I remember a time when billionaires entertained themselves with fast cars, starlets and models and left the world alone.
Open Thread – Christmas Day 2023
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A bit more detail from the Paywallion:
Indigenous voice referendum ‘not my loss’, Anthony Albanese declares
By PAIGE TAYLOR
INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, WA BUREAU CHIEF
and JESS MALCOLM
REPORTER
26 Dec 2023
Anthony Albanese’s claim that his failed referendum was not a personal loss for him has sparked anger among top figures in the Yes campaign, with one Aboriginal leader indicating the remarks were proof white Australia would take no responsibility for the voice’s rejection.
The Prime Minister said on Monday the result was not “a loss for him” because he was not Indigenous and the debate was not about politicians.
He also said in an interview on Sydney radio 2GB that Aboriginal Australians disappointed by the referendum result were “used to hardship” and Labor would continue to work to close the gap.
Leading figures in the failed push for constitutional change immediately picked up on Mr Albanese’s remarks, with some claiming it as confirmation he believes the defeat belongs to them and not him despite Labor’s central role in the campaign.
At the Exodus Foundation in Sydney’s inner west on Monday while he was helping to serve Christmas Day lunch to the poor, Mr Albanese was asked about his year and “some big losses” such as the defeat of the voice at the ballot box last October.
“Oh, no, no, no, no, very important to call that out. I am not Indigenous so it wasn’t a loss to me,” the Labor leader said.
“That stays exactly the same the way it is. I do think that it was disappointing for First Nations people but they’re used to you know, getting the, they’re used to hardship. It’s been the case for 200 years, and they are resilient and we will continue to do what we can to provide for closing the gap.
“But it’s one of the things about this debate, it was never about politicians, it was actually about the most disadvantaged people in our society.”
One figure in the Yes campaign criticised Mr Albanese for claiming no sense of personal loss after championing the referendum, including in his election-night victory speech in May last year.
Another called on Labor to commission a review of the “referendum debacle” and the Albanese government’s role in it.
“Blacks did the work for seven years and Labor killed it,” one said.
Indigenous leader Sean Gordon, who supported the voice in an alliance with constitutional conservatives, agreed with Mr Albanese that Indigenous Australians were resilient people. Mr Gordon was a member of Mr Albanese’s referendum working group.
When asked about the Prime Minister’s assertion that the voice defeat was no loss for him, Mr Gordon replied that this was the issue for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who comprised a small percentage of the population.
“It’s the challenge of our 3.7 per cent,” Mr Gordon said.
“Regardless of the issue or the outcome, the 96.3 per cent white Australia are able to comfortably move forward without any ownership, responsibility or accountability for the result.”
The proposal for an Indigenous advisory body with a constitutional guarantee predated Mr Albanese’s prime ministership by more than a decade. It was the subject of reports and inquiries and it was the option favoured by a clear majority of Indigenous people who took part in the Uluru Dialogues held around Australia in 2016 and 2017.
Polling showed Australians were in favour of the concept for some five years and remained in favour after Mr Albanese announced in May last year that he would take the voice question to a referendum.
Support for a constitutionally enshrined voice began to slide in the first half of 2023, after the Coalition parties’ formalised their opposition to it, but before the final words of the proposed amendment had been settled. Ultimately, 61 per cent of Australians voted no to the voice on referendum day.
On Monday, Peter Dutton described the voice as Mr Albanese’s project. “The PM was obsessed with the voice for the best part of 18 months,” the Opposition Leader said.
“ He told Australians they were “chicken littles” if they opposed it, and he needlessly divided Australians. It’s remarkable he’s now saying it wasn’t about him. The PM is distracted and not focused on the issues that matter.
“He should reflect on these comments about his pet project – the voice – and make life easier, not harder, for Australians. The PM was so obsessed with the voice and being overseas that he missed the opportunities in his two budgets to make decisions to relieve cost-of-living pressures. It’s really hurt Australians and they are feeling the pain Mr Albanese created.”
PAIGE TAYLOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, WA BUREAU CHIEF
Paige Taylor is from the West Australian goldmining town of Kalgoorlie and went to school all over the place including Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and Sydney’s north shore. She has been a reporter since 1996
JESS MALCOLM REPORTER
Jess Malcolm is a political reporter in The Australian’s Canberra bureau, where she covers a range of rounds including agriculture, infrastructure and regional affairs. She won the Student Journalist of the Year 2021 Quill Awards
. It’s the take of an ahistorical ignoramus
Same here, a tradition we picked up while living overseas. Prezzies after a gorgeous seafood dinner. A few overseas Christmases were white – what magical experiences and something Cats with young families would thoroughly enjoy and remember forever, I’m sure.
First, that woman is no lady. Second, Jacinta Allen is probably of the same mind as the protesters and deafening silence is more eloquent than mealy mouthed statements.
Read Pride and Prejudice first, the story should be familiar if you’ve seen any of the movie.
As for Russians again, reading something where the story line is familiar is a good way to get a toe on the water, remembering who is who with those very unfamiliar names can be disconcerting.
Great moral CLARlTY.
Thanks for this post.
“I was thinking I should read Jane Austen ”
Pride and Prejudice
Not even a tune up in the police station carpark, unfortunately.
