Bush poems. Not particularly fond of poems, specially those that rhyme. But here it goes. Will Ogilvie was a Scot…
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In this way the revolver will never shoot by accident. Revolvers don’t shoot by accident. They’re shot by accident. Or…
Used ti buy my ammo from Kmart in the late 70s . Never heard of anyone misusing a firearm …
Why the six shooters were only loaded with five rounds. ——————– An accident was waiting to happen. This is why…
Good morning all.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight. More here.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Tina Norton.
Ben Garrison.
Chinese belt&road takes on new meaning.
Could do with some of this with some of our offenders
Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies Mysteriously From Sudden Infection, Leaving Doctors Baffled
Must be contagious?
Or just coincidence?
Who knows in that place now?
Things we mere males do not know.
My wife never mentioned or complained about how bothersome they were.
Bless her.
Come to think of it, I had to fish out some of those metal stiffeners from the washing machine, so there is a hint about wearing them can’t be all bliss.
Hahahahaha.
If only they had someone who had studied the Roman phalanx.
Looks like they had too many vagina knitting majors.
With commentary.
Lol
Yesterday I saw some news about groups looking to sue some pali aligned group in the US for October 7th.
It will be interesting to see which jurisdiction they try this in in.
What comes to mind is the KBJ ruling that says you can’t sue in the US for events that took place outside the US.
Which at some time will be before the SCOTUS.
I think SCOTUS is holding off on this until the presidential immunity case is either partially or fully resolved.
Which jogged my memory.
Last week on the Matt Taibbi/Walter Kirn podcast, they raised some legislation that is ready to go the next time there is cover (like the FISA renewal/turbcharging under the cover of Ukraine aid).
The legislation is regarding tax exempt organisations.
It removes the already limited oversight & appeals process from anything the administrative state.
Effectively meaning the Lois Lerner IRS bullying during the Obama administration gets turned up to eleventy.
Time will tell when & how they jam this through.
I see the latest iteration of antifa is kicking off nicely on US college campuses.
KD, I was hoping for more burning & destruction of the colleges before they were removed.
Opinion from other Cats please.
In Victoria the state government allows councils to receive direct payments from renewable companies per turbine or area of solar panels.
The justification for this is based on supreme court judgement that renewable infrastructure placed on private land is a chattel and not a fixed asset that can be included in the Capital Improved Value and therefore be rated. Stinks of influence peddling.
I don’t know of any other situation where a private industry directly funds municipalities. I asked rural councillors at a meeting whether they thought it compromised the council, they nodded in agreement.
It is good to those institutions displaying the sistemic rot. I hope the counter protestors don’t infiltrated by nutters.
Yes, that would have been handy.
As with universities in this wide brown land, those colleges have quite some number of similarities with massive public housing towers.
Conceptualised and constructed by well-intentioned people with lofty ambitions, they worked as planned for quite some time before deteriorating into shit pits, and the exact opposite of what their original sponsors hoped they would be.
Now they are to be shied away from, and are suitable only for demolition.
The first and last two paragraphs of Henry Ergas’s article in today’s Oz.
The motto would be an excellent choice for this august blog.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/the-answer-to-censors-must-always-be-dare-to-know/news-story/acfc23d7ccda3d44e3903625b4c9cd97
St Pauline and the latest please explain.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1786140181986492657
‘I’m the Prime Minister.’
🙂
I can believe that’s how the Labor caucus meetings actually proceed. Nothing matters excepted getting elected, nothing.
Coloured me surprised.
Waleed Aly writes something good.
Holding all men responsible for a violent minority has failed to keep women safe
Run it through 12ft.io to remove paywall.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/holding-all-men-responsible-for-a-violent-minority-has-failed-to-keep-women-safe-20240501-p5fo82.html
He has to defend Muesli men. He is one.
PS, we never seem to hear from his wife these days, not since the Turdball dinner.
Any time there is an open meeting with Local Councillors, attend . Any problems with the administration of council affairs should be raised. Most people don’t know councils are run by the Cabal of General Managers. They are the ones that determine what the council sees and talks about. They are a law unto themselves.
And they receive excessive remuneration in comparison to their limited responsibilities.
Stinks of influence peddling.
Farmer Jez, imagine re-writing this and replacing the renewable company with a property developer.
Straight to ICAC (or IBAC? down there).
not a new idea for a cartoon in Oz, but gotta be one of the best interpretations.
Heard a good one from my wife when dealing with Heads of Departments and Agencies. “Better to live to fight another day, than be right”.
Kevin, the bra is one of the most uncomfortable torture devices ever inflicted on women.
If you have small boobs, you don’t need one (but will still be expected to wear one). If you have large ones, the straps cut painfully into the shoulders and have been known to cause back problems because of the weight being transferred onto the upper spine. Very uncomfortable.
If they are medium, you can probably find a reasonably comfortable bra. Not as comfortable as not wearing one, though.
When I got home from work in my corporate dressing days, the first things I did were to remove high heeled shoes, pantyhose (ugh!) and my bra and whatever was covering it. Especially in summer.
Things have improved from when we were expected to wear corsets, later modified to ‘step-ins.’ But, men don’t always understand that the universally popular suit combines relative comfort with the capacity to conceal imperfections in the physique of the wearer. Imagine your typical corporate group of male executives having to expose their legs at work. No, don’t. 🙂
Some women like wearing skirts and look good in them. Fine. But I would challenge any man who complains about the lack of same to spend a month in summer wearing high heels, pantyhose, and a bra with a couple of rockmelons in the cups at work.
Sorry if I sound grumpy, but even years into retirement, I vividly remember just how uncomfortable and sometimes painful (corns from the shoes) some of my working days were.
Hey!
I was told this site was infested by misogynists! Has it been hacked? 🙂
Mmmm. High heels. A podiatrist once told me that he was torn between cursing them for the harm they did to the wearers and giving thanks for the amount of work (and thus income) they gave him.
Tom Jones back catalogue to be purged of Domestic Violence, Capital Punishment, and Christianity.
Well, there goes his whole repertoire.
Spot on.
I’m involved in a community sports club that’s has a permanent presence (clubhouse) and has been using a local park and other community resources for near on 75 years, on a fixed schedule that never changes. We’ve been in the same spot for 40 years.
We still get regularly shafted by council staff who ‘didn’t know’ we were there or when we needed the park.
Get a couple of dedicated councillors on your side and stick to them like glue. They’re the only ones that’ll fix the shit the general council staff cause.
Well the opposite is in this shire. The council without consultation of residents in a small community decided to turn our recreation rerve into a regional soccer ground removing remnant vegetation and destroying the amenity of our small community. Add to the $millions spent on the ground $230,000 for huge light towers. Now instead of an afternoon or day of community sport we have hundreds of people sometimes on both days of the weekend and now 5 nights a week till 9 pm. All this takes place in the middle of a long established small residential area. I swear the mobs come from 200 K away just to scream and shout and destroy our ambience. The Labor Gestapo at our council care not about ratepayers.
Its national fire and emergency services memorial day today.
The honour role can be found here: https://memorial.afac.com.au/
Those public figures bashing all men might like to remind themselves that 99% of those on the roll were men.
They likely regard that as something to be corrected in the future.
Court warned Mashid Doukoshkan would reoffend weeks before alleged Perth grandmother bashing
By paul garvey ,
paige taylor
and rhiannon down
A commonwealth prosecutor warned a Perth court that freed immigration detainee and declared drug trafficker Mashid Doukoshkan would reoffend yet still did not oppose his bail, eight weeks before the 43-year-old is accused of participating in a home invasion and robbery in which grandmother Ninette Simons was bashed unconscious.
A court transcript of Doukoshkan’s appearance at the Perth Magistrates Court on February 20 shows prosecutor Kirsty Stynes told magistrate Tanya Watt: “The prosecution does have concerns about his ability to not commit further offences, particularly in relation to the curfew … Notwithstanding that … we do not oppose bail with a personal undertaking being imposed, but want to make it very well known to the accused that that’s the position of the commonwealth today, but further breaches may not have the same response in terms of attitude towards bail.”
At that point, Doukoshkan was charged over what The Australian has been told were considered highly suspicious breaches of the curfew placed on him after he and 151 other immigration detainees were released by a High Court decision last November.
Doukoshkan was meant to be in his East Perth residence between 10pm and 6am each day but the ankle monitor he was wearing at the time showed multiple outings at odd hours.
When Australian Federal Police tried to question him about this, he declined to participate in an interview.
His lawyer, Stacey Byrne, told the court: “In terms of the actual offences themselves, he doesn’t wish to provide an explanation, mainly because he doesn’t wish to provide an excuse.
The maximum penalty for each of Doukoshkan’s breach charges is five years’ imprisonment.
Ms Watt told Doukoshkan: “Look, Mr Jamshidi Doukoshkan, you are on very thin ice.”
“The commonwealth is being very generous today because quite frankly if they didn’t consent to the release of you on bail, I wouldn’t be bailing you.”
Doukoshkan was in detention because successive governments wanted to deport him. He was jailed for eight years in 2017 over an attempted drug operation so serious that the court issued him with a drug trafficker declaration, an apparent warning to future courts and police about the gravity of his conviction.
Barbequed Teslas.
Arson Attacks: Left Extremists Promise ‘Week of Action’ Against Teslas (2 May)
The German far-left seems a bit inconsistent, since all these companies are or were far-left themselves. On the other hand we’ve seen from the university sit-ins how clueless these people usually are. Revolution!!! Where’s my iPhone? I need to post my latest manifesto on Facebook.
Sheesh, if you thought that Eurovision hardly makes sense anymore- ie, Australia is competing, and sending over a (racially) aboriginal couple to sing about how terrible Australia is- then consider how long-time participant Israel is performing in Malmo, long-time M*slim sh*thole no-go area within long-time mainstay Sweden.
Dover, grovelling apologies, can you explain, in words of one syllable, for the non techno, how I post an article that doesn’t go into moderation.
Zulu – Make sure you paste plain text.
Otherwise links come across and sends it to moderation.
Usually right-click and choose “paste as plain text”. Not sure what you do a right-click on a phone, possibly a two fingered tap – that works on my laptop touchpad.
