Israel did just that but UN and EU made them turn it back on
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I hope the Fed reacts quickly then.
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Beautiful voice with excellent training.
Moon River – Breakfast At Tiffany’s – Lucy Thomas – (TV Audition Song Revisited!) – YouTube
Eff the asshole who downticked that.
I love the song. The girl can sing. It is different from the movie version. Maybe that’s it.
I’m Sorry Ms Jackson …
Aaron Frazer- If I Got It, Your Love Bought It.
Great hot night tune. Ignore the mawkish vid, turn it up till you can hear the space.
Like all “counting my blessings” songs, starts off with admitting weakness, and thanking a higher power.
Cats, it just doesn’t get more romantic than this:
More than likely, yes, total bullshit. We were told last week 100K were in a single prison, thousands still locked in undergrounds parts therein and the salafists had no means to free them, and were pleading for information. Very credible story, sure. As for this new story, the only pics I’ve seen on twitter indicate nothing more than a cemetery, but sure, the kiddies at news think a single grave with 100K has been found. Incredible to think the Regime thought this would be plausible but given the reception, maybe their low expectations are accurate.
Good luck counting such a foul putrid stew to put a number on it.
I think this could be another Gaddafi moment where the current scum are hardly white knights.
I remember the smart people laughing at the “Mad monk” who suggested it was “Baddies v baddies”.
The more things change…
The photos emerging of the site are of bodies neatly buried in coffins. What these allegations involve, apart from the obvious, is whitewashing the civil war by pinning most if not all of the casualties on Assad but not also upon Al Nusra/ HTS.
Wally Dalí
December 21, 2024 10:13 pm
(copied from the other side of the page turn because it took me freakin ages to type out.
And vanity. OK, mostly vanity.)
It seems all of the ‘splodey, stabby and swerve-into-the-crowdey Men Of Middle Eastern Appearance have one thing in common- they are lasped M*slims. From Christmas markets, to Lindt Cafe, to Ariarne Grande concerts and Taylor Swift parties, it turns out all the monsters who go about Slaying The Infidel Wheresoever Ye May Find Them have notably renounced the raghead faith, lapsed from their regular prayer groups, been Radicalized Online or, in extreme Man Monis cases, struck out on their own oddball Imam journeys. Which have nothing whatsoever to do with the Religion Of Peace. Even the Slaying Infidels command has Nothing To Do With Isl*m, dontcha know.
So- all this, plus the obvious truism that just like the similarly hate-crime-patrolled qualities of race or gayness, Isl*mism is actually an indelible characteristic which a person has no control over-
plus the full application of the Holy Command that no-one at all is ever allowed to criticize Isl*m or even portray its bloodthirsty paedophile founder, the Prophet Mohammed, which our commitment to gutting the western Enlightenment and quashing Christianity as eeevil, corrupt and possibly capitalist to boot-
We, like the Imams of old, have to fully commit to ensuring that Apostasy from Isl*m is absolutely haram.
Enforce it at the muzzle of a gun.
Make sure no virtuous mosl*m is ever tempted by the paths of sin, the happy-clappy evangelicals who never do background checks, the multiculti main street or, of course, the awful internet.
So, guards with guns, razorwire fences, and total tech blackout. Save the muzzies from temptation, and save the poor dhimmis from liquidation by those poor 18-35-y-o men who stray, somehow, from the surveillance faith.
It’s the only way to stop all the misguided mass murdering, obvs.
But is that the story? His tweets, etc. indicate he’s an ex-Muslim. He is of Saudi origin. Was he targeting non-Muslims? Given that Germany’s population is less than half Christian, I would imagine Christmas markets are no different than other markets in terms of their composition. Did he do this to get back at Muslims? I don’t think I’ve seen anything suggesting this; rather, I’ve seen the claim he did this to get at the German government.
The motives seem confused at the moment.
Sometimes I don’t understand Mr. Dover. That’s all.
All Dover is saying is that the motivation is unclear at the moment. It may become clearer in time.
Yes. It’s too early to be claiming knowledge of motives.
Well, sick Nellie has been discharged and sent home. But still incredibly weak and without control of his bowels. What were they thinking?? Did they need his bed that badly??
Anyway, wife and I have been on the go since 4.30 this morning, so late this arvo we crashed for an hour on the bed. She left and I dozed and with a start realised Mum was standing in the doorway of the walk-in robe. Of course, she wasn’t … she’s been gone since 2015. But it gave me one hell of a start. And for some weird reason, this song came to mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmNvFWFz-7g
sick RELLIE fps!!
fgs!!
The interesting thing about the attack is that the Regime is using the counter-jihad links to smear AfD.
The German government has collapsed after a successful no- confidence vote, so there’s an election coming up in February. Christmas market terror incident will swing more voters to AFD and away from the pro-migration government. They are panic stricken and hey this is the best they can come up with. Monty Python’s Black Knight stuff.
What’s happening is all the Socialist leaning governments of Europe are doing everything possible to keep the peoples choices away from power. Their next step is violent action.
We’ve seen this movie before in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Rumania.
“You can vote your way into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.”
Just got the second half of Tad William’s Last King of Osten Ard series. It should do till after New Year. I’m a slow reader.
If I may feculate on the boxhead murderer.
He was facing charges back home.
He needed asylum claim accepted to not be extradited.
Realising ” I’d have to pay for my crimes” isn’t a great asylum claim he does lots of public ” I’m no longer a muzzie” bullcrap online etc to generate a new asylum claim.
It’s not rocket surgery.
Next would be the ” I’m gay” gambit with a strategic pic or 2 from madi gras.
The German government refused Saudi Arabia’s request to extradite him THREE times. Check it out.
The interesting thing about the attack is that the Regime is using the counter-jihad links to smear AfD.
That’s not interesting. It’s not even mildly surprising.
What is surprising is that there is not a Don’t-Look-Back-In-Anger, #I’ll ride with you, #notalldarkies campaign loaded and deployed yet. There’s most probably some signwriters embarrasedly explaining to their mutters that they have to go in to the printing shop on a Sunday after all.
Makes sense
https://x.com/maralsalmassi/status/1870413236996092217?s=46&t=oPKWqlDNWDPlIJD6Xa3iow
Week In Pictures.
I discovered beef rashers disguised as bacon recently. There is also vego bacon. God knows what they put in that.
I’m as shocked as the truck owner can’t find anything in this story that would provide a, credible, motive for such an incident .. LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-21/police-investigate-alleged-islamophobia-antisemitism-melbourne/104752598
This is the real story of immigration in Australia, Europe and the USA. Our political rulers decide to import terrorists because that guarantees them future votes and police forces/law enforcement decide their loyalty is to their political masters — not the civilians they swore an oath to protect.
If German police had taken seriously their oath to protect civilians, the terrorist attack in Madgeburg — and other previous attacks — would not have happened.
But don’t expect any accountability because the news media is on the side of the terrorists.
The BBC are happy to report that the magdeburglar is a fan of the far right.
CNN’s Scott Jennings: When is ‘Accountability’ Coming for Those Who Lied to the American People About Biden’s Condition? (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance
It wasn’t just the White House people, it was most of the media. And they lied about a lot more than that.
You can’t have a properly functioning democracy if you have dishonest media. They enable the lies of others as well as propagating their own.
Pope Francis Accuses Israel of ‘Cruelty’ in Gaza Strikes
evil old c#nt
If it wasn’t for one Special Jew he’d be out of a job.
True
Time for the rat sack
so what? war is cruel
Goes even further than that, like ripples in a pond.
Every single diplomat, politician or public figure who met with Biden over the past four years must have known or strongly suspected. You can’t keep this condition hidden, but you can exert pressure not to tell.
I wonder what types of pressure were put on people, including our own diplomats.
Albo met with Biden and never said anything about his diminished capabilities. But then again, Albo can’t recognise his own diminishment.
In the final years of his reign, all King Fahd of Saudi Arabia could ever say to a visiting dignitary was ‘You are very welcome’ over and over.
Very little Calli. Nearly all were happy to go along with the lark, while making advantageous deals on the side.
The death toll in Germany has risen to five.
Merry Christmas from Mo. And please don’t try to gaslight me about his motives dumbdumb media. But you will, of course. It’s the nature of the beast.
The excellent German blogger Eugypius has a very good article on the latest crazy murderer – bizarrely an ex- Islamist. Just shows Islamist has a long lasting effect on crazies.
If you are raised in a culture of “Forever Hate”, when the tipping point comes your actions will be hateful.
It’s a default position, regardless of any paper thin veneer you dress yourself with.
Early Chrissie with the Gosford grandees (4 of ’em) and switched on their Chrissie lights ..
That Santa is 5mts tall .. LOL!
Enjoy them Shatterzzz.
I also like that you know how fortunate you are.
Bless, and have a fun Christmas.
@KenPaxtonTX
Coalition of Over 30 Attorneys Representing Over 1,500 Remdesivir Victims Blast ABC with Cease and Desist Over Dangerous ‘Miracle Cure’ Claim in New Show
It seems the ABC needs to be hit with more Lawsuits before they learn to tell the truth.
The money won’t last long at this rate.
And I’m sure he had plenty of money to play with.
Slovak PM Fico Says Zelensky Tried to Bribe Him Into Voting for Ukraine Membership in NATO
The Bee on the mark again.
National Debt Paid Off With The Change In Dan Crenshaw’s Swear Jar
Vicki mentioned this article in nested comments. Worth a look.
Astonishing that the default position for this well edumacated scum was to kill innocents. Until you take years of indoctrination into account.
Years of medical indoctrination to first do no harms seems not to have worked. Funny that.
Hey Crossie,
Calli’s troll seems to have added your good self to its list.
😀
@alexbruesewitz
Liz Cheney is like Laura Tingle, only with better hair.
Re the speculation about why Biden’s mental deterioration was not acted on so as to displace him:
Kamala Harris would have been the replacement.
I commented at the time of her appointment that she was merely a guarantee that the 25th Amendment would not be invoked against Joe.
fair enough
Which is why the Democrats couldn’t even think about impeaching Nixon until the got rid of Spiro T Agnew. It’s one of the primary roles of a vice-president.
They’re trying to blame Madgeburg on Musk, Tommy Robinson, and the AFD.
I suppose we should laugh!
Professor Ralp Schoellhammer (someone who I have a lot of time for) on the Magdeburg crime….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzlGGKj6nTk
Remember how, after the Southport murders, the accused was described by the MSM and authorities as some sweet native born Christian lad from Cardiff, who’d once been a choir boy? Well, we’re now seeing, yet again, the MSM trying to gaslight the population about the Magdeburg accused, that he’s far-right, he’s an AFD supporter and so on.
We live in a clown world but that clown world is becoming more and more rancid and dangerous.
Meanwhile, the German authorities, despite more than one warning from Saudi Arabian intelligence, despite the accused’s numerous Twitter threats about his intention to commit mass murder, didn’t intervene to stop/prevent this mass murder but those same German authorities will knock on your door if you make a joke on X about a Greens politician’s weight and those same German authorities have said they will abide by the ICC warrant and arrest and deport Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever steps foot in Germany.
Ho ho ho.
AfD will get a boost from this. That’s probably why the lying media are trying to blame them.
Krauts have to kraut.
He did what the Socialist government in Germany brought him in to do – that is, to terrorise the people. And the media is complicit in that terrorism as they gaslight the victims and tell them “Nothing to see here, go back to sleep.”
Outrage as homeowner is jailed after calling cops on squatter… and is told to ‘think about it from their point of view’
I’ve had a squatter tell me “he was entitled to a house.’
In cases like this, you do not call cops or go the legal way.
There is only one way to deal with squatters.
The police have discovered that if they allow the criminals to have free rein, they have a more comfy life. Likewise the judges.
They are now the enemy of every civilised Westerner.
crying is not an emergency
J.D. Vance on TikTok making a very obvious point, very well.
Why Don’t Environmentalists like Nuclear?
As has been pointed out by other people, it’s not about environmentalism, it’s about class. Our civilisation has advanced so far that all of us can now have the best of everything technology can offer, there is nothing to differentiate the elite from the commoners.
Their aim is to impoverish the world so only the rich can afford the luxuries. The proof is that all the climate activists are from rich families, the rest of us are working to afford the good things.
That didn’t take long. Bald in Syria having a look around.
Good stuff.
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Bald and Bankrupt:
Undercover Inside Syria’s Narco Factories
I stopped looking at C.L’s Currency Lad few weeks ago, back in October. However yesterday I had a peep again and sadly I think C.L. has left us because if he had not there would be no way he would allow the site to continue to be trashed the way it has been over the last four months.
