It’s pretty obvious that Biden was never really driving the train. Just counting his cash back in the caboose.
Open Thread – Weekend 27 May 2023
- ANZAC Day Thread
- Open Thread – Thurs 24 April 2025
- WolfmanOz at the Movies #101
- Open Thread – Monday of the Angel 2025
- Between a rock and a hard place on May 3
John Gow Alcorn Service number: NX148530 Rank: Warrant Officer Class 2 Unit: 41st Australian Infantry Battalion Service: Australian Army Conflict/Operation:…
He’s also successfully baiting the Dems into defending the un-defendable. They are picking some gawd awful hills to die on,…
In trouble.
Like the Grampians Nazis who were shepherded by VicPol into the Posy Parker event?
Dr Malhotra on Outsiders excellent.
Earlier this week, Greg Hunt out and about.
This is correct. Wont mean it will get up tho. The overlords are too dumb.
Had to post this. The same city that banned trans fats and big cups of soda!
According To The Science™ Being Fat As F*ck Is Not Unhealthy…
Memology 102
And Mayor Eric Adams supports this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg14OG_n_88
Not sure the Daily Mail WhatsApp really takes us any further ( in typical Daily Mail style). Moller had already given evidence Britt’s notes from the loony bin had been included in an affidavit in error, it was know numerous j’ismists were offered the story with only Maiden and Mrs Pirate Pete taking it up, Drumgold was doing his own media as was Brittany with whichever mesomorph was serving as the current boyfriend.
Razey
Watch this.
LFTR in 5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY
Savage.
They fervently believe they control the lens between the riff-raff (everyone apart from themselves) and the world; that they have the keys/code to switch that lens from opaque to translucent (but never transparent). Without the meja, the riff-raff would exist in a world of perpetual darkness; devouring each other in their ignorance. The meja is THE LIGHT. Praise the meja!
There’s some sort of morning TV scandal in the UK.
Nobody who mattered thought some kid from a school excursion ending up as
the totes-not-gay-cos-he’s-happily-married Talent’s personal Ass.Prod.
was the slightest bit noncey.
Apparently.
Minsays:
May 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Jane Fonda can’t move her face these days and always looks startled . That caused by climate change ? Wonder how much fossil fuel does it take to look like thst . When her face was pulled up must have pushed her brains out.
She is a full blown psychopath. Check out her body language here … she wasn’t joking as suggested by that equally vile creature on the left of screen- Joy Behar. The View should have been pulled of air the years ago.
O:59
UNDER INVESTIGATION Activist Actress Jane Fonda Calls for Murder of Pro-Life Politicians on The View
“mesomorph was serving as the current boyfriend.”
My prediction is that the current mesomorph won’t be around in five years.
Back of the envelope
There is 3000 years of thorium on current known supply to generate current electricity use globally.
It is orders of magnitude more common than uranium. It is like comparing base metal occurrence to that of silver.
The same Jane Fonda, who claimed the Americans had gone to war in Vietnam, to deny the North Vietnamese their independence and liberty?
Abbott should STFU.
Tones is living the Oz troughers dream .. not only is he collecting his extravagant rip-off,AKA the Parliamentary pension, but he’s hooked himself into the extremely lucrative, all expenses paid, OS talk-fest circuit ….
No chance STUF ……. ever again!
Thorpe to lodge human rights claim against Greens
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has revealed she will lodge a claim in the Australian Human Rights Commission against the Greens over allegations she was subjected to racism in her former party.
It comes after Senator Thorpe accused Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young of racism during a fiery exchange in Senate estimates this week while the Greens Senator was questioning the ABC’s managing director David Anderson and ABC News Director Justin Stevens over the national broadcaster’s handling of Stan Grant’s exit from Q+A over racist allegations.
Senator Thorpe on Sunday said she has received legal advice that she had enough grounds for a case against the Greens but would leave it for her lawyers to comment further.
She suggested national bodies like the ABC were founded on institutional racism and that the nation needed to work harder to ensure racism was stamped out in all workplaces.
“I’ll leave that up to my lawyers and the Human Rights Commission to… ..that’s a conversation I need to have with them,” Senator Thorpe told the ABC. “I don’t want to say any further. But, yes, I’ve experienced racism all my life in every workplace, and the Greens were no different.
“I just want racism stamped out. We see, you know, the ABC … it’s called institutional racism. It’s the … it’s the foundation of these institutions that are racist, that allow racism to occur.
“I think we all need to look at ourselves and eradicate that and make our workplaces safer.”
The Greens have been contacted for comment.
Oz
How embarrassing! She (I think?) was assaulting the copper’s partner: sweep her/its legs from underneath & it will topple. Or use your baton.
… pulled off the air
Who cares? TV is becoming irrelevant anyway.
Use the leg sweep, Bobby.
Inspector, isn’t that an illegal technique?
Sweep the leg Bobby.
Dunno. But from what I heard (and I make no claims to infallibility) he met with Don Jr and said the Russians said they had dirt on Hillary if Trump wanted it. He wasn’t even encouraging – just passing on a message. Trump quite wisely passed on it and that was that.
