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Children’s Games, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560

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Boambee John
Boambee John
November 8, 2021 9:42 pm

Muddy

Did you see my Catictionary offering a couple of days ago?

Tyrnanny: A particularly harsh and cruel nanny.

Muddy
Muddy
November 8, 2021 9:47 pm

I didn’t, Boambee, John, so many thanks for the repetition. It made me smile.

I pleaded on AdamCat a few weeks ago for words for the Catictionary, but the audience there seems to be a bit down, so perhaps I’ll have to repeat my begging here?

Time to switch on those wordbrains?

Bar Beach Swimmer
November 8, 2021 9:51 pm

This is a great liberty quote (just taken off the main page).

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them

— George Orwell

Rorschach
Rorschach
November 8, 2021 9:52 pm

Gabsays:
November 8, 2021 at 9:06 pm
Just think, the jabbed are donating blood. Red Cross says hey, no problem.

If they asked the COVID recovered to donate … now that would be super useful. Convalescent plasma is one of the better treatments [but only in India!!!!]

The quantitative synthesis in 23 studies showed that the odds of mortality in patients who received plasma therapy were significantly lower than those in patients who did not receive plasma therapy

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.624924/full

Conclusion: The use of CP was associated with reduced mortality in COVID-19 elderly patients admitted in ICU, above 60 years of age, particularly females, those with comorbidities and especially those who required some form of ventilation.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33621948/

Bar Beach Swimmer
November 8, 2021 9:52 pm

Muddy,
If you’re still about, haven’t received anything – did you want to wait or alternatively ask DB?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 8, 2021 9:55 pm

Tinta when things turn to shit we tend to think we’re alone when in fact there are lots of us. I live a fairly solitary life by choice. My family knows if they pull any stunts its bye bye. One lot tried it years ago, they still discust me. They tried the social pressure trick. Didn’t go well for them, brought more attension to their behaviour.I don’t tell others how to live, don’t tell me. I couldn’t live with myself having to live down to others expectations. Go along to get along is having no standards at all.

rickw
rickw
November 8, 2021 9:56 pm

Martin Iles / ACL on the current train wreck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgZq3HNvZjA

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 8, 2021 9:58 pm

Muddy

My original definition was worded a bit differently, but with the same sentiments.

Muddy
Muddy
November 8, 2021 10:00 pm

Bar Beach Swimmer.
Adam hasn’t yet acknowledged receiving several posts of mine in the last five days either, so I’d say he’s still distracted by life. Six kids! I’m happy to wait for a bit longer (I have plenty of other tasks to occupy my time!). If we haven’t heard anything by this time next week, I’ll email the same to Dover.

(I remain committed to supporting the two cats, but I suspect there will be a point not far away when Adam may have to decide to let AdamCat hibernate for a bit to give himself more time in his family and business life. Cats apparently have nine lives, and we’re only up to three, so there is always the possibility of a rebirth).

rickw
rickw
November 8, 2021 10:00 pm

my Dad was able to shoot yesterday. Wasn’t asked about his vax status at all.

Nice!

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
November 8, 2021 10:01 pm

Rorschachsays:
November 8, 2021 at 8:15 pm

I’m surprised that you don’t feel like killing someone. I know I would.
Prayers that your son makes a full and speedy recovery.

cohenite
November 8, 2021 10:12 pm

Damn, Yellowstone is one tough show. It edges out Deadwood as the ballsiest show ever.

JC
JC
November 8, 2021 10:19 pm

cohenite says:
November 8, 2021 at 10:12 pm

Damn, Yellowstone is one tough show. It edges out Deadwood as the ballsiest show ever.

Why does the militia want the family dead?

cohenite
November 8, 2021 10:20 pm
cohenite
November 8, 2021 10:21 pm

Why does the militia want the family dead?

I’m only on the first series. Don’t talk about later episodes.

JC
JC
November 8, 2021 10:23 pm

I’m only on the first series.

Then say so instead of making it sound as though you’re current. This evening was the start of season 4 so trust you to confuse everything.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 8, 2021 10:33 pm

Dad out for a shoot. How many politicians did he get?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
November 8, 2021 10:34 pm

Dover: Qld’s Worker compensation dept is not remotely interested in hearing about my staffer who did not show up for work coz of vaxx reaction.

