Now that’s a pantry I like, not a carrot in sight. And no refrigeration in those days either!
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Real love and devotion to each other. We hear about the divorces and cheating of celebrities but hardly ever of…
Ants know what’s healthy and good for them.
Petrol pumping petrol when electric is out. Human ingenuity.
Thanks Tom.
Representations from the voice would not be regarding the constitution but from a constitutional body.
And it would still come down to the grey area of what receiving representations involved.
A constitutional body that claimed it was simply being ignored would require clarification as to what acknowledged representations would look like.
For example, a formal response that satisfied the Voice, which simply need only to insist that their assertions had not been properly considered.
Would the High Court suggest there is body that can tell the Federal Parliament what to do and follow their instructions? That’s what you’re suggesting. How is this possible?
The HC determines that the parliament is acting consistent with the Constitution. The screech will be in the Constitution. I’ve explained how clause (ii), representations, and clause (iii) parliament obligations to the screech, will work.
tbh, it’s the infantile gibber that’s the most annoying
I still have two pairs of shoes I’ve saved over the years as they’ve been hardly worn, the first a Matinez Valero purchased 1993 from David Jones.
The second an Icon-7 purchased from Peter Sheppard 2001 – cost me near to $400 back then as our dollar continued to drop.
Just looking at them still gives me great pleasure.
the purpose built, billion dollar detention facility ?
nothing to see here, they’re only tax dollars right?
… mind you, only a few hundred thousand went my way
so wtf would I no?
Okay, show us how it would work with an example. I’ll write the example for you.
The First Nations body makes a representation on say some element of spending in the health sector(Medicare) that is currently being introduced into parliament as legislation. The Scream’s body says they don’t like the proposal because it doesn’t contain anywhere near enough to satisfy the “unmet needs” of the aboriginals.
The governing majority refuses to accept the representation.
What can happens then?
Long ago commenter (Gab) used to talk about her massive shoe fetish.
Wasn’t the claim that vaccine refused were going to be herding into ‘quarantine’ facilities?
As it was it was only used for people who were unable to isolate at home.
The Mickleham quarantine hub will close this week, eight months after opening.
The $580 million centre had isolated 2168 people when the state government decided to shut it.
Construction costs were $267,527 per guest or $1.1 million per available bed.
It is probably going to become emergency accommodation for people fleeing bushfires or floods.
My ruminations, very much speculative rather than predictive, are that the High Court on one of its excursions, might constue implied obligations on the legislature not formally written down.
I see it as a possibility.
What is less speculative is how quickly our political elite drop to their knees and kiss the ring whenever accused of racism.
It has to date led us to the mess we already find ourselves in.
Reparations could spark a legal dogfight of monumental proportions. To begin with, what is the qualification to receive reparations? An Aboriginal great-great grandfather?
They might be claiming that, but Redbridge found the opposite.
That the Undecideds broke 65% to NO.
Another interesting aspect of the Redbridge polling was the “stiffness” of voting intentions.
Asked about their level of certainty of their preference, 37% of No voters considered themselves locked in, compared with only 21% of Yes voters.
That is soft as butter.
Let’s face facts, The squeal like everything else dealing with this group: it’s always about money. That’s what it boils down to.
Good to see that tonight Bolt interviewed Keith Windschuttle re his piece on the Big Man culture of complete nepotism and money grabbing of Royalties funds that surrounds Albo’s hero Galarrwuy Yunupingu, whose top dog clan is gaining profits from running the Garma festival at up to $5000 a person entry. A mansion, four wives in other mansions, a helicopter to fly between them, new Toyotas, and a culture of handing out only to his close mates was all discussed. We should be disgusted at what went on there and on how only 50% of the kids go to school, plus the fact that we are building an expensive new ‘cultural’ high school to ‘assist’ in the midst of this nepotism. Bolt didn’t mention that last bit.
If you look closely, you’ll spot Christopher Reeve at @4:11. Homage.
Superman Destroys The World Engine – Terraforming Scene – Man of Steel – 4k 60 FPS
In which case some in my family ambit at the GGP level are going to be sitting pretty.
Except they have no interest in making such a claim, they’ve just got on with life.
Can you post a link?
pointless and useless
that’s correct and a couple of thousand were indeed interned at Mickelham
my original issue at the time, was that a year after the ’emergency!!’
money and resources were still being squandered on a grand scale for a pointless and useless piece of shit
sancho, KD and JC can spin any old frog-shit they like
their innuendo and intrigue plot is more than a little bit Disney
Well, I can’t read. 🙁 It was that way all along. 🙂
This thing is so cooked, now factor in the turnout and informal votes too – it can never get more than 3 States to say YES.
It’s over. Albanese has 170 hours and five minutes to pull the pin.
mongs
u forgot mongs
v impordant to say mongs
every time
The First Nations body makes a representation on say some element of spending in the health sector(Medicare) that is currently being introduced into parliament as legislation. The Scream’s body says they don’t like the proposal because it doesn’t contain anywhere near enough to satisfy the “unmet needs” of the aboriginals.
The governing majority refuses to accept the representation.
What can happens then?
A classic case. First you tell me whether either major political party, the liars or libs would resist the screech representation about such a tear and fear issue as 3rd nations health.
Perhaps a better hypothetical would be the screech representing Australia stop spending $trillions on defence and invest in bark canoes and boomerangs instead. I could see that happening with some of the 3rd nation grifters currently running the show.
The sad common thread.
Is used to own and wear quite a few of my fave Bally designer shoes at one time. All tossed now, and these days I spend a lot of time in white sneakers. I have three pairs of those, and you can wear them with most things to most places except anything formal.
