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Mogadishu on the Yarra loses world’s “most livable city” status.
Even the boffins at The Economist realise there’s a problem down there.
For a second there I wished I was a wingnut, because, I thought of a killer headline for a Cat piece: “The NEG is a POS”.
Reading up on the US Space Force.
All opposition is highly partisan anti-Trump! nonsense, these hacks would have opposed Billy Mitchell, Spaatz and Hap Arnold, along with the formation of the USAF as a separate service arm.
If an MP sends your school a letter for your daughter who recently got a merit award (she is the State MP for the area) is it wrong? The letter is clearly badged as Labor.
Can this NEG atrocity be stopped in the Senate?
That was absolute garbage, m0nty!!!, you low energy loser.
Andrew Hastie- give him a decade in a weighty shadow ministry- PM in the making.
Discuss.
Highlights of Turnbull’s victory presser:
Not sure about “big reductions” in retail prices, but he’s got two things exactly right.
1) It’s a complex business;
2) We are in the shit we are in because ‘experts’ have complicated the complex business that used to be handled by the market demanding cheap electricity.
Lysander, no. But your MP needs to be given the arse if they’re sending out a letter to every kid at schools in their electorate who receives a merit certificate.
Oh dear OCO, do you need the joke explained to you?
+1
Fake news?
The White Nationalists Are Winning
Fox News anchors and high-profile politicians are now openly pushing the racism of the alt-right. The fringe movement’s messages have permeated the mainstream Republican Party.
Dammit new page!
Andrew Hastie.
Young, Christian, military service, male.
Does he have what it takes to be PM one day?
Every time one of our four kids gets one (which is about 8 or 9 times total a year) we get the letter from her.
**shudders**
Surely there’s an issue here about partisan advertising in schools?
Dramatic Dashcam Video Shows Near-Fatal Shooting of Pennsylvania State Troopers in Lehigh Valley
After the economic train smash a Shorten Government will reduce the country to, I doubt any Government ready to take the measures required to clean up the shambles would ever be elected. Too many voters on the public teat.
Are ‘white people’ jokes racist? Let a fellow white person explain.
I understand that reading these kinds of jokes can be a jarring experience if you’re not used to being made fun of.
Libs out of office for a decade, yes please!
Under Trump, the rare act of denaturalizing U.S. citizens on the rise
… denaturalization — a complex process once primarily reserved for Nazi war criminals and human rights violators — is on the rise under the Trump administration.
A United States Citizenship and Immigration Services team in Los Angeles has been reviewing more than 2,500 naturalization files for possible denaturalization, focusing on identity fraud and willful misrepresentation. More than 100 cases have been referred to the Department of Justice for possible action.
Sat night drinks at a WA remote area campsite peopled with mostly retirees, some self funded, others not so much. 18 adults who vote were asked why they voted the way they voted. 71 year old ex pom votes labor because his father was a yorkshire coalminer. Others generally expressed a view that they pretty much voted the way their parents had voted. These people all considered themselves to be fairly cognisant of current affairs and events, but didn’t know what the NEG was, were not overly aware of the african gang problem that doesn’t exist in Vic, had not heard of antifa, Lauren Southern, Tommy Robinson, or anything to do with the half million new voteherd imported last year. And most expressed surprise, and some cynicism, when these topics were explained in very layman’s terms, and from a conservative angle. WTF !!!!!!! SOMEONE NEEDS TO WAKE THIS COUNTRY UP!!!!! Corey’s mob are just WAY TOO QUIET.
As Dad jokes go, that’s a stinker. Full credit monts!
India Strips 4 Million of Citizenship, Will Deport Them to “Protect Ethnic Assam” People
The Indian government has stripped at least four million people—mainly “refugees” from Bangladesh who entered the country in 1971—of their right to Indian citizenship in the state of Assam and has started deporting them, all to “protect the ethnic Assamese” people.
That sounds a lot like a dodgy technicality to me, doubly so for the judge to be “instructing” the jurors as to what verdict they are allowed to come to… but having said that, the FBI have been such clowns throughout this investigation I’m hardly surprised at this stage.
Chicago police plan a crackdown on unsanctioned street and block parties after police found that many of the victims of last weekend’s violence had attended such gatherings.
A Lower Refugee Ceiling Is Better for Most Refugees, the Host Countries, and America
Turnbull reminiscing:
Fact Check: There was no gas shortage on the east coast. The issue was pricing.
The average Wallumbilla Hub price was about $9.50/GJ last week: in August 2017 the average price was about $6.97/GJ.
So barnarby rolled over on the NEG; fancy that. What a loser
What will happen when the ANC takes my farm
By Spurgeon Flemindton
M0nty’s latest saviour for the Democrats, Ilhan Omar, married her own brother – despite being already married – and only divorced him so she could run for congress.
You can’t make this shit up. The left are mentally ill.
