I regret to say I have never met an Ellie Mae, Cohenite.

I have , Entropy.

But I’m a better shot.

SMH has context. Yup, easy rent a crowd in a country from my experience that’s people generally have a high opinion of Uc da loi…

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/banh-mi-beer-and-friendship-on-the-menu-for-anthony-albanese-in-vietnam-20230603-p5ddmt.html

One thing I’m certain of at least, Kenny is secretly married to Marcia Langton.

Well, just watched the Battle of Little Big Horn on Gem.

Obviously sanitised for the viewers, possibly shot in Montana, but I doubt it. It took me back to that sad hillside, late in the afternoon, the shadows lengthening on the grass and the little markers, showing where the men fell.

YouTube will stop removing false presidential election fraud claims.

YouTube is reversing its policies on election misinformation. Starting today, YouTube will stop removing content that “advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections

Why? Are they taking a small step towards the light?

No – they are clearing the decks ready for an avalanche of claims of electoral fraud by Democrats when Biden loses in 2024.

Watch for more reversals to allow Democrats to do everything that they condemn the Right for.

if morality is a thing … then why so many versions
one flavour certainly must be the correct flavour

A moral sense is like a sense of humour, the one you are born with is pretty primitive, but it evolves and developes as you grow older. Some cultures are more conducive to development than others. It’s pretty clear that some people spontaneously laugh at things others don’t find funny, but enough people make a living as comedians to strongly suggest that there is a fair bit of agreement that some things are funny and others are not.
If you replace funny and not funny with good and bad respectively, you get the same result. There’s a fair amount of agreement, and a certain amount of dissent.
As to what ‘objective’ means, well, you’d have to be a bit weird to deny that jokes exist.

South Korea: Say no to Micron’s share in China and Sides with the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan/Sharp turn
China Insights
In the last episode, we covered the story of this matter and concluded that the CCP’s move was intended to use Micron’s vacated market in China to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies and put the U.S.-led coalition against the CCP to the test. For example, they offered the vacated share of Micron in the memory chip market to South Korea’s Samsung or SK Hynix as a lure.
Once the CCP uses its military power to attack Taiwan, the global economy will be greatly affected for sure, and no one can stay intact, away from it. South Korea will definitely be the first to bear the impact. At this critical moment, if South Korea doesn’t opt for the U.S. side, it would face a major or lethal risk in the event of a conflict.

Albanese mobbed by locals while sampling beer, banh mi
Ben Packham

Does Ben get free travel, bed and breakfast, to foment over his illustrious Il Douche Albanese, or does he just sit at home and regurgitate the official press release for his shilling.?

I’d guess ending the Uke war would be a vote winner for Trump.
So the Dems will try to tidy it up before the POTUS primaries begin in Feb `24.

You have a touchpad I presume, Pogria?

Select an item: Tap on the touchpad.
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Top Ender, thanks heaps.
I will be practicing directly. 😀
Fingers crossed.

we should know by now that all parties are cut from the same cloth ..

Well , they aren’t. The LNP get all scared into doing SFA when in power. No conviction, no guts. Bunch of cowards. Whereas the Liars go full tilt at getting their agenda , maaates and OPM vote buying implemented.

And, like humour, the devil hates music also. Unless he can debase it, of course, but that is incredibly hard to do. Beautiful music always wins.

His servants, however, find it hard to bear.

And, like humour, the devil hates music also.

Yes, the aesthetic sense is very similar to the moral sense and the sense of humour; they all develope with exposure.

It’s not a fixed thing that we all observe, like the sun and moon, but it’s clearly there.. It’s as if we’re all climbing a mountain; we start from different places, we are at different heights, and nobody’s got to the top. But we know when we’ve got a step higher up.

Top Ender.
I sent an email to you via Dover last night.
It may end up in your junk mail as it’s a funky address (the good addresses like ‘hotnerdymess’ were taken).

BRS was IMHO badly advised.These proceedings were way to complicated to control .Too many issues girl friends, wife ,ex comrades,ex enemies ryc etc.
He was never going to win on all these issues.
Defamation proceedings need to be simple about limited issues.
Remember John Wren who sued for criminal libel arguing that Power without Glory painted his wife as an adulteress.In order to proceed he had to admit all the other stuff was true I.e. illegal gambling etc etc..His reputation never recovered.BRS was chasing too many rabbits

The LNP get all scared into doing SFA when in power. No conviction, no guts. Bunch of cowards.

Their voters don’t expect much from them, and will continue to vote for them regardless of their efforts, so why exert oneself?

