Still Life with Dahlias, Zinnias, Hollyhocks and Plums, Eugène Delacroix, 1835
Actually obama 4.0
Open Thread – Weekend 29 Oct 2022
- Bumtree #12
- Bumtree #11
- Open Thread – Mon 13 May 2024
- Australia ain’t what it was
- A Military Realist’s View of the Ukraine War Thread
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Pretty much all sophisticated warfare today relies on satellite communication.
It’s a misnomer because it may give you an advantage, but it can’t stop your enemies from slitting your throat with a box cutter. War is about information.
What we are witnessing today is very much a digital war. Freedom doesn’t depend on a finger on a trigger, it depends on a finger on a keyboard.
Censorship and ownership of ideas is more powerful than any gun ever built.
From Dr. Malone’s interview above –
This is what we were discussing the other day. I think we have reached the point where any sensible person would say enough, no more of this toxin. As Dr. Malone also says, the risk/benefit calculation is clearly negative.
This is an outstanding interview on the whole.
Walked to school every day
In primary school used to ride a bike 5 miles each way on a heavily corrugated road with a mound of gravel in the middle and on either side. There was a relatively smooth 2” wide strip between the corrugations and the gravel that you needed to keep on.
I showed my kids by driving it in the car: “you are freaking kidding me!”
Should have made them ride it!
True power belongs in the minds of the sheeple.
Custard, do you suffer from self-awareness?
Anyway, “Sliante” and many happy returns to myself.
ffs!
Elitist.
Just wow.
It lost money 8 out 10 years and the interest bill went from US$50 million to US$1 billion. Good luck Elon.
Watched The Good Nurse on Netflix. Very well done and rather alarming.
Oh lord, a stalker.
remember … self awareness JC
be vigiliant
..or say Uncle
your choice
We watched it last night. There’s been several stories of male nurses who are serial killers. I’ll never forget one story. A Long Island male nurse would go to nurses parties wearing a stethoscope around his neck. They found he killed about a dozen people. He’d tell other staff that patient X didn’t look well that evening and later on x was found dead.
And the guy in Sydney (Roger Dean?) who torched a nursing home to cover his drug thefts.
Killed eleven people.
It’s a pretty handy interest rate there if he borrowed the entire purchase price.
question is, will the committee acknowledge your stalker?
the serial killer that murdered your online persona
in cold text !!
sancho, blog lawyer is on the case
JC’s corpse, dead and still warm … still manages to mutter one more stupid fucking thing
It doesn’t make sense what I’m about as the rate would appear really high. I think I read he borrowed $13 billion of the purchase price. That would make the interest rate around 7.7%, which even in this rate hike climate sounds a bit high. But then…
1/13 = 7.69%
I see Magic Marvin is demonstrating excellent mental health this evening.
Blokes who want to be nurses is an obvious warning sign.
say Uncle you sad fuck
Uncle. There, now head off to the mental health thread.
… I don’t think you mean it
you gotta say it properly
* time for a nipple-twister
Magic, This is a blog. A texting format doesn’t really work well here.
‘Unfeasible and unrealistic’ to have small modular reactors in Australia: Bowen (30 Oct)
Bowen is starting to make Fetterman looks smart and articulate.
What a parrot headed fuckwit.
wut da fk rong wit you dude
mong
tard
Please.
No comments disparaging birds.
Good point, now that you brought it up.
I wonder if Turtlehead Bowen is getting his technical advice from The Ponds Institute. I don’t think it can be ruled out.
Ease up.
Not all of them are serial killers.
But studies show that 93.1% of male nurses are sociopaths.
As a minimum.
He’s seriously freaking stupid. The Pond Institute, Australia Institute? Who knows as they’d both produce garbage ideas that Bowen would think are great.
That’s not too bad as it leaves a whopping 6.9% who aren’t. Personally, I’d take my chances that the 6.9% would form the majority.
Finance brokers world wide would have been “sharpening their pencils” to underwrite that deal. The figure of 7.7% is way over the rate considering the customer involved.
If the worlds wealthiest man can’t negotiate an interest rate below that, God help the average punter.
I’m confused.
How many turtleheads are there?
I wonder if Turtlehead Bowen is getting his technical advice from The Ponds Institute. I don’t think it can be ruled out.
As someone unthread pointed out, the solution to their fuckwhittery is “Canberra First!”.
You want Isis Brides?
They live in Canberra.
You want 100% renewables?
Canberra gets yanked off the grid, they’re on their own.
You want 100% ev’s?
Canberra comcars, police, fire, ambulance first.
These idiots are never touched by their stupid decisions. Time to change that.
Bear
Can you please use tortoise-head for Bowen. Turtlehead has a copyright and currently in use.
Bear is breaching copyright. He’s about to receive a nasty cease and desist letter from my lawyers.
Whoa!
93.1% are sociopaths.
4.2% are psychopaths.
1.2% are one off murderers.
0.4% are serial killers.
That leaves 1.1% who are keeping it under wraps and haven’t been caught yet.
Shit, S13 billion is the right amount according to google search.
It’s in keeping with the current 10 year mortgage rate. Obviously higher but not out of bounds higher.
Jeez, mortgage rates have taken off in the US. I didn’t realize just how high they’ve gone which is going to kill the real estate market.
Great argument. Powerful statistics.
However, you need to make clear that PayPal has cut you off and you have 3 days before you are taken away to Newgate Gaol – unless someone buys you a cup of coffee.
