In Katy’s case, I would stretch the 30 feet to 130 feet. Chew your arm off material, that one.

Face like a smashed crab.

MSNBC’s Maddow suggests DOJ could do quid pro quo with Trump, dropping charges if he leaves 2024 race

Yeah nah, he’s not getting away that easy.

Sure dickless. Trump is clear. This clears him. You’re such a piece of shit.

Off another blog ……..
This speaks to Luigi’s ‘Voice’ far better that I ever could.
—–
When the shearing sheds are silent, and the stock camps fallen quiet,
When the gidgee coals no longer glow across the outback night.
And the bush is forced to hang a sign, ‘gone broke and won’t be back’,
And spirits fear to find a way beyond the beaten track.
When harvesters stand derelict upon the wind-swept plains,
And brave hearts pin their hopes no more on chance of loving rains.
When a hundred outback settlements are ghost towns overnight;
When we’ve lost the drive and heart we had to once more see us right.
When ‘Pioneer’ means a stereo and ‘Digger’ some backhoe,
And the ‘Outback’ is behind the house; there’s nowhere else to go!
And ‘Anzac’ is a biscuit brand and probably foreign owned;
And education really means brainwashed and neatly cloned.
When you have to bake a loaf of bread to make a decent crust,
And our heritage once enshrined in gold, is crumbling to dust.
And old folk pay their camping fees on land for which they fought,
And fishing is a great escape; this is until you’re caught.
When you see our kids with Yankee caps and resentment in their eyes,
And the soaring crime and hopeless hearts is no longer a surprise.
When the name of RM Williams is a yuppie clothing brand
And not a product of our heritage that grew off the land.
When offering a hand makes people think you’ll amputate,
And two dogs’ meeting in the street is what you call a ‘Mate’.
When ‘Political Correctness’ has replaced all common sense;
When you’re forced to see it their way, there’s no sitting on the fence.
Yes, one day you might find yourself an outcast in this land.
Perhaps your heart will tell you then, ‘ I should have made a stand!’
Just go and ask the farmers, that should remove all doubt.
Then join the swelling ranks who say, ‘ Don’t sell Australia out!’

Australia is in real trouble!

Author credit- Chris Long

Jebus. shatterzzz has turned the Cat into Macca on a Sunday morning. How’s the weather at your place?

Wouldn’t it be nice if we were allowed to do this in Australia. I can dream.

Don’t even need to frack.
Tons of oil and gas sitting in PEP11*, and conveniently located close to existing generation areas, and where we once (sigh) had refineries.

* I warned the opponents that they would get windmills but I was mocked. Well I am doing the mocking now.

Ladies might wish to leave the room at this point.

Never married. A state of affairs I remain quite happy with. And do others, I’m sure.

Cassie at 8.58

her usual bullying, her faux butch strap on demeanour, her smirking, was reduced to nothing by Uhlmann

Brilliant stuff.

The reference to Gallagher as the Wickedd Witch in the Wizard of Oz reminds me of a quote fromthe actress, Margaret Hamilton who played the witch. Margaret by her own confession would not have been one of Hollywood’s beauties. When she was an old lady she recalled her casting in the film:-

I was in need of money at the time, I had done about six pictures for MGM at the time, and my agent called. I said, ‘Yes?’ and he said ‘Maggie, they want you to play a part on the Wizard.’ I said to myself, ‘Oh, boy, The Wizard of Oz! That has been my favorite book since I was four.’ And I asked him what part, and he said, ‘The Witch,’ and I said, ‘The Witch?!’ and he said, ‘What else?’

If there’s ever a remake, we may have someone less attractive for the part. Step forward, Katy.

PoliticsFederalJustice

Opinion
Mutually-assured misery of Higgins case is rough justice for all
Jacqueline Maley
Jacqueline Maley
Columnist and senior journalist
June 11, 2023 — 5.00am

I suspect most sensible people are so confused and horrified by the saga of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation against her former colleague Bruce Lehrmann that they have stopped reading about it.

It is a story of human misery on all sides, a narrative defined by binary conflicts and deep enmities, with much hidden from public view, and so many competing agendas that it has become too nasty to keep up with.

Legally, the matter has always been fraught to write about – first, because of the possibility of prejudicing the trial for rape of Lehrmann, who was, and is, entitled to the presumption of innocence. He has never been convicted of any wrongdoing and has always fiercely denied he had any sexual contact with Higgins.

That risk no longer exists, as Lehrmann’s trial was aborted in October last year due to juror misconduct.

But now, the matter is tricky to write about because of the defamation danger involved. Lehrmann, in an effort to salvage his reputation, has filed a defamation claim against two broadcasters. He is suing Channel Ten, which broadcast the original interview in which Higgins alleged she was raped in the parliamentary office of their mutual boss, Senator Linda Reynolds. He is also suing the ABC, which broadcast the joint 2022 National Press Club speech of Higgins and sexual abuse survivor Grace Tame.

