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Eleven dead 4000 injured. I’m very sorry a little girl was killed. Perhaps Hezbollah shouldn’t have been relentlessly attacking Israel…
Since the two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, we’ve been hearing a great deal about our “shared values” when it comes to…
Now over 4000 injured says Arutz Sheva. Blasts in Beirut: Hezbollah pagers explode, over 4,000 injured, 11 dead (17 Sep)…
Speaking of price fixing and shortages.
Top. Men.
“It’s Communism”: Kamala’s First Economic Plan Proposes Price Controls To “Combat Inflation”
Victor Davis Hanson
The Weird, Creepy, Surreal—and Dangerous—2024 Campaign
This is the WSJ
Kamala Harris Will Pay You Not to Work
Kamala Harris to Give Speech in North Carolina This Week Blaming Grocery Stores and Corporations for High Food Prices
Zatara
Kulaks
Wreckers
Parasites
Tremble before Kameltoes fury!!
Emotional stuff.
My first time hearing this song.
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Mazzy Star:
Mazzy Star – Look On Down From The Bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwVXkM_YxMg
There is no logic in Winning in Western Sydney and losing everywhere else.
The problem for Labor is that because the western Sydney seats were alwayz considered “rust-on” they were allocated to, favoured, “pardy” luvvies .. Now the warning bells are ringing it is all hands on deck to save the “pardy” faithful members troughin’ in those seats …
The laff is that the one seat that is, possibly, safe is the “turtle’s” McMAHON .. tho very heavy in musso voters they aren’t the branch(s)who would be concerned about Gaza/Hamas
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 15, 2024 9:55 pm
Why does this appear on a bunch of your posts?
Probably won’t be continuing on with transitioning.
Poor girl.
https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000202704
Secret Service Agent Abandoned Post at North Carolina Trump Event to Nurse Baby
Un-freaking-believable on so many levels. DEI, entitled woman in the work force, accountability, judgement, discipline, oversight, competence, etc..
It appears that the USSS officer in charge of site prep for Trump’s visits is still in that role after the assassination fiasco.
Another of those I didn’t know about, probably because I have little to no interest in the movie world and actors.
But this has touched a nerve, they are human after all.
For those who most likely know all about it, please scroll.
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In 1978, a young Meryl Streep was on the verge of becoming the greatest actress of her generation. She was also about to lose the love of her life.
“She doesn’t talk about it much,” says Michael Schulman, author of the Streep biography “Her Again.” “But that year was so wildly eventful and dramatic in her life. It was instrumental in shaping who she was as a person and an actor.”
Streep was 29 years old, a gosling in the New York theater world. She was living in a loft on Franklin Street with her boyfriend, actor John Cazale. He was 14 years her senior and a legend among his peers.
“I learned more about acting from John than anybody,” Al Pacino has said. “All I wanted to do was work with John for the rest of my life. He was my acting partner.”
Streep and Cazale met in 1976, when they were cast opposite each other in “Measure for Measure” in Central Park. By then, Cazale was not quite a star — he lacked that ephemeral quality — but he was regarded in the industry as a rare talent, in demand among the great directors of the era.
He was Fredo in “The Godfather” (1972) and “The Godfather Part II” (1974) and had lead roles in “The Conversation” (1974) and “Dog Day Afternoon” (1975).
Of the five movies he starred in, all would be nominated for Best Picture, and three would win. Of the two, Cazale was the famous one, but they were still starving artists. Cazale would take Streep to dinner in Little Italy, where restaurant owners, awed to have Fredo in the room, insisted they eat for free.
He was known among directors as “20 Questions,” because he wanted detailed back story on all his characters. Pacino said a simple dinner with Cazale would become epic: “I mean, you’d be done — washed, finished, and in bed — before he got halfway through his meal. Then the cigar would come out. He’d look at it, light it, taste it. Then finally smoke it.”
Cazale and Streep were the envy of the New York theater world — she the most naturally gifted actress in generations, he the most naturally gifted actor, legendary director Joe Papp their patron — until one day in May 1977. Cazale, who was in previews for “Agamemnon” uptown, had been feeling ill enough to miss performances.
Papp was concerned enough to get Cazale an emergency appointment with his own doctor on the Upper East Side. Within days, Streep and Cazale were sitting in the doctor’s office with Joe and Gail Papp.
The diagnosis: Cazale had terminal lung cancer. It had spread throughout his body.
Pacino took Cazale to radiation treatments, sitting in the waiting room, hoping it wasn’t as bad as it seemed. Cazale himself insisted he’d get better, and when he fought to go back to work, Streep took a part she loathed just so she could be with him. She was just “the girl” in the movie — “essentially a man’s view of a woman,” Streep said. “She’s extremely passive, she’s very quiet, she’s someone who’s constantly vulnerable.” In short, she was everything Streep was not.
But the film was “The Deer Hunter” (1978) and Cazale had the chance to star opposite Robert De Niro in one of the few films to then grapple with the Vietnam War. The filmmakers fought to cast Cazale, even as the production company, EMI, insisted he be fired: The insurance costs would be outrageous, and no one wanted to back a movie with a terminally ill star.
The story Streep would later tell: De Niro covered Cazale’s insurance costs, which the actor has never confirmed or denied. “He was sicker than we thought,” De Niro later said, “but I wanted him to be in it.”
In early March 1978, Cazale entered Memorial Sloan Kettering. Streep never left his side. On March 12, 1978, at 3 a.m., Cazale’s doctor told Streep, “He’s gone.” “Meryl wasn’t ready to hear it, much less believe it,” Schulman writes. “What happened next, by some accounts, was the culmination of all the tenacious hope Meryl had kept alive for the past 10 months.
She pounded on his chest, sobbing, and for a brief, alarming moment, John opened his eyes. ‘It’s all right, Meryl,’ he said weakly. ‘It’s all right.’” Then he closed his eyes and died. (New York Post)
The army marches on its belly and so do cowboys.
Amazing how well organised the catering was.
Just getting the firewood together must have been a task.
Was there ever a doubt for the reason?
Never going to stop.
https://x.com/GemmaTognini/status/1823970592334471656?t=oeOeX1vD9sEMhbxZ6baS2Q&s=19
Kaboom!
LUSH! Twenty One – 21 Years of Dance Music Classics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVpDIe0gQBc
Hard proof that VP candidate Walz is lying about his military service.
He had a rank he never earned placed on his congressional souvenir coins.
He isn’t being attacked over his military service, he is being attacked for lying about it for political gain.
Johannes Leak.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom!
That would be the Secret Service looking to be 30% female. Obviously one of those formally male dominated workplaces where they do everything they can to make it easy for females to work whilst pregnant and providing flexible work conditions. Would obviously not happen with a make agent.
The breastfeeding agent should be moved to another Department for having their kid at work plus two other family members at the event supposed to be protecting.
“found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work. According to Crabtree, the agent had no permission to leave her post, and she did not warn the site event agent”
Dover – check your email. Cheers
Epic indeed.
But meanwhile, Gazans who haven’t passed a security assessment are being granted visas.
Yet another massive fail from a government that doesn’t take its duty to protect Australian lives seriously.
My old neighbour had this experience, despite having two adult daughters. Thought she was just putting on weight.
