Open Thread – Weekend 3 Sept 2021


The Course of Empire-Destruction, Thomas Cole, 1836

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Dot
Dot
September 7, 2021 1:08 pm

Please forgive my hay seed ignorance, but what in the heck is “ambulance ramping”???

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 1:10 pm

The unhealthy obsession by some to need to know the identity of other posters on an anonymous blog (against that other person’s express wishes) is revealing.
The back-channel chatter on Discord from some in various Cat social groups has re-affirmed to me why preserving anonymity is wise.
Because some think personal details of another provided as part of a closed group somehow become their property to be used as leverage when they see fit.

rosie
rosie
September 7, 2021 1:10 pm

Twostix again you show your personal animus clouds.
I never once said we shouldn’t oppose government authoritarianism but over egging with claims about underground churches and a holocaust repeat doesn’t cut through with many people.
But sure keep blaming boomers on general and me in particular.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 7, 2021 1:11 pm

a ramping crisis in capital cities and major population centres throughout Australia.

No need for lights, sirens, and speeding ambulances.
“Take your time boys, there’s no room at the inn anyway.”

Arky
September 7, 2021 1:12 pm

Have a look at yourself mate.
All this crap from one throwaway comment, which was:
..

Davidson’s gone.
Update your software.

..
And that results in you engaging with me for the last hour, attempting to draw me into a stupid argument I want no part of, throwing insults and silly accusations.
I’m not up for it. Due to walk the dog, see you in a couple of hours. Why don’t you
try to reread the above discussion while I’m gone and figure out exactly why it’s in the process of turning to shit, and if it’s really worth pursuing.
I’m pretty sure it isn’t.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 7, 2021 1:12 pm

Metrics on the absolute failure of management by the TaliDan junta as opposed to the hapless Gladys.
LGA’s with highest case numbers and vaccinations.
Vic Hume 404 – 48.2% first jab.
NSW Cumberland 4388 – 77.4%

Dan’s mouth plays a big game.

rosie
rosie
September 7, 2021 1:14 pm

In other words, usrr can’t name any members of Daniel Andrews cheer squad here.

Some people would call the claim ‘lying’.

Franx
Franx
September 7, 2021 1:14 pm

The underlying ill will of the police who raided the Aussie Cossack’s home was revealed when they demanded that the Aussie Cossack wear a mask – inside his own home. Petty would be tyrants.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 1:15 pm

Dot.
“Ramping” is the process of the Health Unions leveraging Treasury by creating artificially low hospital capacities and declaring their hospital full (on “by-pass”).
Ambulances flit around and finally park on “the emergency ramp” of a hospital until admission, many hours later.
Which means more money is required for hospitals and ambos.
For some reason it becomes critical around election time.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 1:16 pm

I’m pretty sure it isn’t.

So don’t.
And I can continue to question ussr without any interference?

Bruce in WA
September 7, 2021 1:20 pm

Anything in the RAN series by J. E. Macdonnell, such as:

Gimme the boats
The coxswain
Stand by to ram
Fleet destroyer
The gunner
Big Bill the bastard
… and about 170 other titles.

Arky
September 7, 2021 1:22 pm

And I can continue to question ussr without any interference?

..
Why is that a rule?
One rule for you, one rule for everyone else.
No, you don’t get to come on here and use tactics to isolate and bully people.
You turd.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 1:23 pm

rosiesays:

September 7, 2021 at 1:14 pm

In other words, usrr can’t name any members of Daniel Andrews cheer squad here.

Some people would call the claim ‘lying’.

Correct.
We see varying shades of opinion about Glad here (turning mostly adverse of late).
But, apart from Grigsocks, I can’t recall any “I stand with Dans” here.
So, yes, a cheap lying shot.

Baba
Baba
September 7, 2021 1:24 pm

Queensland has some of the lowest full COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country, and experts say there are a few reasons why

Weird that the experts missed the most obvious reason: a complete lack of trust in the government. Maybe if the people at the top ceased telling so many obvious lies?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-07/queensland-vaccine-rollout-hesitancy-regional-metro/100436946

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 1:25 pm

Why is that a rule?
One rule for you, one rule for everyone else.

Trying to establish if this blog is a bit free-form or whether it is only one-on-one.
Oh, that’s right.
I should ask DB.
Because this blog isn’t yours.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 1:27 pm

Anyway, where were we?
Oh, yes.
ussr.
What is your version of why you got turfed from Sinc’s blog?

cohenite
September 7, 2021 1:28 pm

For those curious about the types of Hydrogen production, they are:
1. Green hydrogen – a product of electrolysis of water that splits the H2O into hydrogen and oxygen
2. Brown or black hydrogen, which comes from the gasification of coal, releasing hydrogen and carbon dioxide
3. Grey hydrogen, which denotes hydrogen that’s obtained by a process known as 1:01 Steam Methane Reforming (SMR). SMR involves bombarding natural gas with high pressure steam to force the methane (CH4) to separate into carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
4. Blue hydrogen exactly the same as grey hydrogen but one where the production facility operators promise to capture all the carbon dioxide (sequester)
An entertaining overview may be accessed at:
Just have a think – “Blue Hydrogen. The greatest fossil fuel scam in history?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EA4tDYwNYo

or download the transcript
https://www.justhaveathink.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Prog-166-Transcript.docx

Arky
September 7, 2021 1:28 pm

What is your version of why you got turfed from Sinc’s blog?

..
Who cares?
this is Davidson’s blog.

Arky
September 7, 2021 1:29 pm

isn’t

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 7, 2021 1:30 pm

miltonf

Never ever trust the dinosaur meja or give them your money. They are poisonous trash with their BAs in communications.

Such a pity that so few of them are able to communicate clearly, concisely, and logically.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 1:30 pm

“We see varying shades of opinion about Glad here (turning mostly adverse of late).
But, apart from Grigsocks, I can’t recall any “I stand with Dans” here.”

Correct…..apart from Monty, the unlamented Numbers, and Grigs in any of his guises, I’m not aware of anyone defending Dan. I do admit to long defending Gladys….but no longer…however given the choice between Dan and Glad…I still choose Glad.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 1:32 pm

I should also add that I don’t think Glad’s heart has ever been behind these lockdowns but this has proven to me that all governments have now ceded power to health bureaucrats…..which is chilling.

Franx
Franx
September 7, 2021 1:34 pm

Gladys: the devil made me do it.

MatrixTransform
September 7, 2021 1:34 pm

The failure to call out Bird by some on Dash-Cat also speaks volumes.

oh, fuck off

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 7, 2021 1:35 pm

My understanding is that patients are kept in the ambulances because there is no room in the hospital yet, and the ambulance staff cannot leave until their charge has been transported into the hospital.

I have a sister who was, for a brief period, working in the ambulance dispatching world and this is what she told me.

But what really infuriated them was people would call complaining of heart troubles or feeling faint, who had ambulances dispatched and given cursory assessment, bundled into the back of the ambulance and transported to hospital only to step out the back once there and shoot off to the shops or wherever. These were welfare people who didn’t have to pay for the ride. They may well have felt they were entitled to it.

Rabz
September 7, 2021 1:37 pm

usrr can’t name any members of Daniel Andrews cheer squad here

Perhaps we should give ussr the benefit of the doubt and assume she meant in this country and mainly in Disasterstan.

