Now this is something you don’t see every day. A very large wheeled vehicle with a train on its back crossing a river where the bridge has washed away.

So struth was right.

So yesterday was ‘Juneteenth’.

I assume it would be a day when the descendants of slaves offer up thanks to white people for freeing their ancestors from a condition that America inherited rather than instituted.

We ended up with part of the old VEC. Every now and again some old relic of the public service culture was unearthed like a Roman coin in a ploughed field. If the branch couldn’t deal with it, more often than not it ended up on my desk.

I do wish AEMO would cut itself.

I might ask ABC fact checkers to clarify.

A couple of B J’ism graduates. Check their workings.

James O’Doherty in the Daily Telegraph:

When Chris Minns announced his first cabinet, the promotion of Yasmin Catley to the Police portfolio was one of the bigger surprises.

Catley, as Jodi McKay’s deputy leader, was firmly in the camp trying to see off the leadership challenge that delivered Minns Labor’s top job.

She is hardly a close ally of the now-Premier. So when Labor’s first ministry promoted Catley from Customer Service and Digital to the Police portfolio, eyebrows were raised.

At the time, it was argued behind the scenes that Catley’s elevation was an attempt by Minns to bury the factional hatchet.

But some Labor sources argued the job would be a poisoned chalice.

Catley, a leading figure in Labor’s left faction, is arguably not the most natural fit for a role that requires a tough-on-crime stance.

Her faction even tried to force Labor to repeal tough anti-protest laws last year, in a direct rebuke to the Premier’s stance.

To her credit, Catley has this week come out to strongly denounce the actions of climate change protesters causing havoc on freight rail lines.

But her handling of a series of crises facing police since coming to office raise the question of whether she is across her brief.

If Catley’s notes for a media conference in April are anything to go by, we probably should not be surprised that the Coalition smells blood in the water. She arrived with a list of handwritten talking points for the announcement, with Police Commissioner Karen Webb, about a major sting on domestic violence offenders.

“1. Talk about DV,” the notes began, before “2. Tackling DV is a priority for the Minns govt”.

Task number six on Catley’s hand-drawn list was to “pass to commish (Commissioner Webb),” presumably for more details.

Two months later, Catley is still struggling to answer questions without step by step instructions.

On Wednesday, it was revealed that NSW Police deliberately omitted key details about the tasering of 95-year-old Clare Nowland from its initial public statements.

Asked in Parliament about the apparent omission of information, Catley said that she only learned about the draft media release from media reports.

Webb publicly stated, a month ago, that key details were left out of the original release a month ago.

“Early in the investigation it was necessary for us to make sure that the family were aware what the circumstances were,” she told 2GB’s Ben Fordham on May 22. “We didn’t want that family to hear on the radio or on TV what had happened to their mum, and so we had to be a bit sensitive to that,” Webb said.

Police Ministers are routinely briefed on sensitive police matters. After being caught flat-footed in her initial response to the tasering, it beggars belief that Catley would not make sure she was fully informed.

The tasering is now the subject of multiple investigations, including a criminal probe and an investigation by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission.

But crucial questions about how NSW Police handled the incident (as distinct from the tasering itself) remain unanswered.

Chief among which is the question of when Mrs Nowland’s family was told about what had happened to her.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb. Picture: Adam Yip
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb. Picture: Adam Yip
Catley refused to answer that on Thursday, as did Police.

Her handling of the police tasering is not the only time Catley appears to have been left wanting.

She struggled to defend police after The Daily Telegraph revealed Wayne Smith had his gun licence revoked and then reinstated before he shot and killed his teenage son.

The Minns government later announced a review of how the firearms registry handles people with mental illnesses.

The Coalition smells blood in the water, and is going after the person they see as the weakest link.

Liberal leader Mark Speakman is already calling for Minns to consider sacking Catley. That’s not going to happen, at least for now.

The government argues that the whole line of questioning is an attack on frontline officers, and an attempt to politicise a series of tragic deaths.

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Notably, when asked if he thought the tasering of Clare Nowland was subject to a “police cover up” yesterday, Speakman refused to answer. “I’m concerned about the lack of transparency. These are simple questions that should be easily answered,” he said.

“If it’s said that the public couldn’t be told in a timely way about the tasering because of the need to tell the family, well, when were the family told?” he asked.

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Omitting sensitive details from a media release, on the balance, falls short of a cover up, but the public is entitled to get a full picture of why those decisions were made, and to have questions surrounding the incident answered.

And the Minister needs to give a better explanation of what she knew, and when. These questions are not going to go away.

If Catley doesn’t find a better way to answer them, one has to wonder whether she is up to managing the portfolio she’s been entrusted with.

Tom says:
June 23, 2023 at 11:30 am
Tucker Carlson on Twitter: Episode 6 — Bobby Kennedy junior.

