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Excellent stuff Crossie. Quadrant is a bloody good cause because it doesn’t get funded like the Lefty causes.
Look at these Canadian Pigs with their faces covered up. Absolute bullsh*t! That should not be allowed. Rebel News HQ:…
Good man – not the first time you’ve responded to my ‘gentle prodding.’
The US state Department thinks there are 11,000 North Koreans in Kursk. King Kong Jong has no respect for human…
There are only a couple of roads I can think of, Bern. The Westside HWY or the FDR Drive, which is on the east side. It would have to be at three in the morning though otherwise they’re just being bullshit drama queens. Also, if they were in fact doing 80 MPH, they were breaking the law and endangering others. Running away from paparazzi is no excuse for going at that sort of speed.
Last night I tried out the Clam Bar in town.
They had a prawn cocktail on the menu so of course I partook.
Instead of the classic glass etc set-up it just came out like a platter of prawns.
I was most disappointed.
I lie. Jeff was after them.
A smallpox dummy?
Fifth in line to be Head of State of 15 countries. The very best of hands.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
May 19, 2023 at 4:56 pm
the way that outfit is cruising it may be that your next post turns out to be your last.
Thank you for your concern Lizzie. I am thinking of formally notifying the “Team” before posting something “interesting”, and take it from there. There are a few of us who buck the general wokeness and, pounds to peanuts, we are already marked.
If worse comes to worst, they have a 3-strike policy before banning posters, and I’m still at zero.
As in my case, their T&C policies are liberally interpreted to be biased against non-leftards, but there has been some softening over the last 6-10 months. Prior to this, they would disappear comments without explanation, not giving the original poster an opportunity for “re-phrasing”.
The typical behaviour we all see on the online socials.
The issue that really riles is the emotionally damaged, professional victim’s unfettered freedom to make general racist or sexist (white+male = evil) accusations with zero evidence, this from some of the most arrogant and privileged people out there. Without any cautioning by the Team.
Work in progress..
I hope his WEB is good for his soul. Stan is just a guy who has chosen the wrong side. He should hook up with Bess and Jacinta Price, they’ll set him on a better course.
His time with SBS was ok, with CNN in Pakistan was actually heroic, with the ABC it’s been an increasingly lurid “racist” fantasy. No one cares about the colour of your integument son, it’s what’s inside your head and your character, as someone said once. Unfortunately that has been getting worse not better from what I can detect. Which is sad.
Come over to the right side Stan, and put lefty racial insanity behind you. You’ll feel much better.
(And don’t accuse me of racism or I’ll tell you about my particular heritage. Everyone has one.)
Ramsay hated that too.
“It’s a f^%$en prawn cocktail you donut, not a steak dinner!”
The Sunbather and I lived in Dover Heights for 8 years. My Mum and Dad came to stay with us from time to time. Ours was a very modest (and still is – our older son and his family now live in that house) and as Cassie says there are homes being torn down (three in a small section of street of which I speak) — Because of all the high walls and very few people to be seen my dear Italian mamma used to call it: Il cimitero dei vivi – the cemetery of the living
Hi Ed!
Sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield appreciator.
“I tell ya, golf courses and cemeteries are the biggest wastes of prime real estate.”
Paywalled
Vulnerable Victorians with high-value government supports are being “kidnapped” and financially abused by NDIS providers, a shocking report has revealed.
“Rum, sodomy and the lash” was just the beginning…
South Australia full of righteous indignation over climate protests
Last night I tried out the Clam Bar in town.
Im not one to cast aspersions on peoples life choices.
But there are limits…
Dont go fishing in waters Dot has marked as his own…
There would be men, of course, but they would be a by-product of the real storyline of my life
Muddy says:
May 19, 2023 at 5:04 pm
My comment in response to yours was not intended to be adversarial.
No problem whatsoever, it was a good comment.
I was just providing some background.. and still extremely grateful I don’t share a life with that harridan, or others like her.
Lawyer gets fact-checked after claiming a nurse weaponized her tears & OWES her an apology BIG TIME
how to get rid of trainee teachers, also paywalled at the Herald Sun
Also had a nice fillet of John Dory in burnt butter.
RIP Jackie
https://thesydneyinstitute.com.au/blog/issue-635/
‘My Pet Hobbyhorse’…is that the title of the book he was promoting?
Dory is a great fish. On burned butter it would be sublime.
The fact that anyone reads Victoria’s Errors Done newspaper or site is worrying Rosie.
(Sorry I’m not deliberately picking fights with you today).
Grilled of course JC.
GayPatriot
@GayPatriot
I’m selling my Ford. This is even too gay for me.
LOL!
James Morrow:
I’ve noticed that the large commuter carpark one station along, is still only a quarter full.
Pre covid if you weren’t there by seven forget about it.
Elon doesn’t like people working from home
The highlight – in a crowded field – of quotes in the latest Please Explain posted by areff at 4.36:
Gold. Pure, solid rolled gold.
Oh my Lord that was good.
What’s wrong with the less than progressive Herald Sun Lysander.
I don’t really read it, but sometimes the stories that pop up in my feed pique a little interest.
And Susie O’Brien has her name on the Shepparton story which is probably deeply racist.
I was wondering if it was the electric version, which’d be perfect.
But I think it’s probably the petrol one.
Still, what self-respecting tradie would drive around in a qwerty-themed ute?
Actually I don’t read the HS on line because I can’t get past the paywall.
I also link to the Guardian, the Daily Mail etc.
How many are still working from home…and how many have decamped to QLD?
mole at 3.45, and apropos of sTan:
That screaming would be drowned out by the frontal lobe hollering ‘Cash!’.
If Elbow had competent advisors they’d have told him to tell Grant to walk away, and that Gummint would tip him in for the remainder of his contract – such is the damage he’s doing to the Yes vote.
However, don’t overestimate the little noodlers.
Encore:
Aaaaahahahhahaaaa.
You know I suspect Pauline’s suggestion that people meet the high bar of successful native title claims would crimp a lot of people. Thorpe is Yorta Yorta (failed native claim) and Gunakurnai (successful native title claim)
Pretty sure it’s working from home.
Everyone I know in office work is still doing work from home, up to three days a week.
