Headline in The Oz:

“Pearson breaks silence on voice referendum “

Corrected headline now reads:

“Pearson breaks wind on voice referendum”

And let me assure you, it wasn’t just about future evil, my focus is on the present one. If the punishment deters anything hideous in the future, so be it.

“She missed the last target!”

Cohenite,
that would only make her train harder. 😀

Forgot to add to the post with the ASIO details, if you send a letter via snail mail, they HAVE to read it and acknowledge having done so.

This young boy has a serious future.
Almost makes we want to listen to Rap. Worth a listen to.

JMH
Dec 30, 2023 6:26 PM
Downticks. Says it all really and I rule out any manipulation. It’s contributors and readers expressing their disgust. Not directed at you. Calli or other respected posters.

A fullstop was needed!

Oh Goody! I can like my own comment! More power to my finger!

Oh yeah! I’ll run it again because of a lost comma! 🙂
JMH
Dec 30, 2023 6:26 PM
Downticks. Says it all really and I rule out any manipulation. It’s contributors and readers expressing their disgust. Not directed at you, Calli or other respected posters.

If this is a question, it implies there will be never ending repeats. Is that what you foresee?

Short of an agreement in which those held in Israeli custody are freed, yes.

Really? All it needs to end this interminable conflict against the existence of Israel, where hostage taking is one tactic, is for Israel to release all captured Palestinians. Then click your fingers and the conflict is over.

Sorry, that’s not an answer.

I’m outta Danistan, can drive 10-15mph over the speed limit without getting booked

Guys do that on the Western Freeway all the time.

the ALPBC is quite possibly the unfunniest joke in human history

agree and absolutely no need for it anymore. Same as Sex Before Sleep. The soft porn I used see after coming home from night tech in the 90s was very enjoyable.

Not called the wild west for nothing.

Cassie @7:36.
Soros was influenced by Karl Popper and his analysis of the difference between open and closed societies. But after the disintegration of the Soviets and Warsaw block Soros has become what he previously derided, he has become anti-freedom and pro-suppression of alternative opinion.

It seems every billionaire has got into the game. There’s Bezos and Zuckerberg, then the remaining Koch brother and probably many more I haven’t even heard of.

Each has their own strategies. Some via funding of NGOs to give the appearance of grass roots interests. Some via media platforms. Some via electoral support (eg teals or BuggerUp). Some via direct bribery, or indirect such as luxury yacht trips with porn broads on tap.

Sometimes, the least palatable answers are the only realistic answers.

The original question and your answer implied future potential, not the current situation. I think context slipped from one to the other. But leave it – I don’t like entering into “they said” “and you said” “but I said” autopsies.

I said that so long as there are Palestinians in custody, tried or held indefinitely, they will use hostages if that is the only means of retrieving them.

Kabuki. Israel is feeding the US chooks about ceasefires and hostages.

If they can get a ceasefire with meaningful hostage releases they will do so though. The IDF could do with a rest and rotation. But be in no doubt that Gaza will be a razed plain of rubble by the time they’ve finished. The Israelis are pissed off, which is something you should never do.

Qatar deal could see release of up to 50 hostages, prolonged ceasefire in Gaza (JPost, 29 Dec)

RogerF:
Elsies been quiet and hasn’t eaten yet. She has drunk some water. I’ve checked on her several times since we got home – that’s the old nurse “Doing the rounds” you get so used to – I laughed out loud when I realised what I was doing.
Found her a couple of times hidden behind a couple of cartons of baked beans, and she consented to a scratch behind the ears. Just back from the last check and she’s changed position to behind the curtains. She suffered through a gentle ear and back scratch.
I’ve turned the aircon off – it was hot this afternoon, but now it’s cooling off.
She looks good – she doesn’t have that greasy look that cats get when they’re stressed.
If you’d rather I can just send emails for a couple of days.

Been thinking about reading and readers. I have never undertaken any formal study of any sort of literature apart from the Leaving Certificate. I was quite sick in bed for a year in 1969 and did a lot of that sort of reading then during uni time. Also read quite a lot of the ‘greats’ when I worked in ads, long before I thought of going to uni. I’ve been ‘a reader’ all of my life, of all sorts of books. Ordinary people were often huge readers back in the day. It’s how Penguin got started. Some Cats and Kittehs will know this; others won’t. The reading public is now hostage to woke, most new writers are female, and boringly woke. Looking back at how we were, we’ve lost a lot of cultural literacy. It shows in what is published today.

The Mongols were in the beginning raiders. Raiding is what a largely light cavalry is going to practice
Ah good we are continuing. Yes perhaps, There is a great beginning to ‘The Great Game” by Peter Hopkirk ” You could smell them coming, even before you heard the thunder of their hooves. But by then it was too late” describing the Mongols arriving. I don’t know much about the Mongol methods – or the Uighurs ( an oft forgotten reason the Chinese keep them at arms length). My history books only describe the Hordes, such as the destruction of the Nizari ( the Assassins) and Baghdad by sheer numbers, starving them out and burning the whole place.
But the Ay-rabs I do know.
The other interesting part of October 7 is that in Islam the Arab boy must know how to ride a horse and use a sword and spear. That is part of the Koran or the Hadith (I’ll have to look that up) . But they take this very very seriously (even in Australia, yes). Note how are Hamas had motorbikes and AK 47s. The Ay-rabs see this as the modern equivalent. It has to do with martyrdom.
To me if you want to defeat an enemy who wants you dead, you find out all about them.

Found her a couple of times hidden behind a couple of cartons of baked beans, and she consented to a scratch behind the ears. Just back from the last check and she’s changed position to behind the curtains.

