Gotta start somewhere, even if it is second…
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Am I lucky this morning?
3 down. Australia will probably lose tomorrow. Despite all the bullshit, I still support Australia.
Well spotted Ceres.
At this moment in time, Jasprit Bumrah is playing his 41st Test and is holding a bowling average of 19.94.…
Labor: We’re gonna crack down on vaping!
Liberals: You’ve not cracking down hard enough!!
tobacco…whatever; you get the picture.
Plibbers is a trooper.
So she either lied on July 26, saying that it did not have an influence (documented in the newspaper report I linked last night), or she’s lying now.
Or it’s a little bit lying on both occasions.
Which makes more sense as it’s second nature.
And…also a trouper!
Break a leg, Blabbers.
Fractions are hard. Do a BA instead.
Saw it last night. Uses AI to identify a passing cat, squirts it with sticky poison, cat grooms itself…hello pearly gates.
Only problem – an actual cat has to pass it first.
Better an invasive” gynaecological examination on QATAR than a forced rectal one with QANTAS customer service. “Bend over. Only a short, sharp pain.”
If my experience thus far with AI is any indicator of its abilities, native wildlife should beware.
Lightly discussed to date, but if the road to self-determination and customary law becomes a thing in Australia, there is another community ready and waiting with the gift of a Caliphate.
Political humbug is all it needs to light the fuse. Luckily we probably have Top Men watching out for this enriching cultural experience.
More bad news for AAPL;
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ifall-beijing-batters-us-tech-bonds-bitcoin-bid
Neil Oliver: ‘…fixing the mess we’re in, is going to hurt!’
Tobacco pouch at BP, 50g. 120 dollars.
Not a smoker myself but last I heard, this ancient practice was still legal. Don’t tell me it’s “all about the kids” when our idiots want to ban it.
DOJ seeks 120-day prison term for J6 journalist who never entered Capitol, spoke out about ‘stolen election’ on air
U.K. Government Finally Admits It Can’t Scan for Child Porn Without Violating Everybody’s Privacy
Vice chair of Minnesota Democrat Party who advocated for dismantling police gets violently beaten and carjacked
Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis
@DrLoupis
Another one. RIP.
In the aftermath of a particularly hopeless & ill considered arrest/bungle at the pub, & in the middle of tuning up the head of local detectives over it, I (warmed to the theme) advised him that there were a series of handbooks they should read, titled Famous Five, Secret Seven, & so on, written by an Enid Blyton, an expert whom the plod could benefit from paying some attention to.
“Why is that?” bleated the chastened plod.
“Because in those handbooks, they use a thing called clues, to solve mysteries, something that has not happened with this debacle”
“Yeah, valid point”
There wasn’t much I could say after that. Sometimes you wonder how they made it out of the academy. (some of them, that is)
WHO director Tedros says COVID is ‘here to stay,’ urges people to get booster shots
Just a “War Story” from my youth when I was pumping petrol in 1970 after finishing high school.
1 gallon (4.5 litres) of super petrol, 1 pack of 20 smokes, and 1 bottle (long neck) of beer were all around 40 cents. And I was earing $60 a week working in a machine shop 45 hours a week.
Wow, $120 for a pouch of tobacco.
ABC RN AM manages to find an expert to console their ever-dwindling audience of Yes voters:
That’s arguably true; the most recent Essential Survey suggests that the majority of the voteherd has little or no awareness of the issues.
That said, the same survey suggests that the reservoir of uninterested punters is unlikely to want to change the Constitution for anything other than a lower cost of living.
Mine’s a soy latte, three sugars thanks.
Get a load of this clown. Daily Telegraph:
Curiously unmentioned is the bloke allegedly firing off these mouthy, um, I don’t know. Sounds like it wasn’t a threat, more a squeal from our intrepid Teal. Phuck off darling.
Tragic Maui fire has Oprah’s brand up in flames
Err … well, it’s pretty hard to “engage with an issue” when Luigi’s standard response is “Don’t you worry about that. It will be alright on the night.”
In this instance I’m taking the polling as a fair indicator of community sentiment.
Some are just further along the road to enlightenment than others.
EXCLUSIVE: FDA Refuses to Provide COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Data to US Senator
Behind Their Green Mask – The Government Proposes Legislation to Criminalise Disagreeing With Net Zero
German drug regulatory authority admits that so many adverse effects from covid injections were reported that the purpose-built app couldn’t cope
This is Californa.
Huntington Beach City Council votes to ban COVID-19 mandates in city
When you are relying heavily on FTA advertising spend the level of disengagement cannot be too high.
Insider Paper
@TheInsiderPaper
WATCH – South Carolina will not comply with the COVID mandates: Gov
Meme
Robin Monotti
@robinmonotti
Who violated the Nuremberg Code & our Universal Human Rights, on a mass scale, clearly amounting to crimes against humanity?
