I get that impression from him too. Good eggish and likeable. We need a bit of mongrel in the mix.…
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I’d try that. Battered. Like a corn dog.
Seriously, the AfD ran primarily on immigration. This is a repeat of the 2016 US election. Trump ran on immigration…
I know he’s a horrid intellectual ruin. Lefitism always catches up that way. But I did like to imagine a…
Hi Vagabond could you please spell it out for me why Medicare is a bad system. i understand the comment…
My assumption for this is that students are adept at using the software, but without the maths background they’re not aware of input mistakes.
This sounds just like how the Climate Change/Warming Models were cobbled together.
The article doesn’t seem to be on Medical X Press anymore!?
Is “university educated” now an oxymoron?
Hold up
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-immune-response-covid-vaccinations.html
Other than Vermont Trump is so far ahead in all states so far reporting “super Tuesday” it’s over long before the “fat lady sings” .. LOL!
https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2024/03/05/live-results-super-tuesday-gop-presidential-primaries-and-caucuses-n4926993
I tried to get an online car insurance quote from Budget Direct.After an exhaustive process suddenly got a screen basically saying we won’t insure you.
No reason given .No claims history .No idea what happened,maybe I am too old for them
Jeepers! Check this out. Avi exposed a lot of this.
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The official Australian inflation rate (4%) is attempted humour by the clowns in the ABS.
Anyone who pays for his own food knows food inflation alone is 15-20% — if you can afford the fuel to get to the supermarket.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/515473
Budget Direct Refuse to Reinsure – Due To Claims History
pencilhead on 28/01/2020 – 16:58
Last edited 28/01/2020 – 17:08 by 1 other user
Hi,
I’ve been with Budget Direct for over 5 years for House and Contents as well as for 2 cars. Until recently have never made a claim.
My daughter got her L’s 9 months ago. The day she did, I updated our insurance policies noting her as a driver and paying the increased premium. In Dec she had an accident, with about $3000 damage to our car. I made a claim and paid the young driver excess’s of $2000.
Today, I received a letter from Budget Direct saying they will not renew the policy on our cars due to “the claims history of one or more drivers on the policy falls outside our acceptance criteria.”
When I rang Budget Direct, I was told bad luck. They won’t even review the decision.
Shiq1 on 28/01/2020 – 19:04
+3
Not even
my wife had 2 not at fault claims (rear ended twice) when she got her new car (this was about 10 years ago) and they refused to insure her.
I then applied online just to see what the premium would have been if it was a clean history and then went around shopping elsewhere, QBE came out on top then and its been insured with them since.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CarsAustralia/comments/1b6v71v/budget_direct_cancelled_car_insurance_due_to_air/
Budget Direct cancelled car insurance due to air filter modification
Bought a second hand VW Golf R and got insurance with budget, listing no modifications. Found out the car had a K&N air filter installed replacing the stock one, purchased from supercheap auto for like $100. I let budget know and now they are cancelling the policy. Quite surprised at the outcome, I thought this wouldn’t be a big issue. Anyway, any recommendations for car insurance? I chose budget since at about $1600 they were half the price of the NRMA quote I received…
I’d bet they heard K&N and assumed a pod filter whereas I believe OP is referring to a direct replacement panel filter. That’s not a mod, it’s just a non OEM service part. No reason to even list it on insurance.
The unfortunate part is OP will now have to answer yes to the question if you’ve ever had a policy cancelled or rejected which will push their premium up.
Universally Miseducated is closer to the truth.
I wish there were an online school that taught 1950’s (or any decade before 1970) curriculum with online lectures, tutors for hire and free content. Kind of the equivalent of the workers technical libraries which existed for self-improvement by those ineligible for Uni.
The correct expression is “university credentialled”. Education is not part of the package.
Alamak!
The buildings (Schools of Arts, Mechanics’ Institutes et al) still stand, particularly in country and regional areas. Many of them now seem to be used by U3A, which does not target the same audience of young, self-improvers. CWA buildings and Masonic Halls could also be available.
They are probably still available a lot of the time.
Yeah, thats the kind of facilities I was thinking of. I think many parents know the schooling system does not teach students how to think but rather what to think.
People need to be arrested for human rights breaches inflicted.
They broke the law.
Knowingly and deliberately.
The Queensland premier, Steven Miles, says the state government issued its unlawful police vaccine mandate in good faith, in response to a question in question time.
The Katter MP Shane Knuth has demanded the state government reappoint workers sacked under the state government’s “unlawful” police vaccine mandate.
The supreme court last week struck down vaccine mandates over the police and ambulance departments. It found the police commissioner had failed to consider the Human Rights Act when making her decision in 2021.
“Will the premier immediately instruct all government departments withdraw all disciplinary action directly related to the mandate and reinstate all affected workers back to their full employment?” Knuth, asked in question time.
Miles told parliament the government is taking crown law advice on the decision before taking further action.
“Of course, all of our agencies will comply with decisions of the court,” he said.
We took the decisions that we took at the time and in the interests of Queenslanders, in the interests of preserving the life of Queenslanders.
A couple years down the track, it might be a bit easy in hindsight to pore over that decision-making, but I can assure the member for Hill, and everyone in this house, all of those decisions were made based on the advice that we had available to us, the advice that those steps would keep Queenslanders safe, and we stand by those decisions.
The supreme court ruled the police mandate was “unlawful” and the paramedic one of no effect. The decision could be appealed to the supreme court of appeal.
