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The Vanster coulda made friends with Thorpey.
I wouldn’t think it would be all that difficult.
Jacqui Lambie, that might be a different story.
Making growling dog noises while she was speaking, that’s just poking the bear.
Are they aware how silly it all sounds?
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British couple who uprooted their family to move to Australia eight years ago will be kicked out of the country because they’re ‘too old’ to get residency at the ages of 50 and 57 after visa rules were changed
Yes.
On a recent flight, as soon as we touched down one of the hosties read it out in one big long breath. She sounded very procedural about it.
Regarding the Distraction Squirrels versus the serious shenanigans, and 15-minute cities specifically.
When you go driving in suburban areas, speed limits are usually 50km/h. You’ll maybe spend 90% time driving and 10% stopped at lights. That’s an average of 45km/h. Travel for 15 minutes and that is a radius of 11.25km.
Is it more than a random co-incidence that during lockdown you were not allowed to exercise more than 10km from your home? Almost like it was a test run.
I used to laugh off the whole “plandemic” conspiracy theory (a phrase I use here in its original legal sense). I could grant the Big Pharma “scamdemic” theory had legs but the WEF “plandemic” was going a bit too far.
Well, now, I’m not so sure. Any more amazing co-incidences that people have found between WEF stated plans and totally-unplanned-accidental-emergencies?
Link to 1984 online.
You can take “choosing gender” off your to do list
Don’t worry, after we knock back the voice, maddened aborigines will deprive us of it. We were promised.
Speech Control is Social Engineering. Don’t Use Their Words & Language. Stay True to Your Heart.
I’ll be devastated at not being welcomed to country. Utterly devastated.
I expect there was plenty of room for the girls in the jacuzzi-shaped coffin.
Clueless bimbo j’ismist.
1/. The article does not mention which visa rule has changed. This may be because the relevant rule has not changed. However more likely is the bimbo j’ismist possesses insufficient attention span to investigate.
2/. If what is in the article is true, the one of the family members has breached the terms of their visa. This is not mentioned, probably because the bimbo j’ismist possesses insufficient ability to perform due diligence on a story.
The j’ismist is: female [check], named Jade [check], the immediate past 200 articles she’s written are this exact same type of non-news guff.
Yah. I thought Dutton’s response was due to the “Liberal’s women problem”.
Which renders them totally defenseless to mean wymminses.
Propaganda works.
Dutton’s first action on the next sitting day should be to seek leave to make a statement to the House. In that statement he should move that the Speaker ask the President of the Senate to require from Senator Thorpe a full list of all Senators and MHRs whom she alleges have assaulted her, verbally, physically and sexually.
She should also be required to provide a list of all MPs and Parliament House staff whom she claims witnessed any of these events. The President of the Senate and the Speaker, as the Presiding Officers, must then refer the lists to the AFP.
He should conclude by referring to the claims made by Mizzz Knickerless, and her claims to not have received proper support, and emphasise that the alleged incidents must be fully investigated, and any necessary support be provided to Senator Thorpe, so that future claims of inadequate support cannot be made.
In the hushed silence that follows, watch who keeps their head down.
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I don’t know, I couldn’t count the times some bint has squeezed my taut arse or fondled my lumpy groin.
The lack of contemporaneous reporting invites adverse inferences. To give Stoker the benefit of the doubt, she may have done so with no action made public at the time. I’m not sure I would do the same for Brittany (or Dave).
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m0ntysays:
June 15, 2023 at 6:35 pm
Former Lib Senator Amanda Stoker just released a statement detailing a sexual assault by David Van in November 2020. Couple of bum pinches.
No doubt this is not the last incident that will come out. Why do Liberal politicians (and staffers) keep committing sexual assault?
Bearing in mind who Thorpe is, what makes you think that her alleged abusers are all Liberals? We need her to provide a full list, on oath.
“Cassie of Sydneysays:
June 15, 2023 at 7:14 pm
There has been far more Labor politicians and “staffers” who’ve been charged and convicted of sexual assault. Far more.”
Also, an abnormally large percentage of them have had proclivities for the under-aged.
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Dotsays:
June 15, 2023 at 6:37 pm
Why do Liberal politicians (and staffers) keep committing sexual assault?
People are watching your comments monty. We know you would want this blog shut down. If anything bad happens, I hope you are thrown under a proverbial bus.
The fat fascist fool is cranky with this blog because it is far more successful that his Phat Pussy blog, where the tumbleweeds blow.
Wow.
The chap who directed The Road is going to direct Blood Meridian.
Talk about pressure, now the great man is dead.
“Also, an abnormally large percentage of them have had proclivities for the under-aged.”
Correct.
Van Man is big on Gender Issues, according to his site:
Wokester.
Basically, the left in the USA is now trying harder and harder to provoke a violent response from the citizens on the right.
That’s so they can move right along to martial law. Not sure how good the rainbow people in the military are at containing a real insurrection rather than just dealing with an erection.
Bearing in mind who Thorpe is, what makes you think that her alleged abusers are all Liberals? We need her to provide a full list, on oath.
Give it up, Skidmark, the Van has left the building.
I repeat,
The Van has left the building.
Colonel, I was discussing this with Gilas on Sunday evening and we came to exactly the same conclusion.
Look, go easy on Lydia. She was auditioning for the new game show built on accusations of sexual harassment against Liberal pollies, Brittanee’s Got Talent.
