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Insane in the Kraine, Cats! 😕
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Im first. First, I tells ya!
Indeed you are
Hi Bill
Goodnight Bill
Raining here – nice.
Well I’m 3d, 4th or whatever.
Happy cyclone Albo day.
Finally a bit of action in BrisVegas. Wind, rain, no pain (so far).
Buckets of rain, wind blowing things over. Received a flood warning two hours ago. Street is being swamped.
Nothing happened in Toowoomba.
Just checked me rain gauge : 14mm last 24 hours
Bit of broken overcast at the moment and no rain.
A non event despite overhyped ‘horror warnings’ for Toowoomba.
Ahh well…
Here in inner N W Briz Vegas? Light wind gusts, but 54mm in the rain gauge 24 hours to 0730 EST. (Kilo)
Noisy Mynas and Rainbow Lorikeets looking decidedly unhappy.
No signs of “blackouts”. And no shortage of water. .Deep freeze loaded with chiller blocks, just in case. Electric toaster and coffee maker happily delivering, so far. It is a bit like “indoor-camping”
Ah, Queensland:
“Beautiful one day;
Soggy and windswept, (or burnt to a crisp), the next”.
All the best over there lovely CAT people.
I was in grade 1 upon release. Synpapses in the brain bring forth the memory.
Ph.D – I Won’t Let You Down (1981)
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez TDS.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
just flesh wounds to the DON
Henry Payne.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom.
Geez, the Democrats and their dinky protest paddles have taken a beating from the cartoonists. Also its being suggested that TDS is becoming recognized as a psychosis. My thoughts are that once you get a group of people to accept a big lie or in the case of the democrats, lots of big lies, then they can experience meltdown when reality intervenes. It’s why people being rescued from weird cults need to go through a form of decompression to adjust to the real world.
Bloody Alfred is holding up some cigars I ordered from Queensland. I guess this counts as an act of God. Maybe I should have spent more time in Sunday school.
I had a weird dream a while back. I was stuck behind a bloke in a posh suit just standing in my way, so I said ‘scuse me’ and squeezed past him. He called after me in a disapproving voice: ‘I am your king’. So I turned and looked, and yes, it was Charley boy himself. So I called back: ‘I’m five aces and a joker’.
I thought that was pretty good for a dream. My subconscious is every bit as egalitarian as the rest of me.
Haw!
Greg Gutfeld’s monologues are absolutely lethal while amusing — this is part of his latest show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_YO6Xpj3TU
Taking on the democrats these days is shooting fish in a barrel. Their pettiness and insanity are manifest. I’m fairly confident that most Aussies, like 70% of Americans, feel the same way about the woke crap, but the uniparty can’t face up to reality. If Dutton had a spine, he’d capitalise on it and win hands down, but he’s too stupid and gutless.
The fundamental issue is that most people are weak and afraid of the social pressures, so the focus groups don’t come out with the truth, they tell you what people think they ought to say, not what they believe. This is when a leader comes in and just tells the truth, and the weak fatheads discover that they can tell the truth too. And suddenly the leader has 70% support for what was, yesterday, a minority opinion.
This is how it works, it worked for Trump and it could work for Dutton, if he had the courage and intelligence to go for it. But he doesn’t.
Nailed it
There are two obvious scams Dutton should nail. One is aboriginal grifting and the other is net zero. If he went for these with enthusiasm and courage, he’d get massive support. But he’s just a politician and not a leader’s bootlace.
Dutton can’t be like a US President. He is constrained by Lib party rules and by membership. There are many in the Libs organization that are woke, left of centre and some that I believe are there to undermine/influence policy to prevent the Libs offering a clear alternative especially on net zero and Aboriginal land rights issues.
If you find that your party has been infiltrated by the enemy, you clean house. You decide who is on your side and who isn’t and you wipe out the latter group. You take charge of who gets in to the party and exclude the bad guys. They aren’t hard to identify.
Tried for ten years. Rot too deep.
Yes, but only because he allows himself to be. What if he just took the risk and there was overwhelming public support – what would the party do? Maybe he gets taken down on the breach of protocols, but the genie is out of the bottle. That would be leadership for the Country, not just the Party.
Dudzy is constrained by being spineless ..!
Supporting nuclear is the perfect political response to net zero.
Nuclear makes his detractors with their erstwhile demands to support the science suddenly switch to saying very unscientific things.
Watch what will happen after Albo loses and can no longer use the power of prerogative to make AEMO and CSIRO run interference.
News once again plumbs the depths of TDS. Daniela Elser writes:
“Now, 78 years after Benito Mussolini hung up his black shirt for the last time, President Donald Trump is doing his darnedest to bring despotism back into vogue like it’s the bumster jeans of politics.”
Her conclusion that America is stuffed is based on the failure of the Democrats, as if they are the knights in shining armour needed to defeat Bad Orange Man.
Photo proves America has lost it | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
‘Hate Trump’ is all they’ve got. It’s pathetic. God save us from hysterical women. Trump is destroying democracy and getting 70% popular support for doing it.
Destroying Democrats.
Six minutes of completely hysterical bilge.
Ex ABC, Marie Claire and some other on line wymmyns claptrap. A quick glance at her recent pieces reveals an unhealthy interest in FLOTUS, and the usual bibs and bobs of gossip.
I’m sharing a link here but getting downticks. Why?
Don’t worry, I had an avalanche after I posted a couple of objectively reasonable questions,
Hysteria in the face of minor risks is now Standard Operating Procedure for the pink haired women who comprise over 60% of all government employees,
50mm rain and 50km/h winds for Brisbane. They FEARED 800mm rain and 150km/hr winds destroying buildings and killing hundreds. Again they SHUT DOWN the economy for everyone’s safety, kept grade 12 children home during their most important school year, panicked people into buying supermarket’s entire stock, and caused major electrical outages because repairers were banned from attending faults due to OHS.
Our society is now a kindergarten, run by horn-rimmed social workers.
At least they didn’t try to inject everyone this time.
Those 800mm predictions aren’t going to age well. I was in the edge of a Cat 1 in the Pilbara years ago. We got about 300mm over a couple of days.
In 90km +winds . A cherry picker or up a ladder, in the dark. After you 🙂
Briswinds never got over 50.
Blanket stand down orders make no sense.
When you said “never got over 50” did you mean gust or average? When you are up a cherry picker it is the peak wind gust that gets you, not the average wind speed. There were gusts of over 80km/h during Friday and Saturday. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/202503/html/IDCJDW4020.202503.shtml
I once had to go out on a stormy night for a lightning strike to a business. After replacing the switchboard and the mains box I contacted the supply authority and lo & behold they sent a linesmen out. There he was up a 30 foot wooden ladder in pouring rain and lightning all round cheerful as all hell connecting the service back to the mains. They were tough back then.
This is exactly the problem. No one. No one at all is suggesting that anyone do this. Stop being a douche.
As with Covid it will be presented as a success. In fact it is an utter failure causing a vast expenditure of time and resources.
Oh YES they did, it just was’nt with a needle.
Mad Maxine and others now run the line that Musk with his magic Starlink system stole the election. OK, there’s a solution to that. Accept the new bill that proposes a return to paper ballots, no machines, limited mail in.
Election Denier Rep. Maxine Waters Suggests Elon Musk’s ‘High-Technology Ass’ May Have Tampered With Election Results (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Ben Kew
Many…many upticks. Hold them to it.
The only way to restore confidence in elections is to ditch the machines. See – even the Dems are worried about interference!
Let’s do it for America!
Game, set and match. Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.
😀
Why don’t they just jail all the democrats they are a mob of crooks.
Should have done so after W Wilson.
There’s no upside to leftists existing.
Today’s Saturday Tele:
RUSSIA TALK BY LABOR IS ABOUT SAVING PRIVATE ALBO
Vikki Campion
8 Mar 2025
When he wasn’t attacking prime minister John Howard’s eyebrows or his age (60), a young Anthony Albanese was ranting against a war he believed was none of our business.
He accused Mr Howard of using the Iraq War “to present yourself as a strong wartime leader” using “our servicemen and women to help get him re-elected, straight from the neo-con playbook”.
So on the eve of the 2025 election what did our 61-year-old Prime Minister Albanese do?
He trumped Mr Howard by proposing to commit us to the most ferocious war of this century against one of the biggest armies on the planet, much further away than Iraq.
On Tuesday, Mr Albanese said he was “open to sending Australian troops to Ukraine”, despite making it clear since 2022 that “no ADF personnel will enter Ukraine”.
If he is open to sending our troops, he has to inform us that Russia would be open to reprisals in Australia, and if this is warranted, it needs a vastly more fulsome discussion, as he asked of Howard during Iraq.
Mums of veterans are in distress at the thought of their sons being called back under the call of a leader who couldn’t even send a ship to the Middle East area of operations or conduct surveillance on the Chinese flotilla currently circumnavigating the country.
Mr Albanese may call them peacekeepers, but it is what Russia calls them that matters.
After all, Iraq, he said in 2004, should have been solved with a “political solution”.
“Mr Howard has never fought in a war but never misses a photo opportunity to be seen with those who bravely serve our nation,” Mr Albanese said in 2003.
You don’t have to Google too hard to find Albo posing with the troops in disruptive pattern combat uniforms, yet I’m still looking for the conflict where Private Albanese came under fire.
Back then, Mr Albanese berated Mr Howard as a wimp looking to show off to his old school: “This commitment to war includes the SAS, navy frigates, FA18 Hornets, Chinook troop lift helicopters, C130 Hercules transport aircraft, mine clearance teams and much more,” Mr Albanese ranted.
“John Howard is going to show all his peers at Canterbury High School that he was not a wimp after all.” How does Mr Albanese reconcile the weapons for Ukraine, including 49 M1A1 Abrams tanks, which the government announced last October and still aren’t there, and probably won’t get there until this October? Is this a 2025 reflection of the PM’s machismo?
Supplying equipment is one thing, but it is a massive step to start supplying Australian lives.
Remember, the Coalition script from 2004, committed to “helping the Iraqi people, through humanitarian assistance, to build a new Iraq at peace with itself and its neighbours”.
If that was enough for young Mr Albanese to declare Mr Howard’s government a “warmongering” one, in which “the prime minister has no exit strategy”, what is our exit strategy out of this deployment if hostilities ignite? Retreat? Or go to war against Russia?
If Iraq was dangerous, and it was, why is he open to sending troops to where 700,000 Russians have been killed or injured, and 400,000 Ukrainians killed or injured, and 48,000 Russians and 35,000 Ukrainians are currently missing?
This leaves Iraq in the shade. Meanwhile we are hardly bubbling over with defence personnel. This is not a nation ready to engage in the most bitter war of this century.
Mr Albanese accused Mr Howard of redefining us in the eyes of the world as willing backers of US militarism. Now when the US is trying not to be involved in the war, Albo apparently wants us to fly in on a call the British are yet to make. He railed that the war in the Middle East was “the biggest foreign policy failure since the Vietnam War”, even repeating Shakespeare in speeches.
Yet now, on a whim, with no parliamentary debate, no cabinet submission, Mr Albanese declares he is open to deploying troops for “peacekeeping”.
We should have learnt from history where this ends up. If Albo wants boots on the ground in Ukraine, let the first be his.
LIFTER
The Oval Office for the most entertaining press conference in living memory. Love it or hate it, you can’t take your eyes off it.
LEANER
It’s a tight race between Health Minister Mark Butler approving the biggest increase to health insurance premiums in seven years, Anthony Albanese claiming to fully fund schools when the fine print has that down for 2034, or Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek approving the environmental decimation of the Hills of Gold at Nundle for the Engie wind factory.
Too many good points to highlight.
I have to admit I enjoy Vikki Champion’s weekly articles.
She makes much more sense than her squeeze.
Wolf, Vikki and ‘her squeeze’ should swap jobs.
Looks like Alfred has expended most of his energy trying to punch through the wall of photons created by the scores of Sun Guns lighting all those Live Crosses.
It’s hard to argue with this article at American Thinker. Their tactics during Trump’s speech were very revealing, and will do them no good at the mid-terms. Some see a split coming.
The Democrats Descend into Madness – American Thinker
I think ‘stupidity’ would describe it better than ‘madness.’
Today’s Saturday Tele Vikki Campion continued:
MONEY WASTED ON RENEWABLES GRIFTING WOULD COME IN HANDY NOW
8 Mar 2025
YOU are told to be afraid of the weather – with billions of tax dollars squandered on the climate grift, such as the perpetually collapsing quest to commercialise green hydrogen – but given a miserly budget to prepare for worse storms.
Imagine if those billions blown on subsidising intermittent energy grifters, – funded whether they can keep an iPhone on under the Capacity Investment Scheme, or putting 75 per cent of the public service into electric vehicles – had instead paid for infrastructure that could withstand a strong wind, the basic requirement for every new build in northern Australia since the 1980s.
There is never a second thought on the billions squandered in the climate change bureaucracy, which never reduced the price of power by $275 as Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen promised, but upgrading the leaky old caretaker cottage at back of Shores Bay, where the bulk of command work during the 2022 floods happened in a space the size of a wardrobe, into a fit for purpose SES HQ for about $6m is, apparently, too much to ask.
