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Week In Pictures.
Dover, Ive just sent you an email. And it’s half last one, so I’m off to bed.
Scroll on warning for those who prefer not to read a travellers ramblings. Given we had decided to opt for…
There is no negotiating with sub human, low IQ barbarians. Continue the offensive until there is no movement… no other…
Who is “Drills”?
Phhht.
Come on, man!
What size desk did Mater have in Canberra?
Did he have a corner suite in Russell Offices?
And gold braid?
Any gold braid on his sleeve.
“Who is “Drills”?”
Eric has a fetish for Dentists.
ZK2A:
I had multiple run ins with SubContinental doctors in a Private Hospital setting (Note: Cultural reference – not racial) who refused near terminal cancer patients opiates for pain because “I’m saving it for when they really need it.”
Callous bastards – I told one to his face that I hoped he found himself in the position of one of my patients who was obviously in pain, and that I’d suggest he get pain relief withheld until he ‘really needed it’.
Blue Moon – Harpo Marx
It wasn’t Mater and he’s actually a really decent guy. Mater saw action too. These two dudes were in the thick of it in the Mid East and Afgan. Respect.
Spot of spacechooking, for Cats with an interest in military history. Good account of the siege of Dien Dien Phu, by Kevin Boylan and Luc Oliver. “Valley Of the Shadow.”
I thought Bernard B Fall had written the last word on that shooting match, but Boylan and Oliver have discovered new material in the French archives, interviewed some more veterans, and have a shedload of sources from the North Vietnamese archives.
Good reading, check it out.
Lol, it was Mater who exposed the commenter known as “JC” over his continued bullshit harangues that Zulu had pretended to serve in Vietnam.
Zulu had never made any such claim, Mater gave JC such a correction that JC has never again tried that lie at the Cat.
Mater certainly was good value.
You realize Adonis’s moniker before he was anointed as Marcus Classius Adonis was Mark from Canberra, right?
Driller
Citation required.
Salvatore:
Don’t forget the woman – and if she was a jockey, not a big one, is looking down the barrel of a pack rape by fifteen men. A point that seems to have been missed in the story.
Ghissa has a fetish for testicles.
I just don’t see looking after other people’s babies and toddlers, and all that that entails, as the natural role of men.
And the world being what it is, I’d prefer they didn’t.”
Agree.
I miss Mater.
Merritt made the same point in Teh Paywallian the other day. As a Joe Blow solicitor you would say he would be lucky to keep a practicing certificate. Will need to call in a few favours from mates you expect.
Egyptian pyramids were geo-polymer pours. Anyone thinking they were blocks carved from a quarry is f*cked in the head.
Me too, Cassie.
Mater’s eviscerations of NamBob were things of great beauty.
Steve trickler
Aug 2, 2023 9:04 PM
Those poor buggers.
I remember some talk about he was writing his memoirs?
Mark Dice:
Debunking The Indictment – Donald Trump Did Nothing Wrong!
These desires to withhold medical treatment from Indians?
Do you get them often?
And so did the Taliban, fortunately.
Bear, Bob was in a freaking war. Mater too so he (mater) had a sort of right to tackle him.
Bob was old and decaying, and just should’ve been ignored, not stoned like he was by others. I think it was wrong and shouldn’t have been done to him.
“Mater” and “Jupes” had “Numbers Bob” for breakfast, so often on this blog…….
Not my story … but I like it … so here.
—
I know I shouldn’t have done this, but I’m almost 70 years old and I’m just tired of taking crap from people.
I was in the McDonald’s drive-through yesterday morning getting my monthly sausage biscuit fix and it was busy as hell- there were probably 15 cars in front of me when I got on the line.
When I finally got up to the order window, the young bitch in the car behind me must have been in a hurry, because she was leaning on her horn, flipping me a bird and started mouthing something because I was taking too long to place my order.
When I got finished with my order, I gave the order-taker $20.00, said I wanted to pay for my daughter’s breakfast in the car behind me, and told her to keep the change.
I paid for her order along with my own.
The cashier must have told her what I’d done because as we moved up she leaned out her window and waved to me and mouthed “Thank you.”, obviously embarrassed that I had repaid her rudeness with kindness.
When I got to the second window I showed the gal both receipts and took her food too.
Now she has to go back to the end of the line and start all over again.
Moral of this story?
Don’t blow your horn at old people, biatch.
We’ve been around a long time – we know more ways to screw with you than you’ll ever dream of.
Strap yourselves in folks!
