Ah got it. I forgot that the J word is haram, so I’ll repeat my reply: Eyrie – Thanks I…
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Some funny stuff going on on the blog, my reply to you vanished, and on repeating it has now gone…
Zulu, Gerald Ridsdale’s room mate.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/piece-of-crap-paul-bongiorno-bags-veterans-for-not-being-grateful-enough.html Sorry, Paul who?
BoN, I get back to you after I’ve read it all the way through but it isn’t coming across as…
In the national Parliament they are slapping each other on the back for being aware of sexual assaults, particularly of uni students. It looks like theatre.
Meanwhile in the US the illegal aliens are raping and killing students, but you won’t see the left here saying much about it, or much about what happened in Israel on October 7th. Down the memory hole and let’s hear it for the Israel bashers instead.
Hahaha – lovely darts Mrs GreyRanga @ 11:45am
I’ve been waiting in hope they would re-introduce the 5 series wagon, and they have; the only EV model is now available in Australia. Petrol and other engine configs are available in Europe and the US, though.
I reckon it’s the best-looking car too. There was a story about wagons about a year ago saying that because they’re longer than sedans, designers have more scope for creating more attractive designs. I’d rather be carless than buy an SUV, except for this one, which retails for 750 biggies, and that’s not going to happen.
Wonder what the premium would be to insure a $750,000 car.
A nice looking station wagon is the top of the line Mazda 6 wagon. Comes with turbo 2.5 litre 4 cylinder. Plenty of grunt, probably more reliable in the longer term than the over engineered Kraut garbage and way cheaper. About $60,000.
JC
Feb 28, 2024 3:14 PM
Try this instead. A snip at ~$400k +options.
https://www.bentleymotors.com/en/models/bentayga.html
Yeah, Mazda is the wagon of choice used for the Sydney Mardi Gras floats.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/majority-of-americans-now-back-trump-style-border-wall-poll-5595339?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&src_src=partner&src_cmp=ZeroHedge
LOL. Speedbox. That’s a living room on wheels.
BMW are fcking arseholes. About 5 years ago, BMW Australia removed the regular 5 series wagon from the line-up, claiming the 5 series wagon was no longer popular as people were only buying their SUVs. It was retailing then at around 145K. The EV version is now around 214,000. Just dicks.
I hate SUVs. Just can’t stand them except that one.
Sky News Daytime gang up on Perin Davey of the Nats. Not a good look for Sky, so often tending to be a bit left while pretending to be fair and balanced.
Meanwhile, Craig Kelly to join One Nation. No surprise there after his treatment.
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.
Love the “out there” Nats who call a spade a spade – or, in this case, an “f—ing charlatan”!!!!
Trump thrashes Haley in Michigan.
Hamas has conquered London’s Big Ben
I just wish those idiot lefties would get this through their tiny brains. It’s not as if they’re even trying to hide it!
JC
Feb 28, 2024 3:14 PM
Try this instead. A snip at ~$400k +options.
https://www.bentleymotors.com/en/models/bentayga.html
IMO the Bentayga range is just NOT a classic Bentley. A friend has what I call “a big Bentley) – I think a 2017 model- a big sedan. It is ALL luxury and class – a joy to ride in.
Years ago he and his wife took us for lunch at a northern beaches restaurant and, gentleman that he is, he jumped out of the car opposite the place to open my rear car door. I think the patrons hanging out to the window of the restaurant thought he was the chauffeur! What a hoot! What a car. That ride will stay in my memory.
So Putin and Hamas are going to divide Europe up between them?
Hiden appears to be scoring this sort of result in the primaries. If it continues, wouldn’t it mean it’s going to be next to impossible to get rid of him?
Of course. Bentley and Rolls sedans are meant to be driven by chauffeurs. 🙂
Attorney General Ken Paxton
@KenPaxtonTX
HUGE WIN: We Just Secured A Win On The Case Challenging $1.7 Trillion Federal Funding Bill Passed Unconstitutionally With Less Than Half of U.S. Congress Physically Present Congress acted egregiously by passing the largest spending bill in U.S. history with fewer than half the members of the House bothering to do their jobs, show up, and vote in person. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi abused proxy voting under the pretext of COVID-19 to pass this law, then Biden signed it, knowing they violated the Constitution. This was a stunning violation of the rule of law. I am relieved the Court upheld the Constitution.
Referring to this case from last year –
Congress’s $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill And Unconstitutional Proxy Voting Go On Trial In Texas
Julia ??
@Jules31415
Schumer claims he’s “so, so shaken” by what he’s seen at the Ukrainian border, then attacks Speaker Johnson for wanting to protect OUR border before sending more money to Ukraine
It seems that any genuine scientific enquiry will generate cries of “racism”. Only woke mumbo jumbo will do.
Genetics Study Spurs Cries of Racism
Comment below a Trump/Michigsn story.
General Red High Heels Morrison was in a position to influence Army promotions for years. It is a safe bet that many of the current high-ranking officers received support from him, and are supporters of him.
It will take years to clear the useless officers from high-ranking positions, The fastest way is to ensure that only Navy and AirForce officers get high level HQADF positions, (on the dubious assumption that those services have not also been infected).
Grey Ranga,
I got a Hello Kitty Glock on my rari!