Or, instead of what BoN suggests, you could do what I do and send the post to Dover via email and ask him to post it. 🙂
Court warned Mashid Doukoshkan would reoffend weeks before alleged Perth grandmother bashing
By paul garvey ,
gone missing in the Baja California region
Knew a guy who went missing presumed dead while body surfing in big waves off Baja California.
Mind you he did have a Cessna Citation jet rating and had delivered some to central and south America ……….
He’s a genius at truth in a nutshell
@catturd2
“Hate speech” is a phrase commies who hate free speech made-up.
And here another simple verity –
@elonmusk
Proposed law: if someone tears down the American flag and puts up another flag in its place, that person should get a free (but mandatory) one-way trip to that flag’s country
I’ve got to say all my dealings with Shoalhaven council have been very good. Its a breath of fresh sir, literally and figuratively as well to go to the Shoalhaven area. Its a go ahead area. The people in the shops and businesses are very helpful and friendly except Colesworth. Things improved when the rotating door of SFL mayor and State MP got the boot. We now have a greenie mayor and despite some inherent problems her being a greenie the place is run a lot better. The Shoalhaven used to be bogan central but due to the cheaper prices of property a lot of families moved in replacing the riff raff.
There seems to be one honest judge in this whole witches brew.
@julie_kelly2
NEW: Per Judge Cannon’s authorization, Trump just filed unsealed version of motion to dismiss on selective/vindictive prosecution.
Notes others caught with similar documents were never prosecuted incl Biden, Pence, both Clintons and Jim Comey.
@MonicaCrowley
Soros DA Alvin Bragg’s former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz PLEADS THE FIFTH when @RepMattGaetz asks him if Biden’s DOJ directed the political prosecutions of Trump:
“Did you knowingly break any laws when investigating President Trump?”
“I plead the 5th”
“Did you violate anyone’s constitutional rights while investigating Trump?”
“I plead the 5th”
By the proclaimed standards of the fat facist fool, mUnty, having pleaded the Fifth, Pomerantz is quite clearly guilty.
Monica Crowley
@MonicaCrowley
Soros DA Alvin Bragg’s former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz PLEADS THE FIFTH when @RepMattGaetz asks him if Biden’s DOJ directed the political prosecutions of Trump:
“Did you knowingly break any laws when investigating President Trump?”
“I plead the 5th”
“Did you violate anyone’s constitutional rights while investigating Trump?”
“I plead the 5th”
I tried to put this up from another source but it went into moderation.
@MikeBenzCyber
So the prosecutors are afraid that if we knew what they did, they’d be prosecuted
@DailyCaller
Here’s what UCLA looks like right now:
“Let My People Go” Full Interview: Dr. Walter Daugherity Reveals How 35,000 Illegal Votes Were Added to Democrat Totals in AZ Election and the Massive “Albert Sensor” Back Door Vulnerability
All the tax payer resources being wasted on this “e-safety” tzar would be better spent on forcing fb to regulate market places better.
More people have been scammed & or beaten up from market places than from wrong think on the interwebs.
There’s a reason the scammers use fb instead of eBay.
From the Hun.
Notorious Sydney gang Brothers for Life re-born on Melbourne streetsSydney police declared Brothers for Life — a gang behind a spate of shootings and violent attacks — dead a decade ago. But it’s now being revived on Melbourne’s streets.
BREAKING: President Trump Responds to Leaked CIA Recording Alleging Senior Officials Withheld Information From Him
Why not. Animals try to help themselves, just like we do.
Wild orangutan seen using medicinal plant to treat wound, scientists say
Bankrupt Victoria may need federal bailout
Thursday, 2 May 2024
Victoria, Australia’s most indebted state, is projected to have $247.2 billion of debt by 2027, up from $55.2 billion in 2019:
The state’s poor budgetary position is attributed to wasteful “Big Build” infrastructure projects, such as the North-East Link and the Suburban Rail Loop, alongside excessive spending on bureaucrats.
Victoria’s public sector has grown by 59% in the last 15 years, easily exceeding population growth:
Victoria’s public service pay bill increased by 152% over the same 15 year period, the nation’s largest increase:
“Victoria is on a suicide mission to record borrowing, just as global interest rates are about to hit 5%”, Anthony said.
“Potholes can’t get filled, emergency departments can’t afford clean linen, primary schools can’t fix heaters”.
“Things are about to get very ugly”, he said.
Victorians are bracing for higher taxes, levies, and charges in the upcoming state budget to pay off the state government’s debt, as well as cuts to key services.
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/05/bankrupt-victoria-may-need-federal-bailout/
I would short Victorian debt & buy QLD debt.
A nice little arb developing.
Andrews’ chickens coming home to roost.
You’d have to wonder whether there’d be any federal electoral payoff in Albanese bailing Allan’s government out by redistributing its debt to the rest of Australia during the present economic climate.
If that were to happen Labor might win some seats in Victoria but lose more in WA and Queensland. I don’t see it as a good trade-off.
And Albersleazy, despite being from Sydney, is short-changing NSW in the distribution of GST revenue to prop up the basket case run by his left faction mates in Yarragrad.
Meet The ‘New George Soros’ Using Front Groups To Influence Elections
From 2011 but more relevant than ever now.
The Five Stages of Islam
America’s immigration nightmare: The economic and social fallout
Project Gutenberg strikes again. It’s got to be by orders of magnitude one of the best things on the interwebs.
Following on from Dr Doolitle on the Moon (which I recommend) I found a newly released collection of Dorothy L Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey short stories.
The novels have all been made into TV series, some of them twice, But, this is new.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73295/pg73295.txt
This is what the American legal system has been reduced to. It’s the judge who should be on trial.
Dem Judge Claims Conservative Lawyer is “Threat to Public” for Representing Conservatives
President Trump Gives Impromptu Presser After Leaving NYC Courtroom
And then took pizzas to a firefighters’ station.
Interesting article in the journal about the exodus of Chinese to Japan.
The Exodus of China’s Wealthy to Japan
Albanese has lost the confidence of Michelle Grattan due to the poor ministerial performance (i.e. they’ve gone to ground) in response to former immigration detainees running amok.
When you’ve lost Michelle Grattan…
While working all of her long life in the lefty media cocoon, Michelle Grattan is actually a good reporter who would often harrass subeditors like me to make relatively minor changes to her copy — and often right on edition deadline time.
IMO, Michelle is actually a closet conservative.
I met her once at a Canberra party in the 70’s. She’s been around for a long time. She seemed very open then to new ideas (new at that time) on the 3rd sector (charities). I recommended an article (sort of stuff I was reading then). She seemed less of an overt leftie than I was, though everyone was a bit left.
As in that movie The History Man (Bradbury – read the book ages ago) that someone linked here yesterday and I watched again. It came out in 1981 and nailed the late seventies; what horrible people some of us were, children of the times. The departmental meeting was like those I had to chair as HOD through the 90’s. I was older and wiser by then, clued in by David Lodge and other ‘university’ novelists about the hypocrisy going on in academia. And by my own eyes, having seen it writ even larger in the 80’s and with post-modernism in the 90’s.
I don’t know, Tom. As I posted here recently, she’s blamed the failure of multiculturalism on not enough multiculturalism and wanted ethnic groups to be given a direct voice in government.
What a joy it is to see Turnbull’s Guardian begging for money.
I dislike most polimuppets but Giles is a particular standout for me. Along with ‘Dr’ Emerson who hangs around the rotten intellectual cesspit known as the ANU.
Makka
May 3, 2024 9:03 am
Bankrupt Victoria may need federal bailout
Thursday, 2 May 2024
Victoria, Australia’s most indebted state, is projected to have $247.2 billion of debt by 2027, up from $55.2 billion in 2019:
Very simple to fix. Just do what Argentina is now doing. Get back to Small Guv’ment. Balance the Budget. Live within your means. Also allow Gas and Oil drilling and only take minimal royalties. No more Ruinaballs…………
And then I woke up. Never going to happen until ‘Crash and Burn’.
Bankrupt Victoria may need federal bailout
‘Need’? Like something bad has happened and it is up to everyone to rescue them?
What they ‘need’ is consequences, good and hard.
When the remaining productive States are not paying for SA’s bogus defence industry or rewarding Tasmania’s refusal to allow anything that might make money, they are bailing out Victoriastan’s repeated failed socialist experiments.
Basta!
Yes indeed. That even includes Albanese’s home state of NSW, which he is short-changing to prop up the basket cases. But then, NSW Labor is run by the (weakened but not yet dead) Right faction which he has hated all his life.
Jacinta Allan has done what many considered impossible…
Saved John Pesutto’s leadership.
Anthony ‘Strong Deliverer’ Albanese is outraged, absolutely outraged, at the pensioner bashing by a released detainee.
But, what to do? Independent authorities, separation of powers, prosecutorial discretion: it’s a nightmare.
In this country, in Australia we have a government that apparently has no idea about what the judicial system is, or how it’s supposed to work.
The only thing that’s crystal clear is that it’s someone else’s fault and shite ministerial oversight has nothing to do with anything. To say otherwise is misinformation with a side of disinformation.
“round up the usual suspects …”
And guess who was on the Community Protection Board? That incompetent stooge of the Victorian Socialist Left Graham ‘Fatty’ Ashton, former commissioner of the Victorian police.
I see Trump’s lawyer has said in court, into the public record, that his client’s latest unhinged tirade was in response to an April 22 tweet by Michael Cohen calling him Vonshitzenpants.
This is now the #1 trend on Twitter.
Are you tired of winning yet?
The Dems are panicking Monty. Why is that?
Thank, Monts! Like one of those Dem media sites that specialise in attempted Trump gotchas, whenever your adjective of choice is “unhinged”, your target rises in my estimation.
You’ll always be the Cat’s King of Wrongology.
GreyRanga, May 3, 2024 8:36 am
We must be living in different realities.
SCC is broke because it does all the things Green activists want (e.g. youth mental health, childcare, low cost housing, proposing holiday home owners be forced to rent out their houses, etc), rather than the traditional, and limited, roles of roads, rubbish, sewage & water – because they are too hard. For example, rubbish charges up 68% in 4 years!
