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While bumping along the goat tracks between Horsham, Minyip and Donald yesterday evening my ex army son turned and said…
Pretty much everyone I’ve known who was a genuine talent outside sports left Australia. The few who didn’t had ties…
Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
Thank you
Great blog Dover. Thanks again.
I identify as first. 😛
Among equals.
Oh. And have a cocktail…and a little snack on a stick.
Mind you use the coasters.
As said in The Australian today by Henry Ergas, Craig Kelly is a tide marker, that shows how far the modern liberal party has slipped from where it used to be.
No wonder Slomo & co loathe Kelly.
beer rings on your french polished buffet?
don’t blame me … youse let me in
Starting 11
Thanks, Dover. I’m off to the footy (on TV).
re NZ stabby man…
St Jacinda will not feel any blowback on this.
Another question she’ll never face is, “he was monitored at great expense, and ultimately to no avail. He’s a Sri Lankan national, entered ten years ago, obviously denied residency- why wasn’t he deported?”
Muddy!
(Commenter of substance).
Forgotten freedoms fade fast
Mercatornet
I copied this from the old thread.
All the small business operators who have and will go bankrupt are not likely to forget or forgive, nor will their families and friends.
Then think of all the poor people who couldn’t get to see their doctors and now have far worse medical problems than COVID.
Then all those parents who have been driven up the wall by having to work at home and homeschool their kids.
Then 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.
Then all those grandparents who were deprived of their grandchildren, missed out on special moments and milestones even if they were only in the next street.
Shall I continue?
Lizzie is here! I will not say commenter of substance or youse will all say I must be fat. 😀
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.
oops, that should be ‘approval’ of the blog’s substance. My keyboard has a backward-moving feature which is very annoying sometimes when you insert a word. Anyway, here’s to Dover’s blog, first drink of the evening, and a suitable toast for it.
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.
“Oh. And have a cocktail…and a little snack on a stick.”
Thanks Calli.
Four Pillars extra dry gin with Fever Tree tonic. Traditional 1:3ratio (that’s what I tell everyone)
Better than ANY vaccine.
I’m hitting the whiskey bottle. Hard.
Not much else on the horizon.
*adjusts serving wench bodice*
Coming up, sirrah!
*Rare Dry Gin.
“Sliante!”
“Wha’s there like us?
Damn few
And they’re all dead!”
this is hilarious. Calling Phil McCracken…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVMAKoSnnJY&t=75s
(from Insta)
Doc
WTF are you doing?
I gave the link on the previous comment.
Here it is. AGAIN!
https://www.amazon.com/Money-Illusion-Monetarism-Recession-Monetary/dp/022677368X
I dunno if it’s on Kindle.
Here’s a blurb about it on the Amazon page.
Doc, I can honestly tell you I spent all my adult/working life trying to figure it all all. Sumner finally helped me get it. Sumner explained Milt.
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.
All those people being of the Simpsons generation you would think they would recognise it right off and then just call out the surname. There’s speculation that it was a setup and the guy was in on it. It was hilarious nonetheless.
‘Eileen Dover’. No relation to anyone on here I hope.
Caaaarlton draught before dinner (lamb loin roast in the oven as I type)
The missus’ brother is a wine-maker and today we got a surprise care package in the post with a selection of reds where the labeling went wonky.
So central Vic Shiraz for me.
The Singleton whiskey for afters.
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.
More vomit making fare from the Sydney Morning Vomit.
Brought to you by Peter Costello.
This talk about covid passports and how we’ll be unable to live normal lives if we don’t have them.
Not to worry. Consider: you’re a restaurateur who has lost two years profits when the unanointed turn up for dinner. What you going to do? Toss out paying customers? I don’t think so.
Anyway, it will only last until we replicate Israel and we see a third wave requiring triple-jabbing. Having been led to believe that two shots are enough, the disillusionment will be total.
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.
Does anyone remember the original lockdown which was meant to just flatten the curve? The plan then was still to let the disease run through the population but at a slower pace. Then the plan changed and elimination became the goal which worked for a while.