Later when the gossip was swirling about Downer (who would not have known what the foundations of the rumours were) went the US embassy and told them about his conversation because it might have been relevant.
In July 2000, Allen Appo of Bundaberg, Queensland, was charged in the Townsville Magistrates Court with a breach of the Fisheries Act by illegally catching undersized and female mud crabs. He was represented by Townsville Aboriginal Legal Aid who argued that, because Appo was Aboriginal, fishing restrictions did not apply to him.
However, a cousin of his, who was the daughter of an Aboriginal man, told Fisheries officers that Appo was not of Aboriginal descent and that his family heritage was purely Sri Lankan. She complained that the 66-year-old Appo and more than 100 members of his extended family had been practising the deception for more than thirty years.
In that time, they had received millions of dollars worth of benefits, including housing loans, business loans, study grants, employment preferences and legal assistance. Some operated indigenous cultural schools for tourists and sold their artworks commercially. Other family members had taken advantage of indigenous preference for government jobs and university appointments. No one in authority had ever questioned their rights to these benefits. The colour of their skin was all it took to confirm them.
Queensland Department of Primary Industries legal officers finally made a genealogical study of the family and presented to the court generations of birth, death and marriage certificates showing Appo’s heritage was entirely Sinhalese. Appo was fined on the illegal fishing charge but appealed the magistrate’s decision. He was audacious enough to persuade Aboriginal Legal Aid to represent him again, but the local District Court rejected the appeal.[1]
In other words, the much publicised recent scandal of Bruce Pascoe’s fraudulent claim to be an Aboriginal man, is nothing new or unique. Pascoe’s forbears are all English, mainly from Cornwall, and his genealogy contains no Aboriginal ancestry at all. However, this has not concerned the judges of state Premiers’ lucrative literary prizes supposedly reserved for indigenous writers, or the academic committee at the University of Melbourne who disregarded Pascoe’s lack of any postgraduate qualifications or contributions to academic journals and appointed him Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture. Given the success that bogus Aborigines like Pascoe and Appo have long enjoyed there should be little doubt they will continue to do so, especially if the Australian populace is foolish enough to support the new Labor government’s proposed referendum to give Aboriginal people their own platform in our Constitution.
More at Quadrant
The WhatsApp exchange does suggest they all see themselves as Woodward and Bernstein types. The reality is most are more like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBgb4p1U4v0
Actually anyone giving Stephen Mayne a smack in the head deserves a pat on the back.
About 3 million would be an accurate guess in terms of time.
Oh no. No, no no (the Tele):
Oh my wordy lordy no:
Please stop.
That’s like getting smacked in the nuts with an 8kg sledgehammer instead of a 12kg one.
Right. That’s it. Hopefully there’s a seat on that rowboat to Japan.
Ah yes, I’ve got the power again! 3 upticks per click, can I have more, please sir!
Thorpe v Sarah Hyphen- Sea Patrol in the HRC? That is almost worth travelling interstate for if it makes it to a hearing.
This is late but on the subject of Jeep problems:
https://1drv.ms/i/s!ApQygSjTEHVfnCw8GAxNzY4LcXlR?e=wE8zda
Gadsby must rue the change of pronouns at times.
We’ve had 20mm in the last four days that was sorely needed. Whilst we have excellent sub-soil moisture, it was just out of reach for newly planted crops and they were struggling to emerge or once out were being dry frosted to a purple colour.
Only lentils to sow now. They are a spring growing plants that can easily suffer cold damage if they flower and seed too early in the season.
memsays:
May 28, 2023 at 7:28 am
Was at lunch yesterday where the issue of future power sources was discussed. According to some, hydrogen power will be the go to fuel for cars. I expressed my reservations it could be commercially viable given the properties of the gas, but then wake to reading this today. Am I wrong?
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/27/24-hours-of-le-mans-race-to-allow-hydrogen-powered-cars/
Lots of explosions heading our way!
All is not sweetness and light in the bouncy castle?
Judith Lucy isn’t even funny in Melbourne (h/t to whoever came up with that. It beyond brilliant.)
Crossie and Lode.
On the contrary, Dolly Downer has been interviewed and seemed jolly proud of his involvement. Not a hint of “misquoted” or “exaggerated”.
He is in it up to his ears and was looking to curry favour with the Crimtons.
Xi will have to start working blakface to even be considered for these type of gigs.
No method acting required if they cast Jacinda Adern.
Iran Iraq war.
With extra Blue-on-Blue NBC action.
Downer strikes me as a sniveling two faced dibber dobber who nobody likes.
Dot says:
May 28, 2023 at 10:36 am
Materteral
Thank you
I hope many Cats viewed Outsiders this morning & saw the excellent interview with British cardiologist Dr. Assem Malhotra on the Covid missteps by government.
Like many others, Malhotra initially accepted the narrative that the pharmaceutical companies had produced, in record time, effective vaccines to combat Covid. It was when his doctor father, whose cardiac health was previously excellent, died suddenly of cardiac arrest after an mRNA vaccination, that he began to reexamine the efficacy of the claims for the safety of the vaccines.
He is currently touring Australia, given lectures in most capital cities. We were unfortunately unable to hear him talk last night at a venue in Vineyard, NSW.