Oh and GreyRanga how did you feel about the rate increase proposal? Which option are you going for? Option 1 or 2
I’m amused that Labor which has been shafting mining, oil and gas companies over and over in WA and Qld now wants to throw money at them.
Sandbags of cash to save rocky states (Paywallian)
Hypocritical irony to eleventy. Methinks someone has been getting some disturbing internal poll numbers from those states.
That QLD mining seats won’t abide Labor’s green urban agenda was supposed to be the big take away from Shorten’s 2019 defeat.
It’s a lesson they seem incapable of learning.
Exactly Roger.
I work with CMFEU types regularly. Rank and file miners are pretty good and socially conservative. The old ALP Right faction types that haven’t totally disappeared yet. Plus the fact the GW scam that is threatening their jobs and sons future jobs/apprenticeships, things could get ugly for sleazy.
It’s begun.
They’re not sandbagging against the LNP, they’re sandbagging against the Greens.
ALP has 4 seats in Qld, none are regional and all are Brisbane, GC/BNE Hinterland. The Hinterland seat may be a possible swing to LNP but others I doubt it.
ALP have 9 seats to lose in WA, though the 3 in the south unlikely to fall. I don’t know much about WA Politics though.
He deliberately outsourced his accountability, so he could say that when it went pear shaped.
There’s a bit of a trend emerging here.
In the considered political discourse of the US Salon Left, the Orange Man has moved from being a literal ‘Farty Poo Bum’ to a full-on incontinent.
There’s a scatological elegance in boosting his ploppiness when the nation is being asked to compare him to President Depends.
Accountability actually rests with the ministers responsible, whom Albanese is covering for, since they are apparently not allowed to front the media.
I don’t suppose he’s been secretly sworn in to their portfolios?
The idea of a responsible Minister resigning for a Departmental failure in modern Australian politics is laughable.
Not entirely (and it wasn’t just a departmental mistake). This is where Albanese has made a mistake. He could have sacked or demoted one or more ministers, instead he now owns the problem.
Shorten joins PM in lashing prosecutors’ bail call
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Rhiannon Down
Government Services Minister Bill Shorten has slammed commonwealth prosecutors for not opposing the release of a freed detainee on bail before he allegedly bashed a Perth grandmother, admitting the decision to remove the Kuwaiti-born man’s ankle bracelet was a “mistake”.
Mr Shorten questioned “why on earth” prosecutors decided not to argue against Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan’s release when he fronted court on charges of breaching his visa conditions on February 20.
The prosecutor warned a Perth court that Doukoshkan was a risk of reoffending again but did not oppose bail, a transcript of the hearing reveals.
“I honestly don’t know why the federal prosecutor – who admittedly is independent, so I’ll probably get in trouble for saying this – but why on earth didn’t the federal prosecutor oppose bail?,” he told Channel 9’s Today.
Mr Shorten sought to lay the blame for the dShorten joins PM in lashing prosecutors’ bail cal
Rhiannon Down
Government Services Minister Bill Shorten has slammed commonwealth prosecutors for not opposing the release of a freed detainee on bail before he allegedly bashed a Perth grandmother, admitting the decision to remove the Kuwaiti-born man’s ankle bracelet was a “mistake”.
Mr Shorten questioned “why on earth” prosecutors decided not to argue against Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan’s release when he fronted court on charges of breaching his visa conditions on February 20.
The prosecutor warned a Perth court that Doukoshkan was a risk of reoffending again but did not oppose bail, a transcript of the hearing reveals.
“I honestly don’t know why the federal prosecutor – who admittedly is independent, so I’ll probably get in trouble for saying this – but why on earth didn’t the federal prosecutor oppose bail?,” he told Channel 9’s Today.
Mr Shorten sought to lay the blame for the decision to remove Doukoshkan’s ankle monitor months before the assault, but conceded it had been a “mistake” made by the Community Protection Board.
“So, we set up a community protection board,” he said.
“They made a decision to not put an ankle bracelet on this fellow, because previously he hadn’t shown any crimes of violence.
“But again, I agree with probably what most viewers would think, that that is a mistake.”ecision to remove Doukoshkan’s ankle monitor months before the assault, but conceded it had been a “mistake” made by the Community Protection Board.
“So, we set up a community protection board,” he said.
“They made a decision to not put an ankle bracelet on this fellow, because previously he hadn’t shown any crimes of violence.
“But again, I agree with probably what most viewers would think, that that is a mistake.”
It’s always someone else’s fault.
Labor motto.
Bankrupt Sicktoria may need bailout? Put the place into administration, sack all the politicians and staff. There’s enough Cats and Kittahs in Victoria to do the job. Sack 90% of pubic servants. No borrowing till the slate is cleared.
What happened to “competitive federalism” where the states solve problems in different ways and the best then disseminates over time. E.g. Joh abolishing death duties, and other states forced to follow. Or in the case of “don’t solve” then the worst is abandoned.
Same complaint with calls for “uniform bail laws”, “national gun register”, etc. We do not live in a single jurisdiction country – we are a commonwealth of states, where suprisingly for the Canberra press pack, the federal government does not do much for citizens directly.
Preach it. Competitive federalism. Vote with your feet.
Crime wave – but the important thing is to move smokers from legal to illegal products:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/tobacco-wars-melbourne-majid-alibadi/103797524
It is getting harder and harder to buy my legal brand, but the illegal ones are available everywhere.
It’s Prohibition all over again.
And yet marijuana is legal for private use. Marijuana has been implicated in triggering schizophrenia and other mental issues, particularly in young users, I have never heard nicotine do the same. PS, I am not a smoker but find this hypocrisy a bit hard to take.
Not at all a conspiracy theory, really it isn’t.
WHO’s focus is on global health, not secret power grab (Paywallian)
by Ashley Bloomfield
Here’s who he is (from wiki):
So the rampant totalitarian in charge of New Zealand’s Covid response under the Labour Government says there’s nothing to be scared of. Oh, ok. I should really really believe him then.
Press Stunned by NYC Mayor’s Admitting This About Protesters
As I was ruminating upthread, I don’t see any political upside to Albanese bailing VIC out in the current economic climate. It certainly won’t go down well in QLD & WA, where he needs to get traction.
“Rare” side effect!
Dad who suffered brain injury days after getting COVID vaccine sues AstraZeneca
There is a well-established form of words to defuse any such call:
Paraphrased: She who broke it is the only person to fix it
I think that’s in the Constitution.
Usually accompanied by a request for the need for bipartisanship on this issue.
Ingrate.
We’re getting a fault-tolerant Lithium Supercompuder and two Hydrogen Hubs.
I don’t think you could reasonably ask for more.
How about something, like, um, useful?
Where on earth is the due diligence on this quantum computer nonsense and the even worse (because splodey) green hydrogen fantasy?
All of that money to Labor mates and no accountability at all?
Where’s Dutton calling this out, loudly? I haven’t heard him.
Teats Peanuthead: “So, we set up a community protection board”
Which is not proving to be particularly adept at “protecting da communidy” and no doubt stuffed to the gills with labore maaaaaates, you useless sleazy utterly corrupt piece of excrement.
Quite….right at the top of most Queenslander’s wishlists, atm.
What was I thinking?
As I said my dealings have been very good. A dose of reality never hurt anyone after voting councils in. The rates are cheap in comparison to a similar property in Canberra which has probablyclouded my judgement. All I can go by is what I see. Councils everywhere are useless. When the SFL were in power nothing in my area got done.
It was replaced by “collusive federalism”, which was a far easier option for our beloved z-grade political shitbags. An obvious example is all the states now charging similar theft duty rates on property purchases.
Reminiscent of Waffles Turnbuckle’s legendary brainfart (which lasted barely a day) regarding the states being able to levy income taxes. Under collusive federalism, they would have all ended up levying the same extortionate tax rates.
Don’t expect this sorry state of affairs to be challenged any time soon.
collusive federalism aka National Cabinet
And the DV $quander fe$t.
Yep, anything but address the REAL problems;
Trashing of our power grid.
Crushing inflation
Out of control immigration.
Feather soft justice system.
Exponential growth of taxpayer funded Govt’s and councils.
Land reforms ie much more of it for residential.
No end of distraction squirrels.
For some years I have had a Thuraya satphone as an emergency measure when I am out and about in remote areas of this wide red land.
Recently the service has been lost as the satellite or system has suffered some sort of failure that is apparently terminal.
That means I have to buy a different handset, connect to a different satellite system etc. etc. It will probably cost somewhere around a grand, which I will happily pay as I am worth at least that in the eyes of my family.
The provider has been very up front about the problem and will shortly offer substitutes keeping my existing number.
All very well handled and professional but it has made me look at my “plan B” when in remote areas as I have relied on the ability to have contact anywhere anytime and to suddenly lose it came out of nowhere.
A salient reminder to us all that our modern day electronic society can turn to custard without any warning. Fortunately I am still finding gold from time to time so life continues to be good.
A salient reminder to us all that our modern day electronic society can turn to custard without any warning.
We are one Carrington Event away from the early 19th Century.
Keep copies of important stuff on paper in a cool but not damp place.
Thanks, Eyrie. I didn’t know about the Carrington event so looked it up. Very interesting indeed.
Five grand free handout for every DV sufferer, no questions asked.
What could possibly go wrong?
‘Abuse or poverty’: $5k domestic violence payment leaves victim-survivors impossible choice (News.com.au, 3 May)
m0nty
May 3, 2024 10:12 am
I see Trump’s lawyer has said in court, into the public record, that his client’s latest unhinged tirade was in response to an April 22 tweet by Michael Cohen calling him Vonshitzenpants.
This is now the #1 trend on Twitter.
MontyPox Virus, you just cannot see further than your own BS. Just to bring you up to date with today’s World. There is no longer a ‘Twitter’. It is now ‘X’. Sounds like you though – An Ex.
And that could be Extraterrestrial – As in an Alien –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life
Five grand free handout for every DV sufferer, no questions asked.
What could possibly go wrong?
I live alone but my 2 moggies go feral if meals are 5 minutes late .. wonder if that’ll qualify for $5K ..?