Poverty and Migration Explained for Visual Learners (video)
Just over 6 minutes long –
https://youtu.be/l6tSqGCfoCI
JC
Feb 28, 2024 3:53 PM
Of course. Bentley and Rolls sedans are meant to be driven by chauffeurs.
Well yeah, which is why the Bentley Bentayga is so cool. You can drive it yourself and the fact you can afford it in the first place, implies you have a chauffeur for your other Bentley. Simples!
The Boomer version of bum fights.
One step removed from driving around in a Volkswagen Beetle.
Pogria, you reminded of when my son brought a Gibson ES-335 hollow body guitar. He had it on his bed in the case and when his mates came round to look at it he opens the case to find I’d put a Hello Kitty Ukelele in it.
The senate president has slammed the behaviour of independent senator Lidia Thorpe as “appalling” after she forced the chamber to adjourn early on Tuesday night.
Senator Thorpe repeatedly interjected, disobeyed orders and claimed the acting deputy president was asleep in her chair during the adjournment speeches.
A row broke out about 8.30pm after Senator Thorpe repeatedly interrupted Labor senator Helen Polley in a bid to make a speech about an Indigenous mother and son.
Both Labor and Liberal senators alike tried to restore order before Senator Thorpe accused acting deputy president Louise Pratt of being “asleep in the chair (while) I have a mother who lost her son to your system”.
Senator Pratt repeatedly asked Senator Thorpe to sit down and come to order, telling her to “stop interjecting”.
The row had begun over confusion about who was speaking and for how long. It descended into terse words and behaviour not in line with the standing orders.
President Sue Lines eventually entered the chamber and attempted to take control, telling Senator Polley to continue speaking.
Senator Thorpe would not accept the ruling and continued to interject, prompting Senator Lines to order Senator Thorpe no longer be heard before eventually adjourning the Senate early.
While the Speaker of the House of Representatives has the power to order a member to leave the chamber under the standing orders, there is no similar rule in the Senate.
Instead, Senator Lines ordered: “Senator Thorpe, you will no longer be heard.”
“Have you made that ruling,” Senator Thorpe replied.
“Are you telling me that I can’t be heard? Because I want to know. Is that right? Is that what’s happening?”
Despite the order, Senator Thorpe continued to read a statement from Donna Kerr, whose son Josh – Senator Thorpe’s cousin – died in custody.
Senator Thorpe’s office said Ms Kerr had been watching the proceedings live after the inquest into Mr Kerr’s death ended last week.
“I’m not going to leave this chamber,” Senator Thorpe said despite having been told to resume her seat.
Murray Watt eventually moved for the Senate to adjourn, which the Senate agreed to.
Addressing the senate before question time on Wednesday, Senator Lines described the behaviour as “appalling”.
“It is never in order to yell at the chair or yell over the chair when the chair is attempting to maintain order,” she said.
“It is never in order to yell at other senators.
“Senators will not receive the call while they persist in disorderly conduct.”
Senator Lines reminded her colleagues they needed to be responsible for their own actions in the chamber.
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher on Wednesday morning denied that Senator Pratt was asleep in the chair and slammed Senator Thorpe’s conduct as unparliamentary.
“I’ve tried to reach out to her and speak to her about that to listen to her concerns. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to do that,” Senator Gallagher said.
“Senator Pratt was doing a very difficult job trying to maintain appropriate conduct in the chamber. I don’t accept Senator Thorpe’s version of that.”
BOM keeps piling up their so-called scaremongering predictions. Not able to predict the temperature for a few days in advance yet they have just informed Sydney that they will have more heatwaves in 2050.
Rabz the whole thing and sell off the parts.
Wow never thought I’d cite Reddit but it is current year.
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1b0w40j/the_death_in_custody_of_my_son_joshua_kerr/
The not very nice truth is-
-He was in custody because he committed violent crimes and was a danger to the public.
-he died because he chose to take advantage of a leave of absence from custody to obtain and then consume stupid amounts of meth.
-he was in that position because of his own terrible choices and given he was in care before he was a teenager, its probably fair to say due to the failure of his parents to do their jobs.
His mum can rail against the system now, but where was she when her child needed caring for? How did he end up on the drugs to begin with? Was there ever a point in his no doubt repeated trips to the children’s court where she thought ‘my son is on the wrong path, he’s hurting innocent people, I’d better step in actually parent him before he throws his life away?’ My guess is no, because being a good parent is a much harder and more thankless task than blaming the system.
Any parent who actually cares about their kids and wants a better life for them would be well advised to reflect on stories like this and focus not on avoiding deaths in custody but giving their kids the care and attention necessary to avoid them ever being in custody to begin with. Because at at the end of the day inquests come and go, but other than family members and a few professional activists, the overwhelming public reaction to stories like this is just relief that noone else is going to be a victim of this guy’s offending and that the last sum of taxpayers money that will need to be spent on him will be the coronial inquest. If he was going to end his life through an act of criminal stupidity, far better that he do it this way rather than driving a car at speed into an innocent person in the middle of meth induced psychosis, that would be an actual tragedy.
I sometimes wonder if people who try and beat this sort of thing into an issue of public concern to campaign for reform (which always ends up boiling down to ‘we need to let out more violent criminals earlier so they kill themselves in the community rather than behind bars’) actually appreciate how totally the average member of the public doesn’t give a shit about this sort of death. The average person’s only real takeaway from this story is ‘violent methhead no longer a burden on the taxpayer, no innocent persons hurt.’
