Definite chip off the old armed robbery squad block but still made Comish despite the dodginess. “Everybody knows there’d be…
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The USA jobs market is Australia’s on steroids. Eighty per cent of new hires in Australia are in government jobs…
re the Old/New names for Australian infrastructure and assets- -notice how there’s no clamour to rename the Great Sandy Desert,…
Doesn’t exactly inspire trust and confidence. Two tier law enforcement again.
I posted a video from some Brit that you immediately trashed with your usual ad hominem garbageMy first comment, Imagine…
In Bendigo last night to see Ian Moss perform.
Just brilliant!
Guitar and voice still top notch, with a few good stories thrown in.
Welcome to the Society of the Glorious Downticked.
A small, select group. It’s hip to be rare.
I have never praised Charles Krauthanmer (and I never will) and get called a “neocon”.
Don’t words have meanings anymore?
Careful calli,
Buffalo Bill from Wallsend is here, despite staying up all night LARPing as a Gary Ablett worshipper.
ABC exposes its bias again.
In an article about Israeli protests, there is not one mention of the protesters demanding the release of the 200+ hostages.
.. except in the Reuters byline under a photo, which has clearly been copied straight off the wire.
Time to sqqush this ” Price was at a pro Pally” story.
Look at the photos….nothing like her at all.
Just the usual suspects trying to get one back at her and hoping most will never see the photo.
Two already caught here…how many in the general population??
Hi Grigory!
Privation, and no flying, is for the little people.
Judge Interrupts Just Stop Oil Protestor’s Flight to India (4 Nov)
Bill Gates Owns Multiple Jets He Calls His ‘Guilty Pleasure’ (4 Nov)
Brazenly shameless hypocrites.
One of the reasons Hezbollah is taking a”quiet” approach to Gaza ..
This “bloke ” is, currently, “sight-seeing” off the Lebanon coast …
Gerald E Ford …..
https://ibb.co/xSVbkck
And not a drop of blood, anywhere.
‘Sloopy’
Teens on the beach with actual goils.
The club speakers endlessly banging out ‘Sloopy’.
We had no idea how good life was.
Rashida Tlaib Posts Video Pushing Genocidal Rhetoric against Jews
“Turnip
Nov 5, 2023 8:13 AM
Time to sqqush this ” Price was at a pro Pally” story.
Look at the photos….nothing like her at all.
Just the usual suspects trying to get one back at her and hoping most will never see the photo.
Two already caught here…how many in the general population??”
Thanks, when I read it above, I found it hard to believe. Jacinta strikes me as someone with a lot of common sense, someone who would not be seen dead at a rabid Jew hating, pro Nazy protest filled with frothing, fulminating Pally and leftist Nazis. Where is this supposed photo?
Turnip, the page has been taken down.
Have they issued an apology?
I see a pot o’ gold.
Thanks Turnip. All the pages relating to Jacinta Price at the rally have been removed. Images from the various outlets remain.
Plus this Tweet. Her whereabouts are yet to be verified, but can be proved easily.
As you say, probably sucked in by a lie, and feeling rather foolish for trusting the dopey, lying MSM yet again.
I must be a slow learner. Will try harder next time.
Price has been in the UK attending the ARC conference.
Quite so. A big one.
Not Jacinta.
“They all look the same”
https://twitter.com/Leo_Puglisi6/status/1720694916580524179
“They all look the same”
This is what they do with Andy Ngo. There have been numerous situations where far-left media insist a person, of south-east Asian descent, is Ngo when the person is not. A few years ago a so called reputed far-left US journalist insisted he’d spoken with Ngo at a bar in a US city, and tweeted it to his fans, except that Ngo was in London at the time (where he now lives).
They really will stop at nothing to try and smear.
Billyboygates, I’m so wonderful my poo doesn’t stink. I’m surprised he doesn’t have a live feed of all his thoughts a’la mao’s little red book. What a tosser….”my guilty pleasure”. I thought that was the trips to Lolita Island.
Fools rush in…
As Andy Ngo says, in their desire to pursue particular ideological narratives, they will stop at nothing to smear a person who they perceive to be an ideological enemy, in the meantime throwing out any semblance of facts and balance.
Yes.
And even bigger fools refuse to admit their mistakes.
So it was the worst australian and Daily Mail peddling that lie?
I thought that was the trips to Lolita Island.
thought the same
I do hope that Jacinta does not turn the other cheek.
The Left scum trade on conservatives moderate demeanors.
As the Americans like to say, “stay calm and sue”.
Piers Morgan vs Jordan Peterson on Israel-Hamas War And His ‘Give ‘Em Hell’ Tweet
By the way, Leonardo Puglisi, who’s called out this fake news, is a Melbourne school boy who still lives at home. Puglisi runs the online news outlet called ‘6 News Australia’. I think he runs it with some schoolboy mates. He does better journalism than the ‘journoscum’ that currently infect our mainstream media outlets.
From our friends at Armstrong Legal:
Oh dear.
Isn’t it interesting how various media outlets, Labor, the Greens and the rest of the chattering scum insist on accusing those who spearheaded the NO campaign, such as Price, Mundine and the others, of peddling misinformation and disinformation, and yet someone, no doubt on the left, has deliberately peddled this lie/smear that Price attended a pro Pally protest. Isn’t this a deliberate act of misinformation and disinformation?
Meme
What the legal system needs is not higher maximum penalties but minimun penalties to stop activist judges giving taps on the hand with the wet lettuce leaf. I read years ago if minimum sentencing was brought in half the lawyers would be out of work, a good thing, and the courts wouldn’t be clogged.
Cernovich
@Cernovich
“We don’t do show trials in the US. I’m confident Trump will prevail.”
