This angel doesn’t look particularly holy or compliant either. No. She looks like a very naughty girl. Of a type…
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The Aussies always have problems with swing, India is the side who currently has the biggest swinging balls.
What does holy or compliant look like Lizzie?
Ozzies 4-19 chasing 534. Magnificent stuff.
Household income in Disasterstan has fallen behind Taxmania for the first time, according to an extensive audit of the state’s…
GREAT MOMENTS IN COINCIDENCES:
DOJ Strategically Timed Santos’ Political Arrest To Coincide With Press Conference Detailing Evidence Of Biden Corruption.
And
the DNC-MSM are thrilled by the distraction: Nets Ignore New Hunter Biden Revelations, Hype Santos Charges.
132and Bush:
Verbose.
Better.
Succinct.
So is China a bad guy still? I can’t keep up. Are we following Anglin or Ben Shapiro here?
You asked what was good about it? Not the sort of question asked by someone with a balanced view of medieval life. And your ‘Chuckle’ response to my reply to Bear in which I also say that ‘it wasn’t all milk and honey either’ strengthens that judgement.
The ABC was still running it last night in the headlines under whatever tripe they were spouting.
“Clearly he has lost objectivity as he has a sense of honour, and I do not!”
Thanks, Real.
House Hawks Urge Biden To Use Sanctions To Prevent Syria Normalization
The top Republican and Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a statement on Monday slamming Syria’s readmission into the Arab League and urging President Biden to use sanctions to prevent further normalization.
“Readmitting Assad to the Arab League is a grave strategic mistake that will embolden Assad, Russia, and Iran to continue butchering civilians and destabilizing the Middle East,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Gregory Meeks (D-NY) said.
“The United States must fully enforce the Caesar Act and other sanctions to freeze normalization efforts with this war criminal,” the lawmakers added.
The Caesar Act imposed crushing economic sanctions on Syria in 2020 that are specifically designed to prevent the country’s reconstruction.
The measures have had a devastating impact on Syria’s civilians.
The House recently voted overwhelmingly to keep enforcing sanctions following a devastating earthquake that killed thousands of Syrians.
What makes the Caesar Act sanctions so sweeping is that they allow the US to sanction any person or entity for doing business with the Syrian government.
This means US allies like Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which spearheaded the effort to bring Syria back into the fold, could potentially be targeted.
On Tuesday, Syria and Saudi Arabia announced they were reestablishing diplomatic ties for the first time in over 10 years.
The State Department has denounced Syria’s readmission to the Arab League. “We do not believe that Syria merits readmission to the Arab League at this time,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said on Monday. “We continue to believe that we will not normalize our relations with the Assad regime, and we don’t support our allies and partners doing so either.”
On top of the crippling sanctions, the US has about 900 troops in eastern Syria and backs the Kurdish-led SDF, allowing the US to control about one-third of the country, where most of its oil resources are located. Syria’s normalization with its neighbors could complicate the US’s plans to keep occupying the country.
LOL indeed. The contempt the UKR MOD has for their audience is off the charts.
Anchor Whatsays:
May 11, 2023 at 4:48 am
Trending Politics:
Tucker Carlson announces he is soon to start his presentations on Twitter, since it is about the only platform where truth can be told.
There’s truth here except when dickless slimes in. Maybe DB should put out an invitation to Tucker.
Gaia demands a sacrifice. For the good of next season’s harvest.
This works like vaccines: YOU make the sacrifice, so that I am protected.
Brilliantly portraying the staggering stupidity, arrogance and complete cluelessness of Labore’s new Goose Swansteen.
Late to the party today. Been busy. I noticed upthread that there had been discussion about obesity being included in the “New Normal”.
Has anyone here seen this TikTok clip about Rate yourself out of Ten”. ?
Some lovely girls in it.
George Santos’ Real Crime Was Making Democrats Look Stupid
Politicians lie all of the time. If lying your way to office were illegal, then Joe Biden would be in jail.
As voters cast their ballots in the 2020 presidential election, former Vice President Biden sought to dismiss evidence of his family’s global influence-peddling scheme as Russian disinformation.
Days before the second and final presidential debate, an abandoned Delaware laptop surfaced, implicating now-President Biden in his son’s potentially criminal overseas business activities. When pressed over the scandal on the prime-time debate stage by President Donald Trump, Biden told the nation that allegations from the laptop stemmed from a campaign of Kremlin interference.
Biden’s campaign even apparently convinced dozens of former intelligence officials to pen a letter to Politico informing the public the laptop was planted by Moscow. The Democrats’ claims came despite the FBI, the Department of Justice, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, and then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo debunking the laptop’s connection to Russia.
But on Tuesday, freshman Republican Rep. George Santos joined Biden’s chief political opponent to face charges in a New York courtroom. Santos pled not guilty to a 13-count indictment from the Department of Justice, the same department simultaneously slow-walking investigations into Biden family business practices after agents worked to suppress the laptop story.
The Republican’s arrest also just so happened to take place on the same day House GOP Oversight Chairman James Comer of Kentucky gave a press conference presenting blockbuster evidence of presidential corruption.
This is just another instance in which DOJ officials give Americans reason to believe they are subject to a two-tiered justice system. Eighty percent of Americans already believe this.
Even after his election, the president hasn’t stopped lying. From weird tales of Amtrak to black church membership, The Federalist has been chronicling Biden’s made-up stories since inauguration day, which can be found here, here, and here.
Santos also made it to Congress on a cascade of apparent lies.
He claimed to be a descendant of Holocaust survivors. He claimed he lost colleagues in the Pulse nightclub shooting, and he claimed to run an animal charity which turned out to be false.
Clearly, Democrats embarrassingly messed up on opposition research.
Santos flipped a competitive district that became one of few seats picked up by Republicans last year. In other words, the DNC and its affiliated campaign committees dropped the ball.
The Democrats let Santos run on a fabricated resumé.
Federal charges unveiled against Santos include seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of stealing public funds, and two counts of false statements to Congress. Is he guilty? That’s for the judge or jury to decide.
But one of the charges include merely exaggerating income. Santos sounds like quite the criminal.
Gez what are you like on the speaker’s tour? Would love to have you come down and explain to us in our town about what you are going through and any other information about what your AEMO dealings are. Drop a line
Sky News still happy to say that Trump’s claims of rigged election in 2020 are “unsubstantiated”.
This is what Tucker mentioned as media misinformation. There is plenty of evidence.
That reminds me – now that spousal abuse leave is available, how many people have claimed it and in how many instances has the information been shared with the police – in being a crime and all?
Fare enough. Although neither does this.
If you think a miner, farmer or stonemason had is easier based on they may have had shorter working hours is nuts.
Interesting article about a woman who refused to sell her farm to the Chinese. she is now under investigation by the State’s Attorney General.
That was compared to a 19th Century worker, not a modern day worker.
Given pay and conditions for factory workers in the industrial revolution, I’d tip medievals had a better life.
Net Zero grid batteries alone would bankrupt America
Senate Budget Committee chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) cites “the climate crisis” at almost every opportunity. President Biden calls it a greater threat than nuclear war. They and their allies champion “carbon-free” electricity generation by 2035 and nearly fossil fuel–free energy by 2050.
Achieving “net zero” carbon dioxide emissions will be painless, they assure us.
Costs will be so low that you’ll need a magnifying glass to see them.
Governments merely have to enact mandates and provide subsidies, and the transformation to “clean” energy will just happen.
Almost like in a fairy tale.
Here in the real world, however, we would need literally millions of weather-dependent wind turbines, billions of equally unreliable solar panels, millions of half-ton battery modules for vehicles, billions more modules to back up intermittent electricity generation, millions of transformers, and tens of thousands of miles of new transmission lines.
All these technologies must be manufactured from metals, minerals, and petroleum extracted from the Earth, via mining on scales unprecedented in human history.
The dollar costs alone — just for a U.S. transformation — are almost incomprehensible.
Science and policy analyst David Wojick calculated that just the batteries needed to back up wind and solar electricity generation in a “net zero” USA would cost $23 trillion — America’s entire 2021 gross domestic product (GDP) — and probably many times that.
Energy and technology consultant Thomas Tanton found that battery backup to replace current U.S. fossil fuel electricity — and convert vehicles, furnaces, water heaters, and stoves to electricity — would cost at least $29 trillion in initial outlays.
Trillions more would be needed to cover financing, repairs, maintenance, replacements, burying broken and worn out non-recyclable equipment, and building systems strong enough to survive hurricanes.
Professional engineer Ken Gregory determined that grid-backup battery costs could reach $290 trillion (12.6 times the USA’s 2021 GDP), based on actual 2019 and 2020 hourly intermittent electricity generation data, rather than annual average data utilized in the other studies.
None of these estimates includes the costs of turbines, panels, transmission lines, or transformers.
Is Eddles this blog’s very own purveyor of Russian Disinformation?
If you think a miner, farmer or stonemason had is easier based on they may have had shorter working hours is nuts.
