The Rector’s Garden – Queen of the Lilies, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1877
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https://x.com/search?q=Swans%20&src=typed_query Yep. Swans the food of Kings and migrants.
Thanks Zippy. Worth watching. It may all be a tissue of lies, but it hangs together chronologically. As far as…
Bruce, there is no evidence of NK troops putting a foot in Ukraine. If they are being blooded it is…
some guys will f*ck anything that moves
Wodger:
Similar in intent to Obama “reaching across the aisle” as he foments a black/white civil crisis.
Shout out to Roger (I think?) for commenting on Peter Ziehan’s book “The End of the World is Just the Beginning”
I ordered a copy and now about a third into it. Fascinating and prescient.
Rog, I’ll withdraw my comment about China. But, I will say that what they are facing I think means they are seriously running out of time viz Taiwan. Which is making them more desperate. The unraveling of Xi’s covid zero policies might be the canary in the coalmine. As we are inside the US orbit we may manage to scramble through. But it’s going to be very bumpy.
E?r I must being old not to have guessed before.
Thankfully not so mad to drink 4X.
Baggage handlers have to get the baggage moving very quickly or flights are delayed and passengers are naturally upset. QANTAS could get its contractor to hire more men.
Many travellers now have enormous, weighty luggage. Imagine how an impatient baggage handler hates them with a passion.
African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) (River blindness).
There’s well documented data that Ivermectin works as a prophylaxis for Covid. 28% lower mortality rate.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33795896/
Gez how are you looking with your crop? Coming back from Bendigo today, the harvest was on in earnest on those properties not affected by the floods. They look like getting a good harvest unless there is disease.
Neil Oliver – ‘…the Great Reset power grab…’
‘…we have been KO’d and we are in mid fall…’
It’s not as though her book will have much future..
Via David Thompson, deep research afoot
It isn’t just the giant luggage – a big bag with lots of gripping points and adequate straps is relatively easy to manipulate, even for an old girl like me.
It’s that weird, bulky, bulgy, floppy, handleless, bundled and glad wrapped garbage that defeats them and drives them insane. You see it oozing off luggage trolleys at airports worldwide. I’d want to punt it onto the tarmac and run over it too.
Bring back the Steamer Trunk, I say! 😀
Laff of the day ..!
Been near death’s door wiv “man-flu” since last Thursday and figured I may as well msg the kids that Daddy has been sick but not too worry .. since no one noticed I hadn’t been in touch …
Answer from my middle daughter, “Oh goodness, DAD I hope you had a COVID test” ..
Kidz, ya gotta luv ’em .. brightened my “pure-blood” day considerably .. LOL!
Initial observations of Perf.
There are ‘freeways’ with 70kph limits.
Everything is extremely orderly. Everyone does the speed limit or lower, stops at red lights ahead of time, and pedestrians are allowed to cross at intersections without the threat of being ground into the bitumen.
Only two derros sighted so far in the CBD. Both proud First Nationers.
Very high proportion of above average ladeeeee specimens – this, at least, has not changed.
Outstanding breakfast burger at somewhere or other. More to come.
I could travel in style with this one!
And:
Headline and first couple of pages in the WA paper devoted to ‘Covid Christmas Tsunami’.
Naturally.
When is the gummint gonna explain, in detail, why “knickerless” is entitled to any claim for compensation from the public purse? .. lotza innuendo in the media but NO reasons given why she is entitled to anything .. there was NO crime involved cos shirley the ACT DPP wouldn’t drop “criminal” charges just for “feelinz”.. would they?
Then there’ll be all the associated claims from her “co-wukkas” traumatized by the fact that she was/may have been turning up for “work” commando …LOL!
I’d be interested to know the reason for any pay out.
Who was at fault? (Contra Morrison and Albanese.)
I don’t think it’s in the remit of the security guards to protect staffers from their own stupidity.
Or will it just be based on the feelz?
Is there a statue of McGowan astride the Swan Dragger?
Sounds unnatural.
Crops are generally very good BB.
Lentils took a beating in the wet and now overcome with weeds because they provided little competition. Beans are similar but disease was the problem though our variety stood up better than most.
We’re hoping to test barley tomorrow. Mallee boys say the weights are well down and the canola has poor oil generally.
Field mould has lead to more segregations at the silos for canola.
Our wheat looks great but you can’t judge quality until you have a truck load to deliver.
Higgins should become a role model. To teach females not to get so drunk they have no idea what might happen to them.
If she getz the “big bucks” payout she might be a the role model for an increase in alcohol consumption, can’t remember nights’ outs’ & a commando fashion trend among female Canberra public servants …
I didn’t see one BB – but every second shopfront window and the paper have pictures of the bloke.
I half-expected the hotel room to have a portrait of him as well.
I haven’t been to Optus Stadium or the WACA yet. Will report back.
Baggage handlers are PAID to do a specific job!
Can’t do it properly …….then piss off and get another job!
Baggage deserves respect.
Roger, it will be along the lines of “failure to provide a safe workplace”.
shatterzzz says:
December 4, 2022 at 2:39 pm
I’m totally missing something here.
Why would she be entitled to any compensation?
And this is line with her earliest statements about imagining she was in the “safest place in Australia”. The ground was well prepared, watered and fertilised.
Anyone still thinking she was “used”? My belief is that the “using” was a mutual effort and none of those involved couldresist the current zeitgeist of “belieb all women”.
There was always the prospect of a payout at the end.
Qantas baggage handlers stood down after shock viral video
Baggage handlers who were filmed throwing, kicking and slamming luggage have been stood down after their boss condemned the behaviour.
Pablo Escobear?
Shatterzzz: Just getting over the some lung-busting lurgy. Worse, much worse, than COVID, which never left me with a pulled muscle from coughing so hard and so long.
Not being a Rob C it seems, others have the same query.
Still if she gets it I wouldn’t be surprised, what about B Lehrman tho?