When they should have been preparing the community for evacuation, Ballina SES volunteers were warned they could be one of the first to go. You don’t need a long memory to recall water gushing up Ballina’s main street, the flooded police station, or the old, creaky SES roof threatening to peel up.
“Fixing these gaps would not have taken a great deal of money,” Ballina mayor Sharon Cadwallader said.
See, the grift only works if you are scared of the weather, so the government will allow carte blanche spending on all kinds of treats for green company CEOs.
But if you believe in steeling communities through extremes, be it droughts, floods or cyclones, building towns that can withstand the worst, there is no fund to find.
You need to be scared of the climate, not prepared for it.
Wonder if any of Blackout Bowen’s White Elephants surrounded by dead birds were knocked over by cyclone Albo.
If any, probably not enough.
Tropical cyclone Alfred should be renamed as Tropical depression Albo. The hype promised to be so much more than what was delivered, but turned far left at the last moment and completely petered out to a nuthing burger. The only result of significance is that 200,000 people are now without electricity.
Comrades.
Wonderful summary.
Gotta luv media ‘reporting” .. over at “msnnews” there’s a, bolded, headline .. “Dolphins flight home delayed by Cyclone” .. but if you read on you come to .. they had to stay in Sydney o/n cos couldn’t make airport before flight curfew kicked in …….
Well Alfred finally landed!
Thanking the Lord that it was nowhere as destructive as anticipated. The bay islands did their job and sheltered the Redlands. Winds were not as strong as expected and we have survived without damage.
Thanking the Lord that it was nowhere as destructive as anticipated.
I think you mean that it was nowhere near as destructive as the hysterical media hoped it would be.
Yes. Dashed hopes.
It kills them to say ex-tropical cyclone Alfred.
The same where I am. Just some rain overnight,
BoM covering themselves glory with overhyped climate change mantras and bad skills. The weather remains extremely hard to predict and it’s delusional to think that they can get five days wrong and fifty years right.
Green Hedge Fund executive says the whole Clean Energy Sector Is Dead « JoNova
This at Jo Nova, plus the looming mass production of nuclear plants in the USA to support massive data centres, should be a warning to Blackouts Bowen and all the others (including Greens) that the jig is up. But unless the complicit media spreads the news to the lumpenproletariat aka the great unwashed and uninformed voters, they’ll continue to get away with murdering our energy system and then the nation.
And the squillions of super invested in these con schemes by former union bigwigs?
Hahahaha! Via Ace Of Spades comes this truly stunning article from PJ Media.
So many questions. What if Biden had moments of lucidity and actually couldn’t recall signing orders to fund NIHs transgender mice?
Or as is more likely, when Joe went sundowning at 2pm, who got cracking with the autopen?
The President in title only. Possible that this is the biggest story this year, even the past 5 years.
Dr Beaugan @ 08:21am….
Thanking the Lord that it was nowhere as destructive as anticipated.
I think you mean that it was nowhere near as destructive as the hysterical media hoped it would b
SkyNews still full-on climate pron with ex-tropical cyclone Albo.
“Officials” queuing up to rant about flash flooding, wind and rain, desperately trying to prolong the “disaster” obviously pissed off that it was largely a nothing burger.
I think that is called ‘saving face’.
The default position for officialdom is panic mode (see Covid). It makes it easier to put draconian measures in place.
If they could, they would have ordered everyone to stay indoors but that was a stretch too far.
Natural causes.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/celebrity-deaths/gene-hackman-cause-of-death-revealed-after-star-wife-dog-found-dead-at-santa-fe-mansion/news-story/33ecb2346273f4c175bc88161f128ae0?amp
This Jew is very concerned about this, and other Jews (and non-Jews) should also be very concerned too……
Burgertory boss Hashem Tayeh has been charged with using insulting words in public at a pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne CBD, marking possibly the first time comments considered political speech are the subject of a criminal charge under certain state laws.
Victoria Police on Friday confirmed Mr Tayeh had been charged under Section 17(1) of the state’s Summary Offences Act, which prohibits profane, indecent or obscene language, for saying “all Zionists are terrorists” at a rally in May last year.
The crime is punishable with two months’ prison for the first offence, three months for the second, and six months for three or more. Australian Lawyers Alliance spokesman Greg Barns SC said the offence was typically used “in circumstances where people insult each other using profane language”.
“I’ve never seen it used in a political context,” he said.
Mr Barns, who would not directly comment on the matter as it was before the courts, said, for example, people had been charged under the offence for swearing at police.
“It’s normally the person complaining is an individual, and not an entire group,” he said.
Don’t get me wrong, I can’t stand Hash Tash and I suspect he’s long thought he’s above the law. However, rather than charging someone for hurtful words, I note Vic police are still yet to charge/arrest anyone for the Ripponlea synagogue torching but I guess low hanging fruit are always easier to go after.
They’re charging him with speech offences precisely because they know it will get knocked down on constitutional grounds.
But they can say “we tried”
According to the BOM’s duty forecaster the fact that Alfred has been downgraded to a low is “almost irrelevant” as it only reflects wind speed.
Sure, there may be some rain in it, but it means millions needn’t worry about losing power for days from downed lines. I’d suggest that’s quite relevant to the average person.
Coolangatta’s average rainfall is nearly 60 inches with 156 days of precipitation. It’s a humid wet place.
So where’s the “deadly flash flooding” they’ve been promising all week?
Tomorrow.
Read this cutsie story on the ABC web page this morning.
Apart from the story being short on facts (suggesting it was probably written at an ABC desk) it did make me wonder:
If the Aboriginal community is so concerned about Koalas and Kookaburras why aren’t they up in arms about the incredible mass damage and carnage caused by the clearing of native forests and bushland to make way for transmission lines and solar and wind factories on vast sweeps our country. I haven’t heard a peep from them. Oh but when comes to protecting mythical rainbow serpents near mining it’s a different issue altogether. Now why is that?
I believe in bureaucratic jargon the term is “community benefits.”
Paulie spoke to the ABC’s Indigenous Affairs Team
Could it also be that the ABC has taken over as the filter and central conduit for Aboriginal communications thus enabling only material that is supportive of the lefts narrative to be raised? If I were Jacinta or Warren I’d be quite concerned about this development.
First I’d heard of it, though I wasn’t surprised.
Gatekeepers for the official narrative.
At the moment? They spend their entire existences stoned out of their tiny little minds.
And their minds are very very tiny.
the tip of the end of an evolutionary branch.
Is there a list of animal IQ’s?
Most stupid beast?
Skippies would also have to be down the bottom if it.
Most stupid beast?
Horses.
I’ll get in first on this.
If only we had the infrastructural foresight to take wasted coastal flooding and pump it over the hills to grow food for an expected 9 billion people. We are instead spending billions to build useless renewables on farmland to reduce our food production.
Smart city types should be selected for starvation training,
Does than irrigators plan to spend, oh perhaps $30,000 ML to pay for the cost of doing this?
or do they intend to pay no more than a token outlay and expect the great children taxpayers to effectively pay for it.
Amish Children Facing Forced Vaccinations in NY as Court Ruling Crushes Religious Freedom
I suspect it takes a fair bit to anger the Amish. This might do it.
They offended the leftard “narrative” by helping out in Carolina when FEMA failed.
Thou shalt not expose the “narrative”!
Toowoomba suspended garbage collection yesterday. Some wind, some rain but lots of days have been worse than that without shutting down for two days.
The damage from Alfred will be from the economic loss from panic closures. Will anyone run the numbers?
Will anyone run the numbers?
That is a bloody good idea.
NAB bank was shut downtown yesterday.
Uni closed down on Thursday.
Schools closed.
Coleswoths closed up shop yesterday at 16:00
Motor rego office at Harristown was shut yesterday.
Toowoomba.
130k inland on the top of a hill.
I said on Monday that all we will get is a bit of wind and a bit of rain.
Maybe a bit of flooding.
That will be it.
A non event in Toowoomba.
But no.
Panic stations.
Because ‘they are saying…’
Sister in Law wanted to move stuff inside and into the back shed.
One of her cousins, now stuck in Victoriastan because flight was cancelled back to Brisbane, wanted her outside gear put in the garage.
Annnd…a non event.
yep
Just spoke to my sister who lives in Brisbane’s inner west and she said they get more wind in a bog-standard summer storm. They have a generator in preparation for the Bowen Blackouts but it hasn’t needed to come on.
It got to 64.8kmh about 12:30 am at our place. The BoM was predicting gusts of 97kmh at the time.
just a few branches down and sunken tinnies.
Family in Brisbane are having a Gin Party.
It ain’t known as the Bureau of Mediocrity for no good reason.
Nice to wake up to the news that ex tropical cyclone alfredo ended up being as big a nothing burger as I hoped it would be.
Chicken Littles across the nation distraught. You sad disaster porn ghouls.
Morn all
Seems Alfred was the fizzer I was expecting. Cat 2 he was not.
Welcome newcomers to Brisbane to the tropical depressions or monsoonal nights we get in the tropics a couple times a year. We had one in January with flooding rains and 80km/h gusts over a night.
Only places and they were exposed coast that got to Cat 1 winds were Cape Byron and the weather station at the Spit.
No observations showing an eye anywhere.
East coast low. Hybrid cyclone is BOOM crap.
Looked just like an east coast low.
Yes. We get heavy rain in the SE.
This is not even close to the heaviest rain we have had in the last decade (?) of La Nina.
@ExxAlerts
BREAKING: ICE raid leakers have been found, now facing 10 years in prison.
“We have identified criminal leakers.”
“These individuals face up to 10 years in federal prison.”
There’s a new boss in town.
Wow, they are in overdrive with the cyclone porn this morning. Absolutely working up a sweat.
Some young kid with a mic waving his arms around while in the background is a large number of dinghies rocking gently in the chop.
The media are a danger far greater than any dtorm.
See one Brian Williams
NASA insider blows whistle on plot to sabotage Musk’s rescue mission
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But
@Tablesalt13
BREAKING
26 MEMBER STATES OF EUROPE ENDORSE THE EU PRESIDENT’S $800B- 1 TRILLION USD DEFENSE SPENDING PLAN
This is equivalent to US defense spending. A new global superpower is being born.
LOL! Should work well with all the infighting which will be more intense and nasty than that between the US services.
And all under the command of a German,
Ursula Von der Leyen.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well played, Donald.
They might manage it for a year or two, then they’ll find excuses to go back to their old ways. In the meantime, sit back and watch the shit fight start about who the money is spent with.
The Daniela Elser article on news.com.au is truly unhinged. She seems disappointed the demonrats haven’t taken up arms and started shooting.
Too “insurrectionary” for even the DemonRats?
They don’t have any. Well most of them.
Courier Mail:
Look at the real river height data from on the ground – all Brisbane River gauges steady or falling and below minor flood level.:
You can’t reasonably expect journos to look at numbers; that would give them migraine headaches. And no information at all.
For International Womens’ Day SBS is featuring Thelma and Louise. SBS logic always outwits me but at least it is superior to the usual servings featuring exploited muzzie refugees.
But, they can anticipate a stern rebuke from the collective of obese Labor hags living it up tax free in Geneva.
Subtitles or dubbed?
Respected ALP aligned pollster Kon Samaras predicting big swings against Labor in VIC, where Albanese is seen as too close to Jacinta Allan.
Samaras warned Albanese not to call the Voice referendum but was ignored, just one example of why Albo is regarded as arrogant and out of touch even in Labor circles.
My 2c worth from visits recently.
Victoria is falling apart and the band aids can’t even hide it now.
Not only that even the country areas are starting to resemble little India with immigration.
I’d say locals are probably seeing it too.
People will accept grudgingly accept high immigration but not while living standards are declining as they can see it just means more people competing for fewer resources (housing!) and services. We need a pause. It’s not rocket science but even Dutton can’t grasp it.
Drop immigration and all of sudden the GDP is in negative territory.
Could Dutton be afraid to grasp it?
If Pesutto pleaded for his job by promising more Indian immigration, just how much power over the liberal party does the population ponzi mob have?
Saw something recently that the most common surname in Victoria is now an Indian one.
went to Newcastle last week. It seems every caf in Charlestown has indian owners/operators. Are these the skilled migrants we supposedly need??
So Indian Immigration is being seen as a problem?
How about that?
Can anyone tell me what sort of a problem?
Something to raise the spirits. The harridans aka Matildas have slumped to number 16 ranked FIFA side.
Marty Sheargold was right ladies. Now stew in it.
Would make a good T-shirt to wear to an open training night.
Another observation among all the disaster porn.
These idiot journalists haven’t got a thing right and still aren’t getting it right.
The low level centre of circulation or the centre of he rotation hasn’t crossed and didn’t cross the coast. It spent the early hours moving north paralleling the coast. It is currently still off the coast around level with Caloundra.
Fingers crossed it moves a little further north so I don’t have to water the Botanical Garden across the road.
Steady on…
Three years of BA Comms doesn’t equip one to interpret a weather radar image!
Going to be interesting to see what jobs they get when msm news goes under.
Yes indeed.
On its way to Rainbow Beach by the looks of it. It could track back to sea and reform. What fun for the doomers and embarrassment muchly for the sages of the BoM.
