Would it be cruel to send aid to Gaza but limit it to bottled water and sandwiches?

If they’re nice, we could hold the ham.

So Albo says to Jo we have decided to fix the roads up where you want to Live, Jo says well that’s just perfect as the cliff top Property is what I am wanting, Albo, well I will put my property on the market and then we can buy the new place, Oh wait the have to kick out the tenant, finance is Guaranteed I am the PM , anyway Jo we can rent it for a year or two as I am PM and negative gear it, Oh Albo (Jo Says) what about the negative gearing, talk in the media, Oh I will just say not on the agenda, problem solved, (Albo continues ) besides we can rent it out for at least a year and then when the road comes through we will make at least 20% on what we paid, all courtesy of the Job, Where the f**k is the ACCC

“As an offhand, marginal footnote, Israeli media reports that one of the two #Hamas seniors killed together with #Sinwar worked as a teacher for #UNRWA .”
https://x.com/faniaoz/status/1846945749340143710?t=akhtNXjA7phF1jh53atrVw&s=19

My pessimism is telling me that Trump will become president but the demoscum will have control of the upper or lower house, thus thwarting him. Thoughts?

Parody in the “austere religious scholar” vein from the Washington Free Beacon

Editor’s note: The Washington Free Beacon has exclusively obtained the final draft of the New York Times obituary for Yahya Sinwar. The Hamas leader and architect of the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack is believed to have been killed Wednesday in a firefight with Israeli forces. 

Yahya Sinwar, a formerly incarcerated novelist and scholar known for his mastery of the Quran and Semitic languages, was martyred Wednesday while resisting Zionist bullets with his formidable brain in the southern Gaza Strip. He was 61.

An Arabic Studies major and father of three, Sinwar assumed leadership of Hamas, the anti-colonial activist organization, in February 2017 and was promoted to chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau following the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh in July 2024. A passionate planner, Sinwar spearheaded one of the most widely discussed hang-gliding excursions into the Palestinian territory sometimes referred to as “Israel” on Oct. 7, 2023.

Born in the Gaza Strip in 1962, Sinwar dedicated himself to the Palestinian cause and cofounded the Munazzamat al Jihad w’al-Dawa, commonly known as Majd, an anti-snitching collective known for its strict moral code and innovative interrogation techniques. He encountered the Zionist criminal justice system in 1989 and served 22 formative years in prison following his conviction for alleged crimes. While incarcerated, Sinwar taught himself Hebrew, extensively studied Jewish history, and authored a novel based on his life. Fellow inmates admired his resourcefulness and the zeal with which he continued to hold snitches accountable for their actions.

Sinwar became unhoused following the Zionist invasion of Gaza, but he continued to oversee resistance forces while residing in the Hamas tunnel network, widely renowned as a marvel of structural engineering. There, he cultivated a diverse group of companions, including a number of Jewish civilians visiting from the Occupied Territories.

The reformed inmate’s loss will be mourned with excruciating sorrow at America’s elite universities, where Sinwar was embraced as a symbol of anti-colonial resistance and beloved for his tenacious commitment to solving the Jewish Problem. “He had such a beautiful mind,” Ashlyn Croddy-Resnick, a sophomore feminist studies major at Columbia University, told the New York Times. “Now there’s a gaping hole. In his head, like, literally, but also in the world now that he’s gone. Peace be upon him.”

Having an obituary for Yahya Sinwar ready to go to print would seem to be a no brainer.

“Drone footage of an injured Sinwar moments before he was Eliminated”
https://x.com/MOSSADil/status/1847006169845715440?t=Q1flzZSlqAxGO6h-AHNUdA&s=19

Human sacrifice death cult
https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1846861149339345090?t=zijy92UBSV3X5HFDWWp4RQ&s=19

Returning by train to London from Newcastle on my way back to Australia.

Standard class single fares booked online range from $80 ($43 was the very cheapest offered) to $190, depending on time of day, carrier, and the number of carriages the service company decides to put on the train.

Much more if you just rock up to the station to buy a ticket – sometimes double.

Plus, booking doesn’t guarantee a seat or that the service won’t be cancelled (about 10% are dropped, with no notice, for ‘logistical reasons’).

As with the main highways (essentially joined up roadworks) travel in the UK is an expensive and unreliable nightmare.

As is pretty much every public service.

I haven’t been elsewhere in Europe this trip, but things must be pretty dismal if the UK is the destination of choice for country shoppers.

Perhaps it’s the welcome mat.

And for those with ADD heres the latest please explain – possibly the best one yet.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1847004660600889354

Negotiations? Lots of people don’t understand 100% of nothing is not winning. Exactly the same as the Gangreens, 100% renewables yesterday, with absolutely no idea of the consequences. They screw up their nose at 5% improvement. Muzzies are generally uneducated. They learn to read by quran as an instruction book. Nothing to comprehend, follow blindly.

Watched “A Lion in Winter” last night. Production not very good but acting great. We need anothr Richard the Lionheart. Maybe it is Bibi? The Jewish lefties in Israel seem to be quiet with all the success of the IDF.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/8169809406463834
Dad and daughter do Halloween…

a glimpse of a masked figure with a wounded arm sitting inside a room.

And so Hersch Goldberg Polin, wounded horribly used as a human shield, starved and finally murdered on this man’s orders is avenged.

Another mind picture, courtesy of Pauline Baynes, one of literature’s finest illustrators. It came to me on considering Sinwar’s fate.

Dear Prophet Mohammed.

I wish to write to express my disappointment with the afterlife.
There are far fewer virgins and lakes of milk and honey and a lot more imps with pitchforks and boiling lakes of excrement than I was led to believe would be the case.
The silken garments seem suspiciously like vermin filled sackcloth, and the promised throne is a sharp baboo stick.

