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Open Thread – Tues 21 March 2023
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Asian Crime Report
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Mar 20
ACR Exclusive: Mob of juveniles stomp and kick on an 18 yr old man at Stonestown Mall.This is just extraordinary. How is this tolerable?
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If anyone thinks conditions will improve soon, just wait until this same Justice Department indicts Trump for “inciting” the events of January 6.
By Julie Kelly
March 20, 2023The lead prosecutor in charge of the January 6 investigation, the largest probe in Justice Department history, just confirmed what American Greatness has reported for months: the number of criminal cases related to the Capitol protest is expected to at least double before it’s all over.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, an advisor to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign who took over the powerful office in late 2021, sent a letter to the chief judge of the D.C. District court warning up to 1,200 more individuals could face charges.
“We expect the pace of bringing new cases will increase, in an orderly fashion, over the course of the next few months,” Graves told Beryl Howell, who ended her term as chief judge last week. Graves’ office just surpassed 1,000 total defendants in what he renamed the “Capitol Siege” investigation—which means the final caseload might well exceed 2,000.
Graves also indicated his team would ramp up the number of felony indictments; the overwhelming majority of charges so far are low-level offenses, including the laughable “parading in the Capitol” misdemeanor. The Biden regime clearly wants to juice the numbers before the 2024 election season.
And Graves isn’t wasting any time. Eight people have been charged since March 1, including a married couple from Indiana arrested on a civil disorder felony and four misdemeanors.
The D.C. federal courthouse is monopolized by January 6 hearings and trials on a daily basis; one judge announced he would retire rather than deal with January 6 cases for the next several years.
In addition to ruining the lives of thousands of Americans for mostly nonviolent participation in the events of January 6, the Justice Department is accomplishing a more sinister goal: criminalizing and silencing political dissent in America.
I warned two years ago, as Attorney General Merrick Garland’s prosecutors bastardized a post-Enron law in an attempt to turn political protesters into lifelong felons, that January 6 would be used in this manner.
News of the imminent arrest of Donald Trump demonstrated the degree of the regime’s success
After NBC News reported that law enforcement agencies were preparing for unrest following the announcement of state charges against Trump in the Stormy Daniels saga, Trump responded on Truth Social. “[THE] FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK! PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” Trump wrote on March 18.
Trump followed up with a second post: “WE MUST SAVE AMERICA! PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!”
Before January 6, 2021, an American political leader who called for mass protests would not be heard as calling for violence. Trump, in fact, did not encourage his followers to behave violently. He merely—and perhaps unwisely, given the current Gestapo-like conduct of the FBI and federal prosecutors—asked his supporters to protest the unprecedented act of arresting a former president and current candidate for president.
But his social media posts were enough to cause traumatizing flashbacks among the ruling class. The easily traumatized Washington Post columnist Philip Bump weighed in immediately. “The things that made Jan. 6 dangerous were a call to action and a time and place for that action to take place [sic],” Bump tweeted on Saturday morning, conveniently omitting that Trump urged peace during his speech on January 6. “It’s not just that Trump is again demanding a response, it’s that he’s telling people when.”
Iraq War booster David Frum, partially responsible for decades of deadly violence around the globe, insisted that Trump “and his supporters proved on January 6, 2021, their readiness to use violence to defy the law.” Vox claimed Trump’s posts were an “echo of the capitol riots of January 6, 2021.” Salon writer Areeba Shaw said Trump’s “extreme rhetoric” on Truth Social “echoed similar language he used at a Washington rally shortly before the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”
“It’s almost like he’s attempting to organize his domestic terrorists to show up and to resist him being arrested,” Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) warned. Waters infamously encouraged Democrats in 2018 to “create a crowd” to publicly harass Trump Administration officials.
By Monday afternoon, in order to advance optics to support the January 6 comparison, the New York Police Department began installing steel barricades around the Manhattan criminal courthouse, the site of the expected announcement. Politico reported that Capitol Police this week planned to erect “bike-rack type fencing” around the Capitol building—because that worked so well on January 6.
Republicans, understandably, cautioned against plans to protest, not over manufactured fears that another “insurrection” would occur but legitimate fear of how any protest will be criminalized by the Biden regime.
“We don’t need to protest about the Communists Democrat’s [sic] planning to arrest Pres Trump and the political weaponization of our government and election interference,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted over the weekend.
She later warned of likely infiltration by undercover agents or informants. “How many Feds/Fed assets are in place to turn protest against the political arrest of Pres Trump into violence?”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) also downplayed Trump’s calls for protests and appeared to help Trump walk back his own statements. “I don’t think people should protest this, no. And I think President Trump, if you talk to him, he doesn’t believe that, either,” McCarthy said during a Sunday press briefing. As if referring to January 6 himself, McCarthy urged “calmness” in response to Trump’s arrest.
Regardless of the disparate responses from both political sides, the clear winner here is the Biden regime, and the Justice Department in particular.
The ongoing manhunt for Trump supporters is yielding victories of all sizes, not the least of which is the elimination of once-cherished rights to petition the government and redress grievances without being considered a domestic terrorist.
And if anyone thinks conditions will improve soon, just wait until this same Justice Department indicts Trump for “inciting” the events of January 6.
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He’s funny!
Australia’s 116 new coal, oil and gas projects equate to 215 new coal power stations, says researcher
by Richard Denniss, The ConversationThe Ponds Institute just keeps on going and going, like a brain dead whale.
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dover0beach says:
March 22, 2023 at 12:13 pmAsian Crime Report
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Mar 20
ACR Exclusive: Mob of juveniles stomp and kick on an 18 yr old man at Stonestown Mall.This is just extraordinary. How is this tolerable?