Here we go!
Despite the excellent reporting by Janet A in the Oz of the excoriation of Dumbgold, in the Hun and Tele the lard lush Maiden reports on a different slant.
She reports how the Inquiry determined that the decision to prosecute by the AFP and the DPP was correct. Blithely ignoring the fact that plod wasn’t too keen to proceed.
I suspect that Janet only passed on some of the leaked report that she had and the lush didn’t. The lard report seemed to be an arse covering exercise to excuse her report before a charge had been laid and, in fact, before the knickerless one had made a complaint to plod.
that’s because your’e a relativistic idiot
Those Canbra greasy pole climbers are precisely what is wrong with the ADF.
Trans, what did you do with the extra order?
He…
Crossie:
Crossie
Aug 2, 2023 9:13 PM
There’s that photo with President Trump off to side/back, and the look of utter contempt as he realises precisely what happened is stuck in my memory.
Wish I’d kept a good res copy of it.
Things went downhill after that.
Only on the Cat do we get this level of understanding about what it is like to serve in the Navy.
“Canberra greasy pole climbing”
Quite some knowledge of how warships work tied up in that comment.
That’s one helluva reframing job – then again, it was done by this site’s most experienced reframer.
I fed it to your daughter because she was still hungry after she finished gobbling my cock
Brittany (and friends) didn’t make Drumgold’s job any easier. Which doesn’t excuse anything that happened.
Dumbgold wears an ‘im bleck tie.
Be looking for a gig on the inVoice.
Chasing another loser there bloke.
ZK2A:
Another head rolls in the dust. I think there’s another couple to go as one of the most tawdry sagas in Australian Legal history takes more scalps. I reckon Dan Andrews must be checking his passport to China by now.
Tell us what it was like sailing the seven seas aboard HMAS Plagiarist, Sal.
Did you check all of his medals to validate entitlement?
I mean, it’s plagiarism one day, pinning a bit of extra tin on the chest the next …
Where does it end?
As Cardinal Richelieu said “Old age and cunning, will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.”
The Cardinal served at the Court of Louis IV. He died in his bed, where most of his compatriots were murdered.
As you would be.
Juvenile & stupid smartarse comment. (box ticked)
Crikey, I’m going to win “dickhead bingo” before midnight!
I genuinely feared for people behind the fence.
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Cleetus!
ESP Jet Sprint Day 2 – We WRECKED Into the Fence!!! My NEW Jet Boat Took Some Serious Damage…
what’s the matter now JC you pathetic prima donna, gone quiet already?
you don’t do parable do ya?
an honorable man would at least demand a duel
Many accusations may be made about JC.
Being an honourable man will never be something he may be accused of.
feelthebern
Aug 2, 2023 9:27 PM
Don’t be too sure, there are still some very nasty bastards in high positions looking on nervously…
Jeez.
Altogether different to what yours does, hey tittsoff, you filthy animal.
Did Horatio Adonis ever recount how his glorious naval career came to an end?
And, if so, did you check it out?
In the market to buy one, I hear.
Why would an honorable man demand a duel over that lowrent comment. It shows the kind of scumbag you are and always will be. But then we know that.
Model A Ford update:
Haven’t done a fkn thing on it for weeks due to busy constructing two massive, solid cherry wood sliding doors for the lounge room.
If you are getting any furniture made, consider cherry. It is a very attractive wood with nice warm tone and fine, sometimes curly grain, A bit of sap wood in the boards for contrast is nice too, in my opinion.
speaking of cocks … heeeere’s sancho
cue la cucaracha
as usual,
saving the forum by wanking themselves stupid since 6pm
Getting the midget submarines ready and dusting off the old maps of Portsea Beach. Just like old times.
Here we go, it’s wanking even again. The one trick pony seems to think calling someone wankers most evening sounds new and never old.
Arky,
back a while I had cherry veneer all over the new kitchen
beautiful tones
ti’s a very nice wood
and “Relativistic”
Very verbose this evening.
The one new word a day man and shows it off here as the most literate HVAC man south of the equator.
JC,
you’re a moron if you believe that anybody that participates here thinks you don’t spend all wanking
you’re such a solipsistic clown putting yourself central to every drama
all your words are empty, Pinocchio
one day, you’ll be a real little boy
and all you have to do is stop wanking.
… the Blue Fairy is watching
Isn’t HVAC a Village People song?
..
My admiration for it is however, ever so slightly dimmed by having had its sawdust embedded up my snozz every day for the last two weeks.