RD, I thought this might be of interest:
Surface temperature:
Albanese has a tin ear. He also lacks confidence and is a scaredy-cat. This has been obvious to me for many years. Albanese is no natural retail politician, like a Menzies, Whitlam, Hawke, Howard or even a Rudd. The only reason the Slug from Grayndler won in 2022 was because of a very tired, lacklustre and utterly useless Coalition government headed by a smirking back stabber by the name of Scumbag Morrison, a man who stank and was rightly on the nose with the Australian public.
Here’s my prediction, Slug will call a May election. A confident PM would have called an election days outside that rate cut but not Slug, because he’s paralysed by fear. He knows he’s on the nose with most Australians. He’s desperate, he’s looking for anything to deflect from the reality of his inept leadership and government, and that’s why he’s lapping up the cyclone porn and spruiking his coming ‘vedding’ to the mediocre ‘Jodieeeeeeee’.
By the way, watch Labor do preference deals with Australian Nazi Party. Slug, Pong and Labor have no shame.
a.k.a. ‘Rent a girlfriend”.
Rosie
March 8, 2025 8:49 am
Sad situation.
Looks like Kevin Rudd had been to the house sometime prior.
Natural causes.
Not caused by jabs? Not caused by nefarious Zionists?
Jokes aside, i thought this was the likely scenario, either one of them died first and then the other quickly carked it. Old paranoid people do strange things.
A sad ending. Hackman was a great actor.
Not a chance Cassie.
I think we’re used to selectively filtered facts. There is probably no need to sully the two with truth if other parties weren’t involved.
Terrible situation. She must have been his sole carer.
They must have had money to employ a nurse for welfare visits – his advanced Alzheimers would have made life very hard for his wife. They appear to have chosen , for whatever reason, to do it alone. Was he estranged from his family?
She was so much younger, only in her sixties.
It stll doesn’t sound right to me.
Gee, the fruits of the Western-backed Syrian Revolution are something to behold.
Quite amazingly amazing that a sectarian Islamist paramilitary, born out of Al Qaida, hasn’t brought peace, harmony, puppies, and liberal governance to an ethnically fractured pseudo-nation.
Beyond comprehension.
x
The Ba’athist Assad regime governing brutally for decades had nothing to do with it. Of course, it was the West’s fault. FMD, you’re so far down the anti-West rabbit hole.
Also, I don’t quite get your dislike of Sunni extremist, while having the pom poms out for Iran’s mullocracy, which is also extreme and much more dangerous. Is it some sectarian thing you have going now?
Oh sure, Assad is behind the massacre of Alawites and Christians along the coast.
Non-discriminatory mass murders by the Ba’athist regime were far more acceptable.
If a regime treats people like shit for 60 years and later they behave badly, is that a surprise to you? That’s the rabbit hole
You’re just dialling up the nonsense to avoid the massacres going on right now and whitewash the role of the West. Half of the salafist trash conducting these enormities never even lived under the Assad’s. The West conducted a regime change operation. It was ultimately successful. It is partly responsible for its consequences. This is very straightforward.
It’s easy to understand . Ba’athist mass murders… Good.
New regime murders.. like really, really bad.
Also, we’ve been through this before, while the West advocated regime change (and rightfully so) it didn’t support ISIS or any of these groups. If that’s what you want to believe, then keep re-living this movie, however we don’t have to watch it with you.
It appears this is the first totalitarian regime not to your liking. Congrats.
Stop trying to pretend that you can at once support regime change militarily, financially, via sanctions, etc. and also not have to bear the responsibility of the consequences of what follows. And, of course, however hard you try to whitewash US support for these ‘moderate rebels’, its incontrovertible that the US supported them and that they are now the thugs running around Syria killing the elderly, women, children, and frankly whoever they can find that they have a grievance against.
I’m not trying to pretend anything, nor am I whitewashing this. That’s just your attempt to make my response to your comment look bad. To repeat: unlike you, I don’t consider one murderous totalitarian regime to be any different from another.
Being killed with a bullet to the head because you’re not part of the same religious cult is really no different from being killed for opposing the regime.
As for thugs, don’t make me laugh. The civil war began because the Ba’athists killed a group of teenagers for writing anti-regime graffiti on walls. It’s not as though you were posting anything opposing the Ba’athist behaviour, were you?
And that’s when he bothers to listen.
I found this channel with 5k subs. Now approaching 100k in just a few weeks. The reasons for it are obvious. NO BS theatrics.
I tip my hat to this mob in NZ. Good stuff, bro.
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WeatherWatchTV:
Caboolture as it continues to very slow move and slowly weaken.
BoM has now downgraded Alfred to an ex-tropical cyclone – this happened moments after we recorded this video so please note the cyclone is no longer Category 1 (as Phil says would happen). This downgrading of the storm does not impact what we say in the video or the forecast (as it was expected to happen).
Destructive winds are expected to ease over Saturday but generally speaking gusty weather fans out across coastal Qld and NSW along with large portions of inland NSW over Sunday and Monday as the low falls apart but interacts with very powerful high pressure out over the Tasman Sea towards New Zealand.
Rain is going to become more of a main focus this weekend.
This is our final update on Ex-Cyclone Alfred.
Our normal Australia-only Monday video (and our usual NZ video) won’t be issued on Monday – but we’re back again on Tuesday with our next video updates.
Keep up to date with the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia for all local warnings today and tomorrow.
Ex-Cyclone Alfred (Saturday) – Storm makes landfall, here’s what’s next
How powerful is the Supreme Court?
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Today’s Saturday Tele:
BILLIONS BEING WASTED AS INDIGENOUS SUFFER
EXCLUSIVE – CHARLOTTE KARP
8 Mar 2025
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says Australia has made a multibillion-dollar industry out of Indigenous affairs, which is largely failing due to a lack of direction, accountability and a lower level of expectation.
The Liberal Party senator told this masthead, and Gary Jubelin in the I Catch Killers podcast, that she would like to take a “fine-tooth comb” to Indigenous affairs policy and identify key “failures” where the federal government is haemorrhaging money.
Senator also said not all Indigenous people were equally marginalised, Welcome to Country was often a form of “a virtue signalling task for some, and a throwaway task for others”, and that one of the reasons she got into politics was because she saw the Aboriginal industry “flourish, but without anything significant, without any change occurring on the ground”.
An example she used was that Aboriginal men with a history of domestic violence were allowed to sit as chairpeople for significant organisations, which would not be tolerated outside of Indigenous affairs.
“Do we stipulate more prominently that shouldn’t be allowed?” she asked. “That people who have had significant, violent criminal histories should, in fact, be exempt from having the opportunity to sit in leadership positions?”
Senator Price explained the amount of money being spent on Indigenous affairs back in 2017 was about $33bn.
She didn’t have a figure for what was being spent nowadays federally, but said the costs were normally associated with providing measures to support and advance Indigenous Australians.
One of the issues, she said, was that the target market was too broadly focused on all Indigenous people.
There was also no focus on whose lives specifically were being improved.
“And so an industry has developed out of that – I mean, there are many livelihoods that have been created in that space, there are many organisations that are tasked with improving the lives of marginalised Indigenous Australians that, in my view, many of which are failing,” she said.
“If I want to take a more honest approach to this matter, I will be targeted because there are those who are going to feel threatened by the fact that I’m pointing out that it’s not just governments that are failing.”
Senator Price also took aim at the way Aboriginal history was being taught in schools, saying students should be learning about all aspects of the nation’s history in order to better understand and appreciate how far Australia had come, rather than learning “guilt politics”.
“Yes, Hitler was a bastard, but we learn from the horrors of what occurred there so as not to repeat it. We don’t hold all Germans accountable for what occurred in the world wars, so we shouldn’t subject our kids these days to guilt politics in that regard,” she said. “A little white kid born in this country shouldn’t have to feel guilty for being a white kid in this country.”
Last I saw Jacinta is National not Liberal
Correct.
Country Liberal Party in Northern Territory.
Affiliated with the Liberal Party.
No affiliated with the Nationals
@nicksortor
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JUST IN: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has told officials in the DEI office to resign IMMEDIATELY or be fired, per their attorneys
They should’ve taken Elon’s buyout offer! We warned them!
@libsoftiktok
This person is an actual teacher in Wisconsin. He/she/they spent 2 minutes talking about her pronouns and defending men invading women’s sports.
These are the people teaching your kids.
What a load of hot cocky crap!
In unsurprising news, mohammedans have decided to do what mohammedans do.
I suspect there won’t be a STop tHE sYrIAn gENOciDe!! protest coming soon to a CBD near you.
It’s good news that Albert obeyed the laws of thermodynamics and spared Brisbane from the Great Tropical Cyclone Experience. It’s now looking like a wet weekend rather than an election-altering Armageddon – leaving Albanese in his customary pose, repeating focus group bollix with his dick in his hand.
Having said all that, spare a thought for the wet and powerless south through the Gold Coast and into northern NSW. And particularly the poor bastards of Lismore and the Northern Rivers who currently appear likely to go ‘gloop’ this afternoon.
Just this once, I’m reluctant to bag State and Local governments for overreacting before the event. I’m old enough to remember the 2011 flood events.
Just this once, I’m reluctant to bag State and Local governments for overreacting before the event. I’m old enough to remember the 2011 flood events.
Flash flooding and power outages are not confined to cyclonic events. The overreaction and hysteria was over a supposed cyclone that was (hoped by the media and Albo no doubt) going to bring destruction on a wide scale to SEQ.
Businesses and schools were shut, refuge centres were set up implying mass damage was going to occur and people being unhoused.
The government didn’t overreact to the 2011 flood because they were in thrall to climate change mania and didn’t want to empty the full dams that were ‘never going to fill ever again’. They didn’t react at all when they had the opportunity to act prudently, well before the event.
And I bet if the said we hope for the best and did no planning ( setting up emergency centres, prepostioning 2k power workers etc) you would be the first in the queue with your baseball by to beat the govts with a baseball bat.
3 days ago all the non-BoM forecasts were for <80km/h Cat I strength.
This whole rigmarole was for the benefit of Albo who could then come swanning up here and look like the saviour.
Not to worry…he only ended up looking like a dill.
No, actually. I took some common sense preparatory actions and didn’t run around screaming and waving my hands in the air.
The number of stressed out people, panicking unnecessarily because of hype from the government and media makes me wonder how they will go if we ever have a real cyclone of severity. They are being conditioned to overreact. What will they do if we ever get a Cat 5, just drop dead from a heart attack?
I’d just settle for accurate advice without the hyperbole. The government doesn’t hope for the best, it hopes for the worst and then doesn’t apologise (or learn) when it gets it wrong in case of loss of face.
The government probably overreacts now because their climate change ideology prevented them from reacting prudently in 2011 and by the time the realised they were wrong, everything they did just made it worse.
Most of us can make sensible decisions based on accurate information. But for those that can’t, I guess nanny government can ‘keep them safe’ like during covid.
Trust in government should rightfully be very low.
The fact that they didn’t pre-emptively empty the dams this time shows that the dam-controllers knew that the 800mm promise from the BoM was bullshlt.
But they didn’t speak up.
They never speak up.
The bulk of the rain was predicted to be in the northern rivers and in SEQ further south than the brisbane river upper catchment, including Wivenhoe and Somerset.
Releasing water in that situation is a bad idea. We are well overdue for the next drought, and we have a lot more people living here.
now that the centre of this east coast low is further north than predicted, these catchments will get more. But no one is seriously predicting 2011 levels in the catchments themselves.
The demise of the Assad regime was always going to bring Islamist disaster. It’s why Assad senior ruthlessly crushed the Muslim Brotherhood uprising in Hama in 1982.
Weep for the Christians and other minorities of Syria.
You have got to hand it to the Europeans, they are comedy gold.
An EU defence force!
Ten years to draft the regulations and a further ten years fighting the ECHR blocks.
Who will decide who they are going to fight?
DEI?
What about the muzzies.
They are going to borrow French nuclear cover. What if the Frogs choose not to nuke the EU nominated baddies?
Etc.
Will English be the joint language of an EU military?
or will this be the french’s chance to finally do what napoleon couldn’t?
Or the Germans who tried twice last century.
Be interesting to see the squabbling between the two over the spoils.
Probably not if the Frogues are expected to participate.
Last time I looked, although English and French are used for day-to-day purposes, the EU deliberately has no policy on ‘official’ joint languages.
I can just see Macron choosing to nuke a city in Russia because Berlin got bombed. Will he trade Paris?
From what I’ve read they’re not proposing an EU defence force but each EU nation will be able to borrow to bolster their own defence.
What about their uniforms?
Today in Military History.
Eighty-three years ago, in the early morning hours of the 8th of March, 1942, Japanese task groups occupied the Huon Gulf coastal townships of Salamaua and Lae in the then Mandated Territory of New Guinea.
A battalion group of the Nankai Shitai (South Seas Detachment), which later landed on the coast of Papua and pushed forward over the Owen Stanley Range, seized the Salamaua airstrip, and the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Miyata Butai – which had previously occupied Kavieng, New Ireland in late January, simultaneously with the landings at Rabaul, seized the Lae aerodrome.
There was no opposition at either location, as the token forces of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles were neither trained nor equipped (nor in significant numbers) to oppose any such landing forces.