Also a boy.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-14/baby-born-in-toilet-woman-didnt-know-she-was-pregnant/104220886
About a year ago maybe a bit longer, I made a comment about the salesman I brought my latest car from being Vietnamese. He is eternally grateful to the Liars for letting him come here. He arrived with nothing and is now a multi millionaire. He will never forget what they did for him even though he doesn’t agree with their policies. Muzzies not so. Muzzie first and foremost, say anything for the advantage, lie for the advantage, attack for the advantage, whinge about everything that is not to their advantage. They are the epitome of the left, nothing is too insignificant to complaim about. They will use the left for only as long as needed which we’ve seen with the pro-pali’s and the ghay pride marches and just now, Kameltoe rally with pro-pali demonstrators. There are no moderate muzzies. They don’t fit in anywhere.
Luigi the Unflushable doesn’t understand this
If Sky insist on showcasing airhead Teal Zali Steggall, I have a hard drive full of other things I can watch.
Click! Rita Panahi now on.
Johannes Leak nails it…again.
I see Richard Shields has been sacked overnight yet meanwhile fatso Harwin, the grotesque man boob whale, remains in his role. Harwin is a far-left very wet factional weirdlord in the NSW Liberals, he’s the backer of the useless Sleazeman and so Sleazeman won’t go after Harwin’s scalp, even though Harwin should be harpooned too.
The NSW Liberals are run by Harwin, Kean and Photios….which explains a lot.
What’s happened in NSW is disastrous. The federal Liberals should dissolve the NSW Liberal executive, take control, clean out the scum like Harwin and start again.
If there is any doubt that the greens aren’t commies then this should convince you. ACT greenslimescumballs want to close down racing in Canberra, which they’ve said for a long time, but now want to take the land off them so they can’t make a profit from selling it. I’ve always been of the opinion that sporting clubs should have the land if government owned for nothing as they are community based and if they no longer want the land it should be returned to the community for a different community use. Too many people use sporting clubs to further their own ambitions and feather their own nest.
Cassie I was in fact wondering if the people being vetted for suitability by Harwin were conservatives and this was deliberate. I know incompetence runs deep in the SFL’S and we should never think conspiracy before incompetence but after the last qite a few years I’m now in the conspiracy camp as time after time this is what has happened.
The NSW Libs’ local government nomination fiasco is the worst debacle I have ever seen or heard of in major party history.
Cassie is right. Many, many heads should roll, because this kind of disaster is never just one or two people’s fault. It indicates a major and deep-seated problem in the culture, resulting in lack of rigour and accountability about process.
An obvious problem is the system, where hundreds of nominations have to be processed and submitted right up to the cut-off point. In retrospect, it’s surprising that it hasn’t happened before.
No wonder we call them the SFLs.
Watched Ch 9 Breakfast this morning ( husbands insists on watching it). Dutton excelled in defending his stance on the question of admission of Palestinians here. This was in spite of the obvious personal position of interviewer Sarah Abo who became insistent & spoke over Dutton. Yesterday, after a clearly partisan attitude of Abo, I wrote a complaint to Ch 9.
This is an election winning issue for Dutton. He is passionate (& right) about the appalling lack of normal security checks on the Palestinians. There seems no doubt at all that ASIO have not been able to follow the usual procedures.
It is not often that pollies show genuine personal commitment to an issue. When it happens, voters see it & respond.
For the life of me, I don’t know why anyone in a position of power- who is not a rabid Jew hater- doesn’t start every press conference by reading out a list of names of those killed and kidnapped on Oct 7th last year.
(CBS news iirc for along time during the Iraq war would conclude every broadcast with a scrolling list of US casualties- it was very affecting)
Or at least have a few memorised so when a callous cow like SHY tries a sledge on, the reply can be, “Think of the children? Like X, Y and Z, who have turned 12 during the last year in the custody of the Raghead R*pe Brigade?”
Yes, you’re going to get called racist islamophobe, so go big with it, I say.
Dutton has accused the PM of misleading Parliament. He selectively quoted from Burgess’ statement with a view to legitimising the government’s actions.
This used to be a hanging offence.
In addition, Stegall called Dutton a racist inside Parliament, then doubled down and accused him again outside the Coward’s Castle. I do hope it’s Show Time!
My wife is becoming quite political these days. She never paid much notice but now recognises the malignancy inherent in political parties.
Hashem smashem.
Jordanian man causes $700,000 in damages to solar panels, businesses over Israel support (15 Aug)
It does illustrate another issue with solar panels, at least in solar farms: they’re pretty much impossible to secure. Once the usual suspects decide there’s a lot of money sitting there the things are going to be vandalized for the copper.
Dutton has been getting quite a lot right. Being called racist would have seen Morrison fold so fast there would be an audible ‘crack’ from the laggard air closing behind him on the way to the floor.
Trumble would never stood against the Gaza detritus getting visas, but would instead have secretly briefed Labor and the press on anyone in the Libs who were not content.
Dutton might not be an epoch making visionary but he seems to have a sense of what Aussies want and an instinct to preserve what we have, and at present that is a good thing.
On the breastfeeding Secret Service agent who was supposed to be guarding Trump…
I believe the agency has adopted guidelines first documented by Matilda of Flanders.
Rita Panahi:
There is a big puff piece in the Courier Mail online which looks like it will come out in Saturday paper. This is my rejected comment:
“Vaccinations did not end when Dr Gerrard took over in December 2021. It was the period where many were losing their jobs for not taking the first two jabs and were being mandated to take the third jab. He did not seem uncomfortable then about pushing mandates which continued for many into 2023.
I took two but it became apparent to me by December 2021 that they did not work as advertised. It was subsequently revealed by boss of Pfizer EU that not even tested for stopping transmission.
Health leaders often talk about misinformation relating to Covid and vaccines. Unfortunately much of what we were told was not accurate and I am one of those who has lost trust in vaccines and the credibility of health experts”.
It’s an important issue but the polling indicates the next election will be fought over the economy, with housing affordability & the declining standard of living being the two top issues on voters’ minds, followed by health care.
This is why Albanese is tempted to call an early election before things get worse and we enter a formal recession.
Only a major war would see national security rise to the top tier of concerns.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/hey-queers-for-palestine-heres-a-message-from-your-sponsors.html
The leftier a place is the more antisemitic it is.
Special envoy: Victoria the worst for anti-Semitism (Paywallian)
So when are all those people going to be gaoled under the hate speech, terrorism and antidiscrimination laws?
That thing about the USSS agent deserting her post to breastfeed her baby is staggering.
After the litany of failures and missteps, and the sombre avowal of investigations to get to root causes, that this should happen so close on the heels of the assassination attempt on Trump is almost incomprehensible.
The only way I can imagine that this woman would have felt comfortable in doing as she did is through the focus on the Secret Service’s original core responsibilities having drifted so far, and an unprofessional culture become so pervading, that even under additional scrutiny this woman thought what she was doing was still alright.
You just know that some Senator (Hawley or Kennedy) will press Mayorkas or Lowe or whoever what is being done with this woman who so clearly breached her duties, and they will offer up that mealy-mouthed evasion that they cannot comment on an ongoing investigation – what with there being so many valid reasons she walked off to do her own thing.
