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Muslim palli matriarch is elated her 4 sprogs are martyrs for the cause and is looking forward to her 2…
You’re an IT expert on internal US government comms security now. Musk has suggested otherwise, and if it’s great to…
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Wyvanhoe:
I’ve asked Dover Beach to give you my normal email as the – long story short – one I use here I don’t have an account for due to initial problems with signing on using my old Cat Files email.
If you don’t get it by the weekend, I’ll publish my email here.
Unwise to post you email here as is public.
Send a new and viable one to Dover and he can send it on.
If he doesn’t mind.
For Cats who like such things. Elon postponed his big rocket test from yesterday. Now planned to launch tomorrow.
If it goes ahead the coverage starts tomorrow at 10am AEST here.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-8
How come the big-boobed Chinese lassies so prominent in advertisments never appear actually doing anything. Like playing music.
Don’t get me wrong. I like boobs as much as the next man. I just find it surprising that they couldn’t find a well-built woman musician.
Do any other Cats have the uneasy feeling that The Liberals (i.e. The Liberal Party of Australia) are looking at Trump and saying, “This is an aberration; things will be back to normal in four years.”
Yes. Most of the Libs are wet as a swamp in a monsoon. Dutton is a figurehead to keep the unwashed and rancid base from wandering off.
I suspected I wasn’t alone, BoN.
Hopefully they will need a re think in four years time
Too late!
Yes. If one of them could spell ‘aberration’. Certainly I assume that’s what the Republican fungi are thinking. Hence my occasional bleating about planning for four years’ time.
I don’t think the Lieborals know if they are Arthur, Martha, or Xartha. Nor do they care. Planning? Tactics? This isn’t military model war-gaming you know!
Nonetheless, it’s hold-your-nose-and-vote-for-them-anyway time.
Mereckons there are many UK rightwingers regretting their “zero seats!” glee, now that that sceptred isle has been shish-kebabbed for the next half decade.
There’s a lot of that. At least Dutton has had the balls to push the nuclear option. Which no party has dared to do since the Peter Garrett Nuclear Disarmament Party days. That courage is worthy.
Wouldn’t be surprised if many of them hold views that would have been regarded as aberrant or nutty even by Labor 15-20 years ago.
Such as men can be women.
In no universe can such people be considered conservative.
Shazza karening furiously about the Queensland cyclone.
I’m really looking forward to whole bunch of gerbil worming climate hysteria chicken littles emerging from this ridiculous beat up with less than zero credibility (again).
Idiots.
Brisbane in the early ’70s had four cyclones in as many tears.
We also had a flu epidemic in the winter of ’72 and colder than usual winters for the rest of the decade (cold enough to wear a sleeveless vest under my blazer at school).
We all just carried on and remained calm as far as I remember.
Who’s Shazza?
Sharri Markson of Sky News.
Recorded Bolt (yeah I know) wondering if he’d calmed down from his TDS. But no luck – after about 2 minutes he stated “after all Trump’s ‘abuse’ of Zelensky even throwing him out of the WH “..
the word ‘abuse’ jumped out at me. Still doesn’t get it as there was no abuse of the Ukrainian by Trump. Just a few home truths.
The word “abuse” is the latest catcall to denigrate, silence and intimidate someone that is assertive.
Spot on. Bringing on Fluffy Annaliese later just about did me in.
Hairy very amusing musing that her opinions on the Zelensky issue were formed sitting around a table at a Democrat dinner function; then she said something about the ‘wider’ impacts. She’s quoting the next table now, he mutters to himself.
I think Blot has to use her, something in his contract and hers.
Even Zelensky has gotten over it already.
The piece of the puzzle we are only getting a glimpse of is Ukrainian domestic politics.
I suspect Vlod the Inhaler has had his horoscope read to him by some heavy hitters back home who, whilst they might have been happy with the grift opportunities from the rivers of aid flowing in, now recognise that digging in could end very, very badly.
Like “lamppost and rope” kind of badly.
Wasn’t Bolt once an ALP speechwriter?
I can never take Blot seriously on TV while he has that wart on his face
Ha ha. My sister and I were having a debate that the wart had got bigger!
I suspect he’s parroting the party line, as it were.
The Oz has been running WSJ articles and editorials lately.
Bigly TDS.
Gender pay gap is on a roll too.
If someone who needed a favour from me behaved like Zelensky in my house I’d throw him out too.
Bolt has a blindspot when it comes to Zelensky.
Why on earth would anyone watch or read Bolt now?
