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Exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, eh? What will go off next? Their Sony Walkmans? The telex machine?
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Holland also produced a substantial number of volunteers for the SS. I had a workmate who told me his Grandfather…
This was a cyber attack similar to the Stuxnet worm that crippled Iran’s nuclear facilities a decade or so ago.…
Well, time to get into it…
Well, here we are. A nice shiny new fred!
Shame if summit should happen to
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So when the craven MSM isn’t ghosting the GOAT, they’re cocking a snook with sark.
Novak Djokovic has received a walkover to the Wimbledon semi-finals after Alex de Minaur pulled out of Wednesday’s showdown at the last minute.
Djokovic was set for an incredibly awkward return to Centre Court after publicly slamming the booing British crowd in an angry on-court interview on Monday, calling them out for their disrespect and furiously insisting they ‘can’t touch’ him.
(their underscoring)
We know full well that before Djokovic defied the international Wuhan Flu thought police, any match against him would be couched in “privilege to play my idol” style respect. Now a withdrawal due to injury- bad luck, and a hazard of the profession, and exactly what happened to Djokovic at the French Open a few weeks ago, is a “gift” to the current world #2.
A boo’ing crowd- don’t forget the disgraceful chair ump tolerating the Melbourne crowd boo’ing Medvedev between serves, setting the trend– is now apparently normal at the bien-pensant All England. And it makes a reappearance “incredibly awkward” for a bloke with more patience and guts than anyone else I could name.
Ferkin cowards. Nadal enjoys the fellatio of an extended farewell tour, Goolagong Cawley gets trotted out for every car door opening, Federer is busy with photo shoots. The Greatest Tennis Player Of All Time is still playing, and can’t get arrested.
Tho ironically, the ghosting of his legacy is a nod to the blob consensus that he should have been blackballed.
Scientific Progress is Slowing Down. But Why? (youtube.com)
Ooooh…6 in the batting order… 🙂
Greetings from Arles, France, where we have just been to a bullfight in the old Roman arena.
One of the new type of fights where athletic young men attempt to snatch a string tied to the bull’s horns.
One the bulls actually managed to smash into the side barrier after one of the blokes and somersaulted into the aisle between arena and audience.
Most strange there were no females competing.
Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
LEAVE ALL OUR NAMES ALONE
COMMENT – TIM BLAIR
11 Jul 2024
“It’s not really renaming,” Dharawal man Gregory Andrews says of the proposed renaming of the Cooks River in Sydney’s south and southwest to Goolay’yari.
“It’s giving back the name that it’s always had.”
On the other hand, though, it definitely isn’t.
At most, it would be giving the waterway a written Anglicised title based on a spoken Indigenous phrase – complete with a Euro-posh mid-word apostrophe, presumably for added indigenousness.
The push to rename the river – currently named for British explorer James Cook – comes from four Sydney councils, Sydney Water and an Aboriginal partnership group including people culturally connected to the river.
Mr Andrews – who held consultations for the proposal and whose own name, by the way, could stand a little non-Anglo renaming – added during a Wednesday chat with the ABC: “It doesn’t detract from James Cook and all of his achievements as a great explorer of his time.”
Except it kind of does. Stripping a person’s name from something isn’t generally considered an honour. Just consider the likes of Alan Bond or Rolf Harris.
“If [Cook] had ‘discovered’ it today, he wouldn’t call it after himself,” Andrews went on, referring to Cooks River. “He probably would ask what it was called.”
Let’s leave aside the former high-level diplomat’s extraordinary ability to read the mind of someone who was killed nearly 250 years ago, and focus instead on the broader push for Indigenous renaming of existing locations.
Fraser Island is now K’gari, and Ayers Rock Uluru; Northern NSW’s Cape Byron became Walgun in March while Orange’s Mt Canobolas is called Gaanha-bula and Ben Boyd National Park has been known as Beowa National Park since 2021.
A proposal to rename part of the Blue Mountains Gulumada was discussed last year.
As a practical matter, this push is as confounding as it is tokenistic. Indigenous Australians overwhelmingly speak English.
Australia isn’t Canada, where there are two recognised languages: horrible semi-English and tortured almost-French, requiring two sets of everything with words.
In Australia, we are mostly united by a shared means of communication. This makes life easier. Mention any place or presence or anything at all, and chances are most of us will immediately know what’s going on.
No subtitles are needed. No translations. Everyone’s on the same page: Indigenous, Anglos and many others.
By contrast, replacing established Anglo-sounding place names with Indigenous alternatives invites as much difficulty as would be generated by trading in established Indigenous place names for newlycoined Anglo options.
Nobody wants Dubbo to be renamed Land of Busy Bulldozers. Nobody wants Bondi to be renamed Little New Zealand. Nobody wants Woolloomooloo to be renamed We Can’t Afford to Live Here, as accurate as all of those suggestions may be.
Even an aggressively name-changing nation such as India gave everyone a hand by making sure new names were similar to old ones. Mumbai sounds like Bombay. Kolkata sounds like Calcutta. Chennai sounds nothing like Madras, but you can’t win ’em all.
Our new or proposed names, however, are an absolute lottery. During the AFL’s recent Sir Doug Nicholls round, named after the athlete and lifelong Indigenous advocate, Melbourne was referred to on scoreboards and in reports as Narrm – “the Aboriginal name for Melbourne”.
Fremantle became, for that round, Walyalup. According to the AFL, “‘Ngadlu Yartapuulti’ is the direct translation” of “Port Adelaide”.
Also from the AFL, the Adelaide Crows “received language approvals from the Kaurna Warra Karrpanthi Language Corporation” for the use of “Kuwarna”, meaning “crows”.
Translating the West Coast Eagles presented something of a challenge, but the Perth-based AFL outfit was up to it, devising Waalitj Marawar – or “Eagles of the West”.
Perhaps there are more urgent Indigenous issues than coming up with token titles that’ll be used for one round of Australian Rules football.
At the same time, place names are important. They indicate physical, historical and even psychological locations. They serve both practical and evocative purposes.
Perhaps the life of Sir Doug Nicholls may provide us with a guide. Born in Cummeragunja, NSW, the eventual governor of South Australia died 81 years later in Mooroopna, Victoria.
His entire life working on behalf of Indigenous Australians was bracketed by Indigenous place names. To celebrate Sir Doug and other Aboriginal activists, then, it might be best to find new places to be honoured with Indigenous names rather than renaming existing sites.
The appropriate circumstances are right in front of us.
Sydney, NSW and much of Australia are suffering from a prolonged housing shortage. As that shortage is addressed, we’ll hopefully soon be blessed with a great many new suburbs, towns and even cities.
They’ll all need new names. Leave Cooks River alone as a historical marker, and get Indigenous naming strategies in order for the next Australia.
Think of each one as an opportunity for unity.
George Clooney in the NY Times:
“We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly”.
Headline at Daily Mail article.
George Clooney calls on Joe Biden to STEP DOWN from the 2024 presidential race and rips his brutal debate performance
Is there anything new under the sun?
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In 132 AD, the brilliant Chinese polymath Zhang Heng crafted an extraordinary device that captivated the ancient world with its enigmatic precision.
This seismoscope, an elegantly designed bronze vessel adorned with eight dragon heads, held a secret within its form. Each dragon clutched a bronze ball, poised above the open mouth of a waiting frog.
Initially met with skepticism and doubt, Zhang Heng’s invention faced ridicule from those who couldn’t fathom its capabilities.
However, the turning point came when the seismoscope detected an earthquake, and a ball dropped from one of the dragons, pointing west.
Despite no immediate tremors felt locally, a few days later, messengers arrived with news of an earthquake in the west, proving Zhang Heng’s invention accurate and silencing his critics.
When the earth trembled, an unseen mechanism within the vessel was stirred, prompting one of the dragons to release its ball into the corresponding frog’s mouth.
This act revealed the direction of the distant upheaval, guiding aid to where it was needed most. Zhang Heng’s invention, a blend of artistry and engineering, stood as a marvel of ancient ingenuity, its true workings a testament to the profound understanding of natural forces.
Johannes Leak brilliant last night at IPA’s Laugh this is serious where he .discussed with Fred Pawle the ideas behind his cartoons He has Elbow at Rock Bottom from the Voice Leak is so clever with the words as well as the pictures . Video made so will be on their website soon
Watch for the lettuce bit that’s me
Gee whiz, I’m now onto a third clip from this channel and some crashes are the worst I’ve ever seen.
The clip titles are not click bait. Just keep in mind, some vision is downright shocking to the core.
