I think the punters are stirring, getting ansty. Normally letting politics of either persuasion slide by as we just get…
I think the punters are stirring, getting ansty. Normally letting politics of either persuasion slide by as we just get…
How quickly the pose of determined rectitude melted into that of a political streetwalker.
operation ‘Grim Beeper’
Operation ‘Grim Beeper’, brilliant planning and execution.
Great stuff from the past. Visuals and audio are great. —— F r. David – Words Don’t Come Easy
BAM.
This thread dedicated to elderly snivellers.
And Miata owners.
Oh, wait. They’re the same.
Hello from Aix en Provence. Need a stiff drink after driving to Cassis and back. Lucky I purchased a 3.9 € bottle of plonk from Aldi yesterday.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Ben Garrison.
Professor Pascoe come on down.
You should read the comments approving of this crap.
No I’m not linking.
They even beat the Flintstones at the car caper.
Just look at this!
First I’ve read about this in Huckleberry Finn, looks like an old tradition.
May not do any good but can’t do much harm for the little courtesy and effort.
The perfect and natural roundabout, why try beating nature eh?
XVIII
Nice painting Dover.
KevinM
September 28, 2024 4:30 am
Oops, pic.
I’ve said it before. If any wild animal were to attack Kevin, his CATS would spring into play. Gabby would go mental.
They love him.
Meet the Characters: A Friendship with LIONS | The Lion Whisperer
Bit of hilariousness in today’s Sat Tele under World News 🙂 :
BLUNDERING COPS GET GUN STUCK TO MRI
Los Angeles:
Bumbling US cops who raided a medical diagnostics centre thinking it was a cannabis farm got a gun stuck to the powerful magnets of an MRI machine, a California lawsuit has alleged.
The owners of the facility are claiming damages against the Los Angeles Police Department for an operation their lawyers describe as “nothing short of a disorganised circus”.
Their lawsuit details how a SWAT team swarmed the centre because it was using more electricity than other shops.
Indolent
September 27, 2024 10:57 pm
Canada is fining the Amish $300,000 for not downloading a COVID app
Very well put, Indolent.
Cash!
God, I love this dog,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJRJ8_dHpk
Thanks Tom.
Beautiful painting dover_beach – thank you
Stevo can drop the leash in public. That’s trust.
https://jihadwatch.org/2024/09/yemen-muslims-pressure-christians-to-conform-to-islamic-law
And yet some continue to say that Islam is not a threat to us.
There comes a time when this belief is not only ridiculous but becomes ‘giving aid and comfort to the enemy’.
From the Oz.
Penny will be more sad now.
Not allowed Today.
Dickwads with their dogs screwed it up for everyone.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane and Rowdy at Home Depot (4k)
Grrrrr.
Trump’s Latino supporters targeted with what might be an invisible high powered infra-red laser, skin and eye damage ensued after rally. The USA is in deep trouble.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/trump_supporters_apparently_attacked_at_rally_with_clandestine_weapon.html
Repeat.
Models – Barbados (Official Music Video)
Jailing them all progressively should stop it:
?Three Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over two of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings just hours after fellow activists were jailed for doing the same thing to his famous Sunflowers masterpiece.
Pictures show three Just Stop Oil activists stood in front of the Sunflowers painting in the ‘Poets and Lovers’ exhibition at the National Gallery after covering it in soup again this afternoon at around 2.30pm.
Phoebe Plummer 23, and Anna Holland, 22, were jailed earlier today for the same stunt that they performed in October 2022, as they came close to ‘destroying’ the masterpiece.
One of the paintings – ‘Sunflowers 1888’ was the same one targeted by Plummer and Holland.
After covering the paintings in soup, the trio took off their jackets to reveal Just Stop Oil t-shirts and one said: ‘Future generations will regard these prisoners of conscience to be on the right side of history.’
Daily Mail
Farewell Miss Jean Brodie.
Dame Maggie has left us.
A real keeper
Can’t believe “plenty wrong” passed up the chance to “shirt-front” Bibi after his UN spanking speech ..
Typical Labor .. all bravado, no action .. Lotz to say from the UN lectern but didn’t turn up for “Benny’s” appearance .. all mouth in front of her “maaates” .. no show in front of her “target” .. !
Found out about her death before I made that comment on the vandals.
Her character in Downton spawned a thousand memes. One of my favourites…
You can tell Israel has the upper hand in Lebanon from the “sob” stories littering “our” ABC news online .. They squeal, loudly, when their Hamarse & Hadbollocks “heroes” are on the receiving end ……. LOL!
Grab your chair and hold on tight.
DIDO – Here With Me (?@alyandfila? Remix) (Live at Transmission Prague 2021) [4K]
Major articles in the Oz about the Voice and Covid and comments not going well for our political leaders.
I would urge everyone to read the piece in today’s Oz on Steven Lowy. It’s titled…’Australia is sleepwalking into a social spiral‘.
I’m happy to post the piece. Lowy doesn’t pull any punches, and it’s a not so thinly veiled attack at the inertia of our police and courts to enforce laws, at the spineless quisling leadership exhibited by leaders of our public and private institutions….such as by that rodent Mark Scott, and it’s a brutal assessment of our current and very grotesque federal government, head by the Jew hating grub from Grayndler and the Jew hating Senator Pong, and ‘pong’ is apt because she stinks.
Lowy said he believed the current levels of anti-Semitism were reversible, but only with leadership. “I grew up with politicians like Neville Wran, Bob Hawke, John Howard and Paul Keating, leaders from different sides, but we saw them tackle tough issues with conviction. It doesn’t feel like that today.
“Things will only be reversed with recognition of the problem, with the enforcement of laws where laws are broken, with enforcement by police and courts with political backing for enforcement. If the situation is not changed, where does that lead us? Am I here because I’m Jewish or because I can contribute to society?”
