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Don’t you think that some point between a population being 1B and 0 that people will begin to realize that…
Finally and belatedly, I caught up properly with my cousin for XMAS lunch. In the true-and-tested tradition of The Cat,…
We’re almost a quarter of the way through the twenty-first century. And the world isn’t ended yet. Despite global warming…
Bugger this. I’m off to my Tartarian research.
Everyone cheering on the draconian, world-class lockdowns will now be whining about having to pay for them.
Who said tyranny was cheap?
Good heavens, they just won’t leave Israel Folau alone.
Apparently he shouldn’t have been picked in the World XV to play the Baas Baas at Twickenham on the weekend because some people will have hurt feelings.
… never aired their opinions on any political issues at the Beeb. It’s just unseemly.
The beeb has revealed its leftoidness frequently, and yes, it is unseemly.
As an independent observer, it seemed to me you were playing an away game arguing with Cassie about Judaism. When it became obvious it was a losing battle you resorted to some impenetrable non-sensical gibberish.
A bit like the metal clad Nano-Wriggler in the bloodstream thing.
Should of let it go 12 hours ago.
Think there is hope for humanity? 14 seconds to make you think again!
https://notthebee.com/article/god-made-us-in-his-image-and-this-is-what-we-do-with-it
Albrechtsen has the problem in a nutshell:
It is simple, but the infantile staff at the ABC find this hurdle insurmountable, so simplistic is their world view.
The notion of seeing both sides of an argument and presenting both impartially is beyond the juvenile feelz of most of them.
And we are forced to pay for it.
I speak to a *lot* of people who have not only lost trust in mRNA products, they have lost trust in doctors and are worried they will be injected by stealth when given traditional vaxxes or even unrelated injections, like local anaesthetic for dentistry.
This loss of trust might just be the catalyst for wider understanding about the lies and fraud of not just ‘big medicine’, but also big wind, big solar, big CO2, big government, big finance, big everything.
If so, some good will have come of it.
My view of last night’s contretemps – the emergence of new religious ideas across Asia and the Med happened in the 6th century BC. It also coincided with the exile.
There is zero way of telling whether the two are connected. Ideas can be like that.
And this is my hope for why they will ultimately fail in their quest to control us – tyranny is just another government program, and like all such programs ultimately fails due to cost over-runs, the ‘information problem’ and increasing incentivisation of the people to spend their time and effort in getting around the system, not to be productive within it.
Unfortunately, it means the only way out is collapse, as always.
Sadly, that is usually followed by a revolt, which installs ‘new’ management which rapidly acquires the characteristics of the old rulers, and the cycle repeats.
Some interesting stuff on Downer regarding that dossier and the whole Wussians thing.
The Biggest Revelation From The Durham Report (24 May)
Until last week, the official story was that a Trump campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, got drunk in a London bar and told an Australian diplomat, Alexander Downer, about a secret plot between Russia and the Trump campaign to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race by anonymously releasing her emails. According to the official narrative, Downer took Papadopoulos’s information to the U.S. embassy in London, which then informed the FBI.
That tale about a drunken encounter at a London bar quickly became an unquestioned truism by sheer force of repetition in the media. It even became the central plot point in “The Comey Rules” TV mini-series, which depicted the official narrative of the alleged Trump–Russia collusion plot.
While Papadopoulos has always denied the story, the first official hint that something was amiss came when Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his December 2019 report into the FBI’s handling of its investigation of the Trump campaign.
There’s more about Downer in the rest of the story. My impression is that he actually comes out smelling not too badly – and he was a victim of sorts. Strzok seems to’ve seized on Downer as a useful tool to justify opening the investigation, and insinuated a lot of stuff Downer never actually said. About the only thing I find dodgy is why Downer ever talked with the US Embassy at all, and especially when he only did so over two months later. I wonder if he was told to?
Hey, Duk, part of those Taibbi pieces originated in Canberra.
Must be close to the people who were calling the shots in your case.
Will this be because mRNA is a cheaper carrier to produce than the traditional method? I.e. it’s a commercial decision?
Should of let it go 12 hours ago.
No, it should continue.
It’s fascinating to watch.
Like a car crash in slow motion.
when I looked at this
She was on 0 likes, does she do it on purpose or is there some idiotic deviant on this forum taking his jollies out of this?
I upticked and it moved to 3, strange.
Milhouse says it best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkD2WKUl1XM
Hey Cassie,
the Greta Anna banana cake has been my go to for years. Funny thing about banana and carrot cakes, they never sold well at the Farmer’s Market where I had my stall for seven years. Customers used to come by and say “my mother, auntie, grandma etc, makes THE BEST banana/carrot cake. So, I tweaked the recipe. I made the cake gluten-free and, instead of bananas, one week I made it with pumpkin, the next week with sweet potato, the third week with beetroot and chocolate. Changed the spicing for each one and the fruit and nut combination. Success! Even the non gluten free customers bought them.
I felt sorry for the woman who had a stall for a short while that only sold banana cakes. There were a lot left at the end of the day.
Greta Anna’s quick processor cakes are good value when you’re in a hurry.
Like all Govt diktats, France’s banning of shorthaul flights in favour of trains is not as it would seem. It has nothing to do with the environment.
