Rainy Day in Paris, Gustave Caillebotte, 1877
New nickname for Albo?
Open Thread – Mon 14 Oct 2024
Rainy Day in Paris, Gustave Caillebotte, 1877
Rainy Day in Paris, Gustave Caillebotte, 1877
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The interesting thing about the attack is that the Regime is using the counter-jihad links to smear AfD. That’s not…
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The interesting thing about the attack is that the Regime is using the counter-jihad links to smear AfD.
“That doesn’t explain the other half hour of time where he just shuffled around to the music, grinning like an idiot.”
Bee line from Cenk, who of course timed it at 39 minutes precisely.
It’s Monty from Ballarat everything I write is copied straight from twitter, to the cat.
There are so many lies in this piece of blatant propaganda that I feel like the proverbial mosquito in a nudist colony – I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin:
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Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen on Tuesday launched a “community-led electrification trial” for 500 homes near Newcastle, backed by $5.4 million in Australian Renewable Energy Agency funding.
Mr Bowen said the pilot covering the Thirroul-based postcode of 2515 was designed to generate “meaningful data” for the government on how solar panels and batteries affected the grid.
State and territory energy ministers agreed earlier this year to put more consumers in charge of the energy they generated on their roofs, as well as batteries “that they’ll have available in their driveway,” Mr Bowen said at the launch.
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BoN may be able to correct me, but when I lived in The Shire, Thirroul was somewhere around Wollongong. Has it moved to Newcastle while we weren’t looking?
I simply can’t understand how errors like this are tolerated by an outfit that claims to be a ‘trusted news source.’ This is not a mistake about an obscure province in Khasakistan. Millions of Australians know that Thirroul is not ‘near Newcastle’ – but apparently, none of them work at TheirABC.
After all, neither location is adjacent to inner city Sydney.
And they expect us to believe their ‘reporting’ about other topics?
FMD.
Bowen, the brick with beady little rat eyes shows the intelligence we all knew he had,.
Karen Middleton
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, did not alert his cabinet colleagues that he intended to buy a $4.3m waterfront property on the NSW Central Coast “and nor should he have”, according to the climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen.
Bowen has defended Albanese’s decision to purchase the clifftop home at Copacabana, saying he is entitled to “plan a property portfolio”. He told ABC RN:
When you hold a lot of gold, you tend to cheer for the accelerationist chaos option.
The BBC needs a really smart person to explain why hezbo needed all those weapons and tunnels in Southern Lebanon.
https://x.com/CAMERAorg/status/1846132755689603425?t=rjVdZtspsIxQZSSpTf_niA&s=19
Further to story about German EV drivers switching back to ICE cars:
BMW CEO: Europe must cancel petrol engine ban to reduce reliance on China (15 Oct)
The wheeze about Chinese batteries is fun. He wants to say that the government is nuts but he dares not incur their wrath, so he’s using the battery thing as a useful squirrel. I wonder if BMW will survive?
Old story, sounds like WA potato heads.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/08/09/210490760/the-raisin-outlaw-of-kerman-california
And the battery scam begins.
This scheme is the first attempt to get households to invest in significant battery storage that can be commandeered by AEMO.
The ISP modeled this input as providing nearly half the storage needed to backup renewable generation. Private storage put to public use. The model suggests this source of storage would provide the same capacity as our current coal generation. I kid thee not!
Look at the language and trickery that Bowen & Albo use to dress up theft of private investments.
Looks like sending the apprentice to the shop for a metric shifting spanner is not on:
The fallout from a dangerous and callous workplace prank at the hands of a high country plumber has left a family reeling two years later and the government promising change.
Jenson Curtin, 19, was thrown into the back of a toolbox on a utility vehicle and driven 30km down a road outside Mansfield while his boss at the time, James Herz, 31, laughed at his pleas for help.
Mr Curtin said he was still “haunted” by the events of February 2022, which had made it hard for him to trust others and caused him to have trouble sleeping and concentrating on everyday tasks.
But wait! Here’s the Victorian government and they’re here to help:
Traumatic incidents like the one still affecting Mr Curtin have prompted the Victorian government to launch a $9m package to improve safety and mental health support for apprentices and trainees.
Herald-Sun
From the Janet A article.
Probably it is easier to get Commonwealth grants for “reconciliation” than it is for “close the gap”.
Peter Stefanovic has been having fun on Sky News this morning with Barry Manilow’s kitsch classic, getting guests to sing Copacabana. That got me thinking that the Cat brains trust could do up a contemporary version.
I’ll get the ball rolling with the first lines of the verse and chorus:
His name was Albo, he was a houso….
At the Copa, Copacabana, the hottest spot north of Can ber ra…
the american hunger games
Liz Cheney contacted controversial J6 witness on encrypted app behind lawyer’s back, messages show
Hands up everyone who is SHOCKED!!! to see the gaza temp visas being rolled over into more permeant ones??
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/16/temporary-australian-visas-for-palestinians-a-first-step-but-longer-stay-options-needed-advocates-say
The Albanese government’s new temporary humanitarian visa pathway for Palestinians fleeing the conflict in Gaza is a welcome first step, advocates say, but they warn the three-year option to stay is not good enough for those who have no home to return to.
Rasha Abbas, founder of the charity group Palestine Australia Relief and Action, said members of the community had been socially, financially and emotionally supporting the traumatised new arrivals who had been denied access to healthcare, housing or working rights for the past 11 months.
Meanwhile, the Greens senator David Shoebridge said delays in launching the humanitarian pathway in response to Gaza showed Labor had been “dragged into treating people with basic dignity”.
The Department of Home Affairs quietly published details about its temporary humanitarian stay visas last Thursday, which offer newly arrived Palestinians the possibility of a three-year visa with access to Medicare, benefit payments and working and studying rights.
More than 1,300 Palestinians have arrived in Australia on visitor visas since the conflict began on 7 October 2023.
UK media is reporting that the LIV golf rebel tour board is about to sack its CEO Greg Norman and switch him to a lesser role in the organisation.
The Arabs at the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, who back the LIV tour, have finally figured it is a problem having a lifelong PGA Tour hater leading the organisation.
Before leading LIV, Norman has complained for decades about the America-centricity of the PGA, which has always treated the golf world outside the USA as a poor cousin.
With Norman removed from the LIV leadership, the way is now open for the long-promised reconciliation between the rebel tour and the PGA Tour.
That would mean dropping restrictions on rebel tour players – that is, most of the world’s top golfers lured to LIV with huge contracts in the hundreds of million US dollars – from competing on the PGA Tour.
Response to Gez at 0829, freed from the nest.
Is AEMO a Commonwealth organisation?
If it is, it will run foul of the “on just terms” clause in the Constitution.
The battery capacity theft could, however, be done by the states, which do not have such clauses, as Howard did with the native vegetation destruction of farms.
Sancho:
According to the ABC, Luigi plays golf at a genius level – 38-under-par 34 for the latest game at the Royal Canberra Golf Course. So there.
Shirley the correct spelling is “Nebulous”?
Janet Albrechtsen article on Reconciliation Action Plans posted earlier is brilliant. Law firm of 100 has RAP but does not employ any Aboriginals, classic.
Cats, get used to the idea that there will be massive electoral fraud and Kamel will be elected as Prez.
What happens after the election? Who knows?
Most average Australians say, ‘Well, we all buy and sell properties.’
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Quoth Bowen, the most tone deaf politician since Billy McMahon told pensioners to save up and move to India, as per the famous Petty cartoon.
The ‘average Australians’ who are couch surfing or living in their cars or are renting and a month away from a rent increase, or who are joining the queue of 20-30 people trying to find a rental – he’s the Marie Antoinette of Australian politics.
No doubt ‘we’ all buy and sell properties. Says it all.
Elon on space launch costs (via Instapundit).
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1846001324246319409
Pretty!
When I got to work this morning I asked a couple of my employees what they thought of Albo and his new house. Both are minimum wage dyed in the wool labor voters. They are dumbfounded and disgusted. Neither can believe he could buy a house now when so many can’t even get a roof over their head. One of them has a friend couch surfing at their house right now.
I will be very interested in the next polls. Both the greens and LNP will get a bump and I think Albo goes into Negative on popularity. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a leadership spill in the new year if the RBA keeps doesn’t drop rates.
The self pleasuring of TheirABC over Negus is just another example of their culture of self glorification.
Just imagine what we will have to endure when Quentin or Adams drop off the twig? A day of national mourning? Flags at half mast?
It doesn’t bear contemplating.
Feds are getting unlimited overtime.
Kamala Is Going Down Like the Hindenburg? Break Out the Fake Nazis! (14 Oct)
Tiki torches are on special at Bunnings.
Who’s leaking against Albanese on the house purchase?
If I were a betting man, my money would be on Chalmers.
As they say, if you want a friend in politics get a dog.
“Toto…walk time!”
AEMO is 60% owned and controlled by Fed & Sate governments – COAG. 40% is energy company sector.
They draw their income from transmission access & distribution fees.
Victoria had already put in place “emergency” powers to access private batteries for public use.
What’s next…”emergency” powers to access your spare bedroom to ease the government created housing crisis?
There’s been quite a bit of gaslighting on this in the media lately.
It’s not but I’m not sure what the simulation theory actually achieves in the context of evolution, etc.
