Al Smith dinner speeches: Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Al Smith dinner (youtube.com) Pretty funny stuff!!!
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That is outrageous.
Order of Australia hasn’t meant anything since 1992, when Quentin Dempster was awarded one for services rendered to leftwing broadcasting…
It’s said that crime doesn’t pay but $250 000 a year it ain’t to be sneezed at .. 28 months…
“Oh, yes, here it is. Wasn’t carried forward from the previous chart.”Yes, right there is the (one of) reason doctors…
Daryl Maguire came across as a serious guy in his ICAC testimony.
He said he was $1.5mil in debt and he was looking to wipe that debt in a property deal and marry Gladys.
I’d say he dodged a bullet there.
Don’t get me wrong, I am happy that Gladys resigned, she didn’t meet the standard I expect of public officials. The problem I have is that Andrews has been through several obviously corrupt investigation and hasn’t even had to give evidence in public let alone have his private communications revealed.
If the double standard is allowed to stand for basically a lefty pretending to be a conservative, there is no chance a real conservative will be treated fairly.
Showing the type of leader and person she really is.
At the time of their introduction into the parliament, I wrote to her and received a reply. It seems she “could do nothing about it – it was not in any way under her control”. I responded that she could have the legislation pulled before it was introduced into the Legislative Assembly.
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She supported the legislation:
“It’s important for [abortion] to be a decision for the woman and for the state not to cast judgment on the morality of that decision.”
Cervical cancer trust wants vaginas to be called ‘bonus holes’
Apparently, the UK-based Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust suggested back in 2020 that vaginas be referred to as “bonus holes” so as not to offend transgender people, but the term has gone viral on Twitter Thursday after someone posted a screenshot.
Yahoo News did a piece back in 2018 about the “outrage” over a safe-sex guide referring to vaginas as “front holes.” They say they’re not trying to erase women, but they’re going through government documents and changing the word “women” to “birthing person.”
I may not agree with everything GB did as a politician but despite the harsh judgements of some here I felt that she genuinely cared about people’s suffering and that she felt her hand was forced at times during the pandemic. She has a humanity about her which is entirely lacking in the chook in Queensland.
And she didn’t throw her guy under the bus either. Lucky for him she’s not like Amanda Stoker.
Gladys was unwise in her personal life but seems like she did not benefit from any “corruption”. When will Penny Wong and Katie Gallagher (plus Elbow) be investigated by the cool, shiny new NACC for their part in the conspiracy to pay 2.5M out to Higgins for the hit job on Lib government?
GWGB.
National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers (29 Jun)
I subscribed one year I dunno maybe two decades ago because of a special deal. Thought I’d see what it was like. Nope, unreadable, even then. But I do have a nice world map of theirs stuck on my wall next to my desk here. It’s actually useful. And one called World Of Rivers is blue-tacked just above it for no other reason than eye candy. Gorgeous! I wish these magazines hadn’t all gone down the rabbit hole, I had many years of excellent reading from SciAm, The Economist, New Scientist and even Time. Now all are parrot cage liner.
See here (for code) and here (for error checking/previews).
“The whole show is delightfully non-woke…”
Thanks for the tip.
Not a great watcher of TV but I like to “veg out” occasionally, esp. when the weather outside is freezing! Haven’t enjoyed a British series for yonks because of the woke nonsense and pc casting interfering with my ability to suspend disbelief.
People here are quoting Bounding Into Comics.
Very cool.
Almost based.
1977 – Biden says integrating black students would turn schools into “A jungle… A racial jungle.”
“I don’t want my children to grow up in a racial jungle”
Joe was right, the Schools system turned onto a lawless jungle due to forced Integration.
“Crossie says:
June 30, 2023 at 8:50 am
Rosie says:
June 30, 2023 at 7:49 am
Things for all Australians to look forward to.
As long as we have the Voice, right Woolies and Coles? Who arbitrarily stopped selling 15c plastic bags because they are Captain Planets.
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Now Woolies sell you the paper bags for 25c which are not reusable. So much for their greenery.”
Most of the re-useable bags we take to Wu Li’s have other brands on them. Since we can’t get more of theirs, we will advertise other stores.
“Other than evil scientists seeking world domination or wanting to provide compelling evidence that breakfast before midday is bad for you, why, why would they do that?”
#Passrosiethecoolade
As the largest state, NSW could have stood up for residents and all Australians by saying we will not countenance a two-tier society. But Gladys did not. Instead, she threatened the unvaccinated with not having any rights and freedoms and encouraged private business to keep us the pressure of ostracism. Thus creating and encouraging others in a two-tiered society.
In a few months time we will be voting on whether to give special rights to people with (some) aboriginal descent. Thus creating a two tiered society. This time, however, we’re being told that it won’t affect our rights. The only difference this time is that they need our votes to get it over the line.
Below is a link to one of her many press conferences telling residents of NSW that without the jabs they’d have no rights.
https://youtu.be/NqxQYCuX9Yw
I take the points made by Cats here about how Gladys was deficient in ways that matter for a leader, both in Covid policy and also in probity re her lover.
But saying that the sleeze to whom she gave her heart ‘dodged a bullet’ is crazy when it is the other way round. Without him, and like it or not, Gladys may have gone to greater political heights Federally, as Steve Price opined last night in total opposition to Bolt’s slamming of her. The jury is all over the place on this one.
Most women have a level of sympathy for Gladys, as shown by surveys re her popularity. Here’s why: she was a dedicated career woman, conventionally rather absent when the pretty genes were being handed out, and yet pics of her with the sleeze show a young girl radiant in her first love, slightly simpering on the railway station and unbelievably happy. Women who have ever felt the same, with a true love, or who have even made similar mistakes themselves with a sleeze, can identify and sympathise.
The trans activist charged with two counts of assault in connection with the Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s rally in NZ has threatened Avi Yemeni with “matzoh ball soup”when he tours NZ in August.
Avi’s auto-biography is available on Amazon, btw.
– H/T Ace of Spades
Merrick Garland’s DoJ wasn’t interested in putting THE key witness against Joe in front of a Grand Jury? Colour me shocked.
Gladys also offered that ray of hope to a lot of women who hadn’t yet found Mr. Right as well as showing love can happen at any time. It was romantic, and women are romantic creatures. Like it or not. Men can be too, btw.
Don’t forget that it was young women who fell in love with Hitler, and Mao.
And young men who idolised the imagery of power and martial prowess.
We are an imperfect species overall when it comes to politics. Ever ’twas thus.
Let’s be starkly honest here. Gladys killed babies in order to gain a political advantage.
No other discussion about this ogre is relevant.
I hope that she is suffering.
“I’d say he dodged a bullet there.”
LOL. There is a machine gun full of bullets coming his way. ICAC to DPP. Here is the evidence…………………….Over to you lot.
Well Lizzie
Even if Prince Daryl didn’t cut it, perhaps King Arthur (Moses) will
as well as showing love can happen at any time
Only once. After that you don’t make the same mistake again.
Apparently the ETU has fired a (hopefully lead) shot over Dan’s bows about duck hunting.
