Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu urges removal of UN peacekeepers from Lebanon, claiming they are ‘hostages of Hezbollah’ Benjamin Netanyahu has…
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu urges removal of UN peacekeepers from Lebanon, claiming they are ‘hostages of Hezbollah’ Benjamin Netanyahu has…
And your daily chuckle comes courtesy of the Daily Telegraph: Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has joined the Board of…
Andrew Bolt on Mzzz Allan: Victoria’s Premier has a secret she really should share with all Australians. Or she’s a…
Sacred duty. https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1845455779484270690?t=fMzDRGEAZoUf0Fes2hxAnQ&s=19
Stupid Forking Liberals. Again. Herald Sun sez: Former premier Jeff Kennett has come under fire from Liberal Party members after…
Peter Broelman.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco #1.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Ben Garrison.
Another scoop on Sharri Markson’s Sky News show last night:
Albanese government removes ASIO and ASIS heads from National Security Committee of Cabinet
Thanks Tom. Putin wins a One Horse Race – Lol.
It turns out the secretary of Elbow’s Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, former Melbourne University academic Glyn Davis, is a stooge for the Chinese Communist Party who helped Victorian premier Dan Andrews line up his Belt and Road deal with the CCP.
So Elbow’s top public servant shuts security chiefs out of Cabinet’s National Security Committee while helping silence anti-CCP sentiment inside the government as our activist foreign minister Penny Wong climbs into bed with Hamas by reinstating Australian funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency UNRWA whose staff participated in the mass slaughter of Jews last October.
Our federal government is more leftwing than the Whitlam regime.
Trump won’t rule out 16-week abortion ban, but won’t commit either
TYSON TO PAUL
”I WILL HURT YOU”
Don’t say he hasn’t been warned.
Tyson is one of the greatest boxers and indeed martial artists of all time.
https://youtu.be/KaV8HiWKyug?feature=shared
Why should public servants be members of a cabinet committee?
I thought the following bit was pretty interesting:
The implication is that Albo, Wong and Davis are working their way through a list of demands from China, who are offering the quid pro quo of dropping tariffs on wine and unembargoing other stuff, like coal.
So maybe the ASIO and ASIS thing was another line item crossed off.
Given our vulnerable position defense-wise it sounds like the elites in this country are edging away from the US and towards China. Perhaps they think placating the dragon will work.
Sky News may need to get in some security:
Extinction Rebellion target GB News as offices covered in paint (18 Mar)
Bit rich XR labeling people extremist. Since our stinkies are just as stinky as Pommy stinkies I suspect the local lot will have a go at similar media offices here, especially since they all coordinate with each other.
Big day today .. all the tests, scans dun and the results in so this afternoon I’ll find out whether I’m in for my 3rd round with the big C .. not a relapse but a totally different version if it’s there .. I feel great no pains or even feeling unwell or anything else so slightly concerned but not panicking .. hopefully, just my age (76) that prompts the C checks before the, obvious, “enlarged prostate” symptoms ….
Anywayz lotza things crossed and, as Doris sang, “what will be will be ……..”
ASPI, an ‘independent’ think tank funded by the US and Australian governments is frequently critical of China?
Well tickle my arse with a feather.
Can’t quite get why several of the cartoonists (Leake included) are over-dripping their brushes on the Russian election .. Given the state of USA politics I’m more inclined to believe the Ruskies voting system is, probably, a sight cleaner than the Yank version …..
Tho, the bar isn’t set too high given that these dayz most 3rd world voting set-ups look cleaner than the USA production …
With the voter fraud in the US elections, the cartoons about the vote for Putin are hypocritical and unfunny. Big miss, Leak and Knight.
With the voter fraud in the US elections, the cartoons about the vote for Putin are hypocritical and unfunny. Big miss, Leak and Knight.
Quite so. Would they prefer the globalist scum who are destroying/have destroyed the West to be running Russia? Ultimately they are both in the employ of Mudrock.
Epic tale of woe, and fascinating too.
Unhappy Tesla Owner! (18 Mar)
Eyrie
March 19, 2024 7:57 am
With the voter fraud in the US elections, the cartoons about the vote for Putin are hypocritical and unfunny. Big miss, Leak and Knight.
+1
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Good luck with your results shatterzzz
4th in 2 years. Rightio. Daily Telegraph:
So looks like this bloke was lined up before Keegan got the Khyber Pass.
Can have all the advisors in the world but how about just do your job Ms Webb?
Sharri can smell the influence peddlers inside the tent.
Belt and Road through the back door from the Allan government in Vic through the autocratic pushing of mostly Chinese corporate interests colonising the land with renewables.
Chalmers supposedly inconsequential drop tariff reforms included Chinese solar and turbine blades. The benefits to the average consumer were tiny and it didn’t rate a big announcement but then again, we weren’t the audience.
MSM are tone deaf to the big game being played by senior bureaucrats and corporate bosses. AEMO stinks of influence.
The Strategy of Atrocity in the Gaza War
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Remember you’re dealing with hypocrites and professional liars. Legacy news media is the enemy of the people.
HOW EUROPE’S PALM OIL BAN WILL DESTROY THEIR OWN ECONOMY
JUST IN: US Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson Just Defended The US Government Violating the 1st Amendment During Arguments in Case Sen Rand Paul Calls “the most consequential free speech case in U.S. history”
Just In: Barack Obama Caught on Video Entering Home of UK Prime Minister—Why?
Sending you much sympathy, Mark, on the loss of your Mum. I second Rosie’s choice of Psalm 23 for your OT reading. I’m sure, whatever your choice, you’ll do her proud.
@ImMeme0
A truth bomb explodes as a man reveals who’s truly to blame for the migrant crisis in Chicago!
Just In: Barack Obama Caught on Video Entering Home of UK Prime Minister—Why?
Maybe just a gay hook-up while he was in town.
Great to see such openness on display from a government agency.
CDC Finally Releases 148 Page Study on Myocarditis Following COVID Vaccine – And EVERY SINGLE WORD is Redacted! (17 Mar)
Mushrooming by the elites is becoming an artform.
And as Roy Bland said decades ago in Tinker Tailor;
I see Trump has gone begging to thirty different companies to cover his bond, and none of them want a bar of him.
