Open Thread – Wed 25 Oct 2023


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Dot
Dot
October 26, 2023 9:02 pm

Mr Lehrmann allegedly had consensual sex with the woman that night but failed to wear a condom when they had sex twice the next morning. Failing to wear a condom without a partner’s permission is considered sexual assault under Queensland law.

She didn’t notice the first time in the morning or gave him a mulligan?

Bizarre.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 26, 2023 9:07 pm

How much does a degree at NYU cost?

Max Mannis
@MaxMannis
At the NYU walkout in Washington Square Park.

Disgusting is an understatement.

https://x.com/MaxMannis/status/1717226008527384815?s=20

Mark Bolton
October 26, 2023 9:08 pm

Failing to comply with the expressed terms of Consent to Sex IS an assault …

At Law or not …

Gabor
Gabor
October 26, 2023 9:10 pm

Old School Conservative
Oct 26, 2023 8:48 PM

Mr Lehrmann allegedly had consensual sex with the woman that night but failed to wear a condom when they had sex twice the next morning. Failing to wear a condom without a partner’s permission is considered sexual assault under Queensland law. The Oz.

So what the alleged victim is saying is that they had sex 3 times overnight and in the morning – then 6 weeks later she googled the Higgins scandal, recognised Lehmann, and reported the two morning sex acts as rape (not wearing a condom).

I’m reading these posts but not believing.
What kind of weird society did we become?

Mark Bolton
October 26, 2023 9:10 pm

Any way I have a swag of great movies to watch ..

Leave you with this Chappies.

MatrixTransform
October 26, 2023 9:13 pm

well, now we know why chaperones were a ‘thing’

Razey
Razey
October 26, 2023 9:13 pm

At the end of the day, Hamas is an idea. An idea with wide support in the Palestinian community, Labor/Greens and their woke supporters. This is why it is so dangerous for the world. What Hamas did to those Jews is beyond comprehension and shows how evil this idea is. The atrocity has exposed the Hamas supporters, it is now known who they are and they can no longer hide in the shadows. In this light, the deaths of the Oct 7 Jews will not be in vain.

Cassie of Sydney
October 26, 2023 9:14 pm

“Disgusting is an understatement.”

Imagine that, a world ‘cleansed of Jews’. The Jew hatred is completely brazen, completely out in the open for all to see. These people, and their apologists, are Nazis.

duncanm
duncanm
October 26, 2023 9:14 pm

Steve trickler
Oct 26, 2023 5:21 PM
Brilliant!

FSO – Man of Steel – “Suite” (Hans Zimmer)

another corker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYo_L4pTKhU

Razey
Razey
October 26, 2023 9:17 pm

These people, and their apologists, are Nazis.

They are one step beyond Nazis. The Nazis tried to hide their crimes.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 26, 2023 9:17 pm

well, now we know why chaperones were a ‘thing’

“I like to watch.”
“Here’s the GoPro”

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 26, 2023 9:18 pm

International Rugby requires many specialist roles – including a King’s Counsel.

England have used one as they claim Springboks hooker Bongi Mbonambi said “white c—” to England flanker Tom Curry in last week’s RWC semi final.
World Rugby dismissed the claim because insufficient evidence had been found to proceed in the matter..
It is reported that Mbonambi was staunchly defended by South African fans on social media, who claim that he was using variations of Afrikaans in a strategic form – “wit kant”or “wyd kant”, meaning “white side” or “wide side”.

Or, as Sir Henry Newbolt wrote:
And it’s not for the sake of a ribboned coat,
Or the selfish hope of a season’s fame,
But his Captain’s hand on his shoulder smote
“Play up! play up! and play the game!”

C.L.
C.L.
October 26, 2023 9:19 pm

said bint is claiming rape because Lehrmann didn’t wear a condom when she asked him to

Gee, another coincidence. Two weeks ago, D’Ath introduced another bill:

Removing a condom during sex without consent will be considered rape and attract a maximum penalty of life in prison under sweeping laws introduced to Queensland parliament on Wednesday.

The new laws, aimed at criminalising the tampering with or removal of a condom without consent – commonly referred to as stealthing – will be introduced into parliament as part of an affirmative consent model.

MatrixTransform
October 26, 2023 9:19 pm

Here’s the GoPro

you need a lawyer these days just to get a root

Razey
Razey
October 26, 2023 9:19 pm

Imagine the cheers from the Left if Hamas set up gas chambers and a crematorium and began slaughtering the Jews. It is no small thing to say that we are living in dangerous times.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 26, 2023 9:23 pm

Wowee talk about dry. They have talked about a strong el nino which is what NQ is experiencing but that cyclone off Vanuatu was a curve ball and I think that volcano blast last year off Tonga will throw some more curve balls at us.

So far 15mm in 3 months. Normal average is 50mm and there is zip, zilch, zero build up now. Shame because a couple of months back we had a flurry of 2 weeks where there was a distinct change to humid days and the ranges were having storms/convective showers building up on them.

28 day forecast for most Queensland northern coast towns are bone dry.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 26, 2023 9:27 pm

Old School Conservative
Oct 26, 2023 9:18 PM

Strike me pink. Another Harbijan Singh moment for the powers that be…

C.L.
C.L.
October 26, 2023 9:27 pm

Queensland to make stealthing illegal under new affirmative consent laws.

Behind all of this is Margaret McMurdo. She and her husband were behind the coup that removed Chief Justice Carmody because he wasn’t a Labor lawyer.

And Cassie is right to be sceptical of weasel Crisafulli.

He backs the feminist assault on the rule of law, he backed treaties (until the referendum baseball bat clued him up) and he has said he will not amend Chook’s VAD laws – which force conscientious objector medicos to refer people on to be killed elsewhere and empower VAD killers to kill in private hospitals – whether their administrators like it or not.

Last year, Paul Murray asked him if he would be a good boy and leave that icky social stuff alone and this was his waffle-laden answer:

https://youtu.be/48xWGH4ig8A?t=194

Muddy
Muddy
October 26, 2023 9:28 pm

Genuine question.
I’ve just finished watching a Time Team episode on YouTube, about an Anglo Saxon burial location in Stafforshire.

Has there ever been any evidence found of ‘cemeteries’ of pre-contact Aboriginal Australians?

Obviously our land mass is huge, but would it not be expected to find multiple skeletons within the same immediate locality in some of the eastern seaboard areas that were considered to have been more resource rich and thus capable of bearing a greater population?

If burial rituals and norms are seen in a European context as representative of a structured, organised society and culture, what does the apparent absence of such suggest here?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2023 9:32 pm

said bint is claiming rape because Lehrmann didn’t wear a condom when she asked him to

Working on the assumption that this is in fact the allegation, bearing in mind the dubious reputation of the MSM:

IF there is no forensic evidence; and
IF there are no witnesses to any conversation relation to putting the tarp on; then

It should be a walk-up direction to acquit, using the standard of ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ as the benchmark.

Should.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2023 9:34 pm

The Lankans have the colonialist bastards (not us, the Poms) 6/122, halfway through their innings.

Kippers will be flying everywhere in the dressing rooms.

Dot
Dot
October 26, 2023 9:34 pm

What man wants to “stealth” a chick babe anyway?

An unwanted child is worse financially than divorce.

If you really want a kid, she is free to get it aborted.

It doesn’t make any sense.

I fell like stealthing is an urban myth cooked up by the femme bots. Much like the “rape kulcha” on university campuses, it never existed.

Dot
Dot
October 26, 2023 9:35 pm

chicky babe

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2023 9:36 pm

Has there ever been any evidence found of ‘cemeteries’ of pre-contact Aboriginal Australians?

Of course there has.

Right there, next to the buried space stations.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 26, 2023 9:37 pm

Imagine the cheers from the Left if Hamas set up gas chambers and a crematorium and began slaughtering the Jews. It is no small thing to say that we are living in dangerous times.

Things are clarifying. For those with any innate moral sense, it’s very, very clear who the bad guys are.

After what Hamas did, anyone defending them is a moral imbecile. At best.

The bad guys need to come to a very unpleasant end. We can’t temporise on this. I don’t like having to envisage killing people, but there is no alternative left. It’s them or us.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
October 26, 2023 9:39 pm

Just waded through Shane Dowling Kangaroo Court as I know he was all hot under the collar about Lehman and came across his musings on Lehmann before it was known who the Toowoomba man was. Nothing yet.

However in the same article apparently a 52yo ch 7 celeb was fighting at the same time to keep her name under wraps. That one seems even more sordid. Multiple counts of rape, sexual assault, indecent treatment of a child under 16, assault, occasioning bodily harm while armed. I await with baited breath on that being at the top of the media broadcast. Na I reckon the media will bury it because its one of their own.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2023 9:40 pm

I fell like stealthing is an urban myth cooked up by the femme bots

Ladeeees can tell if the tarp’s on or not.

Anecdotally – they don’t like them either, and for the same reasons blokes rather wouldn’t.

This is why there’s a myriad of other contraceptive methods out there.

Muddy
Muddy
October 26, 2023 9:45 pm

Right there, next to the buried space stations.