I’ve had that thing, areff. You honestly think you’ve torn your diaphragm with coughing. It lurks in the overhead baggage compartment in planes and leaps out at random travellers.
Get better fast. Then you can tell us all about your gorgeous grandchild.
the ccp bioweapon drives your immune system towards more aggressive response to other virii
Better then expected, Gez.
Thanks, Calli, much improved today. Can now contemplate lighting up a Camel purchased for $7 a pack in Pennsylvania. Wasn’t aware the killjoy wowser SOBs in Canberra had limited arriving passengers to just two packs of 20s. Guess I’ll have to turn myself in tomorrow and engage in bout of self-criticism.
no but I’m on a mac
Robert Sewell says:
December 4, 2022 at 1:43 pm
Nothing to do with your Win OS, it’s all Youtube’s doing.
On some YT I can’t even increase the sound to an audible, for me, level. Deaf as a door-nail.
Stop the presses, Brittaneeeeeeeee the Knickerless speaks! So much for being “depressed”, she’s gotta feed her fans, it’s all “Look at moi, look at moi, look at moi”.
Brittany Higgins breaks silence after Bruce Lehrmann charges dropped
Brittany Higgins has declared Australia’s criminal justice system a “national shame”, after charges against the former Liberal staffer accused of her rape were dropped.
Speaking for the first time since it was announced a retrial would not go ahead because of the risk to Ms Higgins’ life, she hit out at the “asymmetrical” criminal justice system in comments that have received more than a thousand responses from politicians and prominent Australians.
Posted on Instagram on Sunday, the comments mirror an emotional speech she made after her final public court appearance in late October.
Ms Higgins alleged she was raped in then defence industry minister Linda Reynolds’ office by former colleague Bruce Lehrmann in the early hours of March 23, 2019.
Mr Lehrmann pleaded not guilty and denied any sexual intercourse took place.
“I chose to speak up. To speak up against rape. To speak up against injustice. To speak up and share my experiences with others,” Ms Higgins said in the lengthy statement.
“When I did speak up, I never fully understood our asymmetrical criminal justice system. But I do now.
“I was required to tell the truth under oath over a week on the witness stand and was cross-examined at length. He was afforded the choice of staying silent in court. Head down in a notebook, completely detached. He never faced on question in court about his story and the criminal charges.
Acknowledging her battle with mental health, Ms Higgins thanked mental healthcare workers who she said she “literally would not be here today” without.
Ms Higgins said it was “very obvious” who had been on trial and she didn’t blame the media for calling the case the “Higgins trial”.
“This is the reality of how complainants in sexual assault cases are treated. Their lives are torn apart, their families and friends called to the witness stand and the accused has the legal right to say absolutely nothing,” Ms Higgins said.
“The criminal justice system has long failed to deliver outcomes to victims of sexual assault. In the ACT during 2020, only 16 per cent of sexual offences reported to police resulted in a charge. And of that 16 per cent – only half of that number again resulted in a conviction.
“That is to our national shame. I want to thank the other women who came forward and shared their own experiences. I believe you. You were with me every day I walked into that courtroom.”
Mr Lehrmann and his legal team declined to respond to Ms Higgins’ statement.
Faaaaaaaaarrrrrrkkkkkkk, you want to know what’s the national shame here? It’s Higgins and her entourage. I want Lehmannn to take her to the cleaners.
By the way, Lehmann is broke, this from the Daily Telegraph today..
“Bruce Lehrmann, man accused of sexually assaulting Brittany Higgins, is ‘broke’
Bruce Lehrmann, who previously earned as much as $200,000, is “broke” and pondering paid TV interviews after the case was discontinued.
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann is “broke”, and was kicked off the dole during the trial because he was unable to meet Centrelink’s mutual obligation requirements while staying in Canberra.
Mr Lehrmann, who previously earned as much as $200,000 as a senior adviser when he was just 24, has been unemployed since the allegations broke in 2021.
He has however been “cutting wood” for a mate’s dad in Tasmania and searching for work and is now preparing to consider civil remedies in part to pay his legal bills.
His legal team at the trial, which included two barristers, was estimated to have cost $300,000.
But the barristers including Steve Whybrow and Katrina Musgrove worked pro bono, for free, to ensure he was legally represented.
Arthur Moses SC, the boyfriend of former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, was also advising behind the scenes.
His solicitors Kamy Saeedi Law, who coordinated his case, are now examining civil remedies to help cover some of those costs, including potentially issuing defamation concerns notices to social media giants Google, Facebook, Twitter and media outlets.
A number of media outlets have also approached him for TV interviews after the case was discontinued on Friday, based on concerns the ongoing trauma posed a mental health risk to the complainant Brittany Higgins.
But he has not made any decisions about paid interviews to date.
Mr Lehrmann had worked in Parliament House for six years before he lost his job for entering a ministerial office after hours.
He emphatically denied the sexual assault allegations and said that Ms Higgins going public with last year had “rocked” his world and he “was ready to go”.
“That week I wound up everything, I guessed my mum would be OK if she was going to get my super,” he told police.
In his police interview, the court was told, Mr Lehrmann said working at parliament was “mentally scarring”.
“I know there’s been a lot of discussion about the treatment of women but more broadly the culture was horrendous,” he said.
Mr Lehrmann and his legal team, who have criticised the DPP’s decision to charge him, have not commented publicly on the discontinued trial to date.”
One for your collection.
Zippy: I avoided the popular jabs and waited for novovax, which it turned out I no longer needed to enter the States. However, I did need to provide vax proof to transit through the Philippines, where lousy, rotten, incompetent, lying Philippine Airlines stranded me for three days due to cancelled flights. Fortunately, still had a jab ‘stiffcat (of dubious provenance) on my phone, which satisfied the officious bastards despite it attesting that I am 10 years younger than my passport and might have undergone gender transition.
Philippines remain 110% COVID nutty when there are better things they might address — grannies offering ‘young girl, mister’, for instance, at the rate of to per rat-infested block.