You can be the most responsible driver and it can count for little due to the actions of others.
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Tom’s Toons are MIA. I hope all is well with him and his pesky computer.
Faustus, for what it’s worth, I posted my views on your comment about the JW apprentice back on the dead thread.
Get in here Tom and explain yourself.
In one of the most unlikely developments in the whole crumbling Biden health edifice, it looks as if it’s George Clooney who’s the little boy shouting out that the king has no clothes.
Every world leader, staffer, media presenter and Dem satellite has known for years about the old fraud’s decline. Every. Single. One.
Including our own PM, our US ambassador and FM.
And no one said a word. They all went along, and even promoted the lie.
They all deserve to burn.
Linky here.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/10/george-clooney-biden-step-down
It’s the Guardian, so possibly all lies, but it appears in other unlinkable articles also.
And no one said a word. They all went along, and even promoted the lie.
Yep. This is the time we live in. We’re told not to believe our eyes, in fact we’re commanded, ordered and bullied to not believe our eyes.
I am in a female only bathroom and a ‘person’ walks in, who I both see and sense is male, that person is dressed in female attire then that person undresses and I see a swinging penis. I flee in horror and complain to the authorities. But apparently that person is not a male, that person is a female. I am the guilty party for not wanting that person, a biological male pervert, in female only spaces.
Two years ago a woman in a hospital in Britain was raped whilst lying in a hospital bed in a supposedly woman only ward. She was held down and raped by an erect penis, that penis belonged to a person in a bed near her. When she complained she was told that such an event was impossible, as there were no ‘males’ in the ward. it took months before the hospital finally admitted that there was a transgender female, or as I prefer to call him, a male sex predator/pervert, in the hospital ward.
This era will be defined as a time of lies, lies and lies.
Methinks the Demonrats and their celebrity supporters, like Mr Clooney, are panicking
When you’ve lost George Clooney …
”Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly”.
Even the pronouns are true.
LGBTQ activists speak out against a California bill which would make it a felony to purchase children for s*x. They claim it will affect LGBTQ people more.
The lack of self awareness is mind boggling.
Clooney panicking is correct.
He and Julia Roberts held a star studded fundraiser for the pervy pensioner only a few weeks back. Clooney was raving about how great Biden was.
bwahahahahaha.
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I see Clooney has had a smarmy bet each way also.
Apparently Joe was okay in 2020. Bull. But Covid came in very handy to keep him from the public gaze and carefully curate any interactions. The media was on board entirely, braying full throatedly about his talents and shrieking down anyone who questioned his fitness to govern.
And then we had the clown moppets at the lectern crying “cheap fakes” when actual vision is broadcast showing his physical decline.
And now, an ironic Clooneyism…a Perfect Storm of mental breakdowns, physical markers, verbal nonsense. No one can hide it. It isn’t possible to suppress it, like the laptop, the paper trails, the cheating. It’s there, out and still proud.
Meanwhile, the US holds political prisoners from a bogus “Insurrection”. Forget the Dem sponsored Antifa riots, the Floyd hoax, the Afghanistan debacle.
But…but…but…Trump!
SloJo has to stay on the ticket.
They can’t be allowed to dodge the bloodbath, electoral or otherwise, they deserve.
I’d include monty in there.
Australia’s biggest clown deserves to be recognised.
!!
Lotocoti, I’m not hopeful of an electoral “bloodbath”.
The operatives are all still in place to repeat 2020. Plus a few more. Desperation will make them vicious, unyielding, blatant. This is life and death for them, being completely won over to a wickedness that they see as good.
Things do not bode well for the US. We have decided to cancel our proposed holiday there next year. I do not want to get caught up in it, I’ve experienced enough riots and urban unrest and I refuse to pay for the privilege.
Clooney had to hark back to the Joe of 2010.
And of course he’s declining progressively.
That’s what aging is.
Being an old man though Biden will be the quintessential stubborn old man whilo refuses to admit he is way past it.
He hope he says no to Clooney’s request.
(Of course the Guardian had a bob each way by implying Clooney was motivated by Biden calling the Netanyahu warrant outrageous)
If there is unrest it will be in democrat cities like LA, Seattle and Chicago.
I’d like to go Midwest but the dollar still deters me.
Hail to the Chick: Dirty Jill Is at it Again
I think it’s a bit simplistic to focus all the blame on Mrs Prez.
This is not a one woman dynasty. The two of them are convenient figureheads for a party, not the Marcoses or Ceausescus. So far it has been expedient to have them front and centre, and it has appealed to her warped sense of pride.
Events have now caught up with them. That doesn’t mean that recalcitrance will get them anywhere once the party withdraws support (which it still can do). But they’ve left it way too late.
Thhere are plenty of clips on Youtube of Biden behaving inappropriately with little girls. In what was once Australia, he would have been taken out behind the barn and sorted out.
Time for the Democrats to call in a real President. Previous experience and liked by the public. Able to follow a script.
Bring Martin Sheen back to the White House !
Peter Van O has good article in Daily Mail about the PM pretty much abandoning his electorate office due to pro Palestinian protesters. Does not have the guts to get them removed.
As big a sign of weakness you will see.
I’d include monty in there.
Australia’s biggest clown deserves to be recognised.
Well…yes. Oh and note how the pervert apologist came on here two nights ago and blatantly lied about Farage not turning up to Westminster? Called out for his lie, does the pervert apologist apologise? No, nup, he just doubles down. You see, they’re unapologetic about their lying, so we must be unapologetic about exposing them and smacking them down. Turning the other cheek to them, ignoring them, being polite to them no longer ‘cuts’. It’s time to be ruthless.
I note overnight the normally very civil and polite Jacob Rees-Mogg smacked down that vile Macbethian skank, Emily Maitlis. That’s how you do it. Like the alien in Alien, the left have become empowered by feeding off our decency and good manners.
No more.
Still a sewer, an antisemitic one.
https://x.com/joshburnsmp/status/1810591310795120872?t=2Ejf1EwJ9mvUo9U220EYmQ&s=19
Meanwhile, in the formerly united Kingdom, Waah!
Labour appeaser is outraged he lost to the very people
those racist Reform Gammons were warning about.
A perfesser of Business Analytics at the University of Sydney has managed to write a whole article at The Conversation on the decline of real wages in Australia without once mentioning productivity.
He is also a member of the National Tertiary Education Union and an advocate for the NSW Teachers Federation.
One wonders what his students are learning.
How to become an economist who’s wrong about everything, all the time.
Places and landmarks typically get renamed after an invasion or a coup d’etat.
I don’t remember one, so why all the renamings?
Had a good laugh at Rosie’s link to Trumble’s rant about Nucalear Power on X-Twitter, complete with the “Readers have added context” amendment.
Man, that’s gotta sting!
Before Musk he could block at will, have his comments promoted in feeds because special blue bird status and ring the Twatter Asia-Pacific content commissars to have little people banned on a whim.
Now he has to suffer the little people trampling all over His Pronouncements with pesky facts.
Had an uncomfortable chat with a mate- in his defence he’s on Dry July- about how awful, nasty, disgusting a human being Trump was, but it was madness and cruelty to persist with Dementia Joe on the ticket. So, he has no exposure to Trump the man- hasn’t read his famous books, never saw his famous TV show, never clocked a livestream of one of his mega rallies. Shakes his head in incredulity at his massive popular vote in 2016 and 2020. All he knows is what the Blob Media has instructed him upon.
But now he’s flabbergasted that Biden has finally been exposed, because he literally could not hide in his basement during the debate. He of course doesn’t know sh*t about Biden’s slurping over girls, his business greed, his temper, his fully cognisant nastiness and duplicity. Maybe he doesn’t want to know. So I try to distill it into something brief, just to make a point that the Trump haters are useful idiots and/or frogs in the pot-
“Everything you think you know about Trump, you know from the media, and that media is a united front and a single desk.
That same behemoth media has taught you all you think you know about Biden, but just now the ABC-NBC-BBC keyhole couldn’t look away from his mental decline.
You’re going to be really shocked when they can’t hide the druggie son, the rejected granddaughter, the corruption, the incompetence, the incontinence, the abuse, the plagiarism, the lies, the cover-ups and the decades of drooling over prepubescent girls any more.”
An old man gets on a bus but there are no seats available so he stands and leans on his walking stick.
The bus brakes and he slips.
A young lady says, “Hey, if you had a rubber on the end of your stick that wouldn’t have happened”
The old man replies, “If your dad had taken that same advice I’d have a f**k’n seat!”