It should be shut down.
My theory is he is somehow connected to the new Qld government. A staffer or similar. The timing is too close.
I dare say CL would have nothing to do with the new QLD government.
Even if so, it would not take him long to shut it down. It is now destroyed by leftard idiots (BIRM).
Unfortunately, it seems to be impossible to contact CL or anyone who knows him.
Sinc may know him as CL did regular guest posts on the old Cat. Or at least he probably has his email address somewhere.
I have stopped commenting there since nasty and brain-dead morons like Martin and a returning Ed Case have been trolling the place.
Ed Case seems to be suffering undiagnosed schizophrenia as his comments are often contradictory, incoherent and all over the place.
I said my farewells to CL on that site many weeks ago.
I think he is incapacitated or deceased.
The site is now open to become an internet sewer.
CL deserves better than this.
Lol. The only thing that makes sense here is an ex-Muslim Iranian dissident in Germany trying to pin this on Iran.
Actually yes it’s believed he is (or was) Shia and the Saudi Government has been trying to extradite him for quite a while. I don’t know what they want him for but Germany refused the request.
There is a Shia area in the east of Saudi Arabia which is restive and has a number of jihadist groups located there. They’re trying to declare independence. There’ve been regular bouts of violence and repression over the decades.
It could also be that he’s just another Muslim lunatic, DB, and he wanted to kill people.
Explainer:
Travelling over Christmas is always fraught.
Yes, I wonder too. Maybe cross reference those people with the Epstein Island visitor logs. Or attendees of Diddy’s parties. Or appearances in Hillary’s email cache. People can be made to stfu.
Just a thought.
If a few of us just spam the site with a large volume of innocuous comments it kind of buries the morons running loose over there.
Good idea, I will give it a go.
I’ll be in that.
On the Magdeburg murderer from;
Salman Al-Ansari | ????? ????????
@Salansar1
A Saudi political commentator, writer, and public speaker.
A frequent guest on CNN, BBC, and France24.
RTWT
https://x.com/Salansar1/status/1870382338040848634
Taqqiyah.
What a shit show.
These bushfires in the Grampians in Victoria….
Any windfarms/solar in the vicinity – hoping?.
But seriously, keep safe Firies and residents
Apparently the Hanomag halftrack repair facility isn’t under threat.
Sadly, no, its all pretty much pristine bush except for Halls Gap, which is a rather sweet tourist town. The bush is full of native animals … we saw lots of roos and possums fleeing. The behaviour of the roos was sad … I saw quite a few hop back into the flames and disappear after they had reached safety in the grasslands 🙁
With reference to the discussion yesterday, it seems pretty clear that a significant proportion of the AWM staff see their jobs as just another front in the ongoing culture war being waged by the left against Australian history.
What, then to do?
First, a lot of work in the AWM is already done by volunteers. Tasks included guides for visitors, assistance to visitors researching family members, conservation of major items, and collation of data.
Perhaps more tasks should be given to volunteers with interest in commentating Australia’s military history, and fewer revisionists given power over the presentation of that history?
As a simple example, for years the Army History Unit sponsored authors writing about Australian military history. For a relatively small cost, a lot of work was produced.
Expanding on that would seem to be a better approach than, as now, pouring large sums into the pockets of philosophically hostile revisionists.
Sub-contract much of the work to Muddy!
I’ve heard the uniformed Army History Group has been gutted, replaced with civi staff not the old SM’s who used to run it and the museums being merged. Seems to be a pattern here remove ex uniformed veterans and replace with PS types who are full of the cool aid and with no technical knowledge.
The RAAC Tank museum Puckapunyal has been closed for probably 2 years now and merged with the RAA collection. Corp shop gone and I heard it was a damned good one if you liked building model tanks.
Have an ex 1 Armd relative who is incandescent with rage over it.
Actually, the AHU during the period I described was run by a civilian historian (formerly FDA division). IIRC, when he left he was replaced by a (possibly retired) Army officer, at the same time as Army gutted the publication program, possibly to grab the money.
There were always serving and ex-serving members, as well as civilians.
Pity about the RAAC museum at Pucka – that was well worth a visit.
That’s a damn shame, it was a fantastic place.
There is always the Australian armour and artillery museum in Cairns. It even has a few frigging Panzers and Tigers, and a wide array of APCs and field guns.
Having worked there many years ago I can assure you the place was a mess of woke then. I can’t imagine anything has changed. The cultural institutions are overun with homos and dikes and their supporters.
Before heading off to LOL land, as you usually do when you can’t come up with a response, do you think it might be worthwhile to counter the facts presented in the post, or is an LOL enough for you these days?
Any counters other than LOLing to these points?
2. Disturbingly, his plans to carry out mass killings of Germans were brought to the attention of German authorities by a Saudi woman. Tragically, the police ignored her warnings.
For those interested, German substack writer eugyppius:
(I’ve cut some screenshots and related text for ease of posting.)
I wonder how he earned a living- who was paying him?
‘…for years he has worked at a government clinic in Bernburg, where he has treated patients for problems with addiction.’
Will be interesting to see if there’s any break in his employment recently.
Thank You, Israel, for Saving the World, Defending Freedom and Reshaping the Middle East :: Gatestone Institute
Correct; and the same leftoid bastards attacking Israel, other than the vermin muzzies, are the same ones bringing the vermin into the West and promoting other Western destroying bullshit like global boiling and trannies are good.
Lol’ing when appropriate.
Given that Mandela on said bad things about trump this description is well deserved.
Absolute moron is unfair to morons.
Ooh, Jeremy Clarkson for ambassador!
Mitch Has Backup for Wars: Lindsey Is the New Budget Chair
Mandie is one of the villains from the bliar era where Britain got totally effed.
There’s a wonderful story about Mandie’s short-lived effort to become a man of the people and win preselection for a Labour seat in the North. When out campaigning Oop North, he walked into a fish and chip shop, pointed to the tray of mushy (pronounced ‘mooshy’) peas and asked ‘Could I have some of that guacamole please?’
In the midst of all this, I’m reminded of the story a couple of years ago of the two ex-Muslim Saudi sisters who committed suicide after their asylum claims were rejected (was it in Melbourne?).
That disappeared quickly.
If only they’d been Gazan, they might have stood a chance.
Didn’t know that- if I didn’t know about the malicious incompetence of canbra I’d say ‘unbelievable’ but it’s all too believable.
As I recall, their bodies were found in the unit they were renting after the rent went into arrears.
A curious journalist then pieced the story together.
Didn’t fit ‘the narrative’
I remember. It was so bloody sad. As others have mentioned above, they did not fit the narrative.
And from an appropriate electorate
Can’t have people jumping the queue, you know.
Everyone must be checked carefully and exhaustively and –
Bloody hell!
Get a move on, we’ve just got 3000 Hamas selected Gazans to get through this week or the Minister will want answers!
Fmr. Harris Surrogate: Joe Biden’s Trying to Burn Things Down at Jill’s Urging on the Way Out
dr Jill not happy
Doc Jill is the template for classic mean girl. See also our FM The Pongster.
it seems pretty clear that a significant proportion of the AWM staff see their jobs as just another front in the ongoing culture war being waged by the left against Australian history.
At our expense- it’s not just the rotten ABC but the whole canbra abomination that needs a thorough clean out.
Here are three incongruous assertions presented in her post. He’s a Shia Muslim, ISIS supporter, and that he might have been in cahoots with the Saudi government. And then when you check the replies there is a comment of his admitting/ alleging he’s Sunni.
dover,
After over 12 years working/living in the ME and Nth Africa among moslems I can tell you honestly, there is NO END (literally) to the convoluted lies and deflections, deceptions, justifications, squirrel running and complex utter bullshit moslems employ to frame themselves as victims and righteous. While we westerners and the Joos are believed to be the root of all evil and are uniquely responsible for their own shitholeness (that actually resides inside their heads!) I don’t (nor should you) believe one syllable this moslem murderer has in his online history. This is how they always roll and it’s ingrained in them over centuries, starting from within the womb.
If you want to understand islam and moslems, go live with them in a sharia compliant country for a while.
What Makka said.
You need to live or work in close proximity to them to understand the depths of their duplicity.
I suspect I’m from a much younger generation than most on here. Nearly every woman I know has been sold the lie of career over everything else.
The ones I know who are happiest have children, and usually have done just fine career wise.
On the other hand, there’s plenty of mid to late 40’s I know who don’t have children, and may be normal on the surface, but dig a little and they’re all nuts. Like a teacher who loves kids, is driven and successful but will decide she’s in love with a bloke and love bomb him until he leaves her.
Or they go full lefty loon.
It’s like they’re without an anchor to keep them sane.
Forget women.
No lasting civilisation is based on chicks or their beliefs or desires.
Only men are important from a civilisational level.
Once men carve out the society they want from the raw material of reality, they can get chicks from anywhere.
Civilisations wherein men abrogate this mission disappear.
Give it a break Arky. I like men, but you are starting to turn me right off.
You’re getting hysterical.
Ask your closest man to calm you down.
mem,
arky’s haemorrhoids are crying.
He always gets like this when he runs out of ointment and the missus is away. 😀
No, mem.
Arky is right.
You may not like some of his work, but most is pretty spot on.
Except his Model T restoration mania.
Women’s jobs is to make babies and raise them, everything else is window dressing
There are many reasons why the West is in crisis:
islam
communism
environmentalism
woke issues
liberated women
weak conservatives
The common element is the left. What is the solution.
And who are the left?
See my previous comments about the political divide between men and women.
Hi, Bluey, lots of women here juggled all these things, but I don’t know of any who bought the lie of career uber alles. Speaking for myself only, I have had a good career, a good marriage and good kids. Being sensible and stable helps.
eugyppius paints a picture that makes the most sense out of all the scenarios presented so far. You have here an ex-Muslim that became increasingly delusional and paranoid about German authorities who then acted out violently under stress.
Problem with most other scenarios is fitting the facts to suit existing priors.
At this stage I’d suggest it’s the most plausible scenario given what we know.
(I’m interested to learn if the fellow was on leave from work due to erratic behaviour – that would be another piece of the puzzle.)
Interesting comparison of Taleb Al Abdulmohsen and our own Sheikh Haron ( or Monis as the press insist on calling him). Both Shia and supposedly flipped. But the common element is that the West constantly imports these Muz lunatics and refuses to hand them back. I wonder how many more there are claiming refugee status. I guess we will find out in time.
He wasn’t a retarded two year old or a badly trained puppy FFS.
Adult humans are responsible for their actions and their consequences.
Women get a small discount because they aren’t always fully rational, but otherwise…
If women get a discount on that basis so must the mentally ill.
Hoist on your own petard!
But seriously, mental illness is not necessarily a get out of jail free card. The bar for the “insanity” plea is quite high and will usually result in detention for the protection of the community.
You don’t have to live and sleep with the mentally ill.
Arky, Arky! We all have a choice.
Poorly worded, sorry.
We (men) don’t have to live with the mentally ill, but we do have to live with women, therefore we grant them some grace over the fact that they act completely mad some of the time.
Arky,
you just told us men don’t need women until they have built a civilisation.
Where is your kingdom? Did you buy the Hutt River Province?
haw. 😀
Well, civilisationally speaking it’s a bit crowded right now.
And ours seems to be in the decline phase.
The bar for the “insanity” plea is quite high and will usually result in detention for the protection of the community.No, most are let out to roam the streets.
How many asylums are there? I can’t think of many – the really violent ones are in gaols undergoing forced medication regimes, which is useless for them and any further treatment is about sedating them so they don’t kill other prisoners.
Every Psychiatric Department in a hospital will have a list of ‘clients’ who are routinely injected with antipsychotics while living in the community, and just as routinely some move on and don’t get their drugs.
Arky, Arky Arky, in my semi-Sicilian household of drama, I am the rational one by the length of the straight.
Ahhhh!
You think you are the rational one, but that’s only because those traditional blokes are too polite and gentlemanly to point out your madness.
How and why the Conservatives betrayed their voters on immigration
Make your own applications to the Australian Gliberals.
As someone whose only interaction with the immigration process was an attempt to get a UK passport to avoid the queues at Heathrow (which ultimately proved unsuccessful) it is hard to fathom just how porous most modern national borders are.
Indeed. Thirty years ago we couldn’t get a visa for my widowed f-i-l, even though he had a British colonial civil service pension and would have had proceeds from the sale of his house and would thus never have been an impost on the Australian taxpayer.
Most people have a story to tell. Long time family friends tried to get visas for their Spanish cousins (qualified graduate engineers) during the 00s without success.