Silvio Bersculoni had been booked as a judge. What a pity.
https://thechillitblog.com/index.php/2023/05/11/murder-of-australian-journalist-ean-higgins/
Throw mud, eat a club?
Dr Groogarly heal thyself.
Indolentsays:
June 15, 2023 at 7:46 pm
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Very good summary. In a just world Jack Smith would be gutted and everyone else connected to this charade eviscerated. But it’s not a just world although I note even the left wing media is conceding Trump has many defensive avenues: Multiple defenses open to Trump in classified documents case
One can only hope.
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Nup.
Tethered to the red leather all the time.
Rabz revealed:
Oh great. Juuuust great. Ya just had to say it didn’t you.
So now in a basement in Canberra there is a record of a CatallaxyFiles Far Right Extremist Terrorist Cell
with 2now with 3 members in it, and growing at 50% per year.As if I wasn’t getting enough performance pressure already.
So what’s your training regimen? Dawn service to Hayek. PE at 7am. Online Insult training at 9am. Anything-other-than-a-latte break at 10. Then Truth Bomb construction thru to lunchtime?
Lucky for me ASIO already know that I’m all talk and no action. Hi spooks!
To be fair, m0nster, the bottoms they tend to pinch are not attached to children.
Here in Marybrook got resident white-tailed black cockatoos- no, not the fancy Baudin’s Blacks or Carnaby’s, just the good OG mob. For a few years I religiously noted their appearance, altitude, amplitude and number in order to see if they indeed could be used to forecast rainfall- nup, no correlation much at all.
My rule of thumb now is if you can hear them, it’s going to rain, if you can’t, then it is already raining.
Safest place to be. Pays well too.
I suspect something like that went on.
Van got a bit handsy with Stoker.
The story got around Parliament House.
Thorpe put a non-descript “uncomfortable” complaint in the bank at the time.
She cashed that cheque today.
Ed Casesays:
June 15, 2023 at 7:53 pm
Bearing in mind who Thorpe is, what makes you think that her alleged abusers are all Liberals? We need her to provide a full list, on oath.
Give it up, Skidmark, the Van has left the building.
I repeat,
The Van has left the building.
No, the Van is still in the building, sitting near Thorpe on the Senate cross-bench.
PS, I’d assume you wear a jockstrap to avoid that problem, except, as is well known, you have neither dick nor testicles to put in one.
Thanks for that.
I have a vague recollection of reading the novel in school, but I may be thinking of either Animal Farm or A Brave New World. I have the first series of a modern adaptation of the latter on DVD somewhere.
Old Nyoongar name is wargiar. Also heard ngarlook, which I think is from further north, but chimes in with the -ook suffix which accompanies many birds.
Red-tailed blacks come and go, ie over decades. I remember them from when I was a kid, then we didn’t hear them for a few decades really, now they’ve been back for a few years. Went scouting for firewood in old jarrah bush and adjacent pine plantation, and they are thrashing the pines…
Local bloke has named them karak, which is bogus, he’s all but admitted to making it up. Any WA Cats know any old WA names?
Sorry, but who sponsors this Van character?
Not like he has set the fkn world on fire.
They knew about the Stoker-Groper matter, yet they took him to an election in the midst of the Britnah thing.
They must have known this would come back to bite them on the arse.
The Tories are like our Libs. Both have a total death wish.
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Primary vote of 26%? I suspect half of those people have pegs on their noses also.
Maybe try something different guys. Being Labor Lite doesn’t appear to be working.
Correct.
I’m confident the taxpayer would (unwillingly/unknowingly) FUND indigenous-only militia – on account of the severe physical threat to life ‘n all that – but I’m not sure how many volunteers they’d get? Conscription?
Right.
Another grifter who has never had a real job.
So she retracted her statements then made some even more fanciful ones entered into Hansard?
My god, Dutton could still get a scalp out of this. I reckon no one put her up to it. She just wants constant publicity.
Their hit rate with minors is far, far higher too.
The fruits of feminism……
Men competing in women’s sport
Cocks in frocks in women only bathrooms
Instead of slapping a sleazy man who smacks, touches or pinches a bottom, we women now wail, cry and scream…………I’m a victim.
So much for female empowerment. What a joke. Women in the west in 2023 are an insult to those strong women who came before us.
Time to rename Helen Reddy’s song….
I am victim, hear me sob
I find this whole phenomenon of women resurrecting alleged sexual assaults years later, at times when ‘a tide in the events of men’ is running the right way, malicious, unprincipled and cynical.
If this Van chap was a groper for years, why did nobody nip it in the bud long ago? Why wait till now to get a headline? Either he is innocent, or is a low level pest who could easily have been dealt with if a few women tipped the wink to the leadership. The leadership would realise the consequences of private complaints becoming public.
It’s all so phony, so theatrical, so staged – and that encompasses Britanny, Lidia and the worms coming out of the woodwork about Van.
Bad luck for genuine sexual assault victims, like the Aboriginal women being violated with sticks and broken bottles.
An unwanted pinch or pat on some portion of the anatomy at a function or in Parly House in Canberra hardly rates.
I suppose this is what is meant by a ‘microagression.’
No.
No he won’t.
Actually, it is a rat-cunning tactic to defeat standing orders.