Dover my early morning spray is awaiting approval- is it because I typed in Wuh*n?
There’s never a three eyed koala around when you need one.
It’s called appeasement, Barry.
Rest assured, the Muslim brethren are taking note.
Grassroots candidates backed by Muslim Votes will appeal to young voters who don’t share their parents’ ‘brand loyalty’ to LaborSenior Labor figures are confident the party can see off any challenges mounted by pro-Palestine independent candidates, despite a warning young Australian Muslim voters with no ‘brand loyalty’ to the party are poised to prove them wrong.
From the Hun.
Hope Tom’s ok.
Here’s this morning’s spooner
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/d26b696022e1385356a7ae83578b46ad?width=1024
Speaking of such things…
Pauline Hanson tells local council official to ‘get lost’ after they called police to stop her filming Sky News Australia interview (10 Jul)
Good stuff lady, telling Labor council karens to nick off is a fine thing indeed! From what I can tell Qld plod had better sense than acceding to the karens’ callout. Which is a pity because the footage would have been all over the nightly news.
The show lost something when Sorkin got off the nose candy.
That’s Arky on the Old Thread telling me and Delta not to sook over the way things are politically right now in Oz and worldwide. I said I was depressed by it and Delta agreed she was too. A good sleep on the cloudforms of Mt. Everest helps, Arky (that’s my new mattress, another current and thankfully apolitical source of dismay), and thanks for the gee up towards resistance, but I am still feeling dismayed about the ascendant forces in the world that line up against reason. And it’s not a new realisation, for like you, Arky, I’d seen it all in universities twenty or more years ago when I retired to get away from it – and now it has followed me into every part of life. There’s no escape. It has such a Soviet feel to it.
I guess this is just me sensing the polarisation that exists, for the lefties feel it too, as we see from their various derangement syndromes, especially re Trump. Hairy hugs me and says Trump will triumph and the tide will turn.
Realistically, I think we have to gear up for a long period of disappointment as Trump is a man not a god, though if he wins my mood would substantially improve. If he doesn’t win, that’s when we will really need resilience. It took years to defeat communism in the past and that fight is still on.
As always, Hollywood A-listers show us the way:
And why didn’t he speak out at the time? Why did he wait until after Biden’s catastrophic yet entirely predictable debate to have this Come to Jesus moment? No one with more than two brain cells to rub together would give this person’s opinion the slightest credence.
As Clooney did until the herd moved in this direction. He is even singing from the same hymn sheet as the rest of the Democrat insurgents, professing his “love” for Biden. Please. No one loves Biden. He has never been that kind of politician – he has never attracted such affection from the Democrat base. Bill Clinton and Obama, absolutely. Biden, never.
From Clooney’s letter:
This guy could have spoken out when he first knew that Biden wasn’t capable of carrying out the duties of the office, but he didn’t. It is obvious why – everyone knows the executive branch will continue to function even if the President is a sack of potatoes. And if it was a sack of potatoes and not Trump, he (and all of these other Dems) would be absolutely fine with that.
Clooney only now speaks out because Biden’s senility can’t be hidden any longer and this likely means Trump gets a second term, because the voters won’t accept a sack of potatoes as their President. He also has the protection of the herd – coward. He was actually complicit in the effort to hide Biden’s senility from the wider public, so f*** him.
Fact is that Biden ain’t going anywhere. He is a stubborn old bastard and his condition will make him more stubborn. He has won his party’s nomination and he’s locked in. Despite the noisy few, Biden still can count on many congressional allies whose re-election prospects he can make very difficult if he chooses to.
The Dems rolled the dice on the rate of Biden’s cognitive decline; that it wouldn’t be apparent until after he was safely re-elected. A foolish bet, given he was obviously impaired in 2020 and these things go downhill quickly. But they are stuck with their dud bet, and with Biden. No amount of celebrity whining is going to change that.
The infiltration and control of civil society was always a Communist goal.
This is actually where the struggle against prog-leftism is paramount and where ordinary citizens can make a real difference.
calli
July 11, 2024 8:14 am
Maybe not all the blame.
But how much of the blame do you think she and her crack-head step-son bear?
80%?
93.1%?
If those two weren’t on the scene, do you think Dementia Joe would have got a sniff (deliberate) of the nomination this time around?
He has a 40 year accumulation of dirt files which she is now custodian of, and is not afraid to deploy.
She has to be a total narcissist to put him through the humiliation of having his mental decline on public display so she can hang on to the trappings of office.
There was a publicity shot published recently of her poring over several weighty folders with the caption “preparing for the G8 summit”.
Who the fck does she think she is?
This is from Tim Blair’s column. The point is not renaming for the sake of history or honouring indigenous locations. This whole thing is an expression of rage at losing the voice referendum so badly they need it to shove it up our faces. This is an expression of power, see we can do it and there is nothing you can do about it.
Eventually there will be a backlash, then we will have fun rediscovering the real history and restoring it to the people.
People ask what hold the Bidens have over people which prevents them from stating the obvious about Dementia Joe.
Would it be a stretch to speculate as to whether they might be in possession of at least some of Jeffrey Epstein’s trove of blackmail material?
Biden confidants are on record saying he doesn’t make any important decisions as POTUS without consulting her.
As bad as Biden looks on the Teev, I imagine in real life it would be shockingly worse.
I have been around one or two older rock stars who on screen look great. Make up and various tricks and the lens work a certain magic. In person they look weird, surgically altered and alien.
in reality Biden is that guy in the nursing home that staff are just waiting to die so they can clean up his bed for someone else.
Tim Blair can put a complete thesis into one sentence so concisely.
What he says about placenames in his article above rings very true; changing the name of the Cook River to appease current activist aboriginal sentiments is doing a disservice to the nation. There are other ways to introduce new names, as he suggests, rather than the wholesale renaming we see currently. Leave the names to stand. Plenty of them are already aboriginal. That alone has an historical significance that would be diminished by simply overlaying them with virtue-signalling aboriginal names on established settler ones.
Many apologies for the non-appearance of ‘toons at 0400. My (2015) iPhone7 battery died yesterday and I had to wait for my local iPhone Guy to open this morning to get a new one.
Thanks to duncanm for posting today’s John Spooner.
Normal service resumes tomorrow.
C’mon Arky he’s totally fine! Sharp as a razor. He’d even beat Trump at golf, but he doesn’t have time for a game apparently.
Joe Biden’s Cognitive Issues Are Destined for the Memory Hole (11 Jul)
The Last 3 Weeks of the News Cycle Just Became Misinformation (Daniel Greenfield, 10 Jul)
Surely you believe the MSM? They would never lie, never. It’s unthinkable.
Roger
July 11, 2024 10:06 am
Someone who commissions their own “walk on” theme fanfare from the Military Band might just be getting a bit ahead of themselves.
The more rabid Dimocrats are wailing about Trump making himself President for life if he is elected.
I think Doctor Jill is a far higher risk of pulling some “Democracy saving” stunt like that than Trump ever is.
From Facebook.
“It doesn’t matter what George Clooney says. We’ll know Hollywood is serious when they send Alec Baldwin to the White House.”
At the same time, place names are important. They indicate physical, historical and even psychological locations. They serve both practical and evocative purposes.
If only those folks who did the original naming had inserted apostrophies we wouldn’t be having this problem now ……. duuuuuuuuh!
Talk about the swamp, George Soros’ so engaged to Huma Abedin former bestie of Hilary Clinton and daughter of a Muslim extremist.
You couldnt make this stuff up.
Dear, dear..! I read stories like this and despair (as a “houso”) at the naivity of ‘white” folk when dealing with gummint depts. especially, Housing ..! Folk don’t seem to realise that “Houso”, regardless of state, views “honesty” as a sign of weakness ( the come-in-spinner variety) ..
This sort of thing would never happen to an ethnic cos they understand the, unwritten, “rules” .. never, ever, voluntarily supply current updates unless all other options have exhausted ..
What this family should have dun was behave as tho nuttin’ was amiss by either paying her rent, as usual & dropping by once or twice a week to switch lights on/off and put the bin(s) out or move a rellie in whilst mum was in hospital ….. until a death certificate or notification she would be permanently domiciled in a nursing home she would have retained the tenancy .. Go to prison for 3 months and your still classed as the tenant (and on reduced rent .. LOL!) .. FFS!
It’s an unfortunate fact but honesty and, certain, gummint depts should never be mixed …
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-11/irene-dornan-aneurysm-recovery-social-housing-waitlist/104081364
Delta A
July 10, 2024 8:45 pm
Delta A:
The next will be the fear of the perimeters of the holes forming a pattern that arouses anxiety in the sufferer.
