Great blog Dover. Thanks again.

Oh. And have a cocktail…and a little snack on a stick.

Mind you use the coasters.

Thanks, Dover. I’m off to the footy (on TV).

Muddy!
(Commenter of substance).

I really like the little up-tick buttons for agreement, approval and recognition of someone’s general substance of the blog ‘s substance.

Note, nothing to do with substance abuse! We can’t have that. Although some will.

Alcohol, of course, is a food and a libation of pleasure and joy through the ages. Quite different.

Crossie says:
September 3, 2021 at 6:31 pm

… all those people who couldn’t go to funerals of loved ones and friends, see then in hospital or provide comfort in their dying days.

The above is perhaps the aspect of the last 18 months that still singes my perception of our society the most. I’ve been lucky to have retained my job, so I can still afford Aldi cat food for myself, and fresh salmon for my dog, but the denial by state decree of comfort, compassion, and company to those who needed it the most, is still something I struggle to comprehend. Even ‘surreal’ does not adequately describe it.

I try to resist the temptation of hyperbole as often as possible, but these figureheads of ours truly are otherworldly monsters, in the sense that they seem to be devoid of the moral anchors that most humans – all of us flawed of course – possess to ground them.

I’m hitting the whiskey bottle. Hard.

Not much else on the horizon.

this is hilarious. Calling Phil McCracken…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVMAKoSnnJY&t=75s

(from Insta)

I don’t normally do twatter, but that Evelyn Rae link that Dover has retweeted (see upper right of the page) has some interesting posts.

It was hilarious nonetheless.

‘Eileen Dover’. No relation to anyone on here I hope.

Dag nammit…posted on old open forum thread.

What a smug woman.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/welcome-to-my-nightmare-one-gp-s-adventures-with-anti-vaxxers-and-their-infodemic-20210902-p58o2g.html

So she intentionally brings up the dumbest arguments against vaccination and then expects other educated people who don’t agree with her to just shut up?

Despicable.

How does she explain away any of the insane nonsense Fauci has spouted such as wearing multiple face masks or booster shots every five months after shots 1 & 2; let alone degrading crap like anal swabbing in China?

It is perfectly reasonable to demand a traditional attenuated virus vaccine with an efficacy rate that actually makes herd immunity attainable.

Brought to you by Peter Costello.

Crossiesays:
September 3, 2021 at 8:11 pm
Interestingly, if we follow israel’s time line, there’s a good chance the demand for third jabs will coincide more or less with the federal election.

Areff, and just in time for the voters to give ScoMo’s government the metaphorical baseball bat treatment.

Yep, that is in part why I posted that article on Israel a few days ago. The problem though is that most disaffected conservatives will vote for minor parties that distribute preferences to the coalition so they will still win.

Geelong v Greater Western Sydney Mancravers tonight.

A dilemma. A conundrum, if you will.

One’s a bought-up collection of off cuts and triallers who should have a home ground in Alice Springs, if at all.

But then – Geelong. Which is – Geelong.

This entire situation is made worse because Steve Johnson’s involved with both clubs.

Rogersays:
September 3, 2021 at 7:56 pm
Also have a bookmark in the first vol of the account of the AIF fighting against the Japanese, but that is a bit too real and painful for me to want to get back into just yet.

The greatest generation.

Check if the War Diaries of his unit are on-line at the AWM website. They cover (in varying detail) the day to day activities of each unit. They have been digitising them for some years now, starting with combat arms units. I’m not cure how far they have got, but you might be lucky.

Muddysays:
September 3, 2021 at 9:46 pm
Check if the War Diaries of his unit are on-line at the AWM website. They cover (in varying detail) the day to day activities of each unit.

I missed the first part of this conversation. What unit are we looking for?

Roger’s grandfather, unit not specified. I was offering general advice. Roger got a bit from his records, but they don’t cover detailed unit activities.

Thanks, Boambee John.
Yes, the AWM has been doing a great job digitising the war diaries, and have recently uploaded those of many of the larger artillery and engineer units. The infantry battalions, brigades, independent companies, and numerous division, corps and force units have been available for some time. It’s easy to spend hours reading them.

WWII Australian Army unit war diaries.

The RAAF and RAN units/vessels and ships, had differing administrative requirements, but some of the latter are also available at the same source.

WWII RAN Reports of Proceedings.

I regret the bolding was only meant for the first paragraph above.

*My biggest problem is that nobody defines their terms with any precision. What does he mean by saying ‘Money supply is tight’? That it is expensive/ difficult to get your hands on someone else’s cash? Credit? Does it depend on who you are? Is it just high interest rates? Sumner seems to change his definitions whenever he feels like it. It’s just so utterly scruffy I can’t see much point in taking him seriously.

That holds for nearly all of economics. I’m used to people who have a better idea of what they’re talking about.*

Terms are defined precisely in any good analysis. The phenomenon and variables are ephemeral because you are dealing with human psychology interacting with physical processes that are deterministic but with variability. The monetary system involves a relationship that is causal in at least two ways.

Credit and money are not the same thing. Money can be tight without high rates, although atypical or only acute.

