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Open Thread-Weekend 23 Oct 2021
- The more you gets the less you eats
- Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
- From darkness to the promise of light
One for Calli: The book for this hour (22 Nov) Sixty-one years ago today, after a quiet day of correspondence,…
Damon November 24, 2024 9:42 amIs there any point in the ABC persisting with the Narm/Melbourne nonsense? No-one knows or cares…
I remember a time when billionaires entertained themselves with fast cars, starlets and models and left the world alone.
Bret Weinstein – How the Deep State Maintains Control
heh heh
Sneaky.
Silver.
Real by Reel – 1978 … 😕
Artwork asked for, and delivered.
Behold the Doverlord.
Livin’ through another China … 🙁
I know what that dickhead singer‘s like – play the standards … 🙂
John Madden Popcorn Popper:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q1v52f1TrWg
I claim this thread, in the name of Winston Churchill, the greatest Englishman, ever to draw breath.
“On the throne” one morning, a Parliamentary messenger knocked on the door, and told Churchill that the Lord Privy Seal, whom Churchill detested, wanted to see him, immediately.
“Tell the Lord Privy Seal, that I am currently sealed to my privy, and I can only deal with one shit at a time….”
TOP TEN ! woo hoo!
Life on Earth is a carbon capture scheme
… discuss
I hold a Gold Card, as a result of my military service.
My physiotherapist, and my podiatrist, have decided that I have one leg shorter then the other….I would esteem it a favor, if they could agree on the same leg…….
lol
Phagot Photias is a Soros shill… prove me wrong.
There is no way that we the people have any knowledge of real voting intention ever again.
This is a high quality conversation well worth the time and sharing with those who want help to snap out of the Covid Cult –
Roasting The COVID Cult For 1 Hour Straight | Guests: Zuby & Drew Hernandez | Ep 198
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pemtuWnUms
Slightly Offens*ve
People are still double masking, listening to Dr. Fauci and worshipping every word from the CDC. We don’t understand it, but we love to laugh at it. Zuby and Drew Hernandez join the show to roast the ridiculous cultists who are still worshipping at the altar of Fauci almost two years later.
National Institute Of Health ADMITS US Funded Gain Of Function Research, Fauci LIED To Congress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fmqe__UCj0
Oct 23, 2021, 1 hour ago
Timcast IRL
1.11M subscribers
Tim, Ian, Luke, and Lydia join fellow YouTuber Joey B Toonz to break down the NIH admitting to actually funding gain of function research.
Do people actually understand that your Tax Agent is licensed by the gubbmint to do their work???
Their allegiance to the ATO is how they get a License???
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
LAW
what is it good for?
or more appropriately…
WHO is it good for?????
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Lisa Benson.
Tom Stiglich.
Mike Lester.
Now that Australia is a proven fascist economy can we get the oligarch food dispensers to cook some decent chips???
or is the health and safety media complex looking out for us????????????????????????
Do tax slaves understand that wind and solar is not for them but a mere artifice to get their money???
to satisfy poofta pansy gay chocolate mocha drinkers???
Should be interesting when the lemmings leave the communist cities… check your qr on the way out because its important!!!!!!!!!!!
I am slow to the understanding.
The Liberal Party of Australia is a Soros putz.
Photias is a master manipulator.
If we get rid of coal how about we get rid of all dams?????
Destroy Dams Now.
Someone has to save Da Planet!
The Education Curriculum should teach one thing…
Humans are dumb…
But those dams have to be destroyed.
Who will think of the wombats… and poor benighted koalas???
It’s not fair!
Release the dam walls NOW!
I rebel against dumb fucks.
You think I want to party like dumb fucks like you?
Put your crack pipe down and shoot someone.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=i+want+to+party+like+charlie+sheen&t=lm&atb=v284-1&ia=web
How did a live round get onto a movie set?
This will be a Colombo episode in real time.
The Slime Media is running interference for Alec Baldwin, surprise!, surprise!
One of the many excuses has been, ” a gun he was holding went off!”
Perhaps Baldwin hadn’t been shown the correct Safety Video.
Shout out to Dissident Frogman, glad you’re blogging regularly again.
Malice has been trolling Baldwin overnight, then says something along the lines “I cared about the victims but then I found out they weren’t vaccinated”.
Platinum with diamonds level trolling.
This week in the UK they have re-criminalised carers getting sex workers for invalids.
It’s the exact opposite of the frame work they’re trying to put in place in Oz for NDIS money to be spent on hookers.
Destroy Dams to SAVE THE PLANET tm
Coming Soon
meantime
it aint easy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNTsMml_Ed0
Dover0Beach:
What was it about?
I couldn’t understand much. And what the Hell sort of uniform is that?
Dot:
I mentioned several days ago that the supply issues affecting the West may be a deliberate ploy to force the US and Europe to continue to draw down their oil stocks to cripple the US economy.
So two questions to be answered:
1. Will/can the Canadians make up for the shortfall via the pipelines – and can the cancelled pipeline be built/filled quickly enough to make a difference?
2. Is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve able to fulfill the demand for fuel, and can it be drawn down quickly enough to make a difference?
3. According to the chart here, the Reserve is authorised to hold 727 million barrels, but is currently at 615 million barrels.
4. Will the O’Biden/Harris Administration allow the drawdown of the stocks?
5. …aaand – our reserves of diesel are safely stored in the US.
Winston Smith says:
October 23, 2021 at 7:08 am
oooooooooooooooooooooooooo
love your dumbness
can you write the national curriculam???
Winston Smith says:
October 23, 2021 at 6:20 am
I missed that, not around often, but you may have your finger on it.
As to our reserve diesel is stored in the US?
That has to be a deliberate piss take by the government, nobody and I mean nobody, not even a politician can be that stupid as to call that a “strategic reserve” to be drawn upon in an emergency.
Pogria:
Hadn’t seen that one for a long time.
Excellent stuff.
watch the state premiers prove that the Australian Constitution is a mere Fabian Communist peace of kuck.
That might have been the one with William Shatner in it.
Paying at least 50c/lt more than this time last year for diesel.
Re the fertiliser and glyphosate supply issues one of the reasons for tight supply is the planned shutdown of production facilities prior to and during the winter Olympics.
Also Covid outbreaks.
