(Post script: The West’s treatment of Putin has been duplicitous to put it kindly)
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I’m not sure who the US should support in UKR Vs RUS. Do you support the “less bad guy?” Zelensky…
Oops. Amazing what misallocating a few tens of billions of dollars can do.
Could be a long summer for Captain Carbon and the rest of them. Bumrah was practically unplayable on Friday. Pitch…
Sorry, this site now seems defunct – says ‘for sale’. Taken over by a telemedicine group.
Okay. Let’s break this down:
Strike One.
You don’t do reconnaissance in a village, because it defeats the point of doing reconnaissance. You do reconnaissance on a village.
Just what sort of very, very fictional shitshow is this? Four Australian reconnaissance soldiers – which mean they are trained and experienced more than line infantry – have not only decided to perform recon work inside the village they’re supposed to be reconnoitering – and this is not Northern Ireland where the British SAS could hide in attics – BUT are both startled and suspicious when a kid walks into the room they ALL happen to be in?
I’m not even going to start on recon team numbers.
‘Oh my! A boy walked into a room we all happened to be hiding in, within the confines of this village! How could we have foreseen this? Oh no!’
Ahahaaaaaa.
I haven’t even looked at this* because the blurb is so embarrassingly shit and fake, but I’m fairly sure it was stolen – in part, at least – from a Mills and Boon classic.
*Possibly professionally produced and edited, and complete with soundtrack.
Top of the page too. Gold.
‘Let’s all hide together in this room, in this house, in this village we’re supposed to be scoping out and hope nobody walks through the door.’
– Omeleto
Hahahahaaaaaaaa. Oh, dear.
callisays:
June 14, 2023 at 7:00 pm
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America- “You Can Do Magic” 1982 [Reelin’ In The Years Archive]
Sorry to hear.
(Pffft)
Expect strikes numbering in the handfuls where any number of e-scooters can pick off those unfortunate beings, Hun:
Omeleto and DUST do good stuff KD. I have really only looked at the vids from the latter as they are scifi, which is my taste, whereas Omeleto is wider.
If there’s any fairness on Earth these channels will lay waste to Hollywood.
There was an earthquake!!?*
* (unpredicted)
IPA : Warren Mundine. Apologies i cannot recall his Abo name nor spell it correctly. V good speech. Spoke about his ancestors (great grand parents and co.) Brought up on a their land northern NSW. Around 1850 slightly rogue chap named Olgilvie had a meeting with his clan and came to an agreement. This area is your land and this area will be the cattle station. Possibly first treaty. The cattle station employed them. ..delivered them $ , education and opportunity. He is all for equality of opportunity. Not outcomes. That will never happen. Not human nature.
All countries can trace awful starts. But its what we learn and become and grow for the future. His people have gone on to be doctors, business people, professors, surgeon …and unfortunately lawyers. 🙂 He worked with Abbot and Turnbull to provide economic opportunities for Aboriginals. Made good progress. Hopes after da voice can return to these things.
Lots of other points..$ spent on Voice could provide a lot of services..
Barbara O’Neill claims that people with high cholesterol tend not to develop dementia. She thinks high cholesterol was normal years ago and the side effects of cholesterol lowering medications are memory loss, muscle wastage, alzheimers and breast cancer.
When I mentioned this to my GP she was unreceptive. Likewise my cardio.
The low points were the usual audience questions. …or i should say statements. All me me me me me. Banging on about something between them and the speaker. Yes yes we get it you were famous in your local school, council , tea party in the 1970s. Now FFS give the microphone to someone who has a question for the speakers. Facepalm emoji.
Not on the strength of that advertised plot line they don’t.
Clear statement of the central problem with the Trump indictment:
The highlight of the evening was getting a selfie with Moira Deeming. Grrrowl! LOL.
They’re platforms. If you don’t like a particular vid take it up with the people who made it.
The outrageous fortune of making the Manly Daily.
Twas in Melbourne Dot. So lets say the Briiiiighton Real Estate Monthly.
I read Rick is over there at the moment.
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Harald Baldr:
$100 Shopping Challenge Sri Lanka Market
Warren Mundine was the bloke who ran a check on the claims involving the “Flora and Fauna” act, and found there was no such legislation.
The rotation of the political axis continues.
FFS, I only had to read this sub heading, with accompanying pic of the smiling toddler… couldn’t go further. Just heartbreaking.
A man has pleaded not guilty to murdering a two-year-old boy, who police say was bashed by a piece of furniture while his mother was at work.
It really brings a tear to the eye that a kid can have their life snuffed out with such selfish disregard and phuckwhittery. ?
There appeared a lot of rich elderly widows there this evening. Might bring my son along next time. Instead of doing 5 year Uni plus 5 years of low pay hard slog, how about 6 years of …eeyeww …and the riches will follow! Bwahahahah! Evil laugh, cough, hack …crawls back to the 2009 Toyota Yaris. Drives off and leaves the Uber scooter in the wake.
The same argument that’s used by sites hosting Drag Queen Story Hour fans.
It’s demonstrably shit in fact and structure. I’ll take it up with anyone that puts it forward as a worthwhile spend of 15 minutes of your life.
I reckon when the Voice is defeated, there’ll be violence.
There’s already violence in many country towns.
I reckon when Trump is convicted/assassinated the US will have its second civil war.
Or ignore any vids posted by Tickler.
Why did you look KD?
KD – You are batting like Joe Burns and saying how good you are. I am amused by your calisthenics.
Omeleto and DUST have good vids. If they kill Disney and Hollywood the world will be a better place.
Knuckle Draggersays:
June 14, 2023 at 8:57 pm
They’re platforms.
The same argument that’s used by sites hosting Drag Queen Story Hour fans.