Also every human rites organisation in Australia need to have all its staff removed and new people installed.
Not one of them, in the slightest way, ( except for the ‘fugee flats lockdown, that was too much even for them) managed to pick up that forcing or coercing a medical treatment on a person might breach human rights.
A Voice led recovery!!!
Kept us out of recession!
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/06/australia-news-live-china-asean-summit-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-nuclear-tax-cuts-greens-housing-optus-fine-ntwnfb
Government and private spending boosted growth as household savings picked up
That the economy kept growing in 2023 owed a lot to government spending picking up some of the slack. Spending rose 0.6% in the December quarter, although well down on the 1.5% expansion in the September quarter, the ABS said.
Much of that spending was on benefits to households, but outlays to hold the voice referendum also sprayed a bit of money into the far reaches of the nation.
Tom
Mar 6, 2024 1:19 PM
– inflation … they admitted 6-8%, real figure likely 15-20%
The official Australian inflation rate (4%) is attempted humour by the clowns in the ABS.
Anyone who pays for his own food knows food inflation alone is 15-20% — if you can afford the fuel to get to the supermarket.
And the Economy grew by what in the December Quarter? A piddling amount. Negative Growth anyone? Dim Chalmers cannot explain it away anymore.
Steve trickler
Mar 6, 2024 1:06 PM
Jeepers! Check this out. Avi exposed a lot of this.
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Welcome to Country.
This is a significant issue in engineering. And the key issue is that, without an understanding of the mathematics behind the software, the user typically has limited insight into whether the ‘solution’ is correct (in terms of picking up entry errors or correctly selecting parameters that drive the software) or the result appropriately fits the design problem.
It’s not a new issue, GIGO was a well-known term 40 years ago – which was around the end of the ‘hand calculated’ era. But it has become a critical one with the ubiquitous use of packages for everything – including mathematics – as the ‘taught’ methodology.
Well, this should be the end of joint bank accounts.
Next up, it will become a crime to hold the title to the family home as tenants in common.
Today brings yet another example of the stupidity of the media. You can’t be of any danger of over-estimating this.
For some reason the screens in the lifts in my office display “news” stories. One of those is a report from The Australian about levels of ice coverage in the Antarctic.
This story is illustrated by photos of polar bears standing on small pieces of floating ice.
You would think that there would be at least someone in the media company who could have pointed out the obvious to the know nothing twenty something who would have prepared the graphic.
Only theory I have is a door to door salesman (you know the type) got into our letterbox, got missus’ name (misspelling it) and filled in and signed the transfer form. Was probably way behind on his quota for the day.
Zafiro – what happened in our case was even more outrageous. Husband made a call to a rival energy provider to check if we could do better. They couldn’t – but they had enough of his details (somehow!) to contact our current provider and tell them we had switched to them!
We knew nothing about this con until we received a “welcome” from the new company. Complaint had no effect – so we had to take it to the Ombudsman. Almost immediately we were contacted by the “new” provider saying “Sorry” – & informing us that they would arrange for the return of our business to our former provider!
Indoctrination.
😀
Steve trickler
Mar 6, 2024 1:06 PM
Jeepers! Check this out. Avi exposed a lot of this.
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Welcome to Australia’s MOST DANGEROUS City – Alice Springs – Into The Hood
Tennis Elbow and Linda Burney where are you? MIA?
And you think a $200 million Arts Centre will help? Tell ’em their dreaming –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dik_wnOE4dk
Morrison was told of that when he first floated the vaccine mandate, which is why he walked that back almost the next day and handballed the de facto mandates to businesses and government agencies.
The various HRC’s had to know and therefore were complicit by their silence in the abuses that subsequently unfolded.
One of those is a report from The Australian about levels of ice coverage in the Antarctic.
This story is illustrated by photos of polar bears standing on small pieces of floating ice.
You would think that there would be at least someone in the media company who could have pointed out the obvious to the know nothing twenty something who would have prepared the graphic.
Have you never heard of Migration? Shame on you. Those Penguins made it all the way to Madagascar. So why couldn’t the Polar Bears go south (a very long way I know).? Get with the Programme.
Cheers Vicki. Such fiends. Scrupled and honest folk probably don’t get far in the interview process.
A couple years down the track, it might be a bit easy in hindsight to pore over that decision-making, but I can assure the member for Hill, and everyone in this house, all of those decisions were made based on the advice that we had available to us, the advice that those steps would keep Queenslanders safe, and we stand by those decisions.
All of the useless box-tickers who are incapable of independent critical thinking will tirelessly repeat this miserable excuse.
The “buck” will never stops with such creatures…it will go on and on down the line. They don’t even have the decency to apologise for a lack of an independent inquiry.
I stand by my evaluation of the lack of integrity in the “top” echelons of many of the professions today……too much money involved. Integrity and independence are expensive commodities & are not valued characteristics. No surprise that most of the opponents of the novel vaccines were retired professional people or working class family men and women who more easily see “the Emperor has no clothes”.
Budget Direct is cheap for a reason.
The lady who gave the advice is now Governor of QLD.
At the time of the lockdowns she claimed she was suffering too because she couldn’t go to the ballet.
Researchers investigate immune response of a man who received 217 COVID vaccinations (MedXpress, 5 Mar)
Duk, as you probably already know, the internet has been flooded with this story in the last 24 hours or so. If not a hoax, it is a ridiculous effort by Pharma to counter the growing evidence of injuries incurred by the mRNA vaccines.