(A 10% sling would be appreciated.)
(Otherwise, you know how it can go; someone might start with the inconvenient adverse comments…)
Those are the blokes who are in it for the drugs. You lie there in traction whilst the fucker sits in the chair next to you munching on your pain killer pills.
Smirking all the time as you glare at the emergency button he’s taunting you with.
Saying $13bn is the right amount depends on your point of view. Some very courageous bankers out there.
No need to become a nurse. Just know someone who can get you in to the physio student parties. One of the few nurses I genuinely didn’t get along with (apart from a period on some serious drugs that had me hallucinating and paranoid) was a Spanish male nurse at Fiona Stanley.
Yep.
That was that Roger Dean guy.
Stole pain killers off people with broken hips and chronic back pain and then burnt the joint down to hide the drug theft.
I mean, I don’t like to generalise, but male nurses have an over-representation of nut-jobs.
I think that in a fire-sale the business would be worth 13 billion,which means bankers would get their money back.
Look, if the rumors of mass firings are true, he’s saving $650 million. Rumors are 5000 gonsky.
Est 5000 staff at $130,000 = $650 million.
He has to then make $350 million to break even. He’ll do it.
OK.
Here … [[[steaming coffee cup emoji]]]
If Musk gets the moderation policy right and he then puts into an algo, Twitter could be run with 2500 staff. It could run itself. If he starts charging fees to particular users he can make some decent money.
In my brief period with the NAB we were the lead bank in a syndicate for a loan of around $90m (1990 dollars) that wasn’t travelling so well. We were in a funny building down the unfashionable end of Collins St. There was an internal meeting room with windows all round that you could see into. When I arrived there were 8 or 10 guys with 4 walls of clean whiteboards. When you went home they were still there but every whiteboard was filled with numbers and arrows. This went on for some days.
lol
Bear , were you line management or general counsel?
Twitter is a seriously powerful medium. Trump partially won the 16 election by knowing how to apply Twitter properly to help the campaign. He was outspent by the harridan 3 to 1.
Haha. Early days, graduate trainee. I didn’t even know how little I knew. There was another level of Institutional banking above us somewhere on Bourke St.
My first day in Melbourne, Pyramid had collapsed that weekend and I was flattening cheques (NAB was the agent banker) next to a former State Manager of Corporate they had pulled in from retirement along with about 30 others. No one knew what answer to put on the cheque because it had never happened before. This was the height of Cain/Kirner.
Twitter and Trump basically took the MSM out of the equation that election. Not sure how you can monetise that though.
Amazing sheet metal working:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqSmy4IzMRY
This was the height of Cain/Kirner.
How many times do stupid commie Victorians need to learn the same lesson?
If Musk gets the moderation policy right and he then puts into an algo, Twitter could be run with 2500 staff. It could run itself.
Twitter needed so many staff because it’s very hard to program woke. There’s no logic to it. If you’re aiming to be a pretty open town square, then I think it’s a much easier job to automate the moderation.
Ireland’s infrastructure has been awash with EU money for the past fifteen years, and their housing went through a boom and bust phase, with the bust providing a lot of well-built cheap houses, so there is a back story to all of the seeming wealth. Ireland did boom, bust and now seems to be doing well again. Lots more immigrants than most Irish would like though and the freeways have changed not only the landscape but the small towns and old byways and not for the better in the opinion of many. It’s still one of my favorite places, for ‘the youth of the heart and the joy in the morning’ and Hairy has a long history with Ireland and an Irish woman from his yoof.
Bruce, we discovered last nite that there might be a blast off at Cape Canaveral next week, and think that perhaps on our return from Louisiana to Florida we might come back down this coastal side rather than the other side which has been hurricane hit and take a dekko at the launch if at all possible with timings.
Depends on how much my Louisiana family have organised for us though.
Thanks too for your piece on tectonic plates and how they contribute to volcanic activity, and the link too. Interesting stuff.
The visceral dislike of Brandon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aas3qmzNPLc
American political journalists consistently explain the meaning of events before they come close to understanding what happened.
Anthony Dillon
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom
Polls out today Apparently voters not happy with Jimbo and Elbow, Potato head did well I thought his reply was extremely well done especially energy issues .
One day the first-grade teacher was reading the story of the Three Little Pigs to her class. She came to the part of the story where the first pig was trying to accumulate the building materials for his home. She read “…and so the pig went up to the man with the wheel barrow full of straw and said “Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?” The teacher paused then asked the class “And what do you think that man said?” One little boy raised his hand and said “I think he said ‘Holy SHIT! A talking pig!’”
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.
– W. H. Auden
Dilbert
Over the last few days Liz Cheney has endorsed Kari Lake’s Demonrat opponent, even appearing in an advertisement attacking Lake.
So, Lake, never one to take these things lying down (pity we didn’t have more candidates like her) responded by sending Cheney a letter, thanking her for the “Cheney anti-endorsement” as it is bound to add another ten points to Lake’s lead.
As Lake said overnight on Fox, the scariest costume you could put on for Halloween would be Liz Cheney.
I know why we follow US politics.
Five minutes of Jacki Lambie rambling and I want to vomit.
Seriously, why does Channel Nein platform the malingering dullard?
Excerpts from the Paul Pelosi Story Elon Musk Tweeted and Then Took Down
As reported earlier today, Elon Musk called out Hillary Clinton for sharing a LA Times article that aimed to paint Paul Pelosi’s “attacker” David DePape as a far-right conspiracy theorist.
