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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 2:26 pm

Daily Mail. Why am I calling “bullsh!t?”

Lidia Thorpe claims she was ‘set upon with a weapon’ after a terrifying incident in Brisbane while the Labor conference was underway

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 23, 2023 2:26 pm

Er… isn’t the “sovereignty” part of the Uluru statement the bit that according to Fr. Frank Brennan is actually copied from a 1975 submission to the UN by a Zairian judge, on behalf of some people in Western Africa?

Vicki
Vicki
August 23, 2023 2:27 pm

This is just the first couple of pages of the Uluru Statement:

ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART
We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart:
Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs. This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, according to the common law from ‘time immemorial’, and according to science more than 60,000 years ago.
This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.
How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years?
With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this ancient sovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.
Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.
These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness.
We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.
We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution.
Makarrata is the culmination of our agenda: the coming together after a struggle. It captures our aspirations for a fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia and a better future for our children based on justice and self-determination.
We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history.
In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard. We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.
FOI/2223/016 Page 87
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OUR STORY
Our First Nations are extraordinarily diverse cultures, living in an astounding array of environments, multi-lingual across many hundreds of languages and dialects. The continent was occupied by our people and the footprints of our ancestors traversed the entire landscape. Our songlines covered vast distances, uniting peoples in shared stories and religion. The entire land and seascape is named, and the cultural memory of our old people is written there.
This rich diversity of our origins was eventually ruptured by colonisation. Violent dispossession and the struggle to survive a relentless inhumanity has marked our common history. The First Nations Regional Dialogues on constitutional reform bore witness to our shared stories.
All stories start with our Law.
The Law
We have coexisted as First Nations on this land for at least 60,000 years. Our sovereignty pre- existed the Australian state and has survived it.1
‘We have never, ever ceded our sovereignty.’ (Sydney)2
The unfinished business of Australia’s nationhood includes recognising the ancient
jurisdictions of First Nations law.3
‘The connection between language, the culture, the land and the enduring nature of Aboriginal law is fundamental to any consideration of constitutional recognition.’ (Ross River)4
Every First Nation has its own word for The Law. Tjukurrpa is the A?angu word for The Law. The Meriam people of Mer refer to Malo’s Law.5 With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this surviving and underlying First Nation sovereignty can more effectively and powerfully shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.6
The Law was violated by the coming of the British to Australia. This truth needs to be told.
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Hobart Record of Meeting (ROM), p2; Broome ROM, p2; Dubbo ROM, p3; Perth ROM, p4; Canberra ROM, p2; Darwin ROM, p1; Melbourne ROM, p3, p6; Ross River ROM, p5; Cairns ROM, p2.
Sydney ROM, p1.
Brisbane ROM, p6: ‘Belonging to country and spirituality are central to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity, and these need to be the basis for far-reaching structural change.’
Torres Strait ROM, p2: ‘Communities here should be in control of their own affairs. This is not a new concept. People in the Torres Strait did so for thousands of years prior to invasion.’
Ross River ROM, p1.
Perth ROM, p2: ‘We’ve got to continue the fight for the unwritten constitutions. We know there were 260 language groups, and in each language group there were unwritten constitutions. … Prior to white man coming, there were 260 unwritten constitutions, rules, policies, procedures governing Aboriginal People and their lands.’
Cairns ROM, p2: ‘No one gives you sovereignty, you go out there and practice it and go out there and enforce it. But we are in a position that there are certain laws that mean we can’t go out and practise our sovereignty.’
FOI/2223/016 Page 88
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Invasion
Australia was not a settlement and it was not a discovery. It was an invasion.7
‘Cook did not discover us, because we saw him. We were telling each other with smoke,
yet in his diary, he said “discovered”.’ (Torres Strait)8
‘Australia must acknowledge its history, its true history. Not Captain Cook. What happened all across Australia: the massacres and the wars. If that were taught in schools, we might have one nation, where we are all together.’ (Darwin)9
The invasion that started at Botany Bay is the origin of the fundamental grievance between the old and new Australians: that Australia was colonised without the consent of its rightful owners.10 Now is an opportunity for the First Nations to tell the truth about history in our own voices and from our own point of view.11 And for mainstream Australians to hear those voices and to reconsider what they know and understand about their nation’s history. This will be challenging, but the truth about invasion needs to be told.
‘In order for meaningful change to happen, Australian society generally needs to “work on itself” and to know the truth of its own history.’ (Brisbane)12
‘People repeatedly emphasised the need for truth and justice, and for non-Aboriginal Australians to take responsibility for that history and this legacy it has created: “Government needs to be told the truth of how people got to there. They need to admit to that and sort it out.”’ (Melbourne)13
Invasion was met with resistance.
Resistance
This is the time of the Frontier Wars, when massacres, disease and poison decimated First Nations, even as they fought a guerrilla war of resistance.14 The Tasmanian Genocide and the Black War waged by the colonists reveals the truth about this evil time. We acknowledge the
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Dubbo ROM, p4: ‘Delegates spoke of the need to acknowledge the illegality of everything done since colonization, the first act aggression on first contact, the extreme cruelty and violence of the government, and the impact of the forced removals.’
Torres Strait ROM, p2.
Darwin ROM, p2.
Sydney ROM, p3: ‘Some spoke about the possibility of having a “La Perouse” statement, that reflected the impact of colonisation on that community. “Dispossession started there.”’
Cairns ROM, p3: ‘The names of our people. We’ve got nothing that bears the names of our ancestors.’
Brisbane ROM, pp6–7.
Melbourne ROM, p2.
Perth ROM, p4: ‘A number of delegates expressed the importance of remembering and honouring First Nations people who had fought in wars, including frontier wars, but had not been recognised.’
Ross River ROM, p1: ‘[We] recall the Coniston massacre, and the many other massacres throughout the region. [We] remember the Aboriginal people involved in fighting in the frontier wars…If the government wants to speak about ‘recognition’ they need to recognise the true history, recognise the frontier wars.’
Melbourne ROM, p1: ‘People spoke of the mass slaughter of Aboriginal people during colonisation and how genocide had been committed on over 180 clans in Victoria.’
Torres Strait ROM, p1: The meeting ‘remembered the massacres of the Kaurareg nation, and that the hurt and pain this had continues to this day, unresolved.’
FOI/2223/016 Page 89
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resistance of the remaining First Nations people in Tasmania who survived the onslaught. ‘A statement should recognise “the fights of our old people”.’ (Hobart)15
Everywhere across Australia, great warriors like Pemulwuy and Jandamarra led resistance against the British. First Nations refused to acquiesce to dispossession and fought for their sovereign rights and their land.
‘The people who worked as stockmen for no pay, who have survived a history full of massacres and pain. We deserve respect.’ (Broome)16
The Crown had made promises when it colonised Australia. In 1768, Captain Cook was instructed to take possession ‘with the consent of the natives’. In 1787, Governor Phillip was instructed to treat the First Nations with ‘amity and kindness’. But there was a lack of good faith. The frontier continued to move outwards and the promises were broken in the refusal to negotiate and the violence of colonisation.
‘We were already recognised through the Letters Patent and the Imperial statutes that should be adhered to under their law. Because it’s their law.’ (Adelaide)17
‘Participants expressed disgust about a statue of John McDouall Stuart being erected in Alice Springs following the 150th anniversary of his successful attempt to reach the top end. This expedition led to the opening up of the “South Australian frontier” which lead to massacres as the telegraph line was established and white settlers moved into the region. People feel sad whenever they see the statue; its presence and the fact that Stuart is holding a gun is disrespectful to the Aboriginal community who are descendants of the families slaughtered during the massacres throughout central Australia.’ (Ross River)18

Pogria
Pogria
August 23, 2023 2:28 pm

Sal,
the hubris of the real estate agent was her undoing. She thought she was so superior, she was happy to use her own fakebook page, with her real name!

Vicki
Vicki
August 23, 2023 2:29 pm

The Uluru Statement from the Heart is available on Peta Credlin’s website:

https://www.skynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Credlin-Editorial-PDF-2.pdf

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 2:30 pm

Mak Siccar

Aug 23, 2023 1:37 PM

https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/vote-yes-for-cake-and-coke/

Gary Johns is completely spot on.

Yes.
If it squeaks over line by 1000 votes nationally, and by a handful of votes in SA and Tassie to give it the four states, Albo will be hard pressed to spray “reshounding victory for yesh cashe” into the microphone on referendum night.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 2:33 pm

Two revelations today:-
1. Construction contract disputes are always 100% based in truth;
2. Political advisors can be taken at their word when they say they never wound up their boss.

