No shortage of calories there, in fact it looks like a surplus.
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Damn straight. From the comments: If I understand correctly raping a child can be a capital crime in Florida. It’s…
I find, with the current degenerate state of Airstrip 1, that it’s quite incongruous that they still have beefeaters at…
Don’t care.
Bracks had good hair.
Oops! Looks like one of my creaking fellow travellers reads this blog.
You get the back seat this time ‘cheeks,
And what part of God’s Plan did the Holocaust happen or October the 7th 2023 be a part of it? Please explain if you can.
It was mankind that allowed the Holocaust and October 7 to happen.
God gave mankind free will, the will to do good and the will to do bad.
Byron Pickett: Broke footy legend who once earned almost $300,000 a season opens up about having to explain to his kids why he doesn’t own a house or car after stellar 11-year career
Daily Mail.
Malcolm Roberts
BREAKING: Coal fired power station extended – Is Net-Zero dead?
Let’s look at what AGW cultists, see as logic.
CO2 will cause the death of us all and we must all spend $trillions to stop all emissions.
This must be true because some of the greatest scientific minds ever to draw breath have stated this, Al Gore, Greta Thunberg and Adam Bandt lead the charge. A pantheon of genius, right there.
No effort has been made to:
a. ban flying, (one of the most concentrated forms of spreading this “poison”),
b. ban coal and gas fired power stations,
c. ban all ICE powered vehicles.
Now, the NSW Govt is “extending” the life of one of these “poison” producing power plants.
So, CO2 will kill us all, ……, but we are just going to continue with coal and gas, because ……,
[insert any excuse you like here, eg the Russians, Collingwood supporters, Rishi Sunak, bananas, the Voice].
It is almost as if, Govt knows that CO2 does not alter the climate, otherwise they would take IMMEDIATE action.
A bit like taking a murderer into your house and one by one he kills your family, but you do nothing, because he’s paying rent.
Illogical!
rosie
May 23, 2024 7:06 pm
Funnily enough God’s existence doesn’t rely on any particular person’s belief.
Why do bad things happen to good people?
All part of God’s Plan apparently. Nice Plan,
Just as darkness is the absence of light, so too, evil is the absence of God. It’s our choice.
The Almighty has made it perfectly clear that cruelty and injustice disgust him. Yet humanity persists.
He could, of course, drop a lightning bolt on the likes of Hitler and Stalin, but I have a horrid feeling that a fair bit of holy zapping might be my lot also if that was His general modus operandi.
Christians believe His solution was something similar, but very tightly focussed.
Nicely put. I can hear his sighs of exasperation at my potty mouth more loudly as the years go by.
I guess he thought I’d grow out of it.
If you don’t believe in God, there seems to be little point in blaming Him for the evil that people do.
Exactly!
Continuing from the above about real estate clusters. The below link is where IMO buyer is being cute trying for as discount of another $7-8K and agent ultimately could be liable if push comes to shove:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13445445/Queensland-landlord-loses-thousands-trying-evict-good-tenants.html
I went through something very similar but the Agent and conveyancer was at fault. Lawyer who I hadn’t retained at the time said to sue both. I found a buyer very quickly after and didn’t bother with the hassle.
Andrew Giles.
Has there ever been a more pathetic, wimp of a person that God put breathe into?
I look at the pasty faced limp haired little nerd that can’t fill a suit or do up a tie.
Is “Gormless” the word being looked for?
We already have the GORMLESS one…Patrick Gormless MHR Perth.
A better question: how does an activist lawyer campaigning for refugee rights end up being the federal immigration minister?
That’s Corruption 101.
God gave mankind free will, the will to do good and the will to do bad.
And you believe that?
Yes.
Why Trump is rallying in deep-blue Bronx where thousands are expected to show support: He’s ‘not afraid to show up’
And you believe that?
Yes, I’ll place more belief in God than Martin Armstrong.
Touche!
Rita Panahi:
The Almighty has made it perfectly clear that cruelty and injustice disgust him. Yet humanity persists.
He could, of course, drop a lightning bolt on the likes of Hitler and Stalin, but I have a horrid feeling that a fair bit of holy zapping might be my lot also if that was His general modus operandi.
Christians believe His solution was something similar, but very tightly focussed.
Excuse me how has he made it clear to a poor starving person living in a war torn African Nation? Did he send a letter or an email or a pigeon?
What a load of Pompous Windbag Bollox.
He sent a book…
What a lunatic fighting against a God he insists doesn’t exist.
God gave mankind free will, the will to do good and the will to do bad.
Another way to put it is that God made some people kind and decent, and also made some ghastly shits to even things up. Ghastly shits, He must have known in advance, would do bad things. But He made them anyway.
Ah, no DrB, you have it arse about.
We, humans, chose to be ghastly shits. That is what is called the Fall. Original sin and all that.
If you think about it the assumption that mankind is innately evil works empirically extremely well, given the evidence. And no I am not joking.
And you believe that?
Yes, I’ll place more belief in God than Martin Armstrong.
God didn’t give Human Kind anything. And what did he do for the Hindus and Buddhists. Give them a nice day?
LOL. Now that is funny. Next,
Yes, I’ll place more belief in God than Martin Armstrong.
Putting your trust in God might be rather foolhardy, but not as foolhardy as putting it in Martin Armstrong.
On the other hand, the evidence for the existence of Martin Armstrong is much more convincing than that for the existence of your God.
Not to people who understand logic.
DrBeauGan
May 23, 2024 7:52 pm
God gave mankind free will, the will to do good and the will to do bad.
Another way to put it is that God made some people kind and decent, and also made some ghastly shits to even things up. Ghastly shits, He must have known in advance, would do bad things. But He made them anyway.
God didn’t make any of us. What about the Hindus? Who made them? And the Buddhists. Who made them? And the Abos here in Convict’s Paradise? And the South Sea Islander peoples?
We climbed down from the trees and moved around the Planet. The rest of it is a Fairy Story.
Only recently discovered Tom Rush. No Regrets.
BTW. I will never challenge your belief in a God.
But my logic says NO. So we can disagree,
Looks like DuckDuckGo is having some issues today.
So I’m told. I’m using DDG right now; no problem this evening.
“God didn’t make any of us”
Yet you keep talking about Him as though he exists.
You also make disparaging comments about ‘God botherers’ all the time and then claim you don’t challenge that belief.
I suppose logic isn’t what it used to be.
Some people claim that god is a she, it’s open to speculation as to whether that makes more sense but it has explanatory power.
You shall have no other Gods than Marty. LOL
rosie
May 23, 2024 8:26 pm
“God didn’t make any of us”
I can tell you who made me. It was my Mum and Dad, So did God make you?
Soon to be canonised.
I noticed a couple of churches in Sicily had portraits of Blessed Carlo on display.
Hopefully if he is canonised his likeness will be painted and displayed permanently in churches.
https://x.com/Sachinettiyil/status/1793571019611148764?t=CfpSKgk35wV7NjSmzBEXZg&s=19
The story of a Jew from Fez.
https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1793318371674501317?t=kF1ub48Yx5mTSZkbsKfZqA&s=19
There is no god but convicted felon Marty,
And Rotten is his profit.
That’d look nice on a flag.
Our Marty, Who art in Leavonworth, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in Leavonworth.
Johnny Rotten
May 23, 2024 7:35 pm
It is a more complex issue than first meets the eye, as I am finding it out.
One thing I can definitely tell you, others will dispute it, you cannot get faith by reading books. Be it the Bible the Torah, Koran or any other Hindu or Buddhist sacred book.
There are just as many, if not ten times more scientific books out there that dispute the existence of A or multiple Gods.
In short you have to have some belief, be it ever so little, in a God and then read the Bible or other to confirm your belief.
I am at this stage but I am afraid I am failing badly at the moment, upsetting my lecturers with my impertinent questions.
My little faith in God comes from not being able to explain how the universe and us an all came into being.
42 is a good answer but not the ultimate one.
Plus a little spiritual experience I had and also cannot explain and won’t go into it.
All I can say I wasn’t drunk at the time.
For there to be a creation there has to be a creator. Who, why, what or how is the infinite question.
Like you, an up close and personal experience of that infinite mystery, unexplainable and incomprehensible, gave me a different view.
God didn’t make any of us. What about the Hindus? Who made them? And the Buddhists.
I never said He did.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 23, 2024 7:15 pm
Yeahhh money stolen, that’s a good one.
