Sydney Morning Treason = has always worked (when in doubt abt what to call it)
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I was in hospital a few months ago, and one of my nurses was muslim. At one point she recited…
I agree yet another term of rainbow commos will kill me. I choose life.
They use it as a manual.
Racist!
Wow, that speech was full on. He did not hold back.
Top bloke.
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Via Rabbi Pinchas Taylor:
Yosef Hadad singlehandedly educates an entire Audience of pro Palestinians at Oxford Union.
WATCH Israeli-Arab DESTROYS Entire Crowd of Jew Haters at Oxford Union
It’s great but speeches are going to do nothing. Islam is an existential threat not just to the West but to humanity.
I drove around the block in my V8 Charger doing burnouts after that
Indolent
January 19, 2025 9:04 am
How on earth can the American people tolerate this?
Are they stupid or don’t care?
This is criminal.
American politicians seem to regard insider trading as icing on the cake. Obscene.
But it’s also legal – Congress gave themselves the right to insider trade.
And they will not give it up.
If you had followed the Pelosi stock tracker, you could have done 200% better than the average stock trader in the USA.
IIRC, statistically, this is like a 5 sigma outlier.
Brazilian mounted police.
Not a joke.
Advance on a crowd of rioters on those, and watch them scatter
Snap Boambee John. A slow moving force that couldn’t be stopped. Throwing marbles under their feet, or spreading lion shit, would have no effect.
Good morning all.
Why the six shooters were only loaded with five rounds.
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An accident was waiting to happen. This is why up to this day it is recommended to load 5 rounds only and to leave one chamber empty. Then the empty chamber can be turned to be right in front of the hammer. In this way the revolver will never shoot by accident.
Revolvers don’t shoot by accident.
They’re shot by accident.
Or more precisely, shot by negligence.
But let those who haven’t negligently shot someone cast the first stone, say I.
I wore a revolver for some years. Never did I consider an accidental discharge was a possibility.
In fact, I don’t see how an accidental discharge is possible. There’d have to be nothing between the hammer & the firing pin (there is)
I never used a single-action revolver, for reasons.
I owned a Ruger single-six 22LR/22WMR when I lived in the USA decades ago. Transfer bar safety. Always carried it with full cylinder.
Bush poems.
Not particularly fond of poems, specially those that rhyme.
But here it goes.
Will Ogilvie was a Scot who spent only twelve years in Australia, yet he wrote some of our most inspiring bush poems. One favourite, for generations of ringers, cattle duffers and drovers is, “The Man Who Steadies the Lead.”
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He was born in the light of red oaths and nursed by the drought and the flood,
And swaddled in sweat lined saddle-cloths and christened in spur drawn blood;
He never was burdened with learning, and many would think him a fool,
But he’s mastered a method of
turningthat never was taught in a school.His manners are rugged and vulgar, but he’s nuggets of gold in our need,
And a lightning flash in the mulga is the Man who Steadies the Lead!
When the stockwhips are ringing behind him and brumbies are racing abreast,
It’s fifty-to-one you will find him a furlong or two from the rest
With the coils of his whip hanging idle, his eyes on the mob at his side,
And the daintiest touch on the bridle- for this is the man that can ride!
And the stallions that break for the mallee will find he has courage and speed,
For he rides the best horse in the valley- this stockman who steadies the lead.
When they’re fetching in
storesto the station through tangles of broken belar,And the road is a rough calculation that’s based on the blaze of a star;
When they’re quickening through sand-ridge and hollow and rowels are spattered with red,
And sometimes you’ve only to follow the sound of the hoof-beat ahead;
Then we know that he’s holding them nor’ward- we trust in the man and his steed,
As we hear the old brown crashing forward and his rider’s
Wo-upto the lead.And again in a journey that’s longer, in a different phase of the game,
Dropping down the long trail to Wodonga with a thousand or so of the same;
When the blue grass is over the rollers, and each one contentedly rides,
And even the worst of the crawlers are stuffing green grass in their hides;
He is ready to spread them or ring them or steady them back on the feed,
And he knows when to stop them or string them, t
his stockman who rides in the lead.
But when from the bend of the river the cattle break camp in the night-
O, then is the season, if ever, we value his service aright!
For we know that if some should be tardy, and some should be left in the race,
Yet the spurs will be red on
Coolgardieas someone swings out of his place.The mulga-boughs-hark to them breaking in front of the maddened stampede!
A horse and rider are taking their time-honoured place in the lead.
As an honest and impartial recorder I’d fain have you all recollect
There are other brave men on the Border entitled to every respect;
There’s the man who thinks bucking a tame thing and rides them with lighted cigars;
And the man who will drive any blame thing that ever was hooked to the bars……….
Their pluck and their prowess are granted, but, all said and done, we’re agreed
That the king of ‘em all when he’s wanted is the Man who Steadies the Lead!
(Photo of Will Ogilvie taken in 1937, courtesy National Library.)
Put to music by arguably our best balladeer. This ballad was the title of the album, released in 1980.
I’m with Jesus.
Last time I was in Taiwan I had a salad with raw figs.
Found out instantaneously that I’m allergic to raw figs, throat swole up and trip to hospital ensued.
Lord, wither all of the fig trees, say I.
Can’t eat raw figs. Have always loved fig jam. Yum!
It isn’t about figs.
Arky doesn’t give a fig. Leaves more for me.
The opposite of Bobby Fisher.
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In 1920, 8 year old Samuel Herman Reshevsky played against chess masters, he lost every game.
Grown up to be a good chess player but never a champion.
black to play
and white is completely lost
…why?
Bp takes Wp
RxR ch. Q – A4, RxQ mate
nope
rook takes rook
white king forced to g2 (nestled among the pawns)
push the pawn on f4 up to f3 … check
white king is forced again, this time to h3
now only the white queen protects the king
black’s next move will force the white queen’s demise
what is that move?
You cannot check a king with a pawn, you peasant – know your place!
I just did
protected by the other rook
the pawn has zero fecks!!
my place dude, is in yr face
it’s even worserer that that,
my king will be taking your queen
take the rook which forces the king to g2
then don’t take the pawn, move it up to threaten the king
where does the king go next?
and how can you then capture the white queen after sacrificing a piece ?
PS Kev …
as a kid, Reshevsky won all those games
later he was a grand master
also had an intense rivalry with Bobby Fisher for most of his life
I’ll do an easier puzzle for youse next time
My admiration for women.
How did they endure this type clothing?
Nix that, dressing like a letterbox is all in vogue.
So much effort when clothing wasn’t cheap. In an age of mechanisation and cheap (slave?) overseas labour, a walk in the park now likely has selected leggings and a tee!
Ah, 🙂 but all is not what it seems!
“How the Victorians Faked Tiny Waists – One does not simply have a 16″ waist”. (Bernadette Banner, YouTube)
A combination of padding busts and hips to create the illusion of a tiny waist and also, can you believe it 🙂 19th century “photoshop”!
And, off on a tangent, there is an Australian/Victorian (Latrobe Uni ??) PhD researcher who has studied facial expressions in old photos and explains why, in most early staged photos people appear so dour – the length of time the process took, social convention not to smile, teeth were in such bad condition.
Think twice about every photo presented to you.
John Spooner.
Sean Leahy.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
Four more years of TDS from today, or shall Ramirez come around?
I was going to say “is the Pope Catholic”. That is no longer a certainty.
Bignose Bergoglio is a Communist NOT a Catholic
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Tina Norton.
Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari have been returned to their families.
Sadly Calli I think we will be revisiting this again in another 10-15 years.
Why do I have a tear in my eye? This is only the beginning for them. The fact they survived is a credit to them that I don’t know if any of us could have endured. Israel is going to have to cut off any interaction with Gaza. No border, water or electricity. You’re on your own. Any rockets, we move the border 100 metres for each one. In a week no more Gaza. The scum muzzies just can’t help themselves.
Here’s the Sky News report:
Three female hostages released in first phase of Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal after brief delay from ‘technical field reasons’ (20 Jan)
Sinwar does the same as his brother and only communicates by written messages.
Bolta in today’s Tele:
GREAT DAY FOR THE FREE, BAD DAY FOR ALBANESE
ANDREW BOLT
20 Jan 2025
Donald Trump will be sworn in as US president this Monday, US time — and Anthony Albanese’s world will be smashed.
Just see how key members of Trump’s team wiped the floor with Democrat senators in their confirmation hearings last week, showing its going to be a new no-nonsense world and Australia must change or decline even faster.
For instance, Trump’s pick as Treasury secretary, hedge fund mogul Scott Bessant, blew up a pet fairytale of the Albanese government after one Democrat insisted the US was in a “clean energy arms race with China”.
Albanese, our prime minister, has made the same claim, last year declaring “right around the world … we are in a race” for “clean, reliable electricity”.
Bessant responded by telling a truth Albanese won’t: “China will build 100 new coal plants this year. There is not a clean energy race. There is an energy race.”
He’s right. Many countries now desperately want any energy that is cheap and reliable. The winners will have stronger economies. Losers like us will just get weaker.
Bessant also smashed another Albanese climate fantasy – that we should ban nuclear power and instead make solar panels to compete with China and become a “renewable energy superpower”.
Bessant cut the cant: “China will build 10 nuclear plants this year. That is not solar.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s pick as energy secretary, gas tycoon Chris Wright, said he’d back Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda and scrap the “green new scam” inhibiting America from producing oil, gas and coal.
“Energy is critical to human lives,” he said. “President Trump shares my passion for energy. And if confirmed, I will work tirelessly to implement his bold agenda as an unabashed steward for all sources of affordable, reliable and secure American energy.”
Is Albanese listening? Are the Liberal MPs who still cling to our net-zero suicide strategy?
Here’s what will happen. Trump will unleash a cheap energy revolution which will cut power costs for American business.
In contrast, we’re even running short of gas and electricity thanks to our global warming lunacy.
So where do you think industries will invest? Here or there? Our soaring electricity cost has already wiped out our nickel industry.
But that wasn’t the only warning last week from Trump and his team.
Trump plainly means to create a revolution from day one. In fact, he’s already scared Israel and Hamas into a peace deal last week with his threat that “all hell will break loose” if they didn’t sign.
That was a brutal reminder of a truth smaller powers like us dismiss as crude: the strong make the rules.
Trump will have no patience with countries which pretend kumbaya will defang China or Iran, and leave America to do the fighting for them.
Like us.
Trump’s nominees are just as ultra-pragmatic.
Senator Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick as Secretary of State, told his own confirmation hearing China was the “most potent and dangerous” nation the US had ever faced.
Confrontation with China is coming. That will put huge pressure on Albanese’s “get along to get along” approach to the most powerful dictatorship the world has ever seen.
And here’s a final example of a Trump nominee giving Australia the big wakey-wakey – not just about how the world works, but how woke is now a national security risk.
Pete Hegseth has been mocked by journalists as a bed-hopping, big-drinking Fox News host who never rose above the rank of major in the National Guard, yet will now be Trump’s Defense Secretary.
Yet Hegseth humiliated the Democrats who literally screeched at him in last week’s hearing, keeping his cool.
Here’s one exchange, albeit with Republican Senator and former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, which symbolises the massive cultural shift that Trump’s team represents even for Australia.
SHEEHY: How many genders are there? Tough one.
HEGSETH: Two …
SHEEHY: What is the diameter of the rifle round fired out of an M4A1 rifle?
HEGSETH: 5.56 …
SHEEHY: How many rounds of 5.56 can you fit into the magazine of an M4 rifle?
HEGSETH: Standard issue is 30.
SHEEHY: What size round is the M9 Beretta standard issue sidearm for the military fire?
HEGSETH: A 9mm …
SHEEHY: You understand what the warfighter deals with every single day on the battlefield … you have my support. I know, running the US military takes much more sophisticated knowledge than that, but the basics are also essential. So is not being blinded by bull.
