“Keane also mentioned that Hegseth had extensive combat experience.” Deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has two Bronze Stars.
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Like the Israelis, they are a Semitic people and entitled to control their ancestral land.” Crete?
Numbers Bob comment over at Michael Smith. The article about Penny Mong voting for Pally Statehood. Is he an early…
Similar to having a road network that doesn’t connect two towns A & B 200 km apart – meaning you…
Is that out of Beau Geste? Enemy at the Gates in this case. Best part of the whole movie with…
calli
Because of China’s hissy fit iv had to change job.
Site clean up, hardest work iv done in a long time.
Mortgage payments on a new home have risen 90% under Biden’s presidency
Did you take the tolled bit? That seems to be the key to the problem. Unsurprisingly.
Dr. John Campbell
No protection against death
You oft state you feel I’m dishonest, yet are not able to back up your mouth on this, not once.
When you get battered so often, why keep coming back for more?
(You’re not here for the hunting, are you?)
Type in ‘aquesd’ and Google quickly gets the message and returns the correct spelling of ‘accused’. So you can change some of your spelling and I am not the only one on this thread who thinks you exaggerate your phonemic displays.
You accuse me all the time, Bespoke, with your ‘sighs’ about God knows what. Drop them. Just upthread you accused me of schizophrenia or neuroses, not seriously I hope. If you left me alone I would be pleased, so why not try it? Perhaps what you interpret as me saying stay in your lane is my request that you get off my back.
I have always recognised that you sometimes make good comments. Genuine dyslexia has my sympathy if you wish to share more of your declared problems with it which might assist your case with others here too. But hostility shouldn’t be part of that. Ease up. You will be OK.
Even the concern trolling is fraudulent.
No. Hove off to Annandale, no toll, all fairly smooth actually.
The old railway sidings have been turned into a public park.
Three old spinsters die and go to heaven and at the Pearly Gates, they are met by St Peter.
He says: “Ladies, you all led such wonderful lives that I’m granting you six months to go back to earth and be anyone you want to be.”
The first spinster says: “I want to be Sophia Loren.” With a bang, she’s gone.
The second says: “I want to be Madonna.” She also disappears immediately.
The third says: “I want to be Sara Pipalini.”
St Peter looks perplexed. “Who?” he says. “Sara Pipalini,” replies the old spinster. St Peter shakes his head and says: “I’m sorry, but that name just doesn’t ring a bell.” The old woman then takes a newspaper out of her purse and hands it to St Peter. He reads the paper and starts laughing. He hands it back to her and says: “No, my dear woman, the paper says it was the ‘Sahara Pipeline’ that was laid by 1,400 men in 6 months.”
Boom, boom.
‘enything’ quickly turns into ‘anything’ on Google too. Just saying.
I live with one
funny, exasperating, quirky, odd, creative and brilliant
the missus will blast the Saturday Cryptic crossword in a day or two
but every time she thinks i don’t understand what she’s saying … she goes, “well, let me re-literate for you”
she’ll also staple somebody’s invoices to the Business Activity Statement and then spend an hour looking for them and blaming me.
the funniest thing is that she prolly knows at some level
literally today, she put the Activity Statement in front of me and started asking me questions
I tuned the page and went What The Actual are these invoices here for?
and she didnt skip a beat .. oh, thanks, that’s where they are
you wouldn’t know it but when it comes to really really paying attention and focusing she can write like a daemon
her honours submission was a masterpiece
go figure, its hard to understand unless you live with it
I tend to take bespoke at his word … whether they’re scrambled or not
I like that ‘spoke thinks more than says
still waters run deep as they say
besides that I know a couple that post in this very forum from time to time under the same alias
how would anybody which person was doing the talking?
it’s just a forum
and weird stuff creeps in
jokes fall flat
people don’t get what yr getting at
and sometimes the truly paranoid let their puppies off-leash to piss in all the corners
FWIW this is my take.
Whether and what advice Wilkinson got before her Logies speech is not relevant to the facts about whether Lehrmann raped Higgins. I recall that Lee J said that it is relevant to her credibility; that is, (my words) as a witness of truth as to whether she was raped.
Lee J said that he could not believe that a lawyer would have advised her to go ahead with the speech, so when she says she got advice he inferred that it was not from a lawyer. And if this is so, then her credibility is affected adversely. In effect, Lee J told Chrysanthou that client legal privilege would need to be waived and the advice revealed if Wilkinson’s case is that she got legal advice.
Dave Allen, IIRC.
Lots to unpack there Trans. If I’m reading it correctly, you’re in dire need of a BAS statement expert. Driller is there to help you.
stfu JC, you antagonistic toss-pot
Succinct & incisively accurate. Well said.
Just trying to help, Trans in that:
way.
Do you need any help with money?
Just that you don’t seem to have any whenever it comes to time to get the chequebook out.
New Self Replicating “sa-mRNA Vaccine” Approved For Mass Production
In effect, Lee J told Chrysanthou that client legal privilege would need to be waived and the advice revealed if Wilkinson’s case is that she got legal advice.
I think the constant appeal to “legal advice” without a shred of proof over a number of issues is wearing thin.
And Id also imagine if the toad had received legal advice from a channel 10 lawyer it might subtract a zero from her liability and add a zero to tens.
