Warren is truly evil and psychopathic. A foul old phony.
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And deserves huge applause for plowing that delicious field!
I had to scroll halfway down the main page to a link entitled The week in pictures: two days to…
Yeah let’s have that larger discussion.
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1793263484668359117?t=KvTWNNWpIBmHpvGhlBmviQ&s=19
I’m having another go at reading P D James, the cover blurb says ‘Agatha Christie’s Crown Princess’. Dalgliesh better enter the stage shortly and be a decent sort of fellow because the cast atm are all quite unpleasant.
calli
May 23, 2024 7:06 pm
There will be a full moon over the desert tonight.
You are lucky. It is stunning in that part of the world. It is theorised that Islam is actually a continuation of ancient moon worship. You see the imagery in a lot of Islamic art – e.g on mosques and Turkey flag. Their calendar. Make sense as they travelled at night. (BTW don’t mention that to any Muz -they don’t like it)
Dunno if there are any wolves in Egypt but saw some on full moon nights skulking round in Central Asia desert plains.
Patriotism, Leadership, and Western Security | Alexander Downer
John Anderson
Didn’t Phatty Adams produce the Barry McKenzie movie? Probably the only worthwhile thing he ever did.
I wonder if he thought it was a comedy, or a documentary?
” I’ve had 6 Covid shots…”
Some people never learn.
Have to wait until 08:10pm to watch Collingwood belt Fremantle.
That’s ole blokes go to bed time.
Cheap plonk and a choof will get me there though.
Carna Pies!
An elderly couple in my parish still attend mass in N95 masks.
I don’t think they are loons.
Ran into someone from my old parish who was also wearing a mask a while back, I asked him why he was wearing one.
He said he didn’t want to pass on any infectious disease to his frail mother in aged care.
Also not a loon.
I do.
The virus is one thirtieth the size of the pores in a N95 mask.
They don’t work, and indeed may be worse than useless by sweeping up viruses and bacteria for later inhalation. I’ve seen data that suggests that is what happens.
I said this day one, the virus is too small for a mask to work as if the pores are sized to strain out the virus then you cannot breathe. A positive pressure mask would work, like the Racal helmets we used to use at the lead smelter, but they use a battery driven air pump to force air though the very fine pores. They are very expensive but they do work.
They’re not necessarily loons.
More likely trusting victims of government misinformation, Bruce.
In other words: loons.
That’s uncharitable, Bruce.
No it is objective truth. I am sorry that there are gullible people in the world, but gullibility isn’t an excuse. If it is the choice between hurting someone’s feelings vs standing up for the absolute truth, sorry I will stand up for the truth. I am sick of all the lies.
The facts re the mask are objective truth.
The gullibility of the people concerned is another matter to be judged with rather more charity than you are dealing out.
They aren’t demanding that others wear them.
Whenever I see a mask I curse the government and the health authorities. That someone is visibly wearing a sign of evil is abhorrent to me.
By wearing them these people are insulting me. Insulting my training and profession. No better than someone wearing a sign of Satan. If they do not realize what they are doing does that change anything?
Can we condemn muslims for believing a satanic religion? Yes we can. Well I can blame stupid people for doing something just as evil. I hate the things, They are a visible lie.
They are ineffectual at stopping a virus. But they are very good at spreading mass hysteria. Which is why they are recommended by the “elites”.
I guess I’ll have to bow to your superior knowledge doctor.
Should medical staff stop wearing them during surgery too?
I though virusii hitched rides on the water vapour we breathed out which is also why people avoid sneezing and coughing in other people’s faces.
And I was just pointing out that people can opt to wear masks without being “loons’.
We’re heading over to Danistan in late June for a (cold) wedding in the family, a trip up to the snow and to see the Swannies play the Saints…
Some parishioners told us to wear masks on the plane, I told them the same thing! The virus is much smaller than the microscopic fibres that hold a mask together…
Remember the mask backflip Bruce?
First they said masks didn’t work when the supply chains reversed and the Chinese sucked up all the masks worldwide.
