Open Thread – Thurs 22 Aug 2024


The Rector’s Garden, Queen of the Lilies, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1877

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Pogria
Pogria
August 22, 2024 12:13 am

Can it be?!? Why yes it is.
I won, I won! 😀

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2024 12:23 am

Second!!!

Now to sleep.

Last edited 4 months ago by Mother Lode
Top Ender
Top Ender
August 22, 2024 12:46 am

Third!

G’day from a cruise liner off Kavala in Greece.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
August 22, 2024 1:12 am
Reply to  Top Ender

Very noice!

Speedbox
August 22, 2024 1:57 am

Russian TV is reporting that Ukrainian forces lost a further 300 men and 26 armoured vehicles in Kursk in the past 24 hours. Russian TV claims over 4,400 Ukrainian soldiers and 450 vehicles have been “eliminated” since the Kursk incursion began.

Separately, Russian forces are reportedly within striking distance of Pokrovsk (in Ukraine). If true, this is a huge development as Pokrovsk is a major supply and command hub for Ukrainian forces. Residents of Pokrovsk are being told to leave immediately.

Also reports of an airstrike by Russia on another Ukrainian command and control centre somewhere near Sumy. Video footage shows strike and extensive destruction of a specific building.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 22, 2024 2:14 am

This place is the only place I comment on the Net. So many comments on YT is where you have to bite your tongue.

KevinM
KevinM
August 22, 2024 2:21 am

Speedbox
August 22, 2024 1:57 am

Separately, Russian forces are reportedly within striking distance of Pokrovsk (in Ukraine). If true, this is a huge development as Pokrovsk is a major supply and command hub for Ukrainian forces. Residents of Pokrovsk are being told to leave immediately.

I have read about that a few days ago, wanted to post it but let it be.
By the reports I’ve read at least half of the people don’t want to leave.

Speedbox
August 22, 2024 2:38 am
Reply to  KevinM

Yes. It might be a question of terminology. For example “drawing closer” or “near to” etc. From the Russian TV report, I get the impression that the Russian soldiers are, literally, a couple of kilometres away (or so).

I had heard that some didn’t want to go but if you can hear the small arms fire, time to have a serious re-think.

KevinM
KevinM
August 22, 2024 2:24 am

Oldest culture on earth?

———————
The oldest culture on earth: The Saan.

The Saan people (also formerly referred to as Bushmen) are members of different Khoe, Tuu, or Kx?a speaking cultures.
Those are the earliest known cultures in South Africa, spanning from territories like Namibia, Angola, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.

The Saan are among the oldest cultures on Earth and are believed to be the oldest human ancestors, with DNA tests proving they are the direct descendants of the first Homo sapiens.

Although they have no official leader, they make decisions as a group where males and females are equal.

saan
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 22, 2024 9:04 am
Reply to  KevinM

Don’t certain indigenous activists get snaky when you point that out?

Helen
Helen
August 22, 2024 5:59 pm
Reply to  KevinM

Older than the Zulu or Matabele or Shona who claim those lands

KevinM
KevinM
August 22, 2024 2:25 am

Goes back a long way.

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KevinM
KevinM
August 22, 2024 2:27 am

Memory.
What memory?

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KevinM
KevinM
August 22, 2024 3:05 am

I prefer it that way.

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 5:50 am
Reply to  KevinM

This persons vote is the equivalent of yours.
Be afraid.

Pogria
Pogria
August 22, 2024 6:15 am
Reply to  KevinM

The kind of schooling this person has received results in this stupidity.
This person has been taught that women can have a penis, become pregnant and lactate.

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 4:06 am
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 22, 2024 4:09 am

Classics!

1992 Indianapolis 500 Finish

“Commentary between Paul Page, Sam Posey and Bobby Unser was incredible.”

Indeed,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0orHQo57S9Q

Zatara
Zatara
August 22, 2024 4:33 am

Harris had a 7 point lead in Polymarket last week. Now, 3 days into the Dem convention, she is down 5. The more she is exposed to the public, the lower her numbers go.

Here’s a hint why.

the Harris-Walz campaign announced on Monday that Harris would raise the corporate tax rate to 28% if elected. And now, Harris is pushing for a 45% capital gains tax on long-term investments and a 25% tax on unrealized gains.

So personal investments get taxed 25% annually based on some arbitrary value on an arbitrary date, then they get taxed 45% on what gain is left when the asset is sold. Yeah, that’ll work.

Harris speaks at the convention tonight. Can’t wait to see the numbers on Friday after the convention winds up.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 5:53 am
Reply to  Zatara

This level of stupidity cannot be by accident. It must be design.
I still think the Hildebeast is manoeuvring for the position of President. When the alternatives are just so damn awful, she looks like a steady hand on the tiller.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 22, 2024 4:36 am

( – :

Drive Me Crazy – REO Speedwagon – Keep on Loving You (Garry Harper Remastered Version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYGaHUE6Ruw

Rosie
Rosie
August 22, 2024 4:45 am

Hmm maybe the issue is the Turkey to UK leg.
And they’ve money for the airfares etc.
https://extra.ie/2024/08/21/news/irish-news/asylum-seekers-lift-belfast

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 5:28 am

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/arXpwboS4hU
Cat Ladies, is this true? 20% of kids coming to Primary School equivalent aren’t toilet trained?

Pogria
Pogria
August 22, 2024 6:28 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

It has been true for many years. The disposable nappy has been a great detriment to toilet training. Also, with most mothers working and children in care, there never seems to be “the right time”, to devote to toilet training.

During the nineties, I saw children pushed to school in strollers, sucking on a dummy, walk into class with spare nappies in their school bags. The teachers were expected to change the kids. Parents were told in no uncertain terms at that time that, children could not attend school until they were toilet trained. That used to be the norm, kids didn’t go to school until they could use the loo and clean themselves.

Human society is going backwards.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2024 10:37 am
Reply to  Pogria

Some of those numbers likely include disabled kids, especially autistic kids, who are now pushed to attend normal schools. Special teaching assistants are required for these kids, who can also hold up normal classroom teaching. I think now there are some changes in place so that toilet training now has to be established before normal school attendance (certainly seems to be the case for my five year old autistic grandson where his parents are frantically working on toilet training). My 13 year old autistic grandson attends normal school and manages well, but he was never backward in basic skills of self-care and language as the five year old is. His issues are with loud noises and over-stimulation, where a little ‘time out’ solves things.

I think there comes a stage where if the disability is severe then a ‘special’ school is the best way to educate disabled kids.

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 7:25 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Yes, it’s true. One of my daughter’s old school friends is a kindy teacher in a large north west Sydney school.

To her horror, many of her pupils arrived first day not toilet trained. This has huge implications for continence later in life for those children, apart from being a terrible imposition on school teachers to train them.

Long ago, my own children had to be toilet trained to attend a morning at pre-school. It wasn’t that difficult to do – by the third child it all happened automatically. She decided at 14 months that she hated her cloth nappy and simply walked out of it. 😀

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
August 22, 2024 8:33 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Not a ladeee, but yes it’s true, one in five mite be high.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 22, 2024 5:38 am

Former NT cop John Elferink returns medal in apology protest
LIAM MENDES

A former senior Northern Territory police officer and MLA has returned his police service medal in protest at police chief Michael Murphy’s apology to Indigenous people, claiming the “greatest harm done to Aboriginal people in the NT was at the hands of other Aboriginal people”.

John Elferink was a 14-year member of the force and was awarded the Northern Territory Police Service Medal in recognition of 10 years of continuous meritorious service, before becoming a member of the NT Legislative Assembly, where he served in the Country Liberal Party for four terms from 1997 to 2016.

Last week, the practising lawyer posted his medal to Darwin, with a letter to Mr Murphy stating the apology meant his once “cherished” medal was now “rendered something to be ashamed of”.

The letter followed Mr Murphy’s apology, delivered at the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land earlier this month, for “the past harms and the injustices caused by members”.

The manner in which the apology occurred infuriated many members of the police force.

The NT Police Association’s criticism of the apology, especially the lack of consultation with it’s members, resulted in Mr Murphy resigning his membership of the association.

In expressing his disappointment at the apology, the former NT attorney-general branded it “simply the wrong message to send”, saying it reinforced the idea of victimhood and was an “emotional attempt at some form of reconciliation”.

“This fashion arises out of the collective guilt that Australia has determined to embrace for ‘our’ colonial past,” Mr Elferink wrote.

“It needs to be recalled many Aboriginal people have been employed by the NT Police to serve and they have done so as they have seen the Police Force as the best vehicle to represent their communities as well. Your unqualified apology diminishes them and their judgment to support the police equally,” he wrote.

He said in his letter that in his time as a policeman it was Aboriginal women who were the victims of “atrocious” assaults at the hands of their relatives “as an extension of cultural practices”.

“The problem with apologising as a national pastime is that it actually serves to deflect responsibility from the people who need to be accountable for their actions which are the offenders themselves,” he wrote.

“It may now be fully expected that your frontline members will now be accused of racism when they try to do their job by the people who should be restrained from being villainous, violent or criminal in their conduct. This accusation can now be made on the basis that you, the police commissioner, said so.

“It is the unqualified nature of your apology which abrades the most. If there was an apology to be made it should have been coupled with a call on all people (Aboriginal or otherwise) to be responsible citizens in their own communities and to impress upon the citizenry that their safety starts with them.

“An unqualified apology implies that the people being apologised to are by some mechanism granted absolution.”

Speaking to The Australian in Adelaide where he lives Mr Elferink believes that an improvement in relations with Indigenous Australians didn’t have to come at the expense of a relationship with Mr Murphy’s officers, most of whom weren’t consulted or notified of the apology prior to it being made.

“It was the unilateral nature of it, along with the absolute nature of it, which I think was the thing that caught a lot of people off guard and upset a lot of people, and he would have been aware of that,” Mr Elfernik said.

Mr Elferink said Mr Murphy should have acknowledged the “great relationship” police and Aboriginal people have had “over many, many years”.

“I looked at my service medal and thought to myself, ‘well, if your membership of the police association is as commoditised to the point where you can simply dismiss it as your symbol of resistance to criticism, then equally, the medal which I was given for my 15 years of service is commoditised as well,” he said.

“You can have it back.”

The Oz. I know John – a hard-working politician who worked tirelessly for the NT. A sad day.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 5:42 am

What Digger said last night:

There are a dozen or so on this site who are responsible for the moron remaining here because they feed his ego, they bolster his standing by responding and they give him air time, over and over and over on every page of every post….

There are lots of reasons why, but the main one is lack of self control by the repliers. And that lack of self control is his meat and drink. He knows he can press a button and like Pavlov’s dogs – bingo – instant response.
DB could ban Monty but that doesn’t help them. Self control starts with SELF.

MatrixTransform
August 22, 2024 9:05 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

It doesn’t make a difference what you say, that particular Cat will always piss in all the corners

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2024 9:18 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Bob.
Ignoring doesnt work for the fixated.
An example from another blog i ran.
We had a person who was posting vile crap – banned.
I would still find replies, sometimes multiple a day from this person caught in the filter.
For 2 years.

Monty is the same, when not replied to he just doubles down on shitting it up everywhere.
Some people just arent normal.

John Brumble
John Brumble
August 22, 2024 11:21 am

Oh horse excrement. You’ve never tried and that’s just an excuse for your complete lack of self control.

Rosie
Rosie
August 22, 2024 6:03 am

Lack of self control?
There is no rule that requires anyone to refrain from responding to any comment by anyone.
People respond to Monty because they want to, and old scolds scold because they want to.

Megan
Megan
August 22, 2024 6:14 am
Reply to  Rosie

The dumb in the last sentence, it burns.

Megan
Megan
August 22, 2024 6:16 am
Reply to  Megan

Now explain…is it a response or am I an old scold, scolding?

Megan
Megan
August 22, 2024 6:17 am
Reply to  Megan

Oh wait, I get it. You respond, but we scold.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 7:15 am
Reply to  Megan

It must be me, Megan. I’m an old scold. I shall weep into my weetbix.
🙂
*snif*

Megan
Megan
August 22, 2024 1:24 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

We shall link arms and scold together, Bob.

Solidarity, comrades.

Gabor
Gabor
August 22, 2024 6:27 am

BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 5:42 am

What Digger said last night:

I responded a few times, mostly appealing to m0nty’s gentler inner self, until I realised there is none.

Now I just scroll past.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 7:36 am
Reply to  Gabor

A valid point, Gabor.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2024 10:44 am
Reply to  Gabor

I used to point out the error of his ways, because M0nty has a long history here. I recall the past over ten years ago when a young M0nty was travelling the US and people here were kind to him, suggesting places of interest etc and being genuinely friendly. So much so that M0nty wanted to keep an alternative Catallaxy going when Sinc pulled the plug. He had what seemed to be a genuine interest then in having a proper discourse between centre left and centre right.

Those days are now long gone, and I can’t be bothered responding any more. I don’t mind those who do, I think it’s too prescriptive to say don’t ever respond but agree that he’s a deliberate nuisance these days. I’m hoping he see sense, recognises changed times and a fractured polity, and keeps away.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 22, 2024 6:54 am

Seems Jackie not a fan of Faruqi. Via Daily Mail article.

Jacqui Lambie has accused Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi of being ‘religiously racist’ in a blistering spray in Parliament for trying to pass a motion to release private emails from Jewish groups

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
August 22, 2024 7:08 am

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/08/21/ask-kamalanomics-how-bout-those-million-jobs-vanishing-and-looming-nasty-labor-strikes-n3793446

Just another day in government incompetence. I would like to think it is incompetence instead of deliberate manipulation.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 22, 2024 7:09 am

Not listened to it yet but Russell Crowe just been on Joe Rogan. Over 3 hours.

shatterzzz
August 22, 2024 8:07 am
Reply to  Bourne1879

Guess 3 hours to excuse the behavior of “Latrine” and tell us what a wonderful 251 inspiration he is … isn’t overly long .. LOL!

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2024 7:32 am

After the Southport UK massacre (and a massacre it was) of little girls attending a Taylor Swift dance party, Da Fuhrer Sturmer and his Labour cronies visited Southport to lay flowers at the scene of the massacre. It was a photo political op that went wrong, big time. The MSM were there en masse, presumably to give Sturmer his big photo opportunity but it all went awry. I watched the footage of the wooden Sturmer, who has all the charisma of an old rotting wooden clothes peg, arrive at the scene to lay a wreath of flowers on the footpath, and then I watched as he scurried off, like a rodent fleeing a pest controller, to avoid the angry and grief stricken local white working class men and women. Sturmer was rightly heckled and it was clear he didn’t like that very much. He didn’t bother speaking face to face with any of these discontented white working class men and women, instead he fled in cowardice. I watched as an elderly woman howled at Sturmer, this woman had known one of the little girls stabbed to death by the ‘Welshman‘. It was an interesting spectacle. Rather than personally try to comfort locals, Sturmer ran away from working class English men and women. It was a disgrace.

You could safety assume that most of the those shouting, howling and heckling at Sturmer were not ‘Tory’ voters, most had probably once voted Labour, some even as recently as July of this year, this being the north where the ‘Torries’ have long been viewed for over a century as the enemy of the working class, the 2019 collapse of the red wall was an aberration.

Watching Sturmer as he scurried away, seeing his display of cowardice in the face of the indigenous working class, we saw a window into his totalitarian soul. Sturmer is an insidious creep, a dangerous and cowardly creep. The men and women of Southport deserved so much better.