In the meantime, that wonderful news about the gliberals down there changing their leader has made my week. Disasterstan Dan must be quaking in his jackboots.

cohenite
September 7, 2021 1:37 pm

The failure to call out Bird by some on Dash-Cat also speaks volumes.

Volumes of what?

I called on him to spend the next 3 years writing a book on terraforming Mars and Titan. If that’s not calling out what is?

Old bloke
Old bloke
September 7, 2021 1:39 pm

Dot says:
September 7, 2021 at 1:08 pm

Please forgive my hay seed ignorance, but what in the heck is “ambulance ramping”???

It’s a term used to describe ambulances waiting in a queue outside a hospital as the hospital has no staff or beds etc. available to accept new patients. It’s been a problem for many years in all states.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 7, 2021 1:41 pm

Anything in the RAN series by J. E. Macdonnell, such as:

I used to love these, but had to get rid of my collection when we first moved to Brisbane.
These used to (30+ years ago) have whole shelves assigned to them in 2nd book shops. Getting hard to find now

rosie
rosie
September 7, 2021 1:42 pm

‘And it isn’t only Daniel Andrews and his cheer squad here who are already happy to deny medical care to those who don’t obey The State’s Mandates ‘–

Perhaps she could clarify the issue herself, she is ‘here’ after all.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 7, 2021 1:42 pm

all governments have now ceded power to health bureaucrats…..which is chilling.

We’ve long since given up on democracy which imposes too many demands on most of us. We’re under the rule of bureaucrats of one stripe or another, and have been for decades.

And turning the whole world into a rule driven automaton is the sole ambition of the bureaucratic mentality.

Fortunately, it’s easy to resist. You just ignore the daft buggers. Make sure you break at least one edict every day.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 7, 2021 1:45 pm

I think Gladys was spooked by the increase in numbers. Not really being sure why her state had fared so much better than Dan’s, she was just blessed that doing not so much was keeping the stats down.

When the numbers increased she went with the one thing that seemed to make sense – lockdowns. And she followed Dan’s method so very closely, even though he had shown already how ineffective it was.

But she could not build a strategy based on openness because she did not understand how it worked.

She coasted along with fool’s luck at first, and it has now made a fool of her.

Crossie
Crossie
September 7, 2021 1:47 pm

calli says:
September 7, 2021 at 6:48 am
If vaccination is mandated as a condition of entry for church worship, and the churches enforce it, you can safely say that the state now owns the church.

What we may see is some priests who may end up in jail. There are still some real Christian clergy. It will be interesting what the archbishops will say and ultimately if Francis will defer to CHOs.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 7, 2021 1:48 pm

“Ramping” is the process of the Health Unions leveraging Treasury by creating artificially low hospital capacities and declaring their hospital full (on “by-pass”).
Ambulances flit around and finally park on “the emergency ramp” of a hospital until admission, many hours later.
Which means more money is required for hospitals and ambos.
For some reason it becomes critical around election time.

Surely you mean the Unions that draw their membership from amongst the appallingly bloated ranks of the Executives and assorted Public Service mandarins, Señor Panzer. Nobody else or their Union gets any real benefit from the situation, nor its (as you correctly allege) ‘cure’ of more funding.

Here in WA, many frontline medical staff were sent home or otherwise put on leave when the C00f struck, as their wards and ‘non-critical’ in- amd outpatient services were closed until firther notice.

And many other States’ nurses and docs (even in ICUs) suddenly found the time and space to Tiktok dance in full PPE amongst what seemed to be mostly empty wards.

That the enormity of their oversupply of unusable equipment like ventilators (due to lack of applicable training and governmental faddishness in crash-supplying them early last year) and inability to actually care for the usual ICU loads on top of projected admissions from C00f, is only appearing on the public’s radar now suggests that the Health Services well and truly need to be cored out and started again.

The morale and functioning of the many terribly decent people who (like I once did- Bless that precocious and wildly naïve young Rexy…) enter the Health system to try and help people, demand nothing less

Lockdowns have not and will not save our Health systems from collapse. They have merely fully exposed what we all long knew but agreed with our Political class to ignore-The buckets and buckets of taxpayer funds going into our Health system only make for rich bureaucrats. Not healthy, healed or well people. Nor organisations that can deliver on these quite reasonable expectations.

Another wasted opportunity amongst the sugar rush of virtue signalling about lodckdowns, cry-wanking over case numbers and threats about the ‘UnClean’ who are more interested in cures and prophylaxis to actually keep us out of hospital, than a (seemingly) increasingly impotent poke that makes more money for its makers than prevents the hospitalisations it claims on its box…

cohenite
September 7, 2021 1:54 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 1:57 pm

I see there’s been another bonhomie outbreak.

Baba
Baba
September 7, 2021 1:59 pm

I wonder about the motivation of those who goad Bird into making anti-semitic comments. It can’t be disgust.

Lysander
Lysander
September 7, 2021 2:03 pm

calli says:
September 7, 2021 at 6:48 am
If vaccination is mandated as a condition of entry for church worship, and the churches enforce it, you can safely say that the state now owns the church.

The RCC is already owned by the State. All church lands are crown estates vested in church but owned by State. The RCC has signed up to a raft of funding agreements for schools that carry heavy curriculum-related requirements (e.g. ssm must be taught in schools etc..).

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 2:04 pm

I called on him to spend the next 3 years writing a book on terraforming Mars and Titan. If that’s not calling out what is?

Well, yes.
A nice diversionary attempt.
Tick (I can’t do smiley face).
It seems that Carpe and Rex successfully blew him up but, sadly, we still don’t know what the magic trigger word is.
And it will probably be different tomorrow anyway.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 2:06 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

September 7, 2021 at 1:57 pm

I see there’s been another bonhomie outbreak.

You, Mr Dragger, have gone too far this time!
(Slap).
I demand satisfaction!
.
.
No.
Not that.
A duel.

rosie
rosie
September 7, 2021 2:06 pm

Lysander
Are Catholic schools required to teach ssm?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 2:08 pm

‘those who goad Bird’

It’s not goading. It’s taking the piss out of him and his beliefs, because that infuriates him. Which, obviously, is excellent.

It also doesn’t involve hand-patting him or scrolling past him – because that did not and does not work for any troll, let alone the Radio Rental ones.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 2:09 pm

I wonder about the motivation of those who goad Bird into making anti-semitic comments. 

Goading?
It looks to me like he enthusiastically launches into it of his own accord.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 7, 2021 2:09 pm

Not really being sure why her state had fared so much better than Dan’s, she was just blessed that doing not so much was keeping the stats down.

I know this is going to sound racist but she had a fit-for-purpose contact tracing system as well as a nice middle class mostly anglo or Chinese population where previous outbreaks occurred.

Where it all came unstuck, was when it spread from Waverly via the food wholesalers into low SES areas populated by low trust individuals who ignored all the ‘advice’, and then it took off like wildfire and no amount of contact tracing was going to be effective.

Pileoshits has been very lucky and the recent Indooroopilly cluster was centered in a batch of nice middle-class suburbs. Pileoshot was lucky that the trucky in Woodridge (think St Marys for Sydneysiders) was not that infectious and has only passed it on to 2 other people, and that Gold Coast family (low trust immigrants) who snuck into & out of Melbourne/Queensland were negative.

From my memory, and happy to be proved wrong, most of Victoria’s clusters occurred in high immigrant areas and very few in the nice middle-class suburbs.