I don’t know why we can’t bring back the stocks. If they had of set some up at the gates of the melbourne carols, they could have put the protesters in them and let the crowd jeer them and throw left over food. Might make the useful idiots think twice about doing it again. There are not enough outlets for people to feel how far they are from genuine public sentiment any more. With the decline in public shame, policy makers are following the ‘squeaky wheels’ and weirdos.
Hardship after all those billions spent on indigenous welfare? Albo, why not authorise a Royal Commission into how the money is spent? Could it be because the white indigenous activists have snaffled most of the billions?
Police arrested a 21-year-old Brunswick woman over the stunt and issued her an infringement notice for carrying a box cutter, which is classified as a controlled weapon by police.
So, this skank gets an “infringement notice”. The skank commits an illegal act and in doing so the skank takes a weapon onto a stage where there are children.
I suppose this is yet more “letting off steam”, and I suppose this is yet more of the supine, spineless, craven police tactics of “monitoring the situation”. So, what will it take?
Hear this, there will be an attack on the Jewish community, not if but WHEN. This Jew does not feel safe, and don’t anyone tell me I’m engaging in hyperbole. I am not.
When will the monitoring stop? When there are corpses on a street?
I’m sorry, I’m so over this.
Happy Boxing Day. I’m not watching the cricket. I refuse to watch Jew haters.
First, that woman is no lady. Second, Jacinta Allen is probably of the same mind as the protesters and deafening silence is more eloquent than mealy mouthed statements.”
Correct, I said from the beginning, she’s worse than Dan.
Earlier I thought it was sloppy security checking that the Palestinian flags were easily smuggled in. A box cutter takes it to a new level of official negligence. Is anyone going to ask Jacinta Allen to explain that?
I’m still considering that Stanley knife. Why did she have it and what was she going to do with it?
And why did they wait until there were children on stage? I wonder what type of “protest” she had auditioned in her mind only to have those two little ones firmly escorted off before she could do her thing?
All that was left was to stride over to Campbell, take the mic and scream a pathetic slogan about “children dying in Gaza”. Something was on her mind, and perhaps it was something horrible.
She’ll need to be watched. VicPol is onto it as I type. /sarc
From BB @7:21
I find it odd that the only social media comments reported on were about how well the hosts handled the situation.
Surely there was widespread condemnation of the scumbag?
Even better:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
After that you can try Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
Many thanks for posting Tim Blair in full, Beertruk.
He was a pack-a-day smoker until his recent heart attack.
I reckon the hearter has made him an even better writer.
I adore Tim Blair. He and Roger Franklin are the best and wittiest writers in Australia. National treasures.
Tinta, world elites and their climate change assault will guarantee future generations will have plenty of hard times to remember.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Dec 25, 2023 2:22 PM
Wear the t shirt that says “Join the Army, go to exciting places, meet interesting people and kill them.”
Had that t-shirt in 1980 when I was a newly minted ARA Dig. 🙂
Could we have Persuasion and Space Aliens?
Couldn’t be any worse than the most recent Woke iteration. Dusky best girlfriends, sassy fourth wall breakage, dumb plot screw-ups.
Or perhaps that was it. I didn’t last after the first few minutes.
For Jane Austen, start with Pride And Prejudice. It best describes the social classes and attitudes of the Regency era.
The only Russian author I can recommend is Tolstoy, all others are completely imbued in the Russian nihilism.
We’re getting closer and closer to the nub of what this is all about. The headline says it all.
We Can’t Let Fossil Fuels Die Because They Keep Us Alive
Happy Boxing Day. I’m not watching the cricket. I refuse to watch Jew haters.
Ditto.
I won’t be watching Hamas opening.
Muslim family aggressively accosts prominent Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in NYC’s Times Square telling him to ‘kill yourself’ if he has a problem with a free Palestine
Allegations of Procedural Missteps Surface Against Special Counsel John Luman Smith, aka Jack Smith
Anna Karenina as a starting point. Depressing but lush.
There have been a few interesting dramatisations of it…I think the latest was one with Kiera Knightly as Anna. Drawn curiously as a stage play. Love it or loathe it, it’s worth a look.
Lots of idiots have beclowned themselves on X by praising the scumbgs. Low hanging fruit, but a lot of them. At least they are pretty much all from the hard left, which is gratifying to know.
Buttigieg: Americans Won’t Be Driving ‘Old’ Gas-Powered Cars in 2050
Parents of Conservative Reporter Jack Posobiec Swatted
Too late – it’s already happened.
By Trying To Keep Trump Off The Ballot, Democrats Are Staging A Coup In Broad Daylight
Trying to use police as assassins. The viciousness is off the scale.
Greene says she was swatted while at home with family on Christmas
Put a sock in it you creep.
King Charles Urges Public to ‘Protect the Earth’ in Green-Themed Christmas Address
Campbell is a sanctimonious luvvie at the best of times (although at least we didn’t have Lisa W co-hosting this year). I would not be surprised in the least to find out the whole episode was staged.
US Officials Turned Regime Change Tactics Developed Abroad Against Trump, Evidence Suggests
The online propaganda, trolling and spamming of comments on most platforms over this issue is incredible.
