How can the Bali druggies serve time in Australia when they haven’t been found guilty of anything in Australia?
Open Thread-Weekend 23 Oct 2021
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- From darkness to the promise of light
The story behind the arrest of Scott Rush is a lesson for us all.
Andy Warhol, fashion designers like Courreges, Quant. Futuristic styling in 2001 A Space Odyssey. Seen it all before.
Why should WE have to pay for their transport to Australia or the costs of the incarceration?
How have the rest of Trump’s appointments been today? I’m getting a lot of heat in my timeline.
“JCsays:
October 23, 2021 at 10:30 am
I’ve done some stage acting as well as two television adverts.
Really Okay, so outta 10 , how cute are Cassie. Give us a real number here. ?”
10 out of 10!
I actually love doing theatre.
There are some serious fucking weirdos hanging around here.
LOL! How unaware can someone be?
Don’t like the painting Dover. Mongyang coming out of lockdown.
The super sad thing Mater, is that unpersoning has been going on for decades.
Something like practice runs for the great global unpersoning that otherwise good people are now being terrified into doing by Threats from The State via MS&Social Media, 24/7, for nearly two years.
Closed Shops, Blackballing, Bad ‘Luck’ etc. destroying the livelihoods & lives of people who brought the ‘wrong’ attention to ‘things they shouldn’t’.
Those who figured out how this global herding, channelling, treating & culling was being done, and why, had “Conspiracy Theorist” ready & waiting to be nailed to them.
Now, the joke is, “What’s the difference between a Conspiracy Theory & Fact?
A couple of Years.”
When, ‘a couple of years’, gets up to, ‘a few decades’, we may have enough people capable of seeing just how many of their trusted friends are actually their ruthless enemies and cut themselves off those deliverers of soul destroying poison.
So a real Prima Donna.
There are some serious fucking weirdos hanging around here.
Ha ha that’s certainly true. Also some excellent commentators with really valuable insights. The kooks certainly make me think twice about going to any meet ups.
Definitely a Bosch next time please, if not another Bruegel, either of them is fine.
10 out of 10!
Cassie, you do sound cute! ?
No dead pheasants, ever.
Triggered.
This was the piece of shit who claimed I was excessive in my criticisms. Because I had the vax, this lunatic said he was going to buy some avgas, fly down here (impressive hey) and then laugh and urinate on my grave. He accuses me of being unaware of me being weird though. FMD.
Eyrie.
You’re a dickhead , a complete waste of time. Also, you’re so fucking boring it’s crushing. Just fuck off and go laugh and urinate on people’s graves, you fucking dickhead.
Your choice, calli.
But don’t mistake Palaszczuk for the state.
I’d say she’s wallowing on c. 35% of the primary vote right now.
If the Opposition leader pulled his finger out she’d be on the ropes, but, typical politician, he’s playing it safe and letting her unravel.
The artwork is outstanding.
There will be no dissent.
Just to lighten the mood, lets play Where’s Hitchcock?
He did 40 cameos.
No, Roger. I love Queensland and have family there. And…I want to visit Australia’s biggest fabric shop in Roma.
I just don’t want to be denied entry or exit so far from home.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland on if any of the protesters at the January 6 riot were working for the FBI or other federal law enforcement entities.
Yes there will. Dore is way down my list.
Besides Bosch does pretty good images of hell, if that’s what you want.
I’ve met Cassie and can confirm her self scored 10. Plus wicked smart so an unbearable combo.
It’s interesting to talk about director’s starting in their own films, I focused a bit on Tarantino in pulp because he did a lot of talking in a very short period of time.
Caravaggio next.
Unbearable? Autism* correct is savage. UNBEATABLE! You useless techno idiot.
*I’ve left this example. Because AI is going to rule the world.
From Advance Australia:
So, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is off to Glasgow to announce Australia will sign up to a new carbon emissions target: net zero by 2050.
It’s a win for billionaires, politicians and global financiers.
It’s a win for the ABC and virtue-signalling inner-city elites.
But worst of all, it’s a win for China.
It’ll be an absolute free kick for the Chinese Communist Party and weaken Australia when we should be getting stronger to face the threat they pose to us in the region.
They’re not going to reduce their emissions, not on your life.
Xi Jinping isn’t going to the UN climate talkfest where Morrison will bend the knee to Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and the global elites.
Why would he?
Beijing is ramping up its coal-fired power generation and rethinking the loose commitments they’ve already made to reduce their emissions.
As if you could trust them anyway.
Does anyone honestly believe China intends to cut their carbon emissions to net zero?
They have more than 1000 coal-fired power stations and they’re building another hundred or so.
While we go to net zero and punish Australians by destroying their jobs and hiking their power bills sky high, the CCP is putting its economic development front and centre.
They’ll take more of our manufacturing jobs – because higher power costs and unreliable renewable energy will hit industry hard.
Meanwhile, China will keep getting stronger – the CCP has already tested hypersonic missiles that can evade defence systems and strike anywhere on the globe.
So who loses from net zero? You do. Every hard-working, mainstream Australian will pay the price.
Do you remember the last election when ScoMo torched Bill Shorten over his emissions targets, which included net zero by 2050?
He said Shorten was the “Bill we couldn’t afford”.
And mainstream Australians rightly rejected Labor.
What’s changed, ScoMo?
The elites in Canberra should be protecting jobs and keeping the cost of power down.
But instead, net zero will wrap business up in knots when they want to get projects off the ground because to get an approval to scratch yourself, you’ll have to prove you’ve offset the emissions.
We’ll waste billions and cripple both our economy and manufacturing sector in the hope renewables like “green hydrogen” will suddenly work.
It’s a bloody big global shakedown.
Just let the ramifications of that sink in.
Australia, the whole of it, was once “home”.
Indeed.
JC
Oil price forecasts. I’m paying you from the neck up, Adonis.
Yes, there is that.
We’re not out of the woods yet up here…far from it.
BILLIONS IN INTERNATIONAL PENSION FUNDS SUPPORT ABUSES IN CHINA; HONG KONGERS FLEE WITH THEIR OWN PENSIONS
JC, give it a rest, your faux outrage schtick isn’t funny any longer, if it ever was.
I’ll take Bird any day. You’d have been turfed from many blogs long ago.
