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Let’s see how the senate turns out. As to a scenario with Albo not resisting the Greens, it’ll play into…
Brisbane’s March has dropped 1/2 the pipe bands.
This thread is dedicated to the memory of Jacqui from 2025 MAFS, brutally slaughtered by Ryan on widescreen HD.
It’s reptilian sociopaths like Jacqui who make it so instructive to watch.
where would Jacqui be on the crazy hot matrix?
They ran out of hot chicks three years ago.
Crazy, or simply delusional, they got in spades.
The amount of slap and filler on show… even the blokes use eyebrow stencils
And Ryan has had a complete redemption arc- from being presented as a drippy himbo who injected his bench-press personal best into his reception speech, to conducting himself with stunning fortitude, tolerance and self-possession.
Speaking only English, I have no idea what the above 5 comments are about.
Tractor of the week…
Very good price for the engine hours… catch could be the wet-clutch transmission on the blink.
But, very good price… hmmmm…. maybe if I can shift these last two trucks of red grapes….
MAFS is why I retire to my bedroom at 07:30pm.
Is that where your TV is?
Beautiful painting Dover.
I have had a reproduction of the Seamstress on my wall for about 20 years.
Was just browsing a gallery of union officials (from past meetings & suchforth) mostly AWU, or SDA.
Every one of them looks like a brutally misogynistic domestic violence perp, or if not, they look gay, as if they’ve not yet come out of the closet, but nobody is fooled.
Is this all union reps/officials, or just the ones I have the displeasure to meet?
Has it always been so?
You should see the blokes on MAFS
Yes.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman TDS.
I’m putting this in the Ramirez zone of “right, some of the time”.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F.Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Is this what they call non fungible art? Or have I got that wrong?
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Chortle!
Ben Garrison.
Thanx Tom.
At the end of the last OT I wrote a reply to a remark of Arky which consisted of a quote from the pirates of penzance. To confirm that my memory hadn’t failed, I typed “When the coster’s finished jumpin’ on ‘is mother” into google. I got the most preposterous bit of woke gibberish back, showing a complete failure to understand anything about the phrase from the so called AI. But a strong commitment to woke gibberish.
Don’t trust google or their fake AI.
AI = ‘Abalone Ineptitude’.
You must have taught it something.
I typed in the coster line and the second hit was Pirates.
Not long and it will be self aware and be doling out punishments to fit the crime. Be careful what you wish for.
It was the AI interface on the first hit which was gibberish.
I looked up coster because I had no idea what it meant.
Ended up with a fashion house, a ‘costermonger’ who sold apples, etc etc.
At which point I decided this was my ‘word of the day’ I’d never understand, and crossed it off my list of ‘Things to do Today’.
Next item?
There are more “old jobs” than you ever suspected, Winston.
Drapers, coopers, even muck rakers!
Here’s a most excellent list.
It doesn’t have dunnydiver.
This for those Cats interested and the aviation inclined Cats:
Summary:
Incorrectly installed airborne weather radar contributed to King Air flight into thunderstorm
Final ATSB report:
Flight into a thunderstorm involving Beech Aircraft B200, VH-ZMW, 108 km west-north-west of Toowoomba, Queensland on 9 October 2024
Kudos to the pilot etc, but Mk1 eyeball should have been used first to identify a thunderstorm.
Snork, snork!
Wayne Root via Gateway Pundit examines the voting record of Justice Roberts and asks why. Is blackmailing more common in high places than we suspected?
WAYNE ROOT: Back in 2015, I Wrote, “Is Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Being Blackmailed?” This Question is as Valid Today as a Decade Ago. | The Gateway Pundit | by Assistant Editor
I’ve been saying precisely this about Roberts ever since the screaming match with the other Supremes over the Biden victory in 2020.
Behind closed doors, Roberts was heard hysterically abusing the other Supremes for voting ‘the wrong way’ by staffers and other witnesses. The other Supremes were noticed to appear shocked and dismayed after the meeting.
So the question continues, what about Barrett? There’s a familiar picture being drawn here.
Like the Divine Agatha, I am firmly convinced of the reality of evil – perhaps not for the same reasons, though.
If that is true, and that a small minority of people are truly evil in a way that is destructive to the lives of others, it boils down to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, or execution.
The economic argument is clear. Why should taxpayers feed and house this person for the rest of their life?
But, it’s not just an economic argument, it’s also an ethical one.
Complicating that is do-gooders who want to change the sentences of the life-with-no-parole crowd, sometimes successfully.
Another complicating factor is that in the US, for example, people sit on Death Row for decades, which is unsatisfactory from every perspective.
In the end, I favour the death penalty for extreme cases. No years and years of appeals, either. A time limit on appeals, to be facilitated and enforced by the courts.
In the end, I favour the death penalty for extreme cases
Does Treason count as an extreme case? I know I could be accused of ‘wanting to overthrow the government’?
I’ll accept treason as a capital offence provided politicians can also be tried for crimes against the people.
Never going to happen.
Crimes against the people by politicians and senior public servants ARE treason – it can/should be more those acts that directly benefit a foreign power or organisation.
Examples – wuhan flu management, power grid management, defence procurement management.
Many gaol terms for treason warranted in these areas in Australia.
Born at the tail end of the Victorian era, a girlhood of sermons on the depravity of man, two world wars and a great deal of personal suffering – she knew about wickedness. She was a product of her era.
One thing Christie was wrong about – the trustworthiness of the police. Events in England over the past fifty years would have her spinning. These are not the Bobbies she knew and respected.
More discussion (including in comments under the article) about the runaway leftist judiciary in the USA.
Comments for: The Founders Provided Remedies for a Runaway Judiciary – American Thinker
Initial Post here.
The damage that the Obama Crime Family did in concert with the Communist Democrats is slowly revealing itself.
Perhaps the most astute observer of the United States from afar was Alexis de Tocqueville, who in 1835 published Democracy in America, his reflections on America prompted by a nine-month tour. Among his observations were the following:
I like de Tocqueville – he seems an extraordinarily clear thinker.
However, this situation is the very one envisaged by the 2nd Amendment.
Re MAFS.
Put it this way.
Sometime in the next twenty years the Homicide Squad will be digging up her back yard and Forensic will be taking the p-trap from her bath and her big cooking pot down to the lab.
MAFS from psychologist’s point of view The team should be sacked What damage is done to the contestants? Most women have had Botox or other help what does that say about Unconditional self acceptance ? Tattoos what sort of obsessive mental health issues to cover yourself with cover ups ? From the start with the fake marriage ceremony straight from a years old psychological experiment that would be classed as unethical these days . so who watches?
it would be for me still being at work.
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Australian universities appalled by Trump asking what they are doing with US money:
It seems that Australian universities’ business model – maximise overseas students and highlight DEI – has fallen into the crapper.
As someone who watched with dismay as they vandalised the once beautiful ANU campus and trashed academic standards in pursuit of their empire building, all I can say is, better late than never.
How can a Vice Chancellor of a University in Australia be paid more than $1 million dollars a year?
What a lot of vice to pay for and why?
Chancelling vice is a very demanding job. You have to have the best quality vice, and you have to chancel it just right.
“If this was any other country, it verges on foreign interference. It’s just remarkable.”
It is foreign interference. I had no idea that the USAID was funding research in our universities. Poor American taxpayers really were financing the left all over the world, there are squealing pigs everywhere.
With the demise of USAID Americans will now be able to balance their budget and pay off the debt.
Doesn’t taking money from foreigners makes one susceptible to foreign interference?
I worked at the once great John Curtin School in the70s. Its reputation is not what it was.
Australian universities accept U.S. money then complain about “foreign interference” when asked to account for how the money is used.
That’s chutzpah for you.
The voters aren’t buying Bowen’s lies.
‘Not trusting anyone’: Redbridge poll finds voters disillusioned with both Labor and Coalition energy policies (Sky News, 19 Mar)
Seems a bit contradictory that they blame Labor for high prices but are still giving them a 2PP lead. I suppose that’s from the usual healf campaign stuff that the ALP always runs and has again been pushing hard with in the last month or so. You’d think if the voters have wised up to Labor’s lies about electricity they’d also realize that they are lying about healf too.
Despite this, the same poll found the government still has a has a 51 to 49 per cent two-party-preferred lead over the Coalition.
Surely that is not correct.
The last few Polls that I have seen reported has the Coalition at 51 and LayBore at 49. And mot the other way round.
You alwayz concentrate your polling in the demographs that suits the answer your after so they alwayz come out favourable to you ….. polls#101
Like the old parliamentary advice:
“NEVER ask a question in the House, to which you do not already have a detailed answer”
I think that line came up in the old “Yes, Minister” series decades ago.
Why would we when the Coalition refuses to commit to get out of Net Zero agreements and to build more coal power stations? Everything else is grandstanding. China and India are building coal power stations at a furious pace because they are not stupid.
Correct.
Labor’s energy policy died of shame.
The Coalition’s policies don’t stack up any better: a complete absence of any technical or commercial insight into how the Australian energy system works (or fails to work) now – or might ever work in some fantasy mixed renewables/nuclear/gas future.
The sound of multi-millions pouring into Yallourn and Eraring to keep them running in a way they were never designed for, is the sound of crash landing – not crashing through.
At least the QLD State Guv’ment have stated that they will keep all of their Coal Fired Power Stations. Maybe they could build more and the HELE ones and then export the electricity to NSW, ACT, VIC and SA via the Grid.
A nice way to make money.
WA is not connected so can do their own thing. And as for the NT, well who knows. And Tasmania, can Hydro do it?
Snowy 2.0 can die a death.
This is telling.
If it was research into childhood cancer they would have said so.
It tells me it is either very small bucks and they want to grandstand about it, or the money is provided to churn out “university studies show, so shut up” content that the MSM is so fond of.
We all know how for years Andrew Blot and some of his guests like Dribbling Sheridan routinely spoke ill of Donald Trump, only doing a switcheroo after Biden’s feebleness was displayed to the world during that disastrous first debate last June, and then kind of joining the Trump bandwagon after the first assassination attempt last July all the way up to Trump’s victory in November. And Blot has matched his anti-Trump diarrhea with diarrhea on Ukraine and Zelensky. It really has been tedious.
And last night, for those who bothered watching, Blot led his programme with a preposterous fart that the Coalition’s current lead of Abalone’s disgraceful government might be weighed down by Trump (and not in a positive way)! This is of course a laughable proposition because the Liberals and Nationals could really do with being weighed down and filled with Trumpism, as that would ensure a landslide victory.
Well, after that I switched Blot off however I am beginning to wonder if Blot is ‘weighing’ down Sky News.
But further to Trump and Ukraine, it’s heartening to get up this morning and read this on the Oz website………
‘Lasting peace’: Zelensky agrees partial ceasefire in phone call with Trump
Volodyrmyr Zelensky said ‘lasting peace’ was possible under Donald Trump’s leadership, with teams to meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss moves toward a full ceasefire.
I wonder if Blot will lead with the above tonight and perhaps temper his anti-Trump diarrhea? Let me know, I won’t be watching him.
Finally, since Blot and others insist on seeing the Ukraine war as akin to Spain in 1937, here’s a thought, perhaps Blot could suggest to his son that he go over and ‘fight for Ukraine’?
He is as people who surf away from his program usually watch something else and don’t click back later. Management better have a talk to him or move him to a daytime spot where he will be more comfortable.
Shock revelation from the JFK Files.
Snork!
Guffaw!
In the end, I favour the death penalty for extreme cases. No years and years of appeals, either. A time limit on appeals, to be facilitated and enforced by the courts.
I think most of us here would agree.
I wouldn’t get excited about it, Zelensky will try to weasel out of it tomorrow. There will be no deal or lasting agreement as long as he is in power. Zelensky is the quintessential drama queen and he is not going to give it up voluntarily.
Absolutely correct.
Why does Quadrant have Roger Partridge writing for them? Is it that excessive commitment to giving other perspectives oxygen that plagues conservative media but not lefty media? Or “merely” TDS at the top?
Running articles worthy of The Guardian is like being told to tolerate the intolerant, respect all cultures. The left fights to the finish ad nauseum, and we are in an existential fight. Australia has taken in too much toxic culture already, and “fair play” in media gets you a majority of state Labor governments plus the Feds.
One of Partridge’s recent anti-Trump rants was preceded by a comment from the editor (Roger Franklin I think) which made fairly clear he disagreed with the author.
Perhaps Quadrant want to avoid the label of “echo chamber” so they need a token lefty to contribute. Not excessive.
Perhaps you can stop thinking of his works as toxic TDS and think of it as a mental workout. No matter what Partridge says you should be able to find the flaw in his argument or perhaps just identify how his priorities are wrong.
Who needs a camera when you have Vermeer. Amazing painting. It lives and breathes.
