Yes, thank you for confirming that in the UN scenario the ratio of global industrial production is 4:1 in China’s…
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Tough stickers.
Or as the Brits say: Slag tags.
Ben Garrison.
Gary Varvel.
I like the idea of dress-ups for voting. I have a lovely selection of Aboriginal textiles by artists from the NT. Might wear one as a bandana, just to remind myself that without “invasion” these very talented people would never be able to market their wares worldwide.
So much well wishing and practical support for so many people. So much good will and money poured into enterprises designed to lift the indigenous out of poverty. Yet never enough.
Making the Constitution, one of the best in the world, a racist document is not the answer. It’s a silly proposition, spruiked by insatiable chancers. Nothing will change except the very thing that makes this country wonderful – we are all equal under the law, regardless of race, creed or colour.
This valuable document must be protected, it represents everyone’s dreams for a better life. All they have to do is put legs on those dreams…there will be no shortage of help and encouragement.
Just returned from my last day of pre-poll volunteering.
I left early because tired, but also because of the changing tactics at the booth.
Tactics that were apparently directed by the central coordinators for NO in NSW.
Their grapevine feedback was that the YESsers are really panicking, and are now throwing the proverbial kitchen sink at the pre-poll booths:
Large numbers of volunteers, aggressive engagement with all people entering the booth centre, as well as along the queue.
So our booth captain directed us to just hand out the HTVs, without approaching the voter, then saying nothing but “Thank you..”.
As well, we were to totally avoid engaging with YESsers, and just answer voters’ questions, simply.
And no more.
After several days of an independent free-hand in persuasion through chatty, friendly and informative banter, we were told to keep a low profile, be polite, unhurried and basically neutral, in contrast to the multiple, pushy, often argumentative YESsers.
A “less is more” approach, if you will.
This was also supposed to give the voters the impression that we were calm, confident and in control, as well as underfunded (as if that wasn’t bloody obvious from day one…).
All of us minions were not thrilled by this.
What ensued was some “discussion” between us, not involving the booth captain. Murmurings of disagreement with a tactic that allowed the YESsers to audibly lie about the reasons to vote YES, without comeback from us, without us being able to correct the record later on along the queue.
A change that instead looked like we were tired, disinterested and resigned to defeat, so why bother?
After several examples of poor planning and organization, managerialism had finally, triumphantly, joined the NO campaign.
Thank G.d that it only happened today, the last day of pre-polling.
Some of us then had the comforting thought that, tomorrow, working alone in the few booths that could be manned by the NO volunteers in this particular electorate, we were free to follow our instincts, as we had done for the last two weeks.
F@ck the tactics of the w@nkers who plan online, or around a table, but are nowhere to be seen on the ground.
And we have yet to see anyone from the SFLs, from any level of government.
More useless than tits on a bull.
Big day tomorrow…
And a podium for the mini-rant.
Apologies.
Penius Piano Playing Comedian Zelensky’s Pants msut be getting Browner!
Bloomberg ditches Ukrainian flag for Israeli
The New York high-rise changed the light display as US attention has shifted
The top of Bloomberg LP’s Manhattan headquarters is no longer showing solidarity with Ukraine, but has switched to supporting Israel instead, New Yorkers have noticed as of Thursday.
Photos and videos circulating on social media show the top six floors of the 731 Lexington Avenue building lit up in light blue and white stripes resembling the Israeli flag.
Since February 2022, when the Ukraine conflict escalated, the building’s four top floors had been lit up in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag – until this week, anyway. It was not clear when exactly the building management changed the display.
The high-rise is informally known as ‘Bloomberg Tower’ but is owned by Alexander’s, a real estate investment trust. Bloomberg pays over $100 million in rent for office space in the 55-floor tower, which is also home to 105 luxury condominiums.
Israel has almost entirely replaced Ukraine in the focus of Western media outlets, following Saturday’s incursion by Hamas militants from Gaza, which has so far resulted in over 2,700 deaths on both sides.
The Israeli government has declared war on the Palestinian group and launched artillery and air strikes against Gaza, vowing to “dismantle” Hamas and kill its leadership.
Many landmarks around the West have also been lit up in the colors of the Israeli flag, including the White House in Washington, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.
Earlier this week, the Italian authorities projected the Israeli flag and the Star of David on the Arch of Titus in Rome, built to honor the Roman general who conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple nearly 2,000 years ago.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has been alarmed by the shift in attention, warning that it will “have consequences” for his country. Ukraine’s fate “depends on the unity of the rest of the world,” he told France 2 in an interview earlier this week. Zelensky has reportedly asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s permission to visit Jerusalem to “boost international support for Israel’s counteroffensive against Hamas in Gaza.
Good. Fabulous tactics. Be aggressive.
And get the great Aussie two finger salute.
I wonder if Auntie Violet will be so disgusted with a NO vote that she’ll refuse to receive her Centrelink Pension each fortnight.
It’s a whitey thing after all. As is the sherry she slurps.
Hard to see that being a winner at any time. Dare I say UnAustralian?
MEPs call for change of EU policy on Ukraine
Brussels needs to urge Kiev to make peace, according to a Voice of Europe roundtable
Ukrainian lives are being sacrificed by the “totally corrupt” elite in Kiev to which the EU recklessly sends billions of euros, several members of the European Parliament said at an event on Wednesday hosted by the think-tank Voice of Europe.
“We must stop this tragicomedy for Europe, for Ukraine and for Russia. We must try to find a path to prosperity again, and the first step is peace,” MEP Thierry Mariani of the French National Rally (RN) party argued at the roundtable, held in the central hall of the European Parliament in Brussels.
“Ukraine must remain a bridge” between Russia and Europe, Mariani added. He also pointed out that the current conflict has roots in 2013, when the EU tried to push Kiev to renounce a free trade deal with Russia and sign the Association Agreement with Brussels. This led to the Maidan demonstrations and the February 2014 coup.
Maximilian Kra of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) said he had traveled around Ukraine, describing it as “a beautiful country with very decent people.”
“I’m afraid that these decent people of Ukraine are now being sacrificed for the interests of the Kiev elite,” who own millions in real estate in southern France, Kra said. He also voiced fears that the US may ask the EU to foot the bill for the Ukraine conflict, now that Washington’s attention has been preoccupied by Israel.
