My wife reckons 50% of the male population of Australia in the 70’s & 80’s would would be in jail if bum grabbing was a crime back then.
She also added that 100% of the European male population would be in the clink.

To answer your question Cranky, yes my wife knows my politics and shares them. As I have said before on here, we are friends with many of our neighbours including a lesbian couple, one of which was the Greens candidate in recent elections. We normally vote Labor, but we went Green this time because our friend is awesome.

Specifically on the Posie Parker situation, I asked her whether she thought getting jostled and having tomato soup thrown at you constituted assault, she said yes. We will agree to disagree on that one. No court would convict.

She is a true Catholic, a pillar of our church and school communities, a powerhouse of charity and community work. She understands Catholicism as being about compassion and works, unlike the trad weirdos on here who are Calvinist Protestants in all but name (and one of the more extreme variants thereof).

I will not take seriously your “pervert apologist” malarkey, since you continue to defend Bettina Arndt who was famously on the side of an actual rock spider in Nicolaas Bester.

Arndt is a fake and so are you. Why do you continue to use the word “globalist” as a pejorative when you should know very well that it is used mostly as an anti-Semitic slur? Or do you choose to ignore it because it suits your politics to join with the anti-Semites.

You are all over the shop. Have a think about it, Cranky.

To change the subject entirely, yesterday we visited our youngest grandson’s school for a ‘science’ exhibition. The theme was natural disasters and there were many volcanoes, earthquakes and bushfires depicted. The kids had obviously had a ball. There was even a model of an oil rig that exploded, causing serious loss of life and leaking oil. It did have a special dispensation as somewhat off topic but the enthusiasm of the builders of this model made up for their lack of attention to the brief.
What really caught my eye were the brochures, produced for each model and written by the participants. These were Grade5 and 6 pupils in the Victorian state school system.
I quote from one of these.

Facts about Floods
The biggest flood was in 1219 and it was in the Neverlands
Just six inches of water can knock you down
Floods hlast for days or mothes
Floods are the most natrul disaster in Australier
After floods your house is ruind and mostly everythin
Floods can contain poison dead animals
And you can drow in mater of seconeds
Floods cankill people in
seconed it can kill
people in 10 seconeds or
hurt them really bad
Hope you like my broush and my
informatin reports
and lots of facts and my
modle

Don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I’m more inclined to the latter as this was not the only example of its kind.

Why Are Cancer Rates Increasing in Young Adults?
Drbeen Medical Lectures

They are tough bastards.

From 2014.

https://patch.com/michigan/wyandotte/bullet-ricochets-pit-bulls-head-injuring-police-officer

A Harper Woods police officer was injured Sunday morning when a bullet fragment ricocheted off the head of a pit bull another officer had shot as they and other members of the suburban police force tried to corral a pair of dogs that had been described as “vicious.”

Maybe promote the dog to the front row of the Wallabies and see if it makes a difference.

My guess is Swift is his much younger girlfriend’s favourite and raves to him about her.

Probably on the music mix at the luv you long time rub n tug.

It’s in Dutton’s interest, rightly or wrongly for Van to resign from parliament so he can get back to the real story.

No, it isn’t.
Dutton has booted Van from the Party Room, what Van does for the rest of his 6 year Term is up to him.
He’s been disgraced, so he might as well snatch it, but he’s got a hide like a rhinoceros too.
There is a bigger issue, that is that some in the Liberal Party had known about this for years and kept a lid on it, which supports what Brittany Higgins has said.
You’d hafta wonder what Political Staffers and others might say about Senator Van, since there’s a pattern of disturbing behaviour around women?

She understands Catholicism as being about compassion and works

That’s very commendable, but it isn’t entirely accurate. What is in the catechism & magisterium is Catholicism – which is the unbroken church line back to Simon Peter and Christ, in one church for all of humanity, the Church teaches this is true, scripturally based Christianity – the original and apostolic Church.

Yes Cranky, our kids do go to a nice little Catholic school. It is very important to my wife and I did not fight her on it, at least not at primary level. The issue might be more pertinent once the kids reach high school because there aren’t any really good ones in Melbourne’s west, especially for boys. She reckons we might put our boy in the train every morning by himself to go to a school over east. I am dubious. We shall see in due time.

