Open Thread – Weekend 11 Sept 2021


A Lion attacking a Horse, George Stubbs, 1765

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Zipster
September 13, 2021 5:46 pm

I actually thought of that, but there are dozens of copies (and that’s all they are, photocopies) stuck up everywhere. Hard to get them all.

sharpie

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 13, 2021 5:46 pm

Girls aren’t taught to look for “quality” any more.

Instapundit last week:

CHICKS DIG BAD BOYS (CONT’D): Women sending killer dad Chris Watts ‘racy’ letters. “Watts isn’t the only criminal to receive such letters. Frequent love letters have also been written to killers Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson and Richard Ramirez (who ended up marrying one of his admirers).”

Sending love letters to Charles Manson is really weird. Just putting this thought out there girls.

rosie
rosie
September 13, 2021 5:48 pm

Why is Australia leading the charge?
Because most of our first waves of inbound will be from China, India, Africa and Lebanon?

Arky
September 13, 2021 5:48 pm

The Beloved still melts when one of the girls sidles up to him and says, “Daddeee!” He’s such a stooge.

..
Yes, well that’s the problem. Which is why we have to concentrate on blokes standards.
As men, can’t possibly know what goes through the brain of a critter who has been trained for years in childhood to understand that being cute gets you stuff and approval rather than a smack in the head.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 13, 2021 5:51 pm

“Two months ago Mr O’Keefe was charged with slapping, kicking and spitting on his doctor girlfriend in a row over an ice pipe she claimed he was carrying at a party.”

He was subject to a DVO, which he didn’t even attempt to have set aside.
He has now (alleged) breached that DVO.
If true, Mr O’Keefe is in a lot of trouble, and will find it very hard to avoid either rehab or a community protection order (home detention).

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 13, 2021 5:53 pm

Because of COVID, I’d punt on the home detention.
If he was some bloke from Mount Druitt without two cents to rub together, he’d be detained already.

Arky
September 13, 2021 5:54 pm

If true, Mr O’Keefe is in a lot of trouble, and will find it very hard to avoid either rehab or a community protection order (home detention).

..
Which will be different from everyone else in Victoria currently exactly how?

Roger
Roger
September 13, 2021 5:56 pm

Which will be different from everyone else in Victoria currently exactly how?

You’re all guilty of something.

rosie
rosie
September 13, 2021 5:58 pm

So true Roger.

Roger
Roger
September 13, 2021 6:00 pm

So true Roger.

😉

calli
calli
September 13, 2021 6:01 pm

I’m guilty of Unkind Thoughts. If I finally escape house arrest it might escalate to Dirty Looks.

After that…things might get really tense.

Roger
Roger
September 13, 2021 6:06 pm

I’ve lived in a quasi police state.

And if you think I’m joking you don’t know what QLD police used to get up to and what politicians winked at in the Joh years.

But I think Dan & Vikpol have taken it to a new level.

The question is…will Victorians reward him for it at the next election?

If so, they really do deserve him.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 13, 2021 6:07 pm

I’m guilty of Unkind Thoughts.

Breaking News:
Peter Dutton announces new Unkind Thoughts flying squad.
To protect dah peeepal.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 13, 2021 6:08 pm

The question is…will Victorians reward him for it at the next election?

It will be the biggest landslide to Labor in Victorian history.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 13, 2021 6:09 pm

rickwsays:
September 13, 2021 at 5:40 pm

Gronk attack!!

This is an example of what I mean when I say the government isnt content to let people dissapear on the margins anymore.
Speculating here , but that looks to me a bit like a gentleman of the street (the bag of assorted belongings on the path) who has been stopped and given an order/fine or fuckaround by the lady constables.

Most of these people have active drug and/or mental problems but our “caring’ society would rather they be ‘invisible’ on the margins than treated and rehabbed.

Come the pandemic and the government wont treat & rehab them, but it also wont let them be invisible anymore and seeks to control people whos whole lives are just chaos.

Hoboman is lucky the policettes partner chose to run away and not tazer/shoot him. But at some stage that is going to happen because you cant push on the metally ill without serious consequences for everyone involved.

30 years ago a person could up stumps, drop out of society and effectively disappear into the countryside or margins of the city.
Our wise idiots in government dont like this as people not being controlled scares them.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 13, 2021 6:12 pm

“JohnJJJ says:
September 13, 2021 at 11:08 am

Interesting new restrictions on ivermectin.”
*********
Their three reasons for banning most Australian doctors from prescribing it for covid are:
(a) creating shortages for other uses – well, at least that’s explicable;
(b) a bunch of transnational stooges have ranted against it – why should a qualified Australian doctor be prevented from treating a specific patient according to the patient’s specific need just because some trough-snouting bugpeople are trying to maintain big pharma’s monopoly?
(c ) and this purler…

“Secondly, the doses of ivermectin that are being advocated for use in unreliable social media posts and other sources for COVID-19 are significantly higher than those approved and found safe for scabies or parasite treatment. These higher doses can be associated with serious adverse effects, including severe nausea, vomiting, dizziness, neurological effects such as dizziness, seizures and coma.”

But why ban doctors prescribing it? If they’re telling us that Australian health professionals aren’t competent to use a drug that’s been widely used for decades because they’ll gullibly fall for internet memes, then why are we supposed to trust health professionals telling us to take the mRNA vaccines?

Cassie of Sydney
September 13, 2021 6:12 pm

I knew it was a political hit job. It failed spectacularly for Labor here in NSW with McKay losing her leadership job……plus I thought the left celebrated “sex work”…I description I loathe because it demeans sex and work.

“Dumped Nationals MP Michael Johnsen reveals all on rape allegations

Dumped Nationals MP Michael Johnsen has revealed clandestine details about his trysts with a sex worker — in a bush, under a bridge and at her house — but has vowed he will “never” pay for intimacy again after being accused of rape.

Dumped Nationals MP Michael Johnsen has revealed clandestine details about his trysts with a sex worker in a bush, under a bridge and at her house but has vowed he will “never” pay for intimacy again after his detractors accused him of rape in parliament.

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph, the former Upper Hunter MP revealed he was still eyeing a return to politics and has found solace with new love Karla who has supported him in the wake of claims made in parliament that he raped the thirty-something sex worker.

Speaking candidly about the “anguish” he suffered after rival Labor MP Trish Doyle used Parliamentary privilege to state he raped a prostitute and was embroiled in a lewd Question Time sexting scandal, he said: “I made mistakes, I’m an imperfect human, I was messy, my divorce had a huge impact on me.”

“I saw a sex worker and, yes, it was not my first dalliance — but I’ve never seen one while in a committed relationship.

“It was titillating and exciting — I was finding myself again after thirty years of marriage. I married at the age of 21 and had never played the field.

“I’m a red blooded male, sorry if I get turned on. But rape? It just didn’t happen.

“It’s caused deep anguish, I lost control of myself, my self esteem and emotions.

“It was stitched up over the Upper Hunter seat. But I was stupid to be texting the sex worker in parliament.”

Mr Johnsen said he had no hard feelings towards the woman, or “the oldest profession in the world,” but believes she took umbrage over a tweet he wrote asking how many Black Lives Matter protesters also demonstrated in favour of full term abortions.

The woman complained to police and her local MP Trish Doyle who 18 months later in March, under parliamentary privilege, stated “a sitting MP” raped a woman at a lookout in the Blue Mountains in September 2019.

Details emerged that he sent her lewd text messages. One dated September 24 said, “Not fair, I‘m sitting in the chamber with a hard on now”. Another read “I’m in QT and f*** I’m horny and want you so bad — need you, I want you and I can’t wait to f*** you over and over again xxx.”

She claimed he sent an obscene video of him masturbating while parliament was sitting.

Mr Johnsen identified himself after Ms Doyle’s speech after his name was leaked to the media.

He was booted out of the National Party and resigned from state parliament triggering a by-election in May in which the Nationals retained the Upper Hunter turning the seat into one of the most marginal in the state at 0.5 per cent.

“I’m Catholic and I was adopted as a child, my mum never aborted me, and gave me the chance to be here today,” he said, defending his tweet.

“I met the sex worker through Locanto personal ads, for three times in three weeks — the first at the Yellow Rock lockout in the Blue Mountains — when she claimed I raped her — yet she agreed a second encounter, at her home in the Blue Mountains, and the third, under a bridge,” he said.

