The Big Orange should go to CA before he takes office and make sure that the local pols are not hanging around. The reaction of the locals would be interesting.
What I remember growing up as a kid in the 70s and 80s was that California was projected as the coolest and modern place ever. Maybe it was for a time. Disneyland, the Brady Bunch and Marcia being fully Grrrr when I was pre-pubescent. CHiPs when that came out was super hip and modern. Go Erik Estrada! Even Beach Boys songs before I was born sold the vibe very well.
Californicated!
Zafiro
January 11, 2025 1:12 am
Crickets and Cicadas are fifth, so don’t bother trying to claim that spot.
Perfect.
I give the best ever dating advice, and it’s buried in the old thread.
Well, it’s Dover’s fault if the youngsters find themselves irretrievably anchored to harpies, benagged and hopeless.
I tried,
Some very good advice there Arky.
Especially the one about girls and tattoos. They do not mix. They are a sign of impulsive behaviour and lack of personal control.
Which, if you’re just after a root, is fine.
There wasn’t one about girls and tattoos?
Not a great list, Arky.
Zafiro
January 11, 2025 1:23 am
Rotten ginger gelded cat who does his nightly rounds came up to the window and spied me as usual. He wants sixth.
In which Arky gives advice to young men.
Don’t date any of the following:
One. Horsey girls.
Two. Bossy chicks.
Three. Easy girls.
Four. Chicks with step fathers who “touched” them.
Five. The French. (Bit obvious that one).
Six. Fat chicks, even the ones with cute faces. Especially the ones with cute faces.
Seven. A chick who is much more intelligent than you and who doesn’t have the simple human decency to keep it to herself.
Eight. Anyone studying psychology, they’re all nuts.
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The contra case.
Don’t avoid dating a chick for any of the following reasons:
One. Your dickhead mates say they don’t find her really hot. They’re idiots.
Two. She is a ginger. Gingers are people too, even if they are soul deficit.
Three. There is one thing you find a bit annoying about her. Every woman will eventually annoy you, best to get it out of the way early.
Four. She is a bit stroppy and undisciplined. You’re a man. It’s your job to whip her into shape.
Of course, it goes without saying, anyone who takes dating advice based on the personal experiences of someone who hasn’t dated in 30 years is an idiot.
No woodpeckers in Newcastle! Not sure which particular species but I’d guess a red-bellied woodpecker, since there’s snow on the ground. Which means somewhere in the US, likely in the east.
Why do birds prefer one to the other, none sitting on the other one?
KevinM
January 11, 2025 5:52 am
What happened, I’m sure I posted the pic, NVM here it is again.
Bungonia bee
January 11, 2025 6:14 am
BBC predictably gloated over the “conviction” of Trump, but again failed to cover the facts, such as that Alvin Bragg fiddled the charges from misdemeanours into felonies, that there was never a chance that a NY jury would return a not guilty verdict despite there being no real crime, no damages, and the undeniable fact that the judge also wanted this to go on Trump’s record and would not throw out a clearly vexatious piece of law fare that portrays the justice system as corrupt.
According to a report at Gateway Pundit there are conservative lawyers looking seriously at the judge’s actions, and they will pursue him under existing legislation that judges are not exempt from.
Hound him out of the job. Lessons need to be learned.
Bungonia bee
January 11, 2025 6:36 am
Clickbait Central (News dot com) has a leading article about the Trump/Merchan/Bragg case which also carefully avoids telling the whole truth about it. Comes from AFP according to the bottom line.
The News site is maintaining its rubbish reputation.
My maternal grandfather, Alexander McKenzie, landed at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915. He was in the 15th Battalion of the 4th Brigade, commanded by Monash. After being lightly wounded at Quinn’s Post, Alex became ill and was evacuated to Britain. After medical discharge in Melbourne, he lived in Coventry St, South Melbourne. As the Victorian president of the TPI Federation, he became active in advocating for the interests of what were then known as “returned men, widows and orphans”.
I do not know if Alex attended the dedication of the city’s Shrine of Remembrance on November 11, 1934. He lived close by, and about one-third of Melbourne’s population were at the shrine that day. I do know that on one sunny day in 1967, he sat down and told me about Gallipoli and the difficulties getting out of the landing boats, his mates’ webbing getting snagged underwater, his respect for the Turkish soldiers, and how he met Simpson.
I know what Alex would think of recent developments at the shrine – he would be appalled. He was a tough, compact Scot. A carpenter who had emigrated from Blantyre just before the Great War. After the war, despite being TPI, he had a formidable work ethic with his advocacy and his care for his family.
He exemplified the strong sense of duty to his country, and his comrades, that the many returned men and women of his era, and since, have had.
The shrine has entered a contract with a catering and events company. Peter Rowland Group manager Edwina Machado has been reported as saying the contract is “also ensuring that it’s not just somewhere where it’s thought of only a few times a year”. A breathtakingly uninformed statement given the shrine conducts more than 200 memorial events each year and in 2022-23 had more than 600,000 visitors.
Ms Machado reportedly argued similar arrangements have been made at other “significant sites including the National Gallery of Australia and the Australian War Memorial in Canberra”. She talked about “elevating customer experience and creating meaningful events”. Her enthusiasm seems to have rubbed off on the shrine CEO, who described the shrine’s “commitment to offering meaningful experiences”. Ms Machado, in a LinkedIn post, further considered the shrine has the same “ethos” as her company.
To compare the shrine with the NGA is plainly ignorant. The comparison with the war memorial deserves careful analysis. The memorial started life as the Australian War Museum, preserving records and war trophies from the Great War. These were displayed at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
The later building in Canberra had a memorial component, but the directors believed the museum was philosophically and operationally inseparable from the memorial.
The shrine is a fundamentally different entity, in purpose and function, to the war memorial. Even if they are happy to have catered events, and alcohol, on their premises, that is no reason for the shrine to do the same.
In contradistinction, the shrine was conceived and designed as a solemn and dignified place of remembrance. Most families at that time could not visit the graves of their loved ones so far away. The shrine represented all of those graves, known and unknown, in foreign fields. It still does. On the western wall is an inscription that describes the land of the shrine as holy. The shrine is certainly a sacred place where veterans, families and citizens come to pay their respects and remember sacrifice. It is a calm place of dignified remembrance and honour.
The shrine regulations state that it is an offence to consume alcohol on this land. However, the chairman and trustees of the shrine, and the Victorian Minister for Veterans, Natalie Suleyman, seem to be comfortable with people being provided with what amounts to corporate entertaining, with a cut for the shrine.
Indeed, a shrine trustee recently posted on her LinkedIn page that the shrine is in the “top 10 per cent of experiences worldwide” on TripAdvisor.
Is that what the shrine is about now? Customers? Experiences? It is legitimate to ask not whether the Shrine of Remembrance is losing its way, but has it lost its way?
Rowan Story is a retired air commodore, a former governor of the Shrine of Remembrance, a former member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee of RSL Victoria and a current board member of the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum.
Ex-service groups can organise entry to a last post service, a tour of the war memorial after close with volunteer guides. And then have dinner at Poppy’s.
The barbarian, cleverly disguised as one of us, will attack anything that holds our society together and cohesive.
It is interesting that my grandfather, (who served with the 10th Battalion at Gallipoli), also respected Turkish soldiers.
I was too young to speak of the war with him, but Dad told me that he also, had a lot of respect for them.
Reading through Bean and “The Broken Years” by Bill Gammage, there is so much respect for the Turk, yet almost, nothing but animosity for the Germans.
Dad said that grandpa and a lot of his army mates, blamed the Germans for the war, hence the hatred.
Bungonia Bee
January 11, 2025 6:50 am
Sky’s lines running under the LA fires report:
“LA Mayor: we are working around the clock”, and
“LA Mayor: we will rebuild”.
We saw the LA Mayor in action yesterday on her return from a jolly to Ghana. The waste of money and rampant wokeism under her administration is on the record.
President-elect Donald Trump addressed the dangers of California’s wildfires in his October interview with Joe Rogan, three months before this week’s raging infernos.
Mr Trump, 78, gave the prescient warning in the pre-election podcast interview as he railed against the Golden State’s water management policies and Governor Gavin Newsom’s handling of past catastrophes.
“You know, in Los Angeles, you can’t get proper amounts of water,” Mr Trump told the mega podcaster, as he bashed the state for wasting rainwater that could be used to fight fires.
“In order to protect a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions and millions of gallons of water get poured [into the Pacific],” he continued, referring to the protection of smelt.
“I got it all done. Nobody could believe it … You got so much water. All you have to do is sign, and [Gavin Newsom] didn’t wanna sign.
“Every time I go to California, I say, ‘You have so much water.’ They don’t know it,” he added, referring to a derailed 2020 water restoration declaration he put forward.
The resurfaced clip went viral on social media with many praising the soon-to-be 47th president for what they described as “sounding the alarm
James Matthews from Sky UK still doing his BBC imitation and going along with the “convicted felon” lines. He states that Trump’s approach to SCOTUS was rejected by the “highest court in the land”. The facts are that Roberts and Barrett inexplicably sided with the three leftist judges.
The appeal process will continue and should succeed.
And having not informed their viewers of the relevant facts, the chicanery, the perversion of law and abuse of legal principles then, when the whole misbegotten case is tossed out for the absurdity it is, it will be written off by the BBC, our ABC, and much of the rest of the MSM as further proof of Trump’s sliminess in finding a technicality to squeeze through – and the supposed corruption of the SCOTUS.
Matthews throws truth out the window saying Trump has gone “to every court in the land”. The appeal process is only getting seriously started now that the lower court under Merchan has completed its perverted show trial.
The approach to the Supreme Court (and its crazy judgement) does not constitute “every court in the land”.
Roberts I can understand – the Swamp certainly has something on him.
But Barrett? That one is inexplicable.
GreyRanga
January 11, 2025 7:21 am
Having worked at the AWM and visited many times I can assure all here it is not an experience. I must be one of few people that have not had relatives killed in war. The Hall of Valour is the saddest place I’ve ever been. The first time in 87 there was a lot of people yet the silence was deafening. Only knowing of one, an uncle of a friend killed at Beersheba, which I didn’t know of until much later. I now wonder why these brave young men gave their lives when I see what has become of the countries they died in and the hollowing out of our wonderful country. I was brought up to believe they didn’t die in vain but that has changed seeing the traitors and spineless that run the place now.
Just a licensing agreement with a big insurer or in case of RACV sold off to a major insurer with a licence to use the name
feelthebern
January 11, 2025 7:26 am
I would not want to have any association with the Golden State Salmon Association.
The useful idiots who were one of the lawsuits brought, but one that succeeded in stopping part of Trump’s water plan in California.
It would seem Biden – or at least the people who work the strings that operate his rickety carcass – has announced that the Federal Government will be pouring in money to help clean up after fires in California.
I saw this on X.
It was encouraging to see the immediate flood of responses asking where this generous spirit had been, and still is, for North Carolina where they were told FEMA was out of funds.
Oh, the did get $750. Mind you, even that was just a line they would have to pay back.
And when Newsom says “we’re evacuating people”, he’s being a weasel.
In New Orleans, as big as a disaster that was, they sent buses to evacuate people.
Does getting a text message telling people to leave count as evacuating people?
Especially when there have been at least two occasions where residents of other areas have received that text message only to find out later it was a mistake?
feelthebern
January 11, 2025 7:44 am
I am well aware of the withdrawal of insurers from the Californian market.
That said, I am surprised that Berkshire Hathaway is only down 2% this week and most analysts are saying their exposure will be minimal.
Anyway, considering so much of the global insurance pot ends up in their re-insurance ecosystem expect the Californian fires to be used as an excuse for an insurance premium hikes in the suburbs of Australia cities.
Farmer Gez
January 11, 2025 7:44 am
Saved a magpie yesterday.
Checking the sheep when a group of maggies flew up on my left but I saw one still on the fence. The dopey bugger had managed to wedge itself between a figure eight knot and a dropper. Don’t know how long it was stuck and the bird was clearly stressed because of the heat. I thought it wouldn’t be able to fly but once freed it took off to join the crew as usual.
Bespoke,
I have a fox trap. The only thing I have ever caught in it were Magpies, and my cats.
I did have success catching pigeons with the old “box held up with a stick which had a string attached to it”.