Yours in perpetual burning piss Yahya Sinwars immortal soul.

Apology if already posted. Enjoy.

Megan Davis, Australians have spoken. Respect their verdict
The Mocker

The first-year anniversary of the voice referendum is upon us, and it would not hurt to begin this week’s column on a positive note. Accordingly, I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to the framers of our constitution.

I pay tribute to their wisdom and foresight and thank them for their wonderful gift. I also acknowledge our constitution is the supreme instrument of sovereignty in this country. In addition, I extend my respects to the founding fathers’ descendants, past, present and emerging. 

Our country is not only a longstanding democracy. It is also one of the most stable nations in the world. And it is no mere coincidence the constitution which ensured this is one that cannot be amended at whim. 

If you propose to change it, you must bring the country with you. If you fail to do so, you have two choices. You can state for the record that Australians have spoken and that you respect their verdict. That is the sensible and dignified option, particularly if your case for change was so unconvincing you failed even to carry a single state. 

Alternatively, you can screech incessantly and insist that sinister forces conspired to nobble your campaign. To do so, even spontaneously, is both unedifying and embarrassing. Imagine how much more ridiculous you would appear if you still persisted with this behaviour a year down the track.

That brings me to Professor Megan Davis, Referendum Working Group member, Cobble Cobble woman, and University of NSW pro-vice chancellor. As reported last week, she has called for misinformation legislation to protect future referendums from the “Trumpian” lies she claims thwarted the voice campaign. 

“We want freedom of speech, but we need to balance that with upholding principles of democracy and democratic rights,” she told a UNSW audience. 

I understand perfectly well, Megan Davis. There is no better way of upholding principles of democracy and democratic rights than by deplatforming and muzzling those you personally deem to have spread misinformation. I would go even further and say it would be misinformation to claim your proposal is undemocratic. In no way does it curtail or infringe the rights of those who agree with everything you say. 

Davis’s argument is not an academic rationale, but that of an activist. What passes for logic is a flawed syllogism. First premise: The only thing that can prevent a noble and justified referendum proposal from succeeding is Trumpian misinformation. 

Second premise: The voice was a noble and justified proposal that did not succeed. Conclusion: The voice campaign failed due to Trumpian misinformation.

If you think I am exaggerating, consider a few examples of what Davis posted on her X account during the referendum campaign. She rubbished the claim the voice was “divisive”, saying it was a “Trumpian tactic” employed by the No campaign. 

So too was political commentator Michelle Grattan’s “gloves off” metaphor that characterised the robust exchanges between Shadow Indigenous Australians minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Referendum Working Group member Marcia Langton. “This ‘both sides’ reductionism is Trumpian,” protested Davis. 

Liberal senator Matt O’Sullivan had also disseminated “Noalition misinformation”, said Davis. His sin? He observed the Albanese government had not endorsed a model of the voice.

Likewise national security think-tank Australia Defence Association incurred Davis’s reprimand. It had pointed out even left-wing academics had said the wording of the referendum question raised concerns about justiciability. “Don’t spread misinformation,” responded Davis curtly. 

You get the picture. “The entire ‘No’ case is based on misinformation,” Davis proclaimed. Her robotic responses vindicate constitutional scholar and Referendum Working Group member Greg Craven. 

“Large swathes of the Yes campaign were obsessed with the idea of misinformation and disinformation,” he wrote last week. They “would characterise any contrary argument as misinformation or disinformation,” thus building the case that those responsible “should be effectively banned from the referendum.”

It say a lot about Davis’s skills as an advocate, or lack thereof. To see her let loose in a courtroom would be a cringeworthy spectacle. Judge: “Ms Davis, what are your grounds for appeal?” Davis: “Your Honour, everything the other side said is Trumpian disinformation.” Judge: “What is your basis for that claim?” Davis: “Your Honour, that is exactly what Trump would say!” 

Writing in Guardian Australia last week regarding the referendum, Davis was oblivious to spreading a little misinformation of her own. This concerned the argument the electorate’s rejection of the proposal extended to treaties and welcome to country ceremonies. 

“The republic movement lost at referendum to an even greater degree than the voice but there is no public discourse as to its evisceration from Australian aspirations for future structural change,” she said. 

This is nonsense, and I am not just referring to the turgid prose. Like the voice, the republic referendum was resoundingly defeated, but it fared better. Around 45.13 per cent of Australians voted for a republic as opposed to the 39.94 per cent who voted for the voice.

This is not Davis’s only own goal. She claimed she had come across the beginnings of a misinformation campaign against the voice in November 2022 and that she had lobbied the Albanese government to legislate against it.

“I’ve had a lot of contact from Queenslander mob … who are saying the Queensland Electoral Commission put out all of these ads about misinformation so that Queenslanders can distinguish between what is fact and what is not,” she said. “We’d asked for that”.

In other words, Queenslanders, thanks to Davis’s lobbying, were far better equipped to distinguish between fact and fiction in deciding how to vote. But this puts a big hole in Davis’s conspiracy theory. Queensland, of all the states and territories, recorded the biggest percentage of No voters in the referendum. 

Notably, Davis relies entirely on isolated and anecdotal accounts of misinformation to justify her calls to introduce sweeping legislation. Given the absence of any credible empirical studies to corroborate her demands, her agenda is one of punitive revisionism. 

That said, I do not think Davis should be silenced, as she would her critics. We should welcome the opportunity to expose the shallowness of her arguments. Trumpian disinformation, you say? The word you are looking for is ‘projection’, professor.