As soon as they ascertained the absence from work was due to a “private medical procedure” that was administered in the employee’s own time, they lost interest.

No different to any other sick day, apparently.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
November 8, 2021 10:35 pm

First – DO NOT RISK YOUR KIDS.

Awful, Rorschach.

The vaccination risk-reward equation certainly makes no sense for kids. A huge moral trap for those insisting on transferring risk from the elderly to the young.

Sincere condolences.

Rorschach
Rorschach
November 8, 2021 10:35 pm

OK … good news. The doc just came back with the Troponin I levels. <2ng/L so unlikely any heart damage.

I have an old bottle of Belvenie that may get topped tonight. A dram or two of uisge beatha will make the night easier…

cohenite
November 8, 2021 10:51 pm

On PML some kunt called linda scott, a leftie hack on Sydney Council supporting zero emissions; against her is Gideon from the IPA; he tries to be rational while she rabbits on about the soul of the fucking planet and LED lights. It’ll be easy she vomits. Gideon should call her a fucking moron because there is no point engaging in dialogue with these brain dead rats. But I don’t think fat guts PML will allow Gideon to do that.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 8, 2021 10:56 pm

I have an old bottle of Belvenie that may get topped tonight. A dram or two of uisge beatha will make the night easier…

“Sliante!”

A couple of drams helps grind the edges off a shithouse day.

Dot
Dot
November 8, 2021 10:58 pm

Just tell her a new nuke plant every 1.5 days until 2050 for net zero.

She’d have conniptions.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 8, 2021 10:59 pm

JC.
It looks like Sydney Airport is (ahem) “Gonski” at $8.45 a share.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 8, 2021 10:59 pm

Sorry.
$8.75 a share.

Bar Beach Swimmer
November 8, 2021 11:02 pm

Gideon should call her a fucking moron because there is no point engaging in dialogue with these brain dead rats. But I don’t think fat guts PML will allow Gideon to do that

cohenite, that could easily be a precis of your 2SM forays.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 8, 2021 11:17 pm

Labor jobs push ‘may sink subs’
Ben Packham
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT
@bennpackham
2 hours ago November 8, 2021
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The Labor Party will demand contractually enforceable levels of Australian industry involvement in the nation’s nuclear submarines in a move that will alarm defence strategists who warn such guarantees could put the program at risk.

Opposition defence spokesman Brendan O’Connor will tell the Submarine Institute of Australia on Tuesday that industry must get a substantial and measurable slice of the huge project.

“Labor has always been committed to Australian industry content to support and build a sovereign defence industry,” Mr O’Connor will say, according to an advance copy of his speech.

“If elected, Labor would ensure Australian industry content would not be an afterthought, and such requirements would be written into Defence contracts.”

After the government’s failure to initially set mandated local industry content levels in the now-axed Attack-class submarines, Mr O’Connor will warn the replacement nuclear submarine program is shrouded in uncertainty.

He will demand a commitment to growing the local defence industry with a focus on local jobs, noting Adelaide faces the loss of about 3000 direct jobs in the defence and construction sector as a result of the cancellation of the French-designed submarines.

Good, well paid jobs, for the “wukkas” in South Australia take precedence over national security…

Gab
Gab
November 8, 2021 11:21 pm

From: A GP wishing to remain anonymous

Attention: To the People of Australia

Do you know anyone who has had a significant post Covid vaccination injury or suspicious death?

A legal team is looking for Covid Vaccine Injured Patients who are:

1. Willing to share their medical details publicly
2. Willing to make a Statement as an Affidavit
3. Willing to appear, if called upon, in a Supreme Court matter on a ZOOM call to confirm their affidavit and present their story

If so, please contact me on

[email protected]

as soon as possible with your complete contact details which will be forwarded to the legal team who will then touch base with you.

Please share this around to enable as many injured people come forward.
Thank you

JC
JC
November 8, 2021 11:46 pm

Sanchez

Yea, the board has agreed. meaning the swamp creature (Gonski) and the weak board has essentially accepted the offer. I’m so fucking upset you don’t believe.

There are two more hurdles now with regard to the vote.

1. majority of 75% of the top shareholders have to accept
2. 50% of the shareholders by share ownership have to accept the offer.

