And their solution may or may not work … but whatever, apparently, you are the one who has to pay the (sewerage) piper.
Too clever by half: acting Mayor Foodtrucks Greany has until COB tomorrow (Monday 23rd) to prove she didn’t deliberately lie to us.
The TCC budget: did they fudge it? We have a brief summary for you to scratch your heads over, it digs a bit deeper than anything the Bulletin would attempt, and highlights what one contributor calls ‘a nasty cash grab’. But seems we won’t really know until rates bill start thudding into letterboxes.
Phil Thompson scores the zinger of the week when. former Hill acolyte unwisely decides to snit him. Talk about leading with your glass jaw.
That other Thompson (now ThreeNames if we include Barry) rallies the troops for a protest demonstration outside council … three people turned up … but he wasn’t one of them. The ‘Pie asks that surely an intervention can’t be far away?
Plus our regular US cartoon gallery, now expanded to include a popular addition, the Muddle East (as Kiwis so accurately called it).
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Since The Bulletin Won’t, The Magpie Will …
… seek some meaning behind the TCC budget numbers.
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Rates, are exactly as they say on the tin, likely to be 4%. A touch higher than official inflation rates, but near enough is good enough.
There will be some tough rises on a case by case basis, but that is really down the the land valuation rises, and the independent Valuer-General assessments. There was really nothing council could do except the RID changes, which they did make. The overall city average of 4%(ish) is arguably a reasonable outcome.
Now where things get interesting is on the various levies, this is where rises are well above inflation. Waste management is a dramatic rise. Again, not a TCC initiated issue, this is based on the new State rules as the cost driver. Details attached.
Then there are the controversial projects, and this is where things are both interesting, and still silent. Most of them have no budgetary mention at all. So what is the true state of these, will there be money going to them or not. If there is, from where, because it is not itemised. Except for Lansdown and HS2. Lansdown will be a big beneficiary, and the largest budget for the coming year. Obviously, it’s changing phases from plan and design to build. So that’s the “why”. It’s the “how much” that is up to readers themselves to pass judgement on.
HS2 is more a story of what’s there is not the complete story.
There are not real answers in the budget, just more questions on where and when the money is coming from. And this isn’t even relating to any new funding requests. It’s the existing funding commitments that aren’t being delivered.
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The Magpie
Geez, even if a gal want to hawk the fork in Townsville, it’s gunna cost her more. Planning fees for brothels is up 8.9%. It’s enough to give a guy a soft-on.
But that walk through the numbers prompted this response from Nest reader Sandpiper.
| Hi Pie, I think your or your mates’ analysis of the council’s financial position is misleading.I wouldn’t use the debt to asset ratio as a key guide, thats a bullshit measure, rather look to the council’s leverage ratio (debt divided by operating result, depreciation, amortisation and finance costs) to gauge its capacity to borrow. Last year it was 3 with a target of 0-4. This years budget says it is 2.8 when last year they were estimating it would be 3.3 so that points to the “tough decisions” Greaney alluded to. But regardless, it is at the high end of the target and shows the council is not in a good position to borrow large amounts of money. End of story. Also, look at the council’s operating surplus ratio (result divided by revenue). Last year it was minus 4.8% with a deficit of $24.8m. That’s a terrible result and begs the question : what the fuck? This latest budget suggests it will be cut to minus 2% and a $11.45m deficit when last year they were estimating 3.7%, so Greaney has listened to the razor gang! All this information is in table 21 of the budget and not hard to find, even for a hack! Last but not least (I haven’t seen any bulletin headlines on this but there damn well should be) the council has increased the cap on rate increases for homeowners from 10% last year to 20% this year so many people with big land valuation increases are going to see huge 20% increases in rates. Thanks for nothing Greaney. It’s just a nasty cash grab to overcome there own mismanagement. There should be a fresh mayoral election to get someone in there who knows what they are doing. |
Too Clever By Half, Clr Greaney
In November last year, The Local Government Remuneration Commission recommended a pay rise for councillors and mayor’s across Queensland. Personally, The ‘Pie has no quibble with this, if we’re going to pay the bastards the obscene amounts we do, then annual review rises are unavoidable … it’s not as though councillors and their executives are being paid illegally, just immorally.
But what’s this, in the Bulletin on January 23rd this year?
She says she WON’T be VOTING for a pay rise? Of course you fucking won’t, dearie because the rise is automatic on July I … there is no council vote on the matter.
That is UNLESS… there’s a special council meeting listed within 24 hours of today, Sunday June 22nd, to reject or reduce the rise. Regulations stipulate to hold such a -one-off, single subject meeting requires 7 days notice. . And no such meeting is listed on the CC official website.
Therefore, if such a meeting is not called by COB tomorrow, Monday June 23, this will confirm that Greaney’s halo polishing claim is just a cheap political pose … no less than a craven, deliberate and crass lie, and part of her long-game campaigning to become mayor through the ballot box. (And fuckin’ good luck with that, sweetheart.)
As reported on the handy Everything Townsville Uncensored FB page, this pay rise will automatically take effect from 1st July UNLESS a motion is raised at a meeting prior to 1st July to reject (or reduce) the pay rise and the resolution is then passed.
So, to date, no such motion has been raised for a special meeting, and there are no more regular council meetings scheduled for this financial year, which ends in 8 days at time of writing. Tomorrow is the last business day of the financial year that such a meeting can be called because at least 7 days notice is required for such a meeting.
If a special meeting is NOT called tomorrow, that means all councillors have accepted the automatic boost in their pay. The fact there has been no move to oppose it effectively means they all voted FOR the pay rise. And that includes you, Clr Greaney.
But like the steak knife said, but wait, there’s more …
If it transpires that Foodtrucks is a fibber, what are we to make of this from the January story:
Ann-Maree Greaney said on Wednesday, when asked if herself and members of Townsville City Council would take a pay rise, that when she was appointed deputy mayor in December she confirmed she would not be seeking additional pay while acting as Mayor of Townsville.
“Currently, Townsville councillors receive about $130,000 in remuneration, the deputy mayor receives about $145,000 in remuneration and the mayor receives $225,000 in remuneration,” she said.
A pay rise of 2.5 per cent would see the Mayor’s pay increase to $230,836, the Deputy Mayor to $156,974 and councillors to $138,501.
So a mere matter of up to $74,000 EXTRA per year into your Hermes clutch is airily waived off, because of your empathy with those who can’t afford St Tropez this year? This is industrial strength virtue signalling, because, while you don’t have to vote for the mandated pay rise, you know full well you are entitled to claim acting responsibility pay.
From da rules:
Queensland councillors can receive pay rises when acting in office-holder positions, like a committee chairperson. The Independent Councillor Remuneration Tribunal determined that councillors acting in these roles should be compensated at the higher rate after holding the position for four consecutive weeks. This ensures they are appropriately paid for the increased workload and responsibilities associated with these acting roles.