1. Name someone.
2. Withdraw.
3. Make another statement along similar lines to 1. but don’t name names (wink, nudge).
Well said!. I’m remembering the oaf who smacked a female Reserve soldier on the buttocks, made an obscene suggestion, and was beaten to a pulp by one of her colleagues…
I see those black cockies with red tails all the time in the Shoalhaven. We have Casuarinas all round. I wouldn’t call them small though. Yesterday a magpie was giving a hurryup to a sea eagle.
Sancho
See my comment at 1937. Dutton can get on the front foot in both the Knickerless and Lydia matters.
“johannasays:
June 15, 2023 at 8:50 pm”
I think you’ve said it best.
Chris Kenny is a fan of Andrew Probyn, no surprise there. I am sick and tired of supposedly conservatives media people idolising their ABC counterparts.
They knew about the Stoker-Groper matter, yet they took him to an election in the midst of the Britnah thing.
They must have known this would come back to bite them on the arse.
Wrong.
Van was elected in 2019 to a 6 year Term.
He seems to be a bit of an old school noblesee oblige type as far as Aussie sheilas are concerned.
Any idea of his origins, Sancho?
Huh.
Dunno what to make of it, but … interesting.
The two headline ‘best sellers’ they advertised were – wait for it – Michelle Obummer’s memoirs and Ranga Harry’s self-pitying weepie, Spare!
Haven’t seen any copies of “Spare” around but Michael’s book (H/C) is a regular $2 offer in the op shops
We have to meet in a basement so ASIO don’t get us mixed up with the garage nasties. Hi Mike. Found your arse yet.
And what if they were a Sri Lankan couple?
Or a Somali couple?
For once Paul Murray is right, he asks what about all those 50+ Labor women who complained about being sexually abused by those in their party’s parliamentary ranks. Yes, where are they? Why aren’t they coming forward?
Posted before on the situation of one of the local “indigenous” youths. He’s decided he doesn’t want to be a “blakfella” – in and out of gaol, and living on the dole, like most of his relatives. He wants to be a “whitefella” – finish school, get a job and earn a wage. The community has done a bit of “mentoring” – he’s part of the cadet unit at school, and was asking about joining the A.D.F. Couple of the “old and the bold” sat him down, and had a talk to him.
His useless pisswreck of a mother is buying him marijuana,on the basis that she thinks smoking weed with her son is a very companionable thing to do……What the fvck do you do?
Gang-gang Cockatoos are grey-black with a red crest. Galah sized. Common in Canberra and the Alps.
Actually, it is a rat-cunning tactic to defeat standing orders.
1. Name someone.
2. Withdraw.
3. Make another statement along similar lines to 1. but don’t name names (wink, nudge).
It is staggering to imagine that ocean going idiot having enough intelligence to make that happen. Is it too outrageous to suggest she has been ‘mentored’ by a senior government senator?
The local school has a policy that, if you want to go to the High School prom, you have to show that you have attended school regularly. The locals organized the lad with a hired suit, and a taxi to collect he and his girlfriend, and take them to the prom…Country towns…
I saw that and totally agree that it would be tactically very smart.
So it won’t happen.
Crossiesays:
June 15, 2023 at 9:09 pm
For once Paul Murray is right, he asks what about all those 50+ Labor women who complained about being sexually abused by those in their party’s parliamentary ranks. Yes, where are they? Why aren’t they coming forward?
Ask the fat fascist fool?
He was on an employer-sponsored skilled temporary entry business visa.
If a Somali was on such a visa, they’d be subject to the same rules – i.e. would be repatriated.
However; Rules have not been changed, & one of the family has breached visa conditions.
On their own, these don’t mean much, as the Immigration dept isn’t all that sharp at their own game.
The alarmists claiming that snow is a thing of the past have to postpone their doom-laden predictions for another year:
No wonder alarmists are seeking treatment for their mental health. The Arctic and Antarctic remain stubbornly frozen, there are massive snowpacks above California, and even Australia’s soggiest snow resorts are open for business.
Unfortunately, when the next drought cycle comes – as it will – we will have to go through the same BS all over again.
Anyway, “Sliante” to all on the Cat.
“Selling Hitler” makes interesting reading. There were, by 1980, over seventy biographies of Hitler in existence – twice as many as there are of Winston Churchill, and three times as many of Roosevelt and Stalin. Only Jesus Christ has had more words dedicated to him.
Wow, some cognitive dissonance on Twitter! Donald Trump, indisputably the most anti-war president of recent times, is being framed by some kangaroo court. The people most overjoyed are those who are vehemently anti-war.
My guess is that it was one of those sleeping insurance policies the left keep to break open at an opportune time, I’m guessing Albo is spewing it needed to be used 18 months out from an election.
Finished castles of steel.
Quite a good read on ww1 naval history.
Apparently Tirpitz had one criteria in his ship designs. “ a ships duty is to stay afloat”
Also the battle of Cornell is awful, nearly an entire Pom naval group wiped out. No survivors from any of the thousands on the sunk ships.
Zulu.
Tough one about the indig kid.
Sometimes we’re forced to become ‘big men’ before we’re ready, and be responsible adults to the adults in our life who cannot or will not, perform their role; being a ‘cycle breaker’. It’s a lot to ask some young thing who may feel he’s being pulled in several directions, and risk potentially losing family. While only knowing what you’ve told us, the fact he’s shown a desire to explore his options and opportunities seems like he might have a little extra maturity. I’d empathise with him and tell him you wouldn’t want to be facing the choices he is, but you admire him for even getting to this point of decision.
