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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 8:25 am

Can any military cats (ducks JC again) figure out Bosi’s military record and when he left?
Considering he is an egotistical blowhard there is precious little available.
Probably secret ‘can’t say too much’ Pine Gap operations.

JC
JC
October 28, 2021 8:27 am

This is one of those rare stories where you’re both surprised at first and immediately after think , no this isn’t a surprise at all.

Rep. Matt Gaetz
@RepMattGaetz
BREAKING: Eugene “Gene” Huelsman, a longtime camera operator for CNN, ABC, NBC, and others, has been ARRESTED for threatening to kill Matt Gaetz and his family.

Dot
Dot
October 28, 2021 8:28 am

Owning the party name isn’t a stupid idea.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 8:28 am

KD at 8:17.
ABN Lookup
Scroll down to business names.
Six variants of Australia 1.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 8:31 am

A huge untapped vein of voters (all worth $2.31 every time they tick a box on a ballot paper).

Does the gig come with allowances for Parliamentary staff?

Who could be used for The Cause, rather than the electorate? Because the electorate don’t see the Big Picture?

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 28, 2021 8:31 am

Someone has made Alec Baldwin into a NPC in the online game Rust.
This is what the internet was made for.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 8:31 am

Owning the party name isn’t a stupid idea.

Party names can be registered with the AEC and protected without the need for corporate ownership.
The corporate umbrella might be more effective for managing funding, or conducting commercial operations.
Oh.

JC
JC
October 28, 2021 8:34 am

The demonrats can’t anything though because Mancin and the Sheila hold them back.

This is still Trumps economy minus few important things.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 28, 2021 8:35 am

Mike Cannon-Brookes tells it:

Mike Cannon-Brookes@mcannonbrookes

Ok. I read all 129 pages of the pamphlet. Its not worth the paper I didn’t print it on.

I understand technology damn well. This isn’t a “technology driven approach”. It’s inaction, misdirection & avoiding choices.

I’m going to bed. This is just ridiculously embarrassing.

Understandably pissed off because Sun Cable doesn’t get a mention in the 129 pages.

But correct, nonetheless.

The Scummo Net Zero is based on three heroic assumptions:

• Ultra-low-cost solar: sending out power at $15/MW to facilitate green hydrogen, clean steel, low emissions cement, green transport, electricity too cheap to meter. Starting in 2030.

• Carbon Capture and Storage: to allow cheap gas to support Ultra-low-cost solar. Starting in 2025.

• Soil sequestration: cheap soil monitoring ($3/ha) to prove properly managed Australian soils are mopping up any naughty carbons. Starting in 2025.

That’s it.
Seriously. The other 128 pages are repetition and sloganeering about the Aussie Way. *

Easy to see why the ‘independent modelling’ is going to remain hidden.

* Figure 1.3 is useful. It shows clearly why Global Net Zero by 2050 is never going to happen.

JC
JC
October 28, 2021 8:35 am

feelthebern says:
October 28, 2021 at 8:31 am
Someone has made Alec Baldwin into a NPC in the online game Rust.
This is what the internet was made for.

He’s done now, I think.

JC
JC
October 28, 2021 8:38 am

Get

bespoke
bespoke
October 28, 2021 8:38 am

struthsays:
October 28, 2021 at 7:34 am
He’s a man of far greater principle than the sneering couch potatoes here

Projecting again, ranting 24/7 at easy targets on the net is your thing. But at least it keeps you from harassing checkout chicks I suppose.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 8:39 am

Great find.

Registered names:

Austalia One (yes)
A1 Association
A1 Assoc.
Australia One Party
Australia A1 Party
A1 Party

Naturally and of course, it’s a South Australian entity.

Riccardo Bosi. Less the crusading, William Wallace-styled champion of the people, and very much more the extremely well-dressed CEO of Lionheart Australasia Pty Ltd.

Just another cheap spiv. Throw him on the pile of Faulties.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 28, 2021 8:39 am

Carbon capture and storage.
Do they know it is CO2? Look at those two oxygen atoms. Why do they want to lock away atmospheric oxygen?

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 28, 2021 8:42 am

Carbon capture and storage.
Do they know it is CO2? Look at those two oxygen atoms. Why do they want to lock away atmospheric oxygen?

Would you like to know more?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 8:45 am

SYDNEY is Australia’s cocaine capital but the party stopped this year, with some of the lowest levels of use recorded

It’s all been snorted by hippos?

Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos legally ‘people’: US judge (27 Oct)

Baba
Baba
October 28, 2021 8:48 am

By mid 2022 Moloch will have more devotees (albeit unwittingly) among Australian mothers of young children than God himself.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 28, 2021 8:51 am

Carbon capture and storage.
Do they know it is CO2? Look at those two oxygen atoms. Why do they want to lock away atmospheric oxygen?

Probably no need to panic.

Scummo Net Zero assumes CO2 can be locked away for $20/tonne. Because technology.

The two actual CCS projects in Texas lock CO2 away for $100-150/tonne.
Because not Aussie.

You may get a reprieve from asphyxiation.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 28, 2021 8:51 am

feelthebernsays:
October 28, 2021 at 7:31 am
Huma (Hillary’s Huma) said she was sexually assaulted by a US senator.
Then doesn’t name him.
If you are going to release a book & use an allegation as the platform to promote it, you must name names.

Apparently the event was in 2005. Teddy?

John of Mel
John of Mel
October 28, 2021 8:52 am

A perfect compact size red pill.

Thanks Mater!
This is really good.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 28, 2021 8:55 am

JCsays:
October 28, 2021 at 7:57 am
Feelthebern says:
October 28, 2021 at 7:24 am
Niki Savva perfects the art of gas lighting in today’s smh

Didn’t she write crappy stories for the Oz? She’s now at the SMH!

And they said there’s no such thing as a slippery slope!

JC
JC
October 28, 2021 8:57 am

By mid 2022 Moloch will have more devotees (albeit unwittingly) among Australian mothers of young children than God himself.

Who’s Mr Moloch?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 8:57 am

Just another cheap spiv. Throw him on the pile of Faulties.

Well, there is this extract of a Defence-connect podcast.
Without wading through the entire self-promoting tripe, there’s this:-

Then I just started a number of companies with colleagues, and investors just to learn how to do business. Each one was a sound business in its own right, but it fell over for any number of reasons. And that was part of the learning process. 

Sound businesses.
Which went tits up.
Can I run your country please?
Listen muppet. Other people’s money tipped into a business is not a “learning opportunity” for you. You are meant to make more money.
Other snippets.
Retired from army about 2004.
Wanted to be a General but suddenly saw “exciting opportunities” outside the military.

Indolent
Indolent
October 28, 2021 9:02 am

By mid 2022 Moloch will have more devotees (albeit unwittingly) among Australian mothers of young children than God himself.

Don’t understand the reference here.

MatrixTransform
October 28, 2021 9:08 am

Would you like to know more?

whatever it takes to become a citizen

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 28, 2021 9:08 am

Devotees of Moloch are said to have practiced child sacrifice.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 28, 2021 9:09 am

Xenu > Moloch

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 28, 2021 9:10 am

Doherty (blessed be they) lady professor told Neil Mitchell yesterday that the trends for infection were heading in the right direction for Vic.
1447 – today 1923.
Mug punters are mug punters.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 9:12 am

‘bern.
Your Hale-Bopp Nike order says “Left size 10 ; Right size 8”
Is that correct?