You’re lucky, shatterzzz. If I don’t leave a full bowl of bikkies out for Elsie, I get the Bobstacle Course routine – pounce from the foot end of the bed onto my head, claws unsheathed, and a terrifying shriek of “My bowl is empty again!” (It’s in Feline, of course, but I’ve no doubt of what the message is.)
And if I don’t immediately comply with the demand, there’s an outpouring of grief and tears that would put a woke uni student to shame.
It’s a bit like being married.
However unlike being married, a swift backhander across the doona usually stops the wailing.
Perverse incentives galore …
An extra $5k/year/partner incentive for violent men (and women?) to pressure and bully their partners for $$$.
Best of Tom’s toons:
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I’m really starting to like Kristi Noem.
I live alone but my 2 moggies go feral if meals are 5 minutes late .. wonder if that’ll qualify for $5K
Of course it will, think outside the square. They are not “moggies”, they are dependents abusing you.
Comments at the Oz getting sillier and sillier.I have a comment with 118 likes which has now been rejected
The beginning of the end of corporate woke?
Google has sacked 28 employees who occupied offices at their HQ and demanded the company divest from any business with Israel.
A further 22 employees were sacked for other acts of political activism carried out on their employer’s time and dime.
A tiny light in the darkness of stupid.
Mrs D is babysitting the grand kids today. She said some rude words to me because I have been at the hospital longer than expected and so have not been able to help her. – Got seen by haematologist 5 minutes late, but then sent for blood test, then had to wait for the nurse to organise a marrow biopsy, then they decided to take 500ml and replace with IV. So instead of the “allow 2 hours” I have been here for 4.5 with at least another 30 minutes to go.
Where do I claim my 5k?
We need to see the bruises first, young feller.
If they’re not really all that visible perhaps we can introduce you to our service “BruisesRUs”.
Complementary ice packs for first time customers.
Hairy’s at the docs. Something to do with testosterone levels.
Checking up if he’s overloaded with toxic man stuff.
Where’s my 5k?
I think you’ll find you’re the wrong “gender”/sex.
Steps to 5k
1. Get the stat dec done on being a “wimmin”, regardless of biological reality
2. Get some evidence of ‘violence’ e.g. harsh words, evil looks, hurt feelz, TV shows not watched,…
3. Find some new element that requires actual cases now that legal folks and support workers are awaiting bz e.g. “coercive control”
4. Profit …
Ouch. Stop it. I am missing Attapuss soooooooooo much.
The brothers from Perth missing in Mexico (one was a Doctor, the other a National lacrosse player):
Jake and Callum Robinson update: Three people reportedly arrested in hunt for missing brothers in Mexico | PerthNow
Seem to have met a grisly end.
Mexico didn’t strike us as a safe place when our Panama cruise ship had to take a replacement port in Mexico due to bad weather. It was a nightmare place, gang warfare and military men with AK47’s everywhere. Most people quickly scurried back to the ship. And on our recent trip (see 4 travelogues on http://www.medium.com/@lizzie.beare) a woman finding Manaus, main Amazon port too drug gang crazy, commented she’d never go there again, because if she wanted to get mugged it was easier to go the 85km down the road from her house to Tijuana just over the Mexican border.
Recently, in Brazil especially, we got nervous a couple of times, and took due care to avoid being in a bad situation, because we’d heard of a few.
These drug gangs are so embedded into the culture and economies of some town in South America, rooting them out is politically difficult.
We were going to go to Galapagus via coastal Ecuador but Aust Gov said avoid due to risk of kidnapping and/or hostage taking by drug gangs. It’s bad there, but the risk is anywhere in South America if you’re unlucky.
I taught some new law grads in the early 1990s. The best of them was going to broaden his horizons by going to South America. He was never heard from again.
One of the reasons I despise the liars and the filth is because they are intent on importing the scum from overseas. Pretty soon you won’t have to go overseas to go missing.
KD alluded to it the other night. I did think ransom but no longer since they have 3 in custody and no bodies.
Mexico at the moment with all the drug cartel violence and thousands of illegal immigrants surging through it’s borders would be off my travel list despite the DFAT’s warning of exercise a high degree of caution. FFS most of the world is on that rating…
See my embedded comment above re gang issues in South America.
El Salvador, Ecuador and now others, are beginning to get tough on gangs and put them in concentration camps to end the violence, both economic and actual.
Travelogues 1-4 of our South America sojourn are at http://www.medium.com/@lizzie.beare
Place where those two surfers have gone missing is near the port where we called in on our cruise as a stop-gap going to the Panama canal, and which was a total drug gang haunt. Mexico is dangerous outside the known tourist areas and ports used by cruise ships (even then they say to take care).
If I refresh the page here, it keeps “bouncing back” up to half way through the thread… which is really annoying!!!
Is the web address to a comment? If so, when you refresh your more accurately refreshing the comment rather than page.
Playing politics. There is a definite strategy (ignoring the hypocrisy) in discrediting what is going on when they complain of this.
An opposition is the primary check on a government. The government is not going to fess up to their screw ups. It is in the opposition’s interest to expose government failures – which is in the public’s interest. (Let us not pretend an opposition does so from true devotion to nation. People like that are so rare as to be lost to sight in some margin of error.)
It is the particular pragmatic genius of our system to turn the self-interest of the political class to the nobler purpose of informing the electorate. All we need do is winnow the issues from the clickbait.
Now, the ‘playing politics’ whereby members of a party conspire together to dupe the electorate, to elevate some cretin because he has the photos of someone else, or divvy up the benefit of some clandestine scheme buried in a section of new legislation – stuff done away from any scrutiny whatsoever – that is what is discreditable.
It happens also to be what Labor surpasses at. (Libs too, but they are minnows constantly caught out by the press like a guy who swears he was never in the public toilets where a man was murdered only to notice everyone can see he has a piece of toilet paper stuck to his shoe with blood.)
Bill from the bush. I heard on the radio the other day Telstra has done a deal with Elon to use Starlink. The data speeds are not as great. Thats all I know about it. Worthwhile have a look.
Bill from the bush. I heard on the radio the other day Telstra has done a deal with Elon to use Starlink. The data speeds are not as great. Thats all I know about it. Worthwhile have a look.
I seriously doubt that Starlink is slower than that satphone. 100Mb/sec not enough for you?
Lizzie the little creatures really get inside you. My pup was 16 and not a day goes by without expecting to see him come round the corner to check on me. Where would be without them?
Hairy and I are still quite heartbroken, Ranga. I bought a new cabin bag suitcase on wheels and was taking it up from the garage to show Hairy when I suddenly thought how I’d better not do that because suitcases freak out Attapuss. They I remembered he was gone. Hairy said he did the same, looking for Attapuss on my side of the bed where he used to settle if I went off early to a dance class, and then realising there was no point in looking for him there any more. His little ears don’t peep around corners anywhere here any more and we still can’t bear it.
In other news, Hairy’s back from the doc with toxic testosterone levels just as they should be, neither too much nor too little. You should whack me, I say when he comes in, so’s I can collect 5k. But he doesn’t hit women. I can probably organise a Brittany-style bruise for you, he offers kindly. One you can’t really see.
stephen rice Why Brittany Higgins and Bruce Lehrmann should both accept the Michael Lee’s verdict
Two weeks ago — the day before Justice Michael Lee brought down his judgment in the Lehrmann defamation case — I made an optimistic plea in these pages that, no matter what the decision, we all accept his call.
It shouldn’t be too hard.
Having meticulously worked his way through the facts, Lee came to two key conclusions: 1. Brittany Higgins had been raped by Bruce Lehrmann. 2. There had been no attempt by anyone to cover it up.
Who could argue with that?
Well, the two principal characters, for a start.
Bruce Lehrmann is now talking about an appeal. Or to use Lee’s parlance, going back — yet again — for his hat. He should leave the loathsome thing where he left it, in the lion’s den. Even before Lee’s verdict it was sullied beyond redemption by his woeful performance in the witness box and extra-curricular activities out of it.
Whether the Seven Network knew he was spending its handouts on hookers and drugs — unlikely — is now irrelevant, except to the Seven journalists consumed by the Lehrmann bonfire.
Lee made a sound case that Lehrmann was “hell-bent” on having sex with Higgins and didn’t care one way or the other whether, in her drunk state, she understood or agreed.
Lehrmann’s chances of a successful appeal are minimal – even if he can find someone wealthy and careless enough to fund it.
And then there’s Higgins, vindicated by Lee’s finding that, on the balance of probabilities, she was raped, yet still unwilling to acknowledge his finding that her accusations of a cover-up by Linda Reynolds and her then chief of staff Fiona Brown were utterly false.
Having rightly been given the benefit of the doubt over the rape, Higgins now refuses to accept that the claims she and fiance David Sharaz made that destroyed the careers and reputation of Reynolds and Brown were dead wrong.
Both are haunted by Higgins’s false claim that they walked past another woman’s rape.
Neither is remotely helped by her Clayton’s apology last week that “my perceptions and feelings about what happened in the days and weeks after my rape are different from theirs.”
Higgins’ regret that “we have not yet found common ground” just rubs salt in the wounds.
What common ground? She made false accusations that devastated the lives of two older women who had only ever tried to help her.
As Higgins said, she was only 24 when she was raped. She is entitled to be given, as Lee did, significant latitude for someone who suffered trauma after a terrible crime.
Is it too much to ask then, that as a now mature and more reflective adult, she cannot offer a genuine and unconditional apology to the two women she wronged?
There is, of course, one large stumbling block for Higgins in apologising to Reynolds in the defamation case the Senator has vowed to keep pursuing.
If Higgins admits she made false claims about her treatment by Reynolds and Brown that contributed to her $2.4m settlement from the Commonwealth, she might be open to a move by the Commonwealth to challenge the payout.
Higgins is in a bind.
She stands to lose a great deal of money from the defamation claim if Reynolds wins, both in costs and damages – but potentially even more if she apologises and admits her claims about her former boss in the Commonwealth settlement were untrue.
She should opt for the apology.
The reality is, the Commonwealth is unlikely to demand its money back.
With respect, j’ismists shouldn’t really comment on the likelihood of an Appeal getting up. I haven’t read the Lee judgement and note it’s hard (though not impossible) to reverse a finding of fact.
