It’s a wonder chess hasn’t been called out as racist.
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whoops … black to play
Fegatini di Pollo was the Old Man’s favourite
Liver?
removing the defender white to play
Trump’s second term is ‘unlike’ anything anyone has ever seen before
“This Is A Catastrophe!” | ‘More than 10,000 Millionaires Have Left Britain In The Past Year’
Didn’t the Brits learn anything, when Harold Wilson declared “The rich would be taxed until their eyes bled” – and they wondered why so much money moved off shore, to tax havens?
They don’t care.
Their plan is to bankrupt western nations so they are ripe for communist take over, and at the very least unable to oppose the global domination of the communist bloc, who have spent the last thirty years playing doggo.
The joint is falling apart. Masses is trying to get out of Britain. There are YT channels documenting the decline of once thriving cities and towns. Very sad. The millionaires are lucky, at least they have the means to escape.
Bet they won’t receive a welcoming reception at Australia House if they try to emigrate here.
Wrong colour in many cases, and wrong political complexion in all cases.
UK’s millionaire exodus equal to losing 530,000 average taxpayers, study says
So, around £4.25 billion pa fallen out of the UK tax net.
Not a problem, says a Top Man.
So, with at least £21.5 billion gone already, that account means someone, somewhere is getting squeezed for an additional £55.3 billion by Starmer.
Luckily it’s going to be transferred out of the productive economy and spent on public services and government stuff.
So that will drive growth.
Get a load of the fcking fraud that goes on with the NDIS.
Not surprising. This applies in other areas as well.
For example, UBER rates are different for personal and business rides.
Watched 2 minutes of the eomrns semi.Dounds like a lesbian argy.Turned off.
WTF? huh?
Turned off spellcheck, I think.
I expect you mean the Aus Open women’s semi finals. It’s good to watch with the sound muted.
Had to have a nap this arvo.
The winning.
It’s too much.
If you just watched legacy media news services you’d know about 10% of what went on in Washington this week.
TwitterX has won on every front.
The reporting and the analysis.
Man, I nearly threw up my chicken parma watching Nein news tonight.
They did a hit piece on anchor babies.
They had footage which would topperer the best Pallywood can do.
A sad-faced Latino looking woman with her pregnant belly exposed being examined by a doctor/nurse/soundman with stethoscope out in the open air.
I think the messaging is that she can’t get time off from picking cotton/avocados/corn to go to the doctor.
They are totally missing the point.
Trump’s Secretary for Chucking Out Illegals has already said he doesn’t give a fat rat’s clacker about anchor babies.
If the parents are illegals, they’re out. If they choose to abandon their kid who was born in the US, that is on them.
Whilst we can feel sympathy for them in their plight, these women probably got themselves pregnant to cheat the system.
One or two we can deal with but a hundred thousand is too much to ask for.
If there was a way to allow them to stay – with absolutely no family reunion, these women and their children would be a boon to the nation they came into. But it won’t stop there. The next bleeding heart administration would drop all the safeguards and allow the entire village in.
So we have to say no.
May they long continue to be so. Even better if they ceased to exist.
The WEF is Afraid
If you’d like a synopsis of today’s Diagnosis Murder episode…
Dover has my email.
All good thanks.
I think I’ll pass.
No…it was a cracker!
Er…you do realise I’m joking?
My wife chides me that my humour is so dry only the dead get the punchline.
All in all it’s a lonely existence.
Insert appropriate emoticon here.
You’re lucky that your wife even knows when you are asserting your humour. My wife needs explanations from my daughter.
Leftist Dark Money Group Opposes RFK Jr. For HHS Secretary After Supporting Presidential Run
Government agency is caught deploying sneaky tactic to get around Trump’s anti-woke purge
This reservoir was built to save Pacific Palisades. It was empty when the flames came
meh. They got what they voted for.
We need on the occasion of Trumps victory remember how many died due to the communists over the last 100 years.
That few today know of the battles and the global struggle to contain this mad ideology is because we are not doing enough to tell it.
Because we let the communists fill our schools and universities and media with their lackeys.
This is why we came so close to losing America.
Make no mistake, the communists had spent the last few decades renaming, dressing up their old ideas in new clothes and infiltrating everywhere they needed to be to put an end to a free world of independent democracies.
Their plan was to take over politically in all countries and fool the people into thinking their ideas were popular and necessary, across many countries simultaneously and in coordination.
We were close to losing.
Thank God for Trump.
@elonmusk
The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi
Without a doubt, back in July 2024, Donald Trump’s life was saved by God.
As my late mother said at the time, watching the footage, there were angels on the podium that day. It was a miracle.
