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“In the image of the heroic John Curtin, who apparently saved Australia” from a Japanese invasion, which he had been…
In the image of the heroic John Curtin, who apparently ‘saved Australia’ by demanding the withdrawal of two of the…
The power to name a place denotes authority I hereby declare the place formerly known as Melbourne, Bearbrass, or Naarm…
My ego demanded I copy and paste this from the tail end of the last page, replying to Roger’s comment…
“Also, don’t fear stating the bleedin’ obvious. Sometimes the obvious needs an airing, once all the gaslighting and bullsh*t is discussed, dismembered and reassembled.”
Yes but we live in a post “bleedin’ obvious” world.
So wow, thanks Cassie.
Abolishing excise taxes, cutting government spending, curbing inflation, nuclear power and abolishing stamp duty would be a winner.
Maybe people are being mugged by reality again.
That’s why we need to say it.
I was attempting to encourage Foxbody to comment more, and anyone else who lurks – speak up. The worst thing that can happen is that you’ll be ignored.
132andbush, I reckon you could start your own grifting consultancy.
Did I read up thread that the Melbourne Neo-Nazis put in another appearance at the No rally?
Maybe people are being mugged by reality again.
Which a focused Liberal Party should be able to tap into.
Taking out the Teal seats (and I believe most will be returned to the Liberal fold) most of the electorates won by Labor in May of last year are marginal and these electorates, such as Bennelong, Parramatta, Aston and others could easily be won back by the Liberals, however it remains to be scene whether they can get their act together and get in with early pre-selections, particularly here in NSW.
Also, they need to take off the kid gloves, put on the boxing gloves and punch back hard. There must be no “civility” towards the left, when are the left civil towards the right? NO, you go for the jugular.
I was attempting to encourage Foxbody to comment more, and anyone else who lurks – speak up. The worst thing that can happen is that you’ll be ignored.”
Agree 100%. Speak Foxbody, speak.
Although calli, some lurkers are better off staying in the shadows……lurking
Piers Akerman:
Apparently Mother Lode:
The damage to our nation caused by this referendum, I fear, is irreparable. The ‘No’ voters must be vigilant that, after (I hope) a crushing defeat of the Screech referendum, the Uniparty does not ignore the clear wishes of the people and introduce an equivalent of the Screech, either by legislation or by stealth.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/the-voice-of-unreason-no-easy-way-out-of-this-mess/
My bolding.
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My own mining company you mean.
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Isn’t it curious, odd and strange that Tyrant Dan’s socialist nirvana called Sicktoria has such active cells of Nazis, and how these Nazis only ever seem to pop up when ordinary men and women are on the streets protesting real issues, be it perverts in women’s spaces, or this “Voice” referendum.
Does anyone recall the Nazis turning up at the Invasion Day protests in January? I don’t.
And I’m curious, were these Nazis easily identifiable by the wearing of swastikas on their clothing? Because I thought displaying such symbols is now illegal in Victoria? I also thought that performing the Nazi salute is also now illegal in Victoria. Yes or no? And if they were wearing clothing with this banned symbol displayed prominently, and/or if they did give the Nazi salute, why weren’t they arrested and charged?
Too many questions.
All of which tells me that these Grampian Nazis are without a doubt an insider job. They’re paid actors doing the bidding of Tyrant Dan and the Victorian Police.
Or maybe I just have a feverish imagination……nah………..I don’t think so.
Quite so, Cassie. I’m expecting a whole lot more kabuki to come.
Mr PepperSpray took a bullet for the Cause.
And it wasn’t No.
The irreparable damage was done during the plandemic and the feeble/non-existent push back on medical tyranny. Now with the spectre of a whitewashed ‘inquiry’ there will be no chance of punishment or change to laws. Someone mentioned above about vigilance if No gets up. That will fall on deaf ears and they will impose their Marxism on us regardless.
The rubbish that misgoverns Vicco still live in the world of student politics at Monash aka the sewer. They have not progressed beyond kindergarten marxism.
Yesterday, Cats whined piteously that No supporters were terrorised by imaginary fascists into staying silent during WTC at the footy.
Also yesterday, actual fascists turned up in support of the No rally in Melbourne.
Actually doing some of the things being recommended here.
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As Cassie said, now illegal in Vic to salute or display symbols.
I want them charged and named, like any other felon. Then we’ll know.
‘The National Socialist Network’?
Network?
The weird thing (or things) is that they seem very amateurish for neo-Nazis. (I have in fairness only seen images and read descriptions of their activities) is that they their clothes are in good, even new, condition. They seem not to sport any actual Nazi symbols like flags, swastikas, iron crosses, or slogans in gothic script.
They are not aggressive, they don’t throw themselves upon counter-protestors and scuffle – even antifa does that.
And they don’t seem to have their own agenda, only appearing when conservatives make a stand in defiance of progressive government agenda. Other than then there seems nothing they want.
I truly just cannot put it beyond the Victorian government to organise these things, but it is probably more likely a small band of progressive activists who take their neo-Nazi street theatre to conservative rallies to discredit them. It is dishonest and vile, and therefore would be second nature (or first) to them.
Perhaps someone on Sky could flash up contrasting images, or footage, of real neo-Nazis and street performers.
Was the blonde long haired son of a VICPOL CIB officer spotted again
That frickin’ guy.
Bonus points to m0nty for implying that Anthony Mundine Jr is concomitant with “ACTUAL Nayzees” – another gutless Malmo moment.
I see Cassie beat me.
Who is the quicker draw?
Keyboards at 20 paces!
I meant in the form of tattoos.
Also m0nty – “68% of Quenthlandersare ACTUAL Nayzees”.
Great way to shit on all of those QLD WWII vets who served in the Battle of Britain, North Africa campaign and who went down on HMAS Sydney.
No sense of shame, this frickin’ guy.
Also yesterday, actual fascists turned up in support of the No rally in Melbourne.”
So writes an actual fascist.
Punched any Nazis today, pervert apologist?
Why is it so hard for Cats to believe that actual neo-Nazis exist in Australia? They have a long history, well documented. Not everything is a trick, some things are as they seem.