What sums up the Manila ordeal? Walking out the front door of the flash hotel on the first stranded morning to encounter two feral dogs rooting on the front step while a mangy cat played voyeur.
I don’t think it’s in the remit of the security guards to protect staffers from their own stupidity.
Uh huh.
Tell you what, let’s wait for the Civil Trial, and hear what their Evidence is.
If there is a Trial.
Vastly more likely that the Commonwealth will settle, plus an apology, rather than risk the wider Public find out what really went down that night
[and possibly on a few other nights as well]?
miscalibration or misinformation?
Donald Trump’s message on the fraudulent 2020 election
The poor meter reader in Queensland who was chewed to death by dogs, also has an unfortunate surname. Minion. RIP Kane Minion.
And no, I am NOT making fun of him.
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Bruce Lehrmann:
I’m the real victim here.
Those proposed TV interviews would have to be pretty Softball, given he declined to take the stand and defend his actions on the night.
Vastly more likely that the Commonwealth will settle, plus an apology, rather than risk the wider Public find out what really went down that night
[and possibly on a few other nights as well]?
Richard Cranium
You seem to be remarkably well informed about the alleged events. Were you hiding in the filing cabinet, with a camera pressed to a peephole?
Or are you just making things up (as usual)?
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
– Plato
He was probably somebody’s best…. PAL.
But how, precisely?
There are laws pertaining to such things.
Which ones were broken and by whom?
Not to mention that it was after work hours and it is contestable whether she had a right to be there.
Areff i’ve had a three week cough, feels like a drip feed at the bifurcation of the bronchea. Fatigueing for a day, annoying for a fortnight. But i well remember the “hundred day hack” which came through in the winter of ’17, so i’m not panicking. Still haven’t had the batflu as far as the RATs show, not that i trust those gewgaws. I’m sure that gov-pharma will issue some pre-primed positive editions in time to fill our christmastime with fear.
Re Higgins…. she’d be keen to score a win against the big bullying justice system, and she’d settle for $500k. But more important for Team Brinny is to have some court somewhere confirm, after all and at long last, that she is a victim.
Knuckle Dragger, if you head to the cricket, get a selfie with Mel McLaughlin. She’s looking rather fetching in the red
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I would hope that Ed’s next shag is very much above board. Flinging shit like a macaque monkey.
He would be begging the course of justice to proceed if ever he found himself in a similar situation.
Just a prick of a bloke Ed.
Knuckle Dragger at 2:43
Think it’s a gold coin donation for the cricket today. Better get a wriggle on though.
Roger, I’ve had this garbage tried on me over a workplace injury.
Her “injury” is documented mental distress resulting in hospitalisation. And that will be open ended.
It could go along the lines of access to “unsafe” read “unsurveilled” areas after hours where an attack could take place. It could be inadequate duty of care from the security guards who observed that she was compromised by drunkenness.
Or…it could be against the DPP itself for pursuing a case that they knew had no hope of winning, i.e. they bowed to political pressure to make it a show trial. Thus making her a victim twice.
On a settlement, not sure if a civil action brough against a government entity can be settled OOC. The amount would have to be disclosed.
The history of my cough. 867 pages.
He would be begging the course of justice to proceed if ever he found himself in a similar situation.
Well, y’know, if you get a sheila blind drunk, offer her a lift to her place in front of witnesses, then take her somewhere else and leave her there, you’re asking for trouble.
That’s exactly what Bruce Lehrmann did, it’s not in dispute.
Yet you, Black Ball, say:
Let’s cut him some slack, I mean, we don’t even like this sheila anyway, do we?
Plenty of workers comp cases to the effect that work does not stop when you knock off. Got to be off on “a frolic of one’s own” to get the employer off the hook. Should be arguable but could expect the Cth to squib it via the ACT DPP and town council AG.
Jesse Kelly
@JesseKellyDC
The efforts to keep Donald Trump from being elected, remove him once he was elected, and prevent him from being elected again have done more to damage this country than anything in American history.
Yes and no. What it most certainly did do was reveal the seething mass of corruption being swept under the carpet and the globalist agenda of those supposedly representing the American public. A bit of sanitising light can’t be all bad.
Crown Solicitor not the DPP. The DPP can exit Stage Left, which you feel was the overriding concern all along.
Point me to where I ever said that Ed. Go!
Groogles verballing people? For shame. What would Mother say?
not sure if a civil action brough against a government entity can be settled OOC
VicPol does it all the time. But then that’s VicPol
if you get a sheila blind drunk
He got to the pub at least an hour after she started chucking ’em down, and she’s on video skoling the last one.
He didn’t get her blind, she did.
There are a lot of questions unanswered by the Trial.
Here’s a few:
Higgins had organised Drinks after work, it started at 7 pm, by 9 pm Higgins was blotto, Lehrmann took her away in a cab, yet they didn’t arrive at PH reception until 1:20 am the next morning, Higgins had grass stains on her dress.
What happened during those 4 hours?
Lehrmann had shown up after hours at PH at least once before.
Was he alone on that occasion?
Bottom line:
Lehrmann has the perfect Right to remain silent, but you could see why Higgins might be a bit cranky, even if she is being manipulated by people with a murky agenda.
What’s the going rate for libel Ed?
Yet you, Black Ball, say:
Let’s cut him some slack, I mean, we don’t even like this sheila anyway, do we?
Today has been the most glorious day here in Sydney. Gorgeous blue sky, warm and sunny, slight breeze, earlier this afternoon I met my nephew and his wife at a local pub, which had its windows wide open and you could see the blue sky. I sipped a glass of very cold sav blanc, whilst my nephew watched the cricket and I discussed clothes and make up with his wife.