A bit like the Aboriginal ‘space between the bright bits’ view of astronomy.
Worth quite a bit, Calli – it’s broadly where I landed many years ago.
A couple of years after the accident I scored a scholarship and went to university to study earth sciences and engineering.
I suppose I was already an angry atheist – and my newfound learning steered me towards Dawkins-style contempt for the feeble-minded who believed in a god watchmaker, or puppeteer.
Luckily, I had as a tutor a Hungarian Jesuit who specialised in geophysics and rock mechanics and supervised my study in these discipline areas.
This good man pointed me away from my smug and arrogant belief that I somehow knew the unknowable, helped me discover wonder at the beautiful complexity of the natural universe, and to accept that intelligent, rational people can have a faith in God which doesn’t require any further explanation.
I still don’t have personal faith myself, nor ‘the answers’, and I certainly don’t expect custom designed personal miracles based on religious performance. But I make up for that loss by appreciating all the natural miracles around me.
Spectacular own-goal of the day award goes to CNN.
CNN: Researchers find ‘a new way to make lab-grown meat taste like the real deal’ – ‘It may look like pink Jello but scientists hope this new invention could revolutionize meat’ (10 Jul)
I had to go to CNN to check…yes this IS the photo they included in the story. Maybe they’re trying to compete with the Babylon Bee.
BoN, misinformation, disinformation are LIES. Information we don’t like is the TRUTH. Sorry for shouting.
From The Oz….
Chuck Schumer, majority leader in the US Senate and the most powerful Democrat on Capitol Hill, has privately indicated to party donors he’s open to a presidential ticket not led by Joe Biden.
The rats are fleeing the sinking ship, and there’s no greater rat than old Chucky Schumer.
Oh well, the clothes are now well and truly falling away from old Joe, he’s down to his underpants.
LOL.
Never get tired of ordinary folk & kids singing the US national anthem with enthusiasm ..
https://youtu.be/QKCVS57j284?list=TLGGTBB1O-j-PTUxMTA3MjAyNA
The argument from design has made quite a comeback in recent decades as we’ve discovered more about the complexity of the created order.
Vivek Ramaswamy points out the faceless men running the White House benefit most if they leave the Biden swap-out as late as possible to avoid scrutiny of their new puppet.
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Why not Doctor Jill ?
It’s not as if she hasn’t had experience in high political office.
[lol]
“They” really do want to micro-control us and suck every last gram of pleasure out of our lives, don’t they? (Sorry for the word wall, but I couldn’t think of any way to meaningfully précis this.)
Good comments about that ponce clooney and his support for the perverted corpse.
There are a couple of issues. Firstly whether biden will be replaced, who by and when since the timing of the switch will be as crucial as who; and secondly what election corruption the demorats will get into. MTG notes this:
The Far-Left Wisconsin Supreme Court has OVERTURNED the state’s ban on BALLOT HARVESTING and drop boxes. We saw what these “drop boxes” led to in 2020… Leftist activists harvesting multiple, dozens, hundreds of ballots and dropping them into these boxes with no security, no control, and no oversight.
The result? That sudden 3am “bump” for Joe Biden and Leftist candidates all across America.
We know the illegals will be given carte blanche to vote and generally election fraud will be rife.
After what has happened in the UK and particularly France this US election is crucial. Lefties will do anything to stop conservatives coming to power. Le Penn is now being investigated for whatever crimes they can make up about her and she does not have the resources of Trump so she will be in trouble.
For the sake of the world Trump has to win.
Rabz
July 11, 2024 10:41 am
Yes, Doctor Jill wasn’t the first and no doubt won’t be the last.
However, since Jackie Kennedy the role had sort of settled into things like patronage of charities and various cultural and social causes on a fairly non-controversial bipartisan basis.
Yes, I know that Michael Obama’s foray into school lunches was seen as a guerilla campaign on behalf of Big Broccoli, but even that was well intentioned and not particularly controversial.
Not quite the same as Doktor Jill telling Joe how many billions he should tip into Zelensky’s pockets.
Funny that the debate popped up here the other day about “processed foods”.
Last night I watched the first episode of the Maggie Beer show on ABC where she fixes up Aged Care.
Of course, she zeroes in on the kitchen and the amount of processed (i.e. pre-prepared) foods.
She points out to the CEO the number of items of “processed” foods they buy in, as prima facie evidence of evil, and keeps beating the drum about making things from scratch.
Everything from custard mix to cake mix to instant porridge.
Not once does she do a comparison of the nutritional value of the “processed” item vs that of individual ingredients mixed on site.
She then makes the board and executive sit down to a comparison between the house cottage pie and her own concoction (which she ensures is brought out on a tray straight from the oven as against dishing up 150 servings and getting them to the guests lukewarm).
She declares them “defensive” when they are less than effusive about her offering. She claims that her dish cost $1.70 a serve vs $2.10 for the in-house version, and claims they are wasting $1,400 per month on “processed” foods. What she conveniently leaves out is that the “making from scratch” option takes time, and $1,400 won’t go far in kitchen wages.
In Are These People Really Running the Economy news:
[source: unlinkable OZ]
So, gas investment is to be terminated with extreme taxonomy.
Which gels nicely with Shitweasel Bowen’s master plan:
In Good Hands.
Peter Van Onsolen is correct this time. Turnbull has lost it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13610271/malcolm-turnbull-PVO.html
Perhaps Ms Dorman could move in with one of children.
Forty years in public housing seems like a fair innings.
Dover
Had a post earlier go into moderation. Would you mind checking it, please? I can’t see anything that would have angered the gods.
Ta
Dutton’s right – I’m glad he took the high road and is treating Turnbull with the dismissive contempt he deserves.
Brutal!
Having Exhausted All Other Options, Obama Invites Biden Paddle Boarding (Babylon Bee, 9 Jul, via Instapundit)
“The operatives are all still in place to repeat 2020. Plus a few more.”
Indeed – Tim Pool has spoken of the “Help America Vote Verification” site, which publishes stats.
Background:
In order to register to vote, people need to supply ID (eg, a drivers license). If they don’t supply ID, they can supply Name, DoB and last 4 digits of SSN, which HAVV can verify.
HAVV then returns, essentially, “no match”, “match, dead” or “match”.
States are ONLY supposed to use HAVV when registering NEW voters that do NOT have any ID (ie drivers license), not when cleaning voter roles etc.
HAVV reports stats every week for most states, although some are reported fortnightly instead.
HAVV is reporting for Texas (fortnightly values) in excess of 100,000 (often in excess of 200,000) per fortnight of HAVV checks since at least April this year. As many as 10% come back as “no match”, and as many as 1% come back “match, dead”.
That is: as many as 10% (10,000-20,000) made a mistake in spelling their own name, writing their date of birth, or in supplying the last 4 digits of their social security number.
And as many as 1% registered to vote and then died before the HAVV site was queried – 1,000 to 2,000 people per fortnight registered to vote without a drivers license or other ID, and then died before Texas public servants queried HAVV, but still with enough time for HAVV to be aware they were dead.
Texas denies they are requesting this many new voter registration checks via HAVV.
Other “red” states are showing similar “odd” numbers for HAVV.
It is illegal to register to vote and/or vote if you are NOT a citizen, penalty is permanent expulsion from the USA.
Are some democrat supporters registering illegal aliens that have been given a green card and SSN, even though they are not citizens? Are these “voters” even aware that they are being registered? Do they plan on making Texas “go blue”? Swing states won’t matter if Texas goes blue.
Is this why Democrats don’t support the SAVE act, that requires states to enforce citizenship requirements on voter registration, including voter roll cleanups?
Heh, Trump just got a million dollars off of Stormy.
Stormy Daniels raises more than $1 million on GoFundMe to help pay Trump’s legal bills from her 2018 defamation case dismissed by judge (10 Jul)
Further confirms there’s a sucker born every minute. I wonder if Monty donated?
From the Daily Mail link to PVO’s article on Trumble:-
WTF?
That PVO was anywhere near Liberal preselection 20 years ago tells you all you need to know about where they are today.
Further to duncanm @12:16pm….continuing from the Daily Mail….
I was a strong supporter of Malcolm Turnbull’s political ambitions. I was one of his preselectors back in 2003. I advocated for him to assume the opposition leadership.
For him to take over the prime ministership. I hoped he would elevate the moderate cause within the Liberal Party. I opposed the move by Dutton to replace him.
