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So there you have it. Our population ponzi madness will continue. Just a new coat of lipstick with another Ministry to fund from our overburdened tax dollars. How predictable.
It’s fantastic news about Malturd pulling the pin. The quicker these frauds are taken down the better.
Born to Rule
Manifest Destiny
Doin’ it for Daddy
Take that Mum
Once the State drops people into the outback from helicopters for the economic stimulus effect, this then demands they are required to introduce internal passports and monitor movement within the state, so economic consumption machines do not desert their assigned posts and go AWOL.
Roadblocks are only to check your Paperwork. If you have all your papers in order, you have nothing to fear.
Comrades.
Because all Australians are equal to all other Australians, internal passports and travel papers cannot be restricted only to the newly imported voteherds deployed to welfare plantations in rural hamlets.
All potential domestic terrorists from remote districts must apply for permission to make a trip to the Capital, or bunker down out where the trains don’t run.
Comrades.
“How I Fell in Love With Malcolm Turnbull”
Becker said the children involved with making the complaint were first interviewed by trained specialists with the Children’s Advocacy Center, but they didn’t admit the truth until later when their parents talked with them further.
Experts in children V Parents.
Parents 1, Experts 0.
I’m told he passed on Alpha and Omega. He said he found it too constricting. As an alternative he proposed Limitless .
Malcolm Turnbull memoir-
Marvellous Me
A very nice plummet to Earth.
Grigory M was so right.
Working titles for Turnbull’s autobiography:
Born to Rule
Manifest Destiny
Doin’ it for Daddy
Take that Mum
Is it just me or does that sound a bit off?
Yes. It reads better thus:
Doin’ it for Dad
Take that Mummy
That is a reserve power in circumstances where in effect there is no government; it applies to dismissal as well. The power has been used once: to dismiss the idiot Whitlam.
Other than dismissing a government which does not have the confidence of the house(s) I can’t imagine an application of its positive power.
But I guess you’re technically right.
Plummet to earth indeed.
Creepy.
“WE’LL FIND OUT ABOUT BRENNAN”
What did the ex-CIA boss know about Obama’s 1981 Pakistan trip – and the attempt to cover it up in 2008?
Which simply means Parliament cannot be prorogued for longer.
This is not a big deal.
Turnbull’s autobiography title: Will There Ever Be a Rainbow.
Thanks for the petition link Zulu. Signed and sent it to nine other people.
Jackie Howe, looks like is record week might still be unbroken?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Howe
Outsiders touched upon the vicpol charging punitive financial vengeance upon the Lauren Southern event.
How hard is it to imagine antifa activists hurling abuse at their enemies at the event while masked, then going to their Progressive government jobs in the morning and drawing up the paperwork to fine their enemies for the actions of the masked public service progressives themselves.
Put on a mask, cause the disturbance, then use your disturbance to unleash the crushing power of the State upon those you hate.
Like abc employees arranging for texts to be sent to the abc demanding the abc pursue the progression of totalitarian dystopic Stalinism.
Comrades.
Yes. It reads better thus:
Doin’ it for Dad
Take that Mummy
Much better.
Yes, I am. And it has nothing whatsoever to do with the “technicality” of “reserve powers”. To this day Ministers are “appointed” by the GG. Dwell on it all for a moment and you may begin to realise just how precarious our position is.
1900 Australia was very civil.
Memoir: “I, Malcolm!”
And nothing to do with the reserve powers exercised in the dismissal of Whitlam.
Fleeced
I think you need to adjust your Self-O-Stat. Or something or other.
Met opens 100th violent death investigation in London this year
It might get to 101
Tulse Hill stabbing: Young man fighting for life after being knifed in broad daylight in south London
Et tu, Antonio.
Not that precarious. The GG can be sacked and then the administrator steps in.
I’m more concerned with the lack of oversight regarding Federal appointments, particularly judicial and viceregal appointments.
Well said. I’ll pay that one.
Memoir: “I, Malcolm!”
Rings a bell. A woman in the background who wanted to be made a goddess.
Et tu, ScoMo?
Rivers of blood, dare I say.
The actual dismissal of Whitlam as PM had nothing to do with “reserve powers”
The replacement of the Labor government by a Liberal one did.
They are not the same thing. Not even close.
Dreams of My Mother.
“My potential greatness was killed by the extreme right – here’s what they destroyed”
Read all about my grand plans, if only those pesky righties kept quiet!
You’re not thinking it through, either, Dot. Forget law, you’re better suited as an Australian journalist.
Craig Laundy on Four Corners is utterly cringeworthy. Very uncomfortable seeing a grown man sitting there with glazed over eyes intoning the shibboleths of the Cult of Malcolm.
But enough about Googlery.
No neck.
No brains.
No class.
LOL Yes!
Memoir: Conservatives Still Don’t Matter
Craig Laundy on Four Corners is utterly cringeworthy. Very uncomfortable seeing a grown man sitting there with glazed over eyes intoning the shibboleths of the Cult of Malcolm.
Or how they tricked me into resigning and making some Pentecostal flake my heir.
Whitlam was dismissed under S.64. This is a reserve power. Can you give me an example where the G-G would use S.64 to appoint a minister? The G-G accepts advice from the PM when he enjoys the confidence of the house(s), that is has a majority.
Some Men Are Born Great.
(I am such a man).
Probyn seems to have stepped it up a notch. It’s like watching an incoming Red guard parroting the little red book. At first a bit uncertain, but as the days go by the voice rises, the glint in the eye sharpens and the contempt for the other side shows more and more openly.
He kept talking loudly over the others last Sunday on Insiders. I reckon he’s after Bawwie’s job. He harped on about betrayal of the leader. If I was Bawwie I’d keep an eye on Probyn.
Guido hears that the Boundary Commission will be publishing their ‘Final Recommendations’ on September 5, now that the DUP have seemingly dropped their major objections, accepting that downsizing the Northern Irish contingent of constituencies was probably worth it to help keep Corbyn away from Number 10. The boundary review began in 2011…
Guido reckons that the Commission’s aim of equalising the size of seats to within 5% of a target number will boost the Tories by some 20 seats by removing anomalies that favour Labour. Guido thinks it cost even more incumbent Labour MPs their seats. Corbynistas won’t be able to resist the temptation to push for sweeping deselections, justified by even very small adjustments to boundaries. Momentum have already scented first blood with the threatened removal of Kate Hoey and Frank Field…
‘My Struggle.’ not an option?
