Rocks and Ferns in a Wood at Crossmount, John Ruskin, 1847
I think Bolt needs another holiday. He is not coping well with the changed world.
Open Thread – Tue 20 Dec 2022
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Why am I left with the feeling that the parents of those demanding a “Free Palestine” were those chanting “One…
John Fund, a US columnist, being interviewed by Sharri is sporting a black eye. I wonder who socked him.
Fap, fap, fap. Cap’n, I canna give her anymore! If I do, she’ll BLOW!
WTF is going on with power in Qld? https://www.ergon.com.au/network/outages/outage-finder/outage-finder-map/ It looks like half the state is out. There’s 3 houses…
Hi, JC.
It’s called the Sailer Strategy.
Basically, you appeal to things White people like, such as:
Building a Wall on the Southern Border to keep the World’s detritus out
Bringing their sons and Daughters home from pointless wars
Stopping Big Business from relocating factories to Asia where they can make money out of slave labour
Trump won the White Vote plus enough of the non White vote to get over the line in 2016.
Then he spent 4 years bullshitting and doing none of what he promised.
Scotty coulda won by doing the same thing in May.
The Teals won in part by adopting the Sailer Strategy.
It’s not rocket science.
Classic crotchless comment: 5% sense and 95% spittle, stale sperm, fermented waste and body lesions.
WHO global vaccination plan
Dr. John Campbell
Knuck’s looks like the first cyclone of the season but expected to impact near WA border. Cat 1 too, all ingredients there just going to interact with land before organising into something more substantial. Means will be good for rain across top end.
LOL I am meant to be flying through that area soon BKK-MEL, sigh such is life.
EVs are fake answers to a fake problem. Why wouldn’t you have a fake gear shift in one of them?
Ulysses S. Grant gets a promotion in 2023 defense bill
By NANCY MONTGOMERY
STARS AND STRIPES • December 20, 2022
More than a century after his death, the Army general hailed for saving the United States during the Civil War is being promoted a final time.
Ulysses S. Grant, the Union commander who led the defeat of the Confederacy, only to be later derided because of scandals during his presidency, is set for a posthumous appointment to general of the armies of the United States in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.
The measure was introduced by Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, where Grant was born, and Sen. Roy Blunt and U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner, both Missouri Republicans.
General of the armies of the United States is the highest rank in the Army. It has been conferred only twice previously.
The first recipient was John J. Pershing in 1919, for his command during World War I. In 1976, the title was given posthumously to George Washington during the bicentennial celebrations.
Historians mostly agree that Grant, who accepted the surrender of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, Va., in 1865 to end the Civil War, was a skilled commander who harnessed the Union’s superior resources and attacked relentlessly.
“Many Union generals temporized and put off battles until their troops were better trained and equipped,” according to Grant biographer Ron Chernow. “Grant recognized that such delays would benefit equally his Confederate opponents and preferred to strike quickly and capitalize on the element of surprise even when his troops weren’t perfectly ready.”
But his reputation as president, from 1869 to 1877, has shifted remarkably over the past century. Scandals in his administration, which had placed him in the lower rungs of presidential rankings, have receded in importance for some historians.
His efforts to protect and empower newly freed African Americans have garnered more attention as Confederate monuments erected during the early 20th century are being taken down.
“I believe that the promotion would be much more than a symbolic nod to a great military general,” Anne Marshall, the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library’s executive director, wrote in an essay on The Conversation website earlier this month. “Rather, it would highlight the overlooked legacy of a man who fought to end the last vestiges of slavery.”
As president, Grant pushed for the 15th Amendment, which guaranteed voting rights to all male citizens regardless of “race, color or previous condition of servitude.”
He also sent federal troops to fight terrorism against Black people in the South and temporarily crushed the Ku Klux Klan, historians say.
His successor, President Rutherford B. Hayes, pulled the last federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction and beginning an 80-year era of Jim Crow segregation.
Of course, the “promotion” just allows Lee’s enemies the excuse to tear down more statues…
what do they call it when a fag marries for appearances… smutley you would know?
Ron Chernow wrote, for my money, the best biography of U.S. Grant ever written – he makes a valid case that Grant’s reputation as President suffered because he tended to put his trust in shysters and scoundrels.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildyinfuriating/comments/vp7ahc/the_way_media_portrays_sexbased_rape_crimes/
“Men are predators, women are goddess seducers”
The antithesis of McClellan in that respect, and many others too.
Dot
Did you find anything about the Paysuers ?
Grant was a drunk, his regime was a byword for rottenness for a hundred years.
So, why is he being rehabilitated?
Because the Bushes and Obama were worse?
Can’t be ruled out, but given that Rabuka is cool towards the Chinese and generally pro-AUS/NZ, probably unlikely.
You should talk to the guy who started the war and is lobbing missiles at apartment blocks because he got his ass handed to him on the battlefield!
FBI, CIA, DHS, ATF, DEA, all are simply awful if not downright proven criminal enterprises.
Um, That’s Government. A gang of thugs who threaten or use violence to take some of your stuff or kill you if you object, in return for some dubious protection from common criminals and likewise dubious protection from criminals outside your country aka “governments”.
You really do know fvck all about history, don’t you, Grogs.
EVs are fake answers to a fake problem. Why wouldn’t you have a fake gear shift in one of them?
BoN, I’m reminded of Pohl and Kornbluth “Search the Sky”.
I did not know that the idiot half Kenyan and PedoPete did that.
I know how to spell, Zulu.
You were spruiking some shit about Oswald bein a lone assassin yesterday, so your scholarship isn’t worth much.
Well had a Thai meal for our Christmas break up. Indian managers but they are hard taskmasters for us. He put the grog on, Heineken with a dash of Wild Turkey Honey.