I don’t think the politics side of Brexit is looking too bad at all, JC. It’s looking increasingly like a no-deal Brexit is going to happen. This will cause temporary pain in the UK but will ultimately be for the best. It’s going to cause a bunch more headaches in Brussels. The UK can keep its 40 billion quid while the EU budget will sink deeply into the red. The EU sells 100 billion pounds a year more to the UK than the UK sells to the EU. That number will drop precipitously when all the EU-mandated tariffs are done away with by the UK, and non-EU food, clothing and footwear and cars suddenly become much more competitively priced. EU producers and manufacturers will be squealing as their best customer takes their money elsewhere. Oh, and the border issue between the Irish Republic and Ulster – that one’s a doozy. The UK has already said it won’t be erecting a ‘hard border’ between the two sides. Ireland doesn’t want one, either. The EU is threatening to erect one in the case of no deal. Oh really, and who’s going to do that, then? The Poms definitely aren’t, and the Irish are resolutely against one. Unstoppable force, meet immovable object.
Brexit is coming along very nicely, and the more time that’s spent prevaricating, the more unlikely it becomes that an arrangement will be agreed upon by both sides before the UK withdraws from the EU early next year. We’re fast approaching the point where there simply isn’t enough time to do a deal.
Shorter Turnstyle:
Tesla will become a hole in the sand into which the Saudis pour money.
Yes, yes he will.
Musk found an ocean of “dumb money,” specifically leftist Government money, so when that ran out thanks to Trump, he went to the second dumbest money in the world…Arab oil money.
Lol. I already posted this, more than once:
For the actual documents you could seek standing in the California Court. But I think you’re a bit late for discovery.
You are the joke, m0nts, you bedwetting lunatic.
Go back to raving about Trump’s treason. That humour thing just doesn’t work for you.
https://www.sott.net/article/360454-Antifa-flag-comes-directly-from-German-Communist-Party-in-1932
Yes, mOron supports the commos.
It’s only a minor thing but looks like Manafort will walk, mUnty. Are you still sure Mueller has it in him to Get Trump? I mean you have invested so much of your credibility here on this fantasy. Your reputation might suffer.
ABC staffer wins bullying case in six-year compensation battle
The ABC has axed Tonightly with Tom Ballard.
The show airs four days a week on ABC 2 and has struggled with low ratings throughout its two seasons. The show’s low ratings are often the butt of host Tom Ballard’s jokes.
Barnaby wants back at Dep PM job. A bet each way.
I’m sure the British people will enjoy the medicine stockpiling, airport and highway gridlock, stock market crash and food rationing, just like auld times.
Sorry no. M0nty is just retreading an old tyre.
Mueller “SC” is after Trumpkins for colluding with Russians. He knows the first case is going to send out alarm bells to the conspirators. He wants to show everyone he’s on the ball, running hard and getting to the big end of town.
So he files against Russian nobodies and when some turn up he’s melting and backtracking.
He then turns on Manafort, on tax evasion, such low hanging fruit in DC and New York you could throw a baseball into a crowd and find a perp for this. Then he royally screws the whole charge and trial and has to resort to almost rendition tactics on the accused who still won’t break.
And m0nty reckons some really good charges are coming – any day now.
From this clown?
lol
TEL:
A Judge can direct a jury where the evidence is clear on how to deliver their verdict on a charge – either way. It happens quite regularly. Sometimes defence can seek to have a charge directly dismissed by the judge, but where it is a long way into trial this is another way of dealing with charges with no hope of success. It does not alter the jury status overall and having to determine remaining charges.
Nice one Bruce, didn’t see that at the time, credit to you though.
And the final result will be the same as in Rhodesia – the women till the ground with hoes, in the same way their great grandmothers did, while the men sit in the shade, swilling beer, and telling each other how brave they were in the struggle against apartheid. About seven o’clock there will be a massive free for all, after which winners and losers pass out. Rinse, and repeat next day.
‘Lysander, no. But your MP needs to be given the arse if they’re sending out a letter to every kid at schools in their electorate who receives a merit certificate.’
Lysander, your MP gets at least $78,000 per annum electoral allowance to spend on this sort of stuff. From the WA Salaries and Allowances Tribunal website:
“Base Electorate Allowance
(1) In addition to the base remuneration specified in Part 2, a Member shall be paid a Base Electorate Allowance of $78,000 per annum.
(2) It is intended that this Allowance will be used for expenses incurred to assist with serving the electorate, including:
(a) information and communication technology, including mobile phone use, newsletters and internet publications;
(b) awards and support for community groups or individuals;
(c) hospitality and entertainment associated with a Member’s official business;
(d) advertising, other than for the purposes of campaigning, electioneering or political party promotion;
(e) safety equipment for motor vehicles
(f) costs associated with Electoral Management Systems; and
(g) stationery and printing.
That can pay for a lot of letters to merit certificate alumni. Incidentally, the average yearly full time wage in WA is $88,327.
So long as it is only ‘serving the electorate’ and not openly advocating politics, then this sort of stuff is normally regarded as a legitimate charge on the taxpayer.
Like I said, the Dutch are a prime example of the perils of marrying cousins.
Firms in Brexit ‘supply shock’ as EU workers stay away
A report finds more than half of firms have raised starting salaries to recruit staff and put up wages to retain existing workers.
Project Fear lives on, despite its previous doom and gloom prognostications in the runup to the Brexit vote being utterly wrong.
Barnaby is a Nat. He did not attend the meeting of the Libs. Duh.
So Turnball wins. Abbott rolled? Or were other deals done?
LOL, M0nty has been sucked in by Project Fear.