“We don’t let the Department of Justice, which is controlled by Trump’s chief rival, choose who the candidate will be.”
How is this hard?
Dan Bongino
@dbongino
Nothing to see here folks, just a U.S. congressional representative calling for Jewish genocide and mass murder.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Because she doesn’t want to get booed.
Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
“Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Sabrina McKenna, one of the judges hearing Honolulu’s climate lawsuit against oil and gas companies, called climate change an “existential threat” during a recent university lecture.”
From week in pictures.
I laughed.
Open Letter to Pope Francis from Chinese Faithful: “You are killing us!”
Armstrong Legal? Is that from the same 286 computer that runs Armstrong Econom nom nom ics? How much does it cost to subscribe? Had a nice little lotto win last week so I’ve got money to burn.
The leftist war on children rages in Charleston, South Carolina
Who down ticked the BANANAS?
This is truly heartbreaking, especially when you think how often it’s been, and is being, repeated. We are truly looking at the face of evil in those promoting this.
Mom Reacts to Transgender Teen: ‘Bearded, Homeless, and Sterilized’
and the Bee’s take –
Researchers Discover Miracle Cure For Gender Dysphoria Called ‘Deleting TikTok’
Watchdog Report: U.S. Has Given Afghanistan $11 Billion in Aid Since Disastrous Biden Withdrawal
Of course they are. They could then put any spin they like on the proceedings which the compliant media would simply parrot.
Trump prosecutors putting up a fight to keep cameras out of courtroom
If someone from an Army political nudge unit wants to meet with you privately to “discuss things man to man”, did they get approval for a controlled operation from the AFP Commissioner?
That would be a political scandal unto itself, however legal it may be.
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™
@P_McCulloughMD
Honored to receive the Carlton Lee Award from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine 2023. Presented our work on Spike protein detoxification for post-acute sequelae after COVID-19 and vaccination.
Kamala Harris’ Stepdaughter Raises $8 Million For Hamas-Controlled Gaza
May the downticker’s bananas go black and rot.
Sign of a slowing economy?
Sitting on Kawana Beach , grandson is doing nippers, and can see only 3 ships waiting offshore to enter the channel to Brisbane. This time last year, and earlier in the year, there have been between 12 and 24.
‘Digital chlamydia’!
That is a gold medallion with crossed Donalds put down.
H/T PJ Media.
Tinder?
Alwaysright…Powerline does not allow hot links to its site any more. The image may remain in your cache, but anyone who clicks on it can’t see it.
It’s a pet peeve of mine – Powerline aggregates other people’s memes (some of them almost as old as I am), then refuses others sharing them.
So zero IP, just bloodymindedness.
And yes, I did enjoy the tally man bananas.
When I searched for the Jacinta Price story I got a broken link to News com au.
Any news outlet that published that story should now have up a major retraction and apology article as some will already be believing it and may have shared it.
This is a bit long from the Hun about what threatens to be Australia’s biggest Ponzi scheme. I won’t bother linking ‘cos it’s paywalled.
What links a staid suburban law practice to strip clubs and gangster pubs, big betting, AFL football clubs and racing?
In the case of the late John Bernard Adams, the enigmatic figure at the centre of what threatens to be Australia’s biggest Ponzi scheme, it’s the network of contacts he gathered over several decades.
One end of the business was the usual wills, conveyancing, family and small business matters that are the bread and butter of suburban lawyers.
But, hiding in plain sight, it seems Adams used his respectable veneer as a cover for more than the usual mortgage loans to honest investors.
“John was a fixer,” says one person who has known him all their life. “He knew everyone.”
He also did deals with people with unexplained income, according to sources close to his family and associates.
Adams did business with everyone from racing identities to football heavyweights to publicans.
High on his list of victims are bookmakers, a breed often accused of quietly raking cash from the “grey economy” by betting “on the nod” with trusted punters.
But also among those fearing million-dollar losses are senior lawyers, a professor, doctors and a swelling but unknown number of others keen to keep their financial affairs private.
One small bookie lost his wife in a road crash recently, invested what he had left with Adams and moved to Queensland to mend a broken heart. Now he will be broke as well.
Adams and his wife Judy raised their family in one of Kew’s better streets, Mont Victor Rd, but recently moved to be closer to one of their daughters.
The move several kilometres east meant a longer commute to Adams’ offices in Upper Heidelberg Rd, Ivanhoe. But that was something Adams was prepared to tolerate to help with his grandchildren.
It was all in keeping with the image of a kindly, trustworthy, grandfatherly figure, quick with a joke with the guests at his weekly lunches, often in the Vietnamese restaurant opposite the Ivanhoe practice.
But underneath the easy camaraderie and apparent generosity was a mind like a rat trap, according to those who knew him well.
Football insiders have told the Herald Sun that Adams revealed his true nature with his attempt to sell out “his” team North Melbourne to Carlton in a merger deal with the then dominant business figure, brewery king John Elliott.
It was a remarkably cold-blooded act from a man whose father Jack Adams was a Kangaroos legend.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Adams cultivated some dodgy “mates” including bent Strathmore pharmacist Maurie Drew.
Drew (now dead) illegally sold drugs to trainers and jockeys — including a Melbourne Cup winner — and to footballers, boxers and gangsters. As a precaution, he would make his teenage children place the drugs on a bench from which the often high-profile buyers would take them.
Among such “visitors” to Drew’s family home was hit man Andrew “Benji” Veniamin and gangster Alphonse Gangitano.
The Veniamin connection extended to the little killer going out with a stripper who worked at a King St strip joint linked to Adams’ law firm.