Lysander
Lysander
September 7, 2021 2:09 pm

It’s a term used to describe ambulances waiting in a queue outside a hospital as the hospital has no staff or beds etc. available to accept new patients. It’s been a problem for many years in all states.

Indeed. Labor’s current Health Minister, when in Opposition in 2016, called for Liberal Health Minister to resign due to 2,000 hours a month ramping. That’s 2,000 hours ambulances waited outside ED’s with patients on board.

It is now up to 6,000 hours per month.

“Clever” Labor have called an inquiry into St John of God in response to this mess. And 75% of sandgropers voted for these fuckers.

Lysander
Lysander
September 7, 2021 2:10 pm

Lysander
Are Catholic schools required to teach ssm?

Actually rosie, I don’t think so. But there are other areas where schools must comply – around diversity, indigeneity etc..

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 2:10 pm

‘A duel’

Don’t you MAKE me COME DOWN THERE!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 2:11 pm

Sir!

Retire!

*holds chin high*

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 2:12 pm

“I wonder about the motivation of those who goad Bird into making anti-semitic comments. It can’t be disgust.”

Bird has never needed any “goading”.

srr
srr
September 7, 2021 2:13 pm

Yes, this is relevant to all –

twostixsays:
September 7, 2021 at 12:18 pm

While you are at it ussr, you have never given your version of why Sinc banned you.
Care to elaborate?

I remember m0nty ginned up a mob of dumbos who were scared of the optics of having a conspiracy theorist on the site.

– WHO STARTS shit, when & WHY.

I mostly post interesting things I find elsewhere, for others to bother with or not, as they will.
Mostly I get ignored until someone takes great offence at the content of something I post, but they direct their offence & anger at me.
At which point, whether I ignore their outrage or try to clarify my position regarding details of the content or the source, the little gangs are already at it, putting THEIR words & interpretation to my name and off they go, like good little commies, repeat, repeat, repeating their BS, until everyone just accepts it as so.

Again, if I correct them, they then start the, “It’s all about ‘me’,”, canard, no matter how much I bring them back to the subject that set them off, and if I don’t it’s, “Well you never denied it so it must be true.”, get’s rolled out.

There is no way one real person can defeat a group of practiced social manipulators, especially when that one real person doesn’t play the, ‘sucky, sucky, wow you’re the greatest, BFF’, emotional blackmail games of the pros.

The best you can hope for is that others may observe what they do, how they do it & what triggers them, so that they may become more practiced at recognising a manipulation being worked, and not fall for them.

As to why Sinclair Davidson banned me; that I did NOT break any rules and did NOT flounce off under a constant barrage of lies about me, but simply found myself locked out, without notice, means there is no answer that can be honestly given now, especially in this new age of Govt Blockchain & Removing & Inserting things into our electronic communications and the Public/Private Polling/Social Manipulation, Tracking, Tracing & Personal Information Holding Companies getting stonkingly filthy via it’s implementation in this God mocking age of enslavement to technology.

Lysander
Lysander
September 7, 2021 2:13 pm

Perth’s AFL GF Parade has been cancelled due to a…. credible terrorist risk. :O

Damn you 7-Day Adventists!!!

rosie
rosie
September 7, 2021 2:13 pm

Thanks for clarifying Lysander.
I remember Dr Martyr had a bit to say about Catholic schools being beholden to the state.
It’s true.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 2:14 pm

Here we go. I can hear it now:

‘Oooooh, Bird would never have made those comments. He would never.

‘If only he wasn’t goaded. It’s not his fault really.’

Fuck off.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 2:16 pm

Bird is an anti-Semite.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 2:19 pm

“but simply found myself locked out,”

Poor Mrs Nong…always the victim.

Sinclair Davidson did not simply lock people out for no reason.

Bar Beach Swimmer
September 7, 2021 2:19 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
September 7, 2021 at 7:35 am

this is why I don’t like ratbag conspiracies…along with ratbag people such as anti-vaccination conspiratorialists who use such tragedies as the boy’s death to vigorously promote and spruik their frequently unhinged anti-vaccination theories.

I can understand vaccine hesitancy, what I don’t like are anti-vaccination nuts who deliberately promulgate dubious information and lies

Cassie,
Using misinformation or grabbing hold of this or that “fact” to make a point is not the preserve of just one side of the argument.

The amount of times that anyone voicing their concerns about these vaccines is depicted as being unhinged or misinformed far outweigh the genuine reverse claims that the vaccines have not been properly tested to ensure their efficacy and safety.

As with “climate change denier” language, lumping together anyone who does not accept the right-thinking line on the ‘rona vaccines with the “unhinged anti-vaxxers” misconstrues their position and seeks to undermine the rights of free citizens to make their own choices, as well as playing into the hands of the left, which always seeks to disrupt and divide.

I’m not suggesting that you are doing that. But connecting the two groups in one sentence could lead to the idea that there is a connection.

Lysander
Lysander
September 7, 2021 2:19 pm

Yes Rosie, Phillipa was a lot smarter, and connected, than I.

I see she got a mention in the Pell book but anyway…

I believe Catholic schools can still practice what some would call “discrimination” against certain “types.” I call it being true to your beliefs. Although that doesn’t explain why my niece has to “put up with” her RE teacher who is a raging lesbo and climate alarmist… she got kicked out of class for saying climate change was not anthropocentric as it has been occurring since that sunny Thursday, 6 Billion years ago when Earth was formed. 😛

A+

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 2:19 pm

And many other States’ nurses and docs (even in ICUs) suddenly found the time and space to Tiktok dance in full PPE amongst what seemed to be mostly empty wards.

Don’t start me Rex.

That the enormity of their oversupply of unusable equipment like ventilators (due to lack of applicable training and governmental faddishness in crash-supplying them early last year)

Yes.
That is a question I have been tossing around.
Why buy 20,000 – 30,000 ventilators if your ICU capacity maxes out at 1,000 – 2,000?

Baba
Baba
September 7, 2021 2:20 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
September 7, 2021 at 2:16 pm
Bird is an anti-Semite.

Exactly. So why do they poke sticks at him?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 2:21 pm

rrsrrssr:

It’s all about you.

You go beresque when your brain fart cut and pastes fails to receive universal acclaim.

Then it’s everyone else’s fault. Then you get confused, and start digging up details that make sense to only you.

You are an androgynous amalgam of None and the _roomba, and just as entertaining.

Maybe if you made me a sandwich you’d feel better.

Mater
September 7, 2021 2:22 pm

Perth’s AFL GF Parade has been cancelled due to a…. credible terrorist risk. :O

Someone who hasn’t had at least one shot might turn up?

Baba
Baba
September 7, 2021 2:22 pm

Why buy 20,000 – 30,000 ventilators if your ICU capacity maxes out at 1,000 – 2,000?

The deal was too good to pass up. Plus it showed they were really serious.

rosie
rosie
September 7, 2021 2:24 pm

Lysander
Not so many years ago I complained about an RE teacher undermining the teachings of the church and using the class to beat her own drum.
For whatever reason her contract was not renewed the next year.
Practising Catholics need to complain, if the school doesn’t listen there is a chaplain from a local parish, an education board or the Catholic Education Office

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 2:27 pm

‘why do they poke sticks at him?’

Because his shit will not go unchallenged.