The Brits got their revenge at the Battle of the Falkland Islands, some weeks later – two German cruisers, sunk with almost all hands.
Thanks for that one, Muddy. Much obliged.
Grey Ranga spat:
Hey now. That is going too far.
Insulting the head of the organisation by their personal name is inappropriate.
If you dumped that guy they’d instantly be replaced by someone else, with similar organisational output.
Especially when they are excellent at finding people. Credit where it’s due.
Play the ball, not the man.
Correct.
Rumours would have been circulating and I think Thorpey put a little vague accusation in the bank.
I don’t think the double-fake with standing orders was pre-planned, but it was definitely work-shopped overnight to return with the “no names” wink-nudge reprise of yesterday’s outburst.
From the Hun.
Boambee John> Great idea @ 7:37. Attack is the best form of defence …
There’s a memorial to those men in the cathedral, at York, in the U.K. The attendant found it curious that a West Australia wheat farmer had heard of Christopher Cradock, and those losses.
Indolent says:
June 15, 2023 at 6:53 pm
Glad I’d eaten before I watched that.
Wrong berka. This is the wanker thats busy looking for garage nasties as a priority stated in his senate estimates statement 18 months ago. Where was he when the melbourne coppers son showed up as a garage nasty at the womens rally a month ago. Is ASIO still lost in the Grampians. Political bullshit artists R’ Us is a better name.
For Calli:
That was to add to her collection, just in case anyone thought otherwise.
And what if they were a Sri Lankan couple?
Flee to Biloela & claim refugee status ……. !
Thanks Bruce. We often get the yellow tailed Black Parrots at our place. I can often identify them without seeing them by the sounds they make when they get stuck into the gum nuts in the massive and mutant mountain ash next door.
On reflection I don’t think the group I saw this afternoon were cockatoos. They were definitely black, bigger than a Rosella but about half the size of a standard cocky.
More work on birds of the Hunter region required, when I have time.
Thanks for taking the time to answer.
Good point.
The shelves of op shops are an informative guide to readership habits. For example, there are always numerous copies of books by authors like Danielle Steele, and shelves of romance novels.
You rarely find an Ian Fleming, an Agatha Christie or a Robert G Barret.
But now and then you do. I think that some deceased estates or people going into retirement homes donate books, and there are some good finds. Not that I’m likely to find a James Ellroy. But, I’ve found things like compilations of Jeremy Clarkson’s columns, Murray Walker’s and Billy Thorpe’s autobiographies, an original Inspector Morse novel. To name a few. At $2 to $4 each.
Much more interesting, and far cheaper, than any chain bookstore.
Cradock was placed in an awful position.
His ships and crews were 3rd rate and the “ battleship” that was supposed to be the core of his force was so crap they ended up beaching it as a fixed defence at the Falklands.
Lot of navy high command stuff ups as well, with Cradock acting in the best traditions of Nelson but knowing realisticly the best befouls hope for was to cause enough damage to slow them down for a proper task force to smash.
They even crewed the ship’s partially with naval cadets.
Ah yes, the powerful, mighty fierce women of either party are too simpering, pathetic or cowardly to stand up to these alleged abusers. If you’re in a public place such a creep can be easily and loudly humiliated. Maybe trickier if you’re alone when alleged abuser is trying it on. But surely, SURELY, any woman with an ounce of sense would report it immediately, record any ensuing conversation on their mobile, or take steps to report it to HR or their senior immediately to make them cease and desist.
Why, oh, why do these excuses for fierce girl boss, power babe’s wait 3 freaking years or more to out these blokes? They’ve entered, survived and mostly thrived in one of the toughest work environments in the world, politics, yet they don’t have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to an idiot jerk of this kind?
It means I don’t believe them. Report immediately or file it under Do Better Next Time.
Sigh.
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Mr Panzer at 11.53, and apropos of wallet thieves in footy sheds:
Yep.
We had one of those 50-year ‘trainers’ who used to come round before the game, as you were getting changed with one of those calico ANZ bank bags. All the wallets went in them.
Never any problem is all those years. Mind you -had there been ‘lost’ wallet and/or cash drama, the club in the town I lived in and played for would have looked upon that very dimly.
Veeery dimly indeed.
Today’s takeaway, after scanning through:
Brih-nee’s allegation of sexual assault is actually ten times better and more credible than that of Lidia Thorpe, who lays down in front of Mardi Gras floats and who tells blokes outside strip clubs at 3.00 a.m. that they have small dicks.
Never thought I’d see the day. And yet, here we are.
The Hun:
Told youse.
The well’s running dry. Time for someone else to be left with the bill. McGowan led the way.
It’s always a sheila that ends up carrying the turd bag too.
Attention Lidia Thorpe – here’s another bandwagon you may wish to spreadeagle yourself on (the Hun):
Off you go, toots. Have a crack.
Why Nevada?
Megan says:
June 15, 2023 at 10:45 pm
Which is why the Stoker claim doesn’t make any sense, given that she’s a solicitor and should know how to say “cease and desist” to a handsie type.
But then, again, during covid and holding down the Assistant Attorney General job, she couldn’t find it in her to stand up for the many, many Victorians who’d written to her begging the Fed govt to intervene in the new pandemic laws, which Andrews had announced.
“No, we’re not doing that” she said at the time, and then tittered her little, school girl laugh on Gary Hardgraves’ Sky show.