I realise I have written about this previously, but I think it important to mention again, for many Australians seem to think that before and after Kokoda and Milne Bay, there was no war in PNG. Not every event, unit, and individual can be commemorated of course, but our narrow popular commemorative events irk me a great deal.
It was a full 18 months before both Salamaua and Lae were reoccupied by Australian and American forces, but during that period, some 20,000+ men of four countries served on the ground in the Salamaua Campaign alone, making it a not-insignificant campaign, though it lacked the urgency of the Owen Stanleys, Milne Bay, and Papuan Beachheads struggles.
Cheer up Muddy, all is not lost.
The photo of Gordon Ayre helping Walter Johnston across Uliap Creek frequently appears in stories about the Kokoda Campaign.
True. A good deal of Parer footage from the Bobdubi area is still mistakenly purported to be from the Owen Stanleys. Lazy media bastards.
It isn’t as if he didn’t produce good footage (good enough to get an Oscar) during the Kokoda Campaign.
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Grrrr…just found a rats nest in the garden. Killed a couple of my nice plants and chewed through the watering system.
Dispatched with extreme prejudice.
Hope this works:
https://tenor.com/view/illegals-in-my-yard-gif-14419606496802720981
Sort of… 😉
Hate rats
Somewhat preferable to politicians. They infest the entire country.
Me too. I am still putting Ratsak and derivatives around the upper garden where they have access to our kitchen via the open window in the lobby, the paks hidden under rocks so that possums and birds won’t get these poisoned pellets. I found a rat dropping on the stairs at our entry so there are still some surviving the last onslaught which the local rats gobbled up.I know because we could smell a decaying dead rat in the shrubbery. I will get them off this property.
Winston Starmer.
Are they serious? It’s so hard to tell these days.
The Economist takes itself very seriously.
The Economist is now a Left Wing Rag.
now?
it has been a central control government advocate for a couple of decades.
Starmer is certainly trading on this allusion.
The illustration and the tagline suggests that the editorial line is dubious. “Can he pull it off” indicates that he’s trying it on, not legit.
You seem to spend most of your time here ‘pulling it off”
You’ll go blind.
Saturday Tele:
ATTACKS ON PEOPLE AND SAFETY ARE NOT A JOKE
JULIE – CROSS
8 Mar 2025
Have you heard the one about the judge who allowed an Albanian criminal to appeal against deportation on the grounds his son doesn’t like foreign chicken nuggets?
Or the cannabis farmer who avoided being sent back to his home country after a court decided his daughter would be left “without a male role model”.
These cases sound like a joke, but they’re not. They are just a couple of examples from the UK, of foreign criminals making a mockery of human rights laws.
And, now it could happen here.
The Human Rights Law Centre has stepped in to stop one of three former immigration detainees, all violent offenders, from being sent to Nauru because his visa review was cancelled unlawfully.
“No one should be permanently exiled to a country that is not their home. Ripping people from their lives and stranding them offshore is a cruel, lifelong punishment,” the Human Rights Law Centre said in a statement.
Sometimes it seems that the human rights of foreign criminals are of more concern than those of law-abiding citizens, such as Ninette Simons. The 73-year-old grandmother has unfortunately become the face of this horror show.
She was brutally bashed and robbed, allegedly by one of the 291 former immigration detainees with criminal convictions, released into the community under Labor’s watch.
Shockingly, almost a third of this cohort have gone on to be charged or convicted of other crimes.
Quite rightly, the public is fuming.
Unable to send them back to their country of birth, because they’re not deemed safe, the government came up with a plan to deport them to a third country.
You may have thought you’d heard the last of Nauru, but the tiny island is back on the map after being the first country to agree to take Australia’s unwanted immigrants in return for payment.
In the UK, critics are saying the whole human rights carry-on is just a money spinner for the lawyers.
Here, this debacle has already cost the taxpayer $100m. It won’t be long before judges are ruling against deportation because the immigrant’s son is a fussy eater.
FMD.
When these fvcking human rights cases are heard, the victim of the assault should be able to present a victim statement to help get the arseholes deported.
Would also help make the judge look like a proper git if ruling in favour of keeping the criminal in the country because ‘human rights’.
Wait and see if Dutton follows through on his promise to shake up immigration cases like this with a referendum if necessary.
Has he promised a referendum?
To add insult to injury, it’s reported those 291 are all on special benefits courtesy the taxpayer.
Nauru must be an awesome place to visit. It must be almost totally populated by criminals and muesli criminals.
The real Nauruans must be wanting to apply to Oz for refuge from our refugees.
Constructing “Nation Building” infrastructure that will last generations and provide food security, jobs, a revenue stream via taxes and export income, promote local/regional industry and communities.
vs
Luring overseas green energy grifting hedge funds and investors to build what can best be described as neo brutalist vanity crucifixes to the AGW religion all over our beautiful country, the ultimate aim of which is to siphon vast sums of money from our shores as quickly as possible and leave us with the clean up bill after just one generation.
FMD
Point is it is always vastly cheaper to irrigate downstream of any water storage. Gravity, existing water channel (the river). the most ludicrous example is the Bradfield pipe dream when the Burdekin, The Millstream, Walsh and Mitchell river systems all have plenty of irrigatable land below any dam site. Pumping it instead over the watershed to the Flinders is just ruinously expensive and benefit maybe a dozen producers at best.
All these dreams of pumping water up over a catchment watershed, or in the SEQ case over a mountain range is a very poor use of future taxpayer funds.
It’s bad enough pumping water from Wivenhoe up to Toowoomba and Warwick for town water. And very expensive. For lower value irrigation water it would be even worse, even before with an extra million people in SEQ over the next decade Wivenhoe water will struggle to be enough. And good luck getting another dam in SEQ.
Just get the damn dams. It’s not hard.
Beerturk.
That map shows you why Alfred never made it back from a hybrid system. Anything orange-red-pink can sustain or red-pink spawn a cyclone. Anything yellow and green too cool.
Thing is the vorticity was huge on this one and had all the momentum from when it was a a tropical system that is hard to dissipate. Think those smaller above ground Clark Rubber pools that used to be around, I remember as a kid with siblings running in one direction around the edge to get a huge whirlpool going. It used to take a while to wind down. Similar with Alfred and why she had some affect despite not being tropical in nature.
I still make whirlpools – it is fun!
Fresh from successfully killing off NATO and casting his lot with Russia to wake up Europe into remembering how to defend itself, Trump’s next project is rearming Japan.
Folks who have no dicks always lie. You’re a liar dickless. Trump is not casting his lot (FMD you are wanker, or you would be if you had a dick) with wussia. The US is the only western nation which has sanctions against wussia. Trump blew up Shayrat military base and puttie did nothing during Trump’s first term. Trump knows puttie is a bad bastard: the issue is dickless shits like you lie about the little ukrainian dwarf being a bad dude as well. Trump knows he is dealing with 2 bad people. The shits against him either don’t know or don’t care.
The EU also has significant sanctions against Russia, notwithstanding that they still buy Russian resources. They are funding materiel for Ukraine partly through profits from frozen Russian assets.
Trump is the only one talking about lowering sanctions against Russia.
Your infantile obsession with penises continues.
The EU also has significant sanctions against Russia, notwithstanding that they still buy Russian resources.
‘Get to the Table Right Now’ — Trump Threatens New Sanctions on Russia Unless It Makes Peace.
Moron.
I’m not obsessed with dicks dickless, but I am amused by the lack of dicks.
Yeah I will believe that when I see it. Other news stories about Trump lifting sanctions are more believable.
Believable to dickless dickwads.
I’m of the opinion he has two of them.
Short fuse Munty?
Piss off, Nazi.
Please keep up with the donut output –
“Trump says he is weighing big sanctions, tariffs on Russia to end Ukraine war”
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-is-considering-putting-banking-sanctions-tariffs-russia-2025-03-07/
What about your rabid infantile obsession with Trump, Nazi?
Do try to keep up, Japan has been re-arming for a couple of decades.
You’re a rabid Nazi.
European nations themselves have emasculated NATO (despite Trump’s calls for them to beef it up) without any help from Trump.
But don’t let the facts get in the way of a leftist rant.
yep
Another good article on the amy coney kunt debacle in SCOTUS:
SCOTUS Refuses To Halt District Court Order That Gov’t Pay Two Billion To Foreign Aid Contractors
This bint despises Trump and he missed it. Having said that a good comment about this judgment at Bongino:
The money was not “unfrozen”. The case was sent back to the lower court with scathing dissenting opinions by Gorsuch and Alito. So, contrary to today’s reporting in the media — on both sides — the Court’s Order did not back the District Judge’s directive the Trump Administration pay out the $2 billion. The Court told the District Court to fashion a new order — one that “clarifies” what the Trump Administration must do. I suspect that is going to require more out of the District Judge than “Just pay everyone” as was the case with his last Order. At the end of these “clarification procedures” the Trump Administration should be in the position it seeks to be in — with only USAID/State Department contracts/grants it approves of, and any disgruntled entities with canceled contracts/grants forced to take their complaints to the Federal Court of Claims.
Some chat about why the demorats cannot adjust. They can’t adjust because they’re leftoids; and leftoids cannot admit they’re wrong. It’s as simple as that: the left don’t have principles or causes, they have egos and are incapable of self criticism.
After a long sleep, aided by a modest quantity of XXXX Bitter, I got up this morning to check the rain gauge.
Hmmm.
Winston empties the dust and desiccated bird shit out.
OK, where’s my rain, Brisbane?
Where are the howling 250Km/hr winds?
The hailstones?
Where are the stories of Death and Disaster to tell the grandies?
It’s like going to the New Years Fireworks and watching the barge holding all the sparklers and boom stuff slowly sink under the waves because the barge is still tied up to the wharf and the tide has come in…
Alfred burnt the cakes and exited stage left.
Albanese has just issued a warning to QLDers from his bunker in Canberra:
“Don’t be complashent!”
“The impact will be serioush.”
WA Premier Roger Cook can make it stop.
You know what to do, Roger — go smash the Stupid Frigging Liberals so Albo can go visit the Republican he made governor-general.
Is he warning about possible ALP re-erection with or without Greens minority backing?
It has to be serious now Albo has decided to run with a later election.
Cassie earlier:-
This is the dick who claimed the Choos burnt down his burger shop.
Turns out it was fire-bombing #421 in the Tobacco Wars, mostly run by Lebanese Mueslis.
But why so long?
Ten months to charge someone over something which is on the public record?
This tells me the polling among everyone but Lebanese Mueslis in outer suburban seats has tanked big-time.
PS – I think he is bankrolled by someone else and he has committed the worst Mobster Faux Pas … drawing attention to mobster activity with his loud mouth.
The Lodge in Canbra?
Gotta luv those paddle sticks .. LOL!
Those glasses are next level.
Bought at the Barry Humphries estate clearing sale.
Those long glasses showing half one’s cheeks under glass are the very latest style. Everyone is wearing them.
Except me. I think they look terrible. I gave up being stylish with new sorts of frames just after I bought a pair, in the 80’s I think, with the side struts attached at the bottom of the frame. It looked so stupid I tossed them and have worn normal glasses ever since, chosing designers that think like me.
And Camels. They are a good ride apparently for the alleged Muslim Men.
Little female camels really due look doe eyed and appealing.
We saw them at the Camel Markets in the wilds of Abu Dhabi.
Lordy, the left really are so completely stupid. Which is why they are so dangerous in power.
I see the idiot m0ron has returned to prove the above again. Looks like he may have pulled himself (ahem) together after Trumps smashing victory. Wb dickhead.
Mutley is the proverbial mechanical masdebator, pulled itself to bits.
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I wonder if Trump’s “audit Fort Knox” riff might be to remind everyone that the USA has pretty much all the gold, even if others are trying to catch up.
What’s happening to the oil that we are supposed to have stored in the US?
DeSantis is proposing a state referendum on a constitutional amendment that will ban property taxes in Florida.
When was the last time an Australian politician wanted to ban a tax?
As a Taxpayer, I have always disagreed with attacks (a tax) on nice people. ‘Pollies’ not so. They deserve a rogering up the back passage. Men and Women and any others who like their pronouns.
We can all ridicule the BoManipulation for a laff but they have clear advantages. While their escapades in the media are a joke, the real problem is that in our schools they have a lock on getting propaganda into young impressionable minds, day after day, year after year. It’s called “education”. Producing annual hordes of climate activists.
And the LNP has done sweet FA during it’s terms of Govt over the decades to address this brainwashing. This is why the LNP is not a serious conservative party, but a Socialist Lite hodge podge of grifters and scam whores.
Half the problem is they take soooo long trying to re-write a ‘balanced’ national curriculum to try and please everybody, which the Marxist State education departments then treat as ‘suggestions’ while waiting for the next Labor government to eviscerate. Education starts and finishes in the home.
Sack all the feet draggers. Pay them out. Get rid of them. Replace them with passionate technocrats that know their stuff.
The problem is the SFL’s arrive completely unprepared to govern or do anything. They walk around like stunned mullets for a year, hi fiving and telling everyone what a bad job their predecessors have done. Then they do a bit of cosmetic stuff then it’s campaign time again for re-election. End result is SFA. Rinse and repeat.
They should really be working on a plan right now, and should have been doing it for the past year.
