President Slag-Dribble

good name for the moth eaten old perv

the question of the most annoying female statements

Surely the runner-up would had to have been:

‘I’m cold’

Mr Dutton says the Prime Minister needs to “reign people in” like Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke

Is the PM now a monarch?

FFS. ‘reign’ is not a verb. ‘Rein in’ is a compound verb, referring to the handling of horses.

The ignorance and illiteracy, it burns.

It can be a verb: to reign

I know the sensible attitude is to observe that obviously a westerner will find western culture most amazing while an Indian would blah blah blah.

Well, the Japanese adore and are among the best exponents of Western classical music. It’s not that simple.

Also, among my olds’ Dutch/Indonesian pals, it turns out that some of the elite in Indonesia are fans of classical music.

Quality will out.

“I can’t see any problem with it,” Ms Hanson told Sky News host Paul Murray.

“It’s a part of life so I think to deny these two girls to go to the formal is ridiculous.”

“I can’t see any problem with it,” Ms Hanson told Sky News

Which is another good reason not to vote One Nation.

Knuckle Dragger
Oct 29, 2023 12:49 PM

the question of the most annoying female statements

Surely the runner-up would had to have been:

‘I’m cold’

Where do you find these losers? I’ve never said or done any of that. Nor have any of my friends,

It seems that certain single chaps here blame their poor choices on the poor choices.

I’m doing this because otherwise there will be another deluge of self-pity.

Like ‘I chose her because she had spectacular tits, but when it turned out she didn’t have a PhD, I was shattered.’

It’s hard to decide whicch gender in the dating scene is more obnoxious.

Rein in.
A phrasal verb.

Everyone else posts their travelogues here, so here’s the latest on the hell cruise.
There’s 2,500 pax on board 1,200 crew. Of the pax at least 70% are obese or morbidly obese, the insulin bills must be shocking. I’ve never seen so many frail old people outside a nursing home, the number of walking sticks, walkers and electric wheelchairs is beyond counting.

Possibly 10% of the passengers are under 40, they’re mainly obese as well. There’s acres of tatts and varicose veins. About the only subject of conversation is their previous cruises or the next one. The entire ship is one huge stomach, the only purpose is to eat and drink as much as possible in the time allowed.

The staff are wonderful, nearly all are little more than indentured slaves, the pay is around $800 per month. For that they work around 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, they may get a day off when in port.

This is singularly depressing way to spend $10k and lose 16 days of your life. If it hadn’t been for my wife, I would have adandonded the ship at Norfolk Island and flown home. Well it will all be over on Saturday, I would rather spend the time painting the house than spend another night on this cruise.

Those of us who made brilliant choices also respect the educative power of certain stereotypes.
I spent the first couple of years of my marriage being ‘educated’ to put down the toilet lid. One day I discovered that she didn’t mean lid at all, I was kinda weird for putting down the lid. She had meant the seat.
Thirty-seven years later I was sick or injured, staggered in the dark of night into the bathroom and plunged my derriere into the unguarded porcelain pond. What a horrible experience!
Thirty-seven years to REALLY find out why the blasted seat belongs down. And that is in a GREAT marriage. Learning to accomodate each other in any partnership brings out the miscommunications and may eventually even overcome them.

Of course it can be a verb. My question is about it being used as a compound verb which is mistaken for something else. Mutliation of grammar is part of the multi-pronged attack.

For example, demanding gender changes at the drop of a hat make law enforcement and border security much more difficult.

Some big opportunities for organised crime and spies of all stripes.

I voted NO to SSM as well cassie. But It’s a bit late now for people to whinge and moan about the consequences. It’s a fact now. The time to think about all of that was before the plebiscite.

we actually see it on a daily basis forced down our throats on our TV programs we watch

great reason not to watch TV. Living without it is easy now- the Cat, YouTube, Breitbart, PJ Media and Spiked keep me entertained and informed.

Cohenite is hypothetically stuck in a narrow well with his nose just barely above the water line.
Each second 1000 litres of water gush upward from the aquifer into the well.
Luckily the village has a pump which is pumping exactly 1000 litres per second out of the well.
Then a bucket of 30 litres of water sitting precariously on the well wall is (accidentally) knocked over spilling all its contents into the well.
The last statement to be heard burbling out of the doomed Cohenite’s mouth as he sinks into Poseidon’s watery clutches?
“That full bucket is only 3% of the rate of water entering the well so it can’t possibly drow…bubblubleeebrr!”

