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Portrait of Chaliapin, Konstantin Korovin, 1911

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H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 3:19 pm

ALPBC Lattouf saga providing better entertainment than anything the staff co-op has commissioned in a decade.

Vicki
Vicki
February 7, 2025 3:23 pm

Veterans demand Angus Campbell apologise, tell Senate medals overhaul vital to fix flailing military moraleEllen RansleyThe Nightly
Fri, 7 February 2025 10:46AM

This man had the gall to say recently that “there is no place in the ADF for exceptionalism” !!!!!

And what were our recipients of the Victoria Cross, if not “exceptional” ??

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 7, 2025 5:21 pm
Reply to  Vicki

Just another canbra pube with a uniform

Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 3:54 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Trump has found a whole new world of leverage he can manipulate, besides tariffs.

Last edited 6 days ago by Makka
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 7, 2025 3:29 pm

When I were a pup I thought that family, name of Smith, must have had something wrong with them that they were so frickin’ destitute and needy.

Today I have just seen an ad for The Smith Family declaring that one in six Australian kids grow up in poverty.

Of course in Australia poverty is a statistical artefact – we could be nation of millionaires and the lower tier of millionaires would be povvoes.

But the ads are brilliant. Little Dickensian urchins turning up at school in ill-fitting school uniforms, broken in spirit, snared at the school entrance like a rag on a twig in a flood.

Sod that.

One more indulgent pint of Guinness will deal with that guilt.

Arky
February 7, 2025 3:58 pm
Reply to  Mother Lode

Yeah, it’s bullshit.
I gave out a metric tonne of exercise books and pens bought with my own money to povo kids over the years.
Some of them (most of them) you had to take the book and pen off them at the end of the lesson, keep it at your desk until the next lesson, otherwise it would simply disappear.
The problem isn’t that they don’t get stuff, the problem is they have zero interest in keeping it or using it for what it is meant for.
But I had to do that if I wanted a record of what I could get them to do in class.
This idea that there is some group of little urchins who will be ever so grateful that someone finally gave them some stationary!
It’s deluded horseshit.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 7, 2025 5:59 pm
Reply to  Arky

I still remember in 4th or fifth class, being given an exercise book by a teacher. I know it sounds odd, but I was overwhelmed by her generosity. A whole 48 page exercise book for me!
“Thank you very much!” said the young Winston, and she looked at me funny. Perhaps I surprised her with my gratitude, or perhaps she wasn’t used to someone saying ‘thank you’.
Odd the things you remember.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 7, 2025 4:10 pm
Reply to  Mother Lode

Place I worked in 79 was just around the corner from them. Our boss used to go right off. Look at those bastards crying poor with a carpark full of Mercedes.

Jock
Jock
February 7, 2025 4:53 pm
Reply to  Mother Lode

Daughter doing Uni for a K-2 Education degree. (in 90s) Sent to a local school for prac. Had to give starving children breakfast. Mothers had coffee and packets of ciggies at front gate. Disgusting.

Foxbody
Foxbody
February 7, 2025 5:08 pm
Reply to  Jock

Kids went to a well regarded Govt. Primary School in a “ Good” area.
Sought after as a cheaper alternative to a private college for many families until their kids could join a college at Middle School level.
Wife came to know many on the school staff – told a surprising number of parents never paid the modest school charges.
Often the ones with the new Euro SUV whose kids went to College later.
I don’t mind people doing well – but jeez guys, a bit of noblesse oblige at the very least.

Foxbody
Foxbody
February 7, 2025 4:59 pm
Reply to  Mother Lode

Notice how all the neglected waifs are white as ?
And all the prosperous busy middle class families in ad-land have at least one golden brown fuzzy haired member?

Entropy
Entropy
February 8, 2025 12:04 am
Reply to  Foxbody

Safest strategy.

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 7, 2025 3:29 pm

Job of ABC clarified:

Brash: Isn’t it a bit dumbfounding that a first-term prime minister is claiming underdog status? And … do you recognise that you’re a bit on the nose with the electorate?”

Albanese: You’re verballing me there.

Brash: Well, that’s my job.

Albanese: No, it’s not actually, it’s not the job of the ABC. There’s enough other media outlets trying to engage in that. I’m confident that we will form a majority government after the next election.

Although I checked the ABC’s job description and it still says ‘ask only softball questions to an ALP PM’, so Albo is right!

Bespoke
Bespoke
February 7, 2025 3:46 pm
Reply to  Oh come on

‘verballing’

Really!

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 5:43 pm
Reply to  Oh come on

Albo is under the pump.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 7, 2025 3:37 pm

Just in case no-one scrolls back..

Three billion Dollars of NGO funding ended on February 2nd, 2025. The survivors of the Nerdlear fire called the war Dogement Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the Auditors. The computer which controlled the machines, Elonnet, sent two Auditors back through accounts. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the deep state resistance, Deep State, my son. The first Auditor was programmed to strike at me in the year 1981, before Deep State was born. It failed. The second was set to strike at the Deep State Itself when it lost an election. As before, the resistance was able to send a Hawaiian Judge, a protector for Deep State. It was just a question of which one of them would Audit him first.

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doge
Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 3:41 pm

I ticked it mole. Nice Grok work.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 5:14 pm

More like that Robocop scene.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 7, 2025 3:40 pm

From Indolent’s link at 2:13.

Just a few days ago, the FAA’s primary aircraft safety notification system failed for several hours,” Elon Musk said referring to NOTAM’s failure over the weekend.

Hillary Clinton responded to Secretary Duffy and attacked the young Gen Z whiz kids working on Elon Musk’s DOGE team.

“They have no relevant experience,” Hillary Clinton said taking a shot at the young geniuses. “Most of them aren’t old enough to rent a car.”

“And you’re going to let them mess with airline safety that’s already deteriorated on your watch?” Clinton added.

FMD.
Systems don’t “deteriorate” in 2 weeks (unless of course, there was deliberate nobbling, which is something else altogether).
NOTAM is an acronym meaning “Notice to Airmen“, a term which I am surprised has survived the era of DEI.
These are temporary addenda to fixed aviation rules, regulations and designations.
Example. A NOTAM might be issued to temporarily restrict airspace for, say, a military exercise, or a Presidential visit, or a runway closure for maintenance, which is otherwise shown as accessible on permanent charts.
The point is, you don’t need to know a lot about aviation to work on the NOTAM system (the recording and distribution, not the drafting of content). It is basically a documentation system which needs to be robust, redundant and tightly controlled.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 7, 2025 3:46 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

PS.
If I was Killary, I’d assiduously avoid making any comment on anything to do with compudas.
It just reminds people.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 7, 2025 4:39 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

I’m surprised she hasn’t decamped to a country with no extradition agreement with the US to be honest. I mean, there’s bound to be tens of millions of USAID money been gifted to the Clinton Foundation you would guess.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 5:16 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

This is beautiful to watch.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 7, 2025 5:55 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

If systems deteriorated like that in two weeks and as we know it’s not linear, meaning within two months air travel will be banned in the US.
Buy some greyhound stock.