Is there no end to the evil?
This has to be getting into the realm of Darwin Awards by now.
Budget Direct would be giving Lithium-ion ownership a wide berth I’d suspect.
I await MSNBC’s headline:
“10 Cars That Aren’t Worth A Story Individually”.
Al Bore’s mythical Bipolar Bears.
A vindictive nationalist government may be a prerequisite for a most favourable libertarian government.
Duk, as you probably already know, the internet has been flooded with this story in the last 24 hours or so. If not a hoax, it is a ridiculous effort by Pharma to counter the growing evidence of injuries incurred by the mRNA vaccines.
With all those jabs, the person’s arm(s) would look like a pin cushion. Any leaks?
Naturally it is Katter party asking question about ending the mandates.
The LNP on this subject are proving totally useless.
Sanctions: To Russia with Love
Excellent short vid.
Qantas has been fined $250,000 and convicted for illegally standing down an employee in 2020 after he raised safety concerns about cleaning planes flying in from China.
A QANTAS spokesperson said “Safety has always been our number one priority and we continue to encourage our employees to report all safety related matters.”
And be prepared to lose your job for doing so.
The chap concerned receives a mere $21 000 in compensation.
Correct.
Nor could she handle footballs kicked into the crowd at ALPFL matches.
Given they backed all the measures it would be the height of hypocrisy for them to take a stand now.
A grovelling mea culpa would be welcome, however.
The full CPI basket components and weightings.
What a good corporate citizen, who are on the other hand pandering to the 40% LGBTQi of our population.
dover0beach
Mar 6, 2024 2:53 PM
Sanctions: To Russia with Love
Excellent short vid.
This should be broadcast to every Western Country including Australia and NZ.
Worth keeping in mind when mulling over the question of why Russia has been unable to assert air superiority over Ukraine.
Tony Burke. This bloke is the undisputed king of grubs. Making Marles look like a miser.
I’ll go out on a limb here and suggest good corporate citizens no longer exist.
The banking RC gave us an insight into the illegal practices Australian corporations will engage in if they think they can get away with it and the ethics of the people who run them.
Poley bears and penguins? Maybe the penguin left the iceberg before the polar bear arrived.
Incidentally the Arctic is fine. The usual suspects are wetting themselves this week about the Antarctic but that’s all due to the Tonga volcano, which they usually forget to mention.
Arctic sea ice continues to show resiliency…nearly normal temperatures in summer (melting) season holds the key to its holding firm (4 Mar)
Aaron
Mar 6, 2024 3:24 PM
Tony Burke. This bloke is the undisputed king of grubs. Making Marles look like a miser.
So, on the Fact Finding Mission, what Facts were found by the Minister for Employment & Workplace Relations? Please report back ‘Toe Knee’ asap (already over a year late). The Taxpayers await your considered response. It was their money that you were spending after all. Any report at all?
And BTW, did you take a Lady friend with you this time?
Roger,
If nobody changes their mind about mandates and vaccines etc we are not going to make any progress.
Katter may have supported mandates initially but if they have now reversed their view that is a good thing.
One of the strongest pro Vax Senators was Lambie. However last week she finally voted in support of Ralph Babets vote for an inquiry into excess deaths. It was the 4th attempt at that vote and all independent Senators voted in support.
Not something reported in mainstream media.
The first step in that process is an apology.
Munni for who??
Albanese appoints 10 ‘business champions’ to lead south-east Asia investment facility
We’ve also appointed 10 business champions implementing another of the economic strategy’s key recommendations. These are senior Australian business leaders who will help set the agenda for future growth in the commercial relationships we have with the countries of south-east Asia, to help Australian tech companies enter new markets in south-east Asia. I also announced yesterday that we will establish new regional landing pads in Ho Chi Minh City and Jakarta.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/top-ceos-named-as-business-champions-for-south-east-asia-20240305-p5f9vf
Macquarie chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake (the Philippines), Western Sydney University chancellor Jennifer Westacott (Indonesia), ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott (Singapore), Aurecon chief operating officer Louise Adams (Vietnam), Lendlease CEO Tony Lombardo (Malaysia) and AgCoTech chairman Charles Olsson (Laos).
‘ASEAN is where the action is’
The others are Linfox executive chairman Peter Fox (Thailand), MGA Insurance Brokers executive chairman John George (Cambodia), Pristine Pacific Australia executive director Nur Rahman (Brunei) and East Timor Trading Group chairman Sakib Awan, who will represent East Timor, which is on the cusp of being admitted to ASEAN.
Good luck with that.
A couple years down the track, it might be a bit easy in hindsight to pore over that decision-making, but I can assure the member for Hill, and everyone in this house, all of those decisions were made based on the advice that we had available to us, the advice that those steps would keep Queenslanders safe, and we stand by those decisions.
And there it is: ……those decisions were made based on the advice that we had available to us……
We all knew, and many said, that when the time comes, all of those bastards who made our lives a misery for 2+ years would run off to the coward’s castle of ‘the best advice available’. No honesty, no acceptance of any responsibility. Up yours peasants.
Let’s “pore over” some of that decision making:
His government “in the interests of Queenslanders” placed severe restrictions on businesses, requiring customers to be 1.5 metres distant from each other, no more than 1 per 4 square metres, etc.
