We only have 10 days left!

Ahead of ya, Bourne1879.

I have sold most of my stuff and emptied my accounts and use the money to live it up before the end – bathing in a tubs filled with champagne, caviar smoothies, sniffing Parmesan off hookers’ bits (thanks for the ‘pro’-tip, Hunter) and blowing my nose afterward with $100 notes* – everything I can think of.

In 11 days when we all wake up dead I will be wearing a smile.

* American. Our polymer ones are not absorbent.

That shit comes in at about 8/10.

More like 12 out 10.

More like 12 out 10.

Nah; look at this vomit before you go hyperbowl.

Week in Culture.

Dylan is an amateur freak compared to some of that.

JC at 2:54.
Interesting concept, the assumable mortgage.
I am guessing the buyers would have to meet the lender’s loan criteria?
A pretty simple NPV/DCF calc on the face of it, but the obvious variable being what future variable rates might be. Also I don’t think the article says what the transportable mortgage amount is. It looks like the buyers have paid at least $50k overs, which is effectively capitalising the future interest savings.
Another factor would be whether interest payments are tax deductible and, if so, what the marginal tax rates of the buyers are and will be.
Having said all that, I wouldn’t take my DCF calcs much past 5-7 years.
Too much uncertainty.

Another factor would be whether interest payments are tax deductible and, if so, what the marginal tax rates of the buyers are and will be.

Interest paid on a mortgage is tax deductible in the US. It used to be up to US 1 million interest paid p.a. Interestingly, it also applied to boats. If you took out a loan for a boat, you could deduct the interest against tax. Also applies to vacation homes.

Don’t forget the old “silent but deadly”. They are the worst. At least with a noisy one you have a few seconds warning to make your escape. ?

That’s it, that’s the key. Women specialise in the silent but deadly efforts which is why they find his brass band farts so enjoyable. Another profound difference between the sexes resolved!

Cohenite, not too many people mind the sound of a decent fart.

These gals obviously do. Look at them giggling.

dover0beach says:
June 12, 2023 at 4:35 pm

Explain.

Lefties have argued that corporate media is sensitive to the interests of advertisers and will curate their reporting, etc. accordingly. That is pretty much what you stated above. Advertisers didn’t like Tucker’s opinions irrespective of his leading ratings so FOX moves him on.

Sure, there’s that. I’m sure Fox has become a little sheepish since the US$800 million settlement too.

while fighting to have his Noongar Sovereignty recognised,

WHAT Noongar sovereignty?

dover0beach says:
June 12, 2023 at 4:35 pm
Explain.
Lefties have argued that corporate media is sensitive to the interests of advertisers and will curate their reporting, etc. accordingly. That is pretty much what you stated above. Advertisers didn’t like Tucker’s opinions irrespective of his leading ratings so FOX moves him on.

By eliminating the media corporations’ audiences aren’t the advertisers also minimising their own reach and thus effectiveness? When television and print media fold the only avenues for advertising will be the internet. At present the advertisers think that is a better option than the legacy media though they have not yet realised that a lot of the new media are subscription based, directly to the content provider thus sidestepping the advertisers.

I think Elon Musk is mulling something like this happening where Twitter is simply a platform and get a cut of the content providers’ subscription fees and never mind the advertisers.

I thought about my Dad receiving his MBE from the Queen in 1981, while fighting to have his Noongar Sovereignty recognised,

Accepting an award from the invader…..

Trump has a lot of billionaires against him:

REVEALED: Govt Censorship Tool Aimed at Swinging Election is Funded by Russia Hoax-Linked Billionaire Anti-Trumper.
Public records requests have revealed that a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiative aimed at censoring social media users during the 2020 election was funded by hardline ‘Never Trump’ figure and Biden donor Pierre Omidyar.

