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Before I go into dissecting your silly comment, let me give you the lay of the land. Blogs work like this. You post a comment/opinion and it becomes immediately contestable by anyone with posting rights on the blog. You may not like this, because of your previous working background that taught you your utterances are the law, but it doesn’t work like this in the real world.

Not that it’s any of your business but I haven’t worked for the gov for 12+ years, I also worked for a large family owned private Co 2004/2009, as well as owning and running several small businesses over the years while in gov employ.

Okay, so while you were in government employ you were moonlighting on the side, so let’s guess which side of your working life suffered? Knowing what we do about life in the fast lane of government work, I would be guessing the part that suffered the most was , oh the government side? In other words the taxpayer was helping you out, but who am I to debate that seeing you were proudly wearing the Vicpol uniform.

Last time I left the gov I had only $32k in super, even with a seriously ill wife I have managed to build that into a couple of mill in the last 12 years through hard work.

In other words what regular normal people do. Impressive.

I hold almost zero shares ($10k) zero bonds and have managed to be debt free and own a small motel as an investment. I have six kids all doing well.

Okay, so what’s that got to do with the argument you have against immigration I have no idea.

I don’t come here and call people names and abuse anyone who disagrees with me

That makes two of us, but I don’t see the point.

I make a few observations and ask the occasional question and if I can answer some others. I look for pleasant people with something to say, unfortunately it’s just abuse and shouting at times.

You mean like last evening? Every single one of those entanglements was initiated by others, however I’ll be damned if I don’t get back twice as hard. You probably wouldn’t appreciate that because of your previous work in the Vicpol where your biases were irrelevant to others as you laid down the law against anyone who disagreed.

I would rather a smaller population with a pleasant quality of life and enjoyed the Aussie culture that we used to have, if the price of that is fewer migrants and (possibly) a lower standard of living, well I can live with that.

My parents came here and made a life for themselves. At the very beginning, they couldn’t speak a word of English, but they went to language school. Not them, but a notable number of their friends for the old country were accosted and abused by pals of yours wearing the exact same uniform you did for decades.. while drawing a taxpayer funded stipend. You prick, you tell me you don’t like immigrants. If you wish to take that line then you too should head back you own roots and leave the place to Aboriginals. That’s where your stupid argument ends up.

I believe that flooding the country with migrants, most of whom have no connection to our culture or western values is the wrong way to go.

What gives you the singular right to be telling us you don’t want foreigners here, Sgt? If you don’t like talking or mingling with brown people, then don’t. It’s not as though their missing out. As much as I hate to say so, unlike you, the vast bulk of these newly arrived aren’t marching off to sign onto a government stipend and then moonlighting.

All these people will eventually get old, all them them have fewer children each generation till they match our birthrate, mass migration is just kicking the can down the road. Those who benefit from it, have no connection to our culture (or what’s left of it). They see themselves as international people and will move wherever they can feed off other people.

We will have the problem in the next decade when the welfare begins to accumulate and the pyramid below won’t have enough young people to support it, you innumerate.

Here’s something you can do to demonstrate your views are aligned with your own actions. Don’t ever draw on any government support such as medicare, hospital visits etc. That way, you will live the life in parallel where young people aren’t supporting you.

You still haven’t replied to the issues I posed and the reasons we’re in a pickle with respect to land prices.

Go!

Now please leave me alone, if you decide to fall into one of your hate filled, abusive invective rants, take it somewhere else. If on the other hand you can make a point in an astute and yet pleasant way, go ahead.

I’m not abusing you as I’m responding in exactly the same tone as you have to me. I just don’t particularly like ignorant arguments.

what about Virgin and United via San Francisco at around 3k?

Also, from the Hun.

Tensions emerge as Lidia Thorpe’s relative is elected to lead Victoria’s Indigenous assembly

Tensions have emerged among Victoria’s Indigenous assembly, after the election of Lidia Thorpe’s cousin and his wife to key leadership positions.

David Penberthy:

Imagine any political organisation aiming to win hearts and minds by deciding the best way to shift public opinion was to arrive unannounced at a person’s private home and harass them and their family at the crack of dawn.

Imagine a supposedly reputable news organisation in the ABC deeming such an event worthy of recording, effectively legitimising and encouraging it by providing the coverage the protesters craved.

Both of these things happened in Australia this week when members of the extremist environmental group Disrupt Burrup Hub went to the private home of Woodside Petroleum chief executive Meg O’Neill to protest the company’s expansion of energy projects on the Burrup Peninsula in the WA Pilbara region.

