Week In Pictures.
Open Thread – Thurs 13 Feb 2025
- The Holistic Rewards of Christianity
- Open Thread – Weekend 15 Feb 2025
- Open Thread – Thurs 13 Feb 2025
- Open Thread – Mon 10 Feb 2025
- Trouble at the supermart
You just can’t get the quality these days.
Superb.
Indolent February 15, 2025 7:45 pm Tucker interview. He’s speaking in English.Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, Immigration,…
Ditto Barry.
I also wonder …
Two people walk into an ED presenting with precisely the same symptoms.
One wearing a hijab and another wearing a yarmulke.
Which one gets attended to first?
And they can excuse it on triage grounds.
@ChrisR_631
RFK JR WILL USE RICO ACT OF 1970 TO EXPOSE COLLUSION BETWEEN MEDICAL BOARDS, JOURNALS & BIG PHARMA…GRAB YOUR [POPCORN]
@DougMackeyCase
BREAKING: Six top DOJ officials resign over order to drop Eric Adams case — AP
Those resigning include Acting US Attorney Danielle Sassoon, Acting Head of the Public Integrity Section John Keller, Rob Heberle, Jenn Clarke, and Marco Palmieri of Public Integrity, and Kevin Driscoll of the DOJ’s criminal division.
Bye bye!
No news yet on whether Bill Gullotta of DOJ Public Integrity has resigned in shame yet.
Just finished watching Golda with the wife.
I have no words to do it justice.
I thought it damnfine viewing.
watching That I realised it must have been made before 7 October. No way that pack of luvvies would have signed up otherwise.
In a bizarre coincidence, its cinematic release in the UK was on 6 October 2023.
Pity Trump can’t sack the pope.
@TaraBull808
Pope Francis slams President Trump’s immigration policies: Illegals Are Not Criminals
ze pope should read the bit about rendering stuff unto Caesar and STFU
The Pope should be donating the Vatican Wealth to some very good causes. Not just sitting on it.
Oh for goodness sake not this chestnut again. The Pope doesn’t own the Vatican treasures. The Vatican holds them on behalf of humanity. I think Lysander once worked out a Vatican fire sale would realise sufficient funds to give each person in just Ethiopia $6 each. Then what?
I’ll have a bit thanks
That’d be a middy at the pub.
OK, sounds fair enough.
In that case the pope should be very amenable to letting them squat on Vatican territory.
Hypocrite
They can also be banned for 15 years.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/261557/vatican-cracks-down-on-illegal-entry-into-its-territory
Hmm – I’m a bit lost on how that works.
if you perform a criminal act (enter country illegally, which is a crime, not a misdemeanor), and that makes you a criminal. Doesn’t it?
Hey, by all means argue it shouldn’t be a criminal offense, but given the reality that it currently is, you don’t have a leg to stand on I’d say.
Then again, this Pope is somewhat, err… “novel” in his various interpretations of the Bible and apparently the law as well. Not to mention the great big wall around the Vatican and what you face if you enter there without their permission. Stones and glass houses and all that.
Fartlek: the easy scientific trick that will improve your running
From the Times. Helps you run like the wind.
Wow! John Howard campaigning with the Liberal candidate in the seat of Paterson in Hunter Valley*. He just let off a spray at the journalists about our stupidity in not using coal and gas to generate cheap and plentiful electricity. He even mentioned Germany where they are turning back from renewables. It is good that he is making up for his previous missteps.
*Campaign seems to have started even though the election has not even been called. But then again why wait, get a jump start on Labor who currently hold the seat.
He’s the idiot who signed up to renewables. Screw him. STFU, you little jumped up turd, Howard.
Not only did little johnnie sign us up for Paris, renewables and the rest of that BS but he also enacted the legislation banning nuclear. He really is Australia’s worst PM.
In fairness, this may have been a “Yes, Minister” moment –
“You’re anti Europe?”
“Of course!”
“But you supported us joining the EU!”
“Yes. We tried to break it up from the outside, but that didn’t work. Now we’re on the inside, we can make a pigs breakfast of the whole thing.”
Alas, for climate, while the pigs breakfast part has come true, us having to abide by the same is bad – very, very bad!
If Howard really wanted to help the liberal deadshits, he would disappear from view and never return to remind voters of where all this broadchurch, limp cocked, “we have to dispel the suspicion that we are mean and nasty” multi culty, Kennetsonian, gun buy backing, managed declining, big Australia, tax base broadening, visa milling, de-industrialising, weather bothering, rainbow unicorn molestation came from
Im not ruling out a late redemption arc.
His running into Maocolms place with a brick of semtex attached to his tallywhacker while the “Liberals for Palestine” meeting is on and making strangled cat noises at him before detonation would make up for a fair bit.
Speaking of pains in the cock, where is Malcolm?
Last spotted on Twatter telling how he saw Trump acting obsequious to putin to a crowd of tens of people at some “festival of om nom nom yummy cock” somewhere.
Hiding from Florence – who is always bogged
He’s certainly got a lot to make up for. Let’s leave him in political purgatory where he can do so.
That being said, if Liberal research is telling them that battlers are pining for John Howard such that his presence on the campaign trail is a plus then Albanese really has a problem.
With tailored modifications.
Including a shit-chute behind the seat.
Laughing
Sounds like chemical or biological warfare to me.
At HS a friend and I thought of a great terrorist crime plot for a Bond movie. It involved Spectre threatening the world with a plot to blow up multiple fertility drug bombs placed in the Ganges and other rivers of India. The threat being to pay up or be up to your ears in Indians. I think it would still work!!
No, no! We don’t want to be flooded with more on student visas driving full-time Ubers! And scooting on Uber Eats
And shitting in truck stops.
Oh dear.
@ShawnRyan762
“That’s why the US Department of Defense pays over $1 million a year to the Atlantic Council. They have seven CIA directors on their board to use the capacity to create this civilian front for a military monster.”
A businessman is drinking alone at a bar. A gentleman pulls up at the stool next to him, places a large briefcase on the bar, and orders a double.
The two men chat as they drink and, as they approach the bottoms of their glasses, the gentleman says, “Say, I’ve got a deal for you. I’ll bet you $100 that I’ve got a tiny piano player in this bag that can pound out a Mozart sonata.”
Businessman laughs. “I’ll take that bet!”
The two men pull hundred dollar bills from their wallets and slap them on the bar. The gentleman opens his bag and, lo and behold, there IS a tiny grand piano inside. At it sits a tiny piano player, who nods to the gentleman before launching into a beautiful Mozart sonata.
“Extraordinary!” says the businessman. “Where in the world did you get that little guy?”
The gentleman smirks and places a round black stone on the bar. “An old woman gave me this hippie wishing stone. Give it a try if you want.”
The businessman touches the stone and says, “I wish for a million bucks!”
Suddenly there’s a deafening quacking as ducks begin to stream through the bar door.
“Hey, I wished for a million bucks, not a million ducks.”
The gentleman shrugs, “You think I wished for a 10 inch pianist?”
LOL. The KRudd at a Blue Scope Steel Plant in the USA. He even tries on a USA’n accent……………….
What next? The mind boggles.
“Did ah tells ya’ll ahbout tha time mah familah lived in a broken down Pinto?”
Wasn’t it a Kombi?
Let’s allow a bit of poetic license here, thanks BJ!
Where can you watch the Golda film???
Prime
I watched it the other night. Pretty good, though there were too many shots of Mirren’s fake swollen ankles.
It was like, haven’t we done a great job with these?
Thanks!
Another armchair warrior in the mold of Gen Buck Keane (Retd). Both are regulars on Blot.
Rabz, Richard Kemp spends a lot of time in Israel and his commentary on Gaza/Hamas is usually spot on.