The ‘national champion’ TGV network is massively over capitalised. If every person in Europe was forced to use the system it would still hemorage money despite fares being multiples of airfares.
In their favour, at least their power is nuclear.
I enjoy travelling on the TGV, other than during the summer hols, but with a flight out of London City airport to Paris costing less than half the TGV fare, and a convenient Metro service from Orly to town, there is no choice.
It is the equivalent of the Canberra Village Government banning cars on Northbourne in favour of their silly little lefty fashion accessory tram (sorry, light rail).
Good big picture summary from Algora today
https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2023/05/23/why-our-civilization-is-bullshit
The real question is, if all this pineapple is going into carrot cakes, will there be enough to go on all the pizza?
Looks like the Falls Road, Belfast, is still the go-to place for a dare.
Hopefully.
Gez
That bin is certainly good value on the per tonne basis. Double base ring is a good idea. Can’t see it holding up to much road work though.
I have a 50t of the same style which basically just stays in place.
How goes the sowing?
Salvatore is correct.
Rejoining an SFL branch achieves nothing other than providing additional funds to the crony oligarchy.
With the exclusive focus of the NSW SFL being prosecution of Turnbull/Photios family business scams, nothing can be achieved by members.
QLD, as Salvatore points out is worse with its qualification rule. In addition, the clique running the QLD SFL truely are the faceless men.
Arguably, only the creation of a new and apparently successful Party could threaten and possibly dislodge these Tammany crooks.
Gaborsays:
May 24, 2023 at 8:33 am
when I looked at this
calli says:
May 24, 2023 at 7:52 am
She was on 0 likes, does she do it on purpose or is there some idiotic deviant on this forum taking his jollies out of this?
There is at least one idiotic deviant on the forum.
Whenever I see someone (other than possible idiotic deviants) on zero, I try to remember to uptick, to cancel the zero.
Let’s keep things in perspective. The currants are a worry though. Sultanas get a tick.
The in cab smoko cake for the last few weeks is a 4 x 2 x 1.5 ( inch) slab of carrot cake with crushed pineapple and sultanas.
Heaven.
Its as though I’m being fattened up for something.
I think we can agree banana bread toasted on a contact sandwich press is a worthy accompaniment to your morning coffee.
Well, the currants might be mistaken for dead blowies.
They taste funny.
The best bit of carrot cake is always cream cheese icing.
That’s going to leave a mark.
Former Deputy Nat’l Security Adviser: FBI, CIA & DOJ Will Rig 2024 Election (24 May)
Former Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland, who served for the first four months of the Trump administration under Michael Flynn, says that the deep state is going to rig the 2024 US election following their success in 2020.
“We now have black-and-white evidence that the FBI interfered in the 2016 election. When they failed to elect Hillary Clinton, they set out to destroy the Trump administration,” she told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo.
“Go back to 2020. This time, the CIA got involved in the election with those 51 former intel agents who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. So they’ve gotten away with it for two elections. They will surely try and get away with it in 2024, right? Because there are no consequences…
Saying things on Faux that Faux bigwigs don’t like said out loud? Ooh, naughty! I wonder if they’ll fire Ms Bartiromo like they did Tucker?
Yeah.
But nah.
Downer knew exactly what he was doing.
That is, embellishing a tale to curry favour with the Crimtons.
He wasn’t told to do anything he didn’t want to do.
Ask yourself.
What odds an Adelaide snob like Downer would meet with someone like Papadopoulos on a whim?
He is in it up to his neck.
Shibboleth: a word or saying used by adherents of a party, sect, or belief and usually regarded by others as empty of real meaning.
My go-to banana cake (which I shall be baking with some extremely tanned bananas later this afternoon) is a Women’s Weekly recipe from the 70’s. Yoghurt is the other key ingredient. And always put in extra banana.
As Pogria says, everyone has their pick.
Greta Anna is always good, and my ancient WW cookbooks should be a line item in my will.
Australians were also censored the Twitter Files has discovered, and surprisingly the Australian actually reported it
Daily Mail.
Teaching them that they have no right to be in this country, and they are defending stolen land might have a lot to do with it.
Practically everything tastes better for morning smoko. The very best was roast chicken sandwiches on fresh white bread while masquerading as a mine worker.
Ol’ Rolfie actually died a few weeks back:
Harris died on May 10, but his death was only confirmed upon official registration of his demise at the Windsor and Maidenhead council on Monday, May 23.
The death certificate says Harris has already been cremated.
On May 11 a private ambulance, often used by undertakers, was photographed outside of Harris’ million dollar mansion on The Thames prompting press inquiries to his daughter Bindi, her husband Craig and the Harris family solicitor Daniel Burke. They declined to comment.
On Monday afternoon UK time, a statement was released by the Harris family lawyer which said: “Rolf Harris recently died peacefully surrounded by family and friends and has now been laid to rest. They ask that you respect their privacy. No further comment will be made.”
Story currently circulating in WA. One of the colonial oppressors planned to do some work on a property but obediently called in a traditional owner to get the go ahead. Cost $6000. A white looking 18 yo arrived, looked around, identified a bone as a precious relic and put a fatwa on the project. Months passed. Colonial oppressor engaged another investigator. Hmmm. Turns out the sacred relic was an old well gnawed lamb bone.
