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Or retire from public life, nobody is forcing her to be a politician.
Because there are enough of them to make it possible, just look at London and their mayor.
We plan ahead because of FFP tickets. Also, we ditched sailing on Queen Anne through Suez next winter because politically…
Not a single Victorian aboriginal isn’t predominantly European by heritage …I saw a pic of a participant yesterday; white chap…
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Steady on Gez.
She’s a girl person, and therefore a natural at the helm of any organisation.
Ah. Ah, hang on. Forget I said anything.
Maybe Cauci targeted people who were less likely to resist, and is there any chance there were more women that men shopping in the shops he first targeted?
If only Cheap Charlie had stumped up for the price of his top secret ASIS motel bolt hole.
Vitamin D pops up again and again.
Research suggests probiotics plus vitamin D supplements may benefit people with schizophrenia
The unfortunate long-term consequence of the Lehrman-Higgins case, is that it may have the opposite of an ‘encouragement’ affect on those who have genuinely* been the victim of sexual abuse, but who may fear the potential public/mediascum attention, particularly if there are well-known personalities involved. (But only if the personality is an ‘outsider’ and therefore fair game for reputational assassination by the unarmed state militia).
* Not a reflection of my opinion on this particular case.
Speaking of actual domestic violence offenders, and not just the horrible ones put up by Lisa Wilkinson (the Hun):
Highlights:
And:
Also:
Nice.
Once again, his lawyers are running the ‘mental health’ defence, trying to get the charges downgraded and firmly in handpattery land.
With a bit of good fortune, and given events over the weekend the judiciary might be able to separate genuine ‘mental health’ from ‘I’ve cocked up yet again, it’s all my fault but I will try and assign blame to something – anything – else’, and bin this bloke for several years.
Essential T cells
I loved watching Michael Slater as a player.
However, it proves the point that the person one may see on the picture wireless is very rarely the real person.
Network 10 could be out of pocket $8m after Bruce Lehrmann winAdelaide LangNCA NewsWire
Mon, 15 April 2024 4:24PM
Network 10 could be out of pocket for millions despite scoring a resounding victory in the defamation lawsuit brought by Bruce Lehrmann, a leading defamation lawyer has revealed.
On Monday, Justice Michael Lee ruled the media company had not defamed Lehrmann by airing an interview with Brittany Higgins on The Project in which she alleged she had been raped by a fellow political staffer in Parliament House during March 2019.
The justice found Lehrmann had been so “hellbent on having sex” that he “did not care one way or another whether Ms Higgins understood or agreed to what was going on”.
He ruled in favour of Network 10 and said the question of costs would be determined at a later date.
MinterEllison partner Peter Bartlett, who successfully led Nine’s defence against Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation claims, estimated Network 10 and its former presenter Lisa Wilkinson have paid $8m to defend themselves in the defamation case brought by Lehrmann.
Despite the victory, Mr Bartlett said the media company will likely face difficulties in recouping their multimillion dollar costs from Lehrmann, who is currently unemployed.
“By all appearances, Lehrmann doesn’t have a deep pocket,” he said.
“So clearly Channel 10 will be out of pocket because they won’t be able to recover that quantum of costs from Lehrmann.”
Mr Bartlett noted Network 10 could have Lehrmann declared as bankrupt, but it would still be a challenge “to get blood out of a stone”.
“At best they’re going to be able to get a couple of hundred thousand dollars but they’re not going to be able to get much,” he surmised.
He drew parallels with the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation fight, in which Nine were able to compel media magnate Kerry Stokes to pay costs because they had funded the lawsuit.
3 minutes to cross the road, The traffic is insane my neck of the woods.
The traffic.
Anyway, long life and good health to all on the Cat. Mme Zulu is mixing her first G and T in some time…
Stabbing at a church in western Sydney.
The incident happened on Monday night just after 7pm at Wakeley’s Christ The Good Shepherd Church, where Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was saying Mass.
Bishop Emmanuel can be seen speaking to the congregation before a man walks up to him and allegedly stabs him a number of times.
The young man dressed in all black can be seen approaching the altar where Bishop Emmanuel was standing before allegedly stabbing his face and body before people tried to stop him.
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PA, that thought had crossed my mind fleetingly as I read the judgement. Lee certainly appeared to me to be going out on a limb with the things he claimed happehed without a skerrick of proof. The whole tawdry event of a couple of tubbies doing or not doing something is a lot of feelz. As plod said in the beginning, there’s not enough evidence and thats without the litany of lies flowing from all and sundry. Lee can say “I tried my best, its up to the appeal judge if there is an appeal”. He squibbed it. Spineless. Looking forward to the revolution.
The full judgment is tough going.
I did searches on names initially (like Wilkinson) but then reverted to reading the thing as it was published.
Lee really gives it to Sharaz, which is odd how he didn’t mention him today as a sack of shit like he did with the chap from Channel 7.
I find it curious that all the protagonists in this rightly described ‘omnishambles’ (h/t Lee J), within six months of the aforementioned notoriety being gained, all decided it was burger time.
Sharaz, Lehrmann and Higgins.
Just look at them. A pudgy, nondescript, jowly trio of nobodies.
A French man, Damien Guerot, has been identified as the viral “Bollard Man” hero who tried to stop the killer during his stabbing spree on Saturday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68814871
“Lee certainly appeared to me to be going out on a limb with the things he claimed happehed without a skerrick of proof”
Is a transcript of Higgin’s testimony available?
Sounds like it boiled down to a he said she said and Lee preferred what she said.
Four stabbed
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/four-people-stabbed-at-church-in-sydneys-west-with-early-vision-picturing-one-victim-as-a-christian-leader/news-story/7aac1c9961eac0b91f93021253d18e94
New airlines launches in the US. Bark Airline, for pooches.
Did Lee make any specific comments about the lack of observation of the media code of ethics by Ch 10 and the Cane Toad?
https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2024/2024fca0369
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Lehrmann v Network Ten Pty Limited (Trial Judgment) [2024] FCA 369
File number: NSD 103 of 2023
Judgment of: LEE J
Date of judgment: 15 April 2024
Scrolling my twitter feed this evening.