Simultaneously, “in the interests of Queenslanders” his govt allowed 30,000 people to mix, mingle and walk around the CBD in a tight pack, coz George Floyd.
Simultaneously his government sent undercover police officers and undercover public servants, to enter outback pubs which had 1 or 2 patrons for the entire day, and fine those pubs business-jeopardising amounts, for having “too many people” (i.e. the undercover officers) on the premises.
“In the interests of Queenslanders” indeed.
The real estate agent, who fell afoul of the mythical Rainbow Serpent, by building some earthworks on his land, now has to wait until April 19 to hear the verdict. If he’s guilty, he’s looking at nine months up the creek, and a twenty thousand dollar fine. He’ll also lose his real estate agent’s license.
Just go away you grub.
Wodger:
Roger
The saga of the 380…
Finally after three months they’ve gotten around to writing off the 380. snif
But I’ve also got the Patrol insured with them and I’m about to get a secondary fuel filter put in on the next service.
Thanks for pointing that out, Wodger. I will check to see if they consider it grounds for dismissing a claim.
Exactly.
I shit gold for you people and you credit the stable boy.
Anyone not able to spot the problem he faces?
If only they had been free to marry….
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/report-recommends-apology-for-victorian-abuse-victims-beaumaris/103552184
The inquiry found the Department of Education’s response to child sexual abuse from the 1960s to the 1990s represented a “catastrophic failing” that was not aligned with community expectations.
It described the department’s response as “a series of repeated, systemic and self-reinforcing failures” that included a lack of policies on child sexual abuse, and a culture of prioritising the reputation of schools and teachers over the safety of children.
The report noted there had “been no systemic reviews led by the Department to understand the scope and scale of historical child sexual abuse in government schools from 1960 to today.”
In the case of David MacGregor, the department gave him a three-year suspension from teaching roles in 1985, and then offered him a job back in a classroom in 1989.
He remained with the education department until his retirement in 1992, and was in 1994 found guilty of further sexual offences dating back to the 1980s.
And what do you think was one of handsome boys pitches for ASEAN, abart fromn the lazy 2 bill giveaway?
Visas
Roger
Until these corporations who just shrug and laugh at the legal implications of their bastardry, start getting hit with US level fines, they’re not going to stop.
Hear hear. Very much part of the problem.
I happen to know my state member personally.
He knows what I think of him and his colleagues.
That’s been some consolation.
Salvatore:
That’s disgusting – there will be records of the people who did this?
The problem is that she likely hasn’t voted on principle.
There’ll be a quid pro quo involved.
A 45-year-old West Australian man has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault
So presumably he gets convicted and then appeals it for a jury trial?
Faulty alert.
His counsel should subpoena the Rainbow Serpent.
Linfox is already in Thailand, has been for years now.
Call me cynical but I hope someone in the Senate Committee keeps an eye these appointment’s travel and public expenses especially if they coincide with business travel with said interests in the country.
The fact that there isn’t tells you it’s not worth subscribing. Being told things by ignorant idiots isn’t worth a farthing.
Hahahahahahahaha!
Two Extinction Rebellion protesters jailed for causing gridlock chaos by blocking the West Gate Bridge with a truck are now appealing their three-week prison sentences.
Serial pests Deanne “Violet” Coco, 33, and Bradley Homewood, 51, lodged bids for freedom in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, just one day into their jailhouse stint.
The pair both asked for bail pending an appeal of their sentences, handed down just hours earlier in a late night court hearing on Tuesday.
Both acting as their own lawyer — as they had the night before — neither was granted their wish and will be forced to remain behind bars pending any future appeal in a higher court.
The Herald Sun understands that Coco withdrew her application for release at the last minute, while Homewood’s bid for appeal bail was refused on the basis he was an “unacceptable risk”.
Nor could she handle footballs kicked into the crowd at ALPFL matches.
Nearly forgot about that idiotic comment.
If the footy gets kicked into the crowd and you touch it you’ll get ebola virus, aids, polio, malaria, diptheria, black plague, bottom germs, gout, the flu, or a heavy cold.
Possibly even covid (slightly heavy cold).
And this imbecile is still on the public teat.
“And this imbecile is still on the public teat”.
The Qld Health head honcho was one of the unhealthiest looking people I’ve seen.
She’s the Governer now, I believe.
Reporting from Super Tuesday, Sky News reporter Annelise Nielsen says the problem for America in 2024 will be low voter turnout — by which she means low Democrat Party turnout.
I hope Annelise is getting a root because there is no other reason she is in the USA for Sky News. Utterly incompetent.
I can’t see that happening. They’d lose too much face and discredit themselves and the magistrate’s courts. I think the District Court judge that allowed his appeal would dismiss the conviction. Reordering a (District Court) trial would be a farce. It would be hard with the State’s admissions and bad PR to get a unanimous (enough) jury to vote for a guilty verdict.
The Greens claim he reminds Western Australians of their racist past, and the “Stolen Generations.’
Leftytwitter has all the usual suspects hyperventilating about the poor benighted kiddies.
Without possession of the facts (as mentioned the bloke might be a 100% dickhead) would it be impolite to point out 3 little kids, swimming unsupervised, in, I assume a full depth pool could have been
“3 Kids drowned in unsafe pool”..
Schoolday.
Parents oblivious to where the kids were.
33 & 51.
Grow up.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/gdp-december-quarter-2023-meets-low-expectations/103553062
If only he understood a per capita, real AUD recession could be avoided with lower inflation and immigration.
