PRS framework ‘In the “problem, reaction, solution” framework, the process typically starts with the identification or creation of a problem.…
PRS framework ‘In the “problem, reaction, solution” framework, the process typically starts with the identification or creation of a problem.…
which is an old style killed-virus vaccine. Which isn’t always dead
we continue to buy pre- landfill from a global slave based dictatorship of pathological arseholes, while our fellow citizens either…
An extremely smelly tomcat being dragged by his tail towards a bath. Which will be administered by Moira. Please lady…
This has the makings of an imminent and very public and self-inflicted stake-burning. And all the snakes who stood by Pesutto voting…
Did this routine dizzy ?????? #jumprope #skipping #tricks #footwork
New thread
Marsden plagiarised 1984’s Red Dawn when writing Tomorrow When the War Began (1993).
Although instead of American exceptionalism and Russians, it was full of expressing self fears and doubts.
Fujairah, pre Straits of Hormuz
Fujairah is one of the seven Emirate territories who went into coalition in the 70’s to develop together, sharing their oil wealth, mainly produced at Abu Dhabi inside the Arabian/Persian Gulf, but with Fujairah just outside these Straits and connected to other Emirate producers by pipelines giving clear passage always. As we docked we see miles of oil storage tanks, over 900 in all, down the coast from the expansive docks, each as big as an old gasworks cylinder of yore. With Rotterdam and Singapore, this is one of the three major oils storage depots in the world trade system. Security is tight with lots of faffing on facial inspections and passports. You can see how they don’t want terrorism here, and this is a theme reflected in the culture of Islam here now.
Since the 70’s this oil wealth sharing has transformed Fujairah from a small mud and gypsum hut village society holding power in anciently built forts to a total welfare state for all citizens from cradle to the grave. As in Oman and other Gulf States, the monarchical Sheik rules as absolute (not a Sultan) and you know for sure your are in Arabia, as the men wear the garment which so attracted Lawrence of Arabia. Important sheiks have head rings holding their flowing scarves on.
A proud people proud of their history, as the museum we visited here showed. Sydney University has been active in archaeological excavations in this area showing settlement back to the Neolithic and early bronze age. The museum also showed a middle class living room circa early 1970, with technologies in phone, wind-up gramophone, valve TV, dating from 1900 to the 70’s, with life lived mainly on cushions on the carpeted floors of mud-built dwellings.
All that has now gone, considered museum worthy. Today, Ikea reigns. A modern city has arisen, not a perfumed paradise as found in Muscat, where there is no high rise, but a small city of commerce with some highrise up to 20 floors.
We drove to an example of the old mud-built town and its fort, where life was still lived until that 70’s, when the middle class moved into small breeze brick homes with an airconditioner in the wall. Since those days, every citizen gets free land and a free house – splendid public housing in a major scheme named after the founding Sheik of the Emirate groups. Citizens now ive in grand mansion-style home of two or three stories, with an easy mortgage or no mortgage. Many become landlords to ‘guest’ workers and live off these proceeds and other investments. No tax until very recently. Guest workers can never become citizens and must pay their own way. One can see here the beginnings of trouble unless carefully managed, an elite group lording it over the poor incomers who do all of the work.
Fortunately, the type of Islam practiced is called ‘moderate’. Controlled would be a more appropriate word, says Hairy to me as we both gasp when told that the ruling coalition for the whole group of Emirates decides every week exactly what the topic is to be in the mosques that Friday. Imans who don’t comply get fired and not rehired. And just recently, Friday prayers have been cancelled. Cope and pray as you can, the people are told. This year the whole of the Emirates moved to follow the European and world-wide weekend of closure on Saturday and Sunday, no longer observing Friday and Saturday as a ‘week-end’. By decree again, English is now the common language and the language of all education.
At another stop, Old Bithna Oasis town, the transition was photographable. Old 60’s houses empty in the foreground being demolished, the founding Sheik’s expensive new housing program providing mansions in the near background, each of them with individual architecture, for the citizens. Further back is an old mud fort on the hill signalling the past; meanwhile, running through the valley and dominating it are the truly huge pylons and undersupports for a pan-Emirates rail system tunnelling through mountains, which will take some pressure off the roads and form a basis for further trade movements and tourism and of course economic integration.
All seven Emerati leaders work together, their pictures are everywhere, and cooperation is the mantra. They are proud that Israeli tourists are now returning in good numbers, and proud too of the House of Abraham, a group compound containing a Christian Church, a Jewish Synagogue, and an Islamic Mosque; this opened fairly recently by Pope Francis himself and a recent assault on a Jewish Rabbi has been condemned and the miscreant severely punished. Wish Albo could follow this exampling.
Our tour guide, interestingly not a local but an Indian flown in from Dubai, told us that no one picks fights in the Emirates territories; and that demonstrating is not allowed. Keep it to yourself, people are told. Tolerance and trade and growth are where people’s attention is directed.
A visit to a Friday market, very large and busy, showed us how people shop for food, most of which is flown in from elsewhere, and Hairy and I spent a productive time looking in the garden centre there to see how they were pruning their olive, fruiting figs and pomegranate trees, photographing results for application to our orchard garden at home. This centre provides greenery for the new housing, most of which was being built on land reclaimed from the small dumpy mountains and hills that this territory is composed of in the valleys and foothills of the snaggle-tooths that dominate the vista. They simply blow up the mountains and make a quality building sand for sale from them, and they bulldoze the smaller hills into flat lands. Like the Israeli’s, they take every opportunity to utilise what they have. Needs must is the mantra there. For energy, they are going gang-busters to be mostly nuclear by 2027, meanwhile gas is king, and wind and solar are considered nowhere, non-existent, a joke.
It is easy to see how in such a development-oriented culture Donald Trump was in his deal-making element, and I expect further good things to emerge in the Middle East from what we were told was a most closely-watched election. Would you want Iran (whom they hate) to develop a nuclear weapon? Hairy rhetorically asked me. No. I’m with them, I say. Good on them. Not a perfect society but by gee, it does have a lot going for it in current contexts.
We quickly sped through the only ‘dry’ Emirate, a small one, to visit a dagoba-styled domed mosque built, says Syd Uni, circa 1450. The guide pointed out a resort, cheaper than Dubai by far because it was dry, ‘and much frequented by Russians’. Hmm, says Hairy. I expect they brought plenty of their own clear ‘bottled water’ with them.
Another point of interest near the port was that they are having a major equestrian event in a purpose built built arena where they also do horse racing. Emirati are horse crazy, the guide says. They even have a most beautiful horse competition. In Dubai, camels too.
I am waiting for a new fred, but it hasn’t come yet. Meanwhile we are speeding past about a hundred vessels waiting for their turn to traverse the Straits. We’re apparently booked in already.
I don’t know what I’m meant to think about these boobooks sitting in the jacaranda. They don’t appear to be feeding- there’s plenty of frogs croaking in the landscape- they’re just sitting, chirping with the occasional cartoonish hooot!
If they’re reflecting on the background population of rats and mice around the house, fair enough. They might even know something I don’t about baby possums.
I’m a little bit tempted to start feeding them, Bruce style. But I like geckoes too much. That might be it, the geckoes are all over the place these summer nights.
Lizzie, thanks for travel-blogging.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom.
In But Of Course news, Hun:
So there you have it. Apparently the monuments to Gaia have no effect whatsoever on songlines and Crocodile Man or whatever else.
But if it’s the blue banded bee, on advice of some crazy cat lady, which elders of the area had never heard of, then it’s all over for the resource sector.
Audit every Aboriginal organisation and see what they got and from whom. Shut them down during the process and if any funds are from activist groups, Rabz the joint.
Intent on destroying Australia these bastards.
It’s taken a few dayz but, eventually, someone with a bit of media “clout” has come out about the “joke” conviction of Ezra Mam who was found GUILTY of being a Broncos “fitba” player, which, all but, exonerated him from all his other offences …..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nrl/article-14204861/Oatlands-crash-victims-mother-claims-Ezra-Mams-unnacceptable-sanction-traumatised-calls-NRL-come-heavy-21-year-old-Broncos-star.html
Last February, Peta Credlin attempted to broker a ceasefire between the leftwing Victorian SFL leader John Pesutto and ousted conservative MP Moira Deeming.
Deeming had offered to settle her defamation case against Pesutto for $100,000 but he refused. This month, a judge found Pesutto had defamed Deeming and ordered him to pay her $300,000.
The SFLs meet tomorrow to discuss Pesutto’s leadership and Deeming’s reinstatement to the party and Credlin, in her weekly Paywallian column, has come out swinging:
Pesutto is attempting to take credit for the SFLs’ improving poll figures but the decaying Allen-Andrews state Labor regime is so on the nose with voters that Blind Freddy could win the next state election.
For the sake of the federal Libs, the infighting needs to stop. It’s difficult to see Pesutto’s leadership surviving.
Not quite the “olde dayz” of postal delivery ..
“Thru wind & snow the mail must go” ..
it’s a looong way from Sydney to Fairfield if your a parcel .. LOL!
Islamic cleric Wissam Haddad fronts court as Jewish community’s milestone case begins
Wee, it’s a start at least. I really hope that they have a strong case against this creep and take him down.
Trouble in Tateville
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2v1rnvrv0o
I’ve heard about “Drop Bears” but have never understood what the reference related to. Perhaps this: https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/12/18/hunter-dies-when-bear-falls-tree-after-being-shot-lands-him/
This would be a laff if it weren’t serious .. “our” Naval security .. in a class of its own .. LOL!
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Mak Siccar
December 19, 2024 7:41 am
Islamic cleric Wissam Haddad
So, if it’s in the Koran it’s fine, no worries.