Because ‘truth by assertion’ needs to be burned alive wherever it is found.

And because it pleases me.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 2:28 pm

“Bar Beach Swimmersays:
September 7, 2021 at 2:19 pm”

“Using misinformation or grabbing hold of this or that “fact” to make a point is not the preserve of just one side of the argument.”

I agree BBS. I can’t bear the MSM fixating on anti-lockdown people as “anti-vaxxers”…..it’s a smear being used to silence. However I also can’t bear anti-vaxxers using the death of a teenage boy to push their agenda. There are faults on both sides. But anti-vaccination has a pernicious history…and has led to the deaths of many people.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 2:29 pm

Exactly. So why do they poke sticks at him?”

Why not poke sticks at an anti-Semite?

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 2:31 pm

“Because his shit will not go unchallenged.

Because ‘truth by assertion’ needs to be burned alive wherever it is found.”

Quite so.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 2:32 pm

I’ve had my first AZ jab….I made a considered decision….I wasn’t coerced or anything like that.

srr
srr
September 7, 2021 2:32 pm

Steve trickler says:
September 7, 2021 at 1:06 pm
Rebel News NSW:

The Covid-wall KILLING livelihoods in the name of health down under

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvwMtA6Gvm4

Lysander
Lysander
September 7, 2021 2:32 pm

I totally agree Rosie. But CathEd is full of reds (I used to work there)…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 2:36 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

September 7, 2021 at 2:14 pm

Here we go. I can hear it now:

‘Oooooh, Bird would never have made those comments. He would never.

‘If only he wasn’t goaded. It’s not his fault really.’

Fuck off.

Yep.
As if Bird needs goading into going the full SS Final Solution.

Bar Beach Swimmer
September 7, 2021 2:37 pm

Cassie:
But anti-vaccination has a pernicious history…and has led to the deaths of many people

As does the state’s denial of the right of the individual to make their own choices and adhere to their own conscience.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 2:43 pm

“As does the state’s denial of the right of the individual to make their own choices and adhere to their own conscience.”

That argument can and is used in the whole abortion debate. My body, my choice, my right.

BTW…..no where have I ever said that an individual should be forced or coerced to have the jab. It’s their decision. I’ve made mine….my partner isn’t jabbed…I respect that. Nor do I believe in vaccine passports…domestically. I have no problem having it stamped on my passport to travel overseas.

P
P
September 7, 2021 2:44 pm

The RCC has signed up to a raft of funding agreements for schools that carry heavy curriculum-related requirements (

e.g. ssm must be taught in schools

etc..).

National Catholic Register – September 1, 2021

COMMENTARY: Pope Francis has repeatedly and emphatically spoken out against gender ideology. And Virginia Bishop Michael Burbidge’s Aug. 12 pastoral letter on gender dysphoria models truth in charity and authentic mercy.

Our sex — just like our genes, race, age and other natural characteristics — are objective givens, not subjective choices.

Pope Francis is particularly concerned about gender ideology being taught to children, so that boys and girls are encouraged to question, at the earliest ages of existence, whether they are a boy or girl, and told that gender is something one can choose.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 2:47 pm

‘why do they poke sticks at him?’

Because he isn’t fit to breathe the same air as normal beings.
(NADT).
I see lots of people here bemoaning that modern Australia is “practically Germany 1933”, but also crying “Hey! Teacher! Leave that Bird alone.”
Wake up sheeples.
He is savvy enough to latch onto your issue of the day to build a coalition of support for his main game.
Which is Jew extermination.
So excuse me if I am in the “cheer-squad” for anyone who calls him out on “nano wrigglers are eating the brains of Gentile children”.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 7, 2021 2:48 pm

Champers tonight!

No especial reason. Just feel like it.

Arky
September 7, 2021 2:49 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
September 7, 2021 at 1:57 pm
I see there’s been another bonhomie outbreak.

..
I’ll give you a tip.
When they do this, which they will:
..

“Make it a legal requirement when opening a new social media account, to provide a verified form of ID. Where the account belongs to a person under the age of 18 verify the account with the ID of a parent/guardian, to prevent anonymised harmful activity, providing traceability if an offence occurs.”

Has the Time Come to End Anonymity on Social Media?
..
I’ll still be here, and my content won’t change.
Because I’ll stand up for my freedoms.
But your little buddy will evaporate.
So the decision you have to make is this: Where do you stand?
Don’t be a pathetic follower your whole life.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 2:51 pm

but simply found myself locked out, without notice

Oh?
Just locked out?
No threats to “sort people out”?
No subsequent obnoxious Twitter rant at anyone?

It's Remarkable
It’s Remarkable
September 7, 2021 2:53 pm

Got sent this link earlier. Worth a look.

https://eugyppius.substack.com/

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 2:56 pm

“No especial reason. Just feel like it.”

And that’s the way it should be.

Arky
September 7, 2021 2:56 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
September 7, 2021 at 2:51 pm
but simply found myself locked out, without notice

Oh?
Just locked out?
No threats to “sort people out”?
No subsequent obnoxious Twitter rant at anyone?

..
Why is this the least bit interesting to you, other than in an effort to blacken someone’s name enough in the hope that DB will shitcan them?
Do you not think that there’s other things going on right now that are worthy of our attention?
Lose the Stalinism and comment on the actual extinguishment of our freedoms occurring right now.

srr
srr
September 7, 2021 2:56 pm

The more you write –

Knuckle Draggersays:
September 7, 2021 at 2:21 pm
rrsrrssr:

It’s all about you.

You go beresque when your brain fart cut and pastes fails to receive universal acclaim.

Then it’s everyone else’s fault. Then you get confused, and start digging up details that make sense to only you.

You are an androgynous amalgam of None and the _roomba, and just as entertaining.

Maybe if you made me a sandwich you’d feel better.

– the more I think you could be that stupid lantern jawed female copper I had to school in your home turf, that or you’ve spent too much time sucking up to the spitting cat ladies.

See, you should have waited a bit for everyone to forget the description of how manipulation mobs work on ‘social’ media, before jumping out to prove everything I just described.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 2:57 pm

‘your little buddy will evaporate’

Is this really a priority right now?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 2:57 pm

One thing I have noticed about the various Cat blogs.
The “Mrs Jessup” obsession with knowing lots of personal details about other posters often goes hand-in-hand with threats of violence.
Examples?
Faulty.
Bird.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Just locked out?
No threats to “sort people out”?
No subsequent obnoxious Twitter rant at anyone?

It does happen like that. No obvious trigger required.
(Apart from a quick gander at your history revealing you may not be on board with the latest conventional leftist wisdom)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 2:57 pm

Is this really a priority right now?

I think not.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 2:58 pm

(Apart from a quick gander at your history revealing you may not be on board with the latest conventional leftist wisdom)

That’s a bad thing.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 2:59 pm

srrsrrrs:

That’s fine, but it does not solve the sandwich problem.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 3:01 pm

Do you not think that there’s other things going on right now that are worthy of our attention?

Yes. Why is there no Grand Final parade?

Lose the Stalinism and comment on the actual extinguishment of our freedoms occurring right now.

Who gave you the cardigan with the epaulettes, Mr Blog Director?

Arky
September 7, 2021 3:02 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
September 7, 2021 at 2:57 pm
‘your little buddy will evaporate’

Is this really a priority right now?