Not her office, but her house. At 7am on Tuesday no less, while O’Neill, her husband and daughter were waking up to start the day.

What a complete pack of weirdos.

For O’Neill and her family the whole process was clearly unnerving, if not terrifying, as they had no idea who these protesters were, or what they intended to do as they arrived and entered their private property.

“This was not a ‘harmless protest’,’’ O’Neill said. “It was designed to threaten me, my partner and our daughter in our home.

“Such acts by extremists should be condemned by anyone who respects the law and believes people should be safe to go about their business at home and at work.’’

The incident is a case study into the lunatic inner workings of the political fanatic. It has ramifications beyond the world of environmental protest and shows how protesters on the extremes now dehumanise the people they oppose.

The nature of that dehumanisation was laid bare courtesy of the completely blasé attitude of Disrupt Burrup Hub media spokesman Jesse Noakes to what unfolded.

With the four protesters arrested by WA Police at O’Neill’s home on Tuesday morning, Noakes issued a completely bizarre statement when they subsequently appeared in court.

His ravings received an unsurprisingly generous run courtesy of the left-wing Guardian news site, letting Noakes blather on unchallenged with his impertinent suggestion that it was actually O’Neill and her family who had somehow got the whole thing out of perspective.

He said one of the protesters was “a courageous 19-year-old” armed only with water balloons; that they had made sure that the rear entrance to O’Neill’s house was not blocked in case she and her family wanted to leave during the protest, and breezily ended by saying O’Neill shouldn’t have been worried about them invading her house as they had no intention of doing that anyway.

As if O’Neill and her family could or should have known any of that.

Noakes also suggested that it was the protesters who were the victims of what he called heavy-handed “counter-terror” policing, and then made some genuinely unfathomable remarks about how when they were taken away in squad cars, the song Every Breath You Take was playing, suggesting the message from the coppers was “I’ll be watching you”, as stated in the songs lyrics.

If this bloke turned up on my lawn at the crack of dawn I’d be tempted to reverse over him.

My column last week was panned by climate sceptics for stating that the increasing frequency of punishingly hot weather in Europe and the United States was an urgent reminder that we need co-ordinated global action to address the reality of climate change. It is about time we listened to mainstream science and changed our ways.

But the idea that we can simply shut every impure industry overnight, as asserted by hardliners from groups such as Disrupt Burrup or Extinction Rebellion, would see humanity’s ability to live, work and feed itself grind to an immediate halt in the current absence of viable alternatives.

But it is not like those alternatives are not being sought, with real urgency. Commercial realities are such that companies like Woodside and Santos are also painfully aware of the pressure to get their house in order.

Indeed, the need to decarbonise as a matter of urgency was the entire premise of this years Oil and Petroleum Conference in Adelaide, where over several days the city was disrupted as protesters from Extinction Rebellion abseiled off a city bridge and vandalised a cafe which had nothing to do with Santos, but just happened to be located in its lobby.

And as per the response to the outrage at O’Neill’s house, the attitude of the protesters to all that Adelaide mayhem was: Meh. If you think that’s inconvenient, just wait until the planet explodes.

So too with Deb O’Neill. If you think finding four hippies on your lawn at dawn is frightening for you and your family, just wait until your family is consumed by flames.

It’s not so much a political opinion, more like a religious one, where the Book of Revelation meets Tim Flannery, David Suzuki and Sir David Attenborough, creating an unchallengeable apocalyptic theology which renders any form of behaviour legitimate in the face of the coming inferno.

Against this mindset, any rational debate is impossible.

Married as I am to someone who once had photocopied pictures of bullets left in her home letterbox and needed police protection to launch a book about women in politics, forgive me for being a bit old-fashioned about the idea that people whose views differ from yours should not be challenged on their front verandah.

And as for any news organisation that thinks stuff like this is all part of the ruck and maul, merely a sign of the impassioned yearning for real action on climate change, shame on them too.

It’s part of a spectrum of political extremism which sees lunatics with bull horns, bear skin hats and confederate flags occupy the seat of democracy because they’re not happy with an election result. Basket cases all, in the same mad and dangerous basket.

Forester
Aug 6, 2023 11:43 AM

JC
Aug 6, 2023 10:38 AM

…who will fund your accrued benefits.

Can’t we just tax our public servants to prosperity?

LOL At least 90%, right?

