Open Thread Weekend 2 Sept 2023


Lunch on the Grass, Claude Monet, 1865

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Razey
Razey
September 2, 2023 11:29 am

But alas no, unless of course it’s too early for them, and they’re yet to finish sipping their morning almond milk coffee and nibbling at their vegan pastries. Priorities.

Jordan Petersen holds his speeches at 8am at Universities because LWNJs are too lazy to get up early to ‘protest’

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 11:30 am

Comment, from the Oz.

Tim
1 hour ago
To be honest, I am saddened by the Welcome to Country secular prayer. Just recently I have heard an additional section being added. ” We stand on land that always was and always will be Aboriginal land…” You need to understand what you are saying when you say this. The meaning is clear, unless you are Aboriginal, this land isn’t yours. That is a great untruth, and designed to make you feel that way. This land now belongs to all Australians not just a small group of people. Be respectful but I urge you not to say this phrase. It is intended to soften you up to accepting that this isn’t your land, when in fact if you are an Australian, this is most definitely is your land. A land I love an treasure.

Razey
Razey
September 2, 2023 11:33 am
miltonf
miltonf
September 2, 2023 11:35 am

I noticed Burke was mentioned here earlier today- I retired canbra pube I was acquainted with referred to him as ‘burkie’- very cosy and very canbra. Also sickening.

shatterzzz
September 2, 2023 11:41 am

Well there I go .. the park that masquerades as a back garden all weeded, gras cut & even been up on the roof & cleaned the gutters .. nothing left .. until it all starts again next week .. LOL!
Summer’s coming .. during the day, that is! .. not at, bloody, night yet brrrrrrrrh! ..!

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
September 2, 2023 11:49 am

I noticed Burke was mentioned here earlier today- I retired canbra pube I was acquainted with referred to him as ‘burkie’- very cosy and very canbra. Also sickening.

And he is a right Burk. Along with Tennis Elbow, Blackout Bowen, Wenny Pong, Tanya Plebersuck, Mark Doofus, The Gallagher Bitch, etc, etc, etc,………..A very long list of Marxist cretins.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 2, 2023 11:49 am

Big call.

Labor’s Voice to Parliament is ‘lost’ (Sky News, 2 Sep)

Bondi Partners Senior Advisor Peter McGauran says the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is “lost” at this stage.

“It’s not going to get fifty per cent of the popular vote,” Mr McGauran told Sky News Australia.

“They’re still hoping they can recover it but it’s more hope than confidence.”

I don’t know whether he’s the Nat’s Peter McGauran since I didn’t watch the report itself.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 2, 2023 12:03 pm

“We are lucky to be cohabitating a continent with the oldest civilisation on Earth. It’s a good thing for us to let that play on our minds.”

In a very loose sense of the word “civilisation”.

Robert Sewell
September 2, 2023 12:03 pm

feelthebern

Sep 2, 2023 9:51 AM
Ugly host(esses) with attitude (which is worse), bad service, bad food

I find these as the least of my concerns.
Lost baggage.
Delayed/cancelled flights.
Or do you include them in bad service?

The bit about selling seats in cancelled flights is a concern.
Correct me if I’m getting it wrong, but if I call Qantas and book a seat on a flight, then they bill my card – while knowing that flight has been cancelled – isn’t that fraud?
They have accepted payment for a product that doesn’t exist and haven’t told me the product doesn’t exist.
It smells like fraud to me.

JC
JC
September 2, 2023 12:04 pm

Johnny Rotten
Sep 2, 2023 11:00 AM
I did fly Quaintarse Business Class from Sydney to Dallas Fort Worth on the A380 in July 2018 and they were really brilliant

Wodney, how did you scrape in with your criminal record?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 2, 2023 12:09 pm

Labor’s Voice to Parliament is ‘lost’ (Sky News, 2 Sep)

I wouldn’t put money on any prediction – my Lived Experience is that most people aren’t in any way engaged with the issues.

Whichever way it lands, there is going to be a significant rump of resentment that didn’t exist before.

And, again in either outcome, this resentment will be traceable back to Albanese’s disgraceful handling of the issue against the contradictory statements by the First Nations industry and the twaddle pushed by the media and our corporate betters.

Having promised to deliver Uluru “in full” the horrid little shit had been happy to let the individual interpretation of the issues of racial preference scamper wherever they might. When, in reality, all he’s hoping for is a political parliamentary win on Voice – with a manageable offramp if No gets up.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 2, 2023 12:13 pm
Roger
Roger
September 2, 2023 12:17 pm

In a very loose sense of the word “civilisation”.

It’s untrue in at least two ways.

Aboriginals never created a civilisation.

Much of their culture, which one might properly speak of, is redundant or forgotten
and is no longer practiced as it was prior to British settlement, so it is not a “continuous culture”, as is often claimed.

As I noted above, in attempting profundity, Beazley has merely joined the long line of Yes advocates who have demonstrated that there is no good argument for the Voice.

Damon
Damon
September 2, 2023 12:18 pm

“We are lucky to be cohabitating a continent with the oldest civilisation on Earth.”

How about they acknowledge the advantages of modern medicine and dentistry, the ‘free’ money they get from our industry, and the fact that they were given a vote?

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 2, 2023 12:18 pm

miltonf
Sep 2, 2023 11:25 AM
Anal appearing jocular reminded me of someone. Then it came to me- the lesbian bitch.

Which particular “lesbian bitch”?

miltonf
miltonf
September 2, 2023 12:20 pm

Clinton

Luzu
Luzu
September 2, 2023 12:20 pm

Terrible news out of Ukraine this morning.

My ex-husband’s nephew is MIA, presumed dead. He was a young man of 22, married with a baby on the way.

I remember when the little fella was born, very premature, in December, 2000. His dad was a bit of a loser and deserted the family when Danichka was very young and his mum had a hard time providing for the two of them, working as she did as an orderly in the small local hospital. The lad struggled through school, often ran away from home and ended up in a type of juvenile prison in Vladisvostok. He seemed to come right in his late teens, returned to his mum and stepfather, found work and got married.

Although he lived in the Russian Far East in almost the furthest part of Russia from Ukraine (except for Kamchatka) and despite having a pregnant wife, he was drafted earlier this year. His mother passed the news to my ex-husband this morning that she has been told that Daniil is missing.

Every part of me is hoping that the news is not true. My heart is just so broken.

I hate war. I hate the people who think nothing of making money from the misery and destruction of human life. I hate the pointless loss of so much human potential. I hate those who send other people’s sons to their deaths.

calli
calli
September 2, 2023 12:22 pm
JC
JC
September 2, 2023 12:25 pm

Luzu

That brings the war closer to anyone reading your post. Let us know please.

calli
calli
September 2, 2023 12:26 pm

Luzu, you sum up my thoughts on the matter exactly.

He may yet turn up. I sincerely hope he does, poor man.

Robert Sewell
September 2, 2023 12:32 pm

Wodger:
Sep 2, 2023 11:28 AM

I’m hoping I’ll be in.

You may find you live in one of the postcodes they’ve written off as full of recalcitrants, Robert.

Nooo!
I’m going to jump in the car and do a circuit of the town to see where they are. Then I’ll come back and sit on the front steps, drinking a tinnie of XXXX, looking peaceable like.
Should I wear blackface?

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 2, 2023 12:36 pm

I am yet to ever fly REX or Bonza so can’t report there.