I highly recommend Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Also, one should read Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate.
I am rereading The Diary of Anne Frank.
Thinking exactly that also.
At a minimum,
Oct 7 saw the brutal murder of Israeli women, children, babies.
Supporters of the murderers are aiding and abetting. Murderers too.
Albo is broken.
There are so many things that need to be addressed – cost of living, the release of sociopathic illegal immigrants whose own nations don’t want in their societies, the fact we cannot even send one naval vessel to support our major ally to whom we are bound by the newly inked AUKUS, yet we are praised by the terror group Hamas, and by the covetous thuggish ethno-state China.
Not a single thing has improved since Albo got in – except that there are fewer days remaining of his term than there were back then.
But still he wants to talk about the decomposing carcass of the stillborn Voice.
He makes me think of a Captain of a submarine in a dire situation – flooded compartments, engines down, enemy above dropping depth charges their detonations pounding against the hull – and amidst this stress the Captain retreats to his cabin, trying to hide from the danger by immersing himself in some pointless obsessive behaviour such as trying to work out other routes he might have taken to get to his destination that would not have brought him here.
Toiling away pointlessly and, with each report of a new calamity, he ramps up his frantic activity further. Wrapping himself up tight in this figurative blanket waiting for the monsters to go away.
J.J. Sefton over at Ace has coined an excellent moniker for the western filth who are basically Brides of Hamas. He calls them “Einsatz-groupies”. Fitting. He has also written what a few of us have posted here recently, “the Jews are first, then the rest.
“ So now the “Einsatz-groupies” who support the butchery and genocide of Jews first in Israel and ultimately the entire world are going after “the Sunday people,” for daring to celebrate Christmas while Gaza is about to be plowed under.”
He then links to the Carols by Candlelight attack which, by the way has gone worldwide as quickly as the Filth Fest in front of the Opera House.
Xavier Herbert was right, “Poor Fellow my Country”.
To add to my previous comment, Cassie, Katz, Calli’s daughter and son-in-law, and grandees, and every Jewish poster here who rightfully acknowledge their pride in their Jewishness, J.J. Sefton has given we Christians an excellent name to get behind, I am a Proud Sunday Person.
As the immortal Eric Cartman is wont to say, “Take THAT! you Donkey-Raping Shiteaters!”
I will second that. I enjoyed it the first time, and plan to read it again in the near future.
The Brothers Karamazov is also good, but I preferred Crime and Punishment.
War and Peace is excellent. I detect a strong influence of Homer in Tolstoy’s writing (e.g., Homeric similes and phrases) and philosophy (e.g., fatalism).
Tom
Dec 26, 2023 8:23 AM
and
Cassie of Sydney
Dec 26, 2023 8:51 AM
No worries. Im a big fan as well and Hope he writes a book one day.
I have met Tim Blair at a turnout in Sydney in sometime 2017? I think.
Bloody nice bloke.
Along with Nick Cater, Greg Sherridan, Gemma Tognini and Craig Kelly.
Craig Kelly was a bit late but he apologised and said ‘just got here after doing battle with the Marxist Collective ABC.’
Lots of applause and laughter.
We are getting a certain worldwide reputation for Hamas enabling. It’s not going to end well for us.
Miss 21 from Brunswick will be some nose ringed tattooed freak from clemford country.
Mother Lode,
I reckon Elbow is more like the Captain of the Costa Concordia. Desperately looking for a lifeboat to speed him away from the shipwreck he has caused.
Feast of Saint Stephen
Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen
Happy Boxing Day. I’m not watching the cricket. I refuse to watch Jew haters
Speaking of such matters Cassie:
Won’t link the whole article.
Usman, the ICC have saw through your facade. Give it a spell dickweed.
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.
– Jay Leno
Also, not Russian, but another good example of nineteenth century realism is Pere Goriot. Heavily indebted to Shakespeare, as the two daughters are basically Goneril and Regan, but I thought it was well worth reading.
I thought I would add a little joy to this thread. For all the Cat-Dog Lovers here.
Doggie Christmas Tree.
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky!
A favourite of Einstein and Wittgenstein I believe. Certainly one of mine.
Including Hamas’s man at the MCG, Usman Khawaja, opening the batting for Australia.
Post-Christmas day and in search of peace, something that has to be said, and is said well.. Benjamin Netanyahu’s message for Abrahamic World Peace in Gaza.
From the Wall Street Journal. Apologies if already put up elsewhere. Recent articles both local and internationally sourced in the Australian have been very firm re Israel, for which this paper is to be congratulated.
One would suppose that Israel has some plans in place regarding how to achieve this. Personally, although many think the Netanyahu is gone post the cessation of hostilities I hope that is not so and that a man of his fortitude can oversight what is hopefully an international group working on the reconstruction and deradicalization in Gaza and the West Bank, in peace and goodwill to all.
Khawaja, like millions of other useful idiots worldwide, are pushing the narrative that the poor downtrodden Pallies in Gaza are not Hamas.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Einsatz-groupies”
Sooooooo appropriate. I have a new name to give that rancid cockroach next time he vomits up on these pages. Without a doubt he’s lurking here, and when he vomits up I’ll call him what he really truly is, an ‘Einsatz-groupy’
Hang on.