Believing your own propaganda is the first sign of insanity M0nty.
Thanks Des; I think it is legitimately serving her own purposes as the local MP and she can do that; the bit I object to is the party badging at the top of the letter. Why can’t Custard send one to them from the OZ Conservatives as a candidate for the area?
The stockpiling might be prudential, but what is the reason for
?
Why would people suddenly feel the need to travel more in the immediate aftermath of Brexit?
Regarding the stockmarket crash, people have known Brexit is coming since June 2016. Any impact is surely priced in by now.
Helen @ 1:44pm.
Abbott opposed as did Hastie.
If they cross the floor when it goes to a vote in the house then it will die.
I like his suggestion that the masses will turn on the African National Congress.
Ah, so it wasn’t a combined party meeting? If that’s the case I take it back.
No deal = 40 billion pounds saved, steep price reductions on a swathe of non-EU goods that are suddenly not subject to EU tariffs. There will be some structural adjustments of course, but the UK will commence trading relations with the rest of the world on WTO terms, which are a lot more favourable to the British consumer than the EU common market tariff regime.
And the EU will keenly miss British participation in both the common market and the EU project.
In the Zimbabwean Communal Lands at the height of the boom in 1997, there was nothing going on. The empty grassland rolled for miles, very few trees (can’t think why), cropped only by hand, in low-lying intermittent waterways.
In the Commercial Farming sector after the acquisitions of the early 2000s the farms ended up owned by ‘the chefs’, inner circle people like Grace Mugabe. The standing crops sold, the farms passed to weeds and movable assets sold off. The workforces were driven out because although they were black, they were not part of the ex-village hierarchy that defines the Shona power structure; many were the targets of the ‘Drive Out Trash’ campaign to get the potential opposition voters out of the cities.
As happened in with the ‘nationalisation’ programs in Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Zambia.
You get to eat meat until the herds are gone – and then whatever mealies the women can grow.
missed a comma – the land is cropped, not the startlingly few trees.
TRAIN SURFING across the state’s rail network has exploded with the number of “idiotic” people caught on CCTV riding on the outside of trains more than doubling in a year.
Transport Minister Andrew Constance has issued a blunt warning to train surfers, promising their dangerous escapades would be captured by the 10,000 CCTV cameras across the rail network and they would be tracked down by police and fined up to $5,500.
I bet he doesn’t.
Some enterprising journalist should write this down for a checkup in a year to see how many are fined.
Some good pix of the brainless idiots determined not to pass on their genes at the link.
Just think of it as evolution in action.
Possibly. This article was quietly on the Oz website this morning:
Delta Electricity eyes coal plant deal
That’s all I can get from the search engines. But if they are timidly coming forward now it suggests they’ve sussed out the Lib hierarchy. Turnbull wouldn’t want to hype this of course, because Gaia.
Swaggies in groundsheets to central heating to Swaggies in groundsheets in three generations.
We must have heads on pikes over this.
Statement linky
The NEG meeting today was the Coalition joint party room.
Perhaps Bananaby was doing a book-signing.
Read TA statement.
Abbott last night on 7.30 with his usual stop-start, intermittent delivery made good points about the serious consequences of the NEG scheme and the Paris agreement.
A pity he can’t iron out that hopeless speaking manner.
Not necessarily people – the problem will be the lorries and air freight. Customs would get a lot slower in a hard Brexit.
Thems fightin’ words.
😀
Read TA statement.
I agree with him: prime “merchant bankers’ gobbledegook”.
But it was still a Coalition meeting.
Snork!
Almost a Trumpian standard sideswipe.
Keep growing those balls back Tones.
Leigh Lowe#2788571, posted on August 14, 2018 at 12:35 pm
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That’s depression?
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Reminds me of George Best’s classic:
If only Abbott and Hastie voted against the NEG, why didn’t Kelly (another outspoken opponent)?
I liked the bit about the solidarity of lemmings.
From the Oz.
mUnter, by all means eat JC’s free steaks but please don’t wash it down with his Trader’s Kool-Aid.
Does anyone check that they pay the fines?
No point.
Tits will throw them a lazy mill or two after he ascends to the throne.
Joyce and Kelly’s cowardice can easily be explained: both think they can be frontbenchers
The night can previously known as the Liberal party ditched the Trumble’s ETS after heavy lobbying and objections by the party base.
The base doesn’t exist anymore.
Welcome to the NEG.
Ultra Rare Photo of Dr BeauGan, Colorized, 2018.
Barnaby’s daughters and parents must really appreciate his account of being a 50-something drunk who destroyed his family and spent his nights chasing and/or rooting boilers in Canberra.
All for a quid – the book, I mean.
I never thought I’d live to say that Tony Windsor was right.
“Thanks Des; I think it is legitimately serving her own purposes as the local MP and she can do that; the bit I object to is the party badging at the top of the letter. Why can’t Custard send one to them from the OZ Conservatives as a candidate for the area?”
Lysander, it’s a fine line, but I would object to it too, on a personal letter to a school kiddie.
On the other hand, if Custard were to be elected, he would be entitled to exactly the same allowance for the same purposes and under the same conditions, so he should be perfectly able to put an AC badge on a letter to a merit awardee kiddie.
