My theory is that plovers were parking cops in a previous life.
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Another problem with aging. Long sightedness. When I was a slightly near sighted young man the world was a terrifically…
A case study of misinformation. @DisrespectedThe If you watch anything today, WATCH THIS!!!
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“the first back to back surpluses in almost two decades” Yeah right wallet wizard. Not that your the only offender…
Where is everybody?
I’m right here … behind you, but still claiming first, ‘cos I feel like it!
It’s sorta creepy here. Just me … and the shadows. They pulse, slowly, like someone breathing … heavily. There seems to be something moving — in the shadows I mean. It’s just out of sight. Tantalising. So frustrating, I can almost see it. Wait. It’s redefining, clearing.
OMG!! … it’s ———
I’m here, Bruce.
Drop into my place sometime.
Just going through some photos from our last holiday, earlier this year.
Some things just stand out in your memory.
Good stuff, Wally. Will do. Should I bring a bottle?
Oh well, no one around. Have to drink the bottle myself. Nice Cabernet Sauvignon/Cabernet Franc. Just suits the cold weather.
Yeah, go on then. Any lively red. And I’ll send you off with a few cartons….. my brother’s Cab and Chardonnay from the late 20-teens, made with no marketing plan, stacked up and gathering dust. I’ve just gladwrapped a few pallets for export, plenty left over.
One thing I need to get done is putting another chimney on the pizza oven, and getting the damp out of it. Standing tradition (before the septic truck knocked the chimney off) was open house, pizza for all comers, every saturday closest to the full moon.
Are you a Sandgroper, Wally?
PS: Make my pizza a thin crust Margherita, please, but with LOTS of furry fish and chilli flakes. Ta.
‘Night. all.
Question .
Does every European and American woman 25 years plus have a tattoo? Perhaps born with tats
Martie Tittsoff, haunting the place drunk as a skunk every night.
Way back in the cross roads of life my father decided to buy himself a block of land out in Pokolbin grow a few grapes donate to to the locals and get some of the wine back and have himself nice little wine collection. So using high school maths he mapped out his curved rows and thefamily forgathed at a local plot during pruning to get cuttings. Very quckly a SOS was sent and rooted cuttings appeared forthwith and were professionally planted apart from the Muscats which were a blot on the ordered landscape to this day. Needless to say the word got out due to some dedicated marketing by a Mr T and farm land and old vineyards became a sea of new vines and it was “‘make your own sport ” but plenty of advise and yeast provided. And believe it or not some gold medals were produced from our tin shed winery. Only the memories and some over sulphated bottles of white remain.
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Matt Pritchett.
Patrick Blower.
Christian Adams.
Steve Bright.
Morten Morland.
A.F.Branco.
Henry Payne.
Matt Margolis.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom
Most of today’s cartoons had the same theme.
Is this obsession with Putin falling because the cartoonists had to draw their work before events actually enfolded, or was it just wishful thinking on their part, like that of Monty?
And, will they apologise for getting it so wrong?
“enfolded” fully Evolved it should be, sorry.
Not blaming autocorrect, don’t have one.
Thanks again Tom,
The devil is now in the Vatican-evil old kPope Francis stunned the faithful this weekend when he welcomed some 200 avant-garde artists in the Sistine Chapel, including photographer Andres Serrano, creator of the controversial “Piss Christ” work showing a crucifix submerged in a glass of urine.
Most of today’s cartoons had the same theme.
Is this obsession with Putin falling because the cartoonists had to draw their work before events actually enfolded, or was it just wishful thinking on their part, like that of Monty?
just flunkies of the Washington war machine
Greetings from Padstow.
We left Bath this morning and zoomed down to Glastonbury. All packed up, thankfully, though the old town is like Nimbin on steroids. Very, very fragrant. I wanted to view the Abbey ruins, and was met by an elderly “Merlin” at the entrance.
The Abbey is lovely in its decrepitude, soaring arches to an empty sky amid soft, green turf. Of all the ruins I have viewed around the world, this one is replete with memory. Perhaps it’s the strong mix of stone and ever-renewing green that does the trick. The place swirls with legends…Joseph of Aremethia, the Grail, Arthur and Guinevere. And then there’s the Tor and St Michael’s Tower, overlooking the “Summer Country”, the Isle of Avalon.
And so on, across northern Devonshire to the coast and down the Atlantic Highway, an “A” road that often shrinks to a single lane through the little villages. A motorist’s delight, and fortunately I’m married to one. 😀
Another observation about the ruined abbey…an overwhelming sadness about the wickedness of kings and their servants.
And in the middle of all of it the conviction that nothing, no work in the service of the Almighty is ever lost. It will return, when all things are made new once more.
For Dover, and anyone else interested. I have an artwork entitled ‘Poppies’. It was purchased in Perth (WA) in early 1980s, and is clearly reminiscent of Flanders. It is signed Z. Gryfita. Does anyone have any information about the artist? Thanks
Today’s big question is, do the Inuit feed their children breakfast?
Sugar Frosties, rosie.
I think I bought a packet of Sugar Frosties the first time I visited the UK.
We never had them as children but I’d seen the ads and l obviously, they worked.
Time Team’s 3 Most Tragic Digs…
Shoog was the “Eskimo Derg”, the cute trademark for the product (I’m talking the 70’s).
