I always thought Mark Steyn was the best, but when he has David Starkey on, Steyn takes the back seat. Just brilliant, he should run for the premiership

Steve Kirsch – A lot has happened since my last Substack article

Most weeks I see at least one arrest of a similar nature to the Danny Lim arrest (sans the part where he ends up in hospital).

He broke rule #1
When the cops turn up, be still, put your hands in the air (so to speak) & do as the officers direct you.

Most people subject to similar arrests fall loosely into one of four categories;
1) recidivist street hoodlum & troublemaker
2) muttering homeless or other weirdo (this is Mr. Danny Lim)
3) middle class airhead – usually female – with too many vodka cruisers on board & an attitude
4) career criminal or former jailbird.

Career criminals or former jailbirds are like pet dogs. When the cops turn up they do exactly as the officers tell them & don’t say a word out of line, or make a sudden move. They silently accept the cuffs & step into the paddy wagon.

Middle class airheads. Never having been in a confrontation with police, nor probably with anybody in their lives, they think everything is a screaming match. They believe the cops grabbing them to put ’em in the wagon is “assault” & they start screaming, in the belief the cops will back off. They’re easily subdued, usually by the cops saying “If you persist with not doing as instructed, I have capsicum spray & will use it”

Recidivist street hoodlums. These struggle & make it hard for the cops, to “give them more paperwork”. They end up taken down hard, & certainly end up with the cuffs on really really tight, in a chokehold or some other uncomfortable hold, & get bounced off the pavement a couple of times (sorta like Danny Lim got). Then they’re thrown into the paddy wagon like a bag of feed & they hit the opposite wall so hard the wagon rocks on its suspension.

Muttering nutters like Danny Lim: They’re the most difficult, as they’re often not the full quid, making it near impossible to reason with them, & are so physically frail it is difficult to collar them without hurting them, especially as they’re so physically uncoordinated they’re likely to trip you or themselves up & if they’re grabbed as you’d grab a normal person there’s a risk of breaking bones.

That’s what happens at my front door anyway.

Every time I hear about another leftist atrocity I watch this which sums up both how the left work and how to deal with them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k5iu98W-WE

Muttering nutters like Danny Lim: They’re the most difficult, as they’re often not the full quid, making it near impossible to reason with them, & are so physically frail it is difficult to collar them without hurting them, especially as they’re so physically uncoordinated they’re likely to trip you or themselves up & if they’re grabbed as you’d grab a normal person there’s a risk of breaking bones.

FMD did you read that before posting it? Makes you look like Monty, totally stupid comment. When you trip and face plant a 78 year old YOU WILL BREAK BONES. It will also not help if most of the weight of two plod are driving you into the ground.
Any person who tries to justify that police action is an arsehole and deserves to be treated in the same fashion.

Big Nambas. I’m not justifying it. Nor am I crucifying it.
I’m just stating facts.

Yep, had Mr. Lim’s adornments all been “Fukk Bill Shorten” & “Albo is a ‘C’-word” the luvvies would be exhibiting a diametrically opposite view of his treatment & injuries.

And a German work colleague gave me more info on his power bill. Has gone up 300% this year. It used to be $250 Euros per month. Now its 750 Euros per month. Gas is worse at 400% increase.
They are getting green socialist policies good and proper and they dont like it up em sir!

Bwa hahahaha. Dan voted early in Mulgrave. Says he will be busy on Saturday.
Two observations: 1. Scared to be out in public with voters. 2. Busy shredding and burning documents i suspect.

Task 1 accomplished make the fucker sweat they he may not get back in.

Task 2. Get ABBA voted in. Anyone But Bloody Andrews.

Task 3. Get Liberal candidate in. Mission abandoned due to appalling policies and leadership. Refer Task 2.

He’s currently got the flying roo on the donor list for the Aboriginal House Of Lords.

That’s a double Scotch and a new keyboard you owe me.

might not be on your set list Zulu, but it’s a favourite

My compliments on your taste in good single malt – always remember that good Scotch is an after dinner drink, to be consumed by gentlemen. “Sliante!”

Waffles, don’t be an oppositional fuckwit because you feel you need to oppose what I say… because I mock you.

1./ I didn’t say Joyce is the best CEO in the world. I was very specific in saying I thought he was the best airline CEO in the world.

2./ Qantas has a great net operating margin, which suggest it’s efficiently operated. That’s why it’s in the top to airline operations in the world.