Vicki
Vicki
August 23, 2023 2:35 pm

Incidentally, much of the Uluru Statement just resonates with the intellect and beliefs of Noel Pearson who, of course, was a participant.

In my humble opinion.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 23, 2023 2:37 pm

Sancho: How’s the rake imprint feeling?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
August 23, 2023 2:37 pm

August 22, 2023
Barack Obama’s Gay Fantasies and the Gay Men in his Life

In 2012, Barack Obama famously made the cover of Newsweek magazine with the heading, “The First Gay President.”

That headline, meant in jest, now seems more than a little prescient.

Much publicity has been given in recent weeks to Barack Obama’s very real homosexual fantasies. These were communicated in a letter to girlfriend Alex McNear in 1982, when Obama was in his early twenties.

These comments were first included in the paperback version of David Garrow’s 2017 biography, Rising Star, and later amplified in Jack Cashill’s 2020 book, Unmasking Obama, but news of Obama’s gay ruminations is only now breaking through to mainstream media.

In one of his letters to girlfriend McNear, Obama wrote:

“In regard to homosexuality… you see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination. My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men.”

Why would Obama be having such thoughts?

What exact message was he trying to send to his girlfriend? Such homosexual fantasies are very unusual for straight men, but there is evidence to suggest that Obama is something other than straight.

In fact, Obama had five known major relationships with gay or bisexual men early in his life before he wrote that letter.

1 – Indonesian gay nanny “Evie”
2 – Frank Marshall Davis
3 – Professor Lawrence Goldyn
4 – Sohale Sidiqqi
5 – Bill Ayers

From the Comments

– Well I guess Joan Rivers was right about Barry; first gay prez. Maybe she was right about Michelle, too?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 2:39 pm

Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet.

Mostly incarcerated for crimes of violence against other indigenous people?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 2:41 pm

Everywhere across Australia, great warriors like Pemulwuy and Jandamarra led resistance against the British.

Was there ever a race conquered so utterly after such a futile resistance? Spearing a few settlers is hardly the Battle of Isandlwana.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 23, 2023 2:52 pm

Everywhere across Australia, great warriors like Pemulwuy and Jandamarra led resistance against the British.

This is a bunch of grifters trying to guilt the rest of us, and parlay the general goodwill to aborigines into power for themselves.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 23, 2023 2:55 pm

That muffled cry you hear is the Voice of a baby that never felt the effects of $39 billion.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 23, 2023 3:06 pm

Probably Multiplex isn’t the best example to choose when trying to demonstrate relative smartness.

Litigation is part and parcel of commercial construction. You file the writ about the same time you start work.

Rosie
Rosie
August 23, 2023 3:13 pm

How could people possibly own freehold land/houses within a native title estate?
Freehold would give them the right to sell as well.
How could those right possibly co exist with native title
Native title rights makes things worse, for everyone.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
August 23, 2023 3:27 pm

Rich Men North of Richmond No 1 on Billboard

A bit of a change. Shows if you have a good tune you don’t need to give a large percentage to music companies.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 3:30 pm

“Gary Johns is completely spot on.”

Of course he is. And now Gary Johns, for his crime of speaking sensibly about indigenous issues, and for his crime of thinking outside the progressive woke box when it comes to indigenous issues, is now a target for woke assassination. This is all related to my earlier comment about Pauline, and why I’m willing to cut her some slack. As I wrote earlier, first they came for Pauline, and now they’re coming for anyone who dares to tiptoe outside the woke boundaries of what’s allowed and what’s not allowed.

Vicki
Vicki
August 23, 2023 3:36 pm

I have scanned the summary and notes from the consultative process leading up to the Uluru Statement. They are full of grievances that emanate from people who have become accustomed to receiving goods and services that they think are “owed” to them. What they do not understand is that, ultimately, such a process is disempowering.

Unless the “Yes” advocates mount an extraordinary campaign, I cannot see that this referendum will see a win for “Yes”. Even if they lose the vote, this whole process will have succeeded only in dividing the nation. The ensuing bitterness of the main protagonists will not end well.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 3:38 pm

“Even if they lose the vote, this whole process will have succeeded only in dividing the nation. The ensuing bitterness of the main protagonists will not end well.”

Agree. I predict violence.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 23, 2023 3:42 pm

They are full of grievances that emanate from people who have become accustomed to receiving goods and services that they think are “owed” to them. What they do not understand is that, ultimately, such a process is disempowering.

That won’t stop them demanding more and more of those goods and services.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
August 23, 2023 3:44 pm

Coming this Fall: Boosters and Mask Mandates

“The disgraced Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will reportedly request that the public receives another COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccine this fall. They are mixing in this recommendation with the RSV and flu vaccines to normalize annual shots. A few days prior to the CDC’s announcement the also disgraced World Health Organization (WHO) claimed it found another COVID variant.

BA.2.86 is one of two new trendy COVID variants for next season. The science is pretending that this variant is similar to the Omicron variant from 2021. Nature reported that the new strain has been linked to SIX cases throughout the entire globe. Could you imagine if they looked at other illnesses impacting a total of six people worldwide? Absurd.

Not to be outdone, the Eris subvariant is similar to the XBB.1.5 subvariant. Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, and Novavax have all created versions of a vaccine to target this strain that has not even begun to spread. Of course, they will not disclose what is in these vaccines.

Recommended vs required. There are many organizations that still require vaccination and will likely ask people to risk their lives all for Big Pharma profits. If COVID is mutating and we must inject ourselves to stay safe, what’s to say they won’t bring back mask mandates? Well, there are now reports of businesses requiring employees and customers to mask up. For example, Morris Brown College in Atlanta said they need everyone to cover half their face as a “precautionary step” for a virus that has not begun to spread.

Alex Jones recently warned that these restrictions were coming back this fall. Jones said that whistleblowers from both the TSA and Border Patrol have come forth to warn that full-on lockdowns are in the works. The high-level TSA whistleblower said that managers had been informed that masking would resume as early as September. By October, all staff, passengers, and even pilots must wear a mask. The Border Patrol insider said they were told to expect a spike in COVID numbers by mid-October that will push the Biden Administration to reimplement mask mandates. I wonder if it will also force them to reimplement Title 42 to prevent the full-scale invasion at the border. No one seems to care if the hundreds of thousands of illegals have diseases or vaccinations.

Civil unrest is rising, and the elite want us to stay out of sight. The mail-in ballot option helped Biden secure the election. Once these people get a taste of full authoritarian power, they crave it consistently. They will try to take our rights away again under the guise of COVID. The question remains: will the people obey?

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/coming-this-fall-boosters-and-mask-mandates/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 3:52 pm

Agree. I predict violence.

Hasn’t the likes of Marcia Langton already made veiled threats of violence?

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 23, 2023 3:56 pm

Hasn’t the likes of Marcia Langton already made veiled threats of violence?

Yep. I’ve recollection only of her threat to withdraw all welcome to country ceremonies, though Mr. Noel Pearson has alluded to endless violence if the No vote gets up.

cohenite
August 23, 2023 4:14 pm

Agree. I predict violence.

That should be more violence.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 4:15 pm

Mr. Noel Pearson has alluded to endless violence if the No vote gets up.

I’m remembering something about an intifada in the Northern Territory.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 23, 2023 4:17 pm

Riddle me this, Cats. Have you all read the “Yes” case, in your official referendum booklet, and resolved to change your vote, as a result?

Seriously, I think our elites believe they have Jedi mind powers.

Elite: You are going to vote yes…

Pleb: I’m going to vote yes.

Elite: You want to do the right thing…

Pleb: I want to do the right thing.

cohenite
August 23, 2023 4:19 pm

The new Australian Climate Sceptics Blog which was closed down by gargle has transferred 3 interesting posts about OHC from the old sabotaged site which even though they are a bit dated are timely given the recent alarmist crap about boiling:

https://australianclimatesceptics.com/?p=934

https://australianclimatesceptics.com/?p=947

https://australianclimatesceptics.com/?p=957

Some of the internal links may not work but the graphs from the ARGO measurements of ocean heat are self explanatory.

DavidH
DavidH
August 23, 2023 4:22 pm

There was a post earlier about Heath Streak having died. Apparently not the case. Henry Olonga, who it seems was the origin of the rumour, now says that the 3rd umpire has in fact called him back. As of right now, Wikipedia still shows him out.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 4:31 pm

Peter
1 hour ago
Mr Mayo, if the Yes vote is successful, how much a week in rent and reparations, will a taxpayer on average weekly earnings, have to pay you and your colleagues?
Vote NO!!!
We all get your vibe.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 4:34 pm

Yep. I’ve recollection only of her threat to withdraw all welcome to country ceremonies, though Mr. Noel Pearson has alluded to endless violence if the No vote gets up.

