I have absolutely no need to be welcomed to country

I know a bloke who’s contribution to “Welcome to Country” was dropping a very loud, very long fart…

I’m surprised that Frank did not mention the Nimitz comment in Downfall.

Frank may well have – it’s been several years since I read the book.

A fitting song for covid when the MSM were running amok. These digital retouches are great.

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Austech:

Skyhooks – Horror Movie – Official Video 1974 – 4K Remaster

Skyhooks – Horror Movie – Official Video 1974 – 4K Remaster

Following on from the Dice clip, all those D -heads asking for reparations wouldn’t have a clue about this bloke.

Brilliant mind.

You can be assured Y-Tube ( wankers ) has throttled this channel. 100% guaranteed on that.

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Thomas Sowell:

The Truth About Slavery and Reparation | Thomas Sowell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VktQZUCCgJ4

“Wild Mountain Thyme” – Billy Connolly did the best version of this song, but this one runs a pretty close second!

Welcome to the party, gents.

The clip they are viewing is from 1995.

Thomas Sowell VIEWS On Conservatives And Liberals Left Us Speechless!!

Arky says: May 20, 2023 at 11:31 pm
How rare, almost unheard of, that an artist has his best work at the end of his life?
And it isn’t as if he didn’t have many, many wonderful hits throughout.
Johnny Cash.

Apropos of morse code earlier in the thread.
… and up pops mention of morse code operator Johnny Cash, who worked as an interceptor of Soviet military radio traffic.
… with his place in history as being the first person outside the Soviet Union to learn of Stalin’s death, when the news was transmitted in Russian morse between Soviet army stations during Cash’s interception/listening shift & he picked up the importance of what was being transmitted.

Air Force Morse Code interceptor Johnny Cash also had a later, second career, entertaining by singing & playing guitar for money.

Care to elaborate, mate?

..
Just reflecting on the importance of the States to unfolding world history.
And the magnificence of her culture at her best.

a successful society must see to itself
keep calm and take back what is ours: self-reliance is the only true social fabric

The elites’ plan to orchestrate famines

Dr Meryl Nass Says Major Signals of Myocarditis Were Ignored to Push Jabs on Kids

Not all moonlight and unicorn farts anymore in the EU’s Green dreamland

WAYNE ROOT: Everyone Has Missed Real Revelation of the Durham Report: Obama is the REAL ‘Big Guy.’ Obama is the Criminal Mastermind. Obama Committed Treason.

Patrick Byrne
@PatrickByrne

A judicial district with any integrity would step up right now and end this farce, and it will be to the everlasting shame of their pretensions that they do not.

“Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

True.

80s Movie Tribute (Don’t You Forget About Me)

Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me

Piers Akerman:

One of Australia’s smartest lawyers has (inadvertently) nailed the utter absurdity of the blind support given by those backing the Voice to parliament.

Currently leading the inquiry into the ACT’s failed prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann of the alleged rape of fellow staffer Brittany Higgins, Walter Sofronoff KC – distinguished jurist, former president of the Queensland Court of Appeal and former Queensland solicitor-general – unwittingly laid out the most telling legal argument against those arguing emotionally for a Yes vote.

In probing the ACT’s Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold, Sofronoff asked of the DPP: “You could not possibly, as a barrister, say, ‘I’m prepared to give an opinion about this’, without proof from the man who made the document, could you? You would need some facts. And you don’t seem to have any facts, Mr Drumgold.”

That equally applies to every executive of a major corporation (PwC, Qantas are you listening?) which has been forcing one-sided educational assignments about the Voice on its employees; it applies to every sporting body from Rugby Australia, Tennis Australia, the NRL and AFL to the AOC, and it nails Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, his Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney and Teals like Allegra Spender, who last week scolded her constituents to “get informed about the Voice to Parliament”.

As Sofronoff told Drumgold, you could not possibly present an opinion without proof. You would need some facts, and you don’t have any.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a barrister or a barista, facts help in any argument and when Albanese says the details of his much-vaunted Voice to Parliament will only be decided after it passes a referendum. Lack of facts, alone, should kill this proposition stone dead.

Spender,the beneficiary of an education at one of the most expensive girls’ schools in the nation, appears not to have learnt much about logic.

There are 11 Indigenous MPs in the federal parliament and the number of people wearing designer-cut animal skin cloaks (chortle) in state parliaments has grown exponentially in recent years.

There are more than 300 organisations representing Indigenous people; plus the Coalition of Peaks, or the National Indigenous Australians Agency whose mission it is “to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a say in the decisions that affect them”.

Which would make the Voice totally superfluous.

Another issue not spoken of by the virtue-signallers is the lack of accountability for the $30bn of taxpayers’ money that is given to Aboriginal organisations – usually run by dominant tribal groups for the benefit of their clan – annually.

Who knows how many people will put their hands up to cop the NSW government’s $75,000 ex-gratia payment offered to members of the so-called Stolen Generation?

