Well spotted Ceres.
Open Thread – Weekend 6 Nov 2021
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- From darkness to the promise of light
At this moment in time, Jasprit Bumrah is playing his 41st Test and is holding a bowling average of 19.94.…
How depressing: Australia (3-12) trail India by 521 runs after day three.
This is the WSJ but not paywalled. Also not what you’d expect.Decline and Fall of America? Not Yet Trump appears…
Janet Yellen departs from office — as she leaves a trail of mess behind her
Pol D?
In Good News Today news Love Island Australia has been bumped to a late night time slot. The program which “sees singles “hook-up” with each other in order to stay on the island and vie for $50,000 in prize money” is to be replaced with reruns of Paramedics.
If that doesn’t restore your faith in humanity you must be a heartless bastard.
Franx
Usually, it’s the Traditional Catholics who are onto things like Rosary processions etc because the novus ordo people don’t do things like that. I wish they would but they don’t seem to think it’s of value. Anyways, I usually post stuff here.
Coverage of protest on Nine. Tendentious but at least they covered it; the ABC gave it barely a moment’s notice.
I tried to go into the State Library of Victoria today to do some work, thinking – with everything else open to all – as it is for the time being (isn’t it?) – that I’d be able to go in there without impertinent questions being asked of me.
Not so. Signs well before you get to the door saying – in boppy “friendly” typeface and design – to have your vaccination credentials ready (ie or get lost).
So I went to Melbourne University’s library and a similar sight there; two functionaries sitting in the foyer at a table; no guns or weapons, but I got the message. Keep out – unless you’re prepared to tell us your medical history.
I came home.
Thanks, Dover. That footage has the shortened interview with Father M.
The ABC did want to, however, spend some time boasting about national vaccine coverage exceeding 80%. They pointed to the yeomens work of NSW and VIC compared to the other lagging states 20 pts behind. They completely ignore that the difference in coverage is the result of ruinous prolonged lockdowns in the leading states and the ultimatum that the only way out was getting vaxxed. They literally are the mouthpieces of power – mouths of Sauron.
We did a rough count and there were about 400 of us in the Rosary procession. Some even from Ballarat came done for the day.
We started out the front of the Cathedral. The gates were quickly locked to prevent any of us going in – not that any of us had that intention. We must have scared them because we were all carrying our Rosaries in plain sight. One of our lot got there earlier and wanted to go in to pray, but was stopped because she didn’t have a vax passport.
How long was the ABC news talking to one doctor in his office before they rushed through one minute on the protests (which they incidentally mischaracterised in the voice-over)? And how was that GP yakking on and on *news*?
When I first sat down at the computer this arvo (about an hour ago), newsdotcomdotau had a report on the Melbourne protest which simply stated upwards of a thousand protesters were carrying on.
I just went back to find the link and lo and behold — zilch. I wonder why? (I don’t really; rhetorical question.)
Gab, that is disgraceful. Those aren’t the actions of a shepherd.
Dover, it’s par for the course with all the bishops of Australia.
Mercifully, you don’t need one to be heard.
Calli
Take away everything, and people have nothing to lose.
Protest slogan from the 1960s/70s: “When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose.”
For poor ol’ St Ruth.
Standartenführer Schwab.
As Ven. Bishop Fulton Sheen predicted back in the 60s
Vlad, it was a shambles segment. The GP was a complete nong. The desperate, overwhelming need to boost the jab at every opportunity is beyond the pale.
Well, yes.
But I intend to snoff and sceer at Dan.
Also I have decided the time is right, because we now have a good chance of winning.
Here’s something else you might have difficulty digesting.
Stay with me here.
It is possible to be vaxxed and protest against mandatory vaccination.
I know, right?
The desperate, overwhelming need to boost the jab at every opportunity is beyond the pale.
Yes it’s verging on hysterical.
It is possible to be vaxxed and protest against mandatory vaccination.
I know, right?
Yes it is. Some people are very very pissed off at being forced to get it.
The crowd today would have Dan’s advisors shitting bricks because they are a broad cross-section of voters and impossible to neatly pigeon-hole and dismiss.
Unlike a BLM or Slime protest group?
Where’s this happening?
The Congo?
In Australia you might be asked to wear a mask to enter a shop.
How is that “taking away everything”?
Tendentious but at least they covered it; the ABC gave it barely a moment’s notice.
DB, it didn’t get a mention on ABC Sydney news, which I watched for the first time in a couple of years just to see whether there’d be a report. But nothing, nothing at all.
They can’t say it was just too far away from here to matter, or there was too many other important items to fit one more report in, because they had a kids’ climate march in Glasgow on, and a couple of weavers in northern NSW making a tartan for koalas possibly to fundraise for the marsupials. Important stuff, of course! /sarc.
JMH at 6:43.
Another factor is if Adem Somyurek decides to get off the fence and vote against Hunchback.
Theoretically, many things are possible.
In reality, if you’ve buckled the nut and got vaxxed, why would you care about the non compliant?*
* Saints and Holy Men excluded.
Good stuff on the Rittenhouse case from Liberal Hivemind.
Ed Casesays:
November 6, 2021 at 7:43 pm
Take away everything, and people have nothing to lose.
Where’s this happening?
The Congo?
In Australia you might be asked to wear a mask to enter a shop.
How is that “taking away everything”?
Rip van Case awakens from a two year long nap.
The cry of the expedient across the ages. Right up until the executioner showed up at their door.
Bwah ha ha ha ha.
Heard it from the other room.
“Coming up after the break. The AFL looking at scrapping a fitness measure because of body image issues”.
I straight away thought “That will be the skinfold test in the AWFL”.
What are they replacing it with?
A wobble test?
not a mong
An obsession with preposterous self indulgent trivia (BIRM) before a mighty fall.
The chinese must be laughing themselves stupid. Which is about our only hope, Obi Wan.