Looks like he’ll have to sell one of his properties, LOL.
Here at Arky Labs we noticed our competitor’s AS (Artificial Stupidity) systems lacked the warmth and humanity of real human interactions.
So we added a layer to our neural network model to mimic the hormonal fluctuations of regular actual human persons. And the ability for you to pair ARKYGPTLGBGT++ with your devices. Whether it’s your car, your robot girlfriend or your fridge, you can now enjoy authentic artificial interactions with all the objects in and around the home.
Sid was bored with the same old predictable responses from his robot: “Once I paired Nancy with ARKYGPTLGBGT++ it was a whole new experience. She ditched the sad, predictably positive and responsive behaviour. Instead she sat on the couch drinking UDL cans and texting her new friends. Later that night she came into the bedroom and tried to stab me. It was just like a real relationship”.
Indolent
March 19, 2024 8:52 am
JUST IN: US Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson Just Defended The US Government Violating the 1st Amendment During Arguments in Case Sen Rand Paul Calls “the most consequential free speech case in U.S. history”
So many black kunts: this commie cow, letitia, fany, cackles and the completely grotesque creatures in the demorats like maxine waters.
JUST IN: US Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson Just Defended The US Government Violating the 1st Amendment
It seems Brown (the DEI appointment on SCOTUS) is most concerned that the US Constitution limits the Govts right to censor public discourse in the media. Yes, she is quoted as saying that in arguments.
Similar to Australia where these leftwing swine will soon have similar powers. For our own good of course.
Salwan Momika is an Iraqi asylum seeker living in Sweden.
He is known for his strong anti-Islam stance.
The Swedish government wants to deport him to Iraq for burning the Quran, which will be a certain death sentence for him.
Urban Scoop has launched an urgent petition to pressure the Swedish government into dropping its campaign to deport Salwan
Pity we don’t have genuine asylum seekers lie this guy. Here’s the petition.
Fuk! Petition
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia glitch lets customers withdraw millions
Good Luck with trying to get the money back – Lol –
“Ethiopia’s biggest commercial bank is scrambling to recoup large sums of money withdrawn by customers after a “systems glitch”.
The customers discovered early on Saturday that they could take out more cash than they had in their accounts at the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE).
More than $40m (£31m) was withdrawn or transferred to other banks, local media reported.
It took several hours for the institution to freeze transactions.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68599027
The grinning idiot being an idiot. Courier Mail:
How long before Miles does an Andrews and pulls the plug?
World’s largest solar panel manufacturer to cut workforce by 30%.
Chinese company Longi’s revenue collapsed by 44% last year while its share price is down 70% from 2021.
The Guardian cites an ongoing trend of energy companies switching from renewables to higher margin oil and gas projects as a factor in the company’s decline.
BoN, the “unhappy Tesla driver”, is just like the majority of people doing just about anything. Only look at the positives. There are not many new mousetraps around. The left have perfected this approach by insisting 100% of an unproven idea instead of 5-10% improvement of an old idea. This is why people get caught up in scams. The internet is full of perpetual motion machines and sentient computers. I’m very rarely disappointed by looking at the downside of every shiny new thing that comes along. Some things are already as good as they get, e.g. mousetraps. I’ve been relatively successful by taking nibbles instead of a whole mouthful. There are very few J Robert Oppenheimer and Elon Reeve Musk that can see past the downside of a massive problem. What these two have achieved in a short space of time is incredible. I grew up with parents afraid to do anything. Always warned not to get out of the box. I suppose that’s why I’m a sceptic. I’m more a product of my relatives. My niece asked me recently why I’m not like my sister or parents. I said, “lucky”.
And that is with Billion$ in subsidies and tax breaks from retarded/corrupt Govts helping them out. Our hard earned pissed up against the wall on unreliable scam projects.
Yep the Leak is a bit weak. Plus, Herge got there a hundred years ago in Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.
Chris Bowen is increasingly looking like a reverse King Canute, assuring Australians he can command the tides of world markets.
The interesting thing about democracy in modern times: it resonates so much with ordinary people – even Russians, who’ve never really experienced it in their history – that even when it’s being subverted the subverters have to pretend they’re democrats lest they lose legitimacy.
Why do we need to spend billions on Olympic games infrastructure? We can do a cut price games with existing infrastructure. No one remembers stadiums etc after the games have gone.
Mem – The comment box is now at the top not the bottom.
When you post a comment it first stays at the top, but when you refresh it goes to the bottom.
Bit of a work in progress so far. The commenting seems to work more like Disqus, if you are used to that.
You don’t need to login to comment, but I think you need to register if you want to do upticks. I haven’t tried that yet.
Heinlein keeps coming true, in this case the Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
China Working on Giant Rail Gun to Shoot Astronauts Into Space (16 Mar, via instapundit)
So far the Chinese haven’t managed to get anywhere near what Elon does with reusable rockets. But they’re trying, and they seem to be more inclined to try risky stuff that other nations are. The innovation race is fun to watch.
Quirk’s review seems to have been entirely uninformed of the Olympic Committee’s current advice that the games should utilise existing infrastructure to keep costs manageable, lest no city/country in future be willing to take them on.
Top man.
Worth a read, sadly:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/03/why-the-adf-risks-failure-in-the-next-war/
Sleazy rich pricks who pretend to be the worker’s friend news:
Via Gateway Pundit and good work of Libs of TikTok.
Seems Planet Fitness think it is a good idea to allow men in ladies changing room.
Cancellations and 7% drop in share price so far.
When will they learn better to cater to the majority than very small minority.
Grate – health insurance premium has gone up 8.5% from next month.
Thanks, dickheads!
The Right: If you make an effort you can provide for yourself. You may not become rich, you may not make as much money as some others, but it will be yours, and yours in a way no government benefit or gift could ever be.
The Left: You deserve what rich people have. Vote for me and I will get it. I promise I won’t use my power and position to enrich myself. That is what those awful rich people do,
“Failing to swiftly destroy Hamas and directly punish Hamas’s backers in Iran and Qatar will teach sympathizers in other parts of the Muslim world that strategies of atrocity should be added to the playbook of regimes challenging U.S. allies around the world.”