Associates also mention links with the Mens Gallery strip joint and with the Brunswick Club, where gangster Lewis Moran was shot dead during the underworld war in 2004.
While Adams was happy to do business on the shady side of the street, he showed few obvious signs of gangster-style excess. No limousines, bling or strings of racehorses.
But they do own an immensely valuable sprawling coastal property overlooking the beach at Big Hill just outside Lorne, and it’s hard to believe John Adams didn’t gather a property portfolio around Australia, if not beyond.
The end came for Adams on Saturday night, October 21. As 81-year-old Paul McCartney played his Melbourne concert at Docklands stadium, the 82-year-old lawyer reportedly called a family dinner which would become the last supper.
Details of his death vary, which is one of the odd things about the case. But one friend of the family says they believe his wife Judy went upstairs to bed while he stayed below. When she went down to find out where he was, he was dead.
Did John Bernard Adams take his own life? The only people who know are not saying.
One thing is certain: his family reacted instantly, ensuring he was buried with a minimum of publicity the same week, with only a small group of mourners attending the discreet service at Immaculate Conception Church in Hawthorn.
No one beyond those invited knew of the service because the family placed no death or funeral notices.
It seems an bizarrely secretive exit for a man regarded as one of the key football powerbrokers behind the AFL national competition — after registering “Australian Football League” and selling the name to the league at a huge profit.
But insider trading in football is the least of it. The money at stake in a tangled web of mortgage loans could run to tens of millions of dollars, with some racing people estimating it runs to more than $100m.
It will take bamboozled legal watchdogs and police a long time to unravel, if they ever do. Where black money is involved, those who have lost it cannot queue up for any legal compensation.
Maybe some of them will try jumping the queue.
North Melbourne history and connections. Never liked the pricks since 1977. And their hero Barry Cable was a kiddie fiddler.
The “defence” they will use is it is not defamatory to suggest someone was at a Pally Rally.
See if this works.
It worked! I copied that image from Powerline and was able to link it. Yay.
Will repeat experiment to make sure it wasn’t a fluke.
Let’s see if Always right’s bananas turn up.
Now for a picture of pineapples. Lotsa pineapples.
Oh me, oh my, where did I put the pineapples?
More leftist racism – the left says they all look the same,.
Thanks Barking Toad- very interesting article. They say crime doesn’t pay but sometimes I wonder. Walking past those palaces at Dandenong used to make me wonder too.
John Anderson interviews Hitchens. Great interview if you have an hour. I don’t agree with everything he says, but he’s worth listening to.
Peter Hitchens agrees with me :-). He’s disturbed by some on the Right wanting to stop these pro-Hamas loons from speaking. You want them out in the open where you can then display their gross views and use that to persuade the public – especially those on the left how their gross views are murderously racist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaCFVcLr_4Q
Bob Ansett was Kangaroos? Plenty of OPM torched there.
And then sent back to the shit holes they came from.
Calli:
I’m having the same problem with the Site Formerly Known as Twitter.
Most of the links placed here get a ‘somethings gone wrong label’, then when you cut and paste the URL – what comes up is something picked randomly.
I don’t mind them refusing hotlinks, but let us bloody well know so we don’t waste our time.
Pogria the link to powerline didn’t work.
Winson I get X refusing to share but if I click it again it does. Most of the time it works first time.
Winston
Puglisi seems to be uncritically reposting a bit of hamas propaganda.
Grey Ranga, which one?
There has got to some point where the people erupt snd demand the shut down of the ABC.
“Thousands of Israelis demand the resignation of Netanyahu and an immediate cease fire”.
To be corrected as
“The early shift breakfast room made sh*t up about Israel”.
Why do so many young Americans support Hamas?
Hint: China.
Still up on the electric interweb:
Ooops.
‘Technical issue’ may be an understatement.
That dodgy Adams dude was 81.
Not unusual for someone to go out just sitting in a chair.
Highly likely that Albo is in China to announce we’re taking off the dumping duty on Chinese wind turbines.
Quid pro quo Anthony.
https://www.afr.com/companies/infrastructure/beijing-says-australia-needs-chinese-wind-towers-urges-end-to-tariff-20230926-p5e7pz
Labor ‘Super Genius’
I cannot see the story of the alleged attendance of Jacinta Price at a pro-Palestinian rally – link doesn’t refer to it?
SBS
“Israeli strike on UN-run school kills at least 15”.
The inclusion of “UN-run” is intended to enrage you and prevent you from the few minutes of thought needed to identify that the report is bullshit.
The ABC are keystone cops, but SBS is genuinely subversive. Made even more dangerous following the merger with NITV.
Pogria, both. All its doing is showing you from your cache not linking for us mere mortals.
Re : supposed attendance of Price at Pro-Palestinian rally –
It would appear that Price is not even in the country at the moment! The relevant “photo” of her appearance is of an Aboriginal woman that looks like her.
Gez my dog produces Labor Super Geniuses every day.
From “2lazy2try”
Christina Pazsitzky Gets Roasted By Jimmy Carr
“You spent a year in Oxford. You’re hiding it so well”.
I think she’s trying to do the Norm Macdonald thing.
I doubt that but it would be absurdly meta.
Barking Toad at 10:00.
One thing which I find suss about that story is the registration and sale of the name “Australian Football League”.
Could be true, but I wonder if it wasn’t a smokescreen to explain a sudden outbreak of conspicuous consumption.
I should read earlier posts when I go online with this blog. Suspected the Price info was incorrect & would have been spared the angst had I looked at earlier posts.
So it’s not all bad then.
Report from the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (Middle East and North Africa Chapter).
As of November 4:
36 journalists and media workers were confirmed dead: 31 Palestinian, 4 Israeli, and 1 Lebanese.