Of course in this scenario Cohenite ultimately survives due to his ironclad indefatigable ego, which always triumphs in the face of reason and physics.

Here you go Black Ball.

Hamas alone is guilty of collective punishment

Henry Ergas

In earlier centuries, the claim was that Christian children were slaughtered so their blood could be used in Jewish rituals. Today, the claim, which echoes even in our federal parliament, is that the Jewish state, engaging in an orgy of collective punishment, slaughters innocent civilians.

To call the proponents of those accusations hypocrites would be grossly unfair. After all, hypocrisy requires a capacity to distinguish right from wrong. Falling far short of that level of moral development, Hamas’s apologists shut their eyes to the obvious: that the only collective punishment is that which Hamas has inflicted on Israelis and Palestinians alike.

And with Hamas’s stated goal – as well as that of its Iranian masters – being nothing less than genocide, Israel is fully entitled, including under the United Nations’ Genocide Convention, to take whatever steps it believes are reasonably necessary to prevent its people’s destruction.

None of that means Israel will reduce Gaza to a wasteland, as it readily could. On the contrary, few countries, if any, have rules of military engagement as focused on protecting civilian lives.

Shaped by Judaism’s tradition of pacificism – with the Talmudic sources condemning the shedding of innocent blood to an extent unparalleled in the other Abrahamic faiths, notably Islam – those rules were formed even before international humanitarian law acquired its current, far-reaching, scope.

Developed as of 1953 under the guidance of Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren, they embedded into the Israel Defence Forces’ decision-making the Rabbinical precept that “forbearance is better than might”. Every bit as importantly, the IDF ensured the rules’ effectiveness through enforcement procedures that are exceptionally stringent by international standards, including Australia’s.

Little wonder then that Richard Goldstone, a former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa who chaired the 2009 UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, was ultimately forced, by the sheer weight of accumulated evidence, to resile from the mission’s most widely publicised finding, which was that Israel had carried out “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise” the people of Gaza.

And little wonder too that Goldstone, in acknowledging in April 2011 that “civilians were not intentionally targeted by Israel”, also had to concede that while Hamas “had not conducted any investigations” into its own actions, “Israel dedicated significant resources to investigating allegations of operational misconduct”.

All too predictably, Goldstone’s sweeping retractions did not lead the UN General Assembly to repudiate the mission’s report, which it had overwhelmingly endorsed, much less withdraw it from circulation; instead, its flawed claims continue to pullulate in the sordid waters of anti-Israel rhetoric.

That experience’s lessons are simple – the facts, no matter how well established, will never stop Hamas’s apologists from distorting international humanitarian law in their campaign to shield the terrorists from the consequences of their abominations.

(Photo: Monument to Immanuel Kant, Kaliningrad, Russia.)

But for all the turbulence their lawfare creates, this much is certain: the international humanitarian law that emerged from the ashes of Auschwitz was developed to prevent a repetition of the Holocaust, not to facilitate its reoccurrence. And if Israel has an abiding responsibility under that law, it is to ensure that “never again” is not a pious wish but an enduring reality.

To say that is not to suggest Israel faces easy choices: it doesn’t. But quite contrary to the Greens’ shopworn phrase that “every life has equal value”, there is no moral equivalence between the lives of those who decapitate babies, rape women and seize and torture hostages, and the lives of their current and future victims.

The holy man who refuses to kill a terrorist intent on butchering hundreds of innocents is not a saint: he is an accomplice to murder. And if the terrorist forces civilians to act as human shields, as Hamas, which places no value on human life, invariably does, capitulating to the blackmail can only increase the final toll.

The great pioneers of the law of war, who, in Immanuel Kant’s words, had “stared evil in the face”, understood that all too well.

Thus, Christian Wolff, who introduced the distinction between combatants and non-combatants in his 1749 treatise on the Law of Nations, emphasised that the distinction could only be sustained if the combatants on each side clearly demarcated themselves from their civilian counterparts; if they didn’t, they were no better than pirates, who deserved to be erased from the face of the Earth.

Equally, Emer de Vattel, whose Law of Nations (1758) is widely regarded as the basis of modern international law, left little doubt about the status of those who are “guilty of enormous breaches of the law of nations”, such as that of hiding behind captive civilians: “Enemies of the human race, who injure all nations by trampling underfoot the foundations of humanity’s common safety, they must be refused any quarter.”

