“Harmless as an enemy, treacherous as a friend.” Ridiculous slogan.
Open Thread – Weekend 22 Feb 2025
- Destroying Trust
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- The Holistic Rewards of Christianity
As you are replying to me…I didn’t give the Pope an exemption from presumptuous judgement by Almighty Me. (The original…
Idiotic what ifs. The practical world is all about ‘what ifs’, what if I do this rather than that? Will…
Mr Ngo is one of the very few exceptions I make when I label anyone associated with the media as…
Around midday.
There it is!
One of the biggest news stories of the year and the mainstream media censored it.
PS: 99% of the human trash graduating from journalism schools are strongly in favour of censoring stories they don’t like. That is, they’re not actually journalists
They are “churnalists, alright: Just not “fearless reporters.
I have posted elsewhere:
General William Tecumseh Sherman had some thoughts on the matter:
“”I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all, there would be news from Hell before breakfast.”
See also: Thomas Jefferson:
“”Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”
Then the hacks discovered the REAL power of “opinion-shaping”.
Hence, the “mangy tail” that wags the “rabid dog” of politics.
Their greatest psycho-sexual jolly is to hear or read their own “facts” being spouted by the gullible punters.
And, that, it has been suggested, is their “finest point”.
How is she going to top this.
hahahahahahah!
Pogria,
Watch the first 2 minutes of this
https://youtu.be/FAVuvOtRg5w?feature=shared
Watched it yesterday. He is considered and careful.
The above meme is nowhere close to correct.
Thank you Diogenes.
Most informative.
?https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/connecticut-cannibal-who-killed-man-axe-ate-his/
Sentenced to 60 years in the nut pokey and is out in less than ten.
I hope he’s living in one of the Parole Board members house with their family and not anyone else’s.
Not a big fan of States sticking their beak into corporates to this level, but I’ll make an exception here.
For years, companies have had to go to extraordinary lengths (and cost) to report how they were managing the risks of climate change, and many went over the top, virtue signalling how committed they were.
This might be a lesson to large corporates and Stock Exchanges* that, if they want to dabble in social engineering and issues peripheral to their core business, there might be a price to pay.
…
* I read during the week that the ASX Karen Committee (not their real name) were horrified at the suggestion we should drop a lot of these virtue signalling targets and reporting requirements.
Of course they were.
A bunch of activists from BHP, RIO and the Big Four Banks who know nothing about banking or mining are afraid of losing their leverage.
On this, there also was a push from a few high profile people who are in the closet.
That is, when disclosing the make up of their boards they didn’t want to have anything to with the sexuality piece.
For every big wig who is out like the CEO of Woodside, there’d be one who’s either deep in the closet.
What’s the over/under for the Conclave giving an actual Catholic a go this time?
My money is on it going to a black African trannie.
Not available. It’s the next James Bond.
Get Ready for Woke Black Lesbian James Bond (Daniel Greenfield, 21 Feb)
If that were the case, I would barrack for the Bond villain for the first time.
If they elect a fellow called Cardinal Tang look out.
dot, if you’re lurking you know that’s a Warhammer reference.
How come the mainstream media always gives the coalition a hard time about “are you going to cut the public service” but never asks Labor why they always increase the public service.
Always ask the coalition “where’s the money coming from”, but never asks Labor about where the money comes from to support ruinable energy.
Clennell is on with Angus Taylor as I write.
Ladies and gentlemen! You are no longer ladies and gentlemen.
European Union bans the word ‘man’ in latest equality guide (22 Feb)
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers Supports Bill Replacing ‘Mother’ with ‘Inseminated Person’ (21 Feb)
It’s amusing that they keep on trying to make the language more inclusive by rejecting and cancelling men and husbands.
And why is the husband/father not called the “inseminating person”, to match the “inseminated person”? An assumption of adultery?
Oh dear. My granddaughters are going to have so much fun with this.
Fair enough, after all everything that is annoying for a woman starts with men : Menopause, Menstruate…
Manual transmission cars…
As with many ‘men ..’ words the derivation is from something other than man, an adult male. It is usually Latin, such as manus, meaning ‘hand’, as in manual labour, or in the case of menopause, the ‘men’ part comes from the Latin for menses referring a ‘month’ and the pause part is Greek in origin, meaning cessation. As in menstruation, the men reference alludes to a woman’s monthly period.
Such a lot of nonsense is being allowed into our culture and language under this ridiculous ‘gender’ banner.
Manhole …?
David Wood, who does marvellous work online combatting the death cult that is Islam has, like his good friend Robert Spencer, now been banned from the Islamist Kingdom once known as the United Kingdom.
Geez, ain’t multiculturalism marvellous? Can’t offend and upset those ‘Mosquitoes’.
I see that Wikipedia calls Wood a “Christian apologist.”
I have never heard of a Muesli being called a Muesli apologist.
The UK is now deeply illiberal if not authoritarian.
You’ve got to love him.
@bennyjohnson
President Trump is on a roll.
“Work from home is such a scam. If I worked from home my golf handicap would be so low. I would be so good I’d try to get on tour.”
Animals are fascinating critters.
My sister’s biblically ancient horse is in mourning following the death of his long term girlfriend the farm cat.
The cat never gave up. It would follow him around, jump onto his head when feeding and always slept in his stall. This despite the horse being pretty rough with her at times.
Now the old boy is hurting. Patrolling all of their haunts trying to find his pal. Hard to watch.
I am sad for them both.
Two of my three favourite animals.
The other one is Dogs, of course. 😀
Animals do make attachments, within their species, and sometimes across species. Living things crave attachments to other living things.
If I had to choose between saving my dog and a random stranger …
@amuse
DOGE: Almost three years ago Elon Musk asked Parag Agrawal what he got done last week. Now he’s asking every federal worker the same question.
Excellent news.
EPA To Drop CO2 Endangerment Finding (22 Feb)
This insult to intelligence has been used for all sorts of fascist attacks on everything from power stations to gas stoves. I hope Zeldin absolutely guts the EPA down to bedrock.