KayRudd will still get the cold shoulder.
But he might have to take a number and wait in line.
He can’t even come first in a Most Odious Ambassador competition.
Perpetual loser since his school days. We all know a Kruddy.
Trump wants the Panama Canal back;
https://x.com/alx/status/1870620379024384223
Great WIP; best of the political memes; any of the socialism ones.
Lover the one about how even the Germans could not make socialism work.
Panama has been undermining the US by allowing vast numbers of country shoppers to flood along the Darien Gap.
They may be about to find that there are consequences to being an uncooperative and unfriendly nation.
Love that man.
The convoluted discussion about the kraut terrorist attack misses the point. He is a muzzie; any other reason is superfluous.
Exactly.
Clinging on by the fingernails news (the Hun):
Happy New Year, Pesutto.
I am pretty sure that my local MP didn’t vote on Deeming coming back. Can anyone confirm?
Nick McGowan is his name.
Indolent December 21, 2024 9:45 pm
Tucker Carlson with Jeffrey Sachs
“She’s Critical” – Why Tulsi Gabbard Is Trump’s Most Important Nominee
He wants America to stop interfering in Chinese internal affairs? OK.
How many Biolabs has he built in China?
How many Chinese politicians has he bought?
How many American soldiers have invaded the Chinese mainland?
How many tons of lethal drugs has the US smuggled into China to kill its youngsters?
What this bloke – Jeffrey Sachs? wants is the unilateral disarming of the US in international relations, or so it seems to me.
A topic for contemplation at this time of the year:
I saw an interview on Utube with a bloke that is reputed to have an IQ of 200. He offered his thoughts on Divinity. Reckons the Universe is God.
As many of you may know I am a fan of the German poet Rilke who mused that we are here “ so that God may know himself in you”. Loved that idea. Also interested in the idea of God being the Universe.
But then, if so, can God accomodate Evil in that scenario?
Vicki, He can.
Why?
Because He gave us the right of free will, and will is of no consequence unless there is a choice.
So He gave us the choice – Good, or Evil.
Strange that’s exactly what my Palestinian taxi driver said
Black holes being Satan? Sucking the light from the universe? That’s a thought.
Pantheism is an inherently contradictory position in that it assumes a non-theistic deity (a “god” without the classical attributes of God).
You might call it the last resort of the materialist in denial of the supernatural, i.e. an order of existence above (so to speak) the material realm.
Just a bigger Gaia.
Definitely parallels there, yes.
Paganism, also in its neo variety, might be viewed as mystical materialism.
All the news feeds keep calling the turd a “far-right, ex mussie”.
Maintain the narrative filthy traitors.
The media – by being in lockstep with the Left – have overplayed their hand. Like the media ‘talking points’ during the US elections, they are showing themselves to be tools of their political masters.
Remember ‘weird’ bursting forth in multiple formats within a few hours?
“Far Right Ex Mussie” is locked into the same Lefty screech.
They are tools of the Socialist Elites.
Women have had the vote in Australia for 122 years.
The first women to vote are so long dead, they’re dust.
The first female university graduate was 141 years ago. She dead. Loooong time ago.
Yet, when I go into my local bike shop to get my derailleurs adjusted, all the mechanics are boys.
I watch the electricity company cherry picker, and it’s yet another dude on the line way up there, risking getting his cock cooked at high voltages.. The girls are only interested in standing there holding the stop sign apparently, and so it is with every roadwork crew I pass. The men are doing the work of fixing the road, the women are holding the traffic sign.
The local primary school is full of female staff, and the math department of the local high school is full of blokes.
The car mechanics are all men, nearly four decades after our Kylie played a mechanic on Neighbours.
90% of the people working in the dirtiest and highest risk to life and limb occupations are, can you guess? Men.
But if any of these facts are mentioned, conservative “good” women go into paroxysms of indignation and female solidarity with their leftist sisters, with a side serve of denial of reality.
Men and woman are different, and we on the centre right have to talk about roles, at least as much as those on the left are.
We have gone past the point where we can afford polite deference to female feelings, the left ain’t waiting for us to catch on to the scam, and our sons and daughters need us to figure it out.
Yet, when I go into my local bike shop to get my derailleurs adjusted, all the mechanics are boys.
I have now done 3 days on a CFA truck at the Grampians fires and interacted with at least a hundred firemen…. yes, MEN…. I took special note and saw a grand total of 3 females in the lot. Somewhat amazingly, one had blue hair!
On the other hand, the MAJORITY of the paid comms staff are female and they do an amazing job at it. I suspect the females generally superior multitasking ability is the reason.
superior multitasking ability??? please…..
Well, it seems they aren’t there to hold a hose.
In the UAE there are more female graduates than male and most jobs seem to be open to women if there is a need for more employees, though only men do the physically tough work. Men and women though are admirably (in my view) seen as essentially different and with women in need of male protection and care. How it is done in Islam (veils, hijabs, personal restrictions etc) isn’t my cup of tea, but the underlying ideals are, again in my view, commendable, as is the ideal of heterosexual marriage for bearing and raising children.
As we see men and women walking around together in any street, any anthropologist from Mars would immediately note that there are two kinds of human beings – the bigger ones and the smaller ones. In general, with outlying exceptions, that difference is the case and other difference also hold.
One day the European world will return to sanity regarding how to make a decent society offering certain rights to all and recognising that differences do exist. The idea that women can do everything doesn’t mean either that women should do everything. There must be negotiating space here, but the current ideology of total equalness is very misguided.
The msm label “far-right” is rapidly losing its ability to scare people through lazy overuse.
The ABC (which gave Pesutto a lot of air time and must have only narrowly avoided a defamation suit themselves) applied it to Moira Deeming, for heaven’s sake.
Yep. Another word lost to the Left, which would come as no surprise to Orwell.
Inescapable are the facts that he came to Germany as an immigrant, from an islamic nation under sharia law, who after living well in the west over several years has now betrayed that goodwill and horrifically massacred innocent people enjoying Christmas.
The AfD migration policy proven right again.
A long article from Tablet is here.
I followed the link to it on Citizen Free Press.
The author chronicles the rise of obama through the manipulation of public opinion provided by axlerod and his cohorts. He also shows how Musk buying Twitter broke the dam and eventually allowed the great masses of deplorables to realise they were neither alone nor wrong in their thinking, with a side dish of the tech “elites” realising they may have backed a losing horse.
The final paragraph is below.
Thanks, Bill! More people need to know what a prick Obama was to the western society which gave him power and fame.
I pray that history records exactly who he was. This, of course, depends (at least in the short term) on the critical ability of current historians. From my experience, that does not augur well.
Thanks for sharing Bill – this was a great read with obvious parallels in the Covid era control apparatus deployed here, particularly by Andrews. Also provides an explanation for the ridiculous MI6 Instagram account.
A fascinating and superb read – Thanks Bill.
He’s a lefty.
Christmas Market Attack Suspect Was a Saudi Arabian ‘Leftist’ Asylum Activist Promoted by BBC: Reports (21 Dec)
There’s certainly a whole bunch of contradictions, taqiyya maybe, grandstanding, or just psychosis, but he was an asylum seeker activist who publicly described himself as a leftist, and was on speed dial to a number of MSM outlets including the BBC.
Where’s all this incongruity in her post?
Oh yeah, replies:
Translation: “No.. We will return Hamas to Gaza and if you like we can bring Hamas to your home so you can taste it” Turns out this terrorist was a radical muslim jihadist and a “Palestinian” supporter after all. Never trust a single one of them and their filthy taqiyya.
No, no, the wireless assures me he is a doctor who has lived in Germany for 18 years, surely there has been some mistake?!
The Vic LNP situation is a disgrace. That they can’t muster enough numbers to depose Pesutto now, even after his proven lies and petty viciousness, screams of cowardice and complete disregard for the Vic electorate.
Labor are sitting back, popcorn in hand watching this self destruction.
I suspect there is at least one more chapter to be written after the Christmas/NYE break if not before.
Perhaps. But this whole sad affair exposes just how mean spirited, weak and cowardly are the majority of Vic LNP’s. Even if Pesutto is eventually deposed, those grubs will still be there.
Correct, surviving the first leadership spill ALWAYS results in failing the next time, and the vote was effectively a confidence motion in his leadership.
Cocky Reporter Tries to OUTSMART Trump’s DOGE Director Vivek Ramaswamy, Fails Woefully
The future turned out a complete disappointment.
We were supposed to be riding turbine- powered robot dinosaurs with laser eyes to a three hour workday at the local robot factory.
Instead, we continue to buy pre- landfill from a global slave based dictatorship of pathological arseholes, while our fellow citizens either work 14 hour days keeping the dying remnants of an industrial society functioning, or laze about pretending to work from home, while swapping pictures of food.
And we’ll never get the Starship Troopers shower scenes, just the bad parts of that movie.
Arky dreams of being the Brain Bug. 😀
Movie is a guilty pleasure.
however, I will never forgive Verhoeven for so completely and deliberately misrepresenting the political ideas in the book. Gaslighting before it was called gaslighting.
Yes, I read it earlier. It’s excellent.
SACKED by GB News – The Mark Dolan Show Announcement
The German government has blood on its hands.
Import barbarians, ignore their threats and behaviour, get dead innocents.
https://x.com/Salansar1/status/1870382338040848634?t=y7by5-Sa-1B4oazpGfXNpA&s=19
Without seeing the brief of evidence I’d take the Saudi charges with a grain of salt. Not the most impartial justice system in the world.
A point I’ve been making for years.
The terrorists were brought in by the Socialist government to terrorise their citizens and the media and police assist in the act.
Germany and Europe itself are run by a cabal of Communists and Capitalist Technocrats, determined to punish the citizenry for not adopting their Socialist principles.
Yes.
That happens.
Usually.
Obviously you haven’t faced the reality of the alternative.
So does the Australian gubment. The pollimuppets and the canbra pubes. People murdered in Melbourne Sydney and Brisbane.
The salami up there with trumble in the despicable stakes. Has to be blasted out. Agree it’s sickening that he still has supporters in the lp after everything that’s happened
cohenite
December 22, 2024 11:32 am
My favourites …
And also …
Oh ho ho HOOOOO news (the Hun):
That is waaaay too late.
And:
Oh my lord. Snivelling to the very end.
So what was the deal? Pay his fees? Hope not as Liberal donations will dry up. Got made an offer he couldn’t refuse? Perhaps, it does run in Italian families. Allowed to stay on until after the by elections then POQ.
I would love to have been at that meeting.
His arse must be so bloody sore he has to wear Depends.
Shoud be The End.
Last but not least …
To further illustrate:
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, the public abhors a weathervane.
He is a very slow learner and somebody that no party can afford to harbour among their ranks. Get a leader who is quick witted.
From Bill from the Bushe’s link
Knuckle Dragger
December 22, 2024 1:40 pm
Oh ho ho HOOOOO news (the Hun):
That is waaaay too late.
Even less respect for this dickhead now (if that’s possible).
He’s only apologising now because his job is on the line, not because he recognises that he is an Olympic standard moron.
Further, and from the same piece:
This has the makings of an imminent and very public and self-inflicted stake-burning.
An extremely smelly tomcat being dragged by his tail towards a bath.
Which will be administered by Moira. Please lady wear leathers and other PPE, you will need them with all the flailing claws and voided bowels.
And all the snakes who stood by Pesutto voting Deeming out should be tied up right there at the stake with him.
Coincidentally I was thinking of a similar ending for those who run vehicles through crowds.
So whilst all the attention is on the German Christmas Killer
this….
California man Alexander Paffendorf accused of plotting coordinated attack with Wisconsin school shooter | Daily Mail Online
A California man has been arrested for allegedly plotting a coordinated attack with Wisconsin school shooter Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow.
Alexander Paffendorf, 20, of Carlsbad, was detained by FBI agents on suspicion of ‘plotting’ to coordinate a mass shooting at government buildings in conjunction with Rupnow, according to an emergency gun violence restraining order reviewed by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
‘During an FBI interview, Paffendorf admitted to the FBI agents that he told Rupnow that he would arm himself with explosives and a gun that he would target a government building,’ the order says.
It notes that FBI agents ‘saw the messages from Paffendorf to Rupnow.’
A San Diego judge approved the order on Tuesday, and required Paffendorf to surrender any firearms and ammunition, and prohibited him from acquiring any more.
Shortly afterwards, neighbors told CBS 8 they saw more than a dozen police cars enter the apartment complex where Paffendorf lives.
‘They had their full guns out all over the street,’ neighbor Alex Gallegos said. ‘They were cop cars. I’d say about 15 cops here.’