No Wonder American African Americans are called Gorillas & Monkey, they look like they have just swung out of the Jungle, and that probably is why their IQs are below that of a Simian
The Guys jumping in the air to land with 2 feet on the Guy on the Grounds Head. don’t even deserve to be called Animals – there must be something lower
That’s why Whites in America (Scott Adams eg) don’t want to live with African American Animals like that – Sons of Obama
I suppose not much different to Darwin Bottleshops
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This is what I mean, there was violence in Hobart from those protesting the Let Women Speak rally. So, this Jew hating, misogynist pervert apologist doesn’t mind a bit of violence against women.
It really is extraordinary how nasty and vindictive left-liberals have become towards, largely, women of the Left that are opposed to sex/ gender self-ID and its effects on women’s space, activities, etc., which is why the painting at the top of this thread is apposite.
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This is interesting
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-022-10130-x
Published: 15 December 2022
Bidirectional Causal Associations Between Same-Sex Attraction and Psychological Distress: Testing Moderation and Mediation EffectsOlakunle A. Oginni, Kai X. Lim, …Frühling V. Rijsdijk Show authors
Behavior Genetics volume 53, pages 118–131 (2023)Cite this articleAbstract
Only one study has examined bidirectional causality between sexual minority status (having same-sex attraction) and psychological distress. We combined twin and genomic data from 8700 to 9700 participants in the UK Twins Early Development Study cohort at ?21 years to replicate and extend these bidirectional causal effects using separate unidirectional Mendelian Randomization-Direction of Causation models. We further modified these models to separately investigate sex differences, moderation by childhood factors (retrospectively-assessed early-life adversity and prospectively-assessed childhood gender nonconformity), and mediation by victimization. All analyses were carried out in OpenMx in R. Same-sex attraction causally influenced psychological distress with significant reverse causation (beta?=?0.19 and 0.17; 95% CIs?=?0.09, 0.29 and 0.08, 0.25 respectively) and no significant sex differences. The same-sex attraction???psychological distress causal path was partly mediated by victimization (12.5%) while the reverse causal path was attenuated by higher childhood gender nonconformity (moderation coefficient?=??0.09, 95% CI: ?0.13, ?0.04). -
Cutest milling machine of the week!
(A little Atlas, from the days when Americans could purchase quality made in USA products at affordable prices.)
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/lutana/miscellaneous-goods/milling-machine-/1310015127
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It really is extraordinary how nasty and vindictive left-liberals have become towards, largely, women of the Left that are opposed to sex/ gender self-ID and its effects on women’s space, activities, etc., which is why the painting at the top of this thread is apposite.
Vicious internecine warfare has always been a mark of the Left.
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OldOzzie says:
March 22, 2023 at 12:14 pmIf anyone thinks conditions will improve soon, just wait until this same Justice Department indicts Trump for “inciting” the events of January 6.
From the Comments
– The terrorists in the democrat party have attacked and stormed 5 state capitols since Jan 6th. They stormed the WH in 2020
Has there been a single charge? NOPE.
– Excellent points. The relentless, criminal, sadistic persecution of Donald Trump by the Democrat Party is the stuff of straight jackets and rubber rooms. And it is only escalating.
I fear that if Trump is arrested and booked, he may not survive. The Brandon regime is now firmly ensconced in power. It isn’t going to let the 2024 presidential election or Donald Trump get in its way.
– If they Epstein him, sh!t is gonna hit the fan.
And the media will screech with glee if they get to report Trump being dead.
And wow, it will be time to sue for the “National Divorce” then.
– If the s h i t hits the fan, it will be squashed. The federal government is organized, financed and armed to the teach. Gun toting dummies will be rounded up and disappeared.
The Brandon lunatic asylum is here to stay and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
It will be up to the states to denounce the renegade federal government and then go their own way.
– Who would be so stupid as to directly face off with the feds unless you were a BLM or ANTFA rioter?
– The two tiered “justice system” moves forward: the left riots, vandalizes, burns loots and destroys with impunity while the right has to “lay back and enjoy it”….wonder who’s winning?
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Vicious internecine warfare
Sure, but I don’t see this as a political struggle for power of office. For one thing, Pesutto’s kneejerk reaction, Mitchell’s concern for the feelings of ‘trans-people’, and the like indicates that this is broader than the political Left, and that this is really about the protean character of liberalism asserting itself against its former self.
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We don’t acknowledge that we promulgate bills of attainder in this country, but that is essentially the judgment that has been pronounced against the former president.
By Roger Kimball
The funniest thing I have read in, well, at least the last several hours, comes from Manhattan’s George Soros-funded affirmative-action district attorney, Alvin Bragg. Responding to the uproar that greeted Donald Trump’s all-caps Truth Social warning that he would be “arrested” on Tuesday, Bragg sent ’round a memo to his staff informing them, and the world, that “This office is full of the finest public servants in the country.”
The comedy didn’t end there, however.
“I am committed to maintaining a safe work environment where everyone is able to continue to serve the public with the same diligence and professionalism [!] that make this institution so renowned. In the meantime, as with all of our investigations, we will continue to apply the law evenly and fairly . . .”
What a card! And, yes, that’s my emphasis but his credulity-breaking bluster.
“Evenly and fairly,” forsooth. Everyone knows that Alvin Bragg does not apply the law at all evenly or fairly. Favoring and disfavoring certain groups is what he is famous for doing. It’s his standard operating procedure. When it comes to your common or garden variety violent thug, especially those of a swarthy disposition, Bragg is the Angel of Mercy.
Last year, Bragg reduced the majority of felony charges that were brought before him to misdemeanors while at the same time targeting people like the bodega employee who fought back to protect himself after being assaulted by one of those common or garden variety thugs.
Will Donald Trump be “arrested” this week? I wouldn’t be surprised. Minions of the state at every level have been working overtime to neutralize Trump for years.