And he’s good company: quick-witted, amusing with his storytelling and armed with a wealth of facts and anecdotes at his fingertips.
But fast forward to today, it is with a heavy heart that I have to admit that on reflection he’s been a net negative for the Liberal Party and a disappointment to small L liberals.
Now, at nearly 70-years of age, Turnbull would rather settle petty personal grudges than act with the sort of post-parliamentary career dignity befitting a former PM.
It’s a crying shame. Mostly for Malcolm.
Finally, Van Oscillate has seen the light. He’s been on the road to Damascus.
Turnbull is a vile person. Bet he doesn’t share a bed with Lucy. Wouldn’t deign to share the smell of his own farts.
My comment about Dr Jill was just an alert to the depth of corruption behind her (as if you needed to be told).
She can be given the punt, along with her shell of a husband, but the machine remains. And up will pop another malleable figurehead to front the party.
The GOP isn’t much different, except they have far less sway in narrative forming because media. Until it’s their “turn” as Daniel Greenfield would say.
Goodbye Alec!
Alec Baldwin was accused of violating basic gun safety rules and playing “make believe” with a deadly weapon, as the Hollywood star’s trial for involuntary manslaughter over a fatal shooting on the set of Western movie Rust began.
Baldwin was holding a prop revolver during the fateful rehearsal in October 2021 when it fired a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding the movie’s director.
He has said that he did not know the gun was loaded, and denies that he pulled the revolver’s trigger.
But in opening statements at the Santa Fe court on Wednesday local time, prosecutor Erlinda Ocampo Johnson painted a picture of a powerful movie star who acted in “a reckless manner” and “without due regard for the safety of others” on set.
Baldwin played “make believe with a real gun and violated the cardinal rules of firearm safety”, Johnson told the jury.
She said Baldwin had “requested to be assigned the biggest gun available” for the Rust scene, had failed to take a gun-training session seriously, and regularly cocked and pointed the gun at people on set.
“Movie set safety rules require actors like the defendant to treat every firearm as though it’s loaded, to never point a firearm at another person, and to never put your finger on the trigger unless you’re prepared to shoot,” she told the jury.
Oz
Calli – That the insider Dems are pussyfooting like a stray cat on broken glass makes me further believe that Jill has control of a very smelly bunch of dirt files.
There seems to be consensus among the pundits that Clooney was wheeled out by Obama as a way to get Biden to go, by using Clooney’s prestige to persuade he and Jill to back down.
That isn’t working. Yet they aren’t going to the other approach which is to primary him out via the Dem convention.
All of which suggests they are very cautiously orbiting a ticking parcel…
The Isa is worse than Townsville or Cairns with yoof crime. I give these two a couple of years before they have fled for a coastal location:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/money/article-13598769/New-graduate-jobs-six-figure-salaries-remote-area-queensland-brooke-mackie.html
Be interesting to see a poll of attitudes to indigenies before and after too. I know of a Pharmacist who was no way to a few Cape placements. Took in the end in a remote location and did the minimum but without a crazy crime rate or having to live in cage at night.
Other fun thing is that Jill seems recently to’ve stopped dressing like a sofa or a shower curtain. Instead of weird floral dresses she’s been wearing stylish monochromatic ones.
That’s just my impression, I’m not sure it’s correct. Make of it what you will.
Just so you know the new Chief of Defence is the Navy guy Johnson. Grand Admiral of the non existent fleet and under strength battalions.
Funny how Senator Roberts senate inquiry into Distinguished Service Cross medal for Angus Campbell and other senior officers was announced on Campbells last day.
A friend of mine moved to Darwin and commented how wonderful they were. After several months of working in ER she was disgusted because she was sick of treating women coming in bashed because they didn’t come back to the camp with the booze the men wanted.
Re Dr Jill,
Maybe she is the “big guy” and Joe is just the front.
Science proves women are more gullible than men…
Study reveals the existence of a hidden ‘pink tax’ in digital advertising (10 Jul)
It’s perfectly hilarious that advertisers are willing to pay more to advertise to women rather than men, because they obviously know that those advertising dollars give a better payback. It isn’t a pink tax, its a pink premium…
(Apology to Kittehs, I am an incorrigible male Cat who clearly does not value the finer things in life, like shoes.)
“You are worthress, Arec Bawdrin!”
JD Vance | America is a Nation | NatCon 4
So, the Dims’ original plan was to do a Weekend at Bernie’s thing at least as far as the election. Obviously Joe was not going to make it to the full 4-year term so they were going ahead with having Kamala becoming President within a year or two. They knew how unpopular she was so to get their new puppet in they needed Joe to play with his blocks, in a diaper in, on the carpet of the Oval Office until they needed to juice him up for the occasional appearance in front of a camera to make it look like he is…there.
Joe’s calamitous performance at the debate was a miscalculation. They would not have planned for such a public display of disunity and chaos. They must have thought they could really pull it of with the right cocktails of uppers, downers, and…siders(?), but their Dr Morell must have mixed up the bull testosterone injection (which normally makes Biden so feisty for about 90 minutes) with a vodka shot.
If Biden stands down and someone else takes over (with their own VP candidate) then where does that leave Kamala? I suppose they have loads of dirt on her so they may persuade her to drop out and shut up.
Even if Harris is retained for VP as a gesture to continuity and race identity-politics pandering then the new candidate will certainly be less feeble than Joe so her ambitions of eventually getting the job are pushed back and may even never occur.
You must have heard that Trump in his latest rally accepted Biden’s challenge to a round of golf. Biden backed squibbed. Comments are fun.
Back in the noughties I used to watch Maggie and Simon’s ‘The Cook and the Chef’. I rather enjoyed it, the series showed the difference between how a chef cooks in a kitchen versus how a cook cooks in a kitchen.
Maggie Beer is clueless about life outside her privileged Adelaide hub. To understand her mindset, her two heroes in life are Gough Whitlam and Don Dunstan.
As for Maggie’s ‘Aged Care’ food shtick, it’s a grift.
Having said that, the quality of food in aged care homes and many hospitals is a problem. My mother recently spent three weeks in a private hospital, one of Sydney’s best. The food was dismal, soul destroying, to the point where she was in tears one night. So, I took her in food I cooked at home. She later went to a private Jewish hospital where the food is delicious…which proves quality food in aged care facilities and hospitals can be done well.
I found out why the name ‘Grosvenor’ is pronounced without the ‘s’.
Well, maybe.
Apparently it goes back to the Norman Conquest. There was a French nobleman called Hugh d’Avranches who, in 1071, was made Earl of Chester. One title he was given at the court was ‘le Grand Veneur’, or ‘the Master Hunter’.
Over the years he put on considerable weight and so people started calling him ‘le Gros Veneur’ (‘the Fat Hunter’). The ‘s’ is not pronounced in the French. Apparently Hugh was pleased with the appellation. Or maybe they told him that ‘gros’ was intended in the sense of ‘great’ instead of ‘fat’.
The original Dim plan was to take Trump out of the race through the law. There were people here predicting Harris would take over within 2 years. Those predictions failed to account for the Dim wanting to keep Biden because he could be controlled and with Trump gone the election was already over. Carville and Krugman have articles in the NYT calling for Biden to step down and the former has proposed a process to do that.
That PVO was anywhere near Liberal preselection 20 years ago tells you all you need to know about where they are today.
Umm, I know people who were involved in that Wentworth preselection battle almost 20 years ago. Turnbull’s white anting of then Wentworth member Peter King was ruthless. The Turnbull camp stacked branches with lackeys and the maligning of Peter King was vicious.
My understanding is that John Howard supported what Turnbull did. King didn’t stand a chance.
Was that person a black qwerty? Asking for a TV series.
BBC Chooses ‘Racially Diverse Cast’ To Play Characters In Drama About 1066 Battle Of Hastings (9 Jul)
Good comments about turdball. But never forget he only became PM due to the influence of little white picket fence, broad church, worst PM ever, johnnie.
And to think I once believed Howard was a good man.
On a completely different subject…the eldest grandsons are up at the moment. They are enjoying a program on Netflix about soldiers going into different countries and learning about how their counterparts do their thing. Very manly stuff. Typical boys.
They have both expressed interest in joining gun clubs. Their school, unfortunately, does not have a cadet unit. Apparently you can join a club as a junior provided a responsible adult is with you.
I had a bit of fun with them. I’ll go get the bank robber I shot back in 1974! Quizzical looks. Hunt around in the study and find it – a picture of a rather ferocious robber that was used by the BNSW for target practice up on the firing range (George Street). Nice grouping! He has three holes in his torso, I winged him and one miss – I was trying to shoot him in the head.