There’s a lot of head scratching over the Iran attacks on Israel.
Also, black men really like beating up elderly Asians.
Video of the latest stabbing of Christian bishop at Westfield. The stabber has a beard. It looks like a Christian Leb church. By the looks of the reaction to the guy from the congregation I reckon he’s a smear now.:
Sydney church stabbing latest: Priest attacked during livestream (telegraph.co.uk)
Bern at 8:24.
He made an oblique reference to Sharaz when talking about Britnah’s credibility, noting that a particular thing had happened “before Sharaz was involved”, implying that post-Sharaz Britnah was less credible.
Strange that he should observe that her evidence was “malleable”, but only in the hands of one person.
Copycat murder is real. Taught by media rewarded by media.
I have been considering going armed to Church because of qwerty nutters and the rabid killer people.
John Howard passed laws for every state based on the lie that Australians do not need self- defence. Unless they are policewimmin, apparently.
Boambee John
April 15, 2024 8:45 pm
Notwithstanding legal advice, he did say Toad should have known better over the Loggies speech.
I wonder if the stabbing of the Lebanese bishop in Wakeley near Fairfield is a copycat action.
The inference for the church stabbing is that it’s someone from the congregation but I wouldn’t be too sure, anyone can come into a church.
Seems the push is on in New South Wales to allow security guards to carry batons and pepper sprays, but not Tasers or firearms.
The Bishop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhyF42Rkffk
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I hope he recovers.
Liverpool church stabbing. This won’t end well. Maronites are not to be messed with.
The churchgoers reaction to the stabbing of the Lebanese bishop is a reminder to the police that Christians can be very unhappy about these sort of attacks and to protest in large numbers. I don’t think these particular Christians are much into turning the other cheek.
The link above has a few, interesting… items.
Evelyn Rae is commenting on the church stabbing on Sky and says that we are lucky to have a world class legal system that considers someone as innocent until proven guilty. I had to laugh at that particularly today in the aftermath of Justice Lee’s decision on Bruce Lerhmann.
I see that the police are in a bind at the church in Wakeley, the assailant is in the church with the police but they now have no way of getting him out past the crowds waiting outside.
The political reporter from The Oz is urging social harmony on the crowds at the church. Harmony? After somebody just tried to kill their bishop? Some of these scribblers don’t quite understand the events on which they are reporting.
The should give the guy a shave and dress him in a police uniform and walk him out of the church to the cells. That blonde female inspector will sort it out quick smart.
Off topic.
Bayer Leverkusen win the Bundesliga for the first time ever. To put it in perspective, Bayern Munich have won the last 11 titles.
Leverkusen have not lost since Xabi Alonso took the reins. 5 games to play in the league and all over.
Kind of like Liverpool FC ffs. City will now win with a leg in the air. Like Britanny
It’s interesting to see the police around the church with riot gear. It’s even more interesting that never once did they think it was necessary to be so equipped during the pro-Palestinian riots.
A large single malt – or three – or four – and watching Robert Duvall, and Micheal Caine, in “Second Hand Lions” is a worthy occupation, now that Mme Zulu’s test results are negative…
Paul Murray is advising the assembled crowds around the church to disperse which would be the best for everyone including the church. Where was he on 9th October last year? Why didn’t anyone advise the pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protesters to do the same?
I’m off to the city tomorrow to gatecrash the Vic Energy Minister’s luvvie fest on Wednesday.
Guess who’s coming to dinner Lily.
Dr. Scott Atlas on Why We Were Forced to Jab & Mask | Real Talk
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She’s going to teach research ethics. The Bee couldn’t have come up with it.
Harvard’s Disgraced Former President Claudine Gay to Teach ‘Reading and Research’ Ethics Class, Collecting $900,000 Salary
This has to be the first time Austrian economics has ever been mentioned at the UFC.
‘The word “gender” was a magic cloak’ – How the NHS got away with puberty blockers | SpectatorTV
Test.
She’s aged well.
Cyndi Lauper – True Colors (Live)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZgah5suEyc
Dido – Thank You (Live at Brixton Academy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGXtEE-YX7s
News com au running with Bishop was “allegedly” attacked.
Can’t be too careful when it was live streamed.
https://www.toronto99.com/2024/04/14/reports-klaus-schwab-in-hospital-may-be-dead/ Is Schwab dead?
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Brett Lethbridge.
Graeme Bandeira.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Gary Varvel.
Matt Margolis #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Thanks Tom.
This is what appeasement brings you.
Didn’t we learn anything the last time we tried it?
Arrogant and threatening. This is your future, imposed on us by a political and media caste who have no bloody idea of what the repercussions will be like.
According to reports coming from Israel and Turkey the Biden Administration provided guidance to Iran in its missile and drone strike against Israel.
Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be “within certain limits.”
Bobtheboozer
April 16, 2024 5:03 am
Providing guidance? What does it mean, if anything.
But if it means they approved of it if were to be kept to limits, who needs enemies with friends like that?
BTW I doubt if it’s true but.
Re, the verdict of the defamation case, only now had time to read the comments and some of the relevant sections.
Now we have a comedian for a judge.
Like him, Bruce, or not, I think he was more than hardly done by, that he is a d..head is beside the point, the rest of this sorry cast, including the politicians are far more despicable.
What happened at PH we shall never know but for the judge to declare that he is a r…ist on no evidence at all is just too much.
The man is finished, what sort of a job can he get now?
Like the climateers who want to ignore inconvenient temperatures from the 1930s, the media now want to say the problem with Iran dates from Israel’s attack on that embassy annex in Damascus. Never mind that Iran has been funding and supplying Hezbollocks and Hamarse for decades.
David Gilmour = P Floyd paid the bills.
The Haunting of “Wuthering Heights.” Vocal ANALYSIS of Kate Bush’s first masterpiece!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBXoN0tJf_g
When you come across a mainstream media channel (apart from Fox News) which will say that the cases against Trump are fraudulent, let me know.
