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Daily Mail.
“Revealed: The stunned phone call Ben Roberts-Smith’s wife made to her best friend when his MISTRESS turned up on their doorstep to disclose the affair
Australia’s most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is suing Nine newspapers
Afghanistan veteran and VC recipient claims he was portrayed as a war criminal
The 42-year-old’s ex-wife Emma Roberts will give evidence against him for Nine.
Mr Roberts-Smith had an affair with a woman called Person 17 in 2017 and 2018
He has denied punching Person 17 in the face after a Parliament House function
Ms Roberts and her best friend Danielle Scott discussed the affair on the phone”
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https://www.totalspan.com.au/media/latest-news/steel-price-rises-whats-going-on/
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Gosh, all of this mud on my Louboutin boots, Calli.
How will I ever cope? 🙂
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Hi Graeme! I just write what seems to me to be the truth (although usually I can provide citations too). If you wish to disagree I don’t especially mind. Science is great since you can generally set up an experiment to test a hypothesis; history is hard because you can’t do that – and the powers and potentates lately have taken to editing history Minitruishly.
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This country is so rooted at the moment. No logic at all. Fear across the board that the bloody couff is going to knock them off. How, in this day and age of global news, are so few Australians afraid to go against the media orthodoxy?
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“The 42-year-old’s ex-wife Emma Roberts will give evidence against him for Nine.”
The Court of Public Opinion, busy at work again.
Nein really is the dregs.
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Bruce, today I watched one of the Kooka family eyeing off an extremely large bluetongue* who had emerged from beneath the pool coping for its first Sunning of Spring.
Clapping my hands and saying “shoo!” made no difference to its baleful gaze. Until it spotted a more attractively sized grasshopper on the glass fence. Swoop and gobble. The lizard was forgotten.
Nature red in beak and claw.
* the Punksatawnee Phil of the Bay
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George Christensen for PM
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I’ll ask again what would you have chosen to do with low vaccination numbers and a new wave of Delta effecting severely, hundreds who have had two vaccinations, in other countries ? Lockdown or let it run through the general population . How many deaths would voters put up with ? So rather than explain that Pfizer has been a bit of a fizzer talk about the non vaccinated dying even if they are over 80 .
Plenty of whining out there but what is your solution when you won’t even cop the blame? I would be out there telling voters how it really is but they are doing a con job as no faith in how people will cope which is what the advice by the experts is .
By the way AZ seems to have been a better protection as UK does not seem to have problems from Delta.
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“I knew you wouldn’t last 3 weeks.
Time to start bragging again.”
I’m not making a Federal case out of dropping by to correct a dangerous meme.
You are, apparently.
Where is Elizabeth (Libby) Zee?
With you creating socks everywhere, even reviving the trannie Zee in my name, no wonder the site is a trainwreck.
As if Bird wasn’t bad enough.
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The Court of Public Opinion, busy at work again.
Nein really is the dregs.”
***********************************************************************************I’m curious to know what former Captain Andrew Hastie will reveal, giving evidence for Channel Nine.
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Turkish archaeologists excavating the site of the city of Troy on the hills of Hisarlik have discovered a large wooden structure that they believe are the remains of the Trojan Horse.
https://www.jpost.com/international/did-archaeologists-just-find-the-trojan-horse-676349
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Nein really is the dregs.
Chairman Peter Costello must be so proud.
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Rosie, thanks for that link. I was talking about the wholesale price, what the tradies and builders buy it for.
They can mark it up as much as they like. The New Broom is selling so much work it isn’t funny…people seem not to mind, the market is so awash with borrowed money. Being canny, he’s built in price rises rather than absorbing them, as the business had to do with the GST.
How long it lasts is anyone’s guess.
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How, in this day and age of global news, are so few Australians afraid to go against the media orthodoxy?
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I only wish it were the few. Unfortunately, it’s the many.
All that’s required to end this is for everyone to throw off their masks, stop signing in and stop getting tests (which the CDC has officially advised cannot differentiate between viruses). Is that so much to ask?
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This bloke nails it:
https://unherd.com/2021/08/the-cruelty-of-australias-endless-lockdown/
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“It seriously might be time to get a restraining order against Bird.”
Indeed. Making serious death threats on a carriage medium is a criminal offense.
One can only hope that satire is involved…
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Satire is generally too subtle for the seriously mentally ill to engage in.
