Open Thread- Monday 27 Sept 2021


Forest Sunrise, Albert Bierstadt, late 19th Century

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duncanm
duncanm
September 29, 2021 7:03 pm

One thing the NSW police commissioners statement does confirm, though. If business don’t ask patrons for their vax status, there’ll be no enforcement consequences.

This is *a good thing*.

Indolent
Indolent
September 29, 2021 7:06 pm
duncanm
duncanm
September 29, 2021 7:08 pm

Good western revenge flick on the ‘tube tonight.

The Salvation. Mads Mikkelson and the sultry Eva Green.

somewhat timely — man stands up to thugs without the backing of a spineless town.

JC
JC
September 29, 2021 7:09 pm

“What Holmes a Court & Packer should have done with their kids is get them a job at Merrill or Goldmans in New York or London.
Working in a dealing room would have broken them out of the bubble of arse kissers they surrounded themselves with.
And no-one would have given a shit they were a billionaires offspring.

The laziest, most useless human beings on earth are Saudis. We had a bunch of Saudis doing rotation through the NY office. They literally couldn’t breathe without huge effort. The South American fuckers were so unbelievably arrogant. They were exhibit A why Sth America is a shithole.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 29, 2021 7:11 pm

With regards to the Leppington dairy farm that sold for 30mill.
Good on the family for holding out.
They had an asset, that when valued on the usage of the asset (a dairy farm) it was valued at $3mill.

But it should never have been valued on the usage of the asset.
It should have been valued for what it was.
A big plot of land near a planned airport that literally had to be bought.
Hence the $30mill plus price tag.

Government should have bought it 20 years ago.
It’s not the vendors fault the government was so retarded.

rickw
rickw
September 29, 2021 7:12 pm
twostix
twostix
September 29, 2021 7:16 pm

Govt nervous abt having the civil conscription clause in the constitution tested re vaccines and passports. If it were upheld everything would be on the table including kids and daycare, nurses etc.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 29, 2021 7:16 pm

The laziest, most useless human beings on earth are Saudis

People connected to the Sultan of Brunei are the same.
Give people a gazillion barrels of oil & gas and it goes to their head.
Were the South Americans part of various junta’s entourages?

calli
calli
September 29, 2021 7:18 pm

Needed to make a call to QANTAS over a ticketing issue.

After two hours, fifteen minutes on “hold”, decided that it isn’t a business at all.

It’s a fake store front. Or a Nigerian scam.

calli
calli
September 29, 2021 7:19 pm

The laziest, most useless human beings on earth are Saudis

LOL.

QANTAS – hold my beer!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 29, 2021 7:23 pm

WZV Theatre.
Nothing will come of it apart from a 10 second Dan mea culpa, and perhaps a few insincere tears.

You won’t even get that, Winston.
And this from the prick who stood up in Parliament touting his brand new “Industrial Manslaughter” legislation, declaring “Bosses will no longer be able to kill their employees with impunity. If an employee dies on your watch, you will go to jail for a very, very long time.”
Never for a minute did he think it could be used against him (and it won’t).
This was for Liberal donors who owned construction companies, for non-unionised transport companies, possibly even for I-Cook Foods.

JC
JC
September 29, 2021 7:28 pm

calli says:
September 29, 2021 at 7:19 pm

The laziest, most useless human beings on earth are Saudis

LOL.

QANTAS – hold my beer!

On the subject of beer, that reminded me. Almost to a man, the Sth American fuckheads almost always came from the family dynasty that owned the brewing monopoly in their country. I’m not exaggerating all that much.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 29, 2021 7:30 pm

Lockdowns began in June in Sydney.
I haven’t had a beer since lockdown began.

JC
JC
September 29, 2021 7:30 pm

Were the South Americans part of various junta’s entourages?

See above, Bern.. Always the scion of a family dynasty that owned a monopoly in the shithole country… usually the brewery. 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 29, 2021 7:31 pm

I listened to Rita Panahi take Ding-Dong Dunleavy to the cleaners over VikPlod thuggery on 3AW earlier.
FMD!
It was like watching Mohammed Ali in the ring with a thalidomide child.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 29, 2021 7:31 pm

Sorry, restrictions began in June.
Lockdowns began in July.
I haven’t had a beer since restrictions began.

P
P
September 29, 2021 7:31 pm

The Vortex — The History of Corruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHclz5Kcn9I
Sep 29, 2021
Church Militant

Hard as it has been to watch, srr, I thank you.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 29, 2021 7:32 pm

The laziest, most useless human beings on earth are Saudis.

Am friendly with an Expat Pom who used to work for Aramco both under US ownership and after Saudi take over. His says much the same but in a much politer British way.

JC
JC
September 29, 2021 7:33 pm

It was like watching Mohammed Ali in the ring with a thalidomide child.

Theoretically , the kid could win, no?

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 29, 2021 7:35 pm

In the last 3 months, I have drunk 4 bottles of wine & a 750ml bag of pre-mixed Old Fashioned.

MatrixTransform
September 29, 2021 7:38 pm

They get unhappy with the people who caused their empty bellies.

the un-VX’nated ?

/sarc

Winston Smith
September 29, 2021 7:40 pm

Doc Faustus:

China is suffering from high demand and dreadful distribution infrastructure, but the sudden shortage crisis is wholly driven by the politics of China appearing to ‘do something’.

China is suffering from a lack of a meaningful price signal leading its political decision making.
But that’s OK – so are we.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 29, 2021 7:40 pm

However, children under the age of 12, who are not eligible for vaccines, will be excluded

This ruling could only come from bitter, twisted psychopaths with totalitarian mindsets.
It is also proof the vaccines are known by the bitter and twisteds of this world to NOT work.

srr
srr
September 29, 2021 7:44 pm

Psays:
September 29, 2021 at 6:18 pm

The Work of the Devil

It’s sad how many people with no conscious Christian upbringing have been driven to reject the evils of this age (that have not only been made commonplace, but elevated to be revered), but when they look for a Church to guide them & strengthen them in the Christian faith calling to them, they so often find those same worldly evils being excused & even taught.

Crossie
Crossie
September 29, 2021 7:44 pm

The laziest, most useless human beings on earth are Saudis. We had a bunch of Saudis doing rotation through the NY office. They literally couldn’t breathe without huge effort. The South American fuckers were so unbelievably arrogant. They were exhibit A why Sth America is a shithole.

And yet in mid-80s my husband worked with visiting Japanese company guys and was very impressed with their attitude and work ethic, far better than the locals.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 29, 2021 7:46 pm

“Scott Morrison deliberately and elaborately set out to persuade the French that their deal was on foot and proceeding until he knew he had an alternative deal, where upon he dumped the French and his deceitful conduct was exposed,” Mr Turnbull told the NPC.

As any smart person in business does.
And how many times would Trumble have had two or three competitors jumping at dangling bait, leading each to believe they were “the one”?

