On the subject of government contractors. Years ago we never lobbied government, we did work that they were too lazy…
Open Thread – Weekend 28 Aug 2021
That’s a new one. EV owners say their cars are making them SICK – as driver claims her Tesla caused…
“Unbelievable” doesn’t quite cover it. California parents blast school for giving fifth graders transgender book ‘My Shadow is Pink’ then…
I was wondering which one of them is the gay one…
The W.H.O. “Pandemic Treaty” WILL be Negotiated in Secret! Our Sovereignty is Under Attack, as a Loophole is Uncovered
Tom, thanks for the ‘toons.
NSW woman dies of/with/in spite of covid (the Tele):
They’re looking to sue the NSW government.
Excellent.
Gladys, you can fuck right off.”
Agree.
Mr Dragger at 6:36.
Thanks for the list of ‘roid abuse side effects.
Some would seem to apply to the person in question, although I haven’t done a physical examination.
It’s not that sort of friendship or association.
Interesting problem, interesting solution.
Catalytic converter thefts reduced by 57 percent, new tech being rolled out to MOT garages (30 Aug)
So in an average year in the UK tens of thousands of people are having their catalytic converters cut out and stolen. Wow. The idea of painting on an identifier is very elegant, although I don’t know what the stuff is. Microdots? The cat converter operates at an elevated temperature so whatever it is it is quite tough.
Unfortunately there’s answers to such things, like smashing the converter into bug dust and extracting the PGMs. Although that usually requires sodium cyanide. It’d be fun if a bunch of crooks now start to die of accidental cyanide poisoning.
Of course Gladys is being needled from the other side, with the likes of Broelman making it look like she has to rein Covid in further. I would not be surprised if she takes that as a significantly held opinion. And, of course, the political leaders first response to unhappy headlines is to ‘do’ something, even when they would be wiser to do nothing.
She would have no idea what ordinary people think or feel except through surveys and reports. She would not have any direct contact with hoi polloi because there are too many and very likely she feels they would be too parochial in their demands anyway.
She is Plato’s prisoner in a cave, and her staffers and sycophants are making whatever shadows they choose on the wall with their hands.
The ivermectin/doxycycline/zinc therapy is designed exactly for this issue. The doxy knocks out the opportunist pnuemococci.
So by preventing use of ivermectin therapy these people are dying because they can’t get the antibiotic easily, which they could’ve had if allowed to purchase the script before time.
Way to go Gladys, the deaths are on your conscience lady, if you have one.
The Paywallian reporting a survey that indicates that Australians are more concerned about their jobs and mental health than about another outbreak of covid.
It would appear the jig is up.
BoN, they are politicians. ” Conscience” is parked at the door before seeking office or shortly thereafter.
I can’t access it in the Oz but it seems that the review by Chris Masters into the ABC’s Meldrum-Hanna piece of the Luna Park Fire, aired earlier this year, has found that the programme “misled” viewers because it failed to substantiate any claims that Neville Wran was corrupt.
Mavis Bramston, in the Oz today, writes that their ABC must apologise for the “dodgy ghost train doco” and Bramston further writes that “their ABC believes it is OK to rubbish somebody’s reputation with claims that are not backed up by testimony or evidence.”
Effing hell…..I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read that headline. So nice to see Mavis suddenly speak up for “testimony and evidence”….worth noting that Mavis remained silent about the need for testimony and evidence when the absurd rambling Porter allegations were given an airing by their ABC earlier this year nor do I recall Mavis also insisting on such due process with the Pell allegations…but when the target is one of his own…that being an ALP politician and someone who’s long dead I might add……all hell breaks loose and an independent inquiry is undertaken. I don’t recall an independent inquiry into the disgraceful Pell lynching….or did I miss something? So it seems airing an allegation against a long dead and very corrupt ex-premier of NSW (Wran’s corruption was always well known here in NSW…however that doesn’t necessarily tie him to Luna Park…although I strongly believe Abe Saffron was involved in the fire) will warrant an independent inquiry because certain ALP hacks like Bramston and Bob the snake Carr are offended but the travesty of their ABC’s years long assassination of George Pell warrants no independent inquiry.
Gosh, talk about inquiries for me but not for thee.
Ah well, there’s nothing like the stench of hypocrisy to start the day…especially when it involves the left and their ABC.
Happy days are here again, the sky is blue …
I thought exactly that Cassie.
And Mavis Bramston has been like a dog with a bone on this one.
I reckon he has written 5-6 articles on it.
But, yes, late to the ABC bias party.
From the “Australian” -I haven’t posted the whole article
Is savva still vomiting up poison and bile in the oz?
Cassie, the hack through the Australian paywall is working fine for me.
You used to type the first few line of the article into google and then the whole thing would come up. I don’t think that works anymore.
She resigned in a huff because Credlin was given a column.
Now works for the Phage and the Silly, as you might expect.
7. Random Capitals
The point really isn’t about the Bramstom article per se.
It is the fact that he has suddenly discovered ABC bias because it relates to Nifty Nev.
He has written half a dozen articles on it, but not once does he reference other glaring examples of ABC bias, because Conservatives.
Thanks Bruce. Too bad for the shareholders of that miserable organization. Directors at ‘nine’ don’t seem to be big on maximizing shareholder value.
Really 132andBush?
Random capitalisation is an indicator of steroid abuse?
I did not know that.
I will be on the lookout for it.
CCP virus cases explode in Vietnam AFTER vaccination begins.
Alex Berenson:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/insanity-in-vietnam
Apparently, if you object to prostitution and sex trafficking, you’re now smeared as “whorephobic”.
Also, as Brendan O’Neill wrote last week…..calling prostitution “sex work” demeans both work and sex.
GoTTa Go.
Off To tHE GYm.
“The point really isn’t about the Bramstom article per se.
It is the fact that he has suddenly discovered ABC bias because it relates to Nifty Nev.
He has written half a dozen articles on it, but not once does he reference other glaring examples of ABC bias, because Conservatives.”
Exactly…and that’s the point in my comment above. Mavis hasn’t written half a dozen pieces about Pell or Porter or Laming. Perhaps somebody at the Oz could tap him on the shoulder and suggest that he write one piece about the injustices done by their ABC to Porter or Pell. If Mavis did that I’d find his confected outrage about Nifty Nev more credible.
Oh well…I’m definitely “whorephobic”.
Yes.