“She continued to send me topless photos, it was still flirtatious until the end.

“I don’t hate sex workers, they provide a service, it’s the world’s oldest profession, but would I go back? Never. I have Karla now — our brains connect as well as everything else.”

The sex worker claimed Mr Johnsen raped her at the look out and sent her lewd texts during Parliamentary Question Time and offered $1000 to have sex in parliament.

“That text doesn’t exist,” he said, adding, “Nor does the video in which she claims I was standing in a toilet holding a tablet masturbating while filming myself — unless you’ve got three hands that’s impossible.”

Police, with the DPP ruled last month there was “insufficient admissible evidence” to proceed with charges.

Mr Johnsen says he suffers anxiety from the ordeal but a relationship with education sector worker Karla, whom he had dated for several weeks when the scandal broke, has given him a fresh start.

He has written to Speaker of the NSW Legislative Assembly, Jonathan O’Dea, asking the lower house to refer Ms Doyle’s actions, and then-Opposition leader Jodi McKay’s, who he said “conspired”, to the privileges and ethics committee. He wants Ms Doyle sacked.

Karla, whose home he shares in the Upper Hunter country, said she was “surprised” he had been at Yellow Rock but adds: “I love Michael, call it women’s intuition, he could never rape.”

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 13, 2021 6:16 pm

Why is the Liberal party full of greens ABC catamites?

Liberal Andrew Bragg urges Scott Morrison to commit to net zero

“The longer term is the most important position because that underpins a permanent management plan for climate change,” Bragg said.

“Environmental risk is like any other economic risk, it needs to be managed, which is why I have always been attracted to the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) framework, which is a way of making these risks measurable and folding them into an economic paradigm.

“There is a lot of good work out there on the table from places like the Grattan Institute, and I’m keen we work through all the opportunities to get our emissions down. This is a critical issue.”

srr
srr
September 13, 2021 6:17 pm

Has that dirty old man got his hand around the rangas waist?

Yes of course.

Stealing the Presidency didn’t make Biden more careful but more brazen.

Along with his son, brother & the rest of the Mob, he’s signalled to the world that it’s open season on anyone you can abuse for fun & profit.

srr
srr
September 13, 2021 6:21 pm

Bad boys only exist because good men stopped punching their fucking heads in.

Correct.

It’s also largely the case because of female lawyers & social workers who gamed the system for their bad boys by punishing the good men.

MatrixTransform
September 13, 2021 6:21 pm

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine design enabled by prototype pathogen preparedness

excellent behaviour … ya Mong

John H.
John H.
September 13, 2021 6:31 pm
Roger
Roger
September 13, 2021 6:34 pm

Why is the Liberal party full of greens ABC catamites?

Conquest’s Laws of Politics, No. 2:

‘Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.’

Exhibit A:

John Howard & his “broad church” Liberal Party; broad enough to include the likes of Malcolm Turnbull, Michael Photios, Gladys Berejiklian, Mr. Bragg, Matt Kean et. al..

And reduced to holding government by single seat margins federally and in NSW.

How’s the “broad church” working out for you now, John?

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 13, 2021 6:36 pm

Crown FFS………

“Crown casino, which is one of Victoria’s biggest employers, will force millions of visitors and all workers to be fully-vaccinated to gain access to the mega-attraction.” (reported in the Hun)

Crown can go and GF

rosie
rosie
September 13, 2021 6:37 pm

Thanks John H.

areff
areff
September 13, 2021 6:43 pm

why ban doctors prescribing it?

Professor Robert Clancy answers that at Quadrant, posted a few minutes ago:

A Sad and Shameful Day for Australian Medicine

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 13, 2021 6:47 pm

There’s a bit of the Chairman leveraging in Crown’s capitulation.
And Chinee.

MatrixTransform
September 13, 2021 6:49 pm

If a person were to ‘accidentally’ (but with discretion) place a small black ‘dot’ sticker on a white space on a QR code, would it change anything?

hmm.
damn good question
was reading QR specs a few months back
the codes have error checking and even auto-correction but the system can only be so tolerant.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 13, 2021 6:51 pm

Dune Gets Attacked As “White Savior Story” DIRECTOR VILLENEUVE RESPONDS!

LOL. Villeneuve is a Green.

‘Dune’ Director Denis Villeneuve Launches Climate Change Rant at Venice Film Festival: ‘Future Generations will Judge Us’ (3 Sep)

I love it when lefties cannibalize each other.

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 13, 2021 6:51 pm

John H. Does the H stand for horseshit? Take a look at Israel and the UK, the Seychelles etc etc.
Do you and rosie get paid for the crap you post here?

cohenite
September 13, 2021 6:53 pm

Why is the Liberal party full of greens ABC catamites?

Liberal Andrew Bragg urges Scott Morrison to commit to net zero

Little johnnie and his commitment to the broad church rather then conservative principles. Something every leader since, even abbott, have hid behind. And don’t forget without little johnnie turdball would be just a wanker, not an ex-PM wanker. Little fucking johnnie.

MatrixTransform
September 13, 2021 6:55 pm

Anti-vaxxers’ plan to take over NSW town

Listen up John H … when you do stuff like that you really do look like a bit of a Stasi mong.

so what you need to do is operate with the same level of good faith as you’d demand yourself

but, you being the smartest.prick.in.the.room … you’d know that already

right?

go join a high-school debate team

Delta A
Delta A
September 13, 2021 6:56 pm

The Beloved still melts when one of the girls sidles up to him and says, “Daddeee!”

Just wait until the granddaughters are teens.

Best Man is putty in their hands.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 13, 2021 7:00 pm

John H = Grigsock?

In other news, Their ABC tries to tell dissenters and refuseniks that since are all willingly under the panopticon of Big Tech, why do they even bother.

More mendaciously oleaginous than Grigory at the last Presidential Election on the OldCat…

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/have-climate-deniers-fuelled-the-rise-of-covid-anti-vaxxers/ar-AAOmK9m?ocid=mailsignout&li=AAgfYrC

rickw
rickw
September 13, 2021 7:04 pm

Aussie Cossack / Craig Kelly livestream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7I21e-XOzk

rosie
rosie
September 13, 2021 7:06 pm

Rex I thinks it’s Mitch.
Shrug.
Facts are facts.

rosie
rosie
September 13, 2021 7:09 pm

Oh I get paid.
A fortune.
Israel also has similar statistics regarding rates of hospitalisations.
JC posted them a couple of weeks ago.
I think there was something of s discussion after someone claimed they didn’t make sense, to them.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
September 13, 2021 7:15 pm

Rex

Life, liberty and horse worm paste…

What a balanced and not at all shit sub heading.
I wonder if all the people taking it for malaria know what the ABCcess thinks of them?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 13, 2021 7:16 pm

Think I made the same call at the time Cassie. Messy divorce, adolescent toilet humour, probably foolish big noting himself. All added up to something I have seen before in both sexes who hooked up young. As much as I consider the man low rent and a very ordinary local member who featherbedded his town of Scone with largesse, IMO he was a victim of both the ALP and those in the wet Liberal side of the house. Lib’s have their swamp creature in Layzell who will rubber stamp everything Gladys proposes. Johnsen had a habit of voting with his conscience at times.

Michael though do us a favour and stay out of it. Your time is past and it is not worth it.

John H.
John H.
September 13, 2021 7:21 pm

MatrixTransformsays:
September 13, 2021 at 6:55 pm
Anti-vaxxers’ plan to take over NSW town

Listen up John H … when you do stuff like that you really do look like a bit of a Stasi mong.

so what you need to do is operate with the same level of good faith as you’d demand yourself

but, you being the smartest.prick.in.the.room … you’d know that already

right?

go join a high-school debate team

If you knew anything about that town you’d realise it is a joke.

You were the one who told me to “stay in my own lane” when I stated that those not vaccinated would be subject to restrictions. You refuted the idea outright. Three days later it was all over the news. So spare me the cheap insults because you couldn’t see the fucking obvious.

Cassie of Sydney
September 13, 2021 7:23 pm

“Michael though do us a favour and stay out of it. Your time is past and it is not worth it.”

Agree…but he’s entitled to speak up and badger that the low life Trish Doyle to be sacked. I knew the accusations stank…to high heaven. And as for texting the whore whilst he was sitting in parliament….what an adolescent. Anyway, he’s clearly met a good strong women now and he should steer clear of grubby whores.

