Open Thread – Weekend 24 Feb 2024


A Walk in the Forest, Ivan Shishkin, 1869

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feelthebern
feelthebern
February 25, 2024 8:43 am

Uncle Warren’s letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2023ltr.pdf

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 8:43 am

Dot, what level of athletic performance are you trying to attain in what timeframe? How much time are you willing to put in every day? What is your level of fitness at the moment? Have you any physical impairments that restrict your movement? If your not freely perspiring for a minimum of 20 minutes before putting in maximun effort in bursts nothing much will change. If you don’t have adequate diet your body performance will deteriorate. Food is only fuel. High output requires high input.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 8:45 am

Apropos of late last night, women who get upset at men dating younger women are female incels.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 8:48 am

Wadda ya mean ” no riff raff in corporate boxes”. I’ve been in many.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 25, 2024 8:50 am

Apropos of late last night, women who get upset at men dating younger women are female incels.

What consenting adults of any age do with other consenting adults of any age is their business & their business only.

Indolent
Indolent
February 25, 2024 8:50 am
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 8:53 am

What is it with old blokes dating young women? Mostly chosen coz the older women recognise dickheads so easily.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 8:56 am

A lot of plyometrics, ranga.

It requires a basal level of fitness most people do not attain, but can.

On top of that, an endurance event at the end of the year plus weekly winter sportsball. Sportsball is the worst. So many injuries. I couldn’t train for much of last year. Knees, ankle and cheekbone all healed up now.

Roger
Roger
February 25, 2024 8:56 am

How does this make any sense?

Ask Barack.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 8:57 am

The parents and doctors should have their genitals surgically removed with a glock. We’ve got just the bloke* to do it. * not a real bloke.

Indolent
Indolent
February 25, 2024 9:00 am
KevinM
KevinM
February 25, 2024 9:01 am

If your not freely perspiring for a minimum of 20 minutes before putting in maximun effort in bursts nothing much will change

Rubbish.

My dad 83, had a bad fall and been confined to bed for 5 weeks, could hardly walk and no chance of climbing up stairs of a mere 5 steps after.

With physio and exercises lasting only a few minutes at a time increasing every day as he progressed, never a sweat was raised and all pain avoided.

He is free to move now, can climb stairs, not the Empire State B of course and not like a 60 year old, but he is doing OK.

Crossie
Crossie
February 25, 2024 9:02 am

Farmer Gez
Feb 25, 2024 8:40 AM
Why don’t we have more Filipino migrants?
From my experience they are an asset to any community you find them.
They certainly boost church attendance and they’re not sleeper cells for the mother country.

I have a Philippina in my extended family, she is a great wife and mother, hardworking, compassionate and beloved by all. We need more of them.

Crossie
Crossie
February 25, 2024 9:04 am

Roger
Feb 25, 2024 8:42 AM
Why don’t we have more Filipino migrants?

They boost church attendance.

Even worse, they tend not to vote Labor, Green or Teal.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 25, 2024 9:05 am

Religion, for these psychos, is a thin veneer over authoritarian nationalism. They don’t believe in democracy or the rule of law. Neither does db. Only power matters.

mUnty,, a leftard whose politics are not even covered by a thin veneer of anti-authoritarianism, and doesn’t believe in democracy or the rule of law, tries to justify his stupid assertions against Dover.

No mirrors allowed in the mUnty household.

Crossie
Crossie
February 25, 2024 9:09 am

GreyRanga
Feb 25, 2024 8:48 AM
Wadda ya mean ” no riff raff in corporate boxes”. I’ve been in many.

But I bet you never called into a radio station when Albo was interviewed and begged for his concert ticket.

flyingduk
flyingduk
February 25, 2024 9:12 am

Why don’t we have more Filipino migrants?

From my experience they are an asset to any community you find them.

They certainly boost church attendance and they’re not sleeper cells for the mother country.

*theres* you reasons, right there: Now that we are subjects, not citizens, our wise rulers want only compliant sheep, not hard working independent, self reliant citizens who strengthen theier local communities (and thus dilute central power).

Crossie
Crossie
February 25, 2024 9:12 am

Indolent
Feb 25, 2024 8:53 AM
Wall Street Silver
@WallStreetSilv
Top: you at the airport
Bottom: millions of random fully grown men crossing the US-Mexico border who are undocumented and illegal..
How does this make any sense?

Of course it makes sense, you look like you would blow up your kids’ school while the highly tattooed guy crossing the border illegally is just a misunderstood gangster.

Beertruk
Beertruk
February 25, 2024 9:13 am

Pogria
Feb 24, 2024 11:01 PM

They also have the complete series of Monkey!

1980 when posted to Moorebank, we would knock off and leg it back to the lines/barracks to watch Monkey in someone’s room. Then it was off to the boozer for a ‘few beers’ before the ORs mess opened for tea.

1986 or 87, it was Mr Ed from 07:00-07:30. Hi-Ace with the Senior NCOs at about 07:25 getting a bit antsy/impatient waiting outside the lines for us ORs to head off to work.

Have the DVD set for Firefly.
Need to dig it out for another binge watching session.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 25, 2024 9:13 am

You may protest that the commoners are with you now… no they are not. Trump’s base is the petit bourgeoisie, not the proles.

Fat Boy mUnty still hiding his head in the sand (or possibly inside his rectum), denying that the modern political left has moved into the oligarchy, and abandoned the working class.

Keep deceiving yourself, mUnty, it will make the political reversal a complete shock to you.

duncanm
duncanm
February 25, 2024 9:15 am

Bruce of Newcastle
Feb 24, 2024 8:54 PM
Driving over the Harbour Bridge at dusk with the top down and “Honey Steel’s Gold” blasting on the sound system is another one of them … ?

Awesome track. One of the finest tracks to close your eyes to and breathe in through your ears.

It’s nearly the best thing! I say that because the best thing is The Best Thing.

Boom Crash Opera – The Best Thing (1989)

Surely this is more Sydney?
INXS

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 25, 2024 9:15 am

Dot, if you have the freezer space this might be more up your ally.

https://www.vicsmeat.com.au/collections/bbqseason/products/vics-ultimate-bbq-feast

When I’ve done the carnivore diet, I’ve used this one.
If you price it up, it’s pretty reasonable.

Roger
Roger
February 25, 2024 9:15 am

I really don’t know why people here give any attention to monty.

He doesn’t argue in good faith.

Min
Min
February 25, 2024 9:16 am

I have started new book, romance genre again as that is biggest seller. I am using a story about the first time I saw original Artemisia Gentileschi paintings in The Palazzo Pitti . Now there was a true feminist maybe the first , who produced her first masterpiece as a teenager , raped, thumbscrews used on her by Vatican in the famous trial to allow her work to be shown,,married a deadbeat , four children in 4 years only one surviving and yet she still continued producing great paintings. She makes current feminists look p##s weak compare Australian of the Year in past years.
‘Lucretia ‘ on show in Hamilton Gallery at present . Anyway this story present day when heroine returns to Florence to restart her small group travel that closed during Covid a retired history teacher who like me fought to change female teachers’ rights sacked when they married and a third less pay than male counterpart . I changed professions afterwards to work for myself but did the travel bit for years part time. Plenty of experiences and stories to incorporate.

Crossie
Crossie
February 25, 2024 9:19 am

Indolent
Feb 25, 2024 8:56 AM
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

President Trump just met with Argentina President @JMilei at CPAC in DC

Highly amusing though the strange camera position seems to exaggerate the hair of both of them, abundant and fluffy and reminiscent of big hair rockers.

Indolent
Indolent
February 25, 2024 9:26 am
Pogria
Pogria
February 25, 2024 9:30 am

GreyRanga
Feb 25, 2024 8:53 AM
What is it with old blokes dating young women? Mostly chosen coz the older women recognise dickheads so easily.

Grey Ranga,
Fred Hollows stated that “young women were wasted on young men”, when he’d been asked about the age difference between he and wife Gabi. 😀

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 25, 2024 9:35 am

Roger
Feb 25, 2024 7:33 AM
No doubt he’ll declare who he & his bird were guests of at some stage.

No doubt, but I find it interesting that he hasn’t declared who his father is, despite it being all over Women’s Weekly a few years back when he was trying to humanise himself before an ALP leadership vote.

What a grub.

Wouldn’t a declaration about his father potentially raise some Section 44 issues?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 9:41 am

You either have good twitch muscles or not from what I have seen. I have them fortunately but didn’t know it till a young teenager. Growing so fast I was very uncoordinated. A lot of reflex reaction is visual. Ankles are about the only thing I never destroyed. Keeping weight forward is about the easiest thing to help with knee damage.

Roger
Roger
February 25, 2024 9:42 am

Wouldn’t a declaration about his father potentially raise some Section 44 issues?

That issue is present already by virtue of his father’s country of birth.

