:12 pm

Ashley Chandrasinghe.

50 on debut for the Vics against Tasmania, and still going.

The Next Big Thing.

cohenite
October 29, 2022 5:13 pm

Because there isn’t any.

So, you didn’t watch Teacher’s Pet crotchless? Did you know there were two coronial inquests concluding that Lynette Dawson was dead and most likely killed by a known person? Do the rubber crotchless panties chafe your chubby inner thighs?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 29, 2022 5:13 pm

Deeply thankful’: First group of IS families lands in Sydney from Syria

Did they get a “Welcome to Country?”

calli
calli
October 29, 2022 5:13 pm

I hope I would have hotter groupies.

The world is full of disappointment.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:14 pm

The world is full of disappointment.

Tell me about it.

calli
calli
October 29, 2022 5:16 pm

Motor racing, T.S. Eliot and a foul mouthed tenor with a banjo.

Tough gig tonight.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 29, 2022 5:17 pm

Daily Mail.

Jealous woman who hacked her partner to death googled how to kill someone with an axe and made a taxi wait for her at Bunnings while she purchased the tool

Sydney axe murderer bought an axe after googling how to kill someone with it
The woman has pleaded guilty to hacking her partner to death after the research
The woman found him at a townhouse lying down before killing him with the tool

JC
JC
October 29, 2022 5:17 pm

Cronkite

Just so we’re on the same page. Dickless is fatboy and crutchless is Mr. Ed? Is that correct?

miltonf
miltonf
October 29, 2022 5:21 pm

Wow Evelyn Draper was not a fantasy

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 5:23 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
October 29, 2022 at 5:12 pm
Ashley Chandrasinghe.

50 on debut for the Vics …

He doesn’t sound very much like a “good Aussie schnitzel” type to me.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 5:23 pm

Basically, what Bear is trying to say is that it was The BrucerSter’s idea to hire Higgins in the first place.
Whether Higgins knew that is unknown, but I’d say she did.
The problem was that Higgins found him repellent [see photos].

Now, Brucey could be a guy that believes in Noblesse Oblige,
which is sorta understandable given Higgins employment with the soon to retire Steven Ciobo was coming to an end and the Government was expected to fall 2 months later.
So, when the guy Higgins was on a date with saw Bruce coming their way, he skedaddled.
Starting to get the picture, yet?

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:24 pm

Jealous woman who hacked her partner to death googled how to kill someone with an axe and made a taxi wait for her at Bunnings while she purchased the tool

See mUnty. This is what is known in the business as corroborative evidence.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2022 5:25 pm

He doesn’t sound very much like a “good Aussie schnitzel” type to me.

He’s vegetarian. Not ‘bananas only’ vegetarian like Peter Siddle, he just doesn’t eat cow.

Or cows. Wait.

He’s a traitor.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:27 pm

He doesn’t sound very much like a “good Aussie schnitzel” type to me.

Let’s just say his seat on the team bus has a hole in it.

Johnny Rotten
October 29, 2022 5:32 pm

JCsays:
October 29, 2022 at 2:47 pm
And you’ll never know because you don’t have the guts to even try to find out.
And before you go on with your usual “I don’t want you to talk to me” only one person here tells me where I can and cannot post.
And you aren’t him.

This is not you concern.
You snitched to Sinclair and demanded he set up rules that we don’t speak. That was fine with me. All you want to do now, you worthless lump of shit, is talk/ grovel to me , try to join or initiate a stoush

Go take some iodine and hide the bread knives, you zero. You embarrassment.

Take your Shite to another level upwards………………………..BYE

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 29, 2022 5:32 pm

Dawson gets sentenced on 11 November…wonder what the tariff will be.

cohenite
October 29, 2022 5:33 pm

Just so we’re on the same page. Dickless is fatboy and crutchless is Mr. Ed? Is that correct?

Crotchless head prefect. Be precise. And you are the chino clad, oily torso heart-breaker.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 29, 2022 5:33 pm

It’s a pity for Ed’s ever unconscious mind that BrucerSter had a girlfriend at the time.
Repulsive and yet attached.
It’s a conundrum for the impaired.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 5:35 pm

Well, he’s 74, his kids are very fond of him, I’d give him 5 years Probation.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:35 pm

Groogs is having one of his stopped watch moments. You suspect Bruce would pull the pin with his mate given his time again.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 5:37 pm

Bruce has a new girlfriend now, and, let’s put it this way, she’s got the biggest Gazongas in town.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 5:39 pm

Bruce isn’t very keen on Brittany any more.
[This is pure guesswork].

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:39 pm

Does that excite you Ed?

rosie
rosie
October 29, 2022 5:44 pm

“The problem was that Higgins found him repellent”
Fail.
Lerhmann was quite good looking in 2019.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 5:45 pm

Brucey had a fantasy about Higgins that wasn’t based in reality.
I coulda told him that:
1. Aussie women hate sex, and
2. They’re a full time pain in the arse

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 29, 2022 5:46 pm

Stick to the Googlin’ Groogs. Baby steps.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 29, 2022 5:46 pm

H B Bearsays:

October 29, 2022 at 5:27 pm

He doesn’t sound very much like a “good Aussie schnitzel” type to me.

Let’s just say his seat on the team bus has a hole in it.

If he keeps reeling off fifties he is like the grizzly bear … he can shit where he likes.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 29, 2022 5:47 pm

Does that excite you Ed?
Strange as it may seem, no.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 29, 2022 5:47 pm

I coulda told him that:
1. Aussie women hate sex

No quite correct, Ed October.

They just hate having sex with you.

Razey
Razey
October 29, 2022 5:48 pm

Perth Tradersays:
October 29, 2022 at 4:18 pm
klimate change made Paul drink to much and crash the porsche….’we’re all gunna die’ if we dont do something about climate change.

I bet the climate Nazis are also the biggest Covid fear mongers.

m0nty
m0nty
October 29, 2022 5:51 pm

Decent people will want to avoid politicizing the story of Paul Pelosi’s assault by a clearly deranged person who likely should have been institutionalized or in jail

That’s pretty much where I am at with that story. Nut jobs sometimes go crazy, like that dude who shot Steve Scalise. It’s not a partisan thing as such, even though the individuals nominally get triggered by politics. Insane people should not be seen as representative of society.

Anchor What
Anchor What
October 29, 2022 5:51 pm

Mr. Ed outs himself.
No surprises there.

JC
JC
October 29, 2022 5:51 pm

Rottenhead, Just like I told Turtlehead, mind your own business. Just focus on stealing jokes and posting them there here thinking we all believe you’re a funny guy. Stop stoush trolling by insinuating yourself in the business of others.

US East is drastically short of gas. You fucking moron.

Razey
Razey
October 29, 2022 5:52 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
October 29, 2022 at 5:47 pm
I coulda told him that:
1. Aussie women hate sex

No quite correct, Ed October.

They just hate having sex with you.

No. They all want (incl. the obese & ugly ones) 6ft+, young, handsome, rich and a big cock.

Anchor What
Anchor What
October 29, 2022 5:52 pm

Insane people should not be seen as representative of society.
But they are representative of a group intent on disintegrating America.

m0nty
m0nty
October 29, 2022 5:53 pm

I mean, take cohenite here. He shows obvious signs of mental illness, c.f. his obsession with genitals of people he doesn’t know. He is not a signifier of anything except his own neuroses.

  1. Is that the line being pushed by the DNC/MSM talking points? Very inventive, but hardly credible.

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