You are capable of sensible comments, so keep it to them.
But it’s useless if you’re trying to get to Melbourne from the Bellarine Peninsula: the fastest way is still through the cattle grid we call Geelong.
Oh, wait. I don’t need or want to go to Ximan Dan’s East African shithole of Melbournibad ever again.
But, in the next lockdown, the local Stasi (Vicpol) will still be using its onboard computers to check how far I am from home when I’m heading for the local golf course.
Footnote: the kid behind the bar at my local last night demanded to know if I was double-vaxxed. The other staff who know me told him to shut up, but this is how the new police state is being run: as the party uses the media to keep the fear wound up to eleventy, the police don their bovver boy Hollywood military gear to arrest dissidents at protests and the citizenry dobs in state enemies in the local community.
Dan Andrews’ East Germany 2.0.
#BaldwinKillsUnvaxxed
“Megansays:
October 23, 2021 at 10:43 am”
Thank you Megan.
That implies choice, which also implies no legal foundation. Never mind incentives, do you think she would hesitate to mandate businesses if she could?
“I’ll take Bird any day. “
No.
Cassie, whose byline is on that DT story you posted earlier?
Cassie, Bird is merely nuts and can be amusing when he lays off the anti-semitism. More an object of pity than anything else.
Of course she would; anything to cover her ample arse.
That’s what it’s about and always has been.
Faulty2
I’ll decide when to rest and when I don’t.
I referred to you as a weirdo because you are and that was after you called me unaware.
Undoubtedly, you’d take bird over me and that wouldn’t shock anyone. When the Jew hate going to start, cockhead?
I’ve only posted comments at the old cat, here, Barron’s and the WSJ.
I’ve never been cut off , so stop lying you dishonest weirdo.
Every accusation you’ve made about me is really about you.
Bird also hangs around conspiracy like you.
“Tomsays:
October 23, 2021 at 10:59 am
Cassie, whose byline is on that DT story you posted earlier?”
Apologies Tom, I should have inserted it…..James Campbell, National Politics Editor.
“Bird is merely nuts and can be amusing “
No.
JC, give it a rest, your faux outrage schtick isn’t funny any longer
It’s not false, it’s real. Head prefect is going through a change of life conflict which is shown in his appalling taste in ostensibly attractive female stars. He is also conflicted between getting a Bentley as befits his age and station in life as a successful stock shorter or going arrested development and buying a Lexus. His attacks on other poor saps here is really just a projection of the dreadful inner conflict he is going through. It’ll end soon when he relents and goes and buys some new chinos and loafers.
That’s like saying Albo would make a better PM than Peanut Head. JC has always liked his FIGJAM.
Yea casa. Hold off. Hitler was a dog lover too when he wasn’t killing Jews. Not so bad.
As I said , a total weirdo.
Part of email sent to my crew this morning:
As you are aware, I was requested to take this week off as annual leave due to my vaccination status. This email is to update you further on the situation.
The company order for me to stand down without pay remains in effect. However, I am permitted to take leave in lieu of not being paid. I have been requested to take annual leave from 25th of October to 19th of November inclusive. This will bring my annual leave entitlement close to zero, I have flagged that I will not draw down on long service leave to further extend this stand down. I expect that following the 19th of November, there will be some sort of final solution to the question of my vaccination status.
Paragraph on go forward communication structure removed.
The right of any individual to determine their own medical treatment is codified in the Australian Constitution, the Nuremberg Code of 1947, The Australian Vaccination Handbook and the Human Rights Charter Victoria 2006. The Nuremberg Code in particular is frequently cited by the Medical Profession internationally as a key guiding principle in medical practice, particularly with respect to new treatments and trials. It speaks to the issue of “lawful” coerced medication under “emergency conditions”. Thus far government has ignored this issue, at best the Prime Minister has given sporadic lip service to the idea that individuals should be responsible for their determining their own treatment, courts have avoided any ruling that might affirm this principle, companies have avoided taking any stand on this issue, thus it is left up to individuals.
Once our medical tyranny has finished with the adults who are resisting vaccination. Make no mistake, they are coming for you, again, through their requirement for ongoing booster shots and most importantly for your children, nieces, nephews and grandchildren. Media information on the pending approval of Pfizer for boosters shots and Pfizer for children as young as five is not idle speculation, it is part of the softening process. For some of you with loved ones in the later stages of high school, this has already happened, vaccination coerced by an inability to complete education.
I am not anti-vaccination, I have had many vaccines. What I am against is coercion to accept vaccination or medication and coercion to participate in Stage 3 of a vaccination trial (which is where we are currently at). I am also against poorly trained or just plain negligent administering of vaccines, if you are receiving your first shot or booster shot, ask the practitioner ahead of time regarding “aspiration” of the syringe, this is a simple check to confirm that the tip of the needle is not in a blood vessel. Direct injection of vaccine into the blood stream would seem to be a leading cause of extreme adverse reactions up to and including death.
Yep, bird is nuts and has gone full Nazi and Jihadist.
That’s what they said on DashCat, and look what happened. Six full weeks of describing ways to kill Jews, and anyone who agreed with Jewry. That’s what it all leads to, time and again.
Rightly and repeatedly booted from ExCat. Much like that other Woomba nuffy, had his own blog which nobody paid attention to so he hijacks widely-read sites.
Was banned from the hospital in which his father lay dying because he insisted on screeching at doctors and sneaking his own ‘medications’ in. Was and is banned from railway stations because he’s the local town crier. Tried to watch a woman have a piss in a railway station toilet the other day.
Bird himself will tell you all of this, because he tells everyone.
He is not merely nuts. He’s an offensive piece of shit who in days gone by would have been beaten senseless in the street, and who can thank the more evolved, genteel society of today for the ability to say anything to anyone at all in any forum.
Mater,
I was very upset on the 11/10/21 when those changes came in here. After all that talk in Australia over decades about how discrimination and dividing people is morally and legally abhorrent – and how the “things that unite us are more important than the things that divide us” a-la Howard, I discovered that if it becomes necessary to forget that stuff for expediency sake, the government and the bureaucracy will do so without concern.