People in the village fly Bonza all the time out of the Sunny Coast to points north to visit family. They did a back to back flight Townsville to MCY (Bonza) then Qantas from MCY to Melbourne. Absolutely not impressed with the Flying Rat, Bonza – cheap and cheerful, Q expensive and surly + they were pissed of by 2 WtCs, vote yes etc etc announcements. They have sworn to stop flying Q until this bullshit stops.

miltonf
miltonf
September 2, 2023 12:41 pm

looking fwd to giving rex a go

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 2, 2023 12:42 pm

And they have 10,000 volunteers.

How much are the ‘volunteers’ being paid in various reimbursements if not in actual time payments? Or are they simply being openly paid for work done?

Calli’s point about if you say you’re voting No your home is a target is valid.
So many ‘undecideds’.

Dot
Dot
September 2, 2023 12:42 pm

Yeah cohenite

Do a little bit of maths and it seems like you’re probably correct.

Roger
Roger
September 2, 2023 12:46 pm

Seconded, Luzu.

Reminded of this….

‘Naturally, the common people don’t want war … but it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.’

– Hermann Goring

And introduce conscription if the above tactic fails to elicit the required response.

P
P
September 2, 2023 12:48 pm

Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land

The Australian Museum has worked with several First Nations peoples to translate “Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land” into languages from their respective Countries, reflecting their own heritage and connections to land.

Scroll down to see:

The languages included in this series come from south-east Australia.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
September 2, 2023 12:48 pm

Kim Beazley wants Australians to vote Yes for an Indigenous voice to parliament to show respect

I will show respect to the indigenous by voting NO.
Troy Bramston is writing utter bull..it these days.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 2, 2023 12:50 pm

Luzu, war is a horror and good men on both sides of any conflict end up dead.
Sometimes the cause is, or seems, just. And all men who fight can be heroes.

Can’t really say any more about it, but I hope this young father returns alive and well.
Hope is always there until you know for sure, when it is time to grieve.

Razey
Razey
September 2, 2023 12:51 pm

You don’t show respect, you earn respect. The Aboriginals have not earnt it. Sorry not sorry.

bons
bons
September 2, 2023 12:51 pm

The descent of the denizens of the leafy suburbs upon the homes of the mindless occupants of ‘family class’ suburbs is such an hilarious cliche.
These self appointed aristocrats have never changed. Even before they became leftists they considered themselves to be the moral and intellectual superiors of the ordinary folk occupying ‘those’ suburbs, and couldn’t resist telling them how to live.
Their every foray into the misunderstood realm of real Australia has always been rejected. As this one will be.
There are good reasons why there are no debutant Teals out there, morons.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 12:51 pm

The Australian Museum has worked with several First Nations peoples to translate “Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land” into languages from their respective Countries, reflecting their own heritage and connections to land.

Where are they translating “You couldn’t defend that land?”

areff
areff
September 2, 2023 12:52 pm

Greetings, fellow ‘right-wing swine

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 2, 2023 12:54 pm

Should I wear blackface?

No a fake (S)tan should do it.

I could image a scene like this classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyJUBlDv-rM&ab_channel=Gary86 (Fast Forward – Auction sketch with Ernie Dingo )

Roger
Roger
September 2, 2023 12:54 pm

Calli’s point about if you say you’re voting No your home is a target is valid.

Identifier arguing for indigenous sovereignty on ABC radio this morning said No voters “hate us.”

So, if you’re intending to vote No you’re a racist.

This is US-style demonisation of political opponents and it’s not taking us to a good place.

Speedbox
September 2, 2023 1:01 pm

Sancho Panzer
Sep 2, 2023 9:35 AM
Qantas – The flight credit thing will be studied as a brand destruction business case in MBA courses in years to come.

Indeed. Just like Gillette is now and Bud will likely.

The other aspect is the selling of flight tickets after the flight had already been cancelled. This wasn’t some computer glitch – thousands of tickets sold, some up to 42 days AFTER the flight had already been cancelled. Then, trying to get your money back became a David an Goliath struggle.

I sometimes wonder who advises these companies. Who was it that actually thought it would be a good idea to insult a high proportion of your customers – Gillette and Bud. Or, no problems here, business as usual, all rides are operational except one – Dreamworld. Or Dove, if black skinned women use our product, they can become white skinned. Not to forget New Coke of course.

WTF were they thinking. Qantas management have seemed intent over a long period to trash the brand.

Most recently, Qantas and Jetstar admit they hold $570 million (!) in unredeemed travel credits from flights cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Those credits were due to run out at the end of this year but Joyce has relented under intense pressure and the credits won’t expire. Meanwhile, and never mind that many of our customers are likely NO voters in the upcoming referendum, up yours and we will use the planes as flying billboards with free seats to YES campaigners. Cancelled flights and a host of other issues for the rest of you – meh. Get over it peasant.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 2, 2023 1:01 pm

Aargh. I have superglue on my fingers. A visit this morning from our son with our little very autistic grandson left us with a small cat figurine, that belonged to my mother, now less an ear. I have tried to glue it back on as I did to my Cretan bull figurine’s horns and ear. I thought if I used one of those small once-only tubes of superglue it would be more manageable.

It wasn’t. The ear went on upside down (they are tricky things) and I automatically grabbed it to put it on the right way.

I managed to knock over a bottle of nail polish remover all over my desk in the clean-up effort. You need acetone. Then I saw the label on the bottle – acetone free – but it still reeks in here. Luckily, although I was wearing my 10K diamond eternity ring which I always wear, it remains superglue free. A lesson learned, I will take it off in future when doing such repairs. And none of you better tell the Hairy one about any of this.

I’ve just been cleaning my nail polish off, I explain to him re the smell.

calli
calli
September 2, 2023 1:05 pm

Rest assured these “volunteers” will be collecting information. Some of them will be kindly, decent people…but not all of them. And it’s their associates who will obligingly do any dirty work.

If the “no” vote gets up, I have zero doubt that there will be some “payback”. Particularly in smaller communities. It is part of the much vaunted culture after all.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 1:07 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7MXXxsDEtc

“The longest running practical joke in Australia’s history was launched by an Australian Aborigine..”

Gilas
Gilas
September 2, 2023 1:09 pm

“Vote for courtesy. Vote for a position that shows we are ­listening.

“We are lucky to be cohabitating a continent with the oldest civilisation on Earth. It’s a good thing for us to let that play on our minds.”

Aside from the usual appeal to fact-free emotion, yet another flatulent, faecally-loaded, morbidly obese oaf who doesn’t know the difference between a civilization and a culture, an anachronistic Paleolithic one at that.

Yet more proof that parasitising off the public tit for decades enhances one’s imbecility.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 2, 2023 1:10 pm

I’m hoping this stuff will have worn off by the time any fingerprints are needed. I don’t think they require them for entry to Italy. Hope not. They make you do them for entry to the US. A couple of my fingers feel concrete-tipped. Maybe I’ll chase up some real acetone.

In the past I’ve found gnawing at them can shift some of it.
Not a good look though. 🙂

Dragnet
Dragnet
September 2, 2023 1:13 pm

Out and about as usual on a Saturday morn at both the strip shopping centre and the mall at Rockdale, I’m still yet to encounter let alone clap eyes upon any Yes activists.
Smack bang on the middle of Linda Burney’s electorate I might add.

miltonf
miltonf
September 2, 2023 1:13 pm

Yes fart boy slim has never had a real job in his life. Was Beazley snr thinking about his own family with his ‘dregs of the middle class’ quip. Or maybe the Beazleys think they are upper class. Lord save us from these political parasites.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 2, 2023 1:14 pm

Speedbox.

I have known 2 people who were former employees of Qantas. Very tough place to work apparently if you are up in the executive. Dixon & the Leprechaun are very hard task masters from what I have been told and both prone to fits of rage.