Really funny segment at half-time in the AFL match.
The AFL gossip columnist Tom ‘sausage fingers’ Brown delivers a line and length report on Marlion Picket, a Richmond player facing criminal charges in Perf.
They cut back to the panel (Tim Watson, recently retired player Nathan Jones and Hamish McPolo-Pony).
Watson : “So, what do we think will happen? Will the AFL step in? Will Richmond take action?”
Jones : (Does a passable impression of a deer in the headlights and says nothing).
McPolo-Pony : (Crunches the gearbox and oes a subject change without the clutch) “Well, we have a big third quarter coming up …”
Funny thing is, the AFL have been hot to trot on summary justice, looking to sanction players for anything and everything, and football media have usually been quick to jump on.
The most recent example was Collingwood’s Jordan De Goey last year, who was facing calls to be burnt at the stake for something which wasn’t remotely criminal.
So why the reticence to stick the boots in this time?
Well, De Goey isn’t First Nations.
See also, North Melbourne FC, Tarryn Thomas.

This Happy Clapper path to wealth?
Where do I sign up?

In most countries, that is naked corruption.

It’s knickerless corruption in Australia…

Breaking: Brittany Higgins admits in Sky News leaked audio that she timed her rape allegation to do maximum damage to the LNP.

That’s too big to stay hidden. Briternanee is rooted: Section 314 of the Crimes Act 1900 No 40 states that a person who makes an accusation intending another person to be investigated for an offence, can face up to seven years imprisonment. It is also an offence to give false information, applications and documents, according to The NSW Crimes Act 1900, No 40 Part 5A.

Then the aiding and abetting the false claims come into it.

It’s a pity the gutless stupidity of the craven libs isn’t also criminal: scotty would be wearing orange for a while.

Or should that be Buckley’s and none?

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Shannon Deery on Victoriastan:

Another day, another episode of dodging accountability in Victoria.

Today, more than half of the witnesses scheduled to appear before the parliament’s Public Accounts and Estimates Committee hearing won’t show up.

Fancy hearing from Frankie Carroll, chief executive of the Suburban Rail Loop Authority? Forget it. Rail Projects Victoria chief executive Nicole Stoddart? Nope.

Same goes for the head honchos at Major Road Projects Victoria and the West Gate Tunnel Project.

They’re among more than a dozen senior public servants who seem to have synchronised their absences from hearings set to probe the state’s transport infrastructure agenda, including the $120bn Suburban Rail Loop.

Their apologies were sent to the committee last week, no reason given.

There might, of course, be completely innocent reasons for the late scratchings. But the relaxed attitude to transparency and accountability to which we have become accustomed in this state arouses suspicion.

Every year after the state budget is handed down, the PAEC committee holds public hearings to scrutinise the expenditure and activities of ministerial portfolios.

The roots of the committee predate federation. Ministers and senior departmental officers are expected to appear to answer questions about how our money is being spent.

The Victorian parliament boasts that “the committee has built a proud tradition of active engagement in oversight, producing reports at the forefront of promoting public sector reform and accountability”.

Anyone watching closely could mount an argument against that claim. Quite literally half of the government-stacked committee’s time is wasted listening to ministers read scripted talking points that would make even the most shameless of advertising executives blush.

The Dorothy Dixer may have been banned in Question Time, and replaced with ministerial statements, but it is alive and thriving in PAEC hearings. Much of the rest of the time is spent watching ministers dodge questions and block attempts from lesser-trained public servants to offer fulsome responses.

Increasingly, the committee’s work is being hampered, as has been complained about repeatedly in minority reports over recent years.

You’d hardly expect minority reports written by opposition MPs to be flattering of the government process. But the complaints should not simply be tossed aside.

Take those found in the report into the committee’s inquiry into Victoria’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, on the stacking of government MPs. “(It is) dominated by Labor government members and chaired by a Labor government member, with both a deliberative and a casting vote on all matters, would never deliver the necessary critical examination or accountability necessary in this crisis,” it said.

The report also noted: “Ministers would regularly avoid answering questions; the Labor chair of the committee would go to incredible lengths to interrupt questioning, waste time or even mute non-government members’ microphones on matters that ministers were sensitive about. Legitimate questions were even ruled out of order with no explanation.”