Since the 11th I’ve been thinking a lot about who I am and on reflection I’ve never really conformed to standard thinking – that’s why I’m here. I would think that most of us, at least here, were brought up to seek information before making decisions, to weigh up the pros and the cons and not to do things because others were doing them. So I’m on the outer at the moment as I’ve always been there.
Once you get past the initial disbelief that a democratically elected government would deliberately and unashamedly support widespread discrimination against citizens for doing no more than making their own choices based on the laws of the land; and then seek to force conformance by making significant numbers of people overnight publicly into lepers, and without any real pushback from media or the majority of politicians, you realise quickly what you’d always suspected: the final solution is a signature on a piece of paper.
I now know who the enemy really is.
“Knuckle Draggersays:
October 23, 2021 at 11:08 am”
Well said KD.
Nicely worded, rickw.
Thanks, Cassie.
Regarding the Mongyang schlockdown, has that grotesque deformed jug eared imbecile actually lifted any restrictions or is he lying (again)?
It’s because of him that I’ve just been subjected to almost four months of house arrest and I don’t even live in frigging Victoria.
What a repulsive obnoxious collectivist dunderhead he is. If he said the sky was blue, I’d duck outside and check.
Bentley
cohenite, nothing wrong with a Bentley as long as it’s green and has a blower.
Bird is also fun to poke – but not so much that I want to do it here, in front of decent people.
The Doverlord, in my humble view allows plenty of dissent on board this tight-run ship.
first red pill ?
BBS – as a fellow non conformist, I concur wholeheartedly with your observations. I was taught from a very young age to question everything and not to bow to authority figures, as they will often act in a way that is contrary to your interests.
Those who seek power over others rarely do so for altruistic reasons.
BBS – I have been considering proved wrong with what governments will/will not do all the way through Covid. And we are not finished yet. I suspect there is more to come, particularly for the unvaccinated.
The next stage will be harvesting the benefits of pitting citizen against citizen.
It would be straight from Lotteries House to the dealer for me. Or a couple of Rangies because you usually need a spare.
JC, didn’t you say oil was revving up just the day?
Thanks BBS.
I am reluctant to refer to my service, lest it be mistaken that I think I’m entitled to favourable treatment because of it.
However, let me state this. I have fought at the very sharpest of edges in three wars for this country, and I am now considered only worthy to stand outside certain venues, along side the dogs tied to the posts. I haven’t yet started drinking drinking out of the ubiquitous ice cream container full of water, but the diktats is still in it’s infancy.
I didn’t move away from society, society moved away from me.
I will never again speak or take part in an organised ANZAC Day event, as long as I live. The Australian public should archive the event, lest they embarrass the memory of those long gone people.
There’s something to be said for the old style American republican (small r) patriotism:
Love your country but be wary of government.
We were taught to trust government, now we’ve learned that they’re not worthy of that trust.
With their primary vote already falling for a decade or more, that’s political capital the major parties will never recoup.
Producers are the ‘money guys’.
And here is where it gets interesting.
I think Baldwin was one of the producers. The union staff apparently walked off set in a dispute over conditions. So, in effect, the very SJW Mr Baldwin was the “cigar smoking executive grinding the wukkas into the dust to fatten up his profits”.
Baldwin’s stake as a producer might have been to forego a fixed acting fee in return for equity.
Quite apart from the criminal angle, if one of the guys who walked off set was the armourer, there is going to be a world of pain for the producers (including Baldwin) from a civil liability and insurance perspective.
???
Are you retarded son?
There was a French public servant with his brain mostly missing. Not a stretch to have retarded lawyers, you should see the judiciary…
Sancho, that just sounds like sabotage, but there will still be ramifications for Baldwin.
So, just to recap …
1. Baldwin had a “real” gun, rather than a non-firing replica or prop.
2. There was “real” ammo on the set.
3. His pistol was loaded with some of that “real” ammo.
4. He was pointing it directly — deliberately or accidentally — at the crew.
5. He pulled the trigger.
Somebody is in deep shite.
Re guns in fillems.
The post by Bruce over the page at 8:52 am is highly recommended reading.
From the OOT:
Just in case people missed it. Bravo to the owner and his patrons. The more this occurs the more this ugly surveillance state crumbles.
John Ruddick was on Sky a while back observing that the gliberals alone had lost well over a million primary votes over the course of the 2016 and 2019 elections (while somehow still managing to stagger over the line in both).
Hopefully their primary vote next year will plummet even further. Goodness knows they bloody well deserve it.
Mucho Baldwin memes.
Personal favourite so far is the one of him in a flight suit with ‘Prop Gun’ signage behind him.
Nah,
These are like minded individuals who have been resisting since the start.
They are the attention of significant police focus.
They can’t afford the fines, now.
#meneither
Not while that offensive porcine and her grinning idiot henchman are running the show.
Besides, Victorian boomers are occupying all available hotel rooms, restaurant seats and amusement park rides.
And you shouldn’t. It’s for Queenslanders.
ffs … what have become?
What?
There’s none of that frippery out in real Queensland, where real Queenslanders* live. They don’t put up with that nonsense. Steely-eyed, dusty-booted cattle-rasslin’ straight talkin’ road warriors, the lot.
*South Australians.
Mater
As the Americans say… “Thank you for your service”. And that is said from my heart.
Just remember, RSL joints are a great place to have a quite beer.
All the best.
Mater, on that point about the state moving away from the citizen; what we’re dealing with is an ingrained inability in us to accept a sh1t idea – a sh1t diktat – a sh1t sandwich.
I think I’ve already been ostracised by someone who I thought was a very good friend. We’ll see. But I’ve decided that I don’t care.
On Thursday, while having a coffee – a takeaway, up at the beach – and contemplating a swim (water’s getting warmer!) that, so what!, I’m still me – I’m no different now than I was last week or last year; (last decade?, well, maybe, but I like to think not). I’m not changing and I won’t change.
When the other half gets home it will be BBQs and beers (for him) and swims and drives in the Ford. And if I never get to go o/s I don’t give a stuff. A trip on a plane is not a good enough payment to have the jab (a Bentley?, well, possibly).
And, Mater, – I know you don’t need me to say this -but your service to our nation is an honourable and worthy thing, and we, here, all of us, honour you, every day, and not just on ANZAC Day.