As Malhotra is also a vocal critic of Statins, & believes that pharmaceutical companies have not produced acceptable proof of their value in treating heart disease, I am surprised he did not initially question the depth and length of trials of the mRNA drugs.
A quick run through the Gateway Pundit article titles reveals how much trouble USA is in.
Highlights being Kamala speaking at Westpoint about greatest challenge being climate change. Lucky they don’t have to worry about China then.
Or the Target sponsored organisation that gives out “fisting” kits to kids !
Later when the gossip was swirling about Downer (who would not have known what the foundations of the rumours were) went the US embassy and told them about his conversation because it might have been relevant.
I was surprised that Rowan and the panel (in this morning’s interview with the US official) did not inquire of the US official why such a junior attache such as him would be asked to attend a personal meeting with the Australian High Commissioner.
Raelene Castle. Walk-up start.
duncanm, SO true.
I started doing my own oil changes, as the main maintenance cost is services these days. I try to fix stuff, but I have a moderate success rate. So moderate indeed that when I was a motorcyclist my three worst bingles were at root caused by not knowing what I was doing mechanically.
Remembering my friend and I, scraping along the bitumen at 100km/hr because of my spanner work keeps me very humble.
As if this wasn’t going to happen. However, this time it’s a little different as the GOP gave Hiden the blueprint of what they wanted or else.
Gateway is a ridiculous site. It’s only worth is for propaganda value.
Is that anything like Taliban vs Mullahs?
Taliban Attacks Iran Border Post – Multiple Troops Dead & Wounded (28 May)
Someone might ask Ms Thorpe which side she supports, it’d be fun to watch.
JC, thanks for your tip a few weeks ago about the number of Aussies involved in proliferating corner-store coffee shops in NYC. A former AFL footballer with a business degree (forgotten his name) is having great success with a startup named Bluestone Lane, primarily out of NYC but now spreading throughout the USA.
Excellent story just featured on Sky’s Weekend Business (repeated at 4pm if you want to watch).
Rugby Australia would make a good sitcom. I can feel another Australia Council grant application coming on.
To outdoor pursuits!
Again!
I googled all of my problems with the VW TDI and I decided just to keep it on life support then get a new car in the future. A replacement DPF retails for about 3500 AUD.
A while back I dropped my OZ Online Paywallian subscription. Dropped into News.com.au to make up for it.
Wow.
The site appears to be 98% stories of the ‘One internet trick to lower your kidney fat’ clickbait school. If you don’t watch MAFS you wont have a clue what their stories are about.
Folks, the J-school work experience kiddies that do comment moderating and write story heads on weekends might be complete dills, but when news.com.au writers accept the job they must have their grey matter sucked out of their skulls by aliens.
US style drip filter coffee is invariably awful. Until the expresso coffee carts came along every conference I went to had this dreadful stuff stewing in jugs.
the J-school work experience kiddies i refer to are the ones at the Paywallian.
And then those with their own land and workshops can get a wreck for like $200, pull the unit, and sell the wreck for $200.
Drip filter coffee isn’t bad per se. The stuff served at conferences almost always Is though. Hotel coffee generally. Head out on the streets.
The Man Who Exposed The Crips, Bloods & CIA Connection to Crack Cocaine – Gary Webb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nG_4e39gL4
The War on Drugs is a f**king joke.
That execrable Dan Andrews decided he should comment on the death of a seventeen year old playing footy a Kyneton yesterday.
What a caring guy!
Fifteen year olds bouncing off your car bonnet, not so much.
Gez, that’s why the Aussies are doing so well in NYC. Our love of real expresso coffee is the only thing in which we’re ahead of the Americans with the dishwater they’ve historically preferred.
I’m still puzzled about why street-corner expresso coffee took off in Australia before America when Italian immigration was as big in the USA as it was in Australia and WW2.
No evidence of the Russians being involved. The rumour has something to do with a mysterious ‘Maltese professor’ Milfsud that cannot be found so it’s very likely this dirt was concocted by the Deep State in association with the Clinton gang.
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Woops. HTML fail!
Dotsays:
May 28, 2023 at 9:54 am
Brittany Higgins: ‘Thank you again. Sending you the best for the coming budget week! Hope you are well x’
Laura Tingle: ‘Thanks! I must confess I’m not looking forward to it…or the campaign. The past week of grubbiness over Kimberley Kitching has left me feeling quite ill.’
Political animals. Politics is all they care about.
Leftards have politics.
Non-leftards have lives.
Just sayin’.
I have drip filter coffee every day and the first cup from a fresh brew is glorious. I grind the beans then immediately brew them. If you use good beans your coffee will always be good, whether it’s drip style, French press, or espresso machine.
Tom – I expect it was related to the American diner. Australian cafe food is virtually a cuisine in its own right. No surprise to see Starbucks fail here while keeping on in places like the UK and parts of Asia.
In 2002 when staying at a B&B in Calgary, the lovely lady host had an expresso machine she had recently purchased as we were a booking.
“I know how you Aussies love your expresso coffee”
Yes we do.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
May 28, 2023 at 11:01 am
“mesomorph was serving as the current boyfriend.”