This Monday our world changes.
A few good highlighted points.
The BBC has its own prism for all world events.
Listening and watching the news and commentary on the hostage deal was all framed around it being Israel’s fault. Obviously the wonderful muzzies couldn’t do anything wrong. The smug mouthpiece on the GAYALPBC I could’ve slapped into next week.
The BBC, our ABC, and many…many others have chosen their “side”. They have decided to be vassals and mouthpieces of the Enemy. They are on the side of the screaming mob, the faithless politician, the lazy, grasping and power hungry,
This will not change, regardless of a new President in the White House, or a new PM in the Lodge.
1. seems like a reasonable parsing of events. You may not like it but if as you say its a dud deal why accept it? And in the face of that and their opposition, the posturing can be partly explained as an attempt to mitigate the fallout among them and their supporters.
In fact, he’s already scared Israel and Hamas into a peace deal last week with his threat that “all hell will break loose” if they didn’t sign.
Please tell the truth and don’t embellish what Trump actually said.
I doubt very much that Israel was “scared” into a peace deal.
Watching those three girls in the vehicles running the gauntlet with the Gazan crowds tells me all I need to know.
Masked, sinister, armed to the teeth and all men. Twenty deep along the route. All shrieking, screaming hate and brandishing their guns.
Compare and contrast with the police escorted bus ride the released terrorists received.
This is where civilisation and savagery meet.
The Paywallion:
Journos fail to grasp basic terror truths
Chris Mitchell
9 hours ago. Updated 7 hours ago
The inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump on Monday and Israel’s military success against Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran indicate parts of the Western world are waking up to the realities of power.
In much of the West the celebration of feelings over facts in everything from gender and the media to international diplomacy has been driven by a 21st century take on Marxist thought.
Rather than focus on material improvement for the working class, this politics is the province of upper middle class professionals who prioritise the imagined right of individuals never to feel offended. Hence men can be women and Islamist terrorists can be progressives even if they subjugate women and murder homosexuals.
The election of Trump has sent the world a message. Voters prize common sense. They are OK with polite tolerance but not when it damages their own societies.
They want Trump to “Make America Great Again’’ because they saw Joe Biden and Barack Obama draw lines in the sand with authoritarian dictators who ignored the most powerful nation in history because they did not fear its leaders.
This is not just about wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Think the red-line ultimatum Obama issued against former president Bashar al-Assad in Syria in August 2012 if he used chemical weapons against his own people. He did so a year later.
In the years after the 2001 al-Qa’ida attacks in New York and Washington and the 2002 Bali bombings, much discussion in newspapers such as this one centred on the nature of tolerance. Should a tolerant society such as Australia’s allow the extreme intolerance of Islamist radicals?
In the self-consciously progressive left media – the old Fairfax papers – the discussion was less clear-eyed.
Was the West betraying its own democratic ideals by, for example, imprisoning Islamists at Guantanamo Bay while they were being questioned without having received a fair trial?
Was the West to blame for Islamist attacks on Western targets because it was more concerned with Middle Eastern oil than Middle Eastern social conditions?
This column called this “the root causes” view in a piece published on October 14, 2023, about the October 7 pogrom in southern Israel. In this view, Western victims of Islamic terror, whether in Israel, the US, Bali or Paris, bring terror on themselves because they do not recognise the problems of the Islamic world.
Never mind much of the Islamic world, particularly the Arab world, is ruled by some of the richest, most repressive leaders on Earth who privately support Islamist terror with oil money. And don’t forget the open anti-Semitism of many of the Arab world’s leaders, journalists and intellectuals who quote the Koran to justify murdering Jews.
Today in parts of Australia’s political left, the “root causes” view has morphed into outright sympathy for Islamism. Uni students praise Osama bin Laden’s manifesto, many support the October 7 slaughter of 1200 innocent Israeli civilians and decry Israel, one of the rare countries in the Middle East where women and gays are safe.
The UN, with 56 Muslim majority country members – and affiliated NGOs such as the World Health Organisation – openly run interference for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. The Western left follows.
Palestinian Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah has this month repeated several false claims that Israel attacked civilians at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza and wrongfully imprisoned its director, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. Some posts about Safiya imply he is a saintly figure, yet he is a Hamas colonel.
Melanie Phillips on Substack on January 1 referred to a then 12-month-old report in The Times of Israel quoting the hospital’s former director, Ahmad Kahlot, admitting Hamas had offices in the hospital. Kahlot said he had been a lieutenant colonel with Hamas since 2010. He said 16 staff members were part of the organisation’s Al-Qassam terror organisation. Phillips quoted a Palestinian news site referring to Dr Safiya as a colonel.
Links between Hamas and UN-supported education, aid and medical facilities in Gaza have been known for years. The UN investigated links between Hamas and UNRWA (the UN Relief and Works Agency) as far back as 2014.
Politicians should not be surprised at the rise in anti-Semitism in the West: the media casually reports Israeli military actions against embedded Hamas forces in hospitals and schools as if Israel is deliberately targeting children and the sick.
Just as bad has been reporting alleging Israel is deliberately starving Gazans. Never mind that in no other conflict would the party first attacked be held responsible for feeding the civilian population of its attacker. This column reported on April 7 last year that Israel’s aid convoys into Gaza had reached pre-war levels, even though much of the media was lazily repeating Hamas and UN propaganda about famine. Hamas creates the aid problem. It and other terror groups are stealing aid and selling it to Gazans at inflated prices.
US National Public Radio on November 20 showed the anti-Semitic mentality of Israel’s critics. It reported only 11 of 109 UN aid trucks had succeeded in deliveries the previous weekend. The rest had been stolen by armed militias.
Rather than call on Hamas to secure aid deliveries, NPR quoted a UN spokesperson demanding Israel do more to prevent attacks on aid convoys.
Just as dehumanising of Israelis have been silly reports criticising conservative Israeli government member Itamar Ben-Gvir for admitting he had last year blocked a hostage deal with Hamas.
Abdel-Fattah and journalist Antoinette Lattouf who have reposted on X criticism of Ben-Gvir must know even the Jerusalem Post has acknowledged the hostage deal agreed last Wednesday presents real dangers to Israel: the release of perhaps a thousand Palestinian convicted terrorists in return for the 94 remaining Israeli civilian hostages, many of whom may already be dead.
It was the 2011 release of 1026 Palestinian prisoners in return for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit that allowed Yahya Sinwar back to Gaza. Now dead, Sinwar had been sentenced to four life terms for the abduction and murder of two Israeli soldiers and the killing of four Palestinians in 1989. Sinwar led the October 7 pogrom.
The Jerusalem Post has conceded Israel risks a repeat with the latest ceasefire, which unarguably rewards hostage taking. Ben-Gvir threatened to quit the government on Thursday because he thinks the latest ceasefire presents grave dangers to Israel.
Journalists often misunderstand the point of terrorism. Islamist attacks in Western countries are designed to show young Muslims the West cares more for white victims than it does for Muslim victims in Islamic countries.
Similarly, October 7 and the sacrificing of innocent Palestinian lives in Gaza are designed to make young Muslims believe the West values Jewish lives more than Palestinian lives.
Back to strength of leadership. No one knows if Trump’s second presidency will be a success.
Yet The Times Of Israel last Thursday reported two Arab sources involved in the Gaza ceasefire talks believe Trump’s negotiator, Steve Witkoff, achieved more in one tense weekend of talks with Netanyahu than Biden did the entire previous year.
Typically, they found their uniforms when there was no risk.
This is where civilisation and savagery meet.
Yep. Once we lived in a West that knew the difference. However we now live in a West that lauds ‘savagery as ‘liberation’ and freedom fighting’ and smears civilisation as colonialist and racist.
calli
January 20, 2025 6:55 am
That’s where I got thinking about greyranga’s comment.
Why does Israel provide water, electricity and other commodities to Gaza?
Can’t be all just commercial interest.
Israel is a civilised nation.
Why would you provide succour to your enemies?
Good morning, downticking @rsehole.
How does it feel to be a loser? I bet seeing those three girls released annoyed you immensely.
Good.
Yes Calli,
no “relief”, for the downer this morning.
Just ignore it, calli.
Please don’t think it worries me. It’s a bit like turning over a rock and revealing what’s underneath.
You sometimes find the most bizarre creatures.
Hamas were on the roof of the red Cross vehicle swatting at those who would have torn the three hostages to shreds.
Islam is evil. Why have we invited it in?
I’m delighted that Romi, Dotson and Emily are home safe.
Now the rest.
Swatting at … typical Gazans who love Hamas and Hate Israelis.
Geez Louise, those Hamas Nazis escorting Romi, Emily and Doron look half starved, don’t they?
Are the buttons under strain?
in 21 hours the Making America Great Again begins. I note some bastard leaked to the press the initial foray by Tom Homan to rid the US of violent criminals so there’s a change of plan and the bastard that did that had better be in Lebanon because Tom Homan will not rest until the leaker is found.
They may’ve made a mistake coming out like this. It’s being remarked upon:
Faceless in Gaza | Power Line (19 Jan)
Funny how that happens.
Well Girls and Lads…thats it for me for a bit. Off to have day surgery for a cataract and a lens put in my right eye.
Not really looking forward to it.
Rinse and repeat for the left eye today fortnight.
All the best, Beery. The Beloved had it done a couple of years ago (during a lull in the scamdemic). Hasn’t needed glasses since. Unpleasant, but a marvel of our civilisational advancement.
Lovers of savagery and its accompanying misery take note.
Good luck.
You’ll get a shock when you look in the mirror. Oh and instead of three moons you will see only one, once your second eye gets done.
Had it done on the right eye, don’t want to frighten you but it had hurt like hell for me, only drops to ease the pain, no local. Good as gold now but the left is not bad enough to risk an other op. Took me 2 days to get any sight back, others say for them it was almost instantaneous. Good luck with, it I’m sure you won’t regret it.
Good luck. Mine were done 19 years ago. Went well.
Tip: they’ll try to sell you on getting one eye for close up and one for distance. Don’t do it! Get both optimised for distance. Just use cheap reading glasses for reading. You may want bifocals for driving set at instrument panel distance. Get the executive cut where the closer up part is right across the width and is about the lower half.
My mil had it done and she is 83. It worked a treat. Good luck.
All the best Beertruk.
I looked after my mum when she had her eyes done thirty years ago.
The op and aftercare have improved much since then. Cheers.
Bolta got over his TDS, has he?
Give him time. I see Sky is using the new Presidential portrait – a recreation of his mugshot.
He’s not letting anyone forget what the Dems did to him.
On another subject – the surf is running high again today. I can hear the roar of it from my back porch.
All the beaches are closed until further notice, a combination of extremely dangerous conditions and pollution. During the emergency, our treatment plants shut down. I suspect numbers here will be down for the Australia Day weekend as a consequence.
Jubilation in DC as beaming Trump and Melania make triumphant return to capital for inaugural festivities
Trump watches fireworks alongside Melania during star-studded reception as inauguration weekend kicks off
And what about BHP?
How BlackRock And The Rest Of The ‘Climate Cartel’ Stacked Exxon’s Board With Fossil Fuel Haters
“Renewable” junk.
Company executives fight lawsuit over junked wind turbine blades
German Ambassador Warns Trump Will Seek ‘Redefinition of Constitutional Order’ and Undermine ‘Democratic Principles’
Some ( and I stress ‘some’) Germans are keen to find parallels between Nazi regime phenomena and USA practice. The ambassador probably had in mind the way in which Hitler et al governed by executive decree according to a provision of the Weimar Cinstitution. But a long bow to draw, noting that Trump’s SCOTUS appointees are traditional constitutionality.
Grooming gangs: the making of a scandal
TikTok begins restoring service for U.S. users after Trump comments
Trump Selects Agent Who Shielded Him From Bullets To Lead Secret Service
Very glad it wasn’t the gum chewing fat chick who couldn’t holster her gun.