So there was a finding of a fact of rape then?
Yep. Ch 10 got their defence of truth up. Probably why they will get orders for the bulk of their costs (that in practice never get paid).
No, she’s still an immature little girl.
She’s not little.
Lee came to conclusions without any, proven, evidence .. but .. for some reason, most likely cos he’s a judge the media and a lot of folk have taken his words as gospel ..
Lee really has as much idea of what occurred in that office as I have but I’m “houso” so I got no media attention …..
That’s Lehrman’s doing. He went to the court seeking a judgement on the balance of probabilities, so Lee had to give one. He couldn’t just throw up his hands and say ‘all too hard, dunno’.
And I say that as someone who would have said ‘dunno’ (i.e. can’t reach a verdict) if I had been in the jury room and obliged to give a verdict beyond reasonable doubt: both Higgins and Lehrman have serious question marks about their credibility. Lee didn’t have that option.
Taxpayers money.
Eyrie I get 1Gb when I use the hard wired connection. Aren’t satphones expensive to use. Elon has made the local system redundant.
” It was a bit disappointing yesterday to see the Opposition immediately out playing politics on this matter…”
Reminiscent of the ABC’s conclusion that the Voice outcome was a disaster for Dutton who would be seen as being negative.
Canberra and Ultimo joined at the hip.
Complaining about the Opposition playing politics isn’t really fighting Tories is it?
Thats on the NBN not satellite.
Wifes had a few job interviews this week. She’s had an offer an hour after the interview before they’d finished interviewing the rest. The place she’s at now when she asked for a referees report had an oh shiite moment as they realised they can’t really manage without her. The place she’s at now have a greasy pole attitude so nothing gets done, you’d all nod if you knew who it was. Some think its malevolence but its not, its incompetence. Just another place with top heavy management or in this case mismanagement.
ZK2A picked up a good selection of malt from Dan Murphy today. Discounts are better than they have been, people must be tightening the purse strings. Son in hospitality tells me people are still going out the same but spending 30% less.
GreyRanga, why on Earth do you need 1 GB/sec? Or is that your monthly limit, 1 Gb?
I get unlimited Gb per month and 50 Mb/sec down, 17 Mb/sec up via NBN fiber to under the office desk.
Starlink is unlimited Gb data and you typically get 100Mb/sec or better I’m told.
A Hard Days Night now on SBS World Movies Ch 32.
it is virtually every week!
Incontinence Joe gives Tojo a whack:-
Three reasons Japan is becoming increasingly popular as a tourist destination for Westerners are:-
1. You are not accosted by shifty sub-Saharan blow-ins on the streets as you might be in Milan, Rome or Paris;
2. It is evident that there is some local homelessness, but they do not threaten or pan-handle tourists;
3. Police take reports of law-breaking seriously and respond.
Once Japan breaks the 1980’s myth that it is an expensive holiday destination (it isn’t) and people realise that the language barrier doesn’t exist anymore because of mobile phone translation tech, it will become the premier tourist destination for Westerners.
Seriously, I would take it over Europe all day long because it has tight immigration policies.
Skiing in Japan has been a perfectly acceptable alternative to taking the boat to Rotto or heading down to Eagle Bay for years in Perth.
Many young people in my extended family have been to Japan for skiing holidays and are very pleased with their experiences.
Crossie, my family and I have had 2 ski holidays there the last few years and it was superb. Relaxed, clean , efficient, safe, excellent food and my daughter ripped the slopes. Excellent ski destination IMO.
My youngest went to Japan with his school. We were able to follow him on Life 360. We felt safer with him wandering around Tokyo at night with his host brother and friends than we would him doing the same in Brisvegas.
He wants to go and study there and possibly live and work there when he gets older. He is investigating the possibilities now. I’m wondering if we can join him!
He deliberately outsourced his accountability, so he could say that when it went pear shaped.
Like Rudd, Albo is whip fast when it comes to blaming someone else.
It’s like Deja Vu all over again!
——————————————————
Question without notice, how long did it take the Ruddster to admit it was his fault for the Pink Batts deaths? He took the “buck stops with me” I take full responsibility call, but then didn’t resign and the media, did nothing said nothing to hold him to actual account.
pfft, the media, filth
“I take full responsibility” no longer means what it used to, it’s just a misdirection tactic.
Diogenes at 12:59
Bwah ha ha ha.
My limited hospital experience tells me that, if you need to get three things done before discharge, you are not getting out that day, no matter how mundane or routine those tasks might be.
Last year I had to have a scan which involved infusion of a particular radioactive tracer. After driving four-and-a-half hours to Melbourne I am up on the hoist at 11:30 a.m. waiting for the infusion when the doctor comes in and says, “Err, they sent the tracer to Sydney”.
“Oh?” I say. “So what now? Do I come back tomorrow?”.
“Well, no. The tracer has a use-by of 7:00 pm tonight, and it comes from the US, so we will have to order another one”.
So I hang around at the hospital for six hours until it arrives and gets pumped in with 45 minutes to spare.
…
PS. 500ml of bone marrow seems like a LOT.
You poor bastards. My only advice to you is to have a child who is a doctor.
Cheaper to pay as you go rather than sponsor one.
You just know that, if your kid is a doctor, they will bulk-bill visits to you as “extended consultations”.
Nah, I know where his skeletons are hidden.
I really enjoyed this:
Arrested Emory U. Prof. No Victim Despite Leftist Outrage, Admitted She Hit Cop While He Was Subduing Another Rioter (legalinsurrection.com)
memes from the Left:
You can’t arrest me – I’m a professor!
Don’t you know who I am?
I can’t tell you, I’m not a biologist.
Did you hear the copper saying, “no, you are a rabid dog”.
snork.
Grey Ranga,
the satphone was purely for use in an emergency. If the brown stuff and the spinning thing meet I would have been able to call for help. As it is I always carry a PLB with me I am still able to get help, although it will be slower.
I am often on my own 40kms or more from anyone else (that I know of) and part of the deal with my wife is that I have comms available.
Living in the Northern goldfields of WA and also working at times in the Pilbara, I have learnt that the cops are your last option as most of them do not have any idea where things are away from the major roads. Combine that with local colloquial names and they would be more of a hindrance than a help.
I have good relations with the local pastoralist in the Pilbara and know enough people here in the Goldfields who would know where I am talking about if I need help.
I don’t need internet when out in the bush, in fact that is one of the pleasures of being out there.
I know that one of the Telcos is doing a deal with starlink to get access through their handsets. Helstra is the only cellphone network in most of the areas I visit, so knowing my luck it will be one of the other Telcos that gets access to Starlink.
With the Thuraya network being based in the UAE, I wonder whether the outage is a result of something going on in the Middle East?
The ATC has emailed members saying that the sale of Rosehill will only proceed if the members vote yes on the sale.
Based on that, I would say the likelihood of any sale going ahead to be 25% at best.
Bern, you’re right — it has no chance. It was a brainfart by ATC chairman Peter McGauran, an ex-Nationals polirician, who didn’t consult users, trainers etc, including Gai Waterhouse, who are up in arms against it.
Apologies if already posted.
Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid
The jokes just write themselves: A group of woke students at @UCLA
converted to Islam on the spot and are praying in campus
https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1786148294487388201
Burn it to the ground.
Don’t they realise that the “conversions” will be taken as real by the Mueslis? The girlies had better have their hijabs on tomorrow.
Are male converts required to get circumcised?
It’s women. Islam is a female religion. The first converts will be young western women. They have nothing: no care, no love, no embrace. Watch it happen.
Eyrie thats the speed using Ethernet. I don’t pay extra for it. We’re about 80m from the node.
Owe the Commonwealth $3 000?
You’ve got a problem.
Owe the Commonwealth $3 000 000?
The Commonwealth has a problem.
Dreyfus and the Dept of Finance aren’t likely to want anyone taking too close an interest in that payment. Might be too late for that.
Mizzz Knickerless earned the money by her betrayal of Reynolds.
Dont go Labour-lite:
Local elections results – live: Labour takes Blackpool South as Tories set for ‘catastrophic’ 500-seat loss
Local elections results 2024 live: Labour takes Blackpool South as Tories set for ‘catastrophic’ 500-seat loss | The Independent
Haha!
Only the modern Tories could manage this.
500 seats? Sounds Kirkupian.
Cool column on truffles in NY.
From the Archive: New York City’s Truffle Mafia
https://www.ediblemanhattan.com/restaurants/new-york-city-urbani-truffles/?utm_source=Ambrook+Research+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a2756f6228-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_06_26_02_47_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d85bfec4c4-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
Hmmmmm,………
Watergardens shopping centre, Melbourne: Man with knife causes chaos at busy mall | Daily Mail Online
Sunshine says it all LOL.
A relative was on a few building contracts out that way. Great place for a rough looking tradesman to pick up goods from vans in shopping centre car parks that you need asbestos gloves to hold I hear.
Mother’s day is coming up.
Or Momala’s day, as it will be known from now on.
“America Is Likely Being Invaded By Hostiles ” – Warning On The Migrant Crisis | Bret Weinstein
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 5:23 pm
Mother’s day is coming up.
Or Momala’s day, as it will be known from now on.
What is a Mother? Is a Mother a Woman? What is a Woman?
Well, here’s a Woman.
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.ZIvq9oKdubjd7EwbZjUa7gHaF7&pid=Api&rs=1&c=1&qlt=95&w=149&h=119
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 4:22 pm
Err, how else would it be sold?
By decree of the ATC committee?
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:31 pm
Reply to feelthebern
A brainfart indeed.
Peter Mcgauran always struck me as a spiv interested in advancing the cause of Peter McGauran’s career.
It would be informative to read the ATC Constitution and see where sale of the course to property developers fits.
This weeks Media Watchdog continues the very ALPBC problem – what do you do with an old lesbian? A: Sideline an old possibly non-lesbian. The staff co-op as the Hotel California.
Media Watchdog.
Thanks for the heads up, Bear.
Gerard doesn’t seem to have a subscription facility, or have I missed it?
So the old perve’s been lecturing other countries about immigration? That’s one thing I don’t get about the degenerate American establishment- they’re trashing the US socially and economically yet they still carry on like a world policeman..