So have you been toiling away for we ungrateful swine for measly $145k per? Have you really not put your hand up for any extra dough, Anne-Maree? How about using a mayoral minute at the start of the next meeting to clear this up for us mug ratepayers?
Sensible people don’t resent you any extra money, but they do resent you lying about it to appear caring and virtuous.
Troy Thompson’s Big Day Out
During the week, our suspended mayor was mad as hell and he wasn’t taking it anymore, so he called on his followers to turn out in force for a protest demo outside the council offices in Walker Street. And they all did … all three of them.
But passing strange as it may be, funny thing, after he was seen dropping off that dimwit who dresses up as Batman for him, Troy was nowhere to be seen. He left the three supporters tapping their feet and wondering what to do next while waiting for their leader who never showed up.
An intervention cannot be far away now.
Not Happy As Larry
But maybe Thompson’s deluded lunacy has inspired others to hit the petition trail. Even in that thriving metropolis, Gooniwindi, where mayor Larry Springborg has incurred local wrath over his performance.
The day may be approaching when we do away with elections, and just run petitions as popularity contests to select or de-select those who govern us.
The TCC Try Their Hand At Shamparency
Not sure what the council is trying to say when they dropped this little missive out of the blue during the week. But it certainly sounds a little accusatory.
In this release, the writer is at pains to repeat that the council’s responsibility for things like sewage and waste water ends – or starts, depending on which direction the shit is travelling – at the property owners fence line. Which may be true, as far as it goes, which in the case of the Wulguru and subsequent other fucked up areas, doesn’t go far. The vaguest suggestion that the Poonami of Townsville is somehow the collective fault of homeowners, who are apparently all expected to have degrees in plumbing and diplomas in ORG, is cruelly insulting.
It’s like saying if a car crashed through your fence into your yard, the driver’s responsibility ends at your fence, and it’s your responsibility to pay for the repairs. And that such an occurrence can be avoided by you cughing up to install expensive reinforced fencing.
But maybe they don’t mean that at all. If so, we don’t know what they mean, because this is written in bureaucracy’s favourite language (after Klingon), Shamparency. (Hmm, The ‘Pie thinks he might trademark that.)
The suspicion grows that it is Walker Street that experiences the city’s biggest shower of shit.
Zinger Of The Week
The foot shooting bullseye of the week goes to former council grifte … sorry, councillor … Margie ‘Potty Mouth’ Ryder.
For reasons known only unto themselves, the Daily Astonisher decided to air the predictable irrelevance of Jenny Hill’s former BFF (in Labor’s lexicon, the word “forever’ has a used-by date) about Federal member Phil Thompson calling out the council over the AFCM fiasco. This was the first shot at her tootsie, because it gave the paper the excuse to again trot out the litany of failures stretching back to her time as a member of the Hill aerobics team.
Laying into the federal member, Potty Mouth suggested he should join ‘the team’ – whatever that is – and ‘jump in the circle’ – whatever that means – and that ‘we all should be hunting in packs’ to get funding for Townsville projects.
Then the failed Katter Party state candidate unwisely commanded Thompson ,” Have a good look at yourself…. Hunt in packs and maybe we will get our concert hall.’
You don’t offer that sort of glass jaw to a heavy hitters like Thommo.
Game, shot and match.
Amerika
We start of this week’s US cartoon round-up with someone’s excellent suggestion which would solve so many problem in one go.
A Question
We don’t just eat meat, we raise sheep, goats, and cattle, plump ‘em up, then we kill them and eat them. We use their skins for clothing, and their various bits and bobs for an array of products, from medicine to condoms. We eat kangaroos, and although they aren’t farmed, there’s a solid by-trade in their skins.
But for some reason our great and good southern leaders have decided we cannot kill crocodiles for any purpose whatsoever, despite the fact that these seriously dangerous animals are expanding their territory as they grow towards plague proportions. The laws that protect them are created by people in areas that do not enjoy cohabiting with these cuddly creatures.
There is a small industry of farming of crocs for their skins and even for their meat (not recommended, tastes very muddy) so why is it OK to slaughter crocs that are in captivity and pose no threat to humans, but the wild variety, which do, can’t be touched.
That giggling, cackling con man Bob Katter is rarely right, but he is about the need to cull these animals.
There is a massive industry just waiting in the wings, and one that could be of great benefit to indigenous people. The world demand of crocodile skin is growing apace, mainly as a high end fashion product, and a (maybe indigenous) company with sole rights to various areas would be an all round boon.
Perhaps we could nudge a change this nanny state woke policy by dropping a few hundred of these little chaps in the Yarra, Sydney Harbour, the Brisbane river and of course Bob Irwin’s own swimming pool.
And Finally, Says It All About Our Biggest Problem
Not that reading The Magpie’s Nest is going to help you much in that area.
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Enough insanity for the week, but rest assured, there’s an endless supply, so we’ll be back next Sunday. But if you want to go a bit mad to help the Nest with costs, feel free to hit the appropriate donate button below.
Maybe Troy is omnipotent. The last triumvirate I heard of was The Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost.
It really is a case of God help us.
The lie by food trucks was actually reported on the handy Everything Townsville Uncensored Facebook group
Oops, suitably amended. Thanks.
If the Council don’t have a Special meeting prior to July 1 and have to accept the pay rise (poor fuckers), does that mean that Two and a half Names also gets the pay rise?
As for Potty mouth, is she aiming for another stint? Given that she is gigantor Suzi’s MIL, I’m sure she’s on top of all that goes on in the chambers.
Yes, but he can – believe it or not – be excused for getting it, since he cannot even vote for a meeting to nix it. He will no doubt use this circumstance to further his claims of discrimination ‘I was forced against my will to take this evil money’ – (and that is only half a joke with this fucker).
And The ‘Pie understands that things are not all sweetness and light between ma-in-lAw Ryder and Suzi B … which normally would not be anyone’s business, except for your suggestion of possibly plotting chats over lamingtons and a cuppa of Earl Grey in the Chez Ryder kitchen.
If the council are serious about saving money, they would do the right thing and not only refuse the pay rise for themselves but they would automatically save 5k on two and a half names as well.
Margie Ryder is not Suzy’s MIl. I think she’s an aunty in law by marriage.
Good point, ‘Pie’s bad. Apologies to the actual M-I-L But the basis point remains valid.
My bad. Apologies
Great Blog ‘Pie, and thanks for taking the time to publish some of my feedback on the Budget along with others. I also enjoyed the view from Sandpiper, who’s not wrong. But here is my reply, and I’m sorry if it is too early on a Sunday for this, but I think a discussion on why he’s (assuming a he) right/I’m right, and TCC is not keeping up with the times is worth it.
Reply to Sandpiper – On Financial Monitoring, Proxy Indicators, and the Need for Real-Time Reporting
Sandpiper, your reference to the Leverage Ratio is absolutely valid—it’s one of the nine financial sustainability measures now mandated by Queensland Treasury and audited by QAO. Townsville City Council (TCC) correctly includes it in its annual budget papers, and it does offer useful insight into debt servicing capacity. No dispute there.
