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But the way they did over Richard was just way over the top.
Certainly was.
Some noddy in the South Yorks Constabulary was bullied by the top levels of the BBC to allow extraordinary access to the investigation. The High Court agreed that this degree of cooperation was “unlawful”.
MT going to NT about TC cover up?
Rob Reiner
@robreiner
The United States was attacked. We didn’t see bombs hitting Pearl Harbor. We didn’t see planes crash into buildings. But cyber missiles struck the heart of our Democracy. It was an insidious Act of War. Anyone who aids and abets this is committing Treason.
8:16 PM · Jul 17, 2018
Correlation is not causation. I bet this was a bit of data mining. I bet these dweebs don’t know that I could probably “analyse” six years of crime data and find a 40% surge (from one to two incidents ever second year or so) when the ice cream van comes by or Malcolm Turnbull has a brain fart. Such correspondences show nothing. They are just lazy ways for people like Amazon to try sell you more not to explain what you like to read and why (once upon a time data mining was verboten in many studies for this reason). This is really irresponsible reporting. I feel for the pub manager – seems he was taking the piss (as he should). So much for the caring sharing tolerant inner city hipster Newtown.
“If you’re about, can you confirm the news I heard this afternoon… that substantial slabs of the APS where “probity” is a thing have been automatically opted out of MyHealthRecord?”
I’m not aware of this, Mark. In fact I had lunch today with some former colleagues, now contracting in Human Services and ATO. The issue of MyHealth came up in very general terms, but no one mentioned agencies or individuals employed by them automatically opting out. Of course, if the movement was in or part of the Defence or intelligence communities, than my friends would probably not have known.
If I hear more, I will let you know.
Turnbull and other politicians are now seeking to pervert the course of justice.
I saw that and I agree, None.
Now, I believe his reasons are that there are funding squabbles going on re the Catholic schools, and so he is demonising priests. Which is easy to do these days, given the anti Catholic sentiment across Australia.
So he hopes to crush the funding issue by getting people riled up about sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests.
So that’s entirely obvious. What’s not so obvious is why T.Abbott stays in a party led by a man who does stuff like this. Disappointing. He would make a fine leader of the Aust. Conservatives and really bring them to the fore so we have a voting choice. Cory B I excellent in many ways, but I think TA would really be the bonus.
Jeepers! You can’t even joke about the absurd research that reckons we gotta ban da footies to protect da wahmens.
Can we joke about Turkish prisons, Greco Roman wrestling and….?
Fuck off guys and stop meddling, you’ll live longer.
So you want to bully a publican 900 km for making an off colour joke?
Just fuck off! As to your virtue signalling:
Shut up, I don’t care. Fuck you!
Has he called for the “child protection” [email protected] enablers to be sacked?
#walkaway
Rob who?
The Aussie has had 100 point range today and also very volatile within that range
64 cents by yearend. Go short, young man, go short.
Mass sackings anytime now.
Very interesting website about Resignations.
‘Wonder what she’s doing now?’
Last I heard, Anu Singh was undertaking – no pun intended, and may even have completed, a degree in criminology.
So far as I could tell, it was not a joke.
Still, somebody must has been impressed by her, they named a university after her.
You know whats really pitiful.
A tick on the ballbag of Aboriginal Australians seems to think people here would be upset by an Aboriginal doing well, especially in such a prestigious area.
Speaking on behalf of all here at catallaxy – congrats!
Its a special type of stupidity/projection that thinks people who want to see Aboriginals doing well actually means the opposite.
Disgraceful little racist testesplatter.
It’s a signal to let us know that they now own it. No one seems to have sent around the memo about keeping it a secret.
Probably being processed through the diversity/equality/fairness committee as we speak.
Disaster for all those who import stuff from US and PRC.
I’m not sure the Tasmanian government has thought this through. Doesn’t their greatest son – Bob Brown – burn logs in the fire-place of his homo love-nest? Oh dear.
If the Tasmanian government has nothing better to do than be a fucking busy-body perhaps they should shut down for a few years.
JC is donating his bowel to Richo.
No. Genuine question. What’s the problem.
From the Oz. Does someone want to tell this unctuous little gerbil, that, much as he thinks he’s God, he isn’t?
So, Obama played Soros and didn’t deliver the goodies?
Hillarity would’ve understood what was expected.
“Tintarella di Luna
#2767661, posted on July 19, 2018 at 3:56 pm
I was driving through Dickson, ACT, just now and noted that the town house where Joe Cinque was, err, euthanised by Anu Singh – 79 Anthill St – has been bulldozed to make way for units.
I read Helen Garner’s book about Joe Cinque, what a tragedy I will never forget his parents and their devastating heartache. Wonder what she’s doing now? I shudder when I think of the evil in that creature.”
Tintarella darling, Helen Garner’s is one of my favourite writers, she is a lefty but I will forgive her for that because her non-fiction writing is superb. Her writing style is succinct and crisp, there is no melodrama. I too read her book on Joe Cinque which is riveting, disturbing and stomach churning. Garner’s later book “This House of Grief” is also excellent, utterly painful to read about a father in Victoria who deliberately drove his car with his three boys inside into a dam and drowned them. He swam out. I think what makes Garner’s books so good is her astute insight into evil. Anu Singh, a complete sociapath, only served a short sentence of four or five years….so much for life in prison. As far as I am concerned, in any just society, she should have been executed.
Huh, how circumstances change depending on who’s in the White House.
Here’s Crooked in 2012 telling us how Russia is really helpful and we shouldn’t look backwards.
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1019755455185211392
Lord, the left are dishonest hypocritical bastards. Fucking snakes. Snakes in a Plane.
Halve the Victorian GST payments for 6 months, then go back and ask again.
64 cents by year end.
Disaster for all those who import stuff from US and PRC.
Yes, and those who export their AUD into other destinations via USD.
Anyone see this, it’s been out for 12 hours.
What’s this about?
Elsewhere:
64 cents by yearend.
Looking for a bottom at .73 ish….. sideways/ up for a couple months not exceeding .76 then a ride down to the .70’s and lower. If .73 doesn’t hold initially then .68 before end of year.
I think .64 is a very very big ask by end of year but the direction is right.
Yes, all the best to Jupes and JC, and also to Beery who went to the job interview/ the Lord Nelson Hotel. (He hasn’t clarified which at this stage.)
Left adored Stalin. Then Khrushchev supposedly told of Stalin’s deeds, and the Left were horrified. Mao, Castro, Ho, Pol Pot …
What’s this about?
An important fact to remember; the FBI never did study the DNC servers. It was outsourced to Crowdstrike. All of it. Security? Sharing? Copies?
Any historians out there?