On principal, she could have resigned from the front bench if she couldn’t move Scummo on the liberation of those poor sods in Victoria. So, so much for her conservative credentials of small govt and individual freedom.
As to the actual pinching. Is she really saying that, with all the den of iniquity stuff in the place, this is the sum total of her experience of it and the only time it’s happened? Surely there’s something else and someone else she can hang her newly minted feminist “how dare you” cause on.
From what Paul Murray reminded his audience of in that private Labor female FB? group, every single parliamentarian and staffer must have been either a witness to, or the object of, the most disgusting and disgraceful behaviours in any workplace in the country. And yet Stoker can only cry “pinched bum” and grasp her pearls.
If not, then though Van may have a case to answer, Stoker has made the whole thing an anticlimax while simultaneously moving media attention away from the shit show that is Gallagher, Brittnee and the dosh.
Excellent question, johanna.
My guess is that women in the Liberal Party didn’t trust Scott Morrison to actually do anything about it. Or they did and complained to him, and he broke that trust by… not doing anything about it.
Either way, it is yet another datum pointing to a historical and deep-seated problem with women within the Liberal Party. It starts at the top, and goes all the way down to their Neanderthal rustadons like the ones who gibber their sexist rants on here.
The Party has done zero introspection in the wake of its shattering defeats, and it deserves all the pain it will go through over the next decade. It is nearly unrecoverable.
stfu mUnty
Ha
1.The Albanian was caught coming out of a Thai nob cleaning shop.
2. Tits has credible accusations of rape against him – certainly more credible than what the Liars party came up against Brucey.
3. There are claims that Tits office is complaint machine against harassment.
4. Tits told his wife he wanted a divorce at the Football
5. Keating told his wife they were divorcing at a dinner party
6. Hawke was a complete root rat.
And you’re whining about the libs?
Get back in the basement, you fat idiot and this time don’t come out.
Thank God Trans is here, to counter Fatboy’s comments.
It is also hilarious that you lot have been joining the right-wing media frenzy of shouting WHAT DID LABOR KNOW about the entirely intra-LNP Lehrmann thing for weeks on end, and then this happens to remind everyone that this is all about the Liberals.
stfu JC
youse wankers all sound the same
Piss off Trans, you clown. Go on piss off. You dickhead.
That’s really telling him. Evidence filled comment that counters exactly what he said. Thanks Trans, you eggnog.
Bar Beach Swimmer, it’s almost as if right on cue just a they had Labor on the ropes they throw in the towel. Stoker may be getting a lot of media love for her “bravery” but voters are unimpressed.
Rubiks cube world record broken in 3.13 sec.
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom. Happy Friday.
Thanks Tom – Happy Thursday here
Rita Panahi:
Tweet of note. Expect monty to get flustered.
Yes. Green insanity has taken over our political class.
youse all sound the same
mongs
It is also hilarious that you lot have
We have a “you lot”. Now we know Monster has won the argument.
Thanks Tom – Happy Thursday here
Welcome back Old Ozzie. You’ve been missed
JFK Jr is pretty jacked for an old guy.
He’d easily beat Biden or Trump in a push up contest.
Make the RFK Jr, lol.
Indeed.
When my wife was in her early 20’s she was pinched on the bum at a work do (Yarra cruise or some such), the bloke got a “slap” that broke the plaster cast on her, broken from netball, wrist!
I don’t understand why these women don’t address these instances in similar fashion.
Are Black Holes racist? Jo Nova reports that CEOs are more circumspect about wokeism these days.
Meanwhile over at American Thinker, The Rules of the Soro-sphere tries to work out what motivates him to try and collapse the USA. Perhaps it’s just to see if it can be done. Looks like it can be, unless there’s another sort of revolution or civil war.
Someone upthread wrote about ‘Proms’, don’t know where you live but in our part of Australia I’ve never heard the word used outside US films and TV shows. Schools here have ‘Formals’, that’s what everyone kids and adults call them. my youngest finished high school last year and he says that the function is a ‘Formal’.
Maybe the ever increasing use of Americanisms is further advanced in some parts of Oz.
Cassie
The least of his issues.
He has amply demonstrated on these pages why he should be kept away from children.
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The Bee strikes again.
One in four Australian households struggle to pay their energy bills
This will remain the unacceptable consequence of electing idiots and ideologues to state and federal governments, while at the same time allowing the public debate to be overseen by mostly left/green media.
Those instances would have had to have actually happened for women to react in that entirely appropriate way.
It is plausible to suggest that a) Van has an existing reputation for handsiness (but not towards Thorpe), b) that Thorpe was aware of this, and consequently that c) Van is now the target for Thorpe’s limitless attention-seeking.
Snicker.
Glenda Jackson brown bread at 87.
I think she was the first film actress I saw do a full frontal complete with pubes in a feature film. Married one chap, but he later sued for divorce when she had an affair with another. In due course she became a Labour member of UK parliament.
A ladeee version of Bob Hawke then.
Aaaaand a very good morning to the lurKerspooKflaMerTraiTors.
Pro-Russian Hacktivist Groups ‘KillNet, Anonymous Sudan, and REvil’ Announce to Destroy European Banking System in the “Next 48 Hours”
Who needs paper money and/or bullion? Making everything electronic and reliant on the internet has vulnerabilities, so as the scouts used to say, be prepared.
“It is also hilarious that you lot have been joining the right-wing media frenzy of shouting WHAT DID LABOR KNOW about the entirely intra-LNP Lehrmann thing for weeks on end, and then this happens to remind everyone that this is all about the Liberals.”