Inflation is likely higher than the ABS figure.
From the Hun.
Imagine if WA wins in their criminal case against Mr Cable No. 2. (LOL) and he loses his appeal and they basically set a precedent that adults have no obligation to keep children safe if the kids want to run away and feel that their liberties are being deprecated, let alone for strangers.
The rubber hits the road with the realities of precedent. They outweigh politics and optics.
The third member who wasn’t locked up is 68.
Sky News has a Washington correspondent?
Must be siphoning off quite a bit from the budget, judging by their shonky production values & sets.
Aaron
Mar 6, 2024 5:26 PM
She’s the Governer now, I believe.
She is.
The reason is so she cannot be challenged (whist Governor) for her past deeds as Health guru.
good news from El Salvador
How dare the proles want cheaper tobacco!
Victoria Police blames consumers for tobacco wars which have seen dozens of stores firebombed (Sky News, 6 Mar)
Well, Vicplod, in the last few years I think the punter on the street has become quite fed up with you fascists. I can see why they might no longer pay attention to your Karening. And as for the Vic state government, they’ve obviously never heard of the Laffer curve. It’s a Laff a minute as you turn the entire population into lawbreakers.
I’m not “rooting” for stolen valour, but this is a bit over-the-top and maniacal. This was intentional, but some of the stolen valour hunters can go for people over rather minor infractions.
What would they want if he wore a DSM or an MG?
Rum shots for everyone at 4:30 AM, shoot straight you fatherless gentlemen?
He didn’t get a no conviction recorded, good behaviour bond; he still copped a decent fine.
I understand gaol time if he financially benefitted, sure. The fact is these people are all or nearly all EX military. They’re virtually all civilians again.
It’s nowhere near as bad as how the military is being mismanaged by career officers, out of design or obedience to civil authority.
Why though? It just seems so silly.
This is the whackadoodle bint from Colorado who took Trump off the ballot. Crazy eyes and once again a white liberal female is the cause of ratbaggery of the highest order.
VicPlod really hate Victorians.
Median age of your average Friends of the ALPBC meeting. Retired schoolteachers heavily over represented.
Should be a mandatory $10k fine for wearing false medals. The thinking being it would stop it, which is the main point.
I’m so old I remember when schoolteachers were looked up to.
Sod off. I do not procure my illicit tobacco from Lebos. Theirs is second rate and $6 a pack more expensive than the Chinamans’.
How do people like this get selected? Then elected? She’s so obviously whackadoodle, it must be a requirement for selection.
Underbelly Victoriastan The Tobacco Wars now shooting (pun intended this time). The ATO should be charged as an accessory – just as Snic predicted.
I think that was the South Australian idiot, not the Queensland one.
Haha, one guess why Vermont is an outlier…
Nikki is the Dems’ girlie, they’re who got her up in Vermont.
Vermont Primary Election Process
Orban to Discuss With Trump Prospects of Peace in Ukraine – Foreign Minister
Another “family business”. She should not have been there at all.
Nuland Should Have Gone Sooner
Dunno Dot.
These are awards for service in places where you can get your head blown off or watch your entrails dry after you’re disembowelled by shrapnel. They are (in my view) markers of extremely significant achievements, both individually and as a group.
They are well above (again, in my view) Orders of Australia and other gongs presented to Rhonda for 60 years of service to the CWA. It’s not like wearing a Batman suit to a costume party.
Too often cockheads build reputations and community standing by falsely wearing medals they are not entitled to. They demean the service of actual veterans by pretending to have displayed the courage, endurance and fortitude – in the service of their country, no less – that they didn’t*.
I’m okay with jail for this. Not for ten years or more, but enough to ruin their fake reputations.
*See also – Four Leaf Tayback from Tropic Thunder.
Muckraker.com
@realmuckraker
United States Invasion Route Exposed – FIRST EVER DOCUMENTARY REVEALING THE ENTIRE ILLEGAL ALIEN ROUTE FROM QUITO, ECUADOR TO THE UNITED STATES
Yep – the SA one. ‘Just don’t touch that ball!’
The Quenthland one shut all the schools to ‘teach people a lesson’.
Correct My favourite football Covidiocy was a game at Geelong that was allowed to have fans at 1/4 capacity. The way they did it was to cram all 7000 of them into one quadrant of the stadium.
Fair enough KD I should have given more credence to the active service award and the tension in the Cambodia mission.
Paywallian foreign editor and never-Trumper Greg Sheridan says Joe Biden should be scared because Donald Trump in his Super Tuesday victory speech today was calm and rational.
Like Sky News floosie Analise Nielsen, Sheridan thinks Trump’s major problem this year will be low turnout when the opposite is the case.
Sheridan is one of the dumbest Australian journalists with a media platform. He can’t see past Trump’s arrogance to figure out why people want to vote for him.
It’s liberty and freedom from tyranny, Greg, you dumbo.
Drove from Sydney via overnight in Orbost to my current location in Korumburra( near the mushroom poisoning capital of Oz-Leongatha).
The Monaro Hwy turned shitty once leaving NSW but, surprisingly the Victorian Prince’s Hwy was in good nick. Being near Melbourne probably helped.
We stopped in Traralgon for a break and there was a woman in the cafe that was talking so fast I had difficulty understanding wtf she was saying. At first I thought she was speaking a foreign language but it turns out it must have been high speed English. Drugs maybe?
