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Open Thread – Tues 16 May 2023
Salamanca is a “must see” if you are planning a Spanish road trip. We are tucked into an apartment just…
Chortle. You just did. And you were snide about it in the process.
Yet …
Scott Johnson at Power Line Blog thinks of a few different angles, too.
Says the scarf woman. It was probably some unnamed bureaucrat who pulled the strings and Fauci and the scarf danced for Trump and the media.
In 2012 E. Jean Carroll (who is called that?) declared Trump’s program The Apprentice was her favourite program and her description of what did (n’t) happen in the dressing room is identical to an episode of Law and Order: SVU.
Daily Mail. Locals in MacKay have had a gutful.
I think I finally twigged when I asked my MP to meet me and discuss the implications of the Diamond Princess ‘experiment’ on the SA Govts covid policy … and he sent the PoPo round instead to tell me to STFU.
My guess is the answer would be wailing and gnashing of teeth. You take the climate change from them and they would be without a reason for living.
“As usual, you’ve made it about you.”
Because my decision to get vaccinated is about me.
Bugger …. 2 unverified anecdotes refute a mountain of scientific work over the last 3 years … its over chaps, they are onto us 🙁
Crossiesays:
May 16, 2023 at 7:27 pm
Check this out. Everyone thinks Fauci was the devil in all this. Bitch Birx was calling the shots.
Says the scarf woman. It was probably some unnamed bureaucrat who pulled the strings and Fauci and the scarf danced for Trump and the media.
There is more to it, but yes, you could be correct.
Not just there. Darwin … and spreading …… Pt Augusta too is having meetings about their youth problem.
Lots of these places are becoming uninhabitable for whites AND blacks.
Lucky they don’t have missiles.
“Bugger …. 2 unverified anecdotes refute a mountain of scientific work over the last 3 years … its over chaps, they are onto us ?”
I know, I know, Joe Vialls is your go to source! Further to “science”, I’m pretty sure scientific work would dispute Vialls’ unverified theories about Mossad being behind the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
They way the world is going Paedophilia or ‘minor attracted persons’ will be celebrated as part of Pride round in about 5 to 10 years.
Ed Casesays:
May 16, 2023 at 7:02 pm
Dental Hospitals still use mercury fillings, so there’s mercury vapor everywhere.
Evidence, or you simply (as usual) made this up, Grandpa Ed.
I had never heard of Joe Vialls until a few days ago- glad about that
I agree.
The Public Health Acts ought to be repealed.
What a load of tosh.
For one there were no covid vaccines in 2020 and for two, you just made up ‘the mountain of scientific work’.
what there is is a mountain of scientific work that shows the unvaccinated are more likely to be hospitalised or die of covid.
KD
I wish I’d thought of that acronym expansion when engaged with Liability Bob, aka Four Leaf Tayback, aka Old Yeller, aka President and CEO of the Woomba Miata Association Inc.
Oi, that’s the Woomba Miata Hell Drivers, thank you very much!
again
E.Jean Carroll is a former Miss Cheerleader U.S.A [1963] and was a contestant on To Tell The Truth [as herself].
I can’t find that episode on a search, though the Wrong Way Corrigan episode lists as #1.
Anyway, I believe the old gal.
Hey, Joffa, here’s a link to Old E. Jean’s site, you can ask her any question you like.
Plus she’s a MudShark.
I had a look at an MX-5 not long ago, being my sister’s chaperone looking at a new family wagon for her.
The hardtop (“power foldaway”), with a blueprinted and chipped engine, would be “sick” as the kids used to say.
1134 kg
135 kW/205 Nm
Not bad stock standard. Entry level chip tuning can go to 150 kW and 230 Nm.
Haaretz might be worthy of “trusted blogger” (Big Gay Serge, Stew Peters, Joe Vialls) status.
Ben Shapiro hits puberty
Bibi the Terminator
Likud’s plan to turn Israel fascist and end democracy
Jordan Peterson’s mask slips
QE II was a racist who never visited Israel
It’s like James Carville got all of the Jewish Democrats with a right of return in a shipping container and only fed them a diet of amphetamines and raw organ meat.
Only if you agree to it, if you refuse, its about Grandma…
Don’t forget this year’s AGM!
I have thought about this for a while and concluded that the Ukrainian war would not have happened if they didn’t surrender their nuclear weapons. I can see why Biden and the Democrats now feel they have to protect Ukraine at all costs as it was Clinton who persuaded them to give up the nukes.
Moral of the story: keep your nukes or get them if you don’t have them.
Wow, back to that eh? I thought we played that out yesterday.
BTW, I salute your efforts to combine *2* invalid refutations of those discussions:
1) Straw man argument (I made no mention at all about the Indian Ocean Tsunami – although I did spend 18 days in Aceh as part of a disaster response team responding to it – if that helps)
2) Ad hominem attack – Vialls discussion about the inconsistencies of the Pt Arthur need not be addressed because we have attacked his character instead.
I repeat my offer to send you a copy of ‘The Art of the Argument’ if you would like to do better?
Dotsays:
May 16, 2023 at 8:05 pm
Haaretz might be worthy of “trusted blogger” (Big Gay Serge, Stew Peters, Joe Vialls) status.