Blockquote fail above. face/palm
Three million dollars would be a reasonable start. Just saying.
ABC offered to ‘make amends’ to Bruce Lehrmann over National Press Club address before he launched legal proceedings against the broadcaster (19 May)
The ABC offered to “make amends” to Bruce Lehrmann over its broadcast of a National Press Club address by Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame.
The offer was cited in a defence filed by the national broadcaster on Thursday in defamation proceedings launched by Mr Lehrmann in the Federal Court.
Lawyers for the ABC claim they made the offer in a letter to Mr Lehrmann’s lawyer Mark O’Brien on April 4 – in response to a letter from his lawyers almost two weeks earlier – but his legal team did not respond to the offer, instead commencing legal proceedings the next day.
Do I detect a disturbance in the farce? That perhaps they think they’re on shaky ground? Gooood.
Some contempt of court and perverting the course of justice charges might focus a few minds.
Any news outlet that promotes this BS should burn*:
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/aflw/former-aflw-player-el-chaston-opens-up-on-lifechanging-breast-removal-surgery-to-find-their-true-self/news-story/597e0adc7e23c033d987e7d108daa2f8
(*not an actual incitement to violence)
Bye bye Stan.
I see Elon is allowing twitter users with da blue tick to now upload videos that are up to two hours’ long.
Is this a “shot” at YouTube?
Watching Nein News.
Young Asian kid stabbed to death at Sunshine station.
Even on the grainy CCTV and with the alleged perpetrators wearing covid masks, I could give a pretty good description of them.
Plod Spokeslady stumbles over her words … “was accosted by the team … err … group … of other young children … ”
Obviously promoted during the Nixon-Overland era.
Can’t say the g-word … “gang”.
And certainly can’t say it coupled with “African”.
oops, sorry, forgot. Not allowed to be a trained epidemiologist on this blog.
Even though I am.
“I don’t know whether to laugh at Grant’s farewell column or be concerned for his welfare.”
I suspect it’s all that tanning lotion he’s lathered on his body, can’t be good for him.
Too lazy check ABS stats atm, but Victorian number plates spotted in these parts suggest the exodus continues. If only they left their socialism behind.
I travel quite a way to my dance classes and have to go along New South Head road and the bridge.
I tend to go now on Mondays and Fridays, eschewing Wednesdays, because the traffic is lighter around both ends of the weekend during the peak hours; people are ‘working from home’. Midweek is the really busy time now.
Stan leaving Q&A is good.
I reckon he’s kicking off the manacles so he can go full Kurdaitcha Man on the racists who won’t accept Voice juju.
Stan’s ego and bile should be an effective turn off for the average punter.
A good one to start the weekend with, Hey You! Get Off of My Cloud!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYgJZ79FmBo
Have a great weekend!!!
I always burn butter…is this a special talent I’m naturally gifted with?
“We can have respect for different views without engaging in vilification and that’s important.”
I agree Mr Albanese but I noted your silence when it came to the rights of Kellie-Jay Keen, Moira Deeming, Pauline Hanson, Mark Latham and others to speak their “different views”?
Ahhhhhhh I know, those rights are selective, aren’t they? You sleazy hypocrite.
He’ll have plenty of time to promote his new book.
As effective as Adam Goodes raising a spear on the footie field at the crowd.
Without commenting on the veracity of the claims against the chap, this is a prime example of why making “getting older” the only qualification for respect/office is a crap idea.
Robert ‘Locky’ Eccles fronts Warrnambool Magistrates Court accused of historic child sex offences
Full details of the child sexual abuse charges issued to a south-west Victorian Koori Court elder have been released for the first time.
I know plenty of pisswrecks who are very undeserving of any respect, despite advancing age.
I prefer the Scottish version “Hey McLeod get off my ewe”.
Lysander, who got that double mastectomy and why? Your link is paywalled.
If irony were human, would it be female or male?
I will bowl now*.
Imran Khan Is In A Standoff With Police Who Have Surrounded His House (19 May)
Meanwhile, here’s where things stand Thursday regarding the showdown outside Khan’s residence, according to regional media:
Pakistani police kept up their siege around the home of Imran Khan as a 24-hour deadline given to the former PM to hand over suspects ‘sheltered inside’ expired on Thursday afternoon. The siege and the authorities’ demand for the suspects, wanted in violent protests over Khan’s recent detention, has angered the former prime minister’s supporters and is raising concerns about more clashes between them and the security forces.
Imran Khan was freed from custody over the weekend and returned to his home in an upscale district of Lahore. Dozens of his supporters have been staying there with him, along with private guards. Police, who on Wednesday surrounded the residence, say they want 40 suspects handed over. The ultimatum for Khan ends at 2 p.m. local time.
Interesting clash between the University of Sydney’s strike bowler and the Paki military, who hate his guts. A spell of devastating reverse swing is needed.
(*From Kerry O’Keefe’s memorable account of Imran playing for my old uni against North Sydney:
Imran Khan and the Sydney University maiden (2017) )
Not 100 pussent sure if this is true, but I did hear of a woman being killed in Paris a few years ago when her driver did just that.
Just stay in your lane and you’ll be right.
If your thesis was on hand washing in emerging world hospitals (with data drawn from personal observation in Indonesia), don’t pretend to be an authority on the efficacy of the vaccines.
For a fee.
On the ABC.
I’m sure her single great grandparent on one side will still stand her in good stead.
Her dad won’t be of much help though. lol.
It doesn’t get much more hostile than Rotto in February unless you are on the back of someone else’s boat with something cold in your hand.
I heard something about this, in that there was a suggestion the case might have to be moved because his “fellow magistrates” couldn’t hear a case against one of their “colleagues”.
I do hope this isn’t an attempt to put it in the “too hard basket”.
Six years would barely qualify you for a Quentin Dumpster long goodbye. Long standing ALPBC hosts die in the job. And there’s been a few.