He has lied by omission to the parliament in order to provide himself with cover.

Tom
Tom
February 25, 2024 9:49 am

Watching video on Sky Outsiders of the fascist pigs of Victoria Police protecting the city’s violent fascist Islamic pigs on behalf of Victoria’s fascist ALP government.

As Rowan Dean points out, this is leftwing fascism out of control.

It doesn’t matter what you think or how you vote, it won’t change anything as the Stupid Frigging Liberals in Victoria are still pretending to be Labor.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 25, 2024 9:52 am

From the Hun.

Protesters at billionaire Pratt’s private Katy Perry Melb concert, that Allan, Albo, Andrews attended

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and her predecessor Dan Andrews were among privileged guests at popstar Katy Perry’s private show, hosted by Melbourne billionaire Anthony Pratt.

Black Ball
Black Ball
February 25, 2024 9:53 am

Top brass at NSW Plod identifies the real problem:

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has said sorry to the families of gay hate crime victims whose deaths were not properly investigated over a period of four decades.

Three months after a landmark special inquiry found police responses to victims and their families were often “indifferent, negligent, dismissive or even hostile”, the state’s top cop has issued a formal apology and said “mistakes of the past will not define our future”.

In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Commissioner Webb revealed she had set up an elite task force to go through the report and implement its recommendations and to give fresh eyes on unsolved homicides.

Could it be that these were the result of jealous partners? Like what we are seeing now with Beauuuuuu?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 9:53 am

Min, I’d never heard of Artemesia before. Obviously aware of Carravagio, and as good.

Black Ball
Black Ball
February 25, 2024 9:54 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and her predecessor Dan Andrews were among privileged guests at popstar Katy Perry’s private show, hosted by Melbourne billionaire Anthony Pratt.

FMD what a list of khuntery

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 25, 2024 9:56 am

Albo has an enormous carbon footprint.
In Perth, flies to Sydney for the Taylor Swift gig on Friday.
Flies to Melbourne for the Pratt gig on Saturday.
Ben Chifley would be rolling in his grave.

cohenite
February 25, 2024 9:56 am

From dickless last night:

Trump’s base is the petit bourgeoisie, not the proles.

They’re as blue collar as you can get and all colours; which is why the demorats are so afraid of Trump: he is taking their slave base: if you don’t vote for me you ain’t black says the corrupt perverted corpse that dickless supports.

It is surreal that nominally intelligent lefties like dickless are such liars and removed from reality about Trump: more than any other politician he supports real ground based democracy; the demorats are simply corrupt elitists who care nothing for the plebs. I suppose that explains the psychology of dickless: he thinks he is superior and expects the slave classes to toe the line and pay due deference. Trump has given them a voice to express how shit stained the elites are.

Fuk off dickless you grub.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 9:59 am

Right, Crossie. Then again I never knew who Tay Tay was. My wife tells me middle-aged women she works with were going.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 25, 2024 10:03 am

Youse all need to calm down.
Alright, JMH got into the sherry early yesterday and went a bit off reservation.
But she’s still a luvverley ladee in my books.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 10:04 am

Pogria, did Fred die of having a young wife? My 3 yo grandson is already practising to be a dickhead. Its taken me nearly 70 years not to be one.

Roger
Roger
February 25, 2024 10:05 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and her predecessor Dan Andrews were among privileged guests at popstar Katy Perry’s private show, hosted by Melbourne billionaire Anthony Pratt.

It’s a big club…and you ain’t in it.

Makka
Makka
February 25, 2024 10:05 am

From dickless last night:

mOron, knows the walking corpse in the WH is done for. And like all the other freaks who surround Biden, mOron feels their desperation as chickens start to come home to roost.

Trump’s base is the petit bourgeoisie, not the proles.

At least the base isn’t infested with kiddie fiddler enablers and supporters, eh mOron?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 10:05 am

Re mutley, what cohenite said.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 10:06 am

You can’t argue with idiots, they drag you down to their level then thrash you with experience.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 10:08 am

I’m in shock. While I was away my wife gave 80 items of clothing to the Salvo’s

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 25, 2024 10:09 am

E – mail from my State Senator. Seems Albo was too busy too meet any representatives from the agricultural sector while he was in Western Australia – he had enough time to go picnicking with the wukkas in Hyde Park. The Minister for Agriculture advised Western Australian Farmers Federation representatives he could only spare them THIRTY MINUTES to discuss issues of importance. He was most aggrieved when they told him to get stuffed.

Pogria
Pogria
February 25, 2024 10:10 am

Beertruk,
I have the full set of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. I haven’t watched them all as yet because it is so frustrating, seeing a brilliant comedy being played out, word for, scene by scene, in real life. 🙁

I also have “Last of the Australians”. Alwyn Kurtz was excellent as an average Aussie man being dragged into the bewildering changes of the seventies. It is a comedy, but it resonate nonetheless.

After I get my set of Monkey, I will let you know where to buy it if you like. Can’t, until I get mine, stocks are low!

Have you seen any of the new series of Monkey? It was made in New Zealand. It actually wasn’t too bad. Not the wokefest I had been led to believe.

Crossie
Crossie
February 25, 2024 10:10 am

GreyRanga
Feb 25, 2024 10:08 AM
I’m in shock. While I was away my wife gave 80 items of clothing to the Salvo’s

Were your purple flares among them?

Black Ball
Black Ball
February 25, 2024 10:11 am

James Campbell:

You could almost feel sorry for Albo. As sure as night follows day, going on one FM station to play Santa to a Taylor Swift fan would provoke another rival FM station to get him to play Scrooge.

On Wednesday the PM dropped by the Fitzy, Wippa and Kate breakfast show where he agreed to ring “Taliah” to “give her the news, which I reckon is pretty good news” that she would be off to Swift’s Sydney show. It was apparently such a big moment that his staff felt it would be a good idea to post it to the Prime Minister of Australia’s official social media account. Perhaps he was hoping to repeat the trick the next morning when he appeared with rivals Hughesy, Ed and Erin. Instead he was confronted by “Natalie” who begged him to give up his ticket. It was a tense moment for the leader of the nation. How would he answer?

(A) “Absolutely you can have it. Upon mature reflection I realise I’m a 60-year old bloke who shouldn’t be jumping on these sorts of bandwagons. In fact, not only can you have it, but I will make a solemn promise to the Australian people that I will stop embarrassing myself by calling Taylor Swift ‘Tay Tay’”.

(B) “Get nicked.”

(C) “Sorry but I can’t. I made poor Jodie sit there for hours with my credit card – at one point she had five screens open – and she’d kill me if we didn’t go.”

Obviously in reality there was no option C because, well, that would have required him to have actually paid for a ticket himself, so instead poor “Natalie” got a polite version of Get Nicked: “I am going on Friday night and I am a real Swifty.”

Maybe it’s because after listening to Swift’s back catalogue for the past week I reckon the filler-to-killer ratio on her records is pretty high, but I rather have my doubts about that.

Really Albo? Are you really a Swiftie? Is it not perhaps more the case that this was an “event” and if we’ve learned anything about our Prime Minister in the past year and half, it’s that in his mind there’s no show without Albo?

This isn’t a moral criticism.

It goes without saying that we journalists are pretty good ourselves at gobbling up free shit. No, my criticism, is how politically reckless it is. Is there nobody in this bloke’s office with the authority to say no?

Flying around the country from A-list event to A-list event – the Sydney Test Match today, the Australian Open Final tomorrow – might be OK for a minister, even an Opposition Leader. But somebody needs to get it into his head that when you get the top job, it’s not like finally achieving lifetime platinum plus Chairman’s Lounge membership with Qantas.

Sorry but if you’re the PM, different rules apply. If the punters decide this isn’t the Albanese Government they’ve got but the Albo-freebie Government, it won’t just be the PM but everyone in the show who suffers.

It’s clear, however, that almost two years into office and only weeks after he was roundly booed at the tennis, this hasn’t penetrated the Prime Minister’s skull. Either that or he thinks he’s so special the rules don’t apply to him.

How else can you explain the fact that, at the time of writing, Albo was due to back up his comped tix to Taylor in Sydney on Friday night with popping into a private Katy Perry concert at the Pratt family pad on Saturday night?

In a week’s time Labor faces a by-election test in the outer suburban Melbourne seat of Dunkley, which has been belted by the increases in the cost-of-living.

On Sunday, his elderly ears no doubt still ringing from two big gigs in two nights, he will presumably tell the voters he understands how they are doing it tough.

But if he holds a press conference and finds that instead of being asked about tax cuts, he’s being asked to say who was better – Taylor or Katy – he will have no one to blame but himself.

Fighting the Tories. An arsehole’s arsehole.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 25, 2024 10:12 am

Ben Chifley would be rolling in his grave.

