Autumn (The Spies with the Grapes of the Promised Land), Nicolas Poussin, 1660-64
2,217 thoughts on “Open Thread – Tues 28 March 2023”
Seems to me not offering a general teller service at every branch is simple cost cutting by ANZ.
I’m willing to bet they have a dedicated cash transaction only teller at their Box Hill branch.
I know CBA does.
Dr Peterson Pierre on Florida Surgeon General’s letter to the FDA citing a 4400% increase in reports of serious life-threatening adverse events following the C19 vax.
Based on new study, rate of serious side effects is 1 in every 550 people.
EFFECTIVE
(in making billions, creating new customers & vaccines, population control, removing your rights & freedoms, and ushering in medical tyranny & digital ID).
The One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, has called on Mark Latham to apologise for comments about the sexuality of fellow state MP Alex Greenwich that left the New South Wales environment minister, Penny Sharpe, “physically sickened”.
The Guardian, from its fainting couch:
Latham, the NSW One Nation leader, made the comments on Twitter on Thursday morning in response to an article in which Greenwich called Latham “a disgusting human being”. The article was about LGBTQ+ protesters being targeted outside an event Latham spoke at earlier this month.
In response, Latham said “disgusting?” and then went on to make gratuitous comments about a sexual act. Guardian Australia has chosen not to publish the full comment.
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Guardian Australia has chosen not to publish the full comment.
SOP. They never do.
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Bolt seems like controlled opposition. He gave himself away by his attitude to the Donald.
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Now bolt and his panel outraged by demands for apologies from the left noting that you should never apologise to the left. FMD.
And greenwich introduced live birth abortion into NSW. He’s not a poofta, he’s a killer.
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H B Bearsays:
March 30, 2023 at 1:31 pm
People are funny about books.
The other guilt factor with books is being told “you’ll love this” and taking too long to read it, or not reading it at all.
There is a borrowed 400 page tome on my bedside table which has been there for three months without much progress.
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I’m disappointed in Pauline- I thought she would show some solidarity.
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There are many other kinds of statements about a person that have far more serious consequences. In a university, an academic called a racist or a sexist can lead to the academic being shunned by colleagues and face career block.
Etc
Yet such statements are never deprecated, and it’s the target who is the problem.
Latham’s return insult to Greenwich is crude, but relatively minor.
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Just STFU, you tiresome tomato faced twat.
The Beetrooter gives retail politics a bad name.
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The US, or at least it’s government, is quite possibly the most evil actor in the world today, certainly in terms of outcomes.
Why are so many countries all of a sudden turning to the yuan to buy their essential commodities?
Why is the world de-dollarizing so quickly?
Simple — the Russian sanctions.
1/11
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Everyone is in favour of homosexuality until it comes to the bolt and nuts.
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Mr Ueda said the energy policy environment in Australia “appears to be driven almost by ideology and domestic concerns” and warned of consequences of policies that will increase market opportunities for Russia and Iran.
Why would any country rely on our exports when we refuse to honour our contracts? And yes, Russia will do business with our erstwhile customers and get rich in the process while we get poorer.
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Bulldust, in other words. Believe it or not, this was in the Guardian.
My complaint to Telecommunications Ombudsman’s Office re telstra roaming was resolved very swiftly (and refunded).
No response yet from Qantas.
No doubt swamped.
I’m going to give them a couple more weeks, then escalate.
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greenwich introduced live birth abortion into NSW
With the connivance of that foul Armenian witch, Beryl Gladyschlocklian and the rest of the stupid forking gliberals.
Of course, NSW voters didn’t hear about any of this until after the 2019 state election.
Someone on the old Sinc blog warned us.
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Thanks Lizzie, love you, but I’m a bit shy of putting it all out there at the moment.
Of course. Fully understand, and if you want generously to share something one-to-one with no risk of disclosure then Dover can give you my email for further chat. Just whatever you feel comfortable doing. Good to know that no matter what, you say all turned out well for you in the end. We felt like that when Hairy’s previous eyesight loss turned out not to be the big nasty of Giant Cell Arteritis which they thought at first it might have been.
Hairy has a review in six weeks’ time and the tear wasn’t too dramatic.
Eyesight is so precious and we can tend to take it so much for granted. Hearing too.
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The only thing Latham is “guilty” of is stating the bleeding obvious.
Yes it was crude, yes it was over the top and yes, it was absolutely correct. But of course, it’s the last one that all the sanctimonious morons are screeching self righteously about.
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Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows
It’s fun that the biggest scam of all time, climate change, has bred lots of smaller scams.
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The US, or at least it’s government, is quite possibly the most evil actor in the world today, certainly in terms of outcomes.
yes it is and also the export of marxist attacks on society slavishly copied by the Australian left.
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mUttley busy downticking peoples’ comments, I see.
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I expect purchased carbon offsets will join gas in the saviour to part of the problem corner. Dem goalposts dey are on the move.
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Ms Hansen called on Mr Latham to apologise for a homophobic tweet directed at Sydney MP and gay-rights campaigner Alex Greenwich sent on Thursday morning.
It won’t do Pauline any good, the media and the left will still hate her and work to oust her.
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Richard Vobes interviews Darren Nesbit from the newspaper “The Light”.
My complaint to Telecommunications Ombudsman’s Office re telstra roaming was resolved very swiftly (and refunded).
My phone is Vodafone and Hairy’s is Telstra. I had no problems with Vodafone roaming, but Hairy was quite overcharged for his; he was on the phone making enquiries when we returned, not sure if there was any satisfactory resolution. He probably gave up.
As with many things in modern life, they get you with the process.
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The US, or at least it’s government, is quite possibly the most evil actor in the world today, certainly in terms of outcomes.
Don’t forget Iraq and Libya either
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Lizzie, pass on my regards to the other half. Funnily enough, I’ve had my teeth, eyes and blood pressure checked recently. All fine. The last one I was particularly surprised about, given various recent personal tribulations.
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Both he and Michelle must be pretty fit to be able to climb the bridge over 1200 steps.
And they were given a dispensation from donning the mandatory high-viz jackets and tethers.
How embarrassing for Australia that even these left-wing royals were, like, ‘dude, we’re good – f-k off.’
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I have spent the arvo sorting my books into categories like a librarian and boxing them up ready for the new shelves to be constructed next week. It’s far more interesting than sorting a sock drawer.
So many books that would be good to dip into again. Some long forgotten, turning up like old friends.
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Mother Load:
Everyone was disturbed by Marks describing the mechanics of anal sex? Just wait until they read up on ‘Felching”.
Some things you think are so disgusting that no one could go there. But Gays do. And then they call out others for ‘poor taste’.
I cannot imagine a worse taste than that.
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Jacques Bloch obituary
French resistance fighter who was wounded during the liberation of Guéret and later survived the Buchenwald death marches
Thursday March 30 2023, 12.01am BST, The Times
Jacques Bloch was 19 when he joined the French resistance, disguising himself as a farmer and using the pseudonym Jacques Binet. His responsibilities included helping to guide in Allied parachute drops for the Maquis in the Creuse region of central France. On June 8, 1944, two days after the D-Day landings in Normandy 300 miles to the north, he was part of a maquisard force that liberated the town of Guéret, driving out the German 22nd SS Panzer Division.
During the fighting Bloch was hit by machinegun fire. A surgeon declared that his arm needed amputating but the procedure was barely complete when German reinforcements arrived and retook Guéret. “I was in the soup, not in a state to be transported,” he told Le Monde. “The hospital promised to hide me, but I was reported by a militiaman and arrested.”
Spared summary execution, the prisoner was taken east to Montluçon, where he was interrogated by the Gestapo. After eight days his arm was seen by a military doctor, who protested at the condition of his wound. “I’m ashamed to be German,” the doctor declared, ordering nurses to treat him. His next destination was Moulins, where he was incarcerated in the castle of the dukes of Bourbon, which had been converted into a prison, using old socks to bandage his still-infected arm. He was then put on the penultimate transport out of the city to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
Bloch described his arrival: “We were stripped naked and our hair was cut off. We were then completely immersed in a huge tank filled with Crésyl [an anti-lice disinfectant] . . . For eight months I never saw a piece of soap and I never changed my underwear.” He would not give up: “People who lost hope collapsed and disappeared within days.”
With Allied forces approaching in April 1945, the Germans used “death marches” to disperse the Buchenwald prisoners to other camps. Those who collapsed were shot. With no food, Bloch resorted to eating grass. Yet he and a comrade managed to escape, wandering through the fields until stumbling across American forces near Eisenberg. He now weighed less than 34kg (about five stone).
Jacques Gustave Bloch was born into a Jewish family in Paris in 1924, one of three children of Marc-André Bloch, a teacher who had served with the French artillery during the First World War, and his wife Germaine (née Ettinger). At the outbreak of war his father was remobilised but was captured in June 1940. He was released the following spring in a German act of clemency for First World War veterans but lost his teaching job for being Jewish. Two days later the family home was seized.
Arriving in Creuse in early 1942, they were supported by the historian Marc Bloch, his father’s cousin. Bloch Jr recalled a Jewish star appearing above his bed at school. Confident of the perpetrator’s identity, he drew a swastika on the other boy’s bed. He passed his baccalaureate in 1943 and applied to become a doctor but Jews were banned from studying medicine. Marc Bloch, who introduced father and son to the resistance, was killed by the Nazis in June 1944.
After the war Bloch returned to Paris. He was awarded the Resistance Medal by France in 1946 but otherwise received no official support. Giving up his plans to be a doctor, he studied law and became an administrative officer in the Senate, the upper house of the French parliament. He married in 1946 and had four children. The marriage was dissolved and in 1969 he married Josette.
Bloch returned to Buchenwald in 1995 for a Radio 4 programme about Jacques Lusseyran, his friend from the camp. Until 2017 he made an annual pilgrimage to Guéret to commemorate the town’s liberation. At his Paris apartment, he kept a tin box with “souvenirs” of captivity: a red cloth triangle bearing the letter F for his nationality; another with his prisoner number, 85235; and a dried flower from the death march.
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Cassie of Sydney says:
March 30, 2023 at 6:47 pm
Latham is no homophobe. I bet he voted yes to SSM in 2017. I think he just can’t stand this whole LGBTQI+ industry, promoted by the likes of Greenwich.
You now, I feel as though I’m in a bus that’s gone over a steep cliff, and I’m sitting in this bus, screaming, shouting, crying, knowing it’s too late to save the bus and everyone on it, and the bus is gliding through the air, about to crash. This bus represents the state of the West now.
The 1970s Magic Bus plus Feelz.
Your emotional state during either of the World Wars would have had you locked up.
Get a grip!
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Will pass on yr regards, Rabz.
I was a bit worried about yr blood pressure last Sat’dy nite in the political fray; glad serenity reigns now.
And thank you for opening your place so hospitably with its two big tellies so we could wander from the ABC to Fox and have a laugh at the difference.
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Just been having a geek around the Wayback Machine’s Catallaxyfiles records (thank you Calli!)..
I don’t know if it’s complete, but it’s megaparsecs better than that suppurating abortion of an “effort” at the NLA.
An incredibly nostalgic snapshot of the collective knowledge, intelligence, grammatical mastery and wit of the old commenters, many unfortunately gone or retired (Armadillo, Tel, Egg, Habib, Motelier, John Constantine and many, many others).
Most threads would be just as topical today.
As the WB seems to be slow, does anyone here know how to “scrape” this data for external storage, for easier perusal and retrieval? (assuming no copyright abusations..)
S.11 says: 11 Care of person born after termination
(1) This section applies if a termination results in a person being born.
(2) Nothing in this Act prevents the medical practitioner who performed the termination,
or any other registered health practitioner present at the time the person is born, from
exercising any duty to provide the person with medical care and treatment that is—
(a) clinically safe, and
(b) appropriate to the person’s medical condition.
Note. See section 10(3), which provides that this Act does not limit a duty a registered health
practitioner has to comply with professional standards or guidelines. See also section 14,
which provides that the Secretary of the Ministry of Health may issue guidelines about the
performance of terminations at approved health facilities and requires registered health
practitioners performing terminations, or assisting in the performance of terminations, to act in
accordance with the guidelines.
(3) To avoid doubt, the duty owed by a registered health practitioner to provide medical
care and treatment to a person born as a result of a termination is no different than
the duty owed to provide medical care and treatment to a person born other than as a
result of a termination
Recommendation 4:
If not opposed as per Recommendation 1, the Bill ought to be amended to explicitly require
that any child born alive after an attempted abortion is given the same life-saving medical
treatment as would be given to any other child born alive at that stage of gestation.
I don’t know what has happened as a result.
I think people get caught out with telstra international roaming because they don’t realise that zone 3 countries (which includes countries like Norway and Italy) are unlimited calls and sms only, no data at all. (zone 2 you get 1gb a day)
I think I got 8gb every 30 days with Windtre/Melita but made sure I switched to WiFi at my apartments (I always filter for wifi and a washing machine on airbnb) to nurse the allowance.
Gilas, there are only captures of a few pages per Open Thread. It is very sparse but still yields plenty of historical comment.
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Gilas
Motelier is still around on Twitter as “Motelier”. Nice dude .
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Tel posts at CLs.
Stackja is on twitter too.
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Indolentsays:
March 30, 2023 at 7:57 pm
Bulldust, in other words. Believe it or not, this was in the Guardian.
Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows
It took the Grauniad this long to work out that it is a scam? Talk about dumb, the Grauniad makes morons look brilliant.
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Oh, Gemma Tognini is so concerned about Latham that she is asking if he is alright and then in the next breath she would sack him if she were Pauline. Chris Kenny then offers that Mark must have been drunk when he tweeted. How about just having had enough from that spiteful Greenwich and firing back with both barrels?
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Re the general reaction to the Latham description:
These days people seem to want to sanitise life in their efforts to accept “diversity”. Latham’s response was brutal but technically correct.
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Now kenny saying pauline should throw Latham out of the party with some panel bint opining that if Latham worked for her he would have been given his marching orders.
In the meantime thorpie is going nuts, liars are impugning female libs and jugears is busy betraying Australia to the chunks but Latham is out for describing the sex act of pooftas.
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And Kae was at CLs a couple of weeks ago too. And Ragu occasionally and Twostix also.
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Bored with Pepe le Pew.
Here’s an old favourite Gravatar – a fish playing with a seal.
Cute.
Whatever happened to Hovercards? You just put your pointer thingy over the picture and it automatically embiggened.
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“The 1970s Magic Bus plus Feelz.
Your emotional state during either of the World Wars would have had you locked up.
Get a grip!”
Oh eff off, I’ll write what I want. And actually, I wouldn’t have been locked up in World War II, I would have been put on a train to a camp and eliminated.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 30, 2023 at 8:06 pm
My complaint to Telecommunications Ombudsman’s Office re telstra roaming was resolved very swiftly (and refunded).
My phone is Vodafone and Hairy’s is Telstra. I had no problems with Vodafone roaming, but Hairy was quite overcharged for his; he was on the phone making enquiries when we returned, not sure if there was any satisfactory resolution. He probably gave up.
As with many things in modern life, they get you with the process.
Reverse the process. Find the nearest Telstra shopfront, go in there and discuss the problem in a loud voice at a busy time of the day.