I am not immune to criticism of the monarchy. In 1999 I voted for a republic. However I will not repeat that vote in any future referendum. I will always vote for Australia to remain a constitutional monarchy. Having watched, over the last fifteen years, the degradation and politicisation of almost everything at the hands of the progressive left, I want and desire an institution that can, however imperfectly, rise above petty politics and the nastiness of the progressive left. In our hollowed out cardboard world there remains one such institution, the monarchy. I am not immune to the imperfections of King Charles, William and so on. I loathe those two Montecito whores but they are irrelevant. The monarchy, unlike anything else in our cardboard world, can still rise above petty politics and provide desperately needed healing over the howls.

And that’s what happened yesterday in Southport. Touchingly King Charles visited the grief stricken town, he visited the families of the three dead girls (he has invited these families to visit Buckingham Palace), he visited the hospital to see the surviving girls. Whilst the MSM were there, they were kept back because this wasn’t a media exercise in cheap UK Labour Blairite politics, NO, it was a visit of healing. As King Charles walked about, there were no howls, no shouts, and no heckling, rather there were huge cheers.

I think the contrast tells us everything. More than ever the UK need the monarchy. King Charles or Fuhrer Sturmer? In these dark times, it isn’t a difficult choice.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 7:44 am

Cassie:

Watching Sturmer as he scurried away, seeing his display of cowardice in the face of the indigenous working class, we saw a window into his totalitarian soul. Sturmer is an insidious creep, a dangerous and cowardly creep. The men and women of Southport deserved so much better.

Sturmer is a Faceless Bureaucrat. Like the one who ‘wept with helpless fury’ as he signed his wife’s death warrant as ordered by Stalin*.
They are more dangerous than any psychotic, knife wielding Muslim.
*I’ve forgotten the detail but the story appears true.

shatterzzz
August 22, 2024 8:14 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

After the Aberfan coal disaster in 1966 .. The Queen alwayz said her biggest mistake & regret was heeding “advisors” & staying away in the immediate aftermath …..

Rohan
Rohan
August 22, 2024 12:56 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

I believe that they advised that, because she was unable to show emotion at attending such an event. That she may appear to be calous and uncaring. Despite the fact that she was not.

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 7:56 am

I’m reading an interesting book at present – “The Dreadful Judgement” by Neil Hansen. It’s about the great fire of London, drawn almost entirely from contemporary documents such as reports and diaries. A great read for those who like their history in juicy, entertaining, but documented and annotated form.

Another King Charles, second of that name, was considered a complete waste of space during the three days of terror and destruction. Those courtly, soft hands did a bit of token labour, then he went back to his barge to view the conflagration or back to Whitehall to secure his possessions. His brother, James, was proactive in directing demolition before the fire front and other activities.

However, once the fires were quenched, Charles took it upon himself to go amongst the people and personally quell fears that invasion was imminent (they were at war with the Dutch at the time) and that they would all be slaughtered. He also issued swathes of proclamations and directions regarding housing of the dispossessed and issuing of food to avert hunger. Generally, people in the countryside and other cities obeyed. People came back to the city to pick up the pieces.

The elected mayor of London was useless.

As we know the city that no one, in their shock, thought would ever function again, was up and running in a short space of time. Dirty, sooty, and still hot underfoot, but its heart beating.

After great distress people do look for a figurehead, even a flawed one.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 8:02 am
Reply to  calli

After great distress people do look for a figurehead, even a flawed one.

Which is why it’s so important for Charles (and William) to be personally apolitical.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
August 23, 2024 9:07 pm
Reply to  calli

Calli
agree with everything you said, except for progressive.
what is an apt description for these idiotic pubescent adolescence.
like you I thought the republic was a good idea, on reflection more to do with anti British sentiment.
the ant democratic and idiotic behaviour of Wong with gay union vote and turnballs we inside the chamber will vote for the president.
watching the crown the symbolism is explained and what it represents to England.
still prefer Margaret or Eddie and Sophie as the heads.
middleton is great .
when Sophie looked after her mother in law, working with Hubble in the family business and ripping in to markle stang up for county queen and family.

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 22, 2024 9:10 am

I didn’t know re the King visiting Southport Cassie. Thanks

shatterzzz
August 22, 2024 10:45 am
Reply to  Miltonf

Same here .. I had to “google” for reports .. saw no mention on any Oz “news” sites I visit .. Not even the Mail online .. wierd ..!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2024 10:54 am
Reply to  shatterzzz

I saw reports of it, and I have been pretty much out of political circulation in the past week or so due to my sister’s terminal illness. So it must have been on the car radio of somewhere in the Oz, briefly viewed.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2024 10:51 am

I was wondering how long it would take the Royals to visit the beleaguered north and offer comfort following the massacre. I am uncertain why they ‘held back’ and didn’t go immediately – were they badly advised, or just disinterested? Did they finally go against political advice for humanity’s sake, or were they pushed to go by a worried Sturmer trying to ‘unite’ an obviously very distressed set of northerners? I tend to the humanity side, but gee the Royals were late in showing it.

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 7:33 am

It’s hard not to form some sort of symbiotic bond with a persistent abuser, even if it’s simply one of mockery.

They like to imagine they live in your head, and say so, but they’re just really really annoying…like the kid who farts constantly and with gusto, or head lice.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 7:33 am

“Finally, queer theory informs the struggle for nuclear justice and disarmament,” Sneha Nair wrote last year. “Queer theory helps to shift the perception of nuclear weapons as instruments for security by telling the hidden stories of displacement, illness, and trauma caused by their production and testing.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/biden-harris-department-energy-official-calls-queering-nuclear/
It’s fairly obvious. The Left want to make the US, and by extension – the West – helpless in the face of Islamic and Socialist aggression.
Nothing else fits the actions they are taking and the policies they are trying to enact.
We’re gonna need more helicopters.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2024 8:02 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Give Nair a concrete parachute, you’d have to be queer to use one of those but in Bizzarro World queer theory explains everything. Why do the mentally ill get so much air time when they should be being treated for delusions.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 7:39 am

New York Times doxing scandal is a shameful story of failed media ethics

Michael Gawenda, The Australian 22 August, 2024

Quite often in the past year or so, it has struck me, an old journalist who worked mainly in the pre-internet era, that the ethical foundations of journalism in liberal democracies like Australia have been reduced to rubble. It is true that I was a journalist and editor before the sewers of social media filled up with lies and hate and conspiracy theories and journalists thought they had to swim in those sewers.

But none of this wholly explains how it is, for instance, that an increasing number of journalists believe it is not important for their journalism to be fair and accurate and as far as possible ­unbiased.

None of this explains how it is that many journalists – and their union – now believe it is OK for journalists to be activists for a cause and at the same time, report on those causes.

And none of this – the internet communications revolution, the social media sewers and at the same time, the fracturing of the economic model for most mainstream media – explains why senior newspaper and television news directors and executive producers apparently cannot enforce standards in the outfits they run. Standards and ethical principles they profess to fervently­ ­support.

This abandonment of old-fashioned journalistic ethics in journalism – in the Anglosphere, in particular – has been apparent for some time. But it has accelerated alarmingly in my view since the Hamas massacres on October 7 last year and the subsequent ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

I have written from time to time about journalism and its challenges for The Australian in the past year or so. It has been a great experience and a privilege.

At the same time, I have written nothing about any of this for The Age, the paper I edited for seven years and where I worked for most of the five decades of my life in journalism.

It is of course their right not to publish me, but I reckon it illustrates just how fraught it has become for some editors, how difficult it now is for them, to allow a robust debate about the way journalism is changing and the way those changes are impacting the media outfits they ostensibly run.

Which brings me to The New York Times, considered by many people, not entirely fancifully, to be one of the world’s great ­newspapers.

A few days ago, The Australian published a piece from the Wall Street Journal, a fine and fair piece of reporting, about how a New York Times reporter based in Melbourne not long after October 7 joined a private Whats­App group of mostly young Australian Jewish writers, artists and performers. The reporter was invited to join the group because she had written a story for the NYT about the revival of Yiddish in Melbourne – my family are part of that revival and had become friendly with one of the Yiddish activists she interviewed.

In the main, the WhatsApp chats were about the rise of hostility towards Jews after October 7, the way some of them felt under siege because they were identified as Zionists and therefore supporters of genocide, the way they felt cancelled by the music industry and by writing organisations.

Some in the group discussed sending letters to the ABC for instance, complaining about the work of some of its journalists and presenters.

This is the group the New York Times reporter joined and then, months after she joined and just days before she quit the group, she downloaded 900 pages of these private chats – the whole content of the WhatsApp – and handed them to someone who subsequently passed them on to anti-Zionist activists, some of them vicious social media bullies, who duly published the personal information about many of the 600 members of the WhatsApp group.

In a letter I have sent to The New York Times – to which I have received no reply – I wrote this about the result of the leaking of the WhatsApp chats by the New York Times reporter: “Private personal details were posted including details of the family of group members. Details of the small businesses some of them ran were revealed. Can you imagine the trauma that ensued? Can you imagine the hate online these people were subjected to? There was widespread suffering. This doxing was so painful for so many group members.

“I know this because some of them are my friends and family. The pain remains, the doxing continues.

“I know that you know all this because many of the suffering WhatsApp members have written to you.

“I have not named the reporter because my concern – and anger – is not about her – and I am certainly not advocating she be sacked – but about the New York Times and what this whole sorry episode says about the state of journalism, the values and ethics of journalism when a reporter for the New York Times, one of the world’s great liberal newspapers, can think it is okay to behave the way she did.”

Here is what else I wrote in that letter to the New York Times – and yes, I did identify myself as a former editor-in-chief of The Age: “Why has the Times not covered this story beyond being forced to admit to a Wall Street Journal reporter that the Times journalist had behaved inappropriately (describing the behaviour as a clear violation of the paper’s ethics)? And that appropriate action had been taken – I assume this means the reporter has been reprimanded …

“What I am asking is this: Where is the coverage in the Times of this troubling – and clearly unethical – behaviour by a reporter working for the Times? How did this happen? What responsibility does the Times editors take for what happened (to those scores of Jewish Australians who were doxed as a result of what the reporter did?) Where is the coverage? From the Times, which is proudly committed to fearless journalism and to self-examination?

“Is someone working on the story? If so, how long will this story take? Frankly, it’s not that complicated. I speak from many decades of experience. This is a straightforward story. It does not require months – let alone weeks – of research and dozens of interviews.”

I doubt I will receive a response from The New York Times.

I am less concerned about that than I am about the lack of interest in this story among journalists in Australia as far as I can tell. And I do not understand how it is that my old paper has not covered this story.

I know that journalists – and editors for that matter – do not like public self-examination; they much prefer to do the scrutinising rather than be the subject of scrutiny. But on any reckoning, this is an interesting media story, a great one in my opinion.

It is sad – to say the least – that it has received so little attention.

Michael Gawenda is the former editor-in-chief of The Age and is the author of My Life as a Jew (Scribe, 2023).

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 10:11 am
Reply to  Roger

Another thing that is concerning is the lack of official notice by the authorities – especially the police – to bring to heel the people who have abused and threatened the people written of.
Or is it Two Tier Policing in Australia?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2024 1:10 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Yes it is.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 10:22 am
Reply to  Roger

This whole thing is like a sting operation organised by the Journo with this doxing in mind. The claims of distress by the journo ring false. Why download and pass on the entire forum unless it was deliberate?
And what better way of saving their ‘professional reputation’ than by claiming victimhood.
The whole thing stinks of Lefty duplicity and cunning to fit an agenda.

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Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 8:06 am

Gold mine off, shattered NSW central west locals to fight heritage law

Ellie Dudley, The Australian 21 August, 2024

The company behind a $1bn gold mine near Orange vetoed by ­Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek on Indigenous heritage grounds says it is cancelling the project and is suffering a $192m hit from Labor’s decision. Regis Resources told the stock exchange late on Wednesday that jobs, royalties and taxes would all be lost as a result of the decision with the company writing off $192m of its value due to Minister Plibersek’s decision late last ­Friday after the project had passed all federal and state planning approvals.

The article goes on to report that the local mayor subsequently visited Canberra to complain to Plibersek that the townsfolk were never consulted as part of her department’s review. Plibersek remained unmoved.

The mine would have employed 290 local people once operational.

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calli
calli
August 22, 2024 8:29 am
Reply to  Roger

I’m fascinated by that alternative, objecting land council and its list of first names only.

A group that has the power to halt a billion dollar project. Because mysterious, secret reasons.

My considered opinion is that the people on that list do not exist. If they do, they need to be publicly declared and quizzed.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 8:38 am
Reply to  calli

Where is the Coalition environment shadow?

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 8:52 am
Reply to  Roger

Found him – Dunniam – his one complaint seems to be that Plibersek hasn’t updated the section of the law, dating from 1984, that permitted her to make the decision.

Never mind that the L/NP was in government for c 20 years and did nothing about it.

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 8:57 am
Reply to  Roger

I’ve seen Duniam interviewed on Sky about the mine scandal (for that is what it is), but all the news stories from other sources are paywalled.

No idea what he is up to in the Senate.

Foxbody
Foxbody
August 22, 2024 3:49 pm
Reply to  calli

The only reasonable way forward, given the scale of the economic damage-

  • the dissenting group are fully identified
  • the dissenting group provide evidence of aboriginality
  • the dissenting group prove that they are of the local tribe, to a meaningful extent, including initiation in the relevant sacred lore
  • the dissenting group furnish evidence of their longstanding participation in rituals pertaining to the relevant area of country
  • the dissenting group, in separate supervised examinations, provide a few pages each explaining in detail how the mine dam damages the basis of their spiritual beliefs.

Until this material is supplied – and is consistent within the group – there is nothing to consider.
We have another Minister for Secret Women’s Business, it would seem.

Foxbody
Foxbody
August 23, 2024 3:26 pm
Reply to  Foxbody

Well, another day on and nothing forthcoming but another pale lady making vague noises about supposedly sacred ground because of an alleged massacre somewhere in the district.
I was right – there is nothing to consider.

Figures
Figures
August 22, 2024 9:08 am
Reply to  Roger

There’s no national security or commercial in confidence reasons for Tanya to remain mum so it seems like a reasonable inference that Plibersek has taken a bribe.

The Libs should be absolutely hammering her on this in QT. This is third world stuff.

They should also refer Plibersek to the anti-corruption commission.

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 22, 2024 9:13 am
Reply to  Roger

Given the Commonwealth has “taken” the land the project was to use I wonder if a HC challenge on that basis might work.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 9:28 am
Reply to  Diogenes

The ceo of the mining company says the project could still go ahead, presumably with a change of government, but the delay will set them back 5-10 years as they’ll be diverting capital to other projects in the meantime. Which suggests they don’t have any appetite for a HC challenge. If so, I’d like to see them reconsider.

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Miltonf
Miltonf
August 22, 2024 9:22 am
Reply to  Roger

Evil old woman. A toxic parasite.

Rossini
Rossini
August 22, 2024 9:41 am
Reply to  Miltonf

Silly goose doesn’t realise where her salary comes from!

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 10:14 am
Reply to  Rossini

Rosssini, her salary comes from the government, an organisation she belongs to. Orphans and widows can starve before she loses one cent in salary.

shatterzzz
August 22, 2024 10:48 am
Reply to  Rossini

Hubby’s “sideline” will keep the wolf from the door …… LOL!

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
August 22, 2024 8:38 pm
Reply to  Roger

The bogan redneck plebs wanting jobs? How dare they?! Off with their heads!

