The trouble with socialism is you eventually run out of other people’s money. Allen and Andrews have.
Open Thread – Thurs 22 Aug 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
- From darkness to the promise of light
- Open Thread – Weekend 16 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 14 Nov 2024
Oh, and Barry and Rudd.
Available now for parts. Any parts? Stage sweeping? Tea boy? Sorry – tea person! Jussie Smollett has conviction over ‘hoax…
Rendering Australia ungovernable, should the peasantry have the temerity to elect a Liberal Government.
Elon Musk: After British MPs announce that Musk will be summoned to the UK Parliament to testify about X’s role…
Can it be?!? Why yes it is.
I won, I won! 😀
Second!!!
Now to sleep.
These are the women the Gimp faps to.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13761635/The-Nazi-women-bit-evil-men-6ft-3ins-Sadist-beat-girls-death-sex-crazed-Hyena-handpicked-gas-chamber-victims-Secretary-Evil-fighting-clear-name.html
Third!
G’day from a cruise liner off Kavala in Greece.
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.
This place is the only place I comment on the Net. So many comments on YT is where you have to bite your tongue.
Speedbox
August 22, 2024 1:57 am
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.
Oldest culture on earth?
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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.
Goes back a long way.
Memory.
What memory?
I prefer it that way.
John Spooner.
Brett Lethbridge.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Classics!
1992 Indianapolis 500 Finish
“Commentary between Paul Page, Sam Posey and Bobby Unser was incredible.”
Indeed,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0orHQo57S9Q
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.
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.
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Drive Me Crazy – REO Speedwagon – Keep on Loving You (Garry Harper Remastered Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYGaHUE6Ruw
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
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/arXpwboS4hU
Cat Ladies, is this true? 20% of kids coming to Primary School equivalent aren’t toilet trained?
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.
What Digger said last night:
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.
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.
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 5:42 am
I responded a few times, mostly appealing to m0nty’s gentler inner self, until I realised there is none.
Now I just scroll past.
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
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.
Not listened to it yet but Russell Crowe just been on Joe Rogan. Over 3 hours.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
Fluffy Annaliese seems too much at home at the DNC convention.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Speaking of the devil…
RTWT
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.
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.
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.
I demand a scolding session! Now!
Equal Opportunity Scolding is our strength.
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.
CGT is like being mugged by govt every payday.
CGT on future gains is like a Govt Mafia racket
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.
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.
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
Awwwww. I’ve weely hurt someone’s feewings.
C’mon! Scold me! You know you want to.
😀
‘Asian’ in UK parlance includes Hindus & Sikhs and even Christians with south Asian (i.e. the Indian sub-continent) origins.
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)
Rats fleeing the sinking ship…
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.”
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…
“My wifes boyfriend” spotted in the wild.
And youll never guess where.
https://x.com/i/status/1826373472714719600
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.
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.
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…
“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.
Good get, Aaron!
Please, please let this descriptor grow legs and run!
Rita, Danika, Caleb…if you’re watching…go for it.
Gez, if you’re still there.
Is there something happening in Bendigo tomorrow re Jacinta Allan? You mentioned it the other day.
Tom on fire today. Keep your head down.
Which in turn is eclipsed only by their conceit and disdain for ordinary Australians.
Beware those who deem themselves to be righteous.
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.
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”
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.
Yes, just a lone wolf.
Trump shooter Thomas Crooks had encrypted messaging accounts in Belgium, Germany, New Zealand
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”.
Meme
UK tech pioneer Mike Lynch dead at 59 after yacht tragedy off Sicily coast
This is from Bettina Arndt – a new strategy planned:
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.
That’s pretty much all they’re good for.
DNC Chicago: FBI reportedly investigating maggots found in food at breakfast for delegates
Exclusive Video — Jill Stein: ’Deep State’ Running Biden White House, Harris’s ‘Ship’ Will ‘Sink’
@DC_Draino
Trump promises to hire back over 8,000 troops fired under Biden & Kamala for refusing the Covid mRNA jab
…with backpay
Justice!
@JackPosobiec
How does he do it
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
And I certainly shows the mindset of those from Massachusetts who returned to the US Congress that manslaughtering creep for 50 years
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 ..
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”.
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.
Hehe, from your link:
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)
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)
Probably aren’t feasting on bugs I suspect, not even climate friendly maggots.
Are these the selfsame journalists who went on strike at the start of the Olympics.
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.
I’ve heard this song a gazilion times, but never seen this clip.
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The Rolling Stones – Waiting On A Friend – OFFICIAL PROMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKLVmBOOqVU
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:
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:
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.
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.
The DNC convention reminds me of the snake pit scene from Raiders of The Lost Ark.
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.
The Rolling Stones – Waiting On A Friend from above.
2:09
That is the sax player from Men At Work?
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.
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.
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.
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.
https://www.facebook.com/senatorbabet
More at the link….