Yeah, working 12 hour rotating shifts in a FIFO Mine in 2023 is way easier than farming 6 hour days next door 4 months of the year in 1423.
Good point, rosie.
Real wages increased 400% from 1800 to 1900.
Real wages improved in the middle ages when the heavy plow was implemented. It was a myth that the bubonic plague increased real wages.
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One of the most common myths in European economic history, and indeed in Economics itself, is that the Black Death of 1347-48, followed by other waves of bubonic plague, led to an abrupt rise in real wages, for both agricultural labourers and urban artisans – one that led to the so-called ‘Golden Age of the English Labourer’, lasting until the early 16th century. While there is no doubt that real-wages in mid- to late- 15th century England did reach a peak far higher than that ever achieved in past centuries, real wages in England did not, in fact, rise in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death. In southern England, real wages of building craftsmen (rural and urban), having plummeted with the natural disaster of the Great Famine (1315-21), thereafter rose to a new peak in 1336-40. But then their real wages fell during the 1340s, and continued their decline after the onslaught of the Black Death, indeed into the 1360s. Not until the later 1370s – almost thirty years after the Black Death – did real wages finally recover and then rapidly surpass the peak achieved in the late 1330s. Thereafter, the rise in real wages was more or less continuous, though at generally slower rates, during the 15th century, reaching a peak in 1476-80 – at a level not thereafter surpassed until 1886-90, by the usual methods of calculating real wages with index numbers: i.e., by NWI/CPI = RWI [nominal wage index divided by the consumer price index equals the real wage index]. Most of the textbooks that still perpetuate the myth about the role of the Black Death in raising real wages, as an almost immediate consequence, employ a demographic model based on Ricardian economics, which predicts (ceteris paribus) that depopulation will result in falling grain prices and thus in falling rents on grain-producing lands (on land in general) and in rising real wages.
What frigging evidence??
BB
I could put you in touch with some excellent speakers who’ve been dealing with AEMO for over two years. A couple of lovely ladies and a guy who’s tops on the technical side of renewables. I’m very new to this bun fight.
Happy to have my email passed on to you.
Dot:
Oh. Fair enough. It’s something that Greens would do.
How about we use that form of concrete that sucks CO2 out of the air as it cures?
The Most Exciting Young Athlete on Earth Isn’t Playing in America
Six-foot-4 dynamo Erling Haaland keeps obliterating scoring records and keeping Manchester City on the path of a historic season. Watch him now.
We interrupt these amusingly Florida-centric hockey and basketball playoffs—the Panthers and Heat, who saw this tropic thunder coming—to pivot to the soccer pitch.
Specifically, I want to pivot to the most thrilling human currently on two cleats, I mean boots:
Erling Haaland.
Or just Haaland—the Erling’s long been extraneous. He’s a 6-foot-4 Norwegian who celebrates goals by falling to the ground in a meditative Lotus pose, but also says he enjoys the fearsome nickname “Terminator.”
We will also accept That Guy, because you can’t miss Haaland out there—the unmistakable, ponytailed blond sequoia in Manchester City sky blue who looks like he escaped from a Gronkowski extended family reunion.
He’s the English Premier League’s breakout superstar, and he’s building a case as one of the most exciting young athletes on earth, in any sport, a true get to the television and watch him, now sensation.
Why the fuss? Pretty simple. It’s because Haaland scores. And scores and scores and scores and scores. And scores again. Then he scores one more goal, just in case you missed the last one.
It’s honestly bigger news when Haaland doesn’t score—that’s what happened Tuesday, when Real Madrid impressively kept the big man quiet during a 1-1 tie in the opener of its Champions League semifinal.
Last week, Haaland scored his 35th goal in his 32nd Premier League game, breaking the 31-year-old league’s record with four games still left to play. He’s scored more goals than several EPL clubs, and he’s a central reason the already-very good Man City has a very good crack at the “treble”—winning the Premier League, Champions League, and FA Cup in the same season—an achievement that hasn’t been unlocked since David Beckham’s Manchester United did it in 1999.
Craziest part of all?
Haaland is just 22—and in his first-ever Premier League campaign.
It isn’t supposed to go like this. The EPL tends to rattle and steamroll new players as they adapt to its physical style and global spotlight. Had Haaland needed a season “to adjust” upon his heavily hyped arrival from Germany’s Borussia Dortmund—the kid who once scored nine goals in an under-20 World Cup game—few would have been shocked. Lots of newbies do.
But Haaland showed up in England like he’d been born there. Haaland actually was born there—in July 2000, when his father, Alfie, was playing for Leeds. Maybe that’s why this whole situation has looked so smooth. There was Premier League sequencing in his DNA.
From the start, Haaland poured it on. He scored two goals in his Man City debut versus West Ham, added a third in his third game against Newcastle, then logged back-to-back hat tricks versus Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest. He was the fastest Premier League player to 10 goals, then the fastest to 20. He notched a wicked five goals in a Champions League match versus RB Leipzig.
He does all of this despite rarely touching the ball.
Haaland isn’t a football artiste—he is a blunt force object, a finisher who feasts on pretty assists by teammates like Kevin De Bruyne. As the Journal’s Joshua Robinson put it earlier this season:
“To observe Erling Haaland playing soccer…is mostly to watch a very large Nordic man stroll around a field without the ball.”
City is always a hothouse, but Haaland’s managed to endure the accompanying stresses and blend into Guardiola’s precise offense—“a jackhammer on a tray of surgical instruments,” as Robinson elegantly put it.
He isn’t an expensive accouterment. He is a star of stars, and if City is to win its first Champions League title and capture this historic treble, he will be the essential figure.
What frigging evidence??
The Evidence the AFP had obtained from interrogating Higgins for days and minutely scrutinising 3,000+ text messages and 30,000+ e-mails from her phone.
But they didn’t interview Lehrmann until they’d twice tried to influence Drumgold to drop the prosecution.
The resources devoted to breaking Higgins’ story musta been mindboggling.
Anyway, Drumgold has walked back his allegations of Conspiracy, which is pretty funny, since the allegation is baked in but no one will remember the walk back.
The Festivus
Trumpy can walk up stairs, something so simple as that confuses Biden.
Trump responds on CNN to yesterday’s decision:
So true.
It was a myth that the bubonic plague increased real wages.
…
Before and After the Black Death: Money, Prices, and Wages in Fourteenth-Century England …
Dot:
The Black Death [1347-1351] only occurred once.
So called because of the person’s appearance at the point of death.
Bubonic Plague outbreaks are different altogether, caused by Rattus Norvegicus.
There’s a wild reason young Australians are still getting cash out
Young Aussies famously like to be cashless – but there’s one wild reason the younger generations are even still using ATMs.
“Cash or card?”
This has become a redundant question to ask a young Australian. Generation Z has failed to embrace physical money; instead, they opt to pay for everything by card or online.
Well, almost everything.
It turns out there is one big reason many young Aussies are still diligently using cash – and it’s illegal.
Marty* is in his early 20s and he explained that cash would be obsolete in his life if it weren’t for his recreational drug use.
“I use cash for drugs. Otherwise, I haven’t used cash for five years,” he told news.com.au on the condition of anonymity.
Marty’s life is so cashless he doesn’t even have a wallet. Instead, he pays for things via his debit card that is linked to his phone.
“All my mates use cash for drugs,” he explained.
Interestingly, Marty says this is the only reason some of his mates even know how to use an ATM.
“Everyone I know has at least taken out money to buy weed or coke,” he revealed.
Jake* is in his early 30s and, although he is a millennial, the story is the same.
“I only use cash when I want to buy drugs and it’s the same for my friends,” he revealed.
You can’t tap and go from a local drug dealer and this is forcing young people that take drugs to still interact with cash.
Cash seems solely reserved for purchases people still want off the books
Yep. Might be best to let that sleeping dog get some ZZZZs.
Wowee what a treat, infectious diseases history with Professor Gools PhD LLD DSc.
No. Discipline is easier with cash. There are numerous studies that consumer spending increases around 15% when the money is plastic. There are even old fashioned austerity programmes involving envelopes.
Ed Casesays:
May 11, 2023 at 2:24 pm
What frigging evidence??
The Evidence the AFP had obtained from interrogating Higgins for days and minutely scrutinising 3,000+ text messages and 30,000+ e-mails from her phone.
But they didn’t interview Lehrmann until they’d twice tried to influence Drumgold to drop the prosecution.
The resources devoted to breaking Higgins’ story musta been mindboggling.
Anyway, Drumgold has walked back his allegations of Conspiracy, which is pretty funny, since the allegation is baked in but no one will remember the walk back.
It was the same mob that looked into Shillary’s Private Server in the USA. Dopes Incorporated. Can’t spell Hunter Biden or the word ‘Corruption’ either.
Have they found her knickers yet? Shillary’s or Higgins?
Drumgold is pulling an Alan Bond:
– I don’t recall;
– I don’t recall that being the case;
– That’s what I wrote but not what I meant. “It was colloquial parlance” ffs…
Groogs still swinging away for Team Brittany. I’m not sure it will make Day 4.