The WEF’s tentacles run deep
Last night I watched Michael Malice’s Youtube talk with Andy Ngo. It’s a great conversation, high recommended. Andy Ngo is a very thoughtful, considered, and polite man. Like Malice, Andy is right of centre politically and is gay, so it was interesting hearing Ngo’s take on homosexuality, transgenderism, political violence and Antifa. Ngo, though born in the USA, is the child of Vietnamese refugees who fled South Vietnam after the Communists took over and Malice is the child of Jewish refuseniks who left the Soviet Union in the 1980s (I think Malice was born in the Soviet Union, in Ukraine). Anyway, whilst both are “right of centre”, they differ in how they identify politically and philosophically on the right, as Malice is a radical anarcho-libertarian whereas Ngo is a classical liberal. Ngo is the victim of political violence in Portland at the hands of Antifa, however despite that, he’s very against any kind of violence being used by the right. He spoke at length about Antifa and how the movement attracts a lot of violent and mentally ill transgender people and he spoke about the grooming of children that is happening. Ngo, a gay man, said that the transgender movement and the explosion of such sinister predatory activities as “drag queen story hour” perhaps confirms that heterosexuals have always been right to worry about the slippery slope and that toleration of homosexuality and transgenderism has opened a very sinister can of predatory worms. Andy Ngo is a brave man who speaks truth.
How DARE you assume irony’s gender!
Ask and ye shall receive Lizzie:
There’s more, but I am trying to eat dinner. Article came with a picture of the woman with scars where her breasts once were. FMD.
I will post the rest later
Phrasing please.
Irony is female.
Ships are built of iron.
Ships are female (she/her).
… they differ in how they identify politically and philosophically on the right, as Malice is a radical anarcho-libertarian whereas Ngo is a classical liberal.
Get real.
Libertarianism was started by Trotskyites, you can’t get more loony Left than them and Classical Liberal means firmly on the Left [though not amongst the ranks of the insane].
Roger, mine was on HIV and Acquired Immune Deficiency and got me invited to visit the School of Public Health at Stanford. A very new area of epidemiological research at the time in the late 80’s and early 90’s. My work was from the Faculty of Medicine at Sydney University not some tin-pot outfit. There was a cross-faculty lunch for me as well, hosted by the School. It was all a lot of fun, some great people with good minds, years before woke emerged to spoil genuine enquiry.
I do get sick of the frost if I occasionally mention my scholarship and academic experiences here in the natural course of some comment. There is something very unpleasant about it, far more than anyone else receives. I turns me off being here. I am not big noting myself, as some claim. I am simply old and have had a varied life.
Of course iron is Fe male.
Or does that make it Bi? Or Bivalent?
“Libertarianism was started by Trotskyites, you can’t get more loony Left than them and Classical Liberal means firmly on the Left [though not amongst the ranks of the insane].
Ed, put the pipe down.
I’ve no problem with that, Lizzie.
Provided the aforementioned caveat stands.
As I’m sure it does with you.
I mean, if we’re going to hold nurses legally accountable for acting outside their scope of practice, to the point of losing their registration, shouldn’t the same standard apply to epidemiologists?
I’ve always known that hooning through the bush in yer dual cab ute is totes gay- I didn’t really need that vision of twin thrusting chassis covered in each other’s sh*t to bring it home.
Polyamorous Gramma??
(I think Malice was born in the Soviet Union, in Ukraine)
He was.
Then grew up in Brooklyn.
Now lives in Austin.
Like many New Yorkers, he never learned to drive.
So he’s currently getting driving lessons from a Nascar driver.
He’s promised to post videos.
Breasts are for feeding your baby. Did you ever look further down? You are well-equipped there too.
There is no such thing as non-binary in nature. You are female. A woman. Get used to it and stop mutilating yourself to pretend otherwise.
“feelthebernsays:
May 19, 2023 at 7:00 pm”
Thanks Bern, I really like Malice.
I’ve no argument with that. I doubt if Jay Battacharia from Stanford would have on either.
Vicki your friend should set up a trust for her grandchildren to bypass the parents. Will come as a nice surprise at will reading time. They will still be able to make a claim but a very nice FU.
GreyRanga – I doubt if my friend would want to go down that track. She loves her family – which, of course, is now pretending the past didn’t happen. And re the trust option. Still fraught with dangers by courts that insist on giving everyone a crack at what you accumulated in your lifetime.
We have been quite involved just pre Covid in determining our own options. It’s never perfect, and relationships change with the weather in some families! Mine is going through the perfect storm at the moment, as a result of a troubled youngster who, like most young men, is making some classic whoppers of mistakes. Grandparents to the (emotional) rescue. Daughter not handling it – threw us out of her house (again!) on Mothers Day when our commentary didn’t suit. C’est la Vie. But every action has its cost.
Alas, several local “covid stars” didn’t see it that way.
They were more than happy to front up to the cameras and the microphones and disseminate misinformation and they’ve never been held to account.
As a retired professional, albeit in another field, I find this extraordinary.
Malice recently published a book called The White Pill.
Google is your friend if you are interested.
I rarely have to put a book down (I didn’t find American Psycho hard going apart from when Bateman killed the dog).
But I found I really struggled reading what Malice wrote about Beria.
Really dark stuff.
No.
Vicki, sorry to hear about the recent family dramas with a grandson . We’ve had some too, but of a medical nature. It can all become very wrenching, so my sympathies.
QLD’s Minister for Women (among other things; it’s a shallow talent pool) and Palaszckuk’s heir apparent, Shannon Fentiman, has decisively answered the dreaded “What is a woman?’ question:
A women is anyone who identifies as such, including a male with testicles.
Standing by for the LNP response…once the focus group reports come in.
Good to see Lord Waffleworth giving himself a pat on the back in this weeks Media Watchdog. Those deal making skills seem to have been lost by the time he fulfilled his destiny and became PM. Potential Greatness torn down before its prime.
What gets me about Beria was that not only was he calling the shots on how to terrorise citizens, he also participated personally with gusto.
Yes.
Yes. The female from UNSW was particularly egregious.
Ditto.
Personally I find him a racist narcissist and the less I hear of him the better.
It had to end, C.L.
It ended badly. Some conflicts just do.