Lumping Stew Peters in with them. You are a dickhead. I rate Stew above Tucker.
Mull on that.
I can see why Biden and the Democrats now feel they have to protect Ukraine at all costs as it was Clinton who persuaded them to give up the nukes.
I think they just wanted a war
I don’t know what Biden ‘feels’ now apart from spite, malice, greed and what might be in his soiled undies.
“As usual, you’ve made it about you.”
Because my decision to get vaccinated is about me.
Getting some very tangential shit for getting vaccinated is totally on par with losing your job for not getting vaccinated……
Thinking locally, this is the principle behind the second amendment – keep your personal firearms if you don’t want to be stood over by a bigger bully (aka your government).
“I repeat my offer to send you a copy of ‘The Art of the Argument’ if you would like to do better?”
You clearly haven’t read it yourself.
Danger Dan Reviews:
When you’ve had too many holidays and the ABC has your back. Anthony Albanese
No one here supported people losing their jobs for not getting vaccinated.
smh decides that porn on twitter is a problem…now.
Pity they didn’t find it a problem for the last decade.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
May 16, 2023 at 8:21 pm
No one here supported people losing their jobs for not getting vaccinated.
Correct.
Finally catching up:
sfwsays:
May 16, 2023 at 8:41 am
Oh, yes, I love this poem, having learned it as a child in primary school. Even then, I was entranced by the rhythym, picturing the brunette beauty in her red, ruffled skirts, twirling and clicking her heels in time to her casanets.
Fabulous!
UndeadFOIA has been chirping today about how little the Durham reported that wasn’t already covered in the Horowitz report.
His FOI requests uncovered more than Durham did in 4+ years.
Knuckle Dragger says:
May 16, 2023 at 7:04 pm
My thought too.
Deeply unlikely that the ALP was pressuring the AFP to drop the case.
QHealth is where psychopaths go to live out their working life in comfort, safe in the knowledge they’ll fit right in.
Sorry to read that, Robert.
Anyway, I believe the old gal.
About what crotchless? She hated her darkie hubbie and had all sorts of fetishes. She’s the sort of kook who would be at home at seances and kollywobble retreats. The fact her testimony was believed by the jury lends weight to the theory that the authorities are feeding the masses hallucinogens in the water.
Deeply unlikely that the ALP was pressuring the AFP to drop the case.
Yeah, Cap’n Obvious.
Especially since it won them the Election.
The Liberal Party, d’you reckon they might have put some pressure on the cops to let it drop?
Who knows what the jury thought. They never finalized their vote so everything about the outcome from the jury’s point of view is conjecture.
rosie,
if you had a handful of trumps
you would have lead with your highest
Stop using words like kollywobble that don’t belong anywhere past the Victorian border. Show some restraint Cronkite.
Don’t bother responding to mouth breathers. They haven’t a single clue about anything.
She hated her darkie hubbie and had all sorts of fetishes.
Darkies are violent.
There are sites documenting MudSharks getting iced by their ‘Groid “hubbies”.
Basically, Trump charmed her into a vulnerable position, then he raped her.
She hasn’t had an intimate relationship since, and she’s now 79.
Have a bit of respect, you low rent scumsucker.
Trans was vaxxed, but she’s trying to sound like she wasn’t when she was.
Who knows what the jury thought. They never finalized their vote so everything about the outcome from the jury’s point of view is conjecture.
Weez tokkin’ ’bout the Trump Trial, Dopey.
If you’re talking about the Lehrmann Trial, it was 11/1 to convict.
Wanna know how I know that?
Because if it was any less, the Judge wouldna sent them back to keep deliberating, she woulda declared a Mistrial.
Have a bit of respect, you low rent scumsucker.
Hey head prefect crotchless is having a shot at you.
I complemented you earlier by comparing you to an elephant’s dick. In the superstitious East Indies elephant penises bring tremendous good luck.
I shouldn’t, but I had to lol, Croknite. Just behave and none of those stupid trannie links too.
I walked down the street today and a gorgeous lady was glued to her phone. She obviously went to the post office…she had a package under her arm when we crossed paths again upon my return and her head was still buried in the phone. Head down all the way.
Glorious day with the sun and yet she is a slave to tech. When I walk, I leave the phone at home. Disconnect.
Stive Morgan – Telephone Emptiness
I see Ed October’s getting bored waiting for the attention bus.
Here you go little fella. There’s a pat.
Off you go now, you scamp.
Wanna know how I know that?
You belong to a vagina plaiting club and so did some other jurors who told you.
Because if it was any less, the Judge wouldna sent them back to keep deliberating, she woulda declared a Mistrial.
No. It was a mistrial because of jury misconduct. It could have been 12-0 and it still would have been aborted.
And stop affecting a Tasmanian inbred with your ‘a’s and yokum crap.
Special Ed has the CCTV video of the change room encounter right next to britnees non encounter on the couch. Tell us ed, how many other blank videos have you? Moron.
to be honest
she really doesn’t give a flying-f what you think
Really enjoyed that. Thank you for posting.
Which is why she had to tell us.
What a miserable, screwed up piece of shit Trans is. All she’s done for the entire day is attack Rosie without a single fact.
