Winston, I have no problem being proven wrong, we can’t know everything and at times rely on other info. But…
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So, one American is reportedly largely responsible for forcing Bibi to go with the dud deal, while someone has invited…
Kevinm, some people see every conversation as an exercise in confrontation and don’t know how to just let it be.…
The Arky half track!
It looks more like mum is thinking “What are we going to do with you, son?”
@bennyjohnson
MASSIVE.
Entire Pittsburgh Steelers Stadium starts thunderously chanting “U-S-A!” as President Trump arrives
Farmer Gez
October 21, 2024 7:10 pm
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 can’t like your comment enough. I’m tired of the endless double standards, I’m tired of the endless hypocrisy, I’m just soooooooooo tired.
Yep – husband just said the same thing – she has violated her oath and should be expelled from the Senate.
That’s a different matter from whether laws passed by a parliament of which she is a member are invalid, as Gez suggested.
Such laws are valid.
But Thorpe still presents a serious problem for the powers that be.
Alas, cowardice seems to be the order of the day among their ranks.
Start a run on your local MP’s.
Everyone email, constantly, the fact that she broke her oath.
We did it years ago when that pile of excrement, Turdbull, crossed the floor to vote with Labor.
Many thousands of emails clogged the system, and Tony Abbot was installed as leader of the Libs.
I will be emailing.
She can’t be removed from Parliament, except at an election for Semators where she is one such whose 6 term is expiring
Rubbish.
Why is it that you insist on abstract legal principles that may or may not apply when it suits defending collectivists, but have no such interests when quite clear and common principles exist that do not?
Don’t answer that. We both know what you are.
Triggered: Kamala’s Running Mate Tim Walz Fires Off Psychotic Social Media Response to Trump’s McDonald’s Work
Cuba grid collapses again raising doubts about a quick fix
But they still overwhelmingly support them!
Jewish support for Democrats lowest since Reagan era: poll
Crazy
Harris campaign abandons Biden in final weeks before Election Day: report
Elon Musk businesses are facing regulatory battles and federal investigations from ELEVEN different government agencies.
@MikeBenzCyber
Look at all this Blob lawfare against one man because he stands in their way
@MikeBenzCyber
@MikeBenzCyber
Give me 5 minutes & full autonomy over the House budget and here’s how I would end Internet censorship in 5 minutes:
Decades ago I read a wonderful trilogy by the Egyptian author, Naguib Mahfouz. The epic trilogy chronicled a Cairo family over several generations. The family were devout Muslims and whilst the story and family are fictional, Mahfouz, himself an observant Muslim, takes the reader into the mindset of the family and the stifling patriarchal Muslim culture. Reading the books, what stood out was the glaring hypocrisy of the father, the family patriarch, who ruled his wife and children with an iron fist, and who stifled and damaged the family with his hideous misogynism, bullying and despotic nature.
Naguib Mahfouz, openly critical of Muslim extremism, incurred the wrath of the Muslim Brotherhood. Because of his vocal criticisms, he required 24 hour police protection and in the early 1990s he was stabbed in the neck by a Muslim extremist.
I might re-read the books.
Worthy of a repeat.
Gremlins II // The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (LIVE)
The disgusting antics of rubbish like Thorpe can only make more and more people realise what is going on re.marxist identity politics.
Found the women and children
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1847949248857337858?t=wjPdWdxEt4XTfKrmffkgQg&s=19
No-one was executed.
https://x.com/imshin/status/1848235852062683154?t=6TWYBVKcRVIlop23q9EX7w&s=19
I’m wondering, have the senate Liberals organised any senate motions to censure Hideous Thorpe or the Jew hater, Fatso Faruqi?
Oh wait, the stupid effing Liberals only join in motions to censure conservatives. Silly me.
JC
October 21, 2024 5:12 pm
So the Senate is the right place for her then?
Bloody odd definition of “humane”.
I’m not sure I would wish anybody to spend time in the Senate. It killed Kimberley Kitching and she was a friend of Peanut Head.
“UNIFIL denies Hezbollah terrorists paid members to use their bases”
https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-825427
Sounds like an example for the Mandy Rice-Davies response.
Getting worse for them isn’t it?
Just a hunch but I’d say Israel wouldn’t just make an accusation like that willy nilly and likely has evidence.
If caught aiding unlawful combatants in operations, are they subject to summary justice?
Witness the awesome power of the magic Get Out of Jail Free card.
Forget the oath, what about Seditious Intent?
Lidia accused the King of stealing her babies.
The big question remains…did Streep do it better?
Supplementary question…is she calling the King a dingo?
Funny, I also heard that phrase in Meryl’s voice.
Andrew Lawrence: The Great British Exodus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzih4vbtZJs
God, he’s irritating.
Reminds me of Steady Eddy.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-825039
It looks like the Jewish people prosecuting this war are getting sick of the Haredi who demand the right to not serve because it is beneath them.
Patience, Grasshopper.
The Israel government are gently nudging the Haredim into doing the right thing. Quite a few are now in the IDF and there’s a whole Haredi batallion. They have been in action in Gaza, with honor.
The more of this that occurs the more that service in support of the nation becomes accepted in that community.
(The main problem is that Haredi men are wimps, as you might expect from reading and memorizing the Torah all day. Of those who did volunteer the IDF had to reject up to 90% of them for physical unfitness.)
They are finally realising that prayer, whilst good, very rarely stops bullets, bombs, knives etc.
Bruce O Nuke:
Bugger the patience, Bruce. This war has been going on for over 1400 years, and this problem should have been sorted out by now.
The Haredi are doing what self centered jerks have been doing for centuries – finding excuses why they shouldn’t have to defend the Nation while being defended by the Nation.
Conscientious objectors, sons of politicians who get General Staff positions that keep them away from danger.
The Russians have a saying:
It should apply to all.
Interesting and enjoyable but long drive up the Bruce hwy from Rockhampton to Bowen. Enjoying breeze off the Coral Sea now. Mangoes, pineapples and sugar cane plus tropical cattle. Love Queensland.
Mangos are coming along nicely.
In about a month we’ll be picking them from parks, sides of the road anywhere they are growing on public land.
Much better than back in the day when the road went inland from Rocky to Sarina, over 400kms of dead pigs, cattle and Roos.
On August 28, 2024 a nine-month-old baby ended up in hospital following a horrific daylight attack which saw a man approach a family in a Brisbane park before pouring scalding liquid on the infant and fleeing the scene.
An interesting back story is here.
Explained! Why the Chinese man Poured Hot Coffee on a Baby
“It looks like the Jewish people prosecuting this war are getting sick of the Haredi who demand the right to not serve because it is beneath them.”
Are you sure it’s ‘beneath them’?
There are quite a few Haredi in the IDF both as volunteers and draftees. I can’t see why it is a concern for anyone else other that Israelis.
Absolutely.
I decided it’s my concern and place to speak up after reading the linked article.
90% are rejected because their religious views keeps them in a sedentary lifestyle that renders them unfit for military service.
Are you saying only the Haredi have the right to an opinion on this matter?
Top Ender
October 21, 2024 6:53 pm
If only they would, the problems in Alice S and the NT in general would be at least halved.
Or is he implying that the 10-12 year olds stealing cars and committing burglaries, doing it out of political and philosophical motivations?
The NT government has lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 10.
Many many pearls are being clutched as I write this…
94 % of children in detention are indigenous..
Quadrant back up. Yay!
Bree James has my full support. Indeed she looks like just my type of chick.
Big mistake apologising, tho, that just feeds the Konduct Karens.
Sarah Conner?
Yes.
BOOM!!!
Terminator is on.
The new version.
Yahya Sinwar?
Fook off.
BOOM!!!
LOL!
“I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle”
Clothes, boots and STICK!
Mike Benz should be given an Intel role if Trump wins. Something exposing the censoring by Government bodies.
No words I could add.
May the filth truly be obliterated.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/auhome/index.html
The link I meant to paste.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13982507/Tragedy-Nova-festival-survivor-dead-birthday-taking-life-Hamas-October-7-massacre.html
My response to Pogria’s 9:30 p.m. link.
Note how the murderers are still described by the press as ‘Palestinian militants (only half a step from ‘freedom fighters).’ The Nova victims are casually described as ‘revellers’ rather than ‘unarmed civilians’ as G@z@ns would have been, who were ‘killed’ rather than ‘murdered’ or ‘butchered,’ both the latter being applicable.
Adam Goodes received more favourable (sycophantic) media coverage after his ‘a child called me a name’ trauma!
We should NEVER forget how actively the majority of western media have provided material support to unrepentant homicidal vermin. I mean every word of that previous sentence, and truly believe that the media have greatly enabled the success* of H@m@s/PIG’s diabolical urges (post 7 Oct, of course).
* It’s another topic completely, I know, but despite the grinding of h@m@s’ G@z@n manpower and resources, from a propaganda perspective, it has been a stunning gain for them. They have a page in history now, which is what they were desperate for; to prove their worth.
It looks like the Jewish people prosecuting this war are getting sick of the Haredi who demand the right to not serve because it is beneath them.
Whoa….firstly, there are many Haredim who do serve in the IDF, particularly in the medical corps.
Secondly, the word ‘Haredi’ is used ignorantly. I know something of the Haredim, more than most here, and I have some sympathy for them. There are Haredim sympathetic to Zionism and then there are the anti-Zionist sects, particularly those who reside in areas like Mea Shearim and Bnei Brak.
As for some of those Haredim who don’t fight, it isn’t because it is ‘beneath them’, in fact the Haredim provide a crucial spiritual role for the country. Even David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, acknowledged the importance of the Haredim to the psyche of Israel.
That’s not what the article is saying, Cassie.
MY position is “One in, All in.”
There are no favoured people in a mass grave.
Snap Rosie.