Floods.
“feelthebernsays:
October 23, 2021 at 6:44 am
How did a live round get onto a movie set?”
Indeed, as someone who’s done some acting, I’m stunned it was loaded.
Anyway, I have zero sympathy for the nasty bully Baldwin. My sympathy lies with the vctims…one woman dead and one man struggling for his life.
Were they killed/injured by the same round?
W.S. Cox Plate favourite Zaaki was scratched at 7.32am this morning due to an elevated temperature.
Joe Biden calls Jimmy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVC1u7P_Zjw
No fucking way Tom !
Bookies breathe sigh of relief.
Baldwin is Free
release the dams NOW or it will shoot you
The one responsible for those staggeringly unfunny portrayals of Fatty Trump?
Please let it be so.
Covid?
Or adverse vax reaction?
Great to see lots of upticks on Leak’s telling cartoon today, and none of them dickless ones.
There was mention of ‘shrapnel’.
A lot of this would be coming from ‘Entertainment reporters’ who are another shade of dim below normal reporters.
must be great to live in California where you just rob or shoot anyone.
Look on the bright side. It’s a great time to be having a climate change conference.
Leak’s cartoon hits SJW Wilkinson where it hurts.
From The Daily Telegraph….. I still don’t trust Palmer but I’ve long liked Craig Kelly….
Clive Palmer and Craig Kelly’s United Australia Party now nation’s biggest
In 2019, votes for Clive Palmer’s party helped to re-elect Scott Morrison. Now Palmer’s UAP has 70k members, a seemingly limitless budget, and its own leader who ‘could be PM’.
He’s back. And this time Clive Palmer has everyone in his sights.
In 2019 the billionaire Queenslander spent $60 million on relentlessly anti-Labor messages that helped to re-elect Scott Morrison.
Now his message is different: you can’t trust Labor, the Liberals or the Greens. And he’s on a roll.
Between 300 and 400 people are joining his United Australia Party each day. Last week it passed 70,000 members — making it the biggest party in the country.
And once again Palmer is spending up big.
All across Australia there are UAP ads on the front pages of newspapers and in high-rating free-to-air shows such as SAS Australia.
In just the past two months he’s spent more $1.2 million on YouTube ads alone, one of which has been seen 4.5 million times.
Already there are 350 UAP billboards across the country — except in Victoria which only came out of lockdown on Friday — with another 250 soon to join them.
And it looks like it’s working.
According to polling by the Labor-linked pollster RedBridge, the UAP primary vote is 17 per cent in the Western Sydney seats of Lindsay, Macquarie and Banks.
Palmer claims his support is similar across NSW, Queensland and Victoria, and he says he hopes to take it higher.
“We’re approaching 20 per cent in all these states,” he told The Saturday Telegraph this week.
What has turbocharged the UAP’s resurgence was Palmer’s decision in August to make rebel Liberal Craig Kelly the face of the party.
Kelly, a long-time climate change sceptic, left the Liberal Party in February after being told off by the Prime Minister for spruiking alternative Covid therapies.
Palmer can’t speak highly enough of Kelly.
“I’m 67, Craig’s in his mid-50s, he’s got the vision, he’s got the character and I’m certainly there to support him with our assets, whatever I can do to give him a fair go,” he said.
“He’s the one. He’s 100 per cent genuine. Who’s to say he can’t be prime minister?”
Palmer says the key to Kelly’s appeal is his sincerity.
“He’s authentic. He’s telling people what he believes. It’s a question of honesty and trust,” he said.
Pollster John Scales, from JWS Research, who been studying voting behaviour for more than two decades, has detected a change in the typical Palmer voter since the last election.
In 2019 Palmer’s vote skewed towards men, aged over 65, people who tended to be voting against another party. They were also more likely to have a low education, be unemployed or on a low income.
One pollster characterises this as “the f… youse all” vote, which in Queensland has often gone to Pauline Hanson.
Scales has detected a change in more recent polling.
The UAP voter is still more likely to be male and have little education, but Scales says they are now more likely to be under the age of 54.
Scales characterise them differently, calling Palmer’s voters “the Trumpy middle”, a group made of “skilled labourers, and lower-end middle-management”.
“If you look at Trump’s base it’s very similar,” he said.
According to Scales, while Hanson’s vote is largely confined to Anglo-Australians, Palmer is much more likely to find supporters among third-generation Greeks and Italians in both Sydney and Melbourne
Palmer claims “the majority of members are under 40”.
So where have they come from?
When people join the UAP they are asked if they have ever been a member of another political party.
Palmer says about 35,000 have answered no to that question.
About another 20,000, he says, claim that at some point in their lives they have been members of the ALP, while another 13,000 have been in the Liberal or National parties.
Surprisingly, Palmer says about 3000 people say they have been in the Greens.
“We ask them ‘why did they leave the political party?’ and those ones were overwhelmingly because they were against mandatory vaccine,” he said.
Opposition to mandatory vaccination has been at the heart of Palmer and Kelly’s messaging since they teamed up.
That position has an appeal to voters that goes much wider than the anti-vaxxer fringe.
“We estimate about 25,000 (members) are double-jabbed,” Palmer said.
“One of the reasons they joined is they got double-vaccinated because they thought they’d get more liberty and they find that’s not the case at all.”
Though Palmer himself is not vaccinated (“Why would anyone be vaccinated in Queensland when there’s no Covid?”), he denies he is against immunisation.
“Our party is not anti-vax, it’s freedom of choice,” he said.
Mr Palmer said the party had been inundated with applications to run for the party in the past few weeks.
“We’ve already got a thousand nominations for House of Representatives seats and over 500 for the Senate seats around Australia,” he said.
“Australians are pretty much disgusted with what’s been going on and our party slogan is of course you cannot trust Liberal, Labor or the Greens.”
He said had no plans to run for a seat for the party himself at this stage.
“I’m very reluctant (to run as a candidate) because I’ve got a nice big boat that’s come into Brisbane that I’d like to get out and go fishing and stuff like that, plus I think I have got less to offer in the future,“ he said.
Inside the major parties, opinions differ about how seriously they need to take the Third Coming of Clive.
One senior Labor figure who has known him for many years says it doesn’t do to underestimate him.