Senator Rennick
Australia’s car supply is under threat due to emissions fines – Senate Estimates 12.02.24
Between Sheridan and Kelly reading Teh Paywallian is like walking through the Hay Plains carpark barefoot at midnight.
Meanwhile in the Territory:
A school principal has left by plane after a community member allegedly chased the leader across school grounds and into hiding, forcing students to spend a day in lockdown.
The NT News can reveal that around 9.30am on Monday, a community member of Melville Island allegedly became “angry” at the principal.
The community member allegedly chased the principal across school grounds.
The principal found refuge in a preschool classroom with other teachers and students who locked themselves away from the irate person.
The school went into immediate lockdown as the person allegedly tried to break into the preschool room for 15 minutes.
A source told the NT News that the teachers were worried they would be attacked.
“They were all thinking (the person was) going to flog them all,” they said.
“(The person) didn’t have a weapon but they were angry, all right.”
A Department of Education spokeswoman confirmed the “unhappy” individual was removed from the grounds and the school later reopened.
“Yesterday staff at Pularumpi School were required to follow lockdown procedure after there was an unhappy community member on school grounds,” the statement read.
The spokeswoman said no barricades were used and that the person was removed from the school.
“Police were notified and assisted the community member off school grounds,” she said.
“All staff and students were safe at all times.”
The NT News was told the principal was escorted to the airport later that afternoon.
“They’ve packed up their things, they’ve jumped on the next available flight and they’ve left.”
Funny, same thing happened in another “community” near us – nothing happened…just a cultural thing…
“If you are at Adelaide oval and the ball comes toward you my advice is to duck and just do not touch the ball”
It is best appreciated in the original video, here it is, the entire 27 second clip. 😂
Nissan reportedly no longer supporting the software on its old Leaf EV.
Another unforeseen issue that will further the decline in EV sales.
Internationals cannot believe that cigarettes are close to $50 a pack, and vaping which is very popular in Europe is banned.
It’s government at fault, not the poor punter.
But a gold star to the rival Lebanese families who are too stupid to sort out their differences quietly, but then, they never have, this has been on for decades.
They also firebox each other’s icecream shops.
Liquid Bovine Excrement (by the ocean-load)!
Governments in first-world countries had all the resources (financial and scientific/medical knowledge, long-established health infrastructure, etc.) available at the time, to make sound, educated decisions, but chose not to.
By the time the vaccines became commonly available in Australia, there was enough statistical evidence (albeit somewhat furry – died ‘with’ rather than ‘of’ Covid-19, for example), regarding mortality rates and demographics, to come up with more nuanced plans. There was also NO EVIDENCE at that time regarding the effectiveness of the vaccines in preventing transmission from person-to-person. Even the vaccine manufacturer websites were non-committal regarding transmission.
This ‘hindsight is a magical mushroom’ doesn’t apply to the European settlement of Australia, but does apply to a lavishly-resourced first world system of government? Pull the other udder mate!
The cowardly fecker who uttered those words was the health minister for at least part of that period. Firetruck you, Miles. Get in the ring feckamutha!
I don’t expect this will go anywhere, because the Floppy-Libs in Qld are as impotent as all living dead.
O.K., that’s enough probing of my blood pressure.
I really love Karma.
The air-conditioning at my apartment isn’t working, at least the heating isn’t. Apparently the high humidity in Malta is fatal to Mitsubishi units (listening to tradie talk) though this one is a haier?
Was told they’d be back this morning between 9 and 11 so naturally he turned up at 8.
Also got a letter even though the box says no junk mail, and junk mail it was, Baptists trying to poach Catholics.
The cable TV I have has not one but two religious channels, both with mass for you at home, when I flicked through.
No doubt there are many secularised here but my observations is these aren’t usually the target of evangelicals who’s main interest is proving that Catholics worship Our Lady etc
etc.
Also may have mentioned last year, seeing as Maltese is an Arabic dialect with lots of Italian or Spanish sounding loan words, John is ‘Gwann’ and Lent is Randan.
J
AOC’s consoyt is in for an angry pegging tonight.
No cable ties handy?
I jokingly told the manager at Dan Murphy’s that I consider him a drug pusher
he quipped back, ‘yeah, us and out business partners the Govt”
“He can no longer show his face in public,” Ms Cox said.
“He has faced intimidation, harassment and lost long term friends over this.”
Lend him a rope.
If only there was a Voice of some sort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENKniyi9H18
For you Rosie if you want some entertainment
Oh … and
JC, correct there is no point arguing … your’e just wrong
as usual
Rent’s gone up, Trans. Increase is in the next statement.
Muddy:
We had an established plan on how to combat a nationwide viral illness and the government ditched it and did almost everything opposite to what was deemed the optimum action.
They can explain that just for starters.
I don’t understand the idea of a prison sentence for the stolen valour case. Sure, pretending you’ve done something brave and fine when you haven’t is utterly contemptible. And when the idiot who did it is found out and nailed as a contemptible person, isn’t that enough? He now knows his former colleagues despise him, as do plenty of others. If being thought brave and fine was so important to him, I should have thought being thoroughly despised would be the appropriate punishment.
Daily Mail.
Get a load of this. Beach front.
Vicki, Sal, Speedbox, Muddy and probably others I’ve missed have touched on this with Muddys post above highlighting what was known at the time of the imposition of the mandates and associated punitive measures.
The scum politicians and public servants used them as a get out of jail card for their inability to control their base totalitarian instincts.