But it’s important to recognise the limitations we face in the public domain. The Leverage Ratio is calculated annually—either in the budget or at the time of new debt applications—and is not tracked, updated, or published month-to-month (it might be internally, but the public get very little visibility to how the sausage is made sometimes). It provides a static snapshot from a budget paper that is finalised before the current financial year has even concluded. That makes it a useful indicator, but not a dynamic one.
As members of the public trying to assess financial health “outside the tent,” we’re working with partial information. TCC doesn’t publish regular P&L-style financial performance reports—unlike councils like Redland or Noosa. So to assess fiscal management responsibly, I combine what is available: monthly Treasury reports showing cash on hand, debt levels, the Unrestricted Cash Cover Ratio, and movements in the Working Capital Facility are good proxy indicators of what is going on. These aren’t perfect, but they provide critical, real-time signals about liquidity and financial stress that the annual Leverage Ratio simply cannot capture.
This is especially important when we consider the nature of local government budgeting. Annual budgets are forward-looking documents, adopted before year-end, comparing one forecast to another—not actual results. So I try to close that information gap by comparing Treasury trends from the current financial year against assumptions in the upcoming budget. That helps build a more informed view of whether the budgeted financial outlook is grounded in recent reality or not.
But here’s the broader issue: the real problem isn’t the choice of ratio—it’s the fact that we have to rely on proxies at all. The lack of real-time P&L or operational financial reporting by TCC constrains meaningful public oversight. This is not just a transparency gap—it’s a democratic accountability issue.
Local government elections in Queensland are held every four years in March—the next in March 2028. But at that point in time, the financial performance for the 2027–28 year will be incomplete. Without regular, detailed reporting throughout the year, how can the public meaningfully assess the fiscal competence of their elected councillors, let alone what’s happening within the Operational side of Council? How do voters evaluate delivery against budget, capital program performance, or whether the council is in surplus or deficit (most won’t, but some will, or at least look to others for an opinion)? In the absence of real-time financial performance data, the electorate is left to rely on spin, incomplete narratives, or retrospective audit reports—long after decisions have already been made.
That’s why I believe the real effort shouldn’t be directed at debating ratios in isolation, but instead on calling for Townsville City Council to adopt modern, best-practice public financial reporting—the kind already being delivered by Redland and Noosa Councils. Full monthly or quarterly financial statements, variance commentary, and updated sustainability ratios would allow both council and community to engage in a far more transparent, fact-based conversation about performance.
Until that happens, I’ll continue using a blend of liquidity data and forward-budget assumptions as the most responsible and informed analysis possible under the circumstances. But it’s time TCC raised its transparency standards to match those of its peers.
Useful comment.
Perhaps one idea that might help things along in the financial jungle is the political promise of one of the candidates in the upcoming Tassie election, who vows to battle the ‘debt bomb’ with a promise of a more sustainable
budget, including via a ‘review and evaluation unit’ to target waste.
The ‘Pie knows where to start, but let’s not talk about TEL.
Making “Shamparency” a term has valid derivation construction, but what does it mean for Shampoo?
Indeed, and for the validity of progeny.
Don’t shampoo your hair with VEET.
Magpie, Late in the comments from last week you speak of there not being any worthy candidates coming forward to take on the role of Townsville mayor. This was the problem last election, a choice between a crusty rusty sitting mayor, an every time tyre kicker, and an unknown who turned out to be really shitty. If the State Government gets a spine and dumps really shitty x-names and calls for new mayoral elections. How much time will a candidate have to get their ideas down and build a case? Are there some good citizens willing to start building a development plan for Townsville that identifies Townsville’s realistic strengths (the AFCM jump north highlights natural attractions Tville can never match) and a step plan to get to the next level? The discussion of entertaining cruise ships highlighted the lack of WOW in Townsville. In deed have there already been efforts that can be dusted off and refreshed?
Depending on the “when” of a state government getting a spine (an as yet unproven phenomenon) and axing your almost aptly named x-names has a lot to do with IF there even would be an election before 2028. Timing is already against there being a by-election for Mayor, maybe a Division, if the council were to vote to permanently uplift someone from their own to the role (not a great win for democracy, and given what we are trying to get rid of, it’s taking a bashing in Townsville Mayoralty stakes lately). If it miraculously happened, a Mayoralty by-election would only be a maximum of 12 weeks away. In that time you are either going to find a “personality” that could get elected, or someone with real policies. The former is more likely to be the case. And here is the answer to your final question, and why that might be the case:
“Are there plans sitting somewhere that can be dusted off and refreshed?”
Short Answer:
Yes — but they’re not enough on their own. What Townsville really needs is political courage to act on proven, practical ideas already working in other cities: reactivating vacant CBD spaces with pop-ups and culture; reshaping parking and liquor laws to encourage families, not just late-night crowds; and restoring civic pride with street art, safe public places, and smarter use of what we already have. These aren’t billion-dollar dreams — they’re cost-neutral, council-led reforms that have transformed cities around the world. The blueprints exist. What’s missing is someone serious enough to lead.
Just we’re all on the same page here, It appears that an election for mayor is mandatory if (no, when, surely) Thompson is dismissed, given the timeframe of the vacancy occurring. This is the situation here in Townsville.
Summarising the relevant part of the Qld LG Act:if a mayor’s position becomes vacant mid-term, a by-election is generally required to fill the vacancy. However, if the vacancy occurs within the final 18 months of the term, i.e in this case, October 2026, the council may, with ministerial approval, leave the position vacant until the next election. If the vacancy occurs at the very end of the term, the remaining councillors can appoint one of their members to the mayoral position.
Elections are not cheap to organise and run, and it would be far better financially for the government to run a single mayoral election than accept the cost of wholesale dismissal – undeserved anyway and possibly a bigger legal mess than we have currently – and install an administrator.
But these seem to be the only two options possible, Crisafulli’s has made clear his view of Thompson and that the twister will not be returning as mayor … after his repeated statements on the issue, The Kid would suffer untold and possibly terminal political damage if he allows Thompson back anywhere near Walker Street.
So yes, the likelihood is that we are three months away from a mayoral election.
But the upside to that is that there is no requirement for a candidate to even attempt to put together a team, he or she will be leading the current group of councillors. So a respected local entity with solid credentials could run solely on his or her civic CV.
The ‘Pie once asked Stephen Motti if he’d consider a shot. His reply was polite but insistent, a response that in its basic meaning is not suitable for the chaste eyes of readers of this blog. Shame, he’d be well worth consideration.
Thats assuming he is removed by October 2025. I just can’t see how, given his lawyers seem inclined to keep him there and delay the matters. I think we all hope this will happen, but I cannot see it playing out that way.
See reply to Mooney Ponds.