8 journalists were reported injured.
3 journalists were reported missing.
8 journalists were reported arrested.
Multiple assaults, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and killings of family members.
If this’d happened 78 years ago it would’ve been inconvenient!
Iwo-jima volcano: eruptions continue on island’s surface, new cone is now forming (4 Nov)
Great aerial photo of the new volcanic cone forming exactly where the USMC landing craft were, as they were running in to the beach.
Quite so.
Let’s see what pops up re the alleged Ponzi.
Although if a lot of it was black money maybe there will be no complaints.
Who wants to pay tax on money which has been re-stolen from them?
She’s been in the UK for the ARC conference.
I’m having the same problem with the Site Formerly Known as Twitter.
You can see where this is going.
I canned my fb years ago so now when I’m sent links to fb I can not view.
Elon is doing the same with X.
Have an account or have reduced access which will end up like fb (zero access).
Interesting observation- I looked on youtube for some Sweeney episodes- only the pilot and extracts. Full episodes on Daily Motion. Wow-British TV used to rock. John Thaw seems to chronical the decline- tough guy detective to poncie barrister.
There is something foreboding about the LWNJs melting down the Lee’s statue.
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This conduct combined with their celebration of rape and murder, these people are extremely dangerous.
Too late. We’re already booked to go up the Amazon in March.
In a Worldwide War of Words, Russia, China and Iran Back Hamas
Iran, Russia and, to a lesser degree, China have used state media and the world’s major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel, while denigrating Israel’s principal ally, the United States.
Useful idiots – equivocating and doing misrepresentation with intent to mislead.
They walk amongst us.
Labor, the party of the working man. Or not (the Hun):
Oh, Elbow. Surely growing up in a fibro houso western something something would have instilled a sense of what’s right? What’s important to the average Joe? That ordinary working class punters weren’t stupid?
Evidently not. The good news (for Elbow) is that the tertiary-educated ponytails like him:
Attention Elbow. You are now officially in ‘the topender town’ people were talking about not all that long ago.
One thing which I find suss about that story is the registration and sale of the name “Australian Football League”.
Andrew Rule wrote the piece Sancho which I neglected to mention when I posted it. Have always found him to be pretty reliable and well connected to source stories.
There will be a lot of punters thinking “schadenfruede” with so many “elites” getting royally rorted and rooted by one of their own.
‘Jacinta Price attends Sydney pro-Palestine rally’
I guess all aboriginals look the same to prog-left journalists
Yes it did. Used to.
Well that’s embarrassing.
Mother Nature knows best when it comes to climate solutions, social media users say (Phys.org, 4 Nov)
So we have to call it something else to fool the proles. Okaaay.
If Morse was closer to John Thaw’s real character, he was a bloody good actor in Sweeney.
So good I could never suspend my disbelief that he could ever be Morse.
I used to rely heavily on Twitter to post daily cartoons. Then Elon made it impossible to view Twitter content without logging on (using passwords I had long forgotten).
So now I don’t use Twitter at all.
Elon’s attempts to make the site pay its way have just made it irrelevant for users like me.
I think we’ll need to stay tuned for Elon’s next move as there will need to be one since Twitter/X currently has no future — nevertheless an improvement on its former status as an establishment propaganda/censorship channel.
Comment, from the Oz.
I just watched that interview Indolent linked with John Anderson (yummy guy) interviewing Christopher Hitchins’ brother Peter. Peter is a British rationalist who reminds me of Hairy’s very moderating brother who would fall under the first tank he met. Peter thinks Israel was wrong to tackle Hamas and go into Gaza. Peter is an armchair noodle who, while he has friends in the Middle East on both sides, doesn’t really comprehend that power does lie in the barrel of a gun turret when opposing barbarians, at least until you have made your point and reduced your enemy’s capabilities. Then you negotiate.
I think it’s fare if you’re not a subscriber to not be allowed access, Tom.
I’m not sure permanently running twitter at a loss is a good investment strategy.
Might work okay for Atlassian.
Good on Elon for trying to turn extwitter into a profitable business.
Comment, from the Oz. That’s the first I’d heard of this, any other Cats able to shed any light on this one?
No, no, no! This cannot be, that top political analyst, FatBoy mUnty has absolutely assured us that the outer suburbs are safe for Labor to infinity, and the Liberals should rely on regaining the Wood Duck seats as a path back to power (and those seats are going Green).
Never got into The Sweeney when it on- used to be on channel 7 iirc when I was at high school. Maybe Mum and Dad thought it was too violent. Never got into Morse (have morsey on us as Glenda Slagggg said). Certainly not Kavanagh either.
I found nitter which lets you view twitter without logging in, just put in the name of the twitter you want to view after nitter.net e.g. nitter.net/elonmusk
Okay I messed up the link, but you get the idea!
On another subject, logged into a supplier’s customer support site and say Altasian for the first time in my life.
A comfortable enough flat in the inner city, not outer Sydney at all.
Able to join in with all of the 70’s leftist urban gentrifiers of old working class suburbs and make his political rise through this New Left in the inner suburbs. Hasn’t really been near a working class suburb in his life.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond being played on the streets of Jerusalem. The musicians are orthodox. I thought they would have steered clear of Pink Floyd given their history.
That’s bollocks Zulu.
There are a few Japanese biographies around from officials well up in government – they never mention such a concept – rather the reverse.
Sweeney was one of the best of British Television shows.
Followed by Arfur Daley.
At least they’d be better than insects.
Can we eat our way through an exploding sea urchin problem? (Phys.org, 4 Nov)
Have at it, seafood lovers, you have a blessing from the Senate. You’ll be saving the planet with every urchin you eat.
