Clearly sarcasm.
Open Thread – Mon 31 March 2025
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m0nty You have launched into a tirade against Cassie on a totally false premise. Here is what Cassie said (italics…
Eating calamari is like eating rubber.
And almost 6% of all men aged 18-44 died.
Yes. It’s a mixture. Bits are ok. Yes, brave men fought for our freedom. If they’d been able to see…
Foist!
Regarding Aussies VS the Uniparty – This is how we WIN. Topher Project Ep 040
Rabz replied
March 29, 2025 8:10 pm
Topher says a few different things in that video.
Rabz could you be more specific?
He advocates casting a legitimate vote in the lower house, which will inevitably end up going to the unipardee. Compulsory preferential voting is the culprit.
This is why I no longer cast formal votes in the lower house. I’m not going to be forced to vote for some deadsh*t I wouldn’t urinate on if they were ablaze.
Morning all…
From the OOT:
Doesn’t make sense. What are duties and responsibilities? Take a person’s duties to their parents. There are some, like honouring them, that a person can do without much power; while others, like providing for them in old age, are more dependent upon their powers. However, neither the former or the latter are created by power but by the relationship between parent and child itself. Moreover, how does the relationship look from the parent’s perspective re the duty the child owes to it other than as a right it is owed by its child in virtue of the relationship as well. So what appears to the child as a duty to honour, appears to the parent as a right to be honoured.
What the f*ck are you on about?
You have no rights.
All you have is what you have the power to enforce, or what you can plead others to enforce for you.
That is reality.
There are no such things as “rights”.
All there is, is power.
What occurs in this world is what those with the power to enforce upon others want to occur.
Including any bullshit waffling about “rights”.
The left is correct about one thing, and one thing only, and only because they got it from thinkers much greater than themselves: there is only power. Power is all that counts in this world.
If you are confused about this, consider: is there anything you have that cannot be taken away from you?
There is nothing.
“Rights” is female thinking.
It is the thinking of a child.
It is the thinking of those who are protected, but who have never contemplated that the protection they receive is at the pleasure of the protector, and not because of some property inherent to themselves.
The “protectors” have an entirely different view, and their own reasons.
Whatever property the protected have is not absolute, only subject to circumstance.
That an entire society has come to believe, for whatever reason, that they have this property, is irrelevant to the substance of reality.
The problem with your argument above is that it also includes duties and responsibilities.
It isn’t an argument.
It is a description of reality.
Let’s grant you a “right” in opposition to something that someone with the power wishes.
What does reality tell you happens to your “right”?
There’s the problem.
“Rights” are NOT ‘granted” . Such things are privileges, able to be “withdrawn” at the stroke of a pen
You’re avoiding the point that duties and responsibilities are just as vulnerable to the criticism you have deployed above.
No, because duties exist regardless of rights.
Responsibility arises from existence itself.
Rights are an entirely artificial construct.
No one owes you anything.
The animals themselves have duties and responsibilities.
No animal awakes in the morning without required tasks to complete.
Even if those duties are only in service of their own existence.
A duty is a required task.
Nothing more.
A right implies tasks that others are required to do on your behalf.
There is no such thing.
Again: no one has to do anything FOR YOU.
(Unless you or someone on your behalf has the power to compel it).
Again: no one has to do anything FOR YOU.
They can be forced – which is what you seem to be saying, and correctly so.
No, a duty is not just a required task. As I described above, the duty of honouring one’s parents arises from the relationship between parent and child. You aren’t merely required to honour your parents, it arises because they created you and cared for you as a child. There is a reciprocity involved.
Further, a duty is something owed by A to B in virtue of some legal or moral relationship. So, again, what appears to A as a duty appears to B as a right.
For example, just as a parent has a right to their child’s obedience and the child the duty to obey their parent’s commands, the child has the right to the parent’s custody and care, the parents have the duty of their care and custody.
If your theory cannot make sense of something as basic as the moral relationship between parent and child it is deeply deficient.
this is correct, rights that can’t be enforced are a figment of the imagination. the idea of god given rights is fantasy.
This thread should include a discussion of ‘positive’ vs ‘negative’ rights.
Positive rights are the ‘right’ to get something done for or given to you (‘free’ health care, ‘free’ schooling etc etc etc) In contrast, negative rights are the ‘right’ to NOT have something done to you (not be robbed, not be raped, not be killed etc)
Arguably, Positive rights cannot exist because they clash with Negative rights – if I have the ‘right’ to receive health care, someone else has the obligation to provide it – stealing their labour or their money.
In either case, there needs to be an enforcement mechanism – I believe that enforcement of negative rights is is one of the few legitimate functions of government – to stop me being robbed for example. The obvious problem being, of course, that the biggest perpetrators are our governments. (taxation is theft, inflation is taxation etc etc)
Arky
In its ideal, pure form you are perfectly right.
But we live in a society, take it or leave it, and sort of agreed to participate and contribute, voluntarily or enforced makes no difference, by paying taxes or free labour.
In return we are promised and claim certain “rights”, like healthcare and living assistance if needed.
The fact, that some abuse the system by claiming the same rights but contribute nothing, does not change anything.
What we should do is to call up those bludging on the system and exclude them.
Never happens, they vote as well.
Which is just another way of saying that power gets channeled though relationships, cohorts and interests.
It’s the same thing, it’s all power, all the time.
A right implies tasks that others are required to do on your behalf.
Thats only half the story – see my discussion on positive vs negative rights above. Short summary, positive rights require someone to do something on your behalf, negative rights require someone NOT to do something.
I think it’s incredibly naive how conservatives bought in to this leftist “rights” crap.
The left never believed it for a second by the way.
We saw that with “free speech”.
For the left “rights” were just a way to get you to not to use your power agin them when you had it.
They never intended to be curtailed by it in any way shape or form, as the covid bullshit showed you.
The French Revolution spewed on about the “rights of man” while they fed everyone through the guillotine.
It’s like with the money they channel through the budget directly to their friends.
While you and I imagined foreign aid was about helping starving kiddies, they knew all along it was about the money.
It was always about the money, and the shell game they played only had to be plausible to the idiots we used to be. Stop being an idiot.
Stop being foolish and understand: it’s always about power, it’s always about the money, it’s never about “rights”, it’s not about helping anyone, and it never was.
Let me say it to you plainly:
The only way you get to speak freely again is through the exercise of power.
Not because your leaders consider it a right.
At least, not while your leaders are of the left.
Agreed, but remember, the tumbrils carried a lot of innocents as well as those deserving. I would hate be part of that solution on either side.
From the OOT …
Yeah, nah.
This is typical posturing to appear even-handed and harvest ill-informed middle ground voters.
Precisely the tactic used by Oakeshott and Windsor a decade ago.
And a bit like our local Climate200 candidate who “doesn’t have a view” on our proposed offshore windfarm, and will “consult widely” after the election to establish what the electorate thinks.
Because he knows showing his hand now will kill his campaign stone dead.
If you believe Sharkie you are a retard.
It’s to give the poorly read, poorly informed voter an excuse to vote for her.
And a bunch will.
Who will then be bewildered why she sides with Albo & co with any deal to form government.
Yep. Take that lesson from Allegra Spender in Wentworth. All sweetness and negotiable considerations etc prior to the election and look what happened. She voted with Greens 66% of the time, whereas the Green vote in Wentworth is only 8%. She voted Green for UNWRA too, in spite of the large Jewish population in Wentworth who would never have voted for that.
Yet now, she’s still espousing sweetness and light about who she’ll support. She’s going to ‘listen’ to all sides.
Yeah. And vote still for one side only, and it’s not conservative.
I will be pushing how-to-vote Liberal hard on election day against this pointless and trendy and vapid nightmare called Spender.
We have a bit of history with supposedly conservative “independents” in South Australia.
Twice they installed Labor governments after Labor lost elections – and that’s just in the last 25 years.
We knew all about it years before Oakeshott and Windsor got into the act.
I wouldn’t trust Sharkie as far as I could throw her with one hand, against a strong wind!
The Chook claimed before she was elected as a Teal that she had voted in the past for the Liberals.
I didn’t believe her then and have believed her even less since.
I think it was just a ploy to attract votes away from the Coalition to her.
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Matt Margolis.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Happier days?
England in the 1960s.
If you lived there and then be the judge.
A couple of comments on this;
Alison LH
Born 1950, left school 1966, college 2 years studying shorthand and typing, left college 1967 straight into job at Royal insurance group in Manchester. Learnt audio typing there. Spent 8 wonderful years there. Left 1975 to start family. Later on returning to office work in insurance, medical and legal work. Was never out of work the whole time; abundance of jobs in those days. Wonderful memories made, fantastic friends, now retired and 75 years old!
?Barbara R
Those days were the best. Grew up an got married in the 60s had two of my children. I walked out of one job on a Friday back into another on the Monday. Had a great social life, dancing, pictures. We could walk the streets without fear of being attacked. Worked hard managed to get my first house. Everything in it was second hand. I definitely wouldn’t want to try and buy a house these days. Its nearly impossible for some people.England in the 1960s.
HT to my mum who sent it and made a few comments about the coming election and the current crop of politicians.
Some of her comments were not very lady like.
Born in 1952. As a young lad and teenager at school in the 1960s, 7 week summer holidays off of school in July, August and early September.
Lots of fun to be had.
As a kid growing up in England late 50s/early 60s today’s lot have no idea what they missed out on .. making your own fun .. outdoors ..!
Our three grandchildren and their parents were down from Brisbane over the weekend. On Sunday the parents went off to a wedding and Hairy and I minded our beautiful little grandies aged 10, 8 and nearly 6. Such a delight. I was dropped off at the ferry in Watson’s Bay by their parents on their way to the wedding and Hairy walked the three kids down to meet me as I haven’t had my stitches out from my spinal op yet. We enjoyed the ferry ride, had gelato at Circular Quay and listened to the buskers with the children giving them coins for the performance, and then got the ferry back to Watson Bay for lunch of fish and chips at Doyles before ALL of us walked home together. I was a little tardy though going up the hill, taking it in stages. It tired me out but it was a day in a million, and one I wouldn’t have missed ‘for quids’ as my father used to say.
I’m surprised you haven’t had a mirror and scalpel out. Great days aren’t they.
Trying to avoid my spine splitting open to the world of bacteria, Ranga.
Not going to let a few twinging stitches destroy my day.
Meant to add for Shaterzzz above that it also got the kids off their ipads and out into the wonderful great outdoors that surrounds us on this harbour peninsula. Their parents do restrict their ipad usage, and when we got home they left off begging us for ipad time. As I was languishing on the sofa I suggested to them I had never seen the Harry Potter movie and perhaps if they watched it with me they could give me clues and hints as to what was going on, and tell me about scary bits coming. We did that, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with family interactive TV watching. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone wasn’t bad watching for the first third, as the scene was set bringing in all sorts of Victorian ambiance and ancient memes, prophecies, spells and mythics, which I actually enjoyed, especially with Maggie Smith playing a stern headmistress. The last two thirds was tedious cinema but the kids still enjoyed seeing it for about the fifth time. The mythic qualities of JK Rowling’s book which the two girls had read (but I hadn’t) certainly stirred up a cauldron of imagery of the sort that kids thrive on.
On a lighter note,
Spike Milligan had a point.
I like the one where he is playing the part of an Irish Porter at an Irish Hotel.
He picks up the travel bags of a couple who have just booked into the Hotel to take their bags to their Hotel room.
And he says –
“Just follow me – I’ll be right behind you”.
Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ about higher car prices –
“Donald Trump has said he “couldn’t care less” if carmakers raise prices after his 25% tariffs on foreign-made vehicles comes into effect.”
Trump’s senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro asked people to put their trust in the US president.
“Trust in Trump,” Navarro told Fox News, adding that previous tariffs on China by the US have led to “prosperity and price stability”.
“The reason why we will not see inflation is because foreigners are going to eat most of it, they have to,” he said, adding that the US “is the biggest market in the world.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrgj51gl25o
Hmmmmmmmm. Make of that what you will.
As always with Trump it is important to read the full exchange. That doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t be careful with how he phrases things.
Never flashy, just appeared in a lot of good fillums and TV series.
Actor Richard Chamberlain, 90, Dead (30 Mar)
I’ll give a mention to Lady Caroline Lamb in which he played Lord Byron, and The Music Lovers, a Ken Russell film about Tchaikovsky, which had an early example of female full frontal – Glenda Jackson doing the honours.
Fair go government! I’m having breakfast!
“Guv”
Glenda Jackson?!
Ewwww …
Doctor Kildare & the original Shogun lead ………
Didn’t mind him in Peter Weir’s “The last wave” (1977). I thought the film was faintly pretentious and yet there is an undeniable appeal to it. Worth a closer look.
This should be the election campaign message of the “conservatives”, but Dutton said again that he supports Net Zero. The following is from American Thinker:
The challenge coming up is the collapse of the various politically driven “energy transition” schemes that arose from the over-selling of climate change fears and the attendant idea of “net zero.” The hopes for “renewables” like wind and solar to power current and growing levels of prosperity are finally being dashed on the cold, hard physics of energy. We’ve lost a decade or more in capacity improvements chasing the pipe dreams of the environmentalists.
A return to energy sanity will mean a surge in electric generation construction fueled by coal, natural gas, and uranium.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/now_s_the_time_to_buy_a_nuke_nuclear_power_plant_that_is.html
Dutton has not got my vote unless he scraps this net zero bullshit
Hasn’t any one told him about TRUMP!
Net Zero is dead. It will fuzz out in his election cycle. Trump and his team and other countries are dropping it or have dropped already. He knows this. Better he get on with immediate cost of living decreases. Dropping of fuel costs will have major impact across supply chain, as well as for consumers.
