The modern political class Vain, haughty and brazenly disdainful of working people – we now know what wokeness in power…
Open Thread- Mon 8 Nov 2021
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On Gaza https://twitter.com/afalkhatib/status/1783984923440996615?t=kIaHvL0P5e8Te-1mSRU7Tg&s=19
Moreon ‘I’m a professor’ https://twitter.com/HeidiBachram/status/1784149052310860262?t=KvZFWBt8mOVbsU64SmyN6g&s=19
Interesting thread on the islamification of Indonesia https://twitter.com/haravayin_hogh/status/1784071557910008046?t=RitqsrUoNYALp1m-nquvrA&s=19
Mintox! Men At Work – Be Good Johnny (Live, US Festival, 1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB3t7jFmgUE
If they insist I choose Jedi master Dexter, Rex.
Miss A,
That’s why voting below the line is the only way to go.
“The LDP may have attracted some well known candidates. Doesn’t mean I approve of them. Their libertarian credentials are nonexistent. They are grifters.”
They’re not grifters.
My preferred pronoun is M’Lord.
Oh, I see, only a “temporary” Unpersoning of “The Wrong Thinker”, and just “in fun”, just “joking”, just so everyone can have a laugh, at “The Wrong Thinker’s” expense, so that makes it, that makes YOU, all alright … one of “The Personed”.
You think corrupt Govts are good at numbers games so it’s safe to play on their teams.
How many times does history have to teach us that God Wins and does it against massive numbers.
JC,
I meant the well known ones. I’ll pick who I vote for.
What was all that, Lady Bird?
A prepackaged denouncement you’ve had sitting on a Clipboard for a few years, waiting for the right opportunity to engage in a little Copy/Paste action?
If an obnoxious arsehole acts like an obnoxious arsehole and deliberately upsets all his neighbours, Lady Bird, did you just say that it is not OK to respond to (or worse, check) that obnoxious arseholery because the obnoxious arsehole is on the ‘right’ side?
Is that not what the Left says any time one of its obnoxious arseholes gets checked?
Did you think about any of this first before posting, Lady Bird?
I dreamt about Mr Darcy.
Which one, there are so many? You can’t have Matthew Macfadyen, he’s spoken for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APGjJO3e1Zg
Too right Rex the things those guys built by hand before explosives were relatively safe.
JC,
And I had many a drink with David when the meetings where in Drummoyne..
Doesn’t make what I said untrue.
Don’t be silly, ok?
Does “your excellency” work?
From 28 names of abusers down to “some of” the list.
Well that’s a good start in the backflip stakes but your coach would say can do better.
I would have thought any ship named after a sailor would have a question mark about being good with colours and soft furnishings.
Kneelsays:
November 8, 2021 at 4:27 pm
Kneel, no-one normally wants to do anything that they disagree with but that doesn’t mean that they won’t finally comply. These are rational choices(?) that we’re all having to deal with, as you point out.
Some of those choices are not really choices: people need to work to live, to pay bills, to respond to the needs of their families. And even if their choices really are choices, like, for example, whether or not to travel – to be free – that is still, for them, reason enough.
I don’t think people should be singled out one way or another for making their own choices, especially when it’s the government that is doing that. But on both sides of this “debate” – is there a debate when government mandates something? – are a a fair number of well-meaning as well as unrelenting protagonists. In the middle are most everyone else who are just trying to find a way.
I do feel sorry for anyone who has been made to do something as basic as is a medical procedure, especially when it’s the young who by any measure do not need to worry about the risk of the China Pestilence to their health. More than anything, however, I can’t believe – I am astounded – that our government, a government of a democratic country is forcing on its citizens, mostly against their will, something that they do not want. And this is something that must be stopped, must be stood up against by all citizens if this country is to remain free and democratic.
Thanks for posting, Top Ender. Laughed out loud.
Duchess of Cornwall on Biden Farting at Climate Summit — ‘Long and Loud and Impossible to Ignore’
It’s not the start of a fart with Biden that’s the concern, it’s how they end.
And 150+ year-old iron(!) and stone bridges that now take daily loads exponentially greater than those envisioned when the drawings were made, and so on.
I laughed.
Thank you.
I have seen some non sequiturs in my time but that one is the clubhouse leader.
“I believe there is a political movement afoot to influence international politics, therefore these people are probably peterfiles”.
Some questions:-
Got many assets to your name judge?
How much can you afford to pay?
Have you read the latest from the HC judgement on liability for publication of defamation?
Oh, and have you been a cunt all your life?
cohenitesays:
November 8, 2021 at 4:48 pm
I dreamt about Mr Darcy.
Which one, there are so many? You can’t have Matthew Macfadyen, he’s spoken for:
cohenite, that film imho was utter crap. From Elizabeth running about a “foreign” county a night on her own possibly coming upon footpads, to the “downgrading” of the Bennett family almost to yeomen farmers with pigs running around the yard and the untidiness of their house, garden, girls etc – why would Mr Darcy seek to involve himself “with such a family?” There, I sympathised with Lady Catherine.
There is only ONE Mr Darcy and ONE Miss Elizabeth Bennett – apart from my own depiction of both while reading the novel – and that is the one in the series. All Hail, Colin Firth.
#LetsGoPrrrraaaaaaap
The Queensssland protests.
Will there be trucks?
Or, failing that, smallish death-gluten delivery vehicles?
Well, I rather liked the Macfayden “Darcy”. Ditto the dishy Firth.
Dreaming of Mr Darcy – one of those stupid “that can’t be right” catalogue style dreams. There was a Mr Darcy somewhere in between the two, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember the actor’s name. So, being intrigued, I googled it with my morning coffee. Nope. None.
And then I went off to the dentist. Which probably explains my troubled slumbers. 😀
Baker’s Delight and in uniform too.
Can’t seem to find Dover’s explanation, has Arks had some sort of episode? Or is he, to coin a phrase, just being “a truculent ol’ bastard”?