My grandma shares have had an instant boost. 😀
A most reasonable accusation, considering he managed to shoot someone dead whilst play acting for an entertainment video.
It would seem it is now a history-re-writing thing now to claim that Rome had a black Emperor.
Septimius Severus was from North Africa and, as you know, woke people think everyone from Africa is black. They have never heard of the Berbers, you see. As it happens Severus father was a Roman of Equestrian rank and his mother of Carthaginian stock (although Carthage itself had been razed to the ground and its inhabitants slaughtered centuries before).
In fact, it is recorded in one contemporary history or other that Severus saw an Ethiopian he was shocked and thought he was a bad omen. And that is surprising because there were surely a few black people milling about the empire. Nubians were pretty dark and they lived along the Nile to the south of the Egyptians, for example.
But, and I very much speculate here, I would suspect they were not as common as you see depicted in movies. The Sahara would have minimised contact with the Roman world. The Romans collected large quantities of slaves in military conquest, putting down revolts of existing conquests, or raids meant to chastise neighbours themselves raiding Roman territory. Sub-Sahara Africa does not make it onto that list. From what we know of the African slave trades it would most likely be the much smaller scale of Africans leading other Africans whom they had themselves enslaved to remote Roman outposts which were then sold in larger urban centres.
At a guess.
Biden resign?
I think not.
The people who run America are not done and certainly not going to be told what to do by an actor, regardless of his abiity to dress up and make believe.
Political donations don’t drive the people in power, they have a long term vision for the world and presidents come and go.
If they are bothersome, they go early.
If they are malleable, they stay.
If Jill is being told they will support her and big Joe, then they will support her.
She is backed by the most powerful organisations in the world, able to change governments, start and stop wars, kill however many people they like and there is nothing anyone can do about it. They ruin and create at will.
They do not intend someone like Trump to be a problem as he will not be the next president.
The Dem/Rep party machinations are becoming, very obviously, of zero consequence to the way things are done.
John Howard took your guns, banned nuclear, promoted Turnbull, cancelled Pauline’s membership, massively grew the bureaucracy…
His work on IR on the waterfront was quite the show and his quick legislation to limit the Wik decision was also pretty good…
50/50…
Major intersection in Midland.
Three men, all with placards proclaiming them to be homeless and asking for any donations you would be able to make..
PvO and Gemma Tognini gave a great address at The Sydney Institute last week; tis on YouTube for Cats so inclined.
I, having worked with PvO (in a former life), was quite surprised when he said Malcolm Turnbull was a failure of a PM as he used to greatly upset me when he would sing the praises of his mate.
Think back. Under the old management, would this tweet and the owner of the page, have lasted longer than a second before both were scrubbed?
It’s perfectly possible that wealthy actors can be members of the Democrat machine.
The machine isn’t invisible.
Cassie earlier:-
Oh, yes, I can see where it is going. Luigi’s Aged Care Minister put in a head-tilty cameo in episode 1 and promised to come back at the end of the series.
Will she be asked about jacking up the Commonwealth funding for food in Aged Care?*
No chance.
Quite the reverse. I see lots of “innovative” and “agile” and “creative” which will be used as a stick against all those providers who aren’t seen to be all those things.
Nek minnit, Maggie will be announced as a “Quality of Life Consultant” to the Minister.
Paid, of course.
You haven’t had your soul destroyed by food until you’ve been served pureed vindaloo!
Which is just another little challenge faced by Aged Care chefs. A large proportion of guests are on “texture modified” diets.
I would agree that hospital and aged care food has room for improvement but I don’t think Maggie is the gal for the job.
I can’t wait for episode three where there are scenes of walking frames barricading the kitchen demanding an end to medium-rare pheasant breast with a verjuice glaze served with artichoke hearts.
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* $2 per day would make a massive difference and would cost less than $150 million.
Feudalism?
https://x.com/TimONeill007/status/1811088095737172265?t=1NrySky7i0zsIx5B0YGrzg&s=19
I would agree that hospital and aged care food has room for improvement but I don’t think Maggie is the gal for the job.
100% agree.
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Not new news for the CAT.
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Daily Insights:
In the Australian media, there’s an unwritten rule that you don’t mention the skin colour of somebody, unless of course it meets certain other unwritten rules. For example., in 2020, the taxpayer-funded ABC who are purportedly against racism reported, “Will the death of George Floyd at the hands of white police officer Derek Chauvin mark a turning point in the US?”. Well, apparently that’s okay to refer to the police officer as “white”. Race-baiting at it’s best, right? But when it comes to Alice Springs, the third largest settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory plagued by violence, you’re not allowed to speak the truth……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUnuIaUrCME
Lysander
July 11, 2024 3:03 pm
John Howard took your guns, banned nuclear, promoted Turnbull, cancelled Pauline’s membership, massively grew the bureaucracy…
His work on IR on the waterfront was quite the show and his quick legislation to limit the Wik decision was also pretty good…
50/50…
Joined us to Paris and started the whole alarmist bullshit. Didn’t close down the abc when he had 2 majorities in both houses. His legislation to limit Wik was pathetic and NT covers nearly 60% of Australia and privately owned land is already being affected. Most of all this little creep did not support Trump and insulted him then and still does. He personifies everything weak, pretentious and useless about conservatives. He is the worst.
Cassie of Sydney
July 11, 2024 3:37 pm
They would be far better getting a cook from a regional pub used to doing “Tightarse Tuesday” dinners for $19.50 a head.
Someone like that would have more idea about keeping the punters satisfied within a tight budget that Spatchcock Maggie I would think.
P*ss weak display from officer bubbles.
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Steve Inman:
Community comes together to make an arrest because of an under-trained cop.
https://rumble.com/v56g8qc-community-comes-together-to-make-an-arrest-because-of-an-under-trained-cop..html
Bongino: the pervert will stay; incidents involving racism and other left tropes will be created, massive fraud will occur.
Another “Conspiracy Theory” Comes True! (Ep. 2283) – 07/10/2024 (rumble.com)
Two things. First I am surprised PVO was a member of the libs 20 years ago and that he was a selector. Turnbull dud a bit of stacking and rolled the previous member if I recall. Second. I have met MT when he was head of Goldman Sachs. He had little personality. And said very little. They were trying to sell us a deal . He qas hopeless.
At one state council meeting he gave a speech as PM. He said there were no factions in the nsw division. The entire crowd laughed uproariously. So he knows jow to be funny.
I’m struggling to understand why Soros Jnr. would be concerned about being outed as gay. So concerned that he’d marry Huma (or any other woman).
He’d be feted in this day and age, held up as a shining light of modernity and openness.
The only higher position on the pole is trans.
John Howrad. Nasty, vicious, spiteful little turd.
The cats in clip 1 were assasins. Look at their body language sizing him up. Their is probably a backstory to this.
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Steve Inman:
Non-essential Commentary Animal Compilation
https://rumble.com/v56bjz6-non-essential-commentary-animal-compilation.html
I am to thinking that Alex Soros and Alex Turnbull have a lot in common. Won’t be a surprise to see them in the same sorority circles.
Oops…
There is probably a backstory to this.
Most of all this little creep did not support Trump and insulted him then and still does. He personifies everything weak, pretentious and useless about conservatives. He is the worst.
Really?
Worse than the destruction of the economy and personal and professional liberty during COVID hysteria?
Big call.
The Paywallion:
How first-term senator Fatima Payman made Anthony Albanese look a political naif
The Mocker
3 hours ago
11 Jul 2024
Muslim friends, do not let independent and former Labor senator Fatima Payman deceive you. She acted with ulterior motive in telling you her conscience left her no choice but to resign from the party and move to the crossbench.
As ALP national president and impeccably accurate forecaster Wayne Swan has said, her actions “can only empower Labor’s opponents on the far right and on the left”.
You must never forget that diversity is Labor’s number-one priority. Only by continuing to vote for Labor can we realise the best interests of Muslim constituents. In fact, no party could be more representative of Muslims than Labor. If you do not believe me, just ask any one of the white male MPs in the safe Labor seats of western Sydney.
Payman has accused Labor of “indifference” regarding the plight of Palestinians in Gaza. This is not only untrue but unfair. The Palestinians are a convenient proxy and vital to appeasing the party’s burgeoning number of anti-Semites. But you have no idea how difficult it is for Labor to give them the nod and the wink while purporting to support Israel’s right to exist.
