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Employers will be allowed to require workers to vaccinate against coronavirus, a workplace law expert says, despite assurances from the federal government the jab will be voluntary.
As the vaccine’s national rollout approaches, there are calls for greater clarity around the authority of businesses and rights of their employees.
It comes after a Brisbane care worker who was terminated for refusing a flu jab launched an unfair dismissal case against her former employer.
Zana Bytheway, executive director of employment rights legal centre JobWatch, said employers had a responsibility to provide a safe work environment.
As part of fulfilling that obligation, they may require that workers are vaccinated at the company’s expense.
The softening up begins.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/covid19-vaccine-rollout-australia-legal-expert-says-employers-can-require-staff-to-vaccinate/news-story/082234c3673238106ee59b62b8268810
This lady (Catherine Austin Fitts) provides an interesting angle on the situation around Wu-Flu in general and lockdowns in particular.
Her opinion is that the elites are trying to make it impossible for the Main street workers to finance populist candidates, like they did in 2016, by removing sources of independent income (small business, private practice etc.). That’s only one point out of many more she makes in this interview. She talks about bigger goals, which cats are already aware of, ultimately leading to global slavery.
Do try to keep up.
Global slavery? That sounds like hard work.
Cambridge University is to admit disadvantaged students who left school with BBB grades at A-level as part of a new diversity drive.
The 800-year-old institution is recruiting 50 students for a new foundation year which is aimed at boosting the number of undergraduates from deprived families.
The course will be open to students from underprivileged backgrounds, including those from low income families, poorly performing schools, those who have spent time in care, or who have had their education disrupted due to ill health.
The usual offer to students who want to study at Cambridge is at least A*AA, but the university hopes to attract talented students who have missed out on top grades through circumstances out of their control. Cambridge has specified that “disruption caused by Covid-19 resulting in school or college closure is not in itself applicable”.
DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries for the first time
Anyone going to bother with Australia Day this year?
Seems to me that the UK withdrew from the EU to be British.
Our state premiers have withdrawn from the Federation to be arseholes.
Black athletes have launched a legal assault on what they are calling the chronic bias by the NCAA. Last month in federal court in Indianapolis, a lawsuit was filed alleging the governing body of college sports singles out historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) for bans from postseason play in Division I, the highest level of competition.
The class-action suit, filed on behalf of three former and recent HBCU athletes at Savannah State and Howard universities, centers on NCAA rules that say a sports program must maintain about a 50% graduation rate to qualify for postseason tournaments,
Sephora’s plan to combat racial bias: Fewer security guards, more Black-owned brands
International makeup chain Sephora is implementing sweeping changes in its merchandising, marketing, and employee training practices in one of the most public efforts by a major retailer to mitigate the potential for racial profiling and other discriminatory practices at its stores.
India develops COVID treatment kit for less than $3 per person with ‘miraculous’ ivermectin
By reducing the number of plastics, we consume, we can reduce the unfair burdens they bare.
Scourged, I was, in that link good Doctor by the flailing whips of green. I never imagined that Tupperware or Sistema could lead to so much misery for BIPOC’s, so called. Nevertheless, at every cut, each point advanced was taken to heart; except the last sentence which rained upon me rather weakly.
Only in arguing that all the talk of an “invasion” is bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWcQC0Psk_M
Anyone bother with Australia Day any year?
Nope.
How do plastics bare burdens?
Mexican president mounts campaign against social media bans
Here’s the scum US MSM trying to cancel actor Matthew McConaughey…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRGnkvwpyow
Oz day is not a thing for me . So many people against it , so few for it. Not much left in this joint.
Have never given it much thought, always thought it was the way things were,that didn’t last did it?
BBL crowds now rival Sheffield Shield crowds. Forget lines you would struggle to find someone to have a beer with.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
How do plastics bare burdens?
Presuming that, on the word of doom mongers, if they get into our food chain we reveal fat arses and pendulous dugs in the shower.
Ask the Gimp.
Pulp Fiction is on 9Go in half an hour.
Yes. As always, I’ll have the family around for roast lamb and pav. And prawns. I usually put little flags around the table too. 🇦🇺
Cling Wrap?
I do. The secret is Plausible Deniability.
Anyone going to bother with Australia Day this year?
Avsolutely!
Any excuse to run a train, and take a day off from work.
Even if the humidity is awful… ☹
Swaggers into cat pleased as punch that i just really annoyed a blue tick on Twitter, enough that I got a nonsensical response.
A new era in gushing reporting begins.
Glenn Greenwald
Daily Caller
Fish and barrels, nota. How unsporting of you! 😀
I wasn’t even aiming my barrel at him.
Can’t say its the first time it’s happened either.
One bloke (admittedly I’d never heard of was very very cross with me.
Two of them get mentioned regularly on the cat.
Note to Joe: America is too big too sniff all at one go. Do it incrementally. C’mon man!