Meme
A recent photo of Scabbie Shitfield, the overflowing pus bucket.
This neither understands women nor Islam.
Women exercise power in the world through their control over men.
Islam maximises both the violence permissible of the men and the means through which the women control the men.
Whereas the stupid, pussy arse West is asking women to get a job.
Which would most women prefer? The answer is obvious to anyone unindoctrinated by 50 years of Sesame street idiocy.
WATCH: Former Clinton Strategist Says Democrats Are ‘Falling Off A Cliff’
Orwellian UK: Apple Scraps Encryption Security Feature After Ordered To Create Back-Door for Big Brother Starmer To Access British iPhone Users’ Texts, Audios, Videos and Pictures
It Appears Democrats Have Finally Picked A Hill To Die On
if you’re losing the debate, change the frame
The short video of the girl confronting her husband about cheating is great. It’s the reframing and the Democrats in fifteen seconds.
That was Kat Timpf on Gutfeld. Smart chick.
@mazemoore
A couple days ago Trump claimed that Zelensky is widely unpopular in Ukraine and that his approval rating is 4%. The very next day the MSM collectively called Trump a liar and they all parroted the same number, Zelensky has a 57% approval rating.
CNN brought out their little fact checker…57%. ABC, CBS…57%.
So I look up where this number came from. It came from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. Guess when they released their poll results. The day after Trump made his claim.
I went to their website and it’s barely functional but there was a note about who USED TO FUND them. Check out the picture below. You are going to laugh.
I also checked out another polling company that does work in Ukraine called SOCIS. They’ve done most of the exit polling on all the major elections in recent years in Ukraine and they have Zelensky at 16%, claiming that he would not win an election if there was one.
Think about this. We don’t even have an accurate number of the death toll in Ukraine from the war. No media outlet knows, it’s all a guess. We do know that tens of thousands of people have gotten caught trying to flee Ukraine. (It’s illegal for men ages 16-60 to leave.) But nobody has a clue what’s really going on there and yet a few hours after Trump says something the entire MSM ecosystem states as a fact what Zelensky’s approval rating is. 57%. Our media can’t even agree on what Trump’s approval rating is.
Bolta quoted the 57% figure in his diatribe against Trump the other night.
I did wonder about the disparity.
But then again, he would, wouldn’t he? Bolt should be replace by James Macpherson.
I see Chrisifooli delivering 100 day olympic details. I’d prefer he just ditched it, 7 years out at the IOC can find someone else to host.
I also see the usual cabal of vested interests and developers are jockeying to force the development in their corner. Funny the proposal that would probably cause the least disturbance at the old ANZ Stadium site they don’t want a bar of and their jismist mates are quite happy to push their barrow.
should never have done a Bradbury and accepted it. But that was four years ago. We are now obligated in my view.
It’s going to make a profit for QLDers after all.
[sarc]
@BreannaMorello
The CDC has killed a campaign promoting seasonal flu shots.
The agency has also canceled a major conference with so-called virus experts.
The changes come a week after RFK Jr was sworn in as HHS Secretary.
RFK jr is seriously considering banning mRNA “vaccines”. That kills their new preferred mRNA fluvax model dead.
Given the mode of operation of the mRNA “vaccines” by comparison to conventional vaccines I think that would be a very good thing. However for certain life and death situations, like cancer, I believe the mRNA approach would be justified. Not for prophylactic treatment of healthy people though.
Blockbuster Yale Study: Millions Of Long COVID Patients Might Actually Be Vaccine Injured (22 Feb)
They might as well since nobody believes a word coming out of that organisation.
Still a great painting.
Everybody hates Stephen King and with good reason; this ugly bitter man is seriously deranged. His most recent contretemps is coming out and supporting the equally hideously ugly gov for Maine who got into a dispute with Trump about trannies in women’s sport. The feedback to ugly king has been severe:
(20) “Stephen King” – Search / X
Link doesn’t give access.
Yeah, don’t know what happened; pity because there were some good photos of the ugly TDS ridden schmuck.
My favorite
You need to login to x/twitter for the link to work
@themarketswork
The Left didn’t just take our money, they used our money to build an entire political infrastructure that was weaponized against us.
And if we’re being honest, the old guard of the GOP allowed it to happen.
The old guard of the GOP are going to be very very unhappy with these numbers…
Ninety nine percent approval!
CPAC Straw Poll: JD Vance Runaway Frontrunner for Republicans in 2028 (22 Feb)
The same is going on here.
The UNiparty continues Australia’s population ponzi.
An example of why all moslem immigration must cease and deportations started. Once moslems control Govts through their ballot numbers, this is where it ends up. Betrayed from within by unscrupulous political parasites;
Poilievre is showing definite JD proclivities.
MSM. “People are claiming that you …… blah blah. How do you respond”?
Poilievre. “Who”?
The lad certainly has potential.
He’s watched the Thatcher-Negus interview. Good Man.
Yes.
I am surprised more conservative pollies don’t watch the Maggie Thatcher master-class with George Fungus in the supporting role.
“Who? And where? And when?”
see also his ‘so tell me what other genders there are’ when asked if he supported Trumps ‘there are only 2 genders’
Did he say “Those aren’t genders – they’re lifestyle choices?”
I really want him to have said “Those aren’t genders – they’re lifestyle choices?”
What’s the real size of China’s economy?
Yeah, go buy a Mercedes or Webber barbecue with PPP. Let us know how you do.
The article is not even principally interest in PPP. It’s about the material economy.
It talks about PPP and it’s imbedded in the piece. But here’s the thing – oftentimes when you have no arguments to make, you go to the “cope” or suggest it’s no worthy because it came from the msm.
Asia Times epitomises msm, or aptly, controlled media residing in a totalitarian regime. No Chinese stats can ever be relied on. These days, criticise the Chinese economy and you’ll be out of a job and with a social credit of zero.
Self awareness = zero.