And yet Sinclair accepted his explanation for the article.
You have no idea what Mk 50 did for living, do you?
And that, Mr handbag dog, is my final word on the subject.
Yap. Yap.
Oh, OK.
The latest reporting in the Oz from half an hour ago seems to be based on a leak of the Sofronoff Report.
… you’re a bit of an idiot aren’t you JC ?
Trans
Do you self-reflect anytime you refer to others as a wankers?
Has there ever been a comment posted here or on ozblogdom as cringeworthy as the I’m thought of as “god oracle”, “people shit in their pants” comment?
I really don’t know how the hell you show your moniker here and think people could ever take you seriously. not that you participate in any serious discussion, because you’re unable to even with the word-a- day assistance.
JC
Aug 2, 2023 10:23 PM
Displease isn’t the correct word, try ‘loathe’. Much closer.
stfu JC,
you sound like Pee-Wee Herman
Which was what?
Look, Sinc, as an academic, was probably embarrassed that a lifted article slipped through the net.
OK, a blog isn’t an academic publication but it still isn’t a great look.
Obviously didn’t write original material for a living, that’s for sure.
And how would you know what he did?
Anything he claimed is 93.1% certain to be embellished.
You really need to let go of the gold braid and chest tinsel worship.
It’s embarrassing.
Sancho> The 2M missing knickers case has generated and will continue to generate massive leakage due to the kind of people involved (lawyers, Labor Pollies, grasping midwits, media types) and the “loose”nature of the whole schema/scam.
I am hoping that double digits of people lose jobs, money, fame, credibility by the nexty election …
I’m certainly no God Oracle, Jesus 11.
FMD, imagine the second coming and Trans was it. He was the second coming.
Haaretz is really trying too hard.
Exodus: The Israelis Planning Their Escape From Netanyahu’s Judicial Coup
Hey. What about the rogue independent civil servant coup that preceded this?
Let’s talk about it on the next Zoom consult.
It is life-changing. If Oprah tried it, it would have become a meme.
Is this better, or worse, than calling someone “a sack of shit” all day?
Asking on behalf of many curious Cats.
no, you certainly are not
why don’t you trot out your mono-complaint again
as if saying the same thing repeatedly for a year makes you sound … i dunno, human?
Citation required.
What about when you buy “fine Italian shirts” and they’re actually made in Turkey?
That grinds my gears.
Sancho Panzer
Aug 2, 2023 10:51 PM
Caught you out, shitweasel – deliberately conflating a cultural practise with a racial one. I wasn’t looking for it last you and JC did it last time – won’t happen again.
Yap yap.
But you are, you told us.
Which one of the many is that, Jesus.
Wanker?
correction – Last = when.
From the Oz:-
Worth remembering.
Dumgold kicked this whole thing off by claiming political interference by the Libs.
He is either really, really stupid or had some grossly misplaced overconfidence that the enquiry would be a fix as well.
And then Sofronoff really sticks the boots in.
Less credible than Lisa?
That’s gotta hurt.
it’s almost as bad as writing a screeds about how dysfunctional it is to call other commenters liars
and then just this week, write a post condemning his detractor liars
let’s face it, the man’s a complete idiot
I think from 10 PM, EST, I will LARP as Livia Soprano.
…and oh, I don’t like this kind of tawk.
Describing 1.2 billion Indian people as “butt ugly” is just cultural. Nothing racist about it at all. Just run of the mill cultural.
I propose that we need to talk about this too at the next session.
I forget.
The stealing of 50 mls of petrol per tank fill.
Cultural or racial.
Or a deeper hatred of Injuns than General Custer’s widow?
Also, have you done the maths on driving 35 extra kilometres to avoid losing that teaspoon full of juice?
I have Gallagher gone. Dreyfus must be under a question mark if a Sofronoff type looks at that payment. Can’t see Wong getting done for it. And it will be a while before we see Mrs Pirate Pete on the TV again. Not bad for a Friday night on the piss in Canberra.
give it a rest JC
you’re not making sense
Wong is the Queen of Prize Piggies.
Bear is right, Gallagher is on borrowed time and might be the fall guy.
I suggested as an academic he should not tolerate plagiarism on his blog. I wasn’t threatening him and had no intention of reporting it. He banned me for that and also probably because I challenged him when he argued that water boarding wasn’t torture. It is rather odd that the only forum I have been banned from was one promoting free speech and libertarian ideas.
Classic!