Hope numbers and people in Toowoomba stay dry.
Yesterday and today to dry out before it starts raining again. On the bright side should be the last real puff of this wet wet season.
plenty of SA friends wish we could give them some.
All good at the moment.
Grass will need another haircut in a day or so. 😉
The entire street mowed their grass and weeds yesterday. As soon as one finished up, the next started.
Droning noises all bloody day. So I went for a drive just to get away from it.
There was a blowfly in the car.
Some days….
I call it the Bunnings orchestra.
Numbers will be fine in his hermetically sealed Miata.
Went for a cruise around the ‘hood yesterday.
Half the bridges in town to Cheapside were under.
A rockfall blocked one lane of the old highway heading north.
Down river, the bridge connecting the highway west was under too.
And the Cryptosporidium Cup was being held at the basketball half court in town.
Space is hard.
WATCH: Private European Aerospace Firm’s Rocket Crashes Into Sea (30 Mar)
They’re putting some epic positive spin on it. The video is wild: the rocket very nearly crashed back onto the launch pad and the kaboom was enormous.
Meanwhile Elon makes it look easy. Due tomorrow is a launch of 4 astronauts into a first ever polar orbit, including an Aussie. And in a couple hours from now another Starlink mission, which you can watch live at the link with your morning coffee if you want to:
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1lPKqMDrPgEKb
(That Starlink launch has now been delayed until tomorrow. If it’s weather it may force a delay on the astronaut launch too.)
It’s TDS on steroids over at the News website.
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/dark-conspiracy-theories-coming-true-as-archaic-law-grants-donald-trump-unprecedented-power/news-story/6aa5fb877fd7d0898217127277472ef9
News.com has been running more TDS stories than our election stories.
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2025/03/29/open-thread-weekend-29-march-2025/comment-page-2/#comment-883788
The eldest daughter is salvageable. All it would take is parents who loved and protected her, and time to heal.
The baby hasn’t yet formed the emotional ability to understand what has happened to her.
Scars – both physical and emotional – will remain, but there’s still the ability to overcome them and grow.
Kids are resilient.
The mother needs to be put down like you would with a mad dog before her own emotional disaster zone consumes more lives
That would be the charitable assumption. I’m all in favour of it. We should always be kind and charitable, but aware also that sometimes it is wrong and we may be disappointed.
So where is the media, UN & associated bleedin’ ‘earts groups outrage over this .. Nowhere, of course, it’s a “mooove-along-pleeeze-nuttin’-to see-‘ere” occurrence .. The selective world of choose-your-protest is alive & well ……! https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/03/30/hamas-tortures-executes-22-year-old-palestinian-who-led-protests-in-gaza/
Monday’s Tele:
WHY WE’RE A WASTE EXCLUSIVE
JAMES O’DOHERTY
31 Mar 2025
NSW Treasury has slugged taxpayers more than $170,000 for a consultancy to write up the findings of a government review into how to save money on consultants.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal that KPMG is being paid $176,000 to “assist” the government with a review into procurement, which has collected data “on the size, skill-set, distribution, and capabilities of public sector workforce”.
The Telegraph understands that KPMG is being paid to write up the findings of the “NSW government operational review” into a final report.
The review is designed to overhaul procurement practices, including by finding ways to spend less on consultants.
NSW Treasury refused to say what KPMG was doing to earn its $176,000, but said the operational review would “assess the current operating environment for NSW government procurement, to ensure that it continues to support delivery of outcomes for the people of NSW”. The contract is for about 6?½ weeks of work.
The KPMG contract is the latest example of the government paying external consultants hundreds of thousands of dollars, for reports, consultation papers, and advice.
The Telegraph has previously revealed that the government paid consultancy firm Elumni $200,000 for a consultation process on the future of the Moore Park Golf Course, which Premier Chris Minns has largely ignored.
Labor went to the election vowing to save taxpayers’ money on labour hire, after the auditor general found the Coalition had spent more than $1bn on consultants without having appropriate procurement policies in place.
Finance Minister Courtney Houssos will today launch an in-house advisory body, which will put bureaucrats to work doing jobs which were previously outsourced.
editorial page 22
FMD
Editorial:
CONSULTANTS ARE THE WINNERS EITHER WAY
Even when they lose, they win. There’s just no way to keep consultants from cashing in on government contracts.
Their latest financial victory is possibly their finest yet. As The Daily Telegraph reports, NSW Treasury has billed taxpayers more than $170,000 for a consultancy to write up the findings of a government review into how to save money on consultants.
If it weren’t for the expense, you’d almost have to admire this remarkable level of double-sided accomplishment. Well done.
Gotta luv the irony (or is it stupidity?) of paying a consultancy firm to review & write a report on your use of consultants …….
NSW gummint the gift that keeps on giving (or is that taking?) .. LOL!
shatterzzz – it isn’t stupidity, or irony.
It’s a bribe.
This is how the Foetid Billabong gets support from the ‘private’ sector.
TV advertisements do the same with the media.
What’s the point of public servants then?
Surprised to hear this morning that Newspoll is showing a sudden increase in preference to Labor. My prediction has always been an LNP victory. My belief is that, as in the US, the polls are wrong. In the US polls consistently showed the presidential candidates as ‘neck and neck”. That was never the case, and I don’t think it is here, either.
Lord I hope I am wrong. Incidentally, there is another survey that shows young men turning away from Labor. I am sure that is the case.
I voxed popped myself and Luigi doesnt come back from the voice crappola plus the electrickery savings. And he is such a turd. Hes gone.
Sure, Albanese is gone:
just scrape in, immediate leadership challenge, and Dr Jim fancies his chances.
minority government, immediate leadership challenge, and Dr Jim fancies his chances, with an outside to Plebersek.
Coalition just scrapes in, immediate leadership challenge, and Dr Jim fancies his chances.
All you need to do is remember just how out of touch the opinion polls and media were on The Voice referendum. What’s coming at the election has got the same feel about it to me. My lefty friends and family members have gone silent. No one is openly barracking for Albo.
I read that & as, usual, all supposition .. They polled, their figures, close on 39 000 folk but instead of releasing those as the result they then spread/divided them across the whole population, vote-wize, to come up with their answer ..
So 39 000 into 14 million (guessing ..) getz you Labor ……
Polls are guessing games which. for some reason, lotza folk believe are real results ………!
The statistical error would be about 3%. So, all with in each other.
the more interesting into the 2PP is they are assuming the same preference distribution as last time. OK.
in any case, people aren’t generally inclined to yet admit their mistake after one term, and will vote the same way they did last time. Even Whitlam got elected twice.
Media has been running mostly dead on Albo and running attack pieces when they do on Dutton.
Wallet wizards budget had cursory scrutiny and then there’s immigration also being ignored.
Most of the electorate get their news from the open sources. Behind paywall is a tad different.
BTW if the polls are right, the problem is definitely Dutton. Maybe he is a hard man to love. I have always said that Canavan is was of the few on the Right who has the conviction to say it “how it is” and the “right stuff”. Some of the young bloods – like Paterson and Hastie – are excellent, but not yet ready for leadership. Others are very good – like Leeser – but don’t seem ready ready to come forward. None of the women are leadership material that I can see. It is deeply depressing.
Patterson is not the smartest guy in the room despite signs he believes he is. Wastes valuable time at Committee on crappy detail. He is smart and he does work hard but needs to step up and tackle issues with substance. (The ADF’s chronic lack of lethality, and ISR would be a good start.)
Hastie had an interesting start. Encouraged to write in The Oz. Showed that he couldn’t. But as a local member has been outstanding. Local work on the ground (like the work of ordinary party members) is often undervalued. Hastie shouldn’t be.
Hastie started well, yes. But, he is too willing to throw ADF rank and file under the bus.
Disagree on Paterson. I think he is very very sharp. No charisma, of course!
Mmmm. Reckon it goes back to his personal experience in Afghanistan. A pity.
So a good LNP choice .. lack of charisma is always top of the “must have” list ……
Could do with some ‘real life experience’. Work in the mines, McDonalds, boring office work, small business anything that would help him shed the ‘out of touch’ just finished university/ipa vibe. Ditto some of the others from ipa. Maybe it is the coaching and mentoring, there is something that hasn’t quite gelled yet.
Have just been having a chat with a candidate standing with the support of the Community Independents Project – scary. They sort of comes across with a hint of a ‘cults’. Out of the 39 candidates, just 9 are male.
Patterson was pretty dumb calling the young citizen journalist who questioned Albo about housing affordability = immigration a ratbag.
Totally a ‘ bigots ‘ comment.
Hastie .. passable leutenant colonel stuff but not general staff material ………
Yep .. this should be a “anyone-but=Luigi” election but throw in Dudzy as the counterbalance and …………….
A joke versus a cardboard cut-out …….. duuuuuuuuuuuuh!
Canavan needs to do something about his teeth. It matters to the modern political scene. Also, media would attack him for being an attack dog.
As for Dutton:bald. Geeky glasses.
His teeth???? I havn’t noticed. As a woman, too knocked out with his sex appeal.
But aside from that tipsy comment of mine………Canavan is the goods – smart, got a ton of guts, and loves Australia.
What more could you want?
Lesser is of the left. As a wringing wet he was a big yes proponent. Good on Israel but not free speech or energy.
Yes.
Mmmm. He is a bit “wet” on some issues……
He is not instantly likeable that’s for sure.
But he does not compensate with political appeal either.
I put both major parties last.
So greens, teals and socialists ahead of labor?
Is there a difference?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/horror-61-year-old-woman-driving-tesla-boxed/
The peace loving Left. The conscience of our society.
https://youtu.be/8d7F1LmItaY
More Leftist thuggery. This isn’t random – this is planned.
There are psychotic Losers driving around ready to explode, and they’ve been encouraged by the Democrat enablers to be like this.
Strange thing is it is lefty on lefty violence
Meme
@amuse
SCRIPTED: Paid protesters at Tesla Takedown events are given scripts by the Soros-backed organizers.
It is deeply depressing.
It’ll be more depressing after 3 May when Labor falls into minority government and then does a deal with the Australian Nazi Party to stay in power.
Shades of 1933 Germany.
The Coalition needs to win 22 seats to govern in their own right. I can’t see them doing that.
There are lots of public servants, welfare snafflers, ndis recipients, people that serve the ndis recipients, unionists, university students and many others I’ve missed who vote left. Too many people who want government money. Particularly certain multi wived culture enhancing types. Hard to beat a packed scrum of scroungers.
Quite a lot of angst in musso world .. vote the imam way or the OPM “freebie” bribe …… choices … LOL!
I hadn’t dun the maths but if Dudzy needz 22 then he’d be better off “spending time” with the family than wasting it campaigning .. LOL!
A minority government with the Nazis is certain to ramp up Muesli immigration and destroy relations with Israel entirely.
Then there is the economy …
We ain’t seen nothing yet!
It’s a big ask. Possible if the swing is on. Feels like a baseball bat election.
I’ve spent a nice bit of time reading Bond movie wikis. This is why:
‘Diamonds Are Forever’ Star Bruce Glover Dies at 92 (30 Mar)
Mr Wint and Mr Kidd were marvelous villains in that movie. The whole thing was awesomely silly, but 007 is all about entertainment and popcorn. I wish Hollywood would go back to doing that rather than trying to social engineer us. Shirley Bassey’s song is excellent also.
THIS is what that “most important” Executive Order was about yesterday and, for once, it was no exaggeration.
Florida, Kansas Senators Intro LEDGER Act After DOGE Uncovers $4.7T In Untraceable Treasury Payments
I suspect there would be similar failings here, albeit not on the same scale.
Still, a few million here, a few million there, soon you’re talking real money.
The payments are not untraceable if they have gone through the Banking System and SWIFT.
That’s what I thought too.
250 Years Ago Alexander Hamilton Told Us How to Handle These Anti-Trump Judges
Albo is still bashing the supermarkets for “price gouging” despite a 12 month review that failed to find evidence of the so-called gouging. His minders have obviously set-up staged media opportunities with brave Albo “saving us” from the “nasty supermarket gougers”. Michael Smith has run Albo’s latest messaging on the subject. You should see the comments. https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/what-a-load-of-bollocks.html
Is he looking to price control on supermarket items?
How very Communist of him.
It is all to create media opportunities for Albo and to pander to the Greens that have been in the work up to attacking supermarkets and blame the cost of living increases that he has created on them. They have been working on this strategy for the past three years. I recall I was surveyed outside a suburban Coles by a young Greenie with a push/poll survey nearly two years ago, and a petition to sign. Labor has no expertise or knowledge in retail and supply chain and have dived in thinking it will score cheap points and positive media for little effort. The blow-back could sink them.
The blow-back could sink them.
Hopefully, let it be so.
Gillard’s Fuelwatch redux. Spud’s gas reservation isn’t much better.
Albo is as cunning as an s-house rat. He see’s mileage in this. He’s right too there is a simmer discontent with supermarkets and their near duopoly.
Colesworths are their own worst enemy though. My beef is all these gimmicks that have added to my trolley price. RSPCA accredited meat, cage free eggs, responsibly sourced this, diversity that etc… The relaxed labelling requirements so country of origin is removed and % Australian inserted so they can source Chinese processed goods at rock bottom prices. There’s literally no sea food from these waters anymore or it’s rare and the frozen stuff is all Chinese.
Then they’re charging for paper bags which is price gouging but the ACCC did nothing about.
That said price controls never work and my local Coles regularly looks like a East German 1980’s shop with all the empty shelves now, with the obligatory blame on insert weather event/COVID here. Price controls would make that worse.
Aldi is bigger than either of them. Abalne doesn’t seem too concerned about the 4square group.