“He’s been around politics for decades (in the Queensland Liberal Party), he’s not just some billionaire who’s just walked into it,” he said.
The sceptical view inside the government starts with the fact Palmer spent $90 million last time without winning a seat.
A senior Liberal source said he was unconvinced by RedBridge’s numbers: “I haven’t seen anything like that in our data. I think it is more likely to be in single digits.”
The source said that while anyone who could spend money like Palmer needed to be taken seriously, it wasn’t clear that it was going to be more effective and targeted than last time.
“His messages are very much around lockdowns, but by the time of the election hopefully there won’t be any lockdowns, or it certainly won’t be anything like it’s been the last few months,” the source said.
On the other hand, a senior minister thinks the government is in danger of missing how important Palmer’s messages could be. “Last time the message in his ads were our messages, well they’re not now,” he said.
The minister was mainly referring to Palmer and Kelly’s other great policy: Opposition to net zero.
National Party MPs are terrified of Palmer running ads about this in their seats because they fear it will make it impossible to sell whatever deal the Coalition partners reach on the policy.
The chances are, however, that most of the second preferences from UAP votes that come from National Party and Liberal voters will end up coming back to the Coalition.
That’s what happened in 2019, when 80 per cent of Palmer’s vote went to the Coalition.
Labor has cause to be far more concerned about that preference split, because the second preferences of UAP voters who come from Labor also ended up going to the Coalition.
Recently Julian Hill, who sits for the southeastern Melbourne seat of Bruce, posted a long video to YouTube in which he talked about his frustration at the number people who had interacted with him in support of Palmer.
“Clearly some people are being fooled,” he told The Saturday Telegraph. “My message is: ‘do what you like mate, but understand if you vote for him you’re being scammed’.
“He’s running a giant preference harvesting machine for the Liberal Party. A vote for Clive Palmer and Craig Kelly is a vote for Scott Morrison.”
A Labor senator agrees that Palmer helps the government, but for different reasons.
“Clive is good for Scott (Morrison) because they can get their anti-vaxxer anger out of their system but he gets their preferences,” the senator said.
This senator met recently with senior evangelical Christian leaders and had been surprised at how warmly they had spoken about the UAP.
“They said ‘we’re voting for Craig’,” the senator said.
Not only were they thinking of voting for the UAP, they were apparently also thinking about handing out for him: “They said they were wondering what they should do on polling day.”
In 2019 Palmer was forced to man polling booths using paid workers, never the most enthusiastic handers-out of how-to-vote cards. Motivated volunteers could be a game-changer.
If Christian groups do end up working for the UAP, Palmer can probably thank his decision to publicly back their poster boy for religious freedom, rugby union and league player Israel Folau.
But given the UAP has more than 70,000 members, finding help isn’t likely to a problem at this election.
Returning to the issue that most concerns the mainstream parties: the UAP’s preferences and where they are going to go.
Palmer is giving nothing away.
“We’ll be preferencing parties that can most achieve our policy objectives or the reason why people have joined us,” he said. “If it was for any other reason I’d be lynched.
“We don’t know who that will be. We’ve had no discussions with Liberal, Labor or anyone.
“Our slogan is you can never trust Liberal, Labor or the Greens.””
LOL Oh well Liberal and Labor, you reap what you sow. As for Julian Hill (who? Oh he’s a Labor MP) he really has some chutzpah describing people as “being fooled” and describing those who’ve join UAP or intend to vote for UAP as “being scammed”….the only scammers in this country are the major parties, Liberal, Labor, Nationals and Greens…remind me again, who voted for “zero emissions”?. Remind me, where’s our religious freedom bill? I could go on about with all those other empty promises…..they scam us every day with their false promises and their lies.
Indeed Panzer. What earthly existence consists of the purveying of fourth hand gossip about Hollyweirdos?
Yet even those loathsome creatures could probably provide a more insightful analysis of US politics than that tiresome bimbecile, Annaliese Neilsen.
Were they killed/injured by the same round?
Wondered that when I read, elsewhere, this morning that there was one live round in the gun .. but why would there be ANY live rounds in the gun .. also as the victim wasn’t a cast member why was he pointing the gun in her direction, I’m assuming they weren’t on set …..!
If this wasn’t a high profile actor involved methinx someone else would be in a lot of trouble ..
If Baldwin can produce his jab ticket then he is safe… obvious the scum he killed wasn’t wacked with the experimental drug
It’s now anyone’s race, Bern. Annabel Neisham says on socials she’s “absolutely devastated” she had to scratch Zaaki. Watch out for that thing of Joseph O’Brien that won last start at Saratoga over 1900m (State of Rest, $10). But I’ll be barracking for Neisham’s other nag Mo’unga ($7). She’s a brilliant trainer and, as 2018 winner of the 1000 kms cross-country Mongol Derby, tough as old boots.
Stop it.
Michael Malice
@michaelmalice
Alec Baldwin reminded all of us how important it is to go out and get your shot
#VaccinesSaveLives
#DontKillMeAlec
3:51 AM · Oct 23, 2021·Twitter Web App
If initial reports are correct, yes. The projectile went through the woman, killing her, and struck the man, wounding him.
“Michael Malice
@michaelmalice
Alec Baldwin reminded all of us how important it is to go out and get your shot”
Just love Malice.
Time to feed the the flying rats …:) 😉
Healthcare Workers & Teachers Protest against mandates – 22.10.21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQH8nqWK-fo
Oct 22, 2021
Real Rukshan
31.8K subscribers
A group of healthcare workers and teachers protested against mandatory vaccinations and job losses on the first day of eased restrictions and greater “freedoms” in Melbourne, Victoria.
Give her a break, Rabz. Like all pretty girls, Annaliese just wants to be liked. It;s just a pity Boris Whittaker’s brain melted when he sent her to ‘Merkaaah for Skah.
… and the chooks … 🙂
Flying Pigs says:
October 23, 2021 at 4:25 am
Now that Australia is a proven fascist economy can we get the oligarch food dispensers to cook some decent chips???
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Make your own Triple Cooked Chips & you’ll never buy chips again.
Fork pierce one side of a few decent sized spuds, zap ’em 5 minutes forked side down then another fork side up.
Meanwhile have the oven heating to top heat.
After zapping give ’em another 5 minutes in the oven, just enough to crisp the skin.