Spike Protein Goes to Nucleus and Impairs DNA Repair (In-Vitro Study)
Their 7:00 pm TV news spent all of 20 seconds on it.
Crowd estimated at “more than 1,000”.
If 200 turn up to an Extinction Rebellion protest it gets 4 minutes of solid sympathetic reporting.
As they did later in the bulletin for Greta’s dummy spit.
Perhaps.
“I complied but I don’t see why anyone else should so I’m marching in the street”.
Said no one, ever.
That would be me. I can’t even enter my local pub until I buy a new technology phone that can download data from the pig state’s Big Brother computer system (federal and state), which I need to prove I gave been double vaxxed (which I had done in September) to get the pig state’s new health passport.
The Turdburger former child really is a piece of work.
NSW covid presser:
Pandemic of the vaccinated.
Tommy – did you get into the pub the other night (for all the tasty red meat), or did fascism prevail?
For how much longer can this cognitive dissonance persist, I asks ya? 🙁
Mmmmm – yes. Then there is Victoria’s version of arcancide awaiting him if he does!
Tom.
You can get a hard copy which is supposed to work.
Until some bonehead door-stop says “gotta have da app”.
Late night FTA TV, Bond in Casino Royale.
After 11, one of those cinematic double-length ads that only come on when rates get cheap. I’d prefer cattle drench or auto wreckers, which I got in spades, but I defer… back to the new ad-
Kids dancing around, making the gay ScuMmo elbow-bump part of an innocently warmhearted dance routine. “That looks in no way unnatural or potentially a corked pre-teen tit away from tears”, I think. “Elbow-bumps are normal and dandy, and I can’t even remember how good used to be to fearlessly take a friend, or a stranger, by the hand any more.”
Rolls on, a multiculti sharehouse group is putting together a meal in the kitchen. Bloke is mature-age, five days overdue for a shave, overweight, wears a t-shirt underneath an untucked and unbuttoned short-sleeve shirt, keen but unco-ordinated. Girl, also mature-age, is pretty, trim, and competent with a wry smile and knowing deference. “She’s the one who knows the unitary operations of how to run a household, on behalf of her unemployable male housemate, probably after she gets home from work,” I note.
The kids skirt in from the trampoline, unclear what they’re up to in the student accommodation, assume they belong to the lady, the bloke doesn’t match. Two oldies come through, and I can immediately tell by their over-acting and auslan-interpreter-level gurning and arm-waving that they are either dementia ward escapees, or ethnic old folks from central casting.
“Aha”, I realise. “This is a completely normal and low-risk depiction of a family, easily digestible, which everyone can surely not be offended by.”
Kids are shown gleefully waving at each other over the fence as they co-ordinate their backyard trampoline bounces. “That’s normal- and it looks like even more FUN than a verbal, or physical interaction between neighbours!” I sigh, contentedly.
Ethnic Nonna is shown unwrapping a waist-high pyramid of, what, oh my god you guys didn’t- TOILET PAPER? Oh you’re a scream! Remember how silly we all were when we er just doubled, once or maybe twice at the most, our toilet paper buy? Oh ha ha ha ja ja, and like er just one or at the most maybe two people we saw on the news maybe doubled or at the absolute maximum tripled the amount of Softex they kept in the cupboard? Oooh ha ha ha ja ja ja, gee whiz they- but not us! were so silly back then with a rush on non-perishables, two or three times, four at the most. I’d almost forgotten actually, I’m sure the chicks down at Coles never twigged what you were up to buying all this stuff in the first place.
What, all the checkout chicks had “trainee” on their rainbow pride badges and didn’t know what they were doing? Oh, that’s unremarkable, and definitley touches on issues that are not really needed in this sort of ad.
What, but the robo-checkouts wouldn’t let you buy more than three packs at a time? Oh, that’s unremarkable, and definitley touches on issues that are not really needed in this sort of ad.
What, did you say Coles? Oh yeah! BAck to the ad.
(I’ve forgotten what type of narrative voice I was going for, but I’ll try to reset.)
An evening feast laid out on the table, and as the ad agency family box set settles in, at the end of it, a flatscreen touchscreen thing is set up.
“Oh, smart move”, I think. “Screens really bring a family together at mealtimes, who the hell ever needed a moment of grace before eating?”
The screen shows a couple with a babe in arms, the male birthing partner human wears a t-shirt under an untucked and unbuttoned short-sleeve shirt. “Nice threads, unshaven porky dad,” I note, “people with a young child are smart to keep lots of loose layers on hand, and I’m sure the extra washing will help to fill up the empty hours between feeds”.
The people on screen begin gurning and waving, like the ethnic granpeoples before them. “Oh!” I realise, “they’re using a new free video streaming service, to interact with the other actors from a different Local Government Area! What a blessing that the CCP generously traffic all the information on our behalf!” Something about the “one child” on screen and the Chinese nips at my consciousness, but I let it go.
Opa waves from his position of honour at the table end (I’m sure that it’s not an honour, and any resemblance to the family patriarch being given any position of honour is an unfortunate oversight that I’m sure will lead to the ad agency being thrashed on Gruen.).
He gets a bit teary and paws at a hand on his shoulder- which makes me rethink my impression that he’s not losing the plot in early stage Parkinson’s- “Oh, he’s obviously been touched by the generosity of Zoom, too. This sort of “virtual get-together” is completely normal, if not wonderous, if not The Light and The Way and The Future too!”
The camera pulls out and back and over the summer sunset suburban rooftops, in one last expensive cherry-picker shot. Or, it maybe was a drone shot, if they bought one before the chip supply dried up. Some graphics of nuts and berries wattle blooms (that’s funny, they’re a midwinter flower, I think)… are super-imposed in an ALMOST wreath-like surround…
The chummy voice of Curtis Stone says something soft-focus about togetherness… and however you celebrate… and we’re looking forward to… and it’s ALMOST like it’s a “goodwill to all men” vibe…
Some bullshit text about “Holiday Season Togetherness Family Celebration” are scripted, but they come with a sparkling wash of… Magicky… Ice- like… Snow-ish…
“AHA! I’ve cracked it!!! It’s all about CHRISTMAS DINNER!!!!” I rejoice. Well, I would rejoice, but that’s obviously a Eurocentric tradition, so I decide to Recognize instead.