Bi is Bi, Fe is Fe, Calli. I once worked at a copper-gold-bismuth mine. We roasted the concentrate and then quenched it in water. That dissolved out the copper as a bright blue copper sulfate solution. My job was to run the thickener and belt filter. After the copper sulfate was dissolved the remaining solid stuff was bismuth, gold and iron oxide. A nice brick red colour. Once it was washed on my belt filter it went over to the gold plant where it was mixed with cyanide to dissolve out the gold. The bismuth and iron residue was then sent to a storage dam because there wasn’t a market for the bismuth in those days. Thousands of tonnes of bismuth stored in the dam, I have no idea if they eventually recovered it all. That was in 1980. Archaic Aussie mining and metallurgy history. The roasting process was nearly unique and rather innovative.
Don’t need a Venn diagram for that one.
OK, time for the biggest question of the week to be answered…
Why TF does Jeff Kennett continue to shave his head like that?
Yes it was C.L.
They wouldn’t have hesitated doing the same nor agonised about it years later.
Hold that thought.
“But I found I really struggled reading what Malice wrote about Beria.
Really dark stuff.”
Beria was an utterly evil, evil man, Stalin’s personal strangler.
The very one.
But not the only one.
From Wiki.
Beria was executed separately; he allegedly pleaded on his knees before collapsing to the floor wailing.[62] He was shot through the forehead by General Pavel Batitsky.[63] His final moments bore great similarity to those of his own predecessor, Nikolai Yezhov, who begged for his life before his execution in 1940.[64] Beria’s body was cremated and the remains buried in Communal Grave No. 3 at Donskoi Monastery Cemetery in Moscow.[65]
They all turn to jelly when the tables are turned.
With sTan and Noel going off reservation (can we even say this?) Albo’s job of selling the vibe isn’t getting any easier.
Feelthebern – is Ricky Bobby going driving lessons now. That would definitely be a Shake & Bake experience
It has to be Friday night at the Cat.
Dumb chemistry jokes and anecdotes…philosophical ruminating on the Bomb…
and King Jeff’s haircut.
Time for some music.
Completion of article about lady lopping off her boobs:
Actually there is more but I won’t continue with this. You get the drift.
Yes, the mentally disordered ramblings someone with deep personal angst who needs everyone, everywhere to know and admire her for it.
Fail from me, dearie.
Turns out the US didn’t kill a high ranking Al Qaeda chap via drone strike in Syria earlier this month.
They killed a poor farmer.
When is there going to be some form of accountability?
As is my wont, I’m retiring early.
But have at it.
Good night!
Beria was executed separately; he allegedly pleaded on his knees before collapsing to the floor wailing.[62] He was shot through the forehead by General Pavel Batitsky.[63]
You can safely say this is bullshit.
There was a Coup in the Soviet Union in 1953.
Stalin was poisoned, there was a tank attack on Beria’s house and no one’s seen him from that day to this.
Following the Coup, Kruschchev transferred The Crimea to a newly formed Ukraine SSR,
That’s the root cause of the present problems.
If he’s taking time off temporarily, as is likely the case because none of those Their ABC worms seem to ever resign, is he still drawing down a salary because the taxpayer would be paying for this bullshit, and as we’re running a big debt, it would be nice of him to at the very least take leave without pay.
I thought he’d , actually, quit but “taking-time-off” sounds more the style .. After all, a 251 foregoing money voluntarily isn’t part of the ‘culture’ .. whereas whingeing in the background, on full pay, is full-on Brucie approval …….
Calli:
Like a lot of the people who are pushing themselves into positions of power and influence on the Invoice, yes, they do think they are protected – merely by the colour of their skin.
So it seems it is ‘indigenous round’ in the various rugby codes. Watching the version being acted out in Brisbane atm.
The crowd are bored out of their minds.
The teams are wondering what it is all about.
A few obese partly indigenous people with paint on them perform some kind of dance while the most obese makes some inane comments that is supposed to be a welcome to country.
Seems to me that if this Voice madness gets up we will have this rubbish on stilts.
It is embarrassing, kitsch, and subversive.
Yet most people seem perfectly OK with it all.
Maybe once it impacts on their personal circumstances it will be different, but too late then.
For engineering enthusiasts, Hoover dam is on SBS.
I don’t know about the morality, but the Japanese surrendered soon afterwards.
Our icon Roger Moore in action:
Nobody Does It Better • Carly Simon (1977)
I’ve always liked Jaws. Being kicked off a train was unkind.
Looking in the cupboard for a snack and I find a tin of gourmet Turkish delight I was given months ago.
I purposely hid it so I wouldn’t scoff the lot.
But now I’m feeling like going the full Edmund on it.
Luigi:
Calli:
From the Vilificator Primus, he’s like the bloke who murdered his parents and demands leniency because he’s an orphan.
Bloody hypocritical Trotskyist – he’s the source of more vilification, bad blood, and ill feeling than any ten people.
The Japanese had been trying to surrender for 2 years, but their Terms weren’t acceptable.
4 days after the bomb was dropped, those same Terms suddenly became acceptable.
How about that?
Meanwhile, the US had lost 120,000 dead soldiers for no reason.
It’s cold, but not snowing yet. You might be safe.
I’ve never had the urge to lop my bits off over a delayed fight. The QANTAS Club was good for something.
Nothing like a complimentary VB to take your mind off things.
Why TF does Jeff Kennett continue to shave his head like that?
Maybe he’s got my problem .. lost all mine during chemo and although the bloody stuff still grows it is comes up as a patchy stick-up half inch fuzz, if left, so I shave it off everyday …
One thing I’ve really hated since the Cancer/chemo is having to stay bald ….. I luvved my hair ..!
The Latrell show about to start.
Longest welcome to country ever.
I have had this happen too, Vicki. Some years ago now, but it is very distressing. My daughter yelled at me to get out of her house one time we were staying there and I would have gone straight to a motel except that Hairy intervened. We still have a fairly fractured relationship. I never get a Mother’s Day present from her, but I do get a call from the grandies, with her in the background saying a terse Happy Mother’s Day. She’s very loving with Hairy. Mothers and daughters. They say it isn’t easy, but sometimes you don’t think you’ve asked for what you get.
Still going.
The Stalinist pervert perjure -pimps from Arseholes Broadcasting Communism indulging in yet more Stalinist pervert perjure-pimpery over the Lehmann case:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-19/abc-defence-bruce-lehrmann-defamation-case-national-press-club/102367618
Yet most people seem perfectly OK with it all.
