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Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 28, 2024 12:06 am

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

mizaris
mizaris
February 28, 2024 12:25 am

The grass median strip between UWA and the residential colleges has been known to be the final resting place for more than a few over the years. It happens.

Memories of misspent years at Tommy More.

mizaris
mizaris
February 28, 2024 12:25 am

Morning other siders.

Pogria
Pogria
February 28, 2024 12:27 am

Suzie Quattro!

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 28, 2024 12:29 am

Suzie Quattro!

Reputed to have never worn a dress.
I’ve no idea if that’s true, & care even less. However it made a fantastic conversation piece (“Didja know that … blah blah blah?”) when we were younger.

Pogria
Pogria
February 28, 2024 12:43 am

Suzie can still fit into the gear she wore on stage in the seventies. sigh… 😀

rosie
rosie
February 28, 2024 1:53 am

Added to things I’ll never do again.
Foolishly imagined that the stairs that go down from Taormina to the station were civilized with proper steps and railings.
At the top they were but things got rougher and rougher as you descended until it became a fairly wide goat track, no railings, with a sheer drop at the side, then there were two options, a narrow goat track leading right and a narrow goat track with a rickety wooden rail leading left.
I baulked and decided discretion was the better part of valour and started to reascend. Fortunately i ran into two sweet American girls doing a gap year who offered to walk down with me and chatting away at a mile a minute I survived.
I am absolutely terrified of heights.
Never doing that again.

Muddy
Muddy
February 28, 2024 1:53 am

Ferkin insomnia. It’s like that burning, itchy rash you just can’t … ummm, yeah. How’s that weather, huh?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 28, 2024 2:01 am

Interesting development with Craig Kelly switching from UAP to One Nation to be campaign manager.

No idea what this means for UAP.

KevinM
KevinM
February 28, 2024 2:02 am

dover0beach
Feb 28, 2024 12:42 AM

Baron of the Taiga
@baronitaigas
NATO countries that have said they won’t fight alongside France in Ukraine: 7

NATO countries that have said they will fight alongside France in Ukraine: 0

If this declaration was an attempt to intimidate Russia, it was incredibly ill-conceived

Wasn’t there a previous attempt by the French to invade and fight the Russians?

JC
JC
February 28, 2024 2:09 am

Rosie

Are you crazy going down that way?

There’s a cable car going down to the beach. Is that closed?

rosie
rosie
February 28, 2024 2:28 am

I think it is closed at the moment JC, it’s goes down to a town on the other side, I’d have to bus or train around.
Tomorrow l’ll bus down, there aren’t footpaths on the roads, too dangerous to walk.
I could probably do it now I know what to expect, didn’t help that I was startled by something in the bushes, which turned out to be a lizard, not a snake.
It’s actually quite busy as people use it to get to and from the railway station. I think in part it might be an old quarry.
Still not going to, not on my own.

rosie
rosie
February 28, 2024 2:36 am

So much for inhumane Israeli prisons, you can go to university and write novels.
seems like going to prison was the best thing that ever happened to this man

rosie
rosie
February 28, 2024 2:38 am
JohnJJJ
JohnJJJ
February 28, 2024 2:45 am

It seems to me the Lamarre case is indicative. First NSW Police have a recruitment problem. At the same time they need to keep the gays happy. So they lower the standards and get our ‘man’.
He already knows the stars and have been banging with the usual mass numbers . ( rabbits don’t come anywhere near the number of poofter hits).
He wants to look important, carry a Glock, with a future as security for the stars. Macho man… Next he has no ethics except the ego ethics of the gays and godless. He shoots a couple of anal mates. So what? …. oh who cares? Then he is arrested. Next the dick wiggles he has ‘satisfied’ in the NSW Pol senior ranks get worried. So we Machiavelli it all and blame the boss.
Everyone in the palace brings out the knives for the palace coup. “FIND A SCAPEGOAT”
King Lear has nothing on this. Maybe Othello. Welcome to the gay world.

shatterzzz
February 28, 2024 3:03 am

Suzie can still fit into the gear she wore on stage in the seventies. sigh…

I’m 76 and still the same size I was at 20 .. waist/chest/weight .. sadly … the 70s shoulder length hair is no more ………

shatterzzz
February 28, 2024 3:10 am

Ferkin insomnia. It’s like that burning, itchy rash you just can’t … ummm, yeah. How’s that weather, huh?

I’m having one of those night’s too .. wide awake .. building a 1300 piece micro block model of the Titanic but parts started to blur into each other so time to try bed .. again .. or switch the telly on ..
Still, being an OAP I don’t have to worry about getting up in the morning if I drop off .. LOL!

Rosie
Rosie
February 28, 2024 3:21 am
Rosie
Rosie
February 28, 2024 3:22 am
Rosie
Rosie
February 28, 2024 3:43 am
Rosie
Rosie
February 28, 2024 3:46 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 4:14 am
Johnny rotten
February 28, 2024 4:20 am

Thanks Tom.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 28, 2024 4:36 am

Plus lots.

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2024 5:03 am

So the macaroon mediocrity, that effete waste of space, is trying to give WWIII as push along. Why not use French to troops to defend France from the invasion from the south?

href=”https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/27/wwiii-watch-macron-floats-troops-in-ukraine-for-first-time-moscow-warns-of-inevitable-war-with-nato/”> Discussion of sending NATO troops into Ukraine itself has suddenly broken into the open for the first time, prompting Russia to warn that “a direct military conflict between NATO and Russia will be inevitable” if Western troops became engaged.

miltonf
miltonf
February 28, 2024 5:09 am

Another thing we have to thank Trump for is making the western political establishment expose itself as treacherous, despicable and venal. From King Tampon to John Howard.

Rosie
Rosie
February 28, 2024 5:18 am
Rosie
Rosie
February 28, 2024 6:12 am
Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 6:32 am

If this declaration was an attempt to intimidate Russia, it was incredibly ill-conceived

Yea, yes it was. It has been a blast knowing all of you.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 6:34 am

I got Gemini AI to confess that John Allen Mohammed was African American, but it took some Gracie Bros level arm twisting and Tyson Fury tier face punching.

132andBush
132andBush
February 28, 2024 6:55 am

JC
Feb 27, 2024 8:34 PM

Iron ore spot price is down ~10% since 15th Feb.

Coal spot also down ~11%.

Grain prices also.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 7:12 am

Getting to be a stampede. Someone should ask Bowen what the problem is. Aren’t they trying to save the planet anymore?

Apple Cancels Work on EV, Moves Staff to AI (27 Feb)

Apple has canceled work on its electric car, shifting some employees to its artificial intelligence project, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

Apple made the disclosure internally on Tuesday, surprising the nearly 2,000 employees working on the electric vehicle (EV) project, the report stated.

I hope Apple’s AI doesn’t have the same problems as Google’s one does, which cost them $70 billion in share market value yesterday.

Beertruk
February 28, 2024 7:34 am

The sad state that is the ADF.
Campbell would have been more use as a forward scout with a bloody claymore strapped and taped to his fvking head:

TEACHING ARMY DOGS NEW TRICKS

CHARLES MIRANDA
28 Feb 2024

Military dog handlers will be retrained to limit “cultural sensitivity risks” when confronting enemy fighters or terrorists, in a woke extension of the ADF’s Special Forces overhaul.

The bizarre edict from Chief of the Defence Force, Angus Campbell, is among 48 newly completed culture directives stemming from the damming Afghanistan Inquiry.

The updated directives list also includes strategies to address “exceptionalism” and “ethical drift” among elite soldiers and tighter accountability laws.

The ADF Military Working Dogs (MWD) edict mandates they must only be used now in “reasonable circumstances” and not as a tool to elicit information from a captured person or under control during tactical questioning.

“Handlers are expected to ensure their use of ADF military working dogs (MWD) is reasonable and necessary in the circumstances,” Defence policy notes.

“Those directing or employing ADF MWD teams are expected to be cognisant of any cultural sensitivities in relation to the use of ADF MWD and, where circumstances allow, take active steps to minimise cultural sensitivity risks associated with such use.”