Today was the kind of weather I remember from my childhood, when we’d spend whole afternoons on Bronte Beach in the East and Shelley beach down in the Shire. Walking to my Pilates class late this morning, I felt strong pangs of nostalgia for the Australia of old, remembering glorious long summer days in the Shire where the extended family would gather on a Saturday for lunch, I’d sit and listen to the adults talk and argue about politics, history and various other things, and watch my elderly aunts squabble over who makes the best cup of tea and the best sponge cake. I recall my grandfather always leaving the table to go and potter in the garden, because his two son’s politics would annoy him. He was a gentle man who loved his wife, his children, his grandchildren and his country, he had two heroes, one was John Monash and the other was Captain James Cook. Everyday of the year he would walk down to Cronulla Beach for a swim with his kelpie. I remember we’d drive down to the Shire and as the car crossed the Captain Cook bridge, you would smell the Shire, it was a smell of eucalyptus and it hit you as you crossed the bridge, and then you would smell that distinct Australian aroma produced by backyard incinerators, people like my grandfather burnt everything in them. That smell has disappeared, incinerators are now banned. I miss that smell. There’s nothing like nostalgia and longing for the past, it’s a way for us to time travel, we can never go back but we can remember. And today I indulged in nostalgia for a different Australia, and you know what, it was a much nicer and better Australia.
Higgins had grass stains on her dress.
Forensic evidence?
Point me to where I ever said that Ed. Go!
Hey, dickhead, and I do mean, dickhead:
You try to instigate a Pile On, then blame me when only a coupla geriatrics turn up.
Basically, you’re a Blow In, with nothing to say.
Either, Fuck Off, or head to the Duelling Thread.
What’s the going rate for libel Ed?
Duelling Thread, DickHead.
Just been posting photos of Australian COVID lockdown protests on WeChat. Let’s see what happens!
Photos still up, getting love hearts!
I don’t think most Chinese give a fuck anymore!
Hey Ed, go get fucked.
Put up or shut up. Point me to where I ever uttered these words. And also evidence of grass stains on her symbolic white dress.
Go!
the virus itself does this. aside from smashing the immune system it drives it towards a more aggressive response to other virii
Behold the wrath of Ed October.
Upset about people asking for evidence of his assertions since 1960.
The memory of my one of my aunt’s was her cleaning her gun at the breakfast table. She was 4ft nothing.
There’s nothing like nostalgia and longing for the past, it’s a way for us to time travel, we can never go back but we can remember. And today I indulged in nostalgia for a different Australia, and you know what, it was a much nicer and better Australia.
Amen Cassie. Today as we drove back to the farm, we were discussing this very thing. The Australia of our youth has disappeared and won’t ever return. Too much has altered its fabric. Waves of immigrants, who brought many excellent contributions, nonetheless could not recognise the strength of the bonds and values that we formed in our youth. Whilst immigration may make a nation stronger and more interesting in many ways, by its very nature it transforms and changes that nation.
I like to think that I have passed many of those values on to my grandchildren , but I think that the influence of peers and a flawed education system may well prove overwhelming.
No one’s rushing to your aid, GoofBall.
On a sadder note, Qld are 6/34 with 2 hours to bat to save the Match.
The Gabba is just an unlucky ground for them, while W.A. haven’t lost a game there for about 15 years.
Oh – how bloody hilarious. What a repugnant comment!
Well, y’know, if you get a sheila blind drunk, offer her a lift to her place in front of witnesses, then take her somewhere else and leave her there, you’re asking for trouble.
That’s exactly what Bruce Lehrmann did, it’s not in dispute.
Yes it is. I still think you’re jealous because she had no panties on and you’re a crotchless advocate.
In other news I just got banned from twatter because I tried to defend head prefect and said anyone who attacks a drunk old shorter in Yonkers will have to answer to me and I’ll bash ’em.
Richard Cranium
but you could see why Higgins might be a bit cranky, even if she is being manipulated by people with a murky agenda.
And exactly what is your “murky agenda”?
Black Ball, Dick Ed isn’t worth a neurone of thought. Arguing with the loon is a waste of your time.
Some of it is true, some just the nostalgia born of being a child and protected from harsh realities.
People were just as cruel and hypocritical, regardless of the respectable “church on Sunday” routine. Status and nepotism and corruption were all there. Our own parents would pine for their childhoods in the same way – or perhaps not…theirs was marred by war and want.
Things I miss – the deafening sound of the cicadas in summer, cracker night and unpicking the tom thumbs on the front step, my mother all a-flutter when Dad came home from work, picked her up and swung her down the hall, all of us laughing and him most of all. He still couldn’t believe his good luck!
Mrs Richards, come on down! 🙂
Ed Casesays:
December 4, 2022 at 4:32 pm
No one’s rushing to your aid, GoofBall.
Richard Cranium
Let me enter the fray. Fvck off Dick Ed, you stoopid fvckwit.
Joe Burns aka Duck Egg Joe aka ‘Burnsy’ – 1.
Lol! “Is this a piece of your brain?”
I don’t even need to see it. I know the dialogue off by heart.
Germany Ordering Farmers No Fertilizer
From Armstrong Economics –
“Germany is to comply virtually immediately with the EU directive to end fertilizer following the same path as the Netherlands. There is just no support in the data for Climate Change Mania. This is part of an agenda that will no doubt reduce the population along with the termination of fossil fuels. These people want war it appears to reduce the population as well and the people are fools to buy into this agenda. The lowest peak average temperature was in the year 2000 at 72.7 degrees. The low in this data set was 1888 and 72.6.and it was 72.8 in 1869. That is when we were rising from the Mini Ice Age all without soccer-moms driving SUVs to take the kids to games and schools. This does not support the proposition that CO2 from the Industrial Revolution has caused climate change.
I am sure this post would be canceled in 3 seconds or less on YouTube and Google will block it. This is the government’s own data since 1869 on New York City. I do not see some drastic warming trend as they have argued. The temperatures have oscillated with the energy output of the sun and as we head into Solar Minimum, it will get colder and dryer into 2024.
