A Substack is a subscription-based platform for short-ish essays.
Stephen Spartacus, Bob Malone, Eugyppius, Bad Cattitude, Dan Wootton, JB Peterson. I seem to get emailed a lot of content without having to actually put any money in…
Bourne1879
August 7, 2024 12:49 am
A couple of good Aussie Substacks are Dr Phillip Altman and Rebekah Barnett if you are interested in Covid related matters not covered by mainstream.
Some authors have hundreds of thousands of subscribers and apparently make big money from subscriptions. Matt Taibbi and Alex Berenson probably two of the most well known.
But that’s not how it’s measured, is it. It’s a measure of economic activity and assumes that variables within it even out such that years are highly comparable. If everyone consumes similarly, a 1% pop increase results in 1% more food and other consumption.
Beer,
GDP is an income measure, it’s not a consumption measure.
GDP is the source of income for the factors of production (labour and capital). Total factor income is derived by summing factor incomes (i.e. compensation of employees, gross operating surplus, gross mixed income).
KevinM
August 7, 2024 2:13 am
True or not, an other side of the man.
Since he passed away, there have been many stories about how kind and generous he was. There was a banquet in his honor and Richard Burton was The M.C. I couldn’t believe how many people Mr. Sinatra helped over the years and how he never mentioned a thing.
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Barbara Sinatra: “We were at a dinner party one night with Bennett Cerf and Betty Bacall when Frank wandered into a guest room to collect a pack of cigarettes from his overcoat.
There he found the producer Arthur Hornblow finishing up a telephone call to a woman. ‘I hope she’s pretty,’ Frank said softly. Arthur replied that she was; it was his mother, Susie, who was in poor health in Florida but still excited about the latest Yankee scores.
‘What I wouldn’t give for one more telephone call with my mom,’ Frank told him wistfully.
At his suggestion, they called Arthur’s mother back and put Frank on the line. ‘Is this really Frank Sinatra?’ she asked. ‘You sound too much like him not to be. I love your voice.’
‘Well, I love your voice too, Susie,’ Frank said. ‘Tell you what—I’m going to call you every Saturday night at six o’clock, and we’ll chew over the Yankees’ performance, okay?’
He kept his promise and never missed a Saturday evening call to Susie Hornblow until the day she died. For good measure, he sent flowers to her on Mother’s Day and to other widowed mothers in the same hospital. Frank added her name to his list of lonely women he’d call on a regular basis.
They included a relative of Freeman Gosden’s and several single mothers. Few believed them when they claimed that Ol’ Blue Eyes was a frequent caller, but they knew the truth and that was all that mattered.”
KevinM
August 7, 2024 2:19 am
Global warming anyone?
When police didn’t beat up the public but provided service.
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In the winter of 1963, a Liverpool policeman would have braved one of the coldest winters on record in the UK, known as the “Big Freeze of 1963.”
The police uniform of the time would typically include a heavy wool overcoat, a sturdy hat, and perhaps even a scarf to ward off the bitter cold.
These officers were not only responsible for maintaining law and order but also played a crucial role in providing a sense of security during the severe weather that disrupted daily life.
The city of Liverpool during this era was vibrant with the burgeoning fame of the Beatles and the flourishing Merseybeat scene, adding a dynamic cultural backdrop to the policeman’s everyday duties.
The policeman’s presence on snowy streets, navigating through thick fogs and icy conditions, symbolizes the resilience and commitment of public servants to ensure safety and maintain normalcy in challenging times.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s a bit disappointing to see Trump indulge himself a bit with that stuff again. He has been extremely successful without it and needs to tighten up the self-discipline.
mUnturd reckons that the Powerline writers are the dumbest people on the internet.
Clearly, mUnturd has never looked in a mirror while he is transcribing the DNC talking points.
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Bourne1879
August 7, 2024 6:02 am
KevinM,
Am enjoying your early morning contributions. Keep them coming.
Bungonia Bee
August 7, 2024 6:04 am
As Greg Gutfeld said the other day “The media is spinning faster than the dial on Jerry Nadler’s bathroom scales”. The spin being applied to Tim Walz is extraordinary, painting him as virtually a MAGA Republican when he is widely regarded as extreme left.
Farmer Gez
August 7, 2024 7:11 am
Our court appeal against the ALP socialist takeover of country Victoria for the renewables swindle is heard today.
Melanie Phillips has a good article about causes of UK riots at her Substack. Plenty of examples given. However she is not a Tommy Robinson fan.
In the last few hours Nigel Farage has issued a statement about the riots and even in his opening words Farage dumps on Tommy Robinson.
Robinson is the whipping boy, the lad from Luton who speaks plain unfashionable language about the death cult that is Islam and the social collapse happening in the UK due to out of control immigration. Robinson has been warning about this for years. He was one who, when everyone else, including Farage and Phillips, had their big heads stuck in concrete, exposed and publicly spoke about the Muslim rape gangs. So, you might might ask this question, why is there this seething animus from people like Farage and Phillips towards Tommy Robinson and his ilk?
Well, ya see, it’s a class thing.
Compare and contrast the treatment of Douglas Murray and Tommy Robinson, one man (Murray) comes from an upper middle class family and attended Eton College, the other man (Robinson) grew up in a working class family in Luton (north of London), once a fairly normal English working class town, now an Islamist stronghold. Yet both Murray and Robinson speak the same words about Islam and social cohesion however one of these men speaks in ‘acceptable’ dulcet tones whereas the other speaks in unacceptable ‘yob’ tones. Tut tut, tut. The bottom line is that according to ‘respectable’ people like Phillips and Farage, Tommy Robinson should know his place, well actually, they would prefer that Robinson has NO place in civil society.
The English class system is alive and well. It remains ruthless.
To be fair to Murray, unlike the likes of Farage and Phillips, he doesn’t join in the disparagement and persecution of Robinson. I think Murray has long recognised the genius of Robinson and I think there is a grudging respect there.
I’ve long thought of Tommy as this century’s Wat Tyler, and like Wat Tyler, Robinson will be destroyed by the establishment. And when that happens I will also blame the likes of Phillips, Farage et al, for their complicity and cowardice. And of course, once Der Sturmer da Fuhrer is done with Robinson, he’ll come for Farage, he’ll come for Phillips, in fact UK Labour and their comrades in the MSM make no secret of the fact they want to silence and destroy Farage, by any means necessary.
Just think, England once had a ‘Dad’s Army’, now England has a ‘Standing Army’, courtesy of Der Sturmer da Fuhrer.
As Rod Dreher wrote a few days ago, this sceptred isle is now ‘this Machete’d Isle’.
Agree Cassie. Tommy has always been passionate & this can be misconstrued as incitement to violence. His enemies accuse him of this all the time – but excuse the actions of “the protected” Islamics. And yes, he does “push the envelope” & has done time for his actions. But history will portray Robinson as a man of the downtrodden who risked everything to defend the way of life he was born into.
Tommy Robinson reminds me of the world I grew up in 1950s/60s County Durham, 98% “white”, family-minded, , hard-working, mostly, miners and a wonderful, tho poverty-stricken childhood ……. plus a full-on aversion to “that Southern gummint” ..LOL!
And, like the Northerners who migrated to Australia, a belief in the dignity of work that became the object of ridicule from the bourgeois New Left in the 60s.
Katie Hopkins warned about some high profile conservatives who, when the crunch comes, would ditch others of like mind if they thought they had to do so to keep their media profile.
I just posted a similar thing downthread around elevenses about Tommy and his accent vs that of the silver-tongued southerners. Reading up thread here now.
Thoroughly agree with you. England has always been fractured on the class line known as the north-south divide. We love the north and have lived there for periods of six months at a time. Hairy’s friends from Cambridge/Oxford find this very strange of us. Even Farage, who has a ‘moderate’ but ‘untoned’ English businessman’s accent is made suspect because of it.
As I’ve written elsewhere, as a promising kid from a poor school but bound for Oxford my headmistress made me stop my Aussie accent pronto and speak ‘county’. It has helped in Britain, less so in Australia, but ‘educated English’ is still spoken here in elite suburbs. Liz Storer has none of it (though she can modulate the Aussie when required), and I love her for that.
Nothing new, however. The Cambridge spies such as Guy Francis de Money Burgess escaped prosecution, while an army sergeant from a working-class area in the North who spied for the Soviet Union got 42 years. I have no complaint about his sentence – he deserved it – but the double standard is odious.
The remarkable – and cheering – thing is, given the hardships of the Great Depression, how few of the working classes spied for Stalin compared to their privileged ‘betters’ such as Burgess, Blunt, Philby and McLean.
Wally Dalí
August 7, 2024 7:27 am
Thanks Tom-
Gabor
August 7, 2024 7:58 am
On the theme of climate, how believable is Junk science?
According to them
“hottest year ever?”
But arctic sea ice extent is greater in July 2024 than July 2007
And I’ve had the gas fire on every, bloody, night since early June & a hot water bottle to bed .. 1st time I can recall it being on every night .. Gonna be one hell of a bill due soon .. thanx Luigi … Duuuuuuh!
Their gorgeous girl girls. Wong like the labor and green encourage females to look unkept and behave like that creature in Clint Eastwood sudden impact
eric hinton
August 7, 2024 8:09 am
According to them
“hottest year ever?”
But arctic sea ice extent is greater in July 2024 than July 2007
Geez ..! If I wuz a woman & looked like “plenty wrong” I’d hate most women too ….!
Face like a sucked melon, flat-chested and that whole “I am man hear me roar ” dress sense & attitude tends to be a “slight” turn-off ……. FFS!
BobtheBoozer
August 7, 2024 8:30 am
Well, what happened to the end of the world? It was supposed to go up with an Earth shattering ‘Boom!’
And here’s me trying to stir it along with a prediction of Europe In Flames, and I get up this morning to the sounds of birdies.
How disappointing.
I expected the crackle of flames from piles of corpses and burning cities, and get the bloody magpie standing at the side door, waiting for a bit of bread. Not even one Jihadist demanding I repent and make donations to his “Our God Is Greater Beer Fund.”
Even gold is down on yesterday. Had it gone to $50k/oz, I’d have been the richest corpse in the Barcy mass grave.
Maybe tomorrow will be better.
I read in the local Geordie newspaper, yesterday, that they are clearing out the northern prisons to make way for the “far right” influx .. Any prisoner who qualifies thru good behavior and has served, at least, 40% of their sentence (including murder ect) is being assessed for early release ..
Comments were running 100% against the policy, lotza victims families up in arms ……
Not much gummint support being, publically, voiced over the “riots” in the North East …….!
That doesn’t seem like a real good idea – letting out the criminals and locking up the defenders.
I’ve a feeling it won’t go down well. Is that the intention? To create mass unrest so the army can be called in to ‘settle the restive natives down’?
It’s a bit late to complain about a policy that was announced before the election…the election at which a majority of Tynesiders who bothered to turn out dutifully voted for Labour MPs.
The biggest European car market, Germany, saw the sales of electric vehicles plummet by 36.8% in July from a year earlier, as EV sales are softening worldwide and as Berlin ended subsidies at the end of 2023. …
While BEV sales plunged, the overall car market held relatively flat. New car registrations of gasoline-powered passenger vehicles rose by 0.1% year-over-year in July, and diesel car sales increased by 1.4%.
Tesla’s new registrations slumped by 36.7% in July compared to the same month of 2023, and was among the worst-performing foreign brands in Germany last month.
This is with one of the greenest governments in the world. If they’re cutting such green subsidies things must be very shaky indeed in Germany.
Can’t convince my Woke daughter & son-in-law who are pressing ahead in buying an EV. But then in his job son-in-law has OK’d the purchase of a fleet of EVs for his company!
My son has just bought a Tesla .. tho, to be fair, living in a waterside Gosford suburb he, mainly, drives to the station and trains into the city for work ………
The family “van” is still petrol tho ……..!
