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The NSW government will unveil emergency plans to expand employment subsidies to hospitality and tourism businesses in a last-ditch effort to save 10,000 jobs.
Um, guys……who is going to be allowed to attend hospitality and tourism venues?
(Asked not one advisor ever)
Damn. Missed some punctuation and a quote!
Radio check, over.
last-ditch effort to save 10,000 jobs
OK, what about the other 100,000?
The economy crashing will probably kill off the COVID passports, I hope (I don’t hope it crashes, I merely hope for an upside).
I also hope the truckies abuse their power and make unreasonable demands.
I also hope that David Elliot has a fat induced rage and his intemperate personality leads to an embarrassing media event for the government, the Governor steps in, pulls the plug on all of this BS and the government, the NSW Assembly and Council are a free for all for the LDP, PHON, SFF, PUP & independents; the uniparty tetropoly is destroyed in our largest state.
Hmm. Never lose hope but don’t OD on it.
Imagine being a person with the water drop & two syringes emojis in their twitter handle.
Twitter bio, not twitter handle.
Bing bong.
I can’t allow you to join this strike.
Bing bong.
Leigh Lowe & his Bing Bongs were some funny shit.
Just like IT calling Australia a shit stained latrine, years before most had woken up to the fact.
400 years ago, IT would have been burned at the stake…witch witch.
Joke?
That’ like saying pi is roughly = 3.141 is a joke.
It’s the truth. We have become our own gaolers.
The behaviour we are trying to curb is agitating for freedom.
Crabs in a bucket.
10 mins of outstanding Norm Macdonald.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WvcyQQgaYY
“Dotsays:
August 25, 2021 at 9:32 pm”
Thanks Dot….a perfect round up!
That Norm McDonald is a real jerk.
Carpe
Put me down for 8/12/2021 please
My wedding anniversary; what have I got to lose? 😀
Almost 80 per cent of the state’s available intensive care beds are now full, of which 17 per cent are coronavirus patients. (SMH)
17% of all available ICU beds, or 17% of the 80%?
Who cares. Now we know that more beds could be made available, and Covid cases take up a minority of ICU beds.
Not that the headlines would lead you to understand that.
HSC in NSW may be delayed until November. Exam format to be shortened.
Is there no end to the pressure and stress Bereshockian keeps putting on the year 12s?
Just the very word MAY sends blood pressure sky rocketing in students, teachers, and parents.
Leigh Lowe & his Bing Bongs were some funny shit.
I thought that had a lot to do with Struth’s knee-jerk raging when he realised his sanctimoniousness was being laughed at and pilloried.
There’s been no appetite for a reprise of the Great Truck vs Train War of 2021, since.
Not a single Zeppelin…
(It was indeed a masterclass in bear-poking by Mr. Lowe. A true masterclass).
The Lieborals in NSW doing there best to out dick head the dick tator.
Good point Rex.
We can withstand this truck strike on Friday.
Imagine the hellscape if it was a train strike?
Lizzie said:
What’s the problem with shingles, Lizzie? My wife had shingles a couple of years back and it was horrible.
I’ve only just qualified for the shot and she’s urging me to have it.
The bing bong teasing was a spinoff from the Great Truck v Train War that eventually became its own series.
I think you’re right, Rex. The raging from St. Ruth about batteries of Indian CCTV screen operators watching him 24/7 was just too tempting a target to pass up.
Imagine the hellscape if it was a train strike?
The Iron Ore/Coal/Death Gluten must flow…
***Dune Theme Intensifies***
Indya 4/56 at lunch at Headingly. Jimmy Anderson bowled eight over and got 3/6. Christ he’s timeless, that bloke.
Not a mask to be seen in a completely full venue.
Trader’s blog.
How a trader describes making money. He’s been on the road, delivering his kid to a college in Boston.
God, I love this. It should be a liberty quote.
The bing bong teasing was a spinoff from the Great Truck v Train War that eventually became its own series.
The untold story of the Great Truck v Train War, is that it was actually instigated by a Grig-sock.
Specifically Ed Case, Gypsum-wielding captain of the White Suuuuuuub!
Struth took the Grig-bait and started getting sanctimonious about the historical superiority and economic necessity of his beloved trucks. I pointed out that his sweeping generalisations were not that general. He called me a communist throbber, taking subsidy money from his roads. And away it went.
And all the Cats laughed, clapped or looked on in morbid fascination…
#GoodTimes
No longer required in England.
The government WuPox guidelines are now mainly based on personal responsibility – although Bozza “expects and recommends” the continued wearing of masks in crowded areas such as public transport.
The Brits have worked out that Headingly isn’t public transport, and anyway no longer give a fuck.
