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I remember when I was a kid in the 80’s an immense amount of anti-communist propaganda floating around was about the kind of man who was a bolshevik communist. Authors and movie makers tried (in vain) to really fully explain the certain kind of weak pathetic little man who was the backbone of the communist regime the world over.
The problem for me is that that man didn’t exist in the colonial western countries, so it really didn’t make sense to me, I had never seen the likes of him with my own eyes – I could only imagine some short dark mean little eastern european with a grey trunchcoat sneakily dobbing on his neighbors and delighting in punishing a dad for thinking incorrect thoughts.
But now I know who that man is. Because in 2019 the pathetic little worm is everywhere . He infests my industry, and he’s almost got the state and he’s somehow almost got power over the normal men, and he knows it.
Going to be a lot of desperate and deprived primary school fundraisers this year due to the leaners and moochers voting early.
A perversion of civic duty and a national disgrace that must change.
Culture is way more important than candidates.
‘Lol, bog standard German pronno movie fare. It’s nothing compared to Alabama Hot Pocket.’
I can understand the Cleveland reference in ‘Cleveland Steamer’, but what is it about the state of Alabama that lends its name to a very unhygienic sexual practice?
I’ve heard of blended families, but that’s taking it to extremes, surely?
It is fucking atrocious.
Yuuuge argument about the “shards” – i.e. useless asymmetrical aluminum boxes – when they shortened one so we could finally get a decent view of St Paul’s from Princes Bridge after that abominable Gas and Fuel building got flattened.
Oh, the humanity!
The architect’s vision has been compromised!
If someone had proposed that we implode the Gas and Fuel building and put in a park rolling down to the river, 90% of Melburnians would have agreed.
But, no, we needed a billion dollar circle-jerk.
Popery.
On the street with Bill Thompson.
Better let ‘Cleveland Steamer’ through to the keeper as well then.
Hahaha.
No sign of a ‘Pakistani Drill Press’, luckily…
Ireland playing Bangladesh in Pomville, in the ODI format.
In sporting terms, the Bangladeshi fieldsmen could be fairly assessed as equivalent to a bunch of spina bifida-stricken children chasing a superball down a hill.
Dude they were huffing bath salts and mainlining jimson weed.
When I walked around it a few years ago I was shocked by how shithouse it was.
Worse than a bad high school art project.
The cars of the day were these. Turbocharged Mazda MX5
Hang in there Custard! When you’re getting wound up over someone’s ‘hobby car’ you know you’re losing it. Stay with us man! 😁
The Bangas beat the West Indies the other day, playing cricket in Dublin Ireland with the temperature at 10C.
We live in Bizarro World.
Just watched the rest of Richo and Jones, which we videod for after dinner.
Jim Nolan as a guest, followed by David Sharma. Jim interesting on foreign policy. Great to see Dave Sharma from Wentworth! our own electorate. He’s a sensible guy and we suspect he is less of a wet than we thought, prob playing that up to defeat the Phelps machine. He’s sensible on Israel. Richo, of course, lives just up the road from us; he’s having to eat all sorts of humble pie on this. Preferencing Sharma! After the obligatory Labor vote, of course.
Hairy reading the Oz online, and laughing his head off at Labor ‘getting their retaliation in first’.
They are now saying the election has been stolen by Clive Palmer.
Eric Trump returns serve
He’s back, the man who gave us shake hillybillylali and the ‘uncovered meat’ ray-pissed defence. PK’s been stewing away for 20 years in a dark room with just the tick-tock of old clocks reminding him of how long it’s been since he was relevant.
Finally! Bill’s come along and given him his Lazareth moment! –can he re-live past glories? Can a souffle raise twice?
I can see it, Bill, or more like one of his worried minders, has thought, gee do we think PK can re-live past glories? Trot out some of his zingers for us? Do a Hewson on Scomo? (just tell him he hasn’t got time to do it slowly.)
The old bovver boy starts reliving those days around Bankstown High, when he and his band of smartarse mates ruled the roost out in the playground.
Leave it to me, says PK I can do for youse what I did for Hawkie, the ungrateful so & so. Hey the first President of the Republic of Australia has a nice ring to it.
I’ll just sharpen up some of my razor sharp put-downs; how’s this, “the country’s tops spies, are “nutters” who have gone ‘berko’ over the threat from China”… pretty good huh? And what about this, “Peter Dutton is the”…..let me check my notes….ah yes “meanest public figure in Australian politics in 50 years and voters” …let me check again…”now a chance to, ah”, yes yes. “drive a stake through his dark political heart”. Would you like more? Huh, huh?? I’ve got dozens of ‘em. The placido of put-downs you know.
Reckon I killed two birds with the first one, earned my monthly pay cheque from geegee ping at the same time…..and I have another tip for ya; how to get the immigrant vote in the marginals.
Spot of “Boy’s Own Paper.” stuff. “Saving the colors” and all that.
JC, will this affect you?
New York City Council Considering Banning Fur
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/14/new-york-city-council-considering-banning-fur/
It’s like the people of yore never imagined this could happen. Really, let us chalk this one up as another instance of Chesterton’s fence. Modernity is repeating the destruction and then feigning surprise at what follows.
Wow… just wow.
The Cat could give the Safe Schools program some lessons in depravity.