I’ve written a letter and today I spoke to the Investor dude there, angry as hell at what that piece of shit Gonski has done. He suggested I write another letter and this time to the board, but I think it’s useless.

Gonski should be sued as he’s a disgrace of a Chairman.

In the first letter I suggested the entire board reject sitting on a new board of the new acquisition.That was ignored by Gonski in his reply, which means that’s exactly what he’s going to do.

JC
JC
November 8, 2021 11:50 pm

Sanchez

Investors in this country are fucking worthless. It’s like they have no fight about them. There was a piece, a while ago, in the AFR written about a fund manager who opposes the deal. I tried to contact several times but he won’t return a call. It appears the dickhead was happy to just get his stupid name in the AFR rather than really oppose.

There are 150,000 shareholders and I can’t possibly contact each one properly and would require some assistance. The dick couldn’t even call me back.

I want to fucking sue Gonski.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 8, 2021 11:53 pm

He bears a remarkable likeness to a much younger Beloved with those dark curls and diffident manner.

Tempus fugit. ?

My sentiments too re my darling Hairy.

This is definitely the best version, the most true to the book, and the class system of the period. The tableaux of the walks at Pemberley could be taken from paintings of those days.

The later movie, with Keira Knightley, does draw Elizabeth Bennet as less of a girl of her times, and more as a wayward proto-feminist. Matthew MacFadyen is also more of a Georgette Heyer hero, a very handsome sensualist come to take what is his. Heyer’s novels always ‘modernised’ Austin’s Regency world. That version however does put an interesting spin on the relationships of Mr and Mrs Bennet; for the first time I felt sympathy with Mrs. Bennet, played with a special insight by Brenda Blethyn (an in-law of Hairy’s btw), for it is on her that the responsibility for her daughter’s futures fully rested. It may overplay the rustic nature of the Bennet premises, which Calli objects to, while admitting that we do rather tend to idealise times past when paintings didn’t show the underside of dirty clothing and scraggy hair.

This second movie also foregrounds female sensuality. Keira’s Elizabeth doesn’t does not slightly simper in facial expression, as the version with Colin Firth does allow her to do, as women did in her day.

JC
JC
November 8, 2021 11:54 pm

“Sliante!”

A couple of drams helps grind the edges off a shithouse day.

Of course, everyday is a shithouse day for you, Rones.

Lazlo
Lazlo
November 8, 2021 11:55 pm

Gonski is an archetypal elite swamp person JC. No hesitation dabbling in stuff he has no idea about, such as Chancellor of UNSW, since he is a superior being.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 8, 2021 11:59 pm

JC, just humor me.

You spent fifteen years working on Wall Street. What years were they? Inquiring minds want to know.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 9, 2021 12:01 am

The third episode of Succession was good again, the scripting is outstanding, the acting pretty good too, and the plot of course is simply more of the same; I guess that comes with the territory of the series, for succession is the name of the game here and the tension is constant as the squabbles with the old man and between his four children reshape constantly. Things move on, he tells his daughter Shiv, get used to it. And move on they did – for this episode anyway. The helicopter shots, the pacing and the musical motifs were all up to scratch tonight too.

And that’s it from me for tonight. Sleep tight.

JC
JC
November 9, 2021 12:03 am

Laslo

He’s sucking up to the funds making the bid. He will stay on as chairman of the privatized company and I bet the rest of the board will too. It’s a fucking disgrace what’s going on.

Look, it’s a solid bid, but it’s not enough for a superior assets like that sitting 9 k from the CBD. It’s worth 12 bucks a share.

This is the letter I wrote back in Sept.

16 Sept 2021

From: JC

Private Investor: Sydney Airport

To: The Board

Sydney Airport Holdings.

Dear Members of the Board

I would like to offer my opinion on the conditional offer from the consortium attempting to buy Sydney Airport.

I believe considering this bid is short sighted and is being considered due to the unforgiving but temporary pandemic, whereby COVID has essentially moth-balled airport activities and travel as a whole. Whilst there may be stress for some shareholders due to the fact we have not seen any dividends approaching two years, there is now light at the end of the tunnel. With rapidly increasing vaccine rates, borders will reopen and people will begin traveling again, the American market has demonstrated that domestic travel will soon approach pre-COVID levels.