Warner announced his impending retirement.
Beertruk
Dec 26, 2023 9:34 AM
I was at that gathering.
Khawaja made all these profound statements (including calling the ICC hypocrites, if you don’t mind) because he knows full well this will be his last summer in the creams on Australian soil.
He is far closer to 40 than 30, and is in all likelihood extremely thankful that his mate since childhood (Warner) has taken all the attention off the last grains of sand running out of his own hourglass.
I guarantee he would have made the decision to retire just before the start of the summer (if not before), and that’s why he’s running his trap now.
Tell you what though – I haven’t heard mention of Khawaja giving some of his considerable wealth, accumulated through his time in the game, to the Gazan kidlets he keeps banging on about.
Warner announced his impending retirement
A worthy contender for today’s interwebs winner. Hearty congratulations
The Carols box cutter prompted a few thoughts this morning about the changes we’ve all had to suffer because of Muslim terrorists. Airport queues of course, and early arrivals. But let’s not forget that once the MCG surrounds on Boxing Day used to be an ocean of parked cars, some with iced up eskies and picnic hampers on the grass. No more.
Israel has made Iran unhappier.
Russian authors. Sholokov, the Don series; Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog. There is more than Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
A perfect description of hamas
Elon musk
Pakistan wins the toss and elects to bat. Go, Pakis!
I’ve changed my mind.
If Australia bats first, I’ll watch, hoping Hamas gets a duck.
If he gets a run, I’ll flick to the yacht race.
Wouldn’t it be sweet – run out by Warner off the first ball.
from 2018
I know. The question was what to start with. I thought something “light” and relatively cheerful!
😀
Tom:
The Pakis are bowling post-coin flip. Now I have to wait for half an hour to go shopping in order to see both our flogworthy openers slowly walk back to the sheds without troubling the scorers to any great degree.
Woops! Pakistan wins the toss and elects to bowl. My bad.
Go Pakis — make sure they’re six down by lunch in the overcast conditions.
Belated Christmas wishes to all Cats and Kittehs from Chez Lizzie and Hairy, yesterday reverting as in many past Christmases into Villa Chaos with happy children’s shrieks of anticipation and joy. We had mainly immediate family with spouses and their offspring (those still in town) yesterday, making thirteen, in contrast to the days of yore where we also had my brother’s large family and Big Sis’s tribe too. There were times back then, in our large house with a pool, where we had over 30 for Christmas lunch, on a number of trestle tables in both the house and garden. Now my father, mother, brother and my oldest nephew (Big Sis’s son) are all departed this life, and Big Sis has moved into Supported Living. Christmas tends to gather now around separate immediate families of descent, and we who are now ‘elders’ become matriarchs and patriarchs of our own clans.
As we age, Christmas becomes so full of our memories, and I hope all Cats and Kittehs were blessed with some good ones, ably assisted by a huge excess, according to inclination, of feasting and imbibing.
Fine him until he, and all sportspeople, get the message that there must be absolutely no politics in sport. Go hard until they get the message.
That includes Captain Climate. One green peep from him and he needs to be flattened by the ICC and Cricket Australia.
The fiascos of Rugby Australia and Colin Kaepernick should have taught a few lessons, but they just keep doing it. So zero tolerance has to be the way, and anyone who tries it on should be penalized until they glow.
‘Heart of a Dog’ is a satire on Bolshevism.
Cassie of Sydney
Dec 26, 2023 9:49 AM
Beertruk
Dec 26, 2023 9:34 AM
I was at that gathering.
Bugger…our paths had crossed but we didn’t get to meet each other.
It was a bloody good night though.
That a man with so few talents as Albo could become PM of Australia and dine with the most powerful leader of the Western world is indeed a “pinch me” moment.
I know this refers to myself.
In the end you’ll always be an up yourself, arrogant self entitled female who leeches off the nearest male like all of them do…
Probably lives in a gated community and will never have to struggle for anything in life.
If there is a struggle, you cry and demand the ban hammer like all of them.
I am going now to raise The Patriarch from our second-best bed, for we ceded our best bed and harbour view and ensuite to daughter and her husband, who have now left for a stay with friends in faraway Yamba, nearly back to Queensland. I have my study back now that the three children sleeping in it have woken and gone with them too.
Next Christmas I have decided I need to appoint a Reminder Person, rather like an old-style Sin Eater, someone who will remind me to do things I overlook – like yesterday, so pre-occupied was I with turkey, ham and roast vegies being hot and ready, I forgot to put out the stuffing from the turkey for the cafeteria self-serve around the kitchen, and I also clean forgot the Christmas fruits – so I now have mangos, cherries, blueberries and strawberries galore still in the fridges. My breakfast has been a Freddo Frog from the Gingerbread House lucky dip finished off with what life should always be – a bowl of cherries. I can’t argue with that.
FMD the Australian side walking out onto the hallowed MCG turf to the sound of a black fella rendition of You’re The Voice. Farking cringe
Jennifer Lawrence Proves She’s A Narcisstic Idiot
Matt Walsh
FMD. The ruling class learned nothing from the referendum.
All the white blackfellahs in their animal skins are lined up at the MCG to shove the welcome to country down our throats.
