Two interesting podcasts gone up recently.

Dr Aseem Malhotra on Joe Rogan taking about vaccine.

Naomi Wolf on Club Grubbery with Senator Antic and Malcolm Roberts. She discusses fertility and big picture issues around the vaccine. It was Wolf who got together thousands of people to research the Pfizer documents.

Club Grubbery now has a good web page ( .com.au) where their podcasts can be seen. Categorised by Dr’s, Athletes, panels etc.

Manhunt continues for illegal alien – previously deported multiple times – who killed five people including an eight-year-old after he was asked to stop shooting in his Texas yard

The FBI on Sunday issued a corrected photo of Oropesa and said over 250 law enforcement officers from over a dozen agencies were searching

Daily Mail

Attention handpatters (the Courier-Mail):

A 13-year-old boy has been charged with dangerous driving causing death after a horror crash that killed three people in Maryborough overnight.

About 10.45pm, an allegedly stolen Mercedes-Benz was travelling south on Saltwater Creek Road near Sydney Street when it has allegedly collided with the rear of a Holden.

The Holden then collided with a Mazda headed towards Hervey Bay. The driver and passenger of the Holden, a 17-year-old Oakhurst girl and 29-year-old Maryborough woman, died at the scene.

The driver and only occupant of the Mazda, a 52-year-old Torquay woman, also died at the scene.

And:

The 13-year-old Bundaberg boy has been charged with three counts of dangerous operation of motor vehicle causing death and one count of unlawful use of a motor vehicle.

I wait with bated breath for press releases from the ‘raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14’ lobby, of whom I will guarantee not one has had a loved one killed by a 13 year old in a stolen car.

Understand that when the age of criminal responsibility does rise to 14, as it will in the next year or so in Quenthland at least, this kid with a penchant for a) stealing cars and b) killing people will be released unconditionally, because by definition he has not committed any offence.

Released back home, wherever it is. No jail, no charges, no court, no community corrections order, no diversion, no picking up rubbish by the side of highways, no enforced school attendance.

Nothing.

So they’ve got Epstein’s private calendar… but still can’t find his client contact list?

In such a serious case the rebuttal of the presumption of doli incapax would almost certainly be conmsidered.

Today, yes – although doli incapax has been corrupted by an unwritten presumption that FASD and the like are present. If there are sufficient overt acts that the crook knew what he was doing was wrong, then that presumption goes out the window.

If successful a trial, conviction & sentencing could result.

Today, yes – although sentencing will be minimal.

My point is that next year there will be nothing at all. Zero. Unconditional release. No sanction whatsoever, because by law he will be deemed incapable of committing any offence at all.

There were some interesting videos on post-modernism up here in the last few days.
Post-modernism claims
1) Life is all about power over others, and in particular one collective having power over other collectives.
2) There is no such thing as objective truth, just competing narratives, the purpose of each being to justify power being in the hands of that collective pushing the narrative.
3) In particular, logic, reason and argument are tools of the white supremacists and may therefore be rejected out of hand.

You’d think that even an intellectual could see the silliness of this.

Apparently not.

I know my times table up to 12, can multiply and divide, understand ratios, percentages and fractions, and can do simultaneous equations. I also know some shortcuts to figure out whether an answer is out by an order of magnitude, and to do arithmetic in my head.

One step ahead of some (and probably many) freshly baked engineering graduates.

Having fiddled around with calculus etc sufficiently to pass Maths B at school and Engineering Maths in Year 1 at uni, most engineering students appear to rely on ‘numerical methods’ (ie Excel) and packaged software thereafter. Which robs them of the ability to see relationships, ‘sense check’ their results, and avoid the numerous GIGO traps thrown to engineers in the physical world.

And then there’s English…

NOTHING was done to rein in the HRC.

Goes for Hillary Rodham Clinton as well. Coincidence?

Zatara says:
May 1, 2023 at 9:43 am

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Climate issues and pollution issues are being exploited by, you know, the the World Economic Forum and Bill Gates and all of these big, you know, mega billionaires. The same way that COVID was exploited to use it as an excuse to clamp down top down totalitarian controls on society and to and then to give us engineering solutions. And if you look closely, as it turns out, the guys who are promoting those engineering solutions are the people who own the IPS, the patents for those solutions. It’s a way they’ve given climate chaos a bad name because people now see that it’s just another crisis that’s being used to strip by the wealth of the poor and to enrich billionaires. And I, for 40 years, have had the same policy on climate and engineering. You can go check my speeches from the 1980s, and I’ve said, the most important solution for environmental issues? Not top down controls. It’s free market capitalism.