I, for one, welcome our new atheist, corporatist overlords.
20/20 and the latter’s mystic powers are revoked – for the time being.
“It is possible to be vaxxed and protest against mandatory vaccination.”
As I am.
“welshgirl
@AGradisar
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Nov 5
Replying to
@ReddingtonAlice
This was from July. You have a 45s grab where he misspoke and actually *meant* that only one of the patients had ONE dose. Others in Hospital were unvaccinated. Here he corrects it at the 34 min mark. You are spreading disinformation.”
An English Rose – testing the limits of the Hot/Crazee Matrix. 😕
The hand of God: the decay of beauty quarks shows a new force in nature.
Anyone know whether Australian mask mandates affected the incidence of respiratory infections (other than Coviid)?
On FTA TV, I have just made an unsurprising discovery (having never watched all of the movies ever before).
No wonder children loved the Harry Potter books. There is zero “safety” and maximum risk, including broken noses, various horrible creatures and the distinct possibility of hideous death. Goodies, baddies and ones you’re not quite sure about.
Rowling clearly tapped into what children love.
Actually, If you listen carefully at the end where it’s cut off, he seems to be saying that the “unvaccinated” person has received one shot which, as far as I’m concerned, makes them all vaccinated.
The most horrifying thing about this is the age ranges because young people seriously ill from serious Covid were as rare as hen’s teeth before mass vaccination started. It is really a pandemic not just of the vaccinated but of the vaccines themselves.
Especially as not protesting means endless boosters and more and more vaccines being given to younger and younger children.
And that’s just covid. There will be calls for compulsory vaccination for everything within the next few months.
Damon – you may be better off conducting your own research, Squire. Face nappies are worse than useless and a physical assault on your person by big stupid government.
They are all about compliance and submission. The antithesis of anything logical.
Of course, none of this infuriating fascist idiocy ever was.
Rabz, the lounge staff let me into the pub on Thursday night when they went and found someone who knows me.
I can’t, in all good conscience, talk my way back in when the pub is being threatened with a fine of $100,000 for letting in the unvaxxed — which would force it to close.
It would take a couple of weeks to get a document from Medicare ny mail proving I have had the jab, but I can’t start that process until I have a phone that hasn’t been “obsolescenced” (my old iPhone5 won’t do — iPhone 6S minimum — a family member is express-posting one from interstate).
JK Rowling had a degree in English Literature, a masters on Spanish Literature and a generous EU-ordinated income from her Spanish divorce.
I’m not saying she’s undeserving, but just don’t believe the “lucky plucky single-mum scribbler” myth.
… by mail…
Wally, you’ll be pleased to know the only supermarket supervising “check in” here is Coles. The others can’t be bothered.
Hang on, we were told this was impossible even in vitro.
Rowling tapped into something, that’s all. Perhaps decades of sh*tty “children’s literature” of the most banal type had something to do with it.
Tom* – my sympathies, Squire. What a shituation.
We appear to have sleepwalked into tyranny.
What was that saying about one generation?
*We’ve had our differences in the past, usually over the most trivial matters, but I count you as a confrere, if that’s any consolation.
calli – seriously, rowling?
CS Lewis too ol’ fashioned for these modern kiddies?
And no, I’m not having a go at you for citing that mediocrity.
It’s also about maintaining fear.
Rabz, Lewis’ last Narnia book was published the year I was born. That’s a long time between drinks.
My comment was that I understand why children would like Rowling’s books. It wasn’t a comparative critique.
Not to mention being unable to interact with your fellow human beans.
The last twenty months have taken me (and no doubt all of you) by surprise. Can’t even remember what I was obsessed about in February 2020. Probably the next pair of adidas sneakers I was going to order online that I’d never wear and which would go straight into the Imelda Collection™.
Decadence. Really tops and extremely useful when fascism suddenly creeps up on and you slams a sledgehammer into your head. 🙁
Ex-England cricket captain Michael Vaughan has lost his job merely on an accusation of a trivial comment allegedly said 12 years ago.
The alleged comment (said to Paki team mates): “There are too many of you lot, we need to do something about it”. Vaughan vehemently denies it and no complaint was made at the time, but too bad. He’s sacked.
We live in truly insane times.
We’re all in this together, Rabz — except for those whose salaries we pay.
calli – sorry mate – I thought why on earth would they read rowling when there was an original and best that already existed.
But that’s just me, being a fuddy duddy (again).
Comensoli comes over as a mid level academic rather than a bishop. I think his main aim is to be invisible. He has never commented on any of the controversies during Francis’ pontificate, for example. He brought a new broom with him to Melbourne and used it to sweep away the previous clergy staffing the cathedral, replacing them with his own selection who are progressive and very much in the Francis mold. The spirit of intellectual and social snobbery accompanying all of this is why I avoid them. They seem to loath the church that St Mary McKillop knew and loved. Burning your old St Kevin’s blazer and denouncing sexism is where it’s at. As is burying media celebrities in a blaze of television lights for a State funeral.
‘Are You Communicating With Them?’: Tuberville Grills Fauci Over Current Research In China
Dover, photos and video of the Rosary procession on my twitter.
Apparently I am “gross and disgusting”.
Just for asking Mrs Panzer to lick the seal on an envelope before I posted it.
I took advantage of my freedom … 🙂
It was my bowel cancer test kit in the envelope … so there is that.
Although the chance of there being faecal matter on the seal is pretty low.
Far too many confreres on this blog.
More stoushing please.
