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Dogs just love you don’t care if you fail.
Even the luxury models had to find new ways to stay mobile. ———- 1940 Peugeot 402B Gasifier Limousine Faced with…
TIK TOK, heard so much about it, had to look it up, basically it’s a video sharing social media app.…
I’ve heard of this proposal from friends on the Central Coast. One jokingly said they will use this to justify the Sydney-Newcastle VFT.
Thanks Tom. Sadly no one did a Raygun/Kamal interview meme. There’s a Presbyterian joke in there too.
Will The Biden-Harris Administration Allow the World’s Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism to Acquire Nuclear Weapons?
What will the world do if HAMAS ‘acquires’ a nuke and detonates it over Tel Aviv?
Probably watch on in amazement with the Mad Mullahs when they see Iran turn to glass along with Lebanon, Syria and a few other gulf states.
In reality, if it gets to that stage, there may be a quite significant event happening that will make them realise their Mahdi is not coming but the true and living God is.
I am always amused when I see this type of “argument” put forward. It reflects the short sightedness of the purveyor, who appears to be living in 1967 or 1973 still.
The situation in the Middle East has changed, drastically.
Do you really believe, that other players in the region, will simply sit back and say, “oh, ….., fair cop!”
Three nukes end Israel, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Dimona.
Turkey, (through Pakistan) and Russia will certainly reply to any “glassing”.
China, already deploying Naval assets to the region, will would certainly assist, though probably not with nukes.
It is indeed possible, that Bibi Pfizer will go down the road of “Total Destruction” of Israel. We shall see.
Anyone who is not insane however, hopes that more prudent heads will prevail.
Hold a demonstration blaming the Israelis.
As I have said before, the USA may be beyond saving because there are too many bad actors in too many places. This post from Gateway pundit is illustrative.
“A complaint filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission says a town in Rusk County is breaking the law by refusing to make voting machines available to voters with disabilities. Despite a warning from the U.S. Department of Justice, the town allegedly conducted the August primary election using only hand-counted, paper ballots.
The complaint filed by Disability Rights Wisconsin says the Town of Thornapple violated the federal Help America Vote Act by not making electronic voting machines available to people with disabilities during the April and August primaries.”
It goes on and on!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/georgia-governor-bran-kemp-is-preventing-investigation-2020/
Blind spot, huh. A more likely explanation, JC, is that Trump is bullshitting, and doesn’t care if he is right or wrong, just that he likes the sounds coming out of his mouth.
The policy you reference kicks in at $100 million. Anyone actually impacted by this proposed tax has money to burn. My heart does not bleed for them.
Happy Fathers’ Day to all Daddy Cats.
First one without mine. I do miss him.
Bless, Calli.
I was just thinking of my dad.
He died in January, 1977.
Will have a toast for all Dads today. 😀
65th without mine.
I don’t miss him.
60th without mine. I remember Him often.
Bruce of Newcastle
September 1, 2024 6:31 am
Weird how NSW police having lost respect of the public is now having big problems getting recruits.
The ADF is having the same problems.
DEI in the recruiting policy is a shambles.
Mate tells me infantry is beyond critical at all lower ranks than staff grade. They have a surplus of WO1’s and senior officers though.
Despite the shortages they are also from what he hears culling older SNCO’s by putting them to ceiling rank or putting them to Med Boards for minor ailments. A lot of these guys have served on battlefields in ME and a sizable amount have kept current by accepting postings to battalions/schools/Combat training centres.
This why I don’t think conflict is imminent or that if it happens we will be involved in any significant capacity anyway.
A few weeks ago in a conversation with a still serving WO1, a mate of his in recruiting had gone to rural schools to get school kids to sign up for a gap year in the Army. Got 40 keen school boys all signed up ready to go only to be told ‘you will have to tell them all that they wont be going because we are getting 40 school girls to go instead.’
Also in same conversation, there is a special category for ‘single mothers’ to join the Army. 8am to 16:00 hours Monday to Friday and time off to helicopter kids to and from school/daycare, medical appointments and if the kids get sick. No night or weekend night duties and no deployments. They are eligible for promotion courses however. None of this is available for single dads. The military males have to pickup the slack for this crap.
Cuck Generals who sold their souls for their rank offering their soldiers up for sacrifice at civilian political show trials for “war crimes” will do that.
Every. Single. Time.
That was absolutely unbelievable, and unforgivable. Maybe they can explain why the ADF even has a “Military Justice System” if they refuse to be responsible enough to use it for the purpose it was designed.
It’s called a Court Martial sir. Look it up.
Oh, and the powers that be knew exactly what they were doing when they started crucifying SAS members and VC holders loudly and publicly. Them whining about recruitment numbers now is a sham.
Happy Fathers’ Day to all Daddy Cats.
Indeed, but I don’t and won’t wish Happy Father’s Day to fathers who are Nazis.
Even if it kicks in at a billion, how do you pay it and get it back if the value goes down?
And pay it yearly if the market is going up, soon there is no value left.
You just invested in a property in Ballarat, are you ready to pay this tax?
I don’t think you have thought this through.
If you own more than $100 million in assets, I don’t want to hear whining about how you are a poor downtrodden victim of the system. That way lies the guillotine.
If you think that the level won’t drop over time until everyone with property is caught by it, you have not been watching.
Or you are even more stupid than you usually seem.
No power for us here in Tassie since yesterday afternoon. Not expected back until at least tomorrow afternoon. One of our two generators for electric fences and water shut down overnight so trying to sort that out. No end in sight to the current weather event. Fun to be had in the world of renewables…
Father’s Day.
Much celebrating and fun to be had.
BUT!!!
Here is a list of activities that are frowned upon, especially from the aged Cat Dads. You know who you are. 😀 😀 😀
https://x.com/TheLtColUSMC/status/1829485631518736793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1829485631518736793%7Ctwgr%5Eacdc62f472ca7dcd6b72c79d66f13f02b86f5842%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
That way lies the guillotine.
Please note how our resident Nazi is advocating violence towards those who might have/own more than he does.
One more tribute for Dads today.
A musical piece. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngqqfHPTrHo&t=132s
At 8pm last night I posted a full article which is now in today’s Herald Sun.
Headline is :
“Children to be asked pronouns at libraries under new taxpayer funded guidelines”.
Good to see the readers of HS are giving it the comments it deserves with nearly 300 so far.
If you live in VIC might want to think about commenting at HS, contacting MP’s or your local library as this is going to affect your families.
Hopefully Peta Credlin, Rita Panahi, Andrew Bolt, 3AW etc go to town on this story and it gets national attention.
Anyone asks, train your children to reply “fcuk of paedo”
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The policy you reference kicks in at $100 million. Anyone actually impacted by this proposed tax has money to burn. My heart does not bleed for them.
It’s because you have no dick.
The idiot hasn’t worked out that just because it’s $100 million this year, doesn’t mean it won’t be $50 million next year, and $10 million the year after.
It won’t be too long before the goose being plucked for feathers starts squawking very loudly.
And no blood with which to harden the dick, even if he did have one.
If you live in VIC might want to think about commenting at HS, contacting MP’s or your local library as this is going to affect your families.
Except those local MPs generally do nothing, castrated by a fatal combination of weakness, supineness and being too scared to rock the political boat.
Exactly Cassie family members of mine are in both East Bendigo and Euroa. East Bendigo is a write off but the ones in Euroa reckon Annabelle Cleeland is even more useless than Steph Ryan was. Doesn’t answer correspondence, does nothing and is completely invisible unless the local Ag Shows are on.
And in the case of Labor, you will vote as you are instructed to do.
Businesses drive the economy: they make the products we buy, they provide the jobs and salaries for products? They pay taxes and the people they employ pay taxes – and the government still groans about the private sector not contributing its ‘fair share’ – an infantile turn of phrase more appropriate to a primary school dealing out lollies from a bag.
The people complaining that businesses do not pay their ‘fair share’ produce no wealth. They harvest taxes from businesses and the people they employ and give it to their own dependents in the public service and welfare class – while styling themselves as businesses with ‘clients’, ‘CEOs’, ‘investment’ etc.
Sure there are some things government must do, but that justifiable mission has long since been far exceeded. A bloated, ravenous, sclerotic, unwieldy monster that complains that those that keep it alive are not doing enough.
what do they really think will happen when they carve out $550 billion from profits? Well the next year the haul will go down because of the reduction in investment and lower risk business decisions. Next year there will be less.
However the schemes for how the government will spend money will not decrease. In fact they will grow, a new shortfall will emerge.