If the gates of hell (aka the NSW-Viccy boarder) open up, I may even come down to Melbourne to have a coffee with you.
And, Rabz, Nonconformists are Us!
A requiem for Melbourne
Well, yes.
You could substitute fake movie rounds for lethal real ammo.
You could tweak the trigger mechanism down to a very light touch.
But there is still one ingredient you can’t control.
KD
This is your fault that I play this with the furniture store band as well…
It’s Only Country
https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/1405/country
Watching that made me think “Who trained who?”
The Highwire from this week -“Southwest Pilot Stands Firm; Jefferey Jaxen is IN STUDIO!; WA State Reps Locked Out!; Who is Powering Vaccine Passports?; Centner Academy Quarantines Vaccinated?”
https://thehighwire.com/watch/
And a segment from last week which suggests it pays to be careful in the days after the first shot.
“SERIOUS ANTIBODY DROP AFTER VACCINE”
“Multiple data points and science from numerous countries have exposed the Covid shot’s massive failure to stop infection.”
https://thehighwire.com/videos/serious-antibody-drop-after-vaccine/
You’re a Prop Gun actor, Blake.
*We need Prop Men*
Oops, accidentally reported Rickw’s comment on the previous page when trying to thumb up it.
Dover – Please ignore my stuff-up.
Oh and someone pls tell JC he’s turning into Bird, obnoxious and nutty.
‘We have Prop Men working on it right now.’
‘Who?’
‘Prop. Men.’
Carpe,
If you’re about, could I get you to send some Minuki carbie parts from Japan to USA? They’re for a 67 Suzuki TC250. Seems that they only place they are available is in Japan and the site that has them won’t ship overseas. Need 2 off.
This is cool:
Mater,
I’m with you. Three generations of service here.
I am thinking of me last hurrah though.
I might go to Remembrance Day with all the medals(mine being replicas, no reply from the G.G.) and make a cunt of myself.
Rev up the State Police, ask them why they are at a service for people that died for freedom take it from there.
Get a six pack and drink it on a bus stop seat.
Being crippled up prevents me from doing much more.
I’m just sorry my dad didn’t kill more Nazis.
And I’m sorry for restrictive ROEs.
Yes, we should call out these “little Hitlers” at every opportunity.
Make them dread going to work.
“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.”
My preference is twice cooked – cut spuds into chips, stack ’em up and nuke ’em for 3 mins or so, depending in desired thickness. Spread on cake rack to cool – there will be a layer of starch on the outside that will congeal when they cool, and the cake rack means not much sticking to a surface from that starch. Then deep fry to desired colour – the surface starch from the nuking is almost like a batter and makes a crispy outside. Extra crunch if you “rough up” the surface by tossing in a bowl before frying or even before nuking, but before nuking requires a fork or similar to create the rough surface.
Oh – and Steggle’s chicken salt is awesome too. Only ever got it from the factory outlet though, so not sure where else you can buy it, if anywhere.
This from AP News:-
Well.
A number of breaches of normal protocols it seems.
There is a smorgasbord of three guns to choose from.
And assistant director (not the armourer) selects the weapon and hands it to the actor.
The actor does not question why the armourer isn’t doing that job, and insist on a re-check.
In any other industry dealing with potentially lethal forces, there are clear “lock out – tag out” rules.
I don’t get it. These days there are special computer effects for everything. Why aren’t they using tech to make the sound of a gun.
I recall I was in a cab once and they were filming bonfire of the vanities on Park ave. I asked the cabbie to honk and keep honking so I’d hear it in the movie. They blanked it out. The fuckers. It was right at the time Tom Hanks was taking his dog for a walk and came out of the building. Eggsactly then, I was getting the cabbie to honk.
While Dems stonewall everything the Reps request, it only took 5 days for Covid Karen Political Agitators to have the Dems set up a SNITCH LINE on Parents –
‘Your Memo Was The Last Straw’: Jordan Rips Into Garland After School Board Directive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBlksv-LPiQ
Matrix
I know, I think it’s heading to a 120 bucks a barrel. It looks really freaking bid to me. Every price drop is met with buying sending the price higher than the previous high. That’s a really huge bull market indicator.
Obviously, what worries me about my prediction is Zero Fucking Hedge getting bullish too. 🙂 it’s the go to site for boomer numbskulls.
Why did they have a gun loaded with live rounds on the set anyway? These were supposedly props.
Someone put the bullets into it. Who and why?
I think you’re cutting off your nose to spite your face rejecting ZeroHedge wholesale.
At least they write decent articles regarding civil liberties.
I’m half kidding about Zero Hedge. Those lunatics have caused thousands of people to lose out on their retirement. People got out of the markets during the financial crisis and after because Zero hedge convinced them to. I know adults are responsible for their own actions. Has zero hedge apologised to those people they ruined because they were screaming the end of the world? That’s the least they could do.
I blame Daniel Andrews.
Dot
Reason mag is good for that and I don’t have endure doom and gloom bullshit.
They ruined lives.
I think you’re cutting off your nose to spite your face rejecting ZeroHedge wholesale.
It is an aggregation site. Most of the stories aren’t done by their own staff if you bother to check.
Wide ranging selection of points of view from the left to the right.
They can’t afford the fines, now.
No one can, so don’t pay.
This shit ends the moment everyone starts disobeying.
I have sores on my dick.
I blame Daniel Andrews.
Brucie
Brucie, I actually do like you a lot. Someone the other day cautioned me about going too hard with you as you’re a nice guy… and you (or were)..
I emailed you to see if all was good. Did you see it?
I was checking if you were okay.
Tell you what , go at me as much as you want and I’ll turn the other cheek. Just you, Mr Goofy.
Get your facts straight JC.
Eyrie said You’d have been turfed from many blogs long ago.
You then said I’ve never been cut off , so stop lying you dishonest weirdo.
A realistic interpretation of Eyrie’s statement is “JC would have been turfed from many blogs long ago if he behaved then as he behaves now.” NOT “JC WAS turfed from many blogs”.
Because you like to stoush, you immediately assume the wrong interpretation.
Which is a gilt prime reason to turf the oligarch – lord of the trading desk – off the site. Enough agro, is enough.