PS is greyhound still listed?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 7, 2025 3:41 pm

I can dream but wouldn’t it be luvverly to see Trump declare Soros and his hatchlings as enemy aliens.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 7, 2025 3:42 pm

Just flown in from NZ on Quaint-arse.

1) aircraft was swapped for one used on the Aus domestic run, so no TV screens – use our wifi service instead
2) sorry, now we’re on board we have found wifi service is busted
3) acknowledgement of country of course
4) next flight out of Sydney cancelled and another one provided

The Leprechaun Legacy is not a good one.

Arky
February 7, 2025 3:49 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Just flown China Air, a Taiwanese company.
On time.
Hosties young, pretty, proficient in both English and Mandarin.
Wonderful meal and drinks service.

calli
calli
February 7, 2025 4:49 pm
Reply to  Arky

It’s very good. Went BC (short for Big Concrete) to Europe with them. Professional, good tucker and drinks, comfy as.

Will fly with them again if possible (depends on FFP availability.

Going Finnair in April. Will report on their newfangled DIY “beds”.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 7, 2025 5:44 pm
Reply to  Arky

Prolly 20yo now did Brisbane to Chang Kai Shek to Bangkok on China Air.

Agree service exemplary & attendants young/efficent. Beer empties, flight attendant there with refill. No call button or waiting for one to pass. Menu good for airline food. Entertainment at time I thought outdid Singapore at the time.

Taipei I walked off into Airport 77… Felt that way anyway.

Airframes though. Shudder, glad I was mildy inebriated. The B747 to BKK had broken toilets, fittings and made noise ss I’ve never heard that aircraft type make. Even had what looked like JAL logos on some stuff too.

Johnjjj
Johnjjj
February 7, 2025 6:20 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Try United. Arrogant, near retirement, old staff. Throw the shit food at you. Packed. In 40 years of flying, the worst.

Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 3:48 pm

I wonder how many Dem voting semi- normies will be waking up now with realisation that the Billion$ in Treasury disbursements they fund are being so horribly squandered and used vindictively against them.

It must be like moving that old fridge and discovering a deep cavern below full to the brim of fat cockroaches and diseased rats who share your home at night while you slept.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 7, 2025 6:15 pm
Reply to  Makka

I just replaced the dishwasher, 3 years old with a burnt out power board.
Replaced with an LG model.
I put it in myself because I was aware that cockies had usually made a beeline for underneath when I sprayed them.
To my surprise, many many wings, but no cockies. I guess the later ones ate the dead.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 7, 2025 3:52 pm

Carbon Credit Scheme has hit the skids because of fraud and a complete lack of measurable results.
It was always a case of companies scamming farmers who were silly enough not to recognise all the risk was theirs.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
February 7, 2025 4:10 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

Where’s that report Gez?
My BiL was recently filthy that Bendigo bank knocked back his cereal programme to 70%, and then offered to provide his carbon audit a few months latwr

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 7, 2025 4:15 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

I notice adverts on TeeVee from “Farmers for Climate Action” with the mouthpiece being, of course, a farmer with turbines on his property.
The punchline … “Farmers should decide what to do with their land”.
He doesn’t mention he is part of a cartel which would happily compulsorily acquire other people’s land for transmission and distribution.

calli
calli
February 7, 2025 4:54 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

I hope he enjoys every dollar he spends retiring the things once they’re obsolete.

And if he thinks his property is worth more because “improvements”, I have a bridge to sell him.

Soon…very, very soon…the screams will be heard on Mars. Hasten the day.

Jock
Jock
February 7, 2025 4:33 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

Every once in a while there are reports that the entire carbon credit/trading thing is a scam. Mafia ridden worthless market. Yet nothing is done. Because climate. Its as if the world has given up on Legal rights, and economics.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 7, 2025 3:56 pm

Notice to Airmen didn’t survive DEI in the US. Renamed Notice To Air Missions a couple of years ago to be less sexist or some such blather.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 7, 2025 4:16 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

I can imagine the meetings which would have gone on around that.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 5:18 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Gluten free banana bread I expect.

Indolent
Indolent
February 7, 2025 3:57 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 7, 2025 4:06 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Their kiddies are not happy.

Powerless Democrats Frustrated After Being Inundated with Resistance Phone Calls Imploring Them to Stop Trump (6 Feb)

Congressional Democrats have reportedly been rendered powerless and frustrated amid a deluge of angry calls from their constituents demanding that they resist President Trump at every turn.

Lawmakers told Axios that angry constituents have been ringing their phones off the hook with demands that they more adequately resist Trump, a situation over which they maintain little control. Democrats feel that constituents have been setting their expectations too high and should understand they now hold the minority position in Congress.

Rage as much as you want lefties. The problem is of course that direct action is contraindicated, since righties have all the firearms and the military (except for shiny bums).

Lee
Lee
February 7, 2025 4:11 pm

Are they advocating insurrection?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 7, 2025 4:33 pm
Reply to  Lee

Yes, but it’s different when they do it.

local oaf
February 7, 2025 5:21 pm

I wonder why their constituents are so angry? Maybe someone told them 24/7/365 that Trump was Hitler.
I wonder who that was?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 7, 2025 4:05 pm

Lattouf means ‘a nice man’ in the camel fanciers language.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 5:19 pm
Reply to  Farmer Gez

What’s “a nice camel”?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 7, 2025 5:37 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

One that doesn’t say NO!

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 7, 2025 4:05 pm

Only in the Territory:

A drunk man who hitched a ride on a moving bus was unable to keep a firm grip because he was holding a bottle of rum in one hand, the coroner has found.

In light of a horror 2024 on Territory roadswhere 60 people lost their lives, NT Coroner Elisabeth Armitage said she would publish “anonymised findings” concerning all the road deaths.

She made the comment in the first of the released findings, published on Wednesday, which examined why a 37-year-old man was found dead on the side of the Stuart Hwy on March 19, 2024.

She determined the man’s cause of death to be from blunt force trauma when falling from the trailer of a Greyhound bus while under the influence of alcohol.

“He was run over by the wheels of the trailer and came to rest, concealed by long grass, in a spoon drain,” she said in her findings.