Would the likes of Albo know who Ben Chifely was? An engine driver who became Prime Minister?

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 10:13 am

The Minister for Agriculture advised Western Australian Farmers Federation representatives he could only spare them THIRTY MINUTES to discuss issues of importance.

How long do you expect? Would that really make a difference?

Keep in mind Tony Burqa’s MDB plan and the Sugarloaf Pipeline (MDB water to Melbourne), during water restrictions for the MDB regions over 15 years ago.

Crossie
Crossie
February 25, 2024 10:14 am

Indolent
Feb 25, 2024 10:10 AM
America can mass deport illegal aliens, and we know this because it’s done so before

Eisenhower did it in 1954 and still got re-elected.

Tip to Biden, you want to be re-elected, deport the illegals and close the borders.

shatterzzz
February 25, 2024 10:15 am

A good weekend, all up .. lunch with my middle daughter & 2 grandees yesterday, up from Danistan for the weekend to see Tay Tay .. 5 of the 8 grandees got to see TT, 2 others still too young and 1 grandee not interested so 100% success rate ….
Plus after all that, bloody, rain just finished giving the “park”out back, that masquerades as a back garden, a haircut ….. got a stormwater drainage junction under there so they couldn’t fit another “houso” in so I got the 1 acre backyard .. not quite big enuf for a ride=on but a reaching the limit effort for an OAP ……. duuuuuh!

Pogria
Pogria
February 25, 2024 10:17 am

GreyRanga
Feb 25, 2024 10:04 AM
Pogria, did Fred die of having a young wife? My 3 yo grandson is already practising to be a dickhead. Its taken me nearly 70 years not to be one.

hehehehehehe, can’t. stop. giggling…

Three year old boys, one of life’s greatest gifts. From eighteen months, ’til you lose them to school, looking at life through a child’s eyes is one of the greatest adventures of being a parent. And now, grandparent.

Indolent
Indolent
February 25, 2024 10:18 am

Dutch journalist and author Nikko Norte interviews Dr. John Campbell.

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 10:19 am

Military tech question

How good would have the F-108 been? Cool design. Did the F-15 make it redundant?

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 10:33 am

My advice to Biden:

Start printing illicit mailout ballots in the lowest voting Trump States from 2020: NC, FL, TX, AL, IA, OH & SC.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 25, 2024 10:35 am

Senior public servants pocket second pay rise in 12 months, with an extra $50k
The West Australian
Sun, 25 February 2024 2:00AM
Comments
Dylan Caporn

Some of the State’s highest-paid public servants are set for a major pay rise, pocketing salary increases of up to $50,000 from the start of next month.

Already paid more than five times the salary of the average WA government worker, the high-ranking fat cats were quietly awarded the pay bumps by the independent Salaries and Allowances Tribunal at the start of February — their second raise in less than 12 months.

Under Treasurer Michael Barnes, Public Sector Commissioner Sharyn O’Neill, Premier and Cabinet director-general Emily Roper, Police Commissioner Col Blanch and Education boss Lisa Rodgers will all see their annual take-home pay skyrocket to almost $508,000.

That’s an increase of 8.5 per cent on their previous salary of $468,209.

Bosses at the departments of Communities, Justice and Transport will all see the salaries jump from $426,809 to $468,502 — a rise of 9.7 per cent.

The biggest winner in the determination was Department of Fire and Emergency Services commissioner Darren Klemm, whose salary will increase a whopping $52,786, from $376,234 to more than $429,000.

The pay increases kick in from March 1.

The Sunday Times understands the salary increases have been driven by remuneration for WA’s highest-level positions falling behind comparable interstate counterparts.

It is the second time the public servants have had a pay increase in the past 12 months, with all benefitting from the Government’s 3 per cent wages policy last June.

At the time, the tribunal flagged further increases to public-sector salaries amid trouble attracting and retaining staff.

Black Ball
Black Ball
February 25, 2024 10:46 am

A lot of hi vis vest work for the Premier for not a lot of actual work. Madura McCormack in the Courier Mail:

The state government will pour nearly $3bn into building a critical rail line into the heart of the Sunshine Coast but has conceded the cash will only get the tracks as far as Caloundra for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Premier Steven Miles will on Sunday unveil a long-awaited blueprint for the direct Sunshine Coast rail line, revealing the project will be built in three stages – from Beerwah to Caloundra, then Birtinya, before ending in Maroochydore.

Only the first section to Caloundra can be built in time for the 2032 Games, though this is contingent on the federal government coming on board with an extra $1.1bn on top of its existing $1.6bn commitment.

This is because a detailed business case has found Stage 1 will cost a whopping $5.5bn at least and up to $7bn at the highest end of estimates – more than double the $3.2bn initially earmarked by the Morrison government in 2022.

The state government will set aside $2.75bn – the same cost of demolishing and rebuilding the Gabba – as its share for Stage 1.

The cash will go toward building the 19km dual track from Beerwah to Caloundra and reserving the updated rail corridor all the way to Maroochydore.

There are no timelines for the delivery of stages 2 and 3. The detailed business case has been submitted to Infrastructure Australia.

The first section starting in Beerwah is set to include a stop in Nirimba to service Stockland’s sprawling Aura mega-development and its 50,000 future residents before ending in Caloundra about 3km from the town’s main beach.

But the ability to only get as far as Caloundra by 2032 means the rail line stops short of getting to Kawana, where the closest proposed venues are.

Proposed venues for the 2032 Games within the Sunshine Coast zone are in Kawana, Alexandra Headland, and Parklands with the satellite athletes’ village located in Maroochydore.

The direct Sunshine Coast rail line is expected to shave 45 mins off travel from Brisbane to Caloundra compared to driving, with trains to go as fast as 140km/h in some sections of the full line.

Mr Miles said the project, including stage 1, would unlock “thousands of homes” and accelerate new developments.

“Without the rail line, that development would bring an unmanageable level of congestion to the local road network, making this connection essential for new housing to be brought forward,” he said.

Treasurer Cameron Dick said he “looked forward to the federal government hopping on board to match our commitment” so the project can be delivered.

The $2.75bn funding commitment marks the first firm contribution to the project from the state government after years of the critical rail line being marred in political sniping.

The Morrison government in its final budget in 2022 allocated $1.6bn to the rail line in a proposed 50-50 funding split with the state, with then-Transport Minister Mark Bailey refusing to match the commitment, citing flimsy maths.

While the detailed business case continued per schedule, the project’s federal funding became increasingly precarious, with the Albanese government failing to mention the rail line in its initial budget.

An audit of the nation’s infrastructure pipeline in 2023 then led to the federal government controversially putting the project on ice indefinitely, before ultimately reaffirming the cash was available to build the rail line upon lobbying from the state.

Infrastructure Minister Catherine King, in November last year, signalled updated estimates had the price tag for the project at “three times higher, billions of dollars higher than has been previously stated”.

The detailed business case for the direct Sunshine Coast rail line has determined a slight realignment of the corridor, which has been set aside since 2001, will be needed.

According to the state government the realignment aims to minimise environmental impact and reduce curves in the line to allow for faster train speeds.

Whenever big infrastructure shit is mentioned by Labor, always multiply the estimate cost by 3 as well as the timeframe. FMD

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 25, 2024 10:47 am

The Sunday Times understands the salary increases have been driven by remuneration for WA’s highest-level positions falling behind comparable interstate counterparts.

Ah, yes.
The Parity Ratchet.
Of course, now their East Coast counterparts will claim that they run far bigger departments, so 10% pay rise.
SA public serpents will point to their NSW equivalents and demand parity.
And, the circle starts again when WA leeches say they have fallen behind SA.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 25, 2024 10:48 am

Campbell: Is a show even a show if Albo isn’t in audience?

With his elderly ears no doubt still ringing from two big gigs in two nights, how can Anthony Albanese tell voters he understands how they are doing it tough, asks James Campbell.

You could almost feel sorry for Albo. As sure as night follows day, going on one FM station to play Santa to a Taylor Swift fan would provoke another rival FM station to get him to play Scrooge.

On Wednesday the PM dropped by the Fitzy, Wippa and Kate breakfast show where he agreed to ring “Taliah” to “give her the news, which I reckon is pretty good news” that she would be off to Swift’s Sydney show. It was apparently such a big moment that his staff felt it would be a good idea to post it to the Prime Minister of Australia’s official social media account. Perhaps he was hoping to repeat the trick the next morning when he appeared with rivals Hughesy, Ed and Erin. Instead he was confronted by “Natalie” who begged him to give up his ticket. It was a tense moment for the leader of the nation. How would he answer?

Three options presented themselves:

(A) “Absolutely you can have it. Upon mature reflection I realise I’m a 60-year old bloke who shouldn’t be jumping on these sorts of bandwagons. In fact, not only can you have it, but I will make a solemn promise to the Australian people that I will stop embarrassing myself by calling Taylor Swift ‘Tay Tay’”.

