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The Rector’s Garden, Queen of the Lilies, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1877

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Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 3:15 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2024 3:31 pm

Farmers, rural Victorians protest Premier Jacinta Allan at Reset Victoria Rally in BendigoHundreds of frustrated farmers and regional Victorians are protesting Jacinta Allan in Bendigo, taking aim at green-energy transmission lines and a Big Build program focused on Melbourne.

Fuming farmers and regional Victorians say the Allan government is treating them like “second class citizens” as they push back against plans to build renewable energy infrastructure across country communities.
Hundreds of frustrated regional Victorians, both young and old, gathered in Premier Jacinta Allan’s seat of Bendigo East on Friday, demanding the government halt plans to run transmission lines and renewable energy projects on private farmland.
Ms Allan was speaking at a Rural Press Club of Victoria event in Bendigo.
Protesters held up signs reading “The Allan ideology is destroying Victoria”, “No lines, no turbines” and “Labor stop the spend”, with some branding the premier “Joan Kirner 2.0”.

Waubra residents Loretta Greco and Paul Greco said country Victorians were being treated as “second class citizens”.
Mr Greco said while the government was forging ahead with its $34.5 billion Suburban Rail Loop, country residents were “getting nothing”.
“Country people are carrying the burden for all of this renewable stuff, I don’t see any wind turbines going through Melbourne,” he said.
“City people get all the fancy roads and the massive infrastructure projects.”
Cattle and grain farmer Jason Barratt said the Ms Allan was ignoring country Victoria and “pushing an ideology” on the regions.
“We are farmers and we farm food and fibre — we don’t farm electricity and we won’t farm electricity,” he said.
“We’re sick of being pushed over by the government and we’re pushing back.
“It’s beyond belief the contempt that Jacinta Allan shows for us.”

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 3:44 pm

This is very worthwhile. It covers the full situation.

Farage is being targeted

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Carmichael
Carmichael
August 23, 2024 3:50 pm

[WA Premier Roger] Cook came out to say he did not agree with the joke and that Albanese should apologise to WA’s farmers.

“The WA premier wasn’t there, with respect,” Albanese told reporters this morning when asked about Cook’s comments.

“I stand by the comments. I support both the beef trade in terms of packed meat and also live cattle”

Each way Albo fumbles it yet again. Every visit over there he attempts to ingratiate himself with the locals by saying that those on the east coast “don’t understand” West Australians. Actually, many of us understand them far better than Albo does.

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Lysander
Lysander
August 23, 2024 3:50 pm

He is probably using chatGPT, that is; when he is not copy & pasting from elsewhere. Lately the prose sounds like an annoying second year trying to show off which is a step up from the norm.

For sure Munted is using chatgpt since he hasn’t had an original thought in his entire life; not even by accident!

Speaking of which, I just ask chatgpt how many people did Mohammed kill?

It told me Mo killed nobody.

So, I pressed on and reminded it of Mecca.

“Oh no” it said, “that was a political struggle” and then told me Mo lost 14 men in that fight.

So I said “but isn’t killing someone murder”

Chatgpt says “nup because it was a political struggle and existential threat to Mo to save himself”

FFS.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2024 3:51 pm

The uncompromising egotism that tore the Yes campaign apartShireen Morris’s account of the failed Indigenous referendum is a melange of self-justification, ‘We was robbed’ rhetoric, conspiracy theories and just downright hate. I happen to be one of the ‘villains’ she particularly – and at great length – reviles.
Greg Craven
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Updated 3 minutes ago

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Every conflict spawns self-serving accounts by protagonists. Caesar’s Commentaries were a job application to be emperor. Napoleon penned a nauseatingly hagiographic autobiography. Winston Churchill wrote an entire library congratulating himself.
Broken Heart by voice referendum bit-player Shireen Morris falls into the same wearisome category. Its account of the failed referendum is a melange of self-justification, “We was robbed” rhetoric, conspiracy theories and just downright hate.