Remember the Russia collusion delusion? The feds fabricated that long-running entertainment. Its result? To expose the senility of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who declared under oath that he was unfamiliar with the organization Fusion GPS. Then the Democratic-controlled House impeached Trump not once but twice, first because he spoke to the president of Ukraine on the phone, then when some of his supporters gave themselves an impromptu self-guided tour of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Various authorities were slavering over the prospect of inspecting Trump’s tax returns only to discover when they finally got their hands on six years worth—O sadness!—that there was nothing incriminating there.
If Bragg dials down felonies for certain groups and individuals, he is perfectly prepared, when his masters in the Democratic Party so desire it, to dial up misdemeanors into felonies for others. That is what seems to be happening with Trump.
If the former president is right that he is about to be arrested, what is the crime? It’s supposedly a “campaign finance violation,” the sort of thing that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—who I believe still holds the record for the biggest fine exacted for such naughtiness ($375,000)—are old hands at practicing.
Except Trump’s supposedly campaign finance violation wasn’t really a campaign finance violation but a clandestine payment of $130,000 made to “Stormy Daniels,” née Stephanie Clifford, via Trump’s former-lawyer-turned-snitch for services that may or may not have been rendered by said Stormy.
There was a lot of he-said-she-said swirling about that relationship, whatever it was, including a court order that Daniels reimburse Trump $300,000 for a failed defamation suit she brought against him.
It should be noted that just because Donald Trump says that he will be arrested this week doesn’t necessarily mean that he will be. The New York Times has cast doubt on the timing and exactly what is likely to happen. Almost everyone outside the most fetid fever swamps of anti-Trump mania thinks that the indictment, if it happens, is a patently political move and a gross violation of Trump’s due process rights. Even National Review, no friend of the former president, has been ringing alarm bells, calling Bragg’s planned indictment a “disgrace.”
Many writers also note that were Trump actually to be arrested, it would be a big boost for him in the polls. Elon Musk, also a Trump skeptic, spoke for many when he said, should Trump be arrested, he would win the 2024 election “in a landslide victory.” Musk might well be right. Certainly, it would both harden and extend Trump’s base of support.
Section nine of Article I of the Constitution says that “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.” Bills of attainder were used and abused by the English crown to target specific people or groups of which it disapproved. If a person was “attainted,” his civil rights were forfeit. He became a pariah. His property could be seized, and he could face imprisonment or execution.
We don’t acknowledge that we promulgate bills of attainder in this country, but that is essentially the judgment that has been pronounced against Donald Trump.
It was the aim of Robert Mueller’s darkly farcical investigation, the purpose of Trump’s two impeachments, and the aim of the kangaroo court known as the House’s January 6 Select Committee, Liz Cheney (D-Georgetown) presiding. Her work there, she said, was to make sure that Donald Trump never got near the Oval Office again. I think it was only a rumor that Cheney had special copies of the Constitution printed with an addition to Article II providing her with a veto over who was allowed to be president of the United States.
Donald Trump has been singled out, he has been attainted, by the ruling elites of this country.
As Michael Anton pointed out last summer, “The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again.” What will the deep state do to prevent Trump from winning? Anton sketches several possibilities from having Trump declared ineligible because he allegedly sparked an “insurrection” on January 6, 2021 to simple cheating at the ballot box.
Then there is Plan F.
What happens then? Well, in the words of the ‘Transition Integrity Project,’ a Soros-network-linked collection of regime hacks who in 2020 gamed out their strategy for preventing a Trump second term, the contest would become ‘a street fight, not a legal battle.’ Again, their words, not mine.
But allow me to translate: The 2020 summer riots, but orders of magnitude larger, not to be called off until their people are secure in the White House.
I think that is eminently possible. And while I would rue the day it happened, I also believe that groveling and capitulating because you are intimidated by the possibility would be even worse.
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The Republican-led Committee on the Judiciary and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government issued an interim report Tuesday on the Department of Justice’s aggressive actions and investigations into parents who dared to voice concerns about local school boards.
The committee made no bones about its conclusions, headlining the document in hold and all caps:
A “‘MANUFACTURED” ISSUE AND “MISAPPLIED” PRIORITIES: SUBPOENAED DOCUMENTS SHOW NO LEGITIMATE BASIS FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S ANTI-PARENT MEMO
The committee began its investigation in October 2021 after members learned of the issuance “of a memorandum from Attorney General Merrick Garland directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation and all U.S. Attorney’s Offices—among other Department components—to examine and address threats posed by parents at school board meetings.”
The FBI went on to routinely investigate parents who criticized school boards, including a father for simply opposing mask mandates and a mom deemed a threat for “owning guns” and belonging to a conservative parent group called “Moms for Liberty.”
Throughout the report, the committee describes the stonewalling and lack of response from Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden Administration.
Nevertheless, members were able to glean enough information from whistleblowers, subpoenaed documents, and a report commissioned by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) which labeled parents as “domestic terrorists” to write the interim account:
From the initial set of material produced in response to the subpoenas, it is apparent that the Biden Administration misused federal law-enforcement and counterterrorism resources for political purposes.
The Justice Department’s own documents demonstrate that there was no compelling nationwide law-enforcement justification for the Attorney General’s directive or the Department components’ execution thereof.
The document then describes how regional FBI offices and local law enforcement often were not pleased with the DOJ’s interference and thought the entire effort was “misapplied.” In one instance the Southern District of Alabama reported to DOJ headquarters about a shooting at a school board member’s house—although the shooting had nothing to do with the school board and was the result of random gun violence.
So if there were few real threats from parents to local school boards, why did the FBI respond in this ham-handed fashion? The committee concludes that it was all political:
It appears, from these documents and the information received previously, that the Administration’s actions were a political offensive meant to quell swelling discord over controversial education curricula and unpopular school board decisions. [Emphasis mine.]
