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The Arky half track!
It looks more like mum is thinking “What are we going to do with you, son?”
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You lot? I represent that.
About to be on my way home on Emirates. No pagers/ walkie talkies allowed on the aircraft.
Another woman made good in the sciences, although it can be argued that in collaboration with her husband, or the other way around maybe?
She had an interesting life and lived to a ripe old age of 100.
Couple of wiki links, many other references if interested.
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Computer pioneer and mathematician Kathleen H.V. Booth¹ in the 1950s, loading a program into the All Purpose Electronic X-Ray Computer², known as the 32-bit APE(X)C which she co-designed and built with her husband Andrew D. Booth³.
She helped to design and build three of the world’s first operational computers and wrote two of the earliest books on computer design? and programming?; she was also credited with the invention in 1947 of one of the first assembly languages? for their Automatic Relay Calculator called ARC Contracted Notation?.
On November 11, 1955 Kathleen Booth typed some French words into a computer: ‘C’est un exemple d’une traduction fait par la machine à calculer installée au laboratoire de Calcul de Birkbeck College, Londres.’ Out came the English equivalent:
‘This is an example of a translation made by the machine for calculation installed at the laboratory of computation of Birkbeck College, London.’
It was probably the first public demonstration of what today we call a translation app?.
With husband Andrew Booth, together they developed the Booth multiplier?, a highly complex algorithm that she once jokingly dismissed as an ‘arithmetical routine devised over egg and chips in the ABC tea shop in Southampton Row.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEXC
Those were the days when a woman had to be bloody good at her job/profession, and better than most of the men just to get to the interview stage.
Now they can front up and say “I don’t do differential equations, but I make a really good Latte” and Bang! she’s VP of the US.
Did she have children?
Did she make a good home for her family?
Otherwise, who gives a shit.
History is full of hundreds of thousands of significant men.
Woman’s job is to make a home.
Behind every successful man there is a good woman.
On the other hand the opposite is also true;
“Having said that the wrong woman can destroy the most capable man.
Lucky for K Benz it was the former, otherwise we may not hanker for a Mercedes car
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Bertha Benz and her husband Karl Benz had invented the first gasoline-powered automobile, but no one knew how to use it, leaving the invention unused. Everyone called Karl a fool for creating what they considered a ridiculous tricycle
To make matters worse, Karl took refuge in alcohol to accompany his depression.
The Benz family lived in Mannheim with their five children, and Bertha had to visit her parents in Pforzheim, almost 100 kilometers to the south. To support her husband and make sure that his work was not in vain, Bertha took courage and decided to set off on the tricycle to visit them.
The journey took almost a full day, a reasonable amount of time considering the power of the vehicle in the late 19th century. Bertha had to stop several times at pharmacies to refuel with gasoline, which was sold there at the time.
She visited two tanners to repair the brakes, thus inventing brake pads, and a blacksmith to fix the transmission chain. When a fuel line clogged, Bertha used a pin to repair it and insulated a wire with a makeshift tie.
After arriving at her destination, Bertha informed her husband of the success of the trip by telegram. The next day, she set off for Mannheim, completing the return journey.
The trip attracted a lot of attention, as Bertha met many curious people along the way. It was then that people began to understand that the automobile was not just a curious toy, but a practical and fast means of transportation.
Karl became instantly famous and soon everyone wanted a replica of his car, leading to numerous orders. Bertha’s trip was also an opportunity for her to test the vehicle from a user’s perspective, identifying potential improvements.
She suggested adding a gear to the transmission to increase speed, thus reducing travel time and allowing it to overtake wagons, adding a fourth wheel for greater stability, improving the brakes, and installing a fuel filter. From there, what would become a large automobile empire, known to this day, was born.
Great story – thanks!
Goodness that would have been a rough trip
User interface !
Of course people had cast iron bums then, from riding in horse-drawn carts over cobblestones.
First ride I had in a Merc, I was stunned at how cushioned from the universe my bum was. Clearly they listened to Bertha’s ‘customer experience.’
The TV series “Cars that made the World” showed the first journey, and Bertha’s role in marketing the car.
Ripper yarn, thanks. Although I had read the story before I had not seen how spidery the tricycle was! And the marketing consequences were essential to the story.
Dreadful living conditions in the late 1930s in the US, women usually bore the brunt.
And we call them the weaker sex.
But that was the an easier part of the job relative to digging up and refining the ores that created that slag heap.
My grandmother had a similar job in Ayrshire Scotland in the 1910s. Notice all that white privilege.
The Wukkas, as usual – of both sexes – copped it in the neck. The misery was pretty well shared out equally during that economic disaster.
Only men don’t have the option of earning a quid lying on their backs.
’Women bore the brunt” absolute horseshit.
Tens of thousands of men died in a bloody ditch on the side of the road going town to town looking for anything to survive.
I guarantee that people were lining up to be allowed onto that slag heap, and that it was old geezers who got turned away.
Look Arky, I don’t generalise as much as you do when it comes to women, but I have seen what men, who are down on their luck, can do to women, who are essentially looking after the family and carry on regardless and put up with the moody men.
So yes they bore the burden.
These days it’s a lot easier for women to escape an abusive husband.
Just let it go, times have changed.
Sometimes for the worse, women abusing the system, I grant you that.
Oh boo hoo.
No. No they didn’t.
Read some history for f*cks sake.
Even when a tribe or an army took a town, fortress or a rival tribes village, they often killed all the men, every single one, and kept the women.
You are a male I take it. No one gives a shit if you die. No one. Oh, they might show up to the funeral, they might say they do. They don’t.
Six weeks later no one will give you a second thought.
That’s just the nature of it. Most men are just , well, there to make up the numbers.
ACT election in round figures: Of every Four enrolled voters;
One voted Labor
One voted Liberal
One didn’t bother to vote
The other one divided their vote 35% Green, 25% independent, the rest for a hodge-podge of insignificant candidates.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Ben Garrison.
Gullible governments conned by biotech, at taxpayers’ expense:
This week we in New Zealand were subjected to a piece of biotech propaganda from the Hon. David Seymour MP, leader of the ACT Party and soon to be Deputy Prime Minister. Dressed in a white coat Seymour spoke to us while visiting Ruminant Biotech. He held up a bolus (or veterinary pill) the size of a potato and announced that put in a cow it releases a ‘very special and secret synthesised compound’ that reduces the cow’s methane emissions by 75 percent.
The bolus is a slow-release pill that continues to work for six months. Seymour described this as a real win-win because we can keep consuming steaks and dairy products without worrying about climate change. He concluded, ‘Science is awesome and the real solution to our climate challenges.’
The project has received $7.8 million of funding via the NZ government body AgriZeroNZ, and it’s envisaged approval for on-farm use in NZ’s massive dairy industry will be fast-tracked to begin in 2025.
Veganism has never looked more attractive.
More examples in the rest of this excellent article.
The tendency of governments to fling money at ‘scientific’ solutions to essentially political problems is just the latest manifestation of the shortcomings of the political class.
They will do almost anything to avoid direct confrontation with hard reality.
The New York Times
BBC News (British Broadcasting Corporation)
CNN (Cable News Network)
The Washington Post
The Guardian (UK)
Bloomberg
Reuters
Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
Anyone in China not being able to access these lefty sites isn’t missing a thing.
Quadrant magazine at quadrant.org.au seems to be down.
Yes.
I have just been trying to get on it as well.
I’ve been trying to get on for a couple of days.
Science is awesome and the real solution to our climate challenges.
The only climate challenges are stopping governments from doing stupid things to “fix” a non problem.
From The Oz….
Ms Carnell, chief minister between 1995 and 2000, said Labor’s election victory extending their reign of 23 years was not “good for democracy”, and the Canberra Liberals needed to move to the political centre or “centre left” to be returned to government.
An early swing to the Liberals’ turned into a 32.9 per cent primary vote compared with Labor’s 34.5 per cent, but Ms Carnell backed “moderate” Elizabeth Lee to continue leading the party.
“I think the great dilemma is, why bother with democracy?,” she told The Australian. “If you’re not going to change governments, the whole point of electing governments is that you can change them from time to time. You can keep the bastards honest … that’s the point.
“It’s certainly really hard for the Liberals. There’s a whole generation of Canberrans who have never known anything else.
“They weren’t born when I was in parliament.”
There are a number of points here.
Point one is that the ACT should not be self-governed.