Applications from those who were placed in care by the NSW Aboriginal Protection or Welfare board close on June 30, though no court has found any child removed from a caring parent just for being Aboriginal.

The Labor states are embracing the notion of open-ended treaties with various Aboriginal clans which laughingly use the co-opted Canadian description “First Nations”.

The universally understood tests of nationhood require an acceptance of economic and social responsibility, and political independence and territorial integrity, neither of which existed on this continent in 1788.

That this continent has been home to just one nation, Australia, as symbolised by the Constitution, is self-evident. Labor, and virtue-signallers like the Teals, wish to change that same Constitution and divide us.

Don’t let it happen; we are all Australians.

Murphy is Langton. Langton is Murphy! (HT Ace Ventura)

Any news on the compulsory acquisition of Calvary hospital?

I’ve only visited with grandchildren.
The curating is predictably green left.
The ACT one even had videos in the children’s section on child transitioning.

If there is diesel, there will be petrol. Otherwise what will they do with the petrol fraction of the barrel of oil?

Aunty Joy Murphy.

I suspect it is pronounced Anti-Joy Murphy.

I presume the AFL spectators were similarly outraged – Welcome to Country ceremonies and QWERTY rounds being so close to their hearts.

The DEI industry really isn’t about diversity, equity OR inclusion

Bakhmut Has Fallen – Artyomovsk Has Been Liberated

Juanita Broaddrick
@atensnut

Sincerely, “WTF?”

Apologies about the long rant!

Kudos, not apologies. Very well put.

Kingmaker Rupert Murdoch Hosted Ron DeSantis at His California Ranch and Told Him: ‘Fox News Will Support Your Bid for President in 2024’

Smallpox Vaccine Recipients Died From Heart Inflammation, Autopsies Find

Much of the world was turned into concentration camps but perhaps none worse than in nursing homes where the elderly were left to moulder in solitude, even if they were not outright killed. Totally heartless.

Midazolam Matt Hancock turned Care Homes into Concentration Camps in 2020, using Midazolam to kill the Elderly & Vulnerable so that you would Stay at Home, to Protect an Empty NHS, & Support the Pandemic Lies

IN-DEPTH: Misdiagnosis of Gender Dysphoria in Patient With Mental Health Issues Led to Reassignment Surgery

51 People Who Should Never Have Clearances Again

Cassie

You should have your rants posted as separate threads. They’re truly excellent.

Big_Nambas says:
May 21, 2023 at 9:31 am
Funny but I seem to remember Australia as a prosperous, nice country to live in before the Chicoms rose to economic and military power.

Lol. We’ve fallen in a heap since the 90s. Poverty in Australia has reached astonishing levels.

If you can’t define an Aboriginal, don’t know how many in their “nations” then it is going to be chaos.

Well said – all those with an Aboriginal great great grandfather claiming their compensation and reparations..

duncanm I present you this:

On the one hand he claims to love the media, an industry that has elevated him to a position of authority and given him a powerful voice with which to espouse his views on the mistreatment of the nation’s Indigenous population, offered him incredible international travel opportunities, enabled him to launch a lucrative career as a published author and provided him with a generous income.

On the other hand, he has left the media in controversial and unhappy circumstances before and, as far back as the pre-Twitter ’90s, admitted to being somewhat “vulnerable” and sensitive to public criticism.

It was in 1994 after Grant lost his job as host of the Seven Network’s current affairs program Real Life that this duality was first exposed, revealing the first early cracks in Grant’s well-honed public family man image.

When Seven’s then news boss Terry Plane was asked to comment on Grant’s demotion on Real Life, Plane said 31-year-old Grant’s concentration at work had been “off the boil” following the breakdown of his first marriage to wife Karla, the mother of his three children, with whom Grant managed to patch things up after leaving her briefly for another woman.

After three years on Real Life, Grant and the program were unceremoniously dumped after the program’s ratings collapsed and his popularity took a dive.

Further eroding Grant’s credibility that year was the ABC’s comedy show Frontline, whose dumb fictional TV anchor Mike Moore kept producing a guitar, something Grant himself had done on many occasions, at a Perth telethon, during a televised interview with Johnny Cash, at the Logies, in women’s magazine interviews.

The ABC wasn’t the only broadcaster taking a shot at the current affairs anchor.

Seven’s own sketch comedy show, Full Frontal, lampooned the star courtesy of a send-up by Eric Bana. (which was brilliant)

The criticism, from executives, media and the public alike, hurt Grant but as an unnamed colleague somewhat presciently told Fairfax Media at the time; “If you’re there taking moral stands on things, you have to take the heat, especially when you are taking the money he was”.

That was 29 years ago and the heat, since the proliferation of digital technology, the advent of social media and the arrival of largely unfiltered platforms such as Twitter, has not subsided but become a raging out-of-control inferno.

Grant’s long career is peppered with departures.

After patching things up with Seven after Real Life folded, Grant chipped away on other news shows, 11am and Face to Face, before in 1999, older and “wiser” or so he said, he signed on to host the program that replaced Real Life, Today Tonight.