Obviously no reverse cycle repair jobs today?
Grandpa Ed Simpson
If you’re talking about the Lehrmann Trial, it was 11/1 to convict.
Wanna know how I know that?
Because if it was any less, the Judge wouldna sent them back to keep deliberating, she woulda declared a Mistrial.
How confident are you that it wasn’t 11/1 to acquit? You don’t actually “know” what you assert. Give some evidence, not the results of your sad obsession with Mizzz Knickerless.
cohenite
And stop affecting a Tasmanian inbred with your ‘a’s and yokum crap.
What makes you think that Grandpa Ed Simpson is only “affecting a Tasmanian inbred”? This might be the real Grandpa Ed.
Lehrmann had motive-he leaned on Fiona Brown to hire Higgins
He had opportunity- she was dead drunk on a couch, he was stone cold sober.
He had the means- there was nobody within coo-ee.
Let’s get real here, joffa.
Sometimes when I visit the cat I just read the comments of sane people using find in page function.
Ed Casesays:
May 16, 2023 at 9:35 pm
Lehrmann had motive-he leaned on Fiona Brown to hire Higgins
He had opportunity- she was dead drunk on a couch, he was stone cold sober.
He had the means- there was nobody within coo-ee.
Let’s get real here, joffa.
Look, Grandpa Ed, just because you are the kind of sleazebag who would do that, doesn’t mean that everyone is.
Ed.
Some blokes like to obsess about fat chicks. I don’t but it takes all kinds, right?
It’s okay, seriously. Get it off your chest, such as it is.
Love is love.
I’ve just realised that could have been interpreted in two contrasting ways, Robert.
Hopefully you realise it was intended as empathetic, rather than accusational.
Dr Faustus at 0943 this morning.
Once again, a fair and balanced assessment.
“Wasn’t this where she used to bang so – and – so? Wonder how many other blokes there have been?”
Who’s this bloke? Let’s have a look.
____________
John Stossel:
Vivek Ramaswamy is a successful entrepreneur who created a biotech company. Now he’s running for president.
Vivek Ramaswamy: The Full Interview on Wokeness, Free Speech, destructive ESG & the Climate Cult.
No-one said that.
That was part of the circumstantial evidence that Joe Vialls was an unhinged anti-Semitic nut-job.
Wrong again champ.
We attacked his Swiss Cheese analysis on Port Arthur and all his other off-the-wall bullshit. Coincidentally I guess that does involve a well deserved attack on his character (such as it is) because of his thinly disguised anti-Semitism.
So sue me.
This British gift will keep on giving, for generations.
https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1657485723291844608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1657485723291844608%7Ctwgr%5E12c7aa71c2d8b8648fb1dad9f764ac7fd1071712%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fhuge-mushroom-blast-khmelnytskyi-reignites-depleted-uranium-claims-1800443
Let’s talk about the “Pulse Strobe (Less Than Lethal)” device deployed to cause the accident which killed Princess Diana.
Who did this, you ask?
Well, it’s obvious.
Zionists enraged that Diana was dating a Muesli.
.
Yes.
Joe Vialls again
the goldilocks zone of shame
Sanchez
I thought Diana died in the Asian tsunami caused by those dreaded Israelis, or maybe I’ve been overdoing the iodine.
I read today Ukrainians are stocking up on iodine, which is causing some in rural QLD townships to do so as well because they consider themselves red hot targets too.
31 minutes in and Vivek Ramaswamy is switched on with that Stossel interview posted @ 9:56pm.
Good stuff. He’s not mucking around.
No.
This is what your public wants. More please.
Dotsays:
May 16, 2023 at 10:46 pm
Lumping Stew Peters in with them. You are a dickhead. I rate Stew above Tucker.
Mull on that.
No.
Yes. He’s better than Tucker.
You’re confused.
Understandable given that Mossad were involved in both the tsunami and the Diana prang.
But they were carried out by different operational arms of Big Zionism.
Yeah, nah.
I’ve seen Vlad’s Triple J Hot 100 targets.
Nothing in Queensssland.
Bitter-sweet.
It must be a relief for them to not be on the list.
But also disappointing to find that they are so insignificant.
These Beer Wars, or the Beerpocalypse, is too funny.
Offended thumb takes offence to Kathy Ireland.
Salty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYzhM-5RPVs
Mark Dice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkQSDsWA9sE
Americans may give up drinking beer. I haven’t seen anything like this in my life.
Yes. He’s better than Tucker.
I’ll qualify that. Let’s see if Tucker comes remotely close on subject matter that Stew brings up.
We wait and see.
No.
John Kerry would love for farmers to stop farming
Dotsays:
May 16, 2023 at 10:54 pm
Mull on that.
No.
Yes.
No.
Yes
I’ll leave you dickheads with Bells Theorem.
When I say “insignificant” I mean as a nuclear target.
Not insignificant as individuals.
Perish the thought.
We all value our Queensland brothers and sisters immensely.
Even those with iodine addictions and mass murder fetishes.
Nyet
The only thing I saw Stew Peters do was hysterically fall back in his fainting chair when something rather well known was told to him, he’s flaky and fake.
That was enough for me.
“Better than Tucker Carlson”
…and I’ve caught bigger fish than Vic Hislop.