What other books can we quote from to justify prejudice and rape, murder, taking hostages?
Gorgeous picture!
This is on top of all the pork barrelling in the bill. They are absolutely determined to hobble Trump.
@amuse
CR BS: On the heels of the report that the DOJ obtained the emails of Schiff and Swalwell proving they leaked classified documents to the media, Congress has inserted language into the continuing resolution allowing it to quash any subpoena @Kash_Patel or @PamBondi might issue for ‘House Data’. This would make any investigation into the J6 Committee all but impossible. It would cripple any investigation into Schiff and Swalwell.
congressional immunity
@ChiefTrumpster
COVID 2.0: Gavin Newsom Declares State Of Emergency In CA Over Bird Flu, Lockdowns May Return
The Feminisation of Academia, Explained By Behavioural Scientists Bo Winegard and Cory Clark
**Summary:** The video discusses the feminization of academia, outlining the significant changes in gender representation within this institution and the impact these changes are having on academic culture, priorities, and the norms within higher education. It highlights historical trends, current statistics regarding women’s representation in academia, and the differences in academic goals and priorities between genders. The discussion concludes that as women become more prevalent within academia, shifts in focus towards social justice and emotional well-being may occur, potentially affecting the freedom of inquiry and traditional academic values. — **Key Points by Section:** 1. **Introduction to Sex Differences in Human Behavior:** – Overview of human sex differences and their prevalence across cultures. – The changing sex ratio in important institutions, notably academia. 2. **Historical Context: Academia as a Male-Dominated Institution:** – Academia was traditionally male-led with women’s access to education limited. – Significant shifts in sex ratios in higher education over recent decades. 3. **Overview of Women’s Representation in Academia:** – Women received less than 10% of doctoral degrees in the 1970s; today, they earn the majority. – Female representation among faculty has also increased, reaching 50.7%. 4. **Statistics on Doctoral Degrees by Gender:** – Comparative statistics show a steady increase in women earning doctoral degrees. – Predictive trends indicate continued growth of female representation in academia. 5. **Discussion on the Impact of Gender on Academic Goals and Contributions:** – Men and women perceive the aims of higher education differently. – This divergence influences emerging trends in academia. 6. **Evidence of Differing Academic Priorities by Gender:** – Surveys reveal consistent differences in preferences and priorities between genders. – Men often prioritize academic freedom, while women emphasize social justice and emotional well-being. 7. **Survey Findings on Free Speech and Academic Values:** – Various surveys indicate a gender divide on issues like free speech, speaker rights, and academic priorities. – Men generally show more support for free speech, while women lean towards protective measures. 8. **Summary of Men’s vs. Women’s Academic Preferences:** – Gender differences emerge in research focus, with men favoring empirical inquiry and women more inclined towards societal impact. – The increasing female presence may shape future research directions and academic focus. — Overall, the video presents a nuanced examination of the implications arising from the increasing feminization of academia, highlighting both the contributions of women and the evolving priorities that may redefine academic culture.
Johnson’s Massive CR Extends Censorship Entity’s Life
For goodness’ sake, why? Let him swing. Which thankfully, is exactly what’s transpired and Prosciutto’s political career (if it could be dignified with such a term) is now toast.
Why I left my job at an anti-racism nonprofit after Oct. 7
Speaking of laffs this is brilliant https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/brilliant-1.html
Of course, with a bit of common sense, you might even come to the conclusion that it wasn’t always frozen there!
46,000-Year-Old Bird Found With Feathers And Talons Intact In The Siberian Permafrost
As I said, they are doing everything possible to block Trump.
Biden EPA Approves Waiver For California’s 2035 Gas-Powered Vehicle Ban
@VivekGRamaswamy
I wanted to read the full 1,500+ page bill & speak with key leaders before forming an opinion. Having done that, here’s my view: it’s full of excessive spending, special interest giveaways & pork barrel politics. If Congress wants to get serious about government efficiency, they should VOTE NO.
Keeping the government open until March 14 will cost ~$380BN by itself, but the true cost of this omnibus CR is far greater due to new spending. Renewing the Farm Bill for an extra year: ~$130BN. Disaster relief: $100BN. Stimulus for farmers: $10BN. The Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement: $8BN. The proposal adds at least 65 cents of new spending for every dollar of continued discretionary spending.
The legislation will end up hurting many of the people it purports to help. Debt-fueled spending sprees may “feel good” today, but it’s like showering cocaine on an addict: it’s not compassion, it’s cruelty. Farmers will see more land sold to foreign buyers when taxes inevitably rise to meet our obligations. Our children will be saddled with crippling debt. Interest payments will be the largest item in our national budget.
Congress has known about this deadline since they created it in late September. There’s no reason why this couldn’t have gone through the standard process, instead of being rushed to a vote right before Congressmen want to go home for the holidays. The urgency is 100% manufactured & designed to avoid serious public debate.
The bill could have easily been under 20 pages. Instead, there are dozens of unrelated policy items crammed into the 1,547 pages of this bill. There’s no legitimate reason for them to be voted on as a package deal by a lame-duck Congress. 72 pages worth of “Pandemic Preparedness and Response” policy; renewal of the much-criticized “Global Engagement Center,” a key player in the federal censorship state; 17 different pieces of Commerce legislation; paving the way for a new football stadium in D.C.; a pay raise for Congressmen & Senators and making them eligible for Federal Employee Health Benefits. It’s indefensible to ram these measures through at the last second without debate.
We’re grateful for DOGE’s warm reception on Capitol Hill. Nearly everyone agrees we need a smaller & more streamlined federal government, but actions speak louder than words. This is an early test. The bill should fail.
Beware of electric boots.
PHOTOS: Minnesota Man Severely Burned When Heated Insoles from China Explode in Boot (17 Dec)
You have to hand it to the Chinese, they are an innovative bunch. But unfortunately they do also like to cut corners. So don’t give any of your relos an electric willy warmer for Christmas, unless you don’t like them.
Here we go again:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/gov-newsom-declares-emergency-in-california-after-cdc-confirms-severe-case-of-bird-flu-in-louisiana/ar-AA1w76P0
Decisive action is needed. Mask those birds and and lock them down.
Before 2019 we had bird flu, swine fever (flu) and mammalian flu. Each had their own seperate DNA. Then in 2019 H1N5 appeared with DNA that had gene sequences of all 3. Amazing what can be done with CRISPER what.
FMD. Look at this idiot. Sydney Morning Herald:
I’m speechless. I’m without speech.
Turkey is a big turkey.
Erdogan: ‘Turkey is bigger than Turkey, we can’t limit ourselves’ (18 Dec)
Lebensraum! He’s certainly not hiding his ambitions, even if it sounds rather 1938ish.
We urgently require laws that prevent catwalk dollies from entering Parliament.
It is obvious that Wong and Bowen have leveraged their exceptional good looks to gain positions of power.
mem
December 19, 2024 7:47 am
There are plenty of videos on Facebook which illustrate the consequences of a lack of awareness of gravity.
Admittedly most involve the felling of trees near houses, vehicles and power lines and don’t feature bears.
“They also said I wasn’t allowed to do the dance because she owns the kangaroo dance,” she said. “That one did puzzle me. I mean, that’s the Olympic-level dance, how would I possibly be able to do that without any formal breakdancing training?”
GOOOOLD! Pity it was half-hidden because the article was a bit contorted, that’s international-level trolling, there.
Utterly delusional failures. Of which this country is blessed with an Olympic-level oversupply.
Trigger warning: Infuriating incompetent buck toothed jug eared imbecile.
I have wtitten to my, rather good, local member asking why attacking Labor’s blatent antisemitism is not a daily headline action for the SFL.
You have to conclude that the isolated SFL strategists have no understanding of the level of embarrassed outrage in the community over Wong claiming that her racist vitroil is Australian policy.
One letter is of course meaningless, but hopefully there are thousands of others.
It would require courage, but attacking the Liars sellout to the ragpeople would be an election winner. They did it over power, now do it over Jew hate. A double bonus would be watching the ABC racists discrediting themselves (more).
Nails him:
Utterly delusional failures.
Rabz, you left out Bowen and Albanese.
Jug-ear’s budget is an application for Luigi’s job.
They would then face the question, “What do you intend to do about it when in power?”
That would mean, at the federal level, reviewing immigration from Muslim majority countries where antisemitism is a pillar of cultural identity and amending citizenship laws to allow the revoking of naturalisation where there has been a failure to assimilate as evidenced by engaging in antisemitic rhetoric or actions.
Would the Gliberals be up to that?
“Hume link”- connecting a medieval power source to a rapidly impoverished population- will cost $121M per kilometer.
From google search.
“A drop bear is a fictional, predatory marsupial that is said to live in the Australian outback and drop onto people from trees: “
?Ah, another word for a Greenie.
Early morning coffee on the verandah, and reading “The Whole Truth, and the problem with truth telling” – the submission by Australian Research House to the Yoorook Truth and Justice Commission.
Quite powerful reading – I’ll bet it doesn’t get a mention in the final report.
Does the concept of the “Stolen Generations ” apply to the children – about 30% – who, in tribal life – were killed at birth, and some were then eaten? The “inter-generational trauma” caused by that practice? (Volume 3, Page 71.)
Just spotted on MS News. Latho is appealing his negative ruling – Last paragraph. Good:
https://www.9news.com.au/national/latham-fights-for-right-to-repeat-disgusting-mp-claim/1ab30946-9dad-4f2a-a317-0076af9c5dba
Tom, quoting Peta Credlin above:-
Mmmyes.
Many politicians are unprincipled, but few combine this with the level of political ineptitude we see in Prosciutto.
