
Jacinta has got what we call “cut through”, and I think has the potential to pull a lot of swinging…
Jacinta has got what we call “cut through”, and I think has the potential to pull a lot of swinging…
Actually all the major parties are sprinting to the left.True, I’ve noted that before. But they’re also becoming more authoritarian…
We can wait for them to do so, Squire …
Perfect day delivered today – not a cloud in the sky … 🙂
Stinking sticky night again last night. Early morning storms waking everyone and cooling everything off. Convective showers with very heavy…
To the extent that this hypothetical was exposing the same thing, the same.
mornin’ Dover.
It’s a trick question Dover. Assangetrov would’ve been deadsky long ago. 🙂
Couldn’t sleep .. soooo 4th it is ..!
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
SDS
Brett Lethbridge.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Tina Norton.
And here’s me fart arseing around on the ole fred wondering where the fcuk is Tom!
Might say it,but will they mean it?
And does it mean river to the seaers will be deported?
https://x.com/VividProwess/status/1805973056390631447?t=fLRs1My8C70hDyb1K1x71g&s=19
Look up taqiyya. Muslims are allowed to lie.
“There are several forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, the best known being taqiyya. These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause of Islam “…
I don’t need to do that
Bettina Arndt needs support in highlighting the utter disgrace that is the feminocracy now strangling diversity equity and inclusion: This is Bettina’s latest from her blog
universal suffrage was a fatal mistake
Lawyer mate in his 50s – white (M) didn’t even bother looking for in-house counsel roles. No vagina. No chance.
NoV NoC.
Novnoc.
I do believe you’ve coined a new word there, Bear.
Namaste is out. Novnoc is in.
Novnoc, mate.
Everywhere in the West is the same.
https://x.com/F_Desouche/status/1805912071340425695?t=i6on_MiVcpTozAomrLtHyA&s=19
Another multi skilled multi tasking gazan.
https://x.com/MSF/status/1805617848942764470?t=FZqr7fh__oyIyUVzQmLDVA&s=19
Surprised only 3 children were killed. I’m sure they missed two zeroes off the total in line with other reports.
They are not concerned about children when mooslime go all splodey bits or home built rockets don’t go where they’re aimed and kill their own. All martyrs for the cause of the Profit (correct spelling) of the billionaire leaders of hamarse.
I put this up as a reply to the whining of “Why are they doing this to us?”
I don’t think it will stay up for long.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/jamaal-bowman-george-latimer-ny-house-primary-results-rcna158487
Notice Ben Garrison & Tina Norton “toons” both have uptix but on my browser (Brave) they come up as “error 1101 hot-linking not allowed” .. wierd!
Same with mine.
Lotsa fun here – check out the heartless comments below:
North Sydney Council rangers target electric vehicle charging on public land in stoush with EV owners
A Sydney council is cracking down on residents charging their electric cars via power cords across public land – sparking backlash from climate conscious EV owners.
Waverton resident John Slaytor is among residents who have received warning letters from North Sydney Council after rangers spotted a charging cable connecting from his home to his street-parked car.
Mr Slaytor – who does not have a driveway and is unable to park his car directly on his property – said he used a plastic covering over the charging cord at 10pm night to mitigate the risk of any potential tripping hazard for pedestrians.
But the council warning letter stated the “practice must cease immediately” and warned that a repeat offence could result in a fine of $330.
Mr Slaytor said he was “stunned” to cop the warning.
“I was astonished – we were only charging at night and we live on a very quiet street with barely any pedestrian traffic after 6pm,” he said.
“We also used a black covering on the cord so it wasn’t a trip hazard.
“A lot of homes in Sydney don’t have driveways and it’s a huge issue for electric vehicle owners because there’s no other way of being able to charge cars from home.
“We have a climate emergency but the council is instead more worried about public liability and being sued.”
Other Sydney councils have taken a similar no-nonsense approach to cables crossing public land including Mosman which has urged locals to use publicly available electric vehicle fast charging stations.
A North Sydney Council spokeswoman said electrical cables that run across footpaths are a hazard and the council “has a responsibility to ensure public safety”.
“Electrical cables that run across footpaths are unlawful (and) we encourage residents who are not able to charge electric vehicles on their own properties to make use of the charging facilities available at five council car parks,” she said.
“Warnings are issued for first offences where possible and over the past year council has issued fewer than ten warnings and no fines.”
In NSW, an estimated 30 per cent of drivers do not have access to private off-street parking to charge an EV.
The lack of kerbside charging infrastructure has been consistently cited by electric vehicle advocates as a major barrier for the uptake in low emissions vehicles.
Mr Slaytor – who spent more than $1000 on his charging equipment – said charging his car at home was cheaper than using publicly available facilities – costing about 8c per kilowatt compared to around 50c at public charging points.
“Even with a reasonably fast public charger it takes at least an hour to charge an EV and it’s not something you want to be doing every day,” he said.
“I have solar panels and if I was able to charge from home during the day it would be a lot better for the planet.”
North Sydney Council says it has five public charging stations including at the Alexander Street and Holtermann Street car parks in Crows Nest, and the Ridge Street car park in North Sydney
NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe said the NSW Government was investing more than $4 million in grants to bankroll public kerbside electric vehicle chargers at 391 sites across the state.
Comments:
Jethro
31 minutes ago
The EV world sounds great, but it’s not .
The local Council area has 5 public chargers . gee what happens when say 100 cars wanna charge every night
Craig
41 minutes ago
Dont buy a ev if you cant charge it properly . Of course you cant take a live power cord over a footpath
Andy
4 minutes ago
@Craig ….. anyone tripping over the charging cord will automatically include council in any legal claim.
Neil D
44 minutes ago
I believe the inner west council allows this as long as you take out $20 million public liability insurance.
Gary
21 minutes ago
“We have a climate emergency but the council is instead more worried about public liability and being sued.”
We don’t have a climate emergency.
We do have an emerging trip hazard crisis though.
James
26 minutes ago
First world problems for our yuppie EV owners.
Steve
27 minutes ago
Well if they had no where to park it on their property they should have bought a hybrid that does not need plugging in
Daily Tele
Oh joy oh joy. Husband has been observing these cords in North Sydney & thinks it is outrageous that it is allowed since charging stations are available. We understand that a problem has arisen in the area in older apartment buildings with predictably older residents who don’t want expensive levies raised to accomodate a few.
shatterzzz
June 27, 2024 6:41 am
Right click-Copy the link and paste it in a new tab,.enter, it works that way.
Thanx .. that worked …… !
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/just-rep-anna-paulina-luna-lowers-boom-merrick/
TE how does the eco-warrior saving the planet pay 8 cents a kwh to charge his chariot? This moron is setting himself up for a scammer to trip on his cable crossing public land. Please let this happen. Oh the ironing.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/masked-anti-israel-protester-who-took-ny-subway/
Blockbuster lawsuit claims UNRWA led a billion-dollar money laundering scheme to aid Hamas
I seriously hope they go after these turds.
Lawfare was how the KKK was finally brought down.
The entity comprising the first two letters of this agency is ultimately responsible. Get rid of it and you get rid of the problem, the UN is now too corrupted to be of any use.
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/06/global-excuses-ship-pollution-was-saving-us-from-global-warming-but-now-weve-fixed-the-ships-were-all-going-to-die/
In the UK a very smug, leftwing, mediocre actor by the name of David Tennant (David Who?) attended a ‘LGBTQI awards ceremony’ and said the following about a black woman by the name of Kemi Badenoch (who happens to be a Conservative Minister), to …
‘I wish you didn’t exist anymore and you should shut up’
You have to love the stinking rancid hypocrisy from the left! Now, just imagine, for a nano second if a rightwing celebrity (I know, I know, such species are thin on the ground) said about a black or Brown female Labor/Greens MP that….’I wish you didn’t exist anymore and you should shut up’.
The howling would be deafening and that rightwing celebrity would have his/her career cancelled, in fact he/she would have had visits from the UK Plod.
The good news is that Ms Badenoch has responded to the mediocrity called Tennant by saying that she will not ‘shut up’ and she has fired back at the actor, calling him a ‘rich, lefty, white male’.
You don’t turn timidly the other cheek to this garbage, NO, you pick up the slop thrown at you and you throw it back.
Kemi should challenge Tennant to an arm wrestle. After she has broken his arm whilst smashing it into the table, she can smash his head on top it. Haw!
As if Kemi would be scared of a flabby, white worm like Tennant. 😀
The Torries missed a great opportunity when Kemi B was not selected to replace Boris.
Worth noting, and what are the odds, Tennant and its mate have a “non binary” kid.
Tennant is a privileged manky Scotch git.
“A civil servant robot working for a council in South Korea was found unresponsive after apparently throwing itself down a flight of stairs, with locals now mourning the country’s first robot suicide.”
I would be quite happy to replace all our Pubic Serpents with robots. The Dalek Suicide would be an added Bonus!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13571283/South-Korean-civil-servant-robot-commits-suicide-mysteriously-circling-one-spot-there.html
TheirABC continues to describe mainstream views as ‘far right’:
Earlier this month, Guenaël Brohan walked into his local polling place and did something he’s never done before.