I’m thinking of inviting a few people around. How many are we currently ‘allowed’?
CNN says it can be done. And CNN is always right.
Here’s a case study in ABC political correctness:
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-20/men-and-women-kill-their-children-in-roughly-equal-numbers-why/13074952
Women kill their children as much as men, but it’s all the fault of the heteropatriarchy anyway.
Australia Day? I’m planning to do the quintessential Aussie suburban bloke thing and mow the lawn.
Terrible metaphor. Biden’s arms have been far too busy embracing young girls already.
Weren’t there any side lights when Donald Trump got inaugurated?
Donald embraced America and America embraced Donald back.
Can’t see that happening for Biden.
Let’s see how long the process against Ghislaine Maxwell lasts when the Democrats get control of the system.
Photo of Kamala at a party with Ghislaine circulating on twitter.
Where too much winning is barely enough!
President Trump on Tuesday commuted the prison sentence of Death Row Records’ co-founder Michael “Harry O” Harris for attempted murder and cocaine trafficking, a friend who advocated for his release told The Post.
The move came shortly after it was revealed that rapper Snoop Dogg had been secretly lobbying the White House on behalf of Harris.
Snoop’s efforts came even though he’s been an outspoken critic of Trump — and even made a video in which he pretended to shoot a clown dressed as the president.
Angelos, however, credited First Daughter Ivanka Trump for Harris’ impending release more than seven years before it was scheduled to take place on June 13, 2028.
“The credit on this one goes to Ivanka Trump because Ivanka Trump was not going to take no for an answer,” he said.
Thanks GM as plausible as anything.
My sil was giving out gifts of lumps of home made shampoo last year. I should have stuck into her bathrooms at Christmas and checked if that was still a thing.
La Nina has turned my lawn into the creature from Little Shop of Horrors.
If I leave it 6 more days my house will disappear beneath it.
On the coming European Electrical Grid Disaster:
Hahahaha!
This is going to be 2021’s song!
Where too much grifting is barely enough
Breaking911
@Breaking911
Less than 24 hours before Biden is sworn in, Sidney Powell voluntarily drops her lawsuit to overturn results in Georgia. Via
@kyledcheney
Old Lefty – of course, that ABC report on filicide being committed equally by fathers and mothers (are we still allowed to call them that?!) makes no mention at all of late term abortions.
Closer to home than Ghislaine Maxwell, have a read of John Whitehall at Quadrant Online:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2021/01/the-persecution-of-a-doctor/
In contrast to the appalling leftist PC persecution of Dr Kok, see Whitehall’s account of how ALP appointee Heather Lambrick of VCAT, who found against Kok, has allowed a procession of p3d0s and homosexual r0pists to have working with children checks. But of course they weren’t clergy or political conservatives.
Meh … they’re not used to her
“In contrast to the appalling leftist PC persecution of Dr Kok, see Whitehall’s account of how ALP appointee Heather Lambrick of VCAT, who found against Kok, has allowed a procession of p3d0s and homosexual r0pists to have working with children checks. But of course they weren’t clergy or political conservatives.”
I read it OL….I was shocked. Victoria is stuffed.
We have wallabies for that.
Don’t try and spoil it MT. You don’t know who it was or what it was about. I didn’t even comment on his timeline, he, a very well known journalist just thought he’d squash me like a bug.
Hmmm…I can make an edumacated guess. 😀 🏴☠️
Na, good on ya nota.
kick ’em in the nuts
Dr Faustus, Re Bill Clinton. I give you Chelsea Clinton. If she is not the result of devil worship, Killary. I don’t know what is.
You want a foot massage?
Winston, when I read your response to my faith-related comment the other day, I took it to be a genuine question since it was addressed to me.
Later, I thought that it might just have been a rhetorical query. In which case, I’ll let it pass.
If you were seriously making an observation, I am happy to answer – from my experience.
Don’t worry about the veal. I’ll make sure you are on the premises, before I tap away at my keyboard. 🙂
To deal with the power grid instability problems, Germany’s Economics Minister Peter Altmaier presented a draft law that would allow electric utilities “to temporarily cut off the charging power for e-cars when there is once again too little electricity available”, an idea known as “peak smoothing”.
They’ll be back to horses pulling carts before long.
The French parliament recently passed a bill to phase out 15 nuclear reactors and spend $200bn + on subsidies – sorry, “investment” – in wind and solar over the next 15 years.
A group of French electrical engineers reported that the grid would be so destabilised thereby that resort to gas and coal would be the only recourse to supply the necessary baseload.
Oh, the ironing!.
Good point.
Anyone going to bother with Australia Day this year?
Absolutely!
Flags* raised at dawn, or as soon as the guys can attach the flagpoles to the gazebo. Prawns and Aussie BBG with the family, with beer, champers, chablis, and fruit punch for the nippers.
Musical entertainment by the talented grandies in the afternoon. Wouldn’t miss it for quids.