In another reminder that the Left always eats itself, the United Auto Workers are unimpressed by the Biden administration’s love and largesse to electric vehicles and their makers:
”The United Auto Workers (UAW), the largest auto industry union representing more than 400,000 working and middle class members, is withholding support for President Joe Biden over his administration’s “actively funding the race to the bottom” with a massive effort toward Electric Vehicles (EVs).
In an internal memo, UAW President Shawn Fain has said the union will not be endorsing Biden until major commitments are made to protect jobs and high wages for American auto workers — both of which have been threatened by the White House’s EV push.
“We want to see national leadership have our back on this before we make any commitments,” Fain wrote in the memo.
For years, Breitbart News has detailed how a publicly-funded transition from combustion engines to EVs has the potential to eliminate millions of American auto jobs and leave auto workers with drastically cut wages.
Likewise, Biden’s efforts to “decarbonize the economy,” with green energy mandates to drive up EV sales to ten times their current level by the next decade, could see China supplant Detroit, Michigan, as the auto industry’s center.”
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They do keep boasting about how there are fewer moving parts in EVs, how much simpler and cheaper they are to assemble, and so on.
What did they think the UAW was going to do? A seemingly permanent pillar of the Democrats is crumbling.
Greenie policies are increasingly separating unions from their traditional party affiliations. In Australia, the CFMEU is about to split, because the mining and related workers quite rightly believe that they are being sabotaged by the environmentalist leanings of those in affiliated unions who have nothing to lose.
In the US, truckdrivers are furious with the Biden administration, and loathe the ineffectual poove Pete Buttgeig. Every single act in their sector has made things worse for them.
The bond between unions and the Old Left is corroding fast.
“Greenie policies are increasingly separating unions from their traditional party affiliations. In Australia, the CFMEU is about to split…”
The case can be made that it was CFMMEU members in regional QLD that denied Bill Shorten the Lodge in 2019. The anger over the threats to mining was palpable and frquently aired on ABC radio. Bob Brown’s farcical tour was merely annoying by contrast.
Pretty good article from CFACT:
The EV Kool-Aid acid Test (28 Jun)
They may (arguably*) be simpler but they certainly aren’t cheaper, nor will they be so for decades due to lithium and other necessary metals. The story doesn’t add much that we don’t already know other than that some parking garages have banned then because of the fire risk. Otherwise a worthy article which I’ve added to my bookmarked EV link collection.
(* The battery is insanely complex and requires an extreme precision of manufacturing to avoid failure down the line. Even they they last only eight or ten years, whereas my humble Mazda 3 is going strong at 15. I had to replace the thermostat on it once, for a couple hundred bucks, that’s all.)
I see Brett Sutton is Victorian Of The Year. FMD
“Insofar as the abortion laws, what the state found was that Gladys had no understanding of any part of any of that. Which is why the same lack in her during covid.”
I sent several emails to Gladys and Brad “Hazzard Waiting To Happen” regarding the “Virus Crisis”. Not one was ever responded to.
Pathetic behaviour from elected people who are supposed to represent us.
Lizzie
***The complimentary nature of men and women working together as men and women (not as some agglomerate mass) has changed so much since I was a girl. Oh, and those WREN uniforms are to die for, especially the near-tricorn hats.***
If you have ever watched The Cruel Sea (Jack Hawkins as the corvette, later frigate commander), you will recall a convoy to Gibraltar where a ship carrying a group of WRENs to a posting was sunk, later recalled at the end of the war as one of the convoys that remained on the mind of the cast.
I see Brett Sutton is Victorian Of The Year. FMD
Translation: kiss the corrupt regime’s shiny arse or it will have you destroyed.
Article here:
Outgoing chief health officer Brett Sutton has been named as Victorian of the Year.
Professor Sutton, who this month resigned from the top job as chief health officer, was awarded the gong as part of the Victoria Day Council Awards ceremony at Melbourne Town Hall on Friday.
When presenting the award to Prof Sutton, former Labor premier John Brumby said the chief health officer had been a “trusted public face” during the pandemic.
Mr Brumby said Prof Sutton had shown great leadership during Covid, and Victoria’s handling of it had been “one of the best in the world”.
Prof Sutton said the award was an absolute privilege, but it was an award for all Victorians for meeting the “profound challenge” of the pandemic.
“It was an achievement of the people of Victoria,” he said.
He added “we did it together” and for that we are “richer and stronger”.
Pruf Sutton was appointed to the government role in 2019 and led the state through the Covid pandemic, issuing health advice to Victorians throughout several brutal lockdowns.
A press release sent to media prior to the announcement did not include any comments from Prof Sutton, which said there would be no one-on-one interviews with the winner.
“Unlike other years sadly there will no press conference prior to the awards and no one-on-ones with the winner due to time restraints,” the Victoria Day Council statement said.
Prof Sutton became the face of Victoria’s Covid recovery, working with Premier Daniel Andrews to lead the state through the tumultuous period.
He worked with the Premier to instil one of the world’s longest lockdowns, imposing some of the harshest Covid restrictions at the time.
Those restrictions, which included banning Melburnians from leaving their homes between the hours of 8pm and 5am, have been widely condemned and criticised in the post-pandemic years.
He was also responsible for overseeing strict travel restrictions, which saw Melburnians limited to travelling no more than five kilometres from their homes.
He also urged the Premier to order Victorians to limit outdoor exercise to one hour per day.
Prof Sutton, who recently acknowledged he held regrets over the handling of the Covid pandemic, will soon join the CSIRO as director of health and biosecurity.
Previous winners of the award include Kevin Sheedy and before that Neale Daniher, Susan Alberti, Mike Brady, Dr Alan Finkel, Judith Durham and Ron Barrassi.
Trustees of the Victoria Day Council choose the winner each year.
The trustees comprise some previous winners of the award.
The Council is separate from the Australia Day Council, which awards a Victorian Australian of the Year, which was received by paediatrician and co-founder of Health Awareness Society of Australia Dr Angraj Khillan in 2023.
Chairman of the Victoria Day Council, Mr Tony Cree, thanked Prof Sutton for his “contribution to the community”.
“The Victoria Day Council recognises people in the community that have gone above and beyond their contribution to the community within Victoria,” he said.
“On behalf of the Victoria Day Council, I thank them and congratulate them on their truly outstanding achievements and the great work they have done, I am thrilled they have been recognised in this way.”
Other award winners included Madeleine Butcher, who was named as Young Victorian of the Year.
The Victoria Day Award for the Arts went to the Castlemaine Art Museum, and the Victorian Women’s Trust was also recognised for their service.
Visy Industries was awarded as a Good Corporate Citizen.
The case can be made that it was CFMMEU members in regional QLD that denied Bill Shorten the Lodge in 2019. The anger over the threats to mining was palpable and frquently aired on ABC radio. Bob Brown’s farcical tour was merely annoying by contrast.
Not really.
There are 2 CQ Coal seats that Labor didn’t win in 2019.
Even if it had won both, that was still only 70 seats against the Coalitions 75.
johanna
***Greenie policies are increasingly separating unions from their traditional party affiliations. In Australia, the CFMEU is about to split, because the mining and related workers quite rightly believe that they are being sabotaged by the environmentalist leanings of those in affiliated unions who have nothing to lose.