Get ’em out, cut in half to speed the cooling to a heat you can handle.
Meanwhile get the oil heated in a fryer or pot.
Peel the crispy skin off (or not; I like the skin fried quickly, separately), and cut into about 6 to chunky chips per spud.
Don’t over crowd, cook in smaller batches until literally golden brown.
The rough surface browns super crisp, with that crispy roast potato flavour, the inside is a fluffy delight.
Salt. Devour.
It’s sounds more fiddly than normal peeled & fried chips but isn’t.
Most of the work is done by the microwave & oven & the hands on work is quick & easy.
In any sane world, 91.3% of peons would never have heard of Lisa “knee knockers” Wilkinson or her equally idiotic other half, Pedro FitzSimians.
Yet here we are.
Alec Baldwin
Our Hero killing off the UNvaxxed
Where do sports journos fit in?
You are useless Alec Baldwin, you are useless Alec Baldwin…
I appreciate your observations, Tom, but you could train a parrot to deliver a more useful analysis of US politics than that vacuous girly.
your cruel… lol
Blanks don’t go through two people.
As many of us have already heard, there was an accidental weapons discharge on a production titled Rust being filmed in New Mexico,” said the North Hollywood-based local. “A live single round was accidentally fired on set by the principal actor, hitting both the Director of Photography, Local 600 member Halyna Hutchins, and Director Joel Souza. Both were rushed to the hospital,” the email said.
A source close to union said Local 44 does not know what projectile was in the gun and clarified that “live” is an industry term that refers to a gun being loaded with some material such as a blank ready for filming.
Baldwin in big doo doo.
Per Ace skylarking may have been involved.
And I wish they’d stop calling it a prop gun.
Prop guns are gun shaped props used when the talent finds the gun shaped guns
too heavy to chuck about.
As Hunter S. Thompson once observed, sportswriters are “an army of drunken fascists”, which actually fits the current Australian crop to a T.
Adding to what Cassie posted @8.03.
If there are 70,000 members there will be many more who haven’t joined who will choose to vote UAP as their first option.
That’s means a lot of first vote money that will be denied to the Uniparty candidates.
Given the pretend dismissiveness of Julian Hill (he would say that, wouldn’t he?) I suspect there is potential for Craig Kelly to be a significant disruptor at the next election. He’s outperformed the establishment of any other political party in this country in a very short space of time.
The world has plenty of examples where things were impossible until they were not.¹
¹. See: Covid Responses and Vaccine Passports 2020-2021
Not to mention that other wondrous species of bottom feeders, rock music journalists.
That doesn’t sound like wadding to me.
That was my first impression. And also the problem with “blanks” going through one to hit another.
Alcohol and/or drugs and stupidity.
What, for posting The Perfect Chip Recipe just for you, Twice?
Oh I get it, you don’t want to put on any lockdown weight.
Sorry.
I’m told you can get sick of them, but couldn’t testify to it myself. We always run out of spuds first. 🙂
If you’re after quality j’ism, look no further than that erstwhile taxi driver and Dapto Dogs screecher.
Many mighty insights to be had listening to him (or so we’re told by luminaries such as our beloved CL).
In Hollyweird? I’m shocked, shocked, I tells ya!
Michael Malice
@michaelmalice
The insane part is that Alec Baldwin clearly is a very very good shot
5:49 AM · Oct 23, 2021·Twitter Web App
STOP IT !
This outrageous slur on Dickie Wilkins will not stand. Now where did I put my revolver?
The Tom Berenger Sniper meme is doing the rounds.
One shot, two kills.
This is a short presentation which goes a long way towards actually explaining it. It also largely explains the great divide between posters here which causes much of the bickering.
WHY ARE YOU AWAKE WHEN SO MANY AREN’T?
I won’t be surprised if he wins his seat.
I’ve met the man and he’s more than just a cartoon boofhead. You can actually have an intelligent conversation with him and he’s an impressive off the cuff public speaker.
If only Kyle Rittenhouse was there to stop Alec Baldwin.
After Zaaki’s scratching, Anamoe is now $3 favourite for the $5 million Australasian weight-for-age championship, the W.S. Cox Plate, at 5.10pm today. Field.
It’s on the desk next to the cocaine bowl and toupee, Bear.
Two kinds of weapons on a set.
Non firing replicas – gloried paper weights, that get used 99% of the time.
Real weapons – that get handed by the armourer to the actor 30 seconds before filming & taken off the actor by the armourer literally as soon as the director says cut.
It’s the armourer at fault.
HERE WE GO AGAIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSJOcjC0Do
Oct 23, 2021
Paul Joseph Watson
1.88M subscribers
“The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly.”
Turd in the soup, or freedom hero, you have to admit that Fat Bastard is a astute political operator.
Unusual emphasis for a political leader. Not humble bragging, or faux modesty – more strategic distancing from his previous spectacularly dreadful performances.
Something has told him that he’s a personal roadblock on the road to 20%+. The difference between UAP being an expensive preference harvesting thing and having seats.
The interesting question will be whether enough of pissed-off voterland believes him.
this dog waiting for the ice cream man is so precious
h/t TheLastRefuge
How good are dogs, P?
Way better than cats.
Thanks for posting Cassie- why wouldn’t they say Julian Hill was a labor mhr? I had to look the twat up. Again it shows how broken modern oz politics are…
Hill started his career as an electorate officer and adviser for his predecessor Alan Griffin in 1995. From 2002 until his election to parliament in 2016, he worked as a senior public servant for the Victorian Government in the Departments of Transport, Sustainability and Environment, Planning and Community Development, and Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources.
Nein just played part of the 911 call from the Baldwin shooting.
The caller sounds composed and manages to very quickly get out the phrase “accidental shooting”.
“Megansays:
October 23, 2021 at 8:25 am”
Well said.
“I suspect there is potential for Craig Kelly to be a significant disruptor at the next election.”
Yes and that’s exactly what I want. Scumbag Morrison deserves to be taught an big lesson.