Not so much on the Ukraine/Wussia contretemps, though.
RFK JR WILL USE RICO ACT OF 1970 TO EXPOSE COLLUSION BETWEEN MEDICAL BOARDS, JOURNALS & BIG PHARMA…GRAB YOUR [POPCORN]
Yipee. When you can’t believe the research presented in medical journals……..
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
One definition of a racket is forcing people to pay for something that is not required or doesn’t exist. e.g. a protection racket, selling a magical elixir
I pray RFK’s security detail is really good.
More judicial activism against Trump:
Judge Blocks Portions of Trump’s Orders on Gender Identity
Any judicial impediment of Trump’s Executive orders is ultra vires:
Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. 475 (1866)
Mississippi v. Johnson | 71 U.S. 475 (1866) | Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center
QuestionCould the Supreme Court constitutionally issue an injunction directed against the President?
ConclusionIn a unanimous decision, the Court held that it had “no jurisdiction of a bill to enjoin the President in the performance of his official duties….” The Court held that the duties of the President as required by the Reconstruction Acts were “in no sense ministerial,” and that a judicial attempt to interfere with the performance of such duties would be “an absurd and excessive extravagance.” The Court noted that if the President chose to ignore the injunction, the judiciary would be unable to enforce the order.
These fuking activist judges need to be……..?
Nuked.
I dunno if he’s a huge mistake or one of the best decisions made. We’ll see.
Can’t imagine Cheryl would be too happy about the sudden dearth of dinner party invites from various Hollyweirdos*.
*All politely explained by the fact their houses are now piles of ash, thanks to Fatty Trump driven gerbil worming.
We’ll see, if he interferes with childhood vaccination programs he might cause a chronic children’s health crisis the likes of which the west has not experienced in 90 years.
we already have a chronic childrens health crisis…. if you care to look
@MikeBenzCyber
Here are the “independent fact-checkers” you ordered, sir.
Speaking of pommyactivist judges, read about one Hugo Taylor Hyphen. Full on class warfare.
They all faught’ that they were rite’ However, they were really left and are now left rite’ out of everyfink’.
Oh, yes! A great post, Bespoke.
@ShawnRyan762
“This was attempted against Donald Trump when he won the 2016 election, when the Russiagate predicate came out about social media interference.”
“USAID goes after every single category of institution in the country. They’re targeting the media, control over social media speech, the unions, the workers groups, the judiciaries, the parliamentarians, the arts and music and culture, the universities and the academic institutions.”
Don’t piss him off.
Every point he makes is great, but the one point that sticks out is that the young people brought to the firm simply don’t learn by having the older folks working from home.
Proof starting to emerge not only of financial mismanagement but corruption, treason etc:
USAID’s Taliban Money Laundering Scheme | Frontpage Mag
My worry is not mewling demorat bureaucrats singing stupid songs in the streets, or even fuktard judges but more bullets. May God protect Trump and his team.
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna in Congress. Five minutes of essential viewing.
She produced an Instruction Manual created by the military with instructions on how the military could work with the State Department, intel services and USAID “Using race riots in order to destabilise nations”
@realannapaulina
Thank you @MikeBenzCyber for bringing this to light. USAID is about as swampy as it gets.
(78) Utah driver ABANDONS SUV moments before TRAIN COLLISION—could have just driven forward – YouTube
Polish translation shown.
@D_Tarczynski
Thank You @joerogan and @MikeBenzCyber
This is USAID.
Full-scale operation in Poland!
Have we found out the motive for the Munich pedestrian melee, or it’s still not clear to German police yet?
The scumbag was allegedly yelling “Allah” so I guess that’s a tell.
Dontcha know Allah is arabic for “help, get out of the way, my brakes have failed”.
@amuse
USAID: British politician complaining that his wife was supposed to get $1M in USAID grants before Trump cancelled the contract. Rory Stewart’s wife runs Turquoise Mountain Foundation, which exposes modern art to puzzled Afghan women.
I can do that at a fraction of 1 million.
Hand me that banana and my duct tape.
Please let it be this one…
Rory Stewart’s wife runs Turquoise Mountain Foundation, which exposes modern art to puzzled Afghan women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdrvpSfJM1w
Drove through Kooyong this morning.
Many signs on multi million dollar pads for your independent Monique Ryan, just a couple of Amelia Hamer, the Liberal candidate.
I suspect Ryan might get back, those toffee noses don’t feel the pinch of green policy.
The teal campaign is pervasive here in Kooyong and obviously very well funded. However the new areas in the electorate after the redistribution encompass the bluest areas of Malvern & Toorak so I think the teals are a bit anxious.
Toffee noses, and rest of heads up arses.
South Africa is done! A nation of animals … not all.
Good luck growing crops.
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Winston:
The Truth about White South African Refugees
Here’s the unedited clip of the ‘innocent muslim nurses’ for everyone’s edification.
I’m getting a gay vib lol.
https://x.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1890179007515357414?t=F-2-krf6Ej88fEZO6j5WCQ&s=19
Yes Rosie. The gaydar just went up here too.
Some droob of an online hijabi claimed the Jewish guy had tricked them. Nope.
I thought her pretend spit at the camera was charming also. Goodness know what she does to her little, vulnerable patients.
Daily Mail:
The explosive key detail that triggered the vile outburst from two nurses that was edited OUT of the anti-Semitic video which shocked Australia
When Mr Veifer asked what the pair would do if Israeli patients presented at the hospital, Abu Lebdeh said: ‘I won’t treat them. I’ll kill them.’
Nadir similarly answered: ‘You have no idea how many Israeli dogs came to this hospital and I (motions slitting throat).’
The call abruptly ended when Mr Veifer questioned if their hatred extended to all Jewish people.
History in the making.
Mr Nurse now hospitalised. Probably getting threats over the beautiful eyes comment.
“The western world is being reshaped by the Zionists.
In Australia, lawyers and groups aligned with Zionist interests are allegedly using propaganda and possibly staging false flag attacks to curb protests against actions in Palestine and other oppressed groups. They’re pushing for laws that would silence critics by playing the victim card.
There’s already been an “incident” with $50 bills defaced with anti-Semitic slurs circulating. Companies are updating policies to “shield” Zionists from confrontation.
Expect soon a staged hate crime in the news to justify even tighter control over public dissent.”
This is a paid ad I am seeing on twitter.
What on earth?
He’s a Syrian muslim living in Australia
Well he shouldn’t be for much longer. Ungrateful bastard.
Dimon is right.
Fourteen (14) f-cking committee reviews!
About five years ago I was working as consultant and was generally taking the attitude of “I’ll do the work, deliver what you ask for, get paid and not give a f-ck”.
But it eventually drives you nuts, all these dicks chipping in from the sidelines with their “earnest concerns”.
In one bid review meeting – where you might get the CEO’s attention for an hour, maybe two if it was a yuuuge project – it eventually got too much for me. I just said, “You know what? Unless you are the person with the delegated authority to approve this, or you are providing that person with the necessary information to make an informed decision, maybe you shouldn’t be here”.
The barometric pressure in the room dropped about 10 points.
But I didn’t get fired, counselled or cancelled.
Dimon is also right about WFH and I had forgotten that the rot started with casual Friday. Back in the ’90’s I worked for a company which had it’s HQ in California.
They would turn up in golf or beach gear, and you could pretty much fire a cannon through the place at 11:30 am on a Friday and hit nobody. And they had the gall to bitch and moan about the number of public holidays Australians got.
Casual Friday makes some sense in London or New York where you can’t really go home before heading out. As a grad trainee I went to a Hunters and Collectors gig at the Old Melbourne. Ithink I was the only one in a suit.