Indolent, quite right. And soon the double-jabed will be referred to as the ”unvaxxed” until they get their 3rd shot … rinse , repeat for the 4th shot. Unless the jabbed refuse the ”boosters” nothing will return to normal.
And BTW, ”The Pandemic of the Vaccinated” is a stab (not jab) at Andrews because in his pressers he always said ”the pandemic of the unvaccinated”. So it’s not a swipe at anyone who’s submitted to the jab.
Rowling tapped into something, that’s all. Perhaps decades of sh*tty “children’s literature” of the most banal type had something to do with it.
I think that’s right. Whatever view one takes of the books (and I think they’ve got their good and bad points as literature) Rowling wasn’t doing what 99.9999999% of children’s authors have been doing for decades, which is delivering excruciatingly woke lectures with the merest veneer of actual storytelling.
It was my bowel cancer test kit in the envelope … so there is that.
Although the chance of there being faecal matter on the seal is pretty low.
I must say sending a turd to the government through the mail has its attractions.
“Please – which one is man with beard?”
“You are a hideous orangutan”
Happy Fiftieth, Peon! 🙂
I followed the instructions assiduously.
It said the sample should be no bigger than a small bag of rice.
Oh.
Actually, it says “grain of rice”.
Not “bag of rice”.
I guess they’ll sort it out.
Sangho. Next time don’t rub you bell end over the sticky bit before handing it too her.
At least not in front of her.
There needs to be lot more of this.
Watched Bert Newton: Let Me Entertain You, and at the end it brought back memories of 1953 with the Dear John letter.
Jean Shephard & Ferlin Husky “Dear John” – May 4, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyI01g6cSDg
Is it possible to make a turd bomb version?
Asking for a fiend.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O7J2izJ51Gw
Read the first three, they were ok. But the brilliance was to mesh the English public school ethnography with the study of magic. Eton with wands, and
rugbyquidditch. Fits like a glove when you think about it. Pratchett touches on this with his Unseen University.And yes I suspect the sort of stuff in school libraries at the time would’ve been dire. Teenage angst and sex. Worse now. It’s no wonder that kids fell in love with Harry Potter. They were actual fun stories.
I much prefer Tamora Pierce. Marvellous stories which can be read easily as an adult or as a teenager.
Damon says:
November 6, 2021 at 8:26 pm
Anyone know whether Australian mask mandates affected the incidence of respiratory infections (other than Coviid)?
Earlier in the year, I had 2 days doing some commissioning work on a rail maintenance machine and had to wear a mask.
Nett result was I wound up with chronic asthma – adequate treatment resolved this, to a point.
Germany’s COVID infections are now higher than ever. And the numbers keep growing.
That’s despite a relatively high vaccination rate. Almost 70 percent of Germans are fully vaccinated against the virus.
One of the main reasons are breakthrough infections – where the disease manages to bypass the jab.
The only consolation for the vaccinated is that severe illness is rare.
You know what’s funny.
We have a global supply chain problem and the Pomgolian left are blaming Brexit.
Obviously.
Another Damon, saying things, about a certain young woman …
Anything that gets a kid to read is ok in my book. No2 son wasn’t interested in reading until Mech Warrior 4 came out. I wouldn’t tell him what to do. Started reading, then he read Harry Potter. Still doing double degree in education when not working. Loves dealing with problem kids who other teachers can’t handle and the kids like him because he doesn’t put up with the bullshit the parents created. One of the teachers with delusions of grandeur asked the kids who was their favorite teacher? GreyRanga’s son. Why? He can do pull ups with his pinkies. What else? He can do push ups on two fingers. Anything else? He treats us like big kids, we are responsible. The parents love him too. We treated him the same way.
Nightwish
Just cease expounding and eat the tastee mushrooms, peoples …
You know you want to. 🙂
141 people in hospital only ONE who didn’t have the jab
This statement was from July 25 and was a misspeak by the health dude. It was corrected in the media 2 days later.
It does no good to perpetuate a falsehood…
And it still hasn’t come anywhere near close to equalling their monumental lies over the last 20 months.
But, yeah, let’s correct the record. False and broken as it is.
No I believe you’re confusing that with the July 25 report of 141 people who acquired covid but not hospitalised.
I’m sorry if I linked to something misleading.
This lady, however, most certainly has been vaccinated, to her permanent regret.
I’ve never heard it called the seal of an envelope before.
and truth rides a unicorn
I guess you could pressurise the little vials somehow so they spray an aerosol of eau-de-merde around when opened.
Thanks, Gabz.
So we’re now gifted with braindead bureaucrats from the Disasterstan Dept of Health attempting to school us on the extent of the bat flu lies we’ve been sprayed* with.
Get yourself a new pair of ears, son.
*eau-de-merde
Extraordinary video of that complete bastard biden speaking about afshitistan, how withdrawal should be done to safeguard, troops, people and equipment in 2007 in complete contradiction to what he did this year. This guy is evil: from 8 m 40 secs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF_3KKwZ6I0
Pratchett had an amazing sense of play and imagination with his multiple different conceptions of magic. The diversity, and implications, of “magic” through such different forms as explored in Sourcery, Equal Rites, Dragons!, Pyramids… (and I’ve culled that list, I could go into Mort and Maskerade too) as well as the general bog standard “Harry Potter” wands-and-words that the Wizards use (leavened by the general incompetence and corruption of the wizards themselves) showed that Pratchett had more imagination and originality in a single book than most authors display in their lifetime.
The antithesis of Panzer’s eau-de-merde …
A man, a goil, a convertible, a Saturday night, a club, etc … 🙂
FFS.
The fifth comment at the link says it was a reversal of the numbers which was corrected later on in the same video.
Is it too much to ask to scan comments as a bullshit filter?
I watched it in full, not just the grab. Later on, prompted by a media acolyte, he comes back to say he ”misspoke” (yeah, that old chestnut beloved by all bureaucrats and politicians). But he only mentions those in ICU not being vaccinated. So the other 98 in hospital? Were vaxxed or not? Move along, nothing to see here.