German Ambassador Warns Trump Will Seek ‘Redefinition of Constitutional Order’ and Undermine ‘Democratic Principles’
I suspect that might be the soon to be former ambassador.
Just listen to this.
Speaker Mike Johnson Drops Bombshell, Proves Biden Was Never President For The Past 4 Years
Read the comments and weep. There are some very strange people reading these sites.
Present company excepted!
A bit of Hot Fuzz trolly action would’ve sorted this out.
I like the older Lady’s style. She was having none of it and started slamming the scrotes.
It pays to carry a racing whip. You can get a hell of a lot of stingers to their heads before the scrotes even know what has happened.
Frozen chicken would have solved the problem.
A slap to the head with a bleeding piece of steak, they like that. Kibosh with a Cabanosi perhaps.
BREAKING: President-Elect Trump Lays Wreath At Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier At Arlington Cemetery
Brendan O’Neill has an excellent column on ADHD at Spiked.
Pogria
I thought the Spiked to polarizing but it did lead to a useful discussion so linked to it.
Your story is a mirror image of the story a woman told me. She was always truant so they thought she might have a learning disability. The exact opposite, extremely bright so she didn’t want to be there. Why teachers are even involved is beyond me because of the obvious conflict of interest.
In recent decades rates of anxiety, depression, ADHD, and ASD have soared. The definitions are so vague clinicians can fall prey to confirmation bias and the recency illusion. There are no good models of human behavior and perhaps the model must always be culturally bound.
I was extremely bright, as evinced by my later career, but school bored me. As did university, until I realised I had to get a qualification
Tic-toc is ticking again.
This is actually an interesting general interview.
The Dark Reason Islam Is UNIQUELY Dangerous – Richard Dawkins
Trump Transition Team Demands Resignation of Career Diplomats
Good start.
As the first hostages are released, their ABC celebrates the indomitable spirit of resilience:
And another chubby victim of starvation, apparently celebrating Israel’s attempt to displace him from Palestine:
And the real heroes, the popular Hamas ‘militants’, now free from the threat of Israeli violence and able to stop hiding behind civilians:
It’s sometimes hard to understand why antisemitism has taken root in Australia.
I think this assessment is superficial.
It fails to take seriously the self-proclaimed Islamic motivations of the terrorists based on interpretations of Islamic doctrine that are not aberrations but recurring features in the history of Muslim faith and practice.
Until we do take those motivations seriously we can’t fully grasp the nature of the problem the presence of Islam in western countries presents.
Sydney pro-Palestine protests to plough ahead until ‘demands’ are metMohammad Alfares and Robert White
13 hours ago.
Updated 11 hours ago
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Sydney’s pro-Palestine protesters have vowed to march indefinitely until their “eight demands” are met, as anti-Israel activists in Melbourne split over the future of their rallies in the wake of the ceasefire.
In the Victorian capital, organisers of the weekly pro-Palestine protests have split, with Burgertory boss Hash Tayeh and others pulling out after this week.
The Australian revealed on Sunday that organisers had a private meeting on Saturday to discuss the continuation of weekly protests following a blowback from Victoria’s peak business lobby, which says families have been discouraged from venturing into the CBD in recent times.
It is understood a number of high-profile activists will cease to attend weekly protests from next week, a move that came as a surprise for supporters of the movement.
Among them is Mr Tayeh of the Liberation Crew, who will stop attending protests from next week as he shifts his focus to “advocacy, rebuilding, and accountability” efforts both locally and internationally.
Hardline activist Ihab Alazhari of the “Sit-Intifada” will also cease to attend the weekly protests from next week.
Mr Alzhari and his son, Ibrahim, have been embroiled in controversy after this masthead revealed the family steel manufacturing business was engaged in large government and private-sector projects that operate in Victoria, NSW and Queensland.
In Sydney, pro-Palestine marches have been held for 67 consecutive weeks, organised by the Palestine Action Group.
Despite calls by Jewish and political leaders for activists to abandon their protests given the ceasefire, and Anthony Albanese calling on them to help “lower the temperature”, protesters said they would continue until their “demands” were met.
“A ceasefire deal was finally reached and there was relief for the people of Gaza but our fight is not over,” Palestine Action Group Sydney organiser Amal Naser said, telling protesters on Sunday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and outgoing US President Joe Biden should be “sent to The Hague”.
“The Zionist entity continues to have a grasp on our lands and I fear the bloodshed and the oppression is nowhere near its end,” she said.
Don’t Sydney coppers have tear gas and truncheons any more?
What?
What?
WHAT?
Are we on air?
It’s a cat, KD. Cats are prone to take the occasional nap, which ours did late this morning — evidently after ODing on catnip.
I trust our Doverlord has enough smelling salts on hand to keep kitty compus.
The Times was running a heartrending piece about a poor Palestinian woman, forced to give birth by Cesarean section, with no anesthetic…the word “Pallywood” sprang to mind…
Just like Caesar’s mother? Traditional technique?
Israel could’ve shot her and saved her the trouble.
My capacity for “compassion” is very low when it comes to these cockroaches.
Sharren is the DEPUTY Minister of Foreign Affairs. Cop that Dreyfus you sanctimonious superior prick.
I met in Jerusalem last week with the Australian Attorney General, Mark Dreyfus MP.
I expressed to him my disappointment with the shift in then Australian government’s attitude towards Israel.
I emphasised our deep concern regarding the shocking rise in antisemitism in Australia and the clearly ineffectual response from the Australian government and state governments. There is no doubt this has been caused in part by the Australian government’s ongoing campaign against Israel.
I expressed my expectation and hope that Australia’s policy towards Israel will return to reflecting our long-standing relations based on shared values and interests.
https://x.com/SharrenHaskel/status/1880846431180951631
Amazingly, Team Dreyfus has a spin on all that [Unlinkable OZ]:
Apparently she got it wrong.
So, there…
Roger broke the Cat.
See where logic and facts take you?
I expect learnings. Many…many learnings.
Alas, ma’am…I fear I am incorrigible.
I was returning to add a list of Quran passages and historical instances to my post when the thing went kaboom!
Re: The Meuleman Family Vs The Victorian Swamp.
A lifetime of lying is catching up with this power couple.
Please make it so.
If ever there is a change of government would make an interesting Royal Commission.
But they:d have bring in commissioners and staff from interstate. The Victorian system is now packed from top to bottom with Socialist Left faction operatives.
Please, please let it be so.
A few, random, random thoughts on Israel Vs “Palestine:”
1) Some Israeli outlets are reporting Hamas doesn’t (currently) have time to regroup but it can over a longer period of time;
2) Surely Mossad and other intelligence sources were very closely watching the videos of Hamas celebrating in the streets. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve captured satellite and/or aerial imagery and have tracked some of these arseholes;
3) The good (and bad) thing about Hamas loosing its leaders and middle management is that there must now be factions jostling to take up those positions; there’s a vacuum and it needs to be filled. Sadly, the greater the monster the more likely they will prevail.
Finally, surely there is some “behind the scenes” plan to wipe them all out following the return of all living and deceased hostages? Israel has conceded too much too many times; and I can’t conceive they’re just going to “roll over” again.
If I were Israel, I’d set up face verification on the South Gaza beach. Those who are not connected to Hamas get to move back into “Palestine” once all “face vetting” is complete. Those that are connected to Hamas get imprisoned for trial (or shot on sight). Everyone must stay on the beach, and anyone found in broader Gaza will also be goaled or shot if they do not comply. Following that, everyone can move back into Gaza.
Perhaps I’m being harsh.
Doubt it.
Or perhaps, for longer term impacts, the buses taking the “Palestinians” back can be strapped underneath with a bit of Polonium 210?
The arseholes would die but they wouldn’t find out for a year or two…
Spray a six pack of deodorant into each bus, then when they get to the destination, tell them it’s a slow acting poison that will send them mad.
It will do no such thing, but they’ll spend the next 6 months trying to work out if they’re going mad or not.
Shoot the lot of of them.
They are all connected to Hamas.
I agree; but I mean “actively connected”
I think the “most interesting” thing will be when the final hostages are released back to Israel. The final busload of “Palestinian” prisoners might be splodey… or they could drop a nice big bomb on those celebrating their return in the streets.
Surely, this has crossed Hammas’ mind? Will they keep one single (alive) remaining hostage for years? Aka Gilad Shalit.
It’s interesting that Labor keeps throwing money at stuff, and the result is exactly opposite of what they want.
Australian builders turn against Labor’s fee-free TAFE, claiming policy fails to address skills shortage (Sky News, 20 Jan)
They can’t help themselves: they want to draw this stuff into government run TAFEs using taxpayers’ money and are surprised when the result is worse than if they’d done nothing.
Anybody seen an article on the proposal to relocate Palestinians to Indonesia, while the Gaza Strip is re – built?
How about Antarctica?
And why aren’t their fellow Middle Eastern Muslims offering temporary refuge? Don’t bother answering.
And if they do end up in Indonesia, watch for the “refugee” boats to flood over.
Send them to Indonesia – a country within a couple of days sailing of Australia and a population of 400 million muslim fanatics?
Our navy will stop them – pigs arse.
We have a Navy?
The Congo has a nice ring to it. They can each take a squeezy bottle of barbecue sauce to ingratiate themselves with the locals.
A girl can dream.
Arab Nations: “Anywhere but here!”
Lysander, will not work. Polonium 210 is an alpha emitter which needs to no ingested or inhaled to be a problem.
Darn.
Maybe send them off with a lovely meal?
A succulent Polonium meal.
And another incredibly dumb Labor policy.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces $2 billion investment to push aluminium manufacturers towards renewable energy (Sky News, 20 Dec)
You can’t afford to make aluminium when the wholesale price is hundreds of bucks per MWh. Which it is except during daylight hours – and relying on solar is stupid since operating for 6 hours a day on that amount of sunk capital is incredibly stupid. And likewise you can’t make aluminium when the electricity supply is bouncing around like a blowfly on LSD. It doesn’t work. So that’s another $2 billion of our taxes down the toilet.
Aluminium is basically solidified electricity – which is why the smelters are here in the first place. Albo is in his Gillard death spiral phase,
They’re just incapable of listening – or it’s a deliberate sabotaging of the economy.
Looking at the NDIS and its instigator, my money is on the latter.
They are expecting to rely on the proposed floating windmills off Port Stephens, which will never eventuate if my friends up there have anything to do with it. Dutton has already promised to scrap this Bowen delusion.
Once is accident, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.
We’re up to three.
So the question becomes why would the intelligence agencies be throwing a wet blanket on this?
“Intelligence” agencies…
Denmark, Finland and Taiwan all know what is going on. And all three “accidents” have been widely reported. As have been the Chinese and Russian links.
As for the US intel community they seem more interested in cutting their bits off and wearing dresses.
BS.
Why trust US and European security services?
Albo to throw taxpayers’ billions at Green Aluminium!
Pull the other anode or cathode Albo, and get a song, maybe “now and then, there’s a fool such as I”.
Albo is the only man on the planet who has bought the Sydney Harbour Bridge three times.
Like most of the media, Daytime Sky has just/and will probably continue to devote more time to the TikTok ban than to the many substantial issues threatening to impoverish us all. It got even more than Green Aluminium, but that’s ok, except that any reportage on that topic should also address how we are to keep the lights on and industry running unless we have a solid foundation of 24/7 power such as coal, gas, or nuclear.
Alan Dershowitz (rightly) slags Israel’s “deal:”
It Wasn’t a Deal – It Was a Crime | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | Alan M. Dershowitz | 19 Tevet 5785 – Sunday, January 19, 2025 | JewishPress.com
Sky UK’s troll under the bridge James Matthews, who would be quite at home with the BBC, went for the Trump family today as shown on our own mini-me Daytime Sky. No mention of the role Jared played in getting the Abraham accords up – people like him would probably prefer that those accords never happened, something that Hamas would agree with.