Sure, sure it talks about PPP, and it also talks about GDP, but it’s principally talking about how effective they are, at least as they’re used here, as measures of the real economy in China.
As to the ‘here’s the thing’, what’s your point? Am I supposed to never reference MSM or only if I uncritically accept what they say? Is there no world in between these two positions?
LOL. The article is about how PPP is an inadequate measure. And of course it talks about GDP because the article is about GDP.
No, there is no in between for someone whose entire arguments in the past have rested on the single assertion that MSM isn’t at all trustworthy and then offers credibility to a msm piece in a newspaper from a totalitarian state that is tightly and punishingly controls the media.
No idea what you’re lolling about here, JC. You’re first response implied that the article was promoting PPP in order to boost China, now you’ve reversed this position.
No, there is an inbetween position. That of being critical or suspicious of articles promoting regime talk points. The above article was not offered uncritically but as asking a question worth considering, not only about China but about other economies too.
Did the downtickers actually read the column? I have my doubts. A reflexive denial isn’t a rational thought process.
This fig leaf.
Even as a tourist, observing China’s industrialisation is staggering. And it’s growing.
But let’s pretend they’re still a “developing” economy. It’s so good for competition.
Continual and rigorous spitting close to you over the side of a ferry in Shanghai shows they have all the subtleties of an advanced society.
This one’s for West Australian Cats.
WA State Election 2025: Greens warn Cook of demands for Upper House support for legislationJoe SpagnoloThe West Australian
Sun, 23 February 2025 2:00AM
The Greens are talking tough ahead of next month’s State election as the easybeats of WA politics expect to become a potent force thanks to reforms to the Upper House voting system.
Parliamentary leader Brad Pettitt — currently the only Greens MP in the Legislative Council — is so confident at least three other colleagues will join him in the Upper House after the March 8 election, he’s declared there is about to be a “new political force in town”.
Analysts expect the Greens to have four or five Upper House MPs based on polling, suggesting a 12 per cent vote to the minor party.
Dr Pettitt said Labor would need Greens support to pass any legislation in the new Parliament, and in an ominous warning to Premier Roger Cook, he said that support would come with conditions.
“After this election, Labor will have a choice — negotiate with the Liberals or the Greens,” he said.
“Ultimately, if Labor refuses to engage, then our vote can’t be relied upon.
“There is a range of things we want to see happen, around renewable energy, around climate, around youth justice and health, and we will be very clear with what we expect.”
Labor has enjoyed a double majority after the landslide 2021 result, but under changes it made to the Upper House, the six Upper House divisions will be abolished, and 37 MPs will represent the whole of WA.
The Greens predict Labor will not win enough seats to hold an Upper House majority — a sentiment shared by a raft of minor parties hoping for a seat.
The party’s key demands on Labor, in order to support future legislation, include shutting down Unit 18 of Casuarina Prison — now holding children in an adult facility — by June 30; no expansion of the gas or coal industries; legislation to cut emissions by 50 per cent this decade; an end to fracking in the Kimberley; capping rents, and laws to make evicting renters for no valid reason illegal; and building 5000 social houses a year for the next decade.
“There is to be no new gas projects,” Dr Pettitt said. “No one’s talking about shutting down existing projects.
“All the ones that have been approved, they get to run out their life, because we do need some gas as part of the transition (to renewables).”
Cutting emissions by 50 per cent by 2030 would be a “firm ask”, he said.
“That will be a very firm ask, and there is no reason the Government can’t do that.
Liebores stunt to restructure the upper house is about to bite them right in the ass. Oh dear how sad remind me to care for the poor things.
Meanwhile the local liebore MP came out with the brainfart of building an outdoor movie theatre here. Apparently we wanted it just like a hole in the head. The shiteheads will vandalise it on day one and within a month it will be wrecked. Another $300k of OP money blown away.
You’re awake!!
Riiggghhhhtttt.
Black ball Johnny Rotten
great results in the premier league this week with all of the lower teams winning.
Bad luck for Bournemouth but it was against Wolves – a mush liked team.
Moyes is weaving his magic at Everton and Tottenham are moving up. Check out their four best rated players – they have been injured and not been together for a while.
Archie Gray Leeds United player in his teens is starring – unfortunately.
Championship – sunderland loose to Hull at home and are 8 points off 2nd spot.
Brostol briefly in the top 6 on Friday night.
Middelsborough falling off badly.
Sorry Johnny did not check out Walsall.
Great result for my beloved Wolves.
Whatever.
Did anyone spew in a taxi on the way home?
Watching Rita rightly giving shtick to Elbow and Scabbie Shitfield, the overflowing pus bucket.
I came to the realisation that, Elbow, having a ninety minute soggy sao meeting with Shitfield, was his take on Trump and Rogan.
One of his teenage advisors most likely mentioned to Elbow that, when Trump took Barron’s advice to go after the youth vote by going on Rogan’s show, and the resulting success, Elbow went “hold my beer”.
Shitfield or an aussie equivalent to Rogan. hahahahahahaha
He’s not the brightest is Albo.
Rogan listeners were often non-voters so Trump was able to persuade extra votes.
Zero Liberal voters listen to that man-hating, baby murdering, terrorist lover. Everybody who does already votes for the man-hating, baby murdering, terrorist loving parties.
Noncompulsory voting changes everything.
I thought it was a mirror image of Kamala’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
Hopefully equally destructive to both.
Oh my sides!
I hadn’t thought of that.
Brilliant!
Zelensky has to set an election date and stick to it.
Newsweek says the quiet part out loud.
https://x.com/Newsweek/status/1892189345945149943
Exactly whose “concerns” and whose business is it outside of Ukrainians themselves if he is?
The biggest question this morning, is Erin Moylan really on Elon’s radar?
How did I miss this?
I think there is a stench here that wont go away.
Someone needs to refer it to the NACC. That’s if they’ll do anything about it, they still haven’t acted on the Brittany payment.