Have you cleaned the toilets?

And the always faithful and reliable , Fair Land, which the WSj has been running every year on Thanksgiving since the early 60s.

And you know what, it’s also Australia’s story too – we’re just a little smaller.

And the Fair Land
For all our social discord we remain the longest enduring society of free men governing themselves without benefit of kings or dictators.

Any one whose labors take him into the far reaches of the country, as ours lately have done, is bound to mark how the years have made the land grow fruitful.

This is indeed a big country, a rich country, in a way no array of figures can measure and so in a way past belief of those who have not seen it. Even those who journey through its Northeastern complex, into the Southern lands, across the central plains and to its Western slopes can only glimpse a measure of the bounty of America.

And a traveler cannot but be struck on his journey by the thought that this country, one day, can be even greater. America, though many know it not, is one of the great underdeveloped countries of the world; what it reaches for exceeds by far what it has grasped.

So the visitor returns thankful for much of what he has seen, and, in spite of everything, an optimist about what his country might be. Yet the visitor, if he is to make an honest report, must also note the air of unease that hangs everywhere.

For the traveler, as travelers have been always, is as much questioned as questioning. And for all the abundance he sees, he finds the questions put to him ask where men may repair for succor from the troubles that beset them.

His countrymen cannot forget the savage face of war. Too often they have been asked to fight in strange and distant places, for no clear purpose they could see and for no accomplishment they can measure. Their spirits are not quieted by the thought that the good and pleasant bounty that surrounds them can be destroyed in an instant by a single bomb. Yet they find no escape, for their survival and comfort now depend on unpredictable strangers in far-off corners of the globe.

How can they turn from melancholy when at home they see young arrayed against old, black against white, neighbor against neighbor, so that they stand in peril of social discord. Or not despair when they see that the cities and countryside are in need of repair, yet find themselves threatened by scarcities of the resources that sustain their way of life. Or when, in the face of these challenges, they turn for leadership to men in high places—only to find those men as frail as any others.

So sometimes the traveler is asked whence will come their succor. What is to preserve their abundance, or even their civility? How can they pass on to their children a nation as strong and free as the one they inherited from their forefathers? How is their country to endure these cruel storms that beset it from without and from within?

Of course the stranger cannot quiet their spirits. For it is true that everywhere men turn their eyes today much of the world has a truly wild and savage hue. No man, if he be truthful, can say that the specter of war is banished. Nor can he say that when men or communities are put upon their own resources they are sure of solace; nor be sure that men of diverse kinds and diverse views can live peaceably together in a time of troubles.

But we can all remind ourselves that the richness of this country was not born in the resources of the earth, though they be plentiful, but in the men that took its measure. For that reminder is everywhere—in the cities, towns, farms, roads, factories, homes, hospitals, schools that spread everywhere over that wilderness.

We can remind ourselves that for all our social discord we yet remain the longest enduring society of free men governing themselves without benefit of kings or dictators. Being so, we are the marvel and the mystery of the world, for that enduring liberty is no less a blessing than the abundance of the earth.

And we might remind ourselves also, that if those men setting out from Delftshaven had been daunted by the troubles they saw around them, then we could not this autumn be thankful for a fair land.

Please BoN could you show us the organisational chart that links the Caritas sackings with Cardinal Pell.

No evidence emerged of financial mismanagement

Caritas Australia not impacted by Internationalis leadership spill

My recollection is Tyler Durden was one of those baying for Cardinal Pell’s blood.
Zero hedge wants money to access their archive so I’m not able to confirm.

Lenny Henry wades in on John Cleese cancel culture debate as he calls for ‘accountability’

I’m hoping the pet rail loop is the final nail in the Andrews coffin.
The Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been blasted over $11.9 billion in election promises the Liberals claim does not include a “single cent” for his “pet” $125 billion suburban rail loop and only allocates $20 million for the billion-dollar plan to bring back the State Electricity Commission.

Barely newsworthy but then
Zero hedge is a rag and Durden an anti Catholic bigot.

I guess you already knew that.

interesting article at crisis

Secret CDC Report reveals at least 1.1 Million Americans have ‘Died Suddenly’ since the COVID Vaccine roll-out & another Government Report proves the COVID Vaccines are to blame

2022.11.24 What It’s Like When The Lights Go Out In A Warzone

Trump-Backed Candidate In California Wins, Increasing Republican House Majority

Elon Blows Apart Liberal Myth on Ferguson, Makes It Even Better With Big Vow for Twitter

“F*ck the Jab and F*ck You All for Wanting Me to Get It!” – Ice Cube Turned Down $9 Million to Star in Sony Movie Over Forced Jab

Indolent @7:46, if Fauci doesn’t remember anything they could ask Mike Pence to whom he was reporting. Pence is much younger and ought to be able to remember. There, problem solved.