Musk would respond to Clinton by tweeting “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye” and then proceed to link an article titled “The Awful Truth: Paul Pelosi Was Drunk Again, And In a Dispute With a Male Prostitute Early Friday Morning.”
Below is a picture of the tweet that Musk made before it was taken down.
A detailed discussion of SFO scene
and as final sentence says
What really is going on at Nancy’s home? It’s not just ice cream and cake, that’s for sure.
“Seriously, why does Channel Nein platform the malingering dullard?”
I think the more important concern is that people vote for the “malingering dullard”.
Cassie of Sydney says:
October 31, 2022 at 7:13 am
That was my silent question too, how do we end up with people like her and the ones you mentioned before, in the Sydney electorates.
Are there no decent candidates, or are they blocked from standing in the first place?
Quite evident in Australia too. The more left the media outlet, the more “interpretation” colours the reportage.
Clive Palmer and other rich imbeciles.
The Washington Post says Elon is spreading misinformation.
It’s paywalled.
But no-one gets held accountable:
Boys’ literacy has slipped to the lowest level since national testing began, with one in nine teenagers unable to read at a basic standard, despite a phonics-focused reading recovery among younger students.
Fresh NAPLAN data exposes a growing gap in achievement between students from wealthy and poor families, as well as girls and boys, with at least a third of Indigenous teenagers functionally illiterate.
But literacy results for primary school students – especially Indigenous and migrant students – have improved due to the reintroduction of old-school teaching techniques.
The trends are revealed in fresh data from the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), which tested more than a million students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 this year.
Results released on Monday show that nearly 9 per cent of all year 9 students – taught to read using the “look and guess’’ whole-language technique popular a decade ago – are still struggling to read and write, with boys falling behind faster than girls.
In a trend credited to “woke and touchy-feely” literature, the failure rate for year 9 boys in reading this year reached 11.4 per cent – the highest level since testing began in 2008 and almost double the failure rate for girls.
and
Kevin Donnelly, a senior fellow at the Australian Catholic University’s PM Glynn Institute, and a co-author of the Australian curriculum review in 2014, blamed “a feminised touchy-feeling curriculum and woke texts’’ for the decline in boys’ literacy.
Dr Donnelly, who taught English in schools for 18 years and was a member of the Victorian Board of Studies, said girls were more likely to enjoy reading and discussing books written about “feelings’’.
“There’s been this whole move towards social realism, alcoholism, disenchantment, and stuff that’s quite depressing,’’ he said.
“The curriculum’s become feminised and touchy-feeling and emotional, and a lot of boys tuned out. Boys need explicit teaching, direction and structure.’’
Oz
The solution is to VOTE 1 incoherent.
It’s Elon Musk’s Twitter now and his reply to Hillary Clinton … well … pop that popcorn
This tweet would have gotten flagged for disinformation or taken down by Twitter in the before times. Now it’s out there in all its glory for people to read, debate, criticize, and all the other things that should happen in a free society where ideas are discussed with words INSTEAD of resorting to violence.
It’s a new day!
Replying to @elonmusk and @HillaryClinton
Elon I would double my security if I got Hillary Clinton angry
Better late than never. The Paywallian has finally got around to posting today’s Johannes Leak.
High school English put me off reading novels for 10 years.
It was toxic horseshit written by communists to make you hate yourself.
Non compulsory voting might help.
Then they bastards have to first convince people to bother voting.
and First Past the Post.
No preference deals.
First got in via PUP, resigned from the party almost immediately. And then it’s been a litany of political manoeuvring ever since. In the middle of all that there may have been time to represent the people who voted for her (whoever they are) but it’s doubtful. Plenty of hot air and TV spots but few results apart from an RC.
https://www.smobserved.com/story/2022/10/29/news/the-awful-truth-paul-pelosi-was-drunk-again-and-in-a-dispute-with-a-male-prostitute-early-friday-morning/7191.html?m=true
The Internet is amazing – Wife forgot to buy Sunday Telegraph yesterday and has to do Melbourne Cup Sweep for Tuesday Tennis Group
Ask and Ye shall receive
https://cdn.racenet.com.au/marketing/Racenet+Melb+Cup+2022+-+Sweepstakes+(1).pdf
The Tweet under that is hilarious.
Musk got an auto-generated email from Twatter directed at new managers …
“Hey Elon, It’s time to learn how to manage Twitter …”
Oops enter full address – https://cdn.racenet.com.au/marketing/Racenet+Melb+Cup+2022+-+Sweepstakes+(1).pdf
Include pdf
My wife positively dislikes the literature they serve up in high school.
She describes it as depressing, suicidal, slice of life misery.
She is tutoring the low rung, mostly boys, at the moment and loving it. She can just work on their basic English communication skills and have a laugh with them, so it’s positive experience.
They seek her out in the hallway, hoping they’ll be taken out of ordinary classes and be tutored for a few hours.
… managing @ Twitter …
I hope he does the online course and shares the content and results.
Because we have too many voters who are like them.
This cannot stand! He is now intruding on their territory.
You fucking traitors.
Talking about literacy in children while your country is being destroyed around you.
You won’t be so smug when you’re in the camps.
Clive Palmer and other rich imbeciles.”
Which is why I found, prior to the May election, the fervour around here by a few for Clive Palmer rather foolish. But then that old adage applies, people really do have short memories.
