I wondered what happened to the Net Nanny apps.
Open Thread – Wed 27 March 2024
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- Open Thread – Remembrance Day 2024
- The Sweetest Victory
- Open Thread – Weekend 9 November 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 7 Nov 2024
Naaa yes. Plastic ran with the numbers and you did also, with no qualification.I would have thought saying, How far…
Trump’s appointments to lead his government will be like Uber arriving to the horror of the taxi industry It will…
That’s a bit rich, he’d be happy to blow you for a table spoon of lard.
Leave the dog alone, stop trying to pretend you’re my friend.
The place is a sh*t hole.
—-
Spanian:
Welcome to Australia’s MOST DANGEROUS City – Alice Springs – Into The Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGz1Tiaying
Conroy needs to be pulled in by Murray or I’m out. He adds nothing presently.
Tonight is seemed personal with Bronwyn, I just zapped. LOL she’s pretty cool, looked dismissive and unfazed.
Zulu.
Beazley obviously has delusions of grandeur. He was a mediocre Hawke minister, know my father & mates had little time for him.
His career since has been less than remarkable, all from his connections and still with snout firmly in trough. His latest forays at the AWM have lead me to question why he is even sought for an opinion at all. On defence he is like these old beer sodden warrants I saw round as a child years off the tools but full of archaic opinions.
I won’t even give the latest foray into resources any dignity it doesn’t deserve.
Please shut up and go away.
This evening in Centennial Park I saw four black swans together.
That’s a record for me.
An ill omen.
Squatters, not British, responsible for Indigenous killings, says Henry Reynolds
Henry Reynolds, giving evidence to the “Truth Telling Comission” in Victoria.
Black armbands at dawn, anyone?
HOW FAR BEHIND THE UK, ARE WE? Victoria maybe closing in fast.
Renters Reform and the Road to Serfdom
MAINSTREAM media, in conjunction with the Uniparty, continue to trumpet the benefits of the Renters Reform Bill making its way through the Mother of all Parliaments.
Barely a week goes by without an obligatory rental sob story from the BBC, Guardian or Times, outlining the misery of what is called the ‘no faults eviction’ regime in the UK. The story setup and payoff is nearly always the same: nasty (often psychopathic) landlord evicts tenant whose behaviour is as pure as the driven snow. The landlord gives no reason, merely exercising the six-month break clause set out in the rental contract.
The Renters Reform Bill sets out to abolish no-fault evictions. What MPs in nearly all cases are failing to admit is this: The banning of no-fault evictions must, logically, be coupled with rent controls in the same legislation. And that is exactly what the Renters Reform Bill does. Why the link? Because solely banning no-fault evictions would merely provoke a landlord who seeks rapid tenant eviction to notify the tenant that their rent is doubling in 30 days. The result would usually then be rapid tenant rent arrears and the ability to evict the tenant on grounds of non-payment.
Of course, our collectivist Civil Servant worker bees have realised that this is a potential course of action. They have inserted clauses into the Bill that make clear that all rent increases will now be subject to possible revocation by local rent arbitration panels. These, one predicts, will become known as Rent Control Committees – tasked with controlling rents to a ‘norm’ in any given area.
As with most aspects of our increasingly Orwellian society, politicians use double-speak about rent controls. Both Conservatives and Labour claim to be against them, rightly extolling the virtues of the free market and recognising the disasters controls have caused in the past. But, as usual with our elected representatives, saying and doing are continents apart. Make no mistake: Renters Reform is Rent Control by the back door, perhaps even the side door. Another giant leap along the Road to Serfdom.
Anyway, “Sliante” to you mob. God has been good to self funded retirees, so I’m restocking the bar with good single malt.
Life is too short to associate with the boring, wear badly fitting underwear, or drink inferior single malt.
Whale of a lawsuit threatens to swallow up Biden green energy agenda
@CraigKellyPHON
Life is too short to associate with the boring, wear badly fitting underwear, or drink inferior single malt.
#IStandWithZulu
I cannot make the formatting buttons work for me I’ll just have another single malt, that will improve things, surely.
Great fight. Tim was just to quick and powerful. The way he approaches his opponent is like a sniper. No fear.
Respect to both.
Tim Tszyu (Australia) vs Takeshi Inoue (Japan) | Boxing Fight Highlights HD
WBO Global Super Welter & WBO Asia Pacific Super Welter Showdown https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f94a.svg
Get ready for an electrifying clash as “The Soul Taker” Tim Tszyu (19-0, 15 KOs) from Australia faces off against the formidable Takeshi Inoue (17-1-1, 10 KOs) from Japan. This bout is a battle for supremacy in the super welterweight division, with Tszyu defending his WBO Global and WBO Asia Pacific titles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qAHuPuwAIk
I’ll just have another single malt, that will improve things, surely.
I’ve posted this one before, I know, but Scottish squatters, along the Riverina, introduced Scotch whisky, into Australia, in the mid 1850’s, and it’s long been my contention they never achieved the recognition they deserve. There should be a monument, at the very least.
“Life is too short to associate with the boring, wear badly fitting underwear, or drink inferior single malt.”
I sorted one of those problems. Gave up on undies decades ago.
The Digital ID Bill has passed the Senate. *&%#@*!!!
Pogria
March 27, 2024 11:09 pm
The Digital ID Bill has passed the Senate. *&%#@*!!!
Nothing to worry about as the ID requirement is only meant to be voluntary – To start with that is…………………………….
Fines are a tax you pay for doing something wrong.
Taxes are a fine you pay for doing something right.
Pogria
March 27, 2024 11:09 pm
The Digital ID Bill has passed the Senate. *&%#@*!!!
Let’s see what the SFL’s do in the next 24 hours?
Dover,
There has to be a line drawn where speed and functionality meet, surely?
What is more important?
After all if there is no interaction, which a forum is designed for, then the pages load lightning fast, trite saying that, I know.
Bespoke
March 27, 2024 5:49 pm
I think this feature is only to amend spelling and stuff as it is only available for a few minutes.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Is there anything worse than writer’s festivals or writer’s awards? A Leftist circle jerk:
Time to make life hard for this slag. What’s good for the goose etc.
Test
Matt Margolis.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Ben Garrison.
WordPress put a Mark Knight cartoon into moderation. Hope you can see it now.
Thanks Tom.
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/the-minister-wants-to-limit-your-choices-so-you-can-get-the-car-you-want/
Communism was doomed from the beginning. Did they miss all the red flags?
More of the rain that was never going to fall again in enough quantities to be useful is expected on Tuesday with all forecast models now solidly showing 10mm minimum. It doesn’t sound like much but the soil is already loaded with water, or in other words, very moist.
Looks like no rest over Easter as we switch to urea spreading on all dryland canola hectares. This will free up fert storage for the starter blends and get one of the operations usually done immediately prior to sowing out of the way.
You would be surprised, or maybe not, that so many still believe in both, communism the hard one and socialism, the softer approach.
I have acquaintances who think the death toll of the Stalin and Mao etc. regimes are western propaganda and never happened.
Or at least not to the extent.