That Senator should ask for a comprehensive list of the situations when a protected VIP might expect to have their protection compromised. Instead of dealing with the issues one by one as they arise, look at the whole thing all at once. Should make interesting reading – of which recent justifications like sloped roofs and breastfeeding offer a tantalising glimpse.
BTW, I saw a phot of JD Vance talking to the press – might have been when he was scoping his future aircraft out and pleading with Kamala to come out – and who was in his Secret Service detail? That squat frump who has become world famous for being unable to holster her gun as she wandered around bewildered near the vehicle the men were getting the just shot Trump into.
BREAKING REPORT: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Approved Operation to Blow Up the Russian Gas Nord Stream Pipeline to Europe
@catturd2
In one day … Kamala Harris has said she’ll do a communist take over of the banks, grocery stores, and now health care.
Stalin would be proud.
@RealPatrickWebb
BREAKING: U.S. taxpayers pay $451 billion per year to house and take care of illegal migrants.
Germany issues arrest warrant for Ukrainian suspect ID’d as ‘Volodymyr Z’ in connection to Nord Stream pipeline explosion: reports
Kamala Officially Chickens Out of First Debate With Trump
Last week, Donald Trump announced that he agreed to have three debates with Kamala Harris, with the first on Fox News on September 4, the second on ABC on September 10, and the final one on NBC on September 25.
Kamala’s campaign replied that it would only agree to the September 25 debate if Trump appeared at the September 10 debate… and somehow entirely “overlooked” the Sept 4 debate on FOX, the one the left doesn’t control.
Shocking, yes I know.
@TrumpWarRoom
@mirandadevine
Did you know that on Nov.1 the Biden Harris administration imposes a new rule forcing states to fund health care for illegal aliens. This will bankrupt NY which has already spent $5 billion on free housing etc… Missouri @AGAndrewBailey? Files Suit
The US will fight a long war against China – yeah, right.
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/you-cant-go-to-war-with-your-factory
BREAKING: FBI Released Trump Shooter’s Body for Cremation, Scrubbed Crime Scene
Harris plans to lower your food costs by making food disappear
Rasmussen
NEW NUMBERS: Trump is UP in Our Poll, Just Like He Was Against Biden – Don’t Believe the Gaslighting
@DanielAlmanPGH
Washington Post: Kamala Harris to propose ban on ‘price gouging’ for food, groceries
Me: The Maduro diet: How most Venezuelans lost an average of 43 pounds in two years
Meme
Peter Hitchen’s book “The Phoney Victory – The World War 11 Illusion” was depicted on this blog at one time. Brought a copy, and it makes interesting reading. Hitchens points out that , in the summer of 1939, Britain and France were wholly unprepared for a major European war, and this quickly became evident in the conflict that followed. He questions the sentimental view of the Anglo – American relationship, pointing out that American wartime aid to Britain was not as unselfish as Winston Churchill claimed at the time.
It seems that some of the British gold, sent to the United States, “had been in London vaults for so long that it was still in the form of doubloons, moidores, pieces of eight, French lois d’or and other beautiful and historically valuable coins, assembled over centuries of British commercial success and naval supremacy.” (Page 89.)
Exclusive–Former Trump Admin Official: Biden-Harris Drug Price Negotiations ‘Doubling Down on Soviet-Style Price Controls’
Fox News Poll: Trump Leads Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris Trashed U.S. in Farsi Tweet for Iranian Audience
I’m now convinced the NSW gliberals local council nominations fiasco was deliberate and not just staggering incompetence.
Bungonia Bee
Perhaps a fun project would be to place a sign on one of those park/escarpments declaring it to be the position for a 250Mw wind tower, to be built as soon as permission is gained, with a phone number to the Minister of the Enviroment for comment.
Ah, yes. The Noticer. I always read that with my coffee.
Here is the associated article:
Australians told to report friends and family for anti-government thoughts
That headline is, I think, rather tendentious paraphrasing of what Dutton was talking about. The conversation had been about the possibility of terror activity. Then Dutton said:
I would argue from the context that what Dutton was talking about was behaviour or language hinting at preparing for some large scale mischief.
Now I don’t like the idea of people dobbing on family or friends, and we know that everyone knows someone itching for a reason to do so to make themselves feel important or whatnot. And I sure as hell do not trust ASIO to use or dismiss any such information judiciously.
The passages above that relate Dutton’s warning about government overreach.
I also note that one of the pictures used for the piece condemning Dutton was the same one used for this:
Australians from all sides of politics slam opposition leader Peter Dutton over trip to Israel
That article uses the Hamas MiniTru numbers of dead Gazans as well.
I am not saying Dutton is perfect. As a former police officer he seems to have a little too much confidence in the agencies of ‘law and order’ for my liking. But denouncing as terrible, even a TRaiTorS, everyone who does not exactly conform to your own thinking is so terribly…Struthian.
Cassie O’Sydney:
If – as it looks possible – the Greens hold a dominating position in the Labor ministry after the next election, because I seriously doubt the Liberal Party’s ability or even intent to contest the election with policies that the average Australian is happy with, you can expect the nation to swing to a position akin to the UK where they have elected a Far Left Communist Government who doesn’t have to go to the people for 5? years and is free to do as it wishes.
We are about to find out just how tyrannical they can be.
Even though the Labor/Green Coalition looks like a package that you wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole, all that is required – as in GB – is to split the conservative vote, and there are people in the Liberal Party that would go along with it for the proper incentives.
Brace yourselves, Cassie – it’s about to get much worse.
Sadly, Harwin the Whale won’t be harpooned, he’s a slimy factional deal maker.
Re. the forthcoming council election, I’m in Queen Clover’s realm. Clover will win…..again. Clover will still be Lord Mayor in fifty years time. By then, of course, she’ll be long dead but she’ll then become Clover the Queen Corpse, her body will be filled with chemicals and embalmed, like comrade Lenin, and her corpse will be sacredly sealed in a glass box, kept at Sydney’s Town Hall and she’ll be wheeled out for ceremonial occasions and council elections, where her slavish and cultish LGBTQIP+ followers will prostrate themselves, gasp in awe at her ghoulish corpse, and dutifully vote ONE for Clover the Queen of the Corpses.
There’s only one Liberal currently serving on Sydney City Council, apparently he does an okay job but I am going to vote for the Libertarian candidate.
Somebody above asked about ‘conservatives’. Ah yes, well they do exist in NSW, and many may not even be ‘conservative’, they’re ‘Menzian Liberals. But basic Menzian tenets such as free speech, religious freedom, nurturing small and medium sized businesses, individual liberty etc are now regarded by halfwits like Harwin, Photios and Sleazeman as passe, they want the Liberals to be a reflection of the Greens.
If you remember back to 2019, prior to that May election, Halfwit Harlin, Photios and the rest of the Green politburo dropped the late Jim Molan from the top three senate ticket. Why? Because Molan happened to be a conservative. It took Molan’s hardwork to overcome that and he won over 100,000 votes, to the chagrin and fury of Halfwit Harlin, Photios and the rest of them.
