Oh, and Barry and Rudd.
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
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…
The great Ross Campbell was using it in his columns in the 1960s. The ‘word of the year’ people are…
Dead, zipped into a sports bag, or in prison on child sex charges within six months.
More please
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1825944444719477152?t=VLZ3T4pto4eeDAcX_HWjtg&s=19
More here too please.
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1826294216714047748?t=JS89y-ucbmRAUUqN2nUJcw&s=19
From M Steyn,
“Mike Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain, two Britons who were criminally charged by the dirty stinkin’ rotten corrupt US Department of Justice and managed to beat the rap – in a San Francisco courthouse, in June.
Now both defendants are dead, within forty-eight hours of each other.”
Only hinting, but hard not to be suspicious.
Fate you say.
Hard to create a storm, on the other hand a good seaman
can seek shelter when the signs show it’s coming.
For hundreds of years they could do it without all the gadgetry we have today.
The captain survived.
“The captain survived”
As did fourteen others including a one year old.
?
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/two-bodies-found-by-divers-searching-sunken-superyacht-13200731
The ship was at anchor a short distance from shore. I guess most would consider that sheltered.
Paywalled but believed to have been hit by waterspouts.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/20/cctv-shows-storm-battering-mike-lynch-superyacht-sicily/
Rosie
August 22, 2024 8:04 pm
More please
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1825944444719477152?t=VLZ3T4pto4eeDAcX_HWjtg&s=19
Quite so, I remember after the Reading UK murders in 2020, after a long lockdown, when three gay friends gathered in a Reading park for a LGBT picnic, only to be stabbed to death by a Muslim migrant. It was a deliberate terrorist act.
I remember Douglas Murray commenting about it after the murder. Murray, himself a gay man, asked why Pink News, the so called ‘gay’ media newspaper of record, had only devoted a small paragraph to the Reading stabbings whilst its front page devoted big space to a story about some ‘trans issue”.
Priorities.
I have read some terrific books lately.
Try Devon Erikson “Theft of Fire”.
I’m just into S.M Stirling’s ” To Turn the Tide”, looking good so far.
Also try his “Conquistador”.
Rosie
August 22, 2024 8:07 pm
More here too please.
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1826294216714047748?t=JS89y-ucbmRAUUqN2nUJcw&s=19
Pim Fortuyn predicted all of this. He called it out over twenty years ago, before he too was murdered.
Bosnian Croats
“The captain survived”
As did fourteen others including a one year old.
Sounds like what happened during the Kenyan’s birth certificate kerfuffle.
A Cessa Caravan on inter island flight in Hawaii ditched after engine failure. 9 on board I think and the only person not to survive was the lady allegedly present at Obama’s birth.
Conservative Woman has two very interesting articles about Monkeypox and relation to vaccines being used in certain African countries.
With mad stormtrooper level sniping skillz, bro.
Helen @ 6:08 pm
You know, I bin thinking about it too.
The only way a project like this is ever, ever going to get financed is with investment grade* security – a polite way of saying, a First World common law government standing 100% exposed behind the debt.
FMD. That’s us!!!
* Probably not poxdrop renewables entrepreneurs: Sun Cable targeting green customers as approval secured(Pitifully, I thought Angela McDonald Smith might be better than this drivel.)
Zat, are you in Australia or the hurricane zone at the moment? 🙂
Re the M Steyn post,
OK, I admit stranger things have happened, but both men dying within two days is still unusual.
And no, I’m not a c-theorist, merely reflected on what MS said.
‘Cultural significance of Gallipoli’: Indigenous group’s bid to have $1bn mine turfed
Ellie Dudley and James Dowling
38 minutes ago
5 comments
An Indigenous historian who helped spearhead a campaign that brought down the $1bn McPhillamys gold project in central NSW said the proposed mine location should be treated with the same respect as the historical sites of “Gallipoli and Battle of The Somme” because of the cultural significance of the frontier wars fought on the site in the 1800s.
Awaiting approval. So. where the forensic evidence of any battles of the “Frontier Wars” fought on the site?
How flammable are solar panels anyway?
“OK, I admit stranger things have happened, but both men dying within two days is still unusual”.
Not even Mossad could arrange assassination by tornado and ensuring the portholes were open.
Extract from top story at Daily Mail UK
“Earlier a spokesman for the company told MailOnline ‘procedures were not followed’ on the luxury vessel and the sinking was down to ‘portholes being left open despite bad weather being forecast hours earlier’.
A spokesperson said: ‘The Bayesian was built to a very high standards and it would not have sunk if proper procedures had been followed by the crew.
‘A storm had been forecast earlier, no fishing boats went out and yet the portholes were not shut, the yacht sank because it was engulfed by a massive amount of water through open portholes.’
The spokesperson added: ‘The Bayesian would have remained afloat in any weather, even if it was being swung from left to right in gale force winds but it could never have remained in the water with open port holes”.
Kiwi nurse here, first job in Australia flying into Alice Springs. She thinks to herself ” How bad can it be?” Lasted 2 weeks. 95% indigiknees. Come to hospital for a break. Some from injury. Family business in town. Off they go. If your not back in 4 hours we’ll discharge you and then its back to ED. 3.55 they’re back. They’re not stupid, they’re milking the system. It’s the do-gooders that are stupid and us for letting them.
‘The Bayesian would have remained afloat in any weather, even if it was being swung from left to right in gale force winds but it could never have remained in the water with open port holes”.
Interesting, and getting a lot of publicity in the Med where we are at present.
Have not read up on it, but I presume Bayesian had a professional captain. Any battening down for rough weather would have included closing all watertight doors, hatches and openings.
Unless someone said don’t.
Mate of mine – ex-Navy – did a few jobs captaining millionaire boats. The owners generally had no understanding of any demands of the sea, and instead it was “what I want you do.”
He lasted two years and went back to pussers.
mUnter, at lunchtime or shortly before:
Oh my wordy lordy.
There was someone else on previous iterations of this august journal of record who loved spouting that line, and who was rightly pilloried accordingly.
Palestinian envoy to Australia Izzat Salah Abdulhadi slams government for ‘restrictions’ on Gazan visas
Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? What status was an “Envoy” from a non existent country “Palestine” have, in Australia?
In what percentage is nostalgia responsible for the continued existence of some political parties?
Look up the interview with Nicole Shanahan – RFK Jr’s VP running mate.
Very interesting expose on the dirty tricks of the DNC machine.
Palestinian envoy to Australia Izzat Salah Abdulhadi slams government for ‘restrictions’ on Gazan visas
When the story first appeared on the Oz website this afternoon, it had ‘Palestinian ambassador‘. It was later chaged. Here’s the truth, there is no Palestinian ambassador, there is no Palestinian state, and may there never be a Palestinian state.
Jeez what’s the probability that a boat called Bayesian would go down from a Black Swan event?
Mark Dice:
DNC Clown Show Continues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqcdlf5Zi_U
FMD
If only Bin Laden were alive today.
Osama bin Laden once warned al Qaeda not to target Joe Biden because he believed that his inheriting the presidency if something were to happen to Barack Obama would “lead the US into a crisis,” a resurfaced letter shows.
