Naturally none of those Arab leaders offering to take in Palestinians. They are not stupid as they know there are Western countries that will do so. Thereby causing more welfare recipients and unrest in their own countries.

Sancho Panzer
Nov 12, 2023 10:56 AM
Grifting of the mother grief. Sick.

She’s rationalizing.
It wasn’t her responsibility.
It wasn’t her fault.
If the Gummint had funded a proper LSLSA* her daughter would still be alive, you see.
She has to believe this rather than confront her own negligence.
I just don’t get why SLSA is getting involved.

Are the “professional” lifeguards funded by local councils part of SLSA? I thought that they are a different group, trying to boost numbers and dollars?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mDcDNZCxh0

All Cultures are not equal. Gad Saad

But dare to point it out on this blog and be the butt of the virtuous signallers forever?…

Kids die in accidents. When we’re growing up a neighbour lost a toddler to electrocution while they were left having a bath in a laundry trough. Something we probably all did as kids.

A few times now around the place I’ve seen young kids on school excursions, all of them made to wear hi-vis, and when they have to walk down the street back to school they’re all chained together in a line. Why don’t they wrap them in bubble-wrap and make them wear crash helmets too?

Megan
Nov 12, 2023 11:38 AM

Had a kid I treated who near drowned back at the Loop.
Dad and son were play wrestling and she was obscured behind them for about 10 seconds, went under and was fairly quickly pulled out blue with water in the lungs.

Luckily no proper resus needed but still blue and needed lungs cleared when she got brough to the clinic.

About 5 years old.

So it can happen quick, and, if not observed the time taken to find them in the water may be fatal.

Just come in & noted Old Ozzie’s link to the photographs which document the pre-civilisation of the Hamas invaders of 7/10. Thank you Ozzie – I agree that everyone must see them. You need to understand the depth of evil in your enemy.

I struggle terribly with it. Something dies within when you see what “human beings” are capable of.

I have always loved Rilke’s lovely, mystical description of “why we are here” viz. “So that God can know himself in you.” But 7/10 has made me question that very whimsical and lovely notion.

Indolent:
The history of the Transgender movement as a means of toppling the Christian Creationism belief. “God got it wrong, but we can fix that.”
What arrogance.

Rosie
Nov 12, 2023 1:02 PM
hamas apologists pretending that every crappy home made rocket that scurrying hamas terrorists hastily launch makes it to Israel.

How much of the “indiscriminate” bombing that FatBoyFascist whines about is comprised of dud Hamarse rockets?

The “Big Men” in PNG can not wait for this NRL team.
Same with the NRL.
A huge ticket clipping exercise.
$60mill a year…FFS.
The Dolphins were up & running for less than $20mill per year.

Glen Greenwald is very disappointing on the subject of Gaza.

Very.
As are almost all of the independent journos.

there was a bloke who ran over his own toddler while reversing along his driveway. Following the tragedy he called for all driveways to be fenced

Hmm. Also from the noos:

A young woman is suffering serious facial injuries after she was attacked by a shark while diving with her partner at a busy beach south of Adelaide.

Bridgette O’Shannessy, 32, was bitten in the face by the shark at Port Noarlunga on Friday while diving with her partner

Ban faces now!

ALX

https://x.com/alx/status/1723422367546802603?s=20

Wrong!
What is being described is a gnomon similar to the one in St Sulpice in Paris.
Because of the various factors determining the Earth’s orbit around the Sun: elliptic motion and eccentricity, axial tilt, ecliptic obliquity etc.. the only times gnomons are almost accurate along a meridian are during both equinoxes and solstices. Corrections on sundial plates are otherwise required.

This was known and applied to various sundials since the 1700s.

For the mathematically minded, the Equation of Time describes the sinusoidal relation between apparent solar time and mean solar time.

Conclusion: the Arizona gnomon will align sunlight at a different position at 11:11 am on 11 November (and most other times, for most of the year), in approximately 4-year cycles.
But.. yeah.. let’s all believe what makes us feel good..

Erm – my saved name etc has disappeared for no apparent reason, so I suppose this will go into moderation.

Late entry into the observance of 11/11.

I happened to be entering Dan Murphy’s at the time. At first, I wondered if I had wandered into a science fiction scenario, because staff and customers were all standing perfectly still and silent, like they were frozen in time and space. The usual music was turned off. It was weird.

