Gabor,
spitting is truly abhorrent. That foul harridan is supposed to be educated and spitting is the only argument she has for the Yes campaign?
Spitting as a reply, is the equivalent of turd-flinging by apes in Zoos.

That was a clear case of assault.

Quite so. For all we know she may have HIV. Nothing would surprise me.

Academics are not scholars. They are Marxist operatives.

Bruce.

According to that article the Equestria books run to more than 600,000 words..

Now that’s a devoted fan.

Bush
I’ve got no idea what the bikes up trees is about. Mummy Facebook could lead to answers but I’d rather have kidney stones.

The No Go AEMO signs are a reminder to the skulking rats who work for them that they’re not welcome on OUR country.
TCV (AEMO sock puppet) has so far failed to find a single farmer who would allow the transmission line on their land.

C.L. has a piece on Brand – worth a look.

Crossie I also get the feeling that Russia is now freer than the west. A lot of the shite going on in the yookay is Orwellian and Soviet. And what a pathetic excuse of a king we now have.

I have only this moment read Janet Albrechtsen’s excoriation of the inJustice system in the Town Council known as the ACT. It is chilling — with a Labor/Green ‘government’ in power for decades, in a town full of greenfilth and public serpents, this is what happens. What an utter utter debacle.

But hey let’s not forget that when given the chance to affirm and support the Judicial potency of the High Court 7-0 in the Geroge Cardinal Pell exoneration and restoration of innocence to the man is the disgraceful fact of the non-attendance at George Cardinal Pell’s funeral by the Prime Minister, the Premier of NSW Dominic Perrotet and the Shadow Opposition Leader Christopher Minns, incidentally, all of whom are Catholics — utter utter duplicitous disgustings bastards, well, that noun fits one of those literally. We are in the very worst of hands. Poor fellow my countrymen.

It took the Russia invasion of Ukraine to get gold moving in early 2022 & I pulled the pin on my last gold exposures into that spike.

In AUD , gold is up 36% since the invasion. I’m holding on to Oz gold miners. Some are up near 100% since that time. And I think there is quite a ways for those miners to go yet. The outlook for gold isn’t shabby IMO.

Interested in the sudden Perkins Clan (NL) Limited show of concern for distant relatives in central Australia.
Correct me – is not the current business focused on turning Government money into TV or movies from Eastern Sydney?
Was there some scandal years ago about cheap loans and missing money?
When questions were asked, did the well connected Canberra patriarch go from impeccably suited Charles to flannie shirted Charlie the blakfella who not understand that stuff – almost overnight?

Anyone see the F35 crash “witness”?
Straight out of a Mark Twain book.

We should bear in mind that Rachael Perkins is a trust fund baby, who has lived on sweet, sweet artz grantz munny and never made a commercially viable product… or service.

calli
Sep 21, 2023 8:10 AM
Speaking of which, when Brand’s promiscuity was brought up, I thought of Mercury who also was renowned for fornicating with anything on two legs.

Yet one is still a cultural icon, the other anathema even though apparently well and truly cleaned up.

Brand is an anathema because he is “well and truly cleaned up”.

Linked to above…check out the photos for a story in themselves:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12534491/Inside-APY-Lands-Aboriginal.html

No mention of young strong blokes then:

CFA wants you: Urgent plea for new volunteer firefighters
Women, migrants, students and people moving to the regions have been identified as potential new recruits as volunteer numbers fall and Victoria’s bushfire risk soars.

Lotsa comments slamming Dan and the union. Also:

Dan
1 hour ago
I’m a CFA volunteer and I’m sick of it. The only reason I’m still in it is to keep the local brigade afloat and not let down my friends and community. All the training, compliance and bureaucracy is wearing people down. Too many times we have turned out to fires only to stand around doing nothing while ‘professionals’ talk about putting the fire out. And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been made to stay at the fire ground unnecessarily for hours to get fed and have debriefs when I’d rather be at home with my family. I don’t know why we can’t just put the wet stuff on the red stuff and be done with it

Herald-Sun

Johnny Rotten
Sep 21, 2023 8:58 AM
Megan
Sep 21, 2023 8:49 AM
And what a pathetic excuse of a king we now have.

