They had never heard the “Marseillaise” played on bagpipes Et j’espérais qu’ils ne le feraient plus jamais …
Open Thread – Weekend 21 Aug 2021
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Seventies Dinosaur rock in excelsis, Cats When too many afros, 18 inch flares, moustaches, mullets, open necked rayon shirts, chest…
Talking Heads in Sydney 1979. I was there. Google it.
Curse you, Bruce in WA..
Horny sheilas of my yoof, Part Trois https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbZq5idUJcI
Mr Dragger.
Who have the Collingwood Magpies got next week?
Miltonfsays:
August 23, 2021 at 9:03 am
I recall one of the ex STC engineering academics at UNSW saying what a terrible mistake it was to put a fArts faculty there. And what a 10th abomination it is.
I recall someone many years ago defending the idea of making engineering students study some arts subjects, so they could learn about the wider community.
The idea that engineering students might actually be part of the wider community didn’t enter his head.
I believe they are taking on the Spearmint Rhino Seagulls, a stone’s throw away from Etihad Stafium.
Yes BJ reminds me of the General Studies requirements at UNSW. GfS as it was called.
Chuckle.
Or they could have humanities students study some STEM units so that they could learn to do something useful.
from the abc figures the hospitalisation rate is 5% of “active” cases and the death rate seems to be less than 1% of the hospitalised, the vast majority in the over 70s. They are not putting out stats on what percentage have co-morbidities vs death rate.
Less than 0.05% death rate, call out the national guard, shut down the country!
So we were forced to learn about Edward Said and some south American lefty whose name escapes me.
Some people make a big deal about Einstein having trouble with academic studies, suggesting he wasn’t that bright at school. It was rubbish, Einstein hated studying the arts subject which was mandatory but he refused to learn the material. If you want to learn about the wider community look out the effing window.
Uni of NSW arts alumnus- Bob Carr. Need I say more
In my ancestral seat in country Victoria right now it is eight degrees and generally shithouse.
Funeral weather, it is said.
Which is apt, because in a short while later this morning I will lay my father to rest.
Or, more accurately, I am compelled to watch him being laid to rest via a videolink from the other side of the country.
I have some thoughts on this, but to avoid wordwalling I’ll split it up a bit.
Ahhh. Spearmint Rhino.
The Spearmint Rino building (a strip club, for those who don’t know Melbournibad) is just across the road from the old Pravda-on-Yarra building in Lonsdale Street –both of them their own little underworlds, Spearmint Rhino being the more respectable one.
Very sorry to hear KD.
Global Times confirming that China is discomfited that the US might adopt a no-first-use nuclear stance:
Followed by touching concern for the US domestic consequences of its deterrence policy.
The money shot:
Translation: Fark. Faaark. The collapse of the dotard Biden Administration means Japan and Korea now polishing the parts of their ‘bombs in the basement’ – because CCP behaving like arsehole madmen.
The old man was 78. Getting on, but not overly much. Make no mistake, he was not on the golf course every second day because rheumatoid arthritis had wrecked his hands and shoulders by the time he was 55, and he’d had several infections in his back and feet over time.
He’d been on mid-strength antibiotics for one thing or another for 15 years or so. We thought, based on his lineage he’d probably get another seven Christmases. Maybe eight. He was getting along nicely.
Both my parents, for reasons unknown but suspected (I will certainly get the bottom of this in time) got the first AZ vaccine in the first week of June. Mum was fine.
Within 24 hours Dad was in the local hospital, because every infection he’d ever had went back up to his front door and drove a truck through it. All in that space of time. The arthritis, which he’d had under control for years, exploded. Boom.
Two days later, he was in hospital in Ballarat, swirling down the drain. The stubborn old prick fought it like a bastard, and held on – barely – for the next two months while what was left of his immune system was smashed into oblivion.
His skin went paper thin. They couldn’t put IV lines in because his veins had collapsed, and his weight dropped to 64kg, which is a bit light on for a bloke who was six four. He held on though.
That’s very sad, KD. Especially so since you can’t be there in person, to support and be supported by family.
Sincere condolences.
A bugger of a way to die, KD. I’ll be thinking of you and your family in the Mallee-Wimmera today. Rest in peace, old fellah.
Condolences, KD, both for his death and the circumstances of the funeral.
The doctors decided one of the infections – a series of stones in a kidney said to be dormant prior to this – was serious enough to attempt surgery. They had to go in through his old fella, and they got about half of the problem before deciding to back out as the risks at the time were too great to continue.
He got through that, and as the older and sick are wont to do rallied for a few days before starting to capsize. I got my last chat with him on the afternoon before he died, for which I am eternally thankful that my mother recognised that this may have been the last opportunity for me to speak to him.
And then, at 9.50 on the morning of 13 August (yes, Friday), he left. At the time my mother was with him, along with my younger brother and sister. In flagrant breach of covid ‘rules’ at that hospital, which I am also thankful those nurses ignored.
Calli
Or they could have humanities students study some STEM units so that they could learn to do something useful.
Just like veggie maths at high school, there would need to be a veggie engineering course at university. Perhaps teach them to drop a perpendicular, or bisect a line using a compass and ruler? Maybe a selected example from Pythagoras?
Many years ago we achieved this important goal by getting into the underwear of Arts students.
I wonder, if there is damage from the ECL, will the covid nonsense prevent people getting the aid they need. Remember, in Vicdanistan after a storm there people in the Dandenongs were unable to get the help they needed because “covid”. It took weeks, if not longer.
Dad was a great man, but will not be remembered as such by history. He had a very strong sense of natural justice, went through tribulations I will not document here and in complete contrast to many people today, he stood for something. He stood for right and wrong, and he stood for fairness.
Also, if you listened to his former work colleagues, he punched like a fucking rhino.
Like everyone, he envisaged how he wanted to be sent off. He wanted the full bells and whistles, with the exception of bagpipes which he hated. He won’t get any of that. Instead, he’ll get a handful of people, appropriately spaced, wearing masks (which he also hated), before he is laid to rest in the rain and observed by next to nobody.