Editorial at the Paywallian:
So… are subsidies to Muslim organisations haram?
ABC says, you believe?
When you think about it, The Neg marks the official advent – long portended – of a Uniparty in this country. There is no longer a ‘non-Labor’ party in Australia.
New England has appalling judgment.
That face you make when you arrive at the Bakery before Monty and it is still full of Donuts.
Stimpy wins the prize for the day – a signed picture of Lee Rhiannon, naked.
Fair enough Dez; then what about Senators? Geeze! They’ve got State-wide remit to do this sort of guff!!!
But cost aside, and just talking about the principle: Couldn’t a candidate use their own funds to do it?
The sounds of hilarity, crowing and cat-calling in the House of Reps are an utter disgrace when one thinks of the catastrophic hardships coming Australia’s way under the NEG and the Paris agreement.
Haha the term “uniparty” is listed at the Conservative Wiki:
https://www.conservapedia.com/Uniparty
It’s clear that there are now only two conservatives left in the Coalition and both need to immediately join Australian Conservatives because the Liberals are beyond redemption.
Let the Turnbull Coalition Team now die and decompose in a ditch.
The proliferation of ugly wind turbines across the hills of the New England Tablelands clearly indicates that Barnaby had moved into the Green-Left camp.
In the Greer pose.
Kelly did not get a chance to speak, and oppose. The meeting broke up before he could do so accdg to Abbott.
Turnbull bought the Libs at the last election. The result of the NEG vote was never in doubt.
A Lurker — it’s the Turnbull Treason Team — I want those treacherous snakes to be annihilated, totally annihilated – and if there is no alternative I would vote Labor to see it happen.
ABC says, you believe?
In this instance. Yup.
All talk and trousers.
You think Barnaby Joyce is bonkers?
Still ABC report.
Outed.
Abbott last night on 7.30 with his usual stop-start, intermittent delivery made good points about the serious consequences of the NEG scheme and the Paris agreement.
A pity he can’t iron out that hopeless speaking manner
He could fix his speaking problem but instead of spending 6 months with a speech coach, he wastes his time rebuilding soon to be redamaged houses and acting as truant officer to low IQ delinquents in the NT.
Abbott is a dud.
His only use is as a mild annoyance to Maocolm.
Before anything gets to the floor, it has to be agreed by COAG.
Given the general bastardry and the off-planet ALP renewable targets in Victoria and Queensland this seems deeply unlikely.
The next stage of this slo-mo train wreck plays out tonight with the post-victory COAG teleconference.
Just imagine being this much of an Atheist.
F$cking Hell man.
And Christiansen, and Barnaby?
Abbott speaks just fine. His um-ing and ah-ing is caused by quality-controlling every thought to make sure he’s just enough an annoyance to Turnbull while not being too much the ‘right-wing’ meanie.
Zulu,
If he makes the fiancé a wife without dumping No 1 wouldn’t that be bigamy ? Or perhaps he could convert to the religion of peace and gets allowances for all 4 women (or two women and two men who knows).
Can’t wait to see the TV series. NOT.
Good word by the Judges regarding CFMEU thugs.
That’s one way of dealing with PTSD.
And considering he has a head like a fist, his sex puppets ain’t bad.
SOMEONE NEEDS TO WAKE THIS COUNTRY UP!!!!!
Nope, not going to happen. Australians are extraordinarily apathetic to national politics and the damage wrought. Don’t know and don’t rally care. “Nothing I can do about it” is the usual refrain. (Apart from write letters, email, telephone, vote accordingly, join like-minded groups, attend rallys…..)
Thus, they deserve everything that is going to happen to them. Unfortunately, by the time the majority wake up to the reality, it will be far too late. “Oh well, nothing I can do about it now….”
montell autised his way out of noticing C.L.s’ snark?
Remarkable.
Trump ain’t the flame monty. He’s dead, buried and cremated.
Melbourne burglar told police his DNA got to crime scene ‘by magic’, court hears
Police also found a wig, a knife and a torch in a bag at his home, which Miao said were for Halloween.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-14/melbourne-thief-told-police-dna-got-to-crime-scene-by-magic/10118688
Big questions loom over Tesla deal after Musk reveals Saudi link
[When]…he initially dropped his bombshell in an August 7 tweet, Musk stated he had “funding secured” to buy Tesla stock at $420 per share — 23 per cent above its August 6 closing price.
After reading Musk’s Monday post, former SEC commissioner Joseph Grundfest concluded the chances of regulators taking action against Musk are now “quite high”.
The Saudi PIF will be rubbing its hands.
It’s not every day you have the World’s Smartest Man by the balls.
Another item in my mad misogynistic campaign on female judges!
COAG is a key weakness in Australia’s dysfunctional Federation. It reduces policy to lowest common denominator outcomes and then compulsorily applies it nationwide, often with no effective means of modification with every State potentially able to veto it.
If State alignment is required between States it should be done on a bilateral State to State basis with no involvement by the Commonwealth at all.
If the SEC doesn’t nail perpetual bullsh1tter Musk to the wall over that Tweet they might as well pack up and go home.