A couple of observations on this kerfuffle. As we know, our beloved politicians are notoriously “in touch” with the concerns of the average voter – two obvious examples of this include all the money, time and gaseous emissions wasted on flogging the screech and the need to import many thousands of violent useless genocidal Jew hating terrorist sex pests into Sydneystan and Mosquebourne.
It’s not so much their deliberately engineered housing crisis, albansleazy’s “unexplained wealth” or even the purchase of the modest coastal cottage itself, it’s the sheer blatant unrepentant hypocrisy that gives me the f*cking proverbials.
Never forget, albansleazy is a torrie fighting communist. Owning several multi-million dollar properties sort of doesn’t really equate with his “passionately” held political views.
As for “the likeable albansleazy” no such creature has ever existed outside of the feverish imagination of imbeciles like “richo”. He’s always been a loathsome deadsh*t for as long as I’ve had the misfortune to be aware of his pointless existence, beginning back when he was my local feral MP and his equally repulsive wife was the local state MP.
Hypocrisy, thy name is labore.
Sicktoria – having rooted its reliable baseload power into the ground moves to salt the earth behind them…
Lily D’Ambrosio MP
@LilyDAmbrosioMP
The Victorian Parliament has just voted to enshrine the SEC in the Constitution.
Privatisation of our energy system hasn’t worked.
While we can’t change the past, we can ensure that our revived SEC will be there for Victorians for decades to come.
Evolution as an explanation for life is crap.
Consider: evolution requires that cells contain a sophisticated editing and transcribing mechanism that is almost miraculously tuned to produce random errors over thousands of generations.
Where did this mechanism come from?
Why it evolved, they say.
How can something evolve BEFORE the mechanism required existed?
How can the mechanism of evolution evolve into existence? By definition it can’t.
Therefore you are left with the basic problem: both the information and cellular mechanisms coming into existence through random molecular interactions: impossible.
This problem is equivalent in complexity to all three of: a plant to produce cars, the cars and the blueprints for the cars and a written account of how to operate the car plant all coming into existence through random molecular interactions.
It isn’t just an information problem: without the mechanisms to process the information, the information is immediately lost.
Thanks, Rabz. Couldn’t have said it better meself.
Just amazing that the self-defeating aspect of this isn’t immediately apparent.
Isn’t it nice how our politicians talk about a portfolio of properties while their voters can’t afford a first home or even a place to rent? I hope these voters remember it at the next election. These politicians need to be retired from parliaments so they can spend more time with their property portfolios.
Once again the Sky News report (from some chump in Jerusalem) says the IDF gave “no proof” that they had bombed a Hamas command centre. They never ask for proof of anything coming from the Gaza Galoots.
To make matters even worse, they included in the report “imagine having to watch members of your family killed”.
Tell the Israelis about it.
aha, somehow I was back on a thread in Sept, thinking I was here, and wondering re the news repeats! Had I gone through a time fold?
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/10/reminder-jane-caro-has-shit-for-brains.html
I see over at Michael Smith the attention seeking No-Neck Caro is comparing herself to Jesus – what a creature
Judith Sloan has a depressing piece in The Australian today about the NSW government’s plans to pack people into even smaller units in jerry built multi-story towers:
She also hints at the corruption that feeds off this dystopic vision.
Nah, couldn’t happen.
Gaza: Terrorists who fired on IDF soldiers from UNRWA clinic eliminated (15 Oct)
All those exploding pharmaceuticals and surgical instruments! It’s amazing that health care is so exothermic these days.
So according to the antigen theory, the vaccine should be having it’s greatest impact in terms of side effects, with AB+, then A+, B+. O should have the least side effects.
Is this borne out in the study?
Why hasn’t this been thought of before? Gaza could well have been resolved by the Wong Chap long ago had she received advice. Herald Sun:
Wow. Just wow.
Mr Mohamed can’t even get domestic policy right with the sinking of the Voice referendum, yet wants a seat at the table with the big hitters to do….what exactly?
It would be comical in the extreme if these dickheads weren’t serious.
FMD
alwaysright
October 16, 2024 9:29 am
No doubt the cheat is being planned.
Some of the critical states (e.g. Florida) which are conservative might be mounting intel and sting operations to catch them out. Imagine the impact of pulling over a van on election night driven by a Dimocratic operative with boxes full of pre-filled Kamal-toe votes.
Of course, the Dimocrats could easily be setting up similar false-flag street theatre ops to convince the world Donald is cheating.
Of course, most people introduced to evolution won’t on their own question it.
They’ll just accept that all life evolved from single cell ancestors.
This simplistic explanation of the origins of life will inform their values, and make, in their subconscious minds, everything permissible: if we are “just” evolved slime, what is above me? Nothing.
The only way to construct meaning from this is the Petersonian idea of hierarchies and therefore values being somehow intrinsic to the underlying structure of reality.
Good luck getting 99% of the population understanding that evolved slime can be required to have good values because of some incomprehensible patterns detected by a Canadian muppet.
The simulation theory of cosmology is fine except for it being untestable, not explaining anything at all and functionally indistinguishable from religion.
johanna
October 16, 2024 9:41 am
I see even some conservatives issuing a statement of The Sads at George’s passing.
Think about this.
If he was still plying his trade today, he would be earnestly telling us about the “legitimate grievances” of Ham-arse and Hezbollocks.
Can you believe that people actually pay for this shit from a “journalist:”
Harris and Trump are tied in the polls – so I conducted my own less traditional research | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
Almost as vacuous as Munted.
Almost.
Roger
”Productivity and Equality” what’s this shit?
F*ck.
Too much talk about the Prez election, insufficient about the house & Senate.
Victoria’s Secret has gone back to using slim, pretty women on the catwalk again.
hahahahahaha The fat, ugly and tranny chicks that were included six years ago almost destroyed the company.
Go Woke…
It’s a front for public servants & compliant consultants to give the government of the day tailor made “expert” reports to back up pre-decided policy decisions.
It used to be the NSW Productivity Commission, then Labor added Equality.
That Booster grab still spins me out. You have got to love the emotion of Elon’s staff.
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Valuetainment – PBD:
Elon Musk’s SpaceX achieves a historic rocket booster recovery, sparking a discussion on his cost-cutting innovation and potential role in Trump’s cabinet. The team dives into space travel, politics, and more.
“Destroyed NASA” – Musk’s SpaceX Did What NASA Couldn’t Do With 20 Times Budget
“Judith Sloan has a depressing piece in The Australian today about the NSW government’s plans to pack people into even smaller units in jerry built multi-story towers”.
For some reason, stories like this always make Mussolini’s last moments flash through my mind.
From The Oz….
Pro-Palestine protesters reportedly heckled Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong off a stage at the University of Tasmania on Tuesday evening.
Senator Wong was launching the Australian government’s new humanitarian policy and in a copy of the speech distributed afterwards, intended to renew calls for “clear timeline for the international declaration of Palestinian statehood” and a “diplomatic solution, de-escalation, and ceasefire in Lebanon”.
She had intended to say Peter Dutton “is at odds with the international community – but he still can’t bring himself to back a ceasefire”.
Senator Wong was heckled by protesters at her delivery of the Sir James Plimsoll Lecture at the University of Tasmania.
Protesters yelled at Senator Wong and interrupted the address on multiple occasions, criticising government policy on the Israel-Hamas war and calling on her to sanction the Jewish state.
Mean girl Pong getting out meaned by pro Hamas and Hezbollah scum.
You reap what you sow. Zero sympathy for Pong.
The video is inconclusive. We do see some fire from a hole in the wall but you don’t see people or tents outside the structure, nor is the structure geolocated as adjacent to the camp. Also, the airstrike misses the building. Surely they have some better drone footage of the alleged firefight then that.
Cats, get used to the idea that there will be massive electoral fraud and Kamel will be elected as Prez.
I’m prepared for that but at the same time I think the GOP have learnt a lot since 2020.
Lufthansa fined $4 million for stopping 128 Jewish passengers from boarding flightJoseph Pisani
2 hours ago
Dow Jones
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Lufthansa was fined $4 million by U.S. regulators, who accused the German airline of discriminating against 128 Jewish passengers by stopping them from making a connecting flight due to the alleged misbehaviour of a few flyers.
The passengers, who were going from New York City to Budapest in May 2022 for an annual memorial event in honour of an Orthodox rabbi, weren’t allowed to board a connecting flight in Frankfurt, Germany, the U.S. Transportation Department said.
On the first leg of the flight, some passengers said they were told by the crew to wear face masks and not to stand in the aisles. The passengers said they didn’t see anyone that didn’t comply. Lufthansa at the time required passengers to wear a face mask, while U.S. and German law prohibit passengers from assembling in aisles or galley areas during a flight.
The captain of the flight informed a Lufthansa security manager of misbehaviour by passengers travelling on to Budapest. No specific passengers were identified, according to the Transportation Department. Still, the airline put a hold on more than 100 passengers’ tickets.
In Frankfurt, the gate staff called the names of passengers allowed to board, and left the 128 travellers waiting at the gate “confused and upset” as the plane left, the Transportation Department said.
Most of the 128 passengers were wearing clothing worn by Orthodox Jews, such as black hats, pants and jackets. They told the Transportation Department that they were treated like they were a group of one, even though many didn’t know each other, “because they were openly and visibly Jewish.” Lufthansa tweeted an apology several days after the flight, saying it regretted that “the large group was denied boarding rather than limiting it to the non-compliant guests.” The Transportation Department said the $4 million fine is the largest it has issued against an airline for civil-rights violations. Half of the fine must be paid within 30 days. The other $2 million was credited to Lufthansa for paying back the affected passengers.