Looking at the 2024 mayoral election results and the positive assessments by the spreadsheeters and the Magpie of recent TCC deliberations generally and the council budget specifically, Jenny Hill herself would stand a good chance in a 2025 by-election for mayor. Be careful what you wish for.
How can arrange a wager, Bob?
Saw Motti at the Bulletin Forum last week – has my vote. Everyone’s saying Kippin the other option.
Everyone? Kippin? You jest, especially if you’re a member of the Chamber’s inner circle. Otherwise ‘everyone’ is unperturbed at the idea of a man who was sacked as CEO of Townsville Enterprise when local business people jacked up about his ‘underperformance’ is what we need for a mayor right now? And the shaggy grey eminence in the background he would bring with him in an advisory capacity?
But one wonders if your comment hints at a renewed tilt at Walker Street when it come around … The ‘Pie says “renewed” in light of this Magpie exclusive earlier this year which spells out the gory details.
https://www.townsvillemagpie.com.au/from-a-mullet-to-a-kipper-guess-who-wants-to-be-our-next-mayor/
Anyway, The Kipper might be too busy in court around election time, as he is neck deep in the legal mess of the stalled West End Private Hospital imbroglio.
Aye – lead
But where ?
The best part of the budget was they raised the rate rise cap to 20%. Which means, they wont sting you all of it this year, but will get the rest next year with whatever rise they see fit in 12 months.
I miss the days when the max rate rise cap was 5%.
Muddle East to Kiwis and Meddle East to Aussies. Both accurate.
The ‘Pie tends to stay clear of the goings-on over there, but he was grimly amused at the brazen hypocrisy of Israel with its outrage about the rocket hit on one of its hospitals, and the injury and deaths of its innocent citizens.
Helllooo. Look south To Gaza, and get back to us about that.
you get that when you kidnap and murder innocent civilians
The problem with that statement is the word ‘you’. Children aged as young as one and their mothers did not kidnap and murder anyone. One hopes you’re not falling back on the old racist trope ‘they’re all good for it’.
Or are you?
not at all, but the parents support for Hamas, is telling
That is a disgusting reply and is as equally telling about you. And it’s cowardly, hinting that I was right, you reckon all Palestinians are ‘good for it’.
did those who were kidnapped and murdered attack Hamas?
No they didn’t. Were those woman and children killed in Gaza members of Hamas?
The point you casually dismiss is that Hamas deliberately hides behind civilian infrastructure. The key difference is that Israel does not place military equipment or personnel beneath its hospitals. In the context of war, it is considered acceptable to target infrastructure being used to conceal enemy forces. It is however a war crime to attack a hospital that contains no military targets.
Christ,The ‘Pie was about to respect you a reasoned reply to that jangled idea of gung-ho fuckwittery, but will instead suffice with an accepted internationally established fact:
It is NOT EVER considered acceptable to target infrastructure being used to conceal enemy forces if it involves killing the defenceless sick, the injured, women or children.
While that goes for the criminal theocratic crazies of Iran, and the despicable murderous HAMAS, it also goes for the genocidal Netanyahu.
And it’s all, from both sides, in the name religion, on behalf of a god who loves us all. Apparently. When he’s not conveniently converted into a vengeful god.
Townsville and its environs is wedged between Cairns and the Whitsundays and should be marketed accordingly!
Someone please remind TEL and Ms. Bullshit Baffles Brains…
How would that work?
“Townsville: stop for lunch on the way through”
Townsville: Everyone’s Busting to Go!
Townsville has toxic fishing in the dam. No other towns can boast that. You would be MAD not to promote that.
Townsville: Home of the Real “Deadliest Catch”!
B,
I like it. In stead of Beef Wellington, serve up Townsville Baramundi for that special dinner.
The ‘Pie could make up a guest list right now. But won’t … and nobody else please.
Pie,
You have reminded me of a comment made many years ago by someone, who I cannot remember, that there should be a Magpie Nest Annual Black Tie Dinner. You came back that the commenter did not understand the dynamic of the Nest and such a dinner would be a bloodbath. Shame really. My black bowtie has not had an outing for years. And blood can be removed from your white dinner jacket by soaking it in cold water when you get home.
Well, cockhead Threenames. electronic petition has been submitted to the state government. He is now promoting his paper petition and seeking signatures. He is a sociopath like KRudd and Malcom Turnbull and he will never ever stop sniping at Council. He simply can’t stop. It’s not in the nature of a sociopath to let go. Whether his mental illness comes from being born that way or from receiving too many head knocks, we will probably never know. But what we do know is that this nutcase won’t be silenced until his petitions fail and he is sacked.
On the Toensvillians blocked by Troy Thompson page there is a comment from the real Frothy Molacino in which he refers to Twonames as ‘Headknocks’. Good to see that other politicians, or ex politicians, also label Twonames as an idiot.
Two wrongs don’t make it right. Or in this case, one incompetent person, mocking another incompetent person doesn’t make the first one competent.
@ToyThompstain, 1439 names on the QLD government e-petition, 1027 on the change petition, and apparently 2,000 names on paper, not a lot for submission in the grand scheme of things. Crisafulli will knock it on its head. Every time someone gives him attention, he will use it. On to another subject, old mate, Hawkes with his 2032 picture in parliament, tell me this dope does not really think he has a chance, there is a reason he is a discard of the Katter Party, lucky he can drive trucks, and lift heavy things.
Is that 2022? Or have we missed something?
Definitely 2032 on his FB page.
ToyT it is now more than 12 months since the CCC took on the investigation of Mayor Troy Thompson. It is more than 8 months since Thompson suggested to the Minister that he be suspended for 12 months while the investigation ran its course. Unless the CCC comes up with viable legal grounds to sack the Mayor for whatever improprieties he might have committed in the run-up to the 2024 elections, his suspension could either be lifted or, ‘courageously’ (in the Yes, Minister sense), be extended to the end of his term.
Do you seriously think of any circumstances where Thompson could be reinstated? I mean, really?
Perhaps if there was an apocalypse and he was the last man standing. Then, and only then, would he be deemed suitable to be in charge. Unless of course there was a dog, and then the dog would have the authority.
@magpie You and I both know stranger things have happened. I must say the guy grinds on me daily, but his latest post is interesting about the Prins discussions and budget, no way he did those numbers.
Reinstatement is the do-nothing option – Townsville pays. Sacking is the nuclear option – Queensland pays. Extension of suspension might be the least worse option – we just have to stop the media oxygen.
Thanks, Troy, good to see you’re still around.
Bad luck Troy. They are not going to lengthen your paid suspension. The CCC has 12 months to draw out enough criminal charges which will lead to your dismissal, then tie you up in court for a few years if you wish to fight and lose.