An outcome that was predictable multiple decades back. Dripping wet.

In the UK we used to call him – “FA Cup Face” due to his jug ears looking like the two handles on the FA Cup trophy.

Billy McMahon had similar ears, and was referred to as “Wingnuts”.

Just back from a Body Corporate meeting, where we were informed that the Queensland Fire Service has advised that it will no longer attempt to extinguish fires in underground car parks which contain an EV or a fixed EV charging station. This is consistent with the recent QFES Position Statement on the hazards of EV’s.

First Responders will continue to save lives and protect property but, for their own safety, will not try to dump tonnes of water on your blazing and erupting Tesla in the confined space under your apartment, surrounded by toxic and corrosive fumes, for hours. Quite sensibly.

We are also informed that, due to the above, when the Building Insurance comes up for renewal, it will likely have either an exclusion or special risk provision for loss and damage caused by incendiary EV’s. The present advice is that owners of EV’s should ensure that their Own Lot insurance covers Third Party damage caused by their combustible vehicle – if such insurance is available – or face the risk of being sued for unlimited damages by the Body Corporate. Or park on the street.

Down the track down the track we are told to expect Building Code requirements that underground garage spaces containing an EV must be fitted with a sprinkler system designed to control any fire. Sprinkling tonnes of water? Good luck with that.

The EV owner at the meeting was quite taken aback: “Faaark! And how much is all this going to cost us?”

And even more taken back by the Committee response: “Us? Us? Who is this ‘Us‘ of which you speak, kemosabe?”

Luckily, the Top Men who wrote Shitweasel Bowen’s National Electric Vehicle Strategy are all over the problem:

While evidence suggests EVs are less likely to catch fire than ICE vehicles, this does not mean we can ignore the potential for EV battery electric shocks or fire related incidents (EV FireSafe 2022). The Government will support emergency service workers and first responders by funding the development of world-leading guidance, EV road rescue demonstrations, and fire safety training to address safety and risk knowledge gaps around EVs, chargers and battery technology.

Two critical sentences in a 45-page strategy document. We can relax now, knowing that Ministerial Policy Advisors and Communications Graduates are not in ignorance and are currently developing “world-leading guidance“.

In the best of good hands.

the Queensland Fire Service has advised that it will no longer attempt to extinguish fires in underground car parks which contain an EV or a fixed EV charging station.

Fifty point headline in all newspapers. /sarc

I wonder how many residents charge their e-bikes and e-scooters in their flats? Body corporates might start to get quite antsy about that.

I wonder how many residents charge their e-bikes and e-scooters in their flats? Body corporates might start to get quite antsy about that.

Funny you should mention that.
The BC has advised owners that they need to consider the risks of e-fires in those devices in their insurances. It appears that bike and scooter fires are far more common than reported.

However, the elephant in this particular room is what process does Australia have to go through to avoid ‘national suicide’?

A successful invasion by China?

We might get several coal and nuke plants built that way.

I saw a sample of the $39bn waste this morning.
I was sitting in the foyer of a large city hospital.
I explored the directory board. It was the usual selection of specialty sections, admin, and social work/welfare.
There was another panel about two thirds of the size of the main directory. It was completely devoted to aboriginal services, but none of it seemed to be medical. They were mostly opaquely named ‘services’ associated with different aboriginal entities.
Made up jobs in made up services enforcing separatism.
I pity any hospital or medical staff having to deal with those mobs.
It must be a different kind of sick if you are aboriginal.

Saint Matthew, the first-century tax collector turned apostle who chronicled the life and ministry of Christ in his Gospel, is celebrated by the Church today, September 21.