Then they said you can mask if it makes you feel better and all the daytime TV stooges showed off their homemade masks. Then once the masks were supplied again it became “You are a selfish monster if you don’t mask”.
Imagine still following advice given years ago that they themselves didn’t believe, contradicted everything they had recently claimed, and which at this point they couldn’t care less about because the circumstances of the argument of convenience they used has passed by long ago.
Saw an idiot just yesterday wearing the mask while walking completely alone along a deserted road. Very weird.
I have tried blowing air through a 0.45 micron filter – we used to use them a lot for filtering out very fine material.
I could just blow some air through one with all my lung power. Tough effort. Yet those filters are still five times larger in pore size than the virus.
I am amazed how unscientific the health authorities are, they learned this stuff in high school. A magic amulet would be more effective and a whole lot more comfortable.
Wearing masks to protect others, especially the old folks, is a good thing for “infectious disease(s)”. Might not stop Covid but it’s not the only thing going around.
Fairly ineffective even for bacteria, unless you change the mask for a fresh one often, which no one does. Otherwise the mask is just a travelling reservoir of nasties.
Other Cats have in the past cited studies of surgical masks, which were ineffective despite mainly being used to exclude staph aurea etc. And in an operating theatre they are changing their masks frequently. Bacteria are 100 times larger than Covid.
Being careful to sanitize one’s hands, and keep surfaces antiseptic, are likely to be much more effective. In a surgical environment I’d go with Lister’s idea of a fog of antiseptic. It’d make sense in that case to wear a mask to keep from breathing too much of the antiseptic.
(We found masks, even respirators ineffective for keeping out fine lead particles. They were 1-2 microns in size, so 10-20 times larger than the virus. Racal forced-draft helmets were the only thing that worked.)
No shortage of mask around Fairfield .. the SE Asians luv ’em .. Methinx they bought in bulk and are intent on getting their money’s worth .. LOL!
The greatest song and dance man of the C20th
Isn’t there some new film of Michael Jackson in the wings?
Anyway, the battery will need replacing in eight years. Imagine selling a petrol car with a sticker saying it will need a $10k repair less than a decade after you buy it.
An Aussie who collected their Tesla after ordering it has recieived a nasty shock just two weeks later.
Jason C from the Sunshine Coast said he ordered a Model Y RWD for $60,900 plus on-roads.
Two weeks later he spotted a price drop of $5000 to $55,900 for the same deal.
“What’s going on?” he asked. “Elon and his company aren’t endearing themselves to customers. Resale’s going to be a nightmare when we sell it.”
Car advice columnist Iain Curry said Telsa prices have been on a rollercoaster
“The Model Y RWD reached peak selling price of $72,300 in June 2022; it was $69,300 in May 2023, and a year later is now $13,400 cheaper,” he said in response to Jason’s dilemma.
“Not great news for you: yours has basically shed an extra $5k overnight. Even the most hardcore Tesla-owning loyalist won’t be happy, and you’re doubtless fuming.
“There’s been heavy EV discounting this month: Peugeot’s e-2008 is down $25,000 and the Nissan Leaf down over $10,000, both now $39,990 drive-away.”
Daily Tele
Let’s take a stroll back to 1979 when the young, then “new left,” Phillip Adams wrote this extremely critical hit piece on an a new Australian movie out on screens:
The movie was: Mad Max (and whether you like it or not, its hard to think of another movie that only cost $400K and went onto make over $100M in 1979 terms).
Lesson: Wrongologists don’t change.
And nothing wrong with a bit o’ Tina Turner raking in some cash with We Don’t Need Another Hero:
TINA TURNER ? We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)?music video? (youtube.com)
The timpany that is struck four times in the chorus always gets me…
Not much for soft Leftys in Mad Max 1 or 2.
Mel Gibson explodes their heads also.
Haven’t actually shown this movie to the kids (who are now old enough to see it)… might be one for the wet weekend* Sunday in Perth
*i’ll believe it when i see it…
Yep. Stop after 2.
