Now that Jo Haylen has fallen on her sword and Rose Jackson eaten her shit sandwich over their long lunch…
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The Argies pulled out of WHO yesterday. They’ll probably do the same for UNRWA.
Of course. She’s a leftard, so she is a fanatic by definition.
Can you explain that opinion a bit more? The law criminalises urging violence against a group, something you probably were…
lol. I have words for this. I hope the rat in my kitchen, whom Hairy says has long gone but…
ALPBC Lattouf saga providing better entertainment than anything the staff co-op has commissioned in a decade.
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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” ??
Just another canbra pube with a uniform
Half a billion USD to Tel Aviv University via USAID. 300M to the arts in Canada. Soft power doesn’t come cheap.
Trump has found a whole new world of leverage he can manipulate, besides tariffs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Job of ABC clarified:
Although I checked the ABC’s job description and it still says ‘ask only softball questions to an ALP PM’, so Albo is right!
Really!
Albo is under the pump.
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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I ticked it mole. Nice Grok work.
More like that Robocop scene.
From Indolent’s link at 2:13.
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.
PS.
If I was Killary, I’d assiduously avoid making any comment on anything to do with compudas.
It just reminds people.
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.
This is beautiful to watch.
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?
I can dream but wouldn’t it be luvverly to see Trump declare Soros and his hatchlings as enemy aliens.
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.
Just flown China Air, a Taiwanese company.
On time.
Hosties young, pretty, proficient in both English and Mandarin.
Wonderful meal and drinks service.
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”.
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.
Try United. Arrogant, near retirement, old staff. Throw the shit food at you. Packed. In 40 years of flying, the worst.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I can imagine the meetings which would have gone on around that.
Gluten free banana bread I expect.
Jesse Watters: Dems are going nuclear
Their kiddies are not happy.
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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).
Are they advocating insurrection?
Yes, but it’s different when they do it.
I wonder why their constituents are so angry? Maybe someone told them 24/7/365 that Trump was Hitler.
I wonder who that was?
Lattouf means ‘a nice man’ in the camel fanciers language.
What’s “a nice camel”?
One that doesn’t say NO!
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
200,000 years of high culture, right there.
Greyhound buses in the outback are an experience. Puts Magistrates Court in the shade.
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?
Kissing the ring…
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:
What a load of geriatric boot makers. (H/T Bernard)
That will make for a smoother transition. Gotta zip.
You understand the difference between the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China?
Apparently not.
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
Lol. Since I’ve mentioned PRC and ROC making the same or near same claim re South China Sea I think the answer is Yes.
Then you’re just being retarded for no good reason.
No, I was obviously being a smartarse as indicated by the ‘Gotta zip’ at the end.
Smartarse is now a synonym for retard?
Wretch!
I laughed.
You’ll have to re-moisturise though. Post blowtorch.
There was nothing obvious about that at all.
Guy Pearce, an actor I once had some time for, attended the AACTA Awards wearing a ‘Free Palestine’ brooch.
What a complete dickhead.
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.
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.
His brain was Diddy’d into oblivion as he climbed the slippery pole in Hollywood.
Best ignored.
POW! Right in the kisser!
Victor Davis Hanson: Donald Trump’s Tariff Diplomacy Is Working
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilWD6dyHpf4 (8:31)
Little evidence of that at the minute.
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.
I’ll make a further prediction: you will become increasingly bitter and hysterical as Trump reshapes the world.
Heh, other than that everyone is falling over themselves to kiss his ring.
What do you know? Just like “climate change”.
“Foreign Aid” Enriches the Rich While Impoverishing the Impoverished
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.
Meme
Imane out
https://x.com/BoxingNewsED/status/1886897529993748640?t=w662RQP36k78TbqGF1U2dA&s=19
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Gosh. Can’t be good for resale values.
Left-Wing Journalism Was Just the Deep State All Along
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?
No comment on the “multicultural” leadership of SBS? One network not enough for the Muslims?
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.
I’m surprised you’re still alive.
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.
Nah, she laughed.
Sleep with one eye open.
@MarioNawfal 3h
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!
When $40 Billion pa is just not enough…
He really is politically tone deaf.
Or, a big treasury raid on the way out? A lot of parasite maaates in the abo industry.
I’d suggest this money was already earmarked for the purpose; just waiting for an opportune time to announce it.
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.
Straight lift of Greens policy. Albo and the Liars in full blown panic mode now.
More money for the NBN too.
Whack it all on the credit card and leave Dutton with the bill.
Albosleazy is a grifter, unashamed of bribing people with taxpayers’ money to vote for him.
Hate Crime Bill Exposed
1776 2.0: dismantling the aristocracy
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
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.
Mate at coffee this morning said h8s nieces have torn down all the posters of her that used to be on the bedroom walls.
I wouldn’t be too sure about that.
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.
I noticed the other day when she was on one of her tirades that her eyes were those of a fanatic.
Of course. She’s a leftard, so she is a fanatic by definition.
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.
Better leave the half track in the garage for a while till this blows over.
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?
I’m guessing as I’m not up with it, that the ex-cop is for it?
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?
UNRWA funding is falling apart.
The US, Switzerland, now Italy.
Soon it will just be Australia and Iran supporting terrorism in Gaza.
The Argies pulled out of WHO yesterday.
They’ll probably do the same for UNRWA.
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?
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.
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.