All he had to do was say, “Moira supports women’s rights to play sport against their own gender and to be comfortable in change rooms and toilets, and I fully support her on this. Yes, I know Andrews will try to pull a diversionary stunt … “look over there – Nazis!” … but where does he stand on this? Is he OK with biological women having to give up sport because they are forced to play against 6’6″ X-men?”.
The SFL’s complain that they don’t get media coverage.
Well, do what the Orange Man does. Use the media to talk directly to the voters. Had he thrown down that challenge to Andrews it would have been on high rotation on the MSM as “abhorrent, transphobic and outmoded”. But a yuuuge proportion of voters would agree with him.
FMD, this is the perfect wedge issue to use against the Liars. They have totally bought into the trannie push, but a lot of traditional Liars voting feminists are not comfortable with it.
Sorry, Tom.
Not “Blind Freddy”.
It’s “Drover’s Dog”.
Trouble at mill.
ABC’s secret masterplan revealed as staff speak from inside the national broadcaster (18 Dec)
The irony is that all the other radio stations are supported by advertising not taxpayers. Yet despite that free kick the ABC can’t get more than about 5% of listeners.
It does seem to be defaulting to elderly Greens as the only people who listen to ABC radio. The kids aren’t interested since they have a phone in their pocket and access to a world full of streaming channels.
And Wong’s Israel policy is bolstering her resume for a post-career UN position.
Even in his own cabinet Albanese has no authority.
Slimy prick pesutto has to go. Credlin nails the mongrel, and the libs: key phrase: gutless liberals:
Principled or craven? Pesutto’s howlers leave little choice for Libs
Peta Credlin The Australian December 19, 2024
Imagine this. The chairman of a big bank impugns the integrity of a female director, she’s booted off the board but wins big in court after he’s found guilty of defamation. In what universe would the chairman survive calls from shareholders and regulators to apologise, make amends and, in all likelihood, resign? What if a conservative male politician told lies about a Labor woman, inflicting enormous reputational damage and, when his claims were finally found to be false, still refused to apologise?
The uproar from the #MeToo movement would be nuclear. But when the man is Victorian Liberal leader and moderate John Pesutto, and the woman is his conservative colleague Moira Deeming, there’s not a scintilla of contrition from Pesutto and dead silence from an outrage industry that’s otherwise on a hair trigger.
The Pesutto-Deeming case matters, not only as a modern morality play but also as an inflection point for a party at war with itself and a broken state desperate for change. It could all come to a head on Friday, in a special Liberal partyroom meeting called to discuss the case and its outcome – the same day as there’s an 11am Federal Court hearing that’s likely to rule Pesutto is liable for a multi-million-dollar costs order.
Already, donors have been approached to bail out Pesutto, with most unwilling to fund a loser’s case and focused instead on supporting the looming federal campaign. Which means if he can’t pay the millions and is bankrupted, Pesutto will be left ineligible to sit in the parliament.
Whatever way it goes, it’s clear this self-inflicted wound is a long way from being healed. If only Pesutto had accepted Deeming’s offer to settle this case for $100,000 plus minimal costs back in February, as letters between lawyers now show.
Instead, he has a verdict against him – and $300,000 in damages plus costs – that calls into question not only his character and judgment but also, as a lawyer, his professional acumen.
Last week judge David O’Callaghan found the Victorian Opposition Leader’s evidence had been “untruthful” and “evasive”. He found Pesutto had never regarded Deeming as an extremist or extremist sympathiser. And he found the real reason Pesutto wanted her out of the partyroom was a fear that premier Daniel Andrews would weaponise the fact the women’s rights rally attended by Deeming had been gatecrashed by neo-Nazis, as if anyone is responsible for those who gatecrash their event. This was yet another case of gutless Victorian Liberals unable to stand up to Andrews.
Is it any wonder the state is a basket case when there effectively has been no opposition to the worst government in its history? Whether it’s lockdowns, catastrophic debt, corruption, rampant union power, crime or culture wars, even a treaty with Indigenous Victorians, the Liberals have gone missing. It seems the only blow they can land is against one of their own, which a judge has now ruled fictitious and against the law.
In these circumstances, what decent leader wouldn’t apologise and move to repair the damage? Instead, in a delusional press conference, Pesutto insisted there was no need to apologise and Deeming should remain excluded from the partyroom. Worse still, he insisted the adverse judgment against him was in the past and that every Liberal supporter should rally around to make him premier.
Fat chance. Frontbencher Sam Groth has already resigned. Five of Pesutto’s colleagues, including another frontbencher, Richard Riordan, have petitioned Friday’s partyroom meeting to discuss the Deeming matter with a view to having her restored.
Then there’s the costs order that even Pesutto’s supporters think could run to $3m. Plus there has been a complaint to the Legal Services Commission about potentially unethical conduct in the earlier settlement of a defamation claim against Pesutto by Deeming’s two rally co-organisers.
Earlier this week, Victorian Liberal Party president Phil Davis emailed all 10,000 Victorian Liberal Party members advising that he’d cautioned Pesutto to settle the case before it went to court. I know he did this because I met with him personally, along with Deeming, to try to broker a deal that Pesutto then rejected. In his email, Davis reassured members that no Liberal Party funds had or would be used to pay for anything associated with this case.
If anything, Davis’s email has left the party rank and file even more exasperated that Pesutto’s stubbornness has ignited another round of infighting when Victorians desperately want a bad government held to account. Right now, the base knows any poll improvement is down to the manifest failures by Labor rather than a positive vote for the Liberals, who are still to release any major policies. They are applying pressure on Davis, as the party’s most senior official, to issue the apology to Deeming that Pesutto is not man enough to make.
The Deeming case has not only crystallised doubts about Pesutto’s trustworthiness and character, it has highlighted the ongoing polarisation of the party into antagonistic moderate and conservative camps. Pesutto, who – before his self-harm over Deeming – was arguably the person most capable of leading the party, is plainly in the former camp and tends to see all issues through the lens of his leafy, inner-urban Hawthorn seat, which he holds by only a handful of votes. Deeming, the former schoolteacher and western suburbs local government councillor, is firmly in the conservative camp.
Going into Friday’s meeting, should it come to a vote on Deeming’s re-admission or on Pesutto’s leadership, the numbers are thought to be locked at 14-all. But there are two conservatives whom Pesutto has promoted, upper house deputy Evan Mulholland and Treasury spokesman Brad Rowswell, who could shift given the likely scale of the costs order. We’ll see on Friday if being principled or craven will win out.
While the party’s electoral support is increasingly from outer-metropolitan voters, the party’s leadership is still concentrated in the established inner suburbs that can afford “luxury beliefs”.
This is a problem in every state and mirrors Labor’s difficulties reconciling its old working-class base with the green activists who dominate its branches. It doesn’t help that the Victorian Libs have been in opposition for more than 25 years, except for one term in power, and have lost the self-belief needed to win and the work ethic necessary to make it happen.
The way the Deeming judgment plays out matters because a state party campaigning against a government that lacks integrity must have integrity itself. It’s hard to hold against Labor the politicisation of the police and public service, the selective weaponisation of anti-corruption processes, the debasement of the judiciary, and Labor’s association with the corrupt and thuggish CFMEU, if the alternative government has flagrantly ignored a judge’s verdict about its leader’s conduct.
As well, ongoing internal uproar about the treatment of Deeming threatens to prejudice Peter Dutton’s chances of winning majority government in 2025. Given federal Labor’s woes, the seats of Aston, Dunkley, Chisholm, Corangamite and McEwen are well within reach if Dutton is to gain the 18 seats he needs – but not if booth workers and donors are on strike out of sympathy with Deeming. Plainly, Pesutto and his allies have decided that someone like Deeming is an embarrassment because she won’t give up her determination to preserve women’s safe spaces. Even though she continues to be a member of the wider party and has widespread support among the Liberal base. If the Victorian Liberal Party won’t stand up for women’s rights, then frankly it has no right to call itself Liberal.
King Charles III attends event at Catholic Church remembering Christians in Middle East
CRUX – Dec 18, 2024
King Charles III meets with people at the Catholic Church of The Immaculate Conception in London, England, Dec. 17, 2024.
Going on the principle that there are no stupid questions, only stupid people, I have a question:
FOMC indicates to people the idea that there will be less rate cuts next year.
Consequently:
Therefore the share market goes down- understandable.
Bond prices, TLT go down- understandable.
Bond yields therefore go up- understandable.
What I don’t get is why the US dollar goes up.
I can understand there is a relationship between the share market and the dollar, and that they might move opposite, a cheaper dollar makes US shares more attractive to foreign investors, maybe and vice versa.
But if both bond prices and the US market are moving down, where is the demand for the dollar coming from?
Wodger:
I honestly don’t understand this. How can spending be off budget?
It’s been said before, but I still don’t understand how it can possibly be done.
It’s like me saying to the nonexistent missus, don’t worry about the the new Ferrari in the driveway, it’s off budget.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/abc-diversity-celebrity-dan-bourchier-welcomes-his-new-boss-hugh-marks-to-country.html
We are supposed to take this malarkey seriously?
Going into Friday’s meeting, should it come to a vote on Deeming’s re-admission or on Pesutto’s leadership, the numbers are thought to be locked at 14-all.
There’s your problem right there. The fact that there are still 14 SFLs in parliament who can’t see the folly of supporting Pesutto speaks volumes about the hopeless state of the so-called party.
We’re stuffed!
The “commander” of the kiwi ship that sunk is to face a military trial
Is this an attempt to whitewash the incident?
You tell her not to worry as it’s an investment not an expense.
The accountant will take more convincing however.
Incidentally, that’s a legitimate criticism of Mr. Dutton’s proposed nuclear plants.