The Higgins/Lehrmann matter has always been further complicated by its grubby entanglement with politics.

Now, private text messages sent between Higgins and her partner David Sharaz, a former journo-turned-media svengali, have been leaked to The Australian newspaper. The texts refer to the various Labor politicians – then in opposition – Sharaz claimed he was speaking to about Higgins’ allegations, a few days before they were aired publicly. His intent seems to have been to brief opposition parliamentarians, notably now-Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, to get political traction for Higgins’ allegation.

At one point in the leaked texts, Sharaz called then prime minister Scott Morrison a “c—“, and Higgins says Morrison is “about to be f—ed over”. The implication is clear – they held a vendetta and were working to hurt the government with the allegation.

Labor politicians were more than happy to use the allegation to put political pressure on their opponent – they grilled the government over the matter in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Sharaz was not working as a journalist at the time, but it is certainly common for journalists to confer with politicians about the kinds of questions the politicians might ask in parliament, in order to expose whatever issue it is the journalist is going after.

An allegation of rape in Parliament House, and further allegations that the matter was not treated sensitively or adequately by the government of the day, clearly amount to a story in the public interest. It was reported on with good reason.

Likewise, what opposition faced with such an allegation would not have asked questions about it?

The problem for Gallagher is she was involved in a heated exchange with Reynolds in June 2021 in Senate Estimates, in which Reynolds accused Gallagher of knowing about the allegation “two weeks before [the story broke]“. Gallagher replied: “No-one had any knowledge. How dare you? It’s all about protecting yourself.”

She is now being accused of misleading parliament, a claim the Albanese government denies. The prime minister has attempted to dead-bat the allegation by saying he has “complete faith” in Gallagher.

A further complication is the compensation payout Higgins received as a Commonwealth employee. Opposition leader Peter Dutton is now saying he supports that matter being referred to the new National Anti-Corruption Commission, which opens for business on July 1.

Excuse the vulgarity, but the entire saga brings to mind the credo of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who said the way to best your enemy was to “flood the zone with shit”.

The text messages from Higgins’ phone are personal and private. They were obtained in the course of the police investigation, some under subpoena, but never tendered as evidence in court – with good reason. They were not relevant to the central allegation.

That they were leaked at all is a scandal that should be investigated. (Lehrmann’s lawyer has said his client has “no idea” who is behind the leaks.) The fact they are in the public domain would strike terror into the heart of anyone contemplating reporting an alleged sexual assault.

A key part of the defence case in the trial was Higgins’ reluctance to turn over her phone to police as part of their investigations. Higgins said she did not trust the police, and was fearful. Any reasonable person watching this vicious exposure might conclude Higgins was right to be fearful. They might also conclude her lack of faith in the justice system was rational.

Perhaps it has been forgotten in the fog of war, but Higgins’ allegation led to lasting and important reforms to the culture of Parliament House, and the way alleged sexual misconduct is dealt with in the place.

Research on the reporting of sexual assault is very strong, and very clear, and it delivers the same message over and over again: in general, sexual assault is under-reported and under-prosecuted. Convictions are difficult to secure because sexual assault tends to take place with no witnesses, and with little physical evidence to suggest assault over consensual intercourse.

Take just one set of figures, from the NSW Bureau of Crimes Statistics and Research in 2021: the prosecution rate for sexual offences was 20 per cent for adult reports and 12 per cent for child reports. In the same year, the prosecution rate for murder was 63.5 per cent. For domestic violence assaults, it was 69.3 per cent, and for other assaults it was 32.3 per cent. Firearm robberies had a 51.2 per cent prosecution rate. Assaults against police had a prosecution rate of 88.1 per cent.

Whatever you think of the merits of the bitter and thoroughly awful Higgins/Lehrmann matter, the villainising of a sexual assault complainant in the press, and the rubbishing of her privacy, is a terrible indictment on our society’s ability to administer justice.

Wow! J’ismists still can’t get it right. Unsurprisingly.

I am sitting in my motor home at Eighty Mile Beach caravan park, top spot!

Wanted to ask how the $275.00 reduction in power bills is going?
The changes will come into effect in New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland from July 1, and in Victoria from August 1.

The price increases for residential properties range from 21 per cent to nearly 30 per cent.

These increases will be over $1000.00 in SA and well north of $500.00 elsewhere. Bowen thinks price rises mean cheaper power!