The Boxer Simon And Garfunkel
It is when… errr someone is lying. I’m not sure if it was ever taught to Trans on the building site, that lying makes someone a liar.
I’ve never called you a liar. You’re just an imbecile with serious issues. Mostly ignored except when you’re annoying in this disturbing attempt to gain a modicum of recognition for being like a real, real deep thinker. You think it fools anyone, god Oracle?
Still largely confined to Victoriastan. Although I have my doubts about Queensland. A few unorthodox occurrences emerging there too.
Perhaps we could do this every month, getting the motley cancra crew of pollies and wannabe’s drunk and see what happens.
“hopes are up for trousers down …”
I’ve heard some bitching by barmaids – that’s something they’re really good at.
I’ve heard them nitpick & get all het up over the most trivial minutiae.
Barbie & Ken on the Cat would take the championship from any batch of barmaids I’ve worked with.
They take dickheadsmanship down to a new level.
Turtlehead,
Do you have an answer for the butt ugly comment that you’ve “defined” as cultural? Perhaps, we didn’t understand it and so it would be great if you could change our minds.
I miss Mater.
He posted some good stuff.
it’s not about not me, you stupid man.
I haven’ t been posting
but you did rant like a f*cking retard about liars the other day
what the f*ck is wrong in your head ?
Who is “Trans”?
Who is “Turtlehead”?
Alamak.
I was thinking today how quickly the worm has turned on this one for quite a few people.
Twelve months ago Lisa Wilkinson was having her Woodward and Bernstein moment at the Logies. This year Sam Pang is taking the piss out of her and the audience is laughing along.
Dumgold was viewed as some sort of Elliot Ness on steroids. Tomorrow he will be trawling through Seek.com.
Britnah has gone from set-upon victim to shifty and vacuous grifter.
Sharaz was the Young Turk on the rise eyeing a career in politics. Now? Well, speaking of The Untouchables.
And Lehrmann looked like he was in Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Go! territory.
Now he looks like he might top Britnah’s payout.
Lyrics on Spotify have spoiled Australian Crawl. Still great music.
Drumgold has an out.
He can play the Packer Onetel card & say he was “profoundly misled” by Higgins.
Which reminds me of a Dodgeball quote:
“It’s a bold strategy Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for him.”
Sure you have, two nights ago KD ripped you not just one more, but three new rear ends in a single session. Mastery at work
Okay, so you disagree, then you could explain what exactly you disagreed with, you train-wreck of a human being.
I’d be asking that question to myself if I were you. And I’m actually serious about this. You don’t seem to be a happiest person around. There’s a few of you like that.
You actually sound very depressed and unhappy. See someone that can help you get over it.
Ooooh.
He wouldn’t.
Would he?
There isn’t enough popcorn in the free world if he goes there.
Sancho> Indeed! How the worm doth turn in a such a short space of tyme …
And we have a possible referral to NACC to come, which could be enough to derail Labor plans for 2024.
This written without any hint of self-awareness or irony. 🙂
Sancho – if the jury didn’t do it’s job (or presumably be about to) wouldn’t know any of this.
I’m actually including you in that list as well as Turtlehead. There are a couple of others here that seem in terrible shape. It’s not that I’m concerned for you as I don’t give a toss. It’s just an observation. Take my advice or walk away. Doesn’t impact me at all.
Not really. A number of matters attach to the office of the DPP and others duties owed by all officers to the court.
so … you don’t want a duel ?
Who is “Turtlehead”?
What “list”?
Serious question: How big a cockhead are you?
Naaa, it’s too gutless.
It hasn’t even got the dick & balls to back it’s own mouth with it’s wallet.
Pissweak, gutless. All mouth & no balls.
It’s the second time this evening you’ve suggested that, Garcia. I wouldn’t overdo it as it could be taken as a threat and if I build that perception it will become a police and legal matter very quickly. No one makes threats to me or my family and gets away with it.
you really are a bit stupid aren’t you?
Dragon energy on the Cat today.
Impressive.
No I’m not stupid. You ever make another threat or something that can be construed as such again and see what happens. You go play your threat games on building sites, you dickhead.
What a stupid front-hole this person is.
Waa waa waa… call the cops, you coward – someone spoke to you like you speak to others.
Gutless, pissweak. No moral fibre. All mouth & no balls.
Earlier:
Said the civilian.
It may help public perception if you were to cease acting stupid.
Big talk, small balls.
Whining about cops & lawyers over blog talk.
Can give it but can’t take it. Gutless, pissweak. All mouth & no balls.