2 was truly a great film.
This was the first movie Hairy and I ever saw together. We both liked it for its wildness and verve. I was doing a course in 16mm film production with the novel hand-held cameras at that time, as a cinema verite sideline to my day job. I loved the crazy camera angles that paced up Mad Max and was surprised that Hairy had picked up on them too and that he wasn’t offended by the amoral violence of the film. Not your usual corporate computer bloke, I thought, but then he admitted to having done the Economics/Pol Science Tripos at Cambridge … aha, I said, a Cambridge education. Covers all bases of crazy.
Once it was glorious eccentricity. Now it is peak stupid.
A great university fallen.
I remember my coffee and croissants in bed reading the Weekend Australian about 1986, our hero Phillip Adams explaining how he single-handedly saved the Australian film industry armed with nothing but a puny 150% tax deduction.
With all the fuss about CSIRO’s new report bull shitting about renewables being cheap and wonderful and nuclear as dear as blackout’s snot samples but leaving out the necessary renewable infrastructure and back up and their intermittency and unreliability I recall an earlier CSIRO report saying the renewable poles and wires would cost a trillion. I can’t find that report or reference. Has anyone got it?
oh my, whatever could have happened to it!
More titles for the jaded:
Where’s My Head: a child’s guide to the Islamic justice system.
Fire in the Hole: the art and technique of eating curry.
Finding that Someone Special: a guide to dying alone.
If the Phone doesn’t ring it’s Me: methods and techniques for ending relationships.
Probably viewed it as a horror movie about the evils of toxic aussie maleness.
It was the days of the20BA (?) tax deductions. Phatty on the public tit as usual, where he would spend the rest of his “working” life.
Burning down the house!
New South Wales government to rollout incentives for household batteries (Sky News, 24 May)
Minns may be a talking head but he’s not a Talking Head. Time for a song!
Speaking of Minns … Slippery People
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Years of pain … and a court case that saw my perpetrator finally incarcerated, has given me hope.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBKwV6oNYvw
Why are people so unkind?
https://x.com/MattWolking/status/1793397210320638005?t=Wt07qJ8NbazQ2kPencBVRQ&s=19
Is that Kinzinger waste of space some kind of retard? Always looks like he’s about to cry. Where the buggery did they find him?
Just walked out of the pub.
The footy came on and I’ve got videos at home that show less dry humping and sweaty blokes grabbing each others sweaty bits from the 70’s.*
What the Hell happened to Australia and manliness?
And they wonder why Australian men are topping themselves and their kids at unprecedented rates when they get confronted with the Harridan Court.
*And no, World Wide Wrestling wasn’t REAL wrestling.
As kids in the seventies my brother and I loved WWF! Excellent television. We were naive country lads, so it didn’t take much to impress us.
It doesn’t matter if it wasn’t “real” since the physical skill required to perform the choreography safely is right up there with ballet.
Very interesting this stuff. Kamala isn’t budging. Joe is visibly getting worse and worse, yet he’s not going anywhere either. Which suggests he has a huge file of dirt on Democrats amassed over fifty years, that they appear to be terrified of.
Running the old perv for POTUS was always absurd. In fact, I thought it was a joke in 2019- ‘no malarkey‘-FMD. Turns out to be a very sick joke on the people of America.
A sick joke for the world.
Penis news (the Hun):
And:
There’s a pic of this bloke accompanying the piece. Naturally, he’s wearing coke-bottle glasses.
Without – without – starting another circumcision debate, I will assert that this bloke is perhaps better suited to hedge trimming.
Yep. Stuff a hedge and it grows back in a few years.
As many have noted, a wonderful opportunity for Spain to open a consulate in Gaza and or the West Bank.
https://x.com/Israel_katz/status/1793896694729286117?t=U0XD0q_3Q4CzHEF48MaKJg&s=19
Spanish undoing all the good work of Queen Isabella.
Noice.
Israel should do the same for Australia. I have a suggestion for Ambassador to Gaza….. Actually, I have several and they might all be needed over time.