I’m not in the glamourous of fields of endeavour, but by God I’m happy.
As Zulu is wont to say, silante
Peoples! 🙂
The work year is finally over for me – the WEB™ has commenced and here’s hoping the new year brings some sort of peace of mind to an allegedly much troubled figure blundering around aimlessly on this planet, still trying to figure out where his place is … 😕
Except Ed, you don’t know how to disseminate information across your desk.
Probably, maybe, flamer, they aren’t conducive to a good argument. Shut up
Grant was a binge drinker rather than an habitual drinker. So, not a drunk.
That being said, when a morally earnest lady wrote to President Lincoln to complain about Grant’s (undeserved) reputation, Lincoln replied along the lines of “Madam, if you know what whiskey General Grant prefers, please advise…I’d like to order a case for every general in the army.”
What is going WRONG with OUR HEARTS?
Dr. Scott Jensen
Grant’s grandson wrote in his memoirs that neither his father, nor his grandfather had “much head for hard liquor”, and with both men “a little went a long way.” Grant would “stay dry” for two or three months at a time, then drink when he was bored.
Fisky
First things first.
Most of which are now being shot down with EU equipment.
The only reason Ukraine would not win this war is if it runs out of soldiers. Everything else is going its way.
Rabz, you have Miss Emily. Job, south coast, happy days
Thanks, BB – I do, but she’s so out of my milieu it’s ridiculous.
Cleveland study conducted to demonstrate the clinical effectiveness of the bivalent vaccines accidentally finds that the risk of Covid-19 infection increases with each prior vaccination
The only reason Ukraine would not win this war is if it runs out of soldiers. Everything else is going its way.
m0nty-fa is not familiar with the concept of a Pyrrhic Victory. He should do some reading about the First World War.
Being pedantic here but “hochschule” actually translates to university or tertiary college. What we call high school is either “Gymnasium” (academic/grammar secondary schools) or “Realschule” (vocational/technical secondary schools) in Germany.
Grant?
A Drunk.
Grant’s Administration?
Rotten to the core.
Teapot Dome was a massive scandal of the Harding Administration, but Grant’s was still the standout for rottenness.
Truman was known to be rotten, he once accepted a $1 Million Dollar bribe, yet no one ever said he was as rotten as Grant.
https://payseurs.com/
At what point do the Rothschild completely take over this or does some other realm remain?
That payseur site is bonkers.
Why did you link it custard?
“At what point do the Rothschild completely take over this or does some other realm remain?”
Get help Custard.
I think I got the wrong link
Please bear with me
Somehow Eyrie I’ve never read that one, despite reading many of Pohl’s and Kornbluth’s.
I must get it. I’ve read Marching Morons. We’re on that track, definitely.
I loved the first few Gateway novels: leap into the unknown stuff!
Sorry I cannot find the correct link. It was upthread either today or yesterday
UK health authorities, faced with the prospect of an ambulance strike, are warning members of the public not to get blind drunk:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-22/uk-told-not-to-get-drunk-or-play-sports-ambulance-strike/101802856
Ms Higgins, please note.
Yes. Let’s keep it going so 600,000 will be dead. Your all heart.
The origins of this family and how it relates to the Rothschild is surely interesting?
Searched Payseurs.
The original Payseur was the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, according to a site chosen at random.
Over the Generations, the family secretly owned a fantastic number of big businesses in America
One interesting thing is that the defeated Southerners wouldn’t work for the occupying Northerners.
The Payseurs solved that problem by employing Confederate Officers as dummy owners.
The same Harry Truman, who was appointed to head the Senate War Investigation Committee, charged with cleaning up waste and corruption in the U.S. War effort, and credited with saving the U.S. taxpayer some 18 billion dollars?
Savannah Daisley need not worry if the case of Lee Dunbar is anything to go by. Dunbar, a lesbian and former teacher at Cromer High who had previously done time for abuse of a pupil, pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges involving the grooming of a female student culminating in digital r0pe. Her Honour on the bench have Dunbar a non-custodial sentence. Just imagine the ABC-Fairfax reaction if, instead of being a lezzo from the public-sector teachers’ union, she had been a priest or a brother. It’s only nasty conservativeses that go to jail.
The worrying thing is that this is NSW. I’d expect that sort of thing in Victoria, but ….
By the way, Dunbar, despite her 1996 conviction (about which the gay and lesbian community and the left were outraged and foaming about reactionary, repressive moral panics), proudly made a submission with her partner to the 2010 parliamentary inquiry into same-sex marriage.
Somehow Eyrie I’ve never read that one, despite reading many of Pohl’s and Kornbluth’s.
One of the chapters deals with a visit to a future Earth where people are driving in large cars powered by alleged large engines with appropriate sounds and speedos saying 100mph etc where our protagonist figures out it is all fake and 100mph on their speedos is actually about 20 mph.
Agree on the Gateway novels. Just finished the last one ” The Boy Who Would be King”. Not as good as the early ones but still a fun read.
Um, … there was another Harry Truman?
Enlighten us, oh sozzled one?
Hey Dover, how does the Rothschild conspiracy factor into your rule book. He’s keeper, right?
DaFisk
Yes. Let’s keep it going so 600,000 will be dead. Your all heart.
Like m0nty-fa, you seem content to fight to the last Ukrainian. m0nty-fa wants to risk WW III to reduce Russian power, what is your reason?
Lol.
No.
Lol
Relax.
Custard is obviously a Spook.
Anyone else noticed that silver has gone from 27 dollars an ounce back in August to almost 37 dollars today
That was in Marching Morons. It was fun, but scarily accurate.
well that’s one of the very few times that I agree with smutley
custardsays:
December 22, 2022 at 9:44 pm
Anyone else noticed that silver has gone from 27 dollars an ounce back in August to almost 37 dollars today
What has happened to the price of lithium in the same period?