Price rises due to power prices? Supermarkets need lots of power.
Yep, local Coles, yesterday, the lights out in the “cold” section, for some reason, couldn’t see much thru the windows …
One thing that stands out .. How did they find an “average” mum named “Ren” .. definitely, high on the list of Oz “average”mum’s names ……? LOL!
Her name was most likely KAren. But of course, that name isn’t too popular right now. Lol!
She is an actress named Catherina Ren Knerr apparently, although she goes by “Ren”:
What a load of bollocks. – Michael Smith News
Organised terrorism, without a doubt.
‘Astroturf’: Critics speculate Tesla protests are not a grassroots movement, but carefully organized campaign
I wonder if the RICO act covers them?
By that, I mean that laws are being broken and the organising of the Law breaking crosses State lines.
Not being overly familiar with US Law, I think these actions fill the requirements for at least investigation.
RICO is a catch-all if it is applicable .. works a treat .. ask the mafia .. LOL!
Control of the House may depend on a supreme court election in Wisconsin on Tuesday.
WISCONSIN: Leftist Hakeem Jeffries Calls Susan Crawford ‘a Strong Democratic Candidate,’ Funds Her Campaign to Retake House for Democrats
Crawford is a nutty far-lefty, which should mean she won’t be elected. But it being Wisconsin I suspect she will be “elected” after all those 150 year-olds vote for her.
The Left never stops, you have to watch them like she-dragons to stop them stealing these elections. Unfortunately I think they’ll successfully steal this one.
According to Instapundit there is litigation about Musks donation to her opponent.Judge assigned to the case Susan Crawford.
A Horrifying Breakthrough in the WHITE FIBROUS CLOT Saga
I’d like some of our learned medicos to read and review the column, please.
And give us some feedback. It’s well past my ability to understand fully.
There are some very nasty implications regarding prions.
@ericmmatheny
Will one – just one – Democrat with power and influence in their party publicly condemn acts of violence and vandalism against Tesla owners?
No.
I agree, they are like The Borg, one mind. Furthermore, there can be no dissent in their ranks, just look what is happening to Elon Musk and his businesses because he dared to think for himself.
With Dutton it’s about looks and the critical importance younger women place on appearance. They won’t admit that of course but still think he looks “creepy”.
Dutton needs to have his wife with him as much as possible.
My wife met Dutton and found him to be warm and quite charming. She’s in the older and wiser age group who’ve left superficiality of youth behind them.
Nah, just wear a stud in his ear and a pair of Ray-Ban aviators glasses!
Leather jacket wouldn’t be out of place either .. LOL!
I thought a North Face, quilted vest was all the go for pollies. 😀
DJ Spud on da decks.
He’s not Albosleazy; he’s got that going for him.
And Albosleazy is very far from good-looking by any stretch of the imagination and that horrible voice!
UK DOOM LOOP. Starmer ignores economy
‘Wont’ Die for Ukraine’: Macron Brutally Called Out! France Rejects His War Obsession & Ukraine Aid!
@MikeBenzCyber
“I need to have on my resume, so I can get a job when this thing is over, that I bankrupted Tesla.”
This is an outright admission the top Tesla boycott organizers’ personal financial prospects depend on taking down Tesla, and they must succeed in order to get paid.
They are running a colour revolution in America.
@MikeBenzCyber
Is there anyone with an above meat freezer level IQ who thinks rank and file Portlandia protesters give a flying fig about the Brussels military establishment or do you, an intellectual, think this is what the donors sponsoring the protesters are pushing
The biggest impact on high supermarket prices comes from government policies that drive up costs, especially the cost of energy at all stages of the production and distribution process.
Coles and Woolworths were keen to get on board with the Voice, let’s see them enter the political fray on behalf of their shareholders and customers in a matter where their interests are really at stake.
I would have signs in every supermarket “higher prices are because of Albo and Bowen’s higher electricity and fuel costs. Your super likely holds our shares. If you want more of same vote ALP”
I don’t think they have the guts. It is interesting that now they need our help to protect them from a leftie government yet they failed to protect us from the same leftie government during the voice referendum run-up. All they needed to do was to keep out of it.
See my above Roger, Colesworths have got on with every lefty gimmick around in recent years and the one thing I noticed was the steep rise in prices before to after.
Power yes but Coles tells me their use of renewables, aint that meant to be the cheapest?
I suspect having Linfox and a few refrigerated companies like Nolans doesn’t help either with supply chain inflexibility. My local Woolworths tells me Cyclone Alfred is the cause of shortages, even though the roads never really closed down the coast and it still being a month ago. I started politely disagreeing with these excuses if given them by people.
This is a wake-up call for the McKinseys types who run Colesworths, Rockdoctor.
The biggest impact on high supermarket prices comes from government policies that drive up costs, especially the cost of energy at all stages of the production and distribution process.
Not quite, prices reflect 2 inputs 1) the actual cost of producing and marketing the good 2) the purchasing power of the currency you are trading for it.
Government expansion of the money supply constantly devalues the dollar (thats why counterfeiting is illegal – for us) at a rate of around 10% per year (not the 2-3% they admit). If you want to check that for yourself, compare the price of gold for the last 20 years..
A bit of schadenfreude to start the day. Joe Hildebrand writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Lie down with dogs, you get fleas. That’s where it is at Mr Burke. They hate you like they hate any Australian.
And Mr Hildebrand, this means that multiculturalism is a failure, despite you trying to pump those tyres.
I’m struggling to care about Burke being “targeted”. He has been more or less silent for eighteen months.
Now the knife has turned in his own hand. Boo hoo.
Yes, there’s an element of schadenfreude here.
But they won’t stop with Burke if they can get away with it.
He tried himself in knots, claiming that multiculti is successful, while describing actions that clearly demonstrate its failure.
What is he drinking or smoking?
Blacks and whites couldn’t live together until they started interbreeding. Now we have Rachel Zegler as Snow White. I’s called assimilation. The intolerant religions need to wake up.
I disagree, burning down a synagogue with people still in it is uglier than anything Tony Burke had to face. Funnily enough both done by the same sort of people.
Australia is the most multicultural nation on earth and the most successful multicultural nation on earth.
FFS!!
Culture is the sum total of all the ideas and beliefs and agreed rules that determine how your society works. Its like your road rules but scaled up to your entire society. And like road rules, you can only have one set or your get collisions and accidents. This is why multicultural societies fail – there are too many collisions and too many injuries.
Note that CULTURE is NOT the same thing as RACE. Culture is software and RACE is hardware. Multiracial societies can work just fine provided they share a common culture. It is not ‘racist’ to criticise multiculturalism.
The slide is from my weekly podcast btw … Episode 50 going out tonight
https://rumble.com/v6r4hms-episode-49-wake-up-australia-dissecting-this-weeks-news-with-dr-bruce-paix.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
You’re thinking too logically, duk.
It’s the feels that count, especially hurty ones.
[sarc]
What strain ..?
as strong a show of support for the Muslim community as you can get at a time when it is under great strain.
Any “strain” on the “Muslim community,” if it exists (which I doubt), is entirely self-inflicted since Oct. 7 and I have zero sympathy for them.
Hildebrand is all over the place and contradicting his own statements and opinions.
Burqa wouldn’t scratch himself without checking with “community leaders”.
CrristinaC gravely assures us, in the pages of the “West Australian” that
“I won’t be voting for the Liberal Party in the upcoming federal elections because, simply put, no matter how they spin it and no matter how much they try to scare us into voting for them, the Liberal Party are all about supporting the rich getting richer.”
And what, precisely, is wrong with that?
Because Zulu people like her want everything for nothing. They want to share in those riches without actually working for any of it.
It’s wrong if the rich are getting rich at the expense of the poor.
Renewables
investorsgrifters, for example.Someone might educate the lady as to how green-left policies facilitate this.
WA Libs should reply that they are trying to make everyone richer and ask Labor if they have a problem with that.
The ALP is all about making us poorer, particularly with its energy policies.
That is more the point.
But let’s just throw money at those ‘traitors’ eh Mr Hildebrand? To keep Burqa and other associated morons in power. Daily Telegraph again:
Answers on a postage stamp Senator Ruston.
Just don’t mention pork-barrelling.
What should this be called?
Mutton barrelling?
Date barrelling?
Probably not goat barrelling, but.
My prediction is that they will still vote against him as they consider those grants as their due.
That’d be a massive own goal.
Mr. Ouf wouldn’t have access to the pork-barrel.
Your tinny is killing the planet.
Labour launches net zero crackdown on boats (30 Mar)
Maybe we should just go back to the Age of Sail.
Try doing it to an Oil Supertanker.
The tow paths are still alongside the canals, re-introduce horse drawn canal boats.
Bonus free fertiliser for nearby homes and farms.
You’ll have the animal rights groups out then.
Would galley slaves be acceptable?
Only if they were drawn from the ranks of the State and Federal Parliamentarians.
Swap horses for politicians and you might be on a winner. Add in the public being given willow switches and then we have the makings of a whole new sport with associated betting options.
ghod no… too many methanes!!
Too many volunteers….to administer the switches ..
Ah Yes…horse drawn @ 6 mph av….progress ?.
I bet billionaires’ superyachts won’t have any restrictions.
So its full circle back to the times where power and transport came from the wind, agriculture was horse or human powered and the earths carrying capacity was under a billion.
They really do want us dead
Let them lead by example.
They come out with something as idiotic as this, yet continue to hide Bowen. What are the man-bun advisors so afraid of?
Labour not Labor – pommy problems.
That sort of crap and corruption is virulently contagious.
Death Cultist Luddites.
Federal election 2025Countryman NewsCountryman PoliticsFederal PoliticsSouth WestWA News
A Federal teal candidate for the South West has shrugged off questions of political transparency despite her campaign being bankrolled by anonymous and Greens donors.
Bunbury surgeon Sue Chapman has accepted 87 anonymous donations included some that totalled $100,000, $25,000, $12,500 and $10,000 despite her website promising “greater transparency and accountability”.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 31, 2025 9:47 am
Awaiting for approval
From the West Australian
A Federal teal candidate for the South West has shrugged off questions of political transparency despite her campaign being bankrolled by anonymous and Greens donors.
sTeal.
A bit late, but many thanks Tom.
At the risk of poking the ant’s nest ( but hey I’m bored)
Arky
The left is correct about one thing, and one thing only, and only because they got it from thinkers much greater than themselves: there is only power. Power is all that counts in this world
I like your nouveau Leninism of power, Arky. Agree ‘rights’ is a shape shifting chimera invented by the nesters, bureaucrats and soy boys to usurp power. I’ve got plenty of human rights lawyers fighting for the rights of…… – just fill in the bank except for ‘white men’ – where I live. But where does ethics and morality fit in with your one step forward two steps back scheme?
Catholic Australia:Election Statement 2025
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This means the only choice for Catholics should be 1st preference to Family First with 2nd preference to LNP. Were Archbishop Mannix alive, he wouldn’t beat around the bush, but explicitly warn that voting otherwise would submit the culprit under pain of mortal sin. But nowadays, where do you find real Catholics?
China? Africa?
It would be fruitful in this discussion to make a clear distinction between natural rights and legal rights.
Great, fire away. My guess is natural rights we are born with and legal right are conferred by the combined legal system. How about animal rights? The rights of the South African tick, the harmless German cockroach or the white tailed spider.
Spot on.
But let’s leave animal rights aside in this discussion, as it will only muddy the waters.
Sort of, but all the arguments for rights can easily be transferred to critters and the concept becomes reductio ad absurdum. (roach-ductio abdsudum?).
In MHO the ‘rights’ kerfuffle is to replace God and a moral system with obscurantism and bafflement. Islam will quickly sort it out – they are not so stupid. And here a big shout out to Cassi (?) who linked this fantastic discussion ( even with Anderson’s stunning ignorance) with Durie and Schumak. If you gentle blog reader, know little of the impending Islamic terror, look on Mo’s works and despair.
Other way ’round.
We have a rights kerfuffle because we’ve lost faith in God (generally speaking).
Remotely, our faith in God, but more concretely, in ends to which the rights themselves point towards.
The distance between “remote” (faith) and “concrete” (justice and ethics) concerns is not as great as you appear to suggest.
That being aid, it would help those following this discussion if you could expand on these ends you mention, dover.
The last is very hard to do briefly. We have natural faculties with natural ends. The ends of the sexual faculties are procreative. The ends of the rational faculties are the discovery and dissemination of truth and knowledge. You get the idea. The idea of rights emerge as a defense against encroachment in the proper exercise of our natural faculties. If you want to improve rights talk or even move away from rights talk, start talking about the natural faculties and the ends to which they point to more.
This is only true of a deficient moral theory and it exemplifies its deficiency.
But but Muddy may wish to do to the waters.
/sac
Eh?
Lol! clever. 😀
There are no ‘natural’ rights. No rabbit has a ‘natural’ right to not being shot/
I suggested we leave animal rights out of it.
That is not what ‘natural’ in natural rights means.
Then what does it mean? To which living beings does it not refer?
It means here what is in accord with the faculties of the living being under consideration.
Maybe I missed it but I didn’t see any MSM mention of a stabathon in Amsterdam the other day.
Looks like a person of no known nationality or religion set about sticking some of the people in Sint Nicolaasstraat . He in turn took a kicking from the locals before some chap subdued him.
Stayed in the same street last year, seemed to be mainly residential with a couple of local restaurants.
He was a Ukrainian from Donetsk. I have no idea what the motive was.
Visa was disallowed I believe.
nice way to submit an appeal!!
The statues are coming back in the US of A.