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So what is this riveting TV that Tim Blair is watching?
The Cat could give the Safe Schools program some lessons in depravity.
Born of necessity, Socrates. When verbally jousting with butchers or Norwest numbnuts one must have extreme escalation conversation stopping sayings.
You’d think NYC would ban plastic clothing (nylon etc) before natural fur.
Naturally.
I’m shocked at all this, because of course I never at any time use barrack room language myself.
Sure thing, especially August in NYC.
Those who advocate electronic voting may wince at the “computer glitches” that stuffed up NAPLAN testing yesterday.
Many years ago the NSW School Certificate (computing exam) suffered exactly the same fate.
First the census, now this – what large scale data entry process hasn’t been mired in failure?
Voting should require proof of name followed by a thumbnail dipped in tar before paper and pencil are issued.
Voter fraud would minimise overnight.
SATP,
Absolutely. I would imagine anyone uncouth enough to utter words like ‘bloody’, goddamn’ and ‘poo’ would be immediately removed from your establishment, lest they lower the tone.
Publicans are rightly renowned for their delicacy.
Good night all. Has anyone on this site ever tried acupuncture? Considering it for my back troubles.
Keeping track of the Big Boy
When it visits a major populace….chaos ( traffic and people everywhere ) will ensue. One of the greatest PR events of all time! ( Not my words, but i agree )
Good point.
However, do they allow their Sheliahs to show up to the supermarket in the morning wearing their PJ’s and dressing gowns?
I think we are being a bit hypocritical here.
Saw it this morning. FFS. Have a shower girls and brush your hair. It’s 9am.
Hmmmm.
Just researched the Pakistani Drill Press. Reasonably mundane. Vanilla, if you will.
Now – have a look at the REVERSE Pakistani Drill press.
Knock your socks off, baby.
BB,
Apologies. My only point of reference in relation to acupuncture is that heroin addicts rarely have back problems.
Oh dear. I see Arky up thread is trying to post videos more boring than his own ones.
You’ve made your point, mate. I’d prefer to listen to 3 minutes of an engine revving than an hour of that idiot. What the hell was he even talking about?
As someone who suffers from lower back pain, highly recommended.
Yes, it’s frickin awesome. So long as the person doing it actually knows what they’re doing and your back troubles are in the muscles/sinews and not the spine/ribs.
Just researched the Pakistani Drill Press. Reasonably mundane. Vanilla, if you will.
Standard fare for the discernable gent grooming backpackers on a Saturday night at the pub I’d imagine, KD. 😁
SATP, ever turfed a punter from the establishment who’s getting a blumkin?
I’m stealing this. I have no idea when I’m going to use it, or in what form or context.
It’s got “shock value”. Possibly better than using “retarded” or “spastic”.
[Note to Sinc – please review your list of banned words. The list gets longer by the day].
Alcohol is the drug of choice Sir Dragger.
Back troubles stem from prolapsed discs, luckily they aren’t pressing on any nerves but still sore nonetheless. Might have to have a crack at it.
Allow me to recommend the Aultmore Speyside single malt, and yes, when prolapsed discs start pressing on various nerves, your back specialist will die a wealthy person, indeed.
Best thing for back pain is whatever your doctor can legally drug you up with.
It’s why the West is flooded with Asian immigrants. One needle, not hundreds of them.
Or just do what they used to do in the old days. Lie on a cold hard floor for a couple of nights.
You soon figure out it’s mostly in your head, and to stop being such a Princess about it all.
This is an excellent update …
Deep State criminals turning on each other as new facts emerge …
These people are in big trouble.
BB,
Yup. When the disc gets away from you (or worse, starts to disintegrate) and starts wrapping itself around the nerves you’re in all sorts.
I’ve had two microdiscetomies (sp.?), in 2004 and 2015. Both surgeons were brilliant. After the first one I was playing cricket six weeks later, and after the second I walked out of hospital that afternoon instead of the four days planned for.
The surgeon for the second one told me beforehand (I’m paraphrasing, but not much at all) ‘What I’ll do is, cut in, have a bit of a look around, cut the bits of shit away and throw some duct tape on what’s left of the disc. Should patch it up nicely’.
Chicks dig scars.
Good stuff. I like the look of this Durham bloke. Seems no-nonsense. The deep-staters are turning on each other and he hasn’t even interviewed them yet!
On the other hand, I don’t have much faith in Horowitz. This is the clown that couldn’t see any bias in Peter Stzrok’s investigation of Trump.
I love the term “boomerang” in that report from Hanitty.
The Democrats could be fairly assessed as equivalent to a bunch of spina bifida-stricken children trying to catch a hundred razor sharp boomerangs at once.
There is going to be casualties. Heavy casualties.
Downer will end up having to be investigated, bringing the entire Australian government into the spotlight.
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mOnts? Where the hell are you?
Opps. Answered my own question. My bad.
I’m treating a bad case of “rifleman’s back” with whisky and painkillers.
Good night, all.
May have to investigate Zulu. Sounds a nice drop. Painkillers I don’t do, more management of pain. Yeah Dragger almost at the point of operation but last resort only. Regular sex might keep it supple 😁
No no. He cleared himself on Bolta’s program.
I mean, diplomats don’t engage in skulduggery. That would be silly.
My physio does dry needling. It IS awesome, and its based on real theory not sixth century chinese folklore.