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calli says:
August 13, 2021 at 6:40 pm
No one interested in the price of steel? Okay.
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I spoke to a builder yesterday who said “ no one’s making anything.”
He must be locked in on quotes.
Supplies of timber are limited. It would be easy to get caught out.
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Excellent article, Roger. Something to wave under their noses the next time they carry on with their “we’re all in this together” nonsense.
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Damn, it’s back.
It was nice without it.
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“Turkish archaeologists excavating the site of the city of Troy on the hills of Hisarlik have discovered a large wooden structure that they believe are the remains of the Trojan Horse.”
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The city of Canakkale – it’s the jumping off point to visit the ruins of Troy – has a replica of the Trojan horse in the main square. Said replica was constructed for use in the making of a film about the Trojan war. A certain American film star was asked if he knew where the city of Troy had stood, and his response of “In Greece, wasn’t it?” offended the locals so mightily that the replica was presented the city by way of apology.
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Renewables are never going to power a brickworks.
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I guess that barrister chap has registered Gladys for the love bubble, yes?
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Looks like industrial areas are the new hangout for the young and sick of Covid crap.
Beers and burnouts and no masks.
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He must be locked in on quotes.
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You have to be so wary of this. That’s why builders quote on the bare bones and wait for variations. That’s where the profit is.
And thanks, Roger, for that article. Perspective, especially those baying for SW Sydney blood.
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Good point CL
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Dr. Eric Berg has made a lot of clips of general health advice. He has now made a short clip about a study of natural antibodies in people who have already had Covid –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQXVQ0RbFzA
This relates to natural immunity only. No mention of vaccines.
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Coming soon…
Via Adam Creighton:
Right now, Australian Branch Covidian is work-shopping how to start telling us it was never two jabs and you’re all good. IT WAS ALWAYS THREE.
Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
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Sneakers ups the ante. Leaving WA unvaxxed? You feeling lucky punk? Well doya?
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Something to wave under their noses the next time they carry on with their “we’re all in this together” nonsense.
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I heard a guest on ABC regional radio make basically the same point after a Labor spokesperson had extolled the virtues of lockdown:
If you’re in the public sector you’ve not suffered from the lockdowns; you’ve probably saved money as a result. The pain has not been evenly distributed. Small to medium businesses and their employees have born the brunt of it.
The presenter had the decency to make no attempt at a retort.
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No we don’t.
Well we do.
But we can’t have it.
The red sand which used to be used in mortar around these parts can’t be dug up anymore.
So I have to “faithfully adhere to materials and techniques” when restoring my heritage house but can’t get the material.
I need a cube metre FFS.
Red sand an endangered species.
Who knew?
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And thanks, Roger, for that article.
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You are most welcome, Calli.
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I guess that barrister chap has registered Gladys for the love bubble, yes?
Please, no! I’m about to eat dinner.
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“Gunner and Bird teaming up is a grim sight.”
Haha
Are you not entertained?!
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What is all this mindless Gibber about Roger? Christ you are such an idiot.
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What say we leave our Lord out of it, eh?
You’ve presented yourself here as a Christian, so you ought to know why, if so.
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Let’s hope it doesn’t make you spay them as well. Kinda defeats the purpose.
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He’s not the only one riding for an AVO.
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And calli, welcome to MadMax.
The black pills taste about as good as you think they would…
But it means revolution is closer.
Embrace change 👍😈🇦🇺
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The thought of the Glad Bag bumping uglies makes you appreciate light switches on a whole different level.
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Graeme – Gladys does come across as a secular Armenian. Which isn’t entirely a bad thing. However I think her recent choice of men hasn’t helped her electorally. And she is a fearful woman when it comes to apocalyptical advice from the white-coated class. Very hard to have the balls to defy them like a Margaret Thatcher, especially harder for the ladies I think, who tend to be more risk adverse than guys.
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I’m no professor, but the western Sydney Ferraris will beat the Tigers shortly.
Hardwick distracted by “personal issues” ,Dusty in the kidney ward, malfunctioning forward line,old& slow.
Gone
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How many comments appear to a page?
Just curious.
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Start it low, let it grow!
On volatile stuff like steel is now (copper used to be another one, or anything denominated in foreign currency), we used to just bid it prime cost.
“X% of the price relates to steel inputs. This is quoted on an indicative basis. Final price to be determined by the following formula … [pi r squared]”
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Screwing the Help is now “personal issues”? I guess it is.