Just remember how back in February of this year, Scumbag Morrison sided with the progressive left….Labor and the Greens and the leftist parasite patsies in his own party…Sharma, Zimmerman, Allen and so on, to censure and silence Craig Kelly….a backbencher. Whatever happened to the party of Menzies ? A few months ago Scumbag Morrison and the Liberals joined up with Labor to censure George Christensen…another backbencher. Whatever happened to the party of Wilson Tuckey and Steele Hall, a party that allowed backbenchers freedom to differ and digress? Scumbag Morrison doesn’t believe in free speech…Scumbag Morrison doesn’t believe in anything.
Kelly has enormous energy and is a decent man. I want the senate to be a dog’s breakfast where a Labor government will have to deal with a cocktail of Lib Dems, UAP and PHON.
Oh and if Barnaby and the Nationals had any integrity, decency and self-respect, they’d walk today from the coalition TODAY over zero emissions. But they won’t which proves to me that they’re not interested in the voters, they’re only interested in the perks and self-preservation. The Liberals and Nationals can FUCK OFF.
Parasite paved the way for another parasite to replace it…
Griffin was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was educated at the Australian National University. He was a public servant, union organiser and electorate secretary before entering politics. Griffin was ministerial adviser to the Victorian Minister for Community Services, Kay Setches, 1990–91 and to Simon Crean, then a federal minister, 1991–93. He was also a member of the Springvale City Council, 1991–93.
These people are an absolute menace.
Resulting in a “mysterious fatal accident”.
“miltonfsays:
October 23, 2021 at 8:44 am
Thanks for posting Cassie- why wouldn’t they say Julian Hill was a labor mhr? I had to look the twat up. Again it shows how broken modern oz politics are…”
That’s a classic example of corrupt and venal MSM gaslighting. It’s quite deliberate.
@ feelthebern
“How does a live round get onto a movie set”?
Good question!
In a previous life, I was a film / TV armourer. EVERY firearm that was “practical”, i.e., had to be seen fired on film, was a REAL gun that had been “neutered” to some degree or other.
Blanks obviously do NOT contain “bullets”, apart from a few oddball military ones that had hollow WOODEN bullets to aid in feed function. When these were used in a military context, there was a “cage” / deflector fitted at the muzzle, that broke up the wooden bullet and blew the fragments out sideways. Still, NOT a good idea.
Movie blanks are specifically (or at least SHOULD be made, to have minimal projection of anything but a brief burst of hot gas and some token smoke leaving the muzzle. There is a catch, because there is no bullet. The behaviour of the propellant gases as they head for the muzzle, is somewhat different from ‘REAL ammo. The lack of a bullet means the pressure curve is utterly different. The upshot is the guns have to be fitted with “restrictors” that fit in at the muzzle, generally, these have a VERY small hoke in the centre of the restrictor plug that maintains bore pressure long enough for the propellant to FULLY burn.
A LOT of work goes into loading blank cartridges for this work. .
I recall a story from back in the late 1980s of a “talent” who had to do a bit of business with a blank-loaded gun, but foolishly figured, despite warnings about safety distances, that he could safely play Russian Roulette with a blank-loaded pistol.
The tiny little jet of flame from the muzzle restrictor acted like a mini plasma cutter. Another one for Darwin.
It is common practice when cinematic gun-play is in the offing, that there WILL be a safety briefing and there WILL be ear and eye protection USED by cast and crew AND there will be heavy Lexan or similar shields if the director want the very expensive camera crew to do a take “down the muzzle”
These days, a lot of the larger “exotica” seen on screen are “non-guns” running propane gas that is ignited to synchronize with the camera. Filming real machine guns firing real ammo often produces unexciting visuals, as the actual flash is often small and very brief.
Hence “movie guns” use blanks loaded with concoctions that enhance the flash at the muzzle for “art’s sake”.
The entire point of those little “bird cages” in the end of barrels, (M-16, Galil, M-14), etc.is to break up the flash, which is why they are called “flash suppressors”. Part of the “movie magic” is making fancy restrictors that not only have the tiny central axial port, but several others radially such that on firing, you get a “star-burst” effect. This was taken to extremes in cheesy shows like the old “A-Team”.
Whatever happened on that set, a number of people messed up VERY badly. For a start, it was, in my day, OBLIGATORY for the person with the gun to “aim off” when pulling the trigger. Creative positioning and camera work and post production would do the rest.
An amazing amount of “cheating” of angles occurs in the biz, be it for a fight scene or a “simple” house exterior shot.
Moviedom: The biggest fantasy factory on the planet, until someone cuts a corner. Vic Morrow, anyone?
If a live round, singular, is fired in a gun properly rigged for blank firing, there will be a big bang and the gun, especially a pistol, will have been partially or totally disassembled without the aid of tools, apart from the one that loaded the gun and / or pulled the trigger
Yes, probably.
Unless Baldwin got up to some hi-jinks in the few seconds he had the weapon in his hands.
I also wonder about the Superstar dismissing the lowly help (armourer) when he asked for the weapon back, or busily sending out “witty” tweets during the safety briefing.
Only if s/he’s non-union.
If s/he’s a proud member of UAU Local 123, it’ll be management’s fault.
Which is bad news for any Prod. on location.
Oh and if Barnaby and the Nationals had any integrity, decency and self-respect, they’d walk today from the coalition TODAY over zero emissions. But they won’t which proves to me that they’re not interested in the voters, they’re only interested in the perks and self-preservation. The Liberals and Nationals can FUCK OFF.
Agree. Joyce showed his true colors when he served as deputy PM to Trumble. Total phony.
Great stuff, Bruce!
But you mean I can’t throw gal. pipe into someone’s chainmail, skewering them onto a boiler?
HEY BENNETT, LET OFF SOME STEAM!
Bruce at 8:52.
And this is why the Cat is so great.
Excellent summary.
Some terms I don’t understand and will look up (eg “hoke”).
132and bush:
Wot about the frogs and grasshoppers?
Or are they slacking off?
“Brucesays:
October 23, 2021 at 8:52 am”
Thank you Bruce.
For which a significant number of voters may not have forgiven him.
Leak Snr used to wonderfully render Cloive as the latter preferred himself to be seen.
Thanks, Bruce. Great post at 8.52am. It’s amazing the number of experts the Cat attracts.
Milt
He’s worse than a phoney.
The Nats are urban bugmen with oddly fresh Akubras.
They haven’t supported free enterprise, civil liberties, let alone rural interests since John Howard’s gun laws.
