Julie Inman Goebbels has a setback. The first of many, I expect. Although the government’s legislation will strengthen her hand.
Open Thread – Weekend 8 July 2023
- Open Thread – Mon 13 May 2024
- Australia ain’t what it was
- A Military Realist’s View of the Ukraine War Thread
- Open Thread – Weekend 11 May 2024
- Bumtree #10
‘Those who promise us paradise on earth never produce anything but a hell.’ Karl Popper
Julie Inman Goebbels has a setback. Federal Court refuses eSafety Commissioner’s tweet takedown (Sky News, 13 May) The Federal Court…
A worthy successor to Richo.
Dawson wanted to have it all: Judge Claire Harvey Justice Christina Adamson has asked the public defender representing Chris Dawson…
Firrrrst?
…and goodnight.
Mutt of the week….
Any Cats nearby want to pick her up and put her on a plane for me?
I’ll ship you a carton of Margaret River Chardonnay and/or Tempranillo for your trouble
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another solid 3rd place. I feel an enormous sense of self-satisfaction.
here’s a house for you dot
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
What would Root’s nickname be if he was an Aussie?
Wombat.
The Robodebt royal commission is a good start.
A government acting with no legislative or regulatory authority.
Now keep it going.
First stop should be what was included under the umbrella of the public health orders during the COVID era.
Lee Fang has a substack on Zuckerberg.
Via his foundation, he spends big on defunding the police.
But as Lee points out:
Zuckerberg received $13.4 million in personal security costs in 2020, then $15.1 million in 2021, followed by $14.8 million last year, for a total of $43.4 million in security costs over the last three years.
Sound familiar?
Leftist attacks on economic growth metastise throughout Western countries, slightly tailored for local conditions.
Incidentally, the City Journal edition at the link is well worth a look. It is all about California – how it went from Ronald Reagan’s stronghold to the current Dimmocrat quagmire. The effect of changing demographics, the role of the Defense (sic) industry, and dramatic changes in mobility and communications are fascinating.
I had no idea that California grew so fast relative to the rest of the US. It happened for very good reasons – natural beauty, nice climate and a booming economy – California grew in terms of population and economic heft at multiples of the rest of the US for many years.
Now, for the first time ever, it is declining, and lost a Congressional seat after the last Census.
Well worth a look for those interested in US politics, or just California.
Oh, and Wolfman – I re-watched The Dirty Dozen last night. Must be at least ten years since I last watched it.
Still very enjoyable, hasn’t dated at all. I’m not a big fan of ‘action’ movies, but this one transcends that genre. It’s just a bloody good fillum. 🙂
The Biden administration calling peoples brains “cognitive infrastructure” that could be weaponised is really creepy.
Yeah Johanna, but the incredible thing about this place is the ability to renew itself. California is veering down while Florida and Texas are going just great. There’s a SCOTUS case coming up this month called “Chevron”. If SCOTUS votes the way they have recently, it will completely break the back of the administrative state in the US.
There have been some pretty momentous decisions over the past 12 months coming out of the SCOTUS leaving the American left shocked.
Abortion. Agree or disagree with abortion, the Roe decision was crap law.
Affirmative Action has been found to be unconstitutional.
Striking down Hiden’s university fees forgiveness with the SCOTUS saying this belongs to the Congress.
Ruling Colorado cannot enforce an anti-discrimination law against a Christian website designer who wishes to explicitly deny same-sex couples her services.
Chevron is coming up!
More here:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/supreme-court-to-revisit-chevon-case-and-could-shake-up-dc/
Striking down Hiden’s university fees forgiveness with the SCOTUS saying this belongs to the Congress.
Presidents need reminding they are presidents.
Not emperors.
The case will be further complicated by news that the newest justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, will recuse herself after hearing arguments in a similar case while a DC appeals court judge.
From your link JC.
KBJ will have to do this when the multi national damages jurisdiction case gets to SCOTUS.
What was your first meal back in the US, JC?
Shake shack?
Bern
This court is amazing. It resembles an earthquake with buildings ( the left) being engulfed and falling in massive fault cracks.
The four major pillars of American leftism were
1. Federal sanctioned abortion. Gonesky
2. Affirmative Action. Gonesky
3. Forcing leftwing demands against religious freedom. Gonesky
4. Using the administrative state against the population. About to be gonesky.
No one watching shitty woke movies with Disney losing US$900 million in shitty woke movie bets.
Nightmare flight back. 6 hour freaking delay in Lisbon with (dis) United Airlines. Went to our fave joint and I had lobster with cherry tomatoe sauce and pasta.
Next night Wifey cooked some fresh cod and veggies.
I can’t eat crap for a week or so as I need to get back into a decent diet.
I suppose what is so compelling about the California story (especially for those of us who have been there) is how a place gifted with everything anyone could desire has been run into the ground by ideologues.
Nothing, nowhere, no matter how beautiful and rich, is immune from the toxic fumes emitted by these idiots.
Muslim Immigrants in France View Migration as ‘Recolonization’ in Response to Historical French Colonialism
The left are guaranteed to refer to those muslims as right-wing conspiracy theorists as what they are screaming out doesn’t fit the agenda. As usual.
had lobster with cherry tomatoe sauce and pasta.