Drumgold is playing the Inquiry like a Stradivarius.
If he’s got ambitions of a career in Politics, he’s looking pretty good at the moment.
I’m not one for dishing out credit to governments, particularly a Liebor one, but kudos for having an Inquiry into the entire sordid affair.
Makes me think the great GP may have got a review had his jeremiad occurred in the ACT…
Do the Bunnings and other charity sausage sizzles accept cards? Surely it wouldn’t be worth the cost of setting it up for a small scale event. The war on cash is anti community.
And as I’ve said here before, not having a healthy stash of cash demonstrates an extraordinarily naive faith in electronica.
Given that our power networks are teetering on the edge more and more often, who in their right mind would assume that the card in their wallet will work at all times?
As others here have said, looks like they are going to have to learn the hard way.
Lysandersays:
May 11, 2023 at 2:40 pm
Drumgold is pulling an Alan Bond:
– I don’t recall;
– I don’t recall that being the case;
– That’s what I wrote but not what I meant. “It was colloquial parlance” ffs…
Just be like the ‘Pollies’ and Public Serpents when they are asked a question in Senate Estimates Committees and the such like.
I will take that Question on Notice they say. I have never heard of the eventual answer. The Farkers just run and hide.
NAB is full of nice people, but as a bank they’re useless.
Simple funds transfers over the past few weeks have been plagued with outages.
Thanks for confirming he’s full of shit Grogs as you’d certainly only be “playing the Inquiry” if you were up to nefarious deeds.
Ergo, the power being on is less of a concern as a long suffering NAB/CBC customer, I’m worried if the staff haven’t all gone home on stress leave and they left their servers turned on in the data centres.
I always demand cash when trading aluminium.
Oh dear. He wouldn’t want to hear that.
shatterzzzsays:
May 11, 2023 at 12:18 pm
“However, with these predicted record migration numbers coming to Sydney
And here’s me thinking that pyramid schemes are illegal in Australia.
That CNN audience was laughing at the interrogator. The accusation was so preposterous even the rusted ons know it.
Her little pouty mouth said it all. Lightweight.
Which one were you Pogria? I reckon it wasn’t the FF10.
It’s very easy now with things like Stripe.
Drumgold is playing the Inquiry like a Stradivarius.
If he’s got ambitions of a career in Politics, he’s looking pretty good at the moment.
You’re at your best crotchless when you take the piss. In a just world drummy couldn’t get elected dog-catcher.
The one I went to last week did.
The tool known as ‘Square’ has had point-of-sale using a $20 scanner and your phone for about six years. I know its a small pain to get going, and the % to the institution is frustrating, but ‘we haave the technarlogeee’.
Nut Case are there any facts in what you kNow about anything? I’ve given you a clue, its two letters.
Drumgold inquiry now heading into the 9th circle of legal hell..
Yes I assess evidence that is admissable or not but I assess its admissability before evidencing it.
Lawyers….
johannasays:
May 11, 2023 at 2:52 pm
Do the Bunnings and other charity sausage sizzles accept cards? Surely it wouldn’t be worth the cost of setting it up for a small scale event. The war on cash is anti community.
And as I’ve said here before, not having a healthy stash of cash demonstrates an extraordinarily naive faith in electronica.
Given that our power networks are teetering on the edge more and more often, who in their right mind would assume that the card in their wallet will work at all times?
As others here have said, looks like they are going to have to learn the hard way.
As many people have said before. Have at least 3 months cash on hand for food, drink (water not booze), etc. You should already have plenty of food and water on hand anyway.
If you rent then have the rent money. If you have a mortgage, well good luck. If you own your home outright then get a gun and learn to shoot. Have a stash of Perth Mint Silver Kookaburra $1 coins as well as the folding stuff. Tough times are coming.
Maybe just head for the hills. This is not Financial Advice. It is just advice.
What’s the biblical punishment for false accusers?
I’m just trying to build a better world for people like Jay. They may not like it, but they should not have put me in a self defence situation.
Drumgold has been on the stand longer than Da Knickerless.
In a just world drummy couldn’t get elected dog-catcher.
Perhaps.
But we’re not living in a just world.
Drumgold called for the Inquiry, he got it, he woulda known it was gonna be a whitewash and a witch hunt, but he stepped into the breach anyway.
I’m thinkin’ Horatio at the Bridge.
GreyRangasays:
May 11, 2023 at 3:09 pm
Nut Case are there any facts in what you kNow about anything? I’ve given you a clue, its two letters.
I thought that it was three letters. SFA.
You can either pocket the charge or pass it on, but, yes, square is very easy to use.
Indeed.
And despite Drumgold’s recanting, I suspect the political interference issue still has some distance to run.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Take note of the last sentence.
I feel sorry this guy. I think I get what he’s saying:
He’s the real victim in all of this.
Dot – are we allowed to publish JJ’s details? GP is dead now and J is an adult so am not sure…
“I feel sorry this guy.”
I don’t.
The Evidence the AFP had obtained from interrogating Higgins for days and minutely scrutinising 3,000+ text messages and 30,000+ e-mails from her phone.
The fact they did that and thought the case was shit doesnt support your feculation on the matter.
Still inspector EdMong will just hand over the tapes he assured us were taken in parliament proving the case and all will be saved!
What he’s saying is:
Yeah, it was my call to prosecute, I’m standing by my decision.
Looks like the crack team that kept RBG animated have decided to pull out all the stops.
I present to you Dianne Feinberg, tanned rested and reporting for duty.
Also
The perfect warhammer meme has never been made…
The Shire President is wondering where all those millions of dollars go to, and whether anything is achieved:
Yes indeed.
Almost every day, TheirABC informs us of a new, taxpayer funded program to help Aborigines, in between calls for more funding. A lot of these are along the lines of ‘reconnecting’ children with ‘culture’ – the two magic words that turn on the funding tap. But there are variants like art workshops, sports programs, music thingos, digital apps – you name it.
Each one is enthusiastically promoted as a game changer. But, they are rarely evaluated, and if they are, the narrative is that they need more money and time when they demonstrably don’t work.
It seems that some Aborigines believe that taxpayer funded retreats for juvenile offenders ‘back to country’ (with themselves being paid to take charge) are the solution, and governments have shelled out millions for this fairytale. Yet, there is not a skerrick of evidence that this works, and why would it?
Unlike in Hollywood movies, these kids are not just slightly misguided and in need of a father figure and being connected to spiritual roots. They are hard core. It’s not their fault, but that’s what they are. By the age of ten, they have seen more ugliness than many of us would see in a lifetime.
The attempts of leftists to brush over this have led to billions of dollars of waste, and to things getting worse.
Mr Menzel is right – let’s start by trying to work out what works and what doesn’t.
From The Oz…
Moira Deeming has served John Pesutto with a defamation concerns notice, 24 hours before the state parliamentary party is due to vote on a second motion to expel her.
The notice warns that the suspended Liberal MP may commence Federal Court proceedings after 28 days if the Victorian Opposition Leader does not immediately seek the withdrawal of Friday’s expulsion motion, publish an apology to her on his website, and pay her compensation and legal costs.
Good, you go girl.
Feinstein FFS!!!
cohenitesays:
May 11, 2023 at 1:33 pm
Anchor Whatsays:
May 11, 2023 at 4:48 am
Trending Politics:
Tucker Carlson announces he is soon to start his presentations on Twitter, since it is about the only platform where truth can be told.
There’s truth here except when dickless slimes in. Maybe DB should put out an invitation to Tucker.
We also have the fairy tale fantasies of Grandpa Ed Simpson.
Drumgold after crawling out from under the Higgins ‘mee-too’ train wreck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRq1Ksh-32g
“GreyRangasays:
May 11, 2023 at 3:03 pm
Which one were you Pogria? I reckon it wasn’t the FF10.”
Bring me Solo and da Wookie… 😀
Yes! Moira Deeming has decided to stand and fight the white trash that runs the Victorian SFLs.
I have a feeling she is going to win big and the weak little man* who now “leads” them will be gone inside a year.
*I had to look up his name: John Pesutto. What a nobody!
Ed Casesays:
May 11, 2023 at 1:57 pm
If you think a miner, farmer or stonemason had is easier based on they may have had shorter working hours is nuts.
Yeah, working 12 hour rotating shifts in a FIFO Mine in 2023 is way easier than farming 6 hour days next door 4 months of the year in 1423.
Grandpa Ed, that depends upon whether it is the farmer himself who is harnessed to the plough, or his wife and kids.
I’m thinkin’ Horatio at the Bridge.
I’m thinking Billy Goat Gruff.
Here it is in full…
Moira Deeming serves John Pesutto with defamation concerns notice ahead of Victorian Liberal party room meeting to expel her
Moira Deeming has served John Pesutto with a defamation concerns notice, 24 hours before the state parliamentary party is due to vote on a second motion to expel her.