Slouched against his tractor, he rattles off his political views, which are so uncontroversial they don’t bear mentioning.
“But I voted for Jordan Bardella, and for the Rassemblement National,” he says.
“I wanted to send a message to our current government: it has to change. We are in a country that is going to sink.”
Guenaël is not alone. Indeed, his ballot was part of a far-right tsunami that has turned French politics on its head.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-27/support-for-far-right-in-france-growing-ahead-of-election/104017004
A ‘far right tsunami’, a destructive natural disaster, costing lives and property.
One that is based on traditional French values. ‘Far right’ at TheirABC is now anyone fully signed up the the Left.
Johanna
Should that be “… anyone NOT fully signed up …”?
Remember when a couple of salami sandwiches were thrown at Gillard when she was annoying high school kids with her vuvuzela drone?
I believe every time Elbow is out in the open shitting from his mouth, lettuces should be dropped ceremoniously at his feet.
No, not thrown at him, he is such a delicate petal, an errant leaf could break an arm. No, Render unto Caesar, what belongs to Caesar.
Johannes Leak has been inspirational in this regard. 😀
“Lettuces for Elbow”, NOW!
soggy white bread might be a good choice for such a weak nobody like albo.
Get a load of Danny Pearson in this piece by Shannon Deery:
All that on an announcement that has the Allan government are in the infancy of beginning the Victorian part of the Melbourne-Brisbane line. Why that’s needed perhaps more sage commenters than I can answer.
Yet people still vote for these months. FMD
BB – Inland Rail is all Commonwealth Govt, albeit VIC is doing everything it can to keep checking the gift horses dentures.
Black Ball:
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but…
Once Upon A Time, in a Land Far Away – California to be precise, a budget crisis was looming and the King of California said “We must cut these costs or the State will go broke.” So he gathered the Wisest Economists and Financial Wizards to look at the problem.
They came back with a suggestion for the Kalifornia KIng. “We notice the Federal Government funds this Education Program to the extent of $500 million dollars a year, but it costs us a Billion dollars to administer it.”
“That sounds excessive”. said the KK.
“Then we will speak to the Federal King and tell him to cancel the $500 million, and we will save a Billion dollars a year, shall we?”
“Good Heavens, no.” said the KK. “We really need that $500 million.”
These mongs ffs
Via Ace Of Spades, one of monty’s lot
Oddly, they don’t mention where he was bicycling FROM, and why that might have attracted a rocket to him.
Another one bites the dust. Boo yah!
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1806057940207669583
SNAP! Black Ball.
I’m very sad that young female ambos won’t be spending so many hours hanging around public hospitals waiting to hand over patients to emergency staff.
Oh wait, they’ll be spending twice as many hours doing that.
Every ambulance I see is covered in anti government graffiti and the union sign warning motorists of a speed camera ahead has been there for months.
But don’t worry they’ll still all vote Labor.
And where are the electric emergency vehicles Jacinta of the three eyed fish?
You said it was a climate emergency that takes precedence over all other human concerns.
In today’s extra good news.
Mr Bandt is very unhappy
https://x.com/AdamBandt/status/1805749151575195694?t=PSr6APcHbuK7HUneJ8uPcA&s=19
I love how the ABCESS decribe the far right (which is anything to the right of their position) as Nazi’s. The capitulation of conservatives everywhere to allow the left to commandeer the English language to their own ends gives me the shiites. Wife had to do an indoctrination into the wonderful world of woke for the consultants she works for. They have to do this to get government contracts. They think they are the bees knees for embracing everything woke. I said I’d have nothing to do with them and tell them why. Oh, you have to do it to get the job. I wouldn’t and couldn’t do it. Its not as if we need the money but she she tells me its so she doesn’t have to put up with me grumbling about how useless the numpties running the country are. I countered with, I’ll never treat a cock in a frock as normal person when they are patently mentally deranged. I for one refuse to engage with such people and the left generally. None of the indoctrination has anything to doing the job. It is a three day course. No wonder it costs a motza to get anything done these days.
I’ve often wondered who delivers these indoctrinations. I assumed that retired teachers would be hired ( meaning teachers who left the school system because of exhaustion). Where does the material your wife has to deliver for three days come from?
She has to do the course to be an empoyee. American company. The content is pretty much at the direction of government. They have DEI objectives, she gets in on age. There are quite a few there in this category as it requires high level experience. The job she is doing is getting a project back on track after several in the Soviet central planning program had a go and couldn’t do it and have now spent the last three weeks blocking as payback for having it taken off them. To no avail as she has had plenty of experience with me. She bypassed them.
It’s a real problem when you wake up feeling gay.
HBBear:
It’s only a problem when you realise your wife’s name is Veronica.
It’s a win for the cabal.
https://x.com/cenkuygur/status/1805642066686513346?t=irEi2kkZ9sb3F6cGCw0_cQ&s=19
And what will happen if he loses today, as he did, because he’s a racist moron who a majority in his district hate? Or if they rightly consider him a criminal for doing the exact thing that put so many J6ers in jail (Obstruction of Congress)?
No new gas, eh?
One suspects he’s more interested in Year Zero than Net Zero.
Should we run a book on the debate?
$50 on Biden short circuiting and freezing up.
$20 on him having a TIA?
I’d put money on him having a temper tantrum.
A 28.4% parish for the only hard-working people in Victoria.
https://x.com/JacintaAllanMP/status/1805859529932030402?t=sQt3R92z2TE053Qim5m_qA&s=19
Is this serious?
I suspect it’s a bribe to prevent them migrating to Queensland.
Private business has to toe an ideological line to get government work.
Just who are the Fascists here?
mUnty the Fascist and all of his ilk are the apprentice fascists. They just lurrrrve control by the Gummint (but only by a lefturd Gummint, not that other ‘”lot”).
If Biden does short out the switcheroo will be on.
J.K not standing with Starmer.
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1806058794255839375?t=ibUEUVBrpubNRv8FENhkmg&s=19
J.K not standing with Starmer.
Last I heard “J. K.” was advocating a vote for the Communist Party of Britain. She’s lost it, I’m afraid.
What say you Pope Francis?
https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/1805966447740366973?t=7p2HoOeXsJs1l0fbUX2gYA&s=19
Great Bettina Arndt article posted by Tinta.
I remember the Qld Police recruiting policy of 50% women well. They were turning away top quality makes and accepting low quality females. It lasted for 4 years. Combine with fast tracking of females for promotion and you have a morale problem.
The problems with such a policy were obvious but overlooked in order for somebody to be able to say the %age of women was rising.
I trace it back to reports by former Sex Discrimination Commissioner Liz Broderick into VIC POL and AFP. All designed to make police work easier for women but at the expense of the men.
See also Defence Force.
It’s subtle, she seems to have gone single issue.
https://theprint.in/world/jk-rowling-the-biological-definition-of-sex-author-backs-communist-party-over-trans-rights-stance/2144017/
Spooner nails it today.
Alboflation (rising power prices and rents) is pushing the RBA towards another rate hike.
Here’s the opening parts of the Melbourne-Brisbane line:
Nah bugger it I will do the whole article
Hold in your laughter kind reader.
Local jobs eh? Considering its wall to wall Labor along the coast, expect many of da bruvvers to be swanned in.
Kerry Schott, where has that name surfaced before?
John Holland = China I suspect it will be a while before they pick up another big government project in the West after the Perth Childrens Hospital.
Before I away, please seat yourself, lest you keel over from laughter.
Hahahahahaha! Look at this dickhead, Daily Telegraph:
So no diplomacy on the part of Rudd released Assange sayeth the White House.
Mr Carr, it would seem Rudd made it all about himself.
Hahahahahaha!
And now I see myself out.
If Krudd had anything to do with Assange’s release his lawyer would have said so last night when she was thanking all who helped.
At least Assange looks like he has been gorging himself at the same all-you-can eat bar as Kevni.
All the world’s a stage …
I watched the plane come in, looking for the airline logo. Oh, it’s a PJ, says Hairy nonchalently, wondering out loud who was paying for it.
In my world PJ’s are pajamas.
Everything Rudd says or does boils down to one thing: ‘Look at MEEEEEEE!’
‘Sir, Are You Suggesting The AG Should Be In Jail?’: Derrick Van Orden Gets Testy With Reporters
forbes
Latest electrickery bill up 18.3% from last quarter (and this is the autumn quarter bill).
As for the difference between year zero and net zero, there isn’t any.
Branco best of today’s toons:
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Davros’s less capable cousin, Dingus.
(A traditional Dr. Who reference).
Except the VIC terminal won’t be in Melbourne and the QLD terminal won’t be in Brisbane.
Chuckle.
If the Western elite are so evil, so murderous, then why is Assange still alive?
Does anyone have a plausible answer for that?
Not to mention that he’s managed to father two children while incarcerated.
Simple, JC. Assange is a leftist hero and leftist heroes are protected by the tribe.