The next stage will be the harvesting of live organs from the unvaxxed to replace the failing organs in the vaxxed. Those detention centres have to pay their upkeep somehow.
New fillum plot, calli. Enter Poirot…
Lol.
We need to employ zee leetle grey cells…
I don’t get it. These days there are special computer effects for everything. Why aren’t they using tech to make the sound of a gun.
It’s not just sound, it’s the recoil, muzzle flash and smoke. Besides, guns are very safe unless being handled by idiots.
Flying Pigs – well said.
Nope, Magnum P.I. which actually had an episode where this scenario occurred.
“Which is a gilt prime reason to turf the oligarch – lord of the trading desk – off the site. Enough agro, is enough.”
No. You are not the lord of this site.
They were also light years ahead of Hunter’s Laptop exposing his involvement in Ukraine Gas etc.
Mind you, it was almost as if they stole the laptop’s thunder – ‘We already knew about all that, if it was illegal someone would have already done something about it.’
No, I’m not. I am putting forth an idea. Does that trouble you?
“Matersays:
October 23, 2021 at 11:26 am”
Comment of the day. Thank you Mater.
Old School.
I think both interpretations would be correct in respect what the weirdo was saying. Thanks for clarifying. Just a small reminde- it appears to me you spend most of your time admonishing me for something or other. Stop being a fuddy duddy as it’s an awful look.
“No, I’m not. I am putting forth an idea. Does that trouble you?”
Not particularly, but I’ll call out a bad idea when I see one.
It was not a bad idea when BIRD got banned.
Oh God.
It’s not an aggregation site. You nincompoop, you don’t even know the difference between and aggregator and a blog. Zero Hedge is a blog like this one, where the site owner(s) decide to run a story or not.
An aggregator site is more like the top science site you go to for the latest cutting edge science. That’s Market Ticker.
I see Suggestion is brimming with great thoughts and ideas today. Always the case with this prime level commenter.
JC
Are your paintings better than Hunter’s???
I am, for a substantive fee, willing to act as an expert witness in the Baldwin matter.
I have had many, many firearms go off in my hands.
In fact I would argue that that is the preferred way of using them.
Any other way is a bit dodgy.
Well, oligarch, if you would stop the abuse and stick to the subjects, you would do better. You’re quite good at the subjects. Your abuse wears thin and deserves abuse in return.
Not nearly enough oligarchy here today.
“It was not a bad idea when BIRD got banned.”
Oh gosh, are you defending Bird? As for Bird being banned, no it most certainly wasn’t a bad idea. Look, here’s a suggestion, why don’t you ban yourself.
cohenite, nothing wrong with a Bentley as long as it’s green and has a blower.
I’ve told head prefect this is the way to go but he’s stubborn, just like Dudley in 10.
OSC, a guy got turfed recently from a homebuilt aircraft blog I follow, for being far less obnoxious than JC is at least half the time. The guy was prickly and abrasive but didn’t really bother me that much.
Nope, Magnum P.I.
what are you thinking? Magnum, P.I. could never outdo Poirot and. As calli pointed out, he’s got zee leetle grey cells!
All Magnum’s got is…his thick moustache, baseball caps (usually a Detroit Tigers or VMO-2 cap), a rubber chicken, and a variety of colorful Aloha shirts (Wiki)
No, BIRD being banned was a good idea. Just like JC being banned would be a good idea. The problem is you stated that being banned was a bad idea. I pointed out that it can be a good idea. You then immediately assumed I support BIRD. Your assumption is wrong. I support the banning of posters when they stray from the subject in to abuse.
I always liked Higgins and Rick more.
Higgins actually was Robin Masters, right?
The other problem with abusive types is they cause sensible people to simply go away or not to post. When the guy got turfed off the homebuilt site there was wide acclaim and several people who had made decisions not to post came back.
Factoid:
Higgins and Magnum were doing him stuff. As gay as Big Gay Al.
Just like JC being banned would be a good idea.”
No.
Autowreck.
To clarify – they were tasting moustaches.
Had a long phone call with Evil Elvis late yesterday afternoon. He’s in the Pilbara and so far resisting the jab but of course time is running out. Very stressful situation for him.
I spoke to a relative who has a milk round that delivers to hospitals and aged care and he is frightened that the government will mandate his delivery drivers.
My SIL runs a newsagency and given that Lotterywest is government owned she is fearful of the big stick of government affecting her kiosk.
Her sister (lots of comorbidities) had the second jab, massive stroke and is in ICU.
We are fucked!
Outstanding article in The Oz today by, all of people, Gideon Haigh – very much in the same manner of those by Steve Waterson.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/no-gratitude-no-pride-no-relief-just-quiet-seething/news-story/578315c397400ad3d44f6a1e2a5bd8d7
For the past 18 months, I have been taking the same walk through the same Melbourne suburban streets in the same direction at roughly the same time every day.
I’ve thought at times of varying it but always refrained. It wasn’t a pleasure, nor was it a “freedom”, except in this word’s modern sense as a privilege granted by a premier. So I wasn’t prepared to perform it other than mechanically, in precisely the mean and grudging spirit of its permission.
I’m well aware this sounds perverse. It is perverse. I don’t care. We each had a way of coping with the world’s most protracted lockdown, and this was mine, with an interior monologue of quiet seething to match.
I’d note the emptying shopfronts, the increasingly bedraggled gardens, the looks of fellow pedestrians, like Eliot’s crowds flowing over London Bridge: “So many, I had not thought death had undone so many/Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.”
“It must be unbearable in Melbourne,” friends from interstate would say. No, I’d tell them. It was, just, bearable. You could get by, providing you expected nothing good to happen, everything to take twice as long as it should, and no useful end to be served.
Like a body adapting to starvation, you rationed expectation, postponed pleasure, concentrated on the little you could control in your unkempt lethargy, and thought sympathetically of the worse-off, if in an abstract sense.
For best not to think too much about the businesses being ruined, the proudly independent people being reduced to mendicants, and the volunteers battling on, with nothing to see for their efforts.
Best not to brood on the educations being undermined, the married couples buckling, the elderly dying alone, the debts being accumulated for future generations to pay for.
Best not even to enquire too deeply into how others were faring, lest you touch on a sore spot or pick a disagreeable theme.