“That’s what I’m afraid of. And I can tell you that this is already happening. Because Germany has already promised $1 billion to Ukraine, while the US will allocate only $200 million,” he said.
Marcel de Graaff of the Dutch Forum for Democracy (FvD) argued that Ukraine needs to make peace with Russia as soon as possible.
“I speak very directly because they have already lost. They are now sacrificing people up to 70 years old at the front. They no longer have reserves. They are losing right now,” said de Graaf.
He also described Ukraine as “the most corrupt country in the world,” now being given “tens of billions of euros” by the West.
“I heard that [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky’s mother-in-law bought a villa in Egypt for several million dollars, and we are still wondering where our money is going.
This is a totally corrupt civilization,” de Graaf added.
One major problem, according to the Dutch MEP, is that all trust has been lost between Russia and the West after the revelations by former German and French leaders that the Minsk Agreements were a ploy to buy Kiev time to prepare for war.
Kra brought up that Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk had presented the German Bundestag a “smart” peace plan based on Minsk II, a proposal that would have seen the rebel republics of Donetsk and Lugansk rejoin Ukraine with broad autonomy.
“At the time, no one knew that Minsk II was a fake, as Merkel later stated,” Kra added, referring to former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s December 2022 admission.
Henri Malos, president of Voice of Europe and host of the roundtable, also lamented the demise of the Minsk Agreements, which he said offered security and sovereignty for both Russia and Ukraine.
“I respectfully urge you immediately to stand down Mr Joyner as the ABC’s Middle East Correspondent,” he said.
“His continued position is untenable.”
Agree. He gave what the anti-semitic inclined wanted – an excuse to diminish the horror.
Remember – it’s a prediction of what you think will happen, not what you want to happen…
A Referendum Result competition
No will win…. (in order of No winning magnitude)
Barking Toad: No 70%; Yes 30%
States for Yes: none
States for No: all
Thefrollickingmole: No 70% Yes: 30%
States for Yes: none
States for No: all
John Brumble: No: 70% Yes: 30%,
States: 50/50 split
GreyRanga
No: 69%, Yes 31%
States for Yes: none
States for No: all
Speedbox: No = 67.5%; Yes = 32.5%.
States for Yes: Vic
States for No: Qld, WA, NSW, SA, Tas
Alamak!: No: 66%; Yes 33%
States for Yes: Vic, Tas
States for No: Qld, WA, NSW, SA
Top Ender: No 65% Yes 35%.
States for Yes: Victoria
States for No: NSW, Tas, WA, Qld, WA, SA
Delta A: Yes 60%, No 40%
States for Yes: Vic, Tas.
States for No: Qld, NSW, SA, WA.
Rosie: No 59% Yes 41%.
States for Yes: Vic, SA
States for No: WA, Qld, Tas, NSW
Sancho Panzer
No 59%, Yes 41 %
States for Yes: none
States for No: all
Razey:
No: 58%, No 42%
States for Yes: Tas
States for No: NSW, WA, Qld, SA, Vic
Rabz No: 58%, Yes 42%
States for Yes: Disasterstan, Taxmania, SA
States for No: NSW, WA, Qld
Bruce in WA: No: 58, Yes 42
States for Yes: Victoria; Tas
States for No: NSW, WA, Qld, SA
Local oaf: No 58%, Yes 42%
States for Yes: TAS, VIC
States for No: NSW, WA, Qld, SA
Yes will win….(in order of Yes winning magnitude)
Lysander Yes 67%, No 33%
States for Yes: Victoria
States for No: NSW, Tas, WA, Qld, WA, SA
Alwaysright: Yes: 51% No: 49%
States for Yes: Vic, NSW, Tas, Qld
States for No: WA, SA
Along with the new OT late this evening, I think I’ll put up a thread on the Gazan situation if and when the IDF enter Gaza tomorrow. Also a thread on the Voice referendum starting at Sat midday. People can put up their guesses beforehand there as well their experience at the polling station if anything stood out.
Lotocoti:
They need to have the name of an Israeli victim written on the nose, and the act televised.
It will help keep the world focussed on the reason why.
Thanks Dover.
Busy night. I’ll serve snacks.
Its no wonder Boomers have a certain rep with some younger folks, when crap-like emissions from Adams is published and paid for.
I don’t maintain that it couldn’t happen, only that security and screening, in particular, make it much less likely. Even crew members are subject to the same security screening and anything brought on board is X-rayed, at the very least once. I wouldn’t like to try to get a gun or grenade on board.
Thanks Dover. Threads will be interesting.
Ferk me. Erin Molan hooked into a Pali sheila on Fox.
Well done girl!
Oh crap, Top Ender, please reverse my Yes/No as I mixed it up! Instead of Yes = 67 to No = 33, it should be the other way around!
No = 67%
Yes = 33%.
Apologies again but dyslexia my must up be playing. 😛
Erin Molan just now on Sky – simply magnificent against some Palestinian academic and supporter of Hamas. I’ve just come in and seen just the last couple of minutes. She refused to let this person off regarding what was shouted out at the Opera House and the fact that the woman had tweeted that Israel had no right to exist.
TE
72% no; 28% yes; no for all states.
Change made Lysander
Busy night. I’ll serve snacks.
We are having people to dinner tonight. Fortunately, of the same political persuasion. One of them is a prominent anti-vaxxer and they all support the “No” vote. Should be a very self-endorsing evening!
The IDF are going into Gaza again – but this time they have a new trick
Not just mowing the grass but killing it
Following the terrible events of the weekend, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have placed the Gaza Strip under siege.
Some 300,000 reservists are being mobilised. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that the IDF will “destroy” Hamas, the terrorist pseudo-government which rules the Strip and its two million inhabitants.
It seems clear that for the fourth time since Hamas took over Gaza back in 2007, the IDF will go into the Strip on the ground.
But this time, things are going to be different. The Israelis are going to attempt what they have never managed or even seriously tried: to actually eliminate Hamas, rather than “mowing the grass” as they have done before.
And this time, the IDF has a special technological edge which might let them actually achieve their goal – and incidentally, change the entire nature of land warfare at the same time.
The way things have played out during Israeli ground incursions against its cross-border terrorist opponents is now very familiar.
In order to avoid taking massive casualties, the IDF moves using a lot of armoured vehicles, including heavy Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) and armoured infantry carriers.
To deal with urban-combat menaces such as improvised bombs, booby-traps and mines, much use is made of the well-known D9 armoured bulldozer.