No. Today the silver price was US$24/oz. That is up a bit over the last couple months but not surprisingly so, given supply and demand drivers.
The Oz dollar has fallen a bit, which increases the silver price in local currency. I suspect the Oz dollar is going to fall a long way eventually, due to woke, but probably not for a few years.
My price was in Australian dollars
Which means you are actually reflecting the Oz dollar not necessarily the silver price.
For what it’s worth the USD is still pretty much the standard reference currency for everything, despite what the Chinese and Russians want. Lately the USD has been rising against everyone else because it is still regarded as a flight-to-safety haven in face of the likely coming recession.
If Grant had been drinking at Appomattox – James Thurber
The morning of the ninth of April, 1865, dawned beautifully. General Meade was up with the first streaks of crimson in the sky. General Hooker and General Burnside were up and had breakfasted, by a quarter after eight. The day continued beautiful. It drew on toward eleven o’clock. General Ulysses S. Grant was still not up. He was asleep in his famous old navy hammock, swung high above the floor of his headquarters’ bedroom. Headquarters was distressingly disarranged: papers were strewn on the floor; confidential notes from spies scurried here and there in the breeze from an open window; the dregs of an overturned bottle of wine flowed pinkly across an important military map.
Corporal Shultz, of the Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, aide to General Grant, came into the outer room, looked around him, and sighed. He entered the bedroom and shook the General’s hammock roughly. General Ulysses S. Grant opened one eye.
“Pardon, sir,” said Corporal Shultz, “but this is the day of surrender. You ought to be up, sir.”
“Don’t swing me,” said Grant, sharply, for his aide was making the hammock sway gently. “I feel terrible,” he added, and he turned over and closed his eye again.
“General Lee will be here any minute now,” said the Corporal firmly, swinging the hammock again.
“Will you cut that out?” roared Grant. “D’ya want to make me sick, or what?” Shultz clicked his heels and saluted. “What’s he coming here for?” asked the General.
“This is the day of surrender, sir,” said Shultz. Grant grunted bitterly.
“Three hundred and fifty generals in the Northern armies,” said Grant, “and he has to come to me about this. What time is it?”
“You’re the Commander-in-Chief, that’s why,” said Corporal Shultz. “It’s eleven twenty, sir.”
“Don’t be crazy,” said Grant. “Lincoln is the Commander-in-Chief. Nobody in the history of the world ever surrendered before lunch. Doesn’t he know that an army surrenders on its stomach?” He pulled a blanket up over his head and settled himself again.
“The generals of the Confederacy will be here any minute now,” said the Corporal. “You really ought to be up, sir.” Grant stretched his arms above his head and yawned. “All right, all right,” he said. He rose to a sitting position and stared about the room. “This place looks awful,” he growled.
“You must have had quite a time of it last night, sir,” ventured Shultz. “Yeh,” said General Grant, looking around for his clothes. “I was wrassling some general. Some general with a beard.”
Shultz helped the commander of the Northern armies in the field to find his clothes. “Where’s my other sock?” demanded Grant. Shultz began to look around for it. The General walked uncertainly to a table and poured a drink from a bottle. “I don’t think it wise to drink, sir,” said Shultz. Nev’ mind about me,” said Grant, helping himself to a second, “I can take it or let it alone. Didn’ ya ever hear the story about the fella went to Lincoln to complain about me drinking too much? ‘So-and-So says Grant drinks too much,’ this fella said. ‘So-and-So is a fool,’ said Lincoln. So this fella went to What’s-His-Name and told him what Lincoln said and he came roarin’ to Lincoln about it. ‘Did you tell So-and-So was a fool?’ he said. ‘No,’ said Lincoln, ‘I thought he knew it.’” The General smiled, reminiscently, and had another drink. “”That’s how I stand with Lincoln,” he said, proudly.
The soft thudding sound of horses’ hooves came through the open window. Shultz hurriedly walked over and looked out. “Hoof steps,” said Grant, with a curious chortle. “It is General Lee and his staff,” said Shultz. “Show him in,” said the General, taking another drink. “And see what the boys in the back room will have.”
Shultz walked smartly over to the door, opened it, saluted, and stood aside.
General Lee, dignified against the blue of the April sky, magnificent in his dress uniform, stood for a moment framed in the doorway. He walked in, followed by his staff. They bowed, and stood silent. General Grant stared at them. He only had one boot on and his jacket was unbuttoned.
“I know who you are,” said Grant.’You’re Robert Browning, the poet.” “This is General Robert E. Lee,” said one of his staff, coldly. “Oh,” said Grant. “I thought he was Robert Browning. He certainly looks like Robert Browning. There was a poet for you. Lee: Browning. Did ya ever read ‘How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix’? ‘Up Derek, to saddle, up Derek, away; up Dunder, up Blitzen, up, Prancer, up Dancer, up Bouncer, up Vixen, up -‘”.
“Shall we proceed at once to the matter in hand?” asked General Lee, his eyes disdainfully taking in the disordered room. “Some of the boys was wrassling here last night,” explained Grant. “I threw Sherman, or some general a whole lot like Sherman. It was pretty dark.”
He handed a bottle of Scotch to the commanding officer of the Southern armies, who stood holding it, in amazement and discomfiture. “Get a glass, somebody,” said Grant, looking straight at General Longstreet. “Didn’t I meet you at Cold Harbor?” he asked. General Longstreet did not answer.
“I should like to have this over with as soon as possible,” said Lee. Grant looked vaguely at Shultz, who walked up close to him, frowning.
“The surrender, sir, the surrender,” said Corporal Shultz in a whisper.
“Oh sure, sure,” said Grant. He took another drink. “All right,” he said. “Here we go.”