Although relatively little is known about the life of St. Matthew, the account he wrote of Christ’s ministry – traditionally considered to be the first of the four Gospels – is of inestimable value to the Church, particularly in its verification of Jesus as the Messiah.

Eastern Catholics and the Orthodox churches celebrate St. Matthew on November 16, along with St. Fulvianus, a prince who is recorded in some traditions as converting from paganism after Matthew’s martyrdom.

CNA

The pension age will be raised to 80.

Shall we lie flat and let it rot?

‘Slow-motion trainwreck’: Tony Abbott slams Labor for current energy policy and expensive tactics to reduce emissions

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has decried Labor’s transition to renewables as a “slow-motion trainwreck” in the latest podcast episode of Abbott & Credlin.

Tony Abbott has taken aim at the federal government’s current move to limit Australia’s emissions, suggesting a switch to nuclear would be more beneficial and cheaper than wind and solar.

“Even Chris Bowen, the Minister, admits that this will require 22,000 new solar panels every day for seven years. 40 new major wind turbines every month for seven years, at least 10,000 kilometres of new transmission line to cope with this decentralised grid and the lines will only be operating on average 30 per cent of the time.”

‘I’ll say it 100 times’: Daniel Andrews defends ‘modest’ Airbnb tax in fiery press conference

I’ll say it 100 times: Dan the Man is a clueless commie dickhead. A dumber policy might not be hard to come up with (looking at you Mr Bowen) but it certainly is right up there.

132and bush:

What’s the go with the coloured bicycles hanging in the trees every now and then. I seem to recall being told the reason at some stage but can’t remember.

Probably just people doing stuff as a local quirk.
Termite mounds just out of Mackinlay with hats, shirts (With a broomstick through the mound to hold the arms out), there’s a tree loaded down with old spanners on the way to Birdsville, and another with old boots.
There’s a couple of road signs just out of Barky at Christmas Creek – decorated every year. I hang stuff on it at easter just to be contrary.
This sort of stuff is all over the place.

NATO Fractures: In U-Turn, Poland Announces It Will No Longer Arm Ukraine

The dam is breaking on unified Western support for Ukraine, and the timing couldn’t be worse for Zelensky, given tomorrow he’s expected to meet with President Biden at the White House. On Wednesday evening there is monumental news out of Poland which could potentially change the entire course of the war.

“Poland will no longer arm Ukraine to focus on its own defense,” Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced just hours after Warsaw summoned Ukraine’s ambassador related to a fresh war of words and spat over blocked grain, according to the AFP. Warsaw has throughout more than a year-and-a-half of the Ukraine-Russia war been Kiev’s staunchest and most outspoken supporter.

Will this massive and hugely significant about-face mark the beginning of the end? Are peace negotiations and ceding of territory in the Donbas inevitable at this point?

Within the last 48 hours relations between Poland and Ukraine quickly spiraled to their lowest point since the Russian invasion, and it is directly related to Warsaw leading a handful of EU countries to extend a grain export ban on Ukraine, amid continuing anger and outrage from Polish farmers who are suffering due to their country being flooded with cheap Ukrainian wheat.

Crucially, Poland will hold parliamentary elections on Oct.15.

The prior atmosphere of enthusiastic pro-Kiev rhetoric has drastically changed, now with comparisons likening Ukraine to a “drowning man”. As The Associated Press explains:

Polish leaders have compared Ukraine to a drowning person hurting his helper and threatened to expand a ban on food products from the war-torn country.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that EU allies that are prohibiting imports of his nation’s grain are helping Russia.

Now, Polish officials, who are trying to win parliamentary elections next month with help from farmers’ votes, are expressing dismay over some of Ukraine’s latest moves, including a World Trade Organization complaint over bans on Ukrainian grain from Poland and two other EU countries.

— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) September 20, 2023

In surprisingly blunt and terse words given to reporters on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday: “Ukraine is behaving like a drowning person clinging to anything available.”

