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Maybe if you used enough brown boot polish?
I remember Pope Benedict’s was much more sombre.
our daughter has a Murray River freshwater turtle in her tank, quite a lovely thing, but soon she is going…
You have to be able to pay the interest on the bonds you issue. They all issued government bonds. France…
First?
Just started watching an old movie on Amazon Prime – :
“Cast A Giant Shadow”..
.
Some big names – Douglas, Wayne, Sinatra, Heston….in no particular order.
Americans helping Israel build an army to defend themselves against the Arabs.
Maybe the Donald will rebuild that resolve.
And Yul Bryner
John Spooner.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Thanx, Tom.
Have a look at this bloke. Andrew Bolt:
Be careful what you wish for you noodle armed tosser.
Now this is monty’s type of bloke!
That pencil necked geek wouldn’t last 2 minutes in a pub fight, let alone a revolution.
Always the same – weedy communists dream of revolution, when they and their mates will have total power.
Always the same – in the turmoil of a revolution the real hard men appear and all the Jacobs are taken to the cellar or driven to a nice secluded bit of scrub.
Mutley would bend over for him.
Should turn up bullet riddled.
FAFO.
Incitement much? Zero consequences for him these days though.
Lord, another lefty seffer. Another effing lawyer too.
On a lighter note, a very wise spousal advise by Jolliffe.
So many of these causes du jour are simply an emotional outlet for messed up people. Remember when they were in a frenzy about Tamils in Sri Lanka?
….and in Biloela.
Picture of W Davidson on one of their bike.
Now you know what he looked like, I’m sure many of you were dying to know.
So what did Harley bring to the table?
How to make a crap bike worse.
Money?
Did you know that 85% of all Harleys ever made are still on the road?
The rest made it home.
(BinWA … affirmed BMW owner!)
Dad always rode as a young man, never interested in cars.
He got sick of oil leaks and British engineering and bought a BMW – this would have been about 1956-57 at a guess.
I recall riding up the dirt road in front of our place- I was maybe 3 or 4, and sitting in front of Dad, on the tank/in his lap- and watching potholes approach and thinking
” This will be a big bump”
and the BMW rode over them pretty smoothly.
Young as I was I noticed the difference.
An interesting H D twist.
Early HDs were a little pedestrian, with the odd standout like the “peashooter” models. The basic 1926 model had some grunt and it became popular on racing circuits, especially when fitted with an after-market multi-valve head. I have seen one of these ex-“speedway” machines here in slightly-soggy S E Queensland.
The “big” V-twin idea seemed to have financial merit as a general service platform, but H d needed to retool entirely to get up and running, > At the time a couple of agents for a small Japanese consortium found out about movements in Milwaukee and paid up for the complete Peashooter production kit. That little bike and several variants thereof, kick-started,(so to speak) the serious Japanese motorbike industry, which subsequently supplied thousands of these machines to the Japanese Army, then beginning to get seriously rampaging around Asia.
Move over Danube, look at the Congo river running at quiet times.
Imagine it flooding
What Adelaide looked like in 1865, they had churches even then.
to think, 30 years before there was absolutely nothing there.
Can’t compare with the 20, no 40 no 60,000 years of rich, vibrant hunter gatherer no farming culture there before, however.
In case people wondering, no, it’s not an aerial photograph.
It was taken from the tower of the town hall.
WELL, Then, St Francis Xavier’s RC Cathedral is facing Sou/East, and it truly faces Nth/West, and where is the Sth/East cnr of Queen Victoria Square?
The “City of Churches”: All now turned into trendy boutiques and restaurants.
A true chess genius.
————–
In 1964, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer demonstrated his unparalleled skill by playing 50 opponents simultaneously in a remarkable exhibition.
At just 21 years old, Fischer took on a mix of grandmasters, club players, and amateurs in a display of sheer intellectual dominance. The event, held at the Manhattan Chess Club, saw Fischer roaming the room, making moves with exceptional speed and precision while keeping track of all the games at once.
His ability to play multiple games without a single error was a testament to his extraordinary memory and deep understanding of chess. By the end of the marathon session, Fischer had won 47 of the games, drawing 3, a result that left a lasting impression on the chess world.
This exhibition solidified Fischer’s reputation as one of the greatest chess minds of all time, and foreshadowed his eventual rise to the World Chess Championship in 1972.
A tight leash?
Don’t I know it, sadly I am mostly home anyway.
From the Journal
If banks started offering safe deposit boxes again, they could be making bank (pun intended).
Too much effort, not enough financial return.
I looked at it to store some bullion.
Too easy for government to just waltz up with a court order …and it’s gone.
gold does just fine if you bury it
Given how well Trump did across the board, why is the majority so slim in Congress?
Insurance policy from the undecideds, may be the death knell of the Trump regime. I hope not.
We know the Dems stole at least four reps seats in California. I suspect more elsewhere in states like Arizona. In both places they went on counting and counting and counting for weeks after the election and hey presto four narrowly flipped seats to the Democrats against the run of play. Weird how that happens.
Cheating.
Labor making the same mistake as Newsom.
Labor rejects health insurance hikes as Private Healthcare Australia claims soaring medical costs necessitate increases (Sky News, 15 Jan)
So he’s twice knocked back their proposed increase for this year. And they can’t recover their costs, after an inadequate rise last year.
Well we know what happens next – just like in California.
Labor making the same mistake as Newsom.
In neither case was it a mistake
It’s uncanny how they all seem to resemble Marx in some way.
Sick looking, envious, lazy, with an air of smug superiority.
He is the stereotype of the human responsible for more misery and death on this planet than all others put together.
I thought he looks more like Trotsky?
I can’t quite get it.
Put an icepick in the back of his head and let’s see if that helps.
Chickenhawk anarchist.
I was reading about a mother and son who saved their home. Her husband had purchased a pump system and they had a pool so they twice sprayed their roof with chlorinated water.
What surprised me was that they had a roof made of wooden shingles.
It seems like a lot of people in LA had a it couldn’t really happen mentality.
Someone posted a photo of a mid century timber home surrounded by trees.
It’s gone.
As for small portable valuables.
Aren’t they the things you take with you?
Did the safe company advertise the safe as completely fire proof or was it just anti theft?
If I were a multi millionaire living in LA I’d have on site water storage, a fire management system and a house not built of timber.
Rosie my in-laws had the national home of the year. Cedar shakes for the roof.
They’ve also had it drummed into them the fear of earthquake from the San Andreas fault line which is not a real problem in LA. There’s no chance of subduction either but we are talking about California where they believe the next lie readily. Too much exposure to Hollywood.
If I were a multi millionaire living in LA I’d have on site water storage, a fire management system and a house not built of timber.
A large number of these houses already had onsite water storage in the form of pools, so an external home protection sprinkler system should have been a possibility. They seem to have a ‘leave it to the experts’ mentality there, re-inforced by the mandatory evac orders … likely the PoPo would try and move you out anyway/.
BTW, the risk of loss of your house in a bushfire is 10X if its unattended,
Wally Dalí: January 15, 2025 11:46 pm
Reply to Winston Smith
Yes – still remember it quite vividly.
People who are in a short term psychotic state quite often retain memories of what they did – they may refuse to acknowledge it, but they remember.
I never forgot that in my entire career when it was impressed on us during our training. “The mad may be mad now, but they do get better, and they remember.”
I remember, knew I was ok when I said to my wife, I know its not real but just humour me and check the car is not in the backyard, which is an impossibility.
Hamas and its allies still hold 94 of the 251 hostages taken from Israel, including at least 34 of whom are dead, according to the Israeli government.
As to what state the living are in, we will wait and see. I don’t believe a word Hamas says.
Oh, and now there is a ceasefire in place, will we now see an end to the weekly Jew hating festivals in our CBDs, Jew hating rallies that have gone on for 15 months, sanctioned by our Waffen police forces?
I guess our own Nazi will now be at a loose end.
A ‘ceasefire’ doesn’t end the war or solve the problem… if anything it perpetuates it – reference the North v South Korea imbroglio … their 3 year attempt at resolving that was suspended in 1953… and the problem still festers.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/hessen-interior-minister-announces?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-restack-comment&r=1easrn&triedRedirect=true
We are watching in real time the replay of 1930s yet some people are still mystified how it all happened.
I wanted to say that but was concerned I’d be called an “Extremist Conspiracy Theorist”.
🙂
Regarding nazi Germany;Some may wonder where people like the SS and Gestapo (and Abwehr) came from.
The answer is that they were ALWAYS ‘there”, they just needed the right “moment”.
See also the regimes of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc., ad nauseum.
Look around you, folks
Another Blockhead that checks the content of his own crap.
Biden is truly a grub for the ages, refusing to acknowledge Trump’s role in any ceasefire:
Biden says Americans will be among hostages released amid Israel-Hamas cease-fire
And biden and his fellow grubs will lay traps for Trump in any ceasefire agreement for the release of the hostages:
The Hamas Surrender Deal Sets Up Trump to Fail | Frontpage Mag
And this is the real problem for Trump: back stabbing faux conservatives like this sanctimonious piece of shit:
Traitor Mike Pence is Trying to Block Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Appointment. Here’s Why…
last night I finished the third book in a series by FX Holden. Female anti hero, flying futuristic aircraft against Chinese etc in the year 2038. Very well written, good character development and the technical stuff in line with advancements seeable today.
If you have a youngster that you want to get reading, this author is good for both sexes.
But what I wanted to get off my chest was that I finished reading it at 2200, and an email timed at 2215 arrived in my account trying to sell me the next book in the series. Which I already had bought.
This tells me two things:
This is a deadly combination.
🙂
Certainly #2.
Watch: Amazon Uses Huge Diesel Generator To Charge Electric Delivery Van Fleet (16 Jan)
Hypocritical virtue signalling on a grand scale!
Great painting: a ranga!
And as noted the true enemy:
Jordan van den Lamb is a former public servant who’s been picked as a Senate candidate by the Victorian Socialist Party, which lists the Victorian Trades Hall Council as its address.
You can’t reason with these bastards. I reckon they’re like a viral measure of how decadent a society is: they enjoy every benefit of a Western democracy while implacably trying to destroy it.
Some truth there – look at the invention of native title out of nothing.
As demonstrated by law “reforms” in recent decades. They are too stupid to realise that they have written the arguments against their own “theory”.
I see the new Secretary of NATO Inc. is again telling EU countries to cut back on Social spending and Health, so they can spend more on NATO Inc. Nice.
In other (really bad) news for the EU, Ivan launched a very large missile attack on Ukraine, after the US yet again attempted to strike Russia, with sub par Atacams.
This time, the gas storage facilities in Lvov were targeted.
As if Al Capone telling “St Volodymyr the pure” to halt gas transit to the EU, was not bad enough, now the reserves are targeted.
Still a lot of cold weather to endure in Europe.
This won’t help.
Luckily, Al Capone is happy to sell the EU LNG, at 5 times the price of Russian gas.
Phew!
@katierosemiller
Mike Pence fired me when my daughter was two months old, because @StephenM was employed by President Trump and refused to quit when he asked. Mike Pence doesn’t practice what he preaches when it comes to family values, he only does it when it’s politically expedient. The American People clearly don’t care a single iota what Mike Pence has to say – he resoundingly lost to President Trump. Our country has moved on and it’s time he does too. He’s nothing but a footnote of American history.
I judge people by what they do or don’t do, not what they say or don’t say unless of course they call out lying or as its known today, misinformation and disinformation depending who’s saying it. This is but one reason I’d never vote Labor again. It’s over 40 years since the last time.
@AveryWarwick
I interviewed a Los Angeles firefighter with 20+ years of service. The truths I found are harrowing.
@GavinNewsom ordered the removal of @elonmusk from the command post, and ordered the Cal Fire firefighters to return all donated startlinks.
The firefighters ran out of water in the palisades.
The fire department was not consulted on the draining of the palisades reservoir.
There were insufficient hydrants in the palisades..too far apart, and the incorrect diameter for sufficient water flow.
“We could have saved more homes if we had more water”
@GavinNewsom ordered the removal of @elonmusk from the command post, and ordered the Cal Fire firefighters to return all donated startlinks.
And if I recall, big Clive donated enough Hydroxychloroquine to the people of Australia to short circuit the ‘pandemic’ … so the govt had customs seize and destroy it .
You can NEVER hate these people enough.
@johnrich
Notice all the Dem Senators, no matter which Trump nominees they interrogate, ALWAYS bring up @Kash_Patel . They’re most afraid of him, because they know he’ll end and expose all the nefarious activity that’s been going on for the past 4 years, and many of them are implicated.
Mega thread of evidence showing covid “vaccines” cause turbo cancers
AWESOME: Pam Bondi Turns the Tables on Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse With a Masterful Response When He Snidely Suggests She Will Weaponize the DOJ
That happens when your name rhymes with toilet
From the Hun….
An alleged arsonist who suffered “catastrophic” injuries may die in hospital after he set himself alight while trying to torch a Prahran smoke shop on Wednesday morning.
I laughed until I stopped
I lolled out loud.
this happens repeatedly… when will they learn they need a less volatile accelerant than pure petrol?