Point two is that I am unaware that the ACT Liberals were conservative or hard right so why then does Carnell say that the Liberals should move to the political centre of centre left? That’s just ridiculous.
Point three is that Carnell is sadly right about Labor’s electoral win on the weekend not being good for democracy and the question should be asked….’why bother with democracy?’
I’m curious, do the ACT Liberals stand for anything right of centre/conservative? Did the ACT Liberals vociferously oppose the ACT government’s outrageous takeover of Calvary Hospital? Or are the ACT Liberals, in their current guise just a vanilla essence version of Labor’s vanilla extract?
Just like Washington DC and London, and Paris, and Berlin, any place in a Western democracy that is the seat of government votes left.
In fact, compared to Washington and other places, the Canberra Liberals are doing very well indeed.
I don’t say this to defend them, but rather to get a sense of perspective.
Anyone who imagines that barnstorming hard right policies in the ACT is a winning proposition is living in fairyland.
Yep. Pushing sh1t uphill. Just bulldoze the place and flip a coin between Sydney and Melbournibad. Which is what should been done anyway.
Don’t know about other Cats in Canbra but the SFL’S are Liars Light as far as I can see with a dose of watermelon to appeal to voters who will never vote for them. Labor manages to turn every place into a Shiitehole. None of them know how to make money.
I was living in Canberra when the referendum resoundingly rejected self-government. But IIRC it was ClydeHolding as a minister in the Hawke Government that railroaded the ACT into it. The place had been well managed by the NCDC prior to that.
We are just over the border in NSW, and rarely pay much attention to the politics of Canbrrrra unless it affects us. Can’t say I’ve noted the Liberals there are being very vociferous about anything. Then again how does one tell: the Canberra Times is a leftie rag. There is a free daily current affairs/news program called RiotACT but it is left wing too.
Hmmyeeears.
Democracy is being able to choose which group of people implements the policies I like in the way I want them to be implemented.
Mrs Benz was one smart, hard working good looking lady.
There’s a little more to the story. She had two of her boys help her push the motorwagen away from the house so as not to wake Karl, as shown in the painting.
Retail politics goes Drive Thru.
That was great!
Tony Heller:
In this video, I take on Potholer’s unsupportable claims about methane, and explain why the United Nations is trying to demonize this harmless trace gas.
The Methane Big Lie
The alternative is pretty awful…
Cuba In the Dark | Power Line (19 Oct)
We’re on the same arc, with protesters being repressed if they don’t fit with the Left’s favoured ideology. And one big power station outage on a high demand day and we’ll be into the blackout cycle too. As for Cuba there’s also a hurricane heading towards the island just to add to their misery.
What can we think of next?
https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1847808836234797418?t=EbLVlvXsOEwJ1AcLHHASFw&s=19
Despite the headline this article is about Elon’s SpaceX plans:
“Imagine What Government Agencies Could Look Like In 4 Years” (21 Oct)
Governments will hate him even more when the proles’ phones can bypass their control to use SpaceX’s network directly.
No more esafety czar, no more mis/disinformation chokeholds
The world will have free speech – so long as Elon lives
A cute owl – leftist German edition.
https://x.com/stillgray/status/1848044333779362144
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Of the genus Bandtiae
Daily Telegraph! Just the savvy voters? It has got to the point where any idiot should know they are both lacking in quality.
@LauraLoomer
Rosie October 21, 2024 7:05 am
Working the drive through
100%. No honest person would even think in those terms. Something is either true or it’s not.
@elonmusk
Good rule of thumb: those who frequently use the word “disinformation” are the ones most likely to be pushing it
@catturd2
You mean shot.
@unusual_whales
Fox: You’ve said there’s a lot of fat in government. So what agencies would you like to shut down?
Trump: Let me have you ask another person, because I’m gonna have Elon Musk … he’s going to be Secretary of Cost Cutting … he’s made me a promise he’ll get to Mars.
@unusual_whales
@RogerJStoneJr
Zuckerberg assures Trump that there will be “no censorship” of his supporters on Facebook.
Then what the hell is this?!
Zuckerberg is less honest than any of the other social media owners. Watch the movie Social Network to see how he started in business. Why would he change something that is working for him?
Hard to dispute.
@PeterSweden7
If Trump doesn’t win, the USA will become like Soviet Britain where they jail people for social media posts.
They are already jailing people for praying.
DEI TRAINWRECK? Obama Campaigns for Harris and Ruben Gallego in Tucson, Arizona but Can’t Figure Out What State He’s In, Spells Tucson Wrong on Rally Credentials
Oh dear me poor Ben.
He luuurvs their ABCcess.
Not many agree.
Ben Eltham
@beneltham
Pretty clear what the playbook is here. The ABC is one of Australia’s most trusted institutions and Dutton wants to tear it down https://x.com/strangerous10//strangerous10/status/1847147720294781042
EXCLUSIVE: Read the New York Times Obituary of Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar
Inside furious Kamala’s campaign as infighting grips staffers and Trump emerges as red-hot favorite
He’s definitely a retail politician.
Icon!
From The Olde Fredde:
Top Ender:
I’ve seen photos of it. It’s a tarted up shack on a lot the size of a hankie.
Someone saw him coming.
Nice location. Shocking house. Nothing a bulldozer couldn’t fix.
Sky daytime busy fact checking Trump and boosting Kamala.
All over her claim of working at Maccas.
Watching her yapping about her “faith” in a mega church, and knowing her active boosting of baby killing, I’m not so sure. Perhaps the heat from the cooker that she complained about was a warning.
If Western Laws Were Actually Enforced, the Koran Would Be Banned
Democrats! If one of your loved ones is murdered by an illegal migrant, will you wake up?
Frank and the bear from the Olde Fredde:
That taxidermist should be shot. I’ve seen hairy legged leftist lesbians that look more bearish than that.
PA Gov. Shapiro Refuses to ‘Name One Policy Difference’ Between Harris, Biden
TV is poisonous sludge and has done much damage over the last 60 years.
Sucker rage. I can’t calm down.
Arrived early at Sydney this morning. Taxiing past Flight Facilities there were two “me mum wuz an ouso’s” VIP jets.
So to avoid having any contact with the common people on the long haul flight from Sydney to Canberra, the Labor scum and probably the faker pretending to be the GG cost us airport fees, flight facilities fees, hotel accommodation for two crews, catering, comm cars, security, and on it goes.
The bloke sitting next to me saw that I was firing up. He leaned across and said “just think, next year it might be Bant”.
Now I’ll never calm down.
There’s JOY™ and then there’s a Happy Meal.
It’s Crazy In Pennsylvania: Even The Amish Are Voting For Trump
Fluffy Annaliese’s slip is showing again. She doesn’t like Trump, and just stuck her neck out by saying that Kamala’s claim to have worked at MacDonalds has been fact checked as correct. Even left-leaning Snopes declares this unproven.
She is a kunt.
Perhaps just a nasty person, Cohenite.
Although she may have worked from her local MacDonalds, it doesn’t necessarily mean she was on the payroll.
Sununu: Kamala Harris’s Economic Message Is ‘Gaslighting, Condescending’
J.D. Tuccille: Obama’s scolding won’t change the populist-elite divide that’s replaced racial politics
Barry isn’t helping.
Dominion Voting Systems Issues a Chilling Warning to Conservatives Weeks Before The Election
The Bee and the Beacon are outdoing themselves today.
And the Austere Left is displeased! No more laughter you soulless plebs!
The Bee although, once again, I don’t see the joke.
Trump Campaign Raises Millions Overnight With New Donation Ask: ‘How Much Would You Pay To Not Have To Listen To Kamala Talk The Next 4 Years?’
Don’t you? Hell, I’d even donate, and I can’t vote! 😀
That’s what I meant. They’re just stating the simple truth. No joke involved.
I’d suggest they’re riffing off Candian comedian Norm MacDonald’s 2016 joke that Americans hated Hillary Clinton so much they elected Donald Trump president.
The slaggy scrag of a GG is typical of what the Canbra gene pool comes up with
One of Albo’s floaters.
Gary Varvel is one of my favourite American cartoonists. In this 26-minute interview, Varvel explains what motivates him. Inspiring!
@DanScavino
President Trump arriving at McDonald’s in Feasterville, Pennsylvania
Now renamed McFeasterville.