In theory, armoured vehicles can easily overrun lightly equipped enemies who don’t have heavy armour. Tank soldiers still like to pretend that the only true defence against enemy tanks is to have MBTs of one’s own.
In the real world, it turns out that there are many ways to defeat tanks and other armoured vehicles.
As the Russians have learned during their invasion of Ukraine, modern portable anti-tank missiles, which use shaped-charge warheads to defeat armour, are extremely hard for armoured forces to deal with.
Back in 2006, when the IDF were fighting Hezbollah rather than Hamas, even heavy MBTs were knocked out in significant numbers by portable guided missiles including the Russian Kornet and Metis-M. Even common-as-dirt, unguided RPGs can be a big problem close up, especially for vehicles less heavily armoured than MBTs, or if an MBT is hit from somewhere other than in front.
The threat of such weapons, especially in urban environments, tends to mean that the IDF will shoot first if it can – even if a tank or vehicle commander doesn’t know for sure if there’s an enemy there to shoot at, as opposed to a building with civilians in it.
The danger to ground troops also leads to very heavy use of artillery and airpower: sometimes they are all that gets used, as in 2021, and that tends to mean even more civilian deaths.
In order to deal with the booby-traps, tunnels, suicide bombers and land mines, the D9 armoured dozers cause huge amounts of destruction – so much so, indeed, that these pieces of militarised construction equipment sometimes seem to attract more criticism than the use of tanks and airpower.
Despite the amount of damage they dish out, the IDF can suffer heavy casualties when they go in on the ground: more than 500 Israeli soldiers were killed or wounded in six weeks during Operation Protective Edge in 2014 (aka “the 2014 Gaza War”), the last time they went into the Strip.
In previous IDF incursions, the civilian death toll has climbed, casualties have mounted, international opinion (especially in the all-important USA) has turned against Israel … and in due course the IDF has withdrawn, having mown the grass once again but leaving it to grow back.
But this time, not only are the Israelis much more angry than usual – justifiably – they have a new, potentially game-changing piece of kit. This is called an Active Protection System (APS).
An APS involves mounting flat-panel radar scanners on a vehicle – up to this point, typically an MBT.
The scanners can see all around. When they detect something fast-moving like a missile, they can tell if it will hit the vehicle or not. If it will, the APS instantly fires one or another kind of projectile at the inbound missile, blowing it up in midair.
Whether the missile will hit or not, the system can backtrack its flight and automatically train a weapon system – for instance, if the APS is mounted on a tank, the tank’s main gun – on the point from which the missile was fired. The gunner only needs to pull the trigger.
The effects of this are three-fold: first, many fewer armoured vehicles are knocked out and many fewer IDF troops are killed or wounded. Secondly, the IDF don’t feel the same pressing need to shoot, blow up or flatten anything that looks suspicious, as they are in much less danger. Fewer civilians are hit and there is less destruction. Thirdly, when someone makes a missile or RPG attack on IDF armour, he is much less likely to survive and do it again.
In 2014 for Protective Edge, the IDF had the Trophy APS, but only on their Merkava MBTs: other vehicles, the infantry carriers, D9 dozers etc, didn’t have such protection. It was noticeable that not a single tank was lost that time, with the Trophy knocking down previously deadly threats like the Kornet, Metis-M and RPG-29 “Vampir”: but the IDF were still badly bloodied, as not everyone can ride in a tank. At the time, Trophy was too heavy and power-hungry to be mounted on lighter vehicles.
But since then, the Israelis have been working hard on APS technology, and it has spread across the IDF. There are lighter versions of Trophy, and a new line of systems called Iron Fist. Various classes of armoured infantry vehicles have been equipped with APS, and so have the D9 dozers. This time, when the Israelis go into the Strip, most of them are likely to be riding in APS-equipped vehicles.
That should mean fewer IDF casualties, fewer civilians killed, and more dead Hamas terrorists. Perhaps, this time, the Israelis will not be compelled to pull out and leave the grass to grow again: though even with APS on every vehicle, a perpetual war of occupation in the Strip may eventually come to seem no more attractive than it did back in 2005, when the Israelis gave up running Gaza themselves.
Meanwhile out in the rest of the world, armies everywhere have taken note of the Israelis’ APS success. The British army, in the process of turning some of its aged and unreliable Challenger 2 MBTs into enormously heavy Challenger 3s, will add the Trophy system to them. The US has fitted Israeli APSs to some of its Abrams MBTs, and is also equipping other classes of vehicle.
Russia for its part has claimed to have APS since the 1970s, but like so much supposedly advanced Russian military technology, the “Drozd” and “Arena” systems have been ineffectual or simply not there. There has certainly been no sign of them delivering any useful protection for Russia’s armour in Ukraine.
But the Israelis can make a working APS, and the latest versions will not only swat down relatively slow-moving missiles, rockets, recoilless-rifle rounds and such like. Elbit, maker of the Iron Fist, says that its latest models can also defeat the hypervelocity penetrators fired from MBT main guns – so-called armour-piercing fin stabilised discarding sabot (APFSDS) rounds.
At this point, then, it’s possible to think a bit more creatively than just bolting APSs onto existing vehicles. If an APS can protect even against enemy tank cannon, we need to start wondering if it really makes sense to hang many tons of armour on fighting vehicles any more, and whether it’s worth having long, heavy, highly specialised smoothbore cannons firing APFSDS.
At the moment, tank soldiers are seeing APS technology as the saviour of their beloved heavy armour, finally nullifying the threat of irritating lightly-equipped enemies with portable missiles and rockets.
But in a future world where pretty much any military vehicle would have APS – and thus, would only need light armour plating able to stop bullets, while remaining safe from APFSDS tank penetrators – the need for tanks and other heavy metal might be difficult to see.
No: 55%
Yes: 45%
For me what happens after the no just scrapes over is the worry. Hint: The palli protests
Wargaming tonight, but will post periodic updates of Cat predictions.
At present, Alwaysright is the only one predicting a Yes victory. 94% of Cats surveyed are predicting a No win.
These mighty warriors of Allah murdered a 69 year old man, wheelchair bound, and threw his body overboard…
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Oct 13, 2023 12:55 PM
Acting Commissioner Dave Hudson said the force had rarely used powers, and wanted to save them for dirty diseased nannas, and wanted to prevent a repeat of violent scenes from Monday night, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Cohenite, what’s your state prediction?