* In past years there have been incidences of flag envy among the troops. So far, no-one has erased the smug smirk from Best Man’s face.
Are there any ‘grassy knoll’s close to Sniffies inauguration, asking for 76,000,000 patriots.
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I had been sent an invitation late last year to attend the Shire’s Australia Day Citizenship swearing in ceremony.
Just got a phone call saying don’t bother, no foreigners in town to make citizens.
Covid has stopped all immigration sez the Shire gal, sadly. I refrained from laughing out loud.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
I will be saluting the original inhabitants with bread and Coles mince.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Says Bed Bath And Beyond, Kohl’s To Drop His Products; Dominion Voting Systems Threatens To Sue
Just read the full list of Trumps pardons at Daily Mail. Whilst the number seems a lot the great majority are far from controversial. Many are drug cases where defendant got a long mandatory sentence. Frauds another group and a few are former veterans. In many cases the time has already been served. Many are supported by various people such as AG, polticians, even former Judges and prosecutors, charities and community groups and they are listed.
OK there are a few of his supporters and the rappers but if they are the worst of them then no biggie as far as I can see. I suspect many criticising the list have not read the individual cases outline in the article.
Best comment in the thread by Sir Jimmy Saville was :
“Absolutely despicable that he pardoned Hans Gruber. Many families didn’t see their loved ones that Christmas after the 1988 Nakatomi Tower attack which Gruber facilitated. Shameful”.
ABC is of course disingenuously lying again.
Mothers kill 47%
Fathers kill 38%
That’s not “roughly equal” that’s “more”
Mothers kill their children more than Fathers
Dr Faustus, Re Bill Clinton. I give you Chelsea Clinton. If she is not the result of devil worship, Killary. I don’t know what is.
Good point.
Rosemary’s Baby?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjpA6IH_Skc
I know there is evidence of Hillary at least having a keen interest.
I’ve posted about it.
And let’s not mention abortion.
I’ll be taking in Australia Day with a bowls tournament in Culgoa. Don’t have a barbie alas, cold meat and salad for lunch. Beer is cold, temperature over 40. What’s not to like?
This one’s for agricultural Cats – seems the first shipment of malting barley – 35,000 tonnes – has gone to Mexico to make beer.
‘The West won’t die, but it will slowly morph into something very different.
A lot of what today is still cultural literacy will be lost.
Cults like climate change will have to play themselves out.
Surveillance will increase. Identity faddishness will continue.’
Vietnam will endure.
Australia Day this year will be overnighting in Charters Towers. No Goldfield Ashes this year so accommodation easy. Will have to have a bbq & beers there.
Barry
Did you notice they slip in stepfathers as the same as biological dads.
So billy hon smoke who shacked up with Shazza a month ago is “dad”
Kaysee:
More a rhetorical post drink smartarse comment from me. Nothing personal was meant.
Sometimes the anger gets the better of me.
My apologies. I will try to do better, but cannot guarantee success.
I’d prefer to leave it as is.
Ta.
The Goldfield Ashes.
Takes me back. The ’93/94 and ’94/95 tours in particular.
No proof has been presented that it actually happened.
I have proof that Ricky Slater’s as dead as dogshit.
Haha! The time frame to citizenship is several years.
Apparently there’s Seven new citizens to be branded in my town. Two of ’em are staff of mine, I’ve no idea who the others are, presumably a mix of staff from other pubs, backpackers who’ve stayed on & shagged their way into citizenship, & perhaps an overseas spouse or two.
That’s the usual mix here, anyway.
Winston Smith
#3731360, posted on January 20, 2021 at 9:42 pm
Anyone who survived that place deserves a medal.
That’s what you are, Winnie: a survivor.
These are the gongbangers responsible for destroying half a million dollars’ worth of stock on an NT cattle station:
‘TWO men facing charges over the shooting deaths of 30 horses at Killarney Station last year have been given a new court date.
‘Timothy James Playford and Glenn Littlechild, who each face charges of damage to property and aggravated cruelty to animals, will return to court on February 23.
‘At the pair’s first appearance in November, defence counsel Jon Bortoli said the men would fight the charges, adjourning the matter “given the size of the brief” with a view to proceeding to a contested hearing in the Local Court.
‘But police prosecutor Leighton Arnolt said they would not consent to the case being heard summarily and requested a committal mention so the case could be heard by a Supreme Court judge.’
Word around the campfire is the police prosecutor is particularly fond of neddies, and has quite a few of his own.
Great isn’t it KD. Too bad COVID has killed it this year albeit to my advantage. I just spent the day with 3 workers from SYD. Queensland Gov says I should test when I cross on Saturday, yeah na. Probably knowing my luck I’ll get a false positive…
Have you told them yet that they will be fired? Because there’s jobs that Australians won’t do, and obviously we need foreign labour n at otherwise shortages! Shortages!!
Some of the best and longest weekends I’ve ever had RD.