The East Warracchuppin Settlers Militia stands ready!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 4:34 pm

H B Bear

Aug 23, 2023 3:06 PM

Probably Multiplex isn’t the best example to choose when trying to demonstrate relative smartness.

Litigation is part and parcel of commercial construction. You file the writ about the same time you start work.

Jeez, I have seen some stunts pulled by estimators on variations that would make a Mafia numbers racket guy blush.
One company I did a bit of work for had an electrical guy working on a coal terminal in Norf Queensssland whose favourite trick was to wait until the customer requested a changeout variation. He would dutifully price the replacement kit, but conveniently forget to deduct the replaced item, even when it hadn’t been ordered.
“Aggressive Variation Management” was just the way the company worked, but that particular location was the worst.
I think the client was heavily focussed on getting the job done on time for their own commercial reasons, so didn’t really worry too much.
I bailed from that outfit toot sweet.
A few years later the company was sold off after having a couple of projects turn to shit*. The company who bought them went tits up when a monster solar project being built by this same subsidiary suddenly** went splat. Trouble was, the company went to the market only a couple of months before to raise many millions in capital, telling investors everything was peachy.
Litigation continues.
The road to hell is paved with Aggressive Variation Management.
…..
* didn’t “turn to shit”. Was shit from day one, but covered up with fudged CVs.
** not “suddenly”. See * above.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 23, 2023 4:35 pm

Marcia the acetose was speculating on a bush intifada.

The sort of talk that sees others banished beyond the pale

Dot
Dot
August 23, 2023 4:44 pm

mole

A Prince Philip style of comment is in order but I won’t make it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 4:44 pm

thefrollickingmole

Aug 23, 2023 4:35 PM

Marcia the acetose was speculating on a bush intifada.

It will be news to people in Alice Springs and Tennant Creek that this is yet to commence.

Dot
Dot
August 23, 2023 4:45 pm

The road to hell is paved with Aggressive Variation Management.

So are sandstone driveways and slate roofs.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 4:46 pm

The East Warracchuppin Settlers Militia stands ready!

Sorry.
Wrong room.
The Cardigan Commandos are meeting just down the hall.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 4:48 pm

“thefrollickingmole
Aug 23, 2023 4:35 PM
Marcia the acetose was speculating on a bush intifada.

The sort of talk that sees others banished beyond the pale”

Ah yes, imagine if Pauline Hanson, or Matt Canavan, or Keith Pitt, or Jacinta Price, or Gary Johns, or David Adler or any of us had “speculated” about violence if we lose?

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 4:51 pm

“The invasion that started at Botany Bay”

What invasion at Botany Bay?

JC
JC
August 23, 2023 4:52 pm

Can anyone explain what the Hawaii government did wrong?I know the sirens didn’t go off. What else is there? I haven’t kept up with the abortion.

There have also been some astonishing theories about what happened.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 4:53 pm

Cassie of Sydney

Aug 23, 2023 4:51 PM

“The invasion that started at Botany Bay”

What invasion at Botany Bay?

Crooks landing at Mascot from Lebanon from 1978 onwards.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 23, 2023 4:53 pm

Cassie

“ one would hate to see Van Tongerens ARM reappear if the yes vote gets up”…..

You’d hear the shrieking from mars

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 23, 2023 4:56 pm

JC
Take with a grain of salt but apparently kids were sent home, reguardless of parents being there or location of house.

Ignore the really fruity stuff, it’s an Omnishambles

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 4:56 pm

There have also been some astonishing theories about what happened.

Ah.
Another non-believer in Direct Energy Weapons.
Look, Tickler has been through this several times.
Would it help if I could get Insolent to essplain it to youse?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2023 5:00 pm

This appalling state of Voice-related affairs will end in the manner of the Resistance in France during WW2.

Multiple local outfits being absorbed into two or three larger ones, all ostensibly with the same goal but adherent to different ideologies, who were heavily invested in power grabs i.e., being the sole post-war authority on the subject well before the end of the conflict.

Then they aligned themselves with (and received support from) authorities best placed to put them in the most favourable positions possible, eventually kicked out the competition (in this case, the communist Resistance group) when most of the fighting was done, and after that the remaining faction paraded itself as heroic.

One could also make a similar comparison to the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, except they lost because of the exact same infighting.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2023 5:02 pm

What invasion at Botany Bay?
*****
Crooks landing at Mascot from Lebanon from 1978 onwards.

No, no, no. No.

The PLA arriving en masse at Botany Bay International Airport.

calli
calli
August 23, 2023 5:06 pm

From what I can gather (that does not involve death rays)

– poor bushland management
– zero response plan resulting in ad hoc instructions (particularly involving children)
– bizarre water management/ownership issues
– possible problems with poor building standards eg. Use of asphalt tiles in fire prone areas

There are probably lots more contributing to the perfect storm.

Anyone with an ounce of sense, and given the vast amount of data readily available from say, Australia, would have seen the emerging problem a mile off.

But Dems are like the happy grasshopper. They wait for the ant to do the work then sponge off him.

calli
calli
August 23, 2023 5:09 pm

What invasion at Botany Bay?

I understand Arthur Philip sent them packing, never to be seen again.

Lucky aborigines.

Dot
Dot
August 23, 2023 5:13 pm

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JC
Aug 23, 2023 4:52 PM

Can anyone explain what the Hawaii government did wrong?I know the sirens didn’t go off. What else is there? I haven’t kept up with the abortion.

Apparently, the Hawaiian water Tsar did not allocate water – which they view as the essence of heaven and must be doled out according to equity, but not ongoing and current fires.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 23, 2023 5:13 pm

What invasion at Botany Bay?

The French. Once they saw us they left.

Lee
Lee
August 23, 2023 5:15 pm

“The invasion that started at Botany Bay”

What invasion at Botany Bay?

Indeed.

My understanding, is that the only reason native title exists is because the High Court ruled in the Mabo case that Australia was not invaded.

If Australia was invaded = no native title.

But it’s yet another case of aboriginal activists wanting to have their cake and eat it too.

Dot
Dot
August 23, 2023 5:15 pm

If it’s in Newsweekly then it’s not likely the remit of “cookers” and “right-wing lunatics”.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-kaleo-manuel-hawaii-official-delayed-water-release-maui-fire-1820405

A letter sent by the West Maui Land Company to an official at the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management (CWRM) highlights a delay in releasing water that may have hampered firefighters’ efforts to tame a raging blaze in west Maui.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 23, 2023 5:16 pm

Seems like a litany of errors in Maui.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2023 5:18 pm

a delay in releasing water that may have hampered firefighters’ efforts

Well yes, but death rays.

feelthebern
feelthebern
August 23, 2023 5:21 pm

The Maui authorities are saying the siren system they have wasn’t used as that’s for tsunami’s and people apparently head away from the water when it’s sounded.
Counter to this, they have the mobile phone text alert system that could have been used to tell people to head to the beach & away from the fires.
We’ll find out what’s more correct about the same time we find out about the Vegas shooter.
PS, same police chief in Maui. He transferred from Vegas after he played ball with the Vegas shooting investigation.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 5:21 pm

Dot

Aug 23, 2023 4:45 PM

The road to hell is paved with Aggressive Variation Management.

So are sandstone driveways and slate roofs.

I am such a contrarian.
I have a sandstone roof (pitched at 45 degrees, of course) and a slate driveway.
Hard on the tyres on the sporty Beemer, but.
Five kms of sharp slate gravel.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 5:22 pm

It was only fifty-three years ago that this country respectfully commemorated the landing, note not invasion, of Captain James Cook in 1770. In 1970 (I was a young girl but I remember my grandparents talking), my grandfather, who was very active in the Shire historical society, was part of a group of men and women who organised a plaque to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Cook`s landing at Kurnell. Both my grandfather and grandmother attended the commemoration. I’m glad that they’re not alive to see this. They would be not only shocked at the lie of “invasion”, they would weep at how this country has fallen into a morass of lies and self-loathing.