Exercise scenarios are now assessing the new “appropriate use” of the dogs’ capability.

Special Forces used dogs extensively in the Middle East and regionally to sniff out weapons and explosives or on patrol about our military bases but in some Islamic cultures the animals are deemed impure and offensive.

SAS Association chairman Martin Hamilton-Smith branded the dog directive another woke initiative.

“Of all the problems facing Defence, they’ve spent a lot of time on the Afghan allegations and in the meantime recruitment and retention is dire, there is problems with procurement and sustainment of capital equipment, there is evidence of serious mismanagement in Defence and a disproportionate time spent dealing with things that happened 15 years ago and second order issues like dog culture,” he said.

“I think the Australian people would welcome leadership and the ADF getting back to
capability rather than second-order issues.”

Three years since the war crimes inquiry sparked reforms and a criminal investigation, Defence has revealed 200 former soldiers have now been specifically affected and seeking mental health and welfare help.

The new figure comes after confirmation Gen. Campbell and the chiefs of Army, Navy and the RAAF will appear before the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide with public hearings to begin again in Sydney next week.

Beertruk
February 28, 2024 7:37 am

Curses and bugger…forgot to say that TEACHING ARMY DOGS NEW TRICKS is in today’s Daily Tele.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 28, 2024 7:56 am

Artificial Idiocy. Artificial Ideologies. Ardent Indoctrination.

Black Ball
Black Ball
February 28, 2024 7:56 am

Mmmyes a real problem is identified by Michelle Bowes in the Hun:

In the last two days, the CEOs of Woolies and Virgin Australia have stepped down.

Both are examples of the glass cliff – where a woman is brought in to clean up in a time of crisis – in action.

After months of building pressure over grocery prices during a cost-of-living crisis culminating in multiple regulator inquiries into price gouging and a trainwreck interview on the ABC’s Four Corners program on Monday night, this morning Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci fell on his sword.

Mr Banducci was at the helm of Woolies for eight years – a period largely characterised by prosperity both in the Australian economy and the grocery sector, despite the road bump of Covid-19.

But the going got tough and the Woolies board decided it was time for a woman to step in and clean up the mess.

That woman, Amanda Bardwell, is an accomplished retail executive in her own right and no doubt deserving of the position.

But rather than inheriting the reins in good times, she is walking into a minefield.

It’s not dissimilar to the situation at rival supermarket giant Coles, which is now run by Leah Weckert, who took over from Steven Cain in May last year as the cost-of-living crisis was starting to take off; perhaps Mr Cain saw the writing on the wall a little earlier than Mr Banducci.

If one was feeling very cynical, they might also suggest that it probably also looks good from an optics perspective to have women running supermarkets, given it is women who do the lion’s share of grocery shopping and manage finances at a micro-level in most Australian households.

Michelle Ryan, director of the Global Institute of Women’s Leadership and professor of social and organisational psychology at the Australian National University, who coined the “glass cliff’ term with colleague Alex Haslam from the UK’s Exeter University told news.com.au that while “there is no doubt that Amanda Bardwell is a supremely qualified appointment for the new Woolworths CEO, her appointment is very much in line with the glass cliff phenomenon”.

“When we talk about the glass cliff we talk about the precarity that female leaders often find in their appointments, and with Woolworths appointing their first ever female CEO amid multiple inquiries about competition, and after Mr Banducci had a difficult interview on Four Corners, this position feels like it may indeed be precarious,” Prof Ryan said.

The departure of Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka yesterday follows a different script, but it, too, is an example of the glass cliff in action.

The former CEO of Jetstar, Ms Hrdlicka was brought in to run Virgin in 2020 when the airline was on its knees – it was near collapse with administrators appointed before Bain Capital rescued it and snared Ms Hrdlicka to turn it around.

Announcing the news of her departure yesterday, Ms Hrdlicka described the last four years as “heavy lifting across the organisation during the toughest of times”.

In October last year she delivered Virgin Australia’s first profit in 11 years.

Her departure comes as the airline heads for an initial public offering (IPO) which will see it listed on the stock market once again.

In a magazine feature last year Ms Hrdlicka expressed her excitement at leading the business back into public ownership; it would have been her victory lap, the crowning achievement to a remarkable turnaround.

While a statement from Virgin said the decision to depart was Ms Hrdlicka’s call, talk among investors suggests that Australian fund managers – whose support is needed to get the IPO off the ground – are still unsure about Ms Hrdlicka, despite the runs she has on the board.

It seems Ms Hrdlicka may be missing one vital attribute – and it’s not experience.

Prof Ryan told news.com.au that while Ms Hrdlicka appointment fits the glass cliff narrative, her departure is in line with the “saviour effect”, “whereby women are seen as good leaders in times of crisis, but are replaced once things even out”.

The past year has also given us other examples of the glass cliff in action.

When Qantas was facing an unprecedented public backlash – again amid accusations of price gouging – and legal action from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission over allegedly misleading customers, who was appointed to take the place of Alan Joyce last September?

Vanessa Hudson.

At the time of her appointment, Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie famously said that she hoped Ms Hudson had “a big mop”.

“Incredible, the number of times very good women are asked to come in and clean up a very large mess left by, shall we say, a guy,” Senator McKenzie said.

“This is not a new story. I hope it ends better for her than it does for others.”

And the glass cliff isn’t limited to the private sector with the government also leaning into the trend, as evidenced by the appointment of Michele Bullock to take over as Governor of the Reserve Bank in September last year, following the departure of Philip Lowe.

Dr Lowe left after a blaze of scrutiny – 12 interest rate rises followed a significant blunder when he told Australians in 2021 that interest rates would not rise until at least 2024, before beginning to hike them in May 2022.

In all these cases, it is the first time in the long and storied history of each of these institutions that a woman has held the top job.

Naysayers of the glass cliff would probably argue that these women – and those who look up to them – should be pleased that they have finally broken through the glass ceiling, regardless of the circumstances of their appointments.

But Prof Ryan said that while having more women in top leadership positions is progress, “if they are more likely to be in such positions in times of crisis we run the risk of reinforcing stereotypes of women not being good leadership”.

“Scrutiny during a crisis is high, and our research has shown that women are often blamed for a crisis that was set in train long before they took the helm,” she told news.com.au.

“Moreover, tenure in crisis roles is much shorter than when all is going well – such that women are likely to have more tumultuous leadership careers.”

To paraphrase the words of Senator McKenzie, I, too, hope it ends better for these women than it has for others.

So from what I gather, the women are only there to clean up after the shitshow and the ‘glass cliff’s awaits if they aren’t successful. The author no doubt bemoans a pay gap between the sexes and seems annoyed that these women have become top dog, just to fix shit.
Who is Michelle Bowes?

Michelle Bowes is a finance journalist at news.com.au and the author of Money Queens: Rule Your Money, a financial guidebook for teenage girls that explains gender financial inequalities, as well as how to earn, manage and grow their money.

Ah. So almost a self serving piece from Ms Bowes. Good Lord.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 28, 2024 8:03 am

Broelman really is daft.

Taking his cartoon, can we also assume that his cartoons are ones he is commanded to do by the paper? I mean, they pay him.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
February 28, 2024 8:03 am

TEACHING ARMY DOGS NEW TRICKS

Angus Campbell is the most pathetic, insipid person to be “leading” the ADF.

And Marles is such a wimp for letting it happen.

No wonder warriors are getting out of the SAS.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 28, 2024 8:15 am

Jayne Hrdlicka famously booed for pumping up the Vic Stasi regime and lauding Covid injections.
A real woman of the people – if those people are in crowd at Davos.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 8:16 am

The bizarre edict from Chief of the Defence Force, Angus Campbell, is among 48 newly completed culture directives stemming from the damming Afghanistan Inquiry.