Then I realised what it was, and joined in.

Not a shadow of dissent, everybody shared the moments of remembering those who sacrificed for us long ago.

The old Australia is not dead, whatever the eternal pessimists here say.

Conclusion: the Arizona gnomon will align sunlight at a different position at 11:11 am on 11 November (and most other times, for most of the year), in approximately 4-year cycles.

So… the High Priest’s staff in the model town, after all the trouble Indy went to…
actually pointed out Pandora’s Container.

Something to amuse the whale watchers vs the ecocrucifixers.
Exploding whale.

Jimmy Dore.
Aaron Mate.
Max Blumenthal.
Glenn Greenwald.
Lee Fung.

All decent journos.
Until it comes to Israel.
Then they lose their freaking minds.

So it can happen quick, and, if not observed the time taken to find them in the water may be fatal.

Absolutely. Fortunately I taught all my kids basic water skills so when I finally dragged my attention back to the moment and looked down, my 18mo was looking up at me with mouth clamped firmly shut, cheeks puffed out and huge eyes with a WTF mum? look in them, while desperately flapping her arms

I learned a valuable lesson that afternoon and I was a fully qualified swimming teacher at the time. Grateful it was not at my poor child’s expense.

Ban faces now!

Better still, ban busy beaches.

And sea water!

Indolent
Nov 12, 2023 8:16 AM

Douglas Murray SLAMS Policing of Protests

I agree with what he is saying, but the slightly bored, supercilious, Oxbridge delivery is not helping the cause.

FTB

IMO Hunter has excellent ball skills, at least at the High school/college level, but makes poor life choices. His last second decision to abandon his commitment to FSU and the manner in which he did it lost him much respect in the sport/industry and frankly will be a consideration in any eventual profession team draft evaluation of him.

I don’t wish him ill but I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if he turns out to be a cautionary tale of unfulfilled potential, a what could have been story.

Barking Toad
Nov 12, 2023 1:39 PM

Ban faces now!

Better still, ban busy beaches.

And sea water!

You’re a wimp, Toad.

What needs to be banned is water. All of it. Full stop.

No more drownings, no more tsunamis, no more floods.

All it requires is an Act of Parliament. 🙂

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has called on Israel to stop ‘the attacking of hospitals’ while declaring that how the Jewish homeland defended itself was a matter of key concern.

The communist lesbian relies on its Marxist upbringing.

It was a tragic laps of judgement

Also an e, cringe.

Glen Greenwald is very disappointing on the subject of Gaza.

Muh redpills. A lot of people who claim to be “red-pilled” are anti-Semitic idiots.

Bourne 1879

Note to self. Stay away from Costco.

Mate, you should know better.

Never, ever go shopping with the missus.

Peter Dutton on Caulfield protests…” these scenes have no place in our country. ” Sorry Pete but it looks like they do.

Winston Smith
Nov 12, 2023 1:25 PM

Makka
Nov 12, 2023 9:18 AM

But here’s the difference, they did it with glee.

If you have ever seen an emotional Arab, I mean really emotional, manic and deranged, in an argument or altercation, you can get some idea of what this must have looked like. It’s as if they have been possessed. In this case on Oct 7th, possessed with epic hatred and Islam- the worst possible combination. They ceased being human and became some kind of crazed animals. The IDF must not stop yet, while one of them is breathing.

They were possessed, Makka.
October 7th was a glimpse into Satans realm.

Winston & Makka,

A Re-Read of this article is recommended – the following is some of that article

Not so innocent civilians

Would Guterres ever assert that the death of Gaza civilians past and future also does not “happen in a vacuum”? Hardly.

There is no more unctuous lament being heard today across the world than that of the fate of the so-called “innocent civilians” of Gaza.

Indeed, those lamenting the loudest – including some members of the United States Congress and world leaders – were the most inaudible regarding the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas (including some of the same civilians”) against the Jewish visitors and residents of the Gaza-area communities.

Hence the duplicitous calls for a cease fire.

But just who are these “innocent civilians” of Gaza?

These are the same people who elected Hamas in 2006, knowing that Hamas’ charter called for the extermination of all Jews.

These are the “civilians” who rushed across the border fence on October 7 to maraud, rape and murder.

These are the “civilians” who are used as human shields. My sympathy for them is lacking.