A lot of our oversight type mechanisms are infested with activist woke leftards. Havens for Marxists. Just like our Judiciary. The spineless LNP will never initiate or even attempt real change for fear they become targets for retribution when they inevitably fk up and lose power. The electorate are just doormats.
Zactly.
Queensland, after Peter Beattie and lesser extent Bligh there should have been an inquiry. How many Beattie ministers were charged or jailed with corrupt practises? Newman went after other fish though.
The kiddie jisimists who weren’t even alive in the 1970’s love to invoke Sir Joe at the slightest infraction by the LNP but ignore the fact that convicted criminals like Nuttall and Kaiser still get plum jobs when the ALP has power. Don’t even start me on the impropriety of Beattie’s California post politics job.
RD,didn’t Beattie have a woman put in prison for whistleblowing against him?
Build wind turbines in lefty electorates and threaten marginal electorates of the same punitive measures if they vote wrong.
Voila! The right never lose an election again.
On it apparently. It will be the grand opening.
you can feel the evilness
Yep. Broke Sicktoria can afford a 250 thou$ statue to satanic Andrews but can’t afford the bugler at The Shrine to play out the Last Post once a week. Another very worthy tradition (90 years) taken away.
Like Australia Day cancellation in Vic.
In our face, the removal of our History, Heritage and Culture- by the putrid Left. Anything to prevent us being proud of who we are and how we got here.
From Powerline. I have no idea if it is true, but if so …
As suggested on the above-mentioned blog, Antarctica is looking a likely destination for a mass population movement.
Appears to be true.
Cruelty and evil: Hamas brought two additional hostages to release point (Arutz Sheva, 22 Feb)
It is true.
Via your link, some non-7 Oct. hostages had been held for just over 10, TEN! years. I cannot imagine the psychological damage acquired during that period. Ten years.
*Throws up arms in disbelief*
Soros didn’t even have to use his own money to undermine justice across the country.
@kylenabecker
USAID Gave $27 Million to Far-Left Network That Installs ‘Soros Prosecutors’ in U.S. Cities
Rampaging knifeman kills one and leaves police officers seriously injured in France horror – as Macron says there is ‘no doubt’ it was terrorism
Every bloody week there’s another and Macron refuses to do anything apart from offering pieties.
The Media Is Now Part of Trump’s War Against the Deep State Inside the campaign to expose “collusion” between journalists and government officials.
Here in Australia I am sick of telling rich ‘conservatives’ that to win politically they have to either have equal footing in the msm or control it. Vain idiots like Palmer do not understand this and I don’t know what Gina is doing.
A Covidiocy question.
Is it true that during the covidiocy, two individuals – one in NSW and one in Vic, apparently – set themselves on fire as a protest?
This may have been a rumour, as wild ones were about in all directions at the time.
My point in asking is that if it is correct these desperate events of self-immolation occurred, the so-called mainstream media barely – if at all – acknowledged them. They CHOSE then, to not provide publicity to these occurrences which were far from ordinary. The feral media COULD have chosen (each independently) not to provide publicity to certain disputed h@m@s claims over the past 16 months. They have not made that CHOICE.
The majority of the legacy media FREELY CHOOSES to provide a forum/platform to self-admitted mass murderers. This publicity is the oxygen the subhuman savages need to exist. This PROVISION OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES makes those media ACCESSORIES to the acts they publicly celebrate.
If I recall correctly, there were at least two in Victoria.
That’s why they are called presstitutes. I remember the small business woman who set herself on fire at Altona. It still pains me to think about it.
P.S. Weren’t all G@z@ns genocided? Why are we still worrying about their welfare when they’re all allegedly dead?
some were re-seeded in, Tassie aboriginal style…
I’m still wondering about the result in Werribee weekend before last- the time taken to announce a result and Leibor scrapping in by a few hundred votes.
We saw where the AEC is at with the Burke citizenship insult.
More an assault in my view- this garbage in canbra- Anal and co are going to try and hang no matter what
Rosie 22/2 @ 6:59
What is the grater evil communism and its various strains or Islam.
Communism hiding these facts and calling you derogatory names is evil.
As history shows, communism murders all even if you are an advocate.
Both philosophies murder is accepted and rewarded.
Surprise!
They choose where they stand.
I hope we don’t forget that when Chinah inevitably abandons them and they come sooking for aid.
NZ has underwritten the Cook Islands economy for decades and provided a development plan which lifted the country from “developing” to “high income” by OECD standards.
Swapping that for a transactional/exploitative relationship with China makes no sense unless bribery of officials is involved.
Kiwiblog has been watching the developments on this.
Winston Peters is none too happy but the Labour Opposition attacking Peters for making a big deal about it. Like Sleazy and Pongs kowtowing here the NZ Labour party shows same traits.
Cook Islands Party has a history of corruption too.
Bribery is highly.
Do you mean like US abandoning Ukraine?
%20 at the beginning of yr URL.
https://x.com/WilliamYang120/status/1893131771405087231
New Zealand gives them a form of citizenship. It should be revoked asap.
WA election 2025: Liberal leader Libby Mettam vows to restore representations in regions to Upper HouseJoe SpagnoloThe West Australian
Sun, 23 February 2025 2:00AM
Liberal leader Libby Mettam has promised to ditch Labor’s one-vote, one-value Upper House system and go back to having MPs chosen from six regions.
In Sunday’s address to the party faithful at the Liberals’ official launch of the election campaign, Ms Mettam will promise that within her first 100 days as Premier, she will “restore representations in the regions”.
“The mining and pastoral, agricultural and the southwest regions are the backbone of the West Australian economy where the wealth of the state is generated,” Ms Mettam will say.
“We believe under the new boundaries these regions have been disenfranchised by the Cook Labor government and the Liberal Party will restore regional representation.
“Twenty per cent of the State’s population have lost representation because of Labor’s grab for power.
“We will fix that and not add to the city-country divide at a time when regional Western Australia needs support.”