Shut up you Nancy boy.
No 63.5%
Yes – 36.5%
All states – no
2403 were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbour.
Something to consider when thinking about responding to attacks made without declarations of war.
Having toured the northern top of Australia and west from Brisbane to Broome I became so totally fed up with all the blatant kowtowing to all things indigenous. It is long overdue for some accountability for all the money already spent with no improvement in indigenous lives.
Most of the money and lives are controlled by the hierarchy and the there appears to be no answer as to how to overcome the problem. Knowing teachers, medical staff and office workers in some of the remote areas brought me to the unpleasant conclusion that until the indigenous people themselves start to address the problems nothing will change.
This is where Jacinta Price has been so courageous and I hope she is given the opportunity to start addressing the problems. She is one very brave lady.
Bonza….
IDF elite force retakes military post overrun by Hamas, rescuing 250 hostages, killing 60 terrorists and capturing top Palestinian leader
Daily Mail
The snacks quip was a throwback to long ago on SincCat, election nights, when it just seemed like a big, happy party.
Gab, Tracy, Kae, Megan, Lizzie and other kittehs used to have fun. Good times. If I have left someone out, sorry.
Like Q&A, the days have turned dour and humourless. The spectre of Mao suits perhaps.
University of Washington and Georgetown students spark outrage with events ‘honoring’ the ‘MARTYRS’ of Palestine who slaughtered 1,300 in Israel – leaving distraught Jewish student sobbing
I’m not making a prediction, although I did for 2020. My prediction was that it would be the dirtiest election we’ve ever seen.
I was right.
The current marxist agitprop cans being kicked- trans sexuals, destruction of Israel, BLM, “Indigenous rights’ are all strings on the same bow. Nothing Australian about it- all destructive poison imported from the northern hemisphere.
“And a podium for the mini-rant.
Apologies.”
That ain’t rant, calli!
Astonishing moment IDF elite force retakes military post overrun by Hamas, rescuing 250 hostages, killing 60 Hamas fighters and capturing top terror leader
““His continued position is untenable.””
The ABC’s existence is untenable.
Mark Levin’s take
Hamas makes it clear that Israel isn’t the only target; it’s just the first target
The ABC’s existence is untenable.
no need for it now either- your 4G/5G phone will give you access to all the news (real or fake) you could ever want and just about anywhere. It’s not 1932 anymore.
Well done, the I.D.F!
Sitting on the fence so carefully he has palings up his ar*e.
Chris Minns ‘concerned’ about pro-Palestine rally in Sydney’s Hyde Park as he backs in NSW Police’s use of ‘extraordinary powers’ (13 Oct)
Somehow I don’t believe those last several words. Maybe I’m being cynical.
Israel warns 1.1 million Palestinians to evacuate northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours
Phatty Adams was born in 1939. He is not a Boomer.
Israeli billionaire and his wife QUIT board of Harvard’s famed Kennedy School of business after slamming college’s woke president Claudine Gay’s ‘shocking and insensitive’ response to Hamas massacre
Ithought that they simply pushed him overboard in his wheelchair, and left him to drown?
Great news.
Cruise liners are safe, with no indication of otherwise.
Right up until they aren’t.
I’m not saying don’t go cruising, however I’d feel more relaxed on an Alaskan or North Sea cruise than on the eastern Mediterranean.
Never say never.
On the 9th of September 2001 there was no indication anybody shouldn’t get up & go to work in an office building.
When the 2013 winner of the Boston marathon crossed the finish line, there was no indication the rest of the field should do anything but plod on to the finish.
On the morning of the 12th of October 2002 there was no indication anybody in Indonesia shouldn’t go to the pub that night.
On the morning of the 13th of November 2015 there was no indication people in Paris shouldn’t go to the theatre that night.
On the morning of the 22nd of May 2017 there was no indication fans shouldn’t attend a pop concert in Manchester.
22nd of April 1995 there was no indication office workers shouldn’t go in to work.
Lode at 4:27
Agreed.
Several reasons.
Australia has a national register where there are changes of address, for example, the old electorate registration is cleared as the new one is created. Deaths and new registrations a fairly well controlled.
In the US, registries are state based and old invalid registrations and deaths are not routinely purged.
And, with compulsory voting, the turnout in Australia is in the mid 90’s. In the US it could be in the 70’s.
Is tampering possible in Australia?
Of course.
Could it be done on an industrial scale to swing 7-8% of the vote?
I doubt it.
One thing these people have in common is they like to brag about it, as they did registering in Indi to elect Kathy McGowan.
‘It’s INDEFENSIBLE!’ | BBC slammed by Jacob Rees-Mogg as broadcaster defends stance on Hamas
Cruise expert enters the blog.
Sal, in other words…live your life as if today will be your last. Be ause you never, ever know.
Sure, you can wrap yourself in cotton wool, and feel safe. But you are not. Never.
We live in a dangerous world, just through happenstance. Made more dangerous by lunatics.
You know, getting out of bed in the morning is safe, until it isn’t. Downing a coffee is considered safe, until it isn’t. Walking to the car is generally risk free… until it isn’t. My God, driving a car – safe until it isn’t. There’s a world filled with risk out there. How we manage to survive is just incredible,
Pavlov’s derg feels safe. Good boy.
I say this as an almost observable fact. The Cat gals in the whole display more guts and mettle than a large number of big Marys here. Incredible.
Pinched from another place… If it’s true Mel Gibson is truely a god among men…
On the set of Braveheart
One of my friends shouted out to him one day, what do you wear under your kilt Mel? Mel in lightning speed shouts back. Your wife’s lipstick.
Sancho – the Oz voting system is still not that safe and I’m just waiting for the following to happen:
-Each metro electorate has at least four to five, if not more, Federal polling stations.
-Anyone can walk into each voting place separately and vote, severally.
-What’s worse, is you can find the name of your political arch nemesis and go vote in their name several times.
If you were ever pulled up that you already voted, you’d simply say “well it’s not true.” They can’t ping you there and, tbh, they can’t ping you afterwards either.
Now, magnify that by a couple of hundred organised people who could do it.
Would AEC call a revote? I note they recently said “multiple voting is never big enough to impact an election” yet they forgot to mention that some Federal electorates have been called by 10 votes. That’s one person, voting 10 times.