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Very hard to have the balls to defy them like a Margaret Thatcher,
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Women like Thatcher are rare as hen’s teeth.
To paraphrase, I don’t want to know what you feel. Tell me what you think.
Forget “women”. No one in power thinks like Thatcher. And if they do, they’re dispatched, pronto.
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Well, I am a professor and the cash-strapped AFL need to get the Tiges to September.
Umpy led recovery.
Ferraris up on bricks by half-time.
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King Of Swaziland (In Waiting) says:
August 13, 2021 at 7:45 pm
You are boring. You know that don’t you.
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Mask story: A couple of days ago we had to go to our favourite pharmacy. There is a GP next door in the small shopping center. Couple of boys in the local high school uniform on chairs outside wearing masks . Up comes a young tradie (hi viz) to go into GP’s rooms. One of the schoolboys says ” mate you need a mask to go in there” and whips his off, gives to tradie who puts it on and enters GP rooms.
As seen by Mrs Eyrie who went back into pharmacy to tell the story. Much hilarity ensued.
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Go go go you good thing!
The Black Stallion
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Hello, Sky News. I hope you are monitoring this page.
Having being a loyal viewer over the last couple of years, I must tell you that I can no longer stomach the editorial capitulation to what we (those of us with functioning brains) refer to as “group think”. We have the taxpayer-funded ABCess and the rest of the MSM for that.
So what’s gone wrong? Has Sky been got at? Have presenters been ‘bullied’ into compliance with the cretinous”group-think” mentality?
‘Fess up, Sky? Who hit you? This pathetic excuse for a Government?
Who hit you?
None of your programmes are worth my time of day, (other than Jones – and how long will it be before he is whacked?)
I am not a moron so I do not subscribe to ABCess /MSM rubbish,
I thought Sky set itself above media corruption.
I was wrong.
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Fuck me.
There’s a surprise.
Here’s me thinking that Graeme’s special Mastermind subject is “mindless gibberish”.
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Oh God.
moderated
Perhaps the simple electrical switch has kept the human race going, not alcohol and promises of waiting for someone – or calling them tomorrow.
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Prof got a question. Who are the Gang of Four ? Struth, MV, NFA and Cardi?
That would make Runnybum NFA?
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Even that tiny blue light from the phone charger …
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King Of Swaziland (In Waiting) says:
August 13, 2021 at 7:56 pm
why is there no report comment key under that comment? It needs one.
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It’s bad, JC. For reasons the sane will never comprehend, shitting all over this blog with antisemitic arsedrips gets him a stiffy. What is so difficult about entering his IP address in the WordPress filter? If Adam is too busy, I volunteer to do it for him.
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So the TGA has given a kind of provisional approval for the Merck Sharpe and Dohme new antiviral. Something called Molnupiravir probably like the other new age antivirals.
I expect it will cost a fortune and be of marginal benefit, the complete opposite of other treatments I could name but must not be mentioned…
Watch as they then make it available for ‘breakthrough infections’’ as the vaccines fail. But remain steadfastly against the other cheaper and far more effective treatments.
Bloody criminal.
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Graeme – I’m a metallurgist as well as a chemist. I saw the second plane hit live on TV. It wasn’t a nice thing to see, since I knew what I was seeing. I know about applying energy to steel. Occams is quite correct in this. A bunch of jihadi kiddies from Saudi with a very large object imbued with kinetic energy and about a hundred tonnes of fuel took down each building. Completely sufficient energy for that purpose. I have done a bit of pyromet as well as wet chemistry and I know my way around a thermodynamics package very well indeed.
It’ll be interesting what happens when the Taliban take control of Afghanistan. Hopefully they will have learned the lesson by then. The place is a miserable hole right now, but it could easily get even miserabler with a quite small application of ordnance upon water supplies and sewage plants and the like.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/un-climate-report-reveals-the-crisis-is-about-truth-not-climate_3945984.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2021-08-13&mktids=97b5e1afca7cf25d4e89f16bd3b41de5&est=ogVKZyjCqZqy5%2F0Gg6hLYIDH45xwr6A6t6PJuezfn949MyDlY8o9UMkyhPQKz8rf
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I thought Sky set itself above media corruption.
Maybe under old man Murdoch that may have been the case. Lachlan & James’ trophy wives run the show now. [And why the big left turn of Fox … to ensure they get invited to all the best parties and get on the cover of the right mags!]