We are just a little over one week away from the anniversary of October 7. Israel and Jewish communities across the globe will hold commemorations and there will be many here in Oz. But we all have a heavy heart. Over 100 Jewish men, Jewish women and Jewish children are still held hostage in Gaza. How many remain alive? Well, we should never give up hope but who knows. I suspect Israel knows most are dead hence the decision to deal with Lebanon. But Lowy’s words about ‘enforcement of laws’ remind me of Monday night 9 October, when I personally witnessed the scene at Sydney Town Hall, when Sydney’s CBD was declared ‘Judenfrei’, and then I later watched in horror the scene at the Sydney Opera House where hundreds of frenzied frothing Jew haters rioted on the Opera House steps, the whole time screaming ‘f*ck the Jews’, ‘gas the Jews’ and chillingly, ‘where’s the Jews’ whilst the NSW Police stood by and watched, like they were attending a matinee performance of Kristellnacht, not once did any of those police intervene despite the flares set off, despite the Israeli flags being set fire to and despite the unhinged Jew hatred on display.
In fact, the only person arrested that afternoon and evening was a JEW. That JEW was dragged off by the NSW Police before he could say and do anything. Not one person who participated in those scenes at the Opera House, one of whom is the son of a NSW Labor minister, has been charged….NOT ONE.
Vale Maggie Smith.
The chutzpah from this bloke in the Daily Telegraph:
FMD. Is this not the same bloke who said he was proud of the Palestinian flag being flown over a town hall in his electorate?
Has he had anything to say about the filth marching on the Opera House the Sunday after the atrocities in Israel?
And just how many times Mr Burke has any Muslim woman been harangued for wearing a hijab? Compare that to the weekly protests in any city.
It is you and your lot Mr Burke that have actively fomented anti Israel behaviour, the Wong Chap chief on that miserable list.
Disgusting people.
Wife officially unemployed. Yahoo. Not for long lest she suffocates me having an afternoon nap. They offered her everything she wanted on the last day. No thanks, you had your chance. This from a position where most of the young staff have Phd’s and the senior staff are just that, senior, with years of experience getting it right. None of the senior staff give a rat’s about being sacked, that’s why they do such a good job. A 76yo is the oldest she knows about so far. Her father worked until he was 82. Her mother’s uncle worked his farm until 94, so it runs in the family.
Oh yeah rules are followed by terrorists
Great painting.
Gutfeld and The Five were noting the heavy security supplied by the yank SS to the iranian foreign minister who was going to the UN to vomit antisemitism and anti West bile at the same time Trump’s security was being reduced. While this was happening it was also revealed that the iranians were interfering in Trump’s election campaign and actively trying to assassinate him:
Irangate: Iran’s Plan to Stop Trump and Elect Kamala | Frontpage Mag
The golden ni..er obuma is pro iranian and I reckon he has has been running the show for the last 4 years. If by some miracle Trump does get back in he should turn iran into glass and find a nice wall for obuma.
So Cassie, compare the words of Lowy and Burqa. Lowy wants action taken against anti Semitic behaviour but Burqa is trying to blame the Greens and appease the Muslim vote in his quest to stay on those plush green seats.
Time for a stiff drink yet?
No, no, Burka.
That isn’t the real problem, is it?
Because that is precisely what you have tried to do.
It’s just that the Greens are better at it than you are.
Rest of the news is good:
Just Stop Oil fanatics are jailed for two years after tipping soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers masterpiece | Daily Mail Online
Media Worried Judge May Be Biased Against Trump Assassin | Frontpage Mag
The 2 hags who attacked the van Gogh masterpiece were revealed to be a pair of spoilt brats.
Just further to the communal October 7 commemorations planned for Sydney, there will be a big communal event on October 7, it’s being organised by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies. Thousands of people have already registered and apparently Peter Dutton and other Liberals and Nationals plan to attend. Whilst NSW Premier Minns will probably attend, there’s no word of anyone from federal Labor planning to attend and besides, given what’s ensued since October 7 last year, anyone from federal Labor who does show up will be hissed at and booed, and rightly so. I think most Australian Jews are over being polite and nice….this Jew certainly is.
Do phone booths still exist? They’d make a grate place to hold their meetings.
@catturd2
Funny how Trump is almost the only person who is actually talking about peace.
@alx
Families of NSW prisoners slam inedible food, ‘ridiculous’ commissary pricesFamilies of NSW prisoners claim “inedible food” is being served behind bars, forcing them to fork out hundreds of dollars a month so their loved ones don’t go hungry.
Daily Tele. What’s wrong with bread and water – the bread might be stale, but they give you all the water you can drink.
@RealJamesWoods
COVID, climate change, 57 genders, gender affirming “healthcare,” reproductive “health,” pandemic of the unvaccinated, global warming, cooling, warming, cooling…
For those who don’t have an online subscription I would have to say to today’s The Weekend Australian is one of the most interesting reads across many subjects.
2 pages on Yes campaigners complaining and who they blame.
A page on Covid policies.
Plenty on the Middle East and China
If you are someone who only buys it a few times a year my opinion is you will get your money’s worth today.
@WallStreetSilv
The fine print on Kamala’s $25,000 for first time homebuyers. Basically excludes all Americans. Illegals only.
Meme
@RealJamesWoods
Stated perfectly. So many young people of this great nation are emerging as bright beacons of hope.
For those who don’t have an online subscription I would have to say to today’s The Weekend Australian is one of the most interesting reads across many subjects.
It’s pretty good most weekends. Worth buying.
Today’s Sat Tele:
ISRAEL DEFIANT: STRIKE KILLS HEZBOLLAH LEADER
JUSTIN VALLEJO
28 Sep 2024
Beirut: An Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs has killed the head of Hezbollah’s drone unit, the militant group and the Israeli military said.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah said in a statement that the strike killed Mohammed Srur, who was born in 1973.
The Israeli military earlier said in a statement that its fighter jets had “targeted and eliminated” Srur, identifying him as “the commander of Hezbollah’s air unit”.
It was the fourth attack in a week targeting Hezbollah commanders in the densely populated area, one of the group’s strongholds.
Lebanon’s health ministry said in a statement that two people were killed in the attack and 15 wounded.
Srur studied mathematics and was among a number of top advisers sent by Hezbollah to Yemen to train the country’s Huthi rebels, who are also backed by Iran, a source close to Hezbollah said.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency said “three missiles” targeted “a residential apartment in a 10-storey building”.
Meanwhile the Israeli military said yesterday it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, as its bombardment of Hezbollah in Lebanon raised fears of all-out war in the Middle East.