In the letter dated May 2010, the al Qaeda 9/11 mastermind wrote he had no assassination plots against Biden because he deemed him “totally unprepared” to lead the United States.
Please let this come true.
Weird coincidence since been discussing her in past few days. From article in the Australian.
“Jewish leaders are calling for the government to ban far-right provocateur Candace Owens from entering Australia for her upcoming speaking tour due to her “vile, divisive, and dangerous conspiracy theories”.
Comments open.
Nonsense, Lizzie. Transsexuals are just another section of normal society. It is you lot who are demonising, insulting and othering them with the agenda of denying their existence.
You tried it with Muslims. You tried it with Africans. You tried it with gays. You failed, time after time. You will fail again.
I can’t remember the last time I heard this.
Men At Work – Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkOn0-yt9E
Bawnboy.
Famous for its massive in the middle of nowhere workhouse was given to me as a day trip option at the tourist office in Cavsn.
Only bus service is a private one, leave at 11.40 return at 14.30 but plenty of time to do the tour and have a cup of tea at the Famous Keepers Arms.
€15 Euro day return on a double decker; about everyone that got on had free travel on a welfare card, which is presumably how this private service survives.
Get there and the museum has clearly been permanently closed for some time, the Keeper’s Arms aren’t doing a meal service (just b&b) the only shop on the main drag, possibly 12 all up still doing business is a tiny convenience store, the church up the hill was built in 1979 and no I didn’t want to go and look at the wind turbines.
I did walk up to the church, said hello to the speed camera guy setting up and then went back to the convenience store to buy a damp egg and raw onion sandwich and wait for the bus.
Lots to see though around here if you have a car, neolithic monoliths, a crannog and the ancient church of St Mogues, which wasn’t the St Mogues I visited.
Still it’s a pretty village with a stream running along the back of the houses on the main street, some of them derelict too and a very nice bus ride.
And it’s not raining.
I don’t think RFK Jr is very bright. At all.
It might be a Trust Fund Baby vibe, it might be his brawly schtick. I might be wrong.
But i highly doubt that Trump would entrust any serious job to him.
“Transsexuals are just another section of normal society. It is you lot who are demonising, insulting and othering them with the agenda of denying their existence.”
No-one denies their existence.
It’s a mental illness.
We do object to children being encouraged to mutilate and sterilise themselves.
Tell us how well things went for Griffin Sivret.
Kamala Harris demands homeowners give up to nearly half their profit in taxes when selling their homes
Nor do we deny the existence of Muslims, we just wish they would live in their own Muslim countries.
@MJTruthUltra
Dang… the left lost Cuomo
CrowdStrike cause revealed; small print may protect it from lawsuits
Victor Davis Hanson
Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’
Three Banks Quietly Obtained Payroll Numbers From Biden-Harris BLS By Phone as it Delayed Posting Jobs Report For 30 Minutes Due to ‘Technical Issues’
No memory triggers here. I’ve never heard this song before. Wow.
Men At Work – High Wire (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNA50xvwEKE
This goes particularly well with the Cuomo clip above.
@iAnonPatriot
The day Donald Trump became a legend!
Do y’all remember this?
@ClownWorld_
California is giving away homes to illegals while taxpayers struggle to make ends meet. This is insanity.
Perth leads the way with females only parking spaces…
Who Could Have Foreseen This?
Not much love for departing ALPBC MD David Anderson in Teh Paywallian, “inoffensive but ineffective”. Ouch.
How the Media Lies by Omission
Journalist Richard Medhurst Interview On His UK Arrest Under Terrorism Act
The Mocker in the Australian has a brilliant article up. It is in the form of a Q&A with Industrial Relations Minister Murray Watt about the CFMMEU.
One of Mockers best.
Bourne1879
August 23, 2024 12:47 am
Closed shop for me, any chance of posting the gist of it?
Probably not such a mystery looking at the relatively pristine walls.
Any travelers been there?
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Underground caves lined with millions of shells, and no one knows who built them.
The Shell Grotto in Margate, Kent, England, stands as one of history’s most baffling mysteries.
Discovered in 1835, this hidden passageway is adorned with over 4.6 million meticulously arranged shells, forming elaborate mosaics that cover every inch of its walls and ceilings.
The designs are precise and intricate, depicting symbols, patterns, and figures whose meanings remain shrouded in mystery.
What makes the grotto so compelling is that no one knows who created it, when, or why.
Some speculate it dates back to ancient times, possibly as far as the Roman or Phoenician period, while others believe it was constructed in the medieval era or even the 18th or 19th century by an eccentric individual.
Was it a secret temple, a meeting place for a hidden society, or a mysterious art project? Theories are abundant, but definitive answers are nonexistent.
The Shell Grotto is more than just a stunning piece of craftsmanship; it’s a riddle that continues to confound experts and captivate visitors from around the world.
Last I read, it’s being rebuilt, the largest aircraft, An-225 Mriya
Sorry about it, I couldn’t resist posting it even if I sound like an erstwhile contributor to these esteemed pages.
In case it’s a repeat, I am sorry, there are no old jokes, just old folks, for a newborn every joke is new.
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From Dull Men’s Club
I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so
I sat down and had a cold beer.
The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking.
My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing,
and I said, “Nothing.”
The reason I said “nothing” instead of saying “just thinking” is because she then would have asked, “About what?”
At that point I would have had to explain that men are deep thinkers about various topics, which would lead to other questions.
Finally I pondered an age old question: Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the nuts?
Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts, but how could they know?
Well, after another beer, and some more heavy deductive thinking, I have come up with an answer to that question.
Getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than having a baby, and even though I obviously couldn’t really know, here is the reason for my conclusion:
A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, “It might be nice to have another child.”
But you never hear a guy say, “You know, I think I would like another kick in the nuts.”
I rest my case.
Time for another beer. Then maybe a nap.
“The police say that he used his account “with the intent to glorify the incident about the arrest of a Muslim asylum seeker by police… and created a sense of fear, panic, insecurity in the Government and the public” and it is on this basis that they have filed a case against him.”
A muslim created a false story it was a muslim to glorify muslims and the only people going to jail are indigenous poms.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05je6yz0q1o
I wonder if this woman realised she is using biblical language
https://x.com/mslisterssis/status/1826468739040378914?t=QB2RvVAWnk_Jgz4R8c_s-A&s=19
A thread on what the IDF are doing in Gaza.
https://x.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1826313436172558811?t=H1mGeMZ9ZncXs00nDHqp6A&s=19
Here you go Kevin:
Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt knows so much about his portfolio that he should go on Mastermind
The Mocker
Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt knows so much about his portfolio that he should go on Mastermind, writes The Mocker.
Host: Hello and welcome to another episode of Mastermind. Our first contestant is Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt. Welcome.
Watt: Great to be here.
Host: Your special topic is corruption in construction unions. There is a lot happening in that space, especially with the CFMEU, isn’t there?
Watt: There is indeed. You name it, the CFMEU has it. Organised crime, outlaw motorcycle gang infiltration, violence and intimidation, strongarming companies, black-banning suppliers, bribes, and systemic corruption. But no-one should underestimate the Albanese government’s resolve to eliminate these practices.