Driller
Pipe down. You’re drunk, so go bed.
Tsk tsk tsk.
Who is “Driller”?
all of a sudden JC’s feeling threatened after belligerently attacking any number of commeneters for years
knowing no bounds
he goes personal, pointed and inferential
says the most heinous things and is pretty much the most disgusting commenter here
now, after being a complete f*cking tosser like, forever
now, he needs a barrister?
stfu JC
Fair call.
Very fair call.
Quite so.
This is about due legal process.
Whatever Britnah told him or didn’t tell him is of no consequence.
But I was entralled for a moment at the thought of him trying to push Britnah under the bus.
I think a lot of people here are forgetting that I was outed as Mk50/Mark from Canberra/various naval deskie types, and the Moke-driving pig shooter by one of this august journal of record’s leading nightshift ranters.
‘The sea was angry that day, my friends.’
oh … yes you fkn are mate
Well, where’s your gold braid?
Huh?
more like BDE … Big Dickhead Energy
Oh my lordy lord, I’d forgotten that.
Who was that genius with the disguise penetrating skills of a befuddled mole?
It was amputated in the Great Office Stapler Massacre of ’94.
Can’t say too much about it. Official secrets and all that.
The full Sofronoff article is a ripping read.
And not a word of it cut and pasted either.
He does not miss.
Reynolds and her CoS totally exonerated.
Too late now but I will post slabs of it tomorrow.
I don’t make threats of violence state or implied, Garcia.
Just remember what I said.
I actually rate you as the most trivial, filthy disgusting commenter here: This is just an example.
To protect family and myself from a unhinged loon, you’re damned straight I will.
You’re not normal. You need serious help. Now piss off and go rot somewhere.
I’m struggling to see which part of that he’d be able to pin on being misled by Britney.
He’s a cooked goose.
You’ve already said too much.
Champ.
I lost my braid in a paper shredding accident.
I think I got three medals for that.
Who is “Garcia”?
You could benefit from scrolling back a couple of days, oh blogger of peace & no implied violence.
You couldn’t lie straight in bed, you p.o.s.
In fairness, one of my first platoon commanders is now a Major-General with plenty of braid.
Appalling navigational skills. ‘Dangerous Dave’, we called him. Apparently he can now traverse corridors with ease.
He was still better than the one after that whose nickname was ‘Circles’, again because of the navigational ineptitude that seemed endemic in junior officery types.
JC, you cock-head
get your people to contact my people
wanker
Driller, you’re so needy this evening. So much attention seeking and terrible behavior.
Who, is “Driller”?
Contact the foreman? Which building site?
Poor form, may I say, from the god oracle of switch-flipping.
idiot
I just re-read Sofronoff’s findings about Reynolds, Brown (her CoS) and the Defence Department generally.
He has pretty much holed the Britnah Payout below the waterline.
🙂 🙂 🙂
Look, I blame myself for that.
I should never have linked to that photo of him with Mk50 and Prince Andrew.
I apologise.
Brilliant!
Ride Like The Wind (Christopher Cross) | Lexington Lab Band
Oh my aching sides, I can’t take much more of this.
Can we use solipsistic one more time? Sounds better
so derivative
none of youse have worked it out yet
told youse
the concentration camp at attwood will be up and running soon
i have the inside goss
wankers wanking
Idiot.
Who is “Idiot”?
mong
youse forgot to add mong
mong
I think this HVAC is too solipsistic and the switch gears are just so derivative. It requires an upgrade with a vainglorious transformer in order to get the air up-scaled to a a less solipsistic unit.
Meawnhile in Spain…Ronda, and an AirBnB to avoid
Ronda
This spectacular small town in southern Spain has to be seen to be believed. The original walled town was built around a deep gorge, which runs through the middle of it now, and has steep cliffs on most sides. As such it was an easily defensible position. Also, a wonderful Roman bridge. Amazing views of the countryside from its hill-top position.
We saw on the walk to the restaurant – down about 150 stairs and up again on the return – the local Arab baths, still intact but not functional, and some of the gorge. The ravine features in the Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls. There is also an Orsen Welles connection – he holidayed there, so there are statues of both blokes around.
We ate at Casa Maria, which has attracted extremely positive reviews on outlets such as Trip Advisor. The menu is non-existent – you are served what the owner deems interesting for that day – five courses for E45 each. We were given bruschetta, a salmon salad, wrapped hot feta cheese in filo pastry; local fish – cut up on the table by the waiter; roast baby kid goat, and a hazelnut cake. All of this was in the local square by the fountain – the wait staff crossed the road with their trays to get to us. Delicious.