(Betcha in about three years they’ll be on the endangered species list…)
Ed Case trying a different line? Previously he said that Japan was ready to surrender in 1943, now it seems that the Japanese were asking Australia to surrender in 1944?
Camperdown.
A 15 minute walk to the CBD.
Best I don’t sit down too much then. Keep on travelling. Suits me.
This is worth sending to all politicians, especially the liars, green and teal scum. Of course you will never get anything more than an automatic formula reply:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/jaccuse-open-letter-hamas-apologists-daniel-wolf-nutpe
At Bengello Beach, longest-running coastal study in Southern Hemisphere finds ‘nature is the best healer’
ABC
Well, I’ve just arrived home after spending the night at my sister’s home in the inner-west. I like going up there, she has a swimming pool and a fabulous kitchen to cook in. So, this morning I got the bus to Strathfield and then the train to Town Hall. I like to go to the Woolworths at Town Hall to buy groceries, that’s why I ended up at Town Hall on Monday afternoon 9 October 2023 and I saw what I saw. Anyway, after exiting and proceeding to walk down Park Street, I noticed that posters had been put up on poles showing pictures of Palestinian children with captions saying that they’d been ‘murdered by Israel’. Some thoughts, firstly I don’t trust a word the Nazi Pallies and their far-left comrades say, they lie through their teeth all the time, secondly, this is trying, yet again, to equate the 230 or so kidnapped Israelis to Palestinian children, who may have died in Israeli crossfire (and yet, that is a tragedy), and finally, I’ll just state here and now, Israel does not target/kill children on purpose….END OF STORY. This was a deliberate provocation, deliberately demeaning to the Jewish hostages who are in Gaza (and are probably dead), and it is yet another deliberate F*CK YOU to Sydney’s Jewish community. So, what did this Jew do? Despite carrying heavy groceries, this Jew went from pole to pole and tore them down. This Jew will not be cowered by lies, threats and intimidation. And you see, I’ve always liked that old adage, ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’.
Bruce O’Nuke:
The same thread of human arrogance runs through both the Gerbil Wormening Movement and the Trans Lunacy – God has made a mistake and it’s up to a certain group to correct that mistake.
Prideful arrogance from people who have been educated far beyond their intellectual capacity.
Roger Waters is the antisemite.
The other two surviving members no longer get on with him, with David Gilmour being openly critical of his views.
Had a comment about unintended consequences of messing with atmospheric chemistry and it mightn’t be a good idea.
Into the void it went.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Doesn’t pass the pub sniff test, even from the main road.
P – Good get. How dare scientists do actual empirical research and data collection! Amazing that the ABC is carrying that article. I suppose they don’t understand the implications.
Japan was well and truly on the backfoot by 1944.
Boambee John
Labor still has the opportunity to force through the transfer of power to the UN of Australia’s sovereignty under the epidemic scenario, and I doubt that the Libs will even think about cancelling it.
The Liberal Party will be sitting back, looking at the polls and thinking government will be handed to them on a silver platter.
They will do nothing to upset the system.
Go Calli go!
..
Is there any more ridiculous or nonsensical three word combination to be found anywhere in the history of the world?
Hamas miffed hambulances got sprung by Idf?
haareetz
Grey Ranga,
when I go to the link, it still comes up with the pic. Must be because it is on my computer. I thought I had had a lightbulb moment. sigh, I had celebrated prematurely.
Can I identify as a bloke now? 😀
Who is the sick f*ck who gave a downtick to the post from Cassie at 12:02PM?
Vile c*nt.
Norway offers free tertiary education to any resident suitably qualified for the course they wish to study (thanks, North Sea oil!).
That she’s studying in Poland suggests she didn’t meet the standard in Norway.
Barking Toad
Nov 5, 2023 11:52 AM
Sweeney was one of the best of British Television shows.
Followed by Arfur Daley.
And Dennis Waterman was in both TV programmes. The Sweeney and Minder. A great actor as well as being in New Tricks.
I hope that doesn’t mean…
😀
On John Thaw, I once heard him interviewed. His natural speaking voice was far more like his Sweeny character than Morse’s dulcet RP. For fun he tried on a few voices for the interviewer – most entertaining.
Fun fact – the series “Endeavour” which covers Morse’s early police service has an episode called “Harvest”. Apart from a naughty reference to The Wicker Man, it also featured Thaw’s wife, Sheila Hancock as a sort of wise woman/witch. If you watch the shows carefully, you’ll see lost of sly little references to the earlier series.
“Lewis” is not so reminiscent, but there are still plenty of memories caught among the dreaming spires.
Roger, so what your really saying is “avoid all Polish doctors since they’re third rate hacks”.
/Cathy Newman
Ah…not “a bloody good actor” after all then.
He was also a committed lefty, iirc.
Have at it, seafood lovers, you have a blessing from the Senate. You’ll be saving the planet with every urchin you eat.
I always ‘fought that urchins worked with Fagin in Oliver Twist. And now we can eat them? Maybe they were street urchins so maybe not.
mOnty and Albo: “Are we the
baddiestories?”They can complain all they like about the rules of war but everythings on the table when you start hiding weapons in vehicle with insignias of protection on or feigning surrender under a white flag.
Once done on a continuous scale don’t be surprised your adversary considers everything a ruse and subsequently a legitimate target.
Thaw also had a leg injury which had him dragging his foot. I believe it was permanent. Most angles were shot front-on or knee-up when he was walking. Except for one which gave it away.
Other fun fact – Kevin Whately, who played Lewis was approached for more episodes but he refused to do more than the Morse series out of respect for the original.