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I think I might give Sky a miss for a few days.
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I remember another commenter El Cid from Tim Blair’s blog and then the old Cat. Does anyone know where he is now?
C.L.says:
March 30, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Both he and Michelle must be pretty fit to be able to climb the bridge over 1200 steps.
And they were given a dispensation from donning the mandatory high-viz jackets and tethers.
“Don’t you know who we are? “
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Motelier is still around on Twitter as “Motelier”. Nice dude .
Tel posts at CLs.
Stackja is on twitter too.
Yes, I noticed Tel posting some weeks ago.
Shame that they have absconded from their natural home.
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Latham stating the obvious, which is obviously not allowed by our lefty overlords.
Also nice to see some daylight showing up the scams behind carbon offsets. Fake begets more fake, to almost nobodies surprise
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Seems to me not offering a general teller service at every branch is simple cost cutting by ANZ. I’m willing to bet they have a dedicated cash transaction only teller at their Box Hill branch.
Would their customers be interrogated as to the reason for their deposits and withdrawals?
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I watched Kenny’s panel segment. Painful viewing.
Caleb Bond couldn’t “trunslate” King Charles’s German language speech but it was a real hoot that he was speaking in that tongue.
The King also speaks French and Welsh. Bond can’t even speak Australian properly.
After that hillbilly moment, all condemned Latham in extravagant terms.
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Latham’s mistake was to delete the tweet, it implies culpability.
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Vicki:
Neither GPs, nor their staff, refuse her service. But she IS a formidable person.
I don’t subscribe personally to the formidableness of self, Vicki, but I am certainly pissed off at being pushed around by people who think they can push me.
At the start of the COVID bullshit I had a bit of a personal revelation when a family member made a statement to another that “Now is not the time to play peacemaker – this is family problems and you stand by your family”.
Now I don’t budge and if someone wants to push, they get pushback.
Yes, there’s a price to pay but what is the cost of submission?
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Dot:
Sorry, the bare minimum for our public officials in my mind is the same as being most excellent.
*Sigh* In the real world, that’s a valid point.
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It’s curious. All this stuff is ensconced in school curricula and minors are exposed to it as part of “health and development”.
Yet an adult describes the act and all the horses in the stable are panicking.
Everyone in the media has gone all doe eyed and twee. How very 2023.
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Unless you are pureblood and never caught it or had innate immunity, or a subclinincal dose, you’re going to have problems?
No, the problem arises when you train your body to make spike proteins in large and unknown numbers – this exposure goes on much longer than in a natural infection, AND said proteins are expressed on the surface of your own cells, marking them as foreign
What about a dead virus? Presumably it still has the spike proteins?
Yes, but again they are eliminated within days
Given COVID has been in the west for four years, everyone has likely had COVID.
certainly, everyone has been exposed to it, and the world is now split into 2 camps:
those who got vaxxed, and narrowly trained their own immune systems *before* seeing the real thing – they now suffer the ‘immune fixation’ problem where they prioritise producing antibodies to the old (now extinct) spke protein every time they encounter a new variant.
those who didnt get vaxxed until after seeing the real thing – they mounted a broad spectrum response to a multitude of proteins in the virus – thus gaining long term immunity and avoiding the immune fixation problem
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C.L., Kenny also reported that Obama thinks the world would be in a better place if women ran the place.
Is that blatant attempt to introduce the thought of Michelle announcing her candidacy for the Democrat presidential nomination?
(Perhaps a good enough reason for her looking especially p1ssed off since they landed in Australia.)
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I’m disappointed in Pauline- I thought she would show some solidarity.
I don’t care about solidarity. I care about reality. Latham is talking reality.
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Another question for Dr Duk….Since when has a pandemic actually lasted more than four, let alone three years!?
They don’t, and this one didn’t either – it was never a ‘pandemic’ – as evidenced by the lack of bodies in the streets and the failure of all cause mortality to rise until 2022, when it was caused by the vax rollout, not infections.
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Geriatric Mayfly missed. I hope he is well. Not being very computer literate I wondered if he knew how to get back on to Catallaxy.
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Would their customers be interrogated as to the reason for their deposits and withdrawals?
That’s a difficult question, probably not if they were known local retailers.
Pure guess but I suspect austrac would have some sort of algorithm to check whether banks are reporting suspicious transactions and it might look a bit odd if a big cash branch wasn’t making any reports.
The other reason for questions re large cash withdrawals esp is to protect customers from scammers, eg itinerant roofers.
I certainly wouldn’t be giving a teller grief over questioning people over large cash transactions.
Perhaps time for banks to commit to providing basic services or they can be taxed at a higher rate.
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Here’s an old favourite Gravatar – a fish playing with a seal.
My gravatar birdie is no longer around, he and his family left for parts unknown. That was a few years ago. I dunno why, but I have other butcherbirds. So there.
Tonight’s fun was young Miss Brushtail, about half an hour ago. She was hungry, and let me stroke her like a cat…a little. For some bread and a carrot! Too much caressing though was not on. We’re working out rulz.
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The King also speaks French and Welsh.
What is it that it’s fine to denigrate a person for a proficiency, just because we don’t like the position they hold. Does the media honestly think that the Queen, and now the King, didn’t have an education commensurate with the tasks required of their position? Apart from constitutional law and diplomacy, foreign languages such as German, French and Welsh would be top of the list for the heir apparent.
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mUttley busy downticking peoples’ comments, I see.
Still recovering from his trans mine accident, no legs or dick.
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Tel was one of the best contributors here. I miss him and I especially miss Armadillo who put a smile on my face many a time.
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Boambee John:
And Israel takes the “Samson Option”, scattering a couple of hundred warheads across the Middle East and Gulf?
Mad if they didn’t.
The Masada Option has been one of their cards for a long time, and while the leaders of the nations that want to harm them have bunkers and supplies to outlive it, their people don’t. They may have different ideas about ‘dying for the Glory of Allah’.
Further to “getting a grip”, I put my hand up, I’m guilty of struggling to hold onto any kind of grip. We live in a society where the left and the MSM spruik the absurd notion that Kellie-Jay Keen and women such as myself, who don’t want biological males in our private spaces such as toilets and changerooms, who don’t biological males who simply identify as “women” be placed in female only prisons, who don’t want biological males who simply identify as “women” competing against females in supposedly female sport, well according to the MSM, according to Daniel Andrews, according to the feral left, we’re “far-right”, we’re “white supremacists”, we’re “Nazis”, we’re “Nazi adjacent”, and then of course, to ice the cake of demonisation, slurs and smears, we witness a scene out of a Mel Brooks’ musical when a group of Grampian Nazis conveniently appear at the Let Women Speak in Melbourne and were ushered through by Victorian police.
I found it hard to get a grip when I was watching the footage of woman attempting to give a speech to a group of other women in an Auckland Park and a riot broke out, fuelled by the MSM and left, and this women was almost trampled in the violence. Her crime? She believes in the reality of biological sex and letting women speak.
When I was at Pell’s funeral, I found it hard to get a grip because I was trembling from the screams, shouts and screeches of the feral howling mob who were metres away, only held back by police because I can assure you of one thing, if the police had not been there, they would have invaded the cathedral.
And today we see Latham about to be lynched, his crime? For being crude, a tasteless tweet about anal intercourse but others do far worse and NEVER suffer any reputational consequences. Ahh…but those people are always of the left…silly me. Never mind that the sinister and very unsavoury Greenwich FIRST called Latham “disgusting”, but that’s okay. Again, all of this is being fuelled by the MSM.
Yeah I admit, I probably should get a grip but I can’t, I just can’t, because I’m living in a society that is slowly losing any grip on reality.
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Robert S
The Masada Option has been one of their cards for a long time,
“Masada shall not fall again.”
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Wow! According to Paul Murray, Michelle Obama is inevitably on her way to the White House. But then again considering the election fraud in place in key states any Democrat candidate is inevitable.
I should get Rabz to swap music vids. Jellyfish are out there in that wonderful atmosphere of obscure bands.
On Latham, I haven’t read what he tweeted. But from the “news” reports suggested is that he was retaliating with “rarefied language” at a newspaper article by Alex Greenwich about his pre-election rally at that church in Belfield.
I don’t get it? Everything on the teev and elsewhere in the media on the gay “lifestyle”, which the annual Gay Mardi Gras promotes, has everyone, to use the language of the Freddie Mercury character in the movie, Bohemian Rhapsody, getting ‘absolutely sh1tfaced’ and ultimately submitting to all that entails. So why the prudish stance from Bolt to Pauline?
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Hi Lizzie and Tinta. I’m still here too, so DVA has fixed me up with new hearing aids, new glasses and rebuilt my broken front teeth. BP is also good.
Physio lady is very attractive. It would be nice to be eighty again.
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Is Pauline losing the plot! .. can’t quite believe she fell for the leftie indignation over Mark Latham telling it like it is! .. bit simplistic and crude but reality .. “it’s true” .. you can put what he twitted into any diplomatic context you like and the end result( pun intended) is still the same ..
“Wot he wrote is what it is ..!”
Sadly, for Pauline, these days I think Mark has more presence with One Nation, especially in NSW, than she does and putting down her best draw card to favour of any opposition player is not going to enhance her standing with One Nation supporters …… !
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Robert Sewell
March 30, 2023 at 8:12 pm
Mother Load:
Everyone was disturbed by Marks describing the mechanics of anal sex? Just wait until they read up on ‘Felching”.
Damn!
It is like they have a giant poker machine in which the reels indicate every body orifice and every fluid, and they are just sitting there repeatedly pulling the handle to come up with improbable combinations.
And I assume ‘jackpot’ has something to do with masturbation and someone sitting on a hot plate with a can of soup emptied up their arse.
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Bruce O’Nuke:
March 30, 2023 at 5:58 pm
‘Distressing’: Trans woman barred from changing gender on marriage certificate
Just tell it to remarry its significant other again. That way both its can be suitably pronounded on the second certificate.
No, that’s not the point. He/she/it wants the rules changed to accommodate their wishes.
We must change to validate her/his fantasies. Otherwise we are mean and will break their hearts.
Emotional bloody blackmail and I’m sick of it.
We shouldn’t tolerate it in children, and we certainly shouldn’t tolerate it from adults.
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About 10am today Mr Latham replied to the tweet from March 22 with “Disgusting?” followed by a graphic and homophobic comment.
The ABC has chosen not to publish the full comment.
In response, Latham said “disgusting?” and then went on to make gratuitous comments about a sexual act. Guardian Australia has chosen not to publish the full comment.
Do we know what Latho called him?
It sounds like it was one word (pace the Guardian’s overwrought claim).
Was it a rude version of someone that engages in fellatio?
Bet it was.
Latho is funny.
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HBBear:
BINGO. Would any Liar PhD staffer even have a clue?
It’s a warning to the Smartest Men in the Room that Australia will find itself in a situation where Sovereign Risk will have a negative weighting in trade deals – and the SMitR aren’t listening.
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Just wait until they read up on ‘Felching”
Everyone loves a nicely tossed salad.
Well, not everybody.
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P, on those missing friends. +1
Also, Confused old Misfit was very welcoming to me when I first dipped my toe in the water at the Old Cat.
And Infidel Tiger was always witty and worth reading, as was Stackja.
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But the banks do provide basic services.
Unless you only have a bank book, you can deposit or withdraw cash at the branch Atm using your card.
The only times I’ve been in a branch for many years was once to deposit a large cheque, and once to replace a ripped in half $50.
Only person I know who does regular counter withdrawals is well north of 80.
Physio lady is very attractive.
Hehe, Macbeth, I’m not eighty yet so was seriously challenged by my old mum’s ranga physio lady this morning. A babe!
I’ve been helping my mum, who had a fall last week and broke her arm at the very top. Not doing too bad in the circumstances, helped by hot ranga physio babes.
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Will:
March 30, 2023 at 6:02 pm
Why do I think the AFP are hiding exculpatory evidence?
Because that’s what it looks like – reviewing evidence when they were asked to just hand it over smacks of interference with the body of evidence.
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Pauline has lost the plot and her credibility. RIP PHON.
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China’s mining for gold in Africa is appears to be quite extensive.
The Japanese would be particularly pissed given the role their contracts played in the whole development of the NWS gas industry.
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And Infidel Tiger was always witty and worth reading, as was Stackja.
I have kept in touch with Stackja.
He has moved to a retirement community and has had a few health challenges. He was faring well, though, at Christmas. He is a gentleman.
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I wonder how much of pauline’s indignation is due to her chief of staff being a poofta.
Bolt is beyond redemption; he seems incapable of emotionally connecting with what he often says: never apologise to the left, always resist etc; and when Latham dishes some back to a bastard bolt goes shit at the knees.
I’m also sorry Latham deleted the tweet.
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Lizzie:
His routine eye test this morning showed he had a rip in one of his retinas, so he was trundled straight to his ophthalmologist, who operated immediately with a laser beam. He drove home, which upset me, as he should have taken a taxi.
Stupid, stupid man.
I’ve had several tears/detachments repaired by laser, and frankly you’re functionally blind in that eye for at least two hours. Had he had a prang, he’d have lost his licence and his insurance wouldn’t have covered any injury/damage to whoever he ran into.
Give him a kick up the arse for me, will you?
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“Bolt is beyond redemption;”
Don’t watch him again. He’s a joke, a disgrace, a fair-weather person.
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there is a way of making matter go below absolute zero,
Does it mean that we got it wrong with the ‘absolute’ value then?
As we discovered during the AIDS dry run (no pun intended) many homosexual practices are bettered considered in the abstract.
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foreign languages such as German, French and Welsh
That would really sting some Brits.
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But the banks do provide basic services.
Mum is 92 and a bit worried (and more than a bit miffed) that she has been told no more cheques after she finishes this chequebook.
How, exactly, do they expect her to pay her bills? Via an app on the phone she can just manage to make a call on, and read the odd text (sometimes)? On the computer or tablet she doesn’t own?
So she ends up doing her banking via one of her kids… so much for all that “privacy” they are always banging on about! I mean, she’s lucky in that I am a paragon of virtue and can be trusted, but some others may not be so saintly as my good self…
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I miss Geriatric Mayfly.
He went to school with Cardinal Pell, gave us a lovely potted bio of Pell the school boy.
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Just wait until they read up on ‘Felching”
Everyone loves a nicely tossed salad.
Well, not everybody.
You mongrel, KD.
I just looked it up on the Urban Dictionary.
Please, no one else do that. The verbal description means I will not have squeezed lemon on my snitty tomorrow night.
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
March 30, 2023 at 8:59 pm
C.L., Kenny also reported that Obama thinks the world would be in a better place if women ran the place.
Is that blatant attempt to introduce the thought of Michelle announcing her candidacy for the Democrat presidential nomination?
(Perhaps a good enough reason for her looking especially p1ssed off since they landed in Australia.)
Well Kiwis and Germans would hardly endorse that view after the mess Ardern and Merckel have left their countries.
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Indolent:
Many of you were lied to for 3 years. Masks were useless and the 6 ft rule became stupid as soon as we knew the virus was aerosolized.
Watch this congressional testimony and think how mean many of you were to people who spoke truth. There must be accountability! Pls retweet.
Despite the masks being known to be useless, the main reason for forcing them on us was to criminalise those people who refused.