Our future.
I dread to think of what we would be without our British heritage.
sTan too. (I don’t dread how much worse his circumstances might be because he would be getting what he wants.) But I wonder what he thinks he would be?
Or does he instead have in mind some more pure, altruistic, and benevolent deliverance of Australia into the modern world?
Even if there had been, would it still be seen as such now? I would venture not. Until the 1970’s the British turning up was the best thing. Since then some small people, living embarrassed in the long shadow of these earlier people, began to ‘revise’ history. It is what small people do to make themselves feel bigger. They have willfully exaggerated some aspects, denied others, and completely made up a bunch more.
As long as there are small people, sTan (and you should know this as instinctively as you recognise yourself in the mirror), we will have a shameful ‘history’ delivered by stunted fabulists.
It has the added health benefit of being called “bread” when it is actually a cake.
24 May – Our Lady Help of Christians
The feast day to Mary Help of Christians has been celebrated in Australia since 1844 but the history to this day dates back to the start of the 1800’s.
Napoleon Bonaparte had jailed Pius VI who died in jail. When Pope Pius VII was elected he too was jailed by Bonaparte, who kept him prisoner at Fontainbleau.
The Holy Father vowed to God that if he were restored to the Roman See, he would institute a special feast in honour of Mary.
The military eventually forced Bonaparte to release the Pope and on 24 May 1814, Pius VII returned in triumph to Rome.
Twelve months later the Pope decreed that the feast of Mary Help of Christians be kept on 24 May.
The infant church in Australia had a special reason for turning to Mary. No priests were sent to the colony in its early days and Mass was not allowed except for one brief year until 1820. It was largely the Rosary in those early days that kept the faith alive.
Catholic Australia remained faithful to Mary and was the first nation to choose her under the title Help of Christians, as principal Patroness.
St Mary’s Cathedral was dedicated in her honour by the Irish pioneer priest, Fr John Therry, who arrived in Sydney in 1820 and assumed responsibility for the planning and initial construction of the Cathedral.
When Australia became the first country to have Mary Help of Christians as Patroness, it became the first country to have a mother-cathedral under the same title.
Mary Help of Christians, pray for us.
(The Catholic Weekly – 2012)
Perhaps if he was holding a banner proclaiming he supports ‘gender affirming care’ for toddlers, or ‘the klimate crisis is a health crisis’?
As a Queenslander, can I just say we are up to the task.
Can you ever remember a pineapple shortage?
I refuse to think there would not be a net vote advantage from going medieval on the ALPBC.
Cite you the story that came out of South Australia, where a well “dug by the tribal elders and a sacred site because it had been a campsite for generations” was actually dug by the Australian Army during the Second World War.
callisays:
May 24, 2023 at 8:56 am
Well, the currants might be mistaken for dead blowies.
They taste funny.
Those biscuits with currants embedded in them used to be called Squashed Fly biscuits.
Bruce, tell me please you didn’t eat chicken sangas for breakfast.
Does he even have one?
I don’t doubt there were ‘instructions from above’ to make an example of me, but I suspect the deed was done from within the AFP, not the DPP.
In my case, the AFP put their case together, then handed it to a prosecutor who turned up on the day to read out the contents of the police case. It was fun to watch him swallow mouthful after mouthful of his shit sandwich as he had *no idea* what my defence was going to be – and the prosecution goes first. It meant each of the prosecution witnesses read the same script, then each got show the same video of the AFP contradicting their own case.
Word around the traps was that the prosecutors were sick of being handed rubbish cases which they lost (and which counted against their record) and the judges were sick of hearing them.
The AFP would have to be the most unprofessional police force in the land.
And there’s no shortage of competition.
That’s it…I’m off to make a roast chicken sandwich on white bread.
Breakfast of champions.
Have the TV on & just passed by as item on ABC (TV) re the so called rise of “extremist groups”was aired. The faces on the women reporter & studio commentators were extraordinary – furrowed brows, and …anger – yes anger. They immediately related it to the “Voice” controversy ….with much concern.
Bodes ill for any “objective” discussion of this issue.
JC – time to put the holiday house on the market? For tax purposes, of course.
I hope the recently martyred St. Stan keeps performing the miracle of turning everything into whine.
The Law of Diminishing Returns works quite well for those ramping up constant accusations of sin and malice on others.
I’m assuming you’re distinguishing from corrupt, politicised or merely incompetent.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 24, 2023 at 8:59 am
Daily Mail.
Australia is losing thousands of soldiers every year and struggling to recruit new personnel to plug the gap: ‘It’s pretty scary’
Australian Defence Force unable to retain soldiers
6,600 soldiers leaving the force every year
Teaching them that they have no right to be in this country, and they are defending stolen land might have a lot to do with it.
Also threatening them with jail on spurious charges whenever they kill an enemy combatant might make them think twice too.
Another classic airport brawl at O’Hare:
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1661087310266638346
Even as a lowly Articled Clerk it was hard not to have some sympathy for the Police Prosecutor with a foot of overflowing files he had probably not even opened. At least you were told who we were representing when thrown a file (although that is not really an issue for the fuzz).
Zulu, you should have told him you worked harder making your money than he did making his kids.