Very good. Sheeting it home to things people can recall and dislike.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 8:48 am
Daily Mail One in three Brits SUPPORT this week’s anti-immigration protests – and one person in 14 backs the rioting too, shock poll reveals: A quarter of people say Muslims are at least ‘somewhat responsible’ for the unrest
Here’s what we know about Harris’s running mate so far, and it’s none even noon yet on announcement day.
Tim Walz:
Let BLM rioters burn his state downForced schools to put tampons in boys bathroomsWants to give ladders to illegals to climb the border wallAbandoned his military unitGave driver’s licenses to illegalsClaimed socialism was “neighborly”Tried to get out of a DUI by lying to cops and claiming he was deafSet up a COVID snitch line to narc on non-maskersTampon Tim is trending at #1 in America.
Tampon Tim. Love it. These smart nicknames have a place, but they have to be backed up by hard hitting bullet points about his failures. Never rely on a nickname alone to win the fight.
Come on man. They were peaceful fiery riots. By pure of heart black people who needed new runners and a tv.
Wally Dalí
August 7, 2024 8:58 am
Indolent, get thee to the Meme Maker!
-Principal Skinner peering through the wreckage
panel 1 – “Could M*slim Immunity be fueling this carnage?”
panel 2 – “No, it must be lack of prison space for the gammon.”
Tim Walz has embellished and selectively omitted facts and circumstances of his military career for years.
We, retired Command Sergeants Major of the Minnesota National Guard, feel it is our duty and responsibility to bring forth the truth as we know it concerning his service record. So, we have put together a timeline of his service post 9/11. To the best of our knowledge, this information is completely true, having been verified by all those who served in positions with first hand knowledge of the facts and circumstances of his service and departure from the Minnesota National Guard. Many of the dates and time frames are from his official discharge document and the reduction order reducing him to Master Sergeant.
On May 16th, 2005 he quit, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war. His excuse to other leaders was that he needed to retire in order to run for congress. Which is false, according to a Department of Defense Directive, he could have run and requested permission from the Secretary of Defense before entering active duty; as many reservists have. If he had retired normally and respectfully, you would think he would have ensured his retirement documents were correctly filled out and signed, and that he would have ensured he was reduced to Master Sergeant for dropping out of the academy. Instead he waited for the paperwork to catch up to him. His official retirement document states, SOLDIER NOT AVAILABLE FOR SIGNATURE.
Sounds just like someone we all know and love, currently sitting on her fat arse in the Senate.
Sadly, low info voters are so used to seeing reality scripted on TV that they don’t care, and some simply can’t tell the difference.
This sort of ‘let’s get this thing done’ folksiness is very very dangerous.
It may be all that she is going to run on and it may convince many.
Get some hard hitting ads out soon, about the state of the economy, about the border and about needing someone at the helm who is not simply a puppet for leftist interests. ‘This thing’ has to be fought hard, for a win.
Use her ‘we must all be woke’ clip to front the ads saying she has done nothing but harm.
We can laugh at her fake phone calls, but many won’t.
Black Ball
August 7, 2024 9:06 am
Just get the job done Commish:
There is no doubt that Police Commissioner Karen Webb is under attack from within her own organisation and much of it is of her own doing.
There are serious questions about her and deputy Paul Pisanos’s entertainment expenses, but more important are the claims of promoting friends to senior positions, which have been raised in parliament by former cop Rod Roberts.
Accusations about police commissioners are nothing new, especially when it comes to promotions, and they often turn out to be nothing more than disaffected cops making complaints out of spite.
But Roberts has gone out on a limb to air these questions publicly which some claim is a fishing expedition with no foundation but he believes have some credibility and feels duty bound to have them examined by the parliament.
It came as no shock to many in the media and the force itself that Webb’s enemies were trying to destabilise her and in fact thought it would have come much earlier after she made a mess of her press conference when one of her officers, Beau Lamarre-Condon was accused of killing two people.
That started the rot and Webb is facing growing disquiet across the force with her public performances and perceived lack of leadership breeding a massive amount of disloyalty in ranks from constable to those higher up.
The information fuelling Roberts’ questions have no doubt come from an insider and now one has leaked and found a voice, the floodgates are likely to open up.
All commissioners make enemies, but Karen Webb seems to have made more than her predecessors by sacking 14 senior staff and moving many others sideways. Her detractors say this has created an atmosphere of fear stifling good policing. Her supporters say it shows she is not afraid to make tough decisions.
What is clear is Webb has enemies within who are campaigning behind the scenes to try to get rid of her and have fired the first shot.
Webb needs to kill this in its tracks now by standing up and publicly addressing the questions raised by Roberts to assure her troops and the community she has nothing to hide. Letting it fester will see morale in the force continue to slide and public confidence evaporate.
You helped ignite the George Floyd riots, the worst the country had seen in decades. While Minneapolis burned, you stalled on deploying the National Guard for an entire day, blaming the city for not submitting the right paperwork. You let your daughter leak the Guard’s deployment plans online, so that rioters would know how long they had to loot the city with impunity. Minneapolis is a war zone because of you.
Just days after the attempted murder of Donald Trump, you called him and his supporters “fascists,” egging on the same rhetoric that led to him being shot in the first place.
You have overseen some of the most radical youth trans surgery laws in the country. Under your leadership teenagers can get their breast chopped off and get sterilized, and your government calls it “healthcare.”
You have the most radical abortion laws in the country. Zero limits. Every year 5-6 babies are BORN ALIVE and then murdered “legally” under laws you support.
On immigration, you famously said you wanted to provide a “ladder” so invaders can come over Trump’s wall. You are a radical open border zealot.
You oversaw the single worst fraud of the Covid era, the Feeding Our Future case. Thanks to ineptitude at your Department of Education, criminals stole $250 million of taxpayer dollars to spend on luxury cars, houses, and vacations.
Also during Covid, you approved $500 million in “hero pay” for frontline workers, only to have 40% of that money go to people who were ineligible or, in many cases, literally deceased.
In the House, you were Pelosi’s sidekick and did whatever the Democrats demanded.
You will try and disguise yourself as a folksy midwestern moderate. In reality, you are a white male version of Kamala Harris. Radical. Inept. Undeserving to be in leadership.
Make this go viral. Ruin their honeymoon. Let’s educate millions because the media will not.
I’ve no time for a man who abandons his troops when his unit gets warning orders for a combat assignment – just so he can run for a political position.
The man is a self serving coward.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, recently announced as Kamala Harris’ running mate for the 2024 election, has been accused of stolen valor by retired leaders of the Minnesota National Guard.
Retired Command Sergeants Major Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr published a scathing letter in the West Central Tribune, exposing what they claim are significant fabrications and omissions in Walz’s military record.
Quitting Before Deployment: In early 2005, as his unit prepared for mobilization to Iraq, Walz abruptly quit, leaving his fellow soldiers without leadership. His rationale—claiming he needed to retire to run for Congress—has been challenged by the retired sergeants major, who argue he could have sought permission to run while remaining in service.
Last night, a senior Egyptian official denied Israeli reports about locating tunnels from Rafah into Egyptian territory, including tunnels that allow the passage of vehicles.
“Israel is spreading claims because of its failure to achieve any achievement in Gaza,” said the Egyptian official. “Israel has not presented any evidence of the existence of active tunnels on the Gaza border and it is using the blocked tunnels in Gaza to spread false claims to achieve political goals.”
At least these po-faced taqiyya merchants are going to have a lot less spending money, since they won’t now be able to get bribes or tolls from Hamas. Israel is certainly not going to relinquish control of the Egyptian border.
It’s doing nothing more than a 10 year old could be trained to do in 10 minutes. And the kid could do it faster, more accurately, and cheaper than the bot.
I know breakthroughs and that’s no breakthrough. Come back in a decade.
Russian President Vladimir Putin asked Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to to exercise restraint as it responds to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, two senior sources in Tehran stated.
According to the report, Putin asked the Iranian leader to avoid causing harm to civilians.
Very rare for Putin to do something like this, especially given how much stuff he gets from Iran. On the other hand anything that Iran shoots at Israel won’t then be available to be exported to Russia.
Trump wins the Jewish vote by 50/49. Which means 49% of Jews still support cackles and a party which is working for iran and the destruction of Israel. It’s almost as bad as 80% of blacks still voting for cackles and a party which views them as nothing more than slaves.
I am hearing around the public housing traps some truly awful things sexual that Trump is supposed to have done with thirteen year old girls. Total lies, but obviously circulating on the internet somewhere. So many people can’t tell a lie from a truth and have no idea of questionning sources.
No arrests as yet after 200 Muslim men, some openly brandishing weapons, paraded through Birmingham streets looking for non-existent far-right demonstrators and assaulted a lone white male they chanced upon at a pub.
Even the chair of the district police association, representing rank and file officers, admits it’s a bad look, ““You look at these videos and it does look bad. You see a load of thugs in balaclavas waving knives around and you don’t see any police.”
Starmer’s approach, which is only deepening division, will come to be seen as a textbook case in how not to handle sectarian strife.
…Starmer’s approach, which is only deepening division, will come to be seen as a textbook case in how not to handle sectarian strife.
Or it will be seen as a textbook case on how to foment civil strife with the aim to declare a State of Emergency, and start arresting his political opponents.
In which case, Nigel Farage is looking to be in an awkward position.
Roger:
No codeine for two days. (Why did autocorrect try to change it to cocaine?)
There’s very little holding the Starmbannfuhrer back from a State of Emergency equivalent.
Elections are due 5 years time and then vote the bastards out?
You can vote your way into Communism, but you have to shoot your way out.
I’d not be too casual about what these bastards are up to.
The Biden administration announced a plan to target plastic pollution, dedicating particular focus to “phase out” single-use plastics – such as kitchen cutlery, cups and straws – across federal departments.
President Biden announced the order taking aim at the “climate crisis” in July which would require an “all-hands-on-deck response” from every federal agency.
This gives me an excuse to link one of the most entertaining news stories I ever read, which happened to’ve been in the LA Times of all places:
After about a month in control of the House of Representatives, Republicans haven’t managed to undo as many deeds of their Democratic predecessors as they’d like. They couldn’t get rid of “Obamacare,” and they haven’t made much headway in slashing the president’s $4-trillion budget. But the GOP has succeeded in short order in one critically important venture: getting rid of the “compostable” cornstarch-based knives, forks and spoons that were a universally – and bipartisanly – hated feature of the House cafeteria operation.
The tableware, the color of mucus and as bendable as a pocket watch in a Salvador Dali painting (and thus unable to pierce any foodstuff firmer than the innards of Brie cheese), was the most visible manifestation of recently deposed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Green the Capitol initiative. That was her carbon-cutting effort to use the food-service and other House operations to fight global warming and a host of other perceived environmental, health and social ills. During the lunchtime rush, you could observe dozens of staffers struggling to stab lettuce leaves and poultry pieces with fork tines that appeared to be double-jointed as well as dull.
Back to your bendable spoons congressional staffer peoples!
You forgot, as stupid as she is also.
I do not believe any of the stories about her being “super-intelligent”, and just biding her time.
GreyRanga
August 7, 2024 10:27 am
Bob, when are you you getting expensive Miles Fuel or has Dick put the kibosh on it. Either way you’ll be getting Miles of Dick if the Liars get back in or Limp Chrisifool if the SFL’S don’t manage to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory. I can’t see much of a future for Queensland with either.
Grey Ranga – are you talking about fuel from Miles, or just expensive fuel?
I’m a bit confused this morning – the world was supposed to end a couple of days ago and I’m still not sure it hasn’t.
Which time was the world supposed to end. No doubt it has for a lot of people, not us unless you’ve gone for a walk and might be some time. I was talking about Miles fuel but it could be called Chrissyfuel as he seems to have embrassed most of the Liars policies.
The fuel thing won’t happen. Dumb idea, endorsed this morning by Dim Chalmers.