The notice warns that the suspended Liberal MP may commence Federal Court proceedings after 28 days if the Victorian Opposition Leader does not immediately seek the withdrawal of Friday’s expulsion motion, publish an apology to her on his website, and pay her compensation and legal costs.
Should it go ahead, Friday’s expulsion motion is expected to pass with support from the majority of the state Liberal party room, but the concerns notice puts Mr Pesutto in the awkward position of placing himself at risk of an unedifying public legal battle if he allows the expulsion to proceed.
Company Giles principal Patrick George, who wrote the textbook on Australian defamation law, issued the legal threat on Ms Deeming’s behalf on Thursday morning.
In the 11-page legal letter, Mr George alleges that Mr Pesutto accused the MP “of being a Nazi sympathiser” in seeking to justify his botched attempt to expel her from the party in March.
“These accusations, and the motion to expel her, leaked by you to the media to be published as widely as possible, were defamatory of our client, are false, and have caused serious and potentially irreparable harm to her reputation,” Mr George wrote in the concerns notice.
Mr Pesutto’s March attempt to expel Ms Deeming followed her attendance at a “Let Women Speak” rally alongside British activist Kellie-Jay Keen, also known as Posie Parker, former federal Liberal candidate Katherine Deves, and left-wing Jewish feminist Angie Jones.
The rally was organised by Ms Keen’s activist group, Standing for Women UK, which campaigns against what its supporters see as the infringement of transgender rights upon those of women and children.
Transgender rights activists held a counter-protest, and a third group, of masked men dressed in black, joined the fray and performed the Nazi salute on the steps of state parliament.
In the days that followed, Mr Pesutto gave notice to the state Liberal party room that he intended to move an expulsion motion against Ms Deeming, and circulated a 15-page dossier of social media screenshots and media reports — mostly relating to Ms Keen — in seeking to make the case that the MP had protested alongside people who were “known to be publicly associated with far right-wing extremist groups including neo-Nazi activists”.
During the heated March party room meeting, minutes of which were last week leaked to The Australian, at least 10 MPs spoke in Ms Deeming’s favour, with veteran staffer-turned-MP Nick McGowan telling Mr Pesutto that if his motion were to proceed, he would be “actually labelling someone a Nazi”.
“It’s like calling someone a murderer, a rapist, or a paedophile,” Mr McGowan told the meeting.
Following a tearful speech during which Ms Deeming said she had been raped as a child and detailed her close relationship with an uncle who was a Holocaust survivor, the party opted not to proceed with the expulsion motion, and instead suspended the MP for nine months.
In her concerns notice, Ms Deeming’s lawyer argues the suspension “was based on certain conditions, which you and our client agreed to, which was to include a full and public retraction by you of the accusations you made about her.”
“You then proceeded to disregard those conditions and refused to carry them out,” the legal letter states.
Ms Deeming and her supporters have been engaged for weeks in a dispute with Mr Pesutto over the content and release of the meeting minutes.
The dispute became public last week via the leaking to Sky News of an email in which minute-taker Renee Heath accused the Liberal leader of having “bullied” her and other conservative female MPs.
The stalemate prompted Ms Deeming to write to Mr Pesutto last Thursday, giving him a 2pm deadline to issue a statement “exonerating” her, or she would officially challenge her suspension, “demand re-entry to the party room and instruct my lawyers to commence legal proceedings”.
In response, five MPs including frontbenchers James Newbury, Cindy McLeish and Roma Britnell, former leader Matthew Guy, and newly-elected MP Wayne Farnham, circulated a second expulsion motion, upon which the party is due to vote on Friday.
Hours before the latest expulsion motion was circulated, Ms Deeming issued a statement claiming she had “never once considered suing the Liberal Party”. The concerns notice is addressed to Mr Pesutto, and not the party.
Mr Pesutto is not a signatory to Friday’s motion but has publicly declared his support for it.
The reason given in the motion for seeking to expel Ms Deeming is that she “has engaged in conduct in violation of Clause 57, bringing discredit on the Parliamentary Party.”
However, no explanation is offered as to how such “discredit” has been brought.
“This second motion does not state the grounds for our client’s expulsion, and yet you still have publicly stated your support for it,” Ms Deeming’s legal letter states.
“In the absence of any grounds, and in the absence of your withdrawal of the accusations, this second motion, it can reasonably be assumed, is made on the same basis as the first motion, with the same false and defamatory accusations made against our client.
“Apart from being grossly unfair, the circumstances entitle our client to commence defamation proceedings against you.”
Ms Deeming is not expected to attend Friday’s meeting.
Her concerns notice asks Mr Pesutto to “seek the immediate withdrawal” of the new expulsion motion, and “agree to never repeat or republish the contents of the original motion or the new motion”.
It also asks the Liberal leader to publish on his website for a period of at least 14 days an apology stating:
“On 22 March 2023, I, John Pesutto, wrote, published and released to the media a motion to expel Moira Deeming from the Liberal Party.
The motion made false and defamatory allegations about Mrs Deeming concerning her attendance at an event on 18 March 2023.
I withdraw those allegations without reservation. They should never have been made.
I apologise to Moira Deeming for the harm, hurt and distress caused to her and her family by reason of my making the false allegations.”
The notice asks Mr Pesutto to pay Ms Deeming “compensation by reason of the substantial damage, including damage to her reputation, which she has suffered a result of the publication of the motion”, and cover her legal costs.
“Although you have 28 days under the act to make amends, noting the serious and ongoing damage to our client’s reputation, this offer is open until 9am on Friday, 12 May 2023,” the letter states.
“The timing is urgent because of the extreme and unseemly speed with which the new motion has been proposed and is to be determined despite clear and obvious breaches of the (Victorian Liberal Party) Constitution and the continuing defamation of our client.
“Any delay in the publication of an apology will of course significantly decrease its effect.
“In the unfortunate event that the above requests are not agreed to, we are instructed to commence proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia without further notice after the lapse of 28 days.”
Mr Pesutto and Ms Deeming have been contacted for comment.
Mr George joined the boutique firm of reputational risk lawyer Rebekah Giles, Company Giles, in March, having been senior partner at global firm Kennedys for the previous 20 years of 40 year career.
The author of ?‘Defamation Law in Australia’ has represented former prime ministers Paul Keating and Kevin Rudd, as well as former Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates.
His business partner Ms Giles has defended former Liberal staffer and alleged rape victim Britanny Higgins, and former attorney-general Christian Porter.
I have zero sympathy for Perutto and co.
You would have thought there was no male (will not call them men), in the Vic libs that was stupider than Matthew Guy. Ding, ding, ding ding, ding!
This further confirms my hot take yesterday.
Ed Casesays:
May 11, 2023 at 2:24 pm
What frigging evidence??
The Evidence the AFP had obtained from interrogating Higgins for days and minutely scrutinising 3,000+ text messages and 30,000+ e-mails from her phone.
At the end of the process, they looked at each other, and said: “What frigging evidence??”
If only Grandpa Ed had shown the AFP the CCTV recordings from Reynolds’ office, Mizzz Knickerless would now be happy.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
May 11, 2023 at 3:31 pm
From The Oz…
Moira Deeming has served John Pesutto with a defamation concerns notice, 24 hours before the state parliamentary party is due to vote on a second motion to expel her.
The notice warns that the suspended Liberal MP may commence Federal Court proceedings after 28 days if the Victorian Opposition Leader does not immediately seek the withdrawal of Friday’s expulsion motion, publish an apology to her on his website, and pay her compensation and legal costs.
Good, you go girl.
I agree 100%. Feral Laybore have the Meany Girls (Keneally now booted out) and Vic Libs have a Thatcher/Boudica…………….Cool Bananas. The Vic Lib Men are Wimps. Just like Jerk Off.
I predicted Pesutto disaster
If only the Victorian Libs had chosen John Roskam
James Allan – Spectator Australia
Can you believe it?
Drumgold has gone for “the vibe”.
ABC report says he didn’t like the vibe in a meeting with the cops.
He’s gone Dennis Donuto on steroids.
Foolsgold.
So your metric as to whether a case is sound or not is whether the prosecutor later admits to being a serial liar.
Who on earth cares that he stands by his decision? Of course he does. He doesn’t live in Manhattan where he could literally admit the entire case was pure politics and still have the same job tomorrow. The ACT swings left but not that left.
Ed Casesays:
May 11, 2023 at 2:48 pm
Drumgold is playing the Inquiry like a Stradivarius.
Now who else did Grandpa Ed describe in the same way? Oh, yes, Scott Morrison. Scott Who?
Dumbgold just received the Kiss of Death from Grandpa Ed.
Just from the above…
Mr Pesutto’s March attempt to expel Ms Deeming followed her attendance at a “Let Women Speak” rally alongside British activist Kellie-Jay Keen, also known as Posie Parker, former federal Liberal candidate Katherine Deves, and left-wing Jewish feminist Angie Jones.
The rally was organised by Ms Keen’s activist group, Standing for Women UK, which campaigns against what its supporters see as the infringement of transgender rights upon those of women and children.