Nearly all of them pretend that it’s not election interference, nothing like a third world dictatorship, oh no!
If true this might get even more interesting.
Why is there only one figure in Leak’s cartoon? The judge was quite clear that they were both liars, one organised the other disorganised.
Why one type of liar is more believable than the other is anyone’s guess.
In Rome at the moment after 3 days in Amsterdam. Many tourists in both cities. We inadvertently visited Keukenhof which had a spectacular spring garden display(I had no idea it was the height of the tulip flowering season and the garden is world famous).
The Dutch host was up to speed on the Sydney stabbings and like many of us thought it was a Muslim maniac running amok.
Similarly in Rome the well informed concierge assumed the same and even queried why they had ruled out terrorism without knowing the motive.
We spoke to a Floridian family at the Vatican who were going to vote for Trump and saw the lawfare for what it was.
The statue of the Dying Gaul at the Capitoline Museum was magnificent, one of the great works of Western civilisation-thanks Tinta for the recommendation.
In contrast the visit to the Vatican museums and the Sistine Chapel was an absolute ordeal due to the crowds. We booked a small group tour in a laughable attempt to beat the queues. Little did we know that there were dozens of ‘small group tours’ mixed in with the thousands of other punters.
Even before it opened on Monday the non tour queue was a good 500m long and then there was the tour group queue joining from the other side.
It was jam packed from start to finish which meant 2 hours of shuffling past one thing after another with the guide babbling something incomprehensible in your ear and being jostled by various bipedal lifeforms some of which clearly had not being paying enough attention to matters of personal hygiene.
It weren’t like this 30 years ago I can tell you.
Never again!
OK. The Oz today & the breakfast TV stations is reporting a massive incident in Sydney’s SWest. An Assyrian Christian church leader attacked by a young offender with a knife and suffered injuries. He was restrained by parishioners until po,ice arrived. But by that time huge crowds had arrived – seemingly in support of the offender as they attacked police with bricks and paling torn from neighbouring houses! Many injuries to police & their vehicles. Offender “known to police” & is said to have explained his action as having been offended by comments made re the Prophet ( not the Christian one!).
And so it begins?
TV presenters are saying the violent crowds outside the Church were supporting the Church parishioners. I think they have got that wrong, but maybe I am wrong.
Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar was also just 15 years old.
Gotta laff ..! MSN News runs a story whinge-ing about Gazans getting knocked back for “temporary” visas cos .. not likely to leave afterwards .. but shutz off comments …
Methinx it might be cos most Oz folk agree with the knockbacks & comments might take the bite out of the whinge .. LOL!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/palestinians-were-refused-australian-visitor-visas-due-to-concerns-they-would-not-stay-temporarily/ar-BB1lF5TN?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=746a174b7a424802a1b579cd6ba53514&ei=20
Yep – crowds were in support of the Bishop.
More trouble in the EV world.
Tesla to Lay Off More Than 10% of Its Staff (15 Apr)
Everyone who wants one has already bought one, and the normies don’t want an EV. Good luck Mr Bowen getting them to buy one.
This is hilarious.
“Weaponry systems in Ukraine, many of which were supplied by European countries, have been rendered unworkable, not due to Russian interference, but because of damage caused by mice and other rodents. Seemingly, these creatures have developed a preference for cable insulation made of corn fiber over synthetic materials. This predilection leads to malfunctioning electrical installations, rendering the expensive equipment essentially worthless, and requiring rapid overhauling.”
Here’s the link for the full story.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rodents-incapacitate-millions-in-eco-friendly-military-equipment-in-ukraine-the-unforeseen-problem/ar-BB1iOyki?cvid=1cd547cfc73e44cf98245aeda8fc841e&ei=10
Bruce, it’s that T badge on the car that looks like a thumb tack that is the important feature most EV buyers wanted. They needed to be able to signal to the rest of the drivers that they are virtuous AND well off. That’s something a Mercedes or a Maserati owner can’t claim.
That is a deadly stupidity. Even without the rodent predations aren’t these materials meant to biodegrade? It will be a case of use them quickly or lose them, not exactly a long term deterrent.
Started well, finished badly (the Hun):
Yay!
Boo!
The “lions den” comment, is that referring to the criminal trial. Cause I get the message that the judge is saying it was stacked deck against him and is really denying him the right to justice.
Do we have a name for the 15 year old stabster yet? Looks a lot like a case from a few years back where a programmed junior shot a Parramatta Police Station employee out in the street.
More battery fun.
Is a BAN on Home Batteries in Lofts Coming? (15 Apr)
Logically you’d have to have a solidly built battery shed well separated from the house and garage. Which would make them even more expensive to install.
That’s ok Bruce. Bowen doesn’t actually want people to be able to drive cars. Cars are for the elite, not the hoi polloi. People refusing EVs won’t stop Labor/Green arseholes from banning ICE cars.
Yep. Has been declared a terrorist incident.
Nort often I’m unimpressed with hospitals .. but .. yesterday I had an appointment for the pre admission check before day surgery later in the month .. Turned up 10 minutes before appointment .. no other folk there .. waited 20 minutes before being called by a nurse .. 25 minutes for a heart check and go over, question by question, paperwork I filled out 3 weeks ago .. then a 30 minute wait to see an anaesthetist, who had wandered in & out of his office several times during that period .. 10 minutes to go over most of the written questions/answers I’d been thru with the nurse .. then sat down, outside, again for another 20 minutes before the nurse turned up and said, “That’s it you can go” & gave me a paper of do’s & don’ts for the 24 hrs leading up to the surgery ….. duuuuuuh! ..
I got the impression that all this waiting around was more to do with staff filling in time than anything else .. there were several nurses wandering around but in the whole time I was the onIy customer ….. nearly 2 hours for around 40 minutes activity ……
Nanna Webb says the church stabbing’s a terror-related stabbing.
They may have picked the wrong target this time.
The man is finished, what sort of a job can he get now?
I think he’s about to retire so saving the Luigi gummint’s embarrassment over Knickerless’ $millions payout will be rewarded .. I’m summizing several “jerbs fer the boyz” positions will be on offer! …… LOL!