Crisafulli and the LNP have to be given a gallop as government. The current lot are awful and driving our lovely state into… a very bad place.
Bourne1879
August 7, 2024 10:30 am
Daily Mail UK seems to be doing daily hit jobs on Tommy Robinson. However the comments are overwhelmingly supportive of him.
One of the common clips going around was of BBC interviewing former Detective Chief Superintendent of Metropolitan police. She cuts him off as he is trying to explain context and mentions stabbing of the LTCOL and another incident. She simply does not want to hear it. That will only further inflame people as confirms media is not reporting all sides of story.
A group of anti-Israel student activists at the University of Sydney are calling for one Palestinian state at their upcoming Student General Meeting while affirming ‘the right of Palestinians to armed resistance’.
Then charge them under the anti-terrorism laws for inciting violent action.
NSW top cop Karen Webb has defended her purchase of alcohol after questions were tabled in parliament saying it was a tradition carried over from previous police commissioners.
The first shot seems to be gin…
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Bill P
August 7, 2024 10:43 am
Re Starmer
Maybe a starmbannfuhrer ?
Middle ranking officer only IRC
Workers who have adapted their lifestyles around working from home are furious at a premier who has suddenly ordered them back into the office. …
The sector’s union, Public Service Association of NSW (PSA), said it had “always fought for flexible working arrangements” and encouraged employees to check their department’s policies to find out what is being asked of them as “each agency is different”.
“Any PSA member with issues in flexible working arrangements, including working from home, will receive support from their union,” a statement said.
In the wake of NSW’s return-to-office order, the Victorian government made clear it would not be happening there, and encouraged disgruntled NSW staff to head south.
Sounds great to me. The more PSA denizens who move to Yarragrad the better.
Eyrie
August 7, 2024 11:07 am
I’m going to slightly modify calli’s name for Starmer’s police thugs:
“Starmtruppen”
Boambee John
August 7, 2024 11:11 am
Remember when Sarah Palin was selected as V-P candidate alongside McCain, and the oh-so-“progressive” lefturds babbled on about the not well known college she attended? Check out the college Walz attended. It sure ain’t part of the Ivy League.
AOC says the choosing of Walz is a “watershed moment”.
Looks more like a water closet moment to me. If he and she get elected, the USA is going down the s-bend.
Fellow squad member Ilhan Omar is elated!
Which says everything you need to know.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 7, 2024 11:33 am
Just watched Tommy. He is righteously angry and covers all of the issues that have led to these riots; he compehends and explains the great anger of poor and working class British people (of all colours and creeds, if you identify as British you are IN) who feel so ignored and abused. He outlines how and why these rioters are distressed by insecurity in their streets due to constant uncontrolled Palestinian protesters and are highly anxious for their children who have been under attack in all major industrial cities from Muslim rape gangs. The media and the response of the elite classes is very responsible for this ‘two-tier’ approach to both explanation and to policing.
If Tommy had Douglas Murray’s accent they would listen more. That is sad. The northern accent in Britain is a pleasure to hear, but it signifies poverty and a ‘lack’ of education, when it often should not. Northerner’s pride is strong and they have a long history of rioting due to their treatment by the south. This may eventually split Britain. However, even those in the south are now increasingly concerned about the illegal male migrants flooding in.
Some yellow lifeboats redirected back to France may be the only immediate solution right now. This should be followed by withdrawing from the outdated refugee convention and creating a temporarily place (tented army camps) for those who have already arrived.
Placing these people temporarily on small British island far away might be necessary in the interim. A plane leaves Luton Airfield for the Falklands once a week. Make it daily. Just sayin’
Do you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled “An Act to alter the Constitution so as to enable the Australian Parliament to control prices”?
Result: 56% No.
I dread to think how such a question would be answered today.
Wally Dali
August 7, 2024 11:57 am
Putting Walz on the Dems ticket can only be explained by Solzhenitzyn’s observation that the underlying edict of commie propaganda is to humiliate.
Bungonia Bee
August 7, 2024 11:59 am
Kamala should have done a cover version of “I just Love Being Here With You”.
Dr Faustus
August 7, 2024 12:01 pm
Starmer’s approach, which is only deepening division, will come to be seen as a textbook case in how not to handle sectarian strife.
Unfortunately, spot on.
The problems working out on the streets of Britain have been many (50+) years in the making and what appear to be the root causes – ghettoisation, displacement, and lack of assimilation – (in fact, forceful rejection of the host culture) – cannot safely be discussed in public debate.
Starmer’s response is mainstream establishment. Set up an easy to label ‘enemy’; in this case, ‘Far Right Thugs’, and go strong on lauranorder.
As a marginal political leader, he probably has little choice.
Fair enough when dealing with violent yobs – soccer warriors and the Brit equivalent of Gay Grampian Nasties – who loves them? But that’s clearly not the full package.
His problem is that the ‘standing armies of judicial officers’, 24/7 courts, emptying jails, police s.34 dispersal orders, crimbos, and threats of massive criminal prosecution will greatly alarm the full spectrum of the Brit population that regularly comes into direct or indirect contact with the constabulary and the justice system.
And these folk are by no means Far Right extremists. Just normal, struggle-street, disengaged, pissed off and fearful (and probably lo-info) punters – now demonised by the great and good as Literally Nazis.
Add to that, official denial of ‘two tier policing’ when official policy and the visible evidence is otherwise, and the distrust reaches choking point.
It won’t play well. Immigration is a shambles, why they allowed this situation to unfold is beyond my comprehension. Not entirely Britain’s fault, those immigrants had to travel through European countries which gladly nudged them to move on but arriving in Britain is the end of the journey.
Making immigrants the scapegoats for Britain’s current woes ignores a set of wider problems that are destroying Britain. There are vloggers on youtube demonstrating how many British towns are becoming wastelands. The elites have created an economy that suits them, the result being Britain has the most marked wealth distribution skew in Europe. London flourishes while the north languishes. People have lost hope and I don’t blame them because there is no obvious solution. The traditional employment opportunities are gone, the towns are in decay, the NHS is an ongoing disaster, and idiot Starmer has turned this into a far right Us vs Britain scenario. It should be the People vs Elites.
I think the choice of Walz is a huge mistake. Harris should have chosen someone like Shapiro, a centrist and moderate Democrat who is also a governor of an important swing state. The Dems don’t need to win Minnesota (they’ll win it anyway) however they do need to win Pennsylvania (and there’s no guarantee of that). But the unhinged, rabid, Jew hating progressive far left of the party could not and would not countenance Shapiro, all because he’s a Jew and a pro-Israel Jew at that.
Despite many in the MSM trying to paint Walz as though he’s similar to a character from a 1970s Mary Tyler Moore sitcom, he is not some cuddly, convivial, mid-west type. NO, he’s a rabid far-leftist, who sat back and encouraged the Georgina Floyddina riots of 2020. There’s lots of manna here for the GOP to work on.
Anyway, fasten your seatbelts, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride to that first Tuesday in November. I still think Harris might win, only because of stupid young women.
Disagree, cheating on a massive scale is their only path to victory, and you can bet they’ll pull out all the stops.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 12:31 pm
Reynolds cross-examined over handling of Higgins rape claimPaul Garvey
The cross-examination of Linda Reynolds is set to begin later this morning Perth time, with Brittany Higgins’ star lawyer, Rachael Young SC, set to grill the senator over her handling of Ms Higgins’ Parliament House rape allegation.
Senator Reynolds will resume her evidence in chief at 10.30am Perth time, with her lawyer, Martin Bennett, indicating that he expected to spend another hour questioning his client.
It will then be over to Ms Young – a decorated silk who has worked with a variety of Perth billionaires, ranging from Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest to the Paspaley pearling family – to begin her cross examination. Ms Young’s CV includes assisting in the prosecution of three former ministers of the Khmer Rouge for crimes against humanity, as well as acting as the counsel assisting in the recent inquest into the fatal police shooting of an Indigenous woman in the Western Australian town of Geraldton.
Senator Reynolds, who has developed a number of health conditions which she says are the result of the Higgins scandal, was yesterday forced to ask for an unscheduled break after experiencing issues with her blood pressure. She also detailed her 2021 breakdown in Parliament House, and her multiple hospitalisations since Ms Higgins first went public with her accusations.
Ms Higgins was a junior staffer in Senator Reynolds’ ministerial office when she was allegedly raped by then-colleague Bruce Lehrmann in 2019. The Federal Court last year found that, to the civil standard of the balance of probabilities, Mr Lehrmann did rape Ms Higgins but Mr Lehrmann has always maintained his innocence and is appealing that decision.
Senator Reynolds is suing Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz for defamation over a series of social media posts made by the pair which she says conveyed the imputation that the senator engaged in a campaign of harrasment of Ms Higgins and mishandled the staffer’s rape allegation.
“People’s endorsement of moral values that promote group cohesion and conformity is stronger in the spring and fall than it is in the summer and winter,” said Ian Hohm, the study’s first author and a doctoral student in UBC’s psychology department. …
The researchers found that respondents endorsed the “binding” values more strongly in spring and fall, but not as much in summer and winter—a pattern that was remarkably consistent over 10 years.
They also found evidence that the summer decrease in endorsement of binding moral values was more pronounced in areas with more extreme seasonal climate differences.
I like hot weather a lot more than cold weather, so I suppose that explains my rejection of Marxism.
I much prefer Spring and Autumn to Summer and Winter but I am very definitely no communist. So much for that little bit of ‘research’!
Mother Lode
August 7, 2024 12:41 pm
A good look at how Leftwing Walz is:
“One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
That would be where the neighbour is the HOA, one of those things that have become so ubiquitous, odious, and the manifest sword of Karen-esque tyranny in the US.
Two exceptions however.
The HOA is presently restricted to what can be seen, smelled, or heard from outside the house. What you read in your living room, what you mutter over the breakfast table, what you watch on the intertubes (with the sound low) is denied them by the caprices of the laws of physics. Once they get cameras, microphones, and web-tracking software installed in your home they can truly flex their muscles – for the common good you understand.The HOA does not have the right to imprison or execute those they describe as being in opposition to the common good. Yet.
“Help me out here please. What is the difference between the greater good and the common good?”
The “greater good” is the tyranny of the majority, where 50%+1 defines what is “good”. The “common good” is what makes sense for both you and your ideological enemies.
The greater good pushes for ever more interference in your life “for your own good”, while the common good pushes for the least possible intrusion that everyone can accept as required (Thou shall not kill, eg)
Roger
August 7, 2024 1:10 pm
What is the difference between the greater good and the common good?”
Context is everything, but as a rule of thumb:
The greater good, however defined, generally comes with a cost to someone or some group.
That’s why they did the switcheroo. Kamala is the firstest blak woman Prez!!!!!!!! The thuzing is epic! Walz is a bland but ideologically safe veep pick. He’ll stay in the background but will effectively be President when they get in. Kamala will be the face but not the brain of the Administration.
They will play games with the polls to keep Kamala “neck and neck” with Trump, hype her skin colour and ovaries and historicalness, and then try for even more than the 16 million fake ballots they stuffed last time.
Note how they aren’t allowing Kamala anywhere near a microphone. It’s fun to watch this machination stuff.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 7, 2024 1:30 pm
Re the British class structure and accent, we watched together on Saturday night on Netflix a film Hairy had seen before on a plane. It is called Saltburn and is about the pecularities of the class divide we’re now noticing at its extreme with Tommy Robinson’s accent. On might think at first we’re headed towards Hillbilly Elegy, the US’s own conteporaneous class divide, or perhaps some inflection back to Brideshead Revisited, but we’re not. I hadn’t seen or heard of this movie and Hairy thought I’d hate it, because it is fairly recent Noveaux Crazy in style. Hard to get into at first, it’s a truly weird take on aristocratic life, cynical and done rather as the Luhrmann’s party days of Gatsby or harking back to Fellini’s Satyricon. Unlikeable and unlovable people clinging to they-know-not-what apart from their wealth and grand heritage castle. Reminds me of one of Hairy’s old aristo Cambridge friends who is busy ‘re-wilding’ her castellated estate and otherwise known as ‘bonkers’.