Hmmm NO. It’s about male conduct, speaking of which, I’ll ask you again, you stinking grub, have you told your wife that you’re an apologist for perverts and that you support women, whose opinions you don’t like, being threatened, bashed and assaulted? You openly admitted your support for violence against women on these pages. And I suspect Senator Van, for all his faults and his adolescent behaviour, doesn’t support women being threatened, bashed and assaulted…LIKE YOU DO.
In the meantime, PISS OFF.
Jackson was a pioneer. She, along with Baez pioneered the arrogant, bullying, intolerant and very agressive marxist woman that became the role model for our contemporary hard left political she creatures.
POETS Day.
Piss Off Early Tomorrow’s Saturday.
A few fun stories around today on how the tobacco companies are acing ESG rankings.
The ESG Ruse Continues: Legacy Tobacco Companies Are Posting Higher ESG Scores Than EV Maker Tesla (15 Jun)
The latest “reality check” for ESG investing and the inane “scores” that companies receive comes courtesy of the Free Beacon, who this week profiled how tobacco companies – yes tobacco companies – are blowing away EV-maker Tesla in their ESG rating.
The report noted that this month S&P Global assigned Tesla “a lower environmental, social, and governance score than Philip Morris International, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes.”
Tesla earned just 37 points on their ESG scorecard while Philip Morris posted a score of 84. Similarly, the report notes, the London Stock Exchange has given British American Tobacco a score of 94.
The tobacco companies are gaming the system by embracing corporate progressivism, the report says. Yes, despite the fact that they are manufacturing products that aid in the slow, unhealthy deaths of those who use them.
The Bee is probably channeling this story, they don’t miss much! Like North Korea being appointed to the WHO executive board a couple weeks ago problem children like to make themselves look as nice as possible.
Glenda Jackson played Elizabeth I, she WAS Elizabeth I.
The picture wireless informs me that Geelong influencer Patrick Dangerfield was taken to hospital after a rib injury during the footy last night.
Sources indicate that he was stabilised with the aid of choppered-in hair product.
Thoughts and prayers.
Greetings beautiful FNQ, Cairns to be precise. Flying out to Narita in a few hours. Would have far preferred a direct flight to LHR, but these are the vagaries of FFPs and luck. One advantage of short sectors…a real bed, not those concrete airline ones with a blanket that always slips off just as they’re lowering the cabin temps.
I look out my window on the second floor of the motel and see skinny palms festooned with orchids and an enormous salmon Mussaenda formosana in full, glorious bloom. The tropics in winter are beautiful.
I think you’re right, Anchor.
I can’t see any other reason for the Trump charges, for example.
Knuckles I was flicking channels on fta, as you do, and saw Dangerous Dangerfield being interviewed. Never seen him before only references of his hair products. I cracked up. He looked like his mummy made sure he was spic’n’span before sending him off to Sunday school.
Sad to hear about Jackson. Looks like Mary Queen of Scots survived Elizabeth I after all.
She was a marvellous actress.
Amanda Stoker has dropped a lot in my opinion.
A sincere apology from Van should be the end of the matter but she raises the issue now in support of an erratic hater like Thorpe.
Stoker has caused major damage to her party just when they were gaining ground on Labor’s mean girls.
She may stupidly think it’ll boost her ratings on SKY but I imagine many conservatives will tune out after this stunt.
I think the indictment of the NW Subway Good Samaritan gives a pretty handy measure of the state of Justice in that benighted city.
The evil TGA strikes again, demonstrating monumental ignorance and callous disregard for human suffering – as is its wont:
According to these ignorant creeps, there is a special kind of chronic pain associated with cancer (which is not one disease, but many) which responds to opioids, whereas every other kind of chronic pain is unaffected by them except as a placebo.
Leaving aside the utterly unscientific nature of this ridiculous notion, i.e. that there is a special and unique type of pain associated with the various cancers, it is unsupported by the experience of millions of chronic pain sufferers, of whom I am one.
If I accidentally forget to take my slow release opioid tablet morning or night, I am quickly aware of it because the hip, lower back and wrist start to ache, and soon ache very badly indeed. These are not withdrawal symptoms, you idiots. They are chronic pain symptoms which are not related to one of the cancers, but to incurable, degenerative arthritis.
So what do they suggest we do instead?
Jeez, the only things they left out are aromatherapy and homeopathy. So effective when your bones are crumbling and rubbing up against each other.
The TGA is a menace to public health and wellbeing, probably the worst in the country.
Welcome to gods country calli
I haven’t had any time for her since she joined the Bettina Arndt pile on in parliament.
A disgraceful example of the political bullying of a citizen.
At some point parliamentary privilege will have to be revisited.
Andrew Probyn’s services no longer required by the ABC.
He certainly won’t be the last “big name” to go, either.
“Amanda Stoker has dropped a lot in my opinion.
A sincere apology from Van should be the end of the matter but she raises the issue now in support of an erratic hater like Thorpe.
Stoker has caused major damage to her party just when they were gaining ground on Labor’s mean girls.
She may stupidly think it’ll boost her ratings on SKY but I imagine many conservatives will tune out after this stunt.”
