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The Temptation of Adam, Tintoretto, 1552


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Perth Trader
Perth Trader
November 16, 2022 8:52 pm

One of the biggest Honda factories i’ve ever seen was on the freeway between Jakarta and Bandung. It took 15 minutes to drive past at 90 klm.

Zipster
Zipster
November 16, 2022 8:54 pm
Perth Trader
Perth Trader
November 16, 2022 8:54 pm

More important news is that West. Aust. is still carrying the load for the rest of Aust.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2022 8:57 pm

Gen Z broke to Fetterwoman by a margin of 46%.
Now think about it.

Gen Z collectively has the brains of Fetterwoman?
Tofu zombies R us.

(The wymminses especially.)

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
November 16, 2022 8:58 pm

Our work is so important here that we even go out to restaurants wearing ‘hi vis’.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2022 8:59 pm

40% of “net-zero technology” not invented yet?

100% of net-zero tech has already been invented.
It has a name. First letter “N” and ending in “clear”, like crystal.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 16, 2022 9:00 pm

It was a very small part of Credlin’s special but she skewered Lady MacAndrews.
Her claim that the fifteen year old kid on a bike hit her car so hard that he could have been charged sounded callous.
The photos of their car put that account in the BS file.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 16, 2022 9:01 pm

Perth Tradersays:
November 16, 2022 at 8:52 pm

Maybe not as big Toyota but the one in Chachoengsao Thailand is huge. Got it’s own traffic lights to the multiple car parks which are full of LOL motorcycles…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 16, 2022 9:03 pm

the choice of a professional Aboriginal with established market acceptance like Mansell makes perfect sense.

Keith Windschuttle pointed out that, if Michael Mansell was who he claimed to be, one of his ancestors was a certain Edmund Mansell, the notorious Bass Strait sealer, who had probably enslaved as many Aborigines as anyone…..

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
November 16, 2022 9:03 pm

Argh grammar fail.

Maybe not as big but the Toyota

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 16, 2022 9:05 pm

Theyda had more chance a beatin’ Fetterman if they’d picked a normal candidate from Pennsylvania, instead of a guy from Turkey who’d served in the Turkish Army.
It’s not Rocket Science.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 16, 2022 9:12 pm

The argument was that Mansell is descended from Bass Strait Islanders, not Tasmanian Aborigines.
And that 1 Aboriginal ancestor was 6 or 7 generations ago.
He was the original Bruce Pascoe, now he’s pontificating on Aboriginality?

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 16, 2022 9:15 pm

But notice when Bolt comes roarin’ outta the blocks sayin’ stupid shit?
In the weeks before a Victorian Election.
You can set your watch to it.

P
P
November 16, 2022 9:16 pm

Asking again at the top of the thread
Would lady Cats care to comment on Melania’s outfit today
From a movie or was it Jackie O ?

Melania’s blouse today here at 1:13:56 looks similar to Jackie Onassis’ dress here

MatrixTransform
November 16, 2022 9:24 pm

Mansell is descended from Bass Strait Islanders, not Tasmanian Aborigines

which islands Ed?

Delta A
Delta A
November 16, 2022 9:26 pm

But another, better known case seems to have been sent to the memory hole.

And a not so well known- or remembered – case: Dr Ken Elliott. Kidnapped in Djibo, Burkina Faso, on 15 January, 2016, Dr Elliott, now 88 yo, remains incacerated, with very little news of his welfare.

Zipster
Zipster
November 16, 2022 9:26 pm

Gen Z collectively has the brains of Fetterwoman?
Tofu zombies R us.

(The wymminses especially.)

narcissistic and neurotic

mem
mem
November 16, 2022 9:29 pm

FTX gave $2+ million to the Republicans in laundromat Ukraine aid.

Hmm. Think the Democrats benefitted more.
“A lot of people have lost money and have been ripped off, basically,” author and Fox News contributor Miranda Devine said on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday.
“And the Democrats, with their $40 million that they got at least this cycle to win the midterms, plus the $10 million that this guy put into Biden’s campaign in 2020, they really owe it to the victims of this scam to give it back,” she said, noting that Bankman-Fried visited the White House several times this year. ” https://www.foxnews.com/media/mcenany-calls-democrats-ftx-crypto-donations-far-left-outlets-calling-scandalous

Zipster
Zipster
November 16, 2022 9:29 pm
Razey
Razey
November 16, 2022 9:31 pm

Farmer Gezsays:
November 16, 2022 at 9:00 pm
It was a very small part of Credlin’s special but she skewered Lady MacAndrews.

She struck me as more evil than Hunchback. Eyes unblinking.

Delta A
Delta A
November 16, 2022 9:32 pm

Also incarcerated. Duh.

Razey
Razey
November 16, 2022 9:33 pm

Zipstersays:
November 16, 2022 at 9:26 pm
Gen Z collectively has the brains of Fetterwoman?
Tofu zombies R us.

(The wymminses especially.)

narcissistic and neurotic

After being fed Woke nonsense since birth? Understandable.

mem
mem
November 16, 2022 9:35 pm

Psays:
November 16, 2022 at 9:16 pm

Asking again at the top of the thread
Would lady Cats care to comment on Melania’s outfit today
From a movie or was it Jackie O ?

I watched the whole presentation today and audience only glimpsed her face. She could have been stark naked for all I know, but her face was as beautiful as ever.

Zipster
Zipster
November 16, 2022 9:35 pm

Arizona republicans call for GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward to resign
AZFamily | 3TV and CBS 5 News in Phoenix

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 16, 2022 9:38 pm

The inhabited ones, weirdo.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2022 9:39 pm

The book I’m reading is a SF novel, but mentioned an interesting idea for government: a men’s council and a women’s council.

That would do fine in Oz also: rather than a House of Reps and a Senate – instead have two co-equal Houses, one elected by women and one by men. Obviously men would be the reps in the men’s house (could it be called The Shed?) and women in the women’s house.

Would neatly finesse all this gender equality rubbish. And as for trannies they could put themselves up for election for whichever sex they think they are right now, and if they get in – great!

The US House and Senate are nearly interchangeable effectively, since legislation can be produced from the one then amended by the other and vice versa pretty much. So I can’t see why two Houses, for Men and Women, need to be hierarchical. Total equality is fine by me.

There would of course be two leaders, one of each sex. Might call them Semiprime Ministers.

And of course in voters would be voting for the House their gender happens to be, so no problems then with Teal wymminses “representling” red blooded males.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2022 9:43 pm

Apologies for typos, a brief blackout. My ancient NBN modem then takes ages to handshake, so I forgot to read and edit the last para. Grr.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2022 9:45 pm

After being fed Woke nonsense since birth? Understandable.

Razey – See the linked graph…it only affects the females of the species. Quite amazing.

MatrixTransform
November 16, 2022 9:54 pm

The inhabited ones

silly man

P
P
November 16, 2022 9:57 pm
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 16, 2022 9:57 pm

Indian engineer I used to work with was at Wolf power tools in India, they had buses to get around the site.

Razey
Razey
November 16, 2022 10:03 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
November 16, 2022 at 9:45 pm
After being fed Woke nonsense since birth? Understandable.

Razey – See the linked graph…it only affects the females of the species. Quite amazing.

Perhaps the Woke West has marginalised men so much that women can only rely on Daddy .Gov?

Razey
Razey
November 16, 2022 10:09 pm

How Marxism is Disguised as Woke Morality | Dr. Yoram Hazony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5X0tAecfF4

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 16, 2022 10:14 pm

BoN, what is the novel?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2022 10:15 pm

Razey – I have no idea why this is happening. The data is very clear that it is though. Yes I know that the Left targets women, especially unmarried ones, and also undermines marriage. The demographic shift though is staggering. Why? Why are women so affected but the men not? And the stuff they seem to believe is fantasy, or in the case of abortion, extreme conceit. Young women are turning into an alien species.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2022 10:19 pm

BoN, what is the novel?

