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I’d agree with Roger. What better way to receive public airtime for her ego than expressing trauma after dealing with…
Respect!
40 years at the ALPBC. Talk about Hotel California Ultimo.
Haha. The new lead story at Paywallian.com: China tells other world leaders: be like AlbaneseBeijing has nominated Anthony Albanese as…
Yes Dot I have noticed. Hypochondriac nuffies who are stoked mask wearing went mainstream and validated.
Look, if you want to wear a mask, wear a mask; just don’t tell me I have to.
I was in town this week stopped at traffic lights and I saw a bloke in his car wearing a mask. He was driving a Tesla…now that’s taking a risk with your life.
Funny as. They are among us.
You are like Bush wonce was Gabor. He hated Woodstock cans now he loves the stuff more then me. Takes a bath it every night he does.
Fani the whore has been committed to a disqualification hearing this Thursday. Trump has said he will be attending. We don’t deserve this guy.
Rufus 17:2 @ 13:44
Agreed – bang on for me
Esp with the revolting dems
Bespoke
Feb 18, 2024 1:28 PM
I have to confess Bespoke, I never had a taste of Woodstock or any mixed drink in my life, strange as it may sound for a bloke in midlife. I don’t have a clue what’s in it or what it tastes like.
I like my drinks straight.
Prefer beer or dry red wine, if the food demands a different beverage I avoid it.
Oh no.
The BDF will be deploying soon.
Just your regular soyience enjoyer.
Illegal Migrant ‘Theft Groups’ Reportedly Target Pennsylvania Town
Mostly Chinese in my neck of the woods. A lot of them were wearing masks pre-COVID. Must be cultural, as the air here is as good as you’d find anywhere.
There is a residium of hypochondriacs of all ages, sexes and nationalities. Wearing masks just confirmed all of their fears. They are the ones that you see wearing a mask driving alone in their cars. Neurotics.
Avoid. 🙂
You can’t be certain that all these people wearing masks in stores are doing it for self protection. Some my be afflicted with cold & Flu, or even COVID, but don’t want to spread it. Those wearing them outside etc are just nutballs.
Gabor
Feb 18, 2024 1:37 PM
Ps, Coke makes me physically ill, I don’t know what’s the ingredient in it that does it.
I tried all the other fake Cokes, same result, not that I’m missing it, just a random remark.
Jews and Communism
Alvin Bragg Is Trying To Punish Trump for Something That Is Not a Crime
Gabor, maybe you were snorting cheapo quality.
So basically let countries like Phillipines and Vietnam take on China by themselves. That policy would have been much appreciated by Germany in late 30’s.
“No, my basic point is let the various parties to that dispute settle it themselves”
Roger- we might need a proper Bill of Rights, but any attempt to get one now may not only result in us not getting one, but also result in us getting the exact opposite of ond with no chance of ever getting a proper one in the future.
You’re unfortunately in “open borders before getting rid of the welfare state” territory.
With its Mobile infantry . I’m not afraid unless traped in a Bunnings car park.
That needs to be in the Oxford or Brittanica.
Dot –
Don’t be naive. The 1988 changes were aimed squarely at private school funding, with a couple of easily-dodged fluffs thrown in. There was a reason it was so soundky defeated.
Should have been called the “indoctrination for all” amendment.
Naturally.
From Courier Mail. It will be the Meanjin games no matter what.
“Mr Liveris said work was underway to recruit three paid First Nations interns to support the development of its brand and emblems before the team turns its attention to the sports program.
“All this work – and more – has taken place before an Organising Committee is traditionally stood up, seven years out from a Games,” he said.
Daily Mail.
Wow.
We should not have programmed them to feel pain.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/12/waymo-car-fire-san-francisco
“Driverless taxi vandalized and set on fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown”
Explain why school vouchers wouldn’t have worked legally or please inform me if Hawke ever tried to screw over private schools before or after this.
Once again, we should have voted YES.
We would have been forced to have Charter Schools (or public schools would have become charter schools by default). No government would want to Goulburn School Strikes repeated.
The rest wasn’t “fluff”. It would have stopped the basis of the idiotic prosecution of Tony Maddox.
It would have stopped the takeover of Calvary Hospital.
“Fluff” my foot.
I’d volunteer for self-castration with a potato peeler before defending Handsome Boy on anything but, in the current environment, $4 million doesn’t buy much of a “property empire” in Australia.
Including the People’s Democratic Republics of Victoria and Queensland, which have enshrined the UN Declaration of the Rights of Man. How did that work for our us during Covid?
On bad behaviour. It’s always occurred to me that users of driverless taxis risk hopping in and finding a partially digested kebab and several pints of XXXX honk – and then having to have an argument with TaxiCo about who and when.
From by observations I’d think the percentage is actually higher than that and for the most part has nothing to do with health considerations.
It is a not so secret recognition signal worn with pride amongst the ultra-left and the terminally woke. It’s a deniable and socially acceptable swastika armband, hooded white cloak, secret society ring, you get the idea.
Timely topic. I caught a bus into the city (Melbourne) during last week. Bus was only about half full in morning peak hour and there were 4 mask wearers (Agree, have at it if you choose, just don’t try and force anyone else to). Of the 4, 2 were Chinese- which I excuse for cultural reasons ie: it was common pre Covid following the Asian bird flu. One looked like a ‘Mong from Kooyong’ voting middle aged lady. The 4th was a surprise – young fit chap in a suit. Chose to stand in the aisle glaring down the bus at people even though there were free seats. Assume he was a chairman Dan acolyte or maybe had a newborn at home.