Comfort hit home after I broke my foot in 2020.
For shame, LizzieB, don’t you know that was all part of traditional Aboriginal culture?
stfu sancho
do you do anything but shit-talk ?
Okay, I was being hypothetical and not dealing with reality. I’m trying to understanf what would happen in that case if the Squeal got through.
Okay, use this example, seeing you’re so bitchy in not using mine. What happens in your example if the Squeal makes a representation (as you called it) and the government disagrees? Could the High Court actually force the government to divert funding to the Squealers?
confirm or deny
catweazle beard or not?
we need 2 no
I told my father I definitely remembered an Aboriginal great grandparent. He invited me to look up “disinherited” in the dictionary.
Hairy’s busy watching the Matildas vs Denmark. He seems quite taken with it.
Well, he did attend a lot of our daughter’s netball and basketball games and he is all for women in sport – as long as they are real women not pretend ones.
I’ve never been the sporting type of mum. One reason why I am not my daughter’s ideal mother. Too bookish. Not a social butterfly either.
try?
and if you don’t succeed … try again
LOL.
US Treasury Department’s quarterly net-borrowing estimates for the second half of 2023 just came out, and that number is a sickening $1.85 TRILLION.
And the Fed’s taking out about 80 bill a month reversing QE. !0 year bond is now comfortably about 4% and climbing.
I’ve just been dipping again into Fey Von Hassell’s autobiography of being a ‘kinship prisoner’ of the Nazis. This would make a hugely interesting movie, as it’s got everything. The Von Stauffenberg assassination failure and its aftermath, the rounding up on various high profile aristocratic kin regardless of whether they had any involvement or not, the forced suicides of some of the men, the removal of very young children from the women to put them in unknown orphanages, the group of aristocrats and senior political figures moved from place to place, including concentration camps, the high treatment they received as well as the maltreatment by the perplexed Nazis in Hugo Boss uniforms, and Fey’s falling in love with one of the Von Stauffenberg men, only at the end of the war to have to say goodbye and return to her husband and find her children. One can imagine the wonderful costumes of the 40’s and the high life lived at first being cinematically fascinating, as well as the conflicts and emotions between the imprisoned. A truly interesting and historic tale just crying out for a decent movie.
Here trilly trilly trilly…
Any other West Australia Cats remember a prominent activist, whose initials were K C?
Seems he first enlisted in the Australian Army, claiming to be of Maori origins….
Okay, use this example, seeing you’re so bitchy in not using mine.
I’m never bitchy; pouty, mysterious and majestically aloof but never bitchy.
What happens in your example if the Squeal makes a representation (as you called it) and the government disagrees? Could the High Court actually force the government to divert funding to the Squealers?
Yes it could.
tip for sancho, KD and JC ….
youse should deffo quote my exact words when referring to things I’ve said in the past
it’s not like yr all stuck in some sort of weird time-loop are ya?
you know, where you think that wanking on and on is the only way to break out of the time loop?
but also where the more youse wank, the nearer and nearer the past and future converge
unfortunately leaving youse stuck in the more-or-less permanent ‘now’
… where you’re just nothing but eternal wankers
??
think about it
and get yr hand off each other’s cocks
Really?
Now, since romance is in the air, previously my 2 favourite movie proposal scenes were the final one in P&P 2005 and the glorious, earthy scene in 1923 between Spencer and Alex but this one from the 2011 Jane Eyre gives them a run for their money.
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Santa Monica 90
Really?
Really truly; as certainly as I sit here musing about chinos and cheroots. We live in bizarro world.
Here’s a rather silly synopsis of the main story of Fey Von Hassell as a supplement to the Valkyrie movie made re Von Stauffenberg. I was looking to see if anyone had made a film yet of Fey’s story; it seems not.
I found this book in a yellowed paperback copy in the back of a shelf of books left long ago by travellers in the highlands of Malaysia. Glad I found it and read it. I was searching for something to replace the book that I had left behind by mistake in the airport hotel in Kuala Lumpur.
I have to say, the funniest comment this evening was
Treblinka- Down Under.
“Inglorious Basterds” was totally based on that book, Liz. Brad Pitt was Von Hassell’s lover. Watch it, it’s pretty good.
As bizarre as it sounds, it seems as if Dumgeld was convinced that the Sofronoff enquiry would not only vindicate him personally, but also sweep away hundreds of years of criminal law tradition, including the presumption of innocence, the right to cross examination of an accuser, and the disclosure of all evidence by the prosecution.
The point is, his views weren’t formed in a vacuum. Somebody has led him to believe he wasn’t committing career seppuku. On the contrary, he would be immortalised for being the catalyst for this revolution in the law.
We have to ask what role magic mushrooms had to play in all this.
well, I just did search.
seems that nobody actually said those words
… maybe they were in yr head JC ?
Mark Dice:
“Controlling The Thoughts of a Billion People”
it’s pretty funny in a kind of perverse wank-world kind of way
there’s the things people actually said … and then there’s there’s shit in JC’s head
THAT interview between Andrew Bold and Keith Windschuttle….
Sorry Sanchez.
I misquoted. It was Auschwitz Down Under.
Dot.
Another thing about da Voice Newspoll.
It was taken over six weeks from mid May to end July, so some responses are nearly two months old.
The trend in polling has been relentlessly downwards for Yessers, and I would suggest a snap poll taken today would be even worser for the Yessers.
It has totally tanked in Victoria, from mid 50’s Yes, to 44%.
I think this is the opportunity for the ever increasing ranks of the disgruntled to take a whack at Hunchback (think Comm Games cancellation).
I hear today the idea floated that Hunchback could direct public servants to campaign for da Voice.