The only people at risk of being assassinated are those in the mainstream — or, to use this year’s propaganda buzzwords, the “far right”
Dead man switch. Pompeo did have discussions about offing Assange when Pompeo was the CIA head.
No doubt much poring over maps of New Guinea took place during this arduous quest.
@catturd2
Tucker owning a liberal Karen.
Elise Stefanik Accuses Biden Of ‘Illegal And Unconstitutional Collusion’ With 51 Intel Officials
forbes
“‘Deployed’, to me at least, means going outside the wire and hunting down enemy regardless of season, weather or terrain.”
Knuckle Dragger – Monday 24th June 2024
Just want to thank you for your “informative” posts over the last few days KD, you always put a smile on my dial first thing.
wrt your quote from above then, HQ Companies, Medical/Dental personnel, Catering, Transport, Comm’s Ops etc, are NOT “deployed.”
I wonder where that leaves our friends in the Senior Service.
Interesting perspective on Operations. I was not aware of that “fact”, thanks.
I actually printed out your last few “pearls of wisdom” and showed them to a couple of friends at the pub last night.
One was a Vietnam Vet who drove APC’s, the other was ex RAAF, “deployed” to Somalia, Iraq and East Timor.
They were both very, ……, “interested” in your comments. Two new members for the Cat!
“Tell ‘your ‘nobody went outside the wire’ horseshit to 1RAR and the reinforced 2/4RAR company supporting it, you mincing light blue poodle.”
Knuckle Dragger – Wednesday 26th June.
Just curious, have you bothered to look up where the Battalion Group were stationed? It would appear to be, ……., somewhat relevant.
They were part of UNOSOM I.
They were stationed at B A I D O A. (About 120 miles NW of Mogadishu).
How the f*ck you did not know that, is quite a stunning effort, well done!
My Team were part of UNOSOM II.
We were stationed at M O G A D I S H U.
Do you see the slight difference there KD? The giveaway is, the first letters are different.
Despite what ‘you’ may think, they are different places.
(I know they patrolled their area, because we saw footage on pre-deployment training. They unfortunately had one death, due to an UD.)
They probably transferred through Mog, I don’t know, because we got there after their tour was complete and they were back in Oz.
In our time in Mog, NOBODY patrolled the city, except by air.
The UN/US controlled only the Old Port, New Port, Airport and Uni complex.
Everything else, was controlled by the war lords.
So, going by your definition of “deployed”, apart from the yanks and Malaysians who were involved in BlackHawk down, no-one was “deployed”.
Fair enough! There did seem to be lots of troops about the place though.
Please keep posting.
I will continue to send your work far and wide. You will be famous!
Everyone deserves a laugh, first thing in the morning.
Have a great day Wannabe!
not just autism, the incredible rise of allergies especially for nuts
Does anyone have a plausible answer for that?
The Arcancide crew were not available?
murthy v missouri ruling
a bad day for SCOTUS, a worse day for the rest of us
Interesting time for the Supreme Court to rule that the government can pressure social media companies to censor “misinformation” to it’s heart’s content.
Oh, forgot to say KD.
If you would like me to buy you a “Dick and Dora” reader, to assist your comprehension, I’ll gladly send you money.
Cheers.
Meme
Also censored. Not that I blame Assange at this point.
All Wikileaks’ DNC Emails Were Deleted to Free Assange
@sentdefender
The Military Coup in the Bolivian Capital of La Paz, is reportedly being led by Bolivian Army General Juan José Zúñiga, who was Summoned and Dismissed yesterday by President Luis Arce after making Disparaging Remarks in a Local Newspaper Article.
FBI was tracking Biden scandals 8 years ago
Democrats Have Been Complaining about Election Fraud for Years
Hardly surprising. This mob could teach the mafia a few things.
Soros-Backed L.A. County D.A. Official Arrested on 11 Felony Charges
This beautiful headline got lost in translation for a while:
‘Six lame ducks and a swan’
The Frankfurter Allgemeine describing the G7 Summit earlier this month.
DeSantis says Florida ‘will not comply’ with Biden’s ‘public health’ emergency on guns
Per Black Ball:
Per Unlinkable OZ:
Anthony Albanese first on the phone as convicted felon Julian Assange tastes freedom at last
I’m not sure whether any of these people realise how revolting they appear.
Albo makes it sound there as though Assange rang him when it was the other way around. I think it was Assange’s wife who said Albo rang him.
Tucker having fun with the media.
I never like his presentation style, but seeing journos, especially Australian ones mocked to their faces is a beautiful thing.
https://x.com/i/status/1806034521369776406
Thanks, Mole. That’s made my day.
That would require listening to people outside the bubble.
I note the press reported Albanese “billed” Assange $700K for the flights.
I reckon they’d be having a laugh about him not having to pay it.
I’ve heard it say, Rudd doesn’t have mirrors near him lest there be another narcissist in the same room of equal importance in his own mind.
Rather like Dracula, Rudd doesn’t have a mirror reflection. Or a shadow.
AustraliaVIC News
Southbank whisky theft: Man ‘just keeps walking’ away with $62,000 bottle of Johnnie Walker Masters of Flavour
A brazen thief with a taste for the finer things in life has left Melbourne East police in pursuit after a limited-edition bottle of whiskey, worth a jaw-dropping $62,000, was allegedly pilfered.
The daring heist unfolded on May 22 at a boutique liquor merchant within an entertainment complex off Whiteman Street in Southbank.
Around 5.20 PM, a man entered the store and struck up a conversation with a female staff member, inquiring about various bottles of high-end alcohol.
In a scene straight out of a Hollywood heist movie, as soon as the staff member’s back was turned, the man allegedly snatched a prized bottle of Johnnie Walker Masters of Flavour and tucked it down the front of his shorts.
All right, which one of you lot was it?
Not me; there’s no spare room down the front of my shorts.
Did he steal any Coke?
It wasn’t me. I’ll cough for anything but Johnny Walker. Who drinks that stuff, its a bit like Bundaberg, any tighter regulation on the manufacture and neither would qualify for what the purport to be.
ABCcess, totally unbiased and straight down the line…
Now, Rassemblement National (RN), or National Rally, is eyeing a much bigger prize: forming France’s most far-right government since the Nazi occupation in World War II.
?
No doubt numpty John Slaytor has an RCD and appropriate safety devices on his little flying cord in the damp grass and potentially flooded gutter.
What a doofus.
More white supremacy:
Fox & Friends Host Ainsley Earhardt Breaks Down While Interviewing Pregnant Wife Of Murdered MI Sheriff Bradley Reckling [VIDEO] | The Gateway Pundit | by Patty McMurray
From the Gateway Pundit– According to Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard, Deputy Bradley Reckling was in pursuit of a stolen vehicle with assistance from two detectives.
The vehicle, a stolen 2022 Chevrolet Equinox, stopped unexpectedly. The suspects exited the vehicle and started shooting at Deputy Reckling, who was shot in the chest and head. The detectives were in their own separate vehicles and were not struck.
“The sheriff said Detroit police and Michigan State Police quickly responded to the area and set up a perimeter. Three suspects were taken into custody,” Fox 2 Detroit reported.
Sherriff Deputy Reckling leaves behind his pregnant wife of 8 years, 30-year-old Jacqueline, and 3 young daughters. Jacqueline and Bradley were living on a farm they had recently purchased where they planned to raise their 4 children.
No further mention of suspects except to say they were all out on bail or had priors. Of course.
Do you suppose they’ll ever join the dots between their egregious political bias and their dwindling audience?
To the extent that they might, it will be to bemoan the ignorance of their now former audience.
Indubitably.
I once had a phone call from a Q&A staffer at Ultimo I presume.
The contempt dripped down the line.
They don’t care.
Such nonchalance may now be a luxury they can’t afford to indulge.
Kim Williams ruminated on this in his Redmond Barry lecture.
Agreed. Audience gets too small then somebody decides that can just knock it on the head. Not there yet.
In their dream world, Gillian Triggs’ dinner-table speech monitors would make us watch/listen – or else!
thefrollickingmole
June 27, 2024 9:23 am
Having a day off, that was worth every minute.
I hate to throw fuel onto the inter services love fest…
But is this accurate??
https://x.com/i/status/1805986496895225876
The Air Force used to have the cachet of being the only service that sent their officers forth – as aircrew – to do the fighting and the dying.
Adam Creighton is annoying his boss…
The ‘greenlash’ is coming – just look at Europe (Paywallian)
Nice to see some reality being reported in the Oz. Maybe some nice journo or backbencher could ask Albo and Bowen about Mr Creighton’s coumn.
Creighton was good through Covid.
Where to start with this? If the estimated cost is $31 billion we can take it for granted that using the Snowy 2.0 as a guide the final cost will be ten times that amount.
Seeing the fate of Commonwealth Games under Jacinta’s leadership is the same waiting for Inland Rail?
Why emphasise moving goods from Brisbane to stock shelves in Melbourne? Is this because Victoria doesn’t produce anything? Is it because companies have fled due to Victorian over-regulation? Is it because electricity for manufacturing is too expensive or simply not available?