It’s one thing to have dropkicks like him in the UK, which is nowadays the natural home of suchlike, but repeating this crap on our own branch of Sky is not just unbecoming, it is a stark reveal of the poor quality of reporters like James.
Of course Daytime Sky had to run (after those earlier travesties) the current meme: Global Warming, er, Climate Change, is causing Extreme Weather. They are an embarrassment, but not the only one.
It really shits me that Perth is 16 hours in front of Washington. It makes watching US politics almost impossible (unless you, unlike me, have time for the tellie in the AM)
That, and I have to be up at sparrow for a work trip to Bunbury tomorrow.
Ugh…
He he. Got a comment through at Teh Paywallian describing journalists as j’ismists. Can it survive?
Farken hell….
Gas crisis: LNG imports are coming to Australia in 2026
You know you’ve got issues when the AFR are criticising Liebor.
Albo and his clown Cabinet could cause a sand shortage in the Sahara. The gas is a State issue, primarily fracking and onshore exploration as I understand it. Queensland LNG export facilities changed everything.
We have got a shit for brains government under Jacinta Allan here in Victoria.
No way imported gas is going to be cheaper than local gas.
… and some it coming in will be the very same gas.
Load tanker in QLD.
Sail to Vic.
Unload at triple the price.
Thanks, Julia, thanks Jacinta.
And we laughed when Cuba had to import sugar.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/woman-who-confronted-newsom-about-dry-fire-hydrants/
The Retro World of AIhttps://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/01/the-retro-world-of-ai.php
https://youtu.be/wXut6j_hycE
Star Trek – Film Noir – trailer.
That’s amazing! Did I see a rendering of Troy O’Donoghue? Loved the rendering of the Ewoks and C3PO.
That was great! James Dean as Han Solo. Inspired!
Vivek already done and dusted????
???
With 12 hours till the inauguration EO13961 is partially revoked. The devolution phase of Trumps second administration is finished. The reconstitution begins
Bit of global warming in Perf today. Currently 42.3oC. Rest of the week not looking good either.
Luckily Albo’s free electricity should deal with it.
Humphrey – sometimes it gets hot in Perth in Summer. Go figure. (I started uni there in mid-’99. The ’99-’00 Christmas break was extraordinary. We often used to go for swims at the local beach at 2 in the morning to cool down. For a little while I had a part time job in Northbridge doing media analysis. Occasionally started at 4.30am. I was living in Fremantle and for some unknown reason decided to ride my bike in. (It’ll be fun….) Wasn’t a bad ride but it was 36C when I arrived. (Mind you the aircon inside the building was so cold staff wore blankets and beanies. Of course we were a first world country in those days and working aircon was the norm.)
Yep. Hovering around 40 for a week is a bit rude (similar episode in Melbournibad around 1990 ended in Black Saturday). BOM are forecasting a 29o minimum, which would give all time record a nudge.
Black Saturday was in February 2009. I remember three consecutive days over 40 around a week prior, then Black Saturday topped out at 46c.
This was nearing the end of the Millenium drought. Lake Bolac was bone dry, as was Lake Wendouree in Ballarat.
2010 was the first wet year since 1995.
Tiger Shooting
Upon being enthroned as Emperor of India in New Delhi in 2011, King George V moved on to Nepal at the invitation of its ruler to personally shoot 39 tigers and 18 rhinos. This king had already proved himself a crack shot at tigers in India during his earlier Indian sojourns in the late nineteenth century, for the Victorian period was one of enhanced Shikar, or tiger shooting. By 1972 when all shooting was stopped it is estimated that Bengal Tiger numbers had dropped from 100,000 in 1900 to only 4000 in 1964. Conservation movements started in earnest after 1964 with the formation of national reserves for tigers and other threatened species and the Shikar shoot was slowly culturally replaced with the photo shoot.
And there we were, our Aussie tour group, in Ranthambore National Park with our phone cameras at the ready, poorly equipped when compared with some of the viewing jeeps where true afficionados had specialised cameras and lenses the like of which I hadn’t seen since our expedition to see the Orcas on Argentina’s Valdez Peninsula. This was some serious shooting going on here, and sadly as with the Orcas not all got the tiger pics which they came for. Tigers in the wild can stay up in the hills on their ranges though at other times they frequent the lakeside areas. Due to the press of numbers, constantly rising as the new Indian middle classes descend on it, the game park is divided into sectors to control entry. We were lucky to get sectors including lakeside, and both our ‘spotter’ and driver were highly skilled. Possibly our tour company had paid up extra for the sector and these noted experts, for we had a morning and an afternoon safari and saw tigers close up on both trips, which is apparently quite rare.
Our personal spotter was a small Sikh man with buck teeth, twinkling eyes and infectious enthusiasm. He’s worked in the park for forty years and took a sheer delight in finding tigers. He directed our driver to likely places and there they were. Our morning drive was early and so the viewing traffic was light, though more crowded in the afternoon as the trains rolled in from Agra.
Bengal Tigers are truly magnificent beasts, and these ones were living rich on the hog – literally, as native boar feature in their diet, as does deer and any other of the many animals sequestered in this very famous park, including bears, leopards, crocodiles, deer of various sorts, monkeys, and hyenas. The tigers’ health and overstocking of the range is monitored. We were there in the winter after considerable rain and everything was very lush and green. We were also very rugged up as the early mornings were about 5 degrees. The massive Banyan trees under which the road passed were impressively jungle-ish, other vegetation was also sub-tropical and the bald rock escarpments and acacia hillsides were surprisingly reminiscent of some Australian scenery.
I will never forget passing by an old Moghul fort and other scattered ruins at dawn and then down by the lakeside seeing the early morning mist shimmer and lift to reveal the Maharajah’s derelict hunting lodge with its temple format beckoning across the waters; tigers live there now enjoying its summer cool. The birdlife was equal to anything Kakadu has shown me, and more exotic too. Then a stir in the jeeps, for we spotted our first tiger, a young male ambling down on our right, giving some great shots. He then sauntered around the back of the jeep I was in, and was literally only a few metres away from me. A tiger’s leap away. What a buzz I felt as I kept dead still and watched his muscles ripple and his flat padded feet leave its prints in the damp dust.
He disappeared into bushes on the left and our driver took us crawling parallel to him on the roadway. I didn’t see him again, but as I looked into another clearing close by two almost full-grown adolescent females were having a playful sparring match. Thumping great animals having at each other up on their haunches. I didn’t know then but found out later in a BBC doco (‘Tiger Queen’ – purchase so can’t link) that matriarchs rule here and females learn to become dominant in adolescence in order to oust their sisters and mother from the best territories.
The afternoon drive was less intense, with more time to see other animals and birds in situ, but while doing this near the lake we came upon three tigers intent on a kill. A baby deer had wandered too close for them to ignore. The stalk was on. We watched breathlessly, with their late lunch and our concern for little Bambi competing for sympathies. These three were the same ones we saw earlier, still under their mother’s tutelage. Our spotter said she was slowing down, dying, and these ‘cubs’ were starting to shape up. But they lost this one, for the lead tiger wasn’t backed up by the others with a head-off of Bambi, who escaped with a bound as the lead tiger mucked up his jump. We watched as the three of them disappeared into some reeds lakeside, where a kill was being made of some birds there. Duck. Second best to venison, but ok for a snack, said our spotter.
The BBC doco is fabulous, try to see it, they had it at our hotel. Meanwhile, here’s some more on the Ranthambore experience, and a link to some history of the Shikar hunts of the past.
in 2011
????????
1911.
Thanks, Lee. Serious typo there needing your correction.
1911 of course.
May I plead wooly headedness still due to near-death experience with severe bronchitis in Delhi smog; we arrived back Friday morning and I have barely raised head from pillow until briefly yesterday. Was going to unpack today, but not ready for that yet. Thought a light blog might be ok though as a means of rejoining the lands of the living. 🙂
That’s a hell of a strike rate for a tiger safari.
One for the record books.
H B Bear
January 20, 2025 4:22 pm
Bit of global warming in Perf today. Currently 42.3oC. Rest of the week not looking good either.
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The cyclone up north might change that?
We shall see …. or feel.
I’m certainly hoping its swings around the NW and heads down our way; models don’t say it will but we’ll see…
Bit of summer rain would be nice. Last summer didn’t help.
We got a huge downpour on Saturday night and I haven’t seen the Blue-faced Honey Eaters or Noisy Miners since. The Bottlebrushes and Honey Myrtle are OK but Kangaroo Paws are browning off in places. I’ll still rip out the 6 Indian Mays and replace with Lilli Pillis when the weather gets cooler. Then an almost totally native front yard.
Hope you get the wet stuff you want.
I get the reverse. When it’s dry the blue faces and the noisies go and feed on flowers. But when it’s wet they turn up at the Cafe demanding bread. Loudly!
I had nine blue faces in the camellia today. Cacophony! Fortunately I worked out if I closed the door, not just the screen door, they’d shut up and go away. Which they did. 😀
Our mature lilli pilli hedge has been decimated by the beetle coming down from NSW. The only cure is spraying regularly with special oil, but our hedge is 6 metres high by 25 metres long (10 trees) so too hard to cover it all. We are going to trim it severely so as to be able to treat it. We are in Gippsland.
Son has had good surf at Lancelin today.
Another posh painting!
Look at these scenes of the 3 women hostages being loaded in Gaza: the hamas scum making great show of keeping back a huge crowd of well fed, inbred pallies calling for the blood of the 3 women and the destruction of Israel:
An obscene spectacle – Melanie Phillips
Islam has to be destroyed and a good start would be the pallies.
Good read.
The only unfortunate thing is that I can still see fully intact buildings standing in the background….
Yes they make big war against women, the cowards.
I trust people on these pages are aware of Trumps famous immigration chart (that he turned to look at in Butler) which clearly states that the Trump administration finished on April 1st 2020. This along with EO13961 is all you need to understand that Trump didn’t give them the keys when he left the WH after the stolen election. Search google under Trump immigration chart and see for yourselves.
It would make my millennium to have 75mm of rain in the next fortnight or so. C’mon BoM-wagyl-weather gods,
I’m lining up a (bush) chook to sacrifice as we speak.
200 straggly lambs on the road now, last 1000 phats go Thursday- that’s me with a lot less mouths to feef.
Strange things can happen with cyclones moving around. Years ago we got this funny NW swell with places breaking I had never seen breaking in 10+ years of surfing. Taj and the Billabong guys got it all on video. So who knows?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nae6jZ0RM3U
might be inside Wyadup…
Strange that neither the Age or ABC has anything on the Russia-Iran strategic partnership signed last week. No mutual defence pact but boosting defence and economic cooperation.
They are conflicted.
Wussia is Eeeeevilll because Ukraine.
Iran is gooood because Muslim and anti-Israel.
But Iran is Eeeeevilll because it supplies weapons to Wussia.
Alas, ma’am…I fear I am incorrigible.
I’d returned to add a list of Quran passages and historical instances of their application to my post, pressed SAVE and the whole thing went KABOOM!
Roger!!!!
Actually, being digitally challenged, I rang Lizzie to find out what was happening on the Cat. A great opportunity to chat with that dear lady about her travails with health issues after a glorious trip.
Get better soon, Lizzie!
Yes, get well soon, Lizzie.
That’s the religion of pieces.
An Earth shattering kaboom!
I now look like a Hottentot.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
That CAT knew what he was doing.
COP THAT!
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Steve Inman:
No Shame
That happens regularly at Mogo Zoo. 😀
Love Mogo Zoo, Pogria. When we had a place on the South Coast (at Manyana) we took our then little grandchildren to Mogo. Amazingly, they had the opportunity to watch the slow progress of a giraffe being born. Grandson was a bit horrified, while granddaughter took it in her stride.
Great place. Your grandees were very fortunate to see the birth.