On the night of his death, Ms Armitage said the man – who was not on the banned drinkers register – was out drinking with friends, travelling between Devils Marbles hotel, Tennant Creek, and their home community.

After drinking for a number of hours, when travelling back to their home community, the blue Ford Falcon they were driving became bogged on the side of the Stuart Hwy, Ms Armitage said.

The passengers flagged down a passing Greyhound bus at 2.55am, who stopped and agreed to take two “of the more sober and less aggressive” passengers to the nearest roadhouse to get help, Ms Armitage said.

Ms Armitage said it was at this time the 37-year-old tried to stowaway on the trailer by sitting on the drawbar, however, two of his friends pulled him off.

“However, as the coach pulled away, he climbed back on. He cannot have had a firm grip because in one hand he was holding a bottle of rum. Unsurprisingly, but tragically for his family and community, he fell from the drawbar after travelling on it for 10 minutes and 45 seconds,” her findings said.

“No fault is attributed to the driver or co-driver as neither knew that the deceased had hitched a ride, he ultimately climbed onto the drawbar just as the coach was ready to depart, and the drawbar was hidden from their view.”

The bus driver did not a “live view” of CCTV footage on the rear of the bus, Ms Armitage said.

Before becoming bogged, Ms Armitage said two bottles of rum were consumed on the drive down by the group, during which the deceased was sitting “unrestrained” on the centre console.

Toxicological analysis found the man had a blood-alcohol level of 0.23 per cent.

He was found about 25km north of Devils Marbles.

Family members who had not seen him for days found him when they were conducting their own search for him, Ms Armitage said in her findings.

“It is hoped that by making findings about the circumstances of these deaths public, this will improve individual and agency awareness as to the causes of road fatalities, with the ultimate objective of saving lives and reducing the road death toll in the future,” Ms Armitage said.

NT News

Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 4:11 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

200,000 years of high culture, right there.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 5:22 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Greyhound buses in the outback are an experience. Puts Magistrates Court in the shade.

Kim Howard
Kim Howard
February 8, 2025 5:14 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

give that man a Darwin Award!

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
February 7, 2025 4:18 pm

I’m going to rewrite the “Alchohol: think again” ad, for the real problem drinking “community”.
Scene- family dinner table, lit like an opium den.
Kidult: Dad… can i grab a bottle of rum, ride the centre hump of the Falcon to the pub, and then hang off a bus on the way back?
Shamefaced dad- …no, son.
Gothic host of trauma victims: no… nope… no way.
…think it’ll fly? Get a mock up and some clapter on the Gruen Transfer?

Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 4:19 pm

Kissing the ring…

ncaa
Arky
February 7, 2025 4:29 pm

So, why are the advertisements you see so annoying?
Why does every ad have a stupidly over representation of the various “minority” groups?

Heres why, they’re hoping for an award, European advertising awards website:

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Question (revised for 2025):

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Please provide details of the benchmarks used for measuring the success of this piece of work’s contribution to the overall strategy. This could include, but is not limited to, targets around advertising business operations, advertising production, media planning and buying.

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Boambee John
Boambee John
February 7, 2025 4:38 pm
Reply to  Arky

What a load of geriatric boot makers. (H/T Bernard)

Kim Howard
Kim Howard
February 8, 2025 5:21 pm
Reply to  Arky

so know one buys their products, that will work!!

Arky
February 7, 2025 4:46 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

You understand the difference between the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China?
Apparently not.

Arky
February 7, 2025 4:50 pm
Reply to  Arky

Here:
China Airlines (Code: CI) It is the flag carrier of Republic of China (or more famously known as Taiwan). Their main hub is in Taipei. They are a member of SkyTeam. Air China (Code: CA) It is the flag carrier of People’s Republic of China

Arky
February 7, 2025 4:56 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Then you’re just being retarded for no good reason.

Arky
February 7, 2025 5:04 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Smartarse is now a synonym for retard?

Last edited 6 days ago by Arky
calli
calli
February 7, 2025 5:07 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Wretch!

I laughed.

You’ll have to re-moisturise though. Post blowtorch.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 7, 2025 6:13 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

There was nothing obvious about that at all.

Cassie of Sydney
February 7, 2025 4:43 pm

Guy Pearce, an actor I once had some time for, attended the AACTA Awards wearing a ‘Free Palestine’ brooch.

What a complete dickhead.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
February 7, 2025 5:27 pm

Alongside him Antionette Lattouf is a voice of reason & neutrality.

He’s been quite vocal about “Palestinian genocide” and “Israeli war crimes” for more than a year.

Complete dickhead.

Lee
Lee
February 7, 2025 5:44 pm

Apparently, there are more people in Gaza now than before October 7.

Some “genocide.”

Israel is the only state/country in history which is not allowed to retaliate when murderously and unprovokedly attacked.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 7, 2025 6:36 pm

Incomplete dickhead – there’s no hole for the continual emissions.
But one can be organised.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 7, 2025 6:01 pm

His brain was Diddy’d into oblivion as he climbed the slippery pole in Hollywood.
Best ignored.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
February 7, 2025 4:56 pm

POW! Right in the kisser!

Victor Davis Hanson: Donald Trump’s Tariff Diplomacy Is Working

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilWD6dyHpf4 (8:31)

Arky
February 7, 2025 5:17 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

I speculated last year that at some point you would have to choose between Trump ascendant and the poisonous crap you have been imbibing from Russian and Chinese channels.
Looks like we can see which fork you have gone down.
Can’t be too long before you are openly anti Trump.

Arky
February 7, 2025 5:19 pm
Reply to  Arky

I’ll make a further prediction: you will become increasingly bitter and hysterical as Trump reshapes the world.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 7, 2025 5:18 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Heh, other than that everyone is falling over themselves to kiss his ring.

Indolent
Indolent
February 7, 2025 5:12 pm

What do you know? Just like “climate change”.

“Foreign Aid” Enriches the Rich While Impoverishing the Impoverished

Lee
Lee
February 7, 2025 5:52 pm
Reply to  Indolent

It has been said that charity is poor people in rich countries giving money to rich people in poor countries.

I would qualify that by saying often it fraudulently (and unknown to the donor) ends up with rich people in his own country.

Crossie
Crossie
February 7, 2025 8:42 pm
Reply to  Lee

This was particularly true in the case of Tim Costello, Peter’s brother, who was the CEO of World Vision in Australia at one stage when he earned over half a million per year and drove a Ferrari. I never gave a cent to them after that.