I do breakfast, no lunch and then dinner. Tonight it was moulles marinère at a restaurant at the Padstow harbour.
Cute place, but like most Cornish coastal towns, you need to be prepared to walk up hill and down dale. Or be lazy and pay for parking down by the quay. Laziness won tonight. Tomorrow it’s off to Land’s End and the Lizard and a mooch around Penzance.
I will report any pirate sightings.
I’ve never really ventured out of London in the UK, just day trips to Bath and Oxford, or was it Cambridge?
You are encouraging me Calli though perhaps 2025. I’m going to make a trip to Ireland mid 2024, I’ve a hankering to visit Leitrim, where my mother’s mother’s mother came from, she made the trip to Tasmania as a twenty year old with her seventeen year old sister who died shortly after they reached Sydney, they weren’t famine refugees as it was in the 1880s.
There are bits of Ireland of family interest too. A work house in County Cavan for one.
I’ve got English ancestors from Cheshire and the Channel Islands so that can be my excuse.
Must be a different product, I bought the ones with the tiger.
I looked them up
‘Sugar Frosted Flakes’ with Tony the Tiger
Garrison’s another one to link the Wagner bloke and Colonel Kurtz.
Hun with Shannon Deery reporting:
Prosecutto is a fool.
I will report any pirate sightings.
voice types winning hearts and minds in Tasmania
You gotta be shittin me
For a slightly lighthearted look at some serious issues.
Interesting end stay assembly @9:40 ish and some good advice right at the end.
He certainly appears to be one of the ‘respeck mah authoritah’ types, swanning about like a minor satrap in the little dogs’ yard and refusing to countenance any suggestion he might be wrong.
A peacetime general.
the ultimate no kids zone
Pesutto must be shattered that his mentor Andrews hasn’t stepped up with the defence money. After all the fight against Nazis crosses party lines.
This thing is smelly. He has proven himself to be an insanely obdurate obsessive, but would he risk the house on this idiocy? There has got to be yet to be revealed dimensions to this absurdity.
Remarkably little content coming from the ‘Aussie Cossack’ – or his groupies, who were previously quite vocal on various European matters.
As we’re heading the Portugal shortly I did a quick read on Portugal’s Salazar dictatorship years
I always thought he was a bad guy, only because that’s what I was told over the years. That’s no the case at all .
The moral here is do not stand between a woman and her food.
Blog is loading faster this morning.
Salazar wasn’t a theatrical bonehead like Mussolini, nor a murderous thug like Hitler. Salazar couldn’t stand these two mongrels.
Good. He can ask for contributions from all those in the party room who voted to expel Moira.
I wonder what the Portuguese think about their politician Guterres, JC?
And then there’s the Tor and St Michael’s Tower, overlooking the “Summer Country”, the Isle of Avalon.
calli, I’ve climbed the Tor about four times. The view is spectacular.
The moral of what, Hugh?
“Salazar wasn’t a theatrical bonehead like Mussolini, nor a murderous thug like Hitler. Salazar couldn’t stand these two mongrels.”
Indeed. In some respects he was a role model to Pinochet (a man who saved Chile).
Antonio (let’s call him that.. Salazar) would have fired the idiot. 🙂
Calli Try and get to the Eden Project while in Cornwall . Very futuristic compared to all the old stuff you see in Britain .
Did you know there is a proposal for an Eden Project along the great ocean rd
In an old coal mine
Opposed by the locals of course
Two questions for those thinking Putin might be toppled/assassinated:
(a) Do you imagine that the United Russia Party might nominate someone for president who isn’t a supporter of the same kind of policies that Putin pursues?
(b) Do you imagine that the United Russia Party might lose a Russian presidential election?
The real casualties of Russia’s ‘civil war’? The Beltway “expert” class
Numerous serious casualties were incurred during Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s supposed “coup.” The Grayzone offers an in-depth look at the massacre carried out by some of America’s top Russia experts against their own credibility.
When Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a supposed revolt against Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 23, sending his forces on a march toward Moscow following a series of tirades against the country’s defense establishment, Washington’s expert class overflowed with an orgy of regime change fantasies.
For just over 12 hours, everyone from former US ambassador to Russia and noted Hitler apologist Michael McFaul to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to neocon pundit Anne Applebaum exploded with seemingly libidinal excitement about a supposed “civil war” that was certain to feature “Russians…killing Russians,” along with “lots of casualties” and Putin “probably hiding somewhere.”
It was as though the Soviet Union was collapsing all over again, and Prigozhin, a character named on the FBI’s most wanted list whom the US government has sanctioned for leading what it described as a “transnational criminal organization,” was suddenly a white knight storming into Moscow to liberate Russia from “the Putin regime” on the back of a tank. Move over, Juan Guaido.
Expecting a bloodbath and seismic political upheaval, corporate networks like CNN had budgeted wall-to-wall coverage of the coup that wasn’t, filling cable news green rooms with rent-a-generals, K Street think tankers, and war-hungry former diplomatic corps hacks.
On the afternoon of June 24, however, news broke across the US that Prigozhin had struck a deal with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to end his protest and go into exile.
Thus ended a largely bloodless affair that ultimately saw fewer documented deaths than the January 6 Capitol Riot.