Because the long haired blonde son of the Victorian CIB detective keeps on turning up and never gets arrested despite Reddit cucks such as yourself telling us ending free speech is worth it as we could round up da Nayzees as soon as they protest.
“Why is it so hard to believe?”
Because it isn’t credible.
Also yesterday, the VicStasi chose to react relatively mildly (compared to their actions during Deadly Dan’s lockdowns) to the illegal actions of their pseudo-fascist sock puppets. You know, the ones who only turn up at demonstrations not approved by Victoria’s fascist government.
Bashed any Nazis lately, gutless worm? Or are you still sub-contracting the task to the actual fascists of Ante-Fa?
Here’s Who’s Behind The Russell Brand Witch Hunt!
Also, neo-Nazis don’t require iron cross tattoos or swastika flags to be authentic. Their message is enough.
All it takes is 14 words.
Who better to confirm the existence of actual Nazis in Australia than our resident fat fascist fool, supporter of Ante-Fa (comes before fascism).
Tell us, fat fascist fool, do actual communists exist in Australia?
“Why is it so hard for Cats to believe that actual neo-Nazis exist in Australia? They have a long history, well documented. Not everything is a trick, some things are as they seem.”
Firstly, piss off. when I talk about putting on boxing gloves, let’s start with scum like you.
Secondly, the only neo-Nazis that exist in this country are on your side, pervert apologist, groups like Antifa and others.
And if there are real Nazis here, why aren’t you spending your days punching them? Why weren’t you out yesterday shouting condemnation at those Nazis? You could become a comic book hero, Captain Monty, the fat Nazi Puncher! Now that would make amusing reading, except it really isn’t “amusing”, the only people you want to see punched are those whose ideological views you don’t like.
As I wrote above, piss off. I’m tired of scum like you, and I am particularly tired of being nice to scum like you. You used up any capital here when you justified and laughed at violence towards women.
I don’t have any insight as to VicPlod’s strategy when it comes to dealing with the neo-Nazi element, but my guess would be that they focus on containment during protests rather than escalation.
Ratbags like Thomas Sewell have their own agenda, but thankfully their numbers are small enough to not cause serious trouble. And he’s in trouble for that business with the hikers.
“Also, neo-Nazis don’t require iron cross tattoos or swastika flags to be authentic. Their message is enough.”
Wow, laughable but those words above confirm that the pervert apologist just wants to punch men, women and children whose views he doesn’t approve of.
Piss off pervert apologist.
Yes.
The sort of lifetime commitment as shown by mØnty’s
waffen ss adjacent bro’s would be a deal sealer.
25g tobacco pouch. $70.99. FMD
I have had a few conversations with police people in social settings lately. One of the things that has come up has been the frequency of police car rammings: 350 per year, apparently.
The story is that youth gangs have worked out that when they steal a car and get chased by rozzers, all they need to do is cause any sort of bingle to the cop car and Plod will back off.
That policy is understandable to de-escalate what could be dangerous situations, but it has led to a lot of police cars spending a lot of time in the panel beaters.
Better than cops and/or crims spending time in hospital wards or morgues, I suppose. Still not a great outcome.
Very easy to get a park for the half track at Halls Gap. Must be the footy finals.
Anti-Woke Civil Servants RISE UP Against Establishment
Trusted bloggers begone.
I have had a few conversations with police people in social settings lately.”
The pervert apologist is reporting on us.
Tell us the 14 words, genius. Many of us are not familiar with the concept of “14 words for Nazism.
Fewer than one in three voters support the Voice in Kate Chaney’s western suburbs teal stronghold of Curtin, according to the No campaign.
Support for the Voice in Ms Chaney’s Federal seat has plummeted to just 32 per cent, according to No supporters.”
Totally unsurprising. And as I mentioned earlier re. Teal electorates, my prediction is that Curtin will be returned to the Liberal fold at the next election.
@calli:
“Kabuki,” or…
“Noh”?
In Kabuki, the performers wear lurid makeup. in “Noh” they wear elaborate masks, thus allowing rapid and dramatic changes of “face” / expression.
So, is the Oz body politic, “Kabuki” or, a “Noh show”?
Or just a degenerate circus?
Because astroturfing is rampant by the Left and the deep state (but I repeat myself).
FBI lost count of how many paid informants were at Capitol on Jan. 6, and later performed audit to figure out exact number: ex-official (19 Sep)
Why would you think was any different here?
Fat Fascist Fool
The story is that youth gangs have worked out that when they steal a car and get chased by rozzers, all they need to do is cause any sort of bingle to the cop car and Plod will back off.
Hmmmm. “Youth gangs”? Is that code for Africans, mUnty? Are you some kind of racist, as well as being a fascist? You need to engage in a good old Maoist struggle session.
Ah ha, a Curtin uprising. I knew it. As soon as the Range Rover was back from Barbagallos.
Lode, earlier:
Yep. The black-shorted, terry-towelling-hat-wearing specimens turning up lately are the equivalent of buskers. $50 for an hour’s work beats playing ‘Greensleeves’ in Bourke Street all day, while keeping an eye on your coins lest a local tweaker pinches them and runs off.
And 90% of the retail price is federal excise tax, Black Ball.
Only mugs like you and me pay tax.
Illegal, tax-free tobacco is now everywhere thanks to the uniparty’s insane anti-tobacco excise regime.
And organised criminals in Melbourne are now setting fire to tobacconists’ shops because they’re now competitors for illegal tobacco.
Currently revisiting the adventures of Harry Flashman VC.
A public reading of Flash For Freedom
would probably trigger the apocalypse.
Ah, no. Apparently and allegedly, that used to be the policy everywhere, not just in Vicco.
However, after the Gargasoulas matter where that chap mistook the Bourke Street Mall for Punt Road, VicJack Inc – loath as I am to applaud them – now have the only SOPs in the country allowing jacks to not only continue on after being ‘rammed’ (regardless of damage caused), but to actually run the offending vehicle and the people in it off the road.
Either these ‘police in social settings’ are brand new, have spent their entire careers in offices or have identified a suitable candidate to take the piss out of for half an hour or so.