Penalties for civil-rights violations by airlines are somewhat uncommon, as proving discrimination can be difficult. Airlines are more commonly fined for customer-service violations such as not providing required refunds.
“No one should face discrimination when they travel, and today’s action sends a clear message to the airline industry that we are prepared to investigate and take action whenever passengers’ civil rights are violated,” said Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Agree, but it doesn’t augur well for free speech on university campuses.
I mentioned on Monday the American jurist Robert H. Bork’s first-hand reminiscences and analysis of 1960’s US campus unrest in his book ‘Slouching Towards Gomorrah’.
The “pro-Palestinian” protesters are using the same bullying tactics and the university administrators are making the same cowardly mistakes here.
Roger earlier:-
Reminds me of that old ’90’s concept of the “triple bottom line”, which referenced social, environmental and economic performance of an entity (or the 3 P’s … People, Planet and Profits).
Fantastic opportunity for lazy CEOs to avoid bothering about fiscal responsibility and opened the door for HR Karens to cut loose with “look after our people” spendathons.
Surprisingly, shareholders mostly didn’t give a fat rat’s clacker about the first two in the trilogy and were only interested in cash returns.
Still are, despite all the posturing about ethical investing.
Pennsylvania’s electoral honchos have said they won’t be able to count the votes on the same day. I wouldn’t be too certain.
Orange Man now leading by 12.2% in the betting odds.
https://electionbettingodds.com/President2024.html
Trump is going to work the fryer at a McDonalds this coming weekend. He will be able to tell that the fries are cooked if they match his skin color.
Hey JC, if you get that Merc G-wagen and want it to have a semblance of off-road cred, get a set of aftermarket Sunraysia wheels and a batwing awning. That shall definitely look the goods.
Paul Higgins, who was a journo and columnist for Wheels magazine back when it was good, reckoned importing Harrod’s spray-on mud was the finishing touch for Toorak-tractor cred but I’m not sure if that’s still available. 😛
This clip would be great to play at a Uni Tavern on a Friday night. STEM students would laugh, all those in social ‘sciences‘ would be in fits of rage.
F8ck em.
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Charlie Kirk:
Students Enraged That I Say College is a SCAM
Cash flow problems
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1846210164329775221?t=ppci73Qu7VPbhBbi7DAT5Q&s=19
Fantastic.
Wong attacking Dutton over Gaza is strategic brilliance of the ‘buy a beachside mansion’ genre.
It used to be believed that they had no understanding of the peoples’ beliefs and concerns.
Now it has been proven that they don’t give a f*jk about what the people think. Their motivation is pure TLS. Place so many landmines that the incoming conservatives will not be able to cope.
The strategic brilliance is their understanding that the conservatives will lack the will and courage to overturn Labor treason. ‘Fair Work’ anyone?
When the long march reached & entered the corporate world.
The world’s foremost Ragun impersonator has been fined $20,000 by the world’s foremost Australian Human Rights Commission impersonators.
For what it’s worth, my guess was the players had dressed up as The Matildas.
Monty gets a mention!
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1846301951941652956?t=1tZDR2G34GZi_tn-KzBIPg&s=19
Went to see the heart surgeon this morning. He’s very pleased with my progress. He told me it was touch a go a few times if I’d make it. I thanked him for saving my life, he looked embarrassed.
Anthony Albanese’s political judgment on a cliff edge after $4.3m property buy
Labor values, as espoused by Anthony Albanese, Juli Gilliard, Paul Keating and Bob Hawke.
“The bruvvas live in waterfront mansions for the good of the working class.
The fact that none of us would know a member of the working class, if we fell over one in the street, is neither here nor there.”
Home a day early. They turfed me out for bad behaviour!
Thank goodness for that. The woman in the room next door had her tv up to ludicrous volume and took all her calls on speaker.
Paying a shedload for private rooms doesn’t guard against bad neighbours. As the cliffside denizens of Copacabana may soon discover.
Football clubs are now the most corporate of corporate workplaces.
They ain’t your mates.
They’re at the cutting edge of the culture wars and essentially the biggest trophy that the woke have taken so far.
Let ‘em have it.
Haven’t watched a big sporting event in a decade.
Don’t miss it, couldn’t care less.
Lawgi Dawes-Hall
October 16, 2024 2:04 pm
The world’s foremost Ragun impersonator has been fined $20,000 by the world’s foremost Australian Human Rights Commission impersonators.
For what it’s worth, my guess was the players had dressed up as The Matildas.
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I’ll never watch AFL again. Only suburban footy.
Cut out this ‘Welcome to Country’ BS, ditch the Indigenous round and any other round like gay pride ( not sure if the the AFL does that ) and I’ll go back to watching it.
The only thing that should remain is Anzac Day commemorations.
I Iove the game, but not the AFL.
I used to love all that.
Bledisloe cup, Kiwis v Kangaroos, NRL, VFL, AFL, one day cricket internationals, Melbourne Cup, MotoGP, Bathurst. State of origin.
What a waste of time and involvement it all was.
Humans always fall for hype.
And an excuse to sit and watch other men exert themselves while we drink beer.
Beer.
I mostly blame beer.
“The group of players that have been suspended are the ones who were allegedly involved in the skits that were disrespectful.
And this is the exact moment the players should call a strike.
The negotiating settlement should include the people responsible ramming their heads up dead bears bums and being made to perform an improv comedy routine in front of the assembled players.
Those who fail to get a giggle are fed to the dingoats.
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These cocks seem to fail to understand the role of government.
It’s the role of private businesses to invest in entertainments, and the role of governments to pave the roads, remove the garbage and lock up graffiti “artists” so that the entertainment going public might wish to go to the private venues providing such entertainments.
And the private companies compete for that public.
How would you feel as a rate paying entertainment provider knowing your rates are going to pay for competition?
And the government using your rates for such aren’t on the hook if the venture fails?
And there is still potholes everywhere and graffiti artists walking free and whatever eco lunacy is going on with the waste removal.
In the past week there have been multiple articles about protecting kids on social media. Pretty much all blame the social media companies. Today the Courier Mail had an editorial on the subject. Below is my rejected comment.
“Surely it should be the responsibility of the parents to not allow the child to have access to the media where the bullying was taking place. Or the teachers talking to the children and their parents involved in the bullying.
I was speaking to a mother the other day of an 8 year old and 10 years old. She mentioned she wanted to get them basic phones that could call and text only. The father ended up buying them an expensive IPhone”
There is nothing controversial about my comment. However we are now dealing with a new “narrative” from mainstream media. That is that social media is entirely to blame and the not so subtle aim is to make life difficult for social media. Naturally this fits in with what the Government wants.
The Courier Mail has been noticeably quiet on Misinformation Bill and the editor must have previously worked at Pravda. Perfect Government stooge.
calli
October 16, 2024 2:22 pm
Home a day early. They turfed me out for bad behaviour!
Thank goodness for that. The woman in the room next door had her tv up to ludicrous volume and took all her calls on speaker.
Paying a shedload for private rooms doesn’t guard against bad neighbours. As the cliffside denizens of Copacabana may soon discover.
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Haha.
Stay strong and healthy, calli.
Some parts I ordered out of the Netherlands arrived, 5 maybe into the 6th day tops.
I can’t even get a letter from Sydney or Melbourne that quick.
Great stuff Auspost…
Hairy Festeringpenis finaly comes out and supports Hamase unequivocally.
https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f4a7.svgMary Kostakidis
@MaryKostakidis
No @SenatorWong
Hamas is not responsible for the genocide
Israel is a terrorist state
What a piece of shit.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/leading-political-journalist-calls?utm_source=substack&publication_id=268621&post_id=150257584&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=1easrn&triedRedirect=true
I left a message on her page – block incoming in….
thefrollickingmole
@frollickingmole
Just went back in time and checked out Hairys Grandmothers twitter feed.
No surprises there.
No
@”Doc” Evatt
The Nazi party is not responsible for the genocide England is a terrorist state
Yes, there will be cheating in the US election, but this time they’re not going all out.
A few reasosn…Trump is too far ahead in most of the swing states and the polling is showing this…..and there are not the ballots floating around to be harvested as there were. This time a request had to be made as opposed to the mass mailouts of 2020 and 22.
However, the main reason is that the power players on the D side are not fans of Kamala and would like to see her lose (Biden’s and Clintons) or are positioning themselves for a run in 2028…Whitmer, Newsome, Shapiro so won’t be doing much to assist.
Avi:
The officer confirms details about how illegal immigrants are coached to exploit the system as residents are forced to deal with the influx of migrants.
US Border Agent SPILLS THE BEANS on what’s really going on
@DefiyantlyFree
This is my favorite lane of propaganda to debunk. There is no proof that the 2020 election was stolen except:
1. Six states changed their election laws two months before the 2020 election by executive fiat, instead of going through the proper channels in the legislature. That is a violation of their state constitutions and that in and of itself is enough to invalidate the results of the 2020 election.
2. Mark Zuckerberg, hard left, spent $450 million dollars of private money on our elections. After the 2020 election analysis revealed that most of that money went to benefit Democrats.
3. 6 swing states stopped counting the votes on election night for the first time in American history. At the time that they stopped counting the votes, Donald Trump was ahead of Biden in each of them.