.
Yes.
You need to decide ahead of time how you are going to cope once everything on here you write is attached to your real identity.
I’m comfortable with it, because I asked myself what the worst consequences might be when I attached my face to my opinions.
I’ll accept those consequences. I know what’s coming, I’ve thought long and hard about it.
Have you?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 3:03 pm

‘Where do you stand?’

Arky, you have made some of the best and most incisive commentary I’ve ever read in any format.

But I will not be dictated to, by a fellow blog guest, on what I may or may not comment on according to your mood of the day.

Arky
September 7, 2021 3:04 pm

But I will not be dictated to,

..
I don’t expect you to.
In fact, I expect the opposite.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 3:07 pm

Further:

Because you made a conscious decision to tell the entire internet who and where you are does not bring with it any right to either demand others do so, nor provide a superiority perch from which to deliver sermons.

And stop telling me what to do, please.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 3:09 pm

Arkysays:

September 7, 2021 at 3:04 pm

But I will not be dictated to,

..
I don’t expect you to.
In fact, I expect the opposite.

So.
When I called ussr out on her ridiculous “Andrews cheer squad here” comment (with a supplementary about why Sinc banned her), why the need to chime in?
And the supplementary was relevant because it went to her lying and threatening behaviour.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 7, 2021 3:09 pm

I noticed the other day that some Cats like Western movies. I thought it would be remiss of me not to at least make a contribution. This one (The Gunfighter) is only 9 minutes long, so it’s more of a short story movie……

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXfltmzRG-g

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 7, 2021 3:10 pm

Bloody hell.

That was atrocious sentence construction on my part.

Probably hunger-derived.

If only I had a sandwich, or some pizza.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 3:10 pm

Fuck this!
I’m going to walk the nano-wrigglers!

Arky
September 7, 2021 3:10 pm

why the need to chime in?

..
Why not?
It’s an open forum.

srr
srr
September 7, 2021 3:16 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
September 7, 2021 at 2:19 pm
“but simply found myself locked out,”

Poor Mrs Nong…always the victim.

Sinclair Davidson did not simply lock people out for no reason.

Are you illiterate or worse?

“As to why Sinclair Davidson banned me; that I did NOT break any rules and did NOT flounce off under a constant barrage of lies about me, but simply found myself locked out, without notice, means there is no answer that can be honestly given now, especially in this new age of Govt Blockchain & Removing & Inserting things into our electronic communications and the Public/Private Polling/Social Manipulation, Tracking, Tracing & Personal Information Holding Companies getting stonkingly filthy via it’s implementation in this God mocking age of enslavement to technology.”

Worse, I have to say, much worse.

Indolent
Indolent
September 7, 2021 3:18 pm

The real question, ultimately, is how principled the High Court will prove to be – or not be – when a passport case makes its way to its bench. Both mandatory vaccination – and mandating it for all intents and purposes by other coercive means – are clearly illegal, in Australian law and pursuant to international law (via section 51).

This is China.
You can never be sure how accurate anything from China is, but just imagine something like that here. It’s a nightmare.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 3:20 pm

Arkysays:

September 7, 2021 at 3:10 pm

why the need to chime in?

..
Why not?
It’s an open forum.

Quite so.
Which leaves me free to query some of ussr’s more ridiculous outbursts, no?
Unless there are two classes of participants here?
Those who can chime in at will and those who can’t?
I’ll check with DB.

Rabz
September 7, 2021 3:20 pm

Perth’s AFL GF Parade has been cancelled due to a…. credible terrorist risk

Or it’s a “Bird Goader” looking for some other cheap thrills.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 7, 2021 3:21 pm

Champers tonight!

No especial reason. Just feel like it.

My excuse is that I’m celebrating my birthday. No, it’s not an anniversary, I’m just extremely pleased that I’m alive. I celebrate it every day.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 3:21 pm

Ah, OK.
DB says that all are equal before the Dover-Lord.
No-one has especial privileges.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 3:22 pm

“srrsays:
September 7, 2021 at 3:16 pm”

LOL…..you’re a narcissist, an idiot, a fabulist, a conspiratorialist, a fool, a moron and a smearer.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 3:23 pm

Or it’s a “Bird Goader” looking for some other cheap thrills.

Bird Goader.
Possibly the easiest job going on Seek.com.
Definitely not full-time.

Arky
September 7, 2021 3:23 pm

Which leaves me free to query some of ussr’s more ridiculous outbursts, no?

..
Why not?
It’s going so well and is such riveting reading.
Why don’t you finish up with SRR and then do what I actually asked you, which is look at WHC.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 7, 2021 3:23 pm

Francis is labouring under the fate destined for all aging lefties: They leap into the giddy and swirling current of progressivism at one time and it all seems fine, but already things are beginning to go wrong.

For a time all seems well – they are part of the vanguard of a vibrant movement. It is a party, an intoxicating whirlwind youth, adventure, and the adrenalin charge fighting the establishment, and camaraderie.

But things move on. Progressive principles continue to shift and change. And this is the nature of the thing. Each new generation thinks that they are the first. They will reshape the world.

And the previous generation suddenly look ridiculous and out of touch. They can try to keep up, but generally they make themselves look more awkward. Like Dad’s trying to speak ‘hip’ to the kids.

Anyone else notice that Frightbats always seem to be trying too hard? Why do you think Clemmie Ford says the ‘fuck’ every second word.

Francis is a socialist of last generation.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 7, 2021 3:23 pm

this God mocking age of enslavement to technology.”

It’s hard to post that without technology.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 3:23 pm

LOL…..you’re a narcissist, an idiot, a fabulist, a conspiratorialist, a fool, a moron and a smearer.

But, apart from that …

JC
JC
September 7, 2021 3:24 pm

47 people shot over the weekend in Kabul.

Just kidding, it wasn’t Kabul, it was Chicago. I’d take a rough guess that more people were shot there than in Kabul over those two days.

This is not an exaggeration, every large American city run by Demonrats is totally fucked. I can’t think of one that isn’t. Not totally fucked as in a little bit, but absolutely rooted. This political party has destroyed inner urban America.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 3:25 pm

“Perth’s AFL GF Parade has been cancelled due to a…. credible terrorist risk”

Let me guess…..could it be from a far-right, white, male, neo-Nazi?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 3:26 pm

Why don’t you finish up with SRR and then do what I actually asked you, which is look at WHC.

Refer to Mr Dragger above.
I will not take direction.
Unless you are telling me it is a really slick video with high production values.
Then I might.

rosie
rosie
September 7, 2021 3:27 pm

Hard to believe that the north and north west of Chicago is quite nice, Evanston in particular is lovely.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 3:28 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:

September 7, 2021 at 3:25 pm

“Perth’s AFL GF Parade has been cancelled due to a…. credible terrorist risk”

Let me guess…..could it be from a far-right, white, male, neo-Nazi?

No.
It’s from the third desk along in Sneaker’s office.
Because the parade will be through the city, which is the domain of Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas (who is a high profile Perthonality).
Sneakers can’t have anyone grabbing his spotlight.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 7, 2021 3:28 pm

I don’t find srr troubling. Some of her links are useful. I wish she’d post the lame pics url.

She may or may not be off her head. So many are I don’t think it important any more.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 3:28 pm

“This is not an exaggeration, every large American city run by Demonrats is totally fucked. I can’t think of one that isn’t. Not totally fucked as in a little bit, but absolutely rooted. This political party has destroyed inner urban America.”