Sadly our AirBNB apartment was one of the few that let us down. It seemed to be the project of a local family son, who spoke a few words of English – we met him for 10 seconds in his towel, pulled out of the shower by mum to translate – but who had translated all sorts of florid statements into English on his profile: “I live and love tranquillity for every day” and that sort of thing. We never met the host, although the whole family was downstairs!
The unit, while clean, had all sorts of things missing (only one stockpot, no saucepan) or wrong with it. One of the worst was the two-ring gas stove. To light the igniter, you took an electrical cable out from under the sink to connect to the nearest plug, which necessitated running it around 15 cms from the burner. Then the thing wouldn’t light anyway. The gas bottle was on, so we thought. We emailed him for advice, and received: “Press the lever down”, so we gave up. Pity because it had a fabulous view, and a proper fridge.
But don’t miss Ronda!
Manuel stove?
Whoa! Just started browsing and found there was a dang lot of scrolling to be doing!
Heehaa!
“Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling…… keep them doggies scrolling rawhide………..
Dramatic rise in cancer in people under 50
This is weird. No obvious explanation. Much hand waving.
A 5min vid, RFK Jr on the Jimmy Dore show.
Democrats Already RIGGING Primary To Screw RFK Jr.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mu8rZfP4Ko
John H, unrelated to your post (apart from involving cancer).
A friend of mine is now in palliative care as her 8-9 year cancer battle is coming to an end.
There are two people who are in the place, also on the way out but who did not pursue any treatment once their cancers were diagnosed.
How about that, finding out you had cancer but instead of attempting treatment, you effectively go home to die.
Until you end up in palliative care at the end.
I wonder how many people do that.
Both in their 50’s btw.
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
– Rodney Dangerfield
I had two relatives who opted out of cancer treatment, one was in his fifties, for the other it was a second go round with cancer in his late thirties.
I was wondering about the slippery fish in a small pond trying to pin his behaviour on Ms Higgins.
Officers of the Court Behaving Badly calendar for 2023 contender.
I think most people would be very shocked to find out what various state governments and statutory authorities get up to with Aboriginal Corporations behind closed doors.
Can’t imagine how much more government will bend over when there are additional constitution powers.
no secrets here, yeah right
No the first made a rational decision based on his chosen life style the preceding several decades.
I don’t remember the precise details, there had been five years in remission, still a very hard decision for a thirty six year old.
at least when the Turks build tunnels, they actually find archaeological items of significance. Not just wasting millions in case they find a knapped flint.
Joe Aston reports that Albo’s 20 something year old son has been given a Chairmans club membership.
Joe Aston also says that is has nothing to do with the Feds blocking the Qatar request for more flights to Australia.
Compare the coverage of Higgins saga to the coverage of the Drumgold situation today.
Looking on the main smh, afr, abc sites, there is no coverage.
If there is, you have to put it into the search function that takes you to some back screen.
Compared to every thought bubble during the Higgins allegations which were given prominent coverage.
news.com.au is all about St Lisa being vindicated.
The Oz pays for its subscription again with its coverage.
mail on Dumbgeld
Bear in mind The You-Know-What isn’t even in place yet (the NT News):
And:
And:
Gosh.
Trudope’s missus has left him.
It’s because this cadre of people has gotten used to pulling stunts like this and getting away with it.
They get cocky and all of a sudden…boom.
H B Bear
Aug 3, 2023 12:04 AM
“hopes are up for trousers down …”
Lyrics on Spotify have spoiled Australian Crawl. Still great music.
I found out the other day that on top of James Reyne’s unintelligible singing, they also made up a word in that very song. Dorsitive (?) rhymes with causitive.
just trying to help here
in case JC is still thinking of legal action
I recommend getting together a legal eagle crack-team
you could have, KD, sancho … and it’s a long shot but, I hear that even Shane Drumgold may be looking for a gig
try Harvey Birdman
Other than the waste of taxpayer’s money any repercussions for those at the NGA who participated in what many people might have thought was dodgy ‘a non disclosure agreement’
Channel 10 will be all over the “vindication” of St Lisa today.
But that’s where their coverage will stop.
Will they report on the effective exoneration of the Chief of Staff who emailed the office of the DPP after Higgins second round of evidence stating that Higgins had given false/misleading evidence?
Unlikely.