QAnon 2.0?
Sadly, this is all too likely.
Dotsays:
May 16, 2023 at 11:02 pm
You are full of sh*t.
Again, a dickhead.
QAnon is a Mossad operation.
Show us your cards, Dot.
Stew Peters is a hysterical amateur with terrible takes and he doesn’t break stories or add any value to them.
Dotsays:
May 16, 2023 at 11:02 pm
The only thing I saw Stew Peters do was hysterically fall back in his fainting chair when something rather well known was told to him, he’s flaky and fake.
Provide the link.
Went to the bank today. Closed- no notes, no sorry signs, opening hours on the door said otherwise, but closed.
So went to the barbers. In the chair, chair alongside turns over, next customer is a ten-ish boy in school uniform. Hairdresser talking to his mum, because he’s apparently mute.
“Any triggers, touch, sound, scent?”
(mum, acting like it’s her thankless burden)”Nah just verbal socials, no direct address or eye contact, and don’t say out loud that he’s the opposite of bad.”
What a strange time we’re living in.
Dotsays:
May 16, 2023 at 11:10 pm
Stew Peters is a hysterical amateur with terrible takes and he doesn’t break stories or add any value to them.
F*ckwit status confirmed.
Back it up, smart arse.
That’s my opinion…what are you going to do, change my mind by being combative and insulting?
I think that flu you just had has screwed with your head.
C’mon, let’s go. Back your claims. It should be easy.
My claim is that Stew Peters sucks and is a hysterical little bitch.
Dotsays:
May 16, 2023 at 11:17 pm
That’s my opinion…what are you going to do, change my mind by being combative and insulting?
Stop shooting your mouth off with BS!
Back up your claims, otherwise, piss off! Give it your best shot. Give us details. It’s not hard.
Pat Benatar – Hit Me With Your Best Shot (1980)
Dotsays:
May 16, 2023 at 11:21 pm
My claim is that Stew Peters sucks and is a hysterical little bitch.
Bingo! You’ve got f-all.
My claims are fine.
You are making hay over this:
Get over it.
Dotsays:
May 16, 2023 at 11:28 pm
Your claims are unsubstantiated crap.
Okay cool.
I love Stew Peters and his thinly veiled anti semitism.
Dotsays:
May 16, 2023 at 11:33 pm
Okay cool.
I love Stew Peters and his thinly veiled anti semitism.
Dickhead status confirmed x 2.
Who is Stew Peters?
I don’t like my anti semitism veiled, thinly or otherwise.
I like my anti semitism loud and proud, Joe Vialls style.
Mark Dice:
Say It Ain’t So! – MiIIer Lite Goes Woke Too! – This is Unbelievable!
A cautionary tale of a man who found wealth and started enjoying the high life of a billionaire in secret societies etc. Don’t give your life up through death by SIMP, don’t die for some crazy p-sleeve you meet at an orgy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12082583/Cash-App-founder-attended-sex-parties-sister-accused-killer.html
Cash App founder Bob Lee, 43, ‘attended underground sex and drug parties with married sister of his accused killer’ in the weeks before his murder in San Francisco
Friends of Cash App founder Bob Lee have told how he was a regular at underground sex and drug parties with Khazar Momeni
Her brother, Nima Momeni, has been charged with Lee’s murder
Prosecutors say Nima confronted Lee at one of these parties the night before he was found stabbed to death
At least Nima Momeni was wearing a mask in court and won’t kill anyone.
Sancho Panzersays:
May 16, 2023 at 11:38 pm
I love Stew Peters and his thinly veiled anti semitism.
I don’t like my anti semitism veiled, thinly or otherwise.
I like my anti semitism loud and proud, Joe Vialls style.
Another dickhead.
Oops.
Sancho Panzersays:
May 16, 2023 at 11:38 pm
I love Stew Peters and his thinly veiled anti semitism.
I don’t like my anti semitism veiled, thinly or otherwise.
I like my anti semitism loud and proud, Joe Vialls style.
Another dickhead.
Stealing your technique and paying zero royalties for such priceless knowledge of the rhetorical arts. Its a crime.
Agreed.
Healthy frog population in inner city Perth. Happy critters.
Sancho Panzersays:
May 16, 2023 at 11:58 pm
Another dickhead.
That status was directed at you.
…salty much?
Cash!
——–
woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Santa Monica 82
Nah, enjoying the non-debate above immensely. And your text on “being combative and insulting” is a nice example of the projection you are so very good at.
Keep going, Sir! We all enjoy the punch and judy show you perform …
Unironically, “Alamak” all you ever post is rhetoric. You never post an original thought or have a discussion.
People have said on YT comments that they can steal CASH when grasping the leash.
Nope. He’ll bolt and drag you on your face if you attempt to do so. The dog is immensely powerful.
You’d be f*cked attempting to do so.
Brilliant. The animation was top notch. Congrats.
Pink Floyd – Sorrow (1987) #davidgilmour #pinkfloyd #nickmason #richardwright #live #thinkfloyd61
Gosh the Iodine was flowing freely tonight.
GreyRangasays:
May 17, 2023 at 2:06 am
Gosh the Iodine was flowing freely tonight.
