It’s a tricky move to attach gender or race motives to an umpire officiating a tennis match between two women: one Afro-American, the other half-Japanese, half-Haitian but one by one, too many members of the commentariat to count worked overtime to pull it off.
In the morass of Op-Eds scrawled in the wake of the US women’s Open final, focus quickly became lost and one rather simple fact was ignored:
Take this tweet from ABC presenter, Virginia Trioli. She claimed to have read almost all there was to read about what had happened and only then had been moved to judgment by way of retweet with comment. The retweet was of a judgy columnist, Margaret Sullivan, who splatters words around for the Washington Post and the New York Times, sometimes in some recognisable order. She, in turn, was tweeting up a rapidly cobbled together think piece from Sally Jenkins at WaPo. Jenkins, Sullivan enthused, got it “exactly right.”
Full column here.
The Serial Pest and stinky Cupboard Boy, Julian Assange is eyeing a “move” to Russia, Mr. Insider.
How the goose thinks he will get out of the Ecuadorian Embassy and get past the British Plod waiting for him outside the door is beyond me.
Boot the lazy bastard up the arse and out the door I say Mr Ambassador!
https://tinyurl.com/yakmxvj5
Just cut and paste the headline Henry. Or read the article before posting, you wont look like such a goose.
Bless you, dear M.r. Baptiste, yes I know you are a rolled gold supporter of Stinky Boy, he has a “cause” mmmmm I would like him to face the Law and be a Man dear fellow. Its been 5 years on the “run” as it were FGS tell him to grow some balls! Cheers
Face the law? Why? He’s an independent thinker who says “you can shove your law up your date.” Not all of us are forelock tugging dolts who believe the state should be using “the law” to silence the truth Henry.
Ah “the truth is out there”.
But, under which rock?
Some people just don’t have the guts to look for it.
Cutting and pasting then downloading documents sent to him by people with an axe to grind doesn’t make him an independent thinker, Jean merely “..an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill..”. But boy isn’t he the one paying for it.
Well, he has a lot more admirers, significant and learned ones than you will ever have my little Pollyanna.
Assange is a pin-up boy for slackers, Henry. If he ever gets out in the sun it will probably kill him. And more likely than not he’d piss off Putin and he’d never be heard from again.
Oh gosh. Now who do I believe? Daniel Ellsberg or Big Balls Keyboard Cowboy Milton with the birthday cake candle.
Oh let me think. No, I’ll just have to toss a coin.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/exclusive-ellsberg-disagr_b_791276.html
(Have you ever been outside the house Milton?)
Back off or I’ll Novichok ya!
Queenslander!
I wonder if Palmer has spiked the water supply of Townsville with some sort of halucinogen?
Or are the memories of Townsvillers that severely lacking?
How can they lower themselves to accept lavish gifts for the local footy club when the town was virtually flattened and hundreds left without entitlements when Qld Nickel collapsed and the government had to fork out millions to keep food on their tables?
Hard to believe he hasn’t been told to get the hell out of town.
They should be marching down the streets in protest.
“Or are the memories of Townsvillers that severely lacking?”
Awful awkward sentence there Boady, one assumes the question is rhetorical or just plain silly. They are Queenslanders.
Yeah not my best 🙄 but ya get the drift?
Well mate, at least they ain’t Mexicans. Anywhere south of the Tweed.
Remember the Alamo!
The Alamo! Yeah that was a flogging. All over in ten minutes and Crockett was the first to throw up his hands wasn’t he?
Palmer is an idiot Boadicea sadly a QLDer as me but we have seen enough of big boy Clive. Cheers
Awful lot of QLDers on this blog Henry but I think the Poms outnumber us.
Neatly combining this comment with recent debates about when cartoons are OK, Clive has recently shared this on his Facebook feed:
https://facebook.com/CliveFrederickPalmer/photos/a.841434132542792/2076014389084754
It clumsily depicts Bill Shorten implementing the Protocols of the Globalist Bankers (aka Elders of Zion) by climbing a staircase of “Social Degeneracy”, the first step of which is labelled “RACE MIX”. Yep.
But that’s fine because caricature, right?
another…… Queenslander!