What’s interesting in the latest Newspoll is that there has been a fall in Teal support. I suspect it is the beginning.
Of course, this is outstanding.
What the incompetents setting curricula fail to realise is that children have an innate thirst to learn, and that this learning instinct is not necessarily limited to what’s set out in front of them.
Aha! The light bulb has finally been switched on that the old method that brought literacy to generations is much better than some crap thought up by hippies.
Realism is not the problem, it’s that there is no adventure or wonder in what boys, or even most girls, are given to read. Just for a laugh give boys to read a book by Zane Grey and see what happens.
Talk about a sweeping statement:
“…the majority of Australians under 35 are with us.”
Outgoing Australian Republic Movement chair Peter FitzSimons says interest in cutting ties with the monarchy has never been stronger, with the group now pushing to attract more young members.
FitzSimons says the passing of Queen Elizabeth II brought about a sense of emotion for the royals but did not reflect the prevailing mood.
“The reality is we’ve had a surge in membership, in interest, like we’ve never had in our history before, because the game has changed,” he told ABC.
“We’ve had a drive to have young membership … the majority of Australians under 35 are with us.”
FitzSimons said it was “extraordinary” recent polls showed 36 per cent of Australians under 35 were unaware Australia’s head of state was a British monarch.
He will stand down from his role in November after seven years at the helm.
I know, I know.
But, Jeez, they are taking their time rounding us up.
Calli, don’t forget that every once in a while she also cries for dramatic effect.
+1
Well you live and learn new expressions that you did not know!
Is Nancy Pelosi a ‘Beard’? Does this Explain Her Unceasingly Angry Disposition?
Beard – Beard is an American slang term describing a person who is used, knowingly or unknowingly, as a date, romantic partner (boyfriend or girlfriend), or spouse either to conceal infidelity or to conceal one’s sexual orientation.
The incident at the Pelosi house on early Friday morning is still puzzling at best. There now are more questions than answers.
Clive Palmer and other rich imbeciles.”
methinx, that is has a lot to do with folk being fed-up with the usual conga line of troughers trotted out by Lib & Lab so out of desperation there’re prepared to try someone different … especially, in the Senate which is, in reality, just an 8 years additional retirement sinecure with little effective input ….
Human Dissector Nicole Angemi Examines Unusual Deaths, Bodies & Blood Clots – Ask Dr. Drew
I been thinking that two.
It is very hard to hard-code ban a particular phrase or word without unintended consequences.
Example – Sinc banning the word “Jew” on Dead Cat.
I think they used a combination of algorithms and extensive reference files of “persona non grata” Twatterers to manage their filtering.
Britney in aviation now? From the Australian:
‘Go blonde and wear a push up bra’: Pilot sues Qantas
Davida Forshaw. Picture Andrew Tauber
The female pilot who pioneered gender-equality for Qantas is now suing the airline, claiming she received a poor performance report after she rejected sexual advances from a captain
That promise of Albo’s to lower electricity bills by $275 will’ve resonated. That electricity prices are skyrocketing instead will tell voters that Labor is lying, and by extension the Teals also. Nothing like money to focus people’s attention.
Are we living through ‘Weekend at Biden’s’? America needs to know, but the complicit media won’t ask
By Post Editorial Board
Are staffers covering up for President Joe Biden the way they did for Senate candidate John Fetterman?
Tuesday night’s debate revealed Fetterman’s debilitated post-stroke condition — and thus also exposed both the campaign staff who’d hidden the truth and the Dem-loving members of the media who for months covered for the progressive politico, even stomping on any reporters who raised doubts.
Like Fetterman, Biden keeps the media at arm’s length — vastly more so than any recent prez. He did only nine formal press conferences in all of 2021, and eight so far this year. He’s done just 20 sit-down interviews (many of them softball) through the first year-and-a-half of his presidency.
And that follows his “hide in the basement” presidential campaign, which also required massive media complicity. When he did appear before cameras he often delivered immortal lines like his “Look, fat” while addressing a voter in Iowa.
Turning 80 next month, Biden’s already the oldest man ever to serve as president. And for all his lifelong habit of gaffes and verbal bumbling, it’s becoming harder and harder to watch the man without thinking he has some serious neurological problems.
After a recent tree-planting event on the White House South Lawn, for example, the prez wandered off on his own, muttering “Which way are we going?” as his minders gingerly tried to direct him. (And that’s just his latest wander-off; they’re becoming fairly common.)
Meanwhile, his administration completely and inexplicably refuses to release the records of Biden’s visitors in Delaware, where he’s spent about a quarter of his presidency. Is Joe getting treated by a neurologist there, and wants to keep it out of the public eye?
It’s not ableist or ageist to demand that the most powerful man in the world show a clean bill of health, or to ask — now that we know Fetterman’s campaign did to shield him — if the White House staff is doing the same for Biden. The stakes are much higher than a Senate race.
Democracy is impossible without an informed populace. And Americans need to know if we’re living through “Weekend at Biden’s” or have a president actually who’s fit to lead.
Another Australian headline:
Double standards: The high price of Pat Cummins’ virtue
Pat Cummins started a media storm when he laid down his rules for ‘climate-friendly’ cricket sponsors – but experts say his moral ‘high ground’ is shaky given his own sponsorships.
Following on from comment at 8:09.
Maintenance and constant update of lists of people who, for example, commit “wrongspeak” about abortion would be labour intensive.