Crossie
Crossie
September 29, 2021 7:47 pm

Greta Thundberg is accusing the West of colonialism. That rich coming from a descendant of Vikings.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 29, 2021 7:47 pm

Joe Biden calls Jimmy Dore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M001UD9DDZw

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 29, 2021 7:57 pm

Greta Thundberg is accusing the West of colonialism.

Greta Thundberg is living proof that “children should be seen and not heard.”

rickw
rickw
September 29, 2021 7:58 pm

Vikpol tactics aren’t going to work very well when everyone finally decides to cut loose on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmquoDWpf24

Chris Galvin
September 29, 2021 7:58 pm

Bolt really is a pathetic specimen now. Despicable too.
UM! Who else has actually taken on the Morrison
climate coup, or, the ABC for attacking anyone who promoted the Wuhan leak conspiracy.
Yep, he can be boring but he ain’t as you described him
Let’s keep the balance – one objection does not an arsehole make.

rickw
rickw
September 29, 2021 7:59 pm

And yet in mid-80s my husband worked with visiting Japanese company guys and was very impressed with their attitude and work ethic, far better than the locals.

The Japanese are generally excellent to work with.

Bar Beach Swimmer
September 29, 2021 8:00 pm

Like Rudd, Turnbull needs to register as an agent for a foreign government.

MatrixTransform
September 29, 2021 8:01 pm

3AW Drive a couple of arvos back?

technically, I didn’t listen …

the missus told me about it

then I laughed

Bar Beach Swimmer
September 29, 2021 8:05 pm

It’s wonderful to have Alan Jones back!

srr
srr
September 29, 2021 8:07 pm

Psays:
September 29, 2021 at 7:31 pm

The Vortex — The History of Corruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHclz5Kcn9I
Sep 29, 2021
Church Militant

Hard as it has been to watch, srr, I thank you.

Oh I get it, it’s hard to live in what were once very Catholic communities where God is still being rejected by ex-Catholics, not only because of cruel injustices they suffered themselves, but because they keep seeing The Church accept & embrace worldly ways that gives the scattered sheep no confidence in coming back into the fold they see being herded by wolves.

Winston Smith
September 29, 2021 8:08 pm

srr:

Johnson & Johnson: ‘Kids Shouldn’t Get A F*cking [COVID] Vaccine;’ There are “Unknown Repercussions”

Facebook have removed the link from my page.
It undermines community standards.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 29, 2021 8:08 pm

Greta Thundberg is accusing the West of colonialism.

I heard Greta described today as “that fucking Swedish Doom Pygmy”.

#Blah, blah, blah……

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 29, 2021 8:10 pm

Winston, TIK has part three of Operation Keelhaul up.
I can’t watch it.
It engages me, then makes me feel sick.

Old bloke
Old bloke
September 29, 2021 8:13 pm

struth says:
September 29, 2021 at 2:53 pm

This bloke has got it exactly right…and he’s a bloody swami

Thanks Struth, it would be interesting if the GG replies.

srr
srr
September 29, 2021 8:14 pm

Thanks for this.

rickw says:
September 29, 2021 at 7:58 pm
Vikpol tactics aren’t going to work very well when everyone finally decides to cut loose on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmquoDWpf24

The comments are worth a read
“Kathy K
1 day ago
So the government sends men on foot with hand shields to go against 18 wheelers?? Governments can’t even think clearly at all anymore. It’s like we have a 4 year old running the world now.”

Old bloke
Old bloke
September 29, 2021 8:16 pm

dover0beach says:
September 29, 2021 at 2:59 pm

This is not normal.

No it isn’t normal, people are selling their souls cheaply.

rickw
rickw
September 29, 2021 8:18 pm

You Will Own Nothing.

You Will Be Happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrEUzKTt7j0

Rabz
September 29, 2021 8:19 pm

How on earth did they score a Tiger 1???!!!

Rick and Rex – I wondered that as well. It’s the replica used in the movie “Fury” according to the museum’s website.

Rabz
September 29, 2021 8:21 pm

This is not normal.

Quite vomitous, though. What a sad ol’ fag colbert is.

Siltstone
Siltstone
September 29, 2021 8:31 pm

Some companies are setting up China virus jab centres on the job site for employees and contractors. A sub-set are mandating the injections. My question is; if in response to the injection (a) one becomes ill and looses work time, or, (ii) heaven forbid, one dies, is that counted on the company books as (a) a lost time incident, or (b) workplace fatality? The answer would tell us lot about transparency.

Zipster
Zipster
September 29, 2021 8:40 pm
Fair Shake
Fair Shake
September 29, 2021 8:42 pm

rickw says:
September 29, 2021 at 8:18 pm
You Will Own Nothing.

We were presented with this bs of a sustainability future last week at work. They even thought it would be a good idea to have Greta Maddog pic to give the slides a level of lunacy. I did note the normal feedback survey did not do the rounds after.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 29, 2021 8:42 pm

The laziest, most useless human beings on earth are Saudis.

Am friendly with an Expat Pom who used to work for Aramco both under US ownership and after Saudi take over. His says much the same but in a much politer British way.

Pommy expats in Dubai and Hong Kong generally aren’t there because they are shooting the lights out.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 29, 2021 8:42 pm

Quite vomitous

I thought they looked like dancing condoms.
At least it’s a break from climate preaching.

Late Night FREAKOUT: Hosts Preach Climate Hysteria and Radical Socialism (23 Sep)

On Wednesday, all of the late-night shows on CBS, ABC, and NBC – along with Comedy Central’s Daily Show and TBS’s Full Frontal – engaged in outrageous climate change fearmongering and demanded viewers support the radical socialist agenda of the Democratic Party to address the supposed crisis. The highly orchestrated “Climate Night” featured far-left scare tactics predicting the end of the world combined with vicious attacks on conservatives, capitalism, and even religion.

Comedy is dead, killed by climate change.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 29, 2021 8:46 pm

This is for Rabz:

https://youtu.be/xiot4Z4s8gk

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 29, 2021 8:48 pm

Zipstersays:

September 29, 2021 at 8:40 pm

Russia Threatens Total Ban on YouTube After Major Channels Deleted

If they block car restoration videos I’m moving to Stalingrad.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 29, 2021 8:49 pm

Pommy expats in Dubai and Hong Kong generally aren’t there because they are shooting the lights out.
******
Hence the acronym “FILTH” – Failed In London, Try Hongkong.

shatterzzz
September 29, 2021 8:50 pm

Why are plod subject to different laws than the rest of us? .. They’ve got the footage and there is NO doubting from the vision what occurred! ……. If I’d dun this to someone I’d be on remand for GBH or attempted murder not on a job suspension that could leave me free for months .. until the fuss dies down and it gets filed in the forgettery ……… BLOODY DISGRACEFUL! …
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10039787/Top-cop-suspended-footage-man-thrown-ground-Melbourne-police-officer-went-viral.html

Cassie of Sydney
September 29, 2021 8:50 pm

In the UK, in the seaside town of Brighton, there’s a freak horror show underway, actually it’s the UK Labour conference…..who needs to watch a horror film when you can watch this…comrades….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM05gYQ3Swo

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 29, 2021 8:57 pm

A freak show indeed, Cassie.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 29, 2021 9:03 pm

duncanm ta on the flick. Watching now, already reckon probably closer to the wild west than Hollywood.

