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“He used wine in the fuel tank and abused the choir in the back seat”
And Tony Abbott was sitting in the passenger seat watching!
Scene: Andrews’ office, Collins St
Dan: this is awful, the people are already a wake up to us, barging into funerals, silly fines, the whole Pell thing, as well as that fat lawyer.
PR: perhaps we can have hug a police person day ?
Dan: nah, we’ve already told them they can’t hug the grand kids
PR: ok, we have heroes, brave foot soldiers, I see a shrine, pipe bands, sack cloth, sombre music, hymns.
Dan: nah, sounds too Catholic.
Cats, from Rupert’s best opinion page at the Gold Coast Bully – Viv Forbes of The Saltbush Club followed by yours truly….
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I think the prosecution found their next witness 🙂
Yes, the freeways in Dannograd are dangerous.
BeijingDan told me that golf courses were dangerous, which is why they have been banned.
Freeways have not been banned, so I guess they are safer than golf courses.
Cain does not start new job until December so I guess he is still head of DPP where he has control over case going to court . He has stopped some where one might say he had a conflict of interest.
Had he attended a funeral, mocked transgenderism, been unsupportive of the AFLW, driven a kilometer over the limit, called someone a wanker at the cricket, then woe bedtime him.
“Cardimona
#3424885, posted on April 23, 2020 at 8:59 am”
Hi Cardi…I watched Barnaby on Sky last night…being interviewed about Kung Flu and the “App”….he looks really, really good and is obviously in a good place. Your daughter makes him happy.
Sounds like Fawkner Cemetery, replete with empty gravesite Jim Beam cans and Collingwood flags!
Seems the Porsche driver was “known to police”, was pulled over doing 140 K’s, and returned “positive” to a roadside drug test.
No roadside graveside visits this year.
Just stand at the end of your drive with a candle in a Bundy bottle, and repeat the mantra …
“He died doin’ what he loved best. Bein’ a dickhead.”
How long before VicPol leak that they are looking for a male wearing a dog collar and dark clothing ?
Anyone heard Neil Mitchell this morning? Four coppers are dead, which is a tragedy. Making it worse is Mr Unctuous on the radio trying to horn in on the grief dividend. I’ve actually switched over to Virginia Trioli, who has just done — surprise! surprise! — a really tough interview with treasurer Tim Pallas in regard to the next $24 billion in borrowings the Hunchback will piss against the wall.
Porsche driver situation seems a bit sus. Reportedly an extensive criminal record, cops have had dash cam footage of the same car speeding, in the same location, for at least a month. Lots of traffic cameras on that stretch for scoping people on mobile phones if they’d needed to positively identify the driver at that time. Seems odd this guy was still on the road, reckless and feeling untouchable – meth head or police informant?
I have, for about 10 mins before I started dry-retching.
Meth head or Federal judge?
Vikpol – the most staggeringly incompetent and corrupt police “service” in the western world.
Those four cops are dead precisely because of that staggering incompetence and corruption, so spare me the sanctimonious grief mongering bullshit.
Exactly.
The amount of time spent chasing down people for minor shit which isn’t technically a crime is mind-boggling.
Maybe haul some of the battalion of chicky-babes out of Pleece Meeja and give them something mildly useful to do:-
It is not a Toyota Camry.
It is a 911.
I reckon it would have taken about 3-4 hours to narrow his address down to a couple of blocks.
Oh – and any time I’ve ever had the misfortune to be in a vehicle on an expressway in Mosquebourne I’ve been acutely aware that my life could end at any moment.
Thank goodness I’ll never have to visit the stinking cesspit ever again.
No roadside graveside visits this year.
Exactly. Can’t be drawing crowds in the present situation. One old eucalypt on that circuit, bark stripped from the base, stood sentinel over three ‘memorials’ complete with the diminutive terms of endearment scrawled on the crosses.
VicPol:
1. We charged Cardinal Pell on the say so of one person, that’s right, there were no witnesses who can corroborate the charge.
2. We didn’t charge the meth head roaring up and down the freeway despite our own cameras, dash cams and numerous complaints to us owing to a lack of evidence.
1735099
#3424741, posted on April 23, 2020 at 6:17 am
Isn’t Florida Republican, and isn’t the Catallaxy meme that only Democrats get the virus?