Australian cigarette taxes are now so high that avoiding them has become a lucrative business and organised crime has moved in.
Gangsters in Melbourne’s suburbs are now setting fire to tobacconist businesses and dozens have been torched in the past few months.
I believe areff has become an expert on how to acquire tax-free contraband tobacco as illegal “chop-chop” is everywhere.
Government got greedy and is now one of organised crime’s main enablers.
Snap!!
In 1978, when I was in about year 11, I used to do 2 hours before and after school at the local shell station. Smokes were a bit over $1 for a 20 pack, super was 27cpl and I was paid 1.99 an hour. Sad thing is how few people realise prices dont generally ‘go up’ over time, but instead the purchasing power of the $ goes down, due to relentless counterfeiting by governments.
Indolent
Sep 8, 2023 9:26 AM
WHO director Tedros says COVID is ‘here to stay,’ urges people to get booster shots
Says the WHO Plonker WHO is not a medical Dr. FFS.
Worthy of a Yes, Minister episode.
In 1978, when I was in about year 11, I used to do 2 hours before and after school at the local shell station. Smokes were a bit over $1 for a 20 pack, super was 27cpl and I was paid 1.99 an hour. Sad thing is how few people realise prices dont generally ‘go up’ over time, but instead the purchasing power of the $ goes down, due to relentless counterfeiting by governments.
And the added taxes/excise that keep going up and up. Add booze to that list.
GST to go to 12.5% and then on its way to 15% anyone?
Mr Butler is likely to find this ambition will come at a higher political cost than his Party is willing to pay.
Market demand and import and distribution systems for nicotine vapes, smuggled readymades, and choppy are well and truly established. Easily accessible and carefully priced to be super attractive to develop and retain market. Apparently.
Certainly the tobacco black market has become much more visible and thus an easier target for first flush enforcement. So knocking off convenience stores and servos that openly display naughty products – and parading guilty looking proprietors through the courts – should be a doddle for the police state.
However demand and the matching supply infrastructure is well entrenched (just as discussed and predicted on Sinc Cat many years ago).
So Mr Butler is looking at trampling all over voters civil liberties to get at the bulk of the trade. And deeply pissing off Mr and Mrs PackaDay – who can’t afford $120/day, but can manage $40 with bit of planning.
Mark Butler: an Arts/Law Top Man.
Interesting.
The exact numbers evade me, the Stationhands Award was until about 1973, abysmally low paid.
It was enough weekly to buy 12 x bottles (long neck/tallie) of beer in a pub. Head Stockmans weekly pay was sufficient for the purchase of 14 x bottles..
Not sure on the price of tobacco.
Attention Zulu,
You might be interested in this new book WWI.
Night in Passchendaele by Scott Bennett
Or you have it already?
No sh!t?
Just scrolled back to read TE’s Greek adventure.
I wonder why there was a phase of putting sun clocks in churches. There is one in Rome, in a church inside the Dormitan? church, was it designed by Michaelangelo I think.
And I’ve seen one somewhere else, also in Italy perhaps.
Not allowed to go inside the temples here, fair enough, their prerogative.
Would like to go to Greece but have always been scared off by Greek Australians complaining about being ripped off.
On my to do list, not in summer though.
Just say no.
Noel doing his best not to frighten horses that have already bolted.
Racists, obviously.
Looks interesting, I’ll bag a copy, thank you.
Hilarious Voice desperation on ABC radio this morning.
The roving reporter framed a long winded ‘Would you?’ – ‘what you’re trying to say’ question that then got a four word answer.“There’s not enough information “
Their ABC man should have stayed home and interviewed himself.
Not as absurd as it seems at the ABC, where “debates” between people in furious agreement are commonplace.
The Dumb’s panel once featured four ladies in turbans, touting it as diversity.
Not sure on the price of tobacco.
In 1970, the Peter Jackson brand launched at 40 cents for 20, whereas CSMs, Marlboro etc were 50-60 cents. This marketing innovation was much cheered in the lavatory block at the school I attended.
Standard price today for Manchester Blue Specials, $16-$17 for 20 — about two-thirds the cost of the taxed variety.
Is there anything government can’t screw? Here they had a nice little racket collecting excise and all they had to do was not get too greedy. But they did, and now excise ain’t growing and organised crime has a government-backed price maintenance scheme for its contraband.
Oh, and wog crime syndicates, which come in various shades of swarthiness, are now torching each others’ rival outlets and shaking down shopkeepers for protection money.
They have to pay because, as they are breaking the law, they can’t go to the cops.
Bloody cold with a howling wind.
10 on the gauge now but feels like 3.
Ironic that the ACT government have decriminalized drug use at the same time that the Federal government is monstering nicotine users and people needing painkillers. I suppose there are doctrinally correct drugs and haram drugs.
The Yarook crap was worse than reported.
Freed of the need to keep to a script the hog-beast was much more free with her denunciations when ABC news Radio broadcast her releasing the document.