They’ll be “off-budget” too, like that Ferrari.
The Regime always gets what it wants:
I’d otherwise link directly to the article but its paywalled. Link above does include link to article in the thread.
I’m shifting on nuclear after watching how the plants in Ukraine and Russia and even the old Chernobyl site were held hostage.
When there are perfectly good technologies like gas and coal with abundant and proved supplies, I’m not sure nuclear is a great alternative.
Sure it’s better than these bloody green scam bullshit generators.
However, the motive seems to be “Oh well, we don’t want to fight the climate orthodoxy, so let’s cave to it and go with nukes”.
Climate change is garbage.
There is NO reason to change our technologies in order to “save” the planet.
Given that I believe the main driver of the climate scam and the green movement is the desire to destroy Western industries, you have to assume any technology that works to supply base load power will be viciously opposed.
So find your f*cking balls and put some more coal and gas online, and communist proof the power supply by putting a mandate to ensure supply and pricing into the constitution.
The ‘tranquility of order’ is precious.
“There is a line north of the Netzarim axis known as the ‘line of corpses,’ and the residents of Gaza are fully aware of its meaning. In this area, Palestinians are indiscriminately shot, and their bodies are left to be devoured by dogs.”
The commander added: “We have classified the Netzarim axis as a killing zone, where anyone entering it is immediately shot. There is also a race and competition among military units to kill as many Palestinians as possible.
We kill civilians near Netzarim and then execute them under the pretext that they were armed.”
He continued: “The orders are clear: anyone crossing the boundary at Netzarim must receive a bullet to the head. We are instructed to send pictures of the corpses, and we have sent photos of 200 killed individuals, only 10 of whom were confirmed to be from Hamxs.”
What a crock of shit. I have one word to describe the above bilge from ‘Suppressed News’ (a nauseating site of unbridled Jew hatred) and that word is…’bullshit’. The above ridiculous bilge is no different to the medieval blood libel that Jews murdered Christian children and used their blood to make matza.
Yep
A perusal of Suppressed News’s content doesn’t inspire confidence in their objectivity, to put it mildly.
As to the Haaretz report, I would expect the Israeli government to investigate the allegations.
AIs are demented.
Leading AI chatbots show dementia-like cognitive decline in tests, raising questions about their future in medicine (MedXpress, 18 Dec)
Just what we all wanted: handing our civilization to mad computers.
The Gliberal’s shift on Net Zero was prompted by looming threats of sanctions and punitive tariffs by the EU & Biden’s US.
So, yes, our idiotic power debate is still being driven by domestic and international political factors rather than engineering and cost factors, despite the international ground having shifted since with the election of Trump and the weakening of the EU.
One for Catholic Cats who like singing.
Lost score from Scotland revives sound of music and voices from centuries past (Phys.org)
I never really learned musical notation but from the look of the score I suspect Cat musos could easily play it, despite it being over 500 years old.
It is the same thing.
Bullshit.
He’s a muslim sympathiser and Jew hater.
He can get stuffed.
The Times of Israel – 6 May 2023:
The Royal Family’s 800-year relationship with Britain’s Jews, in 7 historical tidbits
But it’s important to evolve slowly to keep people happy.”
Er- one, there’s no “people” in the first place, that’s the whole problem-
two, every other media company tries its darndest to evolve as quickly as possible, bringing in and/or poaching presenters, bringing in new formats and programs, and dumping the people and things which have no traction.
Rabz doctrine. Afuera! Sheesh, how long has it been?
Winston Smith
December 19, 2024 12:31 pm
Reply to H B Bear
That’s right – the NBN was ‘off Budget’ too, wasn’t it?
So how’s that ‘investment’ going?
Gerbil worming has been around for over 36 years. It was a preposterous crock o’ shite back then and it’s an even bigger one now.
I’m opposed to Dr Mutton’s insane nookular plans for several reasons, mainly being they are unnecessary – we have an almost limitless supply of coal and gas and secondly, no nookular plant of the type proposed by Dr Mutton will ever be built in this country in any of our lifetimes – in the meantime, the mad headlong rush to year zero will continue unabated.
The most important factor to remember, as it is central to the mass debate on electrickery supply sources, is that the greenfilth year zero agenda is about any electrickery supply ceasing to exist – let alone whether it is reliable or affordable or gaia friendly.
It ain’t about going greenfilth, it’s about going without.
There will be no affordable, reliable electrickery for the peons. This is the ultimate inevitable outcome of the year zero gerbil worming agenda.
In other words, even if enough people wake up to this (and that’s a mighty big if), course correction is well nigh impossible.
Cute owl…
Not me, the photographer…
“After nearly an hour of watching this snowy owl perched on a rural fence, I managed to capture this adorable expression—and if you look closely, you’ll also spot her murder mittens (thanks to a fellow birder for the term).
Shot with a long lens and enhanced with Lightroom and Topaz AI to clean up the soft focus and flat light. Totally worth every second of the wait.
December 2024, northeast of YYC.”
https://wonderae.com/20-extraordinary-birds-so-beautiful-you-wont-believe-they-exist/
She’d make a perfect Teals candidate.
Give me a couple of minutes and I’ll post the Mocker’s latest.
Enjoy, all Cats and Kittehs.
The Mocker’s 2025 predictions: Peter FitzSimons, Tony Armstrong and PM Peter Dutton
“Earlier this year, the NBN had to write-off $30 billion as its expenses far exceed its revenue, despite its near monopoly status.”
Remember before NBN existed, and Telstra offered fibre to the node for $30 billion?
And they said “No – yesterdays tech”.
Then backed down and went with FTTN anyway when they realised FTTP was going to be 100 times more and they couldn’t afford it.
Yeah, that bad, right?
An interesting, if somewhat fanciful, read:
PLANS TO PROTECT AUSTRALIANS IN NUCLEAR WAR ARE ‘CLASSIFIED’ – Declassified Australia
The link to the study doesn’t work, the news report has some suspicious statements, and I suspect this is another BMJ Xmas trick. For example …
Neurologists treating AI? That’s an intended joke.
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I won’t click on anything to do with that woman because doing so increases her profile and media reporting about her.
Raised music earlier. I haven’t been listening to much lately. Now got a music show going though.
Comes from following the weird paths of the internet. In this case a volcano blog…
Poster mentions an Icelandic volcano. So I reply, as you do. Then check out the profile of the commenter…who it turns out runs a weekly music show:
The Other Rock Show
I’m listening to the December 15 show, it’s bloody good. Maybe the ABC should pick her up, they could do worse.
One should never make predictions, particularly about the future, but I’m pretty sure Victoria will vote Labor in 2026.
Most of the business “movers and shakers” are gone, small business screwed and shut up shop. All that’s left are teat suckers.
It’s actually the reason the SFLs should put Moira in charge because whilst most are teat suckers, many I know have a “morality compass” (the sort of thing Trump appealed to). You know, working to middle class folks who, whilst most likely employed or paid something from Vic Government, still believe a man can’t be a woman etc…
Meanwhile in the Territory:
Alice Springs cops in despair at court’s ‘revolving door joke’
LIAM MENDES
Alice Springs police officers are growing increasingly frustrated with the Northern Territory’s court system, which they say acts as a “revolving door” for offenders, as dozens of officers flock to the nation’s most dangerous outback city in the midst of a serious crime crisis.
It comes as six teenagers were arrested for hijacking a taxi and going for a joyride through Alice Springs, with one allegedly telling police: “If you steal the car, you get to drive the car.”
The rural city has seen a huge escalation in crime over the past month, which resulted in a two-month-old baby left with a fractured skull and a brain bleed after an alleged home invasion, and a woman allegedly raped in her sleep. The assault on the baby was allegedly carried out by two teenagers who had been collectively charged with almost 300 other offences and bailed 35 times.
NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy on Wednesday confirmed more than 50 Territory police officers had been deployed to Alice Springs as part of a large-scale operation cracking down on crime, which had resulted in 140 arrests since mid-November.
Mr Murphy said officers were seeing a “downward trend” in all types of crimes, but increased efforts would remain in Alice Springs until the end of next month.
“I had a really good meeting with the mayor, Matt Paterson, yesterday,” he said on ABC Radio.
“I’ve given him an assurance that those resources will remain focused on Alice Springs and the safety of residents and it’s reassuring that we’ve seen some really good positive results.”
The Australian has spoken to multiple fed up rank-and-file officers who claim the court system is a “joke” that does little to rehabilitate offenders.
“The court’s a joke, protection of victims honestly ranks dead last on their list of priorities,” one Alice Springs-based officer said.
Another said: “There is nothing more frustrating than as a cop going the extra mile to make sure you apprehend that violent offender in a timely manner so that his victims are safe, only to find that even though your next shift starts in less than eight hours, by the time you have started that shift, old mate is back out there.”
“What kind of comfort can you give to victims when that is the standard course of action?” they said.
“The justice system needs some refining, the courts need a wake-up call, they need to realise that the ‘poor bugger me’ case that is put before them doesn’t capture the abject fear of harm and death of the victim at the moment.’”
One example an officer gave was that of the sentencing of Gregory Reid, who was released from prison on December 12 following his arrest in April.
He pleaded guilty to arming himself with a knife and stabbing a woman in the breast, resulting in a perforated lung, stomach and spleen causing internal bleeding.
After being sentenced to three years and seven months, he was immediately released from custody on a suspended sentence.
Amid the increased police efforts, officers arrested six children – five boys and a girl – aged between 12 and 15 who were driving a stolen taxi around Alice Springs on Sunday night.
At one point, the taxi almost collided with a car being driven by The Australian, before driving straight through a right light.
Police claim the children continued to drive for hours “erratically” on both sides of the road.