Hopefully followed by a cigarillo for dessert.
one of my brothers works in civil construction as a heavy equipment driver.
I asked him yesterday how work was.
sounding a lot like Knowlsey he said
yeah nah. just started some more works … just gotta wait for Koories to stop digging in the mud and sifting through the sand
Pretty sure the Frogs have already been doing this.
But now these riots will open the flood gates.
Trigger warning: it’s zerohedge.
French Cops Can Now Secretly Activate Phone Cameras, Microphones And GPS To Spy On Citizens
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-cops-can-now-secretly-activate-phone-cameras-microphones-and-gps-spy-citizens
I listened to a decent podcast with Michael Malice and a fully functioning high-level lawyer. The lawyer reckons that nixing the affirmative action debacle has some very far reaching consequences. The decision is also very consequential with respect to legacy placements at Ivy League universities and could mean the end of legacy spots. This is when kids with lower scores are given places because their parents went there. Parents can also buy places for kids if they pay a high enough vig. All that and racial quotas are gone, which means really bright kids from poorer families have a shot now.
You go girl!
That was Barnes, JC.
Malice is a good interviewer.
Lets the person speak at length, rarely interrupts.
Bolta could learn a thing or two.
And you would be well served to wager that some “artifact” will be “found” in each and every future development site. If you could find anyone stupid enough to take that bet that is.
Our friends, who we were staying with live in Cascais, in a community with mostly well off Brazilians. Their Brazilian neighbors had an afternoon party and we scored an invite. These fuckers were puffing on the biggest freaking Cubans I’ve ever seen. Even some of the Brazilian sheilas were puffing on these monsters. Real smokers can’t smoke cigars because REAL smokers have to draw the puff into their lungs. You can’t do that with cigars as they’re lung rippers.
Up early, reading some comments on the Oz and here till I’m sleepy again.
I liked one that described Albosleazy as Airbus Albo.
Reminiscent of Kevin707.
Albo’s honeymoon is over.
Going back to bed on that. Things are looking up. US Supreme Court doing well.
On the All-In Pod last week, Chamath said the Ivy League schools should publish a rate card for legacies.
25mill per kid.
He said people will pay.
JC, the universities are already signalling how they will go around the judgement, like ingnoring aand deleting merit based SAT scores and substituting things like essays on how oppressed I am.
Years ago, we heard an old-time acquaintance forked out $10 million for a Harvard spot for their kid. This was about 15 years ago, so $25 mill these days wouldn’t be out of the ballpark. If they raise the vig, it could mean they won’t get caught over the quota issue. It may also mean more money for less spots.
Belfast and the Titanic Experience
We picked up our car and travelled north where we visited Newgrange passage tomb for some photos – it was fully booked, so no viewing. So onto nearby Dowth another burial tomb smaller, but not developed. It was great to walk around it and see the two passage entrances that have been explored by archaeologists. Passage tombs date back to well before the Romans – maybe back to 4000BC – and look to be the burial efforts of the local tribes for their most important leaders. One of the signs we photographed tells some of the story: essentially they seem to be stoneworks which were then covered over by earthworks.
Onto Belfast and visiting the Titanic Museum. It’s a very well curated “immersive” theatrical style walk-through, which adds in a host of facts and stories, blending the engineering in with the human tragedies.
The centrepiece is an amusement park style ride into the gantry construction depths of the Titanic hull, with the noises of the riveting and hammering blended in with the workmen telling you what they are doing. The Experience covers not only the building but the fit-out, the fatal first voyage, but also the discovery of the shipwreck in 1985. By the time you go through it’s around about two hours of the complete story of the most famous ship in the world.
Outside is the Nomadic, the only ship of the White Star line left – she was a tender to take people out to the liners if they were anchored offshore. We finished off at the docks by having a look at the outside of the WWI warship HMS Caroline nearby.
Finally, after arriving at our Airbnb, we plundered the local Tesco in memory of the Vikings, who seem to have been a major influence in Ireland. It’s been a big day!
Another part of the affirmative action ruling is how it will impact sports scholarships.
I was reading how it can be protected by similar but different legislation to the legal monopoly laws that protect Major League Baseball.
Too complicated to summarise for a simple fellow like myself.
The US administration has now approved the giving of ‘Cluster Bombs’ to the Ukraine. If the Ukrainians don’t have air superiority then they won’t make much difference. I don’t know if they can be delivered from the ground.
When I think of this war I’m reminded of the titles of Megadeaths first 2 albums ‘Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good!’ and ‘Peace Sells… but Who’s Buying?’
If they raise the vig, it could mean they won’t get caught over the quota issue.
Chamath said if the rate card was public, it would be 100% legal.
Johanna, yeah I saw that. Look, it may not eliminate it, but it will make the quota stuff much stickier and harder. If it becomes apparent they’re trying to get around the decision, it will go to court again and then the federal court will begin to micromanage the process. Whatever happens, the affirm thing is mostly over I think. I know Harvard has a ton of money, but they spent $27 million on this case in legal fees!
Ironically, it wasn’t whites who took the Ivy’s to court. It was Asians!
There needs to be tax reform in the US to capture these college endowments.
Along the lines of their dispersements.
Totally fine they are tax exempt.
But they have to disperse more.
If they don’t pay out a certain percentage annually, they should lose their tax exempt status.