The only effective terms in a constitution are those which divide up power. Clauses which purport to guarantee rights end up being read down into oblivion.
The downside of the overnight ferry Cagliara to Palermo is a 5 am arrival time.
I thought everyone would be getting up at 4.30 but no, there are PA announcements at 3.30 then they start knocking at people’s doors.
I’ve tried to listen to the English repeats but mostly unintelligible to me. Still figured out it was rise, no shine.
Lots of dogs taking the ferry, I suppose that makes sense with so many crossing with their cars. Could do with less barking though.
I’ve organised an early entry to my accommodation, thank goodness.
Paul Hogan’s grandson has been convicted of two separate stealing offences after being caught shoplifting at Coles and Myer.
Jake Paul Hogan, 34, whose dad is one of five children shared by the Crocodile Dundee star and his first wife Noelene Hogan, was arrested twice within three days in Sydney’s CBD earlier this month.
He was convicted of larceny in his absence in the Downing Centre Local Court on Monday.
The carpenter was first arrested on February 5 after a Coles worker spotted him stealing two Dare Iced Coffees without paying at Coles World Square.
‘The accused opened [a] 500ml [Dare] and began consuming the beverage while walking to another aisle,’ court documents stated.
‘[Hogan] then placed the larger 750ml bottle inside his bum bag, the accused exited the store without making any attempt to pay for the items.’
According to court documents, Hogan told the witness he was homeless and didn’t have any money, and claimed to police he hadn’t eaten in a couple of days.
He also claimed to police he paid $380 rent per week from a weekly income of $500 from carpentry work and about $500 in Centrelink benefits.
Hogan was charged with shoplifting and released on bail with strict conditions, but three days later was caught stealing from Myer on George Street.
On February 8 police were called after Myer security ‘strongly suspected’ Hogan of removing security tags from clothing items.
According to court documents police found a black Puma cap, a black KSCY T-shirt, a black Nena & Pasadena T-shirt and one pair of green KSCY cargo shorts, with a total value of $259.97.
Police informed him he was under arrest for shoplifting and for breaching his bail conditions, and issued him with an official police caution.
Jake was arrested at Coles World Square earlier this month for stealing two Dare Iced coffees after claiming to be homeless
Jake was arrested at Coles World Square earlier this month for stealing two Dare Iced coffees after claiming to be homeless
Court documents state that Hogan is a ‘recidivist property offender, which supports his illicit drug habit’.
He has 12 prior charges in the state of New South Wales and is due to front court in March.
Daily Mail
A brilliant marketing opportunity.
I ran into an acquaintance at the pharmacy shortly before I left Australia. Asked him why he was wearing a mask. He explained both he and his wife wore them whenever they went out because they frequently visited his very frail mother in aged care and didn’t want to pass anything on.
Mask wearing in Italy is extremely rare (I think I’ve seen one) but people still assiduously use hand sanitiser before receiving holy communion.
All right, own up, you lot. How many of you have had a snooze, coffee and a ride home?
Sounds like the drunk thing in Melbourne is working well.
I read the transcript of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Benz and realised that now it makes sense that Euros would go along with blowing up Nordstream gas pipeline to spite Putin. The American Deep State is now so deep that it owns the Europeans. It also now makes sense that the Dutch government is forcing their farmers to scale down food production, very likely directed by the Deep State or simply WEF for short, they are the same people. It may sound conspiracy theory like but these days anything is possible.
Should Trump somehow manage to defeat the electoral fraud and win the election he will have to clean every department and agency and defund every NGO. The top 10% of staff in each must be fired. Having all these department and agencies come to a halt would be less harmful than the damage they are inflicting now.
Feraldton weather report.
Warm, with a slight chance of spontaneous combustion by 3:00.
48.
At 12:00.
Missus has just taken a shot to send to mum in Vietnam.
I read the transcript of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Benz and realised that now it makes sense that Euros would go along with blowing up Nordstream gas pipeline to spite Putin. The American Deep State is now so deep that it owns the Europeans. It also now makes sense that the Dutch government is forcing their farmers to scale down food production, very likely directed by the Deep State or simply WEF for short, they are the same people. It may sound conspiracy theory like but these days anything is possible.
I agree, Crossie. I don’t need to tell people here that the medical profession has been cowered into submission on many fronts. While there are fabulous practitioners – particularly the surgeons – I find it difficult to trust them after Covid. Big Pharma is SO pervasive now – there is even a report that research projects and follow up reports in medical journals are suspect. It is quite concerning when GPs are referring so many medications and requiring multiple testing.
On the farming front – it is only a matter of time before mRNA technology is prescribed in the vaccination of beef and dairy cattle. That is – if the cattle industry is allowed to continue by climate change bureaucrats.
Roland Fryer
Crossie, the applies in Australia to the APS. All they know is how to further their own careers.
We visited my partner’s village on Thursday(I’m up in SE Asia at the moment). Whilst there I did a 30km bike ride over to one of the local waterfalls. Uneventful as it turned out.
Then in the local news we read that on Friday afternoon a tiger emerged from the jungle near the waterfall, ate one of the villagers pigs then took a casual stroll down the road, the same road I rode on the day before. Apparently the tiger only has one eye so perhaps it was feeling peckish and decided village pigs were an easier catch.
I was thinking if I was unlucky enough to run across it the local news headlines might read ‘Foreigner Eaten by One Eyed Tiger on a Bike’
Vicki, it seems to me that the cattle industry is rather being favoured by the Lizard People. Eg, see how live export sheep out of WA has been outlawed, yet live export cattle from north and east have the full lobbying support of the federal ah minister.