Strangely he is not. A very young Clive was born in Footscray, and lived in Williamstown. At 9, a pivotal age in every child’s life he moved to God’s state, or to be precise the Gold Coast
Yes, I believe he was very young when he was born.
Thanks for coming ladies but we “he-men” will do the job. Seems to be what Scott Morrisons Liberal Party is saying to women, Mr. Insider.
The Federal Liberal Party the Party of the distant past methinks.
https://tinyurl.com/yac52338
the conservative coalition government have announced a new slave labour visa for farmers to bring in more slave labour that will have less regulation than the seasonal worker slave labour visa program which has been proven to be rorted by every region that uses it. This after news today over 818,000 people migrated to Australia in the last 12 months a Record number. Meanwhile the conservative coalition will dog whistle and ramp up the rhetoric, divisive lies, racist bigotry and fear mongering about a very small number of people legally seeking asylum compared to the numbers the conservative coalition are cramming into the Nation and be supported by the ignorant cons and phony arseholes every step of the way. Meanwhile there are 1.8 million Australians of working age who want more work and in over 715,000 cases a job would be a blessing. Before the cons start, the governments own data says 0.6% of people who are long term unemployed most of whom have health related problems will probably always be unemployed. This government is a disgrace. No Surprises.
If they ease up on importing people, the economy and real estate goes down in a screaming heap Dismayed. Then finally the plebs will wake up to what has been going on.
So, you’re sinking the boot into immigrants nowadays JB? You do surprise me old mate.
How so? Without wanting to sound unkind Carl, have you ever seriously contemplated the possibility that you may be barking mad?
Yep – this economy is dependent on high immigration, building over priced houses and selling over priced houses.
Try Spain as a model as what is going to happen.
the umpires is right and the new “energy” minister is Wrong wrong wrong What a disgraceful position the country is in, we now have 2 denialists running energy and environment. The Environment minister is actually talking about pissing more taxpayer money down the drain on No direct action. FFS. The morrison fair dinkum sermon on the mount government may be the worst iteration of the worst government in the Nations history. No surprises.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/new-solar-and-wind-the-only-thing-pushing-down-power-prices-72578/
https://reneweconomy.com.au/taylor-launches-extraordinary-and-ill-informed-attack-against-wind-and-solar-81907/
So for Pastor Morrison & Co it’s business as usual, only worse.
Whilst everyday citizens fastidiously do their bit for our environment these bought-off coal puppets are literally moving heaven & earth to destroy it. They have to be history.
I actually hope their grandchildren never forgive them.
Just back from listening to a chat with Richard de Crespigny, the pilot of A380 Nancy-Bird Walton, QF32 . What an impressive character. He’s written a book (Fly!) wrapping leadership and resilience around the event. Great money-spinner but I get the impression that it will be no bullshit and worth the read.
What a smart man Richard de Crespigny is Trivalve the A380 was gone for all money but he fought back and got the thing landed safely. Champion he is a “magnificent bastard” Cheers
I’m off to his book launch here in a couple of weeks, Triv. Looking forward to meeting the man too. His epic of the QF32 landing was amazing.
Prepare to be corrected if you speak to him!
What this country needs, Mr. Insider is a bloody good laugh imho.
Here to start the ball rolling are the late greats Peter Cook and Dudley more in 1964 in a skit called “One Leg Too Few”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbnkY1tBvMU
just saw a headline touting John Kerry for 2020 and I thought, well W was pretty damn fortunate to get Al Gore and then Kerry, but Trump will be even luckier.
I think the Dem candidate most likely to win will be white, male and old. Not saying Kerry would be although he fits the demographic type. Think Joe Biden although not quite as old as Joe. Centrist, pro gun, socially conservative.
Our very own version of Trump.
Surely to goodness, after everything he’s put this country through after his last foray, Clive Palmer and his party cannot win a seat in parliament?
Locating in Townsville too. Will Mensink be running his campaign office ? – plenty of vacant office space over at Qld Nickel.
Clive a “Barry Crocker” Boadicea, my Donald wouldn’t give him the time of day. Cheers
On a previous theme of yours, JTI, another fraudulent fake cancer scam.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-17/fake-ovarian-cancer-sentencing-submissions/10255522
They always seem terribly sorry, but only once they face jail time.
More compassionate and supportive people badly burned.