Does anyone think that destroying Hamas, is even possible?
Or, more to the point, is that unachievable action even the goal?
No, is the answer to both.
The aim of the Israeli PM, Benjamin Pfizer, is to keep his sorry arse out of gaol.
Much like St Volodymyr the Pure, he is prepared to sacrifice his entire population, to achieve his goal.
Israel has never been weaker, in comparison to its neighbours, than it is now.
The catastrophe, (for both parties), that is occurring in Gaza, will be nothing, compared to what will happen, if Pfizer directs an attack against Lebanon, which, looks more and more likely.
Back in Dec/Jan, Israel evacuated more than 30,000 inhabitants of Northern Israel. Clearly, because Israel is so strong, ……, right?
If Lebanon is attacked, Israel will be on its own, because those US Carriers will be either withdrawn, or, more likely sunk. The loss of significant Israeli territory is not merely possible, but likely.
This is clearly a disastrous scenario, for Israel. Perhaps it is time to look for the best outcome for Israel, not the PM.
Nothing like a confidence booster before , possible, life/death consultation with a specialist .. Phoned me 15 minutes ago, to say, “We haven’t got your MRI results yet” .. answered by my, “The imagining people msg-ed me on Friday afternoon to say they had forwarded the results to you” ……… FFS!
Crap science report of the day.
Magpies under siege from climate and man-made noise (Phys.org, 18 Mar)
Magpies are thriving. Indeed more warmth is a good thing for them since they can start their season earlier, thereby avoiding cuckoos. And magpies in urban areas are as well fed as can be, especially in my suburb.
Ah well, the UWA PhD student will probably get an immediate lectureship and rise to professor even before you can say “climate crap”.
TE, sad indictment of the ADF which comes as no surprise to Cats. In peacetime they’re already a failure. Coupled with failed Brereton Report, years in the making, the Brass should be fired. Me thinks if the Brass have not been in a life endangering situation they have no idea, hence the gazing into the past for indiscretions not in line with pleasant company at dinner parties. Angry shots tend to focus the mind. Am I correct to say is Cosgrove the last to be put in a dangerous situation?
Went to a Masked Owl Crisis fillum the other night. There was a posse of Black Cockatoo Crisis shirts in the lobby. I might get ahead of the market and print off some ASMR/Hot Flush Maggie Crisis hoodies for the autumn apocalypse.
You can destroy its infrastructure. Fill its tunnels, and demolish every school and hospital used as weapons storage depots, launch sites and food dumps.
You can kill its leaders, both within Gaza and without, as well as anyone publicly identifying themselves with it.
You can make it so unpalatable for any existing or prospective member that any incentive for being anywhere near Hamas is gonski.
You can also send a message to any potential group looking to fill that vacuum that it would be a less than stellar idea.
So yes. Yes Hamas can be destroyed.
Well, he certainly seems to be some kind of a Canute.
He and his ‘umble missus have spent $30 million on three residences, true representatives of the wukkas! mUnturd supports this kind of socialism.
Does anyone think that destroying Hamas, is even possible?
Or, more to the point, is that unachievable action even the goal?
No, is the answer to both.
Then what should Israel do.
I continue to watch bits of the Channel 9, Dr Al Muderis defamation case.
A few observations.
The whole system needs an over haul when it comes to any orthopaedic surgery.
There needs to be stricter criteria before you qualify for tax payer funded work.
And unless you can demonstrate a decent support network (family, friends, community) there is little chance of adhering to the ongoing re-hab after you get out of the surgical re-hab units.
It’s a congo line of people with depression (from well before their surgeries) who end up riddled with infections.
If Al Muderis didn’t come across as such an arrogant fellow, Channel 9 would not have run the story IMHO.
ISIS was here to stay a couple of short years ago.
Couldn’t be defeated by orthodox means apparently.
Oops, this is buried in someones reply, so reposting:
AI is going to take all your jobs:
https://youtu.be/Sq1QZB5baNw
Supposed to be real, and I believe it.
Fascinating.
Amazing.
Scary.
ABS wage index Q4 23 shows public sector salaries surged while only 16% of private sector jobs saw a modest increase of 4.4% on average.
It’s now a two tier workforce.
This is why I am not using the reply function. I refresh and go to the bottom to see what comments are new. I am not going to go back over the whole thread to expand replies and then check if anything is…unfamiliar?
That is just me though.
Perhaps.
How long before Miles does an Andrews and pulls the plug?
Yes, knock it on the head. Olympics are a WOFTAM and a bloated joke*
Will probably be replaced by the Hunger Games by then anyway.
https://www.paris2024.org/en/sport/breaking/
*breaking as in break dancing FFS. Rabz doctrine required
The objective of this exercise is to demonstrate so much death of Hamas operatives and violent destruction of Hamas’ supporting infrastructure so as to deter future aspirants. So while destroying Hamas may indeed not be possible, it will most certainly dramatically reduce Hamas to somewhat of a rump rabble.
I fail to see why Israel should be prevented from doing just that, given the horrors Hamas visited on innocent people , including babies, on Oct 7th last. In fact this retribution is thoroughly deserved.
Who was Genrikh Yagoda and why isn’t he as infamous as Hitler or Eichmann?
“In fact this retribution is thoroughly deserved.”
I fail to see why we do not support it to the hilt, yet apparently support the Ukes.
Looks like he’ll have to sell one of his properties, LOL.
Any normally sensible blog that has Monty on it has sold out.
Re the article about “The Government is not your Daddy.”
Government is like the strange man at the pub who promises you great drugs. When you take them, he goes through your handbag, helps himself to your girlie bits, blows your credit card limit, and then blames you for getting pregnant because you weren’t on the pill.
Off the top of my headhe was once head of NKVD one of Stalins henchmen. Succeeded by Beria. Either that or he was in Star Wars. Will check on Wiki.
I see I was wrong about Beria.
I suspect he’s angling to have the corrupt legal system order confiscation of his properties, especially Trump Tower.
That will utterly destroy New York City, the real estate rats will be fleeing down the anchor ropes at great pace.
‘Escape From New York,’ Starring Donald Trump… and Every Other Developer (18 Mar)
Then the appellate court will overturn the judgement, reinstate his properties and award costs and actual and punitive damages to Trump.