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
August 22, 2024 8:13 am

Fluffy Annaliese seems too much at home at the DNC convention.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 22, 2024 8:16 am

Michael Gawenda would be far more convincing had he not been an exponent of the opinion/agenda sins he sees in current journalists. We have a long memory.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 10:25 am
Reply to  Farmer Gez

A repeat of my comment above:

This whole thing is like a sting operation organised by the Journo with this doxing in mind. The claims of distress by the journo ring false. Why download and pass on the entire forum unless it was deliberate?

And what better way of saving their ‘professional reputation’ than by claiming victimhood.

The whole thing stinks of Lefty duplicity and cunning to fit an agenda.

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2024 8:17 am

Sturmer is a Faceless Bureaucrat. 

No, Sturmer is not ‘faceless’. Rather Sturmer is very much in peoples faces, to the point where the UK is fast becoming a totalitarian state. Sturmer has made it very clear that his enemy is white indigeneous working class men and women.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 10:17 am

It’s a class pejorative, Cassie, not a literal physiognomic one.

shatterzzz
August 22, 2024 10:50 am

Sturmer’s got 5 years slurping at the top table so his “care” factor for the next 4.5 years is zero ………

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
August 22, 2024 1:57 pm

Sturmer has made it very clear that his enemy is white indigeneous working class men and women.

I just started listening to Mark Steyn reading “The Flying Inn” by GK Chesterton. Written in 1914, the plot is quite prescient: as Steyn summarises, the determination to stick it to the English working class and their culture – is the exact same animating principle of contemporary Uniparty England.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 8:19 am

Michael Gawenda would be far more convincing had he not been an exponent of the opinion/agenda sins he sees in current journalists. We have a long memory.

Perhaps he’s been given cause to reflect and repent.

Regardless, that mass doxxing is indefensible.

(I know the name, but I’ve never read The Age – not many Queenslanders do – so I’m unaware of what his professional sins might be.)

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Rabz
August 22, 2024 8:29 am

Gawenda would be far more convincing had he not been an exponent of the opinion/agenda sins he sees in current journalists

Yep. Zero sympathy for collectivist hypocrites. The gall of the clown, complaining about the appalling behaviour of the moral and ethical vacuums he and his ilk gleefully enabled.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 10:10 am
Reply to  Rabz

Most definitely part of the problem. Fauxfacts j’ismists have been a law unto themselves for years – why they win so few defamation hearings.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 8:31 am

Fluffy Annaliese seems too much at home at the DNC convention.

Which is an evil circus of weirdos and freaks. Endless lying. I’ve been looking at the reporting with amazement. The Dems are now even further off into total insanity than Bandt’s Greens.

I really can’t see the US surviving much longer when one of their main parties has gone completely off its tree like this. Something fairly catastrophic is going to happen, especially since they’re going to steal the election.

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Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 8:31 am

Speaking of the devil…

Starmer’s Red Dawn 

Roger Watson, The New Conservative

Keir Starmer must be remarkably stupid or remarkably brazen if he thinks that the British public cannot work out what he is up to. Perhaps he is both brazen and stupid.

Operation Early Dawn, announced this week, will involve keeping prisoners waiting for court appearances in police cells for longer to make room for the nearly 1000 ‘far-right’ protesters arrested in the wake of the protests and riots on 3 August this year. This comes on top of over 5000 prisoners being released almost as soon as the Labour government assumed power to ease overcrowding in prison.

Referred to by one writer as ‘Crime and no punishment’, reference was made at that time by the Justice Secretary with the quintessentially English name of Shaban Mahmood to the ‘inevitable’ overcrowding by September. Conspiracy theories ought to be avoided, but I cannot be alone in thinking that the government was preparing for 3 August.

RTWT

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 8:32 am

Just as well we have a pretty lady in her garden as the page header and not Saul being struck blind after he saw the Light.

Otherwise I might be tempted to draw some comparisons with Gawenda’s sudden conversion to proper and just reporting.

Rabz
August 22, 2024 8:38 am

Bumper crop of cartoons today reflecting the global target rich environment in which we exist. Thanks, Tom.

Margolis’s rendition of the massive fatal coronary waiting to happen (weirdo waltz) is excellent.

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 9:42 am
Reply to  Rabz

I heart Mrs O’Lefty’s cow.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 8:49 am

It’ll be interesting to see if this is the start of the AMO cycle downswing. If so when it flips it cools quite rapidly.

The Atlantic Ocean is cooling down at a record speed & scientists don’t know why – ‘Surface temperatures suddenly dropping at a record speed’ since May (21 Aug)

Last time the AMO cycle was at bottom was in the mid seventies – when we had the ice age scare. Cooling like that would cause quite a bit of consternation in the halls of the elites.

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 10:29 am

They’ll blame it on a “Newly Discovered Aspect of Global Warming.” One that will require even more windmills and solar panels. And subsidies.

Rufus T Firefly
Rufus T Firefly
August 22, 2024 11:51 am

The greatest provider of energy in our solar system, is entering a “cooling” phase.
I’ll back the consequences of that, over any other contributor to earth’s climate, especially a certain 0.042% of the atmosphere.

Call me crazy!

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 8:50 am

People respond to Monty because they want to, and old scolds scold because they want to.

I demand a scolding session! Now!

Equal Opportunity Scolding is our strength.

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 9:41 am
Reply to  calli

Forward! Joy!

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 10:37 am
Reply to  calli

Calli, you’ve been warned before of exceeding your scolding allowance. Desist, I say or wear the Scold Mask of Shame.

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 11:14 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Like Gaffer Gamgee, I don’t hold with ironmongery.

Also, it doesn’t suit my hairstyle.

Megan
Megan
August 22, 2024 12:18 pm
Reply to  calli

Hear, hear!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2024 1:16 pm
Reply to  calli

Where is your picture of the four sour ladies, they fit the bill perfectly.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2024 8:52 am

keeping prisoners waiting for court appearances in police cells for longer to make room for the nearly 1000 ‘far-right’ protesters arrested in the wake of the protests and riots on 3 August this year.

Not really far-right, of course. (Far-Right is code for Nazis – the left’s twin sibling – with far more in common with each other than the people they are accusing.)

These people are actually real conservatives. They want to preserve what Britain is and has been. But people who want to preserve Britain are bound to be the enemy of someone determined to change it from what it was.

If he could Der Starmerführer thinks it shows vision and courage to be ready to obliterate Britain to clear way for his utopia, rather than the sociopathic nature it actually does.

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MatrixTransform
August 22, 2024 9:04 am

CGT is like being mugged by govt every payday.

CGT on future gains is like a Govt Mafia racket

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Eyrie
Eyrie
August 22, 2024 9:33 am

Hellooo… if you haven’t figured out by now that the Government and the Mafia are basically the same… both demand money by threats of violence.
The Mafia at least aren’t hypocrites and don’t claim to be doing it for your own good.

alwaysright
alwaysright
August 22, 2024 10:54 am

Correction: CGT on future gains is a Govt racket.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 22, 2024 9:15 am

Gawenda and The Age went all eco loony when the heads of Port Phillip Bay were dredged.
Dead fish, toxic dredge sludge and basically the bay was doomed. This trope ran for months under his editorship, clearly an attempt to stop the dredging.
The results of dredging was the exact opposite. Better water flows and larger marine life entering the bay to feed as the fish stock improved from fresher sea water.
The big ships and commerce had a win and so did the ecology of the bay.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 9:21 am
Reply to  Farmer Gez

Thanks!

Maman
Maman
August 22, 2024 10:27 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

Farmer Gez, not so sure the dredging has achieved ‘Better water flows’ – there is just a 1mm tidal difference and the residence time is about a year. Improvements to control of urban runoff has helped clean up water quality. Portsea not happy having lost their beach.

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 9:24 am

The only reason former Age editor Michael Gawenda got involved in the Jewish doxing scandal perpetrated by a female New York Times radical based in Melbourne is that Gawenda is Jewish.

Like many other Jewish journalists, Gawenda had been hoping the alligator he has been riding throughout his career would eat him last.

Now he has been red-pilled by the anti-semitic racism of 99% of the news media, he is having an epiphany about modern journalism’s abandonment of professional ethics.

Well derrr.

The Age hasn’t been an actual newspaper for a quarter of a century. It is now an emasculated activist rag read only by Greens voters.

The Age doesn’t do news. Everything it publishes has a political purpose.

Like the ABC, the former Fairfax newspapers are run by communist staff collectives, which means managers are forbidden from managing and the new owners at Nine — now retrenching staff by the dozen to stem chronic losses — are rueing their foolishness in buying a money pit.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 9:30 am
Reply to  Tom

Something for him to ponder in his retirement, Tom.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2024 9:46 am
Reply to  Tom

If they keep retrenching staff, the problem will resolve itself when there are none left.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 10:15 am
Reply to  Tom

Expect there are a few regrets around the Channel Packer board table – which has resumed circling the drain with the rest of the FTA media.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
August 22, 2024 8:43 pm
Reply to  Tom

Speaking of people riding the alligator, Faine seems to have been quiet lately. The last I heard was of his gig as an official paid shill of the Andrews-Setka-Patten Stalininst pervert thuggocracy (as opposed to his previous role as an unofficial one on the ABC payroll) during the COVID lockdown.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2024 9:26 am

I had a thought on 2 tier Kiers policing, and the uniparty rabble that preceded him.

UK crime statistics show various statistics by race, and apparently (dont laugh) the most law abiding are the “Asian” (Muslim) community, a whisker below those oik whites.

But thats before 50,000 arrests for naughty-think are added to the stats.
Id be willing to bet a considerable sum that 90% of those 50,000 arrests for naughty-think online are those hated working class whites.
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-justice-and-the-law/policing/number-of-arrests/latest/#:~:text=the%20arrest%20rate%20for%20black,higher%20than%20for%20white%20people

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 9:28 am

Awwwww. I’ve weely hurt someone’s feewings.

C’mon! Scold me! You know you want to.

😀

Frank
Frank
August 22, 2024 10:10 am
Reply to  calli

Tied to a tree and birched, Lawrence of Arabia style. If you know what we mean.

shatterzzz
August 22, 2024 10:40 am
Reply to  calli

……. SCOLDING SETS YOU FREE ……….!

alwaysright
alwaysright
August 22, 2024 10:56 am
Reply to  calli

Look what you made them do.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 9:33 am

UK crime statistics show various statistics by race, and apparently (dont laugh) the most law abiding are the “Asian” (Muslim) community…

‘Asian’ in UK parlance includes Hindus & Sikhs and even Christians with south Asian (i.e. the Indian sub-continent) origins.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
August 22, 2024 8:45 pm
Reply to  Roger

Ah yes, but those Syro-Malabar Catholics are the real problem, aren’t they??

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 9:40 am

The Age doesn’t do news. Everything it publishes has a political purpose.

Weirdly that doesn’t seem to be helping viability of the business.

‘Clearly dying’: Nine staffers lined up to take redundancy packages after ‘reputational damage’ to embattled network (Sky News, 21 Aug)

Newspaper staff at Nine were reportedly lining up to take redundancy packages from the embattled publisher with applications far exceeding the 85 spots on offer. …

Journalists who took packages are mostly industry veterans working on Nine’s five mastheads: The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and digital-only titles WAtoday and the Brisbane Times.

Rats fleeing the sinking ship…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 22, 2024 9:41 am

1h agoAugust 22, 2024Highlight

Jack Quail

Coalition frontbencher James Paterson has demanded Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke release departmental advice issued to the federal government regarding its decision to grant tourist visas, rather than refugee visas, to Palestinians fleeing war torn Gaza.

Senator Paterson’s comments came after former immigration official Abul Rizvi told The Australian that Labor’s decision to grant some 3000 visitor visas to Palestinians since October 7 was politically motivated and ­almost certainly done against departmental advice.

Arrivals that apply for a tourist visa generally face less stringent security vetting procedures than those who register for a refugee visa.

“There is only one course of action that the Minister for Home Affairs, Tony Burke, can take today to clear this up,” Senator Paterson told Sky News on Thursday.

“That is to release all departmental advice provided to his predecessor, Clare O’Neil and the former immigration minister Andrew Giles, so that the public can judge whether or not the department did, in fact, advise this course of action or advise against it, and whether the government made a political decision to ignore it.”

Asked if the Coalition was targeting Palestinian refugees for political gain, Senator Paterson rejected the accusation and said the opposition was seeking to hold the government to account.

“At every opportunity, they’ve avoided the questions, they’ve provided misleading answers, or they’ve not engaged with the issues at all, and that has raised our concerns, not diminish them.”

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2024 9:50 am

Every Palesimian granted a tourist via will be met at the airport by a parasite lawyer converting it to an asylum claim before the engines on the plane wind down.

Thats not speculation, thats just what will 100% happen.
We will never be rid of the 3000, or their extended families…

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2024 9:54 am

“My wifes boyfriend” spotted in the wild.
And youll never guess where.

https://x.com/i/status/1826373472714719600

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 10:00 am

Consensus downthread is that its a comedian doing a pisstake.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2024 10:06 am
Reply to  Chris

leave me this one.

I-want
calli
calli
August 22, 2024 10:07 am

It can’t be true. No one is that stupid.

He makes areff’s deliberately misspelled sign at a lefty rally look low energy.

Helen
Helen
August 22, 2024 6:38 pm

Gonski

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2024 9:54 am

I think Tom has said it best re. Gawenda. The deluge in Jew hatred since October 7 2023 has forced open the eyes of many Jews on the left but for Jews such as myself, the rampant Jew hatred on the left has been glaringly obvious for decades. Gawenda and others have been asleep at the wheel. I suppose it is better late than never for the likes of Gawenda but he and others have contributed to this maelstrom, and they should acknowledge their responsibility.

I have long found leftist Jews to be both insufferable and naive, a particularly ghastly combination, and Melbourne leftist Jews are the worst.

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 10:00 am

Every Palesimian granted a tourist via will be met at the airport by a parasite lawyer converting it to an asylum claim before the engines on the plane wind down.

The former immigration lawyer who became immigration minister Andrew Giles has achieved the objective he has been pursuing for 20 years — and it didn’t even cost him a place in the federal ministry since he’s a socialist left factional maaate of Luigi the Incredible.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 10:16 am
Reply to  Tom

Despite misleading parliament.

Where is the Opposition on this?

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 10:22 am
Reply to  Roger

See Zulu @ 9:51. Patterson is onto it.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 10:03 am

My copy of Cyclone Warriors by Top Ender arrived today – a quick flip through, many many excellent quality photos.
I’m not going to get much work done on the painting today…

Aaron
Aaron
August 22, 2024 10:06 am

“Asked if the Coalition was targeting Palestinian refugees for political gain, Senator Paterson rejected the accusation”.

Don’t they mean Palestinian tourists?

The cynical, grubby behaviour of this government is eclipsed only by their student activist intelligence level.

They are even useless at lying.

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calli
calli
August 22, 2024 10:10 am

Don’t they mean Palestinian tourists?

Good get, Aaron!

Please, please let this descriptor grow legs and run!

Rita, Danika, Caleb…if you’re watching…go for it.

132andBush
132andBush
August 22, 2024 10:17 am

Gez, if you’re still there.
Is there something happening in Bendigo tomorrow re Jacinta Allan? You mentioned it the other day.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 10:18 am

Tom on fire today. Keep your head down.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 10:20 am

The cynical, grubby behaviour of this government is eclipsed only by their student activist intelligence level.

Which in turn is eclipsed only by their conceit and disdain for ordinary Australians.