Exactly – case in Adelaide 10-15 years ago when a serous explosion destroyed a struggling shop in the CBD in the small hours.
Shopkeepers car located not far away but no sign of the owner. Families frantic, according to the media.
A couple of days later, as site cleanup started, workers lifted the brick back wall that had collapsed in one piece, near enough. You guessed it – there was the missing shopkeeper and his petrol can, close to the back door.
As the learned Duk points out, get the fuel/air ratio just right and combustion takes place awfully quickly.
Hopefully they do not learn
Paedophile Information Exchange is back in the news as a BBC radio documentary explores a list of more than 300 members
So the Paedophile Support Group hasn’t disbanded?
What all Paedophiles forget is that their victims grow up to be adults who REMEMBER their abusers.
I hope the abusers – if still alive – live in a state of fear of the ‘knock on the door’ by blokes in uniforms.
I would prefer that the abusers and their enablers live in fear of the door being kicked in by family members of the victims
or, much much worse- a knock on the door by a group of blokes not in uniforms.
Armed with dull, rusty knives.
But many of them were well connected. They were a pet cause of the left in the 70s – as in Australia with ‘our’ ABC and Richard Neville. Dorothy Hewett etc. A few people still influential in the Starmer government – Harriet Harman formerly of the Council for Civil Liberties for one – have had to make token public apologies.
Remember when the left pretended to be about civil liberties?
About time.
Though I suspect that the names of leftards on the list might not get many mentions.
Illegal alien (dare I say terrorist) trying to start a fire in LA.
Would-Be Arsonist Runs Into the Wrong Celeb, Ends Up in Cuffs Moments Later
US Marine and Former Police Officer Alfredo Luna Has Jan. 6 Related Case *DISMISSED* After FBI Raided His Home Over “Pre-Crime Indicators” – And Left His 2-Month-Old Baby in House Alone for an Hour!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/victory-us-marine-former-police-officer-alfredo-luna/
We’re going to need a lot more helicopters.
Shifty getting the AI treatment.
https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1879617043974275336
?
The look on his face at the end is priceless.
Straight out of the Rules For Radicals playbook:
They’re actually #5 and #6, but the auto formatting sucks.
Is it still damp and without power in NSW?
An updated and slightly extended version of Thoughtcrime.
Once upon a time, 1984 was widely considered an apocryphal warning of socialist excess.
“Pre-crime indicators”
ie, you are doing something that might hurt someone in the future … a bit like ‘speeding’
[tap tap] [ blows raspberry] Is this thing working?
Rereading the Second Oldest Profession by Phillip Knightley. I’d forgotten, but after reading the Introduction there’s hardly reason to read the rest. It is scathing of Intelligence services. Our own garage nasties being an invention of ASIO, then lo and behold they appear with the help of plod and including senior plod son in Victoria. Amazing how they disappear as quickly as they arrive without plod knowing where. A lot like muzzies calling for the death of Jews and then can’t be found.
From the Australian Jewish Association…
FIRST STAGE: 33 hostages, approx 1000 terrorists
Hamas and assorted jihadists are celebrating, claiming victory.
Schedule for the release of the hostages in the first phase –
On the first day, three hostages,
On the 7th day, four hostages,
On the 14th, three hostages,
On the 21st, three hostages.
On the 28th, three more hostages will be released,
On the 35th day, three hostages
Last week – 14 hostages.
This is what Israel will do to recover the living and the dead. We Jews across the world will only celebrate the living and mourn the dead when we see both the living and the dead handed over.
Given what has ensued since October 7 2023, both in Israel and across the world, particularly here in Oz where I happen to live, I struggle at times to keep my composure in the face of the staggering evil that now runs amok across the West. Even this morning, sitting on an over-crowded bus trying to get into the office, an increasingly hard thing to do since NSW has a venal and mediocre Labor government, and so the state is now paralysed with industrial action from a greedy union, I struggled to stop myself crying on the bus when reading about what Israel is about to do.
I know this though, the infected scab that is western progressive leftism has been ripped off and the bleeding sore that is leftist Jew hatred is now clear to see. The left support violence, rape and murder of their political opponents….that’s the reality. Never forget that. It is good to see Julian Leeser and the Liberals ramp up the political reality..
Jewish Liberal MP Julian Leeser has campaigned in Adam Bandt’s electorate of Melbourne and called on Anthony Albanese to preference the Greens, who he says are “Hamas rape deniers”, last at the federal election, saying it is a “real test of whether Labor is doing all they can on anti-Semitism”.
Correct. The Greens are a Nazi Party, and those stupid affluent Australians who vote Greens are no different to those Germans who voted for the Nazi Party in 1933.
While he would not commit to personally reaching out to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to renew Israeli-Australian relations after a difficult 18 months, Mr Albanese said Hamas were the enemy of both Palestinians and Israelis.
I think it is very clear that if the Jew hating slug from Grayndler and his Jew hating comrades are re-elected then life for Australian Jews will only get more difficult….and more dangerous.
For everybody.
Saw Sheridan on Credlin last night. Does he have any self-awareness, calling himself a conservative. He said he personally likes Luigi and suggested Bibi is weak over the hostage negotiations. Conservative…..fingers down throat. Another lefty with to say so makes it up.
with nothing to say
What else did Albo not say? He did not say that Hamas is also the enemy of Australia, least of all the Labor Party.
The most damaging to the entire congress would be the release of details of the fund that pays off people, usually staffers, who accuse DC politicians of sexual harassment. I don’t know who has control of that fund, it might be the Speaker.
One of Creepy Joe’s staffers accused him of sexual harassment.
It was covered up, of course. Don’t know if she got a payment.
Nick Cater on the subversive intent lurking in the Green’s Truth and Justice Commission, which a minority Albanese government would foist upon us:
RTWT at Quadrant Online.
Obviously – culture not colour.
But the Left and its followers and apologists are determined to conflate one for the other. Often for no reason other than to score a talking point.
The foundations of Australia were built by the English, Scottish and Irish, three peoples who had plenty of historical reasons not to get along together. Post-WWII migration from continental Europe subsequently built on that but with the same ethos – what united Australians was citizenship, not race or ethnicity.
The race essentialism Cater highlights is an attempt by the prog-left to unravel the fabric of our nation.
(In the original mix of 19th C. settlers we should not forget the contribution of ethnic minorities such as Germans, Welsh, Chinese, Lebanese (Christians), Danes (in QLD) & Jews. But the “Anglo-Celtic” strain forged in the era of settlement was pre-eminent.)
what united Australians was citizenship, not race or ethnicity
what united Australia was *culture* … culture is a shared set of beliefs about how life works … liberty, freedom, hard work etc – basically the (glances furtively around) good old ‘white anglo saxon protestant work ethic – yes I know a lot were catholics.. the point stands
This is why multi-culturalism fails – you dont have shared beliefs about how things work
‘Anglo-Celtic’ (a favourite putdown for multiculturalists, by the way) conceals a very fractious history to say the least. If an Irishman ever says to you ‘The Curse of Cromwell be upon you’, you can take it that he doesn’t like you.
Yet the blending can take interesting directions. Whe Pope Francis restricted the Traditional Latin Mass, the diocesan website where I live was deluged with cheering and gloating comments by baby boomers with names like Casey and O’Brien who insisted that only English – the language of their forebears’ heretic conquerors and dispossessors – was good enough for them.
No mention of Italianos, Squire?!
Everywhere I’ve been I have found more in common than not but as soon as Islam is introduced into the equation, nothing. Never been to Turkey but all the friends that have find it great but wonder how the muzzies have taken power from the sectarian state.
Demographics & an inept, divided opposition.
wonder how the muzzies have taken power from the sectarian state
just look at Britain… its happening in real time
Saw Sheridan on Credlin last night.
Greg Sheridan is a dribbling f*ckwit.
With a bad dye-job.
I’ve never understood why people thought he was a great supporter of the right – even when he started with The Australian, he was a wishy washy apologist for the Left.
I think he thought he was a ‘peacemaker’ – one who straddled the fence and saw himself as a conduit of understanding between the two camps.
I can’t stand that sort – their positions are made because they don’t have a valid moral or intellectual underpinning – their position on matters is defined solely by being a midpoint, with all the ambiguities that arise from that posture.
Rosie earlier:-
The trouble is, I would guess that putting in your own fire management system would be a nightmare in Newsom’s California.
Firstly, I imagine that installing a sprinkler system along the roof ridge-line would be a no-no.
Because it ruins the aesthetic.
So you would have to be there to do it manually.
And the storage of fuel.
Yes, I know. The amount of diesel/petrol required to pump out a pool would be tiny, but there are rules about fuel storage (BTW, I could put a monster battery on the fence line, four feet from my neighbour’s house and that would be just fine).
And what chemicals are in the water you propose to pump out of the pool and will end up in the ‘vironment?
Bzzzt. Can’t do that.
The poorest of the All-In pod Jason Calacanis used to live in Brentwood.
He had a place worth a few mill & it had wooden shingles.
His story has changed a few times but he’s discussed the lengths he had to go to replace the roof.
He moved to Texas last year. And he’s a Vote Blue no matter who kind of person.
They flee the system that makes their lives a misery, then vote for the same system in their new location.
Proof that leftards are mental pygmies, incapable of independent thought.
Incompetence or deliberate malice?
My mates spray system went under the roof capping with the nozzles drilled and tapped through it. Could be done with a tile roof as well.
The American love of freedom generally stops short of the peculiar phenomenon of homeowners associations.
The catch is that NOWHERE on this planet is there any thought of the concept of “Freedom FROM Association”.
If you are NOT free to NOT “join”, you are NOT FREE.
This will be the issue when Californians try to re-build. There will be so many hoops to jump through to get Building Approvals thanks to their Green idiocy, it could take a hundred years to re-build the joint.
Virtue signalling with Democrats has a price.
In this case, the price was nearly all your belongings, and sometimes your life.
California is earthquake-central. Light flexible building materials only, no heavy masonry. Utterly combustible.
Amateur opinions please-
Airbourne plant fertilizer is creeping up, let’s just say post-Holocene ice age maximums.
So, Australia will have more plant growth, as we can already see via satellite.
Seeing as mucho of the south is covered by a man-made fire dependent Eucalyptus etc sclerophyll forest,
will we see more bigger and badder bushfires as a matter of course?
When is the second oldest culture going to take responsibility for destroying the ecology of the flora of Australia by by burning and replacing it with eucalyptus. An environmental nightmare. What about the megafauna too.
Burning the place for tens of thousands of years didn’t do it any favours.
Compare equivalent latitudes in either Africa or South America.
I want a pet Muttaburrasaurus
It could take me for walks.
No one would cut you off in traffic.
Bring on 500ppmCO2!
Bring on the woodchippers!
Bring back the Yew, The Maple, The Redwoods.
All the trees that were here before the Aboriginals burnt them down.
See also:
Antarctic Beech. Nothofagus moorei The northern-most stand in Australia is a tiny bit of forest in the south of Lamington National Park. and the nearby Springbrook NP, also in SE Queensland. Some also near Barrington Tops to the south.
There are also remnants on the west coast of South America. They are probably doomed, as they have not flowered in living memory/
As the Australian Plate drifted North, away from the Gondwanaland “mas, near current Antarctica, the “climate” steadily changed. Whether the effect was greater in the trees directly or on the pollinating insects??
Thanks for posting the time line regarding phase one of the deal Cassie.
So does this just buy Hamas time for a month?
Or does it depend on phase two when the details are agreed on?
@WallStreetApes
WOW The Pentagon official James O’Keefe just exposed was working to sabotage Donald Trump WAS A SPECIAL AGENT WITH THE FBI AND WORKED FOR HILLARY CLINTON AT THE STATE DEPT
It ALWAYS comes back to the same corrupt people, nothing ever changes
Listening to some stuff from Oaktree Capital.
The average age of a first home buyer in the US is now 38.
No idea what the state by state breakdown of that is.
During Pam Bondi’s hearing.
@BreannaMorello
LIAR
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) says it’s “misinformation” to claim the federal government has used FISA to spy on Americans.
Shortly after making this false claim, Senator Mike Lee debunked Cornyn during the hearing.
Why is @JohnCornyn trying to protect the intel community?
They have a lot on him?
They have photos? Man, sheep, Wellington boot?
Hey – he is a Texan , it would not have been like that!
Man, sheep, cowboy boots, maybe?
Why Pacific Palisades will never be the same after the California fires
assessing the case for pardoning fauci
Nick Cater on the subversive intent lurking in the Green’s Truth and Justice Commission, which a minority Albanese government would foist upon us:
O/T – Archbishop Desmond TuTu had to threaten to resign before the South African Truth and Justice Comission would consider the sexual abuse of female A.N.C. members, in the camps across the border…
Truth and Justice, but only truth and justice that we want to hear about, the rest of you can eff off.
Been watching a ‘reality’ show on SBS about London’s Paddington Station and the rail network more generally.
It is like (pardon the pun) watching a slow moving train wreck.