But then she has a reason to want to waive and ten wouldnt, so I dont know how that would work out.
I don’t need phoney sympathy Elisabeth.
Nor your ignorant help.
lol, Sal, perhaps I was a little too kind to JC in saying that, tho’ it’s true.
I’m not going hard on Bespoke. I have more scorn for published authors (she wasn’t backward in letting us know of her educational publishing superiority) who are ultra-patronising headmistress types always standing on their dignity as above others (such as me, equally qualified actually), than I have for Bespoke, who for whatever his reasons struggles here.
Upthread, a few people agreeing with muddy that we seem to be heading into an abyss and it’s easy to understand why you could come to that conclusion.
Funny that people in Israel don’t suffer the same despondency. Plenty of joie de vivre as was noted the other night. I wouldn’t mind emigrating – though am not vaxxed which might be a problem.
you wouldn’t know it but when it comes to really really paying attention and focusing she can write like a daemon
her honours submission was a masterpiece
Thanks MT. That mirrors my comment that just because someone has a condition does not mean the manifestation is not variable. Effort matters.
Bespoke can take heart. With the pile on he has become a fully-fledged member of the Cat.
In the $2 dollar remainder bin, just after Christmas.
Good on you then, Bespoke. As you were.
I don’t wish you any ill.
Appears Lee J shares your feelings. I expect claims of legal privilege might be met with a rather strict interpretation.
Rape, Torture, Mutilation and Murder by Hamas Nazis – of Both Men and Women
Undoubtedly.
Is the FBI Abetting the Globalist Hate Crimes Against Traditional Catholics?
Chuckle!
The new-ish head of the ACCC has called for legislation requiring all businesses to inform the ACCC of any mergers or acquisitions.
It doesn’t work like that honey.
If you’re big enough, you pre-empt the ACCC by seeking approval.
Other wise the onus is on the ACCC to do the work.
What a sheltered work shop.
Last word.
Sandman of Randwick gets 150.
I’m old enough to remember when Banon was arrested & shackled when he refused a congressional subpoena.
I wonder why Hunter Biden is different.
A surrogate costs 30k – 60k USD.
A wedding can easily cost 20k – 30k USD here in Australia.
Men don’t care if the western women all go batshit. They can choose redundancy if they want. There is competition and it is intense.
The alternative is men drop out of the workforce. That’s bad for everyone.
The US just disgusts me now.
She’s just a shit-stirrer. I pity her poor son, as does Antonella in her review of Ford’s recent work, which I noted in the bookshop today isn’t selling like hot cakes.
Who wants to read crap like that? Let alone gift it to someone else?
Has Gambotto got a gig with the Oz now? FMD.
Sara Pipalini/Sahara pipeline
Reminds me of an old joke about a musician playing from the dots when a bystander walks over, inspects the sheet music and remarks to the muso “I see you’re playing Paganini”
Muso: No, actually that’s page nine!
I read many years ago that Marxists captured meja, arts and ejucashun. All the evidence suggests that this is the case.
Phlegmentine hates her own baby..
https://twitter.com/i/status/1734698685882376416
I would expect the nature of any legal advice and the reasonableness of Mrs Pirate’s reliance on it will come under some scrutiny when the Ch10 barrister gets a crack. Stephen Rice has a story on the relative positions of them both in Teh Paywallian.
H B Bear
I have watched a lot of the trial, and as I recall claims of legal privilege have been rare.
If Wilkinson sought legal advice as to whether her Logies speech would be in contempt of court, that advice is certainly within the realm of client legal privilege.
My take is that there is some ambiguity about the nature of the advice she says she got. Lee J says that he can’t accept that its was from a lawyer, which exposes Wilkinson as lacking credibility given that she gave the speech. So if Wilkinson says that she got advice from a lawyer, and waives the privilege, to deal with Lee J’s statement, then that lawyer is badly exposed. If he/she’s a Ten lawyer, that’s bad for Ten’s defence of qualified privilege.
Have I missed something?
An Australian soldier , speaking after the death sentence had been passed on a group of Japanese soldiers, for the murder of some Australian nurses, expressed the wish that the hangman wasn’t too meticulous about where he placed the rope, so the condemned could dance a little jig, while they thought about what they had done to those Aussie girls…..It’s a sentiment that suggests itself in this situation..
I have the same problem ordering gelato.
So Justice Lee asked her about how “systemic cover up” claims between Cash, Reynolds & the Office of the PMO and could fit with Brown offering to and taking Britts to see the AFP at Parliament House. But, again, Lisa insisted she knows politics. Pity she didn’t say it was THE VIBE…
There was also a moment when she asked about Reynolds & Brown having a meeting, which Britts had said was about her. When challenged Lisa said that according to Britnee they didn’t really meet much but Richardson (I think) said since Britts had only been working for Reynolds for 3 weeks, how could she know that this meeting was unusual for them.
But we should resist that level of despair …
Popper
The problems are global. Running away is a temporary solution.
I get it. I fall into the same state of mind. From a psychological perspective it is fascinating that futurists so often portray doom and disaster. The same phenomenon occurs with the news. There are some deep fundamental problems in our culture but almost invariably people blame other people or other tribes. We’re not the bad guys!