Police used spike strips to stop the car and arrested the children.
Two children were charged, and one was dealt with under the provisions of the Youth Justice Act.
Three of the children were returned to “responsible adults”.
Oz
“You’re gonna get so sick of winning”
ABC News Faces Backlash Over Trump Settlement, George Stephanopoulos
In a move that floored ABC News’ rank-and-file journalists inside the network and in the broader journalistic community, Disney CEO Bob Iger authorized a $15 million settlement and an additional $1 million to cover Trump’s legal fees as well as a quasi-apology on Dec. 13. According to sources, Stephanopoulos was blindsided, unaware that Disney would back down in such a public manner until a few hours before the news broke.
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The former is, so far as I know, simply quoting the latter.
Are all you Cats at your Christmas functions or what?
Awfully quiet around here.
You’d think there’d be more posting if you were at your Christmas lunches… I mean, I hate work lunches as I really don’t want to socialise with people that I have no choice but to socialise with…
As it always should have been (if Government needs to be involved at all, that is).
If you want to stream 6 HD movies simultaneously and run a server farm in your garage, pay for a 3/4″ fibre pipe yourself.
If, like me, you might have 1 streaming service running at any one time, along with sending the odd abusive email to the local Liberal member and typing slowly on a blog, then a copper twisted pair from the street will do just fine.
Rabz at 1.03pm:
Correct.
The reason “renewable energy” doesn’t work is that it wasn’t designed to work. Its purpose is to destroy capitalism and the wealth it has created.
The Greenfilth aim to take us back to the 17th century before we got serious about taking ourselves out of the primordial swamp.
The Greenfilth counter revolution is a top-down attempt by the rich to stop the aspirational joining them at the top of the pile.
The bit the Filth don’t tell you is that, in order to save the planet, we have to live like 16th Century peasants in cold dark caves where our children are taught that the Industrial Revolution was just historic wrongthink.
And is it just me or does it appear that Elbow has already gone on Xmas holidays?
Didn’t see a lot of him recently and it appears (?) he dumped yesterday’s MYEFO on Wallet Wizard and ran for the hills…???
DHS Under Secretary Confesses Trump Win Is “Traumatic” and a “Crushing Blow” Biden Admin
O’Keefe Media Group
FIRE THE LOT
Even the alarmist APSI Institute is **slowly** getting it:
The energy transition that couldn’t | The Strategist
(Not entirely but good to see an author questioning the “energy transition”)
Good read:
The truth about Ireland’s hatred for Israel – spiked
Ireland has fallen
Understanding how AUKUS could make Perth’s southern suburbs an economic engine room
Hm if I lived near Garden Island, I’d be thinking about moving. If nukes ever start flying, that’ll be one of the top 3 targets in Australia when SSNs are based there (which is going to be very soon – pretty sure I read the Yanks will be rotating some of their Virginia-class subs through there). I’m a bit surprised more people aren’t talking about this. There’s a lot of fretting over nuclear waste, though.
Unconfirmed reports (?) Israel has shot down some oil and power plants in Yemen…
This is what is wrong with MSM “talent”.*
Stephanopoulos clearly defamed Trump by stating on air that Trump had “been found liable for rape” in the case brought by that swivel-eyed loon E. Jean Carroll.
No such finding was made.
Trump sued on the basis that this involved “actual malice” on the part of Stephanopoulos, which is a very high bar and the one public figures need to meet in the US to succeed in defamation claims.
ABC moved for dismissal but the JURDGE allowed it to proceed. This would have been the first red flag for ABC/Disney that they might be in trouble.
The next stage is discovery, and I have no doubt Trump’s lawyers uncovered some very juicy emails and texts which were going to show bias to the point of … ker-ching … “actual malice”.
The point is, Stephanopoulos has no say in this, and nor should he.
He isn’t cutting the cheques for damages or paying the lawyers, so ABC have correctly made a decision based on legal and commercial considerations.
If he is so pissed off he could always quit.
Or offer to indemnify ABC for any additional costs or damages and run the case himself.
Otherwise STFU.
…
* Exhibit A – Cane Toad.
Arutz Sheva:
Missile from Yemen intercepted, Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen (19 Dec)
FAFO.
‘Shot down’ a power plant?
“If, like me, you might have 1 streaming service running at any one time, along with sending the odd abusive email to the local Liberal member and typing slowly on a blog, then a copper twisted pair from the street will do just fine.”
Indeed. 50M down/ 20M up is more than enough for me (for now at least).
I was <100m from the node, so had (copper) line synch at 140M.
Now on FTTP in new unit block, so no issues there either.
I previously did a speed test and saw 47M down at 7PM, then eralised I was still streaming a you-tube channel @ 720p during the test. 🙂
Just back from lunch with a couple of Local Liberal Luminaries.
The consensus is that Prosciutto is dead man walking. If Moira Deeming isn’t accepted back into the party-room unconditionally, he will be asked to produce the legal advice which tells him the JURDGE got it wrong.
If he does not produce it, he is screwed.
If he does, he will be challenged to appeal the decision (which he won’t do).
Checkmate.
Apparently one of his faction (also a woman) likened Moira’s behaviour to a new employee in the office sticking it to the boss.
Err … wut?
Firstly, all MPs should be considered equals around the table when it comes to expressing views under the roof of the “broad church”.
And, secondly, Prosciutto is not “the boss”. He serves as leader at the pleasure of the Parliamentary party.
Something he is about to find out tomorrow I think.
If, as Peta Credlin suggests, the vote is tied 14-all, does Prosciutto cast his vote to tie and hang on?
Or does he do what he should have done as soon as the judgement came down?
That is … PISS OFF!
Mum calls for ‘adult crime adult time’ after teen killer served with three-year prison termMohammad Alfares
18 minutes ago
The mother of a man stabbed to death by a teenager in Melbourne has made a desperate plea for Victoria to introduce ‘Adult Crime, Adult Time’ for youth offending after the killer of her son was sentenced to three years imprisonment.
The teen killer, 18, on Thursday was sentenced to a further 18-months imprisonment in Youth Detention after accepting a sentence to a lesser charge of manslaughter — despite showing a lack of “clear remorse”.
It’s on top of 18 months he had already served since killing Adam Bockhodt, 34, on June 3 last year.
He was a minor at the time of offending and cannot be identified in line with the Children Youth Families Act.
The juvenile pleaded guilty for the manslaughter of Mr Bockhodt after a sexual tryst with his lifelong friend, Lisette Campbell, 31, descended into chaos at her South Yarra apartment.
He sat slumped with his hands crossed at the back of the court, smiling at staff as they arrived while sporting a rattail haircut and a prison jumper. In front of him was Mr Bockhodt’s mother, Bridget Drowley, who came to court wearing a T-Shirt with her son’s face that states “Adult Crime, Adult Time for Adam” and “Catch up Victoria”.
The maximum penalty for manslaughter is 25 years for adults.
You must remember this, when David Suzuki was challenged on Q&A by a Tasmanian Professor who is a Climate Scientist.
He gets a schooling at:
9mins, 15 seconds:
The nature of David Suzuki
And 15mins, 25 secs.
How does a non-binary person kill someone?
They slash them
Any Perth Cats heading south for Christmas might want to avoid this $1,040,000,000 new road:
Windscreens cracked on new Wilman Wadandi Highway in South West WA | PerthNow
Trevor Whittington: Why WA’s farming heritage deserves a voiceTrevor WhittingtonCountryman
Thu, 5 December 2024 8:00AM
In WA, we’ve become experts at pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into glittering museum projects that have all the warmth of a corporate conference centre.
Our most recent masterpiece? The $400 million WA Museum Boola Bardip, a stunning structure that looks more like a Silicon Valley startup hub than a shrine to history.
And now, we’re gearing up for an equally eye-watering Aboriginal Cultural Centre by the Swan River.
While celebrating culture is crucial, it’s time to ask: could we stop building temples to history and start preserving the history itself?
Across regional WA, the story couldn’t be more different.
Our farming heritage — that built the Wheatbelt and helped feed the nation — is rusting away faster than you can say “pass me the WD-40”.
Scattered across paddocks and old farm tips are the last of our old tractors, headers, and trucks — remnants of innovation that changed the face of agriculture.
These treasures aren’t just machines; they’re pieces of our collective story.
Meanwhile, our struggling community farming museums, valiantly run by local volunteers on shoestring budgets, are crying out for help.
They need funds to build sheds, protect their collections, and restore these machines to their former glory.
But instead of preserving these icons, we seem obsessed with making grand architectural statements in Perth.
Sure, the Boola Bardip looks fantastic on Instagram, but where’s the Chamberlain 40K? Where’s the iconic WD-9 International?
Visitors stroll through its polished halls, only to leave with hardly a nod to the machinery that cleared and farmed the Wheatbelt.
It’s as though we’re ashamed of our farming roots, preferring abstract exhibitions about “conceptual journeys” over celebrating the dust and grease of real history.
And then there’s the upcoming Aboriginal Cultural Centre. Its intent is vital, but you can bet more time will be spent debating the Indigenous name than funding exhibits that tell meaningful stories.
This fixation on shiny buildings reeks of cultural cringe — the belief that we need European-style museums to prove we’re sophisticated.
Meanwhile, our authentic rural heritage is being left to rot. Out in the regions, farming museums are doing extraordinary work, yet they’re losing a race against time.
This isn’t just about saving old machines. It’s about saving the stories of the people who used them.
The pre-war generation is gone. The post-war boys who cleared the land with Sherman tanks and recall the first machines drawn by horse power and not horses are dwindling fast. Soon, we’ll lose the farmers of the ’50s and ’60s, who turned one plough into two, and the innovators of the ’70s, who cobbled together the first home-made four-wheel-drive tractors.