The government WuPox guidelines are now mainly based on personal responsibility – The Brits …anyway no longer give a fuck
A degree of societal maturity I wish we did not seem to lack…
Apparently it’s causing a certain level of panic. I know because Hairy arrived back from the supermarket today. Did you get the toilet paper? I ask, because last time he didn’t and we’re down to only one thirty-roll pak. The shelves, he declares, were empty, and not just of TP either. There’s been an inexplicable rush on lots of things, and almost no fresh fruit and vegies. He held up a bag of slightly blackened brussel sprouts as proof, saying these are the last ones and the only green vegies I could get. And here’s your toilet paper, he says, proffering the wrong sort. It’s the wrong sort, I protest. It was the last pak of TP on the shelves of Double Bay Woolworths, he says, stung.
I don’t know, he ponders, it’s a disease, this TP panic.
Even you have a mild case of it, he tells me woefully.
I explain how the truckies are going to go on strike, and that’s what’s behind it.
I hope they do a good job in that case, he says in grim sympathy.
Was the reported vax death of a school student in Sydney a bust?
The problem there is me, Bruce. I think I had it nearly fifty years ago. Father in law at that time had it badly. I was just out of hospital having baby number one and then an urgent abdominal operation and was very stressed. Got severe nerve pain up one upper leg only and then a few small irritating blisters tracking up the nerve pathway. I’d had chicken pox as a child.
I don’t know if getting the vaxx might not start up something long dormant and not too keen to find out. I will seek top medical advice. Also, I have to make the decision before I turn octogenarian.
Not much time to ponder it. All advice welcome.
In those days I didn’t consult with doctors for anything that wasn’t life and death so my ‘shingles’ was never properly diagnosed.
Forgot to mention that husband number one had just walked out when bub was ten weeks old. Was romancing my girlfriend in the semi-commune we were living in. Extra stressors in that. I stayed with friends and then his parents during my op.
Are the Sicktorians still required to wear their face bells advertising they are lung lepers?
Morrison will be getting a grumpy email tomorrow. He’s a complete moral vacuum.
Mon Dieu!
That was extremely annoying.
If that Lowe character shows his face again it will be too soon.
Freedom. The UK opened up on 19 July when 53% of the population were vaccinated.
I once met Sean Connery in a shingles bar.
fuck them. They’ve had 18 fucking months to prepare for this
It started when I was in hospital having the baby. It was sort of expected that I would just shrug it off as I had done before with two previous infidelities. Infidelity was a dirty word in our crowd and our marriage was seen as irrelevant, almost laughable. We were free, all so free, so we thought, until freedom started to pick us off one by one. It took a second child and the same thing to happen again in order for the final split to happen between us, because of course I took him back after that first baby and we had another. Throughout it all, the feminists cheered him on.
Fun times.
Yep, just another professional propagandist some go to for how to better push the Jabs, while they keep trashing experts & front line medicos who disagree with, Wine Scientist, Political Reporters for that fallen & foul rag, the Oz.
Funny, this is at least the second time this woman’s been pushed as someone who’s opinion is worth more than specialists who’ve put their careers on the line to try to get Govts to stop holding back on cheap, readily available, safe treatments that work.
Randy bitches gagging for cock.
So empowered!
Lizzie.
My mother had the jab. Bad reaction, sick for a few weeks and shingles outbreak at the end she’s just getting over.
But our family are the ones they write the “ 1 in 10000 might have this happen” warnings on drug packets for.
Yes, total. Beaut young kid at a Chatswood (North Shore) Catholic High School, died of heart failure while swimming with his dad during lockdown. Known heart issues and did not have the jab. Principal has come out and stared down the misinformation.
I don’t know of any other.
Was he shaken, or shtirred?
Couldn’t shay.
He wash plashtered.
Greg Kelly of NewsMax, one of the best, has a short video, 14 minutes, showing from 2002, a montage of all the 4 star generals saying the afshitistan army was now one of the best in the world and was well equipped to defend afshitistan; not one of the greasy bastards has been fired or put in front of a firing squad:
Greg Kelly: Someone needs to lose their job over this – YouTube
Mole, I am slightly atopic. Look it up all of yous. It means what Mole said about his mum and family.
I’m allergic to pencillin too, quite a severe reaction, deep haematomas. I am also allergic to cold. A suddent draft will bring on a fit of sneezing. I am thus a delight to travel with in aircraft when the aircon hits as I enter. Those nearby look askance, and seek vacant seats elsewhere with searching eyes.
It soon passes and I am normal again. People then entrust their children to me as I am a child magnet on aircraft, especially when I have my own with me. Kindergarten is on in row two. In some of our travels with children Hairy was ensconsed in Business with me marooned at the economy bulkhead with the babies, infants and primary schoolers. You learn to make the best of it. 🙂
Great piece over at Michael Smith about the Stones on tour and Charlie Watts smacking Mick Jagger in the mouth at 5am after Jagger woke him up after a bender. A great London gentleman, Charlie Watts.
Yes.
“Side effects of this drug include … [thereafter follows three pages of stuff]”
It runs from “almost certain” to 1 in 10, right through to 1 in a million.
I guarantee people avidly reading side effects of vaxes are taking prescription drugs which carry higher side effect risks but they haven’t read the leaflet.
news report said it was so
news report said it wasn’t
everybody was so informed
was incredible how the truth cut like a knife
and everybody was happy ever after
And Mick’s still got that fat lip, 50 years on.