Roger
Roger
September 13, 2021 7:24 pm

Beijing Biden Moves to Spy On Everyones’ Bank Accounts Using Tax Evasion as an Excuse

It would appear he’s accepted advice to double down on the agenda now becuase the mid-terms are going to be very ugly.

Muddy
Muddy
September 13, 2021 7:28 pm

Random historical tidbit:

21st June, 1944:
Early in 1943 a scheme to drop ashes of enemy dead on the Japanese forces [in New Guinea] for propaganda purposes was devised by this organization [F.E.L.O.], and approved by both G.H.Q. [Gen. MacArthur] and L.H.Q. [Gen. Sir T. Blamey]. Unfortunately, the aircraft in which the ashes were being carried crashed, and the scheme did not eventuate.

Source.

srr
srr
September 13, 2021 7:30 pm

The question is…will Victorians reward him for it at the next election?

It will be the biggest landslide to Labor in Victorian history

.

Probably, but only because he will be ‘Cheated In’, Again, because any time someone mentions the various cheats Australian Electoral Commissions & Their Faithful Volunteers put into action and get busted at, all the Faithful Volunteers & their fellow partners in propaganda on Social Media, jump up & down, insisting even the proven cheats wouldn’t change results and so what, ‘How Dare Anyone Question The Integrity of Australia’s Voting Systems!’

All that matters is that people are made to believe that, ‘They Deserve’, the Govts that got installed against the Voters wishes, so that they will lay back and take what’s dished out to them next.

FFS, we laugh off Branch Stacking, we laugh off ‘lost’ & ‘found’ ballot boxes in key seats, we laugh off Firies & Ambos campaigning for Labor In their kit & trucks, we laugh off the mass mailout & theft of mail in ballots, BECAUSE, ‘Well, what can you do about it without getting a shovel left at your door or taking a trip down some stairs?’

Is it our fault for not getting more involved at grass roots levels?
Where to you think the enemy identifies & destroys any real threats?

And now here we are, separated, confined, watched, spied on & having our lives & livelihoods destroyed, assaulted, arrested, charged, convicted & gaoled for daring to protest govt overreach, but somehow we’re also supposed to believe that the Govts doing it to us will allow us to voted them out?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 13, 2021 7:34 pm

I wonder if all the people taking it for malaria know what the ABCcess thinks of them?

Mole, Their ABC’s drones know only what they are programmed to regurgitate and laugh derisively against for that particular 37.6355 seconds.

(And they can’t update any faster cos NBN, Comrade…)

srr
srr
September 13, 2021 7:42 pm

Thanks areff –

areff says:
September 13, 2021 at 6:43 pm

why ban doctors prescribing it?

Professor Robert Clancy answers that at Quadrant, posted a few minutes ago:

A Sad and Shameful Day for Australian Medicine

September 10, 2021, was a black day, the day a group of faceless bureaucrats […] prevent doctors at the COVID-19 pandemic’s coalface from prescribing ivermectin (IVM), the one therapy available that is safe, cheap and which reduces mortality in the order of 60 per cent.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/public-health/2021/09/a-sad-and-shameful-day-for-australian-medicine/

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
September 13, 2021 7:51 pm

rickw says:
September 13, 2021 at 7:04 pm

Aussie Cossack / Craig Kelly livestream:
**************************
Over 7000 on the live stream

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
September 13, 2021 7:51 pm
Rorschach
Rorschach
September 13, 2021 7:56 pm

Craig Kelly: They have taken a blow torch to the Australian character.

Too true

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 13, 2021 8:03 pm

Random historical tidbit:

My great – uncle served in the “unnecessary campaigns” of 1944/45 in New Guinea. He wrote in his diary of dire threats of disciplinary action, direct from the divisional commander, should any man in the division suffer malaria. One of the first casualties, from malaria, in the division, was said divisional commander…

MatrixTransform
September 13, 2021 8:04 pm

If you knew anything about that town you’d realise it is a joke

Why don’t cannibals eat clowns?

… because they taste funny

Rorschach
Rorschach
September 13, 2021 8:05 pm

I tuned in half way through – Craig is making a massive amount of sense.

It is just such a pity that he is in Palmer’s party. Without Big Clive’s stink, I think he would get a lot more traction. [I know that Clive probably bankrolls the show and that massive leg up… but by the same token, he who controls the purse strings ultimately controls the show].

Rorschach
Rorschach
September 13, 2021 8:06 pm

Craig: We are ceding our authority to bureaucrats to Europe…

Too true

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
September 13, 2021 8:17 pm

Perhaps the Kochie make-up thing isn’t about the vaxx at all.

I noticed, before I switched off, that he was progressively looking more like a death’s head with each passing day. I wonder if one of the artistes has been having a little fun at his expense and he’s twigged?

Obviously he doesn’t require a hairdresser.

There is a strong negative correlation between Kochie’s wokeness and Port Powers onfield performance.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 13, 2021 8:21 pm

Rorschach says:
September 13, 2021 at 8:05 pm

I tuned in half way through – Craig is making a massive amount of sense.

It is just such a pity that he is in Palmer’s party. Without Big Clive’s stink, I think he would get a lot more traction. [I know that Clive probably bankrolls the show and that massive leg up… but by the same token, he who controls the purse strings ultimately controls the show].

Rorschach… a series of questions and I take note of your financing concern but….

who finances the so called Liberal Party of Australia both federally and at individual State levels?

who really finances the so called Australian Labor Party, and it’s quasi derivatives?

which organizations, international and local pump money into The Greens?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 13, 2021 8:22 pm

Craig is making a massive amount of sense.

It is just such a pity that he is in Palmer’s party.

It’s fun how this has turned out. Pauline’s mob have traction because she has balls. Earned in spades. Craig’s mob has traction because he has money, which has been extracted from unhappy Chinks by Clive. Neither have traction because of policies because Aussies are idiots. For which I blame the MSM and their endless drip drip of green-prog pap.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 13, 2021 8:29 pm

Eyrie says:
September 13, 2021 at 6:51 pm

John H. Does the H stand for horseshit? Take a look at Israel and the UK, the Seychelles etc etc.
Do you and rosie get paid for the crap you post here?

Oddly enough, when you look at the data from the UK and Israel you see strong evidence that vaccination reduces severity and fatalities from Covid including dread variant Delta.

Not immediately clear how you would extrapolate anything useful from the Seychelles data.

Clearly John H and Rosie are servants of the False Canaanites.

Cassie of Sydney
September 13, 2021 8:32 pm

I like Craig Kelly. I do not like or trust Clive Palmer. Palmer gifted us that bush pig from Tasmania.

BoN….”Neither have traction because of policies “

I think you’ll find that Pauline has actually performed well and done a lot of good in the senate unlike the bush pig from Tasmania.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 13, 2021 8:34 pm

Zipstersays:
September 13, 2021 at 7:13 pm
Beijing Biden Moves to Spy On Everyones’ Bank Accounts Using Tax Evasion as an Excuse

Including his and Hunter’s???

Rorschach
Rorschach
September 13, 2021 8:35 pm

who finances the so called Liberal Party of Australia both federally and at individual State levels? … who really finances the so called Australian Labor Party, and it’s quasi derivatives?

Yah…

They are in the hands (currently) of the large corporations etc. Even the Unions don’t really get a look in with Labour any more. And that is why the uniparty is not about improving the wellbeing / prosperity of the voter, but enriching Colesworths, Banks, etc and it appears ever more obvious, Big Pharma.

This is my point though with Clive. Whilst LDP and Hansen’s party are prob mostly funded by the members, Craig bragged that they have a massive war chest. If it is Clive’s money – then the Party will ultimately be hostage to his whims (and not the members / voters).

twostix
twostix
September 13, 2021 8:35 pm

Palmer gifted us that bush pig from Tasmania.

Man oh man.

It’s all true.

Rorschach
Rorschach
September 13, 2021 8:36 pm

Neither have traction because of policies because Aussies are idiots.

That may change big time this round!

Harlequin Decline
September 13, 2021 8:36 pm

rosie says:
September 13, 2021 at 7:15 pm

Very useful link, explains the Israeli data and supports Dr Faustus’s comment that the vaccines do reduce the severity of the Chinese lung rot.

twostix
twostix
September 13, 2021 8:37 pm

The problem with UAP, besides the above, is that people are going to be uncomfortable with a party that is run from behind the curtain by some rich guy. He needs to either front up himself or detach from the party somehow.