Look how prepared Trump was this time round.
Never had one of those – but my mate on a nearby farm did.
Simpler times. Better times.
Had never heard of the human rights law centre. Another nest of country wrecking lawyers. Who funds them I wonder?
Taxpayer grants most likely.
Like the Environmental Defenders Office.
Yep
Curious people are beginning to ask questions, just like Elon does.
It must be catching on, this desire for transparency.
The real reason why the great man is focused on that dickless creep running Canada:
“Trade-Based Money Laundering is the Fentanyl Crisis”: Sources expose Chinese-Mexican-Canadian Crime Convergence
Fentanyl is a nightmare. I had thought we didn’t have it here yet.
No so, someone in the ‘trade’ has disabused me. It’s here alright.
The day before yesterday Ariane 6 had it’s first successful launch.
Payload:
Ariane 6 has a full program of launches planned this year.
China states it is ready for war.
Hegseth replies that the US is ready for war.
We are at the brink.
Pray God everyone takes a step back.
The problem we face is that everyone seems to think they have closing windows to achieve their aims.
Trump and the republicans no longer trust (ha! An understatement) the democrats to preserve US advantages. Trump considers he has an 18 month window to totally reconfigure world trade and US industrial capacity.
Xi faces the fact that his demographics are shit and Trump might succeed in rebuilding US capabilities and harden it against Chinese industrial espionage.
The Europeans must now realise they are wayyyy behind the game and can’t have everything they want: a multicultural peasantry to rule over, a green paradise and a woke aristocracy under them, like court eunuchs, AND deterrence.
Russia is in balls deep and can’t withdraw without going through a major pain to reload under who knows what future conditions.
Meh, humanity’s space program consists of SpaceX plus debris like Ariane.
Ariane 6 is not reusable and very expensive.
Good news:
Oh Dear. Hamburger, Maccas and other Fast Food Joint sales will now drop in Germany and increase in Hungary. Those troops can get quite hungry (and thirsty). Beer sales will be impacted as well.
Not sure about moving the half track on.
I do assure you, they won’t need Maccas in Hungary. I may be biased, but best basic food in the world.
I do like Hungary a lot, but the food is bloody terrible. There is only so much goulash and lumps of pig one can take.
Maccas would be a step up.
To put things into some sort of perspective here –
Adam Bandt’s (Marxist and Climate Alarmist) argument that human use of fossil fuels like coal and gas is to blame for recent extreme weather events is totally false.
There have been equally extreme weather events throughout history and well before the introduction of coal and gas for industrial use.
Dangerous floods have been recorded in Australia over the past 170+ years. Here’s a rundown of some of the worst in terms of loss of life and damage to infrastructure.
1852: Floods destroyed almost the entire town of Gundagai NSW, only 3 houses were left. 89 people died. The town was then relocated to higher ground.
1890: Flood levels in Lismore NSW peaked at 12.46 metres and these were not surpassed until March 2022.
1893: Ipswich, Queensland floods caused 35 deaths and 300 injuries.
1916: Floods in Clermont and Peak Downs, Queensland caused 65 deaths and enormous property damage.
1927: Floods in Brisbane, Cairns and Townsville caused 47 deaths and damaged roads, railways, bridges and buildings.
So Bandt’s claims are entirely false.
As Advance Australia recently noted in one of their articles, many people believe that the Greens are about saving trees and wildlife, so voting for them is helping our environment.
But the reality is, they are a malignant political force trying to destroy what we love about our country including, ironically, much of our forested areas and wildlife
They need to be opposed and politically annihilated at the coming federal election.
https://saltbushclub.com/2025/02/15/more-lies-from-bandt-and-his-red-brigade/#more-2933
Beautifully put!
Yep. Though you can’t beat the simple ‘droughts and flooding rains’, written circa 1904.
Dickwad is back infesting these hallowed pages because he sniffs a rub and tug victory. The wussia TDS dickwad spews is BS. No one has been prepared to take on the bad guys like Trump:
‘MAKE A DEAL,’ Trump sends letter to Iran, issues new warning to Russia
And Trump has brilliant folk like Hegseth backing him up:
Reporter Finds Out Why You Shouldn’t Mess With Trump’s Defense Secretary.
There will be no ‘rub and tug’ victory. UpGrade Albow will be banished to a cliff house on the NSW Central Coast where he can enjoy his Taxpayer funded Lifetime Pension and write a book. The book will be called “And I did it My Way – With lots of help from my Mum and the Australian Taxpayer”.
Foreword by Toto the dog.
Woof woof !! Give the dog a bone.
Yes that is the case under any feasible election outcome.
regardless of what the next parliament looks like, Dr Jim will be ALP leader and Albanese will be retiring to frolic sans clothing on McMasters beach.
Possibly sans Jodie also. She might be sick of the acting gig and want a new role.
Where is Julia Gillard’s ex-squeeze these days? Maybe he could pass on some tips about living out of the glare of the spotlight.
Living up at Jameson Afaik. Got into a bit of bother with a lady in Melbourne a couple of years ago.
I’ve always suspected the beach house is actually a pay off for Jodie to stay on board until the bitter end + 6 months.
Competing with mole in the horror porn market…
Another foul product of our degenerate tertiary ejucashun system.
NYT reporting Rubio and Musk had a shouting match in the Cabinet Room in front of a silent Trump about Leedle Marco not firing enough bureaucrats. Musk said Rubio was “good on TV” but otherwise did not concede.
Transportation secretary Sean Duffy also pushed back on Musk attempting to fire air traffic controllers during a time when the FAA are understaffed. Trump interjected that Duffy should hire controllers from MIT because they need to be “geniuses”.
What a shower.
Rubio has always been a bit wet. He seems to be doing pretty well as SecState though. That handily keeps him out of the country a lot, and out from under foot.
Disagreements are not unexpected. M0nty makes far too much of them, for they are normal procedurally in any change system.
NYT link please. Then we can read it ourselves. Not that we don’t take your word as Gospel……………LOL.
Here you go Jonathan.
It’s Johnny, BTW. I mean, with all that Ego and Testosterone and Power, of course there will be tensions.
This is not a Teddy Bears Picnic. It’s serious stuff.
Piss off, Nazi.
“NYT reporting”.
This is code for “I have one angry Dimocrat staffer speculating without any sources, but it sounds like the sort of thing which might go on”.
The mostly left MSM around the world doesn’t cover what’s happening in South Africa. One channel that I watch was happy to take as gospel what a black politician said, nothing to see here.
The truth is gruesome.
Trump CUTS OFF Aid To Anti-White South Africa—Offers Deal To Violently Persecuted Farmers: “They will tie people up and drag them behind a truck until they die” [VIDEO] | The Gateway Pundit | by Patty McMurray
The fact that the media and the Left refuse to cover this should send them scurrying for invisibility. But they won’t.
When the last white farmer is dead, the Mixed Races will be next. Then the Black South African state will consume itself, while demanding aid from the rest of the world.
They can rot in their own own stew as far as I am concerned – along with the Australian governments who refuse to raise a finger to help those who have been placed in this position by their policies.
They’ll be fine. All the nuclear physicists they have will safely operate their nuclear reactor.
Hospitality ventures are about the only enterprise with a shorter half-life than reality TV… but I’m kinda urging this bloke to win-
He called his cafe a ‘Trump safe zone’ but now he’s making a comebackStory by Angus Thomson, Anthony Segaert • 26m • 2 min read
A former Australian Idol contestant who was forced to shut his inner-city vegan cafe after declaring “the gay community” wasn’t welcome in his “Donald Trump safe zone” is attempting a hospitality comeback in the inner west.
Mark Da Costa was at the centre of a controversy in 2020 when he announced his support for US President Donald Trump and made a string of homophobic, transphobic and sexist remarks before claiming the “left-wing fake vegan community” was out to destroy his Waterloo restaurant, Hale and Hearty cafe.
But after shutting the cafe and spending five years driving Ubers and working the occasional pub gig, da Costa said he was remorseful for his behaviour, as he opened a new venture, Bueno Eatery, at a St Peters site vacated by a popular Palestinian cafe.
Crusading!
“Those comments made by me were childish to say the least and opinions I do not hold today,” he wrote in an email response to questions from the Herald.
Mistake- never apologize.
…
“The leftist vegans aren’t welcome,” he wrote on the cafe’s Facebook page. “The gay community who were quick to judge even though we supported them during the plebiscite aren’t welcome.
Yep, undoubtedly true- there is no “gay community”, only a bunch of controversy whores, fickle and trend-focused, who happen to be into bumming.
Again, a mistake to apologize. If he clarified, and said that his venue was in no way a platform for organized politico-sex gangs, he would have doubled his mums-and-bubs bookings straight away.
It would put a smile on my dial if the Orange One met Jacinta Price and Left Albo in the waiting room.
Just put ‘Up Grade Albo’ in Limbo. With his body he could not Limbo Dance.
A few days ago I commented I was still suffering from writers’ block re writing about movies . . .
Well I’ve managed to awaken from my slumber and I’ve drafted my next movie post which I intend to release next Tuesday. Just some fine-tuning to do.
I’ve even started on the next post, although it might not necessarily be a weekly post but fortnightly. I’ll see how I go.
Great! Looking forward to it.
Yep. Ready to read.
Cool !!
Go, Wolfie!
Eggscellent news!
The luvvies will be having conniptions over this.
Support the blackfella kids or chastise them for snake abuse.
Mental gymnastics will be needed to rationalise this one, so sit back and get the popcorn ready.
If they had a ladder nearby they could have said that they were playing snakes and ladders. But seriously, maybe the snake was dead and they cooked it afterwards, Bush Tucker maybe?
In my experience with Aborigines, their attitude to wildlife is less than reverent – unlike the mystical bullshit peddled by apologists and grifters. Given that they survived at subsistence level in often harsh environments, this is hardly surprising. It was them or us.
Fortunately, the snake in the story wasn’t mythical.
Mythical (aka non-existent) snakes are sacred, as we now know.
They burned the place to the ground and made extinct the megafauna by eating them including the previous inhabitants. “Custodians” my arse.
I got told they invented helicopters the other week – apparently the spinning motion of the boomerang inspired Sikorsky or something. Don’t worry about da Vinci’s scratchings I thought…
Yes. They’re very evident (and extremely useful) in law courts.
The video of the Merc EV catching fire and exploding is spectacular. Didn’t someone here buy one recently?
I saw an ad for them on TV today.
Unfortunate timing.
An amazing video. Who would ever want to be in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel when one stalls and breaks into flames? Not me. I am afeared every time I drive thru, which is regularly.
We’re spoilt for choices for examples of the leftoid’s hypocrisy when it comes to Trump. Here’s a good one:
LOL. Checkmate !!!!
As has been pointed out, how else can Trump broker a peace deal without talking to Putin?
somewhere on the WWW is a 2012 video of the Idiot Half Kenyan telling a Russian Minister “tell Vald that I will have more flexibility after the election”.
left wing loons: “so what”
I think he was talking to Medvedev.
So.
The cyclone formerly known as Anthony.
How’s it going?
Anything left of BrisVegas?
Na big bad wolf ran out of puff.
Oh, right.
A bust.
Unheard of.
Not the Bureau of Mythology finest day. Covid 2.0.
They’ll call wolf once too often if they don’t watch out.
On weather events anyway.
What cyclone?
I believe BrisVegas has been levelled. The Gold Coast is now in South Oz.
The relentless campaign against the fish farming industry in Tasmania continues unabated.
Every industry which might make a quid in Tasmania – mining, forestry, tourism, and now fish farming – is opposed by people who, having been supported by transfusions from the mainland since birth, believe that all business is evil and that money grows on a tree in the backyard of the Tasmanian Parliament.
As for the RSPCA, they have been captured by luvvies and activists. Where were they when hundreds of cattle died on an Aboriginal owned property in WA because nobody was looking after them? Where are they about the starving and diseased and savage and multiplying dogs in Aboriginal encampments (not to mention the ones that go bush and maul stock?)
They are not seeking prosecutions, that’s for sure. Salmon farmers are much worthier, not least because they are solvent.
If this is shocking to the salmon defenders in Tasmania, they must be wearing blinders about fishing the whole world over, private and public.
What next? An amateur angler being prosecuted for not killing a fish ‘humanely/’
While we’re on the subj of Tasmania, I note that Plibersek has punted a decision about a controversial ‘windfarm’ there until after the election. Orange bellied parrots, or something.
Labor is discovering that leftist environmentalism is a tar baby.
The irony is that Macquarie Harbour was the dumping ground for about a hundred million tonnes of copper tailings from Mt Lyell.
So the fish thingie the greenies are frightened for cheerfully survived massive amounts of stuff full of lead, copper and arsenic for a hundred years.
RSPCA in Western Australia are patting themselves on the back over the stopping of the live sheep trade.
They never seem to mention the millions of birds and bats that windmills kill.
The consumer battle is being lost.
The number of inner city know-it-alls who ask “is it New Zealand salmon?” because they have bought into the idea that Tassie salmon is dirty and polluting (you should see what was there before) and now cruel.
They are, of course, clueless, but it doesn’t matter because they are locked into boycotting Tassie fish.
Richo and Hawkey showed the way.
Back in the Howard days, his Environment Minister blocked a proposed wind farm to protect orange bellied parrots.