My prediction is that the current mesomorph won’t be around in five years.
Depends how long it takes to spend the payout?
Horse face a plucky second.
Did a bit of research into petrol delivery after Nurse Betty Clouseau’s claim of being ripped off by certain truck stop types at the pump.
You might note when filling up a visible vapour escaping from the tank. We call this evaporation. If the filler cap is off for three minutes at an ambient temperature of 25 degrees you will lose approximately 0.2% of the volume (100 mls in 50 litres). If you fill up when the temperature is freezing, this is reduced to 0.05% (25 mls).
My advice?
Fill up at the coldest part of the day (usually 5:00 a.m.) and don’t have the filler cap off a second longer than absolutely necessary.
It’s on!
Percolator vs espresso!
This could be bigger than Trucks vs Trains!
No Wodney Woddenhead.
No Googlery.
It’s just not the same around here.
From Ian Plimer ….Green Murder…700 times atmospheric pressure needed to store hydrogen as a gas. About -250° C for liquid hydrogen.
A difference between us and US re coffee is Americans are accustomed to black coffee, often refilled, whereas espresso coffee in this country is invariably milk laden, whether latte, flat white or the like, without a refill.
Hydrogen at Le Mans eh.
Fireworks from that after a crash might make it worth watching…
I used to love short black expresso. Disastrous for your blood pressure if you’re over 50. Gave it up when I quit the gaspers.
The old Greek/Turkish style coffee is the ultimate kick start. You could stand the spoon up in it and the black soup sticks to your teeth like primer.
The old Greek/Turkish style coffee is the ultimate kick start. You could stand the spoon up in it and the black soup sticks to your teeth like primer.
Sounds like coffee from parts of south east Asia as well. I used to drink tea when in that part of the world.
Wodney violated his parole and he’s back in the slammer. This time around it’s another 4 years.
ESPRESSO!!
Actually VERY interesting, I paid no attention ever the read a history of F1 rules. The innovation is unbelievable if you start off winning with a mighty motor and then they put in a maximum capacity of 370 ccs with emissions below detection.
But even more intensely interesting are the girls we imagine in racing!
apparently …
the feminine equivalent of avuncular is materteral (like an aunt)
There is a movie about that. Kill the Messenger. The war on drugs is the longest running war in recent history, has no resolution in sight, and has a negligible impact on drug availability. Those reports about a big bust impacting supply are rubbish. Strange how people believe the government propaganda about the war on drugs being efficacious.
I like Turkish coffee, drip coffee and piccolo lattes.
Have at me.
seriously,
this joint needs a down-tick button
Tom, there were diners and lot’s of them. They may have had cafes in places like Crooklyn early on, but I don’t know.
It’s just not Australians, but there are now Italian coffee shops in Manhattan. One hole in the wall joint we go to is owned by Aussies and they have a freaking rude Italian bitch taking orders. Lattes etc weren’t a big thing there in the 80s and 90s although people bought filtered coffee in the mornings. When I lived there folks would drink Colas in the freaking morning too. I’d almost dry retch at the site.
It’s just the logical extension of the days of “Rum, sodomy and the lash.”
I’m disappointed I can’t be down ticked.
I should perhaps clarify that my earlier description of events around Downer and his contribution to the Wussia hoax was what I understood was in the Durham report.
Bilderberg’s 2023 Agenda for Global Control: AI, CBDC, China, Censorship, and More
Video: There’s a solution to the nuclear waste problem, one we’ve known about for decades
I think they mean welcomed with open arms.
White House Caves to Anti-Israel Pressure on Anti-Semitism Rollout
This seems to be a GOP civil war. The Republication Texas Congress voted to impeach a Republication Attorney General.
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz Speak Out Against Effort to Impeach Texas AG Ken Paxton
The best coffee bean is grown in Vietnam…..’if theres two things I know its coffee and…..?..’
Nescafe man, meself…
I’ve never even heard of it.
Horrific footage shows devastation of Philadelphia’s ‘tranq’ epidemic
That discussion above about CIA involvement in drugs is no different to the FBI link to organised crime under J. Edgar Hoover. They were doing exactly what they were supposedly fighting against.
A mug of flat white without sugar is my go even though I like it black as well. Fear of further addiction keeps me away from the uncut form.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
BIG HARMA.
You get played while they get paid.
And you wonder why these people want you hooked on meds for life.
Pharmaceutical and health insurance CEOs were among the highest-paid executives of the largest U.S. companies in 2022. Here’s the top 8.
Te best Pepper is grown in Laos…..
Deliberate.
He was hoping to share a cell with Martin Armstrong.
Blockbuster Report: ZERO Young Healthy People Died from Covid, According to Israeli Ministry of Health Study
Just puttin’ this ‘ere.
Randy Quaid
@RandyRRQuaid
Here’s another fire set by the Dems & the Rinos that must be put out. What they’re doing to Trump they plan to do to every elected official in the country who challenges their corrupt tactics. Ken Paxton is among the first. Stand with @KenPaxtonTX to keep Texas red!
Cassie, I can imagine how we are now at the point that the Roman Empire was when their middle classes decided that it would be safer to throw their lot in with invaders than continue with the degeneracy of their rulers.