To sum up ” everything I don’t like is genocide”.
It was as crude and offensive as that.
Pull up the ladder, Jack, I’m all right.
Also the ACT government are considering allowing teenagers to access voluntary assisted dying.
Evil they are.
From yarookies
Yoorrook also recommends:
Negotiating through treaty new, dedicated legislation, developed by First Peoples, for the safety, wellbeing and protection of First Peoples children and young people
Creating a new independent police oversight body to end the practice of police investigating police complaints
Changes to bail laws that go beyond amendments recently introduced to Parliament to stop people being unnecessarily imprisoned
Raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14 years without exceptions
Prohibiting routine strip searching in all Victorian adult and youth prisons
Ensuring and strengthening human and cultural rights
Bloody cold with a howling wind.
10 on the gauge now but feels like 3.
Aye Gez.
Follow the footy there? I see Nullawil doing well in their first season of North Central.
The ACT proposes not setting a minimum age requirement for access to voluntary assisted dying. Instead, as is the case with other areas of medical treatment, the decision-making capacity of people under the age of 18 would be assessed on a case-by-case basis by medical practitioners.
So what is the age for voting and entering into a legal contract/agreement in the ACT or the rest of Australia? Hmmmmmmmmmm.
duncanmSep 8, 2023 7:51 AM
So WTF did the police themselves not pull the CCTV footage for that alleged assault? Talk about ‘believe and don’t even bother checking’!
Nearly as good as Liverpool plod giving a DV 000 call a miss cos couldn’t find the apartment in a block less than 1km from their plod shop .. then when they got around to arresting the boyfriend for murder 2 weeks later flew 2 detectives to CANADA for more info on victim …… no further mention or query by the media as to WHY? ……
A total lack of professionalism by KH. I’m sure I’ve heard some politicians take 5 minutes to say absolutely nothing. Only 40 seconds is beginner level stuff.
ACT pollies should lead by example. Think of how much CO2 emissions they’d save the territory!
Wow, $120 for a pouch of tobacco.
I rolled “White Ox” for years .. gave up smoking 1999 .. 50g packet was $7.50 .. lasted around 5 dayz …….
It might be a wise idea to start suggesting names and fancy acronyms for the inevitable new PTSD-like mental health conditions* that will arise (at least in the media) if the yes inVoice goes down.
My initial nomination is: Deep Indigenous Cultural Rejection Syndrome (DICRS – colloquially rendered as ‘Dickers.’ i.e. ‘Langton has gone down with Dickers again’).
* This is NOT an attempt to trivialise mental health challenges (with which I’m quite familiar), but I genuinely consider that some type of compensation will be demanded if No gets up. Emotional trauma, which is difficult to quantify, seems like the easiest tool to utilise.
In regard to poisoning cats, who is going to eat all the baby bunnies?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/03/feral-cats-more-likely-to-prey-on-native-animals-if-rabbit-numbers-reduced
“Ninety-two words are going to change, we need to answer all the questions Australians are going to have about that.”
What 92 words will change? Don’t you mean that a load of very powerful words will be added to the Australian Constitution and the voters being asked to vote do not know what those words will be. FFS.
Wait till the ‘people of colour’ teenage gangsters running the Victorian Police and justice system get wind of the Yoorrook special deals?
And there are people falling for it.
Re the cigs: Apparently a local IGA here in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast got done over a few nights ago, cigarettes only. I’m hesitant to state the value of the theft, because it was enormous, so I might have misheard.
@Lizzie Sep 8, 2023 7:13 AM
Thanks for those links to tsunami papers. Both are lead-authored by the person I mentioned earlier, Bryant. When I’m back home, I’ll check to see if I used the second one on deposition in my assignment. As I said earlier, other academics I contacted said that Bryant saw many more tsunami deposits and effects than others believed.
By the way, “The Gap” is only mentioned in the first paper as the location of one of the authors.
“This is our most sacred document as Australians
geez! .. they luv their us eof word , don’t they? .. bloody thing was only written a coupla years ago and now it’s “sacred” ..
Thank God this 251 mob didn’t have a written language or we’d have 60 maybe 65 or even a billion years (take your pick ..LOL) of “sacred” documents to deal with …..
Naaaaaaaaah! .. thankfully, “JImmy” would have destroyed ’em all when he demolished the Pasoe University library during his total eradication of the “Dreamtime” .. LOL!
Gaslighting works on low information voters. It does not work on Republican voters.
Nikki Haley: Americans Are Too ‘Smart’ to Vote for ‘Convicted’ Trump (3 Sep)
Pence rails against Trump’s ‘siren song of populism’ as he tries to energize his 2024 campaign (6 Sep)
It’s amusing watching these people do political calisthenics. The extremely feral and angry Republican voters ain’t listening to you anymore, wet RINO peoples.