Though the supposed revolt in Russia burned out faster than a Leopard tank on the way to Zaporizhzhia, we now know that a number of serious casualties were incurred inside the DC Beltway.
The Grayzone obtained an exclusive look at the massacre some of America’s top Russia experts carried out against their own credibility.
BIDEN (last week): “I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things…”
A revolt has begun in the USA!
NYC Tells Coal, Wood Oven Pizzerias to Cut Carbon Emissions by 75% (25 Jun)
‘Extraordinary’: New York cracks down on wood-fired pizzas to cut carbon emissions (Sky, 26 Jun)
NYC Man Protests: ‘Give Us Pizza, or Give Us Death’ (Newsmax, 26 Jun)
The guy could’ve waited a couple weeks since Bastille Day is July 14th.
Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC he will cancel elections next year in Ukraine if the country is still at war with Ukraine.
DC Draino reported:
. Zelensky has banned opposition political parties
. He arrested political opponents
. He banned all unfriendly media
. He shut down Orthodox churches
. And now there will be no Presidential election next year
At what point we call him what he is?
A dictator
pic.twitter.com/jFSathORbT
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) June 25, 2023
I actually think this is an interesting Idea!
Can We Move on From the Trump/Kennedy Unity Ticket Delusion?
As the current frontrunner for the GOP nomination, there has long been speculation as to whom Donald Trump might pick as his running mate. Early on, it was widely predicted that Trump would pick a woman, though obviously no decision has been made yet — and frankly, I wasn’t particularly impressed by the rumored shortlist.
Recently, I’ve noticed chatter on social media about a unity ticket between Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In fact, even a former Trump strategist has said he thought it would be a good idea.
“Somebody asked about Robert F. Kennedy and the great speech at Hillsdale, his opening speech and what did I think about his prospects. And I said, ‘Look, I’m a Kari Lake person, but if Kari Lake becomes governor, as she should if this court case, or if not, she runs for the Senate. If she’s not available to be Trump’s VP that Bobby Kennedy would be, I think, an excellent choice for President Trump to consider.’ There was a standing ovation and this was a very hardcore MAGA war room posse crowd,” Bannon said on his podcast in April. “I think that that is a signal to the political elites in this country that something very different is going on. And I thought it was quite extraordinary. Robert Kennedy Jr. has huge support for the American populist movement.”
It’s a bonkers theory, and Bannon should know more than anyone that it will never happen.
Consider the names of those who are reportedly on Trump’s shortlist: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Kari Lake (R-Ariz.), Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.), Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-Ark.), and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Aside from them all being women, they’re all loyal Trump supporters.
Considering how often Trump was betrayed during his first term, loyalty is actually quite important. While a vice president’s role in government is often scoffed at for being trivial, in the event of a closely divided Senate, a vice president actually can play a critical role in ensuring the president’s agenda passes Congress. What loyalty would Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Democrat, have towards Trump and his agenda? Zero.
One issue in particular that clearly puts Trump and Kennedy at odds is the COVID-19 vaccines. Trump takes credit for the vaccines getting done in record time, and Kennedy has been a staunch opponent of the COVID vaccines, and vaccines in general, as he believes vaccines are linked to autism. Kennedy has even said that the COVID vaccines are the deadliest vaccines ever made, putting him strongly at odds with Trump on this issue.
While it has become clear that the COVID vaccines were grossly oversold and have been linked to increases in myocarditis and other side effects, Trump has repeatedly doubled down on the vaccines. Running mates may not agree on all issues, but that’s a big matzo ball to have coming between two candidates on the same ticket.
And frankly, why would any Republican want a Democrat as the vice president?
Even Kennedy has addressed the rumors of a potential unity ticket, dismissing it outright, saying that
while he “agrees a lot with Trump” on various issues, “it would take a week” to list all the reasons he wouldn’t join a ticket with him.
So let’s put this silly fantasy to bed.
Think local Rosie, do our first peoples have a strong record of doing same, or are all the school breakfast/lunch programs un necessary?
Prosecutto!
I see what you did there.
rosiesays:
June 27, 2023 at 7:06 am
Prosecutto is a fool.
Or a leftie who has infiltrated the libs and is intent on destroying them.
Seal and whale.
Whale and seal.
Same old, same old.
Pesutto
It’s perverse how small target politicians end up making themselves the biggest target in town.
And a big “Hi!” to Paleo Pete Evans if you’re watching!
Why should it not be enough to say “I had no idea that they were there and they had nothing to do with us.” The supposed ‘crime’ was that they allowed neo-Nastis to join their rally so it should be enough to assert that that was not true.
No one ever demands such a thing when lefties have Socialist Alliance and other socialist and marxist groups actually intermingled in their bully parades and their track record for carnage and oppression (think USSR, China, North Korea and Cuba) is certainly comparable to the Nastis.
It is also ‘surprising’ that out of all the places the rallies were held, Nasti-theatre only popped up in DPRV (Dan’s People’s Republik of Viktoria).
Thought they were so smart and would never be rumbled.
these guys were just thieves, plain and simple.
Not being even a well versed amateur let alone an expect on either culture, I’d say the Eskimos had a far better chance of feeding their children at any time of the day due to preserving food in the icy condition was a lot easier.
Lion in the party room.
Lamb on the floor of the House.
You know what I reckon, the littlies got breast milk, probably in public, and the rest had whatever the adults ate for breakfast.