A great strength of Western culture is its flexibility, its ability to respond to emergent contingencies and develop new strategies. We shouldn’t give up. There is still time, there remains the possibility of renewal, a period of creative destruction will occur. The answers probably won’t come from my generation and most certainly won’t come from people who only preach doom. That is why Popper’s admonition is as true today as it ever was.
Dyslexia?
My favourite T-shirt, black, with bold white block caps on the front:
“I HAVE SEX DAILY”
On the back, much smaller:
“F%CK IT! I HAVE DYSLEXIA!”
Young warnie going well; apparently he employed a motivator to get over his slump; and the motivator advised him to imagine the ball was sonny bill’s testicles. It’s worked a treat.
BBS – gotta get up pretty early to slip anything past Brittany (and Dave).
Oops, sonny bill’s nuts just got their revenge.
They need to beef up on the acting.
Paliwood
The Summer of Dave off to a flyer. cf The Summer of George.
Winston Peters Deputy PM OWNS Woke Liberals And Media
Thanks BBS re HR earlier, I missed the subtlety, it’s fascinating how much LW knows about the dodging and weaving of “politics” !
Muddy
I have never forgotten being asked to leave a pub I had been frequenting for a decade on the basis that I had exercised my body autonomy right to refuse a medical intervention.
At that point I realised our Constitution may as well have been a piece dunny paper for all the protection it gave against a government that was determined to treat us as subjects to be ruled.
I’ve never forgotten the police response against us and the difference they have shown against the muslim hordes they protect. Tools of a Quisling Government.
The phone thing is interesting.
Firstly Britnah claims her phone was completely wiped. She tells Ten it is a government phone with all sorts of apps on it which she suspects Mossad used to scrub her phone.
But one image survives.
The infamous bruise photo.
What are the odds, eh?
Of course, just a screenshot. No metadata to verify details of the image, particularly when it was taken.
Nek minnit, Britnah manages to miraculously recover all her phone data.
BTW, it apparently was all on a personal phone, not a work phone.
But not one of the super-sleuths at Ten thinks to say, “Hey, Britnah, now that you’ve recovered your data, is there any chance we can have a look at that original image?”
A renowned psychologist was conducting a group therapy session with four young mothers and their little children.
After a few hours of talking and analyzing their words and behavior, he said: “I believe that you all suffer from some obsession.”
He turned to the first mother and said, “You obviously have an obsession with food. You’ve even named your daughter Candy.”
He turned to the second Mom. “Your obsession is money. And it manifests itself in your child’s name, Penny,”
He turned to the third Mom. “Your obsession is alcohol. Again, it manifests itself in your child’s name, Brandy.”
At this point, the fourth mother got up, took her little boy by the hand and said, “Come on, Willy, let’s go”.
Chuckle.
I must get one to add to the collection
Word!
Have I missed something?
The toad has waived PP by her speech. She claims she got legal advice about the content of the speech so what was in the speech obviously reflects the advice. I agree with the Judge: no lawyer in their right mind would ok a speech about an allegation of rape in the proactive way that speech was made, especially amidst the torrent of media whispers already occurring.
BBS – gotta get up pretty early to slip anything past Brittany (and Dave)
Only if it’s in the shape of a Macca’s breakfast.
Winston Smith
Dec 14, 2023 8:15 PM
Something similar happened to me and I have not been back to that Pub ever since and never will. Friends have also done similar.
Sandman holes out at deep square leg for 164.
Pretty good day of putting Pakis to the sword.
Its Cat sundown and the ancient & epic battle between Titans named with 2 letters and those who can afford full names is kicking off.
Time to take cover with supplies of alcohol & nibbles while the battle rages …
Never forget. Never forgive.
J’ismists have always fancied themselves as playas since Mr La Tingle (dec’d) was around.
Sentry, at Northam Army Camp, in 1941, was supposed to have halted a car, and asked the driver and the passenger to show their identity cards.
“Don’t be a fool. “snapped the passenger. “You know who I am – Colonel Fitz Trumpet, District Commandant. Driver, go on.”
“Sorry, sir” said the sentry, as he unslung his rifle. “I’m new to all this. Who do I shoot, you or the driver?”
No.
Justice Lee has acknowledged that.
Yes.
Lee has already indicated he has formed the view that, if such advice exists, it was reckless or incompetent.
Or both.
Whether he gets an explanation of the “legal advice” or not, I think he holds the view that the speech was somewhat malicious.
It is not the pub’s doing.
Unless you got yourself slung out for “disorderly conduct”
That ford POS has a kid??
Who in God’s name would even think of procreation with that?
Shocked I am.
Delta A.
You take the passenger seat, I’ll jump in the back.
I have a sneaky suspicion the cops enjoyed this … no chance of catching him though.
Keep an eye on the speedo.
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Bad news sells.
If my recollections are correct, most of the predictions of the futurists of the 1970s – be they for good or ill – failed to come to pass.
I think he holds the view that the speech was somewhat malicious.
If Channel 10/Lisa are found to be malicious by the judge, does that not open them up to the jackpot (for BL) of damages?
Isn’t that what you want (as the applicant) in Oz?