Lazlo
Someone on the old Cat once wrote about sitting at the next table to Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman at a restaurant some years back, and remarked at how quiet and reserved they were.
Quite so Sanchez. It is always amusing to watch commercials on US TV about treatments. You get about 30 seconds on the benefits, and then 2 minutes of disclosures (don’t sue us).
Watts and Wyman were the backbone of the Stones, the rhythm section. Wyman became an enthusiastic club cricketer in older age.
It’s 7:12 on August the 25th 2021, and I’m calling it.
If you got vaccinated you’re a cockhead.
Yep, syringe full of experimental shit for a common cold.
The screws are slowly turning on vax pressure at work. Getting ready to fight like fuck. If I see one more Covid vax zoom call backdrop I’m going to puke. What the fuck is wrong with these people? Virtue signalling over something that doesn’t stop catching and transmitting?
Going to be hilarious if this shit does have serious side effects. Going to be the most epic “I told you so” ever.
Re shingles vac
My husband and I both had the shingles vac
Six months later I got the shingles
At the time I happened to be in hospital and heavily drugged so didn’t feel the pain, plenty of blisters though.
I told the staff I’d been vaxed so couldn’t possibly be shingles. They said it wasn’t possible for a vaccination to be effective against shingles
I really don’t know
D
oh, Ricky,
get vaxed if you wanna
dont get vaxed if you dont wanna
there’s no pressure
we care
love,
nobody honest
Four infants die due to lockdowns.
18 months and the murderous mongs running this shithole haven’t worked out how to dispense with their stupidity in an emergency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC5PAnoeAlo
Oh, wow, Lizzie. No wonder you’re concerned! Nothing like that here so just will get (another) bloody needle!
Exclusive: Americans’ harsh judgment on Afghanistan costs Biden’s approval, down to 41%:
As I said the other day, the figures from last week of 50% approval were exaggerating the support for Biden. He is a dead man walking.
Percentages.
Sometimes a small percentage of the right people is what counts.
Where is delta in Sweden? and how is their policy a failure?
h/t: Revolver
Once you have received all the vax what does your body prove that you have done?
Seems to me that a vaxxed person is a covid super spreader.
If you have a subscription to the Telegraph, go and have a look at the fantastic photos of Wednesday’s huge surf. Dee Why and Bronte figure prominently.
Big Wednesday!
I am so looking forward with anticipation for when the last Australian coal fired power station is shut down.
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #205
https://www.lotuseaters.com/the-podcast-of-the-lotus-eaters-205-25-08-21
Published 25th Aug
Callum and Carl discuss the socialists and their mansions, leftists teachers of TikTok, and the rainbow policing being an obvious grift.
Lock up the super spreader vaxxed and let the non-vaxxed go free.
If you have been vaxxed then I want to know because you are a walking dangerous super spreader.
ssr:
This afternoon I was quite nasty to you, and I’m not sure why. I think I mistook you for someone who has a habit of stalking the Lady Cats.
Whatever the reason, I was wrong to take my anger out on you and apologise sincerely for my hurtful words.
I will send myself to Coventry for a period of 7 days in atonement.
Winston will be doing the walk of shame, Game of Thrones style.
Last year, Bret Weinstein started talking about the outbreaks of shingles in the US but then got distracted by something his guest said and didn’t go back to the subject.
This was pre vaccine.
The US funded, Chinese developed bio-weapon, clearly has some bizarre side effects.
If I was a lady, with working ovaries, and intended to use them, I would not be taking the Pfizer vaccine/treatment.
I defer to Bret Weinstein for the reasoning.
Dr Rhonda Patrick digs herself into a big hole.
Joe Rogan just lets her keep digging.
Look at her body language.
She clearly doesn’t believe what she’s saying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB6yucemJ-o
John Spooner.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
Patrick Blower.
Christian Adams.
Paul Thomas.
Morten Morland.
Brian Adcock.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Is it possible that Biden and Harris are expendable fronts for a shadowy Democrat cartel . Neither Biden or Harris have a brain between them and the Taliban and the rest of the world know it. Just who is pulling the strings and giving Biden his script.
I meant to post this last night, but I was too tired:
Larry Elder – the popular black guy running for governor of California in the state’s recall election – is a “white supremacist”. The LA Times has wheeled out the smear-du-jour to try to stop the Elder candidacy with polls showing him in the lead.
As Tucker Carlson says, the clip (after the six-minute mark) of the female “journalist” from the LA Times dumping on Elder is the greatest news clip ever played on US TV because the smear propaganda is so absurd.
Play the tape.
Via Rachel Baxendale.
Good to see she’s on Mrs Mangles spitting chips list.
The constant over reach by rabid anti vaxxers makes me almost grateful that Scott Morrison is PM.
jack the insider on the appalling reimagining of the death of North Shore teen, if someone wants to share the entire article that would be great
I don’t usually rate Morten Morland, but today’s was a belter.