Unless you think Inuit ate the whole whale the night before.
OldOzzie you’re forgetting the biggest casualty, Mutley!
RFKJ would probably be better VP than any of the names currently being put forward. What is even more extraordinary is that a Kennedy is seen as more moral and honest than most of the leaders of both parties.
Think local Rosie, do our first peoples have a strong record of doing same, or are all the school breakfast/lunch programs un necessary?
Regardless of whether they are a good idea or not all these “out of home” freebie packages do is provide couldn’t-care-less parenting with another excuse to fob the kids off on do-gooder bleeding hearts and shirk their own responsibilities ..
I’ve lived in “houso’ long enuf to see the end results .. kids growing up to be copies of parents .. a never ending cycle ……. FFS!
And there, dear reader, is the sad tale of the death of Victorian democracy as the opposition party expels dissidents and apes the wannabe-dictator premier after being decimated at the 2022 state because it was advocating the ALP policy platform.
Stupid Frigging Liberals doesn’t begin to describe their cowardice and bone-headed idiocy.
The biggest problem the Eskimos had feeding their children was remembering to put the whale in the fridge to thaw it out.
“Pesutto must be shattered that his mentor Andrews hasn’t stepped up with the defence money. After all the fight against Nazis crosses party lines.
This thing is smelly. He has proven himself to be an insanely obdurate obsessive, but would he risk the house on this idiocy? There has got to be yet to be revealed dimensions to this absurdity.”
I honestly have no idea what motivates Prosciutto and the skid marks that are the Victorian Liberals. Two days after the Melbourne Let Women Speak rally, after those paid Nazi operatives turned up, in a stunt very clearly and deliberately designed to embarrass the attendees at the rally, after which Dan led the howls of “Nazis”, “Nazis”, “Nazis”, and Prosciutto and his fellow morons dutifully followed Dan’s shrieks, I recall watching a shrivelled up Prosciutto on Credlin desperately try to justify his accusations of Keen being a “Nazi” or “Nazi adjacent” and then tarring Deeming with the same brush. I remember watching the exchange and being so appalled that such a feeble nonentity could be the leader of the Victorian Liberals. I still shake my head that he was deemed to be best person to lead the party, but then I remember its recent history, with a leader like Groundhog Guy. But that night, watching Sky, I recall Prosciutto’s body language, he was hunched over, his spine bouncing like trifle jelly, and it was obvious he was in a pickle of his own making but instead of standing up for Moira and women such as myself, he doubled down, and he could not or would not crawl out of. Yet, watching him that night, the worst aspect about him was his revolting simpering voice, a voice trying to justify using Wikipedia as a reliable source (that mad me laugh out loud), trying to say that Keen was a Nazi sympathiser and thus women like myself, who care about women’s right and women only safe spaces, were “Nazi adjacent”.
I now think that what remains of the Victorian Liberals, with Prosciutto leading the charge, should all volunteer to go down in a submersive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and then all lines of communication should be cut off and they should be left there to rot. Mr Prosciutto won’t have to worry about any Nazis there. Maybe such a scenario might give the Victorian Liberal Party an opportunity to refresh and rebuild, with new blood. But that’s probably wishful thinking on my part.
The FBI picked up that trick from them.
It was pretty crude really.
Just deduct but don’t remit tax.
Other evidence of lack of smarts:-
1. Conspicuous spending;
2. Involving a Commanchero in the plan.
I think they were confident daddy would bail them out and run interference inside the ATO.
And you can guarantee the the irresponsible parents will whinge if the kids didn’t get any food at school.
I expect that was the case. From what I understand children were breast fed until a new baby arrived which could be up to five years as the actual breastfeeding prevented ovulation, up to a point.
Brandon Taylor Moore
@LetsGoBrando45
The old “stack and pack” agenda has evolved to what we call the 15-minute city today. Same ? different day.
A Guardian poll (yes, someone’s gotta read it) reveals Albanese now owns the cost of living crisis, with 75% reporting the government is not doing enough to address the issue.
Cue a Coalition attack on supply-side reform in 3…2…1…crickets.
OldOzziesays:
June 27, 2023 at 7:44 am
The real casualties of Russia’s ‘civil war’? The Beltway “expert” class
Numerous serious casualties were incurred during Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s supposed “coup.” The Grayzone offers an in-depth look at the massacre carried out by some of America’s top Russia experts against their own credibility.
General Field Marshal mUntgumery, Master of Strategy, didn’t come out of it too well either.
Daughter called into directors office. There’s no annual bonus this year for anyone,,,,, except you. 3% thankyou very much.
I suspect the children getting a bag of chips and a bottle of coke for the day has a lot to do with the destruction of aboriginal culture not because their parents never traditionally fed them breakfast.
Plus it’s most likely if there was no food stored in a dilly bag, and of course no school to go to, hungry weaned children would be perfectly capable of foraging for themselves, they didn’t have to wait till someone came home that night with a roo, or not.
Joel Jammal
@JoelJammal
Disgusting Pride display at the NSW State Library #LGBT
Crossie my friend was told that by her GP, three months later pregnant again.
BoN, any thoughts on feeding wild ducks with bread?
Read a report by wildlife activists, that it’s dangerous for them.
Can’t link sorry.
No coup was launched by the fool Prigozhin, against Putin.