Born to rule.
Detainee’s multiple breaches of curfews before attack laid bare
By paul garvey
and rhiannon down
A convicted drug trafficker and former immigration detainee charged over the brutal bashing and burglary of an elderly Perth couple breached his curfew conditions just one minute after they were placed on them, and went on to break his curfew a further five times.
Kuwait-born Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan first breached his curfew conditions on 9 February and ignored multiple federal police and Home Affairs warnings, setting a pattern of behaviour that prompted commonwealth prosecutors to flag their concerns about the likelihood that he could reoffend.
Just weeks later, however, the Community Protection Board – the body set up by the Albanese government to monitor Doukoshkan and the 151 convicted criminals released from immigration detention following last year’s High Court decision – opted against requiring him to keep wearing the device.
Doukoshkan then went on to commit at least two more offences before he was then allegedly involved in the attack on Ninette and Philip Simons. He and his accomplices are alleged to have used a stolen police badge to talk their way into the couple’s Girrawheen home.
The extent of Doukoshkan’s curfew breaches were laid out in transcripts released by the Western Australian Magistrates Court, amid intense scrutiny into the Commonwealth’s handling of the released detainees.
This swine should be on the next aircraft out of the country..
Or 1 way Blackhawk trip into the Indian Ocean towards MH370’s resting place, ‘cept the Blackhawk comes back with crew only.
Facetiousness aside how did this guy, a criminal non citizen not get deported. I’m more interested now how he still here, what person, UN Treaty or judge blocked his deportation? I cannot find that info online and it may reinforce how screwed the system is.
Countries of origin often stymie deportation attempts.
Then ensure they are not countries of origin. Don’t take citizens back then no right of immigration. Don’t sign any treaty that would prohibit that policy. I suspect that would be all of them.
I’d just drop them clandestinely, regardless.
Very Mossad.
I meant drop them back in their country of origin, not “drop” them.
In case there was a misunderstanding.
After explaining to them that the alternative was a long stretch in an Australian prison followed by immigration detention and eventual deportation.
Save the taxpayer c. $100k p.a.
Only after his guilt is established at trial.
In the meantime, remand in the general prison population, where they don’t take kindly to those alleged to have beat up old ladies.
Even by the now familiar standards of government “services” that seems particularly woeful.
This swine should be on the next aircraft out of the country..
I take that to mean Albo Sleazy and the entire Feral Guv’ment? They are ALL swine. No offence to all the pigs out there though.
The leftie Law Society Journal reports on the slap and tickle case:
Tickle v Giggle: What is the difference between gender and gender identity? – Law Society Journal (lsj.com.au)
To what extent does the Sex Discrimination Act protect a person from discrimination on the basis of their gender identity? The Federal Court has the difficult task of interpreting the law and ruling on the question of what is a “woman”?
To what extent does the Sex Discrimination Act (Act) protect a person from discrimination on the basis of their gender identity? It is a question that has taken centre stage in the Federal Court recently. In the matter of Tickle v Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd, a transgender woman commenced proceedings launched court action against a women’s only platform and its CEO, for allegedly being blocked from the app due to her gender identity.
Roxanne Tickle claims that she downloaded the app and passed the “selfie” stage, which meant that she could use it. The “selfie” is assessed by third-party artificial intelligence (AI) software that ascertains whether the pending user is a man or a woman. If the AI determines that the “selfie” is of a woman, the user is granted access to the app.
The case is significant because it is the first time since the Act was amended in 2013 that the changes are being tested in court.
Section 22 of the Act states that it is unlawful for a person to discriminate against another person on the ground of the other person’s “sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status …”. Gender identity is also referenced in Section 5B of the Act.
Despite the seemingly wide ambit, “sex” is not defined in the legislation.
According to Katie Green, the Managing Principal Solicitor at the Inner City Legal Centre, at the moment, there is a lack of legal protections for trans people in New South Wales and Western Australia in particular. In terms of the types of legal issues that trans people face, “We [saw] such an enormous rise in discrimination, vilification, family law issues, medical law issues, legal issues at work inherently unique to trans people, their identities, their bodies and their documents,” she says.
What is notable in this case is that following her transition from male to female, Tickle updated her birth certificate. The Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Queensland issued a new certificate, designating her as female.
“The New South Wales Act kind of imposes two tiers of transgender people,” says Green. “There are transgender people, and then there are recognised transgender people.”
According to Green, most states have progressively updated their laws to recognise the identity of trans people. “They can change their name, but if they want to change their gender marker in New South Wales, you only have the option of being a male or a female, you don’t have the option of being non-binary or other,” she says. Green explains that for a person to change their gender after surgery, they have to be examined by two doctors who need to sign a statutory declaration, before it will be recognised by the state’s Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. “This connects back to discrimination because trans people are not able to obtain basic legal documentation that confirms who they are,” she says.
“[Tickle] does appear to have been discriminated against on the basis of sex and gender identity pursuant to the Sex Discrimination Act because she has undertaken many legal and medical procedures to affirm her gender as female. … She has affirmed her gender on her identity documents, which identify her as being a woman,” says Green.
“[I]n the Federal jurisdiction, the case of Norrie (NSW Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages v Norrie [2014] HCA 11) found in 2014 that people actually have a right to not specify as male or female. But in the New South Wales jurisdiction, we still require that specification.”
The respondents, Giggle for Girls, claim that the app constitutes a “special measure” designed to achieve substantive equality between men and women and the app’s exclusion of males is reasonable in the circumstances. That is, the exclusion of males from the app fell within the exceptions under sections 7N, 7D and 32 of the Act.
Given what is at stake, there is a lot of public interest in the outcome of the case. The Federal Court has the difficult task of interpreting the law and ruling on the question of what is a “woman”?
Laughable.
Never has a cross dressing pervert looked less like the real thing.
Tim Lester on the campus riots in the US on Channel Stokes.
To paraphrase, he said that in an election year, Biden’s support for Israel is ‘poisonous’. I’m guessing poisonous for the old pervert’s chances at remaining President.
If that’s the case, expect a complete reversal on his scant support for Israel to throw them under a rather large bus.
Disgraceful prick, which monty loves.
Err, how else would it be sold?
By decree of the ATC committee?
Previously they wouldn’t commit to a member vote on the deal.
Today they have.
Obama judge goes off the reservation.
Judge hammers Google in landmark DOJ antitrust case that could upend tech giant’s online search empire: ‘You really think that DuckDuckGo is a competitor?’ (Sky News, 3 May)
DDG is getting better, and so is Brave Search. Goolag’s search engine is useless, I don’t know why anyone uses it. But it’s fun this guy is zinging Goolag, since they’re on the same side.
Just look at the old perv’s entire despicable existence-just one example
The Senator from MBNA | National Review
As Kitty Muggeridge said about David Frost, Biden is a man who has risen without trace.
cohenite, not sure if you’re the best person to argue the gender case.
Ah, Tim, never change son.
Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll: 72 Percent Support Israeli Action in Rafah (30 Apr)
I just saw Hilderbrand making sense.
Nope, I don’t drink. I did see it.
I disagree, bons.
I believe Newscorp designated Hildebrand its designated ALP voter barracking for the green left in exchange for megabucks around 2019.
As a fellow journalist, Hildebrand disgusts me as I regard him as a professional prostitute.
If they don’t make sense once in a while they lose credibility.
Joe looked like he’d had a bad day.
A singlet under a suit coat and looking a bit frayed around the edges.
Kids who were never taught ‘a Christmas puppy is for life’, who will be apostates within a fortnight, and hopefully will spend the rest of their lives wondering if that swarthy man over there is seeking to apply the death penalty.
So it’s not like joining a gym in January?
Danica on Sky had some complete lefty drop-kick called Craig Foster (broadcaster?) on her show tonight. He nearly made her show unwatchable for all time. It’s fine to have alternative viewpoints but not to have lefty retards. As they say, never go full lefty retard.
Fozzie. SBS wogball j’ismist.
He is on every week.
So woke, he is a parody.
Leaves a puddle of sanctomony wherever he goes.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/albanese-hides-in-a-photo-op-with-jews-who-he-deep-down-dislikes.html
The dislike is on the surface. Elbow “thinks” he is hiding it well.
“I have a comment with 118 likes which has now been rejected”
Must have been too close to the bone.
That’s where so much of our complicit media lives and supplicants these days.
The Great Replacement: Can We Finally Talk About It? | Lauren Southern
Trump Visits FDNY Station After Court, Buys Them Pizza. Their Response: ‘Save Us, Please.’
I hope the first of many.
DeSantis signs bill banning lab-grown meat
Craig Foster, didn’t he host the King’s Coronation with Stan Grant? A complete dickhead. Don’t watch Sports Sunday on Nein if he’s on. A hideous dickhead
Chris Kenny has a 2 year review of the Albo government up at Teh Paywallian (presumably this weekend’s column). It’s a bad as you would imagine.
I’m posting that article by installments – it IS as bad as you would imagine.
chris kenny
The seven fatal flaws at the heart of Labor’s failure to launch
It is two years this month since the Albanese Labor government was elected and we can no longer avoid the conclusion that it has failed.
There is no sign it can deliver on whatever promise it once held and the depressing reality is if it survives into a second term it is likely to be in minority, reliant on the Greens, so that a failed government can get only worse.
There are seven fatal flaws at the heart of the government’s deficiency. Not all are front of mind for voters but all are vital for the national project.
Economy/cost-of-living crisisAnthony Albanese ran a small-target campaign in 2022 but he did not under-promise. “The cost of everything is going up,” Labor’s election posters trumpeted. “A Labor government will lower the cost of living.” Not only would prices be lower but so would interest rates.
On this score Labor’s performance has been abysmal; high inflation, a dozen interest rate increases, a rent squeeze and housing crisis, and economists predicting there could still be more tightening before the Reserve Bank of Australia starts to ease rates.
Labor’s fiscal policy is at odds with the RBA’s contraction; government spending is at historically high levels, well above the ideal cap of 25 per cent of GDP. Instead of liberating the economy and boosting productivity, Labor has re-regulated the labour market in deference to its union overlords. And instead of reining in spending it has lost control of the National Disability Insurance Scheme and tackles every “problem” with funding announcements.