All I can say to the average Australian who voted for this rabble is, bend over and take your medicine.

flyingduksays:
June 11, 2023 at 8:40 am
And in more ‘I’m sure its nothing’ news:

1) mRNA tech can be used to permanently sterilise cats

And on this Blog, please use this tech on MontyPox Virus and Head Case, a Suitable Case for Treatment……….lol

The only real threat to the administration of Justice was Drumgold’s failure to fulfil the duties of a DPP – something you suspect Sofronoff will remedy with extreme prejudice – and possible juror misconduct. Had he done so nobody would have ever heard of Brittany who would now be fulfilling a more useful role as fish and chip wrapping. As I have previously said, this is to say nothing about the guilt or otherwise of Lehrmann who despite everything that has gone on would appear to have a case to answer.

H B Bearsays:

June 11, 2023 at 9:46 am

Putting the bombings to one side, many of the Unabomber’s lifestyle choices make perfect sense. Except working in academia.

And also bombing people as a hobby.
The main flaw in his plan was that he was about 43% as smart as he thought he was.

What case to answer?

A circumstantial case based on arriving with a woman who approximately an hour later is found naked on a couch and later complains of being raped. Whether a properly instructed jury would convict or other failures of evidence etc means the case should never be brought are really separate and distinct questions.

Why are there no ‘Wings’ or ‘Wongs’ in the Chinese Telephone Directory?

So that you can’t ‘wing’ the ‘wong’ number.

And with all those Windmills, the bearings need oil for lubrication. Ban fossil fuels (Hydrocarbons) and what to use instead.

A Greenpeace Spokesperson said – ‘Well, Whale Oil of course”

Sarc……………

Whatever you think of the merits of the bitter and thoroughly awful Higgins/Lehrmann matter, the villainising of a sexual assault complainant in the press, and the rubbishing of her privacy, is a terrible indictment on our society’s ability to administer justice.”

Villiainising?
They are her own words, and the words of other members of Team Britnah.
As for privacy, she willingly gave up her privacy in exchange for fame and political/celebrity contacts.
Reap the whirlwind, darl.

Most of the quality Ukrainian soldiers have been killed.

Presumably, their best troops make up the new brigades waiting to exploit
the sacrificial courage expected of those second echelon forces
trying to punch through Ivan’s fixed defences.
In the words of that other Monty: You don’t open with your best batsman.
Probably.

I have the body of an eighteen year old.

I keep it in the fridge.

– Spike Milligan

I don’t believe a word Brittany Higgins has ever said or ever will say, she’s a liar. Lehmann has no case to answer, if there was sexual activity on the couch, it was consensual.

It’s possible the jury wouldn’t have been out long.

As I have previously said, this is to say nothing about the guilt or otherwise of Lehrmann who despite everything that has gone on would appear to have a case to answer.

Past tense.
Had a case to answer.
The first trial did not reach a conclusion and, notwithstanding juror misconduct, seemed unlikely to reach a verdict.
The case was not taken to a second trial because of the low chance of prosecution, which now has the legal status equivalent to as if he had never been charged.
Yeah, yeah, the “Britnah mental elf” smokescreen.
I am sure Mr Sofronoff will devote some time to this disgraceful episode in his final report.
Mr Sofronoff may well conclude that Dumgold was a tad too enthusiastic in the execution of his duties, from which the conclusion would be that the prosecution should never have proceeded in the first place.
That is, no case to answer.

2 of the Detectives who interviewed Lehrmann wrote that he was lying.
The jury never got to hear about that, because a cop further up the tree omitted it from the brief of Evidence.

Citation needed PhuckEd. Stop the inferences.

yeah, wot others said. BMI is a crap indicator.

In the past when I was running marathons, BMI was 26, which is described as “borderline obese”.

You don’t train for (over heaps of miles and hours) and participate in such events if you’re “borderline obese”.

BMI is a joke metric. I suspect it’s a bit like the climate BS where magic numbers are deployed in an effort to justify getting grifter paws on OPM.

What, 11/1 unlikely to reach a verdict?

Yes, I agree.
It is true that there were 11 votes to acquit and it was only scuttled by a single juror planting “research” in the jury room, for fear that the jurdge might accept a majority verdict to acquit.
However, whilst I could legitimately say a not guilty verdict was highly likely, from a strict legal standpoint the trial was a stalemate.
Which means Lehrmann is presumed innocent.
Would you like to say more?
Remember, I am not the only one watching you.

A holdover from last night that I said I’d post today, with brief comments following:

“Why Are We Socialists?

We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state.

Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the working class. It promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to breaking the present slavery and regaining German freedom. Socialism, therefore, is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but a matter for everyone, for freeing the German people from slavery is the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only through a total fighting brotherhood with the forward-striving energies of a newly awakened nationalism. Without nationalism it is nothing, a phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it is everything, the future, freedom, the fatherland!