Imagine if Hunter was on that FSU team this year.

Twitter is saying that Trump got a standing ovation as he walked into the UFC today.
In New York.

I’m with you Dot. We are gobsmacked how average punters are enduring the soaring prices. And they are still at Bunnings on weekends spending up & Melbourne Cup day was the usual One Big Party.

I still say it was a late 1920s & early 1930s feel about it. From the history books, of course!

As it happens, Hunter would likely have been an attitude problem at FSU (who is just starting to benefit from the rebuilding of their team’s ‘culture’). They are undefeated this year and it’s quite likely they will be playing in the final 4.

Besides, Coleman and Wilson are doing just fine in his place. Both are likely all-Americans this year and will go high in the draft.

Sadiq Khan urged to sack three advisers for anti-Israel stance

One adviser to Mayor of London accused Israel of ‘settler colonialism’ while another said the country was committing ‘genocide’ – Paywalled

By Amy Gibbons and Will Hazell, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

An adviser to Sadiq Khan on policing accused Israel of “settler colonialism”, while another adviser accused the country of genocide, The Telegraph can reveal.

The Mayor of London has been accused of a “shocking” lack of judgement as it emerged one of his advisers responsible for scrutinising reform of the Metropolitan Police said he could “never respect Israel as a settlement or a country”.

Last year, before the policing board was established, Mr Holmes-Lewis said he could “never respect Israel as a settlement or a country”.

‘Israel should face boycotts for war crimes’

Sharing a clip appearing to show Israeli forces attacking a Palestinian journalist’s funeral procession, he wrote: “Absolutely sickening and disgusting. I can never respect Israel as a settlement or a country. The occupation of Palestine is unlawful & inhumane.

Challenged on the vetting process earlier this month, Mr Khan said he had been “reassured” that all the members of the policing board had undergone the “proper checks”.

The other two activists, Asma Shah and Peter Wieltschnig, are both members of the Mayor’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Advisory Group.

Ms Shah says her ‘concerns are for a ceasefire in order for the killing of children and other innocents in Gaza to stop’

According to its dedicated webpage, the panel “shapes, influences and guides the delivery of the Mayor’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy”.

Ms Shah, a charity leader, has accused Israel of genocide, apartheid and “settler colonialism”.

On Oct 26, shortly after Israeli tanks and troops launched a “targeted raid” on Gaza, she tweeted:

“Watching from the sidelines and going mad as genocide is committed in 2023 to the applause of western leaders, and humanitarians are arrested for protesting for the lives of #Palestine #settlercolonialism #Apartheid_Israel #CeaseFireInGaza”.

The term “settler colonialism” is sometimes used by critics of the Israeli state to describe the political and demographic shifts in the area since the late 19th century.

The Anti-Defamation League, an international Jewish civil rights group, has warned this is an “inaccurate” characterisation and “often serves as part of the effort to chip away at or negate Israel’s legitimacy”.

Ms Shah has also criticised Sir Keir Starmer for refusing to call for a ceasefire, accusing him of “egging on genocide”.

Asked to comment, she told The Telegraph: “My concerns are for a ceasefire in order for the killing of children and other innocents in Gaza to stop.

I don’t express this hope as a member of the EDI which is a London-focused group, I do so as a human who is really troubled to keep seeing the numbers of innocents being killed rising and the world is letting it happen.

“I am in solidarity with Jews all over the world and in London too who are peacefully protesting and calling for a ceasefire.”

Mr Wieltschnig has not attacked Israel in his own words, but he recently shared a statement from the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain claiming that “over the past 75 years Palestinians have faced a brutal settler colonial occupation”.

It added: “We reject the proposition that anti-Zionism and criticisms of Israel equate to anti-semitism. The struggle for the liberation of Palestine is an anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggle and as such is supported by millions of workers of all faiths and backgrounds, including Muslim and Jewish communities, across the world.”

‘Mayor must remove individuals from their positions’

A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “These revelations are startling.

Mr Holmes-Lewis, Mr Wieltschnig and the Labour Party have all been approached for comment.

They are undefeated this year and it’s quite likely they will be playing in the final 4.

Easily IMHO.
Georgia & Ohio State are unbeaten but don’t seem to be winning “well”.

Dot.

Sorry but these empty egg cartons are off the market.