Labor considers local, regional voices after failed voice referendum
Labor is considering rolling out local and regional voices across the country using an existing model and without legislation, as it prepares to unveil “next steps” following the failed referendum as early as February.
The Australian understands one option being looked at by the Albanese government is expanding Empowered Communities – a program that puts Indigenous people from remote, regional and urban areas in the same room as government decision-makers – to act as local and regional voices.
While no decision has been made on whether to pursue a Makarrata commission to oversee truth-telling and treaty-making, which was a federal Labor election commitment and has been partly funded, The Australian understands the government will focus in the new year on practical policies such as remote housing and overhauling the work for the dole program.
There is a view within government that local and regional voices, which Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney has conceded remain on the table after a constitutionally enshrined national voice was rejected by 60 per cent of voters, do not need to be legislated.
Instead, Empowered Communities – which covers 10 regions – could be supported and scaled-up through more public funding and administrative support to ensure grassroots voices across the country are heard by all levels of government.
Federal governments have provided $47m to the program from 2016 to mid-next year.
Ms Burney has met with several Aboriginal leaders and groups, including Empowered Communities, since the referendum was voted down on October 14 but is facing increasing pressure to outline the government’s plan B.
Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price accused Ms Burney and Anthony Albanese of “failing Indigenous Australians” by being “missing in action” since the referendum and with no plan to address disadvantage.
While referendum working group member Sean Gordon has previously advocated for Empowered Communities to be the voice “independent of the Constitution or legislation” called for by Indigenous leaders in the wake of the referendum, on Wednesday he said some form of legislation was needed.
“The reason for legislation, although it doesn’t give the guarantee the Constitution would have provided (for an enshrined voice), it guarantees these voices would be created and supported. The guarantee is crucial,” he said.
“The beauty of legislation is it would broaden its scope to other departments (beyond the National Indigenous Australians Agency) that up until now haven’t been engaged in Empowered Communities.”
Mr Gordon, Noel Pearson, Ian Trust, Richie Ah Mat and Chris Ingrey are some Indigenous leaders who have developed and championed the Empowered Communities model.
Indigenous lawyer and member of the Uluru Dialogues Eddie Synot pushed back, saying local and regional voices would represent “more of the same” in implementing policies. “My fear is probably that that’s what (the government) is trying to push ahead with,” he said. “That was one of the fundamental flaws of the (Marcia) Langton and (Tom) Calma report … that it had to be within existing structures. So all they were really doing was shifting the deck chairs.”
In the Kimberley, Indigenous leaders aren’t waiting for the government to act and are progressing plans for a regional representative body that would talk to government.
Empowered Communities leader Des Hill said the body could become a regional voice but the No vote had put a spanner in the works. He stressed the Kimberley body had been called for by elders for 30 years and had been worked on before and separately to the voice referendum.
Mr Hill said the government should have put two questions to voters at the referendum, one on constitutional recognition and the other on the voice. “Right now it doesn’t tell us if the No vote was on recognising us in the Constitution or if it was they didn’t want a voice to parliament. It could be either/or. I think the Prime Minister, Mr Albanese, stuffed up on that one.”
Former social justice commissioner Mick Gooda, who is co-chair of Queensland’s interim treaty and truth-telling body but hasn’t yet been consulted by the Albanese government, said it was appropriate the country have a break between the lost referendum and a new Indigenous affairs blueprint. He urged Labor to “get back to basics” on where it spent its energy next, such as the housing crisis.
“You need to take a really considered approach and you’ve got to take Aboriginal voices into account. They’ve got to guide this process, it can’t be just government,” he said.
Professor Calma, Reconciliation Australia co-chair, said there hadn’t been much discussion about the way forward after the referendum but the conversation over reconciliation had never stopped.
Oz
Plan B.
I think it is likely he will view any explanation dimly.
My money (in no particular order) is on:-
1. An informal chat with a suburban solicitor friend over lunch at Chateau Bandana;
2. Google;
3. The grad lawyer chick in procurement at Ten;
4. Re-runs of Carson’s Law;
5. Dumgold.
Cohenite
I think that she said simply that she “got advice”, and did not specify that its was legal advice.
Moreover, a client does not waive the privilege merely by saying that they got advice. They need to add what that advice was, if only in very general terms.
And when your generous tax payer funded salary package is dependent upon it never stopping, why would you want it to?
Zipster:
If this new technology also contains a gene for continued production of the protein, what turns it off? This sounds like a synthetic cancer.
Julian Simon arguing Erlich’s end of times predictions were crap.
Both sides appear to do the end of times thing. We see it here coming from the Right.
no vaccine required to travel to Israel. They were desperate for help with agricultural work a few weeks ago, not sure if that is still the case.
I maintain that is key to all this.
This was to be Toad’s Walkley moment. Sure, Logies are fine, but I need recognition as a serious j’ism.
more flooding in Gaza
5/346 off 84 overs. Not too bad at a bit over 4 an over on day1.
Winston,
you mistake our constitution for that of the US. Our constitution is a nothing more than than a power sharing agreement between the states and this thing called the “Commonwealth of Australia”.
Apparently conceived naturally.
As difficult as that may be to believe.