The Slime went apeshit.
WA election 2025Roger CookState Politics
WA election 2025: Premier Roger Cook labels a vote for Liberals a ‘risk’ to WA’s future
Joe SpagnoloThe West Australian
Sat, 8 March 2025 11:19AM
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Roger Cook says he is “not taking anything for granted”, despite being at unbackable odds to win today’s State Election.
Starting the election race leading the Liberal-National Alliance 53 seats to six, it would be the greatest boil over in WA political history if Labor lost this poll.
Arriving at Calista Primary School to cast his vote, with his wife Carly Lane, Mr Cook did his best to temper expectations of a Labor whitewash.
“We’re not taking anything for granted,” Mr Cook told the media when asked whether West Australians might cast a “sympathy” vote for Libby Mettam’s Liberals.
“A vote for the Liberals is a risk, a risk to our economy, risk to Western Australia’s future.
“And they don’t have a plan.
“So don’t risk that future by voting for the WA Liberals.”
And what Plan do you have Roger the Toger, apart from milking those Mining royalties. Eh?
Chinese communism?
Watched 15 minutes of ABC Storm Porn.
After studio talking heads beseeching the on-the-ground reporters to ‘take care’, the highlight was an uplifting segment by Uncle Luigi promising electoral disaster relief.
He also put me right about being “complacent about very dangerous floods”. Behind him, adding silent gravitas to his watery warning, was what appeared to be a highly decorated naval officer.
In good hands.
I’m waiting for the Cyclone ate my budget lines…
Expect a lot of Liars would have done better in April. The Liars love a myth.
My modelling suggests that we are in for Category 5 political and budgetary piss-taking.
The Low started to form over Canbra 24hours ago.
Chuckle
Mind that puddle…
And wear a helmet when riding a bike. Even though I never did 60 years ago.
Please.
It’s not “take care”.
It’s “stay safe”.
Turn of the blue tide, says Brian BurkeHighly controversial former Labor premier Brian Burke has given his thoughts on the State election – and they make for interesting reading.
Highly controversial former jailbird and Labor premier Brian Burke..
Care to post it Zulu?
See below.
Even the Liars feel a little shame when Brian appears these days.
As for the RSPCA, they have been captured by luvvies and activists.
Correct. Do not give one cent to the RSPCA.
That’s very unfair to dogs. Cats I don’t care about, but dogs and native marsupials …
I care about cats, dogs and other animals. What’s your prejudice against cats?
There there are other less ideological organisations set up to protect animals and wildlife.
As Johanna accurately said above, the RSPCA has been captured by luvvies and activists.
Cat lady alert!
Duck and cover everybody!
Not a frozen duck, I hope.
I stand by cats. I miss Attapuss so much still.
And my dear sweet Burmese, who lasted for 18 years.
With the rats outside I’m tempted to get another cat.
Rats don’t like the smell of cats, so we’d be safe inside again.
“What’s your prejudice against cats?”
They’re in Australia.
So are you.
But I don’t wantonly kill birds and native mammals.
Apparently, like the Greens on forest-clearing for wind turbines and solar panels, they’ve gone completely missing on Islamic butchering practices.
Hypocrites the lot of them.
They wantonly kill birds.
I agree. I love cats but they are excellent hunters of native wildlife.
This is not a recent development. Woke before the word came into common use.
“We’re not taking anything for granted,” Mr Cook told the media
As The Cure rightly said: again and again and again and again and again …
If that’s your best How about ‘We will fight them on the beaches ..’
BTW, I cant view or link any youtube at the moment. It comes up ‘unavailable’ or just opens and then the circle thing goes on forever, any ideas?
W10 and Firefox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii8V4TSRYJI
He’s certainly stupid enough.
I don’t remember him ever saying anything in favour of Christianity.
If he became a Muslim he’d have to abdicate.
He may be a dill but I really don’t think he’d go that far.
Meanwhile, he’s just invited President Donald Trump for a state visit.
Maybe he fell for that ‘All religions are the same’ nonsense in his younger days and he’s being tolerant. Hell, I don’t know. It’s hard being a monarchist these days.
I’ve heard him described as Defender of All Faiths. Not sure that he’s adopted it or someone is making excuses for him.
To a fault.
Anne may be the best of the 4 but that’s not saying much. All four of them don’t really do the Queen any credit at all.
No, sadly motherhood was not one of her strong traits.
I disagree with you about Anne and Edward. They are both good value.
Last I heard, Anne was strongly conservative.
Well looks like what’s left of Alfred is about to go ashore near Caboolture.
Humidity is back in the north with showers and storms from the monsoonal NW flow. Bout time my grass is dying off and an unusual sight is this place is resembling Brownsville in March apart from the normal August…
Now that the storm has passed, the flood is presumed to begin. What’s the bet on how many will die driving into flooded streams and rivers in the next 48 hours?
Hopefully the locals aren’t that stupid and still understand you don’t drive into a flood. The hysterical news media “reporting” is by adolescents who learned about weather at university — not by experiencing it.
Yeah na, I see stupid people everywhere.
Pic below, one of the cars on the other side previous to this had nearly attempted to cross this. We were on the other side going WTF? The flow was stronger than the pic gives it justice…
(Pic source Red Hill rd Goonyella)
Alawites being massacred in Syria.
Lots of women and children sheltering at the Russian airbase.
Real refugees.
I’d have run (if it were possible) as soon as Assad made his hasty exit.
Only a matter of time before sunnis started exactly revenge and what better time to start than ramadan?
Bit of a problem that, since they’re in the wrong place.
Israel has established a permanent safe zone south of Damascus, especially for the Druze. But getting from Tartus to there won’t be easy. Lebanon will be leary about letting them through.
This is unbelievable. How is it different from the USSR?
PRISON UPDATE: My Visit with Tommy Robinson
Clearly it isn’t.
Definitely a political prisoner whose incarceration disgraces the UK.
@americasgreat
Why is Hunter Biden being provided a secret service security detail? He wasn’t president.
He’s got a copy of the Epstein files as insurance for him and his paw.
@VividProwess
BREAKING: Trump Administration cancels $400,000,000 in federal funding for Columbia University for failing to prevent the horrific antisemitism on campus.
oh, that is excellent. Well deserved.
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Trump Organization sues Capital One bank for terminating over 300 company bank accounts, Eric Trump announces.
The incident occurred in 2021, “without cause.” This was as censorship and targeting conservatives took a turn for the worst as Biden took office.
“The actions taken by Capital One and other major financial institutions represents a dangerous precedent that could threaten the operations of countless businesses across the nation, particularly those with a strong and independent voice.”
Apparently, some schools are already going halal. This just shows the level of confidence and entitlement.
@TheBritLad
BREAKING: Muslims are hitting up social media to call for a bacon BAN in the UK.
They argue that bacon is “unclean” and that the country should show more respect for Muslim beliefs.
What’s your message to the bacon haters?
Buy more bacon. Lots more bacon!
My message is Pork Chops.
Wrapped in bacon. Wrap everything in bacon.
In Raj India dead Muslim insurgents were buried wrapped in pork.
Go back to where you came from or get fvcked.
Try asking for ‘non halal’ next time your dietary choices are requested …..
And another example of Muslim arrogance.
UK Moonbats Block Ban on Marrying Cousins
Department of State Employee Charged for Conspiracy to Gather, Transmit, or Lose National Defense Information
@joma_gc
So let me get this straight. Jasmine Crockett gets elected November 2022, and according to her financial disclosure report had a net worth of $29,000 including stocks in Devon Energy, MGM Resorts, and Moderna. She also reported total student loans liability of $50,000.
Now her net worth is $9 Million, earning a salary of $174,000/yr.
Another DC miracle millionaire.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1294073048383605
The German Shepherd.
Not quite the shittiest dog ever.
@WallStreetApes
Rep Tim Burchett says he’s willing to lose his job to tell us the REAL REASON government officials are opposing Elon Musk and DOGE
“They’re gonna push back because you’ve got Congressmen on both sides of the aisle. If they follow that paper trail, it’s going to come back to them. You’ve got their wife and or girlfriend that works for some agency, quasi-agency or some business. This towns as crooked as a dogs leg”
“I’ll get primaried for saying that but that’s the truth and we all know it”
“Somebody’s gonna straight it out, it looks like it’s gonna be Elon Musk”
Grate. A hard day in the garden, dust off the dirt and what do I find?
A pair of droobs on Sky with laptops and non- news. It’s windy! It’s raining! The trees are shaking!
I was wrong. Lismore has escaped so far. And for that I’m glad – people I know are just finished rebuilding from the last onslaught.
Having driven through Lismore a couple of times late last year, the whole town needs to be moved to the high ground to the east.
That or build flood control dams on the rivers that feed into it. The hippies that infest the area apparently don’t want that so screw ’em.
Charming.
When trouble strikes you, don’t expect sympathy.
Thanks for the downtick.
Proves my point.
Not everyone in Lismore is a hippie. Not everyone owns a home. They just do the best they can.
When trouble strikes you, don’t expect sympathy.
When your bad choices *again* come home to roost, dont expect more prudent people to bail you out *again*. (HInt – stop rebuilding towns on floodplains every time they flood)
Let them build where they want but no action to be taken when floods come. Lismore has flooded since Adam was a boy . I would be at Lismore heights safe and sound.
Good news. There is still a large amount of rain to come but it looks like Lismore will be safe.
With CIA backing.
@MikeBenzCyber
Al-Qaeda, 2003-2016
ISIS, 2006-2012
President of Syria, 2025
A dear friend and dog breeder was raided recently by RSPCA who, without warning or permission, entered her property while she was at work and grabbed about 40 pedigree puppies, a couple of old family favourites and a terrarium frog, (inside), because he didn’t have the correct light above his digs.
Nek minnnit, the dogs are being advertised for sale – smallish country town; everyone knows what’s going on – and ownership is transferred before she can object.
Their reasoning: there were several patches of fresh doggy-poohs amid their three-or-so acres of yard, and not every pooch had the correct doona rating because some had been pulled from kennels and joyously relocated during the morning.
She is a quiet – almost timid – person and the loss of her babies has hit her very hard, especially since the accompanying police officer, who tried his best to be invisible, remarked that all the dogs seemed happy and were in top condition.
Following our advice, she has sought legal advice, but RSPCA doubled down by saying that her case will be heard in the new year (from last September) and if she complains, they will up the (bogus) charges against her.
So yes, Cassie: not one cent to RSPCA.
Funny how lefties almost always become fascists in the end.
Lefties ARE Fascists – just sometimes the facade slips.
When they get power.
Mrs Eyrie used to collect for Red Cross. No more.
I am a long time Red Cross blood donor. I was hoping to start next September again after an enforced five year lay-off due to cancer. Not so sure now.
Me too. Years ago. Not many more.
Not just RSPCA either. Your local council.
The dog shelter license was given to a local firm, the owner is a real brick. She loved dogs…probably more than people. Understandable.
She found homes for nearly all the pooches in her charge. The euthanasia rate plummeted. Very few dogs were put down during her tenure.
And then she lost the contract.
I’m so tired of pencil neck bureaucrats. The work was done with care and love. The dogs were rehomed. Apparently not good enough.
That’s because most organisations like the RSPCA are staffed by people who love animals so much that killing them is better than leaving them as companion animals.
and if she complains, they will up the (bogus) charges against her.
Ah the good old ‘burger with the lot’, same as the AFP served me in Canberra
Isn’t solicitation to commit an offence a crime in itself?
@MikeBenzCyber
If you have a head on your shoulders, you will be asking yourself: why is DNC law firm highly connected to US intelligence at the highest level agreeing to represent Republican “We Need To Go Into The Capitol” January 6 Insurrection Posterboy Ray Epps?
@MikeBenzCyber
Even the New York Times predicted the success of the CIA’s arming and training of the rebel insurgents in Syria would lead to the exact mass murder we are now seeing today all over our timelines
Yeah, Libya worked out so well.
Is there a Western Government that hasn’t been taken over by Islamophiliacs?
Graphic.
@DaveAtherton20
The Alawites, a Shia minority on Syria are being ethnically cleansed by leader Ahmed al-Sharaa’s thugs.
The Alawites mainly live in the west.
@MikeBenzCyber
Also, people like Snowden were actually in the arena, with far more risk & a much thornier moral maze to navigate. Everything I do is open source. With Snowden, the only way to expose an illegal program was to break a law in the process. A Snowden pardon would go a long way.
@TheChiefNerd
On Thursday March 13th the Senate will hold a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Dr. David Weldon to be the next Director of the CDC
Meet Dr. Weldon
@NicHulscher
RFK JR: “All three of my health agencies—NIH, CDC, and FDA—the acting heads of those agencies—have all recommended against the use of the bird flu vaccine.”
“You’re turning those birds into mutant factories, and that could actually accelerate the jump to human beings.”
Wasn’t the last bird flu vax they tried responsible for about 50 deaths straight up, so they canned it immediately?
I recommend the new one be tested on animals first – pollies, CHO’s, health ministers and eager employers who were too willing to sack workers who refused the covid vax.