Sirens went off in several areas of central Israel “as a result of a missile that was fired from Yemen”, the Israeli Defence Forces said on the messaging platform Telegram.
“The missile that was fired from Yemen was successfully intercepted,” it added.
The leader of Yemen’s Huthi rebels, Abdul Malik al-Huthi, said in a televised address earlier the Iranbacked group “will not hesitate to support Lebanon and Hezbollah” as cross-border fire between the Lebanese group and Israel intensified.
Since November, the Huthis have targeted Red Sea shipping with drones and missiles, saying the actions are in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza war which was sparked by Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
Israel has also rejected a push led by its key backer, the US, for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon, vowing to keep fighting Hezbollah militants “until victory”.
Israeli bombing of Iran-backed Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon has killed hundreds of people this week, while the militant group has retaliated with rockets.
“There will be no ceasefire in the north. We will continue to fight against the Hezbollah terrorist organisation with all our strength until victory and the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes,” Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz said in a post on X.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he had “not even responded” to the truce proposal, and that he had ordered the military “to continue the fighting with full force”.
The US, France and other allies called for a 21-day halt, after President Joe Biden and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
The situation in Lebanon has become “intolerable” and “is in nobody’s interest, neither of the people of Israel nor of the people of Lebanon”, their joint statement said.
Good.
Aye Rabz
In contrast, he said there was a “direct line” between rising attacks on both Jewish and Muslim Australians and the inflammatory rhetoric of the Greens and the Coalition.
Burka’s a weasel. A nasty, snivelling driveling lying weasel.
3/6 for today’s Wordle….’impressive’.
Biden and Harris have flooded the country with rapists and murderers. The numbers are staggering.
The Bee – right on the mark.
Acting U.S. President Stops By White House To Pick Up Paycheck
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 28, 2024 8:33 am
To give them something to really whinge about, issue the prisoners either 24hr or or ten man rat packs for the duration of their sentences.
Scientists recreate face of 3,500-year-old Egyptian pharaoh who founded the Valley of the Kings
Joe Rogan issues grave warning for what he thinks will happen to America if Kamala Harris wins
So, so sorry to hear that she has died. Wonderful, down to earth actress with acerbic wit.
How Maggie Smith won two Oscars despite her mother telling her she’d never be an actress ‘with a face like that’… and even became a fashion model aged 88
Trump meets with Zelensky after all and thanks him for ending ‘impeachment hoax’
Re the comment by Tinta at 0756 and the nested response by RokDok.
RokDok is not entirely correct.
There are Geneva Conventions that cover what is termed “irregular warfare”. That include four principal requirements:
The irregular force must have a clear chain of command;
That chain of command must enforce the Laws of War;
Personnel must wear a recognisable uniform or distinguishing insignia; and
Weapons must be carried openly.
Other Conventions that must be followed to gain the protections of the Conventions cover matters like not using, storing weapons or ammunition in, or attacking places of cultural significance, including religious buildings.
Where your mate is correct is in the application of these rules, which Lessbollocks, Hamarse, al Quaeda et al are only very rarely criticised for failing to follow.
No, The Voice Didn’t Fail Because of Misinformation.
Kill the misinfo bill! — The Opposition Podcast No. 22
Rita Panahi before I must away:
Coalition, take note.
The Coalition has retreated so far from its principles that Peter Dutton is prepared to pass Labour’s draconian misinformation legislation if it just “strikes the right balance.”
The leader who preceded him wanted to make covid vaccinations mandatory – and practically did for those in the workforce – and closed the borders to Australians wanting to return home at the time, among other attacks on our traditional freedoms.
John Howard replaced economic productivity with a population ponzi that is changing Australia irrevocably, not least by making us all poorer.
I could go on.
Abandon all hope, ye who vote Liberal.
From where do Labor draw their focus group head nodders?
While they pander to a few muzzies, Gucci missies, and kaftans, the nation shudders and turns away.
Calling massive tax hikes ‘reforms’ obviously resonates in trougher and union land, but have they learned no lessons from the Sl-pper and Tits experiences.
Campus adolescents. It’s the vibe. Consequences are irrelevant, or actually don’t exist.
I am going to stick my neck out here. The Left are dividing like a melting ice field. Each chunk is being forced to be ever increasingly radical to avoid being overwhelmed by the other broken bits. We will never see another Labor government that is not in a dangerous coalition.
Oh, and PS. Whilst I am developing a view that Mx P Wong might just be a ………, she is the best thing that conservative Australia has going for it. She needs to be encouraged in her ‘no consequences’ recklessness.
It is an impossibly long time since my not terribly meritorious uni days, but I would never have imagined that my senior years would be spent living in a national refec with levels of debate even more stupid than that babbled by the humanities bludgers of that era.
Black Ball
September 28, 2024 9:16 am
Some of that approach would do a world of good in Alice Springs and in the NT in general
I loved the skating thread OT. What memories.
Being bushies we didn’t have access to swish city rinks, but we were allowed to skate on the school quadrangle each weekend. Obviously that was in the days when no parent would ever contemplate suing the school because their idiot kid busted himself up.
But skating left me with a permanent depression. Those bloody girls were just so elegant, always in inseperable groups, and made us boys look like the klutzes that we were. Thank God skateboards were invented.
Not much need for Gastarbeiter when you’re Net Zeroing manufacturing to extinction.
Campus adolescents.
Correct- they’ve never grown up, never done a real job where you have to actually work (and face consequences if you stuff up) and been given everything. Not just the ALP neither- look at Scott and Fifield.
Mmm…like he was pushed in the right direction on the voice.
That’s the problem…he’s meant to be the leader, yet he can’t seem to apply the Liberal Party’s clearly enunciated principles to the practical political issues that come before him. And he’s surrounded by wets in the party room for whom Dutton is simply their best chance of sitting on ministerial leather again.
In Canada, meanwhile, Pierre Poilievre has just taken a left-liberal Toronto seat from Trudeau’s party in a by-election. He didn’t do it by hiding what he believes or sacrificing his political principles to entice progressive voters but by explaining to the electorate how his policies could make their lives better.