Top shelf all the way.
Were they the morons who claimed they thought they were shooting wild horses?
Aha.
Pulp Fiction.
Sorry … but the “aggravated cruelty” charges?
Is that because they were bad shots and failed to get a clean kill? I presume that must also apply to rabbit snares and fox baits … it would have to because we know the law has very consistent standards.
I didn’t even realise they weren’t citizens until they asked for the afternoon off to go & get sworn in.
Apparently quite a few of the horses they shot were left still alive…
‘Is that because they were bad shots and failed to get a clean kill?’
Yep, for some of them.
Like his arms are outstretched embracing the nation.
This is the kid sniffer involved in influence peddling.
https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1351672934197125121/pu/img/ADUU0HwJ10ihy4Tf?format=jpg&name=small
The owners of Killarney are …er.. not without clout… & are not the sort of employers one would expect to forgive small mistakes, never mind large-scale wanton destruction.
Anyone going to bother with Australia Day this year?
Absolutely!
I will be saluting the original inhabitants with bread and Coles mince.
“We expect something more in keeping with our status than monotony on this our special day.”
Something from the Bruce Pascoe recipe book would be more to our Ozzie taste, such as lot-fed marsupial and organic bread made from the seeds of wild grasses.
F15’s out of JFK. A WTF! moment for those passengers on the A380 and other aircraft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8PLwFtPllk
Oh man.
Ezekiel 25:17 makes an appearance. Great vengeance and fuuuurious anger.
the kick in nuts?
Something like that.
They’re in some difficulty with that. Apparently their permission to hunt feral animals was conditional upon no shooting within a radius of several kilometres of the station buildings, & were provided a station map, with “no shooting” areas clearly marked.
Cowboys like that should never be allowed to own so much as a cap pistol.
They’re doing well to still own their heads.
Just as well for them they were well out of there by the time the ringers discovered the fate of the horse plant.
Sounds like TI.
Except I’m not sure the Mayor she would work the public holiday.
That’s a good point. All these Australia Day public events that councils run (including the branding of new voters) must cost the ratepayers a fortune in public holiday penalty rates.
Mayors and councillors don’t get penalty rates. I think.
Biden to sign 17 executive orders Wednesday afternoon restoring policies as they were under the
Obummer administration.
So nothing new then, a new broom without bristles.
Does memory fail me?
When this first came to light, were there people here bleating about talk of them being summarily drummed out of their gun club?
Caving into the anti-gun lobby or summink.
To be clear I am squarely in the anti-dickhead lobby and these two need to be banned for life from gun ownership.
Bloody hell.
Now I’ve got a mate I haven’t seen for ten years sending me clips of fat Pommy chicks proclaiming that one of the C19 vaccines is chockers with lab-created foetus bits.
The reference source for this, naturally, is Wikipedia.
Enough. No I’m not getting the goddamn jab (eleven days to go, Faulty) for about a dozen decent reasons, but I don’t need third-rate scare tactics from fat chicks to validate me either.
And because Uma Thurman just overdosed, it’s farter time.
I can remember when executive orders were an affront to democracy and the unmistakable mark of a dictator.
There’s plenty of council staff gophering at those events – given their usual standard of contribution to anything they shouldn’t be paid extra – what’s the odds they’re on big dough for the day? (or a big addition to their time-in-lieu?)
Now that was a real vaccination.
The vet’s needle full of adrenaline straight into the chest.
‘summarily drummed out of their gun club’
The Sporting Shooters Association, yep. Took the membership about ten seconds to do it, and rightly so.
Washington state officially begins human composting
Washington state officially begins human composting
By Amanda Woods
People in Washington state can now literally push up daisies after their death — as the first human composting efforts in the country recently began there, according to a new report.
Two facilities in the Evergreen State received their first bodies for human composting — also known as “natural organic reductions” — last month, local outlet KOIN reported.
Herland Forest, a nonprofit research center in Klickitat County, is one of them.
“This is simply another option at a time when people feel they have no options,” Patrick told the station. “You know, death has intervened and changed your life forever. How can you do something at least to make it the way you want?”
Gov. Jay Inslee signed legislation in 2019 legalizing human composting. Advocates say that composting uses less energy than cremation, calling it a greener alternative, according to the local report.
Composting is now the only legal way for Washingtonians to be laid to rest on their own property, though in the form of mulch, according to the outlet.
Besides Herland Forest, the Seattle-based facility Recompose has also begun the process — with eight bodies so far, a spokesperson told the outlet. A total of 420 “Precompose” members have made advance payments for their future death care.
A third facility, Return Home in Auburn, expects to open later this year.
Walt Patrick, senior steward at the facility, told the station the “natural organic reductions” are an investment, and it could take several weeks before the composting process is complete.
The process begins when the body is placed in a “NOR cradle” along with 200 gallons of wood chips, Patrick said. Bacteria, protozoa and fungi are dispensed into the mixture to speed up the process. Oxygen is also added to keep it between 145 and 155 degrees.