Bill Shorten will relish it as an opportunity to point out the evils of a Conservative Government. Downer is about as Liberal as you can get. A total toff that would be absolutely comfortable in the House of Lords.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that he’s Teresa Mays man bitch, complete with a black studded collar and fishnet stockings.
The only prominent Australian politician that has outwardly praised Trump is Palmer (and perhaps Pauline).
Liberal and Labor ARE the Australian establishment, along with skanky Greens. There is only a cigarette paper between their policies, plus an underlying hatred for Trump (and the US in general).
BB,
Sounds like a plan. No Pakistani Drill Press for a man in your condition though. And if you even contemplate the Reverse PDP you’ll be in hospital sooner than you think.
I can’t recall Trump even uttering the word “Australia”. Deservedly so.
A couple of well aimed tweets on election eve would be nice.
Stunning!
A journey into a dark world. A rough ride ladies and gents.
Oh dear, I see Lil Marco is opposed to Hungarian PM Orban. A huge lover of George Soros and mass Mozlem immigration he is!
Armadillo:
Bill Sorten need to be very careful with this. Now I’ve spoken about it before, but apparently 8 years ago, 2 Labor politicians were exposed as being ?informants for the CIA/FBI. It came out on the periphery of another US/Australian scandal, but I can’t remember what it was all about.
I do remember the story very quickly went quiet.
Cambridge scientists create world’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA
Cambridge scientists create world’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA
Result for me: Liberal Democrats, then Liberal
https://australia.smartvote.org/en/home
I don’t think that prosecutor is going to wear a quick “Goodness me, Andrew, the whole idea that senior school chaps like myself engage in such antics is ludicrous.”
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The worst thing about that uber-grub Downer is that he didn’t think for a milli-second that this was a serious five-eyes security matter.
He knew he was ingratiating himself with the Clintons, and it would be “all aboard the gravy train” after she won …
Ooops.
Orwell speak.
Since when is doing exactly what your constituents want a “downward democratic trajectory”?
Oh dear.
The fingers are starting to point.
No honour among thieves.
I have a feeling the Rowe cartoon today will be a cracker.
I say, Tom old boy.
Haul your bottom in hear and get those cartoons started.
Here.
Hear, hear.
Bloody smellchick and autoconnect.
Spell check and auto correct.
Paul Zanetti.
Chris “Roy” Taylor.
David Rowe’s mental illness always reverts to the same pathetic neurosis. (PS, Tone: it’s time you upped the rent in his head).
Cracker!
Told you.
Meanwhile, the British establishment’s betrayal of the citizenry enters another interminable year. Christian Adams (London Evening Standard).
Matt Pritchett (London Daily Telegraph).
Michael Ramirez.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Jerry Holbert.
Patrick Cross.
Steve Breen.
Gary Varvel.
A.F. Branco.
Steve Kelley.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
The chick in the Branco cartoon.
Phwoooar!
Sorry for the cartoonus interruptus, Tom.
It was just that Rowe was soooo brilliant.
Rowe back to the usual. Matt does it well this morning.
The subsidy miner extraordinaire. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-solar-exclusive/exclusive-teslas-solar-factory-is-exporting-most-of-its-cells-document-idUSKCN1SL1H5
For Johannes Leak aficionados: in today’s Paywallian business section, Optus boss Allen Lew.
The two part der Spegiel on Germany’s energy issues.
Well worth a read. Part 1: German Failure on the Road to a Renewable Future
Then they pedal hard for the future based on a subsidised past of paying wind power for curtailment.
Part 2: How Germany’s Energiewende Could Work After All
Articles are too long and varied to justify a short sample. Well worth the resd.
Welcome to reality snowflake.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/why_the_media_suddenly_lost_interest_in_the_latest_school_shooting.html
can you teach me how to read minds like that?
Retry on the snowflake princess video…
Silly Snowflake Gets Charged, Cuffed and Arrested After Stealing Pro-Life Sign
“I can’t believe you let them get away with this shit”
It’s called the law honey.
If convicted, she has a criminal record, with all the baggage that entails.
Silly, silly girl.
Solar panel ads are incessantly looking like hucksters selling bottled water for $15 in natural disasters. They started of with the usual ‘save money, save the planet’ to ‘buy battery backups encase of blackouts’ and the latest is ‘buy owe stuff because electoral uncertainly complete with and alleged power plant belching black smoke.
They have have been lobbying or have profited from lobbyist to close down base load power so this profiteering on a man made disaster.
Does Tubbsy Dullard know she is casting exactly the doubt among the Iranians that Trump wants.
The classic useful idiot.
Iranian proxies, the Houthi rebels have the capacity to launch improvised drone strikes.
Oil pipelines, storage tanks and oil tankers juicy targets.
The price of oil that has to pay to be protected will change western industrial civilisation.
Except for countries that can do Fracking and produce their own oil.
If she thinks this was unpleasant then she might consider how being dismembered and sucked into a vacuum cleaner can really put a crimp in your day.
Excellent news.
Raving commo “Father” Bob Maguire is short of cash.
That’s what happens when you defraud donors by spending “feed da poor” contributions on middle class left wing causes.
According to Dr Simon Bradshaw, fake science peddler for fake charity, Oxfam:
Already, entire communities are being forced from their ancestral homes by rising seas and more powerful storms.