Orange Man serving at the golden arches seems to have given him a boost,
now leading in the betting odds by 17%. He’ll need more good PR stunts like this to get a clear shot. Or, dare I say, articulate his Agenda 47 policy proposals more clearly and more often. In particular #19:
He has to win against all odds in a rigged election before he can clean up elections. It’s a pipe dream isn’t it.
Blayde Merson: Navy veteran with diagnosed PTSD made to wait 48 hours for hospital bed at Peel Health CampusJessica PageThe West Australian
Mon, 21 October 2024 12:40PM
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A navy veteran battling PTSD was left waiting in a bed in the middle of a busy emergency department for at least 48 hours because no mental health beds were available.
Blayde Merson was rushed to Peel Health Campus last Monday after dialling triple-0. He arrived at the campus just after 7pm.
The 26-year-old said that he then spent two hours “ramped” in the ambulance waiting area before he was wheeled to an open space in the middle of the busy ED for observation — and left there until 8pm on Wednesday.
Dubbed “flight deck one”, the area has no curtains and no call bells — just beds placed in the middle of a busy ED.
Speaking to The West Australian from Peel Health Campus on Wednesday, Mr Merson said that he felt abandoned.
We didn’t learn much from the Royal Commission, did we?
This is from 10 years ago, I love this youtube video of some Haredim welcoming soldiers home from fighting in Gaza…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU78yC39OUM&t=84s
Crossie October 21, 2024 10:55 am
Super Calli.
She’s quite precocious…
Remember how last year Hideous Thorpe made an allegation that she’d been sexually harassed by a Liberal senator? Now, did the Liberal party stand with the Liberal senator? No, it sided with Hideous Thorpe.
It’s the Uniparty, Cassie – beholden to no one but it’s own advancement.
Thorpe is reported as saying she “ Won’t integrate with Colonialism”.
Stupid throw-away line, of course.
Thorpe is 15/16ths non aboriginal, and as a Senator, could not be more integrated in “ Colonial” culture if she tried.
Thorpe has to ride the tiger – to keep herself in the news and in the minds of Green voters, for whom symbolism is everything, she has to perform ever more crass stunts, lest she be supplanted by someone younger and more in tune with the activist vibe of the month.
Devoid of substance (political, that is)
her future is looking limited.
Australia Catholic University undergrads storm out of graduating ceremony because someone pointed out Catholic orthodoxy about killing and marriage. Get educated elsewhere kiddies.
And the GayBC/Australian Bolshevik Collective fanning the outrage
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-22/acu-melbourne-student-walkout-over-anti-abortion-speech/104500510
Absolutely tragic
The trauma, survivor’s guilt … never ending nightmare. Poor girl and her family.
Let us always remember her, all of them and stay with our people. They are going through a living nightmare.
Nova survivor, Shiral Golan, ended her life today, on her 22nd birthday. The family asked for this to be published. May her memory be a blessing. Heartbreaking.
Serious question Cats:
What does one do with a teenage daughter who is 17 (18yrs in 2 months) who screams, swears, is sometimes violent? And when you “lay down the law,” walks out the door with a backpack? The neighbours must hate us!
The wife says daughter is scarred by my absence when I used to travel a lot for work. I haven’t always been the greatest father but it’s almost like she’s possessed.
Our three boys (not far behind her) are normal. I just can’t handle her language and abuse anymore but she’s only 17.
She’s kept the whole house awake for days on end and this evening
she was screaming profanities from her bedroom. I gave the door a pretty minor kick (IMHO) and it broke the lock… she says her privacy is “f*+*ing violated.”
We are at wits end. I’m of the opinion she wants to be an adult: Ok. But I’m reluctant; she’s still a girl…
Why does a child’s bedroom have a lock?
Common issues to consider:
Drugs.
Social media.
Who are her mates and what are they like?
Boyfriend.
School.
If you have lost the communication link and are in the dark on all of that, it’s not easy.
Do you have brother/ sister/ brother-sister in law / uncle/ aunt/ trusted teacher/ grandparent who she has good relationship with?
Do you have a good, older, sensible psychologist who you can talk to? 10 free visits are available if the GP signs off on it.
Most of all, don’t worry or panic, make a plan, get a system with the help of a carefully selected professional you trust, and most of all: look after yourself and the missus.
She have friends who are normal? Get them around as often as possible. Kids will straighten out when their friends tell them they’re behaving unreasonably.
The fact that she has locked her door but screaming so loud you can hear, means that a part of her is asking for help but she is afraid to share her troubles with you.Things to consider apart from what Arky has mentioned:
At that age girls in particular become obsessed with physical appearance seeing themselves as ugly, short, big feet, fat, no boobs, too big boobs, acne etc and spend hours obsessing in the mirror and hating themselves.The more they hate themselves the more they hate you because it was you that caused them to be like this. They don’t want to share it because of both hating you and loving you at the same time.It becomes very personal and very destructive often leading to eating disorders eg bulimia, hair pulling, self harm.
My suggestion
Help her to get a part time job at weekends eg at IGA, local motel etc
Give her driving lessons and say you will help buy a car if she can contribute too
She needs to know you care and love her but do this by your actions as words alone will wash off and be thrown back at you.
My two boys have the opposite problem in that they find it hard to communicate their emotions. We only find out after the fact that events and issues have occurred which have affected them deeply. We’re trying very hard to get them communicate with us when things are happening to them in the present so they can deal with them more effectively and we can support them.
My advice would be to try not to react to her and get in arguments with her. Let her blow herself out. When she starts talking and communicating normally respond to it by listening and affirming what she is feeling. It becomes a reinforcement loop. It’s not easy as I have had to change to help my sons become more communicative.
Best of luck.
Psych review.
There’s something really wrong here and she needs help. Forcibly if necessary.
Most of all, be a rock.
This will pass. It might even pass quickly.
Keep your integrity, don’t descend to tantrums yourself, do not pretend things are OK, defend the rules that are worth defending. And be clear that whatever happens you are on her side.
The other suggestions here are awesome.
Good friends count for everything at that age, and a suitable professional is also a good choice. My wife is a counsellor and has worked with some situations. Consider involving an adult friend/family who is respected by her, who she can trust to keep her confidentiality.
It would be wrong to speculate too much, but consider that this may be so extreme BECAUSE whatever is bothering her is so strong that she cant fit it in her picture of how her family has to have her be. It may be to force separation so she doesn’t have to face family over the real issue.
A friend of ours has a 16 year old daughter with similar issues. She has been professionally diagnosed (primarily) as bipolar with mild autism. Outwardly, she appears fine and a normal teenager but she can fly into rages with obscene and vindictive language with less than subtle hints of potential violence towards the parents and her siblings.
My strong advice is that you and your wife see a professional psychologist firstly to explain the situation. That psychologist will subsequently want to see your daughter and make treatment recommendations. It may transpire that your daughter is simply ‘acting out’ but this must not be assumed. She may have genuine psychological issues over which she has little/no control and it can be a particular environment/stress (even food additives believe it or not) that will trigger a response or, a combination of factors.
Most importantly – you are not alone. Kids today grow up in a more complex world than we did. Some develop, or have genetic psychological issues, that can be effectively managed, but it often requires professional assistance.
A teenager with suspected autism has denied being transphobic as she faces a potential ban from football matches after asking a gender-confused man if they were a man.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/10/18/girl-autism-faces-ban-asking-transgender-player-are-you-man/
Madness rules…sheer bloody madness.
Discrimination against the intellectually, differently abled – SHAME ON THEM
How can sane people not see what they are doing by distressing a disabled person to placate a malicious being?
Crossie, they are cowards ganging up on an autistic? girl because she is the one who can’t/won’t fight back.
They support the Kokinafrok because they know he will – and be quite vicious about it too.
I hope they feel shame, but it’s rarely seen these days – we’ve become a shame free society.
Madness rules…sheer bloody madness.
I’m prepared to tolerate whackos and perverts, but I’m not going to revere them. The girl asked a perfectly reasonable question. There was no implication of disparagement at all.
Mark Dice:
Meme Magic Forecasts Kamala Will Lose?
Those noisy bastards need to be chucked into the water one by one. They are a joke.
It’s not music, it is sh*t!
I’d would walk straight up to them and tell them to f*ck off.
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Cash and Stevo:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Santa Monica 132
In Genocide news:
Germany calls for Israel to ‘clarify every incident’ involving Unifil in Lebanon
Terror bulldozers in action again, endangering the safety of slow-moving UNIFIL/Hezbollah units which must not be endangered.
While preserving the safety of Israeli civilians who can be endangered by UN sponsored Hezbollah free fire.
Far cough.
Germany…demanded Israel…
Riiiiiight.
Remain silent on this one boxheads. Then we might not need to remind you of certain uncomfortable facts.
The biggest Jew-killers of all time now making demands of Israel?
What is going on with the comments on the two Lidia Thorpe articles at the Australian?
One shows comments open but not one comment. The other had two comments showing and both have hundreds of likes. A clear sign they are restricting comments.
However the Courier Mail/Sun/Tele article shows 1800 + comments.
Well spotted Bourne.
It’s fairly clear that Lidia Thorpe has played the mental elf card in the background in Parliament and they are all too shit-scared to get stuck into her.
If she has mental health problems how can she sit in the Senate and make decisions that affect all of us? Not that she’s capable of it anyway, quite a few sammiches short of a picnic. Just not bright enough. Covers 95% of the whole shebang.
Israel still stuck on the blue line.
https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1848393931966345420?t=y40fys-EhAS3H6GbyvpBAQ&s=19
Dumb as a box of rocks
https://x.com/MaxNordau/status/1848354363565035906?t=Ef2FHsIR9ffgmFp5vax9gg&s=19
Leaving
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1848316293683781656?t=89NcgjgLBe7vMfDtfPQfYA&s=19
John Spooner.
Chuckle. Spooner remembered!
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Brett Lethbridge #2.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom!
London Metropolitan police “marksman who shot dead Chris Kaba is found NOT GUILTY of murder as video shows moment he opened fire to stop him running over colleagues”
Interesting article basically showing a bleeding heart mentality preferring crooks “rights” over their own officers.