Some in lockdown seemed to thrive on disagreement. Me, not so much. One kept things trivial and superficial, focusing on shared irritations, which drew the day’s sting.
Instead, I grew hypervigilant around language, especially the technocratic bullshit of measures (always broad), steps (always targeted), exposure sites (always that place you had just been to) and community transmission (people living).
Remember when they were suburbs rather than LGAs? Remember when we had not “road maps” but just plans? Alas, the self-inflating propensities of bureaucratic language now preclude anything so simple.
Milestones? Always grim. Deaths of nonagenarians? Always tragic. “The science”? Always guiding. Except for the weird anthropomorphism of the virus, variously “cunning”, “clever”, “wicked”, “evil” etc. And who could forget crowd pleasers like “creeping assumptions” and Unified Security?
It remains unclear what Premier Dan Andrews’ reputation as a communicator is based on, except repetition, and his crediting with more than 200 Covid press conferences.
It sounded to me like he conducted the same press conference 200 times, replete with abundances of caution, people working incredibly closely together, and instructions so full of qualifications, exceptions and caveats that one ended up feeling capable of nothing. Did anyone else try the government’s Covid helpline? I’m still on hold. But, of course, this was not the point. The standard Andrews press conference was not a public health message but a political message. Dan good. Dan strong. Dan win.
And it worked. If largely for their own partisan reasons, people bought the idea of one masterstroke after another. There would follow the ritual hoisting of the #DanYay pennant to the top of the Twitter mast for the choreographed mass salute, the denunciation of “traitors”.
Actually, I had to respect this antic enthusiasm, doubtless as therapeutic to the DanStans as my daily walk – so many people with so little else to do! And Matthew Guy, I mean, wow. When he arrives, as they say, it’s like someone else has left. Except that even with a shrug and a grumble, you continued feeling that weight, of curtailment, of disappointment.
So that when some self-consciously perky radio presenter or cheery columnist reminded you again of the importance of keeping positive and enjoying the little things in life, you wanted, frankly, to throw up.
You looked on with corresponding detachment as self-indulgent lumpenmorons roamed a CBD you only vaguely recalled anyway. You’re angry, are you? Cry me a river.
So, no, let’s just say that these past two years in Victoria haven’t been a vintage period for empathy. But perhaps that goes to Covid’s harshest sting, which has been reversing the standard dynamic of crisis – an instant, by convention, for rushing to one another’s aid, for arms round shoulders, for the sharing of time and belongings.
Instead, the Newspeak of working together by staying apart, unification in isolation, anathematising every visible gathering, however innocent, however necessary. Thus possibly the nadir of lockdown, August’s playground ban, imposed under the guise of protecting children, but later justified by chief medical officer Brett Sutton as because attending adults might “hold de facto meetings” – ie, talk.
Playground equipment was wrapped in crime-scene tape as police patrolled nearby – try explaining to your children that this was in anyone’s best interests, that their very swings and slides were a source of community endangerment.
Nothing, of course, caused more anguish than the lockdown predicament of children, than watching the soi-disant “education state” idly squander irrecoverable years of development and socialisation.
This, sealed up in our homes, suffered in private, is lockdown’s ugly secret: how disciplines around screen use collapsed; how dependence on social media deepened; how kids further absorbed the message of the world being a dangerous, frightening place; how kids already anxious about body image were exposed to it daily on their Zoom screens.
These were the hardest, most exhausted conversations of lockdown, with parents of children reaching the end of Grade 1 having hardly been at school, with parents of screen-deadened teenagers now about to be whirled into VCE exams.
But here the government showed its meanest, pettiest, and frankly stupidest streak. After all, marathon press conferences are pretty easy to hold when someone else is handling the remote learning, eh?
Even the vaunted “end” of lockdown is more of a tentative first step: basically involving not much more than a few restaurant seats inside, the chance of a haircut, the repeal of a pointless curfew. More dreary days of screen-based busywork await my 11-year-old until school resumes full-time. I still can’t see my mother, in regional Victoria, or my partner, in another state. It also means suffering Andrews’ pivot from tedious admonition to old-fashioned political oiliness. He’s so proud, so thankful, so grateful, so sickening.
Seriously, what’s he got to be grateful for? We did as we were told, to avoid draconian fines for non-compliance. You might as well thank us for obeying the law of gravity.
Still, at least it’s not quite as weird as people’s professions of gratitude to Andrews for their sacrifices. That’s pure masochism.
This doesn’t feel like a moment for gratitude at all, save perhaps to frontline carers, and to supportive friends and family.
The losses have been too great for celebration; the mistakes have been too numerous for congratulation; the future is too uncertain for relief. It’s just another provisional permission slip, maybe for a slightly different walk.
JC is great, even the old overnight stoushes were entertaining.
Bongino on the baldwin killing; at the beginning of his podcast. Apparently the dribbling hack was the director of this killing field and it’ll be interesting to see if he is charged, Bongino notes a blank round does not have a projectile but dummy rounds are used for loading scenes and maybe one of those was in the barrel when the blank discharged and since a blank has a lot of powder to make a noise that powder would have powered the dummy like a real bullet. The whole thing wreaks of negligence.
I like the way Bongino describe the wretched biden as a disgusting bag of bones.
Chill, people.
JC has many excellent qualifications, including a PHD in stirring. 🙂
Study cohenite if want to know how best to play him.
“rosiesays:
October 23, 2021 at 1:24 pm
JC is great, even the old overnight stoushes were entertaining.”
Agree.
And it just got smacked out of the park.
Look, don’t take this the wrong way because I mean it constructively, but you are clearly a shrivelled, humourless, dullard wowser.
JC sometimes goes OTT with some of his criticisms and the pumping up of his own tyres but, FFS, this is the sort of thing we loved from the Great Orange Oaf.
Fucking lighten up.
JC has never denied the holocaust or called for the routine murder of great swathes of any particular race or religion.
So those here who equate JC with Bird immediately out themselves as a low-rent dickheads.
“Chill, people.
JC has many excellent qualifications, including a PHD in stirring. ?
Study cohenite if want to know how best to play him.”
Well said DA.
Riveting tale.
It’s like he’s now gossiping about the boss. Funny as.
Grab those coins from between the lounge cushions, dash up to the newsagent, and get today’s Australian.