Indolent
Indolent
February 7, 2025 5:14 pm
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 7, 2025 7:03 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Good. He should box against other men. But he won’t because he’ll get a good flogging. Just like he’s been handing out to the women he hates and has been getting away with beating them up.
And if he does go up against men, I hope hegoes up against a boxer who has watched him bash the women, and is really pissed off. And I want a ref who will let it go on so that he becomes an object lesson to all the other arseholes who thought they’d found a legal way to take out their hatred of women.

Last edited 6 days ago by Winston Smith
Indolent
Indolent
February 7, 2025 5:18 pm
Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 5:20 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Gosh. Can’t be good for resale values.

Indolent
Indolent
February 7, 2025 5:21 pm
Roger
Roger
February 7, 2025 5:32 pm

ALPBC Lattouf saga providing better entertainment than anything the staff co-op has commissioned in a decade.

In a spin off, I note the Lebanese Muslim Association has told Comms minister Michelle Rowland to “dismantle the ABC’s monocultural leadership.”

What say we just dismantle the whole thing?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 7, 2025 6:26 pm
Reply to  Roger

No comment on the “multicultural” leadership of SBS? One network not enough for the Muslims?

Arky
February 7, 2025 5:34 pm

Just told the missus that she is getting a bit fat.
Given that and my responses above to Dover, I think it indicates I’m in a rare good mood for some reason.
Inexplicable.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 7, 2025 5:42 pm
Reply to  Arky

I’m surprised you’re still alive.

calli
calli
February 7, 2025 5:42 pm
Reply to  Arky

That niggling pain you feel is the cleaver embedded in your left shoulder blade.

I’m told such wounds heal easily. Apparently flowers and perfume are the ideal unguents.

Arky
February 7, 2025 5:53 pm
Reply to  calli

Nah, she laughed.

calli
calli
February 7, 2025 6:02 pm
Reply to  Arky

Sleep with one eye open.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 7, 2025 7:41 pm
Reply to  Arky

You don’t deserve her, Arky.

Arky
February 7, 2025 9:05 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

I agree.
But she will just have to do until I find better.

Last edited 6 days ago by Arky
PoliticoNT
PoliticoNT
February 7, 2025 8:44 pm
Reply to  Arky

Pace yourself Arky.

Pete of Perth
Pete of Perth
February 7, 2025 9:07 pm
Reply to  Arky

I told my missus on her 60th that she was “well preserved”. Still married 7 years later.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 7, 2025 5:39 pm

@MarioNawfal 3h

REP. BOEBERT: FAUCI WAS PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN CRUEL ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS Rep. Boebert exposed shocking testimony that Fauci wasn’t just a bureaucrat—he was personally involved in animal experimentation. A witness testified that virtually no cures came from these cruel experiments, raising serious ethical and scientific concerns about their purpose. Meanwhile, three beagles rescued from Fauci-funded experiments are now in loving homes and served as star witnesses in the Oversight Committee hearing.

Witnesses? LOL how did that go?

PROSECUTOR: Witness K will you now please tell the ladies and gentlemen of the jury how exactly your master Fauci treated you?

BEAGLE: Ruff!

PROSECUTOR: The prosecution rests, your honour!

Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 5:43 pm

When $40 Billion pa is just not enough…

GjJPsUSbQAAlNOZ
Roger
Roger
February 7, 2025 5:46 pm
Reply to  Makka

He really is politically tone deaf.

Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 5:50 pm
Reply to  Roger

Or, a big treasury raid on the way out? A lot of parasite maaates in the abo industry.

Roger
Roger
February 7, 2025 6:01 pm
Reply to  Makka

I’d suggest this money was already earmarked for the purpose; just waiting for an opportune time to announce it.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 7, 2025 5:49 pm
Reply to  Makka

This one pissed me off.

Labor pledges to cut student debt by 20 per cent if re-elected (Sky News, 6 Feb)

Talk about outright frigging bribery.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 5:59 pm

Straight lift of Greens policy. Albo and the Liars in full blown panic mode now.

Roger
Roger
February 7, 2025 6:03 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

More money for the NBN too.

Whack it all on the credit card and leave Dutton with the bill.

Lee
Lee
February 7, 2025 6:01 pm
Reply to  Makka

Albosleazy is a grifter, unashamed of bribing people with taxpayers’ money to vote for him.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 7, 2025 9:17 pm
Reply to  Makka

Elections soon.
I have seen the portents, run my fingers through the chicken entrails, and made a goats eye stew.
Yep. Elections soon and Anal is stuffed.
You heard it here first.

Indolent
Indolent
February 7, 2025 5:50 pm
Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 7, 2025 9:53 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Labor is putting any new administration into a position where they will have disembowel the bureaucracy and its edicts.
If the edicts aren’t removed, there will be no job creation for the newly unemployed government drones.
So it looks like the two – reducing the bureaucracy and reducing the bureaucratic load – go hand in hand.

Indolent
Indolent
February 7, 2025 5:52 pm
Pogria
Pogria
February 7, 2025 5:54 pm

This is a long read. It is extremely worthwhile if you have the time.
Our betters think it’s fine to import hundreds of thousands of them.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/india-its-worse-you-think

Damon
Damon
February 7, 2025 9:37 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Multiculturalism. A few is cute. A dozen is an ethnic restaurant. A hundred is a riot. A thousand is a voting block.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 5:54 pm

Heard a little of ALPBC Perth Mornings radio walking out the house. Brand Kerr disappearing fast round the S bend regardless of how the court case goes.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 7, 2025 6:26 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Mate at coffee this morning said h8s nieces have torn down all the posters of her that used to be on the bedroom walls.

Pogria
Pogria
February 7, 2025 5:59 pm

I wouldn’t be too sure about that.

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bons
bons
February 7, 2025 6:06 pm

I need to get a grip. I have become addicted to watching Elizabeth Warren tirades.

The crazy eyes, the smug superiority, the contempt and name calling and the dismissive hand gestures. She has been studying Hitler.

She has just completed her forward two and a half and is just entering the half twist. Oops, someone has removed the pool.

Absolutely batshit psychotic. I hope it hurts.

Lee
Lee
February 7, 2025 6:21 pm
Reply to  bons

I noticed the other day when she was on one of her tirades that her eyes were those of a fanatic.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 7, 2025 6:32 pm
Reply to  Lee

Of course. She’s a leftard, so she is a fanatic by definition.

Lee
Lee
February 7, 2025 7:14 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

I thought her eyes were going to pop out.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 7, 2025 6:07 pm

From the snippets of the new hate bill that I’ve seen shared on a couple of WhatsApp groups I am lost for words.