In the West’s case there are several invaders who may be acceptable to the middle and working classes. Europe has already decided that Islam is their future, that will certainly reset the rainbow nonsense. US and Australia seem to be flirting with the Chinese CCP conquerors. Our elites will be surprised that they will be the first to be eliminated however, CCP will need the working classes.
In all cases Christianity is in deep peril but so few of our church leaders can see the problem. Failure of western leadership is what will do us in.
It would be an honor having the fastest lip on a construction site downtick you. You just get goose bumps thinking about it.
thebradfordfile
@thebradfordfile
The “debt ceiling” is kabuki theater so that a bunch of crooks can spend trillions of dollars that don’t exist and congratulate themselves for not spending more.
In that case, every journalist who interviews Downer and doesn’t ask about his coverage in the Durham report is also in cahoots with him to pervert the course of justice. Truth doesn’t matter to them neither does justice as long as their favourite politicians are in power.
On the one hand we have the corruption of old Rome and on the other the degeneracy of Sodom and Gomorrah that I think we may be heading for some biblical blowback.
Prayers may help.
So the canbra shitshow just got even shittier.
Peter Flaherty speak the truth about Bill Gates at the Berkshire Hathaway 2023 Annual Meeting and is bundled away.
Not sure how the matter came up, but we’ve reached the point where telling the truth is the greatest sin.
Crossie:
Failure of the followers to hold their ‘leaders’ accountable will do us in.
Expecting to be saved by someone who takes all the risk for us, will do us in.
Waiting for a crisis point (to be announced by someone else) …
Davey Boy:
Avunculette.
Interesting.
Bourne 1879:
The Thorpe loose cannon rebounds off the forecastle deck, mowing down the gunner and two gunners mates, then entangles itself in the rigging from the main mast which it brought down in the roll to starboard, before lining itself up for a direct run to the quarter deck…
Let’s put a number on this.
How many children are we willing to allow to be sacrificed by neo-primitive, pathologically disturbed shamans, role-playing as reincarnated Aztecs?
Ten percent of a generation? A whole generation? Just one?
rosie:
I was looking for a price for a battery to tie in with the genset and solar panels. 3 years ago. Just a price, mind you over a range of capacities.
I never got one price, but I have had literally hundreds of emails, most of which ignore the unsubscribe request and have therefor lost any chance for getting business, but I have had many requests to send my details for a quote.
The Greens must be so proud of themselves, parachuting her into the Senate…
The inverter system and installation are the most expensive components. They don’t really care about the panels, even the batteries.
Turtlehead, were the sellers Indian?
Looks good.
A Review of “Wokeshevism”. Edited by Augusto Zimmermann and Joshua Forrester (28 May)
In their introduction, the editors – law professor Augusto Zimmerman and Joshua Forrester – tell us of the rationale for the title: “The term ‘Wokeshevism’ is a portmanteau of ‘woke’ and ‘Bolshevism’.” (19) They define both terms and remind us of the many similarities between the Left today and Lenin and the Bolsheviks: “‘Wokeshevism’ thus denotes the woke’s revolutionary zeal to impose their worldview on all parts of society, and to crush any dissent.” (22)
Zimmerman takes this further in his chapter discussing the links between Marxism, racism and genocide. He documents the Marxist roots of Nazi-Fascism, showing how they are indeed kissing cousins. For example, Mussolini’s fascism “grew up on the soil of Italian Marxism.” (283)
…
He continues: “There are, therefore, important commonalities between Nazism and Marxism. It is patently wrong to assume the Marxism is the polar opposite of Communism, or that the Nazis were ‘reactionary capitalist counter-revolutionaries’. As a matter of fact, the Nazis were committed socialists…” (289)
Prof Zimmermann will be well known to Quadrant readers. It’s nice that he has provided an essay on the nastiest bit of gaslighting in the last 80 years – that the Nazis were righty.
Great comment Cassie.
You should have made it a post.
I like most Americans was weaned at around 2 years old. So don’t drink milk or add it to coffee.
The truth is, these companies tend to avoid partial installations for “gifted amateurs”. They end up being harassed to death over perceived faults, which are never the fault of the “gifted amateur”.
They will either sell you a full system, instal it and take a level of responsibility for it, or sell you the components as specified by you.
They are not interested in a dissertation on exactly what you are going to use the components for, and how you propose to cobble them together.
It’s well known that their 12 volt batteries only deliver 11.96 volts.
Black Woman Who Was Fired From Equinox Gym After Being Late 47 Times in 10 Months, Sues For Discrimination – Jury Awards Her $11.3 Million
In NY of course.
If you have the time could some of you corporate Cats have a look at the structure of AEMO and tell me if you’ve seen anything like it before.
I don’t know if the mining industry has a like body but I doubt it. It strikes me as industry capture of a government regulator with staggering money flow.
Hey, Nurse Betty, did you tell the battery company that the batteries were critical for your iodine storage for the upcoming nucalear war?
Dover Beach:
Best coffee in the world – Moccona. No muss, no fuss. Consistently excellent. And leaves the enamel on your teeth, unlike the shit you get in cafes and specialty shops.