If I may be somewhat direct: Why open one’s fly and flop it out when one risks attention from passing seagulls?

Pogriasays:
June 3, 2023 at 7:39 pm
Here’s hoping. A blast from the past has risen from the tar-pit.
https://twitter.com/marilyn71518418?s=11&t=6bcsAnzSNsf4oiVFiftxdA

If this link works, hat-tip to Kae.

Mary-Loon Sheep-Head seems a trifle upset. She’ll bust a kerfoofle valve if she doesn’t calm down.

Kurt Schlicter in Townhall:

But isn’t that the problem – the ignoring of us, the base? Whenever I deal with these people, I get the idea that we are being just barely tolerated, that the attitude of the pros – pros who, I might add, keep failing to perform adequately – is that we should shut up, put up, and pay up. Our input is not needed or wanted. Great attitude – fine work, people. Want to know why GOP small-donor donations are a fraction of what the Dems rake in? Because we get treated like trash. From refusing to deign to explain to us what our money and time will be used to do to being dunned by endless emails explaining how we suck for failing to pay up, the GOP is just one step behind Bud Light and Target in their understanding, appreciation, and cultivation of their consumers.

I’m struggling to identify why this seems familiar…

No one is perfect.

The Irish never declared peace in our time and thousands still volunteered to fight as British soldiers.

The spite old IRA men had is not what the average Irish man felt.

de Valera never went to a classical music recital with Hitler nor did the Irish* have a significant black shirt movement nor a Lord Haw Haw figure.

The Irish had a choice with Churchill’s ultimatum and they could have asked Germany for help.

They didn’t.

*Joyce was a very conflicted American with Irish roots (mixed denomination heritage but pro Union Protestant) and English relatives who was a British soldier and very likely a Black and Tan informer – and ultimately a black shirt and Nazi German citizen.

Rising Sinn Fein votes are on the back of the DUP boycotting the NI Parliament and the 2020 Irish Republic vote was high as a protest vote by younger voters: unification, housing prices and left wing ideas like being anti austerity (a tragic result of public education).

Those voters aren’t joining the IRA’s many splinter groups.

I see, by the way, that the Stalinist Hunchback of Spring Street has had to back down on the imposition of payroll tax on non-government schools.

No thanks to Victoria’s useless excuse for an opposition, of course. But there are an awful lot of leftist hypocrites in Victoria who oppose private education in principle but send their own kids to private schools. Chairman Dan is one of them, and the others must have been whinging in his oversized ears.

All good, rosie. Condolences can be expressed in upticks.

Thank God for the Irish; it was an Irishman who defeated Emperor le Nosey.

Lifted below from post at Jo Nova. As poster mentioned you can read it online or buy copies. I was sent a copy by somebody who bought 5,000 to give out. It is getting around and they printed 250,000 of latest edition.

The Light Australia – Being Paid for and Distributed By Volunteers – A Grass Roots Movement With Mass Impacts

I discovered The Light Australia today. The site is accessible and all issues are downloadable from this link (below). Some articles are Australia-specific, others are applicable everywhere! What a brilliant movement! Businesses are distributing it; volunteers are door dropping it; people are sharing it.

https://thelightaustralia.com/

feelthebern says:
June 3, 2023 at 8:16 pm
Tonight I had the best burger I’ve ever had in Oz.
From a food truck on the side of Canterbury Road, Belmore.

Must have started at lunch.

Didn’t get it Muddy, and it’s not in spam. Make sure you send it to my gmail address, not Bigpond – I left Telstra due to their server problems some months ago. I’ll check Dover has the right one.

Top Ender.
I emailed it to Dover and asked him to pass it on, rather than asking for your address first. Perhaps it’s slipped into Dover’s spam filter.

Some real stories and data, not feelings.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20350818.html

***While Dr MacCarthy’s* story is incredible it is only one of many remarkable accounts of what happened to the Irishmen and women who chose to serve in the British armed forces during the Second World War. The Irish state was officially neutral but Britain owed a huge debt to the Irish people who fought on the Allied side. Some 70,000 citizens of Ireland served in the British armed forces during the war, together with another 50,000 from Northern Ireland.***

*Irish medical Dr, joined the RAF in 1939, was a POW of the Japanese and survived an atomic bombing. Sunk three times as either an evacuee or POW. Earnt the George Medal, outside of combat with the enemy.

OK, we’ve got the horse. Where’s the dog?