One last thing on this affirm thing. By inference, the SCOTUS decision suggests that those folks who took this to court felt they were short changed by the Ivys. I wonder if they have a civil case against the universities now?
Got it in one Johanna. When I came here in 79 Australia was a land of opportunity. Successive government interference in the minutiae of life has wrecked the joint. Laws are endlessly enacted to control the odd miscreant but which impacts the general populace more and the miscreant does whatever.
I know Harvard has a ton of money, but they spent $27 million on this case in legal fees!
What’s the Harvard endowment up to?
In Australia, if you run a PAF, you have to pay out 5% per annum to maintain your tax exempt status.
Bern, if there is civil liability here by the Ivys as a result of affirm, the potential civil penalties in class actions could be eye-popping.
$53.2 billion
Jeebers.
Yes, cluster munitions can be artillery delivered from both the 155mm howitzer and HIMARS.
DPICM
Human Rights Watch reports that at least 10 types of cluster munitions have been used in Ukraine so far, mostly Russia ones or Ukrainians using former USSR cold war stockpiled ones. Biden providing more is incredibly irresponsible IMO.
I know a working class Aussie bird who paid her own way through a Stanford MBA.
Not one of those fly in fly out, summer school ones.
A genuine one.
That was about 15 years ago.
She now lives in the US and makes a couple of bricks a year.
Best investment she ever made.
Hopeless with blokes though.
Always letting losers into the circle of trust.
And another one I forgot to mention.
It wasn’t SCOTUS, but a federal court barred any interaction between the state and tech companies over the issue of controlling speech.
Harvard & Yale need to make amends for letting students bring their slaves to college.
lol
Good brief on the Missouri vs. Biden censorship case JC mentioned.
The Censors are Exposed: Major Update to Missouri v. Biden
And the 5 July preliminary injunction ruling.
Victory! Federal Judge Rules Biden Administration Cannot Censor Americans on Social Media
It’s not over, but it’s rolling in the right direction.
BTW, popped in to Canberra Hospital yesterday for the final ckeckup on the broken arm, X ray first which is a long way away from the fracture clinic. People limping along back and forth – honestly, it’s as though hospitgal designers had no experience to work from. You see that again and again – how do they keep getting it wrong?
Anyway, all good, healing up perfectly, young orthopod who clearly didn’t like looking at surgery scars, but as I was reading John Le Carre while waiting and he was a fellow fan, we hit it off. Showed me the original break X ray – yikes! My crappy bones meant it looked like a bundle of hay cut through the middle with a very blunt instrument.
I must say that the Canberra Hospital Outpatients clinic is pretty good, unlike my experience when incarcerated there.
wow.. just a snippet from a link in that article, which was the local authorities reviewing why BMR (below market rent) units were sitting idle..
the minutiae!
This will simply bring down the value of a Harvard degree. People will be free to assume that you have the piece of paper because you can afford it, not because you are smart.
The same goes for minorities who got accepted on affirmative action grounds, people will assume, and mostly correctly, that the smartest people did not get an opportunity that you did.
This is how you destroy a society, not simply by destroying the faith in the validity of system but by keeping out your best people. Soviets and their satellites did that, only the party faithful were educated and promoted and look how that went.
Farmer Gez, Vicki Campion has an article that will touch on your plight, along with a lot of others:
The value of a Harvard degree as an indicator of academic achievement did a dive years ago when affirmative action became de rigueur in both woke academia and industry. When having tokens of the correct gender or race became more important than recruiting competence.
The true value of the Ivy League degree is the opportunity to become part of the club. To network and integrate with the rest of the thieving families who created and thrive on the deep state.
Crossie
True, but somewhat. I think your assertion applies to affirm action more so than it does to legacy. You would be on thicker ice assuming a black kid got into Harvard as a result of affirm. But a legacy, I’m not sure. The reason is that you wouldn’t know if the kid got his smarts from the parent who attended. Maybe.
Don’t forget to visit Belfast’s equivalent of The Floosie in the Jacuzzi
and The Tart With a Cart: The Lying Bastard.
A stopped clock can be right twice a day,
but one built on dodgy foundations can never be.
What if the parent got in the same way? Are we to assume their smarts from their rich parents ad infinitum? Just look at King Charles for proof of inherited smarts.
Black Ball,
Campion’s column is all well and good, but let’s not forget, her children’s sperm donor signed on the dotted line for Net Zero. Still not a peep out of him as all this crap is being rolled out.
She stopped commenting here after she expected us to feel sorry for Scummo and other assorted Government Grifters because they don’t get to see their offspring as much as they professed to want to.
Most Cats were not impressed.
In today’s Oz. Watch it at the peril of your mental health and your TV screen.
Crossie
The parents may have too. This court decision will also make legacy more difficult.
What if the parent got in the same way?
Errr….google Ivy League legacies.
Not Ivy League, but the amount of Stanford Alumni that have children together looks to be a form eugenics.
Christian McCaffrey is a good example.
That Aussie bird I know who went there is fantastic looking.
She was pretty open about how few ugly people you’d see on campus.
In other good news to start off the weekend. The Dutch PM resigned.
If you compare Wharton alum to Stanford alum, you know whose admission policy is purely on smarts.
The local bowling club has seen it’s electricity go from 22c/kWh to 32c.