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 9:15 am

Morning fellow sneering couch potatoes.

Ask yourself, are you really fighting tRAnNy unless struth has accused you of sneering?

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 28, 2021 9:15 am

That’s right Panzer.
Remember to include the lifts.
I like to add a inch or two were I can.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 9:17 am

feelthebernsays:

October 28, 2021 at 9:15 am

That’s right Panzer.
Remember to include the lifts.
I like to add a inch or two were I can.

Really?
Is that absolutely necessary?
We are only wearing them for the transition to the comet.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 28, 2021 9:19 am

Especially important to have them then.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 28, 2021 9:20 am

Either we’re all dead this weekend.
Or next Thursday at Leigh Lowes place is going to be epic.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 28, 2021 9:22 am

SAncho

Wanted to be a General but suddenly saw “exciting opportunities” outside the military.

Speaking of former SASR COs becoming generals, I once heard a tale about Mike Jeffrey (former CO SASR, later a Major General, later Governor General).

He and some other SASR officers were tossing a few ideas about improving the Army late one night in the Officers’ Mess. One officer, in a burst of enthusiasm, said something on the lines of “When you become a general, you’ll be able to fix all this”. In a moment of self awareness that should be experienced by all senior officers, Jeffrey replied “When I become a general, I’ll be part of the problem”.

Mater
October 28, 2021 9:24 am

Wanted to be a General but suddenly saw “exciting opportunities” outside the military.

I wouldn’t praise the qualities of either wanting to become a General, or being capable of being a General. Such qualities are quite distasteful, in my experience.

If you haven’t either risked your career, or actually cost your career as a junior Officer (in looking after your men and/or mission), you haven’t actually been doing your job properly.

Whilst there are always exceptions, the best Officers are usually those who decide to get out at Major or LTCOL level. I say this for a number of reasons:

1. To get to these levels you needed to show at least competence.
2. These levels are where you stop leading men, and start becoming a political/shiny arse. Good people, with the right motivation, join to lead men.
3. Those willing to leave at this level generally know they are capable of transitioning and make a go of it. Hanging around after this point is easy money and takes little initiative. I think the term is ‘Deadwood’.
4. If they want to be a General or to at least obtain significant rank, I question why they are really there. The answer can be quite distasteful. Those who go looking for power and influence, probably shouldn’t be given it.
5. Give me an example of a General who you’d give the thumbs up to…and I’ll generally assume you’ve never met or worked under them.

As I said, there are always exceptions…but rare.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
October 28, 2021 9:25 am

If a-Huma Huma Abedin came into my apartment for “coffee” late at night as the second act, I’d give it 50-50 that she’s up for some fun.
Gotta do these things properly, though. Give the coffee 20min to raise the heartrate, say something scandalous to dilate the pupils… if things look slow, there’s the foot massage/spilt stuff double play.
That’s why these lefties always end up with dud roots or the door in their face, they’ve got no sense of tradition.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 28, 2021 9:27 am

Sancho Panzer says:
October 28, 2021 at 9:12 am
‘bern.
Your Hale-Bopp Nike order says “Left size 10 ; Right size 8”
Is that correct?

Not so funny.
Bought a pair of cheapish Skechers a while back and found out after a wear that they were odd sizes.
No worries I thought, take them back and point out the staff error and get a fresh pair.
No on your Nelly. Individual stores do not take back shoes and replace them, you have to go and apply to the main distribution centre.
Their stuff up was suddenly my problem.
I’ve still got the shoes but I’ll never buy from them again and spend my time bad mouthing the company when talk of shoes arises.
Genius level customer service.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 28, 2021 9:34 am

Alec Baldwin’s criminal liability in ‘Rust’ movie shooting ‘has not been ruled out,’ legal expert suggests

Baldwin working hard to make sure Tanya criminal liability falls on the right persons.

“The production company’s hiring of Chicago’s Jenner & Block [law firm] to conduct its own investigation tells me they’re starting to build an aggressive defense,” [expert] Custodio noted.

“They will try to show that the producers are not liable, that the shooting comes down to aberrations or uncommon behavior displayed by individuals such as the assistant director or armorer.

They will also try to show that the film production did nothing wrong in hiring these two individuals. That’s very important because the plaintiffs are going to go after these people to show that their careers clearly demonstrate they were not fit to be on this set.”

A well deserved World of Suffering.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 28, 2021 9:34 am

Speaking of former SASR COs becoming generals, I once heard a tale about Mike Jeffrey (former CO SASR, later a Major General, later Governor General).

He was “an officer and a gentleman” of the old school, who never forgot he was “the boy from Wiluna.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 9:35 am

Mater.
It was the (ahem) “sudden aspirational change” which struck me.
He’s not the first to jump out with ideas of becoming big on the leadership speaking circuit (Hello Stiletto Morrison).
The most breathtaking exhibition of lack of self-awareness was having presided over failed businesses and then going on to lecture people about leadership.
FMD.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 9:37 am

No on your Nelly. Individual stores do not take back shoes and replace them, you have to go and apply to the main distribution centre.

The Bunnings warranty model.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 9:39 am

started a number of companies with colleagues, and investors just to learn how to do business.

Used investors’ money to ‘learn’. No skin in the game then.

Inspirational.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 9:41 am

Mater:

1. To get to these levels you needed to show at least competence.
2. These levels are where you stop leading men, and start becoming a political/shiny arse. Good people, with the right motivation, join to lead men.
3. Those willing to leave at this level generally know they are capable of transitioning and make a go of it. Hanging around after this point is easy money and takes little initiative. I think the term is ‘Deadwood’.
4. If they want to be a General or to at least obtain significant rank, I question why they are really there. The answer can be quite distasteful. Those who go looking for power and influence, probably shouldn’t be given it.
5. Give me an example of a General who you’d give the thumbs up to…and I’ll generally assume you’ve never met or worked under them.

Allegedly and apparently and it is said by some, this would exactly describe senior Plod anywhere in the country.

Particularly #4. Never hand out power to those desperate for it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 9:42 am

Sounds like the Senate really is the safest place then.

Arky
October 28, 2021 9:43 am

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feelthebern
feelthebern
October 28, 2021 9:44 am

As if the US isn’t medicated enough.

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 9:46 am

THE LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA SOUTH AUSTRALIA DIVISION

Otherwise known as Black Hand Submarines Pty Ltd.

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 28, 2021 9:49 am

A comprehensive Karening fail
reminded me of
those wonders unobtainable on 20 cents a week pocket money
and the soul crushing disappointment Sea Monkeys proved to be.

Mater
October 28, 2021 9:50 am

Mater.
It was the (ahem) “sudden aspirational change” which struck me.

Not a fight I’m interested in jumping into, BUT…concentrating on his more recent endeavours (and comments) would likely be more productive.