I think Mr and Mrs Turnbull will be well pleased today. They most likely feel they have ridiculed Tony Abbott by the success of the NEG, getting back at him for 2009 ow whenever it was MT made a fool of himself over carbon pricing.He’s basically got what he always wanted, as he totally believes in climate change, carbon pricing market, green schemes and so on. Perhaps personally he stands to gain.
He will mention climate change more and more now, and give money for stuff.
The Car-B-Qers in Sweden seem well-organised and with a penchant for black clothes usually displayed by by the Black Bloc ( natch ).
No surprises here. The Dem stormtroopers model themselves after Germany’s 30’s Commos, their propaganda arm -the MSM – works 24/7 at brainwashing the proles, borders are an obstacle to the Dems Latino voteherds , their leaders are Commo agents, etc.
Forward to glory, Comrades!
Corbyn being engulfed by the wreath-laying scandal – Daily Mail running around six stories on it….
Turdball must have something over the other dickheads. But then maybe it’s just political ivory-towerism; they could not give a rats about the punters. I bet turdball and his hen-pecker have never seen an electricity bill.
Tony’s white anting and NEGative views will surely be to blame for the obliteration of the Trumble Treason Team at the next election.
In doubt? Ask Lucy.
James Davis, 36, lives with his wife, fiancee, and submissive sex slave girlfriends
The former army veteran’s lifestyle is to be the subject of new five-part TV series
This story seems hard to believe. They set themselves up for a lot of trouble in the community and a smaller one like Armidale , and how embarrassing for the girls’ parents. Why would they do that?
‘Spectacular Lego creations connect young and old at annual Canberra charity event’
Peter Dutton won the Ghoul’s Exhibition Award for his Lego concentration camp! Amazing detail, man obviously loves his hobby. I mean work. Hobby and work. Love.
http://raster.art.pl/galeria/artysci/libera/lego/XL_libera_lego_01.JPG
From Brendan Nelson way back on the last page:
Here’s a perfect example of why I hate lawyers. Why the fuck should they have anything to do with who is awarded a gong on the battlefield? What do they know about it?
It’s also a perfect example of why I hate senior officers in the Army. They have allowed lawyers to insert themselves into every aspect of military decision making, including the approval of mission plans.
And lastly, while I admire Nelson for sticking up for Ben Roberts-Smith, he still gives me the shits for just accepting that lawyers can add legitimacy to a process. No Brendan, they are as clueless as any other civilian.
Lawyers exist to make work for themselves, and in that you have to admire their success.
Pest Tattern, offering new dimensions to the word “fuckwit” on a regular basis.
We’ve all been there.
But seriously … the video at that DM article also shows him french-pashing a bloke and dancing with four nude men. I’m not sure what outfit this bloke served in but I’m guessing it was regular Army.
He has to be a cat burglar, right?
‘Are ‘white people’ jokes racist’
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His just popped back for a quick seance. Why can’t we just settle this race thing over a round of squatter the board game like adult cartoonists? Loser gets invaded dispossessed raped chained jailed enslaved shot genocided and mocked by racist cartoonists. That’ll teach them for demanding their country back!
What does it say about the Stupid.Fucking.Liberals when even Adam Bandt makes sense:
Jupes … “lawyers” or “layers”??
Tesla is a polished turd and Musk is Polisher-in-Chief.
Someone has airbrushed out the two bikini-clad blondes who were with me in that picture, stimpo. Was it you?
Sure it wasn’t the Navy?
That’s also how ‘victims’ were found for the Pell trial.
LOL
I back Bandt on this also.
Zulu, the video briefly shows a framed photo of some ADF personnel in desert camo draped over an armoured vehicle. So not the Navy, no. Maybe they’re all cooks or something posing for a trophy pic.
Fortunately non of that happened in Australia after white people arrived. However it was the daily process for the tribes on tribes wars that raged here for 60000 years beforehand. thank God whire people put a stop to the genocide and rape ans invasions. Every aborigine should kiss the feet of white colonizsts every day from 1770 till 1901.
Right on Baldrick. Right totally on.
Oh dear, I fired up a bit early on that one.
Never mind, a good anti-lawyer rant is a way to start today’s blogging.
Bill Shorten has been caught on camera in a visit to a drought-affected family in Queensland reminding himself not to say “what I’m thinking” because he was being recorded at the time.
On a trip last week to Jody Brown’s cattle farm at Longreach in western Queensland with his wife Chloe and opposition agriculture spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon, the Labor leader is heard in filmed outtakes reminding Ms Brown that their comments can be heard.
“Remember, I’m on mic,” he says while they walk through a dusty paddock. “I’m on mic.”
Later, while looking at cattle, Mr Shorten says: “That makes me wonder — oh, I’m on mic, I can’t say what I’m thinking.”
Link
No Lawyers have an important role in the armed services. Live fire means shooting at actual live things and lawyers are alive, plentiful and worthless.
From his LinkedIn:
That dungeon master’s g/f “Hannah” has a great body. He needs a wife swap.
Well he can’t bloody have mine.
Turnbull honestly believes people throughout the country are cheering The Neg.
They’ve been waiting for this for years.
Turdball must have something over the other dickheads.
He paid for their election and will likely bankroll the next. Is that obvious enough?
Secret footage of Turdbull unleashing the NEG on the Australian public.
MT spending a lot of effort on a dud.