If you allow people to largely say what they like about abortion, transgenderism, the 2020 election and three or four other topics, that would get rid of hundreds, if not a couple of thousand “wukkas”.
Just musing, what’s the chances that the greens will move to a policy of removing dams? They’ve won on energy they’re upping the war on farmers and food, getting rid of dams would make sense to them.
Wut?
Too.
TOO.
I need coffee.
And maybe some Mrs Gez remedial English tutoring.
Simpsons clip ‘brilliantly’ sums up the ‘renewable energy dilemma’
Sky News Australia
BREAKING – UK Medicine Regulator confirms COVID-19 is Man-made & the Vaccines were created using Computer Generated DNA
People have been saying for years that the “novel” virus has never been isolated. David Martin said some 18 months ago that it’s a hotchpotch of previously patented strands.
total lies are total disrespect
Yes, it couldn’t be clearer that we’re being treated like donkeys.
How about Pat refusing to play under lights?
Then people would not call him a hypocrite.
Part of the problem with falling literacy has to do with the decline in reading for leisure too, everyone is on a screen, boys far more than girls, it requires effort to get children to read.
Parents can encourage reading by reading themselves, having books at home, sharing their childhood favourites, it isn’t all the responsibility of teachers.
I’m sure I read an article years ago about a high school teaching English to boys and girls separately with boys getting boy oriented texts.
There are millions and millions of books out there to choose from.
The Daily Mail says the same thing – and gleefully repeats every detail of what was said.
Not paywalled.
Orban: We dug a hole for the Russians, but ended up falling into it ourselves.
Insane
Rob Reiner Claims Trump ‘Directly’ Responsible for Attack on Paul Pelosi, Calls for Indictment
Carlson: Raskin Wants to Destroy Russia Because It Is an ‘Orthodox Christian Country’ – ‘They Would Like to See World War Trans Immediately’
And without shoes.
And walking (or rowing) to matches instead of using the team bus.
And wearing uniforms woven from hemp.
And not having a phone.
And switching the power off to his multi-million dollar Sydney mansion in the same street at Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley.
And using the $2.2 million he got for six weeks’ work two years ago at the IPL, which was provided by the Kolkata Knight Riders’ owners who are Bollywood actors and producers and who plough through electricity to make themselves feeelthy rich at the expense of (apparently) the planet, to buy a wind turbine blade created by child labour and which will end up in landfill because it can’t be recycled.
Part of the problem with falling literacy has to do with the decline in reading for leisure too, everyone is on a screen,
Same with playing outside .. very rarely see any of the school age kids around here outdoors after school or on weekends .. mentioned it to my youngest daughter and she said, “It’s all about the phone/laptop these days” …
What’s Biden hiding on the infant formula shortage?
Last week, grabbing coffee and passed someone at their table scrolling a newsfeed. Just caught a snatch of Lambie’s voice turned up to 11 as she reached incandescence about something or other. The reaction mirrored mine: groan, move on.
She has anger. Stagy, hammy, one trick anger. That’s about it.
Roots of our existential crisis
By Dr Kevin Donnelly -October 31, 2022
Jackie or Monica.
You decide.
An ally cat has better morals than this lot. And much better ethics.
The Awful Truth: Paul Pelosi Was Drunk Again, And In a Dispute With a Male Prostitute Early Friday Morning.
It’s not rocket science. Just vote for anyone but the Hunchback fascist. I want the fucker gone.
At Dr F’s Daily Mail link …
I love this.
Repeating 500 words of allegations about Pelosi under the guise of “just reportin’ what people are sayin’” and following it with the disclaimer “no suggestion he is a gay pisshead”.
Oh, yes there is.
Democrats Already Blaming Voters for Midterm Loss
How The U.S. Learned To Love Neo-N@zis In Ukraine
The Jimmy Dore Show
In NSW it’s Coutts-Trotter, Plibersek’s husband, who makes the major decisions. I am absolutely flabbergasted that a series of Coalition governments have employed this man from the other side of the political spectrum to run the state’s education. It seems to indicate that they are all in one club and voters are outsiders.
Everyone at QANTAS gets the same treatment though.
Junior pilots, baggage handlers, hostesses and boy how, the stewards.
Razey Johnson is right!
They are all in one club and voters are outsiders.
Rosie, this goes back to my earlier comment that there is nothing for boys in the curriculum, no adventure, no wonder, no accomplishment. So they go and find it for themselves in online games. Education departments have to build it and they will come.
The meja really needs to be put in their place. Their conduct both with Abbott and Trump has been beyond reprehensible.
There are two ways of looking at this. One is that it’s the George Negus ‘people are saying’ style of reporting.
The other is that the twisted, mangled language imposed on us by the corporate borg is able to be reversed and used in the opposite manner to that intended.
On Sky last night Paul Murray was still discussing with his guests the accusation of the attacker being a right winger.
Just a thought, could this guy have been a passenger in Pelosi’s car when he crashed it? I remember there was speculation that there was a passenger who was erased out of reporting at the time.
Can’t remember a single assigned text from primary school,
but the library had W.E Johns and Paul Brickhill.
At home there were a couple of volumes of Reader’s Digest Condensed Books.
How could any eleven year old not be intrigued by
Memoirs of a Sword Swallower?
Breakfast TV audiences can identify with her. Breakfast TV audiences are her.
Heh. An Iron Lady classic.