I don’t see anyone in the Liberal Party attempting to do this outside of one or two senators who aren’t in the main game (and one of them is leaving the party to run as an independent after being demoted to an unelectable position on the QLD ticket in favour of a faceless party drone).
The other thing in Dutton’s favour is Trumble was implacably opposed to his becoming PM. The only way forward that I can see is elect the LNP (Nationally) and make sure they govern for us. With Latho and Pauline fighting they’s not really any alternative.
Mmm…like he was pushed in the right direction on the voice.
Yes but we got the result that was good for Australia. I’ve given up on minor parties particularly now Latho and Pauline are fighting. Better to focus on the LNP and mold it into something better.
Regarding Canada, how was rubbish like Justine even elected in the first place? The guy who lost to the dauphine was quite good iirc. I think the Tides Foundation had a lot to do with it.
Australian Libertarians, your time has come. Time to stop the doodling and write some tunes.
A good piece of Drew Roller, Roger. Well, I am about to find out – at the demonstration called by the Libertarians against the modified ACMA bill embodying censorship of social media – in the Sydney Domain in a little over an hour.
That result of the Libertarians in the local elections in Sydney was interesting, though it may not translate into state or federal elections – but who knows? It may drag some critical votes from the Greens, but may also take them from UAP and One Nation.
Bourne 1879 @ 8:36
For those who don’t have an online subscription I would have to say to today’s The Weekend Australian is one of the most interesting reads across many subjects.
Better be quick.
Rupert’s vanity project is in decline.
Pro Crime leftards;
That reminds me, how’s the PhD coming along, Bob?
Even the Victorian Lieboral party has some good people like Bev MacArthur and Moira Deeming.
The disability royal commission is split on the issue of special schools – https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/publications/final-report-volume-7-inclusive-education-employment-and-housing
Special Schools exist simply because regular schools are not yet ready to support all students. Unless resourcing, support and training for teachers, and public attitudes change, I can’t see their demise in my lifetime.
We’ve come a long way – when I started teaching, there were still children who were considered “unreceptive to education” . (This was a quote from an orthopaedic surgeon of my acquaintance who defined education in the most narrow of terms – generally what used to be called classical education). At the time we were fellow members on the board of the Cootharinga Society.
To my way of thinking, the only child who can’t learn is dead. The attitude so clearly expressed by my learned friend persists in many quarters, and particularly in many private school communities.
This was emphasised over and over again by parents who would bring their child with a disability for enrolment at my Special School in Toowoomba, bitter because they had been turned away from their private school of choice on the basis that “this school doesn’t cater for your son/daughter”. Toowoomba had (and still has) a plethora of these schools.The fact that parent had the money, and was making a clear choice cut no ice at all.
I found an instant conversation stopper at principal’s meetings I attended in Toowoomba. I’s approach a private school principal and ask (as a special school principal) whether the individual’s school had any students with disabilities in attendance. The answer was always almost “no”, and was usually followed by the statement that “we don’t cater for them”. I would then remind said principal that they were in receipt of Commonwealth Education funding precisely so they could cater for these students. That almost always ended the conversation.
I’d recommend that any private school that turns a student away on the basis of a presenting disability should have its public funding removed immediately. In the end, these schools run on taxpayers money, and many of these taxpayers are people with disabilities.
These wealthy schools could then spend the necessary funds on facilities for students with disabilities, and training and resourcing specialist teachers. Then they would be able to “cater”.
Maybe a little less spending on facades and artwork and a little more on education for all would have a better national result.
Good grief! Just scanned The Australian & found the most disturbing article I have read in a while. In an article entitled :Act now before “pandemic amnesia” sets in, we are reminded that Albanese promised to establish an equivalent to the CDC (Centre for Disease Control) that exists in the USA. This is now being supported by the Australian Medical Association, the CSIRO, the Public Health Association of Australia. Within this article, it is noted that “Vaccine mandates should be carefully considered and used only as a last resort when uptake was low.” (!!!)
So…..I read that as…this new CDC would actually enforce people to be vaccinated against their will when uptake was low!!!!!
Have the bureaucrats learned nothing??? Clearly, they have not.
They expelled Moira from the party room 19-1, milt.
Case in point.
A moonbeam from the larger lunacy:
Northern Ireland is passing health emergency legislation that will facilitate compulsory vaccination among other nightmarish powers.
Last night somebody posted a link to this…
The Greatest Lie ever told.
https://youtu.be/RzkO6gl1LgE?feature=shared . Haven’t seen this video yet, but the anthropology of the Left and right was very interesting.
I only stumbled across this channel yesterday after watching this “Civil war is inevitable” https://youtu.be/8Waiu1nZakA?feature=shared on Tom Bilyou’s channel. The thesis is that economic conditions today are similar to those around the time of the fall of the Roman republic ( note republic , not Empire), the English Civil war, 30 years war and the US civil war others. Also he draws parallels with the Black Death ( calling the parallel a psychological Black Death) and conditions in the mouse utopia experiment.
I ended up on Tom Bilyou channel because one of his interviews with Patrick Bet David popped up on my feed. Some other eye opening interviews on there as well
Agree the Vicco liberal leadership clique seems to be on another planet- as if anyone with a smidgin of good sense would worry what the Aged thought of him.
Parents need the choice and not be victims of “do gooders” with political theories who do not know our kids!
Our son started off mainstream while his condition allowed it, but we moved him to a special school when he and the school could no longer cope. Mrs D had to go to the school every day to feed him( he had a gastrostomy tube) as none of the aides were prepared to accept the liability if something went wrong.
£16,000 was previously “declared” as “private office expenses.”
Bear in mind that ordinary citizens in the UK & here can be prosecuted and fined by the tax authorities for such unfortunate accounting errors.
In the aftermath of Covid and knowing now all that has been perpetrated and exposed, as well as the dreadful US experience since the stolen election under Biden/Harris and their cabal of traitors and deviants, I think it is not in anyone’s interest or their family’s to even consider Govts and their beauracracies give any thought whatsoever to the public’s wellbeing or benefit. Clearly, they are our enemy.
So yes, they have learned- plenty. Surveil, censor, silence, oppress, threaten, lie, jail, cancel, murder – whatever it takes to take and remain in power in order to fleece every last penny they can from us.