4. The unelected tech oligarchs in conjunction with the FBI in this country censored a very important story about Hunter Biden’s laptop and Joe Biden’s corruption. People who worked in the intelligence community, came out and said it was Russian disinformation only to have that laptop be admitted into evidence as part of an FBI investigation and criminal prosecution of Hunter Biden. Polling after the election showed that if people knew about the Hunter Biden laptop story it would’ve changed 17% of the vote.
5. 2,036,041 ballots were touched by anomalies.
6. 923 American citizens filled out affidavits alleging voter fraud, and signed them under penalties of perjury.
7. 50 plus courts blocked evidentiary hearings into the alleged fraud found in 2020.
8. Prior to 2020 there were four other contested elections, one in Florida, one in the 78th district of Missouri, one in the ninth district of North Carolina, and one in the 22nd district of New York. In every single one of those four instances, there was an evidentiary hearing. In the 2020 election, there was no evidentiary hearing. For the first time in American history.
9. No election contest in American history has had 923 fact witnesses sign under penalties of perjury and stake their personal freedom in testimony to attest to the irregularities and legal issues found in various states.
10. 37 states in the United States of America altered their absentee or mail in ballots ballot integrity procedures before the 2020 election.
11. If those 37 states used the same ballot integrity procedures that they used in 2018, swing states would’ve found an upwards of 30,000 more ineligible ballots.
12. In Pennsylvania, counties allowed new ballots to be filled out after the election.
13. Any one of those is enough to say that there was enough fraud in the 2020 election to doubt the outcome. Can I prove Donald Trump would’ve won the election if the Democrats hadn’t cheated? No I can’t prove a counter-narrative, but I can tell you that this amount of fraud leads any reasonable person to the conclusion that Joe Biden didn’t win.
The insurrection therefore was on 11/3/2020.
1/6 was a lawful protest with permits that got out of hand. Unlike Democrats who spent 10 months burning down this country to the tune of $2 billion dollars, and injuring 740 police officers nationwide, the capital riot had a couple million dollars in damages, 140 police officers that were injured and zero deaths. Except the 3 Trump supporters who were unarmed and killed without any investigation by the corrupt government.
Anybody who is clutching their pearls about January 6 without mentioning the fact that there was a large federal presence and many anomalies that have yet to be answered is a liar and a partisan hack.
You sound like an uninformed stage 10 TDS patient who needs to detox from CNN and MSNBC.
You can endorse the cackling communist from California, but don’t you dare pretend like the reason why you’re doing it is because Donald Trump did something wrong.
Turnip I agree it will be hard for the Dems to cheat this time although they will obviously try and try very hard.
But they absolutely do care.
Trump has learnt an awful lot from his previous time. He now knows that all Democrats are disgusting scum and will be looking to use all available means to destroy them – as he should. What are Dems going to do if Trump simply uses the same lawfare against his opponents as they have done against him? Every AG in every red state probably already has a bunch of indictments against various Democrat heavies ready to go so long as there is a semi-favourable Justice Department.
Not that it matters because being a leftist in and of itself should be a crime, but, unlike Trump, the likes of Pelosi and Schumer and Harris and Biden – and their lickspittles at CNN, NYT etc have no doubt committed many many actual felonies.
Indeed, even if Trump was inclined to forgive and forget, he has a family to think of. If he were to be voted out in 2028 in favour of a piece of shit those pieces will imprison all his family. He has no choice but to issue a pre-emptive strike.
Democracies were never meant to last – and thank God for that.
Shirley not! A fighter jet?
Salim Mehajer to have time piled onto jail sentence
Salim Mehajer is staring down the barrel of having time added onto his already lengthy prison sentence as he waits to learn his fate over a staged car crash.
Mehajer, 38, appeared in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court on Wednesday having pleaded guilty to a string of charges, bringing a long-running saga to its final stages.
Mehajer in July entered guilty pleas to 22 charges, including making a false representation resulting in a police investigation, making a false call for an ambulance, negligent driving and perverting the course of justice.
The charges relate to a staged car accident in Sydney’s west in October in an effort to avoid appearing before a Local Court hearing.
His black Mercedes AMG smashed into another car at the intersection of Nicholas and Delhi streets in Lidcombe, with television crews at the scene capturing Mehajer being stretchered into an ambulance with his neck in a brace.
He also pleaded guilty to dealing with identity information to commit an indictable offence, relating to him nominating other drivers as being involved in traffic and road infringements.
The matter was slated to go to trial in 2020 before at the 11th hour it was vacated and has been the subject of lengthy legal delays.
After pleading guilty earlier this year, Mehajer faced a sentence hearing before Judge Warwick Hunt on Wednesday.
Mehajer has faced several trials over the last several years and the car crash charges represent the final matter for which he is before the courts.
His barrister, Ian McLachlan, told the court that Mehajer had in 2018 been diagnosed with bipolar, there was a causal connection between his condition and his offending, and he was suffering “grandiose thinking” at the time.
He asked Judge Hunt, who will hand down his sentence on Friday, to backdate Mehajer’s sentence.
“He’s obviously had a lot of time to think about his previous actions,” Mr McLachlan said, noting Mehajer had been in custody since November 2020 when he was convicted of two counts of perverting the course of justice and one count of making a false statement under oath.
Mehajer came to the public’s attention in 2015 after his lavish wedding, featuring helicopters, fighter jets and dozens of luxury cars, shut down a street in Lidcombe.
The former Auburn deputy mayor is already in prison after he was found guilty in separate trials for unrelated fraud and domestic violence matters mid last year.
In a decision handed down earlier this year by District Court Judge James Bennett, Mehajer was sentenced to a maximum of seven years and nine months in jail.
He was found guilty by a jury in May last year – following a trial in which he represented himself – of six charges comprising multiple counts of assault, one count of intimidation and one count of suffocating.
He was found guilty of assaulting a woman – who cannot be identified – by punching her in the head during an argument in his car, squeezing her hand and crushing her phone, which she was holding, and threatening to kill her mother.
The following month, he was found guilty by a jury of two counts each of making a false document and using a false document.
He was found to have created false documents by forging the signatures of his solicitor, Zali Burrows, and sister.
The offences related to events after he was declared bankrupt in March 2018. When police searched his home and found $6350 in cash, Mehajer subsequently provided an affidavit claiming the money belonged to his sister.
He was sentenced concurrently for both the fraud and domestic violence offences and will be eligible for parole in July next year after serving 3½ years.
His sentences were under a suppression order until he pleaded guilty to the staged car crash charges.
The court was told he had flagged his intention to appeal both his domestic violence and fraud convictions.
He will also next week appear in the Court of Criminal Appeal, where he will argue to be released on bail ahead of his appeal proceedings.
Some interesting posts against evolution. The simulated universe idea is not a good one. The more interesting objections are the intelligent design and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The point is, as I said before evolution DOES NOT PRECLUDE a God unless you advocate Creationism and an age of the Earth of between 6000-10000 years. I presume there are no Creationists here?
Arky above:
I hear you, Arky. But I don’t despair.
As I research materials for future writings, I simply don’t consume 90% of the media.
I am born and bred in Victoria and still love AFL football, which I have followed since birth, but I don’t consume any of the AFL’s regime media, like Fox Footy on Foxtel, because it’s populated by shameless AFL cocksuckers who’ll do whatever they have to to uphold the regime and all its cocksucking.
So the only media I consume during the day is the racing media, owned and controlled by the racing industry — the last holdout of animal husbandry against the ignorant onslaught of Greenfilth haters, who’ve never cared for any animal bigger than a dog.
Outlets like RSN.net.au deliberately avoid politics and produce only six hours of content a day in the mornings.
So-called sports radio outlets like the SEN network have become a green-left swamp who suck whatever amount of AFL cock is required to retain their AFL rights.
For example, SEN’s star sports caller Gerard Whateley is an ex-ABC fascist wedded to the left’s anti-democratic ideals, a fierce opponent of the Trump revolution and a Montyesque parrot for the Democratic Party.
Fox Footy has just fired Whateley’s long-term TV partner Mark Robinson, the Melbourne Herald Sun‘s chief AFL football writer. Pairing Whateley with Robinson 14 years ago was an act of programming genius, creating a TV odd couple that has been very popular.
Over the years, Robinson has become more woke and more like Whateley, but Fox Footy has decided to keep the nerdy, politically correct half of the odd couple and get rid of the bloke that daily deals with footy fans’ concerns at the Herald Sun.
That tells me Fox Footy no,longer cares about viewership and is prepared to flush its ratings down the toilet to keep the AFL happy.
Meantime, I don’t despair. Fascism is currently popular in Australia and the West, but fashions change daily.
Hospitals are like golf clubs. Private is always better.
A fine of 20 large for puerile but legal behaviour you say?
I am up for 4.23 guzzillion dollars if all of my exploits come to light.
How do you explain NPCs then, like Monster?
How do you explain NPCs then, like Monster?
Shirley, if the universe is a simulation, we’re all NPCs.
How do you explain NPCs then, like Monster?
Accepting God is a scientist who has set up the Universe to see what comes out the other end (maybe he is hoping for some company) then the mechanism of evolution is going to produce some transitional species and evolutionary dead ends.