The unexpected change on the inflationary environment can be crippling for bank asset-liability management, let alone liquidity management. It has been at the core of three crises in the last 100 years (Great Depression, S&L crisis and the GFC/Great Recession).

The Mocker in The Oz has started a series of hit pieces against anti-vaxers.
He starts with a clear distinction between anti-vaxers and the vaccine hesitant.
Some time ago he conflated the two and vax hesitant got a roasting from him.
Perhaps it’s the comments that followed, but now he reserves his vitriol for the more extreme activists.
I normally enjoy his work, but he seems to be extreme himself in this crusade.

Excellent.

Ranga extraordinaire Jonny Bairstow gets trapped in front. LBW. Reviews it. The umpire’s got it right and Bairstow has to go.

But it’s not over. Vision of him on the balcony looking cranky and pointing down somewhere in the crowd. Turns out he reckons there was ‘movement’ behind the bowler’s arm at the point of delivery that distracted him.

Rangas. It’s always someone else’s fault.

What would you do if you had worked for 25yrs establishing half dozen restaurants (three of which are in the Sydney CBD) and find that because you are in a ‘areas of concern’ postcode that you must now have a vaccine, against your will, if you need to visit any of these restaurants, three of which are still operating for takeaways at a loss?

Israel fighting record breaking surge in Covid-19 cases despite high levels of vaccination

I don’t think that is really true at all, monetary economics is conceptually confusing.

Consider the notion of a trade. It requires a prior idea to make it precise, viz that of ownership. You might like to define it clearly before getting started on anything complicated. Bear in mind that a) human beings at an early age have a sophisticated sense of possession, my teddy bear, and b) you don’t have to own something to be able to control its use. It’s obviously a relationship between an agent of some sort and some other entity. Would you care to give some sort of definition?

If you can’t, it’s hard to see how to define a trade, which makes catallactics rather obscure.

My response to P above was not intended jokingly.
We are in a fight for influence, and if the parasitic media discerns a benefit to them from a story that has been trending on social media, they will try to milk it. Our Ladies & Lords of Fire require the oxygen of parasitic media approval as much as a pyromaniac requires that point of ignition.

The Mocker in The Oz has started a series of hit pieces against anti-vaxers.

It wasn’t The Mocker who wrote this, it’s Jack the Insider.

P says:
September 3, 2021 at 10:38 pm
From Monday 6 September 2021, in order to work outside a local government area of concern, authorised workers must have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

In NSW those who work outside their ‘local government area of concern’ have no choice available to them. Unless they receive the vax by Monday they they will lose their livelihoods, and in many cases their businesses and the hundreds of workers employed by them will be without work.
Fact.

P, I’ve been seething angry since Morrison first mouthed that vile phrase about “making it as mandatory as humanly possible” (I probably have that slightly misquoted there, but we all heard the intent).

For any of these mongrels to just up and tell people that if they want to work, or operate a business or employ anyone within/working outside these supposed LGAs of concern (don’t you just love their labelling?) that they HAVE TO get the jab, presumably even against any medical advice, ethical or religious taboos they may have, is outright blackmail, standover tactics and very arguably outright illegal.

If they’re doing it in these areas, you know they will soon enough be doing it everywhere.

I hold that these governments and their CHO/CMOs etc are acting as terrorists, literally holding us hostage, and making unreasonable physical demands of us that we ought not to have to obey (demanding we subject ourselves to a medical procedure), withholding natural rights for as long as we refuse to surrender to their demands.

“If you want your job, or go to the footy, a concert, shopping etc., you must have this experimental medical procedure, and you must be able to prove you have had it, and you must produce that proof whenever we, the police/ADF/covid marshalls/Stasi/whoever demands that you do so.”

Their ultimatum is acquiesce or suffer. And the likes of Andrews and Hazzard and the rest of them will sneer and smirk while you suffer.

From the back blocks Cat, mh’s comment in inverted commas and mine below but wow o wow what the hell is going on in the Nat’s:

“‘Barnaby Joyce has nominated a rail line extension in Queensland as a potential deal maker for the Nationals to support the federal government on net zero.’”

Cardi honestly WTF is going with Barnaby? This has the stench of the Wagners again all over it. There’s much better need of that money elsewhere…

John Spooner.

Mark Knight #2.

Warren Brown #2.

Peter Brookes.

A.F. Branco.

Ben Garrison.

Dilbert

Thanks for the toons, Tom.

Is it just me, or is there nothing around anymore to laugh at? The world has turned grey and drear.

28mm since midnight, lots more on the way.

JC, are your kids in NY?
Ask them if they’ve heard of MealPal.
You order your lunch the day before from some of the best places in town 8-9 bucks, instead of 20.
Take out obviously.

Bern – “Take out”? Does any Australian use that expression? It’s always ‘take away’ except for the US fast food chains.

“If you want your job, or go to the footy, a concert, shopping etc., you must have this experimental medical procedure, and you must be able to prove you have had it, and you must produce that proof whenever we, the police/ADF/covid marshalls/Stasi/whoever demands that you do so.”