Bernard Gaynor better just pack a bag and take himself off to prison now.
This will be weaponised against everyone the establishment chooses to selectively prosecute.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 6:14 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Better leave the half track in the garage for a while till this blows over.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 7, 2025 6:32 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Can you explain that opinion a bit more?
The law criminalises urging violence against a group, something you probably were not doing anyway. Where’s the slippery slope?

cohenite
February 7, 2025 7:16 pm

The amendment adds sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, disability to Division 802A(1)(c) Criminal Code Act 1995— increasing the groups of folks who can bring a claim from just religious and racial folk to the trannies and other alphabet weirdos.

In addition the criteria changes from intent to recklessness which is much easier to prove.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 7, 2025 7:37 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Long Bow : having a crack at cohenite over his cute owls could/would open the door to the plod having a sharpish conversation with you.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 7, 2025 8:42 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

No. You haven’t read the law and are relying on Chinese Whispers.

JC
JC
February 7, 2025 6:15 pm

From the snippets of the new hate bill that I’ve seen shared on a couple of WhatsApp groups I am lost for words.

I’m guessing as I’m not up with it, that the ex-cop is for it?

Arky
February 7, 2025 6:20 pm

Those who write advertising copy have always been the lowest level of the parasitic autonomous complex.
But now we know that the minorities on the screen and all that pandering are simply fodder in an attempt by advertising man to receive an award?
Is it possible that advertising man could possibly move further down the bowels of our estimation?
They actively participated in the most brain dead forms of social engineering idiocy in order to receive…a stupid trophy?

johanna
johanna
February 8, 2025 4:39 am
Reply to  Arky

You have achieved the rare as rocking horse shit achievement of uniting Lizzie and me.

As is often the case, you don’t know what you are talking about.

duncanm
duncanm
February 7, 2025 6:24 pm

UNRWA funding is falling apart.

The US, Switzerland, now Italy.

calli
calli
February 7, 2025 6:27 pm
Reply to  duncanm

Soon it will just be Australia and Iran supporting terrorism in Gaza.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
February 7, 2025 7:42 pm
Reply to  calli

Funny but sadly correct. I hate our pollies.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 7, 2025 6:33 pm
Reply to  duncanm

The Argies pulled out of WHO yesterday.
They’ll probably do the same for UNRWA.

calli
calli
February 7, 2025 6:24 pm

Just watched an ad for Caz Heise, an “independent” running for the seat of Cowper.

Gosh, she sounds amazingly like a Teal, even down to her advertising colours. Don’t bother with her website, the signalling is all visual.

Another one of Simon’s slags?

Jock
Jock
February 7, 2025 8:55 pm
Reply to  calli

She is a Teal. Did the same last election. The money she had overwhelmed all the other parties put together. I am on the MNC and see her adds everywhere. Simon is digging deep.

Johnjjj
Johnjjj
February 7, 2025 6:26 pm

I have a new AI. jjjAI. You ask a question. I reply with a subtle question to get an inkling of what answer you would like. You reply. Then I give you the answer you want. Called Utopia. Investors welcome. It’s a winner.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
February 7, 2025 6:34 pm

Now that Jo Haylen has fallen on her sword and Rose Jackson eaten her shit sandwich over their long lunch escapade in the Hunter, would it be too early to ask who paid for the food and drinkies? Did the girls fumble around in their purses for their correct share or, horror of horrors, was a govt credit card used? Oh and did they provide lunch for their driver or did he have to bring his own food bar. Over to you Mr Minns.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 7, 2025 6:41 pm

Matildas star Sam Kerr told a court she was treated differently by police “because of the colour of my skin” after “fearing for my life” following an incident with a taxi driver.

She must be very dense going with that sort of defence.

The lawyers she’s engaged have smelt the money and are stringing it out as long as they can.

A better defence would have been to plead guilty, apologise to all concerned, and throw herself on the mercy of the court.

Would have got a 500 pound fine and told to go.

Now she’ll be lucky to be employed by anything outside of a leftie government post.

After being found guilty, which is what will happen.

Roger
Roger
February 7, 2025 7:17 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Would have got a 500 pound fine and told to go.

Ten times more than the cleaning fee she was asked to pay by the cabbie.

flyingduk
flyingduk
February 7, 2025 11:07 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

She will get off…… White man bad n all that

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 7, 2025 6:50 pm

Five-year-old boy allegedly raped in remote NT communityLiam Mendes
44 minutes ago

A five-year-old boy has allegedly been raped in a remote Northern Territory community this week, triggering calls for greater public disclosure of child sexual abuse in the jurisdiction, as one advocate claims half of the 20 remote communities she visited in 2024 had children as young as five exhibiting “harmful sexual behaviour”.
Multiple sources confirmed to The Australian that a 19-year-old male was arrested and charged following the alleged rape, which occurred at a small community in the northern part of the Territory, near the Gulf of Carpentaria, on Tuesday.
The 19-year-old will face ­Darwin Local Court on Monday charged with sexual intercourse of a child under 10, following his arrest on Wednesday.
The case led child safety advocates to call for more ­information to be made public about serious sexual assaults on children to increase awareness of widespread child abuse in the ­Territory.
The charging of the 19-year-old came within hours of the Prime Minister’s fly-in, fly-out visit to Alice Springs to announce $843m in funding for the Territory.
The funding is set to be delivered over six years to strengthen the delivery of services in remote ­communities, including policing, women’s safety, alcohol harm reduction and “mediation and peacekeeping activities”.
Anthony Albanese’s visit on Thursday came just over a week after Peter Dutton visited the region, which has been blighted by crime, domestic violence and anti-social behaviour.
Child abuse prevention educator Holly-ann Martin, who has visited 87 remote communities during her 35-year career to provide her abuse preventation education ­program, said there was an “epidemic” of child sexual abuse and further awareness needed to be drawn to the “nationwide issue”.

“I would have been in at least 20 remote communities last year and at least half of them were because of children exhibiting harmful sexual behaviours,” she said on Friday.
Ms Martin, who was awarded an Order of Australia for her work with children, said these cases had already been reported to authorities, but she was seeing children as young as five who had been exposed to pornographic material and were then going on to act out what they were seeing in pornography on other children.
She said that politicians and senior police were too afraid to speak out about the issues happening across the Territory.
“They (politicians and senior police) just are covering it up,” Ms Martin said.
“We need to shine a light on it so we can protect children.
“If we keep saying ‘nothing to see here’, then children aren’t being protected.
“The government have just announced today all this money for the Northern Territory. There’s money for women, (but) where is the money for abuse prevention for children?”
In October 2023, Mr Albanese refused calls by the Coalition for a royal commission into child sex abuse in Indigenous communities, claiming the opposition was politicising the matter.
Earlier that year, Mr Albanese was forced to reject claims by Mr Dutton that he had failed to act on information that abused children were allegedly being returned to live with their abusers.
“Peter Dutton makes all sorts of claims, and the tragedy here is that serious issues, like the abuse of children, that Peter Dutton or myself or I would hope any member of parliament has a uniform abhorrence of, shouldn’t be used as a political issue,“ Mr Albanese said in April that year.