Also, cows seem to be the crux of the “regenerative agriculture” cult which is sweeping media and academia- there’s see.ingly no place in it for sheep, goats, pigs, or chikins.
What the end game is, I don’t know. Is it simply that cattle are big, hard to hide, and therefore just easier to blackmail the farmers?
Is there a sneaky switch, where the welfare or climate change paperwork provisions will become so onerous that landholders are nudged into becoming mere agisters for the likes of Twiggy Forrest and Twi Xi Follest?
Or- tinfoil hats, activate!- is it a final quarter where our last viable animal protein is subject to biowarfare, or arbitrarily culled, Xhosa style?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/aboriginal-land-council-ceo-funnelled-24-million-to-his-own-company-audit-finds-5588346?utm_source=Aomorningbriefnoe&utm_medium=Aoemail&utm_campaign=Aomorningbriefnoe-2024-02-18&src_src=Aomorningbriefnoe&src_cmp=Aomorningbriefnoe-2024-02-18
How much more do they want???
Sunday factoid-
“Blackmail” is literally cattle seized by non-stakeholders.
ME “White Maille” is payment, in silver, by tenant farmers to their landlords. The beasts taken by the local hoods were studiously ignored by the gentry as a small price to pay to smooth the relationship between farmers and the roughnecks in the landscape.
This is why we need the upticks to return.
Well done, HD.
Or- tinfoil hats, activate!- is it a final quarter where our last viable animal protein is subject to biowarfare, or arbitrarily culled, Xhosa style?
They’ve got “Buckleys” of either mRNA vaccinating or eliminating my girls (and boys).
BTW we will no doubt soon hear bleats from the Climate Change fanatics about the “wet” period not predicted by BOM, which was sure it was to be an El Nino reversion.
They will be assisted by the inevitable bush fires (especially grass fires) when all this growth dies off. Grass has been waist high in our area and a lightning strike has already started a fire – even in the “green conditions”. Those who understand our country know that fires will be the inevitable outcome.
But watch as the Green brigade claim that “climate extremes” are causing the disasters.
Think you have problems with parliament and elected representatives? Try the courts and unelected judges. See the European Court of Human Rights for some real Alice in Wonderland stuff.
“Dark Emu Exposed.”
It may have already been posted, but Jo Nova has a very good analysis of why top asset managers like Blackrock have announced a withdrawal from their Climate Change actions amongst the companies they influence. It seems some USA state legislatures are challenging them under cartel laws.
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/02/esg-comes-undone-blackrock-jp-morgan-abandon-climate-action-100/
Maybe there is change in the air.
Attended a church wedding ceremony yesterday, Sydney’s inner-West.
Uniting Church, hence – woman minister (anglo), who commenced the ceremony with acknowledgement of country (& elders etc).
All attendees were of Asian heritage, except two (both whitey, one being me) so I guess the Ack of Count was directed at us two. Lol.
Father Son Holy Spirit got a guernsey in the very last minute of the service.
Priorities, people.
Visited Melbourne CBD today. Very crowded, lots of sequins and sparkles so many ‘Swifties’ shopping like mad. Never mind that lots of places are boarded up, heaps of ‘renovating’ going on, including in almost new developments.
The distressing thing was what seemed like huge numbers of Palestinian flag carriers and their hangers-on. Drums beating, lots of shouting and then hordes of black-and -white scarf wearers, mostly young men, and women with their faces covered moving through the CBD from the bottom of Swanston Street. Trams disrupted, access to Flinders St Station difficult through the crowds.
This movement seems to be gaining momentum and it has become a regular event every Sunday. It made me feel sick to my stomach. The participants seemed buoyant, excited, proud of themselves – and assuming all the passers-by to be supporters. Their cause is evil and ignorant and yet they seem so innocuous. Allowing it to continue must be very dangerous.
Where does it lead from here? I am scared. And I am not Jewish. What have we let into our country?
While violating a number of my personal beliefs, it might be time for a ban on people with double barreled surnames in Parliament.
Haven’t had the opertunty yet but asking them to name those “elders” seems an appropriate response, Davey Boy.
‘elder’ sounds like a very anglo-saxon word methinks.
This whole aboriginal cult is almost like the Victorian romanticism regarding Scottish clans and tartans but with a sinister marxist intent.
The Fallout from The Extreme Left’s Judge Engoron Destroying NY City
“Justice Arthur F. Engoron represents the vile, disgusting degree of the completely out-of-control judicial system in New York City. It has been people like him throughout history that spark revolutions. I have warned that New York is the most unconstitutional judicial system on the face of the earth, and it really should be shut down and all judges dismissed or imprisoned. They genuinely think they are above the law and have such ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY that they can do anything they desire. This judgment against Trump of nearly half a billion dollars is so outrageous it violates the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which was intended to prevent the action of judges like this.
What this outrageous judge has done to Trump can be done now to any company in New York City. Because of that, the risk of owning shares in a New York domicled company must be considered to be a political high-risk. This factor now needs to be addressed in asset allocation in the same way as Country Risk – now we have City & State Risk. Miami is rapidly replacing New York as the new Wall Street. This decision will only accelerate that move to Florida ASAP. Only a fool would now remain in New York City. This judgment was intentionally designed to bankrupt Trump and his companies. It is indistinguishable from a country like Iran just nationalizing private assets.
I cannot believe the reaction I am hearing worldwide and domestically. Truckers are starting to band together to refuse to transport anything to New York City. If the truckers band together to show the world that New York City will no longer be tolerated, at best, they will have seven days’ worth of food supply before New York begins to slide into chaos.