Possibly the most inadvertently funny clip you will watch today.
The amount of things in the background or highlighted as “empowering” which are stereotypical is incredible. If you wanted to do a subtle pisstake you couldnt arrange it better.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/jul/07/being-childfree-four-women-on-why-they-chose-not-to-have-kids-video

Any woman who takes up with what used to be called an ‘international playboy’ should expect that he will continue to be same.

To bring in an Oz angle on the FSU story, their Punter Alex Mastramanno, late of Brighton Grammer, was an absolutely deadly weapon in their game against Miami today. Really, really impressive.

He’s a team fave at least partially because he had the balls to have his official team picture taken wearing that awful mullet haircut.

Something needs to be done as at the moment the present system isn’t working and the two other arms of Government are just showing complete inertia to fix it.

Why would you fix an outcome you desire?
No more “‘fugees held forever” to bash the 2 majors with, a few murdered/raped/abused citizens is a tiny price to pay for the removal of such an irritant.

I may seem like Im joking putting it this way, but I dead serious.
Id even question if the government more or less ran “dead” on the case to ensure this outcome.

Sorry but these empty egg cartons are off the market.

It’s over.

Things were literally better in the 1980s.

Young men, this will probably never sincerely happen to you without a divorce.

Beautiful, innocent (perhaps naive) & sincere. It may not be the most brilliant or clever song ever written but the sum of the parts speaks for itself.

No. Now we live in a post-Keynesian and fourth-wave feminist hellscape. Marriage is oppressive and only benefits men, apparently. It was always about controlling women.

No fate but what we make?

No future.

Here’s the level of insane entitlement, explosive coronary artery collapse and misandry that is going on today. Tim Pool talked about this too. Note the filth and stains coming from the armpits. Calling HER “fat” is “literally, like, a hate crime”.

Delusional Obese Woman ROASTS Male “Incels”

Isn’t one of the things you’re feeling, isn’t one of them, hope?

No future.

Id even question if the government more or less ran “dead” on the case to ensure this outcome.

Totally agree on this point and have thought same.

I am actually wondering when the boats are going to start up again, certainly can’t be far off.

Dot, you just need to man up and wife her.

Anyway, its obvious her parents were just following Dr Rudis excellent advice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VRl–AAOs0

I’m still enraged by the stupidity and selfishness of the family who felt their grief display was more important than a young womans chance at life.

And Malcolm Fraser and cohorts dragged these dregs of humanity into our country despite advice against it. The stupid, it burns.

And now we see the results of the infestation of Leb criminal Muslims on the steps of the Opera House screaming “Gas The Jews”!

Encore required

Gageler puts a firm stamp on ‘new’ High Court

The new chief justice wanted to send a message that this would be a different court from that presided over by Susan Kiefel since 2017 – and he succeeded.

Michael Pelly
Legal editor

Stephen Gageler has had the most consequential first week of a new chief justice since the High Court opened its doors in 1903.

On Monday, Gageler upended the traditional welcome ceremony by inviting Australia’s first Indigenous silk, Tony McAvoy, SC, to open proceedings.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, he presided over a challenge to the notorious 2004 decision of the court in Al-Kateb v Godwin, which authorised the indefinite detention of asylum seekers, and consigned it to the dustbin.

It is expected to lead to the release of 92 people in immigration detention.

Then on Thursday, the court tackled mandatory minimum sentencing, perhaps the most problematic policy issue in criminal law.

He is undoubtedly the first to come from Sandy Hollow, a small Hunter Valley town where his father and grandfather ran a sawmilling business. He is probably the first to have a black belt in taekwondo.

While the High Court Act says all seven justices are responsible for the administration of the court, it will be called the Gageler court for a reason.

The chief justice presides over hearings, directs the flow of questioning, speaks on behalf of the court, liaises with the government and chairs the council of chief justices.

Gageler is now the longest-serving justice, having joined the court in 2012. Only two judges have served for more than six years: Michelle Gordon (since 2015) and James Edelman (since 2017).

It is said that with every new justice, the High Court changes. But with NSW Court of Appeal judge Robert Beech-Jones filling the vacancy caused by Kiefel’s retirement, there should be no changes in personnel until Gageler himself hits the mandatory retirement age of 70 in 2028.

That is an unusually long run of stability and will give Gageler even more of an opportunity to put his stamp on the court during what is a relatively short tenure.