Here’s my recommendation:

If you don’t intend on winning a war, do not deploy.

caveman
caveman
February 28, 2024 8:19 am

Seen the NRL ad for Las Vegas such irony. “No Pads” No Helmets”….we’re ready for law suits.
In the most letigious country in the world and with concussion concerns in the game , you get dumb.

Tom
Tom
February 28, 2024 8:20 am

Broelman really is daft.

Taking his cartoon, can we also assume that his cartoons are ones he is commanded to do by the paper? I mean, they pay him.

Broelman is syndicated to a large range of regional dailies, from the woke Canberra Times to the downmarket Geelong Advertiser.

He occasionally does requests for papers like the Geelong Addy — usually about the local Cats AFL team.

They don’t have to direct him to do political cartoons as his woke politics are the same as 99% of journalists.

Needless to say, Broelman (who lives in suburban Adelaide) loathes the politicians that his regional readers vote for, like Pauline Hanson and Bananaby Joyce.

Black Ball
Black Ball
February 28, 2024 8:21 am

FMD. “I have to holiday!” Daily Telegraph:

Police Commissioner Karen Webb has been criticised for missing the police force’s version of Anzac Day because she was relaxing overseas on holidays, in the latest blow for the state’s under-fire top cop.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal that Ms Webb skipped the 2023 National Police Remembrance Day service, a day set aside to honour police officers killed in the line of duty.

A police spokeswoman defended Ms Webb’s leave, noting it was the first time she had taken a holiday in 19 months.

Ms Webb began her annual leave on September 23 – six days before National Police Remembrance Day, jetting off to Asia. Deputy Commissioner David Hudson represented Ms Webb at the service instead, which was held at The Domain on September 29 last year.

Ms Webb returned from her holiday on October 16, having also been absent for the October 9 pro-Palestinian protest at the Opera House where activists burned an Israeli flag and reportedly chanted anti-Semitic slurs.

The revelations are the latest blow to Ms Webb who has been criticised by some within the force of being “invisible” in her leadership role.

Ms Webb embarked on an extraordinary media blitz on Tuesday morning, where she tried to shake off internal critics by quoting pop superstar Taylor Swift. “There will always be haters. Haters like to hate. Isn’t that what Taylor says?” Ms Webb told the Seven Network’s Sunrise program.

Minutes later, Ms Webb ­refused to leave the Sunrise studios until a news journalist and TV camera waiting outside were moved on. She was heard saying that she did not want to be “ambushed”.

Ms Webb then appeared on Nine’s Today, where she faced criticism for labelling the alleged murder of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies a “crime of passion”. “It certainly wasn’t my intention to offend anyone,” she said, stopping short of issuing an apology.

Ms Webb then apologised for using the “crime of passion” phrase about 30 minutes later on ABC Radio. “I apologise, that wasn’t intended to upset or offend anyone,” she said.

Ms Webb also defended her position on Sky News.

NSW upper house MP and former cop Rod Roberts likened Ms Webb’s absence at the September 29 ceremony to the boss of the ADF going on holidays and missing Anzac Day.

“Can you imagine (Defence Force chief) Angus Campbell not attending an Anzac service?” Mr Roberts said.

He also said he was contacted by serving police officers who were dismayed that Ms Webb did not attend. “It was a slap in the face,” he said.

Police Minister Yasmin Catley refused to comment on whether it was appropriate for the police boss to miss the service, while Premier Chris Minns said he still had confidence in Ms Webb. “Most people in this state want an effective police commissioner that is focused on fighting crime in NSW and that is what Karen Webb has done,” he said.

Wowee what a shitshow.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 8:22 am

The idea that we can get “people and culture” “experts” to teach us to become our better angels and this will stop bank mismanagement or military failure is the greatest con of the late 20th century and early 21st century.

“I’m going to stop a bank from having counterparty risk and a poor quality loan book by having maternity leave”

“I will fight the Taliban to submission or death by emasculating our overused, misdeployed elite reconnaissance forces, which are treated as video game shock troop NPCs with infinite stamina and HP”

“I will teach baseload and peaking power station workers about the five love languages and it will stop random blackouts so we can kick the can a little further down the road”

Rabz
February 28, 2024 8:26 am

the “saviour effect”, “whereby women are seen as good leaders in times of crisis, but are replaced once things even out”

What a steaming load of horse sh*t.

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2024 8:28 am

NSW & VIC peak Muslim bodies reject invitations to premiers’ Iftar dinners:

““There is a level of frustration with Labor in the community at the moment, at every level, in relation to Israel and the war in Gaza. What we want to see from the state government is clear statements of solidarity with the Palestinian people”, said the VIC Muslim rep.

“There is an outright refusal from any imam or community leader to attend the event. I’ve never seen the level of anger in the community as high as it is right now. There is zero appetite from the community to meet with the premier or his ministers”, said the NSW Muslim rep.

– The Guardian

Happy Iftar, Labor!

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 8:29 am

Seen the NRL ad for Las Vegas such irony. “No Pads” No Helmets”….we’re ready for law suits.

Likely it’s all safe as houses.

I have not seen an NRL playing contract.

I bet it declares to be governed under NSW law and that civil liability is contracted away as much as possible, with risk mitigating procedures, medical checks, acceptance of the assumption of voluntary risk & contributory negligence (within reasonable limits that do not breach unfair contract rules.

Obviously the NRL, refs, coaches & medical staff have a duty of care and all of the above has been discussed with the insurers, likely the NRL and clubs pay a marked up premium.

TBI / CTE is an emerging issue but the use of helmets in the NFL actually contributes to this.

It’s like how bare knuckle boxing has less TBI cases per capita than modern sanctioned Queensbury rules.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 28, 2024 8:30 am

Evil masterminds take note – this is how it’s done (the Hun):

Accused killer Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon lodged a formal bullying complaint against a NSW Police Force colleague days after allegedly murdering a Sydney couple, and hours before handing himself into police custody.

Brilliant. Someone else’s fault, your Honour. A perfectly constructed defence.

A senior police source said the accused claimed he was being “bullied and harassed”, and that he put in a complaint while he was at Grays Point.

From what I can ascertain, this dude had been treated like a Melbourne Cup favourite the entire time. I understand that cop homos are absolutely unbulliable, while inside their own little cliques they make Mean Girls look like a bunch of accountants.

Bullying in these instances amounts to ‘my individual brilliance in all things has not been recognised, and despite my short time in and lack of ability I really should be four ranks higher’.

Constable Lamarre-Condon had his police-issue Mobipol computer with him while allegedly carrying out the double murder and while he disposed of the bodies in the bush.

Please, please let ‘someone bullied me at work’ be part of his defence.

Muddy
Muddy
February 28, 2024 8:30 am

The Glass Cliff, huh?
I wish The Patriarchy (upper case P because it’s a real thing, you know) would simplify the number and type of oppressive tactics deployed against women (whatever they are), as it’s becoming too complex for this simple mind to recall & apply. Are they listed & described in the Patriarchy Manual, because I never received a copy of the latter? Is The Manual illustrated, because I’m a visual learner?

Rabz
February 28, 2024 8:30 am

also … absent for the October 9 pro-Palestinian protest at the Opera House where activists burned an Israeli flag and reportedly chanted anti-Semitic slurs

Yet more quality j’ism. Imbeciles covering for incompetents.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 8:31 am

I think there was a SOO match in LBC, CA, USA in the mid to late 1980s?

No one was sued. Not even in California!

Rabz
February 28, 2024 8:36 am

Ho chi Minns said he still had confidence in Nanna Webb:
“Most people in this state want an effective police commissioner that is focused on fighting crime in NSW and that is what Nanna Webb has done,” he said.

Yet there’s an ever growing litany of evidence that screams otherwise, Minns, you appalling incompetent collectivist cockhead.

I hate using the term “gaslighting”, but here we are. Again.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 8:39 am

From what I can ascertain, this dude had been treated like a Melbourne Cup favourite the entire time. I understand that cop homos are absolutely unbulliable, while inside their own little cliques they make Mean Girls look like a bunch of accountants.