Oh noes! The catastrophists are beside themselves. The “catastrophic” weather forecast today for the Wimmera region in western Victoria hasn’t resulted in any catastrophes, even though the temperature in Horsham peaked at 40C and the wind speed reached 30 knots/50kmh.
And the Bureau of Mythology’s prediction of 37C in Melbourne has fallen short – 35C.
So much for the summer that never was – a dreadful disappointment for the athiests who had been relying on the weather to validate their new post-Christian animist religion.
Police will be allowed to march during the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade on Saturday – but not in their uniforms.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb announced the change on Wednesday afternoon while also revealing that officers will not wear their uniforms during the event ‘in consideration of current sensitivities’.
Apparently not in a group either.
“Everybody Josh met, he touched.”
Some he touched more violently than others, what with the aggravated car jacking and driving a stolen front end-loader into traffic whilst high on meth.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-01/front-end-loader-oncoming-traffic-jail-joshua-kerr/5360308
Keep in mind he set his own cell on fire before he died.
You would see better behaviour in an average suburban stripclub than the Australian Senate.
How touching.
Must not cause offense to the queers and freaks, But who gives a sh*t what the Jews think – Free Palestine!
I hope this costs Democrats very dearly at the elections in November. I hope they not only lose the presidency but also the Senate and the House.
Huh? Suburban strip clubs? 😮
H B Bear
Feb 28, 2024 4:22 PM
Bentley Bentayga. One step removed from driving around in a Volkswagen Beetle.
You take that back. Philistine.
(gasping for air)
Boambee John.
Nope, it’s easy.
Just sack the bloody lot. Wasn’t it Australia at the start of WW2 that did that?
Things are bound to get better when Lidia Thorpe is no longer there. How long now before her term is over? Hopefully she will not get enough votes to be re-elected.
Monthly CPI indicator rose 3.4 per cent in the year to January 2024
https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/monthly-cpi-indicator-rose-34-cent-year-january-2024#:~:text=The%20monthly%20Consumer%20Price%20Index%20%28CPI%29%20indicator%20rose,data%20from%20the%20Australian%20Bureau%20of%20Statistics%20%28ABS%29
Hard to believe that the CPI represents Inflation………………………
Priorities, priorities. Do the gays vote Labor at the same rate as the muslims?
I understand that an incoming president can retire as many top brass as he wants and appoint his own. Last time Trump listened to advisors who led him astray and left Obama’s people in place. Next time I hope he goes scorched earth on Pentagon.
I have the solution to the woke mind viruses.
1. I learn necromancy.
2. I bring back Andy Sidaris from the afterlife.
3. … ?
4. PROFIT!!! We get bullets, babes and bombs.
Seems legit.
http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2019/09/savage-beach-andy-sidaris-1989-review.html
_-_-_-_
“A couple of sweet angels of mercy who just happen to be armed for combat.” / “Even Mother Teresa has her dark side.” In the words of writer/director Andy Sidaris “You can’t not like beautiful women and explosions, if you don’t, then you’re a Communist” …ah, the 1980s! When he wasn’t chewing on his tongue, lodged so firmly in his cheek, Sidaris was making movies in the ‘Skin-emax’ style, that is: guns, babes, and all sorts of shit blowing up somewhere sunny. The fourth entry in Andy Sidaris’ twelve-strong ‘L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies’ series features the final on-screen team up for arse-kicking agents Donna and Taryn, and sees the zesty duo crash land in the middle of a hunt for missing gold on a remote Pacific island…
Crossie:
I hope so as well, but there is a very real chance the election will be stolen again.
After that, I have no idea what the US voters will do.
I understand that an incoming president can retire as many top brass as he wants and appoint his own.
US military officers serve “at the pleasure of the President”.
Tom – You must be mistaken, it was a summer of hell not seen since the apocalypse.
Major metros notch some of their hottest summers ever recorded (Sky News mainpage headline today)
It was hot enough to melt spring steel. Tungsten! I believe it because Sky News meteorologists told me, which is weird since it seemed cooler than usual here at the Cafe
The decision of the Qld Supreme Court may be rocking the foundations of medical control and certainty. I certainly hope so.
I am thinking today of all those Aussies who accepted a vaccination they dreaded in order to retain their jobs, their acceptance within their families, and their very sustenance.
Those of us who were not at the mercy of employers, who may have had alternative living arrangements outside the cities and who had sympathetic families and friends, were very lucky indeed.
Many others accepted vaccination willingly, believing the medical advice, as they had done all of their lives. Not everyone is as obsessive about evidence as many of us Cats. It was a terrible betrayal by the medical profession – although many accepted the advice of the TGA as they have done for most of their medical careers. Even so – the norm of “informed consent” was appallingly abandoned. You can understand a little girlie in a pharmacy administering these inoculations without the proper procedure – but GPs? Shocking.
BTW I have probably mentioned this (& forgive me if I have) but during recent visits the GPs (& two specialists) – all except one have studiously ignored my reference to Covid and long term effects of the infection or the vax. They simply act as though I have not said a word! Only one – a GP – in response to my comment on how the body hates this virus – mumbled “well, it isn’t natural…”
How the authorities, and those who had so much control over our health and wellbeing, have betrayed that trust! It has significantly affected my relations with medical practitioners – something that cannot be recovered.
