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Tamworth lambs hit 292 dollars a head yesterday.
And it may get worse. I don’t know about you John, but lambing percentages are low around this area.
A well known sheep man told me it’s widespread and guys who only left rams in for one cycle have had below 50% strike rate. Lucky wool is good.
Stormy’s daughter remains her number one priority. She kindly asks for privacy for the sake of her family,” he wrote on Twitter.
Whoa! Had to do a double take on that one, Calli. I thought it said SHY’s daughter…
Might be a premonition. 😁
Larry Pickering’s latest ‘toon is a self-portrait that goes with this.
From Tom’s ‘toon fest. The last paragraph of the “this” link is a cartoon in words itself. For those who might have only looked at the pictorial.
There’s something about Julia.
I think those lot were from Bingara, John.
Link?
Anti-youth crime laws to ban convicted teens
Hilarious! Do they even teach engrish these days? Obviously not with all the anti youth and convicted teens getting around.
My formerly everyone-gets-everything for free medical clinic has just changed to fee paying if you don’t have a concession card. You now have to pay about $35 if you are not on the teat.
I don’t mind. My doctor, a Seth Efficran with no discernable sense of humour, is boring and thorough to a fault. She reminds me of those American movies about people being transformed by being put into the army. She’s tough.
While I was waiting, several people came through who just needed prescription renewals, as I did.
Some of them whizzed through. But, Dr Marguerite insisted that I have an annual blood test, and she will only ring me if there is something amiss.
It cost me $37.50, and worth every penny.
Here you go, CL.
Lovely. Do they think the ultra-light is one of them?
On bird migration. Once found a banded Little Penguin dead on a beach. Sent band off to designated address, and received back all the details regarding the cadaver itself. Also appended were some unusual recoveries made worldwide. A silver eye which was banded in Tasmania was recovered in Ulladulla NSW. These birds are weighed in grams, so not a bad effort for an A380 prototype.
Apparently everything I say is now in moderation.
If I say, the Rain in Spain falls mainly on the Plain, it is hate speech.
Stopped in its tracks.
Well done, Rabz and JC, you are now the offiicial censors of this site.
Look out, Stimpy. You could be next.
The Merino ram scrotum is a highly complicated biological temperature control device.
When it fails, due to a run of stinking hot days and nights, the fertility of the sperm in the system cooks off, and it takes a month or more for the beast to come good for breeding again.
Housing your ram fleet in an air conditioned shearing shed on rations is worth it for the AI programs, but not for paddock joinings.
My fertility bloke hates long drawn out joinings, but he pushed a long depasturing period this year, based on his readings of the temperatures of the ram dangles.
Had about four lamb markings as a result, and it makes destocking a nightmare, but welcome to agriculture.
I don’t think the beloved Swedish blonde will be around for very much longer.
Daily Mail.
Maybe you should do some research on the topic Cactus.
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Good to see they are passing laws against crime these days. About time someone gave that a try.
Human warehouses.
When it fails, due to a run of stinking hot days and nights, the fertility of the sperm in the system cooks off, and it takes a month or more for the beast to come good for breeding again.
Glow balls warming.
On the ultra-lite over Mont StMichel, I noticed that some of the geese felt the pull of the propeller and increased their speed to compensate.
Did you also notice the piano accordian?
Oh la la. Those crazy Frenchies. 😀
Wasn’t long ago that ‘Doomsday Preppers’ were mocked mercilessly.
Now their Sydney [ poor people stacked in as tight as Chicago poor people are] elites are instructing the proles that:
“Having a personal emergency plan is our Strength.”
Stock up on supplies, so when you are home invaded you can pay off the raiders [ so you don’t make them get angry and kill you.]
Comrades.
NSW had consorting laws until Frank Walker, no not that one.
No sentient being could be even mildly surprised when a public scheme designed by socialists, that consists of bins of fast money administered by ‘concierges’, unexpectedly becomes rorted.
The only surprising thing is that the NDIA didn’t have a criminal detection unit from the get go.
Time to tie the knot! Mexican women marry trees:
Juliar probably needed a diversion. I don’t remember what her problem/s was at the time.
The NDIS and federal government childcare represent a major threat to the Commodore rebirthing, eccies and backyard tabbouleh industry sectors.
Err. Ok
Is the State going to make illegal for me to not invite my neighbours over a bbq while not having a laminated form of a certain size and content in the kitchen telling me how to flee if the attendees and I have a disagreement?
Forced friendships and paperwork are our strength.
#gibsonforguardians
Just perfect.
OWG threatened to blow up the world for months and months, JC rabbits on about the physical attributes of women who would never even look at him.
No problem with insulting women, but when it comes to men – can’t have that.
Embattled Labor MP Emma Husar charged taxpayers $2000 for limousines to Sydney.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/embattled-labor-mp-emma-husar-charged-taxpayers-2000-for-limousines-to-sydney-functions-20180723-p4zt2w.html
Who did EH upset?
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other groups have expressed concern about the fall in the permanent intake, warning that politicians were “playing with fire” with remarks that could undermine confidence in migration.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/scott-morrison-backs-tighter-migration-settings-20180723-p4zt5n.html
That’s one way to get a root, I suppose.