(B) “Get nicked.”

(C) “Sorry but I can’t. I made poor Jodie sit there for hours with my credit card – at one point she had five screens open – and she’d kill me if we didn’t go.”

Obviously in reality there was no option C because, well, that would have required him to have actually paid for a ticket himself, so instead poor “Natalie” got a polite version of Get Nicked: “I am going on Friday night and I am a real Swifty.”

Maybe it’s because after listening to Swift’s back catalogue for the past week I reckon the filler-to-killer ratio on her records is pretty high, but I rather have my doubts about that.

Really Albo? Are you really a Swiftie? Is it not perhaps more the case that this was an “event” and if we’ve learned anything about our Prime Minister in the past year and half, it’s that in his mind there’s no show without Albo?

This isn’t a moral criticism.

It goes without saying that we journalists are pretty good ourselves at gobbling up free shit. No, my criticism, is how politically reckless it is. Is there nobody in this bloke’s office with the authority to say no?

Flying around the country from A-list event to A-list event – the Sydney Test Match today, the Australian Open Final tomorrow – might be OK for a minister, even an Opposition Leader. But somebody needs to get it into his head that when you get the top job, it’s not like finally achieving lifetime platinum plus Chairman’s Lounge membership with Qantas.

Sorry but if you’re the PM, different rules apply. If the punters decide this isn’t the Albanese Government they’ve got but the Albo-freebie Government, it won’t just be the PM but everyone in the show who suffers.

It’s clear, however, that almost two years into office and only weeks after he was roundly booed at the tennis, this hasn’t penetrated the Prime Minister’s skull. Either that or he thinks he’s so special the rules don’t apply to him.

How else can you explain the fact that, at the time of writing, Albo was due to back up his comped tix to Taylor in Sydney on Friday night with popping into a private Katy Perry concert at the Pratt family pad on Saturday night?

In a week’s time Labor faces a by-election test in the outer suburban Melbourne seat of Dunkley, which has been belted by the increases in the cost-of-living.

On Sunday, his elderly ears no doubt still ringing from two big gigs in two nights, he will presumably tell the voters he understands how they are doing it tough.

But if he holds a press conference and finds that instead of being asked about tax cuts, he’s being asked to say who was better – Taylor or Katy – he will have no one to blame but himself.

JC
JC
February 25, 2024 11:04 am

I’m just blown away. I’ve only ever skimmed past any news on this stock because use it sounds boring.

It has a 2 trillion dollar valuation.

Nvidia’s surge ripples across stock market — lifting AI, tech and semiconductor ETFs

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 11:11 am

I see Rita Panahi is going to be on at 11 pm. 4 nights a week on Sky. Is this their way of saying arrivederci.

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 25, 2024 11:13 am

The direct Sunshine Coast rail line is expected to shave 45 mins off travel from Brisbane to Caloundra compared to driving, with trains to go as fast as 140km/h in some sections of the full line.

For some reason, the already funded straightening and dual track between Elimbah and Nambour seems to have stalled. Strangely all the preliminary roadworks and new car parks for stage 1 (Elimbah – Landsborough) have long been completed, but I haven’t seen a single survey peg for anything in the rail corridor itself.

Beertruk
Beertruk
February 25, 2024 11:16 am

Meanwhile in other news,
Sunday Tele:

SS Nemesis shipwreck discovery sparks call for relatives of lost crew
The accidental discovery of a ship lost at sea 120 years ago has solved one of Sydney’s most enduring mysteries. There is a search now on for the relatives of the crew.

Linda Silmalis
Chief Reporter
25 Feb 2024

Exclusive: A 120-year-old mystery about the plight of a coal ship and its 32 crew which disappeared off the NSW coast in a storm has been solved following the accidental discovery of its wreck.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that the remains of a 73m long vessel, stumbled upon on the ocean floor off the Kembla coast by a company searching for lost cargo containers, has been identified as the SS Nemesis.

The NSW government has now issued a global call-out for the UK, Canadian and Australian relatives of the lost crew, who left behind about 40 children.

Extensive coverage of the Nemesis’ disappearance in Sydney newspapers at the time reveal how the ship – under the control of Captain Lusher – had left Newcastle on July 8, 1904, for Melbourne with a hold full of coke and coal when it ran into a southerly gale.

The vessel – which also operated as a Sydney cargo ship and was used during the 1890s gold rushes – was last sighted near Wollongong by the crew of another ship, which had also been caught in the storm.

Distress rockets were later observed off Port Hacking in Sydney’s south before “several bodies” and wreckage such as a steering wheel began washing ashore at Cronulla beach over the following days.

Despite extensive searches the main body of the ship could never be located.

A century later, remote sensing company Subsea Professional Marine Services, which had been looking for lost cargo, reported seeing on sonar equipment a shipwreck on the ocean floor about 26km offshore.

It noted the wreck was 160m underwater, a find that immediately suggested it could be the lost Nemesis.

Underwater imagery of the undisturbed wreck taken by the CSIRO and compared with historical photographs and sketches of the vessel further pointed to the Nemesis.

The imagery also revealed clues as to why the ship sank that night, with “catastrophic damage” to the bow and stern suggesting it had been struck by a large wave which overwhelmed the engine. It is believed she sank too quickly for the lifeboats to be deployed.

Describing the loss of the Nemesis as “one of Sydney’s most enduring maritime ­mysteries”, Environment and Heritage Minister Penny Sharpe said its discovery would now bring closure for the relatives of the lost crew.

“The loss of Nemesis has been described as one of Sydney’s most enduring maritime mysteries and has even been described by shipwreck researchers as the holy grail,” she said.

“Thanks to collaborative work with CSIRO and Subsea, using modern technology and historical records, Heritage NSW has been able to write the final chapter of SS Nemesis’ story.

“It is believed that around 40 children lost their parents in this wreck and I hope this discovery brings closure to families and friends connected to the ship who have never known its fate.”

Ed Korber, from Subsea Professional Marine Services, said he was glad the families of the crew would now get answers as to what happened to the ship.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 25, 2024 11:17 am

Black Ball posted the Courier Mail article about the railway line announcement which is front page plus two pages inside.

When I got in car this morning 4BC host was rattling off a very impressive number of previous similar articles about the same project going back years.

I hope somebody is keeping track of the financial promises Premier Miles is making as still several months until the election.

Yesterday he announced 40 new cops and 10 new police cars for Ipswich area. Naturally no mention of where they have been taken from because last year QPS had a net loss of cops.

m0nty
m0nty
February 25, 2024 11:19 am

They’re as blue collar as you can get and all colours; which is why the demorats are so afraid of Trump

That’s just not true at all. Scroll through the bios of the January 6 rioters, it’s all white small business operators. Who are now all in gaol. Which is good.

Jack Posobiec at CPAC: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely.”

They are not bothering to hide who they are any more. Masks off, brown shirts on.

Bill P
Bill P
February 25, 2024 11:22 am

Black Ball 9.54
FMD what a list of khuntery
Indeed!
Each is a Frontus Bottomus of the first order.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 25, 2024 11:24 am

JC, the All-In pod had a great catch up lesson on Nvidia in this week’s pod.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 11:24 am

JC, In 2004 I first saw Nvidia on a pc I brought. The Chines salesman said this is the best and that he was investing his spare cash after looking to improve his own shop. The stock price was less than US $2.00. Iwonder if he still has them. He still has his shop going. He only sell quality items so doesnt get caught up in the discount spiral.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 25, 2024 11:25 am

For those who have not seen it Matt Walsh of Daily Wire has a good swipe at Google’s Gemini AI.

That is the system where you asked for a picture of the Pope and it gave you a black female and black male. Plus black Vikings and founding fathers etc.

The whole biased system basically due to the anti white male thoughts of a white female on Google staff.

It is that good that Elon also Tweeted it so getting good views.

But hey no problem I am sure Google gives trustworthy search results!

Winston Smith
February 25, 2024 11:25 am

JC

Feb 24, 2024 12:34 AM
I’m drunk, unhappy and looking for a stoush.

Looks like someone got their wish!

Roger
Roger
February 25, 2024 11:28 am

Yesterday he announced 40 new cops and 10 new police cars for Ipswich area. Naturally no mention of where they have been taken from because last year QPS had a net loss of cops.

Newly graduated recruits most likely. According to a friend who’s a QPOL detective they’ve lowered academic standards considerably to swell the numbers entering the academy.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 25, 2024 11:30 am

A classic from Monty. White small business operators going to jail seems to be a good thing for him. Despite the fact many, including harmless old ladies,were waved into the Capitol by the police and did nothing more than walk around like tourists.