That’ll work a treat.
Auschwitz, Auschwitz, Auschwitz!
Oi, Oi, Oi!
truth is Pinocchio , you just make shit up
No problems.
It’s not like you’re a DPP or anything.
lol Cohenite, nothing more romantic than being told you’re poor and ugly but he’ll marry you anyway and into his arms she falls. Jane Eyre not my fave romantic novel. Give me Lizzy Bennet any day for a robust and assertive heroine.
This is a good spat around a proposal. The sexual tension in it is very high. That’s what makes it so great when she finally accepts him .. later, after all is explained.
Jay Bonnar’s anecdote is statistically impossible if the COVID vaccines are safe
Did Obama’s chef drown in three feet of water?
Throw All the Bums Out
Whereas this is probably more realistic as to what happened, but it doesn’t have the same physicality in the chemistry between the two. No close heavy breathing.
Anyway, all well that ends well in Pride and Prejudice. Much loved by generations of women. And some men.
Not outside Italy and certain, predominantly ethnic, licensed venues.
I saw Billy Connolly do this, in Perth ,years ago. Some drunk barged in, halfway though, and tried to heckle Billy Connolly.
His arze was sawn up, into very small pieces, and delivered to the audience….never try to heckle Billy Connoly…..
For the record my daily footwear is a pair of black RMs which initially saw service with an oft worn charcoal suit but now set off black tracksuit pants. Not sure I would bother with the RMs again, the prices have gone a bit silly since I got these. One or two re-soles should see me out. Big fan of Uniqulo thermal gear over winter too.
Bear
But at least the Cuban heels haven’t worn out..
Will fit right in if I ever make it to Diggers and Dealers too.
Lol
Mutt of the week…
To anyone concerned about the price of medical procedures on animals, yes, that’s the cost of getting out the gas and scalpels, sans the state underwriting huge slabs off the bill like they do for human medicine. I’ll also remind youse that vets have one of the flattest wage growth curves over any career, so if you’ve got an old hand doing the work, appreciate it.
Heels are generally fine. I spend too much time on hard surfaces for leather soles. The first port of call is always a bootmaker after a couple of weeks to rough up the sole a bit.
Wendyball comment-
odd how the commentators wanted to get Mary Fowler an OAM for middling midfield stuff. Yep, it’s a team game… but Carpenter in particular did shedloads more work. Is it cos young Fowler has already caught the sponsors’ eyes?
Wally Dalí> Watched the game … it was really quite c.r.a.p football tho good result for the aussies. Japan are miles above these two teams in attacking ability, speed and skills.
Beats me why so many teams in the WWC keep hoofing the ball into the goal mouth when there are no players around and the few that can run fast enough to make it to the goal can’t head the ball anyway.
Mediterranean cruising
On board the ship Viking Sky for three weeks. A smaller cruise liner with a focus on culture and education – one of the maxims is “no casinos, no kids”. Everything is very Scandinavian – blonde woods; modern furnishings, clean lines etc. So far so good.
Went to the Salvadore Dali museum in Figueres, Spain, on an outing in our first port of Palomas. It’s an old theatre the man himself – who lived here originally and in his final years – spent years making into an icon to how own works and selected bits of his life. Now surrounded of course by shops featuring melting clocks and so on. The building has a row of giant eggs along the top of one outside wall.
The museum features several hundred works of Dali, most of them confirming a lot of his stuff was merely odd, but occasionally absolutely brilliant. The centrepiece is a 1940s roaster called “Rainy Taxi” with three mannequins inside, all in an advanced stage of decomposition. It rains periodically inside the car.
The Museum has Atomic Leda, one of my favourites, and a giant version of The Persistence of Memory, his most famous work.
Second port was a wipeout – winds were too strong to get in to Montepellier. This is not unusual – it’s called the mistral and blows 100 days a year. The temperatures have dropped as well, only to high 20’s for a few days now. So on to Marseille, and for me anyway they can keep it. Seemed congested, rubbishy, full of modern buildings and a lot of graffiti. The main cathedral was interesting looking though.
I did an outing to the old port, but it was all tourist trap shops. Took a walk to the old city hall. In WWII when the Nazis invaded they hung swastika banners from the roof. One of the locals took a shot at a German Army officer that afternoon and killed him. So, in reprisal the Nazis dynamited the old buildings on either side of the city hall – hence the modern boring stuff built on the old foundations.
Mrs TE on her first day onboard and in the first port did a trip to Tosser de Mar. The ground is so rocky there, they bury the dead above ground. Was a gorgeous historic town with the inevitable castle on top of the hill. She also did a cruise onboard a 1915 vintage boat, travelling along the Costa Brava and had a swim in the Mediterranean. Reported it as very salty and floating was easy. The water is clear and beautiful blue.
While I did the city tour of Marseilles Mrs TE did something interesting and more picturesque, going to Cassis, an old fishing village, and a boat cruise to Calanques National Park – towering limestone cliffs with protected sealife and birdlife. There was a “petite train” down to the village.
Tomorrow Monte Carlo.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Al Goodwyn.
Tina Norton.
Thanks once again Tom.
It’s funny that you were told the buildings on either side of the town hall were dynamited in reprisal for the killing of a German officer TE.
Maybe that was part of the story but the entire
1st arrondissiment was dynamited by the Germans in world war two to rid Marseilles of people the Germans considers scum.
Above that the older town was spared, including the area around the old greek agora, and is well worth a walking tour, the museum of Marseille was fanatic especially the Roman boats discovered in the original harbour as well as the ancient monastery on the other side of the Port and Notre Dame de la garde up on the hill.
And the old fort and resistance museum.