Knuckle Dragger

Aug 6, 2023 12:34 PM

Drumgold gorn (the Hun):

ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold, 58, has offered his resignation in the wake of the leaked Sofronoff report and will enter retirement.

Sources confirmed to news.com.au that he had tendered his resignation and the ACT government will announce his departure on Monday.

Thoughts and prayers.

Whatever happened to “due consideration of the report over the next month by the ACT Shire Council”?

“Well, if you vote no, there will be no more Welcome to Country” … Khloe Kardashian Burney

I think that was Marcia “Isn’t She Lovely” Langton.

But as you mentioned her, Burney’s just announced a $6.4m grant for the Yothu Yindi Foundation.

calli
Aug 6, 2023 1:34 PM

As I said, Sancho. Curiosity.

And yes…it came close to killing the Cat.

Err … wut?

feelthebern
Aug 6, 2023 1:45 PM

A non-prosecution clause to avoid political embarrassment?
Sounds a bit like an IBAC type thingy to me.

I was thinking something along the lines of the ACT rate payers picking up the tab on any litigation in perpetuity.

Oh, right.
Yes, in typical Liar’s fashion, there will be a sudden concern for fiscal responsibility.
“He has paid a heavy price. There is nothing to be gained by pursuing lengthy and expensive litigation.”
(With a backgrounder to journos “He’s fragile. His father committed suicide, you know”)

HowardAp
1 hour ago
Treaty and reparations and sovereignty have widespread ramifications. ‘Yes’ voters may be ready to hand in the land titles to their homes with their ballot papers, but most of us won’t.

Daily Mail

Transgender ‘Muslim’ Brianna Kingsley sues boyfriend for keeping her TESTICLES in jar in his fridge

Brianna Kingsley has claimed in court papers that her former partner has kept her testicles in a mason jar in his fridge
Her former boyfriend William Wojciechowski has said that he has been the victim of harassment by Kingsley and that he ‘doesn’t owe her anything’
Kingsley has also been previously in court after being charged with felony assault when she is said to have pulled a knife on a roommate

The outlets not reporting Dumgold falling on his sword as of now:-
Nein.
ABC.
SBS.

Transgender ‘Muslim’ Brianna Kingsley sues boyfriend for keeping her TESTICLES in jar in his fridge

Thanks trannies, you manage to give me a lot of entertainment.

It turns my stomach. And I just had wonderful lunch at a farm gate cafe in our valley. Damn!

Bush telegraph says Tanya Plibersek will be making her move, when the referendum is defeated.

Interesting. I think “her time has passed”. She withdrew from the race at the wrong time before the election. I actually think she would have won it then as she had a reasonable profile. Not now – she was given the “poisoned chalice” of the Environment portfolio. Jason Clare got good press after his public appearance a few months ago. Like Minns, he still looks youthful & energetic.

Bush telegraph says Tanya Plibersek will be making her move, when the referendum is defeated.
Tanya won’t get up .. the curse of the druggie hubby will always weigh her down .. even the Liars pardy won’t accept a doper as “handbag” ..!
The laff is Luigi has created such a poor image of PM that he makes Billy look , nearly, acceptable ..
thank God “the chap” is a rug muncher or else he might have had a chance but too many countries on the international front wouldn’t be impressed .. !

Facebook must be tweaking the ads I see by what sort of posts I read. Just getting ads for an orthopaedic memory foam cushion for the car seat. Looks good, plus it handily has a cut out hole at the back. They say it is for spinal support, but I know it would work for truck drivers who take breaks at the Hay Truck Stop.

“If you don’t vote for it there won’t be another chance” … Luigi the Unbelievable.

Well, for me at least.

Take New Zealand, which has had a treaty with the Maori since 1840. Where’s the success there?

Maori are still more than three times more likely to be jailed, twice more likely to be unemployed, twice more likely to have children in poverty, and three times more likely to have children in care.

Really up to da bruvvas from here.