He then said, “A drowning person is extremely dangerous, capable of pulling you down to the depths?… simply drown the rescuer.”

Given Ukraine’s battlefield losses and as it’s currently bogged down in a failing counteroffensive, the words no doubt stung. But as The Hill notes further of the domestic political context in Poland:

Public sentiment around the issue, however, has started to deteriorate, putting the ruling party in a difficult position ahead of a close October election. The far-right Confederation party is hoping to capitalize on the waning support in the country.

Senate braces for possibility of stiffing Zelenskyy

As Congress is set to meet with the Ukrainian president Thursday, some GOP senators are worried they’ll have nothing but bad news.

When senators meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday, they will have bad news: Delivering any new aid to help defend against Russia, even later this year, is looking tougher than ever.

The obstacles are piling up: House Republicans are skeptical of any new money at all. What’s more, their dysfunction threatens to push the government into a shutdown — a move that certainly gets Zelenskyy no closer to getting the billions requested by the Biden administration. Senate Republicans, meanwhile, are divided over whether to continue providing humanitarian aid, arguing the rest of Europe needs to step up.

Ukraine still has powerful allies in senior Democrats and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is locked in on convincing his party to help an ally against Russia. Yet senators in both parties are beginning to acknowledge that Ukraine could have to wait weeks, or more, for a breakthrough.

“Am I worried that might be the case? Yes,” said Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), a backer of Ukraine aid. “It’s a terrible message, as we struggle to take care of assisting Ukraine in this war. Just even the process is damaging to the view of the stability of the United States and being an ally.”

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) lamented that “I hope we don’t have to tell him” the aid could be delayed. His reassurance: “Don’t give up on us, we’re not going to give up on you.”

The impasse in Congress over Ukraine aid, a government shutdown and domestic disaster money comes at a critical time for Russia’s ongoing assault on Ukraine. Zelenskyy’s troops have gained territory in some hard-fought wins this summer, but the demand for more help continues to grow.

The Senate is rolling out the literal red carpet for Zelenskyy, hosting him in the storied Old Senate Chamber. That may be of little reassurance to the Ukrainian leader, given the realities surrounding his visit.

On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) threatened to slow down any funding bill that includes more aid to Kyiv, a move that could push the government into a brief shutdown if Ukraine money is included in a stopgap spending bill. And it’s not hard to see how the growing possibility of a shutdown could scramble lawmakers’ priorities:

If Congress can’t fund its own government, how can it also send more money to Ukraine?

“That would be one of the few good consequences of the government shutdown, in my view, is:

said Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, a leading opponent of more Ukraine aid. But, he added, a shutdown wouldn’t mean skeptics prevail in the long term: “We actually have to win the debate.”

Jack Poso
@JackPosobiec

In response to the threat, Posobiec said “After the collapse of his counteroffensive, Zelensky’s biggest threat isn’t me, it’s his own intelligence services. Hope you don’t get put on the CIA’s Early Retirement Plan, Volod.

Drop the receipts on the Bidens and we’ll find you a nice McMansion in Sarasota.”

@HumanEvents

19 Sep
BREAKING: Human Events Senior Editor @JackPosobiec added to infamous Ukrainian ‘kill list’

https://humanevents.com/2023/09/18/breaking-human-events-jack-posobiec-added-to-infamous-ukrainian-kill-list

https://askeptic.substack.com/p/russia-ukraine-reports-2023-09-19

and

https://askeptic.substack.com/p/russia-ukraine-reports-2023-09-20

In “we can see where this is going a mile off” news.

Anthony Albanese confirms independent [ho ho] inquiry into Australia’s response to COVID-19 to ‘ensure we are better prepared for future pandemics’ (Sky News, 21 Sep)

Foreign Ministry to provide $100m to WHO for bolstering pandemic management as Albanese announces COVID-19 inquiry (Sky News, 21 Sep)

Fascist Mr Tedious is such a useful useful idiot for Il Duce Luigi. And imaginary pandemics just so useful too. I might’ve added a bit of editorialization to the first headline. Bad me.