He said he saw police coming out of the building carrying what he described as a ‘black gun box’
The pictured protective order states that Alexander Paffendorf, a 20-year-old man from California, was confronted by FBI agents “after he was discovered plotting a mass sh00ting” with Natalie Rupnow.
The order added that Paffendorf “admitted to the FBI agents that he told Rupnow that he would arm himself with expl0sives and a
and that he would target a government building.”
He was only “detained”, ADMITTED to it, and then he was RELEASED.
The order said FBI agents “saw the messages from Paffendorf to Rupnow.”
They managed to get an emergency 7 day order, which expires on Monday.
His court date isn’t until Jan 3rd, 2025. Why is this man walking around FREELY?
How did he connect to a 15 yo in Wisconsin?
we continue to buy pre- landfill from a global slave based dictatorship of pathological arseholes, while our fellow citizens either work 14 hour days keeping the dying remnants of an industrial society functioning, or laze about pretending to work from home, while swapping pictures of food.
Arky! I know what you are doing! Clearly a pretty good attempt to be Ebenezer Scrooge at Christmas!
Vicki,
Scrooge came good in the end.
Arky?
Shakes head, walks away…
PRS framework
‘In the “problem, reaction, solution” framework, the process typically starts with the identification or creation of a problem.
This problem could be a real issue or one that is exaggerated or manufactured for the purpose of generating a particular response. The problem is carefully crafted to evoke strong emotional reactions from the public, such as fear, anger, or a sense of urgency.
Once the problem is presented, the next stage involves monitoring and manipulating the public reaction. This can be achieved through media coverage, propaganda, or other forms of communication that amplify the emotional response of the public. The intention is to ensure that the desired reaction aligns with the agenda or objectives of the orchestrators.
Finally, a pre-planned solution is offered as the apparent resolution to the problem. This solution may have been devised well in advance, and its presentation is strategically timed to take advantage of the heightened emotional state of the public.
It may involve policy changes, new laws, increased surveillance, or other measures that may serve the interests of a select group or individual, often at the expense of civil liberties, transparency, or public welfare.
Imagine the following scenario:
A powerful government clandestinely releases a harmful chemical into the water supply of a small town.
This chemical is designed to induce feelings of fear and paranoia in the population.
As the townspeople consume the contaminated water, they begin experiencing heightened anxiety, distrust, and a growing sense of insecurity.
The government closely monitors the public’s reaction and exploits the growing unease to manipulate them into accepting increasingly restrictive measures.
Through controlled media narratives, they portray certain groups as scapegoats and amplify social divisions, further fuelling fear and hostility (think anti-vaxxers).
Eventually, the government presents a pre-planned solution to the crisis they orchestrated—the implementation of a pervasive surveillance system that promises enhanced security and protection.
This solution is presented as the only way to regain stability and eliminate the perceived threats.
Under the guise of protecting the population, the government uses this manufactured crisis to consolidate power, curtail civil liberties, and maintain control over the population through constant surveillance and suppression of dissent.’
https://www.themodernenquirer.com/p/understanding-the-hegelian-dialectic
The common problem being presented is terrorists. And we have our own
Was that the entire premise of Firefly and the Reavers?
This sounds intriguing, and vaguely familiar in recent years – notwithstanding the undeniable fact the governments are almost exclusively comprised of idiots, which makes the above scenario moot.
However, if one were to read the entire piece, it turns out it’s a pitch for the legalisation of cannabis.
Have family in the electorates of Bendigo East and Euroa. The malaise is deep.
They don’t know what to do. Dumb or dumber been described to me.
Bendigo East, Jacinta Allan so need we say anymore. There’s going to be no change there either in a hurry. The Libs never put quality up there either.
The other, member for Euroa has a pretty face but is lacking any substance or even and any sort of visibility actually. 1 announcement in 12 months about country racing events in the new year while there are road pot holes approaching yearly milestones. The ALP senator got their local Catholic school funding to build a new faculty in the school and has been out and about getting funding for other infrastructure (except roads oddly enough). This in a safe Nats seat, as much as the senator is part of the despised Allan Govt she has grudging respect. The Liberals or even National don’t want Government IMO
Is the senator Raf Ciccone? One of the few decent people left in the Victorian ALP.
John Pesutto has called a special party room meeting for next year to let Moira Deeming back into the Liberal Party.
The pustule has popped.
Hello…
Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto apologises to Moira Deeming, calls new vote
ABC News 54m ago
Why didn’t he just resign. Instead he drags the libs through Xmas without a result and the public is left in the lurch. His 14 backers should also resign. Replace with non woke, rational people that reject the hoax of climate change, support small government and are pro a productive business sector.
My thoughts, fwiw – he’s not very bright & he was following the advice of grandees afraid of losing control of the party.
Oh my lord. Snivelling to the very end.
Pesutto reminds me of the German fellow digging the grave in Saving Private Ryan.
“Trans is shit !”
“Deeming is gut”.
Keep digging little man.
Footage of Pesutto from the 2min mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1tUJuexrd4
Footage of Pesutto removal.
90% of the people working in the dirtiest and highest risk to life and limb occupations are, can you guess? Men.
But if any of these facts are mentioned, conservative “good” women go into paroxysms of indignation and female solidarity with their leftist sisters, with a side serve of denial of reality.
I can’t really agree that “conservative good women” deny that men do the hard, dangerous and physical work. Although I agree that many ideologues just can’t acknowledge reality, I don’t think this is as widespread as you think. I think the number of women who work alongside of their men in difficult work are a minority, but their numbers are greater than 10%, I believe.
Women working to their physical capacity are most often seen in rural areas. In my own case, we share and divide the chores according to capacity. My husband is “machines and maintenance”, being inherently mechanically minded and an engineer. He does all the tractor and heavy machinery work and maintenance, fencing (a s–t of a job), heavy brush cutting, tree cutting (although we both do land clearing and “munching” with the tractor attachment) and many.many other farming jobs (like digging post holes or using the post digger) which are too physically heavy for me.
What do I do? Growing up on a farm, I am fundamentally “livestock and pasture”. I not only make all the decisions in respect to these areas, but physically engage with livestock, since I understand them. Rarely is this work too physically demanding, especially since dangerous work is lessened in the yards. Admittedly, I recently seriously challenged my physical capability by carting feed and water for months to an ailing animal. But mostly I can handle these jobs.
Besides my work with livestock, I advise on all pasture decisions and basically do all the work (except some heavy planting & difficult pruning) on gardens and grounds of around 3 acres.
I am not especially hardworking compared to many other women in our valley and in other rural locations. They all do physically demanding and dangerous work on their properties.
I think the number of women who work alongside of their men in difficult work are a minority, but their numbers are greater than 10%, I believe.
I refer to my observation that only 3% of CFA volunteers I saw at the Grampians fire were women.
Dad would go and fight the fires and Mum and us kids would milk the150 head of dairy cows, do the watering, clean the sheds and spread hay. Someone had to run the farm while the blokes went to the fire.
The only reason I have to ask the local blokes for help with the jobs I used to do myself on the farm are, because I’m such a cripple these days.
I get things done, albeit very slowly.
I rarely needed help until ten years ago.
No complaints. I am still capable of much work, I need to take my time is all.
Not too proud to ask for help.
It is what it is.
Vicki, you are unlike 90% of women. That’s obvious, and I doubt any here have any quarrel with that.
God made man and woman to complement each other – not compete, and that is also obvious.
The issue is that ideology has displaced God and his intentions, and many are incapable of working this out.
Nicely put Vicki.
Fencing and pothole digging are indeed absolute s–ts of jobs, which is why this descendant of farmers is happy to be a townie. Most of the ancestral farmhouses have fallen down with neglect because the ancestors’ properties are too small by today’s standards. The ‘get big or get out’ imperative hit small farmers hard from the 60s.
By the way, my mother and my aunts would troop off early in the morning to the milking shed in the late 20s, singing as they went, before going to school.
That is over six standard deviations above the mean. While not necessarily impossible, I would want to know what test he took and who administered it before I gave much credence to the claim.
The highest reported standard score for most IQ tests is 160.
I recall James Woods is about 180. And a more incisive commenter you’ll be hard to find.
Piers Anthony’s SF novel Macroscope uses IQ as a subtheme in an interesting way. A fine read!
I believe it about Woods. Sharon Stone is reputed to be mensa level. Lol.
Most of the decent IQ brains refuse to be members of mensa.
I don’t blame them.
And what a dickhead she has revealed herself to be.
My brother tested at 165+ as a teenager in 1960s. He had a reputable career in physics. Mine was 135+, I had a good career in journalism and about a million other things, and a lot of fun along the way.
IQ is not an index of everything.
I refer to my observation that only 3% of CFA volunteers I saw at the Grampians fire were women.
Duk, in our RFS unit (Central Tablelands NSW) you are right – the majority of the firefighters are men. Even so, I recall during the catastrophic Gospers fire of a few years ago, the wife of the local Fire Captain regularly braved the fireground to bring provisions to the men.
I am not entirely in disagreement with Arky and yourself. Firefighting, for example, is a bloody dangerous business and physically demanding. I am loathe to quote examples (& I will not) but I would not want a woman in charge of a firefield operation, whether backburning or the real deal. I say no more.
I did use to be a volunteer with my local brigade, and I’ve shared a fireground with some very capable ladies, indeed.
Why do I keep hearing Monty Python’s theme music
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-navy-fighter-pilots-eject-safely-shot-down-red-sea-friendly-fire-uss-gettysburg/
Friendly fire isn’t.
Unfortunately, shit does happen.
How would they get the identity wrong.. ? They’re out there chasing Houthis, who, as far as I’m aware, don’t have an airforce …. LOL!
John Prosciutto has apologized for saying he wants to defeat the ALP at the next state election
And we’ll never get the Starship Troopers shower scenes, just the bad parts of that movie.
Im not saying Arky is right, but I did spot one of the forward scouts out at Wiluna…
Interesting update on the corrupt merchan and the stormy slut conviction: juror misconduct has been added to the merchan and his slut daughter misconduct. I originally thought merchan should be struck off, then jailed but his corruption and that of the DA bragg, the fat, black soros bastard, has been so bad they should be sentenced to execution by being forced to ride on the NY subway.
‘WE WON’: Trump lawyer accuses Judge Merchan of ‘disregarding’ SCOTUS
“whitewashing the civil war by pinning most if not all of the casualties on Assad but not also upon Al Nusra/ HTS.”
I’ve noticed that, it’s now Assad 600,000 isis nil.
They (media) gotta get revenge .. fleeing to Russia (bad) instead of Ukraine (good) didn’t go down well .. LOL!
I read, on Twitter of all places, an opinion that persecutto using his deciding vote to keep Deeming out of the Liberal party could open the way for more legal action.
He’s been told by the court he was 300k worth wrong and he’s doubled down.
Smart.
I did wonder about that – him compounding his troubles by refusing to allow Deeming back into the party – isn’t that contempt of Court?
But I leave that to the finer legal minds here.
Deeming was clever enough to go to the Federal Court, which isn’t (yet – give them time) under the Socialist Left’s thumb as much as the Victorian Supreme Court.
Another inch overnight, building everywhere for another go today. Have to be well over 300-400mm over about a week now.
Been the most impressive start to wet season in decades.
Send it here, FFS Rockdoctor. My lawn is dead as.
If it ain’t a rude question, where do you live – nearest city is close enough.
You seem to be getting my share of the rain.
The ‘ville, 500km straight line to your NNE.
You’ll get your chance either from a Gulf low crossing land or a big cyclone bowling up southern cyclone ally through the Whitsundays.
Just as well Cricket Australia decided to schedule the Third Test at the Gabba in Brisbane in the middle of the wet season — one of the dumbest acts of self-harm by a sporting monopoly I can remember.
Agree and in nested comments made similar myself.
Wet is a tad early this year especially with the set up of the summer tropical patterns. However Brisbane from when I worked there in the early 1990’s in December was always wet even from afternoon storms. Same as a young boy in the wetter 1970’s at Enoggera, they were epic.
Can’t get past the suspicion that the tv networks with clueless B Comms types had a hand in the changes and CA rolled over for a tickle.
Even the usual November date would have been wet this year.
Nice little deluge as the low parked itself over the hinchinbrook range. It’s got a bit of pace to it now though off to the east, so hopefully things start to dry out for Christmas.
but yes a good start to the wet. Even here in Brissie my backyard gauge has had 540mm since the beginning of November. That’s half annual rainfall in six weeks, and the wet hasn’t even cranked up yet. It’s also more than double average nov-dec rain of 236mm.