His gripe was with Shoigu and Gerasimov.
“I expect that was the case. From what I understand children were breast fed until a new baby arrived which could be up to five years as the actual breastfeeding prevented ovulation, up to a point”
Yep.
Young Laydees are paying up to $3000 a ticket for Taylor Swift.
I don’t understand and I don’t want to.
I’m not religious, but I see Christian good and forgiveness welcoming into your fold those that pour scorn on it.
.. and its a nice big ‘see – it doesn’t bother us, we are all the same’ to him, as a bonus.
Rufus: How can he walk back the comments about a new President or the basis for war being fake?
Putin has made a blanket statement saying it was foolhardy and treachery.
As the ABC would put it, the colonisation of the palette [sic].
Published in 2016, now probably heretical.
Can only see the abstract, sadly.
Australia is unique amongst the habitable continents being the only place where animal and plant domestication and farming lifeways did not occur independently—although encounters with agriculturalists in PNG occurred through communities of Torres Straight. (Pity someone didn’t pick up this error strait away)
Ewwww!!
Dis-gust-ing!!!!
My daughter has a friend who is about to have Irish twins.
I wouldn’t be relying on breastfeeding alone.
I suspect the harsh circumstances of living a stone age existence coupled with breastfeeding might have something to do with ovulation suppression.
Cue a Coalition attack on supply-side reform in 3…2…1…crickets.
And this is why Luigi can direct support at his pet, the VOICE, rather than address the country’s social & economic problems .. no, bloody, effective opposition .. and he knows it! ..
Let me just put it on the record here.
I have no problem with breasts being on public display.
WTF is the ABC doing continually referring to Melbourne a ‘Naarm’?
Dr. Peter Hotez was the single most vehement pusher of the vaxes, perhaps even outdoing Fauci. He changed his tune frequently but only ever to ramp up the number of jabs required. He has recently rejected a contribution of $1m. to his favourite charity simply to enter into a debate on the topic. He will only talk to compliant media about the urgency of getting ever more boosters.
Exclusive: Dr. Peter Hotez’s Funding Linked to Controversial Chinese Military Scientists at Wuhan Lab
Update…apparently Prigozhin is forgiven; Zelensky & “the Anglo-Saxons” are now responsible.
I’m getting a distinct “bunker” vibe.
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Zelensky has banned opposition political parties
He arrested political opponents
He banned all unfriendly media
He shut down Orthodox churches
And now there will be no Presidential election next year
At what point we call him what he is?
A dictator
And the difference between him and Biden at the point is just a matter of degree.
Wesley Hunt
@WesleyHuntTX
So let me get this straight… Hunter Biden takes a sweetheart plea deal on what should have been felony gun and tax evasion charges and will face ZERO prison time.
Then he attends a White House dinner. Then after a whistleblower leaks evidence that he and his father (POTUS) were involved in a multimillion dollar bribery scheme, Hunter climbs aboard Marine One to join his father at Camp David.
They are thumbing their nose at ALL of us. Pay attention America…
PAY ATTENTION.
Bills safety Jordan Poyer reveals his charity event at Trump National is CANCELED after a ‘big sponsor and players’ pulls out due to ‘where they are on the political spectrum’
Reminding you who the owners are.
I had to laugh, I heard of similar instances and that’s why I said up to a point.
Straight out racism.
Bounty Sparks Boycott Calls Over New Campaign
Prosecutto is hoping to rely upon his “dossier” as part of his defence.
Dossier is word you use when you want to add some MI-7 espionage cred to something.
See also, Steele Dossier.
It is a series of clippings from social media.
I can’t wait for the cross examination on how Prosecutto established the veracity of “@RealTransWarrior” account on Twatter.
I might walk beside him to court in my SS uniform to demonstrate how easy it is to be labelled a Nasti.
Yet they ask themselves why are the voting public turning off the voice.
assessing the covidian descent into the dark ages
how mendacious medievalism caused so much harm and how to stop it from doing so again
All the Hawkeis in the world won’t help in a mixed minefield*.
*You can find it for yourselves.
Just following the zeitgeist of the day.
Pants on fire! Harvard behavioral scientist who studies dishonesty is accused of fabricating data in multiple research papers
Prosecutto is the equivalent of a 1970’s Assistant Manager (acting) at a State Bank sub-branch, making a big show of publicly berating the office girl for not collecting his safari suit from the dry-cleaners on time.
Gabor – I’ve seen that from time to time but I don’t have an authoritative answer one way or the other really, just a few observations. I don’t feed the wild wood ducks around here mainly because they don’t like bread much.
Instinctively I think the wildlife activists are speaking pseudoreligious rubbish. Plus people have been feeding ducks with bread for a long long time, eg in parks, lakes and chook pens. We’d do that when we had muscovies in our chook pen and the only harm they experienced was when we ate them.
The other argument I can offer is that the activists say you shouldn’t feed any wild birds because it’s bad m’kay? That is clearly wrong given the healthy Cafe denizens, who breed well and have taken over the suburb. The noisies eat lots of bread, in part because they’ve stripped the area of spiders and insects. But the production line of new noisies is still going full bore at two or three chicks per nest each couple of months. I’m not awash in them because the clans kick the kids out – they then go find other places to live. Bread certainly doesn’t do them any noticeable harm. With a secure source of food they also tend not to persecute other birds, which spares my eardrums.