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Well, look who’s back. The old rules stipulator herself.
What was that, only a week? You promised us at least two.
And at m0nty’s Catallaxy too.
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Greg Kelly from Newsmax is always good value; here is a short overview of the demented old bastard’s latest exploits including his fucktard son’s further video exploits and the mess in afghanistan. The taliban are going to crucify the women in that joint. Islam is the worst thing since leftism. People who defend islam or apologise for its depravity have their heads up their sphincters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j00jKAJqjRk
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Ha, ha.
I reckon there are about nine members.
One thing I’ll give Bird.
He has latched on to the “Gang of Four” stuff and thrown out the bait.
Next thing, Faulty is flapping around on the deck of the boat.
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Good to see Elizabeth back. 😉
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So the TGA has given a kind of provisional approval for the Merck Sharpe and Dohme new antiviral. Something called Molnupiravir
Merck made ivermectin… but it is out of patent and is now generic.
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It would be good if instead of just talking, you actually murdered someone. Then we might be rid of you and your lunacy.
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Thanks Gab for the White Coat vid from this morning and Struth for the Spectator article.
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King Of Swaziland (In Waiting) says:
August 13, 2021 at 8:21 pm
You are obviously not dumb. How about you take that brain of yours and put it to good use instead of giving everyone the proverbial shits.
Broken record much…
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Bruce of Newcastle says:
August 13, 2021 at 8:15 pm
Yes.
As I’ve said before, a friend who spent years in the demolition game said to me that there was nothing surprising to anyone who knew about how buildings come down in seeing the twin towers collapse after the planes hit them.
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What’s a kneck?
It might be a different body part. Like knackers.
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I had an interesting interaction with Vicpol’s finest this evening. I was picking up some takeout. Just as I was parking I received a phone call and answered it while still in the car. As I was chatting I noticed one of about half a dozen scumbags coming closer to the car checking the rego on his iPad. The phone call didn’t last long, and I got out of the car and made my way to where the gaggle were loafing on the sidewalk. I asked out loud if they were checking something to do with my car. One of them casually answered that he was checking to see if I was a local and informed me that I was. Sure enough, a slight argument occurred. I told t the useless turd how intrusive that was, if he enjoyed working for the most despised organization in the state and suggested they all get real jobs. One of the pricks told me that if I continued I’d be arrested. Dinner was a great fish pie, so I avoided arrest.
The restaurant owner told me that one of the canutes saw him with his mask down on his chin. The cop barged his way right into the established and warned the dude he seen him with his mask at half-mast and if he did it again the place would be reported to the council and closed down.
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Merck made ivermectin… but it is out of patent and is now generic.
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Vicki made the point the other day about Big Pharma magically bringing out anti-virals for the big $$$$$$$$ , now it’s common knowledge their vaxxes are not up to the job.
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Candace in fine form.
Candace destroys race baiter
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Who farted?
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Areff
I haven’t been here all day. Explain what’s bad.
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areff I’m talking to you.
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Graeme, do a Travis Bickle impersonation.
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Oh I get it, the Swaziland king.
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“Good to see Elizabeth back. 😉”
No, it isn’t. Silly old biddy and it’s always about her.
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As I’ve said before, a friend who spent years in the demolition game said to me that there was nothing surprising to anyone who knew about how buildings come down in seeing the twin towers collapse after the planes hit them.
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What about the third building that wasn’t hit by a plane or even debris from the falling towers.
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FWIW my potted version.
He mentioned the other day about his ex.
The only surprise in that is that some woman was mad enough to hook up in the first place.
He also mentioned a smarter, more successful brother.
Please.
Leave out the oxymorons.
Just say “brother”.
The “smarter, more successful” bit we can deduce for ourselves as a near certainty.
Probably more than one smarter brother or sister (or family dog).
To complete the picture we probably have an over-compensating mummy and a weak daddy.
All this results in an alleged adult whose every failure must be attributable to some externality.
It can never be Graeme.
It has to be someone else.
And it can’t be a minor obstruction which has defeated the Mighty Graeme.
It has to be something massive.
Enter the Global Jewish Conspiracy.
Oh, and ADHD.
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Bruce O’Nuke:
“I have no idea where bottom is. Eating each other? Not out of the question. Just goes to show what happens when a bunch of nutters like the Hezbies get effective control of a place. Afghanistan, such as it is, is next.”