Who?
Where?
When?
Don’t think I’ve ever seen a dog in an airliner cabin:
An acclaimed writer has been told she won’t be able to board a Qantas flight with her disability support dog, as the organisation she works with doesn’t have the right accreditation.
Fiona Wright, a widely published author and critic, was scheduled to fly to Alice Springs on Friday for the NT Writers’ Festival.Her disability relates to mental health conditions including anxiety.
But despite spending the past seven weeks providing documentation to prove her support dog, named Virginia, was appropriately trained, qualified and required for her to manage her disability while flying, Ms Wright said she has been knocked back by the airline.
Link
In Australia, a handful of Houthi style backyard drones igniting the imported fuel storage tanks at port stops the country for long enough for recession.
Gas pipelines, same.
Remember when Longford gas plant failure shut vicco down, before gas power plants became vital to prop up ruinables?.
Cheap drones dropping chunks of African swine plague over free range piggeries blows up an entire industry for a thousand bucks.
Oxfam directors who didn’t reach their quota and get a bonus last year.
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Everywhere. The Cotswolds, Herefordshire, the Cornwall coast.
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Now!
Actually, what the girl reveals is how these supposedly educated lefties think the law works: That if she doesn’t like something it is illegal.
I mean, it must be, surely.
Note also the conceptual mish-mash – she points at the sign and says it restricts women’s rights. It is a sign. It does no such thing. But in her mind people opposed to abortion, their opinions, their signs, laws that exist, laws that might one day exist, and probably mummy and daddy too, are all the same.
She saw the sign, but reacted as if it a woman in chains, because it is all the same to her.
Lefties do this all the time. It probably accounts for 90% of Climate Change hysteria.
Florida Man, via Iowahawk.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/14/florida-man-tells-cops-playing-basketball-naked-enhances-skills/
It’s called the Catallaxy Principle.
(Henceforth known as the CP).
If you don’t like something, you abuse anyone who does.
Logic, truth and reason don’t come into it.
Sinc should apply for a NDIS grant for supplying respite to a family with bitter little old man.
Tom #3013359, Paul Zanetti.
That one is pretty funny. The cartoons have been a bit predictable of late so good to see a well done visual gag today.
I know.
David Rowe is good, but he struggles to draw a reasonable likeness of clothing.
I think Qantas would be breaking the law by not allowing that dog on board because I think the person has done more than what is required by law to demonstrate it is an aid dog. Someone please sue Qantas.
Tell them the dog is gay.
Or, better still, if it has had it’s knackers removed, just tell them it is transitioning.
While most western leaders turn a blind eye to Christian genocide, Orban wants to defend Christians. Evil man!
That’s a new low in a long and despicable history.
The bolding suggests it was deliberate.
And…ACTION. The controlled Hollywood dolts all freak on demand.
Hollywood Freaks After Alabama Passes Abortion Ban: ‘This Ends with Impeachment and People in the Streets’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/05/15/hollywood-freaks-alabama-passes-abortion-ban/
They also have anti-ship missiles which they used with success against the Emiratis. Interestingly they also attacked the destroyer USS Mason and another USN vessel. The USS Mason shot down the attacking missiles with alacrity, which the Iranians have surely noted.
Good idea then follow on with others suing because the dog offends there religion, another for allergies then for discrimination against comfort cows.
I am long oil & oil proxies.
I can not believe how complacent the world is about a pending energy shock.
Cambridge scientists create world’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA
What’s the living organism going to eat? They should have tried to replicate photosynthesis first.
Another defective logic bomb with 60s tech lands in the open thread.
Yep
Simon Birmingham on Sky arguing that Molan’s efforts will fail. Not in the Southern Highlands I suspect. The Liberal volunteers at Bowral are full-on in their support for Molan. About 6 corflutes for Jim, and usually about 5 HTV volunteers pushing Jim’s Senate ticket. An irony is that several people wear Nationals shirt, as the Liberals are not running a candidate in Whitlam. It could be a National will lose out to Molan.
You have to presume that before too long everyone will be doing much the same.
[email protected] has been using drones for some time. All the major powers have them and given the low cost they will only get more popular. The Houthi rebels have nothing to lose at this stage, already the Saudis bombed food stores, water treatment plants and just about anything else that might be useful in Yemen … from here on there will be constant tit for tat. Iran have a strong incentive to keep the Houthis supplied as long as possible because it keeps the Saudis occupied and makes them look weak.
Who wants a stinking dog on an airliner anyway? You could bet that the silly bint would try to save the dog in an emergency, leading to deaths of other passengers.
The second descriptor is redundant.
If the Tyrant can get the Iranians in a belt and road noose, that will stop all this push to two hundred dollar oil.
Actually to think about it, who wants a mad woman on an airliner?
Here’s some news that’ll cheer up Fisky no end:
Yes.
The IEA’s Dire Warning For Energy Markets (15 May)
All entirely self inflicted by green stupidity.
Eyrie, dogs that are cared for don’t stink.
I’m all for support dogs on planes.
Personally, I can’t believe people have their dogs in the luggage hold when they fly.
Cruel.
Iran surrogates causing grief is on the behest of the Russians who don’t like their client state Venezuela being meddled with by the US.