Surprise surprise:
The controversial case has sparked a Home Office review about how firearms officers are held accountable and the length of time officers remain under investigation.
Last September hundreds of Metropolitan Police firearms officers handed in their weapons following the decision to charge one of their colleagues with murder.
In the wake of the mass revolt, Scotland Yard was forced to put the Army on standby amid concern that there would not be enough armed officers to keep the public safe.
Most returned to their roles, but there was widespread concern among firearms officers nationally when Blake was named ahead of trial.
?
The case has already had a catastrophic impact on recruitment of officers.
In February it emerged that just six people applied to be a firearms officer in Britain’s biggest force.
Same mentality in the northern Australian areas putting the public in danger too. Seems yoof have more right than the public to be safe.
Tim Blair:
Monty you arsehole. Get in here and explain how a Trump presidency will plunge the world into darkness.
He’s had one go at it, and things were excellent. So the challenge is on dickhead. Go!
Fingers in ears, la la la la. Failed kindergarten then went on to withdraw fron Econ 101 coz too hard. What a maroon. Not the Queensland type. The Bugs Bunny one.
There is a reward for doing good, whether is good health or other, we sometimes don’t even realise.
Faith helps and he had it.
I’m sure a lot of people didn’t know this about John D. Rockefeller, including me.
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John D. Rockefeller (July 8, 1839–May 23, 1937), the founder of Standard Oil, was once the richest man in the world. He was the world’s first billionaire. He amassed a net worth of at least $1 billion in 1916. When Rockefeller died in 1937, his net worth was estimated to be approximately $340 billion in today’s dollars.
By the age of 25, he had one of the largest oil refineries in the United States. He was 31 when he became the world’s largest oil refiner. At 38, he controlled 90% of the oil refined in the United States. At fifty, John was America’s richest man. As a young man, every action, attitude, and connection was crafted to establish his wealth.
But at the age of 53, he fell unwell. His entire body became wracked with pain, and he lost all his hair. In total anguish, the world’s lone millionaire could buy anything he wanted but could only eat soup and crackers.
According to an associate, “He couldn’t sleep, wouldn’t smile, and nothing in life meant anything to him”.
His personal, highly trained physicians indicated that he would die within the year. That year passed painfully slowly. As he approached death, he awoke one morning with the faint understanding that he would not be able to bring any of his fortune with him to the next world.
The man who could dominate the commercial world suddenly realised he had no control over his personal life. He informed his solicitors, accountants, and management that he intended to devote his assets to hospitals, research, and charity work. John D. Rockefeller started his foundation.
The Rockefeller Foundation financed Howard Florey and his colleague Norman Heatley’s penicillin research in 1941. But arguably the most astounding aspect of Rockefeller’s narrative is that when he began to give back a fraction of all he had gained, his body’s chemistry changed dramatically, and he recovered.
He was expected to die at the age of 53, but he survived to reach 98 years old. Rockefeller learnt gratitude and returned the great bulk of his money. This made him whole. It’s one thing to be healed. It is another to become fit. He was a devout Baptist who attended the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio.
Before he died, he wrote in his diary: “God taught me that everything belongs to Him, and I am merely a conduit to carry out His will. My life has been one long, happy holiday since then; full of work and play, I let go of my worries along the road, and God was wonderful to me every day.
No man’s land.
There was a fence between part of NSW and Queensland till 1957.
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This fence separated the two states – Queensland and New South Wales at the area known today as the Gold Coast, where Coolangatta (Qld) meets Tweed Heads (NSW).
There were actually 2 fences running parallel and the land between the two was known as ‘No Man’s Land’.
Initially, the border was marked with a fence extending from Point Danger through the twin towns with border gates for access across the border and a customs house established in the early 1870s to administer cross border trade.
Thomas Carrick was the first New South Wales Customs officer.
In 1904, a double border fence was erected and encompassed a buffer strip of land known as ‘no man’s land’ that ran from Point Danger on the coast to Cobaki, which is about 13 klms inland.
The intention of the fence was to keep out the cattle tick which was infesting Queensland cattle herds. A turnstile which allowed people through was erected at Coolangatta and by 1914, the turnstile was replaced with an overbridge.
This wide area of separation between the towns became particularly important during the Influenza epidemic of 1919 (Spanish flu), when the border was closed to aid in the prevention of the spread of the disease.
The fences no longer exist…they were removed in 1957.
Certain there was at least one left in the Border Ranges in the 1980’s. As a child dad took us for a drive whilst holidaying on Gold Coast, up to Canungra, Lamington Nat Park then down over the border back into Tweed Heads.
Remember crossing the Border as there were signs on a gate and it was fenced either side of the road.
Yes. The tick gates were still marked on the NRMA strip maps in the 70’s.
I remember them from the 60s as a kid visiting northern NSW. You’d have to be inspected at some of them even if you didn’t cross the state border.
If true US might be sidelined while the Israelis just get on with the job:
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/10/21/israel-just-got-the-ok-to-go-after-iran-but-it-wasnt-from-biden-harris-n4933501
Taxiing for a takeoff?
I think at this stage I’d opt for a car, however small.
Saw a lot of these child baskets on bicycles in Malmo. That’s all those poor people can afford in a city where parking costs almost as much as dinners in restaurants. There was parking near supermarkets so that’s something.
On Lydia and mental health. She can’t be sacked, that I know I researched it after old Parliament House fire. If she can’t be removed from her appointment maybe they need to be more creative, so can she be put off on sick leave on OH&S grounds.
The Townsville City Council council did same to our charlatan mayor recently, literally locked him out of the council building.
At bare minimum she is a stain on the Parliament and shouldn’t have been there to begin at the welcome for the King. Blind Freddy could see she’d pull a stunt. This should attract censure but bet you it doesn’t.
I wonder if King Charles can chuck Australia out of the realm?
How does a guy like this get a pass to be air side? Headline to an article in the Oz (Not linked as I can’t get past the paywall):
Sinwar fan revealed as aviation worker who praised Palestinian hijacker
At best his pass should be removed ASAP.
How do think drugs get in so easily? Airports are full of weirdbeards.
They are also airport security but you have to empty your pockets and all carry on luggage for screening.
Er… it’s a sheila, not a bloke. She’s a hot ethnic babe, though up close she may be more harsh on the eye.
Apparently, according to Sky “News” Thorpe “called for greater recognition of indigenous issues” in Parliament yesterday.
That’s odd. I heard her shrieking like a banshee and making threatening gestures while tottering ridiculously on a pair of stilettos. She might have been drunk. Next time, Lidia, be authentic and go barefoot.
The attention seeking frump, once she sobers up, should have a look at King George I’s instructions to Arthur Philip regarding the indigenous. Her accusations against the royal family are totally unfounded.
You are assuming she can read.
George 3rd ?
I stand corrected.
It was George, third of that name. Which is charmingly circular given the current monarch’s number. Judging by Thorpe’s despicable insta, she hoped he could be like Charlie 1.
Perhaps a fact finding trip to Gaza.
With no requirement for the helicopter to land.
“At best his pass should be removed ASAP.”
I think it’s a she.
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1848309824574112135?t=pLKQCCMXn3_aZtqCoOAYkw&s=19
Marketing expert
https://x.com/VoteLewko/status/1848299968903487628?t=sbQ8x38ZfCeEWsk0lD-Acg&s=19
Sack her for views incompatible with her position in the airline security field.
I just want to know which airline. I dont want to be a victim of one of her unhinged whims.
She works for a flying school. In the office.
Everyday the legacy meja proves it deserves to die. So many obnoxious, ignorant and entitled twats.
The fries with that episode Sunday has caused an explosion of memes!
Mid-Week in Pictures: Special Emergency Big Mac Edition | Power Line
The “would you like lies with that” meme just wrote itself!
My favorite….
Just noticed – they put a smile on the SS guy! Well done!
They’re all smiling – even the girl wrestling with him for the Happy Meal!
Thorpe is also proof that drug and alcohol testing is needed for pollimuppets.
Beeen calling for it for years – I’d like to see a ‘cleaner’ swab the back of each of the benches where the sweaty heads of the Parliamentarians rest.
Red hats galore!
Good.
Charlie and Tulsi take on College Kids at U of Arizona
Rafiki October 21, 2024 9:50 pm
What would happen if a senator was elected and refused to take the oath? She’s should be told that she has to reaffirm her oath to regain the confidence of the senate. I’m not sure if, at that stage, she refuses that there is a precedent but if there isn’t, it’s time to create one.
If she’s prepared to reaffirm her oath it should be as humiliating as possible and it should be clear it’s a last chance.
Interesting legal questions arise out Thorpe’santics. The High Court has said that representative government is a fundamental of our system. Central is that the electors (of Victoria) have elected Thorpe to the Senate, and I think it follows that only these electors can remove her. Any other means to do so contradict the concept of representative government.
OTOH, her conduct in the Senate can be regulated by law. It is however a standard principle of interpretation that regulation cannot amount to prohibition.
So, it’s a bit tricky to work out the legal consequences if she refuses to take an oath. I think that it would not affect her position as a Senator.
Someone in the comments reckons hezbos were just scamming Iran.
This is why regular, rigorous audits are so important when you are running an Evil Empire.
https://x.com/VerminusM/status/1848403818465181771?t=EOFUg2PNyG4qvP6A1Iv5tg&s=19
Haw!
MWIP, loved the stolen valor one and the ” would you like lies with that”. The rest were great as well.
At best his pass should be removed ASAP.
That ‘person’ is a she, and she should have been charged on Sunday with hate speech and incitement to violence.
I watched both James Macpherson and Sharri Markson last night. Both Macpherson and Markson are at the end of their tether with the NSW Police and the Minns government. I get the feeling that Markson is waking up to the reality that Minns spins a good yarn to the Jewish community and that’s it. I’ve called him out from day one. He is simply the pretty face of a far-left Labor government, full of Jew haters.