Obviously, the current terror means that it is near impossible for me to get there from here, and certainly impossible to get back because the NT won’t have me coming back from a plague zone.
There is a later plan, if this current idiocy temporarily abates, for a proper knees-up at the ancestral seat. That, although it’s something, is nowhere near good enough.
KD I empathise with your pain and disgust. My MUM was tortured by extreme arthritis from her forties. It was agonising to walk into a room and find her weeping from the pain. She literally fell to bits.
The bastard disease eventually sent her blind and she lost her voice.
She was incredibly tough, but of course it got her. Hateful business arthritis.
KD: Very sad; and unfortunately part of the New Normal that our Mediocracy has planned for us all.
KD
Sympathy.
Never forget, nor forgive, the cold-hearted bureaucrats and cowardly politicians who did this.
First ever Mad Monday via Zoom.
Where they smash their own furniture, jump on the bonnet of their own car and vomit on their own carpet.
Really sorry to hear.
The problems with the vaccine are two-fold, firstly nobody understands clearly the uptake of the mRNA molecules and what an acceptable dose is nor where it will be taken up and how much will be taken up and how much spike protein will be created and for how long. It is clear from the side effects there can be a very wide range of uptakes both in quantity and location. The second problem with the vaccine is that the spike protein is toxic and will cause inflammation and some degree of immune reaction against perfectly healthy cells.
I suspect strongly that the people who are susceptible to covid will be susceptible to the vaccine as its the same spike protein causing the damage.
“Knuckle Draggersays:
August 23, 2021 at 9:27 am”
I’m so sorry to hear KD….I wish you a long life.
Remember that grief is the price we pay for love.
Take care.
Never forget KD.
Never forget.
Just read back KD.
Sorry to hear about the loss of the old man.
The circumstances made all the worse by the Nanny State “keeping us safe”.
The point I am perhaps ineffectively trying to make is not that it’s a poor-bugger-me story.
It’s a vignette, if you like. A very small piece of the gigantic kaleidoscope of unnecessary disruption and destruction forced on everyday people by a series of vainglorious and incompetent public figures who have neither the intellect to realise what they’re doing, nor the individual moral fortitude to walk their calamitous decision making back.
But now it’s gone further than that. There is no option left but to double down and double down again, hoping to be absolved somehow from any further decision making because they’ve realised they’re shithouse at it.
Our leaders have tried to make something out of nothing, in an attempt to make themselves the Churchills of our times for the brittle prize of critical acclaim.
It didn’t work, and having now been reviled by the people they are rapidly adopting the Jong-Un model.
This will not end well.
Condolences, KD.
No doubt Rosie and JC will claim it was all just co-incidence.
Condolences KD.
When making a point to people who excuse government overreach in collecting information with ‘If you have nothing to hide…’ I will take the line, asking them if they would really be comfortable living their life with someone watching them – sure, imagine a someone who has no interest in them but nevertheless watching and keeping track: Where they go, what they buy, what they eat, what they sing in the shower – or even being filmed in the shower at the gym with the promise it all goes into a computer vault and only bad people need worry about it ever being seen?
I think people believe they have privacy in the abstract but have lost touch with what it really is reality and therefore what it would look like to lose it. I expect a lot of people would have no trouble giving their DNA to a government body just for the asking, confident that it cannot do any harm.
Not sure what would cause more anxiety – being constantly watched, or not being sure when – the tension between the two states.
But I think a more cogent demonstration might be called for – one that better reflects the dynamic at work. Starting out with some grand demand that is plainly unacceptable and then subsequently showing how people can be walked into it – much like the discussion about conscription in Yes, Prime Minister.
Closing all the beaches, for example. Start from some safety issue (Australians are easily played by claiming ‘safety’), or environmental issues (intertidal zones are playgrounds for us but habitats – homes – for uncounted and unseen numbers of living beings, each shaped and formed by nature’s own hand into complete and unique gems.)
KD, you have described my Dad’s situation to a “T”.
AZ shots 1 & 2 and a relatively healthy man (for his age and medical history) and an avalanche of illnesses descended, including the skin like paper. My Dad can’t walk now. The Beloved, immensely strong even at 68, has taken him to his medical appointment today because he is capable of lifting and carrying him should he be unable to find a wheelchair.
I am so very sorry for your terrible loss. My sincere and heartfelt condolences.
Apparently the Shep outbreak might have come from a large funeral.
Commissioner Come-At-Me-Pussies says it may have included people travelling from NSW, but “we can’t establish if any rules were broken”.
What does this tell us?
The funeral was definitely not Jewish Orthodox.
It probably wasn’t Catholic.
It is 93.1% certain was either Moosley or Aboriginal.
Craig Kelly joins Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party ahead of federal election
Integrity Central.
There is something wrong. Not with the elderly sickening and dying – that happens all the time. We are ready for it, terrible as it is.
It is the anecdotal stuff that is dismissed out of hand, as if we are silly children. Like mothers who know there is something wrong with their child, get dismissed from emergency, and then go home to an unfolding horror.
“The funeral was definitely not Jewish Orthodox.
It probably wasn’t Catholic.
It is 93.1% certain was either Moosley or Aboriginal.”
Yep…and watch the MSM keep strangely shtum. No public shaming like what happened to the Orthodox couple last week after their engagement party. Disgraceful hypocrisy. BTW…I’m not justifying what that couple did….it was foolish…and particularly foolish uploading such things on social media…..but the gubbermint and MSM scum are very selective as to who they condemn and censure.
They do realise that Churchill was tossed out of office straight after WWII? They do, don’t they?
Commiserations, KD, as always, a worthy and beautifully put post. I hope your parents saw plenty of your wordsmithery. Lots of things go unsaid in the world of fathers and sons.
Anyone interested in the Weekend Protest in Melbourne, have a look at my new post.
SSDD
(Got to give ASIO something to laugh at. Hi, ASIO. Traitors)
Really sorry it’s happened like this, KD.