Slowly, sadly, he unbuckled his sword. Then he handed it to the astonished Lee. “There you are. General,” said Grant. “We dam’ near licked you. If I’d been feeling better we would of licked you.”
Brilliant piece of satire….
R says
watch the railway crossing.
Red lights mean stop and green light mean go.
Focus , Focus.
Lake Placid and Kari Lake are the same person.
Don’t be confused if Trump gores to sleep each night.
Timing is everything yet nothing
Rothschilds own all the silver and lead.
Yeah, Thurber, he was pretty good.
Cancelled a few years ago for being a wife beater, died 1961.
Doxxing is a bad thing, right. I’ve found out munties name is Justin. The neighbours told me his wife calls out ‘just in’ when they’re attempting sex.
Hey ed, I’m a spook too. Boo!
Yes.
Please stop, this is madness.
UK health authorities, faced with the prospect of an ambulance strike, are warning members of the public not to get blind drunk:
Is sight impart drunk ok?
*impaired
Simply not good enough.
The CIA drugged civilians, the FBI and IRS went after political enemies; this is more than simple extortion.
I linked last night to an article how in 2024, the CIA admitted to withholding evidence to the Warren Commission. That’s some long term deep statism right there.
Please stop, this is madness.
Don’t know/care who the paysuers are but for some reason mentioning that word means you need help or are mad.
What is this word magic?
re Gilas’ comments.
The statistical probability that three-four shell casings would eject in the exact same sequence and positions in the recreation of Oswald’s shooting is so astronomically remote it can be considered an outright lie and thus disinformation.
Just absurd that reasonably well educated people could ever accept such codswallop.
“I don’t care, but please explain”
???
Vlad claims to be a victim however, like Shane Drumgold.
Lotsa balls in the air
Brunson (Jan 6th)
Lake
Georgia
Everywhere
A lot of heat for your glass barbie too sir.
Japan reverses nuclear phase-out policy …
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-22/japan-nuclear-energy-phase-out-reversal/101803800
The ABC must be spewing about having to report this.
We’ll have to wait and see Dot.
Red eyes and tears …
Followed by some very happy seasons greetings … 🙂
Nein.
Die Standartenführer …
Depicted above “reimagining capitalism”.
As an economist, Cats, it’s time to revisit some actual capitalism, as she is practised, I tells ya! 🙂
RD:
Tropical Cyclone Ellie, you mean. It’s fanging along – by the time Tom’s on board with the toons in the morning it’ll be over the coast. All the rain in the last four hours has been sucked away.
With a bit of luck it might smash the bejaysus out of Port Keats (Wadeye), but that’s about it.
If ever a place needed the bejaysus smashed out of it, Wadeye is top of the list.
Righto Custard. I am sorry to have to say this, but you have finally crossed your Rubicon. You’re no longer just a hopeful Trump resurrectionist.
This garbled opinion make St. Ruth look like a trusted newsreader. It’s waaay beyond the Expose and the usual nuffer sites. It is booey. Wompus. Radio Rental.
You are firmly in Bird country with this. Get in reverse and back out, quickly.
Okay. There’s finally a word you can’t say on FlashCat.
There should be at least one of those Third World shitholes preserved, as a monument to the utter failure of the policy of allowing the Aborigine to live on their tribal lands, and practice their stone- age culture, while the rest of Australia lived in the modern world..
I think they’re working on it.
the policy of allowing the Aborigine to live on their tribal lands, and practice their stone- age culture, while the rest of Australia lived in the modern world..
Hmmm. How about:
the policy of allowing the Aborigine to live on their tribal lands, and practice their stone- age culture, while the rest of Australia lived in the modern world, paid for them do so, and was blamed for the abject failure of the policy.
There you – fixed!
I don’t think they actually are practicing their stone age “culture” at least not fully.
For that, they should live off the land as their forebears did, not sitting in a hellhole with nothing to do, can you imagine what it does to you not having anything worthwhile to do day in day out year in year out and looking forward for same with no hope of change in sight?
It would drive me bonkers.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran. Brilliant.
Patrick Blower.
Christian Adams.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Henry Payne.
Bob Gorrell.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom!
Mark McGowan reveals Clive Palmer’s defamation action legal bill cost WA taxpayers more than $2 million
not really
Asia’s el chapter extradited to Australia
Rishi Sunak To Pass New Law To Penalise OTT Platforms After ‘Harry And Meghan’ Documentary: Report
Good crop Tom.
Ramirez is clearly having one of his (more frequent) carnival moments.
Whatever the stand-up comic is, he’s not Churchill.
Bad Santa, Part I (the Hun):
This is undoubtedly sausage-related.
For a start, this woman isn’t a ‘rollercoaster crash victim’. She a) dropped her phone while on the ride, b) was told by the carnies not to go onto the track looking for it, c) that said carnies would get it for her when the rollercoaster wasn’t rolling, d) ignored the signs saying not to go on the track, e) climbed over a fence around said track, and finally f) was collected by the rollercoaster – on her face – and dragged 30 feet in the air before falling back to reality.
To be fair, it’s not a terrible thing for Calamity Shylah to be in hospital over Christmas. In general terms, there are very few rollercoasters in them.
Afr paywalled
China’s sanctions against Australia have been a spectacular failure
China’s efforts to intimidate Australia by slapping sanctions on exports further discredited its credibility as a reliable trading partner, with zero gain for Beijing
not sitting in a hellhole with nothing to do, can you imagine what it does to you not having anything worthwhile to do day in day out year in year out and looking forward for same with no hope of change in sight?
can’t be too bad! .. I live in a SE Sydney “houso” estate where 95% have never worked or done anything constructive, like learning English, in the past 30 years and it doesn’t seem to affect them much .. quite content to get by on cheap housing and CentreLink welfare …. no one has ever come across as poor/suffering and all drives vehicles under 3 years old .. most smoke and drugs widely available …..