If you don’t like a particular vid take it up with the people who made it.
It’s demonstrably shit in fact and structure. I’ll take it up with anyone that puts it forward as a worthwhile spend of 15 minutes of your life.
Triggered. A blood vessel is about to blow!
So are rich elderly widows.
dover0beachsays:
June 14, 2023 at 8:36 pm
Clear statement of the central problem with the Trump indictment:
Absolutely. And since 31 of the 37 indictments deal with the Espionage Act that should be that. The other 6 deal with the power balance between POTUS and NARA which are firmly in his favour.
But this assumes a fair trial, an informed jury and no harm coming to the guy. I’m disappointed his legal team did not apply for a mistrial immediately because of the above plus the obvious illegality of the taping of his conversations.
I didn’t. I didn’t have to.
Just looked at the plot line – as advertised by Mr Death Bushfire Cyclone Radar – and went from there.
Triggered has been overused now it has become meaningless.
Here’s a reminder of what it really means.
1:28 for TrigglyPuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY1H1rZL53I
https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/trigglypuff-cora-segal
Yes.
It sounded lamer than Long John Silver.
Speaking of a mistrial:
DEVELOPING: Trump’s Legal Team Prepares to File Motion to Dismiss Jack Smith’s Case Citing Prosecutorial Misconduct
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, was first assigned to oversee Jack Smith’s classified documents case and January 6 case against Trump.
Judge Beryl Howell ruled against Trump at every turn!
In fact, Judge Howell previously ordered Trump’s lawyer Evan Corcoran to testify before a grand jury in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago.
Judge Howell flipped Trump’s own lawyer Eric Corcoran into a witness when she obliterated Trump’s attorney client privilege in a ruling.
Howell ruled DOJ prosecutors ‘met the threshold for the crime-fraud exception’ for Trump’s attorney.
Jack Smith used Eric Corcoran’s notes against Trump.
According to the indictment reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, Jack Smith used notes memorialized by Trump’s lawyer against the former president.
Trump’s privileged conversations with his lawyer about the boxes of documents stored at Mar-a-Lago was used to charge Trump with conspiracy to obstruct (count 32), withholding a document or record (count 33), corruptly concealing a document or record (count 34) and false statements (count 37).
Trump’s attorneys Jim Trusty and John Rowley stepped down on Friday after Trump was indicted by a Florida grand jury.
How dare you!
Hang on. Weren’t you the one who had a crack at my continued Burns baiting, and after which I said I wouldn’t do it as much? Now you’re bringing it up, unsolicited. Nice. Not sure what Titus would make of that.
No, I am pointing out reality.
Is this ‘fun’? Like General Blamey riding a tyrannousaurus ‘fun’? Just asking.
You said yourself you hardly looked at Omeleto. DUST, the apparently science fiction montage you brought up yourself.
Looking forward to the ‘calisthenics’.
Um, couldn’t the US government just ask for the documents back?
Uh, didn’t he do that?
This is all so stupid.
Dotsays:
June 14, 2023 at 9:12 pm
Boring!
Andre captured her at the end.
No Pomegranates ft. Ceo of Hangry, Pig Squeal Girl & Triglypuff
Karen Metal 4! [No Pomegranates]
Well, you brought it on. Wear your embarrassment with pride.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was, here – the next generation are being raised in a air of smoldering resentment – there’s even an indigenous newspaper, with the mast head “Always was Aboriginal land, always will be.” Readers are reminded “You should be proud to walk in the footsteps of the world’s oldest, continuous culture.”
Barbara O’Neill claims that people with high cholesterol tend not to develop dementia.
That would almost certainly be right since Cholesterol is used up in cell repair and the brain is 60% Cholesterol.
Had some blood work the other day, my Total Cholesterol is 8.5 mmo1/L;
Target if High Risk is under 4.0.
So I consulted Mercola.com, he says 11.1 mmo1/L is the minimum healthy level, 8.4 is dangerously Low.
So, it looks like the game is to enrich Big Sick by getting as many people as possible on Statins, which will create more problems for Big Sick to ‘fix’.
It’s ‘fun’. Calisthenically ‘fun’.
No worries, Mr ‘I’ve hardly seen these clips but they are all very good – including a completely different ‘platform’ of science fiction clips that weren’t part of the original discussion but I thought I’d raise them up, and I wish they would all destroy Hollywood’.
Pfft.
Poor ol’ Joffa
he wouldn’t know if
a tram was up him
unless
someone rang the bell
I note the Ms Brinny Knickerless has now release the transcript of her illegal recording of conversations with Senator Michaela Cash. When are they going to arrest this malicious potato-nosed creature?
Very stupid. Trump could have given back the documents any time in the 12 months of discussions with the government agency that looks after presidential records. Anything that happens now is down his set of choices since leaving office
Okay, so he’s facing 37 indictments for basically not returning a library book? This warrants obstruction of justice?
Joe Bookman, I’m a library cop.
Fine edit.
Cold Case – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Joe Hildebrand is calling those objecting to the renewables power lines as NIMBY farmers. I don’t remember Joe announcing that he has installed a wind turbine in his back yard.
“When are they going to arrest this malicious potato-nosed creature?”
Indeed. When will they charge the Mosman Amphibian for committing subjudice with her Logies acceptance speech last year?
When will they charge Knickerless for her subjudice speech after the trial was aborted in October last year?
We look askance at the partisan American legal system, but we’re little better in this country.
1. When will X be XX’d for XXX
2. When will Y be YY’d for YYY
Cassie, 2. needs a few sub-sections.