Labor would not be in government without the support of swinging voters, who like most mainstream Australians abhor anti-Semitism. Its powerful left faction cannot vent its bigotry in the manner of a fringe party like the Greens, whose hatred for the Jewish State is overt, unabashed and is du jour in its leafy inner-city constituencies.
The October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israeli citizens were a conundrum for the Albanese government. It had no choice but to condemn the atrocities. But anxious not to offend those voters rejoicing in Sydney streets following the horrific events, it resorted to moral equivalence. Even before the dead had been buried, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong took to X to lecture Israel, urging “the exercise of restraint and protection of civilian lives”.
And have you noticed that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mentions Islamophobia every time he is asked about anti-Semitism? Announcing this week the appointment of lawyer Jillian Segal as inaugural special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, he also foreshadowed the announcement of one for Islamophobia. One is window dressing, the other a sop.
The Segal appointment also reflects a fundamental Albanese trait, that of shifting responsibility. Irrespective of her qualifications, this appointment will do little to ensure the safety of Jewish-Australians. But it will allow Albanese, when later asked about the danger to their well-being, to harrumph and voice the usual platitudes, while not actually doing anything. I can picture it already: “As you are aware, my government appointed an envoy to address anti-Semitic behaviour, and I suggest you direct your questions to her office.”
Yet still Payman would have you believe Labor has no regard for the welfare of Palestinians. She overlooks the actions of Education Minister Jason Clare, who in May played down the significance of the genocidal slogan “From the river to the sea’’, insisting it meant different things to different people. It was a great service he performed for the Palestinian lobby and a selfless one, given he relinquished all credibility in doing so.
Payman’s accusation that she was “exiled” by Labor members is ironic. For example, consider how rudely she treated her former colleagues. As Finance Minister Katy Gallagher outlined, she attempted to “reach out” to Payman numerous times before she announced her resignation, but her conciliatory gestures were not reciprocated. It was a “frustrating” experience, Gallagher lamented last week. How mean of you, Fatima Payman!
It is also a tragic tale of unrequited love. Think of President of the Senate and fellow WA senator Sue Lines, whom Payman described only seven months ago as “my incredible friend and mentor”. Her support was crucial to Payman’s rapid elevation. A kindred spirit in the quest to relieve the suffering of the wretched, Lines in 2022 declared in a Senate speech that Israel was guilty of the “crime of apartheid”. As the Fin Review reported last week, she is “said to be ropeable about [Payman’s] betrayal”. Tut-tut. She is due all the sympathies that a right dill deserves.
Imagine how chagrined Albanese must feel. He had intended Labor’s cost-of-living relief measures to dominate reporting as parliament wound up for the winter break. Instead commentators are talking about the 29-year-old first-term senator who has made the Prime Minister look like a political naif.
“You need to be part of the team,” a forlorn Albanese told ABC Radio last week. “And that’s what Senator Payman signed up for. She wasn’t elected to the Senate because a quarter of a million West Australians put a number one next to her name.”
We share your outrage, Anthony Albanese. Payman gave a solemn undertaking but later reneged on it? This is appalling behaviour, and it fosters distrust of our elected representatives. I presume she too constantly gave assurances along the line of “my word is my bond” before abandoning her commitment?
Albanese’s high dudgeon about compromising collectivism is rich. The political stability that allowed generations of Australians to prosper was not a matter of luck. It was formed by a sense of community, our trust in public institutions, and by valuing our heritage.
But that type of collectivism is anathema to the progressive mindset, which is devoted to grievance and identity politics. It has created a fissure in the body politic which continues to widen.
The examples are many. Think Australia Day blacklisting, the attempt to entrench a race-based activist group in the constitution, rainbow lobby dictates, pandering to minority demands, the stacking of public institutions, and the ideologues and revisionists hellbent on delegitimising our very sovereignty.
Which major party not only exploits this hatred and division for political gain but also houses the cultural militants who drive it? That’s right: the same one that now whines about an individual not observing the greater good.
Now Labor faces the prospect of organisations like The Muslim Vote and Muslim Votes Matter targeting Labor-held seats. And Albanese is reduced to protesting, as he did last week, that this would “undermine social cohesion”.
What you see is no aberration, Prime Minister. It is Labor’s legacy.
The Mocker
Is there any condensation when Biden breathes on glass?
Curious minds …
Perhaps Huma is packing? She spent a lot of time as Hillary’s lady in waiting too, before that situation fell in a heap.
Bruce of Newcastle
July 11, 2024 4:22 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
That’s the Cafe most days. Peeling cockies off my head is irritating.
Cafe crested pigeon has learned in the last week or so to take bread bits from my fingers, but she adds karate wing buffets. Take that evil human hand! Whap! (Btw the bread is yum, thx). If I could be bothered with doing videos I could get zillions of views.
Do it. You don’t have to show your face.
Watching Doctor Phil on Joe Rogan.
States he has been targeted by Russian Bot farms.
They called police and got SWAT teams sent to his house SIX TIMES this year.
Don’t try and tell me the Russians of Mr. Vlad Putin are the good guys.
Just don’t even f*ing start.
It$ a total my$tery why Huma Abedin i$ happy to get underneath young Ma$ter $oro$
It is more puzzling why young Master Soros would opt for Huma Abedin.
10 years ago she was incredibly bangable, scoring about 15 for bangability on a scale of 1 – 10 (in the vernacular of my coworkers)
Now she’s daily looking more & more like the Wicked Witch of the West.
If parents fed and clothed their children, provided a decent education, what moral right do adult kids have to claim any inheritance from their parents and why are the parents selfish if they choose to spend their money rather than leave their children anything?
That’s not me, as I’ve already begun to seed my kids with their inheritance, however I don’t see this as an example that the family unit is lost. Adults need to get out and make their own money first and foremost.
Huma is hubba hubbah, i know i’d be after her number if we bumped into each other on the dancefloor.
But she suffered terribly and publicly under her marriage- of convenience?- to Anthony Weiner, a terrible terrible human being. Some things you never re-bound from.
Maybe it’s a pay-day way of taking herself off the market.
I agree JC but going out and deliberately spending up so as to leave nothing?
More to the point as these parents reach their twilight years they might just be looking to their adult children for some support, then what selfish ski parents?
Incidentally I think it’s a crock, they haven’t sold their home and liquidated their super to fund their travel.
I’ve probably spent more that they have (over the last 20 years) on travel (which including funding some travel for minor as well as adult children) , and still have something substantial available for my children when I curl up my toes.
Re: Payman and her dual citizenship…
A citizen can take her to the Court of Disputed Returns (but must be within 40 days of an election). The Senate is the only option now and if the majority passed a resolution, she could be referred to the High Court to argue for her seat.
If she lost her seat, it would likely go to Number 4 on Labor’s (WA) ballot.
Interestingly, Katy Gallagher was able to sit as a dual citizen because the High Court argued that, while she was a dual citizen during nominations and election, she later became a sole citizen whilst sitting as a Senator and it was this fact that let the High Court determine Katy could stay.
Payman has not yet become a sole citizen and the High Court would have to rule that there were “immoveable” reasons preventing her from becoming a sole citizen (as they did in a 1993 ruling where someone, I can’t recall, couldn’t renounce citizenship because their country refused).
Would Labor go mongrel and try this out? The seat, rightly, belongs to them… If so, would the Libs vote with them to get the majority? But not a good look “attacking” a female Muesli…
Regarding Huma Abedin and Soros Jnr, Huma likes the weirdo’s.
Huma was previously married to Weiner, the expert on photographing his own weiner.
Carlos Danger I believe was his weiner’s byline. ?
He does the best rants.
She hates him because one time he threw her out of the White House cabinet room for being a retard.
He was good in “Out of Sight”, the Elmore Leonard novel made into a movie by Steven Soderbergh.
US Justice System working again?
An Arizona judge on Tuesday dismissed the case against rancher George Alan Kelly, who was charged with murder after being accused of shooting a Mexican national on his border property.
Totally overrated, vr. He’s also very annoying as an actor as he can’t stop moving his stupid head around. It’s bouncing around sideways , backwards and forward that makes you want to put the screen on slowmo.
An Ohio man named Matthew Pancake was arrested outside of a pet store at 5 in the morning with hamsters in his pants
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-xyW_aBq_4U
If only for the concluding remarks from the arresting officer. “We have multiple gerbils”
Roger
The ironic thing is that the post denigrates those parents as being worse than communists for spending away inheritance supposedly owed to the kids. But isn’t the expectation of receiving something for nothing an example of communism?