That’s it. That’s all that was desired. A means to treat a class of people as criminals, and to give the majority who obeyed, somebody to hate.
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foreign languages such as German, French and Welsh
The English (post-Norman) kings didn’t even speak English until 1413.
I would have thought Frog and Kraut would have been staples for English kings for three or four hundred years at least. Doesn’t surprise me in the least that although he’s a tiresome dunderhead, Charlie III is multilingual.
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Mark Steyn Show:
March 28, 2023
Burning the Evidence.
Welcome to the Tuesday edition of The Mark Steyn Show. If you’re watching us in real time, immediately after today’s show, Mark will be back with his old EIB comrade on Bo Snerdley’s Rush Hour, live at 4pm US Eastern on New York’s legendary radio powerhouse, 77 WABC.
Today’s show begins with Mark’s take on the failures of Big Government these last three years, and why it is necessary to have a proper accounting.
Next, funeral director John O’Looney joins Steyn for his view of what’s going on, especially with regard to the excess mortality across the western world and what he’s seeing on the ground at his funeral home. Then, the Stats Man Jamie Jenkins is back to crunch the numbers on “Long Covid” and related topics. And we have another edition of Mark’s Mailbox.
Please, no one else do that. The verbal description means I will not have squeezed lemon on my snitty tomorrow night.
Are you having a lemon party?
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I’m disappointed in Pauline- I thought she would show some solidarity.
Like her or hate her, “solidarity” is not in her vocabulary.
Why do you think she insists on calling the party P H One Nation?
With her it was always me-me-me once she got her foot in the door and attracted followers.
In Latham’s place I’d quit the party, he is old enough to retire in 8 years anyway but I think he would win on his own popularity if he’d run again.
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You mongrel, KD.
I just looked it up on the Urban Dictionary.
Quite right. Nobody else look that up.
On Urban Dictionary.
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Re the demise of Old Cat, its passing was the first time I realised there was such a thing as an ‘online community’, the demise of which could be saddening. I understand Sinclair’s decision, though. Running a blog is not easy. I set one up (again) because writing about or discussing the news – especially politics and religion – has been part of my life since my mid-teens. But I still feel the pull of the late twentieth century – wondrous days without the internet. It’s weird that there are now mature adults with no experience of life without it.
A person commits an offence if the person does something in the face, or within the hearing, of a board that would be contempt of court if the board were a court of record.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.
The Commissioner of the AFP has got some balls.
Also
Section 35 Application of Criminal Code, ch 7
An inquiry is a legal proceeding for the Criminal Code, chapter 7 (Administration of justice offences).
Note That chapter includes offences (eg perjury, falsifying evidence, failing to attend and refusing to be sworn) applying in relation to board proceedings.
Now, in the ACT Criminal Code:
706 Destroying or concealing evidence
(1) A person commits an offence if the person destroys or conceals evidence with the intention of—
(a) influencing a decision about starting a legal proceeding; or
(b) influencing the outcome of a legal proceeding.
Maximum penalty: 700 penalty units, imprisonment for 7 years or both.
Note that a PU is 160 AUD.
Now, for once I hope we do have a courageous judge.
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Right. Wick IV review. I have given this some thought. If anyone’s expecting a Wolfman Oz-level dissection and symbolism analysis, you’ll be disappointed.
There’s a Ned Kelly reference early on, which was a bit weird. They possibly have the richest, youngest supervillain as well. The fillum itself was all right, but nowhere near – nowhere near – the bar set by I, II and for the most part, III.
There were enough killings. Certainly enough killings, but French traffic accounted for fully half of them. A blind Chinese assassin who seemed to have The Force, which was sort of cool but lost cred as the film went on.
No humour. A bit of dog-related activity, although it’s not Wick’s dog. Excellent – nay, outstanding scenery. A mystery black killer.
The bullet-proof and apparently kinetic force-proof suits were a bit much, even for me. Rounds were pinging off Wick and various villains as though they were Superman.
The action CQB scenes were too slow and too contrived, as opposed to the first three flicks. Way too slow. Move. Pause. Move. Pause. Completely lacked the essential dynamic element.
And then there’s a grave at the end with Wick’s name on it. Whether that means there’s a Wick V, I don’t know. But there shouldn’t be.
John Wick – the baba yaga – is dead.
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There’s movies about El Cid but there needs to be one about William Marshal.
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Sadly, for Pauline, these days I think Mark has more presence with One Nation, especially in NSW, than she does and putting down her best draw card to favour of any opposition player is not going to enhance her standing with One Nation supporters …
She has definitely gone down in my estimation. At last Saturday’s election I voted One Nation 1 above the line and would still do so now purely to get Mark Latham elected. One Nation without Latham does not get my vote, that simple.
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there needs to be one about William Marshal
Damn straight. The Ser Barristan Selmy of his time, but better and served more kings.
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Oh great. Now I’m getting my review dickless downticked.
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You mongrel, KD.
I just looked it up on the Urban Dictionary.
Should we tell him about the goatse.cx man you think.
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You’re a champion, Macbeth.
Good to hear you have been all kitted out like a frisky eighty year old again.
Keep smiling and let those new teeth shine!
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Onward, though!
The protestant hymn Onward Christian Soldiers was considered too militant back in the ’70s.
My children attending a Catholic school in the ’70s had their school motto
changed from “In Christ We Conquer” to “Love One Another”, the other being too militant.
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A couple of months ago I mentioned a Club Grubbery podcast which involved 3 AFL people. One (Dixon ?) was a Director of one of the Adelaide teams. He said he heard of a vax related issue with one of the players indirectly and called a Board meeting to discuss the vax mandates. On the actual day of that meeting another player collapsed during training.
Unfortunately the club paid no attention to his views and he had to step down. He made the comment that it was important, particularly in VIC, to get all teams on board with the vax. This was becuase of their large following.
I have seen a cringeworthy clip of the West Coast Eagles team all saying how good the vaccines were.
dover0beachsays:
March 30, 2023 at 5:24 pm
sports cardiologist confirmed a diagnosis of pericarditis.
I wonder what the frequency of this has been in the past?
Why am I unsurprised that there has not been a single voice on the Cat saying a word against Mark Latham today.
Never go the full Alf Garnett.
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I think I might give Sky a miss for a few days.
Cassie, take some lighter relief with my Netflix suggestions for you. Or bury yourself in a book.
I’m currently reading Edward Rutherford’s book ‘Dublin’. He writes those sagas through time in a given place – ‘Sarum’ and ‘London’ are probably his best known ones – where a small genetic trait links characters to the development of the place down the ages from the ancestral times. It’s fairly stock stuff in literary terms but engaging and follows a reasonably historically accurate timeline.
My eldest son returned with it from his Thailand excursion and it bears all the thumbed wear and tear of a book that for years has travelled Asia with many a backpacker on many a filthy train and through many a meal. Present for you mum, he says, and of course I am very grateful for his thoughtfulness.
“Hey guys if we become more and more like the old Soviet Union or East Germans, we won’t have as much crime…”
Sure, but your oppressive government is objectively worse than having slightly more crime.
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Never go the full Alf Garnett.
mUntler,
What are your views on chicks dressing up as blokes and then killing children at their school before being splattered all over said school by toxically masculine men?
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Why am I unsurprised that there has not been a single voice on the Cat saying a word against Mark Latham
monty,
With all due respect to the man he insulted, I don’t give a shit.
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Why am I unsurprised that there has not been a single voice on the Cat saying a word against Mark Latham today.
Um, Monty, would that be because we agree with him?
I mean we do um, understand plumbing.
I just hope Mr Greenwich has had his monkeypox vaccination.
I could provide bible verses if you want…
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there has not been a single voice on the Cat saying a word against Mark Latham
same reason nobody says positive things about you mUnty
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In Latham’s place I’d quit the party, he is old enough to retire in 8 years anyway but I think he would win on his own popularity if he’d run again.
Hitting back with an angry tweet at an aggressor is a sign of the stress that Latham has been under. I don’t condemn him for it. Everyone has a snapping point. M0nty’s just glad the attention has moved on from his Black Shirt sympathies. For the time being anyway.
Latham has done no more than forcefully albeit impolitely tell the simple truth of what our kids are taught in school health education, as Calli has noted. The tweet will go down the memory hole soon enough, and Mark can still do a lot of good in his Upper House position, whether with One Nation or not. I am glad he has a retirement future ahead because retirement is one of the joys of a hard won working life.
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Who’s got a link to Tub Girl? Can’t find it.
That’d get the hippies squirming.
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I’m currently reading Edward Rutherford’s book ‘Dublin’.
I’m reading David McCullough’s epic biography, of one time President of the United States, Harry Truman.
It seems that his wife, Bess Truman, was furious when the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan – Harry hadn’t told her of the existence of the weapons…
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I am glad he has a retirement future ahead because retirement is one of the joys of a hard won working life.
Look, I’m a fan of Latham but sitting on different-coloured leather and fanging all over the place at someone else’s expense can’t really be described as ‘hard won’.
Show me 40 year-by-year pictures of him putting trenches in with a pick, and I’ll change my mind.
Um, Monty, would that be because we agree with him?
I mean we do um, understand plumbing.
I clicked on that link here to some other associated activities.
Plumbing the depths of compulsive orality, I call some of that. Far too fetishistic.
An explorative sensuality is one thing, but messy slurping for the sake of it – erk.
Human sexual interest can be led down some very unpleasant behavioural paths.
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As we discovered during the AIDS dry run (no pun intended) many homosexual practices are bettered considered in the abstract.
Not wrong, there.
I once listened in growing amazement to a detailed expert explanation of the extraordinary lengths some gay guys go to in preparation for a poo-free weekend of freewheeling fun.
It appears you have to be very committed to avoid a Latham sadness.
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Look, I’m a fan of Latham but sitting on different-coloured leather and fanging all over the place at someone else’s expense can’t really be described as ‘hard won’.
The stressors of public life and anything high-flying can be pretty soul-destroying sometimes, KD.
Retiring away from it all whole and in one piece psychologically is a grace that is hard won.
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I’m off to continue with the tales of Dublin. Strongbow has just arrived from England, and the tribal kings think they can contain him within the eastern ports. Little do they realise … etc etc. Lives of the current characters, with all of their concerns, are about about to be thrown into chaos.
That’s history for you.
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Dot rumoured:
he reckons he can make small ones with the interferometer without using “negative energies”.
I do hope his first prototype run coincides with the passing of the T’Plana-Hath.
I’m off to continue with the tales of Dublin.
Dublin is one of my favourite cities. Picture an Australian tourist, looking at the statues in O’Connell Street, and thinking “Um yeah, they look like bullet holes” and then realizing that the General Post Office was just across the road…..
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The great and the good prefer to celebrate the sanitised version of homosexuality, with visions of rainbows and fairy dust. Latham committed the cardinal sin of forcing them, if only for a moment, to contemplate the unsanitised version.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
March 30, 2023 at 11:38 pm
Look, I’m a fan of Latham but sitting on different-coloured leather and fanging all over the place at someone else’s expense can’t really be described as ‘hard won’.
The stressors of public life and anything high-flying can be pretty soul-destroying sometimes, KD.
Retiring away from it all whole and in one piece psychologically is a grace that is hard won.
My work is pretty mundane, as most of them really are, but I wouldn’t swap it for politics even given the huge salary, power and perks.
My only hope is that in 7 years time I still have most of my super and we can sell the business at a fair price.
Others might be more ambitious, but we would be happy, have a paid off roof over our heads, kids independent, maintaining health is the main thing now.
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Why am I unsurprised that there has not been a single voice on the Cat saying a word against Mark Latham today.
Just sharing what an unimpeachable source of truth is saying these days re downunder pleasures and the side effects.
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Strongbow has just arrived from England
The cider or Longbow?!
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My only hope is that in 7 years time I still have most of my super and we can sell the business at a fair price.
You are soooo f’cked !!! 🙂
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If Mark Lathams description of male on male sex is factual , how would Andrew Bolt and the denouncers describe it.
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That “unsanitised version”
Once upon a time, when promotion of the homosexual lifestyle began, a Courier-Mail columnist gave this description of the practice: “dabbling in the sewer of the body”.
A refined twin to Latham’s description.
This journalist/ex-footballer had character and good manners. Have no recollection of shock and indignation.
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I once listened in growing amazement to a detailed expert explanation of the extraordinary lengths some gay guys go to in preparation for a poo-free weekend of freewheeling fun.
I used to manage Australia’s largest homo aircraft refuelling crew. “Just going to empty my vagina for the weekend!” FFS.
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Rise in popularity of anal sex has led to health problems for women
Californian girls. Do you want to…. No! Why would I do that when there’s a perfectly good vagina an inch away?!
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I think that’s a record, legitimate use of “vagina” in two consequitive posts. Now three.
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My only hope is that in 7 years time I still have most of my super and we can sell the business at a fair price.
The erosion of savings through inflation is insidious. Coupled with bracket creep your house is about the only thing stopping most people from going backwards.
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they now suffer the ‘immune fixation’ problem where they prioritise producing antibodies to the old (now extinct) spke protein every time they encounter a new variant.
What?
I’ve never, to my knowledge, had covid.
The vast majority of Australians would be in the so called ‘immune fixation’ category yet we are way down the worldwide deaths per 100,000 people numbers. stats here
Why am I surprised to find Monty thinks Latham’s crude response to being called disgusting has to be universally condemned?
He’s a working class man, not a saint on earth.
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Twitter has been a sewer of abuse since the get go, dish it out, expect to get it back.
Don’t dish it out, get it anyhow.
I’ve seen some of the comments Latham cops, day in, day out.
No comment on my part either way, just turned up in feeds.
WORLD
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The price of being alone.
“I remember that summit well.
He was left alone at the table, he was alone at all the G20 events in Australia, and when he finally realized his role, he just stood up and walked away, shaking the hand of the policeman escort.
How much dirt and gossip he received at his address during all his time in power. Dozens of Putin’s palaces, billions on Putin’s accounts … the world’s best intelligence agencies have been searching for the base assets of the President of Russia for many years, but without finding anything, they put all their efforts to pinch Putin’s “friends”.
And what about himself, why doesn’t he assemble a team of court journalists to refute the endless lies addressed to him? The answer is simple – his deeds speak for him.
He came in far 1999, when the country had only one name left. The humiliating “Russia’s default” just roared around the world.
GDP-195 billion, and State Debt-190 $ billion.
Putin accepted a bankrupt country whose asset value was practically equal to its external debt.
With what did isolated Russia of the era of the outcast Putin approach 2018?
Only in the “sanctioned” year 2017, the country’s GDP grew by 2.7% and amounts to $ 3 trillion 445 billion.
Just compare the two numbers…
-GDP 1999 – 195 billion $
-GDP 2017 – 3 trillion 445 billion $
… and you will understand the price of the President’s loneliness. ”
I will add from myself.
I remember Russia without Putin perfectly.
Shooting of Parliament, tanks and BTRs ringing at night under the window on Babushkinskaya, where I lived, the military is in full display throughout Moscow. Blood puddles on the sidewalks. The corpse of a passer-by with a crushed tank head on the road.
Have you seen? I saw it.