Cricket fans are sick to death of politics in sport. So are footy fans, for that matter.
For the Russian literature, get the translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Husband and wife team. He’s a native English speaker, she Russian. SBS uses two translators too. Far better.
Aunty ferking Joy wasting space at the G. Whiter than the Hamas opener.
Putting Paki’s to sleep
I started reading Stefan Zweig’s “The World of Yesterday” recently. It is not an easy read.
Arthur Koestler’s “darkness at noon” is on the list when I am through with Zweig’s book.
You can’t hold a candle to Cassie and the above ad hom just proves it.
Another Pagan Celebration at the MCG just now.
Led by a white looking woman wearing western clothes, and a fur coat (no doubt mage with western tools)!
FMD
A fair few Uber drivers in the small crowd.
Made not mage
My nine year-old granddaughter would be perfectly aware, as would any of her schoolfriends, that such an action would be both horrendous and dangerous and was without any doubt certainly very morally wrong.
I know this refers to myself.
Nope
In the end you’ll always be an up yourself, arrogant self entitled female who leeches off the nearest male like all of them do…
Nope again. I don’t “leech off” any male.
Probably lives in a gated community and will never have to struggle for anything in life.
Nope again.
If there is a struggle, you cry and demand the ban hammer like all of them.
Nope again. I have never asked for you to be “banned”. Your comment two days ago directed at me was utterly filthy, putrid, disgusting and depraved. It was deleted by Dover and rightly so. Very decent of Dover to continue to allow you to comment but he is decent. I actually don’t want you banned, it’s always good to have people to rebut.
Here’s a thought, perhaps you should seek professional help.
That’s another 30,000 punters who won’t be in the crowd for the next four days. All it takes to piss off 60% of the country, who won’t now be buying MCG tickets.
The empty stadia during the BLM stupidity would’ve caused the NFL billions of losses.
Get onto them bigly Cricket Australia or you’ll have empty stadia also.
Speaking of lesbians (the Hun):
You just know there’s going to be more to this.
Yep. Because five security guards picked them at random. Because they didn’t draw attention to themselves beforehand at all.
Every public bar in Melbourne encourages lesbian attendance.
Because they were lesbians in public. In Melbourne. Riiiiight.
Of course.
Yeah nah nah nah yeah nah.
Please let this be subject to intense publicity.
This is cricket related:
I don’t understand what has happened to Afridi’s pace?
When he debuted I thought he was bowling around 150 kph?
On this tour he has struggled to get over 130 kph.
Maybe injured?
Maryinka has fallen to Russia.
Noooooooooo…….
Midget cheat dropped at first slip. A sitter, too.
Khawaja, like Harry Kane during the World Cup, have shown themselves to be cowards. No black armband, no dove on the bat. If he really stood by his conviction, he would do so. But a phuckwit will remain so
Haven’t seen this much swing in the MCG for years and years.
Warner lives!
Saw that Christwhatafool is preferred Premier over Piles and LNP are ahead in the polls. Qld is well and truly screwed.
If this refers to Cassie, it is complete bulltish. Cassie has a razor sharp intellect and the historical scholarship to support her viewpoints.
As for ‘leeching off the nearest male’ look my way if you must, you hopeless case who knows nothing of how husbands and wives can love each other dearly regardless of material circumstances or differing social origins. Cassie is the most independent woman, caring now for her elderly mother. That said, I wish life had offered Cassie the comfort and security of a loving Jewish husband, as she has herself often said, here and to me, for finding (and keeping) such love can be a rocky road. As Cassie is still a relatively young and attractive woman, I hope more love is yet to be found. In my family we don’t let age get in our way – my Big Sis found a lasting love at age 72 after five failed marriages; this couple are eleven years now into a shared Darby and Joan twilight in ‘independent’ supported care. So always expect the unexpected.
If anyone is leeching here, it is you, leeching off the goodwill of Christmas to spread your poison on a site where you are Dover’s guest.
Obviously climate change.
This will be fun though, Aussie batsmen hate swing like ebola. Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis would be having a fine time if they had this pill.
Lefties are the greatest Islamic apologists because they know that, as atheists, they are considered the lowest of the low by Islam, even lower than Jews and polytheists.
It’s active appeasement of the crocodile.
Sorry, don’t believe you.
All women leech off men, either directly through marriage/divorce/inheritance, or indirectly through the state and our terrible man hating legal system.
Also, my previous comment is no less relevant, you and almost all jews use your faith and WW2 events as a shield against criticism.
Millions have been slaughtered all through human history, all in horrible way, yet we give one particular group special privileges above others.
I get over hearing about it, we constantly are told to move on and reconcile past events, except that one for some reason.
Almost 10 times that number died under Mao, and nobody cares.
As for professional help.
That’s a typical argument of a leftist attempting to discredit an argument.
Remember, you were declared “mentally ill” for not supporting communism in the soviet union. Punishable by “re-education”.
High humidity. Not normal Melbourne weather.
I also note on the member’s stand the Aboriginal flag in the middle of 5 flags assembled.
Also, my previous comment is no less relevant, you and almost all jews use your faith and WW2 events as a shield against criticism
Well.
Someone got a lump of coal in their Santa sack yesterday.