When my son was little, I thought I’d give it a go. It actually worked!
We were both very pleased and excited. 😀
If it keeps turning up, try feeding it low-fat mince. If it will take the food from your hand you just might b able to “bag it” and remove the lure.
Mother Lode
January 11, 2025 7:45 am
I also read that the reason people in the Palisades didn’t have insurance was not just because Newsom and his QWERTY freak show had so mismanaged fire preparedness that the insurance companies needed to increase premiums in line with increased risk.
Well, that would increase premiums, but Newsom then went one idiotic step further (and this is what I want verified) and capped what could be charged below what was viable.
This would be Obamacare-esque – driving people off insurance instead of onto.
can’t be true … NEM stands for National Electricity Market
chrisl
January 11, 2025 8:06 am
The Lorne pier to pub is on today
in which swimmers jump off the pier , dodge a few sharks and swim to the pub. ( 1200 metres )
Twenty four minutes is a good time but the best do it in 12
Good luck to all participants
The competitors of the Lorne Pier event cannot swim 1200m in 12 minutes. Possibly 13, or perhaps the distance is closer to 1100.
Bespoke
January 11, 2025 8:20 am
“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
Bespoke, forgot to add upthread, Magpies love mince and cat bikkies. Try the box trap thing I described earlier.
Rockdoctor
January 11, 2025 8:20 am
When you see the number of companies including supermarkets and the RSPCA getting into insurance, it must be hellishly profitable.
BB cause they push the boundaries of fine print into grey areas that border unconscionable conduct.
Talking to one of the relatives who did a HR truck course recently yesterday, if he in a brainfart moment left a strap unsecured or even a box similar and drove down the road and said strap hits cyclist causing injury or even box falling on the latest model Merc then his truck for that moment is “Unroadworthy” and insurance refuses to cover.
I even insured my s-boxes as a p-plater to bomb insurance under the understanding so long as I wasn’t DUI brainfarts were covered at least to the repair of the other vehicle.
Don’t necessarily agree with what CA has done or forcing coverage as Sancho mentioned yesterday about insurance north of Tropic of Capricorn that I remember as a kid was generally non existent. However I do believe, as I hear more that say 20 years ago about Insurance not paying out, there is room for reform here.
I alerted everyone to small print detail in an insurance policy when a house burnt down up the road two or three years ago.
Apparently a blackout then electrical fire from an appliance when power came back on.
Cover refused, house and furnishings a total loss.
Why?
Contents not insured and fire started from uncovered appliance.
Check your cover details, cats.
KevinM
January 11, 2025 8:21 am
No dog in the fight but I find this unfair to be polite.
Why frozen Russian assets that may not have anything to do with the war effort or the Russian state?
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“??????? ???????? ????? ? ??? ???? ??????? ?? ?? ???? ???? ??. #Ukraine has received 3 billion euros ($3 .09 billion) from the EU, the first tranche of loans from the bloc funded by proceeds of frozen Russian assets, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Jan. 10.
While Western countries have frozen $300 billion in Russian assets, they can only access the annual income generated by these funds, approximately $3.2 billion.
According to October reports, the G7 plans to keep these Russian assets immobilized even after the war ends.”
G7 thieves and carpetbaggers.
Expect nothing less.
Governments and the ruling classes all over the world are devising ways to loot the national treasuries and the peasants meager savings.
Sancho Panzer
January 11, 2025 8:32 am
Bungonia Bee
January 11, 2025 7:22 am
When you see the number of companies including supermarkets and the RSPCA getting into insurance, it must be hellishly profitable
They are not “getting into insurance”.
They are just using their brand recognition and customer base to retail insurance. The insurance is underwritten by regular insurers in the background.
Yep, just a distribution mechanism or branding thing. Check the fine print (usually 6pt or less). Will go back to a known insurer and behind the scenes to even fewer reinsurers. Like banking, if you’re in the insurance game and do not understand risk, you’re not in the game long. Like any market pricing under and overshoots.
Indolent
January 11, 2025 8:39 am
Zuckerberg with Joe Rogan. Things we knew being confirmed.
There’s a link in the first to the full interview in the first comment.
NEW – Mark Zuckerberg Says the Biden Admin Pushed Meta to Take Down True Information Related to Vaccine Side Effects
“They pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly were true. They basically pushed us and said anything that says that vaccines might have side effects, you need to take down. And I was just like well, we’re not going to do that … Then all these different agencies and branches of government basically just started investigating coming after our company. It was brutal.”
Zuckerberg folded like an old tea towel at the slightest pressure.
That piece of human excrement was fully behind what the government ‘forced’ him to do.
I’d trust the weasel less than I could spit a dead and putrefying rat.
I was wondering when this line would be trotted out
Typical tactic and, typically our home-grown academic and media death-cultists will run hard with it
In reality, ancient, polytheistic Egyptians, (not the h”modern’ arabic ones” seem to have had some knowledge of the Great South Land
The Moon-god worshipers have been active in the NT for a couple of decades; “enlightening” (converting) the local actual indigenous folk, several waves thereof. The “late” Mungo peple predate the Egyptians, Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, Brits, etc buy a LONG stratch.
4D chess, (not invented by said moon-god worshipers) is apparently the game at the moment.
P. S. They did not invent basic 2D chess, either; they swiped it from the Persians who had swiped it from India.
HOLY SHLIT. Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
GOP Senators are telling Tulsi Gabbard that the only way she has a chance to be confirmed is if she renounces her long-standing opposition to mass FBI/NSA domestic spying powers, and vows to support FISA Section 702:
I’m hearing very credible reports that @GavinNewsom & developers are collaborating to change the zoning in Pacific Palisades from R1 (single family) to R1 and R3 (adding apartments).
Was told “it’s developers’ dream to pack that place with apartments.”
I said yesterday this will become a huge land grab.
Farmer Gez
January 11, 2025 8:54 am
Sancho is correct.
I know more about insurance than is natural for a farmer after being part of a working group with a big Swiss reinsurer to develop a multi peril crop policy.
There were policies put out for a few years but the product ultimately failed to meet the risk/return safeguards and a viable pool never developed. Canadians have a long running scheme but it’s underwritten by the provincial governments.
Canadians have a long running scheme but it’s underwritten by the provincial governments.
Good indication it’s commercially unviable and/or underpriced and transferring money from taxpayers. When the private sector doesn’t do something it’s generally for a reason.
Here we have Democrat NY Congressman Dan Goldman celebrating the fact that President Trump is being sentenced by Judge Merchan today.
Just a reminder that Dan Goldman @danielsgoldman is a client of Loren Merchan’s Democrat consulting firm, Authentic Campaigns.
Loren Merchan is the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan.
As I exclusively reported last year, records show NY Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman has sent Loren Merchan over $162,091.92, with the last payment being made on March 26, 2024, right before the #TrumpTrial began on April 15th, 2024.
He sent the payments to her personal home residence.
The US is a (nuked up) banana republic. That much is clear. Let’s see if Trump can re-instate a Constitutional Republic over the carcasses of the RINO Opposition.
feelthebern
January 11, 2025 9:07 am
Starlink Direct to Cell is now the most searched for & asked for line in a contract with a telecommunication providers terms & conditions.
If you don’t have it, you are so cooked when situation like California happen now.
A Royal Commission into the handling of the COVID scare is warranted, but so is some form of punishment for all the Climate Change shills who have not just misinformed people but have helped nations to impoverish themselves with no effect on climate at all. They all carry on as if there was no contrary case made by respected scientists.
This week, a court in our nation’s capital ordered Mann to pay us $530,820.21 worth of attorney’s fees and costs, and to do so within 30 days. It is time for him to get out his checkbook, and sign on the dotted line.
Betcha he doesn’t. These people think they’re above the law.
No joke, these girls were sacrificed at the altar of PC Brendan O’Neill
We all love making fun of political correctness. It’s so ripe for mockery. No one is more deserving of derision than these fun sponges who police people’s banter and jokes.
PC – or wokeness, as we call it now – is that zany pastime of time-rich, blue-haired leftists. They stomp around on campuses and in the HR departments of hip workplaces wagging a finger at anyone who is not fully au fait with the latest correct-speak. Misgender someone, say “black woman” instead of “woman of colour” or, worst of all, crack a joke that wasn’t pre-approved by one of these neo-wowsers, and they’ll be hauling you off for diversity training.
That’s a euphemism for re-education. You’ll be schooled on pronoun usage, racial linguistics and all the other Edwardian etiquette of the PC derangement. Nothing less than full capitulation to right-think will do.
The antidote, surely, to all this joyless ratbaggery is laughter. That’s what I’ve been doing for the past 30 years anyway: chortling in the face of these champagne Stalinists. As Kurdish novelist Burhan Sonmez reminds us: “Dictators hate people who laugh at them.”
But across the past week I think I’ve changed my mind. Not on whether PC is irritating and illiberal – it still is – but on whether it’s funny. I now believe it’s more lethal than loony – something that poses a threat not only to our right to tell crude jokes but to civilisation itself.
It was Britain’s “grooming gangs” scandal that prompted my rethink. That’s the euphemistic name given to one of Europe’s worst social outrages of the post-war era: the sexual abuse of thousands of white working-class girls by bands of mostly Pakistani Muslim men in towns up and down England. Brits have been talking about this horror for years. We’ve had inquiries into it. The Times covered it, as did all the tabloids, and even the BBC.
I’ve written about it numerous times, including in an essay for The Wall Street Journal a decade ago, in which I said officialdom had turned a blind eye to this plague of violent debasement, thus abandoning the “civilised requirement to protect the vulnerable”.
But the scandal has had a new lease of life in 2025. It has “trended” online. Billionaire rabblerouser Elon Musk has helped to propel it into the global headlines with his furious tweeting.
He has accused the British government of being “deeply complicit” in these “mass rapes” and has even wondered out loud if Keir Starmer and some of his ministers might deserve a little jail time.
Revisiting this outrage – in all its gross detail – I am reminded of the ideology that underpinned it. The ideology that fuelled officialdom’s fatal disinterest in the suffering of the girls. The ideology that kept this atrocity hidden from the public for so long. It was political correctness.
It is impossible to overstate the enormity of the rape-gang scandal, to give it its more accurate name.
In various towns and cities, gangs of men from primarily Pakistani backgrounds preyed on poor and destitute white girls in the most diabolic fashion.
In Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester and elsewhere, squads of these men pimped, abused, raped and in some cases even killed girls from the dirt-poor parts of town.
There was a racial streak to their beastly behaviour. The girls who became their victims report being referred to as “white whores” and “white slags”. They were treated as a lower form of life. The gangs’ behaviour seemed to be motored not only by misogyny or the warped urge to dominate but by a desire for racial vengeance too. The racist belittling of the girls contained creepy echoes of the fashionable anti-whiteness of the modern left.
On campuses and in other woke circles we’re forever being told to atone for our “white privilege”, while in these grim, post-industrial towns girls were punished for their original sin of whiteness.
What made these events even more monstrous was officialdom’s indifference. Report after report has found that local politicians and police forces were initially loath to investigate the gangs because they feared appearing racist.
The inquiry into Manchester’s “grooming gangs” found that cops kept their distance to begin with because they didn’t want to “upset race relations”. They dreaded the public anger that might greet news of poor white girls being exploited by Pakistani men.
In Rotherham, too, officials hushed up the existence of the gangs because they were “afraid to be called racist”.
In 2014, an official inquiry headed by Professor Alexis Jay spelled it out: there was institutional “nervousness” about discussing the gangs and it was driven by a “fear of being thought (of) as racist”. In some cases, said the Jay inquiry, the truth about the gangs was “effectively suppressed”.
As the London Evening Standard summed it up this week, “political correctness about race” effectively “chilled investigations” of the rape gangs. PC pushed out truth. In town after town, a craven calculation was made – it is more important to be right-on than to do what is right.
The protection of political correctness was elevated above the protection of working-class girls from rape. Officials seemed more interested in steadying the ship of multiculturalism than in securing the safety and dignity of poor girls.
This shameful episode shows just how deadly political correctness can be. PC is not just the eccentric hobby of posh snowflakes. It’s far more dangerous than that. It can even kill.
The true tragedy of these girls is that their suffering did not fit the narrative. Brown-skinned men racially and sexually abusing white girls? It just didn’t compute to the overlords of wokeness who view brown people as oppressed and white people as privileged.