In today’s episode, they are building a new railway bridge. They proudly tell us it took eight years of planning.
Eight years for a single bridge! Then, when they come to build it, the equipment gets stuck in the mud and the bridge itself is in danger of cracking.
Compare this with the efficient design and building that we see on shows of the Mighty genre.
The rail network has so many possible points of failure (many due to design deficiencies) that it is a miracle that it works at all.
But, like the NHS, they are proud of it, because … ?
I honestly don’t know.
You can guarantee there were no old blokes involved in the design, all previous studies were ignored, previous failures ignored. When I was a kid a bypass motorway was built on the hill opposite. Nobody listened to the old blokes that talked about the watercourses, previous studies suggesting nothing be built, similar problems with the railway. We watched one rainy night as it slid into the valley. One only has to look at the state of our roads due mainly by poor drainage.
UK is a sad, pathetic geriatric making everyone bored shitless by its constant rememberences its glorious Victorian days. Just like Joe Biden.
Pam Bondi is 59 years old.
After twitter alerted me to this, I had to look it up to confirm.
MAHA.
Scrubs up ok.
How many ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’? AI struggles:
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/how-many-r-s-in-the-word-berry-cSob.fQTStqBLQw9HCOXUg
How does the British experience of TV licencing compare with Australia’s? AI shines:
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/did-australia-have-a-televisio-FSbHT00iSyCgP2tP.6S2.A
So. I guess we are left with “Trust but Verify”. How many people do the verification?
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/are-people-too-trusting-of-ai-_IfmdSJwSBqjwTRZVqz9sQ
Given most of the stuff the MSM tells us is fake news turns out to be true I had to laugh at this one:
New AI tool detects fake news with 99% accuracy (TechXplore, 15 Jan)
I was asking Chatgpt to do me a worksheet comparing 2 aircraft in the QAM collection. I had to go out and double check that we weren’t hiding a 787 on the premises.
Polling repeatedly shows the average Gazan disagrees with him re Hamas.
I suspect support for Hamas runs high in certain western Sydney enclaves as well.
If the Labor Party can’t extract itself from this nexus with the Muslim vote that it has cultivated over decades it is going to see its support from other quarters of the electorate which are not so enamoured of Islam melt away.
Obviously, Albanese is not smart enough to realise that.
aka the “moderate” Mohammadean
The Babylon Bee
“Meet the LAFD’s First Paraplegic Firefighter”
Israel still doesn’t know how many of the 33 hostages meant to be released in the first stage of the deal are dead, but believes the majority are still alive, Israeli officials said. This means Israel can’t yet say how many Palestinian prisoners will be released because Hamas is asking for more to be released in exchange for living than dead hostages, the officials added.
Israel is dealing with evil.
Gaza should be raised to the ground.
Hypothetical.
Week two, deal falls over.
Biden : I ended the conflict & this is now on Trump.
Legacy media & DNC pile on.
I was actually about to respond to your previous comment about the timetable with something similar.
This whole thing could be done in days or hours, not weeks.
The rag-heads will start with the rockets about day 3-4.
Any attempt to inspect “aid shipments” will be met with screams of “Jews starving the children” and a sad face in a Gaza hospital dying because “Jews stopped his medication”.
They will publish pictures of the hostages “which can’t now be released this week because Jews breached ceasefire”.
Razed.
Correct, apologies.
Razed.
This is something I think about from time to time.
Western societies are becoming ever more complex. Part of the response to this is an increasingly intrusive state imposing regulations that attempt to manage the complexity but only add unnecessary layers to it.
While this has been happening we’ve been dumbing down education to the extent that, reportedly, many high school graduates are functionally illiterate and those who make it into university are not prepared for rigorous study, so standards are dropped.
Throw DEI and mass low skilled immigration into the mix and we may reach the point where we have a knowledge deficit such that we just don’t know how to make things work effectively anymore.
California could well be the dystopic future of all of us.
Meantime, how’s Florence going?
The movie Idiocracy is a prophecy. Ignore it at our peril.
Barry Johnson is right!
No one in Ostraya knows how to make newcleer elektrik stuff.
It’s got what plants need.
Happens to every urbanised civilisation.
Babylon.
Sodom.
Rome.
Chinese dynasties.
The systems become ever more complex, but efficient, no one has an overview of all the inputs, no one can survive outside the system, the system no longer needs craftsmen or simple farmers, instead relies on mass slave labour, mills and machinery that convert such into masses of products. It depends on feeding and entertaining a resentful, dangerous urban mass. The barbarian hordes external to the system are increasingly seen by the elites as the answer to the puzzle of how to balance out their own underemployed masses, politically and within the military. Religious observance falls or changes allegiance, politicians become even more murderous and consumed by the requirements to hold and retain power at any cost.
There is also the way in which aristocratic courts create the courtesan class.
Whose entire existence depends on not offending the ruler.
Effeminate if not eunuchs, expert at infighting, politics and sycophancy. So apart from the mob that each of the two classes have no understanding of the other.
The political machines of our times have produced a eunuch class.
You mean to say The Jetsons got it all wrong then?
😀
All human progress is the progress in the understanding of the properties of materials.
Everything else that is stupidly seen as progress is different forms of organisation, and has always been done before, using whatever understanding the people of the time had of material properties.
Sometimes it works though. Justinian did a lot of good for the Eastern Roman Empire. His lady was an actual courtesan and one of his best generals was a eunuch. But yeah end stage bureaucracy is called Byzantine for good reason.
Ha, ha, yes.
I don’t think people from the Land of the Bogged Excavator can throw stones at Bwitish Wail.
I was watching a doco series on the building of the Sydney Metro. The amount of crap that is buried where people don’t know where it is within a metre is amazing. Then the delays because they uncover( boat/skeleton/ foundations) and the archeologists are called on are legion.
Several years ago one of my brother in law’s found a buried high voltage cable 100m away from where it was recorded as being located.
London has the same issues but going back to the Romans.
Presumably the disciples of Luigi the Healthcare Avenger, who are calling for systematic executions of CEOs across the US, are having the doors kicked in by the FBI?
No?
My gast is flabbered.
Western Anglophone Capitalism provides such a tremendous surplus of cash, which governments then gear up 10:1 with inflation, that there is no incentive any more for efficiency.
The skill level of your workforce is immaterial, just keep throwing brown engineers at the problem, and like the apocryphal million monkeys typing at the keyboard, the problem will be solved.
Unfortunately, brown engineers need to be constrained by ever tightening guidelines developed by the remaining white male engineers, otherwise mayhem ensues.
And here we are.
Statehood should only be gifted to a people who believe in the creation and erection of a civic, open and tolerant society, not a a society where the rape, murder and kidnapping of Jewish men, women and children are celebrated.
The Nazi Palestinians are not fit for statehood, not now, not ever. There already is a Palestinian state and that state is called Jordan. The raison d’etre of Palestine and Palestinians aka ‘Palestiniasm’ is the destruction of Israel and Jews.
Any ‘Palestinian’ state will be a continuation of Hitler’s dream, the annihilation of the planet’s Jews.
A Palestinian state will be a Nazi state.
Im not sure if it was old footage or not but I saw some fellow in the English Parliament giving a speech on how marriage to first cousins should no longer be illegal.
It was on twitter.
Nice country you had there once.
The English have been marrying their first cousins forever. Propinquity, usually.
But, they don’t make it a practice to keep the family together.
First cousin marriage now and then is not a problem. First cousin marriage systematically over generations is.
A small correction, Johanna:
“First cousin marriage now and then is not a problem. First cousin marriage systematically over generations without culling the defectives is.”
Barry is so right.
Best example is IT. Just keep throwing numbers at it.
If one ship can cross the Atlantic in one day shirley 6 ships can do it in 4 hours!
When will the next batch of pardons come?
There’s some huge football games this Sat & Sun in the US.
Maybe Saturday night their time.
Can’t really leave it to Sunday in case Biden has a bad day.
Thier ABccess shifting seamlessly from “Israel is baaaad” to “Hamas has won”, and Israel must now become (and this was the exact words of the egg-spurt they chose to platform) a Pariah state.
There is no difference between glassing the joint and fighting a terrorist group holding hostages anymore – the glassing them it should be next time.
RABZ, harvest organs.
Napalm the joint. Bulldoze the rubble into the sea. It will make a good pier.
Sorry/not really sorry, but Israel has been left with no alternative.
Harsh?
Sometimes harsh measures are required.
Terrible, just terrible, yet another casualty of the LA fires – Truly a devastating loss of exquisite treasures:
For insurance purposes.
In reality, completely worthless.
But those auction sales to sycophants established price (not value).
Any insurance company stupid enough to insure Hunter’s rubbish deserves to have to pay up.
And if they weren’t insured that wasn’t really a loss for the owner, since what he was actually buying wasn’t the art (if you can call it that).
Insurance job?
… but Hunter, the wildfire didn’t reach the street where your art was stored!
Oh yes it did….
That was my first thought!
🙂
And so the puppet president POTUS 46 delivers his farewell address to the nation in which he claims credit for the Gaza ceasefire secured by threats to Hamas by POTUS 45, who’s now the incoming POTUS47.
Not even the DNC true believers believe the party lies being delivered today by their puppet president who cheated his way into the White House in 2020 with 81 million votes – more than any president in history after the party banned him from campaigning.
From OOT:
““If there has been any harm caused that is absolutely reprehensible and the Australian government will take the strongest action possible,” Mr Albanese said.”
“Do what we say or else!”
“Or else what?”
“Or else we’ll send you a very nasty letter saying how upset with you we are!”
HT: Team America – World Police.
Ladders are just so ablist.
And patriarchal.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/federal-cabinet-reshuffle-prime-minister-albanese-announces-four-promotions-ahead-of-election/5876ed8b-1b80-4d3c-b03c-92414e1a8637
Absolutely hilarious. Albatross will have a Muslim making sure too many Muslims don’t get pinged for NDIS fraud. Nothing to see here as she’s just assisting, not, not not responsible.
And Katey Gallagher understudies Wong’s leadership and ideological style. Let the bullying begin.
It was fun to see the ones who’ve done all the real damage to the country unreshuffled: Bowen, Wong, Plibs and Chalmers.
Nor screechy mouthpieces Watt and Ayers who often spout hilarious rubbish on Sky News.
Gallagher is the very model of a canbra abomination.
Hideous woman.
A fitting successor to the useless Roz (Whiteboard) Kelly.
Too right
…but much, much nastier.
Worst of the worst. Hopefully the Brittany Blob gets at some point.
Albanese’s reshuffle is about evenly balancing the sexes in his cabinet.
Expect this to be a line of attack against Dutton.
They haven’t much else to work with, after all.
How do they tell which is which. Benny could become Penny again before smoko. Charmers could grow some.
Chuckle. Daily Telegraph amuses me:
As they say in the bookies ring, the boy’s got form.
From the Santa Monica Post.
Breaking …
LAFD STRUGGLES TO CONTROL LATEST OUTBREAK
The Los Angeles Fire Department reports difficulty controlling the latest fire outbreak – dubbed Chinos 01 – which started last Sunday.
The blaze initially erupted in Governor Newsom’s pants when he told a resident “I’ve got the President on the phone right now”. Subsequent enquiries reveal that this was during the daily 22 hour Presidential nap, so it would not have been possible for the Governor to be speaking with the President. The blaze flared up again when the Governor insisted that there were no empty reservoirs, whilst standing less than 500 yards from an empty reservoir. The fire has been totally uncontrollable since the Governor said “This is not the time to play the blame game. But you know this is all Donald Trump’s fault.”
The LAFD have not been able to attend the fire because of concerns that the fireman’s pole in the fire station is a phallic symbol of the patriarchy. It is hoped that installation of a more feminist friendly “fireperson’s water-slide” will resolve the issue. Discussions continue about the proper gender and racial composition of the crew to be assigned to the Newsom pants fire.
Having been out of the Australian loop, I hadn’t realised that Meta will continue with AAP/RMIT ‘fact checking’ in Australia for the foreseeable.
Obviously that’s perfectly understandable given our infantilised public discourse and the hysterical spastics who depend on it. But it certainly clarifies the extent to which Zuckerberg is a mealymouthed political windsock.
Rat intercourse you say?
Could be…
I did read another account of a brain surgeon who with some assistance saved all the houses in his Malibu cul de sac. He’d replaced his home’s wooden tiles with concrete, bought a bunch of fire fighting gear and was pumping sea water iirc. He said he’d also put out a fire on the porch of the ocean front house in Malibu that famously survived.
There is another story running about how important fire safety work, replacing wooden electricity poles across the mountains with steel, widening fire access roads etc was halted because a hiker noticed the workers had trampled some endangered weed.
Needless to say the weeds are all burnt up now.
Wondering if the busybody’s house survived.
Will be interesting to see if building permits are streamlined.
I recall Warrandyte etc getting lots more regs re fire safety post Black Saturday
You’d think climate changy people wouldn’t need to be told.
There are some truely wierd ‘congress critters’ coming out of Texas if late.
Has Turnbull emigrated?