Solar panels provide extra heat as needed.
The final result is four 55-gallon drums full of usable compost, according to Patrick.
The family of the deceased can decide to keep all of it, or donate a portion to Herland Forest to help grow new trees in the cemetery.
No doubt.
Was there not a bit of criticism here that the Darwin SSA had “caved in”?
Apart from the ponies, the mere fact they went on the rampage in an area they were told not to go is enough to unscrew their heads, shit down their necks and screw their heads back on … cross-threaded.
Council workers luuurve these ceremonial days.
Overtime out the wazoo to set up and dismantle tables, chairs, platforms and marquees, lots of free sausage sizzles and beer tents that need oversight.
Score!
‘Was there not a bit of criticism here that the Darwin SSA had “caved in”?’
Not sure LL. There may have been a bit of that but only briefly – the SSA threw these two clowns off a cliff and into the path of a cavalcade of buses. A more immediate distancing you’ve never seen.
No stand up pressers. No carefully crafted statements claiming their actions ‘were not consistent with our values’. Just – fuck off, and fuck off now.
The anti-gun lobby’s the last thing these two should be afeared of. As mentioned by others, the Killarney Station people are not to be trifled with. Under any circumstances, let alone if you’re gunning down their working stock and children’s pets.
News doing the rounds of ABC Vic today that there are calls to ban duck season because only 25% of shooters can identify duck species.
Bullshit run by animal lib activists and given a run without rudimentary research as the the truth of the claim.
From the Vic Gov site.
Before you can hunt game birds including duck, you need to pass the Waterfowl Identification Test. This test ensures that only those hunters able to demonstrate adequate identification skills are permitted to hunt ducks in Victoria.
Adolescent activists compiling the news at Aunty. Shut the place down.
It continues.
It seems person or persons not yet captured are random slaughtering livestock in the Top End.
Bow & Arrows. Several killings.
F15’s out of JFK. A WTF! moment for those passengers on the A380 and other aircraft.
That’s what’s so good about Honolulu.
And Kona.
Drills
Thanks for the heads up. Will be on the look out if it happens again.
Driller news alert.
Kangaroo got wiped out along the Stuart hwy two weeks ago.
I’m having fun watching the gold/silver/platinum markets ducking and weaving waiting for Granpa Joe’s swearing in.
Not touching it with a ten foot pole tonight, but fascinating seeing how the short term traders are bouncing around.
Buy Aussie on dips, Pedro.
Horses -Tents, whatever.
It can’t be said often enough.
Some people, should in no circumstances be entrusted with firearms.
In the 1960’s 63,735 national servicemen were conscripted to serve in the Army. Roughly 25% of those were deployed to Vietnam.
One of the Orange Mans most “insulting, racist and violent” comments during his Presidency was that “they’re not sending their best.”
Hard to argue with.
Does it hold true for the Australian Army in Vietnam?
Given a massive pool of 63,735 ‘conscripts’ and then only sending 15,381 of them to serve in Vietnam. (Ignoring for a moment all those other ‘conscripts’ who fought and died on contemporaneous active service in Malaysia and Borneo, or those who were conscripted in both post war schemes and made a career out of soldiering,)
Somebody tries to get the fact that we didn’t send our best beaten into us. Day after day after day after day.
There were many that found that short service and the possibility of a ‘war service loan” and the opportunity of a ‘gold card’ attractive enough to volunteer for ‘conscription’.
We actually did send our best.
With one singular exception…
Crosse-bowes.
Reminds me of the glorie days of carte cavalcades.
No exaggeration, the demented kid sniffer could create a massive human tragedy by announcing laxity towards illegal immigration. Thousands could pour through the border during COVID thereby fucking the US hospital systems in the impacted regions.
The kid sniffer was never smart, but now he’s a dangerous demented fool.
It is haunting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZz7Tdfz0rY
Sportsbet have Trump @ $11 for US Presidential election 2024.
#MAGA 🇺🇸
Article on American Thinker has this quote whilst discussing the BLM protesters in places like Portland and Seattle. Also applies to Oz day and flag and national anthems.
1960s radical Yippie Jerry Rubin famously said,
“Satisfy our demands and we’ve got twelve more. The more demands you satisfy, the more we got.”
from JC.
Good advice, JC, would have made a good profit over the last week, but I am afeared of the shitstorm that lies ahead after Ol’ Joe gets the brass ring.
Keeping the head below the parapet for a while.
This somehow just seems so appropriate right now …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTenyxyXFrI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEh83yUGAC8
Lame pics.
Madrid now
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1351896579310030850
Madrid explosion: Blast destroys building and sends smoke into air above Spanish capital
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1386611/madrid-explosion-Calle-Toledo-spain-news-explosion-latest-news-pictures-video
#pray for Madrid
Saw quote, “The US kept exporting democracy so long that they had none left for themselves”
Fascinating. Worth a few minutes.