It is a role that is more usually associated with a politician or the head of a law firm, and it will be interesting to see how the other justices respond.

Gageler’s elevation also comes at a critical juncture for the court, which has been fracturing over the past two years after the retirements of Virginia Bell (2021) and Patrick Keane (2022).

The consensus that marked the early years is gone, with none of the current bench sharing the enthusiasm of Kiefel, Bell and Keane to work together and provide clear and unadorned statements of the law.

In one of the Kiefel court’s final decisions – on the legality of Victorian road user tax for electric and hybrid vehicles – there were five different judgments as the court split 4-3. There was also some sniping between the justices.

How the judges will align under Gageler is a source of much speculation.

A popular view is that Beech-Jones might join Gageler, Justice Jacqueline Gleeson and Justice Jayne Jagot (who formed the majority in the EV case). All are based in NSW.

Sir Anthony’s tenure is considered a golden age of the High Court. Gageler has described the Mason court as a romantic period – “it was a time of great creativity and development in the law”.

Not so those of a conservative stripe, who still fume at the early-1990s media cases which gave rise to implied freedom of political free speech and the native title decisions in the Mabo cases.

Like Mason, Gageler has a “living tree” view of the Constitution, and believes “judicial vigilance” is justified when politicians are not going to be held accountable at the ballot box.

Justice Jacqueline Gleeson: “Does not the prospect here have to be assessed against the fact that the Australian government has not made this approach before now … Would you say that Saudi Arabia was a real prospect until it definitively said no?”

After a 16-minute break at the end of the two-day hearing, Gageler revealed that “at least a majority” had agreed to overrule Al-Kateb.

While the court has previously ordered the release of prisoners after a criminal law appeal has been upheld, the usual course is to reserve judgment.

The biggest change from the Kiefel era will be away from the bench.

In the past year alone, Gageler has criticised the US Supreme Court and backed the return of an independent panel to advise on judicial appointments.

Kiefel would not have gone anywhere near either subject.

Gageler responded with a fulsome acknowledgment of Indigenous people. “I do so in the place – in the very courtroom – where traditional laws and customs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were first recognised by the common law of Australia (in Mabo v Queensland No 2).”

Hail the chief – and a very different one at that.

JC I saw an article a couple of years ago about a skeleton found in the Turkish area of the Med that had no African DNA in it. Like anything explanations of the past can change when new evidence is found. These days with the lefties in charge the evidence is likely to be ignored coz it doesn’t fit the narrative.

Old Ozzie:

Winston & Makka,

A Re-Read of this article is recommended – the following is some of that article

I reread the article.
I stand by my statement:

They were possessed, Makka.
October 7th was a glimpse into Satans realm.

There are no innocents in Hell, OO.
They self selected from all walks of life – terrorists and supporters alike.

JC
Nov 12, 2023 2:59 PM
Science. How can you not believe the science? I was listening to an interesting podcast earlier this morning.
Go back, say, 15 years. Anyone who questioned the Big Bang and evolution was considered a loon and deserved to be in an asylum bin.

Welcome to my world.

I’ve never trusted cosmology. Terrence McKenna: Allow me one miracle and I can explain the universe. You’re right, the recent observations challenge the BBT but inflation was just plugged in to make the BBT work, just as dark matter is plugged in to wipe away inconvenient data.

Ted Steele, an Aus immunologist, in the 1990s wrote Lamarck’s Signature, a claim that went nowhere but there are now many experiments pointing to Lamarckian style transmission and no invoking epigenetics as an explanation doesn’t explain those findings. Apart from that I’ve never been happy with the probability and bottleneck issues in evolutionary theory.

Out of Africa was competing with the multiregional hypothesis, the latter put forward by the Aus anthropologist Alan Thorne and others. Chris Stringer’s Out of Africa book basically killed that argument but we are now finding admixtures from Denisovans and Neandertals albeit at very low rates of gene transfer. There is also evidence of transfer from “ghost archaic human species”. Paleoanthropology is fraught with intractable epistemic limitations but that doesn’t stop people writing papers and others using it for political purposes because humans are so bloody desperate to win an argument they will lie through their teeth rather than admit the limitations of a field. Nonetheless I won’t dismiss Out of Africa because the primate evolutionary record and the transition species fossils in African very much support it but I also perceive human beings as a “discontinuous species”. That is, our behavior doesn’t fit the evolutionary narrative and imperatives.