Perhaps if he’d been a little less “erratic”, he might have just received a rubber bullet…or three.
Melbourne, one of the world’s most liveable cities. Our Rubber Bullets are amongst the softest in the Western World!
KD I think it might have been Dover at Frankston Bunnings, he lives down that way I seem to recall and he’s a jolly fellow. Probably protesting the exorbitant price of snags or he wanted the onions on top.
Thankfully Mrs Claus wasn’t there. She may have been choked out.
Back it in the combined experience of all jacks present was three years, max. OC spray is an excellent path of least resistance for people with no communication skills.
add that it appears she may have been drunk/drugged at the time…
tragic for her family that they have to deal with her moment of stupidity.
don’t know what this is new, I remember someone I follow on twitter saying exactly the same thing back in 2020. Also rocket science.
-good article by VDH- I’d like to see training move away from Unis to online and on-the-jo
When is the dirty old pelosi witch, the mafia princess finally going to go away? Fuck off you evil old slag.
Just as more evidence is revealed in emails (about Pelosi’s role in wishing the January 6th security away), Daytime Sky delivers yet another gushy report on the fraudulent committee’s upcoming Get Trump report while only the briefest mention of anything fishy about security on that fateful day.
They wanted it to go rogue, salted the crowd with agents provocateurs, and refused the National Guard that Trump would have recommended. Still no action re that guy who was filmed saying (the day before) “we have to go INTO the Capitol”, or any truth telling about the FBI people in the crowd, the Antifa operatives smashing windows, the police letting people in, and the many hours of internal video that remain hidden from view.
Why do people even bother with Sky let alone pay for it? FMD. It’s legacy meja and like the rest of the legacy meja it deserves to die.
A man dressed as Santa wound up in hospital after being pepper sprayed by police during an incident at Bunnings.
Probably a fight in the rake aisle.
So here we go:
Ok, let’s ignore the fact that the warrant had a “loaded firearms” component to it.
So the warrant from a Dec 21 incident (firearms related) didn’t trigger an attendance, but the wife’s missing person’s report did (despite him being absent from Walgett for many months)?
Despite it requiring a risk assessment, conducted by a senior officer?
Sorry, when did he go missing from Walgett?
But apparently not when following up a firearms related warrant, despite him telling the farmer that he was going to see family in Queensland?
Except the firearms related warrant, which was raised after he illegally crossed the border with loaded firearms?
May, June, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.
Let’s be generous and give it seven months since she last spoke to him, and suddenly…
Did he miss a maintenance payment or something?
Believe the report to be genuine, or whatever else you wish, Ms Linford, but please don’t expect me to gulp it all down.
We also have the issue of the unregistered firearms found on the property. The description of the event, and the lack of the usual screeching by the anti-gun lobby, lead me to suspect that they were illegal, even under current rules. Let’s not make a big deal of that fact, because it doesn’t help the narrative that we need to further tighten current restrictions. Never let a crisis go to waste.
This whole thing stinks like a Lightning Ridge long drop.
All of America is now Moscow or East Berlin in the 1970s. Your government is all up in your business and your neighbors might be snitching on you. Mrs. Kravitz is everyone’s commie neighbor now.
In a just world, Elon Musk should be given a variety of commendations for revealing the media/government collusion. Because we’re all the way through the dystopian looking glass, however, the United States government will seek to destroy him.
Frankston + Bunnings = one of those asked and answered things.
I get the impression the high level support for the memorials to the slain officers are a very crass attempt to paper over a mistake or failure to follow procedure from senior police.
Tell me if I am forgetting myself here but these memorials are rather unusual to me.
An oxymoron is ever there was one.
Wendyball stereotype.
Merry Christmas ..!
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ABC News Journalist Breaks Her Silence, Reveals She Developed Heart Condition Due to Covid Vaccine
A reporter for ABC News Australia has broken her silence after suffering a heart condition following receiving the COVID vaccination.
Eleni Roussos, a journalist in the Darwin ABC newsroom and also the presenter of ABC’s flagship 7 PM News in the Northern Territory, revealed that she developed pericarditis after receiving her first dose of Pfizer Covid vaccine, describing it as “a living hell.”
Koulla Roussos, Eleni’s sister, posted on Facebook last year to explain that Eleni had been hospitalized and diagnosed with pericarditis (inflammation of the outer lining of the heart) and hence was unable to attend the NT Media awards ceremony.
Eleni Roussos said that former AMA President Kerryn Phelps’ decision to go public with her own personal suffering had encouraged her to do the same.
“Inspired by ?[Dr. Kerryn Phelps] today I want to say I too have been in a living hell with pericarditis because of the Covid vaccine,” Roussos wrote on her Twitter account.
“Vaccine injuries are real and serious and I sincerely hope more people will speak up,” she continued.
Dr. Phelps responded to Roussos’ tweet, “I hoped my submission to the parliamentary inquiry would spark the conversations we need to have about long covid and vaccine injury. I hope we can find answers leading to recovery for you and others.”
https://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/house-of-payseur/
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
WHAT!?!
FTX executives were pleading guilty to fraud ONE YEAR AGO in federal court but the scam was allowed to continue through the midterm elections so the fraudulent money could be laundered to Democrats to win elections?!
Largest scandal in political history:
Laura K
@LauraKronen
The “official” cause of death for a 32 year old actress: A car accident she had 13 YEARS AGO and apparently all of the sudden caused sepsis in her body and she died within a few hours ##diedsuddenly
Who believes this crap?
CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: Republican Senators Hold Presser, Accuse Biden of “Intentional” Border Crisis – Then Vote for $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill with No Money for Border
We really are in monopoly money country.
Lauren Boebert
@laurenboebert
Congress is allocating more than $700 million towards red flag laws in this omnibus bill.
No one who votes for this monstrosity can ever say they care about the Second Amendment again.
GOP Can’t Be Successful Until Mitch McConnell Is Gone
Kim Dotcom
@KimDotcom
When you thought the world couldn’t get any crazier, the FBI now claims that the words of its own agents in tons of emails revealed by #TwitterFiles are conspiracy theories and misinformation.
Dot no more remarkable than the praise heaped upon the overworked hospital staff in the first year of the Plandemic when the hospitals were empty waiting for the millions of coof sufferers that never materialised and the emergency departments that were down 33% in attendances. I saw an ambulance the other day in Nowra with a sign on it saying Paramedics deserve professional recognition. On the wireless the scumbag union saying nurses deserve more pay. How about you do your job instead of chatting about what you got up to with your boyfriend last night. I deserve to win lotto too.
You sound very sure she won’t be a victim of hospital negligence when she gets out of her bed, sneaks down the corridor, turns all the taps on in the bathroom so it floods and the nurses rush in to investigate, pries open the keypad locked room where they keep the crash-cart, goes back to her ward and unplugs someone else’s machines because she needs the power point, and then tries to use the defibrillator to recharge her phone.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
LOL – I called it on our podcast – I said she’ll sing like Elvis against Sam to save herself.
BREAKING: FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried released on $250 MILLION bail, one of the largest in history, after claiming he only had $100,000 to his name
What a fraud he is. Talk about controlled opposition.
Sean Hannity Testifies He Never Believed The 2020 Election Was Fraudulent
swedish birthrate data: october is the worst decline yet
If ever a place needed the bejaysus smashed out of it, Wadeye is top of the list.
The cyclone hit, and did a million dollars worth of improvements?
I get the impression the high level support for the memorials to the slain officers are a very crass attempt to paper over a mistake or failure to follow procedure from senior police.
Its likely the memorializing is pretty standard.
But I do agree the coppers at the scene may have been attending the place without all the info they might have needed.
And at least the poor civvie is getting a gong for running towards danger.
Neighbour killed in Queensland shooting Alan Dare to be farewelled at funeral, receive Queensland Police Service Medal
In case you thought we’d reached the bottom of the rabbit hole.
Marines told to stop using ‘sir,’ ‘ma’am’ to avoid ‘misgendering’ superiors
MP is suspended from Parliament a week after “vaccine harms speech” but he has not been silenced
Meanwhile, in the Bidenist USSA:
For any Members of Congress who refused to clap for Zelenskyy,
we need to know from them exactly why.
Thank goodness for AGW (astronomical glowbull warming). Last night was the first time we were able to have the deck doors open overnight at our beachhouse. Usually early November. 16 degrees overnight minimum.
I always rely on twitter numpties to reveal the true truth.
I think they might have a problem here because people are finally starting to wake up to the risks.
The real reason the Government wants you to get a COVID-19 Booster Jab every 3 months is because the Vaccinated are developing a new form of AIDS
Re: Garrison’s toon from this morning.
It is a crime to knowingly receive stolen goods.
Is it a crime to knowingly receive a stolen election?
If not, why not?
Grey Ranga,
send some of that GlowBull warming my way. I had the fire on last night it was so cold. The whole day was cold, wet and miserable. Today is supposed to be better, but it isn’t looking very promising.
The ‘twitter numpty’ was well aware of that and said hogwash.
Anti-social behaviour.
“Are you praying?”
“I might be praying in my head.”
And then we need to know who was first to stop clapping.
Quoting swathes of David Icke now, Custard?
As mentioned yesterday evening, you have now officially lost your bangle.
What are your views on aether and the Black Prince?
So, a year ago, FTX executives were pleading guilty to fraud, but the rort, sorry, the company was allowed to continue defrauding investors until after the elections.
But, but, Jared Kushner …
US States Population Movements
People are voting on California’s and New York’s progressive policies with their feet. It would be interesting to see what is happening in Australia.
The ‘land of the free’ was just a veneer. The establishment has stopped pretending
Fair enough Ranga.
I did laugh and swear in anger and contempt last night watching You Tube.
The ad starts by saying how emergency workers being assaulted is a more serious crime.
The shoppies union logo then comes on and pans to checkout chicks.
Yep, cuss and slap a register jockey and it’s the same as king hitting an on duty cop or going buckwild in an emergency department.
I don’t even necessarily support these laws that create seperate classes of people. Equating shoppies to a firefighter attending a housefire?
Laughable union nonsense. It is too frivolous and lacking in substance to call it bullshit.
Why Katie Hobbs didn’t want the election to go to trial
https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1606046741425537026?s=61&t=_kz4kwDUfpoVWlDMTOWxwg
Quoting swathes of David Icke now, Custard?
Bad, bad custard.
Whats next, quoting articles from nexus magazine?
(Though it does heve my favorite bit of WW2 madstory*)
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/01archives/SecretWar1.html
As we split up to search the base, a trip wire was detonated and a siren sounded, destroying the silence and startling the whole force. A shout was soon heard, demanding us to identify ourselves, but the voice could not be targeted. With our guns raised the Major introduced us to the voice, and then, thankfully, the voice was given a body. The voice belonged to a lone survivor, and what he divulged made us more anxious and had us wishing that there were more troops amongst our ranks.
The lone survivor claimed that in Bunker One was the other survivor from the “tunnel” trip, along with one of the mysterious Polar Men that we had heard on the recorded broadcast. Despite obstructions and objections from the survivor, Bunker One was ordered to be opened. The survivor had to be held back and his fear and anguish panicked us instantly, and none of us wanted to be the one to enter the bunker.