Guess how they will combat that.
Happy Fathers Day
mUnturd at 0659 comes out as a full blown communist, albeit one who owns investment properties and is a Kulak running a business.
If he seems confused, it is because he demonstrably is.
a brazillian reasons to support free speech
The brilliant Bee
Challenger Kamala Harris Agrees To Debate Incumbent Kamala Harris
Oh dear…
Has monty been feeding the crocodile again?
Given both his bodily and financial (two investment properties, plus own home, plus superannuation, plus business) corpulence, he is unlikely to be successful.
Good morning mUnturd, thanks for reading.
Odd new phrase to describe “masturbating”, Roger, but it fits in this case.
Without Israel’s knowledge? Apart from anything else, there was a serious breakdown in intelligence.
6000 terrorists infiltrated Israel: The real numbers behind the October 7th attack
Brazil block on social network X goes into effect joining other countries around the world
Joe Rogan tears into Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama for hypocrisy
Rowan Dean
‘Plucking words at random’ makes more sense than ‘anything’ Kamala Harris says
WATCH Kamala’s Pastor Talk About Destruction of America
“Greed, bigotry and too many whites with this evil, brutal system, built the American economy”
More sneaky business from the Vicco government.
‘Dodgiest deal’: Getaway star Catriona Rowntree fumes over renewables project next door (1 Sep)
I suspect she has a lot of followers, so I hope she keeps on writing about this stupid project.
It’s different when it’s your backyard that affected, eh Catriona?
Damn straight, Megan. I haven’t heard her complaining before. Mind you, “Where is Catriona Rowntree” isn’t listed in my 1,000 favorite search terms.
Why are Indian-American Voters leaning towards Donand Trump?
Supporting free speech should be a given. How have we reached a point where it needs to be justified?
The Influence of Gunther Eagleman: How This Prominent MAGA Voice is Shaping Discourse on X
Without a doubt – and that’s the point.
@GuntherEagleman
Kamala Harris’s 25% tax on unrealized gains will be the end of America and the middle class as we know it.
Bring on the gulags?
@jefftimmer
Once Trump is defeated AGAIN, we are going to have to come to grips with the fact there are approaching 40 million people in this country who’ve been radicalized like ISIS. People who may never be normal again. That’s a problem.
40 million is the number of Americans that the Weatherman Leader admitted would need to go into the Re-Education/Concentration Camps in the 70’s when he was interviewed on TV.
Meme
Home prices up 39% since Kamala Harris became VP
Mmm…she wants it moved further up the road to a disused quarry site.
So, it’s not an in principle objection to the renewables scam.
It’s more…’Not next to my farm!’
Probably votes Teal.
A quarry would be better than farmland at least.
Amazing how Lock The Gate has mysteriously vanished from the political landscape lately.
As Gez has detailed, our stupid governments don’t care.
On a brighter note, in north QLD some genuine conservationists have had victories in the courts against the government and renewables grifters and managed to reduce or halt a couple of large projects in rainforests.
Exactly my thoughts too. Though Rountree keeps her politics to herself from what I can google which is a rarity for celeb’s.
I have however watched her new show a couple of times. Oozes pretentiousness, I’d agree this is more a NIMBY than objection to these monstrosities that fleece that tax payer.
Unbelievable.
@ggreenwald
PT — Brazil’s ruling party — continues to use X to promote its candidates in the upcoming municipal elections despite their judicial leader’s ban of X:
Fatboy
Trump has been warning about American trade since the 90/s. And he’s been consistent.
The proposed tax on unrealised gains is purely envy driven. Not all assets are publicly listed and it would be a total nightmare in the private markets. You fat lesbian.
How long until Uncle Mario and dim Jim think this is a good idea?
In a Peta Credlin piece in the Telegraph. He has zero phucks about this country as the article will describe.
Why VPN?
The government can break into any system they want to, so why bother?
I was considering getting a VPN subscription but honestly can’t justify it.
I keep getting scammer emails, but not opening them seems more cost effective than a VPN subscription.
Still tossing it up but what are the costs and benefits?
Some videos and sites, like Blazing Cat Fur, have been geoblocked – the latter by Telstra and Optus. By using a VPN they don’t know what url you are trying to visit, so they can’t block it.
It’s also a neat way to fox the personalized ad stuff, especially from Goolag. I dislike Goolag collecting masses of information about who I am.
A VPN doesn’t do anything about scam emails – that’s because they have your email address in their database.
Anyone who asks “why VPN?” needs one.
My searches on the web prove to me that the only people who say that, alwaysright, are the ones who want to sell me one.
Surfshark – $60 ish for 2 years.
Explanation for JC – the goil has rather bushy eyebrows.
I imagine quite a few Brits are now wishing they’d turned out to vote:
Keir Starmer has broken a pre-election promise and scrapped the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners as part of an austerity drive to plug a £22 billion “black hole” in the government’s exchequer account at the Bank of England.
But at the same time he’s also found £12 billion to donate to international climate aid.
Democracy, good and hard.
He needs the money for all those millions of “asylum” seekers who have precedence over old Brits.
Exactly how would it have been any different under the other mob?
Uses for a VPN
FWIW – In Brasil vs Musk
“Mischief Is Important”
“American AF @iAnonPatriot • 4h
BREAKING
Millions of people around the world are setting their VPNs to
Brazil, to mess with the Brazilian authorities. ”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/08/31/mischief-is-important-48/
Peta Credlin:
A Group One track record of incompetence and wilful destruction.
Great rant!
Starmer is more proof that politics attracts psychopaths.
He certainly doesn’t seem to have any qualms about breaking promises.
Meanwhile, old footage of him as Crown Prosecutor has emerged in which he explains why, in a democracy, a high threshold for prosecuting cases that involve free speech must be maintained.
I’m beginning to think he can’t be trusted (sarc).
He’s a shiver looking for a back to run up and down.
Credlin again on the people monty detests, real women and the Tickle judgement:
they’re all mental
Is this your idea of a woman monty? You insufferable idiot.
Why the hell would Mr Tickle want to go to ladies only chat rooms, no doubt these women would be late teens/early 20s? What in common does this arsehole have in to talk about with these women? The weather, actions of government?
She wants to chat with you little girl, Monty.
expecially mental
Did anyone find a gofundme page for the girls to fight this decision?
Always fun when the antisemitic Left is insufficiently antisemitic for the antisemites…whereupon the antisemites flock to the Greens instead.
Kamala Harris tied with Green Party candidate Jill Stein among Muslim voters, damning poll reveals (31 Aug)
It’s been amazingly revealing to see how the Greens have turned into actual Nazis like this. And how many of the population actually support them.
Black Ball
September 1, 2024 9:24 am
If that thing according to the law is allowed to pass and/or identify as a woman, it is one horrid looking woman.
DNA/chromosome test it to remove all doubt.
I long held the view that prosecuting women for having sex with under age boys was a nonsense.
I was wrong. Macron demonstrates that the negative effects can be severe and long lasting.
The problem is that in Qld you can now claim to be other sex and they will give you a new birth certificate to confirm identity. That then leads to passports. You can even change back again.
However the Tickle case has been on the boil for a while. Would be interesting to get a date on when the birth certificate was issued as I thought the legislation was fairly recent. Did she have it when she lodged her complaint?
“Finding in Tickle’s favour, it is sufficient, the judge said that “Ms Tickle is recorded as being female on her updated Queensland birth certificate for her to be, at law, of the female sex”.
I’m going to identify as asteroid 16 Psyche, and I’m going to charge NASA to land on me.
The passport could get you into a world of hurt o/s if you have to answer questions or be searched……
Tickle is a man. Don’t apply feminine pronouns to him.
Listening to the Kamala word salad, it brought back memories of the 1958 party political speech by Peter Sellers.
Life imitates art.
.. My friends, in the light of present-day developments let me say right away that I do not regard existing conditions likely. On the contrary, I have always regarded them as subjects of the gravest responsibility and shall ever continue to do so. Indeed, I will go further and state quite categorically that I am more than sensible of the (exact) definition of the precise issues which are at this very moment concerning us all. We must build, but we must build surely. Hear, hear! – Let me say just this: If any part of what I am saying is challenged, then I am more than ready to meet such a challenge. For I have no doubt whatsoever that whatever I may have said in the past, or what I am saying now, is the exact, literal and absolute truth as to the state (?) of the case. – Hear, hear! -I put it to you that this is not the time for vague promises of better things to come. For, if I were to convey to you a spirit of false optimism, then I should be neither fair to you nor true to myself. But does this mean, I hear you cry, that we can no longer look forward to the future that is to come? Certainly not! Voice from the audience: What about the workers? “What about the workers?”; indeed sir! Grasp, I beseech you, with both hands [Aside: I’m so sorry, I beg your pardon, madam.] the opportunities that are offered. Let us assume a bold front and go forward together. Let us carry the fight [noise of a blow being struck] against ignorance to the four corners of the earth because it is a fight which concerns us all. Now, finally my friends, in conclusion, let me say just this: [BIG SILENCE !!!]