Used to try and do my Securities Institute homework in the Foxy Lady tavern surrounded by topless barmaids and building workers. Took me a couple of extra years with the distractions.
SP – I ended up being the one APS officer on a project that featured fifty overpaid contractors, all but five from one of the big four. They couldn’t stand being asked anything – I was simply an obstruction to making money. Over two years I reduced the workforce to 4. Which was all we needed. The highlight was the day I binned the ‘finance’ team whom after a month of refusing to provide me with some figures I needed to be able to clarify (just what the fuck was going on) – I grabbed a security officer and walked them out of the building grabbing their security passes on the way. Cue the senior partner going ballistic. Cue me pointing out I was about to conduct a line by line item by item audit of the previous two years. (DOGE before DOGE.) Cue the senior partner fucking off. Now I am just an operator in a key area of cyber defence. We are at 20% maturity. How hard is it to get to 100%? Not hard. Will anyone make a decision. No. Absolutely fucking maddening. (….cue PoliticoNT’s pending exit.). I feel your pain.
P09ouy
Incompetent
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/nsw-police-failed-to-provide-complete-email-address-to-israel-influencer-who-recorded-bankstown-hospital-nurses-antisemitic-tirade/news-story/20c2352b641f63e87d1cb50658989916
Or deliberate?
There was a time when I’d go incompetence every time. No more.
The police commissioner’s suggestion that Veifer wasn’t cooperating gives me pause re this being a simple typo on a phone. That seems like an attempt to create a counter-narrative (and probably not by her as she’s not directly involved in the investigation and is not bright enough to do so, imo).
Meanwhile, are the two nurses cooperating yet?
And another thing…I’ve no doubt those two are feeling under stress, but hospitalised…really?
Nope. Not accepting the “accident” bull.
It’s a classic way to buy time.
They’re victims, Roger.
That card is played often.
Or deliberate, so they could claim that they didn’t receive the unedited video.
Snap, Calli.
Time for the defence (Hmm would like to know who’s funding that) to fake mental illness and put them away in a nice ward for a couple of weeks.
My thoughts too.
Beds in public hospital mental health wards are as rare as a Lib politician with non-negotiable convictions.
Who’s funding it? Inquiring minds…
If these lunatics get a say in government, the Aussie and the Aussie stockmarket could be the biggest short of the century.
Being short the AUD is never a bad idea.
If Keating or Hawke was in the Lodge I would dismiss this, knowing they might throw a few crumbs in Bandit’s direction, but this is the sort of stuff Luigi the Student Union Rep really, REALLY wants to do.
Just as Hunchback the Bicycle Destroyer did deals with the looney left in the Upper House in Victoria.
Some of the Animal Justice and Greens demands were what he always wanted to do. He could deflect any criticism by saying they were the sort of unpalatable compromises that a pragmatic politician just has to do sometimes.
Thats pretty well what the Red witch did in her term.
“oh noooo, I am being forced to do this thing Ive always lusted for”…
If Labor form government with the Greens then the country is utterly stuffed.
There’s a lot of ruin in a country…mind you, we may already be over half- way towards our Argentina moment.
25% of me wants to vote Green, just to see this place rooted and then have an impenetrable conservative government. Maybe, let it burn.
Just received a DVD: Munich.
Tells the story of how the Israelis went after all, repeat all, of the scumbags who took hostages from the Olympic Village in 1972.
They will continue to go after Hamas for as long as it takes.
Operation “Wrath of God” – The Israelis bumped off the last target on their list in 1979.
Munich is an awesome film.
Stephen Miller is the energizer bunny. He never stops. Such good value.
President Trump is engaging in the most important restoration of democracy in over a century, by saying that we are going to restore power to the people through their ELECTED president and his appointed officers.
Elon Gives Huge DOGE Updates to World Governments
Watching Keith Wolahan, Liberal MP, on Sky.
Albo was heckled at the ‘gong today. Righteously, in my opinion. Wolahan’s response? I don’t agree with politicians being heckled.
Seriously.
My response would be – make the PM work for his free speech. Then he’ll know how the electorate feels.
None of them like robust debate.
Gough Whitlam called a mob of Australian farmers “Lazy bludgers, who’ve never had it so good” and wondered why they were unkind enough to throw things at him
Speaking of Hunchback the Bicycle Crusher, I wonder how many left-leaning politicians world-wide have bailed (or jumped-before-pushed) from the Big Chair with a wink-nudge promise of a cushy job with a USAID funded NGO, only to find the funds have now dried up.
Remind me of where the Hunchback landed. It wasn’t broadly circulated here in Dan’s Big Build Black Hole home state.
I am not getting too wound up about lower courts trying to block Trump’s initiatives.
Yes, the legal barriers have to be knocked over, but this is about politics far more than it is about legalities … and the Trump Train is absolutely killing it on the political battlefield. Yes, there is a lot of noise from Pencil-neck, AOC, Maxine the Stupid and Chucky Cheeseburger but the general public has a natural mistrust of career politicians, and Trump has played that spectacularly.
I reckon if an election was held again tomorrow, Trump would improve on his November win.
When this stuff eventually gets to SCOTUS I can’t see them neutering Presidential authority.
Many of the things Trump has knocked over are just reversals of previous EOs, or cover the same subject matters as previous Presidents have issued EOs on.
Nice bit of legal jujitsu: he and Elon have pissed off so many lefties, fired them, defunded them etc, that they’re all suing. Thus the courts are going to be clagged up with all these lawsuits. The whole legal system could even grind to a halt under the weight of lefty lawsuits. It’s fun to watch.
I don’t reckon there will be a lot of clogging going on.
It’s pretty easy to run a speculative “it’s snot fair!” injunction up the flagpole in front of a corrupt swamp judge and get the nod.
It is something else altogether to run a full-blown case before SCOTUS, particularly one you are 100% certain you are going to lose.
And don’t give me that old “pro-bono” thing.
Lawyers love truth, justice, the American way and getting paid, but not necessarily in that order.
Yes, they might run a “pro bono” case but it is usually in tandem with that other Latin phrase “quid pro quo”.
Where’s the quid pro quo-ish part of this one?
Back-door funds from USAID? Bzzzt.
The promise of buckets of future work from a friendly administration? Uh-uh.
The resistance will have to be privately (or Blue state) funded against a DoJ which isn’t running dead or putting the B-team on it.
Pam Bondi is Letitia Bragg now.
Who or what is paying for them?
Like I said:
Mississippi v. Johnson
Legally, the judges have a large gavel up their clackers.
I usually run with Donoghue v Stevenson on these matters (or even Foss v Harbottle) but Mississippi v Johnson* will do.
I love how lefties scream “separation of powers” in defence of interventionist Bench-Commies without having a f-cking clue what it really means.
It means, the judiciary has a right to interpret law by reference to over-arching principles (common law) or guiding document (a Constitution).
It does not mean the judiciary has unfettered rights to stymie political and administrative power exercised by a democratically elected assembly or President.
The very term “separation of powers” implies both the judiciary and elected representatives have certain powers and neither should interfere with the other.
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* I would pay good money to hear Luigi attempt the phrase “The Shtate of Mishishippy vershus Johnshon in the Shupreme Court of the Shtate of Mishishippy”.
I recall that Biden fired a righty from the bureaucracy and it went up to Scotus, who affirmed his executive authority to do so.
Looked briefly earlier but couldn’t immediately find the story. But if it is true I don’t like the chances of all those fired public serpents.
Yes, the bloke whose name escapes me, took it to SCOTUS to establish the precedent.
IIRC, that was under Creepy Joe, and the appellant was working to establish the principle that Trump could do the same thing.
You speak Luigi perfectly.
When the Demonrats say “it’s unconstitutional,” they would be right if DJT were navigating around statues passed by congress.