Hopefully, if No gets up, Pearson will stand out above the screeching and remind the Nation that the result isn’t due to racism, it is down to Uncle Luigi’s truly abject, Morrison-style retail politics performance in explaining whatever it was he had in mind.
(I somehow expect the focus will instead be on pressuring Labor to deliver on Treaty and munni, toot sweet – unless they want to go into the next electoral cycle with a First Nations Greek Chorus playing at 11.)
The wind howling through southern Vicco is colder than a mother-in-law’s kiss.
Welcome to September in the southern hemisphere, when winter doesn’t want to leave and the coming summer hasn’t yet been cajoled into existence — usually for a few brief minutes in February.
BB
The mallee teams in the NC league are doing very well. They’re better funded and always attack the task in a united community way.
The old teams either lack players or the culture is wrong.
Charlton and Wedderburn lads are dragged to Bendigo to play and work.
Donald is scun out of youth and is hanging in with a few quality older types.
St.Arnaud never seems to be able to keep young players around long enough to create a core for a strong unit.
Country footy is like the farming – some areas do well but others are in the horrors.
The greatest impediment to the centre right are those within, not without. Set aside Barr signed off on the cleanest election eva, this could have all been properly adjudicated either in the Texas lawsuit to SCOTUS or by the legislatures, state and federal if Pence manned up. Everything that has followed is because an aggrieved party was denied all the avenues of lawful remedy.
You won’t have misheard.
$10,000 worth of cigarettes I can comfortably put under one arm & go jogging.
“The greatest impediment to the centre right are those within, not without.”
Liberty quote.
It’s really just a duck shove for more expansion of the nebulous “nationhood” powers.
——————–
Chapter IX Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Section 129 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
In recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia:
1. There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice;
2. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples;
3. The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.
————
If Parliament wanted, it could be stacked with Chinamen or Neo-Nazis.
It’s utterly ludicrous.
more on the feral cat/rabbit nexus:
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/103/1/124/6441777?login=false
I’m fond of cats, especially the big overfed lump whose tail I need to keep flicking off the keyboard, but I’m not opposed to culling the wild variety so long as it is done with good sense.
A few years ago I drove up to have a look at Stringybark Creek, where Ned, Steve, Joe and Dan shot the coppers. It was raining and my companion started bitching about having to sleep in a tent, so we checked into a nearby B&B. The owner’s son was heading up the mountain with a .22 when we arrived, intent on shooting a particular feral moggy, whose life did indeed end that night.
Well the thing was huge. It would have made three of Elsie, Scourge of Mice, now snoozing on my desk. Ten kilos at least — and the fangs on it!
Thing is though, the campaign against feral cats is misguided, another manifestation of the wilderness fantasy which holds the green Left in its thrall. Cattle don’t belong in the High Country, the greenies say and boot them. Fire risk then goes up because nothing is compacting the understorey and stopping shoots sprouting. Cattle had been in the mountains since the 1840s and had changed the environment forever; no going back to the sylvan perfection the greenies idolise.
Same with cats. The dynamic equilibrium of a much-changed environment is disrupted and nothing good comes of such meddling.
Interesting, too: A survey of feral cats’ stomachs in the NT found they ate a lot of centipedes, bunnies, small lizards and native small mammals. The line that ALL they eat is native species, well its just plain wrong.
Same with cats.
Liberal senator Marise Payne to retire from politics
When Borkum Riff or St Pats hit $80 for a tin or a pouch, I was livid (pipe tobacco).
Now a five-pack of Havana Jewels (decent-sized cigarillos) is over $45, they used to be $20 about 14 years ago.
A tin of Log Cabin = the benchmark for tobacco prices.
In the current climate of uncertain cultural shift, the Centre Right is difficult ground to occupy; caught in the no man’s land between Feelz and Rationalism.
No place to be led by squishes and equivocators.
Today’s Victorian thoroughbred races at Mornington have been called off due to rain and high winds forecast to reach 110 kmh this afternoon.
Is Log Cabin even a thing anymore?
I’ve seen “alternatives” for 50g being sold for $127!
$96 per fortnight + rations and quarters.
A can of Coke was 40 cents.
The Junior Gunroom was dry, but IIRC the Senior Gunroom
charged 50 cents for a can of KB or Rhesus.
A parallel, parasitic ‘nation’ feeding from the host, is the goal.
They will demand international recognition, beginning with the softer targets, such as sport. (A separate indig team in the Olympic Games, for example. Financed by non-indig indentured taxpayers of course).
The potential for bureaucratic morbid obesity must have the consultant class in ejaculate rigour.
No.
Ejaculate spasm.
The centre right has a problem because many of them have an unreasonable loyalty to the architecture of the mainstream media. That architecture has been broken for some time, constantly repeating leftist shibboleths as fact and denigrating reporting that doesn’t fit their narrative as fiction. Witness this guardian hit piece on Tucker Carlson, one only has to watch the Carlson missive to know this article has misrepresented what he said, even representing a statement from his guest as a homophobic statement from Carlson.