There’s a long drop for the wee giraffe!
Cool Zoo. Went there when on holidays on the south coast.
Halls Gap Zoo in the Grampians is OK too. I would recommend that.
My name is Putin and I’m here to help.
Going to be worse under Trump I suspect. I doubt he and Putin can agree to a deal. Especially if Trump releases all the US LNG export controls the Biden-fossil imposed.
Recently a Russian LNG tanker had to sail all the way from Murmansk to Sakhalin because no one dared buy the LNG. They offloaded it into a storage vessel.
Sanctioned Russian LNG Ship Returns Home after Failed Quest for Buyer (26 Dec)
Did they not try Victoria??
Well that’d be hard since Labor stopped the building of the Phillip Island LNG terminal because of lesser spotted newts. Or something. You can’t just unload the stuff with a forklift.
Secretary Yellen to employ “extraordinary measures” day after inauguration to avoid debt ceiling. I wonder what measures???
Not paying the millions of deep state drones would be a good start.
Isn’t she unemployed from the time of Inauguration?
Mass selloff of bullion for a brief dollar slump, just so the Lizard People can say “see? see? The Economy hates Trump!”
Interestingly enough, I’ve been waiting for a correction down to about $3,500 Australian since about November. But the drop in the A$ against the $US seems to be hiding it.
How many dead hostages will Israel get, in total. If it’s 30 live prisoners for every live Israeli, how about 30 dead terrorist murderers for every dead Israeli, including those killed on October 7 2023.
Sounds like a good deal to me.
well, it’s the subtext really
and Ham-arse ride on false equivalence
this damages their brand
Sall Grover
There will be tears aplenty in the beds of the gender confused tonight.
She’s my Australian of the Year!
Sorry Cats; my post on Vivek “being dusted” was a bit vague.
Apparently he’s either left or been turfed out of DOGE.
Vivek Ramaswamy expected to depart DOGE – CBS News
One side says “he’s worn out his welcome.
The other side says “he’s starting a run for Ohio Governor”
Could be both…Vivek declined to comment.
The latter has been widely reported.
DOGE bro Ramaswamy likely to announce Ohio governor run by month’s end: sources (20 Jan)
He isn’t the sort of dogged pursuer like Hegseth obviously is. But I can see why Trump would prefer to keep him sweet. An endorsement is cheap and worth every cent.
Vivek is great friends with the Vance’s – they named one of their kids for him, so JD will no doubt be out for Vivek in Ohio.
Prediction:
Crypto will bring Trump down.
That no one told him to avoid this useless pile of shite ratholed through with awful people will be of enormous regret to him and many of his supporters.
New ATH in BTC- 109,356.
Can you lie behind it and defend it with an AR 15?
BTC is the hardest asset on the planet. Everything will go to zero against BTC
His net worth just rose by fifty billion dollars since yesterday…
$TRUMP Coin Skyrockets as Donald Trump Wears His Newest Crypto Billionaire Status (20 Jan)
A 16,000% profit in 12 hours…
Pardon me for getting nervous about wealth that comes from nowhere and is intangible.
I’ll stick with gold and silver for the moment.
Precisely.
Buy that doesn’t mean these digital things can’t keep going up.
Unfortunately.
Dont make the mistake of assuming ‘if you cant hold it, its not real’ …. electricity fits that bill too. PS, I own PMs too…. think of BTC as digital gold.
Said ‘useless pile of shite’ secured my ability to say no to government…. after the BTC I bought for $800 rose to (now) 169k.
The slug from Grayndler today…….
“What I’ll continue to do and what people are looking for when it comes to anti-Semitism is the country to unite against what are abhorrent instances,” the Prime Minister said.
“We’ll continue to take strong action.
LOL. The slug from Grayndler is a comedian, he’s just not a very funny one.
Strong action involving many, many, wet lettuce leaves?
No, just waving the same old limp one.
Enough about his donger.
Well spotted!
I watched him say that with our Merryl in the background nodding wildly.
Hey Merryl…how about answering my husband’s respectful request for information on how you would lobby against antisemitism within the Labor Party and incidents emerging in the wider community.
But no…”green” aluminium is probably more likely to eventuate than a reply.
He’s describing a coup in Bangladesh instigated by the CIA.
@TheFirstonTV
The CIA was just involved in a MAJOR scandal that no one seems to be talking about… except @MikeBenzCyber. He briefs @JesseKellyDC.
Biden’s final humiliation: Most Americans can’t name a single success
Mass selloff of bullion?
Yahoo finance says it is up at US$2751
Behind Israel’s actions today is this, from the Talmud…….
Whoever saves a single life is considered by scripture to have saved the world
Israel will continue to terminate the Nazi Hamas scum.
It’s fire-trucking sickening to see the malign media covering the release of the first Israeli hostages after ignoring them for so long. Of course, they duly propagated the propaganda images of the h@m@s worship in G@Z@n streets. One can almost imagine their loins moistening behind those gnus desks at the symbology (headbands, flags, etc.) of the unrepentant rapists and slaughterers of children. Eff that filth and their perverted, narcissistic desires.
I’m convinced more than ever that organisational psychopathy is a real thing. Filth Filter by name …
Absolutely agree.
And welcome back Muddy. We’ve missed you.
How’s the doggo?
Djokovic just can’t stop winning
Fairfax’s Tony Jones and Jackie Felgate have outed themselves as provocative wanking, posturing tossers
@AllumBokhari
The Center for Countering “Digital Hate” has vowed to destroy @X
It was founded by none other than Morgan McSweeney, who is currently the top aide to UK prime minister Keir Starmer.
CCDH also played a leading role destroying Starmer’s political rivals in the UK.
Watch:
Good luck with that deadshit
‘never go to war with someone who buys (digital) ink by the barrel’
@FreeStateWill
Eight years ago, my January 6 prosecutor (who worked for the DOJ in New York at the time) came down to D.C. to protest against President Trump’s inauguration.
Clearly totally unbiased.
I am less than amoured of some of the early Trump moves.
If his negotiator’s hands are over this lop sided deal with the Hamas murderers, that isn’t good.
The bitcoin and crypto stuff is moronic.
Cutting his own dick off by hiring the legislators he needs into his cabinet was stupid.
He has political capital. He can’t afford to burn through it.
They’re assuming the economy won’t have a spasm before the midterms. That probably won’t be the case.
Tic Tok is cancer, and throwing it and the CCP a lifeline when your political opponents have already taken the heat for killing the f*cking thing is dumb.
Again Trump shows his weakness: trying to make a deal out of everything.
Not every opponent can be smoozed into alignment. Some people are just evil shits up to no good. You shouldn’t want them to like you. You should just want them destroyed.
Donald, I love you, but you have to get over this thing of wanting to win everyone over.
Because you leave land mines for your successors when you do that.
I’ve been watching this. He’s been quite careful about it. The ones he has been hiring are either replaced by the governor (and not a RINO one) or are in safe seats.
Yes it’s a risk, but for example the lady that DeSantis is promoting into Rubio’s Senate seat seems solid.
To be determined.
On a different note, the magpie somehow managed to have one of it’s claws ripped off yesterday, blood everywhere.
Seems to have begun healing this morning.
I got second new kooka kid to accept food from my hand today for the first time!
There may even be a third kid, if so that will make it a stellar season for mum, who is the very first Cafe birdie and is over 16 years old. She arrived in early 2011 and was fully adult then.
This term and it is over for him, he has no allegiance to the GOP. He can burn all his political capital.
The economy is doing great. Inflation falling, very low unemployment, stocks booming, Cost of living is a disaster, as it is in most if not all OECDs. Work that out!?
Tik Tok sent him a lot of dosh?
He said he could stop the war in a day. That’s an interesting test.
You’re wrong about BTC Arky and I thought you would have heard about the Scarramuci model of appointments…
I wish Albo would just go away.
You could at least laugh at KRudd.
Albanese, like PM Gillard, is infuriating and depressing…in that order.
Albo and Gillard are ideologues. KRudd is just a narcissist.
Yes, that’s about it.
Although I don’t think Albo is a true believer anymore; he’s just in it for himself and going through the motions.
Hard to maintain that 18yo Trot faith after 30 years in Parliament.
‘If you’re still a Socialist at 40…”
Unless it pays well to be one.
Old socks and spittle.
@MikeBenzCyber
In this segment, I go over CIA history and its merger with USAID in the 1960s. Then I go over scandals where the CIA got busted running fake vaccine clinics, the CIA’s strange role in Covid-19, and the role of vaccines as instruments of statecraft.
Some thoughts :-
1. I wonder if the last minute ducking and weaving on hostages is as much about current Hamarse leadership being a rabble as it is a deliberate tactic. (I have no sauces for this, as there are no opposition media outlets in Gaza).
2. I have no doubt the targeted “pagering” of those involved in October 7 will continue.
3. The old game of calling “barley” to get a bit of respite, then resuming hostilities almost immediately in the hope that Israel will exercise restraint? That game is over. I think any breach will be met with “great vengeance and furious anger”.
I really think Israel need to colonise Gaza; for real.
Everyone that likes/loves Israel wouldn’t mind the idea and everyone who doesn’t like Israel says they’re doing this already so what difference would it make in “world opinion?”
You start with the North of Gaza, and build a nice big f-uck off wall about 10kms in, replete with AK’s, launchers, supersonic missile defence system etc… anyone comes within 2kms of this “militarised zone” gets eliminated. No questions asked and nobody goes in and nobody goes out.
Inside that 10kms you start to build beautiful seaside apartment and housing estates. For Jewish citizens only.
Then, in a few years, you move the big f-ck off wall in another 10kms in.
Rinse and repeat to Egypt.
Idealistic and a bit naive, I know.
the existing wall worked well last time, didnt it?
Israel will continue to terminate the Nazi Hamas scum
What did it take Mossad – seven years after the massacre of the Olympic team at Munich, until they blew the “Red Prince” to Hell and Gone??
The left never gives a damn if their opponents like them.
They never try to compromise or concede a single point. They’re not expending any energy worrying about what the voter on the right thinks about them.
On the contrary, they use every trick and tactic to grab even more off their opponent at every turn.
Only the right, the stupid, stupid right tries to make people who are antithetical to every value they say they hold like them.
Why?
If there was a genuine debate underway this might make sense.
There is not.
Because the left today is the left of today, the game is pure power.
We might think that with the departure of the RINOs we have put this behind us. I fear not. The instinct to want to be liked, to leaven the harsh reality of human nature as encapsulated in market economics with something palatable to the commie shits, their handlers, fellow travellers and useful idiots is unshakable.
”We won’t touch entitlement programs, that would make us look mean”.
“Look at us dancing to YMCA. See? We’re really nice”.
For someone who watched the Liberals go down this path for decade after decade, time after time cutting their own supporters off at the legs to get some relief from the unrelenting frowns of the ABC “journalists”, accepting the premise that acknowledging reality makes them the mean and selfish ones, we here can tell you Donald, now isn’t the time to offer an outstretched hand. Now is the time to nail the bastards and undo everything they hold dear.
My belief is that if you go to war, you go to win and to Hell with what everyone thinks.
Testing
1…2…3… KaBOOM!
So funny
aka ‘the role of your army is to slaughter your enemies, before lunch, on the first day, with a 100:1 kill ratio, then to enjoy his cattle and his women….’
Makes me mad the way commentators equivocate about Trump.
Credlin tonight. “Trump may not be the President you like he is the President the world needs right now.”
What’s not to like? We’re asking him to run a country for goodness sake.
Exactimo
Given that Gaza has one of the highest population growth rates in the world (13th, to be precise) and that population growth was not significantly impacted by the military operations of 2023-24 (so much for prog-left claims of genocide), this is a real problem for Israel “moving forward.”
You mean all Palestinians do is eat and fornicate? Ah yes, and indulge in terrorism.
To which I replied, “give him time”
Now I have a more exact answer for you Eyrie.