NYC Trump’s Case is a Warning – Get the Hell Out of NYC
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/nyc-trumps-case-is-a-warning-get-the-hell-out-of-nyc/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Salman is being honest. Pali supporters do not see the barbarism of Hamas AND their Gazan supporters as wanton slaughter. Even burning babies alive and dancing for joy while doing so is not an act of savagery and murder. It’s resistance. Palis are ever the victims.
That visceral emotion he’s speaking of is every moslem’s hatred of the west and Christian based societies. Us in other words.
Tucker Carlson received legal counsel warning he could be arrested for interviewing Putin
This looks like the Argentinian central bank is trying to $&@# Milei over.
https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/money-supply-m1
https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/money-supply-m0
“He’s The One Behind Everything” – Victor Davis Hanson
Let’s wait and see what Marty has to say shall we?
I don’t think so, Dot. Milei appointed a new head of the Argie bank back in Dec 23.
Glenn Greenwald
Why Nikki Haley—After Home State Catastrophe—Refuses to Quit
Is there even any doubt about this?
Back in the early 90s, Argentina was on its last legs : in fact all of Sth America was. US Treasury Secretary Brady instituted a plan to wrap a US Treasury guarantee around the continents external debt.
Argentina began to come back from the abyss.
WSJ reported that Uncle George bought a shit load of warehouses around the ports close to Buenos Aries. He bought them at distressed value and a couple of years later offloaded the holding making $350 million. That was real money then.
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
I don’t think people appreciate what a scandal this is. People talk about “Putin gave an interview to Tucker but not CNN” but here the CIA gave an exclusive invite to the NYT to enter top secret CIA bases so NYT could pen a funding pitch for them
Would the CIA let Tucker in?
The Bee
Police Warn Women Not To Jog Within 2,000 Miles Of An Open Border
BoN its only seems cooler coz like the frog, you’ve got used to the boiling.
Host Goes Quiet as His Woke Question for Jerry Seinfeld Backfires
The BS started in October.
Bausili hasn’t been confirmed by the Argentine Senate – it’s almost March 2023.
I think this why Milei is seeking to legislate the end of monetisation of debt.
https://www.bcra.gob.ar/Institucional/Autoridades_Detalle_i.asp?Nombre=Santiago%20Bausili&PrevPage=Estruc
I looked in English.
Wasn’t this posted before? Also, Chip Le Grande. Come on, man!
The Argie ETF, priced in US Dollars and traded on the NYSE, is holding up nicely, Dot.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ARGT?.tsrc=fin-srch
Real estate is seriously freaking cheap there too at the moment. Approx 1300 mortgages were made in 2023. ~33,000 homes/apartments were sold and had to be for US Dollars
.https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/latin-america/argentina/price-history
“GreyRanga
Feb 28, 2024 4:29 PM
Pogria, you reminded of when my son brought a Gibson ES-335 hollow body guitar. He had it on his bed in the case and when his mates came round to look at it he opens the case to find I’d put a Hello Kitty Ukelele in it.”
bwahahahahah!. I can picture the look on his and his mates faces. 😀
Imagine how it could have performed if they actually confirmed the Argie CB head and didn’t start white anting Milei in October 2023.
Dot
There was a reason for that. The previous government was financing the large deficit by printing money. He only came into power in early December. It took time to implement his polices of closing down departments, mass firings, cutting massive spending and bringing the budget to balance.
police were called to the death of Andrew Kingston. I’m guessing unusual circumstances but not as the article says, suspicious ones.
“To defend mass slaughter, abduction, rape of young girls at gunpoint as their families were forced to watch, the carnage at a dance festival, as resistance … is difficult to comprehend,” ECAJ co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said.
Evil always is “difficult to comprehend”.
Comprehension may fail. But retribution must not.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say he was white anted.
Okay, okay . You win. He was fcked. Happy now?
JC
Feb 28, 2024 3:51 PM
MICHIGAN RESULTS: TONIGHT!
TRUMP 68% HALEY 27%
BIDEN 81%
All of haley’s votes are demorats.
The plan for biden is to cheat/killTrump/win and then pass on to cackles.
Cronkite
What do think is the limit of the cheating threshold beyond which they can’t go past? I suspect it’s 5%, as any more and the alarm goes off.
No, the US.
When the position of Chief of Staff became vacant n 1939, FDR passed over some 400 officers higher on the seniority list, and appointed Marshall as Chief of Staff.
An attempt was made in Australia by a bunch of unhappy generals (the “Revolt of the Generals”) to retire every officer over the age of 50, and put younger officers in their place. It collapsed for lack of support.
Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) president Adel Salman
Hamas has come out and stated Israel is only the beginning. Salman said Oct 7 was legitimate resistance. Islam doesn’t resist, it is always the aggressor albeit when its population is small, that aggression takes the form of whiny victimhood which always sucks the lefties in.
The attempt in Australia was in 1942, not a good time to propose such a change.
From Bolta, at the Hun. He’s been visiting the massacre sites of October 7th.
TIME FOR A SONG:
Who can it be knocking at my door?
Go ‘way, don’t come ’round here no more
Can’t you see that it’s late at night?
I’m very tired and I’m not feeling right
All I wish is to be alone
Stay away, don’t you invade my home
Best off if you hang outside
Don’t come in, I’ll only run and hide
Who can it be now?
