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Bread and circuses.
NOT MY PERSIDENT!!!
Good one but no. It’s actually Gabriel, but I thought it would sound more exotic spelled as Gabor. /reference to…
Still watching Gutfeld (mostly because Emily Compagno’s on): “I know I’m experiencing Post Election Euphoria …” He missed such an…
I had a great big fat laugh over the Europeans trying to censor Trump/Musk interview.
Have they worked out yet that if Trump gets the Presidency, he can just pull out of NATO and bring all the troops, supplies and weapons back to the US?
But no, they think he wouldn’t dare.
Perhaps they might just rethink that position again.
If the US does pull out, the Poot will be able to park up everything more modern than a T72 and pull the T34/85s out of long term storage and let them loose.
Qld mayor condemns Welcome to Country:
“That Welcome to Country stuff is all pure bullshit.’’
Trevor Pickering, mayor of Croydon Shire Council in north Queensland, isn’t holding back on his views…
Poll:
Does Welcome to Country get overused?
Yes 98 %
No 2 %
20,366 votes
Vote here if you can climb the paywall
Peter Hitchens EXPOSES Keir Starmer! | Is everything not as it seems?
Elon Musk’s evolution
Very clearly put.
New Zealander Blake Wilson, believed to be in his mid-20s, was piloting a Robinson 44 helicopter when it crashed into the roof the DoubleTree by Hilton in Cairns, Far North Queensland, at 1.50am on Monday.
and
The young pilot is originally from Palmerston North on New Zealand’s North Island.
Mr Wilson gained his private pilots licence with Christchurch Helicopters in April 2022.
Daily Mail
Is Starmer ‘silencing’ Brits on immigration? – ‘The UK is close to an elected DICTATORSHIP!’
According to Chatbot, 170,000 motor vehicles each year catch fire in the US.
Also says, there are 290 million motor vehicles in the US. This represents ~.06% of the motor vehicle fleet. On these numbers and at first glance, IC’s appear therefore to be the bigger risk.
But what are insurance companies saying about EV fire risk. If anyone’s been looking into it instead of a couple of dorks on a blog, it would be Insurance firms because that’s where money is involved.
Current position. We really don’t know yet.
Election Interference: EU Demands Censorship of Musk’s Trump Interview (breitbart.com)
Decadent, smug, effete and evil
Postcard.
I’m in Galway and probably haven’t allocated enough time to this stage of the visit.
There is a ferry service not far away out to the Aran Islands. I might try for that tomorrow though the weather deteriorated last night.
I’m staying at the university, in a new built 6 bedrooms per ‘apartment’ complex. It’s like a small hotel room with ensuite and a shared kitchen dining area.
Not super cheap at €100 per night but pretty comfortable even though it’s boring.
Visiting uni person in same block said she’d tried to get a hotel room but couldn’t find anything under €350.
Galway is obviously much bigger on the tourist trail, there were a lot of Chinese tourists booking in yesterday and I saw them all leave together under a host of umbrellas early this morning presumably off on a coach trip.
Still better than the teachers college in Limerick, which had the much bigger handicap of a 2 km trek into town along the very ugly dock road, no public transport.
I did visit King John’s Castle before I left Limerick. Ordered built by the King John of Robin Hood fame, it’s still pretty intact.
In 1642 it was beseiged with the attackers mining to collapse the ramparts and the occupants counter mining to stop them. The beseigers won that battle only to get stomped by Cromwell and his son in law seven years later.
The interactive section of the castle museum, which is inside a row of gutted houses next to the castle was pretty good for a historical view of Ireland focusing on the role of Limerick.
Limerick and Galway are connected by train €10 one way.
A lot of Ireland’s train lines have been ripped up.
Would have loved to ride the one between Skibbereen and Schull but it is long gone, as is the Cork to Skibbereen line, all that’s left of that one is the iron bridge across the River Ilen, now a dining area for a local hotel.
Union boss suspended from national executive, urged to stand down from all rolesBy Kieran RooneyAugust 13, 2024 — 5.24pm
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Victorian Health Workers Union boss Diana Asmar has been stood down from her role on the union’s national executive, and senior leaders will urge the state branch to remove her from state positions after she declined to leave.
The Health Services Union’s national executive on Tuesday afternoon unanimously voted to suspend Asmar from her role as national senior vice president until investigations into the state branch she leads were complete.
This masthead revealed last week that the Fair Work Commission and Victoria Police were part of a multi-agency investigation examining allegations that more than $3 million in union funding was paid to printing firms for non-existent or “ghost” services.
After these reports, the HSU national executive said it asked Asmar to stand aside from all union positions on Wednesday but she had not.
It also urged the HWU’s branch committee of management to stand Asmar aside, appoint an administrator and consent to a comprehensive audit.
In a statement after its Tuesday meeting, the national HSU executive said it expected to have an opportunity to explain its position to the Victorian committee and urge it to act.
National secretary Lloyd Williams said the executive was deeply concerned about allegations of impropriety.
“We take these matters extremely seriously and are waiting for the Fair Work Commission to promptly conclude its investigation and present its evidentiary findings,” he said.
“The HSU has no tolerance for alleged misuse of union funds. Our decisions are informed by the need to protect the interests of our members, which is why we have stood Diana Asmar aside from her national executive position and intend to persuade the Victoria No.1 branch committee of management to follow a similar course.”
Asmar, who has previously told the HSU she strenuously denies the claims, has been contacted for comment.
Documents seen by this masthead have previously confirmed Victoria Police and the Fair Work Commission are investigating a money trail of more than $3 million in union funds.
Europe sounds very quiet at the moment.
Has GB pushed all the fracas off the front pages, or is the media keeping quiet about the events?
‘Diana Asmar’
That’s a name I’ve heard before
The greatest mystery in the 14 or so years I have followed the Cat in several iterations…
“Why would any sensible person engage with that f…ing moron?”
Yet it continues a hundred times a day.
Ignore a moronic pest long enough and it loses its drive and ultimately its interest wanes… and it dies a death of a thousand wannabe’s…
Do not feed the f..king moron…
“Has GB pushed all the fracas off the front pages, or is the media keeping quiet about the events”
What euro fracas?
Why don’t you have a look at Euro sites like France 24?
Iirc countries like Spain France and Italy have been pretty intolerant of muslim street protests unlike the flaccid British.
FFS, that sky nooze report on stinking moozley goat f*ckers (BIRM) was so infuriating I’ve had to turn it off.
Deport them all.
Why did ‘anti-fascists’ go after football fans at a Wetherspoons? – spiked (spiked-online.com)
very true
Bob, Ukraine is causing havoc in a 12x40km front in Kursk.
Unsure what it will achieve in the end other than a disruption effect with what meagre resources they have. Probably hoping Put’s will draw forces from the front to protect Russia’s flank. Thing is he’ll reinforce the 1000km border, it’s just where those troops come from.