Hate is central. Morris reviles anyone who did not support the voice formulation word by word and without question. Peter Dutton presents as a deceptive troglodyte. Nationals leader David Littleproud is a backsliding reactionary.
But the people she really detests are the so-called Con Cons – constitutional conservatives – who devised the modest original version of the voice alongside Indigenous leader Noel Pearson.
The sin of the Con Cons was subsequently to critique the official referendum draft. Morris accuses them of betrayal, dishonesty, political tribalism, conspiracy, deception and stupidity.
She particularly and at great length reviles Jesuit constitutional lawyer Frank Brennan and me. Apparently we are a two-man team who cynically dynamited the voice from within and continue to control a negative public debate.

Frank Brennan gets a genuinely bigoted descriptor as “Black Robe”, a derisive reference to his status as a Jesuit priest.
Brennan gets a genuinely bigoted descriptor as “Black Robe”, a derisive reference to his status as a Jesuit priest. I alternate between an evil genius and a slobbering idiot. Apparently, at 66 I am “well into old age”. Oh well. My children would agree.
This is where the most eccentric of Morris’s many conspiracy theories emerges. Brennan and Craven led a Catholic conspiracy to nobble church support for the referendum. Ordinary Catholics were browbeaten by Brennan’s status as a priest. There are thousands of Catholic priests in Australia. On the odd occasion Brennan and I actually agree with each other, we would be lucky to shift our bishops with dynamite.
But for every set of villains, there has to be a hero. It is not surprising that the hero of the referendum for Morris, a failed Labor political candidate, is the Albanese government. Its conduct was white as laundered snow.
Her central claim is that Anthony Albanese always was winsomely open to compromise. It was the evil Coalition that refused to play ball. This is as much against the evidence as extraterrestrial construction of the pyramids.

Albanese unswervingly committed to his referendum on election night. Then, he unilaterally announced words he said were open to change but never were. When the Opposition Leader and opposition Indigenous Australians spokesman Julian Leeser were summoned to Albanese’s office, there were lectures, not discussion.

Somehow, I don’t think I’ll bother with Shireen Morris’s book.

JC
JC
August 23, 2024 3:53 pm

Interesting piece.

A substack article compares the Demonrat party to the CCP and makes a good case.

Are the Democrats a Communist Party?Roger Simon

One can only guess what a political party that has just anointed its presidential candidate in a matter of weeks without a single vote means by that word. In one sense Xi Jinping should be impressed—that’s how they do it, and imitation, as the saying goes, is the sincerest form of flattery—but more likely he and Vladimir Putin are licking their chops in anticipation of dealing with a U. S. administration that is weaker than ever.

Freedom, Democracy take on new meaning.

Therefore we must be mindful, and inform others, that during the DNC, and later in their propaganda, you will see words used in an Orwellian manner that are almost always their exact opposites. One of those is “freedom,” which, as Matt Taibbi has pointed out on his Substack, has been rebranded. Another is “democracy.”

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2024 3:54 pm

Finlay

1 hour ago
 (Edited)
I’ve assumed Morris’s book is just a very long job application for a crack at a safe labor seat.

Anthony

45 minutes ago
Or perhaps even a spot on the High Court, heaven help us.

A Fresh Start

30 minutes ago
@Finlay. Shudder at the thought.

Lysander
Lysander
August 23, 2024 3:59 pm

Hmmm why is WA Premier Roger Cook having a public spat with Albo?

Couldn’t be anything to do with the fact that WA heads to the polls in 6 months and he doesn’t want to be associating with a leader who is in free-fall?

JC
JC
August 23, 2024 4:21 pm

I have a theory; it can’t be tested, as it’s just a theory. The Demonrats not only don’t care about the debt and more deficit spending, they are actively doing all they can to increase both. They realize that at some point in time, the markets will go into repudiation mode, and then the American public will be given no choice but to raise taxes to punitive levels that will sustain both the debt and much, much larger outlays.

The Demons will welcome a debt crisis with open arms.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2024 4:22 pm

Nippy

25 minutes ago
Who is shireen Morris and why is her opinion of any importance?

Arky
August 23, 2024 4:36 pm

Countries that rack up debts that they are unable to repay invite revolutions.
The revolutionaries then cancel the debt after taking power.