You should see the rage of some physicists concerning how string theory was a waste of 40 years.

Then there is the nonsense embedded in economics, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, religion … .

Hence Camus wrote:
“If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.”

Or DT Suzuki …

“Readers all wrinkle their foreheads”

Or TS Eliot:

And the wisdom of age? Had they deceived us,
Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,
Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit?
The serenity only a deliberate hebetude,
The wisdom only the knowledge of dead secrets
Useless in the darkness into which they peered
Or from which they turned their eyes. There is, it seems to us,
At best, only a limited value
In the knowledge derived from experience.
The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies,
For the pattern is new in every moment
And every moment is a new and shocking
Valuation of all we have been.

None of this worries me. I’m a pragmatist. What works is what matters.

Rockdoctor

Nov 12, 2023 3:04 PM
Id even question if the government more or less ran “dead” on the case to ensure this outcome.

Totally agree on this point and have thought same.
I am actually wondering when the boats are going to start up again, certainly can’t be far off.

The boats won’t start – not in any meaningful fashion. They’ll fly them in from Gaza in their tens of thousands, and by taxi right up to the unemployment offices from the airport, then to newly vacated residences in the poorer suburbs where the beds are still warm from the previous tenants who will now be redirected to tents in the bush.

Knuckle Dragger

Nov 12, 2023 3:22 PM
Any woman who takes up with what used to be called an ‘international playboy’ should expect that he will continue to be same
‘I will change him’
Oh you silly, silly girl.

Perhaps she believed him when he promised to love honour etc.
Not silly, just trusted him and took him at his word, and didn’t see the cad crossing his fingers behind his back.
I hope she gives the pig a damn good slap across the face in public before she demands divorce proceedings.

At that rally, Trump said, “On the terrible morning of October 7, the world saw the battle between Israel and Hamas once again. It’s not a battle between two equal sides, it’s a battle between good and bad, it’s a battle between civilization and savages.”

He added, “All those who joined the jihadist rallies, come 2025, we will find you and we will deport you.”

Turning to Hamas, he warned: “If you try to kill our citizens, we will kill you. If you spill a drop of American blood, we will spill a gallon of yours.”

Wow. Just wow. With that resolute visage to match it.

Frederick is a flamer.
Cmon Sancho, I shouldn’t have to post this.

As regards Aberfan .. there must have been surveyors .. planners who knew this was inevitable .. but either chose not to speak , or spoke and were silenced.

When I opined “My primary concern with my fellow workers is that we all went home in one piece”

And for this I was called a “trouble making shop steward” ..IE Leftie … Boo Hiss

OK With out a pair of lungs full of water … or in another instantiation .. working with powder ..

I never held any Union job … I just wanted to make sure my work mate “clocked out” as he “clocked in “… alive.

And as much as I was able to anticipate the hazards we were dealing with .. No one died on my crew … One nearly did … and it was me that nearly killed him ..

Surely there is no controversy on this ?

Bourne:

Adam Bandt, Faruqi, etc should watch the Hamas footage so they can understand who they support.
They know who they support its all about stealing votes from the other parties at future elections.

Ayaan Ali Hirsi on becoming a Christian.

Oh Cassie….. I am so upset to hear what happened. But you know what? A good Aussie helped you & expressed support. I believe that almost all real Aussies would do the same. See? You said you were a Jew & that anonymous lady was so keen to help.

What is happening on Saturday? If we are in Sydney we can be of help.

a thought bubble: At some point the law stopped being “the way the people want to live” and became “the way the public service wants to rule”.

An over-reaction?

@Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Nov 12, 2023 4:16 PM

God help this country.

The Almighty will only be able to amplify and return our own efforts towards Salvation …

None of this worries me. I’m a pragmatist. What works is what matters.

Pardon me if I just drive a truck through that philosophy.

Works in what way? Matters to what purpose?

Brains fall out of minds that are too open and unburdened with boundaries.

Thanks for the list, Arky.

I’m old enough to remember them all.

And having walked through the little Christmas market here in Oslo last night, what an easy target these events are. I wondered at a couple of large, what looked to be armoured, police vehicles roaming the streets last night. I soon found out why – as I mentioned way up thread, the Muzzies were stirring up the quiet happy local Hobbits with a bizarre display of shrieking.