Host: But these revelations weren’t exactly a surprise, were they?
Watt: On the contrary, every one of us in Labor was aghast. Astounded. Gobsmacked.
Host: Hang on, wasn’t the Prime Minister sent an email containing detailed allegations of these goings-on in 2022?
Watt: He’s got a big inbox to get through. A very, very big inbox. And let me say that Labor’s responses to reports of union corruption are longstanding and consistent. Every time these allegations arise, we say we are going to stamp out this behaviour for good. I say again: we are going to stamp out this behaviour for good. In the words of my predecessor Tony Burke and Anthony Albanese, “everything’s on the table”.
Host: So you do not rule out deregistering the CFMEU?
Watt: Just to clarify, when I said: “everything’s on the table”, I didn’t mean deregistration was on the table. But everything else is on the table.
Host: A royal commission?
Watt: Not on the table.
Host: Some other judicial inquiry, then?
Watt: No, not on the table.
Host: Reinstituting an agency dedicated to countering unlawful behaviour on construction sites?
Watt: Definitely not on the table. But this government is acting decisively by appointing an administrator to the union.
Host: An administrator?
Watt: Indeed. If there is one thing that terrifies bikie gangs and other violent criminals, it is an administrator in a suit and tie. And let me just say that whoever the administrator is, we will equip them with extraordinary powers to change the culture of CFMEU for the better.
Host: Will the administrator be able to investigate third parties?
Watt: No.
Host: Will the administrator be able to compel third parties to give evidence and produce documents?
Watt: No.
Host: Will the administrator have the power to hold public hearings?
Watt: No.
Host: And you claim these limited measures will clean up the most corrupt and militant union in Australia?
Watt: Absolutely. No-one should underestimate our resolve to –
Host: How long have you held this portfolio?
Watt: Just under four weeks.
Host: Good heavens. Let’s get underway. Question one: How much has the CFMEU donated to federal Labor since Anthony Albanese became leader?
Watt: Pass.
Host: The answer is $6.2m. Question two: When he was just 18, CFMEU national construction division secretary Zach Smith contested the Victorian state seat of Gippsland East for which party?
Watt: That’s a no-brainer. Liberal. Not only did that pretender-in-a-hard-hat go to a toffy grammar school, but he was also a prefect there. A blue blood to the core.
Host: Actually, he ran for Labor. Question three: In 2016, which former prime minister called for Labor to cut all ties with the CFMEU and reduce overall union influence within the party?
Watt: Malcolm Turnbull. And his demand was typical of the Coalition’s anti-union ideology –
Host: No, it was former Labor leader Bob Hawke. Question four: According to an analysis by Ernst & Young in 2022, how much would overall economic activity decline by 2030 if Labor abolished the Australian Building and Construction Commission?
Watt: (Covers ears) “CAN’T HEAR YOU, LA, LA, LA, LA, LA, CAN’T HEAR YOU”.
Host: You forfeit that one. The answer is $47.5bn.
Watt: Can you not ask me about the ABCC?
Host: Background to question five: In July 2022, when announcing the abolition of the ABCC, your predecessor Tony Burke said: “The Fair Work Ombudsman will take on the role of enforcing the Fair Work Act in the building and construction industry, ensuring there won’t be a shortfall in workplace relations regulation within the industry.”
Watt: He did say that, and Tony was spot on. No shortfall in regulation whatsoever.
Host: Your question is: as of April 28, 2024, and following the abolition of the ABCC, how many cases has the Fair Work Ombudsman initiated against the CFMEU?
Watt: Well as I’ve pointed out numerous times, the Fair Work Ombudsman is independent of the government, and I’m not across –
Host: How many cases have they initiated against the CFMEU in that period?
Watt: Not sure, but I’m very confident there was no shortfall in regulating the building industry since we abolished the deeply flawed and politically compromised ABCC.
Host: The answer is ‘zero cases’.
Watt: Can I just say for the benefit of your viewers – by abolishing the ABCC, we have increased productivity in the construction industry.
Host: Interesting claim. Question six: According to ASIC, how many construction companies filed for insolvency in the 2023/24 financial year?
Watt: Pass.
Host: A total of 2832.
Watt: That number’s down from the year before though, surely?
Host: Actually, it’s up by 28 per cent. Question seven: Which organisation was the biggest financial contributor to Premier Daniel Andrews’ re-election campaign in 2022?
Watt: That’s a tough one. Can you give me a clue?
Host: It begins with ‘C’
Watt: China?
Host: No, the CFMEU. Question eight: since mid-2006, industry super funds have given a total of $114.5m to trade unions. Which union was the biggest beneficiary of that largesse?
Watt: Pass.
Host: The CFMEU, which received $33.65m. Question nine: which newspaper ran with an editorial in July 2024 regarding the CFMEU, saying that “given the money flows between the union, criminals, building companies and the Labor Party, cleaning out this poison must surely require action by federal or state corruption bodies”?
Watt: That was The Australian, with their never-ending anti-Labor bias –
Host: No, it was The Australian Financial Review, which is owned by Nine Publishing. Last question. When asked on ABC radio this month whether the CFMEU’s actions had inflated costs in the housing sector, which Labor doofus replied: “I’ve had a bit of a look at this … and I cannot find any evidence whatsoever to support that”?
Watt: Doofus? What did –
Host: Correct. He’s finally off the mark!
Watt: I am?
Host: Just out of interest, Murray Watt – the CFMEU has engaged in price-fixing, cartel-like activities, eliminating non-unionised competitors from the market, black-banning suppliers who refuse to kowtow to the union, received bribes from building companies, and to top it off you have enterprise bargains that result in CFMEU members being paid up to $237,000 a year.
Watt: Correct.
Host: And you say there is no evidence the CFMEU is inflating costs in the construction sector?
Watt: (Pauses) Can I phone a friend?
Host: Wrong show, but in any event we have come to the end. The bad news is that out of ten questions, you have answered only one correctly.
Watt: And the good news?
Host: The good news is you are superbly qualified for your portfolio, at least as far as Labor, or rather the union movement, is concerned.
Watt: Fantastic. Are we done then?
Host: Yes. Incidentally, what was your last portfolio?
Watt: Minister for Agriculture.
Host: What was your claim to fame there?
Watt: Banning live sheep exports.
Host: Why did you do that?
Watt: Why? I empathise with sheep.
Host: Figures.
Dover.
Please ignore my post in moderation as Top Ender has successfully posted The Mocker article.
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Bob Gorrell.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Tears For Fears:
Tears For Fears – Advice For The Young At Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBtzFOgKcv8
Top Ender
August 23, 2024 3:28 am
Great, thanks.
Those questions should be asked in the parliament.
Good audio with this clip.
Casino Royale (1967) • The Look of Love • Dusty Springfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMT6uYuDvM
New Way Forward!
It will be another Great Leap Backwards.
Rita Panahi:
What’s the matter with kids today?
A twenty eight year old and quite nice looking female music teacher has been charged with having sex with a seventeen year old male student!