Had 3AW on in the car this morning.
For those not from Danistan it is hosted by Darren James, Nick McCallum and Heidi Murphy are all you need.
James is the “don’t frighten the horses” type there to read the funeral home ads.
Murphy is a soft left SJW who tries to placate the conservative audience.
McCallum is unapologetically far left.
They had the guy from Redbridge (Kos Samaras) to discuss da Voice poll.
James : “So the Yes vote is dead then?” (Gasp!)
Samaras seems a fairly dispassionate, campaign manager type guy (ex ALP).
He basically agreed that the Yes vote was on life support, their campaign was the worst in living memory and they didn’t realise how hard it would be to claw back votes.
McCallum : “Yes but what about the undecideds?”
Samaras : “Well, that is my point. The Yes vote needs to pick up two-thirds of the undecideds. I can’t emphasise how hard that is if you look carefully at the numbers.”
McCallum (through gritted teeth) : “But, but, surely as the vote gets closer people will focus on it and when they understand it they will consider voting Yes?” (i.e. “if only voters weren’t so stupid”).
Samaras : “No, that is not what our research shows. That is why I say it is going to be hard to pick up stray undecided votes. People who were initially unsure were more likely to move towards No when given the available information.”
McCallum : (Now sounding desparate) “The 18-35s are strongly in favour. What can be done to swing that group further.”
Samaras : (obviously scratching his head) “Err … well … that group is already at 65%, so … ”
Obviously Samaras is across his numbers. He is thinking the 18-35 Yes vote would have to go to 107% for Yes to get up.
McCallum sounded like the Collingwood cheer squad.

I’m cheap about airfares as a matter of principle

Sound policy. Although it came under review after flying PER-LHR with Royal Brunei.

No difference in the United States.

American Indians also 40 per cent more likely to kill themselves, and 38 per cent more likely to be jailed. The men tend to die five years younger than white men, and are nearly twice more likely to be unemployed.

Again, it’s worst where they live in more “Indian” ways, governing themselves.

The Navajo Nation is the biggest of America’s 326 Indian reservations – larger than Tasmania – and boasts that 82 per cent of its people “still practice the traditional Navajo lifestyle”.

Yet despite its oil, gas, uranium and casinos, unemployment is more than 40 per cent, and 40 per cent of families live below the poverty rate. The Navajo are twice more likely to kill themselves.

Albanese can blame colonisation all he likes, but Indigenous culture also counts.
More Coverage
Evasive Albo treating us like fools on treaty
Leftist revolution gobbles up its Dark Emu deserters

If you want Western wealth and health, you need Western ways. Tribal ways don’t cut it

Only until they figure out that their inheritance will be torn from their grasp as Abo reparations via death duties.

The younger generation must be reminded of these matters…

You should definitely try to visit a couple of the convents in Salamanca.
Las Dueñas and the Santa Claras, that one for the Angelus at midday.
I think they are pretty much next door to each other.

Grandchildren grow up very fast.

Oh, yes. You turn around and the horrors are looking down on you. Literally.

Calli – I have found the opposite, in some way. Mine are amazing creatures.

Granddaughter (17) is terribly woke, but so intelligent that there is hope for her, AND, she is very respectful and loving towards her grandmother! Grandson (20) is very 1940s and has got an incredible “bullshit detector” though he struggles academically. He is also respectful and loving towards grandmother.

I look at them and see hope for the future.

If you want Western wealth and health, you need Western ways. Tribal ways don’t cut it

Yep. Little johnnie said this. What a pity he has balls the size of desiccated peas. He might have had a shot at being a PM if he had bigger gonads. But then look at tone. In fact you can put the libs testicle situation to song:

Bishop has only got one ball,
Johnnie has two but very small,
Tone has something sim’lar,
But poor old turdball has no balls at all.

Rosie

I liked Portugal very much, the people are so nice and the food is so nice. However, if you’re looking for a beach holiday that’s not the place as the North Atlantic is cold water. We didn’t go very far down south, around the bend where the sea is supposed to be warmer. If you’re wanting to travel in the summer to Europe and want a beach holiday, Portugal isn’t the place.

Cronkite, who’s johnnie? Surely not Howard.

Cronkite

You can’t accuse Howard of being dickless. He took several risks that showed lots of courage. This is a centre left nation that began from birth when prisoners were looking to The Man to lead them.

A study reported in the New England Journal that the majority of lawyers have tiny hands – baby sized ones. The study was done in the US, but I’m sure it carries over here too. Hence Cronkite’s two hand policy of taking a slash.

You can’t accuse Howard of being dickless.

I didn’t. Read the fine print head prefect: I said he had tiny testicles and dick. The guy signed us up to globall warming, got rid of our guns, persuaded turdball to stay and did nothing about the abc when he had thumping majorities in both houses. He’s got a white picket up his arse.

My hands are adroit and powerful, equipped to rapidly turn Affidavits or thump recalcitrants in the gob, as circumstances demand.