Just flicked on the TeeVee.
A VFL match is on between Gee-Long and Port Melbourne at Gee-long.
It sounds like Channel Stokes have left the crowd effects microphones in place from yesterday’s AFL match.
Let’s just say the audio is vastly different between a packed house and crowd of 200 with someone sitting right next to one of the microphones and shouting obscenities.
It doesn’t surprise me that you would say that.
most of which ignore the unsubscribe request
I was being pestered relentlessly by RedEnergy. Asked ’em to stop, advised I was on the no-call list …. all to no avail. Calls kept coming, and as I tend to work oddish hours they frequently disturbed my slumber
So I tracked down the sales manager’s name, found his phone number and started calling him at 11pm and later to ask how he enjoyed being pestered and having his sleep disrupted.
Three calls over two days was all that was needed. Suddenly, Red Energy concluded I wasn’t a likely prospect and the calls ended.
It’s worth trying if you’ve been unable to obtain satisfaction via more conventional means.
With Indian pests, ask the male callers if they’re into hot guy-on-guy action and if they find the taste of second-hand curry spoils the joy of rimming. The reactions are often quite amusing.
As for the Indian ladies, breath heavily and keep interrupting their scam spiels with questions about bust measurement and what they’re wearing.
Works a treat.
Oh please, she’s not going see even .1% of the award. Either the judge sets it aside or it heads to appeal.
The entire world is circling the drain. Woke left-wing extremists and their Alphabet People acolytes are ushering in a neo-Bolshevistic nightmare the Soviets could only dream of.
The estimate is around mid 3 on Richter scale. Probably a strike on bunker.
areffsays:
May 28, 2023 at 2:44 pm
ROFLMAO, love it.
I just got ignore calls from numbers I don’t know. On the rare occasion that it is something useful they will leave a message. For all the criticism of Telstra, their “Suspected Spam” warning is pretty good.
And, again, the gmail spam filter also works well.
Funny thing is, I went searching in my spam folder the other day looking for an email from my accountant. I found a couple of spam emails from “perfessional hackers” saying they had taken over my phone for months and had video of me watching pron. They would release the video to my mailing list if I didn’t pay various amounts (USD 500 to USD 1000) to a Bitcoin wallet within 24/48 hours.
Sure.
Umm, if you are “perfessional hackers” who have had control of my phone for months, why not just harvest my passwords and take waaay more than $500 – $1000 out of my accounts rather than pretend you have video of me wrestling the pajama python?
It got me thinking, though.
That scam has been around for years.
But it must have a small measure of success, and I am wondering who would fall for it.
The coffee wankers choice. I have a friend who orders one but she’s from Sydney so I just pretend she’s just sat down at the table.
That is soooo 2021.
The latest is cold-filtered.
The critical thing is to order it at 110 decibels and sound shocked if they don’t have it.
If they do have it you then interrogate them about source of beans and process.
Once it is delivered you again wind up the volume and go into full tasting notes mode.
If you are in full wanker mode ask if it’s anaerobic processed. The cafe I was at did unlimited refills of their batch coffee for $5. A good deal in Boomtown.
The best coffee in the world is from Kona.
In Perf you just order a long macchiato topped up. Unless you are some kind of weirdo.
I’ve started watching The Boys.
Surprisingly good.
Areff:
Unfortunately, these days you may just find yourself talking to a copperette at your front door, who has had her humour gland surgically removed at the pre graduation party and has the power to make your life rather interesting – for a given value of ‘interesting’.
H B Bear says:
May 28, 2023 at 3:12 pm
piccolo lattes
The coffee wankers choice. I have a friend who orders one but she’s from Sydney so I just pretend she’s just sat down at the table.
Jesus Christ am I drunk?
Does it come with Kona’s only other export, volcanic ash?
It’s ridiculous, the thing looks like a bong on steroids mated with a globular triffid.
I’d kill for an old CONA machine.
Drip coffee
Turkish coffee
Piccolo latte
Ristretto
Retro CONA coffee machines
I must be on a watchlist. Maybe I watched Avalon Now too many times.
I will join the coffee appraisal.
Many years ago our local (Sydney) cafe ran a raffle (of sorts) for a super-dooper Italian “Electra” coffee machine. Very coffee allowed an entry into the raffle.
One morning our barista/owner told us that we had one the machine. Then he added, “Actually that creep who comes in and sits for hours over one coffee won it….but I was not going to give it to him!”
We didn’t object.
We still have it. It’s been serviced twice over the years & is still as fabulous as it was years ago. Almost indistinguishable latte from anything dished up in fashionable cafes, and streets above the ones you pay thousands for in department stores. It was so good that we bought ourselves the latest Electra when we bought the farm. And we still have it – although the more modern version did have a few problems we had to iron out.
Very coffee
EVERY coffee…
Rafe:
I just bought your book via the Cat amazon site – it’s good to have ammunition to fire back at the AGW wankers.
I’ll let you know how it goes – and my opinion.
DeSantis is Running! Here’s What We Want You to Think
Someone here mentioned a couple of months ago they had contact with a new Australian writer doing Military Sci Fi.