Rowe and Matt Pritchett. The latter with just a few squiggles gets the message and the humour across. Rowe creates jungles of grotesque players wherein the import is lost, except among those who might savour caricature wound up to eleventy.
Speaking of sabotage drone strikes, Alex turnbullites records a robocall for getup.
Openly colluding with getup to politically assassinate politicians that haven’t sold out to transnational looting cartels that sponsor turnbullites.
Windmill turnbullites using getup as their new Hashishim
Tom #3013369, Chip Bok.
That’s a bit dodgy … agree that US Social Security is a scam, but the student loan debt is quite a different scam and there were plenty of alternative options on that one.
Jon Faine forced to deal with the debacle of the supervised medical injection centre in Richmond.
The residents have had enough and held a very boisterous public meeting last night.
It’s an absolute disaster for locals.
The Minister says it’s all about “saving lives”. Pity the residents have their lives ruined to cater for junkies.
The inner city green voting elite have had their roasted chickens come home to roost.
I see crazed neo-con maniacs Bolton and Pompeo are trying to start another war with Iran.
Trump needs to fire those dirtbags immediately.
https://erenow.net/common/the-most-evil-secret-societies-in-history/9.php
Hashishim.
Their turnbullites, sitting back as the ‘Old Man of the Windmills’ and funding befuddled drones to go forth and strike down his enemies.
Comrades.
what could possibly go wrong?
First you have to understand why he hired them in the first place.
Best guess is that with the Democrats and their fake-Russia shenanigans, Trump felt the need for some tough guys on his side so he promised them enough autonomy to make them interested. He’s playing one side off against the other, and that’s standard strategy for people trying to hang onto power.
fixerela
The Minister says it’s all about “saving lives”.
It’s called “harm minimisation;” straight out of the Greens’ Junior Woodchucks’ Guide.
I don’t no what Trumps motives are but Iran got away with a lot under Obama so having them close maybe a message to Iran as a deterrent. It’s not the first time he has people in his admin with an opposing opinion.
Surely if Trump has learnt anything, it is that the security personnel can not be trusted.
Fire them all.
It appears that Turnbull is spending time and money on revenge supporting GetUp! and his fake candidates. How did this guy ever make money with such business savvy? And at his advanced years; surely revenge gets relegated once you get into your 50’s and start thinking about living a stress-free healthy and happy life. Not so Turnbull. WHAT A TOTAL LOSER!
Like the good old “needle exchange” program.
Health benefits for all.
Junkies get free fresh needles, and infected needles were collected and made safe.
Until someone asked a program co-ordinator live on air how many junkies actually brought back a used syringe.
Lots of obsfucation until we finally got to the exact percentage … 0.00%.
Are you Paul Keating?
Totally agree.
These kids take on the loans knowingly. And there is no end of cautionary tales warning against entering the loans with insufficient diligence.
Perhaps if they undertook studies that would enable them to earn sufficient to repay the loans. Why would anyone think that Critical Vagina Knitting Studies and Marxist Cookery would offer financial return.
Suppose it is the progressive mish-mash again: I want to study it, so it must somehow all be easy.
Until Trump actually starts a war Im preferring to think hes playing a bit of a “I dont know how long I can keep these guys off you if we dont get some sort of agreement” game.
Lets face it, if it was Mitt Romney threatening you or the human walrus which one do you think would get your attention more?
But I could be wrong, he might be just as susceptible to stupid interventions as the last half a dozen…
Where science meets the dreaming
How traditional knowledge is helping Indigenous students embrace STEM subjects.
E=mc2
E Enterprise
m Money
c2 Times Centrelink squared.
From the Oz. F.M.S., what a financial genius Bowen is – how lucky are we?
Their Alex turnbullites business model seems untouched by getup policies, only upside for him .
Getup are stooges for the top end of town.
Comrade turnbullites.
Is it any wonder the Persians are getting stroppy.
Indeed. Yesterday parked in Coles carpark at Edgecliff Station and walked with Hairy out of the station and across the main road to go to a shop on the other side. This is a wide pedestrian crossing, majorly busy. There was an election poster near to button press, looked like a Sharma one, then Hairy pointed out that it was one of those fake ones showing a distressed Malcolm. Not legal, said Hairy, as there was no attribution name and address. “This poster made by a group of concerned citizens of Wentworth” was all that was written in small print at the bottom of it.
So if I was to take out my lipstick and write ‘red’ above the Malcolm and cross out concerned and replace that with ‘red’ too, I wouldn’t be doing anything illegal because the poster was illegal? I say hopefully to Hairy.
He hates a public spectacle and dragged me quickly across while I was still scrabbling in my handbag. 🙂
Mr Bowen said they would “only lose money if you sell”.
Awesome! Just turned half of the houses in Australia from investments to individually owned public housing. What a fucking country…
Blame Iran for the sabre-rattling.
Iranian Crude Shipments Slump as U.S. Oil Sanctions Bite Deeper (9 May)
US sanctions to hit Iran’s metals industry, a major employer (9 May)
IMF Sees Risk of 50% Iran Inflation on More U.S. Sanctions (29 Apr)
What are the IRG certified Farsi words for “look, squirrel”?
Tits and its Time will fail. If his hero of the past is any indication.
My accountant has been handing out how-to-vote cards this week at pre-poll for the LNP.