Favourite Morse Episode is “The Wench is Dead” a century old murder solved from a hospital bed, Lewis has to be “Moonbeams Kiss the Sea”, all about forgery and dead poets and Tolkien’s supposed banjo playing.
Barrington Pheloung did the soundtrack for all three series.
Diary note reminder, never ever get into a blog scrap with Cassie.
Elbow owns 5 properties (at last count) and he’s not alone among Labor’s elite on that score.
Incidentally, the ALP pollster predicting Labor’s woes, Kon Samaras, also warned Albanese about the Voice wipeout and explained why it would happen and presently puts Palaszczuk’s primary vote at 26% and falling.
Happily, nobody in the ALP appears to be paying him any heed.
I never worry about actors’ political views unless they tell me what to think because “celebrity”. I prefer to watch a fine actor…act.
Last week I watched “Holmes”, starring Ian McKellen in the lead role. Just superb, as he tried to unravel a solution to a “crime” between bouts of dementia. Worth a look. Laura Linney made a good job as housekeeper also.
Blue-collar Australia is turning its back on the Albanese government, with support for the Coalition surging since the Voice referendum among tradies and Australians with vocational and TAFE educations.
Always thought this would be a one term Labor government. The Morrison government was so “on the nose” the mob had a mind for major punishment. Amazing that Morrison & Frydenberg thought that they were iron clad.
It is a shame that the electorate still can’t conceive of a minor party government eg One Nation + Clive’s mob and others. Can’t see how they could do worse. If the LNP could select a NP PM – such as Matt Canavan – we might see real progress. But it won’t happen. The best we can hope for is the annihilation of the Teals & the other pseudo socialists.
Mushroom news (the Tele):
And:
Disappeared, eh?
Dun dun DUNNNNNN.
Pogria you can be a man without a dick. Does not confer map reading ability.
Crime is off-the-charts in the nicer parts of Brisbane.
Bruce of Newcastle
I doubt there has ever been a species with the sheer insolence to tell the planet (Been here for 4.5 Billion years and doing fine!) that evolution, which has been in flux for all that time, is now to stop and remain unchanged for ever!
Greens: “Stop, Gaia! We command you!”
Gaia: “More pesky lifeforms that won’t shut up. Where’s the nearest comet?”
And not ‘arf bad as a singer, either.
I’ve got the DVDs; you’re tempting me to revisit them on this rainy afternoon. 😀
Evolution – however it is to be defined – has never been in flux. The geological evidence points to quite the opposite.
Roger
I wonder how many his live in partner owns?
Alternate ending:
Greens: “Stop, Gaia! We command you!”
Gaia: “More pesky lifeforms that won’t shut up. Pluto, fetch that comet!”
Rabid preacher in Sydney town. They live among us. Report from The Oz.
He calls for jihad action by all Muslims. ASIO and others have been alerted.
Roger, another good one from the Morse line-up is “Who Killed Harry Field?”.
The final sequence is fun just to watch the old boy tell his story against a rotating backdrop.
Bettina Arndt:
Toowoomba’s Brittany Higgins Wannabee
– Another gold-digger goes after Bruce Lehrmann.
This is being address by Princess Anastcia’s Qld ALP.
Today’s Courier Mail informs that children will no longer be able to purchase toy guns.
The accompanying reader poll & comments below, suggest that the genpop don’t think restricting little Billy & Johnny from buying their own capguns will make a skerrick of difference to 16yo violent burglars.
This is how they’re handling people not feeling safe in their home & cops being ordered back to sit inside the station for the remainder of their shift, lest their police car be slammed on the street.
They probably wonder why their vote is cratering.
Roger
Nov 5, 2023 1:03 PM
Flux:
I’m not sure where I got it wrong. Can you enlighten me?
Let’s watch the Slime’s rhetoric move towards, “think of the Pali children”.
Great. Another Ferkin Dersya.
Government…the ball is now in your court.
Deport this hate filled, ranting maniac before another innocent bystander dies.
A short time ago, Iran’s Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people.
In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:
“Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew. If a Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner.
“A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube.
Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocaine, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil.
If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew. If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege.
Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate.
Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.
Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the “Schick” reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.
“Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Jewish Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram.
They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk.
“Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug against this killing disease.
Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts.
“In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud to obey the Islamic boycott.”
Oh, and by the way, don’t call for a doctor on your cell phone because the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.
Meanwhile I ask, what medical contributions to the world have the Muslims made?”
Forgive men if this marvellous, plaintive article by Gemma Tognini in today’s W’End Oz has already been posted. It so reflects what I have felt since 7/10.
Crisis of courage in the face of unspeakable Hamas barbarism
By GEMMA TOGNINI
A family of four. Two young children, a boy and a girl, six and eight years old. They sat at their breakfast table and were made to watch as their father had his eyes gouged out in front of them. Then someone cut off their mother’s breast. The same savages turned then to the little girl, the eight-year-old, and cut off her foot before turning to her little brother. Just six years old. They sliced the fingers from his hand. Only then was this family killed. After their execution, the Hamas terrorists sat down and helped themselves to a meal.
I’m willing to bet some of you couldn’t finish reading those words. Maybe you skimmed over them; reading them was too much.
It’s understandable. Who wants to believe something so barbaric, so inhuman, could be real? Who wants to chance these words taking shape and lodging themselves in the imagination?
To you I’d say, go back. Read it again. Let the words break your heart as they did mine. Face the truth of what happened, feel the devastating weight of it. This isn’t the time for sanitising facts or avoiding them to preserve some falsely constructed idea of comfort.
I feel as if we are caught in a moment. Suspended, like a bracing breath held in fear of what’s next. The movement of a hand on a clock, in painful, drawn-out slow motion.