1637: The Coast of Chaos.

An anthology of linked stories to be accurate, but very closely linked. Excellent.
The men’s and women’s councils are from the Algonquins.

(If you haven’t read the series you have to go back quite a way, since this is #34. 😀 )

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 16, 2022 10:20 pm

Anybody seen her recently ?

From News com au. The photo show Gina behind Eric and Lara and also in view is Mike Lindell of My Pillow.

The lefties will go nuts. Go Gina !

Gina Rinehart seen at Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid announcement
The mining billionaire was seen in the background of an Instagram snap posted by Trump’s son Eric, who posed alongside his wife Lara.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2022 10:27 pm

If Gina and Mike Lindell hook up together would they sell iron pillows?

Zipster
Zipster
November 16, 2022 10:27 pm

Why are women so affected but the men not? And the stuff they seem to believe is fantasy, or in the case of abortion, extreme conceit.

narcissistic, self centred, selfish with a veneer of saving the planet

Razey
Razey
November 16, 2022 10:30 pm

Cant verify but likely legit:

Radio host Tom Elliott has just taken a call from a very distressed aunty of a 7 year old boy. The young lad has an aggressive form of juvenile cancer that requires 17 cycles of chemotherapy and 6 weeks of radiotherapy.

The young lad was due to have his 6th chemotherapy cycle at the Royal Children’s Hospital 3 days ago but was told that it was cancelled as there were no beds available. The parents of the young lad are at their wits end. The best the hospital could suggest is that the family contact the Health Department, which they did two days ago.

So far there has been zero contact from the Victorian Health Department. Meanwhile the young lad’s urgently required chemo cycle is already 3 days late.

How is it that Andrews can find $15 million in a day or two for a netball team but cannot find a bead for a seven year old boy for a regular chemotherapy cycle.

This is what is wrong with Victoria and sums up Andrews 200%.

https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/andrews-denies-7yr-old-6-chemo-cycle-at-rch.7090540/?get_post=true

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 16, 2022 10:30 pm

BoN, thanks. I read the first few. Didn’t t realise they were up to 34.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 16, 2022 10:46 pm

Zachary Rolfe claims penalty privilege to ‘plead the fifth’ at inquest

Kristin Shorten
Investigative Journalist
@itsKShort
58 minutes ago November 16, 2022

The Northern Territory police officer who fatally shot Kumanjayi Walker has refused to answer questions about his use of force incidents, racist text messages and other breaches of discipline during his first day of evidence at the coronial inquest into the Indigenous teenager’s death.

Just months after being found not guilty of the 19-year-old’s murder, Zachary Rolfe was forced to front the Alice Springs Local Court on Wednesday where parties to the inquest were keen to cross-examine the constable about his actions on November 9, 2019, when he shot Walker three times.

Constable Rolfe’s examination had barely begun when he claimed “the penalty provision” over 14 categories of evidence to which he objected answering questions about because his testimony could result in disciplinary action.

Most of the 14 categories of evidence to which he claimed the “penalty privilege” relate to specific use of force incidents but also include questions about drug use, the use or misuse of body-worn video, “arguably racist, sexist or homophobic” text messages and his deployment to Yuendumu on November 9, 2019.

This comes as the former Alice Springs officer’s application for a judicial review will be heard in the NT Supreme Court next week, where the issue about the “nature and extent of the privilege should be determined”.

Constable Rolfe’s short examination on Wednesday began with questions about his upbringing, military background and police training before moving to a racist text message exchange with another Alice Springs police officer.

Counsel assisting the coroner, Peggy O’Dwyer, produced a text exchange between Constable Rolfe and constable Mark Sykes from April 2019.

“Heard you had a rough arvo yesty, grubby f..ks,” Constable Sykes texted.

Constable Rolfe replied: “Nah bra, just slightly annoying haha, coons man”.

Dr Dwyer asked Constable Rolfe if he agreed that the content of that message was “obviously racist”.

“I wish to exercise my right and claim the penalty privilege on the basis my answers might tend to expose me to a penalty,” he told Coroner Elisabeth Armitage.

The court was also shown CCTV footage, recorded on Constable Rolfe’s phone, of an Indigenous Alice Springs police officer hitting an Indigenous man outside a bar called Epilogue in Alice Springs on April 10, 2019.

The police officer’s name was said in court but suppressed from publication.

Constable Rolfe repeated his claim of “penalty privilege”.

Hours of legal argument followed in which Constable Rolfe’s lawyer, Luke Officer, argued that his client should not be compelled to answer questions about incidents that could incriminate him and expose him to further internal disciplinary proceedings within the NT police.

Barrister Ian Freckelton KC, representing NT police, said most of Constable Rolfe’s disciplinary proceedings had already been ­“finalised”, with Constable Rolfe being provided remedial advice in relation to a number of them.

Dr Freckelton told the court that Constable Rolfe had been cautioned and ordered to be of good behaviour for 12 months for being interviewed by the Seven Network’s Spotlight Program and that a hearing in relation to ­Constable Rolfe recording and disseminating body-worn video to others will take place on December 13

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2022 10:48 pm

I read the first few.

Me also, but I came across a comment somewhere about this one and it sounded like fun, which it is. The series was getting very minutiae, so I haven’t read most of them.

Indolent
Indolent
November 16, 2022 10:52 pm
Diogenes
Diogenes
November 16, 2022 10:55 pm

Can anyone recommend the most accurate and comprehensive book on this?
Need to know the details, but have limited time.
Thanks

Gabor ,
Whilst not a book, Drachinifel’s 3 part Jutland series on YouTube is pretty good
Will take 3 or so hours to watch…
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMK9a-vDE5zF1s6drej4Naq7w7tg-XZRZ

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 16, 2022 10:58 pm

Razeysays:
November 16, 2022 at 10:30 pm
Cant verify but likely legit:

Radio host Tom Elliott has just taken a call from a very distressed aunty of a 7 year old boy. The young lad has an aggressive form of juvenile cancer that requires 17 cycles of chemotherapy and 6 weeks of radiotherapy.

The young lad was due to have his 6th chemotherapy cycle at the Royal Children’s Hospital 3 days ago but was told that it was cancelled as there were no beds available. The parents of the young lad are at their wits end. The best the hospital could suggest is that the family contact the Health Department, which they did two days ago.

Razey

that doesn’t seem right

As someone who had had numerous rounds of more than 6 weeks of Radiotherapy and multiple more than 17 cycles of 2 x Chemotherapy, plus 34 rounds of cancer Immunotherapy, it has nothing to do with Hospital beds, it was all done in the Radiotherapy and Cancer Clinics at RNSH NSW, totally separate from main hospital.

but was told that it was cancelled as there were no beds available.

Does not make sense?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 16, 2022 11:22 pm

I have a pet theory on Jutland I haven’t seen elsewhere.
The godhead ships were extremely hard to sink despite the utter flogging some took.
My theory of why revolves around…. Coal bunkers.

The UK ships were designed to go anywhere so stored more coal than the boxheads who designed theirs ( apart from some raiders) with the specific objective of fighting either French or UK, either far away.

And Based on Massies book dreadnaught it be inclined to go for Dots recommendation.

m0nty
m0nty
November 16, 2022 11:38 pm

NY Post throwing major shade at Trump.

The memes are going to be spicy if this keeps up.

rickw
rickw
November 16, 2022 11:42 pm

rickw, Juan Brown is clearly unhappy about the planning of the flight path for the airshow. I reckon I’d have everyone in formation at one speed just flying repeated ovals. Done right there would still always be aircraft flying past the crowd.

I think his most telling observation is that previous versions of the same event had 1000 ft of vertical separation between the bombers and the fighters.