Tommy Robinson –
Thousands of frontline workers on the gold coast, Australia today against covid mandates, support them
Look, some of Lleyenholm’s stuff used to frustrate me but, on balance, he wasn’t bad value.
Also, I liked the grittyness of the Knightly/Macfayden P&P. Plenty of dirt and muck and mud and grubby clothes.
Which was just as it was back then. A distinct lack of Sards and personal hygiene. Of course, their teeth were all too good, which was a dead giveaway.
And that leads me back to my dentist!
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
? Samuel Adams
OK.
Someone has had a chat with me offline about it.
I withdraw my previous remarks about thin-skinned fragility or whatever I said.
If running comment free threads helps him deal with the world at the moment I am OK with that.
Actually, maybe the Furniture Store could be his safe space. No-one comments on anything over there.
(Joking!!!).
Senator Amanda Stoker on Kenny (after being on The McGregor Angle on Friday night) discussing the border closures. She said we’re getting to the point where the border closures are an unconstitutional breach of the free movement stuff. But, importantly, for her it is citizens and businesses who are driving a change – presumably she’s referring to the possibility of Flight Centre (and others) challenging the borders in the HC.
Kenny asked her whether the government should support any challenge. Her answer: it’s difficult for government to show how the community is hurt by these closures [edit: WTF]. But went on to say that the government is holding up its side of the deal – the deal that was struck with the state premiers.
Where’s the ballot paper?
Youngkin and Winsome Sears in Virginia seems like the real deal.
I’d like to see Trump get back in and close down every race baiting demorat supporting media orifice. I mean after they lied through their teeth about the Russia hoax for 4 years I think he’d have good grounds of national interest for doing so.
Oh we’re into deep and meaningful quotes now.
Anon.
Yet again Rex Anger says absolutely nothing of any value to anyone BUT HIMSELF.
Constantly, desperately sucking up to the rest of the angry, empty head kickers with yet another, “Look, I can lie about the unpersoned to!”, bit of BS, so they don’t forget he’s a fellow head kicker, not a kickee.
Also, why do expect anyone to trust you on anything when you specialise in angry, abusive, lies designed to cover the arse of UN/Globalist Govt Agenda pushers –
This isn’t even a secret, it was bragged about by Govt, but ranting Rex somehow needs people to believe that if it did happen, it’s ‘All Good’ … smh … at every ‘mate’ of Rex’s who hasn’t taken him out the back for a bit of ‘Russian Pool’ for so badly letting The Team down –
Australia: Unprecedented surveillance bill rushed through parliament in 24 hours.
Australian police can now hack your device, collect or delete your data, take over your social media accounts.
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/australia-surveillance-bill/
BTW, what’s the good of stopping Daniel Andrews Hitler-esque Bill when he can just have any ‘damnable’ shit planted on the computers of everyone who still dares oppose him, you know, like that slug was planted …
Thank you. And a whisky chaser please.
Darwin “lockout” extended by another 24 hours. Katherine NT to emerge from lockdown to join in.
As much as I loved the dude, no- the GOP needs to find another with same level of determination and brutality but with a more civil steady demeanor. To stay the distance and not flame out.
A group of Bakers Delight vans in vee formation leading the march!
Wow!
The convoy of carbohydrates.
Be still my beating heart!
My unvax’d sperm is available. At a premium, of course!
If NO ONE could sign it I wouldn’t have to point out that because some can’t sign it after a number of attempts & others not at all, that that would mean that the recorded numbers are very likely well short of the numbers who want to be counted Against The Bill.
As it is, instead we have the situation that a whole bunch of cats (and no doubt others elsewhere), are trying to convince people that those pathetically tiny numbers are a true count of those who care to have The Bill Stopped.
You’re particularly angry today. USSR. WTF is the matter? Just settle down and stop blabbering insane talk.
Struth in uniform – the early years.
On the left at the rear.
It is worse than I feared.
Lady Bird has gone Full Faulty.
It must be the Red in the shoes…
Dunno about Royalty, but I know a bloke who dropped a very loud, long fart, halfway through a “welcome to country.”
She’s a bag of wind. It was blatantly unconstitutional from the first moment, as they were WELL aware. She said something similar about Andrew’s permanent dictatorship bill, terrible but there’s just nothing we can do about it blah, blah, blah. Absolutely useless. She’s just trying to justify the inexcusable.
According to the latest email from a grain handler, “the world can’t afford to see the NSW crop get downgraded from milling wheat to feed”.
APH2 has jumped $30/t for my client here at Walgett.
Just need this weather to clear out so we can start again.
No sign of downgrading yet but Thursdays predicted rain will be it’s second dose.
Fecundity symbol Gab, check with your doctor, you’re probably expecting sextuplets.
I’d want to see current photographs before going that way.
Trump did not “flame out”. He increased his votes by about 10 million, something never before done. You might not have noticed, but there was a coup in America.
calli,
Also, I liked the grittyness of the Knightly/Macfayden P&P. Plenty of dirt and muck and mud and grubby clothes
Although I understand why the director went down the path he did – present something “different” from the series so few(er) comparisons can be made – that depiction never made sense on the evidence of the book.
Austin says that Darcy has 10k a year – a huge sum of money for the time and an amount far in excess of Mr Bingley’s fortune, who would be considered “new” money as opposed to Darcy’s “old” money and position; Darcy’s aunt is titled and he is the nephew of an earl.
When Darcy admonishes himself in front of Elizabeth for falling for someone not of his station and inferior to him, Elizabeth reminds him that while he is a gentleman, she is the daughter of a gentleman.
In anyone’s language the Donald Sutherland portrayal of Mr Bennett would be more likely that yeoman farmer of which I spoke, and though perhaps endearing, in that stratified society that social gap should be really too great for Elizabeth to span, even were Darcy to try to ignore.
On Matthew McFadyen, I found him too wooden even when, finally, he declares his love for Elizabeth. There should have been a lot more smouldering going on, but both actors seemed too stilted. ?
(p.s. there is a smiling emoji at the end, if it doesn’t show up).