One of Trump’s best executive orders is summed up by this little ditty:
You can’t wave a wand
To alter your gender.
Science won’t fit in
With Your diversity blender.
I said it once
And I’ll say it again:
Women are women
And men are men.
Everything went perfectly at his inauguration; even when the music didn’t play. Carrie Underwood waited for the accompanying music to sing the national anthem; she was told the player had broken down and she gave the most moving rendition without music. Watch it; its about 4 minutes. Amazing.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD sings ‘AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL’ A CAPPELLA after the soundtrack didn’t turn on
As for the church service and nitwit bishop bitch; she’s had her 5 minutes in the Sun. Good riddance. If any federal money goes to her DEI fuking parish I hope Trump stops it.
Carrie Underwood is an absolute star who handled the prolonged absence of music, and then was told just sing, magnificently.
“If you know the words, help me out” and proceeded to showcase her beautiful powerful voice with America the Beautiful. Finished off with a lovely gesture to the surrounding people. Full marks. The whole inauguration was wonderful in that breathtaking rotunda. Every day one can look forward to another “win” as Trump gets busy with chucking Biden’s crap, on the tip. It’s exciting.
We’re organising an age care package for some very reluctant parents in their late 80s. They can still vacum, wash clothes, clean benches etc but can’t bend over to scrub floors/ do the skirting boards etc. So we had a meeting with whoever organises this racket to say can you just get the cleaner to do the stuff they can’t (some of these cleaners are Toorak wives who turn up in luxury cars and are getting amazing hourly rates). Computer says no. OHS guides say they can’t bend over. But they can vacuum, wash clothes, clean benches etc.
Just pay some cleaners. I do that for my late eighties mum. Hundred bucks a week.
Agree with BoN. We went through all of this nonsense too. Ended up paying a cleaner who is a treasure.
Forget government programs.
We’ll end up doing that. The only reason we got involved in the racket was because it was rammed down their throat by some busybody after a minor fall and I had a brain fart moment and carried on about them paying usurious taxes all their lives and receiving very little back so why not claw a bit back now. As expected, it’s become a nightmare. Imagine spending that last years of your life being told by a nice lady with a clipboard how a generous government is going to carry you to the grave. At one point the nice lady was insisting on nutritious pre-made meals.
They told her to stick it. Their whole
routine is shopping, cooking and knocking of a good Shiraz. Governments disgust me.
DB,
what Bruce and Calli said.
Also, if you hire a non NDIS Cleaner, you can generally be sure they will do an excellent job.
Seligman will be turning in his grave. He was the asshole who did those terrible experiments on dogs and established the concept of learned helplessness. One of the worst things we can do with age is become idle. Housework is an excellent form of productive and meaningful exercise which is both aerobic and resistance training, enhancing balance by promoting co-ordination and muscle strength, which is vitally important because falls are a huge risk factor for older people that lead to broken bonesand brain damage which precipitates dementia, and then they’ll need much more than cleaners!
I mean Fme, who are the idiots designing these programs? Are they that effing stupid that they can’t think about second and third order consequences? Are they that incapable of thinking things through over months that I and many others can do during a social media rant?
US troops at border as Operation Deport beginsDonald Trump’s border security and immigration crackdown is being implemented, with 1500 troops sent to the southwest border and deportation operations commencing.
From the Oz. Take note, Albo, this is how it’s done!
From the Oz:-
Despite the pleas of Bishop Bleeding-Heart, a few Dimocrats have sniffed the wind.
Twenty pussent of Dimocrats crossed the floor and a few others abstained or were no-shows.
The winning.
I need another Bex and a good lay down.
No-one makes fun of Diagnosis Murder and gets away with it.
No-one.
I think people will tire of Executive Orders in a few days.
Orange Hitler might want to re-brand them.
How about “Royal Decree from the Court of Donald the Second”?
Too wordy?
What about “Fatwah”?
The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi
That’s how you deal with the left, you mop up the swill they throw your way and you chuck that swill right back in their faces.
As someone just texted me, citing Jewish Uncensored….
The same people that supported the real Nazis on October 7th are the ones now calling Elon Musk a Nazi. Let that sink in…
Abso-f**king-lutely.
Some idiot said that he’d prefer not to trust the space program to someone who does the Nazi salute.
The replies have not been kind. The most subtle are along the lines of, “Who wants to tell him?”
I can’t stop laughing!
DrBeauGan January 23, 2025 7:37 am
Their ABCess 7:30 just had Labor minister Ed Husic on who wanted to emphasise “In Australia nobody should feel uncomfortable and feel intimidated about practising their religion.”
That misguided fool is making the mistake of treating all religions the same, as though there are no significant differences. Newsflash, some religions are worse than others, but nobody on the news will dare actually say that.