How do you deal with that, when some of the western propaganda is actually fact, meaning it is just that, propaganda?
Speaking of other piss countries full of piss people with piss cultures, has anyone seen the Scottish lesbian and soy boy ad saying they’ll tell on you and have you locked up for “abuse”, that is saying a cock with a frock is not a woman, but rather, a case of self centred delusion?
The Digital ID stuff is hilariously sad.
I had/have an online account with Aussie Post.
The login feature did not work properly with respect to logging out.
These chumps are being given early access.
Let’s see how much they can screw things up and the executives and PMs walk away into another APS/QANGO goldmine.
Blackout Bowen wants us all to have an EV. What a Wally ‘Pollie’ –
Pollie put the kettle on,
Pollie put the kettle on,
Pollie put the kettle on,
We’ll NOT have an EV.
The real Nursery Rhyme is –
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
Polly put the kettle on,
We’ll all have tea.
JR, picked up a book yesterday on the collapse of the Soviet Union by an Australian author from the ABC. No wonder the ABC is in the state its in. She is so naive, a real “communism just hasn’t been done right” type. I’m only into the first chapter and shaking my head, not at Russia but her.
Tricky Steve, first time seeing Tim Tszyu. Very calm and collected. Inoue was very good too, not up to it but gave a good account of himself. Inoue never saw Tszyu’s left hand. Pity more boxing isn’t this quality.
Oh dear, Monty is going to be grinding his teeth in fury and frustration.
Trump Media Surges for 2nd Day After Stellar Debut (27 Mar)
It sounds like those 80 million Trump supporters are buying shares in Trump Media. I wonder how high the shares can go?
To their eternal credit, a sane Reddit user from two years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/q9cml1/thought_on_australias_digital_identity_legislation/
Thought on Australia’s Digital Identity legislation? Opinions/advice needed
I’m not sure what the point of this is. The initial claim presented by the Digital Transformation Agency are minor at best they advertise that a Digital Identity will allow for safer, simpler, more convenient access to online services but on face value the system seams largely inconsequential in regards to “.gov” access as the current implementation using my Gov is already comprehensive enabling access the various government portals. Using my Gov dictates having your identity verified.
As presented by DTA “Our goal is to further reduce the administrative burden on people trying to access government services”
Let me clarify my point, by having a myGov account you agree and are bound by its terms of use, which include the following.
You must be a “natural person” and have your own email address that can only be used once to create a myGov account.
You must be a not be a corporate entity, a robot, a software program etc. Your responsibilities are mandatory If you do not comply with the responsibilities your account may be locked, suspend or terminated and in some instances you could face civil or criminal penalties.
You are responsible for making sure your personal details such as your name, contact details etc are correct and up to date. If your details change, you must sign-in to myGov and update your details.
You must not allow someone else to sign-in or use your myGov account and you are not allowed to access another person’s myGov account.
You must keep your myGov password, myGov PIN and your selected secret questions and answers safe.
You must not share these details with anyone else.
So what does this proposition from the DTA provide? You already have a Digital Identity when its required adding an effective login verified by 100 points of I.D is such a minor addition considering this has long been included in myGov, you upload a copy of articles used in your 100 points and its done, The supposed added convenience is absurdly oversold and the pitch of allowing better access to the private sector in my mind empty salesman jargon, As it stands the need is non-existent beyond your bank and Australia Post both of which are one largely time events.
The first accredited identity service providers are the government as in myGovID which is operated by the ATO and Digital ID operated by Australia Post.
Besides use in banking .gov access and future utilities (?) no other’s are even hinted at despite the clear attempt to sell the DTA’s Digital ID proposition maybe pointing to a shortage of utility for the average consumer.
Trying to navigate what the framework looks like I’ve downloaded The myGovID app from the Google Play store. The user reviews do not paint a rosy picture with the vast majority being negative although most of these are relevant to software bugs which evidently are numerous. My criticism is not pointed towards poorly designed and tested android apps, It is the basic utility. scrolling past these some are more relevant.
“Honestly don’t know what’s more redundant, this app or the folks who made it. Was an option to prove my vac status. I have to sign in and then get redirected to myGov, which directs me to switch to the app to enter a pin. To which then I switch back yet again to myGov”
“Useless app. ABR website says to use app to cancel ABN, but the app is only for Id verification. Nothing else. You still need to login to the website to proceed any service – and failed. This redundant step adds no value.”
“Terrible app. Despite accessing an existing account, the app continually asks me to create a password. When I add my existing password that works in a browser?” – to which the Developer Replies
“Hello Redacted, myGovID is different to myGov, For a list of services visit mygovid.gov.au Your Medicare account and COVID-19 vaccine certificate are accessed through myGov. They are not available within the myGovID app. You can use your myGovID app to sign in to the http://www.my.gov.au website when connected.”
Laughably roundabout – This embodies my point better then I could have hoped.
Some users claim they are forced to use this app to access some government sites (if that is the case its almost fraudulent added convenience) also as a side the DTA itself say its optional so in good faith assume this is up to misinterpretation.
On the other hand the positive reviews are in regards to the functionality of the whole framework with people saying it allows signing into various federal and state government sites without needing separate login credentials for each, But this is exactly what the current myGov system is designed to do. Again – Where is the added utility?
The examples presented are no better, One reads
“Alex is an IT specialist who decides to fulfill his long-term ambition of starting his own small business. He wants to get his new business off the ground as quickly as possible, particularly because he is the primary earner in his family.
Alex has a number of steps to complete including applying for an ABN and registering his business name.
A former colleague urges Alex to try using Digital Identity. Alex finds the process takes a quarter of the time it otherwise would have, and he also saves $128 in avoided costs.”
It then shows a comparison for each case.
Without Digital Identity
With Digital Identity
The takeaway
“In the future, by using Digital Identity, a new business owner can save $128 in avoided costs and one hour 45 minutes by not having to post certified documents to the Australian Business Register for review and processing. They save up to an additional 4 weeks by not having to wait for identity documents to be manually reviewed and processed.”
Digital ID will prevent you having to do what exactly – Use the post office? The ability to send these documents is already incorporated into myGov. This example is just as relevant to the existing myGov platform.
The next example is basically “what if your house burns down” pretty funny considering the first line from the DTA homepage reads “A Digital Identity is not a replacement for physical documents such as a birth certificate, visa, driver’s license or passport. “
The entire Digital ID push in its current form adds very little for the user and this doesn’t touch on other criticisms of the proposed framework and potential for undesirable outcomes
My prime mover is once again driving itself to Melb and travelling on CityLink. Another invoice on my registration arrived after they promised me that the error would be fixed. I’m to receive a photo of the truck this time to verify it’s not mine.
The operator asked me if I’d like to fill in a customer survey after the call. I suggested it wasn’t a good idea seeing this is the third time I’ve tried to fix their crappy ID system error and they’re wasting my time.
excellent Ramirez this morning .. LOL!