There has not been any real stress on the stock due to the fact the management team had the foresight to exchange debt for equity at the beginning of COVID. It was masterful, and although there was dilution, the impact on the P&L statement will not be significant except for the tax impact differential between treatments for debt compared to dividend payments.

Multiple estimates predict that air travel will make its way to pre-Covid levels in Australia by around 2024, this is not far away and I believe shareholders will accept this timeline in stride. The main point to consider is that the consortium represents a group of superannuation funds who at the present time are not just seeking yield, but are frightened that very low yields will remain for a long time. Inflation or no inflation, global monetary policy in the developed world appears to be accommodating and likely to be so for a long time to come. This represents low yields and is the principle reason for them making a bid now.

The bid has been made on what I, the shareholders and the consortium believe to be a unique asset, approximately 9km from the largest city in Australia. By any definition it is a wonderful asset and for shareholders represents the closest thing to a gold mine.

If the aviation environment was normalized, this stock, I believe, would approach 12 dollars a share. My reasons for this calculation are; back in 2019, pre COVID, SYD was offering one of the healthiest yields in the stock market at around 4.75%. On 1 November the stock closed at a high of $9.18. The risk-free rate of return (10 year bond rate) was around where it is today – yielding approximately 1.25%. In a low yielding environment such as we have, which will continue for a long time, the potential of achieving 4.75% is enormously attractive. The pressure on funds to find yield is enormous and I believe the spread between the 10 year bond yield and the potential dividend from SYD (4.75- 1.25%) will cause the stock price to revalue way past its old highs, thereby reaching about $12 dollars a share. The spread of 3.5% (4.75% – 1.25%) that produced a stock value of $9.18 a share will move towards 2%. This would represent a 43% upward valuation in the stock from the old high. Giving a little back to allow for the dilutive tax impact as a result of the COVID share placement, 12 dollars a share is a fair and reasonable estimate.

Please also keep in mind that many shareholders have substantial capital gains and the CGT would obviously make the bid much less attractive.

I would also recommend ignoring all letters that recommend selling for a simple reason: the stock price has been reasonably close to the bid on several occasions, so legitimate sellers would have sold then, taken their gains and eliminated risk. In other words, there is no logical reason, on a risk reward ratio, to hold the stock and see the acquisition through. Why would they? Arbitrage players however, would very much recommend a sale and their opinion is largely worthless and dishonest.

In my opinion, anything below 12 dollars a share is a steal. Please keep this in mind.

It would also be right and fitting that all members of the board, especially the chairman publicly state they will not continue on if the entity is acquired. It would be the right thing to do.

Kind regards

JC

JC
JC
November 9, 2021 12:08 am

JC, just humor me.

You spent fifteen years working on Wall Street. What years were they? Inquiring minds want to know.

Tell you what we’ll do Rones. Man up and release the cuckold from you. Tell me what it is that you doubt about me and my previous work. In other words, we formulate a bet around what it is… a decent bet. We then take it from there.

Oh
How’s Ivy Fund Management going? You know, the family investment vehicle in which you own 345,000 shares in BHP. You big noting fuckwit.

Lazlo
Lazlo
November 9, 2021 12:10 am

A very considered position JC.

I think Logan Roy’s position from Succession would be simpler: get fucked.

Dot
Dot
November 9, 2021 12:14 am

345,000 BHP.ASX

It’s not really that many shares.

It can buy you about 8 crack dens in Redfern/Surrey Hills.

Lazlo
Lazlo
November 9, 2021 12:14 am

That would be aimed at Gonski, not you, JC.

MatrixTransform
November 9, 2021 12:16 am

up, up and away

or … how shareholders are now epidemiologists

srr
srr
November 9, 2021 12:17 am

“E-petition Number 402
Title
Reject the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Bill 2021”

“Total signatures including previously tabled
6509

I just Refreshed to see the current update and got –

“Total signatures including previously tabled
6484

So now it’s going backwards as well as not letting people sign.

https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/petitions/electronic-petitions/view-e-petitions/details/12/415

JC
JC
November 9, 2021 12:18 am

Rones

Here’s the bet. I arrived in the US on St Patricks Day 1987 and we left in April 2003. 100K bet.