Fortunately, I was not selected to enter; that honour was bestowed on the youngest member of our unit. He proceeded inside, hesitating slightly as he struggled with the door. Once inside, a silence descended across the base, followed moments later by two gunshots. The door was opened and the Polar Man dashed to freedom. None of us was expecting what we saw, and the Polar Man had fled into the surrounding terrain so quick that only a few token shots were fired.
Out of fear and awe at what we had seen, we all decided to go into the bunker. Go in we did, and two bodies were found. The soldier who had pulled the short straw was found with his throat ripped out, and, more heinous, the survivor had been stripped to the bones.
What we had witnessed demanded answers; and with our abject anger at seeing one of our unit die within hours of our landing on the continent, our anger was taken out on the lone survivor who had warned us against opening Bunker One.
The whole unit listened categorically to the Major’s questions, but it was the answers that were to provoke the most intrigue. The first question that needed answering was just what had happened to the other survivor, and how he had become trapped in the bunker with that Polar Man. However, the lone survivor preferred to start from the beginning, from when they had first found the “tunnel”. Whilst he narrated what had happened, the scientist who had accompanied us scribbled down everything divulged.
It transpired that the area near the tunnel was one of Antarctica’s unique dry valleys, and that was how they managed to find the tunnel with such ease. Every one of the 30 personnel at the Maudheim base was ordered to investigate and, if possible, find out exactly where the tunnel led.
They followed the tunnel for miles, and eventually they came to a vast underground cavern that was abnormally warm; some of the scientists believed that it was warmed geothermally. In the huge cavern were underground lakes; however, the mystery deepened, as the cavern was lit artificially. The cavern proved so extensive that they had to split up, and that was when the real discoveries were made.
The Nazis had constructed a huge base into the caverns and had even built docks for U-boats, and one was identified supposedly. Still, the deeper they travelled, the more strange visions they were greeted with. The survivor reported that “hangars for strange planes and excavations galore” had been documented.
However, their presence had not gone unnoticed: the two survivors at the Maudheim base witnessed their comrades get captured and executed one by one. After witnessing only six of the executions, they fled to the tunnel, lest they be caught, with the aim to block up the tunnel—though “it was too late; the Polar Men were coming”, claimed the survivor.
*Like history, but … well you know)
There will Never Be a Trial for FTX
From Armstrong Economics –
“You have to understand the way the government prosecutes its cases. If you look closely, all cases are charged with CONSPIRACY. That means the proof is NOT the crime itself, but only an AGREEMENT to commit a crime. Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, who was also the CEO of Alameda Research, a privately-controlled hedge fund, and Gary Wang, co-founder of FTX, have both pleaded guilty earlier this week, according to newly unsealed court documents. That means the case is already over.
Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang cut deals so they get less time, or even no time, in return for throwing Bankman-Fried under the bus. They would take the stand and will be prepared by the prosecution and artfully say whatever they are instructed to maintain the government’s 99% conviction rate.
With their pleas in hand, in addition to all the press against Bankman-Fried, there is no way he could ever win a trial. His lawyers will be urging him to take a deal. That will be the end result with no trial and no shot of the truth EVER surfacing. All the money laundering from Democrats funding Zelensky, who then in turn handed cash to FTX who then was the 2nd largest donor to the Democrats for the Midterms, will remain hidden from ever gracing the history books without someone doing a FOIA 25 years from now.
One of the few New York Judges who exposed the corruption in the prosecution, Jed S. Rakoff, wrote: Why Innocent People Plead Guilty. They will threaten someone with 25 years in prison. Plead guilty and say what we need you to say, and you will get 5 years or less.
So, any hope that putting Bankman-Fried on trial is a fool’s dream. The whole money laundering scheme with Zelensky funneling cash back to the Democrats will never see the light of a jury.
The ONLY question will be is he too found dead from suicide? This is the same jail where Epstein supposedly committed suicide. This is the same place they tried to kill me, but I survived after being in a coma for several days. High-profile cases NEVER see the light of day – EVER!”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/there-will-never-be-a-trial-for-ftx/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Russia has lost 100,400 soldiers, 3,003 tanks, 5,981 armed vehicles, 1,978 artillery systems, 283 warplanes, and 267 helicopters.
Probably best for Russia to retreat and concede some provinces like Rostov on Don to Ukraine (as well as handing over Belarus to Zelensky) as well as compensation for each dead Ukrainian and a bloc grant for reconstruction – beg for forgiveness, give up nuclear arms, have gun control, set the Russian forces to no higher than 100,000, have elections, execute Putin and join the EU and promise never to attack NATO, also have UK, US and Ukrainian ownership of Western Moscow and the Kremlin for 99 years.
An old friend called asking to borrow $350 so she could pay her rent before Christmas.
I told her I’d have to check and see how much I had in the bank and I’d call her back.
A few moments later her cousin called and asked if I’d heard from Barb. I explained she had called asking for money to pay for her rent. Her cousin said that she was lying that the money she was needing was to bail her boyfriend out of jail where they’d be under the same roof for the holidays.
Frustrated, I hung up and thought for a minute and thinking about the holidays.
I called Barb back and told her to come get the money.
A couple hours after she left she called from the jail and asked WTF I was thinking giving her counterfeit money.
I told her she wanted to be with her boyfriend for Christmas and I was just helping her out……………..
Paul Joseph Watson@PrisonPlanet·10h
You see, Dmitry, Jesus is for once a year but queer is always in season!
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
– John Cleese
The idea that Zelensky is a modern Churchill is off the scale absurdity. Hard to do nowadays.
In Global Warming news, the jacarandas in New Farm Park are still flowering.
It’s all over, chaps.
