Four hundred and eighty kilometers traveling through the Western Australian Wheatbelt, today, and saw three paddocks with sheep in them – everything else was wheat and cropping.

Hope slobbering after the Greens vote was worth it, Albanese, you loser.

@BehizyTweets

BREAKING: Footage just got released of a Maricopa County election worker stealing a security access key. All voting machines & equipment had to be reprogrammed because the stolen items gave access to everything.

His name is Walter Ringfield, and he had a prior criminal history, but the crooks in charge of Maricopa County’s elections hired him anyway.

Arizona’s is rotten in every single way. Hopefully, the new County Recorder and Board of Supervisors can finally end the election shenanigans.

Devices used to find water

President Putin: Trump Is In Danger

It’s started early. Daily Telegraph:

A Sydney council has been urged to rethink its Australia Day events in order to combat dwindling attendance, reigniting debate over the relevance of the occasion after surf lifesaving clubs rebuffed an invitation to hold joint festivities.

“People are just voting with their feet,” Greens councillor Philipa Veitch said at this week’s Randwick Council meeting, where dwindling attendance at Australia Day events was discussed.

“It’s worth considering alternatives.”

Councillors reignited the contentious debate at the meeting, following the suggestion the council should “look at new options” moving forward.

The suggestion formed part of an amendment raised by Ms Veitch, in relation to a motion acknowledging local surf clubs had turned down the chance to join forces with the council for Australia Day celebrations.

In the motion, councillors were advised the Maroubra, South Maroubra, Clovelly and Coogee surf lifesaving clubs had turned down previous overtures about holding a partnered Australia Day event, citing their “competing priorities”.

Cr Veitch suggested that, in 2026, the council could hold its citizen citizenship ceremony and community awards separately in the days prior to January 26.

“We hold a lot of events on January 26 and the community does like them,” she said.

“However, we are getting declining numbers and that’s simply because we cannot accommodate.

“We are trying to crowd everyone into an insular event, when instead we could have large standalone events because we have so many things happening.”

The council’s Liberal contingent knocked back that suggestion, which echoed a previous motion defeated in 2023, along with Labor councillor Noel D’Souza.

Liberal councillor Christie Hamilton stated the “biggest problem” with Australia Day was the “constant, persistent, annual jabs at the day”.

“Leave the day alone,” she said.

“Maybe if we made people feel comfortable toward the day, they wouldn’t be shying away from attending.

“They could confidently attend and walk out of the room with no judgement.”

Cr Hamilton then said changing the date was “robbing people of the opportunity to freely partake in a day of celebration”.

Fellow Liberal councillor Bill Burst shared similar sentiments, saying the Australia Day citizenship ceremony was “the highlight” of his council calendar.

“I’ve attended all ceremonies,” he said.

“I’m proud to go every time I see the smiles on people’s faces when they become citizens. It’s just something behold.

“Everyone says ‘Australia’s a bad place, we’re racist’, but everyone wants to come here, so it can’t be that bad. We do a great job.”

In a passionate address, Cr D’Souza spoke in favour of keeping the day’s traditions, noting “Australia Day is meaningful for those who have come across the seas”.

“There’s an old saying: ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’, he said.

“This is not broken. There is nothing to fix. Let sleeping dogs lie.

“Let us celebrate all those things we are so proud of, and let us dream the Australian dream.”

Labor councillor Danny Said stated while he wouldn’t support Cr Veitch’s amendment, “everything she said was correct”.

“I’m not trying to move Australia Day,” he said.

“Neither is Cr Veitch. The whole idea with the lifesaving was trying to do something different and think outside the square.

Cr Veitch’s amendment was ultimately defeated and the original motion passed, including a direction that the council “analyse ways to ensure higher numbers of attendance” at both Australia Day ceremonies.

Cr Hamilton later told this masthead the Greens “continue trying to change the date because they want to chip away at its existence”.

“They talk about how bad the day is, but no other group continues repeatedly talking negatively about January 26 except for the Greens,” she said.

Cr Daniel Rosenfeld also said it was “not surprising that Cr Veitch made an amendment to challenge something resolved 12 months ago”.

Yes if you keep trying to delegitimise the day and call those who turn out to celebrate as bigots and racists with blood on their hands, then you can expect people to not turn up.
Up here, I must admit I have never been to the morning breakfast and ceremonies. But it’s a great day of bowls with 2 full greens and golfers galore in Australian gear.
Leave it be you Greens bastards.