Once the shorten Rum Corps gets in it will ramp up the NBN rollout, so they can get every cent spent before 5G makes it obsolete.
In five volumes.
LMAO.
Cohenite, the appointment of Ministers is not a “reserve power”. The appointment of each and every Federal Minister is by the GG. Every time. Including the new Ministers appointed in the the last couple of days.
The mistake that both you and Dot are making is the assumption that the PM and the GG would be at loggerheads over the matter, like Whitlam and Kerr. But what if they were not?
What if they were in lockstep?
Do not concede anything to this idiot. He doesn’t understand the distinction between the de jure and de facto elements of the constitution, and has likely never even heard of the terms. He doesn’t know that the Australian constitution does not consist solely of the Australian Constitution (the document he referred to – this is not its formal name, as I’m sure he’ll inform us after he’s quickly checked all of the above and discovered I’m correct). This is why he thinks our position is precarious when it is actually very stable, and why he so frequently misunderstands why and how our federal (and state) systems of government operate in the way they do.
LOL we have a winner! Well played everyone, congrats IT.
To appease any other pedants, yes I should have written commonwealth and state levels of government.
I’m afraid we’ve hit a road block until you concede that point. Reserve powers are used by the G-G regularly on ministerial advice. Where that becomes murky is where the ministerial advice is invalid and the reserve power becomes defined by convention rather than the constitutional meaning.
Apparently in WA, the word boy or girl is not going to appear on birth certificates. What if you are one of the vast majority who would like it to be noted whether your child is a boy or girl? This change has been kept very quiet.
Concede what? Federal Ministers are appointed by the GG, QED.
They don’t become Federal Ministers until and unless appointed by the GG.
They can’t become Federal Ministers until and unless appointed by the GG.
The fact that the GG appoints those people “recommended” by the PM is beside the point.
The only time “reserve powers” might become relevant is if the GG refused to appoint someone nominated by the PM. Then the PM would “request” Queenie replace the GG.
The scope in our constitution for change to a more viable form of government without change to anything but the ‘conventions’ is remarkable.
Ministerial appointments are not required to be made by the GG. ‘May’ and ‘at his pleasure’.
A Federal Executive Council is required, but there is no restriction placed upon members of such to be members of parliament.
The transition to an executive form of government would require nothing more than a government so inclined.
WTF is it with these freaks that they should be granted these special changes to every birth certificate? It’s like normal people don’t even exist in this country anymore.
Book title.
“I didn’t hit a wall”
What is even more remarkable is English parliamentary democracy, which operates under the auspices of an entirely uncodified constitution. The English constitution isn’t even a partially codified constitution like ours in Australia. But then again, it isn’t as though the English parliament has been functioning as a governing body for many more centuries than our own. Because that would be really, really super remarkable if that were the case.
John Constantine, doesn’t look all that compelling (or original). There is some Pommy series out where a female detective is the serial killer and knows how to cover up her crimes.
It’s like Harold Shipman and Dexter had a baby.
Makka
#2803514, posted on August 27, 2018 at 10:46 pm
Apparently in WA, the word boy or girl is not going to appear on birth certificates. What if you are one of the vast majority who would like it to be noted whether your child is a boy or girl? This change has been kept very quiet.
WTF is it with these freaks that they should be granted these special changes to every birth certificate? It’s like normal people don’t even exist in this country anymore.
What do you think all the agitation was all about?
To bring this very situation about, having an other square for a different sex was never enough for these freaks.
I don’t like Bolta very much but he warned about the slippery slope in regards to same sex marriage and other social engineering projects.
He was shouted down but all of his predictions came true.
Does anyone from the wider community care?
Not a bit.
We few, who care, are peeing against the win my friend.
wind but in this context win by the freaks is also valid
Yes, it was well known and discussed Mark A. This and other issues are reasons why I’m coming to the conclusion the country isn’t worth saving.
The one thing proved in the last seven days, is that the ABC is a clear & present danger to our democracy.
There will never be another right-of-centre government whilst the ABC continues to have the reach, influence and agenda setting, that it now enjoys.
Furthermore, the ABC gets to decide where the centre is.
You just know you’re in for a bad day when you give the car park wall a bit of a scrape.
Not that it matters, Makka. It is way beyond saving now.
A SNAPSHOT OF YOUTUBE’S NEW SEARCH ALGORITHM
With YouTube’s new search algorithm, if you search the exact title of Ann Coulter’s recent appearance on C-SPAN you have to scroll through 22 unrelated results from establishment news organizations before you can find it….
https://www.infowars.com/a-snapshot-of-youtubes-new-search-algorithm/
Mark A
You asked a few days ago why I posted the Q&A from the White House briefing.
It was attempting to show how skewed where the priorities of the MSM, and how they where “gunning for Trump”.
I did not see any attempt to extract information, clarification, or nuance from the White House spokeswoman on matters of substance, or policy. It was just Cohen and Manafort.
From the creepy turd who started Trump’s Russian dossier business in London. Downer is a bought and paid for globalist stooge. No surprise he supports Turdball.
That Turdball and his team stabbed Abbott in the back seems quite ok to Downer. Obviously, Abbott’s message of cheap energy, lower immigration numbers and lowering taxes is not liked at all by our betters. Abbott needs to stfu it seems.
All this grieving for Turdball is instructive. Without a doubt, the globalists will do anything it takes to keep their team, the Uniparty, in control and us proles ignorant;
The reserve powers are explicitly mentioned, they are constrained by the finance provisions and the fact the PM can also sack the GG and then the administrator steps in.
It is not perfect but like the 1999 referendum model, it basically has the same mechanisms – an alternate and the budget.
I’m not really worried by some perfidious fellow becoming governor general, being clever enough to circumvent the finance provisions, never appointing another PM after they are sacked and becoming dictator for life – we are doing quite well at oppressing ourselves – “unexplained wealth laws” come to mind, as does an utterly corrupt ATO, a high court and federal court that keeps on rolling over on the absurdity and legality of authoritarian tax and environmental laws, the surveillance state and now where some states have reduced the rights of the accused to that of something worse than before the glorious revolution.
I’m not really sure that the English constitution is not codified.
It operates under legislation, not precedent. Coke’s cases against the King failed (unfortunately).
Pedantically, it might be better to say the basic law is not consolidated and fundamental.
I’d be interested to know which provisions are not legislated. The Prime Minister, for example, is the First Lord of the Treasury. The position certainly exists, the title is a later evolution. Our Prime Minister exists in the same way by implication, whilst Ministers in general, are mentioned by the fundamental legislation.