Victoria used to put on their car number plates “Victoria – Garden State” but all anyone can see now is State of Despair.
At one stage it was Victoria The Place to Be, which led a character in Queensland to ask “Then why are so many of you here?”
These days, the answer to the question is obvious.
Probably, because in that hypothetical Assangetrov would be working with US alphabet agencies to bring about regime change in Moscow and the breaking up of the Russian Federation.
Well well well.
Anti-Semitic manifesto: Terror charge teen’s chilling GoPro video (Tele, paywalled)
Hey AFP and NSW plod, how’s your persecution of Christians and right-wingers going? Maybe the Labor Party would like you to put in some resources against leftwing antisemitic terrorists before, like, someone assassinates an ALP pollie. Just saying.
“$50 on Biden short circuiting and freezing up”.
I would bet the same amount that whatever they give him will keep him upright and blinking for the entire 90 minutes,
I’ll wager on the upright and non-blinking option
Had never heard of Kerry Schott until Trumble wheeled her out. Seems to have been a bit of a man hater back in her youth.
This is particularly interesting, because when the “father” of Inland Rail (in its present iteration), Everald Compton, first raised it a couple of decades ago, the rationale was to get primary produce and manufactured goods from the south to Gladstone (his proposed QLD terminus) for export more efficiently than by then current road/rail means.
Now the focus seems to be on getting domestic freight (imported goods?) off the roads and “climate change” even gets a mention.
An idea for Trump in the coming debate.
1) Negotiate a camera, operated by one of his staff to be focused on both podiums. The camera may not be interfered with or turned off (make sure it has a back-up battery but don’t tell anyone).
2) During the debate, say that his team has discussed with some chemists and have come up with a way to detect [whatever it is likely that Biden will be on to keep him upright], that it’s on a cloth, and that he’ll wipe Biden’s lectern with it after Biden has left.
3) Watch the shenanigans unfold as they tie themselves into knots trying to B-S their way into some excuse for why Trump can’t go to the other lectern after the debate.
4) Watch the media excuse the excuses and repeat the lies.
Looks like there was a failed coup in Bolivia during our breakfast.
Lefty generals in Israel are getting itchy too.
They hate Netanyahu incandescently.
(I’m referring to three stories in the last couple days, you can find them if you want.)
Aside from Dr Rude, Carnt, and Handsome Boy, the list of Saviours of Assange continues to grow.
Last September, a multi-party posse of parrot cage sweepings – Whish-Wilson, ShoeBridge, Ryan, Zappia, Antic, and Joyce – turned up mob-handed at the DoJ offices:
Amazingly, the DoJ was unmoved:
Luckily, the Beetrooter was there to play the trump card:
So, although Johnny and Amber are gracefully silent, add Pistol and Boo to the list.
Lot of hysteria currently in the US about global farting after a few hot days: hottest evah! Humans did it! Graph of US maximum temps from 1895 to 2024:
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/climate-at-a-glance/national/time-series/110/tmax/1/5/1895-2024?base_prd=true&begbaseyear=1901&endbaseyear=2000
Knotted hankies out in the UK too. Where’s Rotten?
It hit 37C in NW Florida today. In an amazing coincidence it was also the 6th day of summer.
The only hysteria noted was in watching tourists fight over parking spots at the beach. As per usual.
In Sydney. Postcard to follow, but early assessment is meh.
I see Ronnie RAAF, stung by anyone daring to question his Marlborough-esque military genius, and its translation into current events has gone and showed some of said commentary to his alleged ‘mates’ (suuure you did) to establish legimitacy.
It didn’t work for Liability Bob, and it won’t work for a light blue pampered poser either.
And yes I remain content that Israel is still flogging up what’s left of Gaza.
Unless it is a summers day with the harbour sparkling I would agree. But it almost worth living there just for those days.
Could a kind kat please put up the Daily Tele story on the Terror Teen Go-Pro — thank you
I will shortly adjourn to a number of locales within Darling Harbour with an associate.
It’s not pissing down in Sydney, so that’s a start.
Why scary?
Biden will be full of Cholinesterase inhibitors. One of the side effects is hypermotility and general predisposition to shitting your self. Collectively the side effects of Cholinesterase inhibitors is known as SLUDGE:
Cholinesterase Inhibitors – StatPearls – NCBI Bookshelf (nih.gov)
Yes, yes they did…
UK High Temperature At Chertsey–Amid A Field Of Solar Panels! (26 Jun)
The aerial photo of this “high quality meteorological station” is amusing.
Can’t find it now…but I recently read that this is now a routine trick in the UK.
Wind farms also. Down wind from a wind farm the temperature is higher as some of the wind energy gets turned to heat.
They also interrupt the boundary layer within the vicinity, therefore increasing minimum temperatures, especially during winter.
Top. Men.
unreal !!
solar panels can reach well over 60°C in full sun
Former Dr Who and all round wanker, David Tennant, has made a very personal attack on senior Tory and the party’s possible post-election leader, Kemi Badenoch, who offended him by stating her very mainstream views on the gender wars and cocks in frocks. Here’s how Kemi got her revenge:
Jessica Jones S01E13 – Killgrave Death (youtube.com)
Watched some of JA’s live show business last night where the star did not make an entrance.
So which TV network will get the 1 hour exclusive and how much will they pay for it. Let the auction begin.
And will the US networks come in over the top and go for world wide rights?
Albo and the media mates are going to milk the Assange assuagement for all it’s worth, since Albo doesn’t have a policy achievement to point to.
As for Assange – his wife said he was the “most principled man she knows” which is nice. Much nicer than another acquaintance from years ago whose assessment was that he “seemed like someone who had been brought up by wolves”. Perhaps she was Swedish.
If he wants a principled pursuit to go on with, perhaps he could use his “journalistic skills” to uncover the crookedness of the climate scam and the scandalously integrated flow-on program to harm this and other countries by shafting their formerly affordable and reliable energy systems and replacement it with dodgy “renewables”.
Character assessments from wives and mothers don’t carry much weight. “Hessa good boy”.
Over a Dozen House Republicans Help Democrats Fund Joe Biden’s Executive Amnesty for Illegal Aliens
Fair go Mole!
Tucker having fun with the media.
I never like his presentation style …
Tucker was essential viewing for as long as he was on Fox News. He was their biggest star, hence the compulsory takedown when he mentioned the “unmentionables”.
“It Needs to Get Out As Soon As Possible” – New FOIA Emails Reveal CIA Panicking as They Rushed Approval of Hunter Laptop Letter
If Albanese thinks this will distract attention from the daily impact of Alboflation on people’s budgets you’d have to question who’s advising him these days…is it Jodie?
A cynic might even call it a stunt. No high viz though.
Bulk Brittany and Deadly David. HAW!
Argentina Logs First Week with No Inflation in Food Prices in 30 Years
Murthy v. Missouri: SCOTUS Decision Analysis
Norwegian pension fund dumps Caterpillar over Gaza war risks
Caterpillar Inc’s market capitalisation is $160bn.
They can always invest their pension funds in renewables.
Or the re-building of Gaza. wahahaha
No word about the Human Rights violations of the Israeli citizens murdered by Hamas?
Of course not.
There are no positives in this for KLP. None at all. Just a trashing of the hypocritical board members reputations.
Chilling GoPro footage has emerged of a teen charged with terror offences armed with knives and tactical equipment before allegedly walking into a Labor MP’s office.
Jordan Patten, 19, from Raymond Terrace, was arrested after midday Wednesday and charged under the terrorism act. A live video understood to be taken by the teen around the time of the alleged offending, shows him appearing to get prepared in a public bathroom. He is wearing a helmet with a GoPro style video recorder mounted on it, as well as a face mask.
A teenager who allegedly walked into a Labor MP’s office rather with knives and a ballistic vest has been charged with terrorism offences.
Police will allege the man allegedly commenced livestreaming his preparation through the video website Twitch. He also donned a ballistics vest which has a knife and a saw wedged in the pockets. The seven-minute live video shows him walking around inner-city Newcastle – including briefly into Newcastle MP Tim Crakanthorp’s office – before he walks into a museum on Workshop Way.
An image, taken before the video, shows the ballistics vest, knife, hammer and a saw laid out on a bed. video The video, taken from the alleged offender’s point-of-view from his helmet mounted cam, shows a family with a small child quickly get out of his way, as staff at the museum stand their ground. “You can’t walk around like that,” one staff member says.
“You need to leave (because you’re) dressed like that sir.
“Get outside for us please.”
The man leaves the museum where he films a large kitchen-style knife in his possession, before the live stream ends. Another image, taken before the video, shows the ballistics vest, knife, hammer and a saw laid out on a bed.
A great many of our S51 cousins reside at Raymond Terrace, highly included in court lists.
David Tennant/Dr Who, actually.
He played Dr Who from, I think, 2005 to 2010 (or thereabouts). This was before all the woke BS, and he was fondly remembered as a classic Doctor – brilliant, enigmatic, endearingly eccentric, energetic, a knight errant roving the universe righting wrongs, and always accompanied by trusting and pretty companions to whose physical appeal he remained impervious.