That ‘she’ in Hyde Park on Sunday also used a small girl (her daughter?), who is clearly no older than five or six years of age, to scream abuse at ‘Zionists”, screeching that Zionists are not welcome in this country. You read that right, that means me, my family, ninety-eight percent of other Jews and also non-Jews who support Jews and Israel (many here). Apparently we are no longer welcome in Australia in 2024. We should ‘rack’ off. Stripped bare, of course, ‘she’ and the little girl’s screeching about cleansing Australia of Zionists is an obvious code, when they use the word ‘Zionist’ they mean…’JEWS’.
Australia 2024, courtesy of multiculturalism and inept governance. The whole disgraceful scene on Sunday was a direct replica from Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
That speech, by the ‘she’ and her daughter (?) was direct incitement against Jews. But the NSWaffen Police, like they did on Monday night 9 October 2023, stood back and did nothing.
On Sunday I fled the CBD because I could see keffiyeh draped people walking to Hyde Park. You can feel the menace that overtakes the CBD Sitting at the bus stop, waiting for the 333 bus, I heard horrible shouts and screeches. These ‘rallies’ aren’t peaceful gatherings to mourn the dead, no, no, no, they are festivals to exhibit and celebrate Jew hatred. I saw how The Great Synagogue had numerous police standing in front of it, presumably to protect it from elderly Five Dock women…..that’s a joke!
Further to the ‘she’ in Hyde Park, I think it isn’t just her ‘pass’ that should be removed, her citizenship/residency should be revoked.
As far as I am concerned the real outrage lies at the feet of the supine, dhimmitude NSWaffen Police. Don’t forget, the NSWaffen Police will act when pushed, the NSWaffen recently tracked down an 82 year old Five Dock woman and charged her with hate speech. Her crime? She had telephoned a mosque and told them ‘go back to where you’ve come from’.
But the society we live in is now one of two tier everything. So, according to the likes of ‘authorities’ (cough) like Mike Burgess the ‘she’ in Hyde Park is simply letting off steam whereas the elderly woman from Five Dock is a menace and the real threat to our soshul coheshun.
Oh well, you see I happen to agree with the elderly woman from Five Dock. I would like the ‘she’ in Hyde Park, whose real name is Jana Fayyad, and her daughter(?), to go back to where they came from because I don’t believe either belong in this country. And if that’s hate speech and gets me charged, so be it.
Meanwhile, Jewish suburbs are targeted with Hamas symbols, Jewish businesses are daubed with Hamas symbols, a Jewish business on Sunday morning goes up in flames and on and on it goes. And the day draws near when it won’t be just bricks and mortar that incur the ire of leftist and Muslim Nazi scum, it will be human beings, Jewish human beings. And I must sincerely ask, when that happens will the NSWaffen Police stand by and do nothing? Because, given their recent unsavoury record, the NSWaffen could even provide the Jew hunters with a personal police escort.
This will not stop until a few of them have had their citizenship/residency revoked and deported. It might take a number of such instances to prove to the rest that we are serious and it would be best if they behaved and integrated.
Crossie, it won’t stop even then.
They cannot ‘behave’ and ‘integrate’, no more than a pig can fly. It isn’t in the nature of the beast.
The behaviour will just go quiet for a bit as the Muslim community realises it has hit a barrier. Then when they have polished their halos for a bit, back it will come again.
Until the people force the government to recognise that Islam is a cult and not a religion, and is liable to the law for its transgressions, we are just pissing into the wind.
Why isn’t the APH an alcohol free zone? How many workplaces are allowed to serve alcohol to the employees then allow them to go back to work? I suppose most of them are looney tunes anyway so it’s hard to tell if they’re pissed or not.
Can a certified insane member be removed to the looney bin. I realise we could lose a few. Pith the king’s bodyguard didn’t pull out his weapon and take out the threat.
Credit has to be given to Steven Crowder for these table talks – Change My Mind series made a dent. Good to see others follow suit.
It’s not a competition.
As for the bloke in the Kirk / Tulsi clip above @18:16 saying the election was not rigged!
My God!
I don’t know, but I’ve been told phrases like direct action set off all sorts of alarms.
I was at meeting with James Paterson last night so asked Question re Lidia Can only be dismissed if found guilty of crime that gets a 1 year sentence But does swearing falsely allegiance to crown not important ? I did not query this with him
If she had given that performance in UK the radical judges would have jailed her for life. The poor old bloke who just did himself in only held a sign up and called the coppers corrupt which appears to be true. He got 2 years + from a disgusting piece of filth.
Pretty funny
https://x.com/godblesstoto/status/1848073250749784419?t=lEdhf9PzW_WU0a4xjrsWTg&s=19
Documentary for our times.
I’m speechless.
‘Can we stop having weekend protests at empty consulates and embassies, and focus on strategic actions instead? It’s been a year now. We need to shift strategy.
Hmm, what does she mean by ‘direct actions’ and ‘shifting strategy’? Does she mean…
Blowing up Jewish communal centres?
Murdering Jewish children on their way to school?
Setting fire to Jewish businesses with lots of Jews in them?
Vandalising and setting fire to synagogues?
Don’t worry, I’m sure whatever ‘direct actions’ and ‘shift in strategy’ they decide upon, here in NSW their ‘direct actions’ and ‘strategic shift’ will get NSWaffen approval….and protection.
Perhaps Mossad might pay a visit to Australia for a working holiday
Lysander, I sympathise. There will be a hormonal component no doubt, she may not understand why she does what she does either. Hopefully she is not on the pill, it can upset a girls hormones badly. Food intake is important, red meat and fat for the brain. For you and your wife too. And you and your wife must be on the same page, we had troubles with two against one for a while, one parent or the other was made the baddie. Negotiate when things are calmer, all good luck, remember she loves you !
Thanks HZ!!!
Grandson turned 15 last week & now old enuf to work .. 1st application & interview Maccas, yesterday .. got the job …….!
Well done!
Good to see the work ethic through the generations is still strong.
I loved when my kids got jobs similar, first paypacket, well into the bank with a payslip, they saw how much tax was taken out. Immediately wanted to know why the country was such a mess with all the money the government expropriated. I explained government only spends money on things that gets them re-elected and are not to be trusted no matter what they say.
Fact Check Required:
Truth.
Next!
“I’m of the opinion she wants to be an adult”
Her behaviour wouldn’t be tolerated anywhere else.
I have no solutions other than to seek professional help.
Maybe her school could point you somewhere.
From The Oz….
The iconic statue of Queen Victoria outside Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building in the CBD has been vandalised with red paint overnight.
Authorities quickly set up a crime scene around the monument and investigations are underway.
No arrests have been made yet but police are expected to review extensive CCTV footage from the heavily monitored area.
Authorities are working to restore the monument.
An invitation to the people of Lebanon.
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1848449622051811451?t=vuRvfo4sNHNU3lEPstQ8yw&s=19
That is so bloody inspired!
As for the idiot Thorpe, of course she can be thrown out. O’Farrell was forced over a bottle of wine fer phuck sake.
You notice how the Marxist- ‘indigenous’ – Islamic axis has been activated over the last 12 months and it’s been festering for many years. This is being driven from overseas imo with local mentally ill treacherous scum happy to oblige. Brexit, Trump and the rejection of anals divisive voice has galvanised the international left. Cassie is right that this a war.
Seems the comments at the Oz on Lidia Thorpe came back.
Meanwhile over 2300 at Courier Mail online. Somebody halted the flow of comments on the Oz late last night.
Things were not excellent. He coasted on Obama’s economy until COVID hit, which he mismanaged terribly. His jobs record ended up terrible. His only legislative achievement was upper class tax cuts. He blew out the deficit.
Trump 47 would be a disaster due primarily to his insane tariff policy, which would start a worldwide recession. I am not sure how much of his deportation plan would actually be implemented, but to the extent that it would be, it would combine with tariffs to cause a price/wage inflation spiral. American’s economy is built on the backs of undocumented immigrant workers. Take them away, and inflation goes haywire.
Trump would cut aid to Ukraine as repayment for Putin’s support. Europe would step up to some extent, which may end up empowering them to take more responsibility, but a more likely outcome would be that Ukraine would lose the war. This would be a huge victory for the Axis in the New Cold War, benefiting our enemies and putting a big smile on Xi’s dial.
Thankfully none of that is going to happen, because Trump isn’t going to win.
These people do not appear to entirely agree with that assessment:
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/18/senate-democrats-campaign-ads-trump-2024
Easy to see how mUtley failed Econ 1.
All he does here is copy and paste DemonRat daily talking points.
The rancid turd has arrived.
His rubber Gimp suited is having its weekly hosing.
Looks like we have neo con montypox today
Yeah nah, it is not a neocon thing to correctly understand tariffs.
Pop goes the green energy bubble.
“Energy Transition Failing”: Hedge Funds Mount Climate Short Bets On Green Tech Stocks (21 Oct)
All those industry superfunds investing in green unicorns look to’ve done their dough.
No, they’ve done their investors dough.
They will still get their bonuses and bloated salaries.
Great idea letting the Union thieves at the wukkas nest eggs wasn’t it?
Perhaps they should all be asked how they’ve managed to afford their multi million dollar properties?
Except in Ausfailure where the Scumbag Lying Labor Filth will continue to spread the largesse to their Union maaaates super funds.
As I’ve said before I don’t like Chilla or any of the windsors but I dislike them a lot less than the filthy trash dissing him ATM.
Stein and Dinesh:
Dinesh D’Souza RUINED Indians for Ann Coulter
One light note in that thread was some dummy calling for a general strike.
While “long covid” may have stopped Ellie from working, it didn’t stop her from running for parliament.
Lysander, I don’t have a “fix” for your difficulties. Every family is different.
Just one piece of advice – do not take on blame because you were away working. You were putting food on the table and a roof over your family’s head at great personal cost to yourself. Like so many loving, decent, dependable fathers.