Johannes Leak.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams. As if …
I don’t even know what that David Rowe cartoon is supposed to mean.
Michael Ramirez.
Haha, Biden started off by questioning the integrity & loyalty of the troops.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis.
Patrick Cross.
Lisa Benson.
Steve Breen.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Patrick Cross = the winner.
GM:
Whose name will he sign it in?
Thanks, Tom.
Broelman wins today, although Rowe is also great.
Which Biden? Won’t he need a little nap?
Cross for me too.
Morning to the waacist.
I see the racist is up early.
Isn’t the name “White House” now racist? Methinks it is time to change the name.
Daily dose of Vietnam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XLLX89dy3w
The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
h/t half the internet who have taken credit for it over the years.
I heard Joe Biden watches The Gorilla Channel 24/7.
Four years to flatten the Perv!
Skah, of course, is running a Biden tongue bath.
This includes the foppish, wokest world leaders in history, those of France and Canada pumping his tyres up.
Morrison’s ‘welcome message’ is, naturally, cheesy boilerplate.
Grabbing a woman by the pussy is unfit for YouTube, even if Dettol Donny bragged about it.
‘unfit for YouTube’
Speaking of which, clutching a several decades younger and obviously very uncomfortable woman by the shoulders, from behind, and holding her in place before leaning down and inhaling the scent of her hair should probably get a gig as well.
Oh hang on. Old Yeller, didn’t you ‘write’ once about your very similar experiences in that particular field of endeavour? No wonder you’re airbrushing this. Or trying to.
Hard coking coal hits $US131/t overnight.
Wow.
Just wow.
SLEEPY BILL Inauguration Day – Bill Clinton ‘appears to fall ASLEEP’ during Biden swearing-in while seated next to Hillary
Poor old bugger can’t win.
He sleeps with his wife and everybody bags him.
Only on Catallaxy.
Go here and read chapter 11 (Sony Radio) for the true story.
And thanks for the promo.
Only on Catallaxy.
Go here and read chapter 11 (Sony Radio) for the true story.
And thanks for the *BANG!*
No wonder Bobby boy likes Sniffy Joe…
#BirdsOfAFeather
Why would Trump pardon the dirt bag, extreme lefty, Trump hating former mayor of Detroit ?
@ feelthebern-
Because it upset the lefties that he did?
After all, the only thing they hate more than the outsiders they are ordered to hate, is each other…
Nah, he’s too busy listening to the planet.
Biden’s inaugural speech claims he hears planet Earth speaking to him: ‘A cry for survival comes from the planet itself’
Well it won’t be long until he has a ringside seat to planetary whispers when he’s in a box six foot underground with Kamala heaping dirt on top of it.
Whataboutism?
I’ve been saying to heaps of people around here not to believe a frigging thing you are told by corporate MSM
And to quote a legend….
I guess the trouble is, that if you’re a disgusting old pervert, you can’t see that you’re a disgusting old pervert. Or you wouldn’t be here, would you, numbers?
I’m going through the final list of pardons & commutations.
I feel sick because Snowden & Assange weren’t pardoned.
I feel sicker because of some of the names on the list.
All you have to do is google each name.
Sick.
Biden’s inaugural speech claims he hears planet Earth speaking to him: ‘A cry for survival comes from the planet itself’
Not even Gaia is safe, those fingers itch for the free, fresh, wind in her hair.
The Grauniad sees joy unbounded in every detail:
Biden and Harris dress to reassure that normal service is restored
Let the tongue bathing begin.
I expect Ivanka and Jared had a big say.
Katie Hopkins again
So writes the phantom stalker of young Cuban mothers.
God love her…..as the dumb sand monkey screams out his bias, she’s British therefore she’s racist.
Simple answer: Trump did not pardon him.
He did shorten the guy’s sentence and let him out after serving 7 years in prison … the argument being that he was guilty but 7 years is sufficient. There was a suggestion that black crooked officials get longer sentences than white crooked officials, although hardly any of such crooks get caught and most of them are a bit more careful about hiding their tracks than Kwame Kilpatrick.
They must think they are at the mosque – down the back, with the sacks.
is theTard agonising again?
the poor old vicarious vietnam veteran
always defining it’s own superior positionality by opposition to everything else in the world?
yes Bob, you look resplendent this morning
No sign of that swarthy bearer of the needle, who was always only a jab away from the tottering Hillary, when she was on the hustings. Maybe someone less conspicuous was on hand with the distilled monkey glands to administer a shot of youth into old Joe, should he begin to falter on the podium.
I think that was one of Trump’s characteristics, for better or worse.
He runs on instinct and gut feel and a very narrow field of advisors.
Where some might want a lot of detailed written submissions and seek a lot of advice, Trump relies on whether he judges the candidate for clemency as a “good guy”.