What we have now with the current infection rate is the natural progression of a virus that hospitals seem able to handle. As in previous flu seasons the oldest and the most vulnerable are hospitalised and even die. The vaccines don’t seem to make much or any difference.
Our health experts have persuaded the governments to kill businesses, economy, spirits, rights, freedoms and all for nothing. If they did nothing the health outcome would have been the same. The kindest thing that can be said about them is that they are extraordinarily stupid.
He still bears a grudge against all Liberal voters, past and present, for not making him a PM.
Areff, and just in time for the voters to give ScoMo’s government the metaphorical baseball bat treatment.
My thought exactly, Crossie
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.
Crossie,
No. They are making a difference but that is not the point re not wanting to be forced to have them.
Singleton is quite a good drop – my after dinner’s a Glendronach.
Topper alert.
Both good drops – however mine’s a Glenmorangie D’Or
What an absolute craphole.
https://nworeport.me/2021/03/13/san-fransiscos-poop-patrol-boss-arrested-for-stealing-380k-in-taxpayer-dollars-he-didnt-do-crap/
San Fransisco’s “Poop-Patrol” Boss Arrested for Stealing $380k in Taxpayer Dollars: “He Didn’t Do Crap”
Date: March 13, 2021
Author: Nwo Report
Mohammed Nuru, the person in charge of cleaning up Pelosi’s feces-covered San Fransisco, has been arrested by the FBI.
One reason I’m peeved about this dammed virus and the ban on international travel – the Whisky trail through the Highlands was on my bucket list.
Avi’s latest
Fairly damning.
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.
there’s a nice opportunity to checkmate the third-jabbers and passport goons.
Parrot the WHO’s latest pleading for the third world – who haven’t had their first jab.
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.
Yes, there are no doubt good reasons why my grandfather would never talk about that.
I’ve since pieced together some of the history from his service record.
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.
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?
Not to mention all the people locked out of everyday life (will they still have access to food, I wonder?) because they wouldn’t be bullied into taking something harmful to their health.
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.
Sorry, Crossie, I went to give thumbs up and unfortunately hit “Report”> Was unintentional I assure you. I couldn’t agree more with what you said. Sorry.
Indeed Mr Dragger.
Broken Down Ferraris vs Sleepy Hollow.
You drift off into a daydream visualising two trainee Taliban Blackhawk pilots on a collision course above the stadium.
One laden with leaking drums of paraffin.
The other laden with gypsum.
I found it on Amazon but not kindle, JC. I have found that he’s made a career out of his opinions.
I’ve read his essay in ‘Monetary lessons from the not so great depression’ and some of the discussions on his thesis.
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.
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.
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.
I regret the bolding was only meant for the first paragraph above.
FMD. Already had two women of my acquaintance demanding to know why the NZ police didn’t just “shoot the legs out from under” the ISIS stabber.
You can’t cure stupid.
*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).
Authorised.
Approved.
Tolerated.
Acknowledged.
Categorised.
Selected.
Prioritised.
Now-normalised?
..
When our governments descend into tyranny, bucket lists should be put aside.
Yeah, they shoulda just shot the knife out of his hand.
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.
True. And there’s a lot of it about.
In the good old days, people found out that they were ignorant and stupid fairly early on and shut up. These days it is hidden from them by their teachers, lest they lose self-esteem. Consequently they have much higher self-esteem than is good for them.
I know that was in jest, but that very theme/meme raged through the press here a couple of years back when a copper shot and killed a loon who was trying to stab him. That was exactly the response!
And here’s why you shoot to centre of mass — if you get the chance!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js0haocH4-o&t=89s
Bugger! Watch it from the beginning.
Speaking from experience, though not in an armed situation, and thankfully with only minor consequences, it’s amazing how quickly an individual can traverse what initially appears to be a safe distance and be literally on top of you before your brain lets you know what is happening. An individual need not be specifically fit or athletic to do so either.