The idea that Zelensky is a modern Churchill is off the scale absurdity. Hard to do nowadays.
agree- puke making
Tsar Volodomyr, First of his name, King of the Borderlands and First Kyivan Rus, Lord of Lviv, Minsk, Kharkov, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sebastipol and Rostov on Don and protector of the realm and Hetman of Greater Ukraine, Belarus and Eastern Russia!
Poland
It’s been a fun time, but for the good of the alliance, you’re now part of Tsar Volodomyr of the House Zelenzky’s realm.
Cone on, it’s better than last time!
We need a Godwin’s Law for Churchill analogies.
Ukraine has a sovereign right to a secure port and sea lanes, free from potential foreign military intervention. To deny them would be a violation of their human rights and sovereign destiny.
Even more of a reason for Russia to surrender Kaliningrad and their Black Sea territories to Ukraine.
Dot, where are those figures from?
They’re from the dependable General Mark Milley and ISW.
(Slaps car roof) and you don’t get more reliable than that!
Hawforn wacism update, Hun:
The author of the Hawthorn racism report says he “categorically denies” stealing from a body set up to help Indigenous communities.
Victoria Police detectives are investigating former Richmond forward Phil Egan amid claims he fraudulently obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars from Murray Valley Aboriginal Cooperative, including through a bogus invoices scheme.
But Egan on Thursday stated: “I categorically deny that I have stolen from the Murray Valley Aboriginal Cooperative in any way whatsoever. At all times I acted with honesty, integrity and in the best interests of the MVAC.
“Despite the very historical nature of the alleged wrongdoing and the police investigation having been underway for several months, I have not once been contacted by Victoria Police in relation to the allegations. I look forward to speaking to Victoria Police and responding to all its questions.”
Egan’s Hawthorn report rocked the football world when it was leaked in September, as it concluded that between 2010 and 2016, Alastair Clarkson, Chris Fagan and Jason Burt used “bullying and intimidation” against Indigenous players and their partners, two of whom had been pregnant and lost their unborn children during the “traumatic events”.
It described some incidents as so serious as “to amount to human rights abuses”, triggering Clarkson and Fagan to temporarily stand down from their senior coach roles at North Melbourne and Brisbane Lions respectively, despite both categorically denying any wrongdoing.
Referring to a Herald Sun article which this week revealed Egan was now being investigated by police, he said: “Regardless of these slurs against my name, I am extremely confident that this dog whistling will in no way diminish or discredit the entirely separate and independent investigation commissioned by the AFL and led by Mr Bernard Quinn KC, with which I have no involvement.”
The Herald Sun has not suggested the allegations against Egan are true, only that they are being investigated.
Now, this report didn’t conclude fuck all. It made an entirely unsupported claim of racism against Clarkson and Fagan, who strangely enough still have their jobs. That alone should signal that this is an attempted stitch up by disgruntled football players who didn’t get a game.
So if this accusation against Egan is true, or not, how can so much weight be placed on his report.
And who commissioned him to do the report?
Terry had been in business for 25 years and is finally sick of the stress.
He quit his job and bought 50 acres of land in the highlands as far from humanity as possible.
He sees the postman once a week and gets groceries once a month. Otherwise it’s total peace and quiet.
After six months or so of almost total isolation, someone knocks on his door. He opens it and there is a huge, bearded man standing there.
“Name’s Lars, your neighbour from up the road. Having Christmas party Friday night… Thought you might like to come. About 5:00…” “Great” says Terry “after six months out here I’m ready to meet some local folks. Thank you”.
As Lars is leaving, he stops. “Gotta warn ya… there’s gonna be some drinkin’”. “Not a problem” says Terry “after 25 years in business, I can drink with the best of ’em”.
Again, as he starts to leave, Lars stops. “More ‘n’ likely gonna be some fightin’ too”. Terry says “Well, I get along with people, I’ll be alright. I’ll be there. Thanks again”.
Once again Lars turns from the door. “More’n likely be some wild sex, too”. “Now that’s really not a problem” says Terry, warming to the idea. “I’ve been all alone for six months! I’ll definitely be there”.
“By the way, what should I wear?” Lars stops in the door again and says “Whatever you want. Just gonna be the two of us”.
Ukraine has a sovereign right to a secure port and sea lanes, free from potential foreign military intervention.
Make Istanbul Constantinople again!!!!
The English contribution to world cuisine – the chip.
– John Cleese
A fourth Rome, if you will.
Now the anti Islam pro nuke Mecca nuts have to back Zelensky.
When you look at the picture of the Sniffer and the Clown hugging each other in DC, you need to understand both are puppets. I just don’t know which one is the saddest puppet or the most ridiculous puppet.
More enemies of the state identified.
It will be these wreckers fault if Vlad the Terrible ever reaches the Dniepr.
If Kaliningrad belongs to anyone, it belongs to Germany.
Indiana Jones Nazi Polar Men!
Custard! Get in here and explain this!
Eisenhower’s warning has become all too true but I bet he never anticipated the celebration and promotion of perversion.
Konigsberg, if you don’t mind.
Prussia intensifies.
Indiana Jones Nazi Polar Men!
It would make a fun Indiana Jones type adventure.
Maybe Indiana Jones and The Terror.
He didn’t see neo-liberalism coming.
C R I N G E R N I T Y
https://youtu.be/4BtweobVUug
With Paul Joseph Watson.
Scones with blackberry jam and scalded (clotted) cream.
Apologies for being an inconstant Cat reader, but has Calli vanished?
Possibly Photoshopped.
Possibly is different to probably.
Meanwhile, in the Bidenist USSA:
For any Members of Congress who refused to clap for Zelenskyy,
we need to know from them exactly why.
My favourites are the members who refuse to get the clap from Zelenski