If we don’t act now, these stories—and the machines they revolve around—will vanish. And with them, future generations will lose their connection to the grit and ingenuity that shaped this State.
The Government has committed about $250 million to the new Aboriginal Cultural Centre.
Why not allocate just 5 per cent of that to the 20 or so rural farming museums to at least find and put under cover what they have collected?
From there, the Government should match the annual cost of running this new cultural centre with a similar amount of funding to run regional museums.
These small voluntary institutions in the bush are doing the same as the Aboriginal Cultural Centre, which is to capture the culture and stories of those who lived off the land and were custodians of it. Both narratives matter, and both deserve preservation.
For a fraction of the cost of what will be spent on museums in Perth the State could have a world class museum experience in the bush.
Imagine walking into one of our retired CBH sheds not to stare at a static exhibit, but to see a tractor restored to working order, able to do a lap or two of the neighbouring paddock.
You’d hear the engine roar, smell the diesel, and feel the grit of history in the air. Even better, you could meet the people who worked these machines in the good old days.
That’s the kind of museum that people would travel interstate or overseas to see, something different — not yet another architecturally designed museum costing $250 or $400m, filled with not much at all.
Trevor Whittington is the CEO of WAFarmers.
Finance and organize the protests than sanction the state as it seeks to restore civil order.
We have rellies staying with us for Christmas. Last weekend, he started to feel “off”; bit of diarrhoea, brain fog etc. Thought it was jet lag, but tested for Covid anyway (negative — twice). By Tuesday had to take him to emergency at nearest hospital: barely able to walk, weak, bad diarrhoea, almost incoherent, badly dehydrated. Admitted that evening.
Lab tests not back yet but docs convinced it’s C. diff (clostridioides difficile) in his colon/bowel as a result of a course of antibiotics he was on before arriving here. Pretty serious stuff at his age. So far, he hasn’t responded to treatment, which is, surprisingly, a course of two separate targeted antibiotics, one oral, one intravenous. Then there’s the option of poo tablets and, a last resort, surgery.
Merry Christmas …
From earlier today…
Many politicians are unprincipled, but few combine this with the level of political ineptitude we see in Prosciutto.
All he had to do was say, “Moira supports women’s rights to play sport against their own gender and to be comfortable in change rooms and toilets, and I fully support her on this. Yes, I know Andrews will try to pull a diversionary stunt … “look over there – Nazis!” … but where does he stand on this? Is he OK with biological women having to give up sport because they are forced to play against 6’6? X-men?”.
The SFL’s complain that they don’t get media coverage.
Well, do what the Orange Man does. Use the media to talk directly to the voters. Had he thrown down that challenge to Andrews it would have been on high rotation on the MSM as “abhorrent, transphobic and outmoded”. But a yuuuge proportion of voters would agree with him.
Quite so. I still shake my head at Pesutto’s staggering imbecility and idiocy. But he’s not the only imbecile and idiot in the Victorian Liberals. I suspect there are others who must shoulder some blame, among them Guy, Kennett, Kroger, Southwick and Crozer. I reckon they egged Pesutto on. You see, they don’t like Moira, she’s a conservative woman from the wrong end of town. Remember how thin-lipped Matthew Guy dealt with Bernie Finn? They want the Victorian Liberals to be a ‘conservative free zone’.
Sacred sites, surely.
US Omnibus funding Bill dead on arrival.
House conservatives revolt over GOP-backed spending bill to avoid shutdown – CBS News
Dunno how I missed this the other day (perhaps another Cat already posted it) but perhaps Rowan Dean is right and this is a one term government?
Coalition boosts primary support and retains clear two-party preferred lead for Christmas: L-NP 52% cf. ALP 48% – Roy Morgan Research
Labor’s primary down to 27%!!!!!
I have had good Christmas news, this time for my family member a seizure is not a sign that tumours are growing again but almost certainly ‘radiation necrosis’, bad obviously but controlled by increased medication and fingers crossed, thats all.
I’m hoping this is a once off occurrence, it’s not clear from the literature.
As long as cancer isn’t spreading its good.
No one ever asked Andrews why his former female chief of staff resigned about the time he became premier and scrubbed the experience from her resume on Linked In. There may be no story there, but no one asked either
Because the partisan far-left media, which is 90% of them, are simply not interested. A Labor or Greens politician could rape 20 women and/or murder 40 babies and still the partisan far-left media wouldn’t be interested in the story. They run cover for the left every single day, they don’t even hide their bias. They are worse than Pravda.
So what should the right do? As Sancho wrote earlier….you do what Orange Man does.
Use the media to talk directly to the voters. Had he thrown down that challenge to Andrews it would have been on high rotation on the MSM as “abhorrent, transphobic and outmoded”. But a yuuuge proportion of voters would agree with him.
Remember, just two weeks before November 5, in the lead up to the election, Trump was accused by the Demonrats and their MSM mouthpieces of hosting a Nazi rally at Madison Square Gardens, a rally that was supposedly reminiscent of the infamous 1939 rally at MSG. The claim was ludicrous but Kamaltoe, the Demonrats and the MSM ran with it, hysterically. Trump was Adolf Hitler reincarnated. But faced with this tedious never ending Nazi hysteria, did Trump or Vance or anyone else on the right flinch? No, rather they called the left’s bluff and it is high time others on the right, in this country and elsewhere, also called the left’s bluff when it comes to the daily shit the left spruik. It’s time to ignore the lies and hysteria. It’s time to stand up and say….nup that’s not gonna work now, it’s time to say, Donald Trump is not a Nazi, J D Vance is not a Nazi, Peter Dutton is not a Nazi, Moira Deeming is not a Nazi, JK Rowling is not a Nazi, Kellie-Jay Keen is not a Nazi, I am not a Nazi and nor are most women on this planet Nazis, all we want to do is to safeguard our private spaces and sports from cocks on frocks and cheats. That’s all Pesutto had to do but rather he chose to run and hide, like some timid little mouse, from Dan and his media whores. And even worse, he doubled down on his Nazi hysteria and now he faces political and economic ruin.
Pesutto is now plotzed. And I have zero sympathy for him.
As Rosie said last week, after the defamation judgment, you can’t call conservatives ‘Nazis’. This must stop.
mizaris
December 19, 2024 1:03 pm
Cute owl…
I do like owls and here is a video of the marvellous things:
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There is a strong vein of anti-Semitism in the Irish. As for the country’s politicians, they make our rorters and opportunists look like amateurs.
Women trapped by sharia: ‘I must pay my husband ransom to divorce’About 100,000 marriages in the UK are believed to fall under the authority of sharia councils, also known as courts
Dominic Kennedy
, Investigations Editor
Wednesday December 18 2024, 7.10pm GMT, The Times
After suffering an onslaught of psychological abuse from her husband and increasingly unhappy in her marriage, Aisha finally decided she wanted a divorce.
There was one problem, however: her husband refused to allow it unless she paid him a five-figure sum covering all the money he spent on her during their marriage.
She offered instead to return her rings but he demanded the money they cost, a sum of thousands of pounds she could not afford.
“I feel like I have to pay ransom to get out of my marriage,” she told The Times.
Welcome to sharia, British style.
Because an Islamic marriage allows polygamy and permits only men to divorce at will, Aisha faces being trapped forever while her husband takes on new brides. The marriage was not officially registered so Aisha has no recourse to English law.
Aisha’s wedding was among 100,000 Islamic marriages estimated to have taken place in Britain and falling under the religious authority of sharia councils, also known as courts.
An investigation by The Times into the use of sharia in Britain has also found:
• A British sharia council states that husbands may dispose of their wives instantly by saying “divorce” three times, a practice banned in many countries in the Muslim world.
• Muslims are being encouraged by another sharia council to download a mobile phone app that creates sharia-compliant wills where daughters inherit half as much as sons.
• The app, aimed at users in England and Wales, has a drop-down menu for men to specify how many wives they have, up to four.
• Women are being asked to disclose when they had their last period in order to get a divorce.
• One of the country’s most prominent sharia councils was founded by a scholar who said men should not be questioned over why they hit their wives.
Britain is seen as the western capital for sharia councils, the informal guardians of religious law over the country’s fast-growing Muslim population.
Home to the first such institution in Europe in 1982, Britain is now expanding sharia services to Muslims overseas.
The Council of Europe, which protects human rights, has expressed concern about Britain’s sharia councils — estimated to number as many as 85 — discriminating against women, and the social pressure upon Muslims to use them.
The womenAisha (not her real name), who is in her twenties, was appalled when Dewsbury’s sharia council entertained her husband’s requests for compensation before setting her free.
Since she lacked the thousands of pounds requested, her husband offered to let her pay in instalments.
“Until I’m officially divorced Islamically, I still believe that I’m married to my husband. It’s hard to comprehend that I’m having to pay this amount just for something that’s spiritual.”
Another woman who struggled to divorce is Shakilla Malik, 45, from Manchester. She told the Karma Nirvana charity she suffered 13 years of domestic violence after being forced at 16 to marry a cousin in Pakistan.
She said the Dewsbury sharia council kept her waiting nearly three years for a divorce when her husband’s brother became involved.
“He wrote a letter to them saying that what a good dad his brother is, what a good husband he’s been, what a good person he was, [that] he prays five times a day,” she said. “This had nothing to do with my brother-in-law. They shouldn’t have given him the time of day.”
The Dewsbury sharia council said: “We understand that emotions can run high and that outcomes may not always meet everyone’s expectations, but our role is to guide couples towards constructive dialogue and decisions.”