Beware those who deem themselves to be righteous.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 10:21 am

Sneha Nair wrote last year. “Queer theory helps to shift the perception of nuclear weapons as instruments for security

As Instapundit says today: in accordance with the prophecy:

Progress: U.S. Military Introduces Very First Gender-Neutral Bomb (Babylon Bee, 2021)

The graphic is also superb! I dunno, maybe these woke Democrat czars raid the Bee for ideas, like they do Orwell.

shatterzzz
August 22, 2024 10:37 am

When you think about it there are sooo many ridiculously well-paying jerbs that require very little experience apart from verbosity .. Setting aside the obvious one, Politics, shirley next in line is “sports journalism” .. I know reading the “musings” of the “pundits” is an aquired taste but sadly, I am one of those mugs that can’t avoid either of the fitba (round & oval) deliberations sites ……..
But to be quite honest the reality that these ex “celebrities AKA legends-on-their-own lunch box-tops” have any real insight into what goes on or or privy to “intimate” sports related conversations is laughable …..
It must be wonderful to “score” one of these highly paid gigs for no other reason than you once made the back page .. A lot easier nowadayz of course cos no matter who it is they are all .. take your pick … young guns, superstars, once-in-a-lifetime, how did we get by, previously, without them …. celebrities …..
The dayz of the average fitba player are long gone retired to Sunday park footie & eke-ing out a living on $150K subsistence level salaries …… oir COMMENTATING for upwards of $250k a year *… LOL!

*brought on by reding a dissection of Benji Marshall’s 1st year as a thugby coach …
Overall “pundits” waffle .. “Bloody awfie but 1st year, we luvs him, not fair to sack him …… buuuuut! …..”
Reality no one actually prepared to say,,
“Time’s up, you had your chance & blew it,Benji”

Rabz
August 22, 2024 10:37 am

Like the ALPBC, the former Fauxfacts newspapers are run by communist staff collectives, which means managers are forbidden from managing and the new owners at Nein — now retrenching staff by the dozen to stem chronic losses — are rueing their foolishness in buying a money pit.

The irony is, the Goanna had his beady eyes on Fauxfacts for decades during his existence on this planet and was invariably denied its acquisition by the legendary “(very) cross meeja ownership laws”.

Here’s a slightly interesting background piece on the Nein-Fauxfacts merger by an AFR j’ismist (not paywalled). Although I couldn’t help but add my own spin to the ridiculous excerpt below:

“It was during the Goanna’s reign that Nein also attracted a motley collective of j’ismists – Jabba Oakes, Jan Wench, Ray “the plastic helmet” Martin, George “name them” Fungus, Peter Gravy (from Caaaannnnbraaaaa) and many others too ridiculous to mention.”

I utterly detest the braindead lamestream meeja in this country, especially, Fauxfacts and Nein. A marriage of inconvenience headed for the knacker’s yard while drifting aimlessly up shit creek without a paddle.

The sooner they all disappear up their collective house sized backsides the better.

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 22, 2024 12:11 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Could never stand sewer Wendt

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 22, 2024 12:13 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Or any of the others for that matter.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 2:52 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Old man Packer v Fauxfacts would have been a lot of fun. Might have made Murdoch v Wapping look like a child’s picnic.

Indolent
Indolent
August 22, 2024 10:42 am
Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 22, 2024 10:44 am

However the electorate is Federal seat for Nationals and state seat for Shooters and Fishers. Hence no interest to consult with the locals. However what is amazing after all the Voice drama is that Plibersek totally ignored the Voice of the legally recognised local Aboriginal council. Hypocrisy at its finest. Obviously she knew better.
Hopefully somebody is researching the Aboriginality of the lead person (Reynolds) who fronted the dissenting group of 17.

“The mine would have employed 290 local people once operational”.

Indolent
Indolent
August 22, 2024 10:44 am
Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 22, 2024 10:45 am

This is from Bettina Arndt – a new strategy planned:

Movember is a fake

– New plans to fight back and properly support men

Bettina Arndt

Aug 22

How do Australian men get out of bed every morning? I just can’t imagine how men cope with the endless vilification, the constant betrayals by those in power. 

This week we saw another example of men being conned. Every year in this country many thousands of men grow moustaches in November, fondly imagining that they do this to raise money for men’s health.

Don’t kid yourself. Movember, the organisation roping in the millions of dollars from these poor suckers, has always sold men out by avoiding controversial issues and pandering to the feminist narrative. They run suicide prevention programmes, for instance, which studiously avoid any mention of what our Australian Bureau of Statistics names as one of the major causes of male suicide – relationship breakdown.

Now Movember is handing over $3.2 million of the money raised by these men to the male-bashing Albanese Government “to help young men and boys foster healthy, respectful relationships as part of efforts to end gender-based violence.”

Stealing money donated by ordinary blokes and using it to shame boys and vilify men. How disgusting is that? And this comes even after key domestic violence policy makers have admitted that programs to change misogynist attitudes are unsuccessful in reducing domestic violence. 

Movember’s $3.2 million is a pittance compared to the $3.4 billion the Albanese government has committed to “women’s safety.” Yesterday Albo’s DV Commissioner poured out the usual anti-male propaganda to the National Press Club but naturally the media responded with the women’s group complaints that the money is still not enough.

We all know our governments have been captured and only ever dance to the feminists’ tune. But it is an absolute tragedy that so many of our key organisations claiming to help men are really working against them. It’s only going to get worse… unless we get out there, expose what they are doing, and find ways to stop them.

New plans of attack

That’s what makes our conference even more important. The assault on the presumption of innocence in our courts is simply one of the most telling consequences on this toxic culture – which our speakers will expose at the Restoring the Presumption of Innocence conference on August 31.

In the final session of the day, we’ll reveal exciting news. There are important initiatives on the drawing board designed to support men. (Note that we won’t be live streaming this session so we can freely talk through these plans without widespread public exposure.)

One plan will include helping men find skilful, supportive lawyers who know what they are doing and are on their side. Men everywhere are being ripped off by lawyers who sell them out, bully them into strategies not in their interests and utterly fail to properly represent them.

If you have been through a high conflict divorce, you can prevent other men fall into the hands of such inept and unscrupulous lawyers. The people planning this new program need your recommendations about the good, the bad and the ugly – not just lawyers, but mediators and other service providers like psychologists and counsellors. 

Here’s the survey. Please fill it in if you have relevant information and do what you can to circulate it to other men.

Survey for Men Navigating High-Conflict Family Law

Are you a father who has faced separation, false intervention orders (IVOs, and AVOs) and related criminal charges, or parental alienation? We need your insights!

This survey is designed to understand the challenges you’ve faced in selecting and working with legal and related service providers. We’re particularly interested in your recommendations for providers who are father-friendly, highly experienced, and passionate about supporting men to achieve just outcomes.

Your feedback will help us tailor resources and support systems that effectively meet the needs of men navigating high-conflict family law situations.

Take the survey today and make a difference for fathers like you.

Survey Link – https://3gme2twa92q.typeform.com/to/xleQiPeB

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 10:58 am

Tinta, our aim is to turn most women into Bitter, Lonely, Old Cat Ladies.
We do this by shrugging our shoulders, going to the pub, pig shooting or going fishing with our mates.
It seems to be working. There is a growing surplus of BLO Cat Ladies.
Revenge is sweet – sometimes a bit fishy – and other times the hangovers are a bit much, but so what?
🙂

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 10:59 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

I forgot. The washing doesn’t get done as often, but that’s a sacrifice we’re prepared to make.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2024 2:28 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Not your favourite pair of underdaks shirley.

caveman
caveman
August 22, 2024 1:18 pm

Remember when you bought something at Myer they would ask at the register if I would like to give a donation to some women’s thing . I asked do they have one for men…blank stare ..crickets.
I’m going to chop a tree down now because I can.

Arky
August 22, 2024 10:46 am

RFK to endorse Trump?
Queue mainstream media to kill the Camelot myth with a shovel and take a shit on it’s still warm corpse.
The same myth they kept alive for decades, and creamed themselves over with countless “documentaries” and carefully laid cultural touchstones.
Maybe poor old Mary Jo Kopechne’s ghost will get some attention.

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 11:02 am
Reply to  Arky

RDS.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
August 22, 2024 3:24 pm
Reply to  Arky

I always remember National Lampoon’s cartoon send up of Ted Kennedy. You have Ted speaking and in walks Mary Jo’s corpse. ‘The delegate from Chappaquiddick’.

Indolent
Indolent
August 22, 2024 10:47 am
calli
calli
August 22, 2024 11:24 am
Reply to  Indolent

Well, they did want us to eat the bugs.

And like them.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2024 11:57 am
Reply to  Indolent

After careful investigation, the FBI discovered that the maggots were sitting at the table, not wriggling on the plates.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 11:33 am
Reply to  Indolent

Pretty amazing that Kamala et al are so far to the left that the actual leader of the US Green Party thinks they’re bonkers.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2024 11:23 am
Reply to  Indolent

An excellent policy. Can we do it here too, for other ‘key’ industries?

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 12:02 pm
Reply to  Indolent

We should be enraged that an Allied nation has treated its soldiers like this.
https://x.com/i/status/1826342954341920881

Indolent
Indolent
August 22, 2024 10:55 am
calli
calli
August 22, 2024 11:27 am
Reply to  Indolent

He not only got 14 million votes this year, but 80 million in 2020!

It’s just amazing that they dumped this healthy, articulate winner who was healthy and articulate right up until late June and is still in the Oval Office (when he’s not sunbathing).

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 11:30 am
Reply to  Indolent

I don’t think a staffer wrote that! 😀

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 22, 2024 10:56 am

I saw an article this morning about Der Shtermer having his own SS accompanied by a beautifully drawn wordless picture of an imam in headdress and robes of blue holding a leash on the end of which was a uniformed Pommy policeman – hence words are superfluous. Can’t find it now

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Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 22, 2024 11:01 am

And I certainly shows the mindset of those from Massachusetts who returned to the US Congress that manslaughtering creep for 50 years

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Miltonf
Miltonf
August 22, 2024 12:18 pm

Yes it’s mind-blowing Tinta. What an effed place

shatterzzz
August 22, 2024 11:07 am

Peeked in the mirror this morning and can, actually, see the “lip” showing signs of improvement .. Still about half infected and the other half re-building so very, very sore between the competing pair (bottom lip & mouth both still unaffected) …….. BUT … managed my 1st hot drink (coffee) in 12 dayz .. tasted wonderful ……. LOL!
Maybe, just maybe I’ll pass muster come next Tuesday (pre-admission) for my Cancer/Prostate surgery Wednesday ….. lotza bits & pieces crossed ..

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 22, 2024 11:16 am
Reply to  shatterzzz

Good news shatterzzz – may it continue so

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2024 11:21 am
Reply to  shatterzzz

Once mouth healing starts, Shatterzz, as I said two days ago in a reply citing my experience, then it really gets a move on. If I was you I’d see a doc re keeping on antibiotics during your forthcoming procedure. I am probably going to have my busted coccyx removed when I return to Australia from Britain (via India) in January 2025. Will make do with another spinal steroid injection till then. They always do the coccyx removal op under an ‘antibiotic cover’.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 12:09 pm

It used to be de rigeur to have Metronidazole cover for just about any op below the navel. But even though my Tropical Ulcer warranted oral cover, – IMHO – it wasn’t given.
Has it been discontinued as a policy, any Docs know?

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 12:04 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

You don’t have a straw, Shatterzzz?

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
August 22, 2024 11:13 am

Peter Gravy (from Caaaannnnbraaaaa) and many others too ridiculous to mention.”

Peter Harvey was okay, Rabz. After all he did call Rob Oakeshott, “that Dingbat independent”.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 22, 2024 11:17 am

Should be interesting. Via Gateway Pundit.
PBD on his Podcast (the Candace one) said getting an endorsement from JFK Jr would be bigger and more beneficial that getting endorsed by Joe Rogan.

“Breaking Update: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Will Address Nation From Phoenix, Arizona on Friday – Where Trump Is Set to Hold a Rally”.

JFK Jr speaking two hours before Trump so presumably then could have him on stage with Trump. Smart move by both sides if it happens.

It certainly seems that the Democrats upset JFK Jr over their tactics against him.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 11:25 am

DNC Chicago: FBI reportedly investigating maggots found in food at breakfast for delegates

Hehe, from your link:

Multiple law enforcement sources told WGN that it appears the maggots were brought into the hotel by activists seeking to send a message.

There seems to be a sort of existential religious war going on at the DNC over food.

Where’s The Beef? DNC Asks Food Vendors To ‘Prioritize Lower-Emission Meats’ (20 Aug)

The DNC’s sustainability guidance for food vendors serving customers at the convention in Chicago suggests that they should “offer low-emission menu choices,” including plant-based options, and “prioritize” chicken where possible because of its lower carbon intensity.

That doesn’t seem to be going down well with the delegates though.

‘Feasting’ like royalty, Chicago DNC held in fortified castle walled off from reality: former chief (21 Aug)

“I find the whole DNC convention here as an example of the elitism of the Democratic Party.” he said. “The politicians are inside a heavily fortified building, almost like a castle. They’re feasting on the best of food and liquor while protected by hundreds of armed police officers and two separate fences.”

Probably aren’t feasting on bugs I suspect, not even climate friendly maggots.

Arky
August 22, 2024 11:30 am

Eat the bugs and be happy Democrats.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2024 2:34 pm

Maggots like open sores.

Diogenes
Diogenes
August 22, 2024 11:36 am

Journalists who took packages are mostly industry veterans working on Nine’s five mastheads: The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and digital-only titles WAtoday and the Brisbane Times.

Rats fleeing the sinking ship…

Are these the selfsame journalists who went on strike at the start of the Olympics.

m0nty
m0nty
August 22, 2024 11:37 am

There are a dozen or so on this site who are responsible for the moron remaining here because they feed his ego, they bolster his standing by responding and they give him air time, over and over and over on every page of every post…. even when he isn’t posting, people feel some sort of unexplained impulse to make a statement that he hasn’t posted… pure gold to him…

Dunno about gold, Digger. I could do without being called a f***** or a Nazi, or my family being brought into it.

Despite the personal abuse, I come back here mainly because it’s a five-minute argument, and the Pythons were right all those years ago that there is a demand for that service.

You lot don’t realise how radical you have become, and I am here as the last true conservative on the site (with the possible exception of John H) to remind you that you are not normal. The basis of the Lost Cause – the founding principle of the Cat – is that it is always going to lose.

You hate me for highlighting that fundamental truth. Fair enough. You’d rather wallow in ignorance inside your epistemic safe space. Thankfully, another defining characteristic of the Cat has always been that all of you are just spectators and dilettantes, not protagonists, so I don’t have to worry about my house getting firebombed. Australia is not that sort of place generally, and the Cat is still only performative despite the incendiary rhetoric.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 11:46 am
Reply to  m0nty

You lot don’t realise how radical you have become, and I am here as the last true conservative on the site

ROFL. You are now so far to the left, Monty, that you cannot even see the centre in the far distance.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2024 12:03 pm

You lot don’t realise how radical you have become, and I am here as the last true conservative on the site

LOL, the former radical is now part of the reactionary establishment, and proud of it.

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2024 11:56 am
Reply to  m0nty

Piss off, Nazi.

Arky
August 22, 2024 12:05 pm
Reply to  m0nty

One day the story of man’s long quest for something soft and pliable with which to wipe his arse will be told.
Monty, I feel you are the man to tell that story.