Currently in the Brimpaen/Wonwondah area and have been watching this fire from the time the first column of smoke rose on Tuesday.
Huge volume of smoke in the last couple of hours as back burning is carried out.
In Horsham the other day and saw many “Department of name changes” personnel in their fresh bright green gear, counted four young women among them.
Would be interested if Duk has seen more females in the bright green v the orange yellow?
I’m soft compared to both my grans.
One did the milking (by hand) as grandpa stood guard over her with a shotty on account of headhunters. The other was a parlourmaid scrubbing away at the quality’s floors, beating carpets and all the other pre-mechanised domestic drudge stuff.
Hardest work I’ve ever done is brick cleaning with a bolster and lumpy, followed by sanding ceilings covered with plaster fruit by hand. Yick. Both done in the summer heat. Setting out and planting for actual money was a doddle.
And many hours of labour, but that was nothing compared to the six years of broken sleep.
These days I just watch the weeds grow and attack them with extreme prejudice.
Bloody ‘ell!
Where was this? Wilcannia?
Chuckle. No. New Hebrides. They’d snacked on one of his neighbours and he was determined not to be next on the menu.
Long ago, in a place far away and far from help. The New Broom has inherited his toughness, these things seem to skip generations.
Bah! Calli.
You lived through Papua.
I dips me lid, many times. 😀
Yes, I once cleaned a truckload of bricks from a demolition site with bolster and hammer, so I could pave right up the middle of my (way back then) drive strips and around the carport slab. Hard yakka. They were “Canberra Commons” so no holes, good for paving – apart from the cleaning bit!
I’d be more than happy to supply the firies with endless sandwiches and cool drinks plus a slab at the end of the day (been there, done that).
Being on the end of a hose I’d be more hindrance than help. You have to know your limitations in this world.
“in this world”, is superfluous according to Clint.
Apparently you have to have done the food courses to be a volunteer with the food
Groan, I had forgotten that.
Useless, make work, pubic serpents.
Addition to my Gosford grandees Xmas comment this morning .. Had my 1st ride in a TESLA (I don’t drive so petrol/electric argument doesn’t interest me) .. very impressed with it .. acceleration from 0-70 in 3 secs frightened hell out of me, very, very quiet and that 21inch computer screen instead of all the dials .. wow .. also self-drive & park but I’m guessin’ those are, across the range, standard features …
he sez it costs him about $2 a week (he has home charger) since he very rarely uses it to get to work when not WFH .. just drives down to Davistown ferry(parks) on to Woy Woy & train into city .. too small to move all the kids around together, the kiddie mobile is petrol …
Husband, who is a maddie car lover, cannot understand how it is legal to have such a huge screen which potentially takes so much of your attention from the road. But then he also can’t understand how it is legal to have a mobile phone stuck in front of you on the dash.
Great commuter cars. say 20kms a day and recharge on the panels on sundays. Just useless for long distance driving, but hey, all four of the Tesla’s within 100m of chez entropy (in an inner corporate dormitory suburb) also have a 4WD or AWD in the garage.
Little miss entropy is currently housesitting for a couple of lawyers that are the same. In their four car garage are two teslas and a Mercedes GLE.
And get this, for anyone whose income is high enough for the tax break to be worthwhile (say $150k) the FBT exemption makes a Tesla 3 competitive with a base Mazda 3 half its price.
the Mazda 3 Pure $251/week, Tesla 3 RWD $252/week.
Why surprise at women not being on the front line at a fire, not as physically capable as men.
Should go without saying that men and women are different.
Of course in some cultures the women do most of the manual labour while the men sit around doing nothing.
I’m grateful I live in the West.
You are right about ‘some’ cultures.
My Sunday has been Christian things but with time out for birdies.
Current projects are two. One is one of the western magpie kids, who is now reliably sitting on my hand. A week or two and I might try for a photo. She’s a full-on alpha female and fights with her siblings with great fury.
Project number two only started yesterday. Lady koel brought a boyfriend to the Cafe! As ladies do. So yesterday and today I managed to get him to try out that awesome stuff called Coles mince…
He’s a convert! Lady koel has wandered off but he’s lurking and hoping for more of the good stuff. I have three months to get him friendly before they all migrate to PNG.
If I could feed kohls it would be poison. Worse than Indian Mynas. Regularly wake me well before sunrise when they migrate to Canberra. Should be declared a pest and eradicated. Predate on large native honeyeaters.
Totally agree. Every morning at about 3:00 at this time of year. Noisy bastard. And of course, it’s a cuckoo species taking of the nests of other birds. They should be trapped and eradicated.
The Salami saga is just getting worse and worse. Jeez they better not be helping him with legal fees.
But is the NSW party any better? More left than Neville Wran with the vile Baird, the sneaky Gladishocklian, the useless Parrotette. And now the lefty speakperson. Oh yes, has Trumble been expelled yet?
The new guy in Qld far from perfect but def an improvement.
He actually won an election which is something the rest of the states Libs/Nats are not likely to do this decade.
and won well too
It was a drovers dog election.
Barely. The recent local government stuff up is typical.
I have never heard about such a stuff-up happening before. Can only imagine that it was deliberate and malicious. NSW Libs really hate their voters.
It is irelevant to the men/women tough jobs debate, but the discussion reminded me of the actions of the wonderful publican across the street during the ‘Morrison’ fires.
She packed up the pub, the bar and kitchen staff and headed off to set up a canteen for the fireries.
Naturally she was harrassed by plod and the fire bureaucrats but they didn’t push their luck. I believe the term ‘assertive woman’ is the current vogue.
>snork<
In my game you stay in country pubs on occasion.
Some of the best publicans have been women.
They don’t take s%$# and have a front bar full of regulars who will back her.
On what basis?
(Fire bureaucrats = there is a special place in hell for those bastards, their evil surpasses that of many other regulatory bureaucrats)
It is interesting assaying leftist commentary on X (the app formerly known as Prince) searching for anything of value.
I am guessing it is still to early.
There is a lot of people with ‘brilliant’ ideas wondering why the Democrats aren’t pursuing them – like Trump being an insurrectionist – territory long since gone over and abandoned. They seem to be thinking if they accuse him again this time it will surely stick. Can’t miss.
Lots of obsessing over Elon – calling him President and Trump his Press Secretary.
Lots of talking of Trump’s team wanting to enrich themselves – even though they have apparently enriched themselves already without being in government. While a brief glance at the Democrat front line shows people who have become rich while in government. Some by two orders of magnitude.
There is always a tide of talking points – hundreds of people forming a swell of the most recently endorsed ones – like the Republicans not wanting to fund pediatric cancer research – which was included in the bloated 1,457 page CR. Overlooking, of course, the fact a stand alone bill of funding had been passed by the Republican controlled house in March and Schumer then sitting on it. I believe that, since this has been pointed out the Senate has just today passed it. Caught out again, I suppose.
But the most consistent has been the smug cope of claiming MAGAts and Trumpists are already regretting voting for Trump. A plethora of things Trump is supposedly doing (and things promised already having affect like tariffs). These often cite supposed interactions with Trump voters saying as much – which is interesting since the left are so vocal about how they will not even acknowledge Trump voters, not even in their own families. These exorcised Trumpists are now humiliating themselves to someone who will skewer them for the next 4 years?
People of the same mental sophistication but slightly different coping temperament wonder repeatedly why MAGA and Trump voters are so angry and hate-filled. These threads will be brimming with what the left call memes – reading ‘F*ck Trump’ and ‘F*ck MAGA’, calling for Musk to be stripped of his wealth and deported, and so.
In my experience, from what I have seen, Trump supporters are not angry. They are ebullient. They are not focussed on a defeated opponent. They focus instead on the bright future, and that future is quite humble: financial security, their families, their jobs, and the security of living in a ‘strong’ America, which is not an America that is ruling the world, but one where it is not being undercut by outside influences like Chinese dumping practices and South American drug cartels, or an American government at war with its citizens.
I think much of what they call hate is a triumphant ribbing at their loss. The right is laughing, not hating. Laughing at the ineptitude of the Democrat candidate, the confused feebleness of their President, the failure of their lawfare, the discovery that their MSM attack dogs have not only lost their bite but are seriously afflicted with mange. But since these people think not being able to guess a person’s ‘gender’ by the particular shade of their purple hair colour, or someone saying that they have no problem with what someone believes as long as they don’t have abandon their own beliefs is a form of hate speech, violence, or rope, then the threshold of hate is impractically low.
I think it will be a long process. The left is all politics. Politics through and through. Their opposites are more focussed on family, community, friends, and colleagues. That is where they retreated after Biden’s curious victory.
They still found joy.
The left has no refuge. They are losing the election fresh every day, and will do so until they settle on an anointed savior figure at which point they will cease hating their opponents as victors and start instead hating them as future targets.
But they will never know peace.
Democrats projecting.
Some, such as Biden, Pelosi and Gore have never had a proper job but are worth many tens of millions or more.
They aren’t “worth” that much, they have accumulated it by selling their souls.
True.
For the left it’s usually all politics, all the time.
I suspect a lot of these regretful trump voters are anything but, but in the interests of harmony and being inflicted with these harpies over Christmas, will say anything to make the issue go away.
Which is exactly what D-Town should be getting. Instead – plenty of promise , but nothing of substance.
Sweaty, putrid buildup.
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=2984830445002384
Santa Claws. (Simons Cat meets the Christmas Tree.)
via Ace today.
Having been owned by a cat I can attest it is true.
Oh God, I love Simon’s Cat!
I had a cat who loved the Christmas tree so much, I had to hang it from the ceiling to stop her constantly knocking it over. 😀
She was so sad, I compromised and gave a huge pile of tinsel to roll around in. She was happy with that. I used to make tinsel collars for all the cats and take photos. Good times.
Dem Rep. Moore on Musk: We’re ‘Concerned’ About ‘Non-Elected, Non-Citizen Immigrant’ Running Presidency
speaking of Musk, get a load of this horrible wimmin
Beyond retarded. Musk is a citizen. He couldn’t run certain businesses otherwise. Starlink, SpaceX
Cough, Soros, cough.
My thought exactly.
Obama’s and Biden’s entire admins had numerous “unelected” but appointed heads of this that and a bit of the other. That’s the USA system. The left media and Dems just lie all the time.
Musk is an African American.
A product of Johnson’s no-so-great society it seems
Knuckles
However, if one were to read the entire piece, it turns out it’s a pitch for the legalisation of cannabis.
I think you should read it again. He’s using cannabis as another example
I never said he wasn’t morally culpable for his actions.
The Daily Chris Bowen Beclowning of himself: “… people working or living near nuclear power plants risk getting cancer.”
Yeah, right. We are all at risk of getting cancer regardless. We are all at risk of all sorts of problems as a result of the mandated COVID mRNA vaccines too. We are all at risk of dying or severe injury if we travel by car.
The entire nation is at risk of bankruptsy and blackouts (with a huge number of health risks) as a result of Labor/Green/Teal loony energy policies.
Residents of Lucas Heights in Sydney who are only a couple of hundred meters away from the nuclear reactor are just fine and have been so since 1955. I sometimes think Bowen doesn’t know it even exists and produces supplies for nuclear medicine for Australia, New Zealand and the entire South Pacific.
Your;ALP and the greens replacement reactor at Lucas heights.
The voter should be reminded of this. Every cancer survivor, every family with a cancer sufferer. The ALP opposed your medicine.
Again, she claimed he’s a Shia and an ISIS supporter. If you can’t see the incongruity there that isn’t my problem.
Of course in some cultures the women do most of the manual labour while the men sit around doing nothing.
One of the Rhodie expats in this part of the world had the opportunity to return to that country, and took the opportunity to visit what had been the family farm, in that country.
“The women till the ground, with hoes, in the same way their great grandmothers did. The men sit, in the shade, swilling beer all day, and telling each other how brave they were in the “Bush War” – that was fought before most of the useless buggers were even born.”
And that’s why Zimbabwe is such a prosperous country.
They’re a bit jumpy in the Red Sea…
US fighter shot down in ‘apparent case of friendly fire’ over Red Sea (22 Dec)
So far though the USN has fended off everything the Houthis can fire at them.
Indeed.
So far the Houthis, and Iran as well, have had zero success against either US or Israeli jet aircraft. An own goal is much more believable.
Sure, because unless those losses are admitted they never happened.
You haven’t been watching the recent engagements in the Red Sea have you?
The Houthis have been trying. And trying. And trying. But the Arleigh Burkes just splash their stuff. Amazing that those 35+ year old ships can do that. The tech gap is very big, although well see if really serious drone swarms can overcome it.