He lost it like all the other big lottery winners did, spent it all as if it was coming out of a never ending money spring.
I’d be uncharitable enough to suggest he would have had his rellies lining up, claiming “Culture” for their share.
Same thing, spent it all.
Makes no difference what on but you are probably right.
What a culture?
Claim something of which you had no part in creating.
Reminds me of the government.
Yeah some people just can’t keep money, it flows out like water. Go figure. I suspect footy players are more prone to this disease than others.
“It was stolen”
What is it about humans that they see some kind of virtue in being a victim?
Cassie of Sydney
May 23, 2024 7:45 pm
And you believe that?
That is a very low bar.
If I was God, I’d be insulted.
Nothing that would warrant unleashing “great vengeance and furious anger”, mind you.
But a little annoyed.
Would ‘peeved’ be the word you are looking for Sancho? 🙂
Comedy news (the Courier-Mail), and as previously reported:
Of course he didn’t.
Why would liars lying about their military service be supported? Actual veterans, Mr Thompson, would be well entitled to spit on you. But they haven’t. Yet.
This flog actually claimed – publicly, while running for Mayor – he was a signaller with 152 Signals Squadron in Perth, which supports (and goes on operations with) the SASR.
And:
Also:
However:
This is of course horseshit. Can’t remember the year you joined, can’t remember your regimental number. How he can show his face in that garrison town escapes me.
I was allocated my first regimental number in 1974 – still remember it!
To be fair to the man, the catering course is the toughest course the Army has ever had – no bastard has ever passed it!
True that!
I got my Army number in 1978 when I joined the CMF. Kept the same number when I joined the ARA 18 months later. To this day it is still burnt into my brain.
Cooks: Fitters and Turners: Fit it into pots and turn it into garbage.
However that being said, I did know a few cooks over my time that were brilliant at turning out quality stuff.
God didn’t make any of us. What about the Hindus? Who made them? And the Buddhists.
I never said He did.
I know that but I had to say it as there are other faiths in this world, Not just the white/pinky person’s point of view on the whole thing,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66lUk_qYpm4
Dave Allen said it so well IMHO.
True, though I still pray that God does not allow the criminals’ and terrorists’ plans to succeed, that is not interfering with their free will.
What a load of Pompous Windbag Bollox.
Wodney projecting again.
Crossie
May 23, 2024 9:29 pm
Exactly. God had nothing to do with it as he was on holiday at the time. Get real people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk81tUUhRig
George Carlin was cool.
‘The Chinese publisher ordered me to take it out’ | Victor Davis Hanson
Lesbian news (the CM, again):
Here we go.
And:
Happy Mother’s Day, you harridans. These are the upstanding citizens:
These moles were so shit at being humans that between them they had EIGHT children removed from their care.
Fantastic.
Those poor, wretched little children. The women are, as expressed above, total shits.
Not quite up to the Trucks-v-Trains but it’s interesting what man can create when the need arises.
EXCLUSIVEThe father and son Hamas rapists – Terrorists describe going house to house carrying out sex attacks and murder: ‘One screamed and cried… father raped her then I did then my cousin did then father killed her’
Daily Mail.
Reading of sub-animal behaviour like this triggers ultra-violent and sadistic thoughts in the mind of an otherwise average, suburban human.
daszak’s embarrassments of riches
The Bee couldn’t come up with this.
@EndWokeness
Satire is now reality:
Illinois just passed a bill to change the word “offender” to “justice-impacted individual”
HB 4409 passed both chambers.
@ChuckGrassley
FBI WBs came to me & Sen Johnson w emails showing fmr Scty of State John Kerry blocked MULTIPLE FBI attempts 2 arrest dangerous Iranian individuals during Iran nuclear deal negotiations Obama/Biden State Dept put politics over natl security We made those records public 2day
@WallStreetApes
Nothing to See Here
Mainstream media outlets refuse to cover illegal-immigrant crime.
Who is Colonizing Whom?
With These People Around, It’s a Wonder Biden Didn’t Betray Israel Sooner
The Obama-Biden’s Revolution: 2024 Is America’s Last Chance
Germany says it will ARREST Benjamin Netanyahu if he sets foot in the country following ICC call to charge him with war crimes – as Israel becomes increasingly isolated over Gaza
Any mention of what they’ll do with him after that? Majdanek, Auschwitz, Sobibor & Kaiserwald are unavailable, coz reasons, but they still own Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald & Sachsenhausen.
Whoever provided the link to “GEORGE CARLIN – The Ten Commandments”, I thank you NOT.
It was hilarious and logical, but put me back in my studies and raises more problems for me.
His arguments are hard to question.
BTW I will spare you from my travails about finding peace within myself in the future.
Now, do I hear a sigh of relief?
Good.
Kevin, obviously you are open to accepting Christianity. Continue your studies and reading, but pray that the Holy Spirit enters your heart and guides you to the truth. If you cannot believe in a Holy Spirit, then your efforts will be in vain. The spirit intercedes for us with our heavenly Father. Belief requires a certain leap of faith, but I cannot recommend too highly the joy and peace which comes from being one of God’s children and sharing our faith with other Christians. I will continue to pray for you, KevinM.
Postcard from Cape Town No. 2
Mrs TE writes:
As we stayed overnight on Coral Princess, there was no difficulty getting off the ship, thank goodness.
We joined an independent tour to Boulders and Cape of Good Hope National Park. Along the way we stopped at some brightly coloured changing huts – the water was a little too chilly even for me! (TE: the missus is famous for trying a dip anywhere even the English Channel when none of the locals would go in.)
Boulders has a colony of African Penguins – bigger than Melbourne’s Fairy Penguins. They have a hilarious, awkward walk – of course they are smooth and sleek in the water, using their wings for propulsion. It was fun watching them trying to sit on their fluffy, large, babies – no feathers yet. Lots of them and happy to be around humans. Co-existing there as well was an animal called a rock rabbit (scientific name “Cape Hyrax”) To me it looked like a miniature fluffy wombat.
Onto the Cape itself, a barren rocky region with ginormous waves crashing into cliffs and beaches. The sound was tremendous. Up the top was a fabulous view of surrounds – lots of flowers related to red-hot poker and succulents. A very isolated spot for the lighthouse keepers – the wind probably drove them mad! Saw some wild ostriches. Drove back via Chapman Road – a scary mountainous route (made more so by our racing car driver) with fantastic cliff drops. At the top, the fog rolled in.
Two days in Cape Town was probably not enough time to form any firm opinions. We definitely saw two extremes of living – shanty towns and deluxe housing. The city was clean – people with a broom sweeping rubbish off the streets. Lots of palms, natives, bougainvillea and frangipani. Surprisingly it is on the same latitude as Sydney – I had always imagined it to be further south. The wind shapes the vegetation and trees and the power of the oceans and height of the waves is amazing. The city is surrounded by mountains with the magnificent Table Mountain the centrepiece.
We’re now on to Namibia further north up the western coast of Africa.
So glad you got to the Cape. The hills around are also carpeted with leucodendron and other protea plants…a veritable florist’s shop.
Here there is nothing but sand as far as the eye can see. A few sad stems of grass, that’s all. The dunes creep almost into the camp.
Cheers Calli – makes you glad not to be living there…
What a load of Pompous Windbag Bollox.
Even satan believes it. But you don’t need to.
Take it up just after you draw your last breath. You’ll be surprised at how much time you’ll have to argue the point.
Well said!
It amuses me that those who have no argument devolve into name calling.
In other news…greetings from the Sahara! I am glamping in a tent as I type.
We drove at a horrible speed over the dunes and guess who was piggy in the middle on the back seat. Had my eyes shut most of the time.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Thanks Tom and Happy Friday.
calli
May 24, 2024 3:59 am
In other news…greetings from the Sahara! I am glamping in a tent as I type.
Greetings calli, could you tell us more about your sojourn in the Sahara?
There must be something there, that tourist go for, what is it?
Being a homebody as far as air travel is concerned I’d love to know, maybe posting some pictures?
Having been away for a while, I find the new format a bit confusing, if I click on the blockquote button to refer to the previous post, all of my comment seems to be included as well.
What am I doing wrong?
Drop in the quote, type your comment then go back and select only the part you want to quote.
Gabor – If you have the cursor anywhere in a paragraph the blockquote button will do the whole para without you having to select all the text.
Pressing the blockquote button a second time unblockquotes the para.