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2024 4:36 pm

Craven’s piece is sublime, a blistering and ruthless takedown of Morris.

My issue is this, I suspect Craven, Brennan, Leeser and other Voice moderates all knew prior to the referendum that the Voice had been captured by far-left activists such as Morris. Yet they said nothing until after the campaign failed. It took the ordinary men and women of this country to see through Morris, Langton, Mayo and others.

Harlequin Decline
August 23, 2024 4:40 pm

Thanks to the(absent for some time) Armadillo recommendation my bet on Cackles running for President came in at 15:1.

The odds for actually being elected are sort of even between her and Trump so I’ll sit that one out.

Roger
Roger
August 23, 2024 4:42 pm

My issue is this, I suspect …

I suspect you are correct.

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 23, 2024 4:46 pm

I reckon Ford HQ would be all smiles.

——

Whistlin Diesel:

Cybertruck Frames are Snapping in Half

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_scBKKHi7WQ

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 23, 2024 4:49 pm

Each way Albo fumbles it yet again.

“But, but I wore a hat. Therefore I’m a bushie and know what I’m talking about

Someone who knew Britnee told me that really funny joke.”

Vicki
Vicki
August 23, 2024 4:50 pm

I wonder if others are plagued with the awful feeling of foreboding I get as the world descends further into contradictions and social upheaval?

After I finish my chores at the farm or my morning walk in the city I catch up with the news of the world – almost always through “social media” as this often provides the deepest analysis and useful leads on further research. I do, of course, access the MSM both the print and tele media. But my “go to” sources are through the wonderful internet.

These days the analysis of the likes of Victor Davis Hanson, Jordan Peterson, Musk, Robert Malone, Douglas Murray, Zero Hedge, Matt Goodwin, Jim Rickards, James Kunstler and others all recoil from the abyss we seem to be approaching. Yet the West seems too cemented into the belief that our civilisation cannot fall to take any required action to avert the current and approaching upheavals.

It is the sort of situation where you simply can’t avert your gaze. Even the joys of my country environment can’t dispel the foreboding…..

Cassie of Sydney
August 23, 2024 4:57 pm

Vicki
 August 23, 2024 4:50 pm

I share it too.

as the world descends further into contradictions and social upheaval?

And something will take advantage of those contradictions and upheavals, in fact is is feeding off it as I write, that ‘something’ begins with ‘I’ and ends with ‘m’.

Roger
Roger
August 23, 2024 5:00 pm

Looks as though north QLD’s push for statehood may have been rekindled by Labor’s neglect under Palaszczuk.

With twice the population of Tasmania and producing 25% more wealth per capita than SE QLD but with essential infrastructure well below the standard southerners take for granted, they may have a point this time.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 23, 2024 5:02 pm

It is the sort of situation where you simply can’t avert your gaze. Even the joys of my country environment can’t dispel the foreboding…..

I don’t do boding of any sort, fore or aft. It’s a waste of time and energy. One should, of course, stand up for what’s right, but there’s no way one man or woman can stop the herd of lemmings rushing to destruction.

John H.
John H.
August 23, 2024 5:04 pm

I wonder if others are plagued with the awful feeling of foreboding I get as the world descends further into contradictions and social upheaval?

These days the analysis of the likes of Victor Davis Hanson, Jordan Peterson, Musk, Robert Malone, Douglas Murray, Zero Hedge, Matt Goodwin, Jim Rickards, James Kunstler and others all recoil from the abyss we seem to be approaching.

We are what we read. Selection effect. As a wise friend told me decades ago: read those who disagree with each other.

cohenite
August 23, 2024 5:05 pm
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H B Bear
H B Bear
August 23, 2024 5:13 pm

By coincidence the Media Watchdog makes reference to Keating’s two pooftas and a cocker spaniel quote. Unsurprisingly Dave Andersen cops a mention too.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 5:15 pm
Barking Toad
Barking Toad
August 23, 2024 5:15 pm

Soft faced bitch.