It’s a mystery why they built the space stations but didn’t launch them. (Of course, I’m assuming they weren’t launched, as they were found in pristine condition).

Dot
Dot
October 26, 2023 9:45 pm

Ladeeees can tell if the tarp’s on or not.

Yes. So how did it happen twice?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 26, 2023 9:52 pm

I’m sorry but after hearing it blared on NewsRadio a dozen time it’s LIBERAL PARTY STAFFER bruce learman

C.L.
C.L.
October 26, 2023 9:54 pm

I fell like stealthing is an urban myth cooked up by the femme bots. Much like the “rape kulcha” on university campuses, it never existed.

Remember the ‘drink spiking’ panic?

Total bullshit.

Drink spiking is largely a myth and far more likely to be an excuse young women use after they become heavily intoxicated, according to WA research.

A Perth study of suspected drink spiking victims found claims of being given sedatives or illicit drugs without consent are exaggerated and that alcohol is often the real culprit.

The results, published in the journal of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, are based on 100 patients who attended Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Joondalup Health Campus over 19 months with suspected drink spiking from the previous 12 hours.

Almost nine out of 10 cases were women and almost 60 per cent of those were under the age of 25.

QEII Medical Centre clinical toxicologist Mark Little said the findings did not support the public perception of sedatives being placed by men into the drinks of women for the purpose of sexual assault or robbing them.

“Drink spiking with sedative or illicit drugs appears to be rare and if it does occur alcohol appears to be the most common agent used,” he said.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 26, 2023 9:59 pm

Drink spiking is largely a myth and far more likely to be an excuse young women use after they become heavily intoxicated, according to WA research.

Western Australian police were fairly unsympathetic – “Some young women do really need to learn how much alcohol they can handle.”

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 26, 2023 10:02 pm

However in the same article apparently a 52yo ch 7 celeb was fighting at the same time to keep her name under wraps.

It was a couple who were on one of the million reality TV shows.
They’ve been outed on various social media.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 26, 2023 10:03 pm

Have there been any theories regarding the school teacher murder in Sydney ?

Entropy
Entropy
October 26, 2023 10:10 pm

Has there ever been any evidence found of ‘cemeteries’ of pre-contact Aboriginal Australians?

have you never heard of Mt Moffat? I don’t think you can go there now, but amazing. Sort of open air catacombs.

Mark Bolton
October 26, 2023 10:13 pm

Well wasnt … Our Julian Assange a “stealther” ? .. along with bringing to light American War Crimes. The Former crimes are far more nefarious than the latter. Oh the Cad and Bounder !!!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2023 10:22 pm

Poms rolled for 156.

As one of the fake bastard colonialists would say….

BRILLO.

Mark Bolton
October 26, 2023 10:24 pm

@Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

..both things can be true at once…

There is a Mickey Fin Fan club ..but there is also a contingent of very drunk , inexperienced, young ladies that stagger off and bow out and find a safe place to sleep. Alone . And should be safe.

And get raped ..utterly oblivious.

Beyond reprehensible.

Digger
Digger
October 26, 2023 10:25 pm

Wowee talk about dry. They have talked about a strong el nino which is what NQ is experiencing but that cyclone off Vanuatu was a curve ball and I think that volcano blast last year off Tonga will throw some more curve balls at us.

In August/ September I drove 14,800 ks over a 6 week period from Geelong to the Sunshine Coast, zig zagged across southern & western Qld, into the NT then up the Tanami Track to Broome, a couple of hundred ks north before going south to Perth and beyond then back across the Nullarbor to Geelong without a drop of rain….

Mark Bolton
October 26, 2023 10:27 pm

@Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

A passing stranger .. who will remain thus..

JC
JC
October 26, 2023 10:28 pm

So you had great weather .

JC
JC
October 26, 2023 10:33 pm

Drink spiking is largely a myth

It happened to my kid in NYC. She had one drink, felt like crap, took a cab home and luckily the cabbie kindly helped her to her apartment building and left her with the doorman . Didn’t even want the fare.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 26, 2023 10:39 pm

Officials sound alarm as thousands of Australians ignore advice to leave Lebanon
Natassia Chrysanthos
By Natassia Chrysanthos
October 26, 2023 — 3.28pm

Thousands of Australians in Lebanon are ignoring the federal government’s advice to leave as regional tensions escalate, prompting fears their options for escape will close quickly if war breaks out between Hezbollah and Israel.

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials have expressed alarm that only 400 of the more than 15,000 Australians estimated to be in Lebanon, to Israel’s north, have registered with the government. They feared a repeat of evacuations during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, which they described as a “consular crisis … seared into the minds of DFAT officers”.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
October 26, 2023 10:39 pm

have you never heard of Mt Moffat? I don’t think you can go there now, but amazing. Sort of open air catacombs.

I recall the distress when Mt Moffat was bought by the National Parks.

cohenite
October 26, 2023 10:44 pm

Look at this fuking POS:

Teenager apologises to Adelaide court after pleading guilty to extremist offences

Judge Paul Muscat will decide whether the boy will be sentenced as an adult, and has previously raised concerns that the boy’s “sympathy towards ISIS has not diminished”.

Mr Slocombe also said the defendant told a psychologist that he fantasised about stabbing people and it was a “calming thought to him.”

The court heard that since the boy has been in prison, drawings have been discovered depicting the ISIS flag and masked ISIS fighters carrying weapons.

Judge Muscat previously told the court about multiple incidents that had occurred during the boy’s time in detention, including “concerning” comments made about next year’s Anzac Day services.

“There’s a comment made that if he were not in detention next year on Anzac Day, he would do something,” Judge Muscat had said.

The Beer Whisperer
The Beer Whisperer
October 26, 2023 10:44 pm

Imagine that, a world ‘cleansed of Jews’. The Jew hatred is completely brazen, completely out in the open for all to see. These people, and their apologists, are Nazis.

I’ve said it before, and i’ll say it again. I’ll say it a million times if necessary.

THEY DON’T HAVE PRINCIPLES, ONLY TACTICS.

Their opposition to Nazis is only because they were in the way. They don’t give a flying f*ck about jews, or even Nazis. As the great Thomas Wictor often said, as sociopaths, they only notice that real people are disgusted by Nazis, so they copy real people by pretending disgust at Nazis.

It’s pretend. Hating Nazis furthers their cause. Their ideological difference is all but zero. They’re after their own hearts, but they’re rivals, so must be hated and defeated.

Orwell had their measure. He understood that all their behaviour was in the interest of their ultimate goal – raw power. As sociopaths, they understand that once they achieve absolute power, they can finally dump the bothersome pretence, and let their victim finally know that they don’t give a shit about compassion, the poor, victims, everybody. Like democracy, it’s a train to get you to your destination.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2023 10:46 pm

there is also a contingent of very drunk , inexperienced, young ladies that stagger off and bow out and find a safe place to sleep. Alone . And should be safe.

Yes. Very noble.

There is also a contingent of very drunk, inexperienced young blokes that stagger off and bow out and should find a safe place to sleep. But they end up zedding out in laneways, car parks and nature strips.

There is an extremely large contingent of drunk, inexperienced ladies and blokes that have yet to learn the art of personal responsibility.

But it’s never, ever happened yet, regardless of generation.

What is actually beyond reprehensible is that a small cohort on both teams tend to use their own lack of personal responsibility as a crutch while claiming – on the part of the ladies – ‘my drink was spiked’ or on the part of the blokes – ‘I don’t remember getting in that punch on’.

And that lack of personal responsibility echoes through the rest of society.

Muddy
Muddy
October 26, 2023 10:46 pm

Thanks, Entropy.
I’m reading an article now, but it’s touristy…

… a burial site for aboriginal people, who placed their dead within tunnels in the sandstone. Unfortunately, the site has been desecrated – the bark burial cylinders all stolen from the site by the early 1900s.

If they had sophisticated burial customs, how is it that their cave artworks don’t present much more than hands, feet, and occasional human-like figures?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 26, 2023 10:49 pm

Malcolm Day’s shock door kiss policy as he fears ex Bree Maddox will let gay club The Court go ‘straight’
PerthNow
October 26, 2023 5:00PM
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Malcolm Day says he used to make straight men kiss at the door of The Court Hotel to prove they were “gay friendly” as he battled to keep the much-loved Beaufort Street club gay.

And the 64-year-old has pointed the finger at ex-wife Bree Maddox for allowing the club to become a largely straight venue.

He and Maddox paid $4.15 million for the Court in 2005 and spent about $3m on renovations. Day relinquished ownership to Maddox in 2016 in a $10m-plus divorce deal.

She moved to sell the venue last month to Australian Venue Co, owners of popular Perth bars such as The Leopold Hotel, Raffles Hotel, The Aviary and The Bassendean Hotel.

Now Day fears the Court will struggle to remain a space for LGBTQIA+ revellers.

He was disappointed about the sale.

“I bought The Court Hotel in 2004. I had it for 11½ years and did a lot of renovations,” Mr Day said.

“Unfortunately, it has just been sold. Back in 2016 I relinquished it to my ex-wife. She just sold it.