@BGatesIsaPyscho
You Will Become a Minority and That’s a Good Thing
Why everyone stopped reading.
Put down that lump of firewood and back away slowly with your hands in the air, climate criminal.
Germany Weighs “Woodstove-Operating License” To Teach Users Cleaner Burning (20 Oct)
What, you don’t have a stove operating licence? You’ve not done the training course? You’re nicked son, get in the paddy wagon.
Invite the local woodfire trainer round, then beat him to a pulp with firewood then burn him in fireplace. Easy Peasy.
Bill Maher Explains to Ben Shapiro How He Was Tricked
“This Is About Adult Male Fetishes And Should Not Be Near A School” | Alex Phillips
Does the Muslim community get on with ANYONE around the World??
Dhimmified.
Notice how she continually pulls her punches with “I’m not sayin this about individuals, just the entire religion”.
The individuals that are your friends today, sweetheart, only require one lunatic from Islam Central to come into your peaceful community and remind your ‘friends’ that they must hate you and make you convert to their religion, or die.
You cannot live with Islam in the same way that you cannot live with a cobra or a leper. Sooner or later they will force their will on you.
Indolent @ 8:23 am
The same phenomenon is rearing its head in the UK as the Starmtroopers prepare to shake the tax tree.
Even the BBC is prompted to report objectively on the likely negative returns of making the rich pay their ‘fair share’ in a country with the vast majority dependent on ‘benefits’ of many kinds and the tax take massively skewed to the ‘wealthy’ and particularly those actively interested in remaining that way.
And she certainly is thinking about that risk; currently contemplating the traditional Labour hollow logs, while lying her way into enshrining bracket creep to drag more tax out of average PAYE punters.
Anecdotal as it is, smart people with discretionary assets in the UK are presently taking steps to protect against CGT and inheritance tax theft.
If you want to destroy wealth and private opportunity, vote Labour.
35% did.
The Hun:
I wonder if she remembered the event that caused it.
Exceptional.
Three million quid from the Australian taxpayer shoild give Hoggins junior a good start on life, surely?
…and to show gratitude to the alleged, indirect source of the mountain of cash, I so hope she names the new arrival – Bruce.
Who gives a damn?
Winston Smith: I’ve seen photos of it. It’s a tarted up shack on a lot the size of a hankie. Someone saw him coming.
Probably the same bloke that sold Brittnneee her French donga.
On a related but slightly different tack, international carriers are bedwetting about the risk of Li-Ion fires on board.
If you drop your phone or tablet, please call the crew and don’t risk trying to retrieve it yourself from amongst the mechanics of your seat.
If your device starts to get hot, call the crew. (I asked a crew member what they might do with a pre-incendiary iPhone. Apparently, aircraft now carry strong boxes to contain small, burning devices.)
But…whatever you do…don’t tell them you have Li-Ion batteries in your cabin luggage (that’s about to go into the hold because “limited cabin space”).
Then you’ll be unloaded from the plane and grilled by security while all your bags are unloaded and checked.
Ahhh…Deathrow! Such happy memories.
Who is the poor bugger that’s going to pick up, carry the blazing device through rows of screaming passengers and open the steel box to put it in?
And will the entrapped device then contain the blazing furnace, or is there provision to eject the potential bomb?
Of course there’s always the banning of these devices unless Aunt Maud has an existential need to converse with Uncle Des about whether the iron is left on?
Or if the need is that essential, leave the bloody phone home and just take the chip with you. Get a new/used phone when you arrive & sell your own phone when you leave.
I’m sure there is someone who can do the marketing.
Carnell is one of the ABC’s favourite “conservatives.”
A rat with a gold tooth courtesy OPM and looks like one too.
Carnell’s history is somewhat chequered. The hospital demolition fiasco and her driving history come to mind. People like her have no value in public life.
That hospital disaster enquiry finding press conference was a classic.
Carnell waved it around and without troubling assembled journalists with over much detail, pronounced herself exonerated.
I see people arent entirely supportive of German cute owls.
Its a mystery to me as to why.
That there is an OBSERVATION.
Will it lead to behaviour change?
😉
Opening your links is against policy.
Indolent @ 9:14 am
Not even with other Muslims.
On a related but slightly different tack, international carriers are bedwetting about the risk of Li-Ion fires on board.
It isn’t bedwetting, it is a rational concern. Airliners need an airlock where such devices can be dumped. Certainly over oceans.
I was just paddling along in my raft and it was hit by a burning blob that fell from the sky.
See my reply to Doc Faustus three or maybe four or five posts up.
Steven Miles, with nothing to lose, has already given in to Ms. Kings’ extortionate demand.
Let’s see if Crisafulli says “me too!”
Crisafulli, who said “me too” in a heartbeat to Palletjack’s post-voice treaty with ‘first nations’, and a big “No” to Dutton’s nuclear, will be quite stressed by this.
.. as every time he says ‘me too’ to an ALP brain-fart, the LNP base start saying words like “I’ll vote Pauline” or “Bob Katter”.
Don’t forget the Olympics which is even on the nose in SEQ.
Another great painting: prescient too, showing what will happen if the left has its way in the West.
Mark Dice on Trump at McDonalds. The human race does not deserve this guy. It’s in PA and half of that state was lined up to see him. Listen to the (legal) immigrant and his missus talking to Trump in the drive through (short, 4 minutes):
Donald Trump Working at McDonalds! ? ? Epically Trolls Kamala While Operating the Drive-Thru
Who the buggery is this Jacqueline King? Sound like your typical Marxist aggressive harridan. I wonder what she studied at the Uni?
Never had a job other than union organiser from what I can garner.
Marxist uni trash
He’s taking unnecessary risks, Cronkite. It’s an idiotic thing to do, in my opinion.
I’m contemplating the idea of going internet dark if she wins. 4 years of that cackle is beyond anything I could imagine. Joyous!
Ireland’s desperate appeal for its citizens living in Australia to return home and help build houses has not gone as planned, with expats declaring they’d prefer to stay Down Under.
The Irish Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation, and Science launched an ad campaign in October, targeting Irish residents abroad.
The campaign encouraged those with construction skills to return home as part of a multi-billion-dollar government plan to address the housing crisis and boost home supply by 2030.
One campaign poster read: ‘You built Sydney, now come home and build back home.’
However, the campaign sensationally backfired it was shared on the department’s Facebook account, with many Irish vowing to stay in Australia.
‘It’s a hard pass. Australia is good to those who work hard,’ one said.
‘I don’t think the Irish want to come back home. I know they love living in Oz,’ a second added.
A third joked: ‘The weather alone would keep them here’.
Tens of thousands of Irish people were approved to live and work in Australia in 2023, with the majority being young skilled workers.
In the 12 months to July 2023, more than 21,000 Irish citizens were granted working holiday visas in Australia – the largest amount in more than 16 years.
Daily Mail
Who’ll put up our scaffolding?
Frank Elly copping a pounding in today’s Paywallian Media Diary column. I remember when the Andrew Olle lecture was a significant event given by a major public figure. The last two have given by Leigh Sales and Frank. Beyond embarrassing. Just let it die like Olle
Like so much of the ALPBC a rather poor imitation of its BBC counterpart.
The bbc without the plumby ppe accents.
Might want to give the Boyers a miss too.
Drove up the Bruce hwy from Brisbane to Rocky last night. Beaut breakfast at beaut motel with great tropical garden. Love it.
Yer, welcome. Don’t come again – QLD is for etc….
I’d rather tread in a dog turd than listen to Leigh sales.
How can you tell the difference?
Many decades ago I went with Dad on Queensland Railways Daylight Rail car tour from Brisbane to Cairns. Around Maryborough I recall the driver talking about ‘wallup country ‘ or something like that. Scubby bush or paperbark country and not much good for anything.
Wallum?
Maybe
The batsignal has gone out.
Dem flogs have been programmed to call Trump at McDonalds a Dukakis in the tank moment….
mUntard will be here soon.
Unlike Kamala’s Glock and Tim’s shotgun…
Going to be a big snake season. Alerted husband just in time to a small black crossing his path on our morning walk as he gazed off into the distance. This is the second black (the other in the house grounds), with a brown in the paddock in a couple of days. Forget checking pasture and gazing off at the mountains now.
Fortunately our local wildlife bloke came last night to collect the injured Goshawk in our paddock. We had nowhere to put it safely and he is a wildlife expert. At least it now has a chance to recover. It is a beautiful bird.
contemplating all that furious “fact checking” over Kamala’s claimed uni stint at the Maccas deep fryer.