I may have bought the series, and just finished them a week ago. Excellent stuff – especially about the drones.
For such a big budget production, I’m surprised they didn’t reshoot the scenes where Homelander & Butcher slipped into their native kiwi.
VickI;
I wouldn’t worry about the spelling, mine is atrocious at times and I think we are all getting a bit slack. I find I’m using the spellchecker more these days, just for missed keys etc.
Neil Oliver: ‘The Government practice of lying about why they’re doing something is forever exposed’
Some people take stupidity to an art form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWvaZzy2190
Well, I drink mugguccinos after midday.
Take that! coffee purists.
JC
Coffee Nazi?
Coffee Fascista.
Thorpey taking legal action against her erstwhile greenfilth employers is just gold.
Mad as cut snakes, they be. Stock up on popcorn, Cats. 🙂
Is there any other sort?
Having made that observation it would be most unfair to Franca (the woife of one of my best mates), who is one very classy lady – as is Jess, her dóttir. Her son Johnny, is pure Siciliano.
And he smashes me at FIFA nearly every time. 🙁
Worked for Rudd and her Teal overlord. Sure to be an accepted MO shortly, if not already. Going off on workers comp just doesn’t cut it anymore.
freaking rude Italian bitch taking orders
Coffee Nazi?
Coffee Fascista.
AntiCovfefeFa
I keep getting numerous phone calls from Victorian numbers, some from Melbourne, some from Bairnsdale and even Warrnambool. Some just hang up while others try to sell me solar panels and other renewable rubbish. These days I don’t answer any Victorian numbers and then block them.
I think all these people got my phone number from unscrupulous operators who sold it on after I had to put my phone number everywhere to gain entrance during the lockdowns and restrictions.
I don’t drink coffee, allergic to caffeine, so I can’t contribute much to this discussion except to say that freshly ground and then brewed coffee smells heavenly. I know well what I am missing out on but it can’t be helped.
Should be funnier then the circus.
Most of my calls will be going to a Barry Mundy of the Fisheries Department.
Daily Mail.
Someone give me a word, more powerful than contempt, disgust, malice, or hostility, to define my attitude towards the ABC.
Trigger: I just saw the zoo collection of freaks, creatures, and contemptuous arts grifters forced upon Australia by the egregious Art Works program.
Sorry to hear it, Squirette. Coffee is one of life’s simple pleasures.
Except when engaging my beloved Illy Masheen and then it becomes a labour of love.
You get back what you put in, in spades (or shovels if we’re getting pedantic).
Costs about $1.25 per cup and makes a Cappucino better than I can purchase in any Sydney Café.
Thanks, JC! 🙂
Rosie:
The main purpose of the Voice is to create division, disunity, and endless demands.
It has nothing to do with the children in the camps – they are just photo opportunities for more demands.
bons – never ever be hesitant about invoking “The Mantra™”
Shut It Down
Fire Them All
Mound of Skulls
Salt the earth
Nuke from Orbit …
I’d go even further – the main purpose of the voice is to render Australia ungovernable, if the voters ever have the temerity to install a Liberal Government.
Exactly.
Endless revolution. A Trot’s dream come true.
So, Rabz, a Mafia hitman?
Some stereotypes just won’t go away.
Ukraine is not the only country under existential threat, but it is the one most threatened now; that’s why it is the global frontline of freedom, and why every free country should rally to its side
Well, that lets Australia off the hook. Not that Ukraine is anything remotely like a free country. Abbott must be demented.
Pleasant morning on the range. Blue sky, no wind. Swapped around some scopes and rifles and have best scope on best rifle. Getting 5 shot groups in 20mm circle at 50 meters.
Let’s have some Rock ‘n’ Roll, Cats! 🙂
Well said, calli. “A Trot’s dream come true.”
Just read that threadreader on De Santis. He ain’t it.
Ongoing stoush with -ahem- “gifted and talented” PEAC program teacher who currently has our 11-y-o for a day per week.
Gday J—
Could you please forward me information on the Reconciliation Action Plan which the kids are working on, content and objectives? N— has said that she has no paper or on online information for us to view-
thanks-
W—.
Her reply-
Good morning W—. I have attached the document required for the funding that we received in 2021 for the RAP initiative which details the curriculum outcomes covered in this unit of work. The RAP has been an on-going project since 2021 and we have been lucky enough to be granted funding up until the end of 2023. It is a project aimed at giving students a voice and working towards reconciliation within our schools.
You can find more about the PALS project by visiting: https://www.dlgsc.wa.gov.au/funding/arts-funding/partnership-acceptance-learning-sharing-(pals)
I hope the attached gives you the information you are after.
Have a great weekend.
The attached plain Word file- square brackets are my own, and I have added some bolding to highlight the low bar of the State Education Department, for all input, output, teachers and students-
There are no Reconciliation Action Plans (RAP) in place for the different schools [which] PEAC students attend. Mandated action plans that acknowledge and respect the culture and approaches that support overall well-being of students, is the aim of the PEAC 2021 PALS project.
PALS funding will go towards involving academically able students in implementing action plans for each school, embracing inclusive environments. School action planning will show that each school is invested in the future of mutual respect, equality, and truth-telling.