My hubby made it over to Vic for his Dad’s funeral and DAndrews called a snap lockdown while he was there. So we’ve just come out of quarantine.
The rest of us watched together on livestream. Down here in Tas. we are still getting the usual winter colds and sniffles so our sons, who were planning to go over, couldn’t attend. Probably just as well, in hindsight, or we’d have all been quarantined.
I don’t expect our overlords to learn or care about it at all, but for we mere mortals it has made us all realise how dear our own people are to us and how much it matters to be there in person.
Great to see someone use what should just be a general opportunity to sympathise and console to have a jab at people about something they neither thought or would say.
I’m very sorry to hear about KD’s loss and the extraordinarily trying circumstances in which it has occurred.
I pray for you, your dad and your family today KD.
It should have gone without saying.
Deepest condolences KD.
Your way with words in describing your old man made me think he’d be the sort of bloke who’d do what was linked to recently (I think Mark A’s lame pics).
A beautiful young woman hires herself out to funerals. Dresses in very revealing black and lace, carrying a black parasol. Just stands near the funeral. Doesn’t talk to anyone and leaves quietly at the conclusion.
Cue years of conjecture amongst family and friends.
Dr Faustussays:
August 23, 2021 at 10:11 am
Craig Kelly joins Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party ahead of federal election
Shoulda been PHON
Very sorry to hear about your Dad, KD, and the addition of insult to injury by way of depriving many of those who loved him of the chance to mourn together at his funeral.
As you point out, just one of thousands of torments inflicted on the little people by those arseholes in power.
Just saw about your father, KD.
Sincerest condolences.
Headlines about the disgusting zombie:
BIDEN EFFECT: ISIS Threat Against Americans Forces US Military to Change Evacuations at Kabul Airport: AP
It Begins. Former British Commander in Afghanistan Calls for Joe Biden’s Court-Martial (VIDEO)
It’s a wonderful thing to see a loving child remember a parent like that. A precious jewel in an ocean of government imposed dross.
Yesterday was an excellent beach day and I took Mrs OSC for some gentle exercise at Freshwater beach. 11am.
The water was packed with surfers of all ages. I drove around for 30 minutes looking for parking, there were so many people there.
Yep, closing the beaches would certainly be a cause célèbre.
However, it’s been done before on an ad hoc basis in NSW and I can see the general population accepting permanent closure.
Where are the counter culture blond haired stompy wompy surfer boys when you need an uprising?
KD,
Mrs D and I are very sorry to hear about your father and the circumstances of his passing. As Calli said you KNOW something is not right & the proximate cause.
Never forgive! Never Forget!
Difficult time KD made unnecessarily worse
KD…I am saddened and deeply angry on your behalf. May the funeral be the very best farewell your family can offer despite the cruelty imposed on us by the dictatorial state.
My deepest condolences.
And also to Calli, for your dad. Where and when will this madness end?
My condolences for you & yours, KD.
For you KD, and the rest of us, now needing to chase away the monsters unleashed against us all –
James Blunt – Monsters [Official Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTFbGcnl0po
You do write very well KD.
Sympathies and commiserations.
NT News:
THE murder trial of NT Police officer Zach Rolfe has been postponed indefinitely after the High Court granted a last minute application to stay proceedings.
Prosecutors applied for the stay after seeking leave to appeal an NT Supreme Court decision allowing Rolfe to rely on a “good faith” immunity under the Police Administration Act.
In her decision, handed down just an hour before the jury was due to be impanelled, Justice Jacqueline Gleeson ordered the trial be put off until after the High Court had had a chance to review the lower court’s ruling.
Justice Gleeson noted that the proper interpretation of the immunity provision was a matter of significant public importance, that the Crown had substantial prospects of obtaining a grant of special leave to appeal and that there were exceptional circumstances warranting a stay pending the determination of the application.
Rolfe has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu in 2019.
The trial was formally stayed until after the High Court considers the case on September 10 but no new trial date will likely be found before some time next year.
Why has this story died so quickly. Neither confirmation or refutation of the story. They do like to refute conspiracy theories.
Remember how the media went off about Trump getting a salary? He donated it all to charity. I haven’t heard a peep from the MSM about Biden getting paid.
https://stylecaster.com/how-much-does-the-president-make/
I add my condolences, KD.
We only get one Dad, and not being able to farewell him on his final journey must be heartbreaking.
Stay strong, KD.
Let’s hope Barry holds up well too.
Condolences KD, that’s all I can think of saying. Had a conversation with my old mum last week, after she said she’d booked for the vaccination on recommendation from her long time GP. I could not in good conscience tell her not to, but instead warned her that her previous allergic reaction to fluvax could’ve been due to the adjuvant or the preservative used, and those are probably common to the AZ vaccine too. So she cancelled her vax appointment and has booked to see her GP again for a discussion. Which is about the best I could think of doing. She too has had autoimmune issues and arthritis. It’s not good. But then the virus is bad news for someone like her also, and pretty clear the critter has escaped control now.
He’s not a patch on Marcus Whatsit from Brisbane.
Or Townsville.
Justice Gleeson noted that the proper interpretation of the immunity provision was a matter of significant public importance, that the Crown had substantial prospects of obtaining a grant of special leave to appeal and that there were exceptional circumstances warranting a stay pending the determination of the application.
There are a plethora of cases dealing the immunity provisions applying to not only wallopers but other government employees. The key elements are good faith and ultra vires; that is in this instance did Rolfe actually believe he had no choice but to shoot the guy and was that within his powers. On the facts I can see no other answers but yes and yes. The guy was about illegally; he had already attacked aboriginal officers; he attacked Rolfe and his partner causing severe wounds; he was shot once but continued to attack.
This is only happening because he was a 3rd nation and gutless pollies snivelling to wokeness.
KnuckleDragger
You have my deepest sympathy. May God rest your father’s soul in eternal peace.
KD,
Try not to let the bitterness at the Govt’s cruelty overshadow this time. Later for that. Remembering everything good about your Dad is much more important. My condolences.