Many girls (and boys) go through this repulsive stage. At one point I was within a breath of removing a bedroom door until the behaviour improved! Ha! So much for “privacy”. And I had a son who grunted at me for nearly a decade. But that’s my story, not yours.
Things might improve, they might get a whole lot worse. Just remember to model that other dad who, while his returning, rebellious child was still a long way off, ran down the road to meet him. That child knew deep down that they could always go back, which tells you all you need to know about the father’s character.
The McDonalds edition of Week in Pictures is fun. My favourite is Stolen Valor with pic of Kamala working there.
I liked Donald McDonald
‘Correctly understand tariffs’ well you can’t incorrectly understand them.
What…throwing tomato soup on Van Gogh paintings didn’t work?
That’s probably as productive as it gets.
The modern left really are like obnoxious infants.
NEW: Fani Willis’s Lover Nathan Wade Admits to Multiple White House Meetings During Prosecution of President Trump in Georgia
Netanyahu Ignored Kamala Harris’ Advice and Won a Stunning Victory Against Hamas
Good man.
He, at least, recognises the meaning of the word “Existential” and is prepared for the hard yards.
I wouldn’t waste any money buying property in the middle of Iran’s major cities.
But she looked at the maps.
Only 8 o’clock in Queensland but feels like 9!
Sorry about that sermon, Lysander.
I had a horrible time with my teenagers. They all turned out well in the end. If only they’d used their wretched big brains for good and not evil a whole lot earlier! 🙂
We have probably all been there to some extent. The comforting thought is that they know you love them and they can behave badly toward you and you will still love them.
The whole J6 thing was ginned up fake.
Liz Cheney’s J6 Investigation Hit by Scandal Over Likely Fake Evidence
One inexhaustible element – Democrat lies.
The architect of the Fourth Reich has a bit of a laugh.
A bit rich from the country that voted for Merkel
Grandson turned 15 last week & now old enuf to work .. 1st application & interview Maccas, yesterday .. got the job …….!
Check the first payslip.
Our youngest got her first job at Maccas. Turned out she was automatically enrolled in a union at $7 a week. At $364 for a year for a 14 year old.
Took three weeks to get it changed.
3 weeks of theft
Attempted 52 weeks of theft
Almost as if the Union movement is a parallel Government raising its own tax levies.
Also, son and daughter each were enrolled in insurance via their super contributions.
The premiums come out of the super. After they leave the job to study the insurance continues until the super balance is exhausted.
No super left, and the advantage of starting accumulation early is wiped out.
wicked!
bring back horse whipping I say!
Make sure kiddo doesn’t sign any paperwork without parents or yourself sighting it.
Or at least grab a photo on the phone as their own record.
My mother has long said that having teenage girls was a nightmare compared to teenage boys.
My brother was quiet and placid whereas my sister and I were moody, rude, sullen and bitchy plus my sister was openly rebellious. We were particularly nasty to Mum however I was more scared of my mother whereas my sister was not. As for broken locks on bedroom doors, there is no way, no way in the world my mother would have tolerated us having locks on our bedroom doors.
I remember my mother once saying to her bitchy teenage daughters that she wished she’d stuck to just having dogs as they were much easier and much nicer. I think Mum had a point.
Chuckle. The derg and I used to commiserate with each other.
I can picture you and the derg sitting on the back steps having a coffee and a durrie. Except the derg is sensible – it doesn’t do the drawback.
🙂
Mme Zulu has made similar comments on the difficulties of raising teenage girls..
I don’t think you should blame all teenage girls for you and your sister being nasty pasties.
Piss off, Nazi.
Cannot wait till your daughter works out what an ugly piece of horse manure you are.
If the milko doesn’t stump up to save her she will end up on the pole. Weak men breed broken daughters and simp men
What’s your excuse, Monty?
There was a survey a few years back that suggested something like %70 of Brits prefer their dogs to their children. Similar numbers feel the same way about their parents, one imagines. Humanity limps on.
I have said many times that my 2 boys were one tenth of the work and one millionth of the angst of raising my one daughter.
If she had been the first born she would have been a one and only, I suspect.
My firstborn heir has just started working at a Vietnamese hole-in-wall. (not 100% into her working off-property when there’s so much on-farm to git amongst, but anyway) The ethnic owners saw at first sight that she’s high in trait conscientiousness, and heard on word of mouth that she’s top of her class, so they’ve got her doing an extra hour, off the books, tutoring their son, before her mandated maximum 3.5h shift. I’m totes stoked she’s straight into the cash economy!
Now word is out that she’s working and every second servo and cafe is hassling mine wifey to put youngster on. Can’t work retail until 15 though.
Excellent!
What’s “trait conscientiousness”, Wally?
I probably know it by different meanings, but I’ve not heard it before.
Advise him to keep all the related documentation on file in case he contemplates running for high office one day.
For some strange reason people don’t take politicians at their word.
The Chiefio on Ukraine and nukes.
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/10/21/ukraine-a-brief-history-of-nuke-bomb-desire/
For the casual visitor to this site: The above gibberish can be taken to be completely false and any predictions made are guaranteed to eventuate to the complete opposite.
Smart people are making fortunes on betting markets using this rule of thumb.
Plenty of websites have trolls, but Dover Beach’s newcatallaxy has one who specialises in wrongology: whatever he predicts you can take the exact opposite to the bank.
Well done, Dover!
At least the loser provides some sort of service to us lot.
What is it with these fat, black bitch AGs prosecuting Trump. Letitia ran for office on a sue Trump platform. Now we find fuking fanny fani did the same:
Nathan Wade: Fani Willis Planned Trump Prosecution Before She Took Office
I see the Nazi is defecating here again. He needs to go play with his Hamas buddies.
By the way Nazi, unlike you I don’t advocate violence against those whose opinions I don’t like.
Very good thread.
I’ll put that one down to such furphy’s as
“We’ll be home for Christmas”.
“They’re down to old men and teenagers.”
“They’re surrendering in their tens of thousands.”
Free Palestine can’t be far off then.
Teenage girls are a nightmare which is why, in traditional cultures, they were and are married off early. It makes sense.
Up until recently women never had any experience selecting their future partner. Their mothers, aunts etc would guard their virtue when they were young and their fathers and brothers would choose their future husbands.
No wonder then that, when given the opportunity to choose their mates, young women are so incredibly poor at it – selecting an endless parade of the most violent and psychotic men when they are in their early 20s and then wondering why their life isn’t working out so well for them in their 30s and having a mad scramble looking for an actually decent man who they subsequently learn want nothing to do with them – or at best see them as for recreational use only.
They then spend the rest of their days, stroking their cats and going on TikTok alternating between saying “all men are trash”, “I choose the bear” followed by “where are all the good men?” and “why won’t men approach me? You all need to man up!”
The parents ought to change their sex when they turn 13. Apparently you can do that now.
Hey munts, let us know when you figure out how to push both buttons on the pager.
[snork]
What does one do with a teenage daughter who is 17 (18yrs in 2 months) who screams, swears, is sometimes violent? And when you “lay down the law,” walks out the door with a backpack? The neighbours must hate us!
I’ve got 4 kids .. 3 were normal but my middle daughter was a terror .. ran her own gang at 14 and ruled the local HS until she left .. Most kids chose to cross the road rather than pass her .. Didn’t do drugs but often ended up at the local plod shop for vocally abusing plod …
Then turned 20 met the “right” bloke and turned it all around took to motherhood & settled into baby raising .. now mid 30s .. 3 kids and a thriving photography business …..
Great story, shatterzzz.
I have a niece who did all that shit and more as a teenager. Then discovered boys. Treated them like dirt, and fell for a bloke who wouldn’t tolerate it.
He walked out on her a couple of times, before they had any children.
She eventually realised her emotional blackmail wouldn’t work, and became rational.
But it wasn’t hormones or anything like that – it was deliberate.
I still don’t trust her at 40 + even though they seem happy and have three kids.
I think that’s the origin of “you broke it, you bought it”, Cassie. Should remain as a reminder to the young bucks also, and justifies reticence from the dreaded mothers-in-law too…
Quadrant down again. Is this a DDOS attack?
Interesting.
I wonder if they have been rounded up to “clear the decks” for action against iran or as normal procedure??
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/21/israeli-citizens-arrested-spying-for-iran-police-say
Israeli police and the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency say they have arrested a network of Israeli citizens spying for Iran who allegedly provided information on military bases and conducted surveillance of individuals.
The investigators claimed the network had been active for about two years. According to reports in the Israeli press, the suspects are accused of photographing and collecting information about Israeli bases and facilities, including the defence headquarters in Tel Aviv, known as the Kirya, and the Nevatim and Ramat David airbases.
The Nevatim base was targeted by Iran’s two missile attacks this year, and Ramat David has been targeted by Hezbollah.
“This is one of the most serious security cases investigated in recent years,” state prosecutors said. Police said the group had carried out 600 missions over two years.
It looks like info of Israeli’s attack preparations of Iran collected by US intel leaked last week were legit.
On the alleged Israeli spies…
Okay, We get that it’s been a long and hard slog, but everything is relative.
How does this compare to stats of soldier behaviour in previous wars?
If the Israeli side is exhausted and obviously winning, what does the other side look like?
Did you consider this, Dover?
?A very important piece: an Israeli outlet reports severe morale loss and exhaustion among soldiers, with many now refusing to serve.
?
I haven’t heard of ‘many’ refusing to serve in the IDF. There’s always been and always will be stories of a few but not ‘many’. Israeli men and women know that military service is a must, else Israel would not exist. As for ‘morale’, I think morale would have been boosted on hearing the news of of Sinwar’s death.
You know what, I’d like to see a genuine report of morale loss, exhaustion and refusal to serve among Russian soldiers. I suspect there’s a story there but of course we won’t hear those stories because, unlike Israel, Russia is not a democracy.
How many Russians of military age left the country to avoid Putin’s war?
In contrast, Israeli dual nationals returned to assist in Israel’s fight.