Dead Americans,, uurrrrgh, urrrrgh, urrrugh Im Gunna COOOOMMMM!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjWswTrBuXU
Let me see if I’ve got this right.
Brisbane Igor travels up to Cairns to visit CBH Igors.
S/H/It was asymptomatic and hands off the ChiCom Lung Rot to three Igors in the Path. Lab.
Instead of testing the hospital staff for the ‘Rona, QLD health is screening them, because reasons.
Bureaucrats gonna bureaucrat.
Plate: LLC-001
Just a hunch:
Lorbek Luxury Cars: “Lorbek Luxury Cars have been trading in European prestige, luxury and sports cars for over 30 years.”
Yep, that’s the one:
https://www.lorbek.com.au/prestige-cars/used/porsche/911
Snap Albino.
Utter bullshit that they couldn’t find him.
Maybe the tub of lard who booked the L plater chick could have been given the job of trawling through the CCTV.
In breaking news, Defence minister Linda Reynolds has announced the formation of a new strategic reserve arm of the military. It is intended to counter swiftly moving changing geo-political conditions and newly developing strategic challenges in our region.
The new force – to be known as “Northforce” – will combine army, navy and air force units, with an unprecedented degree of cooperation designed to enable an integrated and swift response to any security challenges Australia might face in the medium term.
Northforce will be based in already established facilities in Texas & Louisiana.
They had a video of the license plate. Ten seconds on a computer and they should have had his address.
I reckon it would have taken about 3-4 hours to narrow his address down to a couple of blocks.
Not to boast, but it took two minutes to find the car and the owner.
Nice work areff, but apparently the Porsche in question had Qld plates.
Hilarious, on a site where the meme that the virus knows how people vote and punishes Democrats accordingly is a daily feature.
Maybe the Bulldogs VC should have driven a Porsche?
Yep, it’s happened.
So it has been reported, Monfish. I suspect the reporterette has the state designation wrong. The VIC designation also runs vertically on the side of the plate. What are the chances? Two identical Porsches, same letters and numbers.
Anyway, whatever the truth, curiosity will soon be satisfied, as the driver is handing himself in today.
How many Porsche 911s registered in Australia?
As I said, if it was a white Camry, maybe I could understand.
It wasn’t an unregistered, uninsured VN Commodore kept in the back shed.
Lot’s of traces for Plod to follow.
At least Mr 991 Carrera (VIN WP0ZZZ99ZHS161884) isn’t subject to a Takata airbag recall.
The vehicle in question.
Enlarge the photo and you can just make out the QLD lettering on the plate.
Maybe the Bulldogs VC should have driven a Porsche?
All Bulldogs deserve Rollers with perky-breasted chauffeurs, fetching outfits and an obliging nature.
If only VicPol had some way of contacting their counterparts in QLD. if only.
Then that is one heck of a remarkable coincidence.
I suspect that’s the dream of their AFLW team. Some of whom aren’t bad sorts judging by the ones I once spied at the Yarraville Arms
Having noted that, the plates in question are most certainly fake.
Got a mirror?
Pelican wants the loan of a mirror. Is this the first dim sign of a developing self-awareness?
You want the name of the Porsche driver?
It is a Dr Brennan, an American academic.
How long before Minchin writes a song asking him to ‘come home’?
So, we have an extensive criminal history, complaints to the Police and citizens posting footage on social media and nada? I’m certain that policing in Australia now, essentially targets the obedient.
Good morning all.
So going through Facebook and a lot of people have the emblem of the Victoria Police as their temporary profile image. Included are people who have a complete disregard for police. Because feelz. FMD.
Rego plate or no, how difficult would it have been to trace his location after the dash-cam footage was handed in?
All the cars in that showroom have that number plate.
I still reckon its the one. Dealer playing fast and loose with number plates?
If he was in the habit of doing 140k on the freeway, perhaps he had reason to believe the cops were his friends? Is Greenlighting a thing in Victoria Police circles?
Yep, well done brainiac that’s going to help your cause a lot lol.
Car dealers son taking daddys cars for a spin?
you needed to ask that question?
[giggle]
#illparkwithyou
“Isn’t Florida Republican, and isn’t the Catallaxy meme that only Democrats get the virus?”
My god but aren’t you a f/wit, Bob. And once again, you beclown yourself.