His military career was honourable, and reached heights that most others only aspire to. I doubt there is much to rake up there. Like all occupations, people get halted at certain levels for all number of reasons. In the Army, more often than not (and quite ironically), it’s often for doing what you and I would say is the ‘right thing’. Go along to get along exists in the services, too.

What he says and does in the here and now, as a political aspirant, is more relevant and worthy of critical critique.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 10:01 am

Do companies still need to have purposes and objects? It would be interesting to find out why the Lieborals think they exist.

Zipster
Zipster
October 28, 2021 10:02 am
Indolent
Indolent
October 28, 2021 10:03 am
Zipster
Zipster
October 28, 2021 10:04 am

full version of above

interesting how bloomberg cut the section about garlands son in law makes money by selling critical race material to schools.

the most corrupt administration in US history

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 10:05 am

Like all occupations, people get halted at certain levels for all number of reasons.

The classic is Australian wicket keeper.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 10:06 am

Not a fight I’m interested in jumping into, BUT…concentrating on his more recent endeavours (and comments) would likely be more productive.

I agree.
What exactly has he done in the years 2004 – 2021 which qualifies him for high office?
It seems his theatre of operations during this time has been the Eastern suburbs cocktail party and Rotary Club circuit.
Apart from that, some failed businesses burning OPM and the leadership speaking circuit (but the list of clients and testimonials is hard to find).
When he ran for AC in 2019 and shortly after he sounded somewhat rational (including a couple of posts at Dead Cat) but, in the last couple of years, he has gone totally off reservation.
Monday’s rant seems to be thr culmination of that.

Indolent
Indolent
October 28, 2021 10:07 am

For some reason, the link is not getting through but there’s a story in the Expose with this heading –

“ONS Data reveals the Fully Vaccinated are 6 times more likely to die than the Unvaccinated due to all-causes”

ONS stands for the UK Office of National Statistics and there’s a link to an Excel version of the data on the ONS website in the Expose item.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 10:09 am

Sea Monkeys are a valuable life lesson. Some people never manage to get past that stage.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 10:10 am

A comprehensive Karening fail

Obviously she never thought to join the US Army and become an empowered wymminses tank driver.
On the other hand I doubt she could fit in a tank.

calli
calli
October 28, 2021 10:12 am

Let’s try a Tiny URL for Indolent’s link.

calli
calli
October 28, 2021 10:14 am

Clearly something is stopping direct links to Exposé. WordPress?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 10:15 am

H B Bearsays:

October 28, 2021 at 10:05 am

Like all occupations, people get halted at certain levels for all number of reasons.

The classic is Australian wicket keeper.

Some go quietly.
Most do not.
In fact, I can’t remember one going quietly since Wally Grout.

areff
areff
October 28, 2021 10:22 am

now at the SMH!

Shit, too, finds its own level.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 10:22 am

As for comics, Lotocoti, the ads were a fine part of the experience. I remember seeing that Sea Monkey one myself, but was never interested. Rotifers or something. But I spent quite a lot of pocket money on the stamp packets that were also advertised in them. Ended up with a shedload of East German stamps, which were padding for the few interesting ones in each packet. I still recall a fine stamp I got in one of them from Sierra Leone which was in the shape of Sierra Leone. It made a nice addition to the collection, even though Sierra Leone stamps were just as much a business as the East German ones were. Prettier though, as the East German ones were grim, forbidding and frankly quite boring.

Roger
Roger
October 28, 2021 10:25 am

[The Rust production company] will also try to show that the film production did nothing wrong in hiring these two individuals [the AD & the armourer].

The AD was escorted from the set of a previous production after a firearms incident and the armourer was a novice who admitted to doubts about her capabilities.

This is not a promising path to go down.

Unless you’re the law firm hired by the production company, that is.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 10:26 am

Like all occupations, people get halted at certain levels for all number of reasons. In the Army, more often than not (and quite ironically), it’s often for doing what you and I would say is the ‘right thing’. Go along to get along exists in the services, too.

+1

This.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 10:28 am

In fact, I can’t remember one going quietly since Wally Grout.

Tim Zoehrer nearly caused his own WA secession crisis.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 10:31 am

They say rust never sleeps, but in this case I think Rust is a very dead Norwegian Blue movie. No way it’ll be released or even completed. The legal costs on top of the wasted production costs are going to be sizeable. Seems unlikely Mr Baldwin will ever work again, either.

Zipster
Zipster
October 28, 2021 10:31 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 10:31 am

Tim Zoehrer nearly caused his own WA secession crisis.

And Gilly was nearly executed by “The People” at the Gabba after he took Ian Healey’s birthright away.
Not entirely spontaneous.
Aided and abetted by Heal’s mates at Nein Sportz.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 10:31 am

now at the SMH!
Shit, too, finds its own level.

Next stop – J e w i s h vanity press.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 28, 2021 10:32 am

We are only wearing them for the transition to the comet.

About that ‘transition”…
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/heavens-gate-20-years-later-10-things-you-didnt-know-114563/
Would you like to know more?

So-Cal acolytes – they drank nothing but the mix of lemonade, cayenne pepper and maple syrup for three entire months.

Though decisions like this were always left up to the members, eight followers were castrated voluntarily, including Applewhite. “They couldn’t stop smiling and giggling,” former member DiAngelo told Newsweek. “They were excited about it.”


The Nikes the group wore have become a collector’s item.
When the Heaven’s Gate members were discovered, they were all wearing identical black-and-white Nike Decade sneakers – and the company soon discontinued the style, due to its macabre associations. Since then, the shoes have become a collector’s item. An unworn pair apparently discovered in a storage unit in Arizona is up for auction on eBay for the asking price of $6,660, bearing Applewhite’s face as part of its advertising.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 28, 2021 10:35 am

There is a picture of the Rust gun lady teaching another person to shoot.
Lets just say that shoulder wasnt going to be undislocated by itself.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 10:36 am

Aided and abetted by Heal’s mates at Nein Sportz.

Chapelli would still be selecting himself if given the chance. Sounds like Slats availablity will depend on bail conditions. Can probably put a line through Tony Grieg.

Roger
Roger
October 28, 2021 10:37 am

Seems unlikely Mr Baldwin will ever work again, either.

He could always do his Trump act in retirement homes.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 28, 2021 10:40 am

I was involved in some studies of Leadership in the ADF years ago…it was supposed to result in a book (which never happened).

The Admiral Nelson article I posted here a week ago, on Trafalgar Day, was an offshoot of that.

The whole concept seemed to revolve around two different models: the “Great Man” (you are born with them, and we should study them) version and a sort of “it can be learned” model. After a while the whole concept became too hard, and those involved drifted away.

At the time the Values concepts were running wild in institutions, and in the Navy it eventuated into timber posts with words on them stuck up around bases: “Courage, Integrity” etc on them. However as one person commented; just because the trainees drove past them on arrival didn’t mean they had them imbued straight away.

I think I told the story here before…the Training Commander came and asked me for a historical leadership phrase, to be spelled out over the heads of officer trainees as they sat in the Gunroom for dinner etc. I suggested “Engage the Enemy more Closely”, which was Nelson’s at Trafalgar, or “Don’t give up the ship” from the battle between HMS Shannon and USS Chesapeake. He didn’t like either, and finally had the five “Navy values” words spelt out instead.