Shy Tedsays:
August 23, 2021 at 10:57 am
Why has this story died so quickly. Neither confirmation or refutation of the story. They do like to refute conspiracy theories.
Extraordinary. I like the karen telling the guy he can’t film the kid; the guy says why not and the bint flounces.
The daily berating from Dan Andrews is about to begin.
My sincerest condolences KD.
Mark Levin’s Life Liberty and Levin interviews former British Army commander Richard Kemp on the global security disaster caused by the Biden junta’s decision to cut and run from Afghanistan, which will now be the world terrorism capital under the Taliban-AlQaeda.
Kemp says Biden shouldn’t be removed from officer – as commander-in-chief of US armed forces, he should be court-martialled.
From ShyTed’s link on the stadium inoculations and collapse:
Lost me right there. XYZ can take a flying leap.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CS00F6nnygH/
I din’t know who David Hiscox is, but it would be useful to refrain from misplaced Holocaust references. He might think he’s being funny but he’s just being stupid and grotesque.
It also eclipses the merits of the story.
According to Fox News investigative reporter Sarah Carter, the Taliban has embarked on a reign of terror throughout Afghanistan, beheading those who worked with the Americans.
Can’t say if it is true or not, but we always have a few girls go down like a sack of s**t when we do the vaccine days. You should see the state they can work themselves into before walking into the room.
Someone take a screenshot of this before it disappears! 😀
(Medal photo)
H/t Sal at DashCat.
Can’t say if it is true or not, but we always have a few girls go down like a sack of s**t when we do the vaccine days. You should see the state they can work themselves into before walking into the room.
Correct. My old dad and my cousin, both as tough as nails, used to faint at the sight of a needle; so on reflection this may be a beat up.
So sorry to hear your awful news KD, condolences and strength.
The immune system is a complex mystery, which will be my argument to my GP next month when he suggests getting vaccinated against Covid. When they’ve sorted out arthritis, I’ll listen to the medicos about coronaviruses.
PM ‘puzzled’ over why lockdowns could continue
Spoken like a visitor.
What is the actual point of this weak and silly man?
According to Fox News investigative reporter Sarah Carter, the Taliban has embarked on a reign of terror throughout Afghanistan, beheading those who worked with the Americans.
Photos of Americans executed on the street starting to filter out.
What is the actual point of this weak and silly man?
He’s like Chauncey Gardener, except a lot dumber.
KD, my thoughts are with you.
Like Biden, that he is weak and silly.
The terrifying thing is this:
ScoMo vs Biden, Trudeau, Merkel, Macron, Boris and Ardern.
You can see why guys like Putin and Xi are winning.
It is 93.1% certain was either Moosley or Aboriginal.
Shep is a Musselman stronghold, and one of the reasons many Bendigo citizens didn’t want the megamosque. This story details an incident the town can’t forget. This story, pasted below, explains why. All seven of the ropists hail from Shep and popped across to Bendigo to do their hunting.
Four men and three boys have been charged with roping a woman at Bendigo in central Victoria.
Mohammad Zaoli, 21, Aru Gar, 19, and Mohammad El Nour and Akoak Manon, both 18 years old, are each facing 17 offences including counts of rape and assault.
Three boys aged from 14 to 17 have been charged with the same offences.
It is alleged the rope happened in the suburb of Flora Hill on Sunday.
The group faced court in Bendigo briefly on Tuesday afternoon by video link.
They did not apply for bail.
Gladys is like ScoMo. Her only recommendation is that she’s not quite as bad as all the rest of the premiers.
We the people are like Lincoln in the Civil War. All we can do is go through generals until we find one with balls. If we do we Cats can club together and send him or her a barrel of whisky.
On the other hand maybe the best use of the whisky is to drown our sorrows. I see no Grants or Shermans anywhere right now.
..
They’re worse, because they give you no one to vote for.
i.e. They eliminate the chance of an sensible alternative.
You can’t blame Labor for doing Lefty shit. It’s who they are.
But the Liberals are actually selling out their own constituents.
For sure, Labor sold out the working man decades ago, but as I said, you expect lefty shit from them.
I am sorry KD, times are so difficult now. Nothing will replace the ability to be actually present when a loved one is dying.
Our sil lost his mother in Victoria in early July and hadn’t been able to get down to see her let alone go to the funeral. My cousin also died last week, in ICU, and his son who lives in USA was stuck in quarantine because getting home was made so difficult.
The sheltered bureaucrats have absolutely no idea of the level of disgust in the community towards them.
Interesting:
Requirements for ASIC and MSIC passes are being retrospectively tightened from August 23.
Most interesting and relevant, a Tier 3 offence “Assaulting or resisting a law enforcement officer or other public officer” would prevent a card from being issued.
Smells of wanting to ramp up the consequences for being present at a protest. If Vikpol lay hands on you at a protest as a matter of course you would get charged for resisting.
Arky, spot on. What Prime Minister Useless doesn’t seem to realise is that he’ll lose the next election because he’s bleeding support on the right. No doubt he imagines we’ll hold our noses and vote for the party that isn’t Labor. How many will spoil their lower house ballots in hope of choking the Senate with crossbenchers? Quite a few, I’d imagine.
Cohenite:
In the so-called “free world” there is the thick, unhealthy air of betrayal.
A very good article, Cohenite. It gets to the core of the problem – a massive betrayal of our culture and its interests by the very people who depend on it for their exalted positions and lifestyle. They have already given up on us after their campaign to destroy all that was good in Christendom and now are looting the corpse.
One thing they haven’t worked out is – where are they going from here?
Where is their refuge, their safe harbour?
The traitor class has no idea – they are setting fire to their safe room.
When Christendom falls there is no refuge – it’s wall to wall barbarism – with Chinese characteristics.
condolences KD
sadder but richer here for your story
may he rest in eternal peace
The most dangerous part of this –
These include the swarms of “Covid Marshalls” and others ‘Yellow Vested’ to be COVID STASI.