Big night this evening especially those who have superannuation. The Aussie Dollar sitting at the lows. US bond market taking a rest even though forward looking nominal GDP prediction is around 8.5% when 5% NGDP is considered non-problematic. Nominal GDP = Deflator ( alternate measure of inflation) + real GDP.
Some big US banks report this evening, which should be interesting, making it the start of quarter 3 reporting season.
Being aggressive handing out HTV cards. My motto: You may not win over many voters but you certainly lose a lot. Keep your manners in.
…and really FFS if the voters havent already worked out what to vote then we were screwed from the start.
Looking fwd to kicking Albos referendum to the kerb tomorrow.
Noice. Spike Milligoon’s The Great McGonagall repeatedly made the joke:
“Is anything worn under the kilt, mate?’
“Nay laddie, it’s all in purrrrfect wurrrrkin’ order!”
And another thing…
There’s a bit of argy bargy around the interwebs about Trump’s reaction to the attacks. For a start – they’ll always be framed in the worst possible light. He said Hamas were “smart”. Fair comment – they caught Israel at unawares, a lesson that the USA might like to re-learn.
Nothing like the little boy saying the emperor is somewhat unclothed to get the mouth breathers going.
And the handwringers say that Bibi is “hurt” by his words. Bibi?
If anything, he’s angry. Angry at the evil perpetrated in his country. He knows who his allies are.
Always, always never underestimate your enemy. As usual, Trump is correct.
My acknowledgement & appreciation is extended to those who have committed their time or other resources to the NO! campaign.
I’m looking forward to the reaction from Linda Burney, Marcia Langton and Noel Pearson, if the referendum is kicked to the kerb, in a landslide.
U.S. Dollar ‘Collapse’—Shock $8 Trillion Predicted Fed Inflation Flip To Spark A ‘Critical’ Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP And Crypto Price Boom To Rival Gold
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/10/10/us-dollar-collapse-shock-8-trillion-predicted-fed-inflation-flip-to-spark-a-critical-bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-and-crypto-price-boom-to-rival-gold/
Thank God I bought Shiba Inu Coin 😉 🙂 j/k
Laughing out loud at the ABC’s Laura Tingle’s comical lack of self-awareness. I hope you can view the clip Rita Panahi just played on her Sky News show.
These lefty activists pretending to be journalists are a hilarious satire of themselves. And they all think ordinary people are too stupid to see it.
I prefer at least 3 elements of the US Constitution (notwithstanding these have been progressively eroded by their Federal Govt this last 200 years)
1) First amendment: free speech
2) Second amendment: right to bear arms
3) the provision that ALL Federal Govt Roles NOT specifically enumerated in the constitution are PROHIBITED to the Feds and exclusively the province of the states.
Quite so Calli, though it may be an idea not to take the “it’s my last day” too far & exercise some prudence re maxing out the credit cards. 😉
Put me down for;
61% no vote (38% or thereabouts for Yes)
6/0 state vote, i.e. all states vote No.
Bibi’s been around. I think he’s a grown man now.
Saving Sergeant Netanyahu (2012)
On the daily mail website is the following report:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12625721/Voice-architect-Noel-Pearson-sadly-concedes-Yes-vote-likely-fail-says-Australia-hard-country-white-people-constitution-belonging-them.html
This is an unbelievable use of language, even for Pearson.
I’m wondering if the data base now being used to confirm you are on the role can be used to mark you off as having voted.
That would put an end to multiple voting.
If people are impersonating others, introduce photo id requirements.
Booth Report
Large turnout all day.
Clouds of ‘Yes’ volunteers – that was frustrating.
We started copping loud, pompous and arrogant rejections about 4:30 pm. We decided that school was over for the day and it was the teachers.
Volunteers have spent significant amounts of their own money buying gear for tomorrow.
Being a rural area, there is a squillion booths tomorrow. We have insufficient volunteers to man them all. The Yesers will be in all these little places – local school teachers.
Victory Party starts at 7 pm.
What hubris from Pearson.
We truly should have voted YES to the Rights and Freedoms question in 1988.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Australian_referendum_(Rights_and_Freedoms)
I’m so glad Bibi is PM.
After contacting my ex-this morning, I wished him a “Shabbat Shalom”, to which he replied, “thank you but ‘shalom’ is a long way off”. He’s right.
As I write there are 300,000 IDF soldiers on the border. Pray for them.
If you want to know what the absolute immorality of the MSM, watch this from Fox “The Five” where they show an MSNBC interview with an Israeli mother whose children have been kidnapped and taken into Gaza..
Israeli mother of kidnapped children scolds MSNBC anchor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSK-Gj6-o0w
I think the Israeli mother handled herself very well with the cockroach interviewing her.
The Israeli mother is right, there is no moral equivalence, no moral symmetry.
Here’s the thing, Bibi is one tough Jew.
Duk, I did say, “one of”. They all have their merits and faults. So much is predicated on history.
Sal, always have an insurance policy. Underwritten by the incorruptible, and no fine print.
Any reconciliation is going to have to involve some degree of forgiveness, and all I see is are constant demands for more.
I’m scared to make predictions about the Voice.
My hunch is that it will go down.
I just don’t think people should get too cocky, remember May 2019.
My predict 44/56 with No for the win. Most people seem to be going high, so I’ll go slightly contrarian.
Alice Springs.
The Todd Mall this afternoon was festooned with Yessery. However:
Not one single blackfella was among the whitey, pasty activists. The apparently anticipated throngs of countrymen congratulating said useful idiots were nowhere to be seen. This was potentially due to the bottle shops opening at 3.00 p.m., and took in this display about an hour ago. I will guarantee that come sundown the activistas will have scarpered, as the normies know well to avoid those parts in the hours of darkness.
This both amused and pleased me.
Voting YES in 1988 to the Rights and Freedoms question would have constitutionally barred the hostile ACT Government takeover of Calvary Hospital.
*and I took in this display about an hour ago*
Still amusing.
Didn’t see Luigi. He must have had better things to do.
Top Ender
Oct 13, 2023 6:05 PM
Cohenite, what’s your state prediction?
Victoristan bare yes; all the rest No except perhaps tasmania which is owned by my ex.
Yes, Cassie. There’s a lot of “whatabouting” and despicable nitpicking around right now.
Cassie — Re. The interview with the mother. That interviewer is Andrea Mitchell who is married to Alan Greenspan
No one asks these interviewers why they don’t ask Palestinians to hand over the hostages Hamas took or turn in the terrorists.
