I can see a future for “Jims Mowing & Laser Weed Destruction” business.
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My fear is his newly discovered voice will be stifled in the Liberal party room by the time-serving careerists who…
Tipped in a few quid, myself.
The Rising Tide imbecile is even too much for Jayes on Sky AM. Wow, I’m lost for words as she…
I still have a newspaper clipping about my first goal playing footy.
From memory “glimpses of a future Barry Cable..threading it through the goals for his maiden score”…
With full benefit of hindsight, that hasnt aged well.
Thankfully, a new internet cable connecting my iPhone to my laptop has arrived, replacing the old, worn one — three years being the new definition of “old” — so there’ll be no technological reason for cartoons not to appear at the Cat at 0400 tomorrow.
The “songlines” were a very practical way of teaching small groups how to navigate their way across the land – & especially to water sources, good tucker and shelter.
That’s a prosaic explanation, plus it’s wrong.
Ley Lines are real, if Aborigines from the area say
“Don’t build there”
what’s the harm?
The only people whingeing want to turn the Country into an even bigger Quarry than it already is.
Barking Toadsays:
June 22, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Dogs are even better than vegemite on toast.
Cats are evil.
To quote Snoopy
“To me, Cats are the Crab Grass in the Lawn of Life”
callisays:
June 22, 2023 at 5:03 pm
Top o’ the mornin’ Cats from beautiful Wales.
Have a squiz if you can.
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The only people whingeing want to turn the Country into an even bigger Quarry than it already is.
The area covered by mines in Australia is well under 1% of the total land area.
Been working (haruspicy on a rather elaborate spreadsheet – but the entrails were not promising).
So let me belatedly raise a bumper of Rhenish to our right Doverlord and Dovermaster for his blog-wrangling earlier today.
BJ – chatgpt concurs;
As of September 2021, approximately 0.1% of Australia’s land mass was covered by active mines.
The “songlines” were a very practical way of teaching small groups how to navigate their way across the land – & especially to water sources, good tucker and shelter.
That’s a prosaic explanation, plus it’s wrong.
Ley Lines are real, if Aborigines from the area say
“Don’t build there”
what’s the harm?
The only people whingeing want to turn the Country into an even bigger Quarry than it already is.
What a strange man you are. So contrarian. You must have carbuncles or something worse.
I get on fine with cats. Obviously, I’m even eviler.
I get on fine with dogs too. I’m even okay with most human beings.
H/T instapundit.
Linda Burney was talking yesterday about 30 Indigenous people living in a 2 bedroom unit she visited.
Rubbish without pix proof! .. out here in SE Sydney “houso” land where the ethnics are experts at house stacking 12 (adults & kids) in a 2 bedroom joint is considered the optimum number ……..
You are a carbuncle, grandma.
In other words it can be anything, or nothing you can see, anywhere, and at anytime.
This is completely ridiculous. A whole continent of hunter-gatherers cannot possibly be given these sort of rights over its land areas. Limit each defined group to three special places of sacredness and then tell them that’s their lot. It has to end somewhere far more sensible than this current legislation.
If they continue on as it is, people will refuse to give them any rights at all, so take three while you can would be my advice to these few remnants of a past occupation.
We don’t recognise every mesolithic place and artifact in Britain just because a few people still living have some old and relevant DNA. Nor every sacred Brythonic place, nor every Anglo-Saxon one.
You are a carbuncle, grandma.
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Grew up with Sealyham Terriers, which my mother, along with the Breeder from Collaroy Plateau, used to take to Dog Shows around Sydney & Royal Easter Show – Carried dog in Leather Bag on Trams and Trains
As Sealyham Terriers would fight any other dog in the vicinity, as a 5 year old grew used to wading into dog fights with larger dogs, smacking both dogs on the snouts whilst getting bitten – overcame fear of dogs for life (Sealyhams were really dumb & always fought dogs much bigger than themselves)
Moved on to Poodles then Toy Poodles, found them quite intelligent and as I was involved in Dog Shows into my teens worked with a lot of different dogs, doing showing for other Dog Breeders
In own life have settled into Beagles – though Sealyhams were Dumb – Beagles – hopeless but totally lovable
Personally, I’ve lost the hill that used to exist behind our old farm, which was sacred to me as I sat reading in the crooked branch the old crab apple tree down by the creek getting away from the din at home. It went for blue metal in the 1960’s. The old house and the dairy got knocked down by the F4, and the creek barely runs at all now, whereas I remember it in flood coming up almost to the dairy.
Everyone has sentiments about where they spent times past.
Give it up now, grifters who want far too much.
Terrible. Ridsdale. But at least they didn’t try link it to Pell again…
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/dying-pedophile-priest-admits-abusing-72nd-victim-c-11058634
I dunno, but if old methods of getting around are to be preserved, then should keep all of the old telegraph lines?