You know, all those bitter ‘losers’ in life with a drive to get back at everyone they envied or crossed social swords with.
They now have the power to ‘get even’ with the world and (unlike those happy in the successes of their life), they will do anything to keep.
Mine suggested I wait a while because I have arthritis, and there is no anti-inflammatory drug I can take that I am not allergic* to, and the only one I am not allergic to was was banned.
*not anaphylaxis but a blistering rash that means I need to take a week off work until it clears.
Shep also has a mega-school which mysteriously has the highest rate of unpunished behavioural problems of any in the state, including assaults on teachers.
One might speculate about teenage boys being told at home and at the mosk not to take shit from Skip lady teachers.
Condolences Knuckle.
I’ve read your posts above and those of others responding. The fact you couldn’t be there because of “rules” imposed by unelected officials and government disgusts me.
I wish you success in exploring the the impact of the jab, so similar to what Calli said.
Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said most protesters came armed for violence with flares, beer bottles, marbles and ceramic insulators and were “intent on mayhem”.
He defended the use of pepper bullets and spray, saying police needed to de-escalate the situation as protesters threw projectiles at officers.
This lying bag of shit is certainly earning his blood money.
Armadillo:
Correct – identify and educate the advisors. They are not being inconvenienced by the restrictions because as “important” they will be exempt from restrictions.
Find out who they are and let them know just how much we object to their privilege.
How some o/s see us!
If what is said re truck drivers is true, no wonder they are striking. I’ll bet no bureaucrat would work under those conditions
From the article below.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/22/australian-police-beating-more-people-in-the-streets-than-the-taliban/
Thanks for sharing that, Knuckles.
Long-haul truck drivers are not permitted to stop and eat, or shower, or rest outside their vehicles by orders of the government. That type of public policy is just insane. How are essential foods and medicines expected to get distributed if truck drivers cannot safely operate? Is there not one high profile national political figure who will stand and call attention to the abject insanity of what they are doing?
I spose it’s one way to create food shortages – what will happen after people start starving?
Is this what the 700 AR-15s are for?
I think it’s time that we cast aside the notion that our politicians etc are just hopeless and caught in some conundrum.
There is evil afoot and this will not end nicely nor at the ballot box.
Knuckles – my sympathy mate – a hard time
Knuckle Dragger, after your grief subsides, I look forward to your investigation of what went wrong with your dad’s immune system and why he was forced to take an experimental drug hurriedly brought to market that had not undergone the usual exhaustive trial.
If only news reporters were so invested in getting to the bottom of stories that affect their audience.
Knuckle Dragger:
Aye, and that’s the nub of it.
Bloody pigheaded, egotistical Born-to-Rule, arseholes who need to be put against the wall and pissed on without life jackets. (NAFDT)
It’s getting a bit tedious to post links to articles/videos across multiple blogs, so I am mainly going to post them to the discord since it has a ton of information going in automatically and discord unpacks the links anyway, while wordpress doesn’t. Makes it easier to decide to dip into to a video/article or not.
Anyone is welcome to cross post or you can just catch up with them on the discord.
Calli:
I can wait for Nuremburg 2 to commence, but not for long. I want to watch the slow motion replays as these bastards dangle from piano wire.
(You may know, Calli. Is there a preferred piano wire used for the garroting? You know, like G strings for hiding the girly bits. I want to make sure I have supplies for the post revolution purge.)
Winston Smith says:
August 23, 2021 at 2:07 pm
Piano wire is too quick – crucifixion would be more fitting.
Why either-or? Tie them to the cross with piano wire.
Hi rosie notaclue
Right Wing Bad, Left Wing Good, Simple as.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MrOfuzdcI
Aug 23, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
Everyone who’s pushed the Jabs as, “better than not”, for anyone, is a part of making these Dictatorial, “Real Life ‘Brazil’”, Take Overs of Our Personal Lives, possible.
People don’t need to hear what the Dictatorial Govts of The World push out 24/7 on every medium and through their Armies of Professional Propagandists on ‘Social’ Media.
They do need to hear the other sides to it all.
Reichsfuhrer Fuller & his Rum Corpsstasi can “check my phone” all they please, they’ll not find any mention of vaccination on it.
The way things are going I’d prolly be fined $5,000 + slung into the hoosegow for an 8-month stretch just for being in NSW though.
… with an extra $5,000 + for reading the Cunstable his hororscope.
Like Cassie, the lieborals make me sick..
Gareth Ward
@garethjward
WARD CALLS FOR JAIL TIME FOR PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER BREACHES Scales #nswpol
Good to see you back srr
Brazil(1985) Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvBF3Lxla98
“We’re all in this together.”
From Ward’s Wiki:
Perhaps this idiot would be better served keeping its ugly dial beneath the parapet?
Happy to see you’re still around, miltonf 🙂
It’s terrible how often the daily news makes me start humming the tune, “Brazil”.
Oh Lord. Eyrie, this vax thing has sent you convulsing into a crazy old fuckhead. Stop using someone’s dead parent to try and win an argument through emotional blackmail. If I was the dead person’s survivor I’d be really upset with the awful stunt your pulling. Get back to your room and don’t come out until the nurse says so.
Simply because the jabs will be mandatory, I won’t get one.
I’m actually pro vaccine.
Coercion is wrong and this prioritises an unimportant virus; there are so many other better priorities with better, more effective vaccines.
Fuller can go and fuck himself to an early grave for all I care.
If only news reporters were so invested in getting to the bottom of stories that affect their audience.
Don’t know if it is publisher censorship, “group think”, or absolute ignorance of what their job is about…….but the complete blank space in the media relating to OS vaccination crisis is astounding & scary.
Zipstersays:
August 23, 2021 at 2:05 pm
It’s getting a bit tedious to post links to articles/videos across multiple blogs, so I am mainly going to post them to the discord since it has a ton of information going in automatically and discord unpacks the links anyway, while wordpress doesn’t. Makes it easier to decide to dip into to a video/article or not.
Anyone is welcome to cross post or you can just catch up with them on the discord.