Under Mark McGowan, Labor changed the Upper House model of six MPs, chosen from six regions throughout the State, and replaced by a single electorate electing 37 members.
The Liberals and Nationals feel that under this model, the 37-member Upper House will be city-centric.
In her speech, Ms Mettam will paint Labor as an administration flush with money, but one that had squandered billions and left many West Australians worse off over their eight-year-rule.
Well and truly behind in the polls and facing a heavy defeat on March 8, Ms Mettam will tell voters Labor “had failed miserably” to vastly improve their lives despite “$114 billion in GST grants” and billions more in iron ore royalties since coming to power in 2017.
When asked about The Shrine, we saw generations of rancid Marxist ideology , distilled and condensed into this utterance from our c***t Premier;
(With a wide smirk on her face.).
What was the slag on about? I assume they was some sort of phallic allusion there.
Brass vibrator/dildo?
Wouldn’t it need a built in warmer in winter?
Mondayitis.
Musk orders US federal workers to report on work by Monday or get fired (22 Feb)
WFH is going to be a fine reason for firing a lot of public serpents.
Federal employees have also all been sent an email asking what they got done last week.
Non responses are going to be treated as resignations.
Bwah ha ha ha.
I have worked in a place where people were asked to fill out an hourly diary for a week explaining what they did.
For any of us who worked for professional services firms and had to account for time in units as low as six or fifteen minutes, this was no big deal.
All you had to do was list, in hourly chunks, what you were working on and state whether you were supervising, doing or assisting.
However, it did cause a level of howling at the moon in some quarters.
Hard to know why.
Unless …
Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Evyatar David were taken in a van to watch the hostage ‘ceremony’ yesterday.
Israel have responded by cancelling the release of 600 prisoners.
Hamas cruelty knows no bounds.
1400 years of perfecting terrorism.
“They were already out of prison and then returned. Just like what Hamas did to our two hostages today. Eye for an eye”
https://x.com/MOSSADil/status/1893449263004213758?t=9bVz_bYyAMkeqESUvu6Z5Q&s=19
Bronze statues, brass instruments, kevlar vests and rubber bullets.
Victoria is a sick joke.
After what was done to Tony Maddox, I don’t think you are in a position to cast aspersions.
Tony Maddox is pleasantly surprised at the level of local support he is getting.
That’s something. Still a gubment assault on property rights
Apart from his neighbours who dobbed him in. And we’ll see how smart the sand gropers are in the upcoming state election which also be a sign for rub and tug’s groin rub with the electorate.
One neighbor dobbed him in, and, for some reason, has been frozen out by the community for some time.
Unless a serious crime is involved, dobbers are amongst the lowest of the low.
This edifice won’t be vandalized since it is holy to Gaia.
$18000 Climate Doomsday Clock Unveiled in Melbourne (21 Feb)
Presumably when 01/01/2030 is reached the 10 megaton bomb built into the plinth will detonate and destroy Melbourne. Or something.
If they are going to give Victoriastan an enema, Melbourne is where they will stick the tube.
Why is there any budget, modest or not, for that?
I’ll wager no conservative artist has seen a penny of it.
Much less $18,000 for “art” that was likely created on a bar napkin.
Just as DOGE is uncovering in the US, more leftist propaganda paid for by the rate payers.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/02/outside-the-newsagents-today.html
Speaking of screeching harridans..
In other news a recently released Palestinian fell off his roof yesterday and died.
He was a participant in the pizza parlour bombings.
Don’t know whether it was in retaliation for giving Israel Intel, or for being gay or both.
One better understands why 7 prisoners slated for release yesterday said they’d prefer to stay in an Israeli prison.
Israelis speculate that some are forced into participating in terrorism because they are gay and it’s that or being thrown off a roof.
You think Nazism and communism are bad, and then you see life under muslimism.
They’re not “gay”.
Under the caliphate their mating options are limited, thus they resort to the other, or are preyed upon by older ones who also have restricted options.
I saw where someone said Palestinians are nice guys because, he averred, they don’t throw gays off roofs; Syrians do.
Pope about to meet his Lord and master.
Hope it isn’t too hot down there for him.
Also that the Archangel Gabriel has a long list of theological questions to put to him at the gates.
Today’s Sunday Tele:
We don’t want your hate
PIERS AKERMAN
23 Feb 2025
Australia, we have a problem, a very serious problem.
The social cohesion that Labor prime minister Bob Hawke celebrated in a landmark address on Australia Day, 1988, our Bicentennial year, is busted.
Hawke said the trait that made us an exceptional nation was our commitment to Australia. That commitment no longer defines Australians.
Hawke’s speech is no longer to be found on the official Australian Prime Ministers’ website because the social compact he praised is at odds with the actions of the Albanese government.
This government is rushing through citizenships this weekend in a transparent stacking of electoral rolls in marginal Labor seats in the hope their votes will cancel those who have had a gutful of the government.
These newly minted Australians are in Western Sydney electorates, including that of Immigration Minister Tony Burke’s Watson, as well as in the neighbouring seats of Werriwa, Blaxland and Fowler.
Burke and fellow minister Jason Clare have been painfully reluctant to call out those from their electorates who have been protesting against Israel and demonstrating hateful anti-Semitism.
As has been repeatedly stated by imams in Western Sydney mosques, the first commitment Muslims must observe is not to any nation but to their religion.
Long accepted Western values such as equal rights for men and women are an anathema to Islamic teaching.
The late mufti, Taj El-Din Hilali, even refused to sit and eat at the same table as a woman reporter from SBS when we met to discuss his interpretation of the Koran.
Many of the edicts spelled out in the Koran are at odds with the values Western liberal democracies have fought and died for since the Enlightenment – all forms of discrimination and slavery being among them.
Members of the Jewish community showed their disapproval of the Albanese government’s flaccid stand on Islamic terrorism when they booed and walked out when Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus was addressing Sky News’ anti-Semitism summit on Thursday.
Among the attendees was NSW Premier Chris Minns, whose strong stand against anti-Semitism shows up his federal counterparts’ belated recognition of the growing crisis.