Yep…a tragedy…and yet they still vote for the plantation party.

Arky
September 7, 2021 3:29 pm

I will not take direction.

..
You asked me. Don’t you remember?
You asked what I’d rather write about.
So I told you.
Don’t complain when I respond to your requests.

JC
JC
September 7, 2021 3:29 pm

In other news that I picked up this morning. If an election were held now, Trump is ahead of Hiden. I think it was reported as Emerson polling. Let me say this, if Emerson says Trump would win (an only just), it likely means he’d win with 48 states.

60% of Demonrats think Hiden is doing a good job and like him as president. This 60% would vote for Hiden again. This about what this means. This 60% can’t think of another candidate who isn’t demented to run the country. This is where its got to.

cohenite
September 7, 2021 3:30 pm
Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 3:30 pm

“Some of her links are useful”

Carl Benjamin (ex Sargon of Akkad) who operates Lotus Eaters is excellent. I’ve been following him for years.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 7, 2021 3:31 pm

This 60% can’t think of another candidate who isn’t demented to run the country. This is where its got to.

They’d probably prefer obummer or Hillary.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 7, 2021 3:33 pm

Ahh the DoverCat is angry as a old man with haemorrhoids.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 7, 2021 3:35 pm

Carl Benjamin (ex Sargon of Akkad) who operates Lotus Eaters is excellent. I’ve been following him for years.

I’m generally in agreement with his views, but he talks much, much slower than I can listen.

Arky
September 7, 2021 3:35 pm

Any sign of Tel on any Catallaxies?

JC
JC
September 7, 2021 3:37 pm

Real estate porn.

This was the old Cornelius Vanderbuilt mansion before they turned the space into the upscale Bergdorf Goodman store at 57th and 5the ave.

I can’t believe they tore it down, but then it’s slap bang in midtown, so it had to come down, I guess.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cornelluniversitylibrary/3678936310/

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 7, 2021 3:37 pm

Way way back, scrolling Bird at the other Cat was an ok strategy.
But then he just took over, word wall after word wall, all about my pork dodging friends.

If you turn up to a mates place, and he has another mate shitting in the lounge room, do you stay & help clean up the shit?
Or do you just leave?

srr
srr
September 7, 2021 3:37 pm

“Bill Anderson
1 day ago
And just like that yet another “paranoid conspiracy theory” turns out to “prescient understanding of history”. Again.

“Universal Health Care”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XPamOnjMcM
Sep 6, 2021
Tony Heller

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 7, 2021 3:40 pm

JC, isn’t there only one free standing residential house left on Manhattan island?

JC
JC
September 7, 2021 3:42 pm

Out of the two, who has the wealthiest individual in America. Was it Vanderbilt of Rockefeller?

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
September 7, 2021 3:42 pm

Sensible discussion between three wonderful people (long) but worth it

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 7, 2021 3:43 pm

Any sign of Tel on any Catallaxies?

I miss Tel. And a few others. I can’t get on CLs site, it sends me an email and I am forced by the link to use a chrome browser I don’t like. I can’t stand dash cat and its pollution, and Monty’s Çat is pretty turgid. To be expected, I guess.

Dover’s Çat is pretty good, which is why I’m here when I should be working.

JC
JC
September 7, 2021 3:43 pm

Bern

Free standing as the residence doesn’t share any of its walls? On that basis there would be quite a few.

I think think the old steel baron’s house in the 90s would be an example.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 7, 2021 3:45 pm

Really, that surprises me.

cohenite
September 7, 2021 3:46 pm

Real estate porn.

Lot of churches being sold in NY; which is appropriate since the heathen commies/demorats are running the joint:

https://www.bhhsnyproperties.com/townhouse/pcw/3103988/114-124-east-35th-st.-new-york-ny-10016

https://www.bhhsnyproperties.com/townhouse/pcw/3203618/417-west-57th-st.-new-york-ny-10019

GoTiges
GoTiges
September 7, 2021 3:46 pm

Any sign of Tel on any Catallaxies?

He posts at Jo Nova every now and gain.

rosie
rosie
September 7, 2021 3:51 pm
Indolent
Indolent
September 7, 2021 3:52 pm

Governor Jim Justice (WV) spills the TRUTH about the number of fully vaccinated people getting ill and requiring hospitalisation.

What he’s actually doing, if you click on the link to the full presentation in the second comment, is pushing booster shots. Either he’s not listening to what he himself is saying or he’s as dumb as a post, or at least thinks we are.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 7, 2021 3:53 pm

Idolent, questioning a politician makes you as bad as one of the January 6th people.
Possibly worse.

srr
srr
September 7, 2021 3:55 pm

Ragu says:
September 7, 2021 at 3:25 pm

https://youtu.be/U3wpnf5QRms

Candace Owens refused covid test, with quality rant by Tatum

That is the woman with the monopoly of same day testing in her city, REFUSED to ALLOW Candice Owens TO GET TESTED.

The email of refusal of service & rant are worth taking in and sharing because it is NOT unusual in JAB PUSHERS to presume that personal power over other’s lives, NOT care for ANYONE’S Health.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 7, 2021 3:55 pm

My excuse is that I’m celebrating my birthday. No, it’s not an anniversary, I’m just extremely pleased that I’m alive. I celebrate it every day.

I shall keep that excuse in reserve if ever I hesitate when the mood takes me.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 7, 2021 4:00 pm

You have to hand it to Dan Andrews.
Is less than truthful.
Legacy media amplifies it.
Rinse & repeat.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 7, 2021 4:03 pm

At what point due does the penny drop for the punters believing any of these politicians?
There is no science.
The strategy changes based on polling.
It’s all hopium.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 7, 2021 4:07 pm

Roll forward to Christmas.
NSW over 80% double jabbed (as of close of business yesterday, NSW at 74.8% first shot).
What happens if we are getting 2000 cases a day?
Regardless of hospitalisation rates & death rates.
Do people honestly think Gladys won’t fold again & have another lock down?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 7, 2021 4:16 pm

hzhousewife says:
September 7, 2021 at 3:42 pm

Sensible discussion between three wonderful people (long) but worth it

You’re right, and it was nice to see three people being sane, but it was too long for me. I think Denis Prager was correct in labelling leftism as the problem, there has to be a term for the dogmatic loons trying to push cultural Marxism down our throats. Loony loser lefties will serve.

I think there’s another reason why the equity push hasn’t impacted sport so much: people who like sport are far less likely to be intellectuals, they aren’t so attracted to replacing reality with obviously silly dogma.

JC
JC
September 7, 2021 4:18 pm

Cronkite, why are you so interested in Churches in Manhattan. You’re thinking of becoming a pastor or something?

cohenite
September 7, 2021 4:22 pm

Much more from the whacky world of islam:

New Zealand tried for years to deport Muslim migrant who stabbed six, his refugee status was fraudulently obtained

German government flew ‘serious criminals,’ including child molesters, to the country from Afghanistan

Biden’s NSA Jake Sullivan refuses to call the Taliban ‘an enemy of the U.S.’

https://www.jihadwatch.org/

It's Remarkable
It’s Remarkable
September 7, 2021 4:25 pm

Does C.L. have a site, or blog or some such?
If so, where is it to be found.
Asking for a friend (of course)

Crossie
Crossie
September 7, 2021 4:28 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
September 7, 2021 at 12:45 pm
I think it was eight years ago that Tony Abbott won the federal election in a landslide. I don’t think we’ll ever see a landslide on that scale again.