Their feed in tariff ( from a nearby premises) has gone from 12c to 4.9 c
They are SCREAMING
Our Father is oppressively patriarchal.
He must be one of Sir Humphrey Appleby’s Modernists.
Wharton alumni.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wharton_School_alumni
Guess it means he’s going to be out then.
Life is what, 20 Years? It means he’s going to be out in 3823.
“This court is amazing. It resembles an earthquake with buildings ( the left) being engulfed and falling in massive fault cracks.”
Correct. This court is President Donald Trump’s greatest achievement and his greatest legacy. Forget about another four years, forget about a stolen election, Trump’s appointments to the SC, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney-Barrett, means his presidential legacy will prevail for generations, and may well save the republic, whereas the current decomposing corpse in the White House, with his whistling senile voice, his empty frozen eyes, who’s no doubt daily propped up by a steady supply of white powder from his equally perverted son, will be forgotten within months of his departure. People will breathe a sigh of relief. And in the future, when this creepy old man is no longer POTUS, for those who indulge in remembering his ghastly tenure as POTUS, I reckon he will be remembered the way people remember a horrible and traumatic experience in their lives, the memory comes back for a fleeting moment or two, you shake your head in disgust, and you shiver with horror when reminded of the sniffing, rotting, degraded evil old deviant. Joe BIden is Frankenstein.
“Campion’s column is all well and good, but let’s not forget, her children’s sperm donor signed on the dotted line for Net Zero. Still not a peep out of him as all this crap is being rolled out.”
Indeed Pogria. I haven’t forgotten and I’ll never forget. I’d have more time for him if he came out and said that his capitulation to Net Zero was a BIG mistake. He knows it was a mistake, but instead he prefers to play the weasel. He sold his soul for a few crumbs of pork crackling, only months before an election, when the people he sold his soul to lost government, and those wets in that government, spruiking Net Zero and climate crap..ALL lost their seats.
As Sancho says, Beetroot’s focus is school fees, Riverview fees, and they don’t come cheaply.
So, a profession requiring physical strength and long hours, previously dominated by men, is not doing so well now that ‘gender balance’ has been restored?
Baffling….
For the record, I live in outback cattle country and our local vets number 4 girls and 3 blokes. The girls are cracking good cattle vets. So are the blokes.
Cassie,
Never forgive, never forget.
Miranda Devine is also on the list. Her tongueing of Turdball and branding good people Neocons, was her Goat F**king moment.
Clear skies this morning. 23 degrees at present.
Coffee is hot, and pleasant. Birds are chirping. Out the back, over the fence and in the middle distance small children at a playground are breaking into song.
Also, I learn that the left-handed snivelling cheat became Stuart Broad’s bunny on the 17th occasion in Tests overnight – nicking to the cordon for 1, thus contributing a total of 5 runs for his country and thus vastly increasing my chances of never seeing that ranga ferret on the telly ever again.
God I love this country sometimes.
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Nailed it!
Duk, i don’t think any affirmative action is evident, other than girls being relentlessly pushed into university “STEM” because you go grrrl! and veterinary studies, like psych and two-leg medicine, is naturally a lot more becoming to the femmes than the dry fields of engineering and chem.
Bugger. Try again.
“Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) said Friday on FNC’s “The Story” that Vice President Kamala Harris’ comments on “culture” makes it seem like “English is not her first, second, third or even fourth language.”
The key would be health ministers and chief law officers deeming the measures to be within human rights legislation because medically necessary in a pandemic.
The goal would be to see the enabling legislation amended or repealed. As it stands it’s all still on the relevant statute books federally and at state level and neither major party has voiced any concerns, obviously.
KD, wish we had some sunshine, it’s been heavily overcast and cloudy for a month now, we had a couple of clear days last week but that’s all. Dark and gloomy with constant rain and drizzle. Normally at this time of year we get days at a time of cold clear nights, heavy frosts and beautiful days. Not this year. The only thing that has stopped the river flooding is that the rain has been steady at around 10 to 20 mm a day, if we get a big rainstorm then the saturated ground will just let it flow straight into the river and it will rise rapidly.
The outlook for the next couple of weeks is more of the same.
Devine could singlehandedly be bringing down the Hiden crime family.
Why do so many msm cricket reports these days not include the scorecard?
Incompetents.
You have to love Douglas Murray.
I saw him describe Wookie Obama as “floating through life dispensing Hallmark greeting card philosophies”.
Yummy.
Via Tim Blair, reality kicking Jane Caro up the quoit
For those who don’t have the time to read all the material regarding the Missouri vs. Biden censorship case, the below is a particularly impactful portion of the filing against Biden setting the stage for the case:
Introduction
Change the accent a bit and much of that sounds very familiar.
Trend developing
“Presidents need reminding they are presidents.”
Biden’s constant smirks at ‘difficult’ questions from the press suggest that he believes that he and his family ARE invulnerable, and immune from any consequences for their actions
Won’t be going back. Chortle
So, a profession requiring physical strength and long hours, previously dominated by men, is not doing so well now that ‘gender balance’ has been restored?
I’ve a friend who’s a vet she’s given the physical side away due to a bad back from too much lifting, turning & shoving over the years and now teaches vet science at TAFE/university …
In QLD the government is on to this and rolling out a super network of EV charging stations.