That glorious comeback would last 19 months and end sensationally when he was dumped by Seven again in August 2000 after his extramarital affair with Seven sports reporter Tracey Holmes was discovered.

Seven demoted the pair and days later they quit.

So began Grant’s long years in the Australian commercial media wilderness.

The following year Grant would join SBS as a fill-in presenter for newsreaders Mary Kostakidis, Lee Lin Chin and Anton Enus on the World News but it was CNN which offered him a full-time lifeline, via a job in its Hong Kong bureau.

He moved in to Hong Kong in 2002 returning in 2007 when SBS enticed him back to co-anchor its new one-hour World News bulletin alongside the revered Kostakidis.

That stint would prove short-lived and controversial.

In August, Kostakidis took leave from the broadcaster after 20 years.

According to reports, she was annoyed news bosses had started favouring Grant.

Kostakidis never returned to the job and at year’s end Grant had pulled the pin, opting to head to Abu Dhabi for CNN.

Following his return from that job in 2012, Grant bounced from SBS to Sky News to SBS’s NITV before the ABC finally came calling in 2016 with an offer to make him, somewhat broadly, editor of its Indigenous coverage and summer 7.30 fill-in for Leigh Sales.

The following year he was given a Friday night talk show, The Link, that was axed within a year but not before Grant had a chance to throw shade on his new employer for being elitist and “disconnected”.

In 2018, he tried his hand at another show, Matter of Fact, which also failed to resonate with viewers. It was cancelled within the year.

2019 saw him move to Qatar to work for Al Jazeera before he returned to the ABC in 2020 in yet another new role, as ABC’s international affairs analyst.
Grant would present a couple of short-run series on the national broadcaster before being tapped to host Q&A at the end of last year.

It was his big comeback — the role that could have propelled him back on to commercial TV if he could navigate both the controversial subject matter and his critics.

Turns out, he couldn’t — but at last his grievances have found a captive audience in an era of unquestioning modern wokeism when a good celebrity bellyache can generate enough clicks to make you believe you’re relevant again.

Sorry Bear didn’t mean to have a shit at you

No worries. Would possibly do the same again anyway.

Just buy some eagle credits or get a stewardship certificate.

Gotta scramble a few eagles to save Gaia.

Or maybe get people in on merit and then cease with the Labor Lite policies, Daily Telegraph:

A prominent Liberal women’s advocate says MPs must stop shoe-horning male political staffers – aka “nepo babies” – into seats at the expense of talented women if the Coalition is to win back government.

The term “nepo baby” has been used to call out the offspring – or nepotism babies – of celebrities who appeared to have had a leg up in scoring acting and modelling jobs over everyone else.

Charlotte Mortlock, a journalist, adviser and founder of the Hilma’s Network – an organisation encouraging more women to enter politics – said while there was nothing wrong with being a political staffer, the Liberal Party should not value it over and above other experiences, she said.

Speaking ahead of a Sydney Institute panel discussion on the Liberal Party, Ms Mortlock said this “boys’ club” mentality was contributing to the decline in the calibre of candidates contesting federal and state seats.

“We need nurses, lawyers, creatives, tradies, all at the table bringing their own ideas to our policy formulation,” she said.

“Male MPs seem to be particularly loyal to male staffers. Moving heaven and earth to help them win preselections and throwing their weight and numbers behind them.

“Female MPs have also done this, and female staffers have also been the beneficiaries, but undoubtedly it is more commonly men mobilising for men.

“It has no other name. It’s nepotism, or more colloquially, the boys’ club. And it is consequentially reducing the caliber of candidates we as a party are presenting to the public to try and win elections.”

The panel – which will also include NSW Liberal Party official Alex Dore and Balmain Liberal candidate Freya Leach – will focus on the pathway out of opposition for the Coalition, including the candidate selection process.

At the most recent state election in NSW, several key Liberal-held seats were contested by male candidates who had worked in the local MP’s office despite the party declaring it would be supporting more women.

In Queensland, there is talk the seat of McPherson, held by former home affairs minister Karen Andrews, will potentially go to a male political staffer.

Ms Mortlock said women could not compete against senior male MPs with established voting blocs.

“We saw this phenomenon in spades in the NSW state election last month,” she said.

“I can count five preselected candidates who had formerly worked for MPs. Some of them were the best people for the job. Some weren’t.

“Confirmation bias, loyalty or returned favours, who knows. The issue is that staffers are given an unfair advantage to begin with, often over female candidates with more impressive CVs.”

Ms Mortlock said while it would be “dumb” to completely exclude staffers, staffing nepotism should be examined as part of the party rebuilding itself.

Female MPs have also done this, and female staffers have also been the beneficiaries, but undoubtedly it is more commonly men mobilising for men.

We need more people like … … well me frankly.

Replace suburban solicitors, union hacks and ambulance chasing Senior Associates with mummy bloggers. That should do it.