Worth a listen.
The LNP will rush to reverse this legislation when they form government.
Cough.
Roger,
Sadly I agree with your “cough”.
Crisafulli does not inspire me with confidence.
I think there’s more to the story than we are being told. I have come across little harassment on mine sites and camps. If anything some camps are like Melrose Park! The worst I have seen was the possible soliciting of Phillo cleaners in a non affiliated camp at Moranbah and that was never 1st hand just from the signs put up warning guests not to do.
If anything the pendulum has swung so far the other way giants like BHP are entertaining frivolous complaints these days and stories like the daily mail article still being written with no proof, just one sides word:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13779479/FIFO-Brooke-McIntosh-sexual-harassment.html
Personally like a lot of women who try FIFO mining it wasn’t for her and she needed a face saving way out.
@MakisMD
NEW ARTICLE: IVERMECTIN should be given to ALL Advanced Breast Cancer patients – outperforms chemo Paclitaxel and kills Cancer Stem Cells!
A 2017 bombshell study by Mexican researchers should have changed how Breast Cancer is treated. Forever.
In the 2017 paper “Ivermectin as an inhibitor of Cancer Stem Cells”, researchers from Mexico City take on a theory that Ivermectin could annihilate Breast Cancer Stem Cells.
How long has it been known that Ivermectin can be used to treat cancer? Since 1996!
What are Cancer Stem Cells?
“Although the largest cell burden of a tumor is formed by the so-called bulk tumor cells, a small subpopulation of cells within the tumor has recently been identified, which presents a stem cell phenotype, due to the similarities to these cells have been called “cancer stem-like cells” (CSCs)”
“This cell population generally has the characteristic of unlimited self-renew” and is responsible for metastasis and recurrence
In 2009, MIT and Harvard researchers discovered that an anti-parasitic, Salinomycin, could reduce Breast Cancer Stem Cells by more than 100 fold compared to chemotherapy paclitaxel (Taxol), and inhibit breast tumor growth.
The Mexican researchers in this study searched for the molecule most resembling Salinomycin and after searching 1623 compounds, they found it – it was IVERMECTIN!
“Ivermectin preferentially inhibits the viability of Cancer Stem Cell – enriched populations compared with the total cell population. The opposite pattern was observed with paclitaxel treatment.”
Ivermectin also decreased expression of three “stemness genes” reported to be highly expressed in Cancer Stem Cells.
CONCLUSION: “In conclusion, results from the present study demonstrated that ivermectin preferentially targeted the stem cell population in MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells.
Ivermectin has been demonstrated to be safe, following treatment of millions of patients with onchocerciasis and other parasitic diseases, which makes it a strong candidate for further studies investigating its potential use as a repurposed drug for cancer therapy.”
The implications are staggering.
1. Ivermectin outperforms chemotherapy (paclitaxel)
2. Ivermectin destroys Cancer Stem Cells which are responsible for Cancer Treatment failure, metastasis and breast cancer recurrence.
3. Ivermectin destroys Cancer Stem Cells at a rate of over 100 fold compared to chemotherapy
4. Ivermectin also downregulates expression of “stemness genes” which are highly expressed in Cancer Stem Cells.
Bottom line: Every Advanced Breast Cancer patient should get Ivermectin to eliminate Cancer Stem Cells and reduce the risks of treatment failure, metastases and recurrence.
So why don’t they? I think we all know the answer.
Wot! Giving horse medicine to cancer patients? Appalling! //Sarc//
Thankfully, the Peter Sellers “party political speech” is available in all its satirical glory on Youtube.com.
I grew up with the LP Best Of Sellers, and of course The Goon Show on radio.
Brown was (and still is) a serious front and centre environmental activist. Those credentials, combined with his odd gentle outward persona, helped mainstream the Greens by appealing to people who somehow thought that a Senate vote might send a message which would lead to a nicer, cleaner environment – the so-called ‘doctors’ wives vote’.
Bandt, on the other hand, is a caricature hardline urban Marxist, career industrial activist, and all round dead shit. Like the rest of his pack, he wouldn’t know a Thylacene if one bit his arse – although the environment is occasionally a convenient hat to wear in pursuit of other goals.
While the likes of Bandt would never have got the Greens off the ground 30 years ago, in the present era of grievance and identity politics, it appears he is able to haul in young voters, grab agendas, and drive the Greens into third force position. From where the little fakir can cause massive damage.
Simply lumping Brown and Bandt together in the ‘communist POS’ bucket probably doesn’t give a complete picture of what is going on.
It really really bothers me that hundreds of erstwhile sensible normal bright librarians all over Victoria are suddenly having to turn into gender evangelists around little children. Surely some of them will resign in protest. Or, as with the military and the police, there will be over time a failure to recruit to the profession.
I expect most will fail to ask the question of any child not showing overt signs of gender confusions.
Non-compliance is the usual result of such silliness.
Yes, I’d be one of those simply ignoring the command from on high.
But then, for me, t’was ever thus. Idiot orders require total disobedience.
…or outright cunning.
When recruiting for a position, the recruiters will ask the future librarian if they would ask the question/conform to the rule.
You can be assured the people asking that question will take very careful note of the answer, and they will not be randomly picked either.
Entryism – the technique that fills employment positions with just the ‘right’ people, and now filling positions in your local police force.
See how that works?
“The Call to Action was a strong presentation particularly by Nadine Taylor former UK head of Fathers4Justice – I only wish I were younger but nonetheless I intend help wherever I can.”
Tinta and others interested in this issue, in reply to your comment earlier today I have briefly added my own experiences in seeking justice long ago for my son in his custody battles. I too will help where I can.
NKP suggests link.
Here’s Peter Sellers
PETER SELLERS – ‘Party Political Speech’ – 1958 (youtube.com)
“It really really bothers me that hundreds of erstwhile sensible normal bright librarians all over Victoria are suddenly having to turn into gender evangelists”
I think we might see a certain type gravitating towards working in libraries. Naturally it will be considered discrimination to comment negatively towards any staff member who follows the guidelines and asks kids their pronouns.
Expect more drag story time events.
VIC has to fight back on this issue so it does not spread.
Parents have a role here. If they stay silent, then they are complicit.
So are teachers and teacher librarians.
What could go wrong? Libraries will become fishing/phishing grounds for predators.The names, contacts and locations of vulnerable prey will then be leaked and circulated to the creepy rock spiders.
Muzzies starting to flex their inbred muscles:
Muslim Votes Matter’s election warning to Labor ahead of national launch | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
The liars and the filth have sponsored the influx of inbred muzzies believing they could control the rabid monsters. But just like everywhere else in the world where leftoids have imported muzzie vote herds eventually when a Peter Hammond threshold occurs the designated muzzie victims turns on the leftoids. This first happened when the iranian leftoids led the charge to get rid of the Shah and ushered in the mad mullahs. The first ones on the execution block were the trade unionists, academics and media fukwits who had opposed the Shah.
The West is being destroyed before our eyes by leftoids.
Cohenite, the Iranian Revolution was almost funny in a Ceausescu sort of way.
The Iranian Wukkas Party (MEK) was invited to many, many, Victory Banquets by the Mullahs after the Shah left town.
To their short lived consternation, the first gifts were bullets where the ‘Godless Communists’ were slaughtered in their thousands in multiple locations.
Then the food was served.
Had the GC read history instead of making it, they’d have realised this was a favourite Islamic practice when an enemy was defeated.
The genuine Marxist Bandt called Brown’s Greens bourgeois.
That was before he joined the party in a classic instance of entryism.
Brown was a useful idiot, not a Communist.
His erstwhile party has now been captured by the hard left, leaving Brown in his Tasmanian retreat muttering in vain about windmills killing birdlife.
Overheard at the Olympics:
Lol, good one.
Catriona Rowntree has slammed the Victorian government over “secretive” plans to build a massive renewable energy battery project next to her farm southwest of Melbourne.
BoN
Women in our group have contacted Catriona and she’s keen to help us out.