Either there’s a record of employment or there isn’t. Trump claims Maccas says it didn’t employ her. No record.
Sooooo…it’s either a lie, or she was “employed” off payroll exploiting both the worker and the tax system. Which she was happy with.
Or it was late 70s-early 80s, and there are no records easily searched. Lets see her tax returns!
Who knows?
She lies, but did she lie specifically about this?
Maccas has corporate run restaurants and franchises.
Who holds the records for franchise employees?
How many franchisees are now defunct?
It would be impossible to check.
Kamala is the scion of two extremely well paid professors…
The amazing thing about that is despite their intellect she appears to have the intelligence of a garden snail.
He’s taking unnecessary risks, Cronkite. It’s an idiotic thing to do, in my opinion.
He wasn’t eating the Macca’s just serving it.
But speaking of risks, I don’t know what cackles is on but I’ve never been this pissed in my life:
(45) ‘Joyful warrior’ Kamala Harris trying ‘so hard to be liked’ – YouTube
Skilled, hardworking, easy & willing to assimilate.
How many insurmountable hurdles do you suppose our government would put in the way of any who wanted to stay permanently?
Perhaps they could claim asylum on the basis that the Irish government is persecuting the native population.
We don’t need any more rangas.
A hard pass.
Wow, casual rangaism. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
They aren’t all THAT easy.
Everything is relative.
They won’t be marching down the street chanting “Gas the Jews.”
Cassie – Allegra Spender is speaking at the Sydney Institute on 29th October. Opportunity to ask some unanswerable questions of this Teal????
An Irish guy is morning manager at my favourite roadhouse.
He cooks as well as managing the joint.
OK this Jacqueline king is a lawyer. So never had a real job.
Some AI bright spark should create a sixth for the series…a glass and concrete landscape complete with wind turbines, solar panels and an incoming meteor shower.
Title it “Build Back Better”.
Seems you have to be uni ejucqted to be a union boss. A trade not good enough. The expansion of hiya ejucashun has spawned so many destructive parasites.
I worked with the old style unionists back in the 1980s.
They were just as corrupt, just as bloody minded and just, if not more, prepared to play chicken with people’s livelihoods as the current crop.
Management was awful too.
The old style managers were decent but weak, and the new style were greedy, dishonest and destructive.
Plenty of blame to go all around for our current malaise.
There aren’t any heroes, but everyone wants someone else to be the hero.
Yes I still work with old style unionists. We just slog away and get the job done. And have a lot of laughs along the way.
Apparently Jane Caro’s “significant service to the broadcast media” is hysterical hyperbowl.
Is Jane Carosene calling for -ta da – “insurrection”?
Lock her up with the J6 prisoners, not to be released until they are.
Caro’s hairstyle in that pic is just like Trump’s.
Closet Trump fan, or deranged stalker? Lol.
Is caro not all there? Just seems to vomit up fashionable woke sludge. Doesn’t seem to like Australia much. Maybe she should go back to London and stay there.
He flatters everyone about how good-looking they are. He even told a pal, who lives down in Florida and was meeting with him to discuss Jewish affairs, how good-looking he was too. The friend took it seriously too and was flattered to hell. I set him straight. 🙂
That’s why you’re not in politics.
Comment from Herald Sun.
“Trump serves fries while Harris continues to serve up word salads”
I’m guessing that exploding ipads and smart watches will be banned soon.
I’m afraid even a Bex, a cuppa and a good lie down won’t fix our Jane.
Picturing Kamala at the drive thru.
”Would you like lies with that?”
or (it’s an old joke)
Hello. Entropy burgers, may I take your order.
Hahaha. Thanks, Calli.
Too funny
Demonrat appointed judges have a serious problem. How the SCOTUS sees it.
https://g.newsweek.com/www/images/NW_ICON_CommonGround.svg
Something for all those who held onto Aussie gold mining shares over the last year or two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVPPAj5asg
Looks like a pause before testing the upper limits.
50/50 it will dip back below $4k for a short term correction.
It depends on whether Trump pulls a shift at Red Rooster.
🙂
Had to be patient over some time, but the miners are starting to pay, I think.
Calli, if you are still reading, I have been wondering about your screen name. Did you choose it in honour of the Greek muse Calliope or callistemon? I was reminded of your name when driving through the Blue Mountains yesterday and enjoying the gorgeous bottle brushes.
Neither, Short for Calamity! 😀 😀
It’s a dumb joke about my looks. I have a great face for radio.
So yes, it’s Grik.
SCalliwag?
Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll 1h
Also leading nationally by +16% at the moment in the betting odds.
Still seems too close for comfort.
Too close to guarantee election integrity.
the margin must be too big for the demonrats to cheat their way in
Ex-Abortionist Confesses: ‘I Knew They Were Human—And I Didn’t Care’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBChdbyOS_o
Interesting.
Just watch the first minute or so.
The man is a psychopath. I thought we’d hung most of them at Nuremburg, but – obviously – we’ve created more.
Avi:
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas… or NOT
Clementine Ford bizarrely links death of Hamas leader to ‘full moon’ and compares him to Jesus
Daily Mail. We are supposed to take this silly hag seriously?
Clammy jumped the shark a while ago. She is in her mad woman taking a dump in the street phase. Just click bait.
Clammy’s been chroming the Fem Fresh.
It didn’t help the rotting orifice it’s meant to be used on, so, waste not. 😀
I assume Jesus came off the worse in the comparison.
classic toxic feminism
Artwork by Thomas Cole, love his work
thanks
Pick the real headline…
ABC News Argues 9/11 Overblown As It Was ‘Only A Handful Of Buildings’ (16 Oct)
Blaming Israel for 9/11 and predicting the death of Israel and US (20 Oct)
One of them is satire but both organizations certainly need Rabzing.
Is Jane Carosene calling for -ta da – “insurrection”?
Lock her up with the J6 prisoners, not to be released until they are.
Artwork by Thomas Cole, love his work
thanks
I hope we’re going to get the other four in sequence.
Then the Voyage of Life series.
Now those are epic
anytime I go to DC I visit them in their special room in their national gallery
changed my life seeing those as few other works have
Andrew Bolt:
Like Netanyahu would ever listen to the Wong Chap in any case.
Speaking of, have any of our Labor leaders said anything about the death of Sinwar?
If you’re wondering why daytime Sky News is unwatchable, news from the Ponds Institute in today’s Media Movements newsletter from AAP:
Good riddance.
They all find their natural home. I am worried about Prof van Wrongselen at the Daily Mail.
True that. Stupid, stupid man.
I wonder what happened to his missus’ Birkin handbag? Clearly there were some vestiges of modernity that the family enjoyed.
If instead of the stick he’d held his arms up in surrender I suspect the drone operator would’ve reported that to his superior and Israel would have accepted his surrender. And he’d still be alive, albeit in Israeli custody. Again.
Bibi has done something else.
He has exposed the UN for the posturing, useless, terror-endorsing, money grubbing edifice it has become.
UNRWA busy in Gaza, aiding and abetting Hamas, the UN “peacekeepers” in southern Lebanon, watching on as Hezbollah built tunnels, fired rockets and terrorised northern Israel under their very noses.
Meanwhile, the oleaginous, money hoovering slobs on First Avenue tutt-tutted about cease-fires and proportionality.
He has more than made up for the deficiencies of last year, much of which can be sheeted home to others who will remain nameless – such is the price of real leadership, the place where the buck should stop but rarely does.
Yeah, especially Francesca Albanese who is a real piece of work.
She and Mr Guterres will have to meet up with Mr Sinwar for coffee one day, in the fullness of time. Assuming you can get coffee in that place.
I remember thinking Ehud Barak was doing the right thing, offering peace to Arafat. How stupid I was.
Winston Smith: I’ve seen photos of it. It’s a tarted up shack on a lot the size of a hankie. Someone saw him coming.
Been wondering that myself .. My son’s, modest, “coasties” shack, not too far from Copa, cost him $1.3million (2 years ago), 4 bedrooms, has a 12mts inground pool, 4 car garage (separate) and on a block that would be 3 maybe 4X the size of the one in the Luigi pix ..Also 3 minutes walk (bottom of street) to the water, no beach but fenced pool, playground(s) & open picnic area(s) all the way up to Gosford …….