In the US, truckdrivers are furious with the Biden administration, and loathe the ineffectual poove Pete Buttgeig. Every single act in their sector has made things worse for them.
The bond between unions and the Old Left is corroding fast.***
Thep political contest these days is less between Left and Right, more between groups that can be described as “Anywheres/Somewheres”, “Cosmopolitans/Parochials”, or “Insiders/Outsiders”, and the first of each pair cares not at all for the middle and working classes. There is a great political re-alignment underway, and we can but hope that it leads to improvements in our political class.
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Johnny, it’s like this:
Politicians have an In tray, an Out tray, and a Clown tray …
…former Labor premier John Brumby said the chief health officer had been a “human remora on Dans nether regions” during the pandemic…
So not even world beating tubomongdom, the mongiest monging in the entire world, is enough to make one of these excremental tapeworms question their own actions?
Heads on pikes it is then.
…former Labor premier John Brumby said the chief health officer had been a “human remora on Dans nether regions” during the pandemic…
So not even world beating tubomongdom, the mongiest monging in the entire world, is enough to make one of these excremental tapeworms question their own actions?
Heads on pikes it is then.
In the early days of Covid Sutton and Andrews refused for several weeks to transfer infected oldies to hospital, and left them in nursing homes like Typhoid Marys. As I recall about 800 elderly nursing home residents died. I wonder if this is what his award is for?
Can I post on my own site without getting a nonce verification fail?
It appears I can now.
Lizzie:
Gladys also offered that ray of hope to a lot of women who hadn’t yet found Mr. Right as well as showing love can happen at any time. It was romantic
She allowed her position as premier to be used by a shonk because of her love, which she moved on from, once the sordid details of Dazza’s business activities came out. Incidentally, she didn’t stand by her man. So he ended up being not her true love.
Don’t forget that it was young women who fell in love with Hitler, and Mao
I don’t know how to answer that.
Gladys was the premier of NSW. Not some dizzy young thing. In fact it’s too close to how the Slapper was portrayed when her relationship with Wilson and that “union welfare fund” was revealed. Then, it was Julia was just “a young solicitor”. “It could happen to anyone”, they said. Even though she was a partner at S&G.
The fact is these women rose to the highest offices in the land.
When she became PM, she elevated Peter Slipper to Speaker. Nothing they won’t do.
We are an imperfect species overall when it comes to politics
We should be expect better, since these are the people who seek to control our lives.
On that, Dot, I watched Ruddick’s fine speech. Thanks for linking.
Sorry, can do the italic thingy
Lizzie:
Gladys also offered that ray of hope to a lot of women who hadn’t yet found Mr. Right as well as showing love can happen at any time. It was romantic
Me:
She allowed her position as premier to be used by a shonk because of her love, which she moved on from, once the sordid details of Dazza’s business activities came out. Incidentally, she didn’t stand by her man. So he ended up being not her true love.
Lizzie:
Don’t forget that it was young women who fell in love with Hitler, and Mao
Me: I don’t know how to answer that.
Gladys was the premier of NSW. Not some dizzy young thing. In fact it’s too close to how the Slapper was portrayed when her relationship with Wilson and that “union welfare fund” was revealed. Then, it was Julia was just “a young solicitor”. “It could happen to anyone”, they said. Even though she was a partner at S&G.
The fact is these women rose to the highest offices in the land.
When Gillard became PM, she elevated Peter Slipper to Speaker. Nothing they won’t do.
Lizzie: We are an imperfect species overall when it comes to politics
Me: We should be expect better, since these are the people who seek to control our lives.
Dot, I watched Ruddick’s fine speech. Thanks for linking.
“King Charles and London Mayor Sadiq Khan have launched a National Climate Clock, which warns there is just six years left for the world to limit global warning.”
Wow.
From 9th July, 2009: Just 96 months to save world, says Prince Charles
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/just-96-months-to-save-world-says-prince-charles-1738049.html
Hmm. 96 months is 8 years.
That means by… well, let’s be generous and say 2018.
It seems we are 5 years to late to do anything now.
Sorry chaps, you’re already dead.
Tootle-pip, one has to go fox hunting…
Good news! I just tried zeroing an uptick and t worked!
I had no idea that Uboats entered the naval waters we passed by in Florida and sank US ships in view of the US coastline; the entry of the US to the war saw the Wolf Packs have a feeding frenzy till the captains were trained in the new tactics.
IIRC The USN & Coast Guard wanted to institute coastal blackouts as ships were ‘nicely’ silhouetted against the shore. Even with ships being sunk by gunfire & exploding on the the horizon the reuqest was refused
I dont want to live… on this planet anymore…
SMOD/Cthulhu please take me now.
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When she became PM, she elevated Peter Slipper to Speaker. Nothing they won’t do.
Slippery was a pretty good Speaker.
Yeah, he shouldna ratted on the LNP or the National Party years earlier … that was what eventually brought him undone.
“I dont want to live… on this planet anymore…”
looks like butt baby, like #sobrave transwoman was ‘assigned male at birth’
Yes, they’re hypocrites. But what do you think happens to aged care residents who get covid now? They are not whisked off to some quarantine facility.
The constant lockdowns and being locked in her room and being unable to see family was very tough for my aged relative in aged care. Their obsessive attempts to keep covid out of these facilities and enforcing restrictions on anyone attempting to visit just leads to a lower quality of life for aged people in their last years. The sad fact is the most humane policy is to let covid and the flu go through these facilities, that is nature taking its course.
I like the new comment numbering system. Each post is numbered by the number of comments since the preceding page jump — i.e., thefrollickingmole’s 12.59pm post is number 138 — that is, the 138th comment since the previous page jump at #1500 (page jumps happen every 250 comments)
Well those on the dating sites out played Sutton. Intimate Others could be visited during curfew and also be more than the 5 ks anyway . ONS with someone from a dating site was common practice I am told I am having trouble as I entered my email etc previously and ticked box so what is happening
It’s impossible to underestimate what a slap in the face the award to Perfesser Sutton is to those of us who have seen the damage he has inflicted on the people of Victoria. The fact that he has secured a sinecure with the impossibly woke and increasingly irrelevant CSIRO is at least a fitting post for his dubious talents and one where we can hope that any damage he does is restricted to that organisation. The only other faint consolation is that the Victorian of the Year is an obscure and meaningless gong perfectly suited to a dropkick like him.
Malcolm Roberts:
The left are trying to cause fake outrage with an edited video of me quoting the bible in a speech, falsely claiming I’ve called for the execution of trans people. It’s absurd, given I’ve already talked about trans people I call my friends.
As labor tries to implement its new “ministry of truth” against misinformation, you can bet the wave of victimhood claims will drown out any of the real truth.
Voltaire said “Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”
The Outrage Brigade Strikes Again
thefrollickingmole says:
June 30, 2023 at 12:59 pm
I dont want to live… on this planet anymore…
SMOD/Cthulhu please take me now.
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-69568f6ca9d93640756cafcb131be0aa
I really didn’t need to see that…. but FMD, ‘life sized’ 1ft length and circumference.
shatterzzz says:
June 30, 2023 at 8:51 am
My final say on Gladys and my lack of sympathy ….
yup. No sympathy for any of the state or federal libs during that period, or since.