THERE WAS NO INVASION.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
August 23, 2023 5:25 pm

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

– Gerald R. Ford

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 23, 2023 5:25 pm

I have to disagree that there will be any violence if the voice referendum is defeated. Almost all black fellas here are voting no. The reason being that we have all seen the waste for no positive change in relation to any of the Closing The Gap measures. I am only guessing, but I would think that many more are going to vote no, particularly in the country.
If there was to be violence, it would need to come from the main protagonists like Pearson and Langton with a marauding army of university students. Battles may be concluded in 10-15 minutes.
I’ve said at the start of this, black fellas don’t really give a rat’s arse about the voice and they will be the architect of its demise.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 5:26 pm

Apparently, the Hawaiian water Tsar did not allocate water – which they view as the essence of heaven and must be doled out according to equity, but not ongoing and current fires.

Right.
So they had a 2011 copy of the Wivenhoe Dam Operating Manual then?
Complete with crossing-outs and margin doodles.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 5:30 pm

My understanding, is that the only reason native title exists is because the High Court ruled in the Mabo case that Australia was not invaded.

Quite so – had Australia been “invaded” the Aborigines would have been classed as a “conquered people” – with the full blessing of international law – and they would have no land rights.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 5:31 pm

“If there was to be violence, it would need to come from the main protagonists like Pearson and Langton with a marauding army of university students. “

Indeed BB, any violence that might ensue won’t come from indigenous, it’ll come from far-left, and not so far-left progressive radical scum.

calli
calli
August 23, 2023 5:34 pm

Black Ball, I’m thinking less about aboriginal initiated violence and more about the usual progressive suspects taking advantage of the “disappointment”.

We don’t have to look far back – Antifa and BLM and the motley crew in the US burned entire suburbs. Our puny minded bunch will take their inspiration from that.

Lots of harassment, vandalism, civil unrest. The targets will be carefully chosen. No Labor strongholds will be damaged, natch.

JC
JC
August 23, 2023 5:35 pm

Thanks for the Hawaii update everyone. I gather it’s another Demonrat shambles. We should be expecting to see another Trump indictment as a result. I’m sure the local DA’s office can figure the crime.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 23, 2023 5:35 pm

Life as as a Tsar is tough. Especially if the peasants are revolting or burning or suchlike.

Lee
Lee
August 23, 2023 5:39 pm

“If there was to be violence, it would need to come from the main protagonists like Pearson and Langton with a marauding army of university students. “

Indeed BB, any violence that might ensue won’t come from indigenous, it’ll come from far-left, and not so far-left progressive radical scum.

I’d expect scum like the Socialist Alliance (actually communists) to be at the forefront, and doing the most race-baiting.

JC
JC
August 23, 2023 5:39 pm

Bear, how have you been keeping? I see the cynical side has been pretty active of late so I’ve assumed you’re doing okay. How are those RM WIlliams Cuban heels going.

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 23, 2023 5:40 pm

Yes Cassie and calli. That’s the way things will pan out.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 5:44 pm

Black Ball

Aug 23, 2023 5:25 PM

I have to disagree that there will be any violence if the voice referendum is defeated. Almost all black fellas here are voting no. The reason being that we have all seen the waste for no positive change in relation to any of the Closing The Gap measures. 

It’s simple.
A yuuuge part of each “gap” problem can only be solved within the family unit and some of them entirely rest there.
Education. No amount of truancy officers cruising around town in Gummint Hi-Lux (manual ute) will solve it if the family don’t push it.
Health. Yes, you need elf perfessionals available, but people need to take a bit of personal responsibility for themselves.
Rheumatic heart disease has been getting a big run in white-shaming of late, but it stems from untreated infections. Whose responsibility is it to pick that up and deal with it (particularly if the kids are truants)? The parents, that’s who.
Family Violence. We keep hearing how Indigenous women are 1000 times more likely to be DV victims, but we go quiet when any discussion of who the perps might be. Except five minutes later they will be saying there’s too many Aboriginal men in prison. Truth is, as far as DV goes, you could argue there’s not enough. Again, whose responsibility is that? Better policing I hear you say. Well, let’s ask Zach Rolfe how that worked out.
And violence is why you can’t get doctors and nurses and teachers anywhere near these places.

cohenite
August 23, 2023 5:44 pm

The Five analyse biden’s approach to the Maui disaster which is nothing more than the usual left lack of preparation through no hazard reduction, closing down agriculture which kept the land fire free and not dealing with the fire in any meaningful way due to wokeness. Biden turning up is the final lipstick on the smouldering turd. His senility and grotesque self absorption and lying reaching a new nadir. They say senility really brings out the true nature of people and if that is the case he is a complete bastard. Nothing will happen to biden while he is alive so let’s hope there is a hell where the mongrel is tortured for eternity.

calli
calli
August 23, 2023 5:45 pm

Yes, Bruce. La Perouse was tricked and delayed by the lure of treasure. When he finally arrived, the First Fleet was at anchor in the Bay.

The French were buzzed off (I suppose they weren’t aware that over half the people on the ships were completely unarmed). La Perouse and Co perished up near the Solomons.

Given what the French were about to do to to their own countrymen back home, do you think French colonists would have left the locals unmolested?

That’s why I’m immune to the “invasion” crocodile tears. There was no way the indigenous could have kept the world at bay. They picked the trump card amongst all the colonial contenders.

Lee
Lee
August 23, 2023 5:46 pm

Thanks for the Hawaii update everyone. I gather it’s another Demonrat shambles. We should be expecting to see another Trump indictment as a result. I’m sure the local DA’s office can figure the crime.

Some in the MSM in the U.S. (and Democrats) even tried to pin the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, that led to an environmental and health disaster, on Trump, when he wasn’t even president.

Meanwhile, Biden and Pete Buttplug did nothing to alleviate the situation.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 5:46 pm

H B Bear

Aug 23, 2023 5:35 PM

Life as as a Tsar is tough. Especially if the peasants are revolting or burning or suchlike.

And, man, it gets hot and itchy under that bearskin hat in the Hawaiin summer.

Robert Sewell
August 23, 2023 5:46 pm

bons
Aug 23, 2023 8:58 AM

A review of Littleproud’s political history (climate, Turnbull, Covid, drought etc) reveals him for what he is – Labor lite opportunist with no respect for his constituency, except pefhaps for the Brisbane doctor/lawyer vanity farm and dirty wekend center of Stanthorpe. His kind of people.

That’s what I did and never voted for him. He’s the kind of Marxist/Opportunist that fills the ranks of the Liberal Party these days.

Robert Sewell
August 23, 2023 5:49 pm

Rosie

Aug 23, 2023 9:01 AM
Close the remote settlements.
In a nutshell.
Let older aboriginals ‘retire’ to country, if they so wish.

Multiple uptics. A plethora of them.

WolfmanOz
August 23, 2023 5:50 pm

I commented a couple of days ago that I was planning to return to my weekly movie posts.

Unfortunately time has got away from me and there will be no post this week.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 23, 2023 5:53 pm

Bear, how have you been keeping?

Grinding on amidst the madness.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 5:53 pm

That’s why I’m immune to the “invasion” crocodile tears. There was no way the indigenous could have kept the world at bay. They picked the trump card amongst all the colonial contenders.

I’m reading an account of Belguim’s colonization of the Congo.

JC
JC
August 23, 2023 5:55 pm

They say senility really brings out the true nature of people

Funny you say that as I’ve always thought that. They basically lose any inhibitions and the real person comes out without boundaries.

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 23, 2023 5:56 pm

Sancho Panzer
Aug 23, 2023 5:44 PM

Superb synopsis Mr Panzer.

Lee
Lee
August 23, 2023 5:58 pm

They say senility really brings out the true nature of people and if that is the case he is a complete bastard.

Apparently it’s pretty common knowledge in Washington, D.C. that in his nearly fifty years in office, Biden has only ever cared about himself and his family.

JC
JC
August 23, 2023 6:01 pm

Lee

He was considered a doofus in the msm during the 90s when there was a trickle of balance. He accrued zero respect.

Lee
Lee
August 23, 2023 6:01 pm

I’m reading an account of Belgium’s colonization of the Congo.

Have you read Thomas Pakenham’s The Scramble for Africa, Zulu?

Fascinating book; I’ve read it twice.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 6:05 pm

PS, BB, I meant to add to the health thing.
Diabetes.
I was talking to my eye guy during a regular check up a couple of weeks ago and I mentioned a friend’s kid who is a type 1 diabetic and had to have radical treatment to save his sight.
The eye guy tells me that no-one should lose their sight from diabetes if … if … they do three things:-
1. Take their medication as prescribed (or as needed for Type 1s);
2. Don’t eat or drink really off the wall high sugar stuff;
3. Have regular medical checks.
Given the meds would be free in Aboriginal communities, what is the only barrier to this happening?
Yep.
Good old Personal Responsibility gets a run again.