I also bet that you did not receive 600,000 in special dividend from BHP when you had to tell me that time. 100K bet.

We escrow.

1. I’m happy to disclose my original Social Security statement showing the amounts and the history of the pay-ins.

2. I want to see your original dividend disclosure that shows you received the lied about.

Grow a set, you fucking coward, and make both bets.

JC
JC
November 9, 2021 12:20 am

whoops.. you received the amount I believe you lied about.

JC
JC
November 9, 2021 12:31 am

Rones

I forgot to mention. You’re a cuckold and I don’t blame her. I blame you!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 9, 2021 12:32 am

Oh yeah … as we were leaving there was another late teens boy about to have an ECG. Rare my ass.

I am glad my eighteen year old grandson chose the AZ. He’s had no problems. Pfizer certainly has problems with the young boys and cardiac issues. Using it on children is not yet at all safe, imho. Much more testing needed and best to consider new and upcoming vaxxes in lieu if any are used at all, as vaxxing them is not in their best interests which should be the deciding factor. Under 12’s are at no risk from Covid, 12 to 18’s have minimal risk too.

Hairy and I discussed how to approach the issue of Vaxxes with the parents of our four grandchildren under 12. We can only let them know how we feel and make sure they have received a range of information, we decided. We cannot insist. Many families are now facing this trial.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 9, 2021 12:36 am

OUr 18 yo grandson made his own decision. Our 12 yo grandson will not escape his mother’s determination to vaxx him. We’ve gently suggested caution, but his school will insist on it too.
You have to give way.

Just in case my reputation here as a vaxx Queen has gained traction. I have many concerns about the mRNA vaxxes and have always said so here. But every adult has the right to their own assessment of their circumstances and the right to make their own decision.

srr
srr
November 9, 2021 12:45 am

Funny how often cats rage against the lack of investigative journalists yet rage even more bitterly at someone pointing out some seriously dodgy shit being pulled by their seriously dodgy Govt that warrants some serious questioning at the very least.

“Half the MCG” attending just the latest protest against Daniel Andrews Govt’s Covid overreaches, with nearly two years of hundreds of thousands getting clued up on Nuremberg Code & other Human Rights Violations being inflicted against them, but only 6 & 1/2 thousand people (AND GOING DOWN), know about & care to sign the petition against giving Daniel Andrews even more Hitler-esque powers?

We’re supposed to buy that as the believable number of Victorians who want Daniel Andrews head pulled in?

After what we learned about Online Voting from the US 2020 Election and after our Govt bragged about THEIR Police being allowed to hack into & change our online content, no one wants to even consider that the lying bastards haven’t dodgied up E-Petition Results to make them look like they have popular support?

I’m sure Daniel Andrews is grateful for all those working to make people believe it to be plausible that only a few thousand aren’t 100% behind him “Legally” becoming a full blown Dictator.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
November 9, 2021 12:46 am

But every adult has the right to their own assessment of their circumstances and the right to make their own decision.

It’s a pity that the various governments in league with Pharma & the Tech companies have done everything they can to suppress all relevant information to that decision-making process.

And now they’re coming after the kids.

When I was much younger and read about Moloch, it was a really WTF moment – how could they sacrifice the young so easily? Now I know.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 9, 2021 12:49 am

I also bet that you did not receive 600,000 in special dividend from BHP when you had to tell me that time

This is fun. No, I said that my family company, of which I’m one of the directors, received that dividend.

It’s been most amusing, watching you, raving on, ever since.

JC
JC
November 9, 2021 1:00 am

This is fun. No, I said that my family company, of which I’m one of the directors, received that dividend.

It’s been most amusing, watching you, raving on, ever since.

Let me remind you,

Anyway, night all to Western Australian Cats, I’m pleasantly awash in good Scotch, and doing the sums about B.H.P. special dividend. It will net me the odd hundred thousand, or so, and the family pastoral company just over half a million bucks. Kiss my arse, JC.

Neither you nor a company you purport to own received a combined total of over $600,000 in dividends, you laughable clown. You complete buffoon.

JC
JC
November 9, 2021 1:04 am

The only thing you’ve ever said that wasn’t made up bullshit was that she cheated on you with the next door farmer. Everything else is a fraud, Ronery.