We will, Cassie. ScoMo will lose hugely not just that people are only angry at him but that he is the first cab off the rank and he will pay for all the premiers’ excesses.

I can’t say I really care since he has governed as a Labor politician, we will simply get the real thing instead of his fakery.

srr
srr
September 7, 2021 4:29 pm

One for Struth –

(you have to scroll down 4 tweets from DL’s tweet.
I’m not on twitter so they won’t let me do a direct link)

The_Real_Fly @The_Real_Fly
·6 Sep
Australian truckies implement starvation mode in protest of vaccine mandates
(VIDEO of Aus Supermarket)

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
September 7, 2021 4:32 pm

Thanks for giving it a go DrBG, yes the end does go on a bit, but the front half was a lot of common sense, so rare to hear these days that I am thrilled when I come across it !

srr
srr
September 7, 2021 4:42 pm

ONE thing you CAN say about Scott Morrison –

Under him PMship, a HELL of a LOT of RATS have felt thoroughly embolden to come out and BOAST of their SS-esque, ‘I’m a Covid Marshall and You SHALL DO MY BIDDING OR … [insert life destroying charges]’, & , ‘I’m a JAB PUSHER and You SHALL DO MY BIDDING OR … [insert life destroying charges]’, etc. Super Powers.

You normally need a lot of deeply imbedded spooks to out as many traitors of humanity as The Wu Flu Power Shot has.

C.L.
C.L.
September 7, 2021 4:43 pm
Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 4:47 pm

“We will, Cassie. ScoMo will lose hugely not just that people are only angry at him but that he is the first cab off the rank and he will pay for all the premiers’ excesses.”

Quite right Crossie.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 4:48 pm

“I’m not on twitter”

Banned from there too?

C.L.
C.L.
September 7, 2021 4:50 pm

I feel his pain, I really do:

Thieves stole Michael Piccolo’s 1977 LX Torana.

Utterly stupid theft. It cannot be sold to anyone.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 7, 2021 4:52 pm

“I’m not on twitter”

Banned from there too?

I’m not on Twitter either. They haven’t banned me, I’ve banned them.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 4:53 pm

“I’ve banned them.”

Wise….I’ve never been on Twitter.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 4:54 pm

DrBeauGansays:

September 7, 2021 at 3:43 pm

Any sign of Tel on any Catallaxies?

I miss Tel. And a few others. I can’t get on CLs site,

Dr BG.
What is CL’s site?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 4:58 pm

OMG!
I just did a count after getting back from my walk.
One of the nano-wrigglers is missing.
And it’s a pregnant female, what’s worse.

Dot
Dot
September 7, 2021 5:03 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
September 7, 2021 at 1:32 pm
I should also add that I don’t think Glad’s heart has ever been behind these lockdowns but this has proven to me that all governments have now ceded power to health bureaucrats…..which is chilling.

The Public Health Acts MUST be repealed.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 7, 2021 5:07 pm

Dr BG.
What is CL’s site?

I found it referenced on m0nty’s site.

JC
JC
September 7, 2021 5:08 pm

It’s handy being a woman sometimes:

And destroying the US university system.

While looking for relevant WSJ piece, I found this.

More College-Educated Women Are Having Babies Outside Marriage
While nonmarital childbearing has risen across the board, women with college degrees have seen the sharpest increase

No surprise there, but back the story I was originally interested in.

A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’
The number of men enrolled at two- and four-year colleges has fallen behind women by record levels, in a widening education gap across the U.S.

Notes from the piece

At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline.

This education gap, which holds at both two- and four-year colleges, has been slowly widening for 40 years. The divergence increases at graduation: After six years of college, 65% of women in the U.S. who started a four-year university in 2012 received diplomas by 2018 compared with 59% of men during the same period, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

In the next few years, two women will earn a college degree for every man, if the trend continues, said Douglas Shapiro, executive director of the research center at the National Student Clearinghouse.

No shit, you can be turfed out of an American university through a mere accusation.

No shock here.

The gender enrollment disparity among nonprofit colleges is widest at private four-year schools, where the proportion of women during the 2020-21 school year grew to an average of 61%, a record high, Clearinghouse data show. Some of the schools extend offers to a higher percentage of male applicants, trying to get a closer balance of men and women.

He sounds fine.

Daniel Briles, 18 years old, graduated in June from Hastings High School in Hastings, Minn. He decided against college during his senior year, despite earning a 3.5 grade-point average and winning a $2,500 college scholarship from a local veterans organization.

He took a landscaping job and takes home about $500 a week. Mr. Briles, a musician, also earns some income from creating and selling music through streaming services, he said, and invests in cryptocurrencies. His parents both attended college, and they hope he, too, will eventually apply. So far, they haven’t pressured him, he said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollment-admissions-back-to-school-11630948233

American universities have been feminized, which is why young men don’t want to go.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 5:12 pm

Gotcha DB.
I see it.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 7, 2021 5:18 pm

60% of Demonrats think Hiden is doing a good job and like him as president. This 60% would vote for Hiden again.

JC – They like that Biden can be used to get up all their nutty pet policies like global warming, gun control and universal income. They know he’s a puppet, but they like that, since a (comparably) sane Clintonian-style Dem could not be made to do such disastrous stuff. Even Obama was very cautious on loony green things and mainly used them as an under-the-desk funding mechanism, like Solyndra.

calli
calli
September 7, 2021 5:22 pm

The remaining 40% of Biden voters were unavailable for comment.

It appears that they are the sensible ines.

calli
calli
September 7, 2021 5:23 pm

Sheesh.

ones

srr
srr
September 7, 2021 5:28 pm

DrBeauGansays:
September 7, 2021 at 3:35 pm

Carl Benjamin (ex Sargon of Akkad) who operates Lotus Eaters is excellent. I’ve been following him for years.

I’m generally in agreement with his views, but he talks much, much slower than I can listen.

Yeah but, keep in mind that he speaks clearly & well for an audience that includes those who’ve been deprived of educations that exercise quick, clear thinking & speech.
Plus, we can always play him (and many more, far slower speakers), on a faster speed.

I also love the way Carl doesn’t mock Callum’s reading errors, but quietly encourages him along as a mate rightly trusted to assist personal development.
They’ve made learning & betterment cool for men, mates, boys & dads, for which, I love them.

Dot
Dot
September 7, 2021 5:29 pm

Let’s hope he doesn’t go to college.

You would only go, if you could get into a top tier law (only) school; STEM or medicine.

Just say no. He’s already got two jobs.

JC
JC
September 7, 2021 5:29 pm

Possibly very true, Brucie.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 5:31 pm

60% of Demonrats think Hiden is doing a good job and like him as president. This 60% would vote for Hiden again.

That is not a great number less than a year after vanquishing Orange Man Bad.

sfw
sfw
September 7, 2021 5:34 pm

JC, The US universities and Australian ones and I guess most of those in the western world are just credential mills, they have stacks of soft useless subjects to ensure they can get plenty of females, no demands on the intellect and sell credentials so these useless people can get useless jobs with big business or government. The complete shutdown of the system is the only solution. Let some new institutions arise that will educate people in hard sciences and a small but rigorous section that does english subjects and that’s it. Chuck the rest out. There will be enough fee paying students and scholarships for the talented and the rest of the bludgers can find real jobs.

sfw
sfw
September 7, 2021 5:36 pm

srr and others – what’s wrong with speaking slowly? I’d rather listen to someone who chooses their words carefully than some moron who drops a word salad because he thinks it makes him sound smart.