Dickless is proof of sociobiology whereby leftoids have taken over modern Western society which has evolved away from nature and set in place new evolutionary processes. These processes unfortunately have produced leftoids who would not survive in nature but who thrive in the tolerant West while destroying it. In other words dickless and his ilk are a virus destroying their host, ie a NPC. God almighty must be bemused wondering why the rest of us don’t inoculate against this destructive germ.
I believe The Bible implicitly, including Creation. However, as is the case often in the Old Testament, prior to calendars, one day may not be the same 24 hours as we know it.
My problem with the evolution theory is that initial cell, or the slime that morphed into it. Where did it come from? Even if it were merely vapour, someone had to create it. A quick Google explains it precisely:
These processes unfortunately have produced leftoids who would not survive in nature but who thrive in the tolerant West
I blame God. He gave us a strong individual protective instinct and no instinct to protect the species. So when we see a moron about to do something that will kill him, our instinct is to save him from himself instead of kicking him off a cliff.
Steven Miles giving a pitch at the leaders debate
https://www.skynews.com.au/video/05b0173913e492fc79d97a71fcd0ea0f
A surprisingly good pitch. Crisafulli seems to be stuck on abortion which is why Labor have recognised it as an easy target for their own fear campaign. And yet Miles reckons his campaign is one of hope, heheh.
All Crisafully would have to do is adopt a compromise position, such as “Abortion in the first trimester is accetable” and he’d probably be in step with most Qlders and the Labor fear campaign would collapse. Crisisfully must have some opinionated doners or, dare I suggest, some convictions of his own on the topic.
JC above:
How do you explain NPCs then, like Monster?
Simple, JC. The current green-left counter-revolution and its attendant street protests in the West are the work of rich, bourgeois upper middle class kids who’ve never struggled for anything in their lives.
It’s a top-down counter-revolution by the rich against the aspirational lower middle class, including migrants, who the bourgeoisie don’t want sharing their wealth – especially their property wealth, the hallmark of Greens voters and Greens politicians.
Now Albo is on the property gravy train, using other people’s money to buy a multi-million-dollar coastal mansion in Copacobana, on top of his other investment properties. Up yours, Australia.
Monty is doing the same, becoming an absentee owner of investment properties and a Ballarat slumlord.
I have nothing against NPCs like Monty exploiting the current per-capita Australian recession to increase his wealth through property acquisitions and look after his family.
But such NPCs are too dishonest to acknowledge they’re using Australia’s capitalist property market to get rich, like everyone else trying to survive a per-capita recession.
H B Bear
October 16, 2024 4:53 pm
I would like someone to do a study into the recuperative powers of sleep in hospitals.
Then do away with those incessant bing-bong machines which go off about 1.6 seconds after you’ve nodded off. Something like having nurses wear an electric shock prompter around their neck which alerts them every time an IV bag runs low or Beryl has “dropped my hearing aid dear”* for the fifteenth time tonight.
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* Invariably found in her other ear or in her hand.
Here’s my view about the simulation.
If God is supposed to be the ultimate multitasker, wouldn’t He also be all about efficiency? So, why go through the hassle of crafting an endless, sprawling universe when you could just as easily create a cosmic Zoom meeting that feels real to the plebs? I mean, why create a physical universe when you could run it on a souped up Windows with a Sims-like program?
Evolution?
I remember watching a clip a few years back on Bitchute with scientists taking trout eggs and subjecting them to a static electrical field in a tank. After that, all the genetic traits from the past came back to life. Size, colour, everthing … The fish were huge.
They did the same with corn kerrnels and the result was a higher yeild. 4 to 5 cobbs on plant compared to our modern varieties.
I think Bayer funded it and pulled the pin?
The bloke behind the research was asked why eveything was stopped. Have a guess.
I can’t find the clip again. It was fascinating stuff.
Making stuff is fun. It just might be that He enjoys the process, an eternal enjoyment. And it just might be that we aren’t His only project. It might all be a whole lot bigger than we can possibly imagine.
Endless possibilities.
This is a really good Carlson interview; hopefully, he’s back on track. He interviews Mark Halperin. It’s two hours long, but well worth it. Halperin thinks Trump will win, though he’s not overly optimistic. He just might.
He also talks about the very serious issue of a mental health crisis in America if Trump wins.
He emphasizes that this is a real concern, and that Trump would need to navigate it carefully. This potential crisis shouldn’t be downplayed.
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1846317509592399901
Where’s Armadillo to give us the low down on the US Presidential?
Making stuff is fun.
That’s why Santa’s elves at the north pole spend all their time making toys for children.
This is my thinking as well mainly due to the fact that everyone else is too busy just surviving in the current economic times granted us by the politicians, and parents and academics of the obscene protesters. They are so rich and comfortable that the economy means nothing to them while the revolution is providing the excitement lacking in their boring, comfortable lives.
What is even better, no matter how badly these children of privilege behave everyone in authority is of their class and mentality therefore they will not suffer serious consequences, more just inconvenience of having to deal with the icky police.
California cops who have trialed Teslas ahead of the state’s ban on gas and diesel vehicles have revealed they are ‘nearly unusable’ for police departments.
Gov. Gavin Newsom mandated in September 2020 that all vehicles sold in California be zero emission by 2035.
Since then, a number of local municipalities have implemented their own goals to convert their fleet of gas-powered cars to electric vehicles.
But the police chiefs who have purchased Teslas say the design of the cars is detrimental to police operations.
Several California police departments purchased Teslas ahead of the ban on gas vehicles
Among the California police departments that have tried using Teslas was the Ukiah Police Department, the largest municipal police force in Mendocino County.
There, Police Chief Cedrick Crook requested the City Council approve the purchase of two Tesla Model 3s, which is the company’s sedan, on August 7, 2024.
That purchase totaled nearly $150,000 between the cost of the cars and $35,000 in modifications to make the Teslas patrol-ready, Crook told the San Francisco Gate.
He said the vehicles needed the standard emergency lights, sirens, radio, antenna, push bar, partition and gun rack, but the Teslas also needed to be upgraded with ballistic panels to toughen it up for the streets.
The problem is that there is only one modification shop for Teslas in the state: Unplugged Performance in Hawthorne, which is about 500 miles south of Ukiah.
Store employees said it would take months to make all the modifications necessary to make the vehicles patrol-ready.
Adding to the issues with the cars, only two Tesla Supercharger stations have been installed in the city over the past two years. It remains unclear how officers would be charging the electric vehicles, Crook said.
He noted that police are often required to transport suspects, witnesses or victims to trials or court dates, which could be far away, and if detectives were driving a Tesla, Crook said they would have to spend time at an unsecured public charging station while protecting the person.
He went on to say that the back seats ‘only have room for one prisoner’, limiting an officer’s ability to sequester suspects.
If the city had only a Tesla fleet, Crook said, incidents involving more than one suspect will require more cops to respond with more cars, putting a strain on the police department’s resources.
Crook also noted that he had heard from other officers that they were not able to comfortably get into and out of the driver’s seat with their duty belt on because of the car’s sleek design.
Those belts could weigh up to 25 pounds and add bulk to an officer’s torso, he explained.
And in firefights, Crook said, officers are taught to hide behind a car’s engine block, but in Teslas, there are no engine blocks.
More at the Daily Mail
All Crisafully would have to do is adopt a compromise position, such as “Abortion in the first trimester is accetable” and he’d probably be in step with most Qlders and the Labor fear campaign would collapse. Crisisfully must have some opinionated doners or, dare I suggest, some convictions of his own on the topic.
Agreed 100% Colonel.
I think they party’s left wing is calling the shots. The substance of the mad hatters bill is apparently that but the Libs will shoot themselves in the foot in am attempt to prove they are virtuous.
I love that Stanley Kubrik’s daughter has signed off on Trump using parts of Full Metal Jacket for one of his ads.
As she sees it Trump wants to use means other than the military for foreign policy. (And wasn’t that one of the most refreshing things ever – to see a President negotiate in terms of the two parties’ interests so America does not have to guarantee the agreements but self interest does?)
She says that she reckons her Dad would be a Trumper.
(We really should be glad that he has such as easy name. Imagine being called a Pfilenvatzengruberer!)
She reckons her Dad understood a duality of human nature, and the fact that you must have a peaceful nature in a civil society, but a warlike one when confronted by an oppressive one. (Which Vietnam probably did not represent, but Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan did.)
The one on the left could about pass, the one on the right, definitely not.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/fashion/victorias-secret-makes-history-as-valentina-sampaio-alex-consani-become-first-trans-women-to-walk-at-the-fashion-show-101729047365691.html
Biden really is an evil old PoS. What a cretinous, fukwit state Delaware must be.
Exactly
https://x.com/MKatorin/status/1845786842664214627?t=Jzoodh056CEbUocBFX4SVA&s=19
Hospitals are like golf clubs. Private is always better.
Concur. Currently in ward 5A at RPH.
WHAT AN INCOMPETENT SHITSHOW!!!
Won’t bore with details but 9 hour wait to have a second canula inserted after first one failed. Staff rushing round like ants but seemingly with less purpose. fmd.
Just dines with a wine from Goddamn Murphy’s – Woodlands 2014 Cabernet Merlot. Actually has bit of a Bordeaux flavour (the grape combination should hint at left bank but taste is more right) very smooth tannins, betraying its Australian nature only through a liquorice flavour.
Not really a betrayal as wines go.
Highly recommended if anyone be interested.
And the meal I married it with…sausages. Plain boring old sausages. On bread which soaked up much of the fat. But what was left went with the wine so well.