Anyone watching hearings last week would have seen such obfuscation in action. Nationals MP Danny O’Brien, a longtime PAEC member, summed it up well:

“How #paec goes: Me: Minister, what’s the time?

“Minister: Well let me give you some context … time was established around the time of the dinosaurs, which were of course wiped out by the former Coalition government. Clocks were invented … etc.”

He’s not exaggerating. A minority report he co-authored last year raised concerns about the increasing propensity of the Premier and his ministers “to simply deny the facts when presented them as written in the budget papers”.

Warning of the “deliberate obfuscation, stonewalling and lack of transparency by the bureaucracy”, this report also raised the failure of public servants to properly answer questions taken on notice.

It’s one thing to be cute when answering questions, but it’s another altogether to not bother even showing up to answer them. The failure of so many key public officials controlling Victoria’s transport infrastructure agenda is an affront to proper process, and raises questions about the usefulness of PAEC.

Especially when many economists say it is the state’s massive infrastructure agenda holding back our economic recovery. Analysts believe the record spend of the government’s Big Build will keep Victoria’s cash deficit large.

Despite introducing billions of dollars in new taxes in the budget, just $3.7bn is expected to be wiped from projected debt levels, with net debt on track to hit $171bn by 2026-27.

A report by ratings agency Moody’s warned the state’s capacity to deliver on budgeted infrastructure spending was the key factor in its projected debt burden. It also warned of ongoing negative pressure on Victoria’s Australian-low credit rating of AA, with no expectation the debt burden will stabilise before 2028.

You would think this gave PAEC members much to ask about. Of course, not having senior public servants there leaves lead minister Jacinta Allan to answer all questions. And deliver the government’s message in the process.

Now, that’s really doing what matters.

miltonf says:
June 12, 2023 at 5:59 pm
Office assistants on six figure salaries.

Once you relabel their positions you can then change the remuneration table.

Media consultant is anyone with a phone posting things into the social media platforms. This describes my teenage grandchildren who do it for free so why are we paying anyone to do it in parliament? It should be one of their responsibilities as office assistants.

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.

The problem with your circumstantial case is that the complainant destroyed all the physical evidence which would have provided the police with a basis to build a stronger case. She fails to visit a doctor or go to the police to obtain DNA evidence which would have established that intercourse had taken place. She also washed the dress which may have well provided useful evidence.

The fact she took action that clearly prejudiced a case of rape being established must surely been important in determining whether a solid case existed.

Marlion Pickett: Richmond AFL star fronts court on string of charges, accused of involvement in $380k theft
The West Australian
Mon, 12 June 2023 9:17AM
Tim Clarke

Richmond redemption story Marlion Pickett is facing allegations he was involved in the theft of more than $380,000 in currency from a string of commercial burglaries around Perth at the start of the year.

The footy star has been granted bail under strict conditions after it emerged he had been arrested on Sunday.

The 31-year-old — who entered AFL folklore in 2019 when he won a premiership with the Tigers on his AFL debut — is facing a series of serious criminal charges dating back to December last year and January this year.

The allegations of burglary, stealing, criminal damage and receiving stolen goods took place over a period of weeks and across several Perth suburbs.

And during his bail hearing on Monday, the gravity of those charges was revealed, as WA Police opposed bail for the former VFL and WAFL star.

It is alleged that Pickett, along with others, was involved in four thefts — including one involving $325,000 taken from a currency exchange in Girrawheen.

The Daily Mail stuff on Sharaz makes him sound like a f***ing weirdo. If it’s half true he’s Canberra in a nutshell.

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Nigel Farage always talks sense.

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Greg Sheridan is on Sky just now and all over the place about American politics. Makes one assertion and then contradicts it in the next sentence. How anyone can take him seriously is beyond me particularly when he says Trump is too despicable to be the president but then says he did good things?

Greg still maintains that he would have preferred Hillary as president even after everything we know about her, the lies, corruption, the use of FBI and CIA against her opponent. For Greg it’s a case of the heart wants what the heart wants.

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