Kamala Harris Poses In Front Of Communist Ho Chi Minh Bust – “The WORST Photo Op For An American In That Country Since Jane Fonda Donned A Helmet There In 1972.” (28 Aug, via Surber)
The only reason I can think that Kamala can be in Vietnam is because everyone in the administration, including Kamala, want her as far away from DC as they can get. And even with that they couldn’t prevent her from stuffing up.
So if I’m reading this right, the old thief or those pulling his strings just upped and left
Abandoning thousands of Americans behind enemy lines, the Biden administration turned the Kabul airport into Fort Apache surrounded by the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and other Jihadis.
BoN, they are politicians. ” Conscience” is parked at the door before seeking office or shortly thereafter.
Which is what makes politics a very suitable career if you’re a sociopath or a narcissist.
Of our PMs over the last 40 years I’d suggest only two or three were psychologically normal people.
US truckers also planning to protest against vaccine passports on 31/09 (or 09/31). The only headline I have seen was one from Britain showing huge crowds and the headline “This is what the BBC is not reporting”.
Wow. It’s almost like there is a worldwide media conspiracy simply to NOT report anything that goes against the COVID narrative. In fact, you can expect to see reports saying the exact opposite. Stuff like “Trucker Protests Fizzle”.
Oh wait…..
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/08/30/anti-vaccine-truckies-protest/
Roger says:
August 31, 2021 at 8:56 am
Of our PMs over the last 40 years I’d suggest only two or three were psychologically normal people.
Don’t keep us guessing Roger – who are these 2 or 3??
Which is what makes politics a very suitable career if you’re a sociopath or a narcissist.
Of our PMs over the last 40 years I’d suggest only two or three were psychologically normal people.
Yes I’ve come to that conclusion too. I would add grifter to the list.
40 years- Fraser, Hawke, Keating, Howard, kRudd, TLS, Abbott, TRumble, Scummo. Can’t say I’m enamored with any of them.
Here is what’s going on in the US…..
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/u-s-truckers-plan-nationwide-protest-mandatory-vaccines-august-31st-tuesday-asking-everybody-not-go-work-truck-shut-officially-video/
I’ve changed my mind about Howard in the last 5 years or so- his closeness to Trumble, the RET, land clearing laws, mass migration.
Their odious ‘free trade agreements’.
The ICC.
I’m not on FB, so if any Cats have any “real news”, please do share.
It also indicates trained flight crews which means they were Afghan National Army pilots a month or so ago.
Don’t keep us guessing Roger – who are these 2 or 3??
Let me preface this by saying just because a couple were normal doesn’t mean they were necessarily good PMs.
Howard & Abbott are psychologically normal people (Howard was a terrible PM, while Abbott was good in parts).
Gillard had major character flaws (and I found her insufferable, to the point of not being able to watch her on TV) but I don’t think they weren’t linked to sociopathy or narcissism.
They should have been CEOs …
George III Chancellor, Baron Thurlow :
“How can you expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked?”
Gillard? The one who threatened to ‘injure’ certain businesses that displeased her?
Just watching Fox.
US Secretary Of State on …… Antony Biden? Joe Blinken?
Explaining how well they fucked Afghanistan and US Forces.
Even the flag on his left, American Eagle, is giving the brown eye and pissing itself laughing.
Some little intern has already got a new job and given a FU on the way out.
Well done kid!
Thanks, Sanchez. Laughed out loud.
His objection was that it was the wrong bias.
As has been noted, his j’istic feathers were completely unruffled when it is a Liberal or a Catholic in the crosshairs.
Especially considering Wran’s corruption which is so well attested as to be near proverbial. Defending him on one the instance he can, whereas in the case of the other targets of the ABC there were no other instances – smears made from whole cloth that were unravelled on their first contact with legal requirement for evidence. (I am not including Victorian courts as part of any legal process.)
I wouldn’t discount “tourists” who happened to be passing through that gaping fistula, Pakistan.
The latest doomsday variant is C12.
In Full Control news:
Luckily senior executive, Annastacia Palaszczuk, is able to explain:
So, it’s a public health initiative.
They don’t care, because it doesn’t matter.
* don’t think they were linked
That should have been.
So the new variant is more contagious. Is it more virulent?
If the whole country caught a mild cold there would be no need for a lockdown.
Well, you wouldn’t think so. But…
Who gave the CHO the authority? Who is meant to take action if the CHO flubs it.
I begin to think Palacechook hates Queenslanders. Living in a state that celebrates itself as a sun-drenched playground for the young, healthy, and lissom.
When she stands in front of the mirrors she has set up side by side to get the full image, in a dimly lit room that offers her some refuge from the more egregious transgressions of her physical form, coupled with peevish and petty ego, there must be a upswell of hate and bile.
What a depressing list.
She would have no idea what ordinary people think or feel except through surveys and reports. She would not have any direct contact with hoi polloi because there are too many and very likely she feels they would be too parochial in their demands anyway.
She is Plato’s prisoner in a cave, and her staffers and sycophants are making whatever shadows they choose on the wall with their hands.
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If Gladys wants to know what the people think she should just have a look at the emails being sent to Tanya Davies. I’m sure Tanya will be happy to forward her the 30,000 emails she received in the last month alone. But Tanya and her voters are irrelevant to the smart set in Macquarie Street.
Gladys and Talidan overwhelmingly prove the saying that those who want to govern should not be allowed anywhere near the levers of power. That goes double for SloMo who is all about how it looks and not what it is.
The ABC are a bunch of sneaky fuckers.
So in your defence documents, you add as much defamatory, unprovable information as possible.
Then other media organisations report it.
Then the ABC reports it.
Such an abuse of the freedom of the press.
From the Oz.
They are calling this Freedom Weekend.
Restaurant and Catering Australia was one of several industry groups asked by the NSW government to draft reopening proposals for delivery by Monday. ClubsNSW confirmed it had also made a submission, which called for a staggered reopening of its venues and an immediate return of outdoor trade.
The R&CA road map would trial the reopening of venues from October 1 with capacity limits of no more than 100 patrons indoors and a 2sqm rule without a cap for patrons outdoors. Masks would be mandatory for staff and consumers, and check-ins mandatory for QR purposes and vaccination status.
That’s freedom?
The same people think CO2 is destroying the planet.
I came across this saying by Voltaire earlier:
Gladys : Come on NSW, let’s get this done.
Also, Stalin : Come on Ukraine, let’s get this done.
Thanks for this, it’s always good to have another mob to name when online propagandists try to mock away the fact of Govt Propaganda Units –
UK Govt Behavioural Insights Team – The Behavioural Insights Team – also known as the Nudge Unit – is now a social purpose company. It is partly owned by the Cabinet Office, employees and Nesta.
