Hole in ground.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1842482362594005324?t=0dMf_72lp2MY1kuTgpe2-g&s=19

Is the coverage of Melania Trump’s spoken position on a woman’s right to choose life or death for her baby more focused on her and that right, or on the fact that Trump might hold a more “right to life” opinion?
Isn’t it OK for a husband and wife to have divergent opinions in the brave new/old world of leftist woke reset politics?
Is it obfuscatory and vindictive to blame Trump for a decision of the US Supreme Court to (in effect) throw such legislative initiatives back to the states?
The US system gives states the ability to organise many things. The complaints about Trump are just the usual misinformation.

It’s been a century since I was there, but I know enough of the base ingredients of the advertising industry to know that the tiny gene pool of cliche’s plus the Hollywood-like yearning to constantly give themselves awards for amazing originality means that groupthink reigns supreme.
It probably doesn’t help that all of the big ticket clients are right-on Diversity, Inclusion and White Guilt at the mission statement level, so it’s all the more desirous to signal wokeness in every frame.
So there’s an alomst AI-like inbreeding feedback loop, where if they see the competition’s ad with a fat, unshaven, slobby Euro dude getting owned by a dusky waif (with a transvestite in the background), that’s the first draft of the next ad. Like wanker craft breweries nationwide offering the same range of pale ale, hazy mid and 7% chocolate stout, the advertising agencies all claim authentic originality, all win a trophy at the local show, all are indistinguishable at a blind tasting.
The weirdest AI feedback loop is the (inevitably fat) dude in an open short sleeve checked shirt worn over a white t-shirt. Bank ad, car ad, airline ad, food ad, he’s always there, always with the open shirt over the T. Who the hell outside of the wardrobe department actually ever puts together that ridiculous high-maintenance low-utility getup? If they did a quick survey of what the man on the street actually wears, they’d find it’s solidly “ghetto night in”- white hooded jumper, trackie shorts, white socks and plastic slippers. At least that’s the rash that has gripped the kids in my town by the looks of my saturday morning survey.
All of the TV portrayals and chain store offerings for men right now are flat out womanly- skinny chinos, cardigans and blouses- or obese-adjacent gamerwear.

Back in 2017 in Minneapolis, Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a dual citizen of Australia and the United States, heard a woman being assaulted and called 911. When police arrived, Damond approached their car and Somali-born officer Mohamed Noor shot her dead. Expert witnesses testified that Noor’s use of force was objectionable, unreasonable and violated police policies and training.

Governor Walz:

 “I need to understand what happened here and what brought up those accusations, and to understand whether we can validate them, and if we do what are the processes to move to alleviate that.” 

Now isn’t that name familiar? And the word salad?

Did you know that Australia’s ambassador to Iran Ian McConville thought it was a good idea to wear purple and make purple cupcakes to show his support for LGBT+ day?

OK, but in Iran! And then he posts pics on Iranian social media and websites resulting in a predictable reaction.

Australian Jewish Association on X: “HILARIOUS: BUDDY BROWN TAKES DOWN AUST AMB TO IRAN FOR HIS QUEERS FOR PALESTINE STUNT Did you know that Australia’s ambassador to Iran Ian McConville thought it was a good idea to wear purple and make purple cupcakes to show his support for LGBT+ day? OK, but in Iran! And then https://t.co/OGPvhw4SJ7” / X

What value do taxpayers get from that miserable Dept of Foreign affaries?

The Libs aren’t getting better.

Liberals 2.0: New breed set to reform party (Tele, paywalled)

They drive EVs, rent with young families and one has even had a stint as a stay-at-home dad – meet the next generation Liberals trying to reform their party in a bid to win back government.

The Tele says this like it’s good thing. Nope, driving an EV should be an instant disqualification, since it means you’ve been taken in by the climate scam.

I’m still gobsmacked about the foreign affairies orrificer in Iran. Is there anyone in foreign affairies that’s not an effete twot?

My question is why have we even got a mission there? 

The frisson of an exotic and slightly dangerous holiday on the taxpayer dime.

Just driven part a major road junction in Brisbane.

Two huge signs up.

One says “Cut Crisafulli before he cuts you”. That is presumably a reference to when Campbell Newman cut 14,000 civil servants 10 years ago.

Other said Crisafulli will shut down a new satellite hospital. These satellite “hospitals” attracted a lot of comments recently as by no means are the hospitals. However looks good when Labor said opened more hospitals when they are glorified clinics.