Look, I think we should acknowledge that there are certainly some Nazis in Australia,
Just as there are other such Nazi-adjacent types as fascists, communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, enviro-fascists, Ante-Fa (arrives before fascism) and every other variety of leftard idiot (including those too stupid to pass Economics 1).
The question is how many stupid leftards are there here, and the answer seems to be in the order of 10% of the population. The real issue is what should be done with all of these mental midgets. Perhaps exile to the inner-city swamps of leftardism, and permanent confinement there. They can amuse themselves plotting against each other, and conducting purges.
Andrew Rule has a decent piece on this in the Hun, if one were to evade a paywall.
A question for the fat fascist fool.
Given his enthusiasm for the whole “punch a Nazi” thing, and his confidence that the Grampians Nasties will always turn out for demonstrations against the stupidity of leftardism, why did he not attend the NO demonstration yesterday, and, like, you know, “punch a Nazi”?
Prohibition or prohibitionary taxes always work.
BJ
Same up this way with the euphemism “Youth crime.”
Fascinating that Vic Pol are suddenly showing restraint. Sarcasm aside I wonder if these groups cross pollinate through social media.
The ones up here are also ramming police cars and Katrina “You can’t arrest your way out of a crime wave” Carrol has a policy the cops must return to the station. The car thieves were actually looking for and attempting to damage police cars.
Pollies walking into Parliament House.
A pity; she started well, refusing calls to apply gender quotas to recruits, for example.
If my detective friend is representative of views in the QPS, she’s lost their confidence.
Especially for buccaneering entrepreneurs seeking
new opportunities in the alternative economy.
Jacinta Price is absolutely awesome. On Outsiders now laying into inner city collectivist imbeciles (BIRM).
Flash For Freedom – likely the best description of slave-trading ever written.
They’re still carrying the torch in some parts (the Hun):
At least part of the reason for low (and falling) numbers:
Jesus wept. Let. It. Go. You. Flogs.
Right now, there are clueless bureaucrats – of whom all no doubt live withing 5km of the Melbourne GPO – sitting around a table somewhere with their hands in the air going ‘How could this have happened?’ and ‘Nobody could have foreseen this’.
And:
However:
Oh. Well. That’s comforting then. Forget I said anything.
m0nty got raked harder than Admiral Villeneuve at Trafalgar.
Every Cat must do his duty.
Come on, mUnty.
Tell us the 14 words that define Nazism. You have the advantage of being far more familiar with Nazi doctrine and symbolism than the rest of us. After all, it was you who caught Elon Musk using the number “88”, confirming his status as a Nazi, or at least confirming that status for the person he was quoting.
Don’t hold back, demonstrate that your knowledge of Nazi symbolism exceeds your knowledge of economics.
The Bourke St Mall incident was fixed with pop up bollards, not VicPlod policy changes.
Can’t do that on the Ring Road.
Yep. Copycatting from social media, the same happened in Alice Springs and Katherine recently. In D-Town it’s about once a week or so.
The upper-level jacks are so horrified at the optics of a divisional van running a car off the road containing methed-up 16 year olds intent on destruction, that they have abandoned their primary purpose of protecting the community from human shit.
Interesting comments by Cassie and others about the Melbourne Neo Nazis and yesterday.
The rally turnout was very low for a number of reasons.
Firstly they were not official No campaign rallies and neither Jacinda or Warren Mundine appeared at any. In fact Fair Australia organisers distanced themselves from the events once it became known the rallies were being organised by the pro Putin supporter Aussie Cossack from within the Russian consulate. These points would have turned off many No supporters.
Then there is the point some of those who were previously high profile protesters in Melbourne have moved interstate as could no longer stand living in VIC under Andrews and the VIC Pol regime.
The Neo Nazis tendency to turn up would also be a factor. They unfortunately taint any protest no matter how good the cause. Odd that it is always the causes that are against the Government. In this respect I would suggest that VIC Pol don’t mind them turning up as they serve to keep protest numbers low and reduce the police manpower strain. When you look at what they do it is pretty much standing around but they don’t cause any damage or physical harm. Whether they are undercover cops or whatever I don’t know but I think their presence does help by reducing protest numbers which is something preferred by police and Government.
On the Voice just caught Spencer Howson on 4BC. He is ex ABC and would normally expect him to be for Yes. He said he is leaning No because if No wins the Government can still take action and legislate to close the gap. That might mean Linda Burney actually doing her job instead of traveling around the country posing for selfies.
No sense of shame, this frickin’ guy.
Are you sure that MontyPox Virus is a guy?
It wasn’t ‘fixed’, you simpleton. It had already happened.
The policy would have allowed the jacks to ram – in concert – Gargasoulas’ stolen Commodore from where it was doing burnouts at Flinders and Swanston until it was on its roof in Fed Square, or more appropriately the river.
Says Captain Obvious.
RedBridge is a Labor pollster too.
Tom
Sep 24, 2023 9:17 AM
25g tobacco pouch. $70.99. FMD
And 90% of the retail price is federal excise tax, Black Ball.
Smokers doing their bit for the Guv’ment coffers. Got to pay for those ‘Pollie’ benefits yer’ know.
This is how you end up with Victoriastan.
Also yesterday, actual fascists turned up in support of the No rally in Melbourne.
You actually have no dick. Anyone who says these were NAZIs supporting the No vote is either a dickless grub or a complete idiot.
Because unlike you, Cap’n Monty, the nayzee puncher, we aren’t severely brain damaged.
Or too house sized bottomaged to get off the couch.
Chris Kenny article in the Oz now over 2500 comments. Overwhelmingly against him.
He is going to need to some serious therapy on 15th October.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/uk-government-contract-states-that-illegal-immigrants-must/
that’s the spirit
but imagine mUnty’s plight for a sec
always surrounded by people just like himself in a mono-thinking vacuum he is ‘literally’ suffocating
this is the only place where his most simplistic non-sequitur gibberish can get a hearing
… it’s for your own good
I think the ALPBC will roster some extra therapy dogs.
Mother Lode
Sep 24, 2023 8:30 AM
Mother Load, mob them and expose their faces. It’s easy enough to do and should be a tactic every time they turn up.