Read and enjoy the slice-and-dice done on Dan Andrews by Gideon Haigh.
No gratitude, no pride, no relief … just quiet seething
Here’s something for them to work on:
According to the Santa Fe county sherrif, while filming a scene where Baldwyn’s character is required to fire a gun, an assistant director took one of three weapons sitting on a grey cart and handed it to the actor, yelling “cold gun!” as he did so, indicating the firearm did not contain live rounds. We can deduce from this that neither the assistant director nor Baldwyn actually examined the rounds in the gun to confirm this.
According to an industry expert, if correct protocols were followed, the incident couldn’t have happened.
“Sancho Panzersays:
October 23, 2021 at 1:27 pm”
I think you’ve said it best…as you often do.
I hear what you say but, with the greatest respect, would you mind awfully if I told you to fuck off?
Idiot.
Damm, Wolfman – too quick for me.
Massive upside to my forced vacation, getting to spend time with Mum & Dad.
Mum just made me a chicken and avocado sandwich.
Dad drives down every arvo with his dog for a progress check and a chat after nap time.
(This nap is nothing new, he has always had a siesta after lunch for as long as I can remember, don’t know how he does it, if I ever do I feel crook for the rest of the day!)
Haigh’s piece is very good.
I just glanced at a herald sun article where Andrews said something like I don’t want to sound like a soppy dad but so proud.
Did he forget about the ever circling helicopters, the groups of eight soldiers and police patrolling parks and beaches, the people with cerebral palsy warned off park benches and mothers told not to let their nine month olds crawl on the green grass?
I won’t.
I score myself … ten!
Wow!
That’s a ten from Panzer, the notoriously hard-marking Spanish judge!
{Winky smiley face thingy}
Green and with a blower?
I’d be lining up for one of these. (Even if you can see the fuel gauge literally falling …)
Andrews said something like I don’t want to sound like a soppy dad but so proud.
That tone deaf and information impervious mong makes me want to puke more than Brandon does.
The main one being that the assistant director, not the armourer, handed over the weapon.
This is the equivalent of someone on a building site asking if the electrical switchboard has been locked out and tagged, and the painter says, “Yep. I just did it. No worries.”
Thanks for that, the missus has been “neeeeding” to read that all day
Wow, OSC. Haven’t read it yet (I have a sub), so I’ll bookmark it for later.
Thing is Haigh is a lefty and, if Andrews has lost him, he’s lost most of his popular support in the sneering Greenfilth inner suburbs of Melbourne.
I dared not believe Emperor Xi’s man in Spring Street would ever lose his tribal rustedons, but the 2022 state election is now looking very interesting indeed.
PS: governments can lose elections even when its opponents are hopeless, as in Victoria.
I reckon JC is missing taking Monty for lunch. How many times is that now? I seam to recall that he owes Monty one. It’s almost worthwhile going over to the Fatcat to remind him. Banning anyone is a big step except haters, but that does not include hating the piles of steaming poo that govern us.
Trouble is Tom they’re worse than hopeless.
Stop lapping JC good or bad.
He is a heartless trader and if you vest him with some form of humanity… then you destroy him…
Send that man a case of Pinot and a box of cigars
Seriously, what’s he got to be grateful for? We did as we were told, to avoid draconian fines for non-compliance. You might as well thank us for obeying the law of gravity
(Great column).
I find that part probably the most disgusting – the way politicians have continued to congratulate people “for getting the percentages up,” despite their deliberate use of coercion.
“You’ve done it for the country,” they proclaim. Everyone knows it but no-one’s saying it – thousands and thousands of Australians have been bullied and intimidated by our governments.
This is not about any disgruntlement that anyone’s got vaccinated – that’s there decision. No, the problem is many, many people only did it to get their lives back – it had nothing to do with some supposed “war effort” crap.
btw, I saw Dave Sharma on Kenny last night discussing Glasgow. He was trying to argue against Kenny, who said that our commitment at that giant global warming p1ssup would be negligible in comparison to the likes of China, India etc., that it is like our commitment to Gallipoli. Kenny at least called him out for it. He’s looking like that previous joke of an incumbent in the Division of Wentworth.
Monty has turned off comments i think but can be contacted via discord which he occasionally visits if feeling in need of a stoush.
Wow, Gideon Haigh has swallowed a red pill the size of a grade A test match cricket ball.
His piece reads like a resignation letter from Newscorp.
Someone send him a link to this blog!
I liked Baldwin. He was a straight shooter.
Yes. That’s from an affadavit provided to the sherrif, btw. So, where was the armourer? Was his apparent absence anything to do with the labour dispute? I tend to be sceptical of reporters, knowing how often they get even simple facts wrong, but the police in this instance have so far been quite communicative. Meantime, the production company has issued a heavily lawyered statement.
The Chicago Marxists and Woke Political Followers are Fracturing Western Society, Paving The Way For Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping to Expand, LOOK
October 22, 2021 | Sundance
When the Australian government began beating their citizens in the street for leaving their houses and protesting against severe lockdown rules, I said –somewhat tongue in cheek at the time– to watch Vladimir Putin (Russia) and Xi Jinping (China) trigger U.N. security council sanctions against the Australian government for human rights abuses.
irrelevant
empty, live, dummy, blank you never point a gun at someone and pull the trigger unless you intend to kill them
“btw, I saw Dave Sharma on Kenny last night discussing Glasgow. He was trying to argue against Kenny, who said that our commitment at that giant global warming p1ssup would be negligible in comparison to the likes of China, India etc., that it is like our commitment to Gallipoli. Kenny at least called him out for it. He’s looking like that previous joke of an incumbent in the Division of Wentworth.”
Yes…..I watched it too. Sharma, dripping wet lettuce leaf, won’t be getting my vote and I can’t wait to run into him on the street again to tell him that.
Their opponents are hard left greens in disguise. If they lose they win.
Resistance is useless.
Thanks, Dopey at 1.52pm. Laughed out loud.
Spare a thought for Trump. He must feel gutted.
#WhyDidBaldwinFireTheSafeGunAtThatWoman
Yes, but there’s nothing like giving the baseball bat a good swing from time to time.
You’ve all gone uber gay.