What I found extraordinary is that if COVID-19 was such an existential crisis why wasn’t a sharp intellect appointed to handle it. Instead the whole thing was handed over to a power hungry geriatric who mismanaged the AIDS epidemic when he was much younger and supposedly more able.

By retaining Fauci in the leadership role tells me that the establishment always knew COVID-19 was not a new plague and it didn’t matter who was in charge. We have been had, on a grand scale.

Was this on the news?

ew World Odor™
@hugh_mankind

Health Minister Mark Butler said the Australian Advisory Group had recommended against a 5th dose (3rd booster) based on international & local evidence.

…the Premier himself wasn’t willing to front up to his constituency voters, dropping his own ballot off early in a different electorate in the city instead – saying he was ‘busy’ on Saturday.

Hopefully writing his concession speech.

Lenny Henry wades in on John Cleese cancel culture debate as he calls for ‘accountability’

Accountability to whom? And no waving details away with a nebulous ‘accountable to society’ unless you can describe the mechanism whereby all of society demands accountability.

It is in fact something among a few shrill voices on social media and activist organisations that have adopted a strategy of overrepresenting themselves in social media.

And the accountability consists of justifying for thinking in a way other than they demand.

And it is not even a matter of justification – there is no justification. If you disagree you are bad.

And neither is it really accountability. It is punishment. It is terrorising business with the mirage that they will fail if they do not cancel someone.

Lenny Henry had the exquisite bad luck to sign up to the embarrassment known as ‘Rings of Power’. He will have spent the last six months explaining that the only reason the show failed was that the fans were toxic.

Think about that (h/t custard). They made a series thinking it was up to the audience to ignore their own thoughts and feelings and flock to see something they did not like simply because the people who made it liked it.

How is that for entitled?

“How dare you not like what we expect you to like!”

Which brings us back to…cancel culture.

Was this on the news?

Even the ABC.

I hope Ian Cook wins in Mulgrave, I truly do, but I don’t think he will. Or maybe I’m just too much of a pessimist.

What is life without hope, Cassie?

Pace Lenny Henry, cancel culture is not accountability.

Accountability means you get to defend yourself before disciplinary action is decided.

Cancel culture is mob justice.

Hopefully writing his concession speech.

It will be his last great thumbing his nose to Victorians. Once out he will have no further need to pretend to be a caring Premier solicitous always about their welfare. The mask can come off and he can revel in his deep-felt contempt.

In his speech will rattle off the litany of stupid, vindictive, self-serving, partisan, and wanton things he has done phrased as if they were great achievements – taunting Victorians to their very faces, smug in his awareness that there is nothing that can be done to him now.

A man without intellect or conscience. A very poisonous man indeed.

I hope Ian Cook wins in Mulgrave, I truly do, but I don’t think he will. Or maybe I’m just too much of a pessimist.

I don’t think he’ll come close either, Cassie. Sadly. Neither do I think the coalition will come close either. Andrews has Victoria boxed up completely.

I would be delighted to be proven wrong, though.

Also, Cleese is funnier than Lenny Henry. That’s all you need to know.

I’ve been reading Michael Palin’s diaries after being given them by a friend ($2 ea at Vinnies with the sticker left on). He seems to acknowledge that Cleese was the funniest of the Pythons and highly motivated by money yet still describes being picked up by him with his latest girlfriend in the Rolls. Palin still has his Mini I believe.

Andrews has Victoria boxed up completely.

We’ll see.

It could well get worse…minority government with Green & Teal support.

hunchback has brought flood, fire, plague and pestilence to the state.

Turns out the four horsemen of the apocalypse were actually just pulling the chariot that carries Dan.

It would be nice to see him turfed out tomorrow – and I am not even Victorian? But one mustn’t mistake the desirability of an outcome for its likelihood.

But I would think Ian Cook is giving the mutant a fright. And maybe the Libs can reflect that Cook has made more inroads on Andrews’ domain than they have even on the fringes of Labor.

Nigel Farage says ‘Tories deserve to be wiped out’ as migration hits record high