Truly a devastating loss of exquisite treasures:
Cheer up. Not a permanent loss; Hunter could replace all 200 in a weekend on the glass barbie.
My dealer* tells me that original Bunters aren’t selling as well as they used to.
God, the art market is fickle.
…
* Art dealer.
His name isn’t Plibberserk by some chance?
World biggest insurance scam?
The climate obsession is just disguised misanthropy.
Twitter is going nuts over the hostage deal.
Hamas are emerging from their hidey holes amongst the civilian population to celebrate (always with young teens as shields)
Everyone looks clean and well nourished.
Most people on the other side seem very unhappy about it.
A few people like Richard Kemp have the sense to say you aren’t privy to what went on.
Hamas have been stalling negotiations for over a year.
People seem to think Trump thought he could say some words and Hamas would capitulate.
I didn’t, but there will be a post 20 January plan, whatever happens.
It’s a horrible situation. 23 living to come out, and 10 dead.
Irrespective of whatever ‘peace plan’ emerges, if history is any guide, you would expect a steady stream, over the next 10 years or so and all around the world, of Hamas apparatchiks, hostage holders, and enablers dying violently in unexpected and deniable circumstances.
Castration without anaesthesia first. Put up on youtube with the live action of being fed to hungry pigs.
For efficiency you might be able to combine the castration and being eaten by pigs into a single process. Good for the environment
Well well well.
Well well what?
3 holes in the ground.
From yesterday.
But still true today.
Deal may still collapse:
Hamas attempts to make last minute changes to hostage deal, PMO says (JPost, 16 Jan)
If Hamas want to back out all they have to do is require release of Marwan Barghouti. Israel has consistently said that is not going to happen, nor will they pull out of the Philadephi Corridor – another thing Hamas keeps demanding.
Agree to all the hamarse demands, get the hostages back, then glass gaza. Eff the scum.
Everyone looks clean and well nourished.
But…but….wasn’t there supposed to be famine and genocide in Gaza? You know, like what was done to Jews in the death camps of World War II?
My God, the lies stupid people in the West have swallowed since October 7.
The only famine and genocide in Gaza was being done to the Jews held hostage.
I feel sick. Will Yarden Bibas’ body be returned in the cage he was held hostage in?
Hear this….
Those who speak against Israel support Hitler’s goals and Nazism.
The end.
No wonder Shorten wants to get out of the NDIS:
“He was only 29 kilos — that doesn’t happen overnight,” Detective Inspector Shepherd said.
Detective Inspector Shepherd said it would have been a confronting experience for the emergency personnel called to the property in August 2023 by a family member who reported Mr Oar’s death.
“When you see something like this – serious malnourishment – it would have been difficult,” Detective Inspector Shepherd said.
He said police were appealing for information from Burdekin residents, medical practitioners or tradespeople who may have seen Mr Oar or visited his home.
Police have confirmed that Mr Oar received National Disability Insurance Scheme funding for health support and services.
Part of his entitlements included external care and some providers have spoken to detectives.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-16/police-investigate-death-queensland-man-down-syndrome/104823682
How does a man allegedly in the care of the NDIS get down to 29 kilos?
Poor chap, and his family must be upset and angry.
Although, if there were family around, they would have noticed.
Same with the woman in Victoria who had a daily carer, yet when found, she was glued to a chair in the lounge room.
…one like that in Adelaide, too – died in the chair which she could not leave, apparently unattended for weeks – and irregularities re her money and jewellery, if I recall.
Carer not family and not a recent immigrant.
Saw similar in outback.
Mum or Dad in hospital long term, account builds up. Family demand he comes home.
Account raided, pallet of grog bought.
Two weeks later, “Dads a bit crook, you need to fix ‘im up.”
Dad comes back to hospital dehydrated, severe weight loss, covered in sores and unwashed for the two weeks.
The Community Nurses (from the community, of course) tell us he was fine a few days ago. Turns out, Dad has only been fed a few slices of bread, given a few gulps of water by one of the kids.
Staff at the hospital have seen it all before, they know they can’t refuse the family demands he be returned home, the community nurses know they’ll get a hiding if they speak up, and the Aboriginal Legal Service will crucify any ‘effing white carnt’ who talks to the police.
And that’s why I have little but contempt for the majority of the people in the townships. Because they ALL know what’s going on.
Close ’em all down. What good are they doing?
But you can’t say that.
Had an ex customer looking after grandma.
Went off to Pert for a meth bender for 5 days.
Nanna was bedridden.
Nanna was in a coma when she came back and died a day or so later.
“natural causes”….
Hamas attempts to make last minute changes to hostage deal, PMO says (JPost, 16 Jan)
The Israelis know better than anyone else in the world how duplicitous Hamas and their adherents are. They have had a world of experience with them in countless “deals”. I cannot imagine the forbearance and resolve it takes to have to negotiate with them.
But Hamas retains the most powerful bargaining chips that they could ever have. After all, this is why they took the hostages back to the hellhole of Gaza on Oct7. You don’t want to think about what those hostages have suffered. Forget the Geneva Conventions that the civilised world is commanded to observe. It angers me beyond measure that the Palestinian lobby here blocks all of this from their empty heads.
Trump needs to make another pronouncement on what HE will do to Hamas if a deal does not proceed. What a shame it is Blinken that tiptoes through the tulips on this issue. Would love to see the Donald facing those animals at the negotiation table.
Me (if I was Donald) negotiating with Hamas:
“We have frozen all of your offshore accounts and have drones and aircraft hunting you. This will continue until all of the hostages are returned. Bombing and blockading of Gaza will begin if you do not respond within 24 hours.
If you comply we can open negotiations on letting any Hams operative live.”
Fesh and cheps … just joking. This channel from NZ is excellent.
—–
WeatherWatchTV:
We have Australia’s 7 Day Rainfall outlook + we explain why some regions in the south and east are experiencing such changeable weather with temperature drops and spikes, and windy at times too. Further northwards into the tropics it’s still remarkably quiet but we do see the chance of a tropical cyclone forming offshore from WA and the chance of heavy rain near Darwin and Katherine.
TAS is one of the more settled places in the week ahead as high pressure drops further southwards.
Australia: Cooler for some, windier for others – we track the highs & lows
Two tropical cyclones possible off WA!!!
Giddyup!
East coast low 50knots off Newcastle now. A big branch off a tree in our front yard.
Mother Of The Year candidate (the CM):
Possibly the most self-absorbed, self-interested thing I’ve seen all week – and that’s a bold statement in itself.
On top of the subs, she got over $60K from a GoFundme page for this travesty.
Them big old bull dykes in prison are going to just luuurve this mole.
Hopefully the prison staff will diligently provide Epstein level monitoring throughout.
You’re kidding aren’t you?
She will get psychiatric support, extra funding, no gaol, because obviously mentally impaired.
Any bloke in the scam will do hard time.
This.
Not at all. Compare pt 5, 6, & 7 here, which I posted yesterday, with the following report in Reuters on the deal today:
Sorry, but you don’t get detail like this right if you are just making shit up.
What about the embellishments thrown in by your UCLA feral, calling it an “Israeli capitulation” and postulating that border security would be token or minimal?
Sounds like a West Coast Anti-Semite wet dream to me.
You’re just coping now, Sancho. Take the L and move on.
Dover
The deal being discussed in the media now looks nothing like the one first mentioned by that nutball UCLA professor you posted. So why are you claiming some sort of victory with the “well, well, well” schtick? Refresh my memory—wasn’t the issue that no one disputed there was a deal in the works, just the nonsense you posted from that nutball?
He said there would be a staggered release of hostages.
As did many others.
Which was the draft agreement that had been kicking around for months.
If the rest comes to pass in phases two & three, especially what he said about the buffer zone, he’ll get a tick from me.
Until then it’s a bit early to be taking a victory lap.
It was a genocide. It was a great victory.
It was a concentration camp. It was paradise on earth.
Huge thunderbumper last night followed by a perfect 36 degree summer day with zero humidity.
Life is indeed good.
The Joe Rogan Mel Gibson interview (~3 hours long) is pretty disappointing.
If CL were around he’d disagree with me, but Mel’s conspiracy that John XXIII named himself after an antipope (which is true) to subvert the church into Vatican II and “derail the Holy Roman Catholic Church from its true teaching” is patently wrong. He also claims that black smoke followed white smoke upon his election was unique and signalled a greater conspiracy (this has happened several times before).
His claims that Pope Benedict was a serial pedo protector were also off-piste.
Sadly, far too many Catholics don’t understand the importance of VII. But the fact that it stripped away many medieval practices and attempted to return to the practices of the early church in the first few centuries is something that p!sses off the Latiners to no end.
CL, Gibson and their fellow Latiners could never get around the fact that Christ celebrated the Eucharist/Passover (around a “kitchen table”) in Aramaic, not in Latin and not hidden behind some “holy of holies.” I really don’t understand the Latiners support the practice of some “high priest” not facing the assembly, speaking a foreign language and hidden from view behind some veil.
(I know it’s bad form to argue with someone who is in absentia)
People like Gibson and others forget the Church is a bit like the State. A State may take months or years to, say, work out a planning policy or arrangement as it has to consider all viewpoints, its own ideology, historical precedence and possible outcomes. Most States have to invoke 100-200 years of precedent to do this, and it can be irritating that it takes so long to make a decision on some things. The HRCH, however, has 4,000 years of tradition and 2,000 years of writings to contend with!!
/rant out.
Why couldn’t the church offer both.
And not make the latin mass crowd jump through hoops.
I don’t have a dog in the fight.
I find most of the fights between new & old rite Catholics as tiresome and unproductive as the fights between Catholics & Protestants.
At the end of the day Bern, the Latiners got excommunicated.
Naturally.
They started off wanting a Latin rite, it extended to their desire to have a universal Latin rite (mandatory for all masses). JPII tolerated them to some extent, Benedict tried to make amends with them but by that stage the typical Latiner view had extended to Vatican II being erroneous, they then held that the election of the Pope had been invalid since John XXIII to more widespread conspiracies of satanic masses in the Vatican and non-Latiners as agents of Satan himself.
It’s pretty hard to be Catholic when you think all things Catholic are satanic.
Many of the prayers and rites included in the Latin mass were considered theologically deficient. The priest hidden from view is antithetical to Catholicism and the Eucharist itself.
From what I understand from some Vatican mates, Francis actually undertook an anecdotal survey of Latin celebrating priests to ask them if they knew what the Latin prayers meant in their native tongue, the significance of them and why certain outdated rites were practiced and why. Word is that he wasn’t able to find a single priest who could answer him.
Post script: The Latiners should’ve learned from the history of the Church (which takes a long time to make up its mind on many things) to “take it easy” for a while instead of going full anti-Pope.
There’s hardly an Order in the Church that hasn’t undergone “persecution” or skepiticism from the Church itself (whether it be Dominican, Franciscan, Jesuits, Carmelite etc…).
God Almighty, who cares?
I bet God doesn’t.
I think God favours the vernacular.
At Pentecost, the birth of the Christian church, everyone heard the message in their own language.
How else were they to understand and believe it?
It’s difficult to argue with that, Rog. It’s a bit like certain fundamentalists arguing that the KJV/Authorised Version is the only translation we should use. As if 1611 English is more reverent.
I’m in a ranty mood so…
I’m re(reading) Mere Christianity by CS Lewis again. Interesting juxtaposition between him and Pell (who says conservatives can’t disagree!).
Pell argued that morality in the West was “largely” formed via Judeo-Christian values.
CS Lewis says Judeo-Christian values have helped deepen morality but that morality is universal and not exclusively Judeo-Christian. Interesting points. Lewis says bravery has always been admired across all ancient tribes, lying has always been dishonoured. Outright murder (i.e. not leaving behind old ones as they’re a drain on the tribe) has always been frowned upon; even where sacrifices were made to gods, it was always seen as something deeply serious.
Anyway, interesting quote from Mere Christianity:
It’s been an interesting read thanks Lysander.
?
Strangely enough, Lewis is the more Catholic (or at least Thomistic) of the two on this point.
I don’t watch Tucker no more. His tacit support for Hamas was the last straw for me. The “world renowned historian” he also had on recently (who was just a podcaster) claiming Churchill had an opportunity to stop WWII before it started, and that Churchill rejected Hitler’s “peace deal” brought me close… any idiot knows the war started under Chamberlain and the “peace deal” was such a “great deal” that Britian would’ve been a State of Province of Greater Germany.
The fact that Rogan and Tucker get tens of millions of views on such tosh annoys the crap out of me.
If you think that the gene therapy that passed for “vaccines” during Covid was bad enough – how many know that their cardiologist has prescribed the latest gene technology – gene “editing” – for their cardiac condition?
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/gene-therapy-for-cardiovascular-disease#:~:text=Investigators%20are%20also%20using%20gene,that%20results%20from%20amyloid%20deposits.
A friend, who was RABIDLY opposed to the mRNA “vaccines” was recently prescribed, and is taking, this medication for her cardiac “condition”. Did not occur to her to question the deity that we call a Cardiologist.