Friday night used to be takeaway and cop shows. Something to relax into after a shitty week. Anticipated with pleasure.
Now!
Nobody can afford takeway and Sky put up Foster and Hildebrand, which is indeed murder.
Life at work is better.
Columbia are closing their Israel embassy and opening one in Ramallah instead.
Sounds great. They can bring cocaine for the Pali market in the diplomatic pouches.
Colombia’s Marxist President Replaces Israel Embassy with Office in Ramallah (23 May)
I’m sad that after holding the line against leftism for a long time Columbia is hurtling down into a Marxist hellhole since this chap got himself elected somehow. You’d think Columbian voters would’ve taken next door Venezuela as an example of what to avoid.
South Americans can’t help themselves.
I’m sure Columbians will be queuing up to live and work in Ramallah (with
fingers crossed some jihad faction doesn’t kidnap them then arbitrarily execute them anyhow).
They have the best hummus.
Looks like more bad news from Gaza with additional dead hostages being found.
https://x.com/Irishchutzpah/status/1793894472222384477?t=u6W0ZIE8Se4nI_8IuxL0cg&s=19
@robinmonotti
THE REAL REASON SUNAK CALLED AN EARLY ELECTION IN JULY – ANDREW BRIDGEN MP
Plenty of fodder for the Media Watchdog this week. Everyone gets a guernsey- Phatty, Mincing Marr, Frank Elly. PK, Fozzie. Close to a full house
Details here. Like too many they were murdered on 7 October and their bodies dragged to Gaza.
https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/idf-recovers-body-of-shani-louks-boyfriend-from-gaza-strip-cuovtlo4#:~:text=Mexican%2DFrench%20national%20Hern%C3%A1ndez%20Radoux,Hamas%20terrorists%20on%20October%207.
This is the full interview by Doc Malik with Andrew Bridgen from which that very alarming clip I just posted came. It’s almost two and a half hours long.
Under an UNRWA building | The tunnel where the hostages’ bodies were found (23 May)
How astounding that they were being kept under an UNRWA building and the UN didn’t know about it. Weird huh?
Impossible!
Someone on twitter was trying to argue it wasn’t an unwra building as the sign said it had been renovated by unwra with iirc funds from Germany. Must have missed the tunnels on the blue prints when they signed off on the renos.
Should be declared a terrorist funding organisation, and all accessible members taken in charge.
No debate here, my view of the matter; if nature provides it, keep it.
Be it by design or evolution, it must have a purpose.
Floreat, Western Australia: Two people shot dead at a home in Perth – with a third person rushed to hospital
Daily Mail. Who said nothing ever happened in Perth?
Very unWestern Suburbs. Really South of the River or Eastern Surburbs really.
This is the full interview by Doc Malik with Andrew Bridgen from which that very alarming clip I just posted came. It’s almost two and a half hours long.
I haven’t seen the long interview but the clip is terrifying and far too plausible.
Brittany Higgins accused of ‘co-publishing’ tweet defaming Linda Reynolds originally solely blamed on fianceRebecca Le MayThe West Australian
Fri, 24 May 2024 5:49PM
Brittany Higgins is being accused of collaborating with her fiance over an allegedly defamatory social media post he made, potentially expanding Senator Linda Reynolds’ case against her.
At a pre-trial conference late on Friday, Senator Reynolds’ lead lawyer Martin Bennett said his team had last week obtained WhatsApp messages between Ms Higgins and David Sharaz discussing a tweet on January 27 last year.
The messages, secured through the process known as “discovery”, were essentially “You’ve got more followers, you put it on yours”, Mr Bennett said.
He said the alleged collaboration made Ms Higgins a “joint publisher” of the tweet, which has since been taken down and was originally attributed solely to Mr Sharaz.
“There was a discussion whose Twitter account was a better one to post it on and that indicates that they weren’t acting independently of each other,” Mr Bennett told reporters outside court.
“The law in Australia, confirmed by the High Court in (Dylan) Voller’s case, is that if you participate in any way in the publication of a defamation … then you were liable as a co-publisher.