He certainly doesn’t sound like a progressive democrat. More like a bloke auditioning for a gig in Trump’s cabinet.
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‘Never trust a Kennedy’ is a well worn cliche among Republicans as well as Democrats.

Both sides have been burned by charming Irishmen.

Wouldn’t the Second Amendment apply only to citizens?

Technically yes. If the alien entered the country legally it would apply to them as well.

But he didn’t, and he has been expelled twice. He was in fact a criminal in the middle of committing a further crime.

So I’d vote no.

The committee inquiry on the Indigenous Voice to parliament has backflipped on its decision not to hear from former prime minister Tony Abbott.

The Oz is reporting him as saying he’s on at 1pm today.

Cassie:

It was a raucous and opinionated function, and it was hysterical listening to the oldies talk about Australia in the 1950s and 1960s, they were all talking about “Goof” (Gough) and how he destroyed the country.

The Rustedons still have a fridge magnet “God save the Queen, but Nothing will Save the Governor General” on their fridge.
I asked for it to be left to me in their will.

The Sydney MP also revealed he will be approaching social media giant Twitter to address the platform‘s allowance of “extreme homophobia, transphobia, racism and religious bigotry.”

How come it’s homophobia to describe what the buggers actually do?

China copping the Western mind virus…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-30/divorced-women-in-china-challenge-social-stigma/102261100
According to data released by China’s Supreme Court in 2018, 73.4 per cent of divorce litigation in China was filed by women, but it can be extremely difficult for women to find legal representation.
…
Zhou Yun, an associate professor of social demography and family sociology at the University of Michigan, said this was a problem for Beijing which views heterosexual married families as key to social stability.

“They’re still expected to marry men or have children,” she said.
….

* And apparently by every group capable of being called a civilization since… forever. But the wise mongs of modernity know better!

DrBeauGan> yes, post-modernism disappears up its own sinkhole if its tenets are read strictly i.e. its all about power and nobody in power can be trusted. Then why believeany teachers, lecturers, lawyers, judges, politicians, tec who exercise power, even when done for a “good” cause.

Adam Hills, brings it with the Hannah Gadsby level of chortle.

So… 1 and 3 are objective truths then?

Either that or they’re just the post-modernist’s narrative and no better than any other narrative. But that’s logic, which is illegitimate. But the illegitimacy is just part of the narrative. So there’s no possibility of reconciling this with any other narrative.

Mountains of skulls.

apologies if asking the question on Biden vs Trump is triggering you and others here

Hey, Cacklehead, stop trolling. Guys here only understand one sort of trigger, so watch your tongue.

Hunter Biden’s laptop is all you need to know about Sleepy Joe. Obama’s puppet.
Just like you, Kamala.

So I guess pile ons are OK know.

my mate with the card only cafe reckons the ato will be watching him like a hawk
not to pinch him
but his gross margin will become the benchmark against which all other like cafes will be selected for audit

/laughs in Vietnamese nail salon….

DrBeauGansays:
May 1, 2023 at 11:26 am
The Sydney MP also revealed he will be approaching social media giant Twitter to address the platform‘s allowance of “extreme homophobia, transphobia, racism and religious bigotry.”

How come it’s homophobia to describe what the buggers actually do?

The truth might make some reluctant to proceed beyond toleration (preferably not on the streets) to the higher targets of acclamation and participation?

Alamak!says:
May 1, 2023 at 11:33 am
Dot> Watched the video using link you provided, thanks. I’m not a supporter of Biden (or Trump) so the video doesn’t change my views. USA population surely has better options for leaders – so perhaps the system (media, politics, …) is not a very good at enabling good leaders to get to the top.

Don’t be so naive. The system is designed to prevent good candidates for leadership from reaching the top. They would be independent minded enough to disturb the Swamp and the Trough. See 2016 and 2020.

KD interesting on the UN angle.

Can tell you here 3 vigilante groups have unmasked themselves on SM up this way in the last week. 1 I know of has been very quiet in the last few years but rumoured to still been active. They don’t seem to care they may attract attention from the police anymore, possibly as the jacks are overwhelmed with the youth and drug crime that is rampant around here to bother.