This thought, this imagery, has been fluttering around my head and my heart all week, like a butterfly hovering to and fro looking for a place to land.
I felt this way days before I watched the testimony of barbarism, recounted by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the US congress and to the world, the words of which I transcribed above. All week I’ve been wrestling with the sense that we are living in a significant moment in history.
Does it feel like that to you? Because it does to me.
Seventy-five years after we promised the Jewish world never again, on Monday the Israeli ambassador to the UN wore a Star of David on his jacket while addressing the Security Council with fire in his belly and truth on his tongue. The same weak-kneed, complicit and hypocritical UN that last May appointed Iran to chair this week’s Human Rights Council Social Forum.
Israeli United Nations Ambassador Gilad Erdan speaks during a Security Council meeting on the Israel-Hamas war at UN headquarters. Picture: AFP
Israeli United Nations Ambassador Gilad Erdan speaks during a Security Council meeting on the Israel-Hamas war at UN headquarters. Picture: AFP
We are witnessing the most sickening outbreak of anti-Semitism around the globe in generations. A flight from Israel lands in the Russian republic of Dagestan and is overrun by savages “looking for the Jews”, and not to offer them post-flight refreshments either. Looking to murder them simply for being Jewish.
Throughout Europe, the homes of Jews are being marked with a Star of David. Australia has become known for chants of “Gas the Jews” and burning Israeli flags, a violent scene set against a stunning night-time view of the Sydney Opera House.
When one of the more than 230 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza was rescued by the Israel Security Agency, known as Shin Bet, large sections of the hard-left media instead reported that she had been surrendered by the terrorists. A blatant lie, just one of many.
It has been an instructive, terrible, fraught, critical month since October 7. Illuminating, in the sense that so many have declared their hand via sins of omission and commission.
I’d never have believed the level of anti-Semitism I’ve witnessed in Australia this past month. I’d never have believed there’d come a day when we had to remind people of how the Holocaust happened. I always wondered how. Now we know.
Spending the past week working from London has brought me closer in a geographical sense to the conflict. This has naturally framed certain things through a different lens. But the temporary distance from home has likewise brought a different perspective that has led me to conclude one thing: We are facing a crisis of courage.
Something about this past month, the terrible events of October 7 and the response of large parts of the Western world have shaken me. In fact, it’s not just about what happened on October 7 that has brought me to this conclusion; rather, the response to it from many in Australia’s political, academic and cultural elite.
And perhaps, in a perverse way, the response to it is a reflection of our own culpability. All of a sudden, a phrase such as “Free Palestine” is being used to justify the most horrific things.
A crisis of courage. Courage to stand. Courage to adjust course. Courage to count the cost of truth and, in one of the great Australian colloquialisms, the courage to call bullshit on a wide range of things we know not to be true but, for whatever reasons, have been tolerated. Things like the bitter, deceptive lies that underpin identity politics in all its forms. That all we have is identity, that the colour of our skin or our sexuality matters more than a person’s character. That we have no agency. That resilience doesn’t matter. A culture that celebrates, honours and even venerates victimhood in all its forms.
Has our tolerance of such self-indulgent folly, over time, at least in part created a culture of moral weakness? Has it led us down a path towards this moment we seem horribly unprepared to face?
The West hasn’t faced a serious threat since 9/11. I don’t recall anyone calling for restraint then. Have we already forgotten? It could be argued that we have forgotten our history, our story, become lazy.
Focused on consensus at all costs. Favoured the road most travelled. Avoiding conflict. Avoiding those things that might require courage.
That savages who would deliberately mutilate parents in front of their children, before dismembering the kids while they’re still alive, deserve to be hunted down and wiped out should be the ultimate unity ticket. It shouldn’t be open to question.
Yet here we are. There’s truth to the saying that a crisis doesn’t create character, it reveals it. This crisis continues to be a mirror to many and the moment we’re facing must be met with courage lest it pass unchallenged.
If I’m not mistaken, that’s the place of gathering of the religion of peace that is commemorating the deaths of Hezbollah jihadis in the current exchanges of fire across the Lebanese-Iraeli border.
Alas, only about four so far.
We’ve gotta start slinging these bastards into jail. Or if they’re not citizens, deport them to back to crapholistan.
What else could Israel do? They will win, but not quickly. From the Oz:
Carry On Up The Amazon?
A short time ago, Iran’s Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people.
In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:
Thank you cohenite!!!! A stunner of an article – reminding us of the great achievements in so many areas of human advancement were via amazing scientists and medicos of the Jewish faith.
I reckon Brih-nee 2.0 isn’t necessarily after a trial and conviction.
Although the Labor political machine no doubt wants two bites of that particular cherry – particularly in Quenthland where the Pallashay government is overwhelmingly anti-penis – this particular ‘complainant’ is a low-rent recidivist druggie with no connections to any fancy-schmantz high-end gummint apparatus.
Notably, this one went straight to a compo lawyer (as opposed to 1.0 who went to the media) before the jacks.
She’ll put up a six figure number as an ambit claim, and settle for high five figures which she’ll invest in an AU Ford sedan and meth.
Sure, Winston…in a nutshell: there is no continuous development (flux) of new species evident in the geologic record, but rather loooong periods where nothing seems to happen punctuated by bursts of speciation – the emergence of new species as if from nowhere.
Now I’m off to watch Morse.
A police helicopter has been buzzing overhead for 20 minutes. Clearly they are looking for someone.
Cricket bat is out. No harm in taking precautions …. and just like that, siren after siren a couple of blocks over.
Last year I was reversing out of the driveway and a w*nker sprung up from behind the fence from the property across the road. He ran straight towards me, got up to the passenger window and I greeted him with Stanley knife I had in the console at the time.