A tenured, female Professor to be proud of.
Academia world wide needs more Amy Wax.
https://freebeacon.com/campus/how-penn-tried-to-buy-amy-waxs-silence/
Google Operation Cyclone. The US used Pakistan to funnel money, weapons, etc. to the Mujahadeen. With the Pakis and Saudis expected to match this as well.
They weren’t jihadis. That is the point.
“I have no idea what that word means, as don’t most who use it here.”
If you don’t know what it means how can you claim those who use it don’t?
You really aren’t good at logic Mr Hardroadtohoe.
Yes, that is correct. I notice how your quotes don’t even address the relevant aspect above; namely, conducting operations to influence overtly or covertly politics in nations up to and including supporting a coup.
There were only two choices in Toowoomba then, private schools and special schools.
How very odd.
Dover
The U.S. supported groups aligned with Massoud’s father, who were not religious jihadis. If you have evidence to the contrary, please provide it.
That said, the U.S. was backing anti-Soviet forces, which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing at the time.
You’re applying present-day perspectives to historical events, expecting people of a different era to fully grasp the long-term consequences of their actions. Harry Hindsight is 100% right every single time. Amazing.
Argue with the book about US actions along the North African coast line in which the piracy was described as acts of Jihad.
Coincidence news:
Sixty. Geez. That’s put Weinstein back in the amateurs.
Probably nothing at all to do with Al Fayed’s billion dollar estate.
Its also bizarre to claim that private schools that are funded per student should divert funding from individual able bodied students to individual disabled students.
In any case there are a few private schools in Australia with special needs programs.
https://privateschoolsguide.com/additional-needs-schools
How deep is the Yangzee near Wuhan? How deep is the shoulder there? The draft of Type 093 sub is 7.5m, and that doesn’t include the bridge. So from the top of the bridge to the bottom of the keel its likely to be about 15m. I very much doubt it could be completely submerged on the shoulder of the river or even if it were that the silhouette couldn’t be seen in a photo.
Sure, sure, you can’t see a sub that’s over 100m long, 13m wide, and 15m tall if its sunk on the shoulder of a river…because its under water. Dear oh dear.
Islamic naval jihad.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates
Everyone should do it. The Free Speech Union make it dead easy to send a protest about the Shut You Up Bill coming before the Senate next week.
Go to FSU, where they helpfully compose a letter which is tailored according to your expressed beliefs as you’ve prioritised them with clicks to the FSU’s list of reasons. They will then send that for you if you wish. They advise though for you to send it yourself to garner more attention. To do this, click for them to send you the letter via email. When the email arrives you there’s one just click for your letter to be set up for you on your own email (presto!) with the right address already inserted, and then you click on submit for it to fire a blast at the obscenity of this bill.
One email from every Cat and Kitteh – NOW.
Dover
If you have evidence the sub story is bullshit then present it. There’s no real point to this discussion.
Roger/September 28, 2024 9:32 am
The only difference between Labor and the Liberals is the size of the unlubricated pineapple they are striving to shove up our quoits.
Here’s the FSU link.
No excuses. Do it now.
I see that Burke is just now beginning to glimpse out the corner of his eye the all to predictable folly of their slobbering courtship of the Muslimist vote: Labor thought they were playing the Muzzies while the Muzzies thought they were playing Labor.
But only one of these was motivated by conviction. The other just thought they were too clever to fail.
The Australian is by far the best newspaper in the country for its in depth coverage and they allow articles from both points of view.
Which is why The Australian and mention of Rupert Murdoch is like kryptonite to the Greens, and lefties like numbers who would prefer we had to read The ABC or Guardian.
There’s a lesson here for all of us. Or perhaps not. Wretched picture loader.
Rupert’s vanity project is in decline.
As usual from the resident racist moron, this statement is incorrect. The Oz’s subscription numbers are up, unlike the SMH. And this year The Oz celebrated its sixtieth birthday, not bad for a ‘vanity project‘. We’ll see whether The Guardian is around in sixty years, my hunch is that it won’t be.
The US supported jihadis. The idea that these weren’t ‘religious jihadis’ is just too silly for words or that the money being funneled into Afghanistan from US, Pakistan, and Saudis was only going to Massoud or that if were even the case it made a difference. It reeks of ‘moderate rebels’ in Syria.
This is just cope. You don’t need to have ‘Harry Hindsight’ special powers to see that helping jihadis in Afghanistan is going to generate a future response when there are already jihadi groups operating in other nations.
From the Beertruk extract from the Tele at 8:43.
There’s that boiler-plate phrase again.
Anything Israel does “raises fears of all-out war in the region”.
How about this …
“Unprovoked attacks by feral rag-heads on Israel raise fears of all-out war in the region”.
Who had ” embittered old fossilised teacher whines” on their bingo card for today?
Or are we just considering that a free box nowadays?
Idiotic fads like mainstreaming people with intellectual disabilities through 12 years of tick a box advancement at the cost of every other student is stupidity on stilts.
As usual the lifelong pubic serpents cure is unlimited monies…
Of course there will be ten Nasrallahs popping up tomorrow to replace him.
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1839794970724565323?t=JAdUwuR5h-KkveE1C9lOwQ&s=19
North African piracy in the Mediterranean was certainly Jihadist. They took Christian slaves, they didn’t take Muslim slaves. They relentlessly raided the Christian settlements along the Mediterranean, and they were backed by and operated with the blessing of North African sultans and the Ottomans. A period of history that goes largely unmentioned in the rush to bash European colonialism.
And what of the Anatolian Christian Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks massacred, expelled or forced to convert to Islam? That absolutely had a Jihadist component.
Here we go again, Hindsight History! (abrev HH)
If you’re going to play this game, consider this: if the Soviets hadn’t tried to stage a coup and invade Afghanistan to prop up their puppet regime, the Americans wouldn’t have backed the anti-communist groups, and maybe the Taliban wouldn’t be in power today. So, blame the Soviets for messing up Afghanistan in the first place—but that doesn’t quite fit with your new ideology, does it?