Watching Steve Hilton interview Tulsi. She’s in the wrong party.
I noticed. But another round of Trump won’t fix that. It will need at least 2 terms of staying power. Not Trump’s style and the issues are too important to be about Trump alone, which is what he wants it to be too often.
Kamala Harris interrupts a NASA presentation to ask if NASA “can measure trees” as part of “environmental justice.”
And she wonders why her approval rating just hit 28 percent.
What about the deal it struck with its voters?
Dover.
On the threads with no comments could we have an uptick option?
Sort of like a jazz-hands sign of appreciation without any need to post a comment?
On Matthew McFadyen, I found him too wooden even when, finally, he declares his love for Elizabeth. There should have been a lot more smouldering going on, but both actors seemed too stilted. ?
Nah, that stride across the frosted paddock at the end with Matthew, cape flowing, testicles unleashed coming towards Kiera who has 2 orgasms before he reaches her. Nothing wrong with the wood there. I often dreamed of head prefect walking towards me like that. Here it is again, in a clearer version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFsgLhx9dxg
So Scott Morrison secretly made a “deal” to abolish Australia, in his secret illegal shadow government that he created and calls the “National Cabinet”.
I never thought I’d witness such a complete abolition of the Commonwealth. 100 years of hard work and effort to build it down the fucking drain in 18 months.
BBS, I’ve seen articles on the value of the incomes in P&P, but this from Cliffs Notes is as good as any.
They were all well off. Darcy astronomically so. The problem for the Bennetts, of course, was the entail.
Something I loved in the later production was the dancing scene, where the director has them dancing alone, as if they are the only ones in the room. And yes, Darcy should, in all his iterations, be a smoulderer! Even Sir Larry got that right. Despite Greer’s wretched crinolines.
People are getting fond of saying things like we’re “back to the old colonial powers” and the old colonial governments have returned, etc. Which is true, always lurking, the genesis of a country always exists hidden under the floorboards like a maniac waiting for its moment to spring forth again.
But what people are missing, is that we’re currently far worse off than under the reign of the colonial tyrants. Because even in all the worst of the fifedoms and corruption of the colonies, at least the colonial parliaments had to answer to the British parliament and the British public.
Now they are back, and they are completely unshackled.
Lol! Cohenite! 😀
Ok, I’ll concede the smouldering.
My unvax’d sperm and superior delivery system is available.
Yeah, which went so well in the Americas, it caused a successful revolt.
She really isn’t very bright is she? The faceless creatures will keep Joe going as long as they can, since she won’t be controllable and is too hopelessly incompetent to do what they want.
New Poll Suggests GOP Victory In 2022; Biden Approval Sinks To 38% While Kamala’s Even Worse (7 Nov)
For BBS and Gab
He bears a remarkable likeness to a much younger Beloved with those dark curls and diffident manner.
Tempus fugit. 😀
News hacks be spinning mightily.
The bottom line for me is that the U.S. doesn’t want us to have a Submarine Fleet and Scotty does whatever they want.
The process to replace the Collins started in 2005, 16 years later we’re still at Square One with the best delivery date 2040.
Huge issue.
Nobody cares.
Those fifedoms were a disgrace.
What about theSaxaphonedoms, Clarinetdoms andTubadoms?
123 and
That is close run. What percentage does he have unreapt? Very best luck to him. Hopefully BOM are overstating the met.
We can’t believe how well it has worked out for us this year. The few wet patches were followed by hot dry strong winds, almost to order. Unpleasant to work in but it allowed night reaping.
The peas are yet to be reapt and are obviously important for buffer capital, (late seeding because we couldn’t get on to the paddock and having to bait twice for snails) but having the grain in fat and dry is such a great feeling.
I’ll tell you what though. After a decade of reading dry literature and pamphlets and newspapers articles around federation trying to understand what was really in the everyman’s heart circa 1901, I could still never truly grab why he really cared about creating the Commonwealth. Weren’t the colonials governments enough for that tiny population? Weren’t they jumping the gun? Was it an exercise in upper class vanity?
But now I get it. Holy moly, now.I.get.it. It was an escape hatch. They had been living under these corrupt, vicious nasty insular provincial regimes for 100 years. The chance to build a fresh government that we controlled, that could actually put a lid on these provincial lunatics blew through the country like a cool breeze before a storm.
And oh man haven’t we let them down.
Fuck off Grigory.
Too much Monday going on on this Open Thread already without your gypsum-fuelled Muttonheadishness…
What are you suggesting zippy?
That the only people who can now die in a crowd crushing incident are the vaccinated?
Being crushed so hard you can’t breathe can precipitate ‘cardiac arrest’.
I couldn’t find any of the post mortem reports for Hillsborough, though you must have? The point I was making that people dying in a crowd crush is not at all unprecedented.
And for the record because I’m sick of being lied about by srr, I never once recommended anyone buy biotech, all I said was not all biotech companies were involved in buying baby bits. And it was four or five years ago you went ape about JC’s innocuous comment about buying into the US biotech industry.
You weren’t ‘here’ last year.
these people are stark raving mad
Laughed out loud at the top item in today’s top item in the AAP bi-weekly Media Movements newsletter:
In other words, “media diversity” in Australia is officially in the hands of an Islamic religious lunatic.
Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle had and affair during the making of P&P.
It shows.
OK, yes, many people might find themselves forced to take the vaxx.
Questions is, will these same people then decline to take advantage of their ‘privileged’ vaxxed status – will they, and those who abhor the coercion, decline, e.g., having lunch in some fine or even daggy establishment, indoors or out?
Last Saturday, top end of Bourke Street, there was a young family of five inside the recessed entrance of a closed building. The man, woman and three young children were all sitting in a semicircle on the ground eating their maccas from brown paper bags. No room, not even at the inn of the Golden Arches.
I doubled back to tell the family that they looked beautiful, far more beautiful than the smart people next door with their sharp hair cuts, smug behind polished glass.