I cannot see any other option that Thompson being paid to bugger off. While there may or may not be criminal charges, there is plenty of case studies that exist to demonstrate contempt, and the old adage of influence of an ongoing investigation has been demonstrated by the Higgins case. Regardless, he must go, and perhaps it can happen, I am sceptical, because how many times have, we seen others, including our past mayor get away with shit. Can we just move on, and get off talking about this complete waste of space.
Maybe best if you move on … to FB, be more your speed, by the sounds of it … Barry.
There is also plenty of suitable charges to process that are in the best interest of the community.
The democratically suspended Mayor won’t get a payout to leave unlike the former CEO, CFO, CLO. Someone signed that off under the cloud of darkness.
Talk on this subject won’t stop until charges have been finalized in the courts, which could take years.
He will be lucky to stay out of prison. There is no coming back from what he has collectively done, and that is just his tenure as Mayor. Other things have come to light in his previous roles that are worthy of further investigation.
I would love to hear from Threenames former colleagues, business partners, and bosses. Be interesting to see their thoughts and character assessments of the suspended pustule mayor. Then again, would there really be any surprising revealed? Not likely. We already have Threenames measure.
A second tenet of IHL relevant to civilian casualties is the rule of proportionality. ‘Proportionality’ demands that when estimating the civilian deaths or injuries from an attack on a legitimate military target, the harm caused cannot be excessive (disproportionate) to the concrete and direct anticipated military advantage to be obtained by the attack. In other words, if the harm to the civilians or civilian objects is deemed too great or excessive to the direct military advantage anticipated, the attack cannot lawfully take place.
There was Zero military advantage in the bombing of the Israeli hospital.So it was a war crime. There is a military target under the hospitals in Gaza. The courts will decide if it is proportionate
40,000+ dead by-standing men woman and children will be watching on for justice.
But it’s the winners who write history … that’s why we learn so little from it.
so you agree then that there was zero military advantage in bombing a hospital in Israel but there was a military advantage to bombing a hospital in Gaza. The only argument will be if the advantage was proportional to the casualties.
So get out your calculator and conjure up a price on an how many innocent lives equal the justification of how many Hamas dead … and maybe given your knuckle-dragging concept, but a dollar price on it all.
Is this how ‘proportional’ works out in your dystopian world?
Magpie, that’s collateral damage. It is what it is. A small price to pay so as to protect mankind from these religious nut jobs. If these middle eastern and Asian nations weren’t so brainfucked by fantasy ideologies then there would be little need for wars. They started it, so may the west finish it in raining fire! Blow em all up.
So no rules in warfare, is that it? Retreat into medieval vakues and behaviours?
Deliberate ‘collateral damage’ certainly is what it is … it’s straight out murder. Certainly Hamas has made itself a target, and should be obliterated, but there has to be a price that no civilised country would pay to seek its justified vengeance. And the subject here is Gaza, which is a different scenario to Iran.
And let’s hope you have the wisdom and balance when listing religious nutjobs and fantasy ideologies that include fanatical mad mullahs you also include Judaism, as exercised as a sovereign state. Being anti-Israel is NOT anti-semitism … if that were the case, it would be morally wrong to accept the truth that the man who uses starvation of innocents as a weapon against others is a war criminal.
As long as the region is of huge strategic and trade significance holds the key to the worlds’ petroleum resources and is kept conveniently unstable, over ongoing territorial skirmishes and rage borne out of years of deprivation, enforced poverty and hardship all the while sponsored and armed by the west, Russia and China…there is every reason for war in the Middle East. Collateral damage to save mankind. Such a load of homespun, hokey bullshit. There is no justification for the mass murder of innocent women, children or men for that matter and to believe the “West’s” interests are anything outside of geopolitical is beyond naive.
Well, I sleep well at night regardless of who or how many of them get killed. These animals love their fake sky god so much that they are prepared to fight over it, so be it. Enjoy your wars you fuckheads, Hope you enjoy your reward.
Your smug callousness sleep might be disturbed when the balloon really goes up and you dimly realise that you are resting your sweet little head in the biggest army base and strategic air base in Australia, with a port from which troops will embark for overseas if that is decided. This city is no doubt already painted as a target in more than one hostile defence system.
Sweet dreams, my sweet.
It has ever been the same. Dresden was never a significant military target. It was bombed mercilessly over five days with incendiary bombs so that even the air caught fire. The vast majority of deaths were civilian. Nagasaki – was not even the primary target for the day. 100,000 dead. And all the Yanks were doing was testing the plutonium version of the bomb. Japan was already making peace overtures.
Israel v Iran is American v Russia, they call it everything but a war….
The official statement was clear:
“We are not at war with Iran.”
Just their nuclear program.
As if you can attack the veins…
And not expect the heart to respond.
As if you can drop bombs on a sovereign nation…
And still claim peace.
As if you can carry out the actions of war…
But deny the word itself ever applied.
The world is doing everything war requires—
But refuses to call it war.
And maybe that’s the most dangerous part.
Because if you won’t name the fire…
You’ll never admit the house is burning.
Would you allow Iran to have a nuclear bomb? Or would you take a preemptive strike to prevent them developing one?
I’m old enough to remember when they lied about Iraq supposedly having weapons of mass destruction. Iran wasn’t developing nuclear weapons.
But would you allow them to build a nuclear bomb if they were?
Bro, they also lied about Afghanistan, Vietnam, and other ‘political changes’ they have forced through courtesy of the CIA. Disgusting, warmongering, blood guilty grubs.
To be honest I would allow them to have a nuke, they’re no more likely to use them than Pakistan or Israel for that matter.
You have a point, and a view that has been held since the 1950s. For 70 years, it’s been a Mexican stand-of which allows talks, negotiations and agreements or limited localised bits of bastardry in the face of the alternative, the appropriately acronymic MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction. Shakespeare’s words in the aptly named ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy is the most eloquent summation of our predicament … his view of death then applies to nuclear weapons today.
‘There’s the respect that makes calamity of so long life.’
But that all goes out the window if nuclear weapons are suddenly available to mentally unbalanced religious zealot (pardon the tautology) who hears celestial voices that might tell him to destroy the planet.
We have no proof there is/was a military target under the hospitals in Gaza. Only what the IDF and Bibi say. And Bibi is a war criminal with an arrest warrant out for him.
Neither country is in the right by bombing hospitals. But Israel has been doing it deliberately, consistently and for much longer. They are disgusting.
Oh, Ducky – you really are an idiot. I suppose you also think October 7 was merely “resistance”?
Considering that about a third of the 1200 killed in the Hamas breakout were IDF soldiers it plainly began as a military action.
Bob – and the other two thirds? Women and babies? Military action, my arse. It was a Jew-killing exercise. Have you listened to the audio of the young Hamas “fighter” excitedly telling his Mum how many Jews he had murdered? And you seem to think it was justified? Let’s hear you condemn Hamas – or are you just another anti-Semitic piece of shit?
You’ve really got to stop listening extremist propaganda grumpy. There were no WMD. There are no military targets under hospitals. Both have just been an excuse to kill indiscriminately.