P
P
September 29, 2021 9:08 pm

srrsays:
September 29, 2021 at 8:07 pm

I am happy to be Catholic.
I quote here from a protestant hymn:
‘Mid toil and tribulation,
and tumult of her war,
she waits the consummation
of peace for evermore;
till with the vision glorious
her longing eyes are blest,
and the great church victorious
shall be the church at rest.

Muddy
Muddy
September 29, 2021 9:08 pm

The usual apologies if this has already been posted, but this may be significant. Possibly.

Fair Work case decision.

Skip to para 113 if you want the outcome.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 29, 2021 9:13 pm

China is suffering from a lack of a meaningful price signal leading its political decision making.
But that’s OK – so are we.

Absolutely.
It’s somewhat OK in China; the system is set up to tolerate Strong Leader/Strong Party incompetence. You just have to have a massive dislocation every 20 years.

Not sure how it’s going to play out in Australia with pissweak leadership coat-tailing a clown circus.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 9:15 pm

JC

All well and good about the personable habits of Saudis and Sth Americans but could they make money on the trading floor or just piss and wind????

Nelson_Kidd-Players
September 29, 2021 9:21 pm

Victorian mobile speed cameras.

Went past one today. Unlike the old style where they were mounted on a nudge bar on the front of an SUV (Craptivas were popular) the new ones are a big lens in the rear tinted window of an SUV or van.

As often happens, flashing of others’ headlights and a strange choice of parking location on the part of the camera operator ensured we all went past at an exaggerated 20 km/h under the limit.

The new thing to me was the vehicle in front of me gave a long toot as he passed the camera car.

Is this a thing? It would, if employed frequently, keep the operator from enjoying his phone and make him even less welcome among the neighbours. May have to try it. Braaa-uuuup!

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 9:27 pm

Muddy says:
September 29, 2021 at 9:24 pm

To put all of this further in perspective, Australia is ranked 118th in the world for COVID deaths.
para 169.

more Covid death NOW.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 29, 2021 9:28 pm

Muddysays:
September 29, 2021 at 9:08 pm
Skip to para 113 if you want the outcome.
****
Unfortunately all the sensible stuff is in the minority judgment. The majority upheld totalitarianism.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
September 29, 2021 9:28 pm

Paul Murray quoting the ABS figures for 2020; Covid was the 38th leading cause of deaths in Australia. Just pathetic.

Zipster
Zipster
September 29, 2021 9:31 pm

Well that’s interesting. IgG serology tests are only good for at most 180 days. Beyond that you need a t-cell long term immune memory test, which of course is not available here. This is natural immunity, which means no need for any jab.

Muddy
Muddy
September 29, 2021 9:31 pm

Timothy Nielson.

Yes. Sorry. Politichix has just reminded me that I’ve been reading the dissenting opinion, which I had not realised. Bother. I was getting so excited too!

Zipster
Zipster
September 29, 2021 9:32 pm

Not sure how it’s going to play out in Australia with pissweak leadership coat-tailing a clown circus.

oh but it’s a very woke clown circus.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 29, 2021 9:33 pm

Paul Murray quoting the ABS figures for 2020; Covid was the 38th leading cause of deaths in Australia.
*******
Imagine where it would have ranked if Maximum Leader hadn’t presided over the mass slaughter of over 800 Victorians.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
September 29, 2021 9:33 pm

Arky says:
September 29, 2021 at 12:57 pm

Hopefully after Rita they’ll have that segment when the bird comes on with the advice about getting different stains out of various clothes and furnishings.
Riveting stuff and so important with all that’s going on right now.

I caught that segment once. Shannon reported she’d just come back in a dip in her pool. A skinny dip. Something to contemplate the next time you’re wondering how to clean that annoying spot, Arky.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 29, 2021 9:35 pm

Victorian mobile speed cameras.

Went past one today. Unlike the old style where they were mounted on a nudge bar on the front of an SUV (Craptivas were popular) the new ones are a big lens in the rear tinted window of an SUV or van.

In Sandgroperstan they now come with a remote tripod mount, as the white Isuzu D-MAX vehicles they are mounted in stand out like the proverbial.

If you want to raise ‘Safety,’ you need to hide them…

srr
srr
September 29, 2021 9:38 pm

Winston Smith says:
September 29, 2021 at 8:08 pm
srr:

Johnson & Johnson: ‘Kids Shouldn’t Get A F*cking [COVID] Vaccine;’ There are “Unknown Repercussions”

Facebook have removed the link from my page.
It undermines community standards.

Yep, I even just had trouble getting it via searches and Project Veritas has been ‘unsubscribed’ ‘for me’ again by YouTube.

Anyway and good reminder for people to brush up on what Project Veritas does & get on their email list –

Johnson & Johnson: ‘Kids Shouldn’t Get A F*cking [COVID] Vaccine;’ There are “Unknown Repercussions”
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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 29, 2021 9:38 pm

Not Uh ohsays:

September 29, 2021 at 9:28 pm

Paul Murray quoting the ABS figures for 2020; Covid was the 38th leading cause of deaths in Australia. Just pathetic.

Where was lightning, snake bite and shark attacks?

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 9:39 pm

Timothy Neilson says:
September 29, 2021 at 9:33 pm

the horror!!!!

stairs are the curse of the working woke thingy.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 9:44 pm

Lets hear it for the South American brewery owners children who run the NY communist trade tables.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 9:45 pm

Where was lightning, snake bite and shark attacks?

how do you think tourists will come back???

vlad redux
vlad redux
September 29, 2021 9:46 pm

The essence of totalitarianism is its totality, so we can be thankful that even one of the commissioners spoke so much truth.

Minority judgments have a reputation (historically) for bearing later fruit. See Weinberg JA in Pell v The Queen [2019] VSCA 186 for a spectacular example.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 29, 2021 9:48 pm

Imagine where it would have ranked if Maximum Leader hadn’t presided over the mass slaughter of over 800 Victorians.

To borrow from someone who might even have been one of Maximum Leader’s inspirations:

“One death is a tragedy, 800 are a statistic.”

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 29, 2021 9:48 pm

Actually the Tank Museum has two Tiger tanks.

A bit buggered from a long day, so will explain tomorrow.

rickw
rickw
September 29, 2021 9:49 pm

Zipstersays:

September 29, 2021 at 8:40 pm

Russia Threatens Total Ban on YouTube After Major Channels Deleted

Delete Garage 54 and Vlad will definitely fuck you up!