There are reports that a group called Dogequest has published online the details of every Tesla car owner across the USA with addresses. Not sure if it’s still up, but once again there are too many bad actors in too many places for the USA to survive intact.
Yeah you keep telling us
It’s gonna take a lot more than a couple of car bombs to get us off this case!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVRLTIg0ObI
Meme
That’s a cute one.
@GrrrGraphics
Welcome Home Astronauts
New Ben Garrison cartoon
The Dragon capsule ‘Freedom’ has landed!
Thanks to Elon Musk and his company, SpaceX, Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are back home. Their successful splashdown was celebrated by a pod of dolphins that swam nearby.
The astronauts were at the International Space Station for an eight-day mission. Instead, they spent 9 long months in space due to technical problems with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.
Musk should be saluted for his good deeds, but instead he has become a target of attacks from the deranged left. Some Democrats are using inflammatory rhetoric and claiming Musk is a ‘domestic terrorist’ because he is removing waste, fraud, and abuse from government. Tesla cars are being damaged throughout the country. Tesla dealerships are being firebombed. Charging stations are being set on fire. It’s no wonder the Democrats are plummeting in the polls. Trump and Musk offer hope. The Democrats offer nothing but chaos, crime, and despair.
I watched the splashdown and when I saw the dolphins frolicking around the capsule I thought “God is smiling”.
The stranding of the Astronauts reminds me of another stranded group.
They were only meant to be on a Three Hour Tour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR7qxtgCgY
Leftism is a violent fascist death cult. It’s extremely hard to sell a violent fascist death cult to voters in a democracy. The only surprise is that in opinion surveys support for the Democratic Party among voters is still above 20%.
Call the Democrats what they are – Communists running an attempted Civil War within the United States.
What is it with leftists and outright dishonesty?
@iheartmindy
Remember when they tried to say there was a 3rd Trump assassination attempt at a rally in Riverside…..
But it turned out the Sheriff lied about the guy’s passes being fake, his license being fake, his ID’s being fake, and he was never able to produce this so called “threat” that was supposedly made against Trump? Not that it mattered anyway, because the guy recorded the whole damn thing and can prove one was never made.
Turns out the person he falsely crucified all over the national news outlets, was one of my best friends in the world and business partner for our network America Happens….Vem Miller. Whose biggest crime apparently, was telling the cops he forgot he had guns in his trunk that were legal where we live here in Nevada…but not in Commifornia.
A simple peruse through his social media and all the years of him supporting Trump and the MAGA movement, easily proved to anyone not eating paint chips…that he wasn’t there to harm Trump.
We had heard Bianco had aspirations to run for RINO Governor of California, and likely did this for clout and free TV time…..and it turns out we were 100% right.
Days after Vem Miller was cleared by the FBI and Secret Service for not being a threat…..this douchebag Sheriff Chad Bianco went on every channel he could to brag about what a f*cking fake hero he was, and that he thwarted this great big “assassination attempt” that NEVER happened.
He also “tipped off” the LVMPD that Vem was a “threat” after he was already cleared….and they decided to send an armed unit to his elderly Armenian parents house, for no reason other than to scare the hell out of them and perhaps cause them or Vem harm.
Well you see, when you run for Governor you’ve got to face the people….so I caught up with Sheriff Bianco at a GOP candidate event in Sacramento, and it goes EXACTLY how you would expect on video below.
Turns out the guy is a pathological liar and all around scumbag….so we have dozens of more videos we’ll be releasing until he finally crawls back into whatever dirty, corrupt butthole he came out of.
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t piss into the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger….and you don’t mess around with Mindy MF Robinson.
Enjoy, and share.
A police officer that lied, but was brought undone by the ‘criminal’ filming the interaction?…. tell me it isnt so!!
PS
*Always*film*the*police*
Yes, also film any & every regulatory official.
Betcha an Obama judge will instantly issue an injunction because reasons.
Trump Issues First Border Wall Construction Contract of Second Term (18 Mar)
@nicksortor
In fact, they’re actually gloating about it.
A very Un Civil War is underway in the USA,
Elon Musk’s X regains $44 billion valuation in major comeback: reports
I really think he should ditch ( sell) Tesla while it’s still worth something. Let the Democrat billionaires wear the eventual loss.
This is worth posting just for the comments. I don’t really know who Harry Sisson is but he’s in deep, deep water for sexual abuse and grooming.
@harryjsisson
Feeling good today! Let’s continue to fight for democracy and stay focused on stopping Trump.
Have heard of the smarmy, insufferable prick.
@LauraLoomer
EXCLUSIVE
BOSTON @Tesla Takedown Organizer Identified As Paula Oakes, a Democrat Music Teacher At Public Schools in Wellesley, Massachusetts
Paula Oakes of Roslindale, Massachusetts, a violin teacher at Wellesley Public Schools has been organizing Tesla Takedowns against @elonmusk, and recently posted two concerning statements on her Pro-Democracy Project Facebook page that warrant prompt review and attention by law enforcement.
Paula Oakes is the admin of a Facebook page called the “Pro-Democracy Project”.
In one of her posts, in which she encouraged people to show up to the Tesla Takedown protest she organized on 3/16/25 in Boston, she noted that acts of vandalism and arson had occurred at Tesla Showrooms, but she herself was “not resorting to arson just yet”, with a grin emoji.
?
This statement was copied from her Facebook post:
Paula Oakes Author Admin
“Since Congress has abdicated its authority, it up to us to rise up and resist the authoritarian takeover of the federal government. In that spirit, I have joined the Tesla Takedown movement, a group of self-appointed organizers who are hosting protests at Tesla dealerships across the country. On Sunday, March 16, from 12 to 2, lam hosting an “I didn’t vote for Elon” protest at the Tesla dealership at 888 Boylston St (Prudential Center) in Boston. I hope to see some of you there.
If not, consider visiting the Tesla Takedown site to search other protest sites or volunteer to host your own event. I encourage everyone who cares about democracy to check this out. These protests are having an effect. Tesla stock, a significant portion of Elon’s wealth, has been tumbling precipitously since the implementation of DOGE. There have been several incidents of vandalism and property damage at Tesla dealerships, and in France, they simply burned the first Tesla dealership to the ground. I am not resorting to arson just yet, but will do
everything in my power to resist Elon and DOGE’s ransacking of the federal government.”
See screenshots below
The statements made by Paula Oakes, which include advocating for civil disobedience and a comment implying potential escalation to arson at Tesla with the phrase “I am not resorting to arson, just yet” accompanied by a grin emoji, are highly concerning and should be regarded with utmost seriousness, especially given the fact that she is a public school music teacher, according to screenshots I obtained from her @LinkedIn.
These remarks take on added significance given the recent arson attack at a Tesla location in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 18, 2025, the arson mentioned at a Tesla Showroom in France (mentioned in her post) and merit immediate attention and evaluation.
The alarming rhetoric expressed by Paula Oakes, a teacher employed in the Wellesley, Massachusetts public school system necessitates prompt action by the school district and local authorities to ensure the safety and well-being of the school community.
RECEIPTS:
Can’t see a problem here ……!
Pass on the “Green Dreams” (Lethabarb), go with the “Fargo” (log chipper)??
@liz_churchill10
INDIA has RAIDED the George Soros’ Open Society Foundation Offices in Karnataka.
Zombies are unhappy with Elon.
DOGE Marks 3.2 Million Social Security Accounts 120 Years and Older as ‘Deceased’ (18 Mar)
Also unhappy I suspect will be the family members who have been quietly drawing great-great-granny’s social security cheques for years. I wonder how many of these people still vote in US elections?
@LauraLoomer
BREAKING:
My lawyer @johnmarkpierce and I just received a legal letter from the lawyers of the Soros Affiliated Hopewell Fund and Sixteen Thirty Fund demanding that I DELETE AND RETRACT my exclusive X report about the funding of the violent @Tesla Takedown protests in which I ratioed @reidhoffman in a post, documenting how his donations to the Soros-tied Hopewell Fund may have made its way to @sunrisemvmt groups that are vandalizing Tesla Showrooms across the nation.
In the letter, their lawyer was very focused on my reporting regarding Jeffrey Epstein associate and @LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and he is demanding I delete or retract my report below by 5 pm EST tomorrow, March 20, 2025. The tweet below was mentioned in the legal letter.
The Hopewell Fund even accused me of “tortious interference” for tagging their Democrat mega donor Reid Hoffman on X, and they threatened to sue me.
Notice in the letter, the lawyer admits that the Sixteen Thirty Fund did in fact donate $500,000 to the Sunrise PAC, as I reported.
As I reported, Sunrise Movement is the group whose members were arrested for vandalizing @elonmusk’s Tesla Showroom in NYC.
These Soros groups are claiming that my reporting is “defamatory” because they claim without any evidence that the half a million dollars they donated, according to publicly available records, was already spent by Sunrise before the violent Tesla protests took place.
My lawyer and I are very interested in digging into the financial trail of the Hopewell Fund and the Sixteen Thirty Fund if this is the route they want to take with me as an investigative journalist who is exposing domestic terrorism.
Maybe @elonmusk and X will help me with my legal fees since I am now being targeted in my professional capacity (by Marxist groups affiliated with his enemy @reidhoffman) as a journalist for my exclusive report on X of great public interest.
I recall in August 2023 when he made this offer.
See legal letter below.
@townhallcom
HOLY SMOKES: Mark Levin just ROASTED Chief Justice John Roberts:
“It’s time to GROW A PAIR, JUDGE!”
“How the HELL are we going to have 680 individual unelected federal judges…all sitting there behind their desks…saying, you know, I don’t like this idea!”
“This is EXACTLY what Locke and Montesquieu and Jefferson and Madison warned!”
“I DON’T CARE about what John Roberts pronounces from the bench! Do your job, Chief justice of the United States!”
“FIX IT!”
“This government exists for WE THE PEOPLE! It doesn’t exist for John Roberts, the judges, Congress or ANYBODY ELSE!. This WHOLE THING was set up for US — to protect US!”
“It is GROTESQUE!”
Shakespeare had the right idea starting with this –
“The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
Or maybe, go straight to the Judges and work the way down……………….
@liz_churchill10
Horrific.
Protestors calling themselves ‘Last Generation’ vandalize a Tesla Dealership in Canada. A Tesla Employee walks out and is met with spray paint…
In Trump’s first term under the banner of BLM these people burned down cities with impunity. I don’t think that’ll be the case now.
@Breaking911
FAFO: Daniel Clarke-Pounder, 24, faces 20 years in federal prison after he allegedly firebombed a Tesla charging station in Charleston & spray-painted “F*ck Trump, Long Live Ukraine.”
Enjoy your time in the go slow, tilty head surfing Jesus.
The most cigarettes.
Name of Pounder, you say?
I suspect he will be the poundee once in prison.
The judge will probably award him a couple of million in compo.
He’ll probably get a liberal judge and a slap on the wrist.
@Sec_Noem
Under President Trump’s leadership, we will not sit idly by as conservative new media and their families are being targeted by false swatting.
@DHSgov has the ability to trace phone numbers and track location information. We will use it to hunt these cowards down.
This is an attack on our law enforcement and innocent families and we will prosecute it as such.
@TexasRepublic71
Police arrested suspect outside CIA Headquarters. Y’all thinking what I’m thinking?
…Yahoo Serious?
How Snopes Buried the Truth About Ilhan Omar’s Father
@seanmdav
John Roberts didn’t just go out of his way yesterday to trash Trump on a purely political matter—impeachment of corrupt judges—over which Roberts has no authority.
He did it by selectively leaking his statement to left-wing corporate media outlets, lying about its nature (claiming it was only in response to press inquiries rather than a general statement), and then refusing to provide the full statement to conservative media outlets when requested, including @FDRLST.
To date, no one knows the full extent of what Roberts and his taxpayer-funded PR agents have said, because no record of any statement from the court can be found anywhere on the Supreme Court website, a shocking breach of protocol and transparency.
Did the left-wing corporate media outlets hand-picked by Roberts to receive his political rant print it in full, or did they selectively quote it? It is impossible to know, because the Chief Justice is refusing to be transparent about what he said and who he said it to.
I have now asked the Supreme Court public information office five separate times to be provided a copy of Roberts’ full statement. I was hung up on twice, rudely told to send an email by someone who thought that was easier than just answering why the statement wasn’t on the Supreme Court’s website, and have sent multiple e-mail inquiries that have been ignored by government employees whose sole job is to respond to media inquiries.
Do these sound like the actions of an impartial jurist doing his best to defend the Constitution and the rule of law? Or does that sound like something a nakedly political partisan activist would do?
You would think an institution that nearly got two of its own members killed after a leak of its deliberations would go to great leaks to make sure all statements and records of the Court would be transparently provided to everyone at the same time, as opposed to leaking statements—and comments about them from Supreme Court PIO staff—to select news outlets for the purpose of politically shaping coverage.