All spineless toads who refused to acknowledge the restrictions of civil liberties. They can all FOAD from now on as far as me and my vote are concerned.
Have we entered the “unlucky” stage of Heinlein’s saying??
…“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
“This is known as ‘bad luck.’”….
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-30/power-prices-to-rise-100pc-for-some/102512070
“What we’re about to see is probably an average 25 per cent power price hike right across the eastern and southern states of Australia,” Mr Gibson said.
“And, in fact, in some cases people are getting much, much higher increases — 50, 80, even 100 per cent in some cases.
….
Ms McNamara is an entitled trougher flinging the price increases back in peoples faces..
..Sarah McNamara, the chief executive of industry lobby group the Australian Energy Council..
…Despite this, Ms McNamara urged consumers to shop around for the best offer, explaining that the exit of some retailers “doesn’t mean there aren’t any good deals out there at the moment”.
“And what we think is really important in an environment of rising prices is households and small businesses are making sure they’re on the best deal for their circumstances,” she said.
“And the easiest way to do that is to ring your retailer and just ask.”…
…
Mr Gibson to the gibbet
…”And some people, frankly, if they don’t switch plans and providers are going to pay $1,000 more than they have to next year for their energy bills.”…
Peak autism
http://weberkettleclub.com/weber-grill-restoration-interior-and-exterior-kettle-cleaning/
“Excellent return on investment” maybe in Pakistan on 4 USD a day.
mole
Please go away.
I’ll never be able to clean a toilet with a clear conscience now.
The WHO “One Health” approach is coming for the world’s food systems, to meld food with health insurance and medical fields.
Outcomes
– food tokens
– medically tailored meals (and)
– prescription food programs that both dictate what you eat and have the power to impose penalties if you stray too far off course.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/ready-to-eat-bugs-the-whos-evil-new-food-control-trap/
….I’ll never be able to clean a toilet with a clear conscience now….
Mole:
You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the butt babies.
Dot:
Yes.
Mole:
And you think if you save poor ed-Mong, you could make them stop, don’t you? You think if Ed Mong learns something, you won’t wake up in the dark ever again to that awful screaming of the butt babies.
Dot:
I don’t know. I don’t know.
Mole:
Thank you, Dot. Thank you.
Dot:
Tell me hes teachable, Doctor.
…
Mole:
Brave dot. You will let me know when those butt babies stop screaming, won’t you?
Pising in your face is an assertion of unconstrained power by the left. They love it as do all ignorant thugs. Short of executing people, it is their ultimate orgasmic thrill.
Young in QLD, Sutton in Vic, re-employment of the whole Gillard reptile collection and enrichment of the power crazed public service.
It is all about the electorate being forced to recognise their powerlessness, and accept being humiliated by people who they detest.
They are “c’mon I dares ya” tactics knowing that they can destroy anyone who dares to seek fair play.
Andrews in his slippers in front of the fire getting off over his brilliant Sutton moves.
As the Nuremberg prosecutors constantly commented “they are so furcan ordinary, how did they do it”?
“I see there is some schadenfreude on the matter of Gladys being pinged by ICAC for corruption, and I suppose it has a place. But it is not justice.”
I think we’ve reached the point where, because politicians are rarely, if ever, held to account for their decisions (quite the opposite; they usually do quite well after leaving office), the general public feels entitled to take whatever measure of justice is on offer, Cats not excluded.
As I wrote in response to this yesterday, if electors perceive that our politicians can’t be held to account, our system is becoming impervious to reform and public cynicism sooner or later reaches the point where the social contract is moot.
And all this is happening at a time when the average citizen’s liberties – such as they are in Australia absent a proper Bill of Rights – are under attack from the political caste.
Our democracy is headed into uncharted waters.
“Our democracy is headed into uncharted waters.”
Not headed into Roger, already there.
We’re, err, rogered, you might say (sorry, couldn’t resist 🙂 )
I hope Brett Sutton gets Australian of the year.
He’s definitely of the right calibre.
No doubt being upper middle male and white will count against him.
Mme Zulu went through surgery yesterday – this morning, she was sitting up in bed, demanding a proper set of pajamas, and “not this disgusting hospital gown,” and claiming private health cover entitled her to the services of a good hairdresser..
Congrats Mme Zulu!
They make princesses of good steel over there.
“King Charles and London Mayor Sadiq Khan have launched a National Climate Clock, which warns there is just six years left for the world to limit global warning.”
Well, Charlie Boy and Dopey Khan, this planet has always and will always be subject to Climate Change. And this planet has been around for around 4.5 billion years and it is still here. How hot/warm was it during the Age of the Dinosaurs? How cold/freezing was it during the Ice Ages. How is the Climate now?
And what scientific evidence do you two Muppets have to make such a ‘warning’? SFA that’s what. Just go away and play in your Palaces and City Halls. FFS.
This clip was pretty funny. ( :
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Stew Peters:
Supposed medical expert Dr. Peter Hotez is a repulsive turd-shaped pear.
Fitness entrepreneur AJ Cortes is here to talk about how our leaders are all fat and out of shape.
These healthcare oligarchs claim to be experts but are not.
They live in a world of academia and revel in their societal status.
People like Peter Hotez and Bill Gates propagate complete lies.
Becoming healthy is a process that forces a confrontation with reality and truth.
You are either strong, weak, fat, or skinny.
America is an increasingly lazy nation and obesity is at epidemic levels.
Many of the leaders in our country are fat and lazy old men.
Being ashamed of being fat, obese, and unhealthy is a good thing and can be used to motivate people to take better care of themselves.
We have normalized apathy, sin, and laziness.
We also live in a society where the sicker you are the more money gets paid to Big Pharma.
Make Fat Shaming GREAT AGAIN? Why Are So Many Government Health “Experts” OBESE?
Do pubs, more specifically ‘hotels’, have memberships?
I have just been offered one.
(Membership. Not pub.)
I’m going to hold off messing with theme until the weekend. Everything seems to load and operate well atm.
The Royal Air Force faces a $2m payout to a senior officer who resigned after being ordered to discriminate against white male aviators.
Not really much of a one to tempt fate like that myself, but to each their own.
Daryl Maguire – Alpha Male.
Just the same Gladys woulda fleeced him, her eyes are too close together.
“Do pubs, more specifically ‘hotels’, have memberships?
I have just been offered one.
(Membership. Not pub.)”
Thess dayz if, for any reason, you give ’em your name & address they put you on their mailing lists and you get endless offers …
youngest tellz me she getz dozens of emails/letters cos she does a lot of overnights in hotels …….
I doubt there will be any sympathy for Gladys in the ’13 LGAs of concern’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj3S-3bWvmY&t=211s
Do pubs, more specifically ‘hotels’, have memberships?
I have just been offered one.
Not in Queensland, though a few pubs have surrendered their Licence and continued to operate as private Clubs.
Commence video at 3:33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj3S-3bWvmY
What!!!? Videoes??? How does one use this Jedi trick??? 😛
With Gladys all over twitter this morning, it got me thinking about what I see as a huge flaw in our legal system i.e. the ability to ruin someone’s life without a criminal conviction. With the exception of BRS, I make no judgement of to the examples below’s guilt or innocence. My point is, if they have committed a crime, get them before 12 of their peers and find them guilty before ruining their life.