What this movie does have, however, is a theme of non-redemptive evil which plays out well in the last scenes. In order to reach that we have to be schooled in the hoo-haa caused when a lonely poorly-spoken scholarship boy, arrived to Oxford College life from a shockingly squalid and deprived background, is befriended by this aristocratic family’s young scion and introduced to the castle for the summer. As ever, aristos like to think of themselves as bestowing noblesse oblige upon the unwashed downtrodden and they take him to their bosoms and their sexual dystopias while the servants remain impassive. We feel the family’s stilted emotional flatness and some enjoy some full-blown British eccentricity, accompanied by occasional breathtakingly cruel and dismissive one-liners. These are not nice people.
The scenarios progress like a play in four acts: act one is Oxford and a man-on-man hero-worshipping bromance; act 2 is summer life posturing around the pool while various juices flow (now when you see it don’t blame me that I put it that way), and a birthday party is prepared for the protege; act 3 is where the likeable young scion tries to do a good turn for his downtrodden protegee, which reveals much of how the scion feels about the middle order of things British; and act 4 is where the protegee exacts a certain sort of revenge.
Not a movie for the faint hearted, to be sure. A savage satire of sorts on British life, written and directed by a young thirty-nine year old woman.
Zatara
August 7, 2024 1:33 pm
The Republicans did their homework and were ready for Walz. He gave them plenty to work with.
Can’t wait to see the mix of terror and bemusement on der Stürmer’s stupid face when he’s finally Ceausescued. Priceless, it will be.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 1:47 pm
‘He was seeking to silence me’: Reynolds slams DreyfusPaul Garvey
An angry Linda Reynolds has used her Supreme Court testimony to slam the conduct of Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus during his handling of Brittany Higgins’ Commonwealth compensation claim.
Senator Reynolds criticised the Attorney-General over his decision to freeze her out of the process, saying that the process had shaped as the senator’s opportunity to finally address Ms Higgins’ criticism of the senator’s handling of her rape allegations.
“I was utterly outraged because this was going to be finally my opportunity to defend against these allegations … which in my mind were utterly defendable.
“To be told my defence would be no defence, as you can see here, I was not to attend the mediation and not to make public comment about the mediation or the civil claims against me … I was outraged.”
Citing a letter from Mr Dreyfus, she said she believed Mr Dreyfus had deliberately excluded her from the process in an effort to keep her silent.
“I could see immediately what the Attorney-General was trying to do, which is why I referred it to the National Anti Corruption Commission. It says it there, he was seeking to silence me … They were seeking to deny me the opportunity to finally defend these claims.”
Ms Higgins would later receive $2.445m from the Commonwealth as a result of that compensation claim.
I don’t agree. Farage has been very helpful in showing just how much dissent there is about the Conservatives and their policies. Just because someone isn’t 100% for your views doesn’t mean you should diss them completely. The world doesn’t work like that. You end up going up your own fundament if you are not careful by being so blinkered.
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Dr. Ardis Show, hosted by Dr. Bryan Ardis. In this informative and eye-opening presentation, Dr. Ardis delves into the widespread concerns surrounding the bird flu, which has been a hot topic in mainstream media. Titled “Why I Am So Scared of the Bird Flu and What You Need to Know,” this episode aims to alleviate fears and provide crucial information to keep you and your loved ones informed and at ease.
“None of that matters, since the election WILL be stolen.”
They just need it to be marginally plausible that the Kamel won, that’s all.
But they may get it wrong, and DJT may be able to turn out the vote for Gen Z, which is trending distinctly R at this time – at least the males. Ditto the black vote and the hispanic vote. If those three “blocks” have high turnout for R voters and low turnout for D voters, they might not be able to cheat enough to get over the line (as per Hillary in 2016).
Considering that the Crowdstrike event has proven the internet isn’t safe at all, and we KNOW the vote counter computers were connected, what actually gets counted is irrelevant.
If the Democrooks are half as clever as they think they are, the counts will come in with plausible losses, plausible wins and just enough random additions over the entire countings to hand the elections over to them – all generated in real time without any dodgy jumps and stutters, and with no connection to the real count.
And you’ll have a rerun of 2020, with a Hard Left back in power.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 7, 2024 2:30 pm
Higgin’s social media post ‘gross and unfair’ Paul Garvey
A social media post made by Brittany Higgins during mediation talks with Linda Reynolds earlier this year has been slammed by the senator.
Ms Higgins back in March posted an image bearing the words “I won’t stay silent so you can stay comfortable” just as she, her husband David Sharaz and Senator Reynolds were in mediation talks in an attempt to settle the defamation actions the senator had brought against the pair.
Giving her evidence in chief to her lawyer Martin Bennett, Senator Reynolds also flagged the financial toll of bringing the defamation against her former staffer.
“It was just another allegation that I was trying to silence her, I was trying to bully her, that I subjected her to a conspiracy. It was another reminder to the Australian media, to people on line, that I was a bully and that I was trying to silence her,” she said.
“But what also struck me is ‘so you can stay comfortable’. Well Mr Bennett, I can assure you taking these proceedings, putting my house on the line, everything that I’ve worked for for 40 years, putting everything on the line to be able to be here today and tell the truth, that just took the cake. We’re not doing this to ‘stay comfortable’.”
She said Ms Higgins’ post was “gross and unfair”.
“Robert (Reid, Senator Reynolds’ partner) and I have put everything on the line to be here today to seek some justice, and that ain’t comfortable, Mr Bennett.”
Fairly weak offerings .. getting upset about tweets .. whole show just a she sez, she said waffle-fest .. cos nose out of joint ……!
Never been a fan of Knickerless but Reynolds seems a bit unhinged – revenge wize … coming across as one of those no win, no pay roll-the-dice cases …….!
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m0nty
August 7, 2024 2:34 pm
The Walz pick is his reward for unlocking the perfect American political strategy in 2024: pointing and saying “sheesh, get a load of those weirdoes”.
You lot just can’t help yourselves, even when your one job is not to be weird. You are slavering over nonsense gotcha stories which only serve to highlight his decades-long career of military and public service, and underline his alignment with traditional community values like feeding and teaching children.
Trump is panicking on his socials, making up fantasies about Biden stealing the nomination back. Polls keep swinging to Harris, nearing the margin of error now.
Harris’ rallies are wildly popular and energetic, and she has scheduled at least one every day this week in battleground states.
Meanwhile, Trump has one rally scheduled this week… in Montana. But hey, he now has two smoke machines! Mirrors to be installed later, LOL.
One account I read argued Walz is a battleground pick. Walz is an everyman pick to offset Harris as a coastal elite. The ascendency of Harris in the polls is in part because many citizens did not want to vote for Biden or Trump. She does not have a very low IQ and Trump does not have a 150+IQ. I doubt either of them are in the superior range(120-129). Why is Trump scared of debating someone who by his account has an IQ ~80 points lower than him?
Wouldn’t have expected anything else. He’s the world’s leading practitioner of babbling dickwhittery.
GreyRanga
August 7, 2024 2:51 pm
No friends Fat Freak just dumped in aisle 23 bay 15.
Farmer Gez
August 7, 2024 2:59 pm
Walz is sure to drag in those young female voters with his svelte self and rugged good looks, purple haired bean bags excluded of course.
BobtheBoozer
August 7, 2024 3:07 pm
It may be the end of the world – or at least end of the food supply. I just chased 7 frigging juvenile emus out of my front yard as they were having a nosh up of my flowers.
Cheeky buggers!
You’re weird, M0nty. Harris and Waltz are confected creations of the media, just the right thing for hoodwinking the voters, many of whom are easily led.
They’re hard left loonies and will pull America down even further if they win.
I’m tired today, too many blood test at 7.30am have vampired the bounce out of me. There we stood, twenty people waiting in line to be let in to the pathology lab place until the doors opened. I got lucky, was seen quickly, because my tests were time limited.
I’m in Malmo at present, visiting relatives who live in the city centre. There are Nordic children and their parents everywhere in contrast to October 2019 when the place seemed overrun by middle eastern looking people. Nordic children everywhere makes sense as it’s still the long summer school holidays here.
I take it the reports of the migrants going back to their old shithole countries for the summer are true.
One thing that has not changed is even more bicycle riders everywhere and even fewer car parking spots. On the other hand the place is not that big so it works for them in a way. And for those who can pedal a bicycle they can be a passenger in this sort of sidecar that is in front instead.
Funnily enough a waitress in one bar said she was born in WA but moved back to Sweden with parents as a child. Had lost s of people start conversations when they heard us speak.
One account I read argued Walz is a battleground pick.
The argument for Shapiro was that he would deliver Pennsylvania, which is shaping up as the 2024 bellwether. Choosing Walz is a projection of confidence that things aren’t going to be that tight. Whether that confidence is misplaced or not remains to be seen.
Seriously though, just one event in Montana this week, that is low energy stuff. Is Trump unwell, or just chicken? The GOP should have a serious conversation about replacing him. They won’t, because it’s a cult. Good luck with that.
I dobut if you’d be feeling great with delayed shock after you had missed assassination by a literal inch only weeks prior, M0nty, and then done a big Convention. JD Vance is doing well with the talking points and the Republican Convention is only just over. No point geeing people up again too early. Trump will campaign, never fear. The annointment of Kamala and Walz is coming up soon and after that, all bets are off.
Is”she” Kamala? If so, she would be married to a bloke who screwed and impregnated the babysitter during his first marriage. Clearly a fine, upstanding (in more ways than one) citizen.
No, a VP choice is about electoral possibilities not a we’re going to win so it doesn’t matter. Walz demeanor is very different from Harris. He looks like the kindly neighbour next door rather than a high flying elite. The opposite of Vance.
Trump was caught flat footed by the change. Or perhaps his bone spurs are playing up so he is avoiding the battle. It is ludicrous to think the GOP will oust him. Trump is the GOP and that is their millstone.
Whoopee Do. All of my siblings experienced getting kicked out of homes because the gambling father didn’t pay the rent, both my parents were alcoholics that argued late into the night and refused to support me through Uni. We’re all going great guns, month overseas adventures regularly happen, their children with promising careers, and my sister left university to start a company that became a national leader. I went through childhood horrors including extensive surgery at 4 years of age because I was at death’s door. The consequences of that I have lived with all my life, including chronic pain and disability. I don’t set myself up as an exceptional individual.
I admire Vance for what he has done but there is nothing exceptional about it. I’ve been through far worse.
A Substack is a subscription-based platform for short-ish essays.
Stephen Spartacus, Bob Malone, Eugyppius, Bad Cattitude, Dan Wootton, JB Peterson. I seem to get emailed a lot of content without having to actually put any money in…
A couple of good Aussie Substacks are Dr Phillip Altman and Rebekah Barnett if you are interested in Covid related matters not covered by mainstream.
Some authors have hundreds of thousands of subscribers and apparently make big money from subscriptions. Matt Taibbi and Alex Berenson probably two of the most well known.
Beer,
GDP is an income measure, it’s not a consumption measure.
True or not, an other side of the man.
Since he passed away, there have been many stories about how kind and generous he was. There was a banquet in his honor and Richard Burton was The M.C. I couldn’t believe how many people Mr. Sinatra helped over the years and how he never mentioned a thing.
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Barbara Sinatra: “We were at a dinner party one night with Bennett Cerf and Betty Bacall when Frank wandered into a guest room to collect a pack of cigarettes from his overcoat.
There he found the producer Arthur Hornblow finishing up a telephone call to a woman. ‘I hope she’s pretty,’ Frank said softly. Arthur replied that she was; it was his mother, Susie, who was in poor health in Florida but still excited about the latest Yankee scores.