Aren’t you overusing this “cope” nonsense? Like I said, the Cold War was in full swing in the ’80s, and militant Islam wasn’t even on the radar as a major threat. Sorry people weren’t psychic enough to meet your “Harry Hindsight” standards. Funny how you’re not sparing even a shred of blame for the Soviets, who, in case you forgot, invaded Afghanistan in the first place.
Rosie @ 12:00 pm
Its also bizarre to claim that private schools that are funded per student should divert funding from individual able bodied students to individual disabled students.
Private schools also receive funding for students with disabilities under commonwealth NCCD programmes in addition to per student funding. The bizarre aspect is the disproportionate nature of this funding.
Public school students eligible for a disability payment receive an average amount from the commonwealth of $2,941, while private and independent schools receive on average, in excess of $10,000 per funded student.
In any case there are many private schools in Australia without any special needs programs. According to the Independent schools website, there are 172 with special needs programmes in Queensland (for example) out of a total of 454 schools.
The government assistance payment for students with disabilities in private and independent schools is up to six times higher than that received in the public system.
And yet, they’re called “private” rather than “subsidised” schools. That’s the most bizarre aspect of all.
(Source – Australian Schools Directory; National Consistent Collection of Data 2023)
Do you have any evidence its true? I just gave several reasons to disbelieve it. I gave others yesterday.
It seems to me that test submerging a sub at the construction dock before sea trials might be a good idea.
Do I have evidence? Aside from the fact that this was reported in a respected outlet like the Wall Street Journal? Sure, it’s not AJ or Pravda, so it’s far from perfect. 🙂
But let me clarify: I don’t need to provide any evidence. It was you who called it ‘amazing’ that anyone could believe the WSJ story. ‘Amazing’ goes beyond personal disbelief—it’s a bold assertion that requires backing up.
AFL GF pre game entertainment, zaaap.
That normally is reserved for Eddie Dingos incarnation of a serious ceremony.
Half way through the Joe Rogan interview with ex SEAL and podcaster Shawn Ryan. Lots of discussion about internet censorship and X and YouTube etc.
When discussing eating cats and dogs Ryan says “Kung pow chicken is not always Kung pow chicken”
With apologies to those planning on having Chinese food tonight.
Leaving the Hezbollah arrangement in northern Israel aside (although there are similarities), I prefer to view the Gazan situation through the lens of World Wars 1 and 2.
Germany put their hand up and finally said ‘barley’ in November 1918, which led to the Treaty of Versailles the following year.
Among the outcomes were that the Chermans had to pay reparations to the Allies, make territorial concessions (Alsace-Lorraine and colonies in Africa and the Pacific), extradite war criminals, disarm most of their armed forces and agree to put the Kaiser on trial.
Most importantly, it also compelled Chermany to admit that it was responsible for the war.
Now – although the handpatters of the time said the boxheads had been treated too harshly (a British general whose name I can’t remember said ‘This is not a peace. This is an armistice for twenty years’), Germany was not happy with it, it wasn’t pacified and it was not permanently weakened.
Consequently, without fear of serious consequence the Chermans were able to ignore most of those provisions and rearm all three of their armed forces, plus create and equip the SS.
It was handpattery and appeasement that directly resulted int he deaths of over 52 million people in World War 2.
Lets try a new topic, Dover and see if you can progress this.
Let’s dive deep into the dark and pervasive influence of the Soviet Union and how its relentless global meddling corrupted the course of history.
I’m sure you an add to this list of accomplishments.
II.
In 1918, Germany had only been a country of its own for 48 years.
What the Allies should have done was break it back up into the various duchies, baronies, principalities and provinces of the Holy Roman Empire, thus preventing effective rearmament and reunification, and also preventing such a threat from emerging again.
In other words – put their foot on the Cherman throat and leave it there until it expires, as one would cage a mongoose and then throw it into the ocean.
But they didn’t.
In the ME, constant ignorance of the threats posed by Pali retardos combined with appeasement and handpattery from those with no skin in the game resulted in events like 7 October. For this reason alone, Israel has every right to ignore the dickheads (looking at you, Wong) and ensure that its people have the ability to survive and thrive.
Oh shut up Bob.
You went to Catholic schools and you sent your children to them too.
I’m not playing any game. I’m just acknowledging that the US has repeatedly used jihadis as it played the Great Game. It’s just funny watching you pretend that it didn’t or that it ifit did it was the other guy’s fault.
But not quite as funny, hilarious in fact, as you skipping over the Soviet invasion, which started the ball rolling in the first place.
Which GF will The Houso blight with his freeloading presence? It’s an interesting argument whether these pollies are just massaging their sense of entitlement by turning up at sporting events, or believe that it will win votes, make them ‘one of the boys’.
I like to think back to West Coast 2018 GF when the cameras spent so much time focused on the Julie Bishop fossil that she lost enormous credibility. Viewers were scathing.
bons
September 28, 2024 9:45 am
I loved the skating thread OT. What memories.
Being bushies we didn’t have access to swish city rinks, but we were allowed to skate on the school quadrangle each weekend. Obviously that was in the days when no parent would ever contemplate suing the school because their idiot kid busted himself up.
But skating left me with a permanent depression. Those bloody girls were just so elegant, always in inseperable groups, and made us boys look like the klutzes that we were. Thank God skateboards were invented.
My last memory of skateboarding was me cracking my head. BANG!
Oh, so a report in ‘respected outlet’ is now
evidence. I would have thought that what was included in the report was the evidence, and therein they had an inconclusive satellite photo and anon sources.
It is amazing that anyone still takes reports from the MSM based on inconclusive photos and anon sources as credible even when there are obvious questions, given the report, that would justify scepticism. Recap of those questions: no major naval base in Wuhan, no visible part or silhouette on the shoulder of river, no before photo showing the sub tied up at the pier, and so on.
But, then again, I shouldn’t be surprised.
Bons the houso is guaranteed to be sniffing around the MCG today. Wonder which scarf he will sport today?
I’ll be back in front of the box at 2:30pm when it starts after the usual crap is done. Saves my blood pressure.
I’ve ignored it because it’s irrelevant to the question of US support for jihadis in Afghanistan.
Ummm, you go with less if it fits your bias. And yes, it is evidence. which you confuse with proof.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 28, 2024 12:07 pm
Everyone should do it. The Free Speech Union make it dead easy to send a protest about the Shut You Up Bill coming before the Senate next week.