Teal independent Allegra Spender, who like most Teal MPs, supported Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s $20m contribution to United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which has been shown to employ and shelter Hamas terrorists, was also in attendance.
Peter Dutton has vowed to backdate changes to visa laws to deport people deemed to have made antiSemitic statements if he wins the upcoming election. Mr Dutton says he would change the Migration Act so anti- Semitism was grounds for visa refusal.
The act (section 36C) now permits the cancellation of Australian citizenship for those who hold dual nationality and have been convicted of one or more crimes. Significantly, the minister currently holds wide powers to deport people if they fail the character test.
Deportation can follow if an offence is so serious and significant that it demonstrates that the offender has repudiated their allegiance to Australia or if they have engaged in conduct that demonstrates a repudiation of the values, democratic beliefs, rights and liberties which underpin Australian society.
The act also covers the degree, duration or scale, the involvement, conduct and scale of the offence as well as its impact. Given that many members of the Jewish community fear for their physical safety from the rancid anti-Semitism preached in some mosques, it is high time the Albanese government acted to repair the social compact.
Sorry too many have rose coloured glasses about Minns. Ackerman is no different in this regard.
Minns is an empty suit, mouths soothing but hollow words. He has no power to or intention to follow through. Actions again have proved that.
I believe not one Cat here would disagree with you.
Anal doesn’t want to ‘repair the social compact’.
His aim is to create a nation of tribes that he can play against each other.
That’s how practical Marxism works.
He doesn’t need to create it. It’s already here.
Still from the hamas propaganda video
https://x.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1893399115993633056?t=pK00xWZNunL8Yyg6Ma4BUQ&s=19
I’m beginning to regard the Australian Aboriginal flag as a symbol of separatism and ultra-nationalism. A symbol of hate, even: indigenous supremacy.
I feel offended by it; the decades of insults due to my Caucasian heritage, the misappropriation of my taxes to pay for division, but I don’t suppose my perception qualifies as valid to make a formal complaint?
It’s meant to insult and cotton flags are a European thing.
Yup and never forget it was Morrison that paid the $20m extortion for the design.
I just regard the Australian Aboriginal flag with contempt.
Could we get someone to produce toilet rolls with a small abo flag on each sheet?
That’s probably a jailable offence now. And no, I’m not jokeing.
Whatever his failings, and who hasn’t got those, Pope Francis dedicated his life to serving God and His children. He stands firm against the worst of modern evils, abortion, euthanasia, gender ideology and the Church marches on, as she always has, under good popes, indifferent popes and bad pope’s.
God bless him.
Pope Francis said Sunday he hadn’t spoken to Trump since the president-elect won the November election. He also called for countries with falling birth rates to accept more migrants.
Still solid on abortion and Euthanasia, which puts him I’m not sure where, when you factor in the nation destroying immigration stance and the rainbow unicorn adjacent idiocy.
Maybe a brief spell in purgatory to sort himself out.
What is the birth rate in Vatican City?
And the Pope is not nearly as tough on the LGBTQI abomination as he should be. Especially in the Vatican.
Frankie is a Marxist posing as a theologian. A despicable person
He is a Liberation theologian.
Liberation theology being a bastardization of Catholicism that was planted in Latin/South America by the communists during the cold war. It’s a political rather than religious movement that promotes revolutionary socialism by focusing on perceptions of oppressors and oppressed.
Jorge has been a proponent of it since it was invented.
It was this more than anything else that JD Vance says initially attracted him to Catholicism, the institutional religous survival through all trials across more than 2000 years. Stability in belief for his children and a genuine conversion experience for him as he delved into theological matters.
When Elon said he’d sponsor a 60 Minutes competitor on X called 69 Minutes, it didn’t take long for someone to take him up on the offer.
Yes it’s being hosted by Australian cutie pie Erin Molan.
Is it true that Molan publicly lambasted the free-choicers during the covidiocy, and if so, has she apologised? If not … pffftt. Skin deep.
Are you misgendering my turkey baster?
I think Peter is underestimating Elbow & Pong’s achievements in this space.
They did get our rock lobsters back onto Chinese plates.
[sarc]
After reading this and all that it implies, I can’t think of a worse time for Dutton to be mouthing off about being against Trump’s plans for restoration of peace in Europe. Any sensible Australian conservative leader should be in lock step with the US, our most important and only ally of any note.
How stupid must we look to China considering to send troops to Ukraine when the Chinese military are taking the piss right on our doorstep?
Seconded.
Remember also that Dutton has promised better relations with China (whatever that means in reality) while Trump has signalled his intentions with the appointment of China hawks Hegseth and Rubio.
Dutton holds the position of Howard the war monger- that Trump is a buffoon with no finesse for global politics. Getting sh*t done is a vulgarity. This is a potentially dangerous path to take , as the Chinese are demonstrating now.
They want the lobsters but without the middleman.
From Gray Connolly.
Hear hear.
“Small PSA: I will block – without my usual mercy to the lost etc – to anyone who is rude or derogatory to Pope Francis in this time. This Pope never sought the Petrine throne & had his predecessor had the fortitude of his successor, would have been spared its crushing burdens.”
You’re “hear hearing” a post which calls opprobrium on anyone with a problem over a living pope while dumping on a recently dead one?
WTF?
It’s about religion, Arky.
It doesn’t have to be logical or free of hypocrisy.
No…it should be.
Great advertisement for the AfD
@realMaalouf
One day before the federal election in Germany, Islamists take to the streets demanding an Islamic caliphate and Sharia law.
This is why the AfD will win tomorrow!
I think this was the Tap-Beer ( I think that is what they are calling out) demo a few months ago in Hamburg. But I may be wrong.
I’m pretty sure too that she won by cheating.
@Real_RobN
THERE IS NO QUESTION A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE IS BEING RUN IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA BY THE CRIMINAL KATIE HOBBS.
Investigation and prosecution by the FBI and the DOJ it’s long overdue.