This morning he met for the first time the ALP candidate – who is a strong contender to take the seat.
He’s spent the morning until now explaining to the ALP candidate how the ALP taxation policy works.
Coz the ALP candidate knew nothing about taxation.
As in, is totally completely hopelessly & utterly clueless about any aspect of taxation or ALP taxation policy.
He couldn’t believe it.
My advice was that he should invoice the ALP at a consultancy rate of his choice.
And
Christianity needs a nation.
No one seems to have noticed that the main driving force of human advancement no longer has a home.
If we want to go to the stars, defeat the forces of darkness and provide children with hope and a task, then a country will again one day be required.
All of Christendom has fallen to an atheist, childless, globalist stupidity. The majority of the people no longer believe in or are even first hand familiar with the gospels. Our leaders only believe in whatever garners votes and power.
Amen
Unless their lenders have a LVR clause in their loan agreement.
Then they can worry a lot.
If we want to go to the stars, defeat the forces of darkness and provide children with hope and a task, then a country will again one day be required.
https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Imperium_of_Man
Farmer Gez
#3013456, posted on May 16, 2019 at 9:01 am
Excellent. If those things are so safe they can use Dan Andrews and Jon Faine’s living room.
I’m never sure whether this meme is excruciatingly patronising: ‘I have a family of four to feed, each person wants half a goanna. How many goannas do I need to catch to make them happy?’
Or just wildly, stupidly wrong at all points of contact.
And if the banks call in their chits as client equity in real estate heads south, that will force sales. Onya Bowen
What are Labor’s proposed changes to CGT on shares?
I, for one, welcome our new E coli overlords.
(Rehearsal for Sunday)
The US Democrats remind me more and more each day of an unpleasant re-creation of Don Quixote. Who could possibly be his Sancho Panza?
Our new E coli overlords are shit.
Half the passengers on US domestic flights have four legs.
Some are dogs.
Good point.
It has one now. The big battalions are already there and always have been.
2 Kings 6:16-17
The poor petal.
Well, that’s that for the day. 😄
That poor mutt, what a job. Keeping ol’ crazy eyes calm.
It looks suspiciously like Reuben.
Ahahahahahaha.
Now Comey and Brennan turn on each other.
Whoever sanctioned the bout between Justin Hodges and flabby tomato Troy McMahon should be severely reprimanded or sacked. Hodgo could have killed the bloke if he wasn’t a true sportsman.
A terrifying insight into the energy politics that Uncle Bill Buggery is promising us in Australia.
Having encouraged a subsidised forest of windmills, with preferential access to the grid whenever they can actually send out electricity, Germany is now realising that rent seeking is not dispatchable.
The der Spegiel ‘hot solutions’, electrolytic hydrogen and air-conditioned battery farms, are supposed to come on line before the last of the remaining nukes is decommissioned in 2022 and the first giant brown coal station is closed in 2023.
That self-inflicted panic is why the cost of Energiewende is forecast to top €3 trillion by 2050.
Viking blood seems to have thinned a bit lately.
Welcome to my country: Princess Martha of Norway greets her bisexual shaman and ‘twin flame’ lover at the airport as it’s revealed how he claims to have come back from the dead and has Hollywood eating out of his hand (Daily Mail mega headline)
The photos are glorious!
What’s with these northern princesses? There’s no disputin’ that they have issues.
Maybe Boney M can do a song in Norwegian about Shaman Durex.
Labor’s CGT on all assets sold, shares antiques , so I believe after listening to one of those radio financial guys.
Who is John Durham? Prosecutor tapped for Russia probe inquiry known as ‘aggressive, tireless and fair’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-is-john-durham-prosecutor-russia-probe
The Comey Brennan brawl over who’ll go to jail …
From the Oz. Anyone imagine the monumental dummy spit there’ll be if the Liberals do win?
I can see the exams now.
50 percent cgt discount reduced to 25 per cent on all asset classes? That’s from a quick google search, so that may be wrong.
Why aren’t the Liberal Party even talking about it?
Why aren’t the Liberal Party even talking about it?
Because Simon Birmingham has a say in strategy.
FFS.
Birmingham is the most stupid of LNP parliamentary party.
The LNP are on track to win the ultra marginal Queensland seat of Flynn, according to a new YouGov/Galaxy seat poll.
Conservative MP Ken O’Dowd is ahead at 53 per cent to Labor candidate Zac Beers’ 47 per cent according to the Galaxy poll, in a two per cent swing to Mr O’Dowd from the 2016 election.
Labor has held out hopes for Flynn throughout the campaign, despite receding from other key north Queensland seats like Capricornia.
Simon Birmingham wants to keep the focus on homophobia this election, rather than Labor’s economic holocaust.
Great strategy, Simon.
Perhaps not quite a devastating blow.
For 97% of the vote-herd Alex Turnbull will be as familiar and influential as Nigel J Snot.
Christianity needs a nation.
Hungry? Poland?
…Bill Shorten’s Treasury spokesman has told new homeowners they should not worry if the equity in their homes falls into negative territory.
The collapse is going to be spectacular.
We’ll be the other Argentina. Well dressed, intelligent, non mentally ill people going through bins.
Australians can’t say they weren’t warned:
Shorten to invoke Whitlam as leaders make their final campaign pitches.