No one really knows whether Pell was guilty other than him. There was a time when he was a convicted rock spider, now he isn’t. That is part of the majesty of the law, it can confer such status and take it away. He won the process, good for him. Who can say with any certainty exactly what happened? It wasn’t made up from whole cloth, but it couldn’t be proved in court. Somewhere in the middle is the truth.

What is in the catechism & magisterium is Catholicism – which is the unbroken church line back to Simon Peter and Christ, in one church for all of humanity, the Church teaches this is true, scripturally based Christianity – the original and apostolic Church.

I am sure that made more sense in the original Latin.

I’m with you CharlieP, cry. At first I thought you wre talking about 5-6 yr olds and thought they did a pretty good job, then reread. Oh dear. While I was reading your comment I could hear Bill Shortone saying it. My nearly 3 grandson can now count to 20 and can recognise the numbers. He regularly uses 4 syllable words and uses them in context. His favourite videos are how machines work, from vacuum cleaners to excavators, how to pull them apart and put back together. I expect to find the vacuum cleaner in pieces one day soon. When I was 3 my grandparents gave me a tinplate racing car, 15 minutes later I had it apart to see how the friction drive worked. Nana was horrified, Granddad was proud. We never spoke baby to our kids and the don’t either. We don’t think our kids or grandchildren are exceptional. As they have proved to their employers, they are. Probably because most these days are hopeless and my kids stand out. My outlook is, if you don’t have standards don’t be surprised by the lack of results. I think the majority here, aka you lot, have family the same as me. They aren’t special apart from the parenting received which by today’s standards make them special. I guess being responsible for them. Only smacked them on a few occasions, instead offered them the choice of a smacked bum or a cuddle. Which showed them even though they’d done the wrong thing we still cared about them. When they got older all I said was “disappointing”, then carried on as if nothing happened. Always stood up for them if in trouble at school. Children are the only hope humanity has. They deserve better. Gotta go, the pelicans have a school of fish trapped. Much excitement.

Arky, if it were down to me I would definitely have grandson out of there. He was at a really lovely Catholic school with his two elder brothers but the family moved further out and this is the local school he can walk to. His class has just been given a 65yo teacher who is ‘very strict’. The kids all love her, apparently, so we shall wait to see if she has any impact. This was a multi-class effort and I don’t think the writer of the quoted brochure is in his class. His spelling can be a bit creative because he is somewhat dyslexic but the brochure from his group was a pretty good effort.
I’m still processing yesterday’s experience. One of the funniest moments was when the group from a different class who had chosen a solar energy project told us that their model house should have lights on but because the sun wasn’t shining their system wasn’t working.
And Crossie, you are absolutely right about the level of competence of the teachers. But the parents dismiss concerns about spelling and grammar with an airy wave of the hand – spellchecker will deal with all that. Except that it doesn’t.

the trad weirdos on here who are Calvinist Protestants in all but name

I’m happy to identify as one. And I’m sure heaven’s many rooms have a weirdo one just for me.

Make sure there’s accommodation set aside for you. Don’t leave it too late.

She also added that 100% of the European male population would be in the clink.

While Australians were given garment-rending and sackcloth and ashes in Canberra yesterday, Italians were watching Silvio B farewelled in a state funeral from Milan cathedral. A number of girlfriends in mourning, along with his children and last wife, 53 years his junior, helped fill the front pews.
The sermon, very much on point, was about ‘enjoying life’.
Adults vse children.

Knuckle Dragger says: June 16, 2023 at 6:51 am

Aaaaand a very good morning to the lurKerspooKflaMerTraiTors.

A totally redundant statement.
The sun never sets on Spookville.

Beef producers are asking Colesworth why meat prices aren’t dropping as the sale-yard prices are well down and they are angry that high shop prices are causing a big hit on demand.
The response is blather about customer first an’ shit.
A butcher quoted in the rural press is more honest – he said it’s insurance, power, labour and transport costs that keep the price up.
Why is meat so expensive when the laws of supply and demand say it should be getting cheaper?
Government interference in the economy in pursuit of climate policy – but you already knew that.