If you follow the game(s) you aren’t given a choice .. no one bothers to ask the folk who pay the entrance money what they would like ..
personally, these dayz I don’t go to games anymore .. I watch on TV and never switch on until at least 5 minutes after the scheduled start to avoid the dross .. and ALWAYS mute the sound …….
Feelthebern:
They burnt you meal and had the nerve to serve it anyway?
I hope you sent it back!
Ed – Mate, that was the silliest comment about the Japanese capitulation that I’ve ever read. The Japanese weren’t trying to surrender for two years, that was totally not bushido. It was the bomb which created the shock factor that allowed Hirohito to leverage his own imperial prestige to get the players to accept surrender, especially the war party. Who where pretty out there nuts.
Robert Frezza has a fine military SF trilogy based on Japanese military culture in conflict with Finnish infantry doctrine. Sadly not on ebook, the first I see is $948.61 for a used paperback on Amazon, and the second slightly cheaper at only $945.97. Excellent reads though, and a very perceptive analysis of Japanese sociomilitary culture. Please someone digitize these novels!
“Daughter not handling it – threw us out of her house (again!) on Mothers Day when our commentary didn’t suit. C’est la Vie. But every action has its cost.”
Vicki, that’s just terrible.
I think there are two gay versions. One is male, which has no locks to prevent easy access and can be started by anyone if they just buy it two drinks, and a female version that locks you in as soon as you sit inside and which seatbelt cannot be undone. And if you do get out it follows you everywhere and smashes your furniture.
But with the latest versions the shortening of ‘transmission’ to ‘trannie’ corresponds to a diesel version that demands time at a recharging station or it calls you a hater, or it pulls up in front of children and flashes it crankshaft.
Pro tip.
Check the actual match schedule.
Add two minutes.
Turn on telly.
You might miss a bit of play, but it is worth it.
Remarkable- kitsch– good observation.
Japan was still bombing the Australian mainland in September 1943.
It was a cry for help.
McBain had a view on this:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wgGbiKlV7YY
“Mothers and daughters.”
Yep, nothing quite like it. No other person can enrage me like my mother. I think mother daughter relationships are very, very complex. Despite being middle aged, my mother will still treats me like I’m fifteen, she will complain if I’m wearing something she doesn’t like, if I’m not wearing lipstick, she always wants me looking picture perfect, even if I’m going to Pilates. However, we don’t disagree politically, my political differences are with my brother.
Every year this pops its head up, although usually it’s not till the anniversary in August
Tactically, it was a no brainer.
Millions upon millions of both Allied troops, including ours, and Sons of Nippon would have been in the ground if they hadn’t. The costliest war in human history extended by eighteen months or more.
That’s even aside from the horrific path they left across Manchuria, Chai-nerr and SE Asia, and PNG from 1933 to 1945.
Japan got off extremely lightly. If the UN hadn’t needed it as a base for Korea they’d still be on par with Tanzania in terms of GDP.
Haha, got my battery changed today. Guy asks does your side window work? Yes, says I, but it’s sticky because it’s tinted. I make it go down. Thanks, says he, we have a rule that we have to lower your driver’s side window before we change out your battery.
Sounds weird, but turns out to be totally sensible, since if during the battery swap power is lost your car can brick…locked and unable to be opened. So if the window is down the guy can get in to bypass the lock.
He did the swap in 5 minutes, it was like watching ballet. I’ve done this thousands of times he said. I says it was a pleasure to watch expertise in action, and thanks…since my expertise isn’t cars.
C.L:
Yes.
Read Top Enders Atomic Salvation.
The A-bomb sorry business every year is a mystery. The firebombing of Tokyo and other cities killed many, many more.
Also some discussion on the gender of those who do the ironing.
Yes. Well.
If your child is an adult, and has made his/her own decisions about what to believe, then it’s simple. Have nothing further to do with said child if it ‘throws you out of her house’, because you as a person are no longer wanted and if there are grandchildren involved then make some form of arrangement if you can. Disinherit if you feel the need to.
It’s a massive form of disrespect. On Mother’s Day, no less.
But don’t blame the schools. Don’t blame the MSM. Blame the decision making process by the adult child.
Or – and I am NOT saying this has happened – wonder whether your own commentary was designed to inflame, and to prompt a response. I say this because I have seen this happen with extended family of my own.
The three indigenous ladies who ‘sang’ at the start of tonight’s NRL match look like they’ve been in a pretty good paddock. White Australia really sucks at genocide.
Lizzie:
She’s still pissed off at you because of that day when she was eight and you wouldn’t let her wear he Fairy Dress to the shops.
She’s doing this shit because there’s no cost to her. Cut her off. Let her know her tantrums have a price, because at the moment she’s using you as a punching bag with no comeback.
Is that what you want? Or is that what you want.
Areff:
Not a mystery, RF.
The Left want us to get rid of the bomb because that would leave China and Russia the sole significant nuclear powers. And who would never dream of using their arsenals to apply pressure on us.
Bullshit.
Timmy Wilson, James Paterson and Evan Mulholland (new Victorian Liberal) are all IPA alumni. Here’s some bios for you all…
Alumni 1 – Timmy Wilson, flop, sole achievement, SSM. Said little to nothing about free speech once elected. Oh, actually he does have another achievement up his sleeve, he’ll be remembered for decades for being one of the Teal scalps. But during his tenure as MP, Timmy was all quiet on the Goldstein front when it came to free speech.
Alumni 2 -Senator James Paterson, flop, notable achievement, yet to be determined. Nothing much so far. However I do remember something he did say and do, when the Liberals and Nationals back in 2020 elected to support that utterly disgraceful censure motion against Bettina Arndt, James Paterson said that he agreed with Senator Skank Keneally that “Arndt’s comments are reprehensible, that they are abhorrent and they deserve to be condemned and criticised and I’m quite comfortable for politicians to do that.” So much for free speech.
Alumni 3 – Evan Mulholland, elected to the Victorian Legislative Council last November. What did Evan Mulholland do last Friday, he was one who voted to expel Moira Deeming from the party. So much for free speech.