It would, for sure, be better were all that far behind us: if the soaring ambitions of post-war international humanitarian law had been realised, and the mechanisms set out in the UN Charter had succeeded in abolishing Ares, the god of war and rage, altogether. That they haven’t is a tragedy; to pretend they have would be a folly. Rather, in a world where the lions show no sign of being ready to lie down with the lambs, Israel is, as were the Allies in World War II, locked in a struggle that will determine whether it survives or perishes.

To prevail, the Allies unhesitatingly deployed every means at their disposal, including a blockade immeasurably more severe than any imposed on Gaza; and by persevering without truce or pause until their adversaries were forced to their knees, they opened a freer and more prosperous future not only for the Allies but for millions of Germans and Japanese.

In exactly the same way, the road to a freer and more prosperous future for both Israelis and Palestinians runs first and foremost through the complete elimination of Hamas’s capacity to rain death and destruction on those it hates.

(Photo: Bob Hawke leaves leave the funeral for former Govenor-General Sir Zelman Cowen at Temple Beth Israel in Melbourne.)

Will mistakes be made in pursuing that goal? Undoubtedly: that is in the nature of war. But in Israel, unlike every other country in its region, a fearless press, a thriving civil society, an actively engaged citizenry and an independent judiciary that rigorously enforces the rules of war will ensure they are promptly identified, debated and corrected.

That is what Bob Hawke, who was consistently mindful of the Palestinians’ plight, so lucidly grasped in 1974, when he vehemently rejected the Whitlam government’s “morally repugnant policy of ‘even-handedness’?”.

Stressing that the Middle East conflict was part of the global attack on the democracies, he stared down the strong pro-Arab forces in the ALP and unreservedly picked sides. “If we allow the bell to be tolled for Israel,” Hawke declared, “it will have tolled for us all.”

Shining, now as then, through the darkness, those words define the litmus test of Australia’s moral compass.

Mak Siccar
Oct 29, 2023 2:15 PM

Excellent article. Thanks for posting.

As I posted recently, self-defense includes degrading or eliminating the capacity of an enemy to repeat their aggression.

Great analysis re the voice aka attempted putsch Sancho

Muddy
Oct 29, 2023 2:15 PM

Is there such a thing as a sound-based weapon?

There is, but you may not be impressed with its performance.
It takes years of operation before the target is driven to suicide.

The great unveiling that began in 2016 has continued with the ‘voice’ with threats and abuse substituting reasoned argument.

Also:

She – what would you like for dinner?

He – whatever.

Just once, just once, I’d like “a three course gourmet meal and I’ll open that special bottle of red”.

I’d cook it too, just to see the look on his face! 😀

Understanding Hamas, Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left, is extremely important.

Quote from Judith Butler, one of the most lauded ‘intellectuals’ of weird gender myths.

‘I’m cold’
…
Where do you find these losers? I’ve never said or done any of that. Nor have any of my friends,

Fire for effect.

I’m doing this because otherwise there will be another deluge of self-pity.

Nope. Comedy value.

Trouble is, Knuckles, I can read maps. Even when they’re upside down. My parlour trick is keeping maps in the brain (easy if you have a pictorial mental filing system).

I love to tell him we’re coming up to the left turn down “x” road and then 100 metres on the right. It’s like human GPS without the dulcet tones of English Jane.

Black Ball
Oct 29, 2023 2:48 PM

352, 128 upticks to your highlighting of those two sentences.

The media in particular (with some exceptions as always), is a willing accomplice to the planned extermination of a human population. As is every individual, institution and organisation which demonstrates support for their vision, regardless of their (the supporters’) motivation.

Ignorance is not an excuse in a court of law.

Bother. Spoke too soon.

In other news, just looked up Judith Butler. Indescribable. She’s my age, and I know that as you get older you tend to get a bit androgynous. A bit.

But seriously, you wouldn’t mistake me for a bloke.

She’s the female version of Steve Tyler.

JC
Oct 29, 2023 2:58 PM
From my twitter feed. Funny if it wasn’t so tragic and true. Ironically, Israel is the only hope.

The Middle East looks like a murder-suicide situation. The only wrinkle is people don’t agree who is the murderer and who is the suicide.

It’s obviously not fixable.