I never got out to the island, weather too rough.
the Marseille roundup
Councils everywhere tried that crap in 2013…it was so on the nose it got “pocket vetoed” by Rudd, King and eventually Abbott.
Difference is Elbow is not enshrined as a PM he’s got at best a 4 year gig.
The Yes campaign expects a surge in support from churches and other faith leaders in the coming weeks, as Anthony Albanese warns against writing off the Indigenous Voice to parliament, noting that people said the same about his chances of becoming prime minister.
So the Left, which has been persecuting churches, now wants churchgoers to vote for them? Sheesh.
MLK jr was a Baptist pastor, they certainly seem to’ve forgotten that and forgotten his I have a dream speech.
Members of Vicpol have been told they are “expected” to vote for the voice.
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
– Kurt Vonnegut
I enjoyed the Rochester proposal, cohenite. Going to check it out to be sure, but I think it’s Brontë’s book word for word. At least portions of it anyway, perhaps taken from different scenes. All the sisters’ works sit on my bookshelf.
She thinks he’s attracted to Ingram (and no doubt he is) along with the rest of their glittering social set, but she has seeped into his heart. She’s the real deal and he knows it. Unfortunately, desperate people are tempted to take shortcuts, and he is very desperate.
Wasikowska makes a perfect Jane. From memory they fiddled around with and compressed the story of the missionaries -their life and motives and family tensions – which was an interesting sub-plot, but very subordinate to the main story.
Fassbender made a good Rochester, but I always see him as Orson Welles.
I’ll have to read and watch it again.
And how are they going to enforce that? Make all police officers do postal votes and hand them in at the office for verification?
Were Knight and Broelman supporting the screech?
Calli, for me it’s George C. Scott with Susannah York as Jane.
$400 for shoes that you can wear on the beach or fishing?
What possible purpose do they serve?
Already been done, and has been run at least twice by SBS, in the Sunday afternoon “Nazi stories” slot around dinnertime.
God must have really had it on for her.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2023/08/04/snake-falls-out-of-sky-and-lands-on-woman-both-attacked-by-a-hawk/
And they might just get it. There’s a lot of fuzzy thinking out there, across all denominations.
Kick the church, and by extension individual Christians, and many will take onboard unwarranted guilt. Remember, they desperately want the lives of aborigines in the bush to be better – why give their time and money and resources if they didn’t? A simple tick at the ballot box is nothing compared to that.
I have a different, more pragmatic view, laced with a shed load of cynicism about our “leaders”. Also, thanks to sites like this, I’m better informed on the legal ramifications of Constitutional change. It may be that I’m in the minority.
can’t wear sheesh
Mark Knight reveals himself as a mush minded yes campaigner.
It’s not really about voting.
It’s about suppressing No campaignimg by public servants.
Albo’s decades-long push for a treaty revealed: Anthony Albanese signed a letter demanding reparations in 1986 – as calls grow for Linda Burney to resign after refusing to answer questions
Rub and tug as been rubbing and tugging for ever. Once a commie rat always a commie rat.
That’s the story of the meanderings of the “connected” group.
Which included Bonhoeffer, until he was taken away to be executed.
The cops reckon the poisoning was caused by Death Cap mushrooms.
They’re common enough but look greeny yellow on top and smell like amonia.
We were told as kids they were toadstools and never thought to pick them. I blame these stupid cooking shows that use every half dodgy fungi in cooking instead of a good pink mushie.
Bonhoeffer was a flamer.
Yes, we knew by looking at the gills. Pink or brown, good.
All other colours, maybe not, and nothing from under trees.
But, yes, we have moved to using all sorts of exotic mushrooms and “foraging” has become a thing. If you are going to stray outside standard field mushrooms, you better take your botany book.
“Not today, my child. Please go back to Commiefornia.”
Yesterday Knight’s cartoon depicted Trump’s supporters as being the ravening redneck retards the US MSM has been painting them after the J6 riots (is it still a riot, or have they gone back to calling it an insurrection?)
I think he sometimes lacks depth of perception and cannot see that what is in the MSM news is actually painted prop wheeled in front of something real to block it from view.
Nice trumps good in the Age of Indulgence.
Death cap mushie has white gills.
When we picked them as kids, anything white or yellow … bzzzt.
Summer is the time of the year for festivals!
52 Injured As Migrants Clash At Eritrean Cultural Festival In Sweden (7 Aug)
Ain’t culture grand? Maybe they could have a Swedish festival in Eritrea too. Ikea could feature.
Many years ago, the then president of the ACT mushroom fanciers society died after eating some death cap mushrooms he had collected.
The local council actually had regular warning campaigns each spring, warning of their dangers.
Sorry. I said it was Broelman yesterday with the TDS, which he probably has, but didn’t draw.
As for Knight, it’s a spin on The Voice TV show. Clever, but only emphasises the shallowness of the argument for “Yes”. Vote the affirmative – it’s the cool thing to do.
As convincing as Whitlam’s “It’s Time” campaign. I only hope it isn’t as successful.
Director William Friedkin has died. He gave us The French Connection and The Exorcist.
When The Exorcist came out, my friends and I in high school were desperately trying to pass our fourteen year old selves off as eighteen so we could get into see the film. No amount of make-up fooled the Cinema people. Pubs on the other hand…
The yellow stainers were harder to spot.
They looked OK without picking but once you have a look the gills are slightly grey and they stain yellow when you press the skin. Smell like ammonia as well.
Sancho, this is equivalent to the Soviets who did not tolerate any independent thinking from their proletariat. Also not surprising that this happens in Victoria, our Soviet republic.
Inner city progressives don’t go to church.
My PP won’t be giving political homilies.