If you piss off country women there’s a world of pain coming. Get ready Jacinta.
That’s very good news Gez!
She’s always had a lot of energy, so getting her involved could have very positive results. She’s a widely admired lady also.
Bit more to the story, apparently, she doesn’t want it next door to her but is happy for it to be moved a few kms up the road to a disused quarry site ..
One of those “celebrity” do good tales leaving out the self-serving details.
I’ve never thought that Brown was harmless. One of the earlier Marxist wreckers and meja anti-heros. Could never stand that winey sanctimonious voice either.
Has any journalist investigated any funding behind the pro Palestinine/pro Hamas protests since Oct 7th? Thousand and thousands of Pali flags professional banners etc.
Those from Inner-West Sydney maybe familiar with the footbridge cyclepath that crosses the M4 at Homebush. When I crossed it on Friday evening going home at peak hour a large Free Palestine banner had been put up on the security fencing above the handrails along with two or more Pali flags. The two activists who manned the protest must have scaled the fence illegally to put it up.
I wonder how these buggers get away with it. As I went past I told them “why don’t you release the hostages?” I’m not much of an interventionist with these things but at least they would’ve heard a dissenting voice.
Every little bit helps, Titus.
Pali flag isn’t even from that area, actually stolen design from the defunct Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz on the western side of the Saudi Peninsula.
The name Palestine has descended from Philistines and was dubbed by the Romans on conquest of the area.
After the British mandate had the attached flag, that has a star of David on and is blue/white…
Our Universities are run by idiots, our Government is run by idiots and of course the foot soldiers are the useful idiots.
One eighth of zakat is for the irregular fighters.
Multiply that by 2 billion and it’s a lot of available dosh.
They get away with it because we let them get away with it.
I’ve never thought that Brown was harmless. One of the earlier Marxist wreckers and meja anti-heros. Could never stand that winey sanctimonious voice either.
Too much swallowing after sucking dick will do that to your voice.
Breaking news :
Premier of VIC has run a survey which says VIC welcomes more Gazans.
The 156 Palestinians they surveyed all in favour.
However they don’t support the library initiative.
156? Out of how many Victorians? They didn’t ask us.
Oh, on rereading, I misread. Did they ask any Victorians?
Nobody said he was harmless.
He just wasn’t a Communist.
Apropos Bandt and his ilk…
Joseph T. Salerno, The Misesian, 30 August 2024
State Libraries in WA have long been populated by otherwise unemployable busybodies, with the Queer Qarens easily rising to boss roles.
They opened doors to Men Dressed As Hags And Simpering To Someone Else’s Kids Story Time, and welcomed them in.
This one’s for military Cats.
Reading “Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War.”
Task Force Routine Orders, December 1968
“All members leaving the theatre on RTA (Return to Australia) or R and R are to be inspected by an Officer of HQ (Headquarters) 1ATF (Australian Task Force). Any member who is improperly dressed or whose dress is not up to standard will be returned to his unit.” (Page 399)
Getting turned back by some pogo, after twelve months of active service because of crumpled greens or dirty boots……
Silly you.
It would be about her penis of course!
Surprised Comrade Montgomery hasn’t pointed this out already.
Let’s not forget, the Gimp has today free because his sprogs are spending the day with the Milko.
I think he may have had it off, but there will still be the memories to discuss. And discussion of the new equipment, which he will call a ‘hole’. Erk.
About VPNs
Ok it looks like Proton is ahead by a bit.
Does this have any interaction problems with Telstra Broadband?
It supposedly will list my location in Switzerland, but I can change it to anywhere, yes?
Do they put any unremovable cookies on my computers? And is this a problem?
Thanks for answers.
Forget all this ballyhoo you read about high inflation it’s just a furphy ..!
Feds have come up with inflation/cost of living is a tick over 2% to be reflected in the OAP September pittance renumeration …….
So NSW “Houso” is gonna cop $7/fn of that .. brings it down to $21 and the bloody phone I had to buy ($100) to go from 3 to 4G takes the 1st 10 weeks increase …… Gonna be in clover by New Year … LOL!
$28.10 a fortnight for singles, and $42.40 a fortnight for couples.
from my understanding, back in the late 1800’s ‘democracy’ didn’t quite have the same meaning it has now.
Had a much more revolutionary tinge
1848 was the year of failed revolutions.
And apropos nothing in particular…
During their time in Spandau Prison, former admirals Donitz & Raeder were assigned to work in the library.
When they weren’t checking out books and restacking the shelves, they refought naval battles and criticised each other’s wartime performance.
Their fellow prisoners referred to them sardonically as “the naval department.”
Fish and chips!
Why seagulls don’t want your chips as much as you might think (Phys.org, 31 Aug)
Seagull luxury! Ok yes, given what is in cat food I can see why they might prefer fresh fish. I would too! On the other hand my experience is that when offered food of any sort they will take it. Food, after all, is better than no food.
Currently vast amounts of bread is being fed to the noisies here at the Cafe, they have lots of chicks. Doesn’t seem to harm them. And the only time I tried to get a seagull to accept food from my hand was with bread – which she took with alacrity. The downside of that exchange was the pelican – who having seen the seagull accepting bread became interested also. She nearly took the skin off my hand: I found out that pelicans have a rasp-like structure inside their beaks. Probably to help hold onto slippery fish, but it wasn’t at all good for my hand.
What is the point of this research and who the heck is funding it?
I’d say 80-90% of the stuff I see in the science news is completely useless. And all of it is funded by taxpayers. Science is dying.
They are probably like us evolved humans, Bruce, and can survive quite well on a highly adaptive diet. Eat what’s around and be glad of it.
the pelican’s beak
and for fun reading … mega sea gulls with (sort of) teeth
More bad news on Chrisifooli. Apparently if the words of the shadow LG minister are true I don’t see administrators coming to Townsville City Council soon even with our version of Tim Walz as part time Mayor. The council is a basket case too.
Also the new part time mayor has more problems on his plate. CCC now looking into developer donations. This city has had enough of developers fleecing ratepayers with Laurence Lancini having hands out to renew the CBD that no-one frequents let alone more their ilk. I do know the Wagner’s slinking around up this way as well. Guess the stench of developer corruption will be studiously avoided for another government…
I suspect Chrisafooli will get elected and spend 4 years doing nothing only to get rolled in 2028 by whoever comes next.
FWIW – not a nice Sunday read on how free speech is going
“DEMOCRACY AND SPEECH ? Saturday, August 31, 2024 ? C&C NEWS ?
Special C&C Freedom Edition: how the globalists hope to capture the 2024 elections and what to do about it.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/democracy-and-speech-saturday-august?
We watched all seven half-hour episodes of Baby Reindeer (Netflix recently) last nite in a marathon of immediacy because we didn’t think we’d ever pick it up again if we stalled half way. Yes, it is that difficult, that disturbing. It’s a tale of sadness and loss, obsession, stalking, sexual confusion, anal rape, self-destruction and mental illness, all shot in a slightly off-kilter manner with associated creepy music, whic work well to raise hackles on the back of your neck at the weirdness and pity of it all. Irritating too. Grow up, I say to the hero, half way through. You stupid git, get outta town for a while, adds Hairy.
The actor is the man to whom this stalking happened, the stalking female is superbly portrayed, and apparently the IRL role model for this female character has some serious objections to the depiction. All grist to the mill of it. It had certain resonances to me of Saltburn, another strange movie inflected with the new twist on British eccentricism that seems to be all the rage these days. Plenty of black characters in multi-culti Britain, set in London, but nicely exploiting too the gritty northern context of the hero’s origin. Why do people do these things ( re the stalker) and why doesn’t he just get over himself (the hero)? Well, the explanations are there and you just might be convinced. Or not.
I have to believe that there is a special place burning in eternal Hell for this disgusting POS and all the smiling leftard clapping bints around him;
https://x.com/leslibless/status/1829362993705975808
Legendary cartoonist Michael Leunig says it’s ‘embarrassing’ to have been associated with The AgeJames Madden and Sophie Elsworth
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Legendary cartoonist Michael Leunig says he’s embarrassed to be associated with The Age newspaper after his 55-year career at the Melbourne masthead was terminated last week.
In what he described as a “throat-cutting exercise”, the 79-year-old said he was left gobsmacked after reading Age editor Patrick Elligett’s subscriber email newsletter on Friday night which said the cartoonist had “filed his last editorial illustration for The Age”.
Although Leunig had received a call from Elligett days earlier to tell him his time was up, the cartoonist was stunned when the editor’s note failed to reference the circumstances of his departure.