Covid lunatic ‘we can’t reach herd immunity without the vaccine’ Catherine Bennett is the epidemiologist on Albo’s Covid inquiry.

Okay, so this is how they’re going to onboard the totalitarian WHO pandemic diktats in Australia. A proper inquiry would examine how people like Catherine Bennett came to occupy the positions they did during the pandemic.

Anyone who was hoping any such Covid inquiry would be an honest appraisal of the catastrophically wrong-headed emergency measures taken will be disappointed.

Actually, scratch that. No one will be disappointed. People who believe the official narrative will cheer on this inquiry’s findings. People who don’t wouldn’t have been expecting anything more than a whitewash of the conduct of people precisely like Catherine Bennett, combined with a few kicks at the Morrison government (but for all of the wrong reasons).

Heh snap, Bruce. These people are nothing if not predictable. As soon as I saw Catherine Bennett was involved, I knew exactly what this “inquiry” was about – ushering in the global WHO pandemic measures. Brace for impact.

Cutting cocks off good. Cutting tails off bad.

Anheuser-Busch stops ‘mutilating’ tails off Clydesdale horses after activists claim the practice is cruel (Sky News, 21 Sep)

“Budweiser is keeping an ugly secret,” PETA said in a video on the topic. “Before the beautiful horses are hitched to the beer wagon — when they’re still just foals — their tails are mutilated…just to give them a certain appearance.”

Definitely a tiny weenie bit of irony in that PETA observation. Actually I don’t think the tranny has quite gotten to the amputation point yet, although he’s undergone “feminization” facial surgery. So I suppose it’s reasonable not to remove the protruding appendage from the horses either.

He was cleared by the failure of the second attempted impeachment.

Not so sure about that Dover since Paxton, who was exonerated in the impeachment trial in Texas, is still subject to several indictments over the exact same stuff.

Also add that Roberts detests Trump and he may have 5 votes. Which will be egregious injustice, but the US is so far down the tubes right now I doubt that will prevent anything.

Except they’re making progress now.

The failed Summer Offensive will be replaced by the coming Winter Offensive. Brimming with confidence , is Milley.

FMD.

Zlatti71
@djuric_zlatko
The Winter is the new Spring

??The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, announced the “winter offensive” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“The Ukrainian Armed Forces are advancing very slowly and very purposefully, preserving manpower. I will say to all critics that there is still a lot of time until the weather remains suitable for combat operations, there are still many combat-ready forces. And the Ukrainians have absolutely no intention of stopping. They will go until the final goal is reached. Ukrainians have no intention of stopping hostilities in winter,” he said.

https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1704198190990332029

Nobody tell peta what geldings are.

Crossie:

I believe the Soviets had a name for it, unpersonning.

…and we should use that term more often.

Inside Russell Brand’s ‘Zen’ hideaway amid allegations

Brand has been seen living a more ‘Zen’ lifestyle in the Henley-on-Thames home over recent years, with videos showing him meditating, practising yoga and playing with his dog.

The only Zen aspect of that is playing with his dog. The videos are pure narcissism. How pretentious he is to have people videoing him meditating and practising yoga. The very idea of a Zen retreat in such luxurious surroundings is laughably naive because as D.T. Suzuki quotes a Zen dude, “If you can’t find it where you’re standing where do you expect to wander in search of it?” or “Meditation is something artificially put on, it does not belong to the natural activity of the mind.” He quotes the Zen mythical character Pang, “If you seek the Buddha through any conscious contrivance then your Buddha is indeed the source the eternal transmigration.”

Of course all this is lost on Brand, it is all a show for him. Look at me, I’m so spiritual!

The Bidens: ‘Stone Cold Crooked’ Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian

The Bidens: “Stone Cold Crooked” (9) — When Can We Start Calling It What It Is, Namely Bribery?