‘What I wouldn’t give for one more telephone call with my mom,’ Frank told him wistfully.
At his suggestion, they called Arthur’s mother back and put Frank on the line. ‘Is this really Frank Sinatra?’ she asked. ‘You sound too much like him not to be. I love your voice.’
‘Well, I love your voice too, Susie,’ Frank said. ‘Tell you what—I’m going to call you every Saturday night at six o’clock, and we’ll chew over the Yankees’ performance, okay?’
He kept his promise and never missed a Saturday evening call to Susie Hornblow until the day she died. For good measure, he sent flowers to her on Mother’s Day and to other widowed mothers in the same hospital. Frank added her name to his list of lonely women he’d call on a regular basis.
They included a relative of Freeman Gosden’s and several single mothers. Few believed them when they claimed that Ol’ Blue Eyes was a frequent caller, but they knew the truth and that was all that mattered.”
Global warming anyone?
When police didn’t beat up the public but provided service.
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In the winter of 1963, a Liverpool policeman would have braved one of the coldest winters on record in the UK, known as the “Big Freeze of 1963.”
The police uniform of the time would typically include a heavy wool overcoat, a sturdy hat, and perhaps even a scarf to ward off the bitter cold.
These officers were not only responsible for maintaining law and order but also played a crucial role in providing a sense of security during the severe weather that disrupted daily life.
The city of Liverpool during this era was vibrant with the burgeoning fame of the Beatles and the flourishing Merseybeat scene, adding a dynamic cultural backdrop to the policeman’s everyday duties.
The policeman’s presence on snowy streets, navigating through thick fogs and icy conditions, symbolizes the resilience and commitment of public servants to ensure safety and maintain normalcy in challenging times.
Aaaaah! .. Winter 1963, remember it well .. I was 15 years old .. bloody cold and snowy in County Durham ……!
I’m loving your posts, Kevin.
Please continue.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Brett Lethbridge.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s a bit disappointing to see Trump indulge himself a bit with that stuff again. He has been extremely successful without it and needs to tighten up the self-discipline.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
This is interesting.
I’ve heard of Crypto Jews in muslim countries but not Crypto Christians.
https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/1820524661999862171?t=6M_nYQZuHEcOktIZcCEnJw&s=19
That foul little grub Waltz reminds me of the horrible little man that was the lesbian bitch’s running mate. Bad, bad people.
As inspiring as a turd in a swimming pool.
If you want more background on Kamala VP pick the guys at Powerline blog have written up some comments as he is their Governor.
mUnturd reckons that the Powerline writers are the dumbest people on the internet.
Clearly, mUnturd has never looked in a mirror while he is transcribing the DNC talking points.
KevinM,
Am enjoying your early morning contributions. Keep them coming.
As Greg Gutfeld said the other day “The media is spinning faster than the dial on Jerry Nadler’s bathroom scales”. The spin being applied to Tim Walz is extraordinary, painting him as virtually a MAGA Republican when he is widely regarded as extreme left.
Our court appeal against the ALP socialist takeover of country Victoria for the renewables swindle is heard today.
Oh good luck, let us know what is happening.
All the best, mate.
Best wishes for a good outcome – Victoria needs some righteous wins.
If in doubt, Lock the Gate. It worked for rabid anti-gas campaigners in NSW.
Very best of luck, Gez. May the force be with you all.
Wishing you the very best of luck. Thanks for all your effort and involvement to prevent these wicked proposals.
Melanie Phillips has a good article about causes of UK riots at her Substack. Plenty of examples given. However she is not a Tommy Robinson fan.
In the last few hours Nigel Farage has issued a statement about the riots and even in his opening words Farage dumps on Tommy Robinson.
Robinson is the whipping boy, the lad from Luton who speaks plain unfashionable language about the death cult that is Islam and the social collapse happening in the UK due to out of control immigration. Robinson has been warning about this for years. He was one who, when everyone else, including Farage and Phillips, had their big heads stuck in concrete, exposed and publicly spoke about the Muslim rape gangs. So, you might might ask this question, why is there this seething animus from people like Farage and Phillips towards Tommy Robinson and his ilk?
Well, ya see, it’s a class thing.
Compare and contrast the treatment of Douglas Murray and Tommy Robinson, one man (Murray) comes from an upper middle class family and attended Eton College, the other man (Robinson) grew up in a working class family in Luton (north of London), once a fairly normal English working class town, now an Islamist stronghold. Yet both Murray and Robinson speak the same words about Islam and social cohesion however one of these men speaks in ‘acceptable’ dulcet tones whereas the other speaks in unacceptable ‘yob’ tones. Tut tut, tut. The bottom line is that according to ‘respectable’ people like Phillips and Farage, Tommy Robinson should know his place, well actually, they would prefer that Robinson has NO place in civil society.
The English class system is alive and well. It remains ruthless.
To be fair to Murray, unlike the likes of Farage and Phillips, he doesn’t join in the disparagement and persecution of Robinson. I think Murray has long recognised the genius of Robinson and I think there is a grudging respect there.
I’ve long thought of Tommy as this century’s Wat Tyler, and like Wat Tyler, Robinson will be destroyed by the establishment. And when that happens I will also blame the likes of Phillips, Farage et al, for their complicity and cowardice. And of course, once Der Sturmer da Fuhrer is done with Robinson, he’ll come for Farage, he’ll come for Phillips, in fact UK Labour and their comrades in the MSM make no secret of the fact they want to silence and destroy Farage, by any means necessary.
Just think, England once had a ‘Dad’s Army’, now England has a ‘Standing Army’, courtesy of Der Sturmer da Fuhrer.
As Rod Dreher wrote a few days ago, this sceptred isle is now ‘this Machete’d Isle’.
Agree Cassie. Tommy has always been passionate & this can be misconstrued as incitement to violence. His enemies accuse him of this all the time – but excuse the actions of “the protected” Islamics. And yes, he does “push the envelope” & has done time for his actions. But history will portray Robinson as a man of the downtrodden who risked everything to defend the way of life he was born into.
Thank you, Cassie. That is the most important thing I have read today.
Tommy Robinson reminds me of the world I grew up in 1950s/60s County Durham, 98% “white”, family-minded, , hard-working, mostly, miners and a wonderful, tho poverty-stricken childhood ……. plus a full-on aversion to “that Southern gummint” ..LOL!
And, like the Northerners who migrated to Australia, a belief in the dignity of work that became the object of ridicule from the bourgeois New Left in the 60s.
Katie Hopkins warned about some high profile conservatives who, when the crunch comes, would ditch others of like mind if they thought they had to do so to keep their media profile.
I just posted a similar thing downthread around elevenses about Tommy and his accent vs that of the silver-tongued southerners. Reading up thread here now.
Thoroughly agree with you. England has always been fractured on the class line known as the north-south divide. We love the north and have lived there for periods of six months at a time. Hairy’s friends from Cambridge/Oxford find this very strange of us. Even Farage, who has a ‘moderate’ but ‘untoned’ English businessman’s accent is made suspect because of it.
As I’ve written elsewhere, as a promising kid from a poor school but bound for Oxford my headmistress made me stop my Aussie accent pronto and speak ‘county’. It has helped in Britain, less so in Australia, but ‘educated English’ is still spoken here in elite suburbs. Liz Storer has none of it (though she can modulate the Aussie when required), and I love her for that.
Nothing new, however. The Cambridge spies such as Guy Francis de Money Burgess escaped prosecution, while an army sergeant from a working-class area in the North who spied for the Soviet Union got 42 years. I have no complaint about his sentence – he deserved it – but the double standard is odious.
The remarkable – and cheering – thing is, given the hardships of the Great Depression, how few of the working classes spied for Stalin compared to their privileged ‘betters’ such as Burgess, Blunt, Philby and McLean.
Thanks Tom-
On the theme of climate, how believable is Junk science?
According to them
“hottest year ever?”
But arctic sea ice extent is greater in July 2024 than July 2007
And I’ve had the gas fire on every, bloody, night since early June & a hot water bottle to bed .. 1st time I can recall it being on every night .. Gonna be one hell of a bill due soon .. thanx Luigi … Duuuuuuh!
UK Sky News provides continuously updated coverage of the UK riots.
Fairly neutral, but documenting the UK administrative state flexing its muscles. An interesting resource.
I’m shocked.
Wong has cancelled her reception for the olympic champion Fox sisters.
What could it be about these women that Wong dislikes?
Yeah, sarc.
What was the Wongs excuse?
Their gorgeous girl girls. Wong like the labor and green encourage females to look unkept and behave like that creature in Clint Eastwood sudden impact
Pity climate isn’t listed on the stock exchange.
They.re winners, they love competition, they’re young and healthy and they’re not homosexuals.
And one other thing…
Definitely not Presbyterians.
I just can’t put my finger on it….
And I thought I couldn’t despise Wong much more. She’s the stench that keeps on stenching.
Geez ..! If I wuz a woman & looked like “plenty wrong” I’d hate most women too ….!
Face like a sucked melon, flat-chested and that whole “I am man hear me roar ” dress sense & attitude tends to be a “slight” turn-off ……. FFS!
Well, what happened to the end of the world? It was supposed to go up with an Earth shattering ‘Boom!’
And here’s me trying to stir it along with a prediction of Europe In Flames, and I get up this morning to the sounds of birdies.
How disappointing.
I expected the crackle of flames from piles of corpses and burning cities, and get the bloody magpie standing at the side door, waiting for a bit of bread. Not even one Jihadist demanding I repent and make donations to his “Our God Is Greater Beer Fund.”
Even gold is down on yesterday. Had it gone to $50k/oz, I’d have been the richest corpse in the Barcy mass grave.
Maybe tomorrow will be better.
UK Sky News provides continuously updated coverage of the UK riots.
I read in the local Geordie newspaper, yesterday, that they are clearing out the northern prisons to make way for the “far right” influx .. Any prisoner who qualifies thru good behavior and has served, at least, 40% of their sentence (including murder ect) is being assessed for early release ..
Comments were running 100% against the policy, lotza victims families up in arms ……
Not much gummint support being, publically, voiced over the “riots” in the North East …….!
That doesn’t seem like a real good idea – letting out the criminals and locking up the defenders.
I’ve a feeling it won’t go down well. Is that the intention? To create mass unrest so the army can be called in to ‘settle the restive natives down’?
It’s a bit late to complain about a policy that was announced before the election…the election at which a majority of Tynesiders who bothered to turn out dutifully voted for Labour MPs.
Tyneside has alwayz voted, block, Labour it’s coal country .. Same, as here, in Fairfield, doesn’t matter what your opinion you’ll get Labor .
Except last election Fairfield voted for an independent, Dai Le.
Nope .. Dai Le is Liverpool ( Fowler) .. still the “turtle” in Fairfield (McMahon)
This is what passes for argument at The Guardian (UK) these days:
I shouldn’t bother linking these stories which Cats all know already, but watching such a gigantic disaster slowly unfold in real time is fascinating.
Germany’s EV Sales Sink 37% As Subsidies End (6 Aug)
This is with one of the greenest governments in the world. If they’re cutting such green subsidies things must be very shaky indeed in Germany.
and they burn!
Can’t convince my Woke daughter & son-in-law who are pressing ahead in buying an EV. But then in his job son-in-law has OK’d the purchase of a fleet of EVs for his company!
My son has just bought a Tesla .. tho, to be fair, living in a waterside Gosford suburb he, mainly, drives to the station and trains into the city for work ………
The family “van” is still petrol tho ……..!
Nothing wrong with a small golf cart but keep your big one running on proper fuel and with a fair bit of grunt.
finally, some dis-inflationary news
Walz addressing adoring crowd and telling huge porkies. This is why the USA is going down, down, down.
Nothing like addressing your “home” crowds .. They made him governor so I’m guessing, potential, VP would go down well …. LOL!
A burning excoriation.