Internationally, I am hearing many institutions are starting to talk the same game. They are looking to boycott any securities domiciled in New York City that could be destroyed on the whim of a judge. This is a direct assault on Democracy and is intended to interfere in the 2024 election and deprive 50% of the nation of the right to vote. This judge should be arrested forthwith for violating the civil rights of half the nation.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/the-fallout-from-the-extreme-lefts-judge-engoron-destroying-ny-city/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
A condition of the inheritance is that she finds a job…..seems work is far too difficult….
I believe that if you translate the word ‘elder’ into many aboriginal languages, and then back into English, it comes back as ‘doddery old fart’.
America of the 1930s saw thousands of people become Nazi (2020)
General Chronology of Nazi Violence | Sciences Po (2008)
Interesting that the same types – literature, humanities and social science grads – were the brains trust then and are again the brains trust now. As Twain said: history rhymes.
Fluffy thinking conformists; intellectuals sans intellect. The kind of fatheads who buy into the current fad no matter how loony.
My watch and phone agree that it’s currently 41° in Crawley. Am outside, smoking havanas and drinking cold cocobella.
RT:
https://www.rt.com/news/592605-zelensky-invites-trump-frontline/
Where they can shoot or blow him up. I doubt he’s that stupid.
“My watch and phone agree that it’s currently 41° in Crawley.”
If my memory’s correct, 41 was a warm summer day.
“Elderly pizzwreck, totally ignored by the younger generation.”
How to instantly crash Australia’s electrical power system.
Wait for a bright sunny day in the weekdays and turn off your home solar panels for an hour.
We could express our displeasure with Bowen this way.
Harlem, New York 1930s in color, [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
Via instapundit OT.
I’m happy to say that our little country church is almost as traditional as I remember churches 70 years ago. No welcome to country, no women’s ordination (although it is being (hotly) debated.) Father, Son and Holy Spirit included in the opening words of the service. All centering on love, forgiveness and service to our community.
Today was Harvest Sunday, one of my favourites as a child. The big display at the front of the church included sauces, jams and preserves, food staples and supermarket items, along with home and farm grown produce. Proud to say that we contributed our cucumbers and zucchinis which, with everything else, will be sent to the ‘Pantry Club’, where it will be distributed to needy families.
I recall (vaguely) that Harvest Sunday when I was a young child (seven decades ago,) concluded with a communal lunch made from the items on display. This was one of the many church activities which formed the basis of our social lives. I also recall that food was sent to the aborigines who had a camp on the outskirts of town.
Nowadays, our church is more open and community concerned. (Daughter returned from service today with 10 kg of corned beef which she will cook tomorrow to serve with all the trimmings to the disadvantaged in our lovely town.) When the offerings are taken to Pastor after the sermon, the steward also presents a basket filled with food items, again, for our doing-it-tough townsfolk.
Dr Faustus
So it’s OK if it’s white wine, or Heineken?
I detect a beerist comment.
Simultaneously at 1 pm. Bet TPTB never thought of that.
What TF is going on here?
https://twitter.com/CatholicArena/status/1758918279354089809
Crossie:
Apparently that’s Collective Punishment and not allowed.
Although I’m the only one getting called out for it.
No, the rule is: 0 is phukn phreezing, 10 is cold, 20 is cool, 25 is ideal, 30 is warm, 40 or more is hot to hottish.
But rather to be expected in February. You just need to relax and make sure you are thoroughly hydrated. Happens regularly over the years. Cheers me up to reassure me I’m in Australia still.
Yummo, Delta. Boiled corned beef is a lost art that few under 40 know how to cook. They’re too busy buying expensive, fashionable foods that make it impossible for them to save for their first home.
‘Absolutely crazy’: Gender affirming care offered to kids aged three in Melbourne
It’s known as “Fiery February” for a reason.
Delta A
Feb 18, 2024 4:31 PM
Thanks, back in the (probably tiger free) Northern Beaches Monday.
How long will we submit to a world run by racketeers and gangsters? Neil Oliver: The Profits of War
DrBeauGan, I lived in Perth (Claremont) and worked at Crawley for about 20 years. Don’t come the raw prawn.
Child abuse.
I can tell you: Queensland Health admitted, in writing, that they were breaching my (and others’) human rights, but such breaches were justified by the need to protect blah blah …
The Public Service Tribunal, the Human Rights Commission, you name it; they all accepted that the stripping of normal rights and abandonment of dissenters was JUSTIFIED.
All bow to TGG. The Greater Good is the new deity.
err, possibly not?
BTW, I’m imbibing one right now …
Some Christian Ladies getting a bit of exercise … 🙂
Eyrie
Name the day.
Smallgoodsery activities done for the day.
The hotel bar beckons. Inspiration was gained by the mention of Heineken just now.
Noting – after just a cursory scan – of today’s commentary, I can only reiterate my earlier position which is that the Ukraine is a pub mole who has been playing two six foot three blokes off against each other for too long, and who is now lying in the car park bleeding after getting in the way when the two said blokes decided to throw hands over her.
As a journalist, there is more i(culinary) information and interest for me in watching Michel Roux’s pretentious French cooking show on SBS Food while I’m waiting for the Seven News sports report to come on at 6.45pm.
So what happened?
Comments please.
Why is it assumed that Putin had Navalny offed?
He’s in an election year, and lay-down misere to win.
Who benefits by Navalny’s demise? It only disrupts the politics in Russia, so not Putin.
My money is on the lunatics behind the Ukraine mess and the re-ordering of the Western world.
No fishing tonight as its too windy. Last night very good with 4 trout. Hopefully the wind is supposed to drop on Tuesday. Otherwise its a long drive to some sheltered spots.
So what happened to New York in the last hundred years?