The muscovies in our chook pen would scoff anything of course, including old cat food and chook pellets. So chook pellets might be a cheap and more balanced alternative.
Christians welcome into the church only the penitents, those who have repented their sinning ways. I have not heard that Serrano has seen the light.
The REAL power behind the North Korean throne revealed: Explosive new book exposes Kim Jong-un’s little-known sister as a ruthless psychopath who executes officials for ‘getting on her nerves’ and is tipped to succeed him as dictator
Cancer drug shortage ‘is absolute lunacy,’ doctors say: ‘Lives will be shortened’
This is getting into the parody territory.
Planned Parenthood is BANNED across Saskatchewan after supplying 9th graders with sexually explicit card game for ‘queer youths’ that teaches them about being attracted to TVs, kink and extreme pornography
Unless little Un gets rid of her first.
A relative of mine was told, just after the birth of her first child, to use contraception, as there was nothing to stop her becoming pregnant again.
“Are you kidding? Do you think I’m letting the old man near me, ever again?”
Giving ‘progressive’ antisemites the benefit of the doubt
Lode:
Boom.
Nancy Pelosi Threatens Pro-Life Americans, There’s a “Price to Pay” for Saving Babies
Good luck with the vote for the Voice….
One other data point on bread and birds that I’ve just remembered – I have a wild cockie that has been coming every day for over 10 years. She(?) is a bit of a loner and has a slightly wonky wing joint from some injury a long time ago. As a result she tries to stay in trees so she can launch and flap to the next tree without getting stuck on the ground where she can’t easily take off.
She’s been eating one to two slices of white bread every day for those ten or so years. Probably a large proportion of her diet, since she can’t eat kikuyu like the others, yet she’s obviously been healthy all this time except for her wing. She was here this morning looking fine.
Cockies though are seed eaters and bread is derived from seeds, whereas ducks are more into grass and weed and suchlike.
Ha, ha. How many kids do they have now?
Implicit in the question, inside the Arctic circle do they only have one breakfast a year?
One breakfast, six months of lunches, one dinner, then six months of midnight snacks.
Seriously folks, if our politicians were actually smart we would have very little to discuss here. At the cost to my entertainment I would still like the experience of living in a well run society where the politicians are doing the best for the voters who put them there. It’s on my bucket list.
Anglo-Saxon conspiracy theories.
Stalinist vibes.
“No one ever demands such a thing when lefties have Socialist Alliance and other socialist and marxist groups actually intermingled in their bully parades and their track record for carnage and oppression (think USSR, China, North Korea and Cuba) is certainly comparable to the Nastis.”
Quite so, but consistency is never ever required from the left. And remember, whenever Israel has to launch military action in Gaza, progressives and adherents of the religion of pieces protest in large numbers in Sydney, Melbourne and other cities across this nation. Always in attendance at these protests are Labor and Greens politicians, and in the crowd, where those same Labor and Greens politicians are mingling, you’ll see placards daubed with such peaceful slogans such as “open the ovens”, the genocidal cry, “From the River to the Sea”, the Star of David superimposed over a Swastika, and other such peaceful sweet slogans. But I suppose, as a certain grub once wrote on these pages, that’s okay because they have “legitimate grievances”.
There is never any opprobrium directed at those Greens and Labor politicians. Never.
The stench of hypocrisy is nauseating and what Prosciutto and the eternally stupid Victorian Liberals did was to give credence to such hypocrisy.
The appearance of those Nazis in Melbourne in March was NO accident. It was a carefully designed and orchestrated stunt and the dickhead Prosciutto and his fellow Liberal party dickheads fell for it hook, line and sinker.
publicly berating the office girl for not collecting his safari suit from the dry-cleaners on time
Powder blue or tan?
Shorts with knee high socks and sandals of trousers and brown shoes?
Pith helmet or terry toweling hat?
Its the little details like that separate the average man from those imbued with the aura of sartorial splendor.
VicPol
– saw the neo Nazis at the rally
– watched them make offensive gestures
– let them remain at the rally
– allowed them to parade at the rally
– kept them safe from attack at the rally
What standard of association does Nancy Pesutto apply for his defence?
He’s as doomed as doomed can be.
Speaking of the grub…where is he?
Oh and I note that DaFisk has gone quiet. Pochemu? He was getting all excited on Saturday night at the thought of Prigozhin marching on Moscow.
History, literature, philosophy, religion.
Mere ephemera.
Possibly a future strategy to employ every time the left come up with a campaign to destroy an aspect of Australian life which they are trying to sneak through disguised as something warm and fuzzy.
Carefully manoeuvre them to where they feel they are on the verge of winning and then…watch. They cannot help at that point but to unleash all their vileness, their contempt, and their hatred. All their real motivations come tumbling out of their mouths – the trick is to let them feel they are on the threshold before they really are and their explosive misanthropy has time to turn the tide of opinion against them.
You ever seen kids jumping up and down excitedly when a birthday cake comes out? Same thing with lefties, but they have less self-control.
Beige.
The “stannings” are quite ridiculous.
Imagine Kim Yo-jong
Imagine her just grabbing you by the skull with her vice strength hands and just throwing your naked body onto the bed
“You are my toy now”
She sits on you and plays with your trembling…
Then they came for the doggos, and I said nothing because I was not a doggo.