The Nudge Unit was established in the Cabinet Office in 2010 by David Cameron’s government to apply behavioural science to public policy. Now owned partly by the Cabinet Office, by Nesta and by employees, it has operations across the world.
From nilk’s cat –
The ABC’s independence was meant to protect it from interference by the government of the day.
Independence was a gift to the ABC but for a specific reason. Impartiality is an obligation to us.
They now invoke their independence as entitling them to dispense with impartiality which is its raison d’etre.
Now it uses its independence to bully politicians into giving them money and favour.
It staggers the mind that the supposed ‘right’ wing in this country does not call out the threat. How small must those people be. Mangy whimpering curs that, despite having been repeatedly kicked and tortured, always limps obediently to its master as soon as their names are called even if only to be beaten. This broken state mistaken for loyalty.
People without pride can only offer submission. Never loyalty.
The Mouth of Xi has a little gloat:
Support for Australian government crashes hard
Subtext: Golden Dawn for Australia government who properly understands Xi Thought, win-win philosophy, and 14 Point Correction Plan.
Not Abronese.
Exactly.
A good editor would have fired it back at him and told him to work in the Porter/Pell/Lamming angle before it gets published.
Because the real story is systemic evidence-free vendettas.
Nifty Nev was only targeted because he was on the pragmatic right of the party.
Biden snapping about Afghanistan questions at the FEMA HQ stunt before storming off was embarrassing.
Embarrassing! FMD, biden before he became senile was a grub, corrupt, treasonous and a sexual predator; his first wife committed suicide by car because he was fucking dr jill; he used hunter as his front man after his other son died to deal with countries like ukraine, russia and the chunks, who own this bastard. Now he’s senile his dominant characteristics come out: stubborn, arrogant, as smart as a dog turd and sexually weird. But it’s not his fault; he was put where he is by the demorats; so biden should be the last one executed for crimes against the US.
I must say this wong chap is a bit off:
Penny Wong States Labor Rejects Trump’s Idea Of Patriotism Over Globalism
Yes. That’s why it gets me that anyone trusts those who try to mock it away with, “Conspiracy Nut!”.
The UK mobs work on making their NHS some sort of Holy Religion that MUST be Believed In & Worshipped, from the Olympics to Pot Banging During Lockdown “TO SAVE The NHS”, has always been particularly horrific to me, especially with how many people came out to SUPPORT their NOT ALLOWING PARENTS TO HAVE THEIR CHILDREN TREATED in other countries, that could save their lives, but using The LAW to give the children DEATH SENTANCES.
And fucking gladys: ugly and stupid:
PREMIER Gladys Berejiklian has appointed a known card-carrying communist to head up both the NSW Public Service and her own Premier’s Department.
In a move that would be highly controversial for even the most Left-wing politician, Ms Berejiklian has promoted former UK Communist Party member Jim Betts to the most powerful civilian post in NSW.
Yes, again the absurdity of the ‘worship’ of the NHS has caused people around the world to accept the atrocity of DEATH PANELS that make it CRIMINAL for Parents to have their own children treated by those who could& would save their lives.
To land of the free, we’re a weirdly authoritarian mob
ADAM CREIGHTON
“What the hell is wrong with your country?” I’m asked almost every day in the US of late. At dinner on Saturday night in New York three Democrat friends demanded I explain why police were shooting rubber bullets and pepper spray to enforce public health.
At my hotel a doorman, Danny, came up to me. “Man, I heard your accent yesterday and I just wanted to say, holy shit, the stuff I’m seeing in Australia I can’t believe,” he said, asking if police helicopters really had hovered over suburbs, barking masking orders over loudspeakers.
Australians are rapidly losing their reputation as tough, irreverent larrikins. The nation has gone viral for hunting down “Covid fugitives” (people with a positive test), building remote quarantine facilities, shooting dogs, denying babies treatment in the closest hospitals and preventing families from seeing dying loved ones.
Forget Mick Dundee and Steve Irwin; Kerry Chant and Daniel Andrews are the new, hectoring faces of modern, safety-obsessed Australia. “That’s not a mask, this is a mask,” Americans would expect to hear in 2021. We’re seen as weak, naive and hopelessly parochial, an image reinforced by Western Australia’s zero-Covid policy to divorce itself from the rest of the country.
Millions of people in the US have watched, stupefied, the normalisation of behaviour and attitudes that two years ago would have been seen as the hallmark of a cruel, authoritarian society.
Columnist Josh Barro, son of Harvard economist Robert Barro, called Australia dystopian.
“I’m surprised there isn’t more debate about whether what they’re doing is OK as opposed to a human rights infringement,” statistician Nate Silver replied. Indeed, our $25m a year Human Rights Commission has been missing in action on fundamental liberties for 17 months, perhaps engrossed in a forthcoming trans rights discussion paper.
“I’m not sure why Australia is an example of any sort of success that the US would want to emulate,” Silver told his 3.5 million Twitter followers.
Australia has become the butt of jokes on late-night TV, Andrews’ prohibition of drinking alcohol without a mask being a favourite. “There’s some crazy shit going on right now where the army is trying to keep people inside in Australia,” US comedian Joe Rogan, with 7.4 million Twitter followers, said this month.
The idea Australians and Americans are cultural brothers in arms has been shattered. Australians copied their old colonial masters on Covid, but more zealously. Americans, true to the legacy of the Declaration of Independence, have eschewed, even in liberal California, the police heavy-handedness that became the norm in Britain and Australia. State borders never shut.
“It’s because they took your guns away, isn’t it?” Danny said. “They would never get away with that shit here.” America’s gun problem makes it difficult to boss people around excessively.
Two weeks ago the US Department of Homeland Security issued a terror threat warning, not only because of the approaching September 11 anniversary but also because of “grievances over public health safety measures and perceived government restrictions”. “Extremists may seek to exploit … re-establishment of public health restrictions across the United States as a rationale to conduct attacks,” it said.
Every US state is flashing red on the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid map, reflecting high transmission, defined as more than 100 cases per 100,000 people in the past seven days – a higher level than in NSW.
The health advice is no longer gospel. At least 40 US states have ignored the CDC’s demand for indoor mask mandates, supposedly necessary for such high levels of transmission. No state governor, not even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, queen of liberal piety, would dare publicly link curtailing basic freedoms to compliance with arbitrary health advice.
Australians living in the US are shocked, too, regularly filling my inbox with tales of despair.