That would have been a dream come true when I was a seventeen year old.
Kamala, Kamala,
Now everything’s new,
You’re impatient to do things
That you shouldn’t do.
johanna
August 23, 2024 6:45 am
Reply to Steve trickler
I got ‘video unavailable’ on this. Pity.
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Look it up using the search function.
Henry Ergas poses an entirely reasonable and urgent question to Mike Burgess, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton (who has now revealed that his opposition to visas for Gazans was only ever temporary):
If there’s no place for anti-Semitism in Australia, why are we granting visas to Hamas supporters at all?
I posed the same question to my local Liberal member some time ago. No response as yet.
It’s ‘exacerbated’ Rita. Try to be better than …
Reading TheirABC these days is excruciating. The editorial standards are worse than those of the ANU’s student newspaper when I worked on it in the early 1970s. I have copies, and looking through them recently I noticed that while the content was often puerile, facile and so on, the spelling was perfect and the grammar was within the range of acceptable.
None of the editorial team were paid.
Look at the howling spelling errors, the bizarre grammar (e.g. where it is not clear whether a car hit a tree, vice versa, or whether some external force hit both of them) and the use of ‘they’ for everyone from one person to another person or groups of others with similar results.
Our unpaid team of drunks and misfits at Woroni in the early 70s were more literate than the generously remunerated, coddled and entitled brats who infest TheirABC online.
We had learned it at school, not university. Just imagine the kind of essays these semi-literates must have submitted for years to get their worthless ‘degrees’ in ‘journalism.’
What a joke.
Facebooking alert, with dilemma kicker.
So I’ve used my way through my oversupply of Dollar Shave Club Executive 5s. Great product, a bit pricey but balanced by re-use-ability and delivery, I cancelled my subscription more than a year ago and have been chewing through the backlog.
Went to re-subscribe- in a suicidal move, DSC have changed their lines, now the 5 blade equivalent is pathetic, wispy on the pivot and falls off the handle. Cancelled immediately with blunt feedback.
Went back shopping for my new go-to- Schick Extreme 3s, Bics top out at 2s tho they are dangerously sharp, a few random primo wanko brands which are all fuss for no show-
Also at the terrible juncture where there are three femmes in the house with me and they burn through blades like termites.
So in desperation heading to the dentist I dug through the back of the cupboard and found, in the side pocket of an overnight bag… a Gillette Blue II Plus (with aloe, NON pivot). The razor I used for twenty years before boycotting the brand, typing that now I can remember writing it out on wifey’s shopping list and sending her- or the girls- back to the shelf if they grabbed the wrong pack. Oh what heaven. What a great razor, sharp but not silly, heavy enough on the handle, easy clean and the lube strip cooks dry quick in the foggiest bathroom, I’ll get half a dozen cuts out of it.
“Why don’t we all use them, then we can just get the big bags again? Your boycott is now just punishing the line workers for the choices of the advertising executives, and keeping price pressure off the competition, which is barely a duopoly anyways” says wifey, not unreasonably.
So… is it time to get back on board? Reward Gilette for good behaviour and trust they’ve learned their lesson? I’ve got plenty of form with other questionable companies, inc a six-figure habit with Bayer Corp, maker of Zyklon-B.
The Tone Police
Nice one Rita.
I liked “exasperated”, Joh.
Spellwreck, I suspect. Prove riding is a deed ark.
Bruce of Newcastle
August 23, 2024 7:31 am
Reply to Steve trickler
It’s usually geoblocking. A VPN can get around it by changing to an unblocked server.
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Noted. Cheers bloke.
No.
So… is it time to get back on board? Reward Gilette for good behaviour and trust they’ve learned their lesson?
Top Ender
August 22, 2024 11:32 pm
Perth leads the way with females only parking spaces…
Well that’ll have ’em stumped: what is a female/woman?
If Labor truly opposes anti-Semitism
They truly don’t.
By the way, it has been apparent to me for months now that Mike Burgess, a man who seems to very much like publicity, has become an official mouthpiece of Labor. He is now Labor’s prop.
I’m curious, why do we need to know the name of the head of ASIO?
I believe Burgess disgraced himself earlier this year when he claimed that the weekly Jew hating festivals in our major cities were just some people ‘letting off steam‘.
As for my claim above, I’m not alone. Strategic Analysis Australia Director Peter Jennings said something similar last night on Sharri Markson’s Sky programme. Watch the whole thing or fast forward to 3.50, and after Jennings’ words, hear Sharri’s audible gasp.
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri-markson/aukus-needs-to-deliver-a-benefit-for-each-of-the-three-nations/video/8a1012d7c7886b0a8f461de06f5a541e
Quite frankly, nobody should have any confidence in Burgess. I note that Burgess was another Coalition appointee, just like the e-Safety skank….of course.
Comments no longer available on Candace Owens article in the Oz. About Jewish organisations wanting her to be banned from visiting soon.
Would have been interesting to see which way they went.
Exhibit A…
Greens deputy leader denounces ‘roots of racism’ one day after targeting Jewish organisations (Sky mainpage headline, 22 Aug)
You really can’t beat this for lack of self awareness. Someone buy her a mirror!
Thought for the day, especially for those of us prone to scolding.
And don’t forget the Chianti.
What is all this stuff about scaulds and scaulding?
Former minister in charge of ASIO, Neil Brown, has a piece in The Speccie on Burgess and the politicisation of ASIO under his watch, Cassie.
Bling news.
Huge 2,500-carat diamond discovered – biggest for more than 100 years (22 Aug)
Reaching the last hurrah for diamond mining sadly. Growing synthetic diamonds is getting cheaper and easier.
Yes.
@catturd2
@disclosetv
NEW – Scientists are scrambling: The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at record speed, and “nobody is sure why” — BGR
@catturd2
Andrew Tate and his bother have been released and Andrew just went off on the press.
This is so, so reminiscent of Obama.
Lyin’ Tim Walz Wants To Be Your Neighbor
Democratic Progress? Ukrainian Parliament Votes to Ban Orthodox Church in Ukraine
SCOOP: DOJ IG Finds FBI Systematically Mishandled Classified Info
It’s an interesting word, alwaysright.
As a verb, it simply means to admonish, reprove or berate. As a noun, it takes on a whole new complexion – shrew, nag, harridan, complainer – always directed at women.
We scold here all the time and some commenters do it very well indeed. But to be called a “scold”? I suppose scolding is in the eye of the beholder.
Another one wakes up.
Jack Daniel’s parent company scrapping DEI goals, will tie incentives to ‘performance’
Judge Finds RFK Jr. Can Bring Censorship Lawsuit Against Biden Admin After Supreme Court Rejects States’ Challenge
In Defense of “Crazy” Conspiracy Theories
In birdie news – just looked out the window and and saw a first.
A pelican gliding along the lake. Just the one. There are eels in there, so perhaps it will find a nice meal.
Been here ten years now and the largest birds I’ve seen on the lake are the swans. The spoonbills and egrets walk the shallows.
To Avoid DOJ Entrapment, Donald Trump Says He Doesn’t Want Intelligence Briefings
‘They come in, they give you a briefing, and then two days later, they leak it, and then they say, “You leaked it”…’
He’s a total creep and slime.