Amazes me that someone with all those “qualifications” can’t understand the XX v XY chromosone. That is, there are two sexes, male and female. Man and woman.

Unless he was one of the Sydney legal fraternity that trawled the Wall.

Carmichael
Carmichael
August 23, 2024 5:22 pm

“What I did question was, could I be an empathetic leader? Could I be a sensitive leader? Could I be someone who was often moved by the encounters I would have with people publicly? Could I be a leader as a worrier, someone who overthinks, and can get a bit on the anxious side? Could I be that kind of leader? I do think that there’s a place for empathetic leadership, now more than ever.” 

I didn’t watch Jacinda Ardern’s full speech to the Democratic National Convention (there is only so much one can bear). I take it she didn’t mention the empathetic way she dealt with anti-lockdown protesters in Wellington?

Boambee John
Boambee John
August 23, 2024 5:28 pm

Re the possibility of Nth Queensland breaking away as a new state, it is also time for NE NSW to revive its breakaway movement, but leaving Newcastle as part of the residual NSW (aka Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong).

Then Gippsland to join with SE NSW, and both sides of the Murray to become the new state of Riverina.

Reduce the number of Senators to six per state, the original number, and reduce the number in the Reps to 128, twice the new number of Senators.

Never happen, of course.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 23, 2024 5:29 pm

Check out these Tiger sharks having a feast on the whale carcass.

Great vision captured from these two in West Oz.

—-

B2B Castways ( Strick and Fran )

WE JUMPED IN! (Day 10 Exploring Remote Australia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWaWr1kSi_I

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 23, 2024 5:31 pm

* All ships are, of course, female.

As it is a submarine, it’s a boat.

Eyrie
Eyrie
August 23, 2024 5:34 pm

More than 70% of astronauts experience a phenomenon known as Spaceflight Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome, or SANS, according to NASA. The syndrome can have “a constellation of symptoms, including these changes in vision,” said Matt Lyon, MD, director of the MCG Center for Telehealth. …
“We are not entirely sure what causes these issues with vision, but we suspect it has to do with a shift in cerebrospinal fluid in the optic nerve sheath. On Earth, gravity pushes that fluid down and it drains out, but in space, it floats up and presses against the optic nerve and retina.”

It’s a zero G problem. Solution is spin gravity. Zero G is harmless for hours to a few days.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 5:44 pm
Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 5:49 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2024 5:55 pm

Slater and Gordon launch class action lawsuit against WA over housing conditionsDuncan EvansNewsWire
Fri, 23 August 2024 5:38AM

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Indigenous Australians living in remote Western Australia have launched a massive new class action lawsuit against the WA state government, alleging they have been subjected to substandard housing conditions.
Shocking photos attached to the lawsuit show rundown houses with mould and cracks on the walls.
Law firm Slater and Gordon, representing thousands of Indigenous tenants living in public housing across remote WA, has filed the action in the Federal Court, accusing the Housing Authority and the state, as lessors of public housing in remote Aboriginal communities, of breaching multiple residential tenancy, contract and consumer protection laws.
“Every person, regardless of where they live, deserves safe and reasonable housing,” Slater and Gordon class actions principal lawyer Gemma Leigh-Dodds said.
“For too long Aboriginal people living in remote communities have been expected to ‘put up and shut up’ in relation to their housing rights.

Vivienne Gordon, who lives in the small town of Bayulu, is part of the class action. 9News Credit: Channel 9
“By filing this class action on their behalf, we are demanding better housing justice for Aboriginal Western Australians.”
The suit alleged the WA authorities failed to adequately maintain, repair and carry out structural and other improvements to public housing rental properties and to do so within a reasonable time, provide public housing that was reasonably secure, provide public housing that was reasonably comfortable and to ensure that public housing rental properties complied with basic health and safety laws.
The firm’s statement of claim suggests there are thousands of public housing premises leased by Aboriginal tenants across remote communities in the East Kimberley, West Kimberley, Pilbara, Wheatbelt, Mid West, Gascoyne and Goldfields-Esperance regions of WA.
The alleged failures occurred between July 1, 2010 and August 19, 2024.