Gab
Gab
October 28, 2021 10:40 am

Hi Dover

Please delete the following petitions as they have now expired:

1. Biosecurity
2. Biosecurity
3. AHPRA edict
7. No vax passports
8. Freedom of choice
9. No vax passport/no ID card
10. Stop mandatory vax
11. No to vax passports
12. NO to Ivermectin ban
13. Adopt RAT
14. No to covid health pass

Thanks, Dover.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 28, 2021 10:41 am

calli, the tinyURL link works on my machine.

Interesting that my PoS Apple mini iPad running Safari cannot link to this Cat. Works on the other one.

Baba
Baba
October 28, 2021 10:41 am

feelthebernsays:
October 28, 2021 at 9:44 am
As if the US isn’t medicated enough.

NEWS ALERT
Antidepressant Significantly Reduces Covid-19 Hospitalization

Fluvoxamine is recommended (with
caution/warnings about possible acute anxiety and possibly suicidal and violent behaviour) by the FLCCC Alliance for use in regions with aggressive Covid variants; or when treatment start-
ed on or after day 5 of symptoms or in pulmonary phase; or where multiple comorbidities/
risk factors are present.

But then the FLCCC also recommends treatment with ‘horse dewormer’.

Zipster
Zipster
October 28, 2021 10:42 am
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
October 28, 2021 10:42 am

Bosi would be many things, including one helluva soldier. He’d be as far from a malingering malcontent keep-your-head-down conscript as you can get.

Being SASR he’d (justifiably) view himself as an elite soldier.

He must feel a stratospheric level of frustration at seeing former army personnel* of the calibre of Stuart Robert, Andrew Wilkie & Mike Kelly, sitting comfortably in parliament, underperforming to a level that in SASR would see them on a charge or RTU’d, all the while drawing a salary a LTCOL in SASR could only dream about.

*use of “personnel” instead of “soldier” is deliberate.

Indolent
Indolent
October 28, 2021 10:42 am
Baba
Baba
October 28, 2021 10:44 am
P
P
October 28, 2021 10:46 am

An uplifting article by George Weigel today in First Things.
A SHANKSVILLE MEDITATION

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 10:46 am

USS Connecticut Damage

Interesting story, although I haven’t looked at that vid.

Navy Not Sure What USS Connecticut Struck in the South China Sea, Beijing Accuses U.S. of Cover-Up (27 Oct, US Naval Institute)

The U.S. Navy still isn’t positive what one of its most powerful attack submarines hit in the South China Sea, as repair assessments continue in Guam, four sources familiar with the results of the preliminary investigations told USNI News this week.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the undersea object that damaged the forward section of USS Connecticut (SSN-22) had not been definitively determined as part of several investigations into the Oct. 2 incident, the sources said.

Early indications were Connecticut hit a seamount in the South China Sea, two defense officials familiar with the Navy’s examination of the submarines told USNI News, but that has not been confirmed by investigators. Politico first reported earlier this month that the boat may have hit an undersea feature.

“The Chinese side has repeatedly expressed grave concerns over the matter and asked the U.S. side to make clarifications,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Tuesday.

And undersea seamount eh? Sounds more like a Chinese sub was playing chicken, and lost. Fits the Chinese outrage aspect better than slightly damaging a bit of Chinese-claimed underwater geography.

All of which lets me link this fine movie, which the unfortunate Mr Baldwin can now fondly look back to whilst in his cell.

Andrei… you’ve lost another submarine?

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 10:47 am

Gab, will do. How many of them achieved their req. totals?

Steady on. This isn’t a US Presidential election.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 28, 2021 10:47 am

“ONS Data reveals the Fully Vaccinated are 6 times more likely to die than the Unvaccinated due to all-causes”

The unsurprising result that happens when the elderly population is 90% vaccinated and happens to be the cohort most likely to die of ‘all causes’. Insufficient unvaccinated people left to die of cancer and coronary disease.

But much more fun to claim:

This is the first time the government has published data which traps the scale of the lethal side effects of the Covid-19 injections.

Possibly why widely ignored.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 10:51 am

The only time Baldwin was ever going to see the inside of a cell was on the set of his next movie.

rosie
rosie
October 28, 2021 10:51 am

Thank you Dr Faustus.

Still waiting for that excess deaths due to the vaccine graph.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 28, 2021 10:57 am

Alec Baldwin shooting: film set had 500 rounds of ammunition
Jacqui Goddard, Miami
Tuesday October 26 2021, 6.50pm BST, The Times

A sheriff overseeing the investigation into how Alec Baldwin shot dead a colleague on a New Mexico film set has criticised the “complacency” of the production’s safety culture and confirmed that the actor was under investigation.

Adam Mendoza, the sheriff of Santa Fe county, revealed that more than 500 rounds of ammunition were found on the set of the western, Rust, including live bullets, dummies and blanks. Criminal charges could still be filed.

“We are going to determine how they [the live rounds] got there and why they were there, because they shouldn’t have been there,” Mendoza said. “I think there was some complacency on this set and I think there are some safety issues that need to be addressed by the industry.”

Last week’s tragedy occurred as Baldwin, who was playing the role of Harland Rust, an outlaw in the 19th-century Old West, practised drawing a gun for a scene inside a mock church at Bonanza Creek Ranch, in the desert.

Mendoza confirmed that a lead bullet fired from a Pietta long Colt .45 revolver passed through Halyna Hutchins, 42, the director of photography, and then lodged in the shoulder of Joel Souza, 48, the director. Hutchins died and the bullet was removed from Souza during surgery.

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 28, 2021 10:58 am

the “Great Man” (you are born with them, and we should study them) version

Nigel Coates was one.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 28, 2021 10:58 am

China feeds Fortescue the rough end of the pineapple.
Jeebers.

Razey
Razey
October 28, 2021 10:58 am

Babasays:
October 28, 2021 at 10:41 am
feelthebernsays:
October 28, 2021 at 9:44 am
As if the US isn’t medicated enough.

NEWS ALERT
Antidepressant Significantly Reduces Covid-19 Hospitalization

Fluvoxamine is recommended (with
caution/warnings about possible acute anxiety and possibly suicidal and violent behaviour) by the FLCCC Alliance for use in regions with aggressive Covid variants; or when treatment start-
ed on or after day 5 of symptoms or in pulmonary phase; or where multiple comorbidities/
risk factors are present.

But then the FLCCC also recommends treatment with ‘horse dewormer’.

Water is a horse re-hydrator. Anyone who drink water is therefore a right wing loony Trump supporter.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 11:01 am

The whole concept seemed to revolve around two different models: the “Great Man” (you are born with them, and we should study them) version and a sort of “it can be learned” model.

TE – You’d think studying the US Civil War would’ve cured them of this stuff. Lee was an obvious unicorn, and was brilliant and successful beyond most general officers in all of history, but the Union experience was exactly the opposite.

Lincoln fired general after general before lucking upon the two most unlikely of candidates you could think of: Grant and Sherman. Who did the job, finally.

Born not made. The art is in the recognizing of them.

cohenite
October 28, 2021 11:04 am

Mike Cannon-Brookes tells it:

Mike Cannon-Brookes@mcannonbrookes

Ok. I read all 129 pages of the pamphlet. Its not worth the paper I didn’t print it on.