P that is exactly right. Our kids are taught everything of ours is evil so they have nowhere to go and therefore they tune out.
incoherent ramblersays:
October 31, 2022 at 8:42 am
Just vote for anyone but the Hunchback fascist. I want the fucker gone.
Razey Johnson is right!
Mr Johnson is Right – 27 secs
The retention of Coutts Trotter and the appointment of Bligh’s husband was a signal from the fatty o’barrell gubmint that the uniparty is a fact. The Trumble coup confirmed it.
Somewhat self correcting since the MSM needs eyeballs. Once the eyeballs leave they die.
Nolte: Imploding CNN Cuts Back on Series and Films (28 Oct)
Excellent news. Unfortunately the absolute control the Left has over journalism training means that any alternative media outlet rapidly fills up with lefties, since righties can’t get credentials. I don’t know what can be done about that – it’s similar to the teaching problem since teacher training is likewise totally under the Left’s control.
Hopefully the rise of the blogs and Substack will establish righties enough to be picked up without journalism degrees.
CBS Poll: Voters Say Democrats Favor Migrants over Americans
A majority of American voters believe Democrats put the interests of migrants ahead of Americans, while Republicans put Americans first, according to a CBS poll of 2,119 registered voters.
“What an absolute terrible poll result for Democrats,” Republican consultant Ryan Girdusky tweeted on October 30:
Are standards slipping at the GayBC? This week’s pro-gay, anti-Christian sermon
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-31/faith-versus-freedom-consequences-of-a-clash-of-values/101293004
didn’t appear until Monday.
Watch the terrifying moment a machete-wielding boy chases and allegedly stabs a Porsche driver before stealing his car – with cops fearing it kicked off horror night of violence
. CCTV showed alleged carjacking at petrol station in Melbourne on Saturday
. Police investigating whether it was linked to three brawls in city on same night
. Paramedics were called to Bourke St, in Melbourne’s CBD, about 5.45am Sunday
. Two men were rushed to hospital in a critical condition, where one later died
. Victoria’s Homicide Squad has launched an investigation into the fatal incident
. Two men were also stabbed in a separate incident on King St about 1.25am
Yes, a right wing homeless hippie who lives in a commune that hoists a rainbow marijuana Stars and Stripes.
Yes. Well. People are saying he is an ULTRA MAGA loon.
Murray is so off the pace he is being lapped by independent journalists.
I see the puke funnel is in full operation. Paul Pelosi is an alien with two heads!!
I love the poem. All of it.
The older I get, the more I like it.
mOron’s in to bat for the freaks and perverts.
Some sanity, but not in Australia, the dumb country.
Italian doctors and nurses suspended from work because they are not vaccinated against Covid-19 will soon be reinstated, new Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said on Friday.
The move is motivated by a worrying shortage of medical personnel together with declining cases of Covid-19. The new government will also cancel fines imposed on all people aged over 50 who had not got vaccinated, he added.
“A measure is being finalised that will allow the reintegration into service of health staff subject to suspension proceedings for non-compliance with compulsory vaccination before the expiry date of the suspension,” he said in a statement posted on the ministry’s website.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/italy-end-ban-health-workers-not-vaccinated-against-co
The problem is it’s all standardised. It wasn’t until my kid stumbled on my old Anzac war history book and showed some interest when he got into reading. Now he has loads of books ranging from the history of Prussia to British battle tanks. There is no point getting kids to read crap they have zero interest in.
Yes, Melbournibad will continue sliding down the ‘Worlds Most Liveable City’ list. End up below Tashkent and Mogadishu at this rate
How could any of these woke cricketers be playing in this world cup?
Anyone watching will see ads for Aramco a major sponsor plastered all over the place.
Franco of course being the Saudi Arabian oil company,biggest in the world
Oh no, some of the sheeple are waking up!
Australians are making their feelings known in a large survey involving tens of thousands of people. Recently, News Corp in Australia featured Nationals Senate Leader Bridget McKenzie who shared the unfortunate, but not surprising news, that Australians will be “living with the consequences” of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns “for a very, very long time.” Australia’s government took a cue from China’s zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy approach, enforcing heretofore not seen rigid pandemic measures for what is usually considered an open, free Western democracy. But the costs are severe, from education of the young to widespread reports of mental health issues to economic implications. The results of Australian government decisions will, unfortunately, linger for a long time. But in this survey, hopefully, Australian politicians, national and regional bureaucrats, and academic medical leaders are listening to what the people are saying.
For example, on a day of voting and associated surveys, some notable sentiments emerged. The politicians are distancing themselves from their decisions during the pandemic, reports Senate Leader McKenzie in the news interview. What did a survey of over 50,000 Australians reveal?
Over 50% of Australians polled regret getting vaccinated or, conversely, remained unvaccinated and were quite happy with the decision
Of the over 45,000 that acknowledged their vaccination status, only 35% would say they would make the decision again.
Not one unvaccinated person regrets remaining unvaccinated
Of the vaccinated surveyed, 20% received two doses (primary series); 26% reported three doses, 16% reported a fourth jab, and 37% reported receiving no vaccination. Again, this later cohort is grateful they didn’t move forward with the jab.
According to the Australian Health Department, over 95% of the population over the age of 16 received at least one COVID-19 jab
The vast majority of the Australian population isn’t concerned about COVID-19 anymore
About 50% of the respondents report catching COVID-19, with 6% reporting they were sick with the novel coronavirus more than once; 40% never did fall ill
Nearly 70% of respondents declared that Australia’s governing leaders became too “heavy-handed” during the pandemic response, while 25% felt that the government did the best possible, and 8% believed they did as well as any other country.