Walz Tells Voters to Mind Their ‘Own Damn Business,’ but That’s Not What He Was Saying in 2020
Just how they want it.
More Than 70 Percent Of Democrat Voters Don’t Know Kamala’s Policy Positions
UK taxpayers are subsidising traditional all-female opera in China:
From left-behind Britain to Beijing.
The UK is broke and facing increased taxes and cuts to services, yet its government is sending foreign aid to places where the GDP per capita exceeds parts of Britain.
Not at all surprising.
600 American, Canadian Jews Move to Israel in 1 Week (22 Aug)
It certainly displays how bad things are getting in those two countries that the emigrants are going to a nation in a perilous war like Israel currently is.
Hey BoN re the news of diamond find OD:
after a trip to Gulgong, the site of enormous gold finds in colonial times, I returned to farm to examine some large quartz rocks I have found over the years. And blow me down, there were the characteristic “specks” of gold lodged in one of the larger rocks!
BTW Cats – Gulgong is highly recommended for a visit. A real gem of a town where so much history is preserved – shop facades maintained & other features of the original construction & town layout. Also fantastic small and large museums, including an original mine shaft.
New EU vaccine passport is a move towards mandatory vaccinations and restrictions on freedoms and sovereignty
A rare occurrence a Scientific American article that isn’t woke, stupid or both. Via smalldeadanimals. Plate tectonics theory acceptance.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-improves-when-people-realize-they-were-wrong/
Interesting for me because I was at UWA1966 to 69 and used to hang out with a bunch of geologists. Plate tectonics was rubbished by the Geology Department but by 1975 it was “we’ve always thought that”. Mind you, they also thought the craters on the Moon were volcanoes and Earth never suffered a giant meteorite bombardment.
Brittany Higgins hit with fresh legal action by former boss Linda Reynolds
?Daily Mail
New please explain up.
https://x.com/i/status/1826726271012712866
A child rapist has escaped a custodial sentence because of overcrowding!
Ben Habib ACCUSES Keir Starmer of using UK riots to implement ‘OPEN BORDERS’
No need to choose between twin blade shavers for these guys…
Taliban Morality Police Dismiss 280+ Beardless Fighters for ‘Hairstyle Violations’ (22 Aug)
Very Orwellian name for that ministry. I wonder how long before we have one like it?
The acceptance of plate tectonics is a classic example of a Kuhnian paradigm shift.
Matches and modernism have a lot to answer for.
German club in East Brisbane.
Meanwhile, in Iran, the morality police have been arresting men for wearing shorts in 40 degree heat.
Bruce of Newcastle
From memory the Afghan beard should be long enough that it can be gripped with the fist under the chin with a small amount showing.
Source: Hazara refugee…
The solution to one part of my daily five letter word puzzles today … SCOLD.
Spooky.
Has Kamal-toe promised everyone a ‘Bama-phone yet?
Bruce of Newcastle
August 23, 2024 8:54 am
I almost think this is a joke.
How does this apply to Asian muslims?
Some cannot grow a substantial facial hair by genetic restriction.
The Harris-Walz ticket is looking so bafflingly bad that i’m leaning towards the Lizard People wrangling yet another switcheroo before November.
At a concert last night I bumped into a woman who was a fellow engineering student at Uni. The last time that I saw her was in the queue for the Rockettes Christmas show at Radio City, eons ago. She had a small apartment in Manhattan that she referred to as her rest home. I never learned why she needed a refuge.
We went home for cognac, cake and lies. She told me that she had spent twenty years running demining operations in bog stans and African toilettes. Her husband had been murdered when confronting burglars.
Her contempt for the UN was near obsessive.
I was dry mouthed. Inadequate does not define my feelings.
PHON’s Please Explain-
Director of National Insecurity-
“Now excuse me, i need to go visit the little girls’ room”
Genius, all xe/xer lacks is a black armband. There’s some serious comic talent going wanting there.
Wow. From the Oz.
All elected positions have been vacated and the employment of paid officials has been terminated, according to the scheme which was released on Friday morning.
Within seven days, terminated officials must return all CFMEU property, including cars, credit cards, building/security passes, mobile phones and laptops.
The action follows the passage of legislation forcing the CFMEU construction divisions into administration. The CFMEU is considering a High Court challenge to the laws
Bullet wounds found in hostage bodies recovered from GazaAFP
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Bullet wounds have been found in the bodies of six hostages retrieved from a Gaza tunnel earlier this week, indicating that they were shot by their captors, the Israeli military has confirmed.
The bodies of Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell, Chaim Perry and Avraham Munder were found on Monday night in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said the following day, though it was not clear what had caused their deaths in captivity.
A military spokesman said subsequent examinations found “bullets in the bodies of the six hostages” recovered from the site raided by Israeli forces in the Khan Yunis area.
“The investigation into the circumstances of their deaths continues,” the spokesman added.
Israel’s Channel 12 TV reports that the military believes the hostages were executed by their captors during an IDF operation near where they were being held, with their guards possibly believing a rescue operation was underway.
The six dead hostages were among 251 people seized by Palestinian militants during Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza.
Of those, 105 remain in the Palestinian territory, including 34 the military says are dead.
Military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said on Tuesday that the six “were killed while our forces were operating in Khan Yunis”.
Relatives of numerous hostages who died in captivity have said the military had informed them that their loves ones may have been killed by Israeli operations and bombardment in Gaza.
The October 7 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,199 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.
Oh, you mighty warriors of Allah.
CFMMEU officials must be getting letting Setka get out of control.
As anticipated, perverts win.
He also found that “sex is changeable” after Ms Grover argued it was not.
You cannot change sex.
Wally Dali @ 07:23am on the Dollar Shave Club…..
5 blade equivalent is pathetic, wispy on the pivot and falls off the handle. Cancelled immediately with blunt feedback.
After using their base version happily for a cuppla years I had the same problem some months back.
Some Cat recommended Oscar Razor. A bit more expensive than DSC but still a reasonable price. And a better product.
Dollar Shave Club has been boned due to their (now) shyte product.
Resonant bullshit from dickless:
Nonsense, Lizzie. Transsexuals are just another section of normal society. It is you lot who are demonising, insulting and othering them with the agenda of denying their existence.
You tried it with Muslims. You tried it with Africans. You tried it with gays. You failed, time after time. You will fail again.
Trannies aren’t normal statistically or biologically. Neither are the other designated victim groups dickless includes. But even if they were what dickless and other leftie eunuchs ignore is what these arseholes are doing. It’s what they are doing not what they are being.
Western society is tolerant of most personal attributes including dicklessness and men dressing up as sheilas. What the West cannot tolerate is attacks on its social and normative structure by these designated victims of the left. Muslims want to replace Western values with sharia. That’s a fact. Trannies want to replace basic biologic norms with sick perversions and more importantly corrupt children. Africans just want to run riot. Aboriginals want to grift. All these groups are subverting and destroying Western values.
So, it’s not what they are but what they are doing. Being dickless, dickless is motivated by spite and revenge and stupidity and can’t understand this.