Get in loser, we’re going to a secluded farm near Bungonia!

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 28, 2024 8:41 am

What a steaming load of horse sh*t.

Correct.

duncanm
duncanm
February 28, 2024 8:42 am

Musk nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.

He’s a deserving winner – which is why the left will pile on and he won’t get anywhere.

Rabz
February 28, 2024 8:45 am

Tin eared, tone deaf waffling ol’ windbag, Paul “is wrong, again” Kelly on Goose Morristeen:

History will look kindly on Morristeen’s legacy, flaws and all

It is a safe bet that as the tyranny of the present fades, history will reveal what really mattered and Morristeen’s record is likely to loom in far more favourable terms.

Yeah, no.

Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 8:54 am
Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 8:55 am
Winston Smith
February 28, 2024 9:01 am

Salvatore:

All these medieval torture type ideas for a frail old codger to handle an unknown intruder in the dark.
Too risky for him to implement.
He had the right idea: Stand well back & call: “Stick ’em up or I fire!”
Though he shoulda had a heavier calibre, in semi automatic, that’s all.

He should have used a Glock gun.*
*There’s a chance this phrase of journalistic inarticulation may get forgotten. I hope not.

Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 9:13 am
Top Ender
Top Ender
February 28, 2024 9:13 am

Meanwhile in the Top End:

A man has been killed after he was struck by a car at 100km/h in Darwin.

On Tuesday about 8pm, emergency services responded to reports that a vehicle struck a man along Tiger Brennan Drive.

According to police there was “tension” at the scene with multiple bystanders on-site.

The struck pedestrian died at the scene and the driver was taken to Royal Darwin Hospital with minor injuries.

from the same front page of the Nt News:

Police are “monitoring the situation” after members of a group gathered outside court on Monday threatened to kill former cop Zach Rolfe, a court has heard.

Mr Rolfe is in his second day of giving evidence at an inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, who he fatally shot while on duty in Yuendumu in 2019 before being acquitted on all charges in 2022.

On Tuesday, his barrister Michael Abbott KC told Coroner Elisabeth Armitage about the “disturbing incident” that happened as Mr Rolfe, his partner and his legal team boarded a taxi the previous afternoon.

“As we walked across the road outside the court, the taxi was parked adjacent to the lawn on the other side, a large group of Aborigines began yelling out obscenities and worse still, threats to kill my client,” he said.

“This group became more threatening as we approached them and they tried to block our access to the taxi.

“Moreover, your honour, the obscenities, abuse and threats became louder and the actions of some of those persons constituted assaults on us – one woman attempted to strike me with a sandal as I was trying to get into the taxi.”

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2024 9:14 am

Melbourne anti-Israel activist Laura Allam has been arrested for organising the kidnapping and torture of a man because he worked for a Jew.

“…an extraordinary suppression order relating to her case prevents the Herald Sun from running Ms Allam’s image, referencing some ethnic groups or providing certain detail about her advocacy activities.”

– Herald Sun

More here.

Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 9:15 am
Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 9:19 am

Wowee what a shitshow.

That it is. I watched the Police Commissioner in interviews and press conferences and she is incapable to present appropriate facial expressions. The male police officers around her answering questions from journalists had suitable sombre faces, she cycled from an uneasy smile to a confused expression to what she imagines is a serious face. It was awkward watching her struggle in full glare of publicity. Get her out of there though I don’t suppose that will happen until this case is out of the news.

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2024 9:19 am

Apparently inflation in Argentina is 254%, was that expected?

That’s annual; the monthly rate has decreased since Milei took office.

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2024 9:24 am

Get her out of there though I don’t suppose that will happen until this case is out of the news.

Five years to go to retirement.

She’s a Perrottet appointment, btw.

Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 9:27 am
Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 9:30 am
Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 9:30 am

Roger
Feb 28, 2024 8:28 AM
NSW & VIC peak Muslim bodies reject invitations to premiers’ Iftar dinners:

It’s not only the NSW Police Commissioner who can’t read the room, the premiers thought surely there must be more people they could insult. With the Hamas atrocities in southern Israel still very fresh in people’s memories they could give it a miss this year just to show that they are not taking sides. It serves them right their invitations have been rejected.

The other humiliation for NSW government is the disinvitation for police to take part in the gay Mardi Gras parade. If anyone in government had a grain of sense they would have withdrawn this year and simply said that it’s inappropriate at this time while investigations are in progress.

Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 9:31 am

Perhaps they’re worried about their future.

Gen Z Loves Donald Trump More Than Any Other Age Group

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 9:32 am

Apparently inflation in Argentina is 254%, was that expected?

Pretty good comparatively…

How Poor Can Venezuela Get? | Power Line (26 Feb)

Let’s hear it for socialism! And also for money-printing. Venezuela kept printing currency until it could no longer afford the paper and ink, but how different is that from the path our own government is currently on?

All this became glaringly apparent during an especially precipitous period of the downward spiral, during 2018 and 2019. With annual inflation touching two million per cent, a brick of notes was needed to buy a sandwich. The government ran out of the ink and paper physically needed to print more money.

And that my friends is what Milei is trying to avoid.

Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 9:34 am

Dr. John Campbell with Ros Nealon-Cook

The 4 lighthouse declarations

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2024 9:36 am

If anyone in government had a grain of sense…

…they wouldn’t buy into identity politics.

It only exposes them to being wedged by minority groups.

Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 9:39 am

Muddy
Feb 28, 2024 8:30 AM
The Glass Cliff, huh?

Glass Cliff, Glass Ceiling, Glass Slipper? Surely there is a Fairy Godmother in there somewhere as these corporate Cinderellas always expect to be rescued. Ah yes, the evil stepsisters are all the other aspirants for the top job who are probably more competent and don’t need excuses.

Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 9:41 am
Roger
Roger
February 28, 2024 9:42 am

It only exposes them to being wedged by minority groups.

Which makes them look weak and uninterested in governing for the majority.

Winston Smith
February 28, 2024 9:43 am

Indolent
Feb 28, 2024 8:59 AM
FBI Chooses Stock Image of Well Dressed White Women to Depict Organized Retail Crime
This is an attempt to demonise White people that wouldn’t be tolerated if ANY other race was depicted.

Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 9:46 am

Indolent
Feb 28, 2024 9:15 AM
Nikki Haley is off her trolley.

Nikki Haley Claims Nominating Trump ‘Is Like Suicide for Our Country’

With Nikki Haley attacking Trump the Democrats don’t need to do anything but sit and laugh. Even Newsom has described Nikki in an interview as the best surrogate Democrats have. You would think that somebody on her staff who had seen the interview and told her to cool it. On the other hand she probably knows she is finished with Republicans and is now auditioning for the other side.

Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 9:47 am
Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 9:49 am

Roger
Feb 28, 2024 9:19 AM
Apparently inflation in Argentina is 254%, was that expected?

That’s annual; the monthly rate has decreased since Milei took office.

For decades nobody cared about Argentina and suddenly everything out of there is making news.

Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 9:51 am

Roger
Feb 28, 2024 9:24 AM
Get her out of there though I don’t suppose that will happen until this case is out of the news.

Five years to go to retirement.

She’s a Perrottet appointment, btw.

Matt Kean appointee more likely.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 9:51 am

The guy who won a Darwin Award outside of the Israeli Embassy the other day was a weirdo, but does appear to be hetero. Daniel Greenfield has a bit more on who he was:

The “Airman” Who Set Himself on Fire for Hamas was Antifa Ex-Cult Member (27 Feb)

Who’s the sort of person who would commit suicide in a graphic public way for his politics? Aaron Bushnell was a former leftist cult member who hooked up with anarchist and socialist groups in search of an identity and then killed himself for their approval. He graduated from a cult to a death cult.

I expect the MSM will now go quiet on the subject and he and the stories written about him will’ve never been.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 28, 2024 9:54 am

A man has been killed after he was struck by a car at 100km/h in Darwin.

On Tuesday about 8pm, emergency services responded to reports that a vehicle struck a man along Tiger Brennan Drive.