Aaron
Aaron
August 23, 2023 6:06 pm

I’m not wading back to see if this has been discussed.

Sharri Markson was on discussing censorship and fact checking and the ABC.

She mentioned ” This Richard Skelton”.

The bloke has been a fact checker for years at the ABC.

Now listen. Sharri, the bloke is MR Virginia Trioli.

Dear, dear, dear.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2023 6:10 pm

Not going all fanboi here but take notice of this, as it is chillingly accurate:

We keep hearing how Indigenous women are 1000 times more likely to be DV victims, but we go quiet when any discussion of who the perps might be. Except five minutes later they will be saying there’s too many Aboriginal men in prison.

Oh ho ho ho ho yes.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 23, 2023 6:13 pm

Fascists R us.

Australia’s Misinfo Bill Paves Way For Soviet-Style Censorship (23 Aug)

The Australian Government’s proposed new laws to crack down on misinformation and disinformation have drawn intense criticism for their potential to restrict free expression and political dissent, paving the way for a digital censorship regime reminiscent of Soviet Lysenkoism…

Under the draft legislation, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will gain considerable expanded regulatory powers to “combat misinformation and disinformation,” which ACMA says poses a “threat to the safety and wellbeing of Australians, as well as to our democracy, society and economy.”

Yep. They don’t like the truth up ’em. Albo should design a nice uniform for his party featuring lots of black and silver.

JC
JC
August 23, 2023 6:14 pm

H B Bear
Aug 23, 2023 5:53 PM
Bear, how have you been keeping?

Grinding on amidst the madness.

As in Grindr, surely not you too?

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 23, 2023 6:18 pm

Nope. Will leave that for the Sydney types.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 6:18 pm

Have you read Thomas Pakenham’s The Scramble for Africa, Zulu?

Way back when – as you say, it’s a fascinating book.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 23, 2023 6:18 pm

The Scramble for Africa

Bit of that going on at the moment. Prigozhin resurfaced in Africa last night. The Niger coup leaders want Wagner to support them. That’d add Niger to Mali, Burkino Faso, CAR and Libya as customers. Maybe others, I forget. But it is looking like Vlad is keeping his end of the agreement.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 23, 2023 6:20 pm

ACMA shock troops in black leather trench coats. By Hugo Boss of course.

bons
bons
August 23, 2023 6:25 pm

BB, you are of course correct. But, I am much more fearful of what is coming.
The Labor, Green, Commo protests will become institutional and will involve more than street nonsense. Boycotts, wirhdrawel of service, disruption, destruction, and threats will become commonplace.
This is the catalyst that the university, union and public service left have been seeking. It will be revolutionary in nature and fully supported by Albanese and submissive corporates, institutions and the judicary. “The people demand that ……”
The Moritorium will seem like a family picnic in comparison.
Forgive text errors. The post op eyes are struggling with small text.

Crossie
Crossie
August 23, 2023 6:25 pm

I am not surprised at the NAPLAN results and it is not all due to the COVID lockdown. The fix for the falling NAPLAN results is to teach more of the three Rs and less of LGBTQ, Dreamtime and climate change. I do know from my own grandchildren that students are bored with all the social engineering being pushed in the classrooms so letting go of those would free up significant time for practical subjects. The trouble is that the social engineering is spread throughout all subjects and will need to be rewritten.

The report on the news emphasised that boys did worse than girls and once again I am not surprised. Boys like to learn about good and heroic details from our past and are disengaged by the black armband teaching of Australian history. Not even adults are interested in the rewritten past.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2023 6:27 pm

Watching the Tszyu/Brubaker undercard on Focks.

First up – chick boxing.

The tarts in question are going at it, in the manner of two ladies who -not being in the bridal party – turned up at a wedding in the same outfit.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 23, 2023 6:27 pm
Robert Sewell
August 23, 2023 6:31 pm

calli

Aug 23, 2023 9:24 AM
Just come back and rip their pavers out, until they pay, they’re yours.
Illegal. You can’t sabotage the work.
People do it though.

I’ll shorten it – new plant operator arrives in town, signs up job with the town arsehole. Drives the backhoe out to the on his truck. Get’s all the gear off and starts digging out the old cattle grid. Arsehole owner turns up and remarks “I think we need to renegotiate the job – “I want 10% off the quote.”
The P/O says OK and continues with the new cattle grid.
He upends the grid and sticks it in the hole in the driveway – vertically.
Then starts putting the backhoe onto the truck.
“Oi,” says the Own Arsehole “What are you doing?”
P/O: “Going home.”
T/A: ” You can’t leave it like this, how am I supposed to get to the house?”
P/O: “It looks like we’ll have to renegotiate the contract, then.”
According to the teller he wanted 20% more.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 23, 2023 6:32 pm

Haha, we normals have a long memory and can hold a grudge until it dies of old age.

Bud Light Backlash “Shows Little Signs Of Abating”, Citi Warns (23 Aug)

The Bud Light backlash shows no signs of stopping: AB InBev’s US volumes tanked 15.2% this past month, according to Citi, citing new data from Nielsen. The brewer has not apologized to its base drinkers for its tone-deaf transgender TikTok campaign in April.

When Gillette went woke I stopped buying their stuff after decades of doing so. That was, what, five years ago? I can’t remember. I buy a different brand now. And Kellogg went woke, I tried various alternatives, went back to them for a while then finally gave up breakfast entirely. My conscience feels wonderful! GWGB.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 6:33 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh2g6uYZaTU

Paul Murray, on Sky news – preschoolers being made to apologise to the indigenous….

Crossie
Crossie
August 23, 2023 6:34 pm

An idiot journalist on Channel 7 just reported that 11 passengers were killed on Ruby Princess before the ship arrived in Sydney in March 2020 with hundreds COVID cases. So now dying of a disease is being killed? Doesn’t anyone check their work before it goes to air?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 23, 2023 6:35 pm

To paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davies, well he would say that, wouldn’t he.

Crossie, I’m not naive enough to think that might not apply or be part of it, but I still hold to my view that Pauline was morally outraged herself and not just for his sake.

Robert Sewell
August 23, 2023 6:39 pm

Lizzie:

None of this would work though without the full backing of the rule of law. Western law, not tribal law. Tribal excuses should be downplayed. Getting a few big men ‘elders’ on side would help.

The ‘Big Men’ are where the problem starts. They are the ones who rule over the poor in the settlements. All you are doing is giving them more power.
Close the settlements except for the OAP and incalcitrants, bring in White Mans Law to protect them from the parasitical types, and make the ones in town WORK for a living. Giving them free shit that has no connection to earning money just continues the problem of ‘sit down’ money.
There must be a connection between work and reward or you’re just pissing into a gale.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 6:43 pm

Just reading about the Greek surrogacy clinic. It confirms my belief that ALL surrogacy should be illegal. It is not a right to have a child. And apparently the clinic is facing accusations of human trafficking and fraud. Greek police allege that the clinic in Crete was a criminal organisation that exploited 169 vulnerable foreign women, using them as egg donors and/or surrogates.

Why am I not surprised. I have long regarded surrogacy as a form of prostitution that preys on poor women who need money.

We live in a world where the left consider harvesting eggs from chickens in cages to be wrong, but this same left encourages and celebrates the harvesting of eggs from poor women so as to create human babies for affluent couples (same sex and otherwise) who want children.

I repeat, it is not a right to have a child.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 6:44 pm

Am I cruel to have little sympathy for the couples who are buying these babies?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 6:44 pm

Like the Aboriginal student hostel in Kununurra built in 2010 at a cost of $12 million so that remote Indigenous children could have a place to stay while attending secondary school. A 40-bed hostel that was closed during Covid when only one student attended and is now abandoned. $12 million bucks.

Rowan Dean, in the Spectator.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 6:45 pm

“They picked the trump card amongst all the colonial contenders.”

This is where I really miss upticks.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 23, 2023 6:46 pm

An idiot journalist on Channel 7 just reported that 11 passengers were killed on Ruby Princess

Yep. By the Chinese, with help from a certain Dr Fauci.
It was actual murder. Doubtful if they will be held to justice though.
At least not in this life. Buy some asbestos undies guys, you’ll need them.

calli
calli
August 23, 2023 6:46 pm

Buying a child is human trafficking.

Buying a labradoodle…not so much. Do that instead.

Crossie
Crossie
August 23, 2023 6:49 pm

We’ll find out what’s more correct about the same time we find out about the Vegas shooter.
PS, same police chief in Maui. He transferred from Vegas after he played ball with the Vegas shooting investigation.