Transgender rights activists held a counter-protest, and a third group, of masked men dressed in black, joined the fray and performed the Nazi salute on the steps of state parliament.
In the days that followed, Mr Pesutto gave notice to the state Liberal party room that he intended to move an expulsion motion against Ms Deeming, and circulated a 15-page dossier of social media screenshots and media reports — mostly relating to Ms Keen — in seeking to make the case that the MP had protested alongside people who were “known to be publicly associated with far right-wing extremist groups including neo-Nazi activists”.
And please note, this is one of the few times that media outlets, even The Oz, have bothered to report the facts of the Melbourne rally correctly. Normally Keen has constantly been smeared as an “anti-trans activist” and her rallies are described as “anti-trans rallies”. These are lies.
I now want Angie Jones to serve a notice on Pesutto.
I want Pesutto gone. I want most of the Victorian Liberals gone. This has been a total disgrace and none of this needed to happen. I also believe that Pesutto’s incendiary words after the rally helped stoke the violence that ensued in Auckland a week later.
johannasays:
May 11, 2023 at 2:52 pm
Do the Bunnings and other charity sausage sizzles accept cards? Surely it wouldn’t be worth the cost of setting it up for a small scale event. The war on cash is anti community.
And how will the homeless manage? Their cause used to be pushed by anti-bank leftards, but now that the left has gone full fascist, that concern has disappeared. As has any concern for small community organisations.
Moira Deeming is outstanding.
I tend towards Cassie’s position. Part of the problem. If Lehrmann convicted everyone off to the pub (except Lehrmann of course).
mole
Snap re Mizzz Knickerless.
Numerous commenter have called for the Liberal Party to grow a pair, toughen up, get the gloves off, stop the bullshit.
Now, finally, John Pesutto has done that.
Suddenly, the new demand is to be led around by the nose by a blow in with no checkable backstory who’s been in the Parliament 5 minutes.
Quelle surprise, eh?
Nobody would like a forensic examination of their day to day activities. But that’s why some people get paid the big bucks.
cohenitesays:
May 11, 2023 at 3:43 pm
I’m thinkin’ Horatio at the Bridge.
I’m thinking Billy Goat Gruff.
I’m thinking Trolls under the Bridge. Head Case, MontyPox Virus, Struth (where is that handle name?) and any other Left Wing Nut Jobs or just Nut Jobs
Lysander I only report what Nilligan said, and that he had chocolate drop eyes. I wouldn’t say otherwise.
None of which provides any physical/actual evidence of sexual intercourse between Lerhmann and Hoggins in Reynolds’ office on that infamous morning.
Release the CCTV footage from inside Reynolds’ office, Eddles – you know you want to!
Pesutto had an amazing opportunity to put forward a common sense position following the events that Saturday on questions relating to gender ideology that would have made sense to those of the centre, centre left and centre right, but he didn’t or couldn’t because he simply has no sense of the issues outside of a narrow range. Sorry, but you can’t be this inept and leader of a major party. Why he was chosen to begin with is beyond me. This is just a repeat of Guy who was similarly inept and without an gravitas.
Head Case, can you order me a kilo of whatever you’re smoking? I assume it’s top-shelf Colombian or Afghan hash. Ta.
My earlier illustration of Drumgold like this poor fellow. Notice the brown splash at the end.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ldalpCTXHU&feature=youtu.be
He’s just left the lid off the formaldehyde again.
Grandpa Ed Simpson-Case (now, there’s an Adelaide name)
Suddenly, the new demand is to be led around by the nose by a blow in with no checkable backstory who’s been in the Parliament 5 minutes.
Let me use your words (slightly amended):
Suddenly, the demand is to be led around by the nose by Grandpa Ed, a blow in with no checkable backstory, who’s been in the Blog 5 minutes.
Numerous commenter have called for the Liberal Party to grow a pair, toughen up, get the gloves off, stop the bullshit.
Now, finally, John Pesutto has done that.
Against the OPPOSITION, not his own side.
Trump crushes town hall… video roundup… Jake Tapper on the verge of tears…
Great roundup. Begins with a standing ovation at the beginning of the Town Hall.
Groogs is a very entertaining commentator. We can debate whether that is by accident or design.
Trump being the adult in the room at the townhall..
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/10/politics/ukraine-russia-putin-trump-town-hall/index.html
Former President Donald Trump would not say Wednesday night who he thinks should prevail in Russia’s war against Ukraine, instead telling New Hampshire GOP primary voters that he wants “everybody to stop dying.”
“I want everybody to stop dying. They’re dying. Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying,” Trump said at CNN’s town hall moderated by “CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins. “And I’ll have that done in 24 hours.”
Trump, who would not say whether he wants Ukraine to successfully deter Russia when pressed by Collins, told the audience gathered at Saint Anselm College that he doesn’t “think in terms of winning and losing.”
“I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” he said.
“If you say he’s a war criminal it’s going to be a lot tougher to make a deal to make this thing stopped,” Trump said. “If he’s going to be a war criminal, people are going to grab him and execute him, he’s going to fight a lot harder than he’s fighting under the other circumstance.”
Trump called Putin “a smart guy,” but said the Russian leader “made a tremendous mistake.”
“Of course he’s smart. They want you to say he’s a stupid person. He’s not a stupid person and he’s very cunning. Putin made a bad mistake in my opinion.”
When asked to elaborate, Trump said, “His mistake was going in. He would have never gone in if I was president,” referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
You’ve got to be able to enforce discipline on your own side before you can take on the Government.
Kennett lost 2 elections before he got them all singing from the same song sheet.
John Pesutto has the same problem.
If he’s going to let Deeming play Ducks and Drakes, he might as well call it quits now.
Some years ago had a blocked kitchen drain and called the plumbers thinking it will simply be an electric eel and we are back in business. It worked out that the old terracotta pipes were crushed by frangipani roots and the whole lot needed replacing with plastic pipes. A couple of weeks later and over $7000 bill it was all done. The huge bill was due to the use of some heavy machinery to dig out the old damaged pipes.
I thought the frangipani would kark it since there was extensive digging around its roots but it seemed to not mind it at all.
Hasn’t it been proven that unlike vampires, zombies do not have functional reproductive organs? Therefore it is impossible for the 6feetnotdeepenough crowd to ‘grow a pair’?
Surely we should insist on vital facts such as this on a reputable blog?
*Sigh*
CARLSON TELLS FOX TO GET TUCKED LOL
NEWS WITH A BIAS FOR TRUTH
CARLSON TELLS FOX TO GET TUCKED
Many people think that Tucker Carlson is hilarious but the clowns in the Murdoch family just upstaged him in a big way.
They and their backers thought that it was worth burning down the highest rating and most profitable cable news network in America just to shut Tucker up but the way this has backfired is just hilarious.
Fox were prepared to pay tens of millions to keep Carlson gagged up in his contract until after the 2024 election, probably to keep Trump out of power.
Carlson is one of the few top media personalities who is prepared to criticise Biden’s policies and to give Trump a fair hearing.
That might sound far-fetched to some of you who thought that Fox and the Murdochs were actually Conservative, but these guys have form.
Those with long memories may know that old man Murdoch was known as Red Rupert when he was at university.
You may also remember never Trumper Chris Wallace who gave Trump a hostile interview where he deliberately tried to trap him on multiple fronts.
Did you think it was an accident that the same Chris Wallace ran the election coverage for Fox on the night of the election when he was calling states for Biden which were still in play before voting had closed? Coincidence hardly.
It now looks like the Murdoch arm of Swamp Incorporated is so desperate to shut Tucker down that they were prepared to carry out a controlled demolition of the controlled opposition just to flatten the most dangerous voice out there.
They just knew they had him trapped. He would be paid millions per year until after the election to just sit down and shut up.
Who could resist that?
The contract meant that he couldn’t go to another network before 2025.
I guess it never occurred to these people that someone would care more about America than about millions of dollars.
But it looks like Tucker did. Either that, or he figures that he may make a motza using the newly liberated Twitter platform.
Since Elon has booted out all of the spooks, along with the 80% of the workforce who were just along for the oversized pay cheques and luxurious work environment, Twitter has become the world’s second-best free speech platform (after The Richardson Post of course).
So now it looks as if Tucker will be broadcasting to the world via Twitter, that formerly Left-wing cesspool of draconian censorship and snowflake cancel culture.
This is The Swamp’s worst nightmare. Tucker is deadly dangerous because his monologues are so reasonable and well researched.
He has single handedly been blowing massive holes in the approved narrative and boy, has that raised some heckles.
If the sheeple (particularly on the Left) are exposed to Tucker night after night, there is a good chance they will start waking up en masse.
Another reason for the regime to panic is that, what Tucker has been saying so far is bad enough, but what he might say now that he’s off the leash is anyone’s guess.
But one thing’s for sure. If things work out with Tucker and Twitter, then the old adage will indeed be confirmed once more.
He who laughs last – laughs longest.