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 9:49 pm

AOC

was that my arse that went past at The Met????

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 29, 2021 9:49 pm

@ Rabz-
It’s the replica used in the movie “Fury” according to the museum’s website.

Tiger 131 is the real deal. As built in Germany, and as captured in Tunisia by 48 Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment in April 1943.

Their Churchills’ 6pdr (57mm) guns couldn’t penetrate the Tiger’s armour, but a lucky APCR round got lodged in its turret ring deeply enough to jam the turret and prevent it traversing. After a second round jammed the gun elevating gear and a third bouced off the loader’s hatch and sent a lot of spalling through the insides of the turret, the crew chose to abandon the tank.

Cairns’ Tiger is a restoration of a battlefield wreck (circa late 1944) from the Russian Steppes. The turret was blown out of this vehicle, I believe. Cairns is partially restoring the original turret for separate display, while restoring a second turret for mating with the hull and chassis.

Indolent
Indolent
September 29, 2021 9:51 pm

Fair Work case decision.
Skip to para 113 if you want the outcome.

Muddy, this is wonderful. I think employers would be keenly interested in this clause –

[146] Finally, it should be clearly understood that employers who mandate vaccinations will be liable for any adverse reactions their workers may experience, given this is a foreseeable outcome for some people.

and how about this one –

[173] In summary, the powers to make PHOs cannot lawfully be used in a way that is punitive, and human rights are not suspended during states of emergency or disaster. The current PHOs have moved well past the minimum necessary to achieve public health aims, and into the realm of depravation. It is not proportionate, reasonable or necessary to “lock out” those who are unvaccinated and remove their ability to work or otherwise contribute to society. PHOs, by their nature, are designed and intended for short term use in the event of an emergency or crisis. They are not intended to be an ongoing vehicle to enforce significant depravations of our civil liberties. The COVID pandemic started over 20 months ago. The time is fast approaching where the reliance on PHO’s will no longer be justified on public health grounds, particularly where there is such a significant intrusion on individual liberties.

The Great Barrington Declaration is widely quoted.

and what about this –

[174] It is highly likely that the dismissal of an employee who fails to have the COVID vaccine will breach the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DD Act). The DD Act makes it unlawful to discriminate against a person, including in employment and in accessing services, because of a disability.

[175] The definition of disability in s.4 of the DD Act includes “the presence in the body of organisms capable of causing disease or illness”. It includes a disability that presently exists, or previously existed but no longer exists, or may exist in the future, or is imputed to a person.

And the “Final Comments” are worth reading in full.

It could hardly be more clear cut. They don’t have a leg to stand on.

rickw
rickw
September 29, 2021 9:52 pm

Actually the Tank Museum has two Tiger tanks.

What?!?! If it wasn’t for government mass psychosis I’d be spending the weekend in Cairns!

Little bloke would definitely be coming, budding tank designer with his lego!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 29, 2021 9:52 pm

Top Endersays:

September 29, 2021 at 9:48 pm

Actually the Tank Museum has two Tiger tanks.

Any Panzers?

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 9:54 pm

The Emmys should be renamed, Sluts R Us.

rickw
rickw
September 29, 2021 9:55 pm

Any Panzers?

You should already know that!

Does H B Bear wear pants?

rickw
rickw
September 29, 2021 9:58 pm

The Bat Eared Mong is so proud of his Gestapo:

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

HD
HD
September 29, 2021 9:59 pm

Speaking of vaccines and kids, I thought this was interesting about kids conceived following parental vaccination: December 2020- early January 2021. The “black eyed babies” as some have referred to them. These kids appear to show “accelerated”(?) development.

https://rumble.com/vn1xa9-la-quinta-columna-on-more-on-black-eyed-babies-pandemic-babies.html

Muddy
Muddy
September 29, 2021 10:00 pm

Sorry, Indolent. I wrote too soon. I was unknowingly reading the minority/dissenting decision.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 29, 2021 10:02 pm

Where was lightning, snake bite and shark attacks?

Aye nye.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 10:03 pm

Harvey Wineburger had to be taken out because he gave loads of money to The Clinton Cartel.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 29, 2021 10:05 pm

Actually the Tank Museum has two Tiger tanks.

A bit buggered from a long day, so will explain tomorrow.

Don’t have an exact reference, but James Holland’s book on Normandy, 1944, makes the claim that a surprisingly high percentage of Tigers were lost, not just through enemy action, but from breaking down, or simply running out of fuel, at the wrong time and place.

Arky
September 29, 2021 10:07 pm

Paul Murray quoting the ABS figures for 2020; Covid was the 38th leading cause of deaths in Australia. Just pathetic.

..
Covid Report Card.
Could do better. Has underachieved in this subject due to inattention in class and lack of motivation.
In order to improve results Covid must knuckle down next term and study for tests.

srr
srr
September 29, 2021 10:08 pm

Psays:
September 29, 2021 at 9:08 pm
srrsays:
September 29, 2021 at 8:07 pm

I am happy to be Catholic.
I quote here from a protestant hymn:
‘Mid toil and tribulation,
and tumult of her war,
she waits the consummation
of peace for evermore;
till with the vision glorious
her longing eyes are blest,
and the great church victorious
shall be the church at rest.

Yeah see P, you like me have been around long enough to remember when The Church had a good influence on daily life.

There are countless young people in the West who have never experienced life in a Christian community but yet now find themselves craving it.

Having grown in a world with the faux ‘freedoms’ of the 1960’s on, only proving to have created more wretched slavery to destructive debasement, they don’t want that life anymore, especially for their children, but they just can’t find a Church they can trust due to all the bending to modern worldly way that Church leaders do.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 10:08 pm

Great to see the Turdburglar in operation at NPC…. without his sidekick.

rickw
rickw
September 29, 2021 10:10 pm

Vax support and “car buyers” syndrome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWjG4j4gQvY

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 29, 2021 10:16 pm

You were a hero to me: Russell Pillemer’s plea to Malcolm Turnbull

Yoni Bashan
State Political Reporter
@yoni_bashan
33 minutes ago September 29, 2021

“You were a hero to me and my whole family,” wrote Russel ­Pillemer in a heartfelt email to Malcolm Turnbull sent on a Nov­ember afternoon late last year.

Mr Pillemer urged his long-term business associate to believe in their friendship and intervene in a messy legal battle threatening to ruin him financially and sully his reputation. He had a tough job ahead of him: not only was he trying to persuade Mr Turnbull that he hadn’t swindled the family out of millions of dollars in investment profits, he was trying to convince the former prime minister that his son Alex was the actual villain and cause of the dispute.

“I just cannot understand how this has happened,” Mr Pillemer wrote. “You know me well enough to know that I never would have done what Alex said that I did.”

As far as persuading Mr Turnbull to end the proceedings, the email was ultimately unsuccessful.