Apparently the ‘tension’ was because the bloke was pushed into the road, immediately prior to splat.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 28, 2024 9:56 am

The deluded fantasy world of Beau Lamarre-Condon
By Jordan Baker and Sally Rawsthorne
February 28, 2024 — 5.00am

Listen to this article
6 min

Beau Lamarre-Condon often kept quiet about his job as a cop. He’d wanted the world to have a grander view; to see a life on the fringes of luxury and fame. But the gilding has been peeled back in the days since his arrest for alleged double murder, to reveal a troubled fantasist beneath.

Once, he posted a photograph of himself next to a private jet, clad head to toe in white with a Louis Vuitton bag in one hand, and a pilot’s cap in the other. It was a telling image, capturing the conflict between the desired and the real; he was all dressed up in all the trappings of riches, but even at the time, his friends wondered if he ever actually flew on the plane.

He was celebrated for his coming-out story, which led to a meeting with Lady Gaga during her 2014 tour to Australia. But even that hid a bleak reality. Lamarre-Condon threw a note to the singer, saying he’d been inspired by advice she’d given him during her previous trip – that his parents would love him as he was – to reveal his sexuality to them two weeks earlier.

His mother responded with love, he’d told Gaga and newspapers at the time. What he didn’t say was that his father hadn’t. The revelation led to an estrangement between Beau and Raymond Condon that has continued ever since, a source close to the family told this masthead on the condition of anonymity this week.

It was amid this tension, even confusion between the real and desired – Lamarre-Condon’s refusal to face the reality that former Channel Ten presenter Jesse Baird was not interested in him – that he allegedly killed Baird and his new love, flight steward Luke Davies, with his police pistol and then buried their bodies in surfboard bags.

Perhaps it was that same unwillingness to face reality that led to a frenzied attempt to cover his tracks in the days after the alleged murder, which police will allege included sending text messages from Baird’s phone to suggest he was still alive, handing his pistol back to the police station and calling in sick, then driving across greater Sydney in an attempt to hide the bodies.

But the NSW Police Force is facing its own questions about whether their psychometric testing and psychology team failed to pick up red flags strewn through Lamarre-Condon’s highly public pre-policing career.

In his late teens and early 20s, Lamarre-Condon was known for his celebrity blogs. He would get as close to stars as he could, by interviewing them for his websites and persuading them to pose for selfies with him. At the height of the blog craze he was invited to red carpets – most notably at the 2015 Golden Globe Awards – and rubbed shoulders with Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and Harry Styles.

Those who knew Lamarre-Condon say he was fond of exaggerating those encounters, and liked to appear as though he had a relationship with the famous people he saw outside hotels or at the airport. “Backstage chills with the Biebs,” captioned a photo with a bored-looking Justin Bieber in 2014.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 10:00 am

Paging Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Walter Duranty! Please come to nice Mr Lucifer’s office, he wants you to meet someone.

New York Times ‘Journalist’ Accused of Participating in Oct. 7 Jihad Attacks Wins Journalism Award (27 Feb)

The New York Times proudly announced last Monday that it had “won three George Polk awards, including two for its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.” Those prestigious journalism awards went to “Samar Abu Elouf and Yousef Masoud of The Times” for “photojournalism for their photographs of the conflict from inside Gaza, capturing the horrific toll of Israel’s airstrikes on civilians, including the death and injury of many children.” The Times neglected to mention, however, one telling detail: Masoud has been unmasked as a member of Hamas who participated in the Oct. 7 jihad massacres inside Israel.

The Paper of Record shows no sign of firing Masoud or returning the George Polk award he won

Keeping up the great tradition!

Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 10:00 am

Indolent
Feb 28, 2024 9:31 AM
Perhaps they’re worried about their future.

Gen Z Loves Donald Trump More Than Any Other Age Group

My guess is that would be due to the influence of rappers many of whom have come out for Trump.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 10:03 am

Leftists can’t stop lying.

He’s a libertarian and wants minimal government.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-free-market-fundamentalism-of-argentinas-javier-milei

The Free-Market Fundamentalism of Argentina’s Javier Milei
The President-elect, a right-wing populist with authoritarian instincts, has been compared to Donald Trump, but his radical views on the economy set him apart.
By John Cassidy
November 21, 2023

Actually champ, his views are normal and correct.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 10:05 am

“Backstage chills with the Biebs,” captioned a photo with a bored-looking Justin Bieber in 2014.

I am warming to this Justin Beiberlake, whom I have never heard of.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 10:08 am

Milei was sworn in on 10 Dec, 2023.

Here’s a surprisingly well informed, factual article:

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-president-push-bill-penalizing-cenbank-financing-treasury-2024-02-23/

Winston Smith
February 28, 2024 10:09 am

Bruce O’Nuke:

Let’s hear it for socialism! And also for money-printing. Venezuela kept printing currency until it could no longer afford the paper and ink, but how different is that from the path our own government is currently on?

Why is it that the Middle Class in just about every society in the world is suffering?
Fairly simple.
The Wukkas will only displace the Ruling Class if there is an economic disaster of overwhelming proportions.
The Ruling Classes are only ever threatened by the Middle Classes. That is why they are being disempowered. If the Middle Class can be destroyed, the Rulers can sit back and continue to bleed the wukkas dry.
Classic Marxist Class warfare. Read his books.

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2024 10:10 am

…a right-wing populist with authoritarian instincts

right-wing
populist
authoritarian

I say, Milei just scored a trifecta!

Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 10:16 am

Roger
Feb 28, 2024 10:10 AM
…a right-wing populist with authoritarian instincts

right-wing
populist
authoritarian

I say, Milei just scored a trifecta!

Aren’t populist and authoritarian paradoxical? If what you are doing is approved by the majority then you not using unearned or illegitimate power.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 10:16 am

A story I doubt you’ll see on the ABC, of for that matter just about any MSM site.

Israel Heritage Foundation presents Trump with an award for the Abraham Accords (27 Feb)

The Israel Heritage Foundation (IHF) on Monday presented an award to former US President Donald Trump for the Abraham Accords, which his administration brokered in 2020.

The award was presented in the form a menorah and it reads, “This Menorah which represents the eternal light of the world is presented to President Donald J. Trump In honor and celebration of doing what no other man has ever done and that is to make peace between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and the Sudan in the extraordinary Abraham Accords.”

Highly deserved. What’s the chance the Nobel Committee will give this year’s Peace Prize to a Hamas guy? Cynical, who me?

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 10:19 am

A right-wing populist elitist libertarian authoritarian, apparently.

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2024 10:24 am

A right-wing populist elitist libertarian authoritarian, apparently.

I expect a Hitler reference any day now, despite Milei’s fascination with Judaism.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 10:24 am

From Da Hun:

Youth crime Qld: New $627.6m Woodford detention centre to be ready by end of 2026

Work has begun on a new South East Queensland youth detention centre that will feature “more homelike accommodation units” and comes at a cost of about $7.8 million for each of the cells.

We’re not in the club…

Someone is getting rich and it ain’t us.

Well that’s right, we’re not in the club!

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2024 10:32 am

Someone is getting rich and it ain’t us.

Watpac is the principal contractor; presently under Belgian ownership.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 10:33 am

LOL!

Luxury new EV fleet for ASEAN leaders’ travel (Paywallian)

Commonwealth drivers have been instructed to drive taxpayer-funded BMW iX SUV electric vehicles to Melbourne to show-off Labor’s EV fleet.

No one in ASEAN believes in climate fairies except us. So as a way for Albo and Bowen to look like international morons this is just perfect.

Roger
Roger
February 28, 2024 10:46 am

Commonwealth drivers have been instructed to drive taxpayer-funded BMW iX SUV electric vehicles to Melbourne to show-off Labor’s EV fleet.

Base model $140+K.
Sport model $185+K.
Luxury model $233+K.