In the long run, the entire region is unlikely to be habitable.

Thai will only occur if the Muslims get their way, Masada falls again and Operation Samson is implemented.

That, not Thai!!!

Nice bushfire going near us atm. Smoke everywhere and not helped by a strong easterly. Sirens a plenty but it is in a creek system and they aren’t getting there. Seen worse just usually in August when it is cooler.

Houses bordering the creek reserve busy watering down fences & roofs. Gawd what a dismal transition to the wet season.

Catturd farewells Mike Pence:

https://twitter.com/ricwe123/status/1718357840371322984

CATHOLICS AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM
by Mary Eberstadt
10 . 27 . 23

On October 7, the terrorist organization Hamas decided to follow the Nazi playbook once more. As one observer of World War II put it, the Nazis “ripped the lid off Hell.” That’s what Hamas did. It ripped the lid off Hell. The comparison is inescapable. As noted earlier in this gathering, the Catholic moral record during World War II and the Holocaust was mixed. There were outstanding exceptions. But many European Christians, and others, back then and elsewhere in history, wronged our older brothers and sisters in faith. Many did not view the bond that tethers Catholics and Jews as unbreakable, but as one to escape when loopholes like war or personal advantage presented themselves.
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Since October 7, many universities in the United States and elsewhere have disgraced themselves. Some students sided openly with the murder of innocents. Some administrators stayed mute out of cowardice. As is more visible with each passing day, it is not the atheists or agnostics of the world who can be counted on to have the backs of Jews, or others, needing aid and solidarity. Rather, it is other people of the Book.
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The newly founded Coalition of Catholics Against Antisemitism is the spearhead of that new cause. A Statement of Solidarity and Action stating the aims of this group is now making the rounds. Catholics in public life and from private life are signing on, from academia to government to think tanks, to Catholic colleges and universities, and Catholics of every vocation to come.

Hamas and the other enemies of the Jewish people who revel in killing often say, scornfully, “the Jews love life.” So they do. And so do we. To love life as Catholics do is to love the Jews from whose roots we grew. Many people these days ask where the pro-life movement is now. The answer is, where it’s always been: fighting against the destruction of the innocent, from conception to natural death.

There is more than enough room in that loving formulation to include under its protective umbrella the people of the Covenant. From now on, so be it. Fellow Catholics: Go show the world what being our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers really means.

Pence- good riddance to bad rubbish. What a stinker.

To love life as Catholics do is to love the Jews from whose roots we grew.

I will not be praying for “peace” this Friday – as the Australian bishops are asking Catholics to do (on behalf of the pope whose idea it was).

I will be praying for total, unconditional victory to Israel and humbly petitioning God more generally for victory over the evil Mohammedan cult.

C.L., my prayer is for complete surrender and return of the hostages. While hope remains, I want them freed.

I can only get the South Park teaser. “Joining the Panderverse”.

Paramount +

I suppose it’s less actionable than “Joining the Groomerverse”.

Indolent
Oct 29, 2023 2:16 PM

An unusual headline for the NYT. Paywalled.

As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies

Hamas has spent years stockpiling desperately needed fuel, food and medicine, as well as ammo and weapons, in the miles of tunnels it has carved out under Gaza.

As supplies of virtually every basic human necessity dwindle in Gaza, one group in the besieged enclave remains well-stocked: Hamas.

Arab and Western officials say there is substance to Israeli claims of Hamas stockpiling supplies, including desperately needed food and fuel. Hamas, they say, has spent years building dozens of kilometers of tunnels under the strip where it has amassed stores of virtually everything needed for a drawn-out fight. It is a reality that Israel may soon find itself grappling with if it makes good on its threat to invade Gaza.

Asked about the situation, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, told reporters that if Gazans or the United Nations need fuel, they should get it from Hamas.

“Hamas has fuel but has different priorities — to provide ventilation and air for its tunnel system, for firing rockets, command and control,” he said on Thursday.

Neither the Arab nor the Western officials offered estimates anywhere as detailed as what the Israelis claim. And with only a trickle of aid beginning to reach Gaza, Hamas does not appear to be replenishing its stores, they said.

Hamas has also raised money by taxing the Palestinian population that lives in Gaza, making outside support less relevant than before.

Like ‘I chose her because she had spectacular tits, but when it turned out she didn’t have a PhD, I was shattered.’

No man with a penis has ever said that.

can be