The law firm alleges tenants were forced to install their own air conditioners.
“Those who leased the properties between the relevant 14-year time frame are automatically included in the class,” the firm states.
The lead applicant and group members are seeking financial compensation for the losses and damages they have suffered and repayment of expenses they have incurred to rectify housing defects and issues, such as buying and installing air conditioners and door locks.
Ms Leigh-Dodds said almost 200 public housing properties in several remote communities were surveyed earlier this year as part of the firm’s investigation into the case.
The firm says many houses had been without working toilets, showers, cooking facilities, lights, safe drinking water, doors, functioning locks and reliable electricity.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2024 5:57 pm

Reposted for excellence – Roger, earlier:

Midwit monty is parroting one of the Western liberal political class’s most foolish and dangerous conceits.

“Islam is a religion of peace that is compatible with Western values” is up there with “If we bring China into the global trading system they’ll liberalise politically at home” and “Hitler represents the moderate face of Nazism and will honour his promises.”

What mUnter is really saying is this:

‘We must bring the inferior closer to us so that they may benefit, because we are better people than them.’

Absolutely stunning divisive racism, cloaked in faux virtue.

Tom
Tom
August 23, 2024 6:05 pm

For Cats with Foxtel: coming up next on Sky News via Steve Price, former Cat doomlord professor Sinclair Davidson weighs in on the federal government’s nanny state mania to regulate or ban gambling advertising.

calli
calli
August 23, 2024 6:08 pm

Chortle.

We had a 5 earthquake here today, just after midday.

Didn’t notice it – was too busy here having a conversation with Cassie about fighting the world’s idiocy! 😀

calli
calli
August 23, 2024 6:09 pm

Nice shirt, Sinc!

John H.
John H.
August 23, 2024 6:13 pm

MatrixTransform

 August 23, 2024 6:04 pm

 Reply to  John H.

We are what we read

then it is implied that those who write, are what they write

in your case Bong John … gibberish

You are so astonishingly ignorant that you didn’t discern the reference I was alluding to with the first sentence.

John H.
John H.
August 23, 2024 6:18 pm

Vicki

 August 23, 2024 5:28 pm

 Reply to  John H.

John, you only have to tune into the ABC to do that! However, THAT would really do my head in!

Not my point. I made no reference to politics. I was stating a sad fact about our cognition, that we must be wary of getting sucked into rabbit holes and hence fail to see the field of possible analyses.

Have a nice day Vicki.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 6:20 pm

This short interview was probably recorded decades ago but it could have been yesterday.

It’s a Calculated Effort by the Elites to Dismantle America | Thomas Sowell

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 6:38 pm

@MikeBenzCyber

The centering of so military and intelligence predators like Leon Panetta in the DNC’s final night illustrated a point I continually stress about the true power hierarchy in the Democrat party:

From tonight’s stream for my X subscribers

m0nty
m0nty
August 23, 2024 6:40 pm

Like I said, I don’t like this, I don’t want it, but if that’s the rules, then I will play them to the limit – why not, when it works for others? Why shouldn’t I march and shout “Where’s the muzzies?” while carrying a club? Why shouldn’t I shout “F*ck islam!” on the street with an unruly and angry mob? Why can’t I preach that Islam is evil and worships a false prophet? Or that aboriginals are lazy? Or anything else I feel like saying? Why not?

Geez Kneel, way to really lean into the stereotype.

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 23, 2024 6:43 pm

HD Film Tributes:

The Lost Boys • Cry Little Sister • Gerard McMahon

From the 1987 Joel Schumacher film ‘The Lost Boys,’ with Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Haim, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Edward Herrmann, Barnard Hughes & Dianne Wiest. — ‘HD Film Tributes’ is a channel with over three hundred movie homages currently posted. We make zero money from YouTube as obviously none of these edits will ever be monetized by us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_nesH9k3qo

Roger
Roger
August 23, 2024 6:50 pm

We’ve a house full of young people for dinner tonight.

One of them was trying out a shiatsu massage cushion that sits on a chair in the living room and asked where I got it. I explained I bought it four years ago for $98 from the US but they now sell for $400.