It was sweetness and love in heavy disguise.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Perhaps he had in mind reverse transcriptase, the enzyme that, very occasionally, allows RNA write back into the DNA template. DOT knows his stuff is correct about this.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams. More here.
Morten Morland.
A.F. Branco. Bam!
Matt Margolis.
Matt Margolis #2.
Gary Varvel.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Henry Payne #2.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Conditioning on stilts. It is the default mode, necessary for a society to function, many argue it is a major reason that religions flourish. Perelman complained even most mathematicians are sheep. Is it just a coincidence that God is the Father and the Virgin Mary is worshipped? We spend most of our developmental cycle in the presence of authority figures and are forcefully required to submit to them, vital for survival and much else. My authority figure saved me from getting hit by a car. I must obey! Frank Sulloway has an interesting but problematic take of creative thinking. He argues that a principal driver of creativity is a developmental cycle conflict with an authority figure. Not the only principle driver! Given the other factors I stated the idea is for me at least intuitive appealing.
France selling military equipment to Armenia is odd isn’t it?
Considering France is providing support to Ukraine & Armenia is a client state of Russia.
It’s almost like war is good for business.
Some businesses, that is.
Rita Panahi on someone known on these pages. Mzz Gardner if you don’t like Australia, leave:
A US military bod recently stated that for every 25 dollars the USA spends on military procurement China spends 1 dollar. Excellent business in the USA.
How can anyone have any confidence whatsoever in the ‘justice’ system as administered in the ACT given the disgraceful conduct shown in the Knickerless Higgins debacle and not forgetting the Sarah-Jane Parkinson travesty.
Gardner has maybe two years left in the game, and is rapidly being overtaken by a bunch of younger, better chick cricketers*.
Following the Pat Cummins blueprint, she is clearly looking three steps ahead to various well-paid ambassadorships and similar sinecures to keep her comfortably feet-up after the last vestiges of her sporting career shrivel and die.
*A low bar.
I will be absolutely astounded if Gardner, whose indigenousness is comparable to that of Bruce Pascoe, hasn’t already mapped out some Voice-related income streams in the next several years as well.
Today in No Evidence of Election Fraud:
Kari Lake has three whistleblowers who say officials counted 130,000 ballots which did not pass signature verification.
I see elsewhere that it’s alleged the Durham Report lends weight to the argument that 2020 was rigged. Apparently Greg Gutfeld voiced his opinion that questioning the 2020 result was fair and reasonable. And, there’s a video of a producer at Fox News saying something interesting. Could Tucker’s firing be one of the settlement conditions?
out with the old and in with the new
Bob and Bourne, perhaps I was being oversensitive re how my advice to Muddy was perceived. There’s no way I wanted to upset him so I was worried if I’d stepped over some line about dentistry. Nevertheless, maintaining teeth is important, as others have now noted here.
We have friends coming over for lunch so I am heading back to bed for another hour or two of sleep after Attapuss woke me wanting to play. He has suddenly become besotted with the little white felt mouse he’s ignored for months and I have to throw it down the hallway for him. I do enjoy the transports of bounding delight he displays when he catches it and brings it back for another throw, but he can be worse than any toddler sometimes re early morning playtime demands. Hairy just moans pick him up and lock him in his room, but once I hold that purring bundle of fur, I’m emotional putty.
Biden’s not coming to Australia.
Oh no. How sad. Never mind.
Extraction 2 trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y274jZs5s7s
Wow.
Just wow.
Voice news.
Voice support slides again as debate rages over model (SMH, 17 May, paywalled)
Resolve poll. Sky also has a story but it didn’t have any useful text so I grabbed these two paras from the Silly, as they give the essence. Looks like the punters aren’t so sure about what they’re finding under the hood, and the more they find out about it the less they like it.
Knuckles
Daniel Jones, an Australian prison guard, had dated Sarah-Jane Parkinson, an airline worker
I’m getting bad vibes.
Ash Gardiner might also like to note that by taking the fleet up from Botany Bay on the 18th and thus ‘settling’ legally by international law in Sydney Harbour, and then raising the British flag on the 26th, Governor Phillip beat the French to taking possession of a broadly defined Eastern Australia by only hours, for La Perouse sailed into Botany Bay on the day Phillip sailed out and up to Sydney Harbour, which Cook had mapped out as the proper place to settle. Botany Bay was a ruse to hide that fact.
The French were rather different in their colonising approaches to the British. Ash Gardiner should thank her aboriginal lucky stars that the precepts of the Scottish Enlightenment came with the British from the very moment of raising that flag, where all were declared equal under the law, while the French were just working up to a bloody revolution about rights that in 1789 till 1791 caused complete chaos and many deaths.
The ex-Mrs KD, aka The Skank, was an ‘airline worker’.
The black vans should be here any minute now.
If true it’s a good thing. We don’t need another liar in our parliament house, we have enough of those.
If the vibes stop after a few seconds it’s probably an earthquake.
I predicted this.
Janet A’s journalism in the Oz has been outstanding on the Lehmann persecution*. Today, she really gets down to the nitty gritty and doesn’t shy away from asking tough questions, questions many of us here have asked since day one of this sorry sordid saga, and questions which many of us know the answer to……
Did Shane Drumgold succumb to #MeToo zealotry?