It says no insults. How the hell could you not insult head prefect.
Condolences, KD. My dad also passed away on a Friday 13th. It seems that day is reserved for the characters of society. Your father sounded like a champion person. Prayers for you and your family.
Well, that’s it – I think the USD is done for while now. If it can’t get above 93.6 DXY on it’s next rally, AUD will be headed for 80+. Not advice mind you. So, Oz gold miners might not be as shiny as they once were.
Knuckle Dragger says:
August 23, 2021 at 9:35 am
Late to your sad post. So very sorry, Knuckle Dragger.
…………….bloody Chinese………bloody government in not allowing Ivermectin & the FLCCC protocol……….he should have enjoyed quite a few more festivities with family……Covid is a Grim Reaper for the old and infirm.
But the experimental vaccines don’t necessarily target the old and infirm……………
Years ago, when I said I couldn’t risk going to QLD in case I bumped into and shared a few beers with a couple of friends I didn’t know were also friends of friends, without risking arrest, there were those who fobbed it of as ‘deserving’ of people who had ‘such’ friends and a good step towards ‘protecting society’ from ‘such’ people.
Some others agreed it was a dangerous slippery slope to losing all of our freedom of movement & association rights.
Some others have only doubled down since then, despite seeing that ‘their side’ includes Doctors & the rest of the Medical Professions who are happily denying care to countless seriously ill people in order to help sell the Wu Flu, Make Totalitarianism Great, Agenda.
And we’re expected to believe those bought & sold doctors above our own, who are angry at hospitals for not allowing their patients the treatments they need.
Arizona audit explained….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/boom-scale-1-10-say-12-jovan-pulitzer-seriousness-audit-results-197-pages-arizona-audit-report/
“WARD CALLS FOR JAIL TIME FOR PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER BREACHES Scales #nswpol”
Unbelievable….given the ongoing investigation against him because of two complaints, Ward should keep his mouth shut.
Knuckle Dragger,
I am sorry for your loss and my condolences.
I am angry and sickened by the inhumane circumstances exacerbating your loss.
Words fail me.
Sorry again mate.
Dropped into mum’s this afternoon.
Six litres of fresh milk in the fridge when I was making a cup a tea for us both.
What’s with all the milk mum?
Might be a truck driver’s strike she said.
That’s a lot of cups of tea for someone who has it black.
So are the truckies going strike? If so things might start get real for the protected class.
So are the truckies going on strike? If so things might start to get real for the protected class.
Sorry I nee d to proof read better.
H/T nilk’s Discord at wtf — Today at 16:19
or google, “It’s Raining Them”, Mila Jam*
I remember when old movies used scenes like that* to signify demonic possession. I think they still do, but now too many people are proud to be fighting for The Enemy – and it’s not as if we’ve suffered a shortage of warnings –
**Rodriguez – Gommorah (A Nursery Rhyme)**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bylDocAxkmU
Come on down and see me
You know my name well
I’m everything you read
I’ve got it to sell
The ladies on my street
Aren’t there for their health
Welfare checks don’t pave
The road to much wealth
The cat and the rat things
Go bump through the night
They’ll come do a dance thing
Just turn off your light
Gommorah is a nursery rhyme
You won’t find in the book
It’s written on your city’s face
Just stop and take a look
A story of pure hate
With pictures between
A tale for your kids
To help them to dream
Sleep now little children
Don’t lose your way
‘Cos tourists don’t see things
In the clearness of day
Gommorah is a nursery rhyme
You won’t find in the book
It’s written on your city’s face
Just stop and take a look
Your mum’s a canny old girl. She’s doing an Arfur Daly and getting ready for a “nice little earner”.
On the home front, the pantry is again groaning with tinned tuna amongst other staples. Plus meat in the freezer. Muchos meat.
And the butt napkins. Many…many of them. I found myself giving away plenty of rolls last time to friends “caught short”. 😀
Steve Hilton goes bananas about the disgusting old pedo biden; 7 minutes of barely controlled anger:
https://www.facebook.com/NextRevFNC/videos/555988472270797
Calli
I laughed.
Partly because one of my siblings dubbed mums fridge ‘logienic’ a long time again.
Many years ago I knew an old fellow who kept a suitcase of non perishable staples under the bed.
A wartime rationing habit.
Everything old is new again.
From Daniel Greenfield
“As Virus Cases Rise, Another Contagion Spreads Among the Vaccinated: Anger,” the New York Times hisses. “Vaccinated people are ready for normalcy — and angry at the unvaccinated,” the Washington Post jeers.
“It’s O.K. to be mad at people who refuse to get vaccinated,” America Magazine reassures
Sound familiar? Of course it does- the Australian left takes its marching orders from the US left. Never heard of America Magazine.
When I say left of course I mean the political-meja-big business establishment.
Anyone who watched The Next Revolution today and who thinks joe biden should not be strapped naked over an ant’s nest should explain themselves.
I learned the hard way in the Highlands. Always have enough for a month, at least. Supply lines up there were fraught, earthquakes used to close the highway.
I understand the war-time outlook all too well, and how to make meagre proteins go a long, long way.
New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller says “absolutely” police will be checking people’s phones for their vaccination statuses if asked to Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
The amount of OUR money she’s slinging at Full-of-It I’m sure he’d do anything she asks ..
self control mate. self control
Sounds like you had a version of ‘The Long Winter’ Calli.
Yikes.
I have more on hand than I ever used to, mostly because of the essential shopping rules, I make a point of going to supermarket about every day.
Lol. Not that bad. Just shortages, some really unaccountable. You learn to be flexible, and it was fun. The weirdest shortage was brown sugar. We’d bring it back in suitcases.
A bit more acceptable than the hideous packages our quarantine inspectors encounter.
Remember in ancient times when quarantine was for fish guts and insects? Now it’s for bipeds.
Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi
· 1h
‘Councils across England have called for more support after a “harrowing” rise in child deaths and serious cases of harm linked to abuse or neglect of children since the first Covid lockdown.’
https://twitter.com/ritapanahi/status/1429697003215196164
TikTok has doxxed a few VicPol chaps from the weekend.