Lee
Lee
February 7, 2025 7:25 pm

“Peter Dutton makes all sorts of claims, and the tragedy here is that serious issues, like the abuse of children, that Peter Dutton or myself or I would hope any member of parliament has a uniform abhorrence of, shouldn’t be used as a political issue,“ Mr Albanese said in April that year.

Pontius Pilate.

Albosleazy is not too afraid to make a “political issue” of things that should not concern the government, such as what is said on social media.

If the government cannot act on such an appalling situation who can?

Gutless worm.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 7, 2025 7:43 pm

Seems like a lot of money until you remember the ~$35+ BILLiON we already give these communities every year. Why would this extra money make any difference.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 7, 2025 10:04 pm

Multiple sources confirmed to The Australian that a 19-year-old male was arrested and charged following the alleged rape,

20 lashes with the Rattan cane.
In the centre of the town.
With all watching.
That’ll teach the bastard to keep his dick to himself, and provide a lesson to the rest.

JC
JC
February 7, 2025 6:56 pm

Dover, yesterday you made the claim that Christopher Rufo received USAID money. He’s denied this in a post. Where did you source that claim as it appears to have originated from leftwing sites?

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 7, 2025 6:57 pm

Advance Australia have documentary about renewables – great panoramic views of our great land being ripped to shreds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfEUZotRyLI

Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 7:16 pm

In the face of plummeting EV sales, just saw idiot Bowen saying we need Billions more (of our money) invested in ruinables to meet the demand of the EV “transition” ( to poverty)

Huh? The clown was about as convincing as a fence post.

Last edited 6 days ago by Makka
Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 7, 2025 7:49 pm
Reply to  Makka

Just say to Blackout Bowen the words – “Green Hydrogen” and get the “Greens” to help him out.

Roger
Roger
February 7, 2025 7:21 pm

A five-year-old boy has allegedly been raped in a remote Northern Territory community this week, triggering calls for greater public disclosure of child sexual abuse in the jurisdiction, as one advocate claims half of the 20 remote communities she visited in 2024 had children as young as five exhibiting “harmful sexual behaviour”.

This is our authorities’/media’s version of the UK grooming gangs.

Look the other way because racism!

Pogria
Pogria
February 7, 2025 7:33 pm
Reply to  Roger

It has been happening since the seventies.
In the eighties, it was found that the highest rate of venereal disease in children under the age of ten, Worldwide, was in Aboriginal children.

Roger
Roger
February 7, 2025 7:40 pm
Reply to  Pogria

And it’s worse than is reported. Anyone who’s worked in the area with the indigenous can speak to that.

Siltstone
Siltstone
February 7, 2025 8:49 pm
Reply to  Pogria

100% true. Nothing done. Because “indigenous”.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 7, 2025 7:53 pm
Reply to  Roger

Close them down.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 7, 2025 8:08 pm
Reply to  Top Ender

Cite you the one in Western Australia that decided to become “Dry.” Some douchenozzle decided to run a carload of grog into the community – the women waylaid his car, and smashed the lot.

Muddy
Muddy
February 7, 2025 9:18 pm
Reply to  Roger

One might argue that our elites regard these people not as human, but as animals to be herded into fenced paddocks and exploited.

If the powers-that-be perceived remote indigenous Australians as having the same ‘value’ as non-indig Australians, they would act to protect them and advance their well-being. They don’t (value them equally, that is), so they don’t act accordingly.

It’s pure projection: THEY, the ones with all the authority and resources, ACCUSE OTHERS of lesser means, of racism: the belief that one’s racial characteristics make one superior or inferior to another, to divert attention from their measurably expressed belief in the same status stereotype.

flyingduk
flyingduk
February 7, 2025 11:10 pm
Reply to  Muddy

One might argue that our elites regard these people not as human, but as animals to be herded into fenced paddocks and exploited.

Our wise rulers regard all of us that way.

Crossie
Crossie
February 7, 2025 7:24 pm

I’m watching Rowan Dean’s World on Sky News where he is covering all the Hollywood personalities with transgender children. In a couple of decades all of these children will write Mommie Dearest books about being pushed into it by their mothers.

Lee
Lee
February 7, 2025 7:31 pm
Reply to  Crossie

In the past few days, the repellent Jamie Lee Curtis and Cynthia Nixon have both been wailing against Trump over the tranny issue and boasting about their transgender children, as though they are fashion accessories.

calli
calli
February 7, 2025 7:32 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Saw that. Jamie Lee Curtis in hysterics.

Hot tip…read someone else’s lines. Don’t ad lib your own. You’re just not that smart.

Arky
February 7, 2025 7:49 pm
Reply to  calli

Lay off Jamie.
He’s a good bloke.

Lee
Lee
February 7, 2025 7:55 pm
Reply to  Arky

As I have said before, how could parents like Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh have a very mannish daughter like her?

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 7, 2025 9:00 pm
Reply to  Lee

Julia Gillards Parents thought the same.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 7, 2025 7:59 pm
Reply to  Arky

She looked like a Hot Lady in “A Fish Called Wanda”.

Entropy
Entropy
February 7, 2025 8:42 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

And true lies.

Entropy
Entropy
February 8, 2025 6:30 am
Reply to  Entropy

Come to think of it, the rear view might have been a body double.

Lee
Lee
February 7, 2025 8:45 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Never found her the least bit attractive.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 7, 2025 8:57 pm
Reply to  Lee

There is a very good saying – “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 7, 2025 10:08 pm
Reply to  Crossie

…or they will remember who did these foul deeds to them, where they live, and where they work.
And they will exact an unholy revenge.

And no court will find them guilty.

Pogria
Pogria
February 7, 2025 7:36 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 7, 2025 7:50 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Three million quid and all?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 8:07 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Still waiting to see how Marty has gone in WA.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 7, 2025 7:41 pm

recklessness

What a word.
Albo & co will be peppering every speech about Dutton with it in light of his legal troubles with the weird beards.