Energy and industry self-harmThe national self-harm that is Labor’s energy policy will do even more damage to the nation’s economic security than it will to the government’s electoral prospects. The Prime Minister and his Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, promised to reduce household electricity bills by $275 a year but instead bills have increased by double that amount.
Wealthy people in teal seats will hardly have noticed but Labor battlers and mainstream families in marginal seats are getting crunched by power costs, petrol prices, mortgage increases and grocery bills. This plays hard into the cost-of-living crisis and is made only worse for struggling families when they see the virtue-signalling antics of Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen spruiking expensive and impractical electric vehicles.
Labor is also having to defend expensive and invasive large-scale renewable energy projects against local objections and environmental concerns, making enemies across the continent. The footprint of renewable energy is vast and the cost extraordinary – 10,000km of transmission, thousands of hectares of solar factories and wind farms, and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Even the green-left Grattan Institute has admitted the renewables transition is headed for disaster with increasing power shortages, blackouts and price hikes. Having turned an energy-rich nation into one with an energy price and supply crisis, Labor has no plan except to double down on its expensive and ineffectual renewables zealotry. The only beneficiary is China, which uses our coal and ore to manufacture the renewables kit we import. We weaken our economy and become more reliant on China’s manufacturing – genius.
With its Future Made in Australia industry assistance program, Labor is chasing its losses like a drunken gambler. This is an old-fashioned effort to use public money to pick winners, throwing billions of taxpayers’ dollars at the government’s pet green and net-zero projects. What could go wrong?
Zulu – you gotta learn how to paste plain text!
I don’t mind Mr Kenny but I don’t want to see his photo over and over.
Rapper Afroman is back with “Hunter got high”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgLD1yhxNik
Yes *that* Hunter.
Second installment of the Chris Kenny Article
Weak on border security and immigrationFor the first time in a decade, asylum-seekers have made it to the mainland; only three boatloads for now, and we are told not to worry.
The government abolished temporary protection visas, allowed the Biloela family to stay, and freed 150 criminal non-citizens after it botched a High Court case.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles are like rabbits in the spotlight as some of the non-citizens are charged with new crimes and the government fails to oppose their bail or re-detain any of them. It appears that nobody is in charge.
This recklessly indifferent attitude to border security is happening while the country accepts a record number of migrants in a population boom that was neither promised nor foreshadowed.
Without a hint of debate or consideration, we are allowing in more migrants than ever – more than the population of Tasmania in the past year. With the housing crisis worsening and infrastructure under pressure right along the eastern seaboard, immigration and population policy could be a major election issue. It seems Labor must have realised the mess it has allowed to unfold because it has promised to halve the immigration rate – yet so far the monthly figures still rise.
Spineless foreign and defence policyThis is a policy area where I feared the worst from Labor and initially was encouraged. Albanese, Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles, held the line on AUKUS and stood firm on China. This could not have been easy for leaders of the Socialist Left such as Albanese and Wong, but it was imperative for the nation. It is far from a disaster just yet – the Albanese government is enthusiastic on AUKUS, even though its purse-strings seem tightened for years to come.
It has not yet capitulated to China but the signs are worrying, Albanese seemed to deliberately keep secret a Chinese sonar attack on our sailors so as not to embarrass Xi Jinping in the lead-up to their meeting last year.
Apparently Beijing appreciated the deference because it has started to flatter Albanese (“handsome boy” anybody?) and ease its punitive economic measures against Australia. Viewed over the 24 months, this bout smacks of rope-a-dope, and we need to watch it carefully.
By appointing Kevin Rudd ambassador to Washington, Albanese has left Australia’s stocks dangerously exposed should the Republicans regain the White House. Wong has been weak on Israel, which is in keeping with Australia’s retreat under Labor to the lowest common denominator of UN multilateral posturing. This is sad and dangerous for a significant country such as ours, once prepared to run robust, independent diplomacy.
Third installment of the Chris Kenny article.
Reconciliation and Indigenous disadvantage go backwardsOne of Albanese’s worst mistakes came right at the start, during his victory speech at the Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL two years ago. His buoyant commitment to the Indigenous voice and Uluru Statement from the Heart was a classic case of a leader getting carried away in the moment and racing ahead of the people who elected him. By cloaking the voice in such partisan triumphalism he as good as derailed hopes of a bipartisan compromise.
Labor failed to explain the voice, failed to bring the public with it, failed to persuade the Coalition to support the amendment or find a compromise to guarantee bipartisan support. Instead, Albanese took stewardship of a reform that was decades in the making and drove it into the ground.
Much division and ill-will were unleashed. Reconciliation has been set back a decade or more.
The nation still lacks a proper representative body to provide advice on Indigenous disadvantage, which endures as the nation’s greatest shame. Yet we are left with resentment and suspicion on one side and radical, separatist activism on the other.
By removing the cashless debit card – against advice – and moving too slowly to tackle the youth crime crisis in Alice Springs, the Albanese government has failed Indigenous Australians.
The issues of family violence, alcohol and drug dependency, crime, suicide, education and unemployment persist. For all the grand election night declarations, Labor has not moved the dial a millimetre.
Negligence on national cohesionWhile the voice debate tore at our social fabric, the Prime Minister’s insipid response to October 7 and the hatred it unleashed on our shores has fomented the ugliest national divide in living memory. That some Australians could chant “Death to Jews” or “Where’s the Jews” and “Shame on Australia” as the bodies of innocent Israelis were still being recovered from the southern Israeli kibbutzes that were turned into slaughterhouses by Hamas is a chilling reality – it hardly seems possible.
Yet Albanese and Labor have watched on as these protests and other intimidatory rallies in Jewish areas, along with ugly pro-Palestinian (pro-Hamas) demonstrations in our major cities have gathered momentum. At no time has Labor called this out unequivocally, demanded the silencing of hate preachers or tackled the blatant anti-Semitism on display.
Instead it has played horrible games of false equivalence, adding “Islamophobia” to every condemnation of anti-Semitism and proffering advice to Israel as to how it should defend itself from the unspeakable Hamas horror – even as alleged terrorist plots targeting Jewish-Australians have been uncovered on our shores.
Universities are now places of intimidation for Jewish Australians, who no longer feel safe in their own country. Labor makes noises of empathy but does nothing. This can only get worse. Even for voters not engaged in the issues, the lack of spine must be obvious.
I just read the ATC Constitution.
It gives the Board power to dispose of property “for any purpose”, so it seems the directors could legally sell the race-course.
But it also says the objective of the ATC is to promote horse racing.
Hard to see how selling a relatively well located course is advancing the interests of racing.
Like all these matters, a cross examination of board members and their various connections might prove … illuminating.
It would be a “courageous” move to not seek a vote in General Meeting.
Ha ha. ‘Where’s the Jews?’ Yeah righto.
Good one.
Where’s the jews?
I was going to say, “pig’s ar*e!”, but thought better of it.
I’ll see myself out.
About to hop on a China Airlines plane to LHR via Taipei – the start of our “Road to Morocco” trip with Spanish characteristics. The Beloved is game to try a prolonged Spanish road trip, and so am I (as navigator on account of his horrible sense of direction).
If Dover permits, I shall send a few impressions of what I see of Spain and elsewhere.
On another matter, I have real fears for those two brothers and their friend missing in Mexico. One of the few places in the world where I have really felt unsafe, even in a “tourist” town. Those poor parents.
Sad that Mexico has gone down the rabbit hole. A country filled with fascinating history, food to die for, excellent people and wonderful places to visit. But you’d need your head read to go there now. Not even Cancun is safe anymore.
LOL Taipei’s, Chiang Kai-Shek Airport.
Reckon it will be gone now but last time I was there I disembarked from a Brisbane flight into an arrivals lounge that resembled Airport 77.
China Airways inflight service though was excellent…
On the subject of the Kuwaiti former immigration detainee, now alleged basher of old ladies, one member of the Committee of Public Safety, sorry, Community Safety whatever, is VicStasi’s old maaaaaate, Fatty Ashton.
How verrrry Labor.
Nobody warehouses and looks after their mates like the Liars. This weeks Media Watchdog has some comments on the Victoriastani justice system.
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 6:44 pm
This tells you they have conceded and know it will probably end in litigation if they try to bulldoze it through.
These board members know that they will be persona-non-grata in a lot of boardrooms if they continue, and the one thing they don’t want is for the director’s fees gravy train to be derailed.
I see a lost members vote, which would mean McGauran would be left in the library with a revolver, followed by a change to the constitution which would require a 75% or two thirds majority to pull a stunt like this.
Meant 500ml blood. The biopsy will be in a week and a half. I will have to get 500ml blood drawn every week for the foreseeable future. Sadly they can’t use it for anything and it will be tossed away.
Finally read through all bumpf the haematologist gave me. It seems my bone marrow is producing way too many red blood cells, and I am one of a lucky 950 patients year diagnosed with one of the 3 conditions covered by the general descriptor. Yay me!
Explains my tiredness and unsettled stomach. Mrs D freaked out when she saw the information book was produced by leukaemia foundation, but settled down when she read the description of what they think I have, and there is only a very tiny chance it will develop into something fatal. Dr said I am likely to die with, not of it.
Diogenes:
Use it in your rose garden?
Did you try the Vitamin C high dose regime for your gout, Diogenes?
Last installment of the Chris Kenny article.
No transparency or accountabilityAlbanese promised to “lead with integrity” and treat voters “with respect” as he committed himself to “restore trust and accountability” to politics. This pledge has not aged well. The judgment in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case last month has detailed how the political cover-up angle of the Brittany Higgins rape claim was absolute bunkum. The cover-up theory was prosecuted by leading Labor frontbenchers such as Wong, Katy Gallagher and Albanese himself, yet it was found to be a fabrication.
Labor settled a multimillion-dollar compensation claim with Higgins inside a day, warning former Coalition ministers Linda Reynolds and Michaelia Cash they would not be reimbursed for legal fees if they joined the process. Gallagher clearly misled a Senate committee over her prior knowledge of some of the Higgins claims, but she has faced no sanction.