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.
Muddy, just now:
An excellent and extremely accurate observation.
As they say in the classics, +1.
When do we get to lock up these criminals determined to destroy our lives and livelihoods, never mind our freedom? This isn’t Australia any more. It’s a third world despotism.
Muddy is as usual always good value.
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?
*That holds for nearly all of economics*
I don’t think that is really true at all, monetary economics is conceptually confusing.
I can’t think of anything topic area which is comparable.
Large scale models may be relatively simple, the theory of the firm applied to international trade and oligopolistic game theory (and credit modelling/bind pricing) may be mathematically sophisticated; but imprecise definitions?
Not that I can remember. Only artefacts like metric definitions like CPI basing or unemployment – but not concepts like derived demand or the price effect or income effect – or even national income or exchange rates. With respect to the macroeconomic variables, better or more in depth measures exist; (gross domestic revenue or real effective exchange rates) but they simply measure additional objective information – the definitions do not change. Subjective valuation likewise does not change definitions.
Furthermore, choice analysis (statistical method) can even torture stated preference data enough to come close to true revealed preference data.
This is no time for bucket lists, my good man.
If you are reasonably mobile, try this with a shoot-for-the-legs idiot: Ask them to stand, or sit in a chair, outside, and place a small table to one side of them. Put a jar of something (it doesn’t matter what) on the side table, and tell them you want to time how long it takes them to grab for and open the jar. Without explaining why, step away roughly ten metres. Pretend to start a stopwatch, and as you say ‘go’ run (if you can) or briskly stride toward them. I’d bet that with most people, they would only just be taking the lid off the jar before I was standing on their feet. The brain takes a bit to realise that something unexpected has happened.
The Sweet Blockbuster
SUE
Israel fighting record breaking surge in Covid-19 cases despite high levels of vaccination
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.
P says:
September 3, 2021 at 11:10 pm
What would you do…
I’d be writing a script for a home-made documentary.
(In between trying to tame a series of violent thoughts).
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.
You’ve defined agency Dr BG.
There really is no problem. Agents can trade on behalf of their principals.
bucket of whisky … i don’t think so
You have missed the point magnificently, dot. Kindly define a) agent b) ownership c) trade.
It wasn’t The Mocker who wrote this, it’s Jack the Insider.
Just watched the live stream of Biden’s response to the budget figures.
The guy might as well be Bernie Sanders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVHDK7J_Hn4
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.
Bugger, another word wall! My apologies. Time for bed…..
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…
It’s hard to tell if Joe Biden is deliberately lying or if lying is the same as truth for him. But, here we go again:
I posted it here because that way Cassie would see it.
What a champ Biden is. Still, secular and even some observant Jews in the US will continue to support him, unfortunately.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Warren Brown.
Warren Brown #2.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Chip Bok.
Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
Thank you Tom. Some good ones this morning. Oh goodie curfew is over for the night in 20 minutes.
Cassie 8.06pm. Extraordinarily stupid , the definition of a Quack doctor.
Well, I “met” him on the web about 15 years ago. Yes, he’s quite opinionated. Just ignore the bullshit he goes on about with Trump etc, which is what I do.
Okay
You know math like answers? You want precision, but you’re not going to get that in economics. At least not at this point in humanity’s advancement. What you’re looking for is some precise way to measure things like that. You can’t but you can go second best by using markers like.
1. The shape of the yield curve
2. Market reaction after central bank announcements
3. Movement in the shape of the yield curve after announcements or lack of anticipated announcements.
4. Outright movement in bond yields.
Financial markets are great for judging reactions to policy.
By definition, credit availability always depends on who people are. But for that sort of thing we look at aggregates. Aggregates will inform you if credit is tight or even quite loose.
No, it’s not “interest rates” in the way you think. It’s monetary policy.
Doc, if you’re looking for answers like equations, you’ll never be satisfied.