The lockdowns were not needed.
The vax mandates were not needed.
But if they got enough jabs in enough arms they could declare everyone was safe, as safe as being locked up, ergo, no need to lock up anyone anymore and it’s “as you were, haven’t we done a great job”.
Fu)k I hate these people.
She could start by reflecting on how the inaction of police led to this.
Of course. They were following Globohomo’s orders. It was an experiment and litmus test of the obedience, compliance and docility of the masses. They passed with distinction. The fluoride is working.
Along with the story of the Bipolar Bears, I have heard multiple stories about these floating islands of plastic rubbish – all from the white man rivers of course, and despite the top ten most polluted rivers coming from Asia – but I’ve never seen a photo that shows the extent that is claimed.
The ones posted are usually such close up shots that the brand names can be read, but none from 2000 feet that shows proof of these floating islands of white mans refuse.
Odd, isn’t it?
Why is Toyota not making electric cars but they have made an electric car. Must be a quota system to cash in on Gov surplus give away money.
“We will no longer operate a physical branch footprint,”
Bankwest goneski. Like in Lawnmower Man.
In Queensland we have an offence called ” deprivation of liberty”. I want Jeanette Young, Plasticchook et al charged with 5 million counts thereof.
I believe the Qld grubbermint is proceeding with it’s own ‘treaty’ and reparations process for indigenous residents whose ancestors may or may not have suffered loss from European settlement.
Yet those who CAN objectively measure their losses due to the malicious incompetence of the same government during the covidiocy, will likely never be compensated. In lost wages alone, the Qld Grubs owe me just under $100,000.
Not special enough.
Zafiro
They were told repeatedly and loudly at the time, the enforced vaccination and punishment for the “Antivaxxers” was in direct violation of the Human Rights set out in the Nuremberg Trials.
They are as guilty as sin and they need to be gaoled to make sure the lesson is learned.
A school principal has left by plane after a community member allegedly chased the leader across school grounds and into hiding, forcing students to spend a day in lockdown
If only there was a Voice of some sort.
Some issues can’t wait for the second wednesday P&C meeting, KD-
Like, maybe the principal bonking someone he shouldn’t have. It appears that Irate Community Member targeted him, and only him was the one on the air evac.
Where do you stand on the issue of your “true scoundrel?” The bloke who likes to pretend he’s done something brave and fine, and who likes to let it be known that he’s never been the same since he came back from Afghanistan, and who accepts the help that the community hands out, or worse, uses it as an excuse to hit his partner and kids, or not able to hold a job, or draw a sober breath after lunchtime?
And, who, on investigation, has never served a day in his life?
What? I didn’t say that.
However, since you bring it up I will mention that this is almost certainly a ‘ceremony’ issue where the (doubtless newly-arrived) principal objected to a child being taken out of school for ‘business’ – that nature of which will depend on the gender of the child.
What can they offer?
Number of people killed by nuclear in Australia: zero
Number of people killed by lithium fires in Australia: 2
Peacekeeping troops, at the least.
Oh, and for Western Australian Cats, while there is all the howling and screeching about Aboriginal children in Broome, bound with cable ties, both Kingsley Pickett and Gary Narkle, both who should have died behind bars, are being released…
Sheridan is all over the place in his comments on Trump.
“Rational Trump is vastly more dangerous to Democrats”.
He bagged him in 2020, then had to concede he was wrong. Now in 2024 he’s had to back down again again as Trump powers ahead.
Oz – paywalled.
People, I knew it was the idiot in SA, just citing another famous example of the patronising arrogance and stupidity of our beloved selfless CMOs during that legendary two year period of “you’re all going to die if we don’t force you engage in all these utterly ridiculous pointless activities while illegally depriving you of your basic rights and liberties”, aka, bat flu hysteria.
BTW, that stupid woman in SA is still in that position and still making equally idiotic pronouncements.
Insipid excuses from a goose…..
Chief Commissioner Shane Patton has hit out at the “selfish, entitled” climate protesters and explained why it took so long for officers to clear their blockade.
Grow a set you nancy boy with your black uniform and hair dye.
What can they offer the Russians?
Gee, let me guess – was the term “staggering incompetence” mentioned by any chance?
I ignore your invoices Pinocchio, like everybody else here does
try not to wank yourself stupid all night
With great responsibility and a commensurate salary comes zero accountability.
Took a look at their flash new central perth location with welcome to country etc etc … no cash handling.
When banks failed in the past we could go to a branch and hopefully get our money out. Now if a bank fails better pray the ATM and Internet banking is working …
BTW – reading Cloud Money on the war against cash.
Sound advice: Quit while you’re ahead.
Trump has already indicated he’ll redouble Ukrainian support if Putin doesn’t come to the negotiating table.
With great responsibility and a commensurate salary comes zero accountability
A fair number of Thumbs Up for that Roger.
They may be at the Dneiper by Nov with the UKR out of men.
KD- easy, tiger, I’m not chipping anyone.
The Voice as National P&C is a meme that should have been given a bit more oxygen, if only for the obvious fact that The Voice was never going to be a civil council, working under the umbrella of the constitution, but doing its own fundraising to work on its own program under its own timeframe and with its wn accountability.
“ceremony”
Interesting. Maybe. If the child was hiding out at school, the report certainly didn’t mention him or her. Sounds like “business” is obviously not child-centred education, so at least that’s something…
Who’s next ?