The fact that a Bill of Congress established, for example, the Dept of Education, means that a department legally exists; it doesn’t mean the department is guaranteed funding (unless that’s actually written into the Bill… which would be very odd).
I’m not aware of a single government body that has funding levels written into its Act. Most departments have a clause that say “to be appropriated from Consolidated Funding” (or the like) but never a set or specified level of appropriation.
TheirABC did attempt to get “indexed funding” written into the ABC Act but I think they failed. And even “indexed funding” aint a lot if your appropriation is set to, say, $1.50.
Hahaaaa!
Good stuff, Dan.
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Danger Dan Reviews:
Albanese Heckled: Unburdened by what has been.
Did Cyclone Zelia fizzle out?
Latest Weather Observations for Western Australia
Strongest wind recorded was at 2.51pm at Port Hedland, at 120kms. Nowhere else in the Pilbara has recorded over 78kms.
The Bureau of Mythology can’t help itself. The default setting of its weather “models” is “we’re all gunna die” armageddon. The boffins had been hoping Gaia would destroy the Pilbara iron ore mining industry.
Has BOM been tweeking the weather radar to make it appear worse. Nothing would surprise me.
The 120km reading at 2.51pm stands. A place called Mining Bridge scored an 80km reading.
The eye is now about 50kms inland.
I’m sure BoM will “pop up” with some huuuge measurement from some station that’s not listed on the official list.
120km is a walk in the park. Maybe not even Cat 1.
Iron Bridge Mine sorry.
Lot of nothing much in that part of the world. Would have been 20-30km to the next homestead with only a couple of windmills and fences between them.
Na I have been checking in all day in between things. Would have been a classic Indian Ocean WA cyclone just it hit where not many people are fortunately. Qld Cape gets a few real nasty destructive ones like this that fortunately make bee lines north of Cairns/Port Douglas.
Beautiful structure, last check before land fall had a good circular eye and the sat images had an impressive looking system. Tagged eye this morning likely during eye wall replacement, which meant she was still intensifying.
Fact that the US agencies were on board tells me she packed a punch, knowing how the BOM overclassifies these systems high end Cat 4 on crossing.
Port Headland fortunately was too far away. from the centre. Managed Cat 1 winds anyway. Big clean up on weekend.
Only just above a stiff sailing breeze.
Chris Merrett, legal affairs editor in the Oz….
Punishment will not be enough when it comes to dealing with the Bankstown Hospital’s two nurses who made anti-Semitic threats. We need better civics education in our schools.
Can someone copy/paste the full article. Much appreciated
Bankstown Hospital anti-Semitic nurses a result of civics failureChris Merritt
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/23e5f1fce6a4f0107fe53ed17bd3fae3
Bankstown Hospital nurses Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh in the social media video in which they appeared to threaten Israeli people. Picture: NewsWire
The facts are clear: two nurses took a break during their shift at Sydney’s Bankstown Hospital, went online and threatened to kill people from Israel who sought medical help.
If the goal is to prevent such conduct, punishment will not be enough. Nor will proposed new laws that would send people to prison in NSW for offensive language that falls short of inciting violence.
The conduct of those nurses demands a much broader response. The goal here should not merely be to punish, but to defeat an alien mindset that has taken root in our midst.
To achieve those goals we need a far more robust approach to civics and citizenship education. Our approach to this subject in schools and universities has been lax for too long.
The warning signs have long been apparent. In January last year, the Department of Home Affairs revealed that 100,000 migrants had failed the citizenship test in the 14 months to August 2023.
That test is a joke. It consists of 20 multiple-choice questions and applicants are permitted to attempt it three times.
This relaxed approach to Australian standards is quite a problem for a country in which 31 per cent of the population was born elsewhere and 50 per cent have at least one parent born overseas.
The same lax approach has downplayed the importance of civics and citizenship in schools.
Since 2004, the civics and citizenship knowledge of school students has been tested every few years through the National Assessment Program – Civics and Citizenship.
In 2004, a representative sample of students was tested and the proportion of year 10 students with proficiency in civics and citizenship was 39 per cent. In 2019, this had fallen to 38 per cent.
Those figures are from last month’s report on civics education by the federal parliament’s joint standing committee on electoral matters.
Bankstown Hospital, in Sydney’s west, where the two nurses were employed. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short
That report says: “A significant theme in this inquiry was that civics education, both formal and informal, is not working. Australians are struggling to fully participate in our democracy because the status quo is fragmented and inequitable.”
It recommended a nationally mandated and stand-alone civics and citizenship education curriculum and mandatory civics and citizenship training for all teachers.
This is a clear response to last year’s evidence to the committee from constitutional lawyer Anne Twomey. “The biggest problem we have is that the people who teach civics and citizenship frequently have not been trained in the area,” Twomey told the committee. “They don’t have that sort of store of background knowledge and confidence in the field to be able to translate what is the basic material that you need to teach, and to translate that into a way to connect that to current-day events in a way that makes it interesting to students.”
What happened at Bankstown Hospital is a wake-up call. Whether we like it or not, we are embroiled in a battle of ideas that is becoming a life or death struggle. At the moment we are not winning. We are barely trying.
Law is important but it results in punishment after the event. At best, it provides a deterrent for those who are already lost to the other side.
There are more effective ways of winning the battle for ideas – such as establishing a university-based centre for civics and citizenship, as proposed by teal independent Kate Chaney.
Teachers are on the front line of this fight and governments have failed to equip them with the training and support they need.
My organisation, the Rule of Law Education Centre, emphasised the need for civics to be both a curriculum priority and a dedicated unit as part of the university education degree for teachers.
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‘kill them’ People in NSW Health uniforms say they would refuse to treat Israeli people.
Instagram video of two people wearing NSW Health uniforms declaring they refuse to treat Israeli patients.
Addressing this would have a more beneficial long-term impact than rushing through a law that criminalises speech that falls short of incitement of violence.
Such a law would amount to criminalising section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which imposes civil liability for speech that offends, insults, humiliates or intimidates on the basis of race or national origin.
The problem with 18C is not just that it stifles debate that some find offensive. The real problem is that its key terms are vulnerable to subjective interpretation – which is the antithesis of good law.
If this sort uncertainty became a feature of criminal law in NSW, it would leave convictions vulnerable to the same sort of criticism that has accompanied certain civil cases involving 18C.
Instead of using the two nurses as an excuse to implement a vague law, NSW should consider the scope of a federal law already on the books.
Section 474.17 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code makes it a criminal offence punishable by five years in prison to use a “carriage service” to menace, harass or cause offence.
There is, of course, no suggestion that the two nurses have breached this provision.
Before turning to a supercharged version of 18C, politicians in NSW and elsewhere might find it useful to take another look at last month’s report by that joint committee of federal parliament on civics and citizenship.
It says the current implementation of civics and citizenship education through the Australian curriculum has resulted in students receiving “vastly different content” depending on their location.
After what happened at Bankstown Hospital, that sort of parochial indulgence needs to end.
Chris Merritt is vice-president of the Rule of Law Institute of Australia and the Rule of Law Education Centre.
Yes, yes.
We’ll convince them to love Australia by deploying Cultured Reason™.
Merritt writes some good articles but this naive in the extreme.
Yep. When you’re dealing with people quite happy to blow themselves up for the cause.
“a university-based centre for civics and citizenship, as proposed by teal independent Kate Chaney.”
Yes, and it would end up a luvvies festival of aboriginal land never ceded and how terrible Australian colonialism was etc etc, as we found in The Museum of Australian Democracy in Eureka, Vic.
We need to teach the genuine history of Federation, of the States and the Constitution and other black letter laws that Australia has developed.
Not wokism.