I understand technology damn well. This isn’t a “technology driven approach”. It’s inaction, misdirection & avoiding choices.

I’m going to bed. This is just ridiculously embarrassing.

Cannon-fucktard is a programmer. I know more about climate in my little finger then he knows in his mis-shapen body. But he’s right about scomo, except this; scomo is doing a pea and thimble trick. Scomo cannot take on the climate morons so he has a double bluff: a brochure of bullshit to dazzle the morons, who don’t vote for him but dominate the media, but which means nothing, a message he hopes to sell to the sensible punters who got him over the line last time. Unfortunately he will please neither and is on target to duplicate the WA result for the LNP federally.

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
October 28, 2021 11:05 am

Oh, Bosi tut tut.

If only you were just a lowly fish and chip shop proprietor with some eloquence issues. We could immediately rally behind you and support you.

Oh, hang on…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 11:06 am

Roger.
Baldwin is discovering that “co-producer” is a little more than your name on the credits and an easy payday.
Although I am taking the stories about the armourer and AD with a tiny pinch of salt.
No doubt Baldwin’s PR are planting adverse stories.
There is a delicious Catch 22 irony here.
By denigrating the competence of the support staff it might get Baldwin the actor off. But it puts Baldwin the producer squarely in the frame for employing these muppets in the first place.

calli
calli
October 28, 2021 11:09 am

Possibly why widely ignored.

Yes. However, it’s also important to read what’s being promoted as evidence and dispute it. I like to look at both sides of any argument.

calli
calli
October 28, 2021 11:15 am

And in the same vein, all the negative stories about movie armourer and assistant director.

I can see how these tso numpties will be thrown under the bus to protect the bigger “name” who pulled the trigger. Who, having played roles on many…many movies involving firearms with far more professional expert staff decided this time not to check for himself.

All roads lead back to Baldwin. Even the long and windy ones.

Roger
Roger
October 28, 2021 11:15 am

Lincoln fired general after general before lucking upon the two most unlikely of candidates you could think of: Grant and Sherman. Who did the job, finally.

Born not made. The art is in the recognizing of them.

Grant was tactically an average commander.

What he had was ample human resources and the will to use them in wearing Lee down.

As Lee said at Cold Habor, “This is not war but murder”.

That’s not something a modern commander would want to emulate.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
October 28, 2021 11:17 am

By denigrating the competence of the support staff it might get Baldwin the actor off. But it puts Baldwin the producer squarely in the frame for employing these muppets in the first place.

Yep.
Baldwin the actor gets off = He avoids jail.
When Baldwin the producer is in the frame = public liability insurer picks up the tab.

After that he sticks to acting. He’s got a 7-to-8 year career ahead of him, parodying Trump. Just turn up, wear the makeup, recite the lines.
This ‘boss’ gig isn’t as hassle-free as it looked to be. Turns out there’s more to it than a bigger payday, and there’s .. (how could anyone have known) … risk!

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 28, 2021 11:17 am

Born not made. The art is in the recognizing of them.

The late John Boyd tried to figure out why some fighter pilots became aces and others were just making up the numbers or ending up as enemy insignia under the cockpits of the opponents aircraft.
He came up with the OODA loop concept and concluded that correct directed training made it possible to greatly improve performance.

custard
custard
October 28, 2021 11:18 am

Couldn’t help myself yesterday and decided I needed some retail therapy and bought a Lets Go Brandon long sleeve t-shirt. Not cheap at $58 but who cares it also has #FJB as well lol.

Dover I didn’t see the link so sorry about that. If I buy “In Trump Time” by Peter Navarro how do I ensure you get a kick-back?

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 28, 2021 11:19 am

Interesting.
tinyurl.com/2css247h

Seems reasonably well reasoned.

Roger
Roger
October 28, 2021 11:19 am

No doubt Baldwin’s PR are planting adverse stories.

Given that he (via the production company) hired them that’s not a bright move, because a lot in this case is going to hang on the competence of those two and whether hiring them was an economy measure that compromised safety on the set.

rosie
rosie
October 28, 2021 11:21 am

I’d be interested to see cause of death in that UK teen death uptick.
Also the DVT.
Being on the pill for a year is irrelevant, I know someone years ago who got a pill related blood clot that nearly killed her, after her third child.
Pill related blood clots are something like one in 10 000 but nobody cares.

rosie
rosie
October 28, 2021 11:22 am

I was wondering whether it was a cost cutting measure Roger.

twostix
twostix
October 28, 2021 11:23 am

Thank you Dr Faustus.

Still waiting for that excess deaths due to the vaccine graph.

We’re still waiting for you to explain what restrictions your friend Andrews has actually ‘lifted’, as you were bizarrely and nonsensically mumbling on about the other day.

Coincidentally it was the same day that Andrews attempted to officially become a dictator that you came in here derailing that with ‘oh look – he’s actually lifting restrictions, see you’re all just being hysterical – democracy in action!’.

I mean, perhaps you’ve always been quiet pro-dan shill trolling this place. It would explain a lot.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
October 28, 2021 11:23 am

Given that he (via the production company) hired them that’s not a bright move, because a lot in this case is going to hang on the competence of those two and whether hiring them was an economy measure that compromised safety on the set.

In the game of ‘Rock Paper Scissors’ Baldwin is now playing, “Not going to Jail” is the option he’s trying to land on.

Understandable.

rosie
rosie
October 28, 2021 11:24 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 11:25 am

Grant was tactically an average commander.

Refute that with a single word: Wilderness.

Interestingly I’m presently reading of the Japanese campaign in Malaya, and it’s the same tactics: contact then flank, contact then flank, contact then flank. Maybe they read up on Grant before they landed in Kota Bharu.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 28, 2021 11:25 am

Born not made. The art is in the recognizing of them.

Never a truer word said, Bruce. My old grandad, a man from the UK Border Reivers, ‘free thinker’ as he called himself, having taken ‘the King’s shilling’, surviving 3 years as a prisoner of the Turks in WW1, was fond of reciting Grey’s Elegy to me. This bit has always stuck:

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

Applies to many aspects of life. Leadership, as with success in many fields, is a happy combination of recognition meeting a well-warranted aspiration. The conditions have to be ripe.

Gab
Gab
October 28, 2021 11:26 am

dover0beachsays:
October 28, 2021 at 10:42 am
Gab, will do. How many of them achieved their req. totals?

From memory only about 2, maybe 3.

It’s important these petitions are shared around on social media otherwise if 100,000 signatures are not reached the petition will not be tabled in parliament for debate.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 11:28 am

Top Ender at 10:40.
Leadership.
The most fraught subject in academia.
One thing for sure.
It can’t be downloaded in a very expensive 40 minute after dinner speech, irrespective of the gravitas in the booming voice, or how many ribbons he has pinned to his jacket.
And I am very wary of employing a leadership speaker to address the troops in my business if he has gone bust.
Unless he is giving a genuine “how I fucked up” speech.

calli
calli
October 28, 2021 11:29 am

From the AP LINK:

To control for factors that change from year to year, a better approach is to compare death rates against a five-year average, according to Garrett. Using a recent five-year average for comparison, U.K. deaths among males aged 15 to 19 increased in 2021 by a much smaller amount, about 17%, while deaths among females aged 15 to 19 decreased by 11%.