But I have wondered about that family. Blessings upon them.
the correct term is compressive asphyxia or crush asphyxia. Unusual to call it a heart attack as cause of death, that’s all.
you can just ignore her
incoherent rambler says:
November 8, 2021 at 6:02 pm
My unvax’d sperm is available.
My unvax’d sperm and superior delivery system is available.
A clear case of supply outstripping demand.
And if Yankees call it ‘cardiac arrest’ it’s still the same thing isn’t it?
And I’m sure if you were a practising Catholic you would appreciate being called an abortion profiteer on a public forum.
As it happens, I don’t.
I did ask not to be singled out in the loony rants, which mostly I do ignore, but she can’t even comply with that simple request.
I think the suggestion that petitioners might be on a ’round up’ list was a little facetious.
Going back over the past 30 years, US VP’s have one specific task: to be sufficiently appalling that nobody wants harm to come to the POTUS.
She’s almost doing a good job.
flight centre to sue Western Australian government over border closures? Beware its a guardian article.
…and the ANZACs
…and Peter Lalor
…and, ourselves.
More than half of US states are suing to stop Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate
It took almost three months to write the purported ’emergency measure vaccine mandate’ that wouldn’t even take effect until January 4th, 2022.
Thank God it wasn’t a real emergency huh?
Zipster:
That’s unusual – in crowd crush situations, people are usually unable to breathe and this leads to cardiac arrest.
I
Perusing nher Wkik entry, her family fled Afghanistan in 1988.
No dates given, my guess is that her family was part of the Communist elite that came to power in 1979.
Once the Soviets starmted withdrawing in 1988 they bailed out and headed to Auusie.
So, not islamist, she’s from multigenerational Communists.
Thanks, Keating Government.
Who was Foreign Minister then?
not exactly fatal to Andrews, Adem Somyurek at ibac
twostixsays:
November 8, 2021 at 6:23 pm
That’s a great comment, twostix. Your thesis gives much pause for thought. Corrupt with patronage and “Bob’s yer uncle,” arbitrary toward subjects, limited franchise – the controversy between the exclusives and the emancipists on whether the latter should be afforded the same rights as the former, all suggest that the new country had more important goals than the widely reported, and extolled by government, free trade and defence. What a way out of the bind of personal circumstances in a society weighted in favour of the landed gentry.
not really they used the correct term, compressive asphyxiation. inability to breath is the actual cause, obviously leads to heart failure.
I would not be at all surprised if the Morrison government declares that the unvaccinated will be prohibited from voting in the upcoming election.
Damn them all…….it’s a country that I barely recognise any more.
I don’t think it’s an unreasonable request. NASA seems unhealthily fixated with ice cover. Why is that?
The FBI and the Stolen Diary
The FBI very badly needs to institute a new policy if it want’s to rehabilitate itself – No more political appointees PERIOD. If you didn’t graduated from their academy and serve in the field as an agent you don’t get a leadership position.
Kamala’s popularity is not in a healthy position. Credlin just made the point that the Biden group selecting her as VP because of her lack of electorate support should mean that she won’t be able to gather party affiliates to her to move against Let’s Go Brandon
My selection for his removal – the day after Thanksgiving 2021 – is not looking good.
This is what happens when you don’t have a gear stick and steering wheel.
If you don’t stop that, you’ll go blind.
I mean I must say, I am a little impressed.
Typing while running it through the knuckle……………………………………….5 out of ten.
The only bloke you know who has been saying the same thing about all this from the word go.
While bed wetters put on a too cool for school (and easily seen through) scoffing act because underneath they’re shitting themselves.
Credlin certainly isn’t the first to make that point.
Plus in the meantime she makes even Joe look somewhat acceptable.
Scoffing and shitting.
Who says we can’t multiskill?
How was the protest up there yesterday?
“Kenny asked her whether the government should support any challenge. Her answer: it’s difficult for government to show how the community is hurt by these closures [edit: WTF]. But went on to say that the government is holding up its side of the deal – the deal that was struck with the state premiers.”
Ah yes, Stoker selling us out…..she has form doing that, last year she outrageiously sold Bettina Arndt out. Stoker’s third on the senate ticket in QLD, I do hope Pauline or Campbell Newman take her place.
Honestly, it’s all just a conspiracy theory.
It hasn’t turned out that the vaccines kill.
It hasn’t turned out that nearly all western PM’s and presidents are graduates of the WEF.
It hasn’t turned out that the agenda they stated they are implementing is being implemented.
It hasn’t turned out that eugenicists are amongst them.
Greg Hunt is an awarded WEF graduate and worse
Unfortunately for the bed wetters, in trying to act as if it’s not as bad as all that, all you are doing in this situation, so obviously dire, and so obviously a global socialist coup d’etat, (as I’ve said for nearly two years) is make goats of yourselves.
See, other people are waking up.
The evidence is overwhelming, and like girls in denial, you still scoff.
You look like the dicks you are.
And you’re not helping anybody.
“outrageiously”
Crikey…I hate making spelling mistakes…..”outrageously”!
RMussell Woolf, never heard of him, died in his sleep after getting The Vaxx.
Indeed. I seem to recall that you were never anywhere near as screechy or hysterical or moronic when you were driving.
Working 2 jobs (1 self-employed) that do not earn anywhere near as much as you used to is clearly getting to you…
ICYMI
URGENT
People with Victorian address – vaxxed or not – Andrews’ permanent pandemic Bill will affect you negatively. Please sign petition & share it widely. We have a little over 1 week to get 100,000 signatures for the petition to be tabled in parliament.
https://parliament.vic.gov.au/index.php?option=com_rsform&view=rsform&formId=74&Itemid=1054&petition_id=415
Stoker was found out to be full of shit way back last year.
Full on party hack.
Here’s a letter I sent her back last year when she outed herself.
Razey:
These Princesses don’t want to do it that way, so the taxpayer has to fork out for something to get around their personal likes and dislikes.
How bloody selfish are these idiots?
They should be refused right to have children as they are unsuitable parents.
(No, I don’t really mean that, getting the legal and administrative system involved in who can become parents would be a disaster.)