Appreciated Tom.
and also via Rachel the US generated Stew Peter’s video kids die in Australian stadium AAP factcheck
From the Doverlord’s link overnight, and apropos of 46:
DINOs!
Where is Geriatric Mayfly
He used to watch this kind of thing and report back to the old cat
for anyone who would like to watch the sluggate stuff live, also via Rachel Baxendale
Dover
Adam Piggott writes such great stuff at his blog, any chance he could linked via here?
On This Day – a big day for massive punch ons (Wiki):
And, just to reinforce that some things just keep staying the same:
Great crop of cartoons, thank you Tom.
wuhan is trending on twitter. Dr fauci and an email chain, link to JudicialWatch
win says:
August 26, 2021 at 5:20 am
Is it possible that Biden and Harris are expendable fronts for a shadowy Democrat cartel . Neither Biden or Harris have a brain between them and the Taliban and the rest of the world know it. Just who is pulling the strings and giving Biden his script.
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Obama, from Kalorama. And his Hollywood friends. That matters are in such shambles means that those intellectual powerhouses must be behind it. On the other hand, just check Obama’s birthday guest list for names.
Don’t stay in Coventry that long, Winston.
Amusingly, FlashCat has gone full circle in a day. Peeping Tom featured for breakfast.
If you hear the sound of lonely hoofbeats, don’t look out the window! 😀
and on the sameish topic China Biden your Waterloo? ‘I feel like I win when I lose’
Glad you said “almost”. Could be cause and effect. His smooth, anodyne response to real concerns is enough to make anyone rabid.
That wuhan lab photo reminded me
Spotted yesterday at local shopping centre.
Yes I went and bought milk, because we ran out, just the one carton.
Asian gentleman shopping in fancy mask, sunglasses, face shield and heavy gloves.
You can’t be too careful.
Ahahaa. Oh, gold. The beige Vicco Libs’ plan is now to be….. more beige. The Hun:
Snork!
And:
Oh god.
https://starkraving.medium.com/six-designs-that-white-people-never-notice-are-racist-d20f8a7136bf
Six Designs That White People Never Notice Are Racist
(Except the author, of course)
*The thing with privilege is often you only notice it when you don’t have it. Right-handed people use scissors and think nothing of it, it never even crosses their mind that it could be an issue. Women are more likely than men to suffer severe injury in a car accident when wearing seatbelts because they were made for the male anatomy. When things are made for you, you don’t even notice it. You don’t even imagine that other people don’t have the same experience. If oppression is invisible to you, it is because you are on the side of the oppressor.*
Yes, adulting is hard.
Maybe you want to design seatbelts for women?
Did you choose to de engineering at university, or the Liberal arts – taught by the most coddled people in society?
The Libs in Victoria can’t run on making the COVID exemptions list public.
Because they were up to their necks in it.
Fertile ground for the LDP.
I never watch him calli.
I think he’s very unremarkable, I got castigated at old cat for saying his religious beliefs were an indication of his intellectual weaknesses a year or so ago but my opinion hasn’t changed.
But some of the people at the fringes are downright scary in their venom.
Morrison needs to fight his way out of this wet paper bag he put himself in.
And I take your point re rabid but some of this stuff is generated out of the US which has experienced comparatively very little in the way of restrictions on personal freedoms because of covid.
I guess for some people, it’s how they do.
NSW parole hearing today.
Everyone shine your shoes, brush your hair and put on a subservient expression – the two gargoyles who rule us might let us out to play if our behaviour is good enough.
Who am I kidding? How can you conform to the group without group punishment?
Ldp in Victoria have Mr Limbrick (no not Limerick stupid autocorrect)
Need to harp on his consistent freedom stance.
Also ‘access for more renewable power
What fresh hell is this?
What about fat bike seats for chicks? Huh? Nobody thought about that?
Specially designed tampons for penis-enthusiasts-who-are-male? Hair straighteners with extra large grips? The Yaris? The Mazda 1?
They have a point about the seatbelts. Constantly adjusting mine on long trips. The height adjustment on the door frame is a godsend for shorties like me.
As for the other stuff…makeup is stocked according to local market. You don’t expect to find dark foundation in a Tokyo department store. In my travels, I’ve always seen the market reflected in the vast range of colours available. Dunno about the sensors – I thought they were movement activated. Bandaids have already been done – if you’re black and can’t find black bandaids and it worries you, buy them on line. It isn’t difficult.
He also listed a handful of core policies unveiled by the opposition since the 2018 election, including to slash payroll tax, transform waste into energy, institute a royal commission into hotel quarantine, and provide access for more renewable power.
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With that list of policies Victorian Liberals should just change their name to Greens.
calli says:
August 26, 2021 at 7:04 am
NSW parole hearing today.
Everyone shine your shoes, brush your hair and put on a subservient expression – the two gargoyles who rule us might let us out to play if our behaviour is good enough.
Who am I kidding? How can you conform to the group without group punishment?
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Gargoyles is an apt description and they have been getting more so the longer their oppression goes on.