But there you have it, still going and getting not much media coverage but the lines seem pretty stagnant so probably not worth the print ink.
There were genuine athletes at the current Olympics of course.
How else would we have won so many medals.
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Meet Jemima Montag – an Australian race-walker (two bronze medals) and the grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Jemima is a champion in her sport; she won the gold medal in back-to-back Commonwealth Games and competed in the 2020 Olympics.
But the piece of gold metal that matters most to her is not the one worn around her neck, but the one she wears on her wrist. Her gold bracelet came from her grandmother Judith, who survived the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau and a grueling death march in the freezing cold of winter.
Two years before she died, Judith cut a gold necklace of hers into three pieces, giving a piece to each of her three granddaughters.
Jemima wears that bracelet as a good luck charm during every race. It reminds her of her grandmother, whose incredible strength and resilience inspire her with each and every step.
Contributor: Jill Goltzer
FTA TV is dying because they put crap on especially reality TV, there’s too much sport and well how many times does one have to see Jurassic Park, was on again on the weekend.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/bill-shorten-warns-aussie-freetoair-tv-now-in-diabolical-trouble/news-story/b24a122e9d09f434386f8a1c4d394158
I wonder if the problem is there’s too many channels now and way too many Gov funded channels (ABC, SBS & NITV).
Here is a king worthy of the title.
The Timeless Truth About Tyranny According to Aristotle
And here is a picture of him, he is about 40 years old.
The most absurd thing I saw today was this comment.
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/sunday-69/#comment-2790434
How can someone not believe Russia invaded Ukraine?
Arguing it was justifiable, okay perhaps that can be argued, but arguing it didn’t happen??
‘We’re coming for you’: Burke, Labor warned as Dr Ziad Basyouny launches independent campaignAlexi Demetriadi
5 hours ago.
Updated 2 hours ago
As Ziad Basyouny launched his landmark independent campaign to take on Tony Burke at the next election, the potential scale of his task to convince the diverse Muslim community in the home affairs minister’s seat of Watson became clear.
Pictured speaking with Dr Basyouny was local resident Mohamad Allywa, who later told The Australian he backed Mr Burke and wasn’t going to vote for Dr Basyouny.
“Tony Burke is a very good member, he helps us (a lot), I love Tony,” said Mr Allywa, who migrated from Lebanon.
Mr Allywa called Dr Basyouny a “good candidate” but a “small unit” compared to Mr Burke’s “castle”, who he and others would support given his longstanding ties to the community.
“It’s very hard (for Dr Basyouny), Tony is a very good member. If he can help (me), he will. If he cannot, he says ‘sorry, Mohamad, I can’t help’.”
It comes as Dr Basyouny launched a political warning shot at Mr Burke and the ALP on Tuesday, propelled by the Muslim community’s unrest toward the government’s Gaza stance.
“We are coming for you (the ALP),” the 44-year-old said as he launched his campaign in Greenacre, in Mr Burke’s Watson electorate.
Some truth in that for introverts.
Top Ender
August 13, 2024 5:58 pm
Doesn’t sound like he is ISIS or Al Quaeda.
We’re Heading for Civilisational Collapse – Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt
COMMENTARY
GREG SHERIDAN
Crisis of state authority, identity politics at heart of UK riots
The ugly, indeed despicable, violent riots in Britain over recent weeks tell us a few things, but not mainly what most analysts are saying. For a start, we shouldn’t let street thugs of any kind determine a political agenda.
The key lesson from these riots is that the effectiveness and authority of government in Britain is in decline.
It’s well to remember that street riots in Britain predate, by centuries, whatever social conditions apply today. Historically, riots were one of the ways, before parliamentary politics, that populations registered discontent.
There’s a long tradition of street violence in Britain, on the left and the right, over class, regional hostilities, unpopular government decisions, sometimes over race, often historically over religion.
The British, like most peoples, are a paradox. Famed for orderly queues, possessors of an intricate, nuanced, finely gauged code of politeness that can carry great charm, their young men also exhibit a tendency to periodically erupt into violence. Have you been on a train with Millwall football supporters lately?
It is the case that a huge number of Brits are unhappy with the size and composition of immigration. They’re right to be dissatisfied. Since David Cameron became prime minister in 2010, British governments have promised to reduce the immigration intake from several hundred thousand a year to less than 100,000. Yet they’ve never done so, or even come close.
This is, oddly enough, a particular failure by every Conservative prime minister from Cameron to Rishi Sunak. Generally, Britain is a successful immigrant country. The cohort who have had most trouble settling in to British society are a minority of Muslim immigrants. Most Muslim immigrants have been successful enough in settling in to Britain. But a small minority hate their new homeland.
However, let’s not unfairly single out Muslims. A significant section of the British cultural, educational, academic, media and political elite also hate Britain, seeing its history as unrelieved racism, sexism and violence, and its present social model as hetero-normative oppression and economic exploitation.
This view is absolutely barking mad, of course, given that Britain has created one of the most prosperous and equal societies on earth and pioneered ethical thinking and much cultural achievement.
But the salient point is the decade and a half failure of Conservative governments to carry out their own policies. It’s not remotely anti-immigrant in the general sense to regard a particular size and composition of intake as excessive. The British government couldn’t control its immigration intake while it was a member of the EU. That’s why millions of Brits voted for Brexit.
But even after Britain left the EU, governments couldn’t implement their own policies.
There are all kinds of bureaucratic and judicial reasons for this, but really they amount to a failure of will. That is the crisis of modern Britain.
I recently read a treatment of Margaret Thatcher’s time in office that convincingly drew the contrast with her. Thatcher’s greatest contribution to Britain was not to check the size of government, cut taxes, deregulate and let the magic of the market revitalise the British economy. She did do all that, and it was hugely important.
But her key contribution was to restore the authority and effectiveness of government.
Britain in the 1970s was crippled by strikes and social protest that ignored the rule of law. Outlaw unions could stop you going to work if they had a dispute with you or your boss. They could shut down any business in the country, and destroy any individual’s right to earn a living, without regard to the law. The law didn’t apply to them.
Thatcher’s genius was her courage. She told the police to enforce the law, which meant enforcing the democratic and legal right for businesses and employees to operate regardless of union diktats. It is not too much to say that Thatcher restored the rule of law in Britain. It then settled back into the mainly peaceful and cooperative society it is when its institutions work.
Mob rule, whether of the left or the right, is a form of tribal identity politics. Like all identity politics, it’s based on a doctrine that is passionately held on the left. That doctrine is that parliamentary democracy is a sham and its institutions don’t apply to selected political forces or demographic groups.
Australia dodged what would have been a fatal institutionalising of identity politics in the voice referendum. Australians didn’t reject Aboriginal people in this vote. Australians of all backgrounds rejected the idea that democratic institutions don’t work for, or shouldn’t apply to, any subset of society.