Last year they bought him back for the Christmas Special, which was taken as a sort of apology for the dismal tenure of Jodi Whittaker’s Doctor, and a promise of a reset. Let us just say that it was a false hope, and through wokification Tennant collaborated in the trashing of his own legacy.
It was not a step back from the Jodi Whittaker years, but another step on the way to the current Ncuti Gatwa Doctor, which I believe episode by episode sets new records for low viewership.
I doubt Tennant believed all this guff when he was Doctor during his 2005-2010 run. Actually, nobody thought about it because it had not been made up yet. He has merely followed the mob. Nailed his colours to someone else’s mast.
Not a significant moral person.
From Doctor Who to witch doctor. The tardis replaced by chicken bones. Science fiction back to mud floor hut animism. Keep an eye on your clitoris.
In Unsurprising News Today:
In Surprising News Today: Michael Ware correct about Assange.
This might need some context or a link. Even the ALPBC News went with “Whatever you may think of him …”
Sky News have him on often to talk about US politics, but he’s nowhere near as good as James Morrow.
Bungonia Bee
June 27, 2024 10:54 am
I’d be very wary of becoming too cosy with Assange.
He has a very strong contrarian streak and is highly likely to bite the hand that feeds.
Aesop’s crocodile and the scorpion got quite a run yesterday.
Couldn’t happen to a more appropriate hand.
Who cares what his beliefs were then, or what they are now?
He is a largely unemployed actor.
His opinions carry the same weight as the kid in the Maccas drive-through.
The adoration given to luvvies and their equal love of pontification is a curious social phenomenon. Why doesn’t it extend to real estate agents?
The kid at Macca’s is in closer touch with real life.
acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors
If this is what they give Biden isn’t this similar to the actions of nerve gas?
That shot of moose juice they gave Killary when they propped her against that bollard did the trick. Got the old girl up and about.
Fright.
In order to do our bit and save the planet from the Evil C*, I propose we omit a number of letters from the now-popular label far-far-far-far-Right, and abbreviate it as simply The FRight, or the more visually pleasing The Fright.
I believe I’ve just eliminated 21,468 tons of Evil C emissions. (Please forward my Merit Certificate from Gaia via email).
The Fright it is.
* By their reckless use of extraneous adjectives – ‘the extreme, radical, conservative, far-far-far-far Right’ the media is contributing to the suffocation of Gaia. A monkey-pox upon them!
Ten, Lisa Wilkinson strike deal on $500,000 legal bill in Bruce Lehrmann caseEllie Dudley
4 minutes ago
Network 10 has struck a deal to pay just over half a million dollars of Lisa Wilkinson’s legal fees in the wake of their defamation win over Bruce Lehrmann, and will pursue the former Liberal staffer for $2m in legal costs.
The deal between Ten and its former star presenter comes despite Wilkinson initially asking to be reimbursed for $1.8m, after she defended the mammoth case with separate legal representation led by top defamation silk Sue Chrysanthou SC.
Ms Chrysanthou billed Wilkinson $8000 for each full day in court, along with charging her $800 an hour for preparation, conferences, advices and travelling time.
Ten’s legal costs amounted to more than $3m, but the network is only asking for a $2m lump sum payment from Mr Lehrmann.
Mr Lehrmann’s solicitor Paul Svilans said his client “neither consents nor opposes” the order.
Lawyers for the network on Thursday said it was willing to pay Wilkinson $558,548.30 on a without prejudice basis, but argued it should not have judgment entered against it for that amount.
The court heard Ten initially offered to pay $607,850 to Wilkinson, but later found it to be “over generous”.
Ten’s barrister Zoe Graus told Federal Court judge Michael Lee that if an external referee determined Wilkinson’s costs were less than $558,548.30, she should be required to pay the network back.
“Your Honour will see that the order below is that should the referee determine the amount is less, that Ms Wilkinson would repay it to us,” Ms Graus said.
She continued: “We’re not willing to commit to a judgment sum of that amount ($558,548.30) today.”
Mr Lehrmann is currently unemployed, and the court has previously heard it is highly unlikely he will be able to foot Ten’s legal bill.
It pays to be a man of straw when litigating.
Being a student of the law is hardly being unemployed.
The Cane Toad might still be formally on the books at Ten, but the relationship seems poisonous now, such that she might never return to employment there.
Bruce Lehrmann has been ordered to pay Network 10 $2 million to cover the massive legal bill it racked up defending his defamation action
So terribly embarrassing that one of our special people just tried to assassinate one of our MPs.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil issues confusing statement on ‘an incident in NSW’, leaving residents unsure over what occured (Sky News, 27 Jun)
Got to keep those Western Sydney voters happy.
Can’t stand Starmer. Looks like a mouldy pudding and about as useful.
She’s a psychologist so we should believe her/it/them.
How to decide how to vote—a psychologist’s advice (Phys.org, 26 Jun)
In short: unless you vote for lefties you are an angry clinically insane mad person.
BoN:
Well that makes me feel better. It explains the crankiness I get when I listen to the entire Leftist Universe.
If I vote left then will it all go away?
Yes but Zipster, the “scientists” have ran lots and lots of regressions against various sets of data and, on some of those occasions, have failed to find a correlation. They then publish these cherry-picked non-correlations as “peer-reviewed science” as definitive proof that autism has nothing to do with vaccines – never mind the thousands of regressions that can be done that *do* show a correlation.
It’s amazing that zero people who believe in vaccines know the first thing about how to obtain knowledge in medicine. When it comes to adverse events you always look for challenge, dechallenge, rechallenge. This is *always* considered proof of causation for absolutely every kind of medication adverse effects bar one (can you guess the one?)
There are thousands and thousands of challenge, dechallenge, rechallenge cases of vaccines and autism symptoms. Every last one is dismissed as being a “coincidence”. As I say, with literally every other medicine, you only need *one* such instance to confirm a causal relationship.
Inland Rail chief executive, Nick Miller, said the new contract was “a major step forward” and that ongoing works at Glenrowan, Wangaratta, and Seymour were progressing well, with Barnawartha North completed.
Can comment on Seymour from a few months back. Car Park, if it is planned dunno where they are going to fit it unless the put it in the old rail yards or is it the recently tarred & kerbed empty block across from the station that’s been the car park for years without the sealing that already too small that that’s a bit rich accepting merit for a tarring that.
As for the Avenel – Seymour rd they ripped up the old railway bridge for raising it. 14months and all the abutments, foundations and approaches are already there. Plus it is cut into the Ordovician sandstones that are the bedrock of Victoria. WTF are they doing that takes that long, unless milking money from an incompetent government.
A mate used to geotech for John Holland on the Melbourne tunnel, he doesn’t have a good opinion of them. Biggest bunch of imbeciles was what I think I heard him say once.
Iirc John Holland is now owned by the Chinese ie the CCP. What a joke public administration is here to allow such a thing to happen
A Liberal Govt gave them the Port of Darwin. Well, for 99 years anyway.
Please do not take this comment as any kind of support for our current intellectually challenged PM.
Rather, a comment on the three previously piss weak and intellectually challenged PM’s.
Beer time!
yeah just despicable- a Clayton’s privatization where the buyer is another gubmint
Rockdoctor earlier
Mmmyes, that was one thing which jumped out at me. Why double decker container wagons?
Would seem it would require a lot of expensive bridge raising or cutting excavation.
The more stuff you can cram on a freight train the more economical it is- common across the Nullabor.
Scientists?
Survey finds public perception of scientists’ credibility has slipped (Phys.org, 26 Jun)
I’m amused they don’t mention the difference between Republican and Democrat voters. But climate scientist do rate worse than other scientists.
Coal-free in 14 years as renewables rush in: New blueprint shows how to green the grid—without nuclear (TechXplore, 26 Jun)
Here’s who he/she/it is:
So so many drones.
“Coal will no longer be burned for power in Australia within 14 years.”
Jolly good – we can sell all of it to China and India, instead of just 99%.
And for power, we can burn your PhD – should smolder slowly for several years.
Thanks Mole, that was a Tucker tour de force – highly recommended viewing.
“I don’t mean to imply you’re stupid, perhaps you’re just pretending to be.”
As it just so turns out, she wasn’t (pretending).
Stupid female journalist. She kept trying the equivalent of the old ploy of, “Have you stopped beating your wife yet? Now what are your views on domestic violence?” Doubly dumb for trying it on Tucker. Hilarious.
Hmmm.
Some gobbledygook there.
How do transmission lines help generation except for minor accessibility advantages at the very margins?
And “firming gas capacity”?
What exactly is that and how does it work with exploration bans in place?
“firming gas capacity”
socialist botox
Zoom in on the picture, Cats and check out the soles of that illegitimate syphilitic ol’ geriatric’s shoes. Bloody hilarious.
I reckon Rishi’s wearing lifts too. He’s not that tall.