Not sure how that quote got in there.
I was responding to Cassie’s last para, obviously.
With the current outburst of news articles about the Haredi, I think the leftists have decided they have had enough of Israel winning and want to return to the days that Leftists could see themselves as the good guys.
Spoiler: They are the baddies.
True.
Will they be shot as traitors? I hope so.
exclusive
Dennis McKenna: Victims breathe a sigh of relief as one of WA’s worst paedophiles denied paroleCaleb RuncimanThe West Australian
Tue, 22 October 2024 6:52A.M
The adult victims of one of the State’s most depraved paedophiles are celebrating after his bid for freedom was denied by the WA Prisoners Review board on Monday.
Dennis John McKenna was the hostel warden at the Katanning Residential College — known as St Andrews Hostel — in the 1970s and 80s.
It was there, over a 12-year period, that he sexually abused 28 boys.
McKenna was most recently sentenced in 2013 to nine years in prison, after he admitted to 34 counts of sexual offending against 17 young victims who resided at the college.
He was also jailed in 1991 and 2011 for old sex crimes against another 11.
One of those victims, Todd Jefferis told The West Australian that “common sense had prevailed” after the WA Prisoners Review board denied McKenna parole on Monday morning.
“They’ve denied him parole, which is bloody good, we’ve been campaigning pretty heavily for him to be denied,” he said hours after the decision.
“It’s a great result for us, as victims…. we were all high-fiving today when they knocked him back.”
Miltonf
October 22, 2024 7:19 am
Mmmyes.
After the Great Britnah Disaster there were suggestions that Parliament House should be a dry workplace.
Strangely, that suggestion sunk without trace in a few days.
Odious people
Dover.
Its a “leak” where they posted it onto a restricted app that only a few 10’s of thousands of government employees could access.
Im almost certain any investigation will find nothing wrong with that, because if you cant trust 10’s of thousands of government employees, who can you trust?
There are so many different possible influences that it can be difficult to unravel, but in generalities: most girls are easier to manage than most boys.
But the social factor is much, much, much bigger with girls, and one rotten one can influence negatively a whole group.
Whereas with boys, once you are sorted you can get more work out of them, initially you get more push back. But once you are cool, you’re usually cool for the duration.
Girls (well all teenagers really) can do this thing where they seem to be cooperating with work requirements, but actually are very dismissive. Frankly, I’d prefer open rebellion to that situation, at least the rebel is being honest and the process of finding a solution can begin.
Then you have the difference between a co-ed situation vs a single sex setting. Which changes the dynamics again.
All of which is why I am against compulsory education completely.
And why we need to put more resources into an apprenticeship system, and into different settings.
The reality is all humans are difficult, deceptive (sometimes unwittingly) and manipulative.
It’s crucial that people aren’t put into situations they haven’t actively chosen for themselves, and the more options that are available, the better we’ll all be, but especially the kid who wants to be in an academic setting but is having it disrupted by someone who doesn’t want to be there, is getting nothing out of it, and who is showing their very human unpleasant side.
On Lydia and mental health.
Leave her there, she’s a lighthouse, a warning to others of the outcomes of DEI policies and promoting people, who are not at all representative of the community, into positions of power.
Same as what’s her name Aussie Voice girl in the west representing Afghanistan.
The Parliamentary system has failed in many ways because the people in there are barely representative of the people.
How do you expect ALP people who join at uni, never have a job in the outside world, become representative of anything but others of their kind?
(rhetorial question, of course)
Same happened to #1 Granddaughter. She began waitressing at the local pub at 143/4. Changed to weekend work when she began teaching quals at uni, but was forced to quit because she refused mandatory vaccinations.
Gained experience in a variety of hospitality settings until eventually, at 22 yo, being ‘head-hunted’ for restaurant/bar manager position. Two weeks ago, manager of local travel agency, having enjoyed often her sunny personality and her lattes, asked her to apply for permanent, full time position with the company.
“Will you be free to travel overseas?” he asked during her second interview.
Her head is still spinning. They’ve already booked an orientation cruise for her. The dream job for a young woman.
Great outcome Delta. My hard working granddaughter has similar story in being invited to a p/t internship in marketing while she completes her degree. This based on the work she did with them for experience without insisting on payment. She has also started a small business in coaching local HSC students. She knocks me out.
My first thought was watch that bloke!
He’s putting himself in a power position over the granddaughter, and I’d keep a damned close eye on him – to the point that you let him know you were doing so.
And warn him of consequences if he wants to FAFO.
But that’s just me – I trust no bastard in a potential power imbalance position.
Good luck to the Grandie but….make sure she’s got a means to buy a ticket home if her passport and credentials ‘disappears’ in a strange country.
He does not accompany her on the trips. Eventually she will be required to guide tours, as do the other employees. Also, small town syndrome: everyone knows everyone – and their spouses.
All good.
PS: having worked from 14+ she will always have means to buy a ticket home if necessary. Last I heard, nudging $40K.
Troy Bramston is getting worse. Three recent articles of his:
Harris uninspiring, but Trump presidency a threat to America (today)
‘It’s about your record’: Tony Blair’s winning formula for re-election
Note to Kerr undermines Charles’ integrity as monarch
There you go:
Terminal TDS (tick)
Tongue bathes Tony Bliar (tick)
Resents Charles as monarch (tick)
Detests Sir John Kerr (tick)
Lurves Whitlam (tick)
I wonder when he will jump ship to the Grauniad?
Best not to use the word “Mavis” when submitting comments. They don’t like it.
That’s why I don’t buy newspapers
I doubt there are 10s of thousands with ‘top secret’ clearance in Five Eyes.
At the end of the day you need to critically examine the day to day ubiquitous data we get. There are many reasons why many global players will want to undermine the Israeli war effort. While the onerous duties Israelis of military age have had to undergo in the last 12 months may give cause to pushback, these claims must be viewed against the actual success and extraordinary application all Israelis to the survival of their nation.
While there are many with Top Secret clearance the numbers are not in the 10’s of thousands and in the Five Eyes space measured in hundreds.
Reread article, I was mistaken, thought it had been published internally first then released…
“The disgusting antics of rubbish like Thorpe”
She is free to make her point, but not to embarrass the institution that she serves.
[cough]
No doubt at all.
That was supposed to be a reply to dover. Weird.
but not to embarrass the institution that she serves
.
She doesn’t serve an institution she works for us, taxpayers. Time there were dismissal clauses for the peoples “representatives & employment rules for Parliament the same as the ones they’ve foisted on ordinary folk …….
She embarrassed all of us. I don’t think people internationally care what party, if any, she represents, all they know is that she is an Australian Senator.
No-nonsense British journalist confronts Lidia Thorpe live on air
Daily Mail
I suspect Thorpe is loving the attention.
She also made it into the NYT & WaPo.
If she got her “Treaty”, she still wouldn’t shut up – she’s being consumed by her own demons and cannot stop hating the world.
Teens – aliens
Our guys were too busy to turn into shites but they did try at times.
But a neice was exactly as described. Her desperate parents forced her back to pony club on one occasion. Her resentment eased dramatically when she met a whirlwind of a kid who dominated her and kept her so constantly on the move that she showed vague signs of becoming human. When she became grumpy the kid would scold her like a parent but, not being a parent, she got away with it. It took years but she did eventually came good.
But a pal’s rather smart grandson suddenly stopped going to school about eighteen months ago. No form of support or advice has overcome the problem. His poor parents have run out of walls to climb. Apparently it is not an uncommon syndrome for which there is no quick fix. They either snap out of it or head for the gutter. That is scary.
He’s more black than KamalToe, but without DEI.
Orange is the new black.
Bear, that’s very, very funny.
Thorpe is the Senate’s RayGun.
Without the graceful moves.
Chortle.
True – they are both manic self promoters with no other visible talents or abilities.
BLM protesters greet King at National Centre for Indigenous Excellence
A handful of protestors yelled “black lives matter” and “no pride in genocide” as King Charles left the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence on Tuesday.
The chanting of the protestors was soon drowned out by cheers from about 150 people who waited hours to get a glimpse of the King.
Next door to the “National Centre for Non- Indigenous Excellence,” I presume?
Alas, the latter building is much, much larger.
Interesting factoid.
Here’s a vid.
They interview Laura Baird. She only speaks Portuguese.
If memory serves a group of Australian socialists set up a town in Chile (?).
Their descendants are still there.
Paraguay, IIRC.
Reading the comments on the theme of the … unpredictable nature … of teenage girls;
I don’t hire females unless they’re at least 25yo, for very good reason.
Er…mind the discrimination police, Sal.
The small men from Big Government would have a field day were they to learn all my other rules for hiring.
The fines I’d get would exceed those being dished out to Elon Musk.
Oh God.
Decades of jillaroos and female ringers never caused us a problem (other than the odd punch-up at a local knees-up).
Hard working farm kids who loved rural life and were isolated from city false resentments. The the most severe chastisement ever required was along the lines of “mum and dad would be disappointed don’t you think”.
But safety was a different matter and a constant source of worry. They were fearless tomboy teens and adolescents. We learned that we had to be absolutely inflexible.
As an incentive we would put them through the first few hours of flying training. Typically they studied hard and a surprising number continued on to get a mustering licence.
Great kids if you forgive the long treks into town on Saturday nights to collect them from the local constable.
Can I relate, oh boy can I relate to that.
Ag kids/ag work to townies & pubjob is a gulf in ethos akin to:
Rugby is to Soccer. (tough vs sooking)
Building sites to pubjob, would be a comparable gulf in ethos.
A question: is there a difference between jackaroos and ringers when it comes to imbibing too much bundy rum?
Can’t blame you for that, they were a nightmare for me doing RN training at 26-28 surrounded by competitive 18 – 20 year old nurses, some of whom were there only to snare doctor husbands.
I’d never worked with women before. Some of the bullshit behaviour was enough to tempt a bloke to quit.
But I didn’t, thank God.