First Gladys. She has been found to be a corrupt liar but has committed no crime. What? If she has committed no crime, then she should is innocent. If corruption isn’t a crime, then what is it? ICAC no doubt costs tens of millions, if not more, annually and they produce this garbage! It seems to me to be no more than a kangaroo court, full of pompous, vindictive legal types. End it now.
BRS. Yes, he brought it upon himself be suing Nine, but the outcome seems entirely unsatisfactory. A judge has found him to be (probably) guilty of murder as per the standard of that court. Yet, if he ever is charged over the same alleged offenses (and he hasn’t been after over 6 years of investigation), he has to be presumed innocent. Leaving aside how he could get a fair trial in such circumstances, what if he is found not guilty? Does Nine’s ‘truth’ defence and therefore the judgement stand?
Barry Cable. He was sued for the historical (1970s) grooming and rape of a 12 yr old girl. 4 other girls testified in his trial as witnesses, not claimants (or whatever accusers are called). Cable denied all wrongdoing. The judge found him guilty and fined him just under $1meg. Since then, the AFL has stripped him of his honours e.g. Legend status. I also recently read of a Scottish soccer player who had been found guilty in a civil court of rape, so had to leave Britain to pursue his career. He was signed to a Perth soccer club but was sacked due to complaints.
There is a reason for the standard of ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’, but it seems there is an easier and more profitable option for potentially vindictive complainants to ruin someone’s life.
Test
test italics
“I’m going to hold off messing with theme until the weekend. Everything seems to load and operate well atm.”
Except for the absent buttons. We are being denied Tom’s toons.
Lysander says:
June 30, 2023 at 3:05 pm
What!!!? Videoes??? How does one use this Jedi trick??? ?
—
It’s Magic.
Ghostbusters-I Believe It’s Magic!
This really ought to be broadcast far and wide.
Being asked to discriminate on any basis other than competence should considered a form of abuse.
But, hey! Let’s put it to the Australian people. We pay hefty taxes for, amongst other things, defence. We buy equipment worth anmounts orders of magnitude more than most of us will ever earn. The purpose of this is to protect us from those who would destroy our nation and place our people in the service of another people.
So, should we be putting the people best able to save us from that in the position to do so? Or should we use a team more likely to fail ability but more ‘diverse’.
How many people are happy with that trade off?
Funnier still, if and when this racially diverse QWERTY++% team fails, do the believe that these racially diverse QWERTY+@£ special privileges will be preserved?
One of Australia’s top defence counsel, Robert Richter Q.C., says the Ben Roberts Smith case may never go to trial – it will have to be heard before a jury, it can’t be a “judge only” trial, and jury selection will be an interesting exercise. On one side the unit blazers and R.S.L. badges, on the other, the “Greens” sweatshirts…
Popular Artificial Sweetener to Be Declared Possible Cancer Risk by Chinese-Backed World “Health” Organization – Will Impact Thousands of Products Including Diet Coke and Chewing Gum
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/popular-artificial-sweetener-be-declared-possible-cancer-risk/
In this case, I actually agree with them. From all I’ve heard, aspartame is dangerous, particularly if it’s left in heat, which can easily happen when delivering drinks. But then I don’t products with any artificial sweeteners. Good old-fashioned sugar will do for me.
This really is Australia’s best political satire since the Gillies Report in the 1980s: Elbow’s EOFY sale: https://twitter.com/PaulineHansonOz/status/1674509506355802112.
don’t buy
The top five leading causes of death in Australia and these are the latest figures. The figures for 2022 must be coming out soon as we are now half way through 2023 –
The top five causes of death accounted for 59,550 of all registered deaths in 2021, that’s 34.7% of the total or about one in three. All are related to our health.
Ischaemic heart diseases
Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease
Cerebrovascular diseases (e.g. stroke)
Lung cancer
Chronic lower respiratory diseases
The ABS said there were 1,122 deaths due to COVID-19 – most associated with the Delta wave – making it the 34th leading cause of death in 2021.
So, what was all the fuss and cost to Society about you ‘Pollies’ and so called Health ‘egg spurts’?
A Royal Commission please Tennis Elbow if you don’t mind. Shouldn’t cost too much.
Ah, yes.
The “sleeping dogs” theory of IT management.
A lot to be said for it.
Thank God. If that’s what their business is based on, I hope they go broke.
‘Retail apocalypse’ forces Walgreens to axe 150 stores by summer 2024: Chain says sales have been hit by plummeting demand for Covid vaccines and tests
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12247145/Retail-apocalypse-forces-Walgreens-axe-150-stores-summer-2024.html
The Shocking TRUE History of Barack Obama’s Presidency
Exclusive excerpt from bestselling exposé of America’s most subversive leader.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-shocking-true-history-of-barack-obamas-presidency/
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hosts Former Acting CIA Director Mike Morrell for Discussion to Help Multinational Corporations Engage with Fourth Branch of Government
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/28/u-s-chamber-of-commerce-hosts-former-acting-cia-director-mike-morrell-for-discussion-to-help-multinational-corporations-engage-with-fourth-branch-of-government/
Rioting and looting spreads across France and into Belgium after ‘execution’ killing of teenage driver: Fury at President Macron as he parties with Elton John as his country burns
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12249113/France-rocked-night-riots-Violent-clashes-break-Paris-execution-boy.html
Mitochondrial research rewrites understanding of Parkinson’s disease pathway
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-06-mitochondrial-rewrites-parkinson-disease-pathway.html
Visiting Zelensky Mike Pence Declares “No Room in Republican Party” for Those Who Do Not Support Ukraine War
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/29/visiting-zelensky-mike-pence-declares-no-room-in-republican-party-for-those-who-do-not-support-ukraine-war/
Total neocon. Not to mention RINO.
Indolent says:
June 30, 2023 at 3:26 pm
“don’t buy”
LOL. More like Bye, Bye.
Maine Democrats Kill Amendment to Ban Trafficking of Aborted Baby Remains
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/29/maine-democrats-kill-amendment-to-ban-trafficking-aborted-baby-remains/
Once upon a time they took into account moral considerations. In a galaxy far far away.
“The ABS said there were 1,122 deaths due to COVID-19 – most associated with the Delta wave – making it the 34th leading cause of death in 2021.”
Rightly or wrongly you can put down Australia having a low death rate from Delta to border closures.
Ohio fifth-graders forced to create Native American pagan idols in class, write about their ‘powers’
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ohio-fifth-graders-forced-to-create-native-american-pagan-idols-in-class-write-about-their-powers/
We seem to be entering (or are already in) a new era of paganism.
TV Doctor and ‘Vaccination Expert’ Dr. Alfredo Victoria Dies Suddenly at 42
https://sandrarose.com/2023/06/tv-doctor-and-vaccination-expert-dr-alfredo-victoria-dies-suddenly-at-42/
The biter bit?
Australia is first nation to allow psychedelics for PTSD, depression
https://nypost.com/2023/06/29/australia-to-allow-psychedelics-to-treat-ptsd-depression/
Hardly surprising. Many of them would be mentally disturbed to start with and would then have to cope with the extreme and often unreversible they are subjected to.