Last night I speculated that Fred. Will. IV of Prussia rejecting a new Imperial Crown over all Germans in 1849 was probably the greatest mistake in modern history.
Checking Napoleon III, Russia pan Slavism, avoiding the German wars of unification and Austrian aggression in the Balkans would have averted most if not all of the tragedies of the 20th century.
Even the D’rats don’t want the Giraffe.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/democrats-spurn-comeys-endorsement/
Singh went the mental illness route. I seem to recall she had support from a university, perhaps Macquarie. But Garner got a comment from the sentencing Judge who said something like there was no point in giving her a hard sentence. The poor guy got a hard sentence though.
Spacechook warning…
Book on the Lindt Cafe siege makes interesting reading – Man Monis committed several sex offences while on bail for Federal postal offences – sending abusive letters to the families of soldiers who had been KIA – and was allowed bail for FORTY sex offences. The author notes that “had Commonwealth and New South Wales legal jurisdictions more thoroughly compared notes, it is almost certain he would never have been at large at the time of the siege.”
Director of the Environmental Protection Authority, Wes Ford said, ” The changes will mean council officers can issue on-the-spot fines.”
We’re governed by over zealous Recycle Bin Inspectors and Council Smoke Rangers.
‘Tintarella darling, Helen Garner’s is one of my favourite writers, she is a lefty but I will forgive her for that because her non-fiction writing is superb.’
I’d always believed that Garner was probably almost unique among Australian writers in the she genuinely had a built in bulls**t detector.
But after her 2104 paean – ‘the Singular Rosie – to that dolled-up ‘victim’ and relentless self-promotor Rosie Batty, I’m now not so sure.
f
Mein gott. Cooking food is banned in Tasmania.
Hey Cohenite
What do you think of this? I think it’s too far fetched.
… in fact, .7350 has been putting up a fight for nearly a month now. If it lets go could be a good 2 cents drop.
That’s two shot dead in DC. And there’s one unhinged former CIA director on the loose.
JC
I agree with you about the Beeb’s atrocious behaviour re Cliff Richard. The cost should have been up by a factor of 10.
Their bleats about restricting their coverage of police investigations sit poorly with their marked reluctance to cover the investigations into various Islamic gangs.
Catallaxy Tinder is booming right now guys!!!!
What about Catallaxy Grindr for the love is love crowd?
P
#2767460, posted on July 19, 2018 at 12:30 pm
Thanks for the link!
The Night watch it was thanks frolicking mole.
I heard all of what Craig Kelly said . He spent a lot of time at first saying how terrible it must be for the father of those children and it was a tragedy no one would get over (paraphrasing) and other sympathetic remarks.
I doubt whether Trump even knew about this tragedy and it would have been wise ,given the antagonism beteen the countries, not to start off by making things worse . Not the time nor place to get into Putin.
I don’t know enough about the technology and whether china could do this; would they do that, sure.
In other news putin apparently has suggested an exchange of nominated people – Russians. Americans – to be interrogated. Fox currently interviewing Browder and the likelihood of him being a person putin wants to be questioned. And Wray is defending mueller.
Now, JC, what’s the problem: on a scale of 0 – 10, what is it; do we have to be worried?
I think they took @NSAGov tools and used them against @HillaryClinton in a way that implicated Russia.
This is sick. Obama allowed access to the NSA data base (NSAGov tools) from myriad contractors. When he raised his concerns, Adm Rogers Director NSA nearly lost his job when the traitors Clapper and Brennan tried to get him sacked. As soon as Trump was sworn in, Rogers went to Trump without Obama’s knowledge and spilled the beans on everything. Ensuing Deepstate panic.
The money trail and emails from the CF/DNC to Fusion GP and Steele etc implicates Killary.
It’s a good one all right.
Steve Kates had added it to his post The Deep State and Donald Trump
Any American Government handing over an American citizen to the Russians or Chinese would most definitely have to be impeached.
That is despicable to even think they would consider it.
The changes will mean council officers can issue on-the-spot fines.”
We’re governed by over zealous Recycle Bin Inspectors and Council Smoke Rangers.
I was stopped, walking my dog, by a Brisbane Local Laws Officer who demanded to know why I was not carrying dog shit bags (fine $65.27). When I showed her the handful of bags I had in my pocket, I was informed that I should perhaps keep them visible, attached to the dog’s lead, to avoid the future inconvenience and waste of resources of being stopped and interrogated.
No concealed carry in Brisbane.
McDonald’s move to ban plastic straws angers Aussies
Wow! Just… Wow!
So Brennan got the CIA Boss job as payback for fixing Obamas passport?
You would have to be a numbskull of the highest order to think this would be agreeable. If Putin suggested this, Trump should have spat in his face.
Set this precedent and see what happens when President Ocasio Cortez is asked to hand Kushner and Sarah Sanders to the Chinks.
Nah Anu Singh. You’re cool, I think(?).
Deficit Projected to Top $1 Trillion Starting Next Year
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration expects annual budget deficits to rise nearly $100 billion more than previously forecast in each of the next three years, pushing the federal deficit above $1 trillion starting next year.
The revisions, which went largely unnoticed when the White House submitted its annual update to Congress last week, reflect the cost of federal spending increases agreed to earlier this year and higher interest payments.
Just clarifying JC’s post above because it is all rather confusing. Let me see if I’ve got this right.
*Hillary’s campaign server was ‘hacked’ and the embarrassing (thought not denied) details were released by wikileaks. (This is not to be confused with Hillary’s private server that she illegally sent classified emails on while SoS).
*Mueller indicted 12 Russian spies for ‘hacking’ the computer just days before Trump met Putin. The details of how they did this have not been released. However when the emails were released in 2016 it was claimed that Hillary
hackcampaign chief – John Podesta- had given the password up to a scammer over the phone. (So I dunno what the other 11 spies were supposed to be doing).*A decade ago, Mueller had hired and promoted a bloke named Shawn Henry to head the cyber division in the FBI.
*Shawn Henry left the FBI and is now president of a computer security company called CrowdStrike Services.
*Hillary’s campaign lawyer – Marc Elias – a friend of Shawn Henry, hired CrowdStrike Services to conduct the analysis of Hillary’s campaign server (rather than, say, hand it to the FBI).
*The same month that Elias hired CrowdStrike, he also hired Fusion GPS to employ former Brit spy Christopher Steele to collude with Russian to produce the fake Trump dossier.
*This means that the server has been undergoing analysis since before Trump won the election, yet they only announced the indictments a week or so ago. Obviously just a coincidence.
Nothing shonky about all that at all.
Makka
It’s worth reading all this, but you never really know if it’s true. Fuck me.. I don’t go for conspiracy theories, but Brennan looks and has the feel of a very sick individual. Rand Paul is right, Brennan appears unhinged.