You would think that, but you’d be wrong. We have known for more than a decade that John Roberts is a political schemer, not an impartial jurist. His latest anti-Trump rant—and his refusal to be honest and transparent about it—only makes his gamesmanship more obvious, and more dangerous to the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
BREAKING: The mainstream press is lying to you BIG TIME about the Texas child who “died from measles”
the truth about JFK et al
Got around to watching the first episode of Adolescence.
A gripping set up with some excellent acting.
Although it probably wouldn’t have been made if the writers and producers hadn’t bravely gone after the lowest of low hanging fruit.
A lot has been made of one-shotting each Ep. which is quite an achievement for the cast and crew on set, but back in the Edit Suite it still would’ve been the usual hour per minute grind, because no matter how thorough everything is planned and rehearsed in Pre-Prod, the Iron Maxim* will always remain true.
*Audio: 10% of the work 90% of the problems.
So boys will be influenced into wrongthink by social media knobs.
But not influenced by drill rap and other forms of media.
Glad thats cleared up then.
https://genius.com/Digga-d-stab-him-lyrics
[Intro]
Baow
(Itchy, made this shit)
Hmhmhm, hmhm
Yo, stab him, stab him, stab him
(Madara)
Yo
You don’t like me, pussy, it’s likewise
Go on a bike ride, rise up the knife crime
Ahaha, shhh
You don’t like?me,?pussy,?it’s likewise
Go on?a bike ride,?rise up the knife crime
PJW excoriates the show for its gaslighting:
I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
The tariffs haven’t even started yet.
@IanJaeger29
Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell claims that President Trump’s tariffs have contributed to a “good part” of recent price increases.
Egg prices are down, gas prices are down, mortgage rates are down and inflation is declining.
Jerome Powell should resign.
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: Elon Musk is making the maximum allowable donation to GOP members of Congress who back impeaching activist judges – NYT
@nayibbukele
The U.S. is facing a judicial coup.
A long-lost Klimt painting of an African prince goes on show
Wow! Nice painting. Very happy it is back for viewing.
Obviously looted during the War.
Another judicial order
@MikeBenzCyber
This has got to be the final word on the absolute disaster of the adverse side effects of the jab. 99 million subjects, 22 different credentialed co-authored public health professionals spanning both research universities & national governments. Save it, bookmark, send to friends
@MikeBenzCyber
Can someone explain to me slowly how this is not a case closed criminal conspiracy to commit arson? If a MAGA group disseminated a detailed logistical guide on how to burn down Open Society Foundation buildings, encouraged the arson & it happened, how fast would DOJ/FBI move in?
@WallStreetApes
It ALL comes back to Barack Obama
Mike Benz talks with Joe Rogan about what Barack Obama really did by repealing the Smith–Mundt Act
It’s SO MUCH BIGGER than just allowing use of propaganda on Americans, it allowed for:
– Infiltrate and co-opt the universities
– The unions
– The media
– The politicians
– The judges
It allowed
– Foreign policy establishment can fund groups that effectively work with prosecutors domestically or that work at media, dual sort of dual use
– To give them foreign grants to do media propaganda abroad but they operate here, or social media censorship to coerce foreign countries to pass foreign censorship laws that explicitly and are intended to attack US social media companies and in US peer-to-peer speech
“1948, Congress recognized the Frankensteinian monster they were creating by authorizing a covert permanent department of dirty Tricks. And this is their phrase, not mine, to do this cloak and dagger to infiltrate and co-opt the universities, the unions, the media, the politicians, the judges, the whole swarm army. You know what I have been calling for a long time, the USAID Truman Show”
“That are effectively a movie set being constructed by the US State Department and its sister influence orgs — The CIA”
“So the Smith–Mundt Act was always designed to say, listen, you can do this dirty stuff abroad, but it can’t come home. We have that protection, which lasted for 70 years and only, we only lost it a decade ago.” By BARACK OBAMA
ALL THESE THINGS and more were to be allowed to be used OVERSEAS ONLY, the Smith–Mundt Act was created to ensure that
But then Barack Obama got installed, he repealed the Smith–Mundt Act and now ALL THESE TOOLS were used against the American people and we paid for it all
Every person in America needs to watch every second of this video. There would not be a single Democrat voter left. Obama was installed to start the takedown of America and use our own agencies against us
You could also argue THIS is why we have so many activist judges
Bankrupt their arses.
Breaking: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay Hundreds of Millions in Dakota Pipeline Protest Lawsuit (19 Mar)
Now do the ferals who keep besieging the Port of Newcastle. Take their homes, their EVs and their hemp-fibre clothes. Leave them with nothing.
Some need to keep their jockstraps, not because of public decency laws, but the public ugliness legislation.
…and if there isn’t any Legislation, it needs to be passed.
snap…
1-Adam-12, 1-Adam-12, don’t see the man…
I am seeking guidance form the great minds on the Cat.
Who, or what, is MAFS?
Married at First Sight
The only exposure I’ve had to the program is the promotional material and comments here.
I believe some of my children watch it in much the same way as you’d watch a train wreck in slow motion.
Make Australia ??? Surely
Believe me, you dinna wanna know.
Mass Air Flow Sensor.
Can be expensive to replace if you buy from the Stealership, or a waste of money if you buy OEM from a manufacturer who has outsourced to China.
Made a bunch of those many years ago.
Correct. Old Rodeo I had a few years back started playing up badly. Would choke up when you hit the accelerator.
Luckily I diagnosed the MAFS needed cleaning (simple five minute job), before sending it to a mechanic to get ripped off.
Thanks Zafiro. I’ve a Holden Rodeo with those exact symptoms.
MAFS is all about numbers, ZK2A.
You know, 1 + 1 = 2.
We are the Numerate Nayshun.
I heard Mr Abalone say so.
Isn’t ZK2A the old Morse shorthand for :
“Put on a competent (key) operator”
Or am I missing something?.
A dystopian nightmare. Approach with extreme caution.
It’s a race. You throw a heap of turds into a bucket half-filled with pee. The first Turd to climb out, is the winner.
Mutton Abalone and Effing Socialists
Make Albanese F… oh no sorry that’s MAFO, my mistake.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/indian-government-raids-soros-backed-offices-bengaluru-as/
Does the US have an extradition Treaty with India?
The possibilities here are endless…
I don’t think there is an extradition treaty, India has been trying to get Gates before one of their courts for years, in a case about vaccine trials there. If there was such a treaty, they would have used it.
There are reports that a group called Dogequest has published online the details of every Tesla car owner across the USA with addresses.
?I never thought ACW 2.0 would begin like this.
It occurs to me that, if true, many, many of these will be urban Democrats.
Something is already stirring in Once Great Britain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBhvUVVMXgo
In all of the likely “theatres, there will be more “false flags” than a Mardi Gras parade.
Caitlyn RintoulThe West Australian
Wed, 19 March 2025 6:00PM
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Curtin MP Kate Chaney is under pressure to make her stance on the live export ban clear to WA farmers, who are threatening to wage war against her. Credit: News Corp Australia
Back the live export industry by the end of the week or face the consequences.
That is the ultimatum Curtin MP Kate Chaney has been given by disgruntled WA farmers who have warned if she doesn’t play ball, they will launch a targeted campaign against her.
Campaigners for “Keep the Sheep” are seeking assurances that if re-elected, the teal independent would support a repeal of the plan to phase out the industry by May 2028.
The group’s chairman David Galvin has warned Ms Chaney they will ramp up action in her prized western suburbs seat if she fails to clarify her position on the ban by Friday.
“Failure to respond… will be taken as your support for the Albanese Government’s ban. This will give us no choice but to campaign against you at the next election,” Mr Galvin said in a letter obtained by The West Australian.
Ms Chaney sensationally backflipped on her support for the ban in June last year — on the eve of the government’s vote to phase out the practice — after first saying she was for it.
Keep the Sheep claims it prompted the change of heart through an avalanche of emails and calls to her office.
Curtin resident and campaign supporter Holly Ludeman said the group was asking supporters to again bombard Ms Chaney.
“We have had a lot of support in Curtin. Kate Chaney has ignored our correspondence,” she said.
“We are prepared to campaign against Kate Chaney if she won’t put on record that she will support a repeal.
“Curtin voters and all West Australians deserve a Member of Parliament that will stand up for their jobs against the tide of activism from the East. At this point, we’re not sure Kate Chaney will.”
Supporters are already campaigning in marginal city seats ahead of an election due by May 17, and have vowed to bring Perth traffic to a standstill with
She’ll lie.
Commies always do.
Stop “threatening” and just do it.
She’s a stupid communist hippie bastard, as if that isn’t obvious enough.
There are reports that a group called Dogequest has published online the details of every Tesla car owner across the USA with addresses.
?I never thought ACW 2.0 would begin like this.
Sorry, duplicate comment.
So, just in the last few weeks the Abalone saw fit to appear on a podcast run by a notorious Jew hater by the name of ‘Scabbie Vomitfield’. Scabbie doesn’t hide her hatred of Jews, in fact she’s proud of her hatred. Are we surprised by this meeting of two great minds (sarcasm)? Birds of a feather always flock together, particularly Jew hating birds of a feather! Another notorious and very grotesque podcaster by the name of Jordan Shanks-Markovina (don’t you just love the double barrelled name) aka ‘friendlyjordies’ also doesn’t hide his far-left Jew hatred but that hasn’t stopped various leftist politicians and commentators from appearing on his podcast.
Despite appearing on such dubious fringe podcasts and giving legitimacy to these Jew haters, Abalone, Plibbers, Rudd and others have never faced any censure for this. This is in stark contrast to politicians and commentators from the right, who have been routinely censured, silenced and cancelled for saying words or associating or appearing on anything mildly ‘controversial’. Remember how Fraser Anning was treated?
I write this because this morning in the Oz I read this….
Student guild apologises over ‘anti-Semitic’ front page
A satirical student newspaper that was described by prominent members of Anthony Albanese’s government as “funny” and “hysterical” has apologised for a front-page cartoon that Jewish leaders said perpetuated anti-Semitic tropes.
The University of Western Australia Student Guild’s annual Prosh newspaper, which has long had a reputation for crude undergraduate humour, published on its front page a cartoon of Elon Musk bending Donald Trump over a desk while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, depicted with glowing red eyes, watches on. The cartoon is headlined, “Lobbied up the a$$”.
The latest release of the paper was featured on the social media pages of federal Labor MPs Patrick Gorman, the minister assisting the Prime Minister and whose electorate of Perth takes in the orthodox Jewish Carmel School and the Holocaust Institute of WA and President of the Senate Sue Lines. Mr Gorman captioned a photograph of him and the paper with “Sometimes funny. Always for charity” while Senator Lines posted a photograph of her and several Prosh vendors in which she described the newspaper as “hysterical”.
But the Student Guild late on Wednesday issued an apology over the cartoon, saying it strongly opposed any degree of racism, intolerance and anti-Semitism.
“The cover illustration was intended as a satirical political caricature reflecting current American geopolitical issues, rather than a targeted commentary on any specific community,” guild president Nikhita Talluri said in a statement. “We regret that it has been interpreted otherwise and acknowledge the discomfort it may have caused.”
She noted that the newspaper had been reviewed by defamation lawyers and various guild departments including those representing diverse cultural and religious backgrounds, while several Jewish students had been part of the editorial process. “Nevertheless, we recognise that some readers found elements of the cover objectionable. We apologise to those who felt uncomfortable or offended,” she said.
One Jewish student from UWA, who did not want to be named, described the front page as “deeply unsettling”.
She said Jewish students already felt threatened and excluded on university campuses.
“By painting it in a satirical nature, it creates an environment where anti-Semitism is tolerated, if not encouraged,” she said.
“As a Jewish student at UWA, this makes me deeply concerned about what comes next if this behaviour continues to be normalised.”
Alex Ryvchin, the co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said the front page featured multiple anti-Semitic tropes.
“It depicts the Prime Minister of the Jewish state as some hypnotic, demonic force. It plays on the theme of Jews and money and of Jews exercising undue power and controlling governments,” he said.
“What is most concerning is that it was allowed to be distributed throughout the city without the illustrator, editor, publisher or university seeing anything wrong with it.
“Even two federal politicians who have had some engagement with the Jewish community and the issue of anti-Semitism didn’t think it was problematic.”
Prosh has been published annually by the UWA Student Guild since 1931, with all proceeds from the paper distributed to charity.
This year’s beneficiaries were The Essentials Collective, which distributes basic toiletries and other essential items to people in need, and men’s mental health and wellbeing charity Man Up WA.
A spokeswoman for Mr Gorman noted he had for many years been a supporter of the newspaper’s fundraising efforts.