I actually don’t believe you were even in the military. It wouldn’t be that far fetched that you’ve taken over someone’s identity. You’re a complete fraud Ronery. And the “old money” schtick makes the observation even more compelling, you clown.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
November 9, 2021 1:07 am

Signs of what Dan Xiaoping has done to Victoria:

Had an outta the blue phone call today from an “03” landline number.
It was my “personal banker” (didn’t know I had one) “reaching out” to me from his office Melbourne.

He pretended to care about my “banking experience”, said they were “ramping up” their services to remote area clients & then waffled on until I pulled him up.

“If you really want to help, buck, send some staff” spake I.
…. brief pause….

“That’s the first thing everybody says to me, it’s the only thing anybody wants to talk about”

As part of a wide ranging discussion, revolving around the evils of Dan Xiaoping, the total stuff-up of Covid response by all govts, etc. ….
….. he did drop one nugget….

Half of his department’s business clients in Victoria no longer exist.

(Allow some hyperbole & scattergun approach to statistical precision)

srr
srr
November 9, 2021 1:09 am

Muddysays:
November 8, 2021 at 8:36 pm
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.

Yep, which is why some spend most of their time posting the same BS about individuals rather than any counters to their content that they don’t want anyone else to even bother thinking about.

Smear the source and the source remains smeared even when content they post is supported by those smearing them or by other ‘approved’ posters.

When that happens it only needs the smearers to post the same content and have replies primarily credit the ‘approved’ posters and make the content only of secondary importance.

e.g. –

Rex Anger says:
November 8, 2021 at 8:38 pm

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.

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.

JC
JC
November 9, 2021 1:10 am

Stoush Queen alert.

Rorschach
Rorschach
November 9, 2021 1:11 am

It’s a pity that the various governments in league with Pharma & the Tech companies have done everything they can to suppress all relevant information to that decision-making process.

THIS. MUST. CHANGE.

srr
srr
November 9, 2021 1:12 am

More rosie bullshit relying on no one outside notafan’s current circle remembering what went down at Sinc’s cat –

rosie says:
November 8, 2021 at 6:23 pm
[…]
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.

JC kept pushing Biotech stocks.

You to bragged about being happy with your investment in them.

I asked if you were aware of the Big Baby Parts connection to the industry (as you also kept boasting of how much more Catholic than other Catholics you are), and you went off tap.

You said you’d look into the company you’re invested in and gave them the all clear.

I looked further & let you know that basically the whole industry is contaminated to some degree.

You went nuts because you couldn’t let go of your personal investment and put it into something, anything, a little less Big Baby Parts For Profits.

You also went hell for leather in support of the NHS & EU court denying parents their right & duty to save their children from a Death Panel Death Sentence for their children.

And here you are, still four square in support of Big Pharma Killing Children For Profit, (but of course that’s not what you call it, it’s just what it is), while crying how badly done by you are because one person won’t let some get away with tag-team attacks then calling, ‘No Returns’, like spoiled primary school brats.

srr
srr
November 9, 2021 1:16 am

I just refreshed again –

“Total signatures including previously tabled
6503

It still hasn’t made it back up to what it was hours ago –

“E-petition Number 402
Title
Reject the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Bill 2021”

“Total signatures including previously tabled
6509

rosie
rosie
November 9, 2021 3:10 am

A complete falsification.
The involvement of planned parenthood in the sale of the product of abortion was a huge story at the time and much discussed at old cat.
You were not the bearer of those tidings just again a piece of work out to attack those you dislike.
You attacked JC because he separately and with no ill intent was enthusiastic about the biotech industry and I merely pointed out that not all biotech companies were involved in this sinister practice and mentioned I had a small investment in an Australian biotechnology company.
You continued to lie about me and JC until you were mercifully booted and since your return picked up where you left off.