We all have our problems. They all have to be adjudicated in democratic and legal ways.
Nothing justifies these riots. However, the idea of “two-tier” policing is undeniable, but not the fault of police. Black Lives Matter demonstrations were violent, destructive of property and injurious to individuals in the US and Britain. Yet Keir Starmer famously took the knee to show his support for them. In America, Kamala Harris praised the demonstrations and raised bail money to get violent protesters out of jail.
Needless to say, the chief victims of this protest violence were low-income people who lived in areas that the demonstrations made, for a time, lawless.
Because Black Lives Matter protests were seen as expressions of virtuous identity politics, they got soft treatment by state institutions that should have been blind to politics.
This is part of the utter poison of identity politics. It’s wholly destructive and the crazy ideas in our government’s latest multicultural report would be disastrous if implemented. Identity politics tells minorities there is nothing but hostility and suspicion in their host societies. Whereas nations such as the US, Britain and Australia, while a million miles from perfect, are characterised by opportunity.
Minority identity politics also has this gruesome and inevitable consequence. It produces white identity politics among white folks who don’t feel particularly privileged. British author Douglas Murray points out that riots in 2011 were especially aggressive in Sutherland, Rotherham and Hartlepool. The proportion of people in those three towns receiving out-of-work benefits in 2011 was, respectively, 18 per cent, 16 per cent and 21 per cent. Today, each of those towns actually has worse rates. Today’s figures are, respectively, 19 per cent, 18 per cent and 23 per cent.
Thirteen years later, the underlying social problems have got worse – greater marital breakdown, greater absence of fathers, even more useless education that doesn’t equip people for jobs, consequent lack of economic opportunity.
For the past decade and a half British government has been unable to do anything. When it tries to do something even quite simple, such as cutting the immigration rate, and runs into problems, it doesn’t prevail. It gives up rather than cause a split in the party. Thatcher understood, among many other things, that in a civilised society the police must have the monopoly on the use of force. Because without authority there is no freedom.
Oz
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you horrible mob.
I have all the trappings befitting a gentleman – a log fire, a leather armchair, a decanter of good single malt, and Geoffrey Powell’s book “The Devil’s Birthday – the Bridges to Arnhem 1944.” – One of the four best accounts of that battle I have ever read.
Powell was a veteran of that battle – he narrates the incident of how, after the withdraw across the Rhine on 25th September, one company of paratroopers, all of fifteen strong, formed up in style, and marched off, with sloped arms.
You read, in the foreword, by John Hackett, how this company, were pretty much all that remained of the whole battalion, and Powell himself was the company commander who brought them out in such order…
I just read Greg Sheridan’s article posted above. Some pretty powerful stuff but most of all this, “Australia dodged what would have been a fatal institutionalising of identity politics in the voice referendum. Australians didn’t reject Aboriginal people in this vote. Australians of all backgrounds rejected the idea that democratic institutions don’t work for, or shouldn’t apply to, any subset of society.” Well said Mr Sheridan.
@BobFighter_45
Raised by Trump vs. Raised by Obama.
Kamala Harris Picks Sanctions Snitch Ilan Goldenberg as Jewish Liaison
Trump on X Taps Into a Voting Bloc That Legacy Media Doesn’t Even Know Exists
EU Commissioner Threatens to Use Full ‘Toolbox’ of Measures Against Elon Musk Over Potential ‘Disinformation’ in Trump Interview
Speaking of conservative NeverTrumpers
Border agent whistleblowers accuse Homeland Security of trying to drive them to SUICIDE for exposing major failure
@LauraLoomer
She and Joe Biden wanted a federal vaccine mandate. How is that “taking on Big Pharma”?
“The legacy media is so focused on rebranding Kamala Harris and running interference for Tim Walz that they cannot even recognize the brilliance of this pivot. X is the one platform that isn’t working overtime to either ignore, misrepresent, or drown out Trump’s campaign and message. Much to their chagrin, with this X interview, Trump has blown a hole through their propaganda wall and reached past to voters that they had no idea existed. “
The above is the end paragraph of an excellent piece from Red State. The Legacy media has no idea of the rich vein of voters Trump is able to tap into since his homecoming on X.
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/08/12/trump-on-x-taps-into-a-voting-bloc-that-legacy-media-doesnt-even-know-exists-n2178040
Labor has been accused of putting unnecessary pressure on inflation by running a “Big Australia by stealth” program that has seen Australia bring in a record 1.15 million migrants since taking power.
According to an analysis of migration patterns by parliamentary term, this means that with months to run in its first term, Anthony Albanese’s government has brought in 62 per cent more migrants than the Rudd-Gillard government, which was the previous record holder.
The research also shows that this government has already brought in more migrants in just 27 months than the entire Hawke-Keating years which ran for 156 months – more than five times the length of the current government.
WHERE MOST MIGRANTS COME FROM
IMMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA in FY 2023
1. India – 92,940 arrivals – 18%
2. China – 64,320 arrivals – 12%
3. Philippines – 40,890 arrivals – 8%
4. Nepal – 27,450 arrivals – 5%
5. Colombia 22,330 arrivals – 4%
6. UK. 19,230 arrivals – 4%
7. Vietnam. 17,770 arrivals – 3%
8. Pakistan. 17,280 arrivals – 3%
9. New Zealand. 15,340 arrivals – 3%
10 Thailand. 14,060 arrivals – 3%
Daily Tele
Douglas Murray Was Right – Konstantin Kisin
Indolent, Snap.
Hadn’t read back comments.
An Israeli take on how the war in Gaza is going. Worth a read.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-military-victory-gaza-hamas
Australia’s NBN is being ‘smashed’ by Starlink
Producer Price Index came out. Better that expectations indicating tomorrow’s CPI will be close to target.
Fed will cut
Sam Cooke – What A Wonderful World (Official Lyric Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4GLAKEjU4w
They expect Trump to win so it’s a hostage swap deal, you give us back our territory and we will give you back yours.
FFS…Apologies if previously posted.
For those into such things, here’s a link to my new book Cyclone Warriors: the ADF in Cyclone Tracy. It covers the struggles of the night of 24 December 1974 (50 years ago soon), and the enormous achievements of the Navy, Air Force and Army, in saving Darwin from basically being bulldozed.
Out now from Avonmore Books in SA.
Wow, Fifty bucks! TE, feel free to give us a promo code or something. I’ll have to go & sell a whole stack of beer tomorrow, to try to raise the money.
(Cost of living, etc.)
Faarkin funny!
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Superwog:
The Gay Best Friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89TZH7KQ7Wc
No he wasn’t.
Why do people have to ad bs to the mix?
There is probably a bigger issue to explore, and that is how many young hopefuls had the opportunity and resources to compete fotlr that spot to represent Australia.