Yep. Full Bird.
Just with less J-baiting…
I just don’t suffer fools well.
The greatest declaration of man love on the Cat eva?
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
It must make life hard when you see them everywhere, even among those who hang off your every destroying word…
Been tucking in to NamBob’s FIGJAM?
Amanda Stoker went against her principles to please the boys club, and still they shafted her. I am supremely disappointed in her and if she is ousted from parliament it will engender no sympathy from me. Fleas and dogs and now Amanda Stoker must lie the bed she made.
Well, it IS available in Toowoomba…
The FBI very badly needs to institute a new policy if it want’s to rehabilitate itself
The fbi is fucked.
Local council elections coming up, so I have just gone online to find out if I can vote via post. The list of reasons for getting a postal vote included “concerns about Covid”, so I ticked that as my reason, and a voting pack will be mailed to me. While I am not reallyconcerned about Covid, I am intent on avoiding being in a queue with bunched of nappy-faced idiots for any length of time.
BBS
What a way out of the bind of personal circumstances in a society weighted in favour of the landed gentry.
And now we have a society weighted (heavily) in favour of an inner city, credentialed (even if not educated) gentry.
Scomo in the HV spruiking hydrogen. Hopeless. Telling coal miners, many who will know that hydrogen is bullshit. FMD. Michael Costa on bolta pegs the fool beautifully. Scomo’s only chance is for albo to really say something stupid. Kroger, slut that he is, has nothing.
Although she’ll be fondly remembered in some circles as the senator for tax-deductible nannies.
I knew there had to be a downside to NSW scrapping quarantine for the vaccinated.
Hell’s bells! Now Tinta has gone Full Bird.
Just with less J-baiting…
It’s must be an epidemic.
Amiright?
You must really hate the shaving mirror every morning.
The problem is that ALP office holders like Costa and Latham get a gig as independent commenters when they’re just Labor shills.
Yeah The Hydrogen Economy is a fraud, but what’s Labor’s alternative?
I’ll tell you:
The miners can get a job strip mining the countryside for Rare Earths for Solar Panels and operating the toxic processing mills.
calli
help! my beautiful lemon tree which produced fruit last year was in full bloom then within a day – scale had eaten everything away, and it now looks quite sick – what to do?
St Ruth at 7:22.
What precisely did you hope to achieve with that letter?
Did you cc Alan Jones?
Wow, what does that even mean?
Dunno, Tinta, but never go Full Bird. You’ve been warned.
No, Runnybum.
You are merely derivative and uninspired.
Go fawn at Struth for a while longer. He needs someone less intelligent than him to ‘destroy’ so he at least feels like he’s had a win for the week…
Thanks Gab but how will I know?
This is absolutely true. Very frank letter, perhaps a little lacking in civility, but hard to dispute.
eggs
When you start spouting vehement but incoherent rage at everyone around you, blame the machinations of shadowy cabals for everything and everyone you dislike and immediately conflate everyone who pokes fun at your rage or argues you to a standstill into the Big Bad Bundle of Bad Things. And then scream and point at them for a bit.*
Basically look at the spleens Struth and SRR left spattered all over the Open Fred today, and you’ll know what to avoid.
*[Extra points for trying to explain just how the World Trade Centre was subjected to planned nuclear demolition and that the permanent creation of ‘aether’ renders physics null and void…]
I’ve found that a thorough spraying of the tree with a homemade white oil can get rid of them.
the joint’s indistinguishable from twitter at this point
You’ll get pecked if you keep trying to ruffle feathers like that…
It’s the very opposite of twitter, where anything against the grain is simply banned.
Tinta, I’m not too sure, but it’s a slur the Bird baiters fling around here with gay, and I mean gay, abandon. For example:
I have failed as a parent. I knew better yet rolled the dice. But I’m not asking for sympathy – I did the wrong thing… I’m just hoping that someone has a look at my last point and ventures an opinion. [And as for the rest I just need to get this off my chest. You guys are my best friends.]
My son – 19. Multiple state athletic championships in various disciplines and a state bronze to prove it. Got Pfizered. Today diagnosed with pericarditis. We’re waiting on enzyme results and have heart scans scheduled tomorrow.
I lost the vaccine argument – mostly on the influence of my brother who is very highly placed in one of the big pharmas. He said that Novavax will never get approval and he said that if me and my kids aren’t fully vaxxed that we can’t come to Christmas. This made my mum totally distraught as that is what she is desperately hanging out for. Her whole family together.
I trusted him … and relented for my mums sake and allowed my 17yo daughter and him the be vaxxed. [I bought her an Akari for her birthday and obviously she’s super keen to drive but she can’t do her driver’s license test unless vaxxed!!! Or go out with her friends to shops etc. Cuntofa Govt]
The useless fuck of a doctor [not our usual one as he was booked out] that we saw today … said when told that my son’s resting heartbeat currently is 80+ and over 9o at times [normally below 60], and that he has massive pressure in his chest said: nothing to worry about, 80 is normal (measured over 80 in surgery). Apparently just a bit of post vax anxiety. Yep a medical waste of space…
When I insisted on an ECG he wasn’t too keen … said these symptoms were not unusual and nothing to worry about. He said he saw at least 5 kids last week with same symptoms. Take a nurofen and a rest / lie down for a day. He eventually did the ECG and what do you know … pericarditis indicated. Apparently mild … but I don’t give a fuck. I am going to go all the way to cardiology professors to get this checked out. NSW health is going to be charged EVERY fucking cent. [Do I have health insurance? … nope – sorry (I just bought my daughter a car so can’t afford it 🙂 )].
Oh yeah … as we were leaving there was another late teens boy about to have an ECG. Rare my ass.
Two things: First – DO NOT RISK YOUR KIDS.
Second: Been thinking … We know for a fact that mRNA vaxxes cause myo/pericarditis if injected intravenously.