Looks like Hamas have executed all the male hostages at least.
Murdered in Captivity: Bullets found in bodies of recovered hostages (22 Aug)
Upon them is peace.
An optimistic analysis of the imminent mechan judgment in the stormy slut trial:
SCOTUS Ruling on Presidential Immunity Could Sink NY Case Against Trump (declassified.live)
Snap Zulu!
Bourne1879
August 23, 2024 9:55 am
Wow. From the Oz.
Window dressing.
92.3% of them will be re-employed by the administrator on Monday (with full continuity of entitlements) and it will be Thuggery-As-Usual.
A couple of tattooed bikie types will be show-trialled and drummed out of the Brownies but, in true Liars fashion, will pop up a couple of months later in some cosy job.
From the Oz….
Federal Court Justice Robert Bromwich found Giggle for Girls and its owner Sall Grover had “indirectly discriminated” against Ms Tickle and ordered her to pay the applicant $10,000 and her legal costs.
“I have found that Ms Tickle’s claim of direct gender identity discrimination fails but that her claim on indirect gender identity discrimination succeeds. I will make a declaration of contravention by way of unlawful indirect gender identity discrimination respondents subject to input from the parties as to the form of that declaration,” Justice Bromwich said.
He also found that “sex is changeable” after Ms Grover argued it was not.
So, does that mean that any bloke can just drop into the girls change room for a perve without even donning a frock? Just by saying “I’m a sheila”?
https://open.substack.com/pub/harryrichardson/p/no-person-except-a-natural-born-citizen?r=1easrn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Well, well, well.
“So, it’s not what they are but what they are doing. Being dickless, dickless is motivated by spite and revenge and stupidity and can’t understand this.”
Sounds like my ex. Especially the spite, revenge and stupidity.
Most men really do become wiser and more easy going as they age. The Gimp, as with my ex, melt into a puddle of self-pitying misery where they blame everyone around them for everything that has gone wrong in their life. Sad Sacks.
So, does that mean that any bloke can just drop into the girls change room for a perve without even donning a frock? Just by saying “I’m a sheila”?
Yep. Perverts rule….for the moment. This result was expected. It will go to the HC.
We need to have the hairiest, smelliest bikie found, wearing a dress, lift up said dress, and rub said bikies’ “interchangeable”, nether regions furiously into Bromwich’s face.
I will not use Bromwich’s title as there was NO Justice in his decision.
Where are you, Gez?
The Harris-Walz ticket — said quickly that sounds like the Hairy Balls ticket — most inelegant
Is there a judge in this country thats not a deadset flog.
Aren’t you supposed to say “asking for a friend”?
“So, does that mean that any bloke can just drop into the girls change room for a perve without even donning a frock? Just by saying “I’m a sheila”?
Florence gets another sister.
Snowy calls in reinforcements in new bid to finish tunnel (Paywallian)
I’m so old that I remember when it was only a $2bn energy project.
A brilliant piece by CBD over at Ace of Spades. Extremely timely in view of the filthy judge’s decision.
“The destruction of “Woman” as a social, cultural, and biological concept continues apace. In Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, she writes about women occupying a secondary position in culture, being relegated to the position of “other.”
That was 1949.
Today? Women are no longer “other,” they are being pushed to extinction. A secondary position is no longer acceptable to the cultural arsonists of the left, whose only purpose in life is to destroy society, so the socialist paradigm of a “New
SovietMan” can be achieved. And if they have to use the current lunacy of transgenderism as a hammer with which to break society? Then so be it.But the cultural battlefield is strewn with the casualties of trans lunacy. Awkward and confused teenagers are now being pushed by the medical-political-educational complex to chop off their genitalia, take powerful and destructive drugs, and go beat up some girls on the soccer field or basketball court.
Activist Judge Allows Biological Males to Compete Against NH High School Girls
Do you even need a quotation? You know exactly what it says…a sociopathic judge has subverted the will of the people and taken that progressive hammer to our culture. And if a bunch of teen-aged girls who just want to play soccer are hurt? Eh, the radical redesign of our society is more important than the individual!
The reality…the biological reality…is that it is impossible to transmutate a man into a woman or a woman into a man. From the moment of conception the structure of a man’s body is radically different than a woman’s. Broad shoulders, narrow hips, the angle of those hips in relation to the legs, muscle mass, and a thousand other structural and physiological differences are set just a few months after conception. And then it gets really serious! The ratios and quantities of the many hormones that control growth are radically different in girls and boys, and no amount of ghoulish manipulation of those chemicals by evil social engineers will reverse that.
But it’s even worse than that. Merely “identifying” as a girl is sufficient in many places! And the message implicit in that insanity is that “Woman” is a nonsense construct that can be cast aside. Never mind that in traditional — correct– societies, women are placed at the pinnacle of those societies because they do the single most important, wonderful, magical thing: they bear and raise children. Everything else pales in comparison. Accepting the premise that anyone can be a “woman” trivializes that singular ability, and demeans the real women in our culture.
In a few generations we have moved from woman as “other,” to woman as “nothing.”
The only way we can recover from this insanity is to reject the premise in its entirety. Humoring a lunatic man who claims to be a woman is accepting the destruction of our culture. Allowing men into women’s sports is allowing the destruction of our culture. Demand acceptance of the biological imperative. Never let your daughters step onto a field on which a man is pretending to be a woman. Never accept the destruction of our language…pronouns are not a choice!
And most of all, fight to return women…real women…to their place at the pinnacle of our culture.“
I’ll just repeat Germaine Greer’s words about ‘transwomen’ from a few years ago, words which then saw Greer cancelled and silenced…..
‘just because you get your dick cut off doesn’t make you a woman’
I agree with Greer, and I suspect most women here would also agree with Greer.
Are boxes allowed in the WBBL? Try not to be bowled middle stump Mr McGahey.
Trans cricketer nominates for WBBL draft (Paywallian)
Having played indoor with and netted with several A grade ladies I can say that as soon as you allow trannies in your WBBL team it will rapidly be all guys and no females.
“Nonsense, Lizzie. Transsexuals are just another section of normal society. It is you lot who are demonising, insulting and othering them with the agenda of denying their existence.”
No-one is saying ANY of these should be disallowed.
The issue is that all these groups are not “usual” in Australia.
Note that I say “not usual” rather than “not normal”.
I have no objection to gays or trannies, but I insist that such people realise they are a significant minority, and so when I “assume” that when someone says they are married, that their partner is of the opposite sex, that is only because 9 times out of 10 – or more! – that is how it is. If you politely correct me, I’ll say “Oh, OK”. But if you insist I cannot assume what is correct 90+% of the time actually is correct, you are being completely unrealistic. If you pillory me for it, I’ll say “F U”. And why shouldn’t I? If I will offend someone no matter what I say, shouldn’t I pick the least number of possible people to offend?
All of these groups share one common trait – they “demand” respect.
Nope, not gonna happen – you can’t demand respect, you can only earn it.
And frankly, the noisy ones in those groups are most certainly NOT earning it at this point in time.
Tess Tickle won its case.