A group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, accompanied by two female teachers, went on a field trip to the local racetrack to learn about thoroughbred horses and the supporting industry, but mostly to see the horses.
When it was time to take the children to the bathroom, it was decided that the girls would go with one teacher and the boys would go with the other.
The teacher assigned to the boys was waiting outside the men’s room when one of the boys came out and told her that none of them could reach the urinal. Having no choice, she went inside, helped the boys with their pants, and began hoisting the little boys up one by one, holding on to their ‘wee-wees’ to direct the flow away from their clothes.
As she lifted one, she couldn’t help but notice that he was unusually well endowed. Trying not to show that she was staring the teacher said “You must be in the 5th grade”.
“No, ma’am” he replied “I’m riding Silver Arrow in the seventh race, but I appreciate your help”.
Sorry missed the link.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/majority-of-australians-regret-getting-covid-19-vaccinations-all-of-the-unvaccinated-dont-regret-the-decision-e0dcdf79
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy and hope.
– Winston Churchill
That’s how it may have looked when the police arrived.
Pumps 12,000,000 barrels of oil per day and is owned by the Saudi Government.
When asked about that one, The Righteous Brothers (Cummins and Zampa) just mumbled, “It’s complicated”.
Not in Vic. The only poll that matters is the one that shafts Andrews and until that happens I’m not buying Sicktorians have woken up (sufficiently).
Convid response certainly was an eye opener. I literally thought we would follow the Sweden path. How wrong I was.
I could do with an all expenses paid holiday in Queensland. Not too sure about not going in the showers. Is the Professor of Bus driving coming to pick me up? Probably not, gets lost in Canberra.
The whole point of reading for leisure is choosing your own books, not those shoved at you by school. I don’t much like what is curated by libraries these days, but there are plenty of other places to acquire books.
Twitter tells me Dan Andrews hasn’t made a public appearance for twelve months.
Apparently he too can lurk in a basement and still win.
#IhidewithDan
It’s a spiral that is hard to get out of. The parents had a bad experience at school with books, they pass that onto the kids, and so on. I truly think that the government wants this.
Did he renounce net zero by 2050?
I’ll believe that the sheeple have woken up when the climate wars begin.
Even better, play under lights powered by the wind! (h/t Zipster & The Simpsons)
On Pelosi: We’re not falling for the “Right Wing Terrorist in the Tailpipe” joke
Dear Mid-Term 2022 voter – this is a public service announcement. The rush to blame the Right for words = violence in the aftermath of the awful attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul is looking even more cynical than it usually is when they whip out the blame card, so please hold your judgment for a day or so. Events and reports from the scene are shifting rapidly. The possibility the cynical Democratic card is being played more as a distraction from the true situation, vice an accusation of fault, looks stronger every passing hour..
The whole thing is shaping up to be is tres strange, even for San Francisco. Let’s recap.
The Speaker wasn’t home at the time, and the seeming lack of security at the Pelosi home already had some folks (who were very familiar with the area and its well-to-do residents) stroking their chins, but assuming there’d be lots of video to help with the investigation.
San Francisco Police finally had a press conference and said they’d arrived answering a “welfare check” call. Initially, they muddied the water with their phraseology about officers finding “both men holding a hammer” and most listeners interpreted that as each man had a hammer. In fact, there was only one hammer, and they each had ahold of it. The suspect, identified as David DePape and wearing only underwear, wrested the hammer from Paul Pelosi and, in front of the officers, then proceeded to inflict grievous wounds on him, including a skull fracture that required immediate surgery (please heal quickly, dude) before officers could control the situation.
The Left went into overdrive. They are so cynical, and ruthlessly, calculatingly predictable. Any tragedy is an opportunity to score points and sound bites before the facts shut down the opening.
The Democratic media protection machine cranked into operation as well, deciding what nuggets of early information about the suspect might be too sensitive for the public to know. (Or too damaging to the Pelosis…? YMMV) The producer of one local station made that call post-press conference for a local reporter. The reporter asking for guidance before broadcasting was caught on a hot mic.
By extension, anyone expressing support for Trump is a potential terrorist. They’ve worked so hard to set the narrative from the beginning, they completely missed the magnificent Michael Shellenberger doing what is known in the business as “a journalism.” He spent the day talking to the suspect’s neighbors, actually reading vice cherry-picking DePape’s online ramblings and digging into who the guy IS. How inconvenient for the Left (but unsurprising to rational folks) it turns out the fellow is a certifiable psychotic headcase, amplified by a raging drug addiction. Whoda thunk it?
As we’re watching a clearer portrait of DePape emerge, no thanks to ongoing efforts to paint him as the MAGA cap guy next door, other, curious details are emerging. Adding to the initial confusion concerning the attack was the fact that, during the call to 911 paul Pelosi made from a bathroom in the home, he referred to David DePape as a “friend.”
San Francisco police credited a dispatcher for having a Sixth Sense about the approximately 2:28 a.m. call and sending police over immediately, which may well have saved Pelosi’s life. But that’s speculation, as a hammer wasn’t swung until police arrived and witnessed the attack. Again, yesterday brought another interesting nugget out, and wait, WHUT?!