One of the others immediately quipped, “Thanks, Joe Biden.”

Laughs all ’round.

😀

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Delta A
Delta A
August 23, 2024 6:51 pm

We had a 5 earthquake here today, just after midday.

Didn’t notice it

You two probably caused it.

chrisl
chrisl
August 23, 2024 6:56 pm

From Media watch dog ( woof)
Life imitating art
. Mr Anderson told an accepting ABC TV News Breakfast team on 23 August that ABC Radio was doing well except for what he called, er, “audience decline”
Come on down Jim Hacker ( the empty hospital scene)

Tom
Tom
August 23, 2024 6:57 pm

I used to admire Candace Owens, but through her juvenile backsliding into anti-semitic racism, she has become a backward hick taking us back to the 1960s when blacks like her were considered an inferior race (Paywallian):

Jewish leaders are calling for the government to ban far-right provocateur Candace Owens from entering Australia for her upcoming speaking tour due to her “vile, divisive, and dangerous conspiracy theories”.

The American extremist, who came to prominence as a pro-Donald Trump commentator, is due to travel across the country in November, offering fans the chance to experience her “intellect and fearlessness”, for $95 a ticket.

The Zionist Federation of Australia has written a letter to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke urging him not to allow her into the country, claiming she fails to meet the character requirements for entry. The group’s leaders Jeremy Leibler and Alon Cassuto have pointed to her history of Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories relating to Israel, Muslims and the LGBTQI community.

Of course Owens is now copping the ire of the media, but she should have that before she decided to become a professional racist.

Top Ender
Top Ender
August 23, 2024 7:02 pm

Odd really, I thought they were coming here legally by the thousand anyway:

A trio of accused people smugglers who allegedly planned to pick up asylum seekers from a remote airbase in the Kimberley and drive them to Sydney have been arrested.

Zhongfang Zhang, 26, Shuyan Hong, 54, and Shuai Sun, 32, were due to face court in Sydney on Friday each charged with one count of conspiracy to conceal non-citizens.

They face up to 10 years’ in jail if convicted but it was expected they would apply for bail.

The trio were arrested in Sydney on Thursday and had been living in New South Wales.

They were accused of being the transport and logistics crew for an unlawful boat arrival in the Kimberley region in far north Western Australia on April 5.

A boatload of 15 Chinese nationals was found near the Mungalalu Truscott Airbase, about 20 hours drive from Darwin along outback roads.

Daily Tele

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 23, 2024 7:20 pm

Kazakhstan announces mass chemical castration of 11 paedophiles amid campaign for worst offenders to have their genitals surgically removed
Daily Mail.

Rosie
Rosie
August 23, 2024 7:21 pm

A trickle.
It only takes one muslim to turn the world upside for Australians.
How many terror attacks would we have had in the absence of muslims?
Both actual and thwarted?
I can only think of one, which was probably muslim inspired anyhow.
And they don’t integrate/assimilate.
I suggest you take a trip to France and stay in a banleiue of your choosing to prove otherwise.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 23, 2024 7:28 pm

Candece should not be banned from entering the country. Let her in so people can chastise the stupid bitch.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 23, 2024 7:33 pm

We had a 5 earthquake here today, just after midday.

The epicentre was 10km under somewhere near Muswellbrook. Roughly around Peter Dutton’s proposed nuclear power station at Mt Piper.

No nuclear power station would ever be licensed for this location.

This is why the Coalition’s nuclear policy is political film-flam, based on technical shite. They are taking the piss out of Labor, who are themselves taking the piss out of Australia.

?

another ian
another ian
August 23, 2024 7:47 pm

FWIW

The Instapundit lead-in to this is “I DON’T LIKE HOW THE REST OF THE ANGLOSPHERE IS TRENDING:”

“Canadian funeral home offers euthanasia parties, for fee”

https://aleteia.org/2024/08/18/canadian-funeral-home-offers-euthanasia-parties-for-fee?utm_medium

Time to pee on any such ideas here IMO

And a shirt to consider –

” a man walked past and said, “I absolutely love your shirt!”