Instead we preserve a few telegraph stations. There’s one worth visiting north of Tennant Creek, for example. But it can’t translate as seems the case in WA for a very small group of people to say “only we have the knowledge, and we can lock up the land as we see fit.”
calli, my understanding is that Wales is impoverished, ruled by Labour, enthralled by transgenderism, and the unfortunate kids who go to school there are lucky to be able to recite the alphabet.
They are still in thrall of the great leaders, whose legacy has been given the wormwood treatment.
Aneurin Bevan, a father of the NHS, local boy.
But the descendants care more about ‘pronouns’ than even understanding whcih part of speech a pronoun is.
Creepy Groogs gets his flash cards mixed up again. Attention to detail little buddy.
And a crwallnrydryllenw as gryewlln to you, too.
Yes. They may have been useful and also had stories attached. Write them down if so. But we can hardly bring back all of these songlines in any practical land-based way, nor indeed the ‘songlines’ of the non-aboriginal drovers and itinerant labourers who traversed the hot empty miles of country between jobs while making their contribution to the nation that we, and aboriginal people, are free to enjoy today.
The NHS.
Blessed savior of all.
Not Antibiotics etc, which were invented around the same time.
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Think of Lawson’s lonely and isolated Drover’s Wife, who dressed her children in their best every Sunday and went along her own ‘songlines’ taking them for walks to alleviate the boredom and sameness of the many days spent alone, coping with whatever came along.
There are stories and tales there that should not be forgotten, even though the places are gone.
I remember seeing the last bark roofed hut of upright slabs being pulled down near the Western Highway in Colyton when I was a young girl out that way. Near us was a small area of land with broken fences where once a small church had stood, serving the people of this local area, where now along the road on which our place was situated a new group of migrants, Italian ones, were market gardening and setting their own take on the landscape. Now public housing estates do the same in those places.
Love your travel logs Calli-more great reasons to read the cat.
sTans strapping himself to his indingenousness explained…
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/22/insiders-the-only-abc-current-affairs-show-to-grow-broadcast-audience-as-qa-numbers-collapse
Insiders is the only ABC current affairs show to grow its broadcast audience since 2019, lifting its TV numbers by 4% while Q+A dropped by 36% and Four Corners by 19%, as audiences abandoned traditional broadcast television.
The show, now in its 21st year, has bucked the trend which has seen Australian Story fall by 16% between 2019 and 2022; Foreign Correspondent by 22% and 7.30 by 4%, according to an internal presentation for executives seen by Guardian Australia.
The program to lose the biggest chunk of its audience is Q+A, which has dropped by 36% in three years – and a dramatic 58% since 2016 – and was moved from Monday to Thursday and back to Monday in an attempt to find an audience. Stan Grant, who was appointed full-time host a year ago, is on leave and it is not clear if he will return.
I was watching that video of the manufacture of the submersible can yesterday.
I preface this by saying I am a self-appointed amateur shed engineer, used to making things that fail (which may or may not match the qualifications of the grads employed on this project).
Knowing what we know now, three things struck me:-
1. The design of the junction between the carbon fibre tube and the titanium collars;
2. What is the construction of the tapered tail?;
3. The video of them winding on the carbon fibre shows a “bulge” around the middle, a bit like string wound roughly onto a stick. The winding on mechanism looked agricultural at best. I would imagine materials engineers would have very precise layering techniques to maximise strength – the tension of the fibre as it is laid up, relative angles of alternate layers, etc.
Bloke who mows my lawn was moving slow today, looking weary and haggard.
What’s up?
“Auto-immune symptoms, rheumatism”
Sympathy expressed.
“It started about a month after the second vaxx.”
People need to go to jail for this global outrage.
I do too P, he was such a delightful rascal as Dennis Stanton. The backstory of his character was very poignant.
So…Cymry is the country and Cymru are the people, right?
I seem to remember Nennius(?) telling a story about a battle between a red dragon and a white dragon, which the red one won. The red dragon of Wales, and this all the ancient Britons who had lately been so diminished by others.
That is probably an extremely mangled recollection.
Wales is a classic example of why we must develop a culture that openly examines every initiative proposed by the elite.
Blair’s devolution was ignored by the Welsh people who failed to take it seriously and certainly did not study the potential consequences. Few voted.
The consequence was a country ruled by school teachers and public servants who have made it impossible for them to be turned out.
QLD and WA are more sophisticated. They implement tyrannical policy in secret which avoids all that messy public review and debate.
Number 72, eh?
Gerald doesn’t go with guilty or not guilty any more.
He just enters a plea of “probably”.
The consequence was a country ruled by school teachers and public servants who have made it impossible for them to be turned out.
which is probably what bLIAR intended all along- ‘job’ creation for marxist trash
Yep. Quite like the old style Soviets. You got a room for a whole family. So that makes ten in a two bedder, but sticking two extras in the sitting room wouldn’t have been regarded as unlikely. Under the table would be a possibility, after the evening meal. Families sometimes also cooked and ate in their one room. Bigger than most caravans, so who could complain? And warmer than a tent.