JC you will love this.
Crazy Days and Nights
MONDAY, JULY 23, 2018
Blind Item #3
There has been a tiny wave of support for this recently fired director. Apparently the supporters say it is all jokes and he is a nice guy and deserves a second chance. Maybe if they knew he came this close to going down with a someone convicted of producing and distributing child porn. The director was in possession of child porn but the feds decided to not file charges. The investigation into the director was active until as recently as two months ago.
Stimson
If that’s a blind item, the dude is really off his head.
Stick a fork in them, they’re done?
It’s all about inclusion. *
* arborist joke
Stimson
I’m finding the blog a little boring these days. I only go to the reveals and a really good part of the time, not only would I have no chance of guessing the reveal, I also have never heard of them.
I love how progressives can’t resist the old-world titles like ‘Lord Mayor’. Like when they become Governor General despite being opposed to the Monarchy.
Progressives have spent decades dissolving social cohesion. The resilience of a society is based on the connections of respect and trust between its members.
The progs have deliberately created a society of entitlement – everything they do is about giving people what they deserve without any recognition of how it can be furnished and at what expense. They have discouraged a common culture wherein people are able to orient themselves and trust in others.
I assume Clover thinks that if she is able to force people into particular interactions this kind of bond will spontaneously coalesce out of nothing.
They have tried this before and the result is always that the people resist being molded and instead form a separate new culture among themselves to enable them to keep their distance from the elites. The Russian jokes about bread lines, the Venezuelan black market – all serve to enable the people to get around the elites and their absurd strictures.
The obduracy of extreme hubris that means the elites will never learn from their mistakes. Unfortunately they always make sure that other people pay for the lessons.
For anyone interested.
Volume up.
1970s Jazz Rock Classic
Constipated Duck (1975) – Jeff Beck (guitar)
LORD Mayor Clover Moore will today unveil a plan to unscramble an egg.
That’s a good description of Beck and his repertoire.
While the lunatic left accuses FOX of being de facto state media, the truth is the Deep State have their own propagandists embedded.
https://truepundit.com/fox-news-goes-full-msm-informs-top-reporters-to-cease-desist-investigations-of-fbi-and-obama-era-corruption/
The Lumbago Squad.
It joins the Butt Squad. This was reported in May:
Government ‘butt-squad’ to chase billions in criminal tobacco fraud.
Australia: the world’s stupidest country.
So when do we get federal anti-racketeering laws?
Much needed.
Potential targets: VICPOL, wind merchants, SA premiers, CFMEU, ABC, AWU, Trumble, Shortening, climate scaremeisters …
Feel free to update the list.
Well said.
Wow. Went up thread and I see someone left hell’s trap door ajar. Good one
Just to clarify the slander. I have never conversed with the blog owner about this angrier version of Sarah Orca nor anyone else I’m accused of talking to. Zero. Having said that, I agree on the moderation/booting decision. Well overdue.
Very few people ever get booted from this site. If you are, you have to wonder about yourself. Enough of this now.. I’m busy reading 1010 Stack’s news update. I giving him 22 minutes and he gives me the world.
Holy sh$t they are going after Tom Hanks.
What a f$cking cesspool is Hollywood.
Shoes and more shoes.
Never call a holy vehicle a “little rainbow-farting space ship”.
Wall Street Journal Reporter Deletes Twitter Account Following Tesla Model 3 Review Backlash
What hardworking, single mother hasn’t?
In today’s Daily Mail …
Karl Stefanovic is now being dressed by his wife.
The report says it’s a “hipster suit.”
Bruce
I read the review when it came out. Let me change that. I read some of it, then got bored.
I don’t see how that review could possibly trigger so many people.
Husar is expendable. She likely soon to go the way of Reba Meagher.
I see Trump tweet-bashed the Washington Post overnight.
LOL.
Texting, always texting. Searchin’ I’m always searchin’.
Girlfriend, sorry.
She likes a bit of morning wood.
Time flies.
Chris Corrigan is an Australian hero.
Patrick Stevedores, under chief Chris Corrigan, had set into action the boldest workplace upheaval in living memory — 1400 workers, members of the Maritime Union of Australia, were sacked.
Indelible memories too. The much oppressed dock workers could not shift more than 18 containers an hour. Anything above that would cripple them for life. Worlds’ best practice at the time was about 30+ an hour. Corrigan and Reith eventually stirred the lazy feather-bedded bastards here to about 27.
These
Don’t get me wrong, but I think he’s being a little unfair on Bezos. I don’t get the impression that he’s interfering with the editorial policy. WaPo has been a crazy leftist asylum for a long time.
Also, I think he’s too tough with Bezoz and Amazon. Logistics companies often loss lead on routes and the Post Office is treating Amazon deliveries in a similar fashion to how utilities produce baseload.
Here’s the thing about Amazon. It’s a truly incredible story.
David Hogg
@davidhogg111
To US President Trump: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
1:48 AM · Jul 24, 2018
IIRC, Singapore and Rotterdam were worlds best, at 30 containers an hour.
I knew he was getting help from somewhere.
The lace up shoes were a dead giveaway.