I mentioned this the other day but there is a massive flaw in this stupid plan. I’m inclined to let them go along with it. It’s clear, from the data coming out of Israel and Iceland, that even with a highly vaccinated population the virus is still running rampant.
What is the position of these mediocre dimwitted morons if having freed only the vaccinated, the virus continues on its merry way? I can’t wait to find out how they twist the unforeseen consequences so it becomes the fault of the non-vaccinated.

And incidentally, just how will they cover the gaping employment holes if people quit rather than comply?

Incapable, every single one of them, of looking further than the next popularity poll.

Some grub who Ms Bartel sent nudes to has now sent them everywhere.
That’s what I was referring to, not the cocaine/instagram thing.

Bern, I got it, just being obtuse, sorry.

Have you eaten a lobster roll at Lukes JC?
It’s the top of the list when I’m in NY.
Maine lobster roll, foot long, 17 bucks…or 9 bucks on MealPlan lol.
Lukes has their lobster roll as they MealPlan option each Friday for the last month.
Meaning they’re just moving inventory before the weekend.

Okay. Enough wallowing.

I found a photo of Knuckles. Tell me I’m wrong.

*taps foot*

I reckon a bunch of WAGs would be grinning the most out of all this.

Absolutely. The standard thought process of wagus australiis is along the lines of ‘you think you’re prettier than me?’

Brooke Cotchin won the influence stakes jackpot when she got her hub accommodation renovated at the AFL’s expense in Queensland last year, which rendered her invulnerable to the usual death matches between WAGs. It’s all smiles at the front, but knives at the back.

It wouldn’t surprise me one bit to find that there was a third party taking that footage, who ‘accidentally’ uploaded Coppolino/Bartel having nose beers onto the web via her mate’s phone.

Thanks Tom
The Ramirez was brilliant.
Kamala’s helmet is a classic.

JC, it’s looks like a way for restaurants to manage inventory.
[…]
It’s made for NY.
I don’t even think it would work in Sydney post lockdowns.

It is indeed about managing inventory – and prep and cash flow.

There are a number of decent Brisbane restaurants that have doing something similar.

Kylie Lang in the Courier Mail, apropos of what should be Pallashay’s final days in the job:

As if Annastacia Palaszczuk’s snap decision to ban Queenslanders coming home wasn’t staggering enough, this week she lost us. Completely.

And no lame late apology will change that.

When the Premier allowed NRL players’ wives, girlfriends and kids into the state on Monday from Covid-ravaged Sydney, while callously shutting out ordinary folk who’ve followed all the rules, she showed the true extent of her out-of-touch and arrogant leadership.

Queenslanders were already fed up with double standards and special favours for people who happen to play a lucrative sport or whose surnames are Hanks or Minogue.

But for her to usher in 100 loved ones (and officials) of footballers while other families are traumatised by forced separation due to a shock pause on relocations from NSW, Victoria and the ACT was disgraceful.

Certainly was, and is. Also, in relation to Palla’s ‘2000 deaths’ shrieking:

Back-pedalling on arguably her worst call during this pandemic, she said four days after the fact, on Friday, that “it shouldn’t have happened”.

You think?

Could it be that the Premier is finally heeding insider advice that insulting the Queensland public while pandering to celebrities isn’t the smartest political ploy?

In a Courier-Mail poll asking “Should the NRL WAGS have been allowed into Queensland?” a resounding 96 per cent of readers said no.

Ms Palaszczuk has maintained, when it suits her, that she is acting on the advice of Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young.

However, as Premier, the buck stops with her.

Indeed, a rattled Dr Young said she wasn’t even aware of the highly publicised plight of parents to be reunited with their three-year-old son, until weeks after the Fraser Coast family had been pleading for an exemption to have their boy home.

And then, demonstrating once again that this abysmal state of affairs is governed by polling rather than clinical advice:

After public outrage forced a response, Dr Young said on Thursday that Memphis Francis would “of course” be allowed to return from his grandparent’s property in rural NSW (a Covid-free area) where he’d been for eight weeks.

Tell me, who is paying attention to the little people while the big names swan in?

They’re doing socially distanced cocktail parties in driveways hereabouts. Folding picnic sets, eskys, snacks. Very neighbourly.

Chin, chin!

Queenslanders were already fed up with double standards and special favours for people who happen to play a lucrative sport or whose surnames are Hanks or Minogue.

I wonder why Pauline Hanson has run dead on the issue.
Bwahahaha.

Palaszczuk’s 18 man strong PR team

If you need 18 people to run your PR for you (of whom at least ten will be full time social media surfers) then you have a problem. In fact, rather a large problem.

As Dog from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels would say:

So we’ve got a bit of a problem, ain’t we? In fact, this is a bit more than a bit of a problem. I’d say it’s the Mount fucking Everest of problems! And the reason it’s such a fucking monstrosity of a problem is, *you haven’t got the first idea who did this to us, have ya?

I like him too calli.

I like him enough to print him out, laminate him and Blu-Tac him in strategic locations in the homes of friends and acquaintances, and in certain office spaces when their occupants are distracted and where they won’t be immediately found.