He was sweating like a pig and clearly on the run. Truth be told, it scared me. He took off in hurry over the fence next door.
It rattled me.
If any part of her story is fair dinkum – including that they met in a strip club that was still open after the nightclubs had closed, then he’s not fussy about where he goes trawling for a root.
If any of her story is fair dinkum. It wouldn’t be the first prosecution based on fabrication, or drawing a very long bow.
Head tilted, eyes half rolled, I’m looking you in the eye and periodically looking sideways in disbelief:
……….Then, six weeks later, the accuser googled the Higgins case and discovered the man she’d had sex with that night was Bruce Lehrmann. It is understood her statement will reveal that she quickly met with a Brisbane compensation lawyer before reporting the matter to the police. Apparently the phone download of the complainant includes evidence that she is involved in distribution of illicit drugs and has long been unemployed………..
Uh oh.
This is absurd.
Nie Vir Die Europeans.
lol, I didn’t remove the sidebar link in the piece on Hamas above.
So I thought I’d have a look at it for Cat travellers, for it has travel currency tips.
They also suggest you always carry some foreign cash in small amounts for travel.
A very interesting twitter thread – NY Jew contacts some Gazans for their take.
https://twitter.com/mfg/status/1720545823237267817
Did his lawyers request a stay for obvious reasons? If not why not?
Ah yes an AU Falcon. Worst one Eva. I call it the Jac Nasser special. The same guy who got ford to buy Jaguar.
Barking Toad at 11:37.
Yes, Andrew Rule is pretty solid when it comes to getting the facts straight. That was just me musing about how someone might concoct a story to explain how money materialised out of thin air.
And the AFL would be always expected to deny it anyway, so no biggy if they did.
This is absurd.
More than absurd. What they are doing to Lehrmann, in a small way, is reminiscent of what is happening to Trump.
Roger
OK, Punctuated Equilibrium has its points, but really, those points take up a miniscule percentage of the geologic record. The overall tendency has been to show steady change for 99%+ of the record.
I’ve started watching Piste Noire on SBS on demand.
Painfully slow first 15mins.
Then boom, I’m in love.
Constance Labbe.
She’s very much what I’m looking for in the next Mrs FeelTheBern.
Some of these French gals have it going on.
It was the Firestone tire incident that finally sealed it though. Cost Ford $3 billion.
“cohenite
Nov 5, 2023 1:41 PM
This is absurd.
More than absurd. What they are doing to Lehrmann, in a small way, is reminiscent of what is happening to Trump.”
It’s a test run for our own election system and future Prime Ministers who don’t toe the line.
Yeah had forgotten about that. Tyres were damaged as the vehicles moved along the production line iirc
Media priorities, as set out by Hun ‘journalist’ Matthew Younan:
So – 60+ year old receives unwarranted critical injuries at the hands of a scrote. The kicker:
‘Oh, thank goodness that unseemly attempted murder scene in the street got cleaned up so I wouldn’t a) have to walk two blocks around to the pub (admittedly unlikely, given the K-pop demographic) or b) have to wait for a train.’
There used to be a frequent poster here who (equally frequently) complained that delays in traffic caused by fatal prangs on roads interrupted his TV viewing schedule.
OK, Punctuated Equilibrium has its points, but really, those points take up a miniscule percentage of the geologic record. The overall tendency has been to show steady change for 99%+ of the record.
Not really. Consider Heinrich and Dansgaard-Oeschger events which feature cooling and warming by up to 15C in less than 50 years.
FTB- The Tunnel (in its final weeks) is also excellent. A spin-off of the Danish-Swedish series “the bridge”
Dead heat in polls for Kentucky Governor’s race. Black dude is the GOP contender.
Swirling around in my head at least once an hour and even dream about them in my sleep.
Oh, is that what actually happened?
It was really weird. Nasser was actually doing ads on tv about the tire thing, and were quite regular. He spoke with a Melbourne northern burbs accented English and had Americans poking fun at it.
I hope the Western Sydney Mussies set up a Go Fund Me page.
I will contribute.
In want them to go all out. We are watching the immolation of the Left.
What say you Wong and Burke? How come those bloody Aussies don’t comply with your script?
“Albo more Mussies – quickly”!
Simulation explains it all. 🙂
Earlier this week.
“Israeli inspectors earlier this week uncovered several oxygen concentrators meant to aerate the tunnels operated by terror groups in Gaza, two senior Israeli officials tell The Times of Israel.
“These weren’t for use in the hospitals, but below them. That’s why they were smuggled among boxes of cookies,” one of the senior Israeli officials says, adding that the entire truck in which the oxygen concentrators were found was barred from entering Gaza.
…
The trucks first enter Egypt where they undergo an initial round of inspections. They then are driven into Israel through the Nitzana crossing where they are inspected by Israel’s COGAT military liaison before being sent back to Egypt and driven into Gaza through the Rafah crossing, a second Israeli official tells The Times of Israel, saying the format was agreed upon after extensive talks between Israel, Egypt and the United States.
Hamas has previously used humanitarian aid for terrorist attacks:“
Feelthebern:
This Constance Labbe?
Swirling around in my head at least once an hour and even dream about them in my sleep.
Swine. I thought you dreamt about me.
This is absurd.”
Actually, it’s staggering and jaw dropping in its absurdity. This Lehrmann verdict should take no longer than minutes, the time it takes for a jury to walk to the jury room, sit down, declare him ‘not guilty”, get up, walk back to the courtroom and tell the judge the verdict is “not guilty”.
Upon the ‘not guilty’ verdict, I have some advice for Bruce Lehrmann, firstly, he should never again have a one night stand, and secondly, he should depart this country…for good.