I don’t think that’s the same James Davis, Mont.
This is good but an incoming ALP Govt will need to adopt the Canadian model Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program to ensure that the refugee kids in Indonesia who’ve been busy learning English can come here. I’m fairly sure a Shorten Gov will do this. Great idea and even Libertarians may like to donate –
About Cisarua Learning.
‘Four years ago the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre (CRLC) was the first refugee-managed school in Indonesia. Since then it has inspired a refugee-led education revolution and there are over 1500 children learning from around 100 refugee teachers, at 10 refugee learning centres. More centres are opening all the time. Cisarua Learning is an Public Benevolent Institution with tax deductibilty status, established by the co-founders of the CRLC.
This year we will establish mentored learning hubs for older (15+) refugees who are not able to learn at the learning centres. We need to increase the stipends of our teachers so they can survive beyond their savings or family support. We continue to advocate to Australians, Canadians and Americans through presentations and screenings of the feature documentary, The Staging Post. Our idea is that ‘Refugees can be a part of the solution’ and we present this idea to thought leaders and decision makers at international conferences.
At the heart of Cisarua Learning is a friendship between Australians and the refugees in Indonesia. We plan to grow these friendships so that Australians and refugees can accompany each other. Australians have a lot to offer and the refugee community has a lot to offer in return.’
https://cisarualearning.com/
Peanut Head knows he is so close he can smell it. Not even Albosleazy can knock him off now.
Prime Minister Bill Shorten.
Has a certain ring to it.
I think you mean PM-BS.
Yup. The clanging of steel gates shutting behind you.
It’s actually far worse than that.
The Excel spreadsheet in question states that it is based on modelling done by ACIL Allen Consulting. It is simply a few aggregate numbers pasted as values from other undisclosed spreadsheets and provides no working details of how the NEG is supposed to operate or deliver any savings.
It is not a ‘model’ and could not be used in any way to test the assumptions/outcomes.
Not a good omen, given that it was supposed to be the handiwork of the Energy Security Board, or AEMO, or AEMC – the experts who are supposed to have designed and endorsed Turnbull’s NEG.
https://saraacarter.com/the-real-reasons-peter-strzok-was-fired-from-the-fbi/
Oh, alright then.
If only there was some kind of organised other side in politics.
Great.
Electricity gets it’s very own NBN plan.
I think he is a collector rather than a trader.
LNP going the UAP/CP route/rout?
I was having a shot at certain nautical Cats, that’s all.
No comment.
‘If only there was some kind of organised other side in politics’
Billy was a mountain. Tanya was a tree hangin’ offa his shoul-der ..
‘Studebacher Mal arrives on the cliff which is Billy the Mountain’s jaw and attempts to reason with him. At first he is friendly, but after Tanya protests, he aggressively threatens Billy and Tanya. Billy laughs at his threats, and in doing so, causes Mal to lose his balance and fall 200 feet to his own injury and defeat…’
I’m guessing it was regular Army.
I don’t think so C.L.
Fairly certain he was In The Navy.
NBN was on beer coaster? NEG is on a spreadsheet. Of course, GIGO.
Seriously, turdball bought the coalition for a mill. We should have had a whip around here if that was the going the price.
I’m sure Wile E. Trumble can treason with PM-elect Tits.
Yes. Yes it does.
NBN was on beer coaster? NEG is on a spreadsheet.
Oh well that’s alright then. Clearly the Turdbull Govt has everything under control. Fear not oh ye of little faith.
I have a theory.
I reckon he “lent” the party the money and it will turn into an non-refundable gift only if he gets to run his race and choose his successor.
If they return to Abbott, they have a yuuuuge hole in their war-chest for the next election.
/sarc
Loser gets to pass off stories that “my Nanna told me” as genuine history, and thirty billion dollars a year.
I saw that Rambler.
The NEG is all part of Malcolm’s crazy like a fox plan where he plays 6 dimension chess with all comers.
The Spectator Index
@spectatorindex
BREAKING: Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad says his government will cancel major infrastructure projects backed by China.
1:25 PM · Aug 13, 2018
LNP party room meeting today.
Peter Strzok is now doing God’s work. His Go Fund Me target has been increased from $150k to $350k and he’s hoovered $197k from brain dead Leftists.
How much did you give him, Monty?
Nuffing wrong with an Excel spreadsheet. How many pages? Portrait or Landscape? What size font?
m0nty
#2788649, posted on August 14, 2018 at 1:40 pm
Spurgeon Flemindton
Like I said, the Dutch are a prime example of the perils of marrying cousins.
The reactionary lackey of the fascist left establishment reverts to cheap ethnic stereotyping.
Via Lion of the Blogosphere, some excellent news of Ben Carson’s anti-zoning housing policies.
I’d be interested in the fascist hyena’s authority for making that statement – the Memsahib was born in Rotterdam, and as far as I know, we’re in no way related.
The guts of the NEG is this:
What this means is this: the hugely expensive duplicatory system whereby fossils run 24/7 but can only sell when W&S don’t produce (about 70% of the time) and fossils have to pay W&S when they do run, will continue except the NEG will guarantee profits for the fossils, out of government funds, to ensure electricity supply. So consumers will have guaranteed supply and cost as new players are subsidised to keep open coal and build new coal while at the same time, presumably, the vast subsidies for W&S will continue.