“The Member for Perth has long supported this student-led satirical paper because all funds go to charity,” she said.
“That in no way means he supports every word or image within the pages of this publication.”
A spokeswoman for UWA said any views expressed in Prosh did not represent those of the university.
I think both Gorman and Lines should be censured for their endorsement of this crude Jew hating caricature. Jew hatred is now becoming quite mainstream on the left. And one must ask, where are the Liberals pursuing this? Oh that’s right, the pussy cat Liberals couldn’t fight their way out of a cat litter.
Prosh is still a thing?
Rabz the universities.
I would allow it to remain.
Then next week, do a similar cover but with Islamic and Palestinian leaders.
Stand back. See what happens.
Abalone, Burqa and the Nosferatu Nurses.
Whilst being watched by hooded, beardo’s.
Could even include “Place them as you like”.
Also, Minn-some “hanging”, around in a Gimp suit.
And they wonder why US tariffs are not being waived. Politicians used to have enough sense not to make things difficult for themselves. We are getting barrel scrapings as sitting MPs and candidates.
And his subterranean ratings more easily hidden.
With the entire cost compulsorily billed to one Waffles Turnbuckle Esq* of Point Piper.
*”The gliberal pardee is no longer bound by the laws of physics.”
He can pay for the French sub disaster, too.
Will need every dollar from his son’s “merchant banking” operation in Singapore.
This will send Obama judges into a frenzy.
Trump to sign order to shut down Department of Education, White House says (20 Mar)
Given that many US kids can barely read or do arithmetic after “graduating” highschool this is an improvement. At least the red states will be able to educate their kids without the dead hand of the Left interfering.
@DailyCaller
BREAKING: Three of four alleged Tesla facility and charger vandals appear to identify as transgender or nonbinary.
The alleged perpetrators of different Tesla properties all identify as transgender, cross dress or go by ‘she/they’ pronouns.
Whats the bet all of them are working at “notforprofits” or on some form of disability pension?
What’s the bet they’re as nutty as fruitcakes into the bargain?
If he accomplishes this it would truly be a huge achievement.
@GuntherEagleman
HUGE win for the children!
President Donald Trump is signing an EO Thursday directing the closure of the Department of Education
– USA Today
Air stories.
The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it (18 Mar, via Instapundit)
Last Battle of Britain Pilot John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway Dies Aged 105 Years (18 Mar)
Vale Group Captain Hemmingway DFC. We won’t forget the few.
Nice story about the P-51 but the escorts could have been provided by P-38s and or P-47s with drop tanks even earlier. See a recent Greg’s Airplanes and Automobiles.
P-51 Mustang’s Switch to the British designed RR Merlin Engine made it the World-beater of World War II
https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/p-51-mustangs-switch-to-merlin-engine-made-it-the-world-beater-of-world-war-ii/
Packard Merlins in particular.
The RR built ones were hand fettled by blokes in flat caps with poor orthodonture. Whereas Packard with their weird obsession for mass production and parts interchangeablity made cheaper, more easily serviced and repaired engines.
Well the Spitfires and Lancaster Bombers and Mosquitoes did alright with those flat cap people that apparently didn’t know what they were doing/
The Germans knew this and then in the end put their hands up.
Thank you, BofN. I’ve read a bit about Major Howard – and despite some searching, have never before come across a clear rationale for his Medal of Honor.
(his demise is both tragic and of particular interest to pilots, being caused by a minor error of which we should all be mindful.)
He has a wiki, and lived to be 81. You may be thinking of a different James Howard. The citation for the MoH is included in the wiki.
People keep bringing up MAFS. What is it?
It’s a distracting entertainment where co-dependent narcissists bring out the worst in one another.
(meaningful pause)
Oh, it’s Married At First Sight. Why are people talking about it?
A Shit Show.
Oh no.
How sad
very sad
extremely sad
puppies in the blender sad.
Arky falling into the dolphin enclosure at seaworld sad..
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/greenpeace-lawsuit-energy-transfer-dakota-pipeline
Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
….
The nine-person jury in Mandan, North Dakota, found in favor of Energy Transfer on most counts after more than two days of deliberations. It awarded Energy Transfer at least $660m, according to calculations from Greenpeace.
The environmental group, which had expressed concerns before the trial about getting a fair hearing in oil and gas country, said that a loss and an enormous financial award could bankrupt their US operation. Energy Transfer sued three Greenpeace entities, claiming that they are a single organization rather than independent members of the Greenpeace network.
?
A litle Amy will fix it.
Now they must know how Donald Trump feels.
Honestly, how many actual democracies are there left in the world?
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu arrested by Turkish authorities days before launching presidential bid
Turkey has been a dictatorship since Erdogan came to power. If Turks want democracy they will have to wait until he dies. Erdogan is embedded in like Stalin had been.
This certainly isn’t one.
Romanian election bureau rules opposition to EU and NATO membership is anti-constitutional
How much was the panel paid by the EU?
Ron DeSantis Proposes Solution to Stop the ‘Sabotaging of President Trump’s Agenda’ by Federal Judges
Does it involve helicopters?
Hillary has reached the pinnacle of projection.
Hillary Clinton: Trump administration ‘has thrown in its lot with the autocrats’
I thought autocrats were her mob.
Zelensky Has Already Broken Trump-Putin Energy Infrastructure Ceasefire Deal: Moscow.
Zelensky should know what to do, refute it if he wants to be taken seriously again.
Indigenous communities get direct funding from scrapped Path to TreatyMackenzie Scott
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Three Indigenous communities in Queensland will receive $19m in government grants to deliver water and education infrastructure projects from funding initially pledged by the former Labor government to the state’s scrapped Path to Treaty process.
The Liberal National Party’s Close The Gap Priorities Fund will provide $8m each to the Cape York peninsula communities of Aurukun and Kowanyama to improve water supply and $3m to build new education spaces at the local state school at Cherbourg, about three hours’ drive north-west of Brisbane.
One of the first moves of the Crisafulli government was to repeal the state’s Path to Treaty legislation, designed to enables separate treaty deals with up to 150 First Nation groups across the state and could have led to reparations and law reforms. The axing also put an abrupt end to the royal commission style Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry, which was designed to create a “true record” of the state’s Indigenous history through the collection of oral histories and historical documents from church-run institutions and government departments.
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
How bad is the new snow white and the 7 thingumybobs?
This bad.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/19/snow-white-review-live-action-musical-rachel-zegler-gal-gadot
Snow White review – Disney’s exhaustingly awful reboot axes the prince and makes the dwarves mo-capONE STAR
With tiresome pseudo-progressive additions that tie the whole thing in knots, this is a waste of estimable entertainers like Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot
….
There are some changes: the hero is no longer a prince, but a more democratic citizen who leads a Robin Hood type insurgency from the forest against the witch’s tyranny with SW joining in on a Maid Marian basis. But he still gets to do the controversial non-consent kiss once our heroine has gone into her picturesque coma. But the dwarves? Will this film make them look sort of like everyone else, like the Munchkins in Wicked? No. This Snow White feebly makes them mo-cap animated figures, but it also – heartsinkingly – duplicates their presence by giving the prince his own gang of seven live-action bandits, in which people with dwarfism are represented. This fudged, pseudo-progressive approach is so tiring you’ll want to put your head in your hands.
When you make a movie too woke for the gruinaid…
How dare people impugn the reputation of quality* social experiments**
like MAFS.
That they can match such lonely*** kind souls**** to one another***** should fill yout hearts with hope******
*Everything has a quality. Some more malodourous than others.
** Bear baiting just needs to rebrand as a “social experiment” and its back on prime time!
*** – All that mirror time means they dont get to meet anyone else
**** Arse-souls
***** With gaffa tape if necessary
****** The last evil let out from Pandoras box – hope.
MAFS is us. We are MAFS.
One great pleasure in watching MAFS is, after my wine-and-cheese Karens have finished unloading on me about car crash tv, skinny b*tch botox bimbos, gormless Peter Pan chauvinist manchilds and manipulative “relationship experts” and the terrible, TERRIBLE example it sets for our impressionable kids… I just meekly say “yep well, i just suppose we can be thankful that our girls don’t have to suffer proper serious arranged marriages, like in our multicultural communities…”
Regarding MAFS, after a lifetime of sneering at Margaret Pomerance (Margaret and David) I was stunned when she produced this genius takedown of MAFS. Inciteful, viscious, crude, and hilarious.
You will never again be able to watch MAFS without Margaret whispering in your ear.
I sent her a note of thanks.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ERmPxkrXk/?mibextid=NnVzG8
What a way with words!
If only she had used her talents more consistently for good.
She’s a ripper. She was aways on my dream house guest list.
Maybe she was always a bit too a-flutter over anything transgressive- thought I note she would never go so far as to give an oscar to last year’s much feted 2-D pa*do fantasy Poor Things- but I give her huge credit for being aware of enjoying guilty pleasures and respecting mass entertainment when Stratton would poo-pooh the like.
That was brilliant.
The Mocker’s post is forthcoming.
Bowen gives mockers soooo much material to work with.
Enjoy.
The Frank Spencer of federal cabinet does it again with his ‘better deal’ on power prices
THE Mocker
It was bad news for Australians already doing it tough, but last week’s announcement that electricity prices will rise as much as 9 per cent by July was not unexpected.
To top it off, the minister responsible for our energy needs has a well-deserved reputation for incompetence, having ensured administrative and economic bedlam in every portfolio he has held.
I am of course referring to Energy Minister Chris Bowen, who in 2021 promised that his plans to replace coal-fired power plants with a swath of solar panels and wind turbines would, by 2025, lower the average annual household power bill by $275.
It was a figure taken straight from Bowen’s abacus, so to speak. Instead of a $275 reduction, Australians will pay up to $1300 more than the figure promised. As enormous as that revised total cost is, it is nothing compared to the untold billions in taxpayer dollars that Bowen pours into the renewables money pit.
But take heart, for Bowen has a plan B. Struggling energy consumers, he volunteered, should “shop around for a better deal”.
It is one thing for Bowen to screw the power pooch, but it is next level for him to still believe that Australians value his advice about reducing power bills. On that note, minister, perhaps you could let us know which energy retailers are selling at the rate you promised in 2021. I’ll wait.
Bowen has built a career on enacting policies to reduce the cost of living, and always to the detriment of the public purse. As consumer affairs minister in the Rudd government, he promised Grocery Choice and FuelWatch would promote competition.
“Under FuelWatch, the days of motorists driving past a petrol station in the morning only to return in the afternoon to find a 10 cent per litre jump in the price of petrol will be over,” he proclaimed in 2008.
Humiliatingly for Bowen, a public service leak revealed multiple government departments opposed his policy, saying if anything it would increase fuel prices. FuelWatch did not get past the Senate.
As for Grocery Choice, Bowen declared it would “concentrate the minds” of retailers when they decided their prices. The only mind it did concentrate was that of his successor, Craig Emerson. It concentrated his mind so much he killed it off days after assuming his new portfolio in 2009.
But regarding Bowen’s recent suggestion to shop around, I could not agree more. Wanted: energy minister for immediate start. Unlike incumbent, must not suffer from chronic obtuseness, numeric illiteracy, or nuclear phobia. Applicants should specify, in 25 words or less, what is the greatest impediment to Australia’s energy security (aside from the gibbering political spiv with the high-viz vest and helmet).
Such is the arrogance of this ministerial clodhopper he refused last week even to concede he had failed to deliver his promised $275 reduction. To boot he repeated his false claim that “every bit of renewable energy you introduce puts downward pressure on prices”.
Has he not heard of the Australian Energy Regulator, which in approving the recent price rises said the decision was in part due to “low solar and wind output that drove high-price events”?
If mistruths were an energy source, Bowen could light up the entire Southern Hemisphere like a supernova. Writing on Wednesday about managing Australia’s energy needs, he insisted “at each point we’ve been honest with Australians and fought to get all bill payers a better deal”. This borders on confabulation.
As Bowen proved in 2019, he need only open his mouth to send swing voters the Coalition’s way. Nevertheless, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is unlikely to sack his bumbling minister, because he too is compromised. Asked in 2021 how Labor would deliver on its $275 reduction promise, Albanese had his ‘Peace for our time’ moment.
“Well, I don’t think – I know,” he said, waving a booklet prop and revealing more about himself than he intended. “I know because we have done the modelling.”
Even if Albanese were to dismiss Bowen, no-one in their right mind would want to succeed him. The government’s policy of demonising coal-fired power and replacing it with renewables was a political measure. It was a desperate ploy to retain the bien pensant vote and buy Labor time to consolidate. Its designers knew it would eventually implode, hence spruiking these policies was always going to be a job for a political chump.
Being the Frank Spencer of cabinet, Bowen has all the experience required for that role. Some of you will remember that name from the 1970s BBC sitcom Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, starring Michael Crawford as a well-meaning but spectacularly useless fellow who caused chaos wherever he went.