Who can it be now?
Who can it be now?
Who can it be now?
AND NOW:
Activist known to MPs charged with kidnapping-related offences
The Melbourne Magistrates’ Court has imposed a wide suppression order on the case of a woman charged with kidnapping and torture-related charges.
By JOHN FERGUSON
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
and ANGUS MCINTYRE
JOURNALIST
UPDATED 5:33PM FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Police have rushed through a suppression order to keep secret the identity of a woman charged with kidnapping and torture-related charges.
The woman, who is active in Middle-East affairs, is known to politicians and close to the arts industry figure Clementine Ford.
The person has been accused of serious crimes which police allege were committed because the victim worked for a person with Middle-Eastern heritage.
The accused has met with several MPs and has exchanged social media posts with a well-known Australian.
The Melbourne Magistrates’ Court has imposed a wide suppression order on the case.
The charges have rocked the accused’s friendship circle but the suppression order prevents the name being published or any other information that might identify the accused.
The alleged incident, involving a 31-year-old male victim, occurred in Melbourne’s west on February 16.
“It’s alleged a man was pulled from a car near the intersection of Gladstone and Cleveland streets about 9.30pm,’’ police said in a statement released to the Herald Sun.
“He was then allegedly placed in another car and assaulted and robbed before being released in Braybrook.”
Two people have been charged with the alleged kidnapping, with both facing a series of kidnap and assault charges.
The pair have been remanded to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on May 31.
One of the MPs known to the accused declined to comment.
“It would be inappropriate to comment as this relates to a matter that may soon be before a court,’’ the MP said.
Oz
Yep. The fact the ETF held up to me signals they knew the old regime has been pulling some “destroy the joint” BS on leaving office.
A promising footballer of the Left.
How quaint.
What do think is the limit of the cheating threshold beyond which they can’t go past? I suspect it’s 5%, as any more and the alarm goes off.
Have you been following the charges against Trump: these bastards can do and say what they want; everything is on the table. If fani and her stud get off Trump is done.
Why did the police request a suppression order?
The real crime is insinuating that Clementine Forward is an artist or can begat anything beautiful.*
I am a good guesser.
I am guessing that Red Symonds may be called in to steal their thunder.
*Lets hope clammy’s kid turns out like a chad nerd such as Henry Cavill.
Magistracy and police protecting their friends.
The charges will get overturned .
I thought that woman’s name was mentioned and initially they were just trying to stop images.
Laura Allam is her name.
This Sydney murder thing has a very Rene Rivkin harbour boat cruise feel about it.
Which means Richo can’t be far away.
Google’s AI Reboots The Titanic
About 18 years later they got their purge when the Pentropic reorganisation smashed decades of tradition (unit identities) and pineapple-probed many WWII-era officers who had re-enlisted post-war to share their experience. The Duntroon Royal Class triumphed. Arguably, the militia/Reserve has never recovered.
We had a journo here who, writing about the current police “buyback” (cough, cough) of firearms said one person had surrendered a “handgun revolver”.
Punctuation fail! 🙁
Three cheers for the belt fed revolver I am tinkering with in my shed.
israellycool website. (Nuff sed).
Old commenter IT was big on the theme that the First World War broke Australia.
A surprisingly 90% woke free article from 2018 on the matter in the SMH:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/broken-from-the-inside-how-four-devastating-years-are-still-shaping-us-20181105-p50e2s.html
I saw on the news that Customs in Melbourne busted a handful of blokes (some were cargo dock workers etc) and confiscated a few pallets of illegal tobacco. They were Manchesters, which the Lebos sell. Usually $20 for a 20 pack; and a pretty crappy smoke.
I have found an Indian dude at a local shop who flogs Chinese ‘Double Happiness’ fags at $14 for a 20 pack; and a decent smoke to boot.
The militia/Reserve suffered another grave setback. It was an option to conscription during the 1960’s – if you were serving in the Citizen’s Military Forces, as it was then, and your number was drawn, you were exempt from being “called up.” The intention may have been good, but the C.M.F. acquired a reputation as being a haven for draft dodgers, that it took some years to live down.
That was a fascinating brain fart, or something, I don’t know what it was. Overturning about two millennia of unit organization. I suppose there’s a parallel with the Russian’s BTG structure, which they’re also putting out to pasture since it hasn’t been working in practice.
Pentropic organisation (wiki)
Johnny Rotten
This is what is in store for all the US if the Communists win or manage to steal the next elections.
Certainly are drum fed ones. Pretty amazing. I especially like the drum fed Colt 45. Humans are wonderful at ingenuity when it comes to firearms.
Aaaand.. called it. Pogria publishing the name so he can go off and complain that the blog is acting against court rules.
Dr. John Campbell
Pharmaceutical interests or patient safety
German EV sales CRASH after subsidies removed | MGUY Australia
Bit of an exodus going on in Delaware and New York atm. Seems the capitalist rats have suddenly worked out that the deep state fat cats are hungry right now. Fun how this happens.
Thorpey is in the senate until 30 June 2028. She will not be re-elected, even if she lasts that long. I’m predicting a total very public meltdown that will see her out of politics well before then.
My section got to have a crack with a belt fed Bren Gun at the Kapooka range. Not sure if many rounds went through the target. It had some oomph and shook you around. That was firing from prone. Would be lots more fun firing a mounted one; like on a river boat down the Mekong.