“Scroll through the bios of the January 6 rioters, it’s all white small business operators. Who are now all in gaol. Which is good”

Black Ball
Black Ball
February 25, 2024 11:30 am

Fark orf monty you dirtbag. That you support the demented pervert occuping the White House speaks much to your own character.
Piss off dickhead.

Lee
Lee
February 25, 2024 11:31 am

Jack Posobiec at CPAC: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely.”

He was being sarcastic.

Sarcasm and irony are completely lost on far-left morons like you.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 25, 2024 11:35 am

Dot, earlier:

Apropos of late last night, women who get upset at men dating younger women are female incels

Funny stuff. I wish I’d thought of that.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 11:35 am

Scroll through the bios of the January 6 rioters, it’s all white small business operators.

You are a white small business operator.

Who are now all in gaol.

Alarming, considering how some have not been tried.

Which is good.

You are praising democracy and the rule of law but don’t care about being held indefinitely prior to trial. This is curious, to say the least.

Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely.

Made in the context of living in a republic with elections. Unchecked democracy with insufficient constitutional checks and balances is what beset the Weimar Republic with its demise.

They are not bothering to hide who they are any more. Masks off, brown shirts on.

How would referring Senators being elected back to the States, keeping the electoral college and keeping representative democracy in the House be fascist? They’re republican ideas, to moderate the excesses of democracies.

Don’t bring up God, Jimmy Carter was in bed with the 700 Club, don’t pull that crap here.

“Fascism” means the legitimate exercise of executive powers of a somewhat indirectly elected President, that is, firing public servants with agendas and who play politics when they have no right to do so other than follow directions or quit.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 11:37 am

He was being sarcastic.

Well, he trolled The New Republic very well. They’re reporting that it sounds like 1934 Germany. Completely unhinged.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 25, 2024 11:49 am

Stupid Murderer news (the Herald-Sun):

Accused killer police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly sent txt messages from the phone of one of his victims, telling his house mates he was moving to Perth — in the days after he was already dead.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal two lengthy txts were sent from the phone of his ex-boyfriend, TV presenter Jesse Baird, faking an impending move interstate and discussing what to do with his furniture.

That old chestnut.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 25, 2024 11:55 am

Daily Mail article yet another example of how the West is killing itself.

Saying ‘the most qualified person should get the job’ is a microaggression, Britain’s top universities insist

duncanm
duncanm
February 25, 2024 11:55 am

shatterzzz
Feb 25, 2024 10:15 AM
I got the 1 acre backyard .. not quite big enuf for a ride=on but a reaching the limit effort for an OAP ……. duuuuuh!

you’re too good Shatterz.

SOP is put a couple of VL commodores up on bricks. Grass won’t grow under them.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 25, 2024 11:57 am

If only we still had downticks Monty’s J6 comment would have got plenty.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 25, 2024 12:01 pm

How good would have the F-108 been? Cool design. Did the F-15 make it redundant?
Mach 3 interceptor designed to shoot down incoming Russian supersonic bombers at high altitude. A lot of commonality with the XB_70 bomber. Then it was realised that SAMS would likely take these down and the high altitude attacks weren’t going to happen.
No real comparison to the F-15 which incorporated the hard lessons over North Vietnam and was originally designed to be an air superiority fighter. The F-15 was much later design than the F-108.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 25, 2024 12:01 pm

Bourne1879 Feb 25, 2024 11:55 AM
Daily Mail article yet another example of how the West is killing itself.

Saying ‘the most qualified person should get the job’ is a microaggression, Britain’s top universities insist

They’re partly correct, I’ve always had my blood pressure raised by the phrase “the most qualified person should get the job”
I’ve never selected staff by the criterion “the most qualified”, few sane employers would.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 25, 2024 12:02 pm

From a Fewfacts article on the Village People murders:-

Mr Lamarre-Condon went on to start a celebrity blog and was head-hunted by Qantas to be a red carpet reporter. During this time he met many A-list celebrities including Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, John Travolta and Selena Gomez.

Now this may just be a case of Constable Hyphen-Soyboy pumping up his CV but, if true, it tells you all you need to know about Qaintarse and corporate Straya more broadly.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
February 25, 2024 12:03 pm

Frontus Bottomus

Ha – I’m stealing that.

Winston Smith
February 25, 2024 12:04 pm

Test.

local oaf
February 25, 2024 12:07 pm

Farmer Gez
Feb 25, 2024 8:40 AM
Why don’t we have more Filipino migrants?

Pacific Balts!

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 12:10 pm

Saying ‘the most qualified person should get the job’ is a microaggression, Britain’s top universities insist

This is a joke, right?

Right?

(Anikin grins)

The shame is, you can’t tell anymore.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 12:12 pm

What surprised me about the F-108 is that it looks like the newer fighter designs, such as derivatives of the F-35, F-22 competitors or even the 6th gen designs coming soon.

Tom
Tom
February 25, 2024 12:15 pm

I see Rita Panahi is going to be on at 11 pm. 4 nights a week on Sky. Is this their way of saying arrivederci.

The exact opposite, GR. Panahi is very popular and co-hosts Sky’s top-rating weekly show, Outsiders, on Sunday mornings.

Her new 11pm Monday to Thursday show finally gave Sky management the excuse it needed to kill that dog of a show by Piers Morgan, Uncensored, which was inflicted on the Australian network as a result of Morgan’s global media deal with Ruperdink Mudrock.

My tip is that Panahi will be moved to a more user-friendly timeslot when Sky’s weakest evening link, Chris Kenny, is finally let go.

Black Ball
Black Ball
February 25, 2024 12:16 pm

Constable Hyphen-Soyboy

Outstanding. Take a bow

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 25, 2024 12:19 pm

4BC news mentioned briefly something about looking into the weapon handling / security of NSW cop guns. Anybody seen an actual news article specifically questioning this issue?

The NSW Commissioner probably prefers the distraction of talking about her apology to the gay community about poor investigation of gay murders going back 40 years.

Oh wait, isnt the killer cop and his two victims gay?

Winston Smith
February 25, 2024 12:21 pm

Here We Go Again: South Carolina Voters Unable to Vote Reportedly Due to Internet Being Out – Voters Told to Put Ballots in “Another Slot”

Real America’s Voice Michelle Backus was on the ground in Satchel Ford Elementary in Columbia, SC. She spoke Tony Burkes, a voter in that particular precinct. He said after he filled out his ballot and ran it through the scanner, he received an error message. Now tell me if this sounds familiar: A poll worker then told the voter that “they didn’t have internet” and that he would have to “fold it and slide it into another slot. It looked kind of like a trash can.”

Min
Min
February 25, 2024 12:23 pm

I hope you enjoyed her work Greyranga . Artemesia and her father worked with Caravaggio i believe and were of his school

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 25, 2024 12:27 pm

From Gateway Pundit.
If there was a medal for trolling the enemy this deserves one.

Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik sat down for a nearly an hour-long interview with Taylor Lorenz, the far-left activist journalist who doxed her.
In a hilarious troll, Raichik wore a t-shirt emblazoned with an image of Lorenz crying about being “harassed” online during an interview in 2022.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 25, 2024 12:27 pm

Had almost an inch or rain, in quick order, at about 5.00 a.m.

Now it’s 31 degrees, clear skies, 79% humidity and the sun is beating down – dragging all that wet stuff out of the ground and into the air.

It is moist.

Min
Min
February 25, 2024 12:28 pm

Paul M urray hosting Town Hall meeting in Dunkerly tomorrow only locals allowed .
Michael Smith has Labor candidate on site , like Kamala .

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 12:30 pm

Considering the F-108 was designed over 60 years ago it still looks hot. Not being interested in aircraft was it canned due to being exactly what it was supposed to be and being replaced by something that was to do everything but nothing well. Can someone enlighten me.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 12:34 pm

Didn’t think of that Tom. Makes sense.

Winston Smith
February 25, 2024 12:37 pm

JC, One of your clones has escaped.
Bearing the name of Aaron, it’s modelled after one of your multiple personalities – the sanctimonious one.
Best get after it with one of your other personalities – the Tough Noo York Gangsta hasn’t had a run for a while.
(I’m still waiting for the daily expose of all my comments, you oleaginous prick. What happened to that? Only the one that probably half the computing world agreed with?)

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
February 25, 2024 12:40 pm

moist.

Headmasters have told schoolboys they can’t use that word. It triggers girls.

miltonf
miltonf
February 25, 2024 12:42 pm

Fighting the Tories. An arsehole’s arsehole.

completely and this worst gubmit eva is surprisingly aristocratic- Scotch, Geelong Grammar, Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak. Bourbons fighting regular hard working Australians not Tories. Despicable is not a strong enough word.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 25, 2024 12:42 pm

GreyRanga, it was cancelled because it was starting to be too expensive. The F-106 was a pretty good interceptor (Mach 2.5, long range, integrated into North American automated air defences) and was just entering service when the F-108 was cancelled.
Some years later a derivative of the Archangel/SR-71 with a large radar nose was proposed and flown but that went nowhere either.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 25, 2024 12:45 pm

cohenite
Feb 25, 2024 9:56 AM
From dickless last night:

Trump’s base is the petit bourgeoisie, not the proles.