“Winston Smithsays:
August 26, 2021 at 2:36 am
ssr:
I will send myself to Coventry for a period of 7 days in atonement.”
You’re a gentleman but please don’t stay away too long WS….you’re presence here is much more valued that the lunatic ussr.
Tbh
I don’t have a problem with waste to energy as long as it isn’t taxpayer subsidised.
It would resolve the issues with plastic wastes now China isn’t taking them.
Technology is available, been used since the late 80s in Denmark iirc.
Mansfield has a case. At least they can’t blame those dreadful Melbourne people.
rosie says:
August 26, 2021 at 7:32 am
Tbh
I don’t have a problem with waste to energy as long as it isn’t taxpayer subsidised.
It would resolve the issues with plastic wastes now China isn’t taking them.
Technology is available, been used since the late 80s in Denmark iirc.
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If trash into power were profitable somebody would already be doing it. Just because technology is available doesn’t mean that the cost is not prohibitive. Anything that needs subsidies is not sustainable but of course the politicians of all stripes have a different understanding of sustainability, to them it means unlimited taxpayer funding.
That’s what I’m suggesting, that trash to power is profitable in some places in Europe.
unrelated, the Guardian champions Down Sydrome vaccination to readers who probably one hundred percent think Downs should be always aborted
Biden hitting rock bottom in the US. The toons aren’t about anything else.
Thanx again for your sterling efforts there, Tom. Every morning. A normal Cat day.
OBriens speech is well described as beige. Appears he is betting a swathe of voters will turn against Chairman Dan. As Andrews conducts survey polls daily and weekly he will switch his message as soon as he sees his believers losing faith. We have seen over past 18months, the incumbent fear mongering Premier gets returned handsomely. The energy policy from O’Brien is the most deflating. Energy could be a great battleground to fight on and make a point of difference.
of course few of these mobs ever say no to ‘free money
Some thoughts….
1. I believe the virus is real.
2. I don’t care whether people are for the vaccination or against the vaccination. I will always listen to mature arguments by those who advocate the merits of vaccination and the drawbacks of vaccination.
3. I respect an individual’s decision to have the vaccination or not to have the vaccination.
4. I am opposed to compulsory vaccinations and to coerced vaccinations. Please note that I have had my first vaccination (with no side effects) and in no way was I forced or coerced…..I am an adult human female who makes my own decisions about my body and particularly what I put into my body.
5. I believe Covid should be treated with a combination of vaccinations and medications like Ivermectin……..which is basically the argument put forward by the likes of Craig Kelly (who is not an anti-vaxxer).
6. I detest the our repulsive MSM deliberately smears “anti-vaxxers” in order to shut down and silence debate. This is now the MSM’s go to smear to ridicule and silence people who are against lockdowns and who are protesting these lockdowns…….mainly because they’ve seen their livelihoods destroyed.
7. I believe that the demonisation of treatments such as Ivermectin has actually played into the hands of the anti-vaccination movement…..there is no good reason not to pursue active treatments…..because as we have seen and we will continue to see, there are people who have been fully vaccinated and yet are falling ill with Covid and who need treatment.
8. I believe if lockdowns were ended or lessened many more people would seek out the vaccinations. The reason for the hesitancy is that people are rightly bewildered and angry and this anger has led to the sprouting of various conspiracy theories because people are both powerless and disenfranchised
9. I am opposed to vaccine passports within Australia…I believe that’s totalitarian and absurd. However if I want to visit the UK or Israel (two places I visit every few years) then I am happy to have proof of a Covid jab stamped on my passport.
10. I loathe anti-vaxxers and I believe that most are a menace on society. They spread lies and misinformation. I don’t regard the many out there who are hesitant and sceptical about the vaccination to be in the same category as anti-vaxxers…..as mentioned above, these people are hesitant and sceptical for a good reason
11. Finally, any anti-vaxxer who uses the death of a beautiful young boy here in Sydney, a young boy who died because of a heart issue and not because he had the vaccination (he hadn’t), to promulgate their sick conspiracies is sick, twisted and actually gives grist to the MSM and others to rant on about the perils of “anti-vaxxers”.
12. I’m all for considered debate, I’m not for conspiracy mongering.
Lizzie
I don’t know if getting the vaxx might not start up something long dormant and not too keen to find out. I will seek top medical advice. Also, I have to make the decision before I turn octogenarian.
Not much time to ponder it. All advice welcome.
My mother got shingles on the face and into one eye. Very uncomfortable. Get some advice, but listen carefully to both sides (as you will anyway).
Yep.
Well said, Cassie.
And apologies about the early morning rant everyone!
Interesting comment, Cassie. Thanks.
You know a tragedy of the times is when you have to itemise your beliefs in the form of a creed or manifesto. I find myself tempted to do the same thing too.
The things each of us believe should be patently obvious in the things we argue for and against. And, perhaps, in the way we argue them.
I’ve been very productive since my second shot.
I’ve been up all night.
I’ve solved Goldbach’s Conjecture.
I am now a grand master in bonsai.
Plus I’m dropping sick rap lyrics.