After Molan’s death, his senate spot should have been filled by another conservative, but no, no, no, Halfwit Harwin and the rest of them decided to fill it with a wet green-left nonentity. This cabal has now gotten rid of Holly Hughes. There are no conservatives on the NSW senate ticket.
I will not be voting for any Liberal on the senate ticket. My senate vote will go to the Libertarians and PHON.
Harwin the Whale, Kean Green, Mutt Mallard, Slimy Photios and many others are to blame for the current and very woeful state of the NSW Liberals. It’s a gay club and has been for over a decade. When Ross Cameron pointed this out, he was expelled.
Interesting little case.
The legal system is being asked to decide if it should ever be accountable for serious criminal behaviour.
Im guessing they will come back with “No-never”.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/15/victims-would-have-no-remedy-if-judges-given-immunity-lawyer-for-wrongfully-imprisoned-brisbane-man-tells-court-ntwnfb
Family court of course.
In the original case, in August 2018, Judge Vasta ordered Stradford to disclose gambling account statements.
The proceedings were adjourned and, after a brief hearing before another judge, returned to Vasta in December 2018.
Wrongly believing the other judge had already decided Stradford was in contempt, Vasta sentenced the father of two to six months’ jail for disobeying orders to provide financial documents.
Stradford appealed and, six days later, Vasta conceded he had erred and ordered his immediate release.
In February 2019, the full court of the family court overturned the sentence.
Stradford successfully sued Judge Vasta for false imprisonment.
In his judgment last August, federal court justice Michael Wigney also found the commonwealth and Queensland to be vicariously liable for court, police and correctional officers following Vasta’s orders.
The compensation awarded included $50,000 in exemplary damages payable by Vasta “to deter any repetition of such a thoroughly unacceptable abuse of judicial power”.
The high court has reserved its decision.
As Mencken said: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Labour poll lead collapses after 40 days in office with Reform now in second place (15 Aug)
Maybe five years of getting it good and hard will sink into their crania in a way that sayng “I told you so” never seems to.
Surprised she’s not going all the way with FDR.
Labour poll lead collapses after 40 days in office with Reform now in second place (15 Aug)
Unsurprising. And the Tories, instead of attacking Fuhrer Sturmer and Labour, prefer to spend their time attacking Farage.
KamelToe has wimped out of the first debate with Trump, and says she will not attend the third debate if Trump doesn’t turn up for the second. If Trump does appear for the second, and she does poorly, what are the odds that she will also wimp out on the third debate? Verrrry high, I think.
A lot of people see the “immigration issue” as integral to our serious housing and COL concerns. This latest cockamamy stance from the Liars only fuels the distrust in Labor in their management of the country, the economy and our social cohesion. Noticeably, the RBA is also exposing Labor’s incompetence at economic management through profligate spending.
Albo’s lying to cover Labor’s panicked situation over Gaza and Islam further increases that mistrust and perception of ineptitude. Labor is in real trouble and Dutton is pounding on the sweet spot.
WSJ: How a Leak by a New York Times Reporter Led to an Anti-Doxing Uproar in Australia
A snippet from the article
See my further comment under the original post making the point that immigration folds into the issues of housing, wages and GP/hospital waiting lists.
What the Gaza visa issue goes to is Albanese’s performance as PM, but being the preferred PM doesn’t necessarily get you over the line in a general election while there are other, bigger issues in play.
They don’t want to alienate all those potential new voters from the Liberal Democrats/Greens/Militant Tendency.
Via Instapundit:
“National Socialism derives from each of the two camps the pure idea that characterizes it, national resolution from bourgeois tradition; vital, creative socialism from the teachings of Marxism. Volksgemeinschaft:
Lefturds, please educate yourselves.
Golly, why would they ever believe such a thing?
Exclusive: One in five voters and a third of Republicans believe the FBI was behind the assassination attempt on Donald Trump (15 Aug)
It’s a mystery.
We have a completely different electoral system to the UK. You can’t split the left or right votes here unless parties do dodgy preference deals or the centre Right succumbs to its usual cowardice and elects to put other right wing parties below commie parties on their how to vote cards.
The fact that the polls are showing it as a dead heat right now in Australia suggests that the Libs should win here given polls swing towards conservatives as elections get closer. I predict a 2PP of 52:48 to the LNP but it could be even worse for Labor if the economy tanks.
The key is what the Libs do when they get in power. The last time they spent their reign attacking all of their allies and trying to appease all of their enemies.
If the Libs attacked their enemies the way the left does, they would never lose power. For example, bus 100,000 refugees to the electorate of Warringah and say “you voted for it, have fun”.
Vagabond, 1032 yesterday:
I understand it is still a reasonably popular alternative to IV infusions in some European nations especially France*. It’s also important in field casualties with torrential bleeding, or dehydration where the victim is too dehydrated to get a vein, or there isn’t any cannulation equipment**.
The rectal route is also handy in terminal illnesses with morphine suppositories where they are inserted into the distal third of the rectum – when absorbed, the fluids from here don’t go back to the heart via the liver – there go straight into the lower major vein and go to the heart and general circulation without being metabolised by the liver.
Article on Rectal Infusion.
*My knowledge on this subject is from 10 to 30 years ago and may have been surpassed by more modern techniques but were common knowledge at the time.
**Of course abdominal wounds preclude its use.
I need to pee!
Maybe not.
https://x.com/Enezator/status/1824059344993869832
BobtheBoozer
In my standard induction “dont get dehydrated” bit I threaten new starters with this.
Ïf i cant get fluid into you any other way, its going up your date…
Gets their attention.
The Lotus Eaters have a look at Airstrip One’s two tiered policing.
Reading through the Macpherson Report it looks like they started with the conclusion that all plod are racist and worked back from there.
Winning in Victoria would mean the liberals will have to make hard decisions to clean up the mess only to be accused of being heartless. Part of me thinks that the voters should made to feel the consequences of their voting choices.
The Dems have been going over JD Vance’s history with microscopes.
BREAKING: Democrats have a smoking gun photo of JD Vance….HAVING FUN! (15 Aug)
I think this one is most entertaining since here he is at age 18…22 years ago. If this and the childless cat ladies thing are all they’ve been able to find he’s even more of a cleanskin that the terrifying Orange Guy.
Winning in Victoria would mean the liberals will have to make hard decisions to clean up the mess only to be accused of being heartless.
Which is basically what happened in QLD under Newman, and so, after just three years, the LNP lost.
Part of me thinks that the voters should made to feel the consequences of their voting choices.
Yes, I firmly believe the 3,000 Gazans should be sent to Warringah to reside. It’s a very lovely part of Sydney. I’m sure they’ll like it.
Will the Palace Chook deliver the mail on time?
Annastacia Palaszczuk appointed to Australia Post board (Sky News, 16 Aug)
Maaaates!
‘We should have better answers by now’: climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Zatara early this morning:
https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1824059727766290534
Ok. Beyond a joke, the SS is deliberately leaving holes in it’s protective detail to enable an assassination.
For how much longer can the dumbocrats and the braindead lamestream meeja get away with spruiking the cackling kamel as a presidential candidate?
She is a beyond parody incoherent drug addled alcoholic imbecile (not to mention the sucking a whole lot o’ cock factor).