It is so nice to hear tales about our young people doing well for themselves. The attitudes instilled by conservative upbringing is in my view what has benefited them. That said my ex-business partner was an old type greenie. Still his children turned out conservative due to the family values instilled. One being a worldwide yacht delivery skipper who recently gave it away to spend time with his baby daughter. The other one being an accountant. Very staid according to father. My kids and their friends are very conservative and family oriented.
BLM- more academic Marxist mental vomit imported from the Northern hemisphere
Australian BLM worse the Aussie hip hop on Triple J.
re girls…
My suggestion is you conduct the following experiment: Get her best friend’s family to hire a catamaran for a couple of weeks and invite your daughter along.
My prediction is her friend’s family will return lamenting that they have been lumbered with a brat… while you on the other hand, have been gifted the most charming thing afloat*.
*based on direct observation but not immediate familial experience.
Ditto.
Quite a few even support Trump, as I’ve mentioned before.
Not uncritically, but as a disruptor of a corrupt system.
On teenage children. The phrase ‘it takes a village’ is true. Boys need mentors from about 11 or 12. Team sport is the best place to have them being kept honest by their mates and having other men to guide them. I would suggest coahing or managing a team in the club but not one your own children are in. Manual labour from 14 on is also great for concentrating the mind on their studies. As a father of three boys, the eldest of four and the son of a man who had 7 brothers I know absolutely nothing of raising girls.
The fuking abc and leftoids are coming after Lia Finocchiaro, the fantastic new NT Chief Minister and her tough, really sensible, approach to crime. In this hard hitting lick spittle expose the abc wheel out a drug skank who was on meth while preggers and involved with a drug syndicate. The sympathy for the skank and outrage at her unjust treatment seeps from their shit about how the skank was separated from her poor sprog and was in jail in sweltering conditions. The LNP deserve all they get for not closing this commie bastard outfit down when they could:
‘The system is at breaking point’: People on remand in NT prisons endure record wait times
‘The system is at breaking point’: People on remand in NT prisons endure record wait times
Yes – there’s a reply for that, isn’t there?
JD Vance at Wisconsin faith rally says Catholics ‘feel abandoned’ by Biden, Harris
Catholics supporting partial birth abortion?
If the Church had any balls, they’d be excommunicating these Catholics-In-Name-Only
And the margin of fraud.
Thanks for all the helpful comments Cats.
For what it’s worth, our three boys are very level headed, studious and perfectly fine. The daughter, whilst probably needing an exorcist, can also be quite nice and loving but consistency’s not her strong suit…
Hang in there.
What is the point of sharing these battle fatigue stories from Israel.
Has this never happened in war before?
At least we aren’t hearing stories about fragging.
It’s been a year of hell fighting against terrorists disguised as, and hiding amongst civilians.
Of course the most fanatical are going to pop their nasty heads up again
Sinwar is dead, Deif is dead, Nasrallah is dead.
Jabalia appears to be surrendering, Hezbollah is decimated.
Pray God that soon the remaining hostages are released,or their bodies repatriated, Hamas and Hezbollah diminished enough to longer represent an existential threat to Israel and people can return to their homes in northern Israel.
I think you have said it best.
All the negative Israel stories tend to coincide with Israeli winning ..
Media hype trying to change the inevitable outcome ..
It’s another case of the Leftists accusing others of what they are experiencing themselves.
I saw a photo of the bastards lining up to surrender to the IDF. There’s no sign of resistance there, they’re beaten and trying to save their worthless hides.
I wonder what Israel is going to do with the prisoners they’ve taken?
Hopefully they are crossmatching DNA evidence with the girls who were raped.
Rape in wartime is a capital crime and for a damned good reason.
The Left hates him. The mystifying thing is why he sucks up to them.
King weighs in on ‘unmistakeable’ climate change (Paywallian)
No, Chuck, it isn’t actually happening. And all you are doing is pissing off your last remaining supporters in this country.
Yes, big mistake.
He’s only got so much PR capital to work with.
Take King Charles for a drive across the Nullabor and let him see the Greening from higher levels of CO2 and it’s attendant lower need for water in the vegetation.
It’s like the SFL have taken on Charles as a role model.
Hamas showing their love for gazans again (NSFW)
https://x.com/moghaoui/status/1848491642472301005?t=7Vlyeup5r5kLUuR-86in1w&s=19
I witnessed an interesting contrast between teenage boys and gals the other after coming back from a walk down the beach.
A group of about 10 boys was huddled, walking down the street on the way to the beach. They were calm, barely making a peep, exchanging the occasional chuckle carrying paddle boards and balls.
Then there’s gals – a gaggle of them when you see them. They’re all “talking” past each other to get the attention of the group. It becomes something like a synchronized scream-fest. It’s like they think the only way to be heard is by out-yelling the next one. “Serenity now”
Know exactly what you describe, JC. Young women, in particular, are very competitive – especially in current times. You would think that there is an imbalance between males and females in the way that female teens compete. And it often turns ugly. While males tend to determine status physically, young women use social stigmas and social isolation to destroy “enemies”.
I saw this used against my grandaughter years ago. It has made her stronger, but it very nearly destroyed her.
Hunters vs gatherers.
Giggles is not done yet in QLD:
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/labor-back-from-the-brink-as-miles-narrows-lnp-lead-in-the-polls-20241021-p5kju9.html
ALP = no policies, but lots of freebies & giveaways.
LNP = no policies.
Christwhatafool is allowing “We’re only 80% as bad as Labor” to play out to its inevitable conclusion.
They could only keep Crisafulli hidden for so long.
The bland leading the bland, both will fall into a pit.
Dug by the voters.
(Ok I stole this from the Bible. Sue me!)
Polls always narrow towards elections. It will be a bloodbath, despite the SFLs.
It’s funny Emily Zanotti is notafan of the Republican presidential hopeful but the Dem reactions to MacTrump are providing her with endless opportunities to slam idiocy.
https://x.com/emzanotti/status/1848419513013866748?t=QV4jJSk-4Xev3G9v7fG15A&s=19
This would be the same Walz whose wife said she opened her window to smell and enjoy the smoke of the BLM arsons, which included as far as I can see at least one McDonalds outlet.
Some talk of errant young lasses and what approach should be taken. It reminded me of a description from Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, the second best novelist in the English language after our Jane. Here Squire Western has just been disobeyed by his daughter Sophia after he has arranged for her to marry the odious Blifil instead of gallant but disinherited Tom:
Mr Western, having finished his holla, and taken a little breath, began to lament, in very pathetic terms, the unfortunate condition of men, who are, says he, ‘always whipt in by humours of some d-n’d b- or other. I think I was hard run enough by your mother for one man; but after giving her a dodge, here’s another b- follows me upon the foil; but curse my jacket if I will be run down in this manner by any o’um.’
Sophia never had a single dispute with her father, till this unlucky affair with Blifil, on any account, except in defence of her mother, whom she had loved most tenderly, though she lost her in her seventh year of her age. The squire, to whom that poor woman had been a faithful upper servant all the time of their marriage, had returned that behaviour by making what the world calls a good husband. He very seldom swore at her (perhaps not above once a week) and never beat her; she had not the least occasion for jealousy, and was perfect mistress of her time; for she was never interrupted by her husband, who was engaged all the morning in his field exercises, and all the evening with bottle companions. She scarce indeed ever saw him but at meals; where she had the pleasure of carving those dishes which she had before attended at the dressing. From those meals she retired about five minutes after the other servants, having only stayed to drink ‘the king over the water’. Such were, it seems, Mr Western’s orders; for it was a maxim with him, that women should come in with the first dish, and go out after the first glass. Obedience to those orders was perhaps no difficult task; for the conversation (if it may be called so) was seldom such as could entertain a lady. It consisted chiefly of hallowing, singing, relations of sporting incidents, b-d-y, and abuse of women, and of the government.
These, however were the only seasons when Mr Western saw his wife; for when he repaired to her bed, he was generally so drunk that he could not see; and in the sporting season he always rose from her before it was light.
His ma was Scottish after all.
4 years of this?
KamalToe, Don’t confuse isolation with insulation as they aren’t the same thing”
And the uptalk is insufferable.
Pondering the significance of the passage of time while unburdened by insulation.
lol
Are you incinerating that she was under the affluence of incohol by any chance?
More likely lighter fluid.
Someone get a match!
?A very important piece: an Israeli outlet reports severe morale loss and exhaustion among soldiers, with many now refusing to serve.
It is evident that the writer of the above words wants Israel and its army to suffer from a collapse of morale, battle exhaustion and to have many young men and women refuse to serve. But it is simply not true to say that morale loss and a refusal to serve is high. It is not. Since October 7 Israeli morale has been high, and whilst there are bitter political divisions, those divisions don’t extend to its army and to the current need to terminate the terrorist groups of Hamas and Hezbollah once and for all.
Yes, there’s exhaustion but Israel has suffered exhaustion from war since its first war in 1948, when Arab armies invaded the fledgling state. Israel has endured exhaustion after every war, 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, the first Intifada, the second Intifada, the first Israel/Hezbollah war, the Gaza war of 2009 and so on.
Israel is tired of having to send off its young men and women to war, to fight an enemy that doesn’t want Israel to exist, to fight an enemy that doesn’t want Jews to exist. To this, Israel says NO, we will fight. As Bibi said a few months ago, Israelis will fight with their teeth if they have to.
On October 7 2023 Israel had a bitter taste of what would happen if they were to lay down their arms, and that hideous menu included mass rape, mass murder and mass kidnappings. So, whilst Israel and Israelis can tire of war, they will never tire of fighting for their survival because they know the alternative is simply too dreadful to contemplate.
Not the loyal opposition; on the other side.
(Those putting out these stories)
Yes, this is existential and a case of all hands on deck.
No one – and I mean no one – is too special to sit this one out.
Anyone seen Joe Biden lately? Anyone?
I don’t think we’ll hear from the puppet US president until after the November 5 election when he starts distributing presidential pardons to his family.