There is a distinct lack of facts regarding the phone(s). How many, which were personal or work, which dept issued the work phone(s), when were the work ones were returned, what is office policy on wiping phones, what happened to personal app data e.g. Whatsapp backups, photos, apple ID accounts & data, what happened to chat logs, were personal apps allowed on work phones, ….
And what is Channel 10 process for verifying content such as images, word docs, whatsapp messages, … If there is no digital forensic capability deployed by Channel 10 and no defined process then it seems more than just careless …
Hamas announced its readiness to recognize Israel.
Deputy head of the Hamas Politburo Musa Abu Marzouk in an interview with Al Monitor: “Hamas is ready to recognize Israel for the sake of unity with the PLO”.
Rafiki
Just this.
Cane Toad says she sought legal advice.
She did not say she received legal advice or, if she did receive it, that she followed that advice.
Semantics?
Maybe.
Or very careful coaching to leave an impression without committing perjury in this case.
Norman Borlaug was already engaged in successfully increasing crop yields in Mexico & India before Ehrlich’s book was even written.
His ‘green revolution’ saved hundreds of millions from starvation.
Bad news sells, good news gets forgotten.
OK…good night!
DYSLEXICS OF THE WORLD UNTIE!
trouble at mill
Haha, they’re bleeding out. So sad.
Mercy mercy they cry after raping Israeli women to death.
It might be pathetic if they weren’t so evil.
There is a mounting pile of contrary evidence being ignored, and an equally large pile of “reading between the lines” to create supportive “evidence”.
So yeah.
Malicious.
Johnny Rotten
Dec 14, 2023 8:20 PM
I go back there, but I realise the owner was not given a choice about the issue.
In fact what the government did is a form of civil conscription whereby the government coerces a business to carry out a government function.
I thought Civil Conscription was not allowed under our Constitution, but it appears it can be cancelled whenever the government feels like it.
Can someone else provide information on this?
Oh darnit! I was about to offer you a job as my publicity agent.
But while on the subject, I must add that, in addition to educational publications, I have two hard copy novels, first published by Random House, second by Openbook and two online thingies – don’t know much about all that stuff, but Daughter is pushing every day for me to edit my next one.
I mention the above because you, not I, raised the topic. I posted about it once, as a point of interest and relating to a different post. I won’t mention it again and, since it upsets you so much, I suggest you don’t either.
Self proclaimed oracles only need to be partly right for vindication, Roger.
Look a hover board!
1984 and Firefly?
I have been watching the rebooted Frazier with Kelsey Grammer and enjoying it enormously. It is as good as the original and just as funny, great laugh lines. It was so refreshing watching comedy that didn’t feel it had to include every crazy minority or even any at all, just funny storylines.
The plot has Frazier returning to Boston to teach at Harvard and be close to his adult son. The designated Pom is a friend Frazier knew from his student days at Oxford. I kept looking at the British friend when it finally dawned on me that it’s Rodney from Only Fools And Horses.
Cant wait to watch the rest of the episodes.
I could be mistaken, but I am 93.1% sure she said “sought legal advice”.
If the advice wasn’t from a lawyer, the privilege thing goes away.
There is no such thing as hairdresser-client privilege.
I think I heard on BBC radio that some Agricultural workers had been recruited from Kenya and one other African country recently, in order to release Israelis for other duties (medical help, psychological assistance, forensics – there must be a zillion jobs to do).
Me too.
Golly, call me a cynic if you must – I wonder where the majority of these grants (see below) will end up – I suspect this is pork barrelling by another name, which is likely to mainly benefit religious establishments that are common in Southwest Sydney, as opposed to the city’s East. Perhaps to assuage those who are ‘annoyed’ by Labor’s ‘call’ for a cease fire you-know-where.
Announced on the FB page of my local state Labor MP (Lynda Voltz, Auburn, who is related to Laurie Ferguson).
How does one trace the allocation of these grants?
“The NSW Government has committed $15 million to support the safety and security of places of worship and other places where faith communities gather regularly.
The Safe Places for Faith Communities Program provides grant funding for places of worship and other eligible places where faith communities gather regularly.
The program aims to enable faith communities to:
– Come together safely to profess, practice and maintain their faith and religious heritage.
– Reduce the risk of harm to people or damage to property
– Build community resilience, wellbeing and cohesion.
The grant amount available for application is $5,000 to a maximum of $250,000, exclusive of GST.
Applications close 3pm on Thursday 15 February 2024.
APPLY HERE – https://multiculturalnsw.smartygrants.com.au/SPFC2023-24R1
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Patt Mac
Never underestimate the power of Beer Goggles, young feller. Along with a large helping of testosterone, it means ugly people of either sex get laid occasionally. And thank God for that otherwise – as any walk along a beach will teach you – the human race would go extinct in a couple of generations.
Gutfeld’s Monologue today on Chesterson’s Fence and how the left are destroying the fences and structure of the West though open borders, crime and every woke issue was one of the best statements on the decline of the West.
Prior to Gutfeld’s brilliant statement Watters had interviewed Eric Trump and compared what had happened to his family and what is not happening to the vile bidens.
Only watch if you want to be depressed. I think 2024 will be terminal for the US and therefore the West.