Time for gardening leave:
The associate editor of niche news website Crikey has posted a series of disgusting social media comments mocking the five men trapped on the Titan submersible.
While the world waited for news of the vessel’s fate, Cam Wilson chose to joke about how the missing adventurers might be spending what could be their last hours.
‘If you were stuck in this doomed, lost submarine, what would you do for you last 48 hours of oxygen,’ Wilson tweeted on Tuesday afternoon.
Two hours later he answered his own question with a follow-up comment: ‘A lot of you said j***ing off. The question I put to you is: What’s stopping you now?’
In another tweet that day, Wilson said: ‘It’s time to disrupt the doomed submarine market.
‘Those fat cats have had it too good for too long. I’m undercutting them by offering to cut off your oxygen supply and turn off the lights for a mere $240k.’
Wilson, an alumnus of $37,000-a-year private school Knox Grammar, primarily covers ‘internet culture and tech’ for Crikey and has previously worked for the ABC.
On Tuesday night Wilson was at it again, this time posting: ‘Gotta say, boarding a submarine for 250K only to die from suffocation in the depths of the oceans 96 hours later is NOT very padam padam.’
That last phrase is an onomatopoeic rendering of a beating heart, as well as the title of Kylie Minogue’s latest hit single, and has since taken on variously defined positive meanings.
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Yes, agreed.
As I said yesterday, there is no need to characterise Cat travelogues as “garbage”.
Lizzie’s Church rescue, calli’s Kyoto sewing needle shop, OldOzzie’s car works tours … some may love them, some may not.
If you don’t, scroll on.
I have gleaned many useful travel nuggets from reading the Cat, and I trust them, knowing they are genuine heartfelt reviews with no axe to grind.
I’d hate to see people badgered out of posting their travel experiences here.
Wilson, an alumnus of $37,000-a-year private school Knox Grammar, primarily covers ‘internet culture and tech’ for Crikey and has previously worked for the ABC.
how come snottie nosed private skools on the north shore turn out the most repulsive leftist imaginable
?
Barry Cable is entitled to the Presumption Of Innocence, you know?
BTW, how did going to The Cops work out for those girls?
35 years later, they had to sue him in Civil Court to get any justice.
Particularly Knox and Barker
It’s simpler than that: governments are anti-competitive monopolies that use police forces to enforce their monopolies and, because they’re monopolies, it costs them 2-3 more to provide services than it would for competitive private businesses.
Because they’re run by public service bureaucrats who know nothing about efficiency, competition and running businesses, governments rip off taxpayers with immunity because Australian taxpayers are too dumb to identify the problem — governments and monopolies.
Haruspicy?
Is that word of the day or something?
Fourth time I’ve heard it today.
Cook’s wife is indigenous, I believe.
Australian taxpayers are too dumb to identify the problem
oh really?- they have no effing choice.
Historia Brittonum, dated circa 829. A carefully put together collation that used folkloric material to pursue the political interests of Gwynedd over Powys at that time. Said by ‘Nennius’ to be simply his dumped ‘heap’, but clearly heavily curated material. Well covered by Manchester historian, Nicholas Higham. The red and white dragon story concerned Vortigern vs Merlin Emrys, a ‘wise child’, who represented Christian Wales. Vortigern was a take on Gildas’ Superbus Tyrannus, in Welsh known as Guarthegern (in the Pillar of Eliseg, which you can still visit as I did if you brave a fence and a bull in the Valley of Llangollin. A cypher of the old All-Father in my view. He was harassed and demolished by Ambrosius (another cypher, but a Christian one) and Germanus (an early Christian saint).
I am using this cold time to write some of this stuff up. Come here to get away from it, and lookee.
Calli is in Wales and all things Welsh are on the table.
Seriously?
Well I suppose in a country with a lot of farms access to white bulls, goats, and chickens is not to be marvelled at.
Barry Cable is also indigenous, I believe.
When’s he getting turfed from the Indigenous Hall Of Fame?
Lizzie, The Drover’s Wife is one of my favourite Lawson stories. The part where she has the whole family sleep on the table because a snake has made its way into the house is memorable. She stayed awake all night until the snake showed itself and she despatched it without fear, while hanging onto her precious dog who wanted to kill the snake himself. She can’t let him do it because the dog is too precious as a working guard dog to risk losing him to snake bite.
The name of the dog always made me smile, Alligator Desolation. Tod for short.
Nemesis is my absolute favourite Henry Lawson story. Can never read it without becoming teary.
The lady describes herself as a “proud Murri woman, from Queensland,” with a grandmother who was one of the Stolen Generations.
Thanks, Liz.
We must hope Calli does not come back fully trained in Llap Goch.
A core tenet of Llap Goch:
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Sancho Panzer says:
June 22, 2023 at 6:24 pm
Lysander says:
June 22, 2023 at 6:02 pm
Terrible. Ridsdale. But at least they didn’t try link it to Pell again…
Number 72, eh?
Gerald doesn’t go with guilty or not guilty any more.
He just enters a plea of “probably”.