They’re as blue collar as you can get and all colours; which is why the demorats are so afraid of Trump: he is taking their slave base: if you don’t vote for me you ain’t black says the corrupt perverted corpse that dickless supports.

It is surreal that nominally intelligent lefties like dickless are such liars and removed from reality about Trump: more than any other politician he supports real ground based democracy; the demorats are simply corrupt elitists who care nothing for the plebs. I suppose that explains the psychology of dickless: he thinks he is superior and expects the slave classes to toe the line and pay due deference. Trump has given them a voice to express how shit stained the elites are.

Fuk off dickless you grub.

Don’t hold abck, tell us what you really think of mUnty.

PS, “nominally intelligent”? The idiot failed Economics 1, then passed Public Stenography, aka J’ism.

Bill P
Bill P
February 25, 2024 12:50 pm

I’m told that men dating younger women may be looking for perky attributes which are not available elsewhere.

John H.
John H.
February 25, 2024 12:51 pm

Dot
Feb 25, 2024 8:56 AM
A lot of plyometrics, ranga.

It requires a basal level of fitness most people do not attain, but can.

On top of that, an endurance event at the end of the year plus weekly winter sportsball. Sportsball is the worst. So many injuries. I couldn’t train for much of last year. Knees, ankle and cheekbone all healed up now.

Not keen on a long life.

JC
JC
February 25, 2024 12:55 pm

LOL Turtlehead is spazzing out. Tough guy, male nurse.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 25, 2024 12:56 pm

Via Zulu

At the time, the tribunal flagged further increases to public-sector salaries amid trouble attracting and retaining staff.

That isn’t trouble, that is an opportunity to make major savings without having to pay redundancy packages.

JC
JC
February 25, 2024 12:59 pm

LOL

Winston Smith
Feb 25, 2024 12:21 PM

Here We Go Again: South Carolina Voters Unable to Vote Reportedly Due to Internet Being Out – Voters Told to Put Ballots in “Another Slot”

and the result

SC RESULTS: TONIGHT
**TRUMP 59% HALEY 40%

Black Ball
Black Ball
February 25, 2024 12:59 pm

And the mistake of placating monty is that we remain silent on his evil.
This is the bloke who likes to see his ideological enemies jailed or killed. Remember I posted about a young fellow run down by a Biden supporter for the crime of attending a conservative rally .
Then he loves himself some cocks in frocks reading stories to kids
Then he likes misogyny with Moira Deeming being expelled for nothing.
And he supports Hamas who are the real Nazis who want eradicate Israel, The only democracy in the Middle East.
Monty, you are a true turd.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
February 25, 2024 1:00 pm

JC is off again. Oh well, I suppose the sun is over the yardarm.

miltonf
miltonf
February 25, 2024 1:04 pm

The only value in having Monty here is demonstration of the exhaustion and evil of the modern left.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 25, 2024 1:04 pm

m0nty
Feb 25, 2024 11:19 AM
They’re as blue collar as you can get and all colours; which is why the demorats are so afraid of Trump

That’s just not true at all. Scroll through the bios of the January 6 rioters, it’s all white small business operators. Who are now all in gaol. Which is good.

It would be much, much, better if the 2020 BLM rioters, who were both far more numerous and far more violent, were in jail, instead of peaceful protestors (see the US Constitution) being jailed for “illegal parading”, whatever the F that might be.

Still, good to see your continuing commitment to the destruction of democracy.

JC
JC
February 25, 2024 1:04 pm

Toad

I’m responding to Turtlehead’s prov. You obviously missed that.

Get a life.

miltonf
miltonf
February 25, 2024 1:13 pm

“illegal parading” is out of the Soviet playbook-

“Give me the man and I will give you the case against him”

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 25, 2024 1:13 pm

miltonf
Feb 25, 2024 12:42 PM
Fighting the Tories. An arsehole’s arsehole.

completely and this worst gubmit eva is surprisingly aristocratic- Scotch, Geelong Grammar, Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak. Bourbons fighting regular hard working Australians not Tories. Despicable is not a strong enough word.

No, no, no. mUnty has assured us that these are the horny handed sons and daughters of the working class, and definitely not to be confused with the bourgeoisie.

Morsie
Morsie
February 25, 2024 1:15 pm

Regarding Filipinas,wife has a carer from there on a student visa.She has done various health related courses but is in danger of being deported.
Wants desperately to do nursing.We desperately need nurses.She can do the course for $30 k per annum. For locals it’s free.
She hasn’t got any savings so obviously can’t pay $30k.
Has perfect English ,young,hard working smart and diligent.Travels two hours by public transport to get here.
We are so screwed as a country.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 25, 2024 1:17 pm

She has done various health related courses but is in danger of being deported.

Needs to convert to Islam.

Digger
Digger
February 25, 2024 1:17 pm

No matter what the outcome of the State Primaries are I think Haley will stay in the race and probably be funded by Democrats. It is not about who gets the most votes, it is about who is the last one standing and there is no way in hell they will allow that to be Trump…

If she remains in the race they may have no other option but to select her at the Republican Conference…

JC
JC
February 25, 2024 1:21 pm

Digger
Feb 25, 2024 1:17 PM

No matter what the outcome of the State Primaries are I think Haley will stay in the race and probably be funded by Democrats.

She’s actually a very dangerous problem for Trump. The No Labels crowd still don’t have a candidate and if by chance she does run as their candidate, Trump is done I think as she will peel away lots of votes.

Damon
Damon
February 25, 2024 1:25 pm

Dems want the Kalifornia Kretin. Can’t be worse than Dear Demented Joe.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 25, 2024 1:29 pm

Needs to convert to Islam.

Tell immigration she is a woman who identifies as a man who identifies as a woman, and that she is saving for the two surgeries: one to stitch on a skin-tube penis and lop off her breasts, and the other one to lop of her, er, his willie and insert implants.

This is stunning and brave squared!

Giles will be so ecstatic signing the approval that he will flop back in his chair, light a languorous cigarette, and ask the document “Was it good for you?”

JC
JC
February 25, 2024 1:29 pm

Can’t be worse than Dear Demented Joe.

Oh yes he is. Think of Hiden with a fully functional brain and all his policies, and add some that are even worse.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 25, 2024 1:32 pm

Family relative who runs a business in the Outback is over in the Philippines recruiting truck mechanics and drivers.

Try as he might – pays extremely well – he gets bugger all from the southern cities.

Winston Smith
February 25, 2024 1:34 pm

JC
Feb 25, 2024 1:04 PM

Toad
I’m responding to Turtlehead’s prov. You obviously missed that.
Get a life.

What’s a ‘prov.’ , you illiterate cesspool on legs??

cohenite
February 25, 2024 1:36 pm

Jack Posobiec at CPAC: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely.”

You’re such a lying sack of shit dickless.

Posobiec was referring to the Jan 6 demorat form of democracy: he went on to say about the demorat’s form of democracy:

“They say democracy, but they mean authoritarianism, and they know it,”

Trump has the highest support from blacks, hispanics and other minorities; higher than any other GOP and he’s getting close to the perverted corpse:

A fraying coalition: Black, Hispanic, young voters abandon Biden as election year begins

m0nty
m0nty
February 25, 2024 1:36 pm

He was being sarcastic.

Ah yes, the rhetorical refuge of the fascist. “I was only joking, don’t you get the joke?!” Nearby domesticated animals going mental.

On a related note, I am enjoying seeing Trump squirm at requirements that he pay half a billion in fiat currency for fraud fines and civil suit damages with a deadline measured in weeks. Can’t declare bankruptcy for the seventh time on this one.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 25, 2024 1:37 pm

I should have been, and should be doing more things this weekend.

However, a Sopranos marathon on Focks doesn’t just fall out the sky – so, in between a few preparatory arrangements for the week ahead, a Sopranos marathon it is. Viewed on the back patio/verandah with the hound at feet, and potentially a beverage.

JC
JC
February 25, 2024 1:37 pm

Toad?

Turtlehead is spazzing out more. What should I do with this feral and former nurse? Awaiting instructions.

m0nty
m0nty
February 25, 2024 1:39 pm

She’s actually a very dangerous problem for Trump. The No Labels crowd still don’t have a candidate and if by chance she does run as their candidate, Trump is done I think as she will peel away lots of votes.

That’s not going to happen, JC. America has sore loser provisions to prevent primary losers switching parties this late in the piece.

JC
JC
February 25, 2024 1:41 pm

Fatboy.