Not one of his best sad to say. Sure our education system needs a massive overhaul on teaching Australian history and values but the bigger problem is importing hordes of tribal, vile savages that will never accept it.
For goodness sake. Chris hasn’t studied islam. These two nurses are muslims and their “alien mindset” cannot be defeated as Chris puts it. Western democracy and islam are incompatible. True muslims, not those muslims in name only, want Westerners and their “alien mindset” to adapt to islamic values.
This problem manifests itself in two ways:-
1. funding appropriations;
2. regulation
Both are framed with barely enough law to hold the bus-sized loopholes together.
Funding. Stipulation of spending criteria was so vague (or non-existent) in the case of USAID that the bureaucracy could basically define anything as “advancing US interests abroad” (yes, even funding a left-wing rag in Iowa). This had two effects. Firstly, they could spend it precisely as their Dimocrat masters desired but affording the political wing a degree of plausible deniability if one or two dodgy examples came to light. Secondly, the “ongoing initiatives” could continue during periods when the “wrong guy” occupied the White House.
Regulation. The best example here is the EPA. A vague brief to ensure “clean air and water” morphs into a welter of regulations covering all sorts of Gaia-salvation. The overturning of Chevron helps here, but only now when we have an administration willing to kick the shit out of the EPA.
Thanks Frank.
I agree with Merritt on the necessity of addressing the teaching of civics (I’ve raised it here from time to time) but it’s naive to imagine that will solve the problem in view. We are indeed dealing with a contest of ideas but the opposing side is already well entrenched in our territory.
I also agree that charging the nurses with use of a carriage service to menace is more likely to result in a conviction than the vague and untested hate speech laws.
At the very least they should be charged under this existing law though my experience has been charges are often dropped later.
I took out an AVO on someone based on her threats over the phone to kill me with a knife (she and her male companion who also threatened me were both escaped from a locked psychiatric ward. AVO was granted immediately but as she was found and put in a locked ward, and the case came up later, she was not charged with the criminal act, just lectured in court.
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My wayward second son also made threats to people he had grudges against. They took out an AVO and the police charged him, took him into remand without bail (he has form in skipping bail) and kept him there for two months, after which the case was dismissed and he was released.
They could do that with these two nurses, make them go through the whole court and remand process (no bail) and jump the hoops of pleading medical reasons why the charges should be dropped. The girl is already setting up a medical case by having her panic attacks (she’s the one hospitalised? Or is it him?)
He’s in hospital, she’s gone to a safe house (if you believe the reporting), Lizzie.
How did the Israeli dude and the two swine get to talking over the vid? Who and why set it up, as I don’t get the entanglement.
As far as I understand, some sort of app that connects people for conversations online, JC.
Someone else may be able to fill it in.
After what happened at Bankstown Hospital, that sort of parochial indulgence needs to end.
What rot- what planet does this idiot live on? Blaming attacks by a hostile, imported culture on state differences. give me a break.
Inch by inch.
Germany have banned arabic at demonstrations.
Apparently they have 700 or 900 thousand? failed asylum seekers who have failed to depart.
Over 300,000 draw some sort of government income.
https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1890284174038212956?t=Bc0uf0AVY2ij45epkt0t-w&s=19
Mutti Merkel’s poisonous legacy.
Apology if already posted.
As nurses declare they’d kill Israelis, are you ready to pick a side yet?
Gemma Tognini
Are you ready to pick a side yet? My question is directed to many: for those who have obfuscated; who have hidden behind words such as context and nuance; who have tried to have a buck each way because standing on the wall at times like this comes at a cost.
My question is definitely for the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Are either of you ready yet?
My question is for everyone who has shrugged their shoulders and said it’s Australia, not the Weimar Republic. It’s not that big of a deal, not that pervasive a problem.
To the people I know who have rolled their eyes at the idea that Australia has a dark problem with Jew hatred, that foreign conflicts playing out on Australian streets are a clear, menacing and gathering storm, to you I’d ask this: What is it going to take? And how long until you find courage?
You’d have to be a fool to believe we got here by accident. Australia’s awful, shameful underbelly of Jew hatred has been growing in the dark like black mould for years. I know I started writing about it years before October 7, 2023. That day was the green light for it all to spill out in the open.
We didn’t get here, to the events of this week, where two nurses felt emboldened to brag about murdering Israelis in their workplace, because of a casual series of disconnected happenings.
It started on the steps on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on October 9, 2023. It started at that very moment it became clear to those who sought to bring foreign conflicts to Australia’s streets that they could without consequence; without so much as a parking fine. That nobody would stop them.
It started with weak leadership then and ran with impunity because of inaction. The escalating violent behaviour has been enabled at every step by the same moral weakness that has become the hallmark of this federal government. Here in Australia, and to our great shame, internationally.
We made news that night, the landmark of the Sydney Opera House captured in an image of hate. We’ve also made news this week. Australia, where medical staff brag about killing Israelis rather than treating them.
What happened at the Bankstown Hospital was met with horror. Of course it was. It is utterly horrific. In all my days I never imagined this in Australia. But this is no behavioural outlier. Broadly, there were numerous off-ramps, at which point nothing was done. Time and time again.
Want proof? Got plenty.
Burn the Israeli flag on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. No consequences. Drive across suburban Melbourne to terrorise Jews at their synagogue on a Friday night. No consequences. Shut down university campuses with violent, ugly encampments, harass Jewish students. No consequences. Clog CBD streets in Sydney and Melbourne weekend after weekend for more than a year, spewing hatred, sowing fear. No consequences. Week after week, hate preachers call from their pulpits for the annihilation of the Jews. Never any consequences.
It’s not complicated and it’s not hidden. Sickening false equivalences driven by sections of the media who swallowed whole and without question Hamas’s lies and gave credibility to the same people who burnt families alive and kidnapped babies.
For 15 months the language of this federal government towards Israel has been punitive. It has been scolding. It has looked and felt like a principal chiding the one student in class who has had the guts to stand up to the worst bully in the school.
As the progressive left loves to remind us, language matters, and this too started on that awful day, when the worst atrocities since the Holocaust were unleashed like hell itself on Israel and its people.
Show restraint, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said as footage of Shani Louk’s naked, broken-limbed body being paraded on the back of a truck in front of cheering Gazans was being broadcast around the world. Show restraint, she said from the safety of Canberra as Naama Levy was dragged through dusty Gazan streets, bound, barefoot and in bloodied pyjama pants, shoved into a car, driven away and held captive.
When this government’s narrative is consistently critical of Israel, consistently weak in relation to the hostages and to Israel’s right to defend itself, it validated, enabled and emboldened Jew hatred in this country. Like I said, language matters. This fact seems to be lost on the government.
Even after the Adass Israel synagogue was firebombed, with people still inside, our Prime Ministers priority was tennis and beers in sunny old Perth.
Actions will always betray what a person may seek to disguise with words. Appeasement is the road to hell. History is littered with irrefutable evidence. Perhaps our government felt as if we were far enough away from the conflict that it could have a buck each way. Appease voters it’s afraid of losing, toss sugar in another direction.
The Albanese government is finding out that the road to hell, this road paved with words of appeasement, is leading straight to the front door of everyday Australians and the values we hold dear. In every scorched car, in every torched building, in every piece of anti-Semitic graffiti on homes, schools and businesses across this country. In every armed guard at the gate of a Jewish school. In a caravan packed full of explosives and containing a list of targets; in every act of intimidation on university campuses and now at a hospital in western Sydney. That road is leading straight home.
I watched last week’s hostage release as if in a trance. These are horrors straight from the pages of history. And the testimony from these men, shadows of themselves, speaks of the worst for those who are still being kept hostages. Alon Ohel, for example. Hostages report he is being kept in chains underground and still has shrapnel in his eye and his arm from October 7 when he was abducted.