It reads, “Proud member of a small fringe minority with unacceptable views”.

Via a comment at Small Dead Animals

Arky
August 23, 2024 7:51 pm

John H.

 August 23, 2024 7:33 pm

 Reply to  Arky

Roger and I have our differences that will never change. I respect his character and intellect and strive to treat him with respect; at which I do not always excel. The difference between him and you is that Roger is an honest and helpful individual, you are responding to me to make trouble. Go away

Not so open minded when their premises are challenged.

Arky
August 23, 2024 8:08 pm

The left always, ALWAYS seek to control the very field upon which the argument is had.
They seek to define words in advance to suit their tactics, they try to put in place rules of what is or isn’t a suitable point to include and finally they exclude those they know might be able to muster arguments that put theirs in a bad light.

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Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 23, 2024 8:32 pm

Vicki be not afraid — I think of what Mahatma Ghandi said: When I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it: always.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 23, 2024 8:50 pm

Coyote alert.
Read the fine print.

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John H.
John H.
August 23, 2024 8:56 pm

Call Me Maybe – Vintage Carly Rae Jepsen Cover [The Original Video] feat. Robyn Adele Anderson (youtube.com)

Scott Bradlee, who created postmodern jukebox and creates many of the productions, excels with the piano in this song. He does the same with the Royals cover by Puddles Pity Party but can’t be seen behind the two back-up singers.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 23, 2024 9:02 pm

And this is a favourite of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk

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Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
August 23, 2024 9:05 pm

So is this one: Von Smith brilliant voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1BdtnLqJio

Arky
August 23, 2024 9:07 pm

Dr. BG’s recent criticisms about you.

I didn’t notice those.
BG is a good man, a bit prone to religious ideas, but otherwise sound.

Vicki
Vicki
August 23, 2024 9:18 pm

The epicentre was 10km under somewhere near Muswellbrook. Roughly around Peter Dutton’s proposed nuclear power station at Mt Piper

Absolutely not. The epicentre was at Denman, some distance from Muswellbrook. I grew up in the area.

And the proposed nuclear plant at Mt. Piper Is NOWHERE near this earthquake. Piper is near the towns of Portland and Wallererang, on the NSW Central Tablelands – whereas Denman is in the Upper Hunter Valley. Our farm is is also in the NSW Central Tablelands & we pass by Piper regularly.

cohenite
August 23, 2024 9:19 pm

Viva Frei with another optimistic analysis of the imminent slut stormy judgment by the corrupt piece of shit merchan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXQ2IY2KbE

I’m not as optimistic. Even though the fat black bastard bragg has conceded the immunity point merchan may insist Trump attend his dismissal with the surrounding buildings full of demorat snipers keen to make up for the previous missed assassination.

Miltonf
Miltonf
August 23, 2024 9:22 pm
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
August 23, 2024 9:22 pm

BG is a good man, a bit prone to religious ideas, but otherwise sound.

I gave you an uptick for that, and golly, someone else had too

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
August 23, 2024 9:31 pm

Look!
cat videos!
Awwww wookata widdle faces!

132andBush
132andBush
August 23, 2024 9:44 pm

Re the farmer’s protest rally in Bendigo.

Today my wife and I stood among hundreds of other men, women, boys and girls from all corners of that benighted state, 99% of whom, you could tell, literally had the dirt from the land they love under their fingernails and still on their boots.

Many excellent speakers of all ages and a bit of “curry” for comrade Jacinta at the end. (No projectiles) In fact there was a call for a chant to “summon Jacinta” from the building she was in and owing to the general politeness of the gathering there was nothing immediately forthcoming! Although I’d say everyone had a few suggestions.

Hard to put a finger on the mood of the people we spoke to, grim determination mixed with a certain amount of shock as to the scale of what is happening. Make no mistake, these people and their communities are being divided and railroaded especially wrt “renewable” projects.

We had the pleasure of meeting Farmer Gez who is doing sterling work in fighting this crap. I’ve no doubt he will add more when he can.