All that matters is that legal privilege has limits, she might be lying or the advice she got was just nonsense, let alone a wink and a nudge. It goes to the purpose of any communication, etc. I’m guessing “ooh yes I have client legal privilege so don’t ask me any more questions” won’t cut it anymore. Is she a party to proceedings or a third party? Was it really a direction from her employer? Did the in-house counsel, counsel unwisely? Who actually advised her? Is there a record of this?
This is a goddamned circus.
I could be mistaken, but I am 93.1% sure she said “sought legal advice”.
If the advice wasn’t from a lawyer, the privilege thing goes away.
There is no such thing as hairdresser-client privilege.
Correct. My point was even if she obtained legal advice before making her logie speech, the making of that speech would be a waiver of legal privilege.
Rodney from Only Fools and Horses is in New Tricks as well.
The Red Cross are a disgrace to humanity, in the nine weeks that the Nazi scum in Gaza have been holding Jews as hostages, NOT ONE WELFARE VISIT. Just like they did in World War II, when the Red Cross was complicit in Nazi war crimes. Please watch, it’s from Avi in Melbourne. There was a protest in Melbourne outside the Red Cross headquarters. Good. The Red Cross are SCUM.
On Sunday I’ll be attending a rally here in Sydney. The title of the rally is…
#Metoo unless you’re a Jew.
I’m so proud to be Jew, we take our dogs to rallies!
Am Yisrael Chai.
oops, forget the link to Avi…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7cTp35V9ac
Worse than that Cassie. Red Cross have refused to make welfare visits.
feelthebern at 8:40
My understanding is that would had to have been pleaded by Lehrmann’s lawyers to be open to make a finding on motive. I have not looked at the pleadings filed. Others may have done so.
Someone posted a picture of Turtlehead Bowen, can’t remember who. Now people can’t help the way they look but he has to have the stupidest face I’ve ever seen. How many times has that head been down the dunny as school?
Diogenes:
No I understand the huge difference between the US and Australian Constitutions, I’m looking at the concept of Civil Conscription regarding the ability of the government to force a business to carry out a government function like refusing service to a member of the public when said refusal entails a cost to the business.
And no, I’m not a lawyer but this seems wrong to me.
big day today,
first, about 50 of our LTE Routers all over the country got hacked by Lithuanian script-kiddies and the damned things started sending spurious SMS message to the universe
second, the father-in-law has been missing since Monday
so it goes like this …
the missus’ brother rings and goes, I just spoke with step-brother and apparently dad’s taken a turn and is in hospital
country-ish step-brother had apparently just ran into somebody in the street who inquired about his welfare after having talked to MiL who has dementia
MiL didnt tell anybody that FiL had busted his stents (duh, dementia) and she keeps phoning Wagga hospital wondering wtf is going on
meanwhile, FiL has been moved from Wagga to Griffith and then to Sydney
but nobody knows except MiL … did I mention she has dementia?
so BiL rings Wagga and they cant tell him anything because you know, next of kin (who has dementia) … but suggest he could try Griffith
and Griffith cant tell him anything because, you know next of kin ( who happens to have dementia) etc
eventually we get to Sydney, they’re all business and dont wanna talk about nuthin’… so they patch you straight trough to the room
no answer
I suppose no news is good news
right?
I see that earlier today a nasty person called OldOzzie a “dickhead”.
Hear this, OldOzzie is NOT a dickhead.
OldOzzie is one of the best contributors.
By virtue of the loss of confidentiality? I’m a bit rusty on this stuff. Handing stuff over to actual lawyers for too long.
Clearly not enough. I wasn’t at school with him so don’t blame me. Apparently I may have been at school with Roger Cook but I have no memory of him (I’m sure it would be mutual).
One thing is for sure.
Toad and Llewellyn in the box has been the best entertainment on Australian TeeVee since Abigail got her hooters out on Number 96.
It’s a pity Working Dog have pretty much ruined the chance of anyone saying “it’s the vibe” in a courtroom ever again. I guess “read between the lines” is as close as we’ll get.
Although I suspect, “Is that really your answer?” might become my new catch-phrase.
The jurdge indicated the advice might need clarifying as it was being leant on so much.
Cohenite:
I doubt it will be terminal, Cohenite. But it will be a series of very large and rapid changes, more for the worse than better.
But maybe – just maybe – it will be the equivalent of the drunk waking up in the gutter, covered in shit and vomit and not having a clue as to how he (or she) got there and then taking concrete steps to deal with the issues that put them in that spot.
The West has rebuilt itself before, and with a lot of hard work can do it again.
But this time the price will, I suspect, very high.
Red Cross has been causing questions to be asked about their practices since the Yugoslav wars in the early 90s. I seem to remember that they had some dubious methods of distributing aid in the warring states.
Salvatore, Iron Publican
Even worse than that, they refused to give medication to one of the prisoners when they invited the family to a meeting ostensibly to receive the medication and then harangued the family for not caring about the Gazans.
Fvcking Red Cross. Not worth a bum full of cold water.
Crikey, Lisa Wilkinson performed well today:
Feminist Twitter is predicting that Lehrmann is “done for” now.
1/. She exposed what really goes on in parliament house.
2/. Took every opportunity in her responses to mention Parliament House, her experience in journalism and the power dynamics in politics. And by god, didn’t the lawyer hate it!