Wouldn’t touch fatfish meself, but here is their cryptomining announcement.
https://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20180724/pdf/43wqqkf4svn208.pdf
The worlds cheapest electricity is used to run the blockchain, wherever they find it.
Australia, pricing our electricity so high we cannot process our own blockchain ledger transactions any more is our Strength.
Let’s go digital currency, all processed through Khazakstan.
Comrades.
Karl Stefanovic personifies the commercial TV industry.
In today’s Daily Mail …
Karl Stefanovic is now being dressed by his wife.
The report says it’s a “hipster suit.”
Is his wife the one wearing the hat?
So rorting the taxpayer is now ok as long as you are a mediocre Labor politician and a single mother…
“Labor MP Mike Kelly has defended his colleague Emma Husar amid allegations of bullying and misuse of her staff, arguing taxpayer-funded babysitting is a “small price to pay” for “facilitating the ability of women to participate in our parliament”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-defence-of-emma-husar-babysitting-small-price-to-pay/news-story/142b9cba451694f13b12fb03f472c844
Frigging unbelievable…..or perhaps very believable….Australia in 2018
With $1 billion a year at its disposal, the ABC leaves no stone unturned:
School uniform policy: Find out where your state stands on girls wearing shorts and pants.
Good moaning in some parts still.
Is our lovely blonde Canadian Lass going to pay the Vic Police?
The correct response would be to laugh at them.
Fun fact.
The most profitable empire was the Danes
The messaging is really sophisticated too.
I think Kelly is a former military guy, so they think it goes well with Kelly defending the little lady is distress.
Interesting piece of logic, from someone who was an Army lawyer, before entering Parliament.
Can anyone tell me what award Richard Harris will recieve this afternoon?
$1 billion a year isn’t enough for the ABC to find out, apparently.
“Every resident and organisation in Sydney has their part to play in making our city more resilient, whether it’s getting to know your neighbours or preparing your own emergency plan,” chief resilience officer Beck Dawson said.
What if my resilience plan has at it’s centre an AR-15, 20 off 30 round mags, and a thousand rounds of ammo? After this, everything else pretty much takes care of itself.
In that case it’s probably not a good idea to head off to the casino and ask for a room looking over a busy square.
WTF does a Chief Resilience Officer actually do?
Apart from sitting in meetings with people who have real jobs, derailing real work with a series of “I have concerns” and “is it sustainable?” and “does it meet ALL stakeholders aspirations?”
Fucking wankers.
Her job is to say “chin up” to as many people as possible after a disaster.
The wallopers can charge for extra duties such as policing events. But Bolt raised an interesting point. The protest itself was an event which had been arranged. So, the bill should be sent to the protest organisers.
Alternatively, if Miss Lauren wanted to contest the bill she could join the protestors as co-defendants.
Sad … but the photographic evidence is pretty conclusive:
Was Hillary wearing ‘Life Alert’ emergency device during NYC appearance?
Can anyone tell me what award Richard Harris will recieve this afternoon?
$1 billion a year isn’t enough for the ABC to find out, apparently.
This?
Tell them thanks but no thanks.
We’ll get our own security.
But we will be ringing you when a violent crime, property destruction, or unauthorised entry into a premises occurs, as you require.
Even Government House doesn’t name what award Harris will receive:
http://www.gg.gov.au/media-release/media-advisory-australia-salutes-thai-cave-rescuers
Is it a surprise party or something?
zyco, a NSFW tag would be helpful.
He wore it better.
I think it’s supposed to be a surprise.
No no no comrade.
Hugs cure everything.
Wanna come around for a bbq and hug out your hate? Before we leave, we will need our legislated documents of inclusivity.
I know these are just jokes, because isnt satire yet.
One of the advertising catch-cries for Life Alert is “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”
Indeed.
Have you seen the ad? I think it was around on US cable in the 90s.
LORD Mayor Clover Moore will today unveil a plan to make Sydney “resilient” to terrorism, cyberattacks, housing affordability and a financial crisis’ — with one solution to the complex issue being to increase “cohesion and wellbeing”.
WTF have terrorism, cyberattacks, housing affordability or a financial crisis got to do with local government?
Who the fuck do these totalitarian elite wankeraati think they are?
Pick up the bloody rubbish and shove it in your big, horse-face grimmacing anti-Semitic gob you demented rotting insipid Green spiv and stay out of everything else you fascist prig.
“Cohesion and wellbeing” ooohh how bloody brilliant! Lost your job because the economy has been crushed by the World’s highest power prices? Here, have some “cohesion” and a hug to make you feel better.
Can’t afford a house because the place is being flooded with immigrants? Well, it’s complex but let’s have a cohesive street part of inclusivenessitititity and diversititititity…ness where we can all greet each other with a “Be well Mohammed” and a “Be well Chung Ki”.
Installed some malware while downloading torrents of the latest Marvel movies? Never mind, go have a cup of tea with the neighbour in the dogbox next to yours who you have never spoken to, largely because they can’t converse in English.
Feeling less resilient because your face was burnt off by a terrorist bomb? Not to worry there’s a community BBQ down in Lakemba next weekend sponsored by local government, no BYO booze or pork please!