A trifecta of IPA flops, a trifecta of IPA fakes.
Inhaling a heavily peated Islay single malt, reading Simon Heffer’s classic biography of Enoch Powell, while monitoring the Cat are good and worthy Friday night pastimes for a gentleman.
Tell you what:
I have disagreed with my old man over the journey. I will occasionally have a dissenting view with my dear old Mum, still in my ancestral seat, although not often.
But never – not one single time – have I ‘thrown them out of my house’, whether in Quenthland, Vicco or here in the NT for any reason.
If I had done that, I would have had to have considered myself done with them – because, and knowing them as people, I know they would have well and truly reciprocated. My respect for them as people who raised me would have prevented that.
Maybe girls are different. I don’t know. Maybe there’s an inherent requirement for drama.
But I will say this – if my son, who is (nominally, at 18) an adult, ever ‘throws me out’ of his home, then regardless of how much I love him, or how fond the memories are of raising him – for significant periods on my own – and both providing instruction and watching him grow through those precious years:
Then he is done. But I know that won’t happen, because I raised him to have the requisite degree of respect.
Sometimes, and using the ex-extended family as examples, this sort of stuff is either straight-out reality-TV drama, or overly emotive behaviour from both parties, or they just want something, or – they’re just dickheads.
AWFL must be like moving from the only gay in the village village to San Fran.
Now what am I going to do to be the special one?
I know!
‘Top’ surgery.
Yes Patterson was the only lieboral I voted for (was it 2016?)- a big fat flop
There you go – it’s all our fault they are too obese to fit in even the aisles of aircraft.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/tiktok-personality-accuses-united-airlines-discrimination-because-she/
“Bullshit.”
Yep.
Thinking about the idiots who tasered a tiny 95 year old woman on a walking frame.
What put them into the mindset where they thought that would be OK?
Well, we’ve had three years of politicians and media prostrating themselves before the Altar of The Sacred Frontline Wukka.
So, we’ve got the combination of “frontline” nurses and “frontline” coppers confronted by a 5’2″ woman on a walking frame with a steak knife. The chances of her nicking one of them was approximately 0.063%.
But that is too great a risk. Perish the thought that a frontline wukka might sustain a scratch.
mongs
if she took out a male nurse, no biggy
just squaring the ledger a bit
Ed Casesays:
May 19, 2023 at 7:50 pm
The Japanese had been trying to surrender for 2 years, but their Terms weren’t acceptable.
Yeeeessss, they were so keen to surrender that a military coup was attempted to prevent the surrender announcement, which was notable for the absence of the words “defeat” and “surrender”.
Go dream about Mizzz Knickerless Grandpa Ed Simpson/
A Spanish tempranillo rioja and James Bond clips.
Pretty good combo.
That has to be the most unflattering angle to photograph anyone from.
A great big fat flop!
Actually, one of the comments to my post above, was “How can she get out of her seat in the event of an emergency – she’ll trap anyone behind her. That makes her a risk factor for everyone else.”
No. On those grounds alone, she needs to be banned from flights where that risk factor is present.
Yep.
Also noticeably absent was the accompanying TikTok dance, with multiple large cardboard sheets repeating ‘We Go to Work So You Don’t Have To.’
95 years old. Unless this lady’s last name was Wick (which it wasn’t), and she was holding a pencil (which she also wasn’t), it is – once again- unforgiveable.
I would like to say the ‘police’ who turned up were two 5 foot 1 chicks with forearm sleeve tatts and gigantic arses who’d never been in any sort of physical confrontation in their lives, but – although it’s likely – I don’t know.
iirc Patterson was also fully onboard with the removal of anonymity from the census. An absolute dead loss- is he still wasting space in the senate?
Knuckle Dragger:
Has there been any photos of the police concerned?
That alone makes me suspicious you may be right KD.
ZK2A don’t waste your money with Kilchoman malt. It may come right in another 100 years of production.
The ABC report on the police stated “he” and with 12 years experience. But that could mean anything these days.
KD
Bloke I know said today that when he worked in a hospital, the technique was to get a sheet, roll it up, then two people carefully walked around the patient in opposite directions, drawing the sheet closer until the arms were immobilised.
My description might have missed some of the finer points, but that was the general gist.
Cats! 🙂
Your very good health, B.O.N!
The rioja is kicking in.
Goldfinger Opening Title Sequence (Shirley Bassey, 1964)
Hat tip to Odd Job.
I think any technique other than Tasering would have worked on a 95 year old woman, demented or not.
Whenever the jacks shoot someone there are always the howler monkeys that turn up and say they should have shot him the ankle, shot the gun out of the crook’s hand and so on. However, i would respectfully submit that this is not one of those situations. By any means.
Unbelievable and enraging in equal parts.
I love how she is described as a personality instead of morbidly obese sheila with no personality. I guess someone made her eat 10 small children a day all her life. Oh, I’m sorry, its your glands fatso. I’m surprised she’s not complaining about not being able to get a root. Wonder why.
Oh dear.
My Capital I was stolen by the TraItors.
Cop is male.
On the radio today.
1,000 upticks, Bruce.
Thanks for the giggle.
““Maybe girls are different. I don’t know. Maybe there’s an inherent requirement for drama.”
KD, girls are, and yes we do have a predisposition to drama. And also, there’s nothing quite like a mother daughter relationship.
The weapons instructor was ex SASR, and currently Police. “Forget any bullshit about shooting in the leg. Centre of seen mass, and go on firing until there is no threat.”
Regarding the bombs – both atomic and incendiary – it is never permissible to do evil that good may come of it (Romans, 3:8). Incinerating tens of thousands of women and children in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hamburg, Dresden, and Tokyo qualifies as evil. And cowardly.
The atomic bombing of Japan was opposed or judged unnecessary by Nimitz, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Halsey, Forrestal, Stimson – among others.
The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s declared that military actions carried out with nuclear weapons exceed “the limits of legitimate defense.” Gaudium et spes:
And no, the alleged number of saved lives to ensure victory by conventional means does not meet the standard of proportionality as required in just war moral theology.
The conventional rejoinder (in addition to unfalsifiable and dodgy casualty projections for Operations Olympic and Coronet) can be reduced to, “but they started it and it’s not fair.”