She also fits in nicely with with my hypothesis about the rapid rate of diminishing returns we’re witnessing among politicians and governments across the so called developed world – that is, every politician and government is invariably significantly worse than the last.
Signal examples – dumbocrat presidential candidates, UK Torrie PMs and Ozzie politicians and governments. This current labore clown show would have to be the worst feral government in this country’s history.
Depressing and infuriating and there’s no possible improvement likely in our lifetimes.
Betcha this one doesn’t get reported in the Grauniad.
Study finds temperature reconstructions during the Common Era are affected by the selection of paleoclimate data (Phys.org, 15 Aug)
by Science China Press
The Chinese just nuked the hockeystick.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 15, 2024 9:55 pm
Why does this appear on a bunch of your posts?
I’m not terribly experienced at posting on this site. A lot of the articles I post get held up waiting for approval, so I then post the first few lines, the fact that the whole article is waiting for approval, and anybody who might be interested can scroll up to find the article in full.
This is awesome!
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/coming-san-fran-viral-video-shows-sublethal-remote-gun-protecting-commerical-building
Just caught NZ PM giving a welcome to country preamble. That’s it he can GFH. Can see why other blogs even Kiwiblog are saying he is being dragged kicking & screaming to the right of some issues over there by Peters & ACT parties.
A LOL seen yesterday in Broadmeadows. Old Hilux ute, sort with dog cages and a noisy exhaust on driven by a hijab wearing woman like our bogans do.
Amused me anyway.
They are still fighting against pep11. Declare that offshore wind factories visible from shore will replace it, like they on the Central & Newcastle coasts.
Republicans are warning Donald Trump to dial down the personal attacks. Here’s why he’s refusing – ABC News
Trump has stated he will persist with the personal attacks. Not surprising given his policy idea of a 10% tariff on all imported goods which is a defacto tax and a strong inflation driver.
Among the fabricated rage aginst Peter Dutton seeking to avoid importing more nasty people from Gaza, I made a comment in the Oz, which of course was rejected:
“I tried to post along these lines yesterday, but must have used a naughty word…
“Since when was mentioning a certain ‘religion’ racist?
?And, if people support Hamas, a recognised terrorist organisation, then I say we don’t need them here.”
I did originally use the “I” word instead of ‘a certain religion’
So much for free speech, but unsurprising. I suppose these days.
Queensland news, Courier Mail:
The fifteen places under threat:
1. Augathella (pop 328);
2. Boonoroo (pop 371);
3. Croydon (pop. 215);
4. Duchess (pop. 53);
5. Eurong, K’gari (pop. 11);
6. Happy Valley, K’gari (pop 152);
7. Laura (pop. 133);
8. Maryborough (pop. 15,287);
9. Mount Isa (pop. 18,317);
10. Rainbow Beach (pop. 1220);
11. River Heads (pop. 2044);
12. Roma (pop. 6,838);
13. Thargomindah (pop. 243);
14. Theodore (pop. 451); and
15. Toobeah (pop. 149).
Fraser Island of course a huge tourist attraction. Mount Isa with its mining. Cats and Kittehs north of the Tweed, are there any attractive assets these areas have, like mining etc?
https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/37028/did-donald-trump-elon-musk-just-take-down-matrix-media/
A touch frantic, but a good read if you are seeking to have your prejudices massaged.
In relation to BB’s post above, it seems Queenslanders don’t like this sort of thing:
Should more land be given back to traditional owners?
Yes, it’s the right thing to do 3 %
No, we should all just share 96 %
Not sure 1 %
13,036 votes
Be interesting to see if they vote for more of it in the State election coming up…
Sweet gal.
For all the bla bla about LLMs, these are intrinsically limited. Go math not language. Doh!
(19) Are Hallucinations Popping the AI Bubble? – YouTube
Dear lord. I promise to go to church on Sunday for an entire month if this carries through.
Cop’s false claims to blame for wrongful jailing: stateJack GramenzAAP
Fri, 16 August 2024 10:59AM
The state of NSW will not deny a man who spent weeks in jail because of an ex-premier’s cop son fabricating evidence was maliciously prosecuted.
Ex-police officer and son of former premier and senator Kristina Keneally, Daniel Keneally, is expected to shoulder the blame for it.
Luke Brett Moore was jailed for three weeks in February 2021 after Keneally’s false statement that Mr Moore had threatened to kill a police officer at Sydney’s Newtown Police Station.
The activist and founder of ISuepolice was later released on bail and the charge dropped, due to a recording of the conversation made on his phone.
The state will concede he was maliciously prosecuted, the NSW Supreme Court was told on Friday.
“It doesn’t concede that the malicious prosecution involved more than one officer,” a lawyer for the state of NSW said.
Mr Moore is weighing a response to the state’s amended defence, received late on Thursday, his lawyer said.
His civil suit against the state returns to court in February for a review.
Keneally avoided jail when he was sentenced to a 15-month intensive correction order after being convicted of fabricating evidence, later resigning from the police after losing an appeal against his conviction in June.
That appeal’s failure allowed the state to concede a malicious prosecution, the court was told on Friday.
Keneally was charged in October 2022 after the NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission investigated an internal police probe which initially cleared him of wrongdoing.
The commission’s report into the case, released earlier in August, recommended introducing telephone systems in police stations that can record conversations.
Newtown Police Station already had such an ability, but Keneally did not know, the report said.
Samuel Dreben was one of the bravest men of the 20th century | Sandboxx
Liberalism and the West’s ‘Crisis of Meaning’ (quillette.com)
What Brooks and the author don’t understand is that if people need religion to find meaning and purpose in life those people are weak and pathetic.
Ten Things to Know About Tim Walz and His Ties to Communist China
CBS Admits Kamala Harris Thinks Health Care for Babies Who Survive Abortions is “Extreme”
Is your gripe with religion the fact it is transcendent or that the transcendent is understood through dogma?
A few points….
Firstly, I am religious, I’m not perfect but I like going to synagogue and I believe in God. I am most certainly neither weak nor pathetic.
Secondly, I’ve seen plenty of religious men and women at work, inspired by God and their faith, who help people in need, such people are neither ‘weak nor pathetic‘.
Finally, I recall how every single totalitarian society that has ever existed on this planet, be they communist, Nazi or whatever, have viewed religion and religious people as weak and pathetic and persecuted them, to the detriment of those societies.
Dunno about others but I’ll take the religious any day over the non-religious.
This article in the Washington Post is paywalled, but what an interesting heading. Not quite what you’d expect from them.
Opinion When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?
Tim Walz LIED for 20 years and ALMOST Got Away With It.
Trump rips Biden-Harris drug price controls: ‘She’s running on the Maduro plan’
By the way, smearing those people who need or want some religion in their lives as ‘weak and pathetic‘ is very elitist.
Very, very good.
Elon Musk – Communist Britain..?! Free Speech!
Report to Congress on attempted assassination.
Preliminary Investigative Report to Chairman Mike Kelly
Paul Joseph Watson
This Is Just Insane
UK Gov’t, Media & Courts: Coordinated Strategy to Tar & Silence Critics & Protestors as “Far Right”?
“They Are Coming After Me..”, Douglas Murray SUDDENLY Drops Warning on What’s Really Happening…
What you and others like you don’t understand is that if people need to deny religion in order to find meaning and purpose in life, they are weak and pathetic.