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab707/6353927
I did ask him to make sure the nurse aspirated the syringe. Apparently done. Yet he still got ill. So I asked what he did… BINGO [for all of you doc types]. He did push-ups and a week later pumped barbells. [We are now nearly two weeks post vax]. Would this explain why the fit and the young males have a higher incidence of myo/pericarditis? [i.e. the exercise flushes the vax out of the muscle?]
Sorry … but I feel a bit better… [I just want to cry rather than kill]
Runnybum, let your Queen Bee faceplant and fail on his own terms.
Struth is a strong, independent Queenslander who don’t need no [wee] man…
Hundreds of Thousands to Go on Four-Day Nationwide Strike Over Vaccine Mandates: Organizer
Thanks Zatara, yes I did that and the scale was got rid of –it’s the aftermath — the poor thing looks a little worse for wear — should I prune it back to get rid of the stumps or just let it get better by applying some citrus tree food. it is such a sweet little tree.
Thanks Rex Anger and others for how-not-to-do-a -Bird advice — I will consider my posts carefully especially when raiding the adjective larder.
I can imagine people being a little frustrated because they are so accustomed to being able post instantaneous comments on any thread.
If he doesn’t want to have comments activated then that’s his call. We can always post responses here so it is not really like a drive-by post. It means commentary will be less focused than on a dedicated thread but there ya go.
What terms for what abominable acts people get up to with their
moosemuse is not my call.And, of course, as far as I am concerned people are entitled to voice their objections.
The alternative may well be that he does not post at all. Not sure that that would be an improvement.
I was going to comment on the Sunday Reading post but was thwarted by the need to keep my thumb ready to adjust the volume on Psych. I suppose I can add it here now…
I have often heard people talk of the idea of God as a ‘sky fairy’ etc. Funny thing is that the people who make these glib dismissals are invariably what I consider to be insufferably shallow people. They can make the eyes roll back in my head in a way no golf-cart battery and jumper cables can are able to.
It seems to me that humans are not really wired to a valueless existence. The people who make these facile quips are nevertheless bound to the transcendent even while they deny it, or think theirs are inescapable even by those childlike believers. These brilliant thinkers believe in the inherent value of ‘justice’ (even if they must quibble over its quiddity like scholastics). Or some of them might believe in the power of education. Or the inherent truth of love (who is childish now).Or equality. Or dairy products (sweet cheeses, are there really people like that?)
There is something there which is beyond compromise, and even beyond conception: They know that were some unimaginable circumstance to occur that this transcendent spirit will already be there, to order the chaotic, calm the panicked, give courage to the fearful, gently admonish the trespasser, and whisper peace to the aggrieved. The only thing we ever need do ever is listen.
But even that is at the most abstract end. Resorted to when more fundamental truths are challenged, and arguably these more abstract ideals are not the source of the more mundane and commonplace ones, but in fact products of them.
Simple articles of faith like how it is right to tell the truth. This may seem to be immediately nonsense since a lot of people will lie. But the fact of the matter is that they will not try to justify telling the truth in the same way they will justify telling a lie.
The same with fairness – the degenerate stunted changeling to be found in Justice’s crib. If they conceive the idea that fairness means equal outcomes regardless of opportunity or contribution then so be it. But they think it stands by itself. When they ‘point out’ that something is unfair by whatever paradigm they appeal to they feel victorious. Fairness conquers all. There is no getting around that. What? You disagree? Then you are evil. Not wrong. Not mistaken. Evil.
Compassion? Yeah! Historicism? On a plate! Nuance? Fuck you! Oh, and marxism.
But these pieties are either beyond human experience (not necessarily human worth) or not.
They are either greater than you, in which case they are beyond your own abilities to explain or justify. Or they are within you. No greater than you. Of no more moment than you. And absolutely however much it means to you, that does not transfer to someone else. All they would have to do is think like you. And all they would have to do is think differently. How can you demand people to respect what at bottom is more than your own quirks?
There is therefore also the possibility that the human natural need to think in terms of absolute and transcendent terms is a quirk of human upbringing. That we have been taught to think that way does not demonstrate that it is the only way, or the necessary way.
This is a logical consequence. If you can conceive of two possibilities then logically you must explain why you choose one over the other. If you believe there is God’s will then there is not-God’s-will. Why do you conform with the former rather than the latter. Well, for a believer that decision is made: It is God. For someone who is not a believer it is more difficult. If they believe in justice then why is their fate bound up with the principle of doing justice’s will rather than the principle of opposing it? Why do they have to tell the truth, rather than daring providence to stand against them and show it up?
And knowing lefties, it will start by abusing children. Convincing them that their endear themselves is dirty, their desire to please adults is guilty, and readiness to accept to blame to win acceptance as guilt.
In short – lefties will kill them. They will blame everybody else, claim that it is what the other guy was wanting to do. The other guy’s must bear the responsibility. But what else are children for? Who says?
A spot of both maybe, Tinta?
Give it an opportunity to spring back hard next season?
First the scale. White oil in the cool of the day – it will drown them.
Without knowing the pH of the surrounding soil, I would simply recommend you water it well, use an organic fertiliser like Charlie Carp or Seasol – you can water it into the soil and also use as a foliar spray.
Mulch it well with something that breaks down easily like sugar cane.
That’s just a general “treatment”. It should come good, unless there’s another underlying problem.
Rorschach, I’m so, so sorry. I can’t give an opinion on your medical question. All I can do is repeat my long held view that our leaders deserve to be taken out and hung. They are quite deliberately destroying the lives of everyday Australian in every way possible while wrapping themselves in the mantle of “safety”. Traitors, all.
Cat Quiz:
At what point would Senator Stoker’s intern stop reading?
Here?
Here?
Here?
Pro Tip: The Zorro verbal rapier gets you ignored 97.3% of the time.
I’m cross-posting this from AdamCat (my words):
We have been programmed to believe that acknowledging objectivity, evidence, or truth, depends on the source of the information, rather than the content. If the information comes from a discredited source, it cannot possibly be true. This interpretation then reinforces all future analyses (as such) of information from the same source. Thus NOTHING from a discredited or distrusted source will EVER be interpreted as truthful, regardless of how, when, and by whom, it is delivered. The only effective response to this is to challenge/reposition the source’s reputation. Tweaking the content in any manner will not bring a change to the outcome of the messaging, if the perception of the source remains negative.