All with a mighty hard-on.
Not bad for 18 hours work.
And, perhaps, in the way we argue them.
Why argue?
I’ve been lurking on both the new versions of catallaxy, for the past week or so I’ve found myself going to the dash cat for Marks Lame Pics and that’s about all. The posts here are as good as the posts on the old cat, the comments generally better, not as many madmen mouthing off, I could do without slabs of comments from the other cat being posted here but whatever. So when Mark stops posting his pics, I think I’ll just hang around here.
“The things each of us believe should be patently obvious in the things we argue for and against. And, perhaps, in the way we argue them.”
Well said. I’m always envious of the way you can articulate things better than me Calli.
+ many, Cassie.
As for point 11, if people are still doubling down on the death of the schoolkid as a concealed vax death, they probably need to stop laughing at people who bought into the “people dropping in the street” videos out of Wuhan early last year.
My nephew in Bourke tells me that a group has formed to identify and dox the dog killer and his bosses.
Inconvenient children are next.
I’m with you Cassie except I’m hesitant about Inverctin.
I just haven’t seen the clear evidence it’s effective in treating covid.
Hopefully the Oxford trial provides a definitive answer.
And clearly hospitals are providing medical treatments for covid.
I’ve seen no discussion as to whether medical treatments have progressed over the last twenty months and outcomes for hospitalised covid patients have improved.
Standard side effects.
Why not? 😀
Everyone brings something to the table. I love Crowder’s challenge – “Change my mind”. I’ve had mine changed at OldCat a couple of times by well argued positions.
Frothing and thread-bombing…not so much.
here’s a study on improvement in outcomes over the first six months of covid in the US
Hopefully the Oxford trial provides a definitive answer.
Yes, the group that gets a royalty from a vaccine will say a competing treatment is just peachy.
Just like they said the vaccine that they get a royalty from is better than one they don’t get a royalty from.
an article on monoclonal antibodies
And we haven’t got to the stonings, beheadings, and Sharia show trials of US citizens.
Free fall when the first videos of the last moments of confused, frightened Westerners start appearing – “Sorry, out of our hands, we’re acting on advice of Senior Imams”.
The constant over reach by rabid anti vaxxers makes me almost grateful that Scott Morrison is PM.
Where’s the over reach?
If a patient requests a treatment that isn’t cost prohibitive, that’s readily available & the doctors don’t give it, they are no longer doctors.
They are political officers.
Why are triple vaxxed people in Israel getting COVID?
Why are triple vaxxed people in Israel getting COVID?
Because they’re not quadruple vaxxed….
another article on how an existing medication has been repurposed to treat covid patients
If Covid isn’t “going away”, then treatments have to be on the table. The obsession with vaccination is understandable from certain angles, but is ultimately ridiculous given the mutable nature of the virus.
This is what has led to so much conjecture and fear-mongering and nonsense – that vaxxes are the only way out. When governments and the white coats proclaim the vaccination is it, full stop, and it’s our way or endless restrictions, of course people are going to start asking “why?” and looking for reasons.
The powers that be have created an atmosphere of distrust and then turn around and complain that people don’t trust them. How about that.
Keep in mind, these saintly doctors who wouldn’t dare prescribe ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine were the same crew who handed out OxyContin like it was Panadol while accepting holidays, dinners & strippers paid for by Purdue.
feelthebernsays:
August 26, 2021 at 8:18 am
Dear Mr bern.
I am writing to tell you that we inadvertently switched your vaccine with a shot of elephant juice calibrated for a 1.5 tone racehorse.
Side effects should subside in the next 2 weeks and the craving for sugar cubes and carrots in the following month.
Side effects should subside in the next 2 weeks and the craving for sugar cubes and carrots in the following month.
But the hard ons will stay right? Right?
Liberty quote!
Thanks, Calli.
Press conferences should be re-named Gaslighting conferences.
Especially in Victoria.
Maybe that was too forceful rickw.
Recently it has been the claim that two anonymous students died at a Sydney stadium, supplemented by the addition of the named Chatswood student who died of a non vaxx related heart attack.
His highly publicised personal details being circulated underscores the lack of veracity of the two no name deaths.
I have suggested before the day will come when people will stop arguing every covid death is really a vaxx death and every natural death is a vaxx death.
I have no doubt this is a pretty uniquely Australian debate.
In countries where daily death tolls are still in their hundreds most people are just getting on with things.
But the hard ons will stay right? Right?
For sure, just keep away from any in season mares. If you find your top lip starting to twitch up passing a stable rush home and cold shower/metal spoon till the throbbing subsides.
fify
I think it makes much more sense whenever bugmen say racist it is translated to non-communist
I think the focus on invermectin and hydroxychalphabet is a little excessive.
It looks like lots of drugs have been successfully repurposed to successfully treat covid patients.
I was under the impression that pill mill doctors like gosnells were part of the oxy problem and got closed down and deregistered. Though a lot more should have gone to prison.
“The powers that be have created an atmosphere of distrust and then turn around and complain that people don’t trust them.”