“When I had it, I said, ‘Honey we have to keep it gay and lesbian’ — for a few reasons. Notwithstanding they come every week. It’s their venue. The moment you change it, they’ll go somewhere else.

“It’s not a good long-term business model.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 26, 2023 10:54 pm

And the 64-year-old has pointed the finger at ex-wife Bree Maddox for allowing the club to become a largely straight venue.

Bree Maddox – one time Penthouse pet of the year.

JC
JC
October 26, 2023 10:55 pm

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feelthebern
Oct 26, 2023 9:07 PM

How much does a degree at NYU cost?

These days,, draw a circle around US60K. My kid did both her undergrad and grade there.

She told me there was always a strong leftwing undercurrent in various subjects taught. There were lots of conservative kids, but they generally kept silent during the brainwashing bullshit that went on – even in business school it goes on! The non-left kids sometimes pushed back, but lots were afraid to do so in case it impacted grades.

My little miss was pretty outspoken though and often pushed back.

There’s some really dubious bullshit that goes on too.

I recall my kid needed some help with the subject dealing with cost of capital. It’s really complex stuff. The class couldn’t get their head around it and they all. failed. However the teacher just pushed them through with passing grades.

Muddy
Muddy
October 26, 2023 10:56 pm

The Beer Whisperer
Oct 26, 2023 10:44 PM

ABSO-FECKING-LOOTLY.
That’s Bang-on, Beery.
Hence why I’ve remarked previously (including on this thread) that the latest wave of feminism is not about females at all, and that the ‘left’ is using indigenous people as a tool; the same for gays, trans, etc., etc.


THEY DON’T HAVE PRINCIPLES, ONLY TACTICS.

Yes, yes, yes, and YES!
Conservatives, however, are stuck rigidly in the former, and ignore the latter. Without the latter, the former cannot and will not, exist. Tactics are a pre-requisite for conservative principles. Tactics are the shield and the sword; without which our principles bleed out.

The Beer Whisperer
The Beer Whisperer
October 26, 2023 10:58 pm

I’m sorry but after hearing it blared on NewsRadio a dozen time it’s LIBERAL PARTY STAFFER bruce learman

Of course, the real point of collectivism is to assign collective guilt when convenient, while rejecting blame by the same reasoning, by appealling to common sense.

Treat them with the contempt it deserves.

Indolent
Indolent
October 26, 2023 10:58 pm

And here you are – it won’t even need it to be a “health” emergency. Any power grab will do.

Scientists urge WHO to declare health emergency for planet

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 26, 2023 11:05 pm

Listen to Hamas Islamist terrorist phoning home to brag about the Jews he’s just murdered.

And when the Israeli Army blow your front door off the hinges, and chuck in a couple of flash bangs, you’ll be lying under the bed, bawling…

JC
JC
October 26, 2023 11:05 pm

The longer the Jew hatred bullshit goes on, the more likely Trump wins the 24 election. He may be winning while in jail, but he will win.

I think the Jew hatred isn’t like the stuff that went on in 30s Germany though. I think manifesting itself in a different way.

It’s anti white hatred. Sure, Jews are copping the brunt of it, because the left considers them as white “colonizers” too, and at the moment they’re in focus. But consider also what’s happened to the J6 political prisoners languishing in jail because they participated in a protest against the 2020 stolen election.

This time around, it wouldn’t be just Jews being flung into gas chambers, it would be white conservatives going for the one way trip to the ovens.

The Beer Whisperer
The Beer Whisperer
October 26, 2023 11:10 pm

Muddy, hypocrisy is a window to the soul, or lack thereof.

They are against war, except those they like.

They are compassionate, except for those they hate.

They are anti-violence, except when it furthers their cause, and they justify it by projecting their hate onto others.

They are pro-environment, except when it doesn’t hurt their enemies, in which case it’s scorched earth all the way.

They adore the working class, so live as far away from them as possible, while lamenting their efforts to escape its tyranny.

Their hearts bleed for the poor, but are only prepared to sacrifice your money for the cause, not theirs.

They love their indigenous brethren, as long as they toe the line and stay on the reservation.

Most left leaning people are genuine, but the true believers are dedicated to power, from which power is all that matters. Everything else is a charade to that end.

JC
JC
October 26, 2023 11:11 pm

Can someone tell me, if they see a hair’s width of difference between how Jews and Trump supporters are thought of in the US by the hard left?

mizaris
mizaris
October 26, 2023 11:13 pm

Bree Maddox – one time Penthouse pet of the year.

Ex Santa Maria College pupil.

Diogenes
Diogenes
October 26, 2023 11:20 pm

However in the same article apparently a 52yo ch 7 celeb was

Channel 9 are certainly chomping at the bit to out them.

At work today I saw a topic for discussion on the board for a year 11 legal studies class “the right to free speech outweighs the right to a fair trial”. As I was entering & the teacher was leaving I asked what the class consensus was. He replied all agreed. I asked if anybody had raised the prospect of a false accusation with enough corroborative detail to intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative, that results in charges, and the lass gets cold feet when it gets to trial and admits to it being a false accusation? “No” was the reply.

I really fear for the boys.

Mark Bolton
October 26, 2023 11:27 pm

@ JC
Oct 26, 2023 10:33 PM..

“Drink spiking is largely a myth”

Indeed it is a rare thing .. like a shark attack … but it DOES happen…

As to youre story ? … High Trust Community … rescuers are at hand…

Like when the Forrest around you bursts into flames… doesnt have to happen than often but Once is always too often ..

People like me will always be there … until we, AND IF, we are diluted out of existence…

Peace ..

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2023 11:30 pm

The return oF randOm capitAls.

Ripper.

Mark Bolton
October 26, 2023 11:31 pm

@
Knuckle Dragger
Oct 26, 2023 10:46 PM

Yup and some of those Young Blokes get raped too…

“inexperienced ladies and blokes that have yet to learn the art of personal responsibility.” …

and getting buggered when you are blotto is a great way to “Build Character?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2023 11:37 pm

Bloody hell.

The lollipoppers – well, most of the few – are now all into ‘oh, but there’s propaganda from all sides’ in Israel.

Perhaps they should watch the vision showed to the doubting reporters.

Mark Bolton
October 26, 2023 11:42 pm

Knucle Dragger ..as ever the Russians have a good take on Youth and Inexperience…

at that age we trusted everyone…

Must gaining Wisdom be so brutal ? Well if we live in a High Trust Community it shouldn’t have to be ..

https://youtu.be/JH0XvV3PX7E

Peace

JC
JC
October 26, 2023 11:51 pm

Jeez

US economy accelerated in Q3.

The U.S. economy grew at a remarkable 4.9% annual rate in the third quarter, marking a major acceleration from the second quarter as consumer spending soared and residential construction rose.

The data, released Thursday morning, underscore just how strong the economy remained through the summer, though most forecasts suggest growth has slowed since then. Economists had forecast 3.8% growth for the quarter.

That makes nominal GDP … 4.9 (GDP) + 4.1 inflation = 9%

9% means it’s 5% higher than where the Fed would consider it ideal. If inflation doesn’t come down like yesterday, the Fed could make things really ugly.

Mark Bolton
October 26, 2023 11:51 pm

@Knuckles… oops ..bad link .. the video does it so much more justice..

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2023 11:54 pm

Farter time. But, before that:

and getting buggered when you are blotto is a great way to “Build Character?

Not really, no. You are missing the point.

As a younger man I spent the odd night waking up in places I never thought I would. A couple of times there were consequences for that – the loss of a day’s pay, a few other things. I owned that, because I put myself in that situation.

How about the taxpayer pays for a couple of giant, airport-hanger-style sheds. In those sheds the taxpayer can pay for beds, airconditioning, free replacement clothes, and have sandwiches on offer for all those people who have zero personal responsibility and get smashed on the green cans or Tropicana to the point where they’re at risk to themselves.

Also, there should be staff on hand to help them into those beds, and give them the new clothes and sangers and make sure they don’t choke on their own spew overnight.

And then we do that for every city, large town and small town in Australia.

Because that’s exactly what they do in every town over 3000 people in the NT, and because the people who end up there refuse to take responsibility for their own actions.

They’re called sobering up shelters, and they’re run by professional handpatters, and they keep operating because the people there refuse to take that personal responsibility.

Own it. Do not be a prude, but realise that if you put yourself in that situation then bad things may happen, and if that does happen then live with it rather than resort to that old chestnut – ‘it’s someone else’s fault.’

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 26, 2023 11:56 pm

Peace out, dude.

Mark Bolton
October 26, 2023 11:56 pm

@Knuckles … increasingly more difficult to find … funny that … !!?? This might be the link I thought I had ..

https://youtu.be/S6ygE226h-0

Peace

JC
JC
October 27, 2023 12:01 am
JC
JC
October 27, 2023 12:03 am

By the way, he’s Scotland’s First Minister.

Mark Bolton
October 27, 2023 12:12 am

@Knuckle Dragger … absolutely !! .. I have been taken to a Community Shelter .. ” good night’s sleep’ when things got a little unglued for me … Coppers picked me up ..the fight I was supposed to (more fightee than fighter) have been in, turned out to be bullshit ..So they never even took me to jail… just to a nice bed (which I didnt piss) ..and a good night’s rest ..

