Mark from Melbourne

proposing Biden as lesser evil than Trump will get a pile-on going here. Its possible to have “derangement syndrome” on all sides of politics these days …

What happens when people determine that justice will never be delivered to evil doers? Eg the Hunchback

It’s much more common to choose friends with similar worldviews.

Yes, it most certainly is. I do so all the time.

It’s excluding those who don’t share views, or those who are friends with those who don’t share views, I was having what I hope was a mild crack at.

No offence intended.

I await Commander Michael Chew’s evidence with interest. Who lean’t on him?

Chris Kenny
Worked for the ABC 7.30, Downer and Turnbull.
A political chameleon who blends in with his surroundings but every so often you can see the old colours.

Cohenite> Don’t hold back – tell us what you really feel … BDS can be cured, also.

Oh, and the name is nothing to do with Kamala … unless she was born in Malaysia.

Objectively, bollocks. Subjectively, who cares? At least you’re a better quality of stirrer.

You can celebrate every identity, culture and history around the world, so long as it’s not your own.

Boom!
Holy smokes.

… a party which has never really invested in the people who invested in it.

So much quality stuff dropped into my inbox overnight.
The Gates funded Pro Publica has a puff piece on using bats in research (winged ones, not Gray Nicolls).
TikTok have named their project to Americanfy their servers Project Texas.
And according to the big brains, Bakhmut was a trap to bog the Russians down & to get ready for the biggest summer counter offensive from Ukraine ever.

It is almost comical the coverage of the US debt ceiling talks.
As usual the coverage always comes back to either raising income taxes or cutting entitlements (social security).
It is so moronic.

Muddy:

From Cassie’s link above.
I’m only 8 minutes in, but he’s describing Australia too, and in some ways, describing me.

Same here. The Mathew Goodwin speech didn’t quite say it, but I will. If the voting system becomes a sham – which it seems to have become in the US, Australia and Great Britain, – then those who promise things to get votes and completely ignore those things after they gain power, then they should not be dismayed when the masses who have been grievously abused, take their revenge not by the ballot box but by more direct means.

Excellent Quadrant piece already linked above re a growing movement against the gender madness. Says it all. I’ve added a summary of the embedded long video, if you haven’t time to watch it, here’s my summary which might attract you to watch it:

Just watched the video. Excellent view our schools are teaching an emotional fragility combined with gender ideology that biological sex is mutable, and that this is producing a cohort of mentally ill teens. Her metaphors are good, such as how confusing it would be if an air vs water breathers conundrum was presented to kids, for ‘gender’ is similarly confusing. I do like it too that as a mathematician she recognises that a small error inserted somewhere can have widespread effects, and that is how this fringe ideology has morphed into the mainstream. She offers a useful critique of subjectivism that is taken to extremes in gender ideology, where objective reality is dismissed as oppressive via a ‘rights’ argument. She quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes on this bringing rights back to a societal argument: “Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins”. If everyone is ‘an authority on themselves’ then chaos must reign when perceived rights begin to conflict. A ‘cuckoo’ has been placed in the nest of human rights and this has now been situated into the medical field with gender ‘transitioning’, where evidence-based medicine gives way to patient affirmation as the basis of ‘treatment’. There are no evidence-based studies because patient performativity is the yardstick within and never beyond the closed system of the clinic, In other words, it’s all theatre. Very thoughtful in her analysis, and yes, worth a watch.

Are the sanitary products also free in the womens toilets? If not, there will be a rush on the mens for some freebies as these things are expensive for impecunious students. Also, if not, whatever happened to equality in the Student Union? Meanwhile, evesdroppers at the sink or stalls in the womens toilets will be busy getting excited if any woman gets a tampon, let alone if she’s talking to her friends about ‘the curse’, because these autogynophiliacs get off on menstruation talk.

The Saturday Paper is anxious regarding the right wing plot to undermine the rule of law that is the Lehrman enquiry.
If anything done by the Canberra Village Council is considered to be right wing motivated, we are indeed in extremis.

Lizzie:

Much worse are the poor female students who have to suffer ‘ladies’ with male equipment splattering smelly male urine all over the floor and leaving the lid up.

I’ve never noticed any difference between male and female as far as smell goes. It’s more a function of time between the act and the disposal more than anything else.

Just finished watching the excellent Clint Eastwood produced and directed movie, Jersey Boys, on SBS, about the Four Seasons.

Before I start, here is the unforgettable hit that made Frankie Valli a star:

You’re just too good to be true.

Very few versions available, this is probably not particularly good considering what a wonderful song it is.

When wogs like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin started to become popular in the late 50s/early 60s, young Italian guys began to get into the music industry. For example, there were Dion (Di Mucci) with his I’m a Wanderer, Ruby Baby etc, and The Young Rascals, later known as The Rascals. Groovin’ and Good lovin’. Big hits.

The Italians quickly joined the mainsteam, now they are judges and governors and so on. Being based in Western civilisation, it didn’t take long. RIP Justice Scalia.