Stupid bloody Lebanese Christians invited the Black September mob in after the Jordanians gave them the bums rush – with artillery accompaniment – after Black September tried a Caliphate Revolution there.
I have no sympathy for idiocy like this.
It’s like the idiot women guards who fall in love with a wife murderer, who go on to invite them into their homes. Their last thoughts are “why didn’t someone warn me?”
They tried to, Princess, but you were so full of yourself you wouldn’t listen.
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“Well, look who’s back. The old rules stipulator herself.
What was that, only a week? You promised us at least two.
And at m0nty’s Catallaxy too.”
Well, I knew that wouldn’t take long.
Fake trannie Ukrainian Elizabeth Zee. Well done, Grigs.
I won’t be in here under my own name any more.
I came in to protect some pregnant women from serious worries.
Not again under the name which I publish by.
This site is unsafe as it is, without more moderation.
Adam tries, but Grig’s sock drawer and Bird need the Doom smite.
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And it can’t be a minor obstruction which has defeated the Mighty Graeme.
Heheheh…
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More on the whacky world of islam including many incidents of the goat rooters threatening to kill Jews and infidels; as usual and no doubt doing their best to do so; also the rotten old demented bastard dick-sucking the taliban:
Biden Pleads and Bribes Taliban to Spare U.S. Embassy and 2,000 Americans
Afghanistan: Taliban seizes US weapons and military equipment as takeover accelerates
UK: Muslims confront Jew, ‘F*** all the Jews, Allah will kill you all’
https://www.jihadwatch.org/
With all the china virus and global warming and gender junk the crazed fuzzy muzzies have slipped under the radar. Within a month of taking over the shit-hole of afghanistan there will be an outbreak of islam’s gift to the world, terrorism.
Maybe we can send bird to negotiate with them.
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*One of the pricks told me that if I continued I’d be arrested.*
WHAT!?
What the ruddy ‘ell for?
“The restaurant owner told me that one of the canutes saw him with his mask down on his chin. The cop barged his way right into the established and warned the dude he seen him with his mask at half-mast and if he did it again the place would be reported to the council and closed down.”
Not sure of Victorian law but that seems out of order?
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Timothy Neilson – I was reminded of the Siege of Jacob’s Ford. Saladin knew about towers and what you could do with fire.
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Great article, Roger. Thanks for posting.
In a big field, the Dapto Doge – for me – exemplifies perfectly what Hameiri is talking about.
A be-bubbled millionaire raving on in a literal glass booth about the splendour of locking up his former listeners.
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Eyrie says:
August 13, 2021 at 8:35 pm
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[ Shoulder shrug ]
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“about half a dozen scumbags coming closer to the car checking the rego on his iPad”
Where’s this? South of the river?
No extra jack activity around here…
Now you’ve met VikPol.
Stasi much?
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Avi:
HEROES SPEAK UP: Two veteran firefighters protest for freedom in Melbourne
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
August 13, 2021 at 8:06 pm
King Of Swaziland (In Waiting) says:
August 13, 2021 at 7:56 pm
why is there no report comment key under that comment? It needs one.
Perhaps it disappears for a while after a Report is made? It was there when I looked after reading your comment.
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Good to see the Lizzinator.
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The 31 July open thread is still going gangbusters
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What about the third building that wasn’t hit by a plane or even debris from the falling towers
Shut up, conspiracy theorist!!
That kind of talk will shut down the blog.
FFS
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The Lizzie thing:
“Not again under the name which I publish by.
This site is unsafe as it is, without more moderation.
Adam tries, but Grig’s sock drawer and Bird need the Doom smite”.
Then do the logical thing for you and fuck off – again. But this time, think about how utterly ridiculous you will look, when you return.
In another two weeks.
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Monty is a natural as a blogger.
He should have started his own thing ages ago.
Great post up on crypto and other contributions from Dover and Speedo.
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I won’t be in here under my own name any more.
I came in to protect some pregnant women from serious worries.
Not again under the name which I publish by.
This site is unsafe as it is, without more moderation.
Adam tries, but Grig’s sock drawer and Bird need the Doom smite.
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Bye bye. Off you go then
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Well yes.
Not universally welcomed.
Interesting that those having a crack at Lizzie seem to be MIA when Bird is spraying anti-Semitic bile around.
Priorities.
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Here we go!
BBC REPORTS 911, WTC 7 COLLAPSE BEFORE IT HAPPENS
Doctored footage? Could be.
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