Arky
February 7, 2025 7:48 pm

So it turns out that dole bludgers are strictly amateurs.
The real steal comes when you form a quango or NGO or wear a religious or charity skin suit and attach yourself to DEI, green washing or refugee advocacy.
Well, well, well welly well well.
Must we continue forever in Australia to imagine what waste and dastardly acts are going on, or will we one day see the light from a DOGE of our own?
Is there anyone in the Australian media landscape even capable of forming the question?
Hello?

cohenite
February 7, 2025 7:56 pm

Rowan Dean has on 2 global boiling hacks, one from the liars and some bint from the filth. He rips them to shreds but it really worries me that there are still fukwits who believe in this BS and that ruinables work. The filth skank even says the problem is we still have unreliable coal and haven’t moved completely to ruinables. Unreliable coal. FFS these people are stark raving.

Tom
Tom
February 7, 2025 8:10 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Cohenite, 99.9% of the energy debate is propaganda and the news media, having abandoned its commitment to telling the truth, is on the side of the bullshit artists. So 99% of what is trotted out in the Australian media about energy is disinformation.

The news media has become a radical political party — which is why no-one believes it and it is useless as a source of information.

PS: I watched Rowan Dean’s confrontation with the Greenfilth hack and the Liars tool. They were out of their depth.

Last edited 6 days ago by Tom
Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 7, 2025 8:24 pm
Reply to  Tom

Yes, and cheaper electrickery was certainly on show.

Roger
Roger
February 7, 2025 8:00 pm

The real steal comes when you form a quango or NGO or wear a religious or charity skin suit and attach yourself to DEI, green washing or refugee advocacy.

The execs are on good money, sure, but nobody is making a profit.

The easy money in Oz is in daycare centres & the NDIS.

And consulting to the government, of course.

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Indolent
Indolent
February 7, 2025 8:02 pm
Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 8:03 pm

Not good at all Pauline;

Craig Kelly

@craigkellyXXX

Very disappointing to see ONE NATION abstain from voting on the “Hate Speech” Bill

So while Alex Antic bravely crossed the floor and rock solid Ralph Babet continues to do us proud – ONE NATION went missing in action

I’m sure many loyal One Nation supporters will be devastated at this.

https://x.com/craigkellyXXX/status/1887752745987547332

Pogria
Pogria
February 7, 2025 8:31 pm
Reply to  Makka

I am very surprised to read that Flat Fatima did not vote for the bill.

Roger
Roger
February 7, 2025 8:55 pm
Reply to  Pogria

I’m surprised too…given she has abstained from voting in 91% of senate divisions since becoming an independent, which I believe is a record.

“Australia’s Voice” seems somewhat muted.

Last edited 6 days ago by Roger
hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 7, 2025 9:14 pm
Reply to  Makka

presume the final name is David Pocock ( not Andrew?)

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
February 7, 2025 10:13 pm
Reply to  Makka

‘Devastated?’
No, Makka.
I’m enraged.
And will be returning my membership.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 7, 2025 8:21 pm

Breaking

‘Sincere regret’: ABC sorry over dodgy war crimes storyThe public broadcaster has now apologised to a unit of Australian soldiers after it was discovered additional gunshots had been added to a major report about possible war crimes.

Daily Tele.

SHUT! IT! DOWN!

FIRE! THEM! ALL!

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
February 7, 2025 8:29 pm

No-one resigning.
No-one fired.
So sorry, so sincerely sorrofully regretfully sadly sorry.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 7, 2025 8:33 pm

Krudd is mentioned in USaid

GjKvKJrawAALCom
Roger
Roger
February 7, 2025 8:38 pm

ASPI

Asia Society Policy Institute

calli
calli
February 7, 2025 8:55 pm
Reply to  Roger
Last edited 6 days ago by calli
Boambee John
Boambee John
February 7, 2025 9:04 pm
Reply to  calli

Definitely Society, not Strategic!

Entropy
Entropy
February 8, 2025 6:33 am
Reply to  calli

Kevin gotta eat.

besudes, he is best kept busy, and even better if someone else pays for it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 7, 2025 9:03 pm
Reply to  Roger

Australian Strategic Policy Institute??

calli
calli
February 7, 2025 9:07 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

Lol! Another one!

Same acronym, equally useless? It definitely has an extensive “staff” list.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 9:34 pm
Reply to  Roger

Mini muffins, croissants and sandwiches. Disappointingly small figure.

Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 9:05 pm

No wonder he hates Trump. And the last thing he gives AF about are Australians.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 7, 2025 9:06 pm

Howard, Rudd, Gillard, Abbott, Turnbull, ScoMo are all on the payroll of institutes that took USAID money.
Poor old Albo…no wonder he was so snippy this week with the journos.
The feeding trough got taken away before he could get his snout & all four trotters into it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 7, 2025 9:12 pm

Oh dear!
Can Kevin’s DC career stand any more black marks?

Salvatore - Iron Publican
February 7, 2025 10:37 pm

A million bucks marked as ‘compensation’. Are we to take this as a salary/stipend paid to him, for the yr 2022?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
February 7, 2025 8:37 pm

I haven’t listened to AC/DC in years simply because of saturation on the radio, which I stopped tuning into years ago now.

This live version is new to me and a absolute banger. Audio is top notch.

AC/DC – Let There Be Rock (Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, April 1978)

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 7, 2025 8:51 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

Can’t be Glasgow as I was there in 1991 and it is farking cold. Even in Summer. Put yer’ tops back on lads.

Zafiro
Zafiro
February 7, 2025 11:01 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

https://youtu.be/h8xNn4td37k

Dog eat Dog from the same gig.

Lawgi Dawes-Hall
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
February 7, 2025 8:45 pm

Not for the suicidal but I’m impressed. Mr Bonney’s voice is old enough for his songs

Crime & the City Solution – Peace in my Time

Cassie of Sydney
February 7, 2025 8:46 pm

Jamie Lee Curtis has a ‘trans’ child, as does Cher, Charlize Theron, Naomi Watts, Warren Beatty, Sigourney Weaver and others.

The kids are all f*cked in the head, just like their parents. It’s why it’s called ‘Hollyweird’.

Lee
Lee
February 7, 2025 9:08 pm

As do Jennifer Garner (a shame as I had previously really liked her; but no more) and Ben Affleck (who I always thought was very iffy).

Some Hollywood actresses act as though their trans child is a fashion accessory.

As Matt Walsh says, transgenderism is a “social contagion.”

I feel sorry for Elon Musk, as he said, “I’ve lost a son to transgenderism.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 9:39 pm

I may not be representative (we’ll leave that up to others) but two of my friends have trans kids, one M to F, one F to M. Only one of the parents is an academic if that helps.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
February 7, 2025 10:47 pm

Joe and Jill Biden have a Crack Head of an alleged son.