Labor promised a royal commission into the destructive, overblown and unscientific response to the Covid-19 pandemic but has delivered a constrained inquiry conducted by known quantities.
The most dramatic government intervention of the post-war era, in which personal liberties were trampled, businesses and livelihoods were shut down and levels of government spending and indebtedness were unprecedented – arguably the worst public policy failure since Federation – will be left unexamined by a full public inquiry. Labor continued the Coalition’s secret social media censorship of pandemic communications and has failed to criticise those arrangements, and now it wants to expand this type of censorship through a “misinformation” bill. There is less transparency and accountability under Labor than we had before.
Almost two years on, this is an appalling record. The government is drifting and the nation is listless. What we are experiencing is a monumental lack of leadership.
Labor does not seem to know what it should be doing or who should lead the way. Albanese lacks any serious leadership rival – all in all, it is a desultory outlook.
Like SloMo, the lack of any real rival probably the only thing keeping Albo in the job. For how long?
My money is on Tanya Plibersek wielding the big knife.
Mean Girls are fingered (no pun intended) in the Brittany payout. Another slow burn.
Please let it be so.
Gallagher is an absolute bitch.
Sorry John but yes we do.
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/susan-carland-falling-into-ramadan/103572012
Emotional drek.
With bells on.
Susan Carland? Isn’t she married to one Waleed Aly?
Damn, I was hoping she had got the bum’s rush.
Calli go up the Atlas mountains when in Morocco. Wife did, loved it.
Coenhite
great name Johanna slutzky – there was a economist with a great theory known as slutky’s decomposition.
the mild mannered lecturer kept breaking out laughing every time he said it.
On of our textbooks was Money Market Maths by Harvey Crapp. The funny old lecturer began with “This is the only course you get credit for quoting Crapp back at me.” Given he carried his lecture notes around in an old plastic bag (not yet banned at the time) I suspect it was not the first outing for that joke.
University news (the Tele):
No worries Mark. Speaking of toughing it out and being uncomfortable, how much are you paid again? From the AFR:
Hey Scotty. GFY.
Mark Scott ex head of the far-lefty ABC.
Say no more.
The Nice Mr Scott has certainly enjoyed some comfortable management positions in his time.
Good Lord. So de Belin was stood down for a long period of time over a falsehood. Make the prick pay. Courier Mail:
Well it was from the Courier Mail but being part of NewsCorp and a league story, I guess they share.
In any case, this needs a financial settlement that destroys the policeman. As well as those that accessed communications between the aggrieved party and their lawyers.
Oh dear. That doesn’t go down well with judges.
Not the same Mark Scott who headed Their ABC?
Yep, that Mark Scott.
Yes indeed.
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 8:37 pm
Reply to Boambee John
Another problem with the SFLs. They will appoint on the basis of short-lists provided by Liars friendlies and never, ever deploy Liars tactics.
That is, disband or neuter Liars stacked institutions, send the loaded candidate lists back for “review” or appoint an “independent expert” to create shortlist recommendations.
Of course, they can’t disband courts, but there is a lot they could do when in power but don’t.
Just like I had zero sympathy for Scumbag and his motley crew back in 2022, I have zero sympathy for the UK Tories and their crushing council electoral defeats today. You reap what you sow, although in the case of the UK Tories, like our very own Liberals, you reap what you don’t sow. But what will come after will be worse, far worse, just like Sleazy’s government is far worse than the Scumbag Coalition government.
The gift of right of centre governments across the West, many of which were swept to victory in huge landslides, as the Tories were in 2019 and the Coalition was in 2013, is to bequeath Labor/Labour victories. That’s their only legacy. They squander their huge electoral wins but worse, they shit in the faces of their voter base, that’s you and me. They are supine, lazy, pusillanimous and craven.
The Tories deserve annihilation but just like we didn’t deserve Sleazy, the Poms don’t deserve Starmer.
Sacré bleu – how the fork is that bloated sack of protoplasm not now swimming among the fishes, Cats?
I’m old enough to remember as far back as September 2023, when on a university campus;
University of Sydney boss Mark Scott says Mooslime students will just have to “tough out being uncomfortable” in the face of anti-Mooslime slogans….
One and the same, BB.
Yet another example of an unflushable turd.
Gee, unlike KKK’s son, who merely furnished a “false statement” in a criminal trial. Subsequently convicted of “fabricating evidence”*.
Stupid forkin’ piggies. Morbidly obese, staggeringly stupid, utterly useless, criminally compromised and gifted with a tendency to try and inflict ultra violence on random passers-by – but only if they think they can get away with it.
Best avoided like the plague.
*This concept will be revisited in later comments tonight, Cats. 🙂
Oh my wordy lordy yes. Yes it does.
If that jack’s been hit with a perjury beef, then – regardless of the outcome of any trial – there is an excellent argument that he acted well outside of any ‘good faith’ provision.
I have heard it said that amongst some elements of jackery, there is a level of prestige accorded to people who manage to bin high-profile people.
If this is true, it would certainly have assisted the CVs of certain jacks involved in, oh I don’t know, the Pell investigation for example.
To a lesser degree, binning someone like Andrew O’Keeffe or Michael Slater would certainly have encouraged some stories amongst colleagues over a beer or seven on social occasions.
However – if you go after someone with a certain level of public awareness, like an NRL or AFL player for example, you had better be all-singing and all-dancing with your brief. If you trump stuff up, as this chap appears to have done, then you can go for a row of giant shithouses and lose absolutely everything of yours.
Enough, you irredeemable insane idiots – A womanage is a person not blessed with a penis, but blessed with XX chromosomes, you f*cking f*ckwits!
It is not a trick question, FFS. 😡
I have mentioned this subject before, but:
88,300 and change packed the G for Caaaaarlton vs the reigning premiers.
In a home and away round. Another record.
Cop that, NRL, lacrosse and soccer poofs.
An example of a womanage – note, she does not have a beard, a deep voice, a beer gut or a middle leg.
I know there are quite a few of these around but this 3 minute video of Biden’s handlers struck me as particularly good-
https://x.com/TheHoleTweet/status/1785377194644009294?t=QlG7TY44Goeo_CzfnyS2nQ&s=03
The Myth Of Sexual Harassment – The Fiamengo File Episode 17
Of political cartoonists on this planet, Bob Moran was always closest to portraying my thoughts and “feelz” about the monstrous evil idiocy we’ve been cursed with at this stage of our lives. Behold:
Das Schwabtopus
Sweaty Rat Faced Olive Drab Man
The triumph of men without chests (aka soft communist pooftahs)
Pies did just enough.
Yeah, baby.
I echo that sentiment Mr Dragger. Phuck Carlton.
Mark Scott, a sneering, sanctimonious and pompous git well known for his leftist credentials, was quickly rewarded after he left their ABC with a plumb public service position here in NSW by……….yes you guessed it……the Baird Liberal government. That position was NSW Department of Education secretary, which commands a hefty salary.
LOL.
It was good to read in the Telegraph today a journalist smack down the current NSW Liberal opposition git, a mediocre git by the name of Mark Speakman. Speakman, a closet Green, was A-G of this state for a decade and during his tenure he wasn’t exactly known for his conservative opinions or leanings. Anyway, Sleazeman (as I prefer to call him) is now critiquing the Minns government over how domestic violence assailants are treated except Sleazeman, when in power for 12 years, did little to nothing to fix the problem.
Rabz
May 3, 2024 9:19 pm
Because he is “reliable”.
This week we had the unsurprising news that the Victoriastan DPP* has decided not to proceed with charges brought by Worksafe** over the hotel quarantine cock-up.
Well, apparently Worksafe** based their case on evidence put to the quarantine enquiry … evidence which the DPP* deemed inadmissible.
So.
Firstly we have an enquiry which found decisions to let a major public elf contract were made by “creeping assumptions”.
Then we have Worksafe**, which has extensive coercive powers to re-interview witnesses, inexplicably deciding to use evidence from a previous enquiry and not one of their hot-shot legal eagles is curious enough to ask about admissibility.
Finally we have a DPP* which pushes it in the hole and shovels dirt in on top.
Tom Elliott on 3AW wondered aloud this week if the DPP* had been leaned on by the Gummint.
No need Tom.
It’s a well oiled machine.
The right appointees just know what the right decisions are without anyone having to pick up the phone.
….
* John Cain Jnr son of former Liars Premier.
** Worksafe. Has had an acting CEO for six months. Confirmed as permanent two weeks ago, no doubt on the back of a promise to put the prosecutorial cue in the rack.
From the report on the de Belin case:-
Tell the truth in court.
But, when it comes to sexual assault cases, say zero until then.
Uh-oh.
Breach of legal privilege.
Some judges will be more outraged about this than fitting someone up for rape.
This bozo is in a world of pain.
Will Elbow make an “impassioned speech” about this particular type of injustice?
Because he is “reliable”.
A chap called Shane Patton was a Deputy Commissioner in charge of Dan Andrews’ red shirts shitfight.
Patton said ‘nothing to see here’.
Magically, six months afterward he got the big chair.
Reliable.
Do we know if the alleged perjurer is, in fact, a chap?
He is a chap – at least, according to the dubious reporting:
To be fair, I was sort of hoping it would be a fat blue-haired chick.
Confirmed.
The alleged perjurer is male.
Following the precedent set by the fat useless utterly incompetent Fatty O’Barrell‘s promotion of the Blabbersack‘s heroin injecting and purveying hubby (the Hyphen-Trotters) into the position of Director-General of the Department of Finance and Services in April 2011.
Personal existence:
Hyphen-Trotters exists with the Blabbersack, a feral MP and former deputy leader of the Ozzie Labore Pardee
*Following the ignominious resignation of Beryl Gladyschlocklian for forking a big fat morally and ethically corrupt gliberal MP who made his name signing shonkee deals with equally morally and ethically bankrupt property developers of muddle eastern ‘eritage in the Canterbury Bankstown LGA.
A similar image popped into my head.
BTW, did anyone end up in gaol over the “Gobbo X” imbroglio?
If not, why not?
Left-Wing Donors Gave More Than $3.3 Million To Pro-Hamas Activities Since 2016
New OT up.
Can’t escape him, even here in Spain.