On a sobering note we spoke for a good while with a lovely older gentleman from Banyena who it turns out had taken a road trip up through our neck of the woods a couple of weeks previously. He made particular note of how everything seemed different as soon as they crossed into NSW, “everything seemed better”.
He was also afraid someone is going to get hurt by the time it’s all over.

Victoria has had the $hit kicked out of it but at least some are still fighting.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
August 23, 2024 10:05 pm

If you’re f*cking useless, you’re f*cking useless.

Get OUT!

—-

Hell’s Kitchen:

Chefs Who Talk Back, Will Regret | Hell’s Kitchen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1s5SEhIKpo

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
August 23, 2024 10:20 pm

In Initial Design Immaturity news:

Speaking to the ABC, Shadow Energy Minister Ted O’Brien said should an earthquake risk be identified in the Upper Hunter in a nuclear feasibility study, then plans for nuclear power in the Hunter Valley would be abandoned.

“If there is a feasibility study done and that comes back with advice that says any power plant should not proceed, then a power plant would not proceed full stop,” he said.

Note to Ted O’Brien: Your brilliant political-adviser-driven strategy has just set back the use of nuclear energy in Australia by about 30 years.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 10:22 pm

@SirBylHolte

So…I’m supposed to think Kamala will make a great president because:

She hates Trump.

She’s afraid of Trump.

She tells old lies about Trump.

The media says she’s great.

Big stars sing for her.

Big-booty women twerk for her.

The black Obamas gave speeches about her.

Oprah gave a speech about her.

Her VP has an autistic son.

And her skin color is like mine?

No thanx.

I actually CARE about what the elected president will do to my country.

GIVE ME TRUMP ANY DAY.

At least he tells me what his plans are.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2024 10:24 pm

we spoke for a good while with a lovely older gentleman from Banyena

Banyena. Oh my lord.

There is (or was) a smallish hall there, which was the venue for a social event years and years ago, and which I attended via 20-minute-ish bus ride down bumpy country roads from my ancestral seat.

There were clandestine beer cans hidden and then consumed, and – without wishing to sound overly romantic – a girl I’d never seen before, or since. I think she may have been from Murtoa, but I’m not sure.

There was smooching. I’ve never, ever forgotten her.

Weird how one name can bring back memories like that.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 10:25 pm

@charliekirk11

Tucker at his best. He picks apart Kamala word by word.

She’s a very scary person.

She can win.

WATCH

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 10:34 pm

How arrogant and thick skinned does she have to be to say something like this? She’s literally rubbing people’s faces in her lies.

@bennyjohnson

KAMALA HARRIS: “I know the importance of safety and security especially at our border.”

Blatant LIES.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 10:38 pm

“Britain” has done no such thing. The despot who got into power by default with one third of the votes in the lowest turnout ever has turned into a tyrant.

Britain, Which Birthed American Ideas About Liberty, Has Embraced Despotism

Last edited 2 months ago by Indolent
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2024 10:41 pm

Ah. I see I managed to post in the midst of an Indolent blogshart.

Oh well.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 10:41 pm
Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
August 23, 2024 10:42 pm

You all must know the role and purpose m0nty performs here.
The reason he will never be banned.
He is your Two Minutes Hate.

Indolent
Indolent
August 23, 2024 10:51 pm

This is an article by American Thinker with a link to the full interview.
Donald Trump’s first comments about Kamala’s convention speech in a live interview last night on FOX News

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
August 23, 2024 11:04 pm

Note to Ted O’Brien: Your brilliant political-adviser-driven strategy has just set back the use of nuclear energy in Australia by about 30 years.

Has he raised the alarm as to the danger of tornados on solar farms? Or advancing ice age glaciers on the mechanics of those carbon fibre whirlygigs?

He must be a riot with the family.

”Dad, can I borrow the car to watch the footy at Tom’s place?”
”I don’t think so, son. Not while we have no contingency plan for time-portals opening and letting Tyrannosauruses through.”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
August 23, 2024 11:11 pm

Tyrannosauruses

Dad joke before farter time:

Q: What do you call a blind dinosaur?
A: Idontthinkitsaurus.

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