‘Australia has really let us down’: Murdered, missing Indigenous women report tabled | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
What a load of crap. For those old enough to remember there was a host of the 7.30 Report, Maxine McKew, who stated that when at Cherbourg, and aboriginal community in central Queensland, there were reports of DV and sexual abuse but the press could not report that.
The solution lies with the people in remote communities. They are the cause of the problem yet the article makes no mention of that. The men commit the crimes, the women refuse to report the crimes, so the authorities are helpless.
This isn’t a government problem it is a 65,000 year cultural problem.
Impeccable is the right word.
Ronald Reagan’s Impeccable Humor
Most people are happy to live without meaning and choose their purposes solely on need and opportunity, up to the time a crisis occurs and they then are more likely to think a bit more deeply about the meaning.
The weak ones take the easy way out and choose to decide there isn’t any and console themselves with personal gratification and stupification.
Others have to take on the difficult task to grapple with what they heck the meaning might be.
Given the right set of circumstances we’re all weak and pathetic. The people who think they’re bulletproof are the deluded ones.
The tough thing is to stand up and put a brave face on it regardless. It also happens to be the best thing.
It just may be that there is now little to no correlation between what a majority votes for and what they end up with.
So many questions:
What is modern society?
Why does it not like some types of violence?
Why would John support a reduction in violence? John, aren’t you any good at violence? If you were good at violence, and there wasn’t any greater good and purpose, wouldn’t you want more of it?
I must be missing something.
It’s all coming out, the buck stops with Harwin the Halfwit. But he won’t be harpooned, because he’s a factional bigwig and Sleazeman owes his job to the Halfwit.
The Daily Telegraph have uploaded this…
Liberals must sack ‘Teflon’ Don Harwin over candidate fiasco
The evidence available shows Don Harwin is responsible for failing to register 140 candidates for the local government election. Why is he still president, asks James Willis.
The NSW Liberal Party must think we are all mugs.
It is staggering that only one of the two people involved in this local government disaster have lost their job.
Party director Richard Shields is gone. But Don Harwin survives and remains the powerful president.
This is another day in the life of Teflon Don.
If Richard Shields is to be believed, and there’s no reason to doubt his word, Don Harwin is the man most responsible for failing to register 140 Liberal candidates for the upcoming council elections.
Let me reach from Mr Shields’ statement:
“This year my focus … has been on preparing for the upcoming federal election. To maintain this focus the NSW state president Don Harwin … volunteered to run the local government nomination process.
“State executive completed the final party endorsement as late as 10am on 14th August (2 hours before the close of nominations).
“I was not made aware that the deadline would not be met until it was too late to rectify the deficiencies.”
Why then, is Richard Shields the only person who has faced consequences?
As one senior Liberal said: “In any organisation, such a systemic failure would be followed by the removal of both the CEO and the chair. Don should follow Richard out the door.”
Mr Shields was removed after a crisis meeting at Liberal HQ which ended close to midnight on Thursday.
One person present in the meeting was then heard saying “we have dealt with one part of the problem, but not the other”, referring to Shields losing his position but Mr Harwin surviving.
I am told when attention turned to Don’s role in the mess, Mr Harwin is alleged to have “immediately shut down debate in the meeting and controlled the rest of the conversation”.
“Don was in charge of this local government process. He cannot escape culpability.” said a member of the Liberal state executive.
“The preselections, the candidates, the timetables, the endorsements and the electronic ballots were all determined by Mr Harwin, the Liberal Party president.”
Teflon Don must have more front than Myer to think he can throw someone under the bus and simply continue serving as president.
In a statement, Mr Harwin said Mr Shields “was given the opportunity to explain the circumstances to the state executive. This failure to meet such a fundamental responsibility has rendered his position untenable.”
He also refused to answer questions when approached by my colleague James O’Doherty on Thursday night.
Readers would at this point be wondering why Don Harwin holds so much power in the Liberal Party.
Mr Harwin is a powerbroker in the moderate left faction, who have dominated the NSW branch for the last decade, but often polarised traditional conservative voters.
“The moderates control the top positions. (Opposition Leader) Mark Speakman and (Deputy) Natalie Ward are both from the left,” said one sitting Liberal MP.
In a clear show of support for his factional ally, Mr Speakman left Mr Harwin out of his strong criticism on Thursday, even though it was obvious Mr Harwin played a key role in the candidate blunder.
“He was protecting his factional ally. The left looks after the left … even when they are in the wrong,” said another sitting Liberal.
Mr Harwin’s elite ability to play politics allowed him to remain as a sitting MP in NSW Parliament for 23 years — surviving in the Upper House due to his favourable spot on the Liberal ticket.
He held a range of cushy portfolios, including the Arts, and was promoted by his factional ally, former Premier Gladys Berejiklian, who made him Special Minister of State.
Mark Speakman, a member of the Liberal moderates and factional ally of Don Harwin, refused to condemn him
“I always found Don Harwin to be unimpressive and in my opinion lazy but he somehow managed to always end up being a Minister. He knew how to play politics,” said one former Coalition minister.
Mr Harwin once famously gave an interview about the Parramatta Powerhouse Museum where he told 2GB’s Ben Fordham that it would “only” cost $10 million to knock down Willow Grove, a heritage house built 140 years ago, and relocate it brick by brick.
Willow Grove is now pathetically sitting in useless pieces, a storage container somewhere in Sydney’s west, and no surprise, has no chance of being rebuilt as promised.
In early 2020, when his state government was enforcing the harshest coronavirus restrictions, Mr Harwin was caught arrogantly living it up at his holiday house in Pearl Beach.
He resigned from cabinet after receiving a $1,000 fine from police.
But after that fine was overturned, Teflon Don walked straight back in to his old ministerial position.
Don Harwin is frankly a metaphor for the internal problems facing the NSW Liberal Party, a party where the people with the least ability often hold the most power.
They will remain in opposition for as long as that continues.
Roger Penrose Time Doesnt Exist And Big Bang Wrong!! (youtube.com)
The BBT is fudgy. Don’t know what is right but wouldn’t surprise if the universe always was, always will be.
In early 2020, when his state government was enforcing the harshest coronavirus restrictions, Mr Harwin was caught arrogantly living it up at his holiday house in Pearl Beach.
How on earth could I have forgotten that?
This cruel, entitled deadbeat needs to go.
If it’s so obvious, you should be able to state it in a couple of sentences.
Just the main one of your choosing.
Give it your best shot. The one best reason you have that society (you haven’t defined that yet, but that can wait) wants less violence.
Violence bad. Why?
To lift all our spirits this grey Friday afternoon.
A wonderful little musical number that speaks to the fact that transwomen are men.
I present to you the XY People and their little tune of truth – Y Chromosome
Don Harwin is frankly a metaphor for the internal problems facing the NSW Liberal Party, a party where the people with the least ability often hold the most power.
They will remain in opposition for as long as that continue
Dutton needs to get a headkicker in to sort out the mess that is NSW Liberal.
NSW and VIC are pathetic, infested by self-interested “progressives”.
Piazza San Marco, Looking East, Canaletto, 1760
Great painting.