“I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college.”
Just wait til the photos come out.
And they will.
AK 47 baby.
FFS, lefties get beaten like a red-headed stepchild whenever they are on an online level playing field. The dirty tricks Twitter has to do to try and level the playing field is absurd, and still failing.
Its like half of Twitter are Muttley clones, and enjoy the beating equally.
Best wishes to the ailing!
SF Dept. of Elections issues board of education voter registration forms for some non-citizens
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Monday the Department of Elections Issued Voter Registration Forms for non-citizens who are eligible to vote for members of the San Francisco Board of Education in the November 6th 2018 election. The measure passed in 2016 with a close vote of 54 percent to 46 percent following two failed previous attempts.
Wow
Things can really move fast around here if you aren’t on the night shift !
Quick question. Can anyone remember the name of the application or the link to the website to download the application you can use to watch Sky News Australia free on a computer?
American right wing twitter is like Sparta. 95% of twitter users are lefties and they get owned all day long by 300 people.
It’s to Australia’s eternal shame that we have zero prominent right wing twitter beasts.
I don’t go for conspiracy theories,
Please don’t tell me that Killary, the DNC campaign, the Clinton Foundation, Obama’s FBI and DoJ (Holder,Lynch,Comey etc), Brennan and the MSM etc are not between them woven up into several CONSPIRATORIAL endeavors.
One name; Seth Rich.
Says it all.
There’s hell’s gate underneath all this. It’s just a feeling I have. Rich, the other dude, the dossier. There are some truly bad actors here.
You’re cool, I think(?).
Tinta is definitely cool, Bear. And articulate (in Italian and English), intelligent and a true ‘lifter’.
I have not met her in person, but am privileged to know her through The Cat, where she has provided informed comment (often from harsh experience) with good-natured humour.
And instead of merely whinging via a keyboard, as many of us do, she actually stood for election. I have the utmost admiration for the Cat Bella Donna.
He is totally off the planet, like he knows there is something coming.
I don’t agree totally that he is going to jail, not because he hasn’t overstepped legally, but he is pinning his last hopes on his dodgy shit not surfacing before the Dems get in the chair again.
This is why he so desperately needs Trump to go down.
His over-reach will eventually bring him undone (I reckon he will spill some supposedly classified stuff to try to get Trump).
You idiots aren’t still going about Seth Rich.
Last weeks report showed that Rich was not the source of the wikileaks emails.
There’s hell’s gate underneath all this.
Yes. This is the stuff that will shake the foundations. The potential of the Pentagon Papers. It’s that bad.
Dunno what Johanna did to get shitcanned – maybe she finally crossed the line in her rather one-sided war against Lizzie? – anyway, she was all right. Colourful. And she did good work reporting the TURC proceedings.
Rae and Nemkat won’t be missed.
Skripal Novichok poisoning suspects ‘identified’
They will turn out to be innocent Russian tourists, on a return day trip from Moscow to Salisbury.
.. I don’t go for conspiracy theories
I do.
90% of this won’t come out as it is simply too horrible for your average Joe Sane to contemplate.
People could literally go mad.
The remaining 10% is enough to get most of these f$ckers locked away or otherwise publicly.
How could such a whackjob be appointed the CIA boss? It is astonishing.
It’s not just Brennan. He’s not alone in all this.
Artiste
Google search into Seth Rich now seems to have been scrubbed with stories suggesting nefarious things going on. There appeared to be a link between Rich and wikileaks. Both Dot Com and Assange have suggested this.
Have you heard about Strozok apparently growing up in Iran?
Who the f$ck uses Google Jesus Christ.
Brave and DuckDuckGo.
One of Mad Maxine’s Minions;
This is the left. They are fkg crazy.
From the Oz.
Rand Paul is raking leaves onto Brennan’s lawn as we speak.
JC,
Assuming you survive, and apologies for a bit of Spacechooking, eschew Matilda in Domain Road.
But only one who has called it out.
This is a great and yet very sad documentary movie:
Soldiers in Hiding – Documentary about US veterans
An older one (early 1980s, post Vietnam veterans), but very good.
Septimus has the big C. When Sinc said “smoted”, I was thinking cremation.
Wow. That was quick.
Hi Mark
Funny you mention it, we were there Tuesday night. The interior design is one of the best I’ve seen of any restaurant. It’s great looking. The menu really sucks with limited choice and sky high prices. I had the Wagu steak for one. It was two thinly cut pieces, ffs. 56 bucks!
I’m not going there again unless there’s a change in management and the menu is cheaper and nicer. Fuck’em.
He’s like a Bond villain.
Without repeating details, I assume that is what Sinc’s post on protecting anonymity was about.
Googlery and his socks liked to stalk.
Dot, can you please try that link again. Doesn’t seem to be working.
Worse, his dad was an Iranophile. Worserer, he was a fan specifically of the Mullahs.
Why did Obama bend over backwards for Shia Iran and is Strzok and Jarrett’s Iranian connections purely coincidental? 🤔
Link doesn’t work Dot
Okay
Cheers 🍻
I believe that documentary was nominated for a couple of Oscars, back when that meant something.
Turnbull is a disgrace. He cowardly attacks Arch Wilson but nary said a word about Shorten while he was being investigated.
No one wants bare back gay gang bang at 6 am in the morning, Stimpson; nor at any other time of any other day. Don’t wonder why you are alone, now.
Test 123
Thanks, Dot.
His bio from Stimson’s link suggests he’s very weird. I’ve also seen stories that he never went through the regular FBI training. He was parachuted in. Stimson’s link reckons he’s a CIA/FBI operative.
Turnbull is a disgrace. He cowardly attacks Arch Wilson but nary said a word about Shorten while he was being investigated
Separation of Church and State?
What the f$ck does this dolt think he’s doing?
Malcolm Turnbull has this afternoon ordered the pope to sack Archbishop Wilson.
Malcolm Turnbull tells Pope to sack Archbishop Philip Wilson after court ruling.
Tells.
No one wants bare back gay gang bang at 6 am in the morning, Stimpson; nor at any other time of any other day. Don’t wonder why you are alone, now.
Stop acting like a petulant unlikable lesbian None.
It doesn’t suit you.
You are better than that.
Suprasnaps.
The Commonwealth Electoral Amendmnt (Lowering Voting Age and Increasing Voter Participation) Bill 2018 was introduced in the Senate last week and proposes to allow 16 and 17 yo Aust citizens to voluntarily vote in Federal and State elections.
I expect voting intentions would be similar to ABC journalists.
Huh, I have to borrow that for Monster.
Monst, please stop acting like a petulant, unlikable, angry lesbian as it’s very unbecoming.
Katanning should be a lively old place, tomorrow, particularly if the lousy Greenies turn up.