The Philippines recognize 2021 as the 500’th anniversary of the introduction of Christianity to their Island chain.
Noo Joisey experiences, part two:
Mid May 1993. Two Ozzee wallees drop into a hotel in NJ after a long day’s driving. A room is booked and one of them takes the ford out to grab some beer. After all, a purveyor of alcoholic beverages can’t be that far way, right?
Wrong. Twenty minutes later on the turnpike, furiously and pointlessly yelling at the Jersey Barriers, a service station is finally seen.
Drop into the service station. No petrol, as it isn’t needed. Alcohol is. Walk into the shop, grab a six of Elephant Beer*. Approach the counter, with two typical Noo Joisey wallies behind it, excitedly discussing the latest Goose Springsteen release.
Me, “just the beers, thanks – do you have any ice?”
Noo Joisey wally: “Asse?”
Me: “Ice”
NJW: “Asse?”
Me: “Frozen water”
NJW: “Asse! – yeah we got some of that, just go get you some”
Sheesh – and then another twenty interminable minutes on the turnpike.
But those Elephelants did finally taste grate. 🙂
*Or Malt Liquor, as it was known as back then
I got myself double waxed some years ago for a bet. No way I’m going through that again
Oops. That is unfortunate.
Oops. That is unfortunate.
Vaxed at Bunnings?
I hope they survive and sue them.
Ook!
#Don’tUpsetTheLibrarian
Vaccinated at a “pop-up clinic” outside Bunnings, and a free sausage in a bun with every vaccination….
Dodgy sausage.
Anyone know whether Australian mask mandates affected the incidence of respiratory infections (other than Coviid)?
The 1919 Flu epidemic ran in parallel with a bacterial pneumonia epidemic, facilitated by mask wearing.
Let’s Go Malcolm Rudd!
Well, brilliant- that’s my local hardware superwarehouse, so I’ll troll them at every opportunity.
I used to turn out the snaggers and cans for the soccer club there- until the spamdemic scotched that gig. Using the shade of the behemoth to flog fundraisers never sat too well with me- and it wasn’t just the overweight locals tucking in at 9 AM. I was just thinking about it earlier pre page turn when calli mentioned Coles non-compliance- when Bunnings and K-Mart were the only operators during earlier lockdowns, they had a full nazi Karen with insecurity epaulettes monstering everyone to sign in. Now they’re back to fifteen-y-o’s smiling hello and looking like rabbits when 3/4 of the shoppers stroll right on past the checkpoint. They’re all but screaming for staff, like every second shop which might still be open.
Come to think of it, one of my extended in-laws is SW manager for Bunnings- I must remember to call him a bald-headed wog flog next time we cross paths.
Joe Spagnolo was one of Western Australia’s top investigative journalists. What happened?
Gab
Thanks.
If you look at these two graphs from Sweden here and here, the decline in efficacy re symptomatic cases is only more pronounced then the decline in efficacy re severity. By the 7th month, when your protection re the former is the same as an unvaxxed person, your protection from severe disease is at 35% compared to unvaxxed person. Then you have to factor in that everyone vaccinated thus far is likely to imprinted from herein with a one trick pony immune response that cannot be augmented by future vaccinations while having to face the prospect that mass vaccinations while the virus is in full bloom makes the likelihood of better variants emerging all the more likely and they are likely to exploit or work around the spike protein focus of the vaccine.
“It’s an Australian thing to do, come to Bunnings on the weekend and get a sausage,” clinical nurse Kirrilly Owen said.
“And this weekend, they can also get a jab.”
What aisle is the Zyklon B in again?
Apart from everything?
Spagnolo: Obviously a personage of Italiano (dodgy) background*
Western Australia: A large place that continues to redefine irredeemable idiocy and irrelevance
Investigative journalists: A concept so absurd it doesn’t even warrant debunking
What happened? Peoples stopped utilising their brains
*Disclaimer – I have an Italiano surname
How much money do taxpayers give to MSM?
Not forgetting that Facebook shut down gubbmint accounts and ex- copper Peter Dutton resolved that impasse.
Are we not glaad?
All this hitlerist idiocy makes me want to check in for a very Big Sleep …
Hopefully to awake when it is finally all over. 🙂
This song – the sparseness. Savour it, peoples.
Suppressed Stench Gun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqCKxHhjrn4
This one’s for Top Ender – comment, from a story in the Oz, on the submarine saga.
Thanks Squire. Consider yourself off my Christmas card list.
There will be no discrimination on my aircraft!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te_xIzQE0hc
ZK2A – you’ll live, Squire. 🙂
Dickhead Dan, world famous for being a Dickhead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lDDC-WH4pA
Sliante!
The Farlowe, letting it loose …
Those mod chicks, phwooaaarrr … 🙂
I have the modern version of The Drover’s Wife staying next door at the motel.
She is lean, brown and comes from a town which I won’t identify but it is in rural NSW.
She has straight, stringy iron grey hair, and wears floral dresses and elastic sided boots with short socks, or thongs.
She is here to visit her sons, who live and work in Canberra. We got off to a bad start when she complained about me smoking (outside) anywhere near her. But my soft answer turned away her wrath, and we are now on acceptable terms.
When I see this vision tramping across the carpark – bright floral dress, boots, and stringy grey hair, I can’t help thinking of The Drover’s Wife. She is tough, and doesn’t give a damn what anyone thinks.
More pure Mod – white Levis’ stoves, desert boots, tactical turtle necks, shades (after midnight) and clanging Rickenbackers … 🙂
Joh – think of it (and her) as entertainment.
The bitterest pill is hard to swallow … 🙁
Nein news crowing about the wonderful supervax! weekend at Bunningses.
Notably empty tents in the shots shown.
Nothing about any adverse events. Must have been just a worthless Busselona derro in for the free feed, then.