Everyone loves a death cult that insists on you starving yourself to death to meet Jesus. Once you have put paid to over a hundred Kenyans it only gets better if you then find out they were into organ harvesting as well.
Marshall Applewhite was a piker by comparison.
Giuseppe Prosciutto has evidently received all his advice, legal and otherwise, from good ol’ Eddles KC.
Here’s a transcript of a recent exchange between the two:
GP: “Eddles – we need some evidence linking the Deeming girl with neo-nayzees, toot sweet, son.”
Eddles KC: “Giuseppe, here’s some excerpts from her wikipedia page, which provide incontrovertible 100% watertight evidence that she’s a veritable Eva Braun to the Grampian Nayzees.”
GP: “Great work, Eddles my son, just what I need to deal with that uppity broad on Sky, Crudlin.”
Eddles KC: “Giuseppe, trust me, those broads won’t know what’s hit them.”
Drumgold getting rolled now… flip flopping language!!!
The Rental Crisis
“I reported how BlackRock is now the largest landlord in the US. Institutions have purchased hundreds of billions in real estate across the nation and have no plans to sell because rentals are a lucrative venture. Inventory is at a historic low and people simply cannot find a place to live if they need to relocate. Rental price gouging has reached astronomical levels and demand far outweighs supply.
There are eight prospective renters for each available apartment in the US, and the average occupancy rate is 94.2%. Of those occupied leases, 60.7% chose to renew. New housing grew by a measly 0.43% as building costs have increased substantially. The high-density state of New Jersey has become the most competitive real estate market in the US. This is particularly true for the northern part of the state, which is no surprise as the average cost for rent in NYC is $5,186 monthly. That price tag makes places like Los Angeles look cheap, with an average rental price of $2,600. Miami, the new Wall Street of the south, has become the second most competitive market in the US. Apartments in Miami-Dade County last an average of 33 days on the market if a unit even becomes available.
Housing is completely unaffordable and people with good-paying jobs are struggling to find a place to live if they do not already own. Purchasing property was once the smart financial choice, but that is out of reach for the average person. In fact, over three million Americans earning over $150,000 annually still choose to rent as there is simply no alternative at this time.
Rentals across America are almost at total capacity. The typical person locks in a 12-month lease, but the landlord (in most states) can raise the price at the end of that term and there are little protections for residents. In fairness to the landlords, their costs have increased substantially as well in terms of taxes, insurance, and maintenance. The price of a renewal increase is typically lower than what it would cost to relocate, aiding in the decision for the majority to renew their leases.
Where I live, we also face seasonal rental price gauging. Off-season one-bedrooms in the Tampa Bay area are over $2,000 monthly and rising. But once the “snow birds” return during the winter months, prices increase substantially. There is a 13% tax here on short-term rentals as well, but finding a full 12-month lease is increasingly difficult.
Adding to this crisis is the mass influx of migrants as cities across the nation develop ways to house tens of thousands of people at the expense of taxpaying citizens. Landlords typically require renters to earn 3X the monthly rental price as well, forcing many to leave the cities and more desirable areas even if they earn a good living.
Shelter costs are unsustainably high for both buyers and renters. People cannot find a place to live. Those who rent often become stuck in a cycle of renting perpetually, unable to save as all their income goes toward shelter.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/real_estate/the-rental-crisis/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The same thing goes here. Australia is importing Hundreds and Thousands of people and not building very many Homes or Apartments. Tents and Wigwams anyone? Sleeping in cars? Sleeping on the trains?. Sleeping on Park Benches?
Tennis Elbow, you have NFI.
Yep, had the same with Birch tree roots. The problem was clay pipes, apparently Birches have ferocious roots. The tiniest leak, and it’s all over. Cost me a fortune.
Birches are beautiful, but best left in forests.
Geez some miserable statistics in this article..
https://www.takimag.com/article/after-the-palefaces/
“by the end of the 1980s not a single African head of state in three decades had allowed himself to be voted out of office. Of some 150 heads of state who had trodden the African stage, only six had voluntarily relinquished power”?
Johnny Rotten, where did you get that screed about Tucker Carlson that you just cut and pasted? I assume it was that Armstrong Economics clown.
Either the dumb Murdoch children are trying to shut Carlson up in the runup to 2024 by enforcing his contract, which has two more years to run, or (as Carlson has just announced) he is about to begin broadcasting via Twitter. It’s one or the other.
I suspect the Murdoch kiddies, having just destroyed the top-rating US cable news network by trashing their father’s brilliant vision of a TV service with half the country to itself because the rest of the US media had vacated the field, don’t have any contractual hold over Carlson’s future activities at all.
On talkback today some knucklehead vomited the usual alarmist crap about humans destroying the world; afterwards another ratbag rang up and agreed because there are too many humans and on the basis of a simple equation using the BTU of each human because the number of humans was increasing too fast the combined BTUs of all humans was literally causing the seas to evaporate into the atmosphere.
This second idiot claimed to have a degree in science. 10 years ago I would have cried bullshit but given the decline in education letters after the name are now meaningless. I’m really glad I sold all my letters some years ago when they were still worth a buck.
Johanna:
I just had reason to urgently cancel my cards. The only ATM was busted. Thank Christ I had a stash of cash or it would have been embarrassing when my man turned up.
Unless you are on a country estate you can have trees or drainage but generally not both, at least over the longer term. PVC pipes help but you can still run into trouble. Some trees are better than others. Better to plant the trees you like and then move before they become an issue.
Moira Deeming serves John Pesutto with defamation concerns notice ahead of Victorian Liberal party room meeting to expel her.
Great work by Trump.
It was almost too easy.
Trump’s townhall was simply outstanding. He’s still got it.
And that CNN person prolly won’t last a day.
Mandatory viewing for Cats!!! 🙂
In 20+ years of firefighting, especially on KI several years back, I noted that intense fires burn not only the ‘understory’, but also the crowns, and the floor litter, and ( in really hot fires) the topsoil itself. Its *all* burned, which means its * all* fuel.
Based on that, the Drs views are puzzling
Johnny Rotten:
Be in a small community more than an average tank of fuel away from the closest major town.
If they make it to your place, then they’ve had enough sense to have more than just a mower can of fuel in the garage.
With the advent of short range EVs, that decision is even simpler.
Population of <3000. No poofs. No Greens.
There is going to be a strong bump in Trump’s favour next round of polling.
Report above. The news tomorrow morning is going to be very interesting.
For a man of 76 years, he’s still very quick in the mind, he knows how to entertain (he’s funny), cogent and full of energy.
Everything Biden doesn’t have.
Oh, and I might add, DeSantis (though, ok, and not) just isn’t an entertainer… he’s always too serious…
Deeming’s lawyer literally wrote the textbook on defamation, The Australian reports.
We Are Living in a World Made for Satire
The degradation has reached levels of absurdity not found in even the best satires.
The great Roman satirist Juvenal once said that the “monstrous city” of Rome makes it “hard not to write satire” and “fill a whole notebook” with scenes of corruption, vice, and sheer stupidity.
I think of Juvenal more and more these days, as our own moral, political, social, and intellectual degradation reaches levels of absurdity not found in even the best satires.
Indeed, our culture and politics are so bizarre and surreal that the scenes we witness every day make satire redundant.
One example that would shock even a satirist like Juvenal or Jonathon Swift is the “transgender” phenomenon.
Swift, in his early 18th century brilliant satire Gulliver’s Travels, describes the Academy of Projectors who carry out various preposterous experiments such as extracting sunlight from cucumbers, turning excrement back into food, and building houses from the roof down.
But our attempts to change biological males into females or biological females into males no doubt would have struck Swift as beyond satiric.
Perhaps more incredible would be the credentialed medical doctors who ignore their oath to “first do no harm,” and participate in the poisoning and irreversible mutilation of healthy, if troubled, young people and even pre-teens, including toddlers as young as two.
But that’s just the start of the absurdities. Who at the beginning of the 21st century could have imagined the military services––organizations whose members provide the serious and important service of fighting, killing, and dying for their county––wasting time and money subjecting their members to training in the protocols of made-up pronouns?
Or, as Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville wrote in the Wall Street Journal, selecting a “non-binary” lieutenant to read a poem to the whole crew of an aircraft carrier during an “LGBTQ spoken-word night”?
And despite the warning provided by the massive drop in sales of Bud Light, after making a poncy transexual in campy drag its unofficial spokesman, the Navy “tapped another self-described nonbinary sailor to become the Navy’s first ‘Digital Ambassador,’” Tuberville writes. He adds, the “concern is that our new national obsession with sexuality, race and gender is focused on self rather than on purpose, ability or service”–– especially at a time when the Navy, like the other services, is facing record shortfalls in recruitment.
Crying out for satire as well is the establishment’s support for biological males competing against biological females in sports. The incredible part is that universities and organizations like the NCAA support and enable this gross violation of women’s rights and the Title IX laws that provided female athletes the opportunity and support to compete. Now blatantly male ringers are allowed to bully women, invade their locker rooms, and then bask in stolen accolades.