Why cant bio-women just sit down, shut up and accept women with balls are better than them?
Femininity can only be enhanced by a tumescent tockley in the ladies changerooms.
And no sexual predator would every dare pop on a frock for access to areas previously off limits.
On the Judge’s unscientific and patently absurd statement that “sex is changeable”.
Yes, it is. In lower orders of animals such as fish, insects, reptiles and certain rare cases in birds. And, appropriately, in slugs.
It is not changeable in mammals. And definitely not in the pinnacle of the Linaen Kingdom – the human.
This halfwit sitting on the bench in judgement of a serious case is like one of the aforementioned creatures – the clownfish.
Snark, glorious snark!
LIVE BLOG: The DNC Grand Finale (PJ Media)
None of the articles about the trans judgement have comments open. I wonder why?
Why is it that the most ridiculous period in history also feels like the most dangerous?
Is it because the stupidity and dangerousness are a dense amalgam of malice at the top of the ruling pole and those of us on the lower rungs have to suffer as they piddle their nonsense down onto us?
No wonder people simply disconnect. It might work…for a while. At least you might retain a modicum of sanity.
No wonder people simply disconnect. It might work…for a while. At least you might retain a modicum of sanity.
I have thought of disconnecting but then I remember the words of a man the left tried to silence just a few weeks ago….
fight, fight, fight
Patricia Heaton is a class act.
No if, buts, you have to understand etc.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/08/22/everybody-loves-raymond-star-patricia-heaton-to-christians-christs-biological-family-is-being-murdered-we-need-to-stand-for-jews-israel/
I’m for fighting too.
It occurs to me that the toxic piddling might be stopped with an umbrella. Permanently if it has a sharp enough ferrule.
I commend you, cohenite, for making your agenda explicit. When you say “social and normative structure”, you are talking about the white patriarchy.
The problem with this narrative is that Western values include such things as priests fiddling with altar boys, men battering their wives, rape cases being hidden, proxy wars fought to enrich the military-industrial complex, colonial genocide, the Washington Consensus and the International Monetary Fund.
No side in the culture wars is lilywhite. White men from the Western tradition have been the authors of some of the most monstrous acts of history. Claiming Western cultural supremacy looks foolish in light of what we know of the past.
That is not to say that we should abandon Western culture. It is still the best that the world has come up with to date, but it only survives with healthy outcomes for its citizens if it is diverse, pluralistic and democratic. Ethnocentric enclaves are not the answer. White nationalism has been the root of many modern evils.
It shows a basic lack of faith in Western values that you believe a trickle of refugees are going to subsume our Australian culture. The long history of open Western democracies shows that far from being swamped, it is the Western way of life that assimilates the immigrants.
Crucially, the concept of assimilation does not mean that each and every immigrant and their descendants become the same as existing Skippies. Their differences are included into our whole. It is an addition of their perspective to ours, not a zeroing out of their heritage.
Your fears show your intellectual weakness, and your ignorance of the power of Western culture. This is why you will always lose. You expect and assume that you will lose, and so it happens that the Lost Cause lives up to its name, time and again.
Now then, got anything else in response other than brainless insults?
Their ABC bubble:
Would hazard a guess that his colleagues at Ultimo would have been willing customers of Mr Hall.
Saw this in a comments section on a Hamas “visitors” snippet ..
Well worth a share .. LOL! ..
Australia’s Muslim leaders have hailed the government’s plan to fast-track visas for Gazan Hamas supporters as a ‘start’, and urged that the rollout be expanded significantly as the country is suffering from a lack of Muslims, in particular necessitating Palestine demonstrators having to ‘pull’ double and even triple shifts on the weekly demos to ensure they annoy as many people as possible.
This is having a toll on Muslim family life and mental health with overworked menfolk often unable to fulfil their obligations – praying, reading the Koran, bashing their wives etc.
Now then, got anything else in response other than brainless insults?
Such pious sanctimony and hypocrisy from a Nazi who’s spent years here throwing ‘brainless insults’.
You see, the Nazi doesn’t like it when those ‘insults’ are thrown back.
Gazans aren’t refugees. They’re tourists.
The visas, issued by our government, say so.
I sincerely hope that these tourists decide not to swing by my grandchildren’s school for a little look. Say, around drop off time. They are under enough pressure already.
Your fears show your intellectual weakness
LOL. Such cant, such drivel.
I don’t see my comment about the Judge’s nonsense claim in the Giggle for Girls case as baseless. Or insulting.
It was based in scientific fact.
As for insults, at least Nemo the clownfish was cute. I could have gone all Mean Girl and called him a banana slug.
Welcome pretty lady*.
US nuclear submarine arrives in Western Australia (Sky News, 23 Aug)
* All ships are, of course, female.
Wonder if hizzoner will prosecute any of the sapphists on that app who decline to discuss Uganda with Ms Tickle because they mistakenly believe she’s a man?
Stop it or you’ll go blind.
Physicians work to help prevent vision loss associated with space travel (Phys.org, 22 Aug)
Quite an interesting science story, since I’d never heard that going into orbit would affect eyesight like this. Maybe Elon needs to take note.
At 12.24 today the resident Nazi posted a volume of sanctimonious sludge. Among the sludge was this pearler…
It shows a basic lack of faith in Western values that you believe a trickle of refugees are going to subsume our Australian culture.
Fair enough however I don’t recall him and his lot supporting the entry of even a ‘trickle’ of besieged white farmers from South Africa. Now why could that be? Could it be because of their skin colour? Because they’re white? Hmmm, I shouldn’t be surprised, serial racism from a serial racist. The reason why I don’t tolerate any of his sludge is because he is a hypocrite of staggering and monumental proportions.
For good reasons, Americans have never elected a female president. So in 2024 the Democratic Party machine is going to impose one* on them – by however many million mail-in ballots it takes…
…Unless there is a Trump landslide.
*complete with a loony left running mate chosen as an up-yours to Middle America. The DNC election-rigging machine doesn’t need someone on the ticket who appeals to swinging voters.
Muslimas for Kamala have reportedly withdrawn their support and disbanded after Harris declined to have a Palestinian speaker at the DNC.
Who’s up for a trip to Malmo then?
Fluffy Annaliese and Joe Hockey are discussing the US election as if it’s just a matter of attracting sufficient voters! No discussion at all of the looming frauds.
Cultural significance of Gallipoli’: Indigenous group’s bid to have $1bn mine turfed
Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? The article raises the issue of “sovereignty never ceded.” What claim have you to sovereignty, if you couldn’t defend that sovereignty?
M0nty:”It shows a basic lack of faith in Western values that you believe a trickle of refugees are going to subsume our Australian culture.”
Not subsume, decimate.
It’s already happened.
Used to be, Australian culture was at least partially defined as: anyone, no matter their social, financial or political position could focus on any aspect of any individual or group – racial, religious, literally anything, no holds barred – and poke gentle fun at it. And the target of said amusement was not only allowed but expected to return the compliment. You were expected to see the funny side of not just that “other”, but also the foibles of your own side, and laugh at them and yourself.