Until the country goes bankrupt. All to sate turdball’s desire to be seen as the saviour of the planet from ebil warming.
I never thought I’d live to say that Tony Windsor was right.
The voters up there have to choose between two scumbags? I bet that’s never happened before.
m0nty
#2788644, posted on August 14, 2018 at 1:36 pm
Nice one Bruce, didn’t see that at the time, credit to you though.
Sure! We believe you. Thousands wouldn’t, but we do.
Sure, that’s “Open Borders” wearing a slightly different hat.
People who own property in a neighbourhood want to keep it nice and maintain high value property so they do a number of things to encourage that:
* Avoid high density developments.
* Especially avoid high density mostly rentals where the people who move in don’t give a shit about the neighbourhood, then either move out soon after or worse demand rent control and steal from you.
* Very especially avoid anything involving government projects to help out key voting demographic client groups.
Since the property owners bought into the neighbourhood and worked to make it a good place to live, they don’t want anyone free riding on that, and they don’t want anyone to trash their nice neighbourhood. How surprising, no different to a club of people deciding who they want to join their club, or a nation state deciding what type of immigrants they prefer. No different whatsoever. All about property rights and the choice of voluntary association.
Something horrible happening in Westminster.
Looks like it might just be a car crash.
The times we live in.
The Sydney rapper who was killed by a sheila with a samurai sword is a great story.
Why the fuck are they charging her with murder and not giving her a civic award?
Islamic times.
Even the renewable meatheads don’t like turdball’s NEG:
https://reneweconomy.com.au/?utm_source=RE%20Daily%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=5bd2287fa7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_13_11_54&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_46a1943223-5bd2287fa7-40319673
The NEG is a Chinese meal: it fills no one.
Indeed. With the complete debasement of the Australian awards, anyone reducing the amount of Aussie hip hop should be a walk up start for an AO. Or something higher if you take out a couple of JJJ employees as well.
What about MY property rights if I wanted to make more money because I could sell to a developer than another householder ???
From the Oz.
Hans Blix is the kind of guy who believes in censure motions and “smart” sanctions.
aussie hip hop? … aussie hip hop??? there’s such a thing as aussie hip hop?!?!?
why!?!?! isn’t that like cultural appropriation.
aussie hip hop? … aussie hip hop??? there’s such a thing as aussie hip hop?!?!?
Fact:
More White People and Asians listen to Hip Hop than Black People.
I’m not condoning it, just putting it out there.
From Steyn:
RTWT
What follows? Is that it? The senate says on a vote that they disapprove? If so, they can censure me any time they feel like it and I shan’t give a shit.
Or do they fine him real money? Is there any real penalty, or does he just have to live with the disapproval? My god, how will he be able to shave in the morning?
Victorian Liberals. Are there any stupider…
If you’ve not read it, Tony Abbott’s statement now posted at as the homepage lede at Quadrant.
Interesting thread over at Prof Quiggins place on power generation. Asked some searching question he replies with “Don’t you know who I am?” Well yes but you still may be wrong !
It seems the future will be wildly fluctuating prices , storage that hasn’t been invented yet and a fairytale economic solution just for good measure
The future seems bright!
No, he doesn’t. It’s annoying and frustrating listening to him struggle to get out what he wants to say.
Seriously he would be so much more effective as a fluent speaker. He’s as annoying as Boltus interruptus.
Someone should take him in hand before interviews and run through the questions and his response.
I agree, he has thought about many of the issues and come to considered conclusions which are on the money, but he’s like a nag that you’ve backed that shies at the post.
Who does Quiggin think he is? Belinda Neal?
One of the main problems with the whole destruction of the electricity market is that it has too many economists and lawyers fiddling with it and not enough engineers.
Don’t worry, they are arranging it so you buy the farm at the same time.
Footage of a man arrested. Police are treating the incident as terrorist related.
Love the “bio” areff.
“Hello George, this is Mr. Nkosi from the Revenue Service in Pretoria, he’s an accountant and he is going to help you with our business…”
At least they’ll all be in the same spot.
Interesting thread over at Prof Quiggins place on power generation. Asked some searching question he replies with “Don’t you know who I am?”
Logical fallacy: Appeal to authority = a fail, Dr. Quiggin.
Double demerit points for the authority being your very own self.
NSFW
More important than the car crash in London
DARE TO BARE! Bizarre moment [email protected] woman gets out of a car and casually walks into a petrol station to buy a beer
I wonder where she kept the money?
Um, how exactly would this be proven?
The priests would not even by their own rules be allowed to give any evidence.
Who would accuse them…and for what purpose?
I want to know exactly how a covert operation would figure this out; without the cooperation of an accused child abuser…? Now, why would the police even bother?
I’m not sure a crook has ever gotten a deal because they can accuse someone else of concealing their crime. I don’t think it would be appropriate for a judge to act in this manner.
Perversely, it would act to lessen gaol times that abusers face.
Maybe cause it’s full of shit
Reliable Sources: Three theories why Omarosa’s book is not a #1 best seller
I think he’s supposed to live with the shame and disapproval of the Labor Party, Derryn Hunch, and the Greens.
an offence to conceal abuse that was revealed in the confessional
Um, how exactly would this be proven?