Look Tinta, your opinion and commentary is just fine.
Struth’s little sycophant is just trying to have a go at me, by trying to imply that Struth’s unhinged vitriol and your strong opinion of Amanda Stoker were one and the same.
To the best of my knowledge and observation, you are not a fearful and angry old man descending into madness by letting his anxieties run unchecked.
Sorry. Should have scrolled up prior to writing my prescription.
+1
An excellent comment on the matters.
I cannot begin to imagine what you must be feeling — I have been trying to arrange for the COVID vaccination for my 30 year old son who is severely intellectually disabled – he has run away twice, had an appointment last week and would not even get out of the car, his GP came down to the car to administer the vaccine and my son would not allow him to even open the car door, it is the Sunbather’s desire for him to be vaccinated — the GP has asked that I try again and rub a certain ointment on his arm to numb the area to be vaxxed prior to our appointment — we’ll see how that goes but I am very very troubled
I asked the GP how would I know if my son ends up with peri/myo/carditis — his response was how would you know if he had contracted COVID? I will think on this some more methinks or I might just wash my hands of the whole thing and ask the Sunbather to arrange it all seeing as it is his desire to have our son vaxxed and see how that goes.
“To the best of my knowledge and observation, you are not a fearful and angry old man descending into madness by letting his anxieties run unchecked.”
Unlike Bird, Tinta is not an anti-Semite…I’m lucky to have her as a friend.
Rorschach
I am so very sorry to hear what’s happened. All I can tell you is I have seen a number of young, fit, healthy males with heart problems after taking the jab. One even had the second jab* and that’s when the shit hit the fan and he ended up in hospital with because he had a ”sore shoulder”, but the pain didn’t go away – it turned out to be myocarditis. He’s still not fully back to good health weeks after the event. And yes, they all worked out after the jab.
*I remember him because he videoed from his hospital bed but even then still said he thought the jab was the right thing to do -” just don’t work out after having it”. Some people really are all brawn and no brain.
That’s a pretty sh!te situation, Rorschach.
Thanks for sharing during a time of high anxiety.
Language doesn’t seem to adequately communicate our thoughts anymore.
Tinta, if at all possible, don’t let your son near the jab.
Sounds like his instincts are kicking in.
Why thank you Cassie, and that luck runs right back m’dear.
I’m so sorry, Rorschach, for your son and for you and for your family. There will be hell to pay for this.
The other day a friend told me that a country town in Victoria – he didn’t say which one but he has a lot of contacts around the place – has, I think he said, 11 cases of myocarditis in boys. The parents have started a class action.
And, on friends, I feel the same way about you and the rest of the Cat.
Thoughts & prayers.
Kindest regards,
BBS
I agree with Calli’s approach, clean it, feed it, and spray it early next season.
I’d also be alert for ants as they are likely part of the problem. Putting a collar of flypaper around the lower tree trunk will keep them from their symbiotic work of moving the scale around to get to their sap. Another technique is making a paste of veggie oil and diatomaceous earth and plastering a stripe of that around the trunk.
These precautions need to be repeated annually.
Yes Gab, the running away is a clear indication of non-consent.
This is something I have been well aware of since the early 2000s when I was looking into the global warming scam (something I realised very early on, it really pinged my BS meter). Every time I came up with a well argued, substantiated, refutation it was ignored in favour of an attack on the author. Anyone who disagreed with the climate change hypothesis was somehow disqualified from commenting because …….. whatever. Every single time.
Rorschach. I am so sorry to hear what has happened. Stay strong.
Damn that was babbling.
I stepped away to listen to some music and came back to finish the sentences in the first half and found it incoherent.
I will drown my guilt in camomile tea.
Terrible, Rorschach.
Rorschach,
You are not at fault here but on the receiving end of unwanted pressure and coercion. You are definitely not alone in this as so many of us are facing similar situations in our own lives.
Fight for your son just as I intend to fight for mine.
Basic Alinskyist tactics that have been in use since long before even Alinsky wrote about them.
Facts and solid, persuasive argument are hard to overcome. Better instead to batter down the source of said facts and argument- The squishier, social human that made them.
Boston Anti-Mandate Protest Turns Violent After Antifa Shows Up
Yeah, this covid vaccine BS isn’t political at all.
Just how obvious do they have to make it?
Indolent says:
November 8, 2021 at 8:48 pm
If only more would acknowledge that, Indolent, rather than wasting time and resources backpeddaling defensively and responding to every distraction squirrel launched in our direction. What is needed is an examination of which of our opponents’ tactics work, and why.
Been wondering if there are any opinions yet on the rapid antigen home tests for covid?
Are they better than PCR, worse, of any value at all?
They’re not available to us in SA and WA so hoping to hear about them from those in the east.
Sorry … but I feel a bit better… [I just want to cry rather than kill]
So sorry to hear this.
People need to stop crying……
That is a very poor answer from the GP.
I know your son needs you and you do gods work. You just need to do a risk assessment on possible severity of COVID illness v severity of vax damage. Remember – intravenous mRNA is DANGEROUS. If your son struggles as he is vaxxed there may be [my non-medical opinion] a higher chance of the needle and vaccine ending up in a blood vessel. If he has vax damage, that then is more demand on you and your time.
Thank you calli and Zatara for the citrus advice, will follow and hope for better luck next year– my little tree is in a large pot in my Italian grotto garden (we have little land to do any serious gardening)
Dr F at 8:36.
Hence my question “What did you hope to achieve?”
You’re right.
This would be read by an intern two levels below a Brittany.
The best you could hope for is to be a tick in a column on a sheet categorising correspondence which the Senator might spend five seconds scanning at a monthly meeting.
High impact … not.
Rorschach
Best wishes for your son.
Screw those Health Dept mongs to the wall legally.