Risdale got extra for grabbing the complainant’s bicep. Really?
Cold, wet and windy today; brings out my latent Masterchef.
Pumpkin and leek soup for lunch, dinner prep for my dear old Dad’s creamed chicken recipe, hot sausage rolls for the grandies when they come in cold and wet after school and homemade bacon, oats and peanut butter biscuits for the doggos.
Tomorrow’s forecast is wet and cold, too. I’m thinking cabbage and bacon soup for lunch, leftover veg patties for the after school crowd, dinner of slow-cooked pork loin with mushrooms and apples and steamed raspberry jam pud for dessert.
If we don’t get some global warming soon we’re all gonna bust the bathroom scales.
Set another place. I’ll be there shortly.
I spoke with a WA MP last night and the rage over the ACHA bill is huge. Liebor aint backing down though…
Let’s see. The Cookie Monster has found his inner totalitarian since Sneakers got his marching orders.
Cook’s wife is indigenous, I believe.
Credlin had the Farmers’ guy on and this legislation is ridiculous even by liar standards. If some poor cocky gets a dusty 3rd nations on there to ascertain whether any culture is there, at $160 PH, it doesn’t mean, even if the dusty grifter gives the ok, that further down the track some other dusty doesn’t come onto the property to claim there was a cultural presence either overlooked at the time or which has settled in since the first go ahead. The fact that a cultural presence can be spiritual and have no physical presence makes this one of the great con jobs.
Time to oil the .303s.
Thanks Lizzie if it was me you replied to from last night.
Landed late and got the itritating geneuflection to the 3rd waves of Australian migration… FFS…
What do you call this?
Insiders is the only ABC current affairs show to grow its broadcast audience since 2019, lifting its TV numbers by 4% while Q+A dropped by 36% and Four Corners by 19%, as audiences abandoned traditional broadcast television.
The show, now in its 21st year, has bucked the trend which has seen Australian Story fall by 16% between 2019 and 2022; Foreign Correspondent by 22% and 7.30 by 4%, according to an internal presentation for executives seen by Guardian Australia.
The program to lose the biggest chunk of its audience is Q+A, which has dropped by 36% in three years – and a dramatic 58% since 2016 – and was moved from Monday to Thursday and back to Monday in an attempt to find an audience.
A bloody good start.
Now take the whole thing to its logical conclusion, as so eloquently articulated by Rabz.
miltonfsays:
June 22, 2023 at 6:28 pm
The consequence was a country ruled by school teachers and public servants who have made it impossible for them to be turned out.
which is probably what bLIAR intended all along- ‘job’ creation for marxist trash
See also the ACT Town Council.
absolutely BJ-wasn’t the canbra electoral system called d’Hondt? DON’T in other words.
I’ll say it again…the ABC as we know it will be gone by 2030.
I suppose I have to say in Canbra’s defense that they never wanted it anyway but pollimuppetts need sinecures.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
June 22, 2023 at 6:55 pm
Cook’s wife is indigenous, I believe.
The lady describes herself as a “proud Murri woman, from Queensland,” with a grandmother who was one of the [alleged] Stolen Generations.
I have inserted the word that you inadvertently missed.
Only the non tech inclined ones, all the rest use photoshop. For everything, just like the ladies.
Canada is like something out of Soylent Green
Good point. The younger generation around here are on about how the Voice means they’ll be compensated for being part of the Stolen Generation. None of them were born, for several years after the last of those children were removed,
or do what mUnty does
… touch yourself and complain that the aggregate fascist made you do it
Err, not quite.
A little more to it than that.
Purely academic in terms of sentencing.
He is in until 2027 anyway, but I don’t think he will last that long.
I wonder if it would be “all too hard” for Hunchback if a bill came before the Parliament to keep Ridsdale in for life, rather than Denyer.
Back when I “had the farm”, there was Government money available for fencing off salt affected ground, and planting that ground to fodder shrubs. We were told it would help our case, if we had asked permission of the “traditional owners” of the land.
The “traditional owners” of the land lived hundreds of kilometers away, and had never set foot on the property in their lives.
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would that be because some of the prosecutors that used Gobbo information (and did or should have known where it came from) are now Vic judges ?
It’ll all be buried.. deep.. in the warehouse with Wolfman’s Holy Grail.
Floparoos! How weird that a woke Little Mermaid and a full-on qwerty animated movie would bomb like Tsar Bomba. Unthunkable!
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Probably would’ve gone better if they’d had a younger actress to play the little mermaid. Haile Berry is ok, but at age 56 she is a little old mermaid.
I’m sad that Disney has decided to commit suicide like this. They did so much good stuff before they went insane.
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Oops, sorry my mistake. I thought the Little Mermaid was Halle Berry, she’s actually Halle Bailey, who is only 23 not 56. As you were, I’ll just hide under a carpet in ignominy. Still sounds like a crap movie but.