Gez

My wife reckons 50% of the male population of Australia in the 70’s & 80’s would would be in jail if bum grabbing was a crime back then.

I have heard that pubs such as the Wanker & Grope* in Richmond were quite the place on a Friday night in the seventies.
* Anchor & Hope

There is a bigger issue, that is that some in the Liberal Party had known about this for years and kept a lid on it, which supports what Brittany Higgins has said.
You’d hafta wonder what Political Staffers and others might say about Senator Van, since there’s a pattern of disturbing behaviour around women?

This is rolled gold bullshit. The only thing Van is guilty of is pinching someone on the arse. He was solidly rebuked at the time for it, he desisted and there is no evidence he did it again. Perhaps he should have excused himself from this topic.

Thorpe would need to have more than her say so for anyone to believe anything that comes out of her mouth. She’s made that bed, no one else. Stoker should know this, she is doing no one any favours by pretending an arse pinch is evidence of serial sexual harassment.

It is a clumsy, schoolboy attempt at a sexual advance and we would all hope that elected members of parliament are better than that. On that basis, was I Dutton, I’d suggest to him his time is done here and he should resign from parliament. Brazen is for the alp, the greens and Thorpe.

Rabz

Let’s have immediate 24/7 video surveillance of every feral politician from now. You know it makes sense.

With Grandpa Ed Cletus-Case in charge of the CCTV library?

. But the parents dismiss concerns about spelling and grammar with an airy wave of the hand – spellchecker will deal with all that. Except that it doesn’t.

I had a teacher tell me that kids didn’t need to have handwriting because everything would be done on a keyboard in future.

She is a true Catholic, a pillar of our church and school communities, a powerhouse of charity and community work. She understands Catholicism as being about compassion and works,

Unlike the fat fascist fool?

And what are the odds she is on some form of Plenary Council?

Grandpa Cletus

There is a bigger issue, that is that some in the Liberal Party had known about this for years and kept a lid on it, which supports what Brittany Higgins has said.

In your enthusiasm for shilling for Labor, you forgot to mention the very many allegations against Liars MPs, which have been hinted at, and the Party had “known about … for years and kept a lid on [them]”. Strange how such a (claimed) Liberal supporter as you had such a memory loss.

Fat Fascist Fool

No one really knows whether Pell was guilty other than him. There was a time when he was a convicted rock spider, now he isn’t. That is part of the majesty of the law, it can confer such status and take it away. He won the process, good for him. Who can say with any certainty exactly what happened?

Not even his accuser? Anyone with even a basic understanding of Catholic high Mass ritual would immediately know that the story as presented to the Court was physically impossible. Clearly your knowledge is deficient. Ask your PP to enrol you in a confirmation course.

Thorpey drew more below the line votes than any other Senate candidate anywhere in the Country.
Legend.

Guy Buys Physical Encyclopedia Set to Prepare for Information Doomsday

The guy who got canceled by Amazon because someone thought his doorbell was racist might agree.
I’d hate having my Kindle turned off by Amazon. Fortunately I have a dozen bookcases of dead trees.

satraps, not ‘straps’ (one day I’ll learn to type)

JCsays:
June 16, 2023 at 10:31 am
Figures, why are you bringing Fatboy’s spouse into your comment? What has she got to do with it?

If people aren’t playing in the sandpit, it’s a good idea to leave them out.

Fatboy brought her in.

Fatboy brought her in.

Wrong.
Cassie of Sydney spent the last 6 months talking about his wife in crude terms.
He just set her straight on a few things.

The commentary in the Australian, currently enraging Albanese and Mark Dreyfus:

Ms Higgins was “diagnosed as medically unfit for any form of ­employment, and has been given a very poor prognosis for future ­employment” following the incident. She was therefore due $2,521,314.40 in economic loss, it [solicitor’s letter] states.

The document, dated March 29 last year, claimed Ms Higgins had “not been engaged in any form of employment” since February 8, 2021, except for one day, after she resigned from her politics staffer role.