This unsettling spectacle threatened to undo the self-flattering ideologies of the new elites, to unravel their entire identitarian belief system. And so they ignored it, they “effectively suppressed” it. They sacrificed girls at the altar of ideology.
This scandal is a searing indictment of the hyper-racial thinking of the new elites. It should serve as a warning to the world about the dangers of the left’s anti-whiteness, hierarchies of oppression and cavalier cancellation of any story that doesn’t obey their narrative.
Where does it all end? With girls being raped right under the nose of an indifferent bureaucracy.
So in 2025, I am resolved – I’ll probably still laugh at PC but I will also do everything I can to dismantle it. For there is no place in the 21st century for an ideology that lets girls suffer.
I have nothing but contempt for the sisterhood. Before selling out the poor white girls they sold out the poor muslim girls. After 9/11 and the Iraq/Afghanistan war they did not say a word when shariah law was put into the constitution of those newly freed nations.
Instead of insisting on women’s rights in these countries they spouted rubbish about culture blah, blah, blah. The same thing is happening here with indigenous women and children in remote communities, the sisterhood is perfectly OK with their horrid and savage treatment, it’s the culture apparently.
Lack of women’s rights was also the culture in Europe and the New World yet it was brave and laudable to change that culture. Why was that OK but not Muslim and indigenous women?
Was it always an upper class thing that allowed the benefits to trickle down to the poor and working class women? Is that why the academic and professional women couldn’t care less now as to what happens to anyone except their kind?
TE, I just can’t read any more about how these girls (and boys) were tortured, gang raped and utterly thrown on the dump for more than 20 years in the name of multiculti.
I am shattered that the country, the government the powers that be turned their backs and looked the other way just because these girls were poor.
And implying they might have consented – how can they consent if the are below the age of consent?
Lock them all up, bring back capital punishment.
Rape? OK cut your dick off or go back to your other country, your choice.
Murder? Ok death sentence or go back to your other country.
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lotocoti
January 11, 2025 9:49 am
Meanwhile, in the once great Britain, I’m beginning to suspect the ultimate aim of local and national Labour is to keep playing pass the parcel over an Oldham inquiry until the punters lose interest.
And the people who really run Oldham avoid detailed scrutiny.
feelthebern
January 11, 2025 9:52 am
Peter Thiel FT column in full.
In 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump’s election victory was “not the apocalypse”. By any definition, he was correct. But understood in the original sense of the Greek word apokálypsis, meaning “unveiling”, Obama could not give the same reassurance in 2025. Trump’s return to the White House augurs the apokálypsis of the ancien regime’s secrets. The new administration’s revelations need not justify vengeance — reconstruction can go hand in hand with reconciliation. But for reconciliation to take place, there must first be truth. The apokálypsis is the most peaceful means of resolving the old guard’s war on the internet, a war the internet won. My friend and colleague Eric Weinstein calls the pre-internet custodians of secrets the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC) — the media organisations, bureaucracies, universities and government-funded NGOs that traditionally delimited public conversation. In hindsight, the internet had already begun our liberation from the DISC prison upon the prison death of financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2019. Almost half of Americans polled that year mistrusted the official story that he died by suicide, suggesting that DISC had lost total control of the narrative. It may be too early to answer the internet’s questions about the late Mr Epstein. But one cannot say the same of the assassination of John F Kennedy. Sixty-five per cent of Americans still doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Like an outlandishly postmodern detective story, we have waited 61 years for a denouement while the suspects — Fidel Castro, 1960s mafiosi, the CIA’s Allen Dulles — gradually die. The thousands of classified government files on Oswald may or may not be red herrings, but opening them up for public inspection will give America some closure. We cannot wait six decades, however, to end the lockdown on a free discussion about Covid-19. In subpoenaed emails from Anthony Fauci’s senior adviser David Morens, we learnt that National Institutes of Health apparatchiks hid their correspondence from Freedom of Information Act scrutiny. “Nothing,” wrote Boccaccio in his medieval plague epic The Decameron, “is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.” In that spirit, Morens and former chief US medical adviser Fauci will have the chance to share some indecent facts about our own recent plague. Did they suspect that Covid spawned from US taxpayer-funded research, or an adjacent Chinese military programme? Why did we fund the work of EcoHealth Alliance, which sent researchers into remote Chinese caves to extract novel coronaviruses? Is “gain of function” research a byword for a bioweapons programme? And how did our government stop the spread of such questions on social media? Our First Amendment frames the rules of engagement for domestic fights over free speech, but the global reach of the internet tempts its adversaries into a global war. Can we believe that a Brazilian judge banned X without American backing, in a tragicomic perversion of the Monroe Doctrine? Were we complicit in Australia’s recent legislation requiring age verification for social media users, the beginning of the end of internet anonymity? Did we muster up even two minutes’ criticism of the UK, which has arrested hundreds of people a year for online speech triggering, among other things, “annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety”? We may expect no better from Orwellian dictatorships in East Asia and Eurasia, but we must support a free internet in Oceania. Darker questions still emerge in these dusky final weeks of our interregnum. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently suggested on Joe Rogan’s podcast that the Biden administration debanked crypto entrepreneurs. How closely does our financial system resemble a social credit system? Were an IRS contractor’s illegal leaks of Trump’s tax records anomalous, or should Americans assume their right to financial privacy hinges on their politics? And can one speak of a right to privacy at all when Congress conserves Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, under which the FBI conducts tens of thousands of warrantless searches of Americans’ communications? South Africa confronted its apartheid history with a formal commission, but answering the questions above with piecemeal declassifications would befit both Trump’s chaotic style and our internet world, which processes and propagates short packets of information. The first Trump administration shied away from declassifications because it still believed in the rightwing deep state of an Oliver Stone movie. This belief has faded. Our ancien regime, like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, thought the party would never end. 2016 shook their historicist faith in the arc of the moral universe but by 2020 they hoped to write Trump off as an aberration. In retrospect, 2020 was the aberration, the rearguard action of a struggling regime and its struldbrugg ruler. There will be no reactionary restoration of the pre-internet past. The future demands fresh and strange ideas. New ideas might have saved the old regime, which barely acknowledged, let alone answered, our deepest questions — the causes of the 50-year slowdown in scientific and technological progress in the US, the racket of crescendoing real estate prices, and the explosion of public debt. Perhaps an exceptional country could have continued to ignore such questions, but as Trump understood in 2016, America is not an exceptional country. It is no longer even a great one. Identity politics endlessly relitigates ancient history. The study of recent history, to which the Trump administration is now called, is more treacherous — and more important. The apokálypsis cannot resolve our fights over 1619, but it can resolve our fights over Covid-19; it will not adjudicate the sins of our first rulers, but the sins of those who govern us today. The internet will not allow us to forget those sins — but with the truth, it will not prevent us from forgiving.
Apologies for the formatting.
Cutting and pasting from the FT is getting as impossible as the AFR (hence why I couldn’t be bothered posting columns from there any more).
Wonder how long the AFR can survive? Apparently the WA dead tree version was pulled over a reportedly $5k daily printing bill from WAN and Kerry Stokes.
Roger
January 11, 2025 10:04 am
Karen Bass the mayor of Los Angeles might actually have to resign. This is pretty damning.
Ran out of OPM for prog-left projects and started raiding essential services.
We’ll see more of this.
The UK is going down the same path re secondary road maintenance.
We can’t even enlarge it thanks to the usual suspects.
feelthebern
January 11, 2025 10:16 am
Mel Gibson was on Joe Rogan & Megyn Kelly.
I didn’t watch either.
Mel Gibson is a raving anti-semite.
He also has been in & directed a lot of great movies which I will continue to watch.
Regardless of how anti Newsom & co he is now, unless he’s making movies for my entertainment I’m not all that interested.
Being anti Newsom, anti woke etc is not some rehabilitation/car wash situation that washes away the rest of his lunacy.
PS, South Park’s take on Mel Gibson was the most accurate.
Gibson’s father, now dead, made some antisemitic remarks over the years. His beliefs appear to have been tied up with his brand of Catholicism, which was traditionalist (inc. that Vatican II was a Jewish plot to undermine the church) and sedevacantist (all popes since 1958 have been false popes). Something of those views seems to have been imprinted on a young Mel.
I’m a lot more interested in his commentary regarding cure suppression by Big Pharma.
Gibson is somewhat of an autist is my take. He will burrow down a rabbit hole forever seeking out the details. On this issue (suppressed cures and Big Pharma) I want to hear his comments. We KNOW we have been lied to over covid.
Wonder how long the AFR can survive? Apparently the WA dead tree version was pulled over a reportedly $5k daily printing bill from WAN and Kerry Stokes.
How do you mean Bear? They weren’t able to pay? I sometimes wonder if those vomit making Fairfax rags make
make as much it costs to print and distribute.
James Woods’ house did not burn down.
He’s made it back there, just about everything in sight is ashes, his place is still standing, albeit mildly singed.
Yes Roger, it is Karma.
Karma is both good and bad.
What goes around, comes around.
James Woods is a good guy, he has good Karma.
Very happy for he and his family.
I slept through my first air-raid siren. I’m still not sure if it’s a testament to exhaustion or evidence of my supernatural ability to fall asleep pretty much anywhere.
As the sirens rang out over Tel Aviv around 2am on December 24 I didn’t wake, not even as my friend banged loudly on my hotel room door. Her phone call finally woke me, though, and as I groggily answered I heard her voice short and curt: Gemma, get up. Get to the shelter. There are sirens.
Strange, the things you remember in those moments. I forgot my door key. I realised as I scurried to the shelter that I was busting to pee, a small but weirdly pressing issue considering the predicament. I remember being grateful that I had deliberately packed proper PJs as a precaution. Given the constant attacks on Israel, I figured this situation might not be out of the question. I decided I didn’t want strangers seeing me in my dad’s old Boston Red Sox T-shirt and a pair of jocks, and threw proper PJs in at the last minute.
That was my first experience of a missile attack; hugely confronting yet also calm and orderly amid the danger and urgency.
Later that day I was reassured that the Houthis who had fired the missiles rarely went two nights in a row. Until of course they did. The next morning, Christmas, around 4.30, sirens rang out and this time I woke instantly. Perhaps I had gone to bed heightened despite my exhaustion. This time it was me banging on the doors of people on my floor urging them to hurry.
We stood around in the shelter. It felt as if time stood still. There was an exhausted mother with her toddler sleeping on her chest, her husband hovering over them. My travel companions. Another hotel guest, lanky, knowing; it was not his first rodeo. A loud explosion echoed through the room from somewhere in the not-so-distant reaches. I flinched. “That was big,” he said. I leaned against the wall, tried to focus on other things, until we were told it was safe to go back to bed. It was close to 5am and we had to be up for a 9am meeting. Life went on. In Israel, it goes on.
What I’ve described happened just a couple of weeks ago. In the six days I was on the ground, the Houthis launched five ballistic missile attacks on Israel from Yemen. The Houthis are homicidal terrorist maniacs who don’t even share a border with Israel but – with their masters in Iran and Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood – do share an ideological hatred of Jews and Israelis more broadly.
What I’m trying to do here is build a picture of what it’s like. The volume of attacks, the frequency. This is how Israelis live, under a constant existential threat, and somehow that has been normalised. Somehow, they’ve been told they deserve it: stabbings and shootings of children, the elderly; indiscriminate and all too often.
It’s the same story over and over again; same culprits. Mostly, culprits our government would have you believe want and are ready for statehood.
I remember the Lindt Cafe siege at Martin Place in Sydney in 2014. Who in this country doesn’t? How we mourned the senseless, cruel loss of life. Our nation still bears those scars. That was one event, a decade ago, the impact and ripples still being felt today.
In Israel, they live this multiple times a week. More than 300 terror shootings in a year and then, of course, October 7. Somehow the rest of the world simply expects Israelis to live like this, to cop it sweet, roll over and say: sure, just take whatever you want, kill whoever you want, however you want. Again, I’m trying to bring perspective for those who haven’t experienced what I had a small taste of.
Reading this week about how many Australian Jews feel safer in the Golan Heights than in our country, I understood it. I’ve been to the Golan, stood on the border with Syria. I’ve played a staring game with a Hezbollah guard on an illegal military infrastructure built by terrorists right under the nose of the UN.