It’s more than that. He had “all lives matter” which is, on its own completely uncontroversial. But he was entirely selective. There’s wars all over the world, but he only wears it when Jews kill Muslims in war. Muslim killing Muslims is meh. He’d already lost me though with his complaint that the Australian team is too “white”, like being white is some sort of crime. And he’s ungrateful. He has been given great opportunity in Australia for the simple act of coming here.
No good deed goes unpunished.
That doesn’t address my point…
Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?
I’m not going to acknowledge the depravity of the rest of your comments by even mentioning them.
I don’t think Afridi was ever a 150+ monster, unlike one or two of the Paki dudes running around in the BBL.
Strictly a seamer who hits the stick hard, rather than an out-and-out pace machine.
That also doesn’t address my point
Since Frank Sinatra.
Was this the same bloke who sat in the red dirt with ‘Digenous ladies and went through a family sized box of Kleenex?
I’ve read the first, at least, Don book.
Very good.
Must have been because I finished it 🙂 which is more than I can say about Crime and Punishment when I tackled that as a teen.
I know exactly where I left off, still.
Also, my previous comment is no less relevant, you and almost all jews use your faith and WW2 events as a shield against criticism.”
As I wrote above, you need professional help.
rosie:
Precisely.
As I wrote about, you belong in in the soviet union…
Plastic Sorter,
the “pervert apologist”, Cassie referred to is Monty. Unsurprising that you walk through the blog with shit on your boots, then whine that everyone is talking about you.
Monty has a blog, you should spend time over there. It is a very exclusive blog. You would fit right in.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Dec 26, 2023 10:47 AM”
Thank you Lizzie.
Such fun, Pogria.
We had ‘the dog’, a friendly good-natured staffy, along with my second son here yesterday. Nine year-old granddaughter is frightened of dogs and her anxious mother allocated my study as a ‘safe place’ if it got to much. Needn’t have bothered though, as meeting one’s fears is the way to grow up. The little girl was fine with the dog.
All’s well. Attapuss spent the day in his room which he kindly shared with us overnight. He did muster his braveness to appear once all but the overnite stayers had left. He’s learning not to be frightened too, I murmur fondly to Hairy, who simply mutters stupid cat.
I’m a misogynist and I don’t care.
Imagine reducing women to the state of parasite.
No wonder he finds common cause with islam for whom women are a commodity.
Peter Greagg:
Jane Austen – highly over rated.
Start with your collection of “Phantom” comics. Then move on to “Mandrake the Magician.”
Winston gestures hypnotically…
Says a bloke with a white wife.
KD at 11:01
Just checked with Google.
Waquar says Afridi used to bowl 145-150 kph, and Waquar is concerned about his drop in pace.
Women are a commodity/resource.
They are used to produce the next generation on men for protection/warfare.
Why do you think they weren’t wiped out in tribal warfare?
Once victory was achieved, then men from the old tribe were wiped out, the women were kept to breed the next generation.
This carries through symbolically even in marriage today.
Why do you think the father gives his daughter away to the groom?
That used to represent a transfer of property rights from the father to the husband…
Damon
Dec 26, 2023 10:04 AM
Russian authors. Sholokov, the Don series; Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog. There is more than Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
Anything by Bulgakov is a must, especially “The Master and Margarita” – a work that got him into a spot of bother with Comrade Stalin. And his “Country Doctor’s Notebook” that was made into a passable series by the BBC starring John Hamm and Daniel Radcliff renamed “A Young Doctor’s Notebook”.
At around 130kph he seems a little erratic. What’s he like 20kph quicker?
Daily Mail.
Tash Peterson should be put in a cage somewhere, and offered a choice of eating meat, or death by starvation.
Crossie
“Could it be because the white indigenous activists have snaffled most of the billions?”
White indigenous activists are a more reliable Liars voting demographic than rural aboriginals, who might not bother to vote. The real indigenous have other matters on their minds.
Righto. Happy to stand corrected.
Mind you, almost everyone’s a drop in pace compared to Waqar.
Beertruk:
Sounds like “The Thirsty Crow and the Jar of Water”.
* May not accurately reflect other versions of the fable.
Which raises the question what level of tint would be acceptable? Clearly Martin Luther King must have had a word to selectors.
Cricket has always bored me to buggery both to play and to watch. Soccer plus a bit of Rugby was always my thing.
And who exactly briefed the media about the sticker on Marnus bat, well Khawaja of course, to enable him to label the ICC as hypocrites. Neither Khawaja or Cummins gets it, Khawaja started the palaver by pretending support for only Hamas was ok with a lame misnomer, which is the message he briefed the media with. It’s instructive that he has never asked for the hostages to be returned.
He should be sacked.
Lode at 9:21.
I don’t think that he wants to talk about it at all. He was responding to a question.
I think his PR flunkies have been pushing the media hard to avoid the subject because “it triggers First Nations trauma”.
The question was out of bounds caught him off guard.
As for the current fukwits that play and administer that boring game- I wouldn’t waste my time with them.
Good heavens! Does that make men disposable by comparison?
Tell me about the sanctity of life.
Or does that argument change depending upon the circumstances?
One word sums up Biden- Dirty. In every sense of the word.