You’re joking, right?!
Nope!
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018B00114
Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Lowering Voting Age and Increasing Voter Participation) Bill 2018
No. , 2018
(Senator Steele‑John)
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to elections and referendums, and for related purposes
Ho-lee-fuk.
He isn’t joking.
Voter registration from 14, voting from 16.
This country is farqued.
None, if you want to contact me on Catallaxy Tinder you are going to have to be much nicer.
Maybe start by complimenting my hair, or saying I look very sane today or something.
How did they show that? I presume they said it loudly three times, that usually gives fairly solid proof.
Artiste
Seymour Hersh is a leftie who used to or still writes for the New Yorker.
It’s hard to find this stuff on Google as it looks like it’s been scrubbed.
You do move in interesting circles, Stimp. Social circles no sane person cares to share. Ponder that for a moment.
Wow, the Swedish Democrats are now polling first place. Importing 100,000 Muslims a year has not turned out so well for Sweden!
Can someone just quickly outline which part of the Constitution give authority to redefine State elections?
If such a thing exists, maybe Canberra should make themselves the only people eligible for all State elections, or would that be a bit too obvious?
That is almost definitely false. But even if true he did so when the Shah (the west’s dear friend) was in power and Iran was a close western ally. The same Shah that the cowardly west failed to protect and the CIA said would never be removed.
‘David Leyonhjelm revives fight with Sarah Hanson-Young’
He showed her the AWB tatt on his arse, of course she was offended.
You really can’t step out for half a day and stay on top of this place.
Gotta check this a bit, but heard a suggestion that Australian unwavering capitulation to a signed Ramsar transnational convention has spun the clearances of the Murray darling basin out of Australia’s control.
Once signed, the Ramsar convention on the Coorong waterfowl must take priority over natural and historical flow of water.
We have signed up, must be unwavering and staunch, and if it means the rewilding of our foodbowl, we have followed fashionable decolonisation theory to get there.
You don’t have any hair, Stimps. It fell out with your teeth, remember? Plus, why would I or anyone else want to contact you on Cat Tinder? I don’t need Tinder. And you already outed yourself this morning. Maybe you should be asking dot about your looks.
CL,
Stimp posted a link which is on a par with your ambushes.
Green loon from WA. Bill won’t ever see the light of day.
Another failing of the failed Senate. How the hell can Bills even be introduced in that chamber?
Crikey, ease up!
To be very blunt, if you don’t look like Joanna Krupa and you’re not a biological woman, I’m probably not interested.
Peter Strzok would have been about the same age as Mrs A. Understandably, she doesn’t recall him (left Iran when she was 14). She went to the British Embassy school, he went to the American school. She recalls going to the American school for the cross country. She recalls the jube mentioned in the article. Our house here bears the same name but pronounced phonetically (Shimran – or resting place in Farsi).
Shame the FIL and MIL are long dead. I reckon they would have known Peter Strozok Snr. They used to go to the American Embassy often, and there were plenty of shady characters hanging about. Nothing would surprise me in the least.
The linked story seems to indicate that Strzok Snr was sympathetic to the mullahs. The FIL was shown the cable from Washington advising the Shah to crush the revolution in the bazaar with the Army. That didn’t work out too well. I’d be a bit sceptical that Strzoc Snr was on the side of the mullahs when you consider Carter was in the WH.
Then again, there was also a general feeling that with the massive oil revenues, the Shah was getting “too big for his boots”. The “deep state” has always existed. Looking at current events, the new breed (like the old breed) seem to think that “I know best”.
You see it in Peter Strzok’s appearance before Congress. He can’t imagine he’s done the slightest thing wrong. In fact, he’s Captain America, protecting the public. He honestly believes that.
You can step out – just don’t click Stimp’s links when you return.
When whales fight the krill get hurt. Donald goes Biiig Shrimpin’ and wrecks an industry –
Bad Donald –
Texas shrimp industry crippled by immigrant visa cap
‘The Texas shrimp industry is facing a worker shortage as a result of the federal cap on U.S. visas for immigrant seasonal workers…Hance said lacking 750 people from Mexico or Central America is crippling the Texas seafood industry. Most of the state shrimp industry’s workers come from Mexico.’
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article214964450.html
But good Donald –
La. shrimp industry representatives welcome Trump tariffs action.
‘Louisiana shrimp industry representatives welcomed the Trump administration’s announcement today that it will impose tariffs on Chinese seafood imports.
‘Members of the Louisiana Shrimp Task Force, meeting in Houma, said they are considering a push for similar 10 percent tariffs on other top countries that send shrimp to the U.S., including India, Indonesia and Vietnam.’
O-oh, bad Donald again –
‘ “The misguided strategy, that sees the U.S. and [China] placing unwarranted tariffs on the other’s seafood products, will only hurt workers and consumers in their own countries,” group President John Connelly said today in a prepared statement. “American jobs at processing plants throughout the country are at risk of losing raw material from China. That means American workers suffer.”
Tariffs amount to taxes on American consumers that limit choice, he said. Chinese consumers will also be deprived of Maine lobsters, squid from New Jersey and California and cod, pollock and salmon from Alaska.’
http://www.dailycomet.com/news/20180711/la-shrimp-industry-representatives-welcome-trump-tariffs
Maybe he just cares too much.
You don’t have any hair, Stimps. It fell out with your teeth, remember? Plus, why would I or anyone else want to contact you on Cat Tinder? I don’t need Tinder. And you already outed yourself this morning. Maybe you should be asking dot about your looks.
You seem very upset with me.
An almost Grigs Tier rage.
Why is that?
If this is about Rae and NumptyJatz then that was all IT’s fault.
A lot of these guys are arrogant narcissists. And there are plenty on both sides of the political divide.
It’s been a while since OWG was shitcanned. Has Arma been confirmed in the role of the night shift Ambien poster?
“I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college.”
The Magic Negro, just like our Davey, another keen backpacker taking in the delights of a world premier rathole.
🎵🎶🎵 I feel a song coming on: I love to go a wandering, along the old goat track, And as I go, I love to sing, My knapsack on my back.
????? ROFL Have another shot of amyl nitrite and come at me again.
Texas shrimp industry crippled by immigrant visa cap
Lol. Looks like the employers of cheap labour will have to pony up real wages. Shocking.
Accidentally erased, like my lifestyle.
So Stimp has a chance?
No more smoked salmon from Tas.
A typical, nonsensical and defamatory comment from a white leftist & hypocrite incapable of independent though other than the next scam in the Aboriginal industry.
I knew no good would come from Stimpy’s ‘Love Story’ Tweet……
come at me again.
First it’s no, then it’s yes, make up your mind woman.