All you need to know of recent engagements is that the Houthis have effectively maintained the closure of that maritime lane and there has been precious little the USN could do about it.
No they haven’t closed the lane. It’s mainly open.
Some do get protected others are favoured nations like Russia and China.
Countries like Egypt and Saudi don’t seem to be favoured though.
@unseen1_unseen
During Trump’s 1st term, the Paul Ryan house led by the “true conservatives” along with the McConnell Senate played games to block Trump’s MAGA agenda. They stalled for months to get anything done, including confirmations. They only passed those things that the uniparty agreed with while pretending to their voters they were “trying to get to yes” on Trump’s agenda, but “they just weren’t there yet.”
They stonewalled until July 2017 when their games could no longer be hidden with the failure to pass the repeal of obamacare. At that point, a lightbulb went off in Trump voters’ heads, and there was sustained pressure for the “true conservatives” to get with the program.
As all of this was going on, the democrat resistance refused to embrace any policy of Trump’s, even policies their voters agreed with.
Faced with a massive backlash from their base, the paul ryan “true conservatives” and the McConnell holdouts agreed to “work with Trump”
They decided to support the tax cuts that passed in NOV of 2017 (10 months after the inauguration), and McConnell agreed to start confirming Trump’s people and fill judge positions.
It took the base 7 months and a McCain middle finger on obamacare repeal to wake people up and apply enough pressure to even begin to get the “true conservative” Bush/Romney/desantis Republicans to do enough to pass a big ticket item 10 months later.
If you didn’t figure out from the CR that is the “true conservatives” game plan once again, I can’t help you.
Politicians don’t have a lot of different strategies to employ. They will use what works until it doesn’t, then pick another, then another, and by that time, the first one will be fresh again.
The Paul Ryan house continued to stall after the tax cuts and the McConnell senate continued to slow walk legislation using the Russian hoax as an reason until the midterms when Ryan gave away the house and McConnell tried to give the senate away but Trump stopped him by campaigning for gop sen candidates.
During all this, Trump was making a difference and creating a strong economy using EOs and what policy he could from the exec branch.
So the question I have is, is it really going to take people 7 months to wake up to what the “true conservatives” are trying to do again or was the CR battle enough of a reminder?
Can we put massive pressure on these people now, or do we have to piss away 7 or 8 months of Trump’s second term for people to get that lightbulb moment again?
I think the death of the dem resistance will help break the “true conservatives” game plan on certain issues, but the dems won’t help for much of the agenda.
Will people believe the sweet nothings the “true conservatives” whisper in their ear about principles while they cheat on them with the uniparty or will they decide to stay with the one who brought them to the big dance.
Elon Musk and his ownership of X is making all the difference. He sent out one acerbic tweet and the game-playing stopped, and this is before Trump is even inaugurated.
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/ai-finds-the-legal-bombs-the-blob-cant-hide-things-in-1000-page-omnipork-bills-anymore/
The congeals?
snicker
@MikeBenzCyber
@JohnLeFevre
There’s a link to the full report in the first comment.
@KanekoaTheGreat
BREAKING: @Weaponization just dropped a MASSIVE 17,000-page report on the Biden Admin’s weaponized federal government.
Emails reveal an alarming level of collusion between DHS/CISA, Stanford University, the Atlantic Council, and Big Tech to create the “Election Integrity Partnership’s” censorship machine.
• Graham Brookie of the Atlantic Council’s DFR Labs wrote: “We just set up an election integrity partnership at the request of DHS/CISA.”
• A redacted Facebook executive spilled the beans in an email about a call with DHS, saying: “DHS cannot openly endorse the portal.”
• Alex Stamos of the Stanford Internet Observatory emailed NextDoor executives: “We already have partnerships with Facebook, Twitter, and Google, and we would love to chat with you and your team.”
This is some next-level dystopian sh*t.
So how does the Trump admin make sure this BS doesn’t happen again?
FIRE THE LOT
Labour in the UK are mooting changing the law to make Musk donations to the Reform Party illegal.
These are the same people who have accepted many millions of pounds from socialist foreigners including George Soros.
Not to mention sending a delegation of over a hundred to the US in an attempt to interfere in the recent election.
@robinmonotti
Gladio B in Magdeburg, Germany?
“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game” explained Gladio operative Vincenzo Vinciguerra during his trial in 1984. “The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people… to turn to the State to ask for greater security.”
“Edmonds said that the Pentagon operations with Islamists were an “extension” of an original ‘Gladio’ programme uncovered in the 1970s in Italy, part of an EU-wide NATO covert operation that began as early as the 1940s. As Swiss historian Dr. Daniele Ganser records in his seminal book, NATO’s Secret Armies, an official Italian parliamentary inquiry confirmed that British MI6 and the CIA had established a network of secret “stay-behind” paramilitary armies, staffed by fascist and Nazi collaborators. The covert armies carried out terrorist attacks throughout Western Europe, officially blamed on Communists in what Italian military intelligence called the ‘strategy of tension’.
The last publicly known Gladio meeting occurred in NATO’s Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC) in Brussels in 1990. While Italy was a focal point for the older European operations, Edmonds said that Turkey and Azerbaijan served as the main conduits for a completely new, different set of operations in Asia using veterans of the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan, the so-called “Afghan Arabs” that had been trained by al-Qaeda.
These new Pentagon-led operations were codenamed ‘Gladio B’ by FBI counterintelligence: “In 1997, NATO asked [Egyptian President] Hosni Mubarak to release from prison Islamist militants affiliated to Ayman al-Zawahiri [whose role in the assassination of Anwar Sadat led to Mubarak’s ascension]. They were flown under U.S. orders to Turkey for [training and use in] operations by the Pentagon”, she said.
“This is why”, Edmonds continued in her interview, “even though the FBI routinely monitored the communications of the diplomatic arms of all countries, only four countries were exempt from this protocol – the UK, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Belgium – the seat of NATO. No other country – not even allies like Israel or Saudi Arabia, were exempt. This is because these four countries were integral to the Pentagon’s so-called Gladio B operations.”
I forget, is the mullahcracy in Iran Sunni or Shia? Do you know, Dover?
Shia and sunni getting together? Never happened in our lifetime. That’s just the Regime spreading nonsense around, right?
Sneak Peek: Fauci’s Involvement in COVID Research You Haven’t Heard About
Tucker Carlson Network
Summary: The video discusses Dr. Anthony Fauci’s involvement in COVID-19 research, particularly relating to the origins of the virus. It focuses on communications between Fauci and various scientists raising concerns about the virus’s potential lab origins, referencing specific events and interactions that suggest Fauci played a role in shaping the narrative around the virus’s origins. The video presents a critical view of Fauci’s actions and decisions during the early days of the pandemic, implying that he may have suppressed or influenced scientific inquiry regarding the lab origin theory. ### Key Points by Section: 1. **Initial Concerns About Virus Origins (January 27)**: – Christian Anderson, a scientist, emails Fauci about the unusual aspects of the virus, suggesting a possible lab origin. – Anderson mentions a 2015 paper by a Wuhan Institute scientist, highlighting it as a blueprint for creating SARS-CoV-2. – Funding for related research is traced back to multiple grants from the NIH, some signed by Fauci. – Fauci responds to Anderson’s concerns with a suggestion to contact the FBI regarding possible bioweapons implications. 2. **Further Scientific Concerns (January 31)**: – A separate Indian study raising alarm about the virus’s spike proteins showing similarities to HIV is mentioned. – Fauci initiates a series of urgent emails to government and external scientists seeking opinions on lab origin concerns. 3. **Emergency Teleconference (February 1)**: – An emergency teleconference occurs, excluding CDC Director Robert Redfield, revealing a lack of transparency among those involved. – Participants express mutual suspicions regarding the virus’s genome and potential lab engineering. – Discussions mention a “big ask,” but the specifics remain unknown. 4. **Follow-Up Meetings and Subsequent Actions (February 3)**: – A follow-up meeting aims to counter misinformation about COVID-19’s origins; key individuals are funded by Fauci’s agency. – Following this meeting, scientifically critical papers are withdrawn under pressure, while others assert a natural origin for COVID-19. – A notable Lancet letter, criticized as lacking scientific rigor, asserts that lab origin theories are conspiratorial, influenced by Fauci’s cohort. 5. **Concluding Remarks**: – The video raises questions about the integrity and transparency of the scientific discourse around SARS-CoV-2’s origins, hinting at possible conflicts of interest and suppression of contradictory evidence in the scientific community
Here’s the wife helping out on the farm.
LOL hill tribes.
It had to happen!
After several pleasant enquiries and interactions with the male tellers at Udine’s main bus station, I finally had the misfortune of meeting a female teller, to enquire about the advantages (or otherwise) of purchasing a more expensive fortnightly ticket, to allow more-flexible travel throughout the Friulan countryside.
As already posted, TPL FVG are the government entity that runs the buses around here. They not only have the most user-unfriendly, error-ridden and useless website I’ve ever seen, but they also have ticketing policies which make frequent travel, tourist sight-seeing as inconvenient as possible. Even though I would pay the maximum, fortnightly fee, this was limited to a single route. I could not take a shorter (cheaper), or different (cheaper) trip without risking a fine. All because I had dared not honour the terms of the more expensive, but under-used ticket.
Shades of the famed USSR-style customer-focus, as provided to the proles by their Sistema-Nomenklatura.
The only way around this would be for me to buy an “Abbonamento” ie. a temporary subscription that would allow unlimited travel throughout the region, only for 15 days. But that required completing a form and personally providing a photo and photocopied ID documentation ie. a passport. All this, as well as the equivalent of $125 upfront.
Well, f@ck that to Neptune and back! I gave up and, only because it was a beautiful, sunny day, bought a single return ticket to Sappada, in the Carnic Dolomites. The first and last Euros the professional Kunts at TPL FVG will ever see from me.
Finally, the female teller made such a consistent effort of behaving like a slag, that I believe she indeed is one.
Fortunately, we’ll never need to meet again.
More on Sappada later.
Typical bloody Dagos, eh? LOL
Hilarious Gilas – glad to hear it happens to someone else
Next Tuesday night…
Coz…Trump.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-to-delay-2035-climate-target-as-trump-disrupts-global-action-20241220-p5kzy8.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawHUoO5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdGuDuvljKj2aasgo-sDhYhNg7RIH65LNEDJjlpDqkzT6tQRBxmtSc4ncQ_aem_RazDR8QWHnvIfu7y9Qaeuw
“The election of Donald Trump, his statements on climate change and positions on energy policy are likely to have a global impact,” Kean said.
You don’t say!
Maybe Green Kean is not quite as stupid as he acts.
This is great news.
Next it will be Terrorist Month for Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and Isis!
I so want to punch that f**king face!
Santa, THAT’S what I want for Christmas.
My local Member and he hardly even lives here.
Oh, so when ISIS/ al Nusra/ HTS even in the last week maintained the rage about Shias and Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon, that is all a ruse? They are secretly in cahoots with Hezbollah and Iran now.
Yes, JC, yes, the Regime is spreading nonsense again. Who knew?
I fly a lot. Sleazys latest gimmick, aviation rights:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/new-rights-charter-for-australian-airline-passengers.html#comments
Had a flip through it and then the contents of the white paper from the links.
Most of this you get anyway on full service carriers. Only time I’ve been on my own is with budget carriers like Jetstar or Virgin Blue. The refund provisions however, are a good step as vouchers are useless for your average pleb that flies now & again. Thats about it.
The white paper I didn’t even start after perusing the contents, except for the DIE component (No pun intended). What a load of s%$# comes to mind, population ponzi, net zero, more abo’s & more womynz etc…
I’m glad I’ll be gone by 2050, we’ll have pilots/engineers chosen for skin colour/lack of a penis not merit.
Hard not to think of Boeing and their recent trajectory.
The only aviation rights I care about is the right to not die in a fiery crash.
To be fair to the Regime here, I don’t think it is the Regime doing the ‘spreading’ so much as a dissident Iranian trying to get some traction for her own political position as well as probably trying hard to distance, see eugyppius excerpt above, the murderer from her own dissident community of ex-Muslims.
Channel 7 news just had a story on Cyclone Tracy. More a promo for a show they are putting on Christmas Eve. 50th anniversary and lots of little seen footage and what not is their blurb.
I remember it well as a 5 year old. Looking at the photos in the newspapers etc.
Little known fact: Until 2008, it was the smallest ever recorded cyclone/hurricane. As in diameter. Crazy how it bulls-eyed Darwin considering that.