It’ll be entertaining to see the gnashing of teeth from the usual suspects!
It’s certainly going to turn Hollywood into a landscape of AIs and melting snowflakes.
Report: Laid-off Hollywood Executives Panic as Jobs Vanish — ‘This Is a Full-Scale Depression’ (18 Mar)
Golly that’s just so terrible! Maybe woke snowflake peoples you should’ve made movies that people actually wanted to watch rather than shove endless qwerty propaganda down everyone’s throats.
Upthread Top Ender linked to the excellent piece in Quadrant Online by Professor Michael Evans about ADF education of officers.
This paragraph sums it up for me:
There is a popular saying among military educators that “chalk dust must support gun smoke”. One of the reasons for the poor state of Australian professional military education is that external academic providers allowed chalk dust to eclipse gun smoke. There is a constant, unresolved philosophical tension between academic imperatives and enhancing military effectiveness.
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Knuckles, I think it important for the destruction of Hamas is for the IDF to eliminate the foot soldiers as well as the leadership. The foot soldiers need to know they are targets, not just the top dogs. Advertise the fact. As we saw they were quite willing to surrender. Anyone identified in the massacre needs to be killed. The supporters that send money need two taps as well. I’m sure Mossad has the ability to identify them. Support terrorism and you’re a target. Benny Wonk comes to mind.
Australia’s answer to Harry and Sparkles:
Wowee. Airheads doesn’t come close to describing these imbeciles. I foresee a book coming from Warner, except it will need to be written for him because he is about as bright as a wet sack of sawdust.
TheirABC’s ‘experts’ proved to be idiots – again.
“That is normal,” he says.
Dr Evans says it is too cold for the flies in the southern half of the continent in winter.
Dr (for a Doctor he is – h/t Gerald) should get out of the aircon and into the fresh air now and then.
Bushflies, and other flies, certainly can survive below 15C. Take it from someone who lives and has lived for decades in the Canberra region.
Bushflies do drop off quite quickly as it gets colder, but other types of flies around here even survive frosts. They do eventually disappear in the depths of winter.
TheirABC’s Rolodex of ‘experts’ contains as many duds as the Victorian Parliamentary Liberal Party.
PS – I still can’t vote up or down, because evil WordPress won’t accept my email address. It’s an encrypted one. The same thing happened when I tried to register for the SBS online service. Not acceptable – now, why would that be?
They’re harvesting your data, make no mistake.
Candice asked co-host Richard Freedman: “What would you like Latrell Mitchell to do. What is going to make you happy?
“Your saying you’d like him to be more of a role model?”
ROFL! Sometimes the AI is bang on point.
Australia won’t forget about you pair of dunderheads, either.
Test
Mike O’Connor in the Courier Mail:
Andrew Lawrence
Out of his mind…
Out of his mind…
US Navy getting that Gun Smoke experience.
Blackout Bowen being interviewed this morning on Breakfast TV –
Warning, warning. This is a very difficult video to watch – An ‘R’ Rating at least –
Do you believe him?
https://youtu.be/MqrswdotqFE
“Candace and David Warner never forget”. What David Warner never forgets apart from being cheating midget houso ranga is SBW banging Candace in a pub dunny. Candace never forgets that night also.
Indolent
March 19, 2024 2:54 pm
Andrew Lawrence
Out of his mind…
https://youtu.be/DqPiUOvs2X8?t=123
BLiar hasn’t aged well. A real Epstein Island vibe there.
Probably a first for a court-room?
Male museum visitor lodges legal battle against Mona over its women-only ‘ladies’ lounge’
Mona could be ordered to close down its opulent, emerald-curtained “ladies lounge” following a discrimination battle waged by an interstate museum visitor.
New South Wales resident Jason Lau has lodged a complaint with Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner after he paid $35 for a ticket to Mona, but was excluded from the artwork designed by Mona’s “first lady” Kirsha Kaechele.
The stoush was played out in the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Tuesday, with Ms Kaechele speaking passionately about why she felt a women-only ladies’ lounge that excluded men was an essential statement in the male-dominated art world.
She was accompanied by about 25 women, mainly dressed in blue power suits, glasses and pearl necklaces, who synchronised their movements in the hearing room – leaning back, leaning forward, holding onto their spectacle frames as one.
As the hearing concluded, the women formed a type of conga line and left the building while performing a synchronised dance step to the music of Robert Palmer’s Simply Irresistible.
Mr Lau represented himself via video link during the hearing, which was presided over by tribunal deputy president Richard Grueber.
He said that during his trip to Mona, he had been “quite surprised” to be refused access to the ladies lounge “on the basis I was male”.
“Any lay person would expect that if you buy a ticket, you would expect the provision of goods and services in line with the law,” he said.
Mr Lau also argued that men weren’t told they weren’t permitted entry to the lounge until after the ticket was purchased.
He has sought relief by Mona either removing the lounge, ceasing the exclusion of men, or creating a two-tiered ticketing system.
Mona’s lawyer Catherine Scott said to stop men being excluded from the artwork would change the very nature of the work, and also said Mona couldn’t change the ticketing system.
She argued the ladies’ lounge was covered by section 26 of Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act, which allows for discrimination in any program, plan or arrangement designed to promote equal opportunity for a group of people who are disadvantaged, or have a special need due to a particular attribute.
Ms Kaechele was called to the witness stand to give evidence about how and why she created the ladies’ lounge, giving a vivid description of the creative process.
“An artwork – my experience is they tend to emerge. They’re not borne out of a particular moment. They’re part of an emergent process that I’m completely enthralled by as an artist and have a sense of awe for,” she said.
“I feel that I’m a vessel and the artwork builds itself. I like to call it ‘God is the curator’, to irritate my atheist friends, but it really feels like this artwork is coming through me.”
Ms Kaechele said women were traditionally excluded from places of power, and that she designed the ladies’ lounge in response to Mona having an imbalance of works by male and female artists.
“This presented the opportunity to make a statement and make a place for the gathering of women, for the very special thing that happens when women come together – and I mean anyone who identities as a woman, you don’t have to be born a woman,” she said.
“It excludes men, and I would be lying if I were to say I didn’t find it titillating.