Funny thing is when the accusations of racism come through about suburbs protecting themselves the media won’t tell you some of those on the line are of indigenous background themselves, I saw one of the mobs in action about 4-5 years ago and can confirm that.

Also new developments have cops twice in a month now retreating to their stations. Rumour on orders from Brisbane so not totally their fault. Judiciary just thumbs its nose at public expectations. Another old woman stabbed the other day (I have found out this is happening here now just not reported) by the usual suspects.

Hate to say this is going to get ugly before any resolution, if that ever occurs…

DeSantis To Deliver Blow To Teachers Unions As Bill Removing Automatic Union Deductions Heads To His Desk

Florida governor Ron DeSantis is not playing around when it comes to making and keeping Florida free. His latest effort is geared toward empowering teachers in the state who do not wish to be in a union.

In support of the Sunshine State’s right to work status, the Florida legislature has passed a bill removing the automatic deductions of union dues/fees from paychecks. Those teachers who wish to be in a union and continue to pay their union fees/dues will be able to do so, of course.

The bill would also require unions to represent at least 60 percent of the employees eligible for representation. Unions that fail to meet the threshold would be decertified and would have to petition the Public Employees Relation Commission (PERC) for recertification.

Let’s see how long teacher’s union radicalism remains a thing when membership isn’t mandatory.

In Pork Barrel Meets Top Men news:

Hundreds of ‘press release’ infrastructure projects across Australia risk the axe under new 90-day review

Hundreds of projects in Australia’s $120bn infrastructure investment program will be reviewed for value and significance, with the Albanese government accusing the Coalition of leaving them as “fiscal timebombs” in the budget.

The infrastructure minister, Catherine King, said the infrastructure pipeline had been clogged with “press release projects” that had been announced but were “unable to be delivered”.

Well, thinking out the pork barrel spend – that sounds like a reasonable thing to do.

“Australian government funds will be spent in accordance with Australian government values, with longer-term sustainable spending based on the national interest.”

Oh. Whatever can that mean?

Former public servants and infrastructure experts Reece Waldock, Clare Gardiner-Barnes and Mike Mrdak will conduct the 90-day review, which will start shortly and report around August. Hundreds of the more than 735 projects in the infrastructure investment program will be up for scrutiny – but Labor election commitments will not be among them.

Instead, King said the focus would be on commitments from the previous Coalition government, many of which she claimed cannot be delivered.

Oh. So that’s what it means.

They really don’t care if we see them larfing at us.

Here we go – Dechlan Brennan in The Diplomat, in January:

The release of a draft report, commissioned in 2020, by the Standing Council of Attorneys-General and chaired by the Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, KC, has renewed calls for Australia to raise the age of criminal responsibility.

The report, prepared with submissions by over 90 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, legal, and human rights organizations and experts, recommends that the age of criminal responsibility in Australia be raised from 10 to 14, without exception.

Various legal, human rights, and academic groups have consistently advocated for this change, arguing that the low age mark inflicts trauma on children, unfairly targets Australia’s First Nations people, and “does not reflect the multiple and complex needs of children and young people who come into contact with the justice system.”

In 2019, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child specifically recommended that Australia raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years, a call reiterated in the country’s Universal Periodic Review in 2021.

This has nothing to do with these scrotey children killing people. This has everything to do with ‘hiding the decline’ because less offences will be reported.

Because less offences are being committed.

Because people under 14 will be deemed incapable of committing any offence AT ALL.

Adam Hills

For some reason he’s big in the UK.

The Brits quite like Australia as a concept, but have very little idea about actual Australia.

Adam Hills is the current ‘witty’, ‘irreverent’, ‘self-deprecating’ UK TV Australian – feeding the caricature and having a bit of a laff at those funny buggers Downunder.

A tool by any other name.

Very pleasing to hear that 2GB podcast of Ben Fordham’s show (thanks to P for it) allowing Tony Abbott free rein to speak out very strongly against the voice (I refuse to capitalise it now). Send it around in emails wherever you can, for it very clearly puts the case for No. Late news on it was that Abbott was finally allowed to submit to the Senate Enquiry in person, so great had been the disapproval of their initial refusal. Luckily, the podcast is already made and ready to go. It speaks with great authority.

no-one is that gormless

‘Ed October. Ed October, to the white phone in the lobby please.’