No overtaking, fighters flying in their circuit and bombers flying in theirs at appropriate airspeeds.

Not as visually appealing, but no horrific mid-airs.

rickw
rickw
November 16, 2022 11:48 pm

Why are women so affected but the men not?

A gross misdirection of women’s mothering instinct.

Munty can give you insider knowledge on how it works.

Gabor
Gabor
November 16, 2022 11:50 pm

Thanks to all for the suggestions, will have a quick look at the videos, to see if it fits my needs.

I would have to find details about the ships too, and in particular why the Hood’s design was changed so drastically.

Yes there are a number of books, that’s why I asked for the best one, I trust the opinion of cats in matters military and naval.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 16, 2022 11:58 pm

NY Post throwing major shade at Trump.

Shock! Horror! Media is against Trump.
Now that’s never happened before.

MatrixTransform
November 17, 2022 12:27 am
John H.
John H.
November 17, 2022 12:36 am

Indolentsays:
November 16, 2022 at 10:52 pm
Male fertility crash accelerating worldwide: study

The article only focuses on one possible cause. The research points to a number of possible causes. The study mentions that …

While the current study is not designed to provide direct information on the causes of the observed declines, sperm count has been plausibly associated with multiple environmental and lifestyle influences, both prenatally and in adult life. In particular, endocrine disruption from chemical exposures or maternal smoking during critical windows of male reproductive development may play a role in prenatal life, while lifestyle changes and exposure to pesticides may play a role in adult life.

The maternal smoking is contradicted by the big declines in smoking over the last 30 years. There are ecological explanations, dietary considerations, and underwear. I haven’t found any evidence for this but I should look into epigenetic causes. I won’t because I’m not worried about the problem. I’m not dismissing the endocrine disruptors because …
Endocrine Disruptors Conference 2000:

Human serum levels of other possible endocrine disrupting chemicals, … were also reported to be close to the levels causing adverse effects in animals.

… but it is more likely a constellation of factors.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 17, 2022 12:44 am

custard says: November 16, 2022 at 7:52 pm

Would lady Cats care to comment on Melania’s outfit today
From a movie or was it Jackie O ?

Why even bother asking that question, Custard. Are you not already certain that YOU ARE WATCHING A MOVIE?

lllooollllll, 😛

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 17, 2022 1:14 am

> Minor party candidate who called for Daniel Andrews to be hanged preferenced ahead of Labor by Liberals

[Rebekah Spelman, a young woman with glasses, smiles.]
Freedom Party upper-house candidate Rebekah Spelman says she does not want Daniel Andrews dead, but she does not regret her “exaggerated” comments calling for the premier to be hanged.

Can we say the Vic election is a referendum on Capital Punishment Just This One Time For That One Guy But No More Than That Honest ?

Can Dan just attend a rehabilitation programme instead of being subject to revenge?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 17, 2022 1:16 am

The way I figure it, it’s about 777 sleeps till Trump returns to the Whitehouse.
Portentious.

rickw
rickw
November 17, 2022 2:23 am

Minor party candidate who called for Daniel Andrews to be hanged preferenced ahead of Labor by Liberals

Nice.

I wonder how Pierrepoint would factor into his calculations a previous neck injury?

Wouldn’t want the messy spectacle of Dickhead Dan’s head being ripped off when dispatched.

Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:22 am
Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:24 am
Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:25 am

Another year of Trump derangement begins for David Rowe.

Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:27 am

Bob Moran. Brilliant.

Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:28 am
Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:29 am
Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:31 am

Like David Rowe, Michael Ramirez has incurable TDS.

Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:32 am
Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:33 am
Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:34 am
Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:35 am
Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:37 am
Tom
Tom
November 17, 2022 4:38 am
min
min
November 17, 2022 4:55 am

Wide awake as fire alarm has blared non stop No announcement to say what to do as we are all elderly so threw on a trackie grabbed phone and alarm still blaring . Fire doors shut but outer doors open we are supposed to go to park out side alarm still blaring Go outside, gate to street locked so tried too get back in building now I am locked out . Had to walk in dark outside to entry foyer and bang on door to get let in. What a disaster Firies here by now hardly anyone up Last time when similar happened I found 10 had not heard alarm at all as deaf ,take out hearing aids and do not hear anything. BTW tried to ring my *friend* in another apartment and he didn’t answer his phone either

Jorge
Jorge
November 17, 2022 4:59 am

Albo abroad.

Selfies with Macron. Groveling to the Chinese. Admonishing the Russians.

Under the word ‘uxorious’ in future, dictionaries will say ‘Australians’.

This idiot represent us.

rosie
rosie
November 17, 2022 5:09 am
miltonf
miltonf
November 17, 2022 5:22 am

Political office is only available to the untalented, useless and connected. If you can cut it in the real world you are not wanted.

So Murdoch is threatening Trump. Murdoch has always been part of the problem- backed Whitlam and Bliar. A great supporter of Bush filth’s illegal war in Iraq too.

Jorge
Jorge
November 17, 2022 5:23 am

Oops. unctuous.

min
min
November 17, 2022 5:28 am

Yes Jorge wondered what wife you were referring

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
November 17, 2022 5:52 am

Peta Credlin did a good review on Sky last night called the cult of Dan Andrews. Good summary of the major things crook with him and Victoria. Rise to power and freezing of own party opponents, lockdowns, rubber bullets on citizens, suspension of parliament and cabinet, slug gate, lawyer X, red shirts, treatment of media with distain, massive use of social media… There was plenty more but I expect on legal advice was held back. The ex Police Commissioner Ken ? Was very damning on the Vic Police and Andrews. Can we afford another fours of the mong? Well we couldn’t afford the last four.

will
will
November 17, 2022 5:57 am
Anchor What
Anchor What
November 17, 2022 6:27 am

I told youse this would happen:
Afghan Supreme Leader to enforce sharia law including public executions, stonings, amputations.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 17, 2022 6:32 am

James Reynolds of BBC OS fame went in to bat for the January 6th committee overnight. When one US lady said the Capitol wasn’t stormed, he said it was, and people were killed, and that the Beeb had done a doco on the topic so there!
The two ladies he was talking to, trying to get them to abandon Trump, both held their ground and said Trump had more good work to do. Reynolds then went to Anthony Zirca for some solace in the form of a laundry list of all the “investigations” Trump faces.
Throughout his presentation there was no mention of the FBI role in January 6th, or the fakeness of impeachment and other legal shenanigans being used against Trump.

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 6:36 am

Well, with all this “open ness” breaking out all over the World, I would like to tell the ABC, CNN, SBS the Feral Guv’ment, the NSW Wallies, NAB, CBA, the Cricket Board, the MOB and anyone else that may be interested that ………………I AM NOT GAY. My dog just barked woof, woof.

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 6:38 am

A train hits a bus filled with Catholic school girls and they all perish.

They are in heaven trying to enter the pearly gates when St. Peter asks the first girl “Mary-Agnes, have you ever had any contact with a male organ?” She giggles and shyly replies “Well, I once touched the head of one with the tip of my finger”.

St. Peter says” Okay, dip the tip of your finger in the Holy Water and pass through the gate”.

St. Peter asks the next girl the same question “Catherine, have you ever had any contact with a male organ?” The girl is a little reluctant but replies “Well, once I fondled and stroked one”.

St. Peter says “Okay, dip your whole hand in the Holy Water and pass through the gate”.

All of a sudden, there is a lot of commotion in the line of girls. One girl is pushing her way to the front of the line.

When she reaches the front, St. Peter says “Agatha! What seems to be the rush?” The girl replies “If I’m going to have to gargle that Holy Water, I want to do it before Brenda sticks her arse in it”.