“I think women have a moment of excitement and glee. It’s naughty. But why can we have a sense of humour about it? It’s because as women, we don’t hold the power.”
In her closing submissions, Ms Scott said if the lounge was a club where entry was charged, “we wouldn’t be here today because clubs have an exemption” under discrimination laws.
She said the ladies’ lounge came about from Mona realising it had a lack of art by women.
“It’s potentially a really powerful piece, a really powerful medium,” she said.
“It also responds to the historical exclusion of women from spaces.”
Ms Scott also said Mr Leu did in fact experience the artwork of the ladies’ lounge, which was one of the “clever” aspects of the artwork in responding to female disadvantage.
“Mr Lau did get to experience the artwork, which was his exclusion,” she said.
“Part of the experience is being denied something that is desired.”
Mr Grueber will hand down his decision at a date to be determined.
Free speech lives!
WordPress won’t accept my registration, and Dover won’t accept my comments.
This version of the blog sucks big time, for the reasons mentioned in my unpublished comment above.
Ask Anthony Watts about the battles he had with WP regarding his huge and successful blog, including concerns about security, flexibility and independence. In the end, he ditched them, but it cost a lot of time and money.
I didn’t want to ‘register’ with WP, but after some consideration I tried to. Like SBS, TheirABC and other dataharvesters, they refused my email address because it is from an encrypted site.
What more do you need to know?
Ms Scott also said Mr Leu did in fact experience the artwork of the ladies’ lounge, which was one of the “clever” aspects of the artwork in responding to female disadvantage.
“Mr Lau did get to experience the artwork, which was his exclusion,” she said.
“Part of the experience is being denied something that is desired.”
So, it’s like being married.
Hey Cronkite,
if the story is true that Trump is unable to secure a bond, and the fat ugly slug begins to seize assets, could this lead to ineligibility as a result of potential bankruptcy proceedings?
if the story is true that Trump is unable to secure a bond, and the fat ugly slug begins to seize assets, could this lead to ineligibility as a result of potential bankruptcy proceedings?
That’s the plan
And the fat ugly slug taunts him everyday by posting the daily accrued interest. These people are truly evil. Unreal.
Should have added, MONA is worthy of a yearly award as being the silliest and most pretentious art gallery/museum in the country.
Flying to Sydney from Melburnistan this morning we were put in a holding pattern somewhere Sth West of Syd-a-nee. The view out the aircraft window was appalling. Ferkin bird choppers in clusters all around. We were a fair way up and they dominated the landscape. Those things were almost as big a Bowens ego.
Speaking to an auto industry colleague. Tells me their brands representative attempted to give Clown Bowen a report on the impact of his beloved NVES due to come in next year. Herr Ministers Response ‘don’t give that to me!’, ‘i dont intend to read it’ ‘yes we knew the price of your vehicles would go up by thousand of $. That is the point!’
what a drop kick.
It just got very interesting in Florida with Judge Cannon just issuing her latest decision. Finally President Trump has a win.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mar-lago-judge-stark-ruling-022208652.html
Kate spotted in public. Isn’t she supposed to be dead? Clearly Liz isn’t in charge anymore.
Candice certainly was star studded. Then she married David Warner.
Candice certainly was star studded. Then she married David Warner.
She knows what she is doing. Controls his finances. Probably pegs him.
Add Beta to cheat, houso and ranga.
One can only hope the tsunami reaches our shores! Regrettably, it means clogging our courts and more $ for the lawyerly scum.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/tsunami-of-indigenous-identity-fraud-cases-heading-to-courts-warns-bc-judge-5608191?ea_src=au-frontpage&ea_med=undefined-title-1
The latest MONA schadenboner actually looks like a lot of fun. As long as the clowns don’t get handed any taxpayer munni, I say, play on.
…I’m still not visiting tho. Confirms that the whole circus is about as weighty as a gossip mag.
Your own link says the tootsies’ arsenal is being degraded. How is that not making a difference?
A day out at MONA is fun. The catamaran, the outdoor bbq thingy, you might be lucky enough to see a band.
Plus some decent art. Also some shit art. But name a gallery where that isn’t the case.
Wow – there are some weeks you want to forget.
We get our mail redirected to farm & just arrived after city sojourn to be greeted by all that is going crazy in this country.
The worst was a fine for a parking offence in QLD – now, we havnt been in QLD in a few years & our Landcruiser has not been stolen or borrowed. The fine was for a number plate that was NOT ours, yet a call to the QLD department which sent the fine would not budge & said the photo was of a Landcruiser! Australia is becoming a joke! Trouble is – it’s not funny.
The next envelope was from Meat & Livestock Aust. seeking our re-registration through the most convoluted digital process you could devise . At this time, I doubt if I can navigate it!
This is a country going backwards in a hurry.
Last Oct, a kilo of blueberries was 18 bucks at Costco.
A month ago, 24 bucks.
Today, 32 bucks.
Dunno what’s going on there.
I’d supposed to be happy I’m a shareholder.
In I’m-already-voting -for-you-so-you-don’t-have-to-convince-me news: Trump is apparently open to deporting Harold Windsor.
Democrats Are Dancing in the Streets Over Bankrupting Trump & Family
You had better get the HELL out of NYC and not do business with ANY company in New York City, for the courts are no longer reliable. The novel action against Trump is that they claimed your house is worth one million for a loan even though the bank independently values it at $800k and lends you $500k. Despite you paying back the loan and the banks even testifying that they did not rely on that number, the NY court arbitrarily called that FRAUD. There is ABSOLUTELY no company that cannot now be utterly destroyed in NYC using this theory. They could even target individuals they do not like and take their homes as well.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/democrats-are-dancing-in-the-streets-over-bankrupting-trump-family/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
So I’m heading back to Sydney on Sunday and have organised a 3 week rental commencing Monday due to renovations that are meant to be in progress on my property. For this rental I have had to pay the full amount in advance.
With 24 hours notice I receive an email saying the rental has been cancelled due to ‘maintenance issues’, no further details , no alternative offered , nothing other than a refund of just what I have paid.
It seems odd that I have to pay the full amount in advance but the other party can cancel without penalty 24 hours before occupation. I’m considering my options but if anyone has any similar experience I would be interested in their views.