The Biden family corruption scandal gets deeper with every passing day. Speaker Kevin McCarthy finally opened an impeachment investigation in the House last week, and now the first hearing in that investigation has been scheduled for September 28 before the House Oversight Committee.

So what is the potential impeachable offense?

You will undoubtedly recall, in the context of the two Trump impeachments, the endless semantic contortions that took place trying to shoe-horn Trump’s conduct into the vague constitutional catchall of “high crimes and misdemeanors” that might support an impeachment. Now, with Biden, the conduct at issue goes by various euphemisms like “the family business,” “business dealings with foreign nationals,” “influence peddling,” “selling access,” or maybe just “corruption.” But are these impeachable offenses?

Well, how about “bribery”? In Biden’s case, there is no need for creative legal argumentation. Biden’s crime is right there in the list set out in Constitution Article II, Section 4:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

And yet for some reason participants in the public discussion of the Bidens’ conduct seem remarkably reluctant to call a spade a spade. The reluctance spans both sides of the political divide, and even extends to the websites of the House of Representatives that discuss the ongoing investigations. Here are a few recent examples (out of hundreds):

. From NBC News, May 10: “The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee mounted more attacks Wednesday against President Joe Biden and his family, alleging that relatives of the president engaged in business with foreign nationals. . . .”

. From ABC News, September 14: “[O]n Capitol Hill, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week said he would initiate an impeachment inquiry against President Biden over his alleged role in his son’s influence-peddling. . . .”

. From the New York Post, August 14: “The evidence that President Joe Biden benefited directly from son Hunter’s influence-peddling operation just keeps mounting.”

. From PBS, today: “Republicans — led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — have contended in recent weeks that Biden’s actions from his time as vice president show a “culture of corruption,” and that his son used the “Biden brand” to advance his business with foreign clients.”

. Or even from the House Oversight Committee itself, September 13: “There is mounting evidence that Joe Biden was involved in his family’s influence peddling schemes, including while he served as Vice President.”

“Bribery” is not a complicated crime to understand. It has its own section of the U.S. criminal statutes, 18 U.S.C. Section 201. In case there were any doubt what this is about, the title of the section is “Bribery of public officials and witnesses.” Here are the parts of that section relevant to Biden’s conduct:

(b) Whoever—(2) being a public official or person selected to be a public official, directly or indirectly, corruptly . . . seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for:

shall be fined under this title or not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than fifteen years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.

Read through that, and you find that the crime of bribery of a public official only has three elements: (1) “corruptly seek[ing], receiv[ing] [or] accept[ing] anything of value”; (2) “in return for”; and (3) “being influenced in the performance of any official act.”

Of the various instances of corruption involving Joe Biden, the facts relating to Hunter Biden’s service on the Burisma board of directors most closely track the specific elements of the bribery statute.

A few days later Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Kyiv, and, as he himself has admitted on a widely-viewed videotape, threatened to withhold a billion dollars of U.S. aid to the country unless the prosecutor investigating Burisma was fired. And the prosecutor was fired.

In other words, the prima facie case of all of the elements of bribery is right there. It is what they call a lay down.

The Bidens: “Stone Cold Crooked” (9) — When Can We Start Calling It What It Is, Namely Bribery?

From the Comments

– Say what you will about the Biden family, but they almost certainly needed a great deal of help in high places in order to keep their foreign bribery crime racket going for so many years.

– “Bribery”? The Republicans won’t even say he’s senile.

That was quick….

Decisions made by state and territory governments – such as state-based lockdowns and border closures – will be outside the scope of the COVID inquiry announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday

Roger
Sep 21, 2023 9:24 AM

“Pukatja elder Donald Fraser, who worries his people are not so much forgotten, as unseen.”

Might be something to do with banning entry into APY lands, eh?

Decisions have consequences, Donald. Bad decisions have bad consequences.