They weren’t “hand patters ” ..they were just good decent people that kept unwise (and intoxicated) head off the asphalt …

Oh Sure I learned .

Mark Bolton
October 27, 2023 12:20 am

@Knuckle Dragger … just a double take here ? What if they were “Hand Patter’s” ..

They had a job to do and did it well .

How is someone that contributes help and respite to the more rowdy .. but well meaning of us … gain the pejorative “Hand Patter” ?

Wanna know what ? … I have rescued people from burning houses …. does that make me a ” Hand Fire Extinguisher?”

Perhaps I should have left them to burn? …. “Character Building .. Dont you know ? “

Mark Bolton
October 27, 2023 12:23 am

” So Mr Knuckle Dragger .. You and I are very much alike … ” Sorry bad old joke …

Peace Brother …

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 27, 2023 12:24 am

Scotland ain’t what it used to be.
Maybe the Scots ethnicity- ie canny, modest and no-nonsense- no longer even exists.
Lot of look-at-me idiot chavs, as might be found orbiting the tertiary and welfare institutions anywhere in the anglosphere.

Mark Bolton
October 27, 2023 12:25 am

Patting a small white kitten….

Mark Bolton
October 27, 2023 12:33 am

@Knuckle Dragger … you have to be a bit rowdy and unhinged to muster the insanity to walk ( not run) into a wall of fire…

A normal person would have fled … and wind up dead…

Diversity is our Strength ..

Peace ..

Mark Bolton
October 27, 2023 12:48 am

@Knuckle Dragger .. my last comment I promise .. I am not stalking you

“Own it. Do not be a prude, but realise that if you put yourself in that situation then bad things may happen,”

And that kindness shown to me, motivated me to toward , taking the mantle , and putting myself in between others and harm ..

Mark Bolton
October 27, 2023 12:49 am

So call me a Leftie…

Mark Bolton
October 27, 2023 12:56 am

@Knuckle Dragger .. straight away I break my promise as we pernicious Lefties do … I have seen the places of which you speak … Onslow Hospital … I have seen people who have damaged themselves to the extent that they are no longer alive…

As to such ? It is a conundrum .. I do not pretend to have any answers.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 27, 2023 1:14 am

His name is Cash.

—-

woof bark growl:

Cash 2.0 Great Dane on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills 42

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 27, 2023 1:53 am

Great shot!

Steve Inman:

Thief takes a coke bottle to the dome.

Tom
Tom
October 27, 2023 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
October 27, 2023 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
October 27, 2023 4:02 am

Mark Knight classic.

Tom
Tom
October 27, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
October 27, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
October 27, 2023 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
October 27, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
October 27, 2023 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
October 27, 2023 4:09 am
WolfmanOz
WolfmanOz
October 27, 2023 4:21 am

Well it’s 6pm here in London and I’ve finally got some time, and energy, to post.

I had every intention before the trip on posting some updates but time and tiredness has got the better of me.

The previous 2 weeks in Europe was so hectic (travelled 4,500+ kms) in visiting Paris, Swiss Alps, Pisa, Florence, Rome, Venice, Munich, Amsterdam and Bruges that we were so tired after each day that we hit our bed at around 9-10pm each night.

It’s been an experience although next time we will be more specific ie a city or a region.

We’ve been in London for 5 days now where we’ve managed to go at our own pace in seeing and doing what we want to do.

These last 20 days I don’t think the wife and I have done so much walking so when we return to Melbourne next week we’ll need a holiday to recover from this one !

I have managed to kept abreast on events these last 20 days of which this trip has at least afforded some time away from the horrors of what is happening – at times it can be almost overwhelming in how depressing it is and depraved our Western society has become.

I simply have no answers although the evil Barbarians have now outed themselves entirely which I’ll never forget or forgive, whether it be in Australia or overseas.

I used to be a member of a forum for my UK soccer club but given the quite widespread and depraved toxic support for Hamas and the utter foul anti-semitism that was allowed, I made my final comments and have now left that cesspool. I might love my UK soccer team but I will have no association with anyone who are openly in support for such an evil group of people.

I saw on the OT there was some discussion re film actors/actresses who actually fought in wars . . . might be my first topic when I resume, although I had hinted in my last tease

”I’ll be back”.

Gabor
Gabor
October 27, 2023 4:25 am

Steve Kelly for me tonight.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 27, 2023 5:06 am

Well, no hope of making a dance class this morning, for time-change insomnia has set in. Guess it comes with the travel territory, although additional things here at home re troublesome neighbours have not helped in the night-time worry department. Hairy tells me to calm down, and that we can sort it out. Nevertheless, I lie in bed planning whether we should sell up or not. The for and against arguments.

I’m not even sure what they are, so best not to overthink things right now. I have quite a few family-related things to do tomorrow so a dance class was probably over-optimistic anyway. Cheers to all my fellow insomniacs. It’s good to be back in Oz. 🙂 

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 27, 2023 5:18 am

If the Australian media are genuine (@sarc) every question that’s asked at the Albo-Biden press conference should be about Assange.

Gabor
Gabor
October 27, 2023 5:19 am

I lie in bed planning whether we should sell up or not.

If you even thinking about it, then it’s definitely sell, bad neighbors don’t turn around to become good ones.

Two choices, be so nasty to them to drive them out or be meek and go yourself.

Gabor
Gabor
October 27, 2023 5:24 am

Gabor
Oct 27, 2023 5:19 AM

I lie in bed planning whether we should sell up or not.

PS, try every trick in the book via council rules and regs. I’m sure there is one they break every day, there is just so many of them.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 27, 2023 5:27 am

It’s been an experience although next time we will be more specific ie a city or a region.

We’ve been in London for 5 days now where we’ve managed to go at our own pace in seeing and doing what we want to do.

Cheers to you, Wolfman, good to hear from you, and looking forward to the thread on film stars at war. Keep calling in.

Glad you’ve been able to take some more leisurely strolls in London and gather strength. Your memories from this trip will also be a great adventure shared together often once you are home again. Our pace through Italy, Austria, Germany and back to Italy then a cruise was fairly hectic too. I hoped the cruise would be more restful but there was so much walking and stair climbing in each tour and a tour every day bar one ‘at sea’ day so I think I’ve actually improved my level of fitness, though my legs still ache from it. I’m glad I’ve decided to go back to bed now.

The world political situation can certainly be a cause of distress, but there are positive things around too. Pleasant everyday things that make you glad to be alive. Coming home to our Jacaranda in full bloom spreading its night scent onto our verandah, and the Currawongs glad to see me back this morning, plus Attapuss in raptures … all of these are good things, and so are some good people who have done small kindnesses for us while we were away. There are also things to share with Cats and Kittehs here that can help you feel less alone in your political distress. And more positive.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 27, 2023 5:28 am

First two sentences are from Wolfman. Blockquote fail.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 27, 2023 5:45 am

If you even thinking about it, then it’s definitely sell, bad neighbors don’t turn around to become good ones.

Its more complicated than that, Gabor. She’s a widow and kicking up about some tree lopping work we want to have done. She was ok with it when we left five weeks ago. She’s also quite ill with cancer and on chemo. Her place has heaps of council non-approved extension, but we don’t have the heart to use that against her. The greenies on council would be on her side re the tree lopping, even though an aborist says ok to lop a little, they are not native ones and probably don’t need permission. It’s just another battle I don’t want to have.

I can try to talk her round .. again. I guess I just don’t feel like it right now.
So many Teal greenies in this area it can get me down, but moving probably wouldn’t improve things, as they are everywhere.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
October 27, 2023 5:50 am

Goldie Hawn: an alien touched me and it felt like the finger of God.
Hmm. Perhaps she was re-dreaming the sex scene in Earth Girls Are Easy (1989 – Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum). Geena’s bikini is the real star.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
October 27, 2023 5:51 am

Top article at Revolver News. A brilliant but sadly true quote.

El Salvador’s President Bukele to Tucker: The death of America is an “inside job”…

Could just insert the West for America.

The Bungonia Bee
The Bungonia Bee
October 27, 2023 5:52 am

Getting Albo as PM was bad enough. Do we now have to have Burney as GG?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 27, 2023 5:55 am

Tom, thanks for the toons. Always a good way to start the day. At any time.

Leak is wonderful. Hope you’re looking, Wolfman, and having a good laugh.

It always helps.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 27, 2023 5:56 am

Aaron Berg
@aaronbergcomedy

Some Jews are changing their names for Uber and Lyft to avoid confrontation.
I changed mine to mordecai lefkowitz concealed carry Steinberg.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
October 27, 2023 6:04 am

A fine lady being interviewed. F-wits on the tube saying why are you only covering one side. What’s Avi going to do, cross the border into Gaza? A death sentence will ensue.

Retards.

—-

Avi:

A wave of support: Israelis rally behind soldiers on the front line

Cassie of Sydney
October 27, 2023 6:31 am

It’s good to be back in Oz.