How long will they give Uncle Joe to fill his boots?
How to beat tyranny….ignore the bastards wherever you can…Italy is showing the way 50, ooo restaurants opened all at once across the country with no covid rules within 24 hours Italian government had given up .
If I say “You can shoot a hole in a tent, if you don’t clear your weapon.” doesn’t mean I’ve shot a hole in a tent.
Will have to give the ALPBC a miss today. More unbearable than usual. My personal BDS day.
The universal narrative is that they told Trump they’d run dead on the impeachment if he didn’t pardon Assange & Snowden.
Time will tell.
Sad.
Nope. One young Cuban mother pursued me, though. Falling back on lies is your standard MO isn’t it?
In Widespread Fears Unrealised news:
Washington deserted after inauguration despite widespread fears of more violent riots
Fallen state.
I don’t think the loony left running the Biden presidency really care. Either way, they have total control of the agenda. If anything, the uppity slut from California could be trouble, wanting to hurry up her illicit transition to the presidency. Much easier to keep propping up the corpse while the loonies change America forever.
The Biden presidency will be the Chinese Communist Party on acid.
Again, this old canard.
And again, there is no evidence that he ever did it. No one has seen such a thing, no one came forward to say it had happened to them, or even to someone they know.
It has all the hallmarks of a couple of guys talking shit in a private conversation. Perhaps exaggeration (like “He’d sell his own mother to get that promotion”, or “I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous”, or “The fishing is so good you just back up your car and open the boot.”)
Or perhaps not exaggerating. Perhaps saying that he would not be surprised if groupies would let people do that.
Not being a guy, and not really the sort of person guys would trade banter with, Numbers would not have recognised this. Some blog copy/pasting from the NYT copied the line and included for morons’ convenience how they were to interpret it and telling them to keep bleating it over and over like sheep.
Unmentioned in all this (since he would never do otherwise) is perhaps the most striking difference between what Trump referred to, and the notorious record of Democrats – that it would be consensual. The quote speaks of what groupies would let you do.
Watching that old goat sidle up behind girls, hold them in place with his clammy trembling hands, then in one movement bury his head in the stricken child’s hair to flood his senses with ‘little girl’.
And that is without even having to refer to the shrunken grey husk of a man that is Bill Clinton, and the trail of carnal carnage he left in his wake.
I don’t recall Dr BG using Google Earth to “spy” on men, women and children on a Perth beach. I do recall another poster admitting he did.
The face nappie mandate is new.
I rather liked Maria and still do. I feel sad that she felt that what you might call extreme flirting was her best strategy for getting money off me. But this is the practical reality in a socialist workers paradise.
The face nappie mandate is new.
A matter of such great pitch and moment continuing American exceptionalism is guaranteed.
If it is at all like Michelle Obama and her weight problem meaning that every schoolkid in America would have to go on a diet, Biden will likely be signing an executive order mandating Depends.
I wonder if they will re-name the Presidential plane ‘Hair-Snorts One’?
And here is the racist’s post…
“1735099
#3405781, posted on April 11, 2020 at 2:22 pm
We will not be defeated.
Watching Cottesloe live right now.
Lots of groups of two or three.
Apparently “households”.
Rozzers separating a bunch of jet skiers who were congregating.
The beach looks very quiet for Easter Saturday.
Plebs are cooperating and working to defeat the virus.
Normal people don’t do that.
Biden to sign 17 executive orders Wednesday afternoon restoring policies as they were under the
Obummer administration.
Normal service has resumed.
If it is at all like Michelle Obama and her weight problem meaning that every schoolkid in America would have to go on a diet,
Watch out for Doctor Jill on this one. She’s a qualified kids’ specialist, unlike her husband. The minute she starts planting rocket near the dunny at the back of the WH, be very afraid kids of America.
Swamp’s back baby. Resistance is futile.
According to John Brennan — Biden intel community “are moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about” the pro-Trump “insurgency” that harbors “religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians”
What did the libertarians do?
But but – Dettol Donny would never tell a lie.
So the pair of them have a thing for kids.
Anyway, she did a bang up job bringing up step-son Hunter. A better adjusted, mature, responsible man has never been seen.
Barry’s soaring rhetoric doesn’t sound the same when read by Grandpa Simpson.
Express a preference for freedom over tyranny?
.
“even libertarians”
And then they came for libertarians.
“Express a preference for freedom over tyranny?”
That’s hate speech. Must be shut down.
Anyway, she did a bang up job bringing up step-son Hunter. A better adjusted, mature, responsible man has never been seen.
And was he seen up there yesterday, standing proud with the Big Guy? may I ask. Or was he, at midday, having his scheduled relapse?
Dettol Danny
LOL
The stupid left took Trump’s comment seriously. Hilarious.
They just lied about it. It’s what they do.
Controlling the definitions is going to be key.
With appropriate meaning given to “insurgency” a lot of authoritarian restriction can be applied by the corporate state.