I know how close these people are to the maniacs who want to murder them and I understand why they feel safe. It’s about strength in their government’s position, the infrastructure (physical and cultural) to protect them.
It’s true Israel had grown complacent in the years leading up to October 7, 2023. Everyone I spoke to admitted that. They aren’t complacent any more; a brutal, devastating and bloody lesson to learn.
They have steeled themselves to bring every hostage home, living or not, and crush Hamas. We should be thanking them.
Heaven forbid if Australia were under attack. Our federal government would be under the cabinet table clutching a blanky or playing tennis somewhere sunny.
So, yes, I felt safe in Israel too. Like sleeping through an air-raid siren, it makes no sense but it’s true. I had confidence that if something should happen, people around me were (sadly) experienced and equipped to deal with most things including lone terrorists. Safety in strength. Safety that comes from a strong government.
I’m not talking about domestic politics here, please don’t conflate them. I’m talking about a zero-tolerance approach to people who threaten your way of life.
For 14 months we’ve had to tiptoe around as we go about our lives while Australian streets, businesses, universities, and cultural, corporate and sporting events have been overrun by vile, Jew-hating, pro-Palestinian thugs.
What has our government done? Anthony Albanese choosing tennis and beers over the firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne tells you. Foreign Minister Penny Wong telling Israel to go gently as terrorists slaughter civilians in their homes set the tone from the outset.
Their actions are marked by appeasement and weakness. The Albanese government lacks strength, which is no surprise when you consider that to act on conviction you actually need to have it.
This past week Ice Hockey Australia announced it was canning an international tournament planned for Melbourne because of fears the Israeli team’s presence could make it too dangerous for players and spectators. Just unpick this for a second. The world now knows we cave in to the bullies.
If only Australia’s position from that ugly moment at the Sydney Opera House on October 9, 2023, had been a firm no. Not here, not in Australia. Instead, we rolled over.
And now, at five minutes to election time, Albanese decides to punt federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus over to Israel for some kind of diplomatic cuddle. Federal MP Julian Leeser’s searing response echoes my own and his words can’t be matched. It’s 14 months too late.
It’s not yet clear if Dreyfus is planning to go to the south and bear witness to the Hamas atrocities, stand among the remnants of slaughter, look survivors in the eyes, hear their words. If he doesn’t, he shouldn’t bother going.
Israel has to nuke every scumbag muzzie hell hole around them. They will be doing the world a great favour; and their reputation amongst the woke leftoids who suck muzzie dick can’t be any worse. With Trump, they will still get weapons support to enable mopping up of any of the muzzies outside the blast zones.
To do this street justice is a death sentence. Because when a white man who defends his daughter goes to prison, he will be murdered by the Muslims who run them.
It is still occurring in every major town/city down the spine of England. (It has been ongoing for 20 years).
The current PM totally f*cked up the initial prosecutions, when the vile, incompetent prick headed the Dept of Public Prosecutions, 2008-2013, but now Labor understand they need the Muslim votes, so, “no-one must dare to mention where the perps are from”, hence the description – “Asian men”.
To date, only one British PM has been assassinated in office, Spencer Percival in 1812.
My bet is, another will be added to the list, very soon.
I have had several comments rejected at the Oz. All were to the effect that the Dreyfus trip is a stunt based on his being a token “court Jew” in the otherwise anti semitic government and because he’s (notionally) Jewish it would be very hard for Israel to deny him a visa. If the ALP think it will restore any Jewish or Israel supporting votes they are very much mistaken. I’m sure that if Albo, Wong or any of the other Jew hating liars were to apply to go they would be denied visas or at least have them indefinitely delayed.
I adore Gemma Tognini.
Gemma never had to say to Australian Jews, “I have your back”. She has shown from the start that, her loyalty and belief in Israel is unwavering.
Unlike some other Media Turds with whose names I will not sully this blog.
If Israel is prevented from defending herself with aircraft, howitzers, and tanks, she will defend herself with nukes.
Those who are preventing her from protecting herself need to realise this.
Makka
January 11, 2025 10:53 am
Reform leader Nigel Farage says government should consider allowing Shamima Begum back home | ITV News
Farage is a grifter. His shtick is “I’m not Tory or Labour”. Throwing Tommy under the bus is beyond the pale.
No right of return, either morally nor legally.
Even the woke Wikipedia says “Begum had been an “enforcer” in ISIS’s “morality police”. Decisions have consequences.
No, he’s sympathetic to the idea. Because his mate Gorka thinks it should happen. Really, who cares if they are released from jail in Syria? Not 90% of the UK. One less terrorist in the UK is a far better deal. Let her stay in the shithole. He’s a grifter.
Yep. The sooner Musk forces a change of leadership in Reform Party, the better.
Shamima Begum (not to be confused with Shamina Begum) is a vote-changer among the genpop.
He’s stepping on a rake that didn’t need stepping on.
Tommy Robinson: Bad, (pinch nose)
Shamima Begum: Y’know what, a debate here is not entirely out of the question on this, (lots of slippery phraseology that’d make a used car salesman jealous)
It depends, mine host, whose swimming pool it is.
If it were Nigels, I think it would be a great idea.
Unfortunately, there’s no sense of scale of the poopfoto, apart from it’s, like, you know, ‘big’.
And smells of dead prawns.
I watched Piers Morgan become part of the throwing gang during his interview with Gad Saad. “Because he’s a bad lad, we should totally disown him and ignore his message”. Piers appeared to be downplaying the rape gangs because of Tommy’s past.
Sickening.
Farage is a Class Grifter. That’s why he doesn’t like Tommy Robinson.
GreyRanga
January 11, 2025 10:59 am
Went to the local Vinnies to get some books. How to catalogue them one may ask, by colour! The only one I found was by itself. I gave up. We used to get several each time. They always had a good supply till one of the volunteers decided that kitchen junk, and I do mean junk was more profitable. There always was several people perusing the shelves, now no one apart from myself. Wife has a friend that helps out one day a week at an op shop. She agreed, no improvements to be entertained upon threat of death.
Ranga,
you live close to the dreadful ACT don’t you?
If yes, the Salvos have a huge shop at Fyshwick Markets that is just used books. I have made some excellent finds there. Everything is grouped in its own section.
Keep an eye on the street libraries. I used to write them off as just junk but great for something quirky you would never buy or look at. Real diamonds in the dust stuff.
In Perth, the Paraquad bookshop in Shenton Park handles a collossal number of Library discards, and many great books can be had there for reasonable money. And just next door the charity shop has a pretty good book section as well as the usual other stuff.
A certain close family member has spent the last couple of years building ‘complete works’ of many excellent writers from such places. When each of those writers take a metre or two of shelf, because they are prolific best-sellers, its maybe getting out of hand.
Meanwhile I just paid $150 for one, Skennerton’s magisterial reference book on Lee-Enfields.
Karen Webb has appointed a new media chief who previously worked for billionaire mining magnate Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest. Anthony Flannery is the sixth person to take the role since 2022.
As well as Twiggy’s spruiker he’s an ex Ten and Nein-Fauxfacts denizen. So apart from being a stale white male he ticks all the PC boxes.
It seems this is MSM misinformation (i.e. lies)
ITV posted that as a misleading clickbait headline on an interview with Farage, an interview in which he said no such thing.
Farage was asked to comment on Sebastian Gorka’s hypothesis that if Syria’s new regime releases currently banged up ISIS terrorists, it may be better to have them in jail in Europe than free in the middle east & conducting a terrorism campaign against Europe.
Farage said Gorka has a point, however he is instinctively opposed to bringing her to UK.
Farage didn’t thump the desk & shout thunderously “She’ll never come to UK”
Salvatore’s caveat: Farage is every bit as slippery as he looks.
Farage is – for whatever reason – siding with the muslims on this issue and not with 95% of the British public.
He’s just another blowin’ in the wind politician who wants to get invited to the right parties.
It is a good indicator of how he’d work as a PM – with constant phrasings of ‘how difficult it is’ while moving on his own agenda. And it’s going to become more obvious as the pressure on him mounts.
feelthebern
January 11, 2025 11:18 am
Wonder if James Woods used some new fire retardant with their build/reno.
There are some sci fi like products out there.
The pics Woods posted shows the fire stopping on the hillside just below his place. His neighbor though lost his house- don’t know how far apart they are.
They were using helicopters dumping water very effectively around houses that took out row after row of fires saving dozens of dwellings. Also Canuck seaplanes dumping sea water. The smaller aerial appliances had the maneuverability and accuracy to weave in and around the hillsides.
Eyrie
January 11, 2025 11:22 am
Wonder if James Woods used some new fire retardant with their build/reno. There are some sci fi like products out there.
There are what is called intumescent paints which expand and char to form an insulating layer.
That decking of his didn’t look charred despite the wood on the neighbours retaining wall having been alight at one stage. That distance was about 3 meters?
Recall to the Colours, demote them to PFC, send them to Thule Airbase – just for larfs.
feelthebern
January 11, 2025 11:26 am
Wrapping up the Zuckerberg/Rogan appearance.
Like Andreesson & Thiel, the good stuff kicks off at the 2 hour mark (it’s 2hr 50min long).
Zuckerberg did not mention Open AI by name but he referenced it repeatedly.
He is not going to let the Microsoft/Altman/Hoffman/Gates ecosystem win in the race for AI dominance.
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat require users to be at least 13 years old to have an account. But the study found that a majority of 11- and 12-year-olds across the country have accounts on the platforms, and 6.3% have a social media account they hide from their parents.
The study includes data from a national sample of over 10,000 children between the ages of 11 and 15. It appears in the January issue of the journal Academic Pediatrics.
Well at least one fringe benefit of the social media ban is it’s going to turn an entire generation into Winston Smiths, actively avoiding the gaze of Big Brother.
Starmer has tried to pretend otherwise at times. He has even given tubthumping speeches bashing ‘the regulators, the blockers and bureaucrats’ – or what he called an ‘alliance of naysayers’ – for stopping investment and growth. In December last year, he infamously blamed Britain’s sluggish growth on the ‘people in Whitehall [who] are comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline’. While this is not entirely untrue, the prime responsibility for this really rests with the politicians who pass the laws, set the rules and pay the wages of these regulators and bureaucrats, rather than the functionaries themselves.
A key problem here is that politicians have grown too reluctant to upset the status quo. They have become thoroughly uncomfortable with the risks of undertaking significant change – hence their safety-first inclination to put more and more regulatory guardrails in place. This is what has been driving the tentacles of the administrative state further and further into business and into our lives.
First? Let’s see.
Threadhopping here. Next up from the great Californication is Scar Tissue.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJj5-lubeM
vr @ 8.19pm on the old thread:
+1
Round out the Californication triple treat with Otherside. This album is surely their apogee (h/t Rabz). Tell me otherwise.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_YodiJO6k
What I remember growing up as a kid in the 70s and 80s was that California was projected as the coolest and modern place ever. Maybe it was for a time. Disneyland, the Brady Bunch and Marcia being fully Grrrr when I was pre-pubescent. CHiPs when that came out was super hip and modern. Go Erik Estrada! Even Beach Boys songs before I was born sold the vibe very well.
Californicated!
Crickets and Cicadas are fifth, so don’t bother trying to claim that spot.
Perfect.
I give the best ever dating advice, and it’s buried in the old thread.
Well, it’s Dover’s fault if the youngsters find themselves irretrievably anchored to harpies, benagged and hopeless.
I tried,
Some very good advice there Arky.
Especially the one about girls and tattoos. They do not mix. They are a sign of impulsive behaviour and lack of personal control.
Which, if you’re just after a root, is fine.
There wasn’t one about girls and tattoos?
Not a great list, Arky.
Rotten ginger gelded cat who does his nightly rounds came up to the window and spied me as usual. He wants sixth.
I’m not a Sandgroper. I work Arvo shift.
Arky
January 11, 2025 12:55 am
In which Arky gives advice to young men.
Don’t date any of the following:
One. Horsey girls.
Two. Bossy chicks.
Three. Easy girls.
Four. Chicks with step fathers who “touched” them.
Five. The French. (Bit obvious that one).
Six. Fat chicks, even the ones with cute faces. Especially the ones with cute faces.