DeSantis drops rousing pre-launch appetiser:
https://twitter.com/CaseyDeSantis/status/1661131473020239876
Can you ever remember a pineapple shortage?
Been reminded of one for more than four decades by so-called mates.
Went on leave “the orphan” for not knowing the oldies’ new address.
They’d read the writing on the wall and sold the premium pizza topping plantation following a heatwave which boiled the South East corner’s summer crop,
and opened the doors to Filipino pines.
I dunno. I reckon the milkos worked really hard.
P, I enjoy reading your information on historical aspects of the Catholic church in Australia. I went to primary school in the times when Catholic and Public schoolkids yelled insults at each other because that’s what everyone did. No-one knew why at our level of things, just that we were ‘publics’.
In Tasmania, the town of Richmond has a fascinating heritage of the two religious groups providing a church on hills, competing with each other expressing their faith in solid stone. Both are lovely churches. I purchased a little golden angel as a lapel pin in the Catholic one. The Church of England was more in the town, the Catholic church over the river. I am always fascinated, as in our recent trip around the Bendigo area and over to Wagga, to see the way in which this played out in all rural areas.
Whatever else it may be, handing up dodgy briefs of evidence to a prosecutor is just bad form.
No wonder there’s no love lost between the AFP & the ACT DPP’s office.
Another disturbance in the farce.
Donald Trump Fallout — CNN Primetime Ratings Crash 23% to Pathetic 400,000 Viewers (23 May)
Ouch! If you took away all the viewers who are forced to watch for political or reporting reasons it sounds like there wouldn’t be many real watchers left.
All Buffers look away now.
Seen better kept Ruritanian Navy scows.
I was a ‘public’ during my school years. On our way to Sunday School two girls in our street would call out ‘Catholics, Catholics ring the bell and all the publics go to hell.’ One of those catholic girls later became a nun and principal of a catholic school. When her brother married, two of his children were in the same classes as mine. He kept me updated, as did my mother.
Vicki I wouldn’t expect anything else from the ABC. They are spoilt, entitled, malicious brats. Stupid and nasty parasites. Vipers feeding off taxpayers. Pubic serpents.
No argument. Especially here I would presume.
Nature is amazing.
I’m driving along and a flock of Starlings is wheeling around a single tree in the distance. They form a slightly imperfect circle that looks black as they turn in unison one way and then almost disappears as they turn the other. It was a blinking effect that that had me quite mesmerised.
Daily Mail.
You mean like the AFR?
ABC News Breakfast host revealed he was ‘taking a break’
Michael Rowland told viewers his job was a ‘real honour’
Comes a day after he criticised ABC for ‘failing’ Stan Grant
Rats! I didn’t see that this morning.
Rowland is now so “woke” – I won’t miss him.
Radio saying ADF Chief written to a number of senior officers about cancelling medals earned for Afghanistan. Now in hands of Defence Minister.
Angus Campbell destroying his own organisation from the inside.
That’s it…I’m off to make a roast chicken sandwich on white bread.
Breakfast of champions.
Roast chicken with gravy and cracked pepper on a crusty Vietnamese long roll. The perfect lunch on a Saturday after lawn mowing.
Maybe the ALPBC will just disappear up its own firmament like an MC Escher print? Would save on redundancies.
Unless he’s on annual leave or LSL, I assume Rowland will be on leave without pay. Maybe he’s joining the special projects unit with Fran and Stan.
Apparently the ABC head of news blamed the Stan Grant reaction on, wait for it…
News Corp!
Could we have a ban on any bugger talking about delicious food just after ten in the morning thanks.
Neither of these entitled twots is actually resigning?
I’m watching the Lehrmann inquiry and find that Tedeschi is in the wrong line of work. He is now monstering Inspector Moller for liking a comment on a newspaper website that stated that someone is innocent until proven guilty. By objecting to Moller holding this view Tedeschi’s words suggest that he disagrees with this axiom and believes the opposite.
Our justice system is full of rogues.
Dunno – if the revaluations in Hugh Poate’s book about the murder of his son are correct, and certain senior officers who never left Headquarters in Dubai are sporting medals for Afghanistan, why SHOULD they keep them?
Ensure the chook bits are covered with salt. And I mean covered.
You’ll live to 150.
These are normal people.
Sorry Gez,
I just started another diet and I’m starving.
Correction: Moller is a Detective Superintendent, not an inspector.
Answers to questions nobody is asking: What does Cory Bernardi do these days?
On second thoughts, not even a link to his website.
And barristers short of material to work with.
Of course, the reason the above person came to mind was that I want to rejoin the fight, but not among losers.
Radio saying ADF Chief written to a number of senior officers about cancelling medals earned for Afghanistan. Now in hands of Defence Minister.
Zulu I doubt if those officers are the ones they have in mind.
I think the West has lost the ability to distinguish what is acceptable on the battlefield in defence of the very freedoms we are fighting for.
Albrechtsen’s article highlights the fundamental difference between the ALPBC and the BBC. It is not wokeness, it’s professionalism. As anyone who has seen one of the original programmes Aunty’s woeful copies are drawn from will attest.
It was mentioned at the time of Tucker’s sacking that she and Judge Piro would be next.