One episode in particular resonates. Depressed at being sacked yet again, Spencer is referred to a psychiatrist, an upbeat man determined to reverse his patient’s failures and instil self-confidence in him.
But by the end of the session, and having interrogated Spencer at length, the psychiatrist is a shattered man.
“You were right, and I was wrong, Mr Spencer,” he says wearily. “You – are a failure.”
Whereupon Spencer leaps to his feet, delighted his belief has been validated. “I’m a failure,” he says with a smile as he strolls down the street. If only Bowen would have a similar epiphany.
Admittedly the analogy is not perfect. Although Spencer’s appearances inevitably resulted in disaster, they took place in a contained environment where he worked in low-level jobs.
It was not as if he was his country’s energy minister. In that case it would not be a comedy. It would be a television drama of a first-world country’s transformation into an energy dystopia.
You know, just like the one we are heading to under Bowen.
Uh oh, the article has gone into moderation.
If you paste OZ articles in any format other than “plain text”, they’ll go straight into moderation.
Hmmmmm. I thought that two embedded links would be OK. Also, whilst I can post articles as plain text when on my Mac, I can’t see how to do that on my iPad.
Polls and different results depends what and whom you ask. Bookies usually get it right Believe $1 plus for LNP to $2 plus for Liebor.
mØnty, is that you?
WHY?
What did any of us EVER do to you?
This is why I always carry Dettol wipes in my massive, scone cracking handbag.
Only ever anticipating sneezes and food smears though. I might have to include disposable gloves in future.
I carry disposable gloves and a small rubbish bag !!!!!!!! Plus toilet rolls in the car !!!!!! All ‘cos of Covid !!
Dutton:
and now
Dutton backs aid, cash but not troops for Ukraine
The Oz
Dr Mutton:
Freedom of speech – FAIL
Net zero and climate alarmism – FAIL
“der Stürmer is a great leader” – FAIL
“I won’t jobsack karen imam-grant” – FAIL
and now
Ukraine – FAIL
The man is a staggeringly unfunny joke.
Cat comment formatting – FAIL
That’s Karen Inman Goebbels, Rabz
Looks more like Fraser every day. The Voice was an omen.
Do any Cats or Kittehs need a Kidney?
The Plumber has just left after five hours clearing major blockages and installing a new pump. sigh…
How about a liver? I could do with a spare.
Cats have 9 livers.
h/t Larson
My liver is full of holes. 😀
I like liver and bacon and a steak and kidney pie.
As recommended by the Sweeny Todd Pie Company.
Start taking St Mary’s Thistle and artichoke complex. Suisse Liver Tonic, or similar. Brought me back, even my gastroenterologist is impressed.
Reading “Countdown 1945” by Chris Wallace – the 116 days up to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Paul Tibbets, who commanded the mission on Hiroshima, remained in the United States Air Force after the war. He served as commander of two Strategic Air Command bomber wings, before retiring in 1966. He died, in 2007, at age 92.
He asked for no funeral or headstone, fearing opponents of the bombing would use it as a place of protest. His body was cremated, and his ashes scattered over the English Channel, where he had flown so many wartime missions.
Latest Unofficial History of the Pacific War episode is about both missions to Hiroshima & Nagasaki ( if you want good arguments to justify the decision to use the bomb , see the previous week’s episode).
Tibbetts mission was near perfection itself with the bomb exploding about 100m from the aim point. The kindest thing that can be said about the Nagasaki mission is that it was a fustercluck.
Why?
It hit Japan, didn’t it?
Nagasaki wasn’t the primary, they had to switch to their secondary target, Nagasaki.
Also weather was still a bit off.
Just watched Laura Ingraham doing an oval office tour with Trump.
He’s had the Declaration of Independence hung in there – curtained to protect it from light when not being viewed.
He’s also has had some angels brought up from Florida.
Labor would be pressured to spend more than $12bn to plug the gap in accommodation for the homeless under a power-sharing agreement with the Greens, in a move the minor party says is required to solve a problem that has become “a national disgrace”.
As part of Adam Bandt’s “Robin Hood tax”, which would seek to impose 40 per cent tax on company profits over $100m, the Greens on Thursday will announce a $5.2n plan to provide 50,000 ongoing supportive tenancies over the next four years.
The policy would also double commonwealth funding to states and territories for homelessness services, at a cost of $7.5bn over the first four years, and ensure that those placed in housing were given support for their physical and mental health and were connected with employment opportunities.
The model copies a similar policy in Finland known as “Housing First”, which does not require someone who is homeless to first get their lives back on track before being given a supported tenancy.
“The Housing First model … has virtually eliminated chronic homelessness in Finland and is working successfully in Australia in projects like Common Ground,” Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather said.
A hung Parliament, with the Greens holding the balance of power……
Sounds a bit like the rousingly successful remote area indigenous housing program.
Such a comparison had suggested itself, yes.
What a waste of money. The ‘farkers’ would just trash the places just like the ‘Abos’. And take the copper and other stuff with them.
So, put losers into a house and give them money forever. That sounds like a plan.
On the netflix series people seem to love saying is so real and authentic.
Adolescense.
https://x.com/HoneyBadgerBite/status/1902386828830810604/photo/1
They made the meme real- again.
(97) I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It – YouTube
I’m enraged. Really enraged that such propaganda is shown.
Yep.
White teenage boys are not the ones going around stabbing young girls to death in Britain.
This is particularly egregious as it is based on a true case, but the black killer has become white.
The reverse would never happen.
Great painting.
Chris Smith under attack by a series of pro palli callers.
List of some trannies and their criminal offences:
(16) TheTexasOne on X: “Police arrested suspect outside CIA Headquarters. Y’all thinking what I’m thinking? https://t.co/qzZZCCzkW1” / X
Freaks.
Easily manipulated freaks. With a body full of hormones that didn’t happen naturally and they’re going to show everyone how they feel about life.
Mak Siccar
March 20, 2025 12:17 pm
The Mocker’s post is forthcoming.
Here you go Mak:
The Frank Spencer of federal cabinet does it again with his ‘better deal’ on power prices
?The Mocker
3 hours ago.Updated 1 hours ago
It was bad news for Australians already doing it tough, but last week’s announcement that electricity prices will rise as much as 9 per cent by July was not unexpected.
To top it off, the minister responsible for our energy needs has a well-deserved reputation for incompetence, having ensured administrative and economic bedlam in every portfolio he has held.
I am of course referring to Energy Minister Chris Bowen, who in 2021 promised that his plans to replace coal-fired power plants with a swath of solar panels and wind turbines would, by 2025, lower the average annual household power bill by $275.
It was a figure taken straight from Bowen’s abacus, so to speak. Instead of a $275 reduction, Australians will pay up to $1300 more than the figure promised. As enormous as that revised total cost is, it is nothing compared to the untold billions in taxpayer dollars that Bowen pours into the renewables money pit.
But take heart, for Bowen has a plan B. Struggling energy consumers, he volunteered, should “shop around for a better deal”.
It is one thing for Bowen to screw the power pooch, but it is next level for him to still believe that Australians value his advice about reducing power bills. On that note, minister, perhaps you could let us know which energy retailers are selling at the rate you promised in 2021. I’ll wait.
Bowen has built a career on enacting policies to reduce the cost of living, and always to the detriment of the public purse. As consumer affairs minister in the Rudd government, he promised Grocery Choice and FuelWatch would promote competition.
“Under FuelWatch, the days of motorists driving past a petrol station in the morning only to return in the afternoon to find a 10 cent per litre jump in the price of petrol will be over,” he proclaimed in 2008.
Humiliatingly for Bowen, a public service leak revealed multiple government departments opposed his policy, saying if anything it would increase fuel prices. FuelWatch did not get past the Senate.
As for Grocery Choice, Bowen declared it would “concentrate the minds” of retailers when they decided their prices. The only mind it did concentrate was that of his successor, Craig Emerson. It concentrated his mind so much he killed it off days after assuming his new portfolio in 2009.
But regarding Bowen’s recent suggestion to shop around, I could not agree more. Wanted: energy minister for immediate start. Unlike incumbent, must not suffer from chronic obtuseness, numeric illiteracy, or nuclear phobia. Applicants should specify, in 25 words or less, what is the greatest impediment to Australia’s energy security (aside from the gibbering political spiv with the high-viz vest and helmet).
Such is the arrogance of this ministerial clodhopper he refused last week even to concede he had failed to deliver his promised $275 reduction. To boot he repeated his false claim that “every bit of renewable energy you introduce puts downward pressure on prices”.
Has he not heard of the Australian Energy Regulator, which in approving the recent price rises said the decision was in part due to “low solar and wind output that drove high-price events”?
If mistruths were an energy source, Bowen could light up the entire Southern Hemisphere like a supernova. Writing on Wednesday about managing Australia’s energy needs, he insisted “at each point we’ve been honest with Australians and fought to get all bill payers a better deal”. This borders on confabulation.
As Bowen proved in 2019, he need only open his mouth to send swing voters the Coalition’s way. Nevertheless, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is unlikely to sack his bumbling minister, because he too is compromised. Asked in 2021 how Labor would deliver on its $275 reduction promise, Albanese had his ‘Peace for our time’ moment.
“Well, I don’t think – I know,” he said, waving a booklet prop and revealing more about himself than he intended. “I know because we have done the modelling.”
Even if Albanese were to dismiss Bowen, no-one in their right mind would want to succeed him. The government’s policy of demonising coal-fired power and replacing it with renewables was a political measure. It was a desperate ploy to retain the bien pensant vote and buy Labor time to consolidate. Its designers knew it would eventually implode, hence spruiking these policies was always going to be a job for a political chump.
Being the Frank Spencer of cabinet, Bowen has all the experience required for that role. Some of you will remember that name from the 1970s BBC sitcom Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, starring Michael Crawford as a well-meaning but spectacularly useless fellow who caused chaos wherever he went.
One episode in particular resonates. Depressed at being sacked yet again, Spencer is referred to a psychiatrist, an upbeat man determined to reverse his patient’s failures and instil self-confidence in him.
But by the end of the session, and having interrogated Spencer at length, the psychiatrist is a shattered man.
“You were right, and I was wrong, Mr Spencer,” he says wearily. “You – are a failure.”
Whereupon Spencer leaps to his feet, delighted his belief has been validated. “I’m a failure,” he says with a smile as he strolls down the street. If only Bowen would have a similar epiphany.
Admittedly the analogy is not perfect. Although Spencer’s appearances inevitably resulted in disaster, they took place in a contained environment where he worked in low-level jobs.
It was not as if he was his country’s energy minister. In that case it would not be a comedy. It would be a television drama of a first-world country’s transformation into an energy dystopia.
You know, just like the one we are heading to under Bowen.
The Mocker
The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour. Believing that journalism is dominated by idealists and activists, he likes to provide a realist’s perspective of politics and current affairs.
Just had a look at Carsales for to see what the Patrol would be worth.
The old one has actually appreciated in price!
Hello Betty……..Hmmmmmmmmm. Oh Frank…………..
LOL, he’s really doing it. Tomorrow too. Technically, he’s not closing it down, he’s “shuttering” it.
Sundance delves into Boasberg. Be interesting to see which way the congress critter break if impeachment is considered:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/19/more-background-on-judge-james-boasberg-the-fight-continues/#more-270244
Great article.
I’m beginning to think that President Trumps only way to deal with this is the helicopter option.
FBI agent who accused Trump administration of political bias charged with unlawful disclosures
Accusing a government of any persuasion of “political bias” is like accusing the Pope of being a Catholic.
Enormous Cache of Rare Earth Elements Hidden Inside Coal Ash Waste
@LizaRosen0000
Watch: A fearless Canadian woman has had enough of Toronto’s creeping Islamisation! She boldly interrupted a public Muslim prayer where pro-Palestinian Muslim supremacists blocked an entire area—not because they lacked mosques (there are dozens nearby), but to assert dominance in public space.
Do you stand with her against this blatant takeover of public spaces?
Damn Straight! Next time it happens, get a frisbee and your (black) dog and throw the frisbee over their heads to interrupt them.
There are multiple other ways to disrupt this fascist islamic practise. Note they don’t do this in their own countries – it’s just not tolerated.
Where is that jerk Mayor Ford now? He threatens Americans, let him face this mob that blocks the streets of his town while wearing face masks.
What happened to my comment?
Don’t bother rinsing them. Just scoff them down and don’t worry about the pesticides.
I guess they have no choice having to go hydroponic seeing 30% of farmland has been poisoned.
Also, don’t worry about the “purified” night soil used for fertiliser.
You can always to go to Fat Pizza and scoff them down.
The seethe in the comments. If this were any Western country there would be no, “Oh the pesticides”, “Oh the night soil”, but “Oh, that looks nice”.