Comments please.
Thanks to the Jerbs, who is now very dead, I can’t update the music library on my favourite ol’ i-pod, because as soon as it gets plugged in, its entire contents will be wiped.
Since switching to 5G it can no longer be “backed up” either.
Consequently, I have a collection of Ipods that are veritable time capsules.
This concept, covered beautifully in this clip – a waitress who stood by her man …
Indolent
Feb 18, 2024 1:55 PM
Alvin Bragg Is Trying To Punish Trump for Something That Is Not a Crime
The 9th Circuit found this hush agreement was not illegal and awarded Trump $300k in costs from Stormy. Payment of that would require a lot of rooting by stormy. The Federal Election Commission also ruled against any legal pursuit of Trump for contravening campaign laws based on the Stormy payment.
Yet, once again we have a fat black pig chasing Trump.
Thomas Sowell has written allot on the subject Winston.
Winston, JC wasn’t living in NYC then. Ha!
Knuckle Dragger
That’s a very accurate summation of the situation, KD.
The only economist I’m aware of who is not cursed by the Golden Rule of Economists, that being there are two very distinct types:
Those that are wrong about everything 93.1% of the time
and
Those that are wrong about everything all the time
Like to think I’m of the former, Cats! 🙂
Sacré bleu – that was meant to be 91.3% of the time … 😕
Rabz, why will it be wiped when you plug it in to your computer?
Dunno what you’re on about, damon. These days, everything between Broadway and the river, including Broadway Fair and UWA is in Crawley. The other side of Broadway is Nedlands. Crawley is currently under the City of Perth.
Let’s have some unrepentant Rock ‘n’ Roll, Cats!
Iggy and the Stooges – Your aesthetically pleasing li’l face will be resident in Hades, I tells ya!
Bespoke
Just watching the decline and suicide by the West is depressing. I’ve been a Conservative for 45 years, fought the good fight, but watching the young idiots throw away 300 years of social advancement for the bright and shiny toys of socialism, with no idea of the fact the only thing that socialism makes is piles of skulls, is finally getting me down.
It’s like watching a three year old run around the room sticking a fork in every power point they can find and declaring “It’s all OK, mummy – I’m doing it the right way this time.” while the parents stand aside held back from intervention by actors who want the power points to be live.
Learning – the Hard Way, or the Other Hard Way.
Jesus Christ, you guys are serious.
Maybe Trump was doing all of the Arkanciding too?
An automatic process, Ranga – do not try it with any of your ol’ I-pods that have lots of music on them.
That’s a salutary warning from first hand experience. 🙁
Rabz…. get yer music on wax. Lasts forever*, pirate proof, artist gets paid.
(*sort of)
…and The Kids dig it
It’s not collective punishment if you declare that you want your own people in these positions. I understand Clinton fired all lawyers from DOJ at the beginning of his administration and used that reason for doing so.
Rabz
Feb 18, 2024 7:07 PM
why will it be wiped when you plug it in to your computer?
Isn’t that the ‘synchronise’ function?
It should be able to be turned off, shouldn’t it?
Not a compelling argument.
Grate – I’ve just had a very profound comment vanish into the ether for no apparent reason.
This hot weather is pissing me off! Of to the pool.
The weather is fu@ked at the moment.
Poor ol’ Tim Fer’son – he’s been stroogling with MS and is a shadow of his former self.
I wouldn’t wish MS on my worst enemy – a mate of mine who had it is now underground.
Anyway, here’s DAAS, belting out our unofficial National Anthem, “Throw your arms around me” on the ALPBC back in the nineties … 🙂
I had the first iphone and the itunes software that linked it to my computer ran when I was asleep, and made all my music files unplayable. I’d carefully copied them onto the computer from CDs.
I’ve hated Apple ever since. I’ve also come to hate Microsoft. And I’m not too fond of Google.
Sydney’s weather this “summer” has been all over the place.
Not like the last few La Nina summers and not in any way like an El Nino.
I’m going with BoN’s Tongan Volcano hypothesis, especially given the colourful sunsets.
While just waitin’ on a friend … 🙂
Fair enough, Dr BG. But it goes to show, the kids are alright.
Big diff with vinyl is that it amplifies so much better. Even a dusty fifty year old bit of psych on a 45 fills up this wooden love shack, with my two bit amp only up to 4. CDs sound hideous and metallic at volume. Streaming digi-muzak is even more worse.
You are not alone, my good friend.
Bloody hippies, I tells ya! 🙂
Bobby – plug your favourite Ipod into your computer and attempt to carry out the steps above.
If you can’t, which you will not be able to, don’t blame me.
This is Trump’s biggest character fault: picking the wrong people:
Michael Whatley, the Trump-Endorsed Candidate for RNC Chair, Previously Told Voters to Disregard Trump’s Endorsement of Rep. Ted Budd for Senate Days After Announcement — Also Shows No Concern for Voter Fraud Claims or Forensic Audit in North Carolina
But is it your music collection, or have you just paid a license fee to listen to it?
And when the technology is updated, will you still have access to it?
Or will you be charged again?
It’s a business model.
TIER LIST: Ranking Trump’s Potential VP Choices
Tulsi is not amongst them.
Or possibly, theft of theft …
Correction Tulsi is amongst them.
ABC has started hiring cultural advisers to ensure the taxpayer-funded broadcasters deal with sensitive stories appropriately
The ABC has begun recruiting cultural advisers as part of its latest move to help staff, including journalists, deal appropriately with “culturally sensitive stories”.
The new measure to hire cultural guidance advisers was first revealed in the ABC’s Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Plan in July, shortly after the axing of more than 120 jobs at the public broadcaster, including 40 roles in the news division.