War in Chechnya, and several business trips there of my friends from the special forces with whom fanatically learned real aikido for Dynamo for 7 years. Roma nicknamed “Goblin”, a big guy under 2 meters. 2 injuries, just getting back on my feet.
The guys were telling how they merged Chechnya to international terrorists.
Treason and corruption of officers, drug trafficking, tons of dollars in bribes. The boys who were sent to the slaughterhouse by traitors to create discontent in the country died.
Didn’t you have to meet a hundred 200s in zinc and see the madness of mothers jumping hysterically on a metal box?
God forbid!
Did you forget the “Nord-East” that happened thanks to corrupt militia who let military trucks with terrorists, explosives and weapons to almost the center of Moscow for 2-3 thousand dollars?
Have they forgotten school in Beslan?
When hostages were drinking their urine to avoid dying of thirst, when closing the child who had escaped through the window killed our special forces officers.
Unemployment, thousands of enterprises are closed, professors are traded in the markets, budget workers have not received salaries for years.
Somehow in the center of Moscow I left the entrance hall and got into a bandit showdown. Automatic queues and gunshots, screams of the wounded, corpses near the cars. And you, in a clean suit and a white shirt, crawl on your stomach under the wall of the house in the mud on a flowerbed around the corner, so as not to add to the statistics of “natural depletion of the population”.
We lost more population in the 1990s than we did in the Great Patriotic War.
Don’t you remember? I – Remember.
Putin is not an angel and I do not idealize him. But I want to pay tribute to this man.
After all, I remember who stopped all this madness. And sometimes I want to ask those who criticize and throw dirt on this man:
AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO STOP THIS?
Excellent comment by Alex Krepchinsky:
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Re. the previous post, I think it may be a repeat but I never saw it, so it’s new to me.
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Tom,
the Gary Varvel toon of Jesus welcoming the children and the teachers is absolutely beautiful. A small but welcome comfort after their loss.
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Why am I surprised to find Monty thinks Latham’s crude response to being called disgusting has to be universally condemned?
He’s a working class man, not a saint on earth.
He has never been a working class man. He went straight out of uni into politics, starting in the offices of Bob Carr and Gough Whitlam.
There were far wittier ways to phrase his rejoinder. Latham does not possess much wit.
The furore over his comment shows why you lot are now attacking trans people. Society has progressed far enough to see open homophobia as disgusting. It is still moderately acceptable to attack trans people in the same vein, but the more you extremists push the envelope the more sympathy that trans people will build up in wider society. By the end of this little moral panic, the general reaction to similar comments directed against transsexuals will provoke as much revulsion as Latham did. Because you will lose this culture war, too, like you lost all the others.
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Mark Latham’s apology should read;
I apologise if some people were offended when I compared disgusting with sticking your d***k up a bloke’s a*** and covering it with s**t.
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Oh look, the pervert apologist is here…..the same pervert apologist who can’t condemn violence against Jews and women but condemns Latham’s stupid words. We shouldn’t be surprised by the pervert apologist’s priorities. After, he does like punching Nazis, punching Jews, punchs women.
F*ck off pervert apologist.
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Denouncing is the name of the game. We must be forced to denounce, regardless of the “crime”.
Pauline should have told the hand wringers to ping off – she’d denounce Latham for his rejoinder when Greenwich denounced the trans troops sent off to disrupt a political meeting at a church hall (and for the subsequent damage to a crucifix).
It’s all so very Soviet.
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Last night the Jew hating misogynistic pervert apologist wrote the following sanctimonious guff…
“Why am I unsurprised that there has not been a single voice on the Cat saying a word against Mark Latham today.
This, from the same pervert apologist who laughs at women being harassed, threatened, intimidated and physically attacked (as more than one was in the park in Auckland last Saturday).
Further to “words”, I’m still waiting for the pervert apologist to retract his description of Cardinal George Pell.
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“It’s all so very Soviet.”
Indeed, and the more outrage, the more sanctimony, the more I support Latham.
And actually, his description is 100% correct about gay sex.
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The furore over his comment shows why you lot
but, but
aren’t you the wanker that pointed out that nobody here had a thing to say against ??
the same wanker that’s outraged,
arms akimbo and indignant
gibbering about ‘extremists’ … who have nothing to say against?
the very same wanker that thinks a ‘war’ is fought with words?
adding to the furore indeed.
try not to trip over your dick mate
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It’s all so very Soviet
mUnty
always the first to start clapping
and the last stop
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Next step will be the public humiliations and struggle sessions.
Oh. That’s right. They’re here.
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Doug Mulray has passed. 🙁
Eighties drive time legend.
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Monty doesn’t like it that the two PHON members of the NSW Legislative Council will both be ex Labor Party escapees.
Perhaps the Labor Party has stopped representing their base too?
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Further of “wokeness”, I went to hear Peter Boghossian a few weeks ago, just days before that very odd event in Melbourne when some strange Nazis mysteriously suddenly appeared of no where and were ushered through by police so they could stand next to women at the Let Women Speak rally, and duly performed the Nazi salute. It was a stage production, perfectly choreographed.
Boghossian IS an intellectual, who’s brain power makes the pervert apologist’s brain look as though it comes from a snail, and that’s unfair to snails, is warning that this country is about to be flooded by “wokeness”. I fear Boghossian is right. When I heard him speak two weeks ago, he’d just arrived and he was a tad optimistic about this country and how entrenched the icy woke winds are. Speaking at the State Library, his words were startling, he said that at talks he gives in libraries and universities across the USA, there has to be guards at the door otherwise far-left woke protesters will gatecrash and storm the events. He said…”unlike in the USA you don’t have guards at the doors”…….hmm, well, I suspect that’s about to change. Remember, Boghossian comes from Portland, an epicentre of wokeness. Last night he appeared on Sky and he isn’t so optimistic. I feel this cold woke wind too, hence my struggle to “get a grip”. I work in a woke workplace where only progressives speak their mind, others, such as myself, stay silent.
Given that we now have a Labor government, federally and in all mainland states, our trajectory will be similar to what’s happened to NZ over the last six years under Horse Face. The cold woke winds are here, I think we need to rug up.
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As for trannies Monty we don’t particularly care what people do with themselves sexually so long as they don’t harm others. But we really don’t like obnoxious fascists, which is what the trans activist movement seems to’ve turned into overnight.
And trans activists are seriously persecuting women and Christians and are grooming children. Which is ironic since the other religion that does all that would throw a tranny off the nearest tall building if they caught one.
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Pauline has now proved herself to be a PHONy.
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Next step will be the public humiliations and struggle sessions
Columbia’s own Center for Engaged Pedagogy, simply declared “WTF is wrong with you.”
What is Engaged Pedagogy?
Engaged pedagogy transforms education into a collaborative, holistic practice of knowledge cultivation that redefines what teaching and learning can mean. At the CEP, we explore the possibilities of education as an active process through which students and faculty can experience mutual growth and empowerment and establish meaningful relationships between class material and their daily lives.
Demarkation dispute, Bruce.
On the pursed lips – we have a new iteration of wowser. Tolerate, celebrate on the orders of the rulers – but do not describe such things!
And as for the militarised tranny movement demonstrating and monstering opposition, how are they any different from the people of a certain town clamouring at Lot’s door long ago?
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PHONy
Pauline just got Hegel’d
exactly the same way Pesutto did.
actually … they both Hegel’d themselves
dumbarses
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Rabzsays:
March 30, 2023 at 8:01 pm
The only thing Latham is “guilty” of is stating the bleeding obvious.
If Pauline Hansen apologised, it’s only because she’s got that mincing queen Ashby in her office, and couldn’t stand the hissy fit.
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welcome to Venezuela
The Oz:
The government’s signature climate change policy, the safeguard mechanism bill, has passed parliament.
Climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen thanked the Greens and independent senators David Pocock and Lidia Thorpe as well as Jacqui Lambie Network members Jacqui Lambie and Tammy Tyrrell for their contribution and approved changes which focus on jobs and how it will interact with Indigenous Australians.
It passed the lower house on Thursday after the amendments were approved.
89 ayes, 50 voted no.
The opposition’s climate change spokesperson Ted O’Brien called the bill a “carbon tax by stealth”.
Greens leader Adam Bandt pleaded with the opposition to support the bill in a bid to eradicate “the cause of climate change – oil and gas projects,” Mr Bandt said before the final vote.
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Maybe Ashby makes her coffee. I wouldn’t risk it either.
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Latham’s crude but it’s free speech…for now.
Watch the straighteners use the comment to try and control all speech.
Now that’s disgusting.
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If Pauline doesn’t handle this carefully her party will lose a lot of NSW upper house votes next time around, since Latham is the main man.
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rosiesays:
March 31, 2023 at 3:04 am
where is the evidence that covid vaccination is responsible for high rates of VAED?
rosiesays:
March 31, 2023 at 3:05 am
the Expose has the real facts
Being the 31st they can’t have much time left.
1
Latham’s crude
Quite so. He should have used precise medical terminology for body parts and waste products.
That would definitely have soothed frazzled sensibilities. 😀
13
Gasp!
The 31st March.
It starts tomorrow!
The dropping like flies from the vax thing.
2
Quite so. He should have used precise medical terminology for body parts and waste products.
Quite so.
He should have said “No pee-pee thing in poo-poo hole.”
7
The problem is the lunatics are now running the place:
The Oz again:
Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has promised that household energy prices will not increase as a result of the recent passage of Labor’s signature climate policy.
Mr Bowen told Question Time that the electricity sector was covered by the safeguard mechanism, which he said would create jobs, protect the economy and the climate.
“Zero because the electricity sector is now covered by the safeguard mechanism,” Mr Bowen said.
“What the parliament has done today is safeguard our climate, safeguard our economy and safeguard our future,” Mr Bowen told the lower house.
“What the parliament has done today is put an end to 10 years of dysfunction and delay.
“What the parliament has done today is start the Australian industrial economy on the right that macro did decarbonisation and we can now get on with the job of reducing our emissions by 43 per cent.”
1
JCsays:
March 30, 2023 at 8:34 pm
Gilas
Motelier is still around on Twitter as “Motelier”. Nice dude .
The homo advisor lobby has become rock solid over time, as it became fashionable for Ministers, Senators and the like to recruit and maintain decliners* in those roles. This fulfilled two roles – one, it put up the facade of inclusivity; and two, it served as a shield: ‘How DARE you accuse me of rah rah rah – why look, I have a poof as an adviser’.
Mr Nathan Winn became the sacrifical offering after some careless footage was leaked of said advisers rooting each other in Ministers’ offices – sound familiar? – and blowing loads over lady Ministers’ desks. However, in no way did Winn going under the bus solve anything.
The cohort of KY cowboy advisors has been a perfectly-coiffed Mean Girls outfit for years, sashaying their way through Canberra like a camp Magnificent Seven and clawing to shreds all who dared disagree with their worldview – that is, that rampant poofery should run unchecked through the remnants of this wide brown land.
They have grown immensely powerful over time, and have no doubt acquired all sorts of their alleged masters’ secrets. The result is Hanson’s statement yesterday afternoon, and it won’t be the last of its type.
*Vagina decliners.
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It starts tomorrow!
0 – 30 months! Red time!
Pack your iodine!
1
Working class was how he was raised.
I don’t pretend his rejoinder was witty, I’m guessing he was angry, a very common failing.
Throwing around
Homophobia!
Transphobia! is so weak.
There are many many practices within the promiscuous gay community that are disgusting, I don’t wish to discuss them. I had a friend who once had to enter a gay bath house for work purposes (out of business hours), enough said.
As for trans, as many more articulate people have pointed out its a collision between the ‘rights’ of men identifying as women and the rights of women.
You yourself have conceded they should not participate in women’s sports or enter female prisons.
That puts you on team TERF.
The video Matrix put up of testimony by Kelly now Scott should make all pause their praise of transitioning.
What it really is, is sad.
I’m pleased that the Catholic bishops in the US have stood against the tide and said no to the mutilation and destruction.
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Viva says:
March 31, 2023 at 12:17 am
The great and the good prefer to celebrate the sanitised version of homosexuality, with visions of rainbows and fairy dust. Latham committed the cardinal sin of forcing them, if only for a moment, to contemplate the unsanitised version.
How dare he? Their fear must be that this may start the kids to discuss it on Instagram with the main description being “gross”.
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That’s our Mote! I hope he lurks here too. I see Gab and Slayer are on his followers list. I’m not on Twitter so I can’t see who else is there.
Always enjoyed his comments on Old Cat.
2
m0nty says:
March 31, 2023 at 5:58 am
Society has progressed far enough to see open homophobia as disgusting.
pull the other one.
One doesn’t need to be homophobic to find homosexual sex disgusting. There are plenty of heterosexual kinks that I’m sure would turn up your nose.
One of your problems is you refuse to distinguish disgust but tolerate from hate.
The world is not binary (see what I did there).
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MatrixTransform says:
March 31, 2023 at 7:31 am
PHONy
Pauline just got Hegel’d
exactly the same way Pesutto did.
I think she has been politically mortally wounded. This is what happens when you are disloyal to your members for the sake of being loyal to your staffer.
Wasn’t it Ben Down who did that song Pauline Pants Down? And yesterday she sided with him rather than Latham. Good work.
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There are plenty of heterosexual kinks that I’m sure would turn up your nose
Yes. A thousand times yes.
The level of Batmansuitphobia in this country, and in this day and age is shocking.
3
I just had a heart starter while perusing Michael Smith’s blog.
“Dr Gunnar Beck, a representative for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has warned that the EU appears to be pushing for the “criminalisation” of the use of physical cash with its new anti-money laundering (AML) laws.
Politicians in Brussels have long been pondering an upper legal limit on the value of cash transactions within the bloc, with lawmakers detailing plans to ban Europeans from spending over €10,000 in physical tender as part of a single transaction.
The European Parliament however has now voted for such a proposed limit to be dropped down to as little as €7,000 as part of efforts to clamp down on money laundering and tax dodging within the bloc, with officials also voting to see cryptocurrency transactions paying for goods and services that are valued over €1,000 to be banned.”
And crypto, which figures. Elites and governments don’t want you to escape from their control.
The cash thing though is funny, since the shady transactions they’re supposedly trying to stop are just going to increase, because if people are already dodging tax etc then they certainly aren’t going to obey a €7,000 limit. And the more angry people get the more they’ll lose any inhibitions from disobeying governments.
4
Pogria says:
March 31, 2023 at 8:12 am
I just had a heart starter while perusing Michael Smith’s blog.
You seriously need to see this.
Only 30 seconds.
It wouldn’t play for me. What is it about?
1
On Pauline Hansen.
The truth is, she is as big a grifter as anyone in Canbra, and will do what it takes to keep her place at the trough.
The only difference between her and Bandt is that they play to different sections of the low-info peanut gallery.
She would also be uncomfortable with the profile Latham has, and needs to bring him down a peg or two.
5
“Dr Gunnar Beck, a representative for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has warned that the EU appears to be pushing for the “criminalisation” of the use of physical cash with its new anti-money laundering (AML) laws.
Stopping or preventing the actual crimes is just too hard. It’s so much simpler to suspect and then punish everyone.
4
It’s a bit nippy this morning. I suppose by next week I will need heating. Why is it that in Australia there are just two weeks between summer and winter when elsewhere in the world they get a proper season?