Ducky – how to say I don’t understand Middle-Eastern politics without saying that I don’t understand Middle-Eastern politics. It was never said that the Mad Mullahs had a nuclear weapon – however, it was said that they were very, very close to building one. Perhaps you should stop sucking up that Israel-hating pap on the internet.
Criticising Israel’s actions isn’t ‘Israel-hating’. It’s holding a powerful government to account. What Hamas did is unacceptable, but if there’s solid evidence about military targets under hospitals, let’s see independent proof. That’s not ignorance, that’s critical thinking. And if there’s a nuclear enrichment program let’s see independent proof. Until recently Iran was mostly cooperating with the IAEA. Israel however does not cooperate, yet it has nuclear weapons program it refuses to declare. So how come they get a free pass?
No, Ducky, let’s not look for evidence terrorists under hospitals, because even they are there, killing defenceless, ill and wounded men women and children, all unarmed non-combatants, is NEVER excusable and NEVER can be, no matter what some mouth breathers to this blog say. It is accepted that until now, the term ‘collateral damage’ was unintended civilian casualties. Targeting unarmed non-combatants goes by another name … murder.
And now we have people confusing and compounding issues since Iran became a target. A terrorist theocracy seeking a nuclear bomb is putting not just it’s citizens at risk but also the entire world, so support for Israel/ American action on that front is justified by sensible people, but it should not be used as a deflection and distraction from what is a pure and simple fact… genocide in Gaza, whether it be by bomb, bullet or starvation.
Same goes for Israelis killed by Iranian rockets in their homes or hospitals, or kidnapped and murdered by Hamas vermin.
The Magpie for one will accept or normalise the death of decency, when the likes of America, Israel and Russia create a sort of massive magnetic disturbance to our moral compass.
On oct 7th all defences of the gaza were effectively switched off, strangely it took 24 hours for the IDF to react effectively. Of the 7 rapid reaction forces of 50 men that were in or around the gaza perimeter, 6 of them were moved to the west bank a short time before thr oct 7th attack. Numerous intelligence agencies , including israeli intelligence were warning of an impending attack , yet strangely nothing was done and the entire perimeter was held wide open. This was an inside job.
And you, Guy, are just plain nuts
C. Hawks is another wannabe politician/full time cooker. A two-bit tinfoil wearer from Townsville that wants to make a name for himself. He is a halfwit and is best suited to driving trucks as you don’t require a brain to do that. As for his Facebook post 2032? he might be referring to having a lobotomy planned for 2032 or perhaps losing weight by 2032. If he takes a tilt at politics he will never get the votes of the majority of the electorate, he would get just a handful of votes from the lunatic fringe and his friends like Twonames Thompson and that Kool-aid consumer Stephen Lane.
So let’s not waste any more time on him venting our opinion of him.
And for T Thompson I would suggest .. enough already ..
Currently in Darwin doing the tourist bit and visited Mingil beach markets last night .. what a positive joyous environment.. truly multicultural, families, locals, travellers , sunset behind the clouds and live music as well .. reminds me a bit of the events on the strand years ago
Sure it was the v8 weekend in Darwin, start of school holidays and park tourist season .. but the vibe was just so bloody good .. the clubs and pubs are alive with activities for all
I reckon park thompson up as a subject in the nest ( what more is to be gained) and replace the copious space that he takes up with some good news stories .. just gotta adjust these glasses I bought at the markets .. seem to have a rose colouring to them
I agree…..
Terrible idea. If you want feel good stories you can get them anywhere.
Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power!
Struth mate, you’d best avoid Aunt Sally, you only credited men with these traits, or you’ll be “bum-swizzled”
With cost of living going through the roof and council workers not being paid enough, why has so much money been wasted on Ross Dam land fishing, when blue green algae makes the fish inedible? There seems to be very little interest in this fishing yet
– a security guard sits in his car everyday from 6am to 6pm making sure no one eats the fish or dares to take their dog down to the dam water or climb the rocks.
– a trailer with a security camera was hired for weeks.
– a permanent security camera has now been installed
-toilets with tanks and a noisy generator has been installed
– the dam wall stairs have been fixed again after being undermined by the rain.
– grass has been planted and watered next to the stairs .
– a large expensive concrete road has been installed into the dam for entry between 6 am and 6pm. Then the gate is shut.
– ugly floating solar panels float on the dam
– the whole length of the dam wall gets mowed frequently
-echidnas and little wallabies get run over.
– a brand new tractor with mowing attachment sits idle in the fenced area in front of the dam yet the walking track around the Borrow Pits remains overgrown with weeds.
Is it true this sad fishing joke cost $1.5 million dollars yet no one is allowed to kayak in the Ross Dam?
Hi Pie,
Further to the council’s budget, its worth mentioning the extraordinary land valuations changes, particularly for homes in Townsville, the council’s tricky response to this and how this impacts the rates we pay.
For single dweling homes, the average valuation rise is 66.5%, not the 27% average (across-all-categories of land) referred to by the acting mayor. Its true that residents with that lower average, thanks to the 18% reduction in the rate in the dollar charged, will see a 4% rate increase but they are by far in the minority.
Among the hardest hit will be residents in Hermit Park and Castle Hill who will see 20% general rate rises, in line with the new higher rate cap. Those areas wiil like see further big rate hikes up to 14% next year as the full valuation changes wash through. Other big losers will be people in Belgian Gardens and West End, both with rises of 14%.
This is separate to further big utility rate hikes. For example, the council is budgeting to collect an additional 19% in refuse and recycling revenue. It is budgeting to receive an additional 10% in general rates (across the board), an additional 6.4% in water charges and an additional 9.3% in wastewater fees. This includes population growth but are we really going to see 1.7% growth?
It would be interesting to hear any – and I mean any- of the councillors trying to explain why the council had to lift the rate cap for homeowners from 10 to 20%. I imagine the executives on salaries way higher than can be justfied telling them they need to let these huge valuation changes wash through as soon as possible and that, hey, these homeowners are enjoying windfall capital gains. Too bad if many of these people are asset rich and cash poor. So when the acting mayor tries to tell you they made a “concerted effort” to minimise rate rises, you should ask, well, why did you lift the homeowner rate cap?
Easy cash grab.
For some reason the councilors want to get the council running at a profit before the next election, at the expense of the ratepayer, rather than austerity measures. TCC has a spending problem, and the elected representatives are taking the easy option to sting the ratepayers first and foremost.
Some will suffer 20% rate rise, year on year and with last years effective rate rise of 10.1 percent, some could have rates more than double within the current term.
While you’re looking at rates maybe look at the Qld budget.
All fees (rego, drivers licence etc will increase by 3.4%)
No electricity rebates.
An increase in policing but no increase in housing, despite 52,000 people being on the social housing waitlist. But that’s ok, we’re funding homelessness services, which for those of you who don’t know… means putting people up in hotels and other short stay accommodation.