A: Katie Hobbs is now being investigated for bribery, fraud conspiracy and racketeering. The Chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee has informed Maricopa County’s investigator that the Auditor General will assist in the investigation.
This comes after The Arizona Republic detailed how state contractor Sunshine Residential Homes bribed Gov. Katie Hobbs and AZ Democrats with $400,000 and in returns got millions more in state money.
“In my capacity as chairman of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, I want you to know that the Auditor General’s Office stands ready to partner with you in getting the facts about this troubling matter. Make no mistake, we will allocate the resources the Auditor General needs to help restore what appears to be a major breach of trust in our government.”
B: Additionally Arizona State lawmakers are now investigating Katie Hobbs after $339 MILLION “disappeared.”
As Hobbs’s budget director also mysteriously resigns,
State Senator Alex Kolodin: “Imagine my shock when the Legislature was informed the State has several insolvent agencies and requires a $339 million bailout to close out the current Fiscal Year. Since your liaisons dedicated to briefing members of the Legislature failed to provide detail on how we got here, I am putting my request in writing: Arizonans deserve to know the details. Why did you mislead the legislature about the spending you intended to approve? In just two weeks’ time, I’ve learned that the problem has worsened and that your office’s request is now $350 million.”
Oz already has a private(?) company producing toilet paper to save the planet … Who Gives a Crap
cynical old me thinks their crafty word-play falls a little flat and every time I see the brand I immediately think, “who gives a f**K?”
their marketing genius versus my wrong-thought
I might send a letter to their marketing dept telling what a great idea it would be to put the flag on their dunny paper
when there’s aboriginal blood in yr family its always a joy to be called “toilet-paper” by some clown who thinks he’s blacker than thou.
I absolutely refuse to indulge in debate about Pope Francis’ fitness for paradise.
That is for the One who sees into all hearts.
Better to search out your own. That’s your responsibility, and yours alone.
Curious: is this your policy for everyone, or only wrt popes?
Everyone, except me of course. It would be presumptuous for me to try to measure someone else’s faith with my own ill informed yardstick.
We are told we will know the believer by their works. And that for those with higher authority, more will be expected. That’s as far as I’m prepared to go.
I’d rather leave judgement to the Almighty. I have a horrid feeling I might get it all very wrong. And I have a sneaky suspicion that heaven will be full of surprises, both those who are there and those who are missing.
How about the Hamas leadership?
Care to speculate on their ultimate destination?
If I didn’t have faith that those types would suffer for their actions, there would be little point in believing at all.
I’ll happily take my judgement, as long as they get theirs.
Oh, I see. I thought you were talking about people who profess to be Christians.
Romans 10:9-10
That sort of edges out Hamas I think.
I thought you were doing Mathew 7.
What does it matter what people profess wrt how we should judge people?
Is it we should judge “not at all” or with a mind that we aren’t in full possession of the facts, and that somehow our judgements of others will apply to ourselves?
Can we judge categories of people?
Can we judge behaviours?
How atrocious does an action have to be that we can make some type of preliminary judgement of the person?
Can we cross the street if someone with a gang tattoo and a scowl on their face approaches?
Popes do set a high bar for themselves in that regard.
Happily, salvation is by grace through faith, not works.
Even when the reformers labelled the papacy as antichrist because of its official condemnation of the gospel, they maintained that, by a felicitous inconsistency, an individual pope might still enter heaven if he placed all his hope for salvation on Jesus.
Shouldn’t a persons works improve as their faith increases?
And if so, what can we assume about their faith if their works suck?
That they need encouragement.
Their love certainly will.
I always struggled with that and probably one of the reasons I’m a agnostic.
Be thankful salvation isn’t through works or nobody would be saved!
There is nothing wrong with believers expressing desires for better outcomes for the Faith and humankind. As for his fitness, it’s not ours to be concerned with I agree.
It’s also a good thing to pray for Francis while he still lives. Hebrews 4 urges us to look beyond men to our Great High Priest and approach his throne with confidence. I hope and pray that Francis is doing that now.
Not sure why the Pope gets an exemption.
He may have held firm on what some might say are core Catholic doctrines, but generally he is a f-cking idiot.
I did enjoy Homan putting him back in his box the other day on immigration.
As you are replying to me…I didn’t give the Pope an exemption from presumptuous judgement by Almighty Me. (The original premise was his ultimate destination).
I gave it to every person who professes faith in Christ.
I can assess his words and actions as either consistent or inconsistent with scripture, but that’s a whole other thing.
@Steph93065
DNC Chair just gave away the game on MSNBC…they are sending democrats to town halls to yell at republicans and then the news pretends it’s republican voters.
I just hope our @HouseGOP doesn’t fall for it.
Cabinet member Kelly Loeffler gives hilarious tour of empty office to make point about controversial order
The real question for anyone considering being a castle or a knight leave alone a pawn in the Pacific’s Great Game is, if you side with the US, will you be treated like Ukraine has been treated? Remember, just as in that case, there is an ocean between you and the US, and in the end, their opponent if victorious, may be haggling over your resources as they sort out the peace with or without you at the table, while also asking you to payback whatever ‘investment’ they made in their folly.
“Harmless as an enemy, treacherous as a friend.”
I’ve often mentioned that here.
But the reality is we aren’t about to reassess the US alliance and build an independent defence capability, which I’ve argued for, any time soon.
So we’ll sleepwalk into another Ukraine.
I should think that in our region the stakes for us are rather higher.
China this week to Australia: “Who’s your Daddy?”
Our economy and therefore (rapidly declining) standard of living is indelibly linked to the CCP.
Our national security is wholly dependent on the good graces of the USA.
Our own Defence Forces are more interested in the colour of their nail polish than fighting fitness and regional effectiveness/deterrent.
Both UNiparty stalwarts want to stifle freedom and for citizens to STFU but swallow hundreds of thousands more shitholers in. While they impoverish us.
Moslems will very likely decide who governs us next.