Hate Israel’s prime minister all you like – and our Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, has made clear her loathing – Netanyahu has led Israel to stunning battlefield successes that could finally give his country peace after 76 years of struggle.
I have always liked Bibi. Look – he is a pollie, and as such, he will always push the boundaries to stay in power. The corruption insinuation put aside (I have no idea of the actuality), I agreed with his stance on the judiciary. There must be a separation of powers, and the judiciary should stick to upholding the Constitution and not go “off the farm”.
But even his political enemies must agree that he has been a wonderful leader after the Oct7 crisis. Yes, the question of the hostages has been virtually an insurmountable problem for the ultimate survival of Israel. Hamas had to be hunted down and destroyed. Given the inhumanity of Hamas, it was a wonderful thing to have got back the hostages that they did in the early days.
Under Bibi’s leadership Israel has shown its tenacity, its courage and its stunning technological expertise.
On the weekend the BBC crossed live to some academic expert in Qatar for a considered view of the significance of Sinwar’s death.
They got a Dr. Strangelove “Mein Fuehrer!” moment that had the interviewer backing out very quickly.
The real problem is often the Executive Producer behind the scenes. The BBC is a bastion of balance when compared to the ALPBC.
This overnight in Sydney’s East. From the Daily Telegraph. Yesterday morning it was Lewis Continental Kitchen in Bondi that was torched in suspicious circumstances. Bronte, Tamarama and Bondi Beach are ‘Jewish areas’.
Police launch investigation into Hamas-related graffiti across Bronte, Tamarama and Bondi Beach
The Australian Jewry Council has urged authorities to crack down on a “growing pattern” of acts intended to “intimidate our community” after Hamas-related graffiti was sprayed across the city’s east.
An investigation is underway after police discovered Hamas-related graffiti in multiple locations across Sydney’s eastern suburbs overnight including Bronte, Tamarama and Bondi Beach.
Officers located the graffiti on “multiple structures” across the three beaches shortly before 11pm on Sunday night.
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry urged authorities to ‘put an end to this hatred’.
“This daubing of public property with the name of a proscribed terrorist organisation is intended to distress and intimidate our community and make us feel unsafe in this country,” Co-Chief Executive Alex Ryvchin said.
“It is part of a pattern of behaviour that is escalating in areas with large Jewish communities as we approach the first anniversary of the October 7 horrors. Sydneysiders and our community should not have to face these acts of support for a group that just carried out the mass slaughter of our brethren and has pledged to attack Jews throughout the world.
“People have need to think about the effect of their conduct and face consequences for their actions. We urge the authorities to investigate and put an end to this hatred.”
The incident was first revealed by 2GB radio, with listeners sharing photos of the defacement.
Police have launched Strike Force Cadomin to investigate the graffiti and are urging anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers at 1800 333 000 as inquiries continue.
I guess the above must also be ‘letting of steam‘. Ho hum, the grub from Grayndler’s ‘soshul coheshun’ is working well, isn’t it?
They’re coming for us Jews and they’re no longer even hiding it. And they’re laughing because they’re empowered by a disgraceful federal and state governments and by politically and ideologically corrupted police forces.
Oh and memo to our resident Nazi, any condemnation of the above? Last week, our resident Nazi accused me of ‘whining’ because I object to Hamas red triangles being daubed on Jewish bakeries and in suburbs where lots of Jews live. But here’s the thing, I don’t want to see Hamas red triangles daubed anywhere.
By the way, since Muslim and leftist scum are allowed to ‘let off steam’, why can’t an 82 year old woman from Five Dock also be allowed to ‘let off steam‘?
I favour a bit of ‘letting off steam’ focused around protection.
Young men with body armour, advanced organisation and training, as well as modern battlefield weapons, detecting and eliminating threats.
Much debate on twitter about whether Mrs Sinwar’s handbag* was the real McCoy.
I will say this, muslim women go for expensive handbags as a substitute for being able to dress fashionably and it was the one thing she took with her when she hunkered down on 6 October 2023.
It’s possible also that it was a high end fake, which is apparently a thing in Gaza.
*Real cost is USD $64,000 thousand as you have to spend $32 to be eligible to buy one.
Yes, it’s hard to stand out in a whole crowd of letterboxes.
She did have a pink letterbox though. I thought that was a fun touch.
Hong Kong Ladies’ Market?
The cheapskate! He won’t need his fake Rolex any more, so there’s that.
No pay, no slay?
https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=384627
LIVE
King Charles’ royal Australian tour LIVE updates: Greens leader’s shocking tirade against His Majesty and Queen Camilla as she vows to snub royal couple in Canberra
Daily Mail. I’m sure Their Majesties will be devastated!
Actually he will be, since he and Bandit are on the same side fighting horrible imaginary climate fairies.
Bruce,
it mentions Fat Farooki, not Bandt.
I’m sure Bandt is working himself up to an awesome tirade. hah.
Whitlam was a disastrous PM but came from another generation and did have some standards. When I was young in the 70s, one of Ashbolt’s Marxist kindergarten in the ABC was interviewing Gough and asked if he stuck it up Kerr during their fateful meeting on 11 November. Instead of the answer the ABC Soviet wanted to hear (i.e foul-mouthed ranting and raving a la Thorpe and Bandt), Gough replied rather sniffily ‘I know how to behave’.
HIGHLIGHT
Heavy police presence for Indigenous protesters at war memorial ahead of King’s visit
There are Indigenous rights protesters at the war memorial in Canberra where the King is expected later today.
Crowds have lined the roads to catch a sight of King Charles III. He is expected to later lay a wreath in the Hall of Memory.
The protesters are chanting, “no pride in genocide” and “always was, always will be Aboriginal land”.
They have large banner which reads, “decolonise”.
There is a heavy police presence. They appear to be trying to move the protesters away.
The protesters should thank the colonisers for being able to read and write.
ALPBC Perth gave coverage to a “small group” of aboriginal protesters consisting of FOUR people. I get more than to Friday lunch some weeks.
Fact check?
1) an examination to test or ascertain accuracy, quality, or satisfactory condition.
“a campaign calling for regular checks on gas appliances”
2) a stopping or slowing of progress.
“there was no check to the expansion of the market”
In j’ism, a fact check is meant to check facts. Stop ’em stone-cold dead.
It really is nothing more than a j’ismist calling someone a liar, relying on some long-lost professional reputation for honesty and integrity.
I saw a clip where Mike Johnson was being interviewed, the j’ismist quizzing him about all the heat FEMA was feeling. Johnson mentioned that under Biden Harris a program had been set up to divert FEMA money to illegal immigrants. The bobble-head quickly leapt in saying that it had actually been set up under Trump. Johnson rebutted that it had not, it was set up by Biden Harris, adding that there was no emergency to address under Trump. The j’ismist said one more time “Yes they did. Anyway…” and tried to move on.
How clever do these idiots think they are. They argue like children. You just know Johnson was seconds away from being told his pants were on fire.
The RBA has crunched the numbers and produced the graphs to help even politicians understand:
Rents have been increasing due to population growth driven demand and inadequate supply exacerbated by inflationary cost blowouts and a long term skilled labour shortage, not the cash rate rises.
It’s not a “market failure”, it’s a government policy failure.
Can we have that discussion about migration now, Uniparty?
No. Shut up. Get back to work peasant.
Treasury has been happy to paper over the GDP cracks for some years now. UniParty says thanks.
Reposted for excellence:
Roofie T Firefly, aka Ronnie RAAF (Australia’s Churchill, for those so inclined [snork]) appears to have gone missing.
I wonder why?
Maybe they shifted him to another desk at the embassy.
Yes. She did claim that.*
Next.
*the English language can be a real bugger. 😀
As I said upthread, she’s the daughter of two very well paid academics.
Very lefty ones.
Zero chance that she’d ever have to work at horrible class-enemy Maccas.
cohenite
October 21, 2024 9:45 am
Another great painting: prescient too, showing what will happen if the left has its way in the West.
Mark Dice on Trump at McDonalds. The human race does not deserve this guy. It’s in PA and half of that state was lined up to see him. Listen to the (legal) immigrant and his missus talking to Trump in the drive through (short, 4 minutes):
Donald Trump Working at McDonalds! ? ? Epically Trolls Kamala While Operating the Drive-Thru
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I’d like to see Sky News send a invite for him to appear on Rita’s show. I know he would say no, but if he did, his encyclopedic brain would rattle anyone asking questions.