Trump lets off an F-Bomb and its on the news, a few years back Rhett Butler/Clark Gable lets off a Dam(n) buster and the Earth stopped rotating!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankly,_my_dear,_I_don%27t_give_a_damn
The temper tantrum of a naughty child. His puppet status as a UI is now being exposed to the world.
Trump is a fuckwit and a foul tempered narcissist. Plus he has minimal understanding of middle eastern culture and the issues that these nations have that goes back thousands of years. He is obsessed with making deals and looking like a hero. Fool.
Today he’s threatening to use the other f-word. Not sure what that is. Fascism? Felon?
Ducky mate, that is only a word; my concern he’ll be shouting a worse F word; FIRE!!! and his Zombie “acolytes” will do just that! and somewhere will become an eternal ash-heap.
What’s going on at Tiffany’s?
Just saw Threenames, his squeeze, editor of the Bulletin and the bloke from TTT radio, Max! WTAF
Anyone?
The ‘Pie has trouble believing that. A con man, a new age dingbat, a rightwing extremist and a senior local News Ltd employee together?
If that is so, we might be in for a large yarn shortly. The ‘Pie cannot imagine a relative lightweight in Poulson being allowed by News legal people anywhere near such an unsupervised and dangerous meeting. Mad Max Tomlinson is lurking lately, he’s trying to find some relevance for himself in the electoral possibilities that loom. He has been backing David Kippen for a run at the mayoralty.
Christ, as if we don’t already have enough disasters.
The longer Troy is on suspension, the more unhinged he becomes. The suspense of this investigation is eating him up inside, hence his continual venting on social media. Every week he digs himself a deeper hole. By November he will have reached China! It’s no surprise that he was spotted with the media. He is no doubt desperately looking at spreading his message further, as social media isn’t getting him the support he craves and needs. Keep feeding him enough rope, as the saying goes. This idiot is on a one way road into oblivion. Be patient friends as the end is nigh.
Part of that would be Colonel Mustard in the wine cellar with a bottle.
The very thought that Bulletin iditor Jill Poulson would be within a bargepole of the toxic Thompson is ludicrous. And what deal could possibly be on the cards anyway, while the matter is still under investigation by the CCC?
And please, no one bother replying on this silly mischievous jape – unless you have a pic of the get together.
Otherwise, the thread is ended.
Mr. Magpie,
Following on from last week’s comments regarding the reopening of the Radical Bay Road in the Nest, here is a link to a letter to the Magnetic Island Community which has been published n the MCN and and also Facebook Pages
https://www.magneticcommunitynews.com/post/letter-to-the-community
An anonymous letter about a binned petition based on what Adam Baillie thinks Ann-Maree Greaney can’t do. Gee thanks.
Oh Bob,
What’s the problem seems you are not happy with all the support Adam Baillie has on the island to reopen the Radical Bay Road?
While Scott Stewart may have binned the petition there our several hard copies of it on the island.
As for what Greaney can do? From observation over the past 10 years or so, it certainly has been too much.
Is Bob really your name or are you trying to be anonymous?
If you have been living at your place for years and you have started getting multiple letters from THAIHS for a person who doesn’t live there, then, some of the following scenarios might have taken place:
Someone is scamming THAIS and has given your address
Someone is laying a false trail for cops or debt collectors
A false trail for drug dealers or domestic violence abusers
Trying to establish a bank account with a false address
Attempting to register a false address with the electoral commissions
If someone has recently tried to break in after casing the joint it may be one of them.
Gosh.
What if the scam comes in the name of Barry??
Been there, done that.
Ns
Just write on the envelope “Not at this Address” and put it into any PO Mail box.
Oz Post will return to sender and also note it on their data base and auto-return any further fakes.
Ya reckin?? Used AP three time this year, twice for cards and once for a small parcel.
None got there.
A little ray of sanity creeping back into the current social lunacy?
This might be a bit more readable.
It was this very subject that raised hackle a week or so ago, when the crowd at (I think) the SOO in Perth, were asked to stand for Welcome to Country. What an insult for this honour which is traditionally reserved for our inclusive national anthem or on occasions honouring the men and women (including many indigenous people) of our defence forces who died or served in the name of ALL the country.
And a day or two later, at another big match AFL if I recall correctly) no WTC but a brief, fine tribute to SES personnel who’ll come to your aid no matter what ‘mob’ you are from or where the fuck you are.
As a matter of fact, if we must have these irelevant virtue signalling overtures when all we want is what we paid for – the game itself – why not celebrate make a roster for openings honouring all those organisations that contribute so much more to modern Australia than the champions of a culture that couldn’t even boil water.
As its a “racial” issue (by their choice of course) why not just include this cretinous hypocracy at the beginning of the pregame entertainment, then we can choose when to enter the stadium, or to sit or to stand.
Maybe this welcome hah! should include a thank-you for leaving your car outside, our progeny will road test it for you, gratis.
A, and Mr ‘Pie,
Both of you are being a little insensitive.
Most Fridays I conduct a culturally appropriate sensitive smoking ceremony.
Significant and secret preparations are made beforehand.
Great care, as prescribed by those who have gone before us, are observed throughout the hours long ceremony.
Then, at the climax of the ceremony the beef brisket is removed from the ceremonial smoke, served with sweet potato, chutney, and a culturally appropriate shiraze.
Sounds like you enjoy a different sort of smoking, too.
“There is no excuse—none—and there never can be, no matter how many commenters on this blog try to rationalize it.”
This kind of response always catches my attention. It’s been asked countless times, by many different people, and yet no one seems capable of answering it directly. The reply is always the same tired line: “I would not do what Israel did.” That’s it. No nuance. No honest reckoning. Just recycled talking points from people who consider themselves intellectuals.
So let me put it plainly: if what happened on October 7th—regardless of whether you believe it was real, staged, or allowed to happen—had happened to your family, your children, your grandchildren, your parents… what would you do? And please, spare me the “they’ve been oppressed since ’48” argument.
Imagine something like that happening in your quiet neighborhood—say, in a place like Annandale and Pink concert. What then? What would have done if you were Israel?Just think what if it was your daughter and 2 grandchildren taken and murdered?
Yep, as usual, you’ve shamed us all, Trops, and nailed it.
Because of course our reaction would be just the same … if it happened here in Townsville, especially after a Pink concert, I would take vengeance by going out and murdering a few tens of thousands of people who had nothing to do with it. And then claim it was justified because I was looking for the real perpetrators, and some others, who I reckon probably supported the attackers, just got in the way of where I claimed the baddies were hiding.
Then, when others started criticising me fo this, I’d attack Cairns with a shanghai for threatening to developing a better Festival of Chamber Music, and then be indignant when Cairns returned fire a shower of flaming bags of shit, which we stomped on to put out the flames and splattered shit all over ourselves.
yep same as everyone else, cant explain what you would do. Everyone has an opinion but no one has a plan. Maybe history can tell us what people would do, like pearl habour? what happened there. It ended in a nuclear bomb not once but twice. Or Dresden. Where did all the countries and kingdoms go after ww1?