It’ll be good to catch up on Saturday night!

Cassie of Sydney
October 27, 2023 6:39 am

In some good news, Waverley Council’s ‘deputy mayor’, a Jew hating Green, has been dumped for his Jew hating Hamas support.

Many Jews turned up last night to call for the motion and it was successful.

Cassie of Sydney
October 27, 2023 6:59 am

I’m a member of the UK’s New Culture Forum, a conservative think tank that does great work.

Peter Whittle uploaded this overnight,

“The BBC is ROTTEN to the Core & The Police Are NOT On Our Side” – Peter Whittle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XoHE9hNGnE

Every word Whittle speaks about the BBC and UK Police also applies here to the ABC and our state police forces such as the NSWannsee Police.

I have zero faith that the NSWannsee Police will protect NSW’s Jewish community……ZERO.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 27, 2023 7:04 am

Clearance divers having some fun:

Explosives Disposal: International Military Divers Train Together in Flooded Hungarian Mine (26 Oct)

Soldiers from across Europe suited up in heavy diving equipment inside a cavernous flooded stone quarry deep beneath the Hungarian capital. Once their air tanks, flippers and waterproof diving suits were secured, they slipped beneath the cold water and, flashlights in hand, disappeared into the darkness.

The military divers from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Lithuania were participating in an international training exercise in Budapest to prepare them for a variety of scenarios: recovery operations after a boat accident, rescues during a catastrophic flood, or the removal of unexploded underwater ordnance following an armed conflict.

This was the second year in a row that Hungary hosted the 10-day exercise, which provided the soldiers with hands-on training in a variety of environments: diving 24 meters (79 feet) deep into the flooded passages of a former limestone quarry, submerging into lakes and caves, and facing the powerful current of the Danube River.

Doesn’t sound like any Aussies were there, but maybe Marles could have a chat with his EU counterparts about that.

rosie
rosie
October 27, 2023 7:08 am

I know people with limited resources can’t stock up so the poor can do very badly, very quickly and lots of people have had to move south and take very little with them but hamas knew this was coming so had plenty of opportunity to hoard necessities, if they didn’t that’s, once again, on them.

any minute now they’ll all be starving

Indolent
Indolent
October 27, 2023 7:11 am
rosie
rosie
October 27, 2023 7:13 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 27, 2023 7:19 am

More renewable energy woes. It’s almost like renewable energy isn’t actually cheap.

Siemens Energy Shares Crash 37% As Renewable Bust Sparks ‘Green Panic’ (27 Oct)

Siemens Energy shares in Germany crashed on Thursday after the company warned its wind turbine business is grappling with quality issues and offshore ramp-up challenges. The company said it’s evaluating various measures to strengthen its balance sheet and is discussing state guarantees with the German government. This comes as a financial crisis in offshore wind energy is brewing.

Two months ago, Orsted A/S, the world’s largest offshore wind farm developer, saw shares crash in Copenhagen trading after it warned: “The situation in US offshore wind is severe.” The stress revolves around inflation, high interest rates, and supply chain woes, which have led to the company considering abandoning US offshore projects

It’s not just wind that’s in trouble. Last week, solar equipment maker SolarEdge Technologies saw shares crash as much as 30% on sliding European demand.

Just in time for Bowen to build all those offshore wind turbines he wants. This could be as big a fiasco as Turnbull’s tunnel.

MatrixTransform
October 27, 2023 7:28 am

Peter Whittle is correct

Indolent
Indolent
October 27, 2023 7:30 am

Jewish Students at NYC College Cornered by Pro-Hamas Protesters, Told to Hide in Attic

Jewish students at Cooper Union, a private New York City college, were locked inside a library Wednesday as pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas protesters beat their fists on the doors, screamed, and tried to gain entry.

New York police, however, told The Daily Signal that officers didn’t intervene because “no threats of physical violence were made.”

Dot
Dot
October 27, 2023 7:32 am

“the right to free speech outweighs the right to a fair trial”.

Wait until the space cadet children and their goofball teacher discuss COVID.

Indolent
Indolent
October 27, 2023 7:34 am

This article is from early 2019, before Covid which it clearly predicts.

The Third Reich’s Apocalyptic ‘Green’ Economy

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 27, 2023 7:36 am

Apropos last night’s discussion, does anyone remember when the left wanted to keep the government out of the nation’s bedrooms? Now all sexual interaction needs to be recorded for the benefit of government “thought police”.

Indolent
Indolent
October 27, 2023 7:38 am

They’re working up to the “climate emergency” dictatorship.

U.N. report warns of catastrophic climate tipping points. California is nearing several

Indolent
Indolent
October 27, 2023 7:39 am

“the right to free speech outweighs the right to a fair trial”.

Except for Trump.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 27, 2023 7:40 am

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials have expressed alarm that only 400 of the more than 15,000 Australians estimated to be in Lebanon, to Israel’s north, have registered with the government. They feared a repeat of evacuations during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, which they described as a “consular crisis … seared into the minds of DFAT officers”.

They won’t leave unless their Frequent Flyer Pounts are guaranteed?

Indolent
Indolent
October 27, 2023 7:41 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 27, 2023 7:47 am

Anyone who’s read the Book of Esther can’t miss the symbolism of this.

Iranians desecrated tombs of Mordechai and Esther, Jews asking for protection (26 Oct)

Haman, Hamas: same thing. Meanwhile the UN says Israel isn’t allowed to defend herself.

UN Comm. of Inquiry: Israel may not have right to claim self-defense against Hamas (26 Oct)

A bit late now for that UN antisemitic cockroaches, the Knesset formally declared war. Until and unless Hamas surrenders the state of war will continue.

Indolent
Indolent
October 27, 2023 7:47 am
P
P
October 27, 2023 7:48 am

Melanie Phillips: The Murderous Consequences of Western Diplomacy

Is Western ‘peacemaking’ in the Middle East perpetuating the Arab-Israeli conflict? Has the refusal by the West to see the evil of Hamas backfired?

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 27, 2023 7:50 am

Now young Bruce is no Baywatch Hasselhoff so I suspect any young lass inviting him under the covers is itching for a root.

When his performance isn’t up to scratch what do you do?

Rape!!!

Indolent
Indolent
October 27, 2023 7:50 am

Isn’t she the one who married her brother to scam the visa rules? What is she still doing there?

The Hamas wing at the House: Rep. Ilhan Omar can’t bring herself to vote for a widely supported House resolution supporting Israel

MatrixTransform
October 27, 2023 7:51 am

Connolly criticized that theory for ignoring the differences of power between different groups within American society, which meant that politics was not simply a process for producing consensus but rather a conflict that might result in some groups imposing their preferred policies on others

for the most part, normal people have been fighting a war that they don’t know they’ve been fighting
normies thought it was just about words and ideas but they’re wrong

those of the identity politic camps, the post-modern etc … it is about revolution
it’s one of the reasons they stand with Palestine

today’s word is agonism

(from Greek ???? agon, “struggle”)

Dot
Dot
October 27, 2023 7:57 am

Cohen did a perjury double half pike backflip in the Trump “fraud” trial.

Looks like the Orange Oaf walks.

Thank God for cross examination.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 27, 2023 8:00 am

Rita Panahi:

Hawthorn Football Club should pay, and pay dearly, for the role it played in the vilification of three former employees, Alastair Clarkson, Chris Fagan and Jason Burt.

As a Hawks fan it pains me to say that the family club is guilty of trashing its own reputation, causing enormous damage to the reputations of three men – including the most successful coach in the club’s history – and now facing a seven-figure payout.

Former president Jeff Kennett can say all he likes about Hawthorn acting in good faith and following “correct procedures” but that defence rings hollow when it was the Hawks board who selected Phil Egan – who has since been hit with more than 70 criminal charges – to complete the Binmada Review.

A report so defective that not a single non-Indigenous or non-Maori individual was interviewed.

It was an activist report seemingly designed to find racism, whether it existed or not, and that’s precisely what it did.

The board members complicit in commissioning the deeply flawed “cultural safety review” that plunged the club into crisis must also depart the Hawks.

It’s astonishing that Ian Silk, the individual with the greatest culpability in selecting Egan, remains on the board.

This is also the man who campaigned for Hawthorn to dump their profitable poker machines, but then accepted a position to chair the Crown Melbourne board, a venue full of poker machines.

Hawthorn’s ineptness is not a defence.

It’s little comfort to the three men whose good names were slandered far and wide that the club acted incompetently rather than with malice.

To add insult to injury, the ‘racism report’ was leaked to the media.

Hawthorn weren’t responsible for the leak but that shouldn’t exonerate them for the harm caused to Clarkson, Fagan and Burt, who all stepped down from their respective roles in the immediate aftermath. Clarkson stepped away from the game again mid-season after the stress of the saga became too much for him.

When I first wrote about this scandal more than a year ago the media was apoplectic with rage; veteran footy writers did not expect either Fagan or Clarkson to coach again at AFL level.

The accounts of supposed ‘human rights abuses’ and racist bullying at the club were uncritically accepted despite the obvious shortcomings of the report.