On Wednesday, the wealthy fund manager returned to the witness box to be cross-examined about his investment company, Pengana Capital, and the merger that saw its value surge clear of life-changing amounts of money.

This deal, Alex Turnbull insists, was concealed from him at the cost of a fortune in profit.

Mr Turnbull, through his company Maurtray Pty Ltd, is suing Mr Pillemer for up to $12m, claiming “misleading and deceptive conduct” on the part of the Pengana chief executive.

In Mr Pillemer’s eyes, the claims made against him remain incomprehensible on account of his longstanding friendship and loyalty to Mr Turnbull Sr, a relationship that began when they worked together at Goldman Sachs in the 1990s and evolved with Pengana Capital, which they founded together in 2003. “We think of you as extended family,” Mr Pillemer’s letter to Mr Turnbull reads. “My Dad told people that the 5 best days of his life were his marriage, the birth of his 3 sons – and the day that Malcolm was made PM. Surely you know that I would never deceive you or your family – you know that I am not that type of person.”

To proffer evidence of his fealty, Mr Pillemer reminded the former prime minister that one day prior to a critical meeting he held with Alex to discuss his stake in Pengana, he attended a lavish lunch arranged by Mr Turnbull for the then-prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Not only was the room filled with Australian luminaries but Mr Pillemer and his wife were seated directly alongside the function’s main table, and were tickled pink when Mr Turnbull invited them over for a chat with the Israeli leader, introducing them as his “great friends and partner”.

“We were on the biggest highs of our lives after that lunch, marvelling at what a great man and friend you were to us – that in a huge audience of some of the most important people in Australia, it was the two of us you paid the most attention to,” he wrote.

“How could you possibly think that the very next day following that lunch I would set out to deceive your family – knowing that I would be ‘found out’ only a very short time later. Surely, you can see that makes no sense?”

As the letter continued, its tone grew darker and shifted to one that Mr Turnbull in court on Tuesday described as threatening and sinister. Mr Pillemer said Alex’s subpoenas had set the market talking and were impacting his “ good reputation”.

“What he is doing is extremely damaging and is placing me and my family under existential risk. The most truly bizarre element of this action is that if it does go to court, it’s your family that would be most impacted,” he wrote.

Claiming he would be unable to finance the action, he told Mr Turnbull his solution would be to engage a full-scale assault that would include litigation funding, public relations support, moral backing and strategic direction.

He also warned that doing so might cause embarrassing political revelations to arise during court proceedings.

Indolent
Indolent
September 29, 2021 10:16 pm

Sorry, Indolent. I wrote too soon. I was unknowingly reading the minority/dissenting decision.

Actually, not quite. This case turned on the requirement for a flu shot in a nursing home. Because leave to appeal was not granted the issue of Covid vaccination, which was not intrinsic to this case, was examined in great detail and I would suggest that any employer, after reading it, would hesitate to try to enforce it.

PART 2 –VACCINE REQUIREMENTS IN RELATION TO COVID

[101] The Majority Decision raises the issue of COVID vaccinations and their requirement in workplaces. It forms part of the reasoning for refusing to grant permission to appeal and accordingly provides the opportunity in this decision to deal with this important issue.

[102] There can be absolutely no doubt that vaccines are a highly effective tool for protection against a variety of diseases. The focus of this decision, however, is not the pros and cons of vaccination. It is about the extent to which mandatory COVID vaccinations can be justified, as to do so impinges on other laws, liberties and rights that exist in Australia.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 29, 2021 10:20 pm

There can be absolutely no doubt that vaccines are a highly effective tool
They got that bit right.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 29, 2021 10:22 pm

Don’t have an exact reference, but James Holland’s book on Normandy, 1944, makes the claim that a surprisingly high percentage of Tigers were lost, not just through enemy action, but from breaking down, or simply running out of fuel, at the wrong time and place.

Yep. Badly underpowered and the critical elements of the powertrain were overtaxed and under-engineered. And that is on top of a logistics system and rail network not really built to accommodate something its size (The tank had to be de-tracked and fitted with half-width ‘travel’ tracks to permit movement by road or rail flatbed. And there was never an effective Recovery Vehicle design for something its size. You needed 3 large half-tracks to tow a single Tiger, for example…)

But at least Adolf got his big, (mostly) impervious tank.

One can only wonder how Germany’s Panzerwaffe might have gone if they had got the T-34 clones (albeit built to German rather than slipshod Russian) standards they originally wanted.

The Panther was pretty good for what it did, but the original intent was for something lighter and faster.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 29, 2021 10:27 pm

One can only wonder how Germany’s Panzerwaffe might have gone if they had got the T-34 clones (albeit built to German rather than slipshod Russian) standards they originally wanted.

Obliged – that’s the first I’d heard of that. Have you read any of Holland’s titles?

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 10:29 pm

turdball is a deep swamp fkwit

prove me wrong

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 29, 2021 10:32 pm

Where was lightning, snake bite and shark attacks?

Ahead of covid, which marginally edged out falling pianos, canyon walls and faulty ACME det plungers.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 10:51 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
September 29, 2021 at 10:32 pm

Where was lightning, snake bite and shark attacks?

Ahead of covid, which marginally edged out falling pianos, canyon walls and faulty ACME det plungers.

don’t forget spiders and snakes

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 29, 2021 10:51 pm

Okydok. Just perusing PM Live. Elsworth on her trotters defending CNN censoring comments due to defamation. Get that but how bout for lefty issues?

Do the same standards apply?

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 10:53 pm

and salties

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 10:59 pm

white pointers… sting rays

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 29, 2021 11:01 pm

Gypsum

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 29, 2021 11:01 pm

Way up Fred – that Lola lass on the piano – posted for the benefit of Rabz.
Wouldn’t mind tickling the ivories with that.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 29, 2021 11:12 pm

Have you read any of Holland’s titles?

No, I haven’t.

As far as the T-34 goes, my reading on the subject is that many German commanders were awed by the combination of firepower, protection and mobility it represented, and utterly appalled by its engineering, build quality and ergonomics. The vehicle was designed and built with the expectation it would be very quickly wiped out- The motors, I believe, were only good for about 200 hours’ running before major rebuilds were required. And even then, by 1945 they were lucky to make 180.

Several proposals for a tank of similar size, weight and general layout were made in 1942, but between the distaste of German engineers for certain elements of the Soviet design (e.g. turret placement well forward, majority of gun barrel length overhanging the hull, etc.) and Adolf Hitler being, well, Adolf Hitler, they ended up with the Panther. A compromise design some 20 tons heaver and significantly bigger across all dimensions.

Yet the Panther (despite its engine and transmission fires, early model reliability issues and deteriorating steel quality) turned out to be a superb battle tank. Particularly where it could engage the enemy at range.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 29, 2021 11:14 pm

Gypsum

Almost as fatal as WA Death Gluten…

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 29, 2021 11:16 pm

Way up Fred – that Lola lass on the piano – posted for the benefit of Rabz.
Wouldn’t mind tickling the ivories with that.