@billysandytodd
I lived through the Waltz BLM/Antifa terrorism, and I watched Kamala bail out the terrorists.
Kamala/Waltz are a cancer and they will destroy the USA.
FACT CHECK: TRUE
Very good. Sheeting it home to things people can recall and dislike.
Daily Mail
One in three Brits SUPPORT this week’s anti-immigration protests – and one person in 14 backs the rioting too, shock poll reveals: A quarter of people say Muslims are at least ‘somewhat responsible’ for the unrest
@seanmdav
Tim Walz:
Let BLM rioters burn his state downForced schools to put tampons in boys bathroomsWants to give ladders to illegals to climb the border wallAbandoned his military unitGave driver’s licenses to illegalsClaimed socialism was “neighborly”Tried to get out of a DUI by lying to cops and claiming he was deafSet up a COVID snitch line to narc on non-maskersTampon Tim is trending at #1 in America.
And yet the Minnesota voters made him Governor. Says more about the voters than the gov.
Tampon Tim. Love it. These smart nicknames have a place, but they have to be backed up by hard hitting bullet points about his failures. Never rely on a nickname alone to win the fight.
@WarlordDilley
You might be wondering who Kamala Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz is?
Well, here is a picture of Minneapolis Minnesota on fire because Tim Walz refused to deploy the National Guard to save American lives and businesses.
Come on man. They were peaceful fiery riots. By pure of heart black people who needed new runners and a tv.
Indolent, get thee to the Meme Maker!
-Principal Skinner peering through the wreckage
panel 1 – “Could M*slim Immunity be fueling this carnage?”
panel 2 – “No, it must be lack of prison space for the gammon.”
From 2018
The Truth About Tim Walz
Sounds just like someone we all know and love, currently sitting on her fat arse in the Senate.
Harris Releases a Video of a ‘Phone Call’ With Tim Walz That Is So Bad, People Thought It Was Parody
Sadly, low info voters are so used to seeing reality scripted on TV that they don’t care, and some simply can’t tell the difference.
This sort of ‘let’s get this thing done’ folksiness is very very dangerous.
It may be all that she is going to run on and it may convince many.
Get some hard hitting ads out soon, about the state of the economy, about the border and about needing someone at the helm who is not simply a puppet for leftist interests. ‘This thing’ has to be fought hard, for a win.
Use her ‘we must all be woke’ clip to front the ads saying she has done nothing but harm.
We can laugh at her fake phone calls, but many won’t.
Just get the job done Commish:
Birds of a feather flock together.
@charliekirk11
Welcome to the race, Tim Walz!
Let’s make sure America knows who you are.
I’ve no time for a man who abandons his troops when his unit gets warning orders for a combat assignment – just so he can run for a political position.
The man is a self serving coward.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/minnesota-national-guard-leaders-expose-tim-walz-stolen/
Absolute unspeakable filth. A teacha too.
Apparently all those rocket parts and weapons magically teleported into Gaza.
Egypt comments on documentation of major tunnel near Rafah (6 Aug)
At least these po-faced taqiyya merchants are going to have a lot less spending money, since they won’t now be able to get bribes or tolls from Hamas. Israel is certainly not going to relinquish control of the Egyptian border.
Introducing Figure 02
Danger Will Robinson!
It’s doing nothing more than a 10 year old could be trained to do in 10 minutes. And the kid could do it faster, more accurately, and cheaper than the bot.
I know breakthroughs and that’s no breakthrough. Come back in a decade.
in a decade? try 3-5 years
The word from within Harris’s camp is that she picked him because of the vibe at his interview, which she didn’t feel with Shapiro.
Must have been a lot of mirroring going on.
Better set of “pearly whites” .. LOL!
Another bit of rumour is that she was worried about Shapiro outshining her so to speak.
Shapiro is Jewish and has some good policies on Israel.
Kamala is counting on the Muslim vote in swing states.
There’s nothing like a bit of institutionalised DNC racism affecting your pick for VP
This may be why Iran hasn’t launched the expected attack yet.
Report: Putin asks Khamenei to show restraint after Haniyeh assassination (6 Aug)
Very rare for Putin to do something like this, especially given how much stuff he gets from Iran. On the other hand anything that Iran shoots at Israel won’t then be available to be exported to Russia.
Putin is playing at being Russia the Saintly.
He has a bit of catch up to do there.
so Twitter is a sewer heh?
… everybody knows that Twitter is down-stream from The Cat
I really don’t get this:
Trump Wins New York Jewish Vote | Frontpage Mag
Trump wins the Jewish vote by 50/49. Which means 49% of Jews still support cackles and a party which is working for iran and the destruction of Israel. It’s almost as bad as 80% of blacks still voting for cackles and a party which views them as nothing more than slaves.
Take into account it’s NY and Democrat votes are counted x4.
Previous Jewish vote for Demorats was probably 80%, so its huge news.
And cackles is capitalising on having a Jewish husband.
He’s an adulterous rat, but she doesn’t care, she is too.
Walz
He has tiny hands. Didn’t lefturds criticise Trump’s hands for being small?
I am hearing around the public housing traps some truly awful things sexual that Trump is supposed to have done with thirteen year old girls. Total lies, but obviously circulating on the internet somewhere. So many people can’t tell a lie from a truth and have no idea of questionning sources.
Only a little bit weird. Vote One Kamala.
No arrests as yet after 200 Muslim men, some openly brandishing weapons, paraded through Birmingham streets looking for non-existent far-right demonstrators and assaulted a lone white male they chanced upon at a pub.
Even the chair of the district police association, representing rank and file officers, admits it’s a bad look, ““You look at these videos and it does look bad. You see a load of thugs in balaclavas waving knives around and you don’t see any police.”
Starmer’s approach, which is only deepening division, will come to be seen as a textbook case in how not to handle sectarian strife.
Or it will be seen as a textbook case on how to foment civil strife with the aim to declare a State of Emergency, and start arresting his political opponents.
In which case, Nigel Farage is looking to be in an awkward position.
Ease off on the painkillers, Bob.
The UK is not becoming a one-party state just yet.
Roger:
No codeine for two days. (Why did autocorrect try to change it to cocaine?)
There’s very little holding the Starmbannfuhrer back from a State of Emergency equivalent.
Elections are due 5 years time and then vote the bastards out?
I’d not be too casual about what these bastards are up to.
We’re saved!
Biden admin will ban federal government using plastic cutlery to combat ‘climate change’ (6 Aug)
This gives me an excuse to link one of the most entertaining news stories I ever read, which happened to’ve been in the LA Times of all places:
Stick a fork in it, we’re done (2011)
Back to your bendable spoons congressional staffer peoples!
Biden is the lamest of lame ducks. He, and more probably Jill, are desperate for anything that will hint they are still relevant.
A few months from now those utensils will be slowly decomposing in the landfill.
See basically Tim Waltz is an ideal VP for Kamala and he is a far leftie like her.
You forgot, as stupid as she is also.
I do not believe any of the stories about her being “super-intelligent”, and just biding her time.
Bob, when are you you getting expensive Miles Fuel or has Dick put the kibosh on it. Either way you’ll be getting Miles of Dick if the Liars get back in or Limp Chrisifool if the SFL’S don’t manage to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory. I can’t see much of a future for Queensland with either.
Grey Ranga – are you talking about fuel from Miles, or just expensive fuel?
I’m a bit confused this morning – the world was supposed to end a couple of days ago and I’m still not sure it hasn’t.
Which time was the world supposed to end. No doubt it has for a lot of people, not us unless you’ve gone for a walk and might be some time. I was talking about Miles fuel but it could be called Chrissyfuel as he seems to have embrassed most of the Liars policies.
The fuel thing won’t happen. Dumb idea, endorsed this morning by Dim Chalmers.
Crisafulli and the LNP have to be given a gallop as government. The current lot are awful and driving our lovely state into… a very bad place.
Daily Mail UK seems to be doing daily hit jobs on Tommy Robinson. However the comments are overwhelmingly supportive of him.
One of the common clips going around was of BBC interviewing former Detective Chief Superintendent of Metropolitan police. She cuts him off as he is trying to explain context and mentions stabbing of the LTCOL and another incident. She simply does not want to hear it. That will only further inflame people as confirms media is not reporting all sides of story.
Expel them all.
Students push Palestine vote (Paywallian)
Then charge them under the anti-terrorism laws for inciting violent action.
There’s been a Palestinian State since 1947. It’s called “Jordan.”
A bottle of wine worked to get rid of Barry O’Farrell.
State’s top cop defends buying bottles of gin (Tele, paywalled)
The first shot seems to be gin…
Re Starmer
Maybe a starmbannfuhrer ?
Middle ranking officer only IRC
Major equivalent in SA, SS, and NSFK units.
Yes I know it’s “sturm”
I posted this before I finished viewing. It’s an absolute must watch. It truly explains what’s going on.
With Avi Yemini
Tommy Robinson SPEAKS OUT amidst UK unrest
Thanks indo
tommy explains the situation the most clearly.
Hehe – just as I predicted yesterday…
FORCED BACK INTO THE OFFICE: Workers’ three-word reply to WFH order (News.com.au mainpage headline, 7 Aug)
Sounds great to me. The more PSA denizens who move to Yarragrad the better.
I’m going to slightly modify calli’s name for Starmer’s police thugs:
“Starmtruppen”
Remember when Sarah Palin was selected as V-P candidate alongside McCain, and the oh-so-“progressive” lefturds babbled on about the not well known college she attended? Check out the college Walz attended. It sure ain’t part of the Ivy League.
Walz is a real charmer.
X-rated Vance rumour referenced by VP pick (7 Aug)
Lying lefty liars lie, news at 6
AOC says the choosing of Walz is a “watershed moment”.
Looks more like a water closet moment to me. If he and she get elected, the USA is going down the s-bend.
Fellow squad member Ilhan Omar is elated!
Which says everything you need to know.
Just watched Tommy. He is righteously angry and covers all of the issues that have led to these riots; he compehends and explains the great anger of poor and working class British people (of all colours and creeds, if you identify as British you are IN) who feel so ignored and abused. He outlines how and why these rioters are distressed by insecurity in their streets due to constant uncontrolled Palestinian protesters and are highly anxious for their children who have been under attack in all major industrial cities from Muslim rape gangs. The media and the response of the elite classes is very responsible for this ‘two-tier’ approach to both explanation and to policing.
If Tommy had Douglas Murray’s accent they would listen more. That is sad. The northern accent in Britain is a pleasure to hear, but it signifies poverty and a ‘lack’ of education, when it often should not. Northerner’s pride is strong and they have a long history of rioting due to their treatment by the south. This may eventually split Britain. However, even those in the south are now increasingly concerned about the illegal male migrants flooding in.
Some yellow lifeboats redirected back to France may be the only immediate solution right now. This should be followed by withdrawing from the outdated refugee convention and creating a temporarily place (tented army camps) for those who have already arrived.
Placing these people temporarily on small British island far away might be necessary in the interim. A plane leaves Luton Airfield for the Falklands once a week. Make it daily. Just sayin’
Reports that Sinwar has been selected to head the political bureau of Hamas as well.
Hamas’s Steven Bradbury…
A good look at how Leftwing Walz is:
“One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”
Regarding “All S.Miles”(tm) proposal to run government petrol stations in Queensland.
The last time this idea was democratically tested was 1973.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Australian_price_control_referendum
Result: 56% No.
I dread to think how such a question would be answered today.
Putting Walz on the Dems ticket can only be explained by Solzhenitzyn’s observation that the underlying edict of commie propaganda is to humiliate.
Kamala should have done a cover version of “I just Love Being Here With You”.
Unfortunately, spot on.
The problems working out on the streets of Britain have been many (50+) years in the making and what appear to be the root causes – ghettoisation, displacement, and lack of assimilation – (in fact, forceful rejection of the host culture) – cannot safely be discussed in public debate.