Go backwards. This is a story about a sexual predator, who hopefully has reached the end of the line and won’t spend any part of the rest of his life outside jail. He’s being investigated for a string of assaults and murders. Two of the murders were tangled up with Millat as they occurred in the same area where they both were at the time.
This piece of human garbage is in jail awaiting trail. He was a superintendent of a very large apartment complex in QLD. Look at what he’s now doing.
He’s thinks he was unfairly dismissed from his present job.
Our present employment laws would protect a murderer and sexual predator from losing his job, but for a technicality. FMD
Story is here.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/hotel-highflyer-warren-mccorriston-did-he-resort-to-murder/news-story/7788e133b6a24002cd574f8ed6635ba1
Dilbert
Dilbert 2
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.
Bother. Went over to the Bee and there’s nothing funny there either. The whole world’s gone Soviet.
28mm since midnight, lots more on the way.
28mm since midnight, lots more on the way.
Phrasing.
Calli.
Dash-Cat is quite amusing (in it’s own way).
But don’t binge watch.
Okay. Enough wallowing.
I found a photo of Knuckles. Tell me I’m wrong.
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.
How long before Ms Bartel claims she was hacked?
If you do a search for “laughter” in The Gulag Archipelago, the first three hits bring up “Slaughter“.
I think there’s something in that for everyone.
Is it my imagination but have c o v id rates increased as jab rates increase?
Also, anyone know the expiry dates of these jab juice batches we have in Victoriastan? Perhaps that explains dan andrews hysteria.
Is that what they’re calling it now?
Gawd, I can hardly keep up during lockdown. It must be all the drugs, and the fact that I’m nearly constantly…’hacked’?
She has already issued a boilerplate apology.
Promises to “make better choices”.
(Probably means buying better quality coke).
Interesting that there were no threats to “throw the book” at her over Kung Flu breaches, because lotsa Insta followers.
The “friendship” with the chick who “accidentally” uploaded the vid might be a bit tense right now.
Bern
I will, but this one is a 100% food nazi. She wouldn’t dare put any food in her mouth unless she saw it planted, grown and then cooked. 🙂
Watching her order food in a restaurant is an experience as she asks if they can add this or remove that from the dish.
feelthebern – At St Joes in Pascoe Vale we had an old Christian Brother, he joined when he was 13 in Ireland, spent the rest of his life in Australia, miserable old sod but had some good points. When some wag would draw a double meaning from an innocent expression, he would say “honi soit qui mal y pense”, in a sneering aggressive way, “that means boys” he would thunder “your own dirty mind supplies the filth!”.
He last saw his mother when he was 15,spent the rest of his life, teaching ungrateful boys Latin and other useful subjects and died here quite old, never having seen his family again. His life’s work has since been disregarded due to the homosexual assaults by a minority of his Christian Brother colleagues, including one who was principal at St Joes while I was there. Life’s sad and now it’s getting sadder for all of us.
Bern – “Take out”? Does any Australian use that expression? It’s always ‘take away’ except for the US fast food chains.
Just a Archer gag sfw.
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.
JC, it’s looks like a way for restaurants to manage inventory.
You have to order the evening before for your lunch pick up the next day.
Most restaurants have just one option for the next day.
Meaning anything they are getting backed up on, they make it the MealPal option.
It’s made for NY.
I don’t even think it would work in Sydney post lockdowns.
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.
Hard to work up any sympathy. Grub vs. Grub.
Bern, I got it, just being obtuse, sorry.
Never apologise.
Always escalate.
Bern, my kid was telling me that during the evening of this extreme global warming weather event ( for Stepford)… In other words it was raining like hell… the only thing you saw in the street and aves were food delivery people. 🙂
After Ms Bartel has spent the last however long saying she was so wronged by her ex & the media built this fake strong woman profile around her, boom, in a few days it’s gone.
I reckon a bunch of WAGs would be grinning the most out of all this.
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.
Wow.
Anyone buying anything from overseas that uses DHL or Fedex is about to see freight charges have a big step up.