Very stupid. Trump could have given back the documents any time in the 12 months of discussions with the government agency that looks after presidential records. Anything that happens now is down his set of choices since leaving office
If they’re personal records, as explained above, he doesn’t have to do anything. If they’re presidential records he can keep them indefinitely. WTF was he charged with criminal offences under the Espionage Act.
These are not library books and Trump was advised on this since leaving office and for 12 months of negotiations. He has no leg to stand on here, but he will make lots of noise which is his main, perhaps only, skill.
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That was bloody awful Trickler.
Like some overlong workplace anti- racism advert from communist Victoria.
In their next mini movie I believe a hunter gets his life saved by a homosexual endangered native waterfowl when he falls off a pontoon during the opening day of duck season and learns the value of true love.
Is Marcia Langton to be allowed to get away with this rubbish? The slogan referred to restricting Asian immigration, was never contained in the Constitution, and was the brainchild of what went on to become the Labor Party.
Australia is Fuc’d.
Petrol sniffing, wife beating, child molestation. Got it.
Alamak!says:
June 14, 2023 at 9:57 pm
Sorry for trying to engage you in sensible discussion; I forgot you’re a fu.kwit.
Trump’s lawyers are being scared off. I remember a time when lawyers took pride in defending difficult cases, Johnnie Cochran and Robert Kardashian come to mind, yet they are all too scared to now defend a president. This sort of thing used to happen behind the iron curtain.
Three million quid should mean she can afford to buy knickers, surely?
He is an ex-president with plenty of money. I don’t think he will fail to find a lawyer willing to be paid for doing a job.
When is someone going to ask Obama to give back the 30,000 boxes he took with him?
All of this is beside the point. Why would lawyers be afraid to defend somebody? Could it be because they will be blacklisted if they do?
Checked email. Missive from my electricity provider, rates will rise from 1 July.
By only 34%. Thirty. Four. Percent.
Bowen says renewables are the cheapest!
Seeing as how she behaved as a staffer that political career was never going to happen.
Arkysays:
June 14, 2023 at 9:58 pm
Steve trickler says:
June 14, 2023 at 7:55 pm
Have a squiz. It’ll gobble up 15 minutes.
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Omeleto
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That was bloody awful Trickler.
Like some overlong workplace anti- racism advert from communist Victoria.
In their next mini movie I believe a hunter gets his life saved by a homosexual endangered native waterfowl when he falls off a pontoon during the opening day of duck season and learns the value of true love.
Says the f*ckhead who allowed the house fire.
The nuisance jumping at Trump’s motorcade.
Someone else has possibly mentioned this, but one interesting observation from the footage of the pest in the hard-to-miss-stripes attention seeking in front of former Pres. Trump’s motorcade, is the plain clothes police woman (presumably) in the black Trigger City Chop Shop t-shirt (see at the 3 min 23 sec mark with uniformed officers). She can be seen on a few occasions earlier in the footage, standing behind and above the scattered Blacks for Trump group ():23; beneath the Chick-fil-A sign), not seeming to be part of them. Stripey is unmissable, and while she may not have been detailed to specifically watch him, he does appear in her line-of-sight (1:36, 1:51), and is practically in front of her – though not within reach – when he dashes out into the path of the motorcade (2:14).
Remember that for your next pub trivia night.
I got a similar email from my provider some time ago though they were not prepared to commit to a percentage rise at that time. Nothing since then. I suppose I will find out when the bill comes in.
Omeleto review:
Some may say the makers of these shitfights ‘do good work’.
Hahahaha.
Hey, fatso. Explain why you’re not allowed near radio stations again?
Knuckle Draggersays:
June 14, 2023 at 10:28 pm
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It’s a near-run thing between Tricker and Brih-nee as to who can eat the most hot dogs.
For the benefit of those of you who have come in late, this blog is off the pace.
Allowed it?
It didn’t fkn ask permission.
As expected, the leaking of Brittany’s draft claim could well explain Dreyfus’s glum demeanour. Wouldn’t want to be defending that one.
Liz Harrington
@realLizUSA
“The Presidential Records Act allows the president to decide what records to return & what records to keep at the end of his presidency. & the National Archives can’t do anything about it. I know because I’m the lawyer who lost the ‘Clinton sock’ case.”
The link is to the WSJ, which is paywalled.
Some reminiscences of an old person:
My mother trained as a nurse for four years 1932-1936 at Wallsend Mining District Hospital. At the completion of her training she answered an advert in a Newcastle paper for nursing sisters for a brand new country hospital at a lovely country town, Walgett. She applied knowing nothing of the town or its inhabitants. She worked there until I was born in 1940.
Although many places in Walgett had ‘no blacks’ signs, the hospital was open to all and welcomed all regardless of colour.
When we returned to Walgett toward the end of WWII I wondered why the black kids all were friendly toward me until I saw them and their parents, when swimming in the river, have such obviously high regard for my mum.
Further to the above I spent a year as a 5yr old not going to school during which time my pop would take me with him out to the property with a black fella helper who would sit in the front of the ute with him leaving me and the dog in the tray at the back. No one I knew ever called them aboriginals those days, just blacks but not IMO in a derogatory manner.
Paul Kikos
@PKikos
Psst
Pass it along.
The genocide was openly discussed over 20 years ago at the highest levels of academia.
Or off its meds?
I didn’t even get a cheery ‘Hello Muddy!’ when I stumbled through the doorway.
Pffft to youse.
Please re-read my above minor hissy fit to the accompaniment of the classic: Cartman – Come Sail Away.
Fraser mega freedom
@Followthrough23
This is the truth: the indigenous people of Australia are being scammed!
and
Teresa
@pepedownunder
Australia has spent 364M on The Voice Referendum.
It’s objective is purportedly to ‘help’ Aboriginal communities…yet according to this, they know NOTHING about it??