17% increase on a five year average is still a big jump.

Roger
Roger
October 28, 2021 11:30 am

Refute that with a single word: Wilderness.

An indecisive bloodbath, Bruce.

The only positive for Grant tactically was in not retreating.

Gab
Gab
October 28, 2021 11:32 am

This Pfizer patent application was approved August 31st, 2021, and is the very first patent that shows up in a list of over 18500 for the purpose of remote contact tracing of all vaccinated humans worldwide who will be or are now connected to the “internet of things” by a quantum link of pulsating microwave frequencies of 2.4 gHz or higher from cell towers and satellites directly to the graphene oxide held in the fatty tissues of all persons who’ve had the death-shot.

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/68/80/73/6a17a66e9ec8c5/US11107588.pdf

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 28, 2021 11:33 am

I mean, perhaps you’ve always been quiet pro-dan shill trolling this place. It would explain a lot.

That’s both unfair and cruel. Rosie and her family have suffered under Dan as so many have and she’s been quite clear about that. Just because she has a different view about Covid as a disease and the vaxx as a response to it (and I’ve never heard her say that vaxxes are great with no problems), doesn’t mean she should be suspected of some sort of grand collusion with Dicatator Dan (who is strongmaning over established law like that first Dictator Julius Caesar almost to the letter).

Roger
Roger
October 28, 2021 11:34 am

Interestingly I’m presently reading of the Japanese campaign in Malaya, and it’s the same tactics: contact then flank, contact then flank, contact then flank.

Textbook tactics.

Where a great commander – e.g. Lee generally or Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley campaign (which I believe is still studied at West Point) – really comes to the fore is in the manoeuvering before contact is made and in timing, which sets up the victory conditions.

Gab
Gab
October 28, 2021 11:34 am

Judge dismisses call for her to stand down in no jab, no work challenge.

Good for her!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 11:38 am

In the game of ‘Rock Paper Scissors’ Baldwin is now playing, “Not going to Jail” is the option he’s trying to land on.

I think that’s right.
The fork in the road is:-
1. Criminal charges as Baldwin the actor; and/or
2. Civil suits involving Baldwin the co-producer.
He is definitely looking to contain the damage to the civil sphere, and deflect criminal liability to the AD and armourer.
I agree with Bear.
He is not going to jail.

calli
calli
October 28, 2021 11:38 am

Refute that with a single word: Wilderness.

Eleven years ago we were heading from Williamsburg up to Washington through Spotsylvania County. There was the usual historical marker on the side of the road – it said “Wilderness” with dates and a brief explanation.

The land about gave no indication at all of the horror of that battle and what those poor men endured. All the ghosts have fled.

Here’s a song about one who cheated death. Or only thinks he did.

rosie
rosie
October 28, 2021 11:40 am

I see twisted knicks is at it again.
Sorry for being pleased that it appears Andrews stuffed up the no shopping for you vaxx status unknown person’s from Friday and it appears is now pretending that is is part of the plan.
You continue to provide hot takes on my state of mind and motivations that rival srrs for being both preposterous and scurrilous.
I live in hope that Andrews will be forced to follow Perrottet’s lead and remove nearly all restrictions this year .
You on the other hand revel in scapegoating and scaremongering.
All I am hoping in relation to democracy is seeing Andrews lose in a landslide in late 2022.

Now go get a haircut and sneer at the old ladies at the coffee club as you walk past.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 11:40 am

Roger – Perhaps you should look at links? I think that graphic may be extracted from Ken Burns’ excellent doco. The Wilderness Campaign was an unqualified victory for the Union, and the only thing that prevented the collapse of the Confederacy was that they could establish WW1-like trench lines in front of Richmond and Petersburg.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 28, 2021 11:43 am

Mater

Whilst there are always exceptions, the best Officers are usually those who decide to get out at Major or LTCOL level.

Unless there has been a relatively recent change, promotion to MAJ (E) was automatic, and time based. Agree re LTCOL (E) level.

5. Give me an example of a General who you’d give the thumbs up to…and I’ll generally assume you’ve never met or worked under them.

Having worked directly with him, John Baker was an example of a general who was both competent and a good human being.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 11:43 am

all vaccinated humans worldwide who will be or are now connected to the “internet of things” by a quantum link of pulsating microwave frequencies of 2.4 gHz or higher from cell towers and satellites directly to the graphene oxide held in the fatty tissues of all persons who’ve had the death-shot.

That isn’t what the abstract says. Happy to listen to an explanation.

“the internet of things”. Very happy to listen to an explanation.

rosie
rosie
October 28, 2021 11:43 am

And considering all the brawls I’ve gotten into with #IStandWithDanners on twitter, the letters I’ve written to MRS, not to mention a couple of Danloving family members I’ve offended, actually hilariously stupid.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 11:44 am

Given that he (via the production company) hired them that’s not a bright move, because a lot in this case is going to hang on the competence of those two and whether hiring them was an economy measure that compromised safety on the set.

The lesser of two evils.
Deflect criminal liability to the armourer and AD.
In doing so, that necessarily exposes him to civil action as producer for employing these numpties in the first place.
Financially ruinous, but avoids jail.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 11:46 am

Always know which hat you are wearing.

The Glad Bag forgot this rule and look what happened.

rosie
rosie
October 28, 2021 11:46 am

And thankyou Lizzie.
I’ll say again the only people I see dealing longterm with what is happening in Victoria sensibly are the LDP MLAs, fully vaccinated but standing firm against the dictator.
The liberals now putting up more of a fight, finally.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 11:47 am

I should add that you can see the prototype of the Wilderness Campaign in Vicksburg, which Grant also cracked where no previous general could do so.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 28, 2021 11:50 am

However, it’s also important to read what’s being promoted as evidence and dispute it.

I agree.
I did.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 11:51 am

When Baldwin the producer is in the frame = public liability insurer picks up the tab.

I don’t think that is a slam dunk.
After Brandon Lee bought the farm I will bet these insurance contracts contained buckets of “competency, process and procedures” carve-outs around arms and stunts.
But, yes, ring-fencing it to the civil realm is his best option.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 11:52 am

all vaccinated humans worldwide who will be or are now connected to the “internet of things” by a quantum link of pulsating microwave frequencies of 2.4 gHz or higher from cell towers and satellites directly to the graphene oxide held in the fatty tissues of all persons who’ve had the death-shot.

Wut?

Zipster
Zipster
October 28, 2021 11:53 am

‘There’s A Fraud Around Here’: David Schweikert
On the House floor, Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) spoke about spending and deficits.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
October 28, 2021 11:56 am

When Baldwin the producer is in the frame = public liability insurer picks up the tab.

I don’t think that is a slam dunk.

1/. Stay out of jail.
2/. Where it doesn’t undercut (1), deflect liability blame.
3/. Drag (2) out for as long a time frame as possible to allow (4)
4/. Ring fence, “lose”, gift to wife, etc as much asset as possible

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 11:56 am

Wut?