3
I’ve heard gay men say revolting things about female genitalia, particularly our vaginas. They’re hypocrites.
In terms of biology and evolution, a vagina is designed for an erect penis, an anus is not. An anus is designed to expel bodily waste.
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Latham’s characterisation is irrefutable. Everybody knows the truth of it. His only offence is that he said out loud something everyone knows but out of delicacy does not say in polite company.
Same way everyone goes to the toilet, but they don’t talk about it.
But since Latham was responding to being accused of being a disgusting human being hitting back in kind makes sense.
Only issue I have really is that there are a lot of blameless gay people out there who were tarred with the same brush. Some of them might be gay conservatives and even PHON supporters. Anyone who already hated PHON or Latham already will just have had their attitude confirmed. But, again, even gay people who understand the provocation should understand the response – to lob the accusation of being disgusting back at the person who served it.
But it is not homophobia – he was directing it at one person specifically in response to a single event.
Besides, why should we call it ‘phobia’ when Latham says Greenwich’s proclivity toward a certain sexual act is distasteful, but not a ‘phobia’ when Greenwich says that Latham holding certain beliefs is distasteful. And this was after Latham denounced violence at the Church, so it was not the violence at issue.
The only reason I can see for Latham to apologise for the tweet is that it is distasteful to lump all gay people in with Alex Greenwich.
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LOL. m0nty=fa acting all upset about Latham describing the mechanics of anal sex.
Depending very much on the luck of the educational lottery, his kids might already have been given a more detailed description of said mechanics by a “woke” teacher, before being taken to Drag Queen Story Hour at the local library.
3
Monty does not see why anyone would hold up pooh-jabbing as offensive.
But then his mental furniture is dough-mixers and fryers and such, and his only conception of the matters described is inserting a sugar-cinnamon churro through a chocolate-glazed donut.
What kind of sick freaks could have a problem with that.
5
Knuckle Draggersays:
March 31, 2023 at 8:01 am
It starts tomorrow!
0 – 30 months! Red time!
Pack your iodine!
I can feel the Nano-Wrigglers stirring already.
Jumping in their little self-assembled Jeeps and calling each other up on their little self-assembled CB radios.
And iodine won’t help you here.
It’s only good for dabbing on hurty bits after rough bottom sex.
Or so I’m told.
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Wasn’t it Ben Down who did that song Pauline Pants Down? And yesterday she sided with him rather than Latham. Good work.
It was the gay lawyer Simon Hunt who had the drag character Pauline Pantsdown. He “performed” (if you call it that) his act at a Big Day Out music festival years ago. He was roundly booed and had cans chucked at him. Not because of homophobia but because he was rubbish and the punters knew it.
2
Cassie of Sydneysays:
March 31, 2023 at 8:26 am
I’ve heard gay men say revolting things about female genitalia, particularly our vaginas. They’re hypocrites.
Calling Peter Slipper and James Ashby to reception, please.
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Wasn’t it Ben Down who did that song Pauline Pants Down?
There is Bob Downe.
And also Ben Dover and Phillip McCrevass.
But no Ben Down as far as I’m aware.
1
Dividends from BHP, Wesfarmers, Coles and CBA dropped in the last couple of days.
Massive!
Yuuuuge!
Party time!
3
Next step will be the public humiliations and struggle sessions.
Next step, mobilise the students. Oh… wait.
1
Break out the piazza!
1
But it is not homophobia – he was directing it at one person specifically in response to a single event.
This should probably be clarified.
If Latham said this to Greenwich as one of many expressions of contempt for gays then it would be consistent with homophobia.
But he has not made a habit of this. This is one specific, reflexive eruption.
The nerve of these evil monsters who called us anti-science conspiracy theorists for saying the same thing for the past 2 years.
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Sancho Panzer says:
March 31, 2023 at 8:36 am
Wasn’t it Ben Down who did that song Pauline Pants Down?
There is Bob Downe.
And also Ben Dover and Phillip McCrevass.
But no Ben Down as far as I’m aware.
Sorry, I didn’t google before writing my comment. Thank you and Real Deal for sorting it my faulty memory. The my point still stands that Pauline just threw her own party leader in NSW under the bus in order to defend people who have nothing but contempt for her.
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An Australian, a Frenchman, a beautiful blonde, and a comely brunette are sharing a compartment on a train as it winds its way through the Alps. Every now and then the train passes through a tunnel. As the compartment is plunged into complete darkness yet again a ringing slap is heard. The train passes back into daylight and the Frenchman is rubbing his sore, red cheek. The brunette thinks ‘I bet that dirty Frenchman fondled the blonde and she struck the pervert’. The blonde thinks ‘I bet that filthy Frenchman was looking to grope me in the dark, mistook the dowdy brunette for me and she slapped the beast’. The Frenchman thinks ‘I bet that perfidious Australian touched up the blonde in the dark and she slapped me by mistake’. The Australian thinks ‘I can’t wait for another tunnel so I can slap that French [email protected] again’.
3
Trump indicted.
Crossie, go to Michael Smith News and see if it works for you there.
Which is ironic since the other religion that does all that would throw a tranny off the nearest tall building if they caught one.
Trannies would be wise to retreat to a low profile. Same with gays.
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I believe Pauline disavowed Latham in order to keep her gig at Sky. What good will it do her when most of the views will now disregard her?
Seems to me not offering a general teller service at every branch is simple cost cutting by ANZ.
I’m willing to bet they have a dedicated cash transaction only teller at their Box Hill branch.
I know CBA does.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Dr Peterson Pierre on Florida Surgeon General’s letter to the FDA citing a 4400% increase in reports of serious life-threatening adverse events following the C19 vax.
Based on new study, rate of serious side effects is 1 in every 550 people.
Time to stop the madness.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
SAFE
(from liability for the drug companies)
EFFECTIVE
(in making billions, creating new customers & vaccines, population control, removing your rights & freedoms, and ushering in medical tyranny & digital ID).
Que?
Pauline Hanson calls on Mark Latham to apologise for ‘disgusting’ homophobic tweet.
Sickened, Penny? Mmm…
The Guardian, from its fainting couch:
SOP. They never do.
Bolt seems like controlled opposition. He gave himself away by his attitude to the Donald.
Now bolt and his panel outraged by demands for apologies from the left noting that you should never apologise to the left. FMD.
And greenwich introduced live birth abortion into NSW. He’s not a poofta, he’s a killer.
The other guilt factor with books is being told “you’ll love this” and taking too long to read it, or not reading it at all.
There is a borrowed 400 page tome on my bedside table which has been there for three months without much progress.
I’m disappointed in Pauline- I thought she would show some solidarity.
There are many other kinds of statements about a person that have far more serious consequences. In a university, an academic called a racist or a sexist can lead to the academic being shunned by colleagues and face career block.
Etc
Yet such statements are never deprecated, and it’s the target who is the problem.
Latham’s return insult to Greenwich is crude, but relatively minor.
The Beetrooter gives retail politics a bad name.
The US, or at least it’s government, is quite possibly the most evil actor in the world today, certainly in terms of outcomes.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
The US—
– Carried out the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine
– Nixed a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia in April 2022
– Blew up Nord Stream to stop Germany negotiating with Russia
– Will send depleted uranium shells to Ukraine
The US is a state sponsor of terrorism
It is not “dark matter” the Alcubierre drive requires, but “exotic matter”.
This is not known to exist. It is essentially unobtanium.
With the connivance of that foul Armenian witch, Beryl Gladyschlocklian and the rest of the stupid forking gliberals.
Of course, NSW voters didn’t hear about any of this until after the 2019 state election.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Why are so many countries all of a sudden turning to the yuan to buy their essential commodities?
Why is the world de-dollarizing so quickly?
Simple — the Russian sanctions.
1/11
Everyone is in favour of homosexuality until it comes to the bolt and nuts.
Why would any country rely on our exports when we refuse to honour our contracts? And yes, Russia will do business with our erstwhile customers and get rich in the process while we get poorer.
Bulldust, in other words. Believe it or not, this was in the Guardian.
Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows
Life in Deadly Negative World: Being Winsome and Nice Won’t Cut it Anymore, Christian
My complaint to Telecommunications Ombudsman’s Office re telstra roaming was resolved very swiftly (and refunded).
No response yet from Qantas.
No doubt swamped.
I’m going to give them a couple more weeks, then escalate.
greenwich introduced live birth abortion into NSW
With the connivance of that foul Armenian witch, Beryl Gladyschlocklian and the rest of the stupid forking gliberals.
Of course, NSW voters didn’t hear about any of this until after the 2019 state election.
Someone on the old Sinc blog warned us.
Of course. Fully understand, and if you want generously to share something one-to-one with no risk of disclosure then Dover can give you my email for further chat. Just whatever you feel comfortable doing. Good to know that no matter what, you say all turned out well for you in the end. We felt like that when Hairy’s previous eyesight loss turned out not to be the big nasty of Giant Cell Arteritis which they thought at first it might have been.
Hairy has a review in six weeks’ time and the tear wasn’t too dramatic.
Eyesight is so precious and we can tend to take it so much for granted. Hearing too.
The only thing Latham is “guilty” of is stating the bleeding obvious.
Yes it was crude, yes it was over the top and yes, it was absolutely correct. But of course, it’s the last one that all the sanctimonious morons are screeching self righteously about.
Yah.
World’s Biggest Seller of Carbon Offsets Accused of Being a Scam (25 Mar)
It’s fun that the biggest scam of all time, climate change, has bred lots of smaller scams.
The US, or at least it’s government, is quite possibly the most evil actor in the world today, certainly in terms of outcomes.
yes it is and also the export of marxist attacks on society slavishly copied by the Australian left.
mUttley busy downticking peoples’ comments, I see.
I expect purchased carbon offsets will join gas in the saviour to part of the problem corner. Dem goalposts dey are on the move.
It won’t do Pauline any good, the media and the left will still hate her and work to oust her.
Richard Vobes interviews Darren Nesbit from the newspaper “The Light”.
The Truth Will Out
My phone is Vodafone and Hairy’s is Telstra. I had no problems with Vodafone roaming, but Hairy was quite overcharged for his; he was on the phone making enquiries when we returned, not sure if there was any satisfactory resolution. He probably gave up.
As with many things in modern life, they get you with the process.
The US, or at least it’s government, is quite possibly the most evil actor in the world today, certainly in terms of outcomes.
Don’t forget Iraq and Libya either
Lizzie, pass on my regards to the other half. Funnily enough, I’ve had my teeth, eyes and blood pressure checked recently. All fine. The last one I was particularly surprised about, given various recent personal tribulations.
And they were given a dispensation from donning the mandatory high-viz jackets and tethers.
How embarrassing for Australia that even these left-wing royals were, like, ‘dude, we’re good – f-k off.’
I have spent the arvo sorting my books into categories like a librarian and boxing them up ready for the new shelves to be constructed next week. It’s far more interesting than sorting a sock drawer.
So many books that would be good to dip into again. Some long forgotten, turning up like old friends.
Mother Load:
Everyone was disturbed by Marks describing the mechanics of anal sex? Just wait until they read up on ‘Felching”.
Some things you think are so disgusting that no one could go there. But Gays do. And then they call out others for ‘poor taste’.
I cannot imagine a worse taste than that.
The 1970s Magic Bus plus Feelz.
Your emotional state during either of the World Wars would have had you locked up.
Get a grip!
Will pass on yr regards, Rabz.
I was a bit worried about yr blood pressure last Sat’dy nite in the political fray; glad serenity reigns now.
And thank you for opening your place so hospitably with its two big tellies so we could wander from the ABC to Fox and have a laugh at the difference.
Just been having a geek around the Wayback Machine’s Catallaxyfiles records (thank you Calli!)..
I don’t know if it’s complete, but it’s megaparsecs better than that suppurating abortion of an “effort” at the NLA.
An incredibly nostalgic snapshot of the collective knowledge, intelligence, grammatical mastery and wit of the old commenters, many unfortunately gone or retired (Armadillo, Tel, Egg, Habib, Motelier, John Constantine and many, many others).
Most threads would be just as topical today.
As the WB seems to be slow, does anyone here know how to “scrape” this data for external storage, for easier perusal and retrieval? (assuming no copyright abusations..)
Kurt Schlichter in rather good form.
Cassie is a trouper who never gives up. Always alert. Her commentaries are outstanding.
Occasionally here she has to vent some anguish just as others do. Goes with the territory.
I hope that ‘grip’ is meant to encourage a stalwart; best taken that way.
https://rumble.com/v2ezkbk-dr-oosterhuis-and-michael-on-cafe-locked-out.html
Dr Tess Lawrie’s 5 minute reading of ‘It was not a mistake’ (re the COVID management campaign) is magnificent.
This is greenwich’s Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019.
S.11 says:
11 Care of person born after termination
(1) This section applies if a termination results in a person being born.
(2) Nothing in this Act prevents the medical practitioner who performed the termination,
or any other registered health practitioner present at the time the person is born, from
exercising any duty to provide the person with medical care and treatment that is—
(a) clinically safe, and
(b) appropriate to the person’s medical condition.
Note. See section 10(3), which provides that this Act does not limit a duty a registered health
practitioner has to comply with professional standards or guidelines. See also section 14,
which provides that the Secretary of the Ministry of Health may issue guidelines about the
performance of terminations at approved health facilities and requires registered health
practitioners performing terminations, or assisting in the performance of terminations, to act in
accordance with the guidelines.
(3) To avoid doubt, the duty owed by a registered health practitioner to provide medical
care and treatment to a person born as a result of a termination is no different than
the duty owed to provide medical care and treatment to a person born other than as a
result of a termination
SS3 was introduced at the behest of this mob:
SUBMISSION Right to Life NSW
Recommendation 4:
If not opposed as per Recommendation 1, the Bill ought to be amended to explicitly require
that any child born alive after an attempted abortion is given the same life-saving medical
treatment as would be given to any other child born alive at that stage of gestation.
I don’t know what has happened as a result.
I think people get caught out with telstra international roaming because they don’t realise that zone 3 countries (which includes countries like Norway and Italy) are unlimited calls and sms only, no data at all. (zone 2 you get 1gb a day)
I think I got 8gb every 30 days with Windtre/Melita but made sure I switched to WiFi at my apartments (I always filter for wifi and a washing machine on airbnb) to nurse the allowance.
Gilas, there are only captures of a few pages per Open Thread. It is very sparse but still yields plenty of historical comment.
Gilas
Motelier is still around on Twitter as “Motelier”. Nice dude .
Tel posts at CLs.
Stackja is on twitter too.
Indolentsays:
March 30, 2023 at 7:57 pm
Bulldust, in other words. Believe it or not, this was in the Guardian.
Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest certifier are worthless, analysis shows
It took the Grauniad this long to work out that it is a scam? Talk about dumb, the Grauniad makes morons look brilliant.
Oh, Gemma Tognini is so concerned about Latham that she is asking if he is alright and then in the next breath she would sack him if she were Pauline. Chris Kenny then offers that Mark must have been drunk when he tweeted. How about just having had enough from that spiteful Greenwich and firing back with both barrels?
Re the general reaction to the Latham description:
These days people seem to want to sanitise life in their efforts to accept “diversity”. Latham’s response was brutal but technically correct.