The “lions den” comment by J Lee was that after escaping the Lion’s den you don’t go back for your hat. So J Lee thinks he is guilty and escaped the consequences in the criminal trial.
seemingly in support of the offender as they attacked police with bricks and paling torn from neighbouring houses! Many injuries to police & their vehicles.
Seems unlikely ..! .. The Islam population is centred mainly around Fairfield cbd/retail area .. the Assyrian/Maronites are from Fairfield Heights thru to Edensor Park/Waverley/Horsley Park so for the Islamists to get to the church would be anywhere from 30 to 60 mins drive, depending on traffic, well after the locals would have gathered ……
I see from the febrile reportage of Lehrmanngate that Lee J has apparently sorted out one of the great (to me, anyway) mysteries of the romantic evening in question:
No problems with the judicial concept that shaggery was front of mind, or that Bruce might be an utter cad.
But the idea that, having porked Brinny in the Minister’s office, Bruce would just bugger off home leaving her unconscious, nekkid and dribbling on the couch for someone to find suggests reckless lunacy and an inexplicable lack of self preservation. Strangely unexplored by Hizonner.
But, there we go.
It’s Canbra.
I must be young and naive.
That’s nice.
Some actual physical evidence to that guilt would be nice too.
On this basis the good judge might think the next offender is a pumpkin. And who could disabuse him of that? He appears to know everything.
The section in the Lehrmann judgement on “Panties” is … quite brief.
Did Lee explore why Ms Higgins lied about Fiona Brown and destroyed her career? Was it the trauma made her done it? It suggests to me someone willing to lie and manipulate for their benefit… exactly what you might do to cover up the embarrassment of being found naked on your boss’s couch.
Reflecting on Leak’s seriously one-sided cartoon…
The case is definitely Australia’s Tar Baby. Anyone, even the magnificent Leak Jnr. is stuck in its greasy, gooey, moral morass the moment they touch it.
As for not depicting Knickerless, perhaps there was nothing there to set fire to.
The big flaw in Lehrmann’s story was the ever-changing reasons for returning to Parliament House, coupled with his over-inflated ego. One story was that he went back to make some Very Important Notes about a Very Important Conversation about French submarines (which apparently had never been discussed whilst they were on the piss).
If you need to construct an alibi, pick something totally mundane and obscure (even knock up some draft notes on Monday morning as a cover). Plead that, yes, it was silly to go back to the office for that, but you just felt the boss was going to be on your case on Monday about it.
And stick to the story.
I don’t buy Lee’s take on the complications of going back for keys as against simply going home to knock on the door. Any chap who has gone out for “two beers” and is heading home at 3:00 a.m. would rather gouge their own eyes out than wake the bride.
The Iranian response was not, nor any potential Israeli counter will be, ‘theatrical’.
What’s going on here?
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Full confrontation between Australian riot police and Christians outside Bishop Mar Mari stabbing
From the Hun
‘Rust’ armourer Hannah Gutierrez sentenced to 18 months over deadly on-set shootingThe armourer who loaded the gun that killed a cinematographer on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie Rust has been sentenced.
Merryn Johns, Maria Bervanakis and AFP
4 min read
April 16, 2024 – 6:35AM
News Corp Australia Network
The armourer who loaded the gun that killed a cinematographer on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie Rust was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a US court.
Hannah Gutierrez stood impassive as a judge in the state of New Mexico told her she would serve the maximum sentence after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the October 2021 death of Halyna Hutchins during filming of the budget Western.
“You were the armourer, the one that stood between a safe weapon and a weapon that could kill someone. You alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon,” Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer said on Monday local time.
“But for you, Miss Hutchins would be alive. A husband would have his partner and a little boy would have his mother.”
I’m not laughing.
Here’s the REAL Reason the Soros-Bought NYC Prosecutor Put Trump on Trial. Try Not to Laugh.
Thought for the day .. LOL!
Joe Biden’s Parole Pipeline Imports Over 950,000 Foreign Nationals to U.S., Exceeding Population of South Dakota
Judge May Force Trump to Skip Son Barron’s High School Graduation
Jonathan Turley: Trump’s New York Hush Money Case Is ‘Absurd’
Yes, indeed.
WAYNE ROOT: Why Isn’t Every Republican Leader in America Asking 24/7, “Who is the Real President? Who is Making the Decisions That are Destroying America?” Because We All Know It Isn’t Joe Biden.
That clip above would be about this incident. These are both overseas sites.
Another Stabbing Rocks Sydney: Priest, Worshippers Attacked in Church
It’s only five minutes.
Reposted from last night.
Will illuminate the incident last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhyF42Rkffk
From the four minute mark on is the relevant bit.
Dr. John Campbell
New treatment blocked
One for BoN .. LOL!
I take it the attacker was an aggrieved Buddhist?
Gotta luv politicians .. LOL! .. Seems Ho Chi Minns has dun his sums and worked out there are more Assyrians/Maronites spread across outer western Sydney seats than Islamists in Fairfield/Bankstown/Lakemba ……..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-16/nsw-wakeley-church-bishop-stabbing-attack-police-minns/103728120
Note – she does not deny the longer trend of global warming, but does not believe the cause is human activity or CO2 (smart lady!).
Headline doesn’t match the reports. What happened is that Iran told the US via Turkey of its plans in broad outline: on this day, via these routes, and so on, so don’t panic.
Laugh all you want at those ‘Florida Man’ memes, they are funny as hell after all.
But watch how Florida cops handle road-blocking protestors.
Rack ’em and stack ’em.
15 minutes ago
‘If he didn’t swear at my Prophet, I wouldn’t be here’Staff writers
The teenager who allegedly stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel has allegedly claimed the Bishop had “involve(d) himself in (his) religion”.
The Daily Telegraph has reported that videos of the incident show the alleged attacker speaking in Arabic.
The rough translation of what the alleged attacker said, while lying on the ground inside the Church in police custody, is: “If he didn’t swear at my Prophet I wouldn’t be here. If he didn’t involve himself in my religion I wouldn’t be here”.