Tony Abbott live on Sky at 1pm today

China doing more funny business in Taiwan air and sea space today, amidst this announcement from senior Taiwanee:

If I were Taiwanese, I’d be awfully worried about being supported by Joe Biden. I’d look at the Ukraine and wonder if Joe would be fighting China to the last Taiwanese.

If you are ‘cynical’ with no information, without enquiry and curiosity then your cynicism means nowt.

Who says I have no information? Asking for the reasons behind support/opposition of certain politicians could be considered enquiry and/or curiosity.

Who says I have no information?

You do. You haven’t presented any yet.

Asking for the reasons behind support/opposition of certain politicians could be considered enquiry and/or curiosity.

You have said we present no evidence, when patently we do present plenty.
If you have genuine curiosity, then ask why Biden is at 70% not wanting him to run again.
Follow the debate here on DeSantis vs Trump and decide what each stands for and how good their Republican chances might be, seek out why, and assess any other candidates.
If you find all wanting, then look at the systemic process of political selection and critique it.
What ideologies do you yourself favor? Analysing those would be your start point.

Anchor What:

Some kids now are going into high school unable to do simple multiplication in their heads because they weren’t pre-programmed in primary school with times tables. There’s nothing “progressive” about robbing kids of the basics.

The lack of education stops kids from ascending the ladder of jobs that lead to engineering etc qualifications, which mean we have to get them from OS.
It keeps Australians out of the professions and moves in people – and their families – from Asia and India. See how the replacement scheme works? Australian kids grow up to do the menial jobs while the replacements get the inside running because the education system refuses to equip them for the good jobs unless you can afford expensive education options.

The passive aggressive obtuse ignorance game.

It’s been done here before. Same sock, different name.

As mentioned before, I have no particular interest in Biden (or Trump) as candidates for USA presidency. On De Santis he is younger and has spent less time in Washington. For me those are good things when compared to geriatric pollies with medical and/or legal issues who could be fixing their own issues instead of trying to run the country.

Australian kids grow up to do the menial jobs while the replacements get the inside running because the education system refuses to equip them for the good jobs unless you can afford expensive education options.

Or unless, as with immigrant families, the parents do part of the job the school fails at. They insist on homework, diligence, attention in class, and provide extra paid tutoring, even if it means they have to pull the belt in on the family finances. This is where many Australian families lose out, because they believe the rot they are told about non-competitive education and an ‘experiential’ classroom being best for their kids. They don’t see it necessary to check on things, and accept too much at face value.

Immigrant kids at beating Aussie kids hands down in the education race. That’s why they are now appearing in the key professional jobs, on the ladder to greater success.

Thanks SATP.

Knew Ibrahim was there but looks like it got worse. Bolt also nailed the double standards applied a la Matthew Guy.

Chris Minns presence has had scant attention as well.

Farmer Gez:

Hamish walks straight past empathy and humility on his way to the mirror.

…and repeats to himself “I’m the only Gay in the village, really I am.”
Little Britain afficionados will get the reference.

Indolent:

San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told Breitbart Texas on Sunday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers deported 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza, a Mexican national now wanted for five alleged murders, in three separate incidents. Sheriff Capers and other sources advised that the last time ICE officers removed Oropeza was in 2016.

The Mexican is doing the job Biden allowed him into the country to do – terrorise the citizenry who will now ‘clamour to be led to a disarmed safety’.

Their Grauniad beats Tony Abbott with tiny fists of rage over his Voice heresy:

Tony Abbott has shrugged off the legal advice given by the solicitor general backing in the legal soundness of the proposed Indigenous voice…

Donaghue’s advice said the proposed constitutional amendment “would not pose any threat to Australia’s system of representative and responsible government”, and that the voice would “enhance” the system of government.

That’s actually Donaghue’s political opinion and not his legal one.

As Abbott notes:

“The solicitor general’s view has to be taken seriously, but as we know, solicitor-generals don’t make these decisions … The solicitor general was in fact significantly wrong on a recent matter regarding Indigeneity, namely the Love case,” he said.

“While the solicitor general is a distinguished lawyer, no doubt about that, other lawyers of no less distinction including former high court judge Ian Callinan and Terrence Cole have come up with a different view.”