The Dumbocrats have jumped for joy on many, many occasions, only to be bested again by the Don.
I’m pretty sure this will be the next notch on his belt.
Never even ‘eard of ;im…..
A Marvel actor has reportedly been “officially offered” the role of James Bond.
British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been formally offered the chance to take over from current Bond star Daniel Craig, according to The Sun.
I’m pretty sure their plan for Trump is to get him in prison or jail long enough to murder him.
I can do comments and upticks, but I’m not sure how I managed it. The site always just says “You are logged in as mareeS.” I think I ticked the “remember me” box when I first did the log-in when it all changed the other day.
The utter Democrat fools in NY think that nobody is paying attention to what they are doing. Not only are all Republicans taking note of what would happen to them in NY if they displeased the fascists but the whole business world is looking and thinking if they need to set up in US they will go to Florida. I expect NYC to become a regional centre in the near future.
Testing …
I never heard of him either but he looks pretty and might grow into the role, as long as they don’t make him gay.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been in a bunch of good movies.
Dunno if he’s good enough to be Bond though.
Just glanced at the top left corner of The Cat.
Howdy, Dover. 🙂
Ooh! And add a few more deltas to my gravatar and I look just like Simon Morgan.
Well Marty would know.
Time to move tents Rafahians.
It’s part of culture.
https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/1769397166596821289?t=XkoYCqW82Im6ULDTriocLw&s=19
Entitled self-absorbed greenie scrote news (the Hun):
Two months. Should have been two years, but ‘green shoots’ (fnarrr). The judge (David Sexton):
And:
Yep. Should have been two years. The Greens’ elected representatives:
Huzzah!
Back on the Al Muderis defamation case.
A couple of patients were operated on, had a reduced amount of time in the post surgery re-hab because of COVID before they were sent home to re-hab themselves (physio when they could get it).
I am shocked surgeries were performed during the COVID years where proper re-hab could not be done.
The surgeries in these instances should never have been performed.
According to the case so far, approximately 10% of all orthopaedic surgeries need additional surgeries.
These are the surgeries that are expected to be one & done.
Not the ones where multiple ones are planned.
Finally, a judge in touch with the everyday Aussie.
Thanks, KD, for posting such excellent news for all us fiesty old (lady) conservatives.
So the old brown turd puncher condones that act of political terrorism on the Westgate Bridge.
Hey a question from a colleague whose wife is returning to work after a 10 year break.
His Mrs was in Sunsuper but it has been swallowed up. He’s wondering who they should go with now, apparently all the industry funds have absolutely horrible reviews. Heaps of retail funds but they are less sure there, he’s with MLC but reckons their fees structure isn’t real transparent.
Which is the best of the worse with the union funds, he’s looking at Australiansuper or Hostplus.
Brown of the earliest meja anti heroes.
Sort of unbelievable, but then again:
Like so many newly-retired boomers, my parents seem to have developed a full-on travel bug. And with every taken-on-a-whim excursion to Provence, every luxury jaunt to Thailand, New York or Costa Rica, I’m afraid to say I grow ever more resentful.
It is not a pleasant thing to admit, but the fact is their dream holidays are draining my inheritance.
As an impecunious 34-year-old millennial in an impossibly expensive property market, I am relying on, at some stage, a handout from them. But all I can see is my money receding into the distance on a long-haul trip to Bali.
With many of my friends in a similar position, and the cost of living crisis still at full throttle, the question troubling us over the generational divide is this. Who is being selfish? Us for wanting them to save their money so we can one day have it? Or them, for splurging it all so freely on themselves?
At the start of their travel spree, about five years ago, I loved the bravery and ambition of it. Growing up, we usually went to Devon or Cornwall once a year. But when there was just the two of them (my younger sister and I have long since flown the nest), they could afford to globe trot. For a bit.
Well, good for them, I thought. Let them, in their late 60s, have a couple of lovely holidays, before settling into a cosy retirement at home.
?
The problem was it didn’t stop at just one or two. It didn’t even stop at three or four.
More whingeing at the Daily Mail
Is that you twostix?
Whilst overnighting in Canberra I met a retired public servant who I was at University with.
Fifteen years ago he was hard over left wing, ABC devotee, Green, women’s rights, frontier wars, hated Abbott……the whole catastrophe.
In a believe it or not event he has now been orange pilled, not quite red but most of the way there.
Over 3 hours and 2 bottles of sake he treated me to a lament that should have bought tears to my eyes had I not burst out laughing.
He is surrounded by woke women in the wokest suburb in Australia and mixes with academia.
He cannot get more than one sentence into a discussion without being called a racist and shouted down. He he thinks Albo is the worst PM we have ever had, he thinks Keating was totally overrated, he wants an immediate halt to immigration, believes the Ozrot started with Hawke and China is not to be trusted. Neededless to say this is 180 degrees opposed to the feelings of those around him.
He was absolutely scathing about the Universities who he says are totally enamoured with China.
The poor bastard says he only knows 2 more or less normal people, both in Sydney and I appear to be one of them.
Rockdoctor
March 19, 2024 6:39 pm
Hey a question from a colleague whose wife is returning to work after a 10 year break.
His Mrs was in Sunsuper but it has been swallowed up. He’s wondering who they should go with now, apparently all the industry funds have absolutely horrible reviews. Heaps of retail funds but they are less sure there, he’s with MLC but reckons their fees structure isn’t real transparent.
Block quote fail.
Oregon shows the world how drug decriminalisation does not work
By MELANIE PHILLIPS
THE TIMES
For many years, Oregon has been the American poster child of drug decriminalisation. In 1973 it became the first state in the country to decriminalise cannabis. In 2020, it was the first state to decriminalise small amounts of hard drugs such as heroin, fentanyl and cocaine. It did this through the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, which was passed by a referendum.
The aim was to shift drug use from a criminal justice issue to a public health one. Decriminalisation meant that while prohibited drugs remained illegal, criminal charges were abandoned. This was predicted to reduce the number of drug addicts in prison and increase the number receiving treatment.