Suicide Attempts Nearly 8 Times Higher Among Transgender People, Study Shows
https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/transgender-medicine/105266?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2023-06-29&eun=g1609167d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202023-06-29&utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition
“U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hosts Former Acting CIA Director Mike Morrell for Discussion to Help Multinational Corporations Engage with Fourth Branch of Government.”
And there are only supposed to be the Three Branches. No need for a Fourth Branch as the Neocons are in control of the whole Tree. Jo(ke) Biden is hanging on to one of the twigs.
Groogs, do you think Daggles would be a good match for Mother? Better get a wriggle on little buddy, I expect Daggles will have a few lonely nights coming his way shortly.
Rosie – “Rightly or wrongly you can put down Australia having a low death rate from Delta to border closures.”
How can you state that? How could you know what it would’ve been without border closures? At best you could say that it may have delayed the spread of wuflu, but that’s all, anything else is just supposition.
Aussie Bellona
@AussieBellona
Get caught spreading disinformation or misinformation & ACMA can fine you $500,000.
COMMUNICATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT
(Combatting Mis-information & Dis-information) Bill 2023.
This law will remove your freedom of speech.
Explained here by an Australian human rights lawyer
https://twitter.com/AussieBellona/status/1674634121128312832
Tom says:
June 30, 2023 at 3:24 pm
“This really is Australia’s best political satire since the Gillies Report in the 1980s”
Thanks Tom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBdpKdeg-fE
Armchair Warlord
@ArmchairW
Imagine the reaction if this was a map of Moscow.
Meanwhile, looking at the
@FoxNews
front page – even clicking through to the global section – I can’t find a single story on the deadly, nationwide riots gripping France.
They’re still talking about Wagner!
https://twitter.com/ArmchairW/status/1674595988869378048?s=20
“Rightly or wrongly you can put down Australia having a low death rate from Delta to border closures.”
Thank you Nurse Rosie. BS.
Biden walks off interview set before MSNBC host is finished talking: ‘The Biden presidency in one clip’
https://nypost.com/2023/06/29/biden-walks-off-interview-set-before-msnbc-host-is-finished-talking/
We seem to be entering (or are already in) a new era of paganism.
Exactly what you’d expect of newly-minted animist athiests after ditching Christianity to worship plants and animals while offering children for ritual sacrifice via abortion and trans ideology “re-education”.
We live in an age of verbal extremism it seems to me.
Words are “violence”.
Anything and everything is “racist”
Patting a bottom is tantamount to “sexual assault”
Failing to disclose a private dalliance or dob in your lover on the basis of an odd remark is apparently now not only “corruption” but “serious corruption”.
Come back to me if you find a laptop showing that GB has been on the take from the Chinese for a couple of decades and I might agree with this description.
I fixes it.
(It’s getting to the point where telling the truth is an illegal act. Which is going to be hard for us Christians. I haven’t worked out in my own mind what to do about that yet. Not an easy question.)
Odessa, Kiev and Kharkov seem to be recalcitrant re Ukraine’s language law:
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1674529093499461632
The was something on TV about aboriginal inventions recently. The Tasmanian aborigines are credited with turning the landscape into grassland with the occasional tree. These meadows have since become overgrown and are now referred to as old growth forests. It will be interesting to see who perches higher upon that grand hierarchy of victimology if it ever becomes a live issue; environmentalists or indigenes.
A truly excellent advertisement:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H5XrTxzr2Wg&pp=ygUWZWdhcmQgd2F0Y2ggY29tbWVyY2lhbA%3D%3D
What’s your logical explanation then Dr Rotten?
Oh that’s right, you don’t have one, not without consulting your Oracle, Former Inmate Martin.,
Yay!
My first comment on the new look Cat is in moderation.
Must be doing something right.
Not a drama at all.
Fit and healthy 42 year old blokes have been dropping dead for no reason ever since Moses wore short pants.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
June 30, 2023 at 4:19 pm
Thank you BoN.
Consultation opens on new laws to tackle online misinformation and disinformation
My 21yo daughter wants to see Taylor Swift, so she got me and seven other family members as well as herself to sit on the Ticketek site this morning waiting for the Sydney show to open. Well we all sat there for 2+ hours and never got through once. One of her friends got through twice but the second time she couldn’t buy tickets as she had already bought four.
Is this Ticketek thing a real ballot? Does anyone know how it selects the people who are queued? I don’t go to concerts and so hopefully will never waste my time on it again but something isn’t right about how it works.
With extreme difficulty, looks like.
Four million Australians tried to buy 450,000 Taylor Swift tickets (Sky News, 28 Jun)
Much as I admire Ms Swift for her acumen, talent and careful negotiation of political minefields I would not especially wish to attend one of her concerts. But something like a quarter of our entire nation does. Go figure.
Biden walks off interview set before MSNBC host is finished talking: ‘The Biden presidency in one clip’
Misleading.
The interviewer is an airhead, Joe is senile, the interview lasted 19 minutes, bottom line is Joe isn’t walking away from the Black vote, that’s what got him over the line in 2020.
Taylor Swift? Who is Taylor Swift?
Bruce of Newcastle says:
June 30, 2023 at 4:19 pm
Get caught spreading disinformation or misinformation the inconvenient truth & ACMA can fine you $500,000.
I fixes it.
Faith is not ‘truth’ as others will see it. Hard for Christians, But easy for other religions, get strong and numerous enough and if you disagree we will cut your throat. Simple.
Trees beat people (even brown ones). Always.
WOKE = RACISM = UNCONSTITUTIONALITY
“I previously wrote that WOKE is by no means establishing EQUALITY – it is creating racism which is unconstitutional. This entire agenda is total nonsense. Gays are now being discriminated against as part of this propaganda movement behind Transgenderism. When companies make targeted racial composition goals for their employees, they have to engage in discrimination to achieve those goals. That is discrimination not to hire a white person who is more qualified because, like the White House, which wants a black girl – not even a black man as its spokesperson to appear WOKE.
Biden promised to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court regardless of her qualification. Even if a black man would be better, it did not matter – do not apply. I watched the prosecutions in New York with amazement. They would put a black kid on trial, and he would magically get a black judge and a nearly full black jury where they would select the older blacks who were prejudiced against the young blacks shooting up the neighborhood. The judge would hand out a harsh sentence for these young blacks he would view as ruining his reputation.
There was a Chinese slave ship that ran aground on Long Island. The Chinese defendant magically got the only Chinese Judge Chin. I saw a Jewish guy get the maximum sentence because the judge was Jewish and he even said that he had disgraced his school that the judge also went to.
This nonsense that appointing a black woman would somehow rule in favor of blacks is such propaganda it is amazing. One lawyer accused a prosecutor of selecting a racially charged jury and the prosecutor then said he would make sure that lawyer was stripped of his license to practice in NY city.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that race-conscious admission policies of Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Constitution, bringing an end to affirmative action in higher education in a decision that will reverberate across campuses nationwide and corporate boardrooms. This is a wake-up call that WOKE is flat outright racial and unconstitutional. People who work hard and graduate at the top of their class find this insufficient. They will not be hired if they do not fit a racial quota for the company’s WOKE score. I am getting a lot of emails about this taking place already. This decision today will establish a critical precedent and unleash lawsuits against these WOKE companies who are engaging in racism to file some arbitrary score.