Nothing but a glass jawed whiner and has been for a long time. I ditched him when he got stuck in to the “limo driver” who apparently brought Covid to Sydney according to him. Oh, also writing a stack of articles denouncing homosexual marriage prior to the vote only to tell everyone he voted FOR IT straight after.
If DOGE sorts out just USAID, EPA and Social Security, then it will go a long way towards bankrupting US leftards and the international left.
The shonky non-“International” activities of USAID have been well exposed. The EPA, as well as giving grants to highly political leftard supposed-NGOs, has long had a practice of reacting to legal actions by spurious “environmental” NGOs with “consent agreements” that involved large court sanctioned payments to those NGOs.
And all those Social Security payments to ghosts and the dead have ended up somewhere, most probably the DemonRat Party or its elected members.
Back from the tailor’s. The Beloved’s new linen jacket turned out to be beautifully made and he doesn’t look a bit like a James Bond villain! More like a South Pacific planter in the tradition of both our grandfathers.
Bali (at least this part at Nusa Dua) is lovely. I think I would recommend it to my kids and anyone else who likes peace and quiet.
Why do women love, love, love going places where they can spend other people’s money on someone else’s clothes?
Take it as a blessing- who knows?
BTW Calli I’m a 40L, prefer double-vented and surgeon’s cuffs x
It was my money and I delight in giving my husband a nice gift of snazzy clothes. He had to have his arm twisted, especially over the linen shirts. *
I’m not “most women”.
*yikes! He’s definitely not my toy boy! Also, his old suit was looking a bit sad and too “corporate” for life these days.
Hairy wouldn’t wear one of several business suits he still has to the funeral we attended recently even though the congregation was asked to wear ‘sombre’ dress, in contrast to the recent trend for ‘bright’ non-funereal clothing. He wore a dark jacket and pants with a sombre blue shirt instead, and .. no tie. Surely you could put on a tie? I remonstrated somberly in my very sombre dress, but he held firm. No tie. I pursed my lips, thinking he’d be out of place, after my reiterations of suit, suit, but in the event, he was pretty much like most other men there. Far fewer suits than usual and ties were rare.
I disapprove of this down-dressing trend.
Even Elon can wear a suit to Congress, I was happy to note to my own miscreant, who took only a dark jacket rather than a formal dinner suit on our recent cruise from Capetown to Dubai, and will do the same for our upcoming cruise in late September down the Rhine and Rhone. Upmarket cruises these days make a big thing of ‘elegant casual’ for evenings. No ‘full formal’ stuff, though women may and do still dress up sparkly.
But now we are booking ahead on the Queen Anne to do the ‘pacific crossing’ from Sydney to Los Angeles in March 2026, with 20 days ‘at sea’. Will you be taking a dinner suit? I ask, thinking he won’t. Of course, he says. It’s a Cunard ‘crossing’.
I give up, I say.
I dun the 20 days crossing LA to Sydney in 2013 on a Holland America boat .. Didn’t realise they were running seabound old folks homes .. nearly died of boredom .. The, eventual, sight of Circular Quay was heaven ……
Hey, Shatterzzz – I was hoping it would be quiet and I might get some writing done. Sometimes you have to run away to sea to find some peace.
Nusa Dua is excellent great surf and beaches.
There are two perpetrators of violence: the Aggrieved, and the Privileged.
Words are Violence. Violence is words (speech).
I once watched two sisters have a physical altercation over a small piece of very ordinary furniture, one envious of the other who had been bequeathed it by the mother. Then to top it off a knife was brought by the one who was aggrieved to the funeral. Thankfully no one was hurt but it split the family. The funeral was a doozy!
If Two Tier Starmer is determined to ensure that Britain becomes more diverse, and to mirror the worlds racial mix, he has to import another 160 million Asians. (Asians are 60% of the worlds population.) Or get rid of 30 million Whites.
These are very rough figures, but I’ve never seen anyone do these numbers.
Anyone care to have a crack at it?
Why is there never an option on official forms for choosing Dungeon Master as my preferred title, instead of Mr, Minx, Xirbot, or Undecided?
But are you a Greyhawk era Dungeon Master…? 😀
At last an opening to bore for Australia….
I DMed last weekend for a bunch of newbies.
Attacked by skeleton bats I described how one went whizzing by a chaps head.
Then for added suspense the next one was making a beeline for his groin..
Roll the dice, Nat 20.
The poor bugger was one shotted by a bony bat to the sack.
Speaking only English, I have no idea what you just said.