Is that factored into CPI @sarc.
No I haven’t, Bern. Maine Lobster is my favorite food. The taste is incomparable. I’ll have to try a Lukes Lobster roll when I’m next – in 2048.
FMD, where is the ACCC?
How can DHL & Fedex in the space of a few days both put through mammoth increases they charge merchants that deliver to Oz.
NZ must literally be on the cusp of being cut off from global freight if this is what’s happening to Oz.
Oh.
Stunning and brave.
So she might have to, like, get a real job now?
Jimmy might revisit the Family Court given that the child support is going up her nose.
I bought some polos and summer crap from Saks at a big discount. First time I’ve seen it, they actually used US Postal Service and Australia Post. It took like ages. Now I know they went that route.
Some of these American retailers are using a website/logistics firm called Borderfree. Borderfree is the most disgraceful organization that’s ever been conceived. No doubt, it will IPO and obtain a market cap it US$50 Billion. It border on being a fraud.
*taps foot*
That is the exact expression, calli. That precise expression.
Plus, that perceptive man has the hair of a Dilbert character.
Let me say this, if the rumors about the Hunchback were true about the reason he wrecked his back. If they’re true….. it will eventually get out if they’re true and MSM blocked the story from getting out, there ought to be hell to pay for every journalist and news organization in Australia.
Fedex has its own planes that fly into Oz.
So it’s not like anything has changed for them like it has for other guys who used to use the empty space in passenger jets.
Pure profiteering.
Dunno if DHL has its own planes flying to Oz.
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.
Let NZ stabby man be a lesson for those in Aus who object to terrorist types being deported.
It won’t be, of course.
Thanks Tom
The Ramirez was brilliant.
Kamala’s helmet is a classic.
As the Talidan fascist pig state pigs try to stop people socialising, put the entire state under night-time curfew and ban visitors at private homes, I’ve noticed that the footpath area outside coffee joints has become a de facto neighborhood meeting place – the new face of civil disobedience (under a state-ordered compliance mask).
It is indeed about managing inventory – and prep and cash flow.
There are a number of decent Brisbane restaurants that have doing something similar.
9 out of 10 in the oz quiz today.
Who knew there were going to be 18 AFLW teams next year.
I thought there were only 16 AFL teams.
Palaszczuk’s 18 man strong PR team – mostly former journalists – have used their contacts to get this story into the Courier-Mail today:
‘Premier reveals romance with ‘gorgeous’ new man’
The polling must be pretty dismal.
Coincidences abound Tom.
Amazing the number of people I see out for a walk who just happen to bump into someone they know.
You can expect Dan to announce a prohibition on chance meetings.
Kylie Lang in the Courier Mail, apropos of what should be Pallashay’s final days in the job:
Certainly was, and is. Also, in relation to Palla’s ‘2000 deaths’ shrieking:
And then, demonstrating once again that this abysmal state of affairs is governed by polling rather than clinical advice:
‘Premier reveals romance with ‘gorgeous’ new man’
Eww. I just through up in my mouth a little bit.
They’re doing socially distanced cocktail parties in driveways hereabouts. Folding picnic sets, eskys, snacks. Very neighbourly.
Chin, chin!
Tom
I think Andrew’s has become unhinged.
His latest threats of mandating jabs for the 3-4% that won’t comply brings on the possibility of police dragging people from their homes or setting up blockades at individual addresses until the offenders agree to comply.
These are not the statements of a person in full possession of their faculties.
Andrew’s big danger will come from Sutton losing his nerve and realising that people like Mikakos will not forgive and forget his unethical signing of blank cheques for a premier acting outside common human decency.
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.
Russell Brand must read the DoverCat & make videos based off the content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umQNuklLXe8
Since 9/11 hundreds of FBI sting operations have framed nearly 1,000 people prosecuted for terrorism who never came close to committing an act of violence.
There’s always old Norman Wisdom films.
Saw that. Coincidentally, Gulag Glad has a relatively new squeeze too.