Iron Dome just worked a treat.
Israel Gaza War – LIVE Updates & Breaking News Coverage
Duk you have No 3 wrong.Its Australia where the Federal powers are limited to whats in the Constitution.
If it’s not a specific federal power here it belongs to the states.Its the other way round in the US
Like Gilas, I am tired and yes, a little scared after our day at the booth.
But I forgot to endorse our extraordinary aboriginal Noer woman.
Every day, all day, she stands at the roundabout waving her No placards and loudly and graciously thanking all passing voters for attending.
We were all in awe of her. She appeared to be powered by Iced Vovos and something from a mysterious bottle.
Elect her.
You gotta love Jimmy Woods
Andrew Bolt admits he almost resigned over Voice proposal
Not strongly enough and strained to the point of questionable utility. The 1944 referendum would have ended this for good and the Voice seeks to do so in a roundabout manner with the implied nationhood power.
No, see Amendment X. This is the last Amendment from the US Bill of Rights.
Amendment X
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Given Andrew Inglis Clark write the pre Lucinda draft of the constitution and was an Americaphile, he very likely got the idea from the US. He’s the reason we have the Washminster system. Originally we were to have nine year Senate terms with three classes of Senator in each State. I have a copy of his original draft that was transcribed to a word doc ages ago.
Johnny Rotten:
My reply would be “Israel gives not even one fat rats clacker. This is a Hamas problem, not ours, and if the UN, who has allied itself to Hamas with financial, moral and material support, wants to, it can move the terrorist scum itself.”
Voted this arvo.
Pre-pollingoops, early voting booth has been closed since Monday.Nobody in sight, nobody from either Yes or No side, no paraphanalia either.
Just Six AEC staff. Doing nothing. They all stared at me unsmilingly.
I was the only voter in sight. Literally, for as far as the eye could see there was nobody along the street, either approaching or walking away after voting.
Was directed to “take a seat”, was asked my name, address, date of birth. Then handed a ballot paper, & pointed to a cardboard booth, at which I had to kneel, as they were all level with my groin, & thus way too low to bend & write on the ballot paper.
Almost voted “Yes”, as several weeks of “Write either Yes or No” on the ballot paper, reinforced by the same instruction from the booth worker, subliminally plants Yes in the mind.
Be interesting to see if the instruction “Write either No or Yes on your ballot paper” made much difference.
Slipped the folded ballot into the ballot box. Had several minutes of small talk with the booth workers, who all knew me & thus talked like they were old friends of mine.
I had absolutely no idea who any of them were, & if pressed on the matter would have said I’d never seen any of them before.
These are not the same out-of-towners who were wearing the “Voice Truth Treaty” shirts at the same booth on Monday.
After a while the conversation showed signs of lagging, so I bid them gooday & strolled off.
Still nobody else in sight.
You are damn right we see the Constitution as entirely belonging to all us Australians. And you are damned right that no amount of obsequiousness on your part will melt our hearts however, you will need to level with us about the details and then we will consider them.
What is horrendous about the above quote from Pearson is that he doesn’t seem to be able to imagine that Australians are actually quite smart, whether intellectually or instinctively we can tell when something is not right.
Keep in mind our Federal constitution also prohibits the States from raising forces, imposing excise, coining money etc. Commonwealth law overrides State laws in terms of (valid) inconsistencies too.
Top Ender:
Yes/No 60-40
Yes states: Victoria, NSW
No states: Tas, WA, Qld, WA, SA
I think there will be cheating on a massive scale, but not enough to get the decaying and rancid Albotross over the line.
FFS:
Yes/No 40-60
Yes states: Victoria, NSW
No states: Tas, WA, Qld, WA, SA
I think there will be cheating on a massive scale, but not enough to get the decaying and rancid Albotross over the line.
TE, here’s my predictions from the Villa Megan crystal ball.
NO: 64%
YES: 32%
OTHER*: 4%
VIC will narrowly vote Yes, every other state NO.
*Drunks, blank voting slips, rude drawings and can’t be arsed.
PS. I’m am not, and never have been a gambler, so I don’t have a clue what it means when the betting agencies are offering odds of 1.08 for the BIG NO and 6.50 for the little yes. But, using what little remains of my 3 attempts to pass Stats1, wouldn’t that mean something like a 90/10 result?
Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. After the terrorist attack in Israel the Muslim Brotherhood leaders must be banned in America as they were banned in France. The Muslim Brotherhood’s leaders ban from France and its designation as a dangerous organization casts a dark shadow on the Obama Administration
Can’t help myself…
Thanks cuckoo over at C.L.s.
😀
I haven’t seen anything other then an air of smouldering resentment from the indigenous in this part of the world.
I worry about that too. Hopefully Australian fascists aren’t as competent as their US counterparts.
If only we didn’t buy imports at below cost and had a ship building sector..
Sure, a good part is to do with land prices, but that also applies to other countries too.
J.C:
Oct 13, 2023 3:46 PM
What I wrote:
Are you completely incapable of reading and understanding the written word, without filtering it through your unreality pince-nez, you effete fop?
Hokey…doing this from Papakura Un Zud…talking heads and a few news paper articles here are concerned that the ‘indiginees’ won’t get ‘their voice.’ Other than that they are going full retard on their own election for tomorrow. The thinking is that the Nats with Winton Peters will scrape in.
Top Ender, I’ll take:
No : 57 %
Yes : 43 %
All states : No
Our Constitution is doomed if the High Court gets its hands on the Voice: James Allan
That’s something the please explain do really well, that echos back to the Australia I remember growing up. They take the piss out of everybody. It’s a fantastic way to find people like Pearson because they’re unable to laugh at themselves.
Despite the stereotype that’s been push of racist white aussies, in my life it’s always been people who don’t understand the classic aussie culture being offended and making themselves even more of a target for taking the piss. If they’d just thrown it back and had a laugh, the vast majority of the time they’d have been accepted just fine. Might be a working class type thing, might not, but miss that.
Funny the very dark indian Fijian I deal with feels the same. Had a cracking sunny day recently where we joked about him working on his tan, and how I was going full lobster instead.
No, I think I read it right, you big bawling girlyman.
What did I get wrong, Turts?
She needs a good punch to the head.
Despicable bitch!