Beware anyone that spends time in the Foreign Affairs ministry. Rudd, Bishop, Gareth Evans, Downer, all cretins that think they are above Australia and it’s people.
Mary Kills People.
TV show about a doctor that breaks the law to deliver euthanasia to a patient a week.
You’re still operating under the delusion that the PM and GG must be in opposition to each other.
What if they’re not?
What if both a future PM and his future GG are both in their positions at the whim of a small, powerful group outside of Parliament? Go read Driftorge’s comment at 10.37pm.
Wow, the opening sounds like a young Donald Trump, speaking at a rally.
Trump is God.
It’s a hidden gem, and you do not have to like techno.
They’ll run out of money you twit.
Again you make assumptions, Dot. What if they’re not spendthrifts?
In Londonistan still. We went to see a friend in Chelsea for a few drinks and a chat. Over drinks he told us he had a run in with the police.
Apparently, following a boozy lunch several months ago he called in at a pub on the way home and got into a discussion with a group of drinkers who, from appearances were not from the Old Dart. Conversation started amicably enough then degenerated into an argument where upon he told them to fuck off back where they came from. Didn’t come to blows and he left.
He moved on to another pub where he was enjoying a quiet drink when Mr Plod and mates turned up and took him in for questioning regarding a complaint from the previous hostelry made by the group he was arguing with. Hate crime or similar was the charge.
Had to get a lawyer, go through all the bullshit before the case was dropped a few months later. Coppers were fine he said, just following orders.
The thing is, he is 80 years old FFS.
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#2803580, posted on August 27, 2018 at 11:32 pm
What if both a future PM and his future GG are both in their positions at the whim of a small, powerful group outside of Parliament? Go read Driftorge’s comment at 10.37pm.
They’ll run out of money you twit.
Not qualified to comment on the intricacies of GG’s office but any gov. legit or not who has the support of the police and the army, never runs out of money.
You think Venezuelans are compliant?
They are absolute rebels compared to the OZ population when it comes to obey and tug the forelock to authority.
Keyboard warriors don’t matter.
The way things are panning out we may need a new Pope very soon.
2018 is looking good for taking out the trash.
Downer’s pal front runner for Wentworth selection. Fave of the “moderates”. So, in comes another globalist leftard for the Libs.
Burn them to the ground.
People were warning about all this long before anybody had heard of Andrew Bolt.
Bob Santamaria warned throughout the latter half of his life that communism had metastasized into a secular humanist pathology whose adherents were hell-bent on destroying Western, Christian cultures and institutions. They do this by demanding more and more extreme, bizarre and morally perverted ‘rights,’ ‘entitlements’ and ‘reforms’ and then set about vilifying and terrorising those who oppose them. The goals are capitulation, silence and spiritual enslavement. Via the extreme left-wing media, they do this successfully – by and large – time after time. Only the relentless, ruthless opposition to – and mockery of – these terrorists will do. What’s also important is that all such ‘reforms’ – when enacted into law by their lacky political parties – are always overturned when conservative and rightist parties resume government. Always. This gets at why the Liberal Party is now in its death throes. One half of the party wants to fight the good fight (including for what has been lost); the other half either doesn’t believe any of it was good anyway or believes a war to restore will bring too much excoriation from the media. Best leave things be and try to fight the good fight from now on. Which they don’t have the heart to do either, once bullets start flying. Fight or fuck off.
“What if the PM conspires to make his mate the GG and start breaking the law…”
If they want to do illegal shit they will. As if the governor general stops this anyway. Rudd collected revenue without a requisite law being passed. The idea that soldiers and the AFP are going to back some clowns who aren’t paying them is laughable.
You don’t need a “dictatorship” in Australia. You just need to pass more laws because High Court has rolled over on almost every issue.
Crooked, Comey and co. have to go to jail first before you can call it a win.
Mueller has to be disgraced.
It’s pretty clear that the real reason Abbott is copping so much flack from the Unipaty Libs is not because he is an insurgent or undermining Turdball.
It’s his message. He’s way off the reservation with his calls to leave the Paris Accord, cut immigration and reduce taxes. There is fear that too many proles might actually listen to him and be woken up that they are mere sheeple, being brutally fleeced by the Uniparty. That could become a real problem for the Australian globalist elites.
This is for all Cats , who ever woke up with the hangover from Hell, and a naked nubile coiled around you. “I beg your pardon, Miss, umm, what was your name again?
Book title: “The Turn of the Screwball”.
Philippa has been flooding spacechook with information on the homosexual crisis in the Church. More corruption that needs to be cleaned out.
Dot, at no point did I even suggest the PM and the GG need to “conspire” to break the law. If the best you can do is put some words in inverted commas and pretend it’s a quote by someone else, then don’t bother. If you’re going to resort to those kind of childish tactics, you’re not worth debating with.
I was listening to RN Drive this evening when agriculture minister David Littleproud was interviewed by Patricia Karvelas about the (latest) drought. Bla bla bla, you know. And then that moment came. As it always does on the ABC. The moment when religious adherence had to be tested. Karvelas put aside financial and humane practicalities and wanted to know if Littleproud accepted the notion that “climate change” was part of the policy mix in dealing with this … latest … drought. He becomes a bumbling numbskull – trying to prove that he’s a good LNP-er but also a good climateer. And so he offered up to Karvelas the appeasing, middle-way fatuity that reducing emissions is a good idea because it will mean “we’ll breathe fresher air.” Really and truly.
Naturally, Karvelas – undeterred and unimpressed – continues to harass him on the subject – forcing him to acknowledge the dogma of “climate change.”
Pope v POTUS, battle to the death (of their careers).
I have Francis in that one.
Are you talking about the bloke who signed the Paris Accord, increased immigration, and introduced a “Fairness Tax”?
That Tony Abbott?
I wonder why no one takes him seriously these days?
It is a mystery.
Yes that’s him. For someone they don’t take seriously, the Libs and the media are paying a lot of attention to him.
please put that freaking kouvelis and her kids on a farm in a drought area and then just drive off. Let’s see how she goes.
I keep saying it, deport the Greeks. Useless tax hoovering bullies and nutters.
After so-called “hell week,” Trump two points ahead of Obama at same time in his presidency.
And there was a nationwide media ban on criticising Obama, of course.
The Libs and the media, for their own reasons, are the only ones who give a damn, Makka.
For the rest of the population he is very much yesterday’s news.
Abbott who?