The teenager allegedly stabbed Bishop Emmanuel at the Assyrian orthodox church on Welcome Street in Wakely about 7.10pm.
The 15-year-old alleged attacker remains in custody this morning and has undergone surgery.
Decapita-lists are so driven by the Prophet motive.
Definitely worth a read, an extract of which follows.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/israel/2024/04/a-new-blood-libel-endlessly-repeated/
Moreover, and this is an age-old problem articulated by philosophers as diverse as Plato and Heidegger – average minds are easily swayed by the cultural zeitgeist, by arguments from authority (whether from priests, politicians, ‘experts’ or celebrities), and especially by public opinion. They fall, regularly, for every contemporary trend. Look, for example, at the uncritical attitude and acceptance, from the majority, to the Covid-19 measures.
People with average intelligence are decent, kind, trustworthy, extraordinarily capable in ways that leave more intelligent people scratching their heads in admiration, not the least bit lacking in street smarts, and know implicitly what is good for themselves and their families, (especially when government policy negatively affects their wallets). What they are not, though, is particularly interested in abstract thought.
The impact of intelligence on politics and culture has become clear in recent months. People who six months ago couldn’t spell anti-Semitism are now parroting the most harebrained anti-Semitic delusions, without knowing much about Jews, Israel, Arabs, Islam or the modern history of the Middle East. In the words of Heidegger, people ‘fall’ into the ‘they’.
Brilliant minds too, evidently:
Martin Heidegger and Nazism
So if it is an Islamist attack then get ready for the following in order: Lone wolf, mentally deranged, family completely surprised, “he was religious, kind and gentle”, local Imam ” never seen him before”.. then after shown photos of him leaving the mosque every day.. “well yes he did attend the mosque but I never spoke to him” , local Islamic council asks for more government funding to identify and help these disadvantaged youngsters, academics claim more research funding is needed, NSW Police claim more money is needed for AI to identify potential terrorists.
Never let a stabbing go to waste.
The local Assyrian community go nuts, find his extended family, Islamic colleagues and friends and….
Very good.
I frequently watch YouTube clips of Jimmy Dore’s show. He often displays a socialist astigmatism when surveying events but he is no reflexive prog. In fact I think he views them as suspiciously as the establishment right.
but he really is hell-bent on the idea that Israel is intent on a genocide of the people now called Palestinian.
Nothing like a “troublesome priest” to motivate some of the more “excitable” elements residing in a certain part of Sydney.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 16, 2024 9:36 am
15 minutes ago
‘If he didn’t swear at my Prophet, I wouldn’t be here’
What about all the insults to Jesus and Christians in comedy routines, movies, TV shows, Mardi Gras parades? Can we react in the same way?
Indeed.
Declan Mansfield wrote a terrible piece on abortion a few years back. His treatment of Aristotle’s doctrine of the Mean was less than impressive.
Funny…I don’t remember the referendum where we decided to import ME tribalism.
I see Trump fell asleep several times in the first day of his trial, LOL.
Cheer up Sleepy Don.
Oldest trick in the (propaganda) book: accuse your enemies of what’s in your own heart.
And none of today’s parrots (especially the moosleys and their useful rent-a-crowd idiots) have even heard of Saul Alinsky or his Rules For Radicals.
Morning TV …
Blah, blah, blah.
But the Christians shouldn’t have retaliated.
Assyrians aren’t to be messed with!
Finger of alleged stabber cut off in aftermath of bishop attack (Tele, paywalled)
He’s lucky he didn’t lose a different appendage.
Albo really worried about retaliation.
Down in Melbourne, and so yesterday we decided to go and check out some of the old arcades and so on in town – lovely buildings with leadlighting and so on.
About 2pm there was a lot of noise down our street. It was a demonstration preceded by police cars with flashing lights and so on. Yes, it was the Pallies on parade, complete with yelling, screaming, signs with obscenities on them – the whole mess.
Up from were 32 police all up – cars, alongside, in front etc. At the back were another 20. The idiots in the middle would have numbered no more than 300.
A crazy way to ensure “free speech.”
“If you riot, if you loot, if you harm others, particularly if you harm a law enforcement officer during one of these violent assemblies, you’re going to jail.” — Governor DeSantis
The time of coddling/enabling of overgrown adolescents seems to have come to an end at least somewhere.
Miles breathes a sigh of relief…
Molly the magpie’s 45-day ordeal finally over (15 Apr)
A specialised election campaign flavoured license more like. DESI were probably fed up with all the calls from Miles’ minders.
The 40 beheaded babies?
He could have cut his own finger if his hand slipped during the frenzied slashing.
Indeed.. You don’t fire 300+ ordinances from your sovereign land into another sovereign country (even if you know most won’t get through because of their defences), without triggering a response.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/15/the-heroes-of-westfield-sydney/
PM to ‘Bollard Man’: stay as long as you likeRhiannon Down
Anthony Albanese has declared a French national who fought off Bondi Junction attacker Joel Cauchi with a bollard is “welcome to stay for as long as you like”, following revelations his visa is due to expire.
Footage of French construction worker Damien Guerot brandishing a bollard at Cauchi to prevent him from climbing an escalator and potentially attacking more people, emerged on Saturday following the rampage.
“This is someone who we would welcome becoming an Australian citizen, although that would of course be a loss for France,” the Prime Minister said.
“We thank him for his extraordinary bravery.
“It says a lot about the nature of humanity at a time when we are facing difficult issues, that someone who is not a citizen of this country, stood bravely at the top of those escalators and stopped this perpetrator from getting onto another floor and potentially inflicting further carnage on citizens.
“I think that on Saturday we saw some of the best of human character at the same time as we saw such devastating tragedy.
“And I thank Damian for his extraordinary efforts.
Must be the first time I’ve agreed with Albo on anything.
Did the Israelis think they could attack the Iranian embassy in Damascus without triggering a response? Did they think any potential response would be channeled through only Iran’s allies? Did they think that any response, if directly from Iran, would occur outside of Israel, involving black operations Israel may be a part of regionally? Did they discount the possibility of Iran directly responding on Israel proper? Is this a greater strategic error than Oct 7?