Wasn’t there a drum fed model of the Luger, at one stage?
Doubtful. Lambie is still there, and Katter. Takes a hydrogen bomb to get people like that out of their cushy seats. I’d pay money to see Lidia and Lambie in pink pig suits though.
Good Evening Troops
Tonight’s entertainment is going to be the movie “The Wackiest Ship in the Army” , i vaguely remember seeing it as a boy and am looking forward to this evening.
LOL
None of them are “revolvers” at all.
I thought someone might ask if I was building a M61 Vulcan in the other hand.
Still not a revolver. A Gatling gun English, but no revolver.
SVG is a JET. Do a bumper tap on him and the sh*t will hit the fan for the series.
Is Shane Van Gisbergen NASCAR’s Next Big Thing?
The Pentropic reorganisation was motivated primarily by the alleged need to mirror what the Americans were doing with their Pentomic structure (though not army-wide I believe). By the time Australia decided to act, the U.S. system was about to fall out of favour. Reading the principles behind Pentropic, the theory made some sense, but it wasn’t suitable for the likely scenarios Australia would find itself in, and required – among other things – resources that existed mostly on paper only.
From what [little] I understand, one of the basic principles involved the dispersion of forces to limit the damage of an atomic strike. The dispersed forces would then re-gather [sorry, I cannot think of the word right now] and move on. Mobility was a key to this concept, but Australian Pentropic units were not provided with the quantity and range of mobility options that their U.S. counterparts were.
I’ve done a bit of reading on this, and it’s more complicated than what I’ve written above. I don’t think it was a ridiculous plan, but one not clearly enough through through and modeled. For the Regs, the transition to and from Pentropic wasn’t much of a bother, but as stated above, the damage to the Reserve was significant.
Promoting indigenous sovereignty on the tax payer’s dime.
The revolution is being subsidised.
THOUGHT through…
BoN – Thorpey is stark raving bonkers, even more so than that stupid slag Lambie, who almost appears sane in comparison.
There’s no way Thorpey will last another nearly four and a half years in parliament.
Quiz question: where is the biggest piece of the Titanic on dry land?
Kroges on Shazza: “What is happening in this country?”
Perhaps you could go and ask Giuseppe Prosciutto, Joan Kennett and Denny Naptime.
Just don’t expect a coherent answer that in any reflects reality, you useless puffed up gliberal grandee.
in any way reflects reality …
Muddy – as I said the Russians seem to’ve adopted this style with their BTG structure. But it hasn’t worked out well in practice, so they’ve been reverting to the old battalion/brigade/division structure in the last year or so. Wars are nasty, but they sort out the good ideas from the bad. We managed to sort out the Pentropic thing without a war, which is a plus I think.
In Australia, covering Lidia Thorpe’s arse.
Kroger is the sort of dim type who’d be caught unawares at the gentlemen’s club as the first shots of the revolution rang out in the streets below.
And we have a winner!
Wrong, but you get a prize KD for effort and inventiveness. See my assistant.
I’ve heard the savage condemnation, by Aborigines, who in times of old, would have been described as “full blood”, of the likes of Lidia Thorpe, who is something like 1/16th Aboriginal ancestry. “She’s not a proper blackfella, she’s a yellafella.”
Malcolm Roberts
Smart Meters and Remote Control Air Cons
Kroger has certainly not let failure stand in his way. A lesser Victoriastani would have the decency to die of embarrassment by now.
Thorpe is playing marxist identity politics and being highly paid by us to do so.
Pauline Hanson
Exposing the Aboriginal Industry: A Call for Equality and Accountability in Closing the Gap
That he’s still on Sky after dark’s rolodex perhaps says more about them than him.
Would a prerequisite for embarrassment be self-awareness?
After the port one would hope.
Oh, stop it!
Just import one and flip it to RH drive and stop complaining.
Web search tells me it’s a15 ton chunk of rust at a museum in Devon. But I reckon this is a trick question.
‘Amazing exclusive footage’: Andrew Bolt reports live from Israel
Would anyone admit to being a Victoriastani Lieboral in polite company?
Incredible moment Nathan Wade’s divorce lawyer appears to mutter ‘oh dang’ when he’s shown text message HE SENT saying his client started dating Fani Willis BEFORE she hired him to prosecute Trump
Just buy an X5 and get a brother to stance it. Yo.
If there is any justice…just after having ordered a dry sherry as an aperitif and subsequently realising that his long anticipated dinner is going to be disrupted by his likely death, his right to bear arms in self-defence having been extinguished by John Winston Howard OM.
Volvo V90 XC.
Looks better than the Beemer, and more big on the inside too.
H B Bear
Feb 28, 2024 8:34 PM
Kroger has certainly not let failure stand in his way. A lesser Victoriastani would have the decency to die of embarrassment by now.
Kroger is an arrogant, useless POS. When The Climate Sceptics were running hot – 2009-2012 – and had some great public meetings, Kroger turned up to one in Sydney as I was giving a great speech, sneered and left. He personifies conservatism in this shithole: conservatives are content to be in parliament and don’t give a damn about representing their constituency. They are the problem not the left.
Hope she’s wearing knickers..
Boxy!
(Do I need to fess that that’s a movie reference?)
By the time the Revolution reached the Australia Club would you shoot Howard or Waffleworth first? What a dilemma.