There are many other public policies that are so astonishingly and dangerously stupid that one could think they are the products of a satirist. For instance, Anthropogenic Catastrophic Global Warming, the idea that increases in atmospheric CO2 caused by humans will destroy the planet before the next century. Like the theater, this claim requires a willing suspension of disbelief in order to accept the incomplete and rigged “science” allegedly proving its claims.
Worse, the policies that supposedly will stop this apocalypse are wildly expensive. “Net-zero” carbon use and emissions by 2050 would cost trillions of dollars, ruining the global economy. Currently 80% of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels, and the technology needed to fully electrify our energy source is unlikely to be developed by the end of the century, let alone in 17 years.
Yet that scientific reality, and often reality in general, is being ignored in blue states run by powerful environmental lobbies and “renewable energy” companies that are waxing fat while feeding at the government subsidies trough. New York just banned gas-powered stoves, the first step in eliminating abundant, cheap natural gas. This is the same state that passed a law requiring 70% of new power plants emit zero emissions by 2030.
Similarly California, the mothership of feckless “green” folly, banned the sale of gas-powered automobiles after 2035. What makes these policies reek of satire is that replacing fossil fuels with wind, solar, and other renewables requires a vast and expensive increase in transmission lines and batteries big and reliable enough to store energy for when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow––in a state that can’t keep the lights on during a forest fire.
Indeed, just acquiring elements such as lithium and cobalt necessary for battery production is a big problem, given that the mining and processing of these elements takes huge amounts of energy provided by fossil fuels. And this industry is dominated by communist China, a geopolitical rival we shouldn’t be dependent on.
Setting impossible policy goals like eliminating the cheap energy that created the powerful and rich modern West in the first place is something more typical of satire, rather than common sense or the “science” that proponents continually insist they are “following.”
Finally, even if the West managed to fully electrify our economy and replace fossil fuels with “renewable” energy, the predicted cataclysmic warming would not be stopped.
China, India, and Russia––the world’s first, third, and fourth largest emitters of CO2––are continuing to burn coal to generate energy, while distracting the West by paying lip-service to its climate virtue-signaling and efforts to reduce emissions by switching to “green” energy.
All we would achieve would be weakening, if not destroying, our economies, and leaving them and our national security dangerously vulnerable to our enemies.
These ludicrous policies like “transgenderism” and “zero net carbon” are unintentionally satiric.
Finally, perhaps the most fertile field for satire is son Hunter Biden and his “laptop from hell.”
You don’t have to be a Juvenal or Jonathan Swift to satirize that saga, given how satiric it already is. A ne’er-do-well, unaccomplished coke-head and whoremonger whose only achievement has been internationally monetizing his father’s name, dropped off his laptop at the repair shop, then forget about it even though it is crammed with evidence of his crimes and louche adventures.
But in the end, satire is about calling attention to the bad ideas and policies that put a nation and its people at risk. And make no mistake, we are in danger of losing our unalienable rights and our global preeminence.
To be a fly on the wall of Pesutto’s office.
They’re going to fight it though Tom. I suspect because they want Trump and the MAGA movement eradicated, Tucker being a champion of that.
Carlson was told by a member of the Fox board that he was taken off the air as part of the Dominion settlement, per Tucker’s legal team (10 May)
Megyn Kelly: Fox, Tucker at ‘Impasse’ — Won’t Let Star Go (9 May)
Fox News and Tucker Carlson are at an “impasse” on his contract with the network because Fox “wants him silenced and sidelined,” Megyn Kelly, also a former star on the network, said Monday on Newsmax’s “Eric Bolling The Balance.”
Fox is “essentially at an impasse [and] they have decided not to negotiate in good faith,” Kelly, told Bolling, quoting unidentified sources. Kelly’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, is now representing Carlson in his dispute with Fox.
“They have no intention of letting Tucker out of his contract,” Kelly said. Kelly, a former top-rated Fox star, now hosts her own podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
Kelly continued: “They want him silenced and sidelined, and that hurts Tucker, sure, but it hurts the country.
The former report is disturbing. If as a part of the Dominion settlement Fox was required to silence Tucker then it says some very disturbing things. I will not go further in this analysis, you can work it out for yourself.
Whatever the backstory it sounds like gloves will soon be off.
hilarious
That’s the problem.
Running a country, any country, is a serious business. Or it should be.
Why this need for showmanship?
It just becomes all about the “feels”.
In 2024, it will only be Trump versus the Washington establishment, 100% of the media and the Democratic Party’s well-oiled election-rigging machine in the swing states. Should be a pushover (sarc.).
PS: did I mention that 99% of America outside the flyover states has Trump Derangement?
PPS: Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac and Democrat activists (who now run the American government and the White House) have been mainlining it like heroin for the past two years. They’re not about to give it up.
dover0beachsays:
May 11, 2023 at 4:25 pm
Trump crushes town hall… video roundup… Jake Tapper on the verge of tears…
Great roundup. Begins with a standing ovation at the beginning of the Town Hall.
Outfu.kingstanding. This guy is brilliant. Seriously the people who argued against him and corruptly conspired to cheat him out of office are traitors and should be treated as such.
Drill baby drill!
Initially posted with all the letters in and forgot this blog now has decorum!
The major fire that went through large parts around Margaret River was predominantly coastal heath with hardly a single tree around for much of it. Even just getting down to the coast along established tracks is an issue. Stopping a fire anywhere there is all but impossible. Academics have this idea that forests reach an equilibrium state with a low risk level of understory. Given enough time, some might. Most go up more often and never reach that state.
Next Joint Chiefs Chair Wants White Male Officers to be a Minority
Milley was bad, Brown will be much worse.
May 11, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield
When I was working on the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s ‘Disloyal Military’ investigation, I predicted that Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr. would be selected as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The media is now reporting that Biden will indeed pick Brown to replace Milley. And as bad as Milley was, expect Brown to be much worse.
Under Gen. Brown, the Air Force has become the most woke of the major service branches.
Brown disgraced himself and his uniform during the Black Lives Matter race riots by releasing a video in which he “seemed to barely contain his rage” while ranting “that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution ‘that I’ve sworn my adult life to support and defend’ have not always delivered ‘liberty and equality’ to all.”
What horrible acts of oppression did one of the most powerful men in the military experience that made him turn on America?
In his own words to People Magazine, “When you get to senior levels, you have reserved parking spots around the base. I was in civilian clothes, I parked in a spot and someone came out and said, ‘That slot is reserved for the Pacific Air Force’s Commander.’ And I go, ‘Yeah, I know, because I am the Pacific Air Force’s Commander.’”
Someone questioned Brown’s parking space once and all the white male officers must pay.
What should we expect from Brown if he becomes the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Last year, Brown, alongside Undersecretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones, the first
gay and Filipino woman in her role, and other leaders, signed their names to one of the most shocking and destructive racist documents ever produced by the modern military.
The topic of the Air Force memorandum was officer quotas set by race and gender.
Similar quotas had been issued by political appointees in a politically correct military, but they had focused on slowly boosting minority officers rather than calling for a purge of white men.
The 2014 quotas had looked for an 80 percent white, 10 percent black and 8 percent Asian officer corps.
While choosing officers by any racial category rather than merit is racist, wrong and illegal under civil rights legislation, this fell short of Brown’s proposed racist purge.
Brown’s quotas limit the number of white officers to 67% and cut white men down to 43%.
The Air Force officer corps is currently 77% white: getting it down to 67%, a reduction of 10%, would require serious effort to purge white officers and bar the doors to any new ones.
Reducing the number of white men in the officer corps to a minority, 43%, would cripple the service and wipe out generations of talent: especially when 86% of pilots are white men.
What do you do with those 86% of white male pilots?
Gen. Brown and his radical allies who are destroying the Air Force and endangering national security claim that their racist and illegal policy is necessary because “diversity and inclusion” are the “key to the success of any organization”. And that requires 7% multiracial officers.
But if that’s the case then why have Air Force readiness rates continued to drop even as the service became more diverse? Brown’s focus on “diversity and inclusion” has been a disaster.
The Air Force has not hit its aircraft readiness rates and the mission critical rates for fighter jets are catastrophic.
The F-35A rate fell from 76% to 68% from 2020: the year that the Air Force went woke, endorsed Black Lives Matter and forced racial struggle sessions on its officers.
That was also the year that the White House nominated Brown as Chief of Staff.
In 2022, the rates fell to an outrageous 54%. That’s barely 1 in 2 available planes. In a major war, rates like these mean we would lose and hundreds of thousands of our people could die.
too many humans and on the basis of a simple equation using the BTU of each human because the number of humans was increasing too fast the combined BTUs of all humans was literally causing the seas to evaporate into the atmosphere.
Where they form clouds, and in due course return as rain.
It seems that the Water Cycle has been expelled from The Science.
They also think that only they can save the planet. That underlays their whole ‘whatever it takes’ approach. It’s the worst example of noble cause corruption I’ve ever seen, especially when there’s no actual cause to be noble about.