Yes.

Wut? Happy to listen an explanation.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 28, 2021 11:57 am

“And she has disqualified herself on the grounds of bias from adjudicating disputes relating to workplace vaccinations in future.”

Of course the rest of the Commission has no bias on any matter. Laws are written so as to be interpreted in so many ways to further the employment of the legal system. When the High Court overrides the constitution one of them has to go, preferably the judges and the constitution needs to be strengthened. What do we expect with the current crop of pollies, who you thought could not be worse than the previous crop, have a PM who has abrogated his responsibilities. A group of ten year old’s have more clue than this lot. Whilst a lot of the pollies have a reasonable level of education almost none have a comprehension level of the said ten year old’s. Quite honestly, any cats commenting on this site could run the country by lunchtime and then have a bludge for the rest off the day, and that’s the ones I disagree with a lot of the time.

P
P
October 28, 2021 11:59 am

Today is the Feast Day of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

St Jude (Thaddeus) is the Patron Saint of desperate causes, desperate situations and lost causes.

I can’t remember ever reading the epistle of Jude, 25 verses in all.
I did today.
Prayer to Saint Jude would not go astray.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 12:01 pm

That isn’t what the abstract says. Happy to listen to an explanation.

It sure as shit does not say that.
It relates to use of electronic devices interfacing remotely to automatically record contacts.
This was ultimately proven to be unworkable, mainly because of the lack of control over physical distance. In short, it turns up too many false contacts outside 1.5 metres over a given time window, so is practically useless.
I haven’t read the nano-wrigglers section, though.

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
October 28, 2021 12:02 pm

However, it’s also important to read what’s being promoted as evidence and dispute it.

Yes, well, that approach has worked so well for us in the past. I mean we had ALL the evidence to show that Global Warming is a scam. We still have that evidence. It has achieved nada.
This is not a science or evidence based argument. It is being imposed upon us by two minorities; the faith based gaia genocide advocates and the money power fraudsters.
For the first you must destroy the publics benevolence to their faith. You can never change their beliefs as their faith will sustain them.
For the second you must make the penalties so massive that they voluntarily stop peddling the nonsense.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 28, 2021 12:03 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closuresays:
October 28, 2021 at 11:56 am
When Baldwin the producer is in the frame = public liability insurer picks up the tab.

I don’t think that is a slam dunk.

1/. Stay out of jail.
2/. Where it doesn’t undercut (1), deflect liability blame.
3/. Drag (2) out for as long a time frame as possible to allow (4)
4/. Ring fence, “lose”, gift to wife, etc as much asset as possible

Slap a Civil claim and get a lien on his assets, probably too late already.

MatrixTransform
October 28, 2021 12:04 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 28, 2021 12:06 pm

the Shenandoah Valley campaign

We did the hundred-mile Shenandoah Ridge drive looking down onto that fabled valley.
Hairy recounting the details of the Shenandoah campaigns to me, and me thinking bemusedly of the military campaigns in history in a broader perspective. Alexander, Caesar, Pompey (then a great gap in my knowledge) to pick up on the American War of Independence, the Civil War, and of course, the great battles of Napoleon. I didn’t broach the twentieth century in my thoughts though. Too close to home.

I did sing the song to him though, which I learned as a child in primary school in Sydney’s outer Western Suburbs. I doubt if any do ‘class singing’ of traditional folksongs today, but in my day we learned many of them. It seemed fitting to sing it on this journey, just for the name. The rendition I link here is absolutely sublime. Enjoy.

Zipster
Zipster
October 28, 2021 12:06 pm

all vaccinated humans worldwide who will be or are now connected to the “internet of things” by a quantum link of pulsating microwave frequencies of 2.4 gHz or higher from cell towers and satellites directly to the graphene oxide held in the fatty tissues of all persons who’ve had the death-shot.

2.4ghz is not a microwave frequency. we’d all be toast if it was. who writes this garbage?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 12:07 pm

Bull sitting.

Living descendant of Sitting Bull confirmed by analysis of DNA from the legendary leader’s hair (Phys.org, 27 Oct)

A man’s claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull has been confirmed using DNA extracted from Sitting Bull’s scalp lock. This is the first time ancient DNA has been used to confirm a familial relationship between living and historical individuals.

His name is Ernie. I wonder what George Custer would think of all of this?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 12:08 pm

Baldwin’s net worth is reported at USD 60 meg.
I thought it would be less, but he was pulling $300k per episode for 30 Rock.
There is going to be a significant crimp put in his portfolio I think, and his future as an actor is largely cooked.

John of Mel
John of Mel
October 28, 2021 12:09 pm

This Pfizer patent application was approved August 31st, 2021

Gab, this was discussed in a separate thread a couple of weeks ago. There is nothing like that in this patent. It’s more about collecting data using smartphones and then processing it to determine if a person needs any more jabs (simplified). Nothing pleasant, but far from IOT in our blood.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 28, 2021 12:10 pm

Rogersays:
October 28, 2021 at 11:30 am
Refute that with a single word: Wilderness.

An indecisive bloodbath, Bruce.

The only positive for Grant tactically was in not retreating.

As Bruce Catton put it (paraphrased from memory), when Grant’s army came to a fork in the road, and turned south, his men knew that at last they had a general who would pursue the enemy and victory.

calli
calli
October 28, 2021 12:10 pm

Faustus, my comment was about the inability today to link to articles from that particular publication. It wasn’t about your explanation of the figures with which I heartily agree.

I just want to see all sides, and there appears to be a lot of interference and spurious “fact checking”.

I’d appreciate your thoughts on the 17% increase in young male deaths compared to a five year sample. It was dismissed by AP with a corresponding 11% decrease in females. Not quite sure why that’s significant.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 12:11 pm

His name is Ernie.

And he drives the fastest milk cart in the West.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 12:12 pm

I haven’t read the nano-wrigglers section, though.

It’s probably recorded in the ‘internet of things’.

People wonder why their genuine and real beefs with this shit state of affairs are labelled as tinfoil-ridden fantasies. Again, this quote holds water:

Hysterical activism is the greatest dead weight an otherwise noble cause can have.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 12:14 pm

John of Mel.
And the idea was ditched because attempts to measure distance between devices couldn’t be refined.
Example.
If a subject turned up at the MCG for a big match it would probably generate 40,000 contacts.
Plus a few on the footpath as he rode home on the tram.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 28, 2021 12:14 pm

There’s no coming back from nano wrigglers. Look at Cat 1.0.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 28, 2021 12:16 pm

It sure as shit does not say that.

Aww shucks. I was awaitin’ for the pulsing to start. Coulda been interesting.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 12:16 pm

Hysterical activism is the greatest dead weight an otherwise noble cause can have.

One of the most frustrating things in arguing against this stuff is being asked variations of the question, “Do you believe in 5G nano-wrigglers?”.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 12:17 pm

who writes this garbage?

Exactly.

Genuine causes ruined with Bird-esque nonsense reproduced as fact, and drowning any reasonable arguments and/or dissent in nuffy juice. This is precisely the sort of stuff srrsrs is legendary for, and does nobody any favours at all.