That place really is the wild west.
What head kickers?
Zoom outage.
Australia-wide.
This from my childhood really captures the mood of these days. To me at least:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YwFvmnbj3E
Lol; enquiry finds 52% of federal Court rulings favour the unions/workers; 91% of mordy brombergs do; it still annoys me that Bolta did not appeal the fucker’s judgement.
Is there anything better than steak, eggs and chips?
Losing a parent is always the saddest thing, KD. Thinking of you in this stressful time and I hope the funeral manages nevertheless to do great justice to your dad’s memory and can provide you with some support in your grief as the family rallies as much as they can. These are horrible times created in the past 18 months by inept bureaucrats and politicians.
“Can’t say if it is true or not, but we always have a few girls go down like a sack of s**t when we do the vaccine days. You should see the state they can work themselves into before walking into the room.”
Our daughter was needle phobic for all of her teenage years. Dental treatment became a nighmare. She got over it in her twenties. Teenage girls are very susceptible to various phobias which are real to them at the time. They also get some of these from ‘social contagion’ – what the others are doing (shockingly these days with transgenderism), but as Diogenes notes, they can also faint at the drop of a hat if the tension around any issue is high enough. Mass vaccination would be an ideal time for this sort of panic to take hold.
“Is there anything better than steak, eggs and chips?”
When you’re hungry, no. Very yummy stuff.
Not much, but I’d vote for mushrooms sautéed in butter and garlic, then rump steak cooked in the juices, the mushrooms piled back on top, and served up with a jacket spud.
Or on a fancier note, Tassie salmon steaks done in butter and lemon juice, with the accompanying jacket spud.
Is there anything better than steak, eggs and chips?
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Add bacon
..
I thought long and hard about that.
Fried a tomato instead.
And added a slice of chicken and leek pie for that mother and child reunion touch.
… and a Coke.
Well worth a readDEMOCRATS WANT TO HATE THEIR WAY OUT OF THE PANDEMIC
Brilliant man
Fixing problems is dirty and unrewarding work that requires humility, patience, and a willingness to listen. These are not the attributes of a radical movement of egotistical theoreticians who use identity politics to trick people into letting them test out their theories and then when their theories fail in the real world, pivot back to identity politics to blame others for their failures.
Thanks miltonf. The Sultan is on fire with that one.
No worries Calli- spot on analysis eh
Vicki:
It’s group think, Vicki.
And it happens in the Universities.
It’s a good reason to remove all but STEM subjects from them.
Fixing problems is dirty and unrewarding work that requires humility, patience, and a willingness to listen. These are not the attributes of a radical movement of egotistical theoreticians who use identity politics to trick people into letting them test out their theories and then when their theories fail in the real world, pivot back to identity politics to blame others for their failures.
Outstanding definition of the left: useless, egotistical, immoral bastards.
In Tennessee, a flash flood:
A climate scientist, writing about the IPCC’s recent update:
SfB – If you follow the jet streams you’ll probably see that the Tennessee floods are due to wandering Rossby waves, like the Pakistan floods in 2010 and the 2021 floods in Germany and China.
We’re at bottom of the solar cycle and you get a lot of jet stream blocking patterns as a result.
No government climate scientist has yet explained how CO2 could cause repetition of such things every 11 years.
Stepford
You’ve been reporting bad weather since 2007. For some stupid reason you believe bad weather anecdotes are evidence of gerbil warming. You’re an idiot.
SfB,
you didn’t actually say anything except, In Tennessee, a flash flood.
…and even then, you cut’n’paste
are you an economist by chance?
why don’t you fuck off to your own backwater blog and start building a levee
fucking mong
One thing about the last 40 years – it has shown us that a Technocracy is the stupidest idea ever for running a country.
Remember how power was delivered through a system that was run by electrical engineers?
Remember how water was delivered through a system that was run by hydraulic engineers?
Remember how health was delivered through a system that was run by doctors?
Remember how policing was delivered through a system that was run by police?
All these jobs were done by people who grew into their positions via encyclopaedic knowledge of that industry.
But we are above that now.
We have something much more betterer – we have University trained Managers – with degrees and stuff. Hence the current chaos running through our systems of government – run by people who don’t have a bloody clue about the world, but they do know their pronouns.
run by people who don’t have a bloody clue about the world
and proud of it. As they said in the 90s ‘engineering is too important to be left to engineers’. The Hilmer reforms did much damage. That’s Professor Fred Hilmer from the AGSM. He did a great job at Fairfax though. Remember f2 or was it f u?
Well I was in several places around my LGA today, in one spot I was there for half an hour. Sans mask as is my wont. Not a copper to be seen anywhere.
Didn’t even get a dirty look.
I’ll see what happens and keep you all informed (like it or not) on my future peregrinations.
Legal civil disobedience. All the fun and little risk.
Remember when Carr split the State Rail Authority into the Rail Access Corporation (media executive- Judi Stack in charge), the Rail Services Authority (some financial wizz called Ogg in charge), Freight Corp and Cityrail/Countrylink. They were managing a derailment about once a week before they got Ron Christie to clean up the mess. Apparently this brain fart was from the bowels of the Himer reforms. One chief exective to 4!
Isn’t Reichsfuhrer Fuller a beat cop who worked his way up?
I’m prepared to make an exception to the rule-of-Winston for policing.
Policing is too important to be left to cops.
One flash flood event in a valley prone to flooding proves global warming (and also it is so bad we need to permanently lower our productivity and living standards?).
That is dumb – on horse steroids.
How many of you mongs would actually reverse the “damaging” (LOL) Hilmer reforms?
A number of factors are intensifying the water cycle, but one of the most important is that warming temperatures raise the upper limit on the amount of moisture in the air. That increases the potential for more rain.
This aspect of climate change is confirmed across all of our lines of evidence: It is expected from basic physics, projected by computer models, and it already shows up in the observational data as a general increase of rainfall intensity with warming temperatures.