Zafiro
Zafiro
February 7, 2025 11:12 pm

https://vigilantcitizen.com/

Wanna make it in Hollyweird? Be prepared to serve Satan.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
February 7, 2025 8:53 pm

Cali 6/2 @8:06 – British Nurse

thanks Cali.
thanks Farmer Gez.
i can’t help but think the babies are Caucasian and it’s a deliberate act.
Deaths in hospitals attract attention and if one nurse was the common demoninator for 7 deaths there is something wrong here.
looking forward to comments.
I may be over sensitive about such matters in todays environment.

Entropy
Entropy
February 8, 2025 6:37 am
Reply to  Louis Litt

Depends. My SiL has probably lost more than that. But she is a specialist nurse on premmie babies. Some of which are very premmie and have a laundry list of problems.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 7, 2025 8:58 pm

Talk upthread of countries bailing on WHO and selected UN scamocracies.
It isn’t just who is leaving, it is how much money they are taking with them.
The US pays 22% of WHO subscriptions.
They’re going to have to engage Elon and his Stihl chainsaw when the US goes.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
February 7, 2025 9:01 pm

These people are f*cking insane. As per usual, Kaitlin just walks into the hornet nest and is impervious to insults.

She doesn’t care. Scream all you want you fruitloops.

Anti Trumpers Go Absolutely Nuts!

Muddy
Muddy
February 7, 2025 9:04 pm

Re. the celebs and their ‘trans’ children – It’s called Status Hyperbole: When being wealthy and famous is not ‘special’ enough. In Hollywired, so many people are wealthy and famous that it takes something extra to stand out from the herd.

Cassie of Sydney
February 7, 2025 9:05 pm

Hey Vic Cats, any thoughts on the two by-elections tomorrow?

Vagabond
Vagabond
February 7, 2025 9:59 pm

I think the libs might have a chance in Werribee. It used to be a solidly working class liars seat but there has been a lot of demographic change towards “aspirationals” and home owning families with mortgages. If the libs don’t win they will certainly put a dent in the liars majority. Prahran was a slime seat that became vacant when the incumbent got caught horizontally folk dancing with one of his staffers. The liars aren’t contesting it so it’s between the slime and the SFLs. There are very many minors and “independents” harvesting preferences for the slime however one of them is the former liars member who is popular in the area and is campaigning on an anti-slime ticket.. It’s the sort of area that’s peopled by Gen Z purple haired, pierced, tattooed and ponytail wearing latte drinkers so the slimes will probably claw it back. Someone I know who was handing out SFL HTV cards at a pre-poll booth says the slimers are very aggressive, surrounding voters, yelling at them and trying to stop them taking any other HTV cards. They have had to be thrown out by booth staff for trespassing into the actual voting area.

It will be an interesting night!

Cassie of Sydney
February 7, 2025 10:13 pm
Reply to  Vagabond

Thank you. I have a cousin who lives in the electorate of Prahran. She’s a leftist who had formerly voted Green but as she’s Jewish she won’t be voting Green slime tomorrow.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 7, 2025 9:05 pm

ALPBC showed some of the entries of the Bald Archy awards. Supposedly one of the rules is that the works should be funny not vindictive.
One of the entries was a portrait of Peter Dutton’s head surtitled with the words HEART OF DARKNESS.
That doesn’t look very funny to me. Strange how that one accidentally slipped through the filters of the judging panel, eh?

Muddy
Muddy
February 7, 2025 10:07 pm

The first person to stop laughing will be executed?

Jock
Jock
February 7, 2025 9:07 pm

I swa the Jamie Lee Curtis interview. She needs a lot of help. Her kid is fine, but she is either nuts or is on something.

Arky
February 7, 2025 9:21 pm
Reply to  Jock

but she is either nuts or is on something.

Nuts?
nuts are involved, I think.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 9:35 pm
Reply to  Arky

In a jar?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 7, 2025 9:30 pm

Gemma T has a great column in the Oz.
Not so innocent women and children of Gaza.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 7, 2025 9:43 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Lot of postboxes were front and centre when ISIS was up and running. Now seem to have more interest in that Australian citizenship.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 7, 2025 9:37 pm

One of the entries was a portrait of Peter Dutton’s head surtitled with the words HEART OF DARKNESS.

Like sapphic sociology students at UNSW

Cassie of Sydney
February 7, 2025 9:39 pm

Gemma T has a great column in the Oz.
Not so innocent women and children of Gaza.

Yep, I would urge everyone to read it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 7, 2025 10:38 pm

I’m repeating my suggestion – two cities on the Gaza Strip, chosen at random, and given no warning, join Hiroshima and Nagasaki on a very select list…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 7, 2025 9:42 pm

This one’s for historical Cats.

So, I’m having an after dinner single malt – or two – on the verandah, and reading Robert Rhodes James’ biography of Anthony Eden.

Regarding the Geneva Conference of 1954 – the one that divided Vietnam into two States – the one that the North Vietnamese tore up, before the ink was even dry – seems the British played a far greater role in said conference then they were ever given credit for.

Rhodes James makes the statement that “What was not know at the time, and not for many years later, was how Anthony Eden had prevented the eruption of a super – Power conflict in South east Asia that could well have involved atomic weapons.”

Any historical Cats ever heard of this one?

Muddy
Muddy
February 7, 2025 10:08 pm

Sorry. That era is not my forte, despite an interest having been kindled by Dr. Moyar.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 7, 2025 10:19 pm
Reply to  Muddy

Mark Moyar makes damnfine reading, indeed.

Indolent
Indolent
February 7, 2025 10:11 pm
Indolent
Indolent
February 7, 2025 10:14 pm

@WallStreetApes

Ready to have your mind blown?

Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I’ll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered:

– The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan
– He found that we are giving money to Yemen
– He found that we are giving money to Syria
– He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion
– He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money
– He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn’t know that. I bet you the American people didn’t know that”
– He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
– They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world
– They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations
– According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas
– He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for sex changes in Guatemala
– He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
– He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
– He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front
– Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language)
– USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica
– They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem
– They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus
– Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia
– $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal

“I could go all night and many of my colleagues are upset. They’re really mad at Mr. Musk. Hell, I think we ought to give him a medal”

Makka
Makka
February 7, 2025 10:39 pm
Reply to  Indolent

How many of those organisations, NGO’s and “causes” are Soros fronts and Clinton Foundation pop ups?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 8, 2025 8:10 am
Reply to  Makka

And simple money laundering, with ten or more percent for the DemonRats?

Phil
Phil
February 8, 2025 5:26 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

That seems to be standard Liars operation.

Rabz
February 7, 2025 10:48 pm