Mob, expose and photograph. It’s an effective way to stop them.
Contradicting the Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s position stated in parliament.
Like certain Liberal ministers in a former Australian government (Hi, Alan Tudge!), she likes to talk a big game but appears incapable of delivering results.
MPs are rightly complaining that illegal “migrants” are now being housed long term in hotel accommodation their constituents couldn’t afford for a short term holiday.
That was a minimum of 3 stars stipulated in that particular contract, btw.
That rules out the Salford pub I stayed at arriving in Manchester during a UEFA home game for Man U.
I’d like to see some closer examination of Barrys’ supposition yesterday at 3:41PM:
Is this correct, and could the raising of this in public discussion short circuit the attempt?
Being on the right side of history all the time can be a very difficult thing to adjust to for some people. Sometimes you will end up doing things that might seem to be wrong on the surface, but then you have to remember that you are on the right side of history, and that makes it okay.
So inventing fake neo nazi groups out of nothing in order to sabotage your opposition might initially seem to be a bit off, but remember, you are on the right side of history, so it is okay.
And filling school libraries up with books encouraging seven year olds to change their sex, and threatening parents who question this, all of this might seem to be a bit sinister, initially, but you have to remember that you are on the right side of history, you and history are standing together in the right, correct and exactly appropriate position in space, or some such thing, so all will be well.
Of course all of this depends on there not being a higher power above and beyond history that you will one day have to stand before, but very few of these people really believe in any of that. No, it is all about history, and standing in the right place beside it, or in its shadow, or just below an awning branching off it, or something, that is what matters, and very little else.
There is no postal ballot register. Maybe check the tunnels?
Not to mention a new jerb. I’m sure the ALPBC will welcome him with open alms.
Didn’t work for the hieroglyphic being allowed to mean “Yes”
That is no reason to give up or not try, there’s no other way but to shine sunlight on possible cheating.
Oops – Bear, you beat me to it (again).
“social settings”
Uh huh…..
The head of Ukraine’s SBU has said that the country cannot afford to keep fighting “soldier to soldier” due to the imbalance of the countries’ populations.
Around 60,000 dead from the UKR Counter Offensive according to some. Going well I see.
Yes, more missiles please says ‘Z’ as ‘we’ (and who is we BTW) are running out of ‘cannon fodder’.
Kenny will need to overcome some cognitive dissonance before starting at the ALPBC. Stranger things have happened. PK is now a star after a stint at Teh Paywallian .
Outsiders could’ve chosen a better Remoaner clip.
Paul “is wrong, again” Kelly talking about Ruperdink Mudrock.
No, thanks very much.
I think I saw a poll a while ago showing it didn’t rate in the top 15.
This is good for pushing the undecided vote to No.
“The location of the accommodation will be carried out at locations close to amenities and transport networks. Contracted venues should be at least a minimum of three stars.”
Well, well, well.
Ireland have beaten South Africa in their much-anticipated pool match. Quarterfinals are now (barring some sort of stupid result/tactical loss/referee brain fade somewhere) SA v France and Ireland v NZ.
Wales will most likely beat Australia and that is, unfortunately, the end of the Wallabies’ campaign (and also Eddie Jones, one would think). Very sad seeing Australian rugby fall from the wonderful heights of having made the RWC final in 2015.
If QFs go with form, I would expect the four semi-finalists to all be NH nations. However, Argentina (despite having an average start to their campaign) could possibly pull off an upset against Wales in the Pool D runner up vs Pool C winner QF (assuming Wales beat us tomorrow morning). But Fiji is unlikely to repeat their recent performance against England in the other QF from that side of the draw.
I cannot see France losing to SA nor can I envisage NZ besting Ireland. I am, however, hopeful of being totally and utterly wrong in the latter case. An Irish loss to NZ sets up the delightful prospect of a NZ v France final. Ooh la la!
We will see.
I dare say nuclear power would rate as more of a priority if it were included in the poll.
The government is losing control of the narrative, as the pundits are wont to say.
Any Cats got an opinion as to which the best of the “Flashman” novels was? My money was on “Flash For Freedom” and “Flashman at the Charge.”
Eddie Jones manager should update his contact list. Could be a busy few months. Plenty of time for Eddie to fit in some media management courses. RA should check Amazon for hari kari swords.
I find it very satisfying.
Unless you watch the games.
From the previous page:
Yep. And if your efforts fail, there is a twofold mantra to fall back on:
1. Next time we’ll do it right; and/or
2. It was someone else’s fault*.
*May also be translated as ‘Mistakes were made on both sides’.
If they have such a long history but remain a fringe group of noisy but harmless loons, why is Hunchback so obsessed with them?
Meh…I couldn’t be bothered.
I was watching highlights of the 1991 matches the other night.
Glory days.
BREAKING: Ukraine asks all Ukrainians to leave Crimea before its liberation
That’s code for ‘Z’ needing more men as ‘cannon fodder’ for the so called ‘Counter Offensive’.
‘Z’ will be asking for Poland, Hungary and Germany to give back all Ukrainians so that he can have the men back as more ‘cannon fodder’.
They barely ever had it under control in the first place.
A hopeless government which has lost its way.
Teats Peanuthead, come on down!
ClownWorld.
Baudelaire:
““‘The prettiest trick of the devil is to make us believe he doesn’t exist.’”
Agree with you on those two Flashman books, Zulu.
However they’re all good – might be easier to choose the worst. For my money it would be Flashman and the Mountain of Light.
Most of us end up following the football we were born into.
When I lived briefly in the USA, I just couldn’t get interested in NFL because, for me, it was just another version of rugby — gridiron, a cousin of rugby union and rugby league.
All three are running games with constant stoppages, whereas Australian football, while it is also a running game, puts much more emphasis on ball-kicking skill.
The three rugby codes, with their constant stoppages and time-outs, are boring by comparison.
But you can’t tell that to a Sydneyite or a Queenslander, who grew up soaked in league or union.
Ron Elk = Graeme Bird
Rugby Australia lost me when they persecuted Israel Folau.
It would take quite a bit to get me back…and I suspect I’m not the only one who feels that way.