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Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 12:08 pm
Reply to  m0nty

Monty, monty, monty. Your devotion to the public good is overwhelming.
Playing a leftist NPC must be exhausting! Years waiting for Muellerween, for instance. Pretending to be down with mass rape, kidnapping and mass murder of Jews must have made your skin crawl.

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2024 1:16 pm
Reply to  Chris

You lot don’t realise how radical you have become

Says the Nazi.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 2:56 pm
Reply to  m0nty

mUnty, our last true Scotsman. Thank goodness.

This blog is off the pace.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2024 5:26 pm
Reply to  m0nty

I don’t hate you, you are not worthy of such a fierce emotion. I just have contempt for you as the pathetic individual that you are.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 22, 2024 11:37 am

I’ve heard this song a gazilion times, but never seen this clip.

—-

The Rolling Stones – Waiting On A Friend – OFFICIAL PROMO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKLVmBOOqVU

Vicki
Vicki
August 22, 2024 11:50 am

I miss Cory Bernardi in daily political life. In his latest newsletter, he speaks what I think so many of us feel:

Although the lucky country was built ‘riding on the sheep’s back’, in more recent times it’s been propped up by the mining industry. 
Without our mining entrepreneurs and their extraction of raw materials, Australia would be broke. Iron ore, coal and gas have been propping up the economy for decades while battling political and societal headwinds.

The blowhards who fight tooth and nail against mining projects or our use of the bounties of the earth are destroying the country. 
They are the reason we can’t use coal for cheap and reliable electricity. They are the reason we pay more for gas than the countries we export to. They are the reason that we rarely value add to our raw commodities and are being reduced to a global quarry. 

The opposition is ideological.
?
Some claim to loathe mining on environmental grounds while others pretend to be saving the planet. There are yet other groups using black mythology to stop development.
The government has just used that final excuse to shut down a gold mining project that has previously had State and Federal government approval. 

The Minister responsible, Tanya Plibersek – a hard left operative, used ‘cultural heritage’ as an excuse to make the new $1 billion project unviable.
McPhillamys Gold Project CEO Jim Beyer said:

this decision does impact a critical area of the Project development site and means the Project is not viable.”

It’s estimated that over 500 new, full-time jobs and approximately $200 million in royalty revenue will now be lost. 
For her part, Plibersek claims the mine can go ahead, just not where it was previously approved. This is a result of contested Indigenous heritage claims. 

The key word here is contested because the Minister chose to ignore the views of the recognised local Aboriginal corporation who are recognised as the traditional owners. They did not object to the project. 

The Liberal Party spokesman Jonno Duniam said:

“After ticking every environmental approval box possible and with mines already taking up to sixteen years to get approved, the decision is further proof that the Labor Government will go to any length to stop developments, all in the name of harvesting Greens votes in inner-city electorates.” 

And that neatly sums up what Australia has now been reduced to.
Businesses can invest millions of dollars and many years of time to get projects shovel ready only for them to be shut down at the stroke of a pen by some desperate politician.
Little wonder many deem doing business in this country is now too hard.

I know private enterprises who have said there’s no more intended business investment for them in Australia. They are investing their capital where it is more welcome – that includes nations where governments have previously deemed erratic.
Contrary to popular belief, there’s nothing that special about Australia. 
We have natural resources but so do plenty of other places. It’s just in the past we’ve had a welcoming environment in which to do business.
That’s no longer the case and when the mining investment dries up, so too will one of the final pillars propping up our economy. 

shatterzzz
August 22, 2024 12:25 pm
Reply to  Vicki

I miss Cory Bernardi in daily political life.

Just another political grifter who sat around until is retirement rort reached maximum payout figure and jumped ship ..
His, political opinion is worth about as much as mine regardless of getting published cos .. don’t you know who I am ..! FO, Cory …..!

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 2:59 pm
Reply to  Vicki

I miss Cory Bernardi in daily political life

That makes one of us.

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2024 11:51 am

Just further to King Chuck’s visit to Southport, my understanding is that in the event of a national disaster/tragedy the Royals traditionally wait a few days, particularly so as to not distract from the work of police and emergency workers. Royal visits can be a distraction. And after Southport there were riots hence the delay in a royal visit.

I remember Dunblane in 1996. In the aftermath of the tragedy at Dunblane both the Queen and Princess Royal visited the town to offer solace and to comfort the bereaved families. The Queen was seen to shed a tear and she prayed in the cathedral.

People often mention Aberfan, and too many people know very little. So called contemporary ‘experts’ base their adolescent knowledge that has been gleaned from watching the shallow fiction that is Netflix’s ‘The Crown’. Whilst the Queen did not visit Aberfan in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, other royals did visit. People forget, sometimes conveniently because it suits an ideological narrative and sometimes because people’s memories are conveniently short. Aberfan happened on Friday 21 October 1966. By the morning of Saturday 22 October 1966, 111 bodies had been recovered, of which 51 had been identified. At daybreak on that Saturday, the Queen’s brother-in-law Lord Snowdon, who was a Welshman, visited and spoke with workers and parents, and then at 11:00 am on Saturday 22 October, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, visited Aberfan and talked to rescue workers. 

Anyway, back to Southport and King Chuck’s visit. The UK is a badly fractured kingdom now, perhaps this fracture will be permanent, perhaps not however it will most certainly remain fractured over the five years under Da Fuhrer Sturmer the Great Socialist. But seeing King Chuck visit Southport and seeing him walk and talk to the men and women of the town, and hear those men and women cheer King Chuck, something the great Socialist Fuhrer Sturmer refused to do, instead fleeing in panic, something inside me told me that whilst there is great darkness enveloping the UK at the moment, there is also some light peeping through that darkness, and we need to hold on to that light and make sure we never let it go.

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Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
August 22, 2024 11:55 am

The DNC convention reminds me of the snake pit scene from Raiders of The Lost Ark.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 12:34 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

It reminds me of the time I threw up in the gutter outside 1066 wine bar at Collaroy, after eating a family sized pizza, 6 Schooners, and a couple of bottles of red wine.
And I will be just as relieved when it’s over as I was then.

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 22, 2024 12:00 pm

Dunno about gold, Digger. I could do without being called a f***** or a Nazi

Except that’s what you are and have demonstrated with your own words.
Your recent work with the women’s rally confirms what an idiot you are.
Legitimate grievances which excuses the Jew hatred you possess.
Spare me the tears arsehole.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2024 1:13 pm
Reply to  Black Ball

Don’t want to be told to fvck off, or be called a Nazi, don’t come here. You won’t be missed, neither will your galactic scale stupidity.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 22, 2024 12:03 pm

The Rolling Stones – Waiting On A Friend from above.

2:09

That is the sax player from Men At Work?

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 12:09 pm

Darn…it slipped back behind the paywall:

Financial Review’s North American correspondent Matthew Cranston went outside the wire in Chicago to report from poor black communities where there is a lot of discontent about illegal migrants taking jobs & housing from locals and they blame Harris for it.

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2024 12:10 pm

Dunno about gold, Digger. I could do without being called a f***** or a Nazi, or my family being brought into it.

You are joking. My God, the chutzpah from the Nazi.

I remember how the writer of the above words laughed at Tony Abbott being headbutted, laughed when Andrew Bolt was attacked from behind, laughed at Steve Scalise being gunned down, laughed when Rand Paul was attacked by a neighbour, laughed at endless physical attacks on conservatives, called Cardinal Pell a ‘rock spider’, and even after the HC verdict he adolescently refused to withdraw that description.

I could go on. But last year he surpassed himself, when women were attacked for the crime of believing that a cock in a frock is no woman, when a woman was nearly lynched in an Auckland Park, he called us “Nazis’, and he not only laughed, he also supported and justified the violence.

He supports violence against his ideological opponents. He has zero credibility. He is a disgrace.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 12:20 pm

His hypocrisy is nauseating.

m0nty
m0nty
August 22, 2024 12:41 pm

Every single one of those accusations is a lie, Cranky. Your tedious repetition of those lies does not make them true.

I support rejection of fascism. Kellie-Ann Keen, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and your other fascist mates deserve the protection of the police as citizens like everyone else, but they are the ones inciting hatred so they should not be shocked or play the victim when violence follows.

When you tell a minority that they should not exist, in an effort to lobby the government to oppress that minority out of existence, you are inciting violence.

I have little sympathy for bomb throwers, particularly if they squeal when hit by their own shrapnel.

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2024 12:49 pm
Reply to  m0nty

Every single thing I wrote above about you is true. You’re a proponent of violence against those whose opinions you don’t like.

Neither Kellie-Jay Keen or Tommy Robinson is a fascist. But I tell you who is a fascist….that’s you.

Now piss off, Nazi. Go play with your Hamas mates, I hear there’s quite a few in Melbourne.

Only the other day you were laughing and justifying water bombs being thrown at women whose opinions you don’t like.

You are an effing disgrace.

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2024 1:18 pm
Reply to  m0nty

When you tell a minority that they should not exist, in an effort to lobby the government to oppress that minority out of existence, you are inciting violence.

Thanks to finally admitting you’ve been inciting violence on this site for years now. Good to see you face up to your truth.

m0nty
m0nty
August 22, 2024 3:11 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Point to where on the doll that I oppressed you, Lysander.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2024 3:55 pm
Reply to  m0nty

No-one is telling tranies they should not exist, M0nty, which seems to be your claim, but we do object to them proselizing in schools and children’s libraries and in other ways insisting on getting into the general public’s face, including with their pronoun nonsense and alterations of birth certificatesd and invading maternity wards as ‘pretend’ men, and as born men insisting on using other female-only spaces. Some of their one-hundred-gender claims are on the edge of mental illness and they should be helped to analyse why they feel as they do, not encouraged. Genuine transgender individuals can live in a free society as they wish, using unisex or disabled facillites. Some may pity them but noone wishes them ill.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2024 3:56 pm

sp prozelytizing

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 22, 2024 1:22 pm

Disgrace is an understatement

Arky
August 22, 2024 12:14 pm

Australia is not that sort of place generally, and the Cat is still only performative despite the incendiary rhetoric.

I wouldn’t count on that the Australia of the last few brief decades with which you are familiar will continue indefinitely.
You have to realise how, historically, such conditions are rare and hard fought for.

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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2024 4:02 pm
Reply to  Arky

Some things that are hard won will also in the end be very hard fought to retain, M0nty. Fought for in non-violent ways on our side of the fence, but if pressed there could be return violence too. The left is quickly losing all intelligent people as they’re moving to the centre-right. We will progress conservatism in the next ten years, and this place acts as a beacon for that.

Arky
August 22, 2024 12:35 pm

I have long said that the best thing you can do for your children and grand children is to get them out of state education.
Far too many take little interest in what goes on in schools and will consequently pay the price in losing their children to the woke mind virus or at a minimum suffer from falling academic standards and behaviour.
You must work assiduously to inure and inoculate them from the fashionable ideology of the day.

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m0nty
m0nty
August 22, 2024 12:47 pm
Reply to  Arky

Are you a dad, Arky?

Arky
August 22, 2024 12:48 pm
Reply to  m0nty

Why?
Outline your premise without including my family.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2024 1:16 pm
Reply to  Arky

He whined about mentions of his family, but is happy to involve yours.

m0nty
m0nty
August 22, 2024 3:14 pm
Reply to  Arky

I was just curious as to how your de-inoculation efforts went. I mean, if that’s what you believe, and I reckon you are a capable and resourceful man, you must have had great success at inculcating your children into your ideology.

Arky
August 22, 2024 3:21 pm
Reply to  m0nty

No.
Wrong.
I inculcate my child with a diligence and curiosity and insist she must make her own mind up, including about religion.
She is entirely capable of working things out for herself, and we work at making her more disagreeable, as being a female she is a natural follower.
We had a week during the last holidays where the rule was she had to say “No”! to something I suggested every day, and stick to her decision no matter what ruses I used to try to change her mind.
She is trained in being independent, aware of her surroundings and resistant to coercion.
She is also capable of kicking a regular, standing adult in the head and punching her 6’1” trainer hard enough to make him wince.

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DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 22, 2024 3:54 pm
Reply to  Arky

Good on her!

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
August 22, 2024 3:17 pm
Reply to  Arky

Unfortunately in Qld (and I assume in other states as well) the state government sets guidelines for the curriculum of all schools. So you can’t escape all of the wokeness.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 12:40 pm

https://www.facebook.com/senatorbabet

MEDIA RELEASE – SENATE REJECTS COVID-19 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet has expressed his disappointment following the Senate’s decision to vote down his bill to establish a Covid-19 Commission of Inquiry (10 ayes-26 noes).

“The Senate has overwhelmingly voted to protect Covid era secrets, to protect incompetence and protect those who inflicted human rights abuses on their fellow citizens,” Senator Babet said.

More at the link….

billie
billie
August 22, 2024 12:49 pm

Ayers Rock, stopping people climbing it, stopping people climbing Mt Warning and stopping mines and other such projects, is nothing more than spite.

Spite and bitterness.

Spite, bitterness and envy. (are their 3 main weapons)

It is such a surprise to them that things like the Voice didn’t get up and there is an utter dislike of the welcome to country bullshyte.

They treat us with complete disdain and wonder why it is returned in spades.

We didn’t get to the top of the food chain boys and girls, by surrendering at every opportunity.

When will they wake up to themselves?

(A rhetorical question, one that requires no answer)

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 12:54 pm

Final coat on the doors an hour ago.
Went back to the garage to make sure the paint was flowing OK and it had a smooth glass like finish.
Except for the 23 flies that had landed on the wet paint and died.

I’m closing the garage, and going back to Top Enders book.

Arky
August 22, 2024 1:04 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

No one else will notice the flies after it dries and you buff it back.
Only you, because you know they are there.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 3:06 pm
Reply to  Arky

…and that’s enough to redo it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2024 12:54 pm

Nurse Betty at 5:42 a.m.

Self control starts with SELF

Also Nurse Betty at 7:33 a.m.

We’re gonna need more helicopters.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
August 22, 2024 1:04 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Sancho @ 12.54pm posts a non-sequitur.

Arky
August 22, 2024 1:14 pm

Playing into Monty and the far- left’s claims that it is the right who are the violent ones.
Despite the fact that historically and currently it is the left who are the violent revolutionaries.
Might want to front up to oppose one of these leftist street marches and see how peaceable they really are.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 3:12 pm
Reply to  Arky

Arky, even if the Right were to be completely non violent, even in our rhetoric, the Left will still label us as violent.
Making doormats of ourselves is how we got to this point.
Besides which, it’s just Sancho, NewCats comedian-at-large.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2024 1:11 pm

Farmer Gez
 August 22, 2024 8:16 am

Michael Gawenda would be far more convincing had he not been an exponent of the opinion/agenda sins he sees in current journalists. We have a long memory.

Quite so.
You get the feeling – based on his long lefty history – that he only objects to doxxing when he is on the list.
If someone was circulating the personal details of “far right” types, he would tut-tut mildly but then pontificate that “perhaps there is a place for innovative and agile activism”.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2024 1:13 pm

Except for the 23 flies that had landed on the wet paint and died.

Scarecrows for flies.

And don’t farmers hang the mutilated bodies of foxes on fences to scare off other foxes?

Just like we should do with people who don’t tap their opal cards on the bus.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 1:54 pm
Reply to  Mother Lode

There’re no flies at the Cafe.
Nor mosquitoes, or spiders
My noisy miners eat them all.
Saves on bug spray.

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2024 1:24 pm

Mmmmmmm tasty…

Imagine Trump wins and appoints RFK Secretary of Health LOL!!!