In my opinion, the only thing that’s keeping her in the race is to attract the attention of the No Labels crowd. She’s currently campaigning that direction.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 25, 2024 1:43 pm

Iodine Betty.
Go tend to JMH.
She’s OD’d on the McWilliams Sweet Sherry again.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 1:45 pm

Not keen on a long life.

Yeah if I have a bad year I will likely give up the proto polynesian pugilism and sports ball for fencing/archery and golf/fishing.

Quite frankly, I should have done that from the get go.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
February 25, 2024 1:48 pm

“Dating” is such a gay word.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 1:49 pm

LOL from NBC…

Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies

Have they asked the Democrat, race-hustling Nation of Islam and the Five Per Cent Nation about their racial theories?

Seems that there is a confluence of idiocy that BOTH the GOP and DNC need to rid themselves of.

Winston Smith
February 25, 2024 1:50 pm

Speaking of The Ukraine, I’m reading a personal account of a young Sergeant with the 21st Panzergrenadier Regiment of the 24th Pz Div. and their retreat from the Stalingrad Cauldron and through the Ukraine. So many familiar names of the towns and cities.
That part of the world must have had more bodies buried in it than just about any other.
It must be horribly sick of the death and destruction.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 1:51 pm

“Dating”

–> Boning

“Dating” is one exception I take to Americanisms. I hate it. Either you’re lustful with no committment and it might turn into a real relationship (likely not) or you’re in one. It’s how this “situationship” crap happened to soycieity.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 25, 2024 1:54 pm

She’s actually a very dangerous problem for Trump. The No Labels crowd still don’t have a candidate and if by chance she does run as their candidate, Trump is done I think as she will peel away lots of votes.

The “winner take all” nature of state electoral colleges means any third wheel kills the main candidate who leans their way.
Example … Ralph Nader.
Pulled 3 million votes in a very close election in 2000.
Head to head between Gore and Bush it went down to 500 votes in Florida.
Nader got 97,000 votes.
Under a preferential system (or if Nader hadn’t run) a good number of that 97,000 would have still turned out, and broken heavily towards Gore.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 1:54 pm

I can’t find any links to Posobiec’s full speech. So I’m almost sure the media is lying.

What’s funny is they’re betting on the general public not despising Washington or Capitol Hill.

Winston Smith
February 25, 2024 1:55 pm

JC

Feb 25, 2024 1:37 PM
Toad?

Turtlehead is spazzing out more. What should I do with this feral and former nurse? Awaiting instructions.

Translation:

I don’t like it when he posts that I come here to cause fights. Like yesterday when I said:
Feb 24, 2024 12:34 AM
I’m drunk, unhappy and looking for a stoush.

Have you reined in your Aaron Clone yet?

cohenite
February 25, 2024 1:55 pm

Can’t declare bankruptcy for the seventh time on this one.

Trump has never declared bankruptcy you dickless turd. He has been part of 4 Chapter 11s.

As to engoron’s Judgment Trump was not guilty under 63:12 because there was no victim or quantified loss. What the weirdo judge did was base his calculated damages on the fact Trump was a favoured client of the banks and had lower or recourse interest rates. Engoron worked out the difference between recourse rates and normal lender rates This difference between the interests rates was then applied to both the banks profits and Trump’s savings on the different interest rates based on the values of Trump’s assets which Trump and the banks agreed upon but which engoron and the fat kunt letitia claimed were over valuations. So engoron based his damages on valuations which were the basis of the charges against Trump!

In other words Engoron did what he claimed Trump had done.

FOAD dickless.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 25, 2024 1:56 pm

Nader got 97,000 votes in Florida.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 1:58 pm

On a related note, I am enjoying seeing Trump squirm at requirements that he pay half a billion in fiat currency for fraud fines and civil suit damages with a deadline measured in weeks.

That’s how it works. 28 days here is standard for defences or responses. Civil cases can still get set aside tough. You need to calm down. There is no debtors prison.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 25, 2024 1:59 pm

Cohenite.
It is like assessing someone’s homeloan against the headline lending rate, which almost no-one pays.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 2:00 pm

What the weirdo judge did was base his calculated damages on the fact Trump was a favoured client of the banks and had lower or recourse interest rates. Engoron worked out the difference between recourse rates and normal lender rates

Holy shit.

The judge whacked him with a civil penalty for getting a prime commercial rate.

Idiots like Jurdge Energon will ruin the US engine of prosperity, he has no standing!

Winston Smith
February 25, 2024 2:02 pm

Sancho Panzer

Feb 25, 2024 1:43 PM
Iodine Betty.
Go tend to JMH.
She’s OD’d on the McWilliams Sweet Sherry again.

Sancho has arisen!
…and as usual he leads with his favourite joke about iodine. Sancho, a hint about comedy at the 8 year old level. It may be funny the first time, and can even get a chuckle the second time around. But when it’s repeated 72 times over three years, it’s a flop.
Get some new material.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 2:04 pm

“They say democracy, but they mean authoritarianism, and they know it,”

Yes sure NBC, m0nty, The New Republic. This is the Enabling Act all over again you ahistorical jenkem huffers.

A Nazi would definitely support classical republican checks and balances and be opposed to the abuse of democracy to gain near-total power.

It’s funny because what we have with representative democracy is quasi-aristocracy.

The Australian and British pom pom wavers aren’t ready for recall elections, CIR and electing the Sheriff, Mayors, Prosecuting Attorneys, Jurdges and Dog Catchers.

cohenite
February 25, 2024 2:08 pm
m0nty
m0nty
February 25, 2024 2:16 pm

Trump’s problems came from his practice of running three sets of books: one for the banks, one for the IRS, and the real ones. Open and shut case of fraud.

Now he’s down half a billion and has to pay up pronto, unless he wants Letitia to start claiming his properties.

I also see now that 60% of Haley’s primary voters say they won’t vote for Trump in the general. Hmm let’s see, that’s 60% of 40%, that means potentially over 20% of Trump’s dwindling number of voters will stay home in November.

National polls mean diddly squat at this stage. Give me the results of actual elections. In those, Trump has lost bigly ever since 2016, and Biden has been smashing the opposition for the last four years.

Lee
Lee
February 25, 2024 2:21 pm

Ah yes, the rhetorical refuge of the fascist. “I was only joking, don’t you get the joke?!” Nearby domesticated animals going mental.

The fat fascist POS calls others fascist.

Crossie
Crossie
February 25, 2024 2:24 pm

cohenite
Feb 25, 2024 2:08 PM
Why google’s AI made all historical figures black:

Google Gemini Director’s Disturbingly Racist Posts Discovered: This Explains Why Its AI Erased White People

Do you know how hard it was for Google to find somebody that crazy? This sort of insane doesn’t grow on trees.

Dot
Dot
February 25, 2024 2:24 pm

Trump’s problems came from his practice of running three sets of books: one for the banks, one for the IRS, and the real ones. Open and shut case of fraud.

Do you even try anymore? He’d be in gaol if this were true. Not paying a “fine” (*civil penalty*) for qualifying for a prime lending rate.

Lee
Lee
February 25, 2024 2:25 pm

I can’t find any links to Posobiec’s full speech. So I’m almost sure the media is lying.

https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1319-just-when-you-think-the-google-gemini-ai-story-can-t-get-any-worse-it-does1

Starts soon after the 17.53 mark.

Lee
Lee
February 25, 2024 2:26 pm

Sorry, it’s not actually the full speech.

cohenite
February 25, 2024 2:29 pm

Trump’s problems came from his practice of running three sets of books: one for the banks, one for the IRS, and the real ones. Open and shut case of fraud.

You’re a fat, dickless liar. The IRS has been gunning for Trump since he became POTUS. His returns, taxes and business are the most scrutinised books in the US. If he had 3 books he’d be in jail.

Indolent
Indolent
February 25, 2024 2:30 pm

Do you know how hard it was for Google to find somebody that crazy? This sort of insane doesn’t grow on trees.

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick!

Tom
Tom
February 25, 2024 2:31 pm

Regarding Filipinas, wife has a carer from there on a student visa. She has done various health related courses but is in danger of being deported.
Wants desperately to do nursing. We desperately need nurses.

Sorry, Morsie. The Liars desperately need a replacement electorate and Christian Filipinas don’t fit the bill, especially if they’re hard workers replacing professionals in short supply.

The Liars’ desperately needed replacement electorate includes the 2200+ “Palestinians” from Gaza, whose Australian entry visas were rushed through in 24 hours or less.

The added benefit of the “Palestinians” is they come pre-programmed to launch terrorist attacks against the Liars’ political enemies, such as the Stupid Frigging Liberals. Plus they’re lazy and addicted to welfare, which means they’ll be eternally grateful to their rescuers and will restrict the muslim no-go zones in Australia to Arabic-speaking ghettoes in Western Sydney, with only occasional armed incursions to downtown Martin Place, etc, to explain to Jews (with the support of NSW Plod) that they’re no longer welcome in Australia.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 25, 2024 2:33 pm

LizzieB, Cassie and Callie are gone, and we get Monty back again? Something rotten in the State of Denmark!