In Tasmania, the town of Richmond has a fascinating heritage of the two religious groups providing a church on hills, competing with each other
For anyone who ever gets to visit HMAS Cerberus, south of Melbourne, where RAN sailors have always been trained, there are two very charming English-looking stone churches, next to each other, one for the Catholics, and one for the Protestants.
Go all out – chicken salt. Uncle Roger would approve.
I agree that Downer didn’t do anything he didn’t want to but he probably let Turnbull know what he was up to since Turnbull hated Trump with a passion.
Farmer Gez, from Ouyen to Avoca, western Victoria is full of famous bakeries and food joints. Sounds like you need to find one — fast.
Does a fair bit for Sky News from what I can see, including a weekly podcast if you like such things. And stands in for the others when they’re away.
“Most propaganda goes not toward the glaring, obvious lies like the Iraq invasion, but toward mundane control systems like the ideological herding funnel I just described. Really ham-fisted propaganda is the exception, not the rule in the west; the lion’s share of the empire’s manipulations just go toward keeping people marching to the beat of the imperial machine.”
Duk,
The Simpsons was across the two-party system in the Nineties. 😀
I tend to agree re TGV Bons.
Local flights in Europe are amazingly cheap, though they don’t always run on time.
Very fast trains, unless you can snag a discounted ticket (mid morning mid week) are expensive.
Sweden wasn’t it that banned domestic flights last year?
The Roman Catholic Chapel, Our Lady Star of the Sea, was opened in 1948, followed by St Mark’s Chapel in 1954.
HMAS Cerberus
A roast chicken on white bread can also be enhanced with a ring of pineapple.
Sweden wasn’t it that banned domestic flights last year?
Not exactly.
The government withdrew subsidies from some air routes when it deemed there were suitable alternatives by air or train. Their rule of thumb is that any town should be accessible from Stockholm within 4 hours, thus enabling same day business travel in theory.
The Swedes aren’t entirely crazy. Yet.
The best thing about a take way chicken dinner from Red Rooster is the pineapple fitter.
rosie at 10:36 – yep, when my mate’s wife booted my over to Paris via the Chunnel being away Saturday night made all the difference. They practically gave away Manchester to London rail trips if you didn’t care when you went.
No. 1 son is thinking of visiting Sweden next year so we were looking into transport.
fritter!
I think it’s a Scots word.
Thanks BoN!
There was a time when my FIFO accommodation played some Sky, but these days its all ALPBC. Fortunately the sound is off.
On that subject Roger quite a few Saab Rex flights in western and northern Queensland are subsibised by the pleasure chook government. Some of them look very interesting.
A day is a long time in woke.
Target Partners with Satanist Brand to Create Items for ‘PRIDE’ Collection (22 May)
Target holds ’emergency’ meeting over LGBTQ merchandise in some stores to avoid ‘Bud Light situation.’ (23 May)
You’d’ve thought they’d learn quicker than this.
An essential part of the famous Scot’s diet.
Ron DeSantis will launch his presidential bid with Elon Musk.
just to clarify, they already did that
now, they’re doing it again
just stop and crack a window
we’ll poke the food in
Bear, not Bruce
If they put disgusting photos onto the label I’m never going to buy Guinness again.
Ireland becomes first nation to require cancer warning labels on alcohol (23 May)
Lefties are such killjoys. Sheesh. In deference to Rabz: Cigarettes & Alcohol
Ireland segued from Catholicism to communism in about 24 months.
They’re like kids leaving a strict household and latching onto every horror organisation spruiked on Orientation Day.
Perfect analogy.
I know, right. It’s going to me around 700 bucks a week in land tax. Might move the who thing to Florida. 🙂
It’s unreal.
Ireland, like much of Tasmania, should really be left for golf courses. Grow some pinot if you must.
Best not to covert that into Bintang by the pool in the heat. Probably already spent on Setka’s jacuzzi.
Whole
Heston Russell has a trial date – he is selling “Not My ABC” badges to raise funds.
It is unreal JC. They run out of OPM so they’ll steal some more. It’s all happened quite fast (after years of squander). Too bad there’s no opposition. Apart from brave souls like Avi.
I’m just learning that Daniel Andrews this week spent $1.5 million to give every Victorian child a ‘free’ fishing rod. AFR reporters were dumbfounded:
Given the drinking habits of the Irish, it’s a wonder they all never died from cancer years ago!
Bear
A couple of agents I’m friendly with and have franchises in the holiday spots reckon there’s a bulging interest in selling. My tax went up over a 100% because of the category changes with regards to holding in personal names vs trusts and corps. The hunchback is a freaking disgrace to humanity.
I was just talking about it earlier. Wall to wall liars party – taxes are going to hit the roof.
On the Fed side those loons hit super and now oil&gas. That’s just small potatoes to their long term intentions.
Hahahahahahaha
You need a fishing license payable annually or they fine you.
The best thing about a take way chicken dinner from Red Rooster is the pineapple fitter.
Tell me more about this wonderous thing.
Yep. All joking aside there is a real financial impost by remaining in Victoriastan. Which is a shame because so much of it is great. No better day trip than golf and lunch somewhere on the Mornington Peninsula.
A writ lobbed from Nick Sandman?
The real world and indeed politics, is absurd and ridiculous. A tale of two smears.