(ii) take action to reinstate the pre-existing monuments, memorials, statues,
RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY
Executive Orders
March 27, 2025
Put them on federal land, then damage done to them becomes a federal crime. Though from what I’ve seen the wreckers are the dimwitted, even if highly educated, are still going carry on.
Foine, GR, Foine.
They can earn a 5 year holiday in the Federal Penitentiary Leavenworth
The video discusses declining fertility and marriage rates, particularly in Western countries, emphasizing Lyman Stone’s view that delayed marriage is the primary issue affecting fertility rates. Once married, most couples tend to have children, but with people marrying later, they miss the opportunity to have more children during their reproductive years. The discussion highlights several factors influencing this trend, including the inability of young men to signal their suitability as partners, such as through wealth or military service, which has become less common. The conversation also covers women’s increasing socioeconomic success, creating a gap where they struggle to find equally successful male partners. The impact of modern lifestyle expectations, such as the pressure to maintain a specific lifestyle seen online and intergenerational comparisons, contributes to a feeling of inadequacy despite better economic standing than previous generations. Additionally, women prioritize career success but find it challenging to locate partners who meet their expectations, resulting in delayed marriage and childbearing. Finally, the conversation touches on how forming relationships earlier in life allows couples to grow together and create a shared life, potentially reducing the likelihood of divorce, compared to waiting longer when individuals have already established distinct lives and preferences.
The last 50 years in the West has been a constant process of domestication – we are all cossetted and dependent citizens now. We are human pandas – and like pandas, we dont breed well in captivity.
The only way to keep the welfare ponzi going now is to import cheap citizens from OS … and its a mirage, they dont add to the countries wealth, they consume it.
@julie_kelly2
In Feb 2021, then DC chief judge Beryl Howell created a special framework for judges to use in determining pre trial detention for J6ers—meaning keep them behind bars awaiting trial.
What became known as the “Chrestman factors” turned due process and standard bail rules on their head. Even nonviolent J6ers charged with conspiracy or obstruction with no criminal record could be held in a federal prison—often hauled cross country to the DC gulag—because as part of the “mob that attacked the Capitol,” they represented a danger to their community.
A J6er’s release was not considered on a case by case basis—which is normally required—but rather how big of a role in the “insurrection” (how Jeb Boasberg describes it) the defendant played.
Howell now claims she is the victim of a smear campaign by Trump’s DOJ.
Yep. Just what we need.
Because when leccy cars run out of puff and roll to a stop on the side of the road, it is absolutely no different to being in a leccy boat which, when the same happens, is at the absolute mercy of wind and wave.
The Elbow Abalone Government is fast running out of community sectors who don’t realise they have no idea how the real world operates.
This a pommie story.
Same shiite, different horse. Labor voters are the same worldwide.
They’re also a minority.
Starmer won with just 33.7% of the vote.
Albanese scraped over the line in 2022 with 32.5% of the primary vote.
Dutton has made the Victorian Liberals mistake. He has not differentiated the LNP from the ALP. He has me too’ed on too many things and his policies are basically ALP light. Why vote for the LNP when you will get nothing different.
To get rid of anal
Vote for abalone and his watermelon mates and you will get a real difference as communism will get its latest chance to destroy.
@BillMelugin_
UPDATE: This Honduran illegal alien caught & released at the border by the Biden admin is now indicted on new charges of rape, necrophilia, and aggravated sexual battery on top of felony murder & malice murder in connection to the killing of an American mother of five in Georgia.
Does Georgia have the death penalty?
Re-open Andersonville …….!
@MarioNawfal
NEW YORK MOVES TO BAN TESLA SALES—CITES “MASSIVE ISSUES” WITH ELON
New York lawmakers are coming for Tesla’s direct-to-consumer model, and Elon is the reason why.
A new bill introduced by State Sen. Pat Fahy would strip Tesla of its five existing sales licenses by 2026—opening the door for rivals like Rivian and Lucid to grab the permits.
If it passes, Tesla would be effectively banned from selling cars directly in the state.
“This isn’t about EVs,” one source said. “It’s about Elon.”
Critics are calling it a targeted takedown—weaponizing policy to punish the man, not the company.
This should be a serious case for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice—swiftly.
The Democrat party is evolving into a fascist party before everyone’s eyes, turning every state they run into hostile territory for capitalism. I expect Trump can retaliate by withholding federal funds.
In a recent development, Argentine President Javier Milei has ordered the release of documents concerning the escape of Adolf Hitler and other Nazis to Argentina after World War II. The video discusses the long-held theory that Hitler did not die in a Berlin bunker but instead fled to Argentina, where he reportedly lived until the 1960s. The release of these documents could shed light on the extent of Nazi operations in Argentina, which some sources claim served as a secondary base for the Third Reich. Additionally, the discussion touches upon the involvement of U.S. intelligence agencies, like the CIA, in facilitating and later recruiting these Nazis for operations against communists during the Cold War, notably through Operation Paperclip, which brought Nazi scientists and intelligence personnel to the U.S. This move towards transparency by Argentina could reveal more about these historical connections. The video also briefly mentions an ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s files, suggesting a broader trend towards governmental transparency.
The lawyer taking on Britain’s speech police
Pete Hegseth is annoying all the right people. A couple months ago they were wetting their panties about his Christian cross tatt on his chest. Now they’ve found another one to wet their panties about.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Arabic tattoo sparks controversy (JPost, 30 Mar)
Just above the kafir tatt he has Deus Vult tatted also. I like this guy.
The muzzies label *us* as kafirs…. he is merely showing respect 😉
Who gives a shit what the mussie tossers think?
They’re never going to find something nice to say about us.
EU To Citizens: Prepare For NUCLEAR WAR!
Madness !!
@realBruceBallou
Boasberg is bought and paid for. Justice must prevail for corrupt judges and their grifting family members.
Ok, I was wondering why the NYT published this article on weekend. Makes sense now.
Neither side seems especially interested in Trump’s peace deal.
If Trump keeps supporting UKR he’s probably happy with that.
@MikeBenzCyber
The guy in this video co-founded Nina Jankowicz’s censorship NGO. Once again, the upper crust of the censorship elite is just a professional color revolution network whose only job is just to control the course of governments. They care not a fig about misinfo, just control.
If you think Dutton won’t nail a policy, you should hear Ted O’Brien on energy in a meeting.
He’s one of the ‘energy agnostic’ crowd that should be horse whipped for cowardice.
Personally, I’m beyond outraged by the shallow effort that has gone into Coalition energy policy. None of the public policy disclosures make any technical or commercial sense – and nothing avoids the chaos of renewables backed up by gas.
It’s almost as if it was drawn up by a committee of political advisers, trying to chart a ‘least harm’ political roadmap to navigate the rapids of destruction caused by NetZero.
Pitiful.
Zelenskyy, With EU Support, Continues Looking for Any Excuse to Derail or Avoid Peace Talks – Rejects Mineral Deal, Demands EU Ascension and Security Guarantees
Tosser !!
From the West Australian
The parents of Australia’s most decorated soldier have thrown their support behind their son’s fight for a retrial of his war crimes defamation case after it was revealed Nine reporter Nick McKenzie obtained some of his legal strategy.
Ben Roberts-Smith’s bid to reopen the case is set to return to the Federal Court in Sydney on Monday morning for a case management hearing.
First they came for the Jews, and Tony did not speak out …
As ugly as burning down a synagogue or multiple Christian churches?
Seems Hildebrand is far more concerned about Burke being targeted than Jews.
Sniffing around.
Chinese ‘spy ship’ spotted off the coast of South Australia (Sky News mainpage headline, 31 Mar)
Paging a Mr Marles! Will Richard Marles please come to the red security phone?
Sink the damn thing and blame a rogue wave.
What with…a penny bomb ?.
We have torpedos, you know, wayne.
The good ones that explode under the keel of a ship, creates a cavity that the ship drops into, and sinks in about 5 seconds.
Not many of course, but some.
… bring that superbly connected CC figure who recently spent time with PM Abalone with you.
There are a few things we all need to clear up.
How do you circumnavigate the southern coast?
Please…don’t bother journalists with minor details.
Similar to Circular Quay in Sydney.
If it was circular then it would be a small lake or a large pond surrounded by land.
It’s proper name is Half Circular Quay. There is even a plaque there stating this.
That could all change of course with this ‘change of name’ funny business.
Maybe – Abbo Mongo Bunganoo……………..or somefink’
You turn around, Then the coast is on the other side.
Maybe like Matthew Flinders, who circumcised Australia with a 14 foot cutter!
barbarian!
Maybe it’s here to pick up Dan Andrews at Cheviot Beach ?
Wow, Pollbludgers Climate200 bias is certainly clouding his judgement. I avoid the detritus in his comments.
Latest offering has Climate200 candidates losing nothing, in fact gaining a seat.
They’ll be down one in NSW (Abolition of Nth Syd), from what the bookies say Spender, Steagall and Scamps are likely to return. Vic Daniel is likely to hold on but Ryan may not (line ball on odds). Cheney is gone in WA.
From what the bookies say they are unlikely to win any other contests, even Cowper.
Worker’s Comp gone mad in Muesli run outfit?
Surprise, surprise!
Hoist on their own petard.
Jason Clare to the rescue!
“And he says –
“Just follow me – I’ll be right behind you”.”
I like to two Dave Allen “Irish Directions” jokes:
“Oh, Derry is it? Let me tell ya, if I was going dere meself, I wouldn’t be startin’ from here”
“Go down to tha corner and turn right. Den turn first right. Den turn first right again”
“Won’t that bring me back to the first intersection?
“Yes, but you’ll be facin’ tha right way”
Fun fact, I saw Dave Allen live at Drury lane in the mid 80s
Oliver Stone to testify at JFK assassination hearingDavid ShepardsonReuters
Mon, 31 March 2025 7:41AM
Film director Oliver Stone will testify at a US House of Representatives hearing on thousands of pages of documents related to the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy released at the direction of US President Donald Trump.
Representative Anna Paulina Luna, chair of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, on Sunday said lawmakers will hear from witnesses about the value of the documents.
“By investigating the newly released JFK files, consulting experts, and tracking down surviving staff of various investigative committees, our task force will get to the bottom of this mystery and share our findings with the American people,” Luna said.
Shortly after taking office for his second term in January, Trump signed an executive order directing national intelligence and other officials to quickly come up with a plan for the full and complete release of all records relate to President Kennedy’s assassination.
The archives’ Kennedy assassination collection has more than six million pages of records, the vast majority of which had been declassified and made public before Trump’s order. Kennedy’s murder has been attributed to a sole gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Stone’s 1991 film JFK faced harsh criticism from historians for its suggestions that Kennedy’s death was the result of high-level conspiracies. Stone has said Kennedy was not killed by a lone assassin and believes certain elements within the US intelligence community were involved.
The Justice Department and other federal government bodies have reaffirmed the conclusion in the intervening decades that Oswald acted alone. But polls show many Americans still believe his death was a result of a conspiracy.
Also testifying on Tuesday are journalist and author Jefferson Morley and author James DiEugenio. Morley said on social media he will focus on the CIA’s complete pre-assassination file on Oswald during the hearing.
Trump promised on the campaign trail to provide more transparency about Kennedy’s death.
Regrettably, the orange oaf is helping communism along too. The proposal to make tipping and overtime tax free is that it will be paid for with more taxes on higher income earners. As someone called it – communism from the Right.
No not at all. It will be paid for by reducing government spending.
That’s not the suggestion coming from the WH, which is that income tax on high earners will pay for it because deeper cuts to government services may hurt Trump politically.
I don’t think anyone’s run any numbers on this.
We wish, Will. Most of federal government spending is made up:
Mandatory Spending (~60-65% of total spending):
Discretionary Spending (~25-30% of total spending):
Interest on the National Debt (~10-15% of total spending):
They have to find 6% of GDP in these groups to balance the budget.
If they went near the medis they would be slaughtered at the next election.
Let’s say the US will take in $500 billion on tariffs, and that’s a lot. That alone will go toward making tips and overtime tax free. The debt is going to be difficult to deal with and so is the annual deficit.
If the Tariffs slow down the economy, which is what the markets are worried about, tax receipts fall and welfare goes up.
It’s now 2 months plus, and he’s not really touched much on deregulation, which could help growth.
Anyway, we’ll see where this all ends up.
If Trump doesn’t follow through on his promise, Americans will be paying both income tax and high tariffs.
High income earners are already getting slugged just under 55% if you include city, state and federal in those states where high earners reside.
The fall in the stock market is telling you something.
Also the two policies he’s advocating really don’t make sense. He’s saying income from tariffs will help “make us rich”, which is Trump speak for paying down the debt and lowering taxes. At the same time he’s wants to move manufacturing onshore. So what happens to those tariffs?
The grifters will not be able to rely on Government monies to help making money easier and thus prop up their share price?
Ent, all this is excellent. Not one cent.
The deficit, though is 6% plus of GDP (near enough to $2 trill). The DOGE cuts will help but it’s not much in terms of the heavy load. 6% of GDP is really big.
A plan?
Just put it all up on the internet.
If they need help I believe Julian Assange is at a loose end.
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone…Pulls out pin, shouts “Grenade” and flings the infernal device as far as it will go….
I did my bit today. Walked up to the chemist for prescription. Coming back, here is a speed camera van on the grass strip in a 40kph zone. So I did what any right minded person should do. I stood in front of the camera. After a short time bloke gets out and asks me to move. Eff off C. I can stand here all day. Don’t give mr any of that police crap, you’ll be be impersonating a police officer and I’m recording this. He gets in and drives off.
Hard but fair.
MY HERO!!!
LOL, I did this years ago with my car. I came home and parked in the street outside my house, then noted a ‘camera car’ parked a little further up. I got in my car reversed back to block it. The operator hopped out and asked me to move … I refused …. the operator moved.