We would “get so sick of winning” 😛

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 1:26 pm
Reply to  Lysander

That’s a promise I want to see fulfilled.

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2024 1:27 pm

This story ebbs and flows each year, but an interesting turn:

Scientists Make Breakthrough Discovery After Analyzing Cloth ‘Jesus Was Buried In’ (breitbart.com)

Using a new technique involving wide-angle X-rays, the Italian researchers at the Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council concluded that the material used to make the cloth was manufactured around the time Jesus walked the Earth – about 2,000 years ago.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 2:00 pm
Reply to  Lysander

The AI 3D reconstruction is interesting also.

‘Face of Jesus’ unveiled by AI using Shroud of Turin after astonishing discovery (21 Aug)

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 3:21 pm

Staggering implications for Christianity and our society.

johnjjj
johnjjj
August 22, 2024 1:28 pm

Like many other Jewish journalists, Gawenda had been hoping the alligator he has been riding throughout his career would eat him last.\
Yep I read the article wonder why he just doesn’t fight. Thank God for the non whining Israelis. Even there, every time they have made a concession the Muz have destroyed it or taken advantage. The Temple Mount, Gaza, Sinai. My Yankee friends (Jews) are all weak kneed, anti-Trump, what about the children of Gaza….types. Exodus is history. The Muz only respect battle. The Koran is full of it and they grow up on it.

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Morsie
Morsie
August 22, 2024 3:44 pm
Reply to  johnjjj

He even says that the journey whi lraked shouldn’t be sacked.Why the hell not?

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2024 1:34 pm

An hour-long video from the Hoover Institution worth watching:

Beyond Evolution: Unraveling the Origins of Life with Stephen Meyer and James Tour | UK (youtube.com)

Two of the world’s most eminent evolutionary biologists say we know less about evolution now than we did 50 years ago (since we’ve only discovered that cells are far more complex every time we look closer), Darwin was wrong and nobody, despite all the fanciest gadgets in the world, have been able to create a single living cell in a laboratory by mimicking the early Earth.

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 1:49 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Yep.
The malignant atheists of the noughties are less so now, though the modern woke are even more malignant.
Prof Plimer lost his house in lawfare against the creationists.

But Bishop Usher has not been vindicated, and Creation Science still isn’t.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2024 1:37 pm

DNC Chicago: FBI reportedly investigating maggots found in food at breakfast for delegates

“The FBI outside looked from maggotts to delegates, and from delegates to maggotts, and from maggotts to delegates again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Apologies to Orwell.
?

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 1:49 pm

My X respionse was that the FBI didn’t deal with maggots among their bosses.

cohenite
August 22, 2024 1:42 pm

That black bastard, obama’s hubbie, vents about Trump being a racist and hating black sheilas. Trump did more for black employment, of both sexes then any POTUS, ever.

I reckon obama’s hubbie runs the demorats, along with shrillary. And by run I mean they accumulate personal wealth and power while allowing their ratbags to run riot in the streets destroying the US society for average folk. They are truly evil people.

Michelle Obama, Who Makes $750K Per Speech, Attacks Rich Who Take “More than they needed.” | Frontpage Mag

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Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2024 1:42 pm

This story ebbs and flows each year, but an interesting turn

There do seem to be divine fingerprints in the fact that the shroud hovers so persistently between scientifically proven and scientifically disproven – such that whenever they think they have finally pinned it down one way or the other it suddenly appears the opposite.

It is as if to say “Science will not help you understand this. Have faith. Or not.”

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calli
calli
August 22, 2024 2:28 pm
Reply to  Mother Lode

I really like that idea, ML. Just as your fingers appear to close on something concrete, it vanishes. I’m reminded of John 20:17.

cohenite
August 22, 2024 1:51 pm

These are the LNP filth who voted against Senator Babet’s motion to restrict live birth abortion:

Those opposing Babet’s motion included Coalition senators Simon Birmingham, Andrew Bragg, Jane Hume and Maria Kovacic.

Why the fuk are these creeps still in the LNP?

They sided with this gangrenous slut:

(17) Dr Joanna Howe on X: “Appalling conduct from @sarahinthesen8 MOCKING Senator Ralph Babet as he speaks of the suffering of Australian newborns left to die on metal kidney dishes. https://t.co/0Vj8DSGAQL” / X

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 2:31 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Yes. And they have the bland faced Hume commenting on Sky. Last night Murray called her “mate”.

I’m more tempted to kick her butt. As for Birmingham, he isn’t worthy of soiling my shoe leather. Kovacic whined about Antic placed above her on the Senate ticket. Good.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 3:04 pm
Reply to  cohenite

The usual suspects. Fvck Howard’s broad church.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 3:29 pm
Reply to  cohenite

I cannot imagine what is going through the mind of the nurses and doctors who stand by and watch this barbarity.
The inhumane who staffed the Gulags and Extermination Camps and their descendants still walk among us, looking for the chance to perform their sickening acts.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
August 22, 2024 4:26 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

If they can stand by and watch this, then that explains the covid scamdemic.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2024 1:59 pm

Michelle Obama, Who Makes $750K Per Speech, Attacks Rich Who Take “More than they needed.”

There is no contradiction here. The people the colossal food-Hoover is calling out are the ones who earn their millions by supplying desired products to millions. It is all so squalid in the blubber-magnet’s eyes because it involves the whims of the great unwashed.

The grotesque scowling ogre believes in money being hosed onto the bulging hides of a political inner-circle. Like her.

Which I don’t.

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Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2024 2:01 pm

Some people think Barack Obama must be gay.

I don’t.

I reckon she’s straight.

cohenite
August 22, 2024 2:06 pm
johanna
johanna
August 22, 2024 3:24 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Oh, please.

Stop making it easy to discredit non leftists with your weird sexual fantasies.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 22, 2024 2:10 pm

“Appalling conduct from @sarahinthesen8 MOCKING Senator Ralph Babet as he speaks of the suffering of Australian newborns left to die on metal kidney dishes.

Well, it is not like humans are a colony of Purple-Bellied Twig-Frotting Tree Frogs, or the Fabulously Burlesque Fag-Butterfly.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 2:26 pm
Reply to  Mother Lode

comment image

Lesser spotted newt in its natural habitat.

Kneel
Kneel
August 22, 2024 2:28 pm

“There is no contradiction here. The people the colossal food-Hoover is calling out are the ones who earn their millions by supplying desired products to millions. It is all so squalid in the blubber-magnet’s eyes because it involves the whims of the great unwashed.”

Look, it’s perfectly simple – if only the elite get stuff, there is very little environmental damage and plenty to go around for anyone who can afford it.
Everyone gets rich and no-one is really poor – well, no-one worth speaking about anyway.
If the plebs get lots of toys, we’ll wreck the joint with global warmening and pollushun ‘n’ stuff, and my skiing holiday will be ruined! And who’s going to compensate me for not being able to use this years ski gear? I certainly can’t use it next year…

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 2:36 pm

Please ban Bruce of Newcastle, Dover.

That’s a one strike and you’re out misdemeanour.

We are fortunate the page didn’t self immolate in shock.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 2:44 pm
Reply to  calli

😀

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 22, 2024 4:06 pm
Reply to  calli

Please cite the full post you are complaining about. We don’t know what you’re referencing, and it sounds fun.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 4:17 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

Two doors up.

I’m fairly sure, anyway.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 5:25 pm
Reply to  calli

Eh?

Context is everything, people.

Muddy
Muddy
August 22, 2024 2:48 pm

Covidiocy Update.
As bitter as I am feeling, I will give credit where it is due: I have received email responses from both my state M.P. (Liberal) and the office of the Qld Leader of the Opposition, David Crisafulli (Liberal).

My local M.P. has offered to direct my complaint to the Minister for Health (which I’ve done anyway – no response yet); and my email to Crisafulli has been shown to some advisor, though with no promise of any action to be taken.

I’ve been advised by my formerly-a-union-until-Labor-became-upset-about-competition that since I’m now being hunted by debt collector goons (paid for by your taxes), it is no longer a question of industrial law, so I’m on my own. The political option is a last ditch stand – ridiculously ambitious, given I don’t fall into any ‘special victim’ category.

Like sands through the hourglass of time, these are the post-Covautocracy days of our lives.

Zatara
Zatara
August 22, 2024 3:15 pm
Reply to  Muddy

Special victimhood or lack thereof is often determined by a mere check in a box on a form these days. It may not be something you aspire to but it can be an easy fix.

Just flip through the special victim catalogue and pick one that strikes your fancy, or your sense of the ridiculous.

johanna
johanna
August 22, 2024 3:28 pm
Reply to  Muddy

Hang in there. Keep us up to date.

Who needs the Mafia or bikie gangs when the gubbmint comes after you?

Arseholes.

shatterzzz
August 22, 2024 2:49 pm

Simple questions for Dudzy to ask Luigi regarding Gaza/Hamas “visitors” ..
If there is no Oz consular presence in Gaza who and how do you apply for a “visitors visa …?
How do you apply for an Oz visa of any sort without full ID given that no civilians would dare move around Gaza without approved Hamas ID ..
So many, obvious questions NOT being asked …… FFS!

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GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2024 2:55 pm

On the way for my procedure this morning the trolley guy was a pom. I remarked about the state of affairs in England. What do you mean? The muzzies getting a free ride while people are being arrested for saying mean truthful things about them. He responds with, this is the new world, we have to get along. I say, so when the reevers come are you going to submit to allah or die? Silence. This guy was the spitting image of Tommy Robinson with the intellect of a dog turd.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 2:56 pm

Imagine if Catholics had demanded space for mass at a Muslim institution. They’d be laughed out of the place, or worse. These demands never, ever go both ways. They’re designed to establish and reinforce the supremacy of Islam.
India: Muslims demand space for Muslim prayers at Catholic college, enraged when they’re refused

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2024 3:33 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Muzzies complain my farts stink more tha theirs. Perennial whingers for being the most useless garbage on earth.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 3:34 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Apologies, I meant to put the first paragraph in quotes but forgot.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2024 3:36 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Mooslimes are always enraged. Only the daily cause of the rage changes.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 2:59 pm

Australia: Muslim cleric says Muslims should be forbidden from participating in democracy

He also says, “I don’t believe any part of my faith is radical.”

Indeed. What Abu Ousayd is saying about voting and divine law, or what Muslims believe to be divine law, versus human law is standard Islam. It is not “extremist.” Imagine how embarrassed Australian officials will be once they find that out. By then, however, it will likely be too late.

johnjjj
johnjjj
August 22, 2024 3:18 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Imagine how embarrassed Australian officials
They will be the first to convert en masse.
The sequence is: young women shack up with young Muz at Uni, young gormless men are attracted to the Muz (starting with the weirdos), academics convert for their careers, more Muz politicians get voted in on ‘humanitarian’ issues, THEN the avalanche of admin officials ( bureaucrats) convert.

Black Ball
Black Ball
August 22, 2024 3:06 pm

What procedure are you in for GreyRanga?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2024 3:40 pm
Reply to  Black Ball

Exploratory heart problem. Worse than seen by scans even though I always tell them I don’t scan well. Triple bypass on Tuesday. Not allowed out of hospital. I reckon I’m lucky, the guy next to me has to have calcium drilled out of the arteries all over his heart. They don’t know why he is still alive. He has to have several goes at it. Not really a lot of chance.

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Rosie
Rosie
August 22, 2024 3:15 pm

‘The dumb in the last sentence, it burns.’
why?
I’m sick of blog policemen telling others who they should respond to.
There is lots of crap posted here, adults can respond, or scroll on by.
I think there’s a lot to be said for formulating responds to Monty’s talking points and I appreciate the efforts of those who do.
I’m free speech, as long as it’s legal, respond or move on.
Just like Twitter.
Now I’ll leave the scolds to their scolding and resume scrolling that too.

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 3:40 pm
Reply to  Rosie

I was even shown a scold’s bridle too! Try putting one on me and I’ll headbutt the putter onnerer’s goolies.

See? The thing can be weaponised! 😀

Enjoy Ireland – the travelogues have been fun.

alwaysright
alwaysright
August 22, 2024 3:49 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Shrew you.

Kneel
Kneel
August 22, 2024 4:20 pm
Reply to  Rosie

For myself, when I reply to he-that-shall-not-be-named, it’s not for HIM, it’s for others – perhaps newbies who are glancing through. He won’t change, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be called out.

Arky
August 22, 2024 3:18 pm

Before the plandemic, a litre of engine oil at the servo could be got for $12 to $18 depending on quality.
Oil the commodity was $60 to $70 a barrel.
Oil as a commodity is still around $70.
A litre pack of engine oil cannot be had for under $20.
So roughly, 80 to 100% increase. Or 20% per year.
Or about 12% per annum compounding for five years.
Inflation maxed out at 9%?
Bullshit.

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Titus Groates
Titus Groates
August 22, 2024 3:18 pm

Anyone who scrolls down the national news section of the Australian’s online app will see an article about KFC featuring a KFC chicken bucket. Underneath is an article about USyd featuring a pic of Vice Chancellor Mark Scott looking uncannily like the late Colonel Harland Sanders. Weird.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 3:25 pm
Reply to  Titus Groates

I’ve always associated Mark Scott with turkeys.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 3:23 pm

ALPBC MD pulls the pin one year into 2nd 5 year stint. Maybe Kim Williams is going to put a bomb under the place. About time, if so. The last person who even tried was Sheir.

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2024 3:40 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Provoke the “stars” into walking out, then renegotiate their return at lower remuneration packages.

They are so obsessed with bestowing their “wisdom” on us that some would accept the cut as long as they get their time on air.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 4:52 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Certainly the “stars” need taking down a rung or two. Interestingly both Leigh Sales and Emma Alberichi have both disappeared, they would say by choice, I’m not so sure. The ALPBC has been mining its goodwill for years. People defending it have some sepia coloured, 1950s view of Alan McGillvray Ashes commentary not the post 1970s TDT Marxists and the ones who have come after them. The ABC has not advanced the broad Australian interest for decades. In my personal view it is beyond reform.

Rabz
August 22, 2024 3:28 pm

the Australian’s online app will see an article about KFC featuring a KFC chicken bucket. Underneath is an article about USyd featuring a pic of Vice Chancellor Mark Scott looking uncannily like the late Colonel Harland Sanders

Looks quite deliberate. Although Scott certainly is a weirdo – not to mention an unflushable turd.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 3:32 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Weird is the zeitgeist.

Morsie
Morsie
August 22, 2024 3:40 pm

Bloody hell Harris is talking about 25% tax on unrealised capital gains.The US is screwed and no doubt the Liars will follow suit

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 3:41 pm

Prohibited from managing by the staff collective that runs the joint, ABC managing director David Anderson has decided to quit a year into his second five-year term.

It won’t make a skerrick of difference to the collective or the ABC’s dwindling TV and radio audiences.

The next lemming will be wheeled out in a few months to pretend to be the managing director, but he might as well stay home in the basement and collect his $900,000 p.a.

Nice work if you can get it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 4:57 pm
Reply to  Tom

ALPBC management is really a chicken and egg problem.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 4:59 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Ask yourself, would you take the MD’s job?

JC
JC
August 22, 2024 3:41 pm

cohenite
August 22, 2024 2:06 pm

Obama’s hubbie is a bloke:
Official Gov’t Docs Expose Michelle Obama’s 14 Year History as a Man

Of course, Michelle is a bloke. The Demon convention video proves it.

Rabz
August 22, 2024 3:43 pm

cackling kamel is squawking about 25% tax on unrealised capital gains

I am so sick of this sh*t – WTF is an “unrealised capital gain” and how can it be taxed?