The bloke can’t speak so has one of those things Hawking uses to communicate. Just a humble bloke trying to change shit for the betterment of others. He knows he will perish, but it’s taken a long time for him to succumb to something which takes its victims mostly within 3 years of diagnosis.
Phucking champion

Word.

Bit of Combat Rock for Saturday night… I give you The Clash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ

Interesting views from Irish people

https://www.quora.com/How-do-people-in-the-Republic-of-Ireland-feel-about-the-IRA

1.

If you mean today in 2017, 19 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement by all major parties in Northern Ireland and with a functioning if fragile democracy in place in the north, then I would say the vast majority of the people of Ireland (99%) believe the IRA is no longer necessary and should either disband completely or at least cease all violent and illegal activities.

However if you were to go back 20 or 30 years the situation would not be so clear cut. Prior to 1998, due to a system of gerrymandering there was no true democratic representation for Catholics in Northern Ireland.

This had been the case since the formation of the Irish Free State and the partition of the Island in 1922. Civil rights marches by Catholics had been tried in Northern Ireland in the late 60’s and early 70’s but had been either banned or broken up by the police.

In such a situation, where civil rights are being withheld from a population and the peaceful means that have been tried have been met with government-backed violence, many people will concede that armed struggle if not inevitable, will be the most likely outcome.

Having said that, during the period of the troubles, the IRA were never supported by a majority of the people of Ireland.

2.

Assuming we’re talking about the PIRA and its various offshoots during and after the Troubles, generally very negatively, with the exception of a minority. Most folks here have no more time for the IRA’s terrorism and criminal activities than they do for any other sort of terrorists.

A minority of folks (generally Sinn Fein supporters, that party having effectively been the IRA’s PR department before the current peace) feel more positively towards the IRA. Their justification of it tends to centre around notions that “there was a war going on”. If you call them on the various acts of terrorism the IRA committed, the responses vary – attacks on the security forces in the North, they tend to consider “legitimate targets”/”war something something”. For the more heinous stuff, they tend to either just admit that was wrong (a more modern development), or some variation of it was collateral damage/the Brits made them do it, describe it as “unauthorised” action, or outright pretend it wasn’t the IRA (a fairly common tactic during the Troubles especially – the IRA would only take credit for activities that it felt put it in a good light).

The dissident Republican offshoots of the IRA (the CIRA/Real IRA, etc), have very little support at all in the Republic nowadays, including amongst Sinn Fein members. Sinn Fein folks’ support for the IRA is historical (though quite recent history) at this point; the PIRA has ended their “armed struggle” and Sinn Fein is very much into the peace process. They’ll still usually stand over most of the things the IRA did during the Troubles, mind you.

For a lot more detail and background (on the early days of the Troubles especially, which I’m not as familiar with), see several excellent answers to this question (I haven’t merged them as the other question seem to be inquiring more towards government support):

3. (Why do Brits keep saying that the US funded the IRA?)

Not just Brits. I’m Irish, from a Republican background, want a United Ireland and live in a Northern Irish nationalist town. You did fund the IRA. They also knew your security services were far less on the ball than those in the UK, so they did a lot of planning, recruiting and weapons dealing in America. Whether it was incompetence or collusion on the part of your secret services I don’t know. But look up Noraid and its role in funding the IRA, what your politicians supported. You guys have and had no clue what it was like living here with the mess you made sticking your noses in. It was bad enough without American influence. You’ll probably think all Irish Nationalists were pro IRA. No. We aren’t and weren’t. If it hadn’t been for America we could have had a more peaceful island years earlier, the situation wouldn’t have escalated, some people I know wouldn’t have died, my father wouldn’t have been shot at and we’d never have been bombed out of our home.

Maybe de Valera should have taken up Churchill’s offer of Irish unity in exchange for an alliance and mobilisation. I think Churchill truly did not have the power to grant this to Ireland. He was very popular for most of the war but but one man out of hundreds in the Commons, let alone the hundreds of Lords, as well as the King and Ulster Unionists. On the other hand de Valera might have just been expressing his bitter clinger sentiments.

I don’t and I never have “damned all Irish people”.

It wasn’t you.

However, it is worth nothing that perhaps the most anti-Semitic country in Europe in 2023 is the Republic of Ireland.

Why is that so?

However, it is worth nothing that perhaps the most anti-Semitic country in Europe in 2023 is the Republic of Ireland.

More than any country in Eastern Europe, for example? And is Russia considered part of Europe these days?

Lizzie

Become German bro, stop giving a crap about what people think of you.

It worked for Professor Ulrich Shimmack!