A bit of pushback to the woke directors…..

A furious shareholder has asked the corporate watchdog to make Commonwealth Bank directors pay the $2million donation given to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Yes23 campaign out of their own wages.

Bank shareholder Alexander Haege has written to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission after clashing with Commonwealth Chair Paul O’Malley over the Voice donation at a annual general meeting held last month.

Mr Haege writes he had his microphone turned off when asking Mr O’Malley to name the ‘relevant section of Corporations Act that authorises the Board to make a political donation to the Voice’s YES campaign’.
He said the question was greeted by ‘a hearty round of applause from my fellow shareholders’ but Mr Malley had not given a ‘relevant answer’ to this and provide ‘no specific direction’ from the Act.

Needs to be more of it. The Industry Super Funds now need to be challenged over the investment (waste) of money into green rubbish.

BoN…you are NOT to steal my downticks! I thought it was my comments, and mine alone that were The Precious.

Anyways, while you’ve all been arguing, I cleaned the oven. It was hideous, like something out of a horror story. Now you need sunglasses when passing it, so gleamy brilliant it is.

My halo will now be adjusted at a more rakish angle on account of my cleaning fu.

I think the Counter Reformation was responsible for more than a few hiding out. Horrible times.

Tom, Adobe has a nice new one called GoodDog. Very cute and “comical”. We should adopt it for light relief.

Bruce O’Nuke:
Regards bicycles, I want to see the strip of plastic stuck into the spokes come back.
Not to alert or annoy me, but just to infuriate the riders on the footpaths.
I also want to see the electric scooters have a hidden compartment for when they go over walking speed, which releases an infuriated cat into their crotch area.
Yes, I know I’m not a nice person.

Better vid of the hospital tunnel entrance here: https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1721358756187951580

Farmer Gez
Nov 6, 2023 4:08 PM

I’m definitely not rolling up the Axminster for that abomination, regardless blog bloodthirstyness.

Even a Flokati is a bridge to far.

feelthebern

Nov 6, 2023 12:06 PM
Maybe the Melb cycling community is a lot worse than Sydney.

There’s none in Barcy.
Although I do remember quite a few years ago when kids used to just dump their bikes in front of whatever shop they went into and it go so bad that one day I just picked up several and threw them into the street. When another bloke gave me a hand, I realised I wasn’t the only one who had gotten sick of it. Lismore, I think it was.

Where that extra l come from?

Duncanm:

You can’t win as a cyclist, you get abused for belling, or people jump randomly, and you get abused by others for surprising them because you didn’t use a bell.

Fair enough, then they can either use the road, the FREE bikeways or just push the damn things if they must mix with pedestrians.

Our fearless air force personnel air-dropped at midnight urgent medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza.

If aid was actually air-dropped at midnight it was for two reasons:

– First, to keep Hamas’ grimy little mitts off the medical supplies.
– Second, so that the escorting IDF fighters wouldn’t be visible in the videos to screw up the arab uber alles vibe.

Speedbox, where did you get your “I Stand With Israel T shirt”?
Did delivery take long?

Dot
Nov 6, 2023 8:19 AM

I consider the presence of the three former PMs as an insulation against the sort of accusations of fascism that were levelled at CPAC conferences.

These people are fascists. No I’m not kidding, definitions matter and I can PROVE IT with concrete examples.

They disappointed you in nearly every way possible.

The part that you, and many other people here, choose to miss is that they are not dictators. They cannot impose their will on the party room.

That said, as I predicted from Day 1, Boris Johnson is a weathervane who wouldn’t know a principle if it mugged one of his many mistresses. He had an opportunity, but didn’t have, or want, a clue.

I was in the APS during Howard, but not Abbot. In both cases, any plans they had to fix/obliterate TheirABC were made impossible by the Nats.

Indeed, managing to privatise Telstra in the face of massive opposition was one of the biggest policy achievements of the decade.

The same stupid Nats who defend TheirABC were lined up against him and Richard Alston. And then there was Brian Harradine.

Parliament sat all weekend after huge battles to get that through. I was there. Does anyone think it wasn’t worth doing?

People here who say (I’m looking at you, dot) that we just have to do this and that to fix everything have NFI about how the world works.

And it is always easy to be an armchair critic of why someone who was not a dictator didn’t satisfy your expectations.

Easy Off BAM! Don’t forget the exclamation mark.

Still recovering from being gassed. The racks and other accoutrements go into the big laundry tub with a large scoop of laundry detergent, hot water and left to soak. Rubber gloves, many…many buckets of hot water and wash cloths. Everything just wipes off, but a bit of scourer work with the racks.

Put it all back together again, turn on the heat to dry it out…et voila! Good as new. Until the next roast lamb.

How many cans of oven cleaner to do a good job? I use at least two.

Thanks Calli, not sure I am up to being gassed, though!

Lol! I have a big spray can, use enough to get a bit of foam on the surface. It’s a big oven. I suppose I used about 1/4 of the can.

You take all the racks out, by the way. They get separate treatment.

I have a Teflon sheet that goes on the oven floor as well. All it needs is a wipe.