And in more ‘we’re from the government and we’re here to help’ news:
https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/magpie-molly-insta-famous-for-friendship-with-dog-peggy-seized-from-gold-coast-home-by-wildlife-officials-c-14088917
Couple rescues baby magpie from ground* – magpie survives and becomes tame – magpie integrates into family, (not caged, comes and goes as it likes, play with the dog, inside and outside the house) and becomes a huge social media star – authorities swoop as It is alleged the bird was taken from the wild and kept unlawfully, with no permit, licence or authority being issued – authorities now state Magpie has been highly habituated to human contact and is not capable of being released back into the wild – hence authorities are now working to find a “suitable facility” for Molly.
It was already living in a suitable facility you goddam fcuking morons!!- get the fucking fuck out of it!!
Hypocrisy is the new Game in Town as the Lefties don’t like Democracy.
Socks, art and jihad.
Muslims Firebomb Store Over “Allah Socks” (Daniel Greenfield, 27 Mar)
Meanwhile here in NSW:
‘Adolescent’ sock art by St Clair artist Felix Jackson at Penrith Regional Gallery stirs debate over artistic merit (Tele, 26 Mar, paywalled)
I hope their work doesn’t have any dirt stains that look like something a muslim might dislike, or they/them could see quite a different sort of “honest reaction”.
From the Oz: Sucked in, yaaartz luvvie dick heads:
Go woke, go broke.
Digital ID seems to be yet another government non solution to a non problem.
With additional dangers and potential for screw ups.
We will never reach peak stupid – or peak spite.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
The ADL is now saying the term 100% is a white supremacist trope. These people are 100% F-ing insane. This is a term used by virtually anyone discussing probability on a daily basis. They will find racism in anything and everything and it needs to stop now! Enough of this BS!
@catturd2
The bridge collapsed at 1.30 am – by 8 am the next morning, all officials had done an “investigation” and determined it was just an incident.
4 hours later, Biden hit the mic and said tax payers would pay for the full rebuild.
Nothing to see here – pull my finger.
Trudeau is the tip of the spear. This is unbelievable.
@catturd2
If you Canadians don’t vote this absolute fascist clown dictator out this election – your country is over.
@Sea_Glass1115
BEHOLD: The Biden regime’s disturbing and unauthorized new “federal red flag” center…
Electric vehicles release more toxic emissions, are worse for the environment than gas-powered cars: study
Joe Biden Funds Border Security in Foreign Countries as U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings Hit 7.4 Million
Have You Met the Hate Monster? [Scottish Police Dept Launch Anti-Hate PSA]
Have you met the Hate Monster?
It was his widow Trump contacted.
HORROR: New York City Police Officer Shot and Killed in Broad Daylight by Career Criminal with 21 Prior Arrests – Shooter and Accomplice Identified
Who was it here that said there was no international alignment in these things, just the stupidity of our “leaders”?
Documents from Germany’s public health agency reveal the decision to “lockdown” was political
A 25 sq. metre ‘studio’ apartment (i.e. a bedsit) and a communal kitchen and lounge.
Somewhere in her family tree there’ll be an ancestor or two who emigrated to escape such living conditions.
Progress, apparently.
Your “existence pod” future.
The WEF has loudly trumpeted that the “grate reset” will see an end to privacy.
Go woke, go broke.
I think “don’t bite the hand that feeds” is a more apt aphorism.
Wal would say “don’t try to publicly defecate on the very members who actually turn up to your unimaginative shows and so give your organization at least the veneer of legitimacy in an otherwise pampered existence islolated from any real world market or morality”, but that doesn’t sound as snappy.
I thought my corner of the world had escaped unscathed from this garbage. Penrith Regional Gallery must be going for the sniggering 8-year old boys demographic.
Great toons Tom. In other news Bannon and Lara Logan opine the Baltimore Bridge incident was a terrorist attack. They’re both conspiratists but make a case:
Lara Logan on Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse: “Everyone Knows… This Is a Cyber Attack on a Critical Infrastructure Corridor in the United States” | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
The braindead lamestream meeja now touting “dirty fuel” as a possible explanation for the tanker being hopelessly off course.
P.S. Wally – agreed, yaartz luvvies are almost invariably collectivist crackpots, so “going woke” is not apt in this instance. Pretentious wankers.
Schwab and his friends will still have their mansions and homes in multiple locations around the world, just like aristocracy used to have in feudal times. It’s only a matter of time before commoners are expected to live in rooms over the stables. What? You thought there will be garages? Cars will only be for the elite, the serfs will have to till the fields with horsepower of the original kind, for the planet of course.
beginning to understand why the NSW state gummint has money problems .. they can’t add up or use calulators it seems ..
NSW “houso” informs me that due to the $9.20 a week increase in my OAP my rent is going up by $6.75 a week .. this is based on the, official, “houso” increase of 25% of the, latest, OAP “windfall” ….
On my calculator 25% of $9.20 = $2.30 …
Top Men, top mathematicians .. FFS!
The rent for Karen’s exciting new 25m2 bedsit with communal kitchen in Marrickville is set at a percentage of the local market rate, not her income, btw.
There’s therefore no guarantee she’ll be able to afford it five years from now if rents in the area continue to increase, which they are guaranteed to do unless the migration spigot is turned off, which neither Labor nor Liberal will commit to.
As an Occupational Therapist she’s on, what, $100k+ per annum?
The working poor are now the middle class, in Sydney at least.
Brought to you by the Uniparty.
Unbelievable! .. someone down ticked me for linking a like to one of Tom’s cartoons, this morning …….!
4 minutes ago
Libs blast ‘get out of jail card’ for AFL starsStaff writers
There is no point in a three-strike policy if it’s got a get out of jail free clause, says Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson following bombshell revelations that 100 current players have been granted secret immunity from the AFL’s three-strike drugs policy.
Speaking on Sky News, Mr Paterson said it was a very serious set of allegations against the AFL, as the league stands accused of “aiding and abetting” illegal drug abuse.
“It goes to the heart of their reputation that they are a clean and ethical, lawful sport. What is the point of a three-strike policy if it’s got a get out of jail free clause?” he asked.
“The AFL really needs to front up and make some explanations today about what has happened, about why they have committed this. Sounds to me like it’s a three-strikes rule unless you’re a star player, and that’s a scandal – a major scandal.”
So … yesterday the community nurse turned up and changed my catheter .. no probs until she started explaining the do’s and dont’s of the thing .. came out of Liverpool Hospital a month ago without anyone listing any, possible, problems so have spent 4 weeks just getting on with life with a catheter ..
Now, since yesterday, I find I keep checking the, bloody, thing to ensure it’s all OK ..
4 weeks of no interest and now I’m getting paranoid …….!
Ignorance can be bliss ….. duuuuuuuh!
Will the Liberal Party commit to cease handing over several hundred million dollars of taxpayer funds to the AFL every year? (And the NRL, just to be “fair”.)
Of course not.
As I’ve noted before, both major parties are now unrepentantly committed to destroying our quality of life, through a myriad of illogical, unnecessary, blatantly stupid, spiteful and destructive measures, too numerous to list. Mass immigration, year zero, massively blowing out the money supply and the destruction of the electrickery grid* being four of the most obvious.