We talk so much about generational trauma in this country, and that is justified. Imagine being Jewish and seeing those images this week. Imagine watching those nurses bragging about killing Israelis. Imagine seeing Kristallnacht play out in 2025 in Australian suburbs, hitting Australian businesses and families.
Never again, we told them. We failed. Our leaders failed them, and our leaders have failed us.
This is not about picking a side based on race, religion, faith or background. It is simply about one thing – Australian values. Australians know our values transcend these things. We share them and we cherish them.
This week, the NSW Health Minister delivered the strongest response yet to any of this. I don’t want you in our hospitals or in our communities, he said.
Who could disagree?
canbra- both the pollimuppets and the pubes have a lot to answer for
Apologies if already posted.
Paywallion:
‘Contempt, toxicity, entitlement’: Australian footballer Sam Kerr’s spectacular own goal for acting stupidly
The Mocker
9 hours ago.
Updated 4 hours ago
Does anyone have an email address handy for Guinness World Records? I need to give them a heads-up that Matildas captain and Chelsea striker Sam Kerr has just broken the record for the most expensive taxi ride ever.
Admittedly this was not Kerr’s intention, but nonetheless she deserves recognition for this amazing achievement. Normally a cab from southwest London to Twickenham in the middle of the night would cost you around £50.
What it will end up costing Kerr could well be in the seven figures, and to top it off she and her partner, West Ham midfielder Kristie Mewis, did not even get home. Legal counsel, spin doctors and potential lost revenue from sponsorships are just the start of what makes up this hefty fee. Bugger.
Having been found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment for repeatedly calling a London Met police officer “f–king stupid and white”, Kerr issued a brief statement through her PR team.
“While I apologise for expressing myself poorly on what was a traumatic evening, I have always maintained that I did not intend to insult or harm anyone and I am thankful that the jury unanimously agreed,” she said.
In other words, Kerr is the real victim and should never have been charged. But unfortunately for her, Justice Peter Lodder KC did not see it that way.
“I take the view her own behaviour contributed significantly to the bringing of this allegation,” he said. “I don’t go behind the jury’s verdict but that has a significant bearing on the question of costs.”
That means Kerr has Buckley’s of recuperating her considerable legal fees from the state. The judge’s heartless and arbitrary denial is yet another example of the extent to which white men go to make life difficult for our Sam, who has Indian/Anglo heritage.
But the biggest villain in this travesty of justice is PC Stephen Lovell. He possesses, in Kerr’s words, “white privilege”. As she further claimed, he and his colleagues, “treated (me) differently based on what they perceived to be the colour of my skin”.
So numerous are the privileges that Lovell enjoys as a white police officer they cannot be quantified, but a few examples will suffice. He is paid a base wage of £45,000 ($89,500) to work ungodly hours in a thankless and dangerous job. A doddle really.
In the case of our celebrity soccer couple, he gets to deal with two obnoxious and drunken women, one of whom had kicked out the rear window of a cab, and the other who was spoiling for an argument after having a good chunder inside the vehicle. Talk about a dream job.
In all respects PC Lovell handled this incident unprofessionally. He did not, for instance, begin the conversation by apologising to Kerr for his white privilege. He did not tell her he was committed to decolonising the institution of policing. He had the opportunity to put her at ease by saying he renounced everything that whiteness stood for, but he failed to do so.
He did not say he was an ally of LGBTIQ+ people or that he was committed to educating himself and doing better. I bet he was not even wearing rainbow socks at the time. Most importantly, he did not acknowledge he was in the presence of a world-famous athlete. This was unforgivable.
He was also sceptical of the women’s claim they had been “kidnapped” and “taken hostage” by the taxi driver (who had taken both to Twickenham police station, presumably to hold them hostage there).
The police’s incredulity could only amount to one thing. “Because this is a f–king racial f—king thing,” an angry Kerr told them. Mind you, the taxi driver concerned was Asian, but I think we’d all agree that in the intersectionality stakes, Kerr wins hands-down. The hierarchy of oppression demands that her truth prevail.
And let’s be clear – apart from Kerr repeatedly telling officers they were effing stupid and white, she was respectful at all times. You know, like demanding to see a manager, because the constables were “irrelevant”. Or saying, “I’m over these c–ts”. And just in case the police were in any doubts about Kerr’s importance: “I’m going to post this s–t on Twitter,” along with “I’ve got all the f–king people in the world”.
It was wonderful role model stuff. Provided, that is, you seek a mentor who oozes contempt, toxicity and entitlement. As for Sports Minister Anika Wells, who said during the trial, “Sam certainly has Australia behind her,” I can only say Wells’s insight into mainstream Australia is consistent with that of her Labor colleagues.
Kerr’s supporters claim there was no need for this matter to proceed to court. I agree. So too did the police early on in this affair. They proposed the couple compensate the taxi driver for the broken window, the cab fare, and the cleaning fee. If they did that the pair could go on their way and the police would take no further action. So what was Kerr’s response?
“I am not paying for f–king, some f–king c–t’s f–king window. He deserves it. I am not paying for it I will sit here until 4am and get the f–king Chelsea lawyers on this stupid…’’
Fail the attitude test and the police will throw the book at you, as Kerr belatedly discovered. What it has cost her financially is one thing. But it is minuscule compared to her reputational cost. As to who was acting stupidly, who just scored a spectacular own goal?
But I will say one thing for her. She did not express herself “poorly”, as she claimed. On the contrary, Sam Kerr, your words were an example of insightful simplicity. They transcended your public persona. In vino veritas.
The Mocker
The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour. Believing that journalism is dominated by idealists and activists, he likes to provide a realist’s perspective of politics and current affairs.
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A pity.
Kerr’s finished. It’s now a question of how.
Chelsea fans will likely be more forgiving than AUS, given the pro forma apology she offered after the court case. But I wouldn’t underestimate the ability of Football Australia (or whatever it’s called) to misread public sentiment.
Socceroos don’t even have a coach at the moment, providing plenty of opportunity to spear her later as captain. As I have said previously, I expect Soccer Australia are just allowing her time to realise her position is untenable.
They may be overestimating her insight into the situation.
Not this Australian she certainly hasn’t.
Self-entitled, thoroughly obnoxious jerk who thinks she can treat her “inferiors” like trash.
If she has any sense, now would be a good time to retire to be the new parent she always dreamed to be…
Brilliant piece by The Mocker. Thanks for posting it Beery
Something that’s been very evident from Oct 7 onwards.
Qatars propaganda war against Israel.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=obs_a5jW0Tk&pp=ygURdHJhdmVsbGluZyBpc3JhZWw%3D
Interesting to read in the comments about how different the translation in English is to the Arabic words spoken. Pity Al-Jazeera has to be shown on Foxtel.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/02/unified-the-nation.html
1 years ago, today, Rudd apologized to the “Stolen Generations.”
17 years ago…
Meh, still not sorry.
There’s a family of grifters in this town – in addition to describing themselves as “First Nations” and “Oldest living culture” they also describe themselves as “Stolen Generations.’ If you point out that none of them were born, until years after the last of those children were taken, you are accused of having no respect for Aborigines.
“In your case, Bennelong, you’re correct, I don’t have any respect for you.”
Investigators raid home of ‘kill Israelis’ nurse Ahmad Nadir as police await raw footage
From the Oz
Good.
’bout time.
Far too late.
They’ve had heaps of time to remove anything suspicious.
For a change of pace, a beautiful rendition of one of my favourite songs.
Have you ever seen the rain.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iATE-ZLYqj8&pp=ygUhSGF2ZSB5b3UgZXZlciBzZWVuIHRoZSByYWluIHBpYW5v
Damnfine version, thank you.