Which model do you suppose they went with?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 10:52 am

Pretty in pink…

Independent MP’s Bob Katter and Andrew Wilkie don inflatable pig costumes to slam supermarket giant powers (28 Feb)

A pair of independents have raised eyebrows as they roamed the hallways of Parliament House dressed in inflatable pig costumes.

Bob Katter and Andrew Wilkie, doing their best impressions of a hungry pig at a trough filled with cash, did the rounds on Wednesday morning to drum up interest in their latest policy plan.

They want the government to support their plan to reduce the big supermarket giants’ “anti-competitive and predatory” market power by divesting it to 20 per cent within five years.

Do I detect a tad of irony in Katter and Wilkie complaining about troughers? Nah, just my imagination.

will
will
February 28, 2024 10:54 am

Dot
Feb 28, 2024 10:19 AM
A right-wing populist elitist libertarian authoritarian, apparently.

worse!
A right-wing populist elitist free market libertarian authoritarian, who forces people to earn their own money rather than steal it (via governments) from the productive.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2024 10:56 am

Tin eared, tone deaf waffling ol’ windbag, Paul “is wrong, again” Kelly on Goose Morristeen:

Even as a first draft of history, Snoozer Kelly is pretty ordinary.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 28, 2024 11:03 am

Commonwealth drivers have been instructed to drive taxpayer-funded BMW iX SUV electric vehicles

Something went terribly wrong between 1994 and 2024.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2024 11:05 am

Saying the departure of the Virgin CEO was an example of the glass cliff is a bit rich. Virgin was being fattened up by its private equity owners ahead of an expected IPO. Plenty of room for disagreement in that environment.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 11:07 am

Are those things eyes? BMW appears to’ve been taken over by Martians.

chrisl
chrisl
February 28, 2024 11:08 am

Renters in Victoria are being hit hard by investors heading for the exits.
High interest rates, insurance , rates, maintenance were high enough but the straw that broke the camel’s back is … land tax.
Ostensibly put in to help pay off the $31 billion debt the new rates came in on Jan 1 .
The equity in the investment property can now earn 5.5 % and sometimes higher.
Hassle free.
On a personal note I know of a renter in north-west Melbourne whose landlord has sent an eviction notice because they want to do up their property and sell .
And there are no alternative rentals to be had

Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 11:09 am
Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 11:11 am

A right-wing populist elitist free market libertarian authoritarian, who forces people to earn their own money rather than steal it (via governments) from the productive.

Yes!

Those three weeks of December 2023 when he was sworn in as President, the inflation is all his fault now, which suddenly matters all of the sudden.

However, only fascist lunatics actively campaign against high inflation.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 28, 2024 11:13 am

Do I detect a tad of irony in Katter and Wilkie complaining about troughers? Nah, just my imagination.

There is something comically elegant in these two twatting around in the Unserious House of Trough.

Indolent
Indolent
February 28, 2024 11:15 am

Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan

It’s a tale as old as time. A government official takes action. That action benefits his family. And then, when questions are asked, there’s a cover-up. For President Joe Biden, it’s a story about money, influence, and protecting the Biden family brand.

??????? ? – ??? ?????, ??? ????????, ??? ?????

Between 2014 and April 25, 2019, the day Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President, Biden family members received approximately $15 million from foreign entities. It was done through a complex series of transactions involving over 20 different companies. What did the Bidens do? What services did Hunter Biden and his associates provide? What was worth the receipt of $15 million?

Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s business partner, gave us the answer. In his transcribed interview before Congress, he said they were selling “the Brand.” And “the Brand” was Joe Biden. As another one of Hunter Biden’s business partners, Jason Galanis, put it, the Bidens provided the “relationship capital”—the “political access” the brand provided “in the United States and around the world.”

There’s a lot more.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 28, 2024 11:20 am

Me thinks the award winning journalist from the NYT who is accused of participating in the October 7th hamarse attacks will likely wake up in Israel to face court or not wake up at all. I prefer the second option. Curious to know how many of the hamarse have been identified and dealt with. Not enough, but I have faith (unusual for me) in Mossad. The Jews are very patient people.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 28, 2024 11:22 am

Unusual for me to have faith not in Mossad.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 28, 2024 11:24 am

Filled up with 91 fuel at Costco yesterday, 35 cents a litre cheaper than the Caltex near me.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2024 11:29 am

Renters in Victoria are being hit hard by investors heading for the exits.

I would have thought everyone should be heading for the exits in Victoriastan?

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 28, 2024 11:30 am

Costco in Canberra $1.78 a litre yesterday

Nice business model. One bloke running around filling paper towel dispensers etc. The rest of the place – about 20 pumps – all automated and working flat-out.

(No ‘leccy cars anywhere – strange)

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 28, 2024 11:32 am

Unusual for me to have faith not in Mossad.

I do remember the aftermath of the Munich massacre. Operation “Wrath of God?”

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2024 11:33 am

“Filled up with 91 fuel at Costco yesterday, …”
Looksherry.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 28, 2024 11:37 am

Thorpe in a grab for publicity again:

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe says police are not welcome to “wave our flags or march in our parades” as she backed the decision from Mardi Gras organisers to disinvite NSW police following the alleged murders of Sydney couple Luke Davies and Jesse Baird.

“I welcome the decision to keep police out of Mardi Gras, which comes after years of campaigning by the community,” she said in a statement on Wednesday.

“Until police are subjected to real scrutiny and accountability, they won’t be welcome to wave our flags or march in our parades and rallies.

“We need accountability and justice, not more empty apologies and hollow gestures.”

She said there is a “serious problem” with police departments nationwide as she called on Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus to convene his state and territory counterparts to review and strengthen police accountability.

“Far too often we’ve seen cops get off with less than a slap on the wrist for discrimination, brutal acts of violence or even murder,” Senator Thorpe said.

“I extend my condolences and solidarity to those grieving loved ones at this time – I’m fighting with you for justice.”

Oz

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2024 11:37 am

BMW styling has always been … um … polarising. A few hits, plenty of misses. Perhaps JC could ask his dealer over a free cappuccino about the thinking.

shatterzzz
February 28, 2024 11:39 am

Curious to know how many of the hamarse have been identified and dealt with.
Forget where I read it but about 3 weeks ago the identified number (still living) was close to 300 and over 200 of those were in Israeli custody .. Trials have/were suspended until after the invasion is completed ..

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 11:41 am

Haha, California passed a law to remove dams to help the poor widdle salmon…

Klamath Dam Removal: ‘It’s an Environmental Disaster.’ (27 Feb)

It sounded good on paper – at least it did to the bureaucrats agitating for it.

But according to local officials, “it’s an environmental disaster.”

“I’ve been around natural disasters all of my life, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Siskiyou County Supervisor Ray Haupt recently told the Globe. “The river is essentially dead, as is everything in it.”

Haupt said the sediment plume extends 2 miles into the ocean. And he and local residents are witnessing a massive salmon extinction event.

Lefties…

shatterzzz
February 28, 2024 11:42 am

“Until police are subjected to real scrutiny and accountability, they won’t be welcome to wave our flags or march in our parades and rallies.

Chlamydia changed sides ..? Haven’t heard of any Lesbian bikie gangs ……..

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 28, 2024 11:45 am

I’ve been married for 48 years to awoman who still loves me when I’m at my worst. I stated recently that I still don’t know what makes her tick and still surprised by her. I’ve never heard her swear once in all that time. Each week she has a cuppa with an ex-colleague aged 76. The woman was complaining everyone hates her and don’t see her very often. Why? After putting up with her being a pain in the arse off and on for ages. Wifes response, “maybe you shouldn’t be a lady’s front botty”. You could have knocked me down with a feather.

Dot
Dot
February 28, 2024 11:48 am

LOL

PeterM
PeterM
February 28, 2024 11:51 am

Bear & 11:37
Why would JCs dealer know anything about cars?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 28, 2024 11:52 am

Shatterzzz your granddaughter wants a guitar. If you can afford it offer her a term of lessons when she gets one. Much better value for her and the results come much quicker.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 28, 2024 11:53 am

“Until police are subjected to real scrutiny and accountability, they won’t be welcome to wave our flags or march in our parades and rallies.