Today is the Feast Day of the Patron Saint of Australia, Our Lady Help of Christians, intercede for us, Amen. And heaven knows Australia can do with all the help it can get.
Tinta, Australia just needs for Australians to stop voting for Communists who Promise Free Lunches.
All our problems arise from this single act of stupidity.
Thank you, Tom. Leak’s is a cracker.
Courtesy of Michael Smith. In your face Mr Rotten. 😀
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02c8d3b00723200c-pi
The Real Reason For The Campus Protests
That is bloody funny. Most likely true, also.
Nothing like a promo video for your new restaurant to convince the world Gaza is starving.
https://x.com/imshin/status/1793596400510332973?t=HSl4mv-4z78NkxPzIMIzFg&s=19
Baked Hamarse?
Gez,
Pig on spit report?
Another way to put it is that God made some people kind and decent, and also made some ghastly shits to even things up. Ghastly shits, He must have known in advance, would do bad things. But He made them anyway.
I just finished reading “God’s Girlfriend” by Dr Inconsiderate Jerk which does go into this and lots of other things. Humour, satire of the Fred Pohl type, some very pointed comments about Australian authorities, some hardish SF, the God thing, with a touch of A.E Van Vogt and a dash of the Illuminatus Trilogy. It’s a hoot.
Another way to put it is that God made some people kind and decent, and also made some ghastly shits to even things up. Ghastly shits, He must have known in advance, would do bad things. But He made them anyway.
I just finished reading “God’s Girlfriend” by Dr Inconsiderate J_erk which does go into this and lots of other things. Humour, satire of the Fred Pohl type, some very pointed comments about Australian authorities, some hardish SF, the God thing, with a touch of A.E Van Vogt and a dash of the Illuminatus Trilogy. It’s a hoot.
Well, why did you jump into the barrel in the first place?
I’m surprised they could get travel insurance.
My first thought, too.
Why were they there? Was it to get props as ultra-kewl, brave travelers? Build up their Instagram following?
It’s like dancing around in the jaws of a crocodile and then complaining when you get bitten.
No sympathy here.
Thinking of you Calli, in tent in the Sahara. We tented in the Empty Quarter in the desert in Oman. Fabulous experience. We had hired a Landcruiser and the locals hooted with laughter as husband tried to negotiate a big dune to get to the camp. He defended Aussie pride by doing it to their cheers. But we declined to go on a “fun” ride with them later & I recommend you do the same. Friend’s teenage daughter suffered spinal damage from such a escapade in one of the Emirati states. Otherwise sunset in the desert is an experience.
Johannes’ cartoon takes my breath away. It is so accurate and so damning about the amoral slug we have as PM.
I note that John Howard is muttering about the evil of factions in the Liberal Party. His description is that ‘factionalism is an absolute curse“. I agree with Mr Howard, factionalism is rife in the Liberal Party and it’s destroying the party, because the primary faction, the faction doing the most damage, particularly here in NSW and Victoria, is the leftwing Green lite faction.
This inept green left factionalism currently running amok through almost all state Liberal branches, particularly here in NSW, where the green left faction is led by a cartoon like slug creature called Matt Kean, has been exposed by the Minns’ Labor government’s decision to keep Erarong power station open. It says a lot about the parlous state of the NSW Liberals that whilst it was a state Liberal government that decided to shut Erarong, it’s taken a state Labor government to keep Erarong open!
The Sunbather and I saw that at 4:30am – what a way to start the day – Johannes Leak is inspired – Albozo is finding it difficult to take a morally principled position when he is bereft of morals and principles
Just like the campus Gaza protesters!
Factionalism is a symptom of being a broad church.
You made the bed, John; now you have to lie in it.
Howard is best ignored at every opportunity. He’s not to blame for everything wrong with the Lieborals, just most of them. Took the party over a cliff in an exercise of individual vanity. Just like Emperor Barney in the West. Only barely recovering a decade later.
Yes, almost every lurch to the prog-left in the Liberal Party, from renewables to encroaching on property rights and middle-class welfare was instigated by John Howard
As is Lethbridge’s, although you’ll need to be familiar with rugby league news to get it.
Roger, a Queenslander and not familiar with Rugby League?
For shame!
My little faith in God comes from not being able to explain how the universe and us an all came into being.
42 is a good answer but not the ultimate one.
Plus a little spiritual experience I had and also cannot explain and won’t go into it.
All I can say I wasn’t drunk at the time.
Kevin M., Greg bear’s “Darwin’s Children” and “Darwin’s Radio” explore the spiritual experience. Worth reading.
Ramirez left Albozo out of the Axis family photo-fancy being that irrelevant
The guy is pushing his book but this is a worry.
https://hushkit.net/2024/05/20/trillion-dollar-trainwreck-how-the-f-35-hollowed-out-the-u-s-air-force-interview-with-author-bill-sweetman/
I see there was some discussion of theodicy last night.
Well, in defence of God – not that he needs it from me! – I’ll just note that the nation of Israel rose out of the ashes of the Holocaust while the fellow who instigated it shot himself in the head and was then doused in petrol and set on fire while the Russians closed in. And that was only the beginning of his judgment.
Correct. As with Joseph when his brothers found him in Egypt; “You meant it for evil, God meant it for good.” That concept neatly fits into Christ’s earthly ministry as well.
Here is a shot taken on my iPad just before sunset this evening.
Spectatular calli
will learn to spell one day
Thanks Calli that’s about as close as I ever want to get to Morocco.
Casablanca was enough for me.
Thanks for the picture.
You are a brave adventurer.
Looks like a par-5 to me.
Exactly as I remember it, Calli.
A travesty (the Tele):
Not only is this not me, but – ramming salt into this gaping wound:
A barrel-stuffer. The Lotto people might has well have burned the cash, or built wind turbines with it.
or built wind turbines with it
Or batteries charged with diesel powered gens
150 large builds a lot of underground bunker, if you needed to say, store a lot of… stuff…
Mainland Tasmania needs all the help it can get.
Another dead child on the West Bank, his family did this to him.
https://x.com/VerminusM/status/1793449993732264018?t=RceCL1V853QHWD4TT7QZ2g&s=19
Care factor – three fifths of five eighths of vook all.
The broad church concept worked OK in the past when there wasn’t that much difference between the Wets and the Dries but the Wets have shifted mightily to the left since then so that the huge disparities can no longer be accommodated within the LNP. A good clean out needs to happen and then we can move forward.
The clean out would not result in even fewer votes for the LNP as some insist since the voters of the minor parties on the right would have a major party to vote for again.
The Wets will always find a home on the left with either Labor or the Greens depending on the level of their idiocy. I particularly resented Julian Leeser defecting to Labor over the voice but scuttling back to Liberals when Labor turned on their full anti-semitism.
Good summary, Crossie.
Ouch! Bets can be brutal.
Piers Morgan reacts after winning £1,000 in controversial Rwanda bet with Rishi Sunak (23 May)
Mr Sunak is not having a good week…
Piers is a dick.
The Red Cross? Might as well give it to Hamas.
I blame climate change.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1793664067707834876?t=b_4NcCgcFTX2e-1wKipATg&s=19
He gave a few journalists a verbal clip over the ear overnight.
Good on him!
And Piers Morgan is an insufferable idiot.
Charlie Hebdo ..
Dropped in and out of an SBS world movie the other night, I Capture The Castle. Had Bill Nighy playing Bill Nighy, but aslo another young femme called Romola Garai. Despite having a Star Wars name, she has got to be one of the most transparently gorgeous people to ever play a woman child, even outshone Rose Byrne who is one in a million pretty, but let’s face it, doesn’t stretch herself acting-wise.
Not allowed to arrest criminals.
Police Forces Told to Stop Arresting People to Save Prison Space (23 May)
This is another one that comes right to Mr Sunak’s door. I don’t know the stats for the UK but it was recently reported that 60% of violent criminals in Germany are immigrants. I suspect something similar in Britain.
well the courts have to keep plenty of space for the men who get denied bail because their ex-wife said he “coercively controlled” her.
Restaurants and breweries seem to be dropping like flies here in Victoria . A local restaurant was taking bookings on Wednesday and in administration on Thursday.
Incredibly tough trading conditions
The aftermath of Daniel Andrews dictatorship is brutal particularly when the current Allen dictatorship is working on giving the entire state to a bunch of pseudo-aborigines.
@AlanJacobyJr
New York is going Red in 2024.