I learned an interesting fact from this episode. James Murdoch is an investor in Vice which is now worth peanuts compared to a few years ago. Rupert’s kids know how to make money.

When I was growing up, Italians and Grik men argued loud and long about politics in cafes. Nowadays, I suspect that the growing Indian diaspora are doing the same. Indeed, there have been confrontations in Harris Park (Sydney) which is close to 100% Indian.

We lived in Harris Park over 45 years ago, there were some migrants there at the time though most were in nearby Granville and Merrylands. Different demographics than the current residents and very law abiding.

My comment about previous law abiding residents referred to Granville and Merrylands, not Harris Park.

Rogersays:

June 23, 2023 at 10:39 am

Stockton Rush saw himself as an oceanic Captain Kirk…

Captain Cook was the oceanic Captain Kirk and the inspiration for the latter.

Stockton Rush was no Captain Cook.

Cap’n Pugwash, more like.

Hunter Biden deducted payments to prostitute, sex club from his taxes: whistleblower

Meme

FBI Make-Work Entrapment Schemes: Creating Criminals in Order to Arrest Them

woof!

https://thesydneyinstitute.com.au/blog/issue-640/

“Hunter Biden also has agreed to enter a so-called pretrial diversion agreement in connection with a charge of possession of a firearm by a person who is a user or addict of illegal drugs, according to the filing in U.S. District Court in Delaware.”

Why does the white old man presidents son get a pretrial diversion, even though there is video evidence of him “brandishing” said firearm (which is against the guidelines for such a diversion), while hundreds of black and brown people are in gaol and had their pretrial diversions denied, even when there was no evidence they “brandished” their weapons?
Because his father is boss of the DoJ?
Because the deep state wants to protect Democrats?
Because he is a straight, white male?
Because he can afford high priced lawyers?
All of the above?

QLD to treat covid-19 like influenza:

“I can announce with the chief health officer that we will be monitoring COVID much like any other respiratory illness,” Health Minister Shannon Fentiman told reporters on Friday.

Meanwhile, it has been calculated that Australia’s covid response debt will take Australians three generations to repay.

And then there’s the excess deaths…

This is a failing country, and Trudeau is a failed leader.

Of the leaders of anglosphere countries, odds on most likely to end up hanging upside down from a street lamp in a service station forecourt, beaten and bloodied.

There’s a lot of resentment brewing beneath that polite Canadian facade. And the weather is terrible most of the time.

The credibility of the institution is at stake.

There’s a bit of that about at the moment.

The above article is an extract from the new book:

Australia Breaks Apart, by John Stapleton, published this week by A Sense of Place.

Cant wait to read it.

That new Bud Lite ad is atrocious.

First you alienate your base by going trans and saying your drinkers aren’t really well educated and they’re rednecks.

Then, you come out with an ad of all Bud Lite drinkers falling over each other and doing stupid shit.

“Way to go” (broke)

A few familiar faces rounded up by the Media Watchdog. I heard Alan Finkel spruiking his book on the ALPBC (unsurprisingly). Turns out it made it to print courtesy of the Jewish vanity press. Maaaaate. And a Cat gets a guernsey.

COW! wars on again!

calli – I could have used you as a consultant. To me suits were like penguins, they all looked the same. Hated shopping for them, which only happened when they got too shiny or a jacket was left where it couldn’t be recovered from.

…boys and young men were formerly taught some basics on how to dress.

And girls studied deportment.

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”

H B Bearsays:

June 23, 2023 at 5:36 pm

calli – I could have used you as a consultant. To me suits were like penguins, they all looked the same. Hated shopping for them, which only happened when they got too shiny or a jacket was left where it couldn’t be recovered from.

I eventually found a brand in David Jones which fitted me well, held it’s shape and wore well.
Man, I used to wear those things until the edges of the pockets frayed and the arse and elbows were as shiny as my shoes should have been.
I think I stopped wearing suits and ties to work in the early ’00’s.
Almost no-one wears them, even to weddings and funerals anymore.

I think I stopped wearing suits and ties to work in the early ’00’s.
Almost no-one wears them, even to weddings and funerals anymore.

What men of a previous generation who had to wear a suit every working day secretly dreamed of:

To go home and wear shorts forever
in the enormous paddocks, in that warm climate,
adding a sweater when winter soaks the grass,

to camp out along the river bends
for good, wearing shorts, with a pocketknife,
a fishing line and matches,

or there where the hills are all down, below the plain,
to sit around in shorts at evening
on the plank verandah;

If the cardinal points of costume
are Robes, Tat, Rig and Scunge,
where are shorts in this compass?

They are never Robes
as other bareleg outfits have been:
the toga, the kilt, the lava-lava
the Mahatma’s cotton dhoti;

archbishops and field marshals
at their ceremonies never wear shorts.
The very word
means underpants in North America.