I can see how conspiracy theories arise. It could look like it’s the police chief’s fault as he is the common denominator for both places but it could be as simple as already outlined by many that it’s standard Democrats incompetence and then the subsequent cover-up.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 6:50 pm

“She mentioned ” This Richard Skelton”.

The bloke has been a fact checker for years at the ABC.

Now listen. Sharri, the bloke is MR Virginia Trioli.

Dear, dear, dear.”

Yes, just like Louse Nilligan’s husband is Nick Leys, head of the the ABC’s corporate affairs team. You couldn’t make this shit up. Their ABC is an incestuous Marxist staff collective.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 6:51 pm

“Buying a child is human trafficking.”

Yes.

Stop surrogacy NOW.

Crossie
Crossie
August 23, 2023 6:51 pm

calli
Aug 23, 2023 6:46 PM
Buying a child is human trafficking.

Buying a labradoodle…not so much. Do that instead.

Trafficking and commodification.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 23, 2023 6:53 pm

Just reading about the Greek surrogacy clinic. It confirms my belief that ALL surrogacy should be illegal.

Interesting to recap vs the present the themes of one of Heinlein’s classics: The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.

– surrogacy (tick)
– artificial intelligence (tick)
– revolution (…not yet)

Recall he also prophesized the Crazy Years. Plus helped bring down the Soviet Union. Definitely an overachiever.

Crossie
Crossie
August 23, 2023 6:54 pm

the bloke is MR Virginia Trioli.

Dear, dear, dear.”

Yes, just like Louse Nilligan’s husband is Nick Leys, head of the the ABC’s corporate affairs team. You couldn’t make this shit up. Their ABC is an incestuous Marxist staff collective.

I couldn’t care less if they were doing it with their own money, I resent that taxpayers are forced to pay for this corruption.

calli
calli
August 23, 2023 6:55 pm

These things are really quite simple. That’s why they’re surrounded by clouds of squid ink.

Killing a child is infanticide.

The child’s location is irrelevant to the act.

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
August 23, 2023 6:55 pm

Have you all read the “Yes” case, in your official referendum booklet

If such a thing exists, I certainly haven’t seen one!

Mind you, inner city Melbournistan is probably last on the list…

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 23, 2023 6:56 pm

Haha, we normals have a long memory and can hold a grudge until it dies of old age.

Haven’t dealt with Telstra since 2003 when they sent my job to India. We refuse to buy Cheer (formerly known as Coon) even it is the only cheese left on the shelf, which it often is.

Robert Sewell
August 23, 2023 6:57 pm

Lizzie:

Providing housing that could be ‘purchased’ (at special aboriginal discounts) and owned would give willing families some stake in the township being a safe and orderly place.

No, Lizzie. NO no no.
They must pay market prices, and there must be a connect between home ownership and work.

“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 23, 2023 7:00 pm

I missed a cue. The Indian space probe is due to land on the Moon in 2 hours. You can watch on YouTube here:

Chandrayaan-3 Mission Soft-landing LIVE Telecast

Good luck guys, landing on the Moon is hard, as the Russians found out yesterday, sadly. I’ve a great deal of admiration for the Indian Space Agency since their long time administrator, Prof. Udipi R Rao, was a climate sceptic.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2023 7:02 pm

There’s been much talk about Hansen and Latham lately, and I have a high regard for both, but in my opinion the real star of the show at the moment is Malcolm Roberts. He is daily shedding light, in parliament, on the things that really matter.

Soviet-Style Rule in Australia Under Labor

Tom
Tom
August 23, 2023 7:02 pm

This is where I really miss upticks.

Our Doverlordship needs more time to identify the blog’s problems. We trust him.

I’m with you, Cassie, but I’m patient.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 23, 2023 7:06 pm

Freehold would give them the right to sell as well.
How could those right possibly co exist with native title
Native title rights makes things worse, for everyone.

Yes. Which is why I’d lead the charge to remove Native Title from our laws as soon as we can. It will take lotsa balls and lotsa will to do this, but I think one day it must come to that.

Re the Big Men, I was referring there to getting some cooperation in the urban townships not out in the remote settlements. Big Men out there are leeches. It may be possible to rope some of them in the townships into being properly controlled leaders. One of the problems is the distribution of Royalties to Land Councils. Another reason why the Crown needs to take over areas currently held by Native Title, which as I’ve said is an invention of the High Court, and yes, it does depend on Australia being settled rather than invaded. Perhaps we should suddenly turn around, agree with the ‘warrior’ claimants that Australia was invaded, agree it was conquered and that we’ll now ask the High Court to declare Native Title null and void. We could then move on from that abomination, while disbanding the abominations of remote settlements that were the result of Nugget Coombes aboriginal dreaming.

It could still be done. Bring it on, I say.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 7:06 pm

“but in my opinion the real star of the show at the moment is Malcolm Roberts. ”

Agree.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 23, 2023 7:07 pm

Received “You official referendum booklet” in the mail today. There’s a lot to be underwhelmed by…
Front cover says VOTING IS COMPULSORY on a high contrast black banner. Ok, fine.
(P3 has guide to translated versions… “First Nations languages”, and, quite separately, “Culturally and linguistically diverse languages”. Never miss a chance to promote the newly minted First Nationses and our treasured rich tapestry of sub-literate immigants. Hilariously, First Nationses are audio only, Rich Tapestry Diverse Australians have written languages obvs. But i digro…)
Back cover has a gentler banner, “Voting is compulsory for Australian citizens aged 18 years and older”. Which is a lie of omission.
Voting is only compulsory after you have enrolled- enrollment is available to Australian citizens only.
A small para inside back cover confirms this, but i think it’s obvious that the voteherd are being shepherded in to the ballot box… and maybe, just maybe, we’re being softened for an extraordinary, even inexplicable, quantity of ballot papers presented to the scrutes.

Robert Sewell
August 23, 2023 7:11 pm

dover0beach

Aug 23, 2023 10:41 AM
Interesting that the disaster in Maui is turning into Biden’s Katrina moment at the very least in Hawaii. Has there been any mention in our MSM that the deaths are likely over a thousand and a large number of them children.

I’ve hunted through the reports, but can find no further reference to the people walking out of one of the towns made it but the people in the town in cars were held up by police who stopped them driving out.
Does anyone have any information on their fate?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 7:11 pm

Perhaps we should suddenly turn around, agree with the ‘warrior’ claimants that Australia was invaded, agree it was conquered

The surrender this time will be unconditional! Reparations? Compensation? What are they?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 23, 2023 7:12 pm

Well, I’ve had one gin and tonic and it’s time for another. 🙂

Hairy’s just back from the shops with some steak, I’ll make a salad, and the good news is that Attapuss does not have diabetes. The vet rang and confirmed that the expensive test determined thus. He is just a highly nervous cat whose blood sugar levels went into outlier overdrive because he’s always been as high as a kite on nervous energy since kittenhood. Add a trip in the car to the vet’s and you have a cat with bloods like no ever cat ever before.

Which means his problems are and were then due to his teeth and I have to put up with his wailing and desire to be picked up and comforted until next Monday now.

Alamak!
August 23, 2023 7:14 pm

The report on the news emphasised that boys did worse than girls and once again I am not surprised. Boys like to learn about good and heroic details from our past and are disengaged by the black armband teaching of Australian history.

Nobody with children in the current system would be surprised at the NAPLAN results. My own sons school staff were adamant that boys and girls got equal support in education and that results were equal as well. One look at the actual data shared showed a massive imbalance of girls getting ‘A’s and boys getting ‘D’s. The head teacher refused to believe that any concerns with the outcomes were justified.

Not a surprise that any parents who can will move their kids out of this system and/or request male teachers for their sons.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2023 7:16 pm
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 23, 2023 7:16 pm

“Voting is compulsory for Australian citizens aged 18 years and older”.

Might be worth the point to ask people how they would feel if the tens of thousands of ‘Indigenous’ were given two votes?

Crossie
Crossie
August 23, 2023 7:16 pm

Mark from Melbourne
Aug 23, 2023 6:55 PM
Have you all read the “Yes” case, in your official referendum booklet

If such a thing exists, I certainly haven’t seen one!

Mind you, inner city Melbournistan is probably last on the list…

I haven’t received anything yet, no that I need it.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2023 7:18 pm
Crossie
Crossie
August 23, 2023 7:18 pm

Not a surprise that any parents who can will move their kids out of this system and/or request male teachers for their sons.