I suspect mummy and daddy could never said no to their sweet Cordelia.
@BehizyTweets
BREAKING: Local Bronx officials already estimate the crowd at Trump’s rally to be between 25K – 30K. The number is growing exponentially. The capacity was 3,500
This is supposedly a Democrat stronghold
@Pismo_B
This young lady nails it
America is tired too!
Trump 2024
‘I am sick and tired’
Pick it up Republicans. It could be the 2024 ‘j’accuse’. A brilliant theme shorthand.
Pig on a spit left a bad taste after we hit roo on the way home.
A huge bastard fluff on the bull bar. Not a big amount of damage but the front needs work.
Lesson – you come away from politicians without losing some of your hard earned.
Meme
Fluff on the bull bar.
Flush as well
Made sense to me – I glanced a roo south of Canberra one dusk, and he left the front wheel arch flock-finished!
Apparently this cop has a lengthy record of misconduct.
@WhitlockJason
Cop lied about being dragged. Scheffler complied. Cop overreacted. I was wrong.
The Beginning of the End for the Soros Revolution?Portland is the last in a long line of defeats for the progressive-prosecutor cartel.
Did everyone know a popular game at the gruinaid is spin the bottle…?
Of vinegar.
Lets see whats oppressing the dusky hordes of benighted Johnny foreigners today.
Aaaah, its a 40 year old movie of the sort modern movie studios would sacrifice their first borns to make today.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/23/indiana-jones-temple-of-doom-anniversary#comments
There are so many qualifiers to liking the film – Kate Capshaw, “Short Round” and chilled monkey brains just for starters – that it’s almost too exhausting to defend.
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But once this film lands in Pankot Palace in India, where Thuggee cultists have taken a precious stone from a village and enslaved its children, the entire ordeal feels icky on both ends: a village so helpless that it needs a white American to save it and a scene at the palace that seems barbaric from dinnertime to a mass ritual of human sacrifice.
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You know who actually defeated the Thugee cult, which murdered travellers, 99% of whom were Hindus?
The British empire.
And the comments are the usual “right on” virtue signalling.
Sooooo racist. From denigrating a form of Hindu worship to welcoming the British Raj to save the day. It’s like something from the 30s. As for short-round…
Also, compared to the relatively strong confident heroine of the first film, this one was in full backlash mode with a love interest capable of nothing but screaming and simpering.
It was watchable as a teen in the 80s who didn’t understand much about the world but now it’s nauseating.
This dork should be strapped to a chair Ludovico style, and watch repeats of Madame Web till his eyes explode.
Both the main Indian actors in the film, Roshan Seth and Amrish Puri weren’t in the least bit bothered about the Indian scenes that white Grauniad writers seem to get upset about. Puri who played the main Thuggee villan said; “But fantasies are fantasies, like our Panchatantra and folklore. I know we are sensitive about our cultural identity, but we do this to ourselves in our own films. It’s only when some foreign directors do it that we start cribbing.”
Germany warned Wednesday it will arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he enters the country following allegations of war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), a spokesperson has confirmed.
Asked by reporters in Berlin if Germany would execute any ICC arrest warrants if issued against Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Steffen Hebestreit, a spokesman for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said, “Of course. Yes, we abide by the law,” Politico reported.
If ICC judges grant the requested warrants, 124 countries across the world – including every member of the European Union – will be obliged to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant on sight. It is the first time in the court’s history that a sitting Western-backed leader has been targeted by the international court in this manner.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/05/23/germany-warns-netanyahu-it-will-execute-icc-arrest-warrant-against-him/
All these supra-national bodies, like the UN, the EU, ICC and its European equivalent are being pumped up by politicians who see them as their next career move. They are aided and abetted by bureaucrats with the same objective.
Don’t forget, the UN’s hundreds of thousands of employees all over the world pay no income tax, and get treated like diplomats wherever they go.
Politicians sign up to their bogus directives in the hope of hopping on to the gravy train when weary constituents throw them out of their padded leather chairs.
As for arresting Benny – I suspect that a lot of EU members would be hesitant and possibly opposed. After all – who’s next?
And lets not forget the hamas bubbas who supposedly had warrants issued on them as well. I’ll not hold my breath waiting for an ICC member nation arresting them, much less them ever seeing the inside of an ICC courtroom.
As for arresting Benny – I suspect that a lot of EU members would be hesitant and possibly opposed. After all – who’s next?
Indeed. It’s all very well to applaud the ICC when it wants to take action against those Leaders who are outside the comfortable existence of the West, but what if the ICC are emboldened? Yikes!!
Amal Clooney, the ICC’s shame and the real threat to Israel
implausible denial: morens outdoes himself
OBSESSED WITH OUR DNA: THE RISE AND FALL OF 23ANDME
The Bee. Apparently, he flew a flag at his home and it caused all sorts of bother.
Democrats Release Damning Photo Of Justice Alito Reading The Constitution
I haven’t been putting these sort of things up. There’ve been too many of them!
Biden Joint Presser with Kenyan President a Total Mess: Biden Reads Answers from Binder, Forgets Questions, Jump Scares Reporters
The embarrassing truth about MLG’s so-called ‘zero-emission’ fire truck
Illegal immigrant says illegal immigration is too easy
Why’d I want to be in a club that would have me?
Befehl ist Befehl.
I vaz just following ze orders.
What about all the illegal immigrants who broke the law to get there? Are they fine with them?
Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag
Victoria Police chief commissioner Shane Patton to apologise to Stolen GenerationVictoria Police chief commissioner Shane Patton will issue a landmark apology to survivors of the Stolen Generation in Melbourne on Friday.
From the Hun.
Certain activists in this part of the world claim membership of the “Stolen Generations.” They weren’t even born, until years after those removals ceased…
I thought Kevin Rudd did it on behalf of the whole country. It seems apologies will never end.
How about an apology for the corrupt and contemptible Stalinist political prosecution of Cardinal Pell? Or for their jackbooted behaviour in the lockdown?
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says ‘Why should he?’ when asked why Biden isn’t using executive powers to deal with border crisis
Could it be because he swore on the bible at his inauguration to do so?
Watch this go nowhere.
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JUST IN: US House passes bill to ban the Federal Reserve from creating a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
Another tent city springs up in Dublin amid migrant influx
©EPA
Authorities in Dublin began pulling apart a new ‘tent city’ constructed by homeless asylum seekers along the city’s Grand Canal in recent weeks. The string of tents that had sprung up on the canalside were hosting at least 89 male asylum seekers according to Green Party leader Eamon Ryan. Many of the occupants were moved to several temporary accommodation centres yesterday, but dozens of migrants still remain in tents near the waterways, fresh images taken earlier today showed.
Who TF is supplying these illegals with tents? They surely didn’t pop into BCF and buy them.
Just like our impoverished Arts (majoring in gender studies) students playing at camping on the campus to avoid lectures while they congratulate one another on how woke they are. While not having a clue what they are camping about.
I remember a young Yazidi ‘sex slave’ testifying how her captor would say his prayers, rape her, then go back to his prayers.
The same apparently with Hamasis on 7 October.
Welcome to islam.
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1793649167778173351?t=dHYV6jFdJtIoMowdk8v4pQ&s=19
When rape is your sacrament there is no bottom to your savagery.
It’s ok that you don’t believe. That’s your call. But, you needn’t be such a disrespectful abusive a*sehole towards those that do.
And, you might spare a thought for the genesis of the Magna Carta and Common Law- both of which sprang from Judeo-Christian thought and principles that ultimately took the west out of the squalor and oppression prevailing. This Christianity you rubbish has done a lot for the likes of you and your ancestors, so how about you stfu and show a little respect.
With billions of doses administered, this is easily the case, however distressing it may sound. Read the first comment.
The mRNA Death Toll Is “Bigger Than The Holocaust”
5 SCIENTIFIC Reasons Your ‘Vaccinated’ Friends & Family Won’t Listen (And What to Do About It)
Article too long for me to read, however, I have friends who are now woken up and sincerely worried about their personal future ill health. What to say to them!
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I hope Mossad takes out every member of the ICC, is this too much to wish for? There is no one that can’t be got to.
Life is not all about politics.
This morning, I watched again Wacko Jacko doing Billie Jean in Munich in 1997.
95 million views. It’s awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOj_xsc-EBM
The dance moves are almost robotic, or puppetish, but not quite. They are human, which is what makes it so attractive. And, his charisma reaches to the back of this massive stadium.