They even imply—but don’t come right out and say it—that the DOJ’s overreach could have been an attempt to influence an important election:
The Attorney General’s directive came just weeks before a pivotal gubernatorial election in Virginia, in which education policies were hotly debated and a local school board’s actions were under intense scrutiny. The inference from the initial tranche of subpoenaed documents is that the Justice Department’s actions were a reaction to these political circumstances rather than a legitimate law-enforcement response to any serious, nationwide threat.
The report rips the Justice Department in its final paragraph:
The use of these resources chills protected First Amendment activity as parents rightfully fear that their passionate advocacy for their children could result in a visit from federal law enforcement.
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Bidirectional Causal Associations Between Same-Sex Attraction and Psychological Distress
That appears to be a common thread Dot: mental illness.
‘I Just Want to Feel Like Myself,’ Tearfully Admits America’s Most Famous ‘Trans Kid’ Jazz Jennings (21 Mar)
“There are a lot of deeply disturbing and unlikeable members of the trans cult. Jazz Jennings is not one of them. He was transitioned by his mother at the tender age of five. By the age of eleven, Jazz was on puberty blockers. At 17, even though a minor, Jazz underwent multiple genital surgeries to remove his penis and have it inverted. This process was botched and several attempts were made to remedy it, but the reduced size of Jazz’s penis due to years on puberty blockers made an already brutal surgery even worse.
Jazz has since suffered from mental illness, rapid weight gain, pain, constant reflux, a lack of sex drive, an inability to orgasm, and anxiety. And not unlike the Truman Show, it all happened in front of the cameras for a global audience. Were Jazz to want to escape from this reality, there is nowhere he could go where he could begin again in private, away from prying eyes.
Jazz has now broken down (on camera, of course) and spilled his heart to his mother that, despite it all, he doesn’t feel like himself. It is a moment many of us saw coming but hoped for the sake of this severely traumatized and abused child wouldn’t. God help everyone involved in this unspeakable crime that was done to this innocent person who is suffering in front of us all.”
Poor kid. Dante’s hell is going to need another circle for parents that do this to their sons. At age five! I have two trannies in my extended family, both of whom were fat and ugly…then got hooked by the idea of transitioning. I don’t know if it helped, but I suspect the result isn’t giving them the mental peace they were hoping for. At least they started out as girls originally, not boys.
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Check out this interview. That idiot Ferguson starts of saying Australia is a free an open society…pigs arse it is. The last 3 years prove that. As for the press here?…cough.
Taken from the Cossack channel:
Russian Ambassador clashes with ABC host
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Now even INSECT farming is cruel
First, they didn’t want you to eat meat.
Then they decided that farming plants, too, causes global warming. Hence the farmer protests in Europe.
Now they even are questioning the ethics of farming insects.
Dirt. You must eat dirt. Except, perhaps, that too is unethical, because dirt has microbes.
Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use the Earth’s magnetic field to orient themselves on journeys of hundreds of miles. Bees waggle their butts to tell their hive-mates where to find a juicy stash of nectar. Insects live in our world—or humans live in theirs—yet we inhabit completely different sensory universes.
But just as we are starting to understand insect senses, something is shifting in the way we treat these creatures. Insect farming is booming in a major way. By one estimate, between 1 trillion and 1.2 trillion insects are raised on farms each year as companies race to find a high-protein, low-carbon way to feed animals and humans. In terms of sheer numbers of animals impacted, this is a transformation of a speed and scale that we’ve never seen before.
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What has happened to scholarly standards in Hobart?
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history/2023/03/the-posthumous-lynching-of-william-crowther/
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Lizzie:
I suspect the time to buy gold has already passed.
In the short term, yes.
I think it will find a floor around the $2800/oz mark as people move in and out of the market. I’m holding off for the next week or so to see what happens in the US, although I suspect some pressure up as the Biden crime cartel creates more mayhem to keep their name off the front page. -
“[about to lock up their boy Trump for illegally paying off a porn star for a one night stand while his third wife was home suckling their baby]”
No M0nty – nothing illegal about it. You can argue the ethics of what is alleged to have happened if you like, but the legalities are quite clear. She was going to make it all public – true or not (and both now deny it happened!) Trump paid her “go away” money with a non-disclosure agreement attached. Perfectly normal and legal thing to do for a “public” person to avoid the negative publicity involved in a trial – and Trump could easily argue that, at the time, his business interests (including his “sale-ability” as a TV celebrity) needed such protection.
Payment was made as advised by his legal team – through their office, to obfuscate the source (again, for protection against adverse publicity, and “standard” for such payments). There is arguably a misdemeanor regarding business records of the payment Trump made to his legal team, which has a statute of limitations of 2 years (well past).
The ONLY way this can be illegal is IF (really, really big if!), the NY DA can show the payment was an “in kind” political donation – a position that the Federal Elections Commission believed they could not support at trial at the time. If, and only if, NY DA can “prove” this “in kind” donation, then he can upgrade the misdemeanor business records charge to a felony, which has a statute to limitations of seven (7) years – which is just about up, so it’s basically now or never for NY DA.
So, what do you think?
You think the NY DA has a better idea of what is applicable with respect to federal elections law than the Federal Elections Commission? I find that to be untenable on its face – rather like suggesting your average solicitor can win a tax case for you, when the tax specialist QC says it’s unlikely you can win. IMO, it would certainly be a rather devastating blow to the DA when it is revealed in court that the FEC investigated the event and didn’t even attempt to indict Trump for the exact same thing – even more so when you realise that the people running the FEC at that point were Obama appointees!Like I said, they don’t WANT it to go to trial, they want an indictment and then they want it tossed out on procedural grounds – that way, they can say it was never heard and he got off on a technicality. Rather like what they did to Kyle Rittenhouse – they claimed he was NOT found innocent, just “not guilty” (ignoring that these are the only two options the court has – no-one is EVER found innocent, just “not guilty”!) This will be the exact opposite of what they claimed re: the election cases, the majority of which were thrown out for procedural reasons, not on the basis of the evidence. It’s all “optics”, you see – make him look bad, and take the view on the specifics of the legalities that most disadvantages Trump. Helped by their “elite” churnalist (sic) mates.