Now, the gasp from the “scolds” is deafening if you attempt this. If you are a white male christian, you are at the bottom of the totem pole and the last thing you can expect is equality of treatment, let alone some sort of advantage from your unalterable and unchosen attributes. Unlike those who can “tick a box”, sorry mate, no boxes for you to tick, you’re dead last, and we better not hear you complain about it either, because your forebears did things before you were even born that tarnish your soul and remove your rights forever – in other words, you are subject to the very same intolerance you have been berated for allegedly showing to others! And then they call it “justice”, whether you are indeed guilty of it or not – no proof needed other than superficial traits and someone you’ve never met complaining about treatment you didn’t meet out.
And then there are the M0nty’s of the world – “Oh, I’m SO much more enlightened than you plebs, look what I care about!”
Ready to follow the rest of the lemmings straight off the cliff? Go right ahead, don’t dare drag me with you, I’ll not be part of it. If that offends you – good! Because you and your ilk offend me. I’ve tolerated your crap for too long, but no more.
Midwit monty is parroting one of the Western liberal political class’s most foolish and dangerous conceits.
“Islam is a religion of peace that is compatible with Western values” is up there with “If we bring China into the global trading system they’ll liberalise politically at home” and “Hitler represents the moderate face of Nazism and will honour his promises.”
In her speech at today’s DNC convention in Chicago, one of Kamala Harris’s war cries was that “we won’t go back” to an America ruled by Donald Trump.
We saw what she did there.
She’s campaigning as an opposition leader and Trump is still in power.
It’s as if the past four years didn’t happen.
American aren’t that stupid. If only their votes counted.
Kneel, I am sorry to hear that you have been confronted with your own mediocrity. Thoughts and prayers.
Earlier today the writer of the above words was accusing others here of ‘brainless insults’.
All ships are of course female” … but Subs are boats, so what about boats?
He is probably using chatGPT, that is; when he is not copy & pasting from elsewhere. Lately the prose sounds like an annoying second year trying to show off which is a step up from the norm.
Icelanders are probably getting fairly sick of this by now.
Thorbjorn live cam
The town of Grindavik is visible on the left.
M0nty:”Kneel, I am sorry to hear that you have been confronted with your own mediocrity. Thoughts and prayers.”
No M0nty, not mediocrity, tolerance.
As a kid I heard both sides of a couple of issues – Serbs vs Croats for example.
It’s always the same – it’s “those people”, those “others” that are the problem.
Wrong.
It’s the total lack of a sense of humor, the inability to accept criticism or even debate.
Well, I’ve had enough.
If being loud and insulting is what gets attention, if demanding respect is what is required, then so be it – I didn’t want it, I didn’t ask for it, I don’t think it’s a good idea, but OK, fine.
That’s the rules? OK. Now it’s MY turn, so sit down, shut up and show some respect. And apparently, if that doesn’t work it’s perfectly OK to get violent. Apparently.
Like I said, I don’t like this, I don’t want it, but if that’s the rules, then I will play them to the limit – why not, when it works for others? Why shouldn’t I march and shout “Where’s the muzzies?” while carrying a club? Why shouldn’t I shout “F*ck islam!” on the street with an unruly and angry mob? Why can’t I preach that Islam is evil and worships a false prophet? Or that aboriginals are lazy? Or anything else I feel like saying? Why not? They denigrate me, my faith and my ancestors at every opportunity and I am supposed to accept it. Turn about is fair play, isn’t it? You had your turn, now it’s my turn, right? Suck it up princess. You made me take the icky medicine, now it’s your turn.
I’m a moral philosopher in pretty much the same sense that Mx Roxy Tickle is a woman. At the risk of the sin of scolding, I’d suggest that anyone who read past:
– and still thought this was a segue to a meaningful discussion – has missed something quite important.
11.19am
WA Premier Roger Cook has responded to fresh comments made by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the joke he made on the live sheep trade that fell flat for many.
“When we had dinner – beautiful Australian beef … not the live export … we made sure it was dead,” the prime minister joked at a dinner to celebrate the Rural Women’s Awards in Parliament House on Tuesday.
Cook came out to say he did not agree with the joke and that Albanese should apologise to WA’s farmers.
“The WA premier wasn’t there, with respect,” Albanese told reporters this morning when asked about Cook’s comments.
“I stand by the comments. I support both the beef trade in terms of packed meat and also live cattle.”
“As the prime minister said, I wasn’t there, but it’s clearly a joke which hasn’t gone down well,” Cook told Gary Adshead on 6PR this morning.
“It did cause disquiet and concern in the farming community, so I simply invited the prime minister to apologise and clarify his comments.”
When questioned on whether Albanese was “not reading the room” in WA in the lead-up to the next election, Cook said he was making decisions on behalf of the nation, not just WA.
“We account for almost all the live sheep trade, so obviously that issue is of greater impact in Western Australia than it is in other parts of Australia,” he said.
“I respect the fact that … they took this issue to the last election. We want to make sure that the farmers are supported. They work in an important industry for WA.”
Meanwhile, in Iran, the morality police have been arresting men for wearing shorts in 40 degree heat.
Men’s knees are a source of uncontrollable lust in women. Well known fact.
The ABS covered up the increase in actual deaths – Senate Estimates 13.6.24
Senator Gerard Rennick
When Cops Rescue Husbands from Evil Wives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NsfeJdEj84
One notices a pattern with evil women when they are about to be arrested:
As each stage proves itself unworkable, they move smoothly and effortlessly on to the next.
Well I have to hand it to the Dems, they pulled a really sneaky, dishonest, and extremely effective propaganda stunt tonight regarding Kamala’s speech at their convention.
Apparently they were so worried that people wouldn’t stick around for (or tune in to) Harris’s speech tonight that they got together with their propaganda team and “leaked” that either Taylor Swift or Beyonce were going to be closing the event after Harris spoke.
But neither did and their fans are apparently not amused.
Donald Trump Lays Into Kamala Harris in Truth Social, Play-by-Play Response
Police Arrest Arizona Man Who Threatened to Kill Trump
I won’t call him a typical Democrat but…
Interestingly, the Secret Service didn’t bother to inform Trump of the threat and the manhunt even though Trump was in the open visiting the Arizona/Mexican border today.
Countries like Malaysia and Thailand are flocking to join BRICS as a potential ‘counterweight against U.S. economic hegemony’
Jeff Bezos, Climate Scold, Buys 4th Private Jet for $80 Million
Did Commie Kamala read her Teleprompter ok?
“…Kamala’s speech..”
Let me guess: “The politics of failure have failed us. We must go forwards, not backwards. Upwards not forwards. And forever twirling, twirling, twirling…” <cue cheering crowd>
“We must do what we’ve always done to fix what still needs fixing. If it still doesn’t work, it’s only because those danged Republicans won’t let us do it full steam!”
“Donald Trump bad. Republicans bad. Kamala good.”
<more cheering>
“We must ignore democracy in order to save it. We must enslave you to ensure your freedom. We must gaol Trump before he can put us on trial.”
<thunderous applause with the national anthem playing in the background. Those on stage trying to sing, but not knowing the words>
Yawn, Same old same old.