Gunn more or less admitted she didn’t have the fitness, ie ‘athleticism’ to compete with other performers.
“Mr Free is also a breaker and is his wife’s coach.
However, he was not a judge at the Oceania Olympic qualifiers held in Sydney last October. In fact, there were no Australians on the nine-person panel”
https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no-rayguns-olympic-selection-not-an-inside-job/#:~:text=Mr%20Free%20is%20also%20a,held%20in%20Sydney%20last%20October.
“The court heard Pintaru is a Romanian citizen of no fixed address, while prosecutor David Burns said a woman and her 11-year-old daughter were in Leicester Square as tourists.”
No debate about immigration here.
https://news.sky.com/story/leicester-square-man-charged-after-girl-11-stabbed-eight-times-on-visit-to-london-13196235
More laughs.
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Garn:
Every Scaffolder Ever… | Garn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P52R-vge8WA
I’ll have to go & sell a whole stack of beer tomorrow
But, but, mate…beers are about $12 in a pub now…tell you what, you give me three, and I’ll give you a book, with some very personal remarks in the front just for you…
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
Brett Lethbridge #2.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks, Tom.
It’s about 10:30pm here in Russia and the local late news service said they have very preliminary reports of an attempted border breakthrough by Ukrainian forces somewhere in the Belgorod region.
Subject to confirmation. May be nothing but rumour.
Separately, the Russian MoD advises that 2,030 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the Kursk area and over 250 armoured vehicles destroyed to date. Russian tv is showing extensive video footage of the destruction.
Janet’s piece today in the Australian gives it to the enablers of Ms Knickerless with her usual style, elegance and logic:
But, but, mate…beers are about $12 in a pub now…
Moby Dicks tavern Holt ACT – $5 schooners 10:00am – 11:00am happy hour. 7 days a week. 🙂
Tradies never miss it.
You Deny My Right To Exist – TFF Episode 63
During his interview with Musk last night Trump stated he would be returning to the Butler, Pennsylvania site for another rally.
He said he already had the first line written:
“As I was saying…”
SDA has a thread up on Raygun, her thesis in the links and it is on break dancing not the MSM whitewashed “cultural studies.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/08/13/olympics-humour/
The meme is amusing.
Keir Jong Un
Fuhrer Starmer
Comrade Keir
Keir Stalin
Two Tier Keir
Stasi Starmer
KeirGB
Not a bad list after only five weeks in office.
One should laugh, but none of this is particularly funny.
SDA has a thread up on Raygun, her thesis in the links and it is on break dancing not the MSM whitewashed “cultural studies.”
There was a satirical book some years ago where the hero’s daughter had a Ph.D in pole dancing.
Satire can’t beat reality these days.
You have to laugh. It’s healthier than weeping.
About that Walz prick.
Walz ordered police to shoot residents sitting on their porches with paintballs during his Covid dictatorship.
Shocking. Note he did that in nice, middle class, white neighborhoods. You can bet your last dollar he wouldn’t have dared try it in the ‘hood. Or in heavily armed white rural districts for that matter… the cops aren’t that stupid or suicidal.
Another Walz covid tidbit – He deployed the Minnesota National Guard to enforce his draconian edicts during covid. But he left them at home for the entirety of the BLM/Antifa riots which burned down much of Minneapolis.
One to boil the blood, from Airstrip One.
Two, if you read the pinned tweet.
Waltz, Andrews or Sturgeon obviously all got their orders from a common source.
It covers the struggles of the night of 24 December 1974 (50 years ago soon), and the enormous achievements of the Navy, Air Force and Army, in saving Darwin from basically being bulldozed.
They should have bulldozed it. The military bases can be handled on a FIFO basis.
Postcard from a Tudor warship
Our stay in the south of England, after the Edinburgh Tattoo, was “down time”, looking after a house in Romsey, north of Southampton in a house-sit arrangement. We managed two 12 year-old Jack Russell terriers, a reclusive large cat, and a tankful of fish. Good to relax and take the dogs for walks every day for a week in our action-filled four months away.
We went to Portsmouth see Mary Rose, the Tudor warship sunk off the south coast of the UK with Henry VIII looking on. She was in service for about 30 years and sank in 1545 in action against a French invasion fleet with almost all of her 500 people on board. The wreck was found in 1971 and raised a decade later. I saw the raised section in the 1990s when she was still being conserved. Now the whole wreck is available for inspection in a climate controlled giant warehouse with three sides and three storeys configured for viewing, with hundreds of display cases housing the thousands of Tudor artefacts also brought up. It is the largest Tudor display in the world.
A very impressive collection. I went to see the bowstaves worked on my Robert Hardy, who was the world expert on the longbow. I interviewed him when I was writing my book Medieval Military Combat. He was better known as an actor especially in his role as Siegfried Farnon in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small.
The organisers have done a magnificent job overall. I was especially impressed that their displays often acknowledged what they didn’t know. For example, it has been much debated why Mary Rose sank, with a lot of conjecture that she was top heavy. Perhaps she was loaded too high with her gun artillery, but also maybe her stern sections were too high, resulting in a poop deck rather than the raised lower quarterdeck model used in ships such as HMS Victory – Nelson’s flagship now alongside the Mary Rose building. The conservators and naval architects don’t know – there was too much destruction of the Mary Rose’s wooden parts to be sure, and they say this in their displays.
I took a brief walk inside Victory, although she is covered in tarps on both sides at present, due to maintenance, but it was interesting to see one of her sides with the old paint removed for preservation of the timber work. HMS Warrior was just up the road, and I re-visited her briefly as well. Warrior is the 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859-1861. She was the lead ship of the Warrior-class ironclads, and is an interesting “inbetween” ship of the changing world of sail-to-steam that was then revolutionizing the naval world.
Nearby was Queen Elizabeth II, the first of the Royal Navy’s two new supercarriers. A unique design with two “islands” rather than one. The Naval Dockyard is still a fascinating place. Where else could you see casually on one side two naval guns of several hundreds years in age, not on display but just waiting for someone to do something with them? – the trouble being they have hundreds in their inventory whereas the RAN only has a few.
We are moving on to Battle, also on the south coast, for three days, the site of the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and then are flying to Athens for another short work cruise.
(Pic of the Mary Rose shipwreck in its hall)
The Kursk area is one of those corridors every barbarian horde or invading army has used since Genghis Khan.
Corridors work both ways.
Citizen journalism from actual domain experts and people actually on the ground is much faster, more accurate and has less bias than the legacy media!
It is something so long established as ‘the way that things are done’ that it is accepted as the only way things can be done, that people do not consider that ‘journalists’ may simply have been a compromise. J’simists have never had the breadth a knowledge coterminal with that upon which they report. But having them were manageable to the owners of earlier media because they could not employ high degree people from every avenue of human activity. They could try to make their j’ismists people who could at least be trusted though.