Maybe some will, we’ll see what kind of reaction they get.
Erin Patterson, 48, who is the daughter-in-law of the Pattersons and hosted the lunch, told News Corp reporters on Monday she was “devastated”.
Ms Patterson remains a suspect, police said, but has been released pending further enquiries.
I’m confused about how you share a meal with four people, they get sick but you don’t.
Once a Trot always a Trot. He won’t give in, even if it’s a resounding “no”. He’ll just keep plugging away, like Terminator.
And shaming his fellow Australians before his international audience will be part of the repertoire. Also, with wall to wall Labor state governments, racist legislation can be enacted on a state by state level. Fortunately it can be repealed, but at tremendous cost.
Albow’s “legacy” was always going to be self-serving ruination and division. He has learned well from his grotesque totalitarian idols.
Neil Brown in the Speccie has a much more plausible (and subtle) projection on how the Voice will work.
Medicare spending bill comes forth for debate. Voice pipes up and says ‘we’d like input on that’. There is no time limit on this input, but it must be considered.
Thus the voice holds the bill hostage until its demands are met behind closed doors and the bill is modified to its desires.
I have commented to family that John Farnham’s You’re The Voice seems a perfect song for Yes campaign yet it is not being used, at least not officially. Is it the writers or Farnham who said No?
Our parish has a new young priest who has already made some “green” remarks so I am bracing for the worst. This is sad as the previous priest was solidly non-pc.
I’m confused about how you share a meal with four people, they get sick but you don’t.”
Indeed, to cite Hercule Poiret, my little grey cells are telling me me that something is not quite right.
How interesting that there is finally recognition in the media that the Ulu?u Statement tells you everything about the intentions of the Aboriginal activists.
Yet a letter I wrote months ago to the Oz on precisely this matter was rejected. It was a surprise (to me) that the Oz editorial policy is pro The Voice. It explains a lot, however.
For a very long time I would average a letter published every week or so, but after a series of letters during the pandemic which were anti vaccine, I seem to have been “ cancelled”. Have had one or two published since – but IMO the editorial staff have changed – or the paper’s policy changed. Certainly, the Voice policy & done others indicate a movement to the dark (Woke) side.
don’t forget that the bloke was a ‘trained swimmer’ and into fitness.
From the uncorrected mistakes in my previous post – it is probably my poor grammar that is to blame !
When it comes to mushrooms -when we were young our parents took us mushrooming around the undulations at the base of Mt Chincogan – the rule was to cook the mushrooms a clove of garlic had to be used – if it remained white the mushrooms were fine to eat (absolutely scrumptious) and if the garlic clove turned black – toss the lot.
We were never ill and the taste of field mushrooms is just so delicious – I rarely get that same taste from those I cook today –
Recently an elderly Italian friend had been mushrooming out at a friend’s farm and gave us pine mushrooms ooooh yum what a delight they are.
Assuming the cook is innocent, she’s young and ate fewer mushrooms while the others had a larger serve. If it was a mixed plate, it’s possible the deadlier ones were only on a couple of serves. Also, being the host, her guests took theirs first and maybe left only a little.
The children didn’t have any because they don’t like them.
If she deliberately poisoned her family, she could easily have set up that exact scenario, serving herself last.
Now to read Christie’s “Sad Cypress” again. Ingenious, and the criminal undone by a rose!
Top Ender…make sure you do the F1 loop in Monte. The Beloved loved it – he had front seat in the mini-van and was leaning into the corners! 😀
Could happen to me. Happy to cook mushies for others, but will cook a mushroom less version for myself.
Executives at Australia’s big four banks are so obtuse that to label them second raters would be generous.
Undeterred by the revelations of their bastardry at the RC and seemingly oblivious to the fallout from the Nigel Farage affair, the banks, spurred on by feminist activists, are proceeding with plans to debank male customers they determine to be “financial abusers” of their partners.
How will they make such a determination?
On the complaint of a female customer.
Re mushroom collecting:
My sister & I always went out collecting my mushies in the paddocks after heavy rain on our farm when we were kids. There were very few “toadies” & the mushrooms were the size of bread & butter plates. It was such a treat & I can still recall the fun of the collection.
The woman who collected and cooked the mushrooms didn’t eat them. Is that right?
Three dead, one hanging on with destroyed liver but a fifth with zero ill effects?
That isn’t explained by portion size.
Not saying guilty, it just requires explanation.
I had a delicious meal of cepes in France. They were actually nicer than the pan fried magret perched on top. And chantarelles…mmmmm. One of the best parts of travel.
I think there was a Midsommer Murders where the weapon of choice was the Destroying Angel.
No one does Murder Most Horrid like the British.
These days people seem comfortable able eating what we just avoided as toadstools. Could be the result of the TV cooking shows (especially the international ones) – or just stupidity. Every few years you hear about fatalities.
The Redbridge poll reported c. 75% of Protestants in the No camp.
This is the sort of quality input that has been missing lately. This blog is off the pace.
They call this social justice to differentiate it from real justice. Social justice is merely revenge by another name. It’s really handy that you don’t have to have proof to punish those you despise.
“Three dead, one hanging on with destroyed liver but a fifth with zero ill effects?
That isn’t explained by portion size.
Not saying guilty, it just requires explanation.”
Indeed.
Why not? I mentioned a “mixed plate”. Was it? It’s quite feasible to have the few deadly ones distributed unevenly, also that the host takes the last bit (if there’s any left). I always do.
If motive is established, say money, then that will put a different complexion on it. I don’t want to see her Chamberlained.
That would be because it is full of shit.
Fortunately we have a sure-fire method to evacuate the bowels.