Now kenny saying pauline should throw Latham out of the party with some panel bint opining that if Latham worked for her he would have been given his marching orders.
In the meantime thorpie is going nuts, liars are impugning female libs and jugears is busy betraying Australia to the chunks but Latham is out for describing the sex act of pooftas.
And Kae was at CLs a couple of weeks ago too. And Ragu occasionally and Twostix also.
Bored with Pepe le Pew.
Here’s an old favourite Gravatar – a fish playing with a seal.
Cute.
Whatever happened to Hovercards? You just put your pointer thingy over the picture and it automatically embiggened.
“The 1970s Magic Bus plus Feelz.
Your emotional state during either of the World Wars would have had you locked up.
Get a grip!”
Oh eff off, I’ll write what I want. And actually, I wouldn’t have been locked up in World War II, I would have been put on a train to a camp and eliminated.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 30, 2023 at 8:06 pm
My complaint to Telecommunications Ombudsman’s Office re telstra roaming was resolved very swiftly (and refunded).
My phone is Vodafone and Hairy’s is Telstra. I had no problems with Vodafone roaming, but Hairy was quite overcharged for his; he was on the phone making enquiries when we returned, not sure if there was any satisfactory resolution. He probably gave up.
As with many things in modern life, they get you with the process.
Reverse the process. Find the nearest Telstra shopfront, go in there and discuss the problem in a loud voice at a busy time of the day.
I think I might give Sky a miss for a few days.
I remember another commenter El Cid from Tim Blair’s blog and then the old Cat. Does anyone know where he is now?
C.L.says:
March 30, 2023 at 8:07 pm
Both he and Michelle must be pretty fit to be able to climb the bridge over 1200 steps.
And they were given a dispensation from donning the mandatory high-viz jackets and tethers.
“Don’t you know who we are? “
Motelier is still around on Twitter as “Motelier”. Nice dude .
Tel posts at CLs.
Stackja is on twitter too.
Yes, I noticed Tel posting some weeks ago.
Shame that they have absconded from their natural home.
Latham stating the obvious, which is obviously not allowed by our lefty overlords.
Also nice to see some daylight showing up the scams behind carbon offsets. Fake begets more fake, to almost nobodies surprise
Would their customers be interrogated as to the reason for their deposits and withdrawals?
I watched Kenny’s panel segment. Painful viewing.
Caleb Bond couldn’t “trunslate” King Charles’s German language speech but it was a real hoot that he was speaking in that tongue.
The King also speaks French and Welsh. Bond can’t even speak Australian properly.
After that hillbilly moment, all condemned Latham in extravagant terms.
Latham’s mistake was to delete the tweet, it implies culpability.
Vicki:
I don’t subscribe personally to the formidableness of self, Vicki, but I am certainly pissed off at being pushed around by people who think they can push me.
At the start of the COVID bullshit I had a bit of a personal revelation when a family member made a statement to another that “Now is not the time to play peacemaker – this is family problems and you stand by your family”.
Now I don’t budge and if someone wants to push, they get pushback.
Yes, there’s a price to pay but what is the cost of submission?
Dot:
*Sigh* In the real world, that’s a valid point.
It’s curious. All this stuff is ensconced in school curricula and minors are exposed to it as part of “health and development”.
Yet an adult describes the act and all the horses in the stable are panicking.
Everyone in the media has gone all doe eyed and twee. How very 2023.
No, the problem arises when you train your body to make spike proteins in large and unknown numbers – this exposure goes on much longer than in a natural infection, AND said proteins are expressed on the surface of your own cells, marking them as foreign
Yes, but again they are eliminated within days
certainly, everyone has been exposed to it, and the world is now split into 2 camps:
those who got vaxxed, and narrowly trained their own immune systems *before* seeing the real thing – they now suffer the ‘immune fixation’ problem where they prioritise producing antibodies to the old (now extinct) spke protein every time they encounter a new variant.
those who didnt get vaxxed until after seeing the real thing – they mounted a broad spectrum response to a multitude of proteins in the virus – thus gaining long term immunity and avoiding the immune fixation problem
C.L., Kenny also reported that Obama thinks the world would be in a better place if women ran the place.
Is that blatant attempt to introduce the thought of Michelle announcing her candidacy for the Democrat presidential nomination?
(Perhaps a good enough reason for her looking especially p1ssed off since they landed in Australia.)
I’m disappointed in Pauline- I thought she would show some solidarity.
I don’t care about solidarity. I care about reality. Latham is talking reality.
They don’t, and this one didn’t either – it was never a ‘pandemic’ – as evidenced by the lack of bodies in the streets and the failure of all cause mortality to rise until 2022, when it was caused by the vax rollout, not infections.
Geriatric Mayfly missed. I hope he is well. Not being very computer literate I wondered if he knew how to get back on to Catallaxy.
That’s a difficult question, probably not if they were known local retailers.
Pure guess but I suspect austrac would have some sort of algorithm to check whether banks are reporting suspicious transactions and it might look a bit odd if a big cash branch wasn’t making any reports.
The other reason for questions re large cash withdrawals esp is to protect customers from scammers, eg itinerant roofers.
I certainly wouldn’t be giving a teller grief over questioning people over large cash transactions.
Perhaps time for banks to commit to providing basic services or they can be taxed at a higher rate.
Biggerized for Cats.
My gravatar birdie is no longer around, he and his family left for parts unknown. That was a few years ago. I dunno why, but I have other butcherbirds. So there.
Tonight’s fun was young Miss Brushtail, about half an hour ago. She was hungry, and let me stroke her like a cat…a little. For some bread and a carrot! Too much caressing though was not on. We’re working out rulz.
The King also speaks French and Welsh.
What is it that it’s fine to denigrate a person for a proficiency, just because we don’t like the position they hold. Does the media honestly think that the Queen, and now the King, didn’t have an education commensurate with the tasks required of their position? Apart from constitutional law and diplomacy, foreign languages such as German, French and Welsh would be top of the list for the heir apparent.
mUttley busy downticking peoples’ comments, I see.
Still recovering from his trans mine accident, no legs or dick.
Tel was one of the best contributors here. I miss him and I especially miss Armadillo who put a smile on my face many a time.
Boambee John:
Mad if they didn’t.
The Masada Option has been one of their cards for a long time, and while the leaders of the nations that want to harm them have bunkers and supplies to outlive it, their people don’t. They may have different ideas about ‘dying for the Glory of Allah’.
Further to “getting a grip”, I put my hand up, I’m guilty of struggling to hold onto any kind of grip. We live in a society where the left and the MSM spruik the absurd notion that Kellie-Jay Keen and women such as myself, who don’t want biological males in our private spaces such as toilets and changerooms, who don’t biological males who simply identify as “women” be placed in female only prisons, who don’t want biological males who simply identify as “women” competing against females in supposedly female sport, well according to the MSM, according to Daniel Andrews, according to the feral left, we’re “far-right”, we’re “white supremacists”, we’re “Nazis”, we’re “Nazi adjacent”, and then of course, to ice the cake of demonisation, slurs and smears, we witness a scene out of a Mel Brooks’ musical when a group of Grampian Nazis conveniently appear at the Let Women Speak in Melbourne and were ushered through by Victorian police.
I found it hard to get a grip when I was watching the footage of woman attempting to give a speech to a group of other women in an Auckland Park and a riot broke out, fuelled by the MSM and left, and this women was almost trampled in the violence. Her crime? She believes in the reality of biological sex and letting women speak.
When I was at Pell’s funeral, I found it hard to get a grip because I was trembling from the screams, shouts and screeches of the feral howling mob who were metres away, only held back by police because I can assure you of one thing, if the police had not been there, they would have invaded the cathedral.
And today we see Latham about to be lynched, his crime? For being crude, a tasteless tweet about anal intercourse but others do far worse and NEVER suffer any reputational consequences. Ahh…but those people are always of the left…silly me. Never mind that the sinister and very unsavoury Greenwich FIRST called Latham “disgusting”, but that’s okay. Again, all of this is being fuelled by the MSM.
Yeah I admit, I probably should get a grip but I can’t, I just can’t, because I’m living in a society that is slowly losing any grip on reality.
Robert S
The Masada Option has been one of their cards for a long time,
“Masada shall not fall again.”
Wow! According to Paul Murray, Michelle Obama is inevitably on her way to the White House. But then again considering the election fraud in place in key states any Democrat candidate is inevitable.
And is half undressed?
Jellyfish – The King Is Half-Undressed (1990)
I should get Rabz to swap music vids. Jellyfish are out there in that wonderful atmosphere of obscure bands.
On Latham, I haven’t read what he tweeted. But from the “news” reports suggested is that he was retaliating with “rarefied language” at a newspaper article by Alex Greenwich about his pre-election rally at that church in Belfield.
I don’t get it? Everything on the teev and elsewhere in the media on the gay “lifestyle”, which the annual Gay Mardi Gras promotes, has everyone, to use the language of the Freddie Mercury character in the movie, Bohemian Rhapsody, getting ‘absolutely sh1tfaced’ and ultimately submitting to all that entails. So why the prudish stance from Bolt to Pauline?
Hi Lizzie and Tinta. I’m still here too, so DVA has fixed me up with new hearing aids, new glasses and rebuilt my broken front teeth. BP is also good.
Physio lady is very attractive. It would be nice to be eighty again.
Is Pauline losing the plot! .. can’t quite believe she fell for the leftie indignation over Mark Latham telling it like it is! .. bit simplistic and crude but reality .. “it’s true” .. you can put what he twitted into any diplomatic context you like and the end result( pun intended) is still the same ..
“Wot he wrote is what it is ..!”
Sadly, for Pauline, these days I think Mark has more presence with One Nation, especially in NSW, than she does and putting down her best draw card to favour of any opposition player is not going to enhance her standing with One Nation supporters …… !
Damn!
It is like they have a giant poker machine in which the reels indicate every body orifice and every fluid, and they are just sitting there repeatedly pulling the handle to come up with improbable combinations.
And I assume ‘jackpot’ has something to do with masturbation and someone sitting on a hot plate with a can of soup emptied up their arse.
Bruce O’Nuke:
No, that’s not the point. He/she/it wants the rules changed to accommodate their wishes.
We must change to validate her/his fantasies. Otherwise we are mean and will break their hearts.
Emotional bloody blackmail and I’m sick of it.
We shouldn’t tolerate it in children, and we certainly shouldn’t tolerate it from adults.
Do we know what Latho called him?
It sounds like it was one word (pace the Guardian’s overwrought claim).
Was it a rude version of someone that engages in fellatio?
Bet it was.
Latho is funny.
HBBear:
It’s a warning to the Smartest Men in the Room that Australia will find itself in a situation where Sovereign Risk will have a negative weighting in trade deals – and the SMitR aren’t listening.
Everyone loves a nicely tossed salad.
Well, not everybody.
P, on those missing friends. +1
Also, Confused old Misfit was very welcoming to me when I first dipped my toe in the water at the Old Cat.
And Infidel Tiger was always witty and worth reading, as was Stackja.
But the banks do provide basic services.
Unless you only have a bank book, you can deposit or withdraw cash at the branch Atm using your card.
The only times I’ve been in a branch for many years was once to deposit a large cheque, and once to replace a ripped in half $50.
Only person I know who does regular counter withdrawals is well north of 80.
Hehe, Macbeth, I’m not eighty yet so was seriously challenged by my old mum’s ranga physio lady this morning. A babe!
I’ve been helping my mum, who had a fall last week and broke her arm at the very top. Not doing too bad in the circumstances, helped by hot ranga physio babes.
Will:
Why do I think the AFP are hiding exculpatory evidence?
Because that’s what it looks like – reviewing evidence when they were asked to just hand it over smacks of interference with the body of evidence.
Pauline has lost the plot and her credibility. RIP PHON.
China’s mining for gold in Africa is appears to be quite extensive.
Why gold?
https://twitter.com/AgatheDemarais/status/1641334448766742528
The Japanese would be particularly pissed given the role their contracts played in the whole development of the NWS gas industry.
I have kept in touch with Stackja.
He has moved to a retirement community and has had a few health challenges. He was faring well, though, at Christmas. He is a gentleman.
I wonder how much of pauline’s indignation is due to her chief of staff being a poofta.
Bolt is beyond redemption; he seems incapable of emotionally connecting with what he often says: never apologise to the left, always resist etc; and when Latham dishes some back to a bastard bolt goes shit at the knees.
I’m also sorry Latham deleted the tweet.
Lizzie:
Stupid, stupid man.
I’ve had several tears/detachments repaired by laser, and frankly you’re functionally blind in that eye for at least two hours. Had he had a prang, he’d have lost his licence and his insurance wouldn’t have covered any injury/damage to whoever he ran into.
Give him a kick up the arse for me, will you?
“Bolt is beyond redemption;”
Don’t watch him again. He’s a joke, a disgrace, a fair-weather person.
Does it mean that we got it wrong with the ‘absolute’ value then?
As we discovered during the AIDS dry run (no pun intended) many homosexual practices are bettered considered in the abstract.
That would really sting some Brits.
Mum is 92 and a bit worried (and more than a bit miffed) that she has been told no more cheques after she finishes this chequebook.
How, exactly, do they expect her to pay her bills? Via an app on the phone she can just manage to make a call on, and read the odd text (sometimes)? On the computer or tablet she doesn’t own?
So she ends up doing her banking via one of her kids… so much for all that “privacy” they are always banging on about! I mean, she’s lucky in that I am a paragon of virtue and can be trusted, but some others may not be so saintly as my good self…
I miss Geriatric Mayfly.
He went to school with Cardinal Pell, gave us a lovely potted bio of Pell the school boy.
Just wait until they read up on ‘Felching”
Everyone loves a nicely tossed salad.
Well, not everybody.
You mongrel, KD.
I just looked it up on the Urban Dictionary.
Please, no one else do that. The verbal description means I will not have squeezed lemon on my snitty tomorrow night.
Well Kiwis and Germans would hardly endorse that view after the mess Ardern and Merckel have left their countries.
Indolent:
Despite the masks being known to be useless, the main reason for forcing them on us was to criminalise those people who refused.
That’s it. That’s all that was desired. A means to treat a class of people as criminals, and to give the majority who obeyed, somebody to hate.
The English (post-Norman) kings didn’t even speak English until 1413.
I would have thought Frog and Kraut would have been staples for English kings for three or four hundred years at least. Doesn’t surprise me in the least that although he’s a tiresome dunderhead, Charlie III is multilingual.
Mark Steyn Show:
March 28, 2023
Burning the Evidence.
Welcome to the Tuesday edition of The Mark Steyn Show. If you’re watching us in real time, immediately after today’s show, Mark will be back with his old EIB comrade on Bo Snerdley’s Rush Hour, live at 4pm US Eastern on New York’s legendary radio powerhouse, 77 WABC.
Today’s show begins with Mark’s take on the failures of Big Government these last three years, and why it is necessary to have a proper accounting.
Next, funeral director John O’Looney joins Steyn for his view of what’s going on, especially with regard to the excess mortality across the western world and what he’s seeing on the ground at his funeral home. Then, the Stats Man Jamie Jenkins is back to crunch the numbers on “Long Covid” and related topics. And we have another edition of Mark’s Mailbox.
https://www.steynonline.com/mark-steyn-show/13360/burning-the-evidence
Are you having a lemon party?