But j’ismists, who have now begun to see themselves as foundational elements of the social ecosystem. Having determined to become advocate for causes (which they still do not fully understand) at the expense of trustworthiness they have surrendered their one virtue. They are no longer a worthy compromise.
In days of yore the best people could hope for was a kind of ‘Chinese whispers’ where an expert spoke to a j’ismists then through editors then back to j’simists etc, but by the time it got to us the message was a bit garbled and confused, at odds from what was originally said. Since then China has turned into a communist bully hell bent on crippling the West – and the j’ism game of ‘Chinese whispers’ reflects this.
Step in the ‘citizen journalist’, the people who actually know what they are talking about. And there are masses of them. Some honest, some with an agenda, some not as knowledgeable as they imagine, but instead of trusting in one person we can now assay a wide range of opinions, learn from other people’s observations and lend them our own. It still may not be perfect – listening though the cacophony – but it is better than slavishly listening to one person who insists they are experts in it all.
Public holiday in Brisbane today for the Ekka. Usually the busiest day but most unfortunately having a monsoon like rain event that looks like going to go for most of the day.
1 billion views? A total of 159 million voted in the 2020 election.
I won’t hold my breath.
Giving Hamas supporters an armchair ride to Australian citizenship was always going to create a new wave of terrorism Down Under, but the Albanese regime is run by socialist left radicals who don’t give a sh*t (Paywallian):
Kamala Harris Isn’t Running A Democrat Campaign. The Media Are Doing It For Her.
Tracking Kamala Harris’ Biggest And Baddest Lies: 20 And Counting
Michael Smith has an article on the RAAF agreeing to train Luftwaffe pilots.
He ends the story with the opening scene from “The Battle of Britain”.
Duh!
Another New Study Finds Rising CO2 Enhances Planetary Greening and Reduces Drought Risk
@hodgetwins
Kamala’s VP Tim Walz sent his tyrannical agents into Minnesota neighborhoods to shoot citizens with paintball guns during Covid
Do we really want someone like this running our country?
The Press Won’t Discuss Real Campaign Issues, Because They Don’t Want Trump To Win
@libsoftiktok
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OMG. 3 Minneapolis police officers testified after the BLM riots that Gov. Tim Walz told law enforcement to “give it up” when the city was burning to the ground.
Tim Walz wanted his own city to burn and fall into chaos.
Nancy Pelosi is a malign tragedy much like Joe.
She should be sitting in a chair with her extended family, bathed in emanations of sickly-sweet alcoholic fumes, rambling with thick speech that rises to near crescendo at random intervals delivering a stream of incomplete sentences that run into each other, while the grandkids look to each other and giggle behind their hands as their mother admonishes them “Don’t laugh at Grammy Nancy. She is sick. You wouldn’t like it if I laughed at you when you were sick, would you?”
Paul Pelosi will be out the back with Juan, the pool boy.
@cicero_mn
You ask
How did Minnesota elect someone as radical as Tim Walz?
Minneapolis liberals laughing and cheering at an “art sled” of the third police precinct burning. 1/27/24
Minnesota grandma jailed for defying Walz COVID lockdown orders: ‘You do not want tyranny at this level’
Reply to Greg Sheridans posting:
That’s why the Muslim population is having such a hard time becoming part of Australia – they refuse to. They want the land, the cities, the jobs – all the perks of our culture while refusing to support our culture.
No. You assimilate or you go.
Precisely the same here. Our governments – on both sides – not only lack the courage to do that which they were elected to do, they are actively – through identity politics – trying to destroy the original political makeup of Australia.
For our culture to survive ALL laws and regulations that favour one Australian over another must be scrapped. The basis of Australian culture is Christianity and Free Enterprise.
No Sharia Law, No great Rainbow Serpent. No Socialist plunder.
finis.
Elon Musk Offers to Host Kamala Harris for Her First Unscripted Interview Since Joining Race
@IsaiahLCarter
White House can’t name a single achievement from Kamala Harris
The US mainstream medias lack of interest in Harriss / Waltz failures and policies is yet more evidence that MSM is now basically working against democracy and the interests of the country.
However it does appear Trump is not helping his campaign by mentioning minor matters when he should be focusing on the many policy failures of Harris and Waltz.
@ImMeme0
@TrumpWarRoom
Great strategy, though.
Keep asking her to just speak unscripted and watch her run.
It seems not that long ago Harris was saying Trump was running scared from a debate. She must have thought she had him. But now if she tries to back out of the debates he can play her soundbite back at her.
No dirty trick is beneath them.
@JimVandeHei
@elonmusk
A wall of negative headlines was so predictable. They’re such NPCs
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All this does is drive even more people to listen to the conversation themselves and realize how much the legacy media lies to them!
@catturd2
They’re replacing you because you’re awake to their treason.
This clip is great, I watched it twice.
A Councillor is asked if she accepted the report that the Fire service was Institutionally Racist. Yes, she replies. She is then asked, what advantages do white people have over others in the Fire Service. SO good, watch if you have time. Less than three minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaXCOr3qtJs
FMIA DOA?
I’m seriously worried. A friend came back from holidays overseas yesterday. When I saw him at the Bridge club he said off the bat “I think she’ll win this, the momentum is so great”. What can you say to that? This is someone wondering around Spain and France, coming back with that impression. The media is certainly doing their “job”.
I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that Harris can win in a fair election. But there’s obviously not going to be a fair election and the media is doing the groundwork to at least create the impression that a “victory” by her is genuine.
This Is Beyond the Pale
m o d e r n i t y
What say you, Weirdo Walz about this?
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1736363366598279276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1736363366598279276%7Ctwgr%5E9d77d87c51e795f29492d5ef11d5ef2342f3ad01%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
This interview with Douglas Carswell is really outstanding. He clearly sets out the situation.
Former MP Breaks SILENCE On UK Riots, Elites & Immigration Crisis | The Winston Marshall Show
Further to yesterday’s post on Andrew Giles misleading parliament in November of last year over bridging visas with strict controls for immigration detainees released courtesy the HCA, the Coalition has called for him to resign.
Labor is stonewalling.
Being a Labor parliamentarian must be the only job in Australia in which lying to your boss – in this case the Australian people – doesn’t get you sacked.
Just another gob of spit in the public’s face.
Dr. John Campbell giving a lecture.
Evidence based communications talk
https://trendingpolitico.com/lgbtq-activist-dylan-butler-reported-as-iowa-mass-shooter/
Removed from Facebook.
I must be a bad boy to have upset them so.
WARNING: Provocative title!
RTWT
From the Australian Business Review headline:
Meanwhile, one of the country’s top regulatory experts says ASIC should be empowered by an “eat what you kill” model and take a slice of any fines and penalties it metes out, as part of any overhaul to improve the corporate cop’s results.