To mix a metaphor, that might be too big a pill for a dog returning to its vomit to swallow. Time for another KRuddy saviour.
calli
Sep 23, 2023 5:58 PM
Of, course, Rabz! On the strength of my “embellishment” birthday card, the Beloved booked an extension of our holiday next year. Including a final dinner in Venice.
calli,
we stayed in https://www.hotelaquariusvenice.com/ in June this year with my Son who stays there with his Family on weekend visits to Venice – besides an excellent Gelati Shop next door and a COOP Shop just across other side of square
AQUARIUS is set in Campo San Giacomo da l’Orio, one of the most beautiful areas of Santa Croce, Venice. While preserving the ancient realities, the San Giacomo da l’Orio area offers all the essential and useful services for everyday life.
With its trees and stones, secret gardens and lovely human sized spots where to refresh and enjoy, this area full of history is able to embrace every guest.
Besides pleasany drinks in ground floor bar excellent restaurants nearby including steak – AL Grill
and
So.gi. Di Sorato Luca E C. S.a.s.
I was musing on the difference between the codes the other day.
Rugby union and rugby league are perfect for TV because most of the action happens in a line that moves across the field and the screen.
AFL, in contrast, is as much about positioning around the oval and not just what happens on ball. Hence it doesn’t translate as well to TV.
This explains why (imv) you consistently get bigger crowds at the games than the two rugby codes do. Watching AFL on TV just doesn’t compare to being there.
Tom,
The NRL has sped up enormously in the last few years with various rule changes. This season has been the best I’ve seen in decades, with the top 10 teams playing amazingly fast skillful footy. This weekend saw it at it’s best (especially for the Broncs!!!) I’d say the NRL nowadays is an amazingly entertaining sport. Far better than that chaotic soft mess AFL, anyways.
Tom, there is something about having played a game (particularly as a child) that makes you appreciate the subtleties much more. I watch AFL with my support worker who played sub State level soccer and find myself explaining all sorts of things to him. And vice versa during the World Cup. I watched a few rugby games with a guy who played a lot of schoolboy rugby. We may well have been watching different games.
Tonight’s 60 Minutes on Nein is going to join the Russell Brand pile-on.
Correct, Roger.
One of the beauties of attending an AFL game is seeing all the tactical/positional stuff you don’t get in the TV broadcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A-zT8r8rG0
The lack of offside in AFL completely changes the game from any game that does. Increasingly it has been looking very basketball-y, although a good full forward can stop that.
So what?
…to dealing with the neo-Nazi element, but my guess would be that they focus on containment during protests rather than escalation….
Like this?
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/watch-moment-victoria-police-push-woman-to-ground-and-pepper-spray-her-during-violent-lockdown-protests/news-story/5a4e29ee5eb10b5b0e25708a512ac730
Or this?
https://www.9news.com.au/national/charges-dropped-against-victoria-police-officer-filmed-tackling-man-in-melbourne-cbd/50b8d90f-e64c-4adf-b237-eef4d6cdb033
Where the judiciary and management approved of the assaults.
Tom
Sep 24, 2023 11:26 AM
Most of us end up following the football we were born into.
When I lived briefly in the USA, I just couldn’t get interested in NFL because, for me, it was just another version of rugby — gridiron, a cousin of rugby union and rugby league.
All three are running games with constant stoppages, whereas Australian football, while it is also a running game, puts much more emphasis on ball-kicking skill.
Tom,
I grew up playing Hooker in Rugby League, Undefeated Premiers both in Final Year Rugby League Schools Comp and Northern Suburbs Weekend Rugby League Comp , playing Jersey Flegg & Presidents Cup for North Sydney Bears, – Played Hooker for Sydney Uni Enginerering Rugby Team and thought they were mad, as I lay on the ground in the middle of a maul being raked by studs
Moving to Melbourne with my wife in 1968, I found that if you did not follow AFL, then you were unable to prticipate in Office discussions Monday to Friday
Going to Boston 35 Times over 3 years late 70s I became Boston Patriots Fan, Bruins Fan & Red Socks Fan – again needed to enjoy Office Conversations – Most memorable – watching Super Bowl in the Sheraton Boston Sports Bar Prudential Building in 78 with our clients Legal Rep – Brawl broke out with chairs being smased over peoples heads – broken up by Police – with out host, as we huddled under table saying “Pure Americana”
My son played Rugby Union & my grandsons Soccer, Rugby League, Rugby Union and AFL, but with Son-in-Law Phsyio GWS at one stage – live-in family including Wife supports AFL & GWS – Melbourne SIL, Carlton, and AFL, I will agree is the Best Football Game in the World
Nanowrigglers
Not seen any mention of Yes campaign advertising during the football games. Did they go ahead with the ads?
The Welcome to Country guy at the NRL game was actually very good and got the crowd doing Aussie Aussie Aussie.
Not being born in Victoria or raised playing the sport I find it fast but kinda pointless with no consistency in rules for contact. Managed to live in Melb for couple of years and supported a team to get along. It was helpful to take a newspaper to read at games to get through the game. Victorians usually baffled by the global support for footba;l(soccer) during World Cup events.
Lordie
She’s the “spirit cooker”. Some people thought her art edged toward satanism.
On garage nastis.
The ones I have some knowledge of were dismantled by WAPOL a long time ago, Tongerins mob
I was also 2 houses down when a couple of members settled a dispute with a .410 shotgun.
They are, if anything, less of a threat to society than Bikie mobs.
And for them to be allowed to parade in Vic like they do stinks to high heaven.
Pose that question to the owner of the lollipop pop blog, nakkas. Let him on the site and ruined the blog. Never recovered.
Offside makes a ton of sense in soccer. Very easy to understand and not complex at all while the game is in play.
Some people thought her art edged toward satanism.
Probably the blood, pentagrams and goat heads she likes to use.
“Zelensky asks Marina Abramovic to be ambassador for Ukraine.
Artist will lend her voice to help rebuild schools in the country”
Why do the same unqualified but well-connected people keep getting placed into these positions? What is she bringing to the position that benefits the people of Ukraine? Why do they (the Ukrainian people) seem to have no veto over these choices?