I had around $1K Jetstar voucher that I used recently so I didn’t lose it. We had a nice 4 days on Lake Macquarie as result.

JC
JC
September 2, 2023 1:15 pm

Sancho Panzer
Sep 2, 2023 9:35 AM
Qantas – The flight credit thing will be studied as a brand destruction business case in MBA courses in years to come.

Go no further than the little midget’s taste for money. He knew he was retiring. He has a pile of options that will vest once he retires. It means he wants to see the share price up as high as possible so that when he vests he can sell out. It’s why he’s doing a massive buyback in order to try and lift the stock price. Follow the money. Although, some of the shit he pulled is brand corrosive, the gay dwarf would have bet it wasn’t immediately corrosive, especially with the huge profit result.

Speedbox
September 2, 2023 1:17 pm

Luzu
Sep 2, 2023 12:20 PM

Terrible. Hope it all turns out ok and is merely a mistake in communications or uncertainties of the front.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 2, 2023 1:17 pm

Vote for courtesy

There is nothing courteous about leftist posturing.
There is nothing courteous about out-of-control kids.
There is nothing courteous about domestic violence.
There is nothing courteous about child sexual abuse.

So why vote for what will only be more of the same?
Vote for some accountability.
Vote for real change in remote areas.
Vote for Jacinta and Warren.
Vote No.

JC
JC
September 2, 2023 1:18 pm

I have known 2 people who were former employees of Qantas. Very tough place to work apparently if you are up in the executive. Dixon & the Leprechaun are very hard task masters from what I have been told and both prone to fits of rage.

I think, you’d have to be in that business doc. It’s cutthroat and you can’t have hangers on. The dwarf is really good, but he’s now very self-serving.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 1:21 pm

who doesn’t know the difference between a civilization and a culture,

A “civilization” without even a written language?

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2023 1:24 pm

Most recently, Qantas and Jetstar admit they hold $570 million (!) in unredeemed travel credits from flights cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Those credits were due to run out at the end of this year but Joyce has relented under intense pressure and the credits won’t expire.

Joe Aston did what the ACCC couldn’t be bothered doing.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2023 1:26 pm

Just got an email from LinkedIn advertising the role of Chair of the ABC.
Meaning every tom dick & harry would have gotten it.

JC
JC
September 2, 2023 1:26 pm

Bern

That would be on the balance sheet as a cash item, right?

The unpaid credits wouldn’t have hit the P/L statement as a revenue gain, no?

132andBush
132andBush
September 2, 2023 1:31 pm

bons,
How goes the BIL?

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
September 2, 2023 1:32 pm

Dr Faustus 2/9 @ 12:09
Agree with you. Just like Auskus, there wankas go on how bad USA is, crap on about capitalism, so when there is a threat who do they run to.

JC
JC
September 2, 2023 1:32 pm

Let me recall my old accounting 101.

If the credits are in the cash line of the balance sheet, in order for it to ummm balance the other side of the balance sheet would have those “credits ” as part of the debt owed.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 2, 2023 1:42 pm

Prime Ministers in Australia are getting worse. Each time we think they can’t get any worse we have a ‘Hold my beer’ moment. Who’s going to be the next one. Shirley they can’t be worse? Rhetorical, of course.

Speedbox
September 2, 2023 1:45 pm

Dr Faustus
Sep 2, 2023 12:09 PM
Having promised to deliver Uluru “in full”……..

From my understanding it is the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Final Report that is the most instructive. That report was provided to the Australian government in July 2021 after the Uluru Statement from the Heart in 2017.

In a broadest sense the Uluru Statement is like a ‘Policy’ statement whereas the ‘Final Report’ are the procedures. That description is not entirely accurate but the Final Report gives a very troubling insight into how the Voice will operate if it succeeds at the referendum.

Meanwhile, and in order to wash over the legitimate concerns among the broader populace, Albo and his government, the Aboriginal industry and the activists trot out the line that the Voice will merely allow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to have ‘a say’ in legislation impacting them. That is just dishonest. The Voice, as proposed, is a Trojan Horse that will divide the country and set up one group as superior in their ability to influence all levels of government and impact any legislation they choose.

The documentation makes clear there are no limits to the Voice’s reach and its authority is not limited to matters impacting only Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders. Moreover, its ‘advice’ or decisions cannot be challenged in any court – including the High Court.

miltonf
miltonf
September 2, 2023 1:46 pm

yes the last few make Fraser look good

miltonf
miltonf
September 2, 2023 1:48 pm

Who’s going to be the next one. Shirley they can’t be worse?

Blubbersack?

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2023 1:49 pm

Not sure JC.
But take a step back.
These are half a bill of customer flights that haven’t been delivered.
How does Qantas (or any airline) account for flights that have been paid for but not taken as at the half year/full year balance dates?

pete of perth
pete of perth
September 2, 2023 1:53 pm

The shallowness of talent in the majority of our pollies is bottomless.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 2:00 pm

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/09/australian-hero-of-the-resistance/

Hadn’t heard this story before, most interesting.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 2, 2023 2:03 pm

“They’re still hoping they (the Yessers) can recover it but it’s more hope than confidence.”

The fury at rejection is going to be ugly, which I think may turn out to be a good thing. It will reveal the industry for the full malign beast that it is.

Already some information has emerged that previously was kept below the radar – such as the $39 billion. I expect most Aussies are surprised by that.

Australians are cartoonishly prone to compassion, insisting on hosing it about even where there is absolutely no merit. Over the past few decades they have been excluded from the decisions to extend more and more privileges and money on the Aboriginal industry, completely unaware of the scale, but content to let it happen because they remain certain of the tragic degradation of Aborigines that exists on the other side of our lush and salubrious horizon.

And, of course, most normies are not aware that the Aboriginal people and the Aboriginal industry have only the ever most glancing overlap.

Normies have always been solicitous of proposals to bring their deprived brethren up to an equal dignity. But The Voice is being increasingly seen as anti-egalitarian. It helps that the proponents are very visibly hostile to ordinary Australians and Australia itself.

But when the outrage is loosed upon us in the aftermath a lot of habitual goodwill is going to be brought into question. There will be an appetite for rebuttals to the accusations of racism and white supremacy and so on.

After being roundly castigated and reviled after the referendum in October, how much patience will there be, for example, for demands to dismantle Australia Day. And if the Libs have any smarts (and Dutton has made some rather astute calls) a campaign to show how much the layer of cures have caused the sickness could be a vote winner.

Especially after Summer blackouts make his talking of nuclear sound like the only sanity in a sea of vacuous sound bites.

Jock
Jock
September 2, 2023 2:03 pm

I noticed this on the Redstate blog in the US. Its a bit like the “Stolen” generation myth.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/01/canada-justified-church-burnings-over-a-supposed-genocide-then-it-turned-out-to-be-a-hoax-n2163316

Evidently nothing found.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 2, 2023 2:06 pm

Indeed JC indeed. Think I’ll keep to finding valuable stuff in the ground.

I could have ended up in aviation myself if it wasn’t for slight colour blindness. As a teenager I had a passion for aircraft and my parents couldn’t afford flying lessons so I didn’t find out till later. I discovered I had a very slight red/green colour perception difficulty after a sibling tried joining the ADF and got screened, I also can’t see all the Ishihara slides but got 100% Farnsworth lantern test. That ended my interest in commercial aviation as I was told not impossible but I had to jump through extra hoops.

I still enjoy being round aircraft though…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 2:10 pm

I noticed this on the Redstate blog in the US. Its a bit like the “Stolen” generation myth.