Muddy
Muddy
September 13, 2021 8:37 pm

Random historical bits:

The eight classifications of coercive interrogation are:-
(a) Isolation
(b) Monopolization of attention
(c) Induced debilitation and exhaustion
(d) Cultivation of anxiety and despair
(e) Alternating punishments and rewards
(f) Demonstrating omniscience and omnipotence of captor
(g) Degradation
(h) Enforcing trivial and absurd demands

Source: “Communist interrogation methods.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 13, 2021 8:38 pm

Cassie – Pauline has a Tobin tax in her policies, which is one of the dumbest things imaginable. Aside from that I like her style.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 13, 2021 8:41 pm

One difference between Alan Bond and Clive Palmer is that QNI survived Alan.

Cassie of Sydney
September 13, 2021 8:41 pm

” If it is Clive’s money – then the Party will ultimately be hostage to his whims (and not the members / voters).”

Exactly.

Look I understand why Craig Kelly has gone with Palmer…. it’s the dosh! Kelly knows that the Liberals will throw money at Hughes and GetUp will also throw lots of money at the seat.

But nothing is free with Palmer…there are always strings attached.

Rorschach
Rorschach
September 13, 2021 8:43 pm

Saying that, there is a risk that LDP, UAP, Hansen, Fishers etc and any independents will split the votes and the Uniparty will scrape in.

The smaller parties MUST co-ordinate between each other [it’s not collusion in politics – it’s exchanging preferences :)] and more importantly, education their supporters that they – if they want change – must preference the Hansen’s, Clives, Leyonhjelms ABOVE the uniparty … no matter how distasteful that may be.

This is critical as when knocked out the preferences remain live and not snagged by the Uniparty.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 13, 2021 8:47 pm

Students taught to check their privilege and ‘deconstruct’ the Australian flag

Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge says students should be taught to defend symbols of their country, not tear them down, after controversial new lessons about the flag.

By James Morrow in The Daily Telegraph

State and federal education ministers have slammed divisive third-party learning plans promoted by the NSW Department of Education in the name of anti-racism, saying students should be taught to “defend our key institutions and symbols, rather than trying to destroy them”.

The learning plans were developed by third parties and linked to from the department’s website, though some of the links vanished last week as part of what the department called a website upgrade.

Among other things, the lessons called on students to “deconstruct” symbols of Australia including the flag, Australia Day and the national anthem.

In the flag exercise, developed by a group called “Cool Australia” and using a documentary about footballer Adam Goodes as a jumping off point, students are asked to “examine” the Australian flag and analyse it to see “who is included” and “who is excluded or not visible”.

The worksheet also asks students to summarise criticisms and defences of Australia Day as part of a project of “deconstructing symbols of Australia”, and points to a number of resources, almost all of them in favour of changing the date.

These include a Buzzfeed video titled Aboriginal people respond to Australia Day, links to ABC articles urging that the national day be changed, and an article on the website of The Ethics Centre that states “the date will change” as a matter of fact, adding, “the only reasons … for opposition to changing the date is white privilege, or perhaps even racism”.

An accompanying teachers’ guide suggests that to be marked correct, students should say that it “Erases Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and custodianship of land”, and “Celebrates colonisation and erases the colonisers’ violent history towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”.

While there are no firm figures as to how many schools use the resource, the teachers’ website Education Matters claims “hundreds” of schools use the Goodes documentary in their classrooms.

Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge said the curriculum should “focus on how to defend our key institutions and symbols, rather than trying to destroy them”.

“Our flag represents the greatest country on Earth – one which 100,000 have died defending. It ought to be respected, not torn down,” he said.

NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell agreed, saying students “do not need incendiary external resources pushed into the classroom from third parties”.

Bella d’Abrera, director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs, was similarly scathing.

“The state government has no place actively promoting radical race theory to Australian children, who will grow up believing that Australia is irredeemably racist,” she said.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 13, 2021 8:51 pm

Saying that, there is a risk that LDP, UAP, Hansen, Fishers etc and any independents will split the votes and the Uniparty will scrape in.

The smaller parties MUST co-ordinate between each other

I haven’t worked out yet whether Fitzy’s noteworthy Sir Robin performance today is because PHON will win Hunter, or due to the ALP tofu-mafia monstering him. Election in six months, which is the magic time period for such announcements.

John H.
John H.
September 13, 2021 8:53 pm

How your DNA may affect whether you get COVID-19 or become gravely ill

I wish they were testing people with morbidities for Vitamin D status(d inhibits inflammation), CRP(inflammatory marker), and ESR(inflammation marker). They could also think about neutrophil and lymphocyte counts as those can point to occult infections.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 13, 2021 8:56 pm

One difference between Alan Bond and Clive Palmer is that QNI survived Alan.

Bell Group didn’t survive Alan.. Alan (spit) fvcking (spit) Bond (spit.)

Muddy
Muddy
September 13, 2021 8:58 pm

Bruce of Newcastle says:
the ALP tofu-mafia

Love the phrase, Bruce.

calli
calli
September 13, 2021 8:58 pm

Deconstructing the Australian flag?

St George
St Andrew
St Patrick

Federation Star

Southern Cross

Does that help?

JC
JC
September 13, 2021 9:00 pm

Yes Rones, you’ve told the same story over and over again 57 times. We know, you lost billions in the Bell Group debacle. Billions!

John H.
John H.
September 13, 2021 9:01 pm

Prior to vaccination I wish …

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 13, 2021 9:01 pm

Students taught to check their privilege and ‘deconstruct’ the Australian flag

Excellent.

It’s got a big star and some smaller ones. The big star is called the Sun, and it defines climate on Earth. It caused most of the warming last century, not CO2. The smaller ones can be used to work out where you need to go: just extrapolate them to the line bisecting the Centaurs and you know where south is.

The lines in the flag give our heritage. The thing in the upper left corner is the combination of the English flag, the Scots flag and the Irish saltire. Given that many if not most Aussies are derived from Poms, Scots and Paddies that is excellent. I comprise the full set!

Sadly what they mean by deconstructing the Australian flag isn’t likely to be what I regard as deconstructing it.

calli
calli
September 13, 2021 9:01 pm

Or this, perhaps:

Our flag bears the stars that blaze at night
In our southern sky of blue
And that little old flag in the corner
That’s part of our heritage too,
It’s for the English, the Scots and the Irish
Who were sent to the end of the earth
The rogues and the schemers and dreamers
Who gave our Australia its birth.

And you who are shouting to change it
You don’t seem to understand
It’s the flag of our laws and language
Not the flag of a far away land
There are plenty of people who’ll tell you
How when Europe was plunged into night
The little old flag in the corner
Was their symbol of freedom and light.
It don’t mean we owe our allegiance
To a forgotten imperial dream
We’ve the stars to show where we’re going
And the old flag to show where we’ve been
It’s only an old piece of bunting
It’s only an old coloured rag
But there are thousands who died for its honour
And fell in defence of our flag.

Not woke enough I suppose.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 13, 2021 9:07 pm

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty

Sovereignty? What sovereignty?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 13, 2021 9:08 pm

Yes, I know it is the Federation Star and the points correspond to the states. But I’m emulating the teachers’ unions in their silly this means this stuff. It’s a reasonable rationalization after all, if you are an impressionable kid.

132andBush
132andBush
September 13, 2021 9:10 pm

What turns a sensible person into an idiot?

“Virtue”

John H.
John H.
September 13, 2021 9:10 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
September 13, 2021 at 9:07 pm
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty

Sovereignty? What sovereignty?

Dreamers, silly little dreamers.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 13, 2021 9:11 pm

My comment under the article in the Daily Tele:

Disgraceful.

But it’s all very well the NSW Education Minister saying it’s wrong. Why isn’t action being taken? Fire a few of the people who allowed this in the door in the first place.

Yet to get up and it’s been 20 minutes.

jupes
jupes
September 13, 2021 9:14 pm

Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge said the curriculum should “focus on how to defend our key institutions and symbols, rather than trying to destroy them”.

“Our flag represents the greatest country on Earth – one which 100,000 have died defending. It ought to be respected, not torn down,” he said.

NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell agreed, saying students “do not need incendiary external resources pushed into the classroom from third parties”.

Yet what will these two oxygen thieves do about it?

We all know the answer to that.

cohenite
September 13, 2021 9:18 pm

Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge said the curriculum should “focus on how to defend our key institutions and symbols, rather than trying to destroy them”.

“Our flag represents the greatest country on Earth – one which 100,000 have died defending. It ought to be respected, not torn down,” he said.

NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell agreed, saying students “do not need incendiary external resources pushed into the classroom from third parties”.

The pair of useless scumbags could make the bureaucrats tow the line but don’t. Just saying a few nominally sensible words doesn’t cut it. When’s the last time a conservative fired bureaucrats. Oh right, Campbell Newman.

Cassie of Sydney
September 13, 2021 9:19 pm

Nice to see you Jupes.

Zipster
September 13, 2021 9:28 pm

An accompanying teachers’ guide suggests that to be marked correct, students should say that it “Erases Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty and custodianship of land”,

this word custodianship, I don’t think it means what you think it means.

“Celebrates colonisation and erases the colonisers’ violent history towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”.

and between themselves.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 13, 2021 9:33 pm

“Our flag represents the greatest country on Earth – one which 100,000 have died defending. It ought to be respected, not torn down,” he said.

The article shows an Australian flag being burned…..I’m wondering what the uproar would be if an “Aboriginal” flag was similarly burned.

Bar Beach Swimmer
September 13, 2021 9:35 pm

132andBushsays:
September 13, 2021 at 9:10 pm
What turns a sensible person into an idiot?

“Virtue”

Bush, not virtue, but advertising one’s virtue.

John H.
John H.
September 13, 2021 9:40 pm

It’s official: Clive Palmer pays $20m for neighbouring ‘titanium’ house

Locally it has been dubbed the “titanium house”, likely for the extensive German engineering, which includes a bulletproof bedroom and steel-spine staircase, imported from Italy.

It should be fat food proof.

The purchase gives Mr Palmer a string of nine consecutive blocks along the Sovereign Islands’ promontory, from No. 1-5 through to No. 13-17, and will make him the owner of the largest residential landholding on the Gold Coast.

Smart, GC real estate prices keep on climbing. Southerners are buying up big.

Gold Coast house prices remained steady with 2.2 per cent growth during July, pushing it up 7.3 per cent for the recent quarter and 25.7 per cent for the year to date. The current median value for dwellings is $695,000 which is $16,000 higher than just a month ago.

Zipster
September 13, 2021 9:47 pm

Yet to get up and it’s been 20 minutes.

phrasing!

JC
JC
September 13, 2021 9:48 pm

We find it laughably stupid someone burning an Australian flag, Rones. Most of us would laugh at such a ridiculous act that was obviously copied from the US. Most regular people don’t take it seriously.

I’m wondering what the uproar would be if an “Aboriginal” flag was similarly burned.

Probably no real uproar for the simple reason that most people find the idea of an aboriginal flag to be a complete joke.

Enough of your low IQ outrageous outrage, you dullard.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

I’m wondering what the uproar would be if an “Aboriginal” flag was similarly burned.

Probably no real uproar for the simple reason that most people find the idea of an aboriginal flag to be a complete joke.

Hmmm.
How can you have regular close contact with aboriginal people & arrive at that conclusion?

How many aboriginal people would you speak with each day?
How many do you work with?
Has there ever been a time when you have not been working shoulder to shoulder with an aboriginal person?

cohenite
September 13, 2021 9:57 pm

Andrew bragg is a member of this bullshit:

https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&status=&class_year=&sector=&region=a0Tb00000000DCNEA2

Yet the LNP have appointed him as the arbitor of the abc’s bias. The LNP are fucked in the head.

rickw
rickw
September 13, 2021 9:57 pm

A Sad and Shameful Day for Australian Medicine

Medicine has had more than its fair share of sad and shameful days, they don’t seem to learn from this.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 13, 2021 10:00 pm

Tell you what.

The way things are going over there, DashCat’s starting to make the Furniture Shop look like high tea at Buckingham Palace.

JC
JC
September 13, 2021 10:00 pm

Australian civilization can easily withstand someone burning our flag because we’re not so fragile as to go apeshit over it. We will just think less of a moron or morons doing that to the flag. Such an act wouldn’t change anyone’s opinion about Australia.

If they go apeshit over the aboriginal flag being burnt then that shows just how fragile they are about their symbol. It says more about them, Rones, you moron .

rickw
rickw
September 13, 2021 10:03 pm

Long discussion today with a coworker regarding the circling vax sharks.

They were genuinely distressed and felt huge pressure to conform despite their better judgment.

What a hideous country.

Bar Beach Swimmer
September 13, 2021 10:09 pm

Muddysays:
September 13, 2021 at 8:37 pm
Random historical bits:

The eight classifications of coercive interrogation are:-
(a) Isolation
(b) Monopolization of attention
(c) Induced debilitation and exhaustion
(d) Cultivation of anxiety and despair
(e) Alternating punishments and rewards
(f) Demonstrating omniscience and omnipotence of captor
(g) Degradation
(h) Enforcing trivial and absurd demands

Source: “Communist interrogation methods.“

So State Governments’ ‘rona playbooks.

JC
JC
September 13, 2021 10:10 pm

Try this.
I’m trying to figure if it’s just coincidence.

https://twitter.com/stvn_____/status/1435415504840237056/video/1

Bar Beach Swimmer
September 13, 2021 10:12 pm

rickwsays:
September 13, 2021 at 10:03 pm

rick, as a first step and if they haven’t done so already, they need to complete the Australian Immunisation Register Ceasing correspondence and release of information and mail in to the Dept of Human Services. Doing so will lock their immunisation status from third parties, including doctors.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 13, 2021 10:12 pm

I would like to emphasise at this juncture that I have no desire to see the colossal flog come back, but where’s ‘footy journalist’ Mark Robinson gone?

Dot
Dot
September 13, 2021 10:14 pm
Bar Beach Swimmer
September 13, 2021 10:14 pm

I’m trying to figure if it’s just coincidence

JC, yes, it is. I said zucchini

JC
JC
September 13, 2021 10:14 pm

Driller

It’s been explained to you before – not just me but others too.

Leave the lived experience crap to the woke. If you followed your own advice with regards to the lived experience , there is very little you could ever discuss.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 13, 2021 10:25 pm

Dot at 10.14:

Anne Marie Lastrassi, aka Beyonce.

Bahahahahaaaaaa.

Spent all the previous cash thrown at her by tweens, and is now clearly trying to make a buck peddling the black foodie Italian lady singing chestnut.

Her problem is that Halle Berry’s twice as hot, has better cans and is a more accurate shot.

jupes
jupes
September 13, 2021 10:32 pm

JC, yes, it is. I said zucchini

I said potato.

JC
JC
September 13, 2021 10:37 pm

Really? I came up with carrot too.

Muddy
Muddy
September 13, 2021 10:43 pm

Sorry. The reference link for my post at 8:37 p.m. could have specified the page number: 326.

There are other interesting and relevant points/pointers in the text, but too many to mention here.

duncanm
duncanm
September 13, 2021 10:43 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
September 13, 2021 at 9:07 pm
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty

Sovereignty? What sovereignty?

You know, all 367 of them (or however many it was).

vlad redux
vlad redux
September 13, 2021 10:44 pm

One seriously has to wonder about a “Catholic group” when not a single member is named.

Who are they? I’d be guessing there’s about two of them – if that.

But their ABC runs with the story.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-13/tasmanian-catholic-group-react-to-archbishops-vax-exemption-call/100455682

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 13, 2021 10:46 pm

You know, all 367 of them (or however many it was).

And none with so much as a written language?

JC
JC
September 13, 2021 10:52 pm

Driller

Let me also add the following, which will highlight why I never had much time for your comments (leaving aside the dishonesty and all the other crap, such as pubbling, outbacking and Mick Dundeeing).

Let me continue.

Your pal made an obviously stupid comment about flags. You decided to intervene like you often do when I’m beating the Rones around the ears for being the classic underachiever at everything.

To Summarize:

1. The Rones made a silly about the Aboriginal flag inferring that lots of people would be angered if someone burned their (aboriginal) flag.

2. I responded that if they did go nuts about their flag being burnt they are clearly demonstrating fragility whereas as most other Australians are singularly robust.