Brian Burke: I expect a turning of the blue tide as our State election results pour in
Brian BurkeThe West Australian
Sat, 8 March 2025 2:00AM
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Premier Roger Cook is no Mark McGowan, the irresistibly popular premier who swept all before him at the election in 2021.
Then again, Liberal Leader Libby Mettam is no Zak Kirkup who, at that election, led the Liberals to the worst defeat in Australian political history.
Interestingly, Mettam was one of Kirkup’s key supporters for the Liberal leadership against Dean Nalder, who would have been a far better choice.
Libby Mettam is no Zak Kirkup. Credit: Daniel Wilkins/The West Australian
Wars, plagues and natural disasters make leaders — think Churchill and WWII — and 2021 was a COVID-19 election, although that’s not the whole story.
Strangely, Kirkup told the world he couldn’t win and then proceeded to work hard to fulfil his own prediction.
He lost his own seat and left an aberrant Assembly with 53 Government members and just six Opposition — an imbalance that emerged in the last week as an issue and the search for spurious balance favours the Liberals so, late in the campaign, the Premier was urging people not to vote for the sake of balance.
It’s also very clear that Mettam has lifted her game. It wasn’t very long ago that she took aim at the Premier for an imagined relationship with me and shot her own deputy.
On reflection, perhaps the improved showing should not surprise when her history of staying the course is taken into account. Mettam is a bit like the taxman — she never leaves you!
If the Liberals fail to win Churchlands (1.6 per cent ALP, where Basil Zempilas is the candidate), Nedlands (3.1 per cent ALP, the sitting member has jumped ship to the Legislative Council) and South Perth (10.1 per cent ALP) even after the Clan flexed its muscles to stupidly defeat Hayley Cormann for Liberal preselection, we can all go home early.
I haven’t mentioned Fremantle (15.7 per cent ALP) where there were signs of Labor concern in the final week, because, if Labor loses, the Greens will win.
City seats to watch during the count tonight include Scarborough (9.8 per cent ALP). I’m tipping Damien Kelly to unseat the sitting member Stuart Aubrey, but that is done reluctantly and without a lot of confidence. Aubrey is a promising young member, while Kelly is the best of the Liberal candidates at this election. I won’t be surprised whoever wins, and the loser should be earmarked for a safe seat. Carine is on the list as a pointer to the swing in the often volatile northern suburbs. Kingsley (16.9 per cent ALP) must be in danger; although I’ve wrongly thought that before. It’s just that Colin Edwardes manages to leave any Liberal campaign he touches in rigor mortis.
Hillarys (18.7 per cent ALP) where first termer Caitlin Collins is a rising star. Hillarys is in the watchlist because it’s not a natural Labor seat and if it’s in danger of switching sides at any time during the count then the Government’s in real trouble. Ms Collins should be in the ministry after the election, although the Labor factions might prevail to guarantee the elite of the mediocre.
South of the river Bateman (6.7 per cent ALP) and Riverton (10.9 per cent ALP) must be in play as likely Liberal wins and Bicton (16.2 per cent ALP) is also on the Liberal list.
Dawesville (13.1 per cent ALP) — once the seat of the hapless Kirkup — should return to the conservative field although reports about the sitting Labor member, Lisa Munday, are uniformly good. That goes for Jandakot too where voters will return Stephen Pratt (18.2 per cent ALP) if they have any appreciation of the work he has done. A young member with a future.
To the east, Darling Range (14.1 per cent ALP) and Kalamunda (14.5 per cent ALP) are of most interest with both likely to change.
Country seats to watch include Warren-Blackwood (2.2 per cent ALP) where the well-known Manjimup-based Liberal candidate should have too much firepower for the sitting Labor member’s mainly Denmark-based support.
Albany (11 per cent ALP) will be close. The ban on live sheep exports is a real issue in the Great Southern, where slogans attacking the ban are spray painted on hay bales positioned along major highways; new gun laws and the ban on logging will also count against Labor. The Liberal candidate is a medico appearing in ads in scrubs and fighting back from regrettable comments on abortion and LGBTQ issues.
Murray-Wellington (17.3 per cent ALP) is worth watching and Kalgoorlie (11.2 per cent ALP), Labor heartland for so many generations, is not that now and will attract attention.
In the mid-west, Geraldton (9.3 per cent ALP) is now bigger than it has been historically with the inclusion of a substantial rural area likely to be impacted by the live sheep issue.
Labor’s logical opponent is the Liberal, but the Nationals have influence in the area and their candidate is well regarded. If the swing is on, then sitting first-term member Lara Dalton will lose while, in a very close election, any of three could win, although seasoned observer and former member Jeff Carr says Dalton is popular.
I had to pinch myself when I reviewed the “seats to watch” because some had margins so big they should be very safe. But the 2021 election trashed the old rule book.
I’m tipping Labor 36, Liberals 19 and Nationals 4 and if there’s to be a shock, it will be on the upside for the Liberals.
STOP PRESS: I spent several years in opposition watching Sir Charles Court boot the Labor Opposition around the chamber before he retired and we won.
If the Liberal Party polls well, wiser heads might prevail and commit to a medium to longer-term strategy that sees Mettam retain the leadership with Zempilas as her deputy. Those who think Basil can walk into the top job and do well without any apprenticeship are dreaming.
the Clan flexed its muscles to stupidly defeat Hayley Cormann for Liberal preselection
Not related to Euro agent Matthias I hope?
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WA election 2025: Greens banned from issuing ‘how to vote cards’ in Geraldton by WAEC after error spottedKate CampbellThe West Australian
Sat, 8 March 2025 2:42PM
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The Greens have been caught out in an embarrassing error, which forced the WA Electoral Commission to issue a ban on the party from handing out incorrect how-to-vote cards.
A WAEC spokesperson said an error notice was issued to the Greens on the eve of the election after it was discovered their how-to-vote cards in Geraldton incorrectly identified Liberal candidate Tim Milnes as an Australian Christians Party candidate.
“The HTVC has been cancelled by the WA Electoral Commission and is no longer on our website,” the spokesperson said.
“The Greens can resubmit a replacement correcting the error, however the cancelled HTVC can no longer be published or distributed.”
The WAEC spokesperson confirmed the Greens had not resubmitted a how-to-vote card.
This means they would not be allowed to hand out any how-to-vote material on election day.
Yes yes I’m sure it is just an error…
Damn Straight.
They’re trying it on to see if they’ll get pulled up on it.
More AEC fiction.
Funny how these “errors” only ever go one way.
Greens are lying filth.
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Seven has now taken to Instagram uploads of pets “preparing for Alfred” because there’s no real news to report.
I would have thought they’d default to TDS in that case.
Social media has become an excuse for journalists not to do their job.
Much of news “reporting” is now done by phone and dashboard cameras, which excuse journalists from finding out what’s actually going on in the world.
Most journalists are not only political radicals campaigning against popular political causes; they’re also immensely LAZY.
And they will soon be out of a job, Tom.
Msm news is basically redundant.
Most j’ism jobs the result of nepotism these days. More inbreeding than an Islamic wedding.
The ruling caste, propaganda section.
Not as many goats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__8yqmMEVnw
The Saumur Tank Museums MarkVII Tiger II is back after restoration.
Nice driving by the bloke reverse parking it back into the Handicapped Parking only.
Where does a King Tiger park?
Wherever its driver likes.
What are Americans getting out of these tariffs?
What they’re getting is huge new investment in American manufacturing – and jobs – to avoid them.
They really can’t help themselves can they. NBN channel 9 weather forecast with a map of the QLD coast and a little spinning circle near Brisbane which is labelled “cyclone Alfred, cat L”. No channel 9, it is no longer a cyclone, just a “L”.
Enoch Powell was right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMOsGHG2LQ
Now with immigrants getting preferential treatment in the Courts, how far away is this?
Enoch Powell tutored Gough Whitlam in economics at Sydney University in 1938. He regarded Whitlam as having a very second rate mind.
The Greek classics, Zulu.
And Whitlam did indeed only manage a second.
His hopes of an academic career dashed as a result, he pursued the law instead and subsequently became arguably the worst PM Australia has had to suffer.
Old age and a liking for strong drink have dulled my memory – thank you for sorting that one.
Sadly, I think Enoch Powell will prove to be very prescient about Britain.
Just watching ABC News. 20 minutes on the Alfred disaster. Evidently: a tree fell over near a house…. But but tomorrow may be much much worse. It is like an undergraduate project in a UTS course.
Update: “Lismore is a city on edge” oohhhhh my God.
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My take is that Assad was brutal because that was the only way you can govern in a country with Shia, Sunni (Alawite who are super apostates)and other minorities.
It’s that or be slaughtered.
So the after decades of being prevented from conducting a massacre and 12 years of trying really really hard the Sunni finally have the upper hand and are slaughtering Shia, Alawite Christians as they find them.
That’s islam for you.
Assad would have done a whole lot better if he’d negotiated a peace with Israel, like Jordan and Egypt.
He never did, which is a tell. Well that finally came to haunt him.
Seconded.
My take is that Assad was brutal because that was the only way you can govern in a country with Shia, Sunni (Alawite who are super apostates)and other minorities.
Correct about effect but not cause, despite the unicorn dreams of ‘western do-gooders’, democracy isn’t the ‘best form of government’ for everyone, everywhere. History has repeatedly demonstrated that functioning democracies require an average national IQ of 95+ or they fail. Our efforts to install them in Iraq (national IQ high 80s) and Afghanistan (national IQ low 80s) evidences that.
Syria’s national IQ is 76.
Lower IQ correlates with more social dysfunction and higher rates of violence. Syria needs a violent dictator to run it. It ‘needs’ a violent religion for the same reason.
Civic duty fulfilled. Turns out our local primary school is Churchlands for WA polls. No expense spared ensuring Basil gets up. Never seen so much gumph for a candidate. Think the Liars have written off Nedlands. Didn’t see anything through the campaign.
Keep us abreast, Humphrey, as WA polls don’t close until 9pm AEDT. I expect Albo will have no reason left not to call the federal election by tomorrow morning.
I voted early at Osborne Park. When the Labor stooge offered me HIV card I told er well snarled really, that he was the party of liars and looters.
But the bastards redistributed me into Cottesloe so my vote does not count amy more.
I’m still coming to terms with being an ALP marginal. Hope they don’t find out at the Weld Club.
calli,
Lismore is fixable but the local politics prevent it. There is an excuse to get flooded once, but not twice or more every few years.
On the surface it is mildly amusing to watch adolescents with microphones with the zephyr breeze ruffling their hair attempting to report a non existant armageddon.
But it is not amusing. The cathedral truely had their act together for this minor storm. The media, government and climate hysterics coordinated beautifully to fabricate a crisis using covid levels of fearmongering.
We lack effective alternate media, and both Parties will fight like tomcats to ensure that the traditional government controlled MSM reigns supreme. They can do anything that they like to us. It is now a well practiced conspiracy.
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I’m very comfortable’: Mettam attempts to pour cold water on leadership speculationBy Jesinta BurtonLiberal leader Libby Mettam has batted away persistent speculation about the future of her leadership, maintaining she is “comfortable” as the star candidate at the centre of last year’s failed Liberal leadership coup stood alongside.
“There’s no fatigue,” she told the waiting media, playing down the toll that being one of just two elected Liberals left in the lower house after the 2021 WA Labor bloodbath had taken on her.
“I’m very comfortable in my position and we will wait to see what the outcome of tonight’s results are, but we’re working hard.”
Flanked by Scarborough candidate Damien Kelly and candidate for Churchlands and Seven West Media personality Basil Zempilas, Mettam stopped at Yuluma Primary School to greet campaign staff and members of the public.
The WA Liberals are almost certain to regain Churchlands, the blue-ribbon seat WA Labor’s Christine Tonkin secured at the last election and holds with a razor-thin 1.6 per cent margin.
But Independent Lisa Thornton said she was optimistic, telling WAtoday Zempilas was a “divisive” character and the seat was “hard to predict”.
Scarborough was also one of the once-safe Liberal seats to fall to Labor at the last election, with Kelly hoping to wrangle it from Labor’s Stuart Aubrey, who holds the seat in Perth’s north-west with a margin of 9.3 per cent.
Think Brian Bourke is right, Basil isn’t the answer.
I thought the answer was 42?
Maine state rep says she will always prioritize her home country of Somaliahttps://jihadwatch.org/2025/03/maine-state-rep-says-she-will-always-prioritize-her-home-country-of-somalia?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-state-rep-says-she-will-always-prioritize-her-home-country-of-somalia
https://x.com/TheMaineWire/status/1897316214604751014
How much longer do we have to tolerate treason in our Halls of Power?
Why doesn’t she fvck off back to that Third World sh!thole, and she can prioritize that country all she wants? Fatty Payman, take note.
Same same for Paki Fatty Faruqi.
If Somalis’s so great, what is she doing in the US?
More to the point how did she get elected?
Somali Ghetto, Democrats counting votes.
Cats, Doves is an immaculate (and often infuriating) contrarian.
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
ABC news Radio cancelled all normal programming to run all day climateageddon.
Wall to Wall labour pollies talking like they were the only thing between death and disaster…
Prez Fatty Trump:
Watch for the big fat lerve shout outs, Cats – Alaska was one mentioned in his recent triumphal address.
Don’t expect to hear venoztraliastan mentioned any time soon, unless he’s rightly giving us a serve.