Bullshit! Pity about the stats. The alarmists hid behind the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship initially and still do. The C-C basically states as air heats up it can hold more water and therefore rain would increase.
The measure of air moisture is relative humidity; RH is the is the ratio of the actual vapor pressure (equilibrium vapor pressure at dewpoint or frost point) to the equilibrium (saturation) vapor pressure at the gas temperature, expressed as a percentage; in otherwords how much water as vapour is contained in a mass of air as a percentage of that air’s capacity as measured by C-C. If the alarmists were right, as temperature increased RH should be increasing: it isn’t:
http://clivebest.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/GlobalRelativeHumidity300_700mb.jpg
And what is happening to rainfall; according to the alarmists rainfall will become heavier and more damaging; have very heavy rainfall events increased; no they haven’t:
http://reg.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/extremes/timeseries.cgi?graph=R_30&ave_yr=A
How many of you mongs would actually reverse the “damaging” (LOL) Hilmer reforms?
Ha ha if they were so great why they put all back together into RailCorp so the olympics wouldn’t be a total debacle?
So people being killed and derailments aren’t damaging?
Stevie
A number of factors are intensifying the water cycle, but one of the most important is that warming temperatures raise the upper limit on the amount of moisture in the air. That increases the potential for more rain.
Has anyone told Tim “the rain that falls is not going to fill the dams” Flummery?
I notice that sydney trains own the tracks it runs its trains on you idiot. So the reforms were reversed.
KD, chin up. A loss of a family member is always hard. Remember the good times. As others have said, never forget as well.
Back to lurking…
Oh and before I disappear again, saw Scomo bleating about Qld & WA today. LOL he had the chance to do something but backed out of the High Court challenge that Fat Bastard initiated.
TE, am I getting a disturbing feeling that the fix is on for poor old Const Rolfe. Seeing as High Court has been a tad creative of late with a few of their judgements.
A Current Affair Host Tracy Grimshaw tonight asked NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian whether she would be prepared to make NSW a “pariah state” by opening up the NSW economy when Queensland Chief Health Officer (and Queensland governor-elect) Jeanette Young has declared the Queensland economy should remain locked down.
I like A Current Affair, but I’m unhappy to report Grimshaw is a media pariah who couldn’t give a fuck about the public interest and is one of the arrogant, anti-democratic Australian ruling class who would be more at home as a useful idiot of the Chinese Communist Party.
KD
My condolences to you and your family on the death of your Father and commiserations on the circumstances attending his ‘passing’.
Respect.
LGBTQ Afghans React to Taliban Takeover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfh2_t_LcT8&t=29s
Aug 23, 2021
Acts17Apologetics
The LGBTQ community in Afghanistan is terrified of being sentenced to death by their new Taliban rulers. David Wood discusses the issue.
Nothing about Sydney Trains before or after Hilmer screams success. Splitting up City Rail mightn’t have achieved much at all. Neither would have a re-merger.
Freight and rural passenger trains definitely should have been split out of the SRA. The government (LNP or ALP) refused to raise fares – that’s why Country Link was killed off as an independent entity. Country Link was around before Hilmer though. Hilmer would have pushed for the price increase.
Given how competitive the prices were, moreso with invalid and student discounts, the pricing could have gone up without losing patronage.
Sydney’s infrastructure is awful.
Are you telling me there were no derailments or fatal accidents with one monolithic State run company? Keep in mind Sydney Trains had no idea how many people they had on the books a couple of years ago. Remember the dude sleeping in the closet at Wynyard or Town Hall for whole shifts? No manager knew him but he was on the payroll and had to clock on.
Sydney Trains might be too big after all. A company that miscalculates payroll by about 3% doesn’t inspire confidence in terms of engineering, even with an engineer in charge.
The rollingstock, retail and tracks are all owner by one entity now – so what?
What is measurably better since 2013?
Stay in your lanes Dot.
Nude pipe smoking, home brew elderflower wines and collecting medieval codpieces.
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Where would government do less damage: running trains or running education and health?
I think we both know the answer to that one.
Talk to me about trains when we have privatised education and health through the use of vouchers.
The managerialism talked about above is a whole different level of problem.
One might argue it has come about via the combination of two things that happened independently but at about the same time and with maybe some shared causes:
1. Management schools trying to imitate the success of the Asian tigers by adopting a weird version of Japanese “teams”, something that is still in vogue to this day, but doing it really badly.
2. The symbiotic relationship between big business and big government spawning the out of control HR industry.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the train
Dear KD,
I’ve just found out about you poor Dad – I’m very sorry for you and your Mum and for the rest of the family. Knowing that, on his final journey, you can’t be there, I wish we all could be with you.
kindest regards,
BBS
Knuckles
Just came in and read your post.
My deepest commiserations; to lose a parent under those circumstances must be devastating.
Beautiful writing, BTW. Your dad will be smiling proudly at that.
Bruce
George over target:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5u16r58AQE
Interesting couple of days.
Last Friday, I woke up to a bad case of “floaters” in my right eye. Not too concerned; they’ll ease.
But they didn’t. Then on Sunday morning, at Bunnings, I had some “flashing lights” that weren’t there. My niece, an ophthalmic nurse, said to get to the nearest OPMS or Specsavers and get an OCT.
Did just that and optometrist said he could see a couple of haemorrhages, a posterior vitreous detachment and, he thought, a tiny retinal tear. Gave me a referral to the hospital ED for an ophthalmology visit.
We went there early this a.m. and were “fast-tracked”. Three hours laters, after a digital scan, resident of ophthalmology tells me the good news: no retinal tear, no laser surgery required. The pvd is a function of age and the floaters will gradually dissipate with no intervention required. They are giving me the shits at the moment, however!
Getting old sucks.
She’s been putting on 2 kilos a year for the past 20 since she’s been on TV.
Please.
Get it right.
I agree about the 2 kegs per annum gain.
But she’s been on the telly for 35 years, not 20.