That there are people stupid enough to elect these fuckwads into power is almost as depressing as the fact that we are paying them vast amounts of taxpayers money, for life, to be this utterly stupid and on top of that is the fact that all these issues (housing prices, terrorism, financial crisis) are brought about by the very policies these putrid Progtards have promoted and praised from their pulpits.
Hopefully it isn’t some award which has been demeaned and devalued, like an Order of Australia.
Here’s one version. It was really bad and a running joke across the country. Get a load of the dolly Parton wig.
One of the advertising catch-cries for Life Alert is “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”
Indeed.
By this time, I think Bill wold have one of those as well. STD’s do that.
Most likely it will be the Cross of Valour, who have some worthy (all male) recipients.
No.
It was referred to at the link.
What a fabulous metaphor for her political career.
1998 Australian waterfront dispute
Scrolly, scroll.
The same Clover Moore, who said that the Lindt Cafe siege wasn’t a terrorist event, because she didn’t want “our multicultural, harmonious society to be divided?”
Quality rant Rusty
Door pillars.
Clover Moore will today ‘unveil’ a plan….mmm
I reckon quite a few of you old people here are falls risks. Do you wear your Life Alert inside or outside your shirt?
Perfect.
Gold!
Was there ever a character who said …”I’ve lost an election, drunk three bottles of Chardy and I can’t get up“?
Excellent post, Mr Rusty !
Good stuff Arky. It’s coming along well.
Love the measuring technique. Just like my old Dad’s. I still love watching him make stuff, a true craftsman.
The funniest thing about election night was the cancelled fireworks.
They were sooooo sure.
Googlery has a Life Alert for Mummy …
“I’ve fallen and someone has taken my skin.”
Baldrick
#2771079, posted on July 24, 2018 at 12:40 pm
Sorry. Normally I do… 😐
Memorable day.
When IT got on the Trump-train after polls closed, I knew it was in the bag.
I still watch those videos where the MSM and Illary fans do the accelerated Kubler-Ross grief cycle three times in two hours.
I’m getting the impression Rusty doesn’t care for Clover.
From 1 min 49 secs on I was expecting Kate Winslets hand to grab the inside of the door window.
Maybe you should do some research on the topic Cactus.
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Simpson J Cat – simple question seeking a simple answer. Do I want to Google that or would I prefer not to. I.e. presumably you have looked at it. Would you rather you didn’t. I have a strong stomach for certain things, but not what this involves. Should I just take your word that he is a bad dude and leave it at that?
“Suicide doors, they’ll hang themselves”
Nice work with the tools, but you desperately need better jokes.
It seems that blokes here can comment endlessly about the physical attributes of women, but the reverse attracts fury and rage.
Blokes (including the ever charming JC) constantly comment on the physical attributes of women. JC has called me ugly and fat and unattractive numerous times (having never met me.)
Made me laugh out loud. People at work asking me what’s so funny. You’re a hoot, Johanna. There is some truth in what you say about ugly dudes (not referring to your enemy here) calling out women for not being aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Speaking of aesthetics when it comes to blokes, leftists are always ugly, no matter what they look like. And if they wear a red bandana they are especially ugly.
Speaking of Chris Corrigan and awards, he deserves at least a Bravery Medal for what he did.
That’s not hyperbole. At least a BM.
Very interesting – in 2018 – to remember those times.
Does anybody seriously believe a Liberal government would back Corrigan and send in the dogs today? I just read the NSW Liberals have folded over the Twittrage du jour, announcing that they too will now ban schools from demanding girls wear skirts.
Let’s hope the mad Mullahs in Iran carry out their threat to block the Straits of Hormuz.
The reply from Trump would see Iran’s military wiped out before they fire a shot.
Trump’s goading the crazy clerics and hoping for a fight.
I think he is goading them and hog-tying them with sanctions, hoping for an implosion from within.
But borderline anarcho-capitalists who wear red bandanas are invariably charming.
And modest. 🙃
After the docks dispute, mcgauchies career went to places, like running Telstra and the reserve bank, that I still can’t believe.
A true cookie cut out from Pierpont’s Blue Sky Mining.
The ‘boys from the bush’ were hung out to dry on the barb wire, while mcgauchie got inside the ‘tent where good things happen’.
Comrade Maaaaaates.
Britain waives stance on death penalty to extradite IS jihadis.
Trumble keeps trying to getting Neil Prakesh back INTO Australia.
I think he is goading them and hog-tying them with sanctions, hoping for an implosion from within.
An implosion would only work if the Mullahs can’t deploy the Revolutionary Guards against the people. You’ve got to give the martyrs their wish.
God knows why, Prakesh is looking at twenty five years to life in a Turkish prison, where, if he’s extradited to Australia, he’ll draw early release and the DSP.
The ‘boys from the bush’ were hung out to dry on the barb wire, while mcgauchie got inside the ‘tent where good things happen’.
Very much +1
Weapons grade invective from Mr Rusty.
Well played, Sir.
And the unfunniest thing was Trunchbull signing the Paris Agreement, thinking all the time that it would please his new master, Hilary. It was pretty funny too, that they couldn’t find a phone number for Trump.
Bunch of pansies.
Exactly right.
Trumble will run his ‘tough on terrorism’ election campaign, whilst Prakesh will get 5-10, knocked back to 18 months on appeal and will be out on the streets, at best spongeing off the taxpayer or at worst keeping the Chief resilience officer in a job.