Earlier this month, the ABC’s head of Indigenous news Suzanne Dredge announced that journalist Miriam Corowa, a Minyangbal and Bundjalung woman, had been appointed as the senior cultural adviser in the news division.
Ms Dredge said the move to introduce cultural advisers was “one of the ways to ensure we better reflect social and cultural diversity in our workplace and make our content more accessible to more Australians”.
“The remit of the role is to provide informed advice and support across the division around awareness of Indigenous and diverse cultural issues, protocols and opportunities and support the inclusion of Indigenous and diverse perspectives and cultural issues,” she said.
Ms Corowa, who is based in Sydney, will be the first point of contact for any queries ABC staff have about diversity in content and making sure culturally sensitive stories are managed appropriately.
Her role will also establish cross-divisional communication on Indigenous and diversity matters and work with other divisions, including the Bonner Committee and staff-led diversity groups.
Just last week the ABC also advertised for a senior cultural adviser of content. The role is only open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island applicants.
The job has a remuneration of between $117,000 to $129,000 per year, plus 15.4 per cent superannuation and sets out to provide “advice, support and guidance on Indigenous issues, protocols and opportunities”.
The ABC said in its Belonging Plan that it would hire three cultural advisers by June this year, as the taxpayer-funded organisation continues to battle cultural problems internally among its Indigenous staff.
At senate estimates last week, the ABC’s managing director David Anderson was questioned by Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi about the culture at the ABC and noted the challenges the broadcaster faced, including when producing content.
“What I’ve done is embrace a culture where the culture we have, the content we have and the people we have reflect the communities we serve,” he said.
“I think the ABC has made great inroads into that,” Mr Anderson said.
“I do accept that culturally we are not without our problems and we are not without the need to improve,” he said.
The new cultural adviser job states that staff must be given clear guidance on stories that are culturally sensitive, and even engage communities if necessary.
The adviser, who can be based in Melbourne or Sydney, will work with both Corowa and Dredge.
More if you can stand it from the Oz here.
The Ashcroft, marching through the filth that blights western cities* …
Not to mention the legal imbroglio, which took decades to resolve.
*But not Moscow, apparently – the Carlsoni told us so.
42 degrees. F*ck bathing in kids piss at the local pool. On to Scarbs
Let’s sniff some young womanage hair, fellow warmongers!
Sky’s megaphoning of this monstrous ol’ psychopath is a disgrace.
Gen Buck Keane (Retd) of the Henry Kissinger Peace Academy.
Yet another reason why I strongly object to being referred to as a “conservative”.
@mareeS Feb 18, 2024 6:41 PM
Absolutely… I reckon the Old “Chewy Bone Oh” is a good indicator or as Inspector Plod might put it “Clear Motive”… Very few things happen for no reason. Not never, but rarely.
Poor Bugger Navalny wound up blowing out a few fewer birthday candles than He may have hoped for … He did some crazy brave things … Rest In Peace.
I cant see any motivation for Kremlin to “Off” the guy and at this time .. No it makes no sense.
Hottest day on record in Feraldton – 49 degrees.
Hiring cultural advisers = paying the rent
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with all our sweet, sweet, endless taxpayer munni.
I’ll just chip in again, all this nations-treaty-country-knowledge graft is dependent on permanent division and exclusion.
It should be seen as antithetical to our (until now) sensible civilisation.
Compare this short video of normal lady Trump supporters expressing their admiration of him with the corpse’s hair sniffing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg91WkKxgZo
Mole, just go out there and soak it up. That sort of heat is Gerbil Broiling*! 😕
*Trigger warning – hideously uglee ol’ communist dinobore
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This’d be hilarious if it wasn’t our money being spent.
Putin has many enemies inside Russia, many of them within his innner circle.
Not a surprise that actions throwing shade on macho macho man of Russia are happening in the lead up to “elections”.
See also the long list of Putin supporters who take up window jumping in the post-prime years …
At this rate the ABC will end up like an aboriginal tribe: aimless, sit-down pow-wows all day each and every day, no action except for wandering around and lighting a fire now and again, off chasing kangaroos when they get hungry enough. No wheels, no inventiveness, no production. Heading for extinction.
Post DAAS, Paul McDermot was a feckin twat. On that late night variety show he had for a bit, he spent a great deal of his opening monologue, for months on end, basically saying Pauline Hanson’s name, at which the audience would respond ‘Hur, hur, huuuuurrrr!’ I guess it was the trend at the time to ridicule the sub-pretentious-elite, alienated, largely Anglo voters, who possibly saw in Hanson a voice. I’ve regarded Australian comedians since that period with a degree of loathing, with one or two exceptions.
Love to see the ABC commit to hiring real, genuine Bogans for key roles plus multiple Working Class Men & Sheilas as “cultural advisors”.
should be a piece of piss.
For good ol’ Arks – Jet
Here he is, languishing at dusk on Van Nuys Blvd with some carbon based lifeforms …
The squeaky hinge gets the oil.
Btw, how many of the ABC’s indigenous staff were raised in a traditional setting on country? (That would include being initiated.)
That would be relevant if they’re going to advise on cultural matters.
Sacre bleu! The hottest hausfrau in human history … 🙂
Muds, if it’s ant consolation Timbo does not rate contemporary Ozzie comedy. He is very scathing about it. “Depressing and boring”.
I was trying to explain the concept of DAAS to a young womanage (blessed with very ample boozies) the other day and it was like, “Imagine some collectivists pretending to be extreme right wing nayzees and you’d still barely be scratching the surface”.
“Do you like hippies?