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Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 4:02 pm
Reply to  Rabz

Unrealised profit…a feature of the US tax system.

They’ll find a way.

And the super-rich will find a way to avoid it.

Plus ça change.

Kneel
Kneel
August 22, 2024 4:26 pm
Reply to  Rabz

“WTF is an “unrealised capital gain” and how can it be taxed?”

You paid $500k for your house. It’s now worth $750k. You owe us 25% of $250k because of your capital gain. Even though you haven’t “realised” it yet by selling the house, you still owe us the tax – pay up, pleb!

MatrixTransform
August 22, 2024 4:36 pm
Reply to  Kneel

and how can it be taxed?

highwayman style … stand and deliver !

dopey
dopey
August 22, 2024 5:00 pm
Reply to  Kneel

What if house goes down in value? Do you get reimbursed?

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2024 5:05 pm
Reply to  dopey

No.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 3:43 pm

Bloody hell Harris is talking about 25% tax on unrealised capital gains.The US is screwed and no doubt the Liars will follow suit

She also wants the US to be more equitable.

That means equality of outcomes, not opportunity.

Frank
Frank
August 22, 2024 3:48 pm

Dunno about gold, Digger. I could do without being called a f***** or a Nazi

You suck just one dick and it’s all they ever talk about.

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2024 3:53 pm

Rosie
 August 22, 2024 3:15 pm

I second that.

Frank
Frank
August 22, 2024 3:57 pm

Of course, Michelle is a bloke. The Demon convention video proves it.

That video of Mooch dancing on the Ellen Degeneres show in the white slacks. Anyone that would be willing to whore themselves out on TV like that should be disqualified from polite society and preferably neutered, just to make sure.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2024 3:57 pm

Its kind of funny, Fitzsimimian and monty love squealing in ecstasy about “look Trump hasnt been endorsed by the swamp” as though is a bad thing.

They completely missed the link between tea party hate for the uniparty and trump as a reaction to that group.

Tip: Yelling “haha the people you hate hate your candidate” isnt the own you think it is.

Peter FitzSimons
@Peter_Fitz

And that is whole point.
Not a single former Republican President, VP, or even major Presidential candidate has endorsed Trump – for obvious reasons. Some actively say “don’t vote for Trump.”
On Democrat side, they’re all there, front & centre, totally behind Harris.
Ya get it??

Also missing the point Harris has a mob of her mob protesting outside, with barely a skerrik of their issues (mong as they are) represented inside.
?

Arky
August 22, 2024 4:15 pm

Ya get it??

Yes, I get it Petey. Your hair fled in terror at the stupidity of the head it was attached to.

Pogria
Pogria
August 22, 2024 4:47 pm
Reply to  Arky

Bazinga!

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 3:58 pm

I just found an excellent quote from All’s Well that Ends Well.

he’s a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no one good quality 

Gee. The Bard is a time traveller. He visited Parliament this week.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
August 22, 2024 4:14 pm
Reply to  calli
Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 4:32 pm
Reply to  calli

They can always go lower…

The senate has voted down Ralph Babet’s bill to provide protections for babies born alive after late term abortions. The bill would have seen palliative care measures applied to such babies. Instead, they’ll be left to die without intervention.

Pogria
Pogria
August 22, 2024 4:50 pm
Reply to  Roger

Depraved Indifference. C**ts.

If you drive by an accident without rendering assistance, you can be charged.

This filth should be charged with Manslaughter.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2024 6:28 pm
Reply to  calli

Human nature never changes

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2024 4:08 pm

Not a single former Republican President, VP, or even major Presidential candidate has endorsed Trump – for obvious reasons

Nikki Haley has, or perhaps FitzSimian doesn’t think Haley, a former Governor, is ‘major’. Like his amphibian other half, FitzSimian just loves dissing on conservative women.

As for George W Bush and Mike Pence, I wouldn’t want to share a podium with W Bush. He’s poison. And Pence? Well, he decided to side with this ideological enemies.

Oh and I note that no major Australian media outlet has offered FitzSimian’s Amphibian a job – for obvious reasons.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2024 5:21 pm

De Santis has come out for Trump. He’s governor of one of America’s most thriving States, and was also a Presidential Candidate.

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2024 4:12 pm

So, it turns out the cryptographer who undertook the study of the Shroud of Turin was an atheist whose main goal was to prove it was bogus.

Atheist who set out to prove the Shroud of Turin was fake reveals why he’s now ‘convinced’ it’s the cloth Jesus was buried in | Daily Mail Online

He said:

‘I started off as an atheist, and then became an agnostic. And I’m now a Christian, because I cannot possibly understand anything else that could have produced that image,’ said Rolfe.

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 5:25 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Faith is from God.
He is blessed, but I dont think one should get too wrapped in the Shroud.
Or the Sandal, or the Gourd.

JC
JC
August 22, 2024 4:12 pm

Roger

August 22, 2024 3:43 pm

Bloody hell Harris is talking about 25% tax on unrealised capital gains.The US is screwed and no doubt the Liars will follow suit

She also wants the US to be more equitable.

That means equality of outcomes, not opportunity.

It would be interesting to see how they derive an unrealized gain for a private company.

Frank
Frank
August 22, 2024 4:35 pm
Reply to  JC

Doesn’t it mean they screw you twice, once when you pay and then again when inflation eats the future profits.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
August 22, 2024 4:39 pm
Reply to  JC

I can see many profitable company’s being split so if they are in unrealised gain positions that they don’t meet the tax threshold. Also if you have own a company in a unrealised gain position can you offset it with a company you own in a unrealised loss position? You could throw up 100’s of questions like this. It will just led to US company’s basing their operations offshore so they never have to be eligible or deal with the complexity or deal with court cases being bought up by the IRS.

Money goes to where it is most loved.

Zatara
Zatara
August 22, 2024 5:19 pm

It would also kill private investment accounts, especially retirement ones. Why bother if the govt is going to take it all anyway? Better to stuff your mattress with the cash.

But it’s not going to happen. It’s political horsehockey, a BS claim used for shock effect to attract socialist voters.

Despite what she suggests, she can’t do it without Congress and Congress is never going to buy it because it would be political suicide.

JC
JC
August 22, 2024 4:19 pm

Not a single former Republican President, VP, or even major Presidential candidate has endorsed Trump – for obvious reasons

Cruz, Rubio, Haley.

Ironic, that no one endorsed the Kamal Toe. She was chosen by the party bosses. Sad as.

Zatara
Zatara
August 22, 2024 5:46 pm
Reply to  JC

No idea how up to date this is but: List of Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign endorsements

Vivek Ramaswamy, Ben Carson, Rick Perry, Ron DeSantis, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal… Kennedy as of Friday?

President Milei of Argentina
PM Viktor Orban of Hungary
Victor Davis Hanson

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MatrixTransform
August 22, 2024 4:21 pm

I could do without being called a f***** or a Nazi

what a clown you are.

… is clown ok you mental-case ?

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Salvatore - Iron Publican
August 22, 2024 4:26 pm

IIRC the Andrews Squanderreich in Victoria was talking of taxing unrealised capital gain.
Have they now dropped the idea, or is it just on the backburner?

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 4:33 pm

Not sure what tax powers he was going to use as a state premier.

Or was he suggesting the Commonwealth should?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 22, 2024 4:28 pm

… is clown ok you mental-case ?

Or is mental-case ok you clown? Face it, m0nty comes here to be abused.
He imagines that anyone not subscribing to the latest fashionable idiocy must be the slave of some preceding fashionable idiocy.

Last edited 4 months ago by DrBeauGan
MatrixTransform
August 22, 2024 4:29 pm

geez the Casuarina Shopping Centre is an interesting experience

climate in Darwin is nice though

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 4:45 pm

Inside the Casuarina shopping centre, you could be London, Dallas Texas or Chadstone Victoria whose shopping centres are all climate-controlled at 18-20C.

I used to live in a flat on the beach at nearby Nightcliff — mercifully unairconditioned so I could enjoy the Wet Season lightning shows at night.

MatrixTransform
August 22, 2024 6:22 pm
Reply to  Tom

Inside the Casuarina shopping centre, you could be London, Dallas Texas or Chadstone Victoria whose shopping centres are all climate-controlled at 18-20C.

?except for the armed guards in the mall

… they dont have that at Chadstone

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 5:29 pm

I first went there in 1981.
It was pretty darn glamorous.
But the Smith Street mall-y bit was real and nice.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 22, 2024 9:02 pm

I trust you did the full experience? No visit is complete without getting mugged in the underground car park.

MatrixTransform
August 23, 2024 12:16 am
Reply to  Top Ender

parked in there too

they can try mug me if they like

be a bit like trying to pick up a cat by the tail

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2024 4:36 pm

It would be interesting to see how they derive an unrealized gain for a private company.

The same way the Jurdge valued Trump’s property holdings.
Only in reverse.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 4:40 pm

Mmm…a B-2 stealth bomber flew over this afternoon.

The jig may be up.

.

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Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2024 5:02 pm
Reply to  Roger

Didn’t know you were in Ukraine Rog! 😛

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 5:27 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Two are parked at RAAF Base Amberley as of last month, Lys.

Last edited 4 months ago by Roger
Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
August 22, 2024 7:41 pm
Reply to  Roger

According to the RAAF, they have started rotating through Amberley. They are going to regularly base out of there as the Yanks are concerned about the risk of Guam being taken out.

Don’t know about Diego Garcia but it is further away.

Digger
Digger
August 22, 2024 4:42 pm

Does anyone have the final poll numbers for the 24 hour Musk (x – twitter) presidential election poll? Google, youtube and MSM refuse to release or report on them. Last I saw was 12 hours into the poll (last night) with 3.4 million votes and Trump on 75.2% to Harris 24.8%.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2024 4:44 pm

I am not kidding.
A corrupt IRS would likely put ridiculously inflated valuations on Enemies of the State and demand cash settlement of the 25% tax immediately.
Say Mar-a-Lago is worth $1 billion, and cost $500 million.
Value it at $4.5 billion and demand payment of $1 billion in unrealised CGT.
Kamal-toe is on a loser on a number of fronts.
Your average Joe sitting on a tidy unrealised gain on a small holding of Apple or Tesla shares knows that they will be caught too. And stiff shit if the shares ultimately fall and you don’t realise the gain. All you will get is a tax credit you will likely never use.
As for stickin’ it to the Big Ender Town?
Most employees in the US, without fat, dumb and happy redundancy clauses, know that any impost on the Big Ender Town will ultimately involve cost-cutting and offshoring (which means their jerbs).

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
August 22, 2024 7:38 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Isn’t that kind of like what they tried to ping Trump on in NY? Overvaluing assets? Except it is the government doing it to you.

I guess that means the government is guilty and should go to jail.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 22, 2024 4:47 pm

Last I saw was 12 hours into the poll (last night) with 3.4 million votes and Trump on 75.2% to Harris 24.8%.

I could believe that. One quarter of the population are halfwits. Sounds about right.

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 4:56 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

Sounds about right.

It merely indicates how much the DNC will need to cheat to ensure Trump doesn’t win.

Trump will need a landslide to ensure election theft via mail-in ballots is all but impossible.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
August 22, 2024 4:47 pm

And, just like that, Bandana Man thinks GW Bush is a statesman of great gravitas whose opinions matter.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 4:55 pm

Proving true to form in my experience of the man:

Dutton blinks.

Ban on Gazan visas “only temporary”, he’s reportedly told the party room.

Last edited 4 months ago by Roger
Aaron
Aaron
August 22, 2024 8:17 pm
Reply to  Roger

As Kilgore said “One day this war is gonna end”.

They can come on tourist visas then.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 22, 2024 4:57 pm

132andBush
 August 22, 2024 10:17 am

Gez, if you’re still there.
Is there something happening in Bendigo tomorrow re Jacinta Allan? You mentioned it the other day.

Certainly is Bush.
Busloads of pissed off farmers arriving at the All Seasons resort hotel in Bendigo to give Jacinta Allan a warm welcome to the rural press club event tomorrow at noon. We’ll be outside and in the room as well. Media is alerted and signs painted.
The Joan Kirner of Junortoun is in for an eventful day.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 22, 2024 5:15 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

Hammer ’em Gez

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 5:31 pm
Reply to  Barking Toad

Go get ’em Goertz!
Er, Gez.

pete of perth
pete of perth
August 22, 2024 6:54 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

I hope they don’t go a starmer on you.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
August 22, 2024 4:59 pm

Arky and M0nty having it out in reply function about kids and woke schooling.

I have a delightful but ‘woke’ 21 year old grandson living life for his band and its place in today’s wokery. His trendy high school did him no favours. I shocked him the other day by mentioning my attendance at a Clash concert when pregnant with his aunt. You went to see The Clash? he gasps. I was young, and then even not so young, and into rock music and socialism like you are, sweetie, I reply. I tell him that Grandpa Hairy took me, and he gasps again. Stern old Stepgramps Hairy?

I grew up and you will too, I console. They say you have to be past forty, he jokes with me about himself and socialism. Well, I was on the cusp of forty with the Clash, I say. Call me a slow learner.

I still don’t see how you can support Trump, he argues back. Come back when you’re thirty and tell me that, I reply. No need to wait till forty these days. You can unwoke yourself next year if you really try hard, I joke. Just keep talking to me and transfer to study something useful, lol. He’s used to my little digs at his woke degree. Bearing fruit too, as he’s now seeking better career advice.

We get on surprisingly well and I lead by example, as a generally tolerant soul, not by lectures. I’m getting him to read Hillbilly Elegy now – that should pull some heartstrings about his own troubled background and offer a few insights re how to conquer it. Don’t talk to me about getting endless ‘counselling’ I rail to him, I didn’t get out of my childhood worse than yours by chasing that – get out there and get something done unless you want to hump boxes (his current part-time employment) for the rest of your life.

He definitely wants to avoid the dole, drugs and financial dependence – he’s seen enough of that with his mother and his father, his mother seriously schizo and his father (my eldest son) mildly autistic, both in public housing and on the DSP. I think he’ll be a conservative by thirty for sure. His father has already made the shift, so that is a promising influence, although of course his father’s wild leftist past provides no role model.

I use my life story to encourage him to make his a success via independence and a good job. Not didactically, but with love and compassion about today’s problems (and back to talking about Trump again).

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 5:02 pm

DrBeauGan

 August 22, 2024 4:06 pm

 Reply to  calli

Please cite the full post you are complaining about. 

Mother Lode. 2:10. Nested comments.

You have been warned and don’t blame me.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 22, 2024 5:02 pm

Dutton backtracking.
Ban on Gazan visas “only temporary”, he’s reportedly told the party room.

Maybe it’s the only way to get support from the party room. There are some loonies there, managing them must be a tough game.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 5:09 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

Abbott has his faults but I would cut him some slack on this basis.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 7:56 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

The Liberals have decided ‘culling’ isn’t a realistic way out of the morass?
Bugger.

Rosie
Rosie
August 22, 2024 5:06 pm

I read Colm Toibin’s Bad Blood before I came to Ireland.
At that stage, early 1980s it was very difficult to cross the border between Ireland and NI, every little bridge road even ford in a stream had concrete barriers to prevent a crossing, because of the Troubles.
My bus trip from Sligo to Cavan was via Enniskillen, the only difference was paying £ for a cup of tea at the bus station and not being able to pay for my ticket at the bus station in Enniskillen because they didn’t collect fares for buseirean.
Didn’t even see signs for the border on the way in or out.