Even after those cases are added, Florida -the US State traditionally known for it’s elderly population- still has a “deaths per million” rate of more than five times – that’s 5 times- better than the average of the worst 11 US states. And those worst 11? Every single one of them run by Democrats.
But Bob doesn’t care about dead people that don’t suit him. After all, how many people died when he shirked his duties to his country after lacking the brains or self-discipline required to take the many easy routes out before his selfish malingering cost the lives of others.
Someone connected with the dealer.
Car dealer that is.
Or maybe both.
Just kidding. They wrote the fucking book.
When i was in UK and Europe earlier this year i drove at 140 kph and lived!
Weird.
According QLD DoT to the VIN attached to that rego number is a 991, but various VIN decoders come up with a 1987 911.
areff
#3424914, posted on April 23, 2020 at 9:18 am
Plate: LLC-001
Just a hunch:
Lorbek Luxury Cars: “Lorbek Luxury Cars have been trading in European prestige, luxury and sports cars for over 30 years.”
Yep, that’s the one:
https://www.lorbek.com.au/prestige-cars/used/porsche/911
Wasn’t it black? Repaint or rebirth!
He really is a turd of a man.
Great Tom’s toons this morning:
I liked this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWN4YkPUcAMsl7A?format=jpg&name=small
Then this:
And Tom reckons Pence. Also Don Jr. And who will the demorats have for 2024: michelle; maybe creepy porn lawyer will have another shot.
When I was last there, if you weren’t doing 140 kph you were holding up the traffic.
What you won’t hear from an MSM obsessed with Trump…
Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama fomented an ugly genocidal-sectarian conflict in Nigeria:
— Femi Fani-Kayode, Nigeria’s former minister of culture and tourism
RTWT
More good news:
New Michael Moore-Backed Documentary On YouTube Reveals Massive Ecological Impacts Of Renewables
Here is Shellenberger on the movie. And here is the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
QED
Jesus, every fucking car in the showroom is pictured with that number plate. Porsches, Range Rovers etc. seems like its their generic rego for test drives.
A new car from their queensland operation? Being ‘test driven’ by cockhead son of owner.
Case closed.
Hey numbers her ya go a chance to prove your bravery
He is looking well, Cassie, my Beautiful Bride noted that, too.
Did you see our grandson run past in the background – twice – followed by the dog?
That made me smile!
A SCHOOL erupted in flames in the Paris suburbs as rioting over coronavirus confinement continued across France and other spots in the world.
My mate the casual CBH nurse, who has been without income for a month, notes the bureaucrats are vewwy, vewwy busy – and much-hated by the clinical staff.
Lorbek on Facebook denying the car has anything to do with them.
The other night, the excrement from Toowoomba posted a lengthy screed (as he does frequently) about the anniversary of the Oklahoma bombing atrocity. As he likes to do…the piece of filth liked to snidely infer that most of us here supported that atrocity in Oklahoma twenty-five years ago.
Anyway….a few days ago was the one year anniversary of the Sri Lanka Muesli massacres of mostly Christians….in churches…does anyone recall the piece of excrement from Toowoomba posting a screed about the anniversary of those atrocities and condemning them?
“Did you see our grandson run past in the background – twice – followed by the dog?”
Yes Cardi! It was a beautiful scene.
New Fred everybody!
Have we seen a photo or name of the Porsche driver yet?
No.
Victoria.
Obvious is obvious.
Jesus. You can’t possibly be that stupid, Bob. No one could possibly be that stupid. Surely even you realise that the issue I’m presenting is the criminal negligence that Democrat governors and legislatures have with respect to the health systems that they are meant to be responsible for? Surely there’s some tiny part of your very tiny brain that is aware that the point here is the very clear correlation between Democrat mis-management and people dying.
That’s right, Bob. Democrat leaders of those worst 11 US states have presided over more deaths in less than three months from this than 60% of the entirety of US casualties in the whole of the Vietnam War. But it’s worse than that. That 37,600 deaths in 3 months (12,533 per month)? That’s more than the deaths per month in WW2(9311). By a lot. That’s right, Bob. Democrats and Democrat policies in the US are literally worse for US people than Hitler and Stalin combined.
And it gets even worse. Since the US was kept (relatively) out of WW1, the next point of comparison was the American Civil War. In no war in history have more Americans died. From 12 April 1861 to 9 April 1865, 620,000 Americans died: 12916 per month.