The caravan has moved on.
Who?
COVID vaccine doesn’t reduce risk of infection… but it will prolong the length of time you can spread COVID
And there I was, thinking performative twaddle, while all the time she was engaged in gubba business:
She’ll probably have a declaration under the Warsaw Concerto and evidences too.
If there was genocide she wouldn’t be here.
Israeli society is full of interesting surprises all of which have a logical underpinning.
It is fascinating to see videos of young kids in their disco gear all with a rifle slung over their shoulders. I assume that they find national service to be burdensome but they appear to just get on with it.
Wrong place
In the US, and every other Western nation, apart from the msm, the most egregious groups are the rinos and faux conservatives. Case in point the Cheneys; what a ghastly bunch, father and bitch daughter:
The Cheney Family Rule of Lawlessness
Kamala’s Campaign Pitch: Make America Detroit
I will also add that the left-wing protests in Israel against Bibi have subsided since the August discovery of the bodies of the six murdered young Jews, starved and shot at point blank range as the IDF closed in on their Nazi torturers.
Whilst I can’t speak for all Jewish women (or Jewish men)…hear this, I’d rather fight with my teeth and fingernails than be taken by homicidal genocidal Hamas Nazi scum who would rape me, starve me and shoot me dead.
Dr. John Campbell
Ivermectin and Cancers
The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, says an overhaul of the state’s infrastructure contribution scheme will ensure communities that build more homes will receive funding for key amenities like schools and parks.
?And, of course, no developer would consider passing the extra costs onto the customer ..!
Gotta luv the way gummint passes the buck ……….!
Has always been the way. Developers fund 70 years of infrastructure, build it into the price of land and pass everything across to the State which can barely afford the maintenance as it falls due.
I am less confident about Trump winning after reading this:
Here We Go Again… :: SteynOnline
Extremely depressing.
Chris
October 22, 2024 10:17 am
Or blackmail from some crazy?
Neil Oliver Interviews Glenn Beck – Backs against the wall!!!
Senator Thorpe said she had been attempting to hand King Charles a notice of complicity in genocide under the “Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998”.
Also notice none of the media outlets draw any attention to “Hideous” Thorpe being a 1024th 251, at best, so all her ranting & raving is really pantomime cos without lotza “whitie” invovement she wouldn’t have much of a claim to indig heritage …………
I’m aware of one situation, where a “1024”, claiming the right to speak for Aboriginal people, was threatened with tribal punishment…
Without the “whitie” involvement, she would never have been born.
Do the journalists mention that Thorpe’s revolting outbursts were a major reason the rest of Australia voted NO?
After which she scuttled off to a black church service. Good luck with that.
@DefiantLs
Ben Carson: “She didn’t have time to think about what she was going to say. She said what’s in her heart” on Kamala Harris saying “you’re at the wrong rally” after man shouts “Jesus is Lord.”
calli
October 22, 2024 12:28 pm
Thorpe is the Senate’s RayGun.
Without the graceful moves.
——
What are these Graceful Moves You Speak Of!
( :
RUN DMC, Jason Nevins – It’s Like That (Official HD Video)
For those who pop into Tim Pool podcast.
In his latest just dropped he is saying might be the end of his podcasts in current way of operating.
He explains reasons but basically he is carrying too heavy a load and business supports 30 people. Says it is not the money but works 16 hour days when others coasting or even leaking info or even stealing from him. Says on one occasion cut a cheque for $30,000 for something he did not do himself. No time for holidays or even to travel to go on other shows.
Says for 2 years trying to get a coffee shop going but never going to happen.
He could make far more money if he was a one man operation.
Not listened to it all yet but thought some might be interested.
I remember the DMC track at the Leederville Hotel – Perth. Early 2000’s. Jugs of beer were 9 bucks.
Quadrant is back up…
Not sure if this works…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TddY6NaymWQ
No record of her working at MacDonalds.
Not evidence, just a statement.
Here’s one young man who is prepared to continue to fight the good fight.
https://x.com/HaimTraitel/status/1848439448612311389?t=bOzZmNvHML65CWwmWihCCg&s=19
Who will draw the short straw?
https://x.com/hahussain/status/1848497038163411352?t=m8UgJuARy0ttfrQCuRf6kw&s=19
They’ll be calling for the yougers soon as there’ll be no more elders. Since the pali’s and the didgyknees cosy up to each other maybe they can have some of our elders. You know it makes sense.
KRISTINE
7 minutes ago
How much will be enough for indigenous leaders? They control more than 50% of the landmass, get $36B a year and the majority population must wear a sackcloth in perpetuity for the original sin of settlement. We’re not getting much in this reconciliation game.
$A39 Billion last year.
Ask the next Aboriginal you talk to, “How much of that ended up in your pocket?”
Turn the grifters base against them.
There is a rather vocal group of “activists” in this town I’m going to ask that question. I’ll let you know what the magistrate sets bail at.
Ask them how much of the $36 or $39 billion a year trickles down to them.
Does that include costs of Child Welfare workers and Police?
We are getting less than nothing. It is costing us an arm and a leg on top of insults and blame flinging.
That suggests to me that at current dollar value, over the last 25 to 30 years, we have given the Aboriginal Industry an amount equal to the current Commonwealth debt – a terrifying $975 billion or so.
Nearly all of us ( aboriginal and not aboriginal) have had
no return from this huge spending.
It appears educational outcomes and crime rates are getting worse.
Enough is enough, surely
– no more race based bodies/payments/jobs/services/
sinecures.
Cuddly Costello goes to town at the ARC conference. Another thing to thank Howard for.
Of all the criticisms of Howard (of which there are many) his handling of the Lieboral succession was No 1 with daylight second. Abbott, Waffleworth, SloMo all arguably follow from it.
A devout Catholic former union chief has sparked a mass walkout from a university graduation ceremony as he spoke out against abortion and same-sex marriage.
Joe de Bruyn, who led the Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees Association (SDA) from 1978 to 2014, was giving the keynote speech at the Australian Catholic University graduation in Melbourne on Monday night.
Mr de Bruyn also used the address to speak about his opposition to gay marriage and IVF, prompting hundreds of students and staff to leave the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
He told the faculty of education and arts, law and commerce graduates he had opposed ‘the deliberate killing of unborn human beings’ for decades.
‘Today, over 80,000 unborn children are killed by abortion in Australia each year. Worldwide, the estimated number is 42 million each year,’ he said.
‘Abortion is the single biggest killer of human beings in the world, greater than the human toll of World War II. It is a tragedy that must be ended.’
Many attendees said the comments were not appropriate for a graduation and said the ACU should apologise.
But an ACU spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia that ‘Mr de Bruyn’s remarks at the ceremony were delivered in a personal capacity’.
The SDA is a major force in the right wing of the Labor Party and for years used its block any move towards legalising same-sex marriage off the agenda.
On Monday night, Mr de Bruyn made it clear that he is still vehemently opposed to gay marriage.
Daily Mail
Good to see that a bruvvah is willing to stand up for religion in a ceremony at a religious university.
To those who walked out I would say why did you have anything to do with a religious uni if you didn’t believe in the tenets of the Church
Good. We’ve tolerated the Weirdos in our society for far too long, and their demands have never been satiated – they have increased.
There will be no end to their demands unless we say no and enforce it.
What a cop out.
From THE AGE
Bear
I ask this about twice a year. How are you traveling health wise?
Yeah, pretty well. Doing weekly physio and hydro to help with walking and balance. Still have small (250 ml) PEG feeds daily. If we keep the blood pressure under control should be business as usual (without the walking) going forward. Not too bad considering where we came from.
Okay. Glad to hear you’re improving and things are working out. Sounds like you’re on top of it all. Hang tough
I think the lower houses in the states have control of the presidential election.
Here’s the breakdown for the must win states.
1.Arizona:
2. Georgia:
3. North Carolina:
4. Michigan:
5. Pennsylvania:
6. Wisconsin:
The one to watch is Virginia too.
Just for fun…
Royalists drown out anti-monarchist protester outside Sydney Opera HouseAn anti-monarchist and Indigenous activist was moved on by police after shouting abuse towards crowds waiting at the Sydney Opera House for the arrival of the King and Queen.
‘You have blood on your hands!’ the protester, named Wayne Wharton and who was carrying an Aboriginal flag, shouted.
‘You have no receipt! You have no agreement on the occupation of this country!
‘You are thieves! You are no better than the Israelis in Palestine.
‘You are a nation of thieves!’
Mr Wharton was quickly drowned out by royal fans who started chanting ‘God save the King!’ as he gave them the finger.
Police officers then moved the man along.
At 1.20pm, a police van arrived and Mr Wharton was led to it, handcuffed and placed inside as the crowd opposite cheered and shouted: ‘Long Live the King’.
Mr Wharton is a member of the First Nations Resistance group and had earlier protested at St Thomas’ Anglican Church in North Sydney when the King and Queen arrived on Sunday.
‘To have this rubbed in our faces is an insult every day that we are alive,’ he told the ABC at the time.
“First Nations Resistance Group” – was there ever a “nation” that mounted such an ineffectual resistance?
I am less confident about Trump winning after reading this:
Here We Go Again… :: SteynOnline
Extremely depressing.
This should make you suicidal:
?BREAKING: Election Machines Flip Votes in 3 States! Red Alert Warns of Fraud Loopholes Exposed!?
For cackles to win she has to win ALL of WI, MI and PA. Good analysis here:
Kamala Harris Is in a Whole LOT of TROUBLE…
Let’s say the orange man takes all those states with GOP lower houses and Kamaltoe takes the ones with demons.
According to my electoral map on RCP, Trump can win with 293 vs 245 for Kamaltoe.
Here’s a copy of the my map.
If anyone has any different opinion, let me know.
If Virginia is added to Trump, he gets 13 additional votes taking him to 306. I don’t think Penn is a must win for Trump, but more so for KamalToe.