Seven. A chick who is much more intelligent than you and who doesn’t have the simple human decency to keep it to herself.
Eight. Anyone studying psychology, they’re all nuts.
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Arky
January 11, 2025 1:10 am
The contra case.
Don’t avoid dating a chick for any of the following reasons:
One. Your dickhead mates say they don’t find her really hot. They’re idiots.
Two. She is a ginger. Gingers are people too, even if they are soul deficit.
Three. There is one thing you find a bit annoying about her. Every woman will eventually annoy you, best to get it out of the way early.
Four. She is a bit stroppy and undisciplined. You’re a man. It’s your job to whip her into shape.
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Leaving us with very slim pickings there, bru.
An old mate of mine once summed it well when asked “What kind of chicks do you like?”
“Chicks that like me”.
Chicks that like you are tight.
Tight? Great double entendre, bru.
Of course, it goes without saying, anyone who takes dating advice based on the personal experiences of someone who hasn’t dated in 30 years is an idiot.
Just heard the most thing ever: “Women don’t need men anymore, they have grocery stores and silly jobs”!
more:
What is a woman?
A woman is a person who does not work.
Trump has been sentenced. The Judge gave him an unconditional discharge.
Folded at the end.
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Smokey. Another useful bear.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
It is Kommifornia. Gruesome Newsome will probably be a full-time secular “saint’ by Easter.
Stages of a government project, etc.
Universally applicable.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Henry Payne.
Matt Margolis #2.
Thanks Tom!
They made it, and world of children’s literature is the richer for it.
BoN, Can you do this?
Or no birds like this in your area?
No woodpeckers in Newcastle! Not sure which particular species but I’d guess a red-bellied woodpecker, since there’s snow on the ground. Which means somewhere in the US, likely in the east.
Melanerpes (wiki)
Apart from the snow on the ground, in mid Summer, in Newcastle?
Probably?
Change of scenery, GC 1967.
Wonder if the roadworks are finished yet?
No. They are putting the light rail through
I think that Fisho is still there.
Heavy birds, compare the bend of two light poles.
Why do birds prefer one to the other, none sitting on the other one?
What happened, I’m sure I posted the pic, NVM here it is again.
BBC predictably gloated over the “conviction” of Trump, but again failed to cover the facts, such as that Alvin Bragg fiddled the charges from misdemeanours into felonies, that there was never a chance that a NY jury would return a not guilty verdict despite there being no real crime, no damages, and the undeniable fact that the judge also wanted this to go on Trump’s record and would not throw out a clearly vexatious piece of law fare that portrays the justice system as corrupt.
According to a report at Gateway Pundit there are conservative lawyers looking seriously at the judge’s actions, and they will pursue him under existing legislation that judges are not exempt from.
Hound him out of the job. Lessons need to be learned.
Clickbait Central (News dot com) has a leading article about the Trump/Merchan/Bragg case which also carefully avoids telling the whole truth about it. Comes from AFP according to the bottom line.
The News site is maintaining its rubbish reputation.
Thought I would post this from the Paywallion after seeing Tom’s post of the Johannes Leak cartoon:
The sacred Shrine of Remembrance is about reflection, not catering
ROWAN STORY
5:00amJanuary 10, 2025
My maternal grandfather, Alexander McKenzie, landed at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915. He was in the 15th Battalion of the 4th Brigade, commanded by Monash. After being lightly wounded at Quinn’s Post, Alex became ill and was evacuated to Britain. After medical discharge in Melbourne, he lived in Coventry St, South Melbourne. As the Victorian president of the TPI Federation, he became active in advocating for the interests of what were then known as “returned men, widows and orphans”.
I do not know if Alex attended the dedication of the city’s Shrine of Remembrance on November 11, 1934. He lived close by, and about one-third of Melbourne’s population were at the shrine that day. I do know that on one sunny day in 1967, he sat down and told me about Gallipoli and the difficulties getting out of the landing boats, his mates’ webbing getting snagged underwater, his respect for the Turkish soldiers, and how he met Simpson.
I know what Alex would think of recent developments at the shrine – he would be appalled. He was a tough, compact Scot. A carpenter who had emigrated from Blantyre just before the Great War. After the war, despite being TPI, he had a formidable work ethic with his advocacy and his care for his family.
He exemplified the strong sense of duty to his country, and his comrades, that the many returned men and women of his era, and since, have had.
The shrine has entered a contract with a catering and events company. Peter Rowland Group manager Edwina Machado has been reported as saying the contract is “also ensuring that it’s not just somewhere where it’s thought of only a few times a year”. A breathtakingly uninformed statement given the shrine conducts more than 200 memorial events each year and in 2022-23 had more than 600,000 visitors.
Ms Machado reportedly argued similar arrangements have been made at other “significant sites including the National Gallery of Australia and the Australian War Memorial in Canberra”. She talked about “elevating customer experience and creating meaningful events”. Her enthusiasm seems to have rubbed off on the shrine CEO, who described the shrine’s “commitment to offering meaningful experiences”. Ms Machado, in a LinkedIn post, further considered the shrine has the same “ethos” as her company.
To compare the shrine with the NGA is plainly ignorant. The comparison with the war memorial deserves careful analysis. The memorial started life as the Australian War Museum, preserving records and war trophies from the Great War. These were displayed at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
The later building in Canberra had a memorial component, but the directors believed the museum was philosophically and operationally inseparable from the memorial.
The shrine is a fundamentally different entity, in purpose and function, to the war memorial. Even if they are happy to have catered events, and alcohol, on their premises, that is no reason for the shrine to do the same.
In contradistinction, the shrine was conceived and designed as a solemn and dignified place of remembrance. Most families at that time could not visit the graves of their loved ones so far away. The shrine represented all of those graves, known and unknown, in foreign fields. It still does. On the western wall is an inscription that describes the land of the shrine as holy. The shrine is certainly a sacred place where veterans, families and citizens come to pay their respects and remember sacrifice. It is a calm place of dignified remembrance and honour.
The shrine regulations state that it is an offence to consume alcohol on this land. However, the chairman and trustees of the shrine, and the Victorian Minister for Veterans, Natalie Suleyman, seem to be comfortable with people being provided with what amounts to corporate entertaining, with a cut for the shrine.
Indeed, a shrine trustee recently posted on her LinkedIn page that the shrine is in the “top 10 per cent of experiences worldwide” on TripAdvisor.
Is that what the shrine is about now? Customers? Experiences? It is legitimate to ask not whether the Shrine of Remembrance is losing its way, but has it lost its way?
Rowan Story is a retired air commodore, a former governor of the Shrine of Remembrance, a former member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee of RSL Victoria and a current board member of the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum.
I understand the fuss. Poppy’s has been there for years and open for breakfast and lunch.
https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/visitor-information/cafes-poppys
Ex-service groups can organise entry to a last post service, a tour of the war memorial after close with volunteer guides. And then have dinner at Poppy’s.
The barbarian, cleverly disguised as one of us, will attack anything that holds our society together and cohesive.
Stand to
With fixed bayonets.
It is interesting that my grandfather, (who served with the 10th Battalion at Gallipoli), also respected Turkish soldiers.
I was too young to speak of the war with him, but Dad told me that he also, had a lot of respect for them.
Reading through Bean and “The Broken Years” by Bill Gammage, there is so much respect for the Turk, yet almost, nothing but animosity for the Germans.
Dad said that grandpa and a lot of his army mates, blamed the Germans for the war, hence the hatred.
Sky’s lines running under the LA fires report:
“LA Mayor: we are working around the clock”, and
“LA Mayor: we will rebuild”.
We saw the LA Mayor in action yesterday on her return from a jolly to Ghana. The waste of money and rampant wokeism under her administration is on the record.
Nasty.
While perusing today’s Tele:
TRUMP SOUNDED ALARM ON FIRES US
President-elect Donald Trump addressed the dangers of California’s wildfires in his October interview with Joe Rogan, three months before this week’s raging infernos.
Mr Trump, 78, gave the prescient warning in the pre-election podcast interview as he railed against the Golden State’s water management policies and Governor Gavin Newsom’s handling of past catastrophes.
“You know, in Los Angeles, you can’t get proper amounts of water,” Mr Trump told the mega podcaster, as he bashed the state for wasting rainwater that could be used to fight fires.
“In order to protect a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions and millions of gallons of water get poured [into the Pacific],” he continued, referring to the protection of smelt.
“I got it all done. Nobody could believe it … You got so much water. All you have to do is sign, and [Gavin Newsom] didn’t wanna sign.
“Every time I go to California, I say, ‘You have so much water.’ They don’t know it,” he added, referring to a derailed 2020 water restoration declaration he put forward.
The resurfaced clip went viral on social media with many praising the soon-to-be 47th president for what they described as “sounding the alarm
See also:
The Great Bel-Air conflagration of 1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnC1WW95XE
James Matthews from Sky UK still doing his BBC imitation and going along with the “convicted felon” lines. He states that Trump’s approach to SCOTUS was rejected by the “highest court in the land”. The facts are that Roberts and Barrett inexplicably sided with the three leftist judges.
The appeal process will continue and should succeed.
And having not informed their viewers of the relevant facts, the chicanery, the perversion of law and abuse of legal principles then, when the whole misbegotten case is tossed out for the absurdity it is, it will be written off by the BBC, our ABC, and much of the rest of the MSM as further proof of Trump’s sliminess in finding a technicality to squeeze through – and the supposed corruption of the SCOTUS.
Matthews throws truth out the window saying Trump has gone “to every court in the land”. The appeal process is only getting seriously started now that the lower court under Merchan has completed its perverted show trial.
The approach to the Supreme Court (and its crazy judgement) does not constitute “every court in the land”.
Hasn’t Barrett sided with the leftist members of SCOTUS before?
yes, habitually.
Roberts I can understand – the Swamp certainly has something on him.
But Barrett? That one is inexplicable.
Having worked at the AWM and visited many times I can assure all here it is not an experience. I must be one of few people that have not had relatives killed in war. The Hall of Valour is the saddest place I’ve ever been. The first time in 87 there was a lot of people yet the silence was deafening. Only knowing of one, an uncle of a friend killed at Beersheba, which I didn’t know of until much later. I now wonder why these brave young men gave their lives when I see what has become of the countries they died in and the hollowing out of our wonderful country. I was brought up to believe they didn’t die in vain but that has changed seeing the traitors and spineless that run the place now.
The Nation is calling out for leadership, but all we have in reply is grunts of “gimmeemore” from the venal class.
Peter Thiel in the FT.
https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105
Doesn’t appear to be paywalled.
When you see the number of companies including supermarkets and the RSPCA getting into insurance, it must be hellishly profitable.
Just a licensing agreement with a big insurer or in case of RACV sold off to a major insurer with a licence to use the name
I would not want to have any association with the Golden State Salmon Association.
The useful idiots who were one of the lawsuits brought, but one that succeeded in stopping part of Trump’s water plan in California.
https://goldenstatesalmon.org/who-we-are/
https://goldenstatesalmon.org/our-partners/
It would seem Biden – or at least the people who work the strings that operate his rickety carcass – has announced that the Federal Government will be pouring in money to help clean up after fires in California.
I saw this on X.
It was encouraging to see the immediate flood of responses asking where this generous spirit had been, and still is, for North Carolina where they were told FEMA was out of funds.
Oh, the did get $750. Mind you, even that was just a line they would have to pay back.
Pacific Palisades voted 90% for the Democrats.
Karma.
FAFO.
My thoughts, too.
And when Newsom says “we’re evacuating people”, he’s being a weasel.
In New Orleans, as big as a disaster that was, they sent buses to evacuate people.
Does getting a text message telling people to leave count as evacuating people?
Especially when there have been at least two occasions where residents of other areas have received that text message only to find out later it was a mistake?
I am well aware of the withdrawal of insurers from the Californian market.
That said, I am surprised that Berkshire Hathaway is only down 2% this week and most analysts are saying their exposure will be minimal.
Anyway, considering so much of the global insurance pot ends up in their re-insurance ecosystem expect the Californian fires to be used as an excuse for an insurance premium hikes in the suburbs of Australia cities.
Saved a magpie yesterday.
Checking the sheep when a group of maggies flew up on my left but I saw one still on the fence. The dopey bugger had managed to wedge itself between a figure eight knot and a dropper. Don’t know how long it was stuck and the bird was clearly stressed because of the heat. I thought it wouldn’t be able to fly but once freed it took off to join the crew as usual.