I’m way too lazy for that. Just the occasional alcohol induced bender shift.
It’s not as if Sinc can afford to pay me now that IT has threatened to withdraw his funding.
areff
#2767243, posted on July 19, 2018 at 9:05 am
If further confirmation of Australian journalism’s disgrace and self-debasement were needed, know that Jane Caro has just been awarded a Walkley for “women’s leadership in media”.
http://www.walkleys.com/awards/walkley-womens-leadership-award/
Simon Crapman was front runner for the “women’s leadership in media” award. He’ll be very disappointed. Crapman just lurves awards, maybe as much as Mike “the superhero” Drab. But it’s his pet cane toad and feminist/antismoking buddy, Jane Haro, that did win. That’ll be some consolation.
No, the government can choose what to do. They approved mining in Kakadu.
Separation of Church and State?
What the f$ck does this dolt think he’s doing?
Scoring some cheap political points.
Stop flirting with me, Stimps. Or else try a singles’ bar. This is Australia’s leading libertarian and centre-right blog (which does make me wonder what’s following).
SF Dept. of Elections issues board of education voter registration forms for some non-citizens
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Monday the Department of Elections Issued Voter Registration Forms for non-citizens who are eligible to vote for members of the San Francisco Board of Education in the November 6th 2018 election. The measure passed in 2016 with a close vote of 54 percent to 46 percent following two failed previous attempts.
San Francisco has a new tourist “initiative”.
https://imgur.com/PIevJA0
Stop flirting with me, Stimps.
You desperately called out for my attention first you Muppet when you posted at me.
If you don’t want to talk to me, then don’t talk to me.
Honestly some women.
Just minding my own business and they have to make a scene.
people at different times in different parts of the world fought very hard for separation of Church and state in order to keep the state out of the church. In other words in order to keep people like Turnbull out of everybody else’s business. It doesn’t matter if you love him or loathe him or are entirely different to him -Archbishop Wilson is perfectly entitled to appeal and he has every right to due process. Also he is continuing as Archbishop whether he has stepped down or not is entirely a matter for the Catholic Church and its faithful of which Turnbull is not one.
Maybe think twice about the sorts of links you post, Stimps if you don’t want any blow back.
SBS News reporting tonight on the Philip Wilson case: another senior figure implicated. More tomorrow night.
Catholics need to understand that this scandal will never be allowed to vanish. No apology, no compensation, no abject repentance by the church will be sufficient.
I hope Wilson does not resign.
The church needs another Mannix, someone to announce it is establishing its own enquiry into sexual abuse within the Australian Labor Party and media organisations, especially the ABC and SBS.
I know The Guardian is wall to wall Shiite but really, they paid for this???
This is the inspiration. How did Tom miss this masterpiece?
MT and Philip Wilson. MT seeking a diversion from revelation of his get TA campaign?
I’d like to have been there when the Police Officer handing over to the incoming Army crew said “By the way, the terrorist inside the café is the bloke who’s been going around to funerals of Army KIA and giving those “Nyah nyah nyah your fag son deserved it” letters to the mother of the deceased.”
Vale Godfrey Elfwick – too woke for Twitter.
Lowering the voting age Bill
http://Www.aph.gov.au/votingage
On 25 June 2018, the Senate referred the Bill to the committee for inquiry and report.
Submissions close on 10 August 2018
Um, it is past trial and conviction and nearing appeals. What they’re saying is a bit odd.
Maybe think twice about the sorts of links you post, Stimps if you don’t want any blow back.
And this is why I can’t take you seriously.
No sense of humour at all.
Jesus Christ stop wasting my time.
LOL the Walkleys, like everything the Left touches, are now a hollowed out version of whatever the hell they once were. A union circle jerk.
Caro as Frightbat-in-Chief is a good choice though. Sorry Clammy.
Stimps, the lack of humour here is yours.
Bolt interviewing the mesmerising Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux about the police bills in victoriastan. She is very impressive.
Interesting. If anything else this confirms ABC’s witchhunt against Catholic clergy in this case Wilson
https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=56055
The victim’s response is aggressive and at times strange. I have no doubt they were a victim – Fletcher was an absolute low-life – another accusation or memorues are very contestable.
We gave him a culturally sensitive funeral – threw a dead pig into the grave, and poured a bottle of cheap spirits over the sad remains.
I can think of to vexatious litigants in New South Wales who need to be constrained by the supreme court but unfortunately they are aided and abetted by New South Wales government bodies as well as the New South Wales liberal government. It is beyond scandal, it is simple corruption in my view.
Naturally Bolt is picking up on Molyneux’s views about different IQs between races and their possible incentive to tattooed skinheads such as Patriot Blue members going out and being racist.
Possible. Frankly if I was MT’s bishop I would just excommunicate him formally and publicly even though he has in fact excommunicated himself many times over.
areff
#2767243, posted on July 19, 2018 at 9:05 am
‘If further confirmation of Australian journalism’s disgrace and self-debasement were needed, know that Jane Caro has just been awarded a Walkley for “women’s leadership in media”.’
The late L.Jackson got a Walkley for distributing propaganda for the 2006 coup d’etat in Timor, presenting the ludicrous ‘death squad’ scenario written by a few Catholic priests and underlings for Railos to smear Rogerio Lobato and the Alkatiri Govt. The original scenario had two fictional death squads – Railos leading the first and Roque the second to eliminate the first and cover up the ‘evidence’. They were advised that two death squads was over the top and the Aust media wouldn’t swallow it so wisely went with just the one. They even went to Bangkok to clone simcards and send fake ‘Camarada’ messages from Rogerio. One of the plotters was Rogerio’s nephew from Bazartete who wanted to oust him so he could grab his uncle’s coffee plantation. Some of Rogerio’s family were burned alive in Dili and one fled to Darwin to seek temporary sanctuary. Four Corners gave this propaganda credibility and indeed ‘Stoking the Fires’ as she called her nasty little program, is exactly what Jackson did. Once the ‘death squad’ was given credibility, then their ‘death list’ was likewise, and lotta people got scared. Running propaganda for the Catholic Church, Jakarta and Gusmao to roll an ex commo using ethnic violence. Yep deserves a Walkley ABC!
ps. Rogerio’s nephew [an ex Seminarian who doubled as a leader of the biggest gang in Timor based in Madium East Java] became a Minister for his services to the coup, and Roque is currently a member of the Security and Intelligence Committee. Jackson coulda got a job as Chefe de Propaganda.
The book on the siege by Snow shows that the police bungled badly for hours, worse than I could have imagined.
Personally, one of the things that annoys me about Molyneux is how much he bangs on about the whole IQ issue. The guy wants to be some kind of philosopher, everything comes from “reason and evidence” must have absolute facts, yadda, yadda.