When all of my Irish forbears left Ireland was still under English rule.
It’s a shame Ireland is still divided politically.

You can see from the comments under the linked tweet that plantationer is still used as a pergorative.

https://x.com/markhumphrys/status/1826205757336928256?t=7kmv5HRkgrWtica_x0xu9Q&s=19

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 22, 2024 5:07 pm

Mother Lode. 2:10. Nested comments.
You have been warned and don’t blame me.

I see what you mean, calli. But think of it as training to confront horrors in later life.

Arky
August 22, 2024 5:07 pm

taxing unrealised capital gain.

It might be interesting to see what unintended consequences came from that.
Would asset prices go up or down?
Would companies pay more dividends?
Would buy backs become uneconomic?
Would super funds see outflows as people decided it was better to spend it now?
Inflation?
..
Aside from capital fleeing the country, I’m sure unpredictable stuff would happen.

Arky
August 22, 2024 5:10 pm

Companies would want to have assets that were earning, but depreciating on their books.
But sell and lease back anything that appreciated?

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MatrixTransform
August 22, 2024 6:16 pm
Reply to  Arky

But sell …

not sell …the Govt will take it in the name of The Peoplz

and lease back

from the Govt? … lol … you can call it a lease if it makes you feel better

anything that appreciated?

everything will be worth zero

… except the sweat off your back

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 5:14 pm

Maybe it’s the only way to get support from the party room.

As I suggested the other day, Dutton is engaged in a contest for leadership of the Uniparty, he’s not proposing a serious alternative government.

The Libs under Dutton are as committed to mass immigration and ME refugees as Labor; they just propose to manage it all in a more orderly fashion.

Last edited 4 months ago by Roger
Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 5:16 pm

Downticked.

Your issue is really with Dutton, not me.

Last edited 4 months ago by Roger
cohenite
August 22, 2024 5:29 pm

JC
 August 22, 2024 3:41 pm

cohenite
August 22, 2024 2:06 pm
Obama’s hubbie is a bloke:
Official Gov’t Docs Expose Michelle Obama’s 14 Year History as a Man
Of course, Michelle is a bloke. The Demon convention video proves it.

Correct.
?
And to prove my sexual fantasies are not weird here is a cute owl: Huzza!

cute-owl-reclining-great-abs
Last edited 4 months ago by cohenite
JC
JC
August 22, 2024 7:01 pm
Reply to  cohenite

LOL

Helen
Helen
August 23, 2024 9:16 am
Reply to  cohenite

Fugly

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 22, 2024 5:31 pm

Rough as guts. I view this vote down as pure evil.

—-

Avi:

Senate REJECTS motion to help babies left for dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgaL8ZwFdmo

0:04 / 14:41

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2024 5:44 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

Saw this last night and gathered the wife and kids around the table to explain to them that pure evil exists, in surplus.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 5:49 pm
Reply to  Lysander

As a godly father should do, Lysander.

Zatara
Zatara
August 22, 2024 6:03 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

The Australian Senate has voted down a motion that sought to provide medical care for babies born alive after failed abortions.

Forget all the arguments about right to chose, fetus viability, etc., how exactly is this not flat-out murder?

Lysander
Lysander
August 22, 2024 6:05 pm
Reply to  Zatara

Remember the four Libs (Birmo was one of them) who voted against this!!!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
August 22, 2024 7:16 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

Once again, lefties that weren’t aborted.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 5:37 pm

Rough as guts. I view this vote down as pure evil.

The rationalisations heard from Liberal senators were disturbing, to say the least.

Last edited 4 months ago by Roger
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 22, 2024 5:39 pm

climate in Darwin is nice though

I thought I sensed a disturbance in the Force.

In about four weeks, the climate will begin to become ‘interesting’.

Again.

MatrixTransform
August 22, 2024 6:17 pm

in about four weeks … I don’t give a Tosca

132andBush
132andBush
August 22, 2024 5:40 pm

Rabz
 August 22, 2024 3:43 pm

cackling kamel is squawking about 25% tax on unrealised capital gains

I am so sick of this sh*t – WTF is an “unrealised capital gain” and how can it be taxed?

They didn’t want to call it the “Pure, undisguised envy tax”.

132andBush
132andBush
August 22, 2024 5:50 pm

Farmer Gez

 August 22, 2024 4:57 pm

We are dining there tonight as a matter of fact and staying just up the road.
Will be there to offer support.

Johnjjj
Johnjjj
August 22, 2024 5:52 pm

So I run into an old flame. We’re chatting away and I casually ask her “What was the worst boyfriend you ever knew” She replied ” He had a tiny dick and sounded like an owl” I looked at her and said “who?”

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 5:53 pm

I have read some terrific books lately.

Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia is truly awesome if you like sword and magic fantasy. Four volumes out, two to come. Correia is churchillian in his avoidance of logorrhoea.

But then my bride insisted I read The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. OH MY GOODNESS it is a clever and fascinating world and really great story, I just finished the first one. Unfortunately there are many volumes; my beloved has looted the thrift stores of Perth and got almost all of them.

I was inspired by Exactly by Colin Winchester, and researched and wrote an article for the club magazine about the introduction of interchangeable parts, a core principle of our industrial riches.

Now I am excited by The Art of More: How Mathematics Created Civilisation by Michael Brooks. Seriously good plot.

And someone left The Goal by Josse Goldratt in my donga…

calli
calli
August 22, 2024 6:03 pm
Reply to  Chris

Simon Winchester. Poor Colin was the murdered cop.

I loved his “Surgeon of Crowthorne” which was then made into a series on Netflix – The Professor and the Madman.

Read first then watch.

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 6:08 pm
Reply to  calli

Thanks Calli !

Correia is churchillian in his avoidance of logorrhoea.

I should have said he

eschews needless words.

Last edited 4 months ago by Chris
calli
calli
August 22, 2024 6:26 pm
Reply to  Chris

I like “prolix”. As a word, not the affliction.

Helen
Helen
August 22, 2024 6:08 pm

You know, I bin thinkin about the Cannon Solar Array

I wonder how they are going to manage fire.

Every wet season multiple Flanneries fall which grows grass and that grass is normally eaten by cows or burned by bushfire.

When the cows are removed, there is only fire left. Fire starts from lightening, both white snd blak. Water from bores is scarce, thus no sprinkler system.

I guess we will have to wait and see all those thousands upon thousands of panels go up in smoke.

Chris
Chris
August 22, 2024 6:16 pm
Reply to  Helen

Guinea pigs.
There is a solution for every problem, but this one minimises the use of high explosives.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 22, 2024 6:20 pm
Reply to  Helen

It will be a beautiful sight. And can easily happen.

Tom
Tom
August 22, 2024 6:34 pm
Reply to  Helen

Helen, rest assured the Darwin-to-Singapore hippie renewable “electricity” cable is a virtue-signalling brain fart that will never be built because it will never be economically viable.

The Chinese who run Singapore are real business people who are much smarter than Mike Cannon-Brookes, a wannabe Silicon Valley computer coder (like Julian Assange) who has never built anything in his life.

Zatara
Zatara
August 22, 2024 6:37 pm
Reply to  Helen
Pogria
Pogria
August 22, 2024 7:35 pm
Reply to  Helen

Helen,
please, please, please, don’t take this the wrong way.
LightNING, comes from Thor.

Light”ening”, is what you do to hair. 😀

Helen
Helen
August 23, 2024 6:33 am
Reply to  Pogria

Lols

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2024 8:11 pm
Reply to  Helen

They (if it is ever built) will spray under the panels with glyphosate or similar on a regular basis.

billie
billie
August 22, 2024 8:12 pm
Reply to  Helen

I wonder how they are going to manage fire

Magic aboriginal stuff

Delta A
Delta A
August 22, 2024 8:43 pm
Reply to  Helen

Sounds good to me.

Muddy
Muddy
August 22, 2024 6:15 pm

Reposting Bobtheboozer’s 12:40 p.m. post [with bolding mine]:

“The Senate has overwhelmingly voted to protect Covid era secrets, to protect incompetence and protect those who inflicted human rights abuses on their fellow citizens,” Senator Babet said.

These people make no pretence they work for us, yet we will still vote for them next time. And the time after that. And …

Feck em all!

Indolent
Indolent
August 22, 2024 6:29 pm

This is well worth viewing, although I can’t imagine what can be done about it.

Keir Starmer – A Warning From History!

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 22, 2024 6:30 pm

I voted for Babet actually and I’m not disappointed.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 22, 2024 6:36 pm

Bloody hell Harris is talking about 25% tax on unrealised capital gains.The US is screwed and no doubt the Liars will follow suit

Erm… I believe Luigi is already going to do this on super balances over $3 million except it will be 30%.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
August 22, 2024 6:38 pm

Look at this lying chin monster, look at it and spit.

https://x.com/ClareONeilMP/status/1826514643013304818

Fugly on the outside and inside.

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 22, 2024 6:41 pm

poisonous filth

Indolent
Indolent
August 22, 2024 6:46 pm

Tim Walz says he and Kamala Harris ‘owe it to the American people’ to detail policies — despite not publishing any on campaign website

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 6:48 pm

Jebus. I’m not sure about this embedded picture function.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 8:02 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

It takes far too few formats.

Indolent
Indolent
August 22, 2024 6:51 pm
Gabor
Gabor
August 22, 2024 6:54 pm

BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 2:59 pm

Australia: Muslim cleric says Muslims should be forbidden from participating in democracy

Don’t know how that works, Islam must be a many faceted religion/cult if you like, as there are elections held in most of the Islamic republics.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 8:08 pm
Reply to  Gabor

When a cleric says something, you can be sure it’s bullshit masquerading as Piety from a Muslim viewpoint.
Oh, and that Muslims are the victims of whatever atrocity has taken place.

JC
JC
August 22, 2024 6:55 pm

Re: the unrealized cap gains tax.

I really think it’s hot air. As bad as the Demons are, there are enough in the congress to suss out this is a very bad idea and would vote against it with the GOP. This is assuming the Demons win all three elections. That’s no going to happen, or at the very least the senate will be a 50/50 affair. Whatever, it’s not going to go through.

Pogria
Pogria
August 22, 2024 7:42 pm
Reply to  JC

I believe you are correct.
It’s scary enough though to have the true believers panicking.

Pogria
Pogria
August 22, 2024 7:43 pm
Reply to  JC

Forgot to add, unrealised capital gains are as evil, if not more, than retrospective taxes.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 8:09 pm
Reply to  JC

I really think it’s hot air. 

The Gulags were full of people who thought the Socialists were so much hot air.
And the mass graves.

Last edited 4 months ago by BobtheBoozer
H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 6:59 pm

Another interesting day in the WA Supreme Court by the sounds of it. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Cassie of Sydney
August 22, 2024 7:05 pm

Simon Birmingham, Andrew Bragg, Jane Hume and Maria Kovacic.

At the next federal election I will vote Liberal in the lower house however in the senate I will not vote Liberal, rather I will vote PHON and Libertarian party.

I personally find the fact that Kovacic is in the senate to be particularly egregious. She is a woman lacking in any talent whatsoever. She took the late Jim Molan’s seat, it was a deliberate smack in the face to conservatives. As for Bragg, he’s a buddy and far-left factional ally of Kean, Photios and………drum roll……….Don Harwin, the yet to be harpooned whale.

Indolent
Indolent
August 22, 2024 7:14 pm

@MikeBenzCyber

Meet “Media Literacy” and “Media Sustainability” — the 1-2 punch built by the Blob to get the US government to bankrupt alternative news producers, while subsidizing a swarm of pro-Blob media outlets & pumping them up to achieve to narrative surround sound. w/ @nataliegwinters

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 22, 2024 7:17 pm

Bragg also a WEF ‘young leader’ (as you pointed out Cassie- the wet lieborals are not our friends).

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 7:20 pm

I personally find the fact that Kovacic is in the senate to be particularly egregious. She is a woman lacking in any talent whatsoever. 

A cynic might aver that’s precisely why she is there.

And she’s too stupid to realise it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 7:37 pm
Reply to  Roger

Plenty of junk dumped in the Senate over the years.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
August 22, 2024 7:21 pm

Good stuff Bush.
Meeting at Strathdale Park at 10.30 then onto the All Seasons for speeches at 11.

132andBush
132andBush
August 22, 2024 9:23 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

Roger that.
Prado with NSW plates.

Roger
Roger
August 22, 2024 7:31 pm

…the wet lieborals are not our friends

Bear in mind that the Liberal Party thought leaving babies to die without mitigating suffering via palliative medical intervention – not to mention kindling the life therein – worthy of a conscience vote.

This is not just a problem of wet Liberals

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 22, 2024 7:41 pm

I personally find the fact that Kovacic is in the senate to be particularly egregious. She is a woman lacking in any talent whatsoever. She took the late Jim Molan’s seat, it was a deliberate smack in the face to conservatives. As for Bragg, he’s a buddy and far-left factional ally of Kean, Photios and………drum roll……….Don Harwin, the yet to be harpooned whale.

Just discussing with the Sunbather the talentless Kovacic over lunch today in sunny Cairns. Instead of putting a talent like Warren Mundine in the Senate they put that useless creature who’s never won anything ever. As for Bragg let’s never forget his great affinity for the ghost of PM’s past – Turnblehhh

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 22, 2024 7:48 pm

Commie-la Harris, the dusky Hilary, always pantsuits not a skerrick of elegance in sight — Pantsuit Nation revisited –

Pogria
Pogria
August 22, 2024 7:54 pm

Tinta,
they go for Pantsuits because the tailoring hides a multitude of physical excesses.
Another talent that stupid women have stolen from Men’s usefulness. 😀

H B Bear
H B Bear
August 22, 2024 8:06 pm

Hard to rock a pantsuit.

Pogria
Pogria
August 22, 2024 7:48 pm

Kovacic, isn’t she one of Blabbersak’s breed?

I have personal experience of this breed.

Rosie
Rosie
August 22, 2024 7:54 pm

Thread on the end of affermative action at universities and the chances of percentage enrolment as a result.
https://x.com/kiyahwillis/status/1826452884831306042?t=truWugqW-0dqGyDj6EKPEg&s=19

Rosie
Rosie
August 22, 2024 7:55 pm

“Organizers of the Democratic National Convention have decided not to award a speaking slot to a speaker who would talk about the impact of Israel’s military operation in Gaza.”
Twittee link to paywalled wapo article

https://x.com/yashar/status/1826442760964178025?t=9-30pkgzX1yXTFM3Lh7K2A&s=19

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 22, 2024 8:17 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Fight you bastards, fight.

JC
JC
August 22, 2024 7:56 pm

Rumor is: RFK is going to drop out of the race and support Trump. In turn, The Trumpster is going to appoint him as head of the CIA to clean house.
Kennedy believes the CIA killed his uncle and dad. Imagine that fox in the hen house.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 8:18 pm
Reply to  JC

RFK is a marked man. The CIA will spare no expense, in either manpower or money, to bring him down.
The stakes are way too high. The fallout will tear the Deep State to shreds.
Meanwhile, the enemy awaits…

Jock
Jock
August 22, 2024 9:42 pm
Reply to  JC

Will he force them to release the chappaquiddick files too?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
August 22, 2024 8:02 pm

Bolt interviewing UK reporter.
Turns out the source of the misinformation that stirred up Southport rioters was a guy in Pakistan. Even more interesting is that Pakistan has arrested him for spreading misinformation about an event in UK. Seems somebody has brought in new international cross border misinformation laws and associated co-operation.

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