Mainstream media reporting.
Reynolds partner sitting in court: dodgy.
Higgins taking off for over a week in the middle of the trial then on her return gives evidence that is called into question & the person calling it into question is exonerated by an inquiry: not dodgy.
At least Sharaz and Higgins ambition to be recognised everywhere has been realised.
Janet A deserves the Gold Walkley.
The garden it is dorsetted
That lady she’s so corseted
She’s got 15 ways to lead that boy astray
The Dorset was their local. The young male victim was inebriated in the beer garden and the older cougar (“Joan”) pounced on her prey, apparently reading the Joy of Cop-You-Later to her inexperienced victim and listening to Gil Scott-Heron. Right on!
Blackout Bowen and EVs (Electric Vesuvius)s – Burn Baby Burn, Disco Inferno –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5EWBXmMXf8
I have seen “scientific” speculation that the Mt Toba population squeeze apparently got us down to 200 people.
I imagine there may have been a prodigious breeding programme for the survivors. There may have been certain benefits for community and government leaders at the time, Mein Fuhrer!
Drumgelding needs to be put in a 12 ft x 5 ft stable somewhere but Penny Wong is the real White Whale here.
Drumgelding is merely a little Albacore you catch on the way out wide that’s almost too good to be used for chum.
I was on the USS Indianapolis…
The garden’s full of furniture
The house is full of plants
Good fun…
Thanks for the downvotes but it means little until we can get negative scores.
Nevertheless, thanks!
C.L. has Albrechtsen’s article in full.
Hot stuff.
Had to wait for the internet age to identify this one:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pv9nyNb4NTk
Dot did Bruce the goose write the lack of evidence for the 200 population. It sure would have explained the high level of imbeciles in the population.
Andrew Bolt:
They still haven’t learned.
Coca-Cola Owned Cafe Chain faces Boycott over Trans Cartoon with Cut Off Breasts (2 Aug)
It’s quite revolting. What are these people thinking? The nihilism is fascinating as time after time they do this and then inevitable happens. We seem to be in an age of reverse advertising where companies are trying to repel customers rather than attract them.
Drumgold and his clique (still not sure if he was really just a useful idiot) were heavily invested in #metoo and actively seeking to change fundamental judicial principles around the presumption of innocence etc. Hubris caught up with him in the end.
It is a shame Yates escaped unruffled, but ultimately she was playing the part her no doubt carefully constructed role allowed.
Wilkinson’s evidence may have been preferred over Drumgold’s, but she and Channel 10 should have known better. If she never blights our screens again it will be #metoo soon.
I know we have a despicable Labor government, but quite frankly the unlamented Morrison government was just as despicable, if not more so. The Liberal Party led by Scumbag of the Shire didn’t give a shit about freedom and free speech, in fact they completely trashed it. I suppose it’s good the Liberals have now decided to step up and oppose legislation about “misinformation and disinformation” but just remember, this legislation was actually drafted by the useless effing Liberals when in government, under that grubby undertaker Paul Fletcher (who always reminds me of Uriah Heep from David Copperfield). It remains a matter of sadness to me that Uriah Fletcher didn’t lose his seat last year to a Teal. Anyway, I digress, please excuse my fury and cynicism about how the Liberal party is now opposing this legislation, because when in government they were more than happy to trash, terminate and crush people’s free speech..
Just remember this, and I know you all know this but I can’t stress it enough…
Craig Kelly has been completely vindicated.
Remember how Scumbag and his fellow expert Liberal fellators sided with Labor and the Greens to smear and silence Kelly, humiliating him and pushing him out of the party? In fact, I can honestly say that the only thing the Liberal Party was good at in the whole nine years of government was dumping on its own, from Bettina to Craig to George to Andrew to Christian to Alan. In fact, the Liberal Party should produce a “sex” book of its own, called “Tips on how to fellate your ideological enemies and dump on your own”, with the sub-title…”the Liberal Party is an expert at it”.
The Liberal Party should apologise to Craig Kelly, and invite him to return to the party, in the meantime they do nothing about the Miserable Mutant Maggot from Point Piper, in fact they even gave him a platform to broadcast his miserable mutterings a few weeks ago on a Menzies podcast.
Morning news from the Daily Telegraph…
Covid protests on social media censored by Australian government
Secret documents reveal Australian government censors monitored social media posts protesting about Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates – and pressured Facebook and Twitter to shut them down.