Which document also contained a cleverly worded threat of moah damages, huger and more expensive damages – inevitable costs that could only be avoided by settling promptly and without legal proceedings:

“If the matter proceeds, the claimant will obtain a forensic ­accounting report, but anticipates that this part of the claim for future economic loss will be in order of at least an additional $1,000,000.”

But, but, but:

Since March 2021, Ms Higgins worked as the media Adviser for the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria – a job she obtained with the assistance of her partner David Sharaz and his friend, former Labor Adviser, Emma Webster. She was also an interim media ­Adviser with the Queensland Human Rights Commission, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Ms Higgins was appointed a ­visiting fellow at the Australian National University Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at the end of 2021.

She is currently writing a book that will “shine a light on the toxic workplace culture of parliament”, and has this year teamed up with Ms Webster to launch a new company called Power Blazers Pty Ltd.

Just imagine what Our Brinny might have accomplished without a “very poor prognosis for future ­employment”. A cure for cancer and peace in the Middle East would have been assured – and war in the Ukraine would have been avoided.

An acid test for Brereton and the NACC. Squib this one and become another eunuch in the Court of the ALP.

Another reason why Trump is fu.ked:

Why Donald Trump Cannot Get a Top-Tier Lawyer: by Alan M. Dershowitz
June 15, 2023 at 5:00 am. Gatestone Institute

Two main reasons:

1. Trump has a very long history of stiffing his employees on the bill.

2. Trump also has a very long history of incriminating his lawyers.

Cassie those magnificent women didn’t achieve greatness to get a snout in the trough. I saw a bit of a movie about Maggie the other day. I doubt it would be made today. How accurate it was, I don’t really know, but the bit I saw had her saying ” it’s all about feelnz today, not thoughts and idea’s. Has life become so easy one doesn’t have to think anymore?

re

Social justice is to justice what ‘social science’ is to science.

-Mother Lode upstream.

Any field that has the word ‘science’ in its name is guaranteed thereby not to be a science.

– Frank Harary

From hellcat taking on a nightclub at 3.00 am to weeping virgin in one political movement.

Meanwhile, I wonder if Ms Phillips is packing the bags for some more European tours courtesy of Combet.

Maybe Burke’s “secretary” could give her some tips on spots for the well heeled to see.

In Do Their Mothers Know Where They Are? news:

High-performance guidelines released for transgender and gender diverse inclusion in Australian sport

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) has released its guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and gender diverse athletes in high performance sport, reminding sports governing bodies of their commitment to promoting a ‘spirit of inclusion’ and abiding by Australian law.

They are in line with the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) guidelines, advocating inclusion-first, with exemptions determined on a case-by-case basis.

Sports such as World Athletics, World Swimming and World Rugby have largely ignored the IOC guidelines, opting instead for a blanket ban on transgender women who experienced male puberty.

If Australia’s governing bodies from those same sports adopt the ASC guidelines it would put them at odds with their international federations, but if they follow their international federation policies, they risk breaking Australian law.

The CEO of the Australian Sports Commission, Kieren Perkins, told The Ticket that the guidelines were developed to offer the clarity domestic sports asked for.

“What we’ve been able to do…working with medical professionals, people involved in sport – both cisgender and trans athletes, as well as the LGBTQ+ community and others… [is] to actually find the Australian context and come up with guidelines that allow for a pragmatic approach.”

A pragmatic approach? Good work.

Oh:

Complications could arise where Australia hosted an international event in a sport where domestically transgender women were allowed to compete, but internationally they were not.

An athlete excluded under such conditions could challenge the decision in court.

“When an international governing body is owning and managing a competition in Australia, do their international guidelines supersede the, I guess the context of Australian law? That would be an interesting one for us to navigate,” Perkins said.

Stunning, brave and interesting support for the gender challenged. And, luckily for female women, the Australian Sports Commission is committed to “maintaining meaningful competition in the female category“.

In Good Hands.

The Fat Fascist Fool seems to have a memory loss problem.