He’s very select when it comes to interviews. Ben Shapiro for example would not dare take him on.
Funny how working at Maccas to get through law school wasn’t mentioned in Harris’s memoir.
Maybe she forgot to tell the ghostwriter.
The only way Kameltoe got through Uni was on her knees and back. Then continued that for the rest of the time. When asked if she was interested in a position she replied she knew them all.
Vicki
October 21, 2024 10:11 am
There’s your problem.
“Gazing into the distance”.
I swear I will end up with a stoop in my old age developed from the habit of constantly scanning the ground 2-5 metres ahead.
Yes, tis the time to exercise great care in the bike paths. The browns seem to like lying across the paths to warm up on the bitumen.
It is all becoming too much. Looking down for the snakes, and up for the maggies and idiot plovers, and behind for teens on edragsters.
H B Bear October 20, 2024 11:20 am
Reply to Nelson_Kidd-Players
If the minors got critical mass more often, especially to the right, it would be more effective. The UK swings a lot more electorally, despite their First Past the Post system hampering the effect. Regardless of the system set up, apathetic voters will always win out if so inclined and we seem to have an abundance here. I’d love to see the LNP get spooked by losing a seat or two to One Nation or Family First.
It might happen. Or more likely you get a “They don’t matter” and a spell in Opposition. I’m more in the burn Howard’s broad church to the ground camp personally.
Eyrie October 20, 2024 10:18 am
The schools are owned by the Uniting Church, which was formed in 1977 by liberal Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists.
Which seems to be so useless that they are still “uniting” after 47 years and not yet “united”.
I was there for the ‘opening’ weekend. Seven-year-old me heard them say they wanted to bring other denominations into the fold which seemed a curious detail to me at the time but was a red flag in hindsight.
And that’s why they called themselves “Uniting” rather than United. The vision was they’d eventually unite all Protestant denominations in the one body.
The reality since has been that more congregations have closed or left than joined, particularly since the decision to bless homosexual unions.
Oh, give it a rest. What a joke. OK – minnimax is a staggeringly stupid useless evil arsehole, but he doesn’t seem to have realised the implications of some recent comments of Dr Mutton’s (who I’m no fan of either).
If the stupid incompetent arseholes allowing these obscene displays of Jew hatred to continue unabated in Sydneystan and Mosquebourne don’t put a stop to them, then they (and their pet nayzees) may be in for a rude shock once the albansleazy goat rodeo is punted next year.
Dr Mutton has made it clear he wants these weekly outrages to stop and he has hinted he will take direct action to ensure they are and that the perpetrators are arrested and deported.
Which will no doubt be an unwelcome surprise for minnimax, nanna webb, her useless keystones and the goat forking inbred nayzee Jew haters.
Unfortunately, I just can’t see anything remotely like this actually happening.
I’d pay good money to visit this family and have a feed with them on their property.
I’d be about the millionth person in line.
Traditional Georgian Spinach Pkhali: Easy & Healthy
Watching a few conservative YouTubers on the weekend, I’m not sure why they’ve latched onto this argument saying “if Palestine is a country/people, who was their first Prime Minister or King or Queen…”
I’m not entirely sure of the point of this line of argument. Anyone?
I simply call “Palestine” a made-up country. Is as real as Narnia.
Nope. Puzzling given Palestine has a PM recognised as such by a majority of the world’s nations. We may not like that fact, but it is a fact. Not a strong point to hang an argument on.
Thanks Roger; I thought so (even if they were “elected” under dubious circumstances!)
Even the US works with the administration, though it doesn’t officially recognise it.
Steady on with the Narnia references….I visit regularly.
Of course my alter ego is a king, not a peasant.
Me too. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen.
I can eat Turkish Delight with impunity, now it has been redeemed.
The point is there was never a Palestine. It was a created and namede by the Romans about 250 AD after the Bar Kochba revolt (2nd jewish revolt). If there are palestinians then they would be Jews. Not Arabs or Muslims. The name has been appropriated to give the Jordanian arabs something to hang their hats on.
There’s your problem.
“Gazing into the distance”.
I swear I will end up with a stoop in my old age developed from the habit of constantly scanning the ground 2-5 metres ahead.
Out of snake season, I am a habitual “distance” scanner. I reckon it is an evolutionary thing since our ancestors were always looking for game. With me – its looking at condition of pasture/cowcondition/roos/wombats/pigs/weedgrowth/fence condition etc etc. And, of course the weather…..its the best thing about living “rural”.
There’s your problem.
“Gazing into the distance”.
I swear I will end up with a stoop in my old age developed from the habit of constantly scanning the ground 2-5 metres ahead.
?
Out of snake season, I am a habitual “distance” scanner. I reckon it is an evolutionary thing since our ancestors were always looking for game. With me – its looking at condition of pasture/cowcondition/roos/wombats/pigs/weedgrowth/fence condition etc etc. And, of course the weather…..its the best thing about living “rural”.
The ABC finally admits that carbon offsets are fraudulent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdYr89Hw6E0
If any Cats are planning on carving pumpkins for Halloween next week, here’s a sure fire way, that’s proven to work, and you don’t need a knife. 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6_e7v5Fe6Y
DJT nearly at 60% chance of winning POTUS:
2024 U.S. President (Real Clear Politics)
The %difference reflected in betting odds are quite different to that reflected in pollsters odds. A small change in the latter will produce a much larger change in the former. So, a 1% increase in Trump’s polling will produce say 5% increase in the betting odds as punters back in Trump. One of the betting odds outfits made this point.
There is something so magnificent, so ponderously inevitable about this image, I just had to share it.
Fortune smiled upon me! Wile E and the sheepdog caught between Trump’s election figures and the horrible Lydia Thorpe!
Thorpe at it again:
Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe interrupts King Charles’ welcome ceremonyThe senator unleashed on King Charles following the conclusion of his speech to Parliament House on Monday.
The Great Hall was completely silent when Ms Thorpe began her outburst.
‘You committed genocide against our people, give us our land back!’ she shouted, while draped in a native fur coat.
‘Give us what you stole from us! Our bones, our skulls, our people, you destroyed our land!
‘Give us a treaty, we want a treaty in this country! This is not your land, this is not your land! You are not my King, you are not our King.
‘You’re a genocidalist!’
As Thorpe was dragged out of sight, the audience heard her yell: ‘F*** the colony, f*** the colony.’
Daily Mail
Off with her head!
Surely this would be finally grounds for censure?
Meth head meathead.
What a mole.
Two other points.
She’s far from full blood, whatever Aboriginality she has is but a skerrick. So in her words she’s also partly to blame for genocide due to her white heritage. Wow what a towering intellect.
Second she swore allegiance to the crown, she had to or she couldn’t take up her appointment. Too late now, go cry to whatever union bikie boy you are riding, oops meant riding with, with, this week.
1/16th Aboriginal ancestry.
Yup or 6.25%.
Thorpe is basically a tinted Nick Xenophon.
Silenced?
If only!
The thorpe is a psychotic slag
What has the Royal Family done to damage Thorpe’s ancestral lands on Malta?
And who put her into parliament? The Gangreens!
A liar a hypocrit and a parasite
Well well well, stench of corruption already.
That didn’t take long:
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/politics/conspiracy-in-search-of-a-theory-chief-of-staff-defends-premier-meeting-with-racing-exec-mate-ahead-of-racecourse-selloff/news-story/2d149c1a7c14cf0eb801a4071d9d7162
Of course ICAC will not even go near this. If with substance seems a tad more serious that a bottle of Grange though.
I go out just now to collect the washing from the Cafe Hills Hoist. Always necessary to take food with me as I get a lot of assistants when I do that. Some aren’t toilet trained especially well, which means that piece of washing needs immediate rewashing.
Fortunately that wasn’t necessary, but youngest helper kooka arrived on the fence while this was transpiring, so I went over. He instead leapt into the air, and came down with a black prince cicada. I think I am the last thing the unfortunate cicada saw before the final curtain, since it was looking at me from inside a kooka beak.
Kook! kook! says youngest kooka excitedly as I return the unnecessary mince to my pocket. Off he goes with unfortunate cicada to feed his granny’s family – she’s about 16 years old and has had many kids. Whereupon I collect the rest of my washing.
You must learn to be clear about your opinions.