“There was no mention of the fact that he (Elligett) gave me the axe,” Leunig told Diary.
“I was expecting it, as I have parted ways with The Age philosophically (and) culturally. I don’t read it really, I just scan it. It’s a sad story because I began there when it was a substantial newspaper.
“It’s almost embarrassing now to say that I worked for The Age, it’s become like a tacky tabloid.”
Sad. Leunig may be a lefty but he’s always been consistent. And fairly interesting.
This seems to be another sign that Nine/Fairfax is dying. Booting icons like Leunig as a cost cutting exercise isn’t going to return financial viability. GWGB.
Not sure about the actual law but Fauxfacts has been through several rounds of redundancies. Well into the old wood by now.
Christ only knows what he reads then. The guardian? The socialist worker. Trans today?
I worked with Mick Leunig at The Age for years and we got on well.
I even remember when he drew hilarious cartoons for the left-wing weekly Nation Review (for which I also wrote) in the 1970s.
His cartoons were hilarious, naughty and outrageous — the opposite of the soullesss, humorless, factless leftwing wannabe revolution factory The Age eventually became.
It turns out Leunig was hoping the politburo crocodile would eat him last.
I hope he doesn’t get too melancholy and that his new-found artistic freedom reawakens the creative fire within.
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Would be a certain Top10 for Men who Look Like Old Lesbians.
Right behind David Marr and Michael Moore.
There was that very interesting book from the 90s The Revolt of the Elites– it’s happening again on a much larger scale and they’re not even pretending.
https://thewire.in/culture/the-controversy-surrounding-baby-reindeer-is-an-important-lesson-in-media-ethics
When is a story true and defamatory, and when is it not?
It would be about her penis of course!
An oxymoron.
It took Leuning 55 years to work this out?
I thought that too
Bob Brown is many things but ‘communist/Marxist’ is not one of them.
Credlin again on the people monty detests, real women and the Tickle judgement:
The Nazi also detests real men.
is recorded as being female on her updated Queensland birth certificate for her to be, at law, of the female sex
What’s next in Queensland, the value of pi is equal to 3 by law?
then 1 + 1 would equal pi (for very large values of 1)
Monty is your typical armchair marxist- I know/have known quite a few of them. Affluent lifestyle while trying to play the hard done by proletarian.
I’m related to two of said armchair Marxist’s – I don’t have much to say to them.
Self-proclaimed upper middle class (by marriage). A true class enemy.
Why seagulls don’t want your chips as much as you might think
Try using chips cooked in beef tallow. The gulls may know about the problems of seed oils.
So many bang on about wanting longer terms between elections. I’ll bet five years is feeling like a long time for many Britons now. Four more years felt a long time for me the day after Dandrews won the last Victorian election. Fixed terms, too.
Many push four years as better than three by pointing to the US presidential elections but that ignores the midterms for the whole House of Representatives and a good chunk of senators at two years.
I’m happy with three years to limit the extent of the damage and pleased it’s baked into our constitution.
We watched all seven half-hour episodes of Baby Reindeer (Netflix recently)
Lizzie, my mother, never known for being very diplomatic and becoming less so in her dotage, watched the first episode with me, thought it was dreadful and now refers to it as….Baby Elephant.
Did you continue on with it? We were in part appalled, in part fascinated.
I see it doesn’t create much interest here. lol. Says something.
Very pleasant sunny morning at the rifle range this morning. Next to no wind.
Scored 372 on two cards. (8 targets 5 rounds in each, max score 50 for total 400).
Mrs Eyrie scored 377. One card each of 192, so there’s that. Worked on the rifles and all the gear and it is working for us. Great fun.
Sounds like a great day!
Just perusing the 4 volumes of my Father’s Day gift: A History of the English Speaking Peoples by Churchill. In good nick too from the UK. What a wonderful body of work – looking forward to commencing the task!
I read it years ago. I enjoyed it then. Wonder about now.
I think I might still like its solid British ethos.
I will never forget Brown saying, while still in parliament –
“One world government, one person one vote, what could be fairer.”
I doubt he was that naive. He might have had a gentler personality but he was closer to Bandt than you might think.
Brown will be one of the first against the wall for failure to be enthusiastic about the aims of the party after the Revolution.
Bandt will be one of the firing party.
Douglas Carswell
The EU Is Killing Europe
The unsaid part – No borders.
Sky News host warns of the left’s desire to ‘suppress’ free speech
The Danger of Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains
Rejected under the HS library article. Merely stating a fact.
“Legislation regarding pronouns was the issue that Professor Jordan Peterson raised a warning about at Toronto University in 2017”
To his credit, Bob Brown did rail against the environmental wreckage of hydro dams and bird choppers… but there was that one time when he made a great queen of himself bawling from the parliament mezzanine at Bush Jr because he was literally an election-stealing dictator… and then gushing over the CCP Premier a week later.
So no, he’s not my favourite Earthian.
In news just in…..
The IDF retrieved the bodies of several Israeli hostages in Gaza, including Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi and Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the families confirmed on Instagram Sunday morning. The IDF announced on Saturday night that they had found more bodies underground in Gaza, but did not confirm the names.
May the memory of Ori, Eden and Hersh be a blessing for eternity. May their deaths be avenged.
This is when I do NOT believe in the Christian ethos of vengeance being Gods’.
I believe in Revenge rained on the perps until there is only enough left for a dust pan.
Don’t you think use of atomic weapons a little drastic?
Not drastic enough.
No.
The lesson must be taught. Islam will not heed a few puny HE bombs – in fact their leaders would love to be able to point at the rubble, complete with dust free teddy bears and flowers, as further proof of the Christians ‘barbarity’ toward the innocent Muslims of the Middle East, Inshallah.
I think – according to my calculations – about fifty five 400Kt nukes on the Iranian and Afghanistan’s major population centres would be sufficient to give the Mullahs pause.
But let’s admit it, even if Israel were to drop twenty or so concrete/bacon dummy bombs, that would be enough to send the population running for the hills. It may even be enough to wake up the devout followers of Islam to get rid of their death cult leaders.
Just give them a ‘knock on the roof’ first. The 7.5 million in Tehran will roll over the regimes enforcers. We won’t even need to follow up with the real ones and if we do? It will demonstrate we mean it when we say “Enough.”
With extreme prejudice
Fear.
Sometimes FEAR is the only motivator.
I prefer the civilised, exquisite sword of justice to the primitive, blunt instrument of revenge.
As we’ve seen in the past, the Israelis are able to deliver the former in the most remarkable ways. Keep looking over your shoulders and under your beds, you foul and murderous scoundrels. You’ll be grassed up eventually.
Operation “Wrath of God” showed the way!
Vic health minister announces an expansion of abortion availability. On Fathers Day. Yassss queen, you go girl.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin
Just a week ago Hersh’s parents spoke at the DNC. Hersh’s life was taken from him by Gazan Nazis, the same Nazis many in the DNC (and Oz Labor) laud.
There’s a big gaping hole in the heart of every Jew on the planet, and has been since October 7. The only comfort I can take from any of this is that the bodies of Eden, Hersh and Ori will now be treated with love and respect, and they will be given a Jewish funeral. And then their souls can be at peace.
The miserable puritanism of Keir Starmer
They’re quite right – Starmer is a demented, miserable, authoritarian, Puritan bastard.
He’d suck all the joy out of our society because “It’s for your own good”.
I’ll bet he wears a cardigan at home.
You know, tomorrow I’m going to go to the IGA and buy a packet of smokes, then go to the pub and sit in the “Smokers Gulag” and give one to someone to smoke for me.
(Not going to smoke it myself, it took too much in the withdrawal phase to stop.)
‘Extreme’ amount taxpayers spent on didgeridoo performance to open a promotional event for Summer of Cricket
Daily Mail.
Happy Father’s Day to all fathers.
Appears they were shot just a few days ago.
Six more.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/09/01/hostages-death-in-captivity-announced-by-families/#google_vignette
Terrible. These murderers must pay for this in their own blood.
To borrow from leftards in 2017, ‘The walls are closing in.’
ZK2A:
The hostages were murdered a few days ago.
No, nuking them is letting them off lightly.
Progressivism is really a freedom movement.
It has freed the ruling classes from even having to pretend to like the peasants.
After all, the peasants are racist, sexist and transphobic.
Also dirty and smelly.
I can’t fault the court in the Tickle v Giggle case. It is applying the law as it is written.