Quote is not from the link
especially when it takes only half a death cap to kill you
Fuller than a Hay Plains truckstop carpark.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxp6OG8izQg
Poor Dad once ate a “field” mushroom mixed in with a whole lot of other wild caught goodies. All the guys cooked them over the campfire. This was the late 40’s and the drug of choice was a rollie of tobacco.
Dad went on a “trip” and was really sick. Never ate the things again. He still picks them out!
This is not going to end well for the banks or any CEO who signs off on it.
I think it’s perfectly okay to have suspicions, in the circumstances.
No-one is doing any Chamberlaining here.
We don’t know.
You did say “maybe only a couple of portions”.
Actually there were four portions which had a devastating, unsurvivable dose and one which didn’t have any effect whatsoever.
I repeat.
That is not explained by portion size.
If the host ate anything of it, it was almost certainly uncontaminated.
How does that happen?
I suggested it requires further rigorous investigation.
That is not “doing a Chamberlain”.
I kinda miss the flamer accusations.
I just saw a claim that Antifa has announced that they are going to shut down the Sturgis motorcycle meet.
It is obviously nonsense, but wouldn’t it be fun to watch?
The road from Portland to SD would be well decorated.
We don’t even know how they were served.
Beautiful morning here – sunny & blue sky.
But a sad day for us. We have to euthanise an aged cow today. She has lost a lot of weight over the past few weeks, & is drooling & seemingly unable to digest her food. Vet came a week ago & administered anti inflammatory & antiobiotic. But no improvement. Probably a growth in the digestive tract although vet could not see anything in tract that was examinable.
Our remaining herd (commercial ones gone) are stud animals that are permanent residents, so we are attached to all of them. Vet has to travel an hour to get here so young neighbour with a very high powered rifle will shoot her & another neighbour with a backhoe will bury her.
I will make myself absent & husband will organise. This cow is the “head cow” who has always been grouchy. But as a result of an earlier foot injury has become happy for me to handle her at close quarters & even pat her. So it is hard to see her to be shot. But the right thing to do.
A annual trip to Balingup in the 180B is the highlight for WA mushroom fanciers (no pun intended). Our 9D hockey matches used to get interrupted by mushroom collectors. And they still expect me to contribute to the rifle range air conditioning fund.
They were prolific, if not always accurate.
No. But I did get a little whiff of it in the press coverage this morning, just like the early hours after that poor father tried to rescue his boys in Queensland.
My cross-hairs are well and truly trained on reporters and reportettes, not commenters here.
Correct.
In a salad would be my best alibi.
I could call hundreds of witnesses to my long history of devout salad-dodging.
If it was in a, say, a pasta sauce … hmmm.
Sitting as judge and jury is a heavy responsibility. One societal function that I’m happy to leave to the State. I only know one judge and even lunch with her has me on my best behaviour.
I had my doubts.
Note to self…never challenge Sancho.
He’ll don the little black fabric square and sentence me to a day of interrogation and speculation. 😀
With extra bolding!
Extra bolding never hurts. With buttons comes great responsibility.
Environmentalism: where democracy goes to die
BREAKING: Georgia DA expected to charge Trump under anti-mafia RICO law
Biden $10M bribe file released: Burisma chief said he was ‘coerced’ to pay Joe, ‘stupid’ Hunter in bombshell allegations
Experts have found powerful antibodies that neutralize all Covid variants
I thought that was Canberra, but have it your way.
Brainwashing works.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Did you know there are actual “Climate Psychology Therapists” out there??
PBS spoke with a “climate psychology therapist” who “helps people with their emotions about the climate”.
She says “if you’re scared, you’re paying attention”
Jesse Kelly
@JesseKellyDC
Nothing makes me hate Joe Biden like the way he treated those families when they finally got their loved ones back home.
A soulless, evil human being. If a human being can truly lose a soul, he has. It’s gone.
Testink.
Mavis has a breathless attack of TDS in today’s Paywallian. Somebody needs to do a welfare check.
Schwab has dreams of controlling a metaverse that permeates nearly every facet of our lives
The most common trigger for autism is childhood vaccinations. Here’s how vaccines cause autism
Eddles reckoned Napoleon was a flamer.
Sofronoff enquiry report is out: https://www.justice.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/2263980/ACT-Board-of-Inquiry-Criminal-Justice-System-Final-Report-31-July-2023.pdf
Fascinating read. Allegations of perjury, withholding evidence, etc.
Dover – re Safari now accessing the blog is now as expected ie just a few seconds plus navigating through the posts and comments is fast.
Outstanding work.
As for upticks . . . I’m pretty neutral . . . but it does give some an avenue to express their like/approval of a comment/rant.
No. Why not a rise well before the last 20-30 years? Vaccines were prevalent since the 1950s. If someone has a theory about the maximum amount of vaccines the body can take, they should be able to prove multiple infections also cause autism, right?
It is correlated with the increasing age of mothers since the 1970s and 1980s (increasing women’s LFPR). Autism “didn’t exist” in the “bad old days” when avuncular men married barely legal women and it was seen as normal. Now of course, it existed but it was rare. There wasn’t an increase like we’ve seen now until the 1990s.
Age of the mother is a risk, it isn’t necessarily causal. It is laughable that men are fertile almost until they drop dead but women have a fertility expiration date….blame old sperm! This is just another example of science by “politeness” and “social construct”. Fertility is a function of nature. Get over it. Sperm is cheap, eggs are expensive. Sperm have a competition for fitness, eggs wait there like berries.
We need to stop lying about this as geriatric pregnancy isn’t a cakewalk for the mother either.