Elsewhere around the world, this liberal orthodoxy has made powerful inroads. While most governments have held the line against decriminalisation, they have also changed the focus to “harm reduction”, which aims not to stop drug-taking but to use public health measures to manage it better.
Liberal orthodoxy holds that the problem isn’t illicit drugs but the laws that criminalise them. And Oregon has been cited as proof.
Now, though, Oregon is rethinking, at least in part. Last week its Senate voted to make possession of small amounts of hard drugs a misdemeanour punishable by up to six months in jail or 18 months’ probation.
This is because the public has turned against the 2020 law. Few addicts are actually seeking voluntary treatment programs.
Instead, public drug use has become rampant, with all its resulting squalor. People are openly using fentanyl, said to be hundreds of times more potent than heroin, on the streets.
From 2022 to 2023, fentanyl overdose deaths rocketed by an estimated 42 per cent. Two months ago Portland, Oregon’s largest city, declared a state of emergency over a public health and safety crisis driven by fentanyl use.
A drug counsellor and former drug user there has said many people struggling with addiction will not seek treatment without criminal justice intervention. Well, there’s a surprise. It would seem that there might be a point to the rule of law after all.
Oregon’s 2020 Act was inspired by Portugal, which in 2001 decriminalised personal possession of all drugs and was widely hailed as the template for focusing on public health rather than a law-based “abstinence” policy.
Portugal, however, is now also experiencing buyer’s remorse. The number of adults using illicit drugs increased to 12.8 per cent in 2022, up from 7.8 per cent in 2001. The number of people seeking help has fallen dramatically, while the number openly abusing drugs on the streets has risen exponentially. Police say this also helps account for a huge rise in crime.
Joao Goulao, the head of Portugal’s national institute on drug use and the architect of decriminalisation, admitted in December: “What we have today no longer serves as an example to anyone.” Rather than fault the policy, however, he blamed a lack of funding.
A more likely explanation is provided by Keith Humphreys, a former senior drug policy adviser in the Obama administration and a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. When law enforcement first backs away from illicit drug use, he said, it takes time for users to stop behaving as if the police are still lurking.
“Then word gets out that there’s an open market, limits to penalties, and you start drawing in more drug users. Then you’ve got a more stable drug culture and, frankly, it doesn’t look as good any more.”
Other places are also beginning to roll back their liberal drug policies. Amsterdam, famous for its “pot cafes”, last year banned smoking cannabis in public places. In Norway, a Portugal-style plan to decriminalise drugs collapsed in 2021 and the country opted instead for a more piecemeal approach.
Two years after the Washington state legislature decriminalised hard drugs, Bellingham city council voted last year to make open drug use an arrestable crime; the fentanyl overdoses of a five-year-old and two teenagers was the last straw.
It may be, though, that Oregon still hasn’t got the most important point. When it voted for decriminalisation, it did so because it had a serious problem, with one in 11 then addicted to drugs. It did not, however, spot a link between that and the decriminalisation of cannabis 17 years previously.
On the contrary, it viewed cannabis as a cash cow. While convictions for drug use were expensive, noted the 2020 Act, Oregon now received more than $150m in annual cannabis tax revenue, a bounty that was expected to grow by more than $30m annually.
Even now, there’s still no move to recriminalise cannabis and other “soft” drugs in Oregon. But the evidence suggests soft drugs cannot be separated from hard ones. It’s not simply because cannabis is a gateway to the hard stuff or that it does terrible things to the brain and behaviour. More fundamentally, it is because tackling drug abuse requires consistent signalling.
The message needs to be that all narcotics are illegal because they are all dangerous. Differential polices between “hard” and “soft” muddle that message, which then gets lost altogether.
In The Netherlands, the bastion of lenient drug policies, the mayor of Amsterdam has warned that the growth of a vast, professional and violent drugs trade risks turning the country into a narco-state.
Coincidence? You’d have to be smoking something to believe that.
THE TIMES
Oz
I heard that Sunsuper’s successor just took a massive hit on the NYC property market.
(Not financial advice.)
Smoking pot has been sanctified by green progressivism as a holy ritual since Woodstock. Good luck weaning them off of it.
Curious.
Simon Morgan, does Salem mean anything to you?
Cheers Peter & Roger will pass on.
Not to mention good ol’ Rastafarians. Legend has it Viv Richards used to partake in some ‘erb before going out to face Lillee and Thommo back in the day.
Sorry Simon, I don’t mean witch hunt Salem. I mean today, joyful Salem.
Honestly, look at this evil, vicious kunt:
I always thought dope’s illicitness was part of the appeal for young people. When effectively legalised the forbidden thrill had to move to the next drug.
Ecstasy is a common enough drug but I don’t think it is what people go to for a shared experience with a few friends.
If marijuana becomes socially acceptable, and people are able to smoke it with the same casualness as they drink grog, does heroin begin to possess an allure?
I really don’t claim to know. It is way outside my experience.
No!
The ABC worrying about economic mismanagement in Victoriastan?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-19/breakthrough-victoria-bad-investments-no-transparency/103605338
Am I hallucinating?
Who (or what) is she?
Clemmie Ford, isn’t it?
A little old but note the opening comment about poor irrigation system maintenance.
Here in the middle of France there is a little flooding.
The pretty town I’m staying in, Sens is on the River Yonne, the houses on the river bank have high stone walls, for good reason.
There is a little island in the river and this is where I’m having coffee , in a little bar near the medieval church of St Maurice which looks to be locked up, unfortunately.
Hopefully the Cathedral on the other side of the river is open.
The broom? is in full bloom and pink petals drift from the trees as kind snow.
The trip here on the regional train between Lyon and Paris Bercy was uneventful, though I was taken astray by Google again navigating from the station. The host hadnt put the correct address on the listing, (so much for ‘get directions’) but only in a later message. Fortunately rescued by a kind lady in a Mercedes who drove me back to my accommodation which I’d left behind in the gravel dust I was dragging my suitcase through on the road to nowhere. I told her my sad pickpocket story and she offered to buy me food.
I’m mentioning because there is still a great deal of good in France.
I feel I’m bumbling due to loss of confidence, time to get a fresh grip.
Returning to Part Dieu where I had been so disoriented on Thursday night reminded me I should avoid night arrivals to new places. Everything was obvious in daylight and of course there were lots more normal people about.