Talking to an old bird who says there are two hundred women sleeping in cars around Busso-Duns-Margaret River. I trust her, her own daughter’s been to the dark side, but allowing for drama I’d put it at one hundred. The public housing program has been choked by short supply, and hamstrung by eviction moratorium.
This is why the MSM – and the likes of Maximum Leader – feel free to dismiss opposition to vaccination overreach as the frothing of people deluded by internet loopers.
Not helpful.
No wonder Vietnamese people fled whenever they could. Despite all the tourism dollars and some modernisation of industry, they are still very poor, while the fat cats gorge:
Meet the new boss …
Actually, I’ve had a shit day.
11-y-o wants to know why the Carnavon kidnapper had a collection of Bratz doll stuff. I tried to fob her off about how all sorts of people get obsessed with collecting on all sorts of themes, like her sister’s pugs and her dad’s guitars. I know and she knows that’s not the real answer and no wonder she finds the idea disturbing, and I’m a little pissed off at the news media for putting both this sort of disturbing deviant diversity into the normal sphere in the first place, as a new normal, and then drip-feeding the evidence when it’s an obvious elent of the slo-mo train wreck our society is going through.
And than, I think I’ve seriously put my foot in it with a dear old mate, with my line about Busso derros coming to Bunnings jabfest for a free feed (on an off-Cat forum). His own brother is a visible local derro, after drug-induced psychotic episode at 20ish.
Anyway, bad taste in my mouth.
As Muddy would say, stick around, all of you. We need you all to fight the good fight.
Wally,
I found out if you have no mates you don’t have to worry about small gaffes like that.
Oh, and the world’s best dog has had his kneecap stitches tear through, so we’ll have to open him up again and get the ligaments lined up again. Not that he’s downhearted at all, it’s just I know I squibbed the rest period rehab because I kidded myself that he was flexible and indestructible.
I can find the funds, and it’s an inside job at the vet’s… but I am sad that he might lose some of his spark if he’s chained up for another fortnight.
Laura Tingle’s Scott Morrison obsession continues to manifest itself:
Morrison returns from Glasgow a significantly reduced figure on the domestic and international stage
Laura. Stop for a minute. Look, I get it – you really don’t like the guy. I’m not a huge fan, either. But all of these weekly columns in which you vent your Morro hatred…it’s not healthy to hate someone as much as you seem to. I think you ought to get help to work on ameliorating whatever it is that drives you to endlessly produce these anti-Morro screeds.
Miss A, you sound like my wife… but she’s worried from the other side of the equation, that I’m burning friendships because I politely won’t concede any bullshit from woolly-headed pinkos, which is 99% of everyone we know.
I recently discovered Norm MacDonald… I’m going to aim for that level of reckless riffing, especially the wicked comeback just when you think a subject has been swept under the carpet.
Old mate will forgive me, it’s probably going to be a bit raw for a week or two.
I’m actually non-confrontational, and always thorough in backgrounding my jibes and erring on the side of the ridiculous, as distinct from ridicule.
Benghazi and Afghanistan. Are Obama and the Clintons using Biden as a front to take the hate . Where is Dr Jill? It seems impossible that Americans knowingly let their president walk the world stage as a poltroon.
I’d noticed Dr Jill’s absence…. I think that the lizard handlers were keen to avoid any photo op with France and the U.S.’s first couples.
Because it would look like Macron had married his babysitter, next to Biden, who did marry his babysitter.
But France’s first totty is an ex-teacher who looks like yesterday’s rotisserie chook, and makes their prez look like a school prefect with fake hair… and the America’s First Dr Mom is a fake teacher who looks like a nurse with her dementia patient.
MiltonF:
Shoosh. They’ve discovered the Mutant Space Goat is coming. The Vaksine is to ward off the bacteria in its droppings.
…or something.
rickw:
Suppressed Stench Gun:
Now that’s an impressingly quiet Sten.
Silent But Deadly
CDC Emails: Our Definition of Vaccine is “Problematic”
https://technofog.substack.com/p/cdc-emails-our-definition-of-vaccine?justPublished=true
Week In Pictures.
qantas takes 500,000 domestic bookings
Novavax currently trialing a flu covid vaxx in Australia
novavax update from motley fool
some more gloom and doom
‘You Are Interrupting Me’: Ted Cruz And Bob Menendez Clash During Fiery Congressional Hearing
British Medical Journal vaccine trial report
Dr. John Campbell
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Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial,
Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company
nuts
these nuts
GOP Senator Grills Fauci On Wuhan Lab, COVID-19 Origins Following Rand Paul Clash
Complete exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci
You could have 5 million at your Melbourne protest and it will do nothing.
Not anymore.
You do not live in a democracy anymore.
The idiocy of saying I complied with tyranny to help it establish itself and now I’ll go out and protest about it should be obvious.
The sneering against me continues here because I hold a mirror up to those who want their attitudes over the last nearly two years forgotten.
Dick heads who , with fear in their hearts ,not only did nothing but actually mocked and criticized those that wanted to.
I and a few others here were derided as conspiracy theorists for pointing out right from the start what this was about and who was doing it.
The truth was smacking you in the face in February last year.
I was smacking you with it but you would rather scoff and shoot the messenger.
Now, after two years of compliance and hysterics when you had the benefit of right wingers actually linking you to event 201, and scoffing while being shown what Klaus Schwab was saying and doing, that right from the start the figures out of Italy were bullshit……with all the facts presented to you….all of the overwhelming evidence….others had not known, you scoffed and complied.
They’d never bring in a passport you said.
And now after already suffering more tyranny than anyone in the western world through compliance……after all you may have got a fine…..I come on here and at this stage of the game people are patting themselves on the back for attending a peaceful rally as if democracy still exists.
And you wonder why my tolerance level might be a bit low after the last two years.
nsw surveillance reports
Queenslanders; tolerating the intolerable while everyone else prances around as though nothing is happening.