None
#2803598, posted on August 28, 2018 at 12:26 am
Naturally, Karvelas – undeterred and unimpressed – continues to harass him on the subject – forcing him to acknowledge the dogma of “climate change.”
please put that freaking kouvelis and her kids on a farm in a drought area and then just drive off. Let’s see how she goes.
I keep saying it, deport the Greeks. Useless tax hoovering bullies and nutters.
Living overseas has at least one advantage, I can’t even watch canned ABC episodes unless via VPN.
Why do you bother if it upsets you so?
by and large, Catallaxy readers are masochists.
The fact is that the left is going to try to paint Trumble as a ‘good Liberal’, as a ‘true Liberal’; that he was dragged down by
far rightoh sorry I mean hard right *wink wink* forces while he was trying his utmost to attain Potential Greatness. They’ll try to rehabilitate Trumble in a manner not unlike the way they rehabilitated Whitlam, another catastrophically bad PM who liked to think he had ‘vision’.We must always correct their record – Trumble was a terrible PM by any reasonable yardstick, and the left hated him while he was the head of government. We’ll be having no revisionist history from Miranda and the Crabbites.
memoryvault
#2803603, posted on August 28, 2018 at 12:40 am
by and large, Catallaxy readers are masochists.
Yup, came to the same conclusion.
Some like To may have to for professional reasons but the rest?
Beats me.
I used to be an avid 3Lo listener gave it up long ago.
OK … just when you think things cannot possibly get weirder …
Click Blair’s main story link.
The writer is to be commended for an incredibly thorough analysis of this bizarre turn of events.
C.L.
#2803607, posted on August 28, 2018 at 1:03 am
OK … just when you think things cannot possibly get weirder …
Click Blair’s main story link.
The writer is to be commended for an incredibly thorough analysis of this bizarre turn of events.
Sheesh, take your eyes off the ball for one minute and see what happens in the world.
Interesting:
WHY MALCOLM TURNBULL WAS OUSTED
NICK CATER — AUTHOR
Australia is once again in contention with Italy in the prime ministerial turnover stakes.
The Italians nudged ahead briefly by electing Giuseppe Conte, the fifth change of leader in a decade. Last week the Aussies matched them when Scott Morrison was chosen by Liberal Party MPs and senators to replace Malcolm Turnbull.
Most Australian commentators, for whom Turnbull was the acceptable face of the centre-right, are wailing about a crisis in democracy, as they usually do when they lose a vote.
In truth, Australian democracy is in rude health. A prime minister who loses the confidence of his colleagues will soon find himself an ex-prime minister, and last week’s transition took place, as it always does, without a civil war.
Turnbull himself is notably absent from the catalogue of blame proffered by his defenders. Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News and News Corp newspapers, talkback radio hosts and Tony Abbott, Turnbull’s predecessor, all stand accused of bringing him down. Others cite the collapse of the neoliberal project (whatever that may be), growing inequality (which there isn’t), the perfidy of the banking industry, or an erosion of trust stemming from the Iraq War, the 2008 financial crisis, Brexit and Donald Trump.
In other words, the intelligentsia hasn’t got a clue. It understands neither what happened nor the extent of its own ignorance. Like the rejection of the Remain case in the UK, and the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the US, Turnbull’s failure has left them blindsided.
Seldom has a Liberal leader appeared as palatable to progressive thinkers. Like them, Turnbull believed Australia should ditch the queen, tackle climate change and introduce marriage equality.
Turnbull’s close shave at the 2016 election was an early indication that the electorate didn’t agree with them. Last week, after losing two by-elections that Turnbull had framed as a test of his opponent’s popularity, his party colleagues decided they’d had enough. In a ritual now familiar to Australians, they filed into the Party Room and decided to replace him.
Few readers of spiked will be familiar with Morrison, Australia’s 30th prime minister, but they will be familiar with the dynamic that put him there.
In Australia, as in much of the developed world, the political and cultural divide defies the simple labels of left and right. It is an argument between the elite and the non-elite, the antipodean chapter of David Goodhart’s ‘Anywheres’ vs ‘Somewheres’, pitting the best and brightest against the allegedly ignorant masses.
Until the defeat in 2007 of John Howard, Australia’s second-longest serving prime minister, the new cultural divide was chiefly confined to the Labor Party, where a battle for control between the workers and tertiary-educated interlopers had been fought since the late 1960s.
The tensions in the Liberal Party, however, were just below the surface. The contest to succeed Howard was between the sophisticate Turnbull and the pugilist Tony Abbott, a monarchist who was quoted as describing climate change as ‘crap’.
The response to climate change in Australia has achieved the same totemic status as Brexit has in Britain. Abbott was convincingly elected in 2013 promising to end the carbon tax introduced by Labor, and he promptly followed through. The economic damage caused by Labor’s ill-advised mandated renewable energy targets went far deeper, however.
Subsidised wind and solar generation destabilised the grid while making coal-generated power unprofitable. Two major coal plants closed, sending electricity prices rocketing. Australia once enjoyed some of the cheapest energy in the world; now it’s among the most expensive.
Turnbull, having squeezed himself into the prime minister’s job in 2015 on the back of Abbott’s unpopularity, found himself on the wrong side of the argument.
Climate-change realists in the party, who knew how badly energy prices were hurting in the suburbs, urged him to drop Australia’s commitment to the emissions target set in Paris, just as President Trump had done.
Turnbull refused until it was too late. His uncertain handling of energy policy, together with his reluctance to discuss concerns about the size and structure of immigration, were among the chief factors in his demise.
Last week’s challenge to Turnbull was initiated not by Morrison, but by the minister for home affairs Peter Dutton, a former Queensland police officer with a grounded and practical view of life. Dutton was a more trustworthy option for the Liberal Party’s conservative faction and his election would have likely signalled a sharp change in direction. Morrison, the treasurer, was described by the Guardian as ‘the compromise candidate’.
The billing, should he live up to it, would surely be the kiss of death. Few battles are won by consensus, a process Margaret Thatcher described as ‘abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects’.
Attempts to appeal to voters across the cultural divide sow confusion. The dread of appearing strident is mistaken for a lack of conviction. Risk-averse rhetoric communicates nothing except hesitancy. Watching your words to avoid causing offence is fruitless against those who delight in taking it.
Adding to the timidity is the distorted picture one gets of Australia from Parliament House. The lanyard-wearing millennials who pass themselves off as advisers have little idea where most people stand on the totemic issues of the day, and indeed whether they’re obliged to have an opinion at all.