Thank you for the heads-up Lizzie.
Done!
Depends on who wins.
Confession.
No, a report is just a report. It doesn’t itself constitute evidence, otherwise you’d be saying that Western reports of Iraqi WMDs in 2002/3 constituted evidence of their existence when its just intelligence services backgrounding reporters with lies and half-truths. And please don’t come back with HH, the principals knew it was rubbish back then.
Bizarre?
It’s the antonym of public.
Only an inebriated wombat could fail to grasp the meaning in the context of Australian schooling.
You’re not an inebriated wombat, are you, Bob?
Bourne1879
September 28, 2024 1:35 pm
When discussing eating cats and dogs Ryan says “Kung pow chicken is not always Kung pow chicken”
With apologies to those planning on having Chinese food tonight.
Last week, some kindly Cat linked to The Pajeet Documentary on Rumble.. Brilliant David Attenborough-like voice, and truly nauseating visuals.
I, for one, will never eat Indian again.
From a Tweet posted at Michael Smith
Interesting observation
Jordan has fired ZERO rockets at Israel.
Number of Jordans dead? ZERO
Egypt has fired ZERO rockets at Israel.
Number of Egyptians dead? ZERO
Simple but effective.
Wife put out bread for birds. Still there from 3hrs ago. Birdies obviously prefer live food, insects, spiders, lizards, frogs, possums and bunnies. Occasionally other birds as well.
Any bets on which of the personality disorders numbers is blessed with? Cluster B obviously.
Maybe it’s a WA thing- and maybe usage has changed recently- but it’s always been Public and State schools here.
“I, for one, will never eat Indian again”
Many years ago I was eating curry with a large group in a very well known Indian food venue (not in Australia). The owner came to our table to take our order. We noticed he had a wet hand and as he walked away we noted the rear of his trousers was also wet.
Not something to make you feel comfortable dining there.
Snivellophrenia.
Its started although I didn’t see it. Apparently the Ernie’s incarnation was booed by a section of the crowd. Good!
Great close game, SYD lucky to have an extra goal IMO with seeing what the umpires ping these days though.
For those who don’t have an online subscription I would have to say to today’s The Weekend Australian is one of the most interesting reads across many subjects.
It’s pretty good most weekends. Worth buying.
Gemma Tognini’s article today was evocative and filled me with the nostalgia for what was my life as a child even though I was born in Australia, I just didn’t know it or appreciate how much like a little Italian village was what surrounded me in the little country town where I was raised.
I guess it is because i am closer to the end of my life that I long for the beginnings of it. But boy am I glad of it.
The Libertarian rally in the Domain (opposing the new ACMA Bill) was quite well attended – a few hundred by my estimate. However, in my view it was ruined by the decision of the organisers to allow the usual Commies that have always inhabited the Domain to speak in alternate sequence to the Libertarians. Some were wild and stupid but when one made reference to the dreadful “Zionists” that was my cue to leave. A shame.
One good point was made being – why trust the LNP to oppose the legislation when Abbott’s government reneged on the promise to repeal the dreaded 18C. Damn good point!
After the Zionist remark I departed and walked over to the new Art Gallery pavilion. Hadn’t been there before. It is absolutely stunning. Will go back for a longer visit.
Then a long walk back to the ferry terminal to get ferry across the harbour. Back home in time to see 2nd quarter of the Swans/Lions match.
A pair of Fuglies in the US are wetting themselves by stating that Donald Trump would place all comedians in jail if he became President.
The Donald should answer this by stating, “only the ones that aren’t funny”.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/26/joy-behar-wanda-sykes-fear-trump-will-put-comedians-in-jail-it-could-really-happen/
Really, you’re asking this question ignoring what caused the move to second base?
Why is the terror of tents, the projector’s prince, the folded-blanket wrangler, here of a sudden and so persistently?
Has he lost access to the last place where he could unstopper his spleen and wring the bile from his liver? Or has something happened which has prompted this sudden outburst of spiteful stupidity?
I would ask him but I simply would not trust the answer.
Crikey, I needn’t have bothered hurrying back for the AFL final. Swans getting thrashed.
Türkiyes getting crunched!
Brisbane dominating. I reckon the boundary umpire missed an out of the full at one stage but it didn’t seem to affect anything.
Couple of observations as it has been decades since I played but:
Ch7’s coverage is to shove as many ads in a humanly possible, the replays cutting over the ball ups at the start are annoying too and the commentary crew seem heavily Brisbane biased.
See if Sydney can pare this back but I’d say at first glance na unless Brisbane falls off a cliff.
100% – how many children must been sacrificed on the altar of inclusion? – a question posed by a mother of an intellectually disabled son who was being advised by the usual busy-body ideologues to mainstream her boy when she knew he would be humiliated, teased and bullied.
No thanks and good for her and good for her son who was happy and thriving in the educational setting which was right for him.
Bongino on the latest threat/rumour about a Trump Assassination: iran using STA missiles against his plane:
Another Serious Threat To Trump’s Life? (Ep. 2338) – 09/27/2024 (rumble.com)
I’ll say it again: the world would be a better place if iran was turned to glass. I don’t care by who: Israel, Trump, as long as it is done.
I’m done, too one sided, sh%$ commentary and too many ads.
Brisbane will flog this one in.
Neexxt, NRL next weekend.
Eyrie: It seems to me that test submerging a sub at the construction dock before sea trials might be a good idea.
Usual procedure with a new sub is to do a test dive “in the basin” of a port with all sorts of attendant vessels to hand.
Whether the Chunk sub had done that I do not know, but they have had a cavalier attitude in the past to safety and paid the price.
In 2003, they lost a Ming submarine, a copy of a Soviet Romeo-class boat, with 70 lives. It was found drifting almost completely submerged, probably with some sort of air problem leading to the gassing of all on board.
Apparently there have been other disasters, but the usual PLA-N approach is to say nothing. One suspect was a boat with a surface fire which was likely never seen again.
Katy Perry’s yartz makes a cameo appearance
Have been watching Curtis Stone make scones.