So looking forward to Labor being booted out of office.

Darwin Award applicant fails in his attempt to win a Darwin Award.

Man attempts self-immolation near White House (6 Oct)

A man tried to self-immolate near the White House on Friday, according to videos seen on X/Twitter. This comes amidst global pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre. 

A man attempted to self-immolate in front of the White House in Washington, D.C.; man suffered superficial burns to arm.

I like the chaps in keffiyehs pouring their water bottles onto his arm. Sort of defeating the purpose of this heroic jihadist act I would’ve thought.

Daniel Kieran VC should just cut out the middle man in the auction and just sell to Kerry Stokes direct. He will then donate the set to the Australian War Memorial.

Roger
October 6, 2024 11:37 am
Reply to Bourne1879

Here you go.

Being held out of town for security reasons.

Not familiar with Q.land but it seems like a fair hike from Brisbane, surely the security question could’ve been addressed for a closer location?

Noticed something that explains a lot. I’m coming off some “blue pills” prescribed as antiseizure medication after my heart surgery. This is the same medication given to bi polar sufferers. Side effects include hallucinations, lethargy and gives you the shiites.

assistant minister for immigration

don’t know who that is but he/she seems to actually get it.

TEL AVIV — In the initial sales pitch to Hezbollah two years ago, the new line of Apollo pagers seemed precisely suited to the needs of a militia group with a sprawling network of fighters and a hard-earned reputation for paranoia.
The AR924 pager was slightly bulky but rugged, built to survive battlefield conditions. It boasted a waterproof Taiwanese design and an oversized battery that could operate for months without charging. Best of all, there was no risk that the pagers could ever be tracked by Israel’s intelligence services. Hezbollah’s leaders were so impressed they bought 5,000 of them and began handing them out to mid-level fighters and support personnel in February.

None of the users suspected they were wearing an ingeniously crafted Israeli bomb. And even after thousands of the devices exploded in Lebanon and Syria, few appreciated the pagers’ most sinister feature: a two-step de-encryption procedure that ensured most users would be holding the pager with both hands when it detonated.
As many as 3,000 Hezbollah officers and members — most of them rear-echelon figures — were killed or maimed, along with an unknown number of civilians, according to Israeli, U.S. and Middle Eastern officials, when Israel’s Mossad intelligence service triggered the devices remotely on Sept. 17.
As an act of spy craft, it is without parallel, one of the most successful and inventive penetrations of an enemy by an intelligence service in recent history. But key details of the operation — including how it was planned and carried out, and the controversy it engendered within Israel’s security establishment and among allies — are only now coming to light.

This account, including numerous new details about the operation, was pieced together from interviews with Israeli, Arab and U.S. security officials, politicians and diplomats briefed on the events, as well as Lebanese officials and people close to Hezbollah. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence. They describe a years-long plan that originated at Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv and ultimately involved a cast of operatives and unwitting accomplices in multiple countries. The Washington Post account reveals how the attack not only devastated Hezbollah’s leadership ranks but also emboldened Israel to target and kill Hezbollah’s top leader, Hasan Nasrallah, raising the risk of a wider Middle East war.
Might be paywalled
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/05/israel-mossad-hezbollah-pagers-nasrallah/

This
https://x.com/Imm_listening/status/1842710979978908013?t=souG2DVsFqabHWyPk9nNfQ&s=19

Bernard Salt (yes, yes I know) in the Weekend Oz Magazine looks at Menzies’ call to arms when Australia joined WW2, in the ‘language of the time’, no ‘fatherland’ or ‘motherland’ for us even then, notes Salt, but a ‘famly of nations’, against Germany and ‘her’ might. Menzies called upon God ‘in his mercy’ and ‘the unconquerable spirit of Man’. Salt goes on to wonder how the ‘language we use today to describe what’s important to us will jar in eight decades hence’.

I’ll pick ‘First Nations’, ‘The Voice’, ‘stolen generations’, ‘racist colonialism’, ‘multiple genders’, ‘cis-gender’, ‘green energy superpower’, ‘tree huggers’, ‘carbon credits’ and ‘global boiling’ as things we’ll cringe at when my 3 year-old grandson is eighty.
Cats probably can think of others.

Of course the real problem is Islam and it seems like Syrians have no agency.
Funny that.
Egypt and Jordan can live in peace with Israel.
It may well be that Lebanon and Iran are ready for a regime change.