Modern communication systems are wonderful things. They have given us New Catallaxy blog, after all. And there is so much more…..

This morning, on Breakfast TV, we saw an item on some American rapper causing havoc at Schoolies in Qld. His name is “Airbrush”. What is that, said !? Researched it on the internet & found that it is a wonderful new hair product that both brushes and dries the hair at one time!

Aha! A great idea for Christmas present for granddaughter….texted daughter to get the OK (a stupid idea!) …and got a curt response saying that they are very particular about their “personal items”…OK…then a volte face.…granddaughter knows the product and says “Yes!”

Then research a problem in the automatic transmission of my car (dropping down a gear unexpectedly) which our automission guy can’t solve. ……Problem with Conductor Plate – common with older Mercedes models apparently….mmmm……..

We take this marvellous world library at our fingertips for granted……

We’re seeing a disturbing trend:
Increasing numbers of lame, “ironic” moustaches in advertising and media.
Cringe.
Stop it. It’s worse than the hipster beards from 15 years ago.
A mockery of traditional masculinity and gratingly idiotic.

‘Where’s the justice?’: Mother’s fury as son jailed for Duncraig bike theft while vigilante walked freeBy Rebecca PeppiattNovember 28, 2024 — 4.05pm

Listen to this article
3 min
A woman whose son was jailed over a motorbike theft that almost cost him his life had to be removed from the courtroom after she lashed out at the judge.
Kathy Penny yelled, “where is the justice for my son?” after District Court Judge Mark Levy sentenced Ronaldo James Cockie, 20, to two years in prison over the incident.
Cockie was charged over a series of car thefts, attempted break ins and the theft of the bike from a home in Duncraig in August 2022.
The incident made headlines after the bike’s owner, Debbie Bute, raced after Cockie and his co-offenders to “see where they were going” and ended up crashing her car, causing Cockie to come off the bike.
He was left with a traumatic brain injury from the incident, which his lawyer on Thursday tried to argue should afford him some leniency in his sentencing.
Levy agreed, but said that aggravated burglary came with a minimum term of two years in prison.
Penny stood up from the back of the court and yelled: “How? Where’s the justice? He has suffered enough from what that woman has done.”
Bute was given a suspended sentence for her part in the incident.
“For my son, where is the justice for him?“, Penny continued to yell as her son cried in the dock and orderlies tried to remove her from the court.

“Eye for an eye, ride or die. F— you.”
Penny was evicted from the courtroom but then re-entered, saying: “You started it, Your Honour. That’s my son.”
The court heard Cockie was on home detention and had cut off an ankle monitor before taking part in the crime spree in August 2022.
He and two co-offenders attempted to break into a home in High Wycombe before stealing a Mitsubishi Triton from another home in the same suburb.
The trio then stole a BMW which was used to attend a home in Duncraig where two motorbikes were taken from the garage.
The home owners, Bute and her husband, woke after hearing a “loud bang”. Bute took off after one of the bikes after she saw them being stolen.
While there was no evidence that Bute made contact with the bike, she lost control of her vehicle and mounted a curb before crashing.
Cockie, who was 18 years old at the time and supposed to be on home detention after he had been arrested over similar offences, also crashed the motorbike and suffered catastrophic injuries including fractured ribs, spine, clavicle and femur, as well as a traumatic brain injury and a collapsed lung.
He would have died were it not for first responders, the court was told on Thursday, but later absconded from Royal Perth Hospital and was re-arrested later that day.

They all think like it. Courier Mail on another failed slag:

Former prime minister Julia Gillard has awkwardly praised her longtime political foe Kevin Rudd as Australia’s US ambassador despite his repeated public attacks on social media about Donald Trump.

Speaking at London’s Imperial College on Thursday night (Friday AEDT) about issues including climate change, global health and politics, Ms Gillard said following Mr Trump’s victory there are “already grounds for concern” about global health.

News Corp attended the event and asked Ms Gillard if Mr Rudd’s labelling of the US president-elect as “the most destructive president in history” and “a traitor to the west” had put his position as US ambassador in jeopardy.

She initially avoided the question and the moderator of the event, Jeremy Laurance, intervened and said to her, “do you want to take (that question) … I don’t think you feel compelled”.

Ms Gillard laughed it off before failing to answer and then minutes opting to return to the question.