That’s because western agriculture is highly regulated, so no night soil flavouring.
I doubt those strawberries are relying on night soil.
Exactly right.
Western Ag can’t so much as fart (at least their cows can’t) without some regulator being all over them.
You can bet the Chinah strawberry growers will have “most favoured farmer status” from the party, so scrutiny would be non-existent.
Ahaha, centre right complaining about under-regulation.
There’s no seething. It’s hygienic to rinse stuff before one eats it. You have 1.4 billion of these fckers who would basically dump a full throat of spit right next to you, so you’re right. I couldn’t imagine them being concerned with scoffing down unwashed berries.
It actually looks really freaking gay. No Westerner would even consider fronting up to such a contrived bullshit place. The only reason why they would do that is most of them would never have seen anything other than concrete, and poorly laid too.
@TonySeruga
The relationship between Chris Christie, Christopher Wray and James Comey and how they illegally attempted to take down a sitting President in a very coordinated effort working with foreign intelligence agents will become relevant very soon.
Trump takes ‘nuclear option’ at southern border to solve America’s migrant crisis once and for all
That’s disappointing. I clicked on the link expecting some mushroom clouds.
Syria: Over 7,000 Christians and Alawites Massacred by New Jihadi Terrorist Regime
Crickets from our ‘ooman rites hysterics.
Sen. John Kennedy is undoubtedly my favourite politician.
Kennedy: Loon wing of Democratic Party is deeply weird
‘Shocking’ details emerge about the CIA in newly released JFK files
I find the opinion of the “expert markswoman” who stood in the window of the Texas Schoolbook Depository”, and claims Oswald couldn’t have fired those three shots, the most interesting.
I have stood at that window – it is part of what is now a museum. I believe it would have been near impossible to fire the shots from there. The angle is too steep.
I’ve stood there too and considered it perfectly possible with a long arm.
Also stood on the “x” and looked up at the window.
My view is that the bugger did it. Who were his handlers?
me too- good fun tbh
I believe Carlos Hathcock said he didn’t believe he could have made the shot himself
https://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?50970-Kennedy-assassination-Gunny-Hathcock-s-take
Retired Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock is likewise skeptical of Oswald’s alleged shooting feat. Hathcock is a former senior instructor at the U. S. Marine Corps Sniper Instruction School at Quantico, Virginia. He has been described as the most famous American military sniper in history. In Vietnam he was credited with 93 confirmed kills. He now conducts police SWAT team sniper schools across the country. Craig Roberts asked Hathcock about the marksmanship feat attributed to Oswald by the Warren Commission. Hathcock answered that he did not believe Oswald could have done what the Commission said he did. Added Hathcock:
“Let me tell you what we did at Quantico. We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don’t know how many times we tried it, but we couldn’t duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did”. (KILL ZONE, pp. 89-90).
My husband who is somewhat of an expert in firearms has always said that he doubts that Oswald could have pulled off those shots with the gun he was using.
Perfectly possible with a bolt action rifle.
I have stood at the window and saw JFK would have motored up; almost halted to go round the 90 degree corner, and then motored away from the window. It would give any rifleman an easy eight seconds or so before he passed under the bridge to his front.
William Manchester wrote one of three classic works on the Kennedy assassination. He had served in the United States Marine Corps – as had Oswald – and was classified to the same level as Oswald on the M-1 rifle. His opinion was that Oswald couldn’t have missed. To the armchair commandos , who pointed out that Oswald had been classified as an “average shot” by the Marines, Manchester replied that that still made him a far more skilled rifleman then your average civilian.
It is a sash window. This is evident still in the museum pics. You cannot get near it now, protected by glass barriers, but I did in 1992. You could only fire a gun from there with the windows wide open, which means you have an opening at the top or bottom (try it with your sash windows). There is no evidence that Oswald tried to fire through the top half – he would have had to be standing on a platform of about 4 feet. If you try to fire through the bottom half then your angle is severely restricted by the windows.
When I tried it, standing at the very spot with the same windows, I could not physically aim my imaginary gun at the x marking the first shot impact on Elm Street, because I could not raise the angle of my gun above the barrier of the windows.
I know that Bolt is almost persona non grata here but his guest in this clip, Rowan Dean, is well worth hearing.
‘Abandoned net zero’: The clean energy crusade disaster
Chilling step-by-step ‘manual’ for anti-Israel radicals to sow violent chaos is circulated among Columbia students
Dr. Bhattacharya has cleared the Committee (along party lines) and now goes to the final step of a full Senate vote.
Fauci Destroyed His Life For Telling the Truth – Now He’s Director of the NIH
This is Sky News.
Tim Walz’ slammed for ‘tragic attempt’ to look masculine
I wasn’t going to post this but it’s so relevant to this I can’t resist –
@catturd2
Does Tampon Tim know that no matter how tough he acts on stage – this is what it looks like in reality?
Absolutely perfect.
I wish you hadn’t.
I’m gonna have nightmares.
Elon Musk WINS, X Now Valued At $44 BILLION Proving Libs WRONG, Free Speech PAYS And WOKE IS BROKE
Large protests in Turkey. I will lmao if Erdogan is toppled. It will be cherry on top if Assad calls from Moscow and tells him, in the final hour: I just wanted you to know it was me.
Oh! With you 100% (as the kids say) !!!!
One can hope. Problem is the secular Turks of the Ataturk variety are now outnumbered by the rural more religious demographics.
Could definitely be another problem for Europe though if Erdogan is deposed and something worse is installed.
I’m reading that too. Turkish troops being withdrawn from Syria? Erdogan’s palace might be coming back to bite him. Still no good if he’s replaced by bigger Islamists.
https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1902490644846662122?t=uzfWx2TA4PVewmbGKmiUqw&s=19
Erdogan has been stacking the military with his guys for at least 20 years via the Ergenekon purges.
They have the third largest military on Earth, and he controls it very solidly. I wouldn’t weep into my tea if he was overthrown, but I think it unlikely.
Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Lied. Now, America Pays.
Incredibly sad.
I have gone through three family sized boxes of tissues today just thinking about it.
(Tissues made from sustainable sources, I might add).
The timing couldn’t be worse, just when all those rivers of luverly freshly laundered US government cash are drying up.
Interesting that they sued the three entities jointly and succeeded.
I’ll bet the “operational wing” which organised the vandalism, destruction and obstruction held no assets and only day-to-day cash, whilst the fund raising wing held all the assets, but would claim they were unrelated to the criminal wing.
Yep.
That’s the usual way it’s done.
It’s happening. B A Z
In fairness, there was no way Mettam could have survived Saturday. One hesitates to call the WA Lieborals hitting rock bottom.
Some rain over here would be nice. Not getting it anytime soon.
WeatherWatchTV:
Aussie 7 Day: WA Cyclone risk, showers &/or dry elsewhere
Just had over the week close to another half metre. It’s not over yet as monsoon is around again.
Total rainfall since 01 Jan has been around 1700mm, we normally get 1100mm per annum.
I’d be happy to send some if I could.
And that rain……………….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMJFWiZ-bOc
Regarding the “impossible shot” for Oswald to knock JFK from the Book Suppository building.
Firstly, there was a doco made about twenty years ago which set up the same scenario (off site, of course) and a reasonably proficient marksman hit the target enough times to prove it was not just possible, but reasonably easy.
The car was moving slightly downhill and almost directly in line with the Book Suppository building, so the target was barely moving in Oswald’s field of view.
One of the more ridiculous OMG! moments in the doco was when a conspiracy theorist looked out the window and claimed that there was a tree directly in the line of sight.
Except that he had to eat a huge chunk of humble pie when it was pointed out that:-
(a) it was summer with the trees in full foliage, whereas at the time of the shooting in November the trees would be bare; and
(b) in 1963 those trees were saplings.
Confirmation bias runs riot.
Been to the Texas Book Depository and looking from the exact spot on the 6th floor I thought what an easy shot it was for Oswald and closer than I thought. Big X On the road now where the assassination took place.
Everyone loves a good conspiracy! Don’t rain on their parade!
Hi Calli. Oswald used a 6.5 mm cacano Italian military rifle known for its poor quality and lack of accuracy and lack of range. But as you stood at the window and considered the shot possible with a longarm I’m sure you’ve taken that into account.
Not at all, Howie.
As I stood at the window I considered how bloody close the target was. 🙂
https://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?50970-Kennedy-assassination-Gunny-Hathcock-s-take
Retired Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock is likewise skeptical of Oswald’s alleged shooting feat. Hathcock is a former senior instructor at the U. S. Marine Corps Sniper Instruction School at Quantico, Virginia. He has been described as the most famous American military sniper in history. In Vietnam he was credited with 93 confirmed kills. He now conducts police SWAT team sniper schools across the country. Craig Roberts asked Hathcock about the marksmanship feat attributed to Oswald by the Warren Commission. Hathcock answered that he did not believe Oswald could have done what the Commission said he did. Added Hathcock:
“Let me tell you what we did at Quantico. We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don’t know how many times we tried it, but we couldn’t duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did”. (KILL ZONE, pp. 89-90).
The Duran
Russia advances. Ukraine attacks fall apart
I hope Elizabeth is doing well.
Ditto. I’ve been thinking of her all day. Tough op, but she’s a trouper.
lotocoti
March 20, 2025 12:06 pm
Reply to Johnny Rotten
Packard Merlins in particular.
The RR built ones were hand fettled by blokes in flat caps with poor orthodonture. Whereas Packard with their weird obsession for mass production and parts interchangeablity made cheaper, more easily serviced and repaired engines.
Well the Spitfires and Lancaster Bombers and Mosquitoes did alright with those flat cap people.
The Germans knew this and then in the end they put their hands up.
Well done RR and the Merlin engine. That helped a lot to win WW2.
And well done Mr. Royce and all those Great Engineers and workman (and Women).
The Yanks could never design an engine like the Merlin at the time.
I think the German engineers at Daimler-Benz would have laughed their arses off if they knew how the Poms were making aircraft engines.
Story about Ford at Dagenham early in the war. Rolls called them and asked them if they would look at making Merlins. “Sure send over the drawings.” Three weeks later, “sorry we can’t make stuff like that”. “Tolerances too tight for ya, huh?” “No, we can’t make loose crap like that. ALL our pistons must fit ALL our bores.”
There was also nothing wrong with the Allison V-1720. Originally designed with fighters using it to be turbocharged in mind so not a lot of effort put into the supercharger. P38 had turbos. P-51 didn’t, so didn’t work well at altitude until the Merlin was fitted. The thing that made the Merlin better was the supercharger. P-39 was intended for turbo but the turbo never made it into the production aircraft.
I wonder how it would have gone if the Allison people looked at the Merlin supercharger and re-designed it to be fitted to the V-1720. Might have been easier than fitting Merlins to the P-51.
Didn’t the Merlin have 3x the number of parts. Nightmare to work on.
Fellahs, i know weve finished for the day but theres this left over screw…
Sounds like a load of bollocks to me.
And as Mrs Stencho Panty Hose and the Resident Milk Monitor would say – Citation please.
Otherwise, STFU
The RR built ones were hand fettled by blokes in flat caps with poor orthodonture
Ha!! That describes perfectly my race engineer when I was rallying classic Escorts. A small rumpled englishman with bad teeth who said ‘fook off’ a lot.
He taught me 3 seminal terms for race engineering
1) ‘Fettled’ – this means hit with a hammer to make fit
2) ‘Grollied’ – this means a formerly and necessarily flat surface which is now scratched or dented after being fettled
3) ‘Gobbo’ – this is a smear of silicone sealant used to hide a grollied surface.
Chris Kenny commenting on Albo’s recent blasting of Dutton over Dutton’s attendance at a Sydney fundraiser a few days before non-cyclone Alfred. Albo of course was saying that at the same time, he was out managing an unfolding disaster. Only he wasn’t. Turns out that he also attended a $2,000 a head fundraiser in the same city on the same day. Much hypocrisy here but apart from the AFR and Sky the media are looking the other way. The blood boils.
In the past few days, two recorded calls from “CBA” wanting to discuss a problem with a deposit to my account. Don’t have a CBA account.
Two bullshit emails per day with the last one wanting to return a credit from Origin Energy.
I can’t imagine the billions stolen from unsuspecting older folk. Yes I can. I read in the Economist that half of Cambodia’s GDP is made up of money stolen by fraudulent call centers.
“They All Hate The West” | Konstantin Kisin
Wile E Coyote lives!
Mines Safety Significant Incident Report No. 249 Drill offsider run over by tracked vehicle – WorkSafe – DEMIRS
Poor bugger, there was one like this at Goldfields when I worked there, same thing.
Check out the human shaped mudprint
All he needed was an anvil dropped on his head.