Another time, I got a camera ticket – which puzzled me – for my plate had a (then not illegal) central fin attached which should have obscured one of the digits. I therefore called for the picture. It showed that indeed the car they said was mine had one of the numbers occluded. I therefore objected, very reasonably claiming that there was doubt as to the identity of the car. SAPOL replied that ‘there are only 10 possibilities, and of those 10, you are the registered owner of the only one matching the observed make and colour’. I replied, ‘well it must be fun to be a detective, but does the legislation require that the plate be seen, or does it allow some combination of partial plate and make and model?” They cancelled the fine.
And in a different encounter, I defended a fine accrued whilst I was interstate by ‘naming the driver’. Only problem for them was I named *2* people – I said ‘I don’t know exactly which of these 2 people was driving, but it was either X or Y.’ They replied ‘not good enough, you haven’t named the driver’ . I said ‘ah yes but I have, I gave you 2 names, one of which was the driver, ergo I gave you the name of the driver’. They cancelled the fine…..
Yes, well played. Hairy received a $130 fine and one demerit point the other day for doing 89 in the Cross City Tunnel, where the limit is 80. We traced it to when we were both on our way to Top Ender’s book launch in Darling Harbour. We were not late. Did you see me going over 80? he asks in outrage. Must have been for only a moment, he continues on. Just pay it, I say. We’d never win on appeal. We had a good time, and that’s just part of the cost of it, on top of the parking. The event was by invitation, and free, so we’re well ahead.
Thanks TE. Good launch and a great new book on subs.
Well done, you!
I don’t know what is going on in that painting but it looks illegal.
Great news. The world is saved. Trump going for 3rd term:
REVEALED: The Constitutional Loophole That Could Extend Trump’s Presidency Until 2037.
In other news further confirmation trannies are the most violent members of the community:
Trans Student Allegedly Attacks Conservative Activist with Bike Lock in Viral Video.
And islam spreading it’s gangrenous paws in the US:
Islamist ‘Army of Darkness’ Sets Up U.S. Base in Texas.
That third presidency thing must be a running gag, annoying all the right people. He will be 82.
The Muz have set up a few of these in Australia e.g. Colo river in Sydney. It is part of training boys in the family to ride a horse, archery and use a spear just as Mo said they should.
Victoria’s ‘Compassionate’ bail laws kill two more kids. Topher Project Ep 041
In this episode, Topher Field discusses the tragic deaths of two teenagers who crashed a stolen car in Melbourne, critically examining the role of Victoria’s perceived lenient bail laws. Field argues that the state’s “compassionate” approach to juvenile crime, which often results in minimal consequences for young offenders, contributes to such tragic incidents. He criticizes politicians, the media, and judges for prioritizing compassion over accountability, suggesting this lack of enforcement emboldens reckless behavior among youth. Field calls for stricter enforcement and consequences to deter crime and protect both potential victims and the young offenders themselves. He advocates for firmer legal repercussions as the truly compassionate response, contrasting this with the current system, which he believes fails to address the root problems effectively.
Killing and maiming people in Queensland too but you’ll only hear about the aspiring rappers when it happens to one of them.
The only tragedy would have been if an innocent had been killed because of them. Not sorry, no sympathy.
For those two, I really don’t care, Margaret.
In this episode, Topher Field discusses the tragic deaths of two teenagers who crashed a stolen car…
Why do we persist in naming the deaths of criminals committing a crime as ‘tragedies’. If the police rang me and said ‘we found your stolen vehicle and its totalled’ I would say ‘aw crap’.
If they said ‘we found your stolen vehicle totalled with the perps dead in it , I would say ‘fair trade’
In the old days, stealin a mans horse was a capital crime …stealing his car still should be.
Sentimentality has usurped reason.
I’ve had a gutful of Australian non-profit “charities” collaborating with Third World animal poachers — and being charged a pittance as advertisers — to flood the commercial TV industry with images of animals being tortured to raise funds for campaigns against Australian agriculture (not animal torture).
#Rant over.
Wolfman did a great post a couple of weeks back about “The Third Man”.
What a great coincidence, it is on World Movies this afternoon, and the weather is lousy.
Correction, it’s on Gem, not SBS. oops.
More Trumpening! If the Dems keep on like this they will be out of power for a generation:
Tim Walz’s daughter has turned down a graduate school offer because she does not want to ‘give her money’ to an institution which won’t support students’ right to protest.
Hope Walz, whose Democrat father would have been vice president if Kamala Harris won the election, will instead ‘take her time’ over the next year to find a school which better aligns with her values.
She said as a ‘privileged white woman’, the repercussions of protesting on campus wouldn’t necessarily impact her, but she didn’t want to give money to an institution that wouldn’t also protect her peers.
Protesting on campus has become a flashpoint of the Trump administration, after the president signed an executive order describing pro-Palestine activism which swept campuses last year acts of antisemitism.
He threatened to cut federal funding to schools which ‘allow illegal protests’ and vowed to imprison ‘agitators’ or send them back ‘to the country which they came from.’
American students who could not be deported faced expulsion and arrest, Trump said, while simultaneously banning masks which shield a protester’s identity.
Hope’s comments sparked outrage among critics who said she was acting ‘performatively’ and ‘setting feminism back 50 years.’
‘White women privilege is getting into college but having such rich parents you can decide to not go.. how noble and brave,’ another critic said.
Others questioned whether she truly was accepted to her ‘dream school’, saying she could have been creating an elaborate excuse when in reality she simply didn’t get in.
‘She didn’t get in lol. I wouldn’t be surprised if she didn’t even apply to one… it’s all theatrics,’ one critic said.
Another added: ‘In other words, I don’t want to go to grad school, but I can pose as a social Justice warrior and then get hired by dad’s buddies think tank.’
A third wrote: ‘If virtue signaling paid well, she’d be a millionaire.’
Another warned that she was so ‘brainwashed’ that she was inadvertently ‘screwing herself out of an education.’
More at the Daily Mail
Off to the fainting couch for a whole year…
They arent sending their best
Stud in the nostril, buck teeth and a palpable stupidity. She’s tampon’s alright.
Decided on a gap year but claiming virtue for it. Maybe a bit of resume padding for a gig on some dem senator’s staff?
Q. Why does she imagine anyone cares?
A. Entitled narcissist.
Might explain a thing or two:
Danielle Laidley diagnosed with ‘very rare’ brain tumour | PerthNow
“Strangely,” no comments allowed.
Prolly a stupid question but in this day and age with airheads and youtube channel everyone’s a celrb apparently…
Who is she?
He was former AFL coach.
Oh, ta.
HE, was arrested a few years back wearing some of his wife’s finest clobber.
The coppers took photos of him in the nick as his hair and make-up were all over the place because he was drunk and disorderly.
Said coppers were sacked as they shared/sold the photos.
Stupid Oz meeja insists on calling it SHE.
Sorry to read about his brain tumour, but Blind Freddy can see he is not a woman.
There could be a bit of a “quiet vote” going for Dutton but I’m not sure it’ll get him over the line.
I never met a single person that voted for Howard, and yet he was 2nd longest serving PM…
I’ve never a person who likes Trump.
Every person I mentioned Abbot’s name to loudly denied they would ever vote for him.
Stupid Bloody Abbot.
I have no idea what he’s like as a person, but he was an effective President.
I voted for him, and after he left that mess behind, I never voted Liberal again.
Died a bit young, poor bugger.
Former Richmond and Collingwood AFL star Andrew Krakouer dies aged 42
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/31/andrew-krakouer-death-age-42-afl-star-richmond-collingwood-cause
Former AFL forward Andrew Krakouer has been remembered as a “trailblazer” and “just a ripper person” after his death at the age of 42 from a heart attack at his family home in Perth.
too soon perhaps?
but 2 thoughts come to mind…
1) shit, I didnt even know he was in jail
2) shit, I didnt even know he was vaxxed
A true “energy agnostic” would oppose renewballs subsidies, thumbs on the AEMO scales to prioritise renewballs and shut out coal and gas when it suits and regulatory hurdles for gas projects whilst wind and solar gets waved through.
If Mabo was the most destructive judgment in Australia, Yunupingu must be a close second:
Australia’s top judges | The Spectator Australia
Paywalled – the huge manatee!
Case D5/2023 – High Court of Australia
This could cost Australia $billions. It retrospectivises compensation for dealing with aboriginal land even though Mabo said that C’Wealth land being used nullified NT. This hideous judgment said not withstanding this Just Terms must still apply from ever. Aboriginal claims over private land is inevitable.
Based on the outcome of the InVoice, Dutton needs to propose an amendment to the Constitution to:
At a stretch, also:
The Gov can give abos rights to the land, with the provisos that they cannot sell or develop it. Watch the ‘land rights’ cases disappear.
And only use it for traditional purposes with traditional methods.
Chris Merritt had a response to this a couple weeks ago. Something about an SA law extinguishing native title when the NT was under SA.
Totally left field thought but, in a hung Parliament in the Republic of Australia (or the Peoples Democratic Republic of Australia), how would you elect the President (instead of the GG, appointed by PM) via a Parliamentary vote?
What if you couldn’t get an outcome? Particularly if you needed an absolute or special majority (rather than a simple majority)…? Would the President be subject to No-Confidence votes in Parliament?
Australians would never ever vote for that model.
What makes you think they would get a vote? A creative High Court could resolve that issue, with nonrecourse to challenge.
‘Person 17’: Conversation with Ben Roberts-Smith’s ex-lover at centre of appeal bidBy Michaela WhitbournMarch 31, 2025 — 8.43am
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The leaked audio recording at the centre of war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith’s bid to reopen his defamation appeal involved a conversation between a journalist and the former soldier’s one-time lover, the Federal Court has heard.
The former Special Air Service corporal filed an application last week to reopen his appeal to introduce new evidence about a recording of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald investigative journalist Nick McKenzie speaking to a witness in the defamation trial.
McKenzie, an author of the articles at the centre of the defamation case, was one of the respondents to the lawsuit.
Roberts-Smith is seeking to overturn a landmark decision by Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko in 2023, which dismissed his multimillion-dollar defamation case against The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and found he was complicit in the murder of four unarmed Afghan prisoners.
Roberts-Smith’s barrister, Arthur Moses, SC, confirmed in the Federal Court in Sydney on Monday that the recorded conversation sought to be used in his appeal was between McKenzie and “Person 17”, a witness in the defamation trial whose identity was suppressed by the court.
A transcript of that conversation was filed in court as part of an affidavit sworn by one of Roberts-Smith’s lawyers.
Person 17 is a former lover of Roberts-Smith who gave evidence against him in the defamation trial.
The audio of McKenzie telling Person 17 he had received details of Roberts-Smith’s legal strategy in the defamation case was published by News Corp’s Sky News last week.
According to the transcript, McKenzie, who was attempting to reassure Person 17 about giving evidence in the case, said Roberts-Smith’s ex-wife, Emma Roberts, and her friend, Danielle Smith, were “actively … briefing us on his legal strategy” in the defamation case.
“I shouldn’t tell you. I’ve just breached my f—ing ethics in doing that … If Dean knew that … I’d get my arse f—ing handed to me on a platter,” McKenzie said.
What arse. No journalist has an arse because they are arseholes.
Hard to believe Their ABC QandA let this guy on their panel.
https://nitter.poast.org/BikoKonstantin1/status/1905775904489644373#m
Straight talking about the two main causes of high cost of living – net zero and currency devaluation, both caused by government.
Spotted by Virgin?
By definition, how can it possibly be “circumnavigating” when a ship doesn’t go around the entire country?
What was her name?
The video on Asmongold TV discusses the lengthy and complex bureaucratic process for implementing broadband infrastructure improvements in the U.S. under a bill supported by the Biden administration. The process, as outlined, involves numerous steps including multiple rounds of proposals, planning grants, reviews, and mapping stages, each fraught with challenges and delays, resulting in only a few states progressing through the entire process. The speaker expresses frustration at the inefficiency and bloated nature of the government system responsible for administering these initiatives. Highlighting Elon Musk’s perspective on inefficiencies, the speaker uses humor to underline the convoluted nature of government procedures, suggesting an overly regulated “Karenocracy” as a significant hindrance to effective policy implementation.
No one wants your stupid electric vans.
GM storing poor-selling Canadian-made electric vans on Michigan lot (29 Mar, via Lucianne)
You’d think that they’d work it out. But they never seem to.
New selling point, “All Electric Pedo Vans! Cheep!”
If they’re white, with no windows, they’ve always been known as Pedo Vans.
How long would it take to charge whats in the picture?
As opposed to filling equivalents with petrol/diesel.
Hmm.
BTW, I read that Elon is considering building an event venue in LA where people can come and charge their EVs. While they are waiting, they can have a meal, watch a movie, etc.
Only in LA.
He’s a card!
‘I Hope Nobody Taped That’: Democrat Spills Beans About Party’s Anti-Trump Protest Strategy – PJ Media
get a load of this rancid slag- thought it was Tingle at first
Reining in your loonies might improve your prospects a lot more.
Particularly as DOGE is cutting off many of the sources of DemonRat money channelled through “independent” cough, cough NGOs.
Palestinian civil war incoming?
I’ll buy popcorn futures as they do to each other what they’ve been doing to the world.
Emboldened by the fact that there are no longer any tall buildings to throw them off, gay Hamas recruits come out of the closet in Gaza.
Don’t tell them that throwing faggots off garden shed roofs is rarely fatal.
Bring out the Gimp!
Anybody seen the pics this arvo of Albo holding the newborn. Looks like he’s holding a cat on its back. The mum in the background is ready to pounce. She can see he’s got no idea what he’s doing and is about to drop the kid. Beta energy.