Apparently islamophobic “attacks” (whatever that means) have been way up since Oct 7 2023. I think we can all agree that nobody* here is responsible for the actions taken half a world away in Gaza. That cuts both ways.
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*= except for the 3000 Gazans given tourist visas.
“Islamophobic attacks” equals: Someone tugged my hijab on the train/bus.
Perhaps.
If they were more serious, the screeching would be audible beyond Mars.
At one stage Australia was considering the F104 Starfighter.
Ended up with the Dassault Mirage instead.
At Gulgong I remember watching them blasting through the sky.
AM Scherger flew a Mirage and lurrrrrved the experience.
The RAAF choice for the Canberra replacement was the A-5 Vigilante, a carrier borne nuclear strike aircraft which the then Defence Minister rejected. It was withdrawn from service in November 1979, the F-111 stayed in service for many years after that.
Story reached my ears that the R.A.A.F regarded the worst possible case as loosing eight F- 111’s in the first two years.
“In Australia nobody should feel uncomfortable and feel intimidated about practising their religion.”
My dear old mum would have been pleased to hear that. She used to conduct human sacrifices by the light of the full moon. There were hardly any virgins left in the northern suburbs in her later days. Of course, there weren’t many before.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha January 23, 2025 4:29 pm
That’s running a nation, not a state existing below a federal government.
Couple of after dinner single malts, and reading Jeffrey Cox’s monumental account of the disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War Two – the futile attempts by the American, British, Dutch and Australian navies to halt the rapid Japanese advance of 1942.
Suffering a total defeat, his flagship, the De Ruyter a glowing blast furnace, the Dutch Rear Admiral Karel Doorman ensured that the last lifeboat was filled with wounded sailors, and saw it pushed away from the ship. He then retired to his cabin and shot himself.
I’ve seen his memorial in Rotterdam – rather moving.
Doing up a book Australia’s Coastal War, about ALL of the actions around the continent in WWII.
Came across a Dutch civilian ship I’d never heard of the other day being sunk by Japanese surface units off NW Australia in early 1942. It was trying to make it to Oz, like so many others. It was such a big war.
I’d look forward to reading that, Top Ender.
President Trump has reinstated Houthis as a Terrorist Organisation.
Winning!
insane “anti-racist” conference at the Queensland University of Technology
these people are mental
As I have said before, “anti-racists” are often themselves racists of the worst kind.
They are great fun to debate because they are so easily maneuvered into stupid statements that reveal their hypocrisy.
Mate in 1 … white to play
Well you’ve got me snookered.
D8 -D5 should wrap it up
D8- D4
Q-D4 mate
Parking queen bang up against king with a net around her is a great victory. Not as good as when you slay king with no queen and wide net though. Rare games
dunny … yr a player?
and TE … righto, I’ll scale it up
Alex Soros Says Billionaire Dad ‘Very Upset’ With ‘Amount of Bureaucracy’ at Family’s Liberal Nonprofit
What didn’t they manipulate?
Biden Justice Department ‘manipulated’ crime data to fit Democrats’ narrative: retired police officer
Regarding the Java Sea Campaign, earlier in the campaign, the British cruiser H.M.S. Exeter, suffered a hit by an 8 inch shell, from a Japanese cruiser.
Dock yard workers, repairing the damage, discovered the base plate to the shell – and discovered it was stamped “Made in Britain.”
Damn Mr. Jung and his synchronicity! Before a FB prompt alerted me to some doofus I was watching below. Yeah, Drachinifel is back!
(44) Who had the best torpedoes of WW2? – YouTube
I often watch Drach on YouTube.
The Japanese “Long Lance”, surely?
Prank calls, really stupid but had to laugh
Garbled abuse and hang up.
——
Garbled abuse and hang up.
An old Dago, who was a regular at the local pub where I lived 20 years ago, used to get me to score chicken livers for him. I was working at Steggles.
Fry-a dem up-a with-a de On-ion. Reckoned it was choice tucker. Nostalgic food from his peasant upbringing in Calabria etc I imagine.
Yuck!
Beef liver cooked just right (medium) in olive oil and a splash of vinegar served with a side of chips, with the oil/ vinegar mixture from the pan drizzled over the top is delicious.
Liver?
Fegatini di Pollo was the Old Man’s favourite
I just spent half an hour on Facebook and now I need a hot shower to decontaminate. What a vile place it has become.
(44) Burn (10th Anniversary Tour Version) ft. Sara Niemietz, Kyndle Wylde, Tatum Langley – YouTube
removing the defender
white to play
whoops … black to play
It’s a wonder chess hasn’t been called out as racist.