Finally.
That should have been one of the first things on their ‘to do’ list’ – and not even necessarily to arrest them.
That should have been done 90 minutes after they were aware of the footage, and done to seize their phones and other devices used to record the footage – so that it could be analysed and definitively be said that X’s phone was used to record X saying what he (and she) said. The same should have been done for her.
Otherwise, the jacks run the risk of a prosecution fail when the crooks – as they are indeed crooks – having been suitably advised by law school graduates, claim that it wasn’t them at all but something some horrid person concocted using artificial intelligence.
Naturally it’s a bullshit story, but muddy waters are muddy waters and they needed to get that sorted before they did.
Gave them time get rid of other incriminating evidence.
Maybe they waited until Friday when the various players were…otherwisely engaged?
If so, too late.
Esp. given that a raid would indicate intel above and beyond the boasting featured in the online phone call.
I agree the second they refused to come in for a chat they should have been detained for the purposes of questioning then the public order squad standing by in protection while some detectives served a search warrant.
Any evidence will be subject to legal chicanery or destroyed by now.
I have had an interesting day.
I had to have an Ultrasound on my left shoulder today.
A week ago, my left arm was sore when I woke in the morning.
Didn’t think much of it, had a couple of pain killers when the Pain Away didn’t work. Over the next few days, the pain travelled up my arm and settled into the point of my shoulder.
Have been wearing runners instead of my work boots as there was too much screaming and noise involved trying to pull on the boots. Also, nothing with zips and/or buttons. Too much noise involved. 😀
Went to the Doc’s. May be Bursitis, have an Ultrasound and make sure then we can stab with Cortisone.
Anyway, after being lubed, said procedure began. The technician was a very nice and friendly sort. As she was moving the tool over and around my shoulder and arm, she was watching the screen and started going “OMG!, what is that! What the ? Look at the holes, fluid, Debris?!?
And more in that vein. Didn’t know whether to laugh or cry for a few seconds. Went with laugh.
Suffice to say that, there will be Cortisone injections but, it looks as though I may have to go the old Slice and Dice sooner or later.
Bugger.
How was everyone else’s day?
Oh dear sorry to hear your day wasn’t great. Hope the pain is being treated.How soon the slice ‘n’ dice?
Tinta,
my day was okay. A friend came with me. She had to have some Pathology, and I had the Ultrasound. Then Sushi for lunch and lots of chat.
I’m a bit of a Pollyanna. I always try to look past the yukky stuff and see the good bits. 😀
Getting old is not for the weak.
So I’m told.
All the best.
Yeah, I’m not looking forward to it.
Nor me. Holding it at bay so far.
Thanks Bespoke. 😀
Getting old might not be for the weak, but it sure beats the alternative.
Still here.
😀
Adjust your workload accordingly, Pogs.
I have Roger.
I also feel fortunate that I have good friends to lend me a hand when one of mine isn’t working.
Well, round here we say if you don’t wake up sore in the morning, it means you’ve died in your sleep.
All the above. When I turned 50 my FiL said welcome to this half of the century, its all downhill from here.
I don’t mind the downhill, I just wish the incline wasn’t so great.
How would you know? Lol!
Had similar last year after a PET scan on my lower spine. Doc’s words lit up like a Christmas tree. Along with 4 bulging vertebrae impacting nerves.
I still haven’t been cleared to go back to work and have had neural blocks, epidurals and lastly radio frequency ablation. Next step is vertebrae fusion.
Take care, orthopaedic surgery these days is pretty damn good. I had an ACL reco about 10 years ago and before this was running on my knee.
Wow Roc doc,
reading what you have been, and are going through, makes me feel positively healthy.
All the best.
That’s no good, young lady.
Holes, debris?
Sounds like a war zone.
It looked it Bush.
I should have asked for a photo.
Youse are all weak as piss.
Toughen up, FFS.
Pogs, I had something like that a few years ago. Thought I’d torn a muscle playing tennis. The young ED intern thought so too. Finally screaming every time I shifted my shoulder.
When I got to the GP he said, “I reckon it’s pseudo gout. I’ll give you prednisone tablets, if the pain disappears in a couple of days, that’s what it was.” I took the meds and it did clear up. Never had it again.
Thanks Titus.
I will mention it to the Doc when I see her next week.
I used to have a cat named Titus. Titus Andronicus.
I went through a stage where I named male cats after Caesars.
Claudius is still going strong at eighteen. 😀
Not Clawdius then?
Similar, shoulder joint rooted after a vigorous … Sleep.
I’m going drugs and rest, I suspect tendon or bursitis as well.
Asha Glaskin escapes jail for glassing Taiya Sampson at The Landing in Alkimos in August 2024Justin BianchiniThe West Australian
Fri, 14 February 2025 4:26PM
The case against a young woman who glassed a love rival at a northern suburbs pub took a shock turn on Friday when a magistrate told the court she had observed the victim throw the contents of her drink at the accused in CCTV footage in the lead-up to the attack.
Magistrate Raelene Johnston said she had watched the video several times to determine the context of the glassing ahead of sentencing Asha Glaskin, 20, to a 10-month suspended jail term for unlawfully wounding Taiya Sampson at The Landing in Alkimos in August last year.
She also acknowledged the seriousness of the offence — Ms Sampson required plastic surgery after a 5cm cut to the face — while presiding over a tense Joondalup court with the victim’s family seated on one side, Glaskin’s family on the other and her repeated warnings to Ms Sampson’s mother Marie not to interrupt proceedings with her comments.
“I’ve watched it (CCTV footage) several times and it seems pretty clear to me that that is what happened,” Ms Johnston said of Ms Sampson’s throwing of her drink, something not brought up in the facts of the case until sentencing.
Ms Johnston said the nature of the wounding was at the higher end of the scale in terms of seriousness because the attack was to a “vulnerable part of her body and could have easily been blinded by your action”.
Chundering in a taxi leads to this…
Things get a bit wild Hillarys and beyond. Care required.
I lived at Hillarys for a year or so.
JPMorgan made ~$US60 billion last year. It has a market capitalization of ~US775 billion. It could be the first trillion dollar bank in market cap.
Straya imploding nicely against the Lankans. Again.
Shit fielding from people who usually do better got the Lankans to 281 from their 50, where it should have been 220 at best.
Once more, an Australian top order that promised UFC but delivered KFC has meandered along to 4/70ish, and with not a lot left to come.
First ODI most of the Aussie players I hadn’t even heard of.
Which is fine. Scheduling an ODI two days after a Test is tough.
5/80.
Time to start looking at the movie guide.
6/83.
Oh my lord.
Eye of cyclone has gone over bosses friends station, I’ll get a full in of strength on Monday..
Btw- rego for a prime mover- over $10,000 in WA use
Kewl, I trust actual obs more than the BOM these days.
Was impressive looking though.
WHAT?
Why?
Stand and deliver! Because they can.
Got pay for all those Pubic Serpents leeching of the taxpayer.
Depends on rating, sounds like that one is rego to haul quad traliers
Triples, trailers are about another 1700 each
Wait until you hear what registering a trailer for the prime mover costs.
7/83.
Just lovely.
8/86.
Crushing it.
A massive chunk of sport’s “stars” income comes from sponsorships.
If you are selling anything from Mercedes to home delivery pizzas, and you want the ladies soccer comnection, Mary Fowler is your go-to.
Rubber will hit the road when the management company goes to roll over existing contracts, if it gets that far. I expect best case will be to hold a position in both teams with a significant haircut to earnings.
Oh yes.
She’s about as marketable now as Brittany Higgins.
Expect a reality TV show appearance or two in the next eighteen months, but that will be it for her.