Loved that Chris Farlowe song that someone posted earlier, it’s a pity that he had such a smug, sort of school bully face. Dunno if he was like that in real life, still a great song and I love the girls in the clip.
Those nuts:
Clearly you don’t. Otherwise you’d leave them alone to make their own medical decisions.
Mendacious halfwits.
Get yourself some watercolours Johanna, cheap as. You’re already seeing the Drovers Wife like most never will. Get the image down, remember its what you see, not a photo.
I must have missed something. There is a story about Biden’s daughter’s diaries?
Thankx for week in pictures too, Tom.
That’s right.
The people doing this to you and me and everyone in the western world are concerned you might vote them out when they either except the cash or lose their lives like the Presidents of other countries who didn’t accept the introduction of the New World order.
The NSW Premier just magically changed his mind on what freedom actually means.
His family would never be threatened.
But that’s ok.
You’re going to fix this all up by voting.
Just like the USA.
What did really knock Gladys off the perch?
Did anyone notice that just days before she talk of releasing the unvaxxed.
She was taken off faster than a brides’s nightie.
It’s way past the time to start questioning why you prefer denialism which leads the straight talkers to be derided as conspiracy theorists?
Does the message need to come from someone else you deem more of your superior class?
From what I have witnessed in the last two years, employment status and where people live are the deciding factors as to whether or not they should be seen or heard.
And Frank is the worst with that attitude but he’s not alone.
Imagine right now, after all this, some Victorians still attempt to snigger at those from other states.
Really? !
Personally, I snigger at a worthless whiny piece of shit like you going for the ethnic slur at the first sign of disagreement. And the thing that really gets me is that it’s you, a lowrent Queensland redneck with a computer posting crap over the web. Now go make the bread deliveries.
And by the way Struth, no one knows or gives a shit about what you’re complaining about anymore. You’ve been whining non-stop for years now. If you’re so depressed and it appears you are, go get a prescription.
I watched an ad last night about holidaying in Queensland, featuring the GBR, natch. The New Broom and family have something booked early next year in FNQ.
So I had a look at Qld Health and border crossing. To my dismay, all of NSW is considered a “hot spot” regardless of where you live. Now there is talk from the premier that 90% will have to be vaxxed prior to opening up. I don’t see that happening.
Either she will have to walk that back, or Queensland hold outs are in for a world of pain, just like Victorians.
US 5th Circuit Appeals Court Halts Biden Employer Vaccine Mandate “Pending Further Action By This Court”.
The court stay freezes the requirement that all businesses with at least 100 employees require vaccination or weekly testing.
The order directs the Biden administration to respond to the request for a permanent injunction against the rule by 5 p.m. Monday.
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah are among the plaintiffs contesting the legality of the federal vaccination mandate, which has created an uproar among Republican politicians across the country, with more than half of all US states filing or joining lawsuits in opposition.
A page from the “diary”, Lizzie.
If this is true….*shudder*.
We’ll see.
And notaclue again immediately proves my point.
The dumbest most hysterical poster here in the last two years.
Been wrong on everything.
Then tries to pretend it never happened.
Classic case.
Remember Italy….
It All set her off.
She bought the bull shit lock stock and barrel.
If it’s from the government it’s gospel according to this dunderhead, and all the while being shown the truth by calm right wingers.
She was having none of it.
The very definition of hysterical.
And then that bastard struth keeps rubbing her nose in it.
Anyone who has witnessed the last two years here, and was of reasonable capacity would know why.
Nothing proves your point because you don’t appreciate the difference between “proof” and “assertion”, you loudmouth, know nothing redneck.
LOl. Except that’s all youve done here for the past two years.
Nothing happened except having to endure your laughable bullshit.
What an insane word salad. Go make your bread deliveries FFS. People are waiting.
And then JC does as well.
Parochial , chip on their shoulder Victorians.
I’m not winging JC.
I’ve just been pointing out the bleeding obvious for two years.
It doesn’t sit well with some.
Don’t take your anger at your own capitulation and the constant thought in the back of your mind that it’s probably going to kill you shortly , on others.
Very low class.
Oh it’s true. The FBI raided a couple Veritas offices to find evidence on who “stole” it.
Note – It was never reported stolen. It just got published (not by Veritas).
Struth, we’re not living in the Belgian Congo, mate.
Get a grip.
Meanwhile, remember Vioxx?
Here’s the story:
https://www.creators.com/read/alexander-cockburn/04/12/when-half-a-million-americans-died-and-nobody-noticed
The FBI have just raided James O’Keefe’s (Project Veritas) in relation to Biden’s daughter’s diary. Showing the same judgement as her brother, apparently she left it somewhere and it was found. Someone (I don’t know who) published it but it didn’t make too many waves (e.g. hardly anyone here has heard of it). Apparently Project Veritas had it at some point but didn’t publish because it could not be verified …
… until now.
Oh dear JC.
Just abuse?
No facts?
I can do facts all day .
But the one above is a fact.
I’ll repeat it.
Notafan lost her shit after swallowing the Italian propaganda As fact.
It has been proven bullshit when they admitted it last year.
I kept trying to tell her it was bullshit and I was called all sorts of things for it.
JC you took the jab.
No need to lash out at everybody.
Especially the bloke that was telling you not to and showing you how dangerous it was.
Hey but then again, why listen to a Queenslander?
Zatara, it won’t go anywhere. He’s protected.
It looks as if the entire family is completely messed up.
And they had the hide to home in on Trump’s kids.
With the help of the embittered self loathing death jab capitulators proving my point….my work here is done.
Ted Cruz Accuses Biden Of ‘Outright Lying’ On Senate Floor
Biden’s surviving daughter made some disturbing claims about growing up with Joe in da house.
Trump’s niece also claimed that The Donald is a total arsehole, a claim partially confirmed by at leasy one of his sisters.