In the background is crook looking like an undertaker.
The baby will need counselling for the rest of its life.
All politicians should be kept away from minors.
Remember Creepy Joe sniffing little girls?
Ugh.
Britain Waking Up To HORRIFIC Reality
Take the sugar off the table and the ants will stop coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvzStNigRUc
From the comments….
Is it okay for us to say “we are being replaced in our own countries”, now??
Australia is following along.
An excellent comment on RG’s article in the Oz. (Reformatted for increased emphasis and clarity.)
Huge deficit is one of six crisis points to know before you vote in 2025 election
Phil
You are just scratching the surface. 2025 Report Card for the Albanese government:
Pride in the Australian flag – Fail
Net Zero Fantasy-Fail
Voice Referendum- fail?
Electricity $275 saving – fail?
Immigration numbers – fail
Sonar attack on navy divers – fail
Social housing – fail?
Productivity – fail?
Border security – fail?
Cost of living – fail?
Interest rates – fail?
Foreign affairs – fail?
UN Votes – fail?
Wage restraint – fail
?Union control – fail?
Airline competition – fail?
Super rules – fail?
Cashless debit card – fail?
Paid parental leave – fail
?Deporting criminals – fail?
US Ambassador – fail?
EV subsidies – fail?
Budget restraint – fail
?Salmon farming – fail?
Relationship with US – fail
Relationship with Israel- Fail?
Support for Alice Springs – fail?
Support for Australia Day – fail?
NDIS cost blow outs – fail
Antisemitism- fail
Strong leadership – fail
Taking a strong stance on anything- fail
Spin A+
Sports attendance A+
I would say that their Net Zero Fantasy is 100% a success, It sure is a 100% Fantasy.
Dutton. Get rid of Nut Zero/Net Zany.
PM says Chinese ship being ‘monitored’
Anthony Albanese says he would “prefer that it wasn’t there” on the Chinese government research vessel off the south coast of Australia but has declined to provide more details on the Chinese mission or what the Australian government had done.
“Do you know what it is researching? What have you done to protect our undersea cables from any monitoring or sabotage? And have you communicated anything to the Chinese government about this?” he was asked.
“What we have done is we’re continuing to monitor it,” he said. “We won’t – for obvious reasons – broadcast everything that we’re doing. But we’re keeping an eye on this as we do.”
When asked what “monitoring” meant, he said it meant the “Australian Defence Force is monitoring what is happening”
How do you spell “Appeasement” again?
A-b-a-l-o-n-e. Am I right.
You got it.
Our nation is sacrificed so the Chinese crocodile eats the Abalone last.
Gold A$4,939.78
?$5K/oz before the end of Easter?
Worrying developments.
The A$0.63 cents US.
I’m wondering if the continued Democrat violence and intimidation is making people nervous about civil strife.
Nobody wins in that case.
4974 now, so might be before the end of the week!
Standing up for your country and its people does not compute when you’re a tired old campus marxist.
The Oz on the weekend reported Dutton as wanting a referendum to put aborigines in the Preamble to the Constitution.
Leaving all of that well alone would be a far better move.
Who wants to revisit that nonsense, and have it later used against us?
Just let Jacinta get on with her job which will win a lot of voter approval.
And do something useful for aboriginal people as well. A Preamble mention will just sow further division.
Tin ear there, Dutton.
Note it was reported that… I wouldn’t take that as as set in stone. It is more likely conveying a message that Dutton is receptive of change in regard to Aboriginal issues and recognition within the constitution but only if Australians are also supportive. I wouldn’t get worked up about it.
I’d rather see a binding Referendum on immigration, Lizzie.
Watching cna in Singapore. +60% news dedicated to Trump. Mostly msm -ve talking points.
The MSM worldwide hates Trump, especially now that he has pulled a lot of no-questions-asked funding via the defunct USAID.
It has been depressing since 2016 how ignorant and uninformed local coverage of US politics has been. I keep dreaming that a Senator will get up in Estimates and ask TheirABC how many positive/negative/neutral stories they have run, and why.
You can’t blame the average Aussie, who is not obsessed with politics, for seeing Trump as an ogre. That is the 100% message in the MSM, and social media is not much better.
Incidentally, my opinion about why Trump is not crushing Tik Tok is because he doesn’t want to allow the rest of the titans to eliminate a serious competitor without his agenda getting something out of it.
Just a thought.
The video from The Duran discusses the current issues facing the UK economy and critiques political focus on foreign policy, particularly by K Starmer, with an emphasis on Ukraine. The commentary highlights that domestic economic concerns are being overshadowed by ambitious foreign interventions, which are straining the British economy. Key points include: 1. **Economic Crisis:** The UK economy is struggling, with recent contractions shocking economists. Increased government spending and taxation haven’t yielded growth, instead escalating national debt to around 100% of GDP. The UK’s deficit requires foreign capital, causing a cycle of spending cuts and tax increases, termed a “doom loop.” 2. **Starmer’s Focus:** K Starmer, focusing on foreign policy — specifically Ukraine — is criticized for neglecting domestic economic issues. His international pursuits, such as sending military aid to Ukraine, are questioned given Britain’s strained finances. 3. **Public Sentiment:** There’s widespread public demoralization in the UK, with declining trust in political parties. People perceive deteriorating conditions and see no clear solutions or leadership. 4. **Nigel Farage:** Farage remains a prominent political figure but struggles with defining his role between establishment and reform. He’s noted for his past successes like Brexit, but his current political vision and strategies lack clarity. Overall, the video highlights a perceived disconnect between political leadership and the pressing economic challenges within the UK, with a call for domestic fiscal policies to be prioritized over foreign entanglements.
Churchill he ain’t.
“Handsome boy!”
He’s been called ‘boy’ and hasn’t the brains to see how derogatory it is.
Neville Chamberlain?
And Chamberlain he ain’t.
Maybe Sir Oswald Mosely with even less charisma?
Emperor Xi is taking the piss.
He knows that during an election, neither party of government can do a single thing about Chinese provocation without opening an unpredictable can of electoral worms.
Penny drops for Alan Kohler:
“We know that dwelling approvals have been in trend decline for 10 years. We also know that population growth has been climbing for 20 years driven by a doubling and then tripling of migration. This is why we have a housing crisis: too many people, not enough houses.”
He notes (citing ABS statistics) that, with migration at present settings, demand is outstripping supply by 12 000 dwellings per month.
And with demand running at more than twice supply, Dutton’s 25% migration cut for two years is merely cosmetic, an attempt to cover an ugly fact of contemporary Australian life with a band-aid.
If Dutton committed to max 10k per annum he would govern in a majority. He won’t , because he’s a coward.
I hope young Aussies grow a brain and vote for a better future for themselves. It isn’t with the the UNiparty in charge.
I just don’t think it is that easy. I don’t mean to be objectionable but without a growing tax base, you can’t maintain the level of services Australians want.*
*yes, they wanted to be governed harder and cutting govt would help but an ageing population will require more health services and that costs.
I think, as per your second para, you mean:
“I hope young Aussies grow a brain… and have three kids” 🙂
Population growth is a lazy way to stimulate economic growth and wealth creation, Lysander. In fact, we’ve reached the point where migration is now a net drain on the country’s finances. The UK is in the same predicament, but worse. Canada, which foolishly went down the same path, is looking to Poilievre to cut their program significantly.
Totally agree its a ponzi scheme.
But Aussies aint havin kids, no govt is ever going to make the HUGE cuts needed to rein in debt, and no govt is going to be able to tax you out of existence to pay for increasing aged care/health budget.
They will…or they’ll be forced to by external entities.
We simply can’t live beyond our means in perpetuity.
In fact, migration doesn’t create wealth unless you’re bringing in entrepreneurs and innovators. We aren’t consciously doing that and we can’t compete with the USA, which does do it well.
I don’t think that post WWII immigration was focused on ‘entrepreneurs and innovators’, although there were some among them, and their children.
But, they created plenty of wealth.
Yes, I agree; but it’s a different world now, joh, and a very different migrant intake.
A good number of them were hard working ethnic Germans.
not going to happen. much of the west is a on death spiral, has been since the 70s
More likely they’ll vote greens, unfortunately they seem to be the only party even talking about housing for young people.
Much as I’m trying to ignore the election.
He’s a genius!
All that info has been available for years. As he well knows.
How do people like him get these well paid and prestigious jobs?
Sustaining the narrative until it implodes, perhaps?
It is noteworthy that this was written for an ABC audience.
Meanwhile, parliamentarians are having a great old time as their housing portfolios rocket through the roof.
Are there any without second properties?
So far it looks like China, Iran, and Russia are all telling US to pound sand.
Then the US should hit them with an economic boycott.
That will work.
meme1
meme 2
try
Stunned Mullet looks when asked a couple of difficult questions (and when you really know the correct answer).
The LNP came out and called that young guy a “ratbag”. Because he dared to ask the only questions young Australians want answered.
And the questions were simple. Avoiding a truthful answer was the hard part.
LNP or ALP?
LNP , Duttons campaign people.
Owl for Cohenite
Just been listening to our village choir practising for Anzac Day.
How many knew that Kipling’s Recessional (“Lest we forget, lest we forget” comes from it) was written in 1897, as a warning about imperial over stretch, not at the time of WW I as a lament for the dead?
On that, remember when every leftard in the world screeched about US imperialism and imperial over stretch? Now they complain because Trump wants US power to be more focused on US interests. Leftards can never be satisfied.
Endless revolution.
Kipling had Deuteronomy 6:12 in mind…”beware lest thou forget the Lord.”
This is the problem with Dutton. No guts. No conviction. Always wanting 2 bob each way, just in case.
Peter, we had a fkg referendum. NO to the Voice, means NO to more abo guilt and squandering of our money.
What you should be shouting Dutton is how Albo wasted $500 mill of our money trying to give the governing of our country away to a bunch of savages.
Dutton is working hard to lose the unlosable election due to his cowardice.
Sounds like Abbott’s been in his ear…
Or Crisafulli.
This sh*t is heartbreaking. He’s kicking his supporters in the guts and still expecting their vote.
Or maybe not.
Does he really want to win? What does he know that we don’t? Exactly how precarious is our situation?
Calm down. It was reported that…It is not set in stone. All this is doing is sending out a message that he might be receptive to the idea if the public was also. This is normal stuff for politicians.
Heh. I am very calm, mem. 😀
It needs to be repudiated.
…he is all over the shop.
An election campaign is not the time to be floating trial balloons, for heaven’s sake. It’s a time to enunciate definite policies that show that you are different to and a better proposition than the alternative.
The j’ismists are certainly trying to pump Albo’s tyres off the back of the polls.
Elon Musk Takes Question After Question At Town Hall Event In Green Bay, Wisconsin
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TheirABC’s Just In page had an article headlined ‘An earthquake shook Bangkok’s infinity pools’ – headline now deleted.
FMD.
Lol. It shook the ordinary ones too. Water tends to react that way to a bit of a shake, Particularly 60 floors up.
Watching it now thanks Zipster- these guys are amazing
In the video “Cancers in the young” on Dr. John Campbell’s channel, the discussion focuses on an interview between Tucker Carlson and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a seasoned surgeon and medical researcher. They address the unexplained rise in cancer rates among younger individuals despite a decrease in smoking, traditionally a major cancer risk factor. Specifically, there is a notable increase in occurrences of aggressive cancers like pancreatic, colon, and ovarian cancers in younger age groups, including children, which historically was rare. Dr. Soon-Shiong attributes this rise to potential immune system imbalances, where the body’s natural killer cells, responsible for eliminating cancer and infected cells, are being suppressed. This suppression may be linked to chronic inflammation, possibly caused by factors like ultraprocessed foods. The conversation also touches on the need for greater focus on immunology within cancer treatment, exploring concepts like “quantum oncotherapeutics”—the ability of cells such as neutrophils to change function under chronic inflammatory conditions. The discussion highlights concerns that current treatments, like surgery and chemotherapy, inadequately address immune system regulation. The video also mentions promising research, such as a vaccine developed to upregulate T-cells, but notes regulatory challenges in bringing such treatments to public use. Overall, there is a call for better data collection to understand underlying causes and correlations between recent health interventions and increased cancer rates.
Do young people know how to cook anymore?
Or do they just dial Uber Eats when they’re hungry?
@GenFlynn
Between approximately 3-12 to 3-17 the names depicted in the Fox News story board below were illegally and dangerously swatted (along with members of their immediate families, including their children).
I thought by now we’d have arrests at local levels or at least statements from the DOJ and @AGPamBondi regarding on-going investigations into these very dangerous terrorist acts that place lives needlessly at risk.
I guarantee, it is very easy to track down these type phone numbers and get after whoever initiated these calls (and maybe who’s behind them). I simply ask for these acts of terror to be taken as extremely serious and that our law enforcement professionals led by @FBIDirectorKash & @FBIDDBongino let those who are perpetrating them know, their days are numbered. Thanks
Victor Davis Hanson said today on Life Liberty and Levin that he had been swatted also – three law enforcement officers attended his house in response to “an emergency call”. He was inconvenienced but not arrested.
JD Vance ‘power move’ marks him out as favourite to be presidential candidate
You Won’t Believe What Insanity HHS Was Funding
Slightly long, but a good piece explaining where Trump’s head is at with Tariffs and the onset of Tariff day.
Elon Musk Claims Democrats Are Using IRS Refund ‘Fraud Payments’ to ‘Attract and Retain Illegal Immigrants in the USA’
Germany. Man arrested for calling obese bitch fat:
Facebook
When Mark Viduka played soccer in England, rival supporters sang this song –
Who eat all the pies,
Who eat all the pies,
You fat bastard,
You fat bastard,
You eat all the pies
No one got arrested for singing this as far as I know.