Marc Andreessen: It’s Morning Again In America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqeI7iViRmE
1hr 14min interview with the Hoover Institution.
Better than the 3hr interview he did with Rogan where he only got into it after the 2hr mark.
Lots of economic history, Friedman, nuclear power, drone technology, how the Chevron ruling will empower DOGE.
All good stuff.
As he’s said publicly a lot, he was a Trump donor this cycle after being a Democrat donor since he made his money in the 90s.
What I did not know was that he was spending half his time in Mar-a-Lago working for DOGE as an unpaid intern.
This administration has some of the most innovative and successful people of our time working for it.
People like Andreessen and Chamath are very effective surrogates for the Trump administration.
Want to know the direction on policy?
Then listen when these guys speak.
Thanks Bern; an interesting watch (so far!!)
PS unpaid intern was his joke.
Some idiot rang up talkback and said who is going to pay for the rebuilding of fuking gaza, implying Israel should do it. I rang up and pointed out that Hamas runs an office in Qatar’s capital, Doha, and leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Moussa Abu Marzuk and Khaled Mashal live there: and their combined wealth is $11 billion:
Hamas leaders worth $11B live luxury lives in Qatar
The piece of shit Haniyeh is now dead: On 31 July 2024, the bastard was assassinated along with his personal bodyguard in the Iranian capital Tehran. But his sprogs have inherited his wealth, all acquired by diverting international aid into his account.
So I reckon the $11 billion should be used to build a gigantic pig farm.
Australia should not contribute one cent.
Better tell kd
You call into talkback radio?
Are you a get off my lawn kind of caller.
Or a back in my day kind of caller.
I’m a drink on air kind of caller: today it was a glass of Veuve Clicquot.
Well played Cohenite!!!
Cohenite, I admire your determination to keep the bastards (as) honest (as one can) and to confront an issue front on and publicly via talkback radio. Keep on calling.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-837755
I am surprised that Hamas has agreed to release the five Israeli women combatant hostages in the initial release. I imagine those women were subject to especial brutality during their incarceration. That they have survived is a miracle to thank God for.
For those people wanting something to watch on a wet afternoon (well it’s wet here at the Cafe anyway) Blue Origin have just started up their webcast channel for another go of the first New Shepherd rocket launch.
https://x.com/blueorigin/status/1879758211387105319
The live broadcast doesn’t start for about 15 minutes yet but the feed is working.
New Glenn is a little smaller than Elon’s humungous rocket but is still enormous. And first flights are always extremely iffy. (Elon has a video of oopseys from the original Falcon 9 testing which is quite amusing.)
Spoke too soon, the channel is working but the count has gone into a hold at T minus 20:50.
That was the problem with the first attempt earlier this week, they had a whole series of holds working through issues until they ran out of time on their 3 hour launch window. But as they say space is hard. If it wasn’t anyone could do it.
https://x.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1879751499267576044
Outrageous behaviour, someone could get hurt. The specials get away with it again.
Hamas supporters in the streets of Melbourne should be in gaol or sent abroad.
Simple.
Former foreign minister Julie Bishop dines with US supermodel Tyra Banks at Nobu in Sydney | PerthNow
I thought the Skeletor died…
You must be thinking of those Greensill creditors.
She’s looked dead for years. Now its hard to tell.
What he referred to matched the draft proposal I also posted yesterday. What he did was add commentary that suited his viewpoint. As to what people disputed there appeared to be a range of views, from no way there’d be a deal right now rather than a surrender, no way full withdrawal of Gaza, and so on. And yet, two days later here we are.
Can anyone explain why about 1/3 of the population are bleeding through their eyeballs and unemployment still has a 4 in front of it? They can’t all be walking NDIS participants.
Bruce
countdown is back on at 24 minutes:
Blue Origin on X: “The NG-1 countdown clock is proceeding. The three-hour launch window opens at 1 a.m. EST (0600 UTC). Live webcast begins here 20 minutes before launch. https://t.co/wDtmxoDKRs” / X
And coverage has started! We’ll see how it goes.
Haha, they got to 11 minutes and a boat full of people decided to sail into the danger zone. Sheesh! Back to T minus 33 minutes while they shoo away the dumbos in the boat.
Nobu is such a rort.
If you want the best Japanese experience in Sydney right now, Amuro on Crown street is the best.
Repeating what I said, no one was particularly surprised by the ceasefire proposal.
Really? I’d bet most people had never even heard of this idiot whose commentary you posted. It was only after wading through the tripe that people began to investigate who he was.
Here are some of the points I recall:
And now you’re well-welling people? This is outright delusion.
It’s curious in the comment above you quote from my reply above and then from a comment I made yesterday. That would indicate you have the OOT opened. But let’s return to the points you raised. People were, you just need to look at p. 2 of the OOT. Re the dots points, he didn’t mention Trump, he did mention the evacuation of the security corridors( some in phase 1 and others in phase 2) and the proposed deal seconds his claim, incl. the full withdrawal from Gaza at a later date (phase 2).
But, sure, I’m delusional.
Will they allow the State to dig it up?
Breakthrough Discoveries of Large Volume of Natural Hydrogen and Helium in New South Wales
Lots and lots and lots of guff in that article, and not much actual content.
Doesn’t say where it is in NSW, what rocks it’s hosted in or any idea of how much.
The hydrogen is fairly unimportant but the helium is seriously valuable.
Valuable, in what way, BoN? It’s non-combustible, so no asset to energy generation.
Sure it’s great for decompression measures and funny voices when sucked out of balloons, but how else can it be ‘industrialised’?
Very late reply Delta, but helium is essential for MRI machines.
Liquid helium maintains the magnet in superconductive mode. Can’t get the field strength otherwise.
Helium is also used in Elon’s rockets to purge and pressurize the stages. Since he’s launching so many of them he’s going through a lot of helium. It’s also the reverse issue of the MRI machines: helium has a very low boiling point, about -269 C from memory, so it can be used to pressurize liquid oxygen. Argon, although very common and just as inert, can’t be used since it’s boiling point is similar to oxygen’s.
Rainbow serpent farts, the 3rd wave will claim it.
Nah, it’s not “Green” hydrogen, and could even be affordable.
Can’t have the proles getting cheap power.
What’s the difference between ‘natural hydrogen and helium’ and ‘unnatural hydrogen and helium”?
CS Lewis was right.
I don’t think Pell would have disagreed.
RCism has a robust tradition of natural law via Aquinas that the early Protestant divines agree with in the main.
The problem with the law, natural or divine (they have the same source – God as Creator) is that we recognise it but can’t keep it, hence we are condemned by our own conscience. See Romans 1 & 2 where Paul makes this the basis of the universal need (i.e. Jew & Gentile) for a redeemer.
You can do some really funny stuff with AI.
Bug Eyes, get a load of yu’all. The last bit is funny.
Well at least no political party in Australia will grease up their anus and assume the brace position for the weird beards without reservation or scruple…
Greens: Hold my chianti.
Greens are Nazis.
We should send a battalion of Greens party members to Gaza to serve as peacekeepers. Albo can supply them each with wet lettuce leaves.
At least it’d keep them busy and far away for a while.
Why do they, 3 times no less, refer to Israel as “The State of Israel?”
Weird.
Would you put out a media release asking for peace for “The State of Ukraine.”
Deliberately used term for some reason; mostly to promote illegitimacy is my best guess? It almost makes Israel sound subordinate to a country.
I guess they say that because it is a generally and widely accepted term.
“Secretary of State”
“Discussing matters of state”
“State Dinner”
etc…
I reckon to try and position as an inequity ie: there’s an Israeli State so there should be a Palestinian one. (Note – not my personal view)
This is happening:
Location
Sydney Metropolitan (Venue to be advised closer to the date)
? Speakers
Grace Stanke, 2023 Miss America & Nuclear Engineer
Lenka Kollar, Co-founder of Helixos
Kirsty Braybon, Adjunct Nuclear Law Lecturer at University of Adelaide
Adi Paterson, Former ANSTO CEO
Tony Irwin, ANU Honorary Associate Professor
Robert Barr, Electric Power Consulting Pty Ltd Director
Will Shackel
Founder of Nuclear for Australia
Grace Stanke is an impressive lady and was interviewed by Kenny. What a pity she accepts the alarmist bullshit. Nuclear is the fuel of the future for many reasons and she should not justify it because it has zero emissions unlike fossils.
Also my response to the priceless art lost in the fires..
Superb!
Buy yourself a Funken Wagnells dictionary mole.
You’re getting confused between priceless and worthless.
Which is basically a “river to the sea” viewpoint. Of all of the commentators talking about some sort of ceasefire, why choose this one?
A simple question for you, Dover …
Do you believe Israel has a right to exist within the borders established for decades, free from being attacked by the assorted goat molesters who live adjacent?
Yes or no?
I’d like to know also.
Take the L and move on.
Yes.
4 mins to launch
Blue Origin on X: “The NG-1 countdown clock is proceeding. The three-hour launch window opens at 1 a.m. EST (0600 UTC). Live webcast begins here 20 minutes before launch. https://t.co/wDtmxoDKRs” / X
Your pal calls it a remarkable victory for Hamarse and you’re calling it an Israel meltdown.
I said the Israeli right was in a meltdown. I wasn’t wrong. They aren’t any happier today.
None of the above is what the BBC World Service reported at 5.30 am this morning. Mr Ben- Ephraim is in la-la land imho. Not that I believe everything the BBC says.
Because you need to look into the detail.
Peter Dutton’s warning as Greens beg voters for hung parliamentRyan Bourke NewsWire
Thu, 16 January 2025 11:11AM
Greens leader Adam Bandt says a power-sharing deal with Labor would usher in a “golden era of progressive reform”.
Speaking in Melbourne on Thursday, Mr Bandt said the upcoming federal election “could result in a minority parliament that could see us getting dental and mental health into Medicare, being able to go and see the GP for free, building homes that renters and first-home buyers can afford, wiping student debt and fully funding our public schools”.
“With commentators predicting a 98 per cent chance of a minority parliament, voters in Wills have a real chance to keep Peter Dutton out but also get Labor to act on the key crises that are facing the community,” Mr Bandt said.
We can always print more money, eh, Adam?
MMT forever!!!
Time for a cute owl; a bit of whimsy with this lass but some practical benefits as well:
Inquiring minds and all.
But what is that little loincloth supposed to be covering?
Because if its supposed to be covering what it ought to be covering its about 5’off target.
GROSS!
No tucking that.
That was nearly a very Freudian typo..
Now tell me about your pets…
Agreed – misjudge your wooing and get kicked well into next week.
I suspect AI…that filly has camel toes.
*I’m interested in this w*nk for the brain-art interface, but seriously Cohen- this rabbit hole only holds madness. I hope you have many… many other hobbies.
Why would you put up a pic of a transgender horse?
Mike Johnson Fires Pro-Ukraine Intel Committee Chairman with Close Deep State Ties
California Governor And L.A. Mayor Diverted Billions From Fire-Fighting To Migrant, Homeless, And Climate Subsidies
Congrats to the Blue Origin people.
Massive achievement. They made orbit on their first ever attempt. That is not easy.
Even got as far as a successful relight of the launcher engines for a landing burn. But the launcher it appears then went kaboom about 25 km altitude. That is still vastly beyond what anyone can expect on a first launch. Nice work guys, and best wishes for your next attempt.
(They had audio and some video from the Blue Origin employee people, hundreds of them, who were all there at like 3 am. Every time the next milestone was reached they were jumping about and wetting themselves with excitement. It was joyous to see the enthusiasm.)
Some extracts from JC’s post Shaiel Ben-Himmler’s musings at 6:04:-
Capitulated?
Dribbling in your pants much?
(learn to spell)
Err, wut? They have?
Oh, right. Not in the agreement. But definitely in my anti-Semitic … sorry, anti-Zionist … fantasy.
Symbolic?
Really?
So the Israelis are just going to forget 7th October, 2023, with the sort of security you might see out the front of a rural Maccas restaurant?
Pull the other one, dickhead. It plays “Hava Nagila”.
According to their own numbers (which are bullshit) they have lost 40,000-50,000 “citizens” in order to largely re-set the board to where it was in September 2023. But they have definitely taken a yuuuge hit in their available man-power. If that is a “remarkable victory” what would a “damn good thrashing” look like?
Yeah, yeah, understandably a few people within Israel want to smoke the rats in their holes completely. That is the great thing about Israel. They can express views opposing government policy without their severed head being sent Express Post to their family.
Love is love, you neigh-sayer.
Sometimes you come across tidbits of information that you really think you should have known.
Today I learnt that the flag of Scotland is based on Saint Andrew’s crucifixion (as he was crucified on an X cross)…
Is this a fact one should know?
Also, it was made out of plywood.
Scots are cheapskates.
Well, you can thank the Scots for modern economic theory!
One can never know enough facts.
Even I knew that but then I’m a collector of things that make no difference.
The story is that the white cross was seen in the sky by the Scots at the battle of athelstaneford, between the Picts and the English. it was adopted at that time and the Saltire is probably one of the oldest flags in the world.
Western Sydney man charged with threats to kill Jewish leaders
What’s its name?