“My wife and I and eightmonth-old son have been here for 10-plus years and we’re reconsidering our pre-pandemic plan to move back due to concerns about Covid handling, the prospect of continued lockdowns and the overall desirability of Australia,” wrote Josh and his wife, directors at big four accounting firms in Los Angeles, understandably too fearful to reveal their full names.
“The Covid mania in Australia this year is unbelievable, particularly when viewed from abroad,” said Alex, an Australian businessman in Chicago. “No country ever prospered by being so cynical and risk averse. Hopefully sanity prevails one day so we can all see our families again.”
I struggled to explain to Danny why Australia’s response was so extreme: being a remote island fuelled a perception the virus could be eliminated, lockdowns did seem to work at first, individuals have few if any constitutional rights and Australia began as a subsidised government project, entrenching a widespread faith in bureaucracy. And in smaller nations Covid stories crowd out other news more easily, ensuring a steady diet of 24/7 fear porn.
In Iowa recently I searched in vain on local TV for a daily chief health officer update on Covid-19, let alone an intricate parsing of the cases into linked, in the community and overseas.
None of these explanations is adequate, though. Switzerland’s Covid restrictions paled in comparison with Australia’s, Japan never locked down and Alberta, Canada, with about the same population as Victoria, practically abolished all restrictions on July 1.
I walked off to a cafe after chatting with Danny, asking the manager why he hadn’t checked my vaccination status – a legal requirement in New York since August 16. “I asked the previous customer and he yelled and walked out so I couldn’t be stuffed asking you,” he said. In Australia everyone has to check in, I explained. He just laughed at me.
This happened to some friends who were holidaying in the UK a few years ago.
They drove to a market fair in the country somewhere and got directed to park in a large field nearby. Parking assistants, security guards, well organised rows of cars – the full 9 yards.
Came back at the end of the day and car wouldn’t start. Asked the security guards for help and they went straight to check the catalytic converter.
“”Ere’s yer problem luv. It’s been stolen. ‘Appens all the time.”
So. This is where everyone has migrated to.
Biden and the swamp at work:
“The Opposite of Dunkirk” – Erik Prince: Biden Regime Is Telling Local Governments Not to Cooperate with Private Contractors Rescuing Americans in Afghanistan (VIDEO)
Revealed: Biden Turned Down Taliban Offer to Allow US to Control Kabul and the Airport
Secretary of State Blinken Claims US Never Gave Taliban Kill List – Then Admits US Gave Names of American Citizens to Taliban (VIDEO)
Developing: Military Brass at Kabul Airport Is Refusing to Let American Women and Children Inside Gate
Conservative Purge Continues: Chase Bank Tells Gen. Michael Flynn They Are Closing His Accounts and Cancelling His Credit Cards; Claim Continuing to Allow the Decorated Veteran Access to His Accounts “Creates Reputational Risk”
This is really quite dangerous stuff. The anglosphere is based on the idea of a common shared language and culture, and that is going to be important in future geopolitics. If the mass of the American populace is being conditioned by disgraceful events here to see us as ruled by, and accepting of, authoritarian fascist behaviour, then the impulse to assist us in need is being subtly diminished. Would we even be seen as worth saving? The American Alliance is vital to Australia’s future, and anything that works to undermine that is doing us no good at all. ScoMo should bring to heel the worst offenders who sic the police on to citizens merely going about their business and exercising their natural rights to freedom of opinion. Or is it that he is simply a fellow traveller, locked in by belief in his Special (undemocratic) Cabinet and happy to see the Constitution trashed?
My final response to Michael O’Brien’s office, asking what can we do now.
Hi Sam I think the focus now should be a pledge to get Victoria back to normal as soon as possible. A commitment that there will be no backsliding into government imposed restrictions of any kind and an absolute emphasis on personal responsibility. It should be clear that worldwide covid will now be an endemic disease hopefully seasonal illness that people can limit the damage of by getting vaccinated along with their annual flu shot, that it is a disease our hospitals are designed to cope with and it will no longer prevent people living normal lives and being able to plan their futures, work and run businesses without having the lockdown sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. I can’t emphasis enough the damage that living in a police state has done to the people of Victoria. If some people want to continue to wear masks social distance etc let them but never again should government power be wielded in the way it has been by the Andrews government. People will have to accept covid deaths as they do flu stroke cancer and heart attack. Now gird your loins and make that commitment.
Poor old Gladys will probably assume that what the Americans find so amazing is that we are not storming the medicals centres to get the jab – for our love of freedom.
Wong admits she isn’t an Australian patriot eh?
Very revealing.
Why should we entrust government to a party who won’t stand up for our country?
They forget that up to 50% (or more) of the population voted Conservative in the US Election. The only ‘reputational risk’ being created is the usual ‘go woke, go broke’, if people express their displeasure by withdrawing their accounts. One can only hope that they do this.
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Fantastic comment.
There absolutely must be a Royal Commission into the useage of the ‘National Cabinet’ which effectively has neutered the Commonwealth of its powers. A clear set of Constitional guidelines must be developed to prevent this happening again. Some people need to start reflecting on their ‘reputational damage’ and some of them would be wise to head for the hills to escape justice.
Some are fighting back:
‘There Must Be Accountability’: 90 Retired Flag Officers Call On Austin, Milley To Resign Immediately
And Bongino on fire about the haters of the US and the West generally:
https://rumble.com/vlvc0r-ep.-1594-its-time-for-a-national-divorce-the-dan-bongino-show.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Dan+Bongino+Show&ep=2
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Wong, your version of “co-operation” leads to the very, very richest people in the world colluding to impoverish and enslave the rest of us. Done on a global scale it leaves no escape from your tyranny.
Just do your actual job of listening to and representing Australians.
According to the latest Newspoll, which was published on Sunday night, the opposition Labor Party now leads the governing coalition 54-46 percent on a two-party preferred basis.
It looks like Scotty from marketing is going to have his Zac Kirkup moment in May next year. I will not mourn his departure.
Yeah, I suspect half of America will now be incandescently furious with JPMorgan Chase. And by and large those people have a lot of money. Nice “reputational” faceplant, Chase guys, girls and yxes.
Chase Bank Cancels General Mike Flynn’s Credit Cards (30 Aug)
You know Lizzie I thought about ‘royal commission’ but it’s not my number one issue.
The Victorian liberal party asked me for feedback, I shot back a laundry list, I then got a what right now? request.
I mulled overnight and while I really just wanted them to support the ldp covid plan thought that would get zero traction.