She’s understandably anxious, but not panicked, which is good. When anxious, cats like to find a safe place where they can ‘hide’, giving them an element of protection. Attapuss likes to hide himself behind the curtains in our bedroom whenever our doorbell rings. He looks hilarious, because you can see his white sox and tail, but he doesn’t know that. He feels safe there. Elsie will take at least a few days before she starts to explore further. That she allows an ear scratch at this early shows what a secure animal she is in general. Bodes well for the future.

Baked beans reminds me, we have some leftover from kids’ breakfasts at Christmas.
Must see if they are still usable. If not, toss them.

Lizzie I was in Harry Hartogs recently and all bar a few Australian authors were women, of whichonly a few I’d heard of. I’ve been reading Jane Harper, the luvvies probably hate her coz she’s not woke, tells a great story, you can taste rural Australia in the words and she’s made a motza.

Police estimated about 6000 protesters marched through the CBD, many donning traditional keffiyeh scarves – a symbol of the Palestinian movement – waving flags or holding signs calling for a ceasefire.

I still have photos from my box brownie of groups of us at Zionist Habonim camps around Sydney in the late 1950s wearing black and white keffiyot, years before any Arab started calling themselves Palestinians. It was our symbolic expression of indigeity.

Palestinians are taught from birth that Jews have no valiid history in the Levant, that Jews are foreign European usurpers. They genuinely don’t know. Search on youtube for “Ask a Palestinian”. That could possibly be a starting point for Palestinians to understand the validity of Jewish claims.

This is a daydream.

Re the Mongols etc, this is a good read, The Heartland by Stuart Legg:

many migrations from the steppes, the taiga, from western China to the Persian plateau. It links the people and the history of these regions in a most eye opening way. There is coverage of how these migration/invasions impacted the Roman Empire, the Seleucid Empire; where the Arabs came from, and all the cultual collisions between the Mongols, The Chinese, The Arabs, The early empires Of India……all with pertinent dates and names.

Oops, the first sentence is The Heartland covers a period of time spanning over a thousand years, specifically covering the many migrations from the steppes, the taiga, from western China to the Persian plateau.

Baked beans reminds me, we have some leftover from kids’ breakfasts at Christmas.

So many years since good ole’ canned baked beans on toast, and canned sp’getti on toast, and canned mushrooms on toast. My mother figured these easy prepared meals, getting home late from the family shop. Modern life in the ’50s.

Nothing surprises me about Palestinian Nazi scum, they like to appropriate anything Jewish and related to Jews, they appropriate our land, they appropriate our history, and they appropriate our suffering.

The ultimate travesty in this is whene otherwise intelligent westerners insisting that antisemitism includes Arabs because their language is semitic.

Earlier, and apropos of the keffiyeh-wearers:

They defied drizzly conditions on Saturday afternoon

My God.

How can a nation withstand this?

Ms Moore said the City of Sydney will be holding ceremonies on January 29 instead, in line with the new government code

Refusing to hold citizenship ceremonies on 26th January is a back handed acknowledgement of the significance of that date,

This Weekend’s Oz has an interesting read on the most complete 52 albums

Back in Black by AC/DC is best album IMHO. Compass Point studios, Nassau, Bahamas. 10 songs. 9 A grade. ” Givin’ the dog a bone” slightly meh and filler.

Kurt Cobain had it in his top echelon.

Katz

Clover Less now doesn’t have to work on the public holiday, and can use ratepayers’ funds for a little lunch on the following Monday.

Steve trickler
Dec 30, 2023 9:20 PM
….d*ckhead Prince Andrews.

Is a long way down the order of succession.

dover prods us with informed reasonable devil’s advocate questions.

I hope this was noticed. I respect it. Some go through to the keeper.

Boambee John
Clover Less now doesn’t have to work on the public holiday, and can use ratepayers’ funds for a little lunch on the following Monday.

I live in her domain. All I can do is cast a vote so a single funding allotment goes to a reasonable candidate’s party.

People do. Media love them and so do the sheep.

Losers, all. Anyone who cares about the royals, or what the media thinks important, is desperately in need of a life.

I just got told by an old Aunt that Prince Philip was rooting a sheila in a pub in Footscray. She was the publicans daughter. He was shacked up there for a bit. He went to the local shops a few times for the newspaper and cigarettes etc. He was trying to be nondescript, and very successful it would seem. They were onto him, some of the local women. This gossip is valid. 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

Zafiro
Dec 30, 2023 9:50 PM
I just got told by an old Aunt that Prince Philip was rooting a sheila in a pub in Footscray. She was the publicans daughter. He was shacked up there for a bit. He went to the local shops a few times for the newspaper and cigarettes etc. He was trying to be nondescript, and very successful it would seem. They were onto him, some of the local women. This gossip is valid. 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

Sounds more like 1945 British Pacific Fleet?

Good Evening Troops

I came across this on YouTube by chance.

Full Metal Jacket with Disney Voices

Drill Sergent Donald Duck is a pisser

Are Andrew and Fergie remarrying ?

Steve trickler
Dec 30, 2023 9:30 PM
DrBeauGan
Dec 30, 2023 9:21 PM

People do. Media love them and so do the sheep.

In Britain support is rapidly waning, the young are sick of it, but I suspect most politicians there dare not utter a critical word about the royals. It is utterly ridiculous. Remaining allegiance is mostly from the right.

Be shocked people because there is a still a large segment of the population that relies on the MSM as their principle source of information.

This young boy has a serious future.
Almost makes we want to listen to Rap. Worth a listen to.

Who took the C out of rap?