And repeating ‘talking points’:

Abbott has repeated a talking point of the No campaign, saying that the increasing number of Aboriginal politicians (currently 11 in the federal parliament) was a sufficient “voice” for Indigenous people.

“I think everyone should have the same voice, and the voice for all of us is the national parliament,” he told the committee.

That’s why probably the single best thing that’s happened for Indigenous people over the last decade or so is the very big increase in the number of Indigenous people in the parliament. 11 separate Indigenous voices in the parliament today. Not because of quotas, not because of affirmative action, but because political parties and the people of Australia in their wisdom thought Indigenous people had the qualities to represent all of us. I applaud that and I thank god for it.

Way too much like practical democracy in action for the progressive Left. This sort of namby pamby liberal shite won’t keep Green-Labor entrenched in power, y’know.

The Difference Between a Democracy and a Republic

The attraction Kyle has for Albanese is that he never presses him on political issues so no arguments. This allows the PM to sound like an average teenager/ twenties something who enjoys partying with mates (albeit wearing a suit and tie) and having a laugh.

Albo seems big on deflection lately. Jump on the plane and fly to Hobart where he pretends he’s an AFL supporter (like Keating used to, to great amusement). Then back in Seat A1 and get me to the church on time so I can schmooze the other middle aged kids in Sydney.

Let Chalmers practice his stern face for budget night. Albo thinks he can lift the nation’s spirits by doing the Macarena with Kyle.

I spoke of this a year or so ago and people said it wasn’t an issue?
Is that still correct?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/john-deere-corporate-might-reason-panic-farmers-will-love-happening/

Back in the day, Australia shut down on only two days – Christmas and Good Friday.
Today is Stalin’s Birthday in QLD. Everything is locked down, more so than on the other two days.
What could this mean, I wonder?

‘Thank you ABC for Four Corners’.

DrBeauGansays:
May 1, 2023 at 11:26 am
The Sydney MP also revealed he will be approaching social media giant Twitter to address the platform‘s allowance of “extreme homophobia, transphobia, racism and religious bigotry.”

How come it’s homophobia to describe what the buggers actually do?

And not just describe but publicly celebrate (led by our Prime Minister) for weeks in Feb-March 2023

Adam Hills, Paul McDermot, Tim Minchin … Same, same, same. Not a professional testicle between them.

Elliot Goblet: now there’s a comedian with charisma!

Also: Not a stand-up, I know, but resurrect Ted Bullpit!

Reconciliation will die if no vote is passed: Pearson

As I’ve remarked before, I don’t need to be reconciled to aborigines. We’ve never done anything to piss each other off. I’ve got on fine with those I’ve met.

I’m almost convinced on the value of a No vote by the above.

Another damned trough for Pearson and Langton to get their snouts in is several too many.

Tom,
I have never heard of the Masterchef guy before but radio report mentioned he had well known mental health issues and had talked about them. Although not quite saying it did hint might be suicide. Wife looked him up and said former heroin addict. Other accounts said he was really nice guy who got on well with everybody.

Why doesnt anyone ask any of our cement Aboriginals what the expected cost of a 4th arm of government and where it will be paid from?
Its a reasonable enough request.

Abolish teachers unions. Shut down the Dept of Education & use the $$ to fund school choice + 3 armed security guards in all schools to protect children. Publish curriculum online & cameras in the classroom. Revive civic education without apology. I’ll do my part as President, but it’ll take all of us doing our part: congrats to Charter Institute in Erskine, SC on their opening this fall.

Lizzie:

We don’t condone anorexia. Why condone paraphilia?

Few actually give a fluttering fart about paraphilia. It’s when paraphiliacs demand concessions and resources they have no physical need of that we get annoyed.

Truth Telling is now called Defamation.

So the statement by Mr Latham is true and factual, then?

A criteria (I believe we’ve inherited from the UK) in our Common Law is that truth is no defence against defamation because of the public interest test. If the public does not have a legitimate interest in the revealed information, it may be ruled defamatory even if it is factual.

That should mean we have more privacy than Americans do, but in practice the out-of-control police state can use their own personal dislike of somebody as a reasonable suspicion (i.e. lie) on a warrant application and totally get away with it – or they can be lucky enough to work for an agency that does not even require warrants to pry and poke.

Glennon revealed that during his 25-year journey coming to terms with his daughter’s death, most journalists and media outlets were uncaring and forceful with their attempts to get information out of his family.