Razey
Razey
November 17, 2022 6:39 am

air Shakesays:
November 17, 2022 at 5:52 am
Peta Credlin did a good review on Sky last night called the cult of Dan Andrews. Good summary of the major things crook with him and Victoria. Rise to power and freezing of own party opponents, lockdowns, rubber bullets on citizens, suspension of parliament and cabinet, slug gate, lawyer X, red shirts, treatment of media with distain, massive use of social media… There was plenty more but I expect on legal advice was held back. The ex Police Commissioner Ken ? Was very damning on the Vic Police and Andrews. Can we afford another fours of the mong? Well we couldn’t afford the last four.

Victoria is beyond repair.

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 6:41 am

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

– Carrie Fisher

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 6:43 am

Victoria is beyond repair.

Victoria is dead. She died in 1901.

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 6:48 am

This idiot represent us.

He does not represent me.

JR

Cassie of Sydney
November 17, 2022 6:48 am

“This idiot represent us.”

Worse, many Australians voted for him.

Razey
Razey
November 17, 2022 6:49 am

Johnny Rottensays:
November 17, 2022 at 6:43 am
Victoria is beyond repair.

Victoria is dead. She died in 1901.

She has more chance of being resurrected than this Victoria.

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 6:53 am

With all of these UNHCR adverts on TV, just stop wasting the money. Just tap the Australian Feral Guv’ment on the shoulder and you will be given millions and millions of dollars. Mind you, it doesn’t seem to work for me and I live here…………………………………………

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 17, 2022 6:58 am

I see the Russian strategic missile bombardment of Poland turned out to be not the Russian strategic missile bombardment of Poland.

Placards are being rewritten right this second.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 17, 2022 7:06 am

The ex Police Commissioner Ken ? Was very damning on the Vic Police and Andrews

Kel Glare was widely regarded as one of, if not the last Chief anywhere in the country who was an actual policeman rather than a politician playing dress-ups.

Destroying the separation of powers in Vicco was never more evident than when Overland was appointed to replace Christine ‘Maximum Chips’* Nixon, and had his Chief Commish epaulettes put on him by the Premier and the Police Minister at a presser.

The flat spin heading out to sea started in earnest at that very moment.

*h/t somebody. It’s still good.

Crossie
Crossie
November 17, 2022 7:07 am

Tom says:
November 17, 2022 at 4:31 am
Like David Rowe, Michael Ramirez has incurable TDS.

Sad really, a great talent going to waste.

Thanks Tom for bringing us such a choice of cartoons to brighten the day.

Crossie
Crossie
November 17, 2022 7:12 am

Razey says:
November 17, 2022 at 6:49 am
Johnny Rottensays:
November 17, 2022 at 6:43 am
Victoria is beyond repair.

Victoria is dead. She died in 1901.
She has more chance of being resurrected than this Victoria.

Visited relatives in Melbourne last week and one uncle said that he is not sure how he will vote in the upcoming election. Yes, Andrews is awful but he built a lot of roads. Not a word about the opposition which he is probably unaware exists. He used to vote Liberal.

Gilas
Gilas
November 17, 2022 7:17 am

Tintarella di Luna says:
November 16, 2022 at 7:29 pm

I won’t go into the ins-and-outs of a duck’s intestines as to my attempts to get a Director’s ID but I’ve had to complete a paper form, I’ve also sworn a statutory declaration which will accompany said form and with fingers-crossed am hoping for a Director’s ID in due course.

The f@ckers want you to use the Byzantine MyGov app-y boondoggle, with all the problems it entails.
The 13 number I used I had only fortuitously found, by accident, the previous day.
One has to search the bowels of the ABRS website to find it, or by serendipity, as in my case.
Then I just gathered 2-3 times the number of documents required and wrote relevant numbers, expiry dates, addresses etc.. in table form, being Asperger-ish helps.
Rang the 13 number at an ungodly hour, just in case, and found the ABRS opening hours on the recorded message, they are not 9-to-5!
The rest was easy..
One is given a 15-digit number, the first 3 identify one as Australian, the next 11 are yours truly only, the last digit is allegedly a check-sum hash of the previous 11 (makes no sense to me but that’s the folklore out there).
After doing this, you will feel the warm inner glow of being ensnared ever tighter into a global database, with local tentacles spread to ATO, ASIC, DHS/Centrelink, Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade and, of course, ASIS/ASIO.
All for our own good..

Razey
Razey
November 17, 2022 7:34 am

Yes, Andrews is awful but he built a lot of roads.

The biggest road built was the one to Marxist tyranny.

Cassie of Sydney
November 17, 2022 7:34 am

Once upon a time the Demonrats had an organisation called the KKK as its paramilitary wing. KKK goons would run around draped in white hoods and wearing white masks to cover their faces, threatening, intimidating and performing violent acts on innocent men and women.

Today the Demonrats have an organisation called Antifa as its paramilitary wing. Antifa goons run around America’s large and small cities, draped in black hoods and wearing black masks to cover their faces, threatening, intimidating and performing violent acts on innocent men and women, that is ordinary Americans who refuse to kowtow to Antifa’s progressive narrative.

The journalist Andy Ngo is someone I have great deal of time for. Ngo has spent more than six years chronicling Antifa’s violent activities, beginning in his home city of Portland. He began covering Antifa’s activities when a university student at Portland University and he’s since become somewhat of an expert on the group’s activities across the US. He’s written a book called “Unmasked” on the subject. Ngo says that Antifa hasn’t just been emboldened by the Demonrats, it has also been emboldened by useful idiots in the MSM who persist in benignly describing Antifa as simply an “anti-fascist” movement despite knowing full well that Antifa is a Marxist organisation that routinely engages in violent acts against ordinary people and particularly supporters of right of centre parties*. But what’s more sinister, as Ngo says, is that both the Demonrat Party and many in the MSM are more than happy to let Antifa run amok, threatening, intimidating and performing acts of violence, because it suits not just their narrative but also their goals to achieve and stay in power. So, Antifa is now an unofficial paramilitary wing attached to the Demonrats and some parts of the leftist MSM to deal with their political opponents.

Andy Ngo has warned that Antifa will ramp up its activities if Trump runs again. So, now that Trump has decided to run, watch the Demonrats unleash Antifa to threaten, intimidate and perform violent acts on ordinary Americans…aka Trump supporters…and watch the useful idiots in the MSM and others on the left sit back and cheer it on. They justify this violence coz, coz, coz, Donald Trump and his supporters are “Nazis”.

It’s worth remembering just how broken and mendacious the MSM is, both in the US and here. Two days ago Greg (Dribbler) Sheridan in the Oz described Donald Trump “despicable”. Now that’s what I call objective commentary, isn’t it? Earlier this year, Sheridan described Joe Biden a “good man”. Words fail me. I’ll just end this by saying that it isn’t Donald Trump who is despicable, it is Greg (Dribbler) Sheridan.

* Antifa movements across the west in 2022 are the offspring of the German Antifa movement that arose in Germany after World War 1. There is still a German Antifa movement, a rather violent movement, operating in Germany today although the German government keeps tabs on all far-left and -far-right movements. The German Antifa is regarded as the “daddy” of them all. Remember that in East Germany the name they used for the “Berlin wall” was the “antifaschistischer Schutzwall”. And here’s an insight into the priorities of Antifa. Back in 1920’s and early 1930’s Germany, Antifa groups in Germany weren’t spending their time engaged in violent acts against National Socialists. No, instead they spent their time threatening, intimidating and performing acts of violence against centre-right and right-wing parties. In other words, democracy is their enemy. There’s a good argument that Antifa contributed to the rise of the Nazis, but this shouldn’t surprise us, the fact is that Antifa and the Nazis are two peas from the same poisonous pod. No wonder the fascist left love Antifa.