The current American administration is pure, unadulterated evil. Corrupt and venal in every part. I am becoming more convinced that America is the Mystery Babylon named in the Book of Revelation.
And I don’t say that lightly as I have a very deep love for the American people.
You don’t own this blog, so stfu shorty.
Oh yeah, that’s right.
Somehow, the Pizzagaters managed to connect her to the pizzagate conspiracy, but I forget how.
Out of all the pizzagate bullshit, I thought that her to connection to satanism was quite real.
Some of the AFL rules are unduly subjective: in the back, dropping the ball, holding the ball ( in a pack) while some make no sense at all – jumping on someone’s back is fine if you take the mark but a free kick if you jump early and don’t. There is also a tendency to fiddle with the rules to keep the feel of the game as the army of coaches seek to exploit them for advantage.
And you don’t either Nakkas, which is why I highlighted your stupid comment about Bird who’s banned here. You moron, he ruins blogs.
“What’s so bad about Graeme Bird?”
1. Rabid, off the chart antisemitism.
2. A serial pest.
3. Would get people cancelled but he lacks the competence to get it done.
4. Obsessive and vindictive.
5. Likes to call everyone gay.
6. Will give weird stalkers a place to hang out if they placate him enough (e.g., weird male nurse and leftard “Jinmaro” posing as a female poet on a cycling trip of Europe.
7. Obsessed with “proving” conventional science wrong, stemming from being an anti Jewish scientist crank. Ergo, special & general relativity are wrong, because a Jew came up with the theories.
Graeme is why we can’t have nice things.
Just in case you thought Victorian Liberals couldn’t possibly get any worse.
Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto maintains rights to expel MPs following Moira Deeming’s controversial removal (24 Sep)
Go away and join the Labor Party.
It’s none of your business, shorty. If you want to give orders then fk off and start your own blog. You carry on here as if you own the place.
If the blog owner here doesn’t want him commenting he can stop him.
THE BATTLE FOR THE BODY
by Carl R. Trueman
9 . 21 . 23
Given the chaotic and volatile nature of our culture, what should the church focus on in her teaching? This is one of the pressing questions of our day. The answer, of course, is “the whole counsel of God.” That is true but also somewhat glib. Do peculiar times not call for specific emphases in our teaching? As the fourth century wrestled with the doctrine of God, the fifth with Christology and the nature of God’s grace, and the Reformation era with sacraments and salvation, so our age wrestles with the question of anthropology. What does it mean to be human? More specifically, what does it mean to be an embodied human? For we now find ourselves not so much in a battle for the Bible but in a battle for the body.
The status of the body as it relates to us as human persons seems to be the issue that lies, often unseen, behind many of the other more prominent debates of our age. Take the most controversial question of recent years: What is a woman? This is remarkably simple to answer if bodies have importance, but it is now staggeringly difficult to answer because our culture denies the authority of the body in this matter. Contra Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one cannot punt the question of what is a woman to the biologists because biology doesn’t count.
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It is eighty years since Lewis gave the lectures that formed The Abolition of Man. That abolition continues apace. And the human body is now its clear target.
Tonight Yom Kippur begins, at approximately 5.30. It’s day of atonement, where we Jews fast, no food and no fluid for 25 hours. Most would know of it here from the war, hard to believe that was fifty years ago now. I’ve just come in from my sister’s and I will fast alone. I’ll visit Mum tomorrow afternoon. I don’t fast well, it’s not the absence of food that bothers me, it’s the absence of fluid. I’ll probably need water at some stage otherwise I get terrible migraines and start vomiting. During one fast, over twenty years ago, I collapsed in synagogue but there’s one good thing about fainting in a synagogue, there are always a lot of doctors in the house!
The elderly, the infirm, children under 12 (girls) and 13 (boys), soldiers on duty are not permitted to fast, in fact it’s forbidden. Anyway, my sister lives in the inner-west, in a very nice place on the water, so I caught the bus and train home this morning, and I got off at Town Hall to get some groceries from the Woollies there…which reminds me….I can’t believe how groceries have skyrocketed….but at least berries are cheap, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries…..yummo!
Anyway, after I got my groceries I then walked to get the bus and I noticed that the bollards are out in front of the Great Synagogue on Elizabeth Street in Sydney’s CBD. I’m quite attached to the Great Synagogue, I have some family associations with the place although I don’t go to that particular synagogue. But seeing the bollards upsets me, security at all “Jewish” organisations is enormous and costly. Every synagogue, every Jewish school, every Jewish kindergarten, every Jewish communal building now requires massive security. It wasn’t like that growing up. So, where does this danger come from? Is it from the far-right? Well, they probably count for about 20% of the threats, but the other 80% emanates from a religious ideology that insists it’s a religion of peace except one of its favourite tenets is homicidal Jew hatred. In fact there was a recent recent incident outside Moriah, the Orthodox Jewish school here in Queens Park, where a man “has protected the identity of a person who hurled the anti-Semitic abuse from a slow-moving car out the front of a prestigious eastern suburbs school, with a security guard labelled a “f**ing jew c**t”.
“A man named Ramzi Khafaga was sentenced for driver failing or refusing to disclose a person’s identity at Waverley Local Court on Wednesday in relation to two incidents outside Moriah War Memorial College, Queens Park. The court heard the Matraville man had been charged after he refused to reveal the identity of the man who unleashed the shocking abuse; a subcontractor who worked for his building business.”
Or perhaps, according to the words once written here by our very own pervert apologist, Ramzi Khafaga and the mate he’s covering up for have ‘legitimate grievances’ to go screaming Jew hatred outside a Jewish school?
But then again, what would we know about homicidal Jew hatred, according to a leftist Labor MLA, we’re just a “race of whingers”.
That is quick for 60 Minutes. This whole affair appears coordinated rather than a pile-on.
Embrace the power of “and”. mUnty is a complete idiot, a dickless grub and a gutless worm.
And those are his good points.
I don’t think she’s been placed into any official position, has she?
Something vague about being asked to raise funds to rebuild schools.
(I had to look her up…she’s 76 y.o. professional attention seeker who will likely be dead before the war ends if present the trend continues.)