This exactly what you don’t want to give to a bunch of government thugs. They will target anyone at random, hoping they will roll over and not choose to defend.
I don’t have a Paywallian sub so maybe someone who does can identify the “top regulatory expert”?
Do the anti-Burke muzzies have a ‘Go Fund Me’ page?
https://speedaircraft.com/xcel-jet/
I want one!
RTWT
Many thanks for posting that, Roger.
Bettina Arndt is a force of nature and one of Australia’s few bearers of truth in a society where propaganda narratives are running wild and our governments are white-anting us on everything every day.
Stored for future reference.
Transcript of the Trump Musk interview
https://singjupost.com/full-transcript-elon-musk-interviews-donald-trump/?singlepage=1
“Climate Change ConcernsELON MUSK: It’s not there. It’s not infinite. And there is some risk. I think it’s not the risk is not as as high as, you know, a lot of people say it is with respect to global warming.
But I think if you just keep increasing the cost of a million in the atmosphere long enough, eventually, it actually simply gets uncomfortable to breathe, people don’t realize this. If you go, if you go past 1000 parts per million of CO2, you start getting headaches and nausea. And so we’re now in the sort of 400 range, we’re adding, I think, about roughly two parts per million per year. So I mean, still gives us what it means, like, we still have quite a bit of time.”
NO. Flat out wrong, Elon.
“Submarine crew are reported to be the major source of CO2 on board submarines (Crawl 2003). Data collected on nine nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines indicate an average CO2 concentration of 3,500 ppm with a range of 0-10,600 ppm, and data collected on 10 nuclear-powered attack submarines indicate an average CO2 concentration of 4,100 ppm with a range of 300-11,300 ppm (Hagar 2003).
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2007. Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants: Volume 1. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11170.”
Great essay. RTWT.
I’ll give that Musk has plenty else on his plate but the CO2 toxicity thing is easy to look up.
Which is the problem with the CO2 induced climate change thing – even most smart people don’t do their homework and are mostly ignorant.
MATT GOODWIN: The CRACKDOWN on “LEGAL but HARMFUL” Speech is a JOKE
The only good thing about living in Canberra is my relationship with the hospital system. Monday I went for scans and tests. Driving home GP rings, come and see me this afternoon. Don’t do anything slightly strenuous. Any chest pain at all go straight to the hospital. Going to see cardiologist next week. Couldn’t get a private appointment for 3-4 weeks. This was the same for kidney problems. Apparently its a similar thing to angina except in my case the artery has a sharp bend in it. For a minute there I thought she said that thing that trannies get…….a mangina. I’ve probably had this most of my life as it explains a lot of things over the years.
Interesting vibes in this story.
Bill Shorten warns Aussie free-to-air TV now in ‘diabolical trouble’ (13 Aug)
I have no idea what is being advertised on the commercial channels, they’re all unwatchable anyway, so I didn’t bother replacing my TV when it died. Maybe if they are dying they could do something different rather than regurgitate endless leftism to the few lefties who watch them?
@GeriatrickGames
THIS is how elections are stolen there.
If only there had been a politician as grounded and yet far-sighted as Shorten who might have foreseen the coming plight of buggy-whip manufacturers: some subsidies for them and regulations against automobile manufacturers to ‘level the playing field’ and we would all be in a better place.
Posted this as an incorrectly nested post earlier.
Our Post Modern structuralist, Ozzy man, has given the Raygun performance the gravitas it needed. It is Tuesday at the local pub with chicken parmi.
I think we can confidently say that nothing is going to plan as Mr. 32% contemplates an early election and the prospect of governing with Greens support.
Police called as Greens-led anti-Israel Sydney council protest turns ugly
Alexi Demetriadi
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Updated 3 minutes ago
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Police were called to a Sydney council chambers on Tuesday night after a Greens-led pro-Palestine protest turned ugly, forcing the abandonment of the meeting amid safety concerns after Jewish speakers were targeted, before officers escorted out staff and councillors.
The protest, co-organised by Inner West Greens councillor Dylan Griffiths, had been weeks in the making and designed to whip up frenzied support for his Boycott, Divest, Sanction motion, described previously as a “campaign ploy” before September’s local government elections.
It comes after Anthony Albanese’s criticism of the party’s inflammatory rhetoric, and The Australian’s special report, ‘Greens Extremes’ which revealed how its grassroots members had prioritised “revolution” over rates, roads and rubbish at a council level.
About 100 protesters took to the Inner West council’s final pre-election meeting on Tuesday in Ashfield, which was adjourned three times due to the partisan crowd, before eventually being abandoned.
Decked in keffiyehs, speakers – all of whom were allowed to speak by Labor mayor Darcy Byrne, a break in protocol in an olive-branch move – included those behind the Prime Minister’s electorate office picket, and hurled epithets including “baby killers” and “Nazis” toward Labor councillors, and claimed that they were paid “blood money” and had “sold their soul to Zionists”.
The mayor was forced to abandon the five-hour-long meeting about 11pm after the motion, which sought to investigate cutting council’s ties companies or products associated with Israel, was voted down, prompting pro-Palestine chanting of “river to the sea”, shouts of “shame”, and swear words.
Labor’s eight councillors, including the mayor, who voted against the motion, were forced to stay in chambers – as were council staff and elected colleagues – before the police arrived and escorted them out to their cars, given safety concerns with the large and angry crowd.
What price the Labor Party, in coalition with the Greens, after the next election?
What? The protesters took their masks off?
Lucianne has a nice toon today from a guy called Christo Komar. The toon is from 2022 but fits the fun of yesterday rather well.
This was a good dance off. Raygun needs not to apply.
RUN DMC, Jason Nevins – It’s Like That (Official HD Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLGWQfK-6DY
Total blatant hypocrisy award of the day goes to Albanese.
‘Always looking to divide’: Albanese responds to Dutton’s call for a ban on Gaza arrivals (Sky News, 14 Aug)
This is a guy who is trying overtly to divide Australia by race and religion. He also wins the projection award of the day too. What a slimeball!
Police were called to a Sydney council chambers on Tuesday night after a Greens-led pro-Palestine protest turned ugly, forcing the abandonment of the meeting amid safety concerns after Jewish speakers were targeted, before officers escorted out staff and councillors.
Remind me again, just who are the Nazis here?
I’ve said it before an I’ll say it again, and again, and again….that we have a Nazi Party in this country, that Nazi Party is called the Greens and those people who vote for this Nazi party are no different to those Germans who voted for the German Nazi party in 1933.
And I will now wait for our resident Nazi to condemn the above, but I tell you what we will hear….
crickets.
He said Mr Dutton is “always looking to divide”
Now that’s what I call chutzpah.
Further to this swill and slop, Dutton needs to mop up this swill and slop in a bucket and throw that bucket directly back in the face of the ugly Slushing Slug of Grayndler.