Charm and discipline don’t always go together, but when they do … big things can happen.
Knowing a bit about his biography, I suspect that he was a tortured soul. In himself he was very talented and driven, but his family and the corporates were whipping him from outside as well.
Not apologising for anything about his private life, which is disputed, but commenting on an extraordinary artist.
The greatest song and dance man of the C20th (sorry, Gene).
Does anyone know how far through the list of hamarse pigs that massacred all those on the 7th October the Israeli’s have eliminated?
I know I’m speculating but perhaps Mossad will widen their wet work net to include some of the more strident Hamas supporters abroad.
Turkey would be a decent place to start.
I wish.
Couple of preachers here who could use a double tap.
Israel is prevented from operating in Auburn.
Arguably, it is more important to detect and eliminate the resources that enable the visible part of the iceberg to exist: the money and material pipelines.
Flesh can be replaced, even VIP flesh. However, when the donations have been blocked (or stolen), investments sabotaged, and the support network intimidated or fractured, this will have a longer-term effect.
Hopefully this is already underway, but we will likely never know about it. In the meantime, I have no doubt there has been pressure on both Shin Bet and military intel to prove their worth.
And so they should. Even Mike Flynn is questioning IDF intel and Shin Bet performance on 7 Oct. Disturbing questions unanswered as yet.
Not far enough?
QLD Premier blames a 177% increase in overseas arrivals in just nine months for Brisbane’s clogged arterial roads and overloaded public transport as he backs Dutton’s migration cuts.
I suspect we won’t be seeing Albo playing a big part in the election campaign.
Nothing surer. Just like when Gingerella was in The Lodge. Electoral poison.
Well, if he says, No, how does that look for the ICC warrant re Putin? Still, in neither case, will we see any arrests because neither leader is going to travel to any of the countries likely to execute a warrant against them. And since Khan is the prosecutor in both cases the most recent kerfuffle undermines the former.
But but Doug Cameron says such takes are immature and racist!
Massively ramping up immigration to record levels when the housing market was already over-heated was not a problem because shut up you’re racist!
Will never top this contribution to Australian political discourse,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8NxfOE3-WeI
Cameron more proof most of the smart people got out of Scotland over a century ago.
I wonder how many investment properties the good communist Cameron owns?
How DEI can kill you. The thread shows the collapse in standards, coming to an operating theatre soon;
https://x.com/aaronsibarium/status/1793657774767022569
Makka, just waiting for airline pilots to get a jersey.
DEI: Didn’t Earn It.
I have a family member going through the process with CASA right now. No sign of any DEI shyte.
Reading a book on the Bank for Interational Settlements at the moment. Supranational bodies are best avoided, European dominated ones particularly so.
Does T. S. Eliot get a mention?
Iirc, his first real job after a long period as a student was as a clerk with the London office of the IBS dealing with war reparations.
Not to date. Plenty of Nazis though. The author is not very sympathetic.
Ah…Eliot was there in the early 1920s.
The Bloomsbury set used to sympathise with him as they thought being a clerk in the City must be insufferably dreary but Eliot said he found the work quite interesting.
Hard to get a feel for how disjoint the whole world was post WWII. Nothing in my lifetime (50 odd years) even comes close. Covid was an absurd taster.
Nobody I once knew who personally had anything to do with WWII, including my grandfather and DPs who emigrated from Europe, wanted to talk about it. They just wanted to put it behind them and get on with making a better life here. I guess that was a psychological survival mechanism.
MIL came here post WW2 of Euro extraction. From what I have gathered they were fleeing total and utter chaos. Tremendous hardship just to survive each day. She wanted to put the whole shitshow out of her mind, the forgettery. Landing and living here was to her like being born again in a paradise, comparatively. Hard to grasp that kind of experience.
Massively ramping up immigration to record levels when the housing market was already over-heated was not a problem because shut up you’re racist!
The real problem here is simple ..! The folks who have escalated the immigration numbers fiasco are folk who don’t & won’t. ever, be involved in a housing “crisis” or have a “migrant ” living next door to them ..!
I’m All Right, Jack .. is alive and going gangbusters in Oz politics ……..
Population Ponzi was bilateral UniParty policy and Treasury approved. Was always going to have a rails run.
Particularly among Labor MPs who somehow all live in inner cities and own multiple properties.
He should take it up with the Reserve Bank:
Daily Mail
What would a jumped-up shop steward know about economics?
Lowe stated this nearly 3 years ago.
Which means that the Coalition did nothing about it either.
shatterzzz
May 24, 2024 10:05 am
Awaiting for approval: Spam*
*The comment relates to the credits in a TV series .. LOL!
shatterzzz
May 24, 2024 10:05 am
Awaiting for approval: Spam
Basis of the comment .. Watching a Netflix mini series, last night, and who popped up in the credits but Mikey & Baz Obumma ..
BODKIN
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21072112/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_3_nm_5_q_bodkin
They might have half a dozen or so investment properties as well.
And be looking for a new tenant.
Roger
May 24, 2024 9:48 am
QLD Premier blames a 177% increase in overseas arrivals in just nine months for Brisbane’s clogged arterial roads and overloaded public transport as he backs Dutton’s migration cuts.
Isn’t it amazing how the prospect of an election changes the stated views of our betters?
He’s lying.
Nothing like an election (and the loss of a Ministerial allowance) to focus the mind.
But the backing of Dutton is quite extraordinary.
Miles’s ears must be burning when the focus groups meet.
Many of these supranational institutions were established to extend the power of governments but the dynamic of institutions is that they can become centres of power themselves. The other thing is that this current dispute is also an intramural dispute between rival factions within the political elite, globally.
‘Bumtree’ is far to obtuse for my linear brain to comprehend. Can it come with explanations?
dork. 😀
Public Service Announcement: anyone finding themselves in Gundagai requiring breakfast needs to visit the Niagara Cafe. A beautiful, perfectly preserved 1940’s milk bar – great food and coffee.
All 18 AFL clubs have been put on notice they could come under scrutiny as part of a racism class action.
A report in The Age revealed AFL chief Andrew Dillon contacted all clubs on Wednesday to inform them of the news.
Law firm Margalit Injury Lawyers informed the league the suit may be broadened to include the clubs as well as head office.
Kangaroos great Phil Krakouer is leading the class action alongside his brother Jim, who say they suffered racial vilification during their playing careers.
While the brothers played between 1982 and 1989, the lawsuit is expanding to 2022 and more players are reportedly adding their names to the case.
“It was incredibly helpful in the way in which we were able to shape the work in our club, to ensure it’s a culturally safe place,” Hood said.
“Based on the work we did last year, we – and others – wrote to the AFL and asked them to come up with an industry-wide approach to dealing with historic racism.
“We will be pleased to work with them and provide our support on that work as it progresses.”
Margalit Injury Lawyers are also the firm behind a concussion class action against the AFL.
While AFL clubs have recently succeeded in gaining legal indemnification from concussion claims, they haven’t yet done so in regards to racism.
If you can’t make a quid from the concussion game then the old reliable fallback is always there “racism”. Class actions always attract grifters.
How our those drug runs across the Nullabor going Jimmy?
A very good reason for certain players to never get picked for teams ever again.
Not rascism, just not good enough at all aspects of the (new) requirements, which should now extend to a whole lot of other factors, like manners, behaviour around women, criminal records, drug records etc.
No point winning games and premierships if you live under constant threat of clubs regs and club member’s behaviour and language, it will not be worth belonging to a club. Sure, go along for the games, but stay away from the club bureacracy and membership.
This has the potential to destroy football as we know it and make it a sport for people who don’t play politics in their football.
The repercussions of this fleecing of the clubs, will be vast I expect.
I went to school with the Krakouer brothers. That dark sunken shadow under their eyes always made them look menacing. Yet Phil was always known as a decent guy.
Jimmy OTOH was always a vicious fighter. As a convicted rapist, later in his career, he must have been horrified when people were a bit cautious of him.
Roger
May 24, 2024 10:21 am
Reply to H B Bear
Does T. S. Eliot get a mention?
Iirc, his first real job after a long period as a student was as a clerk with the London office of the IBS dealing with war reparations.
The word ‘reparations’ is like iron filings to a magnet for scamsters.
In Le Carre’s semi-autobiographical book, A Perfect Spy, he described the best scam his father and the crew ever had. It was based in the allocation of public money to fix up properties that had been damaged by bombing in WW11.