‘I don’t see them as terrorists’: Pro-Palestinian activist reluctant to call out Hamas
I’m not making any prediction- I just hope anal’s putsch doesn’t succeed.
No, they will simply introduce it via legislative fiat, but the benefit will be that it can be similarly repealed later.
New role model.
Lazlo Cravensworth,
Everyone else can go f*ck off.
Tintarella di Luna outstanding today. Nails it comprehensively.
To combat the Hamas day of hate, I went to a long lunch (my first in about 2 months) then continued on to the Paddo RSL for the raffles (where I won nothing for my 50 bucks of tix).
Eat shit Dirka Dirka.
And I plan to watch Team America at some stage.
Who exactly does it belong to? Martians?
I know you didn’t read it right. You stoush-trolling hypocrite.
Tosser.
Severe constipation with a horrid dose of haemorrhoids.
Noel “the healer” Pearson will be spectacular tomorrow night.
I hope the Voice goes down like the Hindenburg, just for the soothing pleasure of hearing his gravelly tears of bitter disappointment at the “racist” manner Australia rebuffed his hand of friendship & forgiveness.
Allan is always worth reading/watching. The High Court in Love should ensure it is never allowed near aboriginal mumbo jumbo again.
‘…no amount of obsequiousness on our part, humility, love, seems to ever melt their hearts,’ Mr Pearson is reported to have said.
what dishonest, passive-aggressive, twee sludge
Fat rats clacker you say?
Lets face it people, when you look at this face it just screams humility and forgiveness..
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.api.news%2Fv3%2Fimages%2Fbin%2F777dc5966c8236c840168e2cc7eba810&tbnid=5CpQRq6FNycszM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fnation%2Fpolitics%2Fno-evidence-earlier-indigenous-councils-didnt-work-says-marcia-langton%2Fnews-story%2F1d27b11bc57e43f56487c6adc6694b99&docid=QaAU493EOImxDM&w=1280&h=720&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F2
Aha!
Finally converted to Butcher’s Paper Analysis!
I basically accepted a composite of polls giving a 59:41 national result, and then backfitted some sketchy state-by-state polling across actual enrolment numbers.
You are not getting higher than 60:40 without a significant contribution from Vic and NSW.
Oh, the huge money tree!
Even though, you start every single stoush, like this one? You fraud.
He’s a challenge to both you and the nancy boy. State what we get wrong?
I do hope Mr. Burgess from ASIO is alert to the threats to social cohesion that will undoubtedly emanate from the YES camp tomorrow should the referendum be lost.
Just seen pictures of the three arrested for making Nazi salutes outside the Jewish museum today. They’re very white, and look like garage Nazi morons. Yes, I’m glad they’ve been arrested. But the real Nazis were seen in Sydney on Monday night at Town Hall and then outside Sydney Opera House, provided with a personal escort by the NSW Police. I am yet to hear that any of those Nazis have been charged for screeching “kill the Jews” and “gas the Jews”.
Hmmm Hamas hiding military targets in hospitals and launching rockets from schools, I believe that constitutes perfidy a war crime any way you look at it. Also their troops not wearing any recognised uniform or insignia fails the recognised combatant test. I suspect there will be very little prisoners from this conflict,
Duncan Lewis wasn’t much better iirc. Just canbra mediocrities with BAs
rosie
I think you need to be reminded.
Cassie, I wouldn’t go just on looks. Strange allies exist, all with one purpose.
I’d be astonished if they were swarthy types, more the charming northern d*ckhead.
Nice try, chumsters.
HTVs have some value in a state or federal election, particularly for the Senate/Legislative Councils, where there are many candidates, often from strange parties.
They have no value in a YES/NO referendum.
Lewis was formerly a commander of the SAS.
Entering the public service post-army seemed to neuter him.
Media (MSM) reports some 1500 Palis killed so far. But, does that include the Hamas terrorists? Not that I particularly care, but was wondering whether the MSM was being disingenuous with their Pali toll numbers.
(Israeli numbers are ~1400 and seem to be still climbing as the IDF clears house-to-house).
Noted, Bear.
JohnJJJ
Oct 13, 2023 4:35 PM
Last time I was on a cruise ship, 47 years ago, that’s what struck me.
I read somewhere that an order has gone out to IDF not to take any prisoners.
steveinman:
No Country For Young Men.
And yet, the US has a Federal Department of Education and one of Health and Human Services.
And also a Department of Agriculture.
No.
It’s just ridiculous scaremongering.
Someone sitting in rural Queensland predicting that a particular cruise ship is at risk using, what, a crystal ball?
James Wood is right, on international day of jihad, just go about your business.
I’d say the vast majority of gaza numbers are dead terrorists.
Winston, oi! Behave! Rosie is a fine lady.
As I’ve posted before, I’m waiting for the first complaints that the I.D.F. isn’t too interested in accepting surrenders, or taking prisoners.
Fair Shake:
Oct 13, 2023 4:41 PM
Me too. Not sure if any one else will be there, so I’m going prepared to be on an all day posting. May end up scrutineering as well.
No worries. Good practise for the next election.
A fair improvement on Krudd’s “back of a beer coaster” costing exercise.
In other news:
Tenn. cops find stolen, loaded gun in suspect’s vagina Search turned up a loaded North American Arms 22-caliber mini revolver inside the woman
She’s a looker.
When we voted, we were marked off on a laptop. It wasn’t clear if the computer had a full Electoral Roll (or was on a link to one), or only had the Roll for the relevant Electorate. Either way, double voting would seem a bit chancy.
rosie
Is mea gulper a beer brand?
I’ve spoken to girlfriends (all Jewish) over the last six days and we’ve all been unanimous about how we’d rather be dead than be a Jewish female hostage in Gaza.
Tonight I watched the clip of the Israeli father who was happy to learn that his daughter’s body had been found, dead, having been mowed down in a field in southern Israel, murdered by the cockroaches who glided into the rave festival, but he was far happier to learn that this was how his daughter had died, rather than living in the knowledge that she’d been forcibly taken by the vermin* into Gaza to be held hostage, tortured, raped, and have her throat cut
That is a story of Jewish history, and of Jewish suffering. It never ends.
* I shouldn’t call them vermin, that’s insulting to vermin, they have much more morality than the scum of Gaza.
I haven’t had a chance to comment on the US Speaker of the House election debacle. What did Steve Scalise think? That he would just be elected without promising certain things to the Freedom Caucus? Establishment Republicans will have to come to terms with the fact that the world has changed and moved on without them. They better start representing their voters or go back to private life.