How Trump Is Decimating the Left’s Patronage Networks
GOP Bill Seeks to Cut Off NPR and PBS: “Taxpayers Shouldn’t Fund Propaganda”
Video Caught Democrat Openly Speaking About Strategies to Protest Trump’s Policies
How Congress can kick illegal immigrants off Medicaid — and save us billions
Richard Chamberlain, star of Dr. Kildare, dies at 90
From the Oz.
Richard Chamberlain: Heartthrob king of the TV mini-series
From the BBC –
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxe2nv0mdv2o
How is any of this different from what was happening in his first term with Black Lives Matter? As soon as the Democrats lose power they turn to violence. So much for electoral mandates.
Arsonist Sets Republican Party Building on Fire, Spray Paint Anti-ICE Message
As O’Bummer said “Elections have consequences”.
The consequences of DemonRats losing an election include violence in the streets and hissy fits in the MSM.
Nearly 5,000 Suspect Voter Registrations Discovered Ahead of Critical WI Supreme Court Election
Democrats’ disdain for young men backfired in 2024 — as Trump capitalized on new media and turned Gen Z red
You know, it may not be a good idea for the conservative party to win the election in Canada. Let it become Carney’s carnage.
Trade whoresCan Canada survive a 19% drop in its GDP?
Things for Canada and Mexico could get seriously ugly in a hurry.
Carney plagiarised his PhD.
Nearing the Final Battle Against the Deep State
The leftoids will be all over this:
Hamas Tortures, Executes 22-Year-Old Palestinian Who Led Protests in Gaza
Let’s hope Trump wipes them out:
Iran Rejects Talks with U.S.; Trump Threatens Bombing as ‘Never Seen Before’
I have to eat humble pie over this one. I thought the protests were yet more Palliwood.
Put the fork down Calli – the protests were Paliwood.
They just decided to make it look more authentic by killing the poor bastard that got his picture taken.
The message is :
“See what happens when you disobey us?”
Behind the savagery, there is a vast cunning. Don’t ever underestimate them.
Calli,
if you have a look at a photo of the executed Pallie, I reckon he was gay. He most likely believed Hamarse were so far gone, he could lead a protest.
One of the blokes who “had his back”, probably dobbed him in.
Possibly.
Given global stakes and the fact the threats were certainly and unequivocally made, I guess you’d have to thank the Ayatollahs for volunteering Iran to find out the amount of resolve that sits behind the Resolve Desk.
Resolute – don’t ignore Nicholas Cage.
Yes, thank you, a phone typo there.
The three deadshits- Stamer, Macaroon and Carney obviously decided they can gang up on the US.
Some cats and kittehs may recall that I read left-wing Slate’s advice columns for shits and giggles,
This one stopped me in my tracks:
My partner of two years and I have a long-distance relationship that requires us to go and stay with each other for one or two weeks at a time. How can we fairly manage our finances around shared food costs when staying in each other’s houses? A particular grey area is around staple food items that we always keep in our respective cupboards (oil, pasta, rice, peanut butter, teabags, oats, etc.), which we use when alone and together. It’s becoming an issue!
—it Would Be So Much Easier If We Lived Together
What’s more, it garnered a serious response from the Agony Aunt about how they could draw up lists of expenses and so on. And have D&Ms about their expectations.
Years ago, they had a smart, funny Jewish woman called Emily Yoffe doing the column. She would have said that if you are nitpicking about penaut butter and pasta expenditure, the outlook for your future as a couple is not good.
My favourites are the ones where anguished ‘liberal’ white parents whose kids have black friends encounter ‘the n word’ and how it should be explained and why they can never, ever say it. The contortions are worthy of a Barnum & Bailey freak show,
You know what, I hope they actually lose seats. This mellon head needs to go. Just freaking hopeless.
We just had a referendum.
This is stupidity on stilts.
What a disgusting pig. What human being could vote for the creature?
Snap JC!
LOL
From the Oz.
Greens leader Adam Bandt has bizarrely sheeted blame to Israel for Hamas’s brutal executions of Palestinians who had risen up against the terror group’s stranglehold of the Gaza Strip.
The leader of the left-wing party – which could play an important role in a hung parliament – said while the killings should be investigated by human rights groups, the ultimate problem in Gaza was Israel’s occupation.
Hamas has begun to crack down on thousands of Gazans who protested against the group last week, executing at least six and publicly beating others, according to Israeli media.
One of those murdered was Odai al-Rubai, 22, who was beaten and tortured for four hours before being dumped, dying, on his family’s doorstep.
“He was dragged by a rope around his neck, beaten with clubs and metal rods in front of passers-by,” a Gaza City resident told Israel’s Ynet TV.
The future deputy Prime Minister of this country? Words fail me, they honestly do.
Snap Z!
A blatantly evil prick.
Greens leader Adam Bandt blames Israel for Hamas butchery
What a disgusting POS.
Albo will, of course, unambiguously repudiate any post-election cooperation with Bandt.
Any moment now.
“There will be no Carbon Tax …”. Gingerella never came back from that one.
Once there is an official denial, that being denied is confirmed.
H/T Yes Minister/Prime Minister.
which is why you have to put the LNP no. 2 at least. Voting informal is not an option this time.
Drawing a massive, hairy arse on the ballot is always an option.
na
“Trump Proved Everyone Wrong in the Most Shocking Way… | Victor Davis Hanson”
‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Jonathan Turley Details Modern ‘Anti-free Speech Movement’
I see the leader of the Australian Nazi party is blaming Israel for Hamas’ butchery of Palestinians who have bravely called for “Hamas out’.
Anyone still need confirmation that the Australian Greens are our very own Nazi Party?
Hmm, speaking of Nazis, where’s our own rabid Nazi? Perhaps he’s tired after attending yet another Jew hating protest in Melbourne’s CBD over the weekend. All that screaming, screeching and shouting Jew hatred must be exhausting!
To think that in five weeks this utterly loathsome “man” could well be deputy PM.
Which would say as much about Albosleazy as it would Bandt; hopping into bed with the latter.
I wouldn’t like to have to wash those sheets – better off burning them.
He’s OK, the milko looks after the kids on the weekend.
Lots of Lieboral corflute in Curtin. Quite unsightly. Not sure this marginal electorate is good for the area. Julie would be appalled.
OK how do I put a .png file here?
I print them, Eyrie, and use sticky tape to paste them on the screen.
It does reduce a lot of the visual stuff but.
OK, now I’ll be serious.
I download them to a picture file, then have to open them in an editor and save them as a .jpeg or similar. Then you can use the picture function in the lower right corner.
It’s the same for html pages, and a couple of other formats.
It’s a pain in the arse.
Windows/Brave won’t allow me to download them and change the file type at the same time.
glue stick works
The Cat accepts jpg, gif and png, so all you have to do is paste the url. It has to end with .png though or it doesn’t work.
Flying duk:
https://goldprice.org/gold-price-australia.html
Note that the rate of increase is accelerating over the last year. Two weeks ago it slowed down.
Now it’s picking up.
Wot happened to the correction I so confidently spoke of three months ago? And I sold 5 oz to get some of my profits before the correction.
CBO Issues Dire Forecast for US Debt
“The US Congressional Budget Office is warning that the federal deficit has hit a point of no return. It is far too late to cut wasteful government spending. Politicians have kicked the can down the road for far too long and left us with a financial system held up through perpetual borrowing that cannot be reversed.
The CBO’s long-term forecast shows the federal deficit rising to 7.3% of GDP by 2055, but the figure is currently at 6.2% as of 2025 and this is an optimistic report. In contrast, the 30-year average from 1995 to 2024 was 3.9% of GDP. Public debt is projected to hit 156% of GDP by 2055, up from the 100% of GDP we face today.
Now the CBO mentioned that Trump’s tariffs could negatively impact the economy but we reached the point of no return years ago. Trump cannot be blamed for the current situation in the least. “Mounting debt would slow economic growth, push up interest payments to foreign holders of U.S. debt and pose signi?cant risks to the ?scal and economic outlook,” the Long-Term Budget Outlook: 2025 to 2055 stated.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/economics/cbo-issues-dire-forecast-for-us-debt/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Schmitt Brings Up ‘Obama’s Secret Weapon’ While Breaking Down ‘Whole Of Society Censorship Campaign’
In the Forbes Breaking News video titled “Schmitt Brings Up ‘Obama’s Secret Weapon’ While Breaking Down ‘Whole Of Society Censorship Campaign’,” the speaker, a former Missouri attorney general and current senator, discusses a perceived large-scale censorship campaign led by an alliance of activists, academics, journalists, big tech companies, and federal bureaucrats. This alliance allegedly suppresses dissenting viewpoints, particularly those of conservatives, and operates both within and outside of government structures. The speaker highlights the role of NGOs and nonprofit organizations in shaping public discourse and suppressing conservative speech through blacklists and manipulation of media narratives. The video mentions specific organizations and individuals involved in these efforts, including those who transitioned from the Obama administration to roles in the nonprofit sector and back into governmental positions. The senator argues this network operates as a “shadow state” influencing society’s power centers and undermines constitutional protections of free speech. Additionally, the speaker claims extensive coordination between the Biden administration and these groups, with taxpayer dollars purportedly funding these censorship efforts. This campaign, the senator warns, threatens the foundational principles of free speech and self-governance in America.
OK here it
Heh. The .jpg worked, but the Cat doesn’t like .jpeg. Go figure.
Well that worked out well.
The first part is a bit indistinct, Eyrie.
Goodness gracious!
War and Peace was shorter.
Still better viewing than a cute owl.
I would need this verified directly.
“Reportedly considering” could mean it was a brain-fart raised by a wet, who then leaked to a friendly journo in an attempt to trap Potato Head during the campaign.
He raised it, only to back track a day later it would seem.
Amateur hour.
Yes, it is Liberal policy, but it should have been relegated to the garden shed in a campaign in which the focus is on cost of living.
Dutton needs to have Jacinta glued to his side. They must be a team and a brilliant Aboriginal partner is heaven sent.
Come on start campaigning Dutton. We know that the Moderates don’t want you to win. Ignore them and then destroy them when you win.
Get some Trump inya.
Thank You Victorian Government news (the Hun):
Five. Sets. Of. Bail.
Which means that since his release, ordered by the HCA, he has cocked it up five times, been arrested five times and been released each time by the pissweak Vicco judiciary.
Duh.
And:
Over $100 million, this has cost the taxpayer – not counting the human cost of what these animals have done to Joe and Jane Citizens since being let out – and frequently given bail again and again after reverting to type.
A pity the taxpayer can’t seek restitution from the politicians’ superannuation fund.
Put it toward a fund for the victims.
Or the judges that keep springing him…
Yes, but the judges don’t draft and pass the laws.
Our Judiciary is working to destroy what little community cohesion there is left.
And they mean it.
A bullet to the armpit..
Someone needs to be sent back for re – training.
Shoot straight you bastards! Vicplod obviously needs some range practice.
Not like the good old days.
He was as black as tar.
‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This’: Jonathan Turley Details Modern ‘Anti-free Speech Movement’
In the Forbes Breaking News video, Jonathan Turley and others discuss what they see as a modern “anti-free speech movement.” The conversation highlights concerns about censorship under the guise of combating disinformation, particularly in contexts like the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 U.S. election. Big tech companies, like those funded by Mark Zuckerberg, are criticized for allegedly participating in censorship by suppressing dissenting viewpoints, such as stories about the Hunter Biden laptop. The panelists argue that this censorship has eroded public trust in media and government institutions. Turley notes the historical consistency of free speech debates and warns against the unprecedented coalition of government, academia, media, and corporations working together to suppress free speech. He emphasizes that even though some corporations like Meta might be stepping back from censorship practices, these efforts could shift to government actions in other regions like the EU and Brazil. The discussion concludes with a reiteration that while technologies evolve, the fundamental legal questions about government censorship remain unchanged according to the First Amendment.
If Orange Hitler was opposition leader he would be beating Abalone mercilessly over this.
More than probable he was welcomed into the country during the Libs turn in office. Neither party has any legitimacy in these cases, so they shutup.
Mr Ayiik was among hundreds of criminals, including murderers and rapists, who were cut loose on the nation’s streets after the High Court ruled a stateless Rohingya man, known only as NZYQ and convicted of child sex abuse, could not be indefinitely detained.
Why ‘Mr’?
We must be respectful towards those who work so hard to enrich our bland and boring culture.
Need I add //sarc//?
I just typed into google ‘Was Greta Garbo a dustman’s daughter?’
The resident AI claimed this was a common misconception.
I thought it was a joke.
Are you doing the crossword in The Senior? That is one of the clues
I don’t do crosswords. Trying to read the mind of a deranged autist doesn’t look much fun.
Cryptic crosswords have always been on a different wavelength to me
Teals silent on who they will back in a hung parliament
From the Oz. The Teals will back whoever Holmes A Court Junior tells them to back.
LOL like Oakeshott and Windsor like we don’t know…
Those cowards really pulled a bait and switch.
That’s Oakesnot and Windbag.
we know the answer and so do they- just more dishonesty from those braindead daughters of privilege.
It really is starting to look like there is going to be a move against Iran. Hell of a lot of movement of war materiel to US bases in the region.
Let’s hope they don’t leave it behind.
Anything is possible; and usually worse than you can imagine:
Mike Gallagher, the 8th most recognized talk radio personality, in the U.S.A., is heard by over 2.25 million
listeners weekly. He compiled and wrote the following essay entitled,
“Obama: It was You.”
* It was you who spoke these words at an Islamic dinner – “I am one of you.”
* It was you who on ABC News referenced – “My Muslim faith.”
* It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to re-build foreign mosques.