The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines in the University of North Carolina case and 6-2 in the Harvard dispute. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself. Chief Justice John Roberts authored the majority opinion, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. Thomas read a concurring opinion from the bench. Justice Sonia Sotomayor also read her dissent aloud, the first time a dissenting justice has done so this term.
“The Harvard and UNC admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause.” Satomayor’s dissent argued:
The Court concludes that Harvard’s and UNC’s policies are unconstitutional because they serve objectives that are insufficiently measurable, employ racial categories that are imprecise and overbroad, rely on racial stereotypes and disadvantage nonminority groups, and do not have an end point. ”
WOKE = RACISM = UNCONSTITUTIONALITY
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/woke-racism-unconstitutionality/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
June 30, 2023 at 4:54 pm
Google will tell you, she is pleasant enough to look at but alas, if I want to listen to music or singers, she would not make my list. Old (getting) fuddy duddy I admit.
“LGBTQ Celebrities & Allies Call on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter to Stop the Flow of Anti-Trans Hate & Malicious Disinformation About Trans Healthcare”
https://glaad.org/lgbtq-celebrities-allies-letter-facebook-instagram-youtube-tiktok-twitter-anti-trans-hate-disinformation
The closest I could find to a celebrity was Jamie Lee Curtis; and lets be frank, in the Halloween movies sensible people were rooting for Michael.
Looks like I still have to log in each time. First world problems.
Mother Lode made a good comment waaaaay up thread about how they “got” Gladys. There was never going to be any mention of Covid, because she was lock step with progressives. Always going to be the brush with Mr Dodgy who she ditched anyway.
I’m deeply unimpressed with her, however her “crimes” in this regard are the least egregious and the hunting of witches springs to mind. Guilt by association is only for those to the right of Mao of course.
Gabor – I was thinking more of things like climate rubbish, for which there’s abundant evidence that not much is happening. And that a man is not a woman and vice versa. But it is possible I could be fined half a million for saying such things in our new Orwellian age.
So do I tell truth to power or do as they want, which is to stay mum?
We’re already seeing Christians being thrown into jail for saying such things. This map I saw today was interesting:
Ireland Proposes ‘No Prayer Zones’ (27 Jun)
If they don’t believe in God what is prayer going to do? Harmless. So why make it illegal? If they do believe in God then they’re going to hell. Seems a pretty simple equation to me.
I used to be able to see Twitter posts. Now they demand I sign up to Twitter. I have no intention of so doing.
Is this the new theme or has Twitter changed?
Bloke in Perth has just been fined $3,000 for bigamy. The penalty for bigamy goes beyond a financial penalty – you have two mothers in law..
Most folk here know who Taylor Swift is.
How many know who Marylin McCoo is?
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyae_dG0OH8&t=9s
“Ed Case says:
June 30, 2023 at 2:58 pm
Daryl Maguire – Alpha Male.”
LOL – He’s Corrupt you dope.
ulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
June 30, 2023 at 5:16 pm
Must have had a stupid lawyer, plead being a Muslim, simple.
Elon’s head has exploded. Or possibly the head of the woke lady CEO he appointed.
Twitter is dead if they go down the Spacechook model. Yep I tried looking at a specific tweet just now, the link went to twitter.com. Dumb.
Used to be playing squash was a dicey proposition for middle aged executive types.
“I was thinking more of things like climate rubbish, for which there’s abundant evidence that not much is happening. And that a man is not a woman and vice versa. But it is possible I could be fined half a million for saying such things in our new Orwellian age.”
And that means that just about everyone on this Blog and the Blog Owner will be in trouble. Even Head Case and MontyPox Virus with all of their Miss Information and Dis Information…………………………..
Big Brother is watching you (all).
– George Orwell
DrBeauGan,
I accessed twitter two hours ago. No go now.
“scotus got rid of affirmative action !”
Does this ruling mean that it is now officially the law that you can be racist to white people?
A squash racquet was an essential item for the parcel shelf of the Volvo.
Reports are that Elbow is set to see in the largest budget surplus evah. Yeah, I’m serious.
#freegladys
if what she did counts as “corrupt” then the higgins/gallagher/wong mess resulting in 2.5M+ being paid out of taxpayers funds on unproven allegations should be first order for the new NACC.
As usual, they get to mention “the mess left to us by the Coalition.”
Has Twitter become “members only” too?
Decided to commit seppuku?
They can all carry on convincing themselves they are righteous without entriggering dissent or, God forbid, laughter.
Red State has a clip of Dana Carvey and David Spade making fun of Fauci. It is hilarious. I will link to Red State instead of Twatter as I also have not been able to view Twatter clips since the blog has been playing up.
Scroll down, it really is funny.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/06/29/watch-comedy-duo-dana-carvey-and-david-spade-decimate-the-ever-changing-narratives-of-tony-fauci-n768784
“Lysander says:
June 30, 2023 at 5:47 pm
Reports are that Elbow is set to see in the largest budget surplus evah. Yeah, I’m serious.”
The fiscal balance for 1999-2000 was a surplus of $13.5 billion (2.1 per cent of GDP), $3.8 billion higher than the estimate provided in the 2000-01 Budget. (2.0 per cent of GDP), an increase of $4.9 billion on the estimate provided in the 2000-01 Budget.
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/peter-costello-1996/media-releases/1999-2000-final-budget-outcome
Beat that Tennis Elbow and Chalmers if you can without accounting trickery.
“Trees beat people (even brown ones). Always.”
And solar panels beat trees. Just ask the rain forest cut down to make way for a solar “farm”. (Where was that?).
Thanks Boof. McCoo has a voice that can’t be classified. She is simply amazing.
Johnny – he reckons he’s got over $18Bn…
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/australia-news-live-former-nsw-premier-may-mount-legal-challenge-against-corruption-findings-plan-to-end-the-government-pork-barrel-20230629-p5dkj4.html $19Bn, sorry!!!
Someone sent me this
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/just-geraldo-rage-quits-fox-news-after-getting/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2023-06-30
The comments are hilarious.
Chin up Victorians… just think Dandrews is only two elections off beating Bolte’s time as Prem.
Farmer Gez, were you shouting at poor Elbow? Lol.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12249893/Anthony-Albanese-rushed-car-Federal-Police-angry-protests-Horsham-trip.html
The comments alone a worth a read.
JC – I do quite l like the moderate democrat they have on the Five but I can’t recall his name. He’s slightly coloured and is a “junior” of someone? Harold????
(I don’t agree with everything he says but he reminds me of old Democrats, not the modern demonic ones)
“I’m deeply unimpressed with her, however her “crimes” in this regard are the least egregious and the hunting of witches springs to mind. Guilt by association is only for those to the right of Mao of course.”
Quite so calli.
Twitter seems to be going the Facebook route of not allowing people to view without joining.
Wait and watch with twatter.
Bot attacks are huge atm … guessing. “Wink” ( :
Any other Sandgroper Cats remember Gough Whitlam getting pelted with anything that came to hand, by a meeting of angry farmers in Forrest Place, in the early 1970’s? That’s how it’s done!