Think on this.
The perpetrators were drawn from the most civilised of Western nations after all of the technological marvels of that civilisation had been developed. Yet the ideological cold-blooded slaughter of one category of humans, the inhuman ‘disposal’ of one historical category of men, women and children within our own Western world, could still occur. And our populations were largely complicit until roused to moral fortitude by Winston Churchill.
This was no thousand-times-before outrage of a maurading Ghengis Khan, nor a Communist-bred socio-political disaster that we might expect from such tyrannies, this was done by a nation displaying the best of us, our cultural heights, and to some of the best of us, our cultural leading lights.
That is why we remember and abhor the Holocaust of the Jews, above all others.
It is why we say, with Israel, never again. We won’t put up with it. It stands for all of the inhuman activities that a claimed creation of a loving god can produce, all of the evil of which mankind is capable. It is a statement of human volition, the good in us, that we will not see this ever happen again within our civilisation. Also, that we will oppose such ‘genocides’ everywhere, by every means.
KD @11:17
Ha ha. Yes, especially his first 200 wickets. I think his strike rate for those was about 40. WOW.
I wondered what had happened to this little boy and his baby brother who featured in an hamas propaganda video.
Unfortunately their mother was murdered.
the story
Cricket is a background activity – reading a book at the beach. Even if you’re there enjoying a beer with your mates.
By that reckoning, men only like women for having a moist hole. You’re shallower than a Clarke’s kiddy pool broken by a fat kid.
You’ll notice how no one ever says a team from Africa is too black or there aren’t enough whites in it (in fact there are none at all).
Same with Asian sporting teams.
Khawaja is an ungrateful, entitled brat, given an opportunity in the national team when he was not born here.
If he was a white immigrant to his native Pakistan there is no way he would be selected for a national team.
Yeah, do you remember that series when he and Wasim Akram routed the Pommies? Stumps cartwheeling galore. Unplayable swinging thunderbolts. High chance of sandpaper etc.
Seems an OK bloke in the commentary though.
Odd that. The Beloved gave two daughters away. In his wedding speeches, and I’ll paraphrase because it’s a long time ago…
Today I gave () away. But you can’t give away something you don’t own, it’s like giving away sunshine. But I did have the delight of her for a few short years, to raise, to teach, to play with, to bask in her success. And now it’s all up to you…to love her, to enjoy being with her, to start it all over again with a new family.
Look after her as best you can…or that brother of hers over there will hunt you down to the ends of the earth and…just kidding. No, I’m not.
😀
Fckty fck!
Parked the sporty Beemer, popped upstairs and flicked on the TeeVee.
That was the first ball I saw.
Followed by half a dozen play and misses.
Lovely darts calli.
Beautiful words by your mate.
Couldn’t say “Beloved” ‘cos that might make me gay.
The Pakis are bowling around 2 decent balls in 6 in the last 30 minutes. Rank bowling.
Zafiro @ 11:33am
According to Geoff (Henry) Lawson, the NSW team learned how to do that from Iran when he played for University (Club Cricket) and NSW Shield Side.
I think a beer bottle top was the instrument.
General Ripper from Dr. Strangelove had the right idea regarding women. By all means enjoy their company, but deny them your essence. ROFL that.
Considering the pace the Pakis bowl at, they are too short, and as others have said, not consistent enough.
Yes, we are absolutely disposable. We always have been.
Look at how we were “meat for the grinder in The Great War…
Women don’t get that privilege…
Pogria
“Monty has a blog, you should spend time over there. It is a very exclusive blog. You would fit right in.”
Is there any activity there? Last time I bothered to look, he hadn’t put up a new post for around a year.
Knuckle Dragger
There will be security footage of the whole thing.
Stupid lesbians.
Look at me. You want to be noticed. That’s the point.
I see. Old “Henry” Lawson is a blast from the past. Good under rated quick. Was part of the 1989 Ashes triumph.
Zafiro @ 11:57 AM
Quite so. I think he got a 7 for in an Ashes Test in England.
He was also a very good Captain for NSW who tutored Mark Taylor in the art.
If NSW batted first, He was always very keen to have a bowl on the first day. So, all out for 315 at 5:00 pm was the target. He was mindful of the fact the games were only 4 days long and you had to bowl out the other side twice to win.
Since the team knelt for Dave (?) Floyd, an American passer of forged banknotes, who overdosed & died though cops tried to help him, I’ve not bothered to pay any attention to the cricket team, except to idly hope they all get out for ducks & have 36 runs scored with every over they bowl.
Cummins is dirty on the fact that Indians run world crickit and have no time for Mueslis.
Just as he very bravely stood up to Alinta (because coal) but was strangely silent about T20 World Cup and IPL sponsor Saudi Aramco.
Why?
Well, Alinta will just suck it up.
But if you start bagging out Aramco you aren’t getting another IPL contract.
“Boambee John
Dec 26, 2023 11:52 AM
Pogria
“Monty has a blog, you should spend time over there. It is a very exclusive blog. You would fit right in.”
Is there any activity there? Last time I bothered to look, he hadn’t put up a new post for around a year.”
Boambee John,
I believe Monty’s missus and the milkman’s kids have locked him permanently in the basement. The Recycling bloke could go over and rescue him and they could live happily ever after.