Jackhammer or chainsaw?
Minnesota Teacher’s 2,471-Pound Pumpkin Wins Top Prize at Competition (20 Oct)
A small crane would probably help as well.
Of course ICAC will not even go near this. If with substance seems a tad more serious that a bottle of Grange though.
As NSW now has a Labor government, ICAC has gone to sleep. It’ll sleep a long time, only waking up when a Liberal government is elected.
Probably fails the Obeid threshold test.
The ICAC will argue in its defence that it went after Obeid and Tripodi. Well yes,it did. But only long after the government they ran with Kenneally as a sock puppet figurehead had suffered the biggest electoral defeat in NSW Labor’s history. And they accepted Kenneally’ assurance that she had NOOOOO idea of what her valued mentors Eddie and Joe were up to. That distinguished her from anything in NSW with an IQ exceeding that of a brain-damaged tadpole.
Charles III – says in effect “I am a climate alarmist and an enviro-loon” and Sky News approves that message.
I like Charles.
I do not like loonies of the Lidia Thorpe sort. She is mental.
Chuck3 is not as bright as Baldrick. No wonder the sons have SFB.
Lidia Thorpe….
always was and always will be
a skank.
I bet the slut gets invited to extremely few dinner parties.
A national embarrassment.
I see Keith Payne VC was standing next to Penny Wong just behind Lidia Thorpe.
Would have been good to see him step forward to have a word with her. Not blaming him but would have been good.
He did call Thorpe’s ravings “uncalled for and Un-Australian.”
They’re also in complete opposition to the oath she took when entering the Senate.
She is not a fit person for Parliament and should have her position withdrawn on character grounds.
I’d never question Mr Payne’s courage or probable desire to tell her to ‘go away’ but he is getting on a bit. I saw him about five years ago and he was looking elderly and frail.
Now if Ben Roberts-Smith was in attendance……..
Had a bit of time this AM and looked up some MPs financial declarations.
Notably (?) “Senator” Payman has the following:
1) It should’ve been telling she was going to leave Labor when she’s only a donor to one Labor group, the other seven are Islamists;
2) I wonder if any of these organisations has links to unsavoury folks. I’m sure it does. The “OnePath” network seems like it does ISIS videos??? (I haven’t looked that far yet tbh, but it has that feel about it).
And (3), This is the woman starting the “Australia Party?”
Seriously….? **vomits**
Cotrast on the last lot who thought attacking the red sea pedestrians in WA was a good idea.
No turd left unstoned to get them, in the name of suchal ceheeesion…
https://www.jta.org/archive/australian-neo-nazi-gets-18-years
Mike “pour the gin” Carlton pegs the hypocrisy meter to the red effortlessly…
Mike Carlton
@MikeCarlton01
Good. On our recent trip OS we flew Qatar Airways. On time, modern aircraft, terrific cabin service. I’m not flying Qantas again until they stop screwing their staff and passengers and remove every last trace of that arrogant little Irish git who trashed the joint.
…
Ive replied.
“Climate emergency ” he tweeted, while flying Qatar airways, adding “The future is female” and finishing with “Resist” and a watermelon picture…
King’s visit ‘difficult for First Nations people’: Cox
Greens First Nations spokeswoman Dorinda Cox says King Charles’ visit to Australia “will be difficult for many First Nations people” and has used the opportunity to reissue calls for a federal truth-telling process.
“This visit will be difficult for many First Nations people, who still feel the injustice every day of colonialism, especially our stolen generations, which are perpetuated through systemic and structural racism and discrimination,” she said.
“Visiting memorials and attending charity events is not changing the harrowing injustices and ongoing unacceptable rates of deaths of our people in Australia.
“First Nations justice, truth telling and healing needs to be a priority. The King should be clear in his recognition and support of this. He now needs to be on the right side of history.
“We need the Labor government to have clear instructions from their sovereign head that we can’t continue on this path if we want peace and healing, this comes with accepting responsibility for the role, actions and destructive impacts of the Crown.”
Senator Cox said that Australia “remains the only Commonwealth country without a treaty with its First Peoples” and said that a federal truth-telling process “must be our priority for a collective, First Nations led pathway forward, together”.
Always the victims, ay, Dorinda?
A skit of a hapless Royal being yelled at by a fur-coated chunky watermelon bankrupt bikie consort who attends strip clubs for milestone birthdays wouldn’t get out of the writers room. Too silly.
I’m beginning to think that it wopulod have been kinder for the British to have allowed all the aborigines to have died back in the 19th century.
At least then our current “aboriginal” activists who are al 50% or more white and who happily enjoy all the benefits of whitefella civislisation, would not be here whining all the time.
Go and live in a humpoy being beaten up by your menfolk, Linda, you slag.
And while I think of it: how does Lidia get in a blue at one protest and then get through security at the War Memorial event? Surely she should be identified as a clear threat?
King’s visit ‘difficult for First Nations people’: Cox
You’d think they would be more concerned by the immigration policies of successive governments reducing their tiny numbers even further.
With each year, more and more immigrants come in who have zero sympathy for the home grown moochers.
Why would they,. they are and were not oppressors and let’s face it, the first nations (ha!) are not the oppressed they make out to be.
Even with a bunch of people joining them for benefits, their percentage of the Australian population continues to drop further into obscurity.
We do however, have the ever present whine of envy, hate and spite.
Their chief weapons are spite, spite and envy, and hate ..
and entitlement
Dead right, Billie. Many non-Anglo immigrants are scathing in private about the ‘First Nations’ (‘ we worked to get ahead, so why don’t they?), but dare not say so in public.
Hmmm, how about some nice soothing roman poetry?
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Catullus_16
Megan 3 Stallion and Ice Ice Snoopy Dog take notes, this is how its done.
Hey Lidia, rants like that sound better delivered in a blackfella accent from Yuendemu or Gove — which you can’t do as you’ve only ever been there surrounded by bodyguards because to them, you’re a rich yellafella from the big smoke.
Collingwood in Melbourne is where she is from
Inner city girl
Tom, an interesting comeback to the random abuse from Aboriginals is:
“Last year, we gave the Aboriginal Industry $39 Billion – how much ended up in your pocket?”
Watch the pause for thought and the envy to kick in.
Why didn’t King Charles C and Queen Camilla get a smoking ceremony and welcome to country?
Hope they’re not offended….?
King Chilla should order Senator Thorpe’s head to be cut off.
What’s the point of being King otherwise?
Lidia is the new opening act, no more W2Cs.
He can’t be welcomed to his own country, being King of Australia.
Just as Australians, born and naturalised, are not welcomed to their own home country…er wait…
Last week we were told people in northern gaza were on the verge of starvation, two days ago they were being lined up, shot and shoved into mass graves, today it was horrific scenes of strewn body parts, which, unusually, were not being shared all over twitter.
What will tomorrow bring?
Don’t wonder again what female mental illness looks like. We shouldn’t be angry with someone who appears to be very mentally ill and should be cared for in a humane mental institution.
Yeah nah.
The old reality bus finally hits Jacinta flush.
https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/agl-energyaustralia-coal-power-deals-with-victoria-kept-secret-20241018-p5kji8
Victoriastan is approaching a failed State without the Rule of Law. Does anyone care? Mind you, Fauxfacts was along for the ride.
Other than being sentenced to jail there appears to be no way to permanently expel a senator from the Australian parliament:
Chapter 31 – Conduct of Senators and rules of debate – Parliament of Australia
So that hideous kunt thorpie looks to be safe.
They never expected actual savages to be senators.
Hugh Mahon was expelled from the House if Representatives in 1916 for an Irish nationalist anti-British tirade. But then he was a Catholic. (And not much of leftist, by the way: he later became an insurance executive.)
Get a load of the lawfare leveled against Musk. No politics involved one bit and all above board. NOT!
Ahahaha! Just saw footage of Thorpe!
The nong is in a possum skin and high heels!
I bet His Kingship wasn’t expecting a floor show complete with jester. She works hard for the money.
Just commented to hubby that she’s not wearing her native costume…..
On that note, time for some…disco!
You go girrrrl.
Again I ask, why use the name Lydia Thorpe a colonial settler name. All so spiteful dishonest and self contradictory.
She probably couldn’t spell a long aboriginal name. People might think she’s Welsh, not ‘indigenous’.