Follow me for more household hints*.

* may or may not be dangerous to health. Live dangerously, I say!

Anchovy flavoured chips? Last time we were in Bilbao went to a nice little bar. The anchovies were the white Cantabrian ones and the oil they were stored in was used to fry thin potato straws. They were yummy. I just about never go to bars here but in Spain they were great.

https://www.bigskypublishing.com.au/books/the-sinking-of-hmas-sydney

Subtitled:

How The Pirate Captain Detmer Lied And It Was Really Japanese Submarines

MARTIN A. ARMSTRONG,
a former currency trader and former head of Princeton Economics
International, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court

Pleaded guilty.

That’s got ‘plea deal’ written all over it. If the Feds gave him both (deserved) barrels he’d probably still be in the bin.

Can’t Imagine Why: Majority of Germans are Now Completely Over Muslim Immigration

Some 61 percent of Germans no longer want any migration from Islamic nations, new polling shows…

Nearly two-thirds of all German citizens want the country’s federal government to impose a ban on migration from predominantly Muslim nations, a damning survey has revealed.

Amazing, where have these people been over the last 2-3 decades?

I disagree, Johanna.

The part that you, and many other people here, choose to miss is that they are not dictators. They cannot impose their will on the party room.

The Party got rid of Kruschev. Would you want to live there? Did he have an awful lot of power? If you are using a strict definition of a dictator then you might only include Saddam Hussein and Stalin. I care more about authoritarianism and totalitarianism than I’m ruled by an uncrowned autocrat or a committee of lesser oligarchs.

Keep in mind I am calling them fascist, I am relying on the etymology of the word. I did not say they were dictators, although the State Premiers were verging towards such degenerate and power-hungry status.

Parliament sat all weekend after huge battles to get that through. I was there. Does anyone think it wasn’t worth doing?

People here who say (I’m looking at you, dot) that we just have to do this and that to fix everything have NFI about how the world works.

I am talking about policies they willingly implemented usually with the acquiescence or little resistance from the ALP and Greens (so clearly stuff that actually happened and had real-world effects). I’m not talking about Telstra or the GST, which were worth pursuing (and we all know that Keating wanted to do this anyway). There’s nothing wrong with Parliament actually debating things, that’s what it is meant to do; the pros and cons are advanced and hopefully, consensus is reached.

I criticised Howard, but we had it so much better in the first half of his term. I don’t blame him for 9/11 (obviously) but there were so many over-the-top security provisions made after this.

This is the important part of my argument:

No one forced Howard to sign the Kyoto Treaty.
If the Party made Abbott go along with Brandis, the Party is over.
We did not have a national cabinet arrangement in WWII and Parliaments still sat to pass laws and oversee regulation.
The uniparty is a thing most of the time and their support might be under 60% of the total adult population even with compulsory voting. Democracy is a fine way to have a change of government, but not when the stakes are winner takes all.

Further criticism of these old censors of the banana republic:

In NSW, Howard, Abbott, and Turnbull did not say a word about Gladys Berejiklian and Brad Hazzard from writing executive orders so quickly they were unable to be challenged in a practical manner in the courts whilst, at the same time, Parliament did not sit for months so Upper House supervision of regulation did not occur.

If the government disarms you, curtails free speech, and begins governing in secret, traditional party lines on social and economic issues are blurred as effective governing, opposition or balance of power blocs become a single entity on nearly all issues, passing legislation largely agreed to stifle political competition, governing in a manner where there is no judicial or legislative check and signs up to economic treaties that benefit large corporations over individual taxpayers (with subsidies but also unfair definitions & rules regarding assets, see Peter Spencer), what else do you call it?

At best, it has a lot of traits of fascism and is heading down that path.

Tom the ALP leadership cupboard is always bare. Not that makes any difference to the stupid Australian voter. I really hope anyone that voted for them is in a world of financial pain.

I was at a market on Sunday . My job was as a spruiker.. I had a puzzle which was a map of Australia cut out in 6 mainland states ( not Tassie) and I would call out “ can you put Australia back together” Wow ! What an eye opener! I would estimate that half of the people couldn’t do it . Most of the kids didn’t know what the states were . Some proudly said they had completed it and I gave them a solid 4 out of 6 because they had SA and NT back to front, A few said there must be a piece missing when they couldn’t do it .
How do these people get on in the rest of their lives ?

Always fun to see Nazis out themselves.

Greens stage dramatic Senate walkout during Question Time after condemning Labor’s refusal to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza (Sky, 6 Nov)

Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi has led her party out of the Senate in support of Palestine, after using a speech in the chamber to call Labor “cowards” over the party’s response to the war in Gaza.

I have no idea why Greenery equates to Pali luvvin, but for some reason they go together. Very revealing it is, too.

Elbow seems like an OK sort of bloke

FMD. This is why the left exists.

Right wingers can’t help but try and be friends with them.

Meanwhile, leftists are trying to have you thrown in prison on a trumped up sex assault charge.

They’re not well intentioned. They’re not misguided. They don’t want the same things as us. They hate you and want you dead. Even members of your family.