WTF Reddit degenerates?
Kim Yo-Jong: The supreme leader of my heart
And this is the sort of silliness we’ve come to expect from you.
Sad.
Someone, somewhere, knows exactly who those “ fine” young men are.
Kim Yo-jong
Im imagining some of the old Flashman writings recast with her in the saddle.
So Flashman becomes an North Korean and winters with them, into 2050, and becomes best friends with the Kim or, as the world would later know him, Supreme leader for life.
The Koreans make the assumption that Flashman is settled with them. he’s happily making Kim Yo-jong Woman’s bells ring and who could imagine a lifestyle better than this.
I think the idea of breaking up Russia is bonkers, but here is better-informed opinion on it:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/03/24/why-pushing-for-the-break-up-of-russia-is-absolute-folly/
Why pushing for the break up of Russia is absolute folly
Even the most vociferous opposition leaders say creating new states out of the federation would be fraught with disaster. Here’s why.
Wouldn’t it be great if a couple could be ID’d and dragged to court?
Prosciutto provided the greatest election night TV as he sat on the ALPBC panel and proceeded to lose his safe seat. The Victoriastan Lieborals breathed life into the corpse like a dog returning to its vomit. He is the best man to lead the party.
Of course, breathing life into a corpse gave WA Emperor Barney so it shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand.
Not just forgiveness, it could be repentance. He might feel sorry for causing offence for no reason other than spitefulness to millions if not billions.
Both are at the core of Christianity.
Reminds me of something about feet and wash cloths.
Keep in mind if we are talking about fantasy, we are giving a nod to Nagash, not Aslan.
Pesutto is a typical paid player for the political AFL team.
A-nother
F-ucking
L-awyer
Phil Egan writing reports for the English Cricket Board?
It is sometimes nice to indulge in a little fantasy.
I would like to imagine Pesutto driven to penury by Deeming’s lawsuit. I would like to see him having just lost his job at the McDonalds drive through because no matter what people ordered he kept giving bland food that was ‘what they need’.
I would like him to turn up to the Liberal party begging for any work, complaining that the only income he has is taking the family labrador to a strange dingy club called ‘Puppy Love’ for people with an unnatural carnal fondness for dogs and where ‘Cooper’ turns tricks rather than does them.
And half of that money must go straight to Moira as part of the court settlement.
I would like to see him then ushered into a room with a ladder and a hole high in the wall which he has to stick his head through, and on the other side of the wall, between trophies of stags, caribous, and lions, Pesutto’s head projects above a small brass plaque reading ‘John Pesutto. F’wit. Loser. Dog Pimp.’
There were some dissenting voices at the Hudson Institute symposium in February. For example, Natalia Arno, the president of the Free Russia Foundation (and herself an ethnic Buryat) said, “We want to fix Russia, not to dissolve it,” adding that “There is no demand for dissolution on the ground level, aside from emigrants.”
The Russia I visited in the late 1980s seems to be nothing like the Russia of today. Like other earlier tourists, I have not really followed the development of Russian daily life, other than expecting it would obviously become more prosperous with the opening up of oil production etc. So I was stunned months ago when I saw a video taken by an American tourist of a shopping mall in Moscow. Crikey, when I was there the shops were virtually empty of any significant products and even food was rationed in everyday life. But today the shopping malls seem indistinguishable from those in the West, complete with luxury brands. And the carparks have the latest models as well.
Pesutto is a typical paid player for the political AFL team.
Speaking of political AFL sides, Sam Landsberger reporteth:
taking the family labrador to a strange dingy club called ‘Puppy Love’ for people with an unnatural carnal fondness for dogs and where ‘Cooper’ turns tricks rather than does them
Show me on the dolly where “cooper” did the bad touch on you
is preventing players from speaking their truths
The enlightenment was nice while it lasted.
President Vladimir Putin warns those responsible for Saturday’s attempted coup will ‘be brought to justice’.
Speaking from his basement, Putin displayed harrowing CCTV images from Rostov-on-Don. “You can see here the barbarity of the violence in this coup” he said, as images of Wagner troops calmly walking through the Rostov historical society museum played on the main screen. “We know that they were assisted by traitors amongst our ranks” stated Putin, apparently supported by video of Rostov museum guards accompanying Wagner through the building.
“You can see the bloodthirsty derangement in their eyes”, while freezing the video on one soldier admiring a statue of Rostov’s founder…
😉
In other words, a rerun of the January 6 2021 insurrection in Washington DC.
Pesutto is a very good local member, comes to everything helps out at rubbish clean ups .Mild mannered and pleasant.
Clearly not up to leading and I wonder who is pulling his strings or whether it was just an ill fated attempt to lay down a marker for his leadership.
Even if he wins the defamation battle, his costs will be enormous as solicitor client costs exceed by at least 20 – 30 % the amount of costs that he might be awarded, that’s assuming Deeming has any assets.
If he loses he will be stuffed.
I doubt Wagner group can expect very enthusiastic or accurate future close air support after shooting down and killing craft and crews from that branch.
As to the idea that waiting in the wings to take over are people more hard line and anti-Western than Putin: Bring it on I say.