You responded all this is in your typical stupid, irrelevant style. Driller, explain to the readership, how the hell does the lived experience even enter in this discussion, you nimrod?

Go!

JC
JC
September 13, 2021 10:55 pm

Rones..

Come on, you know you want to say it.
It’s the boiling water shtick. Go on. One more time for the memories. 🙂

Muddy
Muddy
September 13, 2021 10:55 pm

Promises of improved conditions – Prisoners are told that they will be given regular P.W. status, that their isolation will end, that they will receive mail, good food, medical attention, etc., if they comply with the interrogator’s demands …

Enforcing trivial and absurd demands, the purpose of which is to develop the habit of compliance [my bolding]. (a) Forced writing – Most P.W.’s are required to write and rewrite answers to numerous questions – frequently, exceedingly trivial questions. They are given only very general instructions and forced to rewrite answers over and over again until “an acceptable” version is completed. In this way, the tendency to seek to understand and satisfy the interrogator’s wishes [my bolding] is fostered.

Chinese Communist Interrogation Techniques (circa Korean War). Pages & 330 334

132andBush
132andBush
September 13, 2021 10:55 pm

Bush, not virtue, but advertising one’s virtue.

BBS,
Yes, which is why I put the quote marks around it. Virtue that’s not really.
Thinking they have it because they wear a mask when in the open air.
Or wear one when having a meal and drinks at the club, continually dropping and raising the stupid thing.
Or dobbing in neighbours for a perceived breech of visitation numbers.
Or telling everyone to “just get vaccinated “ via Facebook.

Self bestowed virtue, as unearned as a vultures meal.
We have already seen it all and more in our little town.

Muddy
Muddy
September 13, 2021 10:56 pm

Hmmm, the bolding didn’t work.
*Sigh* Time for bed.

jupes
jupes
September 13, 2021 10:57 pm

I would like to emphasise at this juncture that I have no desire to see the colossal flog come back, but where’s ‘footy journalist’ Mark Robinson gone?

Good question.

It has to be what is now termed a ‘mental health episode’ of some sort. The fact we haven’t been told what ails him means that he has fucked up somehow.

I agree, AFL 360 is much better with the former players rotating through. Be even better if they got rid of Whateley as well.

srr
srr
September 14, 2021 12:31 am

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #218

https://www.lotuseaters.com/the-podcast-of-the-lotus-eaters-218-13-09-21

Carl and Callum discuss how Biden gets booed everywhere he goes, how Trump gets cheered everywhere he goes, and how the Afghan migrants are showing us their peaceful ways, by force.

Bruce in WA
September 14, 2021 12:43 am

Now how did I guess MacHitler would want to be the first?

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan will introduce strict new rules before the end of the year that mean those not vaccinated against Covid-19 will not be able to attend concerts, eat in restaurants and watch live sport from the stands.

The measures could extend to flights — both domestic and international, the Premier said Monday.

“It will be either late this year or sometime earlier next year,” Mr McGowan said.

“I can’t put a precise date on it, where we will have those measures in place.”

He said all West Australians will have the “opportunity to get vaccinated” before the measures are introduced.

It follows scathing comments from the Premier towards Prime Minister Scott Morrison who he accused of abandoning the national plan of opening up at 80 per cent vaccination coverage to reopen instead when it suits NSW.

srr
srr
September 14, 2021 12:59 am

Catholic — News Report — Bad Medicine or Fake News?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHvEdLUTs2c

Sep 11, 2021
Church Militant

srr
srr
September 14, 2021 1:02 am

Francis Enthrones Pachamama Season

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBa1sTJgRV4

Sep 13, 2021
Return To Tradition
The Church, her prayers, and her saints have been turned to the service of the world

srr
srr
September 14, 2021 1:21 am

“mh says:
September 14, 2021 at 12:51 am

‘Unaware that he was on a hot mic and being broadcast live on a TV station, Israeli health minister Nitzan Horowitz admitted that vaccine passports were primarily about coercing skeptical people to get the vaccine.

“Imposing “green pass” rules on certain venues is needed only to pressure members of the public to get vaccinated, and not for medical reasons, Israeli Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said on Sunday, ahead of the weekly Cabinet meeting,” reports Jewish News Syndicate.’”

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 14, 2021 1:39 am

Just watched The Professionals (again) on Fox.
There’s something distracting about watching Claudia Cardinale with heaving breasts straddling a saddle that always makes me forget the story line.

Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:17 am
Tom
Tom
September 14, 2021 4:18 am
Gab
Gab
September 14, 2021 4:36 am

Hey JC. I got carrott as well. I think it may have something to do with the question beforehand about fingers and the associated imagery. Just a theory.

will
will
September 14, 2021 5:58 am
will
will
September 14, 2021 6:02 am
calli
calli
September 14, 2021 6:04 am

Peas.

What the? Don’t tell me I’m Forrest Gump. 😀

will
will
September 14, 2021 6:04 am

reminds me of: Alleged right-wing extremist Mitchell Priest arrested at country NSW home with Nazi flag on wall
A man who police say holds extreme right-wing views has been arrested in country NSW over allegedly possessing instructions to 3D-print a gun.
Nothing about what actual crime was committed, except wrongthink.

calli
calli
September 14, 2021 6:06 am

Perhaps because I said “four” and was reflecting on thumbs and how useful they are.

calli
calli
September 14, 2021 6:16 am

Definitely Warren Brown this morning, Tom.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 14, 2021 6:23 am

My reaction to Warren’s was to say “oh’ no!” Then laugh a lot. I wonder what Gladys response will be?
Thanks Tom!

will
will
September 14, 2021 6:27 am

Meanwhile, in other news some flags are more equal than others

rosie
rosie
September 14, 2021 6:30 am

It is no secret that ‘vaccine passports’ are intended to pressures refusniks.
President Macron in France was very frank about that.

Mater
September 14, 2021 6:33 am

A Herald Sun headline:

473 new Covid cases; vaccine blitz in construction industry

Are these people not listening, do they have their fingers in their ears, are they slow learners, or is it just part of that pantomime for the public that Solzhenitsyn described?

The.vaccine.doesn’t.stop.the.transmission.of.the.coronavirus.

P.S. It would appear that lockdowns don’t either.

Bushkid
Bushkid
September 14, 2021 6:43 am

calli says:
September 13, 2021 at 9:01 pm
Or this, perhaps:

It isn’t just that it’s not “woke” enough, Calli.

It’s that our flag actually stands for something – our country, our heritage, our place, our hopes – rather than for nothing.

The woke hate and automatically desire to destroy anything that others actually value.

Cassie of Sydney
September 14, 2021 6:57 am

Nigel Farage overnight on GB News on vaccine passports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFg2vo-8F_U

Pity we don’t have anyone here in the MSM who’ll say the same.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 14, 2021 7:05 am

Oh boy.
WSJ does some real journalism.

Facebook Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That Is Exempt From Its Rules

In private, the company has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. At times, the documents show, the system has protected public figures whose posts contain harassment or incitement to violence, violations that would typically lead to sanctions for regular users.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerberg-elite-rules-11631541353?mod=djemalertNEWS

Not paywalled.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 14, 2021 7:06 am

This means Zuckerberg has repeatedly lied to congress.

Cassie of Sydney
September 14, 2021 7:12 am

This means Zuckerberg has repeatedly lied to congress.”

Zuckerberg and Dorsey…two of the biggest liars around.

Dot
Dot
September 14, 2021 7:15 am

Get your kids out of school.

https://youtu.be/DiFmhVsFMqM

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
September 14, 2021 7:16 am

FTB
Facebook Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That Is Exempt From Its Rules

Facebook has a white list. Uh oh, I smell racism as well. ?

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 14, 2021 7:20 am

The latest from Karl Denninger:
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243570
Check out the numbers for Scotland
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?get_gallerynr=11610

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 14, 2021 7:21 am

This means Zuckerberg has repeatedly lied to congress.

Texas and Florida are going to have fun with that nice Mr Zuckerberg methinks.

Big Tech Protests Texas Law Calling for Transparency and Appeals of Censorship (13 Sep)

After hissing and booing Florida’s Big Tech law which had the temerity to tell the leftist monopolies that banning politicians was election interference, they’re losing their minds over Texas’ Big Tech law which treats the industry giants as common carriers if they have 50 million users in the United States. It also asks for small things such as transparency and an appeals process for those who are censored.