Exactly…which is the nub of what I was trying to say in my post but Calli says it better than moi.
Today is international dog day.
A week ago, a NSW council decided their best option was to shoot every dog in their shelter to stop a group of people travelling to pick up all the dogs because of the fear they would bring covid with them.
That entire decision making structure can not have anything to do with animal welfare ever again.
Thanks guys, but it was just a riff stolen from C.S. Lewis.
It’s also classic gaslighting on a nationwide scale.
Just so Cats know, Rafe Champion has the keys to Jo’s blog and is putting his climate and renewables stuff there.
Here’s his most recent post – https://joannenova.com.au/2021/08/rafe-champion-guest-post-the-failure-of-wind-power-in-south-australia/
Maybe that was too forceful rickw.
Recently it has been the claim that two anonymous students died at a Sydney stadium, supplemented by the addition of the named Chatswood student who died of a non vaxx related heart attack.
My understanding was that it was reported in MSM and then it was unreported? What actually happened?
The issue that all of us are facing is that lying is the national sport of our politicians and media.
What to believe? You have to rely on your commonsense.
Commonsense says that injecting healthy teenagers with experimental medication is a phenomenally shit idea, regardless of whether or not anyone died.
First principles.
Remember those?
A week ago, a NSW council decided their best option was to shoot every dog in their shelter to stop a group of people travelling to pick up all the dogs because of the fear they would bring covid with them.
It’s not often that a local council can be so stupid, heartless and bloody minded that it gets international media coverage.
Cassie, that was not a rant but a brilliantly stated manifesto.
I blame the media for a lot of the panic, conspiracy theories and anti-vaxxer sentiments. If they didn’t ascribe every death to COVID or mention it while reporting on COVID to create that effect they be more effective.
The Cheeseheads’ Minister for Women and Gender Equality has a message for our brothers.
Great to see the Rones here. That should increase the IQ by a huge amount.
A week ago, a NSW council decided their best option was to shoot every dog in their shelter to stop a group of people travelling to pick up all the dogs because of the fear they would bring covid with them.
Maybe there’s an arts grant project in this! In the genre of The Big Pineapple maybe they can commission The Big Dead Dog? Sure to bring in the tourists.
Apologies if this has been covered – I couldn’t keep up with the old Cat, let alone the new Cat variants.
Check out the difference between the population and GDP in 2011 versus the projections for 2025.
I’m told the data comes from the “Rockefeller Lockstep program” of 2010.
Deagel dot com is a website that provides news on military aviation and advanced technologies.
(Finger crossed that two links is OK…)
2011 – https://web.archive.org/web/20121202044346/http://www.deagel.com/country/
2025 – https://web.archive.org/web/20121107032020/http://www.deagel.com/country/forecast.aspx
80 cases in TaliDanistan today.
Lockdown working a treat.
Great collection of Great Deception links here – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JJlTkTRq-K3uBp42onuJCpoc_v0uIqVG/view?usp=drivesdk
Cardi, just remember to wipe your feet when coming in from the other Cat.
I have heard people say that those who opt not to be vaccinated should be denied treatment if they contract it.
Lets ignore details like the fact the vaccinated can still get it, that an unvaccinated person might still have got it if vaccinated, that the vaccine does not work the way they are assuming, etc – despite the form of an argument it is really just an outburst of exasperation with people they have been convinced are a threat to them.
But I can easily imagine our political lords and masters, as they grope blindly for ways to frighten people more, chancing upon this idea and formulating a policy where an unvaccinated person who contracts the virus must pay some extra charge as a matter of equity. Why should everyone else pay for the consequences of their bad decision?
And a lot of people would support this because they are scared senseless and want the people they think are a threat to them to be punished. And the MSM would pick it up in a heartbeat and run as hard as they can.
Having accepted the principle they have now accepted a precedent. Why should ordinary people pay for overweight people who have heart attacks? There should be an additional fee. What about people who don’t exercise enough and have elevated risk of some disease or other? An additional fee. Ultimately 99% of people will have something about them that adds risk. Drivers risk accidents. So do cyclists. People who drink wine, or occasionally have spicy foods rather than a strict regime of salads.
All this could be justified as simultaneously equity and a solution to the strained finances in health.
A change that people will not accept outright instead accepted through several smaller irrefutable steps instead.
The result: We would still be paying the same in our taxes for an already inadequate system but there would be an extra layer of charges so there was an additional transfer from our pockets to government coffers, and it would also encourage further the habit of viewing fellow citizens as problems, as a threat, and social cohesion would be further corroded.
But money!
Mother Load
They already do this… baccy & booze !
The government and the MSM are currently engaged in public opinion shaping.
They have been doing this through the MSM and social media as well since the first terror attacks. This make whatever the media says hard to believe for anyone with half a brain.
I am not anti-vax I have had numerous vaccinations and so have all my kids. What I am against is blatant lies now politely labeled as “disinformation” by the government and its army of bugmen.