Granted bail?
I’m going with… “Mo?”
On the face of it it’s difficult to understand why.
Mohammad.
Next up: Elon’s even bigger rocket.
Coverage starts at 8:15am Ncl time.
Quantas aint gonna resume the South African route any time soon.
Did any cats have any clues as to why Michael Lavaughn Robinson isn’t attending the Trump inauguration?
Who?
Michael Obama
Having trouble hiding male pattern hair loss.
Anyone else feel that there is something fishy about this Israel/Hamas deal?
Of course there is.
It’s the Middle East – the perception IS the reality.
Come back in 100 years time and see what happened.
Of course there is, NZH.
Lying (a.k.a “Takikiyah”) is an Islamic virtue.
Being scum who can’t be trusted is something to aspire to if you’re a muslim.
Lying is a virtue in Islam, which tells you everything you want to know about the fake religion invented 1400 years ago to mimick Chritianity.
Of course it’s fishy but Israelis will still get some hostages back out of it. It’s worth pursuing even if in two months’ time hostilities are back. It will also give Trump a little time to work up a proper response.
The first stage is a classic Trumpian deal. Both sides can (just) live with it.
That lets them shunt the harder stuff to the second stage. Which won’t fly. It’s all in the agreement since it was agreed that the second stage would only be negotiated while the 42 day first stage cease fire was in progress.
Zero chance of a second stage agreement. But for Israel if the 1st stage happens they will have extracted 33 hostages, and will’ve given the IDF a month break, as well as demonstrating they are willing to deal. Which keeps the American happy.
The politics in Israel may be working since Smotrich threatened to take his party and leave the government, but today sounds like he’s willing to negotiate. I suspect Netanyahu has been telling him that Stage 2 is a dead dodo, so be patient. Which lets Netanuyahu get a win on hostages without losing the rightier parties in the coalition. It all might be working.
It looks as though the muzzie scum have realised this because the scuttlebutt is they’re withdrawing from the deal: according to Sharri who is giving sussan ley a pussy wallop about her previous support for the pallis.
Possible but it’s putting the most favourable light upon it.
It is already falling over.
When is a Nissan Skyline not a Nissan Skyline?
Many say if it’s not an original straight six cylinder with turbo, like the R32, forget it.
My V6 3.5L 350GT is a fine car, even has back seats (missing from the latest EV version) and most of the important motor and running gear bits of the 350Z.
So now we see Nissan go a bridge too far as some say that producing a replica R32 as an EV just won’t do.
Those who like the R32 probably won’t consider it – like the new Charger, looks fine but not many will go to those that revere the original.
The Charger is electric for
now – a twin turbo ice 6 is coming.
Interestingly, electric Charger deliveries are delayed greatly – inexplicable software problems.
My theory – Chinese malware to wreck Dodge/Stellantis which is not travelling well – a Chinese company will then get the brand cheaply.
Bitter Kamala refuses to give J.D. Vance and his young family a tour of the vice presidential residence
She and Mike are competing for the most graceless people in the Democrat panoply.
Revealed: Why Michelle Obama is skipping Donald Trump’s inauguration (15 Jan)
Mike is refusing to attend Trump’s inauguration because she hates Republicans. And admits it.
Classless, even for the Wookie.
Serious question for Mike. Which side do you dress?
Both.
A true DemonRat.
The Tables Are Turning: UK PM Under Pressure as Labour MPs Back Rape Gang Inquiry
Only a full investigation + gaol sentences and deportation will properly address the the magnitude of the problem.
“Anyone else feel that there is something fishy about this Israel/Hamas deal?”
How exactly?
Not too advantageous to Israel, unless of course each of the released terrorists has been microchipped, or given a pager. I think I just don’t trust Hamas.
Given the pager operation you have to think Mossad would be capable of finding a way to surreptitiously insert a bomb, or at least a transponder, into all the Hamas kiddies they captured.
All those released Hamas guys are going to be Mr No Friends methinks.
…or been made to walk through a corridor with cobalt 60 walls so that they die of cancer in a few months time. In agony.
Same feeling Rosie.
Elsie is demanding a bit of attention with a brush, and seeing that I’ve been at the pub for a couple of minutes, being blasted with “The Chase” and multiple reasons why it would be a very good idea for the entire electrical supply of Australia were to be gone tits up, just so people might work out wtf is important, I’ll give her a brush down and have a few more tinnies.
Ignore any more transmissions this station.
My local rainbow lorikeet pair have offloaded their kid onto me. It’s like you, Areff and Elsie.
So kiddie has been trying to clamber onto various parts of my anatomy every time I exit my front door. She’s a sweetie, but high maintenance.
I really like rainbow lorikeets.
See if you can keep her. They make great semi pets, if you don’t mind the occasional shit on the walls/floors/ceilings/bench tops.
Winston, we have five cats {up from two} now that the daughter has moved back to her ancestral home.
Meal times are 5 bowls in a row, 5.30am when I go for my swim at the beach down our street, dry food through the day, dinnertime when the spouse toddles up to bed, and grooming for the two fluffy cats to get the burrs out.
Just finished. Happy critters.
You’re a better man than I am, Gungadin!
Lysander a note; CL attended his local Novus Ordo parish.
I’m a bit confused about your behind a veil comments.
I’ve attended a few Latin masses including sspx, here and overseas and never seen a veil. The gospel reading and the homily are delivered in the lingua franca, otherwise they would be pretty pointless.
As for not following, you forget that in times past many children learnt Latin, it was even taught in 18 and 19th century Irish hedge schools so most Latin mass attendees would have sufficient Latin to follow the pretty much the same Latin mass.
My mother still has no difficulty.
And regular attendees that I know all carry a Latin English missal which also makes it pretty simple to follow.
I’m also doubtful about priests not knowing what they are saying, isn’t Latin taught at seminary?
I’m absolutely certain my PP understands the Latin he speaks.
There are some really awful trads on twitter though, rank antisemites who also absolutely trash faithful communities in average parishes.
It’s now becoming fashionable for young men to convert to the Orthodox church and from there to trash talk Catholics and everyone else.
What would we do without the internet?
Currency Lad is OK?
Yes?
The dogs are happy. The cats are happy. The chooks are happy. The ducks are happy. The rabbit is happy and so is the inquisitive crow.
Making Bone Broth for Long Term Storage
Shazza: “The hostage deal is now in disarray.”
Gee, who’da thunk it?
Definition of unemployment ain’t what it used to be.
Example: the denominator has doubled as chicks are in the workforce instead of at home having babies and watching the soaps, as God intended.
Also the gig economy means tonnes of people are chronically underemployed, but not officially unemployed.
In reality, the unemployment rate if we took it to mean blokes who don’t have enough work to get out of mum and dad’s place and start the progression towards family and hearth and home of their own, is probably upwards of 15% and not in any way offset by the proliferation of lady captains guiding their survey vessels into reefs, or female firemen refusing to risk their fat arses in fires because if you find yourself in one “you did something wrong”.
At one stage, if you worked for as little as one hour a week, you were counted as employed.
Does weeding the planter boxes of the prepper garden count?
Just curious, BJ.
In my day we used to read books and exchange letters.
No.
The internet of the past was the pub.
If you mean the hangout of bullshit artists & fraudsters…correct.
Hamas backing out – according to Sharri just now
Their ABCcess…
” Speaking with some of the kidnapped people’s families and their supporters” is not an invitation for one person who’s family, followed by 5 frothing Hamarse supporters wishing for Israel to be defeated you transparent mongs.
Somehow the group who kicked off the war and have prolonged their peoples suffering by refusing to surrender cop no criticism.
It’s a mystery why this happens.
Over and over again.
It happens because Israel refuses to give the Gaza Strip the Hamburg treatment.
Which means that the kidnappings and hostage taking will continue.
It’s almost as if that is the aim.
The inevitable end result of collectivist insanity … 😕
That monstrous bouffounted cockgobbler spewsome should be lynched.
@ReclaimTheNetHQ
Instead of owning up to the administration’s missteps — mandates and unprecedented online censorship — Xavier Becerra, stepping down as HHS Secretary, is playing the victim. In a Washington Post interview, he complained, “I can’t go toe to toe with social media,” blaming “instantaneous misinformation” for public distrust.
Really? With the full force of government, pressuring Big Tech to silence dissent, dragging social platforms into legal battles like Murthy v. Missouri (which the Supreme Court handed to the government on a technicality), Becerra still claims they were powerless?
@sfmcguire79
BREAKING: Indiana Governor Michael Braun has eliminated DEI from state government:
His executive order bans DEI offices and programs, mandated DEI trainings, DEI statements in hiring, and required pronoun disclosures:
@SageListener
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the LA Times and a renowned transplant surgeon, is raising alarms about the fallout from mRNA COVID-19 “vaccines,” linking them to unprecedented deaths and cancers in children.
“For the first time in my career, I’ve seen an 8-year-old, 9-year-old, and 10-year-old with colon cancer.”
“A 13-year-old child died of metastatic pancreatic cancer.”
He has thrown his support behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stating Kennedy “knows more about the science than most doctors.”
These revelations demand urgent attention.
Didn’t see this coming but I’m glad that the dam is about to burst and we may finally get some answers from Pfizer and Moderna.
Feraldton pool report.
It’s hot
40 something…
Lots of people at the pool, amazingly no yummies mummies with the chapless assess on display…
Probably too hot. Where’s the sweet spot? Low 30s maybe.
Is that a reference to age or temperature, Mr Z?
That’s distressing, TFM.
Send photos to back up your claim.
Wait.
Wait for the return of the chapless arses, and I’ll believe you.
Not selling Feraldton I’m afraid.
@MikeBenzCyber
With Biden calling, on his way out the door, for punishments to be doled out to US social media platforms for allowing free speech, I am urging folks to add this phrase to your vocabulary, because you’ll need it to understand what The Blob has in store next:
In his farewell speech Joe Biden comes out for censorship. Pathetic indeed.
@VigilantFox
LOL: Joe Biden whines in his farewell address that the media is “crumbling” and social media platforms are giving up on “fact-checking.”
This is such a risk that Biden says, “We must hold the social platforms accountable to protect our children, our families, and our very democracy from the abuse of power.”
This is pathetic.
Rosie at 7:53.
Some people are having to face that reality.
(Or, at least, having to live without yuuuge chunks of the innernet).
Plenty of people moan about the left’s “march through the institutions”.
And that is true for traditional institutions – churches, academia, bureaucracy etc.
But you’d have to say that one 21st century “institution” – social media – is headed in the other direction.
Imagine how disturbing it must be for some of them. They were all in for Elon when he was saving the planet with Teslas. Then he buys Twatter and turns it into a “free speech sewer”.
So they jump to Insta and Suckerberg is the Defender of the Faith. But then he folds his cards, ditches Fact-Checkers and admits it was all run out of Biden’s press office anyway.
They must feel like frogs jumping from one sinking lilypad to the next.
?
For agricultural Cats.
Merredin Farms Portfolio: WA’s biggest farm aggregation reportedly sold to Wheatbelt buyersAdam PoulsenThe West Australian
Thu, 16 January 2025 12:13P
WA’s largest farm aggregation — estimated to be worth $200 million and covering more than one-tenth the size of the Perth metropolitan area — has reportedly sold to a group of Wheatbelt farmers.
The sale of the 78,000ha Merredin Farms Portfolio, previously owned by big-league farmer John Nicoletti, comes after nearly 13 months on the market.
Owners Saudi Agriculture and Livestock Investment Company Australia, in conjunction with PenAgri Farms, have sold the portfolio to several local farming enterprises among whom it is to be split up, according to media reports.
Selling agent Colliers Agribusiness declined to comment; however, SALIC and PenAgri are advertising an online “dispersal auction” of Merredin Farms’ vast inventory of agricultural machinery.
More than 650 items are up for grabs including tractors, headers, sprayers, air seeders and carts, and prime movers, with NASCO Auctioneers to conduct the sale on February 14.
Merredin Farms Portfolio was listed for sale in late 2023 before being split into two aggregations last September, in a bid to attract smaller buyers after a lack of interest from international investors.
The total portfolio includes more than 66,000ha of arable land and is regarded WA’s biggest corporate broadacre landholding.
While the sale price is yet to be confirmed, if realised, $200m would be the highest price paid for a farm in WA history.
Excellent result!
Some serious money to be made out in the WA wheatbelt. A mates father used to manage an old Italian place. Think they routinely cleared 7 figures per annum.
Not Chinese, thank God!!
LOL: Joe Biden whines in his farewell address that the media is “crumbling” and social media platforms are giving up on “fact-checking.”
The old perv is a low life, low rent, grifter. Always has been. A despicable, toxic parasite. A dirty individual in every way.
Speaking of ‘veils’, over the last few weeks, attending synagogue on Shabbat, I was poignantly reminded of my recently departed wonderful and beautiful mother because I saw quite a few young women in Shul wearing beautiful lace mantillas to cover their hair. Let me just state this, in Judaism the obligation to cover your hair is only an obligation for married women (covering your face is forbidden). Seeing young women wear mantillas, I thought to myself, old is new, it’s fashionable again! I love it, I was reminded of Mum and it made me smile! I also know women used to wear mantillas to Catholic masses too, perhaps some still do?