Seems to me the problem is the fact that these dogs are existing pets that have been reclassified at mental health support animals.
That has stink on it.
Airlines are right to refuse animals that may inconvenience other passengers, I would object to sitting next to a dog on a plane, whether it stunk or not.
Are they buying a extra seat for them or do they expect them to fly for free?
“rickw
#3013527, posted on May 16, 2019 at 10:52 am
Christianity needs a nation.
Hungry? Poland?”
Russia.
I wonder how many houses in Abbott/Duttons electorates are “home” to 20 or more people “residing” there to ensure they are voted out?
The volume of “change of adress” for certain electorates might be quite revealing.
Cognitive Dissonance Now!
Milat cancer:
Despite being physically weak, Mr Shipsey said his uncle was still in good spirits.
‘If he does have terminal cancer it is going to be a shock. We all like Ivan,’ he said.
Mr Shipsey believes his ‘harmless’ uncle is innocent and doesn’t want him to die.
Milat’s brother Wally has reportedly been allowed to visit him in hospital.
Infidel Tiger
#3012856, posted on May 15, 2019 at 1:02 pm
Is that a motive you attribute to all of them?
No. Liberal, National and Labor genuinely want to win seats and government.
Majority of small parties are legalised scams.
All political parties raise up some dud candidates. You only have to consider the candidates in this election who have lost endorsement because of something they said or did. Consider one still in the race, the “star” dud candidate Julia Banks! Vetted(?), endorsed and strongly supported by the Liberal Party in 2016, she is the quintessential turncoat who took herself off to the cross benches with no regard for stable government. Her behaviour has been nothing less than connivance and duplicitousness, particularly when she falsely claimed bullying to elicit sympathy and votes! Now we find that there may have been some communication between her and Bill Shorten regarding her move to contest Flinders against Grey Hunt. But Julia Banks is not the only low value candidate ever offered to the electorate by a major party. What about Christopher Pyne, Craig Laundy, Malcolm Turnbull, Marise Payne, Mitch Fifield… As for Labor, the entire front bench is not worth a drink of water. To invert Groucho Marx’s famous quote – a Party that would have them in it…
Sometimes candidates appear who can provide the electorate with a meaty alternative to the major parties despite being in a minor party or being an independent. I said to a young relative the other day that if someone have said to me ten years ago that I would one day vote for Mark Latham I would have laughed my head off. Today I’m pleased to say that he received my first preference in the upper house at the NSW State Election. His maiden speech to the Legislative Council was music to my ears. If he can only get a fraction of his agenda in place it will be a great day for the people of NSW.
And while Brexit has yet to be realised, without Nigel Farage the U.K. would never have got close to being asked whether they should leave the E.U. If the Brexit Party does the unthinkable and takes most of the U.K. seats in the European Parliament in a few days time every single Labour and Conservative member of the Commons should rightly be shuddering at the thought of the next general election. But without Farage the idea of ever dealing with the duopoly would have been unthinkable. And as for Trump, while he did join a major party, if it had been up to the Republican Party he would never have been endorsed.
Until such time as federal elections allow optional preferential voting, like in NSW, or better still, the first past the post system, we all have to preference someone. Its taken me some time to realise this because I was fully part of the base. But with the rise of Turnbull I’m fully woke to what some parliamentarians do after getting a seat. Why should we offer up as a sacrifice the only thing of value we have in this democracy, our vote, for the parties to barter and trade with? To take our vote and then to abuse that privilege. The Liberal Party changes to superannuation after the last election should have been anathema to a centre right, low taxing, small government party just as their climate policies are. They expect party loyalty but abuse their base and Labor is no different. I’m hopeful that my choices will make it in to the Senate; they can’t be any worse than the current crop of party apparatchiks that warm the seats in the red chamber since the 1977 (Senate Casual Vacancies) referendum change which created the problem of low value candidates in the first place.
Those boarding fees can be expensive. Far cheaper to have a “support” animal.
Popcorn, I need popcorn!
Pete Buttigieg polling at 0% among black voters in South Carolina (via Lucianne)
Who knew that African-American voters wouldn’t go for a very pale guy who has a husband? Maybe the Democrats should draft Shaman Durex. At least he’d have some cred in the hood.
Australians can’t say they weren’t warned
Not much false advertising.
Shorten to invoke Whitlam as leaders make their final campaign pitches.
Whitlam is only fondly remembered by Labor true believers and journalists.
Billy is preaching to the choir.
This is the seat where the Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Thousand Dollar question got asked.
Where the bloke who asked an innocent question of Shorto lost his job, & his boss lost the contract.
The seat where the membership of the CFMEU are wanting to punch out anyone who opposes the Adani mine, while simultaneously the head of the union robocalls the electorate telling enrollees to vote against LNP.
Those high-viz vests in Gladstone are loaded, the city has the highest per capita rate of boat ownership in the world (source: Marine Insurance Institute magazine)
The local member Ken O’Dowd (former publican!) has worked his arse off for the electorate.
The ALP candidate is a 26yo union urger who talks with a fast urgent voice.
He’s never held a real job (pushing ladders around for a year or so as an 18yo doesn’t count)
The blokes in high-viz hold real jobs, and want to keep those jobs. They also want to keep their money.
Mr Durham has already ripped Mueller a new arsehole once before.