Yes, they did. No, it isn’t.
From one of Black Ball’s news posts above:
Grammar fail.
Dead to me.
Yep. Something I have not missed unintentionally being dragged into for the past 13 years.
The mother of the venomous Medusa I married would give advance notice that she was ‘coming to visit’ anywhere from three to six weeks out. Those weeks were an absolute misery, chockers with the abovementioned drama and where my ears got burned off with ‘I bet she’ll’ and ‘This is just like the time when’ and ‘She better not bring up the time when’ that related to her childhood. Her childhood.
Nothing like holding a grudge.
Then, when she turned up, unconditional backup was expected – and received, being the dutiful hubby – but it was hot/cold hot/cold/hot cold all the way through, followed by four months of analysis which preceded an epilogue of ‘when she visits next time I’ll say X and Y’.
Life is just too short, and I just do not care.
The only positive was that I learned calling her by her mother’s name – i.e., ‘Thanks Marion’ or ‘No worries, Marion’ would enrage that nest of vipers to the point where I could get an hour or two of peace.
Vicki, if you’re about, great to read that your friend has found a better bolt hole.
There still are good people, as your friend has discovered, but if I don’t find any – apart from the friends here (Hi, BJ!) – what I’ve learnt is that I’m strong enough to survive without them.
Bob, I can’t do that because of my grandchildren, whom I want to stay close to, and especially not now, because of the severe medical problems emerging with the third one, the little boy. She doesn’t need any more upset right now or indeed into this uncertain future. I think I’m fairly used to not knowing her much at this stage in my life and hers (although in some ways I know her so well as she is much like me when I was younger). When she rings she rings Hairy’s phone and all arrangements are made through him. We are not close. I make some efforts to chat, but she often ignores me when I speak when we stay at her house; but there are no tantrums now. I’m used to it these days. It’s a superficial relationship and I doubt if it will change. I haven’t had a real hug with her for years. The emotion to do so is not there in either of us. Yet both of us find it so easy to give love elsewhere. Go figure.
I have other friends who have similar sorts of issues with a daughter. Not alone in this at all.
John Roskam would have been another. Hope his book on Orwell is coming along. Academics just don’t belong in Parliament (including Enoch).
Sketchy memory of the story he tells of Enoch driving an army transport across Libya. He and co-driver agreed to pass the time with alternate lectures on respective topics of expertise. Two days later Enoch was still going.
The atomic bombing of Japan was opposed or judged unnecessary by Nimitz, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Halsey, Forrestal, Stimson – among others.
C.L. was that assessment before or after the allies discovered what the POWs had endured?
I had a great uncle who I knew personally and who had been imprisoned at Changi after the fall of Singapore. My grandmother said he was so frail when he finally came home that a moment longer in there and he – as well as his comrades – probably wouldn’t have lasted.
War is hell and all killing is a sin, but I can never regret the dropping of the bomb.
As to the idea of a “sliding doors moment” with the Emperor wanting to surrender, that we will never know. But one thing is clear, it took a second bomb to be dropped before the surrender came.
Enoch Powell taught Gough Whitlam at the University of Sydney before World War Two. Whitlam complained that Powell’s lectures were dull, whereupon Powell condemned Whitlam as having a “second rate mind.”
Tan Grant cracking out the race card? Who knew?
No shyte?
KD @ 9:12 & SP @ 9:15
Both spot on.
Yes. I don’t meet my daughter’s high standards. She wants me to have come from a background I simply don’t come from. Something more stable, more traditional, more middle class. Like Hairy’s people, whom she calls ‘the nice relatives’, in contrast to mine. Perhaps I overcompensated for being sterner than I needed to be at times (re the fairy dress etc). Add to that, from childhood, she resented her two older half-brothers taking any of my attention at all, even though she got plenty of love and care. She really didn’t want them to exist, and to be honest, they were pretty dreadful in their adolescent and then teenage years. I am to blame for the fact that divorced and academic, I am not like her husband’s mother, an easy going baking type of middle class woman who isn’t much of a thinker or reader, the mother she thinks she really should have had. This beautiful super-bright high-flying dynamo of a daughter of mine whom everyone in her ambit loves.
Well, Vicki, you did put a cat among the pigeons there. Sorry to all for that struggle session of mine.
Sometimes it’s all gotta come out with the Friday vino. Trust your daughter will come round to a better frame of mind soon and that you can pick up sticks together and muddle along once more. Or maybe even clear the air. I wonder sometimes if that’s what I should do, but the time is not good for it now.
After the surrender, when the questioning began.
I note the NSW Ladee Commish released a “statement of condolence” but pushed a lackey out to front the press.
He had his talking points including the pathetic “but she had a knife” which you delivered with zero conviction.
And our reticent and camera-shy Commish? Yeah, she’ll be front and centre next week calling out transphobia, islamophobia, someotherpohobia or appearing at some coloured ribbon day breakfast or Naidoc Week or whatever.
Stunning and brave.
Uploaded in the Oz, from Janet A.
‘Verdict first, trial later’: rule of law under threat, says Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer Steven Whybrow SC
By JANET ALBRECHTSEN
The presumption of innocence and the right to due process have been dangerously warped by the #MeToo movement, Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyer Steven Whybrow SC has claimed, in his first interview since Mr Lehrmann went on trial over Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations.
“This was ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Sentence first or verdict first, trial later,” Mr Whybrow says of the pre-trial publicity around the case.
“There was so much material out there that was just simply ‘he’s guilty’ and we’ve just got to go through this process of a trial. I saw that as a significant undermining of the rule of law and the presumption of innocence and due process.
“We all know this happens all the time: this guy’s been accused of this, so therefore it happened. And along the way, anybody who tried to argue the contrary narrative was treated as somehow morally deficient.”
Mr Whybrow said that if there was to be a debate about the presumption of innocence or whether an accused person should not have a right to silence, “those things should actually happen in an informed way publicly, rather than this insidious suggestion that ‘that’s what the system is’”.
“But it’s not good. It’s not right,” he added.