Cassie of Sydney
November 17, 2022 7:36 am

“Yes, Andrews is awful but he built a lot of roads. “

Didn’t he stop a road from being built?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 17, 2022 7:40 am

ABC Vic news reports that sniffer dogs are to be used to locate the rare and endangered Bogong frog.
The ABC is still unable to detect the stench of the TaliDan regime.
– Belt & Road
– Billion dollar no road
– Red shirts
– Lawyer X
– Pell
– CFA/UFU union takeover
– Quarantine hotels
– Lockdown
– Ambulances
– Ramping
– Junkie injection rooms
– Street prostitution
– Ministers resigning
– Media manipulation
– Slug gate
– Massive debt blowout
– More staff than the PM
– “I don’t recall”

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 17, 2022 7:42 am

If Gina and Mike Lindell hook up together would they sell iron pillows?

Yeah, but only Chuck Norris would be able to fluff them.

Crossie
Crossie
November 17, 2022 7:45 am

Cassie of Sydney says:
November 17, 2022 at 7:36 am
“Yes, Andrews is awful but he built a lot of roads. “

Didn’t he stop a road from being built?

I know that but my aged relative didn’t. It doesn’t seem to we well publicised or even mentioned by the non-existent opposition.

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 7:45 am

Zelensky the Liar – He Will Be Remembered by History like Hitler

From Armstrong Economics –

“At 8:18AM Zelensky on a video call to G20 leaders told them that Russia was a “terrorist state” among them and that the attack was deliberate by Russia and that the missiles were a “true statement brought by Russia for the G20 summit.”

It is now confirmed that the missiles were fired by Ukraine. To pretend it was not another “Ukrainian False Flag” they claimed the missiles were fired at a Russian missile and were not intentional. Forget saving the planet for climate change which is also a natural occurrence, the ONLY way to save the planet is to get rid of every Neocon and politician supporting this ruthless liar and remove them from office. Any politicians who supports Ukraine should be charged with conspiracy to create war crimes.

I agree with Henry Kissinger that Ukraine must relinquish the Donbas. Zelensky tears into Kissinger and pretends Russia wants to invade Europe and this is not 1939. I have had employees in Kyiv and Donestk. I am well aware of how deeply seated the hatred of Russians is embedded in Kyiv. You cannot even bring a bottle of Russian vodka to dinner. Anything Russian is an insult and deeply offends them. You have never seen such prejudice and hatred until you deal with Ukrainians. There is ABSOLUTELY nothing that Zelensky will not say to desperately engulf the entire world in his hatred of Russia.

There is NOTHING that Zelensky will ever say that should be taken as fact. The West ignored how as soon as the 2014 Revolution took place, they began their civil war against the Donbas and they began killing Russian civilians on the street of Odesa. NOBODY in the West has EVER even talked about the war crimes of Ukrainians.

I know of two French soldiers who went to Ukraine to fight for freedom and left because of the hatred and war crimes with Ukrainians murdering and torturing Russian soldiers they captured. How about crucifying Russian soldiers and then burning them alive? That is not a war crime?

There is no solution. As long as the West keeps up this proxy war against Russia, there will be World War III and you will find a lot more countries coming to Russia’s side because of the hypocrisy and lies from Zelensky. Throughout the region, even in Macedonia, the people favor Russia because they know what I know about Ukraine and the seething hatred that blinds the country. In Serbia the same. The neighbors of Ukraine know them very well. I have warned, there is a very dark side to Ukraine.

Zelensky has supported the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis who have been protected by the American Neocons. The Ukrainian Neo-Nazis even bragged that they feed the bones of Russian-speaking children to their pet wolves. Zelensky could have easily resolved this entire crisis by honoring the Minsk Agreement and letting the Russian Donbas vote – the very people Zelensky and his Neo-Nazis hate so much. He knows what he is doing by constantly trying to get NATO to enter Ukraine which will be World War III. He said the world should join Ukraine to kill all the Russians because World War III has already started. He will go down in history as someone up there with Adolf Hitler when the dust settles. He wants all our children to die for his personal hatred. He wants to destroy all of our world peace that has been forged since World War II and he wants us to lose our way of life all for his hatred. Pushing Russia against the wall will only lead to Nuclear War. An animal cornered fights to the death. Zelensky has divided the entire world.

Zelensky’s lies will catch up to him and his reign of terror will most likely end by 2025, but he will probably take all of Ukraine with him. We should be mindful that this all goes crazy next year. His lies to create World War III will in the end destroy Ukraine.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/zelensky-the-liar-he-will-be-remembered-by-history-like-hitler/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

mem
mem
November 17, 2022 7:50 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
November 17, 2022 at 7:36 am

“Yes, Andrews is awful but he built a lot of roads. “

Didn’t he stop a road from being built?

The cost to taxpayers of scrapping Melbourne’s East West Link road project topped $1.1 billion, Victoria’s auditor-general has found.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 17, 2022 7:57 am

“Yes, Andrews is awful but he built a lot of roads. “

Didn’t he stop a road from being built?

I believe as soon as he entered office he had to pay $1 billion to get out of a contract for building a freeway. I suppose if you call that spending money on roads it is impressive.

I believe he then turned around and re-awarded the work, but this time bulging with favours for unions and I would think Labor lackey sub-contractors who know to make donations to the Labor party. The original contract was not so union friendly and not diverting money to Labor.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 17, 2022 7:57 am

Ha!

mem beat me to it.

Dot
Dot
November 17, 2022 8:02 am

Zelensky the Liar – He Will Be Remembered by History like Hitler

Lay off the glass barbie sweetie.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 17, 2022 8:05 am

He Will Be Remembered by History like Hitler

Stolen.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 17, 2022 8:05 am

You would think that the mere fact Andrews, as a state premier, was going to sign a debt trap deal with the Chinese government which then had to be stopped by the federal government, for national security reasons, would be enough to see him out of office.
They all say he’s so smart. Cunning isn’t smart.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 17, 2022 8:09 am

He Will Be Remembered by History like Hitler

You serious?

Zipster
Zipster
November 17, 2022 8:10 am
Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 8:10 am

“Yes, Andrews is awful but he built a lot of roads. “

He must have been very busy then with his hard hat and bright viz suit. How come there are no photos whatsoever then?………………….The Hunchback with jug ears has only ever built a position of power. Power given to him by the Victorian voters. Boot him out you Victorians if you have any self worth left…………………………

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 8:13 am

Mother Lodesays:
November 17, 2022 at 8:09 am
He Will Be Remembered by History like Hitler

You serious?

Martin Armstrong is…………………………..

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 17, 2022 8:14 am

Non Victorians should remember that Andrews has a 36 billion dollar wage bill for the state employed.
It buys lots of votes.

Crossie
Crossie
November 17, 2022 8:15 am

Mother Lode @7:57, a cousin’s husband works in the building industry in Melbourne and admits that the whole thing is awash with overinflated costs.

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 8:15 am

Knuckle Draggersays:
November 17, 2022 at 8:05 am
He Will Be Remembered by History like Hitler

Stolen.

Well, tell Martin Armstrong that then…………………………..

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 8:18 am

Dotsays:
November 17, 2022 at 8:02 am
Zelensky the Liar – He Will Be Remembered by History like Hitler

Lay off the glass barbie sweetie.

Dottie. Forward all of your comments, as poor as they are, to Martin Armstrong…………………………

JR

Razey
Razey
November 17, 2022 8:18 am

I know that but my aged relative didn’t. It doesn’t seem to we well publicised or even mentioned by the non-existent opposition.

He owns the media and public service. Defacto dictatorship is what it’s called.

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2022 8:20 am
incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 17, 2022 8:21 am

Andrews and Vikpol.