Thanks to kevni and albansleazey. 😡
We’ll do well to stay beyond Donald’s critical purview at present.
Something Albanese doesn’t seem to grasp, naturally.
I can understand Trump liking Japan at the moment as they just announced a 1.6 trillion dollar investment in America. No idea where the money is coming from.
The japanese being the germans of the far east.
Gave it their jackbooted all, lost and are now (unsurprisingly) rapidly going down the plughole.
The germans by allowing their country to be swallowed up by even more evil Jew hating fascist imbeciles, the japs by expiring from civilizational ennui.
Sad.
Xi says hold my Tsingtao.
🙂
Might be a few old scores to be settled when things turn willing.
Nanjing.
feminayzeeism, Cats – just the ticket when you want your society’s birthrate to plummet.
Funnily enough, the solution is not the mass importation of z-grade third world imbeciles.
As we are discovering now.
But it is the solution to the governments problem.
Replace the 100 – 110 point IQ citizens with 70 -80 IQ point factory fodder that votes the way they want.
Further to the Lismore discussion, back nearly 20 years when there was a scam going to put recycled water into Toowoomba’s water supply, we looked at moving to the Lismore area. Weren’t about to buy in flood zone but discovered the area suffers from periodic water shortages due lack of dams which can’t be built because of political opposition. Hard to have sympathy for anyone still there knowing this.
I’m old enough to remember when ADF pers were only used for extraordinary events. Why are they involved here. Has the SES been run down so far by successive state governments they have no choice now?
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/washed-away-fears-lismore-will-flood-levee-to-break-as-alfred-dumps-rain/news-story/f827ddefc055e3da447d1cf20b5142c9
Just curious.
Hope they boys are ok and the sleaze doesn’t use it for his own purposes. Or even Marles, from what I’ve been told would probably be the first time he’s acknowledged a digger exists.
We used to have a Civil Defence Department.
After multiple cost cutting exercises, I understand it operates out of the PMs Department and answering to the Quit Smoking mob.
There were some big floods in western NSW in 1990. Our unit got sent out there. We sandbagged the riverbank at Warren, west of Dubbo.
Blokes from our unit who were in barracks over Christmas/New Years (newbies mainly) also went to Newcastle to help after the earthquake.
Yes, Marles still insisting everyone refers to him as Mr Deputy Prime Minister, in every circumstance, ADF related or not.
Dinobores purveying a classic … 🙂
Some mythical Sirens*
*For Miss April Corley
OK, Cats – I’m invoking the Dementus here – off to try and experience a big fat evil viewing of the second half of Furiosa, a barking Mad Max saga …
😕
Sky News is sending my phone messages that WA Labor is expected to win in spite of a double digit swing against them. Doesn’t really make me want to watch their panel gabbing about it. Why bother if it’s a foregone conclusion?
Whoever is composing their texts doesn’t understand building up drama.
Sky news day crew running WA election coverage and trying to tie to Fed polls. Zaaaap….
I’ll take, nose held, the biased ABC & Antony Green.
No Green but some diversity pick I haver heard of…
Oh well least with the ABC you know it will slant heavily left, not the Claytons middle ground Sky were trying on.
Diversity pick is the local ABC weather girl
RD, just now:
Too late (the Tele):
I am not denigrating the diggers, who were on their way to do stuff that was no doubt constructive in some form or other.
However, and despite Elbow’s commentary they were not en route to Isurava, Pozieres or The Nek.
Anyone think Elbow and Marles would have issued that statement if it had been two NSW SES blokes whose ute rolled on a notoriously shit road?
Yeah, nah but nah.
Any word on who was driving the two trucks?
that section of Tregeagle Rd runs steeply down to the creek crossing. It is narrow, has no verge and a deep drop off into the paddock on one side, and permanently has potholes the size of an urban rainwater tank.
ALPBC Perth Local Radio scores Zac Kirkup. Talk about a blast from the past.
WA election.
Nobody in the East cares.
Guaranteed way stir up a Sandgroper.
Close the border again.
Fat faced smug shithead clennell very smug about liars retaining WA. He sneers that lnp dickheads need 6-8 seats to give any hope to duttie.
Thanks for watching so the rest of us didn’t have to.
Big mistake to take too much (any ?) of this to the Federal sphere. Lotsa love for Sneakers, not much for Albo.
Federal Lieborals won’t need 6 to 8 out of WA. Should be much like normal where the result is known before WA polls close.
My point below and agreed.
Skah day crew doing their best “How can we help Mr PM.”
First time ever I saw Clennell several years ago I took an instant dislike to him, even before he opened his mouth.
And that was despite my assumption that he was centre-right, so it must have been my instincts kicking in.
Sky declares for liars in WA. This country is fuked.
Were you expecting a different outcome?
I’m done with WA election coverage. Outta here.
Yup a foregone conclusion but the analysis from both ABC & Sky are trying to tie it to Fed issues too much.
Results are also in go slow mode, ABC crew gave the game away with a quip about last time we knew Labor had won by this time… Not trying to cast dispersions on AEC or whatever state entity does WA but we saw similar in Qld last year. What’s the excuse this time?
Lastly IMO, we need to get rid of 4 year fixed terms. 3 years is the max a Government should sit. I am now f the opinion now from being agnostic previously it’s too long now. Already look at the cumulative factor here, McGowan smashed the Libs. Now the best they can hope is 2029. IMO it will more likely be 2033 before they have a chance. Yeah na, stupid system and has gifted the ALP 2-3 more years to wreck WA let alone any other state under the same rules.
Politicians should be a cat on a hot tin roof.
Was listening to Antony Green on ALPBC Local Radio on Friday.He said the important thing was to look at the trend and where the votes were moving to. Liars vote has come off the SneakersCovid high (entirely unexpected) but nowhere near enough moving to Lieboral Primary vote at this stage.
I’m agnostic on 4 year fixed terms. 3 feels a little short, particularly when there was a period of everyone going early.
Then have a three year voting day, set for September 1st. Take the timing out of the governments hands.
How about four years but with term limits?
West Australians are too stupid…shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Don’t know the difference between State and Feral.
Michaelea Cash – doorknocking – says WA people only want to talk about the failure than is anal sleazy. Fair enough, but ffs find out what’s going on in your own backyard first.
If you don’t know the different between State and Federal politics, you shouldn’t be allowed within forty yards of a ballot box.
@WallStreetMav
Why is it that President Trump is the only leader in the west that seems to want to avoid a direct war with Russia?
Why do 90% of the leaders of Europe want war with Russia so badly?
They keep trying to block Trump from negotiating a ceasefire with Russia/Ukraine. Why?
@ElectionWiz
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Lunacy. But then it’s easy to squander other people money.
@SecRollins
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There. That would have saved $600K.
Why on earth waste money like this?
Ten percent for the DemonRats.
@WallStreetApes
We’ve been lied to about everything
Tucker Carlson just interviewed the Qatar Prime Minister and guess what he just revealed
He makes it clear they don’t support Hamas but have the office because, “requests from the U.S”
Tucker Carlson “The U.S asked you to put a Hamas office here?”
“They have asked us to open the channels — it was opened with full transparency and full consultation, and actually even requests from the U.S.”
Sounds like some behind the scenes nefarious things have been going on, better check USAID
Obvious when you think about it. Qatar hosts Hamas and yet isn’t turned into a sea of glass by Israel or the USA (exaggeration for effect).
The freedom to say what you think is no little thing.
@catturd2
Elon Musk has had some great achievements in his life …
Tesla, rockets, DOGE, mission to mars, catching rockets with chop sticks, buying X, Grok AI, richest guy in the world, Starlink, etc.
But by far, @elonmusk greatest achievement to date is bringing back the word – retard.
Elon just copied me … how come he gets all the credit?
Better publicity
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Cook ‘comfortably’ elected Premier
The Cook Labor government has been comfortably re-elected, with the Liberals falling flat in many of the former stronghold seats that they were expected to regain.
The Liberals look set to fail to win seats such as South Perth, Scarborough, Riverton and Bateman, all of which had been touted as all but certain to be reclaimed.
While Labor had been expected to win easily, the Liberals had been wanting to reclaim a series of heartland seats to rebuild its parliamentary presence and give it a real shot at winning government in 2029.
But those hopes now look in disarray.
Terrible news. Libs really do have some work to do to succeed anywhere in this misled land.
All they have to do is remember what they’re supposed to be standing for, and it isn’t being Labor Lite.
AKA ‘it has to get worse before it gets better….’
(the good news is – it *will* get worse)
Don’t look likely to pick up any of those “2nd tier” seats they need to be competitive.
Edward Woodward = Jet.
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Some random thought on WA………..
Firstly, the result tonight was inevitable.
Secondly, most state Liberal branches are completely dysfunctional and there should be a federal takeover.
Thirdly, fixed four year terms are a disaster, particularly for right of centre parties. The Westminster system does not work properly with fixed terms, people forget that in France and the US, under their particular electoral systems there are electoral circuit breakers such as the midterms.
Fourthly, back to WA, the Liberal brand was completely trashed under Zac Cockup, who led the party over the cliff with his Labor/Green lite leadership and policies.
@catturd2
They complain about communist Russia but they’re 10x worse.
Apparently the biggest casualty count out of Zephyr Alfred is injuries from two Army trucks colliding near Lismore.
No doubt all from the 101st Headless Chooks Battalion.
Apart from that, I was surprised to learn the Army had two operational trucks … and on a weekend too.
Disappointing news.
I was hoping Hulk Hogan might get that gig.
My ex wife has convinced my three children to vote against Dutton and they are listening to her. If the libs lose its because they chose the wrong leader.
Sit down, and explain to your children, the meaning of the word “disinherited.”
I’ve been there. They don’t care. Dutton is that toxic.
Whoever the Libs choose will instantly become a villain to leftists.
They all love Turnbull now but thought he was evil when Lib leader.
WA Electoral Commission putting the Wait Awhile back into WA.
Antony and Speersy weren’t impressed.
F*ck Zack.
When Mum hit the floor on the porch.
Saving Private Ryan Clerk Mom General
Sleep well lovely people.
I’m still awake.
Does this mean I’m not luvverly?
Week In Pictures.
Favourite:
That stereo needs a double tape.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/columbia-pays-a-price.php
President Trump should just cancel all of the Federal help to these Universities with humungous bank balances.
How can they justify taxpayer support when they have been bequeathed money in the Billions?
Now I’ve seen it all.
Yes, nice… but…
There are homeless veterans sleeping in the streets, FFS!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oqtJYTjAnnE?feature=share
Something nice for you to get into the day with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kGiCUiOMyQ
Maybe my brain hasn’t woken up yet but that was a load of “gobbledy-gook”. Was it meant to be so? A take down?
I’ve no idea, mem.
But they both claim the Gerbil Worming scam is a , well,… scam.
I was hoping that someone could decipher it.
I think it was an AI generated put down deliberately generated to confuse and smear.
Sabine is real and has form. I’ve watched her before with a wary eye on her ideological bent.
Sabine is another German and like a good German, she has plans for you.
Sabine thinks she’s the last word on everything.
Sabine is a failed would be academic physicist but completely balanced. A chip on each shoulder.
At 6.30 am AEST South Australia is producing less than half of the electricity it needs. Only 695 MW out of the 1479MW .The rest (784MW) is being imported from Victoria. Just as well we’ve got coal. Wind energy across the five seaboard states when combined is producing 24% of demand and coal is producing 70%. And solar is at zero because the sun isn’t up yet. So much for the transition.
Thanks mem.
No mem.
The sun supplies during the day and the wind supplies at night. This is how abundant and cheap renewable resources work. It’s called the Bowendipshit supply curve.
I listened to an Alinta Energy advert on radio yesterday while waiting in the car that told me “honestly” that wind didn’t produce all the time but this was ok because they could top up (whenever needed) with coal and that this was all part of the planned transition to bring us cheap reliable energy. It was clever but deliberately confusing to the public.
was ok because they could top up (whenever needed) with coal
Incorrect:
1) they have systematically degraded coal by making it hard to source funding for maintenance (or shock horror new construction)
2) coal tubines are MASSIVE – hundreds of tons of spinning inertia, you cant just turn them on and off when a cloud appears
3) due to #2 above, we have had to install LESS EFFICIENT backups from gas and diesel
More news from Airstrip One, as it slowly slides beneath the waves.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-afghan-asylum-seeker-raped-schoolgirl-falkirk-scotland
https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-200-arrive-illegal-channel-crossings.
The Royal Navy has a new job – bringing the Kings Co Religionists Jihadis into the Islamic Realm of GB.
Illegal scum the correct description
Nuke ’em, glass ’em, salt it ..!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/dread-haunts-gaza-as-airstrikes-dent-hopes-of-renewed-ceasefire/ar-AA1AwoB7?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=ad08ff2efc3142179a1eacf27113e81a&ei=23
Comments not allowed .. LOL!
It’s the Guardian, and MSN so it’s all slanted bullshit anyway.
Apparently, MSN is having to lay off lots of staff.
They can learn to dig coal.
“Some say the cyclone waited offshore, not crossing the coast, because nobody had arranged a Welcome to Country twig-burning ceremony by elders.”
Bam!
KD from yesterday.