Twelve hours.
Thanks, calli.
Bolt goes full TDS again, saying Trump “forced” Israel to accept the deal. We will see about that, and Bolt, later.
Michael Smith News.
Daniel
@VoteLewko
Palestinians in Gaza celebrate the homecoming of a man who raped a woman in a forest and then cut off her head. Nice culture. Tony Burke wants to import this culture to Australia to win a few votes.
Already done. Three thousand Gazans were brought into the country to terrorise Australians.
There is no other explanation for basically undocumented entry from a spawning pond of terrorists.
“Almost 3 in 4 Gazans believe the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th was justified.”
Reuters, 23 December 2023.
Reuters, needless to say, is not “far right.”
Thanks, Albo, Penny, Tony…we’ll repay you come election time.
Moderate Muslims
Sadiq Khan auditioning for The View.
Djokovic’s gripe is really toward the government(s) which enforced ridiculous COVID mandates. Picking on a stupid media guy is understandable, but the real villains are in various governments and their “health authorities”.
P.S. Plus the MSM which did less research than we did before throwing their lot in with the illiterate governments and inadequately researched “Health Authorities”. They were complicit.
you reckon all Fairfax’s revenue comes from advertising?
on a world stage some bloke says
the govt and MSM can go feck themselves
… can you return this serve Fairfax?
Take away taxpayer funded purchases of Fauxfacts products (parliaments, government departments, libraries et Al, and the rest wouldn’t be worth printing.
Then check out what proportion of advertising is taxpayer funded.
Andrew Lawrence
Britain needs a Trump…
A bit of fun news for a change.
Although, I reckon der Starmer will put a stop to the joy.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dads-hilariously-bad-paintings-go-viral-now-hes-flooded-with-portrait-requests-look/
When do you get the new Beemer Planet-Saver JC?
Even though I am agnostic in the EV vs ICE war, the “shit off a shanghai” acceleration of an EV does appeal.
I celebrated the incoming ‘New vehicle efficiency standard’ by ordering a new DMax…. no AdBlue, no hybridy, no DSG/ CVT.
Didn’t take long for Hamas to appear rampant again.
Given the climate scam, the dodgy figures on how much harm EVs do in just their manufacture, the problem of disposal of worn out windmills, the short life and increasing issues with rooftop solar, the problem of reliable and affordable power being maintained with intermittent crap power, and the wrecking of our remaining industries plus our standard of living, not to mention the ability to defend ourselves, how can anyone be “agnostic on EVs versus Internal combustion engines”?
It’s entirely possible that, both in Gaza and Ukraine, the Democrats under Biden were far more accommodating to Netanyahu and Zelensky than Trump will be.
@robinmonotti
THE CLIMATE AND NATURE BILL IS GOING BEFORE THE UK PARLIAMENT NEXT WEEK
Martin Durkin explains the new green law that could see Britain slide further towards 1984.
Palestinian “statehood” is a farce, and a dangerous farce. Statehood has been rendered impossible by the Gaza story, where a contiguous state given to them was used as an armed camp. And then worse!
But statehood, as well as being undeserved and unwarranted, would give these animals way more potential for damage to Israel than they have had to date, because statehood carries privileges than Gaza didn’t have, and Gazza didn’t demonstrate anything but unworthiness,
I am also saddened that so many western nations and the UN have supported this travesty, by propaganda and by vast amounts of money.
The partial retraction of Executive Order 13961, as noted in recent posts on X, does not necessarily prove that Donald Trump implemented a continuity of government (COG) plan solely for it to be rescinded on the eve of his presidency. Here’s a breakdown of the situation:
– **Background on EO 13961**: This executive order, signed by Trump in December 2020, was titled “Governance and Integration of Federal Mission Resilience.” It aimed to ensure that essential government functions could continue under various conditions, including emergencies or disruptions. The order established strategies and an executive committee to enhance federal mission resilience, focusing on national security and the preservation of government structure under the U.S. Constitution.[](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-13961-governance-and-integration-federal-mission-resilience)%5B%5D(https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-governance-integration-federal-mission-resilience/)%5B%5D(https://www.hollywoodlanews.com/trump-executive-order-13961/)
– **Partial Revocation**: According to posts on X, President Biden issued a partial revocation of EO 13961. This action could suggest a policy reassessment rather than an indication that the original order was implemented with the intention of being rescinded. Executive orders are often reviewed, modified, or revoked by subsequent administrations to align with new policy directions or to address perceived inefficiencies or changes in national priorities.
– **Continuity of Government (COG) Implications**: Trump’s EO 13961 was part of broader efforts to strengthen COG capabilities, which are not unique to his administration but are a long-standing practice across presidencies. The partial revocation does not inherently negate the intent or necessity of the original order but might reflect different strategic views on how to manage national security and government continuity.
– **Timing and Political Context**: The timing of the partial revocation, close to Trump’s potential inauguration for a second term (if applicable), could be seen by some as politically motivated. However, without explicit evidence, it’s speculative to conclude that the order was intended for political leverage or that its partial revocation was timed specifically to undermine Trump’s administration. Political actions around executive orders often involve complex motivations including policy alignment, bureaucratic adjustments, or symbolic signaling.
In summary, while the partial retraction of EO 13961 occurred, it does not definitively prove that Trump’s implementation was with the intention of it being rescinded at a particular time. Such actions are part of the usual ebb and flow of executive policy-making, where new administrations often review and adjust previous policies to suit their governance philosophy or respond to new challenges.
From Grok
Known in my crowd as Snivel.
Custard! You ain’t been seen in this part of town for some time!
I’m all good Zulu. Playing my best golf. Stacking Sats (BTC) not selling any caravans, it’s quiet, and relishing in the take down of the deep state. How are you going?
Going well – enjoying the life of a self funded retiree, watching Mme Zulu recover from the big C, sinking the odd single malt, and spending the occasional evening sitting round a table with old friends, and seeing who can tell the biggest lies.
Global Boiling news:
This is the shittest wet season ever. Below par rain in D-Town for October (70mm average vs 39.6 in 2024), November (140mm vs 208 – marginally better) and December (252mm vs 222).
January is currently at 280mm vs the average of 426. January last year was 558mm.
More importantly, there are zero signs of the first monsoon burst which usually falls around Christmas or just before. The latest recorded monsoon onset ever was 23 January, which we will certainly break.
February (average 376mm) had better be an absolute belter to get us up to the 1730mm average (68 inches), or I will have having some very stern words with the Direct Energy Weapon Department.
Probably depends on where the MJO is. BoM, as you might expect, has recently rejigged their website to make it harder to find out.
Is it though KD? Mum & Dad have a place in Nakara. Dad has kept rainfall records back to ’85 when we moved to Darwin. He was an engineer with PAWA (surface water) so has a knack with data. I’ll have to ask him again although last time we spoke there’s been no bump in the long term average. My sister is the only one of the tribe who got Dad’s math’s & engineering talents but (when not in science mode) can be deliriously hippie. Her kids have all grown up and are in stage one of moving down south (before the inevitable return we all seek, having realised Darwin is it). So has started a campaign about moving south as well because of ‘climate change.’ (All with the overblown drama and theatrics of the weather deranged.) I mean, it’s f***ing Darwin. I remember my first January there. Sitting on the dunny one morning. 99% humidity, no rain in sight. That was an interesting introduction. (Remember 2015? Double-shit Wet Season, and a three week Dry. Angelique Prassad famously called it, ‘The Devil’s Armpit.’)
Was in Darwin a few years ago (Covid escapee from the Hunchback’s hell on earth).
Mate and I were staying at this dive, the Poinciana Inn. Top floor. This was early-mid November when Darwin is equatorial. Next door was a PUMA servo.
Got up one day, early arvo, after another big night on Mitchell St. etc. Was having a smoke and some motel coffee on the balcony and looked down at the servo and noticed an abbo having a nap on the concrete adjacent to the big sign with fuel prices on it.
The big sign was casting maybe a six inch shadow, and the Abbo was fully cramming himself into it.
Was interesting shit to a southerner like me who had never been deep into the tropics.
Zafiro – remember the big boab tree on Cavanagh Street? Our indigenous brethren bequeathed so many turds at its base there was a danger it might die. We’re talking communal dunny grando scale. The council fenced it off to save it. Seemed unlikely it would have died (tropical metho turds aren’t too bad) but it has gone on to thrive and is now the centrepiece of the forecourt of the local uni’s new digs in the city.
No I don’t recall that tree, although we also stayed at the Cav pub with the big swimming pool in the middle of the joint.
Two trees I do remember were in a side street of the city out front of the library? or something like that. Trees I wasn’t familiar with. Tropical wood. Tall enough, but massively wide.
(tropical metho turds aren’t too bad)
LOL. Peer reviewed science I hope, bro.
Nothing compared to ones at the Hay Truck Stop.
Former NSW Liberal politician David Elliot, tonight on Bolt, commenting on Slug’s weasel words today over legislating against Jew hatred………
‘well I’m quite shocked by the defeatist approach we saw from the PM today when he said we can’t legislate for 27 million Australians, well we can, that’s defeatist, that’s not the PM I know, that’s PM Neville Chamberlain, you can legislate for the behaviour of 27 million Australians, you can’t bash your wife anymore, you can’t sexually assault a child in Australia, you can’t discriminate against somebody because of their sexual preferences, that’s what civilized societies do, our courts, our parliament, our defense forces have stepped up since federation protecting the vulnerable, I don’t know how you can’t justify not stepping up to protect our Jewish community.
Well, I know why Mr Elliott, because the slug knows that those who are committing the crimes in Woollahra, in Dover Heights and in Ripponlea, vote Labor, and they’re from a particular religious demographic that votes Labor.
Simple dimple.
I saw him speak. That was an excellent, common sensical and logical diatribe. Impressive.
Forgot to add, the SFL’s should hammer that at every opportunity.
Men are hard wired to want to have sex with as many women as possible for as long as they can manage it. Probably for most this runs out at about 70, but viagra can help.
We don’t do this, as we have been culturally adjusted to curb our desires and actions at least to the degree that stable society requires in order for it to remain stable.
The rash of Hollywood moguls, political persons and their jet-owning and island owning friends, and business CEOs who have fallen off their plaster saint pedestals recently shows that we are still in denial about basic human makeup. Men and women are not exactly the same, and the early feminist treatise The Female Eunuch by our own Germaine Greer stands as a failed polemic.
Society’s failure to cope with these forces, except imperfectly, goes back a long way. Islam seeks to run things in line with men’s desires, and subjugates women accordingly. Christianity makes a bargain – a man and a women stick to each other through thick and thin, give each other sexual satisfaction and a family, with stability.
It is ironic and fake to see the accusations that continue to be hurled at men for being men. It goes across political lines, but we see it being trotted out mostly against conservatives, particularly in the USA, where the accusers hope to hive off the conservative Christian vote.
It’s one thing to call out men with power due to their position, quite another to tar all men with this slur. The “believe all women” movement has no basis in the common law, but gains momentum through media and through the family court.
I have no issues of this sort, but see stories again and again that indicate men are under attack. Bettina Arndt has taken up the cudgel on men’s behalf, and deserves support.
Men are hard wired to want to have sex with as many women as possible for as long as they can manage it. Probably for most this runs out at about 70, but viagra can help.
Really? Most of our fathers, grandparents and so on only ever had sex with one or two female partners, their wives. Few would have had sex before marriage, that was usually the preserve of the wealthy
We don’t do this, as we have been culturally adjusted to curb our desires and actions at least to the degree that stable society requires in order for it to remain stable.
Really? I suspect it isn’t just ‘culture’ that curbs male desire and actions, it’s that old fashioned thing called…’erectile dysfunction’, caused by age, flab and, dare I say it….laziness.
Cassie – there was a great clip the other day (within the endless pool of clips on FB) – featuring a senior, smiling, female nurse – calmly making the point – for every 35lbs you lose, you regain an inch.