We are in a cost of living crisis, housing crisis, but
@AlboMP
seems to have no issues spending OUR money to impress the United Nations with this racist crap.
To all the yes voters, WHO exactly are you helping?
We are ALL being scammed.
Abuse in state care????!!!!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-14/child-sexual-abuse-survivor-sa-premier-apology/102479840
Didn’t Gillard’s royal commission assure us that that – or abuse in a state school – was as impossible as a square circle or a round triangle?
The fall of the US dollar is key to spreading peace throughout the World.
Fair shake I was at that IPA meeting one of the wealthy widows maybe I talked with you but you would have been wearing your real name. Agree about Questions Tram ride home at 10pm was hilarious with 2 men who had been there without their wives .
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In-house counsel informs me that this would likely be an ambit claim. Normally, unless Mz Higgins was able to prove total and permanent disability that absolutely prevented her from working in any capacity, this speculative approach to economic loss would not be entertained in a legal determination.
Further, the fact that she is apparently able to undertake a D.Juris at Bond Uni suggests she is not permanently reduced to a catatonic state – and therefore has a duty to mitigate her economic loss and a reasonable expectation of doing so.
Counsel is however at pains to remind me that this may be an express compensatory approach available under a workplace agreement, or a private settlement between the parties “assuming nobody was inclined to struggle”.
Awesome version of one of THE greatest songs in the HISTORY of musik!
Gunners – Sweet Child O’ Mine – performed by a … middle school band?
(Hopefully the expressive adult is their music teacher).
From an earlier comment of mine above:
Alamak!, what part of the Presidential Records Act do you not understand?
DB> PRA covers general records but classified docs have their own rules & regulations. If there is any possible legal challenge I guess we will see that raised during Trumps trial.
Some reminiscences of an old person
Interesting recollection, P. Thanks.
PRA covers classified docs too.
Other regulations may deal with how everyone other than a President may deal with classified documents within the Executive but how can they limit the President who is the Executive?
doverbeach> Trump is not a King and has no powers to assign classified documents as his own personal items. That was the purpose of the PRA – to avoid what Nixon tried and sometimes got away with.
No, Trump is not a King, but a President does have that power when they are received by him or his staff and then by his subsequent acts.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Monday afternoon told his employees that the protest of thousands of forums on the site in response to the company’s charging for access to its application programming interface “will pass,” The Verge reported.
More than 8,000 forums on Reddit were taken private by the site’s volunteer moderators—limiting their access to subscribers only—to protest the company’s decision to start charging third-party app developers for API access. The protest briefly caused the site to go down on Monday morning. While many of the forums plan to open again on Wednesday, some say they will remain inaccessible to non-members indefinitely in protest of the company’s API pricing. Huffman told staff the company’s revenue had not been significantly affected by the blackout, The Verge reported.
Huffman said the company is still in conversation with developers of some third-party apps that rely on Reddit’s API to function. The company is granting exceptions from its API pricing to accessibility-focused apps, which allow people who are visually impaired a way to browse Reddit’s forums, like RedReader and Dystopia. Huffman also warned employees to “be mindful of wearing Reddit gear in public,” given that “some folks are really upset, and we don’t want you to be the object of their frustrations.”
Charging for API access seems to be reasonable.
It’s just how much is the real question.
That’s Application Programming Interface for those unfamiliar.
Today in “no evidence of election fraud” Jay Valentine tells it like it is:
We have written about how the data for the six swing states show enough sovereign voter fraud (the election commission is in on it) and phantoms to overcome any likely Trump vote majority.
Accumulating events indicate that leftists may be helping Trump blow through their fraud firewall.
In each swing state, there are from 200,000 to 400,000 phantom voters or addresses or both locked into the voter rolls.
Three years of volunteer election integrity work has done little to reduce these numbers. While phantoms were found by the tens of thousands, few were removed. Little has been done to thwart county or state officials augmenting voter roll data to help leftist candidates.
Trump is currently unlikely to win any swing state by enough votes to overcome the fake ballot stash each state’s leftists and RINOs prepared against him.
Read it all, at the link.
John Spooner.
David Rowe.
Patrick Blower.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
And read Lydia’s excellent comment under that article.
Henry Payne.
Henry Payne.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Media skewered for showing pictures of many boxes of “documents” when there was really only one!
Gateway Pundit
Yesterday’s Tucker Carlson on Twitter video has now clocked up 65 million views — 21 times more than his daily viewership at Fox News.
The Federalist has had articles over the last day or so about Maine & Virginia bringing in ranked choice voting.
Still catching up, but this isn’t a GOP or DNC thing.
It’s about ensuring establishment candidates from either party are the only ones who will win elections.
The process in the US is all for show & has been captured by the donor class.
I think that’s the case in most ‘democracies’ ‘bern-citizens are only allowed to vote for approved candidates.
It’s hard for someone outside the Canberra self-interest bubble to make sense of this.
Everyone has a reasonable expectation of being promoted regularly if they work hard and keep their noses clean. Whilst it was an obvious lie, she admitted entering her workplace drunk, entering the minister’s office drunk. Then she pinched the minister’s expensive jacket and hasn’t returned it. She says this too.
Drunkenness and theft by a staffer in the workplace.
What happened in the minister’s office aside, those two admissions by her would see and end to “regular promotions”. It doesn’t necessarily prevent a political career, just not with the Libs.
The “injuries and disabilities” were self inflicted.
As for the accusation, this is a criminal matter and is the province of law enforcement, not the employer who, it would appear was at pains to have her pursue that avenue.
NIMBY farmers?
The places where big renewables won’t be is in the backyard are major cities.
If you look at AEMO documents you’ll find hundred kilometre “no go” zones around cities for renewables.