No wonder these women don’t give a rat’s about others, particularly the next generation. It’s not as if they’ll produce anything that has a future.
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:
There’s another, worse, possibility.
He is in full possession of his faculties.
Mr Dragger at 8:19.
Re Ms Cotchin.
One of the AFL insurance sponsors (AAMI?) runs emergency assist adverts featuring AFL “stars”.
Mr Cotchin is in one where he is trapped in a newly renovated bathroom after the door handle comes off and a pipe bursts.
Someone in advertising world has a warped sense of humour.
And, yes, there is a close to zero chance the video upload was accidental.
#stunningandbrave
I liked that Live, Laugh, Love guy Knuckles.
You can see he’s scoping for the exit, while betraying…nothing. 😀
It’s Arthur Schopenhauer if I’m not mistaken.
The original grumpy old man.
Got to hand it to Carpe. He’s a trooper. And a trouper. And super.
I seem to recall Sinc limiting a notorious thread-bomber to a post a day. An excellent training strategy while still maintaining FOS. Like rationing the Kinder Surprises for the two year old.
It goes against all the medical knowledge we were taught. It is also illogical but they keep insisting that the vaccine makes the attack milder. How do they know that? Where is their data?
The only thing they have is you must believe Science with a capital S.
Psays:
September 3, 2021 at 11:10 pm
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?
At some stage, someone is going to “Go Postal” on one or more of our rulers, and they will all be shocked. Commentators will pontificate endlessly about the “breakdown of society”, and none of them will see what should be s plain as the noses on their collective Pinnochio faces.
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.
Where is their data?
Data is violence.
But Calli they will protect our children even if it kills them, the children that is.
Well, in a way, I would argue that Memphis is a “big name”.
Got a lot of publicity in the last week or so and it ends with the media and pollies patting themselves on the back for engineering the fully televised tearful reunion.
Meanwhile, hundreds of others who don’t have the ear of Ray Hadley or Neil Mitchell are stuck with it.
Rates will increase with increased testing. Also cycling can be tweaked if so inclined.
Vaccinated people may decline to be tested, thinking they’re all right jack. Still picking up and shedding virus though, cf. Israel.
They’re all flogging a dead horse and hoping for a miracle. The only miracle to my mind is that they realise it. Fat chance because pride and $$$.
The barrasite representing BRS in the latter’s defamation action. My sister had the misfortune to encounter the pair of them when she was out house hunting about two months ago.
We’ve been blessed with some truly disgusting despicable dirtbags as premiers here in NSW – the list seems interminable – Wran, Greiner, Fahey, Boob Carr, the Blacktown garbologist, Morrie Enema, that despicable yank loser slag, Greyhound Baird.
Yet Beryl Gladyschlocklian streets the field by the size of the universe as we (don’t) know it.
Quite an achievement and not in a good way.
In That’s Not a Target, This is a Target news :
Dr Jeanette Young on reopening the Queensland borders.
Conveniently there is no approved vaccine or dosage for children under 12 – and the likely approval timeline stretches out to mid-2022.
And even this date assumes that the pacesetter, the FDA, gets over the hurdle of the negligible rate of Covid complications in children/infants vs the small but real risk of vaccine injury.
Unashamed stupidity on parade.
Meeting for walks is all the rage in my neck of the woods, even driving to a point, parking and then walking on.
There’s a lot of exercising and dog walking going on.
By “going postal”, you mean Arthur Caldwell at Mosman Town Hall “postal”?
Hope not.
And that was the free and easy swinging sixties, in a ‘burb where most people went to church on Sundays.
What a champ Biden is. Still, secular and even some observant Jews in the US will continue to support him, unfortunately.
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This is absolutely typical of Biden, the real Biden. It’s something he’s done throughout his life. Just look up his speeches about his educational qualifications and successes.
Simply a born liar.
Keith de Lacy is described as a Queensland Labor stalwart.