Matt Taibbi had two sub stacks today on the Censorship Industrial Complex.
What I found fascinating was that Pierre Omidyar (eBay billionaire) started building this back in 2014.
His Intercept/First Look media project quickly turned into a side show while he built the digital infrastructure that NGO’s were so effective in using from 2020 onwards.
He really was visionary.
Evil but visionary.
Johnny:
Welcome to the Sunshine Coast.
Not me. At least not yet.
Newsom will be the next president.
and yes, as googlery says, it’s a picnic for drumgold
oh, stop it
i’ve used up all my drumgold popcorn and now i have to go get some pesutto popcorn
Is that the picnic where you go to all sorts of trouble with snacks, champagne, nice stemware and plates and a rug…and then the heavens open and there’s a lightning strike?
That sort of picnic?
Newsom will be the next president.
The San Francisco reparation issue will be interesting. I’m not saying it’ll stop this slick grub from getting up but it will be interesting. Then there are the ladies (sic): shrillary, cackles and obuma’s hubbie.
Dover Beach:
Is there a link to the entirety of this ?interview?.
I went through the links but I’ve obviously missed it.
Have some schadenfreude popcorn.
The best flavour of all.
Re Biggar’s book on Colonialism, the excellent review in this month’s Quadrant is now up online for all to read.
Who bought them? Asking for a fiend.
I had high hopes for Sharri Markson’s new 5pm hour on Sky News as the only Sky show devoted to breaking stories.
But I now have to say I’m watching it with the sound turned down.
All my early expectations have dissipated, Markson is frequently absent and she appears to be just going through the motions.
I suspect Markson is overwhelmed by new motherhood and the emotional fallout/sleep deprivation of her decision to starve her new son of protein by raising him as a vegetarian.
Even though Zuckerberg is painted as the brains, and he did contribute 300mill to the Zuck Bucks project, but it increasingly looks like Omidyar was the brains of the operation.
Omidyar built the infrastructure that bridged the span between the deep state agencies & the social media platforms.
a productive couple of days of archeology
old photos of the country estate show a walled garden out the back, which is also shown on old drawings
but some bright spark knocked the walls down in the ’50’s
to use the stone for sheds i guess
with the help of some conversion of roods, perches and chains and mr pythagoras i have exposed the footings for three sides and located the fourth side and all internal walls
just need to find someone to put it all back together
Can you imagine Corn poop Joe delivering a Town hall like Trumps one?
Anyone see the 50mill pile at Tamarama?
I don’t understand why anyone would buy it.
You are literally two metres away from the hoards on the Bondi to Bronte walk.
And you have one of the most hostile councils in Sydney to deal with when you submit your DA.
Bonkers.
If you are anyone but an unmentionable alt right ratbag, you’re stealing my bit!
Anyway, Trump might pick Meatball as his VP, he has told supporters to lay off the Meatball.
Trump can “live” in NY and both can be on the ticket.
Trump can crush Biden, Meatball will annihilate the insurance leg up gal.
Cruz and Paul for succession. No I’m not pro Republican, the Democrats have gone nuts.
They’ve gone from being attacked for revolving door prisons to lynch mobs and defund the police.
maybe the sort of picnic everyone asks you to arrange but, come the day, they deny all knowledge of the picnic
that one
A smaller version of the Lost Gardens of Heligen?
Going to have a look at them when I’m in Cornwall in a few weeks. Apparently no machetes required these days.
Can you imagine Corn poop Joe delivering a Town hall like Trumps one?
He didn’t have to in 2020 and still resides in the Whitehouse.
Ahhhh…the Homer Simpson hedge picnic.
Like the party you throw and no one turns up.
Until the GOP bends the knee to the deep state, they will not be back in the Whitehouse.
What I found fascinating was that Pierre Omidyar (eBay billionaire) started building this back in 2014.
His Intercept/First Look media project quickly turned into a side show while he built the digital infrastructure that NGO’s were so effective in using from 2020 onwards.
He really was visionary.
Evil but visionary.
Kamala!
The only way to stop Biden winning in 2024 is to have him step down before the election. Otherwise Jill will bodily carry his rotting corpse over the line, with dutiful voting by millions of his fellow undead. (I wonder who Joe will announce as his VP running mate…?)
Kamala would then get to be the first female president in history. For about a month. It’d piss Hillary off rather nicely.
Meta just went tits up so maybe not so smart after all.
The 2024 election will be a complete media blackout – we won’t hear from either candidate.
Trump – because he destroys them.
Biden – because he embarrasses himself.
Johnny Rotten:
And its as deliberate there as it is here.
New Hampshire Voter: “If elected president again, what is the first thing you would do to help bring down the cost to make things more affordable?”
TRUMP: “Drill, baby, drill.”
Worth watching again.
And here’s the Jake Tapper shitting himself one.
Newsom is the president from central casting.
If it’s young, fit Newsom up against 80+ obese Trump, the vacuous American will vote Newsom without listening to a single policy.
He didn’t have to in 2020 and still resides in the Whitehouse.
More a comment on the metal acuity of both parties rather than their electoral chances.
I mean the Dems are actually allowing the undead representation in Congress.
Political party or United Appeal for the Dead, you decide.
Meta just went tits up so maybe not so smart after all.
Meta is up 100% from the November low.
Since they stop lossed on the metaverse (after $US30bill) and agreed to ongoing buy-backs, they are trying to copy the mid 2000’s Microsoft model.
Robert Sewellsays:
May 11, 2023 at 5:37 pm
Is there a link to the entirety of this ?interview?.
I went through the links but I’ve obviously missed it.
Starts @9:18
Badlands Media Special Coverage: Town Hall With Donald Trump
So what you’re saying, Bern, is that America is already a failed state and efforts to make it the powerhouse of the world economy again are futile?
I’m not a defeatist. I disagree.
Gutfeld and Watter’s opening rants tonight were completely unhinged about biden; Gutfeld especially is showing no restraint: for him biden is a completely corrupt, senile, sexual pervert.
The US won’t have to drill after they liberate the Venezuelans from their off shore energy assets.
is that America is already a failed state and efforts to make it the powerhouse of the world economy again are futile?
The US will remain the powerhouse of the world economy for a long while to come regardless of who is in the Whitehouse.
Someone needs to represent their voters.
Fetterman could be “elected” President easily Bern.
Doesn’t matter who the Dem candidate actually is.
Indeed I suspect the Dems would prefer a brainless wonder to Newsom.
Newsom too often thinks for himself. Can’t have that.
I wonder what Beto is up to? He regards himself as from central casting too.
Yes, my bad. I was referring to Metaverse, their knock off of Second Life.
Bringing with it, in solution, about 5% of the CO2 lurking in the low atmosphere. Each time.
The Science hates the Water Cycle and won’t try to model it properly, because extremely inconvenient.
But he is.
But he is.
True; but it is unusual for anyone in the MSM to say so.
You know, after the revelations overnight about the corruption of the entire Hiden family I think there’s a chance RFK jr could be the next prez.
None of the Hiden crime family are going to jail because papa Hiden will pardon them all.
But boy, the GOP has done some amazing work.
Not a single one of the countless LL corps that were set up had any commercial purpose other than to funnel funds from selling influence.
Demented is very lucky he’s prez because he can even pardon himself.
hmmm
not quite
there were a couple of gnarled neglected trees which gave the faintest hint that it might have been a garden once
i think i can scratch up enough stone to replicate it to a decent height
perhaps a haven for plants which dislike breeze or thrive on the reflected warmth off the walls
I think Greg Gutfeld — having just authored late night US TV’s most successful comedy show (measured by ratings) — will shortly depart Fox News because he knows he can recreate the formula anywhere.
The implosion of Fox News is now unstoppable, IMO.
Meta’s financials don’t make any sense. They don’t pay a dividend because they can’t. The idea that Zuckerberg never wanted a share of hundreds of billions of net profit is complete bullshit.
Compare net income growth, gross profit margin, cash (only) [at bank] on the three statements comparing 2021 to 2022 and each other for those years.
It’s deep state accounting chicanery garbage and it will continue to fall apart until AI replaces FB for scraping the web for your personal data.
Dot.
Trump/DeSantis
Yep
which is exactly what and Pesutto and the ‘gang’ have done
Yes, but he’ll probably pardon Charles Manson instead.
Cohenite:
I’d say the fight will be between Shrillary and Obamas husband.
Hillary because she’s a mean and vicious bitch who believes it’s her turn, and Michelle because he’s a mean and vicious bastard who is also blek.
The Blek vote will be the decider – not of who gets the votes, but of who counts the votes.
Demented is very lucky he’s prez because he can even pardon himself.
Presidents are granted the authority to issue pardons in Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution. The clause reads:
“The President … shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”
The power to self pardon, which is unclear in the case of high crimes, only applies to federal jurisdictions. If biden is guilty of treason, as I expect he is, even though that is an offence against the US, its extreme criminality would make any self pardon as effective as his adult diaper.