Good man. I love Magpies.
We have one with a fishing lure attached to it leg my wife is stressing over.
Tried to catch it with a towel several times with no success.
Bespoke,
I have a fox trap. The only thing I have ever caught in it were Magpies, and my cats.
I did have success catching pigeons with the old “box held up with a stick which had a string attached to it”.
When my son was little, I thought I’d give it a go. It actually worked!
We were both very pleased and excited. 😀
Maybe it identifies as a Kingfisher?
If it keeps turning up, try feeding it low-fat mince. If it will take the food from your hand you just might b able to “bag it” and remove the lure.
I also read that the reason people in the Palisades didn’t have insurance was not just because Newsom and his QWERTY freak show had so mismanaged fire preparedness that the insurance companies needed to increase premiums in line with increased risk.
Well, that would increase premiums, but Newsom then went one idiotic step further (and this is what I want verified) and capped what could be charged below what was viable.
This would be Obamacare-esque – driving people off insurance instead of onto.
This link courtesy of Jov Nova.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/california-fires-insurance-companies-dropping-coverage-fleeing-state-due-decades-old-law
The rot began in 1988 which is before Newsom’s governorship.
but Newsom then went one idiotic step further (and this is what I want verified) and capped what could be charged below what was viable.
Price caps/price controls, an economic policy that was the pillar of Soviet Russia, National Socialist Germany & FDR’s New Deal.
IT.
IS.
RETARDED.
PS AEMO lurrrrrves price caps.
What could possiblay go wrong?
can’t be true … NEM stands for National Electricity Market
The Lorne pier to pub is on today
in which swimmers jump off the pier , dodge a few sharks and swim to the pub. ( 1200 metres )
Twenty four minutes is a good time but the best do it in 12
Good luck to all participants
The competitors of the Lorne Pier event cannot swim 1200m in 12 minutes. Possibly 13, or perhaps the distance is closer to 1100.
“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
Bespoke, forgot to add upthread, Magpies love mince and cat bikkies. Try the box trap thing I described earlier.
When you see the number of companies including supermarkets and the RSPCA getting into insurance, it must be hellishly profitable.
BB cause they push the boundaries of fine print into grey areas that border unconscionable conduct.
Talking to one of the relatives who did a HR truck course recently yesterday, if he in a brainfart moment left a strap unsecured or even a box similar and drove down the road and said strap hits cyclist causing injury or even box falling on the latest model Merc then his truck for that moment is “Unroadworthy” and insurance refuses to cover.
I even insured my s-boxes as a p-plater to bomb insurance under the understanding so long as I wasn’t DUI brainfarts were covered at least to the repair of the other vehicle.
Don’t necessarily agree with what CA has done or forcing coverage as Sancho mentioned yesterday about insurance north of Tropic of Capricorn that I remember as a kid was generally non existent. However I do believe, as I hear more that say 20 years ago about Insurance not paying out, there is room for reform here.
I alerted everyone to small print detail in an insurance policy when a house burnt down up the road two or three years ago.
Apparently a blackout then electrical fire from an appliance when power came back on.
Cover refused, house and furnishings a total loss.
Why?
Contents not insured and fire started from uncovered appliance.
Check your cover details, cats.
No dog in the fight but I find this unfair to be polite.
Why frozen Russian assets that may not have anything to do with the war effort or the Russian state?
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#Ukraine has received 3 billion euros ($3 .09 billion) from the EU, the first tranche of loans from the bloc funded by proceeds of frozen Russian assets, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Jan. 10.
While Western countries have frozen $300 billion in Russian assets, they can only access the annual income generated by these funds, approximately $3.2 billion.
According to October reports, the G7 plans to keep these Russian assets immobilized even after the war ends.”
Pretty naive of the ‘G7’ to think that the unfreezing of these assets wouldn’t be a condition precedent of Russia in resolving the conflict.
G7 thieves and carpetbaggers.
Expect nothing less.
Governments and the ruling classes all over the world are devising ways to loot the national treasuries and the peasants meager savings.
They are not “getting into insurance”.
They are just using their brand recognition and customer base to retail insurance. The insurance is underwritten by regular insurers in the background.
Yep, just a distribution mechanism or branding thing. Check the fine print (usually 6pt or less). Will go back to a known insurer and behind the scenes to even fewer reinsurers. Like banking, if you’re in the insurance game and do not understand risk, you’re not in the game long. Like any market pricing under and overshoots.
Zuckerberg with Joe Rogan. Things we knew being confirmed.
There’s a link in the first to the full interview in the first comment.
@TheChiefNerd
NEW – Mark Zuckerberg Says the Biden Admin Pushed Meta to Take Down True Information Related to Vaccine Side Effects
“They pushed us super hard to take down things that were honestly were true. They basically pushed us and said anything that says that vaccines might have side effects, you need to take down. And I was just like well, we’re not going to do that … Then all these different agencies and branches of government basically just started investigating coming after our company. It was brutal.”
Totalitarian pigs, like all leftards.
Well, hasn’t that worm turned.
Zucker is a wind sock. In his heart he’s still a leftist sh*thead, ready to impose censorship when the wind changes.
Worms are blind and it s likely he will turn again. $50 Mil for drop boxes?
Zuckerberg folded like an old tea towel at the slightest pressure.
That piece of human excrement was fully behind what the government ‘forced’ him to do.
I’d trust the weasel less than I could spit a dead and putrefying rat.
Meta announces end of its DEI programs. Read the memo.
a crisis of competence
many bridges much too far
Meme
Too perfect not to be a pisstake.
Except…
No, it’s not a pisstake, they are cruelly taught that.
I was wondering when this line would be trotted out
Typical tactic and, typically our home-grown academic and media death-cultists will run hard with it
In reality, ancient, polytheistic Egyptians, (not the h”modern’ arabic ones” seem to have had some knowledge of the Great South Land
The Moon-god worshipers have been active in the NT for a couple of decades; “enlightening” (converting) the local actual indigenous folk, several waves thereof. The “late” Mungo peple predate the Egyptians, Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, Brits, etc buy a LONG stratch.
4D chess, (not invented by said moon-god worshipers) is apparently the game at the moment.
P. S. They did not invent basic 2D chess, either; they swiped it from the Persians who had swiped it from India.
@libsoftiktok
HOLY SHLIT. Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too.
When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies.
“It was brutal.”
He needed to say no…. he was one of the most powerful people on the planet and he squibbed it. Too little too late now.
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
This is like your dog dying after you lock it in a hot car and then you blame it on climate change
?
And now it’s England today. In a way it makes sense. Why would a criminal establishment be interested in actual crime?
@ChuckCallesto
No need to read it twice.
How come they are just now noticing that UK has turned into the Third Reich?
This is what our E-Commissioner is getting ready for us.
Dutton must promise to abolish this position. If not we will know he supports on-line censorship.
We already know that with the misinformation bill (their version) and the under 16 ban, which they waved through.
@ggreenwald
This is how Washington really works:
GOP Senators are telling Tulsi Gabbard that the only way she has a chance to be confirmed is if she renounces her long-standing opposition to mass FBI/NSA domestic spying powers, and vows to support FISA Section 702:
It seems Fetterman is smarter than they are, he can recognise a shift in the zeitgeist. It would be a pity if they were primaried in 2026.
@houmanhemmati
I’m hearing very credible reports that @GavinNewsom & developers are collaborating to change the zoning in Pacific Palisades from R1 (single family) to R1 and R3 (adding apartments).
Was told “it’s developers’ dream to pack that place with apartments.”
There you go.
Is that so that a future fire can burn many more people?
I said yesterday this will become a huge land grab.
Sancho is correct.
I know more about insurance than is natural for a farmer after being part of a working group with a big Swiss reinsurer to develop a multi peril crop policy.
There were policies put out for a few years but the product ultimately failed to meet the risk/return safeguards and a viable pool never developed. Canadians have a long running scheme but it’s underwritten by the provincial governments.
Good indication it’s commercially unviable and/or underpriced and transferring money from taxpayers. When the private sector doesn’t do something it’s generally for a reason.
@sarahsansoni
Karen Bass the mayor of Los Angeles might actually have to resign. This is pretty damning.
She requested an additional 49 million to be cut ONTOP of the 17 million just days before the fires.
THIS WOULD HAVE SHUT 16 STATIONS
@nicksortor
WTF?! LA County just admitted they’ve LOST CONTROL of their emergency alert system
You can even hear one going off in the room as the Emergency Management Director speaks
MILLIONS of people are getting erroneous alerts telling them to evacuate, even if they’re 10+ miles from any fire or evacuation zone.
These people are wildly incompetent.
Crooked NY Judge Merchan Sentences Trump BUT DECLINES TO IMPOSE PUNISHMENT – Trump Tells Court, “There Was No Crime – I’m Totally Innocent” and Voters Thought It Was a Disgrace!
Trump on the sentencing hearing
@LauraLoomer
Here we have Democrat NY Congressman Dan Goldman celebrating the fact that President Trump is being sentenced by Judge Merchan today.
Just a reminder that Dan Goldman @danielsgoldman is a client of Loren Merchan’s Democrat consulting firm, Authentic Campaigns.
Loren Merchan is the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan.
As I exclusively reported last year, records show NY Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman has sent Loren Merchan over
$162,091.92, with the last payment being made on March 26, 2024, right before the #TrumpTrial began on April 15th, 2024.
He sent the payments to her personal home residence.
The US is a (nuked up) banana republic. That much is clear. Let’s see if Trump can re-instate a Constitutional Republic over the carcasses of the RINO Opposition.
Starlink Direct to Cell is now the most searched for & asked for line in a contract with a telecommunication providers terms & conditions.
If you don’t have it, you are so cooked when situation like California happen now.
@catturd2
From McDonald’s worker to garbage truck driver to felon to President.
Donald J. Trump is the greatest American success story in history.
It’s a pity Hollywood has burned down, they could have made it into a movie that would make a profit.
bwahahahahah!
Or HE would be arrested for being racist!
UK Father Whose Daughter Was Gang Raped: “Police Told Me To Let It Go”
The british bobby is a NAZI
Pacific Palisades family fends off flames with their own firefighting equipment
That’s exactly what I posted on yesterday’s thread. If Angelino’s were advised the way we are here in Oz, there would be a lot more homes saved.
He’s Right: Elon Musk SLAMS the Media as George Soros’s ‘Lapdogs’
With the Trump Sentencing, the Verdict is in . . . for the New York Legal System
Exactly so.
SEAN HANNITY: California is the ‘greatest example’ of how the radical left’s agenda plays out
‘Devastating’: California had record rainfall last year, but lacked infrastructure to store it
Paging Tim Flannery.
A Royal Commission into the handling of the COVID scare is warranted, but so is some form of punishment for all the Climate Change shills who have not just misinformed people but have helped nations to impoverish themselves with no effect on climate at all. They all carry on as if there was no contrary case made by respected scientists.
Bungonia Bee Johnson is right.
Pseudo scientists should have to pay for the damage that they cause.
Stick Mann has just been handed a bill for half a million.
Pay Up, Mr. Mann (10 Jan)
Betcha he doesn’t. These people think they’re above the law.
“Climate crisis” is now accepted fact.
Go back twenty years and see what was predicted by now.
Melted ice caps.
No more snow.
No more rain.
Record heat.
Lots more rain.
Missing Islands.
Dead Barrier reef.
And on and on.
Even Greta, their mascot is retarded.
In the Oz today – powerful writing:
COMMENTARY
No joke, these girls were sacrificed at the altar of PC
Brendan O’Neill
We all love making fun of political correctness. It’s so ripe for mockery. No one is more deserving of derision than these fun sponges who police people’s banter and jokes.
PC – or wokeness, as we call it now – is that zany pastime of time-rich, blue-haired leftists. They stomp around on campuses and in the HR departments of hip workplaces wagging a finger at anyone who is not fully au fait with the latest correct-speak. Misgender someone, say “black woman” instead of “woman of colour” or, worst of all, crack a joke that wasn’t pre-approved by one of these neo-wowsers, and they’ll be hauling you off for diversity training.
That’s a euphemism for re-education. You’ll be schooled on pronoun usage, racial linguistics and all the other Edwardian etiquette of the PC derangement. Nothing less than full capitulation to right-think will do.