If autism is claimed to be mostly from the preponderance of vaccinations (and perhaps there is an epigenetic effect) then it needs to be explained why autism increased, but it is still objectively rare to uncommon.
No flubbing by calling everyone “on the spectrum” or “neurodivergent”.
Then I realise I am arguing with the Daily Evulsion.
Buy me a coffee, bro.
Anyway here is a possible “cure” for some kinds of autism with minimal side effects that point to a genetic or epigenetic cause.
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/42424/20230216/epilepsy-drug-lamotrigine-shows-promising-results-switching-symptoms-autism-spectrum.htm
Sofronoff thinks Drumgold defamed Reynolds in the way he framed his questions (with the imputed purpose of undermining her testimony to influence the jury?)
Well worth reading that part of the report (and the steps taken to get lpp over the Moller report.) Not to mention why Drumgold thought it was okay for Drumgold to read the counselling notes.
It makes you wonder too, how it is that Drumgold was made DPP in the first place.
Mr Sofronoff, who led the inquiry, handed his findings to the ACT government a week ago, which originally planned to release the report to the public about a month after receiving it.*
* On the weekend.
Of a public holiday
Into a stream
Where it could join its fellow reports in the great Sargasso swamp of caberaaaaah
ACT chief minister says early release of report into Bruce Lehrmann’s prosecution may have breached law
My in-house counsel informs me that:
Looks like the ACT Parish Council is trying to keep the option of throwing Dumbkopf discreetly under the bus – while avoiding the need for introspection into who appointed him, the strength of the prosecution case, or whether Reynolds behaviour in supporting Our Brinny behaviour warranted an instant compensatory mega-payola.
A suspicious mind might think some sort of political ambush has gone wrong.
Oh, and the hamsters are still running their little hearts out.
One of the reasons why I still like to read the Oz and why I subscribe…..Geoff Chambers this morning, and it confirms what I wrote yesterday about the ACT government…
It’s Barr humbug in a Territory of bull and bluster
GEOFF CHAMBERS
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr, the most radical left-wing leader in the country who blames everyone else for his mistakes, should have no authority over a criminal justice system.
Canberra is a town where bikies thrive, pitbulls roam, meth heads hoon and hard drugs are legalised, while the Greens-Labor government bans gas appliances, locks up cats, installs 40km/h speed cameras, forcibly seizes a Catholic-owned hospital, considers abolishing wood fires and imposes massive rate hikes during a cost-of-living crisis.
Barr’s attack on the respected and independent legal veteran his own government appointed to lead the inquiry into Shane Drumgold’s farcical prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann, Walter Sofronoff KC, revealed the true character of a leader who shuns accountability.
Safe in his Canberra fiefdom and confident the ACT political system and his army of retired public servants and left-wing activists will return his government at next year’s election, Barr is full of bluster.
Standing alongside him on Monday, ACT Attorney-General and Greens leader Shane Rattenbury was across the detail as he announced the government was accepting all Sofronoff recommendations. Rattenbury’s calm and methodical demeanour contrasted with Barr’s aggressive and attacking tone.
In 2018, Barr, who unsurprisingly despises media outlets who criticise his government or hold him to account declared he hated journalists and was “over” the mainstream media.
He had recently cancelled his subscription to Canberra’s daily newspaper, The Canberra Times, because the publication was too “conservative”.
“I hate journalists. I am over dealing with mainstream media as a form of communication with the people of Canberra. What passes for a daily newspaper in this city is a joke. And it will be only a matter of years before it closes down,” Barr, exposing his arrogance and lust for power, said in a leaked recording.
In his left-wing bubble paradise, where decriminalising hard drugs is OK, few publications outside The Saturday Paper and Crikey would pass muster.
While he showed glimpses of seriousness on Monday, he heaped criticism on the media and Sofronoff for spoiling his plans to release the findings of the inquiry at a time suitable to him. “I am reminded of the film Muriel’s Wedding and when Bill Heslop says Deirdre Chambers, what a coincidence, what a coincidence,” Barr said in response to how The Australian obtained the Sofronoff report.
After almost 22 years in government, the Labor-Greens cabal is likely to remain unless the Liberals and independents, potentially led by the popular David Pocock, form an alliance to blast them out of power.”
Oh no!!!
No vote overtakes yes in all states except Victoria, Guardian Essential poll shows
‘Hard no’ opposition to the Indigenous voice rose in July but young people, women remain strong supporters
Victorians – why are they so weird?
The Essential poll of 1,150 voters released on Tuesday found that 47% did not approve of the voice, with 43% in favour and the remaining 10% unsure. That represents a reversal of July’s results, which found yes narrowly ahead by the same margin.
In a further concerning sign for the yes campaign, opponents outnumbered supporters in all states except Victoria, putting the requirement for a majority of states in addition to a nationwide majority out of reach without a swing in sentiment.
The Voice AMA: Yolngu youth, Liberal and Labor MPs on the voice
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On a state-by-state basis, no was ahead of yes in: Queensland, 51% to 40%; Western Australia, 48% to 39%; New South Wales, 47% to 41%; and South Australia 48% to 45%. In Victoria, yes was narrowly ahead 47% to 46%.
Tasmania was polled and will count to the requirement of a double majority for a referendum to succeed, but smaller sample sizes make results there less reliable and they are not regularly reported separately.
Essential found that a higher proportion of respondents described themselves as “hard no” compared with “hard yes”, with 38% to 31%. There were fewer “soft noes” (9%) than “soft yeses” (12%).
…
Imagine being so shit, that after Morriswine/lockdowns and a decade of Libs this is where you are at with the public.
The Essential poll found less than one-third (32%) of respondents believed Australia was heading in the right direction, with 48% saying it was on track and another 20% unsure.