As I wrote in September 2022:

“Any notion of due process died the moment grievous allegations were published from anonymous accusers who remain protected while the accused are named, shamed and systematically destroyed by a race-baiting media ravenous for a couple of big scalps.”

By any measure the three men, particularly Clarkson, were treated appallingly.

They were deemed guilty by a vociferous media and denied the assumption of innocence.

The impact of being slandered as racist monsters was devastating.

The trio were repeatedly defamed as racists, bigots and bullies on social media. In some instances, that abuse extended to their daily lives.

Former Hawthorn player Jordan Lewis described how Clarkson was denied service at a petrol station after the allegations were made public.

The Hawks now face a million-dollar payout to Clarkson and Fagan, as well as possible payouts to former aggrieved Indigenous players, and then there’s the AFL’s Meade investigation into the club’s handling of the cultural safety review which could result in penalties.

Frankly, it’s more than a little absurd for the AFL to be threatening penalties given its role in the unedifying saga including the pressure exerted on Clarkson and Fagan to admit to some form of ‘cultural insensitivity’ to make the issue go away.

Clarkson is entitled to exercise his legal options against the club and one would imagine he has a strong case against several media pundits, too.

Leading industrial relations lawyer George Haros, who was integral in securing Israel Folau a multimillion-dollar payout from Rugby Australia, believes Clarkson has multiple avenues of actions including defamation proceedings.

Haros, a partner at Gadens, told the Herald Sun that Clarkson was entitled to compensation if Hawthorn mismanaged the review.

“Loss could extend beyond remuneration to loss of sponsorship income and also for pain and suffering,” he said.

If you listen to those with intimate knowledge of board machinations, Kennett himself was played.

They allege that the former Victorian premier was the primary target of this damaging fiasco.

The men whose reputations were trashed were collateral damage.

What hasn’t been written about is the quiet coup that occurred at the club with Labor-connected operatives from the “Hawks for Change” group taking control.

That’s a column for another day.

Real Deal
Real Deal
October 27, 2023 8:02 am

I’ll have a quarter shot soy latté please.

alwaysright
alwaysright
October 27, 2023 8:08 am

Al Goodwyn is my pick.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 27, 2023 8:08 am

Bit more on offshore wind farms.

Offshore Wind Demands £95/MWh (26 Oct)

No new wind farms will be built off Britain’s shores unless the Government lets operators earn more money from the electricity they produce, the chief of the nation’s biggest generator has said.

Tom Glover, country chair of RWE’s UK arm, said the price offered by the Government to wind farm operators must rise by as much as 70pc to entice companies to build.

Developers must be offered between £65 and £75 per megawatt hour (MwH) for the power generated from wind farms, Mr Glover said.

In particular, the article fails to point out that the prices mentioned are at 2012 prices, which incidentally should be dropped entirely in future auctions, as they are of no relevance and are highly misleading.

£75/MWh, for instance, equates to £95/MWh at current prices. This is an important omission by the Telegraph, because one commenter pointed out that since the current market prices is £100/MWh, offshore wind must still be a bargain!!

That means $183/MWh at current exchange rate, compared to about $30/MWh for Victoria’s brown coal plants. Knowing Labor I doubt anything less than $200/MWh would be economic after all the union padding is factored into the capital and operating costs. And he reckons renewable energy is the cheapest!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 27, 2023 8:14 am

Just catching up from last night and I see Bruce Lehrmann is in the crosshairs again.

As for the risk of removing the condom – might it not be that a woman is on the pill for her regulars so as to avoid pregnancy, but requires a condom for one-offs to protect from picking up a disease.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 27, 2023 8:14 am

Rita’s on the ball again. Labor’s stingy fingers in everything.

Thanks for posting that Black Ball.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 27, 2023 8:16 am

Stinky – fat fingers

duncanm
duncanm
October 27, 2023 8:16 am

Strange all those on twitter piling on Lehrmann… who also insisted Assange had every right to hide from Swedish prosecutors in the Ecuadorian embassy.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 27, 2023 8:23 am

The DOJ having Trump’s chief of staff wear a wire is mind blowing.
Having this power was Hoover’s wet dream.

shatterzzz
October 27, 2023 8:28 am

She’s a widow and kicking up about some tree lopping work we want to have done.

Revert to your “houso” beginnings, Lizzie, lop and be damned ..!
I chopped a 10foot annoyance down over the weekend .. never occurred to me to ask anyone … one thing about this “houso’ estate not much chance of outside “bravado” interfering .. so you want something down or added you just do it ……!
RIP …. https://ibb.co/kMJcsXd

Pogria
Pogria
October 27, 2023 8:31 am

shatterzzz,
you did the right thing. Those evil palms should be wiped from the face of the earth forever.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 27, 2023 8:31 am

Strange all those on twitter piling on Lehrmann… who also insisted Assange had every right to hide from Swedish prosecutors in the Ecuadorian embassy

Yep.

Those same people were quite vocal, informing all and sundry that ‘Yeah, but it wasn’t rape-rape’.

bons
bons
October 27, 2023 8:38 am

Pogtia.
+10 million.
Palm planting is a capital offence.

MatrixTransform
October 27, 2023 8:38 am

Not long ago we were being told, to the accompaniment of much fanfare, that liberal democracy had won and that history had ended.

Alas, far from having produced a smooth transition to pluralist democracy, the collapse of Communism seems, in many places, to have opened the way to a resurgence of nationalism and the emergence of new antagonisms.

Western democrats view with astonishment the explosion of manifold ethnic, religious and nationalist conflicts that they thought belonged to a bygone age.

Instead of the heralded ‘New World Order’, the victory of universal values, and the generalization of ‘post-conventional’ identities, we are witnessing an explosion of particularisms and an increasing challenge to Western universalism.

appears to be about 20 years old … For an Agonistic Pluralism

Figures
Figures
October 27, 2023 8:39 am

the right to free speech outweighs the right to a fair trial

Presumably this includes the right to identify the accuser rather than have her/him hide behind anonymity.

If the accuser has the right to anonymity but the accused doesn’t then, ipso facto, the accused should have the case against them thrown out. If they have less rights than the accuser then this *must* be prejudicial – why, in the eyes of the jury, would the accused have less rights unless they were already guilty?

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 27, 2023 8:45 am

James Morrow:

At this stage, when, or whether, Israel gets on with the messy business of uprooting Hamas from the Gaza Strip is almost beyond the point.

For Australia and the world, the bloody terrorist rampage conducted in the name of Palestinian “resistance” has already done its job, revealing the cracks in a fractured West and changing the entire narrative of the Middle East.

Hamas, and its ultimate paymasters in Iran, now feel they have the upper hand.

And why shouldn’t they?

The past fortnight has seen nothing but headlines across the West demanding that Israel hold fire and not go too far, with each passing day giving Hamas time not only to dig in and re-arm but also tacit permission to do it again.

This after 1400 innocents were butchered in the most appalling ways and 200 more captured to be used as human shields.

Yet instead of unity, in democracies such as Australia, domestic politics have been fractured by the attacks.

Anthony Albanese, who as a junior-burger MP helped found Parliamentary Friends of Palestine, is now being wedged by old ALP types on the one hand who still stand with Israel and his historically ignorant green-left flank which thinks Israel is an evil settler colony that causes nothing but trouble.

Thus we see the likes of Foreign Minister Penny Wong issuing statements this week calling for humanitarian assistance to protect “innocent Palestinian civilians” in Gaza while not also mentioning the hostages Hamas holds as shields.

Quite something for the woman who recently was feted for her role getting Cheng Lei out of China.

And if politics is really just downstream from culture, one does not have to look hard to see how fractured Western societies are now.

Whether it is the spectre of Jews being told by NSW Police to avoid the Opera House when it was lit up in the colours of Israel or being detained by cops for holding an Israeli flag too close to Palestine-supporting thugs, the attack has laid bare cleavages we in Australia have for years pretended did not exist. It’s the same story across the great democracies.

Western leaders who would have 22 years ago presided over unified shows of strength and grief over 9/11 now preside over societies where support for Israel, or even the West, is not a given.

Against this backdrop both Hamas and Iran feel they can act with impunity. After all, who’s going to stop them?

Here some history is in order.

Last decade, Barack Obama tried to rebalance Washington’s dealings in the Middle East away from its historic ally Israel to Iran, where the US is still the “Great Satan”.

This went so far as a deal that enabled the mullahs to have their own nuclear program — a peaceful one, of course.

In office Joe Biden and his handlers, many holdovers from Team Obama, picked up the thread, allowing Iran to sell more oil on the world market to raise cash and access billions of dollars in overseas bank accounts that had been blocked since the 1979 revolution.

Instead of a united front against the most unimaginable barbarism (captives burnt alive, babies beheaded, women and girls raped), Iran now looks at the West and sees demonstrators chanting for the elimination of Israel.

Yet the US is playing a double game, standing by Israel yet reining it in on the one hand while also not doing anything real to stop Iran either, not even impose sanctions.

In this sense, the violence we have seen has really been apocalyptic: Not just in the modern sense of end of the world horror but in its original Ancient Greek sense, which meant “a revelation” of something.