Inside Part Dieu the station staff were supervising people buying tickets from the vending machines. No opportunities for scum.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/01/state-of-emergency-declared-in-sicily-due-to-drought
Whatever Victoriastan loses on private equity will be a rounding error in the scheme of things.
Marijuana is everywhere in Europe. Even in my local bar in Malta you could buy little vials of some sort of liquid hash hit and it was pretty cheap.
The Victorian government engaging in venture capitalism with tax payer funds.
What could possibly go wrong?
I talked to an otherwise reasonable DJ about the Trump’s bloodbath bullshit. He had previously had on a seriously TDS dickhead who had said Trump’s bloodbath comment about the chunks dumping cars they were building in Mexico if he wasn’t elected was conclusive evidence Trump was Hitler reincarnated.
After I had refuted this the DJ turned to Jan 6 and how this was conclusive evidence about Trump being a dictator. It didn’t matter what evidence I presented to refute the Jan 6 narrative the DJ could not be persuaded.
TDS is weird. For me it is conclusive proof that the person suffering from it is fundamentally a leftie and should be nuked.
Sounds to me that at least some of the orthopaedic surgery decisions were made in the best interests of the medical practitioners, not the patient, prospects of a good long term outcome should have been the primary consideration not the success of the surgery itself.
I had a couple of family members who had unavoidable lifesaving major surgery during covid.
Nightmares.
And the dude running it is on $500k p.a. + perks regardless of performance.
Of course he is! Talent like that doesn’t come cheap.
UK EV Ambulances put GREEN ZEALOTRY ahead of PATIENT CARE | MGUY Australia
No. 2 son lost about 25% functionality in one leg due to delayed diagnosis and surgery for an aggressive tumour during covid lockdowns.
The prognosis could worsen over time.
Applying for the NSW plod commish jerb very shortly …… LOL!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1769763153590554649
240313_CTUP_COVIDCommitteeReport_Doc.pdf (committeetounleashprosperity.com) #8 – The real batflu hospital death tragedy was underutilization.
Add that to the obvious knobbling of the usual health supply.
Dancing nurses in empty wards on TikTok is the meme which haunts the scamdemic.
Tennis player COLLAPSES mid-match at the Miami Open as medic rushes on to help before he’s taken off court in a wheelchair in terrifying scenes
surgery decisions were made in the best interests of the medical practitioners, not the patient,
Caesarians anyone?
Sens Cathedral is superb.
Enormous, with a wonderful ambulatory featuring stained glass windows from the early 13th century, for which the claim is made that they rival those of Chartres or Bourges.
I am sitting in from of the one dedicated to St Thomas à Becket, underneath the window there is also a statue of him, from the house in Sens where he lived.
The story here.
https://www.lyonne.fr/sens-89100/loisirs/il-y-a-850-ans-thomas-becket-se-refugiait-a-sens_12085359/
Caesareans might sometimes be a convenience, sometimes for doctors and sometimes at the insistence of mothers.
I had four Caesareans, all very necessary, without going into any details.
You can wonder why so many women in Egypt opt for caesareans, or not.
https://www.who.int/news/item/16-06-2021-caesarean-section-rates-continue-to-rise-amid-growing-inequalities-in-access
Oh there is an extraordinary 18 metre rose window depicting the Last Judgement.
Tartarian Catholics.
A stroke of luck. Goodfellas is on Focks.
One of the great moments in cinematic history, from Billy Batts:
If only fridges weren’t invented. Look how many jobs disappeared.
Update on friend who was assaulted
He’s on an absolute high believe it or not, buzzing after pulverising one of the turds as the rest hit him 5 times with the axe and 3 times in the head with a hammer.
8 to one and they ran dragging their unconcious buddy behind them.
At the hospital after pissing blood and getting assessed ” what’s your pain level”
Zero
He would have made an excellent berserker.
He’s really going to feel it once the adrenaline wears off.
Police response was quick and apparently 2 charges so far.
Be nice if the media wouldn’t put pictures of his house on the news though.
Another fine al jazeera journalist exposed
https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1769836495722987533?t=KRhMHiiy91MzcjdaShTRBg&s=19
Outstanding.
It is truly amazing how much you can run on adrenaline.
Imagine the mental poverty that thought it was a good idea to tear down the house occupied by Thomas à Becket?
Who was Genrikh Yagoda and why isn’t he as infamous as Hitler or Eichmann?
Another obvious really thing about climateers and the msm.
Bad news stories about droughts get wide coverage but when the good rain comes.
Zip.
In early February Barcelona was apparently down to 16% in its reservoirs yet people need to use less water because there will be more heavy rain
https://www.barcelona.cat/emergenciaclimatica/en/taking-care-water
Here we go:
Why are you reposting that comment Baba?
What’s your problem, Rosie?
Herald Sun:
This is one of the more uplifting things you will read. Real courage, real resilience. I’m sure the ABC and Teh Project will be falling over themselves to get an interview with this remarkable woman. Peace be upon you Ms Yanai.
I am fairly confident he was the bloke who invented Post-It notes.
Creator of the Hills Hoist.
National CWA Secretary, 1954 – 1979.
The purple Teletubby.
Very amusing Knuckles
Puts hands on hips and laughs Taras Bulba style.
Knuckle Dragger
March 19, 2024 11:14 pm
Who was Genrikh Yagoda
His first name was actually Henrik, but for some strange reason, although the Russian language has the letter “H” they substitute it to “G” in some cases.
Why? Who knows?
A college of many colours. Had to notice the beautiful church in the middle of the courtyard
https://independantdelyonne.com/sens-le-college-montpezat-a-fait-sa-rentree-aux-cotes-du-conseil-departemental-de-lyonne/#:~:text=Le%20coll%C3%A8ge%20Montpezat%20fut%20autrefois,coll%C3%A8ge%20fut%20confi%C3%A9e%20aux%20Lazaristes.
New OT up.
Garden lovers should put Sens in the springtime on their to do list, behind the cathedral is the most beautiful formal garden with conical trees guarding the corners of the mini hedged flower beds full of tulips, hyacinths pansies and alyssum.
A communist murderer, communists always get a free pass for their crimes.