Zulu,
please pass on my heartfelt best wishes to the memsahib. And take a pat on the back for yourself. You are a good man for sticking by her.
Test
How do I get to thenew page?
“Lysander says:
June 30, 2023 at 6:04 pm
Johnny – he reckons he’s got over $18Bn…”
Tennis Elbow and Chalmers were never good at numbers.
The font used is this edition of newcatallaxy makes it a dream for me to read.
So thanks, even if it is only for a day or so.
Thank you, Pogria.
She did point out at one time , that we had been together for three times the total of our combined marriages…
#freegladys
Lizzie
***There are a few tales like this in the series, Boambee John. I’d heard about the Uboat Wolf Packs but I didn’t quite comprehend the extent of the carnage and the importance of getting some tactical advantage against them. Fix it, said Churchill, or the war is lost.***
If you or Hairy have the time or inclination, read upon Black May, May 1943. In that month, 43 U-Boats were sunk, including one in which the son of Admiral Doenitz, Commander U-Boats, died.
Early in June, Doenitz recalled the U-Boats from the Atlantic, to re-consider tactics.
Lizzie
Sorry,I got the number and year confused. There were 41 sunk in May 1943, not 43, That was a quarter if the operational force.
testing 123
“scotus got rid of affirmative action !”
Not really.
The issue was that totally underqualified Blacks [such as Michelle Obama] were being accepted into the Ivies over qualified Whites.
That didn’t seem to matter until more recently, when hopelessly underqualified Blacks were being accepted in front of highly qualified [because they’d spent their entire lives swotting] children of East Asian Tiger Mothers.
The Ivies won’t change tack, so it’s up to the Ant Colony people to take them on in the Courts.
Gladys was never, ever going to be allowed to leave politics unsmeared. Unthinkable.
Hagiography, post office, is for socialists only. All the rest are fair game.
And watch as all the dribblers and sycophants come out and claim they “knew it” all the time. Gillard, Shorten and all the rest get off scot free and enriched. It’s the Labor way.
Looks like you can self uptick again?
As usual, they get to mention “the mess left to us by the Coalition.”
We know that excuse off by heart. LOL:
https://twitter.com/PaulineHansonOz/status/1674509506355802112
Further to Gladys…I would urge all to read C.L’s take on his blog. It is superb, and he nails it.
More self love coming your way Groogs? BAU in other words.
Boy oh boy this de banking of political opponents by the pommy establishment is very frightening. Of course O’bumma was the first to do thois afaik.
“If you or Hairy have the time or inclination, read upon Black May, May 1943. In that month, 43 U-Boats were sunk, including one in which the son of Admiral Doenitz, Commander U-Boats, died.
Early in June, Doenitz recalled the U-Boats from the Atlantic, to re-consider tactics.”
John, IIRC, 30,000 out of 40,000 U-Boat personnel were killed during WWII.
“First Gladys. She has been found to be a corrupt liar but has committed no crime. What?”
Not exactly; ICAC has recommended no criminal prosecution. But whether she has committed a crime for which there are reasonable grounds of conviction, the prosecution of which would be in the public interest, will be weighed up by the NSW ODPP in due course. To my mind the most questionable thing about the process thus far is the time ICAC took to reach its decision.
Michelle Obama graduated cum laude from Priceton. You could call her many things but underqualified is not one of them.
Give Ricky Slater a text or two. He might be able to help pump up your uptick stats.
Oh.
75% of all U boat crews were lost in World War Two – the highest casualty rate of the German Armed Forces.
Marilyn McCoo was on my turntable a fair bit in the 1970s and 80s, along with the rest of the Fifth Dimension.
It was a shame about Gladys, she woulda beat Minns easy, but she’s admitted nothing, Daryl isn’t going to throw her under the bus to save himself, plus, I reckon she could look after a bloke.
Thouigh she’d end up fleecing him to the last razoo.
When you accept criminal charges as the standard required for corruption, that is when you have people like Craig Thompson voting alongside and maintaining governments.
Beaugy
Twitter is doing same to me as well. Either Musk’s minions are busy sabotaging his company or this is his hairbrained idea. Either way I won’t be signing up and with Brave and duck duck go I haven’t been able to see any twitter posts for the better part of a month now so I think things are being tightened up for us lurkers.
So ICAC has recommended no criminal prosecution of Gladys Berejiklian, but finds her “corrupt” — just like Ben Roberts-Smith is “guilty of war crimes” according to a weak little man on the Federal Court bench in a civil trial where criminal standards do not apply.
It’s not just America where double standards apply.
If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.
The real political power resides in the unelected public service deep state.
I can’t view Twitter either.
It’s a big club, and I’m not in it.
Good. They can bugger off.
Rabz @ 9:45 and 9:53 says it better than I did earlier this morning.
I’m not “cheering on” ICAC by any means, I just don’t care about Glad or any of her fellow muppets.
The misery, despair, angst and fracturing in society they sowed can now be reaped.
I just wish more of the pieces of sh-t cop a hard time in the future.
Not very Christian of me I know.
That left wing piece of toilet paper, Crikey, exonerates the wonderful chap, wong, and blames the now dead Kitching in the mean girls affair:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/06/30/penny-wong-kimberley-kitching-margaret-simons/
Zulu,
the former Mr Pog and I were together ten times longer than both of his previous marriages combined. We weren’t married as I did not want to be introduced as ” she’s his third wife, you know!” at gatherings.
After 33 years the only acknowledgement you receive is, “well, at least they weren’t married, so it doesn’t count” LOL!
Severe illness or disability is a real test of “in sickness and in health”.
I can get on twatter; but then I’m very handsome and welcome every where.
Decent piece in Quadrant Online on Pell and the Victorian legal system by, of all people, Frank Brennan.
Recommend.
Australia doing its bit towards fostering evolution. Portugal is literally choking with gum trees.
It is, isn’t it JC.
They had shocking bush fires there a few years ago, 57 killed I think.
Straya.
Exporting weeds since 1908.
Has the Speccie (UK) changed in 10 – 15 years?
I hope this is parody or satire.
If not, welp…it was really off the pace, promoting cuckoldry and paternity fraud.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-s-the-daddy/
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He wasn’t gallant!
I can’t tell if she’s sharply sarcastic or a Hi-Alan-ist. If she’s for real it is a sad example of how the left traps the traditional conservatives – in their own beliefs.
I hope she has changed her mind by now.
*If men have to marry every woman they have sex with (rather than do so if a child, their child arrives and both parties are unmarried)…I leave the reader to draw their own conclusions.
“It’s not just America where double standards apply.”
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There is no perfect legal system.
Can unscrupulous people take advantage of that? Yes.
What concerns me much more than politicians having corruption findings made against them is the lack of access to justice for the average person of relatively modest means.
Rosie
I can’t believe. It’s like I never left Oz, except it looks like they have more gums than we do. Lol, good luck in a bush fire.
Australia doing its bit towards fostering evolution. Portugal is literally choking with gum trees.
Australia seems to be spreading a global menace via its highly flammable gum trees.
Australia. California. Portugal.
PS: I note that the socialist clown running the UN comes from Portugal.