I’m sorry, but this Climate Change is absurd and it certainly does not justify what is being carried out all in the name of saving the planet. It seems that they want to kill off our children and grandchildren – not theirs between reducing food production and creating World War III. They seem to be just evil.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/germany-ordering-farmers-no-fertilizer/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
A one man perpetual outrage generation machine.
I did not predict this would be his next career move. Especially after the recent release of his greatest single in many, many moons.
A modern day tragedy, the flame that burns brightest existing for only half as long. Get some help, Yeezey, FFS. Your pride will bring about your destruction.
Wife Missing? The first thing a husband should do… CALL THE SHERIFF!!!
HUSBAND: “My wife of 15 years is missing. She went shopping yesterday and has not come home!”
SHERIFF: “Height?”
HUSBAND: “I’m not sure. A little over five-feet tall”.
SHERIFF: “Weight?”
HUSBAND: “Don’t know. Not slim, not really fat”.
SHERIFF: “Colour of eyes?”
HUSBAND: “Sort of brown, I think. Never really noticed”.
SHERIFF: “Colour of hair?”
HUSBAND: “Changes a couple times a year. Maybe dark brown now. I can’t remember”.
SHERIFF: “What was she wearing?”
HUSBAND: “Could have been pants, or maybe a skirt or shorts. I don’t know exactly”.
SHERIFF: “What kind of car did she go in?”
HUSBAND: “She went in my truck”.
SHERIFF: “What kind of truck was it?”
HUSBAND: “A 2016 Brilliant Diesel Grey Pearlcoat Ram Limited 4X4 with 6.4 l Hemi V8 engine ordered with the Ram Box bar and fridge option, LED lighting, backup and front camera, Moose hide leather heated and cooled seats, climate controlled air conditioning. It has a custom matching white cover for the bed, Weather Tech floor mats. Trailing package with gold hitch, sunroof, DVD with full GPS navigation, satellite radio, Cobra 75 WX ST 40-channel CB radio, six cup holders, 3 USB port, and 4 power outlets. I added special alloy wheels and off-road Toyo tires. It has custom retracting running boards and under-glow wheel well lighting”.
At this point the husband started choking up.
SHERIFF: “Take it easy sir, we’ll find your truck!!!”
He’s surrounded by enablers, Rabz. So the chance redemption is slim.
Ed, on this site, I expect no one to rush to my aid. As I have said countless times, I offer links and opinions that people here can discuss or ignore.
However, I seem to have gotten under your grill, so to speak. Because you have gone ad hominem, offered no real rebuttal of my offerings, and have just been a real fuckwit.
I ask one more time Ed, show me where I said this:
Yet you, Black Ball, say:
Let’s cut him some slack, I mean, we don’t even like this sheila anyway, do we?
Indeed, bespoke.
Now the Taylor Swift VMA imbroglio makes sense (42 seconds in).
Off his meds and off his head.
GoofBall:
Duelling Thread, pronto!
Every time she pauses to take a breath and then resumes her diatribes it is applauded as ‘breaking her silence’.
She ‘breaks her silence’ 50 times per press conference.
Can anyone think of a single thing an innocent man might say which would persuade the press and and da sistahs of their innocence? They would tie themselves in knots of logic that would confound that drawer everyone has with all their old power cords, RCA cables, speaker cables, DIN cables and antenna coax, to create Monty-esque possibilitie: “He was in QLD that day? Easy to photoshop a fake itinerary.” “He’s gay? Maybe he is a self-loathing gay trying to convince himself he is straight by doing that most straight, male thing – raping a woman!”
And so on.
The press really should take a long hard look at themselves and reflect on that – there is nothing an innocent man could say that would be accepted as proof of innocence. To even try is to rape the woman again.
Groogles show your fellow commentators and betters some respect.
BB – do not forget that Eddles (like mUttley) has a severe case of “Bass Ackwards Syndrome” (BAS), although he is at least capable of referring to certain “controversial” superstars by their proper appellations.
err, when he’s not denouncing all and sundry as flamers or spooks.
Kids back from handing out directions and assistance and cups of gatorade at the triathlon finish.
Now both rightly red-pilled as to the awfulness of “personal best” sports and sportspeople. Youngest even said “I don’t want to be judgy like you are all the time dad, but the lip-fillers and rib tatto’s are the worst so I just avoided them.”
Bear, I’m not having it. Eddles to his credit, is not malicious. He’s just trying to have a bit of fun, like the poor crazy kid that he is.
What I think has changed for the better is the status of trades in our society. Maybe more the circles that I move in now. What do people here think? I loved the deafening sound of cicadas when I was a kid too. Still love the cockies and galahs that hang around my area.
As for Higgins, the whole sordid shit show reminds me of the canbra pubic serpent who sued the commonwealth due to rough sex during a pubic service junket.
And won. Like MacLeay on the pubic service push bike.
Where would we be without the braindead lamestream meeja and its screechy j’ismists randomly spraying untruths at anyone gullible enough to watch, read or listen?
GoofBall whines:
Ed, on this site, I expect no one to rush to my aid.
That’s great, because no one has.
As I have said countless times, I offer links and opinions that people here can discuss or ignore.
In other words, you’re totally up yourself?
However, I seem to have gotten under your grill, so to speak. Because you have gone ad hominem, offered no real rebuttal of my offerings, and have just been a real fuckwit.
Ahahahaha …
That’s just sad and needy.
Listen up, roach:
You’re a Blow In
Fuck off
Which of course, only took many many years to arrive at the final farcical denouement.
With taxpayers being the ones who ended up right royally screwed.
Richard Cranium
Basically, you’re a Blow In, with nothing to say.
Please advise us of any other tags you have commented under, so we can assess how long it has been since you originally Blew In.
Puke worthy Rabz. FMD Canbra disgusts me.
If taxpayers aren’t expecting a pineapple, Sydney-style, they haven’t really been paying attention.