The last 50 years since Nixon went to Beijing has shown us what happens when our leaders cosy up with communist regimes: their elites and our elites decide they have many interests in common against the ordinary masses in both blocs, and the commie ideology bleeds into our institutions, not the reverse.
Gruinaid continuing the in-voice charm offensive…
As an Arrernte woman, I feel stuck with a choice between systems I do not trust and the fear of giving in to rabid racists
Yet the yes side aren’t actually anti-racist. In fact, over generations, they have benefited from racist ideas and policies. They now see promoting the yes vote as a way to perform their anti-racism without any inconvenient interrogation. Indigenous people on the yes side who I have spoken to are tired of telling scores of white people who reckon they are anti-racist what it is that they should be doing to help secure that positive outcome.
Nothing says ‘wining’ like kicking your own most enthusiastic supporters.
Who am i kidding, they will lap it up and come back for more.
Define “racism.”
Prosecutto is in a world of self-inflicted pain.
The Libs organisational wing refusing to pick up the tab for his legal folly tells you they don’t agree with him and/or they think he has no chance of winning.
He is cooked prosciutto.
The Paywallian reporting Daggles Macguire has been charged in what must surely be Australia’s most bizarre sex non-scandal.
While not strictly authentic, still the basis for a perfectly acceptable carbonara.
That was just the start of it, Bear. If memory serves, he went on to say the SFLs needed to go big on wind turbines and solar because his teenage daughter had just attended a kiddies climate march and was very worried about the climate.
And yet, having not learned the lesson of Matthew Guy, that half-formed creatures lacking brain and spine can’t win (twice), they go with an even bigger idiot.
Until Deeming and her ilk are in charge, a vote for the SFLs is a vote wasted.
Lucky for her that no Nazis turned up.
Jake was rattled at the end. All shook up.
1000hp ’66 Mustang “S1CKO” vs Sleeper Ford Falcon AU // THIS vs THAT Down Under
Mother Lode in fine form today.
🙂
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
Hey, he might be a nice guy up close and in his private life. But can he really be so blind as to see that he is utterly ineffectual as an opposition leader and that the only scalps he can hang from his belt are from his own people? And when he retreated to his subterranean burrow or wherever serves as a sanctuary for him after dealing with the Deeming affair, did he feel he had won a victory, or that he had contained a defeat?
Does he look back on his achievements and notice it is not a garden but a wasteland. Or does he have a mole-like near-sightedness and sees an unending vista of adroitly managed peripheral matters – calming grumbling members, crafting press releases (that never get printed in full), getting some business to cough up some cash, etc.
Lucky for her that no Nazis turned up.
The Grampian Nazis are very selective about what protests they turn up to!
Man who takes Woman up hill, not on level.
– Benny Hill
LOL.
I expect it it just a coincidence that Victoriastan is the only jurisdiction having problems with slugs and Nazis.
King Nothing. An empire of dirt.
OK.
Let him pick up discarded condoms in the park then, if that is his skill set.
Err, there is a jug-eared buffoon sitting opposite him in the chamber who has provided ample opportunity to “lay down a marker”.
But no.
The bully-gnome won’t go there.
Watch this space.
His next stunt will be going full bi-partisan on da Voice.
At which point Dan will describe him as a “patronising opportunist” and Prosecutto will agree.
I have noticed this with middle-aged men in both politics and business, particularly if they are divorced with teenage kids. They will do the most illogical and embarrassing things to appear cool to their kids.
slugs and Nazis.
Both dress in black
Both hate exposure to sunlight
Both quite revolting
Both leave a train of slime & destruction wherever they go.
Has anyone tried sprinkling salt on nazis to see what would happen?
Damning with faint praise.
The Scouts could do any of that, and better, if required.
Yes, politicians once were supposed to be able to show their affability by kissing the proverbial baby. But we’re no longer in that world of the common courtesies.
Gee, today, drag queens and transgenders are the got-to’s if tiny tots are to have their brows pattered.
Which segues nicely to John Pesutto and his argument with Moira Deeming.
If there’s no actual leadership, then there’s no actual leader.
What Pesutto is engaged in is the bullying of one woman who is fighting for the rights of all women. Which means that Pesutto is fighting against the rights of all women to not be intimidated by men dressed up as women. Fine “leadership” there.
The sum total of matters where the opinions of teenage girls are worth listening to is Nil.
Politics, particularly in Victoriastan, isn’t a Lions club meeting.
The SFL “women’s problem” explained: John Pesutto is fighting for the right of sexual predators dressed as females to invade women’s toilets and change rooms. And he thinks women are too stupid to notice he’s not on their side.
John Pesutto thinks he can win the culture wars by surrendering BEFORE the jug eared corrupt slug mongler even launches an attack.
Years ago, a uni lecturer told me that in one of her post graduate courses, which was designed for the company exec type, these previously hard-faced businessmen because all soft and fuzzy once their own – especially their daughters – entered the workforce.
Previous to that experience, they were utterly disinterested in the plight, if there was one, of the young things below them.
But when it was the turn of their own kids to enter the workforce, their kids’ bosses were deemed far to hard on them.
**because**
became
Fawn.
Dutton in the Courier Mail, Matthew Killaron reports:
It’s great to see Tom got my joke, but I was worried I was making the analogy so close and so obvious that it wouldn’t be subtle enough to be funny.