As Rockdoctor mentioned earlier, lots of cats having medical treatments.
I am one such, had a small bit of breast cancer removed recently, picked up after a regular mammogram. I have to have 5 radiation treatments next week, all done after that. The system for women in Newcastle is brilliant.
However, I had to see an oncologist, who has prescribed a drug, Letrazole, which most women post breast cancer who have oestrogen-related cancer like mine take daily for five years. 100 points to him that he told me, for a 1% improvement in my 20yr prognosis, I may revert to menopause (I am in my late 60s, and very fit and healthy).
I have researched this drug, which depletes the body’s oestrogen and can (often does) result in menopause symptoms such as night sweats, hot flushes, weight gain, osteoporosis, early dementia, to name but a few side effects.
Why would any sane and healthy woman take a medication like this for a 1% potential reduction in recurrence of their cancer over 20yrs at my age?
I think that oncologist was trying to tell me without actually saying it, that I should be very wary. He spent more time on the side effects than the benefits.
SHOCKING: Down’s Syndrome Patient SEDATED and VACCINATED Without Consent | Neil Oliver
Intelligent design only really presents an objection if you maintain the theory of matter that emerged in the 1600s onwards. But if you junk that theory the perceived improbabilities are transformed. See Ross on Aristotle’s Revenge.
Kamala Harris & Donald Trump on the Joe Rogan Experience (THE SAAD TRUTH_1736)
Stricker:
If I remember my evodevo, the head and tail polarization of an embryo is defined by the orientation of the egg in the gravitational field….
(and slightly on topic, D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form is worth a look. One of my all-time favourite books)
Leading offshore wind developer ‘abandoned’ plans to build wind farm
Good to hear MareeS. Thumbs up for Newcastle Private – the surgical ward had the kindest and most competent nurses. They clearly enjoyed their work and that reflected in patient care.
Hey Gimp! Gimpy!, where are you? I have something for you.
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1845638893955350947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1845638893955350947%7Ctwgr%5E12ce0252f65c10194fe14ec71adcba3c33a02789%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Doesn’t the souped-up Windows machine require a physical universe? Also, God isn’t ‘multitasking’ or ‘crafting’ as He’s not in time.
DEAD LAST: Walz Received ‘F’ On Fiscal, Tax Policy, Worst of All 50 Governors
Did The New York Times Publish a Hoax?
A Labor appointed member of the Council of the National Gallery of Australia has accused Israel of conducting ‘a holocaust’ against the Palestinian people, calling on Israel’s opponents to ‘end this sickness’ and ‘end Zionism.’
The social media posts by artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah have accused Israel of committing genocide and apartheid and have included images of people burning, purportedly as a result of Israeli missile strikes in Gaza. Each of the images were timed to disappear from Mr Abdullah’s social media within 24 hours.
The Minister for the Arts Tony Burke appointed Mr Abdullah to the NGA Council in September last year, shortly before the Hamas terror attack on Israel of October 7 and Israel’s subsequent war on Hamas in Gaza.
At that time Mr Burke said Mr Abdullah’s appointment would provide the NGA with ‘authentic leadership’; which reflected ‘modern Australia.’
“It’s essential that our important national cultural institutions have authentic leadership that reflects their objectives, as well as modern Australia,” Mr Burke said at the time.“The National Gallery is one of our premier cultural institutions and I’m pleased to see it continue in safe hands.”
Mr Abdullah is a visual artist based in the Peel region of Western Australia whose work has been widely exhibited across the country, focusing on sculptures and installations.
The president of the Zionist Federation of Australia, Jeremy Leibler, questioned why Mr Abdullah was permitted to remain on the NGA Council given his incendiary rhetoric.
“No person who shares calls to ‘end Zionism’ – which is a dog whistle for the erasure of the State of Israel and the ethnic cleansing of its Jewish population – has any place in the administration of a public institution.’
Arts Minister Tony Burke, whose Sydney seat of Watson has one of the highest percentage of Muslims in the country, declined to comment on Mr Abdullah’s posts. Mr Abdullah, who is a Muslim Australian with a Malay mother and an Anglo-Australian father whose ancestors arrived in Australia in 1815, has often spoken out about discrimination against Muslims in Australia and about how it has become a ‘bigoted and selfish’ country.
Mr Abdullah said in 2020: “I appreciate that I live in a privileged part of the world, yet it’s also a deeply belligerent, inherently bigoted and selfish country that continues to destroy the environment for profit, imprison asylum seekers and is unable to acknowledge the colonial framework of violence that still defines us. Australians have this self image of being relaxed and easy going but we are consumed by institutional racism, government corruption and hard-edged politics.”
He has said previously that “politics are inseparable from any artist”.
In his temporary Instagram stories, Mr Abdullah posted that “Israel is conducting a holocaust against the Palestinian people. End this sickness. End Zionism.”
Another post stated: “End the genocide, end apartheid, end Zionism.”
Another post depicts an Israel soldier holding a gun to the head of a Palestinian farmer in a field.
Meanwhile a story posted this week depicts a fire with the words “patients still connected to IVs were burned alive after Israel launched missiles at Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza”.
Oz
Dishonesty, which she so clearly exhibits, can manifest itself in many ways.
The Kamala Harris Plagiarism Scandal
Lufthansa fined record $4 million for discriminating against Jewish passengers
This is no shock to me except it is shocking — I heard of many disabled people here in this country being sedated and vaccinated with the COVID experimental vaccine
The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show has dropped all woke pretenses to embrace trademark sexiness —and looks better for it
Two Firefighters Die in Battery Explosion: Pozna?, Poland
Andrew Bolt missing the point yet again. Worried that Copacabana (the suburb) is “frivolous”. Seriously.
I don’t care about him buying the house. So what. What disgusts me is that he trotted out the stupid “houso” trope to justify the purchase.
Michael Costa gets it. A “hard left person enjoying the fruits of capitalism”. Blammo!
“Meanwhile a story posted this week depicts a fire with the words “patients still connected to IVs were burned alive after Israel launched missiles at Al Aqsa Hospital in Gaza””
Hamas lies
More of a perverse sense of humour.
I met a rather sturdy young lass once that stridently insisted god must be a woman. I suggested that it would help to explain a few things, I don’t think she was impressed for some reason.
Anti-Semitism Is A Light Sleeper | Major-General Tim Cross
The tell is the choice of wristwatch. They always have a Rolex, from that Cuban on down to Obama.
People are starting to wonder whether the real estate portfolios of our pollies are influencing their decisions on Australia’s housing crisis.
Mr Urine had a place a Mt Wilson iirc.
Ontario College of Psychologists cannot find ‘social media expert’ to publicly re-educate Dr Jordan Peterson
Also, God isn’t ‘multitasking’ or ‘crafting’ as He’s not in time.
Professor Paul Davies in his book, The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World, speculates about the possible types of God, who may exist in the Universe and be subject to the physical laws he made, or be the Universe, or exist outside the Universe. Davies postulates that if and when mankind discovers the theory of everything God will be revealed.
Weatherill must have held his nose.
Also, God isn’t ‘multitasking’ or ‘crafting’ as He’s not in time.
What observations have led you to this conclusion, Dover?
I think Clarkson’s Farm might have been mentioned here before. Just got through Season 3 and its been great. The cast of characters have been perfection. Gerald’s accent has been very funny. The episode in season 1 with Gerald trying to explain to Jeremy how to plough the field with a mask on over the CB with a heavy West country accent was hysterical. Council and some of the townies were the perfect villains.
Report from the first Cumberland Council meeting (SW Sydney) being held tonight, with the new Councilors:
Cumberland Council has 15 elected Councilors in total (5 Liars, 4 SFLs, 3 OLC, 1 Green, 1 Independent, 1 Muslim Vote)
The 4 Liberal Councilors have formed a coalition with the 5 Labor Councilors to elect a Labor Mayor (Ola Hamed) and a Liberal Deputy Mayor (Michael Zaiter).
A deal has been done, all openly acknowledged.
noting that
32% voted ALP in the latest Cumberland Council election.
70% of Cumberland voted for conservative Councilors.
So the comment was made (by Paul Garrard, ex-Labor, now OLC) : “If you voted for Liberal you ended up voting for Labor – it’s a coalition of chaos”.
Stupid.F-cking.Liberals.
The Muslim Vote Councilor (Ahmed Ouf) abstained from the votes for Mayor and Deputy Mayor. Mr Ouf commenced his maiden speech by acknowledging Aboriginal land and equating it with Palestinian Land, then thanked his god. Mayor Hamed also mentioned Gaza in her mayoral acceptance speech.
Now the Liberal Councilor Joseph Rahme is speaking, saying that he has “”principles” which he will uphold, whilst viciously bagging the OLC cohort (whose platform includes keeping major political parties out of local government).
Uniparty in action.
Labor Prime Ministers, present and past, seem to land in high-end waterfront properties. Apart from Turnbull, who already owned his harbourfront mansion, former Lib PMs seem to have remained in their reasonably modest family homes.
And now it seems the road to Albo’s new home has been upgraded at government expense.
Man without a clue.
Courtesy the taxpayer, not “on his own” as Dennis Shanahan inexplicably put it in The Oz today.
Albanese has created zero wealth across his working life and his role in government has likely been a drag on wealth creation by others.
Both can be at fault. It’s not a competition.
The Lord has a profound sense of humour and absurdity…
The male genitals are proof of this.