In Scott Morrison, Australians will have a prime minister with a better feel than most for suburban sentiment. He represents the outer suburbs of Southern Sydney, a district known colloquially as the Shire, where people have neither the inclination to post smart-aleck remarks on Twitter nor the spare time to do so.
At 50, he is young enough to be considered a next-generation politician, the first prime minister not to have shared a parliament with Howard. The son of a policeman, he grew up in the beachside Sydney suburb of Bronte, and won a practically focused honours degree in applied economic geography.
He worked as an administrator in tourism in New Zealand and Australia, where as the head of Tourism Australia he approved a contentious advertising campaign featuring a bikini-clad minor celebrity asking, ‘Where the Bloody Hell Are You?’.
He is a social conservative and an economic liberal, the labels Howard assumed for himself, and are the catch-cry of those on the centre right who once called themselves ‘dries’.
Once it was clear Turnbull’s days were numbers, the small-l liberals who supported him crossed to Morrison as a more acceptable candidate than Dutton.
The conservatives, meanwhile, see him as a distinct improvement on Turnbull, whose absence will allow a less acrimonious path to next year’s election than would otherwise have been the case. The leader of the opposition, Bill Shorten, is hardly popular. His old-fashioned trade-union rhetoric sounds like a voice from the vaults of a museum. He is suspicious of business and addicted to symbolic crusading. His slug-the-rich, tax-and-spend narrative and economically fraudulent policy of inclusive growth seem too absurd to be believed.
Like Jeremy Corbyn, however, the election will fall to Shorten by default unless Morrison can adjust to a bumpy cultural playing field and, against the run of play, begins to hit the target.
Nick Cater is executive director of the Menzies Research Centre and author of The Lucky Culture and the Rise of an Australian Ruling Class.
Link
Mark Knight.
Paul Zanetti.
Peter Broelman.
The West Australian’s cartoonist Dean Alston has a Twitter account but sadly doesn’t use it to distribute his work and the paper’s online file of his work isn’t up-to-date. That’s a pity as he’s the product of a bygone era and knows where all the bodies are buried in Perth. I loved this recent one of his, which says everything you need to know about the end of the mining boom in the West.
A.F. Branco (who calls Jeff Sessions “Elmer Dud”).
Michael Ramirez #1.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Ramirez, incidentally, has a heartfelt tribute to John McCain, war hero, on Spacechook.
Among the tributes to John McCain, Tom Stiglich, Bob Gorrell and Lisa Benson.
Gary Varvel.
Pat Cross.
Dreams of My Mother.
LOL we have a winner! Well played everyone, congrats IT.
Absolute winner!!!!
Thanks Tom. 🙂
It’s 2C in Melbournibad – coldest day this year – but, seriously, this is as bad as it gets and Northern Hemispherians laugh at us. In six months’ time, the North American Great Lakes will be frozen. But Google “climate change satire” – there’s none on the first page, not even on Youtube. It’s like yelling “Fuck Allah” in a mosque. Big Tech does not tolerate blasphemy of its zombie religion.
Yarragrad Nazgul sell the right to tax all land transfers for forty years into the future for a lump sum they can announce squandered tomorrow.
https://theurbandeveloper.com/articles/victorian-land-titles-registry-privatised-in-29-billion-windfall-
[ that title should be 2.9 billion]
Victorian proles miss the blockchain revolution and are buggered bare of the benefits of butter, yet again.
Comrades.
The Victorian cropping zone is very close to grain crops forming seed heads in the boot of the plant, the Hay plains out in ear right now.
Dry years mean dry soil that doesn’t hold warmth overnight, means frost risk. The cracking frost this morning did no harm, but signals that a spring with bright sunny days and clear freezing nights is no friend to anybody.
Rain for this weekend will smooth things over nicely.
Another Richmond Report ‘success’.
Mexico signs a new NAFTA agreement with US.
Record markets.
The Canuck Swami next.
Winning.
bwahahaha…
Julie Bishop denounces tactics used by colleagues to boot her from party’s leadership race
Julie Bishop.
Nobody loves me
Everybody hates me
I’m gonna eat some worms
Did the media ever think to question perfect Julie’s big dummy spit after very low party room support?
USA MSM continue the farce.
What a waste! Think of all the home units!
Age of the driverless vehicle ‘an old myth’
PHILIP KING
MOTORING EDITOR
The car industry is obsessed with a driverless vehicle “moonshot” and its vision of shared, electric, autonomous mobility is a myth, according to a visiting expert in intelligent transport systems.
Richard Young of Beca engineering group said transport experts had succumbed to “group think” and were ignoring ethical dilemmas over “robot” cars and whether people even wanted them.
“They’re blithely accepting we’re all going to have these autonomous electric vehicles in 10 years’ time, but I don’t see the evidence for it,” Mr Young said.
He will be a rare dissenting voice at the Intelligent Transport System Summit in Sydney, which starts today with 700 attendees hearing about the latest developments in automated vehicles, traffic infrastructure and mobility as a service.
Mr Young said the pursuit of autonomy was yielding benefits such as automatic emergency braking, which is already common, but the cost of achieving full autonomy would be harder to justify the closer it came.
Near-autonomous systems also had potentially fatal consequences, because humans could not be relied on to intervene as a last resort.
One tragic example occurred in March in the US, when a woman was killed by an autonomous Uber vehicle. The car’s sensors detected a pedestrian wheeling a bicycle, but failed to brake in time or warn the driver.
“The challenge with autonomous vehicles is they either have to be absolutely foolproof — that is, no steering wheel — or they’ve got to say, ‘this stuff is there to assist’,” Mr Young said.
Even with full autonomy, there were additional risks for the industry as the burden of liability shifted from drivers to carmakers.
Mr Young said the industry was “selling a dream” that dated back to the earliest autonomous vehicles in the late 1930s.
“Every time you see it, they’re always going to be on the road in 20 years,” he said.
Autonomous vehicles were pictured going hand-in-hand with electric vehicles and sharing because otherwise they would simply create more congestion.
But those technologies also faced hurdles, with the power system likely to struggle once EVs won 5-10 per cent of the market.
“Mobility as a service is not new,” he said. “Another app is not going to solve the problem.”
Despite this, carmakers were engaged in an expensive space race in the belief that “if they blink they will have to answer to shareholders or be history”.
Oz print edition
When and how did that happen?
Secrecy bid in VC winner’s law fight
NICOLA BERKOVIC
LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
The government wants to suppress the identities of soldiers who could be named as part of a defamation action launched by Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith against Fairfax Media.