A mother in the Midlands obtained a civil divorce after a decades-long arranged marriage to a cousin she wed as a teenager during a visit to Pakistan.
“In our culture and religion, if you don’t get divorced Islamically they say you’re still married. I wanted an Islamic divorce. I went to find somebody in the community … connected to the mosque,” she said.
The go-between made an indecent proposition that she should enter into a “mut’a”, a temporary religiously sanctioned union, sometimes branded a “pleasure marriage” because it enables couples to have sex and then part.
“Apart from my husband, no man has ever touched me. I sobbed my heart out when this guy proposed this to me,” she said.
The woman, in her forties, explained how some Muslim men such as her ex-husband use religiosity to exert patriarchal control over women.
He would demand sex, citing a hadith about Muhammad requiring wives to agree to intercourse even if on a camel’s back or saddle. The saying is used by some scholars to argue that there is no concept of marital rape in Islam.
Tanya Walker, a Tehran-born academic, explained in her book Sharia Councils and Muslim Women in Britain that some women used the councils due to community pressures. One woman said “religion is not important to me”. Another believed in God but not Islam and hated Islamic religious authorities.
‘Divorce, divorce, divorce’While Muslim women in Britain struggle to obtain divorces under sharia, the same is not true for men.
The Birmingham sharia council, part of the Birmingham Mosque Trust charity, explains on its website the concept of pronouncing talaq, the Arabic word for “divorce”. When declared by a husband, it effectively means “I divorce you”.
The council states online: “Men can divorce their wives unilaterally by pronouncing talaq three times either consecutively or on three separate occasions, depending on the Islamic school of thought by which the married couple abide.”
The Times asked Birmingham sharia council why it told couples that Muslim men may divorce in this way when the practice has been banned by 23 countries with large Muslim populations. They include Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.
But – but – but, Islam is the most feminist of all religions…
For cricket-lovin’ Cats, watched a great movie last night on Netflix called “83”
Very funny but a good reminder of how the Indians claimed the 83 Test World Cup, despite having never won a match previously and the Windies never having lost a match previously.
If you watch closely, you can also spot Boonie.
Yet again, NSW’s useful idiot premier Chris Minns is providing cover for the radicals in the ALP pushing for the legalisation of illegal hallucinogenic drugs.
Happens every time: the popular pretty boy premier is used by the radical left to ram through permissive state abandonment of morality.
If you vote Labor, you get stuff you didn’t vote for and don’t want. Every time.
The GayBC breathlessly announces the result of the census question on sexuality: 4.5 per cent indentify with the alphabet soup brigade:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-19/lgbti-population-abs-data/104746854
That’s about a tenth of the number of those who identify as Christian, by the way.
Outright subversion and Mike Johnson was happy to go along with it. They are getting an earful from their constituents but it still might get through.
@sheislaurenlee
THE SPENDING BILL WOULD HAVE BLOCKED RFK JR. FROM UPDATING HHS PROTOCOL ON VACCINE INJURIES
On page 757, the bill amends the previously-passed “Prevent Pandemic Act” (42 USC 6627):
“The Secretary may not revise the Vaccine Injury Table to include a vaccine for which the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention has issued a recommendation for routine use in children or pregnant women until at least one application for such vaccine has been approved.
Upon such revision of the Vaccine Injury Table, all vaccines in a vaccine category on the Vaccine Injury Table, including vaccines authorized under emergency use… shall be considered included in the Vaccine Injury Table.”
They also added: “An injury or death related to a administered at a time when the vaccine was a covered countermeasure subiect to a declaration under section 319F-3 (b) SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR COMPENSATION under the Program.”
Sneaky.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/a-beautiful-christmas-carol-libera-carol-of-the-bells.html
Merry Christmas, and a happy and prosperous New Year to all you horrible mob.
Meme
The Craziest Things Congress Snuck Into Its Pork-Packed Christmas Spending Spree
J6 Bombshell: Trump Didn’t Just Offer Military to Protect Capitol, He Ordered It but Was Disobeyed
Lioness series 2. Got some reeeely good stuff in it.
I have had good Christmas news, this time for my family member a seizure is not a sign that tumours are growing again but almost certainly ‘radiation necrosis’, bad obviously but controlled by increased medication and fingers crossed, thats all.
I’m hoping this is a once off occurrence, it’s not clear from the literature.
As long as cancer isn’t spreading its good.
Am so pleased to hear, Rosie.
Crikkit news:
This has the potential to be one of the shortest BBL matches ever.
After five overs, the Hobart people are 6/32.
Now scanning the movie channels to see what’s on later.
Love Christmas. Fugg off Wong and and the Labor adolescents.
https://youtu.be/SQadcm_dwEM
Perth BOM Christmas Day forecast 13-25. This might be as close to a white Christmas as it gets.
Unseat them anyway
As I’ve previously noted, the senator for WA has been spending a lot of time in VIC & NSW recently promoting Israeli boycotts, sanctions and disinvestment.
“Australia’s Voice” is sure to throw up some “interesting” candidates.
“Fatima Payman’s party calls for candidates to contest Senate seats in NSW and Victoria”
Whose hand???
Michael Leunig has died at 79
Ain’t that the truth.
Good news indeed.
Suing them helps too, like George Steph…, the Greek dwarf.
As one of Trump’s advisors suggested, “we’re not fcking around anymore”.
The budget extension bill is also a hill to die on too. This crap has to stop.
Another thing: I want the Liberals to lose the May election for one simple reason. If they win, it will likely be with a very marginal majority in the lower house while being hamstrung in the Senate. It would just be another Morrison-style government. Plus, I don’t like Dutton. Let Labor win, hopefully with a minority government, and let them thoroughly mess things up.
Only then, in six years’ time, will there be a chance for the Liberals to secure a majority in both houses and actually get real things done. Hopefully, Dutton will be gone by then too. This country isn’t ready for meaningful change just yet—it needs a good, hard dose of Labor before people realize it.
Look at what’s happening in Canada, where Castro Jr.’s party is polling at around 20% of the vote. In the UK, the communists are currently at 30%—if you combine the support for Reform and the Conservatives. The Right can’t just eke out a win; it has to decisively defeat the Left.
Scalise confirms spending deal is ‘dead’ after mass GOP revolt
He’s not fcking around. They may not get through all their wish list, but they’re ( Musk and Vivek) are going to take a few scalps.
It sounds like he’s going to fun primaries to get them out.
Indolent
December 19, 2024 10:22 pm
Scalise confirms spending deal is ‘dead’ after mass GOP revolt
The whole episode tells you everything you need to know about Mike Johnson
Regarding the travails of the hapless Mr Prosciutto.
Yes, he was sucker punched by Chairman Dan, but he willingly walked straight into the left jab.
He was so desperate to “assert mah authitah” and purge any traditional conservatives from his party, that he jumped right into this “anti-trans” spin feet first. In his tiny brain, chucking Moira out was going to be the beginning of a wider clean-out. Hence my sarcastic reference to the “broad church” earlier.
(Insert “how it started – how it’s going” meme here).
Once she pushed back he had nowhere to go, and was egged on by some “elder statesmen” of the party (including Kennett, Naptime and, I suspect, Kroger). The next big lesson for Prosciutto is that the promises of tangible support in the form of contributing to damages and legal fees will evaporate. David Davis has already tried to hose down any suggestion that party funds will be used to pay for the litigation.
The most galling thing about this trumped up turd is he is the raging bull in his own party room when it comes to putting the boots into conservative MPs, but a mincing, limp-wristed Nancy Boy when it comes to giving Andrews or Allen a well deserved kicking.
When I said he is dead man walking, he will cling on by the fingernails, even if he has the casting vote. But he won’t make it to the next election.
There are some serious freaking people -heavy hitters- aligned with this administration that really and truly want it to succeed. The MSM appears to have been totally side lined by these guys.
Richard Vobes’ interview with Richard Jeffs
The transition to Stakeholder Capitalism is happening
‘Angus Taylor’s word salad obscures the truth’ about nuclear power.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-19/nuclear-costings-household-bills/104746708
Impartial reporting from the ABC at its best.
The British have a prime minister who despises ‘the mother of parliaments’…
This is the trick.
Usually the arseholes bury the pork amongst a welter of other stuff, using some euphemistic and misleading name for the spending (think “Inflation Reduction Bill” which was an inflationary cash hosing exercise) and give no time for exposure and discovery of the pork.
Each and every pork-barreller will now live in fear that their irresponsibility will be selected for exposure and … goodbye career.
And, following on from the points raised earlier, bypassed the MSM.
No opportunity for chummy advisors working hand-in-glove with lazy and sympathetic j’isms at the NYT/WaPo/MSNBC to spin it.
This is what passes for a representative of the poor downtrodden workers in Sir Keir’s ‘Labour’ Party:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3zqen209go
Isn’t great to watch. These dudes are also rich as fck enough to hire their own advisors to read these bills and offer counters.
Stunning, the effect of daylight. A massive victory. From a nothing more than a few twitter posts.
No kidding, some of these critters in Congress are just criminals and ought to be swapping places with the J6’ers.
Elon Musk
Outrageous!
Michael Leunig: Controversial Australian cartoonist dies aged 79 following brutal sacking from The Age after 55-year tenure
Daily Mail
As the tide turns, don’t discount that some of the tip-offs about where to look for “hidden meanings” might come from deep-throaters among Congressional staffers.
As for the rich-listers applying their resources to the problem, why do you think they are so keen to overturn Musk-rat’s compensation package?
They are deathly afraid that he might become an obverse Uncle George, funding campaigns all over.
Wow, almost Christmas already.
Love this from two ex-pat Aussie brothers now in the USA.
A slightly different take, but still powerful.