Starmer’s response is mainstream establishment. Set up an easy to label ‘enemy’; in this case, ‘Far Right Thugs’, and go strong on lauranorder.
As a marginal political leader, he probably has little choice.
Fair enough when dealing with violent yobs – soccer warriors and the Brit equivalent of Gay Grampian Nasties – who loves them? But that’s clearly not the full package.
His problem is that the ‘standing armies of judicial officers’, 24/7 courts, emptying jails, police s.34 dispersal orders, crimbos, and threats of massive criminal prosecution will greatly alarm the full spectrum of the Brit population that regularly comes into direct or indirect contact with the constabulary and the justice system.
And these folk are by no means Far Right extremists. Just normal, struggle-street, disengaged, pissed off and fearful (and probably lo-info) punters – now demonised by the great and good as Literally Nazis.
Add to that, official denial of ‘two tier policing’ when official policy and the visible evidence is otherwise, and the distrust reaches choking point.
This will not play well.
you guys haven’t cottoned on yet, normal is now the far right
It won’t play well. Immigration is a shambles, why they allowed this situation to unfold is beyond my comprehension. Not entirely Britain’s fault, those immigrants had to travel through European countries which gladly nudged them to move on but arriving in Britain is the end of the journey.
Making immigrants the scapegoats for Britain’s current woes ignores a set of wider problems that are destroying Britain. There are vloggers on youtube demonstrating how many British towns are becoming wastelands. The elites have created an economy that suits them, the result being Britain has the most marked wealth distribution skew in Europe. London flourishes while the north languishes. People have lost hope and I don’t blame them because there is no obvious solution. The traditional employment opportunities are gone, the towns are in decay, the NHS is an ongoing disaster, and idiot Starmer has turned this into a far right Us vs Britain scenario. It should be the People vs Elites.
I think the choice of Walz is a huge mistake. Harris should have chosen someone like Shapiro, a centrist and moderate Democrat who is also a governor of an important swing state. The Dems don’t need to win Minnesota (they’ll win it anyway) however they do need to win Pennsylvania (and there’s no guarantee of that). But the unhinged, rabid, Jew hating progressive far left of the party could not and would not countenance Shapiro, all because he’s a Jew and a pro-Israel Jew at that.
Despite many in the MSM trying to paint Walz as though he’s similar to a character from a 1970s Mary Tyler Moore sitcom, he is not some cuddly, convivial, mid-west type. NO, he’s a rabid far-leftist, who sat back and encouraged the Georgina Floyddina riots of 2020. There’s lots of manna here for the GOP to work on.
Anyway, fasten your seatbelts, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride to that first Tuesday in November. I still think Harris might win, only because of stupid young women.
Disagree, cheating on a massive scale is their only path to victory, and you can bet they’ll pull out all the stops.
Reynolds cross-examined over handling of Higgins rape claimPaul Garvey
The cross-examination of Linda Reynolds is set to begin later this morning Perth time, with Brittany Higgins’ star lawyer, Rachael Young SC, set to grill the senator over her handling of Ms Higgins’ Parliament House rape allegation.
Senator Reynolds will resume her evidence in chief at 10.30am Perth time, with her lawyer, Martin Bennett, indicating that he expected to spend another hour questioning his client.
It will then be over to Ms Young – a decorated silk who has worked with a variety of Perth billionaires, ranging from Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest to the Paspaley pearling family – to begin her cross examination. Ms Young’s CV includes assisting in the prosecution of three former ministers of the Khmer Rouge for crimes against humanity, as well as acting as the counsel assisting in the recent inquest into the fatal police shooting of an Indigenous woman in the Western Australian town of Geraldton.
It follows an eventful first two days in the stand for Senator Reynolds, who yesterday linked the Brittany Higgins rape saga to the death of Labor senator Kimberley Kitching and who described social media posts by Ms Higgins’ husband David Sharaz as “creepy” and “stalky”.
Senator Reynolds, who has developed a number of health conditions which she says are the result of the Higgins scandal, was yesterday forced to ask for an unscheduled break after experiencing issues with her blood pressure. She also detailed her 2021 breakdown in Parliament House, and her multiple hospitalisations since Ms Higgins first went public with her accusations.
Ms Higgins was a junior staffer in Senator Reynolds’ ministerial office when she was allegedly raped by then-colleague Bruce Lehrmann in 2019. The Federal Court last year found that, to the civil standard of the balance of probabilities, Mr Lehrmann did rape Ms Higgins but Mr Lehrmann has always maintained his innocence and is appealing that decision.
Senator Reynolds is suing Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz for defamation over a series of social media posts made by the pair which she says conveyed the imputation that the senator engaged in a campaign of harrasment of Ms Higgins and mishandled the staffer’s rape allegation.
If you like spring and autumn you’re a communist.
Study finds seasonal shifts in moral values (Phys.org, 6 Aug)
I like hot weather a lot more than cold weather, so I suppose that explains my rejection of Marxism.
I much prefer Spring and Autumn to Summer and Winter but I am very definitely no communist. So much for that little bit of ‘research’!
That would be where the neighbour is the HOA, one of those things that have become so ubiquitous, odious, and the manifest sword of Karen-esque tyranny in the US.
Two exceptions however.
The HOA is presently restricted to what can be seen, smelled, or heard from outside the house. What you read in your living room, what you mutter over the breakfast table, what you watch on the intertubes (with the sound low) is denied them by the caprices of the laws of physics. Once they get cameras, microphones, and web-tracking software installed in your home they can truly flex their muscles – for the common good you understand.The HOA does not have the right to imprison or execute those they describe as being in opposition to the common good. Yet.
But the do have the right to seize your house if you have any unpaid “fines”.
Help me out here please.
What is the difference between the greater good and the common good?
I’m guessing that it is just that the former was made famous by the movie “Hot Fuzz”.
Cassie Shapiro looks to be as bad as the rest. I believe there are no moderate Democrats, like there is no moderate Hamas. Tweet via Ace Of Spades:
Needs verification but if true, well they are truly scraping the bottom of Satan’s sweaty arsecrack for a running mate to the Gobbler In Chief
Instapundit:
RON COLEMAN WINS THE INTERNET TODAY
I shouldn’t LOL, really I shouldn’t. 😀
“Help me out here please.
What is the difference between the greater good and the common good?”
The “greater good” is the tyranny of the majority, where 50%+1 defines what is “good”. The “common good” is what makes sense for both you and your ideological enemies.
The greater good pushes for ever more interference in your life “for your own good”, while the common good pushes for the least possible intrusion that everyone can accept as required (Thou shall not kill, eg)
Context is everything, but as a rule of thumb:
The greater good, however defined, generally comes with a cost to someone or some group.
The common good benefits all.
I say context is everything because it is and because some people may, wittingly or unwittingly, use the one term when they mean the other one.
Correct. Many moderate Democrats will be feeling disenfranchised.
Isn’t that excellent, some of them will vote for Trump ( I know, I’m a deplorable optimist).
I think they’d rather cut their right arm off!
😀
The question is, will they just stay home?
None of that matters, since the election WILL be stolen.
In that context Walz is perfect.
Kamala’s Walz VP Pick Puts the Left in Charge (Daniel Greenfield, 6 Aug)
Harris Picks VP Climate Clone in Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – Walz supports solar & wind mandates, carbon tax, EV mandates (6 Aug)
MN Governor Tim Walz is a net-zero zealot (6 Aug)
By removing the need for electability the Dems can pick for ideology. And Walz fits the Bernie Bro agenda like a glove.
A steal is only plausible if a critical number of voters turn out in the first place.
And the Democrats are facing a similar problem to the ALP and British Labour… the further left they move, the more voters they shed at the centre.
That’s why they did the switcheroo. Kamala is the firstest blak woman Prez!!!!!!!! The thuzing is epic! Walz is a bland but ideologically safe veep pick. He’ll stay in the background but will effectively be President when they get in. Kamala will be the face but not the brain of the Administration.
They will play games with the polls to keep Kamala “neck and neck” with Trump, hype her skin colour and ovaries and historicalness, and then try for even more than the 16 million fake ballots they stuffed last time.
Note how they aren’t allowing Kamala anywhere near a microphone. It’s fun to watch this machination stuff.
Re the British class structure and accent, we watched together on Saturday night on Netflix a film Hairy had seen before on a plane. It is called Saltburn and is about the pecularities of the class divide we’re now noticing at its extreme with Tommy Robinson’s accent. On might think at first we’re headed towards Hillbilly Elegy, the US’s own conteporaneous class divide, or perhaps some inflection back to Brideshead Revisited, but we’re not. I hadn’t seen or heard of this movie and Hairy thought I’d hate it, because it is fairly recent Noveaux Crazy in style. Hard to get into at first, it’s a truly weird take on aristocratic life, cynical and done rather as the Luhrmann’s party days of Gatsby or harking back to Fellini’s Satyricon. Unlikeable and unlovable people clinging to they-know-not-what apart from their wealth and grand heritage castle. Reminds me of one of Hairy’s old aristo Cambridge friends who is busy ‘re-wilding’ her castellated estate and otherwise known as ‘bonkers’.
What this movie does have, however, is a theme of non-redemptive evil which plays out well in the last scenes. In order to reach that we have to be schooled in the hoo-haa caused when a lonely poorly-spoken scholarship boy, arrived to Oxford College life from a shockingly squalid and deprived background, is befriended by this aristocratic family’s young scion and introduced to the castle for the summer. As ever, aristos like to think of themselves as bestowing noblesse oblige upon the unwashed downtrodden and they take him to their bosoms and their sexual dystopias while the servants remain impassive. We feel the family’s stilted emotional flatness and some enjoy some full-blown British eccentricity, accompanied by occasional breathtakingly cruel and dismissive one-liners. These are not nice people.
The scenarios progress like a play in four acts: act one is Oxford and a man-on-man hero-worshipping bromance; act 2 is summer life posturing around the pool while various juices flow (now when you see it don’t blame me that I put it that way), and a birthday party is prepared for the protege; act 3 is where the likeable young scion tries to do a good turn for his downtrodden protegee, which reveals much of how the scion feels about the middle order of things British; and act 4 is where the protegee exacts a certain sort of revenge.
Not a movie for the faint hearted, to be sure. A savage satire of sorts on British life, written and directed by a young thirty-nine year old woman.
The Republicans did their homework and were ready for Walz. He gave them plenty to work with.
Flashback: VP Pick Tim Walz Smiles for Cameras as He Signs Bill That Gives Illegal Immigrants Drivers Licenses
What a Nutcase! Radical Far-Left Wife of Tim Walz Admitted She Left the Windows Open to Enjoy the Smell of Burning Tires During 2020 Riots
The Democrats Go Full Antifa With Kamala Veep Pick
Kamala Harris ‘Kneecapped Her Campaign’ by Picking Tim Walz
Marginal…
Beholden to a certain voting bloc…
Cynically exploiting an opportunity to implement plans already in hand…
Several angles to consider it from, none of them particularly flattering to Starmer, as the polls reveal.
Can’t wait to see the mix of terror and bemusement on der Stürmer’s stupid face when he’s finally Ceausescued. Priceless, it will be.
‘He was seeking to silence me’: Reynolds slams DreyfusPaul Garvey
An angry Linda Reynolds has used her Supreme Court testimony to slam the conduct of Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus during his handling of Brittany Higgins’ Commonwealth compensation claim.
Senator Reynolds criticised the Attorney-General over his decision to freeze her out of the process, saying that the process had shaped as the senator’s opportunity to finally address Ms Higgins’ criticism of the senator’s handling of her rape allegations.
“I was utterly outraged because this was going to be finally my opportunity to defend against these allegations … which in my mind were utterly defendable.
“To be told my defence would be no defence, as you can see here, I was not to attend the mediation and not to make public comment about the mediation or the civil claims against me … I was outraged.”
Citing a letter from Mr Dreyfus, she said she believed Mr Dreyfus had deliberately excluded her from the process in an effort to keep her silent.