Or the “Frontier massacres” that were fully investigated, and found to be nothing more then “Stories My Nanna Told me.”

Oh come on
Oh come on
September 2, 2023 2:45 pm

Ok so the Tasmanian premier posted a picture of some Russian kid (who’s a dwarf and is apparently big on social media) next to the Medicare logo. And this is taken as an affront to disabled people. So easily offended:

Liberal colleague and the Minister for Disability Services, Jo Palmer, described the post as a “really unfortunate choice” and that she was “delighted” it had been taken down quickly.

“I was very pleased to see the immediate reaction from the premier where that post was removed and my understanding is he has already reached out to People with Disabilities Australia to extend a personal apology for that.”

She said the Tasmanian government was committed to supporting people with a disability.

“It was unfortunate that this post was done and I was delighted to see that the post was taken down immediately.

“It was also really great that the premier reached out to me last night personally as the Minister for Disability Services and apologised.”

What? Why does this woman deserve an apology? Is she the offence lighting rod for disabled people or something? Has she been nominated as the guardian of the sensitivities of the disabled community? How many of them actually give a rat’s about this?

It’s so condescending, but moreso it’s another sign of how pathetic and decadent we’ve become. At some point in the future when we endure a genuine, serious hardship as a society, a very large number people aren’t going to survive it, but not for the normal reasons like disease or famine or war – no, they won’t be able to cope psychologically. They’ll literally be overwhelmed by trauma and it will result in their deaths.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 2, 2023 2:54 pm

Evidently nothing found.

I heard about that. Apparently they used ground radar and asserted they were human burials.

All the radar detects is disturbed earth.

Turned out the ‘graves’ were old latrine ditches.

Lee
Lee
September 2, 2023 2:56 pm

I noticed this on the Redstate blog in the US. Its a bit like the “Stolen” generation myth.

Or the “Frontier massacres” that were fully investigated, and found to be nothing more then “Stories My Nanna Told me.”

Didn’t that unimpeachable authority, Head Case, claim that tens of thousands of aborigines were “murdered” in Queensland alone?

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
September 2, 2023 2:56 pm

Vicki
Sep 2, 2023 11:08 AM

I would not fly with anyone stupid enough to fly over a war zone as Malaysian airline did.

Well don’t fly Singapore Airlines either given there was a Singapore 777 a few minutes ahead and another a few minutes behind MH17 on the same flight path over Ukraine. If the Russian soldiers had been slightly quicker or slower it would have been Singapore Airlines facing the loss of 300 passengers and crew.

Crossie
Crossie
September 2, 2023 3:08 pm

rugbyskier
Sep 2, 2023 2:56 PM
Vicki
Sep 2, 2023 11:08 AM
I would not fly with anyone stupid enough to fly over a war zone as Malaysian airline did.
Well don’t fly Singapore Airlines either given there was a Singapore 777 a few minutes ahead and another a few minutes behind MH17 on the same flight path over Ukraine. If the Russian soldiers had been slightly quicker or slower it would have been Singapore Airlines facing the loss of 300 passengers and crew.

I was on a Singapore Airlines flight to London only a week before the downing of the Malaysian plane. The flight path channel was clearly showing we were over Ukraine. I’m horrified that so many people died but also relieved that it wasn’t our plane.

Robert Sewell
September 2, 2023 3:09 pm

OCO:

At some point in the future when we endure a genuine, serious hardship as a society, a very large number people aren’t going to survive it, but not for the normal reasons like disease or famine or war – no, they won’t be able to cope psychologically. They’ll literally be overwhelmed by trauma and it will result in their deaths.

Quite so, OCO.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 3:09 pm

Didn’t that unimpeachable authority, Head Case, claim that tens of thousands of aborigines were “murdered” in Queensland alone?

Correct – 41,000 Aborigines, murdered by the Queensland “Native Police.”

Gilas
Gilas
September 2, 2023 3:09 pm

JC posted some betting odds on the fate of the inVoice a couple of days ago.
Maybe JC and Arma could keep us updated since.. as Arma says: The book is never wrong.

Beats all the pointless chicken-entrails gazing by pollsters who don’t know their mouth from their @rse.

areff
areff
September 2, 2023 3:10 pm

There will be an appetite for rebuttals to the accusations of racism and white supremacy and so on.

And it won’t just be on home soil. We can count on aggrieved Indigenes with UN connections — there are quite few with snouts in the ‘indigenous peoples’ trough — whipping up a ‘who needs the Klan when we have Australia’ riff.

Their fury in defeat will be glorious to behold.

Crossie
Crossie
September 2, 2023 3:10 pm

I should have written relieved and grateful.

Tom
Tom
September 2, 2023 3:21 pm

Their fury in defeat will be glorious to behold.

Areff is right — and the activist scum aren’t waiting for the vote.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 2, 2023 3:22 pm

Lee

Didn’t that unimpeachable authority, Head Case, claim that tens of thousands of aborigines were “murdered” in Queensland alone?

He claimed that and also that one individual, IIRC son of Eliza Fraser of “that” island, ran a private army that alone murdered a couple of thousand, and that the son personally murdered an aboriginal woman on the streets of Toowoomba.

Robert Sewell
September 2, 2023 3:25 pm

Areff:

And it won’t just be on home soil. We can count on aggrieved Indigenes with UN connections — there are quite few with snouts in the ‘indigenous peoples’ trough — whipping up a ‘who needs the Klan when we have Australia’ riff.
Their fury in defeat will be glorious to behold.

No it won’t Arefff.
They will probably demand of the UN that Australia be chucked out. Because Racist. Or something.
That will be sad.
Here, look at my sad face in anticipation.
🙂

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
September 2, 2023 3:29 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Sep 2, 2023 1:01 PM

Aargh. I have superglue on my fingers.

Lizzie

If i may offer some advice on glues, i can recommend – Selleys Allfix Adhesive.

It’s slower but gives a great bond for virtually every surface. If i can buy it in Kobe you definitely buy it in Venestralia.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
September 2, 2023 3:30 pm

Robert Sewell
Sep 2, 2023 3:25 PM
Areff:

And it won’t just be on home soil. We can count on aggrieved Indigenes with UN connections — there are quite few with snouts in the ‘indigenous peoples’ trough — whipping up a ‘who needs the Klan when we have Australia’ riff.
Their fury in defeat will be glorious to behold.

No it won’t Arefff.
They will probably demand of the UN that Australia be chucked out. Because Racist. Or something.
That will be sad.
Here, look at my sad face in anticipation.
?

You don’t have to sell it to me Robert. I’m already voting ‘NO’.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 3:32 pm

He claimed that and also that one individual, IIRC son of Eliza Fraser of “that” island, ran a private army that alone murdered a couple of thousand, and that the son personally murdered an aboriginal woman on the streets of Toowoomba.

The individual in question was the son of Mrs Fraser, who, together with most of her children, was murdered at Hornet Bank Station – yes, he was alleged to have murdered several hundred Aborigines in revenge, including an Aboriginal woman, who was wearing his mother’s dress, on the streets of Toowoomba.

Dot
Dot
September 2, 2023 3:35 pm

I really hope Dillon Danis flogs Logan Paul.

Hey, if he’s not stopped he’s going to claim he will beat down the Gypsy King next.

A quick and merciful victory to Dani’s over Paul would be for Logan Paul’s own good.

https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/2023/08/logan-paul-plans-to-beat-conor-mcgregor-after-boxing-dillon-danis-october-14-the-prime-card

I mean really? Why not just declare yourself the Emperor of Mars too?