We are still over a month away from inauguration day, and Trump is running the show already.
Where’s Sleepy Joe and Kamal-toe?
Just before I go …
THIS is how you do a Christmas carol!!
“When the heart
Is cut or cracked or broken
Do not clutch it
Let the wound lie open
Let the wind
From the good old sea blow in
To bathe the wound with salt
And let it sting
Let a stray dog lick it
Let a bird lean in the hole and sing
A simple song like a tiny bell
And let it ring
Let it go. Let it out.
Let it all unravel.
Let it free and it can be
A path on which to travel.”
— Michael Leunig, When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God
Vale
Seriously drab, cold and rainy day today in Northern Italy. Plans to spend it hiking in the Carnic Alps have been shelved, in favour of attempting to navigate the Byzantine regional bus timetable system, so one can get there, in the first place.
Anyone looking at the “helpful” TPL FVG website to book a day trip anywhere could be forgiven for thinking it was coded by sadists from the 1984 Ministry of Truth. It is unusable by anyone who hasn’t trialled-and-errored its way through it for several days, at least.
Asked a helpful guy at the ticket office (they are ALL men over here..) and he patiently explained some of the quirks. Details that I can’t find on the damned website. Anyway, I now know enough to make another attempt tomorrow, weather permitting.
This is in contrast to the train service, which is comprehensible and efficient. There’s a direct service from Udine to Klagenfurt, stopping at Tarvisio, not far from Monte Forno, or Dreiländereck ie, the triple border of Italy, Austria and Slovenia.
Took this trip a couple of days ago but, since fresh snowfall had covered the hills, hiking would have been too dangerous without crampons.
So I walked South instead, to Cave del Predil, on a good, wet road which, like many Friulan roads, lacked a decent shoulder. Narrow edges alternating between steel barriers and sloping, snow-covered ground. One quickly learnt how to avoid cars whizzing past at 80-ish kph. Also changing sides, to avoid being in the driver’s direct line of sight to the low, Southern Sun.
Fortunately, almost all motorists are used to this and take a wide berth to such hapless pedestrians.
Cave del Predil is a town that, until 1918, was a Habsburg possession, built around the Raibl Mine, mining Europe’s largest lead-zinc deposit since the first millennium AD, until 1991, when it became a mining museum, showcasing the brilliant mechanical technologies used, as early as the 1800s.
Today, the remaining structures and external rail tracks hug the picturesque Monte Re, to the West of the village. To power the mine, the stream that arose from Lago del Predil (a close, up-stream lake) was dammed to produce hydro-electricity in 1890, this was later extended to the village inhabitants. Cave was one of the first towns in Europe that were powered by this energy source.
The village is guarded to the East by the impressive Cinque Punte (Five Points) Massif which, like Monte Re, are worthwhile summiting hikes, with 360-degree views of the highest peaks in the Julian Alps.
The whole area is a hiker’s paradise, with well established tracks to all the highest mountains (Jôf di Montasio, Monte Canin and Mangart being the pre-eminent ones), but not in the snow, without crampons and alone..
People with a centre-right political outlook tend not to have a death wish, after all..
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Steve Kelley.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
TikTok has a lot of stories this morning that Justin Trudeau has a current or former boyfriend who is going to go public.
WSJ has a long column on Biden.
Not new news to this forum.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/biden-white-house-age-function-diminished-3906a839?mod=hp_lead_pos9
Games Workshop, owner of Warhammer, will join the FTSE100 index this month.
All hail Nurgle.
Hi Cats, we are currently sailing out of Abu Dhabi, having had an eight hour trip to some far reaches of Arabia with the highlight a trip to a camel market where Hairy photographed me kissing (sort of) a charming lady camel. We’re headed for Dubai where we will immediately take a flight on British Airways to Healthrow and the cold, dark days of London.
Will write more about the land of camels when in London.
We liked the Emirates and Hairy is mumbling about coming back and driving around some more, for that is very easy to do and very safe.
Interesting, what is the meaning of this symbol?
And why is it on pope’s robe.
The film “13 Days” is about the Cuban Missile crisis and goes into a lot of detail about how JFK handled it. I’m not sure about the veracity of all those details, but the thrust of the narrative is clear. He resisted all attempts to bomb or invade, went that extra mile to reach a peaceful conclusion.
But now we see the “peaceful” DJT held in contempt for trying to reach good results by negotiation rather than war. Hollywood needs to recalibrate back a ways and find Trump as virtuous as they found JFK in that movie.
This week’s Health Check on the BBC World Service jumps the shark by alleging that an increase in upper atmosphere turbulence, leading to some injuries to passengers on planes, is caused by (drumroll) global warming! And it will get a lot worse!
Nurgle is gay.
Mark Knight was attacked for a beautiful cartoon about Williams tennis tantrum, but his work continues to go from strength to brilliance. That Pallas in Wonderland is superb.
Thanks for the daily group, and for your comments as well, Tom.
As I recall Bungonia Bee, JFK lifted the red phone and told Khrushchev the US would not put up with Soviet missiles 90 miles off Continental US. Contrast this with the conniptions of the West when the Pute said a similar thing about Ukeland.
@catturd2
Don’t let Mike Johnson and RINO Republicans lie to you … they have the gavel.
They could write a short bill today with a clean 3-month CR, only adding hurricane relief, zero pork, and no raise.
Then if Democrats vote against it, they can honestly say they voted against hurricane relief victims.
It’s that freaking simple.
They don’t want to because they’re used to getting themselves, their lobbyists, and their donors filthy rich off the backs of hardworking Americans.
ENOUGH !!!
That’s the hook they’re trying to hang their 1500 page pork bill on – tuppence to hurricane victims, who they totally ignored for months.
@catturd2
The people in Congress who sent over 200 billion to Ukraine and spent even more on illegals this year alone suddenly cares about the hurricane victims and farmers.
How FEMINISTS Change Consent To R*pe, And You’ll Never Know | Pearl Daily
ummary: In the video “How FEMINISTS Change Consent To R*pe, And You’ll Never Know,” Pearl discusses her views on the evolving definitions of consent and sexual assault, particularly as influenced by feminist ideologies. Pearl claims that the legal definitions of rape and sexual assault have been broadened, leading to a higher incidence of accusations and potentially false claims. She presents statistics indicating a significant percentage of false allegations and discusses various ways in which behaviors are being criminalized under new definitions. Pearl expresses a belief that the expansion of these definitions may lead to misunderstandings about consent and the serious nature of actual sexual violations. ### Key Points: #### Introduction: – 61% of rape accusations are claimed to be false according to a sheriff’s department. – 56% of false allegations arise as alibis for consensual sex. #### Changing Definitions: – Contrast between old and new definitions of rape; broadening the criteria allows for more accusations. – The legal definitions are now more inclusive, covering various forms of penetration without consent. #### Consent: – Discussion on the ambiguous nature of consent, particularly in situations where women initially say “no” and later claim violation. – Emphasis on the problematic aspects of consent definitions as they relate to alcohol and changing opinions. #### Coercion and Abuse: – Definitions of coercion and how they have been interpreted legally. – Broadened definitions of abuse include emotional, psychological, and financial forms. – Discusses the change in perception of emotional abuse and its implications for men. #### Cultural Impact: – Critique of women being able to label experiences as sexual assault based on feelings rather than clear consent. – Introduction of figures and theories from feminist perspectives which argue for a broad interpretation of sexual violation. #### Convincing Others: – Suggests that feminists encourage women to label their experiences as assault, which can lead to internal conflict about whether or not a violation occurred. – Presentation of anecdotes illustrating how women second-guess their traumatic experiences. #### Legal Considerations: – Discussion on various legal systems handling sexual assault cases differently (e.g., Family Court vs. Criminal Court). – The effect of institutional educational videos that may push women toward claiming they were violated without clear consent definitions. #### Conclusion: – Pearl expresses concern over the societal implication that emotional and psychological distress can be deemed as valid grounds for labeling actions as assault. – Calls attention to the importance of resources for those grappling with experiences that could be interpreted as sexual assault, urging victims to speak up and seek help.
Elon Musk’s Single Tweet Just Showed Republicans How Much Power He Really Has
Summary In a recent segment of “The Rubin Report,” Dave Rubin discusses the significant impact of a tweet by Elon Musk, which is creating turmoil within the House regarding a government spending bill. Musk’s tweet warns lawmakers that voting in favor of the bill could result in them losing their offices in two years. Rubin explains how Musk’s influence exemplifies the power social media holds in contemporary politics, particularly in shaping legislative decisions. He also critiques the process by which large spending bills are pushed through Congress without sufficient public scrutiny, emphasizing the dysfunction within government. #
I must say I always found Johnson to have a very smarmy face. He looked really odd (embarrassed actually) at recent events with Trump and Vance, etc.
@bennyjohnson
He doesn’t look a bit like him but if you close your eyes it really could be Trump. He’s got the voice and style down perfectly.
@catturd2
Shawn does the best Trump impression and it’s not even close.
@GrrrGraphics
House Speaker Mike Johnson Trims America’s Christmas Tree
New Ben Garrison Cartoon
“Congress Wants More Pork With Plenty of Bells and Whistles”
Once again and as usual, the Democrats in Congress along with the traitorous Speaker Mike Johnson want to rush out and pass an outrageous spending bill—right before Christmas. The ‘Continuing Resolution Bill’ to fund the government until March 28th, 2025 provides a tree full of Christmas gifts for members of Congress and ‘coal’ for American citizens.
In fact, Congress seems to have utter contempt for taxpayers. They actually want to fund bioweapons labs to bring about ‘gain of function’ in order to bring about another health disaster. A lot of money was made from Covid and the criminals that brought it about want more—always more….