Can someone write the list?

bons
bons
November 17, 2022 8:22 am

Cassie, yes the history of Antifa is indeed a reflection of 20th century Germany, and could only have continued to exist because of German character which has always welcomed repressive extremism, and continues to do so.
And yes, Antifa matured for 50 years in East Germany which was nothing other than an institutionalised thug state. Churchill’s comment that “in future dictatorships will refer to democracies as fascists” was as usual prescient.
Those who argue that the wall should not have been torn down but built higher are correct but it was already too late. The East Germans had identified the non-accountable universities and the UN as the conduits for dispersing their bile.
Firstly through Berlin Free University which duly infected Northern Germany, then to Sweden (of course) and then into the States via Evergreen College. Choosing the university conduit was brilliant: self governing, opaque, undemocratic, dictatorial, accountable to nobody and controlled by self serving wannabees.
Who is to blame? Lazy, cowardly, self serving Western Goverments of course. These negligent incompetents created the statuatory authorities and all the other taxpayer funded self governing institutions and statuatory authorities that fostered Marxism and destroyed our civilisation.

Dot
Dot
November 17, 2022 8:26 am

Martin Armstrong will be remembered by history as a joke.

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 8:29 am

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

– Marilyn Monroe

Cassie of Sydney
November 17, 2022 8:30 am

“He Will Be Remembered by History like Hitler”

Ridiculous. Zelensky has his faults but to compare him to Hitler? No. I’m very tired of these “Hitler” comparisons.

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 8:31 am

Dotsays:
November 17, 2022 at 8:26 am
Martin Armstrong will be remembered by history as a joke.

Whereas, you will never be remembered………………………………….lol

Cassie of Sydney
November 17, 2022 8:32 am

And Zelensky’s family, on his father’s side, were ALL murdered by Hitler. It was called the Holocaust. Remember? Spare me both the false and offensive equivalence.

bons
bons
November 17, 2022 8:32 am

Was it Credlin who commented the other day that while Andrews apparently dumped Belt and Road, it was only the name that disappeared?
The suggestion was that Chunk corporations and institutions are still favoured.
I don’t know the truth, but it seems to be plausible given that the creature views Chinese Communism as the new ‘light on the hill’.

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2022 8:34 am

“He Will Be Remembered by History like Hitler”

Ridiculous. Zelensky has his faults but to compare him to Hitler? No. I’m very tired of these “Hitler” comparisons.

It seems to be his personal ambition.

Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 8:35 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
November 17, 2022 at 8:32 am
And Zelensky’s family, on his father’s side, were ALL murdered by Hitler. It was called the Holocaust. Remember? Spare me both the false and offensive equivalence.

So tell Martin Armstrong that then. No good just saying it on a Goldfish Bowl Blog……………………

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2022 8:37 am
Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 8:41 am

A missionary gets sent into deepest darkest Africa and goes to live with a tribe therein. He spends years with the people, teaching them to read, write and the good Christian ways of the white man. One thing he particularly stresses is the evils of sexual sin. Thou must not commit adultery or fornication!!

One day the wife of one of the Tribe’s noblemen gives birth to a white child. The village is shocked and the chief is sent by his people to talk with the missionary.

“You have taught us of the evils of sexual sin, yet here a black woman gives birth to a white child. You are the only white man that has ever set foot in our village. It doesn’t take a genius to work out what has been going on!”

The missionary replies “No, no, my good man. You are mistaken. What you have here is a natural occurrence – what is called an albino. Look to thy yonder field. See a field of white sheep, and yet amongst them is one black one. Nature does this on occasion”.

The chief pauses for a moment then says “Tell you what, you don’t say anything about the sheep, I won’t say anything about the white kid?”

Zipster
Zipster
November 17, 2022 8:41 am
Johnny Rotten
November 17, 2022 8:42 am

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

– Marilyn Monroe

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 17, 2022 8:47 am

How is everyone’s whiteness infiltrated appetite this morning?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 17, 2022 8:55 am

Pig Iron Bob
Iron Ore Albo

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 17, 2022 8:59 am

Justine Castreau gets spanked.
Remembers he has important business elsewhere.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 17, 2022 9:04 am

Zelenskyy will be remembered in history as like Che Guevara.
ie, worshipped by the feeble, to the bafflement of the righteous, who knew the plain truth that he was a vicious crook.

mem
mem
November 17, 2022 9:08 am

lotocotisays:
November 17, 2022 at 8:47 am

How is everyone’s whiteness infiltrated appetite this morning?

Is this gobbledygook for real? From the abstract:
“Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has-a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse.”

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 17, 2022 9:10 am

Cassie

Zelensky is no Hitler, but he is starting to make Mussolini look reasonable.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
November 17, 2022 9:11 am

Bwahahahahjah………………..China plays the west for suckers!

“We need an energy transition that’s high-quality and secure so it can be sustained,” said Li Zheng, a climate change and energy professor at Tsinghua University. “We don’t want to be like Europe and transform at the cost of energy security. They are now declaring that they are taking a step back in order to take two steps forward later.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-15/china-climate-advisers-say-more-coal-needed-for-energy-security?mc_cid=72c8bf23a3&mc_eid=30fe4a4429&leadSource=uverify%20wall

m0nty
m0nty
November 17, 2022 9:16 am

Mmyes, argument by authority and the authority is a joker who spent the best part of a decade in gaol over securities fraud.

Johnny, be good.

Roger
Roger
November 17, 2022 9:18 am

Yes, Andrews is awful but he built a lot of roads.

So did Hitler.

(Since this blog is apparently a Godwin’s Law free zone I thought I’d take advantage.)

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
November 17, 2022 9:22 am

Chuck Grassley just got re-elected to the US Senate and he is 89 years old! FMD. He will be 95 when his term expires.

Roger
Roger
November 17, 2022 9:25 am

The footage of Trudeau being sent to the naughty corner by Xi is priceless.

Also, note that the underlings have to wear masks while the leaders do not.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 17, 2022 9:26 am

Building roads.
Andrews built roads in or near Melbourne not the bush. We’re third world in quality.
On a trip to India I noticed that the big new toll roads that connect the cities are cement. I don’t know how long they’ll last but they were very good.

Vicki
Vicki
November 17, 2022 9:28 am

After returning to Sydney for an absurd series of necessary celebrations of grandson’s 20th, two friends’ 70th & 90th birthdays, I finally contracted Covid. Seems to have been via the 70th celebration of about 90 guests at the NSW Art Gallery.

Husband did not come down with it – predictably, as he had it almost a year ago (again, contracted via a large group of people in confined space) & no doubt has natural immunity as a result.

All of friends who similarly contracted it at the function are rushing off to secure the anti-viral Paxlovid. Think I will give it a miss, as it has been responsible for some adverse effects. In any case, I am taking Quercetin and all the other recommended supplements, and Aspirin. Could get some Ivermectin tablets from friends but will probably just rely on what I have, given that I am reasonably well on Day 3.

So far, friends have not accused me of being the source of the scourge, although some have confirmed with me that I am still unvaccinated. The culprit spreader seems to be a recently returned traveller from OS – or so they all seem to think.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 17, 2022 9:28 am

Dad won’t be happy with that Tweet.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 17, 2022 9:29 am

Pithier than an old school Red Army
For The Workers Of The Number 27 Grain Elevator.

Cassie of Sydney
November 17, 2022 9:30 am

“Boambee Johnsays:
November 17, 2022 at 9:10 am
Cassie

Zelensky is no Hitler, but he is starting to make Mussolini look reasonable.”

A more appropriate analogy. Believe me, I’m no apologist for Zelensky, he’s just a pawn, a puppet and a clown.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 17, 2022 9:33 am

Zelensky is no Hitler

You all have it all wrong, he’s worse even than Hitler. Worse than Stalin. He makes Pol Pot look like a pussy, and Osama bin Laden an amateur!

The Return of Satan (12 Nov, via Lucianne)

The devil is in the news again, at least on Russian TV. Time after time, big names on state television have portrayed the current war in Ukraine not only as a struggle between Moscow and Kyiv; nor even Russia versus NATO, but as an actual contest between good and evil, with the celestial forces on the one hand and Satan on the other.