Panzer, when you’re in a hoke, stop digging.
Dogs are great.
Cats are supreme.
Thanks Bruce. An interesting window on the world of smoke and mirrors.
My only exposure to firearms was at the bank in another age of the world. And, being very, very careful with them.
I would willingly endure a decade of chaos if that was the price to kill, cremate and bury the ALP, LNP and GRN unipardee.
I watched a vid yesterday, which I’ve tried to put up but for some reason it won’t work. It’s eight prominent doctors & scientists engage in a remarkable exchange (on YouTube) and is dated 3/10/21.
A lot of information about the virus and the vaccines is covered. It’s 45 minutes and is worth it.
One thing that has caused a lot of words to be written here was whether the vaccines were safe for pregnant women. The definitive answer is the work on that has not been done and there is no data to support the administering of the vaccine to expecting mothers. As well, there is no data on the effect on fertility, though it was known before the vaccines were released that the lipid particle would be found in the ovaries.
Pol, I feel like I’ve just endured two of them. With several more to come, evidently.
Bruce, you are awesome.
Have you seen what James Woods said about the set of Salvador ?
Oliver Stone was cutting corners & it was the only time in Woods’ life that he almost got killed on set.
An extra almost shot him in the head thinking the “blank” would do no harm.
From a distance of one inch.
OK Cats – time to adjourn to the garden for some slashing, hacking, pruning, weeding and mowing.
Bloody Saturday chores.
That littleproud (what an apt name) is a good example of the very model of a modern ‘national’.
The funniest stuff used to be the fights and car chases in the old Crawford cop shows.
Car chase starts on city street.
Nek minnit it is off up a dirt road (much better for fish-tailing and sliding and, of course, throws up a lot of dust).
They would often over-dub the screeching tyre sound (which is very difficult to achieve on a dirt road).
Par for the course too when you find out who Barilalo had on his office payroll.
Garden sprayer.
Unleaded.
Matches.
Rabz:
Never heard of her.
Had to google the name to get an image.
Never seen her before.
The National Pardee candidates of late have been farmer’s trophy wives who don’t want to go back to the city as a lawyer after they’ve had a couple of sprogs.
No real community involvement (other than self aggrandisement), no skin in the game, money to burn on their husband’s farm(s) to afford carelessness regarding their idiotic woke policies.* Hell, they even parachute these strong and independent women to non-resident electorates.
*”Women and children can be careless, men cannot”
Homicide, Division 4, Hunter. Trilby hats and brown suits.
8 prominent doctors & scientists engage in a remarkable exchange
Klaus Schwab wants to be our globalist leader.
Warning, you might want to unsee this.
Interesting times in building, I am not a builder but rather waiting for my house to be built.
We went to a construction update for our village the other day and they said there is going to be an almighty shortage of aggregate/cement as the biggest supplier in Oz which is in NSW will shut down for 6 months. They have stockpiled enough for all our slabs and will be releasing it to the batching plant as needed. They are ordering frames and windows as soon as council approves plans , ie our frames and windows have been ordered even though our slab does not go down until Christmas week and then there is the 3-5 week shutdown before they start erecting them.
They also said that many large builders here are returning contracts with 10-20k ‘go away’ money and all the major infrastructure works that are supposed to be stimulating building are contributing to stupid prices for materials and trades.
Here we go again: PJW
Another 6. Ball in the carpark.
From the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (a Government entity):
The first year of COVID-19 in Australia: direct and indirect health effects
Just a couple of highlights:
“The burden of disease from COVID-19 in Australia in 2020 was modest
There were just over 8,400 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost in 2020 from COVID-19 in Australia; 97% of this disease burden was from fatal cases. This is much lower than the burden due to leading diseases in Australia. For example, coronary heart disease (CHD) was responsible for around 312,000 DALYs in 2018.”
“Some groups in the population were more affected than others
During 2020, 7% of all COVID-19 cases in Australia and 75% of all deaths were in people living in residential aged care facilities.”
Who’d have guessed that a program to protect the vulnerable from the start might have had better results and created less collateral damage. Oh, that’s right, lots of people on the Cat in April 2020.
If only the scale of resources currently being using to suppress the population, had been employed to protect the ‘at risk’ groups.
Calli, don’t forget Matlock Police, where everything wicked happened ‘on the Burrabri Road’. Everything there and nowhere else. Given how many red indians Michael Pate played in Hollywood it’s a wonder he and Paul Cronin didn’t wear warpaint.
And boosters aren’t going to work because they’ve been designed for the wrong variant. It’s like being given a flu shot from 5 years ago – the flu’s moved on & the virus had too.
Vaxxed & unvaxxed both can get Delta. Only way out is prophylactic or early treatment before the need for hospital. Long covid is early treatment denied.
BTW, for those who didn’t watch or watch to end, PJW finishes with quite a lot more than a few clips of American News & Views TV Shows, Sponsored By Pfizer .
HERE WE GO AGAIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSJOcjC0Do
Zuby, on Slightly Offensive, also mentioned how flabbergasting it was for a Brit to see just how heavily American MSM was loaded up with Drug pushing.
Can you imagine just how many ‘Mom & Pop’ Investors, SMSFunders etc. around the rest of the world, have had it made clear to them just how much richer they would be if only they could bring everyone ‘up’ to America’s standard of Doctor Worship & Pharmaceutical Addiction?
I can.
It explains a HELL of a lot of Covid Karen’s & Ken’s who simply won’t stop pushing every bit of Big Pharma Sponsored MSM ‘news’/Brainwashing on everyone.
And so it goes on…..
“Craig McLachlan to face Neighbours co-star during sexual harassment legal battle
One of Craig McLachlan’s Neighbours co-stars from the 1980s is set to front court with allegations that he sexually harassed her.
One of Craig McLachlan’s Neighbours co-stars from more than three decades ago is set to be a key witness in his upcoming defamation trial over sexual harassment allegations.
The Gold Logie winner is suing the ABC, Nine and former colleague Christie Whelan Browne over allegations relating to his time starring in the Rocky Horror Show in 2014.
He is suing in the NSW Supreme Court, claiming that allegations of indecent assault, bullying and that he exposed himself to female colleagues have injured his character.
The media companies and Ms Whelan Browne are defending the lawsuit, denying assertions the former soap star was defamed, as well as relying on a truth defence.