This:
Dershowitz Predicts Merchan Will Sentence Trump to Prison on Sept 18, But Throw in a Twist (westernjournal.com)
Merchan will do this. Merchan should be stripped naked and then horsewhipped along with his skank daughter. This trial (sic) would make the Salem witch trials look good.
Stop thinking in the abstract and start thinking in the concrete.
Hmmm. Friday afternoon. How about a theological traffic problem?
Don Harwin is a poofta.
Returning to the outrage of the NSW SFL failing to submit local government nominations.
The NSW moderates are driven by one single motive; to maximise the value to them of renewable investments and their crony relationships.
It would be a mistake to believe that they would not be prepared to undermine the Party in the interests of personal gain or their power relationships – for example, Keane. A SFL free local government gives free rein to the scammers.
Conspiracy theory? We shall see. We are dealing with immoral political gangsters.
The shortage of IV saline bags that is causing chaos in hospitals, forcing overdue births to be delayed after pregnancies reach 42 weeks, and jeopardising emergency procedures and operations, defies reason in a first-world country.
The crisis underlines an urgent need for an overhaul of procurement policies and closer federal oversight of the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which delayed acting on early warnings about shortages of the IV bags for more than a year. Doctors in the US and Britain are mystified by the regulator’s claims of a “global shortage”.
Part of the problem is due to the tendency of nursing staff, probably at the direction of learner doctors, to hook you up to a saline drip bag for hydration when all you need is a water jug and a paper cup.
I speak from experience after 4 admissions via Emergency in June at what was once Calvary Hospital, taken over by the socialist ACT government.
If we’re going to have to give up violence, I for one want to know why.
It better be a f**king good reason.
Federal Labor’s stated rationale for appointing Palaszczuk to a casual gig on the AusPost board at $107K per annum is that as a former QLD Premier she has experience delivering services to rural and regional areas.
Longsuffering residents of rural and regional QLD would disagree. Which is why they didn’t vote for her government in the 2020 election.
Otoh, if AusPost’s remit under Labor is to deliver a reduction in services with a lot of accompanying media spin designed to obfuscate the truth, she’s your gal.
Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain’s waste removal system (medicalxpress.com)
Made me think of Yoga.
CSF-to-blood toxins clearance is modulated by breathing through cranio-spinal CSF oscillation – PubMed (nih.gov)
Latrell the Magic Abo in the poo yet again with the NRL and the Bunnies for a pic of him doing a line of white powder.
The NRL hold up this high maintenance drama queen lazy bugger as the showpiece of the NRL and their OTT never ending indigenous propaganda campaigns, where he regularly shits on them with his walkabout behavior.
Now the damage control will start, the inevitable mental health issues so please back off, fretting that The ‘Trell will pull the pin on Rugby League and we will be so distraught if he leaves our tellie screens.
FMD- just piss off Latrell.
Huh? Excuuuuuuse me! Is this fair dinkum?
I guess we never get to know why violence is bad.
We’ll just have to take it on faith from our atheistic betters that they just know exactly what is good and right, and when and where violence is appropriate.
It’s just obvious to them.
How nice.
After all, it isn’t as if there is a long history of atheists murdering masses of the rest of us in order to improve society as they see it.
NSW and VIC are pathetic, infested by self-interested “progressives”.
Every state Liberal party is infested by self-interested progressives, they are pale, stale Greens. Just look at SA and WA too. State Liberals stand for nothing.
Crisafooli in QLD is a joke, he’s scared of his own shadow. Whilst he will probably fall over the line in October, here’s the rub, he and the LNP don’t deserve to win.
DEI is stupid.
Light entertainment
https://x.com/LibertyCappy/status/1824270871109816806?t=NqcOzaHYKguqzmvMl8uHWw&s=19
I has a theory!
If we’re going to have to give up violence, I for one want to know why.
It better be a f**king good reason.
Ancient boomers
Violence is a young mans game, and “dont poke me with that pointy stick and steal my shit because you will be old later on” didnt cut the mustard to a randy 18 year old smoothbrain who wanted your crap.
Therefore religion was invented.
“Dont poke me with that sharp point stick and steal my crap or god will give you gangrene of the dick same as you saw Grug get 6 months ago”…
/stirs pot more…
The depressing thing is that prospective Liberal voters are disenfranchised next month at the council elections. They have no where to park their vote. The Libertarians won’t be putting up candidates in every council.
It’s a scandal of biblical proportions.
You said it’s obvious and there were different reasons to choose from.
If that is true and YOU understand it, you can give your one, best simple reason in a sentence or two.
It’s obvious, remember?
Go ahead, Explain why violence is bad.
Stop avoiding.
Love the existential debate going on between Arky and John H.
Keep it up guys! It beats our eternal whinging about Australian politics,
Spare us The [Toe] Cutter
Boo-yah.
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Steve Inman:
Knuckle Sandwich Compilation 6
https://rumble.com/v5b5iyd-knuckle-sandwich-compilation-6.html
I don’t think any of these ladies are going to be in need of planned parenthood services but okay
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1823887492132823276?t=NO2hUJkw3u-iwVMF2WtDZw&s=19
We got Google AI to finally admit the truth about the COVID vaccines and the US childhood vaccine schedule
Further to this disgraceful federal government allowing the quick entry of Gazan Nazis into this country, it’s worth remembering the story of Traudl Junge. Junge was Adolf Hitler’s personal secretary and typist, and she was with Hitler, Eva Braun, the Goebbels family, and many of the Nazi top brass in that Berlin bunker until the very end, to April 1945. She was an eyewitness to the last hours of the Goebbels family, she saw and played with the Goebbels children only an hour or so before they were poisoned by their mother. And she was with Hitler and Eva Braun until the end. Of course Junge was a member of the Nazi party, there was no way she would have been able to work for Hitler without being a party member. After the war, after being ‘deNazified’ Junge was able to provide first hand testimony as to Hitler’s character and particularly with what happened in the bunker. You might remember her being interviewed for the marvellous ‘The World at War’, a programme always worth watching again. Junge’s personal testimony also provided the basis for the 2005 German film, Downfall (an excellent film).
I don’t know whether people realise this or not but Traudl Junge, after the war, tried to migrate to Australia. Other members of her family (her sister) had been allowed to migrate here but Junge, given her Nazi past and close associations with the top Nazi echelon, was never allowed to permanently settle in this country. Her application for permanent residence was denied owing to her past Nazi association.
I think the decision was fair. But the decision to deny Traudl Junge permanent residency was done when we were a sensible country. We are no longer a sensible country.
all this John H bot does is produce illogical short-hand talking points for whatever the ‘thing’ is
the ‘thing’ is now apparently Trump + reasons
and the other ‘thing’ is men committing crimes + reasons
and the other, other ‘thing’ is religion + reasons
John H is AI
… and a poor one
Just on that…as I understand it the cases included in the review were all reported to the relevant authorities at the time.
It’s war.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1824240757634634002?t=TeoZiluP6V9xc-GCqu0pEg&s=19
This is fine.
This is normal.
From a real estate sales email..
This time in 2022; 409 houses available to choose from in Geraldton and surrounds. This week in 2024; 67!
This time in 2022; 284 blocks of land available to choose from in Geraldton and surrounds. This week in 2024; 85!