I think hospital treatment for covid had improved dramatically in the last 18 months. Government has to make dedicated covid wards a long term feature of our health system, as should preventative measures be. But that has to be in a context of people being able to live their lives.
The end.
John Ruddick will be the Lib Dem senate candidate here in NSW….good….far better to concentrate on the senate rather than running for Warringah.
Let see….
Checks inbox…
Not one reply beyond “we received this” auto message to my emails to multiple pollies, State and federal with responsibility for either legal or health matters.
Thats about 10 different reps.
Just a short note from a health professional (Paramedic)
The actions of the various state and Federal governments appear to be at serious risk of voiding a key plank of medical ethics.
https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-09/sq20-030_-_fact_sheet_-_informed_consent_-_nsqhs-8.9a.pdf
Consent depends on the informed decision by a patient to undertake a medical procedure free from undue influence.
By crossing the line from testing & restricting individuals for health reasons to doing so to “encourage” uptake of vaccines I believe there is a serious case to be made that individuals are not consenting in a legal way.
By effectively punishing individuals by restricting their movement or ability to hold a job based on them undergoing a medical procedure there can be no question consent is no longer free from undue influence.
I would sincerely ask this question is raised with your relevant legal and medical ethics advisors.
If you could forward any reply relating to the legal or ethical issues it would be appreciated.
The ability to make personal decisions related to medical interventions free from undue influence is a well established tenet in the health system and in law.
Violations of this have been viewed extremely dimly by courts in the past.
Thanks for your time
These must be unimportant issues unworthy of consideration by our smooth brained overlords.
Nations have cultures and histories, and their people a sense of belonging. In those countries the great unwashed individually have tiny voices, but collectively can decide which governments to throw out.
The globe has none of these. If a global government was formed it would have none of these. A clean slate for authoritarians.
Look at what the EU did to Europe.
That Wong Chap wants a globalist government to exercise her totalitarian spirit. Her star in Labor, such as it was, is now in decline and Australia has failed her. But she sees another way.
And you can be sure, like any socialist, that she thinks her natural place will be at the top.
A good suggestion. Improved Covid treatment in hospitals has dramatically reduced the death rate.
Also, there are also new pharmaceuticals (using ‘proven’ anti-virals including Ivermectin types) in the pipeline to treat Covid in its early stages, at home. Covid wards could be needed still, and these could be placed in only a few selected hospitals to avoid cross-infection. If demand declines, they could be repurposed as isolation wards for many other things, including a proper quarantine system, if the wards were built with separate isolation rooms, filtered aircon and open balconies.
A very telling point, for which the EU is the object lesson.
I was at the doctor’s surgery this morning waiting as one does. I never really noticed before what percentage of over 60s are obese. Why are doctors not giving these people some proper health advise, rather than prescribing reams of medicines with side effect that require more medicines to correct.
If death from this chicom virus is correlated with obesity, no wonder this group is coping the brunt.
Yes.
Except for the bit about Michael O’Brien “girding his loins”.
Nobody wants to see that.
Morning all.
I am worried. My normal obsessions are overtaken by greater events.
What should I do now for my indignation fix? I feel so irrelevant. As irrelevant as a conservative voter to Malcolm Trumble’s unstoppable prime ministership.
Greasy dissembling prick Dictator Dan telling Victorians that there are thousands of AZ appointments available and we should take them up.
He says 2,500,000 have had the AZ jab and nobody could say his government has said anything negative about AZ.
Andrews was vaccinated with Pfizer.
Weird Oz.
Auditions to replace Charlie Watts up and running. Next !
truth in advertising!
Oh my lord. In my circle of friends one of the chaps out fwd that the Penny Wong chap would make a good PM. I was busy fighting on climate and Covid scam ground to go back and spear the stupid.
Wong just said out loud what most of the political class are secretly (or not so secretly) on board with.
Amazing what you can read in the science news. Firstly I see there is an entire industry based on cleaning up meth labs in houses(!) Secondly I see that that whole industry is unsustainable, unregulated and naughty(!!)
Gaps in meth lab clean-ups (30 Aug)
by Flinders University
Wow, everyone in South Australia must be spaced out all day if they need an entire industry of meth cleaners. I wonder how many grow-houses there are in Adelaide?
Bruce of Newcastle
So a bunch of experts who dont actually do the cleaning are **steeples fingers*** deeply concerned they havent been invited to write a set of standards to govern this area.
If this ” Professor” hasnt personally carried out the cleaning of meth houses herself she should be set on fire and left to run through the uni corridors screaming ” I literally know nothing” until she expires.
Yes the bitter fruits of the Murray report from all those decades ago.
Granddaughter 3 left to study for Masters degree in NY last week and arrived safely to experience the wild wreathed in the States . The building where her flat is , shared with 3 others , was flooded and now uninhabitable .
The US is in global recession under a senile and corrupt President.
The Europeans are seriously talking about strategic independence.
China is forging ahead with Belt and Road.
We are faced with civilisational choices while Penny Wong remains stuck in the 1980s when her worldview was formed.
She’s not even a second rater.
The Stones should recruit the White Stripes drum lady.
She has a seriously large set of drums.
I suspect she’d make a fine Stone.
True Roger but she draws a taxpayer salary plus perks (including private plate car iirc) and people in SA vote for her. Grostesque.
Latest from Gulag Gladys:
Yes there is. Some Christians have an ethical issue with AZ. Others are worried about “rare” side effects.
Big deal. Perhaps that’s the reason your brain is turning to dust even as your mouth moves.
See point 1.
I don’t care. Since when did you become my keeper? In what universe do I have to seek your permission to go to the shops?
And the unvaccinated can stay home because reasons. Right.
Please close all bottle shops, tobacconists, brothels and cancel Mardi Gras. We can’t have people exposed to disease. And while you’re at it, shut down all the highways and byways and all sport because danger. Oh. That’s right. You did.
This woman is completely crazed. I will never vote Liberal again. And if Labor is rubbing their hands at the prospect of my vote, forget about it. I’d rather draw something rude on the ballot paper.
Sums up most of our parliamentarians, milton.
Second raters. Andrew Hastie might be an exception.
Oh, and I forgot to mention above that Brexit has made the Commonwealth potentially relevant again.
I sent some concerns to our local member before the plandemic, no response. so much for representative government.
Mole – I’ve cleaned a lot of lab glassware in my time, from many such organic and inorganic chemicals. I used detergent and hot water mainly. In a sink. It takes quite a bit of innovative padding to expand “soap and water” into a whole PhD thesis though.