Agree, a friend rang me to ask, why has Amanda Stoker done this? It’s a good question. All she’s done is assist and give legitimacy to a nasty, nasty woman like Thorpe, the same Thorpe who’s been banned from a Melbourne Strip Club for inappropriate behaviour, the same Thorpe who routinely hurls insults at other women in the senate, just ask Holly Hughes and Pauline Hanson. Does Stoker really think, and does anyone here also think that the likes of Lidia Thorpe, Sarah Hanson-Dung, Penny Pong, and all the other females on the left in Canberra would do the same to one of their own? NO. The ALP and the Greens run a protection racket for their own, they’ll even protect pedophiles running amok in the party. Oh and the Labor party, contrary to what the pervert apologist wrote last night, has a much, much more sordid history of inappropriate behaviour, sexual assaults, allegations about rape and REAL rapes.
Stoker was relegated to third sport on the Liberal Party senate ticket in QLD, and she lost to Pauline Hanson, someone who, whilst not always perfect, does stick her head up for us. I’m glad Hanson beat Stoker. If I’d lived in QLD last year, I wouldn’t have voted for Stoker either.
Megan
Why, oh, why do these excuses for fierce girl boss, power babe’s wait 3 freaking years or more to out these blokes? They’ve entered, survived and mostly thrived in one of the toughest work environments in the world, politics, yet they don’t have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to an idiot jerk of this kind?
The ALP’s vengeance on those who are perceived to have broken with the “party line” is swift and relentless. The gentlest reprimand is likely to be given the label of a “Labor Rat”. Exclusion from any professional or social connection and active harassment will follow.
For a good example, see the treatment of Kimberley Kitching.
Amanda Stoker.
I’m not going to get het up over a man having a couple and getting a little squeeze in.
On a scale of 1 to rape that’s a zero.
But great work taking the heat of Labor’s allegation weaponising.
What Johanna said x 100. The slow release opiods ended up not being enough when I needed it and when I do need it it takes too long to work in tablet form. I’d be a junky if I took enough to stop the pain from happening.
Cairns sounds better than Canberra, yesterday was bright and cold, which I don’t mind but today is grey.
To indoor pursuits!
Have fun Calli.
And like everyone else here has stated, keep up with the travelogue.
m0ntysays:
June 15, 2023 at 11:41 pm
If this Van chap was a groper for years, why did nobody nip it in the bud long ago?
Excellent question, johanna.
My guess is that women in the Liberal Party didn’t trust Scott Morrison to actually do anything about it. Or they did and complained to him, and he broke that trust by… not doing anything about it.
Either way, it is yet another datum pointing to a historical and deep-seated problem with women within the Liberal Party. It starts at the top, and goes all the way down to their Neanderthal rustadons like the ones who gibber their sexist rants on here.
What is your assessment of the multiple complaints from (carefully anonymous – see my comment at 0757) Labor women, including the Facebook group, the reference by Plibbers and an ALPBC j’ismist at the time of the last election, and the Paul Murray comment last night?
Is it that women in the Labor Party didn’t trust AnAl to actually do anything about it. Or did they complain to him, and he broke that trust by … not doing anything about it.
Either way, it is yet another datum pointing to a historical and deep-seated problem with women within the Labor Party. It starts at the top, and goes all the way down to their Neanderthal rustadons.
And what about Billie Shortone? Why is he still in Parliament? Is it that Labor believes only those women whose complaints benefit the Party politically?
“I haven’t had any time for her since she joined the Bettina Arndt pile on in parliament.
A disgraceful example of the political bullying of a citizen.”
Stoker did later apologise to Arndt. But it should have never ever have happened. What was done that day still sticks in my throat. My understanding is that Scumbag and the Belgian forced Liberal and National senators to join the Keneally, Gallagher and Pong notion. Which tells us a lot about Scumbag and the careerist Belgian, now in Europe hobnobbing with globalists. But it also tells us a lot about how weak so called conservatives, like Stoker, Canavan, Barnabus, and others are when push comes to shove. They talk the talk, which is easy, but when it comes to walking the talk, they fail. They later did the same with net zero, they simply capitulated.
What was done to Bettina Arndt remains infamous and a stain on the senate. I should also remind others here that the IPA was asked to assist Bettina during those awful days in February 2020, when she was being harassed, ridiculed, targeted, lied about, cancelled, smeared and silenced. And the IPA’s response? They refused to help her, they refused to speak up for free speech. Arndt did receive some assistance from Toby Young’s Free Speech Union in the UK.
All this carry-on about a maybe bum pinch. What did the metoo movement in parliament say about jackie jacquie wanting a big salami to plug the gap. What was it again? Silence.
Empowering!
“And what about Billie Shortone? Why is he still in Parliament? Is it that Labor believes only those women whose complaints benefit the Party politically?”
Believe all women, except for Kathy Sherriff. LOL. Seriously, if you didn’t laugh you’d cry at the absurd double standards.
Let me also remind people how in 2014, the stupid Liberal Party under Tone Abbott did the right thing and refused to make political capital out of the Shorten allegation and so allowed the Vic plod to investigate Shorten. And whilst all of this was happening, Shorten REMAINED leader of the Labor Party, he didn’t stand down from his position, and he didn’t take any leave whilst the investigation was happening.
The pong of double standards.
Hot Button Sutton may have to start stockpiling and selling his designer stubble (the Hun):
It’s actually worse (for him) than the original allegations:
But:
Amazingly coincidental, that people responsible for Mount Everest-sized cockups resign from their sinecures just before being held to account.