Mr Whybrow’s comments came as Mr Lehrmann revealed for the first time that when he tried to get legal assistance for his defence, Legal Aid ACT insisted it would not allow Ms Higgins to be challenged in court as a liar, but simply “perhaps mistaken about versions of events”.
Mr Lehrmann told The Weekend Australian he sacked Legal Aid ACT after the agency demanded he adopt a conciliatory defence strategy that was completely at odds with his account of the events that occurred in senator Linda Reynolds’ ministerial office in the early hours of March 23, 2019.
Mr Lehrmann said a solicitor at the agency told him “it was up to the CEO of Legal Aid in terms of the broader tactics of the case and he was going to say that she’s not a liar but was mistaken about aspects of the version of events”.
Mr Lehrmann said the agency also rejected Mr Whybrow as “too aggressive” to take on the case.
The solicitor told him the agency would not fund Mr Whybrow as his counsel in the trial because “Legal Aid didn’t like the way Mr Whybrow practices or the way he operates”.
Mr Whybrow ultimately took on the case pro bono after Mr Lehrmann refused to accept the Legal Aid conditions.
A spokesperson for Legal Aid ACT declined to comment.
“Bruce was just horrified that they’re not even going to run his defence, which was: she’s lying, she made it up, this did not happen – and to just say, ‘oh no, you misunderstood, you were mistaken’,” Mr Whybrow said. “So he became very distressed.”
The former Crown prosecutor pursued a forceful approach at the trial, describing Ms Higgins as “unreliable” and someone “who says things to suit her”.
Mr Whybrow told jurors she had lied about seeing a doctor to “make it more believable” she had allegedly been sexually assaulted.
He outlined a number of instances when Ms Higgins was forced to concede she had given wrong evidence, including the length of time a white dress was kept in a plastic bag under her bed and a three-hour panic attack on a day she later conceded she had been having a valedictory lunch for former politician Steven Ciobo.
“The person bringing the allegation is prepared to just say anything,” Mr Whybrow told jurors.
The jury had been deliberating for five days, unable to agree on a verdict, when the trial was abruptly aborted after one of the jurors brought research material into the room.
Mr Whybrow told The Weekend Australian he had been concerned that, because of the pre-trial publicity, the defence would struggle to get 12 unbiased, unaffected jurors.
“In some respects, that was borne out by the number of people in the jury pool who quite properly, when the chief justice asked that anyone who thought they might have some pre-existing bias, either for or against the complainant or the accused, or had attended the March4Justice, or subscribed to particular views about sexual assault, or even had had own experiences, that meant that they could not bring a fair mind to the role of a juror to come forward.
“And a lot of people did, but we were never able to be sure that some of the people who didn’t come forward may have had strongly held views and were going to not come forward because they wanted to ensure justice – as they perceived it – would be done.”
Mr Whybrow expressed strong concerns over the role of ACT Victims of Crime Commissioner Heidi Yates, who often accompanied Ms Higgins to court.
“The problem in this case, and it’s not just my perception, it’s one that I know a lot of people have shared, is that by walking next to Ms Higgins into court every day as the statutory office holder of the position of the Victims of Crime Commissioner, and that would be videoed every morning, it would be in the papers and the news that night, it carried with it a less-than-subtle and a less-than-subconscious inference that Ms Higgins was in fact a victim.
“It was about as subtle as if Ms Yates had walked in wearing a T-shirt, saying ‘Bruce is guilty’, Mr Whybrow said.
“This case has demonstrated, in my view, an insidious and underappreciated issue, which is this conflict and this tension and this slow bracket creep between the presumption of innocence on the one hand, and ‘believe all women’, or in a sexual assault case, ‘people don’t make anything up’ that is undermining a presumption of innocence.”
Ms Yates declined to comment on Friday, and a spokeswoman for the ACT Human Rights Commission pointed to a previous statement in which it welcomed the set-up of the Sofronoff inquiry.
Mr Whybrow said he took on the case pro bono after Legal Aid ACT refused to hire him because “I wanted to be part of an attempt to at least give this man a fair trial in the face of what I and many other people had considered was such adverse publicity that he could never actually get a fair trial”.
Mr Lehrmann originally approached Legal Aid for help after his first lawyer, John Korn, was forced to withdraw for medical reasons.
Legal Aid also refused to fund the solicitor Mr Korn had recommended, Kamy Saeedi, saying it would assign an in-house lawyer.
Mr Lehrmann said he was stunned that the agency was demanding he accept a defence strategy that contradicted his account of what occurred in Parliament House after a night out drinking with colleagues in Canberra. Mr Lehrmann has consistently maintained, including in his statement to police, that there was no sexual contact of any kind with Ms Higgins and that after they got to Senator Reynolds’ suite, he went left and Ms Higgins turned right, and he didn’t see her again.
“It was basically Kamy who said to me, right, just fire them, he helped me write a letter firing them,” Mr Lehrmann told The Weekend Australian.
Mr Saeedi agreed to take on the case pro bono.
“This is a winnable case if we just do it how we need to, not how the Legal Aid wants to do it,” Mr Lehrmann recalls his new lawyer saying.
“He was concerned that I’m being led up the garden path and that they’ve got no idea, because they’re all so woke in Canberra,” Mr Lehrmann said.
“So he just said, I’m just going to do it pro bono now, let’s not worry about the money.”
Mr Whybrow also then agreed to act for Mr Lehrmann pro bono.
“It was, you know, we’ll keep an account going and you will likely never pay. We know that if you’re in jail we’re never going to get paid,” Mr Whybrow said. “And even if you’re acquitted, unless you win Lotto, we’re never going to get paid. But we will act for you.””
A complete trashing of the presumption of innocence.
Thank you to Janet A and the Oz for this.
With all these young women playing footy and opting for going the non-binary route, I can see a time when the AFLW will be up for buckets of compensation. No doubt plaintiffs will assert the pressure of the peer group to go under the knife. Duty of care should be dinging the alarm bells all over the place.
There’s nothing they won’t do to shut down free speech.
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You seem to have omitted London, Liverpool, Birmingham and Coventry.
My Dad spent his 19th birthday hunting down Japs in the Borneo jungle in May ’45.
He was quite glad the bombs were delivered on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Armchair 20/20 retrospection is an indulgent luxury.