Can’t have the day trippers distressed by steel and cement.
Joe Hildebrand has a standing invite to come and tell us about renewables and our NIMBY ways any time he likes.
See you soon soy boy.
In regard to her expected earnings, when I read about that I recalled the story of upcoming actor Jon Blake (originally in the Restless Years). He suffered a brain injury in a car accident in 1986 and was incapacitated for the rest of his life (died in 2011).
Because he had a fifteen percent chance of making it big in Hollywood, he was awarded 33 million in compo – reduced to 7.67 million on appeal. He could not and never did work again while Higgins is young, mentally and physically able to work and cause much mischief in the months and years ahead.
This is a travesty.
“Then she pinched the minister’s expensive jacket and hasn’t returned it. She says this too.”
Oh yes, forgot that one.
Last night I asked the question, when will this floozy and the Amphibian be charged for their subjudice speeches?
This morning I ask the question, when this floozy will also be charged with pinching a minister’s expensive Carla Zampatti jacket?
Oh that’s right, there’s one law for the left and another for us.
The President has authority to decide what is classified and what is not.
This is black and white and any other idea is seditious and plain unconstitutional.
I dunno about that article bern.
The US Congress has an incumbency rate of around 96% and there are hardly ever any independents let alone third party candidates.
Ballot access, single member electorates and first past the post voting created that; the parties control the primaries with some openness in different States.
Is it in the primaries? Well shoot.
Creating multi member electorates in States or across small States could allow for more representative representation.
If you had local councils with approval voting themselves, selecting State Senators and State Houses elected on MMR with PR then electing together their Federal Senators once more it would disempower the two party duopoly.
This is a travesty.
Yes, you’ve said it best.
Last night a friend rang to me say how her Friday night Shabbat dinner last week, with some of her leftwing family, ended up in a screaming match. Her niece, a law student, became hysterical and emotional when my friend (her aunt) questioned Higgins’ story and payout, and my friend had the audacity to say, wait for it, that it was a political hit job designed to destroy the Coalition government. Not rocket science! Anyway, my friend told me she was shocked at her niece’s adolescent ramblings and ravings about Higgins, and the young woman’s response to her aunt’s words, because she started raving on about how “Higgins represents us”, “Lehrmann is guilty”, and “how we’re all likely victims of rape”, and how she knows “other young woman who’ve had similar experiences like Higgins”.
I told my friend that her niece was fortunate I wasn’t sitting at the dinner table because I would have said the following to the young woman in response to her immature, adolescent and downright offensive ravings and ramblings….
1. I do hope your friends if, as you allege, have been raped, that they have gone to the police because otherwise YOU ARE not telling me the truth.
2. How nice that you, a future lawyer, is more than happy to trash the presumption of innocence, a basic principle of common law. But that’s okay because when your father or cousins or boyfriend are accused of rape, don’t come running to me for any sympathy, because I’ll follow your words and I’ll assume he’s guilty, after all, aren’t the words….”believe all women”? Won’t that woman ‘represent you’, even when she’s accusing someone you love of rape?
3. Since you have said that you believe all women when they allege rape, regardless of the facts, the evidence and so on, I’m very happy then that you now believe Bill Shorten’s accuser, a woman by the name of Kathy Sherriff. Oh, perhaps you haven’t heard of Bill Shorten’s accuser, and the longstanding allegation around him? No, probably not, because Shorten is a Labor politician, and the MSM keep quiet about such things. Or perhaps such stories don’t interest you, since you, as an aspiring lawyer, like to judge people guilty according to their politics.
4. I don’t think I’ll ever refer anyone to you for legal advice.
I told my friend that next time she’s faced with such adolescent vomit, she can use ALL of the above, and my advice is free.
Got into work and someone has stuck a ‘welcome to country, vote yes” sign on the gate.
The company owner is not happy.
As Dr F said above, this document would have outlined an ambit claim – better to start the negotiations at $3 million and $2 million.
Add in the fact that Brittnah and her lawyer were likely aware that Labor would not push back much it is clearly more advantageous to start as high as possible. And there was no way Labor would be looking to save money. It was public money.
Note also that they carefully locked out of discussions anyone who might protest at the size of the payout, making inconvenient points. The whole thing was set up to make sure the pay out was big.
The leaking and hinting of the size of the payout was also to Labor’s advantage since the size would be a gauge as to how vile the Libs involved are – a misdeed demanding a $3 million payout is clearly far more serious than one that only attracts $100k.
In its way, and while not a top priority it will be perceived by Labor as a very welcome side benefit that the payment is also an ongoing calumny against Reynolds and Brown. I won’t say Morrison because he bought into the whole disreputable thing of his own accord – he thought when he threw the rake away he was free of it.
Well said, Cassie.
This is beyond absurd.
DO NOT MARRY THIS WOMAN!
It is a massive PITA. I use Reddit simply as a quick reference and not as a verifiable source.
Reddit has never made a profit. I hope it dies. It has a toxic audience who are quick to label everyone else as toxic. Please no not point out the irony to me!
Why not ask for $40 million?
I hope Mz. Lawyer soon discovers that everyone can be a victim, including people falsely accused.
As Cassie says, this brouhaha happened at a Friday Night. The young lady, being brought up as a Jew, must be fully aware of the Law and the careful assessment of claims, rape included. Women were not to be instantly believed, but the matter brought before the authorities to be weighed.
The penalties were severe for offenders and false accusers. The law erred on the side of the woman (almost unheard of in the ancient world) but they weren’t idiots.
The local activists here, have put up a sign in the local community centre, reminding us that we stand on Noongar land. They get rather stroppy, when reminded that they couldn’t defend that land…
When dealing with vomit such as the above, it’s quite easy, you don’t take prisoners, you SUCKER PUNCH them.