Do you trust hippies?
Do you want them near your kiddees?
Have you ever been a member of the communist pardee?”
This was broadcast on the ALPBC last century circa 1989-92.
Scabs on a summer weekend is a world of possibility. Little of it good.
You could try Linux and you’ll learn to hate that. Most of my reference data is stored on a database that even with Wine won’t run on Linux. I’ve been running w10 and 11 for years. Only once have been forced to do a button operated reboot and that was because of crummy third party software. The resource usage is so low that my cpu never throttles because of heat, albeit with a premium cooler. It is worth learning to examine Task Manager to help detect any programs and processes that might be a problem. Finally Windows update is not confined to single thread!
An acquaintance discovered she was indig aged 45. Somehow in 3 months she became an expert, “ my people this, and my people that”, all of of which translated to to give me money/ stuff.
All that arbitration covers is the dispute between China and the Phillipines.
ROckdoctor
Wax in Seymour last November on our way back from From Bright tobDalesford.
Yep , in the middle of no where and dry as north of Adelaide and Perth.
Great pie shop, mum and 12 yr old daughter, smiles on their faces. Like happy country people.
The town like you say de lining , although the other towns on the way to Dalesford were re invigorating themselves.
The archecture if those towns was mindblowling.
DrBeauGan at 7:28
I abandoned Apple after the iPhone 4. I’m not sure I ever got iTunes to sync correctly in that time. Still got the CDs around, including a couple not on Spotify which is annoying.
That is true however, I can play all my digital music on the phone, and the three iPads I own.
Only those Aborigines, uncontaminated by European ancestry, can be considered for such a position.
It doesn’t matter whether Tulsi is on the VP list or not, Kari Lake is the only one who will be able to carry on with the MAGA agenda when Trump’s term is over. Kari has the commitment, the talent and the aplomb while Tulsi is still an unknown factor even though she resigned from the Democrat party.
Forgot to mention, Tulsi would be a good cabinet appointment in a Trump admin.
Sounds like they can settle it themselves then.
Firstly, where do I say that it should? I said they want the same rights in the disputed area as they have in the undisputed area. Secondly, I don’t say the claim is definitive because it predates the PRC; I’m merely saying they predate the PRC. Thirdly, no, it’s asking them to try to put foward their best compromise position given their circumstances.
O come on Bruce of Newcastle
Your debate hasbeen interesting.
Agreed the comment everywhere you turn there are bad seeds, eu, France britan, Russia, the dems , labor here.
Regarding Russian expansion plans with countries with large Russian populations, with ref to the Donbas and the donation made to the Ukraine, wise man salad to me, put a foreign population in one country, they will claim some oppression and call in the dominating power, in this case Russians calling in Russians.
Every great power has done this.
The actual job title should be “indigenous censor”. There is no way I would read the whole thing, life is too short to waste on this misuse of our money.
Crossie
Yes, I understand that – this is the serve I got from Sancho Panzer:
It’s not the message – it’s just another opportunity to slag off at someone.
A tad disingenious to poke fun at Aboriginal people for a white mans’ label imposed upon them.
Leaders of their mobs were/are family patriarchs or wise / smart people.
They do not use “elders” except for dealings with us.
They also don’t like to speak of the label “smart” as again it is private honour amongst themselves.
Many Aboriginal folks I’ve met and worked with are the most decent people I’ve met.
I cannot say the same for South Africans, save for the rare exception.
And the adjudication rejected by China leaves a hole in the Nine-Dash-Line, and thus into the whole “territorial waters” claim.
Moment mayhem erupts in Hague as brawling ‘migrants’ torch cars, trash buildings and hurl bricks at riot cops – turning Dutch city into a WARZONE
Paul Murray highlighting on Sky the NRL game between Aboriginals and the M?oris sponsored by Harvey Norman. It all makes sense if you look at it this way, our indigenous destroy their electronics and furnishings and the local M?oris deliver the Harvey Norman supplied replacements. Everybody wins.
(I know, I’m a racists, before anyone else can get in there and accuse me of it.)
I like Tulsi Gabbard, but she’s a lefty.
In Trump’s cabinet, she would be a white ant like Mitt Romney. She wouldn’t be able to help herself.
In any return to the White House, Trump would have enough external enemies trying to sink his administration without having them in his cabinet.
Joe the Rainmaker? Payments, deals followed key Biden meetings with son’s foreign associates
Doc Beaugan:
Sounds like you’d agree with with my post above…
🙂
Dover
Rights to which they have no entitlement while the area is disputed,
So what is the relevance of the “predate” comment?
Is there any evidence, at all, that China has offered to compromise? After rejecting the adjudication was their time to do that, apparently they have not done so. China’s compromise position seems to be that possession is theirs and everyone else can go take a flying leap.
The Dutch know what to do when they’ve had enough, deport them.
Rabz:
Rabz
Feb 18, 2024 7:46 PM
I don’t own an iPod. The sound – especially through those white things stuck in your ears – is rubbish. You’d probably get better reproduction if you stuck them up your arse. I’d rather go without than punish my ears with them.
Kids have NO BLOODY idea just how good and complex music was.
One of the more important neighbors.
There’s nothing to negotiate as it’s open seas and everyone has a right to use it. The S China sea isn’t theirs and have zero claim to it, morally or legally.
I agree, month from an election, week after successful Tucker interview, and setting all that aside, Navalny in prison means he’s already neutered. The idea of this being a move by anti-Putin supporters is left field but possible. Still, keep in mind Navalny had political enemies outside of Putin and if your in the Opposition Navalny taking much of the anti-Putin spotlight is a problem, politically. There is also the fact that his health wasn’t great, he had engaged in a hunger strike, lived in an Arctic penal colony and its February.