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
The ACT Director of Public Prosecutions has made some wild claims about political conspiracies between the Morrison government and the Australian Federal Police, between senior ministers and Bruce Lehrmann’s defence team, and between the AFP and defence lawyers.
If valid, these very serious claims would destroy our trust in the proper administration of justice. Therefore, claims of this gravity must be supported by evidence.
Yet Shane Drumgold’s claims were not supported by evidence. They were so manifestly unmeritorious that Drumgold admitted last week he was mistaken about political interference in the investigation of Lehrmann.
The lack of evidence to support Drumgold’s allegations of political interference by the then government must, invariably, lead us to ask why on earth the DPP made these claims.
Was he so determined to secure a successful conviction that he was willing to put these serious claims about political conspiracies to the jury without any evidence apart from Brittany Higgins’s claims? If so, why was the DPP so determined? What motivated him?
During the first week of the Sofronoff board of inquiry into the ACT’s criminal justice system, Drumgold admitted to many errors and misjudgments during his handling of the prosecution and trial of Lehrmann, as well as events after the mistrial.
He admitted to potentially misleading the court, and for paying insufficient attention to the presumption of innocence.
But it’s high time we turned the question of political interference in the prosecution of Lehrmann on its head and asked whether the DPP’s judgment was affected by the political whirlwinds that engulfed this national scandal.
These forces were amplified by the politics of the #MeToo movement, where advocates have given, and continue to give, short shrift to principles of due process, the presumption of innocence and a fair trial. That background is beyond question.
In opposition, Labor pursued the rape complaint for political purposes. It did so ruthlessly, day in and day out, especially targeting Linda Reynolds, Scott Morrison and even its own senator, Kimberley Kitching. The Australian understands that text messages between Higgins and her partner, David Sharaz, record their contact with Labor senator Katy Gallagher about the politics of using this rape allegation against the Coalition government.
Sharaz was also caught – during a recording for Higgins’s interview on The Project – mentioning the political timing and his good friend, understood to be Gallagher. The Australian understands that other messages between Higgins and Sharaz mention Higgins’s contact with Labor MP Tanya Plibersek. This was before Lehrmann being charged, raising the question of how far these potent political forces extended.
The pressures were so pervasive that Morrison apologised to Higgins in parliament, joining the media and political forces that daily undermined the principles that underpin our criminal justice system, including the presumption of innocence.
The question on many people’s minds is: Why did Drumgold make so many profound errors of judgment? Was Drumgold ill-suited to exercise the power and duties that attach to a DPP, a position where a person is entrusted with the solemn, careful task of administering justice?
Others may ask whether the roiling political forces, fuelled by federal Labor and the media, to weaponise a rape allegation also ensnared Drumgold in some way, affecting his judgment, from time to time, as minister of justice.
For example, did these political whirlwinds affect Drumgold’s judgment about prosecuting Lehrmann given grave concerns among senior AFP officers that there was not enough evidence to charge Lehrmann?
Did these political forces affect Drumgold’s judgment when he made brief and dismissive comments to Lisa Wilkinson when she sought his advice about her Logies speech? Did those political forces affect Drumgold’s other decisions, including: when he told ACT Chief Justice Lucy McCallum that the section of a proofing note concerning his comments to Wilkinson were contemporaneous, and created by his junior solicitor, when he knew that neither of these things were true; when he decided to target Aaron Patrick’s book Ego, about Malcolm Turnbull, but not other media that mentioned the Higgins rape allegation; when he dismissed AFP concerns about Higgins’s inconsistencies; when he fought to keep police material from the defence; when he claimed privilege over a document even though he had not read it; when he provided wording to a junior solicitor that resulted in an affidavit used to oppose disclosure, that the DPP agreed last week had the potential to mislead McCallum?
The list goes on. Did the heated and impassioned political environment affect Drumgold’s decision to treat Fiona Brown, arguably the most important witness in the trial, so poorly that she wrote a letter of complaint to the Bar Association earlier this year, and has rejected his claims about her at the inquiry last week?
Did Labor’s weaponisation of this emerging national scandal play a part in Drumgold’s claim, put to the jury – with no evidence – that there were “strong political forces at play in the period immediately after the events, through the election and beyond” and that “from the evidence and actions of Senator Reynolds during this trial those same political forces were still a factor”?
In other words, did Drumgold behave, at times, more like a Labor politician than an objective and fair-minded minister of justice?
Did political forces play a part in Drumgold’s extraordinary and emotional letter to AFP boss Neil Gaughan in November last year alleging that police had undermined the prosecution and trial of Lehrmann, again with not a skerrick of evidence?
Did political influences come into play when Drumgold decided to release that letter to The Guardian, earning himself a media medal for the fastest Freedom of Information response – so fast that names were not redacted and people mentioned in the letter were not consulted, as required by FOI laws.
That was such a dodgy decision that the DPP admits in his inquiry statement that, following a report by the ACT Ombudsman, he apologised to the AFP and instituted a training course for his executives “including myself”.