3/. Was a compelling and powerful witness, leaving Richardson SC visibly frustrated.
4/. A confident does Lisa Wilkinson means there are many who might be a little worried about what she’s saying & knows. There are, of course, many who feel threatened by her. Good. There’s strength in the truth.
5/. Confirmed she found and still finds the behaviour of senior government MP Linda Reynolds deplorable!
6/. Gave a master class in sexual politics and media manipulation… using the witness box in a truly expert way.
7/. Blew Justice Michael Lee’s mind by succinctly and calmly explaining how the Federal Government engaged in a “cover-up” over Brittany Higgins’s allegations of rape.
8/. Handed Richardson SC’s arse to him on a plate!
9/. Her determination is amazing. She was unbreakable against Richardson SC.
10/. Lehrmann chose the wrong person to sue, Lisa Wilkinson is very articulate, knowledgeable & focused.
11/. Had the courage to say what we all suspect – that the Scott Morrison government covered up the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins by Bruce Lehrmann.
12/. You could hear a pin drop in this court room. Lisa Wilkinson is outlining in great detail the roadblocks to a police investigation of the assault of Brittany Higgins.
Sorry to read that, Matrix. Lotsa stress ain’t good for the body. (We can endure a heck of a lot, but there’s always a limit).
Since their report of the Nazi hosted holiday camp for Jews at Theresienstadt.
Is there a link to this, please.
Since their report of the Nazi hosted holiday camp for Jews at Theresienstadt.”
Yep.
Thanks for the responses above.
My understanding is that client legal privilege in respect of a communication is waived (lost) only if the content of it is revealed. Her Logies speech didn’t do that.
My main point above is that Lee J has created a dilemma for Ten and Wilkinson. If Wilkinson says that got legal advice from a Ten lawyer, Ten is then shown to have been unreasonable in respect of the Logies speech. If Wilkinson admits the advice was not from a lawyer, then her credibility is damaged.
It might be clarified tomorrow.
This is like Arafat’s “strategic peace” as he called it. The strategy of “peace” to gain ground for the next genocidal foray.
Katz….
https://events.humanitix.com/me-too-unless-ur-a-jew-sydney-rally-17-dec
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If she knew about the fake police stations, why didn’t she blow the whistle before? I mean, “it happens all of the time”.
Uh-oh! Something’s gone kerplunk.
All of a sudden, sand warning, when I try to open the cat, I get:
Request Header Fields Too Large
The server refused this request because the request header fields are too large.
Safari, iMac, MacOs Sonoma 14.1.2 (23B92)
But, same computer, using Firefox, no probs?
Any ideas anyone? Bueller? (I hate Firefox!)
… sans warning …
Thanks Cassie
I used to work with one of the “Ten Pound Poms” who served with the tank unit that liberated one of those hellholes. He didn’t talk much about it, but once a year, on the anniversary, he would go out, and drink himself “out of his wife’s favor.” He would have next day off, to recover. The manager, himself an ex soldier, would pay him for the day off, and it never appeared on any of his records….
EK STAAN SAAM MET ISRAEL!!!!!!!
These people are insane. They should be locked up for their own good.
About time for a report of muslim chick having her headscarf tugged on the train.
Or if that isn’t good enough, a report of a Ballarat Nazi burning a Koran.
(Or even worse, using one to roll durries)
A British group has become the first in the world to test a male contraceptive pill that scientists believe could transform how responsibility for birth control is shared between the sexes. (The Oz).
Australian schoolboys invented the male pill aeons ago.
You put it in your shoe and it makes you limp.
Or a dead pig thrown into a mosque..
The depraved Hamas slaughters has been taken as a rallying call for a world wide antisemitic pogron to whatever level local constabulary permit. And they permit far too much.
Muslims dine out on the past persecution of Jews, where well meaning people now say “we shouldn’t restrict Muslims the way we restricted Jews”. And the good people pat themselves on their back, complementing themselves for learning a lesson about their prejudices while condoning far worse.
I’d suggest a more fundamental use, but it would probably block up the sewerage …
The bloke is a JET.
One man band composes a song live in 10 minutes using a Boss RC-505 Loop Station
Mmm… too much actual handling of a filthy pig has to happen.
Someone from the mosque actually has to go & buy a pig somewhere, for it to be exhibited as the pig that was “thrown into” mosque.
And there’s the possibility of an awkward public moment when nearby exterior CCTV from an infidel business turns up, showing Mohamed walking up to the mosque during the night with a pig under his arm.
Much easier for a “report” of a chick having her scarf tugged at, or a blurry phonecam video of a koran being ignited.
Dunno – from memory, at the time of the Lindt Cafe siege, there were complaints that a dead pig had been thrown into a Perth mosque.
a blurry phonecam video of a koran being ignited.
October 7 is now “Burn a Koran for Faruqi” day around here.
Problem appears solved … cleared the Safari cookies and cache which seems to have done the trick.
Love it!
Not having access to an actual Koran, would dressing up some other book do?
(the way kids schoolbooks are covered in brown paper, with a label cut from the Women’s Weekly)
Labor considers local, regional voices after failed voice referendum
Ok, let’s map it out for say a ten-year lifespan.
Choose a local- and regional- area for Voice.