A third person? Who is, as of now, still unidentified, was there through the entire event – a witness? If there was another person at the Pelosi residence, why didn’t Paul Pelosi stay safely locked in a bathroom, on the phone to the police? Everything was chill enough, this unnamed individual could just open the door for the cops? And if you’ve seen close-ups of the patio door DePape allegedly broke IN through…well. It raises its own set of questions, as the glass is blown out. Now, I’m not a physics major nor a crime scene investigator, but I am anxious to hear the explanation for that. One could learn something new.
…and it’s NOT a MAGA country attack. Donald Trump didn’t do this, you despising everything Democrats have done to this country in the past 2 years didn’t do this. HO, boy. None of them had anything to do with THIS. But a coming RED WAVE does. And that’s why the Democrats are so desperate to get out in front, paint it MAGA red, and then bury it fast. This has the making of a San Francisco gothic horror and in the age of drag queen children’s shows, government-sanctioned child mutilations and school board protesting parents targeted as terrorists, the last thing the Democrats need 10 days before an epic mid-terms is even the suggestion of a deviant sideshow with a top tier leadership cast.
Do you know why we even have this much information to digest and ruminate on, in spite of their best efforts to bury it?
Thanks to Elon Musk, they no longer control the signal.
rosies ays:
October 31, 2022 at 9:39 am
He got his face in the Monash Council flier attending the opening of the resurfaced netball courts at Jells Park, alongside a couple of young netballers and council officials. I thought it bold given the sniping opportunities from the surrounding lands but they may have swept the area first.
From the Gruaniard.
Give user ratings.
Surely he’s not proposing … upticks?
And a space for online rows?
A Duelling Thread?
Take out the latecoming pale skinned converts in the cities and the third becomes 99%.
Importantly, has anyone seen Dan in bright sunlight?
Makkasays:
October 31, 2022 at 9:35 am
Oh no, some of the sheeple are waking up!
Not in Vic. The only poll that matters is the one that shafts Andrews and until that happens I’m not buying Sicktorians have woken up (sufficiently).
Will be interesting to watch Peta Credlin on
New PETA CREDLIN documentary promising to “expose” THE CULT OF DANIEL ANDREWS ahead of State Election
Sky News Australia has confirmed details of a new one-hour Peta Credlin documentary titled, The Cult of Daniel Andrews.
In the new special, Peta Credlin will explore the motivations, the myths and the mystery behind Victoria’s all-powerful Premier; his rise to prominence, his hard-left agenda and just why Daniel Andrews has such a hold on the state.
For some, Andrews’ eight-year reign has been the worst in Victoria’s history: the inquiries and the judgments against his government, the crumbling health and ambulance system, the deaths, the crippling debt, and the broken promises.
For others, despite the longest Covid lockdown in the world, he can do no wrong. His government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, a disastrous hotel quarantine programme and extended lockdowns have strangled the state, yet Andrews’ popularity has seemingly not waned. As Labor leader, he’s let nothing stand in his way.
Ahead of the Victorian State Election on Saturday 26 November, the special investigation will feature interviews with prominent insiders, plus explosive revelations from whistleblowers. It will tell the story of Andrews power and why his grip on Victoria is like nothing we’ve ever seen before in Australia.
Sky News Anchor Peta Credlin said:
“Around the country, people are asking the same thing – how can Victorians be thinking about re-electing this man given everything he’s put them through?”
The Cult of Daniel Andrews is the third Peta Credlin special investigation and follows the top-rating Deadly Decisions: Victoria’s Hotel Quarantine Catastrophe and The Campaign Uncovered.
The Cult of Daniel Andrews: A Peta Credlin Investigation – Premieres Wednesday 16 November at 7.30pm AEDT. Watch Sky News on Foxtel and Sky News Regional or stream on Flash
Shameless.
Exhibited here by the Left’s response to the shocking murder of the indigenous lad in Perth.
Backs.
Beast with two backs.
Easy to see how little attention you lot paid to Shakespeare.
Nope, you can leave 99% of those in and it will still be 99%.
The Hunchback has been granted day walker abilities by the blood god.
My son goes to a private co-ed high school in Brisbane. They had their Prefect selections for next year and they chose 8 boys and 21 girls. He didn’t nominate himself for a Prefect position even though he is exceptional at Track and Field and Cross Country and pretty good at Football and Volleyball. He also plays bass guitar in a couple of school bands. His marks are OK but he is not really academic. So he participates strongly in school life. You would think a person like that be it male or female would want to be part of leadership.
He didn’t nominate to be a Prefect because he saw the position as he would say it as ‘Meh…….’. It worries me that many of the boys felt the same and couldn’t be bothered.
Re Dan missing from public events I have noticed that Bill Shorten seems to be more frequently seen than Dan these days.
Not enough people will see it. Blockheads and MAFsters will be busy filling their heads with FTA shyte.
How to keep aboriginals on a virtual reserve.
Shakespeare.
I prefer Penn reels.
Lula wins in Brazil. Just. 50.7 to 49.3. Bolsarnaro narrowed the margin by 3/4s.
A bare knuckle fight between Credlin and Chairman Dan would be too close to call. But would probably work on pay per view.
Every time I have been left “Rabbit Proof Fence” in an English class (3 schools now), even the girls hate it. It almost looks like there is a standardised unit of work – read a chapter, watch the related scene(s), analyse the differences / look at the historical context / how do you think character x was feeling ?
Even if the kids were interested they take all the joy out of it.