My brother and both brothers-in-law were up there for three months clean up duty as 1st year Naval ratings. Baptism of wind and rain.
Australian Coral Sea region has a tendency to micro-cyclones. Tracy was a micro-cyclone.
Marcia was another one in 2015, small damage field but only a high end Cat 3 on crossing compared to Tracy which from all reports was a solid Cat 4.
The latest Hurricane that towelled up Tampa was unusual for that region being a very small diameter of destruction as well.
The bureau still insists Marcia was a cat 5 at crossing, and still cat 3 as it passed over Rockhampton. Given the quality of the housing stock in rockie that mostly survived, and that no met station , especially Bureau ones, did not pick up any wind gust over 110kmh about town, it was utter bullshit.
real cat 5 cyclones hitting the east coast this century have been Larry, Monica and Yasi. We are well overdue for an actual big one.
Indeed,
Agreed on the big one being overdue on a population centre. I rode out Yasi and we were 200km south of the eye and that was impressive at 10hrs above 120km/h sustained winds and gusts to 170km/h. That was confirmed by storm chasers up this way and what was described by them as the analogue anemometer at TSV airport that resembled a bunker when the new BOM one failed at about 2am. From what I remember the worst part of the crossing for us.
Foolish fearmongering concerns me, the Kirralee hype hasn’t helped. I have been through windier tropical depressions and didn’t even lose power.
Love your tropical weather knowledge and forecasts, RockDoc. Keep them coming.
BTW, has Gaetz landed a position in the Trump administration yet? All I see is his being parachuted into a show on OAN.
So what?
Hamas is a Sunni Islamist organization, while Iran represents Shia Islam. Despite their religious differences, it would be ridiculous to dismiss the cooperation that exist between these factions at times, which is based on hate. Their collaboration, rooted in shared geopolitical interests and mutual opposition to Israel, demonstrates that ideological divides can often be bridged. Just accept the reality and move on.
What’s that have to do with a murderous, unbalanced,slimeball killing people in Germany at a Christmas market prey tell?
Inedeeed.
Perhaps he doesn’t want to work for the regime because he wants to make more money. Working for the White House in an advisory capacity doesn’t require confirmation, but it would pay less than what he could earn on TV, especially because he has the gift of the gab.. Trump isn’t one to hold back due to left-wing opinion on such a matter. It’s up to Gaetz by the sounds of things.
“the yarab mass murderer was motivated by moozleyphobia”*.
Yep, That’s how stupid they think the populace are.
*ALPBC headline this morning.
A mysterious fatal accident. Or not.
I keep hoping he’ll turn up, stating definitively that any rumours of his untimely demise have been grately exaggerated. 🙂
Abu Dhabi, inside the Arabian/Persian Gulf
Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. It was Emirate Sheik Zayed of Abu Dhabi who first instigated the union of these seven Emirates, envisioning a pan-Emirate paradise of wealth funded by the major oilfields, found mainly in his area, if this wealth was shared between the Arab populations of the seven areas. A joint mutual development was envisioned, for example, with Fujairah being the useful port outside of the gulf and the already developed Dubai inside the Gulf providing a template for further development in Abu Dhabi.
The main city is extensive with considerable high-rise development, and is completely netted with circles of freeways, giving it a very 1950’s futuristic feel. There is a token commitment to ‘sustainability’ in a special nearby small ‘show’ city run mainly on solar power, but it hasn’t stopped the sensible development of major nuclear power for most purposes in creating a global business hub. Sheik Zayed was keen on following Western ways, and perhaps that is the renewables peccadillo here, but still with eye on the main game. He died fairly recently. Under his influence Abu Dhabi acquired two new museums, seen in new ‘futuristic’ architecture was you arrive by ship: the Louvre, and the Guggenheim. On nearby drive-to Yas Island there is a major entertainment complex built specifically to attract tourists.
None of this however attracted us. We’d opted to see more of the Old Arabia, and had booked on a tour to ‘the Oasis Town of Al Ain’ hundreds of kilometres out over the sandy desert lands, up near the border with Oman and thus only 50 km from Muscat, Oman’s capital city. Calling Al Ain a ‘town’ was a bit of a stretch as it has an international airport and meanders out for miles around an original area of many conjoined oases at the foothills of some mountains, an area that has attracted settlement since the Neolithic. It was the original family home of Sheik Zayid himself and currently attracts many wealthy families to settle, especially in retirement. The housing consists of many low-rise mansions with extensive walled compounds, pools, staff, Bentleys, and what have you etc.
The long two-and-a-half-hour bus drive was worth it though just to see this oasis area. What is stunning is that although the four-lane highway is rather Roman-style (straight ahead) for the whole journey, there is ribbon-development along the entire road for a few acres out on each side, with the desert sands then as the backdrop. Peppered with a few small way stops with excellent toilets, this development is green, with shrubs, palm trees, and even areas of grass, because this strip is fully irrigated ALL of the way, planted out to create a pretty vista when doing the desert traverse. Seventeen desalination plants on Abu Dhabi’s coast water this transformation. You can see the watering system at the base of the greenery. So they have created over the whole journey an oasis road to get to the original oasis town.
Our tour took us into one of the original oasis areas, where the water flow is now managed, but ancient palm trees still provide a jungle of shade. We watched a non-citizen minion do a quick climb up one palm tree, bare-footed using a leather strap to swing his body up, doing it in seconds to collect luscious Arabian dates for us to eat. Best in the world, we were told. After that we visited Al Jahili, an ancient well-maintained mud-brick fort where Sheik Jayid lived, and which the British once occupied. Only the walls remained, but we read an interesting display there on how mud-brick still houses billions in today’s world. We had lunch in a five-star hotel Indian restaurant populated by the great and good of this small city, many sheiks in traditional garb with their families, and a notice saying food hygiene was assured. (Good).
It was a late lunch and all on the bus were tired, but our guide insisted we had still to visit the famous camel market, and the Al Ain Palace Museum. The Camel Market turned out to be the absolute highlight of this trip. Totally authentic, covering many acres with pens and sheds, also including some sheep and goats for sale as well, though camels were the main game. We spent more time there than anywhere, by common agreement, as it was a rare sight. Bedouins and travellers from all over the Arabian peninsula (we weren’t far from Jeddah), and also from Oman, were busy selecting their camels for sale. W watched five men haul a very howlingly angry big male camel into a pick up style truck with some females, and he refused to sit until they took his legs out from under him.
The little camels were sweet and young, and the young adult females exceedingly doe-eyed. I had a chat with one of them through the fence, and she responded well, putting her lips through the bars and obviously wanting to smooch. I made the gesture of kissing her, smacking my lips, and wanted to pet her neck but was worried of picking up some odd camel virus, so desisted from making her facial gestures. She seemed disappointed then, and wandered off. I’ve never disappointed a camel before, so that was a first.
The Palace Museum at Al Ain, a glass piece of modernity within yet another old fort, was rather missable, and no-one spent long there. It was basically a paeon to the Zayid family and the great Sheik’s Churchillian words were on display in English for all to appreciate. We nodded away on the journey in the dark back to the ship, where we had yet to pack before 10pm and out our main suitcases outside the suite for transfer to the wharf at Dubai the next morning.
I won’t write about Dubai. So many have been there, as we have in the past, where we did the usual travel to a desert camp and dune bashing, which I did when aged 70 and won’t subject my coccyx to now aged 82. I hated it anyway. We took a taxi straight to the airport to get the BA flight to Heathrow, driving through many acres of new waterfront building development still ongoing. Our Pakistani driver filled us in on some of the underbelly of the guest worker system; living for years with sixteen others in a two room apartment, all saving money to send to families back home, and with no future in citizenship and few right. By law, guest workers must return home for a paid one month visit each year, which probably helps keep the lid on dissent over wages etc (though there has been some). Those who cause trouble are quickly returned home, and as entry is wide-open to all as long as they work, there are always others in the third world ready to take any dissenter’s job.
The Left are behaving as if the Purge of the Helicopters didn’t happen.
It happened for a reason.
Here we go.
BREAKING: Donald Trump says he may demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States.
He’s shitty that 70% of the traffic going through is American and they’re charging a fortune in fees.
Had to believe. 38,000 American men died building the thing due to mosquito infection at the time. Wow!
Lots of Yellow Fever, plus malaria.
The railway unions in Sydney are so over the top that even the ABC worker soviet can’t defend them:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-22/sydney-business-legal-bid-to-stp-industrial-action-nye/104755844
That says something!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/new-report-joe-biden-left-grieving-families-waiting/
I put this up a couple of days ago, but more has come out…
I would have liked to see the pregnant woman slap him. Not a KO punch, just a symbolic slap.
Sometimes symbolic actions have more impact than real world ones.
I’m having a decent lead-up to Christmas.
I have had a late order for two puddings.
A couple of the locals wanted pudding for Christmas, but didn’t have time to make their own. They could have bought puddings, but they particularly wanted home-made as that is what they usually have.
I said no problem although, they won’t be as good as I normally make as I was only given a week’s notice.
The fruit normally needs soaking for a month and then the pud has to rest for at least two weeks. The puds I am making will still be delicious, just wanting a little.
A pudding connoisseur would notice. 😀
I have one pudding steaming now, and the other will be steamed in the morning. Have two basins, but only one steamer.
Also a late order for a Belgian Tea Cake.
The dollars come in very handy this time of year. 😀
Two dozen Friands and a Macadamia, White Chocolate and Butterscotch slice for the family on Wednesday. Yippee!!!
I promised the family my first Buche de Noel. Haven’t done a rolled cake in yonks, but I decided to live dangerously.
They had all these cute little model trees and people at Aldi which will be decoration, along with many…many Flake bars for bark. Kitsch, but the grandchildren will love it. Unless it all collapses.
Sounds absolutely delightful!
As for the log, you can cheat by buying a log shaped cake tin. 😀
🙂 or make a Chocolate Ripple Cake
Recipe for the Butterscotch slice, please?
Or is it a family heirloom?
“The Six Triple Eight”
Good story, waaaay over long film though. Stiff, stilted, trying too hard to be earnest, shouty, plastic characters.
Spoiler alert…
Happy ending.
Phooey! Anyone watching the shorts would be hoping for a Messerschmitt to make a quick machine-gun pass to thoroughly brass-up the shouty mouthy creatures.
Just finished Dune Part 2. It and Part 1 now have entered my top 10 of S-F movies. The only problem is Dune Part 3 won’t be released until December 2026. FFS. If rub and tug wins the next election and given the laziness and stupidity of the electorate, a not impossible scenario, we’ll all be living in caves by then.
ABSOLUTELY LOVED BOTH OF THESE!!!!!
As long as we have the Spice, cave living shouldn’t be too bad. haw.
“Maria”
Desperately sad biog of the last week of the life of La Callas.
Jolie is plastic as usual, but interestingly resembles many of the photos and newsreels of Ms Callas.
Spoiler alert…
Callas doesn’t live happily ever after.
Septacaemia after the last of a dozen rhinoplasties was botched?
Why are you talking about Hamas and not ISIS? The incongruity I mentioned was an ‘ISIS-supporting radical Shia’ when the history of the last decade was of ISIS attacking Shia communities in Iraq and Syria. Even with Hamas as your example, most Sunnis don’t give a shit about Shia support for Palestine. That was made only more evident recently. But, sure, it’s possible he was radical Shia in love with ISIS.
Yeah, no, you ridiculous dago dunderhead.
You did not blunder into this regrettable shituation by accident.
The following gliberal imbeciles backed Giuseppe Prosciutto for the duration of this preposterous farce:
Joffre Kennotto
“Hi Alan” Schlockdale
Kroges
Dead Failieu
Denny Naptime
Remember their names, peoples – and note – the Crudlin’ was missing in action (again) when this massive story broke.
So much for being a deal maker (or breaker).
Furious German protesters take to the streets to demand mass deportations as anger at Angela Merkel’s ‘open doors’ immigration policy rises in aftermath of Christmas market attack by Saudi doctor which killed five people including nine-year-old boy
Daily Mail.
Dover
Stop the nonsense. Lunatics that hate Muslims kill Muslims not Christians at a Christmas market.
Iran’s support for Hamas shows that your comment is bullshit on stilts. It’s not unlikely that a Shia lunatic arsehole would be trying to make nice with Sunni loons.
Mahyar Tousi:
https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/1f6a8.svg LIVE: Truth About Magdeburg Christmas Market Attacker
Linkee no workee
I can’t get it to work.
For those interested I suggest going to YouTube and typing in – Mahyar Tousi Truth About Magdeburg Christmas Market Attacker
Read the perp’s sm posts, JC.