The sin of liberal thinking was to overlook socialism’s nation-building strengths, thereby allowing its energies to go in anti-national directions. The sin of Marxism was to degrade socialism into a question of wages and the stomach, putting it in conflict with the state and its national existence. An understanding of both these facts leads us to a new sense of socialism, which sees its nature as nationalistic, state-building, liberating and constructive.

The bourgeois class is about to leave the historical stage. In its place will come the class of productive workers, the working class, that has been up until today oppressed. It is beginning to fulfill its political mission. It is involved in a hard and bitter struggle for political power as it seeks to become part of the national organism. The battle began in the economic realm; it will finish in the political. It is not merely a matter of wages, not only a matter of the number of hours worked in a day — though we may never forget that these are an essential, perhaps even the most significant part of the socialist platform — but it is much more a matter of incorporating a powerful and responsible class in the state, perhaps even to make it the dominant force in the future politics of the fatherland. The bourgeoisie does not want to recognize the strength of the working class. Marxism has forced it into a straitjacket that will ruin it. While the working class gradually disintegrates in the Marxist front, bleeding itself dry, the bourgeoisie and Marxism have agreed on the general lines of capitalism, and see their task now to protect and defend it in various ways, often concealed.

We are socialists because we see the social question as a matter of necessity and justice for the very existence of a state for our people, not a question of cheap pity or insulting sentimentality. The worker has a claim to a living standard that corresponds to what he produces. We have no intention of begging for that right. Incorporating him in the state organism is not only a critical matter for him, but for the whole nation. The question is larger than the eight-hour day. It is a matter of forming a new state consciousness that includes every productive citizen. Since the political powers of the day are neither willing nor able to create such a situation, socialism must be fought for. It is a fighting slogan both inwardly and outwardly. It is aimed domestically at the bourgeois parties and Marxism at the same time, because both are sworn enemies of the coming workers’ state. It is directed abroad at all powers that threaten our national existence and thereby the possibility of the coming socialist national state.

Socialism is possible only in a state that is united domestically and free internationally. The bourgeoisie and Marxism are responsible for failing to reach both goals, domestic unity and international freedom. No matter how national and social these two forces present themselves, they are the sworn enemies of a socialist national state.

We must therefore break both groups politically. The lines of German socialism are sharp, and our path is clear.

We are against the political bourgeoisie, and for genuine nationalism!

We are against Marxism, but for true socialism!

We are for the first German national state of a socialist nature!

We are for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party!”

Joseph Goebbels, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932). Bolding is mine.

Nothing could be clearer from this that Socialism was key to the Nazi program. The Nazis positioned themselves as for the German working class, which was about to be incorprated by the Nazis into the German nation as the spearhead of a new society, and against the bourgeois class, which must now accept it’s historical fate and be conscripted, willingly or by force (turns out they were quite willing!) to the goals of national socialism. National socialism, that is, as opposed to international Marxism, which is the enemy of the ethnically united socialist nation state. The struggle between Nazism and Communism, then, was very much an intramural conflict between two forms of totalitarian socialism, each of which invoked a pseudo-scientific historical determinism to bolster its all-encompassiong claims.

Use as you wish, but pls delete the errant apostrophe in the 4th line of my comment 😀

The next phase in this sorry tale will be a couple of cases which Dumgold didn’t proceed with but had far greater supporting evidence.

I don’t doubt there are such cases. DPPs are required to walk a fine line. All the time with a limited budget lined up with their begging bowl along with everybody else at State level. And that’s even before you get to the courts. Plenty of aggrieved people to be found outside court rooms.

Bear

Why do DPP offices contract out work in some cases? Is it because of time and lack of talent?

The argey bargey has started in this district already.

“Those rocks would have been sacred to the original First Nations inhabitants of this district.”

“Er, no, they weren’t revealed until the 1950’s when the flood control work was done on the river.”

Roger, thanks for explaining the roots of fascism in the words of one of its architects, Joseph Goebbels, which the Western left (including its useful idiots online like Monty) has spent 80 years denying.

Straight from the horse’s mouth, Tom.

😀

The Detectives who interviewed Lehrmann stated in writing, that in their opinion he was lying to them, for the purpose of a briefing to an internal review.
Those 2 paragraphs were deleted by a more senior detective.
Are you getting the picture?

Evidence crotchless or are you piss taking, poorly, again?

The fact she was found in the nud on the minister’s couch suggests they did have sex.

Sure, it’s a No Brainer, but Lehrmann still denies it.

It’s a no brainer to those with no brains. Every where I go women remove their clothes but nothing happens and I smile as their sighing follows me as I leave. I am true to my one true love: head prefect. Oh, look, a cute owl. Under 30 too; good for a few babies and still capable of plowing the field.