LOL drillers. Take your eyes off them for one minute…
I’ve known of plenty of ingenious easily removed modifications that keep the rods turning when safety switches should have stopped operation. Of course only time I’ve actually seen it is when I’ve surprised the crew.
The shenanigans that happen when I’m not on site I don’t want to know about.
An NDIS fraudster has been jailed after stealing more than $400,000 from clients and going on a wild spending spree, splurging nearly $45,000 on clothes, $17,000 on travel, $3500 on Japanese food and buying a $2000 “BDSM bench”.
Paul Kevan Tilbury, 58, appeared in the District Court on Tuesday, after pleading guilty to 19 counts of deception.
The court heard his greed was motivated by a desire to portray himself as “successful” – often referring to himself as ‘Dr Tilbury’ despite never having such qualifications.
Judge Paul Muscat said Tilbury, founder and CEO of Adelaide NDIS provider People Come First, “shamefully” submitted $404,000 worth of false NDIS claims in an effort to live the “good life” between 2017 and 2019.
“Not only did you deceive the NDIA, but the participants you were supposed to be supporting were – in many cases – not provided the assistance or support they were entitled to,” Judge Muscat said. “You did so for selfish reasons – you shamefully put yourself ahead of your clients.
“Your modus operandi involved in the fraudulent claims included inflating legitimate claims, duplicating legitimate claims, claiming for services not provided and cancelling false claims after the fact when challenged by the participant.”
Tilbury of Woodforde has been banned for life from operating as an NDIS provider.
His spending included $12,700 on tobacconists, $4700 on restaurants, $7000 on booze and $9600 on jewellery.
Last month, Mollie McKendrick, for the prosecution, told the court there had been a lack of insight, remorse and rehabilitation into Tilbury’s offending, which was driven by greed.
James Caldicott, for Tilbury, previously told the court his client was remorseful for his offending, which had “snowballed out of control” after he began “robbing Peter to pay Paul”.
On Tuesday, Judge Muscat said he did not accept Tilbury was trying to keep his business afloat – highlighting the vast “personal expenditure” presented to the court.
That expenditure included a bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism bench used for sexual activity involving physical restraint.
Everything Paul Tilbury bought with stolen NDIS money
$1170 on rental property
$561.83 on gym membership
$5125 on private health insurance
$45,238.57 on clothing
$4618.38 at Flight Centre
$4923.54 on hotel accommodation
$1235.64 at restaurants
$12,785.41 at tobacconists
$9608 on jewellery
$7070.78 on online alcohol purchases
$7479.85 on travel and accommodation
$5500 on bar payments
$3300 on bar instalment
$5478.25 on Foxtel
$3857.50 on flowers
$3541.82 at Japanese restaurant in Melbourne
$2000 on “BDSM bench”
?
Tilbury’s offending, the court heard, left the family of his victims feeling “distrust toward all NDIS providers”.
“They are now sceptical about who they can trust or rely upon to provide the care they are entitled to receive,” Judge Muscat said.
“Somewhat ironically, you have recently applied for an NDIS package as a result of your physical and mental health disorders.”
Judge Muscat sentenced Tilbury to three years in jail – of which one year and nine months will be served until he can be released on a two-year good behaviour bond.
Minister for Social Services and NDIS Amanda Rishworth said anyone looking to steal from NDIS participants in the future could “expect to face swift justice”.
“We’re continuing to invest in further strengthening of the NDIA’s systems to prevent and detect attempts to exploit participants and funding from this life-changing scheme,” Ms Rishworth said.
Tits Galore and Man Boobs Bill Shorten (Short on Brains) was not available for comment as he has now left the Building (as has Elvis).
He got off lightly.
Video showing Portuguese citizens beating the tripe out of global boiling protestors holding up traffic:
(9) WATCH: Stalwart Portuguese Citizens Show How Best to Deal With Alarmist Idiots
That’s how it’s done!
I love the neon green hockey stick. There were a couple of other blokes wielding hockey sticks also. Not surprised the vermin retreated in a hurry. 😀
Ha, ha.
About the 17 sec mark a guy arrives with what looks like a hockey stick (possibly a wooden representation of a Michael Mann graph).
Unfortunately he disappears top of screen as the camera pans down.
At this point the protest seems to disperse.
Coincidence?
(I have some Portuguese ancestors. From reading and hearing family lore, it appears they were slow to anger … but very slow to cool down once angry).
Late for hockey practice.
Portuguese drivers are nuts, with extra nuts! Never again. I’d rather drive in Greece.
Was it a donkey?
Hahahahaha. Love the revving of the bike, noise would have been very unnerving if he was pretty well much on you.
The counter-protesters would be arrested in Oz before the protesters would be.
Interesting.
Don’t tell me: science fiction is dead and modern fiction is mostly feelz rubbish by leftwing chicks for fellow zombies. Yet another branch of story-telling colonised by illiterates.
Hahaha.
Tom, I actually read a lot, about 3 to 4 hours a day. It’s been 20 years plus since I read fiction. I can’t turn over the first page without being gripped by boredom.
Warhammer is stronger than ever.
Never read it.
I don’t buy SF written by women. It’s generally tripe of wokeism and global warming shit.
And if the ladies are offended, that’s not my problem.
It’s not interesting. S-F used to be full of rugged men conquering the Universe, now it’s all namby pamby dystopic, feminised titty witties.
Sure, but are any of them cute owls?
Women love Fiction. It’s there reality apparently.
Whoops. their and not there.
I do read fiction but prefer non-fiction.
But recently I picked up about 20 secondhand Stargate SG-1 novels.
About three-quarters were by women and most were snoozefests with a lot of talk, and very little action.
Over two days at my local ACT library (I’m retired), I randomly selected shelves of fiction and after 500 authors, I came up with 58% women. I discarded authors who used their initials, because previously I found that most authors who do so are women. I also suspect that the library staff who order the novels are also women
I used to be a first reader for Mills & Boon and several international writing competitions as a side to my own work as a journalist. Weeding out the dross in my spare time paid well, and as an experienced writer and sub-editor I enjoyed finding the occasional promising writer to pass on to the next editors. About 5%, btw.
My great disappointment these days is the shit on the shelves, about 80% female “authors” who will be wiped by AI, if not already being produced by AI.
I mainly read non-fiction now, or go back through my shelves to re-read the great books the spouse and I have accumulated over the past 50yrs. Almost discovering new territory at our age!
Niall Ferguson translates the Trump administration policy into boomer-con speak so that establishment types get it.
It’s not about Ukraine.
It’s all about China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDBZeHhx3YE
Ferguson continually criticises Trump and Vance then continually says they were/are right re Ukraine & putting a boot up Europes arse.
Ferguson also does not understand the venture capitalist mindset that is driving this administration.
Further on JFK.
Much is made of the final shot which snaps his head back, and which is often presented as evidence of that shot coming from in front.
Back in the 90’s I read a very long and tedious book on the subject (can’t recall the title or author). A theory was advanced in the book that this “unnatural” head motion could be have a number of potential causes. One could have been simple physics in that, if you strike a spherical object below it’s centre of mass it will rotate counter to the direction of the force applied. Much in the way that, if a golf club hits the bottom of a golf ball it imparts backspin. Another potential cause was bullet fragments striking parts of the brain controlling motor function causing involuntary movement of limbs or neck muscles.
The book also went into the multiple connections between the CIA, the FBI and various unsavoury characters linked to the assassination (including Oswald and Ruby).
This is not, of itself, evidence of some massive conspiracy. It is entirely unsurprising that someone like Oswald would be on their radar, and equally unremarkable that a night-club owner like Ruby would be on the contacts list of an FBI field office.
In fact, they would be derelict if they didn’t have an interest on these guys.
“Case Closed” by Gerard Posner goes into the involuntary movements of limbs and neck muscles, caused by bullet fragments. He also dissects the myth of the “magic bullet.”
That’s a very good book.
And here is Dr Matthew Wielicki’s analysis of the judicial activism as it applies to the EPA corrupt expenditure:
?https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/climate-lawfare…
I’ve always said the problem is not islam and it’s misanthropic, eschatological horrors but the leftoids who enable it: ie starmer:
A few days in London – Melanie Phillips
Fox News, Wall Street Journal Advised House Democrat Staffers on a Junket
the Murdochs are not the friend of everyman
cohenite, re top ender’s NDIS scamming post, is two grand a fair price for a BDSM bench?
Top end price, but generally it would depend on what you are going to do on it, with whom and whether anyone has a weight issue. I get best results with a chin up bar and gravity boots.
That’s way overs.
Or so I’m told.
Pretty good.
Jesse Watters Primetime 3/19/25 FULL HD | BREAKING FOX NEWS March 19, 2025
The mother of a friend of ours had a scam pulled on her by someone posing as a CBA employee on the phone.
But they weren’t doing it from Cambodia.
Get this.
A guy turned up at her door wearing fake CBA ID to “secure” all her “compromised” cards.
I’ll bet he wouldn’t have bothered if she had a “camera doorbell” thingy.
I see the e-whore commissioner is now censoring Jews who expose Hamas supporting doctors in this country.
Hell has a nightclub..
https://x.com/i/status/1902507314726498319
Over the past two decades, literary fiction has become a largely female pursuit. Novels are increasingly written by women and read by women.
True, and most of the literary fiction produced now is literary pulp. If you want to read good fiction, people should go back to the classics, Dickens, Hemingway, Christie, Eliot, Thackeray, Fitzgerald and so on.
Cassie, one of my favourite fiction authors is Alan Furst. Look him up, he is one of the finest literary writers about Europe in the Hitler years. Jewish writer from New York. I promise you, his books are noir and evocative.
Jesse Watters Primetime 3/19/25 FULL HD | BREAKING FOX NEWS March 19, 2025
Churchill was worse than Hitler, and now Macron’s wife is a bloke. Tucker is fast over taking Alex Jones in the nutball stakes.
The couple have fought back against claims she was born male C
More here
Churchill was worse than Hitler
That guy was on Rogan.
Crack pot to the extent I was surprised Rogan didn’t push back on some of the shit being said.
Carlson interviewed Cooper on his X show and intro’ed him as one of the most important historians in the world.. I’m paraphrasing.
I have to say though that I’m not sure if Carlson is just f..king around to piss off the Frogs.
FMD.
Yes he’s got some history about him.
He also has a whiff of the Bruce Pascoe’s & Peter Fitzsimian about him too.
Cooper, unlike those two, worked in MIC on AD systems and often in Israel.
Darryl Cooper.
Not as diabolically evil as Irving.
On that end of the spectrum though.
Infowars will need to lift its game.
Owens is incredibly lazy and stupid.
Not once did she step foot in France, let alone to where Madame Macron was born, grew up, received her education, married, bore three children or was employed as a teacher, they just use unflattering stills from videos and a nonsense theory.
Neither her or Tucker are journalists just peddlers of falsehoods to further particular agendas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzIT_DzJ3ik
someone mentioned Jane Birkin last night- I used to think she was French
I’ll put up a cute owl later but in the meantime here is one of the most beautiful of actresses:
That’s not Amber Heard.
Better check the crazy/hot matrix. Umm, pass.
Burton checked it twice!
She’s gone for a Burton.
Cute owl.
Liz Taylor not my type.
Larry Taylor? 😀
Much is made of the final shot which snaps his head back, and which is often presented as evidence of that shot coming from in front.
JFK wore a heavy corset-like brace for his back. I wonder if that had an effect on how his head fell back?
It’s that brace which is supposed to have made him almost immobile, and made Oswald’s murderous mission much easier.
depending on where the brace ended. If it was at his neck or high up his shoulders, then any forward motion of his body would have snapped the head back.
That might have contributed.
Churchill was worse than Hitler, and now Macron’s wife is a bloke. Tucker is fast over taking Alex Jones in the nutball stakes.
Yep, and one of his fan girls here in Oz is Foghorn LIz. She’s also fallen down a Mariana Trench of conspiracies and Jew hatred.
I used to like Tucker on Fox. But he must have given off weird vibes to get himself unceremoniously fired in such a sudden fashion, anyone know what alerted them? I’m disappointed to hear that he’s turned into a nutcase.
In my opinion, Tucker Carlson is now a celebrity — not a journalist.
His only work in the past two years has been as a competent interviewer (like Australia’s late Mike Willessee). not someone finding out stuff that most Americans want to know.
I still subscribe to Carlson’s “network”, but I don’t think for much longer.
Anyone who doesn’t campaign for the truth is just a celebrity and celebrities are a dime a dozen.
That’s a bit rough, Cassie. Is Lizzie out of surgery yet?
If you need a trip down the left side of an alternate reality, check out Brian Tyler Cohen on youtube. 4 million subscribers.
I do not appreciate Barnaby Joyce’s insights as a general rule.
But when his host (Bolt) cuts him off and then blathers over his guest with his mic cut off and vision from the link still going – that’s the living end. How despicable. How humiliating. No more.