They still think that the MSM can shape the story to their advantage, apparently not concerned that public trust in the MSM is at an all-time low in the US – the average American trusts politicians more than the MSM!Sorry, I think this will backfire bigly, if they are so foolish as to do it. And, bar a few, they are foolish enough to try, I reckon. We’ll see if those few can bring some sense to situation, but I rather doubt they can do so now – it’ll just have to play out.
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He’s a joy.
Jeremy Clarkson: A Tory BBC? Everyone I met there in 25 years was flaming red (19 Mar, via Instapundit)
RTWT. If only…if only someone could write something like this about the ABC.
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Cory Bernadi has a lot of common sense in his weekly newsletter:
There’s so much going on in the world it’s hard to know where to look.
Maybe that’s the point. By changing gaze to the latest shiny object we are distracted from the substantive issues we should be paying attention to.
Trump’s possible arrest, banking collapses, inflation, transgenderism, identity politics and so forth, are all symptoms of the real problem which the political and media elites hope we’ll miss.
The most significant problem we have is the parlous state of the Western world.
It is dysfunctional, chaotic and on the verge of collapse.
America is a deliberately divided and corrupt political swamp. The UK is a failing society. Canada is ruled by an tyrant. France is now operating by Presidential decree and New Zealand is a cot-case of wokeness.
Around the world, democratic freedoms and the rule of law are being replaced by authoritarianism and most people haven’t even noticed.
As for Australia, our politics is dominated by left-wing ideologues – even in the centre right political parties.
The latest example is the proposal by Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto to expel MP Moira Deeming from the Liberal Party room.
Her ‘crime’ was to speak at a ‘let women speak’ rally which was gatecrashed by a bunch of men with waxed legs and shaven armpits claiming to be representing National Socialism.
They gave the NAZI salute as they marched in front of Victoria’s parliament house.
Their attendance had absolutely nothing to do with Deeming but that doesn’t matter to John Pesutto.
Instead, he compiled a dossier of ‘offences’ by those linked to Deeming by virtue of her support for the ‘let women speak’ event.
This ‘dossier’ doesn’t include scandalous claims Pesutto made on national television about associations with David Duke of the Klu Klux Klan and others.
Those claims were taken directly from the Internet journal of no-repute, Wikipedia. They are completely false.
What sort of a political leader seeks to expel one of his own party on the basis of a Wikipedia entry without seeking to confirm it first?
You can make your own assessment but here’s mine.
In Pesutto’s eyes, anyone remotely connected with someone remotely connected to someone with terrible views is guilty of an offence and should be expelled from public life.
It’s worth pointing out that a lot of what Pesutto has presented as fact has been denied. Time will tell if what he says is true but I don’t think it matters.
Pesutto is finished. If the motion to expel fails he is finished. Even if it succeeds, he is finished.
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A high school industrial arts teacher who has been charged with allegedly scuffling with a student in the classroom has copped ‘countless amounts of verbal and physical abuse’ over his career, supporters have claimed.
Michael Kable, 62, was arrested on Tuesday night following reports a pupil at Maitland Grossman High School, in the NSW Hunter region, had been assaulted in class about 2pm.
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A rational society would have arrested Soros and Gates, tried them for treason and malarkey, then hung them years ago.
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Lizzie:
I suspect the time to buy gold has already passed.
Fully concur.
The last couple of weeks have seen the gold price fluctuate wildly on the back of US bank crises, .gov fibs about inflation levels and wholesale profit taking.I also agree with Robert Sewell (above) that the spot price will steady around the $A2800 mark.
Ammunition is still reasonably priced if you have some spare cash lying around.
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Latham doesn’t flinch. From The Oz….
Latham responds to ‘triggered’ protests and criticism
The riot squad were called after more than 500 people turned up to protest outside St Michael’s Church in Belfield where One Nation MP Mark Latham was invited to speak about religious freedoms.,
NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham has responded to independent MP Alex Greenwich’s comments about him following the clash that broke out between peaceful protestors and a large group of people.
“I would say to Alex Greenwich, who is one of the instigators of what happened last night with those protestors, tell your people not to blockade roads, tell your people not to try and deny entry to churchgoers to their sacred place of worship,” he said.
“Put them on the footpath, they can wave their placards, they can chant their anti-Latham chants till their blue in the face but don’t provoke and trigger the sort of violence that we saw there last night.”
NSW Police said the protest was meant to be violent but that it turned into a “very violent event”.
“There was no indication that this was going to be a violent event at all, we had sufficient resources for the information that had been gathered, we had worked with the event organisers, we had worked with the protestors,” Superintendent Sheridan Waldau told media today.
“It was only a very small group of protestors and the church has also spoken to their congregation and the people attending to ensure that no violence would occur.
“The police were standing directly in front of the protest group to protect them.”
When the situation escalated, Superintendent Waldau said police were able to gather the resources it needed to deal with the incident.
“At this stage we don’t believe there will be any further incidents in relation to this, this was an isolated incident in relation to that particular event,” she said.
“The protestors were removed from the scene for their own safety by the police and as far as know there will be no further incidents involving this group.”
I’ve just voted….for One Nation. I already have NO regrets.
Go One Nation.
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Botoxing your stomach may not be a great idea.