John Deere Farmers FURIOUS After Extreme Woke Left Activism EXPOSED: ‘Will NEVER Run Deere Again
The Normalization of Terrorism and Jew-Hate
corruption is OK, just don’t look corrupt
Alex Soros to Democrats: Knock it Off, Unite Behind Biden
Nearly half of Jewish voters believe NY is unsafe for them, shocking poll finds
He was good in “Out of Sight”, the Elmore Leonard novel made into a movie by Steven Soderbergh.
Great movie. Clooney was the worse thing in it.
In other news woke council Yarra has recently advocated alarmist policies for its rate payers including going vegan. It turns out the dickheads were served roast beef before they voted to pass that vegan motion.
Project Total Control: Everything Is a Weapon When Totalitarianism Is Normalized
@robinmonotti
UK: Labour Hits the Ground Running by Shifting Power Out of Parliament
@robinmonotti
Dear Novak Djokovic, to be booed by the same crowd who did this for Sarah Gilbert, the alleged designer of the most toxic “vaccine” in the history of medicine, therefore the most brainwashed crowd on the planet, is a badge of honour. Take it with pride. It is a sign you are on the right side of history.
@robinmonotti
Starmer saving the planet on his Net Zero private jet…
Can’t believe anyone actually still believes the man made climate crisis hoax!
Konstantin Kisin “Arrested for a Social Media Post”
I took the Grands to Australia Zoo. The last time I was there it was a small reptile park. Fourty years ago.
Sure, they are outrageous self promoters and first eleven troughers, but they have built something impressive.
The young bloke needs to be tucked away for a few years however.
JC at 5:07
In fact, I’d argue that parents who create an expectation of a yuuuge inheritance (and interim bailouts along the way while the parents are still alive) aren’t doing the kids any favours.
If the parents kick off aged, say, 80 with kids aged in their 40’s, you can bet a good proportion of them will be in financial trouble in their 60’s.
Why?
Because they have never thought seriously about being self sufficient at any stage in their lives.
Give the kids an ability to earn an income and manage their own money and your work is done – financially at least.
You can’t create or perpetuate a dynasty if every generation spends all the family capital.
Ask the R_thschilds or Windsors what they do.
JC
July 11, 2024 5:35 pm
“Coffee Salesman Turns on President”.
The Vic government had a you beaut idea to charge for parking along the Great Ocean Rd . From Torquay to Warrnambool. A beach tax in other words. For upgrades to infrastructure and helping the environment. On Monday a website was announced where beach goers , locals and others, could provide feedback . By Wednesday feedback had been well and truly provided and the website had been taken down . And no more parking fees proposed for the GOR.
Please provide more websites for feedback
It seems to work
This insulting, marxist name changing shite seems very much to be punishment for voting No last year. As some have mentioned here. Anal’s marxist pals in the states acting as the little grub’s attack dogs.
They def seem to be alinskying Captain Cook too. That’s how the marxist vermin operate.
I’m going home tomorrow, a trying week of a very unwell little granddaughter who having had four hospital visits and two trips to the GP with various viruses including influenza A and dehydration has now been diagnosed with a bacterial chest infection and put on a course of antibiotics, hopefully now turned the corner and I can go home tomorrow knowing she is on the mend.
Gerbil warming strikes again!
Huma Abedin?
Weren’t there rumours of intimate sapphic moments stolen in the back of The Hilderbeest’s campaign limo?
With all the money Alex will have access to they could both lead effectively separate lives (indulging whatever unnatural appetites might come natural to them) privately in opposite wings of the home while being able to pose as a respectable couple in public when required. And thanks to medical science they would not even have to endure the ickiness of heterosexual congress.
That might be enough for brooding, shrunken, scheming father of his.
Yep Clooney plays every part- from Foley to Bruce Wayne to whoever that was in O Brother etc- as George Clooney.
Jennifer Lopez was the revelation in Out of Sight. Underplayed it perfectly, totally hypnotic.
She has aged very well, too.
I’ve never liked George Clooney, sure he’s handsome but he’s no Cary Grant (who was drop dead gorgeous). Cary Grant was also comedic and had perfect timing. Clooney is too in love with himself to ever be humorous or even a serious actor. Cary Grant could laugh at himself whereas Clooney believes his own hype.
By the way, Cary Grant aka Archibald Leach’s mother was Jewish.
Further to George Clooney, I hate Nespresso…revolting coffee.
We hope
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/10/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-agreement-within-reach/
Never liked Clooney as a movie actor. I assume he was OK as a TV actor.
He seemed to want to see himself as a modern Cary Grant, but he seemed to lack the substance for it.
BHP is suspending Nickel production at its West Australian operations.
Elbow will race to the rescue asap /sarc
Ha!
Cassie beat me to it
Great voice and band.
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Little River Band – Reminiscing Live! `1991 HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jla8m6Pd19s
Australia is a NDIS-powered economy
The Centre for Independent Studies destroys the GenCost report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw_AX9WaJ08
Ffs, if your culture cannot even preserve the basic principle that parents should make sacrifices for their children, what hope is there? US has “destroyed the family” more than any communist state.
Being a single dad raising 4 in “houso” I realised that the odds of me ever having much money were very low .. So to cover the kids I took out insurance , life & funeral and have diligently paid the premiums for around 20 years now ..
Turns out I needn’t have bothered .. 3 of the 4 are now millionaires, 2 own business’ & employ people, 3rd is way up the corporate ladder with a telco and my youngest just cleared $50 000 in a redundancy package then went to work for one of her sisters ..
Me/, still in “houso” not quite poor but nothing compared to the kids .. still paying the premiums cos no refund for all I’ve put in .. told ’em to share it with the grandees (8) .. LOL!
Another classic that just popped into my head.
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Tears For Fears:
Tears For Fears – Advice For The Young At Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBtzFOgKcv8
How many people ever think about the lives lost in order to create our modern world? The numbers of men killed building a great nation, building everything we have taken for granted. The numbers are huge.
-Wikipedia
This list contains the names of over 6,300 persons who have lost their lives on the great lakes.
https://greatlakesrex.wordpress.com/lost-people-list/
LOL Turnbuckle
The Algorithm has put a Rolls Royce promo video at the top of my YouTube feed.
So here I go jumping to conclusions.
The decision to buy RR nukes has been made.
Too soon?
I am just grateful Alec Baldwin did not get into gun trouble whilst he was making 30 Rock. His character in that series was brilliant. One minute his girlfriend is Condaliza Rice and the next it is Salma Hayek.
Suppose all the gold in Fort Knox was stolen. It vanishes and nobody except the thieves knows where it is.
It takes weeks for the government’s inept cover-up to fail, then everyone gets to know about it.
Question: what effect does this have, first on the price of gold, second on the economy?
Rooster, I would never have picked you as a 30Rock aficionado. I always thought of you as an avid watcher of that gardening show on the ABC with the bearded Greek dude. Wonders never cease.
Bill From The Bush
July 11, 2024 8:01 pm
Err, no.
The little helper dweebs in Luigi’s office will be calculating the net zero emissions savings.
What am I saying?
They’re Arts Grads.
They will be ringing their contacts at Renewables Straya to do the calcs.
Interesting confrontation, in the bar of my local earlier on.
Retired farmer, helping his son exiting the sheep industry, and facing the prospect of shooting the unsaleable beasts.
Local Greenie, who claims to have given up eating meat, in protest at the live sheep trade.
“Hey, sweetie, aren’t you lucky to have such a supply of cheap, high quality food, so you can make the gesture of giving up eating meat?”
If looks could have killed…
JC
July 11, 2024 9:04 pm
LOL Turnbuckle
Possibly.
But if you’d cut him off at eight years instead of eleven he wouldn’t have achieved anything less.
You’d think the thieves aren’t going to hoard all of it and begin to sell it one way or another – likely at a big discount. So the price of gold would likely fall to make way for the sale stream.
It will have next to zero impact on the economy because gold has no financial standing in the monetary side of the economy. It all falls back to the Greenback.
Think of it like this. Let’s say the BRICS began to use gold only to settle their transactions. There’s no exchange rate for say oil vs gold as it’s derivative. It always has to be translated back through the dollar.
Like this
Oil is currently US$82.41per barrel
Gold is currently $2382.33
That means (ignoring the bid and offer for the two commodities) gold currently buys you 28.91 barrels of oil.
It always makes its way back to the big dollar.
You could make a case that the dollar would fall in value because the US would own less gold than it did. However that’s a story for some other time.
https://x.com/JacintaAllanMP/status/1811335744142950842
is this a spoof?