OK, let’s say he says, “Sure, let’s negotiate”, what’s NATO’s opening offer?
“NO SH*T SHERLOCK” -Sarah Hoyt
I love this Indian bloke.
“The world is f^&*ed and you cannot unf^%& it. So just do you, and do nothing!”
Do Nothing- a message of motivation from Self-help Singh- (un) motivational speaker and life coach
Fairfuks leading the charge for man made global dildoes.:
Wanted, dead or alive: Moral courage to fight climate change
Man made climate change is the dumbest idea in the history of dumb ideas. Humans can’t even control their bowel movements. It’s taken about 40 years since some bastard scientists like Hansen started this bullshit but now the MSM is addicted to it and weak minded gutless pollies are in step. Logic, evidence and reason won’t defeat it. Blackouts and economic ruin may give some hint to the sheeple but by then the place will be like Alice Springs on metho and steroids.
Me too. Loathesome scum.
Dot
About a year ago, you suggested to me that Bitcoin’s transaction speed was going to improve. Here we are in 2024 and it’s still the same speed as when it started because the block chain is slow and will continue to be.
Here, the latest.
TPS = transactions per second
About a decade ago, I read there were around 300 million transactions in the US alone everyday. The US is around 25% of the global economy, and assuming a steady rate, that would mean there are about 1.2 billion transactions happening in the world on a daily basis. Let’s assume 1 billion though.
If the world went to Bitcoin as its currency, how would you propose handling that sort of transaction turnover. At best, Bitcoin would max out at 604,800 transactions per day. (7 x 60 x 60 x 24 = 604,800).
Incidentally, VISA alone handles around 1600 TPS just in the US alone.
I came to this conclusion long ago. We are in the world for only a very short time, the only sensible aim is to enjoy it as much as possible.
Is Slime Mold Actually Intelligent?
The Mushroom Motherboard
I’d like to think these are true because that solves some problems for me.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Socialist Justice.
Which is no justice at all.
Who’s on first, Watts on second, Weirs on third. Something like that.
How do people like this get selected? Then elected? She’s so obviously whackadoodle, it must be a requirement for selection.
It’s Colorado… Lack of oxygen…
Racism news (the Hun):
Ah. I have no problem with the first two words of that alleged sentence, but the third – well, if true, what’s good for the goose etc.
In the traditional fashion, then. I’m starting to get vibes of ‘Do you know who I am?’
Backflip your way out of that one, girly.
Pay peanuts – get monkeys.
Pay chocolate-coated macadamias – get better clothed monkeys.
C’mon hamsters!
I wondered how she won it as Trump got over 60% in Massachusetts next door which is even more liberal than Vermont.
Because that is like looking under the hood of your bank, looking at the accounting entries (which are still sometimes obviously wrong, thanks NAB) and thinking the NPP can take 24+ hours to be confirmed and still be wrong!
BTC can do 7 TPS.
Lightning can do millions of TPS.
The Lightning Network has been integrated with BTC for over five years now (2018).
Incidentally, VISA alone handles around 1600 TPS just in the US alone.
Visa might be the best financial corporation to emerge from the pre-BTC era, but BTC with Lightning blows it out of the water.
Muddy
Mar 6, 2024 9:50 PM
Nothing to do with the pay, it’s simply the ‘quality’ of those willing to stand for office.
With the occasional exceptions, who don’t last long.
Two years up the creek should teach Mademoiselle a few manners…
Righto, what up with you stupid white bastards.
Tradie probably thought he was making a citizen’s arrest.
Said the albino ranga.
Was going to go to Hagar Qim today but gave up when the bus was cancelled and the other options can getting resheduled. Queue was getting longer and longer. Will go to the archeology museum after all and try again, probably via a route that doesn’t involve a change at Valletta, tomorrow
All Cats are grey in cyberspace, munter
Cheeseburger Extravagance news (the Courier-Mail):
Oh my wordy lordy. Presented without further comment, aside from ‘define “treated”‘.
Why white British children as young as eight are pledging their lives to Allah
Story goes it was his mother’s house, up for sale, and it was being targeted by the indigenous kids, on a regular basis.
The Obama Fraud Still Matters, and It Always Will
I see Pesutto has leaked Matt Guy’s membership of the Freemasons.
Now, if only he could leak Moira Deeming’s links to the Grampians Nazis…
mUnty makes this joint even more retarded than normal
mUnter. Serious question.
Have you been into the no-sugar cranberry Cruisers again?
It’s okay if you have. Lots of people have their secret shame.
Doesn’t make you look any better, trans.
Zombie trolling is the worst.
I’ll wait until the book comes out…
Britneeee – seeking hospital treatment after day one of meditation discussions.
Coming to understand that the balance of the $2.4m that shariz hasn’t milked might be heading to Perth.
The shack in France might be on the market soon.
Nikki Haley, out.
Chief Commissioner Shane Patton has hit out at the “selfish, entitled” climate protesters and explained why it took so long for officers to clear their blockade.
Shane Patton?
Payne Shatt-on works better.
Um
https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2022-dodge-challenger-srt-hellcat-widebody-auto-my22/OAG-AD-21966555/
$367,000
!!!
The ACT justice system is like a river to the provincial people.
Shane Patton?
Payne Shatt-on works better.
Reminds me of one of Brad Pitts children being named Shiloh Pitt.
Poor sod was probably called ‘Piloh Shitt’ at School.