The lack of physical and forensic evidence in the Brittany case was certainly an issue. God knows what a forensic examination of that couch, even 2 years later, would have turned up. As a criminal defendant, at the time of trial Bruce would know what evidence he faced, even if he might not have done so at the time of entering a plea.
So just days after m0nty got the vapours at people suspecting the Bondi attack was Islamic, an Islamic guy stabs a bunch of Christians in their church. Geee I wonder why people jumped to conclusions.
Call me a cynic, but I see it as Albanese tapping into the general sentiment for a political boost.
Afte nearly 30 years in parliament he knows only too well the French chap is subject to the same visa conditions as any other visiting worker and even the Minister for Home Affairs can’t override them without legally valid reasons.
Dunno DB. I saw Naftali on Fox last night and he said that all this fighting of proxies in Yemen, Gaza and Lebanon could go on forever. Israel needed “to strike to head of the octopus.” I do think Israel needed to send Iran an “F-U” but not sure bombing Damascus was the way to go? I dunno.
Either way, they’re in it now and perhaps better be in direct confrontation with the head, rather than the proxies?
John Bolton had an interesting take on the situation:
“How long until Iran has a nuke?”
“72 hours.“
They potted the IRGC brigadier general who planned Oct 7 plus at least one senior Islamic Jihad guy (although that guy may’ve survived). They were engaging in an act of war against Israel.
Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy [sic] in Damascus (wiki)
I think therefore the question is whether Iran, IJ and Hezbollah thought they could engage in this hostile action without triggering a response. And as you see they got a response.
It’s been 1 year, 2 years, 6 months before Iran has nukes for decades now. They have nukes by now.
We are passed those speculations in the decision tree.
From the Hun.
Terrified mothers, kids flee machete-wielding gangs at Woodgrove Shopping CentreTerrified mothers still reeling from the Bondi stabbings were forced to flee with their children from a shopping centre in Melbourne’s northwest as a brawl broke out between armed men.
Regan Hodge and Nilsson Jones
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April 16, 2024 – 11:17AM
Terrified mothers and children were forced to flee from a western suburbs shopping centre after a group of machete-wielding men became involved in a bloodied brawl on Monday.
Detectives understand the group of men, armed with various weapons, launched their frightening attack inside the Woodgrove Shopping Centre in Melton about 5pm.
Multiple witnesses say they saw the group, who they believe to be teenagers, throwing chairs and waving knives and machetes around.
One woman, who was forced to flee with her five-year-old child, said she was “disgusted” with the group given the horrific events that took place at Bondi Junction on Saturday.
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Mothers and children were forced to flee from Woodgrove Shopping Centre in Melton after a group of machete-wielding men became involved in a bloodied brawl. Picture: Supplied
“Kids brawling, throwing chairs around. One guy waving a machete around. Ran out with my kids and advised everyone walking in to turn around,” she said.
“You would think these idiots would take pause after what happened in Bondi. I’m so disgusted that I had to explain to my five-year-old why we had to run out of the shops.
“Woodgrove needs a police presence for all hours that it’s open and these little turds need harsher punishments. There is zero value for human life
these little turds need harsher punishments
Liberty quote there, Dover.
They deported Djokovic without precedent, I’m sure they can conversely accomodate M’seur Bollarde, pour touts le temp.
He’ll get a medal.
Not really. Israel swore to exterminate everyone responsible for Oct 7. It turned out Zahedi was very high up in that responsibility tree.
He’s now joining the Munich Olympics guys in a very warm location. They can discuss their relative experiences of having really pissed off the Israelis.
Israel wants to assassinate terror leaders worldwide. It’s not the first time (8 Jan)
Everyone associated with the obscene Oct 7 attack are dead men. I would not be selling them life insurance.
Whatever one may think of that, the Minister’s decision was in accord with the law, as three judges ruled. Djokovic’s case was not helped by irregularities in his paperwork, a fatal error when appealing at such a level.
Nike olympic uniforms not optimised for penis tucking.
You’re right DB, we’ve passed the deadline for when Iran should have nuclear capability but from reports I heard they were still at 80%, who knows.
Bolton’s comment (I didn’t finish it but was a sobering thought) was there’s nothing stopping a certain “Axis of Evil” country providing Iran a nuke via Turkey. And it’d only take 72 hours.
There’ve been some reports in the last 24 hours that Iran has vowed “to use a weapon it’s never used before.” These sources are the various “intel” accounts you get on twitter. Sometimes they’ve been very accurate, not so much at other times.
EXCLUSIVEBruce Lehrmann’s staggering seven-figure bill is exposed after crushing court loss: How much homeless, jobless rapist will have to cough up – and his one silver lining
Daily Mail.
This toon by Knight sums it up:
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The police lady did her job well; she’s competent. But all the civilians running the other way don’t have a glock on their hip. That’s the problem.
Q: how long until Iran no longer has a nuke?
A: the flight time from Israel to Iran.
IAEA chief: Concerned Israel will attack Iran’s nuclear facilities (16 Apr)
The Iranian nuke guys are probably more than a little apprehensive right now.
Um, so, why are the MSM more interested in Bishop Mar Mari’s thoughts on the ChinaFlu Vax?
WGAF!!! The guy nearly got murdered by an Islamist FFS!!
Two weeks ago people were at the ‘Iran wouldn’t dare strike Israel proper’ stage. They did and then people shifted to ‘but it was theatrical’ stage. If the strike was ‘theatre’ why does Israel think, at least openly, that it must respond? What might it be seeking to restore regionally?
Arndt going: Lehrmann pulls pin on conferenceStaff writers
Bruce Lehrmann has withdrawn from appearing at a conference called the Restoring the Presumption of Innocence just a day after Justice Michael Lee found he raped Brittany Higgins.
“Mr Lehrmann raped Ms Higgins,” Justice Lee said in his conclusions on Monday.
“I hasten to stress, this is a finding on the balance of probabilities.”