The ‘personal responsibility’ claim’s a belter though. Bet Sutton’s sphincter’s doing a bit of five-cent fifty-cent at the minute.
Further to Andrew Probyn (and several hundred others) being made redundant by the ABC, on Peter Smith’s thread I predicted the ABC will experience major cuts by 2030. I certainly believe their broadcasting presence will be much reduced by then.
I also think their much touted switch to digital platforms will fail. They simply don’t have quality content providers who can compete in that crowded market.
Stoker is doin it to stoke her/the ratings.
The punishment should be something medieval.
With extra evil.
Has she apologised to voters?
Close the gap.
KD, every man must do his duty.
I could quote Churchill but I don’t want to be mean to you or roast Lambie any further.
I blame all of these Naval war stories. I could smell the leather on the Admiralty board chairs for a moment.
Glenda played herself in every movie of hers I saw. As you said, arrogant, belligerent, rude.
The TGA are basically witch doctors at this point.
I’ve had broken bones. Opioids definitely help with pain management. No, I didn’t have cancer either.
32 today, and cloudless.
To outdoor pursuits! Yet again!
Amanda Stoker has obviously hired a stylist and probably a publicist and for good measure, an advisor to help her have another stab at politics.
She’s gotten rid of the Goldilocks hair. Probably been told to stop it with the “head-tilty, little girl, aren’t I sweet”, visage and go for the lacquered power-bitch look.
Also, a Brittney “let’s get the c#nt”, storyline and she believes she’ll be welcomed into the foetid arms of either side of the uniparty.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
June 16, 2023 at 7:24 am
Glenda Jackson played Elizabeth I, she WAS Elizabeth I.
She also played the part of Cleopatra (seriously) and funnily as Cleopatra on the Morecombe and Wise Show –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtHNrRk3lQM
Amanda Stoker has dropped a lot in my opinion.
A sincere apology from Van should be the end of the matter but she raises the issue now in support of an erratic hater like Thorpe.
Is this take today’s ALP Talking Point?
Here’s a more likely scenario:
Once the story broke, Stoker contacted Dutton to tell him not to defend David Van because it is a Mug’s Game.
Dutton then gave Stoker the O.K. to go public, and a clinical execution followed.
Done & dusted.
Sorry if mentioned but I did see this in yesterday’s dead tree Hun:
Couple of things. I don’t think Miss Swift would be on vinyl.
As for appearing on FM pukeness, trying to appear hip whilst calling the aforementioned artist as ‘Tay Tay’ is vomit inducing.
And as to the last point, whoever advised him to say that, (guessing a ponytailed git) should be summarily dismissed.
I made a similar comment last night about Amanda Stoker. All her accusation did is bolster Thorpe and direct attention away from Katy Gallagher. Good work, Amanda. Won’t be watching your program on Sky from now on.
The punishment should be something medieval.
With extra evil.
I concur.
Truly nauseating, disgusting and disgraceful.
Parent should be shot along with looters, deserters and mutineers.
I thought it was a good effort for a country singer to transition to being a pop singer.
It’s not the greatest song in the world.
There’s a point where stop envying these people.
“I think that she’s empowering young women”
Imagine having to coach yourself to believe this or actually thinking this is true. Who actually blurts out nonsense like this in a conversation?
I can’t imagine being that much of a retard.
Johanna, I bet TGA have all sorts of experts and stakeholders providing input except those most impacted – the pain sufferers.
Just saw something on my company’s internal website thingy.
It says that, in order to ‘foster a culture of inclusion and removal of barriers to success’ they need to measure demographics.
My immediate thought was that actually you absolutely should not. You should be blind in all your processes so you assign the best people to roles. If you believe that competence is spread evenly over all demographics then you can assume that this will be reflected in your staffing.
BUT, if you are wrong that everything (skills, aptitude, and preference for roles) is spread uniformly but you make uniform distribution your guiding light, then you will be doing a lot of people injustice.
Well, I suppose ‘social justice’ is to justice what ‘social science’ is to science – a blatant misuse of a good word to allow you the airs to meddle in things you wouldn’t know if it bit you on the bum.
I assume the business assumes that it has these wonderful processes to allow merit to show through: They don’t trust their employees to not be prejudiced. The people rather than the processes are the source of injustice.
Surely, few things are as laughable as a corporate conscience.
Thorpe is now calling Dutton a racist because he didn’t care about her allegations, only Stoker’s.
I’m utterly shocked.
I could have sworn that Dutton would now be loved by everybody for his “swift action”.
“The punishment should be something medieval.
With extra evil.”
This would fix it.
-Albanese is a flog
-Taylor Swift is a successful marketer of products to children
-“Shake It Off” is not empowering, it’s bogan-confirming “I’m perfect just as I am, yes I would like fries with that” guff
… having said, Swift has never pretended to be anything other than very good at what she does, fabulously wealthy, famous, and doing it easy too.
…she’s no Dua Lipa though
Get
Amanda Stoker has dropped a lot in my opinion.
And what’s with the awful hairdo?
As we used to say in high school, she looks like she stuck her finger in a live light bulb socket.
And taking away the glasses, she still looks like Olive Rudge from On the Buses. Without the glasses.
That is my take.
Which doesn’t alter my opinion that Van is an Olympic standard dickhead.
Gez, sorry not Get.
#metoo
I popped a rib laughing as the Port Adelaide Car Thieves put the Handbaggers to the sword.