Wasn’t it a mirror that fell from the wall and hit one of the fornicators?
Unsafe work space.
Shame fled Canberra years ago in shame.
A chandelier was my recollection.
Let’s make it a mirror ball, milton.
Disco boogie.
Then again that might be my lurid imagination kicking in.
I wanted to say that Ed Case person is quite funny, but held back
Now someone used the word ‘fun’ in reference to him
So, and therefore, Ed Case makes me laugh
Yeah, thought it was a lightshade, knocked off the backboard of the bed during the confluenece of the beast with two backs.
My mind is a veritable junkyard, Cats.
lol@ Rabz and Calli
Nothing worse than when the mirrored tiles start falling off the ceiling. Ditto the shag carpet on the walls. Time to move.
Why, thanks, young lady.
I like your stuff too.
What’s left of it, that is … 😕
Probability Christine is in Groogs basement?
Watching No96 as a 5th grader did it
It’s only an unsafe workplace if you employ complete drop kicks who let falling down drunk women into the building in the first place.
These geniuses are other ladies of course and cannot be held responsible for absolute stupidity. On top of that they let a pissed naked woman sleep in a minister’s office undisturbed until ten in the morning. WTF!
You identified as Arnold Feather, is that it?
Canbra and DC are now I Claudius level depravity.
No Jack Sellars. What about you? Carlotta?
It’s only an unsafe workplace if you employ complete drop kicks who let falling down drunk women into the building in the first place.
Ummm, they let Bruce Lehrmann in.
Now, this is just a guess, but I don’t think Prince Brucey woulda been amused if Security had barred Higgins from entry.
These geniuses are other ladies of course and cannot be held responsible for absolute stupidity.
Perhaps they just wanted to keep their jobs?
Again, just a guess.
On top of that they let a pissed naked woman sleep in a minister’s office undisturbed until ten in the morning. WTF!
There were a number of high level conferences held over that, once Higgins had been located in the building after a frantic search.
In the end, they decided to do nothing.
Which was likely the wisest thing they coulda done in the circumstances.
Cassie of Sydney says:
December 4, 2022 at 4:14 pm
Reminded me of the last couple of my teen years ’58 and ’59 when after church 0n Sundays we would go down to South Cronulla and walk first to Wanda then back and on to Shelly beach where many families would gather and picnic around the rock pool there.
This brought back memories for me of the old Taren Point Punt, and my girlfriend and I riding out bikes, in the Jan holidays of ’53, down to Sans Souci with Clive James and his friend Doug when we went across to Taren Point with no charge for the bikes. There was nothing there those day and we were stuck there till the punt returned to take us back to civilisation.
I was married and living at Kings Cross when the bridge was opened.
Thanks Cassie.
Must have been something in the air as the Prince and I spent over an hour reminiscing about the childhoods we had and the wonderful opportunities for freedom, learning and exploration while an entire neighbourhood was keeping a watchful eye unbeknownst to us. How the Australia we knew has changed beyond all recognition.
My Thursday evenings ‘chatting’ with a neighbour’s severely disabled son freeing her up for a couple of hours of relief from her otherwise unwavering devotion to her 70kg man-baby. ‘Volunteer’ task set up by my parents that turned out to be an honour and a privilege.
The lady next door always with home made biscuits who taught me to appreciate a good pot of tea as we paged through her wonderful photo albums, the black and white pictures supported by beautiful white ink script detailing the who and the where.
The banging of the screen door at my grannie’s house at the beach, the oppressive heat and humidity as we waiting for ‘the change’ to sweep in across the bay. As Cassie said, those times have long gone but they remain part of us for a lifetime.
Who is crotchless upset with. Some serious chafing happening.
The APS “workplace safety guide” is actually a movie.
Alvin Purple.
Who knew?
haha- you’re cracking me up now
Hard to beat, fer sure. I think I’d add Thomas Blamey and Arthur Phillip as third and fourth at bat.
Military Cats may disagree with Blamey, but his job was very different to Monash’s. After 1942 Blamey had only one job, which was manage a guy called MacArthur, and by extension our sugar daddy the USA these last 80 years…which he succeeded in doing very well.
Has anyone got the link to that grotesque foreign affairies grad recruitment ad that looks like it’s a spoof? ‘Hi buddy, I’m off to get my paleo banana bread’
Quite humorous how Ed has tried to disseminate my words earlier. A breakdown of my paragraphs.
Ahahahaha …
That’s just sad and needy.
Listen up, roach:
You’re a Blow In
Fuck off
I’m not sure but maybe been contributing on this site longer than you.
Sad and needy pertains to you as you see a guilty verdict slip from your poxy hands regards Brittney.
Oh, and fuck off.
It was pretty good. I applied.
AKA, “Livin’ the Dream” …
cohenitesays:
December 4, 2022 at 6:11 pm
Who is crotchless upset with. Some serious chafing happening.
Black Ball.
How much of a complete f’wit do you have to be to believe Googlery is a Queenslander?
fk me but you’re a clown.
I mean. ffs. Every single word the cretin types is borne of level of mendacious malignity that should have seen him booted years ago, but you believe it when he says he’s from QLD?
How thick do you have to be?
Let me guess, John?
You’re writing from Rocky, am I right?
Because he says he is?
Because he described all the different corflutes in the Quenthland election 18 months ago?
Because he is a rampant Burns and Quenthland fan?
And because he’s mentioned his residence there on quite a few occasions?
You’re a funny guy, Mr Brumby.
Qld 7/94, still hangin’ in there.
Go, BananaBenders.
Ed.
Surely your not whacky enough to think any excuses you make for security pass the test in an grown ups world.
Canberra is a place of moral and ethical debauchery that absolves dereliction of duty by public officials as if it were rude to even mention that their asinine behaviour led to an incident that will cost the innocent taxpayer dearly.