Because such vomit and shit must to be countered, be it from friend, family or foe.
Reading historian Christopher Clark’s (of The Sleepwalkers fame) book of essays Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and other Humans, written during the pandemic lockdowns (published 2021).
In the preface he dismisses the idea that covid-19 was devised in a Wuhan lab as an example of humans needing to attribute either divine or human causation to epidemics in order to fit them into a grand narrative.
Two years later, US intelligence has confirmed “with 100% certainty” a lab leak, citing the names of the three scientists responsible, while the former head of the Chinese CDC has said “don’t rule it out.”
I hope Professor Clark’s intellectual arrogance is now suitably chastened.
This morning I ask the question, when this floozy will also be charged with pinching a minister’s expensive Carla Zampatti jacket?
A theft has to be reported for any plod response .. haven’t seen any mention of the Minister getting that excited … I said earlier in the week a $1 000 “work” jacket out of a $300K salary Minister Reynolds, probably, never noticed the item was gone until the media splash …….
“As Cassie says, this brouhaha happened at a Friday Night. The young lady, being brought up as a Jew, must be fully aware of the Law and the careful assessment of claims, rape included. Women were not to be instantly believed, but the matter brought before the authorities to be weighed.
The penalties were severe for offenders and false accusers. The law erred on the side of the woman (almost unheard of in the ancient world) but they weren’t idiots.”
Indeed calli. In the Torah the he punishment for making false accusation is corporal punishment…..death.
Horowitz: Confidential Pfizer document shows the company observed 1.6 million adverse events covering nearly every organ system
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
JUST IN: Recovered documents from Joe Biden’s personal stash of highly classified White House records is said to include national defense information related to China … developing
Re the payout to Higgins. Didn’t the fact she’d just signed a book deal for over $300,000 prove that she was capable of earning an income?
how we’re all likely victims of rape
Cop: “so when did the alleged rape occur”…
Mizz Lawyer: “Not until he wiped his dick on my curtains and told me my mum roots better’.
I hope she finds all the contentment and happiness she deserves in life.
Sincerely.
All she deserves.
(Box wine/cats/microwaved meals for one)
Thanks, Tom, even if you no-doubt confused some with your late start. Hopefully yesterday’s bouquets did not go to your head! 😀
Henry Payne x 2 for me, with honourable mentions to Steve Kelly and Lisa Benson.
JUST IN: $10M Magically Appeared In Biden’s 2017 Tax Return; House GOP Investigating
Meme
Fight you bastards, fight…
Worth a RTWT, pyrate Pete is involved as well.
Lisa Wilkinson lodges official complaint with Seven Network over Bruce Lehrmann interview
According to an email sent by lawyers for Wilkinson to Spotlight’s executive producer Mark Llewellyn on 8 June, which is included in the Saunders affidavit, they had viewed a document described as Ten’s Acma complaint, agreed with it and endorsed it, and “will be making a separate complaint on behalf of Ms Wilkinson and Mr [Peter] Fitzsimons”.
It is understood Ten’s complaint is yet to be lodged.
Separately, the Ten affidavit also reveals that lawyers representing Ten, Wilkinson and Brittany Higgins believe the extent of evidence leaked from Lehrmann’s trial is not limited to Higgins’s text messages and audio of a meeting between Higgins, her partner, David Sharaz, Wilkinson and another Ten journalist.
In that audio, Wilkinson appeared to mock the Coalition by raising questions regarding the validity of Senator Jacinta Price’s preselection to the National party and struggling to pronounce her name.
According to the affidavit, lawyers representing Ten, Higgins and Wilkinson have claimed that other leaked material includes unseen footage from Network Ten, a draft of Higgins’s book manuscript, audio recordings of interviews between the AFP and witnesses, an audio recording of two security guards at Parliament House on the night of the alleged rape, a statutory declaration signed by Higgins and extracts from Higgins’s personal diary.
The affidavit also shows that lawyers for Wilkinson believe the Seven Network reported a “leaked” text from Wilkinson’s husband, Peter FitzSimons, to Higgins which was “falsified” and “does not exist”, and that Wilkinson says she has no record of an “angry” letter that the Australian reported she was sent by Higgins. This is also the letter reported on by Sunrise, lawyers for Wilkinson say.
As Fatty Trump has zero chance of winning the next presidential “election” due to the now permanent vote rigging infrastructure* installed by the dumbocrats, this crazy show trial strikes me as being about just one thing – humiliation.
Ridiculous embarrassing banana republic worthy idiocy.
*See the illegitimate syphilitic geriatric corruptocrat’s “inadvertent” admission in the lead up to the 2020 election.
I remember the case and the massive rise in SA motor vehicle TPI fees that it spawned to pay for it. I mused that these ‘loss of opportunity’ payouts were never accompanied by ‘loss of responsibility’ offsets – sure he *might* have been deprived of the lifetime earnings of a top actor – had he ever got there – but he was also exempted from the need to do the work to earn said income.
Very disturbing
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Watch till the end.
Tell me again how they’re safe & effective. Go ahead.
I think the ‘Yes’ people waaaaay overestimate how popular smoking ceremonies and welcome-to-country ceremonies are.
Likely they see 100 people in a room where Aunty-BlahBlah has been paid to do their little bit of nonsensical street theatre (honestly, someone juggling three grapefruits would be more engaging), and assume those 100 people are all supportive.
In reality it is a couple of drones from HR who think it makes them important, and a manager who thinks it a small concession to make the HR people shut up about social responsibility and pariahs and inclusion and all the other unpalatable flavours in the DEI breakfast cereal.