Thanks to a compliant, low level decision-maker whose girlfriend liked money, funds meant for fixing up properties disappeared into the hands of people like Le Carre’s father.
This stuff is as old as the hills.
From Indolent’s 10:42 p.m. post last night:
Repeat ad nauseum.
What does atrophy smell like?
Dover, when I use the Ctrl find thingie, it tells me that there are no matches, when I know that there are more than one. It’s not working.
Working for me: Ctl-F searched with typed in “johanna” 6 matches on this page.
I’m using a Win 10 desktop and Brave browser.
Works for me on my Android tablet using Chrome. What browser are you using?
Looks like, as with Byron Pickett, the Krakouer brothers have run out of money.
While the AFL may be able to get around the concussion claims of its players this won’t be the case with suburban football sides.
The insurance premiums will make the game very expensive for players and will spell the death knell for many clubs.
Death is killing the Planet.
The quest to alter our ‘last toxic act’: California to legalize ‘human composting’ – ‘Natural organic reduction’ using ‘burlap bags’ of ‘mulch-like remains’ (23 May)
There’s some excellent black humour in the idea of unloading Wayne from the back seat of a Subaru in compost bags. Maybe the Snowtown barrel guys could start a new business.
After releasing the video of those poor girl soldiers, Israel may have opened some eyes.
Hamas is no different to ISIS and this is not about Hamas and Palestine.
It’s about militant Islam and it’s atrocities World wide.
Considering the scum are protesting against them anyway, maybe a carpet bombing campaign beginning on the 8th Oct would have shown those barbarians what a “Strong horse” looks like.
Any complaints? Tell ’em it must be Allah’s will.
Correct.
How much longer are we expected to endure the commie left continuing the infiltration of our countries and institutions with supporters of the most blood thirsty anti- Western scum they can find?
Arky, it keeps going until the Revolution is over and then the revolutionaries find themselves being propped against the nearest wall and despatched because ‘infidels’.
Ask the Kurdish Revolutionary Workers Party just how they feel about their Alliance with the Iranian Mullahs.
How odd, I was told by Chris Bowen that we are a renewable energy superpower.
Chris Minns: Saving Eraring was the only way to keep the lights on (Tele, 23 May, not paywalled)
Um, the ‘only way to keep the lights on’ Chris? Could someone’ve told us that a few years ago when we were planning electricity supply infrastructure? And in two years when it’s clear that our great trek to the sunlit uplands of Gaia’s holy electricity still hasn’t, like, got there, are you going to extend Eraring for another two years?
You suspect Bowen will have to go under the bus at some point. Possibly High Commissioner to London.
Plenty of buses in London.
Might be time to put some money into refreshing Eraring.
It’s got a long hard haul ahead to provide our only electricity security.
Putin thinks he is Stalin:
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Putin and Xi, old timey commo tyrants.
Thank you for your feedback, comrade.
Excuse me, did he not consult with energy expert m0nty who told us that we could close all our coal plants overnight and we’d be fine?
How Ivermectin Trials Were Designed to Fail
5 SCIENTIFIC Reasons Your ‘Vaccinated’ Friends & Family Won’t Listen (And What to Do About It)
I have read this, Indolent. But, honestly, you just can’t convince those 1) who have always regarded doctors as quasi gods & 2) are not accustomed to using their brains for critical thinking.
This morning I had coffee with old friends who are planning OS trips. Every one if them is going to have a Covid mRNA booster. This is in spite of the fact that they no longer chide me for being unvaccinated & are fully aware that many have suffered adverse vaccine reactions.
It is counter intuitive – but there it is.
Still see people walking the street as if it’s May 2020 wearing bloody masks.
They were terrified into compliance and years later still locked into it.
Unbelievable.
We just say we think we are fine without them. Actions sometimes speak louder than words. My Big Sis, very ill, at death’s door for a while, and a medical specialist, was trundling up to her GP for her sixth Covid shot.
Go figure.
People’s beliefs about their bodies are often quasi-religious.
Putin can’t win. He does nothing about corruption because he’s in on it. He moves against it it’s purely political move.
This is why I think the whole grief counselling industry is counterproductive. Sending grief counsellors to places of disasters, terrorist attacks, accidents are likely to do more harm than good. Survivors need to be able to get back some semblance of normality instead of rehashing the horrors. Admittedly, I don’t have personal experience of such events so cannot give that perspective, just general observations.
Crossie:
The best form of aid to the New Years Eve Tsunami hit areas years ago – as soon as the first casualty lists were being finalised a month after – was tourists.
Most of the aid money went into criminals pockets but it gave a LOT of people the opportunity to emote and hog the media with their displays of caring, which obviously enough, was the most important.
Open your eyes – this is not resistance, it’s rape
By gemma tognini
Their faces are bewildered and bloody. It’s chaos.
A voice shouts at them, five terrified young girls, aged 18 and 19: “You dogs! We will step on you. Our brothers died because of you; we will shoot you all.”
One of the girls, her face covered in blood, bravely and calmly tries to bargain. “I have friends in Palestine,” she says. “Someone who speaks English.”
“Quiet! I want you quiet,” her captor shouts back.
Hands bound behind their backs, they’re told to sit down against a wall. It’s hard to tell but there are about two dozen armed terrorists surrounding them.
Then, out of nowhere, the worst of it. A person (he is not a man, he’s not even human) looks at them and says to those around him: “These are the women who can get pregnant. These are the Zionists.”
Then to the girls, he says this: “You are very beautiful.”
As I’m forcing myself to watch this recording filmed by Hamas terrorists on October 7 last year, I realise I’ve slumped down in my chair. My body is tense, jaw clenched. There’s a scream in my brain and in my belly but no sound is coming out. They’re the same age as my niece. As many of my friends’ daughters.
They’re bound, bloodied and surrounded by terrorists discussing getting them pregnant. Because these girls are Jewish, they know what they’re facing. They know this is not a game. Karina, Naama, Liri, Agam and Daniella. Say their names, I dare you.
This footage is part of what the UN and the rest of the West’s useful morons don’t want you to know about. This is what countries such as Australia would prefer not to have to acknowledge or discuss.
This is deliberate, planned horrific sexual violence and it’s what the Australian Greens and the worst of academia are responding to with “yeah but” or, worse, “it’s not rape, it’s resistance”.
Let me make a couple of things clear. First, none of this is a surprise to our government or any other. They cannot claim ignorance. For months Israel has been sharing the truth, all of it documented and captured by Hamas’s own macabre videos, with politicians and journalists around the world.
Second, the irrefutable truth is the political left in Australia has staked its claim on the side of the men in this video. By refusing to take a side, they’ve taken it. By voting for Palestinian statehood while the hostages remain captive, by refusing to draw a line and by continued moral failure, they stand with the terrorists in this footage.
It made me wonder what our government’s response would have been if there were Australian hostages being held in Gaza.
ZK2A:
Albo’s first move would be to call a focus group.
Is it time yet to get out the pitchforks and scythes?
No?
Then when will it be time?*
*Question asked for those who think there is a non violent answer to the Islamists.
Police commissioner’s apology to stolen generations
Victoria police chief commissioner Shane Patton has delivered a formal apology to stolen generations survivors and their families.
Mr Patton apologised for the forced removal of Aboriginal children by Victoria Police at a press conference on Friday in Melbourne.
“Victoria Police is deeply committed to a genuine truth telling process, enabling Victorians to reckon with the causes of injustice and create an opportunity to heal and bring meaningful and positive change,” Mr Patton said.
“A shared commitment to truth telling is a critical step towards building a fairer relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Victoria.
“As part of that process, it’s vital for Victoria Police to face up to, and accept, responsibility for the widespread harm caused to Aboriginal people by the role police played in forcibly removing children from their families.
“I am deeply sorry for the harm which this has caused, and the harm which continues to be felt now.
So, will the indigenous population accept the apology, and we all move on?
The Australian left responds to any apology to blackfellas in the same way Hamas responds to ceasefires: that is, they’re a sign of weakness and only embolden the perpetually offended to seek further concessions.
Not a chance.
The man is brain dead!
so it’s to be an apology a year for eternity
What an ”@@@@@@
An obituary of a damn fine man. We will NEVER see his like again. The super rich no longer want to help their fellow man, they want to RULE him.
https://x.com/TracesofTexas/status/1791279072875528374
I missed it but I see a statue of Adam Goodes has been unveiled at the SCG, it’s in the stance of him threatening the crowd with an imaginary spear.