Mr Roberts-Smith, the nation’s most decorated Afghan war veteran, is suing Fairfax Media, claiming it has destroyed his reputation by casting him as a war criminal, a “callous, inhumane” murderer and a domestic violence offender.
The commonwealth on Friday asked the Federal Court to suppress the identities of seven SASR operators named in documents lodged on behalf of Mr Roberts-Smith. It is not known whether the members are current or former soldiers.
The government is also seeking to suppress parts of an affidavit lodged by defamation lawyer Mark O’Brien, who is acting for Mr Roberts-Smith, as well as an affidavit filed by Special Operations commander Major-General Adam Findlay.
Federal Court judge Robert Bromwich agreed to suppress the details for now, and will hear arguments on September 6 as to whether the court should make the order permanent.
Mr Roberts-Smith is also suing three Fairfax journalists: investigative reporters Chris Masters and Nick McKenzie, and national security correspondent David Wroe.
Three separate statements of claim detail a series of articles by Fairfax between June and August, which Mr Roberts-Smith says directly linked him with the worst alleged atrocities ever levelled against Australian troops serving in Afghanistan.
Fairfax did not directly name Mr Roberts-Smith in all the articles, but his lawyers say Fairfax failed to conceal his identity by using the nom de plume of a Spartan warrior king, Leonidas.
The articles, they say, pointed “inexorably” to Mr Roberts-Smith, “the most decorated and most notorious soldier from this period”.
In the first article published on June 8, “SAS’s Day of Shame” and “Troops kept kill board”, Mr Roberts-Smith’s lawyers say Fairfax accused the veteran of kicking a defenceless Afghan civilian off a cliff and ordering his troops to execute him.
In a second article, on June 10, Fairfax accused “Leonidas” of murder by “pressuring” a newly deployed SASR soldier to execute an elderly unarmed Afghan in order to “blood a rookie”, and “machinegunning an Afghan man with a prosthetic leg”. The statement of claim adds that Mr Roberts-Smith is described as “so callous and inhumane he then took the prosthetic leg back to Australia where he encouraged his soldiers to use it as a novelty beer drinking vessel”.
The statements of claim also emphatically deny allegations made in a third series of articles by Fairfax Media this month that Mr Roberts-Smith had “committed an act of domestic violence”.
Mr Roberts-Smith said he wanted to make Fairfax “accountable for their actions”. “The allegations are simply not true and cannot go uncorrected.’’
Oz print edition
Went to America, didn’t she? So …
Mommy Dearest
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European countries which banned Muslim so called “refugees”.
Hungary: 0 terror casualties
Poland: 0 terror casualties
Slovakia: 0 terror casualties
Czechia: 0 terror casualties
Does anyone see a pattern here?
8:30 PM · Aug 26, 2018
Thanks Tom.
That Ramirez Spacechook article about McCain was touching. He really was an exemplary member of the military, and it would be a shame to forget it due to the ludicrous theatrics and manoeuvrings that politics subsequently imposed.
Working titles for Turnbull’s autobiography:
Mirror mirror on the wall.
As expected,
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/pm-to-stick-with-paris-targets-report/ar-BBMwmbx?ocid=ientp
Presumably she refers to voting according to their own judgement and her record, rather than diversity front-hole narrative.
If she believes she is sailing into the GG’s job, why would she be throwing a stroppy.
Unless it was only mooted afterward to guarantee future behaviour.
Embarrassed? about what? having a mental illness
The Dart of the Eel.
Cheering from the sidelines.
Great letter.
Hilarious.
My wife, who takes only a passing interest in politics, just found out Pyne will be Defence Minister.
Hands on hips she let fly.
“Pyne, Defence Minister, is that a joke? Him and Mumsy Downer could run a gay nightclub. Makes you proud to be a Liberal.”
Don’t forget the short skirts.
Take out the unions and you have …. Morrison.
Why single out the boy-men?
How would the inner-urban bound effetes know this? What kind of investigation can they have done from the Fauxfacts offices. Coffs Harbour would be as close to the supposed sites of supposed atrocities as they would ever venture, and you can be sure they wear their most rugged outdoors clothes even going that far.
I hope he ruins the little shits. Reducing them to standing on street corners rattling tin cups behind cardboard signs reading ‘Will flatter with lies for
$10$5$1′.True that. Abbott and others take note.
If Morrison’s degree in applied economic geography is so practical then why don’t most people know what it is? What do you do with it?
How bigoted of me?
Potentially Great Expectations?
Here is one for Sinc and his hobby:
The Beano wartime editions mocking Hitler emerge for sale after 70 years
Very expensive retribution against a publisher of offending cartoons.
Why not just send two (ahem) insurgents with an AK47, orprosecute them under 18c?
Youd need a heart of stone not to laugh.
Ushered out of my job, my mental health spiralling, reputation in shambles, I felt a deep, cavernous sense of loss for my once optimistic self
See if you can guess whos going the full victim…
How was 20-year-old ********** to know that five years later, her hard-won engineering degree would be the last thing that people knew about her, not the first? That six years later, she would have walked away from her dream of working on a Formula One team, ushered out of her job on an oil rig, squeezed out of her newfound role as a TV broadcaster, her mental health spiralling, reputation in shambles, and with a Wikipedia page that mostly talked about “controversies”?
How was 26-year-old ************ to know that a year later she would be returning to the country of her citizenship to eulogise a career she didn’t even know was coming to an end?
As my brother parked the black Honda Civic, I was overcome with a tidal wave of heaviness, a blanket made of lead that seemed to smother my soul. There was a strange metallic taste in my mouth that I couldn’t quite name, and it wasn’t until I lay in my bed that evening, the single bed I had lain in every night for over a decade, that it hit me. Moonlight was shining through the blinds, glinting on tears that threatened to spill. The weight was more than just jet lag – I was in mourning. What a strange feeling indeed.
The most self indulgent, yet blindingly unaware article you will ever read.
This is an edited version of a speech given at the Melbourne writers’ festival event, Eulogy for my Career, on 26 August
Book title.
Has to be the girl in a turban.
This story is not a joke planted by TheirABC. It’s actually presented as a brilliant idea. Eggs for the kitchen! Less food waste!
That still young woman needs to find a nice bloke, pop out a couple of sprogs and do a bit of gardening.
It will improve her fragile mental health no end.