Why anyone still willingly votes for them is beyond me. A significant proportion of people in this country need to extract their heads from their fundaments and wise up to what is going on, before they help condemn us all to a life of servitude to the most ridiculous, evil and incompetent ruling class in human history.
*My second electrickery bill for 2024 arrived yesterday, used less power than the equivalent quarter last year, bill up 19%.
The more vaccines an infant receives, the greater the risk of hospitalisation and death
The Bee
Buttigieg Praises Cargo Ship For Helping Dismantle Racism In American Roads
Election Integrity Firm: 7% to 18% of Registered Voters in 26 States Either DO NOT EXIST or Reside at an Address that DOES NOT EXIST
@DC_Draino
One of Trump’s White House lawyers now openly confirms he was secretly working against him to stop the DOJ from investigating 2020 election fraud
This is the Deep State in action to remove Trump
They wanted *zero* federal investigations of 2020 election fraud & got their wish
Shazzzzzzzz I assumed that AppCat would have the function where you hover over the hot thumbs and it lists the log-ins, like on Facepage and Twix?
– then you “poke” them back and it takes you straight to the stoush plug-in
From the Daily Tele…
The inquiry into alleged Special Forces’ war crimes in Afghanistan set out to give “blanket exemption” of accountability for the highest levels of the ADF and Defence, according to an independent probe into the controversial inquiry.
And to this day, command accountability from what had been a “catastrophic organisational and governance failure” in Afghanistan has still not been dealt with.
The conclusion appears to vindicate former and current Special Forces troops and their families who have long claimed they were made scapegoats to protect the military’s integrity and top brass.
But the full extent of that “exemption” may never be revealed with Defence blocking release of the final review into the 2020 Afghan inquiry on the basis it “could prejudice the ability of Defence to obtain such frank opinion and advice in the future”.
This report went directly to Marles and raised questions why responsibility was limited to patrol commander level and not sheeted home to upper levels of command.
Defence is trying to conceal the report.
“You can’t do nuclear” – by the same people who said:
“You can’t turn back the boats”.
HODL SHIB?
https://coinpedia.org/price-analysis/chatgpt-prediction-for-shiba-inu-will-shib-hit-0-10/
Had to laugh Shatterzz, one of the times I had a catheter in for renal calculi the nurse had checked during the day then removed it before going off shift. Next day I couldn’t go home until I’d emptied my bladder three times. She’s checking with ultrasound. I was having a bit of trouble when she said “I’ll have to put the catheter back in if you can’t go”. I said “fine, I don’t mind, you’ve had your hand on it more times in the last two days than my wife in the last three months”. Laughter ensued.
This one is actually real, he really said this:
From this article:
America’s Dumbest Man? [Updated] | Power Line (27 Mar)
Today’s “cliche salad” presser included the term “circular economy”, which was being fabricated by Plibeserk.
That would be an economy about to disappear up its own fundamental orifice.
Someone behind Albo looks like a good man to have on the Caber Tossing Team.
There is no “three strikes” policy.
As soon as a player tested positive twice, they go to the doc and “admit” they have a drug problem.
They undergo “treatment” (i.e. agree to watch a 30 minute video on drug abuse), then the “strike count” is re-set to zero.
Rinse and repeat.
This latest stunt was to prevent match-day positives for coke.
Aussie Women’s Footy is on track to become extinct. No sympathy “ladies”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13246423/Picture-Female-soccer-team-five-trans-players-Flying-Bats-Sydney.html
Finally, an American University not kowtowing to its students. Here’s hoping it is just the start of many more.
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/03/27/absolute-hilarity-ensues-after-anti-israel-vanderbilt-sit-in-does-not-go-according-to-plan-n2171983
Even the ABC isn’t taking Albo’s clown show seriously anymore.
Haha, carbon credit schemes are all fake.
Forest regeneration projects failing to offset carbon emissions (Phys.org, 27 Mar)
Since a carbon credit is worth maybe a hundred bucks this means these people have taken at least a billion dollars and have delivered nothing in return. I wonder if the courts will notice this interesting and agile financial engineering?
I love big dogs!
https://twitter.com/PierPets/status/1762227811106918538
I’m reposting this “nested” reply to Gez earlier – as other Cats may be having the same misidentify problems with traffic bureaucrats as we are:
Hey Gez – I don’t know whether you caught my outrage last week over a similar mistake with husband’s Landcruiser.
It was supposedly photographed in a disabled car space on the Gold Coast. Since we live in Central West NSW (& intermittently in Sydney) & current Landcruiser has never been in Qld in its life – this was clearly an error. And, of course, it was. We went to our local RTA & the super helpful staff obtained the photograph which showed a different number plate (of course) to our car.
But despite trying for over an hour through RTA channels, they couldn’t contact Gold Coast Council! The line was “too busy”. Goodness knows what will be the outcome – but sure as hell, we don’t want to have to challenge it in court in Qld!
I’ll just say it.
PoliPay being bought by AustraliaPost was a long con and done to destroy competition, now complete.
Zero data breaches, zero downtime / despite the banks 2FA etc, where were the breaches, fraud and downtime?
Not cost effective? Neither is DEI.
Woof!
Orwell’s 1984 is a warning not a manual, and so was this guy’s book…
It must be frustrating to write an over-the-top satirical novel only to see the Left mine it for ideas and use it as a textbook.
I note Leith Van Onselen has picked up on the ABC’s story of Occupational Therapist Karen and her 25m2 inner Sydney “micro apartment” I highlighted here earlier today:
MacrobusinessI don’t imagine Leith is a keen follower of ABC News; maybe he – or someone he knows – reads the Cat?
😀
Vicki when you receive the summons, write to the Clerk of the Court outlining the steps you have taken with a copy of your rego. I have done this in the past with success. Don’t ring the council, get everything in writing. I’ve had coppers on the door with a summons that was not my car, they had the right rego but wrong car. P off I said you sort it out, closed the door and left them standing.
If you happen ever to visit North Korea don’t wear jeans.
Why North Korea has blurred the jeans of its new TV star… Alan Titchmarsh (27 Mar)
I can understand why the North Koreans might turn to the BBC for programming. Safe option. Maybe they could ring up Mr Williams, the ABC must have plenty of suitable shows that the Norks would love to watch.
Elbow the incontinent getting on with picking “winners’ using piles of cash.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-28/anthony-albanese-announces-solar-sunshot-manufacturing-program/103639924
The federal government hopes to change that with its new Solar SunShot program, which will oversee production subsidies and grants to increase Australia’s role in the global solar manufacturing supply chain.
Mr Albanese told ABC Radio Newcastle that the site of the closed Liddell Power Station near Muswellbrook would be developed as a solar manufacturing hub.
“Liddell, of course, helped to power New South Wales for a long period of time in the last century and into this one,” he said.
“Now, the production that will occur there will help power New South Wales and Australia, and potentially have export potential as well.”
What a steaming, festering pile of bullshit.
GreyRanga
March 28, 2024 12:45 pm
And indicate you want to appear via video.