I’ll miss Joe, he’s given us Nuclear Submarines, something no other Administration would consider.
Scotty also deserves high praise for his Sub work and hilarious Trolling of the King of France.
What? Where?
@Rabz:
“Big Sleep”?
I prefer the one featuring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-K49CUaeto
Well, in 20 years time at the ealiest.
But it’s still a huge backflip from the previouis position which was:
Australia is not allowed Nuclear Submarines.
So, if you’re a fan of Nuke Subs, Joe is the greatest President of all time [from Australia’s point of view].
At least one did, and that took 2 minutes with a search engine to find.
US Ambassador suggests nuclear submarine sale to Australia (2012)
Former Sheriff and current U.S. Congressman Clay Higgins.
Stand Your Ground
Ugh, Calli. Reading that makes all the little girl hair-sniffing even worse.
The overall sense I get is of a fairly toxic sexualised familial culture imbued with the leftist free-for-all that was the 70’s and 80’s when ‘at home’ in urban enclaves. Think little Samantha Knight, at its extreme. The Hewett girls too have come out speaking about how they were drawn into this sort of early sexualisation via their literary mother, with a similar (but worse) testimony to the musings in this diary – if it is real. The provenance of course will always be disputed now that it’s out.
Thankfully, Hairy and I had deliberately moved to the staidest of suburbs by the early 80’s to offer our four children a normal childhood of disciplined schoools, regular sports, learning music, and doing homework with the adults in their ambit being responsible rather than intrusive or at worst, dissolute.
Not to mention the cavalcade of fat vile amoral toads that preyed on them.
There’s a fantastic piece in Quadrant on the differences between Sydney and Melbourne, including the history of various anti-establishment movements that were rendered utterly irrelevant by the counter cultural revolution of the sixties and seventies. A veritable rogues gallery.
ABL on Ashley Biden’s diary.
Basically the raids on Project Veritas confirm that it’s real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9m0KB46D8&t=134s
I haven’t been to a protest for some time …if ever. I was curious about the crowd…Why do so many people have tambourines? Where do they get them from? Are they supplied specifically for the protest ? Or is the protest full of junior school music teachers?
Reminded me of the old joke:
What’s the difference between a tambourine and a trampoline?
You take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline.
That’s not to say that the staid suburbs were free from sleazy attitudes within families, or subtle cover ups of it, but the risk was definitely less. Hairy and I sent our little son aged 8 to the local Scouts as the hall was a stone’s throw from our new home, and we sat in on some management meetings to check it out as well as to help. We never felt that anything was amiss there and the activities really helped our son who was a shy little boy. My two boys from my first marriage, with their father still an inner-city leftie, were scathing of Scouts, but they did well at local suburban sports especially when Hairy was coaching their teams and keeping them up to the mark on attending practices. These inputs wouldn’t have happened in the inner suburbs at that time amongst the leftist crowd that we knew there before leaving. As soon as we had children, Hairy was determined to give them all the advantages of an upper middle class conservative upbringing; the one he had.
Sleepy Joe tried on his well worn line “you know & I know blah blah blah, but try explaining that to the people out there” again with regards to supply chain issues.
He did it at the Clarence Thomas hearings & was shown to be a poorly read fool.
Thirty years later, he’s still trying it on.
“The truth was smacking you in the face in February last year.”
Wrong Struth, you’re not Nostradamus. The truth wasn’t smacking me in the face last February….and it most certainly wasn’t smacking you either. February 2020 was before lockdowns. Nobody knew much about the virus. I didn’t think back in February 2020 that we were going to be locked down for three months in 2020 and then for over five months in 2021. And remember, I’m here in Sydney and we didn’t suffer like those in Victoria…and you Queenslanders have really not endured much at all.
Back in February 2020 I was concerned about the virus, primarily because I didn’t know much about it. However I was not hysterical with fear. I don’t recall anyone here on the Cat being hysterical…not me, not Lizzie, not Rosie. Some were concerned, some blithely disputed its existence, some said….like you….that it was merely a flu. Back in Feb/March 2020 I experienced moments of all three. Whilst I believe the virus to be real and to be dangerous to certain segments of the population, I do think a far worse contagion than “Wuhan flu” was deliberately cultivated by governments….that was and is a contagion of fear because it suits particular ideological narratives. I also believe lockdowns have been used as a dress rehearsal for climate lockdowns and espousing such a belief doesn’t make me a conspiracy merchant.
For the record, I don’t believe in lockdowns, I question their efficacy. The social and economic damage from lockdowns far outweigh any damage from the virus. I think we should have dealt with the virus by looking after those most at risk….the elderly….and we should have gotten on with our lives. For the record, I’ve never been “scared” of the virus….not for me personally however like many I was worried about my elderly parents. I decided to get vaccinated for personal reasons…..all which I’ve outlined here on the Cat before and all of which I’m not going to repeat. I’ll just say again that I don’t believe in mandatory vaccinations and I most certainly don’t believe in “vaccine passports”.
Anyway, what are you worried about? According to some, because I’ve been jabbed I’ll be dead in two years and you’ll have the world to yourself. But I reckon you’ll miss me!
As evil as the Obama administration was as a whole, they at least had some technically competent people in a few roles.
This Biden administration is full of staffers from the Obama-Biden time who just spent 4 years on K-Street during the Trump years.
They are really incompetent & all culture warriors (not the good kind).
Absolutely brilliant. The only thing that spoils it is the dystopian masks.
Watch out Cassie!
You don’t want to be accused of henpecking dumb Queenslanders.
“Think little Samantha Knight, at its extreme.”
Correct Lizzie, Samantha Knight’s mother was extremely negligent. She exposed her daughter to danger.
Of course, Joe may not have realised thaty he was offering Scotty Nuclear Subs at the time, he may have been asking Scotty to pass the salt shaker, but the point is, it’s too late to back out now.
Even Joe wouldn’t be dumb enough to welsh on a promise to Scott.