In a concerning sign for the Albanese government, less than a quarter of respondents thought it was doing an “excellent or above average” job in a range of key policy areas: international relations (24%), the Indigenous voice (17%) and climate change (13%). Support was in single digits for handling the cost of living (9%) and housing affordability (8%).
Janet Albrechtsen, the Australian, paywalled.
Janet is relentless.
Linda Reynolds blasts ‘social crusader’ ACT DPP Shane Drumgold
Aw geez. Courier Mail:
Hopefully it was just a tragic accident and not something more nefarious.
We buried it… on a hill… overlooking a little river… with pine cones all around.
As predicted.
When was the last time Elbow even addressed these issues?
Oh yes, when he told Ben Fordham he grew up in a HC flat.
I see the distraction squirrel of the report leaks is being pushed hard. .. so that nobody looks too hard at the actual contents of the report.
Shoot the messenger, as it were.
It’s classic The Divine Agatha. She knows exactly how you do that.
As for the ACT so-called ‘government’ (which, let me remind readers, was voted against by residents but foisted on them anyway) – it is not lack of brainpower, although the bureaucracy is infested with people who couldn’t make it in the APS.
By way of comparison, I have previously mentioned a trip to Tasmania for a week’s worth of meetings where the same people turned up wearing different hats.
The Greens have held, or threatened to hold, the balance of power for yonks, plus a lot of addle-pated voters support them. That means that ends justify means, because they just know that they are right about everything, and everyone else is not only wrong, but evil.
I would love to hear some insider stories about how Drumgold, whose qualifications were very light on, got the job and was supported by staff subsequently.
As for prosecuting Walter for releasing the findings – it is as if they are getting their legal advice from the gigantic legal brains that have been running the system to date.
Walter is 100% within his rights, having used 25% of his legal brain while the rest was relaxing at Port Douglas.
Affirmative action threatens civilisation.
It’s hard enough to run things with competent people.
For any poll on anything 1/3 is the magic number. Any less is Gillardian and doom awaits.
Joh – I am pretty sure the ACT PID Act means Soronoff KC is fine. You can literally release “disclosable info” to “journalists” or an ACT MLA under the Act.
The very Whips of Sauron are behind them.
That’ll teach them, the slackers!
The ACT is San Francisco but with worse weather, no views and no surf.
Meantime, Mr. 32% is making the most of his opportunities.
Questions on the mushrooms thingy.
Was there some reckless act which didn’t intend to kill people?
Did she think it would be a hoot to see her buttoned-up Baptist F-i-L high on magic mushies? (But wrong mushies)
Did she intend to make them sick for some reason, but not kill them?
Did she buy the mushrooms at a market?
Was she a regular, experienced forager who had shown clear evidence in the past of knowing good mushies from bad?
Or did she just stupidly pick the mushies as a one-off because they popped up in the paddock next door?
It’s absolutely disgusting watching the liberal political elite destroy the US.
And no Anchor steam beer or porter.
Speaking of which, apparently they’ve closed after being purchased and mismanaged by a big Japanese brewer (Asahi?).
Sensible discussion is ruined by this.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22438-advanced-maternal-age
“Were pregnant!”?
Hmmm, they mention female and woman a lot here:
https://evidencebasedbirth.com/advanced-maternal-age/
Oh wow.
Let me guess. It’s actually irrelevant in most cases what age the man is. The same men have no problem with getting a 20-year-old woman pregnant, do they? The average man ejaculates between 60 million and 3 billion sperm.
Women are born with a set number of eggs. “Oh no, you only have 900 million sperm this count, it must be because you are 42, your wife being 39 is irrelevant…”
Idiocy.
This is basic biology. Hello, Mr Briffault!
“We found a spurious correlation that can let women live a fantasy, let’s publish that!”
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Its interesting that Albo is ‘supporting’ the ‘voice’ and expressing disappointment that us proles are not.
Why does Albo have an opinion on it at all?
Isn’t it his job to *represent* the people (ie find out what they want, and be guided by that?)
Surely, if our government was really there to serve the people, their sole job is to find out what the people want, not to tell them what they should want, and co-erce them in that government approved direction?
/sarc off….
Trump
Tucker
2024
Tucker
Paul
2028
Even Joe Rogan approves of this, apparently.
Quite, but you can rest assured that, should it turn out that this *is* a case of maternal filicide, the reporting will be all about ‘mental health’ rather than evil and domestic violence, as would be the case if the father was involved.
PS: women are surprisingly often the perpetrators of filicide, around 1/3 of cases:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-21/australia-invisible-victims-filicide-missed-red-flags/13253150
I just saw the interview Bolta did with Keith Windschuttle about the real character of Yunupingu
Windschuttle referred multiple times to clans. Are these clans the same as the ‘nations’ we hear so much about? I have taken the so-called ‘nations’ in Australia as truly being clans, as they are blood based and a person’s role is prescribed by ritual and and family and all the people embody a single tradition, whereas a nation is a separate entity from its constituent people so there are governments and systems of making laws separate to tradition, and which can therefore contain people of different bloodlines and traditions functioning side by side. A nation is able to look at itself from the outside, so to speak.
Quite so.
Under what title, BJ? And as an illustrated-by-acting scenarios doco, or as a full-blown movie? I’d be interested to see it anyway. It doesn’t sound like what I had in mind though, which was a big historical movie along the lines of ‘Elizabeth R’ or ‘Oppenheimer’ or even ‘Valkyrie’, with a proper script and excellent acting.
SBS has long been the home of Hitler and tits. Usually at different times. Perhaps this is the stumbling block with an ALPBC merger?