Did political forces play a part in his highly controversial speech in early December last year when he praised Higgins when announcing he would not retry Lehrmann? In the inquiry he admitted he didn’t think enough about the impact of that statement on the defendant’s right to the presumption of innocence.
What on earth explains the long list of rash and ill-conceived decisions by the DPP? Was it #MeToo zealotry? Did political pressures ensnare him? Incompetence?
Any mix of these possible factors is a dangerous concoction in the hands of a DPP who exercises the power and authority of the state against individual citizens.
The questions go on. Did any of these factors impair his directions to junior staff? Did the power imbalance between him and his staff lead to poor decision-making?
Did the DPP have any contact with Labor MPs, federally or in the ACT, about this scandal? If so, to what effect? If there was no direct communication, what role, if any, did Labor’s pursuit of the rape allegation for political purposes play in the DPP’s decisions?
One of the most important tasks for Walter Sofronoff KC will be determining the motivations of the DPP, especially when poor decisions were made. That means answering questions as to what role, if any, political forces played in the poor decisions by the DPP during this debacle.”
I know the answers to Janet’s questions above, and I suspect many others here also know the answers.
* I use the word “persecution” deliberately. From day one this has been a political witch hunt, drenched in political malfeasance, targeting a man to bring down a government.
Quality column from John Lehmann, not that dinosaur James Halliday.
May or may not be paywalled.
Big Sky pinot noir from Martinborough joins red wine gems from Yarra Valley, Adelaide Hills, Tumbarumba and California
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/food-drink/big-sky-pinot-noir-from-martinborough-joins-red-wine-gems-from-yarra-valley-adelaide-hills-tumbarumba-and-california/news-story/afcfacc2b5801239f9f17ae1f6e0e39e
I think the loss in support of ‘The Voice’ over time will continue.
You can get into many philosophical debates of the nuances of the voice, but in the end it comes down to one issue. It is racist in concept and most Australians are not racists.
“feelthebernsays:
May 17, 2023 at 6:50 am
Extraction 2 trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y274jZs5s7s
Wow.
Just wow.”
Looks good Bern. Nice to see Hemsworth looking butch for a change instead of looking like one of Cronkite’s Owls. 😀
“It is racist in concept and most Australians are not racists.”
Correct.
https://www.rt.com/news/576382-elon-musk-soros-twitter/
when pressed by journalist Brian Krassenstein, claiming the Hungarian-American businessman was a frequent right-wing punching bag because some people object to his “good intentions” as “they disagree with his political affiliations.”
“You assume they are good intentions,” Musk responded on Twitter early on Tuesday. “They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.”
Tell it, Elon!
We need more ‘threats’ that Aboriginal people won’t perform welcome to country if the Voice doesn’t get up.
A Catholic parish not far from me tried an acknowledgement at the start of mass a few weeks ago, there were sufficient complaints they haven’t done it since.
No virtue signalling add ons to sacred liturgy if you please.
Nice Hemsworth unreconstructed manly man eye candy, with Aussie accent topping.
Thanks.
More denying Australians access to national parks and landmarks, more threats to mining, more demands for millions, nah billions of dollars in reparations coming from white people with an aboriginal great great grandmother, more grandstanding about ‘invasion day’ more out of control violence in rural Australia, more letting us know nothing will ever be enough for the grievance mongers.
Jacinta’s short and pithy “No” ad taps straight into the racism angle which is the Voice’s overriding feature. And she underscores her point by referring to her family.
An excellent foil to the Wormtongues in the “Yes” campaign, pretending that it’s simply “Constitutional recognition” of aborigines. If it was simply that, why the wall-to-wall nightly nagging? The idea is that volume and frequency will drown out any misgivings. And they may be right.
The irony – demands for a Voice that simply won’t Shut Up.
The rural violence is straight out of the BLM/Antifa playbook. It worked in the States, they think it will work here.
Don’t be too sure about that.
Feeling very sad and contemplative this morning. Yesterday we revisited the Australian War Memorial after a number of years. Brendan Nelson did a wonderful job in renewing and reconfiguring many installations. Overall, it is no longer a collection of war memorabilia but is a confronting and powerful tribute to the sacrifices of Australians. It also visually shocks with photographs etc of the terrible conditions suffered and the horrible deaths. It does not take a back step. As we approach a defining confrontation with a militant and aggressive China, it is so very relevant.
We left a red poppy at the Afghanistan section – for the SAS fatalities. A response to the current vendetta in the courts against the Special Forces. We noted the display of the uniform of Ben Roberts-Smith & wondered when “they” would remove it.
Incidentally, the huge new building program does impinge at the moment & the entry points are not well signposted.
Oh and more claiming they know a mythical water serpent is upset because someone built a culvert.
The potential to interfere with private property rights; unlimited.
Boambee John:
Boambee John:
Last time I was there – about 6 months ago, they used some white epoxy stuff to replace a filling that had been in for 40+ years.
I doubt it was Spakfilla.
The Moller Memo is the best thing to come out of politics lately.
It’s Mollerween!
Small business profits reportedly down 60% in this region, and I would think this region is doing better than most across the country.
Crossie:
A far better quote:
Interest rates in Argentina at 97%
Inflation rate in Argentina 109%
Wow!
“Always was, always will be.”