What has been revealed is ugly, namely a West that would rather blame the victim than attack the perpetrator, in the hope that they won’t be next.

We must hope there are no more such apocalypses in the offing. In either sense of the word.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 27, 2023 9:00 am

Yes Barking Toad. Remember ‘the darkest day in Australian sport’ where Jason Clare and Kate Lundy were flanked by the heads of the various codes? Supposedly underworld figures were supplying PEDs and whatever else.
Turned out to be bullshit of course.

Chris
Chris
October 27, 2023 9:05 am

Lizzie, it will turn out OK.
To quote Ecclesiastes,

Don’t worry. Be happy!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 27, 2023 9:14 am

4 hours ago
Israelis kill Hamas deputy commander
Jacquelin Magnay
Jacquelin Magnay

Israel claims to have killed one of Hamas’s senior plotters of the October 7 atrocities in an assassination plot carried out behind enemy lines.

Israel said it had killed the deputy commander of Hamas Intelligence Directorate, Shadi Baroud who had helped plan the brutal attacks on Israeli civilians, which claimed more than 1400 lives, and the kidnap of more than 200 hostages.

The assassination and air strike was carried out by a joint operation of the Israeli military and the elite Shinbet unit operating inside Gaza and comes after Baroud narrowly escaped an earlier airstrike two weeks ago which killed his wife and five children at their home in Khan Younes.

Baround was a close associate of the Gaza head intelligence commander, Yahya Sinwar, the Israel Defence Force says.

His death comes as Israel says it believes at least 224 hostages are being held by Hamas, an increase of two from earlier estimates.

Israeli authorities had earlier indicated one of the kidnapped victims was Australian, but both Israel and Australian foreign offices say this was a mistake in publication and no Australian is being held hostage that they are aware of.

On Thursday Hamas’ spokesman Abu Obeida posted, without providing any verification, that “about” 50 of the hostages had been killed by Israeli air strikes. This is an increase on previous Hamas reports that 22 hostages had been killed by Israeli aerial bombing.

The Gaza health ministry also issued a 212-page document listing names and identification numbers for 7028 Palestinians it says have been killed by Israel’s bombardments in the past three weeks. There is no distinction on the list between Hamas operatives and civilians.

The release comes after the United States president Joe Biden had questioned the veracity of the Palestinian civilian death toll, saying he had “no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed”.

Black Ball
Black Ball
October 27, 2023 9:15 am

The darkest day in Australian sport. Lol a reminder 8 years ago in the Daily Telegraph:

IT was the “blackest day in sport’’ press conference that turned out to be one of the more spectacular own goals of the dying Gillard government.

Flanked by sporting chiefs, junior ministers Jason Clare and Kate Lundy announced organised crime was behind the use of performance enhancing drugs involving multiple athletes and possible match fixing.

“The findings are shocking and will disgust Australian sports fans,’’ Clare said.

“It’s cheating but it’s worse than that. It’s cheating with the help of criminals.”

But the persistent myth that it was a concocted stunt by Labor’s spin doctors to divert attention from other daily disasters deserves to die. Like so many other adventures of the Rudd-Gillard years it was pure stuff-up. While the documents released by the Federal Court on Friday confirm Labor was desperate for a political fix over the sports doping investigation, internally senior ministers were horrified by the bull in a china shop antics of Clare at the original February 2013 press conference.

Indeed Treasurer Wayne Swan and manager of government business Anthony Albanese let fly at a tactics meeting just days after the press conference tearing strips off the junior ministers and the media team.

“Whoever war-gamed it didn’t get it,’’ admits a Labor operative who participated in the meetings. “The fact that Albo and Swan didn’t know about it. It was a big deal. When the press conference happened there was a lot of people in the government saying, ‘What the hell?’”

Clare, with his radio announcer voice and what passes for movie star looks in Canberra, thundered that sports fans would be “sickened’’ by the revelations.

“Don’t underestimate how much we know and, if you are involved in this, come forward before you get a knock at the door,’’ he warned.

But what Labor knew turned out to be not much. It was 16 months after that original 2013 press conference before Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority issued infraction notices. Clare and Lundy announced the “blackest day in Australian sport’’ before they launched the investigation.

Detailed notes and affidavits released to the Federal Court confirm that Labor was desperate for a result. ASADA chief executive Aurora Andruska has put in a sworn affidavit revealing that at a meeting in Canberra two days after the “blackest day’’ presser officials made it clear that “PM wants it to end’’.

Later that year, Lundy was under pressure from the party room. “Min — her colleagues at her, or accusing her of hampering chances of re-election.” Proposed options according to Andruska included, “Deal with AFL — support staff sacked, points off, players off.’’ It was the same deal signed off on by the AFL a few months later.

When Tony Abbott was elected last year and Sports Minister Peter Dutton looked into the mess he called in retired judge Gary Downes to review the brief. Some government sources suggest Andruska was overwhelmed in the role expecting the job to be more of a swan song before her retirement than the firestorm it proved. Should the Federal Court declare the joint investigation between the AFL and ASADA unlawful some of the evidence they have collected will be regarded inadmissable.

For the 34 former and current Essendon players issued with doping notices, ASADA has suggested it will reissue notices even if the investigation is deemed unlawful. Labor colleagues remain steadfast in the view that regardless of the outcome Clare over-egged the pudding. A graduate of the Bob Carr school of politics, they accuse Clare of playing the classic NSW government law and order card without fully understanding the ramifications within sporting codes.

“Kate Lundy probably didn’t want to be out machoed by Clare. It was a mess,’’ says a Labor source. The press conference was derided as a concocted stunt. Later, AFL’s outgoing CEO Andrew Demetriou complained that the “very public press conference’’ announced the findings in a manner that was “severely damaging”.

“The world was told there was some very large issue — underworld — infiltrating sport that impugned just about every athlete in this country,” Demetriou said. “That was a very unfortunate way to commence that investigation. It damaged lots of very, very good sports, lots of very, very good people,’’ he said.

Former NSW Premier John Fahey also suggested it was a political stunt cooked up by the Gillard government to divert attention from the other daily disasters of the government.

But he couldn’t have been more wrong. Once again stuff-up wins over the conspiracy. Labor’s own verdict on the conduct of Clare and Lundy came in July 2013, when the pair emerged as two of the biggest losers in Kevin Rudd’s final cabinet reshuffle. Clare was demoted from cabinet and Lundy lost sport. Even Clare’s late switch to the Rudd camp wasn’t enough to save him from a political kicking.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 27, 2023 9:17 am

The Essendon injection scandal, where politicians saw a main chance.

But it was Essendon so I didn’t care.

Who kicked 5 goals in the 1990 Grand Final? Hahaha!

Essendon! Carna Pies!

Roger
Roger
October 27, 2023 9:18 am

‘Protect the vulnerable’

Nursing home residents were “left to starve” during the pandemic, lawyers representing bereaved relatives have told Scotland’s Covid inquiry, reports the UK Telegraph.

I have every suspicion we’d find the same thing happened here.

I recall a leading geriatrician telling ABC RN that patients she examined who’d presented with injuries from falls were also suffering from malnourishment, which had weakened their muscles.

No wonder our damned politicians don’t want a proper inquiry.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 27, 2023 9:18 am

Those same people were quite vocal, informing all and sundry that ‘Yeah, but it wasn’t rape-rape’.

The old not rape-rape defence. The Polanski favourite. Still not recognised at law. Save that for Teh View.

Dot
Dot
October 27, 2023 9:34 am

You mean there’s a defence in equity?

Cassie of Sydney
October 27, 2023 9:38 am

Lilie James was 21 years old. She was bludgeoned to death with a hammer by a creep of a man.

This is real violence against women.

The allegation against Bruce Lehrmann makes a mockery of real violence against women.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 27, 2023 9:39 am

If you’re on the right side. Oh wait, that didn’t come out correctly.

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 27, 2023 9:42 am

NYT weaselling.
They only want to kill generic Jews, not these specific Jews.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 27, 2023 9:43 am

Based on media reports (caveat required) Bruce has been prosecuted twice. The first time for being a Lieboral staffer. The second time for being Bruce. Let’s see how this one goes.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 27, 2023 9:45 am

The latest lehrmann development is very disturbing. Like a warning to anyone who takes on the meja. Very DNC too.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 27, 2023 9:48 am

BB I remember Krate Lundy, Labor Union scum. Builders labourer made good. Have a look at the board member jobs she has and had. I’m sure a builders labourer brings so much to the table……maaaates.

Rabz
October 27, 2023 9:49 am

In some good news, Waverley Council’s ‘deputy mayor’, a Jew hating greenfilth, has been dumped for his Jew hating hamarse support.

And in really appalling but entirely unsurprising news, that vile piece of excrement tony burqa has stated he is proud of Canterbury Bankstown council flying the pallyweird flag from various council edifices.

Disgusting, expedient and infuriating doesn’t even come close to describing his (and the stinking council’s) actions, although “evil” might.