Unfortunately, we don’t get to control the definitions. We’ve seen this for a long time. Equal love?
Speaking of definitions and the like, anyone seen the “Old White Men” trope around lately?
No? I wonder why. 😂
Kamala.
Just like cancelling the evil calories in a bacon cheeseburger and fries with a Diet Coke.
Just like cancelling the evil calories in a bacon cheeseburger and fries with a Diet Coke
Don’t knock it, it works! 🤪
Just ask M0nty…
Speaking of definitions and the like, anyone seen the “Old White Men” trope around lately?
‘Stale, pale, male’ has literary connotations and also embraces other great artists; so I presume this jingle will be immune to any interference.
And yet they like to think of themselves as the subtle ones, the intelligent ones, the ones who can discern nuance.
And yet they proceed from a much mangled and diminished vocabulary and then are embarrassingly literal.
Old Faustus’ Almanac predicts: Details of a former President’s family life in the White House will be revealed. A journalist will be briefed on toileting habits and the excesses, or absence, of bedroom sports. Prurience will be redefined.
I wonder how long before bombs start dropping on somewhere in the Middle East?
Lefties understand the affective power of language, the ability to manipulate feelz. And have no grasp of any other use. In particular, meaning or truth. It’s why they have no real concept of lying; it’s just a tool for getting what they want. Badly brought up children.
Old Joe is ensconced, but nothing yet as I can see of any obsequious and honeyed words from Morrison. If you want another State dinner in the White House, to boost your election chances, you had better get a wriggle on ScoMo.
But but – Dettol Donny would never tell a lie.
The ostrich has told so many lies (including repeating ad nauseum the Big Lie of no electoral fraud), he doesn’t recognise that others might exaggerate for effect, depending upon the circumstance.
Still, given his confidence, perhaps he could produce a “victim” of pussy grabbing, one who did not consent?
DrB – Goes back a long long time:
If you think in your hindbrain you are a god then you’ll regard anything you believe or say as being the absolute truth. And you will tend to get angry when other people defy your magnificence. It explains the fury of the lefty climate nazis so well: they think anything they say is the truth and become incandescently furious when righties point out the data shows nothing much is happening. How dare they defy a god!
Almost by definition. When you are on a progressive ‘journey’, “meaning” changes with your objective, and “truth” is a flexible, local construct off of those changes.
What have the librarians done ?
A State dinner at the WH with all of Gropey Joe’s fruits and nuts? Eww. And the probability would approach 1.00 that they’d seat him next to the tranny health secretary who killed all the nursing home residents.
Activists planning to protest Australia Day have been warned to not put the community at risk this year by breaking pandemic restrictions.
Premier Daniel Andrews has warned people planning events in January 26 that they must be safe and within the rules.
“Now this will be a different Australia Day because we’re in the midst of a global pandemic,” he said.
“This is not a commentary on what people might be protesting about but it’s no time to be protesting.”
The Invasion Day Melbourne protest organised by Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance has up to 4500 people who have indicated they will attend, or are interested in attending.
Unlocked article from the Herald-Sun…looks like they are inviting a pile on to help Chairman Dan along.
Australia’s $220 billion submarine disaster surfaces as PM’s nightmare sinks in
Christopher Pyne should incur a lifetime ban from defence consultancy.
Planet Cornelius had plenty to say (3 months ago) about what people might be protesting about.
Will Victoria Police take a knee this time, too?
Britain got into nuclear submarines in less than 10 years in the 1960s. The subs were built in the UK, and the engines were supplied by the USA.
The Brits followed that up with US Polaris missiles launched again from their own build subs.
Can no-one save us from our political class of cowards?
A demonstration that when it comes to corruption we’re not that far behind the US.
Can no-one save us from our political class of cowards?
ScoMo’s on the job!
(Mind you, I think Hastie will keep him honest on this one.)
And there’s a problem that we now have.
We will get no help from the USA.
No Virginias, no engines, no uranium, nothing.
We’d be lucky to get Soryus as the crook in the WH would probably oppose such a sale because “Chinese sensibilities”.
Feelthebern:
You watch – within a week, Morrison will be asked ever so nicely by the Chinese, to push the price of this coal down by about 20%.
And the gutless prick, in the spirit of fairness and international cooperation will ask the coal producers to do so.
They will probably tell him to fuck off, so he’ll do a deal where he drops taxes if they drop their price by the same amount. The Australian taxpayer subsiding the Chinese steel industry…
in the rules are for proles files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y4kKHlaO_k
The CCP and now the US are pencilling Oz as a client state of China. We are so utterly phukt.
cloaking their evil in fake compassion
Christopher Pyne should incur being sent to Roebourne/Willuna to drive the shit cart on a work for the dole program.
After being forcibly divested of all money/assets and his children and family sold to the Wuhan virology institute for live testing.
Has Hannity started his “Biden tick tock” garbage again?