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Axios tries to smear Trump as a radical, libertarian, conservative lunatic; his agenda seems pretty good. “Army vs criminals” is really about assistance to civil authorities with “mostly peaceful” violent, flammable riots.
(He’s not perfect but who is (?); some policies like the baby bonus might be to get results quickly; I trust Trump understands housing costs and “gender *equality*” funded by male taxpayers, family law as it is and so on are some of the deeper causes which ruins family formation).
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/21/trump-2025-vision
(It’s very good, make up your own mind…)
Then we have Claire MacAskill saying…Trump is a literal communist.
Per “Memology *102*”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQZ3Wnrnpo
“Politician and now MSNBC political analyst Claire McCaskill claims Trump is actually the one that loves the hammer and sickle, not the democrats.”
He already has them running scared!
I hope he blasts through the next election with all electoral votes.
Wicked witch of the West news.
Hillary Gives Us Another Hint That Her Pointy Black Hat Is In the Ring for 2024 (23 May)
Hillary Clinton Tries to Subtly Remind Everyone She’s 5 Years Younger Than Biden (23 May)
I wonder if she and Chelsea will have a cat fight about which of them should run for President.
Memo to both: never wear red shoes.
I haven’t seen Johnny Rotten for a few weeks. Johnny, if you’re reading…the world needs more dad jokes. Some of us don’t have an endless supply you know.
A few years ago I was talking to a mum and her son (probably 12 – 13 years old).
The kid was really excited about setting up a little business selling yabbies from the farm dam.
Ran into them a few weeks later and asked how it was going. Little bloke was downcast and mum explained that the number of licences and fees required meant he just couldn’t do it.
Almost as if Big Yabbie had a hand in writing the regs.
lol. Hairy stood butt naked by our bed last night and sang me this jolly verse to cheer me up.
I love that man so much and thankfully it’s reciprocated. We slept in each others arms.
I do hope nothing bad has happened.
Was he vaxxed?
Ireland becomes first nation to require cancer warning labels on alcohol
Will be in Ireland in early July. Will report back.
At present I hear it’s insufferably woke, and there are “refugees” in hotels everywhere.
Or Wesfarmers and the Shoppies.
Settle down Groogs. I’m sure it didn’t go to waste.
It is very difficult to fish for allowed freshwater fish species, even carp, redfin and yabbies, legally in NSW.
It’s not impossible, but the requirements are bluddee absurd, if you want to use a powered boat of any kind you need a coxswain rating after working on another fishing boat for six months and there are yet more regs to keep up with.
Miltonfsays:
May 24, 2023 at 10:19 am
Neither of these entitled twots is actually resigning?
And lose their place at the trough? You cannot be serious man!
Going fishing anywhere without a KC, a consultant marine biologist and a GPS is fraught with risk.
Andrews is now beyond satire.
Indeed. I restrict my fishing in WA to my paddle pool and wholly-owned farm dam.
Is Saxon Davidson a junior Doomlord?
Andrews Government’s ‘astonishing’ financial mismanagement has come back to bite them – and it’s hard-working Victorians who will foot the bill (Sky News, 24 May)
Tuesday’s Budget is yet another missed opportunity in the task of restoring Victoria by eliminating the toxic culture of spending, borrowing, and higher taxation, writes Saxon Davidson.
“If the Victorian Government does not address the budget deficit and rising debt levels, Victoria could face a debt trap in which even more drastic action is required.”
That was the key warning from research the Institute of Public Affairs released in October 2022, which found structural budget deficits, cost blowouts, rising debt levels, and low business confidence would lead Victoria into an economic crisis from which there was no escape.
Eight months later, this prediction has proven true – and to an even greater extent than most economists predicted.
He’s doing fine work, and if family he’s taking after dad quite well!
Good thread.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 24, 2023 at 11:28 am
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/the-last-of-the-special-air-service-regiment-iranian-embassy-balcony-men-dies-lest-we-forget.html
ZK2A, I thought Rusty Firmin was still alive (the man with no gloves)? Or did he go in from a different balcony? I read once that if you believe all the stolen valour stories there would have been about 200 men on the balcony.
PS. The article was a nice tribute. Well worth the read. Those men would probably stand trial today for ‘executing’ a terrorist.
Education head says new tax will hit more than 25 Catholic schools
24 May 2023
Private schools in Victoria will be stripped of their long-held exemption to payroll tax next year, netting the state more than $420 million in revenue over three years. Source: The Age.
The head of Victoria’s Catholic school sector attacked the new tax, saying it had been announced without consultation, and would hit more than 25 Catholic schools, potentially costing them more than $1 million each.
“Our families already contribute significantly to the cost of their children’s education, and unlike government schools, this payroll tax is real money, which will have to be found somewhere,” Catholic Education Commission Victoria executive director Jim Miles said.
The Education Minister and Treasurer will have the discretion to exempt schools from the change, which is forecast to increase revenue by $134.8 million in 2024-25, rising to $140.3 million in 2025-26 and $147.1 million in 2026-27.
Oh, forgot to say a few weeks back re Doomlord, he made an appearance at a footy match recently on the telly.