That’s been a waking nightmare for the past six months.
Struggling with Manflu A here, so hopefully this is just a febrile convulsion, but the current numbers actually point to an even more appalling future.
If this pans out, a formal ALP-Green Coalition won’t deliver Government on its own.
Instead, Handsome Boy (or more likely, a Handsome Her) will end up negotiating Minority Government with supply guaranteed by the Greens and a motley of Teals and Wilkie, all other issues to be decided on a case by case basis – with the Sword of Confidence overhead and Zoe Daniel as Speaker.
And then the Festival of Pineapple Insertion will begin in earnest…
Steve Inman:
Unhinged Man vs Trashcan
https://rumble.com/v5aucl9-unhinged-man-vs-trashcan.html
First known church.
House call: A new study rethinks early Christian landmark (Phys.org, 13 Aug)
The features of the building do appear to fit that it was an actual dedicated church. Being in the same street as the synagogue and the Mithraic temple also makes sense since city authorities tended to have a religious quarter.
Thought I would read Halliburton’s annual report to see if an end to Ukraine war might make it an interesting buy.
F*ck me dead.
I thought Australian mining companies annual reports were getting out of hand.
This lot: page after page after page of sustainability, environment, community engagement, “core values”, “ethics” safety, climate change, and dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of pics of girlies and “minorities”.
59 pages of sludge aimed at making themselves out as really, really good guys desperate to save the planet and build a bright and shining socialist utopia.
At the end of those almost 60 glossy pages I still had zero idea of what in particular they are doing lately to try to make money.
Apparently, the making of money is now somehow just taken for granted, it just always happens, why, any fool can make money. the important thing is what you do with that money to make yourself look good to the harridans and betas who run big investors like university endowments and teachers pension funds.
Don’t mention actual work or anything dirty like that.
Ugh.
https://ir.halliburton.com/static-files/28c6bba5-b0b3-47c3-95c3-98cffa83efa5
Free lollies! Free meth! oops.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13741229/Meth-lollies-Auckland-Rinda.html
If your annual report has little mention of your company’s actual business activities, maybe it is being run by people who are deeply ashamed of it. Maybe they aren’t the right people to be in that business.
I wonder what mUntifa, the resident Nazi, has to say about the Trump-Musk chat, now that it has had a billion views.
But will KamelToe accept Musk’s invitation to a similar chat? Nah, she will probably run away at high speed, screeching in horror.
Remember the video put out a couple of weeks back of Kackles and Weirdo Walz yakking to each other on the phone?
Well, that was dubbed. Here’s the REAL conversation.
https://x.com/KMGGaryde/status/1821910007094419766
From the remnants still standing a few years later, I like to think that Darwin, sans Tracy, would have ‘decay blossomed’ into a kind of 21 C Somerset Maughan story.
The Gaza visa article at the Oz is getting a lot of comments in support of Duttons view that none should be let in. I was shocked at how quick mine was approved.
Iran is Helping the Kamala CampaignThe Mullahs create pro-Kamala site, hack Trump accounts, leak materials to media.
This could work out. Cackles in a burqa suits me. The ugly fuking bitch.
Explosive EV Failure in Packed Parking Garage Leaves 21 Hospitalized
How are people getting insurance on these firebombs?
Plus the high repair costs if involved in an accident. Add in high cost of replacing battery. The EV market is only going because of a lot of Government policies/subsidies to support it.
“How are people getting insurance on these firebombs?”
m0nty
August 13, 2024 11:35 am
I was wondering what this was all about and then heard some of the audio today.
It was obvious distortion due to problems with the streaming.
But nothing gets in the way of lying when it comes to Trump.
There is actually little material difference between either campaign re ME.
Lisa Wilkinson’s conduct ‘especially galling’
Paul Garvey
Witness statements tendered by Linda Reynolds’ parents Laith and Janice Reynolds on Wednesday detailed the pain that what they called the “Brittany saga” had caused for them and their daughter.
Mr Reynolds recalled meeting Ms Higgins during the 2019 election campaign at a party at the home of then-MP Ken Wyatt.
He said Ms Higgins had approached him at the party.
“She was very nice, appeared to be ebullient, joyful, and she told me that she was delighted to be working with Linda. She said it was her dream job. She told me she was looking forward to travellling around and seeing more of Perth and, if possible, outside of Perth,” he wrote.
“I found her a delightful young woman and enjoyed speaking to her.”
In 2021, after Ms Higgins went public with the allegations, Mr Reynolds flew to Canberra following Senator Reynolds’ hospitalisation with heart problems.
“I was stunned to see my daughter lying there with tubes coming out and looking so damaged. She was also distraught,” he said.
Mrs Reynolds said that her and her husband were devastated by the allegations that their daughter had mishandled Ms Higgins’ rape allegations.
“I have read every word I can find of this dreadful saga, however much it hurt. I felt that I needed to know everything that was being said, knowing that if it was awful for us, how much worse it was for Linda,” she wrote.
She wrote that conduct of The Project’s Lisa Wilkinson was “especially galling”.
“It was unprofessional, to say the least. It was obviously orchestrated for maximum effect,” Mrs Reynolds wrote.
In May 2021, a convoy of Muslim males drove through Jewish suburbs of North London screaming and shouting through loudspeakers that they were coming to…
‘rape Jewish daughters’.
All charges were dropped.
In August 2024, a 61 year old white working class English man from Sutton, who shouted ‘f*ck is allah’ was arrested and charged. He’s been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.
Two tier policing.
However the UK’s new ‘dear leader’, Da Fuhrer Sturmer, vociferously and piously insists there is no such thing as ‘two tier policing’.
You be the judge.
Their ABC reports the obvious:
‘Excessively high’ cigarette taxes ‘fuelling’ black market, as retailers fear expansion of tobacco wars – ABC News
Following theirABC report on ciggies, they slip this line in:
It is a question David Allen is also asking as he watches cigarette sales at his hotel fall by 30 per cent in a year, despite smoking rates remaining largely unchanged.
Righto… so the hundreds of billions raised in taxes and the billions spent on ads has…. done fu<k all.
A cynic might aver that if you’re white it’s incitement but if you’re brown it’s merely rhetoric.
Messrs. Albanese & Burgess – not to mention the NSW police – appear to have the same morally
confusedcompromised perception.What none of them realise is that such exceptions in policing undermines the very social cohesion they purport to be upholding.
I bet those two would have apoplexy if I was to say kill all muzzies, after all its only rhetoric, I have no intention of doing it. But being old stale white male its incitement. Politicians and their lackeys are so pathetic.
“How are people getting insurance on these firebombs?”
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No problemo. They just spread the risk by increasing everybody’s premiums.
Disney Funds Puberty Blockers for Children: Insider Document Reveals Shocking Policy
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This one’s for military type Cats.