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)
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.
Nurse Betty at 5:42 a.m.
Also Nurse Betty at 7:33 a.m.
Farmer Gez
August 22, 2024 8:16 am
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”.
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.
Mmmmmmm tasty…
Imagine Trump wins and appoints RFK Secretary of Health LOL!!!
We would “get so sick of winning” 😛
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.”
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
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.
Some people think Barack Obama must be gay.
I don’t.
I reckon she’s straight.
Obama’s hubbie is a bloke:
Official Gov’t Docs Expose Michelle Obama’s 14 Year History as a Man (rumble.com)
Well, it is not like humans are a colony of Purple-Bellied Twig-Frotting Tree Frogs, or the Fabulously Burlesque Fag-Butterfly.
“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…
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
Australia: Muslim cleric says Muslims should be forbidden from participating in democracy
What procedure are you in for GreyRanga?
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
Looks quite deliberate. Although Scott certainly is a weirdo – not to mention an unflushable turd.
Bloody hell Harris is talking about 25% tax on unrealised capital gains.The US is screwed and no doubt the Liars will follow suit
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.
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.
I am so sick of this sh*t – WTF is an “unrealised capital gain” and how can it be taxed?
She also wants the US to be more equitable.
That means equality of outcomes, not opportunity.
You suck just one dick and it’s all they ever talk about.
Rosie
August 22, 2024 3:15 pm
I second that.
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.
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.
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I just found an excellent quote from All’s Well that Ends Well.
Gee. The Bard is a time traveller. He visited Parliament this week.
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.
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:
It would be interesting to see how they derive an unrealized gain for a private company.
Cruz, Rubio, Haley.
Ironic, that no one endorsed the Kamal Toe. She was chosen by the party bosses. Sad as.
what a clown you are.
… is clown ok you mental-case ?
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?
… 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.
geez the Casuarina Shopping Centre is an interesting experience
climate in Darwin is nice though
The same way the Jurdge valued Trump’s property holdings.
Only in reverse.
Mmm…a B-2 stealth bomber flew over this afternoon.
The jig may be up.
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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%.
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).
Interesting
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1826015426658415033?t=5CSaZBYrPMrpo-JLtOc6Ww&s=19
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.
And, just like that, Bandana Man thinks GW Bush is a statesman of great gravitas whose opinions matter.
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.
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.
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).
Mother Lode. 2:10. Nested comments.
You have been warned and don’t blame me.
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.
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
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.
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?
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Aside from capital fleeing the country, I’m sure unpredictable stuff would happen.
Companies would want to have assets that were earning, but depreciating on their books.
But sell and lease back anything that appreciated?
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.
Downticked.
Your issue is really with Dutton, not me.
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.
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And to prove my sexual fantasies are not weird here is a cute owl: Huzza!
Rough as guts. I view this vote down as pure evil.
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Avi:
Senate REJECTS motion to help babies left for dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgaL8ZwFdmo
0:04 / 14:41
The rationalisations heard from Liberal senators were disturbing, to say the least.
I thought I sensed a disturbance in the Force.
In about four weeks, the climate will begin to become ‘interesting’.
Again.
Rabz
August 22, 2024 3:43 pm
They didn’t want to call it the “Pure, undisguised envy tax”.
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.
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?”
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…
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.
Reposting Bobtheboozer’s 12:40 p.m. post [with bolding mine]:
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!
This is well worth viewing, although I can’t imagine what can be done about it.
Keir Starmer – A Warning From History!
I voted for Babet actually and I’m not disappointed.
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%.
Look at this lying chin monster, look at it and spit.
https://x.com/ClareONeilMP/status/1826514643013304818
Fugly on the outside and inside.
Tim Walz says he and Kamala Harris ‘owe it to the American people’ to detail policies — despite not publishing any on campaign website
Republicans bash Harris after plane circled extra 15 minutes to watch husband’s DNC speech
Jebus. I’m not sure about this embedded picture function.
The Bee
Joe Biden Found In Dumpster Behind DNC Convention Center
Commerce Secretary: ‘Not Familiar With’ Jobs Numbers Being Revised Downward by Over 800K
BobtheBoozer
August 22, 2024 2:59 pm
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.
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.
Another interesting day in the WA Supreme Court by the sounds of it. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
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.
@MikeBenzCyber
Bragg also a WEF ‘young leader’ (as you pointed out Cassie- the wet lieborals are not our friends).
A cynic might aver that’s precisely why she is there.
And she’s too stupid to realise it.
Good stuff Bush.
Meeting at Strathdale Park at 10.30 then onto the All Seasons for speeches at 11.
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
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
Commie-la Harris, the dusky Hilary, always pantsuits not a skerrick of elegance in sight — Pantsuit Nation revisited –
Kovacic, isn’t she one of Blabbersak’s breed?
I have personal experience of this breed.
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
“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
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.
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.