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Peanuts at its best:
“Tell her …”
We looked after a small poodle recently for a couple of weeks. Really smart. Hadn’t been trained very well. Second day was doing everything I commanded and seemed eager to please. Recommend one. I still prefer Terriers. I like the hair and sad face. My mutt is perfect, on his last legs. He’s 16.
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Wow some Sydney tpt worker at Circular Quay yelled some incomprehensible babble. Only thing I understood was the whistle…
Now looking at that monstrosity gunking up Benelong Point blocking full veiw of the opera house. How that was allowed is beyond me. Lots of brown paper bags perhaps?
Do young Australians actually know who Henry Lawson is. I’ve read all his work. Loved it.
Met a Border Collie today that has a beanbag set up in the butchers shop. Beautiful animal that also clearly won the lottery of life.
Yes, but the Liars won’t let it wither and die.
In typical fashion they will blame the decline on Mudrock and insist that a crimp be put in place to “control the misinformation coming from the Grampians Nazis in the Mudrock press”.
We have already seen where they want to go with the redundancies last week … the Future is Digital! But curating content on Twatter and Insta will not be enough. I predict the launch of a wholly ABC owned social media platform. Content will be carefully controlled to ensure no “hate speech” and to be sure “balanced and nuanced messages aren’t lost in a cacophony of populist bigotry”.
So, pretty much like a digital version of Q&A.
I reckon the rotten stinking ABC will be kept going on taxpayer life support for many years in the same way the deep state keeps the old thief going.
This has got Sir Humphrey written all over it.
“Never start an enquiry if you don’t know the outcome”.
This could go anywhere.
And not just legal eagles.
Improper connections between politicians and VikPlod/DPP, albeit incidental to the Gobbo case, would no doubt be exposed.
In my family we’ve only ever had four breeds of dogs…kelpies, cattle dogs, Australian terriers and poodles. All incredibly smart breeds, and all eccentric and brimming with character. My mother has always loved poodles, her last poodle sadly died two years ago of old age, and it devastated Mum. Of course the poodle would have her monthly grooming at a posh eastern suburbs dog salon.
My grandfather’s kelpie was notorious in the Shire, he was the bane of the Shire council dog catcher, and he always got the better of the dog catcher, still makes me laugh. My grandfather adored him.
if you cut the crusts of the technical term is bogan hors d’oeuvres
As always, failure to bully and beat up enough.
If your trip getz you up into my neck of the woods, Calli, this outdoor museum is well worth a few hours .. Beamish .. a life size re-creation of 19th century Tyneside .. old buildings taken down across Tyneside and rebuilt to create a village/town atmosphere plus steam trains, trams, buses and a trip down a mine shaft ……
https://www.beamish.org.uk/
I’m sure Cats and Kittehs are aware anyway, but I see Donald Trump Jr is having events with Nigel Farage and Alex Antic included. Be well worth a look.
Looxury.
I normally don’t like references to prahvate schools being thrown into the mix, but I will make an exception when one of these chinless wonders adopts the “stickin’ it to da man” wukkin class shtick.
I remember seeing a lot of it when the Occupy Melbourne stuff was going on. Many angst ridden offspring of barristers and surgeons complaining about “the 1%, yah” in unmistakable Scotch-Brahton accents.
Brilliant.
A Horse With No Name – America (music video)
Exactly the same with our prissy poodle.
Kelpie pup basks in his disgusting BO and menu choices.
One of the hardest days in my life was taking my dog to the vet to be put down.
I’d got her from a barmaid at the pub I worked at when I was 18 -she was moving and couldn’t take the dog. A Kelpie cross.
17 years later I had to take her to the Vet, couldn’t eat and drink – the girl at the counter took one look at me with tears running down my face and just said “give her here, we’ll look after her”.
I went outside and sat behind the wheel of my XC Panel Van and looked at the passenger seat knowing my mate would never sit there again – bawled my eyes out.
The Loaded Dog is still one of the funniest short stories ever written.
Old Ozzie mentioned beagles earlier. We inherited an unwanted female a few years ago. We haven’t had dogs for years but this one is adorable, though a big barker with a uncharacteristic deep bark. Everyone stops to pat her as they walk past.
All this talk about puppy dogs reminds me of all the local dogs that ran free around our primary school in the mid 70s. We kids would adore them and when the school brought the council dog catcher around, us kids would hide the dogs until he went away. I can’t imagine that would be allowed today.
Curious – whenever one of Mme Zulu’s cats has to be put down, it’s my job to take the beastie to the vet…
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A dangerous precedent will be set if NSW Premier Chris Minns gets his way and works on protocols with META/Facebook to block livestreams of protests the government deems illegal or dangerous. Today it’s climate activists, tomorrow it will be you.
Well well, Michael Warner reports in the Hun:
I will add another correction, not stolen but rescued.
She is pretty.
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Barking Toad @ 8.46
I know how you feel. In Feb 2009 took my aged incapacitated dachshund X to the vet for the green dream. 6 months later took my similarly aged and incapacitated Chihuahua X for the same. I held their paws until the jabs did their work, and the final whimpers of expiration were expressed.