If Morrison has a degree in economic geoography he goes up in my estimation. Von Thunen et al endow a better appreciation of how wealth is generated and communities arrange themselves than accounting, law and the other parasitic vocations.
Of Mice and Malcolm
Christine Forster and Kerryn Phelps look like they’ll have a go at Wentworth.
There’s a page of excellent jokes in there somewhere.
They won’t get a good budget by stepping in early BEFORE the disaster hits.
Trick is to wait until the last minute then wring hands and shout, “But nobody could have seen this coming!” After that you can glare viciously at anyone reluctant to pay up, and you can decry their lack of decency and generosity.
Cat fight! They’ll rub each other up the wrong way for sure.
Has to be the girl in a turban.
Winner winner chicken dinner.
A little curious, she seems to be saying she burned her bridges on the rigs and cant go back
Cat fight! They’ll rub each other up the wrong way for sure.
Sandpaper finger stools at 10 paces.
Book title:
There Has Never Been A More Exciting Time To Be An Australian Except The Determined Insurgency Ruined Everything When There Was So Much More Greatness To Come Under My Strong Leadership Of The Nation.
Shorten on ABC stating Morrison likely to cut GG term short and replace.
A little curious, she seems to be saying she burned her bridges on the rigs and cant go back
Iirc she applied for 12/12 leave without pay to pursue her media career, then successfully applied for another year, but when she applied a third time Shell took the opportunity to refuse and terminate her employment. As she was only a trainee, presumably she’s therefore not qualified to work on the rigs.
Roger
So a victim of her own choices in life.
The huge-manatee of it all
Shorten on ABC stating Morrison likely to cut GG term short and replace.
Majoring on the minors.
Timid on warmening before the media.
Great start, Scott.
How I Outlasted Whitlam, By Two Days.
Wonderful letter by Arch Schneider.
Egos!
Real problems in Alaska:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156741634801096&set=a.10154002045296096&type=3&theater
So he has “unveiled” a dream.
Straya.
When I was Good.
The Turnbull Trilogy.
h/t Tim Blair
https://youtu.be/8EsUNOIYyKg
How does Bergoglio survive this? He can’t, surely. I think Pope Benedict may have just laid the most successful honey trap since the Trojan Horse.
A concise history of my career.
Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII …
Radio ratings day.
Gerard Whateley’s sanctimonious morning show on SEN Melbourne is continuing to tank big-time.
What a calamity!
http://speed.radiotoday.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Melbourne-2.png
One for John Constantine.
When a sheep breaks along a fence and you reverse up at speed to cut it off, make sure there isn’t a tree behind you.
Tailboard bent in and tow bar. Lucky I didn’t have my teeth clenched.
I’m a bit sheepish myself at the moment.
NBC/WSJ poll: Trump approval ‘remarkably stable’ after a stormy week of bad news
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/nbc-wsj-poll-trump-approval-remarkably-stable-after-stormy-week-n903626
That is one bizarre list of names.
I haven’t linked because it’s a junk msm article; but this is a trend appearing; first SHY and now husar. What’s the connection?
McCain seems to be popular with Je#s.
From the Oz.
Yes, he flew one in Vietnam.
Cue shortfilth tantrum in 3…2….1
From Nick Carter’s piece,
No doubt The Father of Middle Class Welfare was an economic liberal – he just loved the sound of pork being splashed around at election time. My understanding of the “dries” is that they were small government, free trade group, exactly the sort that would not recognize the modern Lieboral Party or have a snowball’s chance of winning pre-selection.
Phoenix now. Interesting.
Last night I read an episcopal letter from a Texas bishop (to be read at all Masses) declaring Vigano’s charges “credible”. This is a schism in all but name.
Could have been worse Gez, your missus could have been in the ute and warned you all about the tree every minute of the drive home.
“calli
#2803706, posted on August 28, 2018 at 9:15 am
Christine Forster and Kerryn Phelps look like they’ll have a go at Wentworth.
There’s a page of excellent jokes in there somewhere.”
I live in Wentworth, I predict that the Libs will retain the seat pretty comfortably. The J*wish community is conservative (my community) and mainly Liberal voting. However, they aren’t going to be enamoured of either Forster or Kerryn……two butch loud mouthed “progressive” Lesbians. Until I see a better Liberal option, at this stage it is Sharma and whilst he is “moderate”, he seems vanilla enough not to offend or annoy anyone. That’s my take anyway. As for that venal fag called Alex Greenwich (he has been making some noise about running…..he is the current state member for inner city Sydney taking over from Queen Lesbos herself…..that grotesque fake known as Clover), he would only get votes from parts of Paddington and Darlinghurst that fall within Wentworth. Anyway, that’s my take, happy to be proven wrong. I doubt that the Libs are going to lose Wentworth.
Fifteen pall-bearers?
I’m sorry but the vainglorious planning by McCain himself for a grandiose funeral – widely reported -doesn’t say much for the man. I’d be more impressed if he planned a private service and a modest military burial.
“Infidel Tiger
#2803743, posted on August 28, 2018 at 10:03 am
McCain seems to be popular with Je#s.
Yes, he flew one in Vietnam.”
Gold, gold gold.
Peter King was apparently mulling throwing his hat into the ring. Where does he sit on the spectrum?
Sydney 2GB & WSFM
Chronic Entitlement Syndrome.
Julie Bishop’s thanks everyone and appears to be staying on in parliament at this present time.
Now taking questions.
them’s front holes.
The McCarrick scandal in the American church and Francis’ acquiescence in it will inevitably be misreported as a problem with paedophiles and not homos in the clergy.
Only Cardinal Pell seemed to understand the true source of the rot and respond appropriately. For that he was villified by the ABC and The Age. George Pell may one day be declared our second saint.
2 standard deviations to the right of Malcolm.
The Human Mr Whippy Van?
I clicked the link – but plainly my planned brutally mysogynist comments were not to be.
Just off to the bottle shop, get some good stuff in for Friday.
“Snoopy
#2803752, posted on August 28, 2018 at 10:14 am
Peter King was apparently mulling throwing his hat into the ring. Where does he sit on the spectrum?”
Nice, nice man. I remember him well and I voted for him when he ran as an independent in 2004….and he got a lot of votes too. In the Howard era he was your typical middle of the road Liberal…not sure where he would stand now…..everything is much more polarised…however he was and remains 100 times better than the venal turd who usurped him.
So no chance of winning presentation. Club Photios would rather lose the seat than have someone like him win.