In addition in any business large enough there is always one manager who thinks joining the vanguard of ‘the current thing’ will advance their career – and it does as long as others in the company are under the DEI spell. But it is hard to trust them. You don’t know if there is any thing true inside them. They seem to discover new passions only when someone else starts waving their tacky flag, and they forget things as soon as the cause fades into background noise.
US taxpayer funds flowed to Chinese entities that conducted coronavirus research before COVID pandemic: GAO
Of course. That was the point.
Over $400 Billion in COVID Aid Was Stolen or Wasted
In other “totally not fabricated for political advantage” news today…
Labor has offered support to Thorpe, Farrell says
Trade minister Don Farrell was asked about yesterday afternoon in the Senate (you can read about that here) at the end of that interview on ABC radio RN Breakfast.
He says Labor has offered support to the independent Victorian senator:
We’ve spoken with Lydia, we’ve offered her a support for anything she might need assistance systems with. I understand she’s going to be making a further statement to the parliament today. And I’ll await the outcome of what she has to say.
I wonder if he’s contracted to produce yet another door stopper for Christmas?
Got a lot on his plate atm.
Pass the corn chips…
White House press secretary accused of violating Hatch Act; what is the Hatch Act?
Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance
In todays Oz:
And I wonder how many citizens will be aware that this is a small and rare example of the ‘unseen’ downside to government regs becoming seen?
Michael Yon Jungle
@Michael_Yon
Today in Texas — Am in field with @BensmanTodd
— this footage is but a thimble of what we have seen so far. This colonia already is massive—growing to epic. A high government man told us today he thinks this likely will grow to 200,000 or more illegal aliens near Houston. Forest and wetlands being destroyed. Deer and turtles being replaced by Santa Muerte shrines, MS-13, and more….must be huge money in Treason…
I think the time has come where a Coalition MP or Senator should resurrect the accusation against Bill Shorten and speak about it in parliament.
It’s time. When chimpanzees throw their shit around, you have to pick it up and throw it back.
Sicktoria – establishing the new aristocracy of race..
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/15/almost-every-victorian-indigenous-prisoner-has-enrolled-to-vote-for-body-negotiating-treaty
Candidates have floated numerous ideas for the state-wide treaty, including a universal income for Indigenous elders and co-ownership of renewable energy infrastructure.
Rust, who spoke at the Lowitja Institute International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing conference on Wednesday, said a state-wide treaty would seek to push for a permanent Indigenous decision-making body – which she described as a “Black parliament”.
She said it would differ from the proposed voice to parliament because it would not just advise the government, but have the power to make decisions on policy affecting First Nations Victorians.
Victoria is the furthest progressed jurisdiction in enacting the voice, truth and treaty elements of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart manifesto.
I suppose you have to be able to show your working – like mathematics tests in High School.
Her lawyer did a calculation based on the rosiest circumstances.
Finally.
Finally, Australians can have shit-powered fried eggs (the Tele):
All those angry letters to the editor paid off in the end.
MacIntyre: The gulag comes to you
Uptick.
In our most sacred and solemn Parliament, I would ask for chat logs, but I’m off the reservation; the boomers and old gen Xers would pretend they couldn’t open or rotate a PDF.
She withdrew the accusation, btw.
Didn’t we point the big finger at South Africa for such an establishment?
George Alexopoulos toon.
Donald Trump Deploys ‘Clinton Socks’ Defense Against Federal Charges
They were just practicing for the main game.
Biden’s World Bank Head Promises To Spend ‘As Much As We Possibly Can’ On Climate Change (14 Jun)
Bill’s certainly been very quiet on the Higgins matter.
Not “in the loop”?
White House Laughs Off, Dismisses Alleged 17 Biden Bribery Tapes
Ed hit hard. Xhe so wanted this to be true. Daily Telegraph:
At what point do the Coalition move to expel Thorpe from Parliament? May not succeed but it must be pursued.
Not a crow, but the poor bloody conscripts getting killed in this are the ones to feel sorry for.
Ukraine’s failed Mala Tokmachka assault lays bare counteroffensive challenges
Peter Beaumont and Patrick Wintour
Russia has had 12 months to prepare defensive positions supported by superior air power
…
“It’s clear that this operation will take a while. Ukraine is trying to do something that has not been successfully accomplished (perhaps ever) before. They are trying to execute a wide-scale offensive with the use of armoured vehicles without air supremacy against an entrenched enemy that possesses a large supply of defensive weaponry.*
“Many of the advantages Ukraine was able to use effectively in slowing any Russian advances to slower-than-snail pace over the last six months are now with the Russians.
“The Ukrainians are having to contend with the fact that now they need to send forces forward, including tanks, APCs and other vehicles, and they must operate in an environment in which they are threatened by a large number of different systems – such as the almost ubiquitous handheld anti-vehicle missile.”
That sentiment was underlined in a briefing from western officials on Wednesday that suggested Ukraine was taking significant casualties and making slow progress towards the Russian main line of defence.
They said the counteroffensive was still in its early days and involved a form of warfare not seen in decades as Ukraine forces were being forced to build single lanes of armoured vehicles through mines heading to main Russian defences that in some cases may be still as far as 20km away.
“The vulnerability of the classic single lanes through the minefields make the Ukrainian armoury very vulnerable to attack,” one official said.
The officials suggested there was likely to be “grinding, costly warfare” for many months to come.
“This is incredibly difficult. Russia has generally put up a good defence from their well-prepared positions and falling back to tactical lines … The idea that the Russians were just going to melt away and the Ukrainians were going to drive straight through their defensive line was in people’s wildest dreams.”
* This alone says negotiation (and then NATO integration) to try and save as much furniture as possible is the intelligent thing to do.