Looking closely at the TGA’s own stats it is absolutely absurd to say there are only 7 deaths from the vaccine. For example there are 19 deaths attributed by doctors to the vaccine for low platelet count. Of these 19 only 1 has been attributed by the TGA to the vaccine. What are the odds?
Over a hundred deaths suspected as been caused by the vaccine where the only comment by doctors is “adverse event following immunisation”. numerous deaths from blood clots, breathing issues etc. 99.9% of which are dismissed by the TGA as having anything to do with the vaccine. Sure people die all the time. Does the vaccine accelerate underlying co-morbidities? Almost certainly looking at the stats. Is there any warning for people with co-morbidities? NO. All we get is the same bleating, the vaccine is very safe and the spike protein is not toxic and any risk is justified by the benefit.
Risk is justified by the benefit. Surely that is up to us to decide if they put the truth out there instead of “shaping” public opinion. My view is that the toll from the vaccine when we include people pushed over the edge is probably over a 100. Given the toll from the chicom virus is just over a 100, this would cause quite a lot of vaccine hesitancy. So the bugmen are back to the game of gaslighting. Nothing to see here, a mere 7 dead from millions of doses. It’s a lie.
Lies must be called out.
It’s all good Winston. 🙂
Rick
Someone took photos of a student who had fainted.
That was all it took.
Breaking: Carlton Football Club has finally sacked former assistant coach and now senior coach David Teague, who was appointed to the senior job two years ago because no-one on the board knew anything about football.
What a clown show.
Biden’s Amerikkka:
Kameltoe laying flowers at a monument celebrating the shooting down of Yankee Air Pirates.
The Leftist Teachers of TikTok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N89Sl2UZ7yo
Aug 26, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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The parents of my soon due grandchild are both teachers. This is just one of many reasons that child will be home schooled.
Short of the Taliban going through the ‘Education’ Industry in the West, children still won’t be safe from Groomers when the babe is of school age.
Will you be posting comments while in Coventry? I think you should.
Phht … normal day for me and I’m not even vaxed
what’s the bet Gladys says you can get a haircut?
No wimping.
Don’t explain.
Don’t complain.
Box on.
And they will probably appoint that smug tool Ross Lyon who will serve up fair to mediocre results for five years, whilst blaming everyone else.
Good times await.
how can anybody know? … These days everything is a bit Trueman Show.
If I hear that some kid keeled over post-vax, I immediately raise and eye-brow
If I hear the opposite a bit later, up goes the other
When I have to listen to a bunch of pundits on an Internet Forum at the edge of the galaxy hold forth on all the things they know for sure …
I squint and face-palm
“Allowed” to have a haircut? Is that what Gulag Glad is offering? What do we have to do in exchange for this privilege?
It reminds me of this old, old story:
Nothing new under the sun.
I saw the photo of the fainted student.
The source of the anonymous deaths was someone in the US called Stew Peters.
The rest requires being rational.
you decide
Sancho, I’m hearing the exact opposite. Lyon is accusing Carlton officials of smearing him over his exit from Freo two years ago (which included a confidentiality agreement to not discuss his settlement with a female staff member over some unspecified misbehaviour.)
But no-one has any idea of what anyone at Carlton thinks because no-one is in charge.
Now that Alistair Clarkson has declared himself a non-starter for any coaching job in 2022, the Carlton clownshow has no choice but to start the head-hunting process anew.
Ross Lyon is definitely on the outer.
Yankee Air Pirates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlh8JNGQi10
No need. Every year when we immunise our senior female students at least one goes down like a sack of s**t. Every 2 or 3 years a junior girl goes down, and in 10 years I have heard of only 1 year 7 boy going down.
Nothing to do with vax, but rather the state they can work themselves into. When we supervise the kids we watch them and then give a heads up to the nurse that we suspect that student will go down, 9/10 times we are correct.
I know Dash-Cat.
What is Flashcat?
I choose violence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWBHp7IdWZs
I’m really not sure why you believe fact-checkers like Jack The Insideofawhiskybottlenose, Rachel Bax or AAP re Sydney kids and jabs. Perhaps a statement from principals and the education/health minister might be more reassuring.
Superspreader event this weekend right outside my window on the Old Coast, giant fairground. Considering they’ve had “do not cross” tape on the kids playgrounds recently I can’t see why this should go ahead. Unless of course the whole thing is a lie. They’ve got thugs in black with security badges and everything. Starts tomorrow. Rant over.
Teach a man to fish… teach a kid to fish is pretty bluddy funny
As is
Cassie
Number 10 gives the lie to number 3.
Interesting. I had shingles in Feb this year, was considering the vax when it was appropriate. Won’t rush to do so now. Why put something into my body that isn’t effective, but doesn’t belong there?
Better to manage things by reducing stress (Ha! When dealing with the implications of where all this current sh*t is going!), exercising more (or more appropriately instead of just working), re-assess the diet etc.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley : Why won’t taxpayers fund the care of my disabled husband?
Also Kerri-Anne Kennerley :
Kerri-Anne Kennerley sells her Sydney home for a record $22m