Mr Lehrmann was set to appear at the conference in June, however sponsor of the event Mothers of Sons confirmed on Facebook he will no longer be attending.
“In light of recent events, Bruce Lehrmann has decided not to appear at the Restoring the Presumption of Innocence conference,” the post read.
“He is being subject to extremely aggressive pursuit by the media and is concerned that his participation may threaten the audience, jeopardise this important event, and distract from its main purpose.”
The event, set to take place at an unknown location in Rushcutters Bay, was organised Bettina Arndt with Australians for Science and Freedom (ASF).
A petition has been formed to cancel the event following over concerns it could cause harm or damage to the victim survivor community.
This was the attitude on Oct 6.
Dickless out and about:
I see Trump fell asleep several times in the first day of his trial, LOL.
Cheer up Sleepy Don.
Trump is probably having a snooze dreaming about the women he has actually rooted. He didn’t root stormy; that was established when the skank’s lawyer jailbird Avenatti sued Trump for defamation and lost and Trump had his costs from the slimy duo worth $500K which is more dosh then stormy has earned spreading her thighs in her slutty life.
As for this grotesque case against Trump professor Turley sums it up:
“This case is, creating something, it’s creating a criminal code just for Trump. You know, you have a misdemeanor whose time has expired, the statute limitations ran out, and it was revived in this rather curious way. He’s effectively arguing that Trump was filing false business records through his counsel to hide a federal crime. But it isn’t a federal crime, this wasn’t a campaign contribution. None of that appears to matter, and that’s why a lot of us are looking at this and recoiling. This is not how the law is supposed to be.”
Would it not be in the public interest to know who these “two groups of young people” were (generally speaking) and what the cause of their animosity against each other is?
Mention of a machete could be a clue.
Funny how journalists suddenly fall into line with their code of ethics on such questions.
Yeah, right. Listen you silly woman, those stupid savages don’t give a rodent’s backside about you, your kiddies or your delicate middle class sensibilities.
Take off the rose coloured glasses and try and develop a slightly more realistic perspective about why such violent inbred idiots are in this country in the first place and who just might be responsible for this.
Then start voting accordingly.
Stop listening to the zombie in the WH. Israel will do exactly what they think is required.
Report: Israel Readies Air Force to ‘Forcefully’ Deliver ‘Retaliatory Counter-Strike’ Against Iran (15 Apr)
Recall Operation Praying Mantis? Thirty six years later and the Iranians appear to have forgotten. It sounds like the IDF think a similar refresher lesson is required. Interesting that Praying Mantis occurred on 18 Apr 1988. I wonder if the IDF likes historical dates?
Precisely my point. The strike was significant and the pressure to respond on the Israelis appears irresistable, and the Iranians know this and have very likely made the requisite preparations defensively and offensively.
The problem with Australia visualised:
No wonder rub and tug had to get his rocks off with the professionals. There’s ugly and then there’s that. I think he’s had work.
350 Iranian ballistics shot at Israel.
I say 350 Israeli Air Force’s Python 5 missiles upon Iran’s head.
“A pound of flesh, no more, no less.”
In some ways the Israelis were too successful. Normally a Pearl Harbor style attack would be an immediate casus belli for a declaration of war.
Israel doesn’t seem to be going in that direction. Because the Iranian strike was such a debacle I suspect they feel they can’t trigger the military alliance with the US into a formal war with Iran. Which would be certainly justified on the events.
If they feel they can’t declare war formally and trigger the US alliance then the alternative would be unilateral action. They could obliterate the Iranian Navy without a declaration of war, just on the moral basis of an appropriate response, and Biden would have no leg to stand on to object.
It’s an interesting thought bubble to think what if the US had intercepted and shot down 99% of the Japanese air attack approaching Honolulu on 7 Dec? Would Roosevelt then’ve declare war? Or done something short of that?
Some images of the church attack by the muzzie including one of him smirking while being held down:
BREAKING: Another Mass Stabbing in Sydney as Attacker Targets Bishop and Multiple Worshippers in Good Shepherd Church (SHOCK VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran
There’s a sex orgy going on on the balcony outside my door, has been for the last few days.
No, it’s not a bunch of Parliamentary staffers after a big night, it’s paper wasps, the orange and brown ones, Polistes humilis. Every year about this time, they congregate around here and, as the saying goes, f*** their brains out.
It’s a frenzy – threesomes, multiple partners, you name it.
Reading up on these wasps, I found no mention of this behaviour, although there were all sorts of theories about female dominance and interbreeding as survival mechanisms – ‘evolutionary’ psychobabble.
Yet, not one of the several sources (including heavy duty ones) mentioned the autumn bacchianalia that I have witnessed for years.
In Victorian times, citizen scientists contributed valuable information to the mainstream. The ‘official’ scientists could not be everywhere.
Yet, when it comes to the common paper wasp, the articles I read were all about theories of hierarchy and whether they were likely to sting. Having cohabited with them for years, unless seriously annoyed, they don’t, but some of these dickhead ‘academics’ tried to puff up their articles by claiming that they are potentially dangerous.
As for all the attempts to put their behaviour into the framework of post modern sexual politics – what a betrayal of science. What nonsense.
AFAIK, after the end of year party – which is magnificent, BTW – the males die (sorry guys) and the fertilised females hole up somewhere for winter. In spring, they emerge and start new nests.
That’s it. Genetic diversity is ensured by the orgy currently going on outside.
If they can mess up a simple thing like paper wasps, what the hell are they doing elsewhere in science?
The Israelis didn’t attack the Iranian Embassy. That’s propaganda BS.
They are accused of hitting a building in Damascus that lies between the Iranian and Canadian embassies. One which was employed as the headquarters for the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) efforts to support and coordinate iran-backed terrorist groups attacking Israel. A completely legitimate target.
Proof? Eight IRGC officers were killed, not a single diplomat was scratched.
No problem just the opposite. They don’t all have a glock on their hip because they don’t live in a violent society where every man and his brother is likely to be armed and nutters and crooks are 10 a penny
Long may it last
Viva
April 16, 2024 2:24 pm
No problem just the opposite. They don’t all have a glock on their hip because they don’t live in a violent society where every man and his brother is likely to be armed and nutters and crooks are 10 a penny
Long may it last
The muzzies are well armed and there are more illegal guns in Australia then legal.