An increasing number of clinics around the world are providing the procedures – sometimes called ‘stomach Botox’ or ‘gastric Botox’ treatments – which so far appear to be a relatively safe option, though questionable in their long-term effectiveness as an aid in weight loss.
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Even in trained hands, unlicensed ‘Botox’ products containing unknown mixes or unapproved counterfeit sources of the toxin present significant risks to patient health.It’s hard to know what went wrong to cause this latest outbreak. Among the 63 cases with sufficient details, 60 are known to have had the procedure at a private hospital in Istanbul.
A further three were linked with a second private hospital in the Turkish city of Izmir. They all received their treatments sometime between 22 February and 1 March this year.
And botoxing your stomach in a Turkish hospital really really isn’t a good idea.
(via Instapundit)
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Russian Ambassador clashes with ABC host
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeGjLmk_oacAgree, Steve – that the last three years prove that Australia is far from a free society.
But I think that the Russian ambassador was poorly prepared for the interview. It may be that his English was not up to the requirements of the debate – but, heavens, he IS an ambassador! Ferguson had him on a platter & relished the meal. She is a red hot interviewer & you just have to be at the top of your game to deal with her.
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What sort of a political leader seeks to expel one of his own party on the basis of a Wikipedia entry without seeking to confirm it first?
A staggeringly stupid one who’s political career (if it could be dignified with such a term) now exists on borrowed time.
Victoriastanian Gliberals – the roadside wombats of Ozzie politics.
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Daily Wire
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Kirby: “LGBTQ+ rights…are a core part of our foreign policy.”Drag Queen Empire.
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dover0beach says:
March 22, 2023 at 12:13 pm
Asian Crime Report
@activeasian
Mar 20
ACR Exclusive: Mob of juveniles stomp and kick on an 18 yr old man at Stonestown Mall.
This is just extraordinary. How is this tolerable?This is heartbreaking. It is savagery like this that can lead to a race war, or at least to a racial separation.
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Kneel, I think I will wait to see the charges before critiquing them. Don’t forget that the money to pay Stormy Daniels off was allegedly connected to a slush fund paid into by shadowy foreign figures. I wouldn’t dismiss the charge sheet before seeing it.
It was always the most obvious, outrageous and blatant crime that Trump pulled. It would be a failure of the US legal system if they couldn’t pin it on him.
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FlyingDuk:
Just like all the health care workers who ridiculously claimed that the vaxxes were unsafe and ineffective, and that Ivermectin worked.
Something to watch out for is the registration rules especially for nurses. I was crook for a couple of years and because I hadn’t worked in the public system for 18 months, my registration was revoked. To regain registration in the Qld system, I had to do a degree course and NONE of my 32 years as an RN were counted in prior experience. As I was 61, I felt taking on a 30 – 40k fee was a frigging joke and told them to shove it.
So why the rule? Well a 12 year+ RN is paid about $103k while a 1st year RN is $80k. That’s a saving of $23k per year. (+ shift loadings etc) And that’s all that administration cares about. Patient safety is secondary and senior level staff burnout is a benefit. -
“Have you ever seen a twenty dollar note all crumpled up?” asked the wife. “No” I said. She gave me a sexy little smile, reached into her cleavage and pulled out a crumpled twenty dollar note. “Have you ever seen a fifty dollar note all crumpled up?” she asked. “No” I said. She gave me another sexy little smile, reached into her knickers and pulled out a crumpled fifty dollar note. “Now” she said “have you ever seen $63,000 dollars all crumpled up?” “No” I said, intrigued. “Well, go and take a quick look in the garage”.
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Kneel:
They don’t want Trump convicted, just charged. Then they can say he got off on a “technicality”, and “he really is guilty, we just can’t prove it at law.” Just an excuse to smear the man with. They know they can’t win on policy, so the need to smear other side. Pretty disgusting.
The clean out of the American stables is going to be a Herculean effort – if it can be done.
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this is really about the protean character of liberalism asserting itself against its former self.
I like the allusion to Proteus – we are seeing it on all sides now, and not just on the Left. It has permeated every institution and organisation. It may be that the family unit is the last stronghold, so no wonder the pressure point is greatest there.
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Any Cats who are opposed to Covid vaccine mandates and continued spruiking of the vaccines, and who are voting on the weekend, might consider the following candidates:
Dr. Phillip Altman (Independant, Manly)
Dr. My Le Trinh (Liberal Democrat, Castle Hill)Most of you will know about Phil’s background, but Dr. Trinh has apparently been suspended for her medical views & is standing as Liberal Democrat for Cattle Hill.
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I’m utterly speechless. So I’ll let my typing fingers do the talking.
My parents just told me they’ve had their fifth dose of vaxx. When I asked why, they said they thought it would be a good idea. They hadn’t even been encouraged to do so by their doctor.
This after many…many conversations about vaxx efficacy and risks. And even after Dad’s hideous and ongoing autoimmune reaction which has involved endless visits to the doctor for treatment.
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allisays:
March 22, 2023 at 2:26 pm
I’m utterly speechless. So I’ll let my typing fingers do the talking.My parents just told me they’ve had their fifth dose of vaxx. When I asked why, they said they thought it would be a good idea. They hadn’t even been encouraged to do so by their doctor.
This after many…many conversations about vaxx efficacy and risks. And even after Dad’s hideous and ongoing autoimmune reaction which has involved endless visits to the doctor for treatment.
That is very sad to hear Calli. I am 70 years young and have never had the Jab and never will. I fee fine although I do get a hangover every now and then. Don’t know why though………..lol
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The teenager who allegedly stabbed a bottle shop worker in Darwin on Sunday night after being refused service of alcohol had been released on bail for aggravated robbery and aggravated assault just over a month ago.
Why are Bottle Shop workers required by Law to refuse service to intoxicated people?