It is very hard to find male teachers, they are not exactly flocking to the teaching profession.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 23, 2023 7:20 pm

No, Lizzie. NO no no.
They must pay market prices, and there must be a connect between home ownership and work.

“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”

There’s a case for an intermediate stage of assistance to full home ownership.

They aren’t going to get any help from their parents as our kids did and so many others do. I am only speaking of the move from remote areas into townships here, not any other form of privileged ownership assistance for being aboriginal, although some case may even be made for that. You could say we owe it to people hoodwinked by Nugget Coombes.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 23, 2023 7:24 pm

there must be a connect between home ownership and work.

Not arguing against the importance of this connect.

Terms though may vary.

Robert Sewell
August 23, 2023 7:25 pm

OldOzzie

Aug 23, 2023 11:13 AM
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/
Microreactor technology company NANO Nuclear Energy Inc has begun the due diligence for locating a nuclear fuel fabrication capability at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), which it says could begin production as soon as 2027.

Australia could grab one of these small companies and move them to a moderate sized town and allow them to grow.
But it won’t.
Or if they did, would bury them under a pile of regulations that will kill the business.
And would allow Greenies to sabotage and blockade the premises.
Australia – never failing to miss an opportunity since whenever.

Crossie
Crossie
August 23, 2023 7:27 pm

Andrew Bolt is off with the fairies again, Tucker Carlson is far right now as far as he is concerned. I am losing patience with him and might just click over to watch The Other Voice on Channel 7. Watching kids sing is more cheerful that what he is offering.

Robert Sewell
August 23, 2023 7:33 pm

Salvatore, Iron Publican
Aug 23, 2023 11:35 AM

Sancho Pansy, pipe the f down about stuff you know nothing about. You’re not the smartest person in the room.
You’ve never walked in a small business’ shoes – stick to your lane.

I’ve been paying for a motel room via card for at least a decade now. They get paid, you get the key.
I’m happy with that and so are they.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 23, 2023 7:34 pm

Add a trip in the car to the vet’s and you have a cat with bloods like no ever cat ever before.

I have actual scars to negate your hypothesis Lizzie…

Some years ago my old mum had a long stay in hospital, so I got the job of moving her two cats to my brother’s house (Cafe Bruce was out of the equation for obvious reasons).

I managed to get male cat into travel box with reasonable smoothness. Then seduced shy female cat into my embrace. So far so good. I’d positioned the second travel box on the floor of a spare room. Carried her in. That was my mistake: I should’ve covered her eyes…

She saw the open travel container and though “vet”.

Suddenly I had a whirling elemental-with-claws clutched to my chest. Blood! Gashes! Somehow I got her into the travel box. My shirt was shedded and so was my skin.

Eventually arrived at my brother’s house, and move the two of them into the spare room he had ready. He said something like “I hope it went well?” In answer I just lifted my shirt to show the bloody tracks she’d carved on my front. It was painfully funny.

Cats. Do. Not. Like. The. Vet.

Rabz
August 23, 2023 7:34 pm

What a joke – Blot mouth foaming with Gen Buck Keane* (Retd) about Tucker’s latest twatter tirade, in which the latter has savagely denounced the braindead lamestream meeja for its shameless and blatantly dishonest barracking for the poor plucky li’l Ukes against those ‘orrible genocidal russkies.

*Of the Henry Kissinger Peace Academy.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 23, 2023 7:35 pm

Have you all read the “Yes” case, in your official referendum booklet.

I’ve read the whole booklet. The Yes case is sentimental waffle. The No case is fair and rational.

We’re going to find out how many sentimental fatheads we’ve got in Australia.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2023 7:38 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2023 7:39 pm

We’re going to find out how many sentimental fatheads we’ve got in Australia.

“Aboriginal souls will be crushed if the Voice is rejected…”

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
August 23, 2023 7:43 pm

It is very hard to find male teachers, they are not exactly flocking to the teaching profession.

Not sure if anyone has linked it here, but Bettina Arndt has written an excellent article titled “Is BHP discriminating against men?” (she’s on Rumble?). It describes the efforts being made to get 50-50 male/female in the company. There should be a concerted effort to get schools 50 -50 male/female also.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 23, 2023 7:44 pm

“Aboriginal souls will be crushed if the Voice is rejected…”

This would be an opportune time for that special spiritual connection to the land to lend them at least a little resilience, right?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 23, 2023 7:44 pm

Sky news is saying that we have to decide three things about the voice. First, should we acknowledge the aborigines in the constitution? Second, should they be allowed to put their concerns to government? And third, do we trust the government to handle everything fairly?

The first is sentimental guff. What good will it do in the outback? The second is silly, they have loads of people speaking up for them. And the only sane answer to the last is Hell no. I wouldn’t trust the government half a nanometre.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 23, 2023 7:45 pm

RS would like going to the doctor if they took your temperature the same way as they do cats?

Crossie
Crossie
August 23, 2023 7:49 pm

Not sure if anyone has linked it here, but Bettina Arndt has written an excellent article titled “Is BHP discriminating against men?” (she’s on Rumble?). It describes the efforts being made to get 50-50 male/female in the company. There should be a concerted effort to get schools 50 -50 male/female also.

The way men are being discriminated against we as a culture will have to make changes to bring our society back to an even keel. There will need to be a men’s liberation movement (not sarcastic).

JC
JC
August 23, 2023 7:53 pm

It’s time for a little Ukraine. I’m at the starting gate ready to go.

Just kidding.

Anyone who mentions Ukraine for the next month should be banned for a month. I’m so Unkrained I even hate the name now.

C.L.
C.L.
August 23, 2023 7:56 pm

Without embarrassment, Bolt segues from a segment on phony ‘fact checkers’ with an agenda to ‘fact-checking’ Tucker Carlson using “General” Jack Keane.

Bolt never mentions that Keane is a neocon war profiteer, an armaments executive, a former adviser to the criminal mercenary outfit Blackwater and the rat who wants to make money by giving the Saudis US nuclear tech.

Jack didn’t sound very convincing tonight, though. LOL.

Carlson’s interview with Colonel Douglas Macgregor (Ret,) – whose intro triggered Andrew and Jack – is a must-see.

Macgregor’s analysis is brilliant.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1693761723230990509

JC
JC
August 23, 2023 7:56 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 7:57 pm

Aaron at 6:06.
This from The Oz today

ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry has disputed a “false information” label put on Sky News host and News Corp columnist Peta Credlin’s reports that the Uluru Statement from the Heart is 26 pages long.

RMIT University’s FactLab – which works “hand in hand” with RMIT ABC Fact Check – this month claimed Credlin’s reporting and commentary on the length of the Uluru Statement was incorrect, using statements from Anthony Albanese, voice co-architect Megan Davis and the National Indigenous Australians Agency to justify its analysis.

In Credlin’s column published in The Australian last Thursday, she said she had been censored by big tech and the RMIT fact checkers after a Sky News Facebook post, which had included a video of her discussing the length of the Uluru Statement, was flagged as: “False information. Checked by independent fact-checkers.”

On Monday, Barry said: “The Uluru Statement is expressed on one page, but there are many more pages of notes and background … where matters like a treaty and reparations are raised.

“And given that there may be some point in what Credlin is saying, we think a disputed label would be more appropriate.”

A Meta spokesman told Media Watch the false claim put on Credlin’s editorial “wasn’t us”.

“This fact check was applied by an independent fact checker and not Meta,” the spokesman said.

ABC head of communications Nick Leys contacted The Australian about the masthead’s ­editorial on the matter and claimed it made “incorrect statements about RMIT ABC Fact Check and should be corrected”.

“The fact check referred to, concerning a column by Peta Credlin, was not conducted by RMIT ABC Fact Check but by RMIT FactLab, a stand-alone ­operation with its own editor and editorial processes which has no financial or editorial relationship with RMIT ABC Fact Check, or the ABC,” he wrote. “The fact checks referred to are published on the RMIT ­FactLab Debunks website, which again has nothing to do with the ABC.”

But the ABC’s RMIT FactLab page states it “works hand-in-hand with RMIT ABC Fact Check, a partnership between RMIT University and the ABC which focuses on fact-checking claims by public figures”.

The website also states Russell Skelton is the director of both RMIT ABC Fact Check and RMIT FactLab.

The RMIT FactLab also works in partnership with Meta to check social media content that is published on Facebook (owned by Meta) and Instagram.

The ABC was asked by The Australian to explain the distinction between the two groups considering the RMIT website states Mr Skelton is the director of both fact-checkers and that it says RMIT FactLab works “hand-in-hand” with RMIT-ABC FactCheck. The ABC did not respond to the request for comments.