In his twisted mind he was punishing Germans for facilitating the Islamisation of W. Europe.
KD on Prosciutto earlier:-
Mmmyes. I expect nothing less.
Here’s the thing, dickheads. The Average Joe making casual observations from afar saw this from day 1. What does it say that you lot, working next to this goose every day are only just waking up to it.
Err, no. It’s entirely believable and expected.
See above. He never had any credibility. That fact that he had the room in the first place is bewildering.
I see a repeat of “Joe’s at the top of his game. Never been sharper. Oops, no he isn’t. Why did they keep this from me?” going on here.
cohenite
December 22, 2024 8:06 pm
Read the books and wasn’t impressed, plots too complicated for my liking, no memorable bits at all.
Are the movies better?
Yep
dover0beach December 22, 2024 6:39 pm
It’s a tough gig. That strait is a target rich environment. The USN can’t possibly commit an armed escort to each merchant vessel, even if they focus on UK/Israel flagged ships. Without fitting a Phalanx CIWS on every boat they can’t stop every attack. The attackers have the advantage. So the ships are spooked.
An undated BBC article was saying the major shipping companies are now avoiding the Red Sea. Based on above reasoning it would be surprising if the situation had improved.
I expect allied forces would be targeting Houthis before sea attacks begin by striking their equipment and camps on land.
USN did that last night.
Israel did it earlier in the week.
They don’t learn very quickly in those parts, probably due to inbreeding.
It’s a pity the people in charge don’t stamp out this piracy the way it used to be done:
“You pirates come from what port?”
“Al Makallah”
“Make way to Al Makallah, Navigator. Prepare to empty the magazines! And lash this scum to the gun barrel.”
Same as it ever was …
Three eyed fish!
Roger, explain this tweet.
Translation: “No.. We will return Hamas to Gaza and if you like we can bring Hamas to your home so you can taste it” Turns out this terrorist was a radical muslim jihadist and a “Palestinian” supporter after all.
Also, keep in mind that Germany’s position, at least as far as the Euroweenies go, is one of very strong support towards Israel.
I’ll await verification. It doesn’t fit with what we know for sure of his motives so far. Plus, he was, in the vernacular, a nutter, likely to fixate and dilate on any number of issues within his frame of reference at any given time.
The most absurd left-wing conspiracy is that the terrorist was somehow associated with Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson (still in jail, BTW).
Gee, really?
Who’da thunk it?
The ABC told me
So it’s either the Jihadi model or the Breivik model or the Lone Wolf.
Only an idiot or a supporter would be confused.
Gosh, I haven’t had a good day, dealing with family and wills, but then I read about little Johnny Pesutto and I feel better.
Karma Cassie, karma.
The time for little Johnny to apologise was in March 2023. Anything now is a clayton’s apology, effing meaningless.
However, whilst I regard little Johnny Pesutto with absolute contempt, I also regard thin lipped shit electoral failure Guy, Southwick, Crozer and other Victorian lightweight Liberals with contempt, because here’s the truth……they encouraged Pesutto.
Anniversary.
Coffs Harbour’s Big Banana celebrates 60th birthday (Ncl local news, 22 Dec)
I recall us visiting it in the very early seventies. The Big Banana might be silly but if you are a kid it had a sort of magic about it. Kids look on things differently from what adults do, and I recall the visit over fifty years ago fondly.
Yes it would be almost that for me as a young kid the first time. Magical, the first point on a journey north when you really knew you were going to the far off mysterious tropics.
most Australian banana production was around Coffs back then as it was about as far north as you could go to grow bananas and still get them to the Sydney and Melbourne markets on time. But bananas are a tropical plant, and in the sub tropics like Coffs it takes18 months to grow a bunch.
Fast forward to the eighties and mechanised sugar cane production meant there was all this labor in the wet tropics with nothing to do. And about that time refrigerated road transport was developed, and the roads north (the Bruce hwy and inland routes through emerald) improved enough so that bananas could be grown in the wet tropics and sent to the markets south, and in the wet tropics a bunch could be grown in sometimes as little as nine months. The explosion of production in Ingham and Tully killed the banana industry in northern NSW and SEQ, where the remaining banana growers basically do farmer’s markets. So now the Big Banana is a sad, lonely thing which will be worse once the Coffs bypass goes through.
The other result of this change was all those refrigerated trucks going south needed something to bring north rather than just cost money running empty. Thus Victorian and Bega fresh milk and manufactures went north, putting pressure on the subtropical and tropical dairy industry, and forcing dairy deregulation as NSW and Qld governments could no longer maintain high prices (read guaranteed profit) for local milk and milk products.
Just as Glen Iris can’t grow bananas, so Qld dairy farmers “blessed” with a hot humid tropical climate and C4 pastures, can’t compete with Victorian milk products, even if the latter has up to a 20¢/litre freight bill.
We visited on our honeymoon, 56 years ago. Then, for fun, visited again eight years ago. Wow! did the trees grow in that time.
Smearing someone as a Nazi won’t work anymore. The spell is broken…..by Moira Deeming.
Moira is our Trump, she’s broken the left, and that includes the Liberal left.
Is this good advice?
Excellent. And mostly true. 😀
Supposed to have been one of the ouens, who’s wife demanded his presence in the delivery room..halfway through the proceedings, she got him in a headlock and half strangled him, alleging it was all his fault – he’d come to bed drunk, and refused to wear a condom…
Men DO NOT BELONG in the delivery room.
Men are present at the conception, that’s enough, surely!
Oh, I don’t know about that – I helped deliver both mine and had a real good laugh making it look like I was going to drop the first because slippery.
Didn’t do it with the second – I learned real quick that midwives have no sense of humour.
Talking ’bout Monroe and walkin’ on snow white …
Cats – let yourself go! 🙂
It’s not unlikely that a Shia lunatic arsehole would be trying to make nice with Sunni loons.
Man Monis.
Victorian lightweight Liberals with contempt, because here’s the truth……they encouraged Pesutto.
Which shows that they live in a totally different universe from regular citizens- entranced by Marxist identity politics.
Re Moira- almost like it’s a class thing too, Hawthorn vs Melton.
SBS is screening a series on Oriana Fallaci.
I thought I’d give it a go. I don’t know much about Miss Fallaci, but I do know she stuck it up the Ayatollah years ago.
I hope it’s worth watching and isn’t riddled with woke crap.
She did interview Henry Kissinger – an interview he described as a “trains mash” and Vo Nguyen Giap…
Dear oh dear.
People just don’t understand the meaning of the word ‘irrational’ any more, do they?
We just watched a UAE Sheik saying that the UAE had already long warned the Europeans, specifically the Germans, to stop importing Islamic terrorists into their countries.
They are never welcome in the UAE.
Good rule to take on board, imho. Assess them and evict them.
The UAE does if there is a hint of it in them.
Like Japan, the UAE keeps it own to themselves, but admits no others permanently, and evicts any troublemakers.
Oman, a separate country with its own Sultan, does the same as UAE.
These people don’t want a bar of Pallies from Gaza or other Iran-backed troublemakers.
Joanna @ 6:51am
thanks to the link of Tom wolves articles on radical chic.
by reading more and more of it all I concluded was a continuity of English protestism. It’s like these movies of English men abroad in an adventure arriving back and pontificating about their experience and how worrldly the were.
wealth , they would return to their overseas posting to build something or farm – helping the locals.
now the earth has been conquered, what causes/ adventures are there.
so they pontificate about causes, most imaginary, their children are educated about these causes and this is the now cool thing
The article did its best to explain why the Jews voted Democrat. Basically an ethnic group sitting on the outside looking in , ever feeling or being a part of society.
So they join this party which appeals to minorities.
the democrats with their roots in the south of America, who fought to keep slavery, who loathed Catholics, who loathed Jews now becomes the party representing these minorities.
i will have to re read the article to thread this through.
That Hamas reference is misleading, it has been truncated.
Apparently he was saying see how you enjoy Hamas in Europe.
He’s a nutter who issued a statement, he’s specifically angry about alleged sexual harassment of Saudi asylum seekers at thr hands of a German NGO.
Let’s just agree he’s a radical exmuslim who problem solves like a radical muslim.
“that is a highly deceptive thread. taleb al abdulmohsen made numerous pro-israel tweets, constantly reaffirmed his rejection of Islam (including in an interview on 12 December), and 3 minutes after the attack posted videos to twitter outlining specific grievances. he was above all angry because police in Cologne would not investigate a refugee NGO for alleged sexual harassment of Saudi ex-Muslim refugees”
And
“he is not a reasonable person and very possibly mentally ill. his twitter account is a mix of counter-jihad talking points (the pro-trans stuff is absolutely a part of that scene), grievances about Saudi ex-Muslim women, pro-Israel posting, and bizarre grandiosity”
https://x.com/eugyppius1/status/1870439924685516946?t=_vBQ9YzdTHJONlkZ7ACT2w&s=19
Homer Paxton’s stolen Dover’s password?
Let’s just agree he’s a radical exmuslim who problem solves like a radical muslim.
Nailed it.
Or this?
Still going with muslim acting nuts.
“I will say it again: Many people who have had contact with Taleb, like me, deny that he was ever an atheist or ex-Muslim. He himself claimed to be a Wahhabi. He openly had contacts with Hamas people as well as with IS supporters. He threatened ex-Muslim and secular associations, as well as refugee women from Saudi Arabia who had renounced Islam. The association and the women took legal action against him. He attacked the Central Council of Ex-Muslims as well as me as a member. All major critics of Islam blocked Taleb because everyone was receiving confusing messages and threats. He never directly criticized Islam or its associations. While we protested in front of mosques, he fought against us. He also repeatedly defended Saudi Arabia. For what? Dozens of victims are currently sharing screenshots of conversations where he threatened the people because they are ex-Muslims. In a video he talks about how “the left invented Islamism to wipe out Muslims.” No critic of Islam would write such nonsense. We organized ex-Muslims say openly that he practiced taqiyya. If someone was as Islamophobic as he is, wouldn’t he try to kill Muslims in an attack instead of Christians at a Christmas market? But the question of questions is: Why did the authorities not react to him, even though some people pointed out that he wanted to kill Germans? Why did they allow this attack to happen?”
https://x.com/Shabbosgoy/status/1870566888008450103?t=iIqoGQoBNS29I4DoSiG2Mg&s=19
Because he was doing what the authorities wanted – terrorising the people who had rejected socialism and needed to be punished.
Why did they allow this to happen? Because it shows you need us in power to save you from all these nasty people. I seem to recall how the plod were round to arrest a rape complainant when she dared to challenge the penalty given to her rapists. People love oppression and keep voting for it. Look at Melbinistan. Followed closely by the rest of Australia.
Albanese has just gifted Timor-Leste fifty million billion dollars because something something growing economy partnership something.
So, we can assume that the CCP has just comandeered the ports and/or banks and/or internet.
it seems that sometime post- O’Brien, that the Vik Libs decided that getting more progressive was the only way they could get ahead
and what happened?
well, let’s just say they now look and sound exactly like a bunch of progressive retards
what a joke they have become
Pesutto is poison
Just finished the six part Wolf Hall: the Mirror and the Light, all about Cromwell’s later career serving Henry VIII.
Good performances all round; beautifully done sets and costumes.
However Mrs TE began pointing out the occasional black extra and it got to be very noticeable, I was of course upset not to see dwarves playing tall people; blokes not playing blokettes, and the complete absence of gay pride appearances.
Of course you would never see the reverse; white actors in a film set in pre-colonial Africa.
I am so over this woke, DEI BS.
American rom coms usually have twofers because less expensive. The girl’s gay best friend is black.
looking forward to the first threefor: a trans gay black BFF
The books are all so good you get that fly on the wall view while Cromwell’s commentary continues, hard for the TV series to replicate the fuller experience of the narrative. The mind’s eye can do the pictures as the words flow.
Did he say anything about Timber Sycamore?
What a great interview. A multitude of topics covered so far. What makes it better is knowing Trump won.
2:38:40.
I’m one hour in.
Joe Rogan Experience #2223 – Elon Musk
Not as silly as it sounds.
The idiot member for Brahton, James Newbury, was asked about Jaclyn Symes being appointed treasurer after Pallas in Wonderland did a runner.
Symes was the former AG who presided over the revolving door bail laws, and Newbury’s electorate of Brahton was a prime target of the “aspiring rappers”, including a recent machete display during Christmas Carols in the Park at Brahton.
What was Newbury’s main criticism of Symes’ appointment?
“She’s from a rural electorate! Can’t we find someone from Melbourne to do the job?”