Council is probably relying on NSW registered cars just paying the fine because it is too hard to appear.
I would add a stat dec with the salient details (you only own one vehicle of that type, it is registered in NSW, it was registered in NSW at the time of the “offence”, attach copy of of rego papers certified as a true copy).
The developers should be forced to reside in one (with their entire family) for the rest of their pointless existences.
Starting with Mrs Snowcone’s three part expose on the Fatty Trump/Wussia Wussia Wussia imbroglio*.
*Wholly fabricated.
Street signs in Denver (26 Mar, via Instapundit)
Vicki
Thanks for the re-post. I’m going media blitz if I don’t get quick action this time.
Tom Elliot 3aw or A Current Affair. We’ve developed a bit of a relationship with the media over the transmission line fight and I aim to exploit that.
Amazing …. a mong writes an article “why its so hard for young people to get ahead”, including housing, grade inflation, overcredentialism, multiple appeals to QWERTY people and others.
What dont they mention once?
Guess.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/australias-economy-has-become-a-young-people-screwing-machine-so-how-do-we-unscrew-ourselves#comments
And I went through the first 50 or so comments, the Voldemort thing isnt mentioned there either.
I’m reminded of Charles Le Corbousier, who popularised pre-casting cement “machines for living” for the froggy proles in the cities, while himself living in a period piece countryside chateau with six staff.
Milei to Cut 70,000 State Jobs, Boasting of Chainsaw Austerity
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/milei-to-cut-70-000-state-jobs-boasting-of-chainsaw-austerity
Paywalled for me, compare and contrast with Austfailures misgovernments.
Vicki
A letter stating you haven’t been in Queensland with this vehicle ever. State the car in the photo from RTA isn’t yours. Include rego details. Also annex the attachments.
Language like you are displeased at having to devote time to a matter that should have been sorted at the lowest level by phone but council couldn’t be contacted, happy to have elevated to the relevant tribunal if hassled again etc etc… also helps.
Send it snail mail registered. Seems to work for me the two times I’ve had to do it.
Just another whinge about “modern” life & imported good:
Ever tried to put a simple “bandaid” on a small cut or injury these days? You can’t just tear open the paper envelope around it – no, it is now encased in a thick paper which needs scissors to open! Formerly, you could tear it open quite easily.
Investigation revealed that – of course – the bandaids are now manufactured in an asian country (can’t recall which – but probably China). They don’t give a stuff that you might need to attend smartly to a cut on a little one, who is screaming blue murder.
Dot
My 2c worth on digital ID, if someone wants to opt in I’m fine for personal choice. I wont and prefer not to as this blog is about the extent of my public footprint and my personal one is pretty miniscule as well. However I fear this will become compulsory before long e.g. like the vaccine register they changed a few clauses in the Privacy Statute and a heap of regulations to allow something previously illegal under coercion.
Whilst I’m not into that bats$%t crazy theories I’ve seen, I also have legitimate concerns about Government over reach as per the COVID lockdowns. I don’t think from what I have seen there is enough protections in that area e.g. like the QR code check ins that were supposedly only for COVID tracking that suddenly becoming evidence to whoever could convince a judge they had a reason to access the data.
Ice cream be more important:
The UK’s very own Jacinta Price.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13245431/NANA-AKUA-wont-lectures-slavery-smug-young-hypocrites-black-white.html
What is the actual point of Linda Burney? FMD
Just now had to listen to some “executive” (i.e. salesman) tell me that they “… don’t get any time off over Easter, no holidays at all, just the Four days of the weekend.”
Was too jaded to give them a robust corrective serve (i.e. a “Cassie rant”).
Where we live in Sydney is a bit of a haven for QANTAS pilots & several are friends – all of them retired now.
Not surprisingly, they are very hostile to the departed Alan Joyce who they believe destroyed QANTAS. One of them sent me this article in Crikey describing the advice of those in the industry on the cost cutting practises that may be contributing to the recent failures in the aircrafts.
No end in sight to engine trouble at Qantas
Bruce I’ve read about those before. It’s just a government encouraged scam where people who own poor quality farm land make more money by doing nothing at all that if they grazed stock etc thanks to the Australian taxpayer. And no there is no regeneration because nothing was removed to be ‘regenerated’
Most important of all Vicki, let the council know you intend to appear to defend it (applying to the court do so via Zoom). The court won’t object to you not appearing in person for something which is not a criminal matter.
Indicate that you have extensive evidence and your advice is* it could take up to two days to defend in court if contested by council.
Copy in councillors (not just council officers) indicating that council employees are pissing money away on a lost cause.
…
* I just gave you that advice now.
More correctly the price is being paid by unwitting consumers.
“The primary driver is not the controlling of grazing areas but something else, and that something else is very likely to be rainfall.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-26/safeguard-mechanism-accu-challenge/103636382
From November 2023.
Grazing animals including kangaroos dont eat trees.
Who knew?
https://theconversation.com/3-reasons-why-removing-grazing-animals-from-australias-arid-lands-for-carbon-credits-is-a-bad-idea-218129
“Where we do see tree growth, it’s most likely to be due to other factors such as sustained rain, greater concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide”
A paradox!
I wonder who it is that is cashing in on Nullarbor carbon credits.
It’s hilarious, really.
For years now the AFL has become progressively more woke. They have indigenous round, start games with welcome to country ceremonies. It is getting beyond tedious.
This latest revelation about watering down their 3 strikes drug rule just doesn’t square with all the rhetoric about being strong on the use of illicit drugs.
What’s the bet that the first transgressors where indigenous players and it would not have been a good look for the AFL to impose bans on such players given the emphasis the AFL was putting on the influence of indigenous players in the game.
The word would have got around the indigenous players they could get a free pass and before long it had spread to the wider playing group. To impose a ban would lead to a threat of exposure of a double standard and here we are.
This rubbish was always going to come back and bite them. What a mess!!!
“Ucraina nihil ad Caedem Moscuae pertinet.”
I thought it prudent to mimic Cato the elder’s habit, of finishing a speech with: “Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.”
Only now, it must be the first item that is uttered or written iaw Kirby, Sullivan, Macron, Nuland or any of the numerous cretins, currently scurrying aimlessly throughout the US and Europe.
My question to all Cats however, is why that slimy politician Wilkie, (oops sorry about the tautology), used Parliamentary privilege to make his announcement?
Is he so eager to get his mug published, next to some column inches, that he tries to magnify what every follower of every football code already knows.
Drugs exist in the AFL!
Goodness me, you could have knocked me over with a feather.
Who’d have guessed?
Gosh, and I thought Buddy Franklin actually had mental problems, ……, NOT!
Couldn’t this deadshit Wilkie just made an announcement outside of Parliament.
Forget the economy, forget the housing crisis*, forget the utter uselessness of our Defence Force, (we can’t even send a FFG to the Gulf because we know it will be sunk, FMD!), forget the nightly terrors in Alice, disregard the fact that we are pissing away $Trillions on subsidies, for methods of generating power, that cannot generate the power.