On the other hand, Bargain Hunt is more fun. At least they’re all polite.
I was annoyed by Bolt then too. It was very rude of him.
Bolt’s a bit too full of himself to say the least- did he slag off about Trump again?
Johnny Rotten
March 20, 2025 6:46 am
Reply to johanna
How can a Vice Chancellor of a University in Australia be paid more than $1 million dollars a year?
What a lot of vice to pay for and why?
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DrBeauGan
March 20, 2025 4:02 pm
Reply to Johnny Rotten
Chancelling vice is a very demanding job. You have to have the best quality vice, and you have to chancel it just right.
I would do the Vice bit for free.
Not too sure what the Chancelling thing is all about though. Is that wiv’ more women?
After last night I’ve blotted Blot!
That old stinker Howard Dean of the Dean scream back again like a bad smell. Who next? Bob Woodward?
Churchill was worse than Hitler, and now Macron’s wife is a bloke. Tucker is fast over taking Alex Jones in the nutball stakes.
Churchill was no saint. But worse than Hitler? The World has gone nuts.
If it hadn’t been for Churchill and the blood of the brave, you’d be speaking german.
That said and if Luigi and the greens get in, better start to learn mandarin.
For whatever reason, I was once offered citizenship of the Republic of Vanuatu. No income tax, and a 15% G.S.T. on ever-thing. Close enough to watch the train smash!
I had beef and black bean for lunch. It’s a start.
The Engine That Won World War II – Jay Leno’s Garage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYcKdK7hmEo
Will Trump’s Strategy Work? – Liam Halligan
Ho ho.
“This movie is so bad if you were watching it on an aeroplane you would walk out”.
Oh to possess this level of nasty.
We watched it home and slashed the seats.
James McPherson is always good value, and incisive rather than nasty, inho.
Humuorously so too.
There’s still good SF being written. Devon Eriksen “Theft of Fire” for example
The problem with a lot of non fiction is that it is about as real as fiction.
Winners write history.
Howard Dean remains a real scream.
MAGA!
ha ha- comment on Breitbart
Boambee John
March 20, 2025 4:13 pm
Reply to Winston Smith
Nagasaki wasn’t the primary, they had to switch to their secondary target, Nagasaki.
Also weather was still a bit off.
Boanbee John, I am going to reread ‘War’s End’ by Charles Sweeney. That will be the third time I have read the book.
Zulu, Top Ender and Muddy, I am reading ‘Japanese Destroyer Captain’ by Tameichi Hara at the moment.
Got that in my big “to read” pile, along with Agawa Hiroyuki’s The Reluctant Admiral (Yamamoto) and Paul Dull’s A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1941-45.
Not certain, but I believe Hara was the only Japanese destroyer captain to serve and survive throughout the entire war.
The attrition rate of Japanese destroyers was extremely high.
Lee
Dull’s book is great on detail, but his writing style matches his name.
In appendices, he lists the name and fate of every major Japanese warship of WW II. Fun fact, the destroyer Kamikaze survived the war
John, from a few cursory glances through Dull’s book, I suspected that might be the case.
Apparently, it was the first major English language book covering actions of the IJN in detail in the Pacific War from the Japanese point of view.
Another “fun fact”:
Hara was the captain of the light cruiser Yahagi, flagship of the destroyer flotilla accompanying super-battleship Yamato on its “death ride” to Okinawa in 1945.
Hara survived of course, but his ship didn’t.
Here is a website I’ve consulted many times over the years, but apart from the blog it has hardly been updated for years:
Nihon Kaigun
Hara was captain of the cruiser Yahagi which was sunk with the Yamato. BUT I haven’t got that far in the book yet. Still in the early days in the war.
‘War’s End’ by Charles Sweeney is a good read as well if you can get hold of it, Lee.
Charles Sweeney flew one of the aircraft on the Hiroshima mission and then flew Bock’s Car and dropped the other big one on Nagasaki.
Thanks for the tip, Beertruk.
Another book I have in my to read pile is: Fading Victory: The Diary of Ugaki Matome, 1941–1945 a massive book at over 700 pages, fairly scarce and usually very expensive in any condition or binding, although I managed to snag a fine second-hand hardcover copy for under $100 a couple of years ago.
Ugaki was a Japanese admiral who was accompanying his superior, Yamamoto, in another Betty bomber when both planes were shot down over Bougainville. Yamamoto was killed of course.
Ugaki volunteered as a kamikaze pilot (aged 55!) and was killed in 1945.
He was easily the highest ranking Japanese naval or army officer to leave behind a diary or memoir of his wartime service, which is considered an invaluable historical record (like Hara’s book) especially given the loss of many Japanese wartime documents.
Add me to that list 😉
Not often but sometimes lefties surprise you.
https://x.com/GeraldoRivera/status/1902072268634906750?t=IxeeY1NidO-FKEHZ80A57w&s=19
Saw Rowan Dean on Bolt earlier (on YouTube) talking about Net Zero.
Even Bolt admitted he probably pissed off (my words) Rowan and someone else with his comments about Trump before the later came on air.
Dean is one of the few open Trump admirers on Sky.
The latter.
Neither her or Tucker are journalists just peddlers of falsehoods to further particular agendas
Correct.
DeaTH CaMp news (the CM):
Shock research! Get them masks on! Close them churches!
I’d never heard of the Actuaries Institute, so after a five second search I found this at their site under ‘Becoming an Actuary’:
Very noble. But then:
Ahhhhhh.
It’s the Communist Institute, then. There must have been a spelling error just up above.
Halfwits. Incidentally, there’s no mention of who funds these ‘actuaries’ on the site. Must have been an oversight.
Good evening. Calling in from my hospital bed watching Sharri and feeling pretty good albeit a little spineless. Operated on late yesterday and up early with the physio, walking up and down some fire stairs to see how I went. Passed. They like to get you walking and she heaped praise on my efforts. Went alone later for a walk down the corridor to see the view over the small carpark, and watched some cars parking. Exciting.
Hairy came in morning and late arvo to keep me company. I told him about the cognitive test they made me take on admission once he’d left – a ritual humiliation of being well aged, though the anaesthetist did a double take, and me with no make up on, saying that I only looked in my fifties. You have good skin all over, he approved as he pressed electrodes to my chest.
The cognitive test consisted of saying the months of the year in reverse order in good time and no piking. I was nervous enough already, I told them I struggled briefly with October but hit my stride after that. Passed that too. Hairy of course sat in my hospital chair and rattled the 12 off backwards as fast as I could say them going forward. And he’s the drinker, not me. Ten years younger though and a good companion in life’s trials.
One nice thing in St Vincents is its Christianity. In my smart modern room and all the other bedrooms there is a small and subtle contemporary metal sculpture of Christ on the Cross placed inside above the door. Nice for contemplation in pre-op rooms too as one nervously awaits the knockout and the knife.
How are you feeling, a nurse asked one man as she called his name where the day’s collection of us were patiently (!) sitting to go to our pre-op rooms and lose our identity to bum-displaying hospital operating gowns. Nervous, was his reply, saying the quiet bit out loud. And then the young Asian girl bringing my tea this arvo says God bless you, as she hands it to me.
Places of life and death.
My elderly second cousin recently had to do the cognitive test thingy, however her friend had been through the ritual a month earlier, so she had time to practise! She aced counting down in threes from 21. Glad you’ve come through surgery so well, Lizzie.
I am being released on Saturday. I pleaded with the surgeon to let me out on tomorrow and he said ok if Hairy was willing to look after me. One horrified Hairy rejected that notion firmly. Said I was to stay put till Saturday, no arguments, hospitals are for healing, not husbands, not till three nights had been spent under strict care. You know how you always overdo it, get bees in bonnet about resting, he scolds, so I meekly agree. Spineless.
Get well soon Lizzie!
Glad to hear the ordeal is over and you’re recovering, Lizzie.
I actually clicked this. Garnaut protégé encapsulating TDS and excuses for wallet wizard in one article. Impressive:
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/interest-rates/hand-over-fist-wild-way-donald-trump-is-about-to-impact-aussie-economy/news-story/746a948a1a2dd2b5db23f583aac729be
There will be many more before the deed is done…
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Well, cats and catettes, here we am in the bustling metropolis (cough) of Coral Bay. Left home at 5.00 ante meridiem, and arrived 1150 km later at 4.30 post meridiem. Very ordinary fisherman’s basket of soggy chips and deep frozen stuff from Colesworth’s BUT … the nice sav blanc from Margs which was well chilled courtesy of the Engel went down a treat. And the bed, thankfully, seems very comfortable … but I could sleep standing up anyway. Night all.
Yep. Goodnite from me too. Pax something or another, some sort of opiate, is my Morpheus tonight.
Earlier posting seems to be lost in cyberspace.
All good wishes for a full recovery, LizzieB. You are a valued member of this blog, and I do enjoy your posts.
All the best for your Birthday Bruce. 😀 😀 😀
Mosques, flyers, Palestine flags: Inside Muslim Vote’s war to win Sydney’s southwest
From the Oz. Does anyone else see the irony, here?
@EricLDaugh
KORNACKI: We see this. White women, college degree. The only group of white voters that is on the “left” and Democrat. For instance, continuing DEI programs. 68% white, college women say yes. Completely different by ~40 points.
They hope to be the prime beneficiaries of DEI programs.
The “USAID Scam” Hilariously Explained in 3 Minutes!
Islam is Destroying Western Culture Here And Abroad
03/19 Links Pt2: The Jews, not Palestinians, were the ones who suffered ethnic cleansing; Who Are the Shadowy Figures Defending Mahmoud Khalil?
From Micheal Smith. A tribute to the last surviving pilot, who flew in “Battle of Britain”
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In a touching tribute to John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway DFC, this morning, the Band of the @ColdstreamGds performed the Battle of Britain March and the @RoyalAirforce March Past during the Changing
Fox News Poll: Trump, Republicans at record-high ratings as Democrats falter
The Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service
@lukerosiak
One of the 7 federal agencies shuttered by DOGE on Friday is the most DOGE-able agency of all time. FMCS (before the pandemic!) had a 9-story K Street tower for 60 employees. Its halls were lined with oil paintings of those employees, and other art purchased from the boss’s wife
@annvandersteel
10K VOTES ALL WITH SAME SOCIAL SECURITY #
@JovanHPulitzer reported that in Arizona, they found 10,000 voters all used the same SS number to get registered to vote.
That means that the I.R.S. has disconnected your social security number from your identity.
While that is major evidence of a RICO criminal acts and voter fraud, it is also an indication that could lead to their demise.
She’s what used to be called an investigative journalist.
@LauraLoomer
EXCLUSIVE:
Professor Joan Donovan @BostonJoan, who was a speaker during the @Tesla Takedown CALL TO ACTION tonight was formerly the Research Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Public Policy, where she directed the Technology and Social Change Research Project. Her team researched media manipulation, disinformation, and adversarial media movements.
Donovan worked with the Shorenstein Center from 2019-August 2023.
According to financial records I’ve uncovered, George Soros’s OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS @OpenSociety has given the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center @ShorensteinCtr on Media Politics and Public Policy MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to “support the Shorenstein Center’s research on media manipulation tactics and to educate the public about disinformation.”
Many of Soros’s donations were made while Donovan was the Research Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media Politics and Public Policy, proving that her work was funded by Soros and his Open Society Foundations.
See receipts below
As research director during her time at Harvard’s @ShorensteinCtr, she published a number of research papers and books, and she co-authored a study that argued that a significant number of participants in the January 6 protests were driven by their support for President Donald Trump.
Soros has so many affiliations with individuals who are participating in @Tesla Takedown protests.
@LauraLoomer
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO:
Tonight, Radical Democrat Congresswoman @JasmineForUS Jasmine Crockett spoke on a CALL TO ACTION call organized by the @Tesla Takedown organizers who have been vandalizing and attacking @elonmusk’s Tesla Showrooms and charging stations across the country and all over the world.
Crockett said her birthday is on March 29th, and “all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.”
Attendees of the Tesla Takedown protests have carried out acts of DOMESTIC TERRORISM, including lighting Teslas on fire and throwing Molotov cocktails inside Tesla ShowRooms, prompting an investigation by @AGPamBondi and condemnation at the White House by @realDonaldTrump @POTUS.
Jasmine Crockett should be CENSURED for enabling Domestic Terrorism.
@LoomerUnleashed recorded the entire call that took place tonight.
Cc: @SpeakerJohnson
And I have yet to see one arrest or perpwalk of the people fomenting civil war in the US.
You need to pull your damn finger out, President Trump!
Pretty convinced now that Starmer is doing precisely what Trump wants. It just provides him cover for the failure to reach a ceasefire and subsequent peace agreement.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Brett Lethbridge.