Clearly DD trolling Logan Paul about his fiancé Nina Agdal’s overqualification of sexual experience has broken Paul’s brain.

Vicki
Vicki
September 2, 2023 3:35 pm

At some point in the future when we endure a genuine, serious hardship as a society, a very large number people aren’t going to survive it, but not for the normal reasons like disease or famine or war – no, they won’t be able to cope psychologically. They’ll literally be overwhelmed by trauma and it will result in their deaths.

This is perhaps one of the most prescient observations I have read recently. In fact, I believe I am seeing it already happening in my own circle of family and friends.

I have said on occasions on this blog that post war “affluenza” is the source of the psychological malaise in western society. It is more destructive than either Covid or the vaccines. The latter has accelerated the disintegration of their coping mechanisms, but I believe that the emptiness of modern society is the root cause of the confused thinking and lack of values.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
September 2, 2023 3:39 pm

Looking at the reporting on the many millions little Joyce is picking up for achieving his post Covid-19 recovery KPI’s you do have to wonder if the mis-sold tickets, delayed refunds, erroneous ‘passenger’ numbers and expiring credits weren’t carefully structured to support an outcome.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
September 2, 2023 3:43 pm

“We are lucky to be cohabitating a continent with the oldest civilisation on Earth. It’s a good thing for us to let that play on our minds.”

The alleged ‘Oldest Civilisation on Earth’ will send us back to where it came from and arrived. The ‘Stone Age’. FFS.

Vicki
Vicki
September 2, 2023 3:43 pm

Well don’t fly Singapore Airlines either given there was a Singapore 777 a few minutes ahead and another a few minutes behind MH17 on the same flight path over Ukraine.

Wow – I did not know that.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 2, 2023 3:44 pm

I have said on occasions on this blog that post war “affluenza” is the source of the psychological malaise in western society.

aka ‘weak men create hard times…’

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
September 2, 2023 3:46 pm

I have said on occasions on this blog that post war “affluenza” is the source of the psychological malaise in western society.

It’s the ‘Effluent Society’ don’t yer’ know.

Vicki
Vicki
September 2, 2023 3:47 pm

Mother Lode
Sep 2, 2023 2:03 PM

Great post.

Makka
Makka
September 2, 2023 3:53 pm

It’s a good thing for us to let that play on our minds.”

This part is quite right. We certainly have been lucky. In a very short 200 odd years, our forebears have taken this vacant unforgiving continent from the Stone Age to a modern (although lately flawed) nation. They have taken the country into the modern level of global societies many hundreds of years older than ours.

We therefore must give immense credit and gratitude to the culture that got us here- from there. The indigenous contribution to that amazing national advancement was pretty close to absolute zero. And most certainly not in any way worthy of the hard earned treasure we pour into the indigenous sector every year.

Makka
Makka
September 2, 2023 3:55 pm

Correction;

“our forebears have taken this wild unforgiving continent”

Vicki
Vicki
September 2, 2023 3:57 pm

And none of you better tell the Hairy one about any of this.

Acetone saga is safe with us, Lizzie.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
September 2, 2023 4:01 pm

feelthebern
Sep 2, 2023 1:26 PM
Just got an email from LinkedIn advertising the role of Chair of the ABC.
Meaning every tom dick & harry would have gotten it.

Not me as I’m there as ‘Happily Retired’.

I will apply for the Job of ‘Pollie’ Executioner when it comes up though. Can’t be soon enough.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 2, 2023 4:04 pm

The Leprechaun is mining the QANTAS goodwill to pay for his and his boyfriends Sydney harbourside mansion. He has done some good work on IR but it has been undone in the last 2 years.

bons
bons
September 2, 2023 4:05 pm

123&Bush
Thank for asking. My BIL is not too beaut it seems.
Yesterday they were going to wrap him up like a mummie and send him home in a few days.
Now they have determined that some burns are deep and will require the magic that they practice on burns these days. Prognosis is OK but it will take time and be painful.
Fortunately my Sister’s local primary producers group arranged for an advocate to support her with Work Cover. Essential help according to her. The initial contact left her in tears. Not the best time and circumstances to be interrogated, especially as she was not at home when the incident occurred.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 4:10 pm

We therefore must give immense credit and gratitude to the culture that got us here- from there. The indigenous contribution to that amazing national advancement was pretty close to absolute zero. And most certainly not in any way worthy of the hard earned treasure we pour into the indigenous sector every year.

Well said!

Tom
Tom
September 2, 2023 4:19 pm

The Leprechaun is mining the QANTAS goodwill to pay for his and his boyfriends Sydney harbourside mansion. He has done some good work on IR but it has been undone in the last 2 years.

Humphrey, I think you’ll find that the reason Joyce did well in taking on the unions early in his reign at Qantas CEO was that he was being mentored by Qantas chairman Leigh Clifford — the reason that QF is now obscenely profitable for an airline — and the unions have never forgiven him/them.

In the end, Joyce was just a maths nerd with no guiding principles, with the result he’s now just another corporate crook.

JC
JC
September 2, 2023 4:19 pm

Gilas

The problem is that I’ve never heard of those two betting sites and don’t know enough about them. I’m quite happy to continue linking to them but can’t vouch for either.

It’s intriguing that the largest sites – that always cater for political bets- miraculously don’t carry any market for The Squeal. I can’t get it out of my head the Liars got to them and made threats against running odds on the vote.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
September 2, 2023 4:21 pm

JC
Sep 2, 2023 12:04 PM
Johnny Rotten
Sep 2, 2023 11:00 AM
I did fly Quaintarse Business Class from Sydney to Dallas Fort Worth on the A380 in July 2018 and they were really brilliant

Wodney, how did you scrape in with your criminal record?

As I’ve told you before you, Sictorian short arse FW1, I was invited here. Obviously you have some sort of learning deficiency. And at the time, I still thought that this place was a Colony, so here I am.

Please keep up those lisp induced comments. Maybe you and Mrs Stencho Pantyhose are related or joined at the hip. Ladyboys together.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Black Ball
Black Ball
September 2, 2023 4:21 pm

Beautiful day here so took the kids fishing. They have an innate ability to tangle the lines lol. Got a small fire going, youngest daughter got into the carp eradication program by pulling in her first fish. Son lobbed his bait and sinker up in a tree. Good times.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 2, 2023 4:23 pm

I would not fly with anyone stupid enough to fly over a war zone as Malaysian airline did.
Well don’t fly Singapore Airlines either

When President Bush gave the ultimatum re the Iraq war as midnite loomed we were flying with our two little primary school sweeties on KLM down over southern Saudi Arabia with the Red Sea full of US missiles. They did turn back, but but not until the last minute, and the chaos at Schiphol Airport on return all the way back to Amsterdam was nothing short of cruel; so badly run. After midnite U.S.-led Coalition forces invaded Iraq and Kuwait at around 4 a.m. Baghdad time. We got to bed in an airport hotel around the same time just as the news rolled in. No-one could sleep. We have never flown KLM since.

We flew Emirates from Dubai to Moscow and flew over Eastern Ukraine and Donetsk in May 2014. That’s Donetsk down there, said Hairy, and I knew not of wot he spoke then. It was only when, not long after that, MH17 was shot down that I realised we might have been in danger back then. We also flew to Korea from Heathrow recently on Korean Airlines to Seoul and looked as though we were going over Ukraine but the pilot side-stepped it at the last minute, with Hairy pointing out Donetsk to me this time as we crossed via the Black Sea.

Malaysian recently to KL was quite a good flight. No complaints. No turns south.
We felt sorry for them when the same flight as ours just weeks later had a crazy on board and there the main issue seemed to be with poorly trained NSW security police.