You can see why I thought Rabz would appreciate her, Toad. Better music than he usually likes, too.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 11:26 pm

trains and trucks… scary at a victorian crossing

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 29, 2021 11:28 pm

they all carry victorian wheat the bastards

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 29, 2021 11:51 pm

trains and trucks… scary at a victorian crossing

I know of a very sad case where the crew of a heritage steam engine and two footplate passengers died in a level crossing collision with a B-double truck full of flour at Benalla in 2002.

The truck raced them to the crossing, and had partially crossed as the train came through.

The loco hit and exploded the trailer with such force that the tender and cab roof tore the safety valves off the top of the boiler and cooked the crew alive..

One of the footplate passengers survived the incident, but was very badly burned.

The locomotive, K183 spent a very long time unrestored due to the nature of the event and the trauma it caused the Victorian steam community, and there was much kerfuffle in the last few years when plans were announced to overhaul it and return it to tour service.

So, between that, and the two badly hurt gentlemen whose cement train was punted off the tracks in Parkeston, WA by an impatient iron ore road train driver in March, Cats please take care at level crossings.

Your lives (and ours) are not worth the minute or so you might gain by not waiting for us…

vlad redux
vlad redux
September 29, 2021 11:51 pm

trains and trucks… scary at a victorian crossing

Don’t believe the hype.

jupes
jupes
September 29, 2021 11:51 pm

Accused AFL grand final COVID breachers Hayden Burbank and Mark Babbage to stay behind bars

We live in a country where going to the football is a criminal offence.

MatrixTransform
September 29, 2021 11:52 pm

So the tenant has seen a 55% reduction and therefore the rent will now be 55% of the contract.

I got it wrong they’re asking 45% rent.

The biz partner’s wife went through their figures and it turns out their revenue after shortfall is down near ours under normal trading.

I have no idea about how they’re structured, fixed costs so who knows how its impacted profits

but since when does it make sense that part of their costs should be underwritten our Super Fund?

… wtf?

vlad redux
vlad redux
September 29, 2021 11:53 pm

Even behind bars, they still saw the match – and no one can take that from them.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 30, 2021 12:05 am

Panzers rule, ja?

John H.
John H.
September 30, 2021 12:40 am
struth
struth
September 30, 2021 2:33 am

There are other platforms available.
Gab, bitchute etc.
It’s when the government pulls the Chinese firewall game that it will all come crashing down.

struth
struth
September 30, 2021 2:36 am

If this isn’t a plandemic then why did they start building concentration camps right at the very start?

Winston Smith
September 30, 2021 2:54 am

Twostix:
https://law.anu.edu.au/sites/all/files/users/u9705219/236-lawrep-017-jlm-jl-0196.pdf
The article on Civil Conscription – it seems pretty straightforward that the Government cannot enforce it’s edicts on the vaccine as they have to be administered by Health Employees.

Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 4:09 am
Winston Smith
September 30, 2021 4:09 am

Feelthebern:

Winston, TIK has part three of Operation Keelhaul up.
I can’t watch it.
It engages me, then makes me feel sick.

The Blieburg Massacres from Metapedia details instances of the complicity in the murders.
It’s a bit of a stomach churner, but Count Nicolai Tolstoy has been researching what he can for years and continues to run up against the Official Secrets Act.

Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 4:10 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 30, 2021 4:36 am

Thanks, Tom. The Babylon Bee has some good observations about what is happening in Oz.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 4:51 am

Thanks Tom, that’s good Leak.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 4:52 am

It engages me, then makes me feel sick

Bugger.
It enrages me.
Not engaged.

Thanks Winston for the links.

Winston Smith
September 30, 2021 5:33 am

ZK2A:

Don’t have an exact reference, but James Holland’s book on Normandy, 1944, makes the claim that a surprisingly high percentage of Tigers were lost, not just through enemy action, but from breaking down, or simply running out of fuel, at the wrong time and place.

I have several German Heavy Tank Battalion Unit records, Schwere Panzerjager Abteilung 654, Schwere Panzerjager Abteilung 653, and Schwere Panzer Abteilung 503. In one of them is a table detailing total losses and from memory 60% of the losses were from crews destroying the vehicles to prevent capture. The usual reasons were transmission/suspension damage, or no fuel.
It would appear that highly mobile operations were a big factor in bypassing concentrations of German heavy tanks as they couldn’t recover damaged vehicles in time.

will
will
September 30, 2021 5:49 am
Gab
Gab
September 30, 2021 6:14 am

Funny how the psyche works.
I had a dream last night that I’d found a doctor who was happy to write me an exemption.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 30, 2021 6:29 am

The Bee, in a piece on an American murderer sentenced to live in Australia:

Formerly a prosperous Western nation and beautiful vacation destination, Australia has more recently been transformed into a massive prison colony reserved for the worst of the worst, such as rapists, murderers, and people who go outside for some fresh air without permission.

“In this case, the punishment certainly fits the crime,” said Judge Stephanie Anders, who passed the sentence. “In Austalia, Davis will be forced to reflect on his horrific crime as he wanders through the bush, avoiding spiders, snakes, and coppers who want to bash his skull in for not wearing his mask over his nose.”

Baba
Baba
September 30, 2021 6:32 am

When tyranny is law, revolution is order.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 30, 2021 6:34 am

Also the Bee. This is a medical story:

SYDNEY—Australian hospitals are bursting at the seams, having reached their breaking point after being flooded with patients during the pandemic. The Australians streaming into the hospitals don’t have COVID, though, but instead are just bloodied and bruised from cops beating them up for not wearing masks, going outside for fresh air, and talking to other people.

Legit.

“Well, bugger! It’s way over capacity here, mate,” said one nurse in Sydney. “By the beard of a Koala! We got way too many wankers comin’ on in here and gettin’ all cracked up by the bloody coppers, mate.”

Still more realistic than any of Peter FitzSimons’ combined works.

According to medical professionals in Australia, the concerning rise in people getting absolutely demolished by the police and having to get rushed to the hospital is exacerbated by the fact that hospitals are already overwhelmed with people who got bit by two-story-tall spiders, punched by kangaroos, and elbow-dropped by drop bears.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 6:36 am

“Well, bugger! It’s way over capacity here, mate,” said one nurse in Sydney. “By the beard of a Koala! We got way too many wankers comin’ on in here and gettin’ all cracked up by the bloody coppers, mate.”

Aye nye.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 6:39 am

WSJ is back.
They’ve put their big boy pants on over the past month.
The most in depth investigation into facebook I’ve seen.
Now a few days into their judiciary investigation (judges with multiple conflicts in cases they are hearing).
It’s refreshing to see genuine journalism again.
Non-partisan, genuine journalism.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 6:41 am

The fact that almost no other media picks it up (PM Live picked up the fb investigation a week after it first dropped) shows just how good the investigations are.