We are in a straight jacket of our own making. Fk knows where we are headed really but no destinations look very palatable at the moment.
If Dutton does win government he needs to pull Defence into line. There was some evidence that he knew this during his time as minister.
Also start cultivating our own leaders. I am hearing of an influx of laterals who seem to being gifted plum key positions over our own troops. Our boy are pulling the pin when given the choice of Pilbara WA or Katherine NT over NSW or southern Queensland that has been left open or filled by a lateral.
Are you for serious?
You spent three years taking Russia’s side and making the case for not involving the USA in Ukraine, and now you say nations should be wary of the USA and embrace China because the USA doesn’t involve itself strongly enough?
I think you just zeroed every single argument you regurgitated from Russia these last 36 months.
The Trump derangement is looking like the least of your problems at this point.
Had the US not offered NATO membership in 2008, organized a coup in 2014, and so on, what Mersheimer calls leading Ukraine up the primrose path in his 2015 lecture, Ukraine would still have Crimea and the Donbass and avoided war.
As for having ‘zeroed every argument’, which makes no sense in this instance, you’ve remained mightily silent as Trump stated Ukraine provoked Russia, etc. thus zeroing every slop argument you’ve eaten off the ground that was regurgitated by this or that neocon shill.
On the contrary, I gave a detailed response yesterday.
The comment at 11.33am? Come on now.
I don’t take much notice of opinions from either side.
Opinions are like arseholes.
Still, I’d be interested for you to explain how the above contradicts what I’ve previously said re Ukraine.
Go back to yesterday’s page.
Around midday.
@TheBritLad
Thousands of patriots take to the streets in Manchester, holding crosses, British flags and banners saying
“Mass Deportations now”
It’s about time the revolution begins
Britain is for the British!
Might be a bit late for the north.
Aye!
@MrAndyNgo
Antifa members and their co-conspirators are sharing a bomb making guide on social media and elsewhere. They’re encouraging their militants to carry out terrorist attacks in the U.S. and Europe.
I’ve only posted the first two pages as the rest of the documents provide detailed, genuine instructions.
Recently I posted that if @FBIDirectorKash wanted information about how Antifa networks carry out organized crime, I’d be willing to share my expertise. In reaction, Antifa members threatened to kill me via threats on @bluesky.
Mr Ngo is one of the very few exceptions I make when I label anyone associated with the media as actively exacerbating the problems they purport to report on. The bloke has guts.
James Morrow
A return ‘common sense’ politics in the US is a ‘breath of fresh air’
Islam doing what it does best a again:
1 Dead, 2 Injured in ‘Allahu Akbar’ Knife Attack.
I was planning to visit Mulhouse in a couple of months time.
Better pack my stab vest and steel collar. And sharpen the umbrella ferrule.
Just pack a hijab and you’ll be fine.
I’ll be passing through on my way to Switzerland in July.
RFK Jr is coming for your junk food.
Now It Makes Sense… “Europe Is Being BURNT To The Ground!” | Neil Oliver
Had no idea the Cook Islands were next two Tahiti. That is going to give the Chinese significant projection in the Pacific.
I think there’s a bit to play out here yet domestically.
The ruling party is corrupt and has a one seat majority.
Also, the Cook Islands are officially part of the Realm of New Zealand.
So also is going the whole Medicare and offering “free doctors” in his bid for a second term. Evidently he cares little for debt. No doubt he will raise taxes to pay for it. And it’s costed at $8.5bn. So we will be looking at nearly $13 billion when you include a 50% uplift for reality. Do all doctors want to be employed by the government?
Meant Albo
Covid showed us that the AMA are the Govts useful idiots.
Wife said almost the same thing this morning.
They certainly all want that Medicare provider number.
Bwah ha ha ha.
I just saw someone on social media “praying the Pope Fonzi converts to Christianity” before he crosses over the (ahem) “rainbow bridge”.
JD Vance Is Right. Europe Has Abandoned Western Values.
For you Steve Trickler
https://youtu.be/lIF5EEneWEU?si=jLlb6FJUChrWhZ1C
The vibe of the African and Europe continents melding
More outrageous outrage on the Soshuls about Musk asking public serpents to list what they actually do.
Not a 5,000 word essay.
Five (5) dot points.
What is going to be funny is the sly types who spend the whole weekend urging “solidarity bro” and encouraging everyone not to respond … then send theirs off at 11:58 tomorrow claiming credit for everything the department does.
It’s the meme, where the two bosses lean over the table at the unfortunate and say:
‘What would you say it is you do here?’
Glorious.
Idiotic what ifs with shaky premises aside, if we are asking “What if”?
What if those of us who told you that deindustrialising was a bad idea and that our defences depended on our industries had been listened to?
Would Russia invade Ukraine if the industrial heartlands of the West were pumping out products?
Would a Chinese flotilla be diverting our aircraft?
How many more warnings do we need to get our shit together?
And we might ask ourselves: “Who decided to place all the high tech silicon chip foundries in an island less than 200 km from mainland China, like an open invitation”?
Commercial decisions undertaken in peace time don’t always makes sense strategically.
It was a Chinese-American engineer, iirc.
Idiotic what ifs. The practical world is all about ‘what ifs’, what if I do this rather than that? Will what I desire be more likely to occur or not?
As to your two questions, the same re 1 because Russia considers the US in Ukraine an existential threat. Re 2, less likely or simply delayed but situation closer to China similar.
Rita Panahi slams ‘unhinged’ Abbie Chatfield for her ‘intolerant’ views
Fraternity brothers at the University of North Carolina protected an American flag from desecration by anti-Israel demonstrators; a lighthearted GoFundMe campaign quickly raised $US516,000 for them to throw “a world-class party”.
From the Oz.
Hungarian politician praises Trump’s foreign policy plans: ‘You don’t argue with facts’
The realities of being Jewish in Australia as antisemitic attacks dominate headlineshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSYG1kxnfaU
Ridiculous slogan.