Advancing reconciliation to date has been organic in our schools and PEAC would like to ensure this evolves into public advocacy of reconciliation. The documents would outline what each school is doing, planning to do and create an action driven committed vision for reconciliation.
The project would aim to develop a higher level of knowledge/understanding for students, peers and whole school communities.
Funds provided by PALS will aid in accessing resources on the teaching and learning of reconciliation perspectives including access to working with community elders, school leaders and communities.
CLASSROOM COMPONENT
Lessons will include: exploring the presence and significance of Aboriginal people within their school community; individual responses, small group activities and whole class discussions on the history of Aboriginal perspectives and how this relates to their prior learning; collection of data on Aboriginal presence and representation in the school; analysing current policies and viewpoints within the context of the school; interviewing school leaders and local elders on their vision for the school, reconciliation and action; making informed decisions and recommendation[s] on a shared vision of Reconciliation within the school after exploring influences and viewpoints.
The activities will allow students to consolidate prior learning and support students in acquiring new knowledge and developing critical analysis skills in response to different viewpoints and perspectives. Each activity will be _ linked to Year 6 Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions, as well as the Australian Curriculum Cross-curriculum Priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.
• Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions. (ACELY1709)
• Identify different points of view/perspectives in information and/or data (e.g. analyse language, identify motives) (WAHASS57)
• Interpret information and/or data collected (e.g. sequence events in chronological order, identify cause and effect, make connections with prior knowledge) (WAHASS56)
• Use ethical protocols when gathering information and/or data (e.g. acknowledge the work of others, reference work appropriately, obtain permission to use photographs and interviews (WAHASS54).
This project will seek to develop student’s understanding and awareness into the presence and significance of Aboriginal people within their school community. The lessons provided will guide and support students in their learning, incorporating individual responses, small group activities and whole class discussions. The activities will allow students to consolidate their prior learning of Aboriginal perspectives and support students in acquiring new knowledge and developing critical analysis skills in response to different viewpoints and perspectives. Each activity will be _ linked to Year 6 Australian Curriculum Content Descriptions, as well as the Australian Curriculum Cross-curriculum Priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures.
information, experiences and opinions. (ACELY1709).
https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/general-capabilities-over/intercultural-understanding/introduction
…more to follow.
Scum rises to the top in revolutions.
And the cream of the scum become the secret police.
err, Tommy, he’s 14. Although according to his ol’ man, he does consider me a role model. 😕
Yoof. Forget about trying to understand them. You may as well go and bang your head on a brick wall.
Anything over 4 would be a worry.
This is Albo’s vanity project. But it goes beyond that and he knows it.
Gough, hold my beer.
You may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful woife …
And still not know what to do next … 😕
Eyrie:
Good stuff. What are your tools?
A similar directive was issued by the African National Congress in the buildup to “Black Majority Rule” in the early 1990’s – “Make the country ungovernable…..”
Tidy.
Us muzzleloaders would like to do that, but for most of us, no chance. We would probably need a rest to do that.
A very long rest.
I just want a woife like Love Quinn.
Here she is, effortlessly looking down her nose at Miss Personage.
The last dream a Trot had was interrupted by an icepick.
The Left are tone-deaf when it comes to history.
Which will also come for them, with icepicks.
Artificial Intelligence telling porkies?
Attorney gets lazy, relies on ChatGPT to draft his case, provide citations, quotes, etc. and gets burned at the bench when the opposition checks the citations. Why? Because six of the submitted cases ChatGPT supposedly came up with appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations. Upon interrogation regarding its results ChatGPT confirms its lies.
ChatGPT “mistakes” can apparently produce other problems, such as libel.
So, whose idea was it to program ChatGPT to ahem, fib?
… and insert a new royal class, with associated titles and privileges.
Strange that Mr. Grant doesn’t like royalty.
Out with the old (colonisers), in with the new (colonisers), huh?
A busker at our local IGA regularly sings Space Oddity, which he renders excellently. I always give him three dollars. Despite being a small place he does pretty well, as I caught him once in the bottlo counting and cashing in all the change he’d collected. He bought a longneck. After a morning singing it was a fine reward for a well used throat.
He never does Ashes to Ashes, so I will.
David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes (1980)
Calli:
He isn’t Australia’s Obama, but I suspect he is paving the way for him.
By then, the ashes will have cooled, and practically everything erased.
Wasteland Zero.
Just bloody magnifique, Cats.
The iron curtain was always going to be little more than tinfoil for those mighty eastern Europeans who shouted “enough” back in the late eighties.
The newly liberated brunette goil, the string section, the Hutchence – it’s all there.
They will never tear us apart.
Zatara, bone up on yer Asimov.
Everything a robot does is so programmed to, by a human.
Wally, that’s exactly why I asked:
Better late than never.
Oh please, she’s not going see even .1% of the award. Either the judge sets it aside or it heads to appeal.
It’s the principle head prefect (get it); as Razey said:
The entire world is circling the drain. Woke left-wing extremists and their Alphabet People acolytes are ushering in a neo-Bolshevistic nightmare the Soviets could only dream of.
To cheer everyone up here’s a cute owl.