In between the two events my Mum died
I’ve never owned a dog since.
“Daily Mail” Funny, I never thought I’d give Jackie Lambie the time of day…..
Toad earlier
I went outside and sat behind the wheel of my XC Panel Van and looked at the passenger seat knowing my mate would never sit there again – bawled my eyes out.
Pathos, Toad. I think a lot of people her would have similar stories. When I was 16, I took my 13 year old corgi cross to the vets to be put down. Buckets of tears. 43 years later I still miss that clever and resourceful dog. Thanks for telling that sad story.
You are confusing yourself Googlery.
Let me explain.
The Presumption of Innocence applies in Criminal Trials in Courts of Law. Let’s say … I don’t know … maybe a rape trial in the ACT Supreme Court where the evidence is flimsy, for example.
The Presumption of Innocence does not apply in granting or rescinding membership of sporting Halls of Fame.
In fact, it may surprise you to know that, when they talk about “Halls of Fame”, there aren’t even any actual halls involved. It’s just a list in someone’s bottom drawer.
You’re welcome.
ABC priorities again. An uncritical piece of hagiography about a departed titan of the Victorian Socialist Left:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-22/former-victorian-labor-mp-snappy-tom-roper-dies-aged-78/102510824
And of course they are all over the latest Ridsdale story. No complaint about that, but when are they ever going to report on Jon Stephens, the 1800+ cases in Victorian state schools, etc etc?
And they are all over that creep the Little Pebble. But their vague anti-Catholic smears conveniently forget to tell us that the creep was excommunicated and denounced by the local bishop – that good man Peter Ingham, who was 1000% on Precious Little and Rotten Ronnie Mulkearns.
That young lady is very brave and savvy, she knows her stuff which is something lefties don’t bother about. They think if they say it then it must be true.
An old friend of the family – now gone to God – spent years of his life as an officer in the old Native Welfare Department, working in Third World shitholes, for the benefit of the Indigenous. Part of his job was recommending that parents were incapable of caring for their children, and those children be removed.
His children were quite adamant “None of those children were taken away, except as the last resort!”
There is another word none of our journalists are able to pronounce properly, this time it’s Newfoundland. They say it like it’s three separate words.
Here in Sydney today, at NSW Parliament House, the new Lib Dem MLA John Ruddick hosted an event where Kath Deves, Sall Grover, and other women spoke in favour of women’s rights. “Neo-Nazi” (sarcasm alert) Moira Deeming also spoke.
Of course, the event in parliament house was gatecrashed by transperverts and their useful idiotic allies, all shouting, screaming and threatening the women and men in attendance.
Here’s Sall Grover’s magnificent speech today…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw0hAtTNPTw
Tonight Peta Credlin spoke about this event on Sky, and she had on Moira and Nicolle Flint. Flint said that Julia Gillard is to blame for “actual women having less rights than transwomen” because in 2013 it was the Gillard government that passed the Gender Recognition Act. This is all true, but it begs the question, wasn’t there a Coalition government from 2013 to 2022? If so, I ask, why didn’t the Coalition government repeal Gillard’s Gender Recognition Act?
My Canadian relatives refer to Newfoundland simply as Newfie, much like we say Tassie.
So TAC just happened to engage Slugs and Grubbs. My God this whole stinks to high heaven.
The girl with next door looks.
Can You Read My Mind – Cavill Superman & Amy Adams’ Lois Lane
This is all true, but it begs the question, wasn’t there a Coalition government from 2013 to 2022?
same place they where 1996 to 2007 with Lavarch’s assault on free speech
Nicole Flint is too polite to sink the boot in the way it has been sunk into her. ScoMo could never be bothered defending her when she was attacked by the snarling pack of dogs from the other side of the chamber.
Black Ball at 8:52.
That is yuuuge.
Including Slugs and Bugs as defendants, with the obvious implication that they ran dead on their client in solidarity with Hunchback.
I wonder who pushed them towards Slugs and Bugs in the first place.
I mean, if I had any litigation involving a Liars politician or a union, I wouldn’t go near Slugs and Bugs or Maurice Blackburn.
Here’s the most politically incorrect piece of music you’ll hear in a long time….
John Howard’s gift to the nation.
The more I look at Howard’s record and particularly his dalliance with Trumble, I realize what a phony he is.
Thancho when you are in Osaka a day trip to Himeji Castle and Mt Shosha Temple are well worth it. Mt Shosha featured in The Last Samurai. There is a cable car to get you there. I walked the pilgrims trail. Caught the cable down.
Miltonf I certainly was taken in by him for quite a while.
I just see he and Malcolm Fraser as tarred with the same brush….
Barking Toadsays:
June 22, 2023 at 8:46 pm
Thanks for sharing – loss of four-legged friends can be felt deeply and for a long time. I still miss our Stellar who was so patient and wonderful with our disabled son
It’ll be the Tiananmen Square all over again.