Many other dubious flights in a lifetime of flying for me. Especially in small planes.

Tom
Tom
September 2, 2023 4:27 pm

Breaking news: 2022’s Australian racehorse of the year, Nature Strip, has been retired after finishing unplaced in today’s Chelmsford Stakes at Randwick, trainer Chris Waller has announced.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 2, 2023 4:28 pm

I think you’ll find that the reason Joyce did well in taking on the unions early in his reign at Qantas CEO

I was one of the long suffering passengers over union wild cat strikes. I was in Singapore’s Changi Airport when I found out about the grounding. Was interesting to see Asiana Network & other Asian media’s take on it compared to 12 hours later when I landed in Cairns seeing the Australian media bluster of outrage.

I fully supported the Leprechaun’s action there and still do. The Asian media wasn’t too supportive of the airline unions either.

Damon
Damon
September 2, 2023 4:32 pm

I have flown extensively for many (say 60) years. I don’t look out the window at war zones, and don’t know why you bother.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 2, 2023 4:35 pm

So far anyway, there is a marked lack of advertising for either side on the Squeal. The supermarkets have none any more, and no-one is putting out their feelings on their cars or houses or apartments. I’ve not seen any in my locus or in certain travels I make. One house once in Nambucca. One car once in the inner West of Sydney.

The ‘Yes’ people don’t want to appear to be elite-led sheep and the ‘no’ people don’t want to have their houses and cars trashed. Bringing us together in total silence.

Not healthy.

Rabz
September 2, 2023 4:35 pm

Chip Bok, you magnificent bastard.

Age and term limits, as of yesterday, Cats.

Razey
Razey
September 2, 2023 4:42 pm

The alleged ‘Oldest Civilisation on Earth’ will send us back to where it came from and arrived. The ‘Stone Age’. FFS.

If the Abo took over, the country would be a defunct 3rd world country within 5 years tops. They must shut up and be eternally grateful to being guided into the modern age as gently as they were.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
September 2, 2023 4:46 pm

The ‘Yes’ people don’t want to appear to be elite-led sheep and the ‘no’ people don’t want to have their houses and cars trashed. Bringing us together in total silence.

Lots of YES posters in Redfern and Waterloo NSW. Well, what else would you expect.

JC
JC
September 2, 2023 4:48 pm

As I’ve told you before you, Sictorian short arse FW1, I was invited here. Obviously you have some sort of learning deficiency. And at the time, I still thought that this place was a Colony, so here I am.

Please keep up those lisp induced comments. Maybe you and Mrs Stencho Pantyhose are related or joined at the hip. Ladyboys together.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

At the time, Marty told you to come here or was it his AI that suggested it? Wodney, let me explain the lay of the land to you. You post comments from a convicted felon who defrauded investors who claims to have set up a sentient AI in the 80s. You have zero credibility on any subject. You’re a dishonest grub with no moral compass. Human garbage is how best to explain you.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 2, 2023 4:50 pm

Tom at 4:19 – quite possibly. Certainly plenty of legacy issues and dealing with various airport monopolies. Terrible industry but Australia is stuck with it by necessity.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 2, 2023 4:51 pm

I have flown extensively for many (say 60) years. I don’t look out the window at war zones, and don’t know why you bother.

With Hairy it’s an obsession. He always has to know exactly where in the world he is. He has Flight Map on constantly on planes and GPS in cars and on trains. It’s genetic, in the family. His father is renowned for having read Orienteering contour maps in bed on his wedding night. A source of hilarity recounted later by his second wife, who also had first hand experience of it.

When my cousins in Louisiana many years ago drove us at night from the airport deep into the mysterious swampy Bayous with many twists and turns, way before GPS came in, Hairy had to admit, for the first time ever, he had no idea where he was. He didn’t relish it. Old Cajun grannie sucking on her corn-cob pipe told him he was in alligator country where a man only needed a map in his head and a gun. They’ve decked him out for the part and called him Rambo more or less on every visit since.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
September 2, 2023 4:51 pm
Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 2, 2023 4:52 pm

This idiocy has to stop, the whole edifice is built on the same dodgy science as climate change. Also I don’t remember this being debated in the public sphere, otherwise I would have written to my local member given the inflation rate atm:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/sustainability/states-to-ban-plastic-takeaway-containers-and-coffee-cups-beginning-today/news-story/10506faad012601be00348c34a135b1a

Of course the ARA supports it, more kerching into Colesworths coffers. Woolies is now trialling forcing customers to pay for vege bags…

Parodying an old RACQ ad, Cost of living, “what cost of living?”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 4:54 pm

Royal Auto Club – an organization I have belonged to for nearly fifty years – “recognises the importance of reconciliation in building the brightest possible future for all who call Western Australia home”, and have renamed their office “Koorlup” meaning “Place of coming and going.”

Words fail me, they honestly do.

Makka
Makka
September 2, 2023 4:56 pm

and have renamed their office “Koorlup” meaning “Place of coming and going.”

It’s a frenzy of mental illness.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 2, 2023 4:57 pm

I fully supported the Leprechaun’s action there and still do.

Along with Howard/Reith and the waterfront, one of the ballsiest IR moves ever pulled.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 2, 2023 4:57 pm

Lots of YES posters in Redfern and Waterloo NSW. Well, what else would you expect.

I called into Redfern to my son in public housing there yesterday and didn’t see any.
He’s not in the Waterloo area and I didn’t go up Redfern Street to the station, so maybe they are up there. He was wearing a ‘yes’ t-shirt though. Told me he found it, brand new, in the street, so there are some giveaways going on there. Good for drying the dog, I suggested. He said he was only wearing it under his hoodie to keep warm.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
September 2, 2023 4:58 pm

JC
Sep 2, 2023 4:48 PM

‘Jer Koff Cretin’ you Pompous Windbag. Please keep up those lispy comments and abuse as you show your pathetic inferiority with every post.

You don’t seem to like it it when posters have a pop back at you. Stiff shite.

If you can’t stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen. You Sictorian short arse T.W.A.T………….

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
September 2, 2023 5:00 pm

I called into Redfern to my son in public housing there yesterday and didn’t see any.

Plenty along Cleveland Street and up Pitt Street.

miltonf
miltonf
September 2, 2023 5:02 pm

glowie

calli
calli
September 2, 2023 5:03 pm

Now I know the forbidden word that sent my comment this morning into moderation.

Shame if I have to describe a bumpy ride.

miltonf
miltonf
September 2, 2023 5:03 pm

Razey = glowie.

Jacinta would be ok I reckon.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 2, 2023 5:04 pm

He’s got the ultimate bodyguards.

The Lion Whisperer:

Are These BIG CATS Extinct? | The Lion Whisperer

calli
calli
September 2, 2023 5:04 pm

If you guys could stop abusing each other, some of us might be able to use the King’s English unimpeded.

JC
JC
September 2, 2023 5:06 pm

Wodney

I merely responded to your abuse. Every single time there’s been an event, you’re the one who abuses others first here without any provocation. Moreover, the reason you abuse people is because they present the fact that you’re a lick arse to a fraudster peddling laughable lies such as that he invented a sentient AI in the 80s. You’re Marty’s used condom.

calli
calli
September 2, 2023 5:07 pm

I know…I know…

Where’s the fun in that?

On plane flights, the one in June took me from Narita to Frankfurt via the Arctic Circle and Pole. An additional two hours.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 2, 2023 5:09 pm

I don’t look out the window at war zones, and don’t know why you bother.