Like her or hate her, “solidarity” is not in her vocabulary.
Why do you think she insists on calling the party P H One Nation?
With her it was always me-me-me once she got her foot in the door and attracted followers.
In Latham’s place I’d quit the party, he is old enough to retire in 8 years anyway but I think he would win on his own popularity if he’d run again.
Quite right. Nobody else look that up.
On Urban Dictionary.
Re the demise of Old Cat, its passing was the first time I realised there was such a thing as an ‘online community’, the demise of which could be saddening. I understand Sinclair’s decision, though. Running a blog is not easy. I set one up (again) because writing about or discussing the news – especially politics and religion – has been part of my life since my mid-teens. But I still feel the pull of the late twentieth century – wondrous days without the internet. It’s weird that there are now mature adults with no experience of life without it.
I miss the great IT too – and others.
Onward, though!
Are you having a lemon party?
No, but I certainly have grapes.
https://www.legislation.act.gov.au/View/a/1991-2/current/html/1991-2.html
Section 36 Contempt of board
A person commits an offence if the person does something in the face, or within the hearing, of a board that would be contempt of court if the board were a court of record.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.
The Commissioner of the AFP has got some balls.
Also
Section 35 Application of Criminal Code, ch 7
An inquiry is a legal proceeding for the Criminal Code, chapter 7 (Administration of justice offences).
Note That chapter includes offences (eg perjury, falsifying evidence, failing to attend and refusing to be sworn) applying in relation to board proceedings.
Now, in the ACT Criminal Code:
706 Destroying or concealing evidence
(1) A person commits an offence if the person destroys or conceals evidence with the intention of—
(a) influencing a decision about starting a legal proceeding; or
(b) influencing the outcome of a legal proceeding.
Maximum penalty: 700 penalty units, imprisonment for 7 years or both.
Note that a PU is 160 AUD.
Now, for once I hope we do have a courageous judge.
Right. Wick IV review. I have given this some thought. If anyone’s expecting a Wolfman Oz-level dissection and symbolism analysis, you’ll be disappointed.
There’s a Ned Kelly reference early on, which was a bit weird. They possibly have the richest, youngest supervillain as well. The fillum itself was all right, but nowhere near – nowhere near – the bar set by I, II and for the most part, III.
There were enough killings. Certainly enough killings, but French traffic accounted for fully half of them. A blind Chinese assassin who seemed to have The Force, which was sort of cool but lost cred as the film went on.
No humour. A bit of dog-related activity, although it’s not Wick’s dog. Excellent – nay, outstanding scenery. A mystery black killer.
The bullet-proof and apparently kinetic force-proof suits were a bit much, even for me. Rounds were pinging off Wick and various villains as though they were Superman.
The action CQB scenes were too slow and too contrived, as opposed to the first three flicks. Way too slow. Move. Pause. Move. Pause. Completely lacked the essential dynamic element.
And then there’s a grave at the end with Wick’s name on it. Whether that means there’s a Wick V, I don’t know. But there shouldn’t be.
John Wick – the baba yaga – is dead.
There’s movies about El Cid but there needs to be one about William Marshal.
She has definitely gone down in my estimation. At last Saturday’s election I voted One Nation 1 above the line and would still do so now purely to get Mark Latham elected. One Nation without Latham does not get my vote, that simple.
Damn straight. The Ser Barristan Selmy of his time, but better and served more kings.
Oh great. Now I’m getting my review dickless downticked.
Should we tell him about the goatse.cx man you think.
You’re a champion, Macbeth.
Good to hear you have been all kitted out like a frisky eighty year old again.
Keep smiling and let those new teeth shine!
The protestant hymn Onward Christian Soldiers was considered too militant back in the ’70s.
My children attending a Catholic school in the ’70s had their school motto
changed from “In Christ We Conquer” to “Love One Another”, the other being too militant.
A couple of months ago I mentioned a Club Grubbery podcast which involved 3 AFL people. One (Dixon ?) was a Director of one of the Adelaide teams. He said he heard of a vax related issue with one of the players indirectly and called a Board meeting to discuss the vax mandates. On the actual day of that meeting another player collapsed during training.
Unfortunately the club paid no attention to his views and he had to step down. He made the comment that it was important, particularly in VIC, to get all teams on board with the vax. This was becuase of their large following.
I have seen a cringeworthy clip of the West Coast Eagles team all saying how good the vaccines were.
dover0beachsays:
March 30, 2023 at 5:24 pm
sports cardiologist confirmed a diagnosis of pericarditis.
I wonder what the frequency of this has been in the past?
Memes
Why am I unsurprised that there has not been a single voice on the Cat saying a word against Mark Latham today.
Never go the full Alf Garnett.
Cassie, take some lighter relief with my Netflix suggestions for you. Or bury yourself in a book.
I’m currently reading Edward Rutherford’s book ‘Dublin’. He writes those sagas through time in a given place – ‘Sarum’ and ‘London’ are probably his best known ones – where a small genetic trait links characters to the development of the place down the ages from the ancestral times. It’s fairly stock stuff in literary terms but engaging and follows a reasonably historically accurate timeline.
My eldest son returned with it from his Thailand excursion and it bears all the thumbed wear and tear of a book that for years has travelled Asia with many a backpacker on many a filthy train and through many a meal. Present for you mum, he says, and of course I am very grateful for his thoughtfulness.
Mark McGowan is an oleaginous shunt.
They just can’t LET GO of that power
Clown Planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfmD0c8kbj8
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-28/wa-government-border-crossings-search-powers/102154988
“Hey guys if we become more and more like the old Soviet Union or East Germans, we won’t have as much crime…”
Sure, but your oppressive government is objectively worse than having slightly more crime.
mUntler,
What are your views on chicks dressing up as blokes and then killing children at their school before being splattered all over said school by toxically masculine men?
monty,
With all due respect to the man he insulted, I don’t give a shit.
Um, Monty, would that be because we agree with him?
I mean we do um, understand plumbing.
I just hope Mr Greenwich has had his monkeypox vaccination.
I could provide bible verses if you want…
same reason nobody says positive things about you mUnty
Hitting back with an angry tweet at an aggressor is a sign of the stress that Latham has been under. I don’t condemn him for it. Everyone has a snapping point. M0nty’s just glad the attention has moved on from his Black Shirt sympathies. For the time being anyway.
Latham has done no more than forcefully albeit impolitely tell the simple truth of what our kids are taught in school health education, as Calli has noted. The tweet will go down the memory hole soon enough, and Mark can still do a lot of good in his Upper House position, whether with One Nation or not. I am glad he has a retirement future ahead because retirement is one of the joys of a hard won working life.
Who’s got a link to Tub Girl? Can’t find it.
That’d get the hippies squirming.
I’m reading David McCullough’s epic biography, of one time President of the United States, Harry Truman.
It seems that his wife, Bess Truman, was furious when the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan – Harry hadn’t told her of the existence of the weapons…
Look, I’m a fan of Latham but sitting on different-coloured leather and fanging all over the place at someone else’s expense can’t really be described as ‘hard won’.
Show me 40 year-by-year pictures of him putting trenches in with a pick, and I’ll change my mind.
Onward Christian Soldiers Mahalia Jackson
I clicked on that link here to some other associated activities.
Plumbing the depths of compulsive orality, I call some of that. Far too fetishistic.
An explorative sensuality is one thing, but messy slurping for the sake of it – erk.
Human sexual interest can be led down some very unpleasant behavioural paths.
Not wrong, there.
I once listened in growing amazement to a detailed expert explanation of the extraordinary lengths some gay guys go to in preparation for a poo-free weekend of freewheeling fun.
It appears you have to be very committed to avoid a Latham sadness.
The stressors of public life and anything high-flying can be pretty soul-destroying sometimes, KD.
Retiring away from it all whole and in one piece psychologically is a grace that is hard won.
I’m off to continue with the tales of Dublin. Strongbow has just arrived from England, and the tribal kings think they can contain him within the eastern ports. Little do they realise … etc etc. Lives of the current characters, with all of their concerns, are about about to be thrown into chaos.
That’s history for you.
Dot rumoured:
I do hope his first prototype run coincides with the passing of the T’Plana-Hath.
Dublin is one of my favourite cities. Picture an Australian tourist, looking at the statues in O’Connell Street, and thinking “Um yeah, they look like bullet holes” and then realizing that the General Post Office was just across the road…..
The great and the good prefer to celebrate the sanitised version of homosexuality, with visions of rainbows and fairy dust. Latham committed the cardinal sin of forcing them, if only for a moment, to contemplate the unsanitised version.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
March 30, 2023 at 11:38 pm
Look, I’m a fan of Latham but sitting on different-coloured leather and fanging all over the place at someone else’s expense can’t really be described as ‘hard won’.
My work is pretty mundane, as most of them really are, but I wouldn’t swap it for politics even given the huge salary, power and perks.
My only hope is that in 7 years time I still have most of my super and we can sell the business at a fair price.
Others might be more ambitious, but we would be happy, have a paid off roof over our heads, kids independent, maintaining health is the main thing now.
Why am I unsurprised that there has not been a single voice on the Cat saying a word against Mark Latham today.
Future arse bandit.
Rise in popularity of anal sex has led to health problems for women
Just sharing what an unimpeachable source of truth is saying these days re downunder pleasures and the side effects.
Strongbow has just arrived from England
The cider or Longbow?!
My only hope is that in 7 years time I still have most of my super and we can sell the business at a fair price.
You are soooo f’cked !!! 🙂
If Mark Lathams description of male on male sex is factual , how would Andrew Bolt and the denouncers describe it.
That “unsanitised version”
Once upon a time, when promotion of the homosexual lifestyle began, a Courier-Mail columnist gave this description of the practice: “dabbling in the sewer of the body”.
A refined twin to Latham’s description.
This journalist/ex-footballer had character and good manners. Have no recollection of shock and indignation.
I once listened in growing amazement to a detailed expert explanation of the extraordinary lengths some gay guys go to in preparation for a poo-free weekend of freewheeling fun.
I used to manage Australia’s largest homo aircraft refuelling crew. “Just going to empty my vagina for the weekend!” FFS.
Rise in popularity of anal sex has led to health problems for women
Californian girls. Do you want to…. No! Why would I do that when there’s a perfectly good vagina an inch away?!
I think that’s a record, legitimate use of “vagina” in two consequitive posts. Now three.
The erosion of savings through inflation is insidious. Coupled with bracket creep your house is about the only thing stopping most people from going backwards.
What?
I’ve never, to my knowledge, had covid.
The vast majority of Australians would be in the so called ‘immune fixation’ category yet we are way down the worldwide deaths per 100,000 people numbers.
stats here
Why am I surprised to find Monty thinks Latham’s crude response to being called disgusting has to be universally condemned?
He’s a working class man, not a saint on earth.
Twitter has been a sewer of abuse since the get go, dish it out, expect to get it back.
Don’t dish it out, get it anyhow.
I’ve seen some of the comments Latham cops, day in, day out.
where is the evidence that covid vaccination is responsible for high rates of VAED?
the Expose has the real facts
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel #2.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom. Leak was excellent!
Something to remember.
No comment on my part either way, just turned up in feeds.
WORLD
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The price of being alone.
“I remember that summit well.
He was left alone at the table, he was alone at all the G20 events in Australia, and when he finally realized his role, he just stood up and walked away, shaking the hand of the policeman escort.
How much dirt and gossip he received at his address during all his time in power. Dozens of Putin’s palaces, billions on Putin’s accounts … the world’s best intelligence agencies have been searching for the base assets of the President of Russia for many years, but without finding anything, they put all their efforts to pinch Putin’s “friends”.
And what about himself, why doesn’t he assemble a team of court journalists to refute the endless lies addressed to him? The answer is simple – his deeds speak for him.
He came in far 1999, when the country had only one name left. The humiliating “Russia’s default” just roared around the world.
GDP-195 billion, and State Debt-190 $ billion.
Putin accepted a bankrupt country whose asset value was practically equal to its external debt.
With what did isolated Russia of the era of the outcast Putin approach 2018?
Only in the “sanctioned” year 2017, the country’s GDP grew by 2.7% and amounts to $ 3 trillion 445 billion.
Just compare the two numbers…
-GDP 1999 – 195 billion $
-GDP 2017 – 3 trillion 445 billion $
… and you will understand the price of the President’s loneliness. ”
I will add from myself.
I remember Russia without Putin perfectly.
Shooting of Parliament, tanks and BTRs ringing at night under the window on Babushkinskaya, where I lived, the military is in full display throughout Moscow. Blood puddles on the sidewalks. The corpse of a passer-by with a crushed tank head on the road.
Have you seen? I saw it.
War in Chechnya, and several business trips there of my friends from the special forces with whom fanatically learned real aikido for Dynamo for 7 years. Roma nicknamed “Goblin”, a big guy under 2 meters. 2 injuries, just getting back on my feet.
The guys were telling how they merged Chechnya to international terrorists.
Treason and corruption of officers, drug trafficking, tons of dollars in bribes. The boys who were sent to the slaughterhouse by traitors to create discontent in the country died.
Didn’t you have to meet a hundred 200s in zinc and see the madness of mothers jumping hysterically on a metal box?
God forbid!
Did you forget the “Nord-East” that happened thanks to corrupt militia who let military trucks with terrorists, explosives and weapons to almost the center of Moscow for 2-3 thousand dollars?
Have they forgotten school in Beslan?
When hostages were drinking their urine to avoid dying of thirst, when closing the child who had escaped through the window killed our special forces officers.
Unemployment, thousands of enterprises are closed, professors are traded in the markets, budget workers have not received salaries for years.
Somehow in the center of Moscow I left the entrance hall and got into a bandit showdown. Automatic queues and gunshots, screams of the wounded, corpses near the cars. And you, in a clean suit and a white shirt, crawl on your stomach under the wall of the house in the mud on a flowerbed around the corner, so as not to add to the statistics of “natural depletion of the population”.
We lost more population in the 1990s than we did in the Great Patriotic War.
Don’t you remember? I – Remember.
Putin is not an angel and I do not idealize him. But I want to pay tribute to this man.
After all, I remember who stopped all this madness. And sometimes I want to ask those who criticize and throw dirt on this man:
AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO STOP THIS?
Excellent comment by Alex Krepchinsky:
Re. the previous post, I think it may be a repeat but I never saw it, so it’s new to me.
Tom,
the Gary Varvel toon of Jesus welcoming the children and the teachers is absolutely beautiful. A small but welcome comfort after their loss.
He has never been a working class man. He went straight out of uni into politics, starting in the offices of Bob Carr and Gough Whitlam.
There were far wittier ways to phrase his rejoinder. Latham does not possess much wit.
The furore over his comment shows why you lot are now attacking trans people. Society has progressed far enough to see open homophobia as disgusting. It is still moderately acceptable to attack trans people in the same vein, but the more you extremists push the envelope the more sympathy that trans people will build up in wider society. By the end of this little moral panic, the general reaction to similar comments directed against transsexuals will provoke as much revulsion as Latham did. Because you will lose this culture war, too, like you lost all the others.
Mark Latham’s apology should read;
I apologise if some people were offended when I compared disgusting with sticking your d***k up a bloke’s a*** and covering it with s**t.