That stupidity aside, when Goodes sadly passes to the Rainbow Serpent, will his statue have to be taken down since you’re not allowed to have images of deceased indigenous and most shows carry a warning about this; but difficult to have a warning for something so public, and outside the SCG?
I wonder how long it will take for some wag to add an ‘appendage’ to his spear throwing hand?
Somehow I feel that they’re all linked.
The grief counselling industry, the Reconcilliation Forever mob, the Find Your Way To OK company, the seppuku of Student-Led Learning combined with a quisling National Curriculum, the Capitalist Climate Catastrophe, and sports clubs shutting down because someone might get hurt.
Some people owe old Numbers Bob an apology.
Turns out the West was evil. Turns out we shouldn’t have fought against the expansion of the Eastern bloc.
Apparently.
Or maybe some just can’t wrap their heads around the difference between our nations and the dirty ideas infiltrated into our nations.
And can’t work out in who’s interests such was done.
I relish your down ticks comrade.
Patton should now detail individuals wrongfully removed from their families. He should also identify the individual police and social workers involved. As well as the politicians. And then write a 500 word essay on why child services’ struggles to attract or retain staff.
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When the first real atrocity against ourselves in this war is struck, the isolationists and apologists will instantaneously disappear.
And it will come.
Here’s a short guide to who’s who:
Them: China, Russia, Iran, their allies and their useful idiots inside our countries pushing all the nonsense.
Us: The English speaking democracies and those inscrutable foreigners who usually tag along when we have to clean up whatever totalitarian shite comes along, because we are the best, always have been the best and always will be the best.
Saw a v.interesting docco on youtube the other day on how Nth Korea’s foreign and war policies (of trying to placate the West to have sanctions undone) has changed to them not giving a sh!t anymore as they have strengthened relations with China and Russia (I didn’t realise it was weak on a number of fronts, previously).
The day China take Taiwan, Nth Korea will go for parts of the South (if only the islands) but why wouldn’t you have a crack at it..
They’ll go for it because like Hamas, they see humans as instruments. As do some of our leaders, but the ballot box limits their ability to throw countless human lives at a problem or ambition.
I’m saying a Hail Mary as we speak: please God, protect him from Democrat-voting wannabe assassins in the crowd.
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The bottom of the video says “This video may contain allegations not confirmed by CNN” LOL!!!
We need a meme that has the 4 Israeli girls with their images of their faces removed, and either a blank space left, or with someone popular with the left – say, the Nordic Dwarf, or someone else recognisable.
I leave the captioning up to the good folk at the Cat.
One also shouldn’t also have statues made of living persons.
It’s called the “Rolf Harris Rule”
In WA, for example, you can’t have something named after you (unless the respective Minister overrides it) until you’re dead for five or more years.
That period allows time for the skeletons to come out of the closet.
“are not accustomed to using their brains for critical thinking”
you know I’m really sick of this kind of commentary about people who preferred to voluntarily get vaccinated against covid.
I know we are all supposed to be dead as well as brain dead.
But here we are.
To me it sounds like you’ve joined a cult that is incapable of accepting other people are able to make informed decisions, that just happen to be different to yours.
This toggle agree/disagree system is broken. I just added a yes sentiment and it produced two minus sentiments. I’m giving it away, taking no notice.
Having a vax is a personal decision. Covid mRNA are worrying I agree, but it is up to those who want it to have it. Other vaxes, time tested, are again, up to individuals. Many people do health regimes I think are silly, but that’s their business, not mine.
Which reminds me, I must pop into the pharmacy and get a flu vax.
I got mine a month ago, Rosie, and Hairy got his this week.
We’ve been getting them for years and haven’t seen any harm from it. Also we’ve never had flu of any sort since taking them, and bad colds go away fast. Not all vaxes are duds. Minus 8 can hold their own views, but please allow us ours too.
Yes Lizzie. Two of my little grandchildren got flu vax a couple of weeks ago, I went with, wasn’t that fun? Have had them regularly the last couple of years. Definitely want to get before I head off to Ireland in July. Don’t think I’ll bother with a covid booster though, got than in early Jan after JC’s Thanksgiving trip was ruined by a bout of covid (which I’ve never had)
Ugh… so Marr is replacing Phillip Adams on LNL.
That’s.. .a 76 year old replacing an 84 year old.
What is this? The papacy?
Does TheirABC actually have to follow a proper, advertised, recruitment process like 99% of all organisations have to?
They probably should legally, but they ignore other laws, why not this one?
Possibly the only other person who could outscore Phatty on the sanctimonious personality tests. Outstanding work by the ALPBC HR guys. All those hours at the writers festivals weren’t wasted.
Frankly, I’m surprised anyone that age can stay up that late.
It must be pre-recorded.
The Daily Telegraph is reporting…
University of Sydney student socialists Maeve Larkins and Angus Dermody suspended over pro-Palestine protests
Two students involved in a banned ‘global intifada’ event at the University of Sydney have been named among pro-Palestine activists disciplined by the uni amid ongoing campus protests.
Two students at the University of Sydney have been named among pro-Palestine activists handed suspensions by the university for disrupting classes with “announcements” about the ongoing campus protests.
Socialists Maeve Larkins and Angus Dermody have each been handed one-month suspensions, effective immediately, their Student Representative Council revealed.
In an open letter co-signed by fellow activist groups – including the USYD Education Action Group, Students Against War, the Autonomous Collective Against Racism, BDS Youth collective and Students for Palestine – the university’s SRC called for the suspensions to be “immediately revoked” and for “subsequent disciplinary proceedings against Angus and Maeve (to) be immediately dropped”.
Larkins and Dermody are members of self-described socialist group Solidarity Students, the organisation behind a banned event ‘making the case for a global intifada’ that was blocked by the university in November last year.
Dermody also participated in an illegal blockade of Port Botany in March in which 19 people were arrested trying to prevent an Israeli container ship from docking.
I bolded the paragraph above because I wanted to remind people that the Nazis, prior to 1933, used to behave in exactly the same manner on German university campuses, interrupting lectures, intimidating and threatening students and staff.
Whilst I’m not sure about ‘Maeve Larkins’, one look at the name ‘Angus Dermody’ and there was a strong whiff, smell and stench emanating of uber privilege. It appears the young, radical Jew hating Angus Dermody attended St Josephs College at Hunters Hill where the day fees are a nice $42,732 per year and the boarding fees are a nice $59,853 per year.
I wonder what Mummy and Daddy Dermody think?
Looks like Angus is going to have to rely on ‘Daddy’s’ connections, aka ‘old school tie’ to get him a job when he graduates.
I only wished someone had some thought, and dosh, to parade a truck around Sydney with these cnts photos on them.
I do hire from time to time and I have been checking social media accounts. Even if you have a slight whiff of imaginary land “Palestine,” you’re not getting through round 1.
And thanks Cassiei – I (gleefully) share the information on those pro-palli hoes on twitter… 🙂
Possibly they are complicit in this and very proud of him.
Apple not falling too far from the tree perhaps?
There are many in the Teal suburbs who go along with this nonsense.
The idea that the ills of the West aren’t largely homegrown and done in the interests of Western elites is cope.
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For sure, comrade.
I was only a typist.
Don’t let the contents of the Soviet archives fool you, comrade.
I’m sure they didn’t slam access to that shit down quick smart because it showed they didn’t infiltrate our unions, political parties, universities and churches.
Keep the faith comrade.
All that money, to produce a moron. A useful idiot.
The Dermody’s should send him straight to Gaza – perhaps he can really support Hamas there as a human shield.
Trust Putin, comrade.
Why not give NDIS to the health funds to manage..? .. Sure, they’ll make money but if the rorting is as bad as gummint makes out it’s obvious they (gummint) ain’t up to it ..! Health funds may be rip-off merchants but they’ll ensure only they make money out of the funding not the crooks ..
Creating NDIS has to be the Libs greatest folly, all caused by ” tiny abort” being goaded into “points scoring” by the, expert, politcal con-men of Labor …….. furglewit..!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-24/ndis-rorts-by-organised-crime-worse-than-feared-watchdog/103888752
Xi is our friend, comrade.
Keep those iron ore contracts, comrade.
It would be a real shame what could happen to your economy, comrade.
The West, very, very bad, comrade.
Putin only defending mother Russia comrade.