One which has got lots of First Nationses Disadvantage and White Debbil Racism.
And somewhere which is Labor through and through, so Voice won’t be derailed or deranged by eeeebil Conservatives being racist or wonking on about “due process” or “transparency”
Lets say… Alice Springs.
Full Voice, big Voice. Voice all over everywhere, schools, hospitals, police.
Give it five years- not much more than an election cycle- and we’ll surely see Closing The Gap in all those terrible areas blighted by racism, like literacy, foetal alchohol syndrome and child rape.
Ten years, Gap gone i reckon.
Albanese can jet home, say “See, I thold youse tho”, voice goes coast to coast and he can retire a hero and/or become First President of the Republic of Aoteastralia.
Dear ebay Buyer Rat_from_Ballarat, may Allah bless you for your purchase. Your copy of the Holy Qura’an will soon be heading your way. Would you like to choose the express post or gift wrap options for only $10 extra?
Kind regards & may Allah bless your chequebook.
Dear ebay vendor Iman Talwedi, Nah she’ll be right mate, just send ‘er any old how. I only want the ruddy thing to burn for an anonymous prank video I’m making.
Regards Andy, flat B, 143 Grampian st, Ballarat.
Delta, contra to your insulting finger-pointing and those who applaud it, I think my statement above was quite a legitimate thing for me to say, to allude with some pride to my own literacy (as one of many quite literate writers here) by correctly noting Bespoke’s intent to diss it. Bespoke’s attitude towards me, expressed via his ‘dyslexia’, has always been a mocking one, mocking of my own hard-earned literacy by deliberately turning on his unschooled phonemic ‘everyman’ mode as some sort of parlay and parry against anything I write here.
I say my literacy is hard-earned because it was. I think I can be justifiably proud of the good level of self-taught literacy I have achieved, having left school and home at fourteen in dire circumstances. People like you Delta A, from middle class homes with books and schooling, can have very little real appreciation of how difficult that achievement was back in those days, and how valuable literacy was to me then. Literacy saved me. Thus Bespoke’s snide attacks of this sort have been called out. Dr. BG certainly didn’t enjoy them either. We both had our suspicions re their intent.
There is support here for Bespoke now that he has claimed true dyslexia. He certainly has no need to continue with what seems like deliberately aberrant usage, not to me anyway. Google is his friend. I wish him well of course in his future commenting here. This is a good place for learning, as I have found.
New OT up.
Sorry about your stressful day, Matrix. Massage is great for de-stressing. This morning I had a really good remedial massage, where they dig deep into sore tissues that you didn’t realise were quite so sore, and after that the relevant area feels better. I like to get a massage after every long trip o/s where there is a lot of walking and a lot of sitting in aircraft for hours in the stratosphere, all playing havoc with neck, hips, back, legs, but only just found the time this morning to get one after our latest trip, to the Italian Dolomites and Austrian Alps. This one got rid of all the stressed bits of me that resulted from doing ‘passenger driving’ (braking hard to the floor my side, great intakes of breath tensing up the body etc) as Hairy sped down alpine roads that ended in a hairpin bend around a precipice. All good now.
What a stupid thing to propose. It blog not a clinic or school.
Just further proof you are ignorant on the subject.
That was directed to whatever spouse or personality.
thanks for the well wishes.
reckon we’d all know if FiL was in big trouble
it’s not all that stressful tbh
always in the sh!t here … it’s just the depth that varies
bespoke … you need a another coffee ?
Got one, Matrix.
Tim Blair:
Turkish MP Dies After Having Heart Attack During ‘Wrath of Allah’ Tirade
Most of the comments are that, basically, this disproves Allah. But the mathematics of islamist is exponential. To the Muz, his death was already written by Allah. He has been welcomed to paradise. It proves the might of Allah. Which is a simple feedback loop that increases belief. I can’t see anyway out of this. It is the perfect ideology for conquest and war.
I thought we got a new Open Thread on Saturday morning. But luxury, so over we go.
A dear friend has been a dedicated Red Cross volunteer all her life.
Australian Red Cross, not International Red Cross who she describes as a bunch of rich European cocktail circuit wannabe dictators.
She claims that the only relationship that exists between the two is when the Aussies tell the Swiss to go jump. She also claims that the Aussies contribute no money to the Swiss mob – I doubt that.
She has some interesting anecdotes about the behaviour of the Red Cross during the Cold War when they were a bought and paid for agency of Moscow.
Apparently the International Red Cross had control here until the 70’s when the local membership seized control and pursued their own path. Or so she says.
Oh, as a PS to above, Gillard was, of course, a fan of the Internatonal Red Cross and attempted to boost their authority locally which caused a number of local volunteers to quit. A similar storey to what State Governments did to the CFS.
“…What do you think Russia would do, if Israel attacked Iran?
Sit back and say, ……, “fair cop tovarich!””
Tricky.
BRICS – both China and India are likely not too keen on any Islamic state, and neither is Russia. If Russia can get what they need from either of those two, they wouldn’t hesitate to throw Iran under the bus, methinks.
“Harry and Meghan’s £88m Netflix series is ‘LESS popular than Peppa Pig’”
Well, one is full of boring, one dimensional characters that are asanine and predictable, and the other is a children’s animated cartoon.