I have never baked, or seen anyone else bake a scone that has a domed top like a cup cake. They really looked weird.
They most likely tasted good, but they did not look like a scone.
More like a rock cake with a face lift.
Not knocking rock cakes. A good one is sublime.
Son has got a bottle of 40yo Lagavulan for me and I can’t have any till I’m off the antiseizure medication. Another 2 weeks.
Brisbane Lions coach Chris Fagan, 63, is about to become the oldest premiership coach in AFL history.
Just over 100,000 people at the G watching the Sydney Mancravers get bent over the ute.
In the absence of the Pies winning (yet) another one, that’ll do.
Another magnificent grand final effort by the Sydney Türkiyes.
When too much auto-asphyxiation is barely enuff.
One of the Brisbane Lions assistant coaches celebrating today’s premiership win is Stuart Dew, who was sacked this year as senior coach of the Gold Coast Suns.
That’s what you call swings and roundabouts.
Yeah, the problem is militant Israel.
https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1839592120283181479?t=WsoYO5B-Ip6KrjuQ1fC87A&s=19
Done.
There was kerfuffle recently in the US when a bunch of JD Vance’s emails were leaked. The answers to his emails were not made public in the fervent hope of course of skewering the info against Vance.
The identity of the leaker has been revealed. He is a higher-up at Deloitte.
Deloitte handles a lot of Government contracts. oops!
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/09/27/burn-notice-leaker-of-jd-vance-communications-revealed-n2179870
“Meet Abu Huzaifa, a proud Palestinian terrorist from Gaza who seeks to please his Muslim mother and sacrifice his soul as a martyr for Islam to kill Jews for the sake of Allah (God of Islam).”
https://x.com/LizaRosen0000/status/1839591625175060924?t=KAKzBngcF0mmumRWQqErAg&s=19
https://nitter.poast.org/InsiderTakes/status/1839759268532367562#m
Your man on the inside @InsiderTakes 11h
No word on whether this demographic is enough.
Good Boy!!!
Is Gayfl the only cough sport cough that you get a point for trying hard to score a goal and failing?
What a pistol
We’ll see, but Pollievre’s polling puts him ahead and the Conservatives took a seat off the Liberals in a recent Toronto by-election.
This despite the Canadian press portraying him as a Trumpian with Canadian characteristics.
Dr. Phil’s Unscripted Interview with Vivek Ramaswamy | Dr. Phil Primetime
BREAKING NEWSHezbollah chief ‘is dead’: Israel says terror group’s boss Hassan Nasrallah has been killed in massive airstrikes on Beirut
Daily Mail.
I haven’t eaten curry since the mid 80s.
The fitters and turners ( aka the Catering Corps) did a curry so bad, that even today just the smell of curry makes me feel nauseous.
This is where we are. Inclusive, isn’t it.
Taxpayer-funded Minneapolis food pantry bans white people – as boss’ astonishing outburst at local who complained is revealed
This is an absolute must watch. Simply unbelievable. And, guess what, the WEF!
Andrew Bridgen has discovered that the U.K. justice system is also completely corrupted.
The Dark Art Of Lawfare | Clip
I determined to have pizza last night. I went to Goddamn Murphy’s for some piss – as you must do when visiting smaller towns.
I settled upon a bottle of wine that I was confident would be at least or better than telephone pizza would be.
Barolo. A great expression of Piedmont Nebbiolo. I discovered that I was deliberately avoiding drinking with the pizza so I would have more of the Barolo uncorrupted.
Magnificent!
Calling all keyboard warriors. As well as the Free Speech Union writing a letter for you, you can sign a simple petition “It is not 1984” at the website of Advance Australia
http://www.advanceaustralia.org.au
The deprivations we regional folk must suffer often come as quite a shock to denizens of the big smoke.
No, No Diogenes. The simple secret to superb curry is: make it yourself from scratch. Easy peasy and so enjoyable.
Make it as mild or as bitey as you like. Add yummy homemade sides: banana/coconut raita, easy flatbread and bought papadums.
All the spices are readily available. Keep them in your pantry: the cumin and paprika will spice up your home made tacos and souvlakis.
Life changers!
Israel claiming they have nailed Nasrallah. And here I am without any champagne.
And the ABC is up and running with its first story about Australians “stranded” in Lebanon:
DFAT has been advising them since at least July to leave the country.
The fitters and turners ( aka the Catering Corps) did a curry so bad, that even today just the smell of curry makes me feel nauseous.
Oh. That’s different.
Best Man said that Sunday’s passable lamb roast leftovers became sandwiches on Monday, some sort of casserole on Tuesday, patties on Wednesday and something else on Thursday and, green and smelly by Friday, the fitters and turners curried the remains.
He, ex-tankie, won’t eat curry today.
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Minister Wong devastated at senseless murder of a Partner for Peace. DFAT has opened a Condolences Book in Western Sydney.
Moving to Iraq
https://x.com/OliaOnX/status/1839713486089208220?t=WnkExZUr_VGg7lKVDEo6Iw&s=19
Confused again.
Subsidised schools are Government schools.
Most of those who pay private school fees also pay taxes, thereby subsidising the free-loaders who attend Government schools (and, by extension, the leeches who “teach” there).
Volvo EV goes mad, KILLS driver – MGUY EV News 28 September 2024 | MGUY Australia
Apparently Charlie Cameron Bris Lions player is too good to shake the young fans hand who gave him his medal. Only one not to from the Lions. Pretty poor form mate.
Why does this stand out because he was the only player today that stuck out to me as a gob trying to illicit a response at each breakdown of play which I thought was unnecessary as he was a handy player without need to.
Don’t know anything about him but I saw shades of Goodes towards the end of his career.
Confused again.
The old Commie is permanently confused.
Israel’s military says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Beirut strike
Emigrating from Iran to Lebanon wasn’t such a good idea.
Iran still going to do something?
https://x.com/OALD24/status/1839786799725470071?t=srtDRRATy3jLdsb8K1RHGg&s=19
A quick search on Booking.com shows me 1057 economy seats from BEY to LHR today – cheapest £513 (admittedly only two left at this price).
But, still, probably cheaper again to wait for Albanese Airlines to provide passage and accommodation on the Election Express.