MatrixTransform
September 7, 2021 5:40 pm

there has to be a term for the dogmatic loons trying to push cultural Marxism down our throats.

using the word Commie can actually cause PTSD

srr
srr
September 7, 2021 5:44 pm

“twostix says:
September 7, 2021 at 5:08 pm

“You need to be able to prove you have been vaccinated. That’s part of the conditions of having those freedoms that you’ve got to be able to prove if you’re pulled up by police,” Mr Barilaro said.”

This is normal.

See what they’re trying to do though, they cannot openly come out and say vaccinated people are “free” to go out and about now. Because that means they’ve sentenced un-vaccinated people to imprisonment without trial because they haven’t been vaccinated. So they have to keep pretending they’re doing it as part of a sort of staged ‘loosening’ – which means this state of affairs is going to be the case in NSW for at least six months so they can ‘punish’ the unvaccinated people properly without giving them standing to go before a court.”

MatrixTransform
September 7, 2021 5:50 pm

Tom Elliott again frothing at the mouth

Speaking of the Fortresses of the Mind.

Once any stupid idea gets inside Tom’s motte and bailey, it can never ever get out again

Archers … archers could possibly end his misery

Mater
September 7, 2021 5:50 pm

Tom Elliott again frothing at the mouth about vaccine passports. He loves them. He can’t understand unions being suspicious about compulsory vaccinations.

This is the same bloke who I once heard say, ‘there is no greater demonstration of our freedoms, than our (compulsory) voting system’.

MatrixTransform
September 7, 2021 5:52 pm

so they can ‘punish’ the unvaccinated people properly without giving them standing to go before a court.

what ever you do, don’t throw me in in that there briar patch

Zipster
Zipster
September 7, 2021 5:53 pm

I’m generally in agreement with his views, but he talks much, much slower than I can listen.

watch it at 1.5 speed

calli
calli
September 7, 2021 6:01 pm

This reminded me of this site’s first open forum. Ahead of his time.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 7, 2021 6:06 pm

srr and others – what’s wrong with speaking slowly?

I fall asleep before he makes his point. It doesn’t much matter because I can predict it anyway.

If I could play them at 1.5 or 2.0. I would. I agree with nearly everything he says anyway, so I’m not missing much.

On the other hand, I disagree with alnost everything m0nty writes, but it’s not interesting because it’s predictable. It’s like reading numbers and his ocd crap.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 7, 2021 6:06 pm

MatrixTransformsays:
September 7, 2021 at 5:40 pm
there has to be a term for the dogmatic loons trying to push cultural Marxism down our throats.

using the word Commie can actually cause PTSD

People like Dan of the Dead would be (secretly) proud to be called Commies. Call them fascists, it will infuriate them, and is also accurate, given their support from Big Biz and the other Bigs.

Lysander
Lysander
September 7, 2021 6:09 pm

Hmm do you think, when Rudd referred to the Chinese as “fat fuckers” he was referring to the Demorats? #ConspiracyTheory

Lysander
Lysander
September 7, 2021 6:19 pm

People like Dan of the Dead would be (secretly) proud to be called Commies. Call them fascists, it will infuriate them, and is also accurate, given their support from Big Biz and the other Bigs.

Hear hear (and often very true too). This tactic worked with a former mate of mine (for a reason). He was a Greens, inner-city type…well, Freo… He was a complete, out of touch, elitist who had nothing to do with your “ordinary man.” He lived and drank in very agreeable circles in Freo. The climate. GAH! Catholics! GAH! Conservative dinosaurs! GAH! George Pell! GAAAAHHHH!!!

I demonstrated to him that his elitism, “fascism,” and atheism was a direct descendant of Nietzsche and every social ill that he complained about was a result of policies derived from “his side.”

Lysander
Lysander
September 7, 2021 6:21 pm

PS – Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe liberals. (Chesterton)

srr
srr
September 7, 2021 6:23 pm

sfwsays:
September 7, 2021 at 5:36 pm

srr and others – what’s wrong with speaking slowly? I’d rather listen to someone who chooses their words carefully than some moron who drops a word salad because he thinks it makes him sound smart.

I don’t have a problem with it.
I actually praised Carl for assisting Callum in the improvement of his reading.
I was just reminding Dr.BG that we can speed up videos we find too slow, which I do with many slow talkers, but not Carl Benjamin and the Lotus Eaters.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 7, 2021 6:23 pm

C.L. says:
September 7, 2021 at 4:43 pm
It’s handy being a woman sometimes:

South Australian woman who tried to kill autistic son found not guilty because of mental incompetence.

To me, sad story of woman in deep despair and looking to a future without hope.
I’d leave the judgement with the court in full awareness of the circumstances.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 6:24 pm

Lysander, I think Rudd called the Chunks “rat fuckers”, not “fat fuckers”.

MatrixTransform
September 7, 2021 6:24 pm

Call them fascists

It’s true, look at business and total-govt getting cosy together

all for your own good

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 7, 2021 6:26 pm

OMG!
I just did a count after getting back from my walk.
One of the nano-wrigglers is missing.
And it’s a pregnant female, what’s worse.

It’s OK, Señor Panzer.

I told Bird I would be setting my Nano-Wriggler legions about the task of consuming all Aether in the Universe last night, so as to restore physics to the Newtonian and Einsteinian form we all know (and he hates).

I just felt it would be prudent to start on a very limited scale, in case it turns out there is no ‘pre-existing aether’ constantly being transformed into matter.

If it is true, then the exponential reproduction rate of my beloved -Wrigglers will take care of the problem in short order.

If not, then she has served the Greater Good (And gets a nice bowl of kiddy brain matter for her trouble when she gets back)…

Lysander
Lysander
September 7, 2021 6:29 pm

Haha that’s funny Panzer 😛

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 6:29 pm

“To me, sad story of woman in deep despair and looking to a future without hope.
I’d leave the judgement with the court in full awareness of the circumstances.”

I think that C.L. is pointing out the double standards. Women have an easier time in our judicial system.

Cassie of Sydney
September 7, 2021 6:30 pm

It’s not slow talkers that annoy me….it’s slow thinkers.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 6:30 pm

Rex!
You’re alive!!
OMG!
I thought you had been sentenced to death by the Supreme Bird Council.

Indolent
Indolent
September 7, 2021 6:31 pm

Idolent, questioning a politician makes you as bad as one of the January 6th people.

Thank you, that’s a tremendous compliment.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 6:32 pm

Lysandersays:

September 7, 2021 at 6:29 pm

Haha that’s funny Panzer

Don’t misquote the Ruddster.
He will accuse you of being part of the worldwide Mudrock conspiracy.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 7, 2021 6:34 pm

I told Bird I would be setting my Nano-Wriggler legions about the task of consuming all Aether in the Universe last night, so as to restore physics to the Newtonian and Einsteinian form we all know (and he hates).

FMD.
What a retard.
Who thinks he is smarter than Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Kevin Sheedy combined.

Lysander
Lysander
September 7, 2021 6:35 pm

Thanks Panz.

see you all on the flipside. 🙂

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