They rely on their audience not bothering to check, people on the centre right who commit that sin belong in a party of the left.
Voice, singular.
But aboriginals and Torres Strait islanders are different peoples, for starters.
My hazy memory (I’m not a subscriber to the Courier Pail, so cannot confirm) is $200, 000 worth.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED that it wasn’t called the First Nations Voice.
There is a bit of sugar in the article but the bitterness it’s trying to mask is too severe.
Fair enough, Dot.
I was going to write ‘ejaculate rigor mortis’ but that seemed a unique imagery.
Wordsnstuff.
For horse followers.
Keep an eye out for Steparty in race 5 McKenzie Stakes at the Valley Saturday.
A gun horse coming in after a spell and could be another Giga Kick. Likely favourite but worth the look to see the afterburner kick in.
Interesting how random enforcement is.
A well-known Chinese supermarket in Meanjin that we frequent, openly displays cartons of PRC cigs at the checkout, apparently priced in the mid $100’s/carton – a 3 or 4x markup on PRC retail prices.
Presumably Elliot Ness has yet to be informed.
LOL!
Non smoker, is tobacco hard to grow?
Asking for a friend obviously.
They will demand international recognition, beginning with the softer targets, such as sport. (A separate indig team in the Olympic Games, for example. Financed by non-indig indentured taxpayers of course).
And what sports exactly?
Chasing a kangaroo/emu/wombat? Throwing a bent stick? Cave painting? Throwing a spear (javelin) at your neighbour? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Typed meanjin into goggle maps.
the pic is practically perfect.
And, I’m reminded, pretty ceramic flasks of baijiu (the only alcoholic beverage worse than XXXX Bitter).
I commented on Abbott’s article at the Oz that Mandela was a communist.Comment rejected.
I have now objected and asked if the Oz is rewriting history.
From Breitbart:
Yet apparently none of those charged or convicted have been connected with the two pipe b@mbs. If someone had, I would expect there to have been massive publicity, for such would confirm the allegations of insurrection, and support the ‘terroristic’ sentencing additions. Enrique Tarrio, just sentenced to 22 years, was not physically present on the day, but imagine his sentencing had a Proud Boy been even tangentially connected to the b@mbs.
For me, the lack of attention to the pipe b@mbs is very, very smelly.
Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary – 8th September
Hail, full of grace.
More likely the newly minted B. Comms guarding the gate are just ignorant of it.
Yoof crime was mentioned earlier with the brain fart in Victoriastan. North of the Tweed, Courier Mail:
Right to life is of course God given. But when that right is snuffed out, regardless of the age of the offender, then action, severe action must be taken.
Enrique Tarrio, just sentenced to 22 years, was not physically present on the day, but imagine his sentencing had a Proud Boy been even tangentially connected to the b@mbs.
For me, the lack of attention to the pipe b@mbs is very, very smelly.
Monty at home pulling his dick in orgasmic frenzy.
U.S. Center for Security Policy.
Jan. 6:
Indeed. A spear in the thigh.
Deer Alan,
Due to unforeseen circumstances, your resignation speech as you now know has been put forward to 5.30 am next Thursday morning.
We apologise for any inconvenience. Please press the red button to accept this or read through 48 pages of Qantas blurb to learn about your other options – LOL
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02c1a6d38ece200b-pi
[U.S. Center for Security Policy].
[Center for Security Policy].
Now, I would have thought it was the committing of repeat offences that was causing detention rates to skyrocket.
Silly me, I need reeducating.
Tis interesting how the label of ‘child’ or ‘children’ is applied dependent upon context. It is used as an emotional label rather than a biological marker.
I for one welcome the new 3rd nations legal system; there are quite a lot of shitheads I want to spear up the clacker.
It’s Blackout Bowen, hence Luigi the Munificent’s reference to “Chris, our autopilot”.
Cluebat meets noggin. 😀
Noel Pearson admits Welcome to Country ‘cuts into’ some events (Sky News, 7 Sep)
Yes Mr Pearson, we Australians do rather dislike and resent being welcomed to our own country incessantly. Maybe that’s why the referendum is dying like a dodo.
Johnny Rotten
Sep 8, 2023 9:55 AM
GST to go to 12.5% and then on its way to 15% anyone?
Back in 2016 I wrote an essay for myself which was entitled “Australia in 2060”. I’ve kept it to see how accurate my predictions are (or will become).
I hadn’t looked at it for some time until recently, but my prediction for GST is: “GST has been increased by agreement of the States – firstly to 12.5% in 2040, then 15% (in 2050), to 17.5% (in 2060).”
I’ve been thinking of posting the full essay on the Cat – back in 2016 I wrote what I thought were outrageous scenarios with distinct Orwellian overtones but it seems my capacity to read tea leaves or Oracle bones is quite good. In a broader sense that’s a bit sad for this country.