There are similarities between the Speaker battles in the US and our own referendum. The elites are bumping up against the people and not yet realising that clever moves no longer work.
I’d doubt that.
Israel, unlike Hamas, is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions.
And prisoners can prove valuable, even if Israel has vowed not to negotiate at present.
Hoping Noel feels the same way tomorrow as Turnbull did in 1999.
https://youtu.be/0lg_laNhf_M?si=-XCKgL-4D_rVwGbs
Boambee John
Oct 13, 2023 8:34 PM
That was my first thought, too.
I take the senate cards because of the number of candidates but what use are the cards in a yes/no election.
Waste of time for the volunteers in my opinion.
In trying to understand the motivations of some of their recent actions it occurs to me that the reason Hamas is trying so hard to cause suffering and casualties among the Gazan civilians (and maybe even why Egypt has cooperated in trapping them in the kill zone) is that they know they are going to lose the physical war, but are going for a ‘bigger picture’ victory in the PR one.
Inflicting involuntary martyrdom on their own people, on a massive scale, on camera, for the good of their ’cause’.
That’s also why the actual leaders of Hamas have been living it up in Qatar for at least the last week. They avoid the whole getting killed thing and just happen to be with a km or two of Al Jazeera communications network headquarters, not to mention some of their biggest donors and supporters.
1) Gaza is 41km long …. to move from the furthest point to cross the midpoint is therefore less than 21km. If you cant do this in 24h, to escape annihilation from the sky, you aren’t trying.
2) The early warning to move is exactly to avoid ‘devastating humanitarian consequences’ – every Gazan must know by now that *NONE* of the buildings (and their possessions) are going to survive this intact – that was a given from the moment the attacks kicked off.
Do you have a more recent photo?
That one was taken Nine years ago, at the time of the.. er… discovery of the holstered revolver.
UK comedian Andrew Lawrence has just uploaded this….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDZJmWzsDvE
Calli:
That kind of emotional blackmail works reasonably well among the tribes. But not in Rural Australia – we’ve seen too much of it.
Reading their ABC, it seems that they think terrorists are actually nice guys that are just misunderstood.
“…every Gazan must know by now that *NONE* of the buildings (and their possessions) are going to survive this intact – that was a given from the moment the attacks kicked off.”
Hence the lines of displaced Gazans evacuating to wherever they could reported in the press.
Hamas are now putting puppies on the pics of dead babies and saying Israel did the opposite.
Public Service Announcement and Official Health Warning!
Do not click on cohenite’s links to “women”.
That is all.
Duncan Lewis was a former Major General, albeit he is a BA.
Israeli intelligence would be looking for prisoners to interrogate.
rosie
Oct 13, 2023 8:40 PM
I’d say the vast majority of gaza numbers are dead terrorists.
I suspect that’s correct Rosie. Because the info came from the MSM, I am instantly dubious especially as some of them still seem to have difficulty even referring to Hamas as terrorists.
I always thought the Americans had the right idea after 9/11. The official death toll did not include the terrorists on the aircraft.
I’ll spare you the old joke about Dad, Dave, Mabel, the bushranger, the roll of banknotes and the bag of flour….
Do you have a more recent photo?
No but here is a cute owl.
Wise generals do not issue such specific orders. They allow the idea to disseminate organically.
Cronkers
Presumably penis is still attached.
Dottie I miss Frank Walker of National Tiles.
Ek roll ap die vloor en lag my gat auf……
Leander at 6:49.
Assuming the AEC don’t fudge their stats, any double voting should be reported.
Let’s say No win two states by a small but clear margin, and Yes win three states by a similar small but decisive margin.
The sixth state and national vote are won by Yes by 20,000 votes but there are 40,000 duplicated voting records in that sixth state.
That is enough for a Court of Disputed Returns challenge.
Leander = Lysander.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Oct 13, 2023 9:07 PM
Sadly, I can only give one uptick. That was funny and completely deserved.
The people have spoken, Mr Dover.
OldOzzie
It sounds good, but I’d be happier going in after a four hour bombardment of napalm and Fuel Air Explosives.
They tried. At least one US state (Arizona IIRC) tried to include them in their memorial which had a tree for each victim. Someone did a count and put the kibosh on an insane idea.,
The designer of the memorial to Flight 93 victims tried to include a crescent moon of trees in the memorial. Again noticed, and stopped.
Or maybe it was the other way around, memory fades.
ZK2A:
It may have been only a unique circumstance, but I noticed the SEAL equivalent stripped off one of the prisoners they captured.
Our soldiers did that in PNG with any Japanese prisoners, more to humiliate them and break their spirit than to make sure they had no weapons on them.
Say, has Putin unequivocally condemned Hamas yet?
Attack at a high school in Arras, France. One teacher stabbed to death, two other teachers sliced up but still alive.
The attacker was shouting the magic words as he killed the teacher.
Perp now in custody of Frog Plod.
Err, well, if not the Australian voter, who does the Constitution belong to, Noel.
Oh, FFS, now he thinks he’s Jesus.
No, no! He’s Brother Lee Love!
He’s taking the whole MLK Jr thing just a bit too far.
Do the French still use the guillotine?
This suggests a profound ignorance of the state of being that is humility.
Based on my own recent and substantially-less-than-enjoyable experience, humility is a state of being rarely chosen, but rather forced upon us. The truly humble-by-choice never seek attention or acknowledgement, let alone make demands of others.
Bitterness and resentment – which is the febrile state in which I currently reside – is far from humility.
Let’s not get started on ‘obsequiousness.’
Sabres well and truly rattling. Charles Miranda in the Hun:
All very good but who else is on board?
I see. Importing more dregs to infest Lakemba. United Nations are however onto the job
There are more parts to this article under bold headings so I will reproduce them here.
Hopefully the blade is greased with bacon fat.
Cassie link at 8:53
A must watch.
Another organisation chips in
World Health Organisation. FMD
JC, what’s your state prediction?
The IDF is reported to have a 150% report rate among their reservists. People whose service obligations are over are coming back with whatever kit they still have. They are flying back from all over the world even if not ordered to return. Wow.
Also, the IDF bombed the runways in Allepo and Damascus to keep Iranian cargo flights of special munitions from from landing. The flights turned back to Iran.
Both are very impressive.