When people like Jordan Petersen, Dan Wootton, Andre Walker and Alex Phillips are all talking about a UK societal breakdown, then we all need to listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxu4ceiJKzA
Talking about Albo and cyclones, what do they say about history repeating?
Great – in a sort of way – re-reading that again. Summed him up perfectly.
An inveterate LARPer.
On Kokoda…Joe Hockey fished him out of a river…the twit had fallen in.
Misplaced kindness.
From the Oz. Why am I left with the feeling that this is all about “Making fools of whitefella?”
NSW taxpayers have been asked to fork out $125,000 for an Indigenous group to cut down and “make items” from a tree that needed to be removed from the proposed site of a controversial $9m performing arts centre in Bathurst, under a requirement for “Aboriginal participation”.
The only Indigenous group to take up the offer of site visits for the project was the Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation, also behind a controversial heritage claim on the peak of Mount Panorama-Wahluu.
As part of developing the new performing arts centre near Ben Chifley Dam, the Bathurst Regional Council consulted six Indigenous groups, with the Wiradyuri group the only respondent to follow through, twice visiting the site for the Ngurang Bathurst Arts Residency NSW, or BARN, in 2023.
The council set aside $125,000 for “Wiradjuri Aboriginal Collaboration Works” in budgetary memos, which the minutes for a February 3 extraordinary meeting of the council said was included “after investigation into the costs associated with felling, milling and making items from a tree that required removal for the space”.
Shirley there would not be six groups having a say over the one area.
That would be “Wiradyuri splinter group”.
Very good!
A deep forensic audit of said splinter groups cashflow – over and above the Council largesse – would be interesting.
Tossers
Mt. Panorama Wahluu sounds about right for a sacred site – imagine a V8 accelerating up to Skyline, and then backing off for The Dipper!
My father nearly died on Mt. Panorama in the 50’s. He raced cars there as a founding member of the Australian Racing Drivers Club.
I recall my mother in hysterics as he came down Conrod Strait at more than 100mph and his brakes failed. He went shooting down the escape road, piling up his vehicle in a massive wheelie at the end of it. Emerged bruised and burned; his call from the Grim Reaper was very close indeed. Other men have lost their lives there. Perhaps we should memorialise them instead of relying on a few scattered aboriginal ashes.
EXCLUSIVE Americans give Trump an overwhelming seal of approval for his ‘optimistic’ and ‘strong’ address to Congress
Werner Heisenberg: science, mysticism, Christianity – EnlightenedCrowd
Loved-up Lidia Thorpe has been quietly dating a younger man with a VERY colourful past – as intimate images of the smitten couple emerge
Daily Mail.
Is this an attempt at one upping my Albotross’ romance series?
Certainly enough material there, Lively Mole.
There was No.1 and the taxpayer funded glazing business that went broke, there was the bikey, now there is the alleged colourful toy boy
– and who knows who came in between.
Common factor- o p m it would seem.
Publish and be damned!
I note our resident Nazi popped up a short time ago, at 8.25 p.m to be precise, where he categorically stated the following………
This is diplomatic posturing, nothing more. There will be no agreement signed on terms favourable to Trump.
Gosh, he’s so sure and certain. I’d like to remind folks here of two of the Nazi’s pompous pearlers from last year.
Biden can govern
and
Harris will win Iowa
Neither the above aged very well. I wonder how long the Nazi’s 8.25 p.m pearler will hold up? Any bets?
I just saw the chyron on Sky News saying Z is ready to sign.
It may all be lies.
I may have to take responsibility for that. After some comment on Economics I suggested mUnty stick to international geopolitics.
Rather unimpressive wind speeds and rain radars for Brisbane.
No doubt the unprecedented climate change zombie storm will pick up its act by tomorrow. We can’t disappoint the devotees with mere weather.
Anyway, “Sliante” to you mob. Payday for self funded retirees this year looks like being an absolute snorter, and there is only so much you can spend on good single malt, and maintaining your library. Oh, and an overseas holiday.
Fair warning – if a re- elected Albanese Government needs Greens support, and the price of that support is death duties, an inheritance tax and a wealth tax, I’ll see you on the barricades.
All this talk about peace deals ignores the guy in the driver’s seat: Putin.
No, not really. Putin is caught in his very own “VietNam/Afganistan” quagmire, with no way out except via Trump. Trump knows this.
“President Donald Trump revealed that Vladimir Putin has sent ‘strong signals’ he is ready for a Ukraine peace deal during a fiery address to Congress on Tuesday night.”