Roger
Roger
October 27, 2023 9:52 am
Miltonf
Miltonf
October 27, 2023 9:53 am

Burkie as a retired Canbra pube I know calls is a typical NSW Labor polimuppet in the mould of Brian Langton.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
October 27, 2023 9:55 am

BB I remember Krate Lundy,

Sat on Wason’s face to climb the CFEMU ladder.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 27, 2023 9:58 am

And this is supported by Australian Labor Party, Greens, Some TEALS & Clover Moore et al !

Erdan shows UNGA video of Hamas decapitation at ceasefire debate

Gilad Erdan spoke during the start of a two-day debate on a cease-fire for the Gaza War that began on October 7 when Hamas infiltrated southern Israel.

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations played a video of a Hamas terrorist attempting to decapitate one of its victims as he addressed the General Assembly during a debate on a Gaza war ceasefire.

“The man on the ground is an agricultural worker from Thailand. He is not Israeli. He is not Jewish. He was merely alive, trying to make a living for his family,” Erdan said as he held up a tablet with the video.

“But he was decapitated with a blunt gardening tool,” Erdan said, adding that it was “horrifying.”

He spoke during the start of a two-day debate on a cease-fire for the Gaza War that began on October 7 when Hamas infiltrated southern Israel killing over 1,400 people and taking more than 224 hostages.

Erdan urged the UNGA not to call for a ceasefire which he said would only support the Iranian proxy group Hamas and allow it to rearm itself so it could launch further attacks against Israeli civilians.

“Any call for a ceasefire is not an attempt at peace. It is an attempt to tie Israel’s hands, preventing us from eliminating a huge threat to our citizens,” Erdan said.

Israel in Gaza “is not at war with the Palestinians. Israel is at war with the genocidal Jihadist Hamas terror organization,” Erdan said, as he stressed that the Jewish state was standing at the forefront of a global battle.

“Hamas’s genocidal ideology, just like ISIS, al-Qaeda… is not just about destroying Israel. It is ultimately about world domination. It is about bringing the Jihad war to the soil of each and every one of your countries,” Erdan warned.

Hamas leaders can end the war at any moment by stopping its rocket fire into the country, returning the hostages, and turning themselves in, Erdan said.

“If the drafters of this Resolution truly want peace, if they truly want an immediate solution, then why do they not demand this of Hamas?” Erdan said.

He devoted a portion of his speech to the victims of the attack.

“Twenty days have gone by and Israel is still counting her dead. It took weeks to collect all of the bodies,” Erdan said. “Some bodies are burnt like pieces of coal – it is almost impossible to identify them.”

Ash was found in the throats of countless burnt bodies, evidence that they were alive when they were lit on fire, he said… Medical personnel who first found the burnt human remains didn’t understand at first what they were looking at, Erdan explained.

In one case two spines were found “bound together with wire – one belonging to an adult, and the other, the small spine of a child,” he said.

“Try to imagine that parent’s feeling as they and their child were burning alive. The painful screaming of the love of their life was the last thing they heard,” Erdan told the UNGA.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 27, 2023 9:58 am

They seem to be giving lehrmann the Trump treatment.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 27, 2023 10:00 am

Same reason too I reckon – he has been fighting back

Razey
Razey
October 27, 2023 10:05 am

Cassie of Sydney
Oct 27, 2023 9:38 AM
Lilie James was 21 years old. She was bludgeoned to death with a hammer by a creep of a man.

This is real violence against women.

The allegation against Bruce Lehrmann makes a mockery of real violence against women.

And let us not forget the Sarah Jane Parkinson case. The family still hasnt been compensated.

Buccaneer
Buccaneer
October 27, 2023 10:10 am

C.L.
Oct 26, 2023 9:54 PM
I fell like stealthing is an urban myth cooked up by the femme bots. Much like the “rape kulcha” on university campuses, it never existed.

Remember the ‘drink spiking’ panic?

Total bullshit.

Drink spiking is largely a myth and far more likely to be an excuse young women use after they become heavily intoxicated, according to WA research.

A Perth study of suspected drink spiking victims found claims of being given sedatives or illicit drugs without consent are exaggerated and that alcohol is often the real culprit.

The great irony of all this is that once upon a time women were not allowed in pubs after a certain hour because they couldn’t handle their drinks. I’m not suggesting we should go back to this arrangement, but there was clearly no acknowledgment that this would be the consequence and some other protection might be needed for females for whom ambition is greater than ability with regards to consumption of alcohol.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 27, 2023 10:10 am

$160,000 worth of wind and solar power with batteries can’t power two homes alone

By Jo Nova

Let’s run an experiment on a whole nation that we can’t even do easily on a single home

Imaging scaling this up for a country?

The Daily Sceptic has the story of an Australian farmer in Victoria who has gone off-grid to try to be as self sufficient as he can, not out of ideology, but for pragmatic reasons.

He has two 3 bedroom homes, with 30 solar panels and a 1kW wind turbine each. For storage they have about 30 German lead acid batteries which at current prices is about $15,000 of batteries each.

But even so, each house still has bottled gas stoves, and a 6 kVA petrol generator. The generators are set to come on when the batteries get too low, which often happens in the evenings of autumn, winter and sometimes in spring. (He estimates about 60 – 100 hours each year).

Even above all that equipment that needs gas, fuel and maintenance and cost about $160,000 in total to set up, they still have to grow, cut and collect, ouch, 100 kg of wood (220lbs) per week in winter for each house.

He warns that anyone who thinks the nation can run on wind and solar without fossil fuel or nuclear energy is “totally deluded”. And these are farmhouses on the coast in Victoria — so a milder climate — we’re not talking of snow.

How exactly does this kind of system translate into a national energy for people living on high density blocks with no trees, a heat pump and a Tesla they need to plug in?

Extrapolating from our renewable energy experience, anyone who thinks that a modern society can function with a power grid that runs on just solar and wind power without fossil fuel or nuclear backup that’s able to immediately provide up to 100% of power needs on cloudy, still days and dark, windless nights, is totally deluded!

And getting grid-scale lithium ion battery storage to provide the sort of supply time that we have on our farm would cost trillions of dollars, deplete the planet’s non-renewable resources to the point of imminent exhaustion and then it would have to be done all over again in 10 years.

Nothing is truly set and forget:

After 20 years the first of our solar panels have started to fail and have been replaced.

Renewable energy systems should more honestly be called replaceable energy systems.

None of the components can be expected to work for more than 25 years and often a much shorter time than that.

Even with nearly 3 tons of lead acid batteries for two homes, they still really only have a one day supply:

Roger
Roger
October 27, 2023 10:14 am

…tony burqa has stated he is proud of Canterbury Bankstown council flying the pallyweird flag from various council edifices.

Is there a more loathsome creature in parliament?

Albanese’s best mate, btw.

cohenite
October 27, 2023 10:15 am

Leak cartoon today was brilliant.

Reading a biography of Bennie Hill. He used to listen to the BBC back in the day when it represented true British values and humour and he got his love of names from some of the real names reported in the news broadcasts:

Announcer D.W. Grinnell-Milne
Children’s Hour author H. Mortimer Batten
Actor Moultrie Kelsall
Playwright L. du Garde Peach
Newsreader T. Alvar Liddell
Admiral Sir Reginald Ranfurly-Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax

And now we have a muzzie as first minister of Scotland who hates whites, many of whom voted for the black bastard.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 27, 2023 10:18 am

Lizzie, it will turn out OK.
To quote Ecclesiastes,

Don’t worry. Be happy!

Thanks, Chris. Very nice of you to say so.

I think I got upset because it was all supposed to be done and dusted while we were away and we come home to find she has been out there harrassing the arborist to stop work, which he did. I intend to call him first and find out what really happened, organise for him to come back, and then I will have a few words indeed to say to her. Gently though, so she doesn’t fall off her perch, I don’t wish her harm; possibly she’s not thinking straight and is just resistant to any change at all. I’ll leave it until Monday when I will feel more up to it. Small beer in the scheme of things.

Will chat over some bigger and more important things with a few Cats on Sat’dy nite.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 27, 2023 10:20 am

Tell me Scotland isn’t largely populated by drugfuked dole bludgers.

Roger
Roger
October 27, 2023 10:23 am

And now we have a muzzie as first minister of Scotland

Whose in-laws are stranded in Gaza.

I wonder where their sympathies lie?

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
October 27, 2023 10:24 am

Iran could be waiting until Israeli troops are enmeshed in Gaza before releasing a combined attack from other borders, even from Yemen.
https://www.meforum.org/65088/tehran-makes-its-moves-on-the-border-of-israel

Katzenjammer
Katzenjammer
October 27, 2023 10:25 am

Iran could be waiting until Israeli troops are enmeshed in Gaza before launching their real attack from other borders, even from Yemen. Hamas is just a distraction.
https://www.meforum.org/65088/tehran-makes-its-moves-on-the-border-of-israel

Razey
Razey
October 27, 2023 10:26 am

Swim competition allows a 50-year-old biological male to swim with 13 year-old girls

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

  1. Well at least she wasn’t dragged through the streets of Flemington on the back of the HiAce. Hun: Premier Jacinta…

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