Seems to be a bit of inflation affecting hyperbowl lately. At least they’ve hit a natural limit since “worse than Satan” is probably impossible to make stick.

I find it all fairly hilarious since it’s bleeding obvious that Z is just a spruiker: he spends all his time trying to wheedle money and hardware out of anyone and everyone. Plus acting for the cameras of the MSM. He’s just a frontman, probably for the UGS and Zaluzhnyi. He’s no more his own man than Biden is, they do similar jobs for their respective swamps.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 17, 2022 9:35 am

Could Albo be Xi’s love child?
Or the mother of his love child?

Rabz
November 17, 2022 9:43 am

Didn’t he stop a road from being built?

Yes, yes, he did – for the mere cost of $1.2 billion in OPM.

I listened* to a fair bit of Crudlin’s special last night on that grotesque deformed jug eared imbecile and it strikes me that he’s simply a template for the latest batch of disgusting political goat pleasurers we’re increasingly having foisted on us. That is, they are:
embarrassing unrepentant mediocrities
hideously ugly both inside and out
unrepentant hypocrites
singularly vile individuals in person
arrogant sociopathic narcissists
bereft of ever having performed an honest day’s work in their existences
incapable of achieving a single thing of worth in their existences
obsequious fundament tonguers if a situation demands it (e.g. grovelling to dictators)
corrupt
dishonest
cynical
beholden to idiotic fact and evidence free anti-scientific horse manure
possessed of dictatorial tendencies that are no longer even barely disguised
completely disconnected from the concerns of their constituents
unrepentant quislings

These evil idiotic clowns can’t create anything – they can only destroy. Consequently our political system is now so dysfunctional that all it does is produce these preposterous z-grade monsters en masse.

Talk about disillusioning.

*Can’t stand the sight of the stupid arrogant f*ckwit, it’s not good for my blood pressure (or the TV)

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 17, 2022 9:45 am

You serious?

Martin Armstrong is…………………………..

But…are you? Do you believe it?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 17, 2022 9:49 am

The 2022 elections: a compendium

I’ve waited to comment on last week’s midterm elections until the situation became clearer. The fact that we still don’t know which party will control either the House or the Senate is the clearest possible evidence of at least gross inefficiency, if not actual malice, in the vote counting process. Most informed observers who aren’t on the payroll, directly or indirectly, of the Deep State tend towards the “actual malice” side of the equation.

Here’s a selection of their views. All are insightful. All are important.

The question is, what are you and I going to do about it?

– First, Kevin at The Smallest Minority comes up with one of his classic posts. He titles it simply “Democracy”. It’s worth reading the whole thing.

It’s not “radical Authoritarians” on the Left and Right, it’s Joe and Jane Average who have discovered that the government doesn’t serve them, it services them in the animal husbandry meaning. That “sharp rise in income and wealth inequality” is primarily due to government regulations picking winners and losers. And the votes of Joe and Jane Average obviously don’t mean sh!t for the most part.

No s***, Sherlock!

– Sarah Hoyt puts her own inimitable spin on things.

Quite so.

– James Kunstler points out that information has become a key weapon, including both the suppression of accurate information and the spreading of disinformation.

– Divemedic says simply that “This smells”. I couldn’t agree more.

Then the Democrat wins. In every state with mail in voting where ballot counting is delayed, the Democrats pull out amazing wins that defy history, polling, and statistical analysis.

There are anomalies like missing camera footage, ballots being delivered in the middle of the night, election observers denied access. People notice and comment on this.

Then the Democrats demand concrete evidence, knowing that it will never be found because they made sure there were no witnesses.

I daresay he’s right.

– On the subject of smells, Aesop notes: “Deja Poo”.

– The acerbic Wayne Root states bluntly, “You’ve Been Gaslighted – Democrats Just Stole Another Election”.

– Solomon, writing at SNAFU, complains: “Sorry I don’t trust our elections….DAYS to count after the day? Convenient results for the party in power? DON’T TRUST IT AT ALL!” He concludes:

Here are a few more links that are worth following:

. The Big Club Is Openly Reassembling
. Why Vote-By-Mail Is The End Of The Republic
, So, Where to Now?
. Doug Mastriano: A Case Study in Not Building a Coalition

All are recommended reading.

As for me? I predicted this before the election, remember? We didn’t have some sort of major crisis to disrupt the elections, but I have no doubt whatsoever that 2020’s electoral fraud was perpetuated in 2022 on an even larger scale.

What next? I’m still thinking about that, and I’ll have more to say shortly. However, if there are any for-real Henry Bowmans out there, I fear greatly that their time may be drawing near . . . because nothing short of that is likely to work any longer. I don’t want that – nobody in his right mind wants that! – but it may now be unavoidable.

Miltonf
Miltonf
November 17, 2022 9:51 am

Great analysis Rabz and these psychopaths, narcissists and grifters are cosseted by ‘universities’ across the country

WolfmanOz
November 17, 2022 9:51 am

Brilliant article in Quadrant today by Paul Collits:

Emoting Our Way to Public Policy

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/11/emoting-our-way-to-public-policy/

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 17, 2022 9:51 am

Rabz

You understate your case, to its detriment.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
November 17, 2022 9:54 am

Longest Liberty Quote evah, squire

Davey Boy
Davey Boy
November 17, 2022 9:55 am

the fix is always in

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 17, 2022 9:56 am

Old Ozzie’s comment reminds me.

At what point will m0nty-fa comment on the blatant DemonRat suppression of GOP votes in Arizona (Maricopa County). He gets verrry excited at the faintest suggestion of voter suppression in places like Georgia, but has no interest in actual voter suppression in Arizona.

Could it be that he is excited by the side, not the principle? Is m0nty-fa a hypocrite?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 17, 2022 9:58 am
cohenite
November 17, 2022 9:58 am

Rabzsays:
November 17, 2022 at 9:43 am
Didn’t he stop a road from being built?

Yes, yes, he did – for the mere cost of $1.2 billion in OPM.

I listened* to a fair bit of Crudlin’s special last night on that grotesque deformed jug eared imbecile and it strikes me that he’s simply a template for the latest batch of disgusting political goat pleasurers we’re increasingly having foisted on us. That is, they are:

Don’t hold back mate!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 17, 2022 9:59 am

Farmer Gezsays:
November 17, 2022 at 7:40 am
ABC Vic news reports that sniffer dogs are to be used to locate the rare and endangered Bogong frog.
The ABC is still unable to detect the stench of the TaliDan regime.
– Belt & Road
– Billion dollar no road
– Red shirts
– Lawyer X
– Pell
– CFA/UFU union takeover
– Quarantine hotels
– Lockdown
– Ambulances
– Ramping
– Junkie injection rooms
– Street prostitution
– Ministers resigning
– Media manipulation
– Slug gate
– Massive debt blowout
– More staff than the PM
– “I don’t recall”

This is only a short list, it is virtually the same in every state. Corrupt, malevolent, incompetent and not one idea how to make the place better. Thankyou stupid voters of Australia. The Mafia and Bikies have more scruples than Politicians. The Stupid Voter hasn’t figured that out yet and not likely to. I can only hope they hurt a lot. Until they feel real pain the same outcome is assured.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 17, 2022 10:01 am

Yes, Andrews is awful but he built a lot of roads.

So did Hitler.

But he has not got the trains running on time, so he is no Mussolini.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
November 17, 2022 10:02 am

It’s all just symbolism –
Sean Penn gives Zelensky his Oscar “You’re a great actor”
US flags blow down behind Fetterman as he tells a lie Really? The gust of wind at the perfect moment? What are the chances? It’s just symbolic.
These are green screens as part of the movie.
The blind leading the blind

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 17, 2022 10:03 am

I can sum up Talidan in 3 words.
F E C.