I hope he and Dorsey get hammered after their flagrant actions against Trump and conservatives.

Cassie of Sydney
September 14, 2021 7:24 am

This story is behind a paywall so I can’t access it…..

Churches can’t stop patients’ deaths
Faith-based hospitals will not be able to deny entry to outside ­doctors to help terminally ill ­patients die after the Queensland government rejected pleas by the churches.

Firstly, will this mean that religious institutions will shut down faith-based hospitals? If so, I don’t blame them.

Secondly, what is the LNP in QLD saying and doing about this travesty or is it just the usual silence and acquiescence from them because they’re….as always….to shit scared and spineless to actually speak up about something?

Thirdly…..memo to the spineless, craven federal Liberals…where’s that federal religious freedom bill?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 14, 2021 7:26 am

Footage on the noos this morning.

A couple of ladeeee policey girls (LPGs) from NSW encounter Mr X on the street. The LPGs will never make the Australian chick basketball team, but that’s all right because Mr X also appears to be a midget.

Mr X is delivering some knees to the midsection of LPG 1, MMA-style (without the usual effect), while LPG 2 stands back and watches from ten or twelve feet away. Presumably at this point, LPG 2 is resorting to screeching as a defensive mechanism as no equipment is being used against Mr X, let alone any lefts or rights.

Mr X then runs away, and the viewer is then informed that he is pinched around the corner and down a bit. I will make the assumption that bloke cops over 5 foot 3 completed this task. Mr X then apparently plays up like a secondhand lawn mower at the station and is binned.

Someone from the brass then does a presser, where he intones ‘no police officer expects this when they go to work’.

Well if they don’t, they fucking should because like it or not that’s part of the job. If you are not prepared to a) wear the occasional decent smack in the chops while removing a piece of shit from normal people, and b) convincingly win that particular melee, then you can go and find another line of work where others won’t have to continually do your job for you.

Two scenarios – one, Mr X is a proper crook and the LPGs wanted to arrest a violent piece of shit, which is their job and they should expect to be belted while doing it.

Two, Mr X was not wearing a mask or something and was double-covid-Karened by the LPGs, in which case they should also expect to be belted while doing it.

Cassie of Sydney
September 14, 2021 7:31 am

Every now and again I have a look at Dash Cat…..and I always regret it. I haven’t posted there for weeks and won’t ever post there again. The Jew hatred is sickening. It should now be renamed Bird Shat.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 14, 2021 7:33 am

Cassie,

DashCat’s a useful vehicle for bear poking with sticks and subsequent comedy value, but that’s about it.

I think AdamD said he was in quarantine jail with a brood of kidlets, which obviously isn’t helping.

jupes
jupes
September 14, 2021 7:35 am

This means Zuckerberg has repeatedly lied to congress.”

Zuckerberg and Dorsey…two of the biggest liars around.

And why not. They get away with it every time.

Dorsey even had the gall to impersonate Osama Bin Laden while while doing so.

Cassie of Sydney
September 14, 2021 7:36 am

“DashCat’s a useful vehicle for bear poking with sticks and subsequent comedy value, but that’s about it.”

Yep…I admire anyone who has the stomach to be on there for any longer than a few minutes. I now know why Sinc was so ruthless in dealing with the Jew hating Bird. He’s grotesque.

Eddystone
Eddystone
September 14, 2021 7:37 am

Faith-based hospitals will not be able to deny entry to outside ­doctors to help terminally ill ­patients die after the Queensland government rejected pleas by the churches for institutional protection from the widest voluntary assisted dying law to go before an Australian parliament.

The legislation leaves the private, church-backed institutions that provide more than a quarter of all hospital beds in Queensland powerless to intervene if a patient who qualifies for VAD and is too ill to be moved elsewhere insists on being assessed and potentially dosed with death-dealing drugs on the premises.

The bill approved on Monday by state cabinet notionally gives individual health workers and institutions the capacity to opt out of the assisted dying scheme – except in cases when it would cause unnecessary suffering to transfer the ­patient concerned to another centre, a loophole that has been seized on by church leaders to argue they will be roped into the program.

Some ministers at Monday’s cabinet discussion wanted the churches’ push for a right of conscientious objection addres­sed. Instead, cabinet agreed the legislation would remain intact and be augmented by clinical guidelines setting out how the VAD was to interact with the faith-based hospital and care sector.

Annastacia Palaszczuk’s government resisted pressure to follow the lead of South Australia and include an all-encompassing right of institutional conscientious objection giving faith-aligned hospitals, hospices and aged-care homes legal standing to refuse entry to anyone associated with VAD.

The numbers in the single-chamber Queensland parliament, where the government commands a five-seat majority, mean the legislation to be debated from Tuesday will pass the conscience vote Ms Palaszczuk has called.

Not one Labor MP has signalled an intention to vote no, while the two Green MPs and Noosa independent Sandy Bolton support VAD. Three Gold Coast Liberal National Party parliamentarians – Michael Hart, Sam O’Connor and Rob Molhoek – have said they supported assisted dying, which would easily offset potential Labor waverers such as Logan MP Linus Power, who has expressed reservations about the measure.

LNP leader David Crisafulli is yet to declare his position, but his deputy and legal affairs spokesman, David Janetzki, is set to move amendments to the bill, granting institutions the capacity to conscientiously object.

Catholic Health Australia’s mission director, Rebecca Burdick Davies, said she was disappointed that a “flawed bill” had been retained after several rounds of talks with Deputy Premier Steven Miles, who had carriage of it for the government.

“He’s well aware of the shortcomings of this bill which purport to offer choice but in fact deny it. Guidelines will always fall short of legislation,” Ms Burdick Davies said on Monday.

St Vincent’s Health Australia, a Catholic provider that runs private hospitals at Kangaroo Point and Chermside in Brisbane, last month raised concern about staff being forced to witness voluntary assisted dying if the bill stood.

“If passed in its current form, doctors and nurse practitioners will be able to enter Queensland hospitals – unaccredited by the hospital, unannounced, without permission – and assist patients in their premature death,” chief executive Toby Hall has warned.

In a second-reading speech to be delivered on Tuesday to state parliament, Mr Miles will say the rules “specifically addresses” each of the issues raised by church leaders including Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane Mark Coleridge. These would provide “further comfort to them”, Mr Miles will tell the house.

The guidelines are yet to be ­finalised, but would require VAD doctors to inform private hospitals they were visiting and consult with in-house medical staff about whether the terminal patient could be moved to one that ­embraced voluntary euthanasia.

The guidelines would also canvass ways to minimise the ­impact on other patients – or residents in the case of nursing homes – and means by which faith-based care centres could ­advertise their objection to VAD.

In June, Liberal-governed South Australia became the first state to extend conscientious ­objection from individual doctors to faith-based hospitals, allowing them to refuse to authorise or permit “any part” of the VAD process.

State laws in Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania are largely silent on institutional conscientious objection.

The Queensland legislation goes further than other states in extending eligibility for VAD to the terminally ill who have a diagnosed life expectancy of 12 months, up from six months in the other jurisdictions, save for those with neurodegenerative conditions.

The proposed Queensland law also allows doctors to raise with patients the option of assisted dying and for nurse practitioners to deliver the lethal dose – not available in the benchmark Victorian scheme that came into ­effect in 2019. WA’s program ­became operational in July.

To be eligible, a person must be a Queensland resident older than 18, and have been diagnosed with a disease that is advanced, progressive and expected to cause death within 12 months.

Lydia Lynch
Reporter

Cassie of Sydney
September 14, 2021 7:40 am

“LNP leader David Crisafulli is yet to declare his position”

So much for Crisafulli being a “strong” leader. No different to Matthew Guy…..just Labor lite.

Cassie of Sydney
September 14, 2021 7:40 am

“Eddystonesays:
September 14, 2021 at 7:37 am”

Thanks for uploading the story.

shatterzzz
September 14, 2021 7:56 am

Every now and again I have a look at Dash Cat
And now MARKA has moved his LAME PIX to the Furniture Warehouse more will, likely, be dropping off!…

calli
calli
September 14, 2021 7:56 am

If faith-based hospitals allow outsiders onto their premises, with the sole intent to murder their patients in their beds, then they are no longer “faith-based” hospitals.