Update……
May the memory of Ori, Eden, Hersh, Carmel, Alexander and Almog be a blessing for their families, Israel, and Jews across the world.
May the deaths of Ori, Eden, Hersh, Carmel, Alexander and Almog be AVENGED.
This morning, talking to a group of Jews, we all acknowledged one thing…….we Jews survive.
Am Yisrael Chai.
I’m sure there are plenty of terrorists in Israeli jails. For every Israeli killed on October the 7th and since, reciprocate.
“It’s almost embarrassing now to say that I worked for The Age, it’s become like a tacky tabloid.”
I have no sympathy for Leunig. He had no problems producing offensive, vicious, snide, envy and racism driven cartoons for Spencer Street Sturmer for many years although I’ll admit some were pretty funny. He complains about not being allowed to draw cartoons about Gaza but we can have no doubt about what side he would have taken. If he had any real moral principles he would have resigned years ago.
In a similar vein I have no sympathy for Michael Gawenda who had a lot to do with transforming the Age into the leftist cesspool it is today. He’s now writhing with guilt and trying to redeem himself but he was a class traitor and has done us all (except for the likes of certain person who infest this blog) a disservice.
Has anyone studied the role of advertisers in social media censorship?
Large chunks of news and culture only has reach because large companies have advertising dollars to spend.
We hear that advertising is withdrawn from certain kinds of content because of advertisers.
Is this the retailers themselves, or is it the advertising industry that applies that pressure to social media companies? Or a bit of both?
Arky, my assessment is that it’s the advertising staff driving the politicisation of advertisers.
My observation of their output is that advertising “creatives”, who are mostly in their 20s, are 99.9% Greens voters — that is, the ratbag left that, for example, currently supports the mass importation of Hamas terrorists from Gaza, such is their hatred of Australian culture and the free market.
That is, 99.9% of Australian advertising creatives are twentysomething Phillip Adams wannabes, among whom political radicalism is extremely popular and has no downside.
I will never forget Brown saying, while still in parliament –
“One world government, one person one vote, what could be fairer.”
I think some here are way too kind to the old turd. I remember too when he announced he was going to bring down the Fraser gubmint.
Miltonf, I have no problem with bringing down the Fraser government. Where the plan went wrong is that it got replaced.
Winston Smith
September 1, 2024 11:31 am
I use Proton and it works with all network.
I also have Cyber-ghost Proton has more servers by a far margin.
First, every cookie is removable, second as far as I know they don’t use cookies at all.
What would be the point for a VPN to do that?
I’ve no idea. I’m a software illiterate. Most software stuff doesn’t make much sense to me.
I have to really apply myself just to get email working.
Appears they were shot just a few days ago.
Yep, murdered a few days ago.
And Cats, we’re bringing in 3000 of these murderers.
I just watched an ad for Westpac.
It featured a group led by some fat young Chinese guy strutting along to some music or other noise with I think a voiceover saying stuff.
I have zero idea what service was being advertised and only know it was for Westpac because it ended in their logo.
I’m not sure advertising companies are the ones we should be relying on to decide which topics are valid to be covered in the media, and which are forbidden. They seem slightly retarded.
Two instances of his extreme leftism.
Brown played a key role in pressuring the lying slapper to have a royal commission in an attempt to restrict speech. Though it didn’t accomplish much, it did open the Overton window for speech restrictions. Australia was perhaps the first taxi to leave the rank. I watched Brown in an interview suggesting the Australian newspaper was breaking the bounds of speech decency by posting opinion pieces on the first page instead of what he believed to be news.
Brown proposed putting all goods and services through a committee review process prior to being presented for approval. Reducing CO2 was the objective.
Maybe the guy was a Fabian socialist rather than a staunch Stalinist. But we’re debating is the huge difference between the colors red, and (his case) hot pink.
What policies would Brown disagree with that the present Greens Nazi party supports, or Bandt says?
A lot of bank propaganda if not all seems to feature all forms of humanity except white guys. Certainly noticed that when I used a Comm Bank ATM yesterday (I don’t bank with them, I just get free withdrawals from big 4 ATMs).
Just to highlight one important aspect of Brown’s philosophy.
The most basic of all rights is the right to free expression. Nothing else about human rights is feasible without free expression.
When it comes down to it, the authoritarian home is where you belong if you’re against free speech. And as someone once described it at the old Cat. Different rooms, but the same house.
You don’t have any rights.
Haven’t you been paying attention the last few years?
The left only banged on about rights for as long as they could undermine traditions, courts and laws by bogging everyone down in lawfare.
Rights only exist if someone enforces them.
If you don’t have the political power to enforce your rights, you have none.
Brown actually announced he was going to bring down Fraser because Fraser was going to let Tasmania decide whether or not to build the Franklin dam.
A sickening, hysterical chapter in our history. All ALP, Meja, Tasmanian Wilderness Society driven.
The irony is that stopping the dam prolonged the life of brown coal in eastern VIC.
Bandt is a Marxist. It goes to how he diagnoses the world’s problems and solutions (see above re Mises on the progressive agenda).
Brown was a useful idiot conservationist who only ever diagnosed a patient.
That bloke at the end has serious skills. He was 2 seconds ahead of retaliation. WACK!
Kudos also to the female at the Waffle House. When the ape dropped, she went bang with the fists.
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Steve Inman:
Non-Essential Fighting Compilation
https://rumble.com/v5csu7f-non-essential-fighting-compilation.html?e9s=rel_v2_pr
H/T Michael Smith.
Doubtful John said…
Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s new Albanese Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.
If we’re ranking them I’d suggest life, liberty and security of person morally and logically precede freedom of expression. They are necessary conditions for freedom of expression.
Roger, the right bear arms in self defence trumps them all.
Arky the Diageo company is apparently ringleader of a bloc of digital advertizers who throw their weight around alphabet-meta. Apparently pivotal in crippling Parler too.
In favour of woke, of course.
Nothing else about human rights is feasible without free expression.
Liberty quote.
If there is no free speech there is no freedom of thought, there is no freedom of religion, there is no individual liberty, there is no free market and there is no freedom of association.
Free speech is the foundation of all of this.
Remember what that goon of a PM, Scott Morrison, once said of free speech…..
‘It doesn’t create one job’
Except it does, and he lost his job because he refused to stand up for basic Menzian principles.
Cassie, the right bear arms in self defence trumps them all.
How are any of those even possible without free expression? It underpins all those basic rights.
Life. Without free expression our lives would be greatly hindered.
Liberty. Talk back against the state and your liberty is extinguished.
Security. How would it be possible to feel secure if free expression is restricted.
Free speech underpins all.
JC, the right bear arms in self defence trumps them all.
Try hard not to laugh.
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Steve Inman:
When you lie on your resume but still get the job.
https://rumble.com/v5d14s9-when-you-lie-on-your-resume-but-still-get-the-job..html?e9s=src_v1_upp
Would you be happy if we described Brown as a Fabian socialist then?
Lot of talk about whether Bob the poofta was a commie. It’s a meaningless line of thought. Bob the poofta was an elitist who hated average folk. He was responsible for Finkelstein because he thought average folk were too stupid and influenced by denialist propaganda about climate change:
Finkelstein, AGW and the Coalition – On Line Opinion – 24/7/2012
The labels don’t count if the effect on your life is the same; and the effect of bob the poofta’s influence would be indistinguishable from any commie.
Valid point, Cohenite.
It doesn’t matter if you get run over by a Mack or a Mann.
You’re just as dead.
He lost his job through free speech – his own when Scummo said “I don’t hold the hose, mate”. The elitist prick showed himself then for the grub he is. And a lot of Australians were disgusted.
Life is pre-eminent because without it freedom of expression cannot be exercised by the individual, nor any other legitimate right for that matter.
This is self-evident.
As an illustration, aborted babies never get to exercise freedom of expression, thought, association and so on; the incipient exercise of those rights was taken from them when their right to life was extinguished.
In that case your liberty was extinguished at law before you exercised your right to speak against the state. Even the Soviets went to the trouble of formally enacting the legislation that enabled the courts to send people to the gulags.
Thus, liberty and respect for it logically precedes free speech and is a necessary condition for it.
It’s the other way around – security of person means the state can’t impose arbitrary punishments that restrict your liberty, including your liberty to speak. Again, security of person is the necessary condition for the unhindered exercise of free speech.
All these rights everyone bangs on about for as long as I have been alive.
Where are they?
Where do they reside?
I’ve never seen them.
You’ll recognise them when someone tries to take them away.
So you are saying they reside in me?
There is some property I have that generates these rights?