Clue: the second word is “evil”

calli
calli
November 17, 2022 10:03 am

He Will Be Remembered by History like Hitler

That would depend upon who writes the history, wouldn’t it?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 17, 2022 10:05 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
November 17, 2022 10:05 am

This is only a short list, it is virtually the same in every state.

Nah. It’s Victoriastan then daylight. Pony Girl is starting to get a bit whiffy.

calli
calli
November 17, 2022 10:07 am

“Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has-a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse.”

How is this not as offensive and cruel as the “diseased, greedy Jew” and the “lascivious, stupid Black” garbage spruiked by bigots and racists from time immemorial?

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 17, 2022 10:07 am

Archaeologists sifting through the radioactive rubble of what was once Dannograd will trip across a server drive containing today’s open thread and will conclude that Z was worse than satan.

Roger
Roger
November 17, 2022 10:08 am

Great analysis Rabz and these psychopaths, narcissists and grifters are cosseted by ‘universities’ across the country

Worse…they’re cosseted by political parties.

How many PMs since 1983 have had normal personalities (i.e. not tending towards what in the literature is called “borderline personality disorder”)?

Without naming them, I’d say two.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 17, 2022 10:08 am

But not as bad as Talidan.

rosie
rosie
November 17, 2022 10:10 am

I know that but my aged relative didn’t. It doesn’t seem to we well publicised or even mentioned by the non-existent opposition.

Really? When it was a major election issue four years ago and was headlined almost daily?
What roads did Dassolini actually build, the new one going under the westgate that’s not finished?
All the make work bike paths to nowhere, footpath and minor works keeping the Cmfeu happy during lockdown?
Dan isn’t going to build roads because that’s a sop to road users,trillion dollar railways are where it’s at.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 17, 2022 10:10 am

Well done NASA on the Artemis launch.

We visited the development centre in Houston a few years ago. Longer, wider, and faster than the Saturn V, Artemis is the rocket that will take Mankind to Mars.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 17, 2022 10:12 am

Dan – torturer of grannies and pregnant women.

Winston Smith
November 17, 2022 10:13 am

Lysander:

Vicki – my trigs and non-HDL (and others) were way off the charts. There were more reds than the Barossa Valley….

I took some bloods for a rather large gent somewhere out bush one day. Triglycerides needed to be centrifuged before packing in ice and sent for pathology.
Taking the tubes out of the centrifuge, one of them had settled out.
1/3rd of the stuff on the bottom were red blood cells, the next 1/3 were clear plasma, the top 1/3 was a clear/pale/whitish substance. Having never seen anything like this before, I asked the doc “WTF?”
“Fat” sez Buzz. “He ain’t well.”
I had a close look and sure enough, it was fat about the consistency of heavy weight oil. (Different colour but.) Considering the blood sample was randomly taken from his entire blood supply, his heart was pumping around just slightly less than 2 liters of engine oil + the rest.

rosie
rosie
November 17, 2022 10:14 am

Migrant to white majority country, proceed to scream racism colonialism at top of lungs.
It’s envy.

Cassie of Sydney
November 17, 2022 10:14 am

“Dan – torturer of grannies and pregnant women.”

And innocent Catholic prelates.

calli
calli
November 17, 2022 10:14 am

Dan – torturer of grannies and pregnant women.

And steps.

rosie
rosie
November 17, 2022 10:18 am

And press conferences.

Indolent
Indolent
November 17, 2022 10:19 am

He’s no more his own man than Biden is, they do similar jobs for their respective swamps.

And his job seems to be to start WW111 by dragging NATO directly into the war.

The devil is in the news again, at least on Russian TV. Time after time, big names on state television have portrayed the current war in Ukraine not only as a struggle between Moscow and Kyiv; nor even Russia versus NATO, but as an actual contest between good and evil, with the celestial forces on the one hand and Satan on the other.

I don’t know about Satan, but the whole world at this point appears to be a struggle between good and evil, with evil holding all the cards. We are meant to be Great Reset into oblivion.

Roger
Roger
November 17, 2022 10:19 am

How is this not as offensive and cruel as the “diseased, greedy Jew” and the “lascivious, stupid Black” garbage spruiked by bigots and racists from time immemorial?

At first I thought someone must be having a lend, Titania McGrath style.

But no, this Donald Moss fellow exists.

I see he’s caught a lot of flack for it, though.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 17, 2022 10:20 am

NATO Backtracks, Now Admits It Was Not Russia Who Fired Missile into Poland – It Was Ukraine, But Still Putin’s Fault

November 16, 2022 – Sundance

This is a great example of two dangerous dynamics. First, the intellectual dishonesty that is needed to believe that Russia would attack Poland. Second, the insufferable immediate response from U.S. and international media stenographers lusting for war, and the danger they represent.

After the media initially proclaimed a “pentagon spokesperson” reported that Russia fired two missiles into Poland, and then ran with that narrative with such ferocity that Polish President Duda requested an article-4 convention in preparation for a NATO war,… 24 hours later the NATO alliance says ‘whoops‘ it wasn’t a Russian missile, it was a Ukraine missile that landed in Poland.

(Politico) NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg chaired an emergency meeting of alliance ambassadors on Wednesday in Brussels to discuss the incident.

After the session, he said information so far suggests the missile that landed in Poland came from Ukrainian air defenses fighting off a massive Russian attack on Tuesday that saw the country pummelled by dozens of missiles that caused blackouts across Ukraine.

“We have no indication that this was the result of a deliberate attack,” he said. “And we have no indication that Russia is preparing offensive military actions against NATO. Our preliminary analysis suggests that the incident was likely caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile fired to defend Ukrainian territory against Russian cruise missile attacks.”

Duda said the explosion that killed two people in the village of Przewodów, about six kilometers from the Ukrainian border, was likely caused by the missile’s propellant, saying it was probably an S-300 anti-aircraft rocket produced in Soviet times.

“There is also no evidence that it was fired by the Russian side,” he said, calling it “an unfortunate incident.”

Earlier, U.S. President Joe Biden said it was “unlikely in the lines of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia, but we’ll see.” (read more)

Now let’s get beyond the nonsense and talk about the reality of the situation.

We all know the U.S. State Department, not Ukraine or Zelenskyy, is in control of ground military operations in Ukraine. As a result of that reality, the intellectually honest observer admits to themselves the CIA is therefore the tip of the spear in the country.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today stomping his little feet and saying no, no way it was Ukraine, only highlights the reality of World War Reddit, where Zelenskyy is nothing more than a casual front man -in Hollywood garb- for the CIA/DoS mission. Puppet Zelenskyy has no idea who, what, where and why strategic U.S. military forces and contractors are operating in his country. Zelenskyy’s Ukraine function is to be the Bob Geldorf face in the Ukraine funding and money laundering operation. Nothing more.

So, we have a Ukraine missile fired now supposedly fired “errantly” in a westward direction into Poland, while trying to intercept a Russian missile fired from the east. Um, well, yeah, that sounds like, :::cough::: bullshit :::cough::: but so be it. As the kids say, “whatevs.”

CIA Director Bill Burns also just happened to be in Ukraine at the time of the “errant” missile firing.

What timing…. And all of this comes on the heels of increased public awareness that the FTX cryptocurrency exchange was coordinating the movement of laundering of U.S. taxpayer funds from Ukraine into DC pockets via campaign contributions. Wow, more coincidences.

calli
calli
November 17, 2022 10:30 am

Yes, Roger. I checked for signs of McGrathianism and Babylonian Bees.

Ratbags gotta ratbag.

Winston Smith
November 17, 2022 10:30 am

Eyrie/Duk:

Duk, the pigs lost the evidence, huh? Seen that game played before. Saw a rape trial once where the pigs “lost” the original transcript of the complaint but the pig concerned swore that what she provided to the court later was word for word.

Does anything/will anything happen in these instances when obviously funny shit is going on behind the closed doors?

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