Apologies for the sequence of cut n pastes, but I think it’s necessary.
Wow. These numbers are unbelievable. Does anyone really think Haley, Pence, or Christie has a chance of winning OH, WI, MI, NV, AZ, or GA? This poll is the biggest political ‘thirst trap’ I’ve seen.
I’d imagine that US diplomatic dialogue on international rule of law and human rights abuses will be somewhat [ahem] complicated for the next 50 years.
Despots, Tyrants and Defenestrators everywhere will have Team Biden back on the Christmas card list…
Hey pollies, you ineffable morons – on the subject of the booming black market for tobacco and the attendant organised crime, this is what is known as “an unintended consequence”.
It was Rudd who was responsible for the most massively absurd increases in excise, being the economic policy genius that he was (when not being done over on gerbil worming policy by oriental rodent pleasurers).
See also the work of one Perfesser Sinclair Davidson.
Log Cabin is a perennial.
It’d be the most common smoke I’ve encountered.
Europe’s Mass Drownings vs. U.S. Mass Shootings – Which Kills More?
[Just a title. The content is locked, but I found it an interesting question. The mass drownings refers to the northward migrant flow in the Mediterranean].
This was in Fairfax a couple of days back, by Bruce Wolpe, “Visiting Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney”, and a full anti-Trumper.
https://twitter.com/bwolpe/status/1699613080567816202
What – like the ACTU in 1996, dickhead?
Tis interesting how the label of ‘child’ or ‘children’ is applied dependent upon context. It is used as an emotional label rather than a biological marker.
Indeed Muddy.
The push to lower the voting age to 16, making yoof crime perpetrators aged 15 onwards. It doesn’t pass the pub test.
Ike:
Go for it. I look forward to reading.
As do I – there are several individuals who would look good with both legs broken, and left behind to die when the tribe moved on, or a sharp stone applied to the penis.
ah yes, my bad.
Why most Anglican clergy now approve gay marriage—and what this means for the future of the church
Wabbit season.
Small prey compelled prehistoric humans to produce appropriate hunting weapons and improve their cognitive abilities (Phys.org, 7 Sep)
Duck season. We ate all the megafauna, what do we do now? Hey I have an idea for a thing which shoots arrows very fast. We could hunt ducks with it!
They’re starting to realise that the tin-eared overreach is one of the reasons the Voice will sink like a stone on 14th of October.
True justice would result in Joyce’s bonus payments to be converted to flight credits (economy-only) which must be used within the next 5 years or lost.
Chalmers is “The Crash Dummy of Renewables”.
The Times poll he cites was very dodgy.
It also only surveyed 1200 CofE clergy (mostly retired, I believe), not clergy of the worldwide Anglican communion (where clergy from the Global South form a majority), which would have given quite a different result, I expect.
17HMR then……
Which has been spun into “not fully engaged” as if the information is all out there but people just can’t bovvered.
Gaia hates forks.
Nudging food delivery customers to forgo the fork drastically cuts plastic waste, study shows (Phys.org, 7 Sep)
The number of plastic forks supplied by takeaway restaurants would be microscopic in the scheme of things. A few tonnes of plastic makes a lot of forks. Yet these academics have somehow managed to write a whole research paper on saving the planet from plastic forks.
I have not been able to find a useful explanation for Trioli’s moving on to better things.
Does anyone know, did she get booted, and if so, why?
While I have zero respect for the arts bludge, especially that asociated with the ABC Arts and Culture, even they don’t deserve Trioli.
Tim Blair:
Then links to Bolt
Let’s remember and celebrate all of Marise Payne’s achievements in parliament:-
There, done!
And now they want to replace her with that useless hair-gelled flog, Andrew Constance.
No, no, no, no, NO!
Nice to see they’ve moved on from their amazing revelation that Orang-Utans are Gaia’s Holy Druids.
Next up: “Cocaine addiction in Turtles is being driven by warming of the oceans” (where all the planet’s missing heat is hiding) …
Abysmal ratings that even the ABC couldn’t ignore any longer.
The Lions just about to go ahead of the Chiefs.
7mins left in the fourth quarter.
I rarely wish bad things on people, but I wish a painful death from arse cancer on the inventor of paper straws and bamboo cutlery.
In football parlance, a like for like swap.
Just went on Vic Arts Centre website.Apparently the land on which it is built always was and always will be indigenous and has never been ceded.
FMD this state is full of self loathing nuffies.
The alarming rise in early-onset dementia among domestic goldfish has far more implications for national economic and psycho-social stability.
Hold on, Tiger.
In my childhood the only straws known to man were paper straws. With one end flattened and the edges of the flat bit trimmed you could produce a discrete yet satisfyingly irritating high-pitched squealing noise that drove Sister Monica to distraction.
On the other hand the bamboo cutlery inventor can die from arse cancer (along with whoever invented the cardboard clip things that don’t hold the end of a bread bag closed).