The antidote, surely, to all this joyless ratbaggery is laughter. That’s what I’ve been doing for the past 30 years anyway: chortling in the face of these champagne Stalinists. As Kurdish novelist Burhan Sonmez reminds us: “Dictators hate people who laugh at them.”
But across the past week I think I’ve changed my mind. Not on whether PC is irritating and illiberal – it still is – but on whether it’s funny. I now believe it’s more lethal than loony – something that poses a threat not only to our right to tell crude jokes but to civilisation itself.
It was Britain’s “grooming gangs” scandal that prompted my rethink. That’s the euphemistic name given to one of Europe’s worst social outrages of the post-war era: the sexual abuse of thousands of white working-class girls by bands of mostly Pakistani Muslim men in towns up and down England. Brits have been talking about this horror for years. We’ve had inquiries into it. The Times covered it, as did all the tabloids, and even the BBC.
I’ve written about it numerous times, including in an essay for The Wall Street Journal a decade ago, in which I said officialdom had turned a blind eye to this plague of violent debasement, thus abandoning the “civilised requirement to protect the vulnerable”.
But the scandal has had a new lease of life in 2025. It has “trended” online. Billionaire rabblerouser Elon Musk has helped to propel it into the global headlines with his furious tweeting.
He has accused the British government of being “deeply complicit” in these “mass rapes” and has even wondered out loud if Keir Starmer and some of his ministers might deserve a little jail time.
Revisiting this outrage – in all its gross detail – I am reminded of the ideology that underpinned it. The ideology that fuelled officialdom’s fatal disinterest in the suffering of the girls. The ideology that kept this atrocity hidden from the public for so long. It was political correctness.
It is impossible to overstate the enormity of the rape-gang scandal, to give it its more accurate name.
In various towns and cities, gangs of men from primarily Pakistani backgrounds preyed on poor and destitute white girls in the most diabolic fashion.
In Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester and elsewhere, squads of these men pimped, abused, raped and in some cases even killed girls from the dirt-poor parts of town.
There was a racial streak to their beastly behaviour. The girls who became their victims report being referred to as “white whores” and “white slags”. They were treated as a lower form of life. The gangs’ behaviour seemed to be motored not only by misogyny or the warped urge to dominate but by a desire for racial vengeance too. The racist belittling of the girls contained creepy echoes of the fashionable anti-whiteness of the modern left.
On campuses and in other woke circles we’re forever being told to atone for our “white privilege”, while in these grim, post-industrial towns girls were punished for their original sin of whiteness.
What made these events even more monstrous was officialdom’s indifference. Report after report has found that local politicians and police forces were initially loath to investigate the gangs because they feared appearing racist.
The inquiry into Manchester’s “grooming gangs” found that cops kept their distance to begin with because they didn’t want to “upset race relations”. They dreaded the public anger that might greet news of poor white girls being exploited by Pakistani men.
In Rotherham, too, officials hushed up the existence of the gangs because they were “afraid to be called racist”.
In 2014, an official inquiry headed by Professor Alexis Jay spelled it out: there was institutional “nervousness” about discussing the gangs and it was driven by a “fear of being thought (of) as racist”. In some cases, said the Jay inquiry, the truth about the gangs was “effectively suppressed”.
As the London Evening Standard summed it up this week, “political correctness about race” effectively “chilled investigations” of the rape gangs. PC pushed out truth. In town after town, a craven calculation was made – it is more important to be right-on than to do what is right.
The protection of political correctness was elevated above the protection of working-class girls from rape. Officials seemed more interested in steadying the ship of multiculturalism than in securing the safety and dignity of poor girls.
This shameful episode shows just how deadly political correctness can be. PC is not just the eccentric hobby of posh snowflakes. It’s far more dangerous than that. It can even kill.
The true tragedy of these girls is that their suffering did not fit the narrative. Brown-skinned men racially and sexually abusing white girls? It just didn’t compute to the overlords of wokeness who view brown people as oppressed and white people as privileged.
This unsettling spectacle threatened to undo the self-flattering ideologies of the new elites, to unravel their entire identitarian belief system. And so they ignored it, they “effectively suppressed” it. They sacrificed girls at the altar of ideology.
This scandal is a searing indictment of the hyper-racial thinking of the new elites. It should serve as a warning to the world about the dangers of the left’s anti-whiteness, hierarchies of oppression and cavalier cancellation of any story that doesn’t obey their narrative.
Where does it all end? With girls being raped right under the nose of an indifferent bureaucracy.
So in 2025, I am resolved – I’ll probably still laugh at PC but I will also do everything I can to dismantle it. For there is no place in the 21st century for an ideology that lets girls suffer.
Brendan O’Neill is one of the best social and political commentators in the Western world.
Along with Douglas Murray who has much to fear from Islam being a potential roof rocket.
Where were all those committed feminists ?
I have nothing but contempt for the sisterhood. Before selling out the poor white girls they sold out the poor muslim girls. After 9/11 and the Iraq/Afghanistan war they did not say a word when shariah law was put into the constitution of those newly freed nations.
Instead of insisting on women’s rights in these countries they spouted rubbish about culture blah, blah, blah. The same thing is happening here with indigenous women and children in remote communities, the sisterhood is perfectly OK with their horrid and savage treatment, it’s the culture apparently.
Lack of women’s rights was also the culture in Europe and the New World yet it was brave and laudable to change that culture. Why was that OK but not Muslim and indigenous women?
Was it always an upper class thing that allowed the benefits to trickle down to the poor and working class women? Is that why the academic and professional women couldn’t care less now as to what happens to anyone except their kind?
TE, I just can’t read any more about how these girls (and boys) were tortured, gang raped and utterly thrown on the dump for more than 20 years in the name of multiculti.
I am shattered that the country, the government the powers that be turned their backs and looked the other way just because these girls were poor.
And implying they might have consented – how can they consent if the are below the age of consent?
Lock them all up, bring back capital punishment.
Rape? OK cut your dick off or go back to your other country, your choice.
Murder? Ok death sentence or go back to your other country.
If no other country then no choice.
How about just death sentence for both rape and murder? No option to repatriate to another country.
I would not object to cutting off their genitals just before execution. Anaesthetic optional.
An a pigs blood shower the second before the execution.
With every left-wing idiot telling you that Climate Change is making fires unprecedented, how come they are down by 14% since 2012?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-fires?tab=table&time=earliest..2024&country=~OWID_WRL
Need to copy and paste complete link, as it is being truncated by the comment box.
Or https://tinyurl.com/3w5tye6k
Meanwhile, in the once great Britain, I’m beginning to suspect the ultimate aim of local and national Labour is to keep playing pass the parcel over an Oldham inquiry until the punters lose interest.
And the people who really run Oldham avoid detailed scrutiny.
Peter Thiel FT column in full.
In 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump’s election victory was “not the apocalypse”. By any definition, he was correct. But understood in the original sense of the Greek word apokálypsis, meaning “unveiling”, Obama could not give the same reassurance in 2025. Trump’s return to the White House augurs the apokálypsis of the ancien regime’s secrets. The new administration’s revelations need not justify vengeance — reconstruction can go hand in hand with reconciliation. But for reconciliation to take place, there must first be truth. The apokálypsis is the most peaceful means of resolving the old guard’s war on the internet, a war the internet won. My friend and colleague Eric Weinstein calls the pre-internet custodians of secrets the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC) — the media organisations, bureaucracies, universities and government-funded NGOs that traditionally delimited public conversation. In hindsight, the internet had already begun our liberation from the DISC prison upon the prison death of financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2019. Almost half of Americans polled that year mistrusted the official story that he died by suicide, suggesting that DISC had lost total control of the narrative. It may be too early to answer the internet’s questions about the late Mr Epstein. But one cannot say the same of the assassination of John F Kennedy. Sixty-five per cent of Americans still doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Like an outlandishly postmodern detective story, we have waited 61 years for a denouement while the suspects — Fidel Castro, 1960s mafiosi, the CIA’s Allen Dulles — gradually die. The thousands of classified government files on Oswald may or may not be red herrings, but opening them up for public inspection will give America some closure. We cannot wait six decades, however, to end the lockdown on a free discussion about Covid-19. In subpoenaed emails from Anthony Fauci’s senior adviser David Morens, we learnt that National Institutes of Health apparatchiks hid their correspondence from Freedom of Information Act scrutiny. “Nothing,” wrote Boccaccio in his medieval plague epic The Decameron, “is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.” In that spirit, Morens and former chief US medical adviser Fauci will have the chance to share some indecent facts about our own recent plague. Did they suspect that Covid spawned from US taxpayer-funded research, or an adjacent Chinese military programme? Why did we fund the work of EcoHealth Alliance, which sent researchers into remote Chinese caves to extract novel coronaviruses? Is “gain of function” research a byword for a bioweapons programme? And how did our government stop the spread of such questions on social media? Our First Amendment frames the rules of engagement for domestic fights over free speech, but the global reach of the internet tempts its adversaries into a global war. Can we believe that a Brazilian judge banned X without American backing, in a tragicomic perversion of the Monroe Doctrine? Were we complicit in Australia’s recent legislation requiring age verification for social media users, the beginning of the end of internet anonymity? Did we muster up even two minutes’ criticism of the UK, which has arrested hundreds of people a year for online speech triggering, among other things, “annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety”? We may expect no better from Orwellian dictatorships in East Asia and Eurasia, but we must support a free internet in Oceania. Darker questions still emerge in these dusky final weeks of our interregnum. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently suggested on Joe Rogan’s podcast that the Biden administration debanked crypto entrepreneurs. How closely does our financial system resemble a social credit system? Were an IRS contractor’s illegal leaks of Trump’s tax records anomalous, or should Americans assume their right to financial privacy hinges on their politics? And can one speak of a right to privacy at all when Congress conserves Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, under which the FBI conducts tens of thousands of warrantless searches of Americans’ communications? South Africa confronted its apartheid history with a formal commission, but answering the questions above with piecemeal declassifications would befit both Trump’s chaotic style and our internet world, which processes and propagates short packets of information. The first Trump administration shied away from declassifications because it still believed in the rightwing deep state of an Oliver Stone movie. This belief has faded. Our ancien regime, like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, thought the party would never end. 2016 shook their historicist faith in the arc of the moral universe but by 2020 they hoped to write Trump off as an aberration. In retrospect, 2020 was the aberration, the rearguard action of a struggling regime and its struldbrugg ruler. There will be no reactionary restoration of the pre-internet past. The future demands fresh and strange ideas. New ideas might have saved the old regime, which barely acknowledged, let alone answered, our deepest questions — the causes of the 50-year slowdown in scientific and technological progress in the US, the racket of crescendoing real estate prices, and the explosion of public debt. Perhaps an exceptional country could have continued to ignore such questions, but as Trump understood in 2016, America is not an exceptional country. It is no longer even a great one. Identity politics endlessly relitigates ancient history. The study of recent history, to which the Trump administration is now called, is more treacherous — and more important. The apokálypsis cannot resolve our fights over 1619, but it can resolve our fights over Covid-19; it will not adjudicate the sins of our first rulers, but the sins of those who govern us today. The internet will not allow us to forget those sins — but with the truth, it will not prevent us from forgiving.
Apologies for the formatting.
Cutting and pasting from the FT is getting as impossible as the AFR (hence why I couldn’t be bothered posting columns from there any more).
Wonder how long the AFR can survive? Apparently the WA dead tree version was pulled over a reportedly $5k daily printing bill from WAN and Kerry Stokes.
Ran out of OPM for prog-left projects and started raiding essential services.
We’ll see more of this.
The UK is going down the same path re secondary road maintenance.
Likewise VIC here.
The entire State of California is built on New Deal infrastructure that would never get approval today.
Would Sydney get the Warragamba dam today?
We can’t even enlarge it thanks to the usual suspects.
Mel Gibson was on Joe Rogan & Megyn Kelly.
I didn’t watch either.
Mel Gibson is a raving anti-semite.
He also has been in & directed a lot of great movies which I will continue to watch.
Regardless of how anti Newsom & co he is now, unless he’s making movies for my entertainment I’m not all that interested.
Being anti Newsom, anti woke etc is not some rehabilitation/car wash situation that washes away the rest of his lunacy.