The Cathedral would not be happy.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 6:43 am

WSJ sees a project Veritas report.
Hey, why don’t we do that?

Better late than ever.
Let’s see if they keep it up.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 30, 2021 6:49 am

Hmm, maybe he should have thought a bit more before choosing that headline.

Glory, glory awaits the red and green (DT, not paywalled)
Anthony Albanese

The story is actually about Souths, not politics. The headline is as it appears on the main page of the Tele right now. I suggest if an Albo staffer reads the New Cat he, she or it should get on the horn to the Newscorp and get it changed pronto…

Dot
Dot
September 30, 2021 7:19 am

Flicked on MSNBC for about three seconds.

*GOP tries to whitewash Jan 6 Insurrection*

Hmmmm. The full court press continues.

They were let in.

Ashlie Babbitt was an unarmed pensioner.

An armed Federal agent shot her dead.

Can’t the prick be executed yet?

Dot
Dot
September 30, 2021 7:20 am

It is mind boggling that Facebook’s fraudulent activities have not been investigated yet.

It is an utter trash fire.

Dot
Dot
September 30, 2021 7:23 am

Gabsays:
September 30, 2021 at 6:14 am
Funny how the psyche works.
I had a dream last night that I’d found a doctor who was happy to write me an exemption.

Funny, I just had a brief day dream that Alannah Walton was waiting for me in a white Versace dress, insisting I was late to the altar.

Dot
Dot
September 30, 2021 7:26 am

A vision of a greener future.

Straw bale homes, using WA wheat.

Gluten based drywall…

Mater
September 30, 2021 7:28 am

From Nine News FB just now:

Staff shortages are wiping out supermarkets across Melbourne, resulting in trading hours being slashed and delivery services overwhelmed.

However, there’s a push to change isolation requirements to help keep food on the table.

#9News | Nightly at 6pm

Guess what the “push” is?
That’s right. Potential reduction of isolation periods for “double vaxxed” individuals.
Lysenkoism is alive and well.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 30, 2021 7:31 am

Potential reduction of isolation periods for “double vaxxed” individuals.

So they are admitting that double vaxxing doesn’t stop checkout chicks getting infected?
How weird.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 7:41 am

On Tuesday, I ordered two things online.
One from Australia, Sydney based.
One from the US, distribution centre in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

The Aussie one feeds into my AusPost app (from previous experience).
48 hours later, not showing up.
The US one, already left the distribution centre at JFK, meaning it’s on a plane.
Tracking via the Shopify app.

Both were standard shipping.
Let’s see what arrives first.

calli
calli
September 30, 2021 7:43 am

Bad mood morning. No sweet dreams of kindly medicos for me. I open my weekly local birdcage liner and find this letter to the Editor:

Our forefathers fought and died in conflict to keep us safe. They also took the jab for smallpox, tuberculosis, polio and other epidemics also to keep us safe. My father contracted polio before James Salk discovered the vaccine and his doctor said he would never walk again. In spite of his withered legs he never missed a day’s work in his life. He also caught TB during the epidemic which contributed to his death in later life. So forgive me if I have no sympathy for you or your rites and your freedom. People are dying out there. Stop your whining, follow your forefathers and get the jab to protect the rest of us.

This is the level of hysteria in regional Australia. And in indication of trust in these “vaccines” that clearly don’t work. Unless you change the meaning of the word “vaccine”.

Needless to say, Fairfax owns the paper, so were quite comfortable printing this ill-informed and malicious rant.

calli
calli
September 30, 2021 7:46 am

And the typo…rites…struck me as apposite.

White coat worship is the new religion.

Rights and freedom can go hang provided we’re “safe”.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 30, 2021 7:46 am

The conspiracies against me continue apace.

I am not on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, but they have banned me. Clearly, I am on their Red List. Perhaps rightly so, for I am lone warrior – or so it seems, on occasion – in my quest.

I know who the hackers are. Not on a personal level, but I know them. Oh, I know them. I know their tricks, their chimeras, the subterfuges they undertake when they block my information arteries. And I know why they do what they do.

They fear me. And they are right to fear me, because I am dangerous. If I reveal what I know about them, there will be revolution across borders. Across continents, such is my reach – should I choose to employ it.

And so, because they fear me, one day they will come. As night follows day, my action will cause a reaction – although it will not be equal, nor opposite.

As I am snatched from the street and bundled into the black van, observed and guarded by equally noir aerial overwatch, I will continue to screech. The world will know of tunnels. Of red leather shoes. Of flour and meat and vegetables and fruit and the diced ears of children, placed on a tray and cooked with a thick base and cheesy crust for the consumption of those who would do us harm.

I know this is how it will end. I must continue. I must. I must.

Too many open tabs. Not enough sleep.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 7:47 am

calli, you should google the name of who wrote the letter.
I wouldn’t be surprised if their name is connected to stories of “such & such party candidate” at some election.
Also, what are the odds of someone alive today having a father who survived polio but also caught TB?
Walter Mitty?

Dot
Dot
September 30, 2021 7:48 am

People are dying out there.

With COVID.

Putatively, of old age.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 7:49 am

follow your forefathers and get the jab to protect the rest of us.

Ok boomer.

Bons
September 30, 2021 7:49 am

A small scale military museum, but well worth a look is the WWI museum colocated with the mining museum at Gympie.
Exclusively WWI gear from local veterans and the militia light horse outfit. Quality gear, some of it unique. I believe that they are seeking a parent museum as preservation becomes more demanding.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 7:50 am

follow your forefathers and get the jab to protect the rest of us.

Follow your forefathers and go to uni for free?

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 7:51 am

follow your forefathers and get the jab to protect the rest of us.

Follow your forefathers and get a defined benefit pension plan.

Gab
Gab
September 30, 2021 7:51 am

I’ve been told that if someone doesn’t get the vax, they WILL DIE!

Pretty sure we are all destined to die with or without the vax.

Logic and critical thinking are a rarity. The effect of sin on the intellect.

rosie
rosie
September 30, 2021 7:52 am

KD
I appreciate your sterling efforts because goodness knows, only you can save us.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 30, 2021 7:53 am

If anyone gets killed in a car accident and they happen to have the flu it’s a Covid death.
Must pump up the fear mongering stats.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 30, 2021 7:54 am

If children learned to read by reading Marcus Aurelius none of these shit ideas would be able to take hold.
They’d dispatch all of them.
Society would be better.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 30, 2021 7:54 am

only you can save us

Duh. Obviously.

Mater
September 30, 2021 7:55 am

Our forefathers fought and died in conflict to keep us safe.

No, they fought and died for the liberties and freedoms that you just pissed up against the wall.