By virtue of your existence, incipiently.
But only because they exist extra nos, outside of/apart from from your existence, by virtue of natural law.
And then by virtue of positive law where it has been enacted.
Sounds like crap, in all due respect Roger.
The Lord of the manner has rights over his peasants because the King, who had the power to do so granted him those rights.
And could equally take them away.
Outside of a person or thing with the power to enforce a particular individuals rights over others, (for they are always over another’s) no such thing exists, or if it does, it does so in such an ephemeral way as to be completely meaningless.
Correct, Roger:
The right to bear arms in self defence trumps them all.
I’m not greatly exercised by Bob Brown, but since you ask I don’t think he ever enunciated a coherent socio-economic plan for Australia along the lines of Fabianism.
Bandt is a different sort of creature who is far closer to the levers power than Brown ever was.
And that’s what we should be concerned about.
Anecdote-o’clock.
I just came back from taking the faithful four-paws for a walk and a swim in the river (I’m pretty sure she has hidden pockets to collect sand for dumping inside when we get home). While standing in the shallows (tide out), largely unaware of the world around me (bliss!), a young(ish) woman sat down on the sand a short distance away. Late 30s maybe, reasonably good looking. What jumped out at me the though, was that she was quite, ummm … hirsute. The hair on both of her shoulders and her upper chest (she was wearing shorts and bikini(ish) top) made me feel a bit feminine by comparison. I said to myself: ‘Muddy, you are so disengaged from the world that this is a THING now, and you had no idea!’
Anyhoo, the dog had finished collecting mud in her armpits, and it was time to go home. We had to walk past this woman (kind of) to get back to the footpath, so as we were almost level with her, I bent down to tie up a loose shoelace and took what I hoped was a quick, sideways glance. Luckily she didn’t notice I was wearing thongs, as her head was stuck in her phone, aaaannnddd … Oh. OH! Tatts. It wasn’t body hair after all. It was inked skin, but on her chest it was so dense that it looked like hair!
I can’t be completely sure, given the brevity of my glance, but I suspect it was a complex scene of enraged citizens tearing apart by hand a politician at a polling booth on election day. There was also a sausage sizzle.
‘How creative (and practical),’ I thought, as I hitched up my four-paws and loped off home. ‘Maybe she’s a childcare worker?’
Don’t you just love old judgemental types. Perve, but the perve turns into disgusting revoltion.
Paint your own world.
Have you considered there might have been a degree of artistic license in the telling (pretending to tie invisible shoelaces!), and that the basis was a self-deprecation of my own short-sightedness?
No? Ah, judgemental people, huh? Paint your own world indeed.
Ellie’s back? She doesn’t do self-deprecation, Muddy.
Yours was a lovely tale of walking the dog on a sunny arvo.
Thanks, Lizzie.
I liked your story, Muddy. I was responding in my own judgemental way.
Five years ago I wouldn’t have cared what a random collection of pixels thought of me (or what I typed). Without seeking sympathy or (hopefully) sounding too weak and pathetic, life isn’t what it used to be.
To wrap up my night, I embarked on a brief nostalgia trip via YouTube. A song that has mystical and unexplainable significance to me is ‘Mayonnaise’ by the Smashing Pumpkins. A viewer comment on a recent live performance of this resonates:
Yes and No and No and … I don’t know.
You do the best you can with what you have.
Night all, and thanks for contributing to this community.
I don’t understand your reaction. The fact Delta has chimed in trumps my response.
Love your story, Muddy.
Thanks, Delta. I hope you and yours are as happy and healthy as the circumstances permit.
Roger
Rights are co-dependent. Sure, it’s true that “life, liberty, and security are necessary for free expression to exist, the reverse is also true. For instance, people use freedom of expression to challenge bad laws and practices that threaten life, liberty, and security.
Free speech also acts as a safe guard against state abuse because, without it, as I mentioned above, injustices would go unchallenged.
Liberty and expression can’t be separated because, without being able to express freely, liberty can’t exist. Therefore, the protection of free speech is integral to the protection of liberty.
Why is the right to free expression indispensable and the most important? It’s the tool we have that safeguards life, liberty, and security. There’s a good argument these rights are basically interconnected, but free expression plays the unique role in upholding and protecting these rights.
Lastly, there’s more than enough historical precedent to prove the point. There is enough history to show that when the right to free expression is removed, those other rights are at risk. Free speech is always the first to go,.
I’m loving this exchange. This is one of the reasons I first loitered at SinCat.
Ditto.
Correct me if I’m wrong, as I haven’t checked, but didn’t the Greens under Brown hold part of the balance of power during the Lying Slapper years? That’s far closer to the levers than where Bandt is in a relative sense.
They signed an alliance, but I’m not sure it ever functioned as intended because its legality was dubious.
Correct, JC.
We’re currently at the stage in the political cycle we were at immediately before the Lying Slapper was brought down in 2010 by the two NSW “independents”.
Sh*t will get real in 2025 if the Filth and Teals hold the balance of power — that is, if the LNP fails to get a majority in the House of Reps, a Labor minority government will get even more radical than the current Albo circus and Australia will get even less than what it thought it was voting for.
Australia is still paying a terrible price for the Turnbull coup of 2015.
I’d argue that arrogating the right to life is more morally significant.
A state or a culture that approves that has set itself up as a god-like entity which will assert its sovereignty over all other rights.
Roger, the right bear arms in self defence trumps them all.
There are no rights.
Such a formulation is meaningless.
You could be granted “the right to life” by every government body from your local council to the United Nations, school children could be diligently indoctrinated in these rights, and countless people would still be murdered every day, killed in accidents and wars.
It’s meaningless gibble gabble.
It is the crap that people go on with to avoid the obvious: all the good things you enjoy come through the hard work and diligence of yourself and others.
You are safe from murder, to the extent that you are, because police are prepared to do their duty and keep the scumbags seperate from the citizens, and because you are smart enough to recognise dangerous situations and avoid them.
Arky:
The Police are now taking their orders from politicians who don’t agree with you. And that is why you are no longer safe in your own house.
You have lost the right to self defence. That’s the major defence against losing all your other rights gone..
Exactly.
The only remedy is that you have the political power to make the politicians change their view.
Absent that, tough sh*t.
A phenomenon known as bimbyism – “But, in my back yard”?
Red pills are addictive. Don’t knock em! And Ms Catriona has been luminous since doing Bugs Bunny at Nine in the nineties, taking over from the equally luminous Sophie Lee.
The elitist prick showed himself then for the grub he is
Also a spineless coward.
The problem is that we end up with uninterested examples of these, not disinterested ones.
And too many are actively malevolent.
err, is there anyone here who could imagine anything worse? I certainly can, unfortunately:
Jewish man ‘discriminated’ against by Officeworks manager faces down giant’s legal team
Daily Mail.
Doubling down on antisemitism is not a good look.
GWGB.
You’d think they would have just shutup, paid out the customer and sacked the idiot employee who stepped outside her guidelines.
But nooo, they’ve doubled down.
Now, that’s arrogance and stupidity in one easily digested packet.
Can anyone tell me the difference between an ordinary share and a stapled security?
i.e. APA GROUP STAPLED (FULLY PAID UNITS STAPLED SECURITIES)
Thanks in advance.
https://www.ato.gov.au/forms-and-instructions/capital-gains-tax-guide-2020/part-a-about-capital-gains-tax/investments-in-shares-and-units/stapled-securities
All our shares are inside a super fund in retirement phase. No tax.
And I totally respect where you’re coming from here. But work through what I said earlier. Let’s see this as an injustice. How would you protest against this abuse, protecting human life, without the right to free expression?
It wasn’t body hair after all. It was inked skin
Ha! Ha! I’m stealing that Muddy, that’s too good!
No “follow up questions” from Andrew Clennell to Amanda Rishworth this evening about either the Plibeserk tailings dam ban or the “divisive and dangerous” spray by Chalmers about Dutton.
There were plenty he could have come up with.
I’ll restrict myself to saying that Albo’s championing of The Voice was hardly something to bring us together, as the 60/40 vote confirmed.
I noticed that. Soft, predictable interview.
Loved the “yes or no” question that was answered with a dodgy sermon.
Good reform for VCAT, ban lawyers from representing complainants as NSW & Qld don’t allow this. An action I was apart of was hamstrung by the other side using a lawyer, the managers we bought the action against never fronted the tribunal and all sorts of legal chicanery was used. Then the rsole tried billing us for $75K in costs even though we won. LOL he never saw a cent of that.