Town of 37,000.
17,000 or so dwellings.
67 & 85 still for sale.
Better get some more migration happening, not enough Afghan bricklayers about.
Harris has responded to criticisms she isn’t doing interviews by doing an interview.
With Tim Walz.
I see a few people in the US are being critical about Kamala’s price control proposal. What’s different about our supermarket enquiry? Same bullshit.
I suppose the key problem is this: One might assume that the atheists on here are the good sort of atheists, the ones who really can recognise good or bad violence, who are deeply tapped into the mystical obvious truth they refuse to reveal to me. (So sad, I really wanted to know).
However, there is a history of atheists doing things which my beliefs tell me are horrific.
Mao, Hitler, Robespierre, Pol Pot, Stalin and Woody Allen.
Presumably, freed of their Christian belief, able to see the world, like you, clearly and scientifically, they were still able to guillotine half of Paris, murder millions of Jews, starve tens of millions and marry Mia Farrow.
So the prudent question might be: what distinguishes your view of violence from theirs, and upon what basis?
How did they get it so wrong, if it’s “obvious”?
And why are so many historical civilisations ones based on human sacrifice, murder and war, if it’s “obvious” and innate?
Walz An Expert In Straw Man Arguments
British pensioners are now seen as greedy parasites by Keir Starmer’s government
Get off the piss Arky, you’re dribbling.
”Arky thinks it’s all about thinking”.
More evasion.
I was gracious enough to respond to your statement that “modern society, not religion is responsible for eliminating poverty and domestic violence”.
And I wanted to know on what basis you thought these were good things. Given they have nothing to do with religion in your view.
I’m not interested in what causes them, or what theory you are “operating from”. I want you to give me the simplest and best answer as to why you think eliminating violence is good.
You still can’t do it after three attempts.
That’s embarrassing.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/pretty-to-watch-should-be-more-of-it-a-lot.html
German cops aren’t putting up with any more of this sh!t….
And why are so many historical civilisations ones based on human sacrifice, murder and war, if it’s “obvious” and innate?
Because we are slightly diverged Chimpanzees and chimps are bloody awful.
The BANNED Professor’s BRUTALLY Honest Opinion On COVID-19 & Dr Fauci… | Dr Bret Weinstein
Atheist reasoning:
Why is eliminating violence good?
Why?
You haven’t answered the question.
You mean human design.
I happened to be in a room just then with a receiving device on when that abc refugee “comedian” did his thing at the end of the seven news. FMD. Everybody involved needs to be sacked. Even the idiot newsreader could barely hide his contempt when they cut back to him. As edgy as a balloon.
It’s what this argument doesn’t account for that puzzled me as a young atheist.
No chimp ever wrote a sonnet.
Or painted a portrait.
Or dreamed of travelling through the air or space and developed the ability to do so.
Raygun effectively cancelled out all out athletes and forced them to repeat hostage statements to sooth her tax sucking ego.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2a4SmG8TkO8
Tanya Mihailuk claiming that Moderate local government candidates were registered in time, true liberals were not.
Having witnessed the Turnbull Moderates destroy my party in QLD, I believe her.
Jez.
Can you post a website address for your admirable organisation please.
There are folks here who are keen to look over your shoulder.
Megan
August 16, 2024 12:56 pm
I wasn’t going to mention this, but your missive has changed my mind.
Our IGA is small and only one lane was open at lunchtime. That was OK, I was the only one in line behind a lady with a large load.
Little boy, about 4 wanders up to me. Curly blond/ginger hair, angelic looking kid. He holds up a packet of lollies he’s liberated from somewhere, and starts babbling about them.
CBGHaired boy:”These are really yummy.”
Boozer Bob – Old Fart: “They look it, don’t they?”
CBGHB: “My mummy gave them to me.”
BBOF: “Have you paid for them yet?”
CBGHB: Looks perplexed. “I don’t think so.”
BBOF: “So which ones your Mum?” Looks around, no mum type adults in sight.
CBGHB: Points and waves. “She over there somewhere”. Indicates the fridge section.
BBOF: “Shouldn’t you be with her?”
CBGHB shrugs. Examines pack of lollies.
Bobs a little concerned at this point. Why is this kid talking to me? Aren’t there any other nice people around. I look up and the cashier and other lady are having a quiet giggle.
CBGHB states: “My dad drives a car…”
mumble mumble mumble for a minute or so more then says ‘bye!’ and runs off to find mum.
I then realised I had stood there the entire time with my arms folded even when he was showing me his ‘find’ of lollies.
I was keeping my hands in view of everyone.
That made me feel a bit sad that this was what I had done in a reflexive manner because I was in “The proverbial Old Man Stranger Danger situation.”
You mean human design.
Design has nothing to do with it. Evolution is a slipshod engineer and workman who doesn’t care. If it just works in the environment it survives and reproduces.
There’s no plan, no template.
Let them in, and then you have the consequences …
national defense is built on violence
the entire law and policing apparatus is built on violence
typical Left-Tard reasoning to pretend that other people’s violence is some sort of problem,
… while they out-source their own
it’s what starts wars
It’s what this argument doesn’t account for that puzzled me as a young atheist.
I didn’t say that was all we were but there’s no denying our heritage.
As for No chimp ever wrote a sonnet.
Or painted a portrait.
Or dreamed of travelling through the air or space and developed the ability to do so.
How many sonnets, paintings or flying machines were produced by the Australian aborigines or many other indigenous people’s?
Firstly, for all its warts, their culture was a darned sight more sophisticated than chimpanzees.
Secondly, their profound isolation led to cultural stasis.
Talk of evolution and humans ignores the fact that humans are the first species who have transcended the natural environment and therefore evolution. This is not just sociobiology which attempts to marry humans’ inherent capacity to form societies and evolution. It is not because human society creates an environment which enables arguably a majority of those humans in the society to be classified as non evolution; that is they would not have survived in nature and subject to natural evolutionary pressures.. Not all societies do this. Aboriginal society for instance went the other way and was as pure a natural society as is possible. They lasted 10s of thousands of years. Modern humans living in their unnatural social structure look to be at the end of their time.
No it was just a misunderstanding.
The agent thought Trump said “Baby drill, baby!”
I think not.
I think they simply took their atheism to its logical conclusion.
At least they had the courage to admit the consequences of their beliefs.
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I have a memory of West Germany paying the equivalent of $10 Billion in 1956 for the rest of their soldiers in the Russian work camps – about 15,000 still alive.
There are quite a few videos of German and Russian Army teams exhuming the millions of war dead from both sides across Russia.
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_War_Graves_Commission has 800+ Cemeteries.
my grandfather wasn’t released until 1923 after being taken prisoner in 1917.
I think they simply took their atheism to its logical conclusion.
It’s only a logical conclusion if you accept a need to worship something together with a rejection of God. If you have no such need, you can be a rational person. Like me, for example. But not you.
I do accept the proposition that Christianity has a huge societal benefit, net. Buddhism works well too, and they are all atheists.
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Another video that the MSM will hate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cChuw1fq_R0
Tourist who ‘tried to rape a cow’ is gored by the animal and has to be rescued by stunned police
Daily Mail.