Rog – geriatric joe’s shoes have no heels, a flat wide sole and what looks like some form of ultra grip material on the bottom – this is presumably to help stop him falling over. There’s been quite a bit of commentary on this in the US recently.
I got a very nice pair of socks with little rubber bumps in hospital. Not really suitable at the G7. Biden’s handlers must be thinking just get him to November.
“Would seem it would require a lot of expensive bridge raising or cutting excavation.”
Duh.
They can do 10% of this, then claim it is too expensive and stop.
Then, because we can’t have double decker freight trains, it won’t be “economic” to run all that freight on rail.
BUT, they will have had plenty of wurkas digging holes and filling them in again while the current incumbents are in office, thus creating jerbs, and “stimulating” the economy.
And, of course they have to DO SOMETHING, and this is something, therefore they must do it.
Quadrant online editor Roger Franklin – back in the US (where he used to work and live) for the 2024 election – has a splendid essay on the financial crash of two big news organisations after they went woke.
Read it. Yes. Superb reminiscenses and analyses of how Murdoch entered the fray and why woke turned broke.
Quiz night questions the other day:
Q. What is the lowest tone of female singers?
A. The tone of disappointment
Q. How many vertebrae do humans have
A. X unless they are a politician in which case it is zero.
Lot of talk that US was behind attempted coup in Bolivia.
CIA gotta CIA
Yes, they do not like Bolivia’s moves towards Russia/ BRICS+ cooperation.
One banana republic seeking to “export democracy” to another.
Hopefully Albansleazy will don that ridiculous hat and engage in some performative mouth frothing about “yankee imperialism”.
I don’t know anything about that, but I heard that the Kenyan Govt has had a full and frank discussion with protesters at Parliament House. (????)
Live ammo, six dead.
Very dangerous place Nairobi, lots of very pissed of people.
Mombassa on the other hand, …..
Just to clarify, the Seymour – Avenel rd was the bridge that went over the railway. The height of the bridge wouldn’t have been enough. They need to raise it but 14 months seems excessive as all the trucks that once exited onto the GV Hwy now have to go through residential streets, also ads 5mins for local drivers to go round the detours.
However my experience a few months back questions the need for double deck container trains. The existing rail network doesn’t seem to be utilised in a way it once was or maybe it is we don’t manufacture as much as we once would have. A lot of empty cars that once would have been full. I don’t reckon the MEL – BNE will be any better.
Someone is making a killing then again a lot of these projects don’t make the projections. I’m waiting for the VFT drums to start beating again.
Most containers – ‘intermodal’ are landed in Melbourne and railed or trucked to the other states.
Senator Penny Wong’s warning after Fatima Payman crosses floor over Palestine statehoodJessica WangNewsWire
Thu, 27 June 2024 10:56AM
The Albanese government’s senate leader has cautioned government members to follow caucus rules after Fatima Payman became the first Labor member to cross the floor in 18 years.
The first term Western Australian senator broke ranks and sided with the Greens on a motion to recognise the state of Palestine.
In doing so, she broke Labor’s requirement for caucus members to vote in line with the party’s stand on policy.
While Senator Payman has avoided potential expulsion, the government’s leader in the Senate Penny Wong said she understood why “caucus members are feeling upset”.
Senator Wong, who was Australia’s first openly gay cabinet minister, notably toed the party line against same-sex marriage before it was finally legislated in 2017.
She voted against Bills attempting to legalise it in 2008 and 2010, and sided with the ALP’s stance that marriage was an institution between a man and a woman.
Reflecting on the time, Senator Wong said it was important the Labor caucus stood together as a “collective”.
“There’s a lot of personal commitments that we bring as members of the Labor Party and as members and senators elected on the Labor ticket, a personal commitment to the collective,” she said, speaking to the ABC.
“We stand together, and that is why it’s not just a matter of rules. It’s a matter of what we believe, even when we disagree.”
Senator Wong said it was more appropriate for members to “have those arguments internally,” adding that was what happened “over many years” during the marriage equality debate.
“That’s what I did. And I think that’s the right way to go about it,” she said.
This imported Afghan Labor MP has opened the floodgates for party dissidents to cross the floor and all that famous leftwing tribal discipline is out the window.
If the Faceless Men don’t crack down on the rebels, the Liars will start looking like the Stupid Frigging Liberals, who believe in nothing. Hahaha.
Mafia know how to deal with splitters
labor …must ….keep … anti-semitism … behind …. closed …. doors!
Don’t upset the Mean Girl.
DO NOT RESUSCITATE | MIDAZOLAM | NEGLECT | Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry
Kneel …
Interesting to hear Luigi the Unbelievable yesterday threatening to unleash the unions onto Dutton over noocular powah.
“It doesn’t create any jerbs” he cried.
I see one of those “two red button” memes here.
Button 1 : “Noocular is horrendously expensive.”
Button 2 : “Noocular requires bugger all labour to run”.
Criminals Have TAKEN OVER Downtown LA: Full Tour of The COLLAPSE
We have not thought much of LA for a very long time. Last time we were there – maybe 8 years or so ago, it was tawdry and down-at-heel outside of the suburbs of the glitterati. The road infrastructure, in particular, was rusting and desperately in need of maintenance. Downtown LA had a feeling of past its prime about it. And as for Venice Beach…..drugs were rife on the street, graffiti and rubbish spoiling the promenade. But do Aussie visitors see this? Not the people I have spoken to….they still “rave” about Venice Beach! I really think that Aussies are too impressed with what they have heard about, and not what is actually in front of their eyes!
BTW I do make the exceptions of the two Getty Museums – the Art and the Roman museums – stunning. And some parts of Manhattan Beach are nice.
It looks like from the above that the full catastrophe has now enveloped LA. Its what happens to a place peopled by many self-obsessed, shallow and Woke communities.
AKA, “the invisible hand job”.
Happy ending?
Was it good for you too?
Just dropped in on Michael Smith’s blog and saw the video of 7:30’s SaraHarridan’s interview with US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene –
– it is the second item down on Michael Smith’s blog — what a delicious takedown of the Harridan’s attempted gotcha — smug-faced SaraHarridan thought she’d get the better of and embarrass the US congresswoman, who is certainly smarter then Harridan gave her credit for. SaraHarridan made the mistake of thinking the Georgia drawl indicated dimwittedness — MTG takes no prisoners and has highly attuned bullshit detectors. Check it out
Mrs Snowcone has rendered 7:30 unwatchable.
Tingle too – ugly to look at and listen to.
Tucker having fun with the media.
I love how the bloke from the Silly Moaning Haemorrhoid says that it was uplifting to hear such positive comments about Australia from Tucker Carlson, he said we tend to forget that — no WE don’t forget that YOU effers in the media are always running it down and it is YOU effers in the media who forget what a lovely people there are in this wonderful country it is by sowing divisions and tribalising the nation.
Bloody well stated Tinta!
It’s a matter of what we believe, even when we disagree.
Leon Trotsky couldn’t be reached for comment.
Ëven if you think/know you are right you will back my faction or we will set the dogs on you”..
Or what?
Albo will come at them with a wet lettuce leaf in hand?
Does Penny do her own enforcement work?
She’s certainly a formidable, er…lady.
Speaking of Payman, I note she now wears a badge on her lapel featuring the aboriginal and Palestinian flags, not the Australian flag nor the WA flag.
Are West Australians really happy with this perfidious bint’s stance?
As she claims…
CFMEU
“Senator Wong said it was more appropriate for members to “have those arguments internally,” adding that was what happened “over many years” during the marriage equality debate.
“That’s what I did. And I think that’s the right way to go about it,” she said.”
No,it’s the WRONG way to go about it.
The right way would be to have parliament on a secret ballot, and each member votes what they see as the best interests of the voters in their electorate. If enough REPRESENTATIVES think it is in the best interests of their own electorate, it passes.
It’s called REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY.
It’s been destroyed by those who think their right to know how their representative votes and therefore hands the party itself power, over-rules the right to free and fair voting in parliament. They have handed enormous power to unelected party officials, ripping that same power away from voters.
Correct.
Indeed.
Waaaay back in 1992, a bloke named Basil Smith wrote a booklet on this very subject, A Chariot of Fire. It’s under 100 pages. I don’t know where you might find it these days, unless in a second hand bookshop, or if it has been uploaded to the web.
If someone knows how to upload it, they can have my copy. It deserves wide circulation.
Please. Why start now?
I’ve had a brilliant day, great sleep last night, neck not playing up, had an almost Eureka moment this morning. I haven’t been so excited since I discovered a hole in my pocket when I was a small boy. Checking on the interweb thingy only one of these things that is any good is manufactured at an exorbitant price. There is a need and cost is probably not an inhibitor to takeup, also is offset by not having to make other changes for the user. My design is far better and not so cumbersome and has features the other doesn’t. Why didn’t I think of this sooner. This afternoon I fixed the plug on the washing machine after it stopped mid cycle.
“I haven’t been so excited since I discovered a hole in my pocket when I was a small boy.” That line made me smile so much. Thank you GR.