Now the fact about IQ is that the score means exactly one thing: how well you can pass IQ tests. That’s all it is.
People have found correlation between IQ test results and long term success, but it’s not strong, generally estimated at between 20% and 30% correlation, and that’s when the IQ test is tuned to the same culture. When you look at some of the most spectacularly successful people in business they have not been high academic performers either, like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, even Rockefeller.
Molyneux claims there’s no possible way to study in order to improve your IQ, but the “reason and evidence” of actual IQ tests show that in America the black people have been steadily improving their IQ scores as if by magic as time passes (well they have become better at passing IQ tests, make of that what you will).
I’m not trying to say that IQ tests are completely irrelevant but the variation between individuals is much, much larger than the shift in the mean between racial groups, and over time these have not been constant. Definitely some individuals are more successful than others, but race is a poor predictor of IQ and IQ is a poor predictor of success. It just isn’t worth banging that drum all the time, when there are much better known and more useful factors such as how much effort people put into achievement, their personal strategy towards success, whether they spend their time envious of others, and how well they get along with other people.
Great commentary, Tel.
The age of adulthood can then be reduced to 16 for criminal action.
Stephan Molyneux looked healthily tanned and properly shaved, for a change.
another orwellian bill name in a country which has compulsory voting full stop my f****** way do I want 16 and 17 year olds voting. I am almost inclined to go back to the system of one vote per household.
It’s almost a primer on “How Not to Manage A Siege” and the police psychiatrist “Brian” who “formed the view that Monis was unlikely to commit a direct act of violence without being given the full dossier, including details of Monis’s sexual assault charges, seems typical of the management.
I was in a place where that whole siege was on tv ALL DAY and by 11 am we we saying to each other why the hell hasn’t the place been raided – it was excrutiating. To think that they KNEW who the bastard was and still couldn’t end it, is astonishing to me. Been watching too much tv I suppose, but surely there is some kind of tear gas equivalent that can knock out a room full of people, enought to go in and nab the perp. What an unadulterated mess that siege was.
IQ is probably only useful when considering populations.
ZK2A, yes. I am only about a third of the way into it but the number of stuff ups so far is extraordinary, including the psychiatrist. Numerous communication breakdowns, of which that was one.
Molyneux is a conspiracy theorist and borderline cult figure wannabe. Lauren Southern is just a big mouth 23 year old who has latched onto the right things to say in order to appeal to the right and relieve them of their cash. She reminds me of the quintessential millennial who after some early success at something thinks they have arrived and know it all ( that other young woman that Bolt features regularly is also quite flaky but at less millenial). Anyway neither Moltnesux nor Southern has any depth; neither of them actually says something worth listening to; both of them need to get a job, take on some real responsibility and join the real world.
Lowering Voting Age
Note the Bill is for Voluntary voting for 16 – 17 yo.
Bring it on but make it voluntary for all!
That would make the lefties tremble.
I have heard scuttlebutt from reputable third parties that there was a fear he had a dead man’s switch.
Blow his brains out with a 30 cal from a sniper and then the fear was the whole joint would be blown to smithereens.
Anyway: I think the SAS would have done better than the police unit.
I tend to agree with you None. Molyneux is not that impressive to me.*
Southern might have been an opportunist but I think she has done good work in exposing the violence and moral grandstanding from the left.
*On the other hand, I think Peterson is individually brilliant, his message, however, is fairly “common sense” to me. It is just that identity politics make him seem downright radical.
Owen Benjamin runs amok.
He’s good.
Sir
Can I have a new Open Forum thread?
This one is getting big and bloated much like their ABC
Thanking you kindly your Lordship
I think the SAS would have done better than the police unit.
The Murrurundi CWA would have done better than the police unit.
Two Commando, from Holsworthy, would have got the task – they had constructed a replica of the cafe, and spent six hours working out how to storm the place.
How many escaped hostages did they need to discount that?
Sounds like an excuse, not a reason.
Permanent this time? Twitter has succeeded in permanently suspending the funniest and the most informative tweeps while leaving behind a bunch of beige bores and the foul-mouthed unhinged.
Isn’t that nice. They have a Special award for lady journalists.
Bruce of WA, where are you, cobber ?
Hope all is well.
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard. His IQ is around 160. He bought a DOS off CPM for nickel and dimes because those hippies didn’t see the value. Nor did IBM execs, who thought the money was in hardware and when Gate’s mother arranged an interview for her son with them he walked out laughing all the way to the bank. When Microsoft started Gates was examining most of the code. He was brilliant and like so many brilliant people he didn’t need a formal education to exercise his talents. There is even the suggestion that a high IQ, above 150, can make it difficult for the individual to interact with others because such persons think so differently. It will surprise some to learn that academia is very political but it won’t surprise them to know that high IQ people don’t suffer fools gladly and are often adverse to the dishonesty of political machinations.
Combine IQ with conscientious and the correlation becomes much higher. IQ alone remains a good predictor but conscientious is perhaps higher. I’m not surprised by that, 90% of most work is just grunt work, just going through the motions, it has little to do with intelligence. That is one big reason why conscientiousness is so important, to be successful we need to persevere with the very boring stuff.
Terman long ago demonstrated high IQ does not equate with professional success, in fact many studied held very mundane jobs. However those that went into academia did exceptionally well. There a number of possible reasons for that but using those individuals to argue IQ isn’t a significant factor is not one of those reasons. IQ is not just a measure of how well one can do IQ tests. Spearman’s G remains a valid concept.
“Molyneux claims there’s no possible way to study in order to improve your IQ”
Obviously he has never heard of the practice effect. Not very smart of him.
On the race-IQ question I still don’t know. Developmental contingencies have enough causation to account for the differences. Lobster Peterson won’t even address the question because he too has concerns that perhaps it is significant. He argues that IQ is the single best psychometric ever created. So in one of those rare moments I am in agreement with him.
Excellent comment, Tel on IQ.
I would add that we never hear of stories about people with high IQs that never amounted to much.
…and if that doesn’t convince you not to go in, we reckon he’s got a ‘deadmans switch’ and will blow the place up.
Consistency?
yeah the wonderful Liberal Party who has fought so hard to deny their own members I vote is very very keen to respect yours. Not. NsW Liberals are corrupt.
hzhousewife
The age of adulthood can then be reduced to 16 for criminal action.
Also future conscription, drinking, smoking (get Simon Crapman onto that one), full driving licences and probably a few other things.
The fascist left try this one on every couple of years. Maybe they will succeed this time.
If it’s a pair of Louboutin stilettos then my next profession will be journalism 🙂
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2018/07/18/wednesday-forum-july-18-2018/comment-page-5/#comment-2767838
I got more primary votes than he did in 2016. Don’t you hate that?