Sovereignty never ceded…..you couldn’t defend that sovereignty…
Presumably Goldilocks Stoker will enlighten us all.
*Some ALPBC grammar for youse
What if you’re on reclaimed land?
I only noticed the other night but if you look up Noel Peterson talking on Their ABC or other MSM channels (like Sky with Kenny), he sounds quite refined and his Australian accent is a typical Aussie one.
However, if you watch him at Garma, he rrrolls he “r’s” and the “ed” on the end of words is accentuated. With many more accentual highlights than just these, he sounds like he’s never left bush.
Yup… he’s an “entertainer” (paid $550M).
And just like that, the Lions beat the Chiefs.
The bookies are cheering big time.
Mahomes was let down by all of this receiving corps.
Nice weather & they all acted like the ball was coated in soap.
What if you’re on reclaimed land?
Good point.
Does this mean Japan & the Netherlands are the only safe places?
Speedbox
Sep 8, 2023 12:17 PM
Speedbox and I think that you are well on the money. It may well come earlier than that as they all (the States) need the GST honey money.
This is known as “Doing a Shrillary“.
Trigger warning: CNN attempting to defend the indefensible (again).
Sovereignty never ceded…..you couldn’t defend that sovereignty…
There never was any Sovereignty to cede. At least the parrots and many other birds here could suck seed and still can.
Five mainland states with labore governments, the sixth of course, being Taxmania.
Hang onto your wallets, proles, I see an increased GST in your futures!
You’ll be off Bruce Pascoe’s Christmas Card list.
Bern the Lions might be ok. Finished last season 8-2, a few acquisitions.
Did Kelce play? I saw he had a knee injury which would have meant he misses his first game in 10 years
Re the neurological basis of ancient human thought, I find the ideas and the references found in a book called “Inside the Neolithic Mind’, by David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce, Thames & Hudson, 2005, paperback 2009, is a very informative and suggestive read.
That book is subtitled ‘Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods’.
No, easier than corn. My father grew tobacco in mid-60s as a cash crop. The hard part was picking, drying and packing the leaves for transporting to factory.
Abysmal ratings that even the ABC couldn’t ignore any longer.
The ALPBC have stopped doing ratings as their Abacus couldn’t record a negative reading even when there was no positive reading.
By that yardstick, Foreman never ceded to Ali in 1974.
Daily Mail.
Charles Darwin University sounds like a very open minded institution. // Sarc.
Warren Mundine should replace Payne.
I see that cane toad Andrew Constance is lining up…….NO THANK YOU.
I thought it was a secret ballot.
Unless CDU is applying Orwellian “thoughtcrime” to its students. Either way, they are a racist disgrace.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Sep 8, 2023 1:35 PM
There never was any Sovereignty to cede.
You’ll be off Bruce Pascoe’s Christmas Card list.
LOL. Christmas was never in the Dreamtime.
Most people won’t admit cognitive dissonance but watching the footy last night I couldn’t bring myself to go for Collingwood because I was always taught that they are a terrible team and terrible people.
This, despite that fact of doing a fair bit of reading recently which highlights Collingwood as a burb and people have long been despised by Anglican/Protestant Australia due to its Catholic and Irish roots. Even in job adverts in the 1920’s -1930’s told them to “need not apply.”
As somewhat of an Irishman (1st gen Aussie) and a person who is way more Catholic than the Pope (yeah that’s not hard) but still as Catholic as Pell, for example, its amazing how these prejudices take root, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I guess that’s how climate zealots and the like operate (but they’d never admit their cognitive dissonance in the face of cold, hard, facts.)…
Gez, re Steparty thought you might be interested in Mark Hunter’s comment on the race. He’s a little more cautious:
Steparty, unbeaten and largely untested, heads betting courtesy of similar profile and performance but the little edge may lie with Brave Mead and the price difference is enough to tip us in.
So open minded, as the saying goes, that their brains have fallen out.
Bolt noted last night how the VC’s apology said such students could still be very worthwhile practitioners. As Bolt said, note the implicit implication in that ‘still’.
Their fans don’t exactly help their image.
Not so fast. According to a link at Adam’s, the university has ‘counselled’ this idiot, and said that people who vote no were nevertheless capable of being excellent health workers.
Well done, CDU. I bet the majority of other Australian universities would have been much more wishy-washy, at best.
After experiencing either the Ludovico Technique or Room 101 – or both, for those proving particularly recalcitrant.
The way that the MSM goes on about this storm going through the Sydney region overnight and earlier today is just bonkers.
I remember in the late 1980s when a storm from the west smashed a wave from through to the Sydney Lower North Shore with tremendous hail, winds and rain. Tiles on our house roof were smashed, birds were killed even when hiding in trees, leaves and branches everywhere and our Car along with hundreds of others were written off with hail damage.
A few years later a storm hit the Sydney Eastern Suburbs with a similar impact. Hail and damage galore.