Very happy to listen to an explanation as to what that statement means. From anyone.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 12:20 pm

H B Bearsays:

October 28, 2021 at 12:11 pm

His name is Ernie.

And he drives the fastest milk cart in the West.

They don’t write songs of that calibre any more.
Well, they do.
But it’s more along the lines of:-

“Ernie was a mutha-fucka, givin’ it to his beyatch, yo”

calli
calli
October 28, 2021 12:21 pm

who writes this garbage?

Remember Q?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 12:23 pm

Gab.
You’ve done a jolly good job linking up those petitions.
Might be time for a break and some deep breaths.
And I don’t mean that in a viscous way.
Or vicious either.

Baba
Baba
October 28, 2021 12:24 pm

U.K. deaths among males aged 15 to 19 increased in 2021 by a much smaller amount, about 17%

It’s a simple recording error. Boys who transitioned to females were wrongly recorded as having died.

So no problems with the vaccines at all.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 28, 2021 12:26 pm

who writes this garbage?

People who expect blind loyalty and assume their followers are illiterate.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 12:27 pm

This may be the dumbest science headline I’ve ever seen.

Making Martian rocket biofuel on Mars (27 Oct)

Global warming which supposedly requires biofuels is supposedly a problem on Earth, not Mars. The atmosphere of Mars is already 99% CO2, so a little more isn’t going to do anything much, except maybe cause an extremely cold planet to get a tiny amount warmer. But climate dosh doesn’t grow on trees, and university scientists just lurve climate dosh.

Anyway all you need on Mars is a nuclear power station then you have as much rocket fuel as you want, after electrolyzing the abundant water ice. Biofuels on Mars are insane.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 28, 2021 12:27 pm

As Bruce Catton put it (paraphrased from memory), when Grant’s army came to a fork in the road, and turned south, his men knew that at last they had a general who would pursue the enemy and victory.

I remember reading that – his soldiers thought they would turn and march North, and Grant would join the list of generals that had faced Robert E Lee, and been defeated. Instead they turned South, and the cheering began..

calli
calli
October 28, 2021 12:29 pm

I’m intrigued. How are they going to grow biofuels on Mars?

John of Mel
John of Mel
October 28, 2021 12:35 pm

I’m intrigued. How are they going to grow biofuels on Mars?

Based on one popular movie starring Matt Damon, it requires a lot of faeces.
So they are going to move San-Francisco to Mars.

Zipster
Zipster
October 28, 2021 12:35 pm

Production Hell – Batwoman
The more we hear about the arguments, clashes, accidents and accusations going on behind the scenes of Batwoman, the more of a disaster this show seems to be. Join me as I delve deep into the murky world of the CW’s Batwoman.

P
P
October 28, 2021 12:41 pm

Not enough of the elderly dying with covid so they need to help it along.

Dying law is not delayed
By Marilyn Rodrigues -October 27, 2021

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 28, 2021 12:48 pm

I wonder what George Custer would think of all of this?

George would be too busy admiring himself in a mirror to notice.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 28, 2021 12:49 pm

People wonder why their genuine and real beefs with this shit state of affairs are labelled as tinfoil-ridden fantasies. Again, this quote holds water:

Hysterical activism is the greatest dead weight an otherwise noble cause can have.

I spent many years coping with the fantasies of my Sainted Mother. She had a fine intellect, sadly never educated nor developed much except by her own common sense which did creep in occasionally. She could be entertaining at times due to her tremendous capacity for imaginative converse with interesting beings from Ancient Egypt and elsewhere. This was during her good periods. In her less good periods, she became a dissociated zombie doing ‘automatic’ writing and travelling to ‘other worlds’ wandering the streets in her nightgown, clearly in need of care. After long periods of hospitalized psychiatric care and medication she eventually became capable of independent living, integrating her experiences into a form of Spiritualism which gave her a social group for afiliation and normal social life.

The molecular structures of the brain can gang awry. It happens. A stern sense of reality is necessary in observers when such people start to theorise in ways that matter and then organise politically. We all seek ways to ‘order’ reality, but stick to known areas under the curve and keep away from outliers is my take on it. In practical terms, keep it real. In any collectivity of adherents to a belief (scientific or otherwise), the ability, indeed tendency, to run off the rails of normality is always there.

Hence, always verify. And check the O rings. 🙂

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 12:51 pm

Pygmy piss pots.

Hazardous levels of alcohol consumption identified in African hunter-gatherer group (27 Oct)

The Mbendjele BaYaka are an Indigenous Congolese hunter-gatherer population, one of a number of “Pygmy” hunter-gatherer populations living in the rainforests of Central Africa.

In a new study published today in PLOS ONE, an international team of researchers present data demonstrating that the prevalence of hazardous alcohol consumption among transitioning hunter-gatherer populations such as the Mbendjele BaYaka is significantly higher than in other segments of the Congolese population, highlighting an urgent need for targeted public health interventions.

Send Twiggy. He’ll fix ’em.

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
October 28, 2021 12:52 pm

Hysterical activism is the greatest dead weight an otherwise noble cause can have.

Except when it works. I give you the two greatest scientific frauds ever perpertated: Global Warming and mRNA “vaccines”. Both achieved by hysterical activism.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 1:00 pm

Lizzie – Sorry to hear about your mum. My mum suffered mental illness last year, while looking after her I was losing a kilo a week just from stress. Very interesting how the brain works, both hers and mine. Fortunately mum has recovered and is in good shape now, able to live independently.

shatterzzz
October 28, 2021 1:01 pm

No matter how much I read on WW2 there is always something cropping up I’ve never come across ….

The last major German victory of any import was the Battle of Bautzen. It was an enormous tank battle involving over 1500 tanks. The Germans wiped out nearly two Guards armies. It was fought in April, 1945. The Battle to retake Lauban in April – May represented the last real blitzkrieg of the German Army where the Luftwaffe and the Wehrmacht operated in a co-ordinated fashion to retake the town of Lauban in Silesia, which they absolutely had to have since it was a major rail hub. The Germans took the town and held it to the surrender, allowing the coal mines to produce tens of thousands of tons of coal and send them into Germany right up until the end of the war.

Razey
Razey
October 28, 2021 1:08 pm

First time in history that the ineffectiveness of a medicine is being blamed on those who haven’t taken it Dr Robert Malone.

P
P
October 28, 2021 1:13 pm

Australia secures additional Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for 2022 and 2023
Media Release – 25 Jul 2021

“These additional doses further expands and strengthens Australia’s vaccine capacity,” Minister Hunt said.

More than 280 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have now been secured to support the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out.

“We’ve taken this step on advice from the expert Science and Industry Technical Advisory Group.”

280 million sounds like a lot of vaccines for Australia.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 28, 2021 1:14 pm

Morning walks of a morning can be epic. I can see this guy is a really serious morning walk walker.

La Palma island braces for more quakes as volcano roars on (27 Oct)

Erupting volcanoes certainly aren’t enough to stop really serious morning walk walkers.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 28, 2021 1:15 pm

I give you the two greatest scientific frauds ever perpertated: Global Warming and mRNA “vaccines”. Both achieved by hysterical activism.

I give you the original quote, which mentioned noble causes.

As the man said. A dead weight.

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