The US gun crime rate, once you remove black and hispanic gun crime, usually with illegal guns since most of it happens in demorat cities which have gun restrictions stricter than Australia, is about the same as the rate in Australia.
The issue is not guns but a citizen’s right to self defence, which applies to being in public as well as in their home. We saw how effective that self defence right was at Bondi. What would you have done if you had been at Bondi?
Alice Springs three-week long curfew lifts
The youth curfew in Alice Springs has been lifted after nearly three weeks.
The curfew, which was introduced on March 27 following violence incidents, was in place between 6pm and 6am for people under the age of 18, prohibiting them from entering the CBD without a “lawful purpose”.
Northern Territory Chief Minister Eva Lawler told the ABC she received reports rates of domestic violence lowered during the curfew.
“The issues that we see in the suburbs were the issues you would probably see in the suburbs in Alice Springs, it was, though, that we had additional police there, so any of those issues got cleaned up pretty quickly from the reports I was getting from the police,” she told the ABC.
“The advice that I was given, that there was less domestic violence.
“One crime is one crime too many in Alice Springs, and that is the frustrating thing about that town, because it is an amazing town.”
By Clareese Packer
Started watching CIVIL WAR last night .. only lasted 30 minutes, couldn’t get into it .. lotza violence but little explanation of what was going on seemed like a standard blood & gore shoot-out but may improve for those that stay longer .. Have to admit tho Kirsten Dunst almost kept me there .. but not quite …… I realise the appeal is being set in the US of A but what I saw was following any of the average shoot-em-up plots …..
Did luv the way driving along a wrecked vehicle strewn highway they flopped across the other side and got a clear run thru … as you do in
we-is-the-heroes type scenarios LOL!
no rating not there long enuf …!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17279496/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_civil%2520War
” I hasten to stress, this is is a finding on the balance of probabilities.” Watching on tele yesterday I wondered why the haste. Was he worried something ? Was he still unsure?
Pingelly shearer Luke Vernon sets world record with 500 Merino ewes sheared in eight hours
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Tue, 16 April 2024 9:25AM
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Gung-ho shearer Luke Vernon, assisted by Michael James Terry, broke the world eight-hour record shearing 500 ewes on April 12 in Pingelly Credit: Rocky Wegner/Rocky Wegner
Gung-ho Pingelly shearer Luke Vernon has broken the world eight-hour record, shearing 500 Merino ewes to break Lou Brown’s previous record of 497 set in 2019.
The New Zealand-born 28-year-old became an official world record holder on his first attempt on April 12, in a spectacular performance at Doug Dougal and Ashe Young’s Thornton Park shearing shed, near Pingelly.
The World Sheep Shearing Records Society has verified Vernon’s 500-ewe tally made up of successive two-hour runs of 120, 126, 126 and 125.
Vernon, who shears fulltime for Pingelly Shearing contractor Rob Cristinelli, said he fulfilled a “dream” to be the first man to shear 500 Merino ewes in one day in world-record time.
The Chinese Communist Party has long stated its intention to take down the United States and replace it as the global superpower.
But how does the CCP plan to achieve this goal? By implementing what’s known as a “four wars” strategy.global superpower.
I get sick and tired of people talking about the towns and countries they live in being fantastic places. And as for one crime is one too many. FMD. Unicorn farts smell so sweet. Alice Springs is in the Shiite Town category every year. Canberra is no better than Alice Springs and in many ways much worse. Something can be done about the Alice, a spine from government to start with by not putting up with the crap behaviour and start to have expectations and responsibilities from all concerned, not the faux concern by the grifters of every hue. The biggest problem to me is throwing money at it. The more money the more grifters with their hand in the till. All the problems I’ve had in life are self inflicted and until I took responsibility none of them were sloved. My 3yo grandson already understands if he doesn’t behave at my place I don’t want him to come over. Of course he still has his moments, he’s 3. This thing about its everyone else’s fault has to stop. Adults blaming others for their own poor decisions is pathetic. FOAD. I no longer care. I’ll only help people that help themselves. Enough is enough.
I took that to mean it would take that long to get a nuke from Pakistan.
Um, 120 + 126 + 126 + 125 = 497, not 500.
This ruling is not the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt. He says, she says, but she says prevails and Lehrmann ruined. Balance of probabilities – hmmm.
Ms Higgins did not have the 11 drinks forced down her throat, nor forced into the uber, or into Parliament House in early hours.
Judge Michael Lee put emphasis on the fact that Higgins couldn’t get her shoes back on at Security, which showed how inebriated she was.
They were strappy stilettos which when totally sober require good balance and dexterity to get the strap around the back. Try it.
His words “I have no doubt that Ms Higgins’inability to put on her shoes was caused by her state of inebriation. ” and later words to the effect, “it can’t be that difficult”. It is.
“The curious thing is her actions after the rape”
“But she no action”
“That is the curious thing”
Fixd
“The curious thing is her actions after the rape”
“But she took no action”
“That is the curious thing”
Haha, word is getting around how leftist sucky it is.
‘Civil War’ Takes Box Office Spoils With $25.7M Opening, Best Ever For A24 – Sunday AM Update (14 Apr)
Five percent of the audience were righties. Five percent! Obviously those unfortunate people don’t read Breitbart or they’d’ve known better:
‘Civil War’ Review: Ridiculously Dopey, Anti-Trump Snuff Film (12 Apr)
I suggest reading Kurt Schlichter’s Kelly Turnbull books instead.
Having read through today’s snippets…Thanks Tom etc … I have seen no reason to excoriate you folks … this time … but notice I am always “Awaiting Approval” ..must be worrisome to be needing to have everything aproved before you can read it … So Much for Conservatism … Rock Ribbed … and Free Speech ? Likely in a gesture of magnanimity My comments may be allowed eventually … Just to make a point …. eventually … Oh Gosh !!