“Just from an abundance of caution in terms of the Australian news cycle, let me just say Australia picks its ambassadors to the US, it’s picked Kevin Rudd who is doing a very good job for our country in the United States,” she said.

Mr Rudd scrubbed the inflammatory tweets he had previously made on his private social media account on platform X since the Republican candidate’s election victory.

One of the controversial tweets was in 2020 from Mr Rudd’s account, @MrKrudd, attacking Mr Trump.

“The most destructive president in history,” he posted.

“He drags America and democracy through the mud.

“He thrives on fomenting, not healing, division. He abuses Christianity, church and bible to justify violence.”

Ms Gillard gave a keynote speech at Imperial College and also spoke about her concerns of Mr Trump’s election victory.

“We have to work with the people who have been elected, those in power, those with the most influential voices in the public discourse,” she said.

“If we don’t try to engage we have already failed.

“After inauguration in January, next year, President Trump will be back at the centre of geopolitics and from decisions and statements already reported there are grounds to be concerned about the global architecture for health.

“We will need a change of rhetoric to talk less about people’s health and more about national health security, protecting the public, getting value for money, to talk more about the geopolitical loss of status and influence.”

After the US election Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Mr Rudd would remain as Australia’s ambassador to the US.

“He’s Australia’s appointment,” he said.

“And it says something about the importance of the United States that we have appointed a former prime minister.”

FMD. These people wouldn’t know their arse from their elbow.
Ms Gillard, the people voted Trump in precisely because they felt their nation was being led to destruction. A sovereign nation should not give 2 hoots about ‘global architecture for health’, first and foremost, they have to protect their citizens.
As for the final paragraph, wowee. Ultimately it won’t be Albo’s decision if Rudd continues in Washington.

3 weeks of welding, grinding, filling, blocking, priming, puttying, sanding, and I just put the first two of many top coats on this front mudguard.

Knuckle Dragger
 November 29, 2024 1:30 pm

Teh Voice news (the Hun):

Disgraced Indigenous leader Geoffrey Clark has been jailed over years of high-level duplicity and abuses of power which robbed his highly disadvantaged community of almost $1m.

Once heralded as a hero of the Aboriginal people of Australia, the 72-year-old was sentenced to six years and two months imprisonment

A chap I know in that field of endeavour (catching fingers in the till) had his money on 4, minimum 2.5.
Pleased to see the JURDGE has put the thumb on the sentencing scales and given him overs.

Re: all this muesli talk…

In recent years, more scholarly research has been done on Islam than ever was allowed before. The bible, conversely, has undergone more than a millennia of critiques and analysis.

A few facts have arisen (indisputable):

• There are several versions of the Koran;
• Many suras were thrown out by Uthman;
• There are over 10,000 differences between some of these korans;
• Islam doesn’t have vowels so “Mohammed” is more likely Mhmhd, or a variance of this. It means “chosen one.” How convenient.
• Only one “universal” Koran exists and it was codified in Egypt in the 1980’s – it still, however, differs from all the rest;
• Mohammed never wrote a single verse and much of what this supposed fella taught was from the OT and NT bibles.
• Mecca cannot, geologically or environs, be the birthplace of Islam as Mecca does not fit any description the “Prophet” gave as being in a valley with lush greenery and water (its a barren wasteland and always has been).
• Mohammed changes his teachings throughout the koran making it impossible to read (altho it is argued the later suras outrank the earlier ones). But Mo changes his teachings to suit himself also (like when he wants a new wife or two).
• Muslims do not have the same God the Jews and Christians have. Their God never visited earth in any form (not in a garden of eden, not to Abraham nor to Moses in a burning bush nor as Jesus).

A few disputable, but interesting facts, have also arisen in academia:

• Mohammed may not have ever existed;
• It is possible the Koran was written by someone like Uthman for political control as the Ottoman Empire emerged and grew;
• From a theological perspective, it is likely that Mo wasn’t visited by Gabriel, but by a demon and this is where his “inspirations” come from. Let’s remember St Bernard of Nursia who had the virgin mary come to visit him. He spat at her (since he knew what a bad dude he was that the virgin would never visit him). And he was right, the vision turned into a demon..

My 25 cents.

Read the comments!

Simon Birmingham’s resignation is a ‘bad sign’ in the leadup to an election

Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out – will Geoff Clark have to repay the million quid?