Barr’s Investigator John Durham Once Probed Mueller In A Shocking Case (15 May)
So Barr’s choice of guy for this probe seems guaranteed to cause Mueller, Comey and their capos a severe case of neurotic squitters.
Please, please let some old biddie kiss Peanut’s hand! It would make my day.
Whinging William wants to invoke the train smash that was the Whitlam Government? Stick a fork in it, Australia, you’re done.
The seat where the membership of the CFMEU are wanting to punch out anyone who opposes the Adani mine, while simultaneously the head of the union robocalls the electorate telling enrollees to vote against LNP.
That union head conceded on Brisbane radio that many members might vote for Palmer because they are so angry with the ALP.
The carnage to the ALP vote up there is going to be something to behold. Federally, at least, the ALP is heading towards being an urban party, which means they will not be able to win general elections.
An amusing factoid about Whitlam.
He sought to manipulate the electorate in his favour by lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 in 1973. I suppose he was hoping to harvest all those appreciative late Boomer votes.
In 1975 (my first chance to vote) his government suffered a 30 seat swing, so pongy was his aroma.
Ride on those coattails, Peanut.
The dogggy story is just a late April Fool’s day prank.
Proof:
the educational syllabus the dog had gone through
MSM like to forget, Gough tried to borrow funny money. And then Gough wanted to get unauthorized money from banks.
Please, please let some old biddie kiss Peanut’s hand! It would make my day.
An old queen would be more appropriate these days.
“Bar Beach Swimmer
#3013535, posted on May 16, 2019 at 11:05 am”
Excellent analysis and fully agree.
Gough instructed us to “maintain the rage”.
And we did.
is there anyone alive in Australia who remembers Whitlam? And why is the left so regressive?
I expect so. The tonguebath the media gives the spectacle will be instructive.
And it may jog a few wavering memories.
It’s a high-stakes gambit and could be Peanut’s exploding cigar moment. Here’s hoping.
Uh oh, WordPress is now banning righties.
Plenty of us. And we have warned our children, comparing successive Labor governments to the idiot. “Whitlamesque” is a word with meaning and it isn’t a good one.
Aaaand…we have lots of nice, plunderable investments. And our children would like to inherit them intact. All they have to do is join the dots.
Spot on Bar Beach.
The funniest thing about Whitlam is that he was outsmarted and destroyed by Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Joh left school at 11. Whitlam used to call him “Mr Petersen” and once derided him as a “Bible-bashing bastard.” Didn’t end well for Gough. Moral of the story: don’t get into principled debates with leftists. They are amoral animals. Just Pinochet their arses.
Attention, Cate McGregor …
I see the local labor party candidate is breaching the blackout provisions on facebook
tsk tsk
Or Julie Bishop …
Notafan – blackout not for internet.
the Labor Party nominated only one person, Mal Colston, to replace Milliner.
Mal “who ate all the pies” Colston?
Further proving just how crap Whitlams judgement was.
Joh gave Gair a long lunch.
If Skeletor did follow on from Beazley and Hockey as US ambassador there’d be a fortune saved on the food bill.
Gough and Peanut have lots in common. Marrying sprogs of the powerful is one of them.
Dad grew up in Werriwa (long before it was split off into Fowler). He despised Whitlam.
Some family traditions persist. 🙂
If you don’t like flying with a dog in the cabin in USA hire your own plane. Shimple
Bear in mind Qantas, that not everyone wants to sit next to a “comfort dog” or any other animal for that matter.
Are these things trained to not pee on the seats and so on?
What next? A comfort galah screeching away?
Alan Joyce, are you listening? Alan? Must be an echo in here.
After the Alaskan plane crash the other day, I’m reconsidering flying there at all. I have one booked over the Arctic Circle in a couple of weeks.
Dogs are the least of my worries.
Margaret Whitlam- nee Dovey – her father was a judge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, IIRC.
Top Ender… get wth the times. Or in this case, the Guardian.
The following comment was made at Quadrant on-line on a QED piece on where the UK is heading politically (European elections next week, Farage outpolling Labor & the Tories).
It deserves repeating here.
Broad strokes analysis, to be sure, but it strikes a chord. Whether the One or the Many wins out, it portends dark days ahead.
The infamous “Night of the Long Prawns.”
This is totally incredible to me …
When she finally goes inside the servo, a MAN (so-called) is in the booth.
He’d been watching all along. What a cowardly dog. The police should have tasered the gutless oaf.
Terrifying footage shows a pregnant mum being bashed by a man outside a service station before he smashes his car into the shop as she hides inside.
Been helping elderly neighbor with NDIS package stuff for her physically and mentally handicapped son, 53, who enjoys life as much as anyone. All the people who have enjoyed his company and taken him places, voluntarily, over many years as friends and relatives are just getting too old to do it anymore. Some dropped out of his life, against their wishes’ when they were required to get all the police clearances for working with vulnerable people though neither parent ever expressed any concern about any of them. His new carer is an African refugee on minimum wage and accompanies him to places. His carer’ employer charges the NDIS $80 per hour for this. NDIS working exactly as intended.
The real airtime fun will begin when emotional support dog mets weirdy beardy.
Westpac share price has crashed. Anyone know why?
Gone ex – dividend?
Ex dividend today.
The media blackout is on broadcast media I think, nota.