Anyway, I think of Mum often during the day, and when I do my whole body wells up with tears….
The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.
I will always love my mother, I will always miss my mother.
Cassie,
Many years ago, when women covered their hair at Mass, it was claimed that a lass, running late, put on a mantilla in a hurry.
She got a startled look from the priest at communion. When she got home, she realised that she was wearing a pair of black lacy knickers as a mantilla.
Or, so the story went.
I have noticed it is coming back in my parish. First it was a very old lady and I thought that’s that. The next one to start wearing a mantilla is a young girl, late teens. The latest one is a a fortyish mother of teenage boys. I don’t think they are related to each other but they could belong to the same prayer group.
Lots of Filipina Catholics still wear the mantilla.
Jennifer Rubin is about to find out what it’s like to not have Washington Post legal department behind her.
She’s clearly defamed Hegseth today (said he didn’t answer claims about sex with under aged girls).
Imagine being sued into oblivion during your first week as a lefty funded private commentator.
She is so retarded she confused Hegseth with the allegation against Gaetz.
When I saw that recording that was my first thought. I don’t think Rubin should continue on her current path, she should retire gracefully and leave the media world to the next generation. Cruise ships should be in her future, not Democratic Underground.
Intersetsingly enough, I was looking at cruise ships after someone mention Viking Lines, but made the comment they were not interested in singles.
Haven’t heard back – perhaps I was right.
What about us?
Will blackouts come to Britain?
There’s no point in explaining it, mate. People will only start noticing when they can’t use the intarwebs, and they start freezing.
They won’t really care when the pensioner next door wakes up as a corpsicle, or the widow down the road freezes to death in her council flat along with her kids.
The time to protest is long past.
Sussan Ley…DEI hire.
Another pollie who belongs in the Greens rather than LNP.
Seriously unimpressive. Albo does not have a monopoly on dead wood.
Ignorant of the fact that they are natural swimmers.
(To extend the simile…)
God didn’t give us minds so we could shut them up in prog-left echo chambers.
I have just sent the NSW public service into meltdown.
Short story: Spouse is a Vietnam veteran TPI. Our vehicle is registered in his name for the obvious tax advantages, but he no longer holds a driver licence and is no longer a driver.
Last September, on four consecutive days, a passenger (our daughter) was clocked by an overhead highway camera incorrectly wearing a seatbelt while in the front passenger seat, being driven to work in Hannell St, Newcastle.
Apparently under NSW law, a driver is responsible for ensuring correct wearing of a passenger’s seatbelt. Fines apply and points are deducted ($420 + 4 points).
Husband obviously was not the driver, and the camera could not identify the driver. However, the fines are being paid by moi, as our non-resident Indonesian daughter-in-law was the driver. It should have been all sorted, money-wise.
Today at Services NSW when I went to renew our vehicle registration they have refused to renew, because my husband, the owner of the vehicle, who no longer holds a driver licence, cannot be disqualified on the basis of 12 lost points.
Somebody must lose points apparently, in order for things to be settled in the world of bureaucracy. In order for our registration to be renewed, I must sort things with Finance NSW, who told me today that I must sort it with Services NSW.
When I asked to be put upstairs to a senior manager, 45mins of lift music ensued. Apparently managers finish work at 3.30pm at Finance NSW.
In the meantime, I cannot drive an unregistered vehicle after tomorrow to take my disabled husband to his necessary health appointments
I have contacted our most useless NSW Newcastle Labor MP Tim Crankanthorpe. Yet to hear back.
In the meantime, I have sprayed our car numberplate with a nice solution that lets me drive without being picked up by cameras. It’s an anti-leak compound, but Cling film will do it, too FYO.
Take it to court.
If you drive an unregistered vehicle and get into an accident of any kind, you are in for a world of financial hurt.
Seconded.
From what I can gather, Netanyahu is delaying the Cabinet meeting first scheduled for Thurs re deal. Claim is Hamas is trying to make changes at the last minute. Hamas political chief denies this. Qatar, Egypt, and US as guarantors need to step in and clarify the situation.
If this deal gets delayed or binned, does Biden have to have another press conference and does Trump have to retract his posts?
Alan Howe has written and uploaded this in today’s Oz. He doesn’t mince words. His piece is is magisterial and confirms why I am happy paying good money to sub to News Corp……
World waits to hear fate of little Kfir, Israel’s youngest hostage
Kfir Bibas was just 262 days old when the gorillas of Gaza called. If he has been kept alive by these black-hearted Arabs, then God help him. If he has been murdered by Gazans, then God help them.
Jew-killing sadist Yahya Sinwar always looked and sounded like a compromise between a man and a corpse. His Hamas boss, Ismail Haniyeh, told last year that his sons had been killed in the war in Gaza, unemotionally announced that “Through the blood of the martyrs and the pain of the injured, we create hope”.
That’s one way of looking at it.
Savagery is not inherited, it is taught. And it has been taught to far too many Gazans for far too long, assisted by the corrupt and malicious United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Only that can begin to explain why little Kfir Bibas remains kidnapped.
451 days in captivity.
On Saturday he turns two. He was nine months old and beginning to crawl when Gazan terrorists raided his home in the blighted Nir Oz kibbutz, the fields of which abut southern Gaza. Gazan Arabs had helped work the fields there. Perhaps they had been too trusted. The killer raiders certainly knew where to go on October 7, 2023, sometimes murdering the people who had done most to help them.
The raiders grabbed Kfir, his elder brother Ariel, 4, mum Shiri, 32, and his dad Yarden, 34. They boastfully caught it all on their Go-Pro cameras. The world saw a panicked Shiri protectively holding her children as the wildly shouting and shooting young thugs herded them together. Shiri’s parents were murdered along with a quarter of the town’s population.
Kfir was just 262 days old when the gorillas of Gaza called. If they have not killed him, he has spent 451 days in captivity. Literally. Some released hostages said they saw his dad in a cage underneath the Gaza city of Khan Yunis, just a few kilometres from Kfir’s home.
The fate of Kfir may well decide the fate of all Gazans. The world is watching what happens to the youngest hostage. If he has been kept alive by these black-hearted Arabs, then God help him. If he has been murdered by Gazans, then God help them. President Donald Trump will have a thorough briefing on the Bibas family when he swings his legs under the Resolute desk in the Oval Office again on Monday.
Both Sinwar and Haniyeh could easily have secured the baby’s safety. They chose not to. They planned and rehearsed, over several years, those October 7 raids in which 1200 innocents were hacked to death, blown up, shot and burned alive, while 240 were kidnapped; not all for being Jewish, but for working and living in mostly Jewish lands.
A one-way street
Israel is a vibrant democracy of Jews, Arabs and Christians, Bahá?í and others. In Israel, Arabs are in senior positions in the army and police forces. There are 10 Arab Israelis in its parliament, the Knesset. The Israeli acceptance of their historical enemies is extraordinary. But it is too often a one-way street.
On Gazan streets, Jews are dead meat. Who can forget the scenes where Gazans citizens spat at the partially clothed body of Shani Louk, a 22-year-old German-Jewish tattoo artist, who had been bashed to death at the Nova music festival.
The world was revolted by the scenes of celebrating young Arabs parading her body through city streets on the back of a truck shouting “Alluha Akbar” (God is great). They later used her credit card to steal funds and perhaps to make out she was alive. The German government, urged on by Louk’s distraught family, tried to set up negotiations to secure her return. The Israeli Defence Forces soon found skull fragments belonging to her at the Nova site. Her injuries there had not been survivable.
And there is so much more that condemns Gazans, not just its Hamas-trained terrorists.
They voted in Haniyeh and Hamas who set about building things. Not building up, like industrious Singapore, but building down more than 500km of tunnels so they could live like rats while planning the mass murder of their industrious neighbours busy next door turning granite into green.
If only the Gazans had put that effort into a proper sewer system for their towns. They poured an estimated 725,000 tonnes of concrete into the tunnel system known as the Metro or Lower Gaza. To put that into perspective, there are 113,000 tonnes of concrete in New York’s Empire State Building.
For years the greatest health challenge for Gazans, and the greatest source of illness for its children who make up half the 2.3 million population of the territory, has been a lack of potable water. In Gaza, waste water rises from underground and untreated sewage is pumped straight into the Mediterranean. For years this has led to life-threatening outbreaks of acute diarrhoea and meningitis.
But Hamas didn’t dig to connect sewer pipes, they dug tunnels for a war they planned. Hamas has been spending more than $1 million a month on the tunnels; imagine what an investment like that could have done for the health and wellbeing of “its” people. Since being elected, Hamas, on behalf of those who elected it, “invested” more than $200m in tunnelling.
It cannot be that most Gazans were unaware of these under their homes and businesses, or oblivious as entrances to the tunnels system were built in hospitals, nurseries, schools and even in children’s bedrooms.
Some outsiders still dismiss the suggestion that Hamas built various headquarters underneath the hospitals treating thousands of people upstairs for illnesses they had willingly failed to prevent. It is hard for the Western mind to grasp such a misanthropic strategy.
But it was robustly confirmed by several captured Hamas operatives, including Anas Muhammad Faiz Al-Sharif, who was arrested recently at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza’s north. Aged 21, he said he had joined Hamas in 2022 and worked as a cleaning supervisor in the building.
He was interrogated by Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet.
Who else was at (Kamal Adwan Hospital)?
“The staff. The medical team I work with daily and directly. There were also operatives from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, from the Al-Nasser Division (a Hamas-aligned group of kidnappers and killers) and other organisations in northern Gaza.”
Why were you hiding in the Kamal Adwan Hospital?
“They believe it is a safe haven for them because the military cannot directly target it … because there civilians and patents there.”
He added that the terrorists’ thinking was that Israel could not bomb the hospital or demolish it. He is right. When the IDF arrived there they evacuated the building while searching for Al-Sharif and his venomous colleagues.
Al-Sharif was asked what these men were doing there.
“The operatives were there transporting and weapons like AK47s … and pistols. The weapons were transferred to and from the hospital, from the outside in and from the inside out within the hospital.”
He also said the hospital was a base for observation and patrols: “They leave the hospital late at night. They arrived at the hospital in the morning.”
Al-Sharif explained these movements in greater detail: “Inside the hospital they distribute the grenades and mortar equipment for attacking tanks, for ambush positions and for tunnels underground”.
When the IDF first entered the Kamal Adwan Hospital, Israel was absurdly accused of needlessly and viciously attacking patients, doctors and administrators, and even digging up the dead to crush their remains with bulldozers. Earlier, when a bomb killed perhaps 100 Palestinians (Hamas immediately reported that it was 500, and mostly women and children) at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in northern Gaza, it was reported breathlessly by ever-reliable anti-Semitic news outlets, including the BBC and, of course, Al-Jazeera, that it was likely an Israeli missile. Al-Jazeera added that “Israel’s response to the hospital bombing, a war crime under international law, is consistent with its usual post-atrocity routine”. It was proved to be an Islamic Jihad missile that misfired; you just cannot rely on those bombs knocked up in the backyard.
And you cannot rely on regular reports of genocide in Gaza: its population has rocketed since Israel departed in 2005 and 180 babies are born there each day, according to the UN. Nor is Israel using starvation as a tool, despite the insistent claims by Human Rights Watch, the Sydney Morning Herald. The Guardian and the UN: Israeli legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich estimates that more calories are delivered to Gazans today than they consumed before the war. A recent report established that an average 3163 calories of food was being delivered per person daily, much more than the 2100 calories that is accepted as the minimum food required in a crisis. The British National Health Service states that the average man needs 2500 calories a day.
No one with an ounce of humanity can be other than horrified by the death toll and destruction in that strip of land.
What really happened on October 7
So what happened on October 7, 2023? Haniyeh and Sinwar’s plans went like clockwork. The Israelis’ defence forces were caught flat-footed despite mounting evidence that an significant attack loomed. More Jews were killed in a single day than since Hitler was alive.
Israel counterattacked after summoning its forces made up mostly of reservists – men and women working as teachers, or in fields and offices who had served compulsory military service. They do so for just such a moment. Arab neighbours have attacked the little nation relentlessly since it was founded in 1948.
Gazans in 2006 elected Hamas to run their affairs fully in the knowledge that the Hamas charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the murder of all Jews. Haniyeh coined the phrase “from the river to the sea” which, depressingly, is chanted mindlessly by uneducated university students on campuses across Australia.
Of course, Haniyeh and Sinwar are dead. Haniyeh was assassinated in a bold manoeuvre, blown up in his bed last July in the heart of the Iranian capital, Tehran, while there to attend the inauguration of Iran’s new president and being protected by the “elite” Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iran funds and arms most of Irsael’s enemies including Hamas, Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and the Houthi rebels attacking international shipping off Yemen. Sinwar was killed months later in sordid circumstances while running from the IDF. He had on him an UNWRA identification card and the equivalent of almost $20,000 in cash, perhaps to secure his safety in a third country. Haniyeh and Sinwar never spent a shekel that had not been earned by someone else.