Chris! Watch Eddie McGuire’s quiz show and observe how utterly useless most people are at basic maths,

How many square metres in a square kilometre? Four answers staring at them, not one of the six got it right. That is one example.

I prefer Comic Sans.

An effective technique to trigger graphic designers.

Try asking for a tag to be added to the new web site. It can produce seizures in web designers and graphics folks.

that person is guilty forever.

Well if thay don’t accept there gilt and continue gaming people then thay are at very least un reformed.

“Lysander
Nov 6, 2023 6:16 PM
Elbow seems like an OK sort of bloke

They said the same of Ted Bundy.”

And John Wayne Gacy. They hired him as a clown for children’s parties.

Majority of Germans are Now Completely Over Muslim Immigration

They’re getting pretty fed up with greenery too.

Experts Warn German Economic Decline Certain… “We’ll Soon Be Living In Trees Again” (5 Nov)

“Industries are being lost, and that means not only the loss of employers and sectors, but also of an important part of our prosperity,” explained Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck [of the Green Party] at the presentation of his detailed “industrial strategy”.

As Habeck pushes through his version of the green new deal, spiraling inflation continues to erode wages and new housing construction has plummeted 31.6% in October.

Moreover, Co2 taxes and more highway tolls are going into effect next year and they certainly will not help the inflation situation. Also tsunami of refugees is causing an ever greater demand for affordable housing, which today no longer exists.

Quite interesting that a Green, who is in the ruling coalition government, should say this. Maybe it is penetrating into German heads that green rubbish is killing their nation. Which it is.

Sadly Bowen is far behind Herr Habeck in comprehension. No one ever said he was quick.

Dunno how saying Elbow seems like an OK bloke ends up with John Wayne Gacy or a campus marxist who has never had a real job, but hey, respect the Cat!

On Fascists and dictators. By by-passing the actual Cabinet and the party room, sidelining Parliament and chumming up with the premiers who then ruled by decree, (aka using myriad rules), the National Cabinet was very close to a dictatorship, imho.

The National Cabinet established in March 2020 I understand replaced COAG and remains today. I have no idea the difference between the two. It does though frighten me that we would ever be again put in the position we were were back in 2020 and the years following.

New Mizuno’s broken in.
Another 5secs per minute lopped off.
God bless those wonderful Japanese.
My goal of doing both the City to Surf & the half-Marathon next year are on track.

Alex Ryvchin was on Cradlin this evening.
I haven’t heard him speak much to date and he’s really good.

or a campus marxist who has never had a real job,

I didn’t say that.

i said he’s a greasy old SU Trot. Get your factions right or it’s the ice pick for you.

As for real jerbs, a few months in the bank doesn’t cut it. I know, I’ve been there.

Look, the loss of life in Daylesford is tragic, hopefully there are no more fatalities among the injured.

However, I am finding it increasingly annoying that whenever they interview the chief of police, or head Ambo in these circumstances, they now almost unseemingly quickly switch to ‘how confronting it is for our people’ mode.

Maybe it’s just me becoming an old grump, or the level of respect I lost for vic police during the Covid era, but it really grates. Anyone else?

I’m going to a Cup gig tomorrow & need to where a tie.
I haven’t worn a tie since last year.
I may have forgotten how to put one on.

Please watch and enjoy.

I did.

“I won’t bother killing you. A waste of bullets. Just kill yourselves.”

Mel Brookes…you have competition. But then, you always did.

Man up Lysander. It is only a tick.

ON are the Federer shoes aren’t they?

The world’s going to turnips but here is a video showing human ingenuity; great machines, none invented by a leftie:

https://www.facebook.com/100008357861597/videos/1240628039968798

I love watching this stuff, Cohenite – it makes you realise that nearly every problem has a solution.

rosie
Nov 6, 2023 11:33 AM

Speaking of cyclists, what’s with the impatient bell ringing when one is walking on the correct side on a shared pathway?

Speaking as someone who’s had experience with riding and walking, I’d hope it’s just a courtesy ring to let you know they’re coming through. Walkers don’t necessarily track straight (even my supposed situational awareness has let me down on shared paths lately – no contact at least) and the proliferation of earphones mean a short ring cannot be guaranteed to be heard. Take it as a compliment that they wish to avoid ploughing into you. 🙂

If I hear a bell behind me, I just make an extra effort to deliberately track along the left of the path until they’ve passed.

Speaking of ties and the Cup, here’s a funny story.

Bert Newton used to host a morning show on ch10 back in the day. Bert loved racing and punting. Anyway, Melbourne cup morning in 1993 he wore a tie on the show that had three horses and their numbers on it. Turns out to be the trifecta later in the day.

Vintage Crop 15/1
Te Akau Nick 150/1
Mercator 200/1

Paid 200k or more.

H B Bear
Nov 6, 2023 11:37 AM

…and stop them walking all over the place like a Browne’s cow (for WA readers).

Oh, we have them in Jacintastan, too. (The cows, that is.)

The downticker is clearly a Hamas supporter.

They have read Rainbow’s Text Book.

And look! They even wear the obligatory balaclava. To be safe.