So even Paul Barry thinks it is a stretch.
And, yes, Mr Trioli runs both outfits, so there is a bit of hair-splitting going on by Aunty.
Looks like RMIT ABC Fact Check might collect Aunty funding and RMIT FactLab gets Zucker funding.
They have probably created two separate entities for some legal reason or other, but to all intents and purposes, it is the same outfit run by Mr Trioli.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2023 7:58 pm

Coffee time.

Apparently.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 23, 2023 7:58 pm

Not sure if anyone has linked it here, but Bettina Arndt has written an excellent article titled “Is BHP discriminating against men?”

It was funny many years ago when I was working for them. Any lady with an ounce of ability was grabbed bodily then levitated up the hierarchy like she was attached to a JATO. Of course they’d then get married and have kids and go on leave and part time for several years, so the next one then had to be bodily levitated. It was like watching a trebuchet in action.

That company went woke a long time before woke was a thing. The CEO was a vegie and they’re all in on climate rubbish. I’m amused by the tiff between BHP and Palacechook today.

Razey
Razey
August 23, 2023 8:01 pm

Sancho Pansy, pipe the f down about stuff you know nothing about. You’re not the smartest person in the room.

Fact Check:

True.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2023 8:02 pm
Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2023 8:04 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2023 8:06 pm

Coffee and Pom moaning time*.

Apparently.

*All the time.

Lee
Lee
August 23, 2023 8:10 pm

Bolt never mentions that Keane is a neocon war profiteer, an armaments executive, a former adviser to the criminal mercenary outfit Blackwater and the rat who wants to make money by giving the Saudis US nuclear tech.

Bolt wrote an opinion piece more than 20 years ago effectively arguing that the West had a role in bringing democracy to the Middle East whether it wanted it not. In other words, imposing it on the ME.

Bolt is a neocon of very long standing.

cohenite
August 23, 2023 8:11 pm

People are fuking idiots: latest polls show at best Trump level pegging with that walking corpse biden. Who the fuk would vote for biden although I always get a rise (sic) out of my flamboyantly gay neighbour when I praise Trump because he always paid his bill. Great flouncing ensues.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 8:12 pm

Mr Sewell.

I’ve been paying for a motel room via card for at least a decade now. They get paid, you get the key.
I’m happy with that and so are they.

And you are no renegade, sir.
My intel suggests that approximately 99.968% of hotel guests worldwide pay in advance by credit card, either directly with the hotel, or via a booking aggregator.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2023 8:14 pm

“Bolt is a neocon of very long standing.

Like his great mate, Dribbler Sheridan.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 23, 2023 8:17 pm

Sancho Panzer Aug 23, 2023 8:12 PM
Mr Sewell.

I’ve been paying for a motel room via card for at least a decade now. They get paid, you get the key.
I’m happy with that and so are they.

And you are no renegade, sir.
My intel suggests that approximately 99.968% of hotel guests worldwide pay in advance by credit card, either directly with the hotel, or via a booking aggregator.

Reframing in real time.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 8:19 pm

My apologies.
I should have included flea-infested backpacker hostels.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 23, 2023 8:24 pm

I should have included flea-infested backpacker hostels.

Your familiarity with such places is nothing to be ashamed of, not all of us can afford the Hilton. We don’t judge on the Cat.

Aaron
Aaron
August 23, 2023 8:28 pm

That general on Bolt always reminds me of “Dr Strangelove”.

Makes Donald Rumsfeld look like Neville Chamberlain.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 23, 2023 8:39 pm

Indolent
Aug 23, 2023 8:02 PM

How Much of Today’s ‘Racism’ Is Manufactured?

Almost all of it. I’ve spent some time in the US. The only racism I saw, not much, was from the black people.

C.L.
C.L.
August 23, 2023 8:40 pm

Major trigger warning:

Tucker Carlson@TuckerCarlson
·23h Coming Soon

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary

We sat down with him in Budapest

Robert Sewell
August 23, 2023 8:46 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Aug 23, 2023 3:38 PM

“Even if they lose the vote, this whole process will have succeeded only in dividing the nation. The ensuing bitterness of the main protagonists will not end well.”

Agree. I predict violence.

The violence will be the violence of a ten year old caught stealing from mums purse or the bickie tin. It will be the anger of the spoiled child who finally gets made to clean their room, make their bed, and help with the cooking and washing up.
And after the damage bill has been totalled, it will be futile because discipline must come from within – imposing discipline can work, but it leaves scars on both the disciplinarian and the disciplined when guidance in the formative years was all that was needed.

JC
JC
August 23, 2023 8:48 pm

There is systemic racism, Doc. It’s coming from the schools in the poor black neighborhoods giving black kids terrible terrible education. Schools were basically closed for 2 years. You really think those kids are up to date? Of course they aren’t and they were never “up to date”. The unions are an important funding stream for the Demonrats.

Blacks have a right to call out white systemic racism and they should be leaving the Demonrat party en mass because of this party’s racism

MatrixTransform
August 23, 2023 8:49 pm

Reframing in real time

if wanking was a sport then sancho would deffo be the goat

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 23, 2023 8:51 pm

Oops.
Shit me dacks again.
There must be a God Oracle in the vicinity.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 23, 2023 8:52 pm

Shit me dacks again.
There must be a God Oracle in the vicinity.

Yep, to be found two comments above yours.

MatrixTransform
August 23, 2023 8:57 pm

gee sancho … lucky you have a fall-back

otherwise you wouldn’t seem so witty and wise

did you reach as far down into your intellectual pockets as you could again?

simpleton

JC
JC
August 23, 2023 8:57 pm

Dover

If you’re looking for goading attempts look no more.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
August 23, 2023 8:59 pm

If you’re looking for goading attempts look no more.

Crybaby runs to teacher.
You’ve shitposted every comment of numerous commenters.
Grow up & take some of your own back like a man. (okay, I spot the problem already)

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 23, 2023 9:00 pm

Impressive dance routine. One mistake and she is rooted.

Crunch!

Ozzy Man Reviews:

“I Need a Break!” – Amazing Dance Duo

cohenite
August 23, 2023 9:04 pm

No one and no group are more racist than stinking commies. They pick their victims and then create a mess for those victims so they can blame the West and justify its overthrow. It’s elementary and brilliant.

MatrixTransform
August 23, 2023 9:04 pm

If you’re looking for goading attempts look no more.

dover …. dover…

it’s JC … have I told you before, I seriously h8te bullies?

and MT is picking on sancho …. AGAIN!!

… and somebody should seriously DO something about it.

what’s the matter JC? You run out of kleenex for some reason ?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2023 9:04 pm

god oracle is here

i mean catweazle

stop being derivative

you mongs

JC
JC
August 23, 2023 9:05 pm

Tickler, that’s twice the number of positions than the Kama Sutra. What are you doing?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 23, 2023 9:08 pm

JC
Aug 23, 2023 9:05 PM

( :

MatrixTransform
August 23, 2023 9:08 pm

aww, JC, you’re just trying to steal sancho’s title

seriously, if yr ego needs fluffing I ‘ll tell you that your’e deffo an extraordinary wanker

… yr just just no match for sancho.

and speaking of fluffers, where’s KD?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2023 9:13 pm

where’s KD?

sorry

was just on site telling the mongs whats what

about waterproofing

they wooden know

the mongs

derivative mongs

but they appreciate my genius

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 23, 2023 9:15 pm

Check out this classic song remix. Great work with the visuals.*

*Opinions may vary.

Buggles Video Killed The Radio Star Pete Le Freq Remix

Robert Sewell
August 23, 2023 9:16 pm

Diogenes

Aug 23, 2023 6:56 PM
Haha, we normals have a long memory and can hold a grudge until it dies of old age.

Haven’t dealt with Telstra since 2003 when they sent my job to India. We refuse to buy Cheer (formerly known as Coon) even it is the only cheese left on the shelf, which it often is.

Cheer X
Gillette X
Samsung X
Now who else can I vent my spleen on? Suggestions please.

Annie
Annie
August 23, 2023 9:17 pm

Cassie of Sydney @ 1023am:

Well said re. Pauline Hanson.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2023 9:20 pm

Little fat Paul Murray making some sense on kids’ education.

Says parents should get involved rather than blaming the system (although he does blame the system), and he’s 100% correct.

You cannot stand back and wail about the Long March Through The Schools if you do not make the effort to teach your own child the basics.

Complaining about nerdy teachers instead of making the effort to instil your values into your offspring is nothing less than abject parental failure.

Annie
Annie
August 23, 2023 9:22 pm

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