“I could see immediately what the Attorney-General was trying to do, which is why I referred it to the National Anti Corruption Commission. It says it there, he was seeking to silence me … They were seeking to deny me the opportunity to finally defend these claims.”
Ms Higgins would later receive $2.445m from the Commonwealth as a result of that compensation claim.
Dreyfus is in the firing line.
Deservedly so.
Yep, he will be lucky to survive this by the time it’s all over. A few at the AGs department too.
Mark Steyn was onto Farage early in the piece, and he has been proved right.
Farage is an empty vessel, loud and without any useful content.
I don’t agree. Farage has been very helpful in showing just how much dissent there is about the Conservatives and their policies. Just because someone isn’t 100% for your views doesn’t mean you should diss them completely. The world doesn’t work like that. You end up going up your own fundament if you are not careful by being so blinkered.
Youtuber Rev Simon Sideways was warning about Farage before the election.
Thinks similar, loves the trappings of the halls of power.
I didn’t get fooled with C-19. Let’s see how this plays out.
The Dr. Ardis Show
Welcome to this week’s episode of The Dr. Ardis Show, hosted by Dr. Bryan Ardis. In this informative and eye-opening presentation, Dr. Ardis delves into the widespread concerns surrounding the bird flu, which has been a hot topic in mainstream media. Titled “Why I Am So Scared of the Bird Flu and What You Need to Know,” this episode aims to alleviate fears and provide crucial information to keep you and your loved ones informed and at ease.
https://rumble.com/v56bj6m-the-dr.-ardis-show-why-dr.-ardis-is-scared-of-the-bird-flu-episode-07.10.20.html
No no bird flu is so last week.
WHO considers declaring international health emergency over deadlier strain of mpox (6 Aug)
Bend over comrades here it comes again…
173 cpl in Miles,189 cpl in the Gabba at the mo, G-ranga.
I paid 178.7cpl at costco today in Conberra.
It’s like Whitlam is in the room with them.
“None of that matters, since the election WILL be stolen.”
They just need it to be marginally plausible that the Kamel won, that’s all.
But they may get it wrong, and DJT may be able to turn out the vote for Gen Z, which is trending distinctly R at this time – at least the males. Ditto the black vote and the hispanic vote. If those three “blocks” have high turnout for R voters and low turnout for D voters, they might not be able to cheat enough to get over the line (as per Hillary in 2016).
Considering that the Crowdstrike event has proven the internet isn’t safe at all, and we KNOW the vote counter computers were connected, what actually gets counted is irrelevant.
If the Democrooks are half as clever as they think they are, the counts will come in with plausible losses, plausible wins and just enough random additions over the entire countings to hand the elections over to them – all generated in real time without any dodgy jumps and stutters, and with no connection to the real count.
And you’ll have a rerun of 2020, with a Hard Left back in power.
Higgin’s social media post ‘gross and unfair’
Paul Garvey
A social media post made by Brittany Higgins during mediation talks with Linda Reynolds earlier this year has been slammed by the senator.
Ms Higgins back in March posted an image bearing the words “I won’t stay silent so you can stay comfortable” just as she, her husband David Sharaz and Senator Reynolds were in mediation talks in an attempt to settle the defamation actions the senator had brought against the pair.
Giving her evidence in chief to her lawyer Martin Bennett, Senator Reynolds also flagged the financial toll of bringing the defamation against her former staffer.
“It was just another allegation that I was trying to silence her, I was trying to bully her, that I subjected her to a conspiracy. It was another reminder to the Australian media, to people on line, that I was a bully and that I was trying to silence her,” she said.
“But what also struck me is ‘so you can stay comfortable’. Well Mr Bennett, I can assure you taking these proceedings, putting my house on the line, everything that I’ve worked for for 40 years, putting everything on the line to be able to be here today and tell the truth, that just took the cake. We’re not doing this to ‘stay comfortable’.”
She said Ms Higgins’ post was “gross and unfair”.
“Robert (Reid, Senator Reynolds’ partner) and I have put everything on the line to be here today to seek some justice, and that ain’t comfortable, Mr Bennett.”
Fairly weak offerings .. getting upset about tweets .. whole show just a she sez, she said waffle-fest .. cos nose out of joint ……!
Never been a fan of Knickerless but Reynolds seems a bit unhinged – revenge wize … coming across as one of those no win, no pay roll-the-dice cases …….!
The Walz pick is his reward for unlocking the perfect American political strategy in 2024: pointing and saying “sheesh, get a load of those weirdoes”.
You lot just can’t help yourselves, even when your one job is not to be weird. You are slavering over nonsense gotcha stories which only serve to highlight his decades-long career of military and public service, and underline his alignment with traditional community values like feeding and teaching children.
Trump is panicking on his socials, making up fantasies about Biden stealing the nomination back. Polls keep swinging to Harris, nearing the margin of error now.
Harris’ rallies are wildly popular and energetic, and she has scheduled at least one every day this week in battleground states.
Meanwhile, Trump has one rally scheduled this week… in Montana. But hey, he now has two smoke machines! Mirrors to be installed later, LOL.
Piss off, Nazi.
One account I read argued Walz is a battleground pick. Walz is an everyman pick to offset Harris as a coastal elite. The ascendency of Harris in the polls is in part because many citizens did not want to vote for Biden or Trump. She does not have a very low IQ and Trump does not have a 150+IQ. I doubt either of them are in the superior range(120-129). Why is Trump scared of debating someone who by his account has an IQ ~80 points lower than him?
You obviously didn’t look at the Week In Pictures this week, did you Monty?
mUntutd clearly hasn’t been looking at all the “weirdos” supporting the DemonRats.
Is he wearing his pussy hat as he types his weirdo opinions?
Oh hai monts.
Good to see Kamala following Biden’s pattern of hiring.
Detransitioner Sues Medical System that Left Her “Permanently Disfigured” – Says Pro-Trans Bias Led to Double Mastectomy
And so it begins. As predicted, the impact of medical abuse of the sexually confused meets the lawsuit.
Soren Aldaco – suing for pro-trans medical negligence.
It’s almost as if some trial lawyers pushed this whole disgusting fiasco to open a new gold mine of litigation fees.
And in waltzes the fat phuck to praise Walz. FMD
Wouldn’t have expected anything else. He’s the world’s leading practitioner of babbling dickwhittery.
No friends Fat Freak just dumped in aisle 23 bay 15.
Walz is sure to drag in those young female voters with his svelte self and rugged good looks, purple haired bean bags excluded of course.
It may be the end of the world – or at least end of the food supply. I just chased 7 frigging juvenile emus out of my front yard as they were having a nosh up of my flowers.
Cheeky buggers!
I just had three noisies sitting on my knees.
Probably good that I don’t have friendly emus…
“the perfect American political strategy in 2024: pointing and saying “sheesh, get a load of those weirdoes”
Going as high as you can possibly go.
You’re weird, M0nty. Harris and Waltz are confected creations of the media, just the right thing for hoodwinking the voters, many of whom are easily led.
They’re hard left loonies and will pull America down even further if they win.
Sorry Rosie, that was meant as a reply to M0nty’s comment not to yours..
I’m tired today, too many blood test at 7.30am have vampired the bounce out of me. There we stood, twenty people waiting in line to be let in to the pathology lab place until the doors opened. I got lucky, was seen quickly, because my tests were time limited.
That’s twenty thirsty and starving people, btw, on an overnite fast, all jealously guarding their position in the line. Unusual experience.
The battle of ideas.
US Officials Sound Alarm Over China’s Robot Production | China in Focus
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/coming-to-your-3rd-world-developing-shit-hole-soon-thanks-to-rampant-immigration.html
I’m in Malmo at present, visiting relatives who live in the city centre. There are Nordic children and their parents everywhere in contrast to October 2019 when the place seemed overrun by middle eastern looking people. Nordic children everywhere makes sense as it’s still the long summer school holidays here.
I take it the reports of the migrants going back to their old shithole countries for the summer are true.
One thing that has not changed is even more bicycle riders everywhere and even fewer car parking spots. On the other hand the place is not that big so it works for them in a way. And for those who can pedal a bicycle they can be a passenger in this sort of sidecar that is in front instead.
That’s (the scarcity of the ME tribe) amazing, because it is not what is often presented.
Always fun how so many people seeking asylum from terrible persecution go back to the old country for their holidays.
Malmo? Where do I know that name from?
Good for you Crossie!
Did you see m0nty there?
Funnily enough a waitress in one bar said she was born in WA but moved back to Sweden with parents as a child. Had lost s of people start conversations when they heard us speak.
No sight of Monty.
Keep an eye out for the Cat Malmo correspondent. Or maybe not.
And I’ll repeat my observation that the Swede’s great mistake is to let them back in.
Say hi to Monty for me! Oh, wait…
The argument for Shapiro was that he would deliver Pennsylvania, which is shaping up as the 2024 bellwether. Choosing Walz is a projection of confidence that things aren’t going to be that tight. Whether that confidence is misplaced or not remains to be seen.
Seriously though, just one event in Montana this week, that is low energy stuff. Is Trump unwell, or just chicken? The GOP should have a serious conversation about replacing him. They won’t, because it’s a cult. Good luck with that.
I dobut if you’d be feeling great with delayed shock after you had missed assassination by a literal inch only weeks prior, M0nty, and then done a big Convention. JD Vance is doing well with the talking points and the Republican Convention is only just over. No point geeing people up again too early. Trump will campaign, never fear. The annointment of Kamala and Walz is coming up soon and after that, all bets are off.
Monty they were never going to pick Shapiro.
There’s something about Shapiro why they would never pick Shapiro.
You wanna guess what that something is…?
And why Walz is the guy that was gonged…?
I wonder which state Walz is governor of…
Damn you can be thick sometimes.
Minnesota is pretty blue these days, she wasn’t losing it.
As for the other thing… remind yourself who she married and give yourself an uppercut, Bruce.
Piss off, Nazi.
She married a far-left progressive Jew. Her husband is irrelevant, Nazi.
That was after she married her brother.
Is”she” Kamala? If so, she would be married to a bloke who screwed and impregnated the babysitter during his first marriage. Clearly a fine, upstanding (in more ways than one) citizen.
You are thick as, Monty.
I know who she married. Her other marriage: the one that Dems don’t like to talk about.
There is a reason why she is elated that Walz not Shapiro got the nod.
It is a tribute to your infinite thickness that you obviously did not get the message I was transmitting to you.
You are being very weird, Bruce.
No, a VP choice is about electoral possibilities not a we’re going to win so it doesn’t matter. Walz demeanor is very different from Harris. He looks like the kindly neighbour next door rather than a high flying elite. The opposite of Vance.
Trump was caught flat footed by the change. Or perhaps his bone spurs are playing up so he is avoiding the battle. It is ludicrous to think the GOP will oust him. Trump is the GOP and that is their millstone.
Vance? Would he be the bloke who worked his way up from poverty? Definitely a “high flying elite”, then.
Whoopee Do. All of my siblings experienced getting kicked out of homes because the gambling father didn’t pay the rent, both my parents were alcoholics that argued late into the night and refused to support me through Uni. We’re all going great guns, month overseas adventures regularly happen, their children with promising careers, and my sister left university to start a company that became a national leader. I went through childhood horrors including extensive surgery at 4 years of age because I was at death’s door. The consequences of that I have lived with all my life, including chronic pain and disability. I don’t set myself up as an exceptional individual.
I admire Vance for what he has done but there is nothing exceptional about it. I’ve been through far worse.
No weird here.
Who wouldn’t shout about standing with the US’s number one abortion mill?
https://x.com/farmingandJesus/status/1820940370311774622?t=02afI0fT5CUJZgxsMMXnqA&s=19
Muslim criticism of the muslim ‘community’
https://x.com/SohailSNAhmed/status/1820731390402453905?t=HsmLjVosQ94B_wyR0dq8rQ&s=19