I don’t bother, Razey. Occasionally, for the sake of marital converse, I will glance out and try to look impressed at something Hairy is saying about where we are. On flights, you’ll never get an argument from me about swapping my window seat. I do not like to be reminded there are no moving wheels beneath us on terra firma, that we are in an aluminium cigar tube going at 800k’s per hour through the upper atmosphere in minus 65 degrees. I watch movies not the Flight Map.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 2, 2023 5:13 pm

Sorry Razey, that was Damon about flying over war zones and looking out.

So easy to confuse who said what.

Vagabond
Vagabond
September 2, 2023 5:18 pm

Many other dubious flights in a lifetime of flying for me.

You hadn’t suffered in the 1970-80s until you flew Lauda Air, now mercifully gone. The Austrian-German heritage of stuffing people into cattle cars with no service informed their business model.

More recently, Aeroflot are the worst I’ve ever had the misery of flying with .

JC
JC
September 2, 2023 5:19 pm

I don’t look out the window at war zones, and don’t know why you bother.

In the 80s, flying to Europe meant that sometimes you would fly near where the Iran/Iraq war was raging. I dunno how close we were because it was nighttime, but it looked like it was some distance. If you had a window seat you could be entertained by watching artillery fire. The captain pointed it out once. Was it ghoulish to think it was fun to watch/ Sure.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 2, 2023 5:21 pm

Up yer bum, Rabz.
The POTUS has an age limit- a minimum limit.
And a term limit- two.
The God Emperor does not belong in that ‘toon!!!

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 2, 2023 5:23 pm

p.s.
!!!!!

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
September 2, 2023 5:28 pm

And just for ‘Jer Koff Cretin’ and his Ladyboy Cronies –

American Legal Tyranny

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, Being a European, I have been shocked at how Trump could be charged with 91 crimes for the same thing. I understand your analogy that if someone kills a person, it is one crime. To set a multitude of murders based on the number of bullets fired would be absurd. So how can they possibly create 91 crimes out of one? American justice seems to have collapsed entirely. It is no longer the beacon of liberty it once was, and they criticize Russia and China. Out of 177 countries on the Global list of countries for human rights, the US is 112. This Trump fiasco is showing that ranking is optimistic.

Thank you for explaining this strange case.

WN

ANSWER: They have abused the “white color” crimes and pushed them to the point of total insanity, becoming the worst tyranny in all recorded history of jurisprudence. Let’s say we both cheated someone out of $1,000. It took you ten emails or phone calls to do that, but I accomplished the same crime with just one email; that is a huge difference under this tyranny. You will be charged with ten crimes of Wire GFraud, and I will be accused of just one. It is no different from charging a murderer with multiple murders because he fired more than one bullet, yet there was only one person dead.

The American legal system has become WORSE than what the American Revolution was all about. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed among the complaints not charging the king’s agents for crimes against the people. Sound familiar with exonerating police based on killing someone by mistake? We have no right to consent to taxes; if we refuse to pay, we go to prison.

I was held in civil contempt and DENIED a trial by jury on the claim (1) it was civil and not criminal, and (2) I had no constitutional rights because corporations do not. They created a legal fiction that I was imprisoned as only a corporate officer, citing US v Braswell, 487 U.S. 99 (1988). However, if a company wants to donate to a politician, suddenly, they have a First Amendment right to do so. They can take away all your human rights on legal fiction and pretend this is justice for all and innocent until proven guilty. There is no rule of law left in the United States. Trump’s case is showing the injustice in America to the entire world. The legal system of the United States no longer functions ethically no less morally.

It took years for me to get to the Supreme Court. When the Supreme Court ordered the government to explain what was going on and they could not, they suddenly released me and told the Supreme Court the case was moot for the contempt ended. That is how they get out of things. When you finally get your day in court, they pretend it never happened.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/american-legal-tyranny/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Makka
Makka
September 2, 2023 5:36 pm

More recently, Aeroflot are the worst I’ve ever had the misery of flying with

Ural Airlines are even worse. Aeroflot get all the good slots. Urals get the dregs. On some internal flights you have to carry your luggage off the tarmac. Flying in their old An-24’s was like rattling around inside a tin of nuts and bolts.. The onboard dunny door was sometimes a curtain, which didn’t stop the pilots having a fag. In winter, the cabin heating was red hot coolant air pipes running along the floor,against the outer walls if you touched them you’d end up with third degree burns. Stifling with no adjustment possible.

Urals motto was “STFU and just be thankful we are here.”

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 2, 2023 5:37 pm

The POTUS has an age limit- a minimum limit.

I believe they settled on that minimum age on the grounds that the Romans had set it as the minimum age for Consuls.

There was a time when leaders had the humility to seek out tested wisdom not their own (such as from the Roman Republic) for inspiration.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 5:46 pm

Daily Mail.

Jimmy Buffett dead aged 76: Legendary ‘Margaritaville’ singer ‘passed away peacefully surrounded by family, friends, music and dogs’

Rabz
September 2, 2023 5:49 pm

Hey Dover, check your email, Squire

JC
JC
September 2, 2023 5:49 pm

Yeah Wodney, ruin the thread because of your pitiful spiteful nature. You’re so disgusting.

Razey
Razey
September 2, 2023 5:53 pm

Johnny R, dont know why you keep posting Armstrong spam. I don’t think anyone reads it. He is a known BS artist and criminal. You’re better than him for sure.

Lee
Lee
September 2, 2023 5:57 pm

The alleged ‘Oldest Civilisation on Earth’ will send us back to where it came from and arrived. The ‘Stone Age’. FFS.

ROFLMAO.

There was no more “civilisation” in Australia, pre-1788, than there was in any other utterly backwards native country or region.

urb
urb
September 2, 2023 6:02 pm

Bluebet has no @ 1.27, yes @ 3.45

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 2, 2023 6:04 pm

If the Abo took over, the country would be a defunct 3rd world country within 5 years tops. They must shut up and be eternally grateful to being guided into the modern age as gently as they were

Exhibit A: Rhodesia
Exhibit B: South Africa
Exhibit C: the rest of the West

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 6:04 pm

There was no more “civilisation” in Australia, pre-1788, than there was in any other utterly backwards native country or region.

I just don’t regard making f@rting noises blowing down a hollow log, as the equivalent of a Beethoven Symphony, or a cave painting as the equivalent of the “Mona Lisa.”

Rabz
September 2, 2023 6:10 pm

Easy Mo B and Miles Davis, Cats … 🙂

Lee
Lee
September 2, 2023 6:14 pm

I just don’t regard making f@rting noises blowing down a hollow log, as the equivalent of a Beethoven Symphony, or a cave painting as the equivalent of the “Mona Lisa.”

Even the pre-Columbian Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilisations were vastly ahead of Australia pre-1788, even allowing for their barbaric practice of human sacrifice.

cohenite
September 2, 2023 6:16 pm
Boambee John
Boambee John
September 2, 2023 6:16 pm

On the subject of the “oldest civilisation”, the leftard’s favourite historian Manning Clark, in the first paragraph of the first chapter of his history of Australia, stated that civilisation arrived in Australia in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.

Should he and all his works now be cancelled, and consigned to the deepest basement of perdition?

Rabz
September 2, 2023 6:17 pm

their barbaric practice of human sacrifice

Are politicians considered human?

Asking for a friend …

bons
bons
September 2, 2023 6:24 pm

Other than Bushmen, it is difficult to identify any other group so lacking in technology, facilities, food production, governmental processes, clothing or shelter.

Rabz
September 2, 2023 6:24 pm

err, riddle this for me, Cats.

Why are collectivists not screeching* for the war in the ‘kraine to be brought to a long overdue end?