I’m not giving orders, nakkas. I was responding to your stupid response to Dot, which suggested giving license to a banned loon.
Now go give the Klepto’s pic a big wet kiss , you dunce.
Well, it is in our hands, now.
I am wait Albo and Chris Kenny to explain that we will not win Rugby competitions again until we, as a nation, are made whole again by The Voice. And if we fail on 14th October not only will the whole solar system have justified loathing for us, but so will all the world’s umpires, referees, and those strange little people who run around with flags.
Marcia will explain it as racist people playing a racist game where racists kick a dark ball in a racist recapitulation of thousands of racist years of racist racistry by white supremacists, and the ball is dark because it used to be made from the skin black babies under the Racist Football Fabrication Racist Act, and all White people are racist and…and…racist.
She is an academic so her words carry wait. Almost the same way another academic use spit to convey arguments.
The current American administration is pure, unadulterated evil.
yes it is- also a strong element of payback to teach Americans a lesson for electing Trump and not the lesbian bitch.
Is she the kind of “cooker” that FatBoy babbles about?
Jesus H Christ on a motorbike, i laughed out loud at that line.
I don’t know the context behind it and i don’t care, that was pi5s funny.
Never thought of that. I could visialize Fatboy banqueting over a raw bloodied goats head.
Fat Boy has still not come up with those “14 words” about Nazism.
I’m beginning to think that he plucked that number, and the idea, out of his ample @rse.
“Wide Awake Media
@wideawake_media
CNN Technical Director, Charlie Chester, in a secret Project Veritas recording from April 2021: Once the public are no longer scared of “Covid”, “climate change” will take centre stage as the new imaginary boogeyman to terrify everyone into submission with.
“They’ve already announced in our office that once the public is open to it, we’re going to start focusing mainly on climate… There’s a definitive ending to the pandemic. It’ll taper off to a point that it’s not a problem anymore. The climate thing is gonna take years, so they’ll probably be able to milk that for quite a bit.”
“Be prepared, it’s coming.”
And sure enough, two and a half whole years later, we’re now seeing this play out in the mainstream media—in absolute lockstep, just like with the “Covid” narrative.”
https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1705497398288519385
Not that confirmation of MSM insidiousness is necessary.
My grandies are at Moriah. The old kindergarten had what was basically an airlock entrance, guarded outside with someone inside to check your identity.
I wouldn’t recommend challenging either of them.
Big school is even more heavily guarded. I won’t go into details here for obvious reasons. All my children, and the other grandies all went/go to school on open campuses. Only the Jewish children are under so much threat they have to be protected by armed guards and a network of security.
Australia, 2023.
I don’t recall Graeme going to the trouble of using Gravatars. Waste of effort if you’re going to be punted.
Now go give the Klepto’s pic a big wet kiss , you dunce.
Jesus H Christ on a motorbike, i laughed out loud at that line.
I don’t get it; but if head prefect is giving wet ones to anyone else there is going to be donkey nuts at dawn.
And…just like that Rover drops one.
What didn’t you like Rover? The talk about threatened children? The heavy security necessary in an Aussie school?
Or is it the expression of disgust on my face?
Of course there is a Postal Ballot Register.
If you’ve applied for a postal ballot in any previous State or Federal Election, they will send you a postal ballot for this referendum (and any future State or Federal elections). You don’t have to keep applying each time. It’s a ratchet.
This is how they build a growing population of postal voters, which are vastly easier to interfere with than in-person votes.
Every loose postal ballot paper is ripe for interference and fraud.
They are easier to interfere with by design. The votes are held, without scrutineering or monitoring by an organisation fundamentally opposed to the Right.
Slowly slowly catchee monkey. Boiling frog. Whatever you want to call it, you will lose and wonder why.
It’s a weird feeling, I’ll admit. The kindy my kid went to in Russia has serious fencing , a 4 corner guard roster with a couple at the gate – leather jacketed stocky stone faced types with very close cropped hair cuts. Local mafia families had kids there. Word on the street was that the grounds were sacrosanct. It worked and still does to my knowledge. That kindy wanted for nothing and the teachers and staff were quite wonderful.
I did realise that I would probably be mistaken for Graeme Bird some time after typing Elk in, and I will probably have to pick a different name at some stage. The only thing I can say is that from what I have seen, his more recent pseudonyms seem to be more along the lines of ‘Cyber Elf Snow Goblin’ these days, he seems to have veered away from your basic animal name pseudonym and moved up a dimension.
You know, it’s a pretty incredible world we live in. Brand is cancelled, and his livelihood may be gone forever because of something he may have or may not have done 20 years ago or more.
Meanwhile, this fat, oxygen thief is boasting that he was a member of the communist party at 15, showing no regrets or remorse about membership in a political party resembling the Nazis, and has a regular column in a center-right newspaper.
I’ve worked out where FatBoy got his reference to “14 words” from.
He is mixed up with that well known “progressive” racist Woodrow Wilson and his Fourteen Points to end WW I.
The best comment on the Fourteen Points was by Loyd George: “Even the Good Lord only had ten.”
I had a message left on my phone last Thursday informing me that Roy Morgan Research would be calling me back in a few days about an IMPORTANT NATIONAL SURVEY. hah.
Any ideas on answers to anticipated questions? Reckon I may be able to have some fun.
As it was noted yesterday, Lady Pearl Clutcher’s husband was the Major General (UK Army Reserve) in command of a political nudge unit (brigade) until 2020 and the muckraking began in 2019.
We’ve seen a material and very quick rise in interest rates over the past 18 months, with some credit card companies now hitting 20% on the cost of credit. Meanwhile, this dunderhead reckons it’s unusual outside of a recession without recognizing the stress these almost sudden (and unusual) rises have caused.
LOL!
Roy Cohn Machine Elf is something I expect from Bird.
The ABC presents some of the most privileged people in Australia having a whine about their grievances:
Women in media on sexism and the things that still need to change in newsrooms
Crack out the world’s smallest violin for this one.