No, this f*ckwit thinks the biggest agenda item to be tended by the Australian Govt is drugs in the AFL.
*Sorry, I forgot that our intellectually challenged PM and dim Jim are solving the Housing Problem, by bringing in 550,000 migrants per year.
Yep, that should put downward pressure of house prices, as well as upward pressure on the minimum wage, which was their other main concern.
We are governed by fatuous lying dogs.
MacrobusinessI don’t imagine Leith is a keen follower of ABC News; maybe he – or someone he knows – reads the Cat?
Roger,
He contributes to Sustainable Population Australia which is a group lobbying for a more sensible population growth rate ( preferably zero from their point of view) .
They are motivated for various reasons-a mixture of sensible and not so sensible reasons.
Unfortunately their ‘patrons’ include the bullshit artist Flannery and Bob (used) Carr .
I know one of their contributors who has come from a very Lefty, Canberra oriented view to a somewhat orange pilled outlook as reality set in.
I have argued with him at every opportunity whenever his position was the usual lefty nonsense but we have gone from disagreeing 100% of the time to now maybe 20%.
Reeks of the character Major Major Major Major’s father in Catch-22:
Probably a lot more to come about that bridge demolition.
“In that case the joke is on the consumer. Businesses that proclaim themselves “carbon neutral” have been buying carbon credits to do so and passing the cost along to their customers.”
I came to that conclusion too Roger.
In case it seems not to agree with I wrote above, the father of the person in question – who was from a military family and who’s surname was Major – jokingly named his son Major Major Major just to eventually bring about the circumstance that he would reach the rank of Major and become Major (rank) Major (first name) Major (middle name) Major (surname).
Shorthand of rank and surname would be the diminished by military necessity version of Major Major.
Great news in the Oz today”
Serious trouble is setting in for the Sydney Theatre Company as it faces a
deepening financial crisis caused by the fallout from a pro-Palestine protest that occurred during a stage play in November.
Further to the last item – apparently 20 jobs at the STC are to go.
Amortiser.
I don’t think it is just First Nations players on the gear.
For coke it takes three days for it to clear a urine test.
It goes like this.
You play Saturday night.
Get on the gear post game, Sunday and Monday.
Test Thursday. If clear, all good
If not clear, you don’t attend training and are declared “under an injury cloud”. Re-test Friday and, if clear, you make a miracle recovery and play again Saturday.
This is going to get ugly.
The AFL think they have a lid on it, but watch this space. Supporters and sponsors will decide where this goes. What are they going to do when fans start chanting “Junkie, junkie!” over the fence? And “wholesome” sponsors start getting heat through their PR departments, and then begin wondering why they are paying millions to sponsor coke-heads.
Oh, and you can test for coke weeks and months afterwards by sampling hair follicles.
AFL followers might remember a player turning up to play at Richmond in 2009-2010 bereft of the flowing locks he had at his previous club. Rumours swirled at the time that he had no hair anywhere on his body whilst he played at Richmond.
His name?
Ben Cousins.
First thing, they intend to destroy the power station so it can’t be re-activated when they realise their mistake. Second, who is going to be buying these solar panels when the rest of the world comes to their senses? Third, more taxpayer money wasted but at least the pollies’ mates will get richer.
I listened to that Lara Logan shiela have her rant
whole piles of speculation in that’s for sure
for starters, the ship was taken from the dock to the channel by tugs.
if was meant to have a pilot on-board i expect it did have
secondly, there is no bend to traverse … essentially the channel follows a dead straight line under the bridge between the pylons.
I’m not ruling out malicious intent … just saying that Lara’s facts seem loose
Another group of movies I can never watch again:
Spielberg Equates Israel and Hamas | Frontpage Mag
Fuking little arsehole.
I’m not ruling out malicious intent … just saying that Lara’s facts seem loose
I read that as Lara’s fuks seem loose.
I was wondering if you could extract cocaine from wastewater to resell it.
Down The Drain: Wastewater With The Most Cocaine (27 Mar)
Chuck in some diethyl ether or another such solvent, and stir it around. Then drain off the solvent and evaporate it. Voilà, cocaine! Ok maybe you’d get a lot of other unwanted stuff along with it, like caffeine, which also goes in one end and out the other.
Usually when they don’t say who the stabby is, you know who it is:
Northern Illinois: Four people killed and five wounded in stabbings in US, with a suspect in custody (9news.com.au)
You play Saturday night.
Get on the gear post game, Sunday and Monday.
Test Thursday. If clear, all good
If not clear, you don’t attend training and are declared “under an injury cloud”. Re-test Friday and, if clear, you make a miracle recovery and play again Saturday.
Eggsactly, how every FIFO miner gets away with it same way. Order a bunch of those test kits online and through self testing know how long their body takes to rid themselves of coke, amphetamines or meth. Test before heading to the airport to make sure clear. Too easy, you’d thought.
Na apparently what the dumbest of earth works boys can work this out footy players can’t or more likely dont want to. So the AFL dreams up this up and it’s blowing up in their face. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
What all we here know but a philosophical view worth refreshing one’s memory about. An extract follows.
http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/03/we-are-victims-and-everything-we-do-is.html
Actual footage:- Ship loses power and drifts slightly off track into bridge pylon.
Facebook meme:- How does a ship with no power turn 90 degrees and ram a bridge?
Inheritance woes ……. LOL!
Well, Alice Springs was lovely.
Rockdoctor at 4:03.
This goes back a long way. The AFL have always had a soft attitude to “party drugs”.
Firstly, because AFL HQ is populated by middle-aged coke-heads who are desperate to be seen as part of the cool kids group.
Secondly, after former CEO Fat Andy Demetriou botched the Essendon supplements thing, they have been determined to keep players out of the clutches of ASADA. Demetriou and co were getting daily updates on ASADA’s investigation into Essendon which mysteriously made it into the nightly news reports (all whilst those at Essendon faced jail if they publicly commented). Demetriou’s targets were Essendon coach James Hird and a few Essendon officials. However, along came WADA, licking their lips at the prospect of flexing their muscles and putting a non-Olympic sport to the sword. And so 17(?) Essendon players were rubbed out for a season, which hit AFL revenues hard.
This ultimately cost Demetriou his job because his myopic personal vendetta caused a massive blowback on the AFL, and not even his political mates in Canberra could control WADA.
From that point forward the AFL, even though they signed on to these drug codes to get funding, became determined to keep drug testers at bay.
And here we are …
I have heard it said that for every centimetre of hair – regardless of where obtained from the rig – you will receive evidence (if any) of opioids, benzos, THC and meth for the previous six months.
John Stewart is in a bit of trouble after valuing his home at over 820% more than it was worth; thus robbing his victim of nearly $4M.
Cohenite,
here’s a movie you can safely watch – an old one of course.
The Ghost Breakers, 1940 – Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard
Plausible villain is trying to scare Paulette and Bob out of visiting her newly inherited property in Havana by spinning a frightening story about zombies:-
Villain : “It’s worse than horrible because a Zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.”
Bob: “You mean, like Democrats?”
I made my views about this version of the Cat at the outset. But, for those who missed it, here it is again.