You could not possibly be in a position to know which companies in the entire world are ‘tainted’.
If what you say were true there is no drug or medical treatment you could have in good faith, but you do don’t you?
As for my position on that poor little boy, it was my view and still is, in his particular circumstances, that his doctors were right, he was effectively dead on life support, his parents had lost all objectivity and I believe that turned out to the case.
Like all of these trials by media reality was clouded by emotion.
There have been several similar stories re the NHS since then but you haven’t been the slightest bit interested, have you?
On the other hand it seems you have conveniently discarded your view on parent’s rights in relation to medical treatments for their children and would deny parents the right to get their children vaccinated against covid, should they wish to do so.
That btw isn’t me endorsing covid vaccination for children, personally I think it unwarranted.
Now stop directing comments at me you miserable uncharitable faux Christian

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 9, 2021 3:28 am

Yep, which is why some spend most of their time posting the same BS about individuals rather than any counters to their content that they don’t want anyone else to even bother thinking about

Female Faulty, it is neither practical nor effective to ‘counter’ people by proving their analysis about you 100% correct:

[You go Full Bird] 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.

Please keep in mind also, that Struth is a Strong, Independent Queenslander, who don’t need no [wee] man or woman to acting his behalf. He doesn’t like fools…

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Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 9, 2021 5:16 am

Bar Beach Swimmersays:
November 8, 2021 at 9:51 pm
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them

— George Orwell

I saw that too Bar Beach Swimmer – let’s just stay human – and being truly human means not losing our capacity to love and care for others irrespective of whether they appear to lose their capacity to do likewise.

bespoke
bespoke
November 9, 2021 5:38 am

I saw that too Bar Beach Swimmer – let’s just stay human – and being truly human means not losing our capacity to love and care for others irrespective of whether they appear to lose their capacity to do likewise.

Sometimes it’s better to cut ties rather than be dragged into the personal nightmares of other even if they are relatives. Told my little manic depressant brother in the UK never to contact me again recently. I have more pressing priorities to deal with. Compassion isn’t limitless.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
November 9, 2021 6:01 am

In today’s Oz. I am white hot with anger at these dangerous and duplicitous fools. I will never, ever vote for them again.

Scott Morrison fuels electric vehicles’ road to Damascus

Scott Morrison visits Ampcontrol in Tomago, NSW, on Monday. Picture: Adam Taylor

GEOFF CHAMBERS
CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

9:30PM NOVEMBER 8, 2021. 116COMMENTS

Scott Morrison’s electric vehicle strategy – a key plank of the government’s target for net-zero emissions by 2050 – will accelerate the rollout of charging and ­hydrogen refuelling stations across the country to support 1.7 million electric cars on the road by 2030.

As car manufacturers release timelines to end production of conventional vehicles, the Prime Minister said the government’s strategy would not force Australians out of their family sedans, utes and trucks.

Mr Morrison, who accused Bill Shorten of “ending the weekend” as the Coalition weaponised Labor’s electric vehicle strategy at the 2019 election, will spend $250m building charging stations in cities and towns and supporting businesses and ­governments transition to electric fleets.

The Future Fuels strategy – to be released on Tuesday and ­expected to drive more than $500m in combined private and public co-investment – is forecast to help slash carbon emissions by more than 8 million tonnes by 2035 and avoid $224m in electricity network upgrade costs.

jupes
jupes
November 9, 2021 6:20 am

… the Prime Minister said the government’s strategy would not force Australians out of their family sedans, utes and trucks.

Is that the same prime minister that said there would be no vaccine mandates?

jupes
jupes
November 9, 2021 6:21 am

Ha ha ha, Garrison draws Biden as a fart!

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 9, 2021 6:25 am

Is that the same prime minister that said there would be no vaccine mandates?

is that the same prime minister who promised no-one would be forced to take the vaccine? loathsome spineless craven coward

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 9, 2021 6:26 am

Sometimes it’s better to cut ties rather than be dragged into the personal nightmares of other even if they are relatives.

Sometimes it’s the best and only way

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 9, 2021 6:31 am

As car manufacturers release timelines to end production of conventional vehicles

Blame the manufacturers.
Scotty has a plan, which is more than Labor ever will.

caveman
caveman
November 9, 2021 6:34 am

Is that the prime minister the little French twerp called a liar?