The biggest problem buying a former cook house isn’t residual chemicals.
It is strung out meth-heads or standover men turning up at 3 a.m.
Scott Baio & Richard Marx having a fight on twitter.
That’s what 2021 is all about.
”Mole – I’ve cleaned a lot of lab glassware in my time, from many such organic and inorganic chemicals
Me too! Burettes were the worst! And thank heavens for disposable pipettes.
This may not help your blood pressure, calli, but it’s a good summery about how we got here.
And for good measure, here’s a quote from Richard M. Weaver I came across the other day:
The past shows unvaryingly that when a people’s freedom disappears, it goes not with a bang, but in silence amid the comfort of being cared for.
Are you going to the one holding a gun to their head to make them take said advice?
Biden introduces “his boy” Senior Advisor and Director of Public Engagement, Cedric Richmond. Things go downhill from there:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/30/joe-biden-introduces-america-to-woke-fema-and-his-boy-in-charge-of-hurricane-ida-recovery-efforts/
As usual, The British Do It Better –
In the Loop — White House Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT-7RgLWvf4
NSW police have fined a 56 year old prostitute for breaching public health order.
One of 3 sex workers in Rydalmere pinged.
All jokes about the brothel being a super spreader even should cease.
Roger, that’s a great quote, but I think is worth putting in its entirety.
Bugger.
Event.
Not even.
Bombed my own gag.
Exactly Diogenes.
I will bet the GP has told them about risk factors for whatever ails them.
Mine does, but he doesn’t badger me. He assumes I am an adult and, if I ignore his advice, it is on me.
I was thinking about this last night.
We had a Zoom with a couple of people I used to work with.
Nice people but one couple got into tut-tutting about the risks of being unvaxxed.
Next minute they were saying how they had porked up (and I mean really porked up from an already XXXXL base) during the lockDans.
Helloooo!
You would probably be at less risk being unvaxxed and getting your BMI into the green zone, than being a vaxxed fatso.
Yes, m0nster, I am looking at you.
Roger says:
August 31, 2021 at 12:37 pm
Sums up most of our parliamentarians, milton.
Second raters. Andrew Hastie might be an exception.
Not in my experience Roger, I live in his electorate. I’ve had some correspondence with him in the past, his “replies” have all been requests for funds for his re-election campaigns, absolutely no response to whatever issue I’ve raised.
He’s not worth a vote, Craig Kelly is the only bloke in Parliament worth voting for.
Who the hell does this woman think she is?
She is not even pretending that it is to stop ‘selfish’ people endangering others. Now it is the state deciding what risks we should take with our own selves.
I must say her arguments about there ‘being no reason’ and ‘I have had’ particularly insulting: Is she saying that hers is the highest intellect and that nothing that does not occur to her can be valid, and further saying that if she has done something then we can all take lessons from it.
She reached the top of a pile of mediocrities. She does not do a very good job. The only benefit NSW gets from her is that she does interferes (in other avenues) less than other Premiers. Her absence is her virtue.
And it ought to be unimaginable to her to create two classes of NSW people, and that she is entitled to effectively force people to do something that she cannot do legally.
I am glad that for all the good stuff she might have been remembered for (mostly around transport) she will instead be remembered as a despot who has made herself a laughing stock on the international stage.
Desperate and dateless, Morrison currently addressing the Nation:
Deeply deluded man.
Whistling bravely as he hurries past the political graveyard.
Wong admits she isn’t an Australian patriot eh?
Very revealing.
Why should we entrust government to a party who won’t stand up for our country?
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We did, ScoMo’s the same.
I believe that is precisely what PhD thesis writing has become – lots of padding to take a trite point and make it look like the Principia Mathematica (which buried among its other achievements are hundreds of pages dedicated to proving that 1+1=2)*.
*Let me state at once this is not a suggestion that the Principia was pretentious twaddle, it was in fact supremely comprehensive. This would be why it is still cited, while most PhD theses just sit molding on a shelf until buried by more pointless theses.
I sent some concerns to our local member before the plandemic, no response. so much for representative government.
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My sister also emailed her federal member and didn’t even get an automated acknowledgement in reply. She said that woman is never getting her vote again.
Roger.. thanks for the tips on Weaver.
Has prompted me to read this – https://newcriterion.com/issues/2006/9/the-consequences-of-richard-weaver – and just now purchase his book “Ideas have consequences”.
An interesting dude.
btw, that above link points out the obvious (to others more read in these matters). We’ve been in a period of Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Soft Despotism” for quite some time.
When the debate at the old cat was raging over the two boys the NHS KILLED rather than release them to hospitals overseas for treatment the NHS didn’t offer, pointing out the slippery slope of DEATH PANELS deciding who may & may not live, across the board, was violently attacked by the Pro-NHS Mob.
The Mob that FEATURES one STILL CAMPAIGNING AGAINST NOW LEGAL, AGAIN, Ivermectin.
How does anyone ever trust Pro-Death Panellists?
Have they already been terrorised into publicly supporting Death Panellists?
Interesting poll results at newsdotcomdotau:
Results
Does Victoria need zero cases to end lockdown?
Yes, otherwise we will continue doing the same thing — 27%
No, we need to learn to live with the virus — 73%
35,892 Voters
Crikey.. so many eye openings in that article.
I am glad that for all the good stuff she might have been remembered for (mostly around transport) she will instead be remembered as a despot who has made herself a laughing stock on the international stage.
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We must reward her hard work on our behalf with as much mockery as we can get out there though the rest of the world is beating us to it.
I like the talk about “electoral oblivion” etc for Scummo.
What’s the bet that next year, due to COVID QWERTY, the elections are done on-line – after all, it worked for the recent Census ok…. and I would imagine all our current trash would get re-elected with increased majorities.
Dr Faustus says:
August 31, 2021 at 1:19 pm
Desperate and dateless, Morrison currently addressing the Nation:
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Nobody is listening, he has nothing to say that would release us from our bondage so he can get knotted.
You know what is called for? Boney M song “By the Rivers of Babylon” with some lyrics changes.
Interesting perspective on that from Professor Sutton:
If pressed, I think that means: “We’re going to crack on with LockDans and Elimination – just with no hope.”
#insafehands
Professor Sutton said the state would continue to pursue an “aggressive suppression strategy”.
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They certainly have form. Ask the iCook bloke.