The lawsuit will be decided by a jury with a four-week trial before Justice John Sackar due to begin in May next year.
Justice Sackar on Friday afternoon allowed an application for the media companies to amend their defence, allowing the new witness to give evidence.
The court heard the new witness co-starred alongside McLachlan on Neighbours during his time on the hit soap in his breakthrough role in 1987-89.
His co-star had made allegations that Mr McLachlan had sexually harassed her including by touching her breasts, the Supreme Court was told on Friday.
“They are factual matters for the jury, they will be the judges of the facts,” Judge Sackar said.
“On the face of it they clearly relate to the plaintiff … They will be a matter for the jury to weigh up.”
Mr McLachlan launched proceedings in 2018 but they were stayed the following year when he was charged in Victoria with assaulting and indecently assaulting four women during the stage production of the Rocky Horror Show.
He pleaded not guilty and was acquitted of all charges in the Melbourne Magistrates Court in 2020 before restarting the defamation proceedings.
McLachlan, who was launched into stardom after stints on Neighbours and Home And Away, has consistently denied the allegations against him.
“Frankly, they seem to be simple inventions, perhaps made for financial reasons, perhaps to gain notoriety,” he said in a 2018 statement.
“In either event, they are to the best of my knowledge utterly and entirely false.””
Mater,
Received.
Screw KFC Letftovers. I’m going to get my own.
I love dogs.
MiltonF;
…and I’m in his electorate.
He’s unflushable.
President Biden talks vaccines
Cite you the story of the film armorer on the set of “The Dirty Dozen” explaining to Lee Marvin how to hold, and fire a sub machine gun. Marvin never said a word. He took the weapon, stripped it, reassembled it, and put it on the table, as the armorer realized he had been trying to explain to a Marine veteran of the Pacific War how to use a sub machine gun….
Oh, and for those not in ‘hot zones’ like Vic or NSW, here’s the irony.
On Thursday I sat in a cafe and had a coffee (it wasn’t bad, it’s always pretty good).
Come ‘Freedom Day’ here in Victoria (yesterday), I can no longer sit at the same cafe.
The owners are mortified. They know me by name.
Kayla Minnow Goo?
Going back to the Baldwin massacre . (Brucie flounced in the previous discussion).
Could Baldwin be charged with manslaughter? If you’re going to use a potentially dangerous device, you’re responsible if something goes wrong and it doesn’t matter if it’s a film shoot.
‘What Are You Afraid Of?’ Hearing Erupts As Jim Jordan Blocked By Dems From Showing Video
‘FBI Is Starting To Resemble Old KGB’: GOP Lawmaker Laces Into Garland At House Hearing
I had such a dog as a child.
His hearing was so acute & signalling so astute that he gave all the kids in many houses around us, plenty of time to beg coins from parents or dig in the couch for, and so form a nice big profitable crowd outside our gate.
Mr. Whippy would reward the dog ice cream in a cup.
He was the sort of dog that made one a dog-o-holic for life.
A Rin-Tin-Tin, Lassie & Littlest Hobo rolled into one magnificent beast.
My mother kept giving him away because we couldn’t afford to feed him.
He kept running away from his new, ‘better’ homes & finding me again, even when we moved miles away.
It was like scenes from a Hollywood movie.
School, next door to our house, wasn’t long off starting and as I’m about to walk in the gate I see a great golden long haired dog running up from the other end of the street, ignoring all the other kids (he was so handsome, with his classic German Shepard head surrounded by that golden mane, that all the kids were calling to him), his big ears pricked, his face smiled and he double his pace, running straight into my arms.
My mother stopped trying to get rid of him after that.
If only the Dogs had finished in the top four and given themselves the double chance. They left themselves too much to do too late and got smashed in the GF.
The Cats are the best amateur side in the AFL. They play millionaires footy for 22 rounds, then blow it out their arse in the finals. And no-one – least of all their fans – gives a shit.
QED.
Could have been lifted straight from Dickens.
Yes. Say it’s in NSW; manslaughter but perhaps unlawful killing. Section 18 should be rewritten to recognise unlawful killing.
It depends on the facts JC. He could (in NSW) be charged with moida. “Act, omission or reckless indifference to life…” ….”all other homicides shall be manslaughter”.
Then it goes to defences like substantial impairment (which you must in effect, make an admission of guilt, however derogated). No way he’d get M’naghten, it is very narrow.
It will be interesting to see who actually is at fault and how the industrial laws play out. NSW has no prosecutions so far for industrial manslaughter so far.
Either way, the fines from the WHS Act would bankrupt all but the very wealthy. Category 1 offences have five years gaol and 6 mn AUD + fines now.
‘Joe Biden Could Be Guilty Of Treason’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Discusses Articles Of Impeachment
Aussie Cossack.
Annastacia admitting on camera that that “quarantine” camps are for the unvaccinated and then, at another news conference on the same day, saying “this is your last chance to get vaccinated”.
She is literally threatening people.
If you lived in Geelong you’d clutch at every straw that floated past. Think Melbournibad without any redeeming features.
On the other hand at least you wouldn’t have to drive through it to go for a surf.
‘Worst 10 Months Of Any Administration In History’: Jordan Castigates Biden In House Speech
Sorry – “assault causing death”.
That wouldn’t be likely but it depends on the facts. Like literally if he shoved it in their face and it went off.
Quite so, Mater.
And, although we didn’t call it that, there was plenty of discussion around DALYs (disability adjusted life years) and similar concepts.
Dot
You mentioned Zero Hedge. If they’re saying oil is heading to the moon, then get ready for a massive crash. That site has been bearish on stocks since the GFC lows and missed the biggest bull market in history. They only survive because real smart guys like Faulty2 get excited by reading disaster porn. There’s an older set always anticipating impending doom.
Conversely, I think we’re entering a golden age.
One more example. I read that Musk’s SpaceX outfit has been working on small nuclear reactors to operate in space ( Mars). They believe they’ve hit on a reactor that could work well on earth, no chance of explosion and won’t leave bad junk. They believe it will last 40 years and light up 2000 or so homes easily.
The gerbil warming fearmongering is almost over.
Hmmm … they get to keep the proceeds from crime, which happens to be tax payer money.