The priests would be set up by VicPlod.
A fake (recorded) confession of abuse.
Priest does not report. Bang!
Pretty much a badge of honour, then.
Outrageous article about the naked woman in the service station:
The blonde woman approaches the counter in her birthday suit holding the bottle of beer.
The cashier does not seem phased.
It’s fazed you clot.
Beam me up Scotty!
Something horrible happening in Westminster.
Off to the shops to buy more guns and ammo. Rather more useful than flowers and a candlelight vigil.
what follows is 1 genital and Hinch you all moved to send sure David have a little get together with him and plan how to kill off Australians.
In the meantime can someone tell me what happened to that $60,000 raised for Sarah Sea Patrols legal costs on go fund me. She withdrew her defamation action so where is that money now?
How can a fake confession ever form the basis of concealment of a crime?
The answer is obvious (or it will be when it is stated plainly), but of course, altogether terrifying.
Haha 1 genital and Hunxh was actually supposed to be after Wong, di Natale and Hinch moved to censure David…
Damn straight.
Just discovered my new colleague is a Cronulla boy. Too young by a couple of years for the big event, but full of interesting stories.
Forget about the costs to families. What matters is my place at the trough!
‘cheap ethnic stereotying’
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Pick me! I can do noses!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CktSCbOUkAAvGlX.jpg
None love,
You really have to work some more on that voice to text application!
https://dailyreview.com.au/senator-sarah-hanson-young/76282/
Even the lefties are tearing each other apart because of the DL/SHY spat.
This is winning. That and getting free publicity to call MT a pussy.
Have you considered a policy that encourages cheaper power prices or is that beyond your ken, you gormless window licker?
Police choppers overhead so I looked at breaking news and parliament is in lockdown because of another attempt at pedestrian mowing. FMD
These car attacks on Westminster are very disturbing. None of the useless mosleys are even coming remotely close to knocking off Appeaser May.
The fact of the matter is if police can get you convicted of a falsified confession of one civilian to another over a crime that was never committed; then we have thought crime on the books and it is no longer a theoretical concept.
I can see them having a cop impersonating a civilian they suspect is guilty of abuse…this is another rabbit hole of course that can only be considered kosher if we have thoughtcrimes. The physical and fault elements cannot be proven in either scenario.
Senate votes to censure Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm
For;
Unless I have this all wrong, the facts of the derogatory/defamatatory issue are sub judice.
Presumably Ms Landwhale voted in contempt of her own legal claim against Leyonhjelm.
What a Third World turnout.
Abbott should have just laughed at this gift question from Sales, accused her of misrepresenting the facts and asked did she believe social workers and global warming rent seekers should be managing our our electricity supply? Did the NFF poll its members? Do miners include coal miners? Oh and what do steel works and aluminium smelters think of our energy policies?
He didn’t.
So stupid.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/battered-by-boycotts-will-sky-news-now-ditch-its-right-wing-formula-20180810-p4zwps.html
Read the comments. Melb. has a “supposed” crime wave and socialism is nothing to be ashamed of.
Superannuated, APS GetItUp cardigan wearing dickheads.
Just like most of the Triple J audience.
Good to see Sarah focused on the big picture and the national interest. See ya. Don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out.
Leyonhjelm can probably argue mitigation against damages because he has “suffered” from the censure.
‘What will happen when the ANC takes my farm’
Agri SA questions validity of #farmlist – release is irresponsible
“Agri SA is in the process of establishing the legitimacy of the list of farms,” said Dan Kriek, President of Agri SA. “It is irresponsible of AfriForum to publish such unconfirmed information, knowing it to be inflammatory.”
Cursory background research showed that the list contained several inaccuracies which could easily have been verified before release. Upon investigation by Agri SA’s affiliates, it came to light that the list contained farms that are joint ventures that are co-owned by black people. The list also contained incomplete information on title deed descriptions and with farm names appearing without stating the subdivisions of those farms.
Agri SA wishes to emphasise that expropriation can only happen for a legitimate purpose mandated by statute and that a lengthy process that complies with the requirements of just administrative action needs to be followed.
“This means that expropriation cannot happen overnight and can only take place for reasons specified in a law of general application,” said Annelize Crosby, Agri SA Head of the Centre of Excellence: Land. There are various prescribed steps that must be followed in expropriation. This includes a notice of intention to expropriate, valuation of the property and negotiations with the owners. As the Constitution has not been changed, the requirement for expropriation remains just and equitable compensation.’
https://www.agrisa.co.za/pressReleases/729042743744be913ba854c1983a546c
Windmills Macht Frei.
DL should get to a reliable doctor and complain of dizzy spells, irregular heartbeat and shortness of breath since the censure.
In the meantime can someone tell me what happened to that $60,000 raised for Sarah Sea Patrols legal costs on go fund me. She withdrew her defamation action so where is that money now?
Eaten? A physique like SSP’s and Munty’s doesn’t happen by accident you know!
I haven’t seen anything in news saying the defamation proceeding was withdrawn. I assume she’d have to pay costs.
This NEG thing is deeply concerning. How do the politicians collectively not get it. Surely the focus groups are 1) power and 2) immigration. Why doesnt that resonate?