Meanwhile, Trumble will be having a Prosecco on the portico in Point Pahper with the poisonous bride behind their 12 foot high gates.
the Revolutionary Guards
Bunch of pansies.
Not to be underrated as excellent fertilizing mulch.
Can anyone tell me what award Richard Harris will recieve this afternoon?
Hopefully some sort of prize for his performance of the song MacArthur Park…
Not suggesting Trump may not deploy a bit of aerial distraction if the Iranians turn on their own – but no boots on the ground.
That phrase “Revolutionary Guard” reminded me.
Remember in Gulf War I, where the MSM were solemnly warning us all that the Marines would be no match for Saddam’s “elite Republican Guard” who had been “battle-hardened by ten years of war against Iran“.
Prepare for tons of body bags, folks.
How did that work out?
Mr Rusty
#2771086, posted on July 24, 2018 at 12:51 pm
You’re being very measured, I’m impressed!!
From the Oz.
Calli, your pic is famously awesome! 🙃
We could then add Iran to the list of wars the US hasn’t won and which have then made the world infinitely more dangerous.
FFS anyone wishing for war with Iran must have leftist child’s grasp of history and never ever looked at a map… But if the goal is to create an Iranian/Russian/Chinese Axis, then go right ahead.
Reminder: We are in year 17 of the failed Afghan campaign.
The wheels are falling briskly off My Health Record.
Cats can be assured that every variety of scamster will have access to their My Health Record.
Opt out now, while the going is good.
And it really confuses and annoys Lefties.
Can’t imagine why.
Indeed I do.
I also remember that famous elite retreat.
Just snuck an order through via Amazon to be delivered to a friend, on a short stay in California. I notice a total of $US 13.87 sales tax, which I imagine is a Californian impost. If some impoverished Mexican gets 13.87 to scrape a turd off a San Francisco footpath, I will not begrudge the levy.
Had a conversation with a woman who has worked in the health sector for many years. Apparently they have been throwing our money at this stupid digitised health record crap for ages. They seem to think that more money equals a better outcome. (Naturally, if it’s OPM, it doesn’t matter).
She is opting out. The only benefit she sees is if you’re far from home (say on hols) with no ID and unable to communicate they’ll know what drugs to pump into you.
When the inevitable hack comes, more money will be chucked its way via “reviews” and “conferences” and “panels”. All at the expense of the areas where money is desperately needed.
Not all of Johanna’s post attached above. It was the “striped pants and small balls” that made me lol 😂
The main obstacle between the mullah’s and the people , who appear to now want to take back their country, is the Republican Guard. If the US can find a way to quickly destroy the RG then the people of Iran can do the rest. Another lesser factor are the Euroweenies who want to continue supporting the regime doing their grubby business in Iran defying Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran deal. At least Putin is starting to tow the line by cooling relations with Iran.
One thing for sure, I would not like to see Mad Dog off the leash gunning for me.
Which means Anthony Weiner is probably already using them for masturbation in his prison cell.
Lol excellent rant, Rust.
One question though…
What’s a progtard?
I know! I know! Pick me!
A Progressive retard.
Unkind, but fair. Sadly they self-identify.
Don’t be so hard on yourself, Calli.
The quickest way to turn the people back to the mullahs would be US involvement.
On track record the US should sit out of any Mid East shit for about another two millennium.
I don’t think Trump is into that at all.
No doubt he is trying to remove the desert sand from under the smelly sandals of the mullahs, but he is definitely looking at home-grown action.
If he clips their wings economically that would be enough.
I glanced at the Tele’s front page today – supposedly a lot of high profile people are calling out the NSW g0vernment’s fad for banning things.
We are being penned in with one ban after another, sinews shriveling and eyes clouding as one by one they reduce us to the amalgam of PC neuroses.
Underpinning the new surrender cited by CL will be the belief that a school requiring a girl wearing a skirt is traumatic and an unforgivable abridgement of some right.
No, the people of Iran are over the mullahs. They want them gone by any means. You need to read Pompeo’s speech the Iranian/ American groups. He makes the strategy pretty clear although stopping short of outright military action.
They could always sub contract the task out to Isra el. Plans are no doubt already being hatched.
Pompeo’s speech 22 July ; Supporting Iranian Voices.
Iran can hit Israel easily with its missiles at the same time as it blocked the Strait of Hormuz. Then the mullahs would be poking their tongues out at the PGiC and Pompous and Bolton and saying “Come on. Tweet me some more”.
Went to bank today to renegotiate better interest . That accomplished had to sign a form, under the line for signature was another marked Alias. What could I have put there?
It reminds me of that great Trump/Megyn Kelly tangle.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xpRkPFu63to
You can smell Peanut Head’s desperation. He can see his life’s work of crawling, sucking, double crossing and sycophancy going up in smoke.
So Sembata Defa, the individual who assaulted Kate Langbroek, terrorised her children and attempted to batter down her front door will actually do jail time (well, four months). In Victoria, of all places! Oh, and…
This is, of course, true.
As always, I am resigned to the huge, blame-free waste of public resources that always goes with this sort of half arsed ‘initiative’. However (as the owner of a blameless and very uninteresting medical history) my personal concern is identity theft.