He’s got a piece I scanned past in the Courier-Mail in which he lambasts the Labor Party as being subject to ‘overreach’, and as hijacked by progressive causes that have eaten it hollow from the inside.
One of his sentences towards the end caught my eye, because it succinctly describes my entire position on this stupid, stupid covid arrangement:
Roger
Even if I’m wrong, the angle of attack on Andrew’s behaviour as a mental health problem would really bite.
He had a bad fall, probably on strong painkillers and is increasingly showing obsessive traits.
Marching and yelling at him won’t help, he needs to be undermined like all past ALP leaders.
BTW, who voted for you, you hideously ugly and staggeringly stupid hitlerist slag?
These imbeciles are unashamedly evil and being allowed to exist in plain sight, laying waste to tens of millions of peoples’ lives across this continent.
For how much longer are we going to let them get away with it?
Thorpedo is saying in the Tele today how much he’d love to be a father. Maybe he could get together with a Premier. I recommend a female one though, Thorpy, as biology hasn’t been repealed.
Yes, well…this is the woman who believes the $400m movie industry is critical to Queensland’s economy whilst she hobbles the $8b tourism sector.
Kim Beazley Sr. beat him to it by 50 years with his lament that the ALP was being taken over by middle class perverts.
Bushkidsays:
September 4, 2021 at 1:10 am
Excellent post, Bushkid. Precisely reflects my view, and that of many others.
Oops – left out another unmemorable nonentity who was a premier in NSW – Barry Unsworth.
Joan Kirner’s most notable achievement was being described as “Barry Unsworth in a dress”.
Penny wise, pound foolish or just foolish. Idiotic is a more exact description .
Quick look at her bio – emergency doctor because “short attention span”, went into “medical management” for the admirable reason that she couldn’t access childcare. Yes, really.
A medical bureaucrat basically all her working life.
Another mediocrity holding the reins of power over her betters.
I’m starting to like this de Lacy chap even more:
They’re all doing that, up to and including Morrison. I don’t see any loss of nerve yet. All they ever do is double down against us.
Does anyone have a copy of Ben Garrison’s toon from yesterday, with Gladys? It was on the previous open thread.
Gabsays:
September 4, 2021 at 7:23 am
Is it my imagination but have c o v id rates increased as jab rates increase?
Look at events in India earlier this year.
Big vaccination program started, rates went up. Some Indian states approved Ivermectin instead, rates in those states went down, rates kept going up in states which stuck with vaccinations.
Correlation might not be causation, but …
Gez, the thing is that this is not a radical departure from his regular pattern of behaviour demonstrated over time.
He’s not mad, he’s just bad.
But he’s the least of your problems down there. Andrews will be turfed out one day, probably rolled from within the party, but your judiciary and police are entrenched.
The theory goes like this:
Merkin cinema goers will think “That looks like a nice place, we should go there for a holi…”
For Indolent: Ben Garrison.
Allow me to explain.
Tourism is an amorphous mass of small-medium operators with nothing to offer Miss Piggy personally.
Whereas the fillem industry offers dinners with Tom Hanks and Nicole Blankface and red carpet Hollywood premiere photo ops.
The ALPBC radio nooze is running the following headline: “the NZ community of moozleys is very unhappy”.
Stuff shut for everyone else who has to put up with them.
I get the feeling he actually means every word he says.
Whether or not he can do what he thinks he can may be another matter.
If only there was someone, anyone, in the Vic government, or the unions, or the Vic Governor perhaps, with the intestinal fortitude to tell the nasty bugger to just STFU and go away.
This is correct.
He and some of the immediate circle are psychopaths.
Ms. Young prefers the ballet to American films and wouldn’t know Matt Damon if she ran into him in a Brisbane eatery, which was quite possible a few months ago.
It was her greatest personal sacrifice to shut the QLD ballet down, she said in an interview.
Hey bushkid … when I find myself word-walling into the comments, that’s when have a re-think and cut’n’paste into a word doc.
After a little think, and sometimes a big think, I send it on up as a guest post.