They can’t all be busily studying for their PHDs at the Henry Kissinger Peace Academy.

*audible in space

JC
JC
September 2, 2023 6:25 pm

Number 9 is a challenge.

Nonsense. They’re both men and not hiding it.

I suspected this was a trick to get people to look at ‘cute owl’ pics.

Vagabond
Vagabond
September 2, 2023 6:31 pm

The onboard dunny door was sometimes a curtain, which didn’t stop the pilots having a fag.

Clearly the next stop for the leprechaun of Quaintarse!

Rabz
September 2, 2023 6:33 pm

Thanks, Doves.

Thought I’d run out of new genres!

calli
calli
September 2, 2023 6:34 pm

The guys at The Bee have taken that very British form of satire and self-mockery and turned it into an all-American art-form. Better than any self-aggrandising, bug-out bag, “last holdout” doyens of righteousness.

Long may they prosper. How long is the burning question.

And that’s enough hyphens from me.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 6:34 pm

Other than Bushmen, it is difficult to identify any other group so lacking in technology, facilities, food production, governmental processes, clothing or shelter.

The Bushmen discovered the bow and arrow, and how to boil water…

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
September 2, 2023 6:38 pm

I just had a prowl of the internet betting sites looking for referendum odds.
None of the Australian or international majors are taking bets or offering odds.

I did find one bookie called “BetUS”, but on checking on its bona fides I found it has an internet address in Panama and its office is registered in Mwali, Comoros Union (islands off the east coast of Africa to save you opening Google maps) The board probably consists of various Nigerian Royal Family.

$1.29 No – $3.79 Yes, for what it’s worth.

Rabz
September 2, 2023 6:42 pm

$1.29 No – $3.79 Yes

Going down like the Hindenburg … 🙂

Razey
Razey
September 2, 2023 6:44 pm

I bet the Leprechaun fantasizes about this moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3xJx-wC3yQ

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 2, 2023 6:47 pm

The onboard dunny door was sometimes a curtain, which didn’t stop the pilots having a fag.

My understanding was the pilots were more likely to have a trolley dolly?

Rabz
September 2, 2023 6:50 pm

The God Emperor does not belong in that ‘toon!

Wally, I’m as big a fan of Fatty Trump as anyone here.

But he is of the Gerontocracy.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 2, 2023 6:51 pm

Which brings us to another classic Australian Crawl line,

Hopes are up with the hostess on the business flight

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 2, 2023 6:52 pm

Err … for trousers down

Rabz
September 2, 2023 6:54 pm

Sacré bleu – a li’l two letter word having that sort of power?

It’s not write, I tells ya! 😕

Rabz
September 2, 2023 6:58 pm

err, Bear, you’re sounding like an unrepentantly aged ol’ sex pest.

There will not be any of that.

bons
bons
September 2, 2023 6:59 pm

The Bushmen discovered the bow and arrow, and how to boil water…

True. Which leaves Albo’s useful cyphers – where on the list?

Rabz
September 2, 2023 7:00 pm

Paul Wallee, railing against capitalism, again, Cats

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 2, 2023 7:01 pm

Just doing my bit to try and maintain theGolden Age of Australian pub rock.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 7:10 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJmr1yGLGWc

Piers Morgan, on the issue of reparations for slavery…highly relevant in Australia.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 2, 2023 7:10 pm

I’ve flown a couple of times on leased Mil Mi helicopters. Interesting experience to say the least.

A mate who did tours of Timor has some even more interesting stories involving seeing empty vodka bottles rolling around the cockpit when the door was open and loadmasters asking for grenades to drop grenades out the window in flight.

Some things keep coming up like oil leaks and no flight suits just shorts no shirt and thongs with a toothy grin with obligatory at least one gold replacement assuring “da da all good…”

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 2, 2023 7:15 pm

$1.29 No – $3.79 Yes

Going down like the Hindenburg … ?

It’s an intelligence test. The brainless and sentimental will vote yes, the sceptical and rational will vote no. You only have to look at the cases put forward to see that. The yes case is sentimental tosh.

This is where we find out how big a fraction of the electorate are halfwits. I’m reasonably optimistic that the yes vote will crash and burn Hindenburg style. I don’t think Australians are that dumb.

Rabz
September 2, 2023 7:16 pm

Just doing my bit to try and maintain the Golden Age of Ozee pub rock.

While (non existent) Trousers down with a hostess on the business flight – yeah, Bear we don’t see you. 🙂

Indolent
Indolent
September 2, 2023 7:18 pm
Indolent
Indolent
September 2, 2023 7:18 pm
Indolent
Indolent
September 2, 2023 7:19 pm
cohenite
September 2, 2023 7:21 pm

Vivek’s principles:

God is real.
There are two genders.
Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.
Reverse racism is racism.
An open border is no border.
Parents determine the education of their children.
The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.
Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.
There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.
The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in history.
Cute owls are inspirational.

Indolent
Indolent
September 2, 2023 7:22 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 2, 2023 7:24 pm

I’m reasonably optimistic that the yes vote will crash and burn Hindenburg style.

If the “YES” vote crashes and burns Hindenburg style and there are violent protests, that should shoot the whole issue in the arze… “Reconciliation?’ What’s that?

cohenite
September 2, 2023 7:26 pm

I don’t think Australians are that dumb.

I have a bridge you may be interested in buying.

Indolent
Indolent
September 2, 2023 7:30 pm
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 2, 2023 7:31 pm

I have a bridge you may be interested in buying.

No thanks. I’ve seen some of your cute owls.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 2, 2023 7:32 pm

….mate who did tours of Timor has some even more interesting stories involving seeing empty vodka bottles rolling around the cockpit when the door was open ….

Factcheck- True: I did a few hops round Timor in Mi8s, and noted the following:

– weight and balance was not a thing.. they opened the rear clamshell doors and whoever/whatever climbed or was hoisted aboard without consideration
– they really did do the obligatory safety brief in heavily accented English: ‘Welkom, safety brief – we crash we die- thankyou’
– During my tour, 2 Ruskie pilots were fished out of Dili harbour with methanol poisoning – one blind, one dead.

cohenite
September 2, 2023 7:34 pm

‘The Voter Fraud No One Is Talking About” – YouTube’s Mr. Reagan on the Greatest Evidence of 2020 Voter Fraud via The Gateway Pundit (VIDEO)

Things which may happen before or during the next election:

Trump arrested
Trump found dead in cell
Vivek v Joe
Vivek found to have invalid US citizenship
Joe wins second term with 120 million votes
Joe disappears for a month, returns amazingly fit and lucid, taller and with a tan
Michelle Obama goes on long overseas trip and is not seen again
Joe’s speech sounds like Michelle’s

Robert Sewell
September 2, 2023 7:34 pm

Bons:

Now they have determined that some burns are deep and will require the magic that they practice on burns these days. Prognosis is OK but it will take time and be painful.

Good to see the sister is getting support – they tend to get a bit forgotten in the rush to get him home.
…and make sure they give him good pain relief.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 2, 2023 7:34 pm

Just doing my bit to try and maintain the Golden Age of Ozee pub rock.

Barking Spiders Live anyone?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 2, 2023 7:36 pm

If your bridge bears the same relationship to the Sydney harbour bridge as your cute owls do to attractive girls, I’d get something that I would run a mile from.

Rabz
September 2, 2023 7:37 pm

Owls are not inspirational

Sacré bleu! 🙂

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 2, 2023 7:39 pm

Things which may happen before or during the next election:

RFKJ will be assassinated if the Dems cant nobble him in the primaries.

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