For example, My Health Record will hold my name, DoB, address, Medicare number, next of kin, and contact details – enough information to allow a smart Nigerian to generate/obtain a few secondary ID’s and start to defraud the world in my name.
Hopefully the unfortunate Greg Hunt is waking up to the career opportunities that will unfold for him as the Minister for Mediscam Blame.
Yea but over 50% of the worlds oil supply comes through the straits.
I’m sorry but the world’s super power has an interest in seeing those crazy fucks don’t mess with that. It’s also important to see the suuni oil wells aren’t blown up.
It’s not as easy as you think.
This stuff is gold.
Some hilarity:
“The first hundred years are the hardest!”
Mother Lode at 1437
Underpinning the new surrender cited by CL will be the belief that a school requiring a girl wearing a skirt is traumatic and an unforgivable abridgement of some right.
What will the “authorities” do to those girls who choose to wear a dress or skirt? Nothing nice, I suspect.
Use of the word cyber indicates that we should be worried. We are dealing with people two decades behind the times.
Vague memories of K Rudd’s laptops that were going to provide the digital toolbox for the future for your kids.
et tu, struth?
*sob*
😄
Here’s the thing. If the straits were ever blocked, oil would go to 500 bucks a barrel.
It’s the reason I support EVs unless we could turn Mid East oil as marginal supply.
There’s something I read in the past few days suggesting it could head to 400 bucks a barrel because of some regulatory changes to diesel production. I’ll try find it later and link to the piece. I don’t think it’s right, but worth a read all the same.
Iran can’t supply clean drinking water for its people yet is threatening the US. Oh, and Israel, who have offered them assistance with water technologies to get them out of their thirsty predicament.
Half-wits.
Not so fast.
Those sneaky Chews have been using Chewish spells to divert the rainclouds away from Iran.
Not sure why Allah (pbuh) cannot overcome the Chewish black-magic.
With good reason.
Even if it were a great idea, the implementation is absolutely shit. For starters,, they are using both a relational database AND mongoDB (which is essentially a throwback to a flat file COBOL database, but with the still-sexy “JSON” descriptor).
This structure means that there is in fact no “central repository” of actual health information ready at the fingertips of any “healthcare professional”. Rather, all the easy stuff (see DrBG above) is handily centralised, whilst the rest can only be located by trawling through record after record of guff. Some will be scans of referrals, some will have been imported from one system or another and everything will be incredibly hard to find and – even worse – in no way verified as being current.
It is, in short, a technical dog’s breakfast, where the only information which will be easily located is the sort of stuff which can be used for nefarious purposes.
It gets worse. Someone here a week or so back drafted the boilerplate letter for blackmail on the basis of some recent medical condition which would be embarrassing. Which struck me as more than plausible. However, when I raised this in conversation with someone who might just have a clue, I was laughed at. Why wait for an actual condition he asked, when you can create one on the database and then use that wholly fictitious issue for blackmail?
Is it any wonder that Public Servants in “probity-sensitive” positions are being automatically opted OUT by at least one department I’m aware of?
Yes! The Iranian people will greet American forces in the streets with candy and flowers!… where have I heard that recently?
My God. To forget history this quickly takes a type of stupidity I did not know was possible.
Breaking news.
Calli
That’s true about the mullahs. However starving people to death or in Iran’s case dying of thirst doesn’t hinder loons from developing bad weapons.
There’s a choke point in that region and it’s basically the Saudi wells. The US has no choice but to hang around there.
Yes! The Iranian people will greet American forces in the streets with candy and flowers!… where have I heard that recently?
FMD you are such a bedwetter. There won’t be any US troops on the ground in Iran. Ever. The change will be accomplished by other means.
On the subject of inane Government systems…
My 87yo Mum received a call to Jury Duty today.
Now, it was easy enough to get her permanently excused online… all I had to supply was her Juror number from the form and her date of birth.
So some drongo decided it was a great idea to call someone they knew to be 87 and rising to jury duty. Really?
What other means? Bit of light carpet bombing of Tehran’s suburbs? Midnight tweeting? A UN resolution?
When the time came, people figured out how to get the tight oil and gas from the shales.
(Except Australia.)
North America has trillions of barrels of heavy tar bitumen sour crude. Once that is unlocked, the ball game changes.
Here’s the thing. If the straits were ever blocked, oil would go to 500 bucks a barrel.
Bear in mind that the Saudis have done a lot of work over the years to pipe oil production across to the Red Sea for shipment. Iran exports and imports through Hormuz as well. Blocking Hormuz would be extremely difficult these days give the defenses in place and could well be an own goal for Iran.
How did the drongo know she was 87?
JC
And by that time, the world economy is in the toilet. That’s leaving aside the fact that we’re not allowed to frack. I’m not even sure we’re allowed to extract from shale either.
IT, read the link I posted and add in some of your famous imagination. You’ll start to get the picture.
Compare…
…the pair.
Even the shoes are the same! Lol!
Australia:
Cyclist hit with $400 fine for talking on mobile phone while riding bike.
India and China (in particular) would be exempted from any Iranian blockade. The US would be unable to prevent them getting their oil. They are Irans biggest oil customers.