Any “treaties” entered into by Australian governments could resolve this issue decisively if they were negotiated with everyones’ interests in mind. If the indigenous get reparations for loss of land, they acknowledge they have forfeited an interest in that land.
Flyingduk:
Ta. Didn’t know of the existence of the book, just bought it through DB’s Amazon site.
Look, there’s still time to make money off the upcoming boom with real rates being less than zero! My free report tells you the six areas set to boom around Cordoba and Mendoza….
After some damn fine shooting* the other night, the Saudis are probably wondering
why they paid cold hard cash for Block NFG Patriots
when the Ukies got the good ones for free.**
*credat Judaeus Apella, non ego as they say in the Classics.
**Assuming that was a Patriot battery blowing its load.
All cultures are, by necessity, ‘racist*’ – its a variant of the ‘paradox of tolerance’ (where a culture of infinite tolerance will inevitably be replaced by an intolerant culture which they tolerate, but does not tolerate them in return). As an example, the near compulsory religion of Islam in Afghanistan, Iran and much of the Middle East has reduced any alternatives to a persecuted rump.
* A gentler term is ‘in group preference’, for those who allow themselves to be shut down by words rather than arguments.
One commenter on Sky last night said that her mother watched Jacinta Price’s ads and is now for No whereas before she was for Yes. Jacinta is better regarded by the indigenes than all the Marcias and Stans and it must be having an effect with them as well.
Worked in South Africa. I’m hearing reports of carloads of Aborigines on rural properties, here. “This is Aboriginal land.”
Knuckles a “low bar” does that mean not being able to beat 14yo schoolboys. Why is it in all football codes the lezbeens have no positional play but in hockey, basketball and netball they do? Let them know if you have any idea. I don’t.
objective and fair-minded minister of justice
What is this latest practice of referring to the DPP as a “minister of justice”? Administrator of justice perhaps, but surely not a minister?
Outrage at Durham report for finding Hillary Clinton committed ‘no provable criminal offense’ despite APPROVING plan to ‘vilify Trump and stir up scandal between him and Russians’ prior to 2016 election
Somebody else also said “weakness invites aggression” so anyone who doesn’t prepare for war will get it anyway, unless of course they are Canada hiding behind the US, literally.
At last, someone is doing something beyond just talk. We’ll have to see how far it goes, though.
BREAKING: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against “Corrupt” FBI Director Christopher Wray
Feeltheberm:
Do you have a link please Ftb?
The amount of shit coming out about the Democrats says they now have to keep the Presidency forever or – as Clinton said “We’ll all hang from nooses.” If they fall, they’re doomed, so they have to keep cheating.
“minister of justice”
Pound me too is a cult, let’s call it “Happy Happyism”.
Political Sock
@politicalsock
I was so disgusted by the Jan. 6 riot that I deleted my Twitter account. I wrote introspective pieces on wanting to be part of the solution. (And I never liked Trump, and I thought Biden beat him.)
The Durham Report is 100x worse than Jan. 6. It didn’t reveal a handful of nuts getting out of hand & stealing a lectern.
It revealed our highest law enforcement agency trying to undo an election on ZERO evidence.
It didn’t disrupt a formal nomination proceeding for 3 hours. It disrupted a presidency for 3 years.
Biden And His Party Are Trying To Kill Humanity’s Last Best Hope
The leftist boomers on Haute Crapper are seriously defending Hunter Biden’s “career”.
I lied! He was a lobbyist for nine years!
Yes well. It’s a career I don’t hold in high regard.
UN, WHO, Bill Gates are working to normalize pedophilia around the world: journalist
Robert Sewellsays:
May 17, 2023 at 8:09 am
Boambee John:
Ed Casesays:
May 16, 2023 at 7:02 pm
Dental Hospitals still use mercury fillings, so there’s mercury vapor everywhere.
Boambee John:
Last time I was there – about 6 months ago, they used some white epoxy stuff to replace a filling that had been in for 40+ years.
I doubt it was Spakfilla.
Grandpa Ed Simpson is a dickhead of the highest order. Any public dental organisation found using mercury amalgam in these litigious days is wide open to being sued for its back teeth (as would any private dentist).
He makes up rubbish and throws it out in the hope of causing confusion. I am struggling to think of a single positive contribution that he has made, apart from giving excuses for multiple “Mizzz Knickerless” comments.
The problem is half of them are paler than your average surf lifesaver.
Thak God! .. the “turtle’ has found a job he can, almost, manage .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/NSHGMmk
ZK2A:
Thanks for the updates – I cancelled my Australian account a year or so ago. (Mind you, I only started it so I could cancel it and tell them why.)
This is what it boils down to.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Using a hoax to launder money to your friends.
Biden Regime Announces $11 Billion Investment to Tackle Climate Change
Excellent forensic article by Janet A. Thanks for posting Cassie.
Drumgold needs to go commando at the trial , complain about being bullied by questions ,do a mental health day off and sit back and wait for a six figure settlement.
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
The Durham Report confirms that the POTUS was framed as a traitor by the security apparatus, yet the “DEMOCRACY!” crowd isn’t in an uproar. There’s nothing more anti-democratic than unelected security officials trying to take down a duly elected POTUS. Sick, evil and scary.