2dogs
2dogs
February 25, 2024 2:34 pm

Scroll through the bios of the January 6 rioters, it’s all white small business operators.

Henry Tarrio does not look white to me.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 25, 2024 2:35 pm

I wanted to see someone ask Gemini to generate images of looters in California.

Would it make them white? Or put up one of its dishonest homilies to get out of depicting black criminals – somehow tenuously connecting it to a need to avoid stereotypes despite the stereotype being well informed.

cohenite
February 25, 2024 2:36 pm

Trump Easily Defeats Haley in South Carolina, Her Home State

Something has to be done about this haley kunt. She has the maddest eyes I’ve seen on a woman; and I’ve seen some mad eyes.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 25, 2024 2:41 pm

I think we should start planning now.

With the Philistines…ooops! Forgot to use the Latinised name: the Palestinians that Albo is waving into Australia, which Western Suburbs should be used as a basis for a future ‘Two State Solution’?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 2:41 pm

Mutleys here a lot at the moment. Milko must be over to see the kids and take care of mutley’s missus.

m0nty
m0nty
February 25, 2024 2:43 pm

He’d be in gaol if this were true.

He’s be in gaol if he wasn’t head of the Republican Party.

Makka
Makka
February 25, 2024 2:53 pm

mOron serves a valuable service on this blog.

By exposing his fervent support of the leftist deviant freakshow, readers get a good look at the loathsome left. The most important take away; don’t let the left be unsupervised near your kids.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
February 25, 2024 2:57 pm

She deserved it. Credit to the bloke for not using a fist.

—-

Steve Inman:

She should’ve kept her hands to herself

Digger
Digger
February 25, 2024 2:58 pm

Something has to be done about this haley kunt. She has the maddest eyes I’ve seen on a woman; and I’ve seen some mad eyes.

She is there for the long haul because I reckon she has been briefed and already knows the end game…

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 25, 2024 3:05 pm

m0nty
Feb 25, 2024 2:16 PM
Trump’s problems came from his practice of running three sets of books: one for the banks, one for the IRS, and the real ones. Open and shut case of fraud.

mUnty.

Update your “comedy” lines. I heard that very old joke told in Canberra at least 30 years ago. As a joke about public finances it was mildly amusing. As an allegation against a businessman subject to audits and reviews by the IRS, it is legally actionable.

You might even end up contributing to the fund.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 25, 2024 3:05 pm

Katy Perry performed at lavish mansion party, but the PM just wanted to talk jobs
Angus Livingston
By Angus Livingston
February 25, 2024 — 12.47pm

Listen to this article
3 min

Global superstar Katy Perry popped into a suburban Melbourne house for a private gig on Saturday night, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he used the party as an opportunity to speak to Australian food and beverage manufacturers about jobs.

The home was Visy billionaire Anthony Pratt’s mansion Raheen in Kew, which played host to a who’s who of Melbourne’s political and business circles as the pop star performed some of her biggest hits.

Pigs arze!

Makka
Makka
February 25, 2024 3:08 pm

Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
·

Feb 23
? Latest Emerson Polling Swing State Leading Candidate:

Swing State Average ? Trump: +7.8
– NEVADA: ? Trump +10
– NORTH CAROLINA: ? Trump +9
– GEORGIA: ? Trump +9
– ARIZONA: ? Trump +6
– PENNSYLVANIA: ? Trump +5

Makka
Makka
February 25, 2024 3:09 pm
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 25, 2024 3:17 pm

Mutleys here a lot at the moment.

He pops up when the MSM thinks someone has finally brought down the cruel ogre, Trump.

When that happens Monty gets a vicarious thrill – it is almost as if he achieved something, an illusion that never suffers from fading next to a real achievement thanks to Monty’s not having any real ones.

When the great gotcha unravels and fritters away Monty also unravels and fritters away – until the next time.

Winston Smith
February 25, 2024 3:20 pm

Digger

Feb 25, 2024 2:58 PM
Something has to be done about this haley kunt. She has the maddest eyes I’ve seen on a woman; and I’ve seen some mad eyes.

She is there for the long haul because I reckon she has been briefed and already knows the end game…

So many Republicans get caught with this ploy.
Attractive woman comes out of nowhere, does a few carefully scripted interviews and is almost immediately held up as the Presidential running mate. Then a year later they can’t keep their mouths shut and let the cat out of the bag… Duh.

Tom
Tom
February 25, 2024 3:20 pm

On an irregular trip today to Dan Murphy’s – the Australian beer, wine and spirits price leader – to buy a six-pack of beer (I normally buy it by the slab), the price had jumped from $17 to $21, thanks to an increase in federal excise tax.

By my calculation, that means Australian beer taxes are now around 50% of the retail price – among the highest (if not THE highest) in the world.

And I notice that slabs are now $50+ when they were $43 at Dan’s five minutes ago.

The Elbow regime couldn’t give a sh*t about the cost of living. Slugging consumers and increasing the size of government is a far higher priority.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 25, 2024 3:23 pm

Lamarre-Condon went on to start a celebrity blog and was head-hunted by Qantas to be a red carpet reporter.

Hello Sailor

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 25, 2024 3:27 pm

Accused killer cop Beau Lamarre-Condon is believed to be refusing pleas from fellow officers to assist as they continue to scour locations across NSW for the bodies of his two alleged victims, former television presenter Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies.

On Sunday a police source said Lamarre-Condon was refusing to co-operate with the police, as forensics officers again searched the Paddington home where they believe the couple were murdered on Monday.

Police divers in wetsuits also resumed their search of waterways in the Newcastle suburb of Lambton where Lamarre-Condon is alleged to have driven a white Toyota HiAce van after alleging using his police-issued Glock service pistol in Mr Baird’s Paddington terrace.

Oz

What’s the bet he offs himself as soon as he can?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 25, 2024 3:37 pm

Tom – baulked at paying $20+ for six beers. Cartons that could be picked up for $40 on special before my stroke in 2021 now $60+.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 25, 2024 3:41 pm

The Elbow regime couldn’t give a sh*t about the cost of living.

The odious little runt doesn’t think in terms of how to help Australians. Helping Australians would inevitably come at the expense of interests of groups Labor relies on.

So he is always looking for a ‘free’ gimmick, in the hope that people will like him personally.

It is hilarious that this frivolous man does not realise how silly and desperate he looks trying to appear ‘in’ with the kids (“Tay-Tay”), with sports nuts, with farmers, with ADF personnel etc.

Bluey
Bluey
February 25, 2024 3:50 pm

Bourne1879
Feb 25, 2024 11:30 AM
A classic from Monty. White small business operators going to jail seems to be a good thing for him. Despite the fact many, including harmless old ladies,were waved into the Capitol by the police and did nothing more than walk around like tourists.

“Scroll through the bios of the January 6 rioters, it’s all white small business operators. Who are now all in gaol. Which is good”

Monty agrees he should be in jail? Maybe we should be asking his kids what he gets up to…..

Winston Smith
February 25, 2024 3:53 pm

Mother Load/Anyone:
WTF is Tay Tay? I assume that it’s something to do with that singer person, but seriously wtf?

Vicki
February 25, 2024 3:53 pm

I will leave it to other Cats to decide what they think about this article in the Epoch Times. It documents the number of Trump supporters (I had no idea how many hundreds have been charged) still facing sentencing for January 6. I wonder if the 3 year hiatus is anything to do with the coming Pres. elections.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/decorated-marine-vet-sentenced-to-prison-in-jan-6-prosecution-5594366?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=top-news-top-stories-1

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
February 25, 2024 3:55 pm

Trickler… you have my sympathy for being on the receiving end of an attack, but I can’t enjoy a video of a woman getting hit in the head by a man.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 25, 2024 3:56 pm

Tay-Tay is Taylor Swift.

Not surprising that it is not native to your or my vocabularies – we squares are not ‘hip’ and ‘with it’ like Albo, man.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 25, 2024 3:58 pm

Oh, it is the nickname Albo himself used for the serially heartbroken little songbird.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 25, 2024 4:00 pm

we squares are not ‘hip’ and ‘with it’ like Albo, man

Albo digs it, yo.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 25, 2024 4:01 pm

“What’s the bet he off’s himself”. No loss. Troubl is there’s plenty more ready to take his place. We’re all so special. Makes me sick.

Rosie
Rosie
February 25, 2024 4:02 pm

Global superstar Katy Perry popped into a suburban Melbourne house for a private gig on Saturday night,

Raheen is not exactly a triple fronted brick veneer.

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