IQ tests are meaningless and very much culturally contungent. Anyone who bangs on about IQ tests is automatically borderline looney in my opinion. That includes Molyneaux.
From Sinclair on the no comments thread. Is that why Joanna got smoted?
The Australian had an article in it years ago about how Bob had donated said shack to the National Trust or whatever it is called.
The shed he underwent the long dark night of the soul in before emerging like a great big beautiful butterfly onto the world as the Bob we all know and revere.
That sort of stuff is usually done posthumously, in particular by others that don’t want to get stuck with upkeep. Doing it yourself smacks of messianic self delusion. He must really think people will be coming from the mainland to meditate on his Bobness in the front yard or something.
And yes, it had a long fire too.
It seems nobody bothered to pass onto the police negotiators that three very prominent Muslims, including the Grand Mufti, had offered to talk to the attacker, and tell him that what he was doing was wrong, and un – Islamic
I loathe that! it’s beyond hate.
There is even the suggestion that a high IQ, above 150, can make it difficult for the individual to interact with others because such persons think so differently.
Rae and nemkat will be dining out on that observation. Table for one?
None at 2014
I suspect that TA is pushing for necessary democratic change in the NSW Liberals for two reasons.
First to get the issue into the minds of ordinary party members and the public, so raising doubts about the ethics of the party machine.
Second to provoke them to disendorse or expel him so he can run as an independent (or perhaps AC) on a reform platform.
Re Sinclairs post, I decided after running in 2016 and having an ongoing interest in standing again that being anonymous for me had passed.
Love this place and depending on things my posts may be less frequent or more frequent as things progress.
The correlation between high IQ and achievement would be less obvious than the correlation between low IQ and lack of achievement.
Exactly.
A few five minute interviews focused whether he was carrying some sort of device which he had never put down … or same for the bag … could have eliminated that as a possibility.
If 3 or 4 witnesses can confirm that he has left the bag alone and wasn’t carrying a device in his hand then they can discount the dead man’s switch theory.
Sounds like a retrospectively created cause for inaction.
Peter, choosing to disclose your identity is very different to someone trying to triangulate identity via various clues laid down here, or disclosing personal details from a catch-up.
Biology may play a part. For example, men are more likely to have higher IQs than women. Estimates drawn from a bell curve show that 1.438 times more men than women will have an IQ over 120, and 2.525 times more men will have an IQ over 140.
Yet men are now actively discriminated against in STEM fields to make up for the fewer numbers of women in these high-IQ college programs and professions. The probable outcome to this is that lower-IQ women are selected over higher-IQ men due to discrimination against men. Already, fewer men are now choosing to go to college, and the ratio of women over men on university campuses is nearly 2:1.
Culture and ideology are also important in respect of how intelligence as measured by IQ is expressed.
But there can be no doubt IQ bell curves differ across racial and ethnic groups although whether environment such as nutrition, education and social status play a part is problematic.
Boambee – Tony Abbott is married to the liberal party and has been since his youth. I think the first reason you gave is a possibility. When he became parliamentary party leader he use whatever authority he had to oust corrupt people and lobbyists and developers like Photius from the organisational party machine but of course Turnbull let them all back in. I’m not too sure that Abbott would run as an independent or for the AC. Like I said, he’s married to the Liberals and he also plays a very long game. I have no doubt that he has a huge ego and plays hard ball – in fact no one can survive politics without either of those two attributes – but I do think he is genuinely concerned about some aspects of our decreasing democracy even if I don’t necessarily agree with some of his appeasement tactics in the past. He more or less said today that there are a small number of New South Wales Libs who are – and here I paraphrase -: corrupt. I would say there is now a significant number of Liberals in all branches of the Party who are really just in it for themselves and that the Liberals are irredeemable.
LL
Indeed, and I’m assuming that this has happened before? Perhaps I should pay more attention.
Despicable.
Boambee
I really hope it is to provoke them and he can lead the Aust Conservatives. He is not getting any younger.
IQ tests and associated accoutrements were all the rage when eugenics was at it’s height in the 1940s – that’s also when organisations such as MENSA started. All borderline nutter stuff now.
I think AbbottSatan 666 is far too wedded to the Liberal party to ever jump.
Death Giraffe is in trouble.
There can’t be that many Red rimmed, T Model Fords being driven around by a Leprechaun!
Lauren Southern states her position.
I like Johanna and Des D. Their sharing of APS stuff is a must read. Johanna took the time also to relay events of the union RC.
I can see what he is getting at. You have a biologically determined capacity; this applies to both physical and intellectual abilities. Whether you develop them or not, through exercise or study or practice, is a product of both character, nutrition and social opportunity.
It’s a model A.
Rego … DG-666.
Gab, thanks for recommending Paul, Apostle of Christ.
Enjoyed it a lot – and learned from it.
Ahhh, maybe he will get away with it.
Tal, are you out there?
Hello, if so.
On Lindt Cafe I don’t know much but as one of the great unwashed the appearances weren’t good reminded me of the botched Phillipino operation to free hostages on a bus years ago. Friend of mine who has done live operational building clearences overseas said that it was very ordinary but in all fairness he said we don’t know what political pressure these guys were under and that what he calls the method of entry was the main problem losing all momentum in not committing to the fight.
They don’t want him though, Peter C. It’s like hanging onto a relationship where the other person is over you. Just leave.
Of course Molyneux is a creepy cult leader. It’s a fact he’s a cult leader, and it’s obvious he’s as creepy as hell by watching him on YouTube.
And he’s an intellectual blowhard who thinks he’s much smarter than he actually is.
CL I also learned from the filum. And it certainly made the apostles quite real to me. I won’t say more here as it upsets the atheists so.
Thoughts on Moly-new
https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateFascism/comments/4emu6r/thoughts_on_stefan_molyneux/
R is the new Q.
Same as the old Q.
JFK Jnr!
I don’t know if the following has stood the test of time but it makes sense to me. Lewontin argued that during the developmental periods, and I suspect especially before puberty, failure to stimulate brain function reduced intellectual potential, though he had in mind prefrontal cortical size I suspect it is generalizable to the whole brain.
Technically the “practice effect” relates to psychometric testing being spaced at appropriate intervals so the individual does practice enough to become skilled at the test but you are correct to see it in more general terms.
Steven Pinker sums up that data with the phrase: more prodigies, more idiots. Males tend to have more severe neurodevelopmental disorders and at higher rates(schizophrenia, ADHD, and autism). That might relate to the shutting down of most of the genes on the X chromosome, hence one less efficacious allele on the Y can’t be counteracted by the inactivated X allele. For females the curve has a higher volume out to 2Ds.
I find it inconceivable that biology is irrelevant to the majority of our traits.