I took one of those McCain pallbearer names at random, Russ Feingold. Wiki states:
John McCain
1. Died after natural progression of terminal cancer. (Least likely)
2. Faked death – liberated by the Cabal from imminent military tribunal & execution. (Not likely)
3. Faked Death – gone to Gitmo to be executed. (Morphine would be nicer than hanging)
4. Voluntary active euthanasia (rather than trial & execution) to protect his legacy and family from public knowledge of his horrific deeds. (My best guess)
I suspect McCain has given video testimony against Hillary and others.
I doubt she will but if Cindy McCain steps into his Senate seat (assuming AZ Governor is not recalled) she will do Trump’s bidding.
Trump – The Art of the Deal.
Speccie
Moderated. Try again.
The McCarrick scandal in the American church and Francis’ acquiescence in it will inevitably be misreported as a problem with p*****s and not homos in the clergy.
Only Cardinal Pell seemed to understand the true source of the rot and respond appropriately. For that he was villified by the ABC and The Age. George Pell may one day be declared our second saint.
Though calli would make it a close run thing.
Book title:
Cat’s in the Freezer and the Silver Spoon
Dear Scott,
I note you have been PM for several days now and have not yet begun to de-fund the ABC. Do you not want to win the next election? You won’t be getting my vote and dare I say tens of thousands like me until you do. Regards, Shy Ted.
Third?
LOL
Julie Bishop thanks the media for running cover for her whilst she knifed those closest.
The sycophants in MSM love that kind of tongue bath.
Fawns she holds so dear.
Anne, I am horrified. Trump knows no limit to his powers!
Shy Ted
Good point, if the ABC was to be defunded and St Scott to announce all monies saved were funding the NDIS instead who exactly would be worse of in the “right” of politics?
On a similar note now my little tacker has kiddies TV on at times during the day the drumbeat of leftist propaganda is missing nothing.
From the tune “we are one” sung in an Abbo language every few hours to the oh so enviro/politically correct ABC kids productions its fairly obvious ABC kids was set up as a sheltered workshop for ABC Maaaaates to nest in.
her mental health spiralling
Stimpys Advice For The Mentally Ill Beginner
Stay positive sweetheart, that’s the ticket.
At least you have hair.
And those wonderful teeth.
Norman
Pay that !
Dear Scott
I note you have been PM for several days now and have not yet slashed the migration programme by half.
I watched my brother die from a glioblastoma. The last 3-4 months of his life he lived loaded up on morphine which is a pretty standard practice. London to a brick McCain never knew what was going on at that stage of his life. Right up to the time they pulled the plug, McCain was being manipulated by political arseholes.
Fifteen pall-bearers?
It means he was a fat c$nt C.L.
Regarding ABC. Sinc did have a suggestion:
I worry about you, Anne.
You clearly know too much.
How loud is the sound of a black helicopter?
If you think you have heard one and are around to tell, then you didn’t hear one.
Phoenix now. Interesting.
Last night I read an episcopal letter from a Texas bishop (to be read at all Masses) declaring Vigano’s charges “credible”. This is a schism in all but name.
PF stalling won’t work:
Francis has chosen not to defend himself—at least not for now. He told journalists that he would not say “a single word” about the Viganò testimony, leaving reporters to investigate the claims for themselves. Perhaps he was relying on the ability of his aides to impugn Viganò’s character, or the distaste of the secular media for any inquiry into the influence of homosexuals in Rome. But eventually the pontiff must give an accounting.
Meanwhile, in the little diocese of Tyler, Texas, Bishop Joseph Strickland—who has played no special role in this drama to date, and has no particular access to inside information—has told his flock that he finds the Viganò testimony credible, and demanded an in-depth investigation. Will other bishops—prompted by Viganò’s example and the Catholic laity’s fury—join in the call for full disclosure?
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/08/what-francis-knew
Fr. Hunwicke lets fly:
I first published this piece on 30 July this year. I am reprinting it now because it seems to me that one of the strongest arguments favouring acceptance of Archbishop Vigano’s disclosures is that the picture he gives us of PF’s character fits so closely the conclusions which some of us have come to about PF’s evasive attitude to Truth.
One of my motives for writing this piece in July had been the following. PF had recently accused the Four Cardinals of lying: they claimed that the Dubia had been delivered to PF’s desk; he claimed that he first heard about the Dubia after they were made public: “I heard about it from the Press”.
Given this conflict of testimony, it was not easy to understand why four cardinals should put themselves so very much in the wrong by behaving like that and by lying in such a way. So I wrote:
It is a now familiar picture: the Pope who shifts the blame on to others (“I was poorly informed”); the Pope who contradicts himself; who says different things to different people. The recent account of PF’s dealings with the Argentine military dictatorship is unsubstantiated but terrifyingly circumstantial and unnervingly fits in with many compelling reconstructions of his character.
We have a Pope who, in any sort of Mess, rapidly takes easy and facile refuge in Fictive Narratives.
Many of us have felt driven to differ from PF’s views on basically important matters of Faith and Morals. Nevertheless, he and we are fellow-Christians with all that this implies about our common life together in Christ’s Body the Church.
But how easy is it to do any sort of meaningful business with a Roman Pontiff the integrity of whose word looks increasingly implausible? (Or, indeed, with his public apologists?)
http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com/2018/08/archbishop-vigano-whose-narratives-are.html?m=1
10 takeaways from Vigano’s testimony including the reason Cardinal Burke was demoted and liberals like Cupich were elevated:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/top-10-takeaways-from-viganos-testimony-on-popes-cover-up
#2803726, posted on August 28, 2018 at 9:47 am
Andrews unveils $50bn rail dream
The Victorian government unveils a yet-to-be funded rail network, the biggest transport project in Australian history, that will take decades to complete.
So he has “unveiled” a dream.
Straya.
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Yep .. a rail link that copies a bus route that is full of empty buses
Book Title.
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“Prattlelines”.
The sexual abuse crisis in the Church overwhelmingly involves the targeting of adolescent boys and young men by men with homosexual inclinations. Remove them from the Church and you’ve effectively rid yourself of the problem.
ESPN also.
ESPN shakes up struggling morning show ‘Get Up!’, reassigns Michelle Beadle
One guess about the politics Beadle liked to dabble in. “Get Up!” sounds like the perfect name for her show, such as it was.
Chris;
Well, he is anointed by God after all.
Don’t worry, Mother. I’m way ahead of them. 😉
A RORATE Editorial: Francis Must Go:
Word.
Plus, I have an attack dog, weighing in at 5.9kgs.
And that’s before her bath!
+10^6