Shorts can be Tat,
Land-Rovering bush-environmental tat,
socio-political ripped-and-metal-stapled tat,
solidarity-with-the-Third World tat tvam asi,

likewise track-and-field shorts worn to parties
and the further humid, modelling negligee
of the Kingdom of Flaunt,
that unchallenged aristocracy.

More plainly climatic, shorts
are farmers’ rig, leathery with salt and bonemeal;
are sailors’ and branch bankers’ rig,
the crisp golfing style
of our youngest male National Costume.

Most loosely, they are Scunge,
ancient Bengal bloomers or moth-eaten hot pants
worn with a former shirt,
feet, beach sand, hair
and a paucity of signals.

Scunge, which is real negligee
housework in a swimsuit, pyjamas worn all day,
is holiday, is freedom from ambition.
Scunge makes you invisible
to the world and yourself.

The entropy of costume,
scunge can get you conquered by more vigorous cultures
and help you notice it less.

To be or to become
is a serious question posed by a work-shorts counter
with its pressed stack, bulk khaki and blue,
reading Yakka or King Gee, crisp with steely warehouse odour.

Satisfied ambition, defeat, true unconcern,
the wish and the knack of self-forgetfulness
all fall within the scunge ambit
wearing board shorts of similar;
it is a kind of weightlessness.

Unlike public nakedness, which in Westerners
is deeply circumstantial, relaxed as exam time,
artless and equal as the corsetry of a hussar regiment,

shorts and their plain like
are an angelic nudity,
spirituality with pockets!
A double updraft as you drop from branch to pool!

Ideal for getting served last
in shops of the temperate zone
they are also ideal for going home, into space,
into time, to farm the mind’s Sabine acres
for product and subsistence.

Now that everyone who yearned to wear long pants
has essentially achieved them,
long pants, which have themselves been underwear
repeatedly, and underground more than once,
it is time perhaps to cherish the culture of shorts,

to moderate grim vigour
with the knobble of bare knees,
to cool bareknuckle feet in inland water,
slapping flies with a book on solar wind
or a patient bare hand, beneath the cadjiput trees,

to be walking meditatively
among green timber, through the grassy forest
towards a calm sea
and looking across to more of that great island
and the further tropics.

The Dream Of Wearing Shorts Forever
by Les Murray (Modern Australia’s Poet Laureate, in my book.)

One hour video presso: Worth a watch:

https://thesydneyinstitute.com.au/blog/gerard-henderson-the-abc-in-crisis/

A really good designer could possibly make them look classy, but that isn’t the intent.

I suspect they far overestimate their charms and also make that mistake of carefully posing in front of the mirror and thinking they will look that good all night – whereas in reality, as they affect as best they may a sashay across the floor, their bingo wings flap like unbound sails of old ships in a storm and their cleavage resembles two great blobs of multigrain bread dough pushed together.

Daily Mail is running a piece – seems some Labor Senators have to ask their advisers whether Aborigines are Australian citizens…..

I do not believe it is possible to trump this story:

H B Bear says: June 23, 2023 at 5:56 pm
Best tie story comes from my bank days. New corporate wardrobe came out for customer facing staff. One guy bought a few ties and sent them through to his brother at another branch via the internal bag to get them tied.

Classic!

Muddy is a CockSmoker.

Another well thought out, erudite post from Grogarly, to enlighten us all……

US Neocons Accept Only Total Dominance Over All Parts Of The World | Q&A Nr.2 with Jeffrey Sachs

Technocracy’s Control Freak Agenda Is Rapidly Moving Forward

New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind

Never forget the people who called for the end of your rights and freedoms! Never.

Alternatively, they are under no illusions that they are supermodels, and just dress to have a fun night.

Seriously?

The problem is they wear the clothes of models.

As noted earlier, for example, a judicious sleeve forgives a multitude of eye-bleach.

Vaccines not only cause SADS they also cause SIDS – and have done so for decades

Having spoken to a few old hairy lesbians at the Let Women Speak rally here in Sydney in March of this year, I can attest that they are actually very nice, mostly harmless, and more than a few are taking several red, white and blue pills, because as one said to me, after fifty years of voting left (since Goof), she now votes Liberal.

The Liberal Party will take this as confirmation their drive to the left is paying electoral dividends.

Canadians will be blocked from accessing news articles on Facebook and Instagram after the Trudeau gov passed Bill C-18 on Thursday.

See upthread re angry Canadians.

I firmly believe, after the latest revelations about the bidens, that hunter could root a donkey in Times Square with joe selling tickets and nothing would happen to them. It’s really weird; after that pencil necked slimebag adam schiff was censured by the GOP house his fellow demorats gathered around him and had a cheer fest; looking at them you could not believe they were human.

and another who died in a French dungeon.

You really do know fvck-all about history, don’t you?

I firmly believe, after the latest revelations about the bidens, that hunter could root a donkey in Times Square with joe selling tickets and nothing would happen to them.

Even a worm will turn.