People who can’t afford a Tesla are subsidising those who can.
“Miranda Devine is also on the list. Her tongueing of Turdball and branding good people Neocons, was her Goat F**king moment.”
I agree, she used the description “Delcons”….delusional conservaa4tives. I think she knows that she’s spent here, after her embarrassing fellating of Turnbull, hence her decision to move to NYC. She’s doing good work at the Post where she’s chronicling the current perverts and deviants in the WH, but I can’t forget her incessant Turnbull championing and fellating, and her shocking attacks on Abbott. I sometimes wonder why she did this. I put it down to the fact that like almost all of us, she was bitterly disappointed in Abbott, and she saw him as a quisling figure (and I don’t disagree), and it’s why she saw Turnbull’s ascendancy in September 2015 as a good thing. She then became Turnbull’s chief conservative spruiker and mouthpiece. But Miranda knows she sold her soul, and that Turnbull’s ascendancy was the death knell of the Liberal Party. I’d be interested in her viewpoint now, because I suspect that deep down she knows her championing of the Miserable Turd of Point Piper was a catastrophic mistake.
The local bowling club has seen it’s electricity go from 22c/kWh to 32c. Their feed in tariff ( from a nearby premises) has gone from 12c to 4.9 c. They are SCREAMING
Good, their collaboration with the klimate scam has made my power more expensive and less reliable, now they know how I feel.
Roger, cricinfo is your friend. Modern j’ism doesn’t do facts. It’s a post Bacon world.
“Devine could singlehandedly be bringing down the Hiden crime family.”
True JC, and as I wrote above, she’s doing great work at the Post. However her fawning over the Miserable Turd from Point Piper is something I can’t quite forget.
Gosh, top of da page!
Gosh, top of da page!
First stop should be what was included under the umbrella of the public health orders during the COVID era.
That sort of info will be released around the time that Bruce produces physical evidence that 251s lived in towns .. LOL!
the left-handed snivelling cheat became Stuart Broad’s bunny on the 17th occasion in Tests overnight – nicking to the cordon for 1, thus contributing a total of 5 runs for his country and thus vastly increasing my chances of never seeing that ranga ferret on the telly ever again.
In total agreement with that in our house!
But Miranda knows she sold her soul, and that Turnbull’s ascendancy was the death knell of the Liberal Party.
Only yesterday, my neighbour was cussing Trumble for his mandating (theres that word again) stoopid fluro lights, the price of which is 10x that of incandescent, the performance is 10x worse, particularly when you only want a few seconds of light – they are too slow to start up.
The LEDs at least perform better, but a decent output one (160w equivalent) was $25 last time I bought one.
Daily Mail. Gary Foley – remember him? – has surfaced again…
Yes, I eventually end up there. It just frustrates me. I don’t want some would be sporting journo hack’s ball by ball commentary, the scorecard tells me most of what I want to know.
Most don’t appear to be getting the vibe, Gary.
100 comments per page.
This may be the key to this august journal of record’s current smoooooothness.
Wowee. Morning Today program, Robodebt the issue being rightly discussed. Talking head invited to speak? None other than Tits Shorten.
Then he should have stuck to accountancy, I believe they make a decent living.
Cinematic FPV Drone Compilation – THREE HOURS 4k Movie
Just as people who can’t afford solar panels are subsidising those who can afford them.
Mine lovely wife preg tested forty cows the other day.
She’s no spring heifer herself.
Shoved her arm up their bums like a trouper, she did. Didn’t even have to change arms.
Some vets are built of the right stuff. I’m seriously concerned that our kids are not properly hardened to work in their childhood anymore- no chopping wood, picking up rocks, riding bikes by pushing the pedals round. If girls skip sport- and a fair few of them are, boys too- then they grow up pretty doughy.
Then there’s the mental fragility to think about.
The Hidden Trans Agenda Conservative Media Won’t Talk About — Lily Tang Williams Interview
Even a piece of gum on the sole of public life like Shorten has his moments.
He’s currently the relevant minister & called it out originally from opposition.
Frankly, the Liberals deserve all they’re about to get on this front.
The Club Battle – Donald J Trump is Not the Cause of Republican Failure, He is the Result of Their Failure
Jack Poso ??
@JackPosobiec
Last year Jen Psaki said Russia using cluster bombs was a war crime
Today the Biden Admin is sending cluster bombs to Ukraine
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
Russell Brand inquires about Tucker Carlson’s dismissal from FOX, to which Tucker responds that the War in Ukraine is a red line for a lot of people in business and politics:
“They are now supporting sending cluster bombs to the Ukraine. Ukraine is losing the war, obviously. And Ukrainians are dying in huge numbers, and the country is being destroyed. The US could force peace like tonight. They could. Uniquely, they have that power. And they won’t, and they are continuing to allow Ukrainians to be killed and that country to be devastated. If you criticize that, they are really intent on making you be quiet.”
Probably Just a Coincidence… Zuckerberg’s “Threads” Logo Was Made from Three Sixes 6-6-6 – A Satanic Symbol
Taibbi & Kirn 3mins.