I fully support actors/ producers rights to shoot union workers on set.
This is a glorious return to Hollywood’s golden era.
This Peckinpahish triumph is a welcome reminder of how good Hollywood was.
The Baldwins are a great family, and although this brother has been slightly tarred by the anti- Trump brush, he has been awesome in many roles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czOpDN8Knr4
This man should be allowed to shoot anyone he wants.
Lee Freedman’s girl, Emma, used to be such a cutie. But, dressed in a matron’s smock as she hosts the Channel Stokes racing telecast with Katie Mallyon, she looks – in the words of Joan Rivers – like she has finally found her man and her body has gone: thank God!*
Such a pity as, having grown up around horses and having such a lair for an old man, I think Emma would be a star performer on the Hot-Crazy Matrix.
*even though Wiki tells me she’s still unmarried.
PS: Can someone tell racing analyst Lizzie Jelfs she doesn’t have to wear an obedience muzzle when she’s talking to a camera. And if some moron at Sky News or Channel Stokes has told her she does, s/he should be shipped to the knackery.
Monty has turned off comments
Fat Cat is dead?!
Hard to fire a weapon on a movie set and not be pointing it in someone’s direction.
Hence the need to have professionals on hand.
Recent comments from the Glengarry scene:
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In a perfect world would the Vik “journalists” all become stair greasers?
“rosiesays:
October 23, 2021 at 1:24 pm
JC is great, even the old overnight stoushes were entertaining.”
Agree.
Waste of bandwidth and exhibitions of juvenile behaviour really. Wear of scroll wheel.
If you thought they were entertaining you are saying a lot about yourself, all of it bad.
exactly and thank you for saying.
first law of handling guns.
Baldwin straight out murdered the woman.
If only I cared for your opinion.
Careful. JC is Rosie’s head coach.
Okay. Don’t keep me in suspenders.
Who exactly is the Tribe voting off the island today? 😀
The only Baldwin actor I’ve got time for is Adam Baldwin (apparently not a relative of Alex) particularly as Jayne Cobb in the late lamented Firefly and Serenity.
Alex Baldwin is fat slob. Did you see him as Jimmy Doolittle in “Pearl Harbor”? Disgusting. Fortunately Doolittle had died before that travesty came out.
Lol, this is coming from the commie who calls me oligarch and makes fun of my old job and resents those who’ve succeeded at more than a government service job. Take a bow, Suggestion.
He’s talking about nothing more than a texting group and the other dude possibly dislikes Faulty2 for the same reasons people do here.
He’s also trying to posse up to, with old school. Unreal.
Faulty2 and A Suggestion have the persuasive abilities of a dead dead skunk on the side of the road. Has anyone whiffed a dead skunk, it’s repellent.
Arky Johnson for El Preisdente of the Revolutionary(3rd) Popular Democratic Peoples Republic of Straya.
I’m also predicting political unrest and upheaval in the land of “She’ll be right”.
Except he doesn’t scroll at all. Faulty2 reads every single thing I say, which therefore means he’s attempting to persuade people with another one of his low rent lies.
I’ve had him pegged and I’m good at pegging frauds. He’s a total fraud. He sold himself as some big time engineer. That later changed to.. “oh I did science but I also did a few engineering subjects”. As I said, a total fraud who’s referenced here, Market Ticker and Zero Hedge as science based online journals. I don’t like frauds.
But I digress. 🙂
in suspenders
calli, only works if you’re wearing high heels as well.
I’d love to see the script. I bet it didn’t tell him to kill the cinematographer (or injure the director).
Baldwin was producing the film as well as acting in it and there had been workplace issues around the project. I could be wrong, but it sounds like a union dispute that got out of hand.
You’re suggesting he killed her out of anger? He is a hot head, but I doubt it. His apartment is close to NYU where my kid went for her undergrad. She actually witnessed the fat pig once having a verbal with a cabbie. This was years ago.
The best cure for high prices, is high prices. The wild card here is the green movement but I’m hoping they’ll stay formidable.
Never forget an old time economist at the bank would say that along with…. the best cure for low prices is low prices too.
Unless the on&offshore drill count goes up in the US after collapsing last year.. then we’re in trouble. We’ll see.
The Right is peddling President Brandon caused the lower production. He helped with his attitude etc.. but that’s not the entire story. Covid helped too and lower prices in the first 1/2 of 2020.
After 10mm overnight, a few more millimetres of rain are closing in on Moonee Valley racecourse. No drama: looks like it will just help keep the dust down.
I guess this was a joke-
Flashback: Alec Baldwin Wanted To ‘Stone’ Republicans, ‘Kill Their Wives and Children’
Sean Hannity Published January 17, 2021
Just pretend.
It’s called acting.
Or read Bruce’s explanation at 8.52am today.
back to Bali?
The faster and more effective price movers are Saudi and Russia. They can turn fields and wells on at the drop of a hat (almost). Rigs in the US are a much slower mover of production.
But considering the situation in Russia and Saudi I suspect they are happy with higher prices for a while yet. At least until next years US driving season anyways. Have to wait and see , yep.
No desperate trips back paid by Oz taxpayers!!
White Scout Car, would love one of these, would paint “Rick’s Rescue Vehicle” on the side!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxdyrTo86AQ
I agree about those two, but explain to us one thing, as I think you’ve said you once worked in Saudi.
Aren’t the Saudi fields like in a fixed place and they’re sucking oil out of them since forever. That’s always been my impression… Like do they drill holes too?
Steve Tickler, if you’re about, I know you like aviation videos, thought you would appreciate this one.
In 1981 the entire naval elite from the Russian Pacific Fleet were killed in an aircraft crash at St. Petersburg, 16 Admirals were lost in that one accident. It was caused by the arrogance of the navy types who thought that the laws of physics didn’t apply to them.
When the Soviet Navy Lost 16 Admirals in a Single Accident: The Tu-104 Crash at Pushkin
‘Mass, Indiscriminate Government Surveillance’: GOP Sen Raises Alarm On IRS Provision In Dem Bill
Yes…..I watched it too. Sharma, dripping wet lettuce leaf, won’t be getting my vote and I can’t wait to run into him on the street again to tell him that.
When I first read that I read run over not run into. I’ll leave it to your discretion.