If you think the less than a billion years they say it took for life to take off on Earth is sufficient, Damon, I invite you to do the abiogenesis maths on that.
it’s impossible with a trillion Earths.
Aren’t you inconsistent here? You’re implying God doesn’t exist in time, so why then would He require a physical universe when time and space are intertwined?
The male genitals are proof of this.
What mammals do to reproduce shows God has a very odd sense of humour.
Always a good question.
NHS priority
And an excellent question.
I’ll check back with interest tomorrow for dover’s reply.
Meiss El Jabal
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1846471711820042301?t=vTekmL_l7p2wfBB2nowdWw&s=19
News says North Korea accusing South Korea of flying drones over their territory. What did North Korea do in retaliation? Blew up bridges to South Korea.
So an adversary sends you flying machines and your response is to blow up land bridges! What a bunch of morons!
Surely such an absurdity is only possible in a country that doesn’t vote for its leaders.
Trump now leading by 14% in the betting odds!
https://electionbettingodds.com/President2024.html
Possibly the punters are being influenced by exit polls of early voting? Or Kamala said something stupid again? Who can say. I wouldn’t get comfortable until the lead is 20%.
Of course if polling has begun, the steal has begun too. But hey what can ya do. Just have to hope the Republicans’ get-out-the-vote and voter roll reviews have been enough.
Mr Abdullah said in 2020: “I appreciate that I live in a privileged part of the world, yet it’s also a deeply belligerent- not me though, I’m not belligerent even though I cheer on the attacks on Israel-, inherently bigoted- I’m not bigoted though, I’m inherently godlike- and selfish- again, not me- country that continues to destroy the environment for profit- I’ll point out here that nothing I do has any “environmental” impacts at all, nor is motivated by income- imprison asylum seekers and is unable (I’m able tho, of course, in fact my ability to waffle woke-left platitudes is more or less my entire job) to acknowledge the colonial framework of violence that still defines us. But not me, doesn’t define me, I’m one of the very very few enlightened good ones. Australians- I’m not Australian, remember, I’m Moooosley-Australian which is COMPLETELY different and obviously superior- have this self image of being relaxed and easy going (please ignore me ranting against my surrounding society on “social media”, I swear I’m easy going- six figure incomes from an un-sack-able job does relax one thoroughly), but we are consumed by institutional racism- not the NGA, that institution is obviously untouched by waaacism cancer- government corruption and hard-edged politics. I’m not playing hard-ball though, I’m not bleating edgy talking points instead of, you know, painting or drawing, and I’m not absolutely dyed-in-the-wool regime-approved political in everything I do.”
F*cking regime-appointed dissident. Nothing is more repugnant.
íAfuera!, with a boot to the arse, if I had any say in it.
The fruits of capitalism abound, housos!
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s $100 million road upgrade connects to his extravagant $4.3m coastal mansion
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese personally announced $100 million of taxpayer funds to upgrade the road leading to his extravagant new $4.3 million waterfront property.
Sharri MarksonSky News Host
2 min read
October 16, 2024 – 7:30PM
More than $100 million in taxpayer funds will be spent to upgrade the main road which leads to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s new $4.3 million beach house.
In June this year, Mr Albanese held a press conference where he personally spoke about the upgrade to Avoca Drive on the Central Coast. It will be funded with $100 million in federal government money and $30 million in state funding.
Asked about the upgrade, Mr Albanese said: “The Minister might want to respond there, but Avoca Drive, one of the times I was here I know that the surveying work has all been done. And I know that this is a real choke point, so it’s very important, and that’s why we’ve provided funding to make sure that it happens.”
Infrastructure and Transport Minister Catherine King said planning work was still being finalised for an upgrade to Avoca Drive and that it was being done in conjunction with the NSW government.
She said the construction was set to start in the middle of next year.
“We provided additional money in the last Budget, $130 million has now been allocated for this project,” Ms King said.
Mr Albanese initially committed $30 million during the federal election campaign and then another $70 million in January 2023.
Avoca Drive is the main road that Mr Albanese would need to drive on to reach his new waterfront mansion.
If Mr Albanese was coming from Sydney, he would travel on Avoca Drive, turn briefly into Empire Bay Drive, then onto Cullens Road, before making a right turn at Cape Three Points Rd and then he would arrive at his destination on Del Monte Place.
The proximity of the road undergoing extensive upgrades to his own clifftop mansion is very clear.
Mr Albanese probably knew he wanted to buy a place in the area, saying he and fiancé Jodie Haydon chose Copacabana because she is a “coastie” – meaning, her family are from the Central Coast of NSW.
The Prime Minister now faces questions about whether he knew he intended to buy a home in the area before he announced the millions of dollars in taxpayer funding.
There’s no suggestion the road doesn’t need the upgrade.
Sky News put questions about the upgrade to the Prime Minister’s office.
A spokeswoman said the funding was absolutely unrelated to the house purchase.
“The Albanese Government has delivered record road infrastructure funding to ensure Australians everywhere have better roads to drive on,” she said.
Labor MPs are shocked at Albanese’s poor political judgement at splurging on a waterfront home during a cost of living and housing affordability crisis.
One Labor MP said it was an issue that would cut-through with voters while another said the team were questioning whether Mr Albanese had his head in the game.
No. I’m implying that God must be seperate from the universe otherwise He’d be subject to the same limits of that universe (this answers DrBG’s question: not so much an observation but a deduction given our experience of physical reality). Further, it’s not He that requires the universe but that the souped-up Windows machine does.
WHAT?
Oh my lordy.
Mr ‘I Fight Tories!’ is seriously kidding himself if he reckons he’ll skate through this.
mutation is random but selection is not
where the vector of evolution points is random
but progress along that vector certainly isn’t
God has a yo-yo
Hindmarsh Island bridge expert debunks Blayney gold mine ‘blue-banded bee’ talePaige Taylor and James Dowling
2 minutes ago
The anthropologist whose research helped to debunk the “fabricated” secret women’s business at the Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission has cast serious doubt on claims of a dreaming story about the blue-banded bee at the proposed Blayney gold mine – which Tanya Plibersek used to block the billion-dollar project.
Philip Clarke, a historian whose work has for decades supported Indigenous groups in their land rights claims, said on Wednesday the blue-banded bee story was “highly unlikely” as The Australian confirmed that Wiradjuri authority Uncle Neil Ingram told Ms Plibersek in February that the story was not true.
The Australian has obtained portions of Mr Ingram’s emphatic evidence to the eleventh-hour inquiry convened by Ms Plibersek which, together with Dr Clarke’s expert advice, raises further questions about whether the minister was duped into blocking the mine on the strength of claims by a dissident Indigenous group.
Mr Ingram rejected the claims of Bathurst-based anti-mine group Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation. “(The) Bathurst group stating that they are custodians of the blue banded bee story is false,” he said in his evidence to Ms Plibersek.
“As a senior Wiradjuri elder and, coming from a traditional Galari clan, (I) have never heard of this story, never seen any ochre art works, rock engravings or traditional dances symbolising the blue-banded bee story.”
Dr Clarke said there was no record of the blue-banded bee as a totemic ancestor of the Wiradjuri before a story in the media in 2022, when the approvals process for Regis’s proposed mine was well advanced.
As a consultant, Dr Clarke wrote three reports in three years about Wiradjuri mythology, ceremonial cycles and tradition for Regis. In his first report in 2021 – before mine opponents mentioned the blue-banded bee dreaming – Dr Clarke examined all public records and turned up evidence of Wiradjuri belief in supreme beings such as Baiame, Daramulan and Muni Burrebean but nothing about the blue-banded bee and nothing relating specifically to the proposed mine site. He concluded the site of the proposed mine was not of special cultural significance.
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Wiradjuri elder Neil Ingram. Picture: Facebook
“Recently, claims have been made in the public domain that the ‘blue-banded bee’ as a creation ancestor has a story that is relevant to headwaters of the Belubula River,” Dr Clarke said.
“In my opinion, this is highly unlikely since there is no record of any Wiradyuri group having such a totemic ancestor.
“As a cluster of non-colonial species that do not produce collectable honey, there is no recorded Aboriginal economic use for them, which, in my view, makes the blue-banded bee an unlikely candidate as a major totem.
“The origin of the blue-banded bees as a myth narrative is more likely than not to be recent, as the earliest accounts of the story appear in the media from early 2022.
“If this story was so culturally important, it is reasonable to conclude that it would have been mentioned much earlier during earlier consultations between Regis Resources and the local Aboriginal representatives. In a community environment, crucial cultural knowledge is shared in order to protect it.”
Dr Clarke was an expert witness at the 1995 Royal Commission into whether there was secret sacred women’s business at the site of a proposed bridge between the mainland and Hindmarsh Island in South Australia. His evidence, based on field work and an exhaustive review of ethnographic data, supported dissident Indigenous woman who said they had never heard of it
actually, you known what … mutation isn’t random either.
cosmic rays or cancer … some mutations are more likely to happen than others
Well, gold hit the $A4k mark today.
Silver continues to rise @ $A47.62 this evening.
Thus demonstrating how much the currency has been devalued over the last year.
Australia will donate 49 of the army’s M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine in the nation’s most significant and lethal contribution to the country’s war against Russia, amid warnings that Vladimir Putin is bolstering his forces with North Korean troops in a dangerous new development for Kyiv.
Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy will formally pledge the US-made tanks to Ukraine at a NATO meeting in Brussels this week, following a year-long campaign by Kyiv to secure the weapons.
It is one of the largest single contributions of Western tanks to Ukraine since the war began, exceeding the US’s own donation of 31 M1A1s.
The Australian tanks were due to be retired from next year and replaced with next-generation M1A2s, but are said to be in good condition and are said to be far superior to those operated by Russia.
I do miss having a ciggie on the dance floor and running amok.
The Trammps – Disco Inferno
Some discussion earlier about hospitals and recuperation. My 2c worth, having only been in hospital twice in my 70 years, both times for surgery, once 5 days and once ten.
Both times I was in a shared room with another woman. One, who was only there because they couldn’t get a place for her in aged care, snored like a freight train every night for the whole ten days. Plus, they cut off my pethidine (after painful abdominal surgery) arbitrarily after three days, in the middle of the night. Them’s the roolz. I woke up at 3 am in agony, having just dozed off.
It was horrible. Recuperation only began when I got home.
The second time I was sharing with a woman with numerous conditions who required 24 hour care for every bodily function, so there was constant noise and disruption (I don’t blame her, of course).
Plus, when I did manage to doze off, I would be woken for blood pressure checks or medication.
In short, it is hard to imagine a worse built and designed environment for a sick person than the modern hospital.
Notice also how new hospitals always turn out to need expensive modifications because of design flaws.
FFS, this is ridiculous. There must be a template/series of templates for hospital design by now, after hundreds of thousands of them have been built.
The new Canberra Hospital is one of those architectural wankfests at the expense of functionality. Wings sticking out at angles, a maze of corridors, you get the idea. I got lost in there, twice, completely lost. Someone who came to visit me needed to ask for directions, also twice.
A block design where everything is where you would expect it to be is not sexy enough for the spenders of OPM.
mareeS
October 16, 2024 6:46 pm
I’m not.
Having said that, possibly talk to another specialist.
dover0beach
October 16, 2024 7:54 pm
It is an amusing parable of so many things we have lost, or are about to lose.
In my younger days I remember someone saying that Labor’s scandals involve money and the Liberals’ are of the sexual variety. Albo is the proof of the Labor’s love of capitalism while Bill Sneddon died in flagrante delicto to tar the Liberals as sex-crazed fiends.
chess puzzle … tactical jolt
Regarding the Senate Inquiry into the “Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 [Provisions]”
They are up to their old tricks:
viz. a last-minute notification to minimise the number of people who can turn up to a public hearing.
… an email has just been received (after 10:30pm, tonight, 16th October) notifying us that a public hearing will be held in Canberra tomorrow (17th October)
There was initially no allowance made in the Inquiry for public hearings to be held. Now, after 15,000 plus submissions to the Inquiry – many (including mine) demanding that public hearings (plural) be held, one has been announced – with the absolute minimum of notice.
Here is the program for tomorrow: Public Hearings – Parliament of Australia (aph.gov.au)
Tomorrow’s witnesses:
Digital Industry Group
Uniting Church in Australia
Australian Christian Lobby
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
Australian Electoral Commission
e-Safety Commissioner (Ms Julie Inman Grant, Commissioner Mr Toby Dagg, General Manager of Regulatory Operations)
CyberCX
New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties
Queensland Council for Civil Liberties
News Corp Australia
Special Broadcasting Service
Public Interest Journalism Initiative
Dr Nicholas Coatsworth, private capacity
What I mean MareeS is that there may be other options for oestrogen driven breast cancers.
Copied from elsewhere…
Breast Screen Queensland:
URGENT:
Have you had a breast screen with Breast Screen Queensland?
Family member rang BSA this morning only to be told they had no record of her.
If you had Breast Cancer in the past 2 years your records are no longer on record.
Apparently they never uploaded her records to their new system.
How many other women’s records have been lost?
It is imperative for Breast Cancer Specialists to refer to your previous Scan.
It is not acceptable.
Some IT nerd has screwed up with his new system failing to upload patient records to the new system.
Family member then rang Queensland Health to lodge complaint and got nowhere!
Not good enough.
Wonder how Giggles Giles will get out of them one?
Breast Cancer is no laughing matter!
Please contact David Crisafulli’s Office and lodge a complaint.
We did!
Why doesn’t that apply to a physical universe?
What do you mean?
And why would you contact the opposition leader to make a complaint about the incompetence of someone else?
This sounds like bullshit to me.
No. I’m implying that God must be seperate from the universe otherwise He’d be subject to the same limits of that universe (this answers DrBG’s question: not so much an observation but a deduction given our experience of physical reality).
A deduction which depends on properties of the universe and also properties of God. There could hardly be a better example of begging the question; the term being used correctly for once.
I’m not.
I visited a podiatrist today. Does that count?
When your village is basically a Hezbollah encampment complete with tunnels.
https://x.com/VerminusM/status/1846536767479988449?t=pBz895zCIUuHWiEJHK9uSg&s=19
More in Australia please!
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1846319364959621606?t=AhlQVzgcxoSUGRm1nA4Uqw&s=19
Did someone say soulless parasite?
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1846542741280367046?t=FhJP1oxn6IwiXAZqgdvO0g&s=19
Arky, you have to know some organic chemistry to start speculating about the origin of life and cells and cellular metabolism. More than I know, certainly. Here’s a good place to start. I don’t see a problem with attempts to ascertain chemical processes that may have produced life whether on has religious belief or not. This knowledge still doesn’t explain what the life force actually is, the chemical interaction that becomes cellular and metabolises and replicates. What is life? enquired one of the best teachers I’ve ever known, who walked into a 5-year biology course we were condensing into one year in the Day Matric at tech more than sixty years ago, when the Krebs cycle was the biggest scientific breakthrough of the day to cap off the Watson-Crick DNA discovery of the 50’s.
I’d hardly be looking to Adern’s NZ for solutions to the housing crisis but the woke BCA who is addicted to the population ponzi. Their solution is more Chicom dog boxes and trains:
https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/business-council-of-australia-proposes-highdensity-housing-zoning-reform/news-story/8443fc68ea69b942a1a2be08e07d226c
Why are political parties addicted, as much as any smack user to turbomigration?
What does it actually improve apart from the nebulous “GDP”.
The current crop of lobotomites seem incapable of placing even the smallest cap on numbers.
I hate to say it, but at some stage the “You have to go back” meme is the only option left.
So what is it, corruption or hatred of Australia?
https://twitter.com/rationalaussie/status/1846642651803857083/photo/1
This is all very old and boring stuff at this stage. Yes, we can’t tell who or what God is… which is kind of the point. If you have faith in Yahweh or The Architect from the Matrix movie or the Flying Spaghetti Minster, the debate inevitably descends into faith rather than hard science. Paul Davies, as cohenite has mentioned, was exploring this territory decades ago.
Last time I was paying attention the new hotness was superstrings, dunno what is going on there now.
Speaking of Canberra Hospital, has anyone ever tried parking in that multi-storey carpark? I’m confident it was designed by a psychopath. Built only a few years ago and apparently it was beyond them to rig up an electronic board outside to indicate capacity. Spent half an hour in there in a queue waiting to get out. Crossing my fingers for this Saturday to see these imbeciles removed from government.
Today was a perfect day. Perfect in the glorious Sydney weather and perfect in bringing together my two eldest sons with their visiting ‘cousin’ who is also their age, all of them fifty or approaching it. During their childhood this ‘cousin’ often stayed with me during my time as a single parent, and visited us later too. He father, with whom she resided for school holidays and at other times when not at boarding school, was a man of temper, troubled by alcohol and mental illness. He would arrive at my door, often late a night after a fight, stabbed, bleeding, bruised or just fed up, and thrust his daughter in my arms and I would take over. My place and my boys meant safety. She’d settle in immediately and they loved her as a sister. They have all been all damaged in some way by circumstances then and later, but the three share a deep affection for each other. We’ve kept in touch although she married an American and has two teenage children herself now. On this trip she came without her children.
I took the three of them to a lunch at Watsons Bay Hotel in the beer garden, with gun-barrel views down to the Manhattan-style skyline that is now Sydney’s CBD. We walked down from our place and afterwards walked around to Camp Cove with its redolent history of Sydney’s first days. Sydneysiders were out in force sunning themselves while children played. The day was filled with the scent of Jasmine, the Bourgainvillia’s wild efflorescence, and the busyness of birds, birds everywhere. We covered a lot of ground from past and present times, in the easy way that family members can have, often with considerable hilarity at memories long-forgotten and now shared again. As I watched the three of them from my seat on the steps to the sand, their shoes off and pants rolled up, paddling in the shallows near the rocks and squealing as they prodded conjevoi to make them squirt and shared opinions and secrets, they could have been three twelve year olds again, doing together what they always did, out and about in bushland or on the rocks at the beach.
A small warp in the weft of time on one perfect day.
Our American guest lives in Portland, which has been traditionally Democrat country, blue as blue, and I had thought them both Democrats at our last meeting. Now though she tells me they are both ‘leaning Republican’, and it turns out they’re really red hot Trump fans, because their beloved city of Portland is wrecked beyond belief with drugs and welfare slackness and nothing works any more. She had heard of JD Vance, good things, but had never seen him and knew nothing of his history. We’ll watch that on Friday night with the movie made of his book, I say, and Hairy departs to fix the other TV for his favorite sports so he won’t have to watch it for a third time.