A problem in modern democracies is that awful heads of government never pay for their incompetence or malice.
We should seriously consider ostracism and banishment for ten to twenty years if one loses office very badly, voluntarily serves too short a term, a supermajority of the electors after a special election regarding banishment after their term is over, loses a recall election or after serving a sentence for a crime committed in office.
The punishment for breaching the term of banishment ought to be 25 years.
I am deadly serious.
Gabor / Zafiro
What is the reason Serbia was thrown under the bus?
25 years imprisonment.
This is Trump’s biggest character fault: picking the wrong people:
Can anyone name a single right person that he has selected other than Flynn, who they destroyed anyway…
China wishes to “work things out” with each claimant, outside of any legal framework or international jurisdiction. Which amounts to accepting the nine dash line and ignoring all claimants territorial areas under existing law.
Meanwhile, China keeps building and its fleets of boats keep pushing others out of their islands.
As DB says, we can leave those involved to work it out … but any threat to Japans (or Koreas) energy supply lines coming through international waters will not be a matter for soft bullying and diplomatic discussion over time.
Putin had his henchman try to kill him the first time with radio active poison. Why is the assumption that he succeeded this time out of bounds?
A large number of Putin critics are either dead and the rest rotting in prison. The Czar doesn’t seem to like opposition.
She’s a snake. No principles at all. Gun for hire.
This policy is in place in some places now. Every single ex-prez goes through litigation for their “sins” in the Phils and some end up in jail.
Duterte getting a bit of deferral as a) he has plenty of people with guns b) his family are in the ring fighting for him and his $$$$ c) he is fairly sick anyway.
I don’t listen to music via the earbuds or the headphones, none of them are good enough. I have the phone synced with my car and play the music through its sound system. Marvellous on long or short trips.
When I need a pick-me-up I play this piece of music full blast until the car windows vibrate.
Peter Gunn.
I like Tulsi Gabbard, but she’s a lefty.
In Trump’s cabinet, she would be a white ant like Mitt Romney. She wouldn’t be able to help herself.
Totally agree. Only a matter of time.
@Digger
Feb 18, 2024 9:42 PM
Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor ? He seemed OK?
They never will because that requires a good sound system. I had an amp and preamp that that had excellent dynamic range and an even response across all frequencies. Only had a volume and balance dial because the more the dials, the more connects, the more distortion. Most today wouldn’t tolerate an amp like that because everything is bass boosted. The turntable and speakers were mounted on sound dampening supports and the monitor speakers had sound absorbing material behind them. Wonderful for classical and instrumental music. When I first set it up I was told it would take weeks for my brain to adjust and fully appreciate the sound. That was true. Unfortunately many people today have restricted musical tastes because of poor hardware and a lack of patience. Their loss. Music events annoyed me no end because of the crowd noise and the shocking sound quality. The price I paid for a good sound system was an inability to enjoy most live music; though obviously not instrumental music in good facilities. Musical events are not about the music, they are tribal events.
BTW, a few hours earlier I read an analysis that Bach’s music contains mathematical structures. No surprises there.
I have maintained for some time that this piece of music is a classic worthy to be compared to anything Beethoven or Mozart brought to the world. It’s got drama, melody and rhythm.
Pipeline
I have always loved the 60s instrumentals whether by The Shadows, The Ventures or any number of California surf music bands. This sort of music got me through many 3,000 and 5,000 word assignments.
@Dot
Feb 18, 2024 9:41 PM
“25 years imprisonment.” …. if your political enemies get the upper hand.
As if there wasnt enough disincentive now for people of good will to involve them selves in Public Representation.
Even though a lefty I think Tulsi is probably more moral and has more principles than Mitt Romney. Until Mitt I had a very positive view of Mormons, now I think they are just as bad as he is as they kept him as their elder even after what he did and is doing to conservative Republicans in the US Senate.
I wasn’t saying they were entitled to it now.
It’s relevance is that the claim wasn’t conjured by the PRC, but was inherited from the previous regime, which is why Taiwan makes a similar claim.
I don’t know, I’m no detailed knowledge of any of the negotiations.
Anti Globalist and pro-Russia.
I run Linux on all my machines and I’m reasonably happy with it. I use it mainly for writing, mostly with TeXWorks LaTeX. And Libre Office for making pictures.
I wish I could get a decent os for my phone, but I’m stuck with android.
How do you know this? Apparently, Putin tried to poison him with one of the most deadly chemical nerve agents Novichok (not radioactive) yet he survives. He’s briefly hospitalized, placed in an induced coma, and then medivaced to Berlin. That is curious. The Kremlin wants him dead but this is allowed. Once in Berlin, the Western Intelligence services get to work and then Bellingcat steps in with a doco. Amazing.
Great. The AC just packed it in. Sleeping on the front lawn tonight. This weather is f*cked!
36.7 degrees still. 43 tomorrow.
You think it was the Belize president who tried to kill him?
Yep, it’s possible.
Putin’a murders are always accidental.
He was arrested and dumped in jail as soon and the plane landed on his return.
Keep an open mind and be aware propaganda is everywhere.
To quote Gilbert and Sullivan
Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream;
Highlows pass as patent leathers;
Jackdaws strut in peacock’s feathers.
“Bellingcat” scarcely Bells the Cat.
So they be,
Frequentlee.
Dare say that Cat wont pass the sniff test. Should you care to subject it to same.
There is too much incentive. THEIR good will is usually malice towards you or objective incompetence. Furthermore, power corrupts and it would apply only to the executive.