Monty – get in here pronto and tell us if Hillarious is going to go against the God Emperor again in 2020. The Cat punters need to know this!
Harris and Challen given Stars of Courage (second highest).
Seems the top award is being kept for police, which is odd for the top civilian bravery award.
say it isn’t so!
THE gunman who brutally picked off pedestrians during a deadly rampage along a busy Toronto street has been identified as 29-year-old Faisal Hussain.
Learn to read. Her DoB was a validator. Hence they must have known that.
(Slaps self for responding to troll)
Stimpson – Tom Hanks too? Sheesh, this #pizzagate thing is just a steamroller going through Hillary’s Hollywood!
Good reportage, keep it up!
Read that article C.L. posted.
They (WA Pol.) actually fined a woman pushing a pram for using a mobile phone at the same time, but withdrew the ticket after they were taken to court.*
*(“We reviewed the legislation.” Now why would they do that otherwise?)
Australia: Not a real country.
‘Bill Shorten accuses Peter Dutton of ‘trying to goad’ people smugglers’
Von Duttonberg is a lying gobshite.
Von D: 33 turnbacks
Most enroute to NZ
Von D: 600 ppl smugglers arrested
Bs. Same guys arrested and released repeatedly. OSB returns ppl smugglers and refs together without telling Jakarta. They get to the beach and disappear. ‘Til dogwhistled for the nxt elections.
Von D: 14000 refs in Indon
Last year UNHCR could only resettle 322 rather than the usual 800 because the US and Aust reduced quotas. At that rate it will take 40 years to clear the backlog. Another 40 years of ‘legacy’. Another 40 years of costly OSB. Another 40 years of manufactured fear come elections. Another 40 years of Jakarta owning leverage.
Even defence analysts like Hugh White are now openly admitting we need Indonesia more than they need us. How could this have turned around in just 19 years since their debacle in Timor? Boats, that’s how. ALP and Lib are both complicit in handing Jakarta the advantage. Analysts like White can write all they want but don’t expect Rudd, Gillard Abbott and Turnbull to ever admit their culpability.
also applies to horse riders and mobility scooters
and when on footpaths
I wonder what the man from Snowy River would say about that.
FMS
The uprising can’t be too far away.
JC, thanks for the link. Megyn Kelly is a looker. She was drowned out by Trump supporters. Rosie O’Donnell has a massive mouth on her and deserved the serve she got from Trump. Oh … you mentioned similarities. Yeeep. 🙄
India and China (in particular) would be exempted from any Iranian blockade.
The notion that Iran could successfully blockade Hormuz is idiotic unless it’s a mullah death wish. The simple fact is the US owns the Gulf and has the means to ensure safe passage in and out. Iran is fully aware of this. The rest is simply noise and hot air.
Hi, Monty!
Don’t worry, Cluelessy-ny and MATT DAMON! are building a pipeline as we speak, with help from the Film Actors Guild. It was in a documentary I watched called Syriana.
Trump looking into revoking security clearances for Brennan, other top Obama officials
But, but there is no obvious motive.
Oh noes – is Italian bread still verboten on the Cat?
Illuminati Confirmed!
Keep up the reportage on Hollywood pedo’s, Stimpson!
Giraffe!
Love the way you drive that planer!
Hehe
His family is reported as having said he had serious mental health problems.
I understand that, JC. The Soviets, for instance.
With Iran, you have the added layer of lunacy – manic hatred of the “spiritual”, if you like, aspect of the West. The Russians could be lured with “stuff” economically. These zealots would rather eat ground glass.
My favourite crazy guy from Toronto.
“ASK THE POPE! HE KNOWS!”
Sad … but the photographic evidence is pretty conclusive:
From the comments section:
I just walked into the local
liberal run bookstore and asked
for Trump’s new immigration
book.
The owner said, “Get the fuck out”.
I said, “Yeah, that one”
…#MAGA
So, the FISA applications were lies, the FISA court was lied to repeatedly and the mueller investigation was based on lies.
When is sessions going to go and rosenstein impeached by the new AG.
Not so. They asked for her d.o.b., which you supplied. That does not mean they already knew it. Quite the contrary.
..
Jesus, same age as my mum. How old was she when she had you? Five?
It’s not about oil.
It’s about pulling the rug on terrorist funding and shafting Hamas. Trump senses the Mullahs are shaky and a little prod would set them off.
He’s not dealing with rational people.
Mr Rusty
Top piece… a work of art.
Rae i think they subtracted the year they were born (that they were given) from this year.
What was Hillary thinking wearing that hideous long BoHo mumu? It’s an “in” look this summer among the youngish and svelte, worn short with leggings or shorts and pretty flats to show off shapely tanned legs.
Perhaps her eyesight’s fading. Or like the tyrant king, no one dares to criticise her wardrobe choices.
* chanelling Lizzie whilst she’s on safari*
Please stop feeding the Troll 👹™. You’re leaving skid marks on the blog.
Apparently, this is all basically code for actual stuff, as per the comments.
Makes me think we should perhaps have town hall meetings and a board of commissioners for local government instead of council-mayor-manager forms of government.