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 14, 2021 7:56 am

LNP leader David Crisafulli is yet to declare his position, but his deputy and legal affairs spokesman, David Janetzki, is set to move amendments to the bill, granting institutions the capacity to conscientiously object.

That would be the first slightly useful thing that useless oxygen thief and waste of space Janetzki has done.

lotocoti
lotocoti
September 14, 2021 7:58 am

LNP leader David Crisafulli is yet to declare his position

He’s on a nice little earner, all without having to raise his head above the parapet.
**Cue Hues Corporation**

jupes
jupes
September 14, 2021 8:00 am

I believe that Covid won’t kill or harm me, and that vaccines won’t stop the largely harmless ‘rona nor the tyrannical behaviour of governments. That being said, I’ve just had my first vaccination. Here’s why.

I am currently working in France. Here I am a second class citizen because they have vaccine passports. I have just the workplace, chemist and supermarket available to me. I was supposed to be flying home to Perth this week, however due to the pathetic Premiers and the gormless Prime Minister who have halved flights into Australia, my flight has been delayed three months.

My mate, also from Perth, has had his flight delayed a few days and is being sent to quarantine in Adelaide. Who knows what McClown will do regarding the border before he flies back home. The dickhead has previously turned Adelaide flights back from Perth airport after someone catches a cold in South Australia while the plane was in flight.

My wife who is from Sydney, will spend her second Christmas away from me, because last year when I was also working in France (a planned trip), the government wouldn’t let her out of East Germany Australia with me. McClown also wouldn’t let her go to Sydney to visit her son or siblings. Same again this year.

Despite the mixed messages coming from various politicians around Australia, vaccine passports are coming. The process has already started. If you want to travel in future, you will need one.

I have faced the fact that we anti-vaccers have lost and have joined the ranks of the weak and gullible.

Cassie of Sydney
September 14, 2021 8:01 am

“If faith-based hospitals allow outsiders onto their premises, with the sole intent to murder their patients in their beds, then they are no longer “faith-based” hospitals.”

Perfectly said.

But just watch the LNP fold and go along with this. This relates to my thread that I uploaded about the hollow men and women in the federal and state Liberal and National parties….they just end up acquiescing with everything Labor and the Greens put forward. Once upon a time there would have been big demonstrations against this…..state sanctioned murder. This is Nazism.

Cassie of Sydney
September 14, 2021 8:03 am

“jupessays:
September 14, 2021 at 8:00 am”

Great comment Jupes….and I understand completely why you’ve had the jab.

shatterzzz
September 14, 2021 8:05 am

Someone from the brass then does a presser, where he intones ‘no police officer expects this when they go to work’.
FACT CHECK : TRUE .. it is the right of the plod to administer violence ……. unhindered especially when NOT wearing a mask is involved ……..

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 14, 2021 8:08 am

I can’t believe my eyes.
Iron Ore $US124/t.
Met Coal $US352/t.
This has never happened before.

calli
calli
September 14, 2021 8:09 am

Jupes, you have tried. You have not given “informed consent”. You have been bullied and coerced by denying your right as a free man to enter your own country and see your family. Political chicanery dressed in a lab coat.

They held a gun to your head and a needle to your arm.

Come home, spend Christmas with your family, and never ever forget what they did to you.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 14, 2021 8:12 am

Poor ol’ Mavis. Even he is having trouble with the Liars as Bambi attempts to keep her snout in the trough at Teh Paywallian.

calli
calli
September 14, 2021 8:18 am

Jupes, it seems like only moments ago when we were comparing all the good things of France and hot spots to visit. Like Ragu, you know so much about the place and I definitely benefited from that in my travels.

Those days will never return, they are gone. Those waiting to be vaxxed for travel will find that all is not as it seems, carefree travel will be at the whim of political masters, curtailed at the drop of a hat. The wall fell, only for the whole world to go Soviet.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 14, 2021 8:23 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
September 14, 2021 at 7:31 am
Every now and again I have a look at Dash Cat…..and I always regret it. I haven’t posted there for weeks and won’t ever post there again. The Jew hatred is sickening. It should now be renamed Bird Shat.

Haven’t been there for a while now, and the occasional report of proceedings confirms that decision.

Cassie of Sydney
September 14, 2021 8:26 am

“Come home, spend Christmas with your family, and never ever forget what they did to you.”

More importantly….never forgive.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 14, 2021 8:27 am

You have to hand it to Kristina Keneally.
Dead set KRudd 2.0.
No constituents? No worries, maaaaaate.

shatterzzz
September 14, 2021 8:28 am

I’m 73 now but this one brings back memories of Dad .. & lotza missed meals .. LOL!

https://ibb.co/QFKZHhs

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 14, 2021 8:33 am

Warren Brown is my top of the pops this morning too, thanks Tom. Cuckoo Valkyrie Gladys.
Gary Varvel’s Biden acting as King Emperor thumbing down duly elected governors is good too.

The sporting ones, well I get the general point, but they tend to pass me by mostly.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 14, 2021 8:36 am

The Liars (and the Lieborals) regard constituents as an inconvenience unless you have a branch to stack.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
September 14, 2021 8:37 am

Is it worth adding the furniture blog to The Blogroll, even if just for Lame Pics?

jupes
jupes
September 14, 2021 8:37 am

Come home, spend Christmas with your family, and never ever forget what they did to you.

Well that was the plan. Now I will spend Christmas in quarantine if I’m lucky and my next flight isn’t delayed.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
September 14, 2021 8:44 am

Tried to find Craig Kelly’s interview with Aussie Cossack with a vanilla search on YouTube. It’s not showing, of course, despite over 42k views in 13 hours.

You’ll have to use this link to find it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7I21e-XOzk

Zipster
September 14, 2021 8:51 am

Mr X is delivering some knees to the midsection of LPG 1, MMA-style (without the usual effect), while LPG 2 stands back and watches from ten or twelve feet away. Presumably at this point, LPG 2 is resorting to screeching as a defensive mechanism as no equipment is being used against Mr X, let alone any lefts or rights.

LPG2 doesn’t want to ruin her nails. LPG1 is too busy reconsidering her life choices at this stage. This isn’t the snowflake utopia she was sold on.

Delta A
Delta A
September 14, 2021 8:56 am

Carrot.

Best Man: carrot.

Roger
Roger
September 14, 2021 9:11 am

Faith-based hospitals will not be able to deny entry to outside ­doctors to help terminally ill ­patients die after the Queensland government rejected pleas by the churches for institutional protection from the widest voluntary assisted dying law to go before an Australian parliament.

The response is simple: close the hospitals.

Then watch the government do a prompt about face.

Time for the churches to man up.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 14, 2021 9:15 am

Sorry to hear of your awful situation, Jupes. What a mess-up hotel quarantine is, and the very idea of quarantining us forever from the rest of the world was and still is more than stupid, it is a failure of vision and forward planning. A degree of home quarantine with light supervision would have been a better option from the start, of the sort we did in late March 2020. Ok, a few may not comply, but that would have let Covid slowly spread through our community and it would have been much more handlable than the Great Australian Unexposed Populace we are faced with now under the elimination policy and hence the urgent vaxx push. If normal viral spread and population resistance had been allowed to develop, fewer people may have been pushed, as you have been, to vaxx when they really didn’t want to and our cultural norms of freedom may not have been so severely abused either.

Re Covid not being much of a threat – well maybe it is not in overall terms, but when it does grab you it can still be very nasty. I’ve read enough personal accounts of this, and talked to British friends about their own experiences, to know that. Anyone over 50 can be caught out. Younger ones only occasionally. Some younger nurses who have had very high exposures have died in Britain, but again, numbers there are low. Still, when it’s someone you love, it still counts a lot and is something that you might want them to avoid – and at any age. And to avoid yourself. Hence I am glad there is a vaxx of sorts for those who feel at risk, as I do. I’d like a better vaxx to be developed though, and I expect that will happen. It should always be accepted on a voluntary basis though. Never any compulsion. An attenuated viral vaxx would be far more popular anyway than less than fully tested mRNA ones.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 14, 2021 9:24 am

I would like to emphasise at this juncture that I have no desire to see the colossal flog come back, but where’s ‘footy journalist’ Mark Robinson gone?

Andrew O’Keefe’s wingman?

Franx
Franx
September 14, 2021 9:25 am

Spooner, with the cricket bat in hand.

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