By the way, the article is just promotional copy for some ABC TV series about a newsroom in the 1980s. Original stuff! Is the main character’s name going to be Don Beaujolais? Will he sign off from his nightly newsread with ‘let’s remain classy, Melbourne’?
Setting that aside, a gripe of one of the poor suffering oppressed rich media women featured in the article is that the ABC series shows too much brown skin in the newsroom for it to be a realistic depiction. My goodness. If the director went for realism in this respect, the same woman would complain about the lack of diversity in the cast! You just can’t win with these people (and yes, that’s the way they like it).
I can see why you never became a journalist.
If fantasy football falls over there’s a big opportunity beckoning in the field of bleating bodice rippers.
‘Generous applause’ followed by ‘respectful silence’.
Also that purple drank that Fanta are currently flogging, please buy a dozen dozen bottles Monty, you’ll just adore it.
More like Haywood Jablome, Havwood Shapely, Richard P Crick or Grappa Mamma Rees.
Wow just waded through the news.com sewer. They are going full bore on these claytons Nazis in Melbourne and smearing the no rally by association.
This is what passes for journalism these days hey?
Funny comment, OCO. Nice one.
The famous aboriginal connection to country is a farce. Almost none of them (apart from a few elites) have ever left the country.
Rock D
Are there any pics or vids of these ANTIFA nazis? It’s so funny. The American left was pulling this stunt around the time of the BLM riots and sure enough, the Australian left catches on.
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Nazis, neo or otherwise, would not find a home amongst conservatives, or even ‘The Right’. They would detest Australia’s right as being too far left. Obviously our preference for democracy and the mixed prescriptions it produces would offend their doctrinaire natures. The right is racially mixed – white, brown, black, even rangas! Me dear old sainted Mum would come home from Mass telling of the cheeky sense of humour of this priest (from Africa), or the stories from another priest (from Vietnam) as to how much he was enjoying life in Orange, NSW and hoped to be kept there.
The left reckon they are not racist because they have developed a desperately tortured calculus wherein everyone is defined by their race and are deliberately placed in pigeonholes into an arrangement that the left tells themselves represents non-racism. When they insist some role be reserved for a person of a particular complexion they congratulate themselves for having secured for that person a role that they believe no one of that colour could have achieved by merit.
The left love abstraction in the form of simplification, such as takes away all the fiddly bits. The individual is always the first thing thrown out. They have simple doctrines, adamantine axioms, and an ever-erupting volcano of moral superiority.
The assume their opponents are the same and opposite, with an appetite for evil like a black hole. We are as race obsessed as them but in an evil way. As aware of social inequity but in striving to increase the injustice.
That is how they see us.
Everyone that is not like them is ‘right’, hence conservatives, libertarians, and Nazis all believe the same horrid things. They think they can depict conservatives as Nazis, even as conservatives despise their ideas.
And the lest will never ever ever recognise that the only traditional difference between their ideological forebears and the Nazis was the old socialists toyed with an infantile idea of economics while the Nazis based their beliefs on race – especially as the modern socialists now all speak about race.
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It makes sense that people in aged care etc, don’t have to reapply for a postal vote every time.
I don’t see the sinister, I guess we’ll get some idea when the referendum is completed.
In view of the results of the last four five federal elections I think I have a little more confidence in the system than some.
general postal voter
JC
Sep 24, 2023 12:46 PM
You know, it’s a pretty incredible world we live in. Brand is cancelled, and his livelihood may be gone forever because of something he may have or may not have done 20 years ago or more.
He’s on Rumble with 1.5 million followers …. increasing daily.
Crap, those <> tags are supposed to be rant-tags.
If you are concerned volunteer to scrutineer.
Link to AEC site.
preliminary scrutiny of declaration votes (postal, early, mobile, absent, provisional and marked-as-voted votes)
The Dems, parasites for OPM;
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-18/trillion-dollar-industry-powering-chicago-is-at-risk-of-leaving?utm_content=markets&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-markets&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic
Remember the bunch who “marched” in DC not too long after Jan 6? Identical tan chinos and shirts, plastic shields, and all with face masks.
When some nearby unsympathetic types started to rip off their masks, they dropped the plastic shields they were carrying, ran back to their (FBI??) bus, and scarpered like Brave Sir Robin.
Clearly Glowies, as the Grampian Nasties also seem to be (with Fat Boy as their version of Goebbels).
There is no opportunity for scrutiny or supervision of the votes while they are in the custody of Computershare.
It is a major defect in chain-of-custody of the votes.
The US Republicans are only starting to wake up.
There is no reason to promote postal voting other than to tamper with the vote.
There is no reason for computerised voting machines other than to tamper with the vote.
Voting in person, with ID, and a finger dipped in ink is the path to a fair vote.
3rd world countries can see that – but most are too convinced of the good intentions of the State to see it.
Barry
Indeed, with “assisted” votes in nursing homes and the like strictly supervised by scrutineers.
Steady on.
A society can be inclusive, and simultaneously keep the rangas on as servants.
Listening to a fair bit of Spotify, going round and round on a tractor. I was piggybacking on a mate’s account, now back to the free app, and so algorithmically generated music feed, as well as lots of ads. The breakdown, apart from Spotify’s own promos, would be roughly one third gambling, one third jobs with exciting labour hire oppurtunities with exciting industries, and the rest Army recruitment, fast food…
And Universities.
The current jive-talking You Dubyay ad is calling future drivers of social change, to study social work so you can make social outcomes with real social dividends.
And there is another from Enid Blyton, which, I swear, says “discover ways to 3-D print new food from old.”
It also touches on the “we’ll make you into a creative thinker” rubbish trope, but that’s just glitter on the bumcheeks of the whole gay parade. I can’t think of what else they’re saying, if my brain had Mondegreen’d it… “new food from old” is actually more terrifying than Soylent Green. At least Soylent Green is going to be fresh produce, so to speak.
How do you know there aren’t any scrutineers holed up at Computershare?
D’Rango Untanned was my favourite Rangaploitation film.
David Warner is starting in an avant- grade remake…
Whoops
Starring
An actress with gravitas will be the house Ranga. I’m thinking, Our Nicole?
O’Ranga’ed Soylent Lite for me, please.