Just watch the video.
Whenever two people enter Crown Casino, Five security guards are detailed to watch them & pounce as soon as one gives the other a peck on the cheek.
Sure.
Good news Cassie, the Obela hummus is the best ever. No refund required. Everyone commented how good it was. Son tells me he uses it in his restaurant. The guacamole is good but I prefer homemade. The avocado has been hit and miss lately.
Thank you P.
Wenceslas is the most Christmas spirit invoking carol of them all. Beautifully performed.
Yep, Captain Carbon’s support is quite selective. Wont be too many tears shed around the BCCI board table for Gaza.
Yeah mate. Tactics involved in Shield cricket, being 4 day games.
He was a Wagga Wagga boy, like many good sportsmen that town has produced. Cricket, footy, rugby etc.
“Fast bowlers never learn.” Passed down through the generation. Will ever be thus.
I want to throw David Pocock out of a helicopter; purely as a warning to Pat Cummins.
Am I the only Cat who does not know a Jew?
Doesn’t interact with any in daily commerce, business, or social life?
Don’t know of a Jew, anywhere, that he could reasonably expect to bump into, should he have the urge to interact with one.
Likewise for most people I know. Yet in my entire life, I don’t recall anybody, either in my extended family, or my district, who is anything but vehemently on Israel’s side.
Nuclear milkman embarrasses himself in public.
‘Resign’: Benjamin Netanyahu is ‘putting the lives of Israelis at risk’ (Sky, 26 Dec)
No son, your ignorance is only exceeded by your nastiness. The Israeli government is a unity war cabinet from the full spectrum of Israeli politics. Gantz is a big dog in it, he’s centre left. Even Lapid was saying that Hamas must be destroyed, Lapid is far-left.
Take your limp soy-milk antisemitism Steven and shove it up your quoit.
“Yes, we are absolutely disposable. We always have been.
Look at how we were “meat for the grinder in The Great War…
Women don’t get that privilege…”
Judging by the number of butchered women and children on 7th October, it seems Hamarse didn’t get the memo.
The lisping Conroy……
Take your limp soy-milk antisemitism Steven and shove it up your quoit.
Beautifully expressed.
Midget houso ranga cheat gorn for 38!
Who is this “we”, Kimosabe?
You were there?
Or are you just playing the stolen valour game?
Hamas still batting.
Bugger it. Off to the Race.
Dostoevsky for Catholics (and Everyone Else), Part I
Dostoevsky represents one powerful reply to many of the cataclysmic changes that have swept modern Western civilization since the eighteenth century.
I had a bowl of fruit for breakfast about 8.30am yesterday. So, by the time I arrived for Christmas lunch, I was starved.
Before I started hoovering down the seafood, roast meats and trifle, there were the horse’s doovers which included a brilliant spicy guacamole my brother recommended.
It’s from Aldi, he informed me., and cost a skerrick.
Warner makes 2/38.
Piss orf you ginger headed flog.
Warner…gone
That doesn’t prove anything…
How many millions of men were sent their deaths during all wars in the last 100 years.
How many women?
Oh that’s right, hardly any…
Men are disposable and are treated as such…
Men were/are derided for refusing to go to war.
White feather movement ring any bells?
Imagine the public outcry if we conscripted women to be slaughtered in the same way we did men?
But hey, women wanted equality, perhaps they should be sent to the slaughter in the same way men have.
I’m all for equality here, let women put their big fat arses where their big fat mouths are.
1. Panspermia must be a given.
2. The extreme flip flopping on the validity of statistics (even with the basis of the discipline in calculus) whilst hiding behind the skirt of a BA in mathematics is hilarious.
And how long have you had these mummy issues, Plastic?
I’m not trying to steal anyone’s valour…
Merely pointing out that men are seen as disposable by our society in general.
I don’t see how pointing out that “we” as men, collectively are seen as disposable is stealing anyone’s valour…
The mathematics amateur hour overnight was interesting.
Really, really interesting.
Slide rules at ten paces.
Rivetting stuff.
It is “Milkweeper”, Bruce. h/t Tim Blair
Not normal Melbourne weather.
What, pray, is “normal” Melbourne weather?
It’s nice of Iran to acknowledge the importance of a person Israel has removed.
LOL. Fair enough. Not normally humid.
Fabulous watching them all waiting…waiting….l15 seconds to go…
bang! And they’re off!
Dad loved the Sydney to Hobart. We always watched the start.
To paraphrase Chuck Schumer, the mad mullahs have reaped the whirlwind.
Go, Israel!
Well.
The first time I’ve seen the start of a Siddy Hobart race.
Slightly more exciting than the late night Mathematics Hour.
That was close!
Plenty of room! Sure. For a canoe.
Call me if someone tries to board with a cutlass between their teeth.
I watched a doco on TV a few weeks back about the 1998 edition. Fuck that. FIL did it a couple of times in the ’80s, reckons it was hardcore. He was only used to Port Philip Bay and what not.
Scallywag, Sancho. The equivalent…tacking way too close.
Dad loved the Sydney to Hobart. We always watched the start.”
As do we, we’re watching it now.
There are plenty of men with fat arses too.