The only upside is it appears the Ukrainian AFVs seem to have a very good crew survival rate if casualties from 8 vehicles being knocked out were as lo as claimed.
UK Cops “Open-Minded” To All Explanations for Nottingham Rampage That Don’t Involve Islam
Well hey maybe they can prove the provenance of the fake bruise photo too.
shatterzzzsays:
June 15, 2023 at 8:30 am
This morning I ask the question, when this floozy will also be charged with pinching a minister’s expensive Carla Zampatti jacket?
A theft has to be reported for any plod response .. haven’t seen any mention of the Minister getting that excited … I said earlier in the week a $1 000 “work” jacket out of a $300K salary Minister Reynolds, probably, never noticed the item was gone until the media splash …….
The jacket no longer fitted the Minister as she had already put on a few extra pounds. Surplus to requirements.
England ladies angling team in chaos as half of squad quit in protest over trans competitor
Only as long as she can keep waking up stark naked on sofas where she can claim (years later) to have been raped.
Perhaps on a park bench near a path that someone famous walks along in the mornings, the Chairman’s lounge at Qantas, a corporate box at Wimbledon, etc.
I can foresee a line of floppy dolls called “Blitzed Britts” that people have in their offices that they sprawl out on a book shelf, or window sill, on the coffee table etc. When people come in can talk about some of the amusing and cunning locations they have seen the doll placed. (Only problem would be the $3 million price tag).
Or a line of books modelled after the Where’s Wally series.
Not to mention Teats’ current tawdry affair with [redacted for Dover’s sake].
Conflict of interest (on both their parts), corruption? Fugggedddabbbbooodit …
# of ABC employees exceeds 5000
ie: less than a 2% reduction.
Knickers an optional extra.
“For the information of the Senate I will make a further statement on the matter tomorrow.”
Doubling down on stupid or a “I misspoke”.
Very hard to expel a member or senator.
She would have to say something treasonous.
Her position on indigenous sovereignty may actually approach that.
Note she has “lodged a complaint with Channel 7” which “might lead to a complaint to ACMA”.
Seven will be quaking in their boots.
Folks, I can tell you I’ve known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
– Joe Biden
‘Shirt-Lifter’ In Chief
A five year plan that begins with a purge.
Heartening to see socialism being applied to the ABC.
A selection of lead stories from today’s Oz:
Secret compo: Hoggins’ ‘40 years of lost wages’
Brittnah Hoggins claimed 40 years of economic loss, the end of her pursuit of a political career and ongoing revelations making her look like a stupid pissed barking mad strumpet were reasons she was entitled to more than $2.5m of taxpayers’ money, written whinge reveals.
Galaga confirms Shiraz wedding invite
Senior Labore ministers use parliamentary tactics to dodge questions as Katy Galaga admits David Shiraz invited her to his first wedding.
Labore’s grotesque hypocrisy knows no bounds
The same politicians who weaponised a rape claim are outraged at the exposure of material pointing to the extent of Labore’s involvement in this scandal.
Thorpey drops assault fabrication
Hydia Thorpey has withdrawn her hysterical fabrication made in the Senate that Gliberal senator David Van had ‘looked at her the wrong way”.
Privacy watchpup’s data stolen by Wussians
Peak privacy agency the Office of the Ozzie Misinformation Commissioner is the latest to fall victim to (cue spooky muzak …) Wussia-linked hackers.
They can afford to.
Nets Spend 291 Minutes On Trump Indictment, 0 Seconds On Biden Burisma Bribery (13 Jun)
The Soviet Union would envy the Left’s control of the media in the West. Quite amazing.
Knuckle Draggersays:
June 14, 2023 at 10:31 pm
It’s a near-run thing between Tricker and Brih-nee as to who can eat the most hot dogs.
Does she like hers with or without the bread roll?
So the SFLs caved and moved Van’s office to placate this slag.
And this is the end result.
They should have said “We’ve made enquiries and it looks like Thorpey has a vivid imagination. Fck off.”
Spooner a masterful display of political cartooning. Can someone explain it to the j’ismists.
The disgusting antics of these highly paid rubbish people go on and on.
I think the time has come where a Coalition MP or Senator should resurrect the accusation against Bill Shorten and speak about it in parliament.
It was eventually taken to VicPol, 29 years later.
They couldn’t find any evidence to substantiate.
Why not respect Bill’s Presumption Of Innocence for a change?
When will you respect Mr Lehrmann’s?
A bit like the AFP in the Mysterious Case Of The Missing Panties, eh?
Rabz you are right with the persecution of DJT- to humiliate and to warn. The USA disgusts me.
As someone with a couple of rooms of boxes in my personal Mar a Lago it is hard not to have some sympathy with The Donald. Perhaps he needs a bigger house.
Senator Van had to apologise to Senator Lambie for harassing her.
Now Senator Thorpe.
Lambie is a tiny woman and Thorpey isn’t much bigger, but Van is a bit of a mystery man.
Wiki entry is a joke, how did he land a gig as Senator?
Well, he has toned things down a bit since I warned him that a certain solicitors office is watching.
How they came to be aware of Googlery we’ll never know.
😀
Senator Van had to apologise to Senator Lambie for harassing her.
Now Senator Thorpe.
You’re either delusional or just slandering people you absolute %$#&wit.
I thought the panties were in Dutton’s glove box? This is so confusing. If only they got it on CCTV.
Well, he’s a spook.
Obviously.
If only she didn’t have a series of texts and DMs where she literally describes a political conspiracy to fcuk over Scott Morrison with a sex scandal minus the baby.
Lydia Thorpe has given me a newfound respect for Nick Xenophon. He knew the value of a good stunt. It wasn’t just a mad woman taking a dump in the street.