Mater
#3375720, posted on March 25, 2020 at 4:14 pm
Our forefathers sacrificed their lives to preserve freedom.
We’ve just sacrificed freedom to preserve life.
Who was right? A question for the ages.

rosie
rosie
September 30, 2021 7:57 am

I have no doubt that the covid vaccines significantly reduce the risks of hospitalisation and death and I believe the evidence is there to support my view.
Much how I view the flu vaccine which also is never 100 percent effective, wanes in efficacy over time and requires ‘boosters’.
Still, roll on on 1 December 2021.

Mater
September 30, 2021 8:02 am

Our forefathers fought and died in conflict to keep us safe.

If you weren’t alive when they fought, how can they possibly be doing it to keep YOU safe?

That’s complete bullshit.

They fought to preserve the SYSTEM which provide for your safety, wellbeing and prosperity. The very system which has been raped and pillaged under YOUR watch.

As a generation, we have failed.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 30, 2021 8:05 am

If I cut and paste everything on the innernet to somewhere else on the innernet and back again, does the innernet double in size?
Or triple?

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 30, 2021 8:06 am

Explanation of why the Cairns Tank Museum has two Tiger tanks:

1) is the replica built for the movie Fury. It is metal, but originally was non-moving. For the movie it had a sled arrangement underneath which gave it the semblance of moving.

2) is a Tiger built out of parts recovered from (mainly) the Russian front areas of WWII.

It’s interesting the museum did that, and shows how a private museum has some advantages over a government one. They subscribe to the Burra principles, which do not allow such assembly, nor the restoration of items, rather their preservation.

However, especially in wartime, using a variety of parts on vehicles would be the norm, so not for me a problem. To the Museum’s credit each of their signs explains the origin of each vehicle too – they are not saying this is a tank from here if it’s not.

shatterzzz
September 30, 2021 8:07 am

Quelle surprise! …..
The Mail Online isn’t taking comments on this story .. wonder why ..?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10039787/Top-cop-suspended-footage-man-thrown-ground-Melbourne-police-officer-went-viral.html

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 30, 2021 8:07 am

And i see scrolling back Rex got to it, and for Sancho, they have a veritable fleet of Panzers and Panthers.

sfw
sfw
September 30, 2021 8:07 am

Two of children (twins) had their birthday last Saturday, I posted cards and lotto tickets to them the previous Monday, the cards didn’t get to the daughter in South Melbourne till yesterday Wednesday – nine days, and the the card to my son in Tooborac is yet to arrive. We’re 320km from Melbourne, what is going on at Australia Post?

rosie
rosie
September 30, 2021 8:09 am

Pretty much everyone these days drags in our poor old forefathers to support their side of the argument.
I’d say they were as individual as we are and fought to beat an existential threat.
I know for sure my dad would have despised our politicians and considered many others hard on the road to hell, but not because of vaccines.
Abortion, euthanasia, the criminal threats against priests in the confessional, the criminalisation of prayers for the end of unwanted same sex attraction, the promotion of transgenderism, most especially to children, these are the sorts of abominations that would have exercised him.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 30, 2021 8:10 am

Calli, they’ve already changed the meaning of the word “vaccine”. Just like the meaning of the words “nation”, “misogyny”, “consensus” and “pandemic” have been changed for political purposes.
It’s one of the hardest actions by the ministry of truth to counter. Try interrupting anyone you know- doctor, housewife, whoevs- who says “vaccine” and insist they replace it with “needle” or “therapy”. People soon tag you as abrasive.

shatterzzz
September 30, 2021 8:13 am

Quote the bible and it’s worth a lifetime ban from Thugby League but do drugs and she’ll be right ladz ..

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10039291/Two-NRL-stars-face-music-white-powder-scandal-post-season-celebrations.html

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 30, 2021 8:15 am

I should add to my explanation above that the Cairns Museum is working on getting the Fury Tiger moving.

They have a full-time mechanic, with two apprentices, who work on such projects, and I believe the idea is to get it moving enough so it can be used on their track around the back of the Museum. They have a tank festival every mid-year, and again I believe regular weekends when they have moving tank displays, and one can even book a ride.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 30, 2021 8:16 am

TE @ 8:06am

Fury

Top movie

Tom
Tom
September 30, 2021 8:18 am

Logic and critical thinking are a rarity. The effect of sin on the intellect.

Spot on, Calli.

Shit ideas come from the dark part of the human soul. And we’re now swimming in them.

Mater
September 30, 2021 8:18 am

I’d say they were as individual as we are and fought to beat an existential threat.

‘Existential’ only so far as our SYSTEM goes.

None of our past adversaries completely wiped out a national populace, just their system of government and the associated freedoms, etc.

When people refer to existential threats, they are often talking in these terms. What have we just witnessed since March 2020?

lotocoti
lotocoti
September 30, 2021 8:19 am

I’ve been told that if someone doesn’t get the vax, they WILL DIE!

It’s worse than that, Gab.
Unpeople will give Vaxpeople the ChiComPox,
even if they haven’t got the ChiComPox.

Indolent
Indolent
September 30, 2021 8:21 am

TommyRobinsonOfficial
@TommyRobinsonOfficial
2h
Authoritarianism well and truly set in Australia!

Gladys the witch in full flight. I’m at the point where I can’t stand to even look at her.

The real question is, was this before or after the Police Commissioner said they would not be enforcing medical apartheid? And she’s talking about opening up but with unvaccinated businesses not opening up. She’s at the point of exceeding even the massive powers she’s been smashing us with.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 30, 2021 8:24 am

rosie
Read, please. This is The Lancet, which has fumbled a bit, but it is a meta-study.

Absolute Risk Reduction is at best 1.3% for Ox-AZ-YouTube, and downhill from there.
And that’s reduction of becoming ill, not even single-cause death.
Read the crib sheet too. I’ve memorised it, Milo style.
No wonder the Lizard People are enforcing a “consensus” blackout… the horse has bolted.

calli
calli
September 30, 2021 8:25 am

Spot on, Calli.

That was Gab, Tom. But I heartily endorse her comment. 😀

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 30, 2021 8:28 am

Fury

Top movie

Yep, watched it a couple of weeks ago. Brad Pitt is an impressive actor.

Bons
September 30, 2021 8:30 am

Who in the former Australia represents the greatest threat to the wellbeing of our progeny?
My vote with clear sky behind has to go to Photios. The original shadow manipulator.
Godfather of a tribe of putrid, corrupt, corrupting, barely literate totalitarian polliebots. Capo di tuti capi of cronies and corrupt super funds.
Damocles for both the living and the innocents engaged in the LNP sponsored gestation roulette.

Cassie of Sydney
September 30, 2021 8:31 am

“Just like the meaning of the words “nation”, “misogyny”, “consensus” and “pandemic” have been changed for political purposes.”

Yes, this is what the left do. Just like the word “woman” has been changed for political purposes….a man with a dick can now be called a woman!

But what would I know, I’m just bigot according to the progressive left.

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