Denmark Declares War on Multiculturalism – VisualPolitik EN
Denmark is the most marked example. It already has a policy where if a given urban region has a % of unemployed, under educated, non-white etc, then that urban region must be restructured over several years, even going so far as to demolish some buildings. Denmark’s policies are unashamedly targeting non-whites. The Danes want to preserve their lifestyle and if that means kicking out people who won’t support that goal so be it.
Other European countries have also decided it is time to stop the rot. We should be following their lead.
Howard.
I’d like to see Waffleworth on his knees pleading for his life and offering bribes.
I think Howard is too stoic to resort to that.
Low self-esteem?
Content to settle for Something, rather than Nothing?
Vote Liberal.
You’ll be disappointed, but not surprised.
Marty lobs a bomb into the boulangerie.
The current crop of Liberals would prefer to be the captain of a sinking ship than second in charge of one of its lifeboats.
Whilst I have a profound contempt for Labor, I have an even more profound contempt for the Liberals who realise they are just troughers but refuse the hypocrite label.
The Lieborals have always preferred fighting each other. Howard v Peacock was the model.
The Cumberland Council meeting, which was abandoned last week due to disorder when debating a motion (raised by non-Labor, opposed by Labor) to prevent a drag queen storytime in Council libraries, was reconvened tonight.
This time, the public gallery was full (with overflow outside) in support of the non-Labor councillors. Faced with a crowd of angry residents, the back-pedalling and arse-covering by the Labor Councillors was something to behold.
Line of the night from one of the non-Labor Councillors during his debate speech was, “Merrylands is not Marrackville”. How true.
The motion to stop drag queen storytime from being held in Council facilities was passed. One of the Labor Councillors who flipped is
– a Muslim, who when faced with her community’s obvious opposition to the motion, had no choice, and
– has not been preselected to run in the upcoming Council election* hence won’t be on Council for much longer, so
– imo her vote was also determined by her allegiance to her faith being stronger than her allegiance to Labor.
Lessons
a) Labor will only give way when faced in person with angry masses
b) another reminder of the the hierarchy of alliances in the Islamic community
*her replacement is another Muslim female whose FB profile features a ‘flag of Palestine’. Another reminder of Labor’s priorities.
“Sack the bloody lot” is a recipe for years of court cases, Instead, “encourage” them to depart.
The next time there is a CDF vacancy, promote either the most junior Three Star in the three services, or a mid-seniority Two star. Apply that process down the line, including by commissioning Warrant Officers to command sub-units or units.
You really have to look hard to find a more disgusting human being than the NY AG.
She posts on twiitter everyday the daily interest that’s accumulated on the penalty awarded against Trump.
Bolta done good!
Angus Campbell appeared to have started off well (wiki – yes I know):
Good.
Pretty good indeed.
So far, not bad at all.
Ah geez. He’d been well and truly infected by then.
Police reveal new details about jilted cop’s alleged double murder
Accused killer cop Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly stole bullets from a shooting range two weeks before the deaths of Sydney couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
Accused killer cop Beau Lamarre-Condon bought a surfboard bag days before the alleged double murder and only planned to target his former lover Jesse Baird, police claim.
The disturbing new police allegations against the former constable can be revealed as investigators said they will allege Luke Davies, 29, was never an intended target.
But when Lamarre-Condon turned up at the Paddington terrace on the morning of February 19 and found Mr Baird, 26, inside with his new boyfriend, police allege he killed them both.
He allegedly hid the bodies in a blue tarpaulin in the courtyard of the Brown St property and went back to a Miranda store to buy a second surfboard bag, before going back to the house on the Tuesday morning and removing both bodies.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal that police will also allege Lamarre-Condon stole bullets from a shooting range about a fortnight before the crime.
Daily Tele
The generals of the time both acted against the advice of their staffs, and used the excuse that we had to match the US Pentomic organisation. However, Pentomic was abandoned before Pentropic was implemented.
I suspect that the trigger was a proposal that Major General Ivan Dougherty, a highly decorated Second AIF officer and post-war CMF officer, be appointed as CGS. Sacrilege, and therefore the CMF had to be brought to heel.
NSW wallopers should abandon Mardi Gas anyway. It’s about as edgy as a CWA meeting, but without the cakes or the blokes willing to cart the women folk home at 5pm.
I kind of like the idea that Senators are regularly exposed to abusive screeching indig harpies like the rest of us have to suffer, just a shame Lidia is unlikely to go so far as to call them a pack of white cnts…
So premeditated murder rather than a ‘crime of passion’ then, Commissioner…
Another day of Sopranos marathons.
It just occurred to me that at no stage do any of the characters, at any time, have their mobile phones on charge.
A previously undiscovered plot flaw.
You really have to look hard to find a more disgusting human being than the NY AG.
Any of the black bitch AGs, governors, media shitheads, especially Joy Reid. But that white cretin who sits next to morning Joe is a pair of tweezers with tits.
Was there ever a decent biography written of the man?
Boxy but good!
Meanwhile in the Territory, all shall suffer because of the actions of a few:
Wadeye workers threaten walk-off as new grog bans hit
One of the service providers at Wadeye impacted by grog bans expects workers to quit en masse. Read why they’re serious.
The NT government is scrambling to minimise damage from new liquor bans in Wadeye as contractors in the community express their fury at the changes.