WaPo’s Unbelievable Dishonesty about Missouri v. Biden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asb_Tfb2pKE
This is what happens when you become a faux conservative. Instead of trying to stop eligibility to welfare payments so the rorting doesn’t start in the first place, it tried to regulate payments and lost their way.
kitten corner: debunking the debunkers
46 hrs for EV travel? Unicorn farts meets reality. Have these people got their heads so far up someone else’s posterior they couldn’t see this happening?
A retiring vet told me the country shortage stems from the fact that many graduates are now Asian women who won’t leave the cities and have no interest in agricultural animal
work.
Jim Ferguson
@JimFergusonUK
Lets reflect back on Mark Rutte being challenged in the Dutch Parliament on his sinister connections to World Economic Forum Chairman, German Klaus Schwab. People are waking up to the dangers.
but according to these two articles, his coalition fell apart over a migration row over the number of family members of refugees accepted, which he wanted to REDUCE.
One
Two
Correct me where I’m wrong, isn’t the bimbo who sank Bud Lite a Wharton graduate?
Progressive journalist breaks with left, warns puberty blockers can cause ‘irreparable harm’ to children
Yes, the Government Is Coming for Your Gas Stove
Young New York GAA player dies suddenly as heartfelt tributes paid to ‘lovely, kind and beautiful’ girl
Heh. Time to find some old Superboong episodes on Youtube & watch it all again. He did brilliant work with that show.
Cat ladies.
Russell Brand interview
TUCKER CARLSON WORLD FIRST EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
To advise is not to compel.
– Anton Chekhov
Cat ladies.
Cute Ladies.
According to the article, Ketanji-Brown is recusing herself. I suppose because Gorsuch referred to the Founding Fathers, and Ketanji-Brown is not a biologist. Or a genealogist.
The Age:
‘Victoria is facing a crisis of leaky buildings, with construction experts blaming a lack of regulation of waterproofing, a critical skill not required to be carried out by a specialist.
Water damage tops the list of defects encountered in inspections and complaints to the Victorian Building Authority.’
That answers my question from yesterday; this is peculiar to Victoria.
And apparently Victorian building inspectors can sign off on work with only a virtual inspection!
So do dentists. Makes VAD look quite reasonable.
Maaaaate!
So Jane Caro paid $13 to drive her disposable Chinese battery buggy from Sydney to Canberra.
It costs me under $30 to do the same in a 15 year old car that cost me on third of what Jane paid for hers – and from this point on, I estimate the remaining lifespans of the two vehicles would be about the same.
I saved hours of wasted time and frustration on the refuelling issue, too.
By the time the needed infrastructure is in place, the cost of the power to recharge an EV will be much the same as filling a petrol car, too – although (more) punitive taxes on petrol cars can be predicted with confidence.
Oh, and Black Ball, please – your contributions here are always excellent but I humbly request – no more mentions of Jane Caro’s quoit.
I was going to respond to JC’s comment on the previous page about Miranda Devine.
Cassie expressed mine and I believe many others feelings about Ms Devine far more knowledgeably and eloquently than I could. So, job done.
A simple ” I made a mistake”, would have wiped the slate almost clean re Ms Devine.
This is the full interview with Tucker which is almost 2 hours long.
LIVE: Tucker Carlson WORLD FIRST Interview Since Leaving Fox! – #163 – Stay Free With Russell Brand
So Jane Caro paid $13 to drive her disposable Chinese battery buggy from Sydney to Canberra.
It costs me under $30 to do the same in a 15 year old car that cost me a third of what Jane paid for hers – and from this point on, I estimate the remaining lifespans of the two vehicles would be about the same.
I saved hours of wasted time and frustration on the refuelling issue, too.
By the time the needed infrastructure is in place, the cost of the power to recharge an EV will be much the same as filling a petrol car, too – although (more) punitive taxes on petrol cars can be predicted with confidence.
Oh, and Black Ball, please – your contributions here are always excellent but I humbly request – no more mentions of Jane Caro’s quoit.
but I humbly request – no more mentions of Jane Caro’s quoit.
As disturbing as the imagery conjures Foxbody, I think it apt lol
Jane caro is a quoit.
Right-liberalism.
Anyone here have a subscription to the Weekly Times?
I noted on the most recent publication that an Aboriginal land council is to have a say on waterways, roads and biosecurity. This is in Victoriastan, from memory northwest from I think Stawell onwards.
I thought NewsCorp owned the Weekly Times so tried to get the article in question, only to find it’s a seperate subscription. Heading is ‘Angst Over Agreement’ and judging by what’s happening across the Nullarbor, every right to feel angst.
I don’t know why, but I can’t stop laughing at this.
That’s how you end up with virtual waterproofing.
Our pollimuppetts really do hate us (with a few honorable exceptions). Pathetic that the so called opposition leader in Vicco is more interested in fighting anyone half decent in his own party than the economy wrecking/society wrecking marxist government brought to us by monash and melbourne unis.
Dodgy apartments aren’t just a Melb thing- they’re horror stories in Sydney too- faulty tower at Olympic Park and one at Erko built on toxic waste iirc. Just terrible for people who borrowed money to buy this rubbish.
there are horror stories- sorry about that
Its been posted before but this article shows how government makes things worse.
Vicious but fair.
It appears to be particularly bad in VIC though.
Unlike NSW & QLD, waterproofing is not a trade there.
The Tucker Carlson-Russell Brand interview is now live on Rumble.