Reports that something happened in Martin Place yesterday are malicious rumours only circulating amongst seditious troublemakers. Now crossing to tonight’s public execution…
Thanks GreyRanga but Osaka isn’t on our itinerary.
I think Rosie said she was going there, but.
As I say, all tips welcome, because I doubt this will be our last trip there.
Being the highly skilled driver that I am, I have never had any interaction with the TAC.
However, I think you can choose your own lawyer.
I just wonder whether the family were incredibly naive about ALP politics and their affiliated lawyers, or someone steered them that way.
It’s amazing that monty tried to tell us that capital investment isn’t related to productivity and productivity isn’t related to wages.
The trend of capital investment tracks productivity well and the smoothed productivity data tracks to hourly wages.
What is more amazing is the apparent alternative – intentionally high inflation (we’re told FP and MP do not matter), make work programmes, anti-trust for the sake of it (not outcomes-based), bilateral monopolies in labour markets and for goods and services with a social licence and no regard for capital accumulation, human capital development, employment on costs, business reinvestment rates and closed markets to foreign direct investors.
Beautiful — the music and the lady. Amy Adams also has (or had) one of the tightest butts in Hollywood.
good speech from Sall.
much common sense and quite brave considering the political weight being thrown against her
thing is I’m old enough to remember when men-only spaces were under attack from poli-fem
and how for a good portion of my life, my very being and essence have been in their cross-hairs
just like youse girly-girls are under attack right now
I’m calling this a learning-moment
Wokeism’s Achilles heel
The Left’s LGBTQ+ Hit Squad
Big day in smallgoods today.
Pleasing to see that bonhomie standards have been maintained.,
Drama queen alert.
Dog watching…
this little bloke looks like a great sort. To my eye, he’s a cross with a Kelpie. Bit broader in the molars and thicker limbed.
…yes, I had tried to work it out with the owner, but I got the wrong vibe from her, and sworn to mine wife that I wouldn’t get a dog unseen from any source which was not simpatico with our beliefs about pets.
But… any Cats in Adelaide, who need a pup… I reckon he’d be an ace.
Needs news hamsters though. The current lot are mOntying their way to the grave.
Thanks for the Mach Loop footage, Steve. Forgot to mention we saw (and heard) one of jets scream by on our Snowdon circuit, plus what looked suspiciously like one of the old Hercs weaving in and out.
The Bryn Celli Ddu chamber was worth the walk. It sits in a mound in front of a vast milking shed…the great herd ambled past us on their way to the second milking for the day. Four thousand years ago, in the same field, some humans were buried, and the window of the chamber was aligned to the rising midsummer sun. I went in, the place was garnished with flowers for the event.
But time goes on and the event cattle do what they always do. Munch the long green grass, low to be milked and so the cycle continues.
Copper was mined on Anglesea – there is a vast scar where the mine once thrived. I will find out more about its history…the Romans had a fort there too so it might go back that far or further.
A lot of my information is gleaned from dog walkers. They seem happy to stop and chat. The dergs, of course, always sidle up to the Beloved for a chin scratch.. they know a soft touch when they see one.
even the cattle
It’s not quite beer o’clock but I might make an exception on account of the heat.
Thanks Tinta and others who commented on my post about my best dog friend from 35 years ago.
Have a new mate now – yet to turn 1.
A cheeky little bugger but an absolute delight to wake up to each morning.
And Sancho, stop telling Cats that scrolling my travelogues is optional.
I will be giving everyone a test when I return, so start swotting!
it was only theory
Screw you buddy.
Had to read the piece by Henry Ergas in the Oz twice to get an understanding that he is saying that K Gallagher is a carnt.
A bit long winded is Henry.
Janet A would only have needed a couple of words.
Janet A would only have needed a couple of words.
We booked three weeks ago. Any Cats wanting to chat, please put an asterisk on your name card (if they give them). Otherwise chat around. Say meow.
Went off to watch the good old Caxton Street Band this afternoon.
They have been playing for 47 years – amazing. Still great even if sometimes they can’t remember composers’ names.
There are of course ‘Jacks’ and then those other submissive, mendicant, dependant dogs.
“Look, you can see that I’m busy”. “I’ll tell when we are going for a walk”. “And don’t stop to talk to those people with their idiot Barbie dogs”. “You can’t even get a growl out of them”.
Michael Smith had a clip (Ch 9 I think) of the truckies moving the climate narcissists off the road to Port Botany.
No wonder we are stuffed. The coverage was an advertising campaign for the brave but terrified climate heros confronting the threatening reality of people who actually work.
‘Red Neck’ and ‘Nazi’ weren’t used but the implication was clearly there.
Err, right.
The answer is Spear and Jackson #8 darning needle, right?
And you’re visiting whales.
Paranoid drama queen, I think.
Hi, St Ruth!
The really, really big issues.
From the Oz:
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Patrick Blower.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Tina Norton.
Titan submersible found.
Well, 21% of it, at least.
Yea, points to the main hull being a squisheroo.
Sanchez,
I assume the people inside were found safe and just waiting for the rescuers?