Clarissa Bye
New freedom of information documents reveal the Federal Government was secretly pressuring Facebook to censor information about lawful public protests against Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
The FOI documents show a social media team within a “National Incident Room” in the Health Department also pressured Twitter to try to shut down posts by then sitting Liberal MP Craig Kelly railing against censorship.
Mr Kelly said the revelations highlighted the dangers of the Albanese Government’s new “misinformation” social media laws – and that attempts to censor his tweets ridiculing former Premier Gladys Berejiklian over lockdowns was “banana republic stuff”.
The secret team of censors, located in the Sirius Building in Canberra, also wanted to remove an entire group devoted the medical stories of people injured by vaccines saying they had 743 members and they wanted to “flag it before it got too many more” as their stories were “unsubstantiated”— but Facebook refused.
The censors were on friendly terms with Facebook staff, exchanging daily emails and chit chat about going on paternity leave and signing off with happy emojis.
In April 2021, at the height of the pandemic, the government censors asked Facebook to shut down an Australian group called United Collective, attaching screenshots of the group promoting marches against lockdowns and mandate policies.
“Happy Monday, I hope you both had a good weekend,” the public servant, whose name was redacted, wrote to the Facebook team.
Health Department censors asked Facebook to censor a social media page that promoted protests against vaccine mandates. One of the FOI documents showing Health Department officials asking Facebook to shut down a protest page in April 12, 2021.
“We believe this group infringes on Facebook’s policy as it has promoted events and calls to action advocating against the Covid-19 vaccine and also spread misinformation to push this message.
“I’ve also included a snip of the recent media on the page that you can see is quite openly against Covid-19 requirements and has numerous petitions being promoted in the comments on the posts.”
The snippets include posters promoting legal demonstrations in February that year in capital cities under the banner “Millions March against mandatory Covid vaccinations”, including in Sydney’s Hyde Park, where chef Pete Evans spoke.
Facebook replied saying they reviewed the group and deleted nine pieces of content “for violation of our policies”.
The government official then replied asking why they didn’t just remove the group as a whole.
“There is demonstrated evidence the group is purely designed to go against Covid information by the posts it allows,” they argued.
In response, the Facebook employee said: “The group has posted a large volume of content which does not violate our policies.”
The censors also targeted Mr Kelly, an outspoken former Liberal MP who campaigned against lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
“We’ve got the Department of Health wanting to censor a post by me complaining about censorship, it’s beyond ridiculous,” he said.
“The documents also show the government trying to shut down people spreading information about a lawful protest against government policy – that’s banana republic stuff.”
Twitter refused a request to censor some of his tweets, stating on 27 April 2021 that: “we didn’t find a violation of our rules in the content you reported”.
The tweet that Australian Government censors asked Twitter to remove, which was made by then MP Craig Kelly on August 3, 2021, about the lockdowns.
In another, under the heading “We’ve got your report about Craig KellyMP” on August 2021 Twitter said they’d received the complaint about Mr Kelly tweeting:
“Looking desperate and running out of ideas … harming people’s mental health with endless lockdowns, raw abuse of police power … Ignoring Israeli (followed by a symbol of a needle) Shame Gladys Shame Time to resign.”
It included a newspaper cartoon ridiculing ex-premier Ms Berejiklian.
“They were attempting to censor political discussion,” Mr Kelly said.
“The Morrison Government was trying to shut me down and shut down my political speech on Twitter.
“Pressuring of Twitter by a secret unit inside (former Health Minister) Greg Hunt’s Ministry for Health to censor an elected member of parliament was misfeasance in public office.”
‘Orwellian’ misinformation bill exempts government but not Opposition MPs
A Health Department spokesman did not respond to queries about what the budget of the unit was, or Mr Kelly’s complaints about being censored, saying it wanted Australians to have “access to credible evidence based health information”.
“Throughout the pandemic the Department monitored and responded to COVID-19 and vaccine related misinformation on social media.
“Where the department identified posts or accounts which may not be consistent with the policies of each social media company, the Department raised these with the companies to consider.”
I’m looking forward to catching up with Kelly at CPAC. In the meantime, ponder the above. What a disgrace.
Chairman Dan of Sictoria –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCNuO0w9ZVQ
Worse; free speech is in their party platform.
The Guardian is laughing at the government:
‘Finance department hires consultant to advise on hiring consultants in move compared to ABC’s Utopia’
Katy Gallagher has hired ethicist Simon Longstaff to advise on how to handle PwC.
I’d suggest the first item on his agenda should be: ‘What is ethics?’