So digression aside, Officeworks digs in. The anti-semitic bint still works for them and hasn’t apologised. I wish nothing but pestilence and lice on Westfarmers and Chaney. A fish rots from the head:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13801131/Jewish-man-discrimination-Officeworks.html
Those who advocate for one world government should be reminded what policies it would democratically adopt: banning homosexuality, for instance.
At the Geraldton skate park with little bloke.
One kid just went splat, lay there for a bit so I went over with another adult to check.
Introduced myself as paramedic and could I check…
Busted collarbone clear as day, so triangular bandage and the other chap took him home ( parents a couple of km away).
Seems to be a regular thing for my time off near skate parks..
Cyclists do collar bones fairly frequently. My niece did a collar bone on a self propelled scooter v car crash.
Not a fan of apricots. An overated fruit.
Don’t let Arky hear that – he’ll go nuts.
Thank you for taking care of Elsie. Ask RF, I rescued her.
Better stewed, poached, bottled or jam than fresh IMO. We always got roped in for picking duties on a friends hobby farm. Only a few trees but usually a weeks work.
Fresh ripe apricots are excellent.
Don’t mind dried apricots either – but best chewed with schnapps.
“life, liberty and security of person”
Are intrinsic.
Government doesn’t grant them.
It’s good that the United States constitution recognises the intrinsic right to freedom of speech though.
In Germany you aren’t even allowed to ‘insult’ someone in public.
Who’s fat?
Wow – I never even knew that Belew toured with Bowie as the guitarist in residence in ’78-’79 – Heroes.
Featuring Carlos Alamar as well.
Clennel is a genuine creep. That’s not news, we all know that.
But he excelled himself today tongue bathing Amanda Richworth for endless torturous minutes over Labor’s pre-election social security bribe before switching to Sarah Henderson with – “well this is a real threat to you isn’t it”?
Even CNN wouldn’t take the clown on.
Clennell is another one of the thin-lipped brigade.
I think what libertarians think of as rights is actually limitations on governments in regards to legislating individuals.
But what leftists see as rights is the unrestricted actions of individuals. Entitlements.
What conservatives see as rights is the rules, conventions and responsibilities that exist between the governed and governing.
These things might have a level of overlap, but are actually coming from three completely different directions.
Leftist rights become societal obligations.
Try home grown ones and see if you come to the same conclusion.
Stewed apricots. Stewed apricots. Stewed apricots.
Only another two months. Can’t wait.
Fair challenge.
It’s like with tomatoes. They’ve done something to them that makes them taste bland. Or maybe its since having covid three times, my taste is impacted. I blame that. But the only great tasting tomatoes I purchase are from the farmers market at Kings Cross.
With tomatoes, I leave them out on the bench for a few days to ripen up.
I should have a go at growing my own one day.
Yep. Ripened on the bench does something to the acidity, I think.
A lot of the summer fruit is hybridised to within an inch of its life. It is quite possible when you go back to the markets in a couple of weeks you are buying a completely different line of trees. Even farmers markets are a bit of a lottery.
Prefer the jam to the fruit.
Yummy stuff on the menu.
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B2B Adventures:
NEVER SEEN SO MANY LOBSTERS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyXJNhIvzSc
Was just reading the Letter from the VIC Minister of Equality posted over at Michael Smith. It is about the Census sexuality issue and asking that it be included.
In 2nd last para she makes a reference to “we” being counted.
VIC residents probably aware but turns out the Minister pushing the library pro noun issue is herself a lesbian. Might explain why zero input from non LGBTQ+.
…and Christians see rights as the generalisation to earthly rules of God’s divine love.
So that’s four different ways that people think of when anyone mentions “rights”.
So, given the flexibility, ephemeral nature and general worthlessness of the concept and the fact that every totalitarian shithole includes them in their constitution, maybe it’s time to reevaluate the worth of the entire idea.
Gee Joe Hildebrand likes the sound of his own voice.
And he gets to yap aimlessly every single night on Sky. He has no new points to add, simply reinterprets the original comments of others. And then talks over them.
Could they punt him for just one night? Pretty please?
Vote with your wallet and cancel your sub. Why pay to be lectured and insulted? You can have that here free of charge!
Beyond me why people here put up with Sky.
Milton, I’m regional. I get Sky FTA. 😀
Fair enough Calli :)- it just sound obnoxious from what I read here
Because all the other Australian channels are far worse.
Give up TV altogether- glad I have
Sky at Night is good. Sky daytime is at times infuriating, but we don’t have much of any quality to turn to elsewhere. I record Fox News daily (The Five, Laura, Jesse, Hannity, Gutfeld) to make sure I have other sources, ones that don’t automatically regurgitate the USA MSM like the latest Trump At Cemetary Hoax.
Unfckingreal
Who says aristocracy doesn’t exist in the US?
Pay the bill to fix it!
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Sail Training Ship Leeuwin Struck by Maersk Shekou in the Port of Fremantle, August 30, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbWjvWRDrYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dvjKsI20pM
Top 10 most stupid Darwin Award winners!
A warm evening calls for some cool jazz.
Here is Jane Monheit singing My Foolish Heart.
there are no ‘rights’
they are nothing but social artifacts
power is everything
be warned
… as if history taught you nothing
JC,
“Unfckingreal” dude divorced Dana Bash 17 years ago and has three kids with his 2nd wife.
However as one of the 51 Intelligence signatories to the laptop letter BS he does qualify as a total ahole.
Love how an apricot post immediately followed Arky’s one. A reminder of times past. Our trees are now the scene of an annual battle between us and the tag team of rainbow lorikeets and fruit bats. The critters seem to have the edge.
You made me smile.
Dickhead Joe Biden:
”Those responsible will pay for their crimes”.
As well as:
”We will work around the clock to negotiate”.
I’m sure those responsible are terrified of being negotiated with, you complete and supreme moron.
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2024/08/31/open-thread-weekend-31-aug-2024/
Musk is going scorched earth on Alexandre de Moraes.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830062141744853281
https://x.com/AlexandreFiles
This November 5th is a referendum on ‘The Swamp’
@iluminatibot
Six Things About Harris
Gold Star Family Members of Fallen U.S. Servicemembers Killed in Afghanistan Nuke Kamala Harris
Good news
If I were there in person, I would not hesitate to tell those people to stop playing that atrocious “music”
Piss off!
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Cash:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Santa Monica 128
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3dDM-vEmZ4
Muddy, after walking his dog.
“Five years ago I wouldn’t have cared what a random collection of pixels thought of me (or what I typed). Without seeking sympathy or (hopefully) sounding too weak and pathetic, life isn’t what it used to be”
When life gets tougher, older and sader, Muddy, then of course it matters. I’ve broken my heart here at some responses so much that the scars can now deflect any slings and arrows. One simply concludes that here, or elsewhere, outrageous fortune is always going to be outrageous. Happily leavened though by the true reality that goodwill still exists on this site.
My sister, 18 months older than me, was last week given between three and six months to live due to rampaging mesolethioma. We used to jump around busting up fibro on building sites a lot as kids when there wasn’t much else to do and she’s also been a keen renovator of asbestos-ridden Sydney housing in the 70’s and 80’s. In the depths of night, on the new mattress, with Hairy sleeping soundly beside me, i steel myself to lose her, inconceivable as it is, and review my own mortality, as one does.
Good luck to you, Muddy. May you continue to share here those momentary epiphanies with that muddle of a dog, and other daily doings. They’re the stuff of life. Don’t ever get beyond sharing it.
Too upset even thinking it to type it straight: mesothelioma.
If you had no right to life, and thus were denied the protection of the law from physical attack, the least of your worries is whether you enjoyed the right of free expression. Let’s say your protesting the absence of the former by exercising the latter, what stops the government or your neighbor from legally killing you? Nothing at all. Sure you had a right of free expression, but since nothing stops them from legally killing you you can hardly say its foundational.
“stop killing me”, he exclaimed emphatically
I’m not a fan of rights talk but I don’t think anyone that seriously uses that term thinks that the enjoyment of a right means you cannot be deliberately or accidentally killed, or that either renders the notion meaningless. Rights talk is in many ways a short hand of speaking about what is good for human beings. If you are going to drop it you are going to have to have something that replaces it, and one way is to talk about goods. Preserving life rather than the right to life. Shuning ignorance rather than right to an education. These goods are related hierarchically, so the higher ones presuppose the lower ones but the lower ones are for the higher ones.
The f@cks are killing Qudrant! Bill Leak all over again.
Typos