Someone has done the sums for Scummo and pointed out that – if 80% is the vaccination target to needed fetch Sneakers back into Australia – he’ll need to introduce the 12 to 15 cohort into the Jabbing.
Boldly going where the Poms are vacillating.
I’m a proud AstraZenica man, but it wouldn’t include my kids.
The Libs continue to think that their “the other mob are worse” shtick is an election platform.
They are a pack of fucking retards.
It took years and a lot of effort to get rid of smallpox.
Does Sutton think he will do it with Covid if he just stomps on people enough.
And remember, in a few years, there will be another bug. Just like every few years in the past.
..
Be more kind to fucking retards than to compare them to Morrison etc.
Did that guy look at how the press stitched Trump up and think to himself “I’ll have me some of that. I know, a national cabinet to bully me into doing a bunch of stuff that’s an electoral nightmare. Give me all the responsibility but no control. After all, when voters come after someone for the utter destruction wrought, my heads on the chopping block first, come on, kill me motherlovers”?
Meanwhile, Dan Andrews is looking at voters and going: “I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me”.
so #sluggate is continuing.. a council inspector has admitted the slug was planted !
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sluggate
Where are the criminal charges?
It’s a great book, but it is not an easy read. The phrase has also led to another, just as interesting, ‘consequences have ideas’.
Inside the Talidan nighmare: for the first time in two years of lockdowns, I can no longer put my car through the local automatic Apco carwash because it is “closed due to Covid restrictions”.
What the fucking fuck is that about? It takes five minutes, during which time I sit inside the sealed car in contact with no-one.
This mad Staliism is now being designed purely to humiliate the proletariat. I bet no-one inside the Spring Street ruling class is forbidden from washing their cars.
“mortuary’s filled beyond capacity”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsBFLEapzfw
Aug 31, 2021
Tony Heller
“Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper” – George Orwell
nice reference.. but Rorschach, unlike Dan, had morals.
BTW, hello Motelier! Someone fill him in on recent events.
Someone has to, it’s for their own good. It’s unhealthy for them to be so old & fat.
If a few have to be shot, or fined out of their retirement savings, then so be it, the govt. knows what’s best for all.
No, I firmly believe he is orchestrating this.
Toby Greene, 3 weeks… what an absolute grub.
Was complaining about a “f–king dive” to ump when later on, he faked a concussion as the clock ticked from 30 seconds to 0 before jumping up and celebrating on the siren…
That goes double for SloMo who is all about how it looks and not what it is.
No, I firmly believe he is orchestrating this.
SloMo is Mick Trumble’s pick…..
Craig Kelly is the only bloke in Parliament worth voting for.
Canavan
Christensen
Rennick
Roberts
Our Pauline
Chandler
I’m struggling
Hey Motelier you’ll be distraught to know that in a discussion with Arkysaurus yesterday JC flounced.
(Disclaimer, i like reading JC’s stuff on finance etc)
More on the Western Sydney brothel.
Employees and clients at a western Sydney brothel have been fined $12,500 after the business continued to operate during the citywide lockdown.
Officers were called to a brothel on Monday night at Rydalmere after a call was made to Crime Stoppers about a possible breach.
Police said they spoke with the 57-year-old female owner before finding three female employees, aged 31, 36 and 56, inside.
Two male clients, aged 56 and 57, were also inside the premises, and none were wearing masks, according to police.
Police said they all denied that the business was operating, with one man claiming that he was providing a quote for paint works. The other said he was visiting his girlfriend.
Best excuse since “waiting for a mate”.
& top ‘o the page.
To be sure, to be sure.
Brucie
Brucie, it’s just a hunch and nothing else. I smell a half dead rat in this story. I think it’s not true and fake news. Has Flynn come out himself and said this was the case?
Look at this from Aussie Cossack. Disgusting harassment from Fascist Cops.
While we’re not in lockdown — yet — my local carwash now wants you to scan yourself in as you go through the auto wash.
Yeah, sure I will …
cohenite says:
August 31, 2021 at 2:50 pm
Canavan
Christensen
Rennick
Roberts
Our Pauline
Chandler
I’m struggling
I should have said, the only member in the Reps. Christensen won’t be standing next election, and all the others are Senators. I would only vote for those candidates who have criticised government policy WRT anti-viral treatments, apart from Roberts, I’d boot the rest.
he’s the right wing terrorists they’ve been looking for!
Disgusting (and surely illegal) use of a firearms prohibition order so they can randomly stop and search
“cohenitesays:
August 31, 2021 at 2:50 pm”
You did forget one…he’s quite impressive…
Senator Alex Antic from South Australia.
Oh and Nicolle Flint..but she’s going. And Eric Abetz is still okay.
Jaysus… check this out: https://www.armstronglegal.com.au/criminal-law/nsw/police-powers-2/firearm-prohibition-order/
Firstly.
then..
You want social distancing. This is Taliban social distancing.
Our politicians have been asleep at the beach or else complicit in allowing all these powers eh duncanm
You want social distancing. This is Taliban social distancing.
That guy is hanging by his neck; makes a change from just chucking the poor bastards out I guess.
Nothing will change until the left in the US, here and elsewhere in the West are subject to the consequences of their policies (whims, ego brain-farts) as other people are. Only then do the left do something about them and only because they are affected.
All is forgiven.
the latter. No doubt they were slipped in under some flimsy pretence like sorting out the bikie gangs.
I don’t that much about Military equipment. Would the hardware the US left behind require heavy-duty maintenance or is the stuff like a new Beamer..Bring it in for the the first service at 25,000K? Anyone know like if a military chopper is maintenance intense?
Let’s hope Australian politicians are taking note. Re-election and polling is the only thing that seems to “fire them into action”.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/30/poll-canadas-trudeau-losing-ground-ahead-september-election/
JC, I’d be much more worried about them flogging it off to the Iranians, Russians and Chinese.
It’s a veritable goldmine of technological know-how if you have the expertise to pull it apart and see how it all works.
Well I didn’t know that.
Bitcoin, which Mr Yew describes as a “digital commodity”, had huge growth potential even though only 21 million Bitcoin tokens will ever be created. “It is still only a $600bn market as opposed to gold which is $10 trillion,” he said.
Yew is a 27-y-o fund manager attempting to build it to $10 billion.
Fuck spending decades and billions of dollars on R&D.
Just copy it and improve on it.
Arma
Departure was planned during Trump’s term. Surely there was a strategy to conceal the shit they were leaving behind, no? Conceal in the sense of ensuring important secret technology wasn’t going to fall in the wrong hands. They aren’t stupid.