The purchasers aren’t consuming the Alcohol on the premises, and for all anybody knows, they could be doing early Christmas Shopping?This man is now dead, how many similar tragedies have happened, and how many more will happen because Virtue Signaling Nanny Government requires them to act as unpaid Policemen?
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Monty is very funny. A billionaire paying $130,000 to a lady to get her to sign a confidentiality agreement is small change, especially when he gave his whole salary to charity for four years. Biden isn’t. That’s a tell.
If having it off with a loose woman is a jailing offence then most of the Democrat Party would be in jail. And most of the Labor Party.
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He lacks the inclination to learn.
You all assume m0nty says things because he believes them to be true. He doesn’t. He works quite differently. He writes things because he thinks it will annoy you, and he enjoys getting a rise out of you. And it works, thus developing his addiction.
Most of you can’t see this; you are concerned with truth and want to pursue it, and you assume everyone else is the same. Language, for m0nty, isn’t about articulating truth, it’s about power and control. If he can piss you off, that’s demonstrating his control over you. He’s hooked on it.
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Calli:
I’m probably being naive here, but unless your gold holdings are in actual gold that you can bury in the backyard, isn’t the holding of it just another piece of paper saying you have “x” amount in wealth? And can’t that just be taken away with the swipe of a pen, or more likely these days, with a press of a button?
That’s not naïve, Calli – it’s good thinking.
Gold stored in banks can be taken by the government – it only takes a declaration of a state of emergency covering currency to allow them to do it. Even if you have it in pool allocation storage with a Bullion Company, the same thing applies. The State can take your gold etc and issue you with a fancy bit of paper that states it is now worth $x and when the ’emergency’ is over (and the dollar is now worth $sfa) you can buy it back.
“If You Allow Government to Break the Law in an Emergency, It will Create an Emergency in Order to Break the Law.”
Lisa Simpson.
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Why are Bottle Shop workers required by Law to refuse service to intoxicated people?
The purchasers aren’t consuming the Alcohol on the premises, and for all anybody knows, they could be doing early Christmas Shopping?Are you even on Planet Earth? FFS, you are a real Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment (if at all).
T.W.A.T
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Daily Mail.
Grieving mum of boy stabbed to death while working at BWS is attacked with stones and SPAT at as she arrives to collect his body: ‘Get him out of this hellhole’
Declan’s parents open up about sad loss
His mum flew to Darwin to bring body home
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Indolent:
VP of Atlanta media nonprofit unmasked as violent extremist Antifa member who is organizing an armed militancy camp
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Birds are racist.
Washington Post Frets Over the Racism of Birds Since We Have No Other Problems to Address (21 Mar)
I’m grief stricken. All this time my Cafe birds have been hiding this ghastly fact from me.
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132andBush sputters:
at 10:16 am
There’s nothing that monty likes to see more than a woman shut down from speaking.Yeah, except …
while Moira Deeming was giving a speech, Avi Yemeni was conducting a loud interview 5 metres away with Kelly-Jay Minshull on the topic of John Pesutto’s shortcomings in particular and the Liberal Party’s generally.“They’re supposed to be conservatives, aren’t they?” snorts suspected Trot Minshull, as the hapless and terminally stupid [giving her the benefit of the doubt here] Moira Deeming rambles on about some non issue no one gives a shit about.
Other than, perhaps, to see her punched.Yeah, just on that:
Who, exactly, was punched [and knocked out].
Kelly-Jay Minshull doesn’t say, but my guess is that it wasn’t one of her crew, it was a dopey Socialist Left drone who tried to unmask one of the Boxers and got knocked out for her trouble.NewsCorp could follow this angle up, but don’t hold your breath waiting.
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On another note.
Friend of the family died last week, very good mate of dads and an absolute legend.A few vignettes, starting with the last.
While lying dying in hospice last week he had his son in attendance, finaly he said to his son “this is it, I can feel myself fading a bit, I dnt think Ill be with you in the morning”.
Son went home and returned early the next day, there was M lying a rest, eyes closed and peaceful.
His son went over to the bed just in time for M to pop his eyes open and crow “Im BAAAAACK”
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Son of a wealthy Pom landholder (attended the same school as King Charlie) M was the “spare” and expected to follow the family tradition of the spares going into service. In the tradition of Forrest Gumps mate his grandfather and great grandfather had both ended up in wheelchairs in WW1 & 2 respectively – he thought bugger that so bailed on the family only to end up in a wheelchair (quad) after an accident involving a loader bucket striking the back of his neck.
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Went over to visit the family manse once – his “nurse” was a pretty thing.. Im not saying there was bad blood between the brothers, but his brother seduced the nurse and left M in a bedsit until his son could fly to the UK to rescue him.
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He was before his accident the inspiration for the chap in the “solo” ads, diving/hang-gliding/womanizing/piss drinking/emu shooting/legend.
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Despite being a quad (he had partial use of both arms, one about 50% the other about 20% or so) he found a massive dope crop near where he lived, as he had a special quadbike (in both senses of the term) he went everywhere on. Quite a large drug bust for the cops.
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And lastly he remained an attempted womaniser till the end – in one traumatic instance he had a lady (in the loosest possible sense of the term) from a shonky dating site that used and abused him (thanks viagra) then threw him onto the floor and used him as her toilet as he scrabbled like a crab trying to get away. His description of the event was one of the funniest things Ive every heard.His sendoff was very well attended.
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Perhaps Mark Latham go become the new Victorian Opposition leader, because that’s how you respond to the left.
It probably tells you something about Pesutto and his inner circle that they did this, when they could have called Deeming and the organizers in for an explanation, then asked them what their claims involved, and then called a press conference in which they countered the mudslinging, and then outlined what Let Woman Speak were concerned about and declared what the position of the party in respect of these concerns was, defended those claims as reasonable and their right to make them without being intimidated at every turn.