* It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict- “I will stand with the Muslims.”
* It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that – “I am a Muslim.”
* It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi King.
* It was you who sat for 20 years in a Liberation Theology Church condemning America and professing Marxism.
* It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us have to pay.
* It was you who purposefully omitted – “endowed by our Creator ” – from your recitation of The Declaration Of
Independence.
* It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ’s Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the ‘HOLY’ Qur’an.
* It was you who travelled the Islamic world denigrating the United States Of America.
* It was you who instantly threw the support of your administration behind the building of the Ground Zero Victory mosque overlooking the hallowed crater of the World Trade Center.
* It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the
White House
* It was you who ordered Georgetown Univ. and Notre Dame to shroud all vestiges of Jesus Christ BEFORE you would
agree to go there to speak, but in contrast, you have NEVER requested the mosques you have visited to adjust their decor.
* It was you who appointed anti-Christian fanatics to your Czar Corps.
* It was you who appointed rabid Islamists to Homeland Security.
* It was you who said that NASA’s “foremost mission” was an outreach to Muslim communities.
* It was you who as an Illinois Senator was the ONLY individual who would speak in favour of infanticide.
* It was you who was the first President not to give a Christmas Greeting from the White House, and went so far as to hang
photos of Chairman Mao on the White House tree.
* It was you who curtailed the military tribunals of all Islamic terrorists.
* It was you who refused to condemn the Ft. Hood killer as an Islamic terrorist.
* It is you who has refused to speak-out concerning the horrific executions of women throughout the Muslim culture,
but yet, have submitted Arizona to the UN for investigation of hypothetical human-rights abuses.
* It was you who when queried in India refused to acknowledge the true extent of radical global Jihadists, and instead
profusely praised Islam in a country that is 82% Hindu and the victim of numerous Islamic terrorists assaults.
* It was you who funnelled $900 Million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas.
* It was you who ordered the United States Postal Service to honour the MUSLIM holiday with a new commemorative stamp.
* It was you who directed our UK Embassy to conduct outreach to help “empower” the British Muslim community.
* It was you who funded mandatory Arabic language and culture studies in Grammar schools across our country.
* It is you who follows the Muslim custom of not wearing any form of jewellry during Ramadan.
* It is you who departs for Hawaii over the Christmas season so as to avoid past criticism for NOT participating in seasonal
White House religious events.
* It was you who was uncharacteristically quick to join the chorus of the Muslim Brotherhood to depose Egypt’s Hosni
Mubarak, formerly America’s strongest ally in North Africa; but, remain muted in your non-response to the Brotherhood
led slaughter of Egyptian Christians.
* It was you who appointed your chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, an Iranian, who is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, an
off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
* It was you who said this country is not a Christian nation.
Worst U.S. president ever.
Including Biden.
The damage he has done is lasting and his continuing influence pernicious.
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you mob.
Finished reading “Pearl Harbor – Final Judgement” by Henry Clausen.
Clausen puts all the conspiracy theories to bed, once and for all, but he comes to the conclusion that the top officers in Hawaii, Kimmel and Short, were just ‘asleep on the job” and ignored all the warnings. He also comes to the conclusion that, certain senior officers in the U.S. Navy, saw secret intelligence as their little sandcastle, and not to be shared with the Army.
Good reading, check it out.
Nah.
And fairly generous about how some of those who failed redeemed themselves later in the war.
One of the intelligence chaps who screwed up Pearl was responsible for getting Midway in place.
Fair comment, well said.
Defence has handed responsibility for the monitoring of a suspected Chinese spy ship to the Australian Border Force despite Anthony Albanese’s claim that the ADF is on the case.
Security experts have warned the dual-use Chinese research vessel Tan Suo Yi Hao, currently operating off South Australia, is almost certainly gathering undersea data to assist in future Chinese submarine operations.
The vessel’s appearance off Australia’s coast throws a spotlight on national security as an election issue, and comes just weeks after the government learned from a Virgin Australia pilot about a live-fire exercise by Chinese naval vessels in the Tasman Sea.
Speaking on the hustings in Perth, Mr Albanese said the Australian Defence Force was “monitoring what is happening” with the Chinese ship.
From The Oz. Any of the bush lawyers on this blog care to explain what options this country has? I do realise that sinking said ship, with all hands, is not an option.
All the more reason we should be getting closer to the U.S. instead of our politicians and morons like Trumble undermining relations with insults directed at Trump.
It may actually be that they are doing this because we are getting closer to the US.
We are less close now than we were thirty years ago.
Prove me wrong.
And as Trump leads the US away from the GAE, China seems to be moving to put a new Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in place.
Trumble is no moron.
As always, he is working steadily on the Trumble agenda and as always, Australia’s interests are not part of his
planning.
There seems to have been a consistent pro-China approach, ever since he switched from the Labor party to the S F Liberals
In the unlikely but possible scenario of China invading Australia, I don’t want to hear Trump or America-haters complaining, “Why didn’t America come to our aid?”
A Supreme Court judge has given the green light to a trust left by multi-millionaire philanthropist Millie Phillips to promote Jewish pride, declaring Australian Jews are “in need of protection” and anti-Semitism must be eliminated.
Judge James Hmelnitsky late last week ruled a portion of the reported $62m estate of Phillips, once Australia’s richest woman, would be used as a charitable trust to help galvanise a “vulnerable section of the community” in circumstances where Jewish Australians are “under threat”.
“The evidence demonstrates that there is an acute social need to combat anti-Semitism, not just for the benefit of the Jewish community but the Australian community as a whole,” he wrote.
“So far as the Jewish community is concerned, there is a profound interest in combating anti-Semitism and seeking to eliminate it. The evidence shows that the Jewish community is a vulnerable group in need of protection.”
The former chair of the International Mining Corporation, known widely as “the Nickel Queen”, died in 2021, after spending three years in a nursing home following a stroke.
Having escaped the Holocaust, she dedicated her time to supporting Israel, the Jewish people and other community charities.
From the Oz. I do hope Adam Bandt bursts a blood vessel, I really do.
Any of the bush lawyers on this blog care to explain what options this country has?
Oz and China have both signed UNCLOS, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Therefore unless the ship approaches to within 12 nautical miles of our coast, none.
She has the right of free passage.
If a ship was to be commercial fishing then that would allow armed force boarding. Or similarly engaged in other operations such as mining prospecting.
We could go and be a nuisance – eg: get in front of it and slow down; or cross its bows etc, but then accidents happen.
Thanks for sorting that one, Top Ender. Obliged to you.
@ElectionWiz
BREAKING—17 cars were set on fire at a Tesla dealership in Rome, marking the most significant attack on Tesla in Europe.
France has become a fascist state.
@Rightanglenews
BREAKING – Right-leaning leader Marine Le Pen has been stripped of her ability to run for president in 2027 and sentenced to two years in jail.
They would rather burn the country to the ground than restrict migration.
The purpose of a thing is what it does.
Frances purpose is to eliminate itself in favour of a caliphate.
Because putting Hitler in jail in the 1920s worked out so well?
@catturd2
Elon Musk and President Tump are loved throughout the USA. All the protests are fake, staged, and paid for like everything the Democrat party does.
@alx
Elon Musk to a protester interrupting his Wisconsin Town Hall: “It was inevitable that at least a few Soros operatives would be in the audience.. give my regards to George. Say hi to George for me!”
Musk Drops Bombshell at Wisconsin Rally About Illegal Aliens Voting, Receiving Benefits
@MikeBenzCyber
Estonia just banned 80,000 Russian ethnics in its population of just 1.3 million from being able to vote because they never organized “a massive protest on the streets” to show support for Ukraine
Bold move, Estonia is 1/4 Russians.
not quite, that’s only 6+%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia
22% Russians
I was only counting the 80 K. Didn’t know that there were that many, How come the Estonian dare talking tough then?
Schmitt Brings Up ‘Obama’s Secret Weapon’ While Breaking Down ‘Whole Of Society Censorship Campaign’
They’re too busy locking up people for criticising the establishment.
“BBC part of cover up” Ex-UK Prime Minister Liz Truss reveals r**e gang scandal is “still going on”
the case for arming europe
Predicted 40 years ago – and they will still not fight!
@disclosetv
JUST IN – Deputy Prime Minister of Italy says banning Le Pen from election is a “declaration of war from Brussels.”
Democratic Romanian election overturned by court and now this.
Makes you wonder.
The deep state in action, this time in France.
France’s Le Pen barred from running for office for five years after graft conviction.
Snap, Indolent
Six months later the damage scored by the Iranians is beginning to trickle out.
Not economically viable?
Everything is repairable – even an FJ holden left in the top 40 for 50 years – just jack up the radiator cap and drive a new one underneath.
DFens
Just checked the gold price Here.
$5009 sth pacific pesos!!
Daughter works in a winery cafe thing, a Canadian backpacker was showing her some canuck currency.
“That’s a Crested Loon there on the one dollar coin, so we call a dollar a “loonie”. Guess what we call this two dollar coin?”
Daughter: “A double-loon?”
Blank stare. “…no, it’s a “twonie”, don’t ya know”
No idea. At all.
It was a mistake to leave the gold standard.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Ben Garrison.
Calli Yesterday – on eating humble pie:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21521/anti-hamas-protests
Put the fork down – you were right all along!
Geoff Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1jutpdZW4w
Hmmm. I think he’s overstating the case, but….
Today’s Daily Tele:
OUR CLASSIC SIGNS OF AN ELECTION IN PROGRESS
TIM BLAIR
1 Apr 2025
The faint rustling of cardigans. A soft shuffle of Scrabble letters. The nearly-audible yearning for visits from great-grandchildren.
These are all signs of frantic activity among the Friends of the ABC – or ABC Friends, as the group is now known following a 2014 coup against definite articles and prepositions. The Friends have become energised by the coming federal election, which they see as a threat to their otherwise-unwatched billion-dollar broadcasting buddy.
“The stakes are high for the ABC in this election,” ABC Friends president Cassandra Parkinson – a Balmain resident, as required by Friends law – wrote in an email to her elderly team.
“We must remind our political representatives that people across Australia care about the ABC’s future.
“You, our 77,000 members and supporters, are a powerful group who can tell them that the ABC must be properly funded.
“That it must remain free to access, with no ads and no subscriptions. And that we vehemently oppose any attempt to sell it off.”
As The Australian reports, such an attempt isn’t actually happening.
Sadly. But an ABC fear-fest is now common during election campaigns, along with various other colourful customs and conventions, including:
The disrespecting of the corflutes:
Islamic anti-Labor agitators got things rolling on this front with multiple attacks on signs promoting government frontbencher and Western Sydney MP Tony Burke. Matters subsequently escalated, as Joe Hildebrand reported this week.
In Mosman, a blonde woman was caught on security video deploying a stick of lipstick to deface a poster for Warringah teal MP Zali Steggall.
Hilariously, and appropriately for that area of Sydney, the vandal then realised she had used a far fancier lippy than intended.
“S–t, was it a Chanel?” the woman howled, asking her offsider: “Why did you let me do that?”
Possibly because she was all out of Yves Saint Laurent Loveshine Candy.
But at least those corflutes remained in place, unlike one for Victorian Liberal candidate Amelia Hamer. Hers was spirited away by a fellow who turned out to be the husband of chief teal lady Dr Monique Ryan, who, along with over-supportive hubby Peter Jordan, later apologised.
The triennial foreign astonishment:
Every election year, an overseas media outlet will run a piece explaining compulsory voting to its confused readers.
Their bewilderment is understandable. After all, it hardly makes sense that Australians get fined for not voting – but we can campaign, cast a ballot and stand for the Greens without even the slightest risk of imprisonment.
The declaration of importance:
Nobody ever dismisses an election as “ordinary”, “run of the mill”, “average”, “boring” or “Logies night”.
Every election is always a crucial turning point for our people.
The same is true in 2025. “On 3 May, you choose the way forward,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in his election announcement. “Your vote has never been more important.”
Sky News’s Outsiders host Rowan Dean agreed, but from an opposing viewpoint, saying on Sunday: “This is quite literally the most important election of our lives.”
To be fair, Rowan backed up that perennial claim with substantial evidence. Search for “Race to save Australia” on Sky’s YouTube channel.
The underdog proclamation:
No government or opposition wants to be the overdog. When it comes to canine political positioning, coveted underdog status is craved by all.
So while polls suggest a current Labor advantage, Coalition home affairs spokesman James Paterson quickly turned this into a bonus.
“What these polls show is that the next election is going to be close,” Paterson told a TV interviewer on Monday. “That’s what polls have shown for the best part of a year. It shows that the Coalition are underdogs.”
The vests of fluorescence and the hats of hardness:
You’ll see them in abundance from now until polling day. Liberal leader Peter Dutton went for the fluoro look while visiting the Cougar mining equipment plant in Newcastle on Monday, during which he tried to wrench the nuts off some nearby machinery.
Which is also what he’s trying to do to the Labor government.
The one peculiar thing that nobody really understood at the time, but everyone remembers:
It hasn’t happened yet during this year’s campaign, but brace for something along the lines of former Labor leader Bill Shorten’s 2016 polling booth bid to eat a sausage in a long bread roll.
Inexplicably, Shorten – who very nearly toppled then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in that election – went at his sausage roll sideways.
He was either unaware of sausage protocols or else was concerned about the optics. Still, Shorten’s oddly-angled chomp will always be part of Australia’s election heritage.
The two biggest events in the Short’n political career … the sideways sausage and the pie lady fight.
Unkind people will enjoy the photo evidence of the sideways sausage.
Shorten’s expression tells us he realised, mid bite, that he was doing it all wrong – and had just lost the election as a result.
Sideways sausage always a problem.