We were driving back from the beach yesterday. There used to be one noticeable thing about major Victorian roads. There were almost no potholes. Now, you have to negotiate around them. They can’t maintain the road system because the CFMEU is eating us alive.
Seriously time to consider selling up. It will take 20 years to get out of this mess. Queensland isn’t much better, $190bn is real money.
The only roads that now get Victorian state government funding are those that access windmills designed to rip off taxpayers footing the bill for the mental illness of climate zombies.
The rest of Victoria’s major arteries are bumpy car-wreckers.
I know of one new road being built. You might not like the neighbours though.
https://www.womensforumaustralia.org/nsw_labor_government_rams_through_equality_bill_erasing_protections_for_women_and_children?e=43550812b48ce7269ee75b2e4f9d8806&utm_source=wfa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=equality_bill_2410_update_2&n=10
Disgusting, disgraceful, sick, revolting…
From a quick read at the link provided, the process does seem to have been lacking in integrity.
But, as always, people will continue to vote for these same deviants and social termites.
Suit up.
The Natural: “My father wanted me to be a baseball player …”
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Hobbs Electrifying Game Winning Home-Run | The Natural (Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall)
Robert Duvall, one of my all time favourite actors.
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It appears HAMAS has given up.
From 13 hours ago.
It’s just one area, but it’s very difficult for them to come back from here.
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Josh Shapiro threatens to have Elon Musk arrested for handing out money to town hall attendees who sign his America petition
Fingers crossed
Liberals are starting to panic. Donald Trump is going to win in a landslide
We are approaching the point at which a Harris win is unbelievable and no amount of cheating would enable.
But it doesn’t mean they won’t try. They hate America and what it stands for, more than they value their own chances in a civil war they would love to provoke.
These are the Kinds of People Who are Breaking In
These are the Kinds of People Who are Breaking In
I’ve stopped listening to all the podcasts that extoll the virtues or otherwise of the invaders.
Having made my mind up that conversing about the problem is just a waste of my time, I’m no longer open to any position other than “Piss off – you weren’t invited, no matter what you, our government or our bleeding heart citizenry thinks.”
That’s pretty much what I used to say when people turned up, uninvited, or turds I didn’t like.
From Paul Ham’s book “Vietnam:The Australian War.”
A wounded soldier, who had just left a repatriation hospital on crutches, encountered an aggressive female student, in the street.
“…did you fall over, chasing after a Vietnamese woman whilst trying to rape her?” she said.
The soldier stopped, and thought, “I’ve heard of this attitude, I’ve seen it from a distance, but here I am confronted with it.”
She continued “You people and the Americans have plundered the innocent Vietnamese for many years. Eventually, the Vietnamese will gain victory over you, despite your barbaric acts.”
The soldier interjected “You have first hand knowledge of this situation?”
“No I don’t and neither do you because you wouldn’t have a bloody clue..”
The soldier paused, and thoughtfully replied that, despite “your recently acquired knowledge…you can’t come to terms with any reality beyond your own..”
“Oh, I see.” she shot back. “the philosophical digger.Well, I suppose you should be a digger, a digger of graves, and I suppose you should be philosophical because you’ve obviously got a guilty convenience, which you should have.”
“Look, darling,” said the soldier, “I think I’m not philosophical. I’m just bitter. I’m very bitter at the fact that I’m not you.”
“What the hell are you talking about?” she asked.
“Well, I estimate your age to be roughly…mine, and I’m blue collar, I suppose. I suggest you are highly motivated…you’re going to be a white collar or professional person and things are open to you as far as the future is concerned…you’ll be making all the money shortly, upon graduation, you’ll have a job, a comfortable job…”
He concluded: “some people are getting their arzes shot off..if you are that concerned for humanity, why don’t you do something for them?” And he hobbled away, on his crutches. (Pages 602 – 603.)
With apologies to Dire Straits but…
Is it coincidental that Industrial Disease rhymes with Anthony Albanese?
I think not.
Wallet Wizard appears in Industrial Disease (with apologies to Knopfler and Co):
(I couldn’t, fortuitously, work the line: “How come Jesus gets Anthon Albanese…..!!!!….”
Outstanding!
Last week we were told people in northern gaza were on the verge of starvation,
I bet Mrs Sinwar is still as fat today as she was when she walked into the tunnel with her husband and children hours before the October 7 massacres. We know how Hamas siphons the dosh sent in by the UN and charities into building tunnels to rape and murder Jewish men and women and I reckon all the food being delivered into Gaza is being gobbled up by the fat Mrs Sinwar.
As an aside, many Muslim Arab men, being the sicko perverts they are, are obsessed with both corpulent women and hymens. It’s a sick culture.
The corpulent women are throwback to the times when famines were a common occurrence in the Arab world.
A woman is expected to put on enough weight in the first year of marriage to carry a child to term and feed it for a year, even during a famine.
The woman is considered to be nothing more than life support system for the child – especially if it’s male.
Bikers’ moll Lidia Thorpe has form.
She protested an event last year while literally falling down drunk.
Then there was the time she made an arse of herself at a strip club in Melbourne.
Even the possum skin crew would have problems with her. Not the Greens.
We desperately need a recall mechanism.
Or a strip of herself at an arse club.
calli
October 21, 2024 5:42 pm
On that note, time for some…disco!
You go girrrrl.
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Yep.
Donna Summer (Macarthur Park Live 1978)
Is it Friday night at the Cat or are there new catallaxy Standing Orders?
😛
Never liked her voice.
The Case For Trump In 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson
VDH is probably the best commentator on current US , indeed global, politics.
I’d suggest she also has problems.
Now reduced to four members in a 25 seat parliament, Labor fights back:
An Indigenous member of the Northern Territory parliament has urged remote community residents living in the long grass to return to country to escape “bad laws”.
Mulka MLA Yingiya Guyulu posted the warning on social media at the weekend advising countrymen sleeping rough or in town camps in the major centres to consider returning home.
“Please think about going back to your communities or even back to your homeland communities,” he wrote.
“Because we are now seeing an NT CLP Government that is introducing very BAD laws that will increase systemic racism for our Indigenous Sovereign people of this land.
“We are going to see an increased number of Aboriginal people – adults and children in jail. “We are going into a thick deep rain. We are being disempowered further by a colonial government and we must hold strong to our culture so that we can come out the other side. Come back to homeland country where you are safe.”
He says all this like it’s a bad thing.
Don’t do the crime and you won’t do the time.
That’s old fashioned, colonial thinking!
Er…presumably a lot of indigenous folk voted for the CLP.
So they could be safe.
More Marxist identity politics
Translation: “Move back out here so you can bash your missus out of sight of the police and let your kids be raped without intervention.”
Why did they need so many paragraphs to say that?
That was my interpretation,indeed!
Where’s Whaley?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-21/king-charles-iii-and-queen-camilla-vist-canberra/104496938
Lysander
October 21, 2024 6:46 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
Is it Friday night at the Cat or are there new catallaxy Standing Orders?
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Everything changes. Mix it up.
What price “reconciliation” and a “Treaty” after the fair Lydia’s outburst?
The potential civil war would last maybe 10 days…
Bit shaken up.
Just witnessed an horrific incident of domestic abuse.
By a mother.
The magpie adults seem to have chosen a fledgling each as exclusive dependants.
There are three, so I don’t know where that leaves the third.
Went out in the back yard to see Quardle attacking one of her chicks. Really hoeing into it. The poor bugger was on it’s back while she went him with some vicious pecking. It went on and on and on, far beyond a motherly chiding.
I intervened with some beef, and the chick flew off, and a bit later Awk went up and gave it a feed.
Women.
Adopt the third one. They are fun to have, talkative and clever. When old enough, they leave home. win, win.
Thorpe has clearly broken her oath and should be removed from parliament.
If she isn’t then the is no reason that the people should abide by any laws passed by the house. You cannot have it both ways.
I really like James Macpherson. He doesn’t flinch, quiver or recoil when it comes to stating the truth, particularly about the religion of pieces. He doesn’t care about being ‘liked’.
Far better commenter than Blot. Blot does write a good column.
Agree wholeheartedly.
“It appears HAMAS has given up.
From 13 hours ago.
It’s just one area, but it’s very difficult for them to come back from here.”
Our darkfriends are telling us that’s the queue for the execution pit.
Or innocent civilians being harassed by the IDF.
Take your pick
Where the women and little children are, no-one knows.
Or do we?
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