Overseazy off to the NATO Summit in Latvia next week.
I’m sure his contributions will be decisive to global security.
I never knew water proofing was a trade tbh. I’d say faulty tower in Sydney takes the prize. It partially collapsed and had to be evacuated.
Yes, I remember that.
You don’t miss your waterproofing ’til it rains.
Jane Caro’s quoit.
Its a big thing, when you look into it.
I would have though water proofing would come under plumbing and roofing.
You don’t miss your waterproofing ’til it rains.
too damn right
Testing.
Body corporate fees are off the planet too- 11k /year.
It’s on the list . . . I think calli requested it !
Probably in the next month.
Someone was talking about those 1960s 3 storey walk ups- they weren’t bad except for the pink bathrooms in some of them!
Overseazy off to the NATO Summit in Latvia next week.
I’m sure his contributions will be decisive to global security.
More evidence of the rubbish that go in for politics.
Avoiding lifts and pools should help with strata fees. Netting off strata fees helps when you are renting – certainly helped in my case back in the day.
There are two fundamental things to get right with a building – footings and flashings.
There’s an old English saying about a building. It should stand in gumboots with an umbrella over it’s head.
I believe there is a push to put Ursula Von der Eurotrash into the top job at NATO.
Avoiding lifts and pools should help with strata fees. True. They don’t maintain themselves. Very worrying too that they are making electricity unreliable and expensive if you live on the 10th floor.
Thinking about a lift, a wheelchair track or something to get frail aged parents up our rather daunting front steps. Anyone got any recommendations?
Apparently Trump’s team is going to apply for a dismissal of the Mar-a-Lago BS on the basis of misconduct by the Smith’s team when they threatened the lawyer for Trump’s assistant Walt Nauta. This lawyer’s name is Stan Woodward, who was in line for a fed judge’s position. Smith’s offsider, jay bratt, threatened Woodward with the loss of his Judgeship if he didn’t alter Walt’s testimony and do other illegal things to assist the prosecution.
In a fair world this should see the indictment thrown out and smith and bratt prosecuted. Lol, fair world.
Ben & Jerry’s, a very big name in the international ice cream industry, pulls a Bud Light.
Since that tweet the stock of its parent company Unilever has dropped ~ $2.5B. One suspects the shareholders would like a word.
Even better, the Abenaki Indian tribe have read Alinsky’s rules for radicals and decided to apply a few of them to the situation.
🙂
From the Hun.
Thinking about a lift, a wheelchair track or something to get frail aged parents up our rather daunting front steps. Anyone got any recommendations?
This is outdoors? An elderly friend had a chair lift installed on a staircase in his house. They turned up and 3D scanned the staircase. Two weeks later they came back and bolted it in. Impressive, was a complex staircase.
“This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”
Are they stupid or just nasty?
Women like her are very prone to send other women’s children into the meat grinder, to the advantage of her own.
Someone was talking about those 1960s 3 storey walk ups- they weren’t bad except for the pink bathrooms in some of them!
The reason why there are so many of the 3 storey around is cos over 3 stories had to have a lift …
Both?
Three Aussie submarine officers graduate from elite US nuclear school
Lotza spare money in AUKUS .. by the time we see any Oz nuclear subs these blokes will be retired or dead .. LOL!
I re-watched The Dirty Dozen last night. Must be at least ten years since I last watched it.
KELLY’S HEROES never loses it’s appeal either ……
Thinking on movies had a binge-athon on JOHN WICK, never watched any before, 1st was a laff, 2nd started to get a bit familiar and the 3rd managed to halfway .. I’m getting too old for the magic of shoot-em-up ludicrous it seems! Still got the 4th to go but maybe next week sometime ..
Gonna watch SOUND OF FREEDOM tonight seeing I’ve read some worthwhile reviews …….
Talking of apologies an interesting Twitter account, MilkbarTV, is suggesting a well known journalist might like to make one.
MilkbarTV lost his job over the mandates and now does some great video compilations of political and medical leaders during Covid. He recently did one on a very well known journalist who has own TV show. Showed them being very keen on Vax mandates and then more recently talking about vaccine injuries.
He posted a clip yesterday about him being approached by the journalist about removing the clip from Twitter as journalist says has had death threat. In the clip he explains his thinking about why not taking down the clip and that perhaps the journalist should consider apologising for being so strongly pro mandates.
He does not name the journalist but many familiar with his clips know who it is.
In unrelated news I do recommend the book What really happened in Wuhan.
Or running civilian nuclear reactors…
Friends put in a $40k lift in their house when the wife broke her ankle. It helps when you have the space and the money.
Have a look at the reporting at the News.com article on Rutte:
What’s with all these 0 tix? … I must have missed the memo during all the time out upheavals …!
So all down to migration and nothing to do with kicking 3k of farmers off their land? Smells like bullshit.
Dear Cats, it begins….
It’s a beautiful day here in the electorate of Wentworth in Sydney, I went to my morning Pilates class, and after the class I felt quite exhilarated, as I always do after a class. I’m always amused by my Pilates teacher’s hyperbolic description of Pilates, she loves to say…Pilates lubricates the joints, Pilates cleanses the body and she parrots all the rest of the feel good stuff, but here’s the thing is, it actually does help, mentally and physically. After the class, feeling very good, and because the weather is so sublime, I started walking towards Paddington markets, thinking I might go for a browse, get a coffee and a pastry, my Saturday morning treat.