I wonder if the ABC luvvies would be lionising Assange so fervently if, instead of leaking US diplomatic and intelligence material, he had leaked the super-secret details of their salaries or their ‘sources’. Hanging, drawing and quartering would be too good for him!
“I see Ronnie RAAF, stung by anyone daring to question his Marlborough-esque military genius, and its translation into current events has gone and showed some of said commentary to his alleged ‘mates’ (suuure you did) to establish legimitacy.”
Time for a “Bex and a lie down” KD.
I didn’t make any current affairs comments today, only comments about the titanic incompetence you display, in your highly amusing posts.
Oh, by the way, have you found Baidoa on a map of Somalia yet?
NW of Mogadishu old man.
Make sure the blue bit is on the right, otherwise you are holding the map upside down.
Enjoy the evening Wannabe.
“Wannabe.” Now, there’s an insult which goes straight to the heart.
UK Labour member arrested in Westminster gay honeypot scandal. Anyone seen mUnty in the last few days?
You can never rule out finding a nude Tory with an orange in their mouth walking the dog on Clapham Common, so to speak.
Maybe it’s true.
I prefer Vance, but perhaps he’s better off in the Senate.
I prefer Vance too. Has a good story to tell — boy from the wrong side made good. Can’t say the same for Ramaswamy.
For Cats with Foxtel, an entry for your diary: an interview that won’t be broadcast anywhere else with Ruperdink Mudrock celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of his founding of Australia’s only national general news paper, the Paywallian, at 8pm on Monday, July 15, 2024 on the TV channel he bought in 2016, Sky News Australia (Foxtel channel 600).
Despite the fevered dreams of his haters, Mudrock remains the world’s most hands-off newspaper owner.
Be great if his children were like that.
Unfortunately they are not.
“There is growing speculation that Donald Trump has decided on Vivek Ramaswamy for Vice President,”
Vivek would make a fantastic successor to a Trump presidency, IMO.
But AG pick is pretty important too.
That should be Kash Patel.
Please, please let it be Kash!
He knows where the skeletons are, and he knows who to go after and how.
And he will do it all “by the book”.
You’d have to say, Keel that the GOP side is brimming with talent. There’s an incredible array of talented people on the GOP side.
By contrast, the DNC cupboard is bare. A bunch of faceless men (led by Barack Obama’s shadow third presidency) operate the federal government as a party fiefdom with a puppet president in the White House thanks to a rigged election chosen because his corruption guarantees his compliance with the demands of the faceless men.
The faceless men have just one policy — wreck America ASAP. Therefore, there’s no need for policy formulation or policy argument — handy when DNC voters, like the rest of the population, are treated like naughty children.
The DNC is Nihilism 101. There’s no need for leadership because the dream is the destruction of everything.
Today we visited the Small Arms Museum in Lithgow NSW for the first time. What a fine little museum. Fundamentally a tribute to the early ingenuity of this small community, it traces the construction and foundation of the first facility of its kind in this country in 1912. It was the first mass production facility in Oz and depended on American engineering experience and Aussie expertise to commission. Great industrial history that is very accessible.
It is famous primarily for its fascinating collection of small to medium arms from various countries. It was particularly interesting to see the Israeli Uz 9mm machine gun compared to the more cumbersome high grade weapons such as the famous AK47. Similarly the Tavor which is now apparently more favoured by the IDF. And of course all the famous gun makers’ weapons were all on display.
What was dismaying was to find out that although small arms were still being produced on site, they are produced by a French company which rents the premises and strictly refuses any access or information about their production! Worse still, the volunteer guides of the museum told us their French landlords are now refusing them access to the lift in the building which allows wheelchair visitors access to the top floor of the museum!
The latter is hearsay and I intend to ask a friend who writes for a military journal – what is happening there. But a French company manufacturing weapons in Oz for themselves or international clients – WTF?????
Donated my late father’s Lithgow .22 to the museum (rather than have WAPOL crush it!). It turned out it was a pre-production unit, the only one they have, which was mistakenly included in a shipment for sale … the first sale after WWII. Must have a look one day.
Wow, they would have been pleased to get it.
My mate tells me Thales should have been dropped kicked decades ago. He said signing for and returning ammo especially High Explosive type is nothing short of a nightmare and they regularly break business rules with impunity. Boys in uniform hate them.
Apparently also from what my mate has heard through backchannels Lithgow is fighting for survival. The Army’s new modular weapon will be produced elsewhere and SIG Sauer pistols. Rumour he’s heard is Lithgow are trying tool up the 5.56mm Steyer up to the new 6.8mm calibre and actually have the ear of some in Canberra.
Will ask journalist mate about the 5.56mm Steyer. I doubt if many people have any idea of the scope of business of Thales in Oz.
Tom, the talent stack on the GOP is incredible.
The only thing the other said has is wacism accusations, lawfare and hoaxes. That’s it.
Who gets their names circled and why?
Youngkin
DeSantis
Massie
Kennedy
Vivek
Patel
Cruz
Jordan
Trump Jr
Hawley
I would even put Musk in the group now.
And JD Vance. The fact that the Republicans have such an embarrassment of riches for the future gives me some confidence that the US can get out of its mess. We have guests at 11 am tomorrow, and popcorn.
Rockdoctor upthread
It would seem the desire to create CFMEU jerbs would be key.
It doesn’t save on locos. They are still pulling the same weight (with less wind resistance for single decker).
It would require more wagons (but lower spec for single decker).
Jerbs fer maaates is the answer.
Double decker containers have been envisioned from the beginning by the instigator, Everald Compton.
The real problem of course has been and still is the MUA. Otherwise we would be shipping in ships not farting around with ridiculously expensive railways. Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane are all on the coast…
Ships? Think of the carbon footprint!
It’s a tribute to the MUA that they can make rail economic in Australia. How’s the Radelaide to Darwin line going? Think the RAV and my worldly goods did Melbournibad to Perf by rail, so it’s a big thumbs up from me.
and Perth.
I remain a free speech bipartisan. Assange should only have been prosecuted if both sides of the fence agreed to it.
What are the chances that an unspecified ‘security threat’ delays or postpones the first U.S. Pres. debate?
A steal at US$18 million. 40 acres in Wyoming.
$18 Million Wyoming Legacy Ranch Surrounded By Elk Refuge Sells ImmediatelyThe 40-acre Wapiti View Ranch in northwest Wyoming is surrounded by stunning views of the Tetons and the 25,000-acre National Elk Refuge. It had barely hit the market at nearly $18 million before it was snatched up.
Pay close attention to Biden’s hand in this video. He looks like a dog who is waiting for his treat because he’s been a good boy.
His hand is cupped, prepared for his ice cream.
The eyes though, effing insane!
https://x.com/moment_mirthful/status/1805756467347341628
Every day is Weekend at Bidens these days.
Oh God! want, want, want.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/06/26/18m-wyoming-legacy-ranch-surrounded-by-elk-refuge-sells-in-no-time/
I have been in that vicinity. It is stunning.
An author named CJ Box writes crime books set in Wyoming, the principal character is a Wyoming Fish and Game Warden. He gives good descriptions of the region
Dr. John Campbell
Lack of trust increasing
Snap! JC. 😀
That’s really weird.
Why?
I live on a farm.
I often look at beautiful properties for sale in the US.
You spend part of your time in the US and, obviously come across such advertisements.
Simples. 😀
Why?
It appears we picked up a pretty obscure story and posted it independently a few minutes apart. That’s what I found weird. Nothing else.
😀
Yeah, despite the current administration, the US has all six companies with over a trillion dollars market cap valuation.
They are:
1. Nvidia (NVDA)
Semiconductor company Nvidia crossed the trillion dollar mark in May 2023, and quickly climbed to the top spot as investors bid up its shares in anticipation of a sustained boom in AI. Nvidia designs advanced chips that are used in AI systems and its shares are up more than 170 percent in 2024 as of June. It ended 2023 up a remarkable 246 percent from the start of the year. The company generated about $27 billion in revenue during its fiscal 2023.
Market cap: $3.34 trillion
Stock price: $135.58
2. Microsoft (MSFT)
Microsoft is best known for its suite of software offerings including Microsoft Office. The company generated nearly $212 billion in sales during its 2023 fiscal year. Microsoft closed its $69 billion acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard in October 2023.
Market cap: $3.32 trillion
Stock price: $446.34
3. Apple (AAPL)
Apple designs and makes a variety of consumer tech products and has one of the best known brands in the world. Apple generated more than $200 billion in iPhone sales during its fiscal 2023 and total sales reached $383 billion. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is one of the company’s largest shareholders and Buffett has repeatedly praised the tech giant’s business.
Market cap: $3.29 trillion
Stock price: $214.29
4. Alphabet (GOOG and GOOGL)
Alphabet is the parent company of search giant Google and generates the majority of its over $307 billion in revenue from online advertising. Google also has a cloud business, owns YouTube and has a variety of other ventures it classifies as “other bets.”