He appeared late yesterday, assuring “us lot” that only the Liberals had a problem with allegations of sexual assaults. After being reminded about the very many documented crimes and allegations against Labor figures (including reference to convictions for assaults against minors) he disappeared for a few hours. He then re-appeared this morning to start the whole process again.

Perhaps he just likes being reminded of the protection available to leftards involved in such incidents?

Rogersays:
June 16, 2023 at 10:39 am
While in civil society we might want to give opposing folk a little tolerance…

Tolerance is so last century.

They now demand obeisance.

I was also thinking that the word “tolerance” has virtually disappeared out of the contemporary conversation. Perhaps because it doesn’t foster the divisive agenda currently being peddled by the left? Maybe because it is a Christian principle?

m0nty says:
June 16, 2023 at 9:13 am

Specifically on the Posie Parker situation, I asked her whether she thought getting jostled and having tomato soup thrown at you constituted assault, she said yes. We will agree to disagree on that one. No court would convict.

as usual, you’d be wrong.

Tossing a litre of cold water over his partner helped land a Masterton man in hot water in Masterton District Court on Wednesday.

Hayden Oscar Polden, 25, unemployed, was convicted of assault on a female and sentenced to nine months’ supervision.

Further to the English abilities of 5th and 6th grade kids that CharlieP raised upthread, here’s a study today from LaTrobe.

Reading taught inconsistently in primary schools, finds Australian survey (Phys.org, 15 Jun)

A survey of 284 Australian primary school teachers looking at the strategies used to teach reading comprehension, reveals practices that are ad hoc, with little agreement in the Australian primary teaching community about how reading skills are taught.
…
According to lead co-author, Associate Professor Tanya Serry, despite recommendations about effective reading practices made by three national reviews undertaken in Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. since 2000, reading instruction in Australian classrooms is still highly contested.

The fun thing about this story is they are totally mystified. A whole article of complete waffle. But anyone with a brain knows what the problem really is: that phonics is seen as righty and the Left controls the schools. But they say nothing about that embarrassing elephant.

Anybody found a female trans in male sport yet?

On the other hand, they may be from the new generation of teachers who are themselves illiterate so they saw nothing wrong there.

That is the more likely explanation. I suspect we’re about 2 generations into basic illiteracy and it will grow

What a tragedy. Allegedly in the interests of students (ensuring that they don’t fail/feel bad/get bored yada yada) the dumbing down of school education has condemned generations of pupils to semi-literacy.

When I was in fourth class (average age 10 yrs) we had a roneoed, stapled handout from Mr Dawson of poetry and prose, which we worked our way through. It included prose from Joseph Conrad, poetry from Australians including everyone from Paterson to Slessor, short stories by Lawson, examples of different accents, and more.

I can still recite big slabs of it, more than half a century later.

I feel sorry for kids today, who are treated like morons with no capacity to appreciate beauty and quality. Because some of them can’t, the rest are denied the opportunity.

Mind you, their younger teachers come from the same miserable, defeatist tradition. Many are barely literate and numerate themselves, so are hardly likely to correct deficiencies in their pupils.

There are two important consequences of this catastrophe.

The first is the reversal of the trend in Western civilisation for the last 150 years or so whereby the benefits of education were expanded to include almost everyone.* This caused unprecedented social mobility, economic growth and cultural development.

The second is that there is now a very small elite who have received a good enough education, usually via rich parents, who are fit for the very top jobs. Sure, there are plenty of parasites in the middle where precision and accuracy don’t matter – see the diversity industry, the environmental industry, the MSM, etc etc. But the very top jobs belong to a tiny elite who are lucky enough to know the difference between ratios and percentages, or what a subject and predicate are in a sentence.

When I was growing up, the pool of people who knew that stuff was very much larger and broader.

*The first half of the C20th in the West was characterised by night schools, Schools of Arts and Science buildings in towns and suburbs offering avenues for self improvement, privately funded public libraries and so on. Both wealthy people and the rest agreed that education, including appreciation of culture, was a public and private good. But it was never a free-for-all about ‘affirming’ people’s feelings. It was about concrete achievement.

Van Damned

Off to the naughty corner for you and don’t come back until you’re sorry.