That’s exactly my concern Rorschach — my son is a very healthy, strong young man with no co-morbidities (gets gout but that’s it) I do not think COVID will get the better of him but I am concerned at the heart situation — there are heart problems in the family – both my parents died of heart failure, I have a twin who recently went into cardiac arrest and was only saved by the grace of God. So I have concerns.
GOP to force vaccine mandate vote and put squeeze on centrist Democrats
“With the Biden administration facing a growing wave of lawsuits to stop the president’s vaccine mandate on companies, an Indiana businessman-turned-senator believes he has the quickest way to kill it.
Sen. Mike Braun, backed by most GOP senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is hopeful of nixing the mandate through the arcane but effective Congressional Review Act. It would force a vote in both Houses just before Christmas and when 93,000 firms could be firing unvaccinated workers.”
How many seats do you want to lose in the mid-terms Dems?
Heh, I told my GP I was very concerned about taking the vax and she told me I should be more concerned about dying from covid.
Never going back to her again. The way I feel I may never bother with doctors at all in future.
Are you offered terms? Discount for cash?
I tweeted this to Dr John Campbell… see if he responds
https://twitter.com/karnost/status/1457643557724975104?s=21
Just think, the jabbed are donating blood. Red Cross says hey, no problem.
Nope. I didn’t think so.
To be brutally honest, I’ve been having a good deal of trouble finding the words to describe our present reality (if it is ‘real’?) in recent weeks, even to myself. So much so that while driving to the gym at lunchtime today, I somehow managed to dribble a fair size puddle of saliva on my shorts. Luckily they were black, so it could have been worse. Still, it’s not something I’m thinking of putting on my c.v.
Just remember: We’re all in this together.
Top-grade, unbagged WA Death Gluten… 😉
rorschach
All I can suggest is you check this out
https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/covid-19-vaccine-claims-scheme
Given the 18,000 or so year-on-year death by medical misadventure I don’t blame you Gab.
A lot of people are succumbing to societal and family pressure to get vaxxed.
Accept that the next five years will be fucked and that there is no point rejoining a society or family that is equally as fucked.
I keep telling my daughter, who has already lost her part time job and has lost simple freedoms such as being able to go to a restaurant that we just need to wait out the insanity.
Hold The Line. Wait Out The Insanity.
You get charged through the teeth for each and no one accepts the results. Effing useless. Another way to make pharma billionaires.
https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/business/rapid-antigen-testing-information-for-businesses
If you feel sick – do a drive through test straight away.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
I shall pray for your son and his parents at this difficult time.
God never deserts his own.
Rorschach, so damn sorry to hear your story. Yours too, Tinta. I was, quite frankly, shit-scared because my daughter (microbiologist) was 110% going to have the grandkids vaccinated, which she did. So far, so good. But I still have my fears I can’t talk even to my wife about. I raised a concern once and was told by my daughter that people without qualifications in the field just needed to shut up and stop the conspiracy fear-mongering.
That’s the plan for me – that’s why I am cooking and gardening – the cooking is going great guns I have acquired some COVID kilos I need to discard but the gardening is a work in progress as I’d never had time in the past.
Gabsays:
November 8, 2021 at 9:06 pm
Just think, the jabbed are donating blood. Red Cross says hey, no problem.
WTF. But we spent some years in the UK in the 1980s, and still can’t donate blood because Mad Cow!
My nephew the same Tinta. Takes 5 big adults to give him an injection and lots of good luck. Don’t think they are going risk it. He holds grudges for a long time. He waved goodbye to my BiL before he died, the first time as he usually ignores him. He sees his siblings often and enjoys their company. I don’t know how my sister looked after him for so long. Better person than me.
Thanks Gab. Maybe I can fuck the govt for more and get my son [now that he’s diagnosed] to admit that the pressure is now pain and his heart is racing worse… We were told of that happens to go to emergency ASAP. Obviously will need to stay the night for observation!
Also: It’s good to know that:
Thank you P, much appreciated and God is my rock, but because I know He’s often busy my go-to guy is His muscular angel St Michael the Archangel.
I had my eldest granddaughter stay the night the other night for the first time since April, and she’s now out of a cot and in a bed which I thought might be tricky — but we had a couple of ‘sit-up’ and ‘lie-down” books and then just before she went to sleep I prayed the Guardian Angel prayer with her in both English and Italian and told her about her guardian angel – it was so lovely to do that as it was always a dream of mine to have a grandchild to tell them about their guardian angel.
Rorschachsays:
November 8, 2021 at 8:15 pm
Dreadful news, Rorschach.
You are not to blame. Our governments, state and federal, are to blame. Don’t ever forget that.
Sincere good wishes for you and your family.
It’s a tough one, it really is. I have never been so uneasy in my life and I don’t like it, not one bit.
Dr Norman Swan anyone?
I don’t think I will see a doctor for many years.
How can such well educated people be so stupid?
Intravenous Injection of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA Vaccine Can Induce Acute Myopericarditis in Mouse Model
Can Li, Yanxia Chen, Yan Zhao, David Christopher Lung, Zhanhong Ye, Wenchen Song, Fei-Fei Liu, Jian-Piao Cai, Wan-Man Wong, Cyril Chik-Yan Yip … Show moreAuthor Notes
Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciab707, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab707
Published: 18 August 2021 Article history
This will be a bloody scandal in a few years time.
Let’s not forget the prime enablers: the parasitic media. They provided the sound waves to spread the fear. Fear concentrated in a dusty corner can be ignored. Fear that breeds everytime you blink, and spreads like the sun’s rays cannot be ignored, for it seeps into you.
The parasitic media are breeders of fear.
Rick @ 9:12
+lots.
(btw, my Dad was able to shoot yesterday. Wasn’t asked about his vax status at all. He shot three rounds, sat out the last one as he was a bit tired – with the lockdowns he’s a bit out of shape but that will work itself out).
Scomo affirming his commitment to coal and a 600MW gas plant at Kurri. Albo will close the lot and import 4 million mexicans who miss out in the US.
Fact check: True