“Phew”, you say… because you’re an idealogical idiot who doesn’t care if people die because of people and policies he supports. But if you do, you’ll have missed something. You’ll have missed that I fudged the length of time over which Americans have died from Coronavirus. Because it’s not over 3 months. It was from March 16. And the number I used for total deaths? Deflated by more than the total number of people who died in the US from March 16 to March 21.
So the real number who died on their watch? 37,600 per month. Almost three times the number of deaths per month than the worst conflict in US history. The Democrats are worse than Hitler, Stalin and slavery combined.
You have my unending contempt.
I’ll be interested to know the driver’s, um, cultural background.
He’s not screaming Skip to me.
..
You’re new here, aren’t you?
Hey Mrs Woolfe!
Someone is using your late husband’s Cat login.
So the experts the left appeal to are being ridden roughshod by bureaucrats, who are completely leftist.
In other words, they’re lying. They’re calling people murderers under the pretext of these decisions being made by medical experts when it is in fact being made by professional sociopaths pretending to be medical experts.
A few days ago I wrote in a post that the govt doesn’t seem to have any way out of this pandemic lockdown strategy, apart from the introduction of the tracking app. Currently, we are being told, that if the public accepts this intrusion into our private lives and activities and continues our social distancing and isolation, the country could move to a cessation of the lockdown.
It now seems to me that we’re all watching a variation of the movie, Eye in the Sky.
If you’ve not seen the film, it’s a depiction of the use of new technology, especially of the remote controlled variety, to mount a pre-emptive strike against an Islaaa-mick suicide-bomber terrorist cell in Nairobi that is about to kill hundreds of people but somewhere unknown.
Almost all of the film is contained mainly inside four sites: the terrorist’s safe house, a street market adjacent to the safe house centred on a young child (girl) who is selling from a small table at the side of the road her mother’s homemade bread, a British government conference room in which the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Alan Rickman) is in discussion with a number of government ministers – the Secretary for Defence, the Attorney General and the Parliamentary Under-secretary for Africa – and who is liaising with a British Army Colonel (Helen Mirren) at a British military site, who herself is overseeing a multinational team that has been originally engaged in capturing the three highest-level leaders of this terrorist group.
The strategy and tactics change when the optical surveillance reveals the suicide bombing mission that is about to commence. Wanting to release a hell-fire missile to kill the cell before the terrorists can depart on their operation, the multi-national team realise that in the killing of the terrorists the young Kenyan girl who is adjacent to the safe-house may be also killed.
The remainder of the film explores the concept of collateral damage and how political and military wings of democratic nation states attempt to determine the value of life at the same time as seeking to tactically respond to a clear and present danger directed toward a large number of unknown, innocent people.
Without giving anything else away, if anyone wants to check this film out, the decision-making inside the government conference room suggests a correlation with what is happening in the decision-making process of our political masters because of the China Pestilence.
Thus, in trying to save every single Australian life from this disease (symbolised by the little girl) , our political and public servant class can not see, or their gaze is being averted from, the many, many other Australians who financially and/or mentally may not survive if this lockdown continues much longer (the potential hundreds of victims from the suicide bombers).
Throughout the film my frustration grew and grew because of the political paralysis evident by the ongoing discussions taking place between myriad players, including the Foreign Secretary who is at distance from the political team, as well as US Government officials, to determine whether the operation has a legal basis on which to proceed. Suffice it to say, that everyone of the government ministers seemed to understand the great danger to a great number of innocent people but not one of these ministers wants to be the person who decides the course of action because of the possibility that the operation may cause the death of the little girl.
And because it seems to me that no one in the Government’s Covid-19 decision-making group can accept that the lockdown should end, because of the risk that the public and the media may perhaps think that the political-public expert class has over-reacted due to the very low numbers of cases – we have” flattened the curve!” ffs; Australians are now at risk from a bigger and more deadly attack – the attack on livelihoods and the resulting national and individual penury – because of the delay in their decision-making.
Hence we now need another safeguard before those in charge can relieve themselves of the collateral damage of, perhaps, of some additional people contracting the disease, and this requirement that there be no collateral damage – no deaths or illness – is taking precedence over the clear and present danger if the lockdown is extended any longer.