But plenty of Gazans were involved that day and not all of them were uniformed. About 6000 young fighters breached the Gaza fence at 119 locations and attacked the southern Israeli villages and the music festival. They arrived after more than 4300 rockets – fired by an estimated 1000 Gazans – had been fired into Israel. The attack was on the Sabbath because Sinwar probably banked on observant Jews having their mobile phones switched off for the day and so unable to warn others of the first incursions.
Much of what happened next is unpublishable. Many young women were raped – so violently some had broken pelvises – and after shooting them dead, the Hamas gunmen often crushed and disfigured their faces. At the hospitals to which their bodies were taken victims were first identified by their possessions or jewellery.
The Bibas family had been discussing leaving Nir Oz for somewhere away from the endless rockets from Gaza. At home that morning they heard the sirens. But no need to panic, that was common. They heard the thud of rockets landing and then the rat-tat-tat of gunfire. Dad Yarden texted his sister to tell her that attackers had entered the kibbutz. His next text read simply “I love you”. Moment later another stated “They’re in”. Meanwhile, down the road, other terrorists were setting fire to the home of Shiri’s parents, Margit and Yossi Silberman. They were burned alive.
The terrorists’ own cameras caught them drilling open the Bibas family’s secure door and then the look of dread on Shiri’s face as she sought to keep together and alive her kids Ariel and the baby Kfir. They also film the bloodied Yarden, One attacker had him by the throat as he held a hammer in his other hand.
After the killings, the kidnappers returned with their human bounty. Sinwar knew he would need human bargaining chips when Hamas inevitably lost the war he had purposely provoked.
When Hamas fighters left, another wave of Gazans arrived: looters. Reportedly thousands of them – men, women and even children. They stole bikes, household and electrical goods and baby clothes, presumably sometimes stepping around bodies to do so. They ate ice cream from the victims’ fridges. They stole cars to drive their booty back to Gaza. They took the Silbermans’ phones and when, later, these were switched on and pinged in Gaza there was hope they too had been kidnapped.
Israel’s soldiers have been finding some of the stolen property in houses in Gaza.
But they have not found Yarden or his family. Their fate remains unknown.
There are an estimated 98 Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Nili Margalit, a 41-year-old nurse also kidnapped from Nir Oz, met Yarden in a tunnel. He had been separated from his wife and children. At one point a Hamas boss told Margalit, who speaks basic Arabic, to tell the imprisoned man that his family had been killed in an Israeli air strike. She refused, believing it was probably another effort at
psychological torture. She was released soon after.
The oldest hostage also came from Nir Oz. Arye Zalmanovich, 86, who helped establish the kibbutz in 1955 died soon after in Gaza, his son believing he was murdered.
Meanwhile, thousands of noisy philistines attend weekly “free Palestine” rallies in Australian cities and across the capitals of the West.
Thank you, Mr Howe. Those on both the woke left and woke right, who make feeble and weasel excuses for the Nazi Palestinians and their allies in 2023, 2024 and 2025 are no different to the Nazis and their collaborators in the 1930s and 1940s.
Oh and I do like Mr Howe’s accurate use of the word ‘philistine’ in the last paragraph.
And these are the people (Hamas and its civilian support base) that our shameful and shameless federal government has been giving moral, official and financial (via UNRWA) support to virtually since day one.
Albosleazy and Wong in particular stand condemned.
MSM: peace in our time!
Sharri: the deal is in disarray.
(no surprise there)
Been watching the Day of the Jackal.
Some good parts, Eddie Redmayne is a seriously good actor.
A lot of gaping plot holes though which make it a little hard to watch.
I don’t know how long they took to film it but in some scenes the girl boss is very bloody large and then less large in others.
Maybe she’s pregnant and they filmed around it, dunno.
The BOM.
Superwog is in my head.
We haven’t had any showers today you f*cking idiots!
It’s been stinking hot!
Forecast for Friday 17 January.
Showers easing.
The BuM is only good for a guesstimate to what things might be like in five days.
Anything mpre than a week out starts with Rebecca Dollery’s refrain of “heating up this time next week” and ends with the corporation-wide incantations of global warmingses.
I exercise my instincts, instead- ferinstance, it’s dead still but noise to the N-NE, so cool change tomorrow by 10. Honeyeaters are quiet tho, so no more than a rinse of rain.
Will amend if the frogs tell me any news tonight.
Who do you trust?
Sharri
or
Shaiel
My money’s on Sharri.
Incidentally, someone mentioned upthread that Facebook is continuing with fact-checking outside the US.
To all intents and purposes it is goneski.
I think Suckerberg has too much going on to be fighting on several fronts at once. The Euros particularly would probably drum up some flimsy litigation to try to make him maintain it … which would fail, but who needs the headache?
My guess is that it will wither on the vine – contracts not renewed, funding slashed to unsustainable levels, crimps put in the scope of what they can look at.
But why would Suckerberg take the heat for getting rid of fact-checking in the US (his biggest market) and keep paying for it elsewhere?
The EU is backing off its constant regulatory attacks on American IT corporations all of a sudden.
Geez, the Waffen are getting serious about dealing with Jew hate….
Alleged death threats prompt first AFP anti-Semitism arrestJAMES DOWLING
The Australian Federal Police has charged a Western Sydney man with allegedly making death threats against members of a Jewish group, marking the first ever arrest under its dedicated anti-Semitism taskforce.
The AFP announced the arrest on Thursday afternoon, charging a 44-year-old Blacktown man with using a carriage service to make a threat to kill and an additional charge for menace and harassment. Between the two charges there is a maximum 15-year jail penalty.
Police are set to argue he posted death threats to an unspecified Jewish association’s social media. After he was identified by police, he was arrested on Thursday, had his home searched and electronics seized.
He was granted bail and will front court on February 26.
“Special Operation Avalite was established to target high-harm, recidivist anti-Semites,’’ AFP counter-terrorism assistant commissioner Stephen Nutt said.
“The experienced investigators and analysts working under Special Operation Avalite are also working to identify prolific antisemites causing high-harm in the community.
“A number of individuals are under investigation and the community should expect further charges.”
“It is abhorrent that individuals are being targeted and threatened because of their race or religion.
“Special Operation Avalite is committed to keeping Australians safe and protecting our way of life.
“Anti-Semites should be on notice. If you engage in anti-Semitic conduct, you will investigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
Of course, except those anti-Semites who engaged in anti-Semitic conduct on Monday night, 9 October 2023.
Of course, except those anti-Semites engaging in weekly anti-Semitic conduct every Sunday in Sydney’s CBD since 7 October 2023.
Of course, except those anti-Semites who engaged in anti-Semitic conduct when they were provided a personal escort by NSW police to drive through Jewish suburbs in November 2023, intimidating and threatening.
I could go on, I’m sure you get my drift. As an aside, I happen to know what Jewish group is referred to above and it’s clear it has taken over a year for the Waffen Police to act. This same NSWaffen weren’t so slow to act when an 82 year old Five Dock woman rang a mosque and said ‘go back to where you come from’.
I guess it’s different strokes, isn’t it?
FT:
Looks like he’s buying some time to
placate Smotrich, Gvir, etc.
It takes a lot to get my jaw to drop these days, but that did it when I saw it on Nein Noos.
Talking about abuse of power in relation to social platforms a week after Suckerberg revealed that fact-checking became a tool of the White House press office under Biden – a claim which no-one has questioned or refuted.
To use the popular fact-checking vernacular, one would think Nein could have “added context” to their story and report that Sleepy Joe was pulling the fact-checkers strings.
Shaiel is at good odds, though.
He reminds me of that Antony Lowenstein guy.
He would be just another lefty whinger in the pack apart from his very Jewish name.
He uses that to add credibility – “gee, if a Jew would say that about Israel … “.
Truth is, both are just attention whores.
Cassie at 9:15.
Note that it was a Federal arrest, not NSW Plod.
Things are bad when the Plastic Paddies from Canbrah beat you to it.
Is it AFP defying Albo or working on his orders? It’s hard to believe anything these days.
early menopause ?
Look if there is lying about the hamas deal stalling it won’t be hamas doing it. Obviously.
They want to remove Israel’s veto over ‘high profile’ terrorists to be released.
Apparently there is a butcher who killed a family of five in their home in 2011, mum, dad, two very little boys and their 3 month old brother whom Israel will not release that Hamas would fete if they can get him out.
I also read the IDF know where the hostages are, it’s why there has been a spate of IDF casualties the last couple of weeks.
If it falls through Trump might cut aid and give Hamas something to think about.
I suspect genuine food shortages in the first few weeks caused the first hostage deal.
This is a short TRIGGERnometry interview from last July. Absolutely terrifying.
Why Starmer Can’t Be Trusted – Peter Hitchens
A short one?
They usually spend about an hour playing with each others dicks and tell themselves what wonderful intellectuals they all are.
Which is why I spend more time polishing the chrome on my toaster than I waste on them.
Have I mentioned recently how much I hate pseudo intellectual wankers?
Andrew
8 minutes ago
Reports from the US that President Trump intends to deploy a squadron of B-52s toward Gaza if the hostages are not released. A week from now either the hostages will be released or there will be no physical trace of anywhere previously called Gaza. Either way, the infamous Biden-Airbus era of kowtowing to barbaric terror ends next week
Please God, let it be so.
Please let this be true.
So, Sharri has reported the Bibas boys and their mother are dead.
Islam is evil. Islam is a Nazi death cult.
So Hamarse must be providing details of hostages still alive and those who are dead?
But our Feral-in-Residence at UCLA says Israel waived the demand to know who was dead or alive among the hostages.
From the Oz.
World waits to hear fate of little Kfir, Israel’s youngest hostageKfir Bibas was just 262 days old when the gorillas of Gaza called. If he has been kept alive by these black-hearted Arabs, then God help him. If he has been murdered by Gazans, then God help them.
At about the time that the rubble stops bouncing in the Gaza strip, and the last of the locals is driven, howling, into the Sinai Desert, do you think it may sink through their thick skulls, that following Hamas wasn’t such a good idea?
But thanks to TDS there are still people today who believe Trump deserves no credit.
Aussie government’s SHAMELESS Net Zero LIES | MGUY Australia
From earlier today:-
I have a supplementary question.
From your many posts on the subject it is reasonable to conclude that you believe Wussia was justified in advancing into Ukraine in response to a perceived threat from Ukraine wanting to join NATO and thus Wussia having a hostile bloc (NATO) parked on it’s doorstep.
Well, given that a power bloc in the Middle East (Iran and it’s proxies) is using territories adjacent to Israel to not just take a threatening posture, but to actually launch attacks on Israeli territory, isn’t a similar form of “forward defence” by Israel against this threat legitimate?
As in, taking out Hezbollocks, Hamarse, the Hootie-Tooties and preventative action against Iran itself, and creating buffer zones in neighbouring territories.
Isn’t that a logical extension of the Pukin Doctrine as it has been applied in Ukraine?
fallacy: begging the question
or wanking … sometimes they call it wanking
are you and JC related, sancho?
do you live in Wussia with Wodney and KD you wankers ?
Who wrote which bits of that?
bald and bankrupt:
Five years ago I made my most popular video which showed just how run down the capital city of little visited Moldova was. Well it’s time to go back and see what has changed in the former Soviet state. Is it better? Is it worse? How are the babushkas? Join me and find out!
Everyone Should Visit This Country…Find Out Why
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molvanîa
Former head of the QC team where I work was a Romanian sheila. Likeable and kind of horny old tart who would grab you when you walked past or talked to her. Very strict and crazy on the QC shit though.
She was a smoker and we crossed paths and chat a few times etc.
I told her what I knew of Romania.
a) Gypsies and pick-pockets.
b) Trans-Sylvania and Count Dracula.
c) Nadia Comenici the famous gymnast who scored perfect 10s etc.
d) the awesome summary justice meted out to the Ceaucescus.
She was impressed.
I know a lady from there. Genghis Khan extraction by her looks. Much better looking.
Watching Nefarious. Great movie you can watch for free on Tubi app (on phone or tv).
dunno why it’s rated R as the entire movie is basically a “screw tape letters” movie. There’s no sec scenes or rough language or even any real violence???
A must watch for anyone theologically or philosophically minded!
I still do and I’m the only one in either the Cathedral or my local church – always a trend setter 🙂
Being a trend-setter is cool, but if you take your religion seriously it is stated in the New Testament to get your head covered. Paul/Saul was hot for that shit. I don’t reckon Jesus would GAF though.
Just watching Jack Reacher with Cobie Smulders.
God I love her!
(In a platonic way, of course.)
Not!!
Pleased about that Bruce. Taking one for the team.
Sorta bloke I am.
Fool.
Jennifer Connelly is on 10.
Still hot at 50+
Johannes Leak.
Not an American Rifle (TM) though.
Brett Lethbridge.
The Augean Stables, hahaha good one.
Michael Ramirez.
Ramirez is a TDS afflicted piece of shit.
Matt Margolis.