They’re parliamentary security, not towel changers at a brothel.
people like my grandfather burnt everything in them. That smell has disappeared, incinerators are now banned. I miss that smell
Thanks, Cassie. My ol’ man was one of the greatest carbon criminals in history. When the idiocies of life got too much for him, he’d retreat to the sacred oblong stone furnace in the backyard and commence incinerating various sacrifices.
The subsequent plumes of noxious black smoke may well have been visible in space. If I could paint a vignette of such a scene I would. Jack the Cat would of course, be lurking fully visible in one of the bottom corners. It was a sacred ritual for both of them.
Precious memories of a simpler and more sensible time.
For me it is Governor Phillip. He alone had a vision for the colony, finding that the majority of the convicts and the vast majority of the military hated Australia. The convicts yearned only at the end of their sentences to get back to the crime and grime of the slums of London and provincial cities. Even Captain Tench who seemed to enjoy himself exploring says the Marines left the colony ‘without regrets’ inspite of land grants and other promised assistance.
Brumby:
The problem is playing 5 bowlers.
They only do it because Neser and Steketee are crocks, but it puts too much pressure on the 5 batsmen not to fail.
Now, it’s sorta worked up til now, but they’ll be lucky to avoid a heavy defeat in this Match, and it only went 3 days.
Let Leo McLeay show the way.
Sounds like she wants women to have the power to have men locked up or fried on the basis of anonymous accusations.
Great. Men condemned by scarlet letters.*
Remember when I said power at any cost will bring nothing but an empire of shit to rule over?
*Porter was almost charged due to a rambling mental patient with a nonsensical diary, her accusations (withdrawn in person after multiple police interviews) relied on physical objects being different to what records showed and everyone else remembered.
Finally, the proof Twitter invented a reason to help Joe Biden win in 2020
Hahahaa. Brilliant.
Slim chance of that for most.
The ticket of leave forbade them from boarding a ship.
Only about 1/4 of all transported convicts received a certificate of freedom, which entitled them to return to Britain, and that was only introduced from 1810.
Yeah, brings back memories of the late 60s when the climate got a lot drier and the Ibises flew in from the West.
Anyway, we had a fibro house, and the builders had buried the offcuts in the backyard.
10 years later, and bits fought their way to the surface in the dry.
Anyway, we had an open incinerator, and, believe it or not, bits of fibro explode when tossed [surreptitiously] into the fire …
Ed plays (with) himself (publicly) (once again).
If there really was grass stains on the dress (there wasn’t, was there?) then in light of all other evidence it would create reasonable doubt in favour of Mr Lehrmann.
What follows is Insane Bullshit on Stilts.
…
Trial by anonymous scarlet letters.
What a country.
Fair go…they’d get a chance to prove their innocence, right?
Yes, we had an incinerator. And no, we didn’t burn plastic because we had none.
A trip down memory lane.
Sunday afternoon, all the washing in (Dad would peer over the fences to make sure) and it was ON! Up went the plume of smoke – paper, leaves, sticks and assorted crud. All gone in a flash. Ash scraped out and used on the garden.
Now we find that all our recycled plastic is in landfill anyway. Back in the day it was all glass – milk bottles and the odd S&G fizzy drink. Even the old beer bottles were recycled. Or kept for ginger beer.
Excerpts from Bolt:
HorseShit.
Yes, you are, otherwise, why write this shit?
No shit, Sherlock?
Bolt is a Murdoch Weasel, but that out weasels anything he’s ever said previously.
A government which persecuted the unvaccinated, and crushed us with jackboots, is mystified that people aren’t volunteering.
NSW government to push for more volunteers (Sky News, 4 Dec)
Nope, sorry. I will help my neighbours as the Sovereign Lord Almighty commands, but you aren’t getting anything out of me voluntarily.
I worked at a petrol station in 1980 that had an incinerator. Used to chuck in a bic lighter during a quiet shift .
Eddles, what he really meant to say, stripped of the weaselling:
Double negatives truly are a curse, Blot, you dolt.
Albo’s socialist collective set to cap coal and gas prices.
1930’s policy delivered by a new set of Labor Luddites.
Price controls, LOL. Which’ve worked just so many times in the past. Not.
Apparently there’s a syndrome which is characterized by doing the same thing over and over whilst expecting a different result. I wonder what it is?
Unless something has gone terribly awry in the back channels, Team Brinney will be well aware that there is a presentation basket of OPM waiting in the Speakers’ Office with her name on it. For Team Albo, it’s a cheap purchase of a longlife shitty stick to beat the Opposition with.
Rinse and repeat for 2.5 years.
I call that a bargain – the best they ever had…
Ahhhhhhhhh…..she’s in hospital, she’s depressed but look at this, just in from The Oz…
Brittany Higgins to sue Michaelia Cash and Linda Reynolds after Bruce Lehrmann charges dropped
Brittany Higgins is preparing to sue the two former Liberal cabinet ministers she worked for in parliament, as she labels Australia’s justice system a “national shame”.
In her first comments since it was announced a retrial into her allegations of rape against ex-colleague Bruce Lehrmann would not go ahead because of the risk to Ms Higgins’ life, she hit out at her treatment during the investigation and court case, and said she would “literally not be here today” without the support of mental healthcare workers.
It came as former defence minister Linda Reynolds confirmed Ms Higgins was pursuing a civil case against her and “other parties”.
The Australian understands Liberal frontbencher Michaelia Cash, for whom Ms Higgins worked after Senator Reynolds, and the Commonwealth are listed as the other parties.
“I confirm that I was advised in March this year by Blumers, who act for Brittany Higgins, of a civil claim by Ms Higgins against me and other parties. However, proceedings are yet to be filed,” Senator Reynolds said.
“Blumers advised me on Friday that their client intends to progress the civil claim this month.”
The 27-year-old has been receiving treatment in hospital.
Ms Higgins alleged she was raped in the office of Senator Reynolds, then defence industry minister, by Mr Lehrmann in the early hours of March 23, 2019.