PS, South Park’s take on Mel Gibson was the most accurate.
He was extolling the amazing cancer curing qualities of ivermectin and how Fauci is a criminal outside jail.
Perhaps his anti-semitic stance has been coloured by the rancid mob surrounding him in Hollywood.
Gibson’s father, now dead, made some antisemitic remarks over the years. His beliefs appear to have been tied up with his brand of Catholicism, which was traditionalist (inc. that Vatican II was a Jewish plot to undermine the church) and sedevacantist (all popes since 1958 have been false popes). Something of those views seems to have been imprinted on a young Mel.
I’m a lot more interested in his commentary regarding cure suppression by Big Pharma.
Gibson is somewhat of an autist is my take. He will burrow down a rabbit hole forever seeking out the details. On this issue (suppressed cures and Big Pharma) I want to hear his comments. We KNOW we have been lied to over covid.
The one we have now is a fake, a puppet.
18 U.S.C. Section 241. That is what they are going to use when they go after merchan and the da’s who prosecuted Trump:
Attorney Mike Davis Issues Dire Warning to Judge Juan Merchan and Democrats Over Weaponized Lawfare Against President Trump: “On January 20th at Noon, They’re Going to Become the Hunted” | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim H?ft
Wonder how long the AFR can survive? Apparently the WA dead tree version was pulled over a reportedly $5k daily printing bill from WAN and Kerry Stokes.
How do you mean Bear? They weren’t able to pay? I sometimes wonder if those vomit making Fairfax rags make
make as much it costs to print and distribute.
No, WAN printed the AFR under contract. That was the approximate daily printing fee.
ok
I suspect the size of the redundancies is the only thing keep in a number of legacy media assets alive at the moment. At some point that will change.
you really wonder why nine purchased the abomination in the first place!
Think they wanted Domain. Paywallian had a story that Nine now valued at less than sum of parts. Might not be long for this world.
Ah ic. Would not be missed. Australia would be better for it
James Woods’ house did not burn down.
He’s made it back there, just about everything in sight is ashes, his place is still standing, albeit mildly singed.
He’s posted a video on his Xtwitter account:
https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1877851867017015355
Not “karma” then.
Yes Roger, it is Karma.
Karma is both good and bad.
What goes around, comes around.
James Woods is a good guy, he has good Karma.
Very happy for he and his family.
I don’t believe in karma either way, Pogs.
My point was the lady who said it was (bad) karma will have to eat her words.
Apology if already posted – otherwise, your read with morning coffee.
Remember Lindt? Israelis must cope with attacks daily
Gemma Tognini
Israel has to nuke every scumbag muzzie hell hole around them. They will be doing the world a great favour; and their reputation amongst the woke leftoids who suck muzzie dick can’t be any worse. With Trump, they will still get weapons support to enable mopping up of any of the muzzies outside the blast zones.
Great painting. Looks like Virginia Woolf
I find it hard to believe that a few muzzie rapists in the UK didn’t get street justice.
Either the Saxon has not yet begun to hate….or there are no Saxons left.
To do this street justice is a death sentence. Because when a white man who defends his daughter goes to prison, he will be murdered by the Muslims who run them.
Probably because, ……, it is way more than a few.
It is still occurring in every major town/city down the spine of England. (It has been ongoing for 20 years).
The current PM totally f*cked up the initial prosecutions, when the vile, incompetent prick headed the Dept of Public Prosecutions, 2008-2013, but now Labor understand they need the Muslim votes, so, “no-one must dare to mention where the perps are from”, hence the description – “Asian men”.
To date, only one British PM has been assassinated in office, Spencer Percival in 1812.
My bet is, another will be added to the list, very soon.
Muzzies murdered a soldier right outside his own barracks and they did nothing.
I have had several comments rejected at the Oz. All were to the effect that the Dreyfus trip is a stunt based on his being a token “court Jew” in the otherwise anti semitic government and because he’s (notionally) Jewish it would be very hard for Israel to deny him a visa. If the ALP think it will restore any Jewish or Israel supporting votes they are very much mistaken. I’m sure that if Albo, Wong or any of the other Jew hating liars were to apply to go they would be denied visas or at least have them indefinitely delayed.
I adore Gemma Tognini.
Gemma never had to say to Australian Jews, “I have your back”. She has shown from the start that, her loyalty and belief in Israel is unwavering.
Unlike some other Media Turds with whose names I will not sully this blog.
Sully away; those mongrels need to be named and vilified often.
If Israel is prevented from defending herself with aircraft, howitzers, and tanks, she will defend herself with nukes.
Those who are preventing her from protecting herself need to realise this.
Farage is a grifter. His shtick is “I’m not Tory or Labour”. Throwing Tommy under the bus is beyond the pale.
The Daily Express did a poll yesterday…
Should Shamima Begum ever be allowed back to the UK? (9 Jan)
I think Mr Farage just might be on the wrong side of this one.
No right of return, either morally nor legally.
Even the woke Wikipedia says “Begum had been an “enforcer” in ISIS’s “morality police”.
Decisions have consequences.
Stick a fork in him. This would be as popular as a turd in a swimming pool.
Belay that. Boyo boy, did someone ever spin his words.
Farage actually said pretty much the opposite.
Here’s a near 2-minute clip from Farage’s ITV interview. Takes quite some contortion to twist that into “I want to bring her home”
No, he’s sympathetic to the idea. Because his mate Gorka thinks it should happen. Really, who cares if they are released from jail in Syria? Not 90% of the UK. One less terrorist in the UK is a far better deal. Let her stay in the shithole. He’s a grifter.
He was quoted verbatim in the press.
He’s wrong. There is no debate to be had on Shemima Begum as she is no longer a UK citizen.
Yep. The sooner Musk forces a change of leadership in Reform Party, the better.
Shamima Begum (not to be confused with Shamina Begum) is a vote-changer among the genpop.
He’s stepping on a rake that didn’t need stepping on.
Tommy Robinson: Bad, (pinch nose)
Shamima Begum: Y’know what, a debate here is not entirely out of the question on this, (lots of slippery phraseology that’d make a used car salesman jealous)
It depends, mine host, whose swimming pool it is.
If it were Nigels, I think it would be a great idea.
Unfortunately, there’s no sense of scale of the poopfoto, apart from it’s, like, you know, ‘big’.
And smells of dead prawns.
I watched Piers Morgan become part of the throwing gang during his interview with Gad Saad. “Because he’s a bad lad, we should totally disown him and ignore his message”. Piers appeared to be downplaying the rape gangs because of Tommy’s past.
Sickening.
Farage is a Class Grifter. That’s why he doesn’t like Tommy Robinson.
Went to the local Vinnies to get some books. How to catalogue them one may ask, by colour! The only one I found was by itself. I gave up. We used to get several each time. They always had a good supply till one of the volunteers decided that kitchen junk, and I do mean junk was more profitable. There always was several people perusing the shelves, now no one apart from myself. Wife has a friend that helps out one day a week at an op shop. She agreed, no improvements to be entertained upon threat of death.
Ranga,
you live close to the dreadful ACT don’t you?
If yes, the Salvos have a huge shop at Fyshwick Markets that is just used books. I have made some excellent finds there. Everything is grouped in its own section.
Keep an eye on the street libraries. I used to write them off as just junk but great for something quirky you would never buy or look at. Real diamonds in the dust stuff.
Agreed.
In Perth, the Paraquad bookshop in Shenton Park handles a collossal number of Library discards, and many great books can be had there for reasonable money. And just next door the charity shop has a pretty good book section as well as the usual other stuff.
A certain close family member has spent the last couple of years building ‘complete works’ of many excellent writers from such places. When each of those writers take a metre or two of shelf, because they are prolific best-sellers, its maybe getting out of hand.
Meanwhile I just paid $150 for one, Skennerton’s magisterial reference book on Lee-Enfields.
Dromana,salvos nice library feel
Never go the full Karen.
Top cop Karen Webb hires sixth media chief for plum $360k gig (Tele, paywalled)
As well as Twiggy’s spruiker he’s an ex Ten and Nein-Fauxfacts denizen. So apart from being a stale white male he ticks all the PC boxes.
Goes to show you can’t polish a turd
Twiggy or Webb? Or both?
Yes.
was thinking of Karen but now you mention it…
But you can roll it in glitter!
Farage is a grifter.
His political advantage is that everyone knows who he is. Name recognition counts for a lot.
Everyone knows Stalin’s name, Eyrie. Doesn’t mean he’d get elected if eligible.
Farage is being buffeted by waves from the incoming Trump administration.
The Tory government revoked her citizenship and she’s exhausted all appeals against that decision. She is now Bangladesh’s problem.
Farage should stand up for British law.
Kind of like a windsock.
It seems this is MSM misinformation (i.e. lies)
ITV posted that as a misleading clickbait headline on an interview with Farage, an interview in which he said no such thing.
Farage was asked to comment on Sebastian Gorka’s hypothesis that if Syria’s new regime releases currently banged up ISIS terrorists, it may be better to have them in jail in Europe than free in the middle east & conducting a terrorism campaign against Europe.
Farage said Gorka has a point, however he is instinctively opposed to bringing her to UK.
Farage didn’t thump the desk & shout thunderously “She’ll never come to UK”
Salvatore’s caveat: Farage is every bit as slippery as he looks.
Farage is – for whatever reason – siding with the muslims on this issue and not with 95% of the British public.
He’s just another blowin’ in the wind politician who wants to get invited to the right parties.
It is a good indicator of how he’d work as a PM – with constant phrasings of ‘how difficult it is’ while moving on his own agenda. And it’s going to become more obvious as the pressure on him mounts.
Wonder if James Woods used some new fire retardant with their build/reno.
There are some sci fi like products out there.
The pics Woods posted shows the fire stopping on the hillside just below his place. His neighbor though lost his house- don’t know how far apart they are.
They were using helicopters dumping water very effectively around houses that took out row after row of fires saving dozens of dwellings. Also Canuck seaplanes dumping sea water. The smaller aerial appliances had the maneuverability and accuracy to weave in and around the hillsides.
Wonder if James Woods used some new fire retardant with their build/reno.
There are some sci fi like products out there.
There are what is called intumescent paints which expand and char to form an insulating layer.
That decking of his didn’t look charred despite the wood on the neighbours retaining wall having been alight at one stage. That distance was about 3 meters?
Alexander Vindman Slams Mike Waltz Plan to Clear NSC of Deep Staters
as evil as he looks- pure poison
There are two of them, twins, and each one has an evil bride.
Recall to the Colours, demote them to PFC, send them to Thule Airbase – just for larfs.
Wrapping up the Zuckerberg/Rogan appearance.
Like Andreesson & Thiel, the good stuff kicks off at the 2 hour mark (it’s 2hr 50min long).
Zuckerberg did not mention Open AI by name but he referenced it repeatedly.
He is not going to let the Microsoft/Altman/Hoffman/Gates ecosystem win in the race for AI dominance.
Salvatore – Iron Publican
January 11, 2025 11:29 am
Reply to Makka
Stick a fork in him. This would be as popular as a turd in a swimming pool.
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Memory trigger.
Caddyshack (1980) – Doodie! Scene (4/9) | Movieclips
It’s not from BoM so there’s a chance.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/la-nina-declared-by-us-climate-prediction-center–heres-what-it-means-for-australia/1890263
Saw yesterday.
Build up this year definitely had a wet feel over NQ so not surprised.
Haha, Albo’s social media ban for under 16s is just so going to work. Not.
How many children use TikTok against the rules? Most, study finds (MedXpress, 10 Jan)
Well at least one fringe benefit of the social media ban is it’s going to turn an entire generation into Winston Smiths, actively avoiding the gaze of Big Brother.
More State nannying to show they care,BoN.
Always with the lies… ALPBC reporting that Albo’s Bruce Hwy funding will not begin for 4 years.
https://x.com/colingdwyer/status/1877875775443251398
Instead of digging up the details, the SFL’s dive in and commit to an ALP shimmera.
Paging Dr of Keating, paging Dr of Keating. An economics read with your morning coffee just for you! RTWT here >>>
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/we-cannot-regulate-our-way-to-growth/
Forget blaming the Humphreys. Chalmers thinks he can reinvent the mixed market economy. No wonder Goosesteen was in his thrall.