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Rogersays:
March 22, 2023 at 12:41 pm
It really is extraordinary how nasty and vindictive left-liberals have become towards, largely, women of the Left that are opposed to sex/ gender self-ID and its effects on women’s space, activities, etc., which is why the painting at the top of this thread is apposite.Vicious internecine warfare has always been a mark of the Left.
See also Trotsky and many other once close associates of Lenin and Stalin, airbrushed out of history.
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Black Ballsays:
March 22, 2023 at 2:53 pmFarmer Gez what are the chances of Anne Webster weighing in?
Not speaking for Gez but I would imagine SFA. Gez and others involved in this have to get their Council/s onside. The go would be to team up with other landowners who will be affected. The bigger the group, the better. Also, more prepared to donate to the cause may lead to legal representation.
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BTW, here is an article on the guy that originated the trans flag:
“I identify as female, but I’m more of a bigender person,” Helms says. “This allows my brain to float between multiple worlds, or solidly take on one role or another. Sometimes I am a man and a woman at the same time, or I can change in a nanosecond, then change back just as fast.”
It’s really just sex cosplay.
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Farmer Gezsays:
March 22, 2023 at 8:01 am
Went to an info evening about the proposed renewable energy transmission line that will cut across western vic to connect to Snowy 2.0.
It’s immeasurably worse than we could have imagined.FG,
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Last year my stepfather spent three months in hospital, firstly at St Vincent’s and then at a posh eastern suburbs private hospital, a hospital my mother dubbed “Hotel California”…”you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”…..my mother did manage to get him out and home after much ado. Anyway, at the hospital they jabbed my stepfather for the fourth time, without telling her. My mother was furious. My mother has been jabbed three times (first two plus the booster), and she has said to her doctor that she will not be having any more.
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Phew. I’ve got as far coming back to the Cat this arvo as looking at the saddest of any sad case of little Jazz, and then looked at those US teens stomping on some other poor older teen almost to the point of murder and no adults coming in to roar STOP at them. That on top of poor Farmer Gez’s dark night over fighting greenies for his farm, let alone the man who is fighting some non-existent bunyip about to destroy his home and career. The world is fooked and today I feel I can only cope with it in small doses or I will feel what novelist De Lillo in one of his better early works called ‘the undertoad’ pulling me into some mire myself.
Tried to cheer myself up. Ordered the new bookshelves. Listened patiently to the lonely schizophrenic mother of my grandson when she rang and chatted for the usual twenty minutes she needs to keep her on an even keel, peeled some potatoes from our own garden to make contact with the earth, and watered all my potplants as a goodwill gesture. I miss my birdies. Only one occasional fledgie comes now. I guess Bruce manages to keep his flocks because he doesn’t depart on them for long periods.
Rousing the British spirit, I am now off to make a cup of tea. That always helps. 🙂
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Lisa Simpson.
(No one thought our rulers would lock us in our houses over a simple flu season, did they?)Luckily I never took any notice of the lockdowns and was out and about every day around the Sydney CBD. Whenever the Cops challenged me, I just said that I was homeless and then they had no answer. So, I just kept walking around…………………..lol. The fresh air was the best IMHO.
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a hospital my mother dubbed “Hotel California”…”you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”….
Try attending emergency to get a PEG tube reinserted on a Friday evening (a 15 minute job for a gastro Registrar) and finally getting out 4pm on a Sunday. That really was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest stuff. But it was very hot and I was in the air conditioning.
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Whenever the Cops challenged me, I just said that I was homeless and then they had no answer
The greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes and pee stained trousers probably helped eh?
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It probably tells you something about Pesutto and his inner circle that they did this, …
All correct, but:
In the meantime, Albanese is asking Peter Dutton in Question Time yesterday if he supports Nazis and John Pesutto’s lack of any real action on the issue.Someone else in the Victorian Liberal Party takes the opportunity to slam Pesutto’s inaction, Moira Deeming calls a Presser to announce herself as the de facto Liberal Boss in Victoria, Andrews is running wild in the Liberal policy vacuum, ParrotHead fields 199 questions on where he stands on Nazis, Dutton can expect plenty of Socialist Left company next time he visits Aston, if he even bothers to waste his time …
or Pesutto can take a principled stand and put the issue to rest.He was going to have to address it anyway, Moira Deeming is a fanatical pro Trans Feminist, she only parts ways with the rest of the loons on whether they can use the Ladies or [her preference] build dedicated Toilets and change rooms for Trans people.
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Something upcheering. Hairy has just arrived back home from the shops and Attapuss is giving him a wonderful display in the hallway of his very nice big soft white cat tummy. There is great comfort in the presence of a man and a cat. Life can’t be all that bad, and good people and good things still exist.
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Lizzie:
Calli, you can ask for your gold to be delivered to you and keep it in your own bank deposit box or under your dahlias if you wish. Not sure if there is a limit on the amount.
Your own bank deposit box will be accessible to the Tax man now, or any government ‘Agent’ after a State of Financial Emergency has been declared. (I assume the BDB will be in a bank)
Remember that threats of gaol will be made against you or someone they think will be vulnerable to apply pressure to you.
I’ve decided to keep mine at a secure location, and if the Revenooers turn up at the front door, the bullion was stolen by several dusky youths months ago. I didn’t report it because I know who they are and they know who I am. Threats were made etc.
Or you can build a nice little patio/rotunda etc, have a solid concrete base and let the neighbours know that if they hear a jackhammer going at an odd hour, to call the police.
🙂 Lot’s of fun ways to try and outsmart the Police/Revenooers etc.
Just remember they will have the Law on their side – and a mean and nasty disposition against “People who put themselves before the security of the Nation.”
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