Why on Earth would you use 10pt light grey? It’s what shady law firms use for disclaimers. Making your blog readable to most people would seem to be a priority, but not in this case, apparently.
As for nesting, let me repeat what I said before. It works well on sites where the traffic is low, and people are interested enough to go through the back history. It does not work here, for the reasons others have eloquently explained.
As for the absurd placement of the comment box, the weird workings of the quoting system – awful.
Judging from the fall in traffic, I am not the only one.
49 seconds of biden molesting young girls; fair dinkum this creep should be hung:
I see that my comment crtical of the site is ‘awaiting approval.’
As a long time commenter who used no naughty words, it seems that either dover or WordPress (or both) are averse to dissent.
Ya get that. 🙂
I have heard it said that for every centimetre of hair – regardless of where obtained from the rig – you will receive evidence (if any) of opioids, benzos, THC and meth for the previous six months.
Fact check – True but I believe the standard is to test is up to 3 months.
Frollicking would know more than I but I did a D&A testers course years ago and this was one of the teaching points. I believe if WADA want to get really funny this follicle test can be directed now.
It’s amusing that ASIC is pursuing companies for fake reporting about a fake problem.
ASIC wins landmark first greenwashing case (Sky News, 28 Mar)
I’m hoping some company gets jack of this whole stupid shtick and says their ESG climate footprint is nil because CAGW is a scam. ASIC’d have hysterics, but any court case would be most entertaining since the data is all on the side of the climate sceptics.
johanna
March 28, 2024 5:27 pm
I see that my comment crtical of the site is ‘awaiting approval.’
As a long time commenter who used no naughty words, it seems that either dover or WordPress (or both) are averse to dissent.
Ya get that. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/1f642.svg
Well maybe the Internet does not like you.
Knuckle Dragger
March 28, 2024 4:30 pm
Yes.
Up until about 1982.
Correction to my comment earlier.
There were 34 Essendon players suspended by WADA in 2016, not 17.
Demetriou quit the AFL in 2014 after it became apparent that the saturation media coverage aimed at certain individuals he personally disliked at Essendon had come from leaks from the AFL of what was supposed to be an in camera investigation.
His sorry career came to a belated and ignominious end when his role on the Crown Casino board was exposed at the height of their governance scandals.
johanna
March 28, 2024 5:27 pm
I see that my comment crtical of the site is ‘awaiting approval.’
Yes, owing to being a member of the Junior Cretin Society of typos. LOL
News today that the Alice curfew will be extended if successful.
I called it yesterday predicting it would not be just 2 weeks, like covid.
Yes.
Up until about 1982.
Bruce Pascoe says that it was a nice place 60,000 years BC ago (Before Covid). And he has a Document written in ink to prove it. And, on paper invented before the Egyptians had papyrus. LOL
His sorry career came to a belated and ignominious end when his role on the Crown Casino board was exposed at the height of their governance scandals.
Remember somewhere he was being talked up in the media for ALP preselection at one stage or he may have leaked he was…
Ponds institute getting an absolute bagging at X with another deliberately deceptive claim…
https://twitter.com/MarkOgge/status/1773140499802583095
If you paid more than $30 income tax in 2020-21, you paid more tax than Chevron, Woodside, Santos, Exxon, Inpex and APLNG paid on $58 billion of income.
$58 billion is the average income 861,000 Australians, who paid $17.4 billion tax that year.
?
Johanna
March 28, 2024 5:27 pm
I see that my comment crtical of the site is ‘awaiting approval.’
As a long time commenter who used no naughty words, it seems that either dover or WordPress (or both) are averse to dissent.
Aren’t you that Queanbeyan poster/imposter who was instrumental in getting Calli and Cassie to leave this Blog? If so, what are you doing back here?
And learn to spell/type. Pls.
‘Destroy monuments to my family’: Settler descendant’s pain over massacresBy Tony WrightMarch 28, 2024 — 3.20pm
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A descendant of the first permanent European settlers in Victoria has called for the removal or “ceremonious destruction” of monuments to her family, the Hentys, because of their links to massacres of Aboriginal people.
Suzannah Henty, a sixth-generation descendant of squatter James Henty, said her family had “enslaved” Indigenous people. She listed several recorded massacres on a Henty squatting property in far south-west Victoria, including one where “dozens” of Aboriginal people were killed by a Henty overseer.
The massacres occurred in the 1830s and 1840s. Three Henty brothers had arrived in Portland from 1834, and began squatting illegally on vast areas of inland country in 1836.
“The process of establishing Victoria’s first settlement was war,” Henty said during evidence to the Yoorook Justice Commission, which is inquiring into the ongoing harm to Victoria’s First Nations people caused by European colonisation.
Henty said she became aware of her family’s role in what she called genocide only when she went to university and attended a lecture given by a Gunditjmara man. It prompted her to study what had happened to the Gunditjmara people of south-west Victoria at the hands of white settlers, including her own family.
Her condemnation of her ancestors makes her highly unusual among descendants of Victoria’s squatters, most of whom have proved reluctant to speak publicly about massacres on their old family properties.
Henty called on the descendants of other settler families to discuss making reparation to Indigenous communities.
“Benefactors of colonialism, those who have accumulated intergeneration wealth on the basis of land theft and genocide, need to engage in truth-telling about their affluence,” she said.
“I was never told while I was growing up that the Henty family were involved in an organised ethnic cleansing of First Nations peoples.
“Without permission from British authorities, the family illegally squatted on the Gunditjmara homelands, where they stole and damaged tens of thousands of acres of land and waterways. For both the British and First Nations peoples, this settlement was a crime.
“Edward Henty was the first to arrive, where, in his words, he ‘stuck a plough into the ground, struck a she-oak root, and broke the point; cleaned my gun, shot a kangaroo, mended the bellows, blew the forge fire, straightened the plough, and turned the first sod in Victoria’.
“He was performing a colonial ritual, like James Cook did, to enact an invasion based on claims of terra nullius.
“This marks the beginning of the harm that continues to be inflicted on Gunditjmara peoples and their country at the hands of the Henty family, the state of Victoria, and the settler colony of Australia.
“This harm is especially articulated in the ongoing dispossession of Gunditjmara peoples from their land and the memorialisation of colonial figures.”
An audit of monuments in the Glenelg Shire Council, based at Portland, shows there are five statues and memorials specifically dedicated to the Hentys in the shire, most of them in Portland. Of 14 monuments, almost all memorialise the Hentys, the explorer Major Thomas Mitchell, who alerted the Hentys to rich pastoral lands inland in 1836, or early whaler William Dutton, who was in Portland when the Henty brothers arrived.
Only two monuments mention Aboriginal people: one dedicated to Reginald Saunders, Australia’s first Aboriginal military officer, and one known as the Gunditjmara Tribe Memorial.
Henty said to preserve monuments to colonisers such as her descendants was to preserve “a fantasy”, and their fate should be placed in the hands of Indigenous people.
Her only identifiable skill seems to be grievance mongering on behalf of others.