Greens voters must be SO proud…

Rufus T Firefly
Rufus T Firefly
February 28, 2024 11:54 am

Those imbeciles running the EU:

Von der Crazy, Borrell, Michel, Kaja-(if I had F-16’s I would give ten to Ukraine)-Kallas, Rutte and all the other authoritarian dross, have a great idea.

They are going to impose an “EU Tax”, on top of the national taxes, that the plebs have to endure. Great idea! They could then form an EU Army, not to compete with NATO, ……., oh no, this will be like the CIA/FBI, harassing and arresting the poor bastards who live in the EU fiefedom.
Oh to be a European!
First though, they need to fix the utter debacle, that they cemented into place in 2020.
War Bonds, ……., way to go!

Golly gosh, with such genius involved, who would have thought that the 2020 financial brain fart, would be an epic disaster of Bowen/Albanese proportions.

https://tomluongo.me/2024/02/20/why-war-bonds-are-making-their-return-in-europe/

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2024 12:02 pm

Why would JCs dealer know anything about cars?

Cappuccinos?

Makka
Makka
February 28, 2024 12:03 pm

It’s a start, let’s see who replaces him.

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Disney film president Sean Bailey is leaving, effective immediately.

Bailey was in charge of Disney remakes.

Bailey was responsible for recent bombs like Little Mermaid (2023) and Peter and Wendy.

Disney lost a whopping $1 billion at the box office last year over multiple flops.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 12:03 pm

Ooh, that smarts!

‘Gutless’: Nationals MP launches into expletive-filled tirade at mining magnate Andrew Forrest as pair become embroiled in fiery row over renewables (Sky, 28 Feb)

Nationals MP Llew O’Brien has become embroiled in a shouting match with mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest in a meeting at Parliament House on Tuesday, where Mr O’Brien called Mr Forrest a “f***ing charlatan” and a “f***ing snake oil salesman” after the two got into a row over the impact of transmission lines on farms.

The argument over wind farms and transmission lines to create renewable projects descended into a stare-off between the men, according to multiple Nationals sources, including a witness to the stoush.

One source said both men had called each other “gutless pr***s” after Mr O’Brien criticised comments Mr Forrest had made about the Nationals being out of touch.

Mr Forrest had been briefing the Nationals party room in Canberra about his plans for renewable energy.

My general impression is Twiggy lives in his own private echo chamber, so getting a few home truths from a Nat may well be somewhat of a shock.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2024 12:11 pm

Twiggy might have been better off having morning tea in the Lieboral party room. Even now Lord Waffleworth is no longer there.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2024 12:15 pm

You suspect being aligned with the CCP and the Liars isn’t going to play out well over the medium to long term.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 12:16 pm

How dare you question my awesomeness!

Bureau of Meteorology grilled by Senate over accuracy of weather predictions (Sky News, 28 Feb)

Officials from The Bureau of Meteorology have put up a front when faced with a government grilling.

Appearing before a heated senate estimates hearing, its Chief Executive has defended the work of the Bureau, which is under pressure for its weather predicting capabilities.

The accuracy of the Bureau’s forecasts was called into question, particularly in relation to recent severe and costly weather events in Queensland.

Bureau of Meteorology Chief Executive Dr Andrew Johnson defended his staff, claiming their performance was “fantastic” during the events.

Fantastic forecasting guys! Maybe choose a different word next time but.

Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 12:20 pm

What’s the chance the Nobel Committee will give this year’s Peace Prize to a Hamas guy? Cynical, who me?

Bruce of Newk, I have no doubt whatsoever that the recipient will be that old Pali woman who used to hijack planes in the 70s and who has been invited by our elite idiots to some literary festival where they present books that nobody buys or reads.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 28, 2024 12:25 pm

What Russia & Others Think of Biden’s America – the Culture War

“Some people just cannot fathom that the fake news spear-headed by Victoria Nuland’s sister-in-law at the Institute for the Study of War and never peace; they demonize Putin as they routinely do to anyone they oppose. My father taught me a lesson that you MUST always listen to your opponent because it is a window into his thinking process. I have read Marx not because I believed in what he was saying but to comprehend his thinking process and what led him to the conclusion that he killed more than 200 million people and still counting.

When you listen to Putin’s speech, he focuses on what many perceive as American culture. When we look deeper into American politics, the stats are revealing. They explain why many view the United States as out of control because of these extremely progressive ideas of attributing even pronouns, etc. Indeed, 93% of college professors gave to Biden. Just 7% gave to former President Donald Trump. That explains why we all know that a college education today may not be so desirable. The goal seems to indoctrinate our children to accept the political philosophies being taught in schools even though they have a proven track record of failure – consistently.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/what-russia-others-think-of-bidens-america-the-culture-war/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 12:27 pm

Nationals MP Llew O’Brien has become embroiled in a shouting match with mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest in a meeting at Parliament House on Tuesday, where Mr O’Brien called Mr Forrest a “f***ing charlatan” and a “f***ing snake oil salesman” after the two got into a row over the impact of transmission lines on farms.

Why are the best scenes behind closed doors? It would have been excellent to have seen some reaction at last to the subsidies gobbling pig.

Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 12:28 pm

Bureau of Meteorology Chief Executive Dr Andrew Johnson defended his staff, claiming their performance was “fantastic” during the events.

Fantastic forecasting guys! Maybe choose a different word next time but.

I think he may have meant that his staff are fantasists.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 12:31 pm

Blue jeans are killing the planet.

New dyeing method could help jeans shrink toxic problem (Phys.org, 27 Feb)

Can the multi-billion-dollar denim industry keep producing blue jeans in every shape, size and silhouette, while shrinking oversized levels of hazardous pollution? Research published Tuesday suggests a new dye could be a step in the right direction.

Scientists have been searching for ways to make a more sustainable form of indigo, used for centuries to colour textiles, but which in its modern synthetic form needs toxic chemicals, large quantities of water and is linked to substantial carbon dioxide emissions.

Researchers suggest that, if indican were to replace indigo to dye the nearly four billion jeans traded annually, there would be a significant reduction in production of toxic waste and global CO2 emissions.

Maybe we should just go back to wearing loin cloths.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 28, 2024 12:37 pm

After her podcast bombed with the kool kidz, Frank Elly returns to her roots (no pun intended) with a new podcast Queerly Yours on the ALPBC Listen app. Proving, yet again, no one really leaves the staff co-op.

shatterzzz
February 28, 2024 12:44 pm

Shatterzzz your granddaughter wants a guitar. If you can afford it offer her a term of lessons when she gets one. Much better value for her and the results come much quicker.

Being 5 and her burfday not until July I’m guessin’ she’ll have moved on by then .. LOL!

Crossie
Crossie
February 28, 2024 12:54 pm

Maybe we should just go back to wearing loin cloths.

And grass skirts and coconut shell bras for the ladies?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 12:54 pm

Frank Elly returns to her roots

Had to look that up Bear since it sounded like Bee-grade satire. Ain’t! But it’s called Yours Queerly not vice um versa. Frank is living up to they/them’s name it seems.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 28, 2024 12:54 pm

My general impression is Twiggy lives in his own private echo chamber, so getting a few home truths from a Nat may well be somewhat of a shock.

The Twigster is informed by the same motley of consultants, gurus, spivs, and experts that inspire Australian government to lay out bins of OPM to welcome in the glorious world-class Green Hydrogen powerhouse sustainable future strategy.

With wings lifted by praise-singers, he brooks no opposition from stupid little people standing in the way of the river of subsidy.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 28, 2024 1:08 pm

A young lieutenant was passed by a private, who failed to salute. The lieutenant called him back, and said sternly: “You did not salute me. For this you will immediately salute two hundred times.”

At this moment the General came up. “What’s all this?” he exclaimed, seeing the poor private about to begin. The lieutenant explained. “This ignoramus failed to salute me, and as a punishment, I am making him salute two hundred times.” “Quite right,” replied the General, smiling. “But do not forget, sir, that upon each occasion you are to salute in return.”