Um thanks for that, Annester.
Peter Castieau
#2767950, posted on July 19, 2018 at 8:37 pm
I think AbbottSatan 666 is far too wedded to the Liberal party to ever jump.
But what if he were pushed?
She’s very good and Cory Bernadi was excellent as well.
Great essay On trump in the context of the recent Putin incident:
Everyone is smart except Donald J. Trump.
Dov Fischer The American Spectator July 18, 2018,
That’s why they all are billionaires and all got elected President. Only Trump does not know what he is doing. Only Trump does not know how to negotiate with Vladimir Putin. Anderson Cooper knows how to stand up to Putin. The whole crowd at MSNBC does. All the journalists do.
And would AC want him?
Critical periods; Lorenz, Montessori etc.
“They drove a car across Darwin Harbour – on the seabed” was legendary in the NT diving community when I first started researching shipwrecks there in 1988.
https://www.cricket.com.au/video/dennis-lillee-viv-richards-boxing-day-test-last-ball-1981-mcg-australia-west-indies/2018-07-18
This is the Australia their left hated so much anything went to genocide it.
Imagine having kids running onto the MCG as a culture, these days you can’t even access the carpark for the big games.
No bollards to boost the economy, no trillion dollars of debt to tie us to the great transnational looting cartels.
Have a smoke and a beer and a meat pie and a good time at the cricket without being booked off the security cameras, nowadays you need to be moving in the private and corporate box circles to do that.
The State had nowhere near enough power over the individual, so something had to be crushed.
Comrades.
Authorities: Bombs, Guns Found While Serving Search Warrant for Burglaries
https://www.kdlt.com/2018/07/18/police-bombs-guns-found-while-serving-search-warrant-for-burglaries/
I so agree on Molyneaux.
Intensely irritating to watch.
BJ
Who knows? Would be a massive call.
Thanks, Max. Perth northern coastal suburbs. Yes, much better today, thank you. Marvellous what aheartfelt hug from your wife can do.
Thanks for the confirmation. Earlier today I read an animal study exploring the risks associated with autism. I was going to dismiss it because animal studies are near hopeless but then I noticed a reference to interleukin 17 and having read too much about the etiology of autism I knew that was very important. The study was related to the in utero environment. We are only just starting to get a handle on these issues and it is now widely recognized that there are causative factors from the first trimester onwards that can have important implications for adult health. This is not confined to cognition or behavior, it is also has implications for a range of adult onset pathologies.
You’re welcome, OCO.
Are you getting it? JFK is Q! Now R.
NOT DEAD!
This could be the big surprise coming, November 11th.
Or it could be that the Moon landings were faked because we live under a dome.
I predict JFK Jnr will be Trump’s Vice President for his second term.
Max;s wife hugged Bruce? Scandal at the Cat!!
It’s like Peyton Place here 😀
I wondered who she was!!!
Marvellous what a heartfelt hug from one’s own wife can do.
Naughty Gab! 😀
Gee thanks Delta A, made my rather long day a happier one, I take ’em when I get them. Grazie mille 🙂
😀
PS: Got any hugs, Gab??
Sending two your way, Brucey-bear! And a kiss too mwwaaaahhhhh!
If the NSW Lieborals succeed in turfing Abbott he will be running as an Independent within the hour. And he would win.
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#2767978, posted on July 19, 2018 at 9:08 pm
https://www.cricket.com.au/video/dennis-lillee-viv-richards-boxing-day-test-last-ball-1981-mcg-australia-west-indies/2018-07-18
This is the Australia their left hated so much anything went to genocide it.”
I got teary watching that. Thanks John Constantine. I miss that Australia. It was a better place, a nicer place. We’re not even allowed to laugh now.
That’s a reasonable theory, but I’m an empiricist. I choose to not believe in anything that cannot be measured because it’s more efficient and anything that cannot be measured cannot bother you (because in order to interfere with you it would also need to make itself measurable).
How to measure your theory then? Any individual case will only show the final effect as a combination of all historic inputs, thus innate biologically determined capacity will not be visible. A sufficiently large sample of individuals might reveal the profile of innate biologically determined capacity, but only if all other factors are equally randomly distributed and there’s no way to find such a sample of people.
At the end of the day you are left measuring individuals and you can say, “This particular person, right now, can do these things, but we we have no idea what causes that to happen.”
That’s not an argument against exercise, study, practice, character, nutrition and social opportunity. At least some of those you can measure directly as before/after tests on a single individual. You can determine that there is some kind of effect because for a given individual the biological component can be presumed to remain constant. What you cannot do is subtract off the environment and measure what part of a person exists outside this environment, because there’s no people who live that way.
Yeah I know. That was as close as I go to paying a compliment. You’re OK too Delta.
Adam Bandt is telling Turnbull he’s not welcome in Melbourne, and …
He conceded there was a problem with unemployment and underemployment among people in Melbourne whose families had come from Horn of Africa countries such as Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, but blamed racial discrimination for the problem.
“People aren’t getting the jobs that I think they’re entitled to if they just happened to be a white member of the population, so the issues that we’ve got, some of the issues that we’ve got are real, but they’re to do with disengagement and discrimination,” Mr Bandt said.
Taking a pasting in the comments:
andrew 53 MINUTES AGO
Brandt embodies all that is bad in politicians. He exemplifies the worst attributes of the self seeking, superficial, self serving , and slightly stupid politician…but the awful truth is that he probably is a true representation of the greens party. Brandt and his fellow travellers will destroy this once great country…deport him and keep Dutton!
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Roger 53 MINUTES AGO
If the people of Melbourne are stupid enough to elect you then I will take my tourist dollars elsewhere.
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Paul L 55 MINUTES AGO
Waleed Aly hac a rant on the project tonight along the same ljnes as Bant.last time I watch The Project.
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Cecil 19 MINUTES AGO
@Paul L
But Waleed Aly is always saying, loudly and in public, that shariah must not be practised here.
Isn’t he?
And that polygamy and child marriage must not be practised here.
Isn’t he?
And that he is dead against fgm.
Isn’t he?
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Stephen 57 MINUTES AGO
They hate Dutton because he does a good job and most Australians know it, so all Bandt and his crazy fanatical followers can do is sink into the primordial swamp of character assassination.
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Terry 58 MINUTES AGO
Adam Bandt makes me ashamed to be gay.
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Andrew 59 MINUTES AGO
You aren’t welcome to breathe my air Bandt, yet here we are.
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Wayne 1 HOUR AGO
Dutton for PM, Bandt should be deported to New Zealand.
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David 1 HOUR AGO
Adam who? This guy is irrelevant. Who cares what he thinks. Peter Dutton is keeping Australia safe. Peter for PM.
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