A meeting of contractors on Wednesday morning became heated as the implications of the ban on heavy grog sunk in.
And despite government claiming they consulted with contractors in the community, Aboriginal-owned corporation Thamarrurr Development Corporation said there was zero consultation.
TDC deputy chief executive Tracey Leo said the government presented TDC with a discussion paper on February 2 that detailed the proposals.
TDC’s executive advised government it would take the proposal to the next board meeting on February 28, but in the meantime government issued an edict on February 22 that volumetric changes and alcohol strength bans would be introduced from March 1.
“The locals weren’t aware this was coming,” Ms Leo said.
“TDC and other service delivery groups were advised on February 2 about the proposed changes in the form of a discussion paper and the government was aware the board meeting was happening today.
“The executive management of TDC is not authorised to provide comment or feedback without consultation with the board.”
Ms Leo said the changes would impact TDC’s Wadeye workforce of about 200 people.
“It’s going to impact workforce and from our position, while we absolutely support that there needs to be measures to address secondary sale of alcohol from the black market, we don’t believe what’s been introduced is the right mechanism.
“That’s evidenced by the fact police have not been able to manage the flow of illegal alcohol coming in and there’s certainly no resources to police this new system.
“It’s not going to achieve what it’s set out to achieve. It can be stressful working here with the violence and general feeling of not being safe. There’s no club or pubs but catching up at a mate’s place for a few beers is how people relax. To take away the one thing they have is silly.”
The NT News reported on Tuesday the government had introduced volume measures for permit holders in the community and banned heavy grog.
The minister or a departmental representative declined to be interviewed or respond to specific questions and provided only a written statement late Wednesday.
Just when you thought this shitshow couldn’t have gotten worse.
There was said to be an ‘encounter’ with one of the victims.
The coronial inquest for this one will be far more shattering than the Rolfe one in the NT. NSW Plod had better put the armoured merkin on.
I will guarantee the plod brass were well aware of these sorts of proclivities, and ran the Hail Mary mitigation strategy hoping nothing would happen.
Well, it happened.
Here’s Senator Mehreen Faruqi, keeping company with a person you’d expect her to associate with.
A 300,000-Year History of Human Evolution
A Neandertal gene confers protection against COVID?
I can remember being rejected by West Australian Police for not possessing a university degree…
I don’t have any thoughts about that, but my impression (FWIW) is that by the mid 50s at least, the sequence of CsGS had been mutually agreed upon for quite some years (The early death of Fergus MacAdie might have interrupted it slightly, however). The Duntrooners got their revenge for what they perceived as lack of command opportunities during WWII. (Which, when you examine the postings, seems somewhat overblown. That’s a much longer story, however).
Davey Boy
Feb 28, 2024 9:45 PM
Interesting report. Cheers.
We used to know some dodgy cops back in our newspaper days, even some RogerDodgers who did payroll hijacks with their crim counterparts, but even they would have drawn the line at Hyphen-Soyboy.
Who let him in? That is the real question that needs to be answered.
Now I think they just check for a pulse.
Are all the contractors in Wadeye replacing all the dwellings destroyed back in 2022(?), just so the locals can destroy them again? Is this what is known as the “circular economy”?!
ZK2A – if you had an university degree now that majored in gender studies you’d be a Commissioner.
Provided you had a front bottom.
Are you sure he wouldn’t have more chance by having a lady-penis under his skirt?
“Yes, I have a Ph D in Post-Colonial Queer Studies. That seven year post-grad degree is also largely the reason why I’m diabetic, agoraphobic, 110kg and legally blind.”
“Well, welcome to the force, Commissioner!”
his politic and lifestyle are more like prerequisites for the job these days
ask yourself how that happened
… you sound like some sort of fat-shaming, vision-privileged, class-enemy
Salema Estate in administration- is this why it was in the chat last night?
Organic- meh- but more tellingly, it was dedicated export. So, have a go, but be ready to lose your shirt. And they did.
He “died suddenly”? There it is! Evidently the Covid death shot is more deadly than Novichok.
I hope Democrat DAs, judges and politicians – state and federal – are all thrown in prison.
Arab clans in northern Gaza fighting hamas for control of aid trucks
No cartoons today because of computer problems.
He allegedly hid the bodies in a blue tarpaulin in the courtyard of the Brown St property
Brown Street Paddington is a very busy street.
When you come out of the Cross City Tunnel & turn right up Neild Ave, it turns into Brown Street at Glenmore road.
I actually didn’t know that section was called Brown Street.
I thought it was Neild Avenue at the Rushcutters Bay end & Flinton Street at the Oxford street end, which was wrong.
I’ve driven past that place a million times.
Parking is a bugger.
Unless there was rear lane access, I don’t know how he was able to drag out not one, but two non-surfboard shaped objects in surfboard bags with out someone seeing something.
Another day of Sopranos marathons.
KD, I did the Sopranos marathon last October/November.
Damn that show was awesome.
we know so asio
I’ve spent a few days up at Coastal Town looking a properties.
My 4-5 year plan is to not be living in Sydney.
I’ve been going to Coastal Town for the last 30 years.
Mid-week, during school term, used to be dead, even in Feb at the tail end of summer.
Not any more, now heaving.
google map
Listening to the Baris stream reviewing the Michigan primary.
He’s got a new segment of the population.
“Wine & Cheese Valium Moms”.