You gotta love the legal system.
Obeid family keeps tainted millions despite Eddie and Moses jail terms
https://www.smh.com.au/national/obeid-family-keeps-tainted-millions-despite-eddie-and-moses-jail-terms-20211021-p59240.html
She’s also offering businesses incentives to mandate staff vaccinations and exclude unvaccinated customers.
Everyone put “Accidental Shooting” in your multis today.
It’s jumped out of the gates strongly and is running beautifully.
Bruce didn’t flounce, JC. My guess is he just doesn’t enjoy slanging matches. A bit like me.
Life on Earth is a carbon capture scheme
Yes. The plants gobble up all the CO2 they can. Then die and much of them ends up on the bottom of the ocean (plankton) to eventually be subsumed into subduction zones. *Much* later the CO2 comes out of volcanos.
Meanwhile if the plants are really successful the CO2 level in the atmosphere falls. Then the plants then all die and a short while later so do all the animals including us.
The plants are always trying to pull a suicide/murder on all life.
01:22 New wave of pandemic in 10 Chinese provinces
02:20 Beijing lights Olympic flame amid protests
03:39 CCP’s new rule: make news with Marxist angle
04:55 China pressures McDonald’s to use digital Yuan
05:41 North Korean prison-break video goes viral
06:34 China: vaccine victim’s mother speaks out
09:31 Chinese vaccine not recognized in Italy
10:22 Hypersonic weapons, explained
12:36 FCC member calls to review Chinese drone maker
14:09 New U.S. bill counters China in S. China sea
15:23 Time for Taiwanese companies to leave China?
18:37 China’s power shortage threatens car industry
19:55 China keeping foreign auto companies alive
You wait until we have deep onshore and offshore drilling here. As in, below the bedrock.
Vietnam’s White Tiger field is sub bedrock. It is very productive. Lefties (Baizuo) hate it. (Oh no, deep oil disproves peak oil forever…). Monty sperged hard whenever I mentioned it.
There is potential for cheap nuke and fossil fuels side by side.
For my super I just want to get out of KAR, OSH & BPT soon and go hard into DTM, AMI, JMS, JNO & FMG. CAD is in its own special account…the real retirement fund. 🙂
I won’t be going to Queensland any time soon. The Beloved still hopes he can see Darwin in April next year, but he’s dreaming. We have to come back via Qld.
about:blank#blocked
Now I’m thinking I might want to see it first, then decide about the unseeing myself.
Is it still there for anyone else or has Team Klaus been quick to clean up his mess?
*Women and children can be careless, men cannot*
Bitten in the rear end once already, never shy enough….hoist by own petard.
Some of the plants will end up as some of the coal, oil and gas we find and burn. Depends how convincing you find Tommy Gold. It really means we are only arguing about whether the methane that was accreted during the formation of the Earth was cycled through life at least once or if a reasonable amount is primordial.
We are doing Gaia’s work in keeping life going by burning coal, oil and gas. SpaceX is also doing Gaia’s work by being Gaia’s reproductive system and spreading life beyond Earth.
I don’t care how much it cost to build the Geelong bypass road.
The most valuable piece of infrastructure ever built.
Daily Mail.
hoist by own retard.
Calli
Naaa, he’s just another example of someone who turns into mush if he’s shown he’s wrong. He can’t take it. Perhaps he’s too fragile- a snowflake even.
Yesterday he claimed directors don’t directly engage with the actors in scenes. Yes they fucking do. They’re always instructing actors how they want a scene to develop and do so actively.
I nicely explained that to him and he took off like a jack rabbit with his tail on fire. Sad. I always thought of him as my geek cousin and was always nice to him. If you can’t accept being wrong then don’t comment especially if it turns you into a mush.
His other more diabolical pal, weirdo Eyrie, has a doll and sticks pins in it hoping I die because I took the vax. He suggested he was going to laugh and urinate on my grave. There are some serious fucking weirdos hanging around here.
Sacré bleu!
Feel like I’ve just been administered a massive dose of sunstroke.
Sometimes directors even give themselves small roles in their movies.
Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction.
Very good Tom’s toons today.
Lame pics are fun too, especially the cat one.
In other news I spoke to Pete Davis on 2SM today about petrol prices, now having cracked $2 per litre, being due to the fucktard biden making the US energy dependent on the ME again and Australia not developing it’s own reserves. I also spoke about the climate scam and mentioned Climategate and the emails which revealed the scientists said one thing publicly and the opposite privately.
Now the ratbags are ringing up having a shot at me. No doubt others will ring up to support me. No fucking doubt. One idiot earnestly just said it doesn’t matter if AGW is not real because moving away from fossils will make the world a better place. A show on SBS said so. People are fucking morons. And if they aren’t morons they’re gutless.
Mike Pompeo issues stark warning after China fires nuclear-capable hypersonic missile
Waaaay back, I had a platoon sergeant. His name was Bennett. He was a cockhead. Probably still is.
That line was used amongst us baggy-arses whenever there was an episode of Bennett-related cockheadery, and immediately after he’d stomped off.
In the moments of silence (and safety), someone would utter those words:
‘Let off some steam.’
‘Ben-nett’. Glorious.
M. Knight Shyamalan does that, too, rosie. As did Alfred Hitchcock.
A bit of fun, although Hitchcock was easy to spot.
Sactly. When I mentioned something similar he told me to go suck dick oe what ever and took off like a humiliated snowflake.
Let me speculate about him. He’s been following around this Queensland imbecile for too long and that’s got him into trouble.
I’ve done some stage acting as well as two television adverts. I can assure you all that directors engage directly with the cast, they are the puppeteers, the conductors…some of them are very dictatorial. Without directors there’s no show….stage, television or film.
Perhaps Bruce meant producers?
A special preview of Bill O’Reilly’s Premium Member special “The Real Joe Biden.”
No, Mr Goofy said directors. We can always drag out the comment. I can’t be bothered.
There fixed it for you. sorry accidently reported you but them again not really. The only cats I like are on the Cat.
Really Okay, so outta 10 , how cute are Cassie. Give us a real number here. 🙂
On PJW;
DB, thanks for NOT being one of the “brought to you by Pfizer” media sites.
If that’s not a red flag…
Queensland seems to be under the control of two witches.