The evidence so far seems to indicate they are mind boggling stupid.
Thanks for this, it’s always good to have another mob to name when online propagandists try to mock away the fact of Govt Propaganda Units –
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2021/08/28/open-thread-weekend-28-aug-2021/comment-page-7/#comment-7223
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From Nilk’s Cat – “Perfidious Albino — Today at 14:46
Interesting. The VIC Nudge team did a project for Brett Sutton on improving take up of the HPV vaccine – essentially getting schools to share student names and parent contact info so they can be ‘nudged’. Also notes that the Vic unit works closely with the UK team (presumably the one based in Sydney) and a behavioural unit at Monash uni.”
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My daughter rang me from Uni when they first started pushing the HPV, especially to those young adults who were residents, immersed in the Pro-HPV propaganda & away from their families.
It was the sleazy way they were pushing it that made her baulk & not have it.
Again she’s been glad she did, as yet again she didn’t suffer any of the fresh new health hells her contemporaries have.
What else. No haircut in 2 months. We want us all to look like Phyllis Diller. Back to the caves for us.
Colonel Sanders has more credibility for protecting secrets than the US military.
JC at 3:53.
A Blackhawk is basically a truck and not very complex.
I don’t know how many have been left, but they will just pillage spares of any that are already a bit damaged to keep a smaller fleet flying.
Remember, they won’t be using them against a sophisticated enemy and they won’t have to worry about being accused of warcrimes by the Taliban Telly broadcaster.
They can set them up as gunships or even crude bombers and wreak havoc.
Armadillosays:
August 31, 2021 at 4:03 pm
Fuck spending decades and billions of dollars on R&D.
Just copy it and improve on it.
Doesn’t always work. IIRC, the US tried to copy the MG-42 during WW II, but the translation from metric to Imperial dimensions didn’t work.
In a year non will be flying. Lots will have crashed.
JC says:Anyone know like if a military chopper is maintenance intense?
Depends how safe you want to be. Military aircraft maintained to degree of excellence are very rigorously looked after. But if you just want to keep ’em going then most are pretty tough.
Having said that there is a lot on an aircraft which can go wrong. A lot more than a car. It’s not just the engine(s); it’s the control surfaces, avionics, weapons systems and so on. The latter stuff tends to be annoying in that missiles and bombs need maintaining and if they don’t get it they won’t launch or release or go bang at the right time.
Our friends up north are classic examples. Anyone going to sea in most of the SE Asian navies is taking a lot more risk than if they go to sea with the Aussies, Singaporeans, Japanese – and that’s about it round here.
Are you sure they won’t have a war-crimes tribunal? I thought they were super zealous with this sort of thing evidenced with the dude hanging by his neck from the flying chopper.
Whoops
[insert smiley face with tear drop]
Apparently the US left over 100 blackhawks behind. They also left behind:
-A-29 Super Tucano
-ScanEagle mini military drone
-A MD-530F helicopter
-Mine-resistant vehicles (MRAPs
-Many humvees
-M24 Sniper Weapon System
-M18 assault weapons
-M4 Carbines
-Shitload of 40 mm high explosive grenades
-Their dignity
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/its-hard-to-exaggerate-how-dangerously-bad-us-president-joe-biden-is/
And bolta doesn’t.
The talifucks will empower every muslim bastard in the world; see here for this and other delights:
Afghanistan: Taliban to ban music, as ‘Music is forbidden in Islam’
“This is a campaign.”, it’s also evil and also why so many around the world were banned, cancelled, throttled, kettled, and generally packed attacked by those tasked with pushing through acceptance of the various components of ‘The Great Reset’.
Many saw & forewarned how groups such as Common Purpose, their spin offs & foundational groups work to get free people to give up their freedoms to the same people who run Death Panels & kill ‘bothersome’ people, with the full support of the majority, e.g. the NHS & Medicare criminalising treatments that could save lives & that free people are willing to pay for themselves.
Enjoy, Duncan!
It’s a slim read but he packs a lot in their – he was a professor of rhetoric, after all! If you got the modern edition you should get a good intro by Roger Kimball as well.
It is, as they used to say, one of the seminal books of 20th C. conservatism.
That whole Southern agrarian literary movement is worth checking out as well.
*there
My spelling has been atrocious today. I must be losing my mind.
Lysander says:
August 31, 2021 at 4:21 pm
Apparently the US left over 100 blackhawks behind. They also left behind:
-A-29 Super Tucano
-ScanEagle mini military drone
-A MD-530F helicopter
-Mine-resistant vehicles (MRAPs
-Many humvees
-M24 Sniper Weapon System
-M18 assault weapons
-M4 Carbines
-Shitload of 40 mm high explosive grenades
-Their dignity
… and pallets of cash, several million dollars according to some reports.
old bloke, it sounds like your letters are being handled by a staffer and not Hastie himself.
Thius is one of the problems with our democracy – the insulation of members from their electors.
Of course, a member can’t personally respond to every letter, but they need to be more accessible to their electorate.
The British practice of a regular “surgery” where any member of the public can front up and speak to their representative face to face would be a highly desirable reform to that end.
And we’ve essentially banned smoking – even outside.
send in Kevin Bacon!
I have toyed with the idea of setting up Honest Alis 2nd hand Hummer parts dealership in the tribal lands of Pakistan and coining it as bits drop off the Yank stuff.
But fear of my life is preventing it.
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… and the day before yesterday when Sinc was banning those who dared mention the massive role that ‘Medical Professionals’ would play in bringing the world under a totalitarian dictatorship, ‘for our own good’.
After all, you could only yell, ‘Conspiracy Nut!’, so often before others noticed those doing that yelling were also ‘justifying’ things like the Death Panels, that the banned were warning of … and here we are …
Several million bucks is sweet FA in the scheme of things. It wouldn’t be enough to pay wages to the Talibans security detail for more than a few months.
Armadillo says:
August 31, 2021 at 4:50 pm
Several million bucks is sweet FA in the scheme of things.
Pallet loads of cash – probably $US100’s. Shrinkwrapped.
Try several billion……. bit like Obummers Iranian “deal”.
Tell the birds not to sing then.
You’re too slow Mole.
Taliban Opens Chain Of U.S. Army Surplus Stores (25 Aug)
Police hurt, more than 100 arrested and 430 fined at anti-lockdown protests
This whole COVID/lockdown situation reminds me of the convoy driving around in Black Hawk Down.
All the state premiers are the skinnies popping up with AK’s & RPG’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9p7oq58xqQ