Rita Panahi on the land of the long white cloud:
Reports are only the landing skids & the tail fairing have been found, presumably detached from the main hull.
The main hull/capsule has not been mentioned.
“Debris field” has been mentioned, though it is not clear if this is referring to pre-existing Titanic debris.
The pressure down there is Five & a half thousand PSI.
Thanks Tom. .
Yes, I gathered that before I posted the comment, Driller. You idiot, it was meant as a light response to Sanchez. Keep out of conversations please.
Must be a misspeak. At the depth it had to be an implosion, surely?
What a tragedy.
Found on the jacket of a book I picked up while browsing in a bookstore.
Cronkite wasn’t fast enough to get onto this one.
Christ you’re an ill-mannered rude prick.
Shove it up your quoit, you sack of shit.
Driller
I’m rude to you because you deserve no other treatment. You misunderstood my comment and I’m then forced to explain, which becomes a waste of time. Interacting with you is a waste of time. Now piss off and avoid speaking to me.
No, you’re rude because you’re an ill-mannered creep.
It’s not just go woke and go broke. it’s also go woke and say goodbye.
Who the hell would get into that killing machine when the CEO shows he’s reluctant to hire white guys? FMD.
Found on the jacket of a book I picked up while browsing in a bookstore.
What’s this “book store” thing you speak of?
In that video by “Sub Brief” on Youtube, the CEO, after saying he doesn’t hire “50-yo white guys” (coz stale pale boring male) but instead young dynamic graduates, because he “can’t get 60yo white guys to do anything rash” (almost his exact words)
Not really. I treat you like shit because that’s the only way you should be treated. You’re a garbage, totally lacking ethics so you’re treated as such. But it’s not like any of this is new to you, Driller. I hope I’m not being hurtful. Just go away.
No, because you’re an arrogant hubristic ill-mannered shithead.
Nothing more, nothing less.
There’s a reason you do this online, while in real life you’re a gutless turd.
How about
Go woke and watch yourself die.
Naaa, you’re lying as always.
Naaa, if people are nice to me, I’m nice back. You’re a piece of shit and will always be. That’s why we’d never meet. You’re disgusting and should never have been born. Now seriously, piss off and stop wasting time writing slabs of uninteresting crap. Stop trying to get my attention like a couple of other turds like you, my view will never change.
As stated before – gutless.
As you were when called on you proclivity for betting: Turned out you were both gutless and skint.
A piece of shit (i.e. you) has no place telling me anything – get that straight.
Lol, that was no bet. It was a laughable shyster’s bet. Put it up and let people judge for themselves. You’re a defective dirtbag with zero ethics and scruples. That’s understating things too.
You talk about honor. This coming from a person who blowhards 99% of the time, lies his face off and posts nasty comments about people’s families who he doesn’t know. As I said, you’re a disgusting defective. Now go away. How many times do I have to repeat myself. I have no interest in interacting with you. Respect what I say and quietly get in the sewer where you reside.
When the big mouth chickens out – yep, it ain’t a bet.
So STFU & refrain from childish abuse. Dumbass.
There is nothing about a gutless little ill-manned dago that demands respect – you’ll never get any. Deal with that you snivelling coward.
Driller, you never peddled the word, dago, until you saw the two limey wogs doing so without any sanction from the blow owner. So much for courage under fire, you gutless piece of white trash filth. Everything about you is disgusting and my view will never change. Stop trying to get my attention all the time.
Can everyone please let the disempowered and diverse only speak about this unforeseeable submarine tragedy?
There is nothing that cisgender white guys in their fifties can say to inspire young women and people of colour to solve the problems of treating a submarine like an aviation industry problem.
Strictly speaking, it’s pretty racist of you guys to have an opinion about this.
It’s no surprise this submarine sank as a consequence of decades of unchecked global warming. It likely lost its navigation systems power relying on expensive and unreliable fossil fuels.
You have no idea what I do.
Stick to your lane, cockhead.
It doesn’t matter how people talk about you, it’s not like your word would be any sort of golden bond, or there’s any personal honesty or honour in you.
Now go & welch on a bet or something.
+1
I didn’t know what cisgender meant until Musk banned it’s use on Twitter.
Why would he ban the use?
Only an endorsement from Chuck Norris can save Bud Light
…and he’s too busy being Chuck Norris.
Bud Light is so toxic, it would even kill Chuck Norris.
Welp, a soy-based beer was an interesting experiment to say the least.
Of course we do. You’re a defective dickhead with serious mental issues along with a sickly narcissistic personality disorder. Lying and blowharding illustrates some of your defects.
Okay
Sure there is, but there’s no honor in you as you’re disgustingly dishonest with a massive chip on your shoulder causing massive blowharding.
Lol, banks wouldn’t lend you, because you’re so dishonest.
and the plussing. Oh God.
You can embrace diversity, but you can’t ignore the consequences of embracing diversity
The Truth About the Titanic
Paul Joseph Watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zvqtBhdan4