Oh look, the pervert apologist is here…..the same pervert apologist who can’t condemn violence against Jews and women but condemns Latham’s stupid words. We shouldn’t be surprised by the pervert apologist’s priorities. After, he does like punching Nazis, punching Jews, punchs women.
F*ck off pervert apologist.
Denouncing is the name of the game. We must be forced to denounce, regardless of the “crime”.
Pauline should have told the hand wringers to ping off – she’d denounce Latham for his rejoinder when Greenwich denounced the trans troops sent off to disrupt a political meeting at a church hall (and for the subsequent damage to a crucifix).
It’s all so very Soviet.
Last night the Jew hating misogynistic pervert apologist wrote the following sanctimonious guff…
“Why am I unsurprised that there has not been a single voice on the Cat saying a word against Mark Latham today.
This, from the same pervert apologist who laughs at women being harassed, threatened, intimidated and physically attacked (as more than one was in the park in Auckland last Saturday).
Further to “words”, I’m still waiting for the pervert apologist to retract his description of Cardinal George Pell.
“It’s all so very Soviet.”
Indeed, and the more outrage, the more sanctimony, the more I support Latham.
And actually, his description is 100% correct about gay sex.
but, but
aren’t you the wanker that pointed out that nobody here had a thing to say against ??
the same wanker that’s outraged,
arms akimbo and indignant
gibbering about ‘extremists’ … who have nothing to say against?
the very same wanker that thinks a ‘war’ is fought with words?
adding to the furore indeed.
try not to trip over your dick mate
mUnty
always the first to start clapping
and the last stop
Next step will be the public humiliations and struggle sessions.
Oh. That’s right. They’re here.
Doug Mulray has passed. 🙁
Eighties drive time legend.
Monty doesn’t like it that the two PHON members of the NSW Legislative Council will both be ex Labor Party escapees.
Perhaps the Labor Party has stopped representing their base too?
Further of “wokeness”, I went to hear Peter Boghossian a few weeks ago, just days before that very odd event in Melbourne when some strange Nazis mysteriously suddenly appeared of no where and were ushered through by police so they could stand next to women at the Let Women Speak rally, and duly performed the Nazi salute. It was a stage production, perfectly choreographed.
Boghossian IS an intellectual, who’s brain power makes the pervert apologist’s brain look as though it comes from a snail, and that’s unfair to snails, is warning that this country is about to be flooded by “wokeness”. I fear Boghossian is right. When I heard him speak two weeks ago, he’d just arrived and he was a tad optimistic about this country and how entrenched the icy woke winds are. Speaking at the State Library, his words were startling, he said that at talks he gives in libraries and universities across the USA, there has to be guards at the door otherwise far-left woke protesters will gatecrash and storm the events. He said…”unlike in the USA you don’t have guards at the doors”…….hmm, well, I suspect that’s about to change. Remember, Boghossian comes from Portland, an epicentre of wokeness. Last night he appeared on Sky and he isn’t so optimistic. I feel this cold woke wind too, hence my struggle to “get a grip”. I work in a woke workplace where only progressives speak their mind, others, such as myself, stay silent.
Given that we now have a Labor government, federally and in all mainland states, our trajectory will be similar to what’s happened to NZ over the last six years under Horse Face. The cold woke winds are here, I think we need to rug up.
As for trannies Monty we don’t particularly care what people do with themselves sexually so long as they don’t harm others. But we really don’t like obnoxious fascists, which is what the trans activist movement seems to’ve turned into overnight.
And trans activists are seriously persecuting women and Christians and are grooming children. Which is ironic since the other religion that does all that would throw a tranny off the nearest tall building if they caught one.
Pauline has now proved herself to be a PHONy.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/03/29/wtf-is-wrong-with-you-columbia-center-and-students-protest-meeting-with-justice-kavanaugh/
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Demarkation dispute, Bruce.
On the pursed lips – we have a new iteration of wowser. Tolerate, celebrate on the orders of the rulers – but do not describe such things!
And as for the militarised tranny movement demonstrating and monstering opposition, how are they any different from the people of a certain town clamouring at Lot’s door long ago?
Pauline just got Hegel’d
exactly the same way Pesutto did.
actually … they both Hegel’d themselves
dumbarses
If Pauline Hansen apologised, it’s only because she’s got that mincing queen Ashby in her office, and couldn’t stand the hissy fit.
welcome to Venezuela
The Oz:
Maybe Ashby makes her coffee. I wouldn’t risk it either.
Latham’s crude but it’s free speech…for now.
Watch the straighteners use the comment to try and control all speech.
Now that’s disgusting.
If Pauline doesn’t handle this carefully her party will lose a lot of NSW upper house votes next time around, since Latham is the main man.
Being the 31st they can’t have much time left.
Quite so. He should have used precise medical terminology for body parts and waste products.
That would definitely have soothed frazzled sensibilities. 😀
Gasp!
The 31st March.
It starts tomorrow!
The dropping like flies from the vax thing.
Quite so.
He should have said “No pee-pee thing in poo-poo hole.”
The problem is the lunatics are now running the place:
The Oz again:
Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has promised that household energy prices will not increase as a result of the recent passage of Labor’s signature climate policy.
Mr Bowen told Question Time that the electricity sector was covered by the safeguard mechanism, which he said would create jobs, protect the economy and the climate.
“Zero because the electricity sector is now covered by the safeguard mechanism,” Mr Bowen said.
“What the parliament has done today is safeguard our climate, safeguard our economy and safeguard our future,” Mr Bowen told the lower house.
“What the parliament has done today is put an end to 10 years of dysfunction and delay.
“What the parliament has done today is start the Australian industrial economy on the right that macro did decarbonisation and we can now get on with the job of reducing our emissions by 43 per cent.”
https://twitter.com/The_Motelier ?
The homo advisor lobby has become rock solid over time, as it became fashionable for Ministers, Senators and the like to recruit and maintain decliners* in those roles. This fulfilled two roles – one, it put up the facade of inclusivity; and two, it served as a shield: ‘How DARE you accuse me of rah rah rah – why look, I have a poof as an adviser’.
Mr Nathan Winn became the sacrifical offering after some careless footage was leaked of said advisers rooting each other in Ministers’ offices – sound familiar? – and blowing loads over lady Ministers’ desks. However, in no way did Winn going under the bus solve anything.
The cohort of KY cowboy advisors has been a perfectly-coiffed Mean Girls outfit for years, sashaying their way through Canberra like a camp Magnificent Seven and clawing to shreds all who dared disagree with their worldview – that is, that rampant poofery should run unchecked through the remnants of this wide brown land.
They have grown immensely powerful over time, and have no doubt acquired all sorts of their alleged masters’ secrets. The result is Hanson’s statement yesterday afternoon, and it won’t be the last of its type.
*Vagina decliners.
0 – 30 months! Red time!
Pack your iodine!
Working class was how he was raised.
I don’t pretend his rejoinder was witty, I’m guessing he was angry, a very common failing.
Throwing around
Homophobia!
Transphobia! is so weak.
There are many many practices within the promiscuous gay community that are disgusting, I don’t wish to discuss them. I had a friend who once had to enter a gay bath house for work purposes (out of business hours), enough said.
As for trans, as many more articulate people have pointed out its a collision between the ‘rights’ of men identifying as women and the rights of women.
You yourself have conceded they should not participate in women’s sports or enter female prisons.
That puts you on team TERF.
The video Matrix put up of testimony by Kelly now Scott should make all pause their praise of transitioning.
What it really is, is sad.
I’m pleased that the Catholic bishops in the US have stood against the tide and said no to the mutilation and destruction.
How dare he? Their fear must be that this may start the kids to discuss it on Instagram with the main description being “gross”.
That’s our Mote! I hope he lurks here too. I see Gab and Slayer are on his followers list. I’m not on Twitter so I can’t see who else is there.
Always enjoyed his comments on Old Cat.
pull the other one.
One doesn’t need to be homophobic to find homosexual sex disgusting. There are plenty of heterosexual kinks that I’m sure would turn up your nose.
One of your problems is you refuse to distinguish disgust but tolerate from hate.
The world is not binary (see what I did there).
I think she has been politically mortally wounded. This is what happens when you are disloyal to your members for the sake of being loyal to your staffer.
Wasn’t it Ben Down who did that song Pauline Pants Down? And yesterday she sided with him rather than Latham. Good work.
Yes. A thousand times yes.
The level of Batmansuitphobia in this country, and in this day and age is shocking.
I just had a heart starter while perusing Michael Smith’s blog.
You seriously need to see this.
Only 30 seconds.
The war on cash continues.
EU Pushing the ‘Criminalisation’ of Physical Cash with New Anti-Money Laundering Law (30 Mar)
“Dr Gunnar Beck, a representative for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has warned that the EU appears to be pushing for the “criminalisation” of the use of physical cash with its new anti-money laundering (AML) laws.
Politicians in Brussels have long been pondering an upper legal limit on the value of cash transactions within the bloc, with lawmakers detailing plans to ban Europeans from spending over €10,000 in physical tender as part of a single transaction.
The European Parliament however has now voted for such a proposed limit to be dropped down to as little as €7,000 as part of efforts to clamp down on money laundering and tax dodging within the bloc, with officials also voting to see cryptocurrency transactions paying for goods and services that are valued over €1,000 to be banned.”
And crypto, which figures. Elites and governments don’t want you to escape from their control.
The cash thing though is funny, since the shady transactions they’re supposedly trying to stop are just going to increase, because if people are already dodging tax etc then they certainly aren’t going to obey a €7,000 limit. And the more angry people get the more they’ll lose any inhibitions from disobeying governments.
It wouldn’t play for me. What is it about?
On Pauline Hansen.
The truth is, she is as big a grifter as anyone in Canbra, and will do what it takes to keep her place at the trough.
The only difference between her and Bandt is that they play to different sections of the low-info peanut gallery.
She would also be uncomfortable with the profile Latham has, and needs to bring him down a peg or two.
Stopping or preventing the actual crimes is just too hard. It’s so much simpler to suspect and then punish everyone.
It’s a bit nippy this morning. I suppose by next week I will need heating. Why is it that in Australia there are just two weeks between summer and winter when elsewhere in the world they get a proper season?
I’ve heard gay men say revolting things about female genitalia, particularly our vaginas. They’re hypocrites.
In terms of biology and evolution, a vagina is designed for an erect penis, an anus is not. An anus is designed to expel bodily waste.
Latham’s characterisation is irrefutable. Everybody knows the truth of it. His only offence is that he said out loud something everyone knows but out of delicacy does not say in polite company.
Same way everyone goes to the toilet, but they don’t talk about it.
But since Latham was responding to being accused of being a disgusting human being hitting back in kind makes sense.
Only issue I have really is that there are a lot of blameless gay people out there who were tarred with the same brush. Some of them might be gay conservatives and even PHON supporters. Anyone who already hated PHON or Latham already will just have had their attitude confirmed. But, again, even gay people who understand the provocation should understand the response – to lob the accusation of being disgusting back at the person who served it.
But it is not homophobia – he was directing it at one person specifically in response to a single event.
Besides, why should we call it ‘phobia’ when Latham says Greenwich’s proclivity toward a certain sexual act is distasteful, but not a ‘phobia’ when Greenwich says that Latham holding certain beliefs is distasteful. And this was after Latham denounced violence at the Church, so it was not the violence at issue.
The only reason I can see for Latham to apologise for the tweet is that it is distasteful to lump all gay people in with Alex Greenwich.
LOL. m0nty=fa acting all upset about Latham describing the mechanics of anal sex.
Depending very much on the luck of the educational lottery, his kids might already have been given a more detailed description of said mechanics by a “woke” teacher, before being taken to Drag Queen Story Hour at the local library.
Monty does not see why anyone would hold up pooh-jabbing as offensive.
But then his mental furniture is dough-mixers and fryers and such, and his only conception of the matters described is inserting a sugar-cinnamon churro through a chocolate-glazed donut.
What kind of sick freaks could have a problem with that.
I can feel the Nano-Wrigglers stirring already.
Jumping in their little self-assembled Jeeps and calling each other up on their little self-assembled CB radios.
And iodine won’t help you here.
It’s only good for dabbing on hurty bits after rough bottom sex.
Or so I’m told.
Wasn’t it Ben Down who did that song Pauline Pants Down? And yesterday she sided with him rather than Latham. Good work.
It was the gay lawyer Simon Hunt who had the drag character Pauline Pantsdown. He “performed” (if you call it that) his act at a Big Day Out music festival years ago. He was roundly booed and had cans chucked at him. Not because of homophobia but because he was rubbish and the punters knew it.
Calling Peter Slipper and James Ashby to reception, please.
There is Bob Downe.
And also Ben Dover and Phillip McCrevass.
But no Ben Down as far as I’m aware.
Dividends from BHP, Wesfarmers, Coles and CBA dropped in the last couple of days.
Massive!
Yuuuuge!
Party time!
Next step, mobilise the students. Oh… wait.
Break out the piazza!
This should probably be clarified.
If Latham said this to Greenwich as one of many expressions of contempt for gays then it would be consistent with homophobia.
But he has not made a habit of this. This is one specific, reflexive eruption.
Budget repair
Victorian government abandons plans to build a school in Australia’s fastest-growing area facing classroom shortage
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The nerve of these evil monsters who called us anti-science conspiracy theorists for saying the same thing for the past 2 years.
Sorry, I didn’t google before writing my comment. Thank you and Real Deal for sorting it my faulty memory. The my point still stands that Pauline just threw her own party leader in NSW under the bus in order to defend people who have nothing but contempt for her.
An Australian, a Frenchman, a beautiful blonde, and a comely brunette are sharing a compartment on a train as it winds its way through the Alps. Every now and then the train passes through a tunnel. As the compartment is plunged into complete darkness yet again a ringing slap is heard. The train passes back into daylight and the Frenchman is rubbing his sore, red cheek. The brunette thinks ‘I bet that dirty Frenchman fondled the blonde and she struck the pervert’. The blonde thinks ‘I bet that filthy Frenchman was looking to grope me in the dark, mistook the dowdy brunette for me and she slapped the beast’. The Frenchman thinks ‘I bet that perfidious Australian touched up the blonde in the dark and she slapped me by mistake’. The Australian thinks ‘I can’t wait for another tunnel so I can slap that French [email protected] again’.
Trump indicted.
Crossie, go to Michael Smith News and see if it works for you there.
Commies are Grampian nasties too.
Who’s the counter-revolutionary deviationist bourgeoisie lickspittle now, mØnty?
Ben Downe and Phil Mc Cracken. Perfect Poo Jammers. Micheal Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzmicheal are another two.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
– Salvador Dali
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I break the news to Lindsey Graham that he co-sponsored a bill he doesn’t support
Manhattan DA Chief Assistant Meg Reiss LOCKS DOWN Her Twitter Account – Then DELETES Twitter Account After TGP Exposes Her Unhinged Anti-Trump Tweets
Which is ironic since the other religion that does all that would throw a tranny off the nearest tall building if they caught one.
Trannies would be wise to retreat to a low profile. Same with gays.
I believe Pauline disavowed Latham in order to keep her gig at Sky. What good will it do her when most of the views will now disregard her?