Market cap: $2.17 trillion
Stock price: $176.45
5. Amazon (AMZN)
Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world and has also built a sizable cloud business in Amazon Web Services. Amazon generated total sales of roughly $575 billion in 2023, including more than $90.8 billion from AWS. Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos was the second-richest person in the world as of March 2024, according to Bloomberg.
Market cap: $1.90 trillion
Stock price: $182.81
6. Meta Platforms (META)
Social media giant Meta Platforms rejoined the trillion-dollar club in January 2024, but it’s no stranger to the list. Meta previously hit a $1 trillion market cap back in 2021, when it was still known as Facebook. Meta generated nearly $135 billion in total revenue in 2023 and its stock share price jumped nearly 189 percent that same year. In addition to being the parent company of Facebook, Meta also owns Instagram and WhatsUp, and is one of several tech giants betting big on artificial intelligence.
Market cap: $1.27 trillion
Stock price: $499.49
The rest of the world? ZERO.
I read an interesting piece recently by a journalist who had interviewed Assange on several occasions during his sojourn in the Ecuadorian embassy.
The interviewer described him as someone who seemed to have been raised by wolves, rarely bathed, ate with his hands, licked his plates, left his and his cat’s faeces about the place,
I have lost the link, can anyone retrieve it. I believe it was by a journalist for The Times.
You want something in the lease agreement to cover this.
Er…I’m no expert, but I’m fairly certain wolves don’t crap in their den.
mareeS,
I mentioned in the last OT that, when Assange first came to world attention, I came across an article about Assange that went in depth about his being raised within the The Family. The cult that was presided over by Anne Hamilton-Byrne.
Assange wasn’t one of the “bought”, orphans. His parents were members of the cult. He was raised alongside the “biological children”, of Anne Hamilton-Byrne, but was not subjected to the torture and use of Psychotropic drugs that the other children were.
That sort of up-bringing would enhance any thoughts a person had about their power over “lesser beings”.
The article disappeared from the internet not long after. Have not been able to find it since. Assange is not the “freedom fighter”, super hero that mainstream media has been bombarding us with since this unfortunate imbroglio.
Yes – there have been similar reports. Clearly that contributed to the desire of the embassy staff to get rid of him.
Tucker Carlson Responds to Julian Assange’s Release During Australia Speech
They’re Using Banks To Bring Everything Down – Whitney Webb 2024 Prediction
That reminds me.
Has anyone seen m0nster this afternoon?
I think he is frantically searching about the design of military and civilian nuclear reactors, trying to find evidence for a claim he made on the previous thread.
@SputnikInt
EXCLUSIVE: Criticize NATO, get couped?
Mmm…Bolivia’s biggest investor is the CCP.
So we can assume the president is bought and paid for.
Heads up…we’re in a new Cold War.
We once took a bunch of customers to a dude ranch in Montana. The scenery was amazing.
I always try to get a window seat on the LA to NY or reverse. It’s incredible country. There’s the desert, the Rockies and then the plains. I spend most of my time looking out the window trying to take it all in and never grow tired of it.
I have been to Jackson, WY a few times as a friend lives near there. The area takes your breadth away. Only been there in the winter and should go at other times.
We went skiing several times out west like Snowmass and Utah. Skiing on the east coast is dreadful as the “snow” is basically ice and it’s absolutely freezing. Skiing in the places like Colorado and Utah is a real experience because the snow is dry powder.
I learned to ski in Jackson Hole (the town is Jackson, the ski resort is Jackson Hole). Skied in Alta in Idaho as well. I think the road (teton pass) that connects Jackson and Victor, ID collapsed the other day.
Hear the same about Japan, as well.
In my daydreams, I would research Wyoming as I had read that it was the state in the US with the most freedom. The least busybodies and officious rules and pratts that push rules.
Montana, “Blue Sky Country”, was second.
If you ever get a chance to do it by rail take it. There is a line that runs from Denver to San Fran via Salt Lake City and a spur that runs from Salt Lake City north to West Yellowstone.
Absolutely amazing scenery.
We drove the Beartooth Highway (starting in Montana and then into Wyoming) on our way to Yellowstone in May ’93. Four seasons in one day.
Holds the record for the biggest one day range in temp.
The previous one-day greatest temperature range (and still holding the record for greatest fall in temperature) also took place in Montana: the town of Browning experienced a drop of 56°C (100°F), from 7°C (44°F) to -49°C (-56°F) on 23-24 Jan 1916.
Greatest temperature range in a day – Guinness World Records
To my great regret we haven’t yet got to Wyoming and Montana – though my natural preferences are for such landscapes. What do they call it, “Big Sky” country. Magnificent.
Make sure you bring summer and heavy winter clothes .See above. 🙂
These People Are Fundamentally Anti-Human – THIS is Their Plan For You
Nobel Economists Bash Trump, Hail Biden in Pre-Debate Inflation Attack (breitbart.com)
Garbage people, garbage ‘profession’, garbage institutions
‘cept for your namesake, Milt!
And Rabz is a decent fellow.
Very true Rog
And Judith Sloan often writes so well and with such amounts of common sense that one forgets her dismal profession …
If Trump wants to foster a Liberal revival, VR is the obvious choice. He’s the only worthwhile orator.
Nah. Vivek has certain attitudes that aren’t helpful (I am being coy, but yes I have noticed), and he isn’t battlehardened.
I would prefer Sarah Palin, who IS battlehardened and has always been straight down the line.
Burgum or Vance seem more likely, though, from what I’ve been reading. Tom Cotton is a maybe.
His fund (and their practices) will come under close scrutiny.
Any GOP contender’s underwear color would come in for close scrutiny and they would have 51 experts suggesting it’s a sign of Nazi/racist leaning.
Where’s Wodney?
LOL
Sanchez
Shoosh up.
Seeing a few reports about members of Abu Amra clan taking revenge against hamas for the killing of their Muktar (leader) and another family member.
It might be comparatively easy to melt into the crowd after an exchange with the IDF but Gazan civilians not so much.
https://x.com/Israelkicksass/status/1805925379032465824?t=A29FTMkwqvkgEW3ASaaW2g&s=19
From AEMO …
WTF?
I read that as them saying they want 100% Renewballs penetration at will.
What I think it really means is that, on a windy and sunny (but not too hot) spring Sunday, they might open the taps on every hydro and run every wind turbine flat out to get 100% Renewballs for 30 minutes
Not promising. Would require massive duplication of generation assets and vast transmission network. Existing levels of wind and solar are only possible without brown and blackouts due to interconnectors to filthy coal plants.
I wonder, if part of Assange’s plea agreement, he undertook that he won’t reprise Wikileaks again? Have the terms of the agreement been made public?
We haven’t heard from Flying Duk for a while.
I think he made a brief appearance on the breadcrumbs thread.
I reckon it has to be car 3.
I say 4
3
Dutch Government did a 180 after the massive protests by Dutch Farmers.
The Kiwis ditched the crap as soon as Horse-face left for the UN.
Denmark says, Hold my Beer.
https://slaynews.com/news/denmark-punish-farmers-cow-emissions-fight-global-warming/
“We have all heard someone using the following phrase, “Go shove it up your ass.” Leave it to politicians to put that phrase into actual use.”
https://www.themainewire.com/2024/06/maine-is-handing-out-free-boofing-kits-to-help-fentanyl-addicts-squirt-drugs-up-their-butts/
I still can’t understand how that doesn’t make the government a participant in a criminal act, an outright provider of illegal drug paraphernalia.
Eyrie
June 27, 2024 7:09 pm
Was he vaxxed?
No.
Eyrie
June 27, 2024 7:09 pm
Possibly wun off wiff Wodney.
Have the terms of the agreement been made public?
Just did a quick dive through Conservative Treehouse, Ace of Spades, Small Dead Animals, Breitbart and then Goolag search. No particulars, nothing. CT has the letter up but nothing else.
Guess it may have no disclosure clauses.
Labor looks to change superannuation to tax ‘unrealised gains’
Interesting to know what union super funds think about this brainfart.
I doubt they’d be happy.
Will they allow unrealised losses as deductions? No? Thought not.
@MikeBenzCyber
frankly, if the person in power has his opponent arrested, mass arrests his opponent’s supporters, & uses state power to get those supporters kicked off social media, we’re way past the world where “debate” matters, or frankly, needs to be held at all.
Eyrie
June 27, 2024 7:09 pm
He commented yesterday on a different thread.
Assange Plea Deal in full
Assange Plea Deal in full
Cheers, I was wondering too.
So in other words he has to hand back anything unpublished and not do it again.
He seems to have got off lighter than what I thought he would.
So has the sentencing document been released? The plea agreement isn’t binding until/unless the court approves and acts upon it and the judge can accept or modify the terms.
I also suspect there is a classified version of that agreement given the nature of the case. There could very well be issues the Govt wants addressed but not in open court.
Victoriastan at it again. Labor Victorian Death tax by stealth. You can submit a submission by July 19th.
Review of probate feesProvide your feedback on proposed changes to fees charged by the Probate Office that sits within the Supreme Court of Victoria.
https://engage.vic.gov.au/review-of-probate-fees