“I remember talking to some Guardsmen in Nijmegen, during the battle, and finding they had been transferred to the Grenadier Guards, comparatively recently from the Royal Air Force Regiment, and Anti Aircraft Artillery, and were not liking their new, rather more dangerous role. The thought uppermost in their minds was not to be the bravest soldiers in the British Army, just the oldest.”
“The Devil’s Birthday,” Geoffrey Powell, Page 139.
Great Depression Photo.
Sick mother with her two children.
Unless you have a death wish, stay out of the Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane CBDs for the foreseeable future as the Albanese regime rushes to import Hamas sympathisers (Paywallian):
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Which Republican would’ve agreed to this?
And
Albo the moron still playing the real game.
Laughable as it sounds, apparently Burke fancies his chances as replacement.
Hence the shuffle.
Either Australians or Western Sydney residents are going tear the prick a new one depending on his performance.
Albo saves the day. Albo’s day.
What a putrid grub he is, but the upside is Burke in shit street.
Have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/08/smart-but-deceptive-nsw-govt-keeps-big-coal-plant-on-until-just-after-the-next-election-to-avoid-3b-electricity-bill-shock/
John H. Anyone with half a brain knows Trump is a hyperbolic bullshitter and a motormouth. It’s not as though that’s something new. The difference is that Trump’s bullshit isn’t meant to cause pain or damage to the country. Referring to people on the other side as evil, equating an opponent to Hitler, and making up hoaxes to hurt an opponent is how the Demons operate. Hiden is the most evil, incompetent pos president the country has ever had to endure.
Dover, I have an important post awaiting approval.
We’ve been told it was a technical problem and this happened to Vivek using the same technology. We’ll see in a few days, when Trump talks if there is a problem. Nice try though Fat boy.
cringe is our brand
That reminds me. Hey Monst, someone said you own this restaurant in Chapel Street Windsor. Is that true?
@TONYxTWO
ABIM: “Follow the consensus, not the science. Saving lives is not a priority.”
Democrats are hiding the rise in violent crime with tricky statistics
Zoe McKenzie, LNP parliamentarian, on Kenny. Typical; another attractive, intelligent conservative woman. It is a truism: conservatism is beautiful: leftism ugly:
Ms Zoe McKenzie MP – Parliament of Australia (aph.gov.au)
Thousands Of Businesses Are Going Bankrupt, But The Economy Is “Fine”
That cuts both ways. There are plenty of people here who deem leftists evildoers who are stupid, lacking morals, and intent on destroying Western civilization. A right winger has just released a book classifying all progressives as unhuman and Vance approved that book. Trump lies so much because he has a motormouth and bicycling brain. Trump cares about power, he is now an insider. He didn’t drain the swamp, kill Obamacare, lock her up, build a wall, etc etc yet now people think he will actually get something done. Fool me once …. .
The thing missing from Janet’s column is that, apparently, Higgins continues to post sly abuse on social media, adding to the Reynold’s claim
Sharaz was doing it too.
I don’t think these are very well balanced people.
Kamala Harris Campaign Caught Red-Handed Faking Press Headlines to Spread Disinformation
Elites decide Hunter Biden can finally be a scandal now that Joe is out
I’m in Cafe Nero.
Gave it a second chance after a dishwasher coffee yesterday.
Still rubbish.
They’ve a queue out the door but it seems everyone wants oat milk.
Could explain it.
Sickening.
US clinics have performed breast removal surgery on 180 girls under age TWELVE since 2017, new transgender data shows
Spoke briefly to accommodation manager this morning.
He asked me where was I off to so early.
Arab Island ferry says I.
It’s a fine day for it he said cheerily.
Hadn’t got to the bus stop before the misty rain started
I have my rain coat.
Be in Melbourne tomorrow, looks like I’ll bring some Qld temperatures with me.
Weekend in Bendigo, the Seymour and a few engagements in Melbourne next week with doctors. Any thoughts on the Epworth as a hospital? I’ll be soon being operated on there.
I do hope the wattle is out, probably a bit early for the stone fruit blossoms yet though.
Tough call. The bet is if Israel manages to get out of this as a winner.
WSJ
After having admitted hears ago that they were effectively useless.
Fauci wants to bring back MASKS after contracting COVID (despite being vaccinated SIX TIMES)
This is not the Bee.
Excess memes and ‘reply all’ emails are bad for climate, researcher warns
“He didn’t drain the swamp, kill Obamacare, lock her up, build a wall, etc etc yet now people think he will actually get something done.”
He did start building a wall and there were no new wars on his watch.
Another 2000 dead Ukrainians.
When are they going to run out.
I recall they were trying to force people to return from overseas.
Don’t suppose they had much luck.
Lots of Ukrainian run cafes in Ireland.
Not this one. Italians.
Tucker on Tim Walz: “There’s Something Not Right About His Personal Life”
It’s not without firm foundation, at least with most of them.
DEI, lying about gerbil warming, critical race theory taught in schools and universities, cancel culture, making up hoaxes, gender confusion. The list is endless.
Trump is hyperbolic. Lying, to cause pain or damage the country is on an entirely different level.
I’m going to visit the UK next year. Might have to do a clockwise tour there too. Perhaps not in August. I have roots in Cheshire and there is a family home (just a farm) now available as an airbnb.
Trump lies so much because he has a motormouth and bicycling brain.
You’re dickless’s elder brother, aren’t you.
But let’s indulge your obvious TDS: Name one lie.
Every Parent NEEDS to Know THIS About the COVID Vaccine!
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters discussing the Trump/Musk interview.
Mutiny In China: Young Chinese are Threatening CCP’s Rule
UK CANNOT Extradite Over Tweets
Thin-skinned leftist losers threaten to quit X after Elon Musk’s Donald Trump mega viral interview
Re: the Inner West Council debacle where the filth dhimmis and their muzzie thug overlords took over the meeting and threatened the local Jews. The News reporting of this crap is adequate except at the end this shit:
At least 39,897 Palestinians have been killed over the course of the Gaza Strip conflict.
These facts (sic) come from the local Ministry of Health (MOH), which is hamas: a pack of murdering liars whose own leaders state they want their own people killed so the local muzzie nations and Western leftie dhimmis will come onside; and who place their weapons and do their fighting from schools and hospitals.
a new cheap tobacco place opened in the mall below a rather swanky Melbourne residential tower in Southbank.
the proprietor can be seen from time to time liaising with colleagues on the concourse
big black cars …
big black beards …
Kalashnikov tattoo running the whole length of his lower right leg…
but I’m sure its all above board
and 100% legal
There is no such people. They’re called Arabs, not “palestinians.” Perhaps Gazans at a stretch. If you want to win the narrative, never refer to them by their fairy tale names.
There are about 30 arab countries; go there.