At the time, the ABC News reported these storms as just storms without all of the hyperbole that now goes on. FFS.
Odd how universities used to be the place where diktats from Uni management would drive students to protest and occupation of Uni offices. Something has changed in the Uni’s and also possibly students.
Johanna
I’d give CDU more credit had they sacked the fascist idiot rather than simply “counselling” he/she/xe.
All they have to do is keep their mouths shut and vote as they please. This warning to students is just to tell them they have no right to state any opinions not approved by the faculty. This attitude is just thirty years behind the Soviet Union which was defeated by its own people and then adopted by our academia.
If western civilisation is to be saved it must first be wrested from the universities. About ten years ago I read about the looming death of university by the advent of MOOCs, massive online open courses, where one or two universities could offer top of the line courses to the whole world thus making all others irrelevant. That nearly came to pass with the covid lockdowns and remote learning however most students rebelled and want in-person lectures. It may still happen should our betters inflict any more lockdowns on us.
The reason I think it won’t be just one university providing the online education for all is that people will demand alternatives to only one way of thinking so alternatives will rise and fall depending on people’s expectations and demands. We could end up with something like Harvard pushing an atheist education so a Christian university will arise to educate those who object. I see universities being very political as well where socialists will have their university and conservatives will have their own.
Of course these educational institutions may have to change their name from university which indicates a universal education to something more accurate like an academy.
Lol Rabz… that’s true!!!
False.
If you can show me a link where you can buy it…
So glad we fought in WWI and WWII & the Cold War (and WON) so we can be like the guys we beat.
Teal luvvie Kylea Tink (what an unfortunate name) is upset because someone was mean to her in Parliament, and now that nasty Peter Dutton is not on her side, moans TheirABC:
FMD. This snowflake wants Parliament to be a ‘safe space’ – perhaps MPs should be issued with teddy bears?
It does highlight what a bubble this bubblehead has lived in. She’s obviously never been around a heated discussion about anything, let alone a rowdy demo or a barfight.
Daaahling, go back to your ladies who lunch, with carefully selected participants.
The real world is not for you.
There is already an Indigenous NRL Team and to stretch into Union and International rules wouldn’t be hard.
Those students are still there but they are now the faculty and making sure a new generation doesn’t dare challenge them as they did their professors when they were young. They learned how not to give up their power as it was always about power, not free speech.
Parliament could then be known as “the Teddy Bear Pit”.
Ted Cruz Has a Warning About the ‘Election Variant’
A suspicious character asks:
Well no sir I highly recommend you DO NOT do that on account of crippling, bankruptcy level fines and decadal gaol terms
https://www.ato.gov.au/General/The-fight-against-tax-crime/Our-focus/Illicit-Tobacco/
On 16 August 2018, the government passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (Illicit Tobacco Offences) BillExternal Link which creates a new tobacco offence regime. The tax laws increased the set penalties to a level that provides greater deterrence to illegal activity. The penalty amount is calculated in multiples of a penalty unit. If the infringement occurred on or after 1 July 2023, the penalty unit amount is $313.
Penalties for possessing more than 2 and less than 5 kilograms of illicit tobacco include:
civil penalty – this is a “fine” [my emphasis “.”] of up to $31,300.
Penalties for possessing 5 kilograms or more of illicit tobacco include:
criminal penalty – this is a criminal conviction with a prison sentence of up to 5 years or a fine between $62,600 and $313,000, or both.
Penalties for selling illicit tobacco products include:
criminal penalty – this is a criminal conviction with a prison sentence of up to 5 years or a fine between $62,600 and $313,000, or both.
Penalties for buying illicit tobacco products include:
criminal penalty – this is a criminal conviction with a prison sentence of up to 5 years or a fine between $62,600 and $313,000, or both.
Penalties for manufacturing or producing illicit tobacco include:
criminal penalty – this is a criminal conviction with a prison sentence of up to 10 years or a fine between $156,500 and $469,500, or both.
What a country Australia is for its free people, absolutely blessed to be on the winning side against militarism, fascism and communism.
So that we may punch ourselves in the dick.
Not any more, alas.
For some folk it’s akin to as if Her Majesty had announced that henceforth she shall be known as Gladys.
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Plod + Customs would intercept a “white van” (chockers with hay bales of tobacco) somewhere outside town, on the Mareeba – Griffith run. It seemed like a near-weekly event.
Hadn’t heard of such a bust in a few years.
I now see why this smuggling is no longer prevalent.
Crossie> Correct on the power thing and also the challenge posed by MOOCs. My view is that it will be a demand shock to current Uni’s when the degree qualifications are not accepted or have no value in hiring process.
In my own area (tech) we are moving to online tests and coding challenges to find good tech workers, the degree is meaningless unless you graduated from MIT, Tsingua, Imperial etc.
And Chat GPT beats 90% of human tutors as well.
Absolutely adorable