She may get a run as an ABC Radio host.
Aaaand the Lankans have flogged us by 174 runs. In a one day match.
Atrocious. A performance worthy of cricketing nation giants such as Kenya or Vanuatu.
Long gone are the days of Thommo hurling sandshoe crushers at their little lankan tootsies.
Hey,
did all Cats and Kittehs remember to let their loved ones know they are loved today?
It’s Valentine’s Day.
lol. We both forgot and were reminded about now watching TV.
Mutual love noted then, and minds turned to how to celebrate with another cruise.
Elsie got an extra helping of Cointreau, and I got to brush her a bit.
Might be old news, Trump effect and doubt about taxpayer subsidy if Libs get in?
https://www.chemanalyst.com/NewsAndDeals/NewsDetails/bp-halts-600m-perth-renewable-fuel-hub-amid-policy-and-demand-uncertainty-34296#:~:text=BP%20Halts%20%24600M%20Perth%20Renewable%20Fuel%20Hub%20Amid%20Policy%20and%20Demand%20Uncertainty,-04%2DFeb%2D2025&text=BP%20has%20put%20its%20%24600,market%20conditions%20and%20policy%20challenges.
The dog is back. Woof woof.
Bankstown Hospital anti-Semitic nurses a result of civics failure Chris Merritt
Yea right Chris, the reason they hate the juuz is the lack of civic education. I ‘d think you are a moron, but the rest of your legal mates are as dumb. I meet this all the time, crown prosecutors, magistrates and judges. No f’n idea. The West has been battling this since 600AD and you guys just don’t know. Astounding ignorance and at the same time superior expression. Yi Yi.
But at least you are not letting a crisis go to waste with the plug for your own organisation.
Civics, right…….. Ma’shallah, remember Khaybar.
Merritt is usually pretty good on legal stuff. Misses the mark on this occasion.
The contortions they undergo to avoid the obvious. Be suspicious of those who admire alpha predators, as they see themselves as one, even though they need others to do the dirty work.
My wife is keen to see Bridget Jones: About a Boy, or as I prefer to call it….
Bridget Jones: Cougar Edition
Definitely not within the “in sickness and in health” scope. Just go to golf as usual.
Saw the trailer when at the cinema for Bobby D’s Complete Unknown. Hairy definitely not receptive to seeing this movie, so I will see it with a girlfriend.
Deb Ross in the Speccie said some nice things about it and she’s usually spot on.
i hope so. A nude shoot makes me want to vomit at the thought.
How long before Married at First Sight features an Angora?
No, not a knitted sweater.
When you are a hammer, everything is a nail.
Merritt thinks there is an answer to an insoluble clash of cultures is legal due process and an hour of civics education every second Tuesday.
Like that is going to overcome 12 centuries of desert hillbilly shit being served up every night at home, with extra added Imam every Friday.
You are f-cking kidding yourself Chris.
Breaking nooze, Cats – a psychopathic moozley former nurse’s ‘oose has been raided!
Raided, I tells ya!
Rabz,
the male nurse lived by himself in a flat.
Easy to raid, especially as he’s holed up in hospital pretending to have a breakdown.
The filthy sheila lives with family.
NSWaffen far too scared to go into that goat pen. Even with massive back-up.
What’s wrong with asking Two Commando to the party?
Bearcat v a few rebirthed VN Commodores.
Wondered about that thx.
Yes too timid by far. As I stated today the minute they refused a polite chat with or without legal counsel they should have been detained for questioning and all properties raided with public order squad in tow or a CERT team.
They still claim the don’t have the footage and metadata. WTF.
Na they don’t want it, maybe they’d have to their job.
However now that hate speech is Federal Law where is the Fed’s?
Phil Thompson will be getting a note on this over the weekend. Opposition are very quiet on the enforcement.
Oh how the might have fallen. Dad’s generation would’ve gone in alone with full expectation of compliance, because defiance would cost enormously.
aaarrggghhhh! – beaten to it by other Cats – anyway, let’s see what transpires – nothing (again) as usual, presumably.
Deliberate incompetence is the most logical explanation. Again.
Cowardice.
Three guesses. I bet the story doesn’t even hint it.
@FreyjaTarte
Why is cancer striking young people? Great question.
Been happening for at least 3 decades and now they make a fuss about it. Rubbish on X again. Not that much of a mystery. Diet, sedentary lifestyles, pollution, are all possibilities.
@realdogeusa
The US government sent $2.7 TRILLION in Medicare & Medicaid money overseas to people who were NOT eligible to receive it.
That’s 8% of our national debt.
Medicare isn’t going broke. The money is being stolen.
I do like that cross around her neck.
Trump’s Press Secretary SHREDS Republican Mitch McConnell For Voting Against Tulsi Gabbard
Loved it – watched it during the Christmas holidays and couldn’t believe how unrepentant it was in its glorification of the extremely violent and long overdue removal from this planet of various evil inbred arab imbeciles (BIRM). Featured the following Hollyweirdos:
Eric Banana
Daniel Craig
Ciarán Hinds
Mathieu Kassovitz
Hanns Zischler
Geoffrey Rush
All were magnificent in the film.
Nothing like it could be made today (it’s now 20 years old), unless by Israelis.
See for example, Fauda.
Investigators have raided the home of Bankstown Hospital nurse Ahmad ‘Rashad’ Nadir, executing search warrants as they weigh up charges over the video in which he and a fellow nurse bragged about killing Israeli patients.
What…the NSWaffen have raided a Muslim’s home! I note the NSWaffen Police have yet to venture into Condell Park, the home of the Jew hating Sarah Abu Lebdeh.
Or as I prefer to call it:
Bridget Jones: House sized cellulite laden bottomage leavened with some casual paedophilia.
Hollyweird.
Oh, I think we will see a sequel.
Might be more of a grainy IDF body-cam than a polished Hollywood production.
You know, I suspect there might have been more than a few Pally-weirdos a little unsettled to hear they were being released by the “Zionist dogs” as a trade for hostages.
Their life expectancy does decrease somewhat when outside the wire.
Perversely, the best chances of survival seem to be within the clutches of their despised enemy. What with all their legal safeguards and high end hospitals … which are actually used to treat sick people, rather than be used as arsenals.
Remember.
Ya-ya Sinwar was treated for brain cancer in 2008 whilst in Israeli custody for previous terrorist offences.
His response?
To plan the murders on October 7th 2023.
And he is now goneski.
More to come …
Thanks to whichever Cat recommended the movie Golda, a brilliant watch this evening!
On the negative side, as a smoker myself, the 1hr, 40min movie took me 3hrs to watch!!!
Indeed. But it was more around $2 US for every poor person.
As I tell many of my atheist, leftist and anti Catholic pals:
“Let’s feed the poor of the world by giving them the proceeds of a Vatican fire sale.
Everyone will be happy! The poor get $2 each and Soros and other Billionaires get Michaelangelos (and “other assorted artists”) to view exclusively in their own dining rooms.”)
Win win?
And for the record, I pray daily.
That our “beloved” Francis may move closer to God ??
More like the other way.
Only one* of the three murderous corruptocrat “big man” cowards featured in this Pallyweirdo propaganda clip is off with his 72 goats of impeccable virtue – hopefully the other two will end up going out in equally spectacular fashion sooner rather than later.
The Israelis’ offing of these obnoxious imbeciles is becoming so spectacularly grandiose and utterly hilarious I’m worried they’re now sitting around wasting precious time pondering how they can outdo their previous triumphs.
However we may know if they have this Sunday morning around 4:00am AEDT.
*Vaporised in Tehran (yes, Iran) mid 2024, while attending a millenarian terrorist nutjob gabfest.