What a shallow retarded little life.
https://unimelb.academia.edu/SuzannahHenty
Maybe Ms Henty should get out of Australia
Ah a don- figures
thefrollickingmole
March 28, 2024 6:11 pm
Ponds institute getting an absolute bagging at X with another deliberately deceptive claim…
https://twitter.com/MarkOgge/status/1773140499802583095
If you paid more than $30 income tax in 2020-21, you paid more tax than Chevron, Woodside, Santos, Exxon, Inpex and APLNG paid on $58 billion of income.
And I am not privy to anyone’s Tax Affairs. And rightly so. BUT –
What I do know is that the said Corporates would have paid shed loads of Royalties to the State/Territory Guv’ments. Was this ever mentioned anywhere??????
NO, and I didn’t think so. More one eyed Leftie BS that keeps going on and
on.
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.33L319CSA_bIyUiFIgKjeQHaIN&pid=Api&rs=1&c=1&qlt=95&w=100&h=111
Is the situation in the NT like a “lock down?”
Can you support one or the other consistently?
For my part, I disagreed with ChinaFlu lockdowns but agree with NT curfews. Sadly, in this case, some people need protection, not just from others as in lockdowns, but from themselves.
Apparently one of the new grifters for life of the South Australian voice was elected with….
drumrolll = 11 votes.
https://twitter.com/RoadknightThe/status/1773164142007898372
Melbourne Uni is quite a cesspit of marxist hate- remember how Geoffrey Blainey was treated.
“He was performing a colonial ritual, like James Cook did, to enact an invasion based on claims of terra nullius.”
She may have some valid points – I don’t know enough about the region and its history to comment – but she doesn’t understand either terra nullius or the legality of British settlement.
Stop playing blog monitor Wodney.
No-one takes any notice of your crooked ramblings.
An audit of monuments in the Glenelg Shire Council
Year zero. Cultural Revolution stuff. Don’t they have better things to do with their time. Of course we’re paying for this marxist assault on our country.
Rockdoctor
March 28, 2024 6:11 pm
His sorry career came to a belated and ignominious end when his role on the Crown Casino board was exposed at the height of their governance scandals.
Quite so.
As you say, hard to know if he was talking himself up, or if it was seriously being considered.
But Demetriou was definitely Rustadon Liars.
Here’s the thing.
At one point James Hird was being touted as apossible Liberal candidate, and there is little doubt he could have pulled a relatively safe ALP seat in NW Melbourne off the Liars.
Whatever faults, she’s one of the better writers here, limpdick.
Go take the Porsche Miata out, you irredeemable crook.
Yes Johanna’s usually pretty interesting. Certainly miss Calli and Cassie.
Oh, just saw the comment. The crook does exactly what he accuses other people of doing. And one of the biggest dimbulbs here.
Sancho Panzer
March 28, 2024 6:51 pm
Stop playing blog monitor Wodney.
No-one takes any notice of your crooked ramblings.
LOL. Mrs Stencho Pantyhose – As I had already called you a self appointed Blog Milk Monitor (many moons ago), your comment is redundant just like you are. Bye.
An audit of monuments in the Glenelg Shire Council
Reminds me a lot of what was going on in the US c2020
Johanna
March 28, 2024 5:27 pm
I see that my comment crtical of the site is ‘awaiting approval.’
As a long time commenter who used no naughty words, it seems that either dover or WordPress (or both) are averse to dissent.
Johanna, this happens to me from time to time when I post something that someone else has said & may be controversial. Virtually every time Dover eventually posts the comments. I think it is a safety measure only.
Our Marxist cesspit dwellers seem to get most of their hate filled ideas from the US
this happens to me from time to time when I post something that someone else has said & may be controversial.
Disincentive to posting at all.
Calli & Cassie make their own decisions. A brief exchange of ideas with anybody on an open discussion blog is insufficient grounds to leave.
Whatever reason Calli & Cassie have for not being here, there’s more to it than a tiff with Johanna – if that even is a factor at all.
And here’s the problem with Chinese companies. They don’t make much money. It’s all about sales, sales and sales. Profit margins, profitability be damned.
China EV giant BYD posts slowest quarterly profit growth in 2 yearsBy Reuters
JC
March 28, 2024 7:00 pm
I only just saw it……………
Well, you and your A-Licker, Mrs Stencho Pantyhose need to keep up with Blog events then. Tossers and self appointed Blog Milk monitors both of you.
JR
Teen allegedly in stolen car travelling 150km/h days after getting bail over Beach Road cyclist hit-runBy Erin PearsonMarch 28, 2024 — 3.56pm
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A 14-year-old accused of urging his friend to run down Beach Road cyclists was involved in a police pursuit in a stolen car and caught smoking drugs within days of being granted bail.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, faced the Supreme Court on Thursday where he asked Justice James Elliott to again release him because he experienced anxiety while in custody.
So he ought to experience anxiety while in custody – hanging upside down, chained to the wall should give you anxiety.
Stick to posting Marty’s wisdom, you brainless limey crook.
A number of years ago I was living OS but holidaying in Brisbane. I hired a truck from the Dutch painters Hertz Van Hire.
After an impossible tussle with the Subcontinental woman on the phone I paid a motorway fee and received a transaction number.
Six weeks later I received an angry from Hertz enclosing a fine and Hertz administrative charge that trippled the fine.
No problem, just a cock up. I sent a copy of the relevant bank statement to the nominated cardigan and politely (for me) asked him to fix it.
His reply still leaves me breathless. AS A CONCESSION he waived the fine but declared that the Hertz charges were my problem. Nothing to do with the Government.
Kerfurkinboom. Angrygram to the Minister who replied to the effect that as I was not a Queenslander he didn’t GAF. I had to check that I wasn’t in Afganistan. Nope, it was Queensland.
Kerfurkinboom2. Letter to the Courier Mail. They didn’t do criticism of Labor, but, I learned subsequengly, had forwarded my letter to the Government.
I was numb but became radioactive when I received a ‘Cease and Decist’ letter from the Solicitor General.
My pal, our general council, told me to drop it. “That is how they operate in Queensland”.
Rabbit holes.
Just remember the “Two Paragraph Rule” when linking to your crooked mate, Wodney, there’s a good chap.
Canary in the coal mine.
European luxury brands appear to be having serious problems with consumer demand in China. For years, decades even, they made their money in the Chinese market where demand for expensive luxury was incredible. No more.
China’s strategy appears to be the following.
Keep the economy afloat by exporting their way out of trouble for the period when domestic demand has sagged materially, Hoping like hell this is temporary. I don’t think it will work out somehow. The developed world is going to block them.
Sancho Panzer
March 28, 2024 7:22 pm
Just remember the “Two Paragraph Rule” when linking to your crooked mate, Wodney, there’s a good chap.
I don’t need to. You have obviously not been keeping up with events. The new rules here have it all sorted. This is the benefit of AI. Which in your case is Anal Insert. Enjoy the backside and back door experience. A-hole.
Of course, it was common knowledge – then and now – that Marty is a bot.
A grifting bot, paying finder’s fees for useful idiots.