Couldn’t resist….
Being a crazy cat woman (the Hun):
A reasonable question in my view – what sort of maniac has to be disqualified by the court from owning more than five bird/lizard killers?
Hey, I only own one cat!
You’re a cat lady of a different sort.
A more relevant question, who would still be living in Victoriastan?
The 5 cats could be led as Evidence in Chief if you’re going to plead insanity.
March to the sound of the guns and all that!
I killed a couple of cats during my year on the station. Didn’t mean to kill the first one but put it in the same cage the old man was trying to catch a native marsupial cat in. When I came back it had eaten the dried strychnine meat he had left there and was stiff as a board.
You know, if you are going to kill people you could at least have the respect to refer to them properly and not use American negro jive talk.
I had to borrow mine, just to get into this conversation.
I have five cats. Four dogs. Three Geese. Four Ducks. One Turkey and One Chook.
Do I qualify for the Crazy handle? 😀
Only pets I have presently are four pot plants. They are all different, but all are types of Peperomias. They are cool and give good Feng Shui.
https://thegreenhouseballarat.com.au/
Got them at that joint. Well worth a visit if you’re in the ‘rat. Located in this old disused industrial estate with an Army Ordnance / Clockwork Orange vibe. Being re-purposed with artisan type businesses.
A wired married couple whose house renovation in Gordon was on Grand Designs Australia have a business in that estate. High end hand-made leather boots and shoes mainly. Some other bits and bobs.
I live quite close to Ararat and my cats mainly freelance on mice and rabbits
I got it this arvo, Sanchez. FMD, it goes like a rocket! The acceleration is actually dangerous. While driving it, I started worrying that I need to hold back on taking extra risks with planting the foot. At the end of the day, you’re playing with odds, and one day, the odds might not work out.
I’ve never really experienced acceleration like this. I maxed it out on a freeway entry where there aren’t any hidden cameras (hopefully). There’s so much freaking tech that it’s honestly annoying.
They gave me two regular keys. My phone and watch can also be used as keys, and they even threw in a credit card thingy that doubles as a key.
The annoying part? I was in the garage, had my watch on, and it opened the car doors with a squeak.
There are several modes, with ‘Sport’ being the fastest. It does 0 to 60 in 3.6 seconds. That mode is actually a little scary.
All in all, I kind of miss the old car. Wifey was laughing.
Did you test drive a Tesla? the acceleration of a tesla is pretty amazing too. the technology in it is quite something.
vr
No I d didn’t. It was actually a spur of the moment thing. It’s the new version of my current car, but only available as an EV in Australia.
Be careful when you take mUnty to lunch.
Useful idiot and enabler of evil you are.
Yeah nah, this Pommy bloke who was one of the FOH managers at an old employ in Torquay a few years back had a Tesla.
Lived in Ocean Grove. Said he was at the lights in Leopold on the Bellarine Hwy one night when a hoon in a V8 ute pulled alongside revving up and eyeballing him as in “Drag race Xunt”.
Said the V8 was a long way back in the rear mirror very promptly.
Teslas do well in roll racing – are in the top half of eliminations most times despite their being so obese.
Only the more modified cars or exotics or both (ie modified exotics)
are quicker/faster.
What?
The other 52 are just strays which came over the fence looking for a feed?
I really don’t know what brought this to mind.
Really.
From Wikipedia …
Apart from running the caravan off the road.
That is to be encouraged.
Try a manual, petrol, turbo Fiat Punto (2007-09). Non-sunroof as it’s lighter. High quality low profile (semi-slick somethings) are rowdy and the ride is a little rougher – but very worth it. Easy to pick up for under $5k. Mine was $1200 with 118k on the clock. Parts are cheap and easy to get. Generally you’ll replace front shocks, maybe upper control arms, do the timing belt and water pump, engine securing bolt, maybe the primary mount. If aircon is playing up find a decent auto electrician. It’ll be the inlet pipes full of gunk and maybe the fan speed resister and connector. Window tint, and woof – hot hatch to hoot around the city/burbs. Turbo engages quickly and is just big enough to have a lot of fun with. Once you’ve lost 70lbs (see my earlier response to Cassie) – it’s off to Ari Performance in western Sydney for a Stage 1 workover. Remember, 99% of your driving in the city is in sub-80kmh territory. We do not need $100k EVs for this.
FIAT = “Fix it again, Tony”. h/t King of the Hill.
I had a FIAT 124 coupe in Sydney. Excellent car. No problems but a cam cover oil leak. Twin webers, better cam and headers with a decent exhaust. Pulled 200kph easily and was cheap to run.
weber inlet chortle…. :)p~~~
I had twin side drafts on my rally car.
😉
FIAT = “First In All Tests”. If you own one.
Big day today. The orange oaf gets anointed. I can’t wait for the first load of executive orders that will be coming out as soon as he sits down behind the desk.
He’s so adorable.
Yes he is. Not looking forward to what the Deep State Lizard people have up their scaly sleeves to hobble him with this time.
I for one, will not be welcoming our Project Bluebeam overlords.
Cattle gallstones are chinese medicines new in demand animal byproduct.
And this is the consequence..
Hey vr. Almost a snap. I was a few minutes away from posting the gallstone story.
wsj have the best quirky stories.
Innocents for terrorists: the price of freedom for Israeli hostagesJacquelin Magnay
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Murderers and other criminals sentenced to life imprisonment have started to leave Israeli jails, in a sign of the heavy price the Jewish homeland will face in its ceasefire deal with the Palestinian terror group.
In the first tranche of a six-week handover, 90 women and underage male prisoners were swapped in the early hours of Monday for three Israeli hostages – British-Israeli woman Emily Damari, 28, Romi Gonen, 24, and 31-year-old Doron Steinbrecher.
Under the temporary Gaza ceasefire deal, the Israelis have agreed to release more than 230 Palestinian prisoners, all serving life sentences for conducting or participating in deadly attacks against Israelis, and who will be permanently exiled in Qatar or Egypt, creating bitter divisions in the Israeli parliament about the high cost of the exchange.
Gallstone rustlers!
Imagine how disappointed you’d be to come out in the morning and find the paddock strewn with eye fillet, ribeyes, brisket and osso bucco … but all the gallstones were missing.
Used to score awesome Osso Buco from the butcher in Beaufort when I lived up that way. He’d show you the leg of a beast, then band saw it 1 and 3/8ths of and inch thick etc., Badass.
Reminds me of the notorious Paper Cowboy.
He had a paper hat, paper shirt, paper belt, paper pants, paper chaps and paper boots.
They went and caught him, and hanged him.
For…..
Rustling.
How do you spell “Excruciating?”
You can find your own way out.
@catturd2
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Best parody account on X.
What about the WHO?
@unusual_whales
BREAKING: Donald Trump to sign 200+ executive orders tomorrow.
Per FOX and Eric Daugherty, they include:
– Declare emergency at the border + issue proclamation closing the border
– Designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations
– Remain in Mexico, Catch and Release will be reinstated
– Military will be directed to construct new phase of border wall
– Terminate Biden orders on energy drilling restrictions
– Return federal workers to in-person work
– Pause all offshore wind leases
– End DEI hiring practices in the federal government, merit only
– Withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord
– Order every agency to remove all federal actions increasing costs for Americans via deregulation
– Suspend security clearances for the 51 officials who lied about the Hunter Biden 2020 laptop story
– Establish a DOGE “hiring freeze”
and here in Ausfailure Luigi the Unflushable is still figuring out how to get out of the PM Office toilet.
Climate change fanatics want to bankrupt the entire world for little to no reward
@WallStreetApes
Here you go, PROOF everything with California Governor Gavin Newsom is scripted
?
Reporters saying they’re told what questions to ask and say, even if they know it’s a lie, and if they don’t “our reporters won’t get invited back into the Newsom press briefing”
“There are times that we look at what we are told to say and we wanna scream at the script because we know it’s a lie, but we have to do it because otherwise our reporters won’t get invited back into the Newsom press briefing, and we have to be there to cover it.”
If you break ranks and go against Democrats, you start getting lawsuits. “imagine getting sued. If you’re a small local TV or radio station in California by the governor, you’re screwed.”
Someone’s making excuses for their partisanship.
“Look at what they made us do.”
Victor Davis Hanson: They were trying to ‘keep Trump off the campaign trail’
An EV depreciation TIME BOMB is heading for finance companies | MGUY Australia
“Liberals Meltdown Today Is Gonna Be Quite Fun” | Donald Trump To Takeover White House
Britain is ruled (and I use that word advisedly) by a lunatic.
@CatchUpFeed
Keir Starmer asserts that the primary issue Britain must tackle is Islamophobia.
re: This Gaza hostage deal.
Trump wanted all the hostages released before Jan 20, so he has compromised on that point.
Netanyahu wanted the elimination of Hamas, so he has compromised on that point.
Hamas tried making a different deal in June which was not accepted but it is still hard to see how this deal is any significant compromise for them.
Neither Israel nor Trump got what they wanted and Hamas get their crew back!
So if I may…
This hostage deal is the worst hostage deal in the history of hostage deals. Sad!
I’ve heard that the deal isn’t that different from the deal that has been around for about a year. It would be interesting to look at the details to see if this was in fact the case.
Pogria
January 20, 2025 7:25 pm
Thanks, Pogria. I had to take a mental elf break; it’s been a very challenging few years. I still have the 4-paws, thanks for asking. I almost lost her just before Christmas, but she’s mostly recovered, thank goodness. I trust that life has been kind to you?
4 hours until T2: Judgement Day.
4 hours until we may taste delicious m0nty tears.
RSBN’s coverage of the day has already started very early here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bA6fUD4wd8
T2 Judgement Day. Nice Colonel. You’re a witty chap for that stuff.
m0nty would be permanently g0rn I reck0n. Especially after getting d0xxed the 0ther night.(h/t whoever that was, the pool reporter?)
Can go join fellow doxxee Bob Whittaker at Michael Smith News. Make a clown of himself there.
To be fair to Numbers the miserable old troll, he was conscripted with no interest in soldiering, but made it through Kapooka, the Grunt Factory and also Canungra I would imagine. That in itself is worthy of respect.
In case you think the Army might have been setting a “low bar” in that time just for the sake of numbers (no pun intended), I would doubt it.
When “In Country” he was adjudged to be a bit dodgy and posted back to Nui Dat to help the cooks or blanket folders or whatever. That’s OK. Nothing to be ashamed of.
Bloke got his nose out of joint I reckon and that’s what turned him into a lifelong Tory Fighter.
Now compare that with m00ntay. That slug wouldn’t have got to the end of Day 2 at Kapooka, if not culled at the medical to start with.
Numbers lost four consecutive bets.
First, that his number wouldn’t come up.
Second, that his bout with polio when young would cause him to fail the medical.
Third, that his teacher training would get him into the Education Corps.
Fourth, that even if assigned to a combat arm, his unit would not go to Vietnam.
He should never buy a lottery ticket.
Numbers Bob had a soft option in the form of six years in the Citizen’s Military Forces.
The dingo bastard.
Look just down thread, Sal. It is all horse shit. You can’t be pardoned for a crime you haven’t yet been charged for.
Have I got this right? Fauci, Milly, Cheny and the Jan 6th Committee have been pardoned by the demented husk of a soon-to-be ex-President even though they haven’t been convicted of anything???
WTF!
wow
Pre-crime pardoning now? Where is that in the Law books?
This entire concept of giving a pardon for crimes not investigated, admitted to, prosecuted or sentenced for is a contradiction in terms and Trump’s justice department should vow to immediately test the legality of trying to turn the term “pardon” into “immunity from prosecution”.
These things are not the same.
All those who have been given these “preemptive pardons” should be questioned and put in the position of a full admission of all wrongdoings, a full accounting, at risk of prosecution for perjury.