Look at your Justin Trudeau comrade, who are you to judge us, comrade?
My paint job aint great, but share this around to those types of activists and students who want to get smoked in Palestine:
Lol, when Nixon visited China and Clinton made MFT status permanent, Western elites were acting against their own interests and few if any of them made coin. I really feel sorry for those Western elites, falling under the bewitching illusions of the Chinese. Poor dears.
For sure comrade.
You, me, and Numbers Bob all agree.
Down with the West.
Please Uncle Xi, softly and gently invade us and help us build our centrally planned social credit one party utopia.
We welcome your venerable stooges and reject all those silly Western ideas of separation of powers and liberty. (So old fashioned).
He read George Megalogenis’s book on economics, remember. He knows everything that needs to be known.
To be serious a minute.
The commie bloc never changes.
They run the same playbook they have done for 80 years.
Their Western sympathisers never change either. They remain the same mix of naive fools and disenfranchised losers.
The big play to turn China democratic has now definitively failed. They took the trade concessions and doubled down on the authoritarian shitefulness. When Tiananmen didn’t result in a definitive change in Western attitudes they took it as green light.
How to disentangle from this mess will be the story of the remainder of the first half of this century.
The only thing that may change this is the internal collapse of the Chinese Communist Party.
No one in the Western elites gave a damn if economic liberalization would actually democratize China. Aside from the geopolitical rationale, they wanted to tap into a massive market and exploit it for profit whatever the cost, although they thought their dominance within the international system could manage any problematic developments.
I remember the wishful thinking going around that open markets would lead to a democratic China.
In fact it seemed to be the major aim of us trading with them at the time.
Clip from 1986.
“He accomplished in three and a half months what the city couldn’t do in six year”.
Donald Trump honored in 1986 for reopening Wollman Rink in Central Park | WABC Vault
It’s a fine line between realism and cynicism.
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Mrs D and I were laughing ourselves silly a few nights ago watching Nine News. Seniors’ reporter Bruce Paige ” I’ve had 6 Covid shots, and caught this new variant, it’s the worst so far and has really hit me hard” all intoned with serious voice whilst looking like death warmed over. The cognitive dissonance was amazing.
But in all seriousity I know the nursing and admin staff at the Adem Cosby cancer centre at Sunshine Coast Hospital has been hit hard by flu and Covid with many of the staff out with one or the other. As a side note, in my visits, I have noticed a marked preponderance of females being treated, I would suggest 1:4 or thereabouts.
From Lyle Shelton/Family First:
Dear Bobtheboozer,
Australian Muslim and leftist leaders are cheering the International Criminal Court’s foul indictment of Israel for war crimes this week.
A creature of the radical left himself and worried about Muslim votes, the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese bizarrely won’t give a view.
He’s hiding, not leading.
Even the cognitively impaired Joe Biden was clear. “What’s happening in Gaza is not genocide”, he thundered from his teleprompter.
It’s absurd, but the Australian National Imam’s Council issued a media release welcoming Israel’s indictment. It made no mention of the Hamas terrorist rapists, murderers and kidnappers.
Family First is one of the only political parties talking about the elephant in the room – Australian Islamic leaders’ support of Hamas and their unholy alliance with the anti-Australian left, represented by the campus protestors.
The irony is they are poles apart on the definition of a woman and gay rights but what unites them is hatred of Australia’s founding Judeo-Christian values.
At a public meeting at the Lindfield Synagogue organised by the Australian Jewish Association, I asked former British Commander Colonel Richard Kemp about how we push back on the moral inversion coming from Muslim leaders and the left.
You can read his answer, and his analysis of the extremely low (but of course nonetheless tragic) civilian casualty rate in Gaza, in the two blogs below.
So concerned have I been about the wickedly fake narrative building up about Israel and the elevation of Hamas to good guy status, I invited Islam expert Mark Durie on to my ADH TV show yesterday.
We discuss why Australian Imams, who represent 800,000 Australian Muslims, won’t condemn Hamas for raping women and slaughtering innocents and if Islam is truly a religion of peace or not.
We also discuss Australian Islam’s flexing of its political muscles and what this means for our nation.
Both Colonel Kemp and Dr Durie agree that the answer to Islam and the left’s moral inversion is strong pushback in public. Leaders must lead, overt and covert support for evil must be called out. Publicly.
Family First can’t sit silently. Israel is fighting a war for civilisation. Anyone who thinks the anti-Australian Western Muslim and leftist leaders will not overturn our most cherished values is kidding themselves.
Perhaps waving this meme, which is indisputably true, from the article under some people’s noses might ring a few bells.
It took doctors over a hundred years to accept that the fact 1:3 childbearing women were dying was because they wouldn’t wash their bloody hands, or their coats!
Do you really think they will listen to us now with a track record like that?
Well Dover, I think we can agree on at least two things.
I first came to the old Catallaxy to object to the views of the extreme free trader libertarians and to argue the dangers of Western de-industrialisation. But I never doubted their views were rooted in sincere belief as to how things would be best arranged.
As was the unrelenting staggering stupidity.
Braindead FTA commercial television in a nutshell. Presumably after blundering off the air ol’ Paigey then attempted to verbally and physically abuse some female Nein staffers.
China Making AI Chatbot Based on CCP Leader’s Theory | China in Focus
Still can’t catch it. Don’t even bother with the nasal spray any more.
Still see loons in masks. Tourists.
If you’re so afraid, don’t leave the house.
Agree. Neither Hairy nor I have had any more than the first two AZ and then a Novovax booster in 2021, and nothing since. We’ve been to Europe, UK and the US and South America a couple of times since then, and have stayed well. We both had Covid in 2023, mild with no probs. Natura resistance now duz us, very old though we be, he less than me.
EXCLUSIVEBruce Lehrmann partied hard before a judge branded him a rapist. Now his aristocratic landlord has handed him a huge bill for damage at her luxury rental – as she bumps up the rent by almost DOUBLE
Daily Mail
Media keep bandying round this huge bill claim but no outlet is quantifying it. How much for lost rent, alleged damages & cleaning? It’s obvious it’s over the 4 weeks bond so stop teasing us and let us all know.
Me thinks she may be stretching fair wear & tear a bit or the margin of outlay over the bond is at a percentage a normal landlord would walk away from. Any rent for about 2 weeks to a month if repairs are needed I write off too.
She certainly has the cart before the horse on appearance. Mediation then straight to a hearing, without contact with the responder. The one time I had an ex-tenant go to mediation; contact was made with ex-tenant, property manager, QCAT and myself. The tribunal hearing wasn’t even on the table yet.
This sounds weird and if I was a betting man I’d say there’s well more to it than we are being told.
I don’t know what a one page advert in a daily paper is worth these days – used to be $10,000, but the landlord got it for free. mmmmmm
Prominent lawyer, charismatic former Fremantle mayor Richard Utting diesRebecca Le MayThe West Australian
Fri, 24 May 2024 1:27PM
Prominent criminal defence lawyer and Fremantle’s charismatic former mayor Richard Utting has died, prompting the port city to lower its flags.
The father of two, who was conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War, passed away on Thursday night.
Mr Utting joined local politics in his early 50s after a distinguished career in law and as an ABC radio host.
High-profile cases he took on included the trial of Anthony Van Blitterswyk, who was jailed with Australian Nationalist Movement leader Jack Van Tongeren for conspiring to firebomb four Asian restaurants in 2004.
He also represented Fremantle Dockers defender Michael Johnson after he assaulted a teacher who filmed him with his pants down in a Leederville kebab shop in 2016.
He also represented Melony Jane Attwood, the former leader of “Aryan Girls United” who, with her new nazi lover Robert Edhouse, murdered former partner Alan Taylor in 2016.
Mr Utting opposed vote-winning, tough-on-crime rhetoric, saying in 1999 that he feared the judiciary had been cowed by fanatics in the media and in politics into ignoring the principle of prison as a last resort.
He also represented that disgusting old P.O.S. Robert “Poppy ” Bropho.
No fcuking loss there then
That Leederville kebab shop was great in the 80s when the old Greek guys ran it. I rented in Leederville with a mate and it was a regular detour on the walk home from the station. Now gone along with Greens coffee shop.
Greens & C*ck (ghey as) I liked, but the Indian restaurant in its location is not bad either.
Greens &C*ck a Leederville institution. Haven’t been down that way in years.
A criminal defence lawyer representing disgusting people? Hold my handbag, I’m going to faint.