He’s an authoritarian autocrat in bed with the Chinese Communist Party, who the little people in his own parliamentary party are scared of, but he’s figured out how to control democratic retail politics — with the help of 99% of the news media, who are in his pocket and openly barrack for him.
You need a topline political opposition to take him on. Instead, we have the Stupid Frigging Liberals, who want to be like Daniel Andrews and are running on ALP policies because they believe in nothing and are in the process of expelling everyone who believes in anything.
“why are you drinking if you’re so skint?”
or my favourite in almost any situation.
“Learn how to code”
Labour, spend, spend, rule, rule and tax, tax, tax.
Mongrel bastards ???
A real opposition in spring street would have 100s of issues to capitalise on.
Might also be the crap pay, the poor quality housing, inability to plan holidays and family time, 12 hour shifts, night shifts (no penalty rates).
not if you’re under 18
Trump should back DeSantis on the proviso he gets to be appointed swamp cleanout Tsar.
Start with disassembling the FBI, CIA, and every other democrat infested stooge department.
Just watching the proceedings on Fox.
I don’t think Dr Peggy is doing much as counsel for that Yates bloke.
And the business of taking on/off of the glasses is a bit too much. Waving them at plod in the witness box as a theatrical pro.p Do they teach that at ANU Law?
Turnbull used to do that and he was a dead set seahunt.
2023 and the Hilary Clinton body double is still going strong.
Strong with the Snickers bars and “low calorie” tea cakes.
Canberra enquiry footage
A Saxon Davidson at the IPA not related to Sinc.
Seems possible.
Andrews is now beyond satire.
He’s an authoritarian autocrat in bed with the Chinese Communist Party, who the little people in his own parliamentary party are scared of, but he’s figured out how to control democratic retail politics — with the help of 99% of the news media, who are in his pocket and openly barrack for him.
Andrews is the product of the modern Australian Left which masquerades as defenders of the poor and helpless, but is inevitably corrupted and deceived by the exercise of political power.
Indeed, Andrews represents the extreme result of this political process. He is arrogant, merciless, and totally deceived by his position of power. He will not be easy to depose. Many have tried.
This may seem naive, but I believe it will necessitate the opposition of a total “cleanskin” – a rarity in today’s world – an idealist who actually believes in the validity of the ideals of freedom and personal responsibility. Whether such a creature still exists and is capable of withstanding the putrid nature of contemporary politics, is an unknown.
One can dream.
Why did Heidi Yates need a lawyer at this commission?
She reeks of self-importance.
Drumgold of course needs one.
But Yates?
the fishing promotion is costing 35 million, if you please.
Well put:
There is a new kind of cultural mafia in town, one that styles itself as kind and caring and compassionate and socially sophisticated — but which is, in fact, just as ruthless, just as determined, to bend us to its will.
Every day, in all sorts of ways, they make us offers we can’t refuse, and we find ourselves being asked to say and think things that are manifestly not true.
And so we agree that women can have penises (Lib Dem leader Ed Davey maintained in a radio interview on LBC today that this was ‘quite clear’). And that men can give birth. We applaud as people with thighs like tree-trunks and Adam’s apples accept first prize in female sporting competitions, dwarfing their exhausted and bemused rivals.
We do our best not to flinch as biological males get paid untold sums to advertise tampons and sports bras. We stand back as children are given puberty-blocking hormones and encouraged to mutilate their bodies. We allow convicted rapists to inveigle themselves into women’s prisons.
We watch in silence as those whose views or behaviours don’t comply with the dogma of the impeccably woke are defenestrated, their words and actions twisted out of all proportion.
We nod as our books and plays and comedy sketches are re-written, excised of nuance, purged of meaningful, thoughtful, original or — God forbid — humorous content. We accept our history being re-written out of context and time, sacrifice our heroes to the modern cult of victimhood and blame.
They will undermine your reputation, cast you as a monster, unleash the mob
They will undermine your reputation, cast you as a monster, unleash the mob
Home Secretary Suella Braverman, Dominic Raab, the late Queen¿s lady-in-waiting Susan Hussey (pictured), JK Rowling… the list is endless
What else can we do? We see the threat, take the hint, keep our heads down. We play the game. Not because we want to, but because we have to. We’ve seen what happens to those who don’t, and it’s not pretty. Most people can’t afford to lose their jobs, their livelihoods, their reputations.
When the woke mafia comes for you, they mean business, helped by the fact that they have skilfully infiltrated pretty much every institution in the land. Schools, universities, arts organisations, public bodies, the civil service, the law, medicine, certain sectors of the media. You name it, they own it. Or if they don’t, they know someone who does.
And you never quite know who they are, which one of your colleagues or friends is going to be the one taking notes, recording your mistakes, totting up your infractions. They are the smiling assassins, the ones who cry discrimination, all the while singling out their targets for elimination.
Daily Mail – the beginning paragraphs, not shown here, are especially interesting…
But Yates?
Blokes want to be noticed.
Yeah.
A licence to take yabbies from your own dam for your own use wasn’t too expensive (setting aside the fact that you shouldn’t need a licence for that anyway).
But if you sell them (or possibly even give them away) you needed commercial licences and food certification etc.
The commercial licence wasn’t scalable so it was the same whether or not I sold 10 kgs or 10 tonnes.
So, yeah, a barrier to entry.
A huge boost for the YES campaign today.