Tropical heat stroke, you need help. Seriously, get over it. Go read The Fog of War, take sone Valium, remove the tinfoil from on top of your head and take a rest.
Nothing you’ve posted makes any sense—except perhaps to your own confused mind. Where exactly is the “conspiracy” in what I’ve said? Valium is prescribed for anxiety, and nothing I’ve written is remotely anxious. As for heat stroke, that’s irrelevant—there is no heat. The “fog of war” argument, suggesting confusion or uncertainty, also doesn’t apply here; the situation is clear.
A terrorist group, backed by Palestinian support, embedded their military infrastructure within schools, hospitals, and other civilian buildings. These terrorists, funded by the fundamentalist regime in Iran, carried out a brutal attack on October 7. They murdered, dismembered, and raped civilians in a horrific and calculated assault.
Their goal was to provoke an inevitable Israeli response and to ensure global attention by taking hostages. Israel retaliated forcefully and negotiated for the release of those hostages. Despite Hamas’s expectations, the world responded with words, not meaningful action—so Israel proceeded to target Hamas’s financial networks directly and prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb. You remind me of one quote fools talk about people, clever people talk about things, really intelligent people talk about ideas. Look at all your posts and you will see you are definitely a fool.
Ducky, coming from you, that’s hilarious.
The previous comment attributed to Ducks Nuts was posted by someone with no imagination and is unable to think up their own handle. It wasn’t posted by Ducks Nuts. Magpie knew this as I made a comment during the day to notify him.
Hey, if you refuse, or aren’t bright enough, to sort out the manner that other commenters ensure their (albeit hidden) identity is protected, do not expect The ‘Pie to know who is bullshitting. This bird ain’t no Aunt Sally for knuckle draggers.
Other than that, what do you suggest The ‘Pie do when an anonymous person posts a comment claiming that another anonymous person is using their name?
You are of course aware we can see comments posted under our own alias even if we didn’t submit them. So I suggest, at the very minimum, if someone comments to alert you that an imposter has submitted a comment, you address it.
The ‘Pie admits he is an oaf for even bothering to answer your idiocy … or maybe you’re just a mischievous time waster.
But, please, do tell, how do we address such infamy? How does The ‘Pie know if the alert actually comes from the offended name holder, or it is the imposter playing games.
It’s a problem made by your own laziness, mate.
Wet tropics, you are a certified Nutjob mate. Do you have a collection of Nazi memorabilia that you keep in a glass display cabinet?
what an idiot. if I was a nazi would I support Israel? ffs
Quite possibly. Anyone on the far right of policy making can be legitimately called a Nazi which initially applied only to members of the grossly misnamed National Socialist German Workers Party.
Finally we have a serious contender for the Troy Thompson Arsehat Award – Tropical Cyclone is a certified neo-fascist frootloop.
Wow — it’s astounding how recklessly you throw around words and labels you barely understand, not because you genuinely disagree, but because you want to feel superior by silencing others’ opinions, no matter how well-reasoned they are. You can’t even articulate what you would’ve done differently. This goes beyond ignorance — it’s willful stupidity.
“Quite possibly. Anyone on the far right of policy making can be legitimately called a Nazi which initially applied only to members of the grossly misnamed National Socialist German Workers Party.” not according to the Oxford dictionary
it is a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party.”
Nothing I have posted is about superiority of race, only specific reprisal for events that have accured.
However Dickhead is clearly what ducks nuts is ” somebody, especially a man, that you think is stupid or unpleasant”
Do you understand the word ‘initially’?
By your lame excuse, you need to be a 19th century textile worker who doesn’t like machinery to be a Luddite.
And as far as your virtue signalling of making no mention of superiority of race, you actually do, by equating as fair and reasonable the death of (now, we learn) 58,000 non-combatant dead Gazan men women and children, with 1200 dead or kidnapped Jewish people. Both realities are wrong in the extreme, but it is a false equivalence.
And you fucking know it.
The Oxford dictionary still lists it as a member of the national socialist workers party.
Nothing I’ve posted, even when taken to the most absurd extreme, could reasonably suggest that I’m a Nazi in any way. You cant even say what you would have done. You are actually stupid.
The ‘Pie actually has said exactly that, drongo. The Magpie has made it clear what he would NOT have done, i.e. murdered innocent people, the vast majority who were unarmed civilians. It is not my job to say what I would’ve done as it is not yours to say what was done is morally OK.
you are the wrong. saying what you would not of done is not saying what you would of done. Your daughter was raped and murdered on October 7th and your grandchildren beheaded and you would have done?
Keep playing out that rope until you have enough to kick away the chair, you sad clot.
In the Oxford dictionary under the word ‘unhinged’ it should have a photo of you. You need help TC.
Although this thread has descended into a bit of a tit-for-tat, it is highly amusing and entertaining. On the one hand you have Tropical rain shower, a mentally stunted racist bigot. On the other hand you have some seasoned commentators with astute responses that show up Tropical rain shower for the fool that he is, and an angry fool at that.
You can almost see the clenched teeth and balled fists, can’t you? Poor sod.
where have I been racist? just one post? you don’t even know what the term means.
An excellent blog this week. Well written. Lots of comments too which are highly entertaining, a real mixture of Townsville personalities. Looking forward to tomorrow’s edition.
Where does The ‘Pie send the brown paper bag of small denomination readies?
Like the name though:
John 3:16 is considered a concise summary of the Christian gospel, emphasising God’s love, the sacrifice of Jesus, and the offer of salvation through faith.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
A key element is “For God so loved the world…”: This highlights the immense love God has for humanity. The word “so” (Greek: “houtos”) can also be interpreted as “in this way” or “thus,” emphasising the manner of God’s love.
Humanity is lately getting a close look at the Almighty’s ‘immense love for humanity’ and its manner of being expressed, ta muchly, God, mate. Seems he’s on a population drive for an uncrowded heaven.
To my place, I’ll take good care of it.
And so it begins: “US judges now have only limited powers to adjudicate on “contentious powers” of their leader”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev0d10kdd9o
Achilles, that decision in itself is unconstitutional. The orange man is being granted powers that sit well above the constitution. This is borderline criminal. They are giving the narcissist idiot more power than what any one man should have. America is plumbing new depths and I really believe that if they continue on this pathway the country will descend into civil unrest.
Oh! thanks for the clarification PR, I’d never have guessed it. I wonder why I even sent it in!!!
Civil unrest that will embolden Russia, China and Iran.
All this talk of wars excites North Korea. They want a fight somewhere, with anyone, just haven’t worked out who yet. They are still polishing the nucs waiting patiently to find out which direction to point them.
Never gunna happen, not even with this chubby dimwit. China won’t let them.