“We’re now suggesting to the judge to bring it in, in Ms Higgins’ proceedings rather than Mr Sharaz’s.”
Why “discovery”? Even for Teh Worst that seems sloppy.
That started waaay back in 2015, and was subsequently confirmed in the 2017 Gen cost report.
Since then, whoever at CSIRO who was responsible for this wicked misinformation and disinformation has been sent for reeducation, and Arts/Law Top Men from AEMO have been brought in to the GenCost process to ensure proper rigor and correctness.
Now:
Technological innovation: the Expert’s friend. The same Superpower that allows the 2023/24 GenCost to rigorously shit-can nuclear on the basis that, done in Australia, it would [pluck] cost three times the recent South Korean experience. Because rigorous. And Expert.
I’m on the road at the moment, and unfortunately can’t conveniently give the link.
That’s the one. Thanks.
…in (Dylan) Voller’s case…
Aspiring rapper?
Isn’t he in jail?
From memory he was released from the tronk in the Northern Territory, only to be seized by the South Australian coppers?
I think he had a few legal wins along the way but never really followed it.
Posted earlier about finding trespassers, squatting in a vacant house, on a property someone else happens to own. THEY are trespassing, yet I have to speak nicely to them, ask them “Pretty please, to pack up and leave,” and get a court order to have them evicted…
Find an ex-husband, fire him up and send him round there with a cricket bat.
Insufficient.
The minimum official qualification for aspiring rapperdom is death by stupid misadventure – preferably under circumstances that suggest potential of massive compensation for grieving relatives.
As in the case of the aspiring rapper, who shot himself in the head, playing with the laser sight, on a loaded pistol?
Get behind thee Satan, prince of lies.
Neil Oliver: ‘…they’re laughing in our faces!’
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Their ABC:
Walyalup/Fremantle? These people can feck right off.
@robinmonotti
The true face of the European Commission revealed by Georgia’s PM:
Bret Weinstein – Why the Elites Want to Blind Us
Okay.
We have now worked out that the reigning premiers (Collingwood, for the heathens) have the odds stacked up against them.
Absolutely horrible umpiring in the last few minutes.
Horrible, and as gay as a Christmas Special with Elton John.
It was an … umm … unusual free kick. BT did his best to defend it but nobody was buying it.
A magnificent couple.
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Steve Inman:
Brazil: Carjackers get beat up by the couple they tried to rob
https://rumble.com/v4wx7wl-brazil-carjackers-get-beat-up-by-the-couple-they-tried-to-rob.html
I want them on my side!
It’s the mighty bass line* that just sucks you in, (allegedly) lifted as it was from Hall n’ Oates’ “I can’t go for that“.
I report, you decide, Cats …
*Courtesy of this legend, Louis of the Brothers Johnson…
Thanks Joh, for inspiring this comment – Billie Jean deserves its place in the pantheon.
My pleasure. 🙂
IMHO, it’s a song that will stand the test of time.
Goil – this is my favourite Wacko Jacko ditty.
The production, Cats, Quincy Jones doing it again … 🙂
At 6:33pm I was given a voice. Thank you.
I could well imagine what’s going on at Media Matters. Musk is suing them for lying in an attempt to hurt his business – X. In order to defend themselves they had to hire a law firm. The fee vig would be eating into their bank balance is a huge way and that vig has to either be coughed up, monthly in advance, or as soon as the invoice is sent out. It’s not cheap.
Had the great pleasure of playing football today with my son. Bit sore but loved every minute.
We have had a wonderful time this arvo playing ‘football’ with a small soccer net in a Brisbane back garden where the team consisted of our daughter and son-in-law and our lovely grandies, who are our three year old grandson and two grand daughters aged 8 and nearly ten, plus Grandpa Hairy and Grandma me. I am the worst kicker of all. Even the three year old does better! Such a riot of noise and helpful siblinghood and other forms of encouragement must have been heard streets away with cries of goal! and offside!! ringing through the air, and not without energetic disputes.