Told youse it was always on the back burner.
I’d forgotten Reynolds and Cash (how apt a name). Of course they were derelict in their duty towards the shy forest creature.
It’s just a disgusting shit show while the country’s real problems are ignored and exacerbated. Canbra parlor games.
Seems she’s only up for court appearances if there’s dough possibly on offer.
I reckon Reynolds will go the head butt on Britnah and her legal leeches.
I must admit this is a bit above my head.
Increased PD-L1 surface expression on peripheral blood granulocytes and monocytes after vaccination with SARS-CoV2 mRNA or vector vaccine
John Brumble
How much of a complete f’wit do you have to be to believe Googlery is a Queenslander?
fk me but you’re a clown.
His publishing a photo, allegedly of jacarandas in New Farm Park, but that turned out to be from somewhere in Pakistan, was a broad hint that he is somewhat lacking in local knowledge.
Otoh, any woman with a healthy relationship with her father, brother, husband and/or son may begin to develop a distinct and not irrational animus towards Brittany and her type as this plays out.
Cali & others.
Too young to remember wholesale incinerators but they were still around in Sydney when I was a child. Remember a relative in North Rocks with one. Off limits to us kids which made it more fascinating.
None of our houses in western Sydney do I remember one. LOL some of us youngsters just had a trip down memory lane as well.
If Ms Higgins is looking for sympathy I have to say she isn’t doing a great job.
I’m starting to favour a straight-jacket and a lot of lithium.
Not the sort you put into EVs.
I’m not saying she wasn’t raped.
She wasn’t legally. Bolt is a fucking idiot who should know better; crotchless is just braindead.
The civil actions by save brittany will be interesting. She will have a case regardless of whether she was raped (legally she wasn’t) on the basis of protocols not being followed. Or maybe they were. Underpinng save brittany is a lot of entitlement which may have obscured protocols and procedures actually being followed. If save brittany has an implacable sense of righteousness then anything less than complete vindication will be an injustice.
Is she going to front for this one, all she has to do is shed a tear
I do hope he consulted with Mz.Palaszczuk first.
This could get ugly very quickly.
The selective state high schools for boys and girls in Sydney and Newcastle have been a great force for equality of opportunity and social mobility: hence the Left hates them with a murderous passion, now reinforced by the woke crap about gender fluidity. Minns, who has sound instincts on some things, is saying that he wouldn’t want to undermine any school with a record of success:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-04/nsw-labor-prioritises-inner-west-boost-access-co-ed-high-school/101731950
But I doubt that he would be able to resist the woke Left in his own party. The SFLs under Askin and Willis abolished the selective state schools in Newcastle, so I doubt if that New Class fraud that now poses as a Labor Party would do any better.
Lots of convective showers on our trip south today. Big fat tropical downpour drops too. Innisfail to Cowley Beach, then again at Cardwell and Rollingstone to Bluewater before hitting Townsville.
One thing I always marvel at is the garden in a house just through the 100km/h zone north of Babinda and the beautiful garden it has. Driven past it a hundred times, first time I have researched it:
https://www.cairnspost.com.au/interest-grows-in-colleen-carnes-babinda-garden/news-story/989bb3c14e9a5d777c0b11cd185fd4f1
No paywall on this.
On Brittaneeee, take a look at Gray Connolly and Jeremy Gans (no right -wing conservative on most people’s reckoning but an expert in criminal law) on the unconscionable behaviour of ACT DPP Drumgold.
This case is right up there with the corrupt and and contemptible Stalinist political prosecution of Cardinal Pell.
that New Class fraud that now poses as a Labor Party
Beautifully phrased, Old Lefty. There is no resemblance between the Labor Party of today and that of the Curtin/Chifley era.
This speech to the anti-Morrison gathering of Karens was at the same time as a pre-arranged appointment with Canberra police, to be interviewed about her complaint.
Brittany stood the cops up, didn’t even tell them she wouldn’t be turning up.
Otoh, any woman with a healthy relationship with her father, brother, husband and/or son may begin to develop a distinct and not irrational animus towards Brittany and her type as this plays out.
You’re an expert on Women’s feelings now Roger?
I and most others here knew from the beginning that this was a political hit job, designed to destabilise and end the Coalition government. However we now have confirmation. As revealed by Albrechtsen yesterday, even the ACT police pointed to “political interference” and this news about litigation against Reynolds and Cash. It now makes sense why Brittaneee the Knickerless was so close to Leon Zwier. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle and the picture is becoming clearer as each day passes.
It’s become clear that Brittany has all the moral self-awareness of a two year old.
What we’re seeing is the tantrum played out via lawfare.
Like Leo Tolstoy writing Anna Karenina.
Real life experience, too.
Brittany stood the cops up, didn’t even tell them she wouldn’t be turning up.
She showed excellent judgement there.
As it turned out, the Federal Police had zero interest in pursuing the Case, and actually fed sensitive documents to the Defence.
Which the Defence claimed they didn’t read.
Ha ha.
It’s like a jigsaw puzzle and the picture is becoming clearer as each day passes.
What’s the picture you’re seeing, Cassie?
Huckleberry Hound at the Beach?
Aboriginals did not sculpt Uluru. It’s appearance is its naturally occurring appearance. How could it be intellectual property?
Allow your minds to ponder the nation destroying catastrophe that will be ‘The Voice’…. when they get full control of Parliament which is precisely what will happen from day 1…
Miranda Devine: Twitter Files left out this ‘crucial’ element
Geller:
Republicans Had More than 74% of Election Day Votes in Maricopa County – So Where Are Those Votes
Don’t forget Brittany was shopping this via a dossier prepared in conjunction with the then boyfriend. Maiden and Wilkinson were the only ones who took it up. Make of that what you will. The court of equity has an interesting concept that people seeking Equitable remedies must come to court with “clean hands”. Let’s just say I think Brittany (or rather the various boyfriends) might have struggled in Equity.