IN NSW at least, any controversial local government stuff gets discussed behind closed doors. It is called “the committee of the whole”.
Lol. My mum’s 87 next Tuesday.
Where did you get the video of Anne, Dot?
Nah. They (their computer) just selected the name at random from the electoral roll as they always do. No d.o.b.s on the electoral roll. Only drongo involved was Mark of Melbourne who thought he’d come here and brag about his own lack of knowledge.
Hear, hear! This should be the only way.
Perhaps she’s hiding a 7-day colostomy bag.
Or a goon bag.
Or a demented bag.
Or all of the above.
Nothing to do with Islam of course.
It’s all about the guns.
ncoherent rambler
#2771211, posted on July 24, 2018 at 3:49 pm
say it isn’t so!
THE gunman who brutally picked off pedestrians during a deadly rampage along a busy Toronto street has been identified as 29-year-old Faisal Hussain.
But, but there is no obvious motive.
The “mental health issues” claim has already been deployed by the family. I await the government announcement of “lone wolf”!
What the …?
Apparently Mr Daniels is seeking a divorce, citing adultery, would you believe?
I’m shocked, I tells ya.
Looks like all that hard won interview/showtime money will have to be shared with the ex.
Sad.
Love your work!
Cats can be assured that every variety of scamster will have access to their My Health Record.
Opt out now, while the going is good.
Thanks for the reminder, opted out now.
And as usual negative pixel space reached deep into its own arse to pull out a “fact” which is completely wrong.
CATEGORIES OF EXCUSE AS OF RIGHT
5. Age.
Persons who have reached the age of 65 years
Go rub more lotion on mummies pustule, shes lowing for you again.
You have to wonder why any government action other than sensitive military/CT operations or intelligence, or ongoing police investigations or cases where people’s identities are protected, why any government agency has to be secretive at all, let alone free from public tours, scrutiny or observation.
There is pretty much no moral legitimacy for any local government work or decision making in Australia that ought to be secret, private or confidential.
There is not any reason why we can’t walk right into the Federal Dept. of Education or any Centrelink Office, let alone the RBA or Dept. of Finance and see if they’re doing any work or just eating a paleo banana and pear slice and playing solitaire…
The idea that the State of NSW needs any secrecy regarding choosing a bitumen supplier or crew to install a new culvert is just bloody absurd.
Good boy points?
Have not seen a Rare Pepe with a Bichon Frise and a Bedford van yet.
A little more for the mouth breathing window licker “expert”
Currently, a person aged 65 years or more may claim an
excuse as of right while those aged 70 years or older are
not eligible to serve.
Is Josh Frydenberg moonlighting as a truck unloader?
https://twitter.com/USAMilitaryUSA/status/1021394503276552204
Weatherzone
#Sydney is on track to have one of its warmest Julys on record in terms of maximum temperatures, although nights have been noticeably cool in the city this month:
Fairfax, like the ABC, always the bearers of welcome tidings.
Scientists in the US have developed an early indicator for predicting mental illness in men.
Research has shown that men with unkempt beards but no moustache are 46 times more likely to go nuts than the general population.
Methinks the resident ‘digital native’ has a finger up the Khyber.
Excuse me?
Why the fuck does any retired official retain a security clearance.
Sure, they have a lifetime security obligation, but they should have no rights to retain a clearance which gives them access to current classified information.
Amen.
What sort of fvckwit only shaves the mo’?
Warmest Julys?
I sense BULLSHIT.
I know people from the Central West.
The temps they are recalling for recent weeks in Orange and Bathurst are just brutal and belong in Antarctica.
This is even from the Australian Bolshie Committee:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-15/temperatures-plummet-as-cold-snap-hits-nsw/9995858
Mmm yeah. Sounds like warming.
Good summary of the egregious nature of FISA warrant application.
Dot
There is not any reason why we can’t walk right into the Federal Dept. of Education or any Centrelink Office, let alone the RBA or Dept. of Finance and see if they’re doing any work or just eating a paleo banana and pear slice and playing solitaire…
Privacy issues with personal data in, eg, Centrelink?
But those are only reasons to restrict access to data, not the actual work area.
Sure, but they can give it out by incompetence?
Why can’t we witness their incompetent decision making?
I dunno, but I read that dickheads like Comey and McCabe lost theirs when they were fired. It’s a little unclear.
Of course that would be before adjustment and homogenization by an unpublished algorithm.
Doesn’t count.
Opt out need driver licence. Or ring call centre.
Maybe they should adopt the Zim dollar.
Venezuela Surpasses Weimar As Hyperinflation Expected To Hit 1,000,000% By Year End
And.. obuma gave wussia carte blanche to do anything – invade Crimea, annex Ukraine, re-enter the ME, steal US cyber info, give donations to the Clinton foundation and so on – in exchange for not getting in the way of Iranian nuclear deal.
I’d really like to see magic negro before congress on the wrong side of the power fence.
I don’t think I’m being conspiratorial. I keep reading about Seth Rich having been murdered by a gun stolen from the FBI.
Here’s the date if Rich’s death.
And
Here’s an FBI report detailing what was stolen. Note the date.
This is a remarkably weird. It could be a coincidence, but the rumors over the web suggests one of these guns was used to kill Rich.