This attempt at using the pardon power to curtail investigation is all the more perverse as it comes in response to their own misuse of the state’s instruments of investigation and prosecutorial powers.
Trump could use an executive order to establish a body to investigate these bums and appoint whoever the hell he wants to it staff it.
And he should.
I’m quite happy with Biden’s pardons of all of the wrongdoers – Fauci, Cheney, Schiff etc. Good. Haul them in front of congressional hearings and suck everything out of them, knowing they can’t take the fifth. And if they lie or aren’t forthcoming, hold them in Contempt of Congress. Trump’s DoJ can prosecute them, bankrupt them, lock them up. Sauce for the goose, mothereffers. We need high profile scalps so they know: don’t you DARE try this shit again. Because payback’s a bitch. The Bush/McCain/Romney self-imposed cuckservative standards no longer apply.
Also, these people will go down in history as utter, utter scoundrels who dodged justice because of the corrupt machine powering that animated corpse, Joe Biden. Many of them will live out their lives in ignominy because their crimes won’t be protected by the high burden of proof the state must meet; the court of public opinion will adjudicate. Because the hearings and inquiries are looming. And they will have their most valued possession stripped from them – their reputations. They will live like vermin, be treated like vermin.
Jolly good, OCO.
FMD. Tucker Carlson:
As I commented the other day. Trump can call back Milley, as the military upon retirement in fact goes into the reserve.
Go after their immediate subordinates, force them to denounce the criminals, destroy their reputations publicly.
It isn’t enough, but it would be a start.
If Mexico won’t take the illegals back, Trump can now send them to the Vatican, as the Pope states deporting them is “a disgrace”.
It’s nice to know there is now somewhere in the world willing to take the poor and tired masses.
Fly them to Italy and drop them outside Vatican City.
Vatican City is one of the most impervious borders on the planet. Walls, guards, unauthorised persons uncerimoniously turfed out.
Typical.
Tucker is wrong. These people can have the absolute bejeezus inquired out of them now and won’t be able to hide behind the rights extended to those who are presumed innocent. They’ve been pardoned so that is an entirely moot point. There won’t be any orange jumpsuits, sure. But the fact they won’t face criminal liability makes it all the more difficult for them to keep quiet. They have to talk, and if they don’t, they should be held in contempt and prosecuted for that. Let them go the way of Bannon and Navarro. And don’t let up on them. Keep hauling them in front of Congress, keep holding them in contempt, keep prosecuting them.
The left needs to learn – if you do it to us, we will do it to you. Preferably twice as hard, but with at least the same force. Hell, even a fraction of the force will deter them. They’ve got used to the turn the other cheek routine from conservatives and they take full advantage. I can’t blame them. However, they need to be shown that those days are over.
@MarinaMedvin: “Fauci — he can still be prosecuted under state law, despite the federal pardon. And @RonDeSantis has been investigating Covid 19 and Fauci through Florida’s grand jury system.
There is still hope for accountability, if indeed appropriate. I trust DeSantis’ Florida to do the right thing.”
The Club (1980) is being aired on Channel 31. Graham Kennedy, Jack Thompson, John Howard (the actor, as a very young bloke. Not the faux-conservative Bush family lovin’ Lizard People gimp)
A first cousin played 186 games for Collingwood back in that day. (AFLTables will sate your inquisitiveness)
Cuz, Ray Shaw and Rene Kink (Tank O’Donohue) were the identifiable real footballers employed in the film.
Obama at the Inauguration minus big mike.
It’s a bit disturbing how much attention we have to give US politics.
But what they do sets the precedent for everyone else.
Our lot are such a pathetic sideshow by comparison.
How ya going, m0nts? Hanging in there? Just think – if you didn’t steal 2020, you’d be waving goodbye to Trump right now.
There’s nothing like kicking the can down the road.
Looking at the gathered at the inauguration, one is struck by how hideously ugly these people are.
Apparently for Supreme Court judges it is a requirement to have a posture similar to Richard the Third.
Senior politicians, their wives and hangers on all possess faces with twisted features. Words that might sum up their physical form include crooked, bent and unhealthy. As if the power itself has a distorting property on their physical form.
There literally isn’t a straight and upstanding person among them.
They are ugly and corrupt.
It’s a freak show.
I bet there are more adult diapers and colostomy bags per square foot in that room now than anywhere else on Earth.
Someone send a therapy gerbil to m0nty, stat.
He’ll eat it, raw.
Ken oath.
Melania is the only visibly decent one of them. I mean, she has visible integrity. She won’t break bread in any form with people who tried to murder her husband. She’s a real one.
Annelise Nielson on the Sky coverage of the inauguration has said “Jan 6th riots about a gazillion times. Get over it lady.
The best aspect of her presentation is the background, Capitol One Arena where 20,000 people are waiting to see President Trump sign a bunch of Executive Orders. They are a great sports crowd and are cheering every sight of Trump on the big screen and booing Biden, Obama, Harris, Clintons.
Chants of USA drowning out Annelise.
Melania is gorgeous, and will bring hats back into fashion.
The Oz coverage is abysmal.
Haha. Trumpy just gave Melania an air kiss so he didn’t have to disturb her perfectly coiffured getup. She is such a super-model!
Nah. Her hat brim got in the way.
Damm.
One of the official guests stood in front of Bezos’ squeeze who has the most delightful décolletage.
Monty outed his identity long ago.
If you were around in the oldcat days you might remember his name had a link attached to his blog (Loaded Dogma) where his name and occupation were on full display or at least not hard to find.
He was trying to drum up clicks while trolling conservatives, which is fair enough, he knows he’s got nothing to fear and I don’t begrudge him that.
He has a lot to fear. I put it about Krispy Kremes was closing down.
Jeez, GR.
You’re a nasty bastard.
John Spooner.
Michael Ramirez.
Henry Payne.
A very strong Christian theme all through the ceremony, from the religious leaders’ strong message and powerful delivery to Trump’s invocation of “not forgetting our God”.
Then a very powerful speech from Trump.
It really is “Morning in America”, or as he put it, “Liberation day”.
Treason now pardonable!
Moving vid. No words.
Hopefully no rest for those who did this to her.
Hard to watch.
Shattered pelvis, with no attempt to fix it.
It’s a Muslim mass rape specialty.
Have been jumping between local telecasts of the Inauguration.
As painful as stepping on a sea urchin.
The ‘commentary’ was an inane mix of every TDS cliche and Fashions at the Field. Truly, these people are not only stupid, their employers don’t even demand that they do a crash course in anything relevant before they are let loose. They have no idea what the meaning and history of the ceremony is.
And, the spite. On one of the commercial channels, the male moron revealed his inner maleness by remarking that Melania Trump is ‘a very stylish woman.’
Long pause. Then, his female co-commenter said, in a voice dripping with alternate drops of acid and bile:
Yes, she is a very stylish woman.
If words could kill …
Not to mention the propensity of the airheads to regard the sound of their own voices as more important than the event. They babbled over speeches, songs, prayers – pointless speculation and more TDS.
Compare the reverent treatment given to Royal weddings and coronations.
No wonder most Australians regard Trump as a lunatic.
TheirABC featured an American woman who was most concerned about the future of EVs.
Trump’s speech was zinger after zinger, punctuated with his characteristic ‘like never before.’
Apparently Elon has assured him that they will be off to Mars. 🙂
Hail to the chief!
Fox News will bump any of their top people when there is so much as a press conference happening or a speech. ABC News Radio blanked the BBC coverage of the inauguration in the middle of Vance’s oath being administered by Justice Kavanaugh to go to their ho-hum news.
Fox has been running the post-inaug speech to supporters, very good.
He said “you’re a much younger and nicer crowd than the other one I just had to address”!
unpardonable pardons
@robbystarbuck
Trump’s Admin. must release all evidence against these individuals so the public understands FULLY how grotesque these pardons are. Haul each one in for questioning IN PUBLIC. They lose a 5th Amendment right to zip their lips if they’re pardoned. State AG’s: Start investigating.
@DerrickEvans4WV
BREAKING:
Tom Homan confirms a 20 YEAR BAN from all Visas for anyone who gets mass deported.
No Tourist Visa, No Work Visa, you are BANNED.
THIS IS THE WAY.
Should be for life.
@ImMeme0
NEW: The best sheriff in America, Judd, has a message for criminal illegal aliens:
“Do it yourself. You can self-deport and avoid a lot of prison sentences, but it’s time—southbound and down.”
@catturd2
If you want to know who the guilty traitors are in our country … just look at Biden’s preemptive pardon list today.
@ChrissieMayr
Are you mad about Joe Biden pardoning Anthony Fauci?
You are not mad enough.
Do NOT let them think YOU forgot what they did. How they lied. What they put you and your family through.
You lost lives, friends, jobs, money, time, and faith.
Fauci lost nothing.
This pardon should wake up the rest of the sheep who were still in denial.
Wake. Them. All. Up.
@seanmdav
So I guess Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and especially Anthony Fauci really are war criminals who committed treason. Why else would they need pardons?
Some reporters and other commentators express some impatience when Trump harks back to the stolen election 2020. Diddums!
If the scumbags who organised that steal would just come clean and admit what they did, he would perhaps not have to keep saying it.
It needs to be said often.
That and the subsequent perversion of justice with the corrupt lawfare against Trump stands as evidence of the sickness of many in the USA.
The thing with pardons, though is that they’re supposed to be for specific crimes for which people have been tried and found guilty.
All this does is confirm the guilt of those involved. And it also removes their Amendment 5 rights to not answer questions.
@mazemoore
Lying liar lying all the time.
@RandPaul
If there was ever any doubt as to who bears responsibility for the COVID pandemic, Biden’s pardon of Fauci forever seals the deal.
As Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee I will not rest until the entire truth of the coverup is exposed.
Fauci’s pardon will only serve as an accelerant to pierce the veil of deception.
Ignominious! Anthony Fauci will go down in history as the first government scientist to be preemptively pardoned for a crime.
@WhitlockJason
The preemptive pardons… unprecedented? That’s the new standard? Presidents can hire people to commit crimes with the promise of a preemptive pardon?
This is how you save democracy?
@ericmmatheny
Fauci is the most prolific American serial killer of the 21st Century.
He’s not a hero nor a respected man of science.
He funded the creation of COVID, knew about its origins in a lab, and lied to the American people.
Of course Biden pardons him.
Trump’s Official Email as President Releases ‘America First’ Agenda: A Comprehensive List of Priorities for the Nation
He didn’t hold back.
Read: Full text of Trump’s inaugural address
I need to uptick this eleventy-six times. Go Don, you good thing. Get it done!
I know it’s frivolous, but I enjoyed watching that air kiss.
A different Melania this time. No nice gift, no bright, sunny azure blue. Sombre, darkest navy.
They tried to kill her husband. I think she is the sort who doesn’t forget.
She hasn’t been seen in anything but black, grey or white since his win. I think it might be because of the recent loss of her mother.
And she has class, I remember her visiting the Pope way back, properly dressed for the occasion and venue.
BTW she is Slovenian, hardly an east European.
Only wish the other one we have from there would have the same manners and class.
You know the one?!
So I guess Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and especially Anthony Fauci really are war criminals who committed treason. Why else would they need pardons?
That’s what I’m wondering. These pardons are a confirmation of their guilt, malice and criminality.
I do hope President Trump now pardons ALL those incarcerated after January 6.
The US Supreme Court has previously ruled that accepting a Presidential pardon is an admittance of guilt and therefore any of these people cannot plead the 5th amendment if they are hauled up before any investigation in regards to Federal offences.
Note the pardons are only for Federal crimes – they can still be charged under State laws, something, which Fauci, in particular, is going to be extremely vulnerable to.
The Bee
Democracy Falls As Man Who Received The Most Votes Becomes President
Those filthy eleventh hour “pardons” have simply cemented the recipient’s criminality in the public’s mind.
It’s disgrace via the back door.