I wasn’t in the mood for a stoush so you can imagine my consternation when I see four people, one young man and three middle aged to elderly women, all of whom looked like Greens voters, or the kind of women I remember before the last federal election, women who’d all joined up to the Teal cult of Allegra da big Spender, well they were all wearing “Vote YES” t-shirts, mulling around, blocking the footpath. I approached and I tried to walk past and one of the women stopped and said, can you take a brochure and can we talk about “voting yes”, here’s the exchange…
I said politely “I’m voting NO”
She winced, and then said to me “that isn’t nice”
Quite taken aback, I said “how dare you tell me what’s nice and not nice, why don’t you piss off”.
A couple were standing nearby and a woman with a very crisp Pommy accent said to me “that’s very rude”
To which I replied “I’m indigenous, and clearly you’re not.”
The Pommy woman was silenced,
I walked another fifty metres only to be approached by another middle aged woman, wearing a “Vote YES” t-shirt….she asked if we could talk and tried to give me a brochure and here’s this exchange…
I said to her “here’s a question for you…how do you spell NO?”
This woman also winced, smirked and refused to answer my question.
I asked again, “how do you spell NO?”
She responded, “you know how to spell it”.
To which I replied “I do, and clearly you don’t”
I wiped the smirk off her face.
After my stoushes, I got the Oz newspaper and the pastry and I’ve wondered home, contemplating the exchanges and whether these various activists and Allegra groupies are bothering to venture out to say….Liverpool, or Macquarie Fields, or Penrith, or Blacktown or whether they are just sticking to the nice, safe areas, where the nice cafes are, such as as the putrid hypocritical electorate of Wentworth. Don’t worry Cats, I know the answer to that question.
I’m now contemplating how Wentworth has changed over the last twenty years, from being a rock solid, blue ribbon conservative electorate to what is is now, a progressive enclave full of utter hypocrites.
The other day someone here wrote a disparaging comment implying that the “bogans” of this country, those who watch reality TV etc, will be the ones who’ll vote en masse “yes” because they don’t think. Nup, I disagree. They think. The people who don’t think are the well-heeled ones living in the more well off electorates of this country, be it Kooyong, Warringah, Wentworth, North Sydney, Curtin and others. If Australia is saved from this grotesque apartheid Voice (and apartheid it is), it’ll be the bogans in such suburbs as Liverpool, Macquarie Fields, Penrith, Blacktown, and all the other sprawling suburbs of our cities, along with our rural areas, who might just save us from this looming catastrophe. One thing for sure, it won’t be the electors of Wentworth.
When our first daughter was born we were still renting and the flat was on the third floor. It was very interesting getting the shopping, the baby and the pram up and down the flights of stairs. It was also fun carrying the baby and the laundry basket to the clotheslines and back. When we were looking for a house to buy my husband’s main requirement was that it had no stairs. We found one that was perfect, not a single step.
After my stoushes, I got the Oz newspaper and the pastry and I’ve wondered home, contemplating the exchanges and whether these various activists and Allegra groupies are bothering to venture out to say….Liverpool, or Macquarie Fields, or Penrith, or Blacktown
AS far as I’m aware, as in definitely certain, YES tee shirts and pamphlets are not to be seen around Fairfield .. In fact, you’ve got more chance of directly questioning “the turtle” in his electorate about your power bills than sighting anything YES ………
They are remarkably stupid. They tried to ban sales of their product to Israel, where it was hugely popular, in support of BDS. Unilever, their big daddy, told them to pound sand and keep sending the ice cream. B&J’s sued Unilever over it, and lost.
Result? Ben & Jerry’s is now sold under its Hebrew and Arabic names throughout Israel and the West Bank. At great profit to the shareholders.
Nasty? They are Bernie Sanders acolytes with the mental development of teenagers, who happen to make decent ice cream. So yeah, nasty works.
Cassie, very true. The well-heeled voters don’t have to contend with rising mortgage payments along with rising energy prices and cost of living. They can indulge their saviour of the world fantasies while the bogans look at the Voice and think another stupidity that will end up costing them and making their lives more difficult. The bogans also see the indigenous getting their sit-down money and think “enough, get a job like everyone else”.
It was very interesting getting the shopping, the baby and the pram up and down the flights of stairs.
My son & DiL struggled with the 1st two whilst living just off the beach in Avoca with 38 steps to the front door for 4 years (they luvved the place) but when the twins arrived enuf was enuf! .. 4 under 6 and those 38 steps wasn’t funny! .. sold the beachside manse and bought a bigger one level job a coupla suburbs in land towards Gosford but still on the water (Davistown) …..
This CNN article is totally absurd.
The bogans also see the indigenous getting their sit-down money and think “enough, get a job like everyone else”.
HousoLand 101 .. except the bit about, ” get a job like everyone else” .. LOL!
Yes, Cassie. There is nothing uglier than closed-minded bigots who delude themselves they must be right about everything because they think they’re well-educated.
The apartheid referendum actually confirms their racism because it’s all about soothing their white guilt: let’s give the little brown people of central Australia a new supercharged version of The Apology — as long as they never move in near us and destroy our million-dollar property values.