ScoMo came out against it.
Worth about a 5% swing in the vote.
Streaking again?
What was the Doomlord doing at a Storm match?
I suppose Yates’s lawyer is being funded by her employer.
Made one yesterday in the breadmaker.
And always put in extra banana.
Phrasing ?
In the AFL, he an Essendon barracker so, in true contrarian libertarian fashion, he has likely switched codes as Essendon aren’t travelling so well.
Except that Essendon beat Richmond by a point on Saturday night, triggering the resignation of the Tigers’ triple premiership coach Damien Hardwick.
I suspect his Doomlordship is now back on the Dons bandwagon.
I’ve just had a comment to the Australian rejected on the basis that it is in breach of ‘community standards’. I must be very naive but I cannot for the life of me see how this is. Could someone more experienced in the ways of the media enlighten me?
Comment as follows:
Is this cry of ABC racism just an avoidance technique for sidestepping the issue of Grant’s commentary on the coronation? Somehow all the complaints to the ABC about the coronation coverage have been ‘forgotten’ in the rush to investigate supposed internal racism towards Grant. Once it is determined that the ABC is not internally racist, as is the inevitable finding, the furore over Grant’s actual comments will have been forgotten and can be ignored by the ABC. Deflection 101.
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Trump is not a backseat kind of guy. And as a past President I cannot see him going in as a junior on another President’s team.
ScoMo really should be keeping the lowest of profiles.
Grant’s complaints do appear to be centred around commercial stories around complaints over his coronation comments.
Do employees in private enterprise get to take a (fully paid) ‘break’ for an indeterminate period if their feelings are hurt?
Paying people for doing nothing seems to be an artform in the public sector.
No wonder productivity is in the toilet.
It was reported a while back that wealthy private schools in vic had a windfall during Covid. Andrews obviously decided to go after them.
I’ve just had a comment to the Australian rejected on the basis that it is in breach of ‘community standards’. I must be very naive but I cannot for the life of me see how this is. Could someone more experienced in the ways of the media enlighten me?
Charlie, I suspect there are now mechanisms at the Oz that are triggered by certain words (eg racism & the ABC !). It is the only way to explain many innocuous comments that are rejected because of “community standards”.
If you had told me a few years ago that this sort of censorship would apply in our national newspaper, I would not have believed it. We live in perilous times.
CharlieP, for the past half-century, a degree in journalism has been virtually compulsory in Australia as a condition of entry to the journalism profession (replacing the old system of on-the-job learning in a cadetship). Ninety-nine per cent of Australian journalists, therefore, are university-brainwashed Marxists who hate Australia and its democratic tradition and therefore vote for the green-left parties devoted to destroying it – NOT how people out in the suburbs vote.
I can virtually guarantee that The Australian’s “community standards” were originaly written by a university academic to effectively ban anyone from commenting if it dissents from current Greens party policy.
If you want a comment published at The Australian, you have to assume you’re the political enemy of the J-school graduate reading it and therefore have to work out a way of tricking him/her into publishing it.
Perhaps, I argue we live in stupid times.
Am watching primary school groups at the museum, some schools are very diverse, some are very mono.
One blazered private girls was Chinese with a couple of anglos, another private school anglos with a single sub continental.
Another primary school group in a much more casual outfit (from an inner expensive labor royalty heartland suburb) was also vast majority anglo.
Little girls still seem to prefer to wear dresses to school.
Tom, Tom, Tom.
That is cruel.
Fair, but cruel.
Dan says all your job keeper is mine
Even if you didn’t receive any.
Not sure what migration deal Modi & Albo could have agreed to that wasn’t already covered in the migration changes during the last month.
Sounds like it’s mostly re-announcing stuff.
Marcus Stewart’s claim to be a proud “Nira illim bulluk man of the Taungurung Nation” is based on an Aboriginal great – great grandfather. The rest of his ancestry is Scots nobility. (H/T “Dark Emu Exposed.) Leaving aside the matter of any entitlement to “Compensation” and “reparations” based on such a tenuous claim, the Noongars of Western Australia used to get quite scornful over anyone of such origins claiming “Aboriginal” status. “His mother bin eatem white bread” was the most polite expression..
Anyone seen what Wonder Dynamics can do? I’ve watched some of the Corridor Crew content regarding it and it is amazing.
Given what Lyre Bird can do with voice replication and that real time video editing already exists, we’re in a brave new world.
“F…in’ white wadjela” was another.
The two faces of sTan ……!
https://ibb.co/6b2f34Z
Holy cow this is scary and hilarious.
I asked ai to make a Donald trump orange juice commercial
“Your mother definitely won’t think you are an embarrassment”
“Each orange is hand squeezed by myself”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLb9yjjHFg
I’ve just had a comment to the Australian rejected on the basis that it is in breach of ‘community standards’. I must be very naive but I cannot for the life of me see how this is..
I think I have worked it out – a comment by my significant other writing on the same account had been rejected on the same grounds earlier today. Nothing offensive I could read into that comment either so the work experience moderators are likely on duty, shying at shadows. And punishing by cancelling later comments. What a world we live in where every word has the potential to incriminate and cancel us.
But if anyone does note anything they find actually offensive in what I wrote, do let me know.