Winston Smith
February 28, 2024 1:09 pm

Indolent:

More women are psychopaths than previously thought, expert claims – these are the 7 key signs to look out for

‘Psychopaths are driven by a need to have power over and control other people via whatever resources they have available to them,’ he told MailOnline.

Oh, yes.

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

Winston Smith
February 28, 2024 1:14 pm

GreyRanga

Feb 28, 2024 11:24 AM
Filled up with 91 fuel at Costco yesterday, 35 cents a litre cheaper than the Caltex near me.

Diesel;
$2.35.7 at the Indian place.
$2.09.7 at the Puma place.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 28, 2024 1:19 pm

Winston Smith Feb 28, 2024 9:01 AM
He should have used a Glock gun.*

Forget which masthead, prolly the SMH, in an early report had Mr. Beau Lolly-Condom dispatching the “couple” with his police-issue Glock revolver.

Alamak!
Alamak!
February 28, 2024 1:19 pm

My general impression is Twiggy lives in his own private echo chamber, so getting a few home truths from a Nat may well be somewhat of a shock.

Strange, the recent new policy of Nats to embrace rooftop solar in the regions with taxpayer subsidies (like in the inner cities) should have been an idea both could agree & work together on. No green hydrogen, tho.

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 28, 2024 1:21 pm

And grass skirts and coconut shell bras for the ladies?

Nah. Nuthin.

Makka
Makka
February 28, 2024 1:23 pm

There are also raised eyebrows among some in government that the prime minister intends to spend election night in Sydney at the gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, rather than in Melbourne for the vote count and aftermath

Do it Albo. And get some nice pics with the gang at the gay indigenous float while at it. A real man of the people, is Handsome Boy.

Rabz
February 28, 2024 1:28 pm

Katter and Wilkie roamed the hallways of Parliament House dressed in inflatable pig costumes

Presumably oinking “four legs good, two legs bad” at deafening volume.

Someone send the pair of irredeemable idiots a copy of Animal Farm.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 28, 2024 1:31 pm

Katter & Wilkie’s message is being lost in the mockery of their fancy dress as piggies.
Were a referendum to be held on breaking up Big Supermarket into entities no larger than 20% of the current company, it may be very revealing to see how the vote panned out.

Alamak!
Alamak!
February 28, 2024 1:32 pm

the “saviour effect”, “whereby women are seen as good leaders in times of crisis, but are replaced once things even out”

What a steaming load of horse sh*t.

Hrdlicka, like the Optus CEO, failed under pressure to deliver the few, key things she was supposed to. She completely failed to get onside with Labor and was blindsided or worse on the QATAR route mess. She also failed to build the case for floating Virgin with investors and funds in Oz – not unlinked to the first failure as Gummint support in aviation biz is the cornerstone of survival & making profits.

I like the term “glass cliff” … its almost like every women in corporate life is entitled to a full explanation of why she failed and its 100% due to being female. And yet there are true female winners who don’t need this … like Gina.

Alamak!
Alamak!
February 28, 2024 1:33 pm

Do it Albo. And get some nice pics with the gang at the gay indigenous float while at it. A real man of the people, is Handsome Boy.

Gaydar is beeping loudly on this one. How many pairs of assless chaps does a Labor leader own?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
February 28, 2024 1:41 pm

The guy is mad. Vernacular we’d use in Australia is he’s a good c*nt.

Whistlindiesel:

I found the nicest square body pickup on earth, and now I’m going to abuse it until it completely falls apart. Today I will be pulling millions of pounds and working on my tuck to… maintain it….

Squarebody Durability Test #1

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 28, 2024 1:48 pm

Ho Chi Minns – very good!
How about calling Tay Tay’s boyfriend The Incredible Hulce?

Alamak!
Alamak!
February 28, 2024 1:51 pm

A pair of independents have raised eyebrows as they roamed the hallways of Parliament House dressed in inflatable pig costumes.

How would they stand out from the crowd in these costumes.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 1:51 pm

breaking up Big Supermarket

It’s all an Albo squirrel, since he’s being roasted over the cost of living.

There’s a largish IGA in walking distance from the Cafe, they’re significantly pricier than Coles 5km down the road, which is where I mostly shop. I can easily save twenty bucks by driving there.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 28, 2024 2:02 pm

It’s all an Albo squirrel, since he’s being roasted over the cost of living.

Yep. Supermarkets aren’t a high margin business and what does Albo think his mate Bowen’s high energy prices have done to the cost of air con, lighting and refrigeration?
Total distraction. The things that have really gone up are anything to do with government, directly or indirectly.

will
will
February 28, 2024 2:05 pm

I need to get me one of them “Glock revolvers”

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 28, 2024 2:08 pm

Those giant pink fart-sacks that Katter & Wilkie are strolling around in: It really suits Wilkie, he should wear it often.
Katter is difficult to recognise (smart enough to keep his dial away from the camera)

They look like a pair of those large beach toys that stand up again when you knock them over.

will
will
February 28, 2024 2:11 pm

A pair of independents have raised eyebrows as they roamed the hallways of Parliament House dressed in inflatable pig costumes.

Even with this I doubt we have yet to reach peak stupid

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 28, 2024 2:20 pm

I need to get me one of them “Glock revolvers”

With a scope.

Marty
Marty
February 28, 2024 2:22 pm

What is wrong with the NSW Police? A report in the SMH has Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald, when talking about the hunt for the bodies of the two blokes recently murdered by the odd cop, as saying ““He did take the bodies of the two young boys to the original site that we were searching on the Monday…”
They were not young boys FFS. They were grown men aged 26 and 29!

Pogria
Pogria
February 28, 2024 2:30 pm

I want one of those revolver type glock guns. I’m told they break like a shot-rifle so you can’t shoot yourself when you fold it in half, and stick it down your pants.

Pogria
Pogria
February 28, 2024 2:33 pm

A 77-year-old man was shot inside a law firm building in Sydney’s city centre on Wednesday afternoon.

The man was shot in the groin by another man, who is also reportedly in his 70s.

Geezer Gunfight.
Any of our “older” Cats been in Sydney today? hmmmmm?

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 28, 2024 2:47 pm

Pogria
Feb 28, 2024 2:33 PM
“A 77-year-old man was shot inside a law firm building in Sydney’s city centre on Wednesday afternoon.

The man was shot in the groin by another man, who is also reportedly in his 70s. ”

Both were Senior Partners in the Law Firm arguing over their partnership monies. Lol.

bons
bons
February 28, 2024 2:52 pm

It was my local member, who I always considered to be a bit of a vacant space, who gave Forrest the serve yesterday.

Unfortunately having quit LNP over their refusal to oppose net zero he has no future. He is now a National. I have no idea how that works.

He is shaping up as a good operator despite not knowing how to spell Lew.

Pogria
Pogria
February 28, 2024 2:54 pm

JR,
that is indeed funny!

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
February 28, 2024 2:57 pm

From a post by Blackball way up fred…

“Can you imagine (Defence Force chief) Angus Campbell not attending an Anzac service?” Mr Roberts said.

Yes I can.

The insipid, woke, quisling (possibly gay), great streak of pelican shit would easily miss Anzac Day because it does not fit his agenda of appeasment and non-aggression because fighting a war from a desk is the way to do it. We shouldn’t honour those who have gone into battle representing their country, many never to return.

And the warriors who faced the enemy will be called to account by the insipid quislings because they didn’t say “can we have a chat about this?” as they faced the AK47.

Sending dog handlers to re-education camps so they can teach their dogs to be sensitive and not growl at the Taliban? FMD.

Dot summed it up way up fred….

If you don’t intend on winning a war, do not deploy.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 28, 2024 3:08 pm

Pogria, is that a glock in your pants or are you just pleased to see me.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 28, 2024 3:13 pm

Ding dong. Is that Angus Camp bell. Bending over for the enemy. How did this tosspot ever pass basic training?

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