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 9, 2021 6:40 am

Sorry Tom in my enthusiasm I reported your Ben Garrison cartoon instead of liking it — sorry for the trouble Dover

Cassie of Sydney
November 9, 2021 6:48 am

So as I’m at home and not on my work computer I can’t access the whole story from the Oz but just looking at the Oz’s headlines…..it reads as follows…

“PM fuels electric vehicles on road to Damascus
Scott Morrison’s electric vehicle strategy will accelerate the rollout of charging and ­hydrogen refuelling stations to support 1.7 million electric cars on the road by 2030”

I remember Bill Shorten spruiking similar nonsense before May 2019. So why is Scumbag Morrison doing the same? Can someone tell me what was the point of voting Liberal in 2019?

sfw
sfw
November 9, 2021 7:10 am

So all the existing infrastructure for fueling vehicles was installed and is maintained by private resources, yet the gov wants me to pay for the installation and maintenance etc of charging stations for other peoples electric cars? I’m being ripped off again.

132andBush
132andBush
November 9, 2021 7:24 am

Bons,
Re harvest.

Half way through the wheat here with chickpeas not quite ready.
Will get going again today and if the moisture doesn’t come up tonight we stand a chance of getting 24hrs in before it storms again tomorrow.

Mater
November 9, 2021 7:37 am

… the Prime Minister said the government’s strategy would not force Australians out of their family sedans, utes and trucks.

Weasel words. They’ll find a way to achieve the desired ‘motivation’:

The Hon. Greg Hunt MP, Minister for Health: Thanks, PM, and thanks David. So the immunisation register already exists. Think of it as a digital yellow book. Many of you would have had the World Health Organisation yellow books growing up and, like me, you’ve probably lost it over the years. And so this is an online version that actually exists already. And the change here is simply that whilst we maintain as an absolute article of faith voluntary but strongly encouraged vaccination, we have mandatory reporting of vaccinations for flu, for the National Immunisation Programme, for diseases such as mumps, rubella, pertussis and for COVID-19 vaccines. That’s very important, whole of nation public health information. But it’s also critically important information for individuals.

Journalist: Can companies get access to it?

The Hon. Greg Hunt MP, Minister for Health: No, no, it’s private. It’s your- it’s your medical record and it’s nobody else’s.

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-australian-parliament-house-act-31

Sure companies can’t get access to it…they’ll just sack you if you don’t give it to them voluntarily.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 9, 2021 7:41 am

Did Dick Ed get booted off somewhere that he now infests this blog like a cockroach?

Indolent
Indolent
November 9, 2021 7:45 am

‘Absolutely forbidden’ to give COVID shots to kids, young men and women, Jewish court rules

At last someone is making a stand. Is this the first official body that has made such a ruling? I can’t think of another.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 9, 2021 7:46 am

Is that the same prime minister that said there would be no vaccine mandates?

We have supposedly religious conservatives in Scott Morrison and Dom Perrottet.

They say you are known by the company you keep, so God must be saying to them out the side of his mouth, “Will you two go away and stop saying we’re friends?”

Actually, chances are that neither are particularly religious. It is just that the MSM is not very inventive and if you robotically go to a church service they will interpret that as being a religious fanatic.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2021 7:47 am

Just a quick hint to the aphid problem – one of my aunties used to regularly chuck the dishwashing water over the fruit trees in her backyard.
Worked OK for her.

Cassie of Sydney
November 9, 2021 7:48 am

“Did Dick Ed get booted off somewhere that he now infests this blog like a cockroach?”

Yep…..although he’s not the only roach here.

calli
calli
November 9, 2021 7:53 am

Lode, the “Christian” tag is part of the schtick. It’s a lulling device, designed to quell that sudden disquiet a Christian feels when something they do or say isn’t “quite right”.

Rudd used it too.

They’re frauds. They may have once had convictions, but have been gobbled up by the world. The worm is almost all bird now.

shatterzzz
November 9, 2021 7:53 am

I remember Bill Shorten spruiking similar nonsense before May 2019. So why is Scumbag Morrison doing the same? Can someone tell me what was the point of voting Liberal in 2019?

It’s another of the BRADBURY cunning stunts .. following the same policies as Labor may confuse the vote-herd into voting Lib thinking they are voting Lab ……. LOL!

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 9, 2021 8:02 am

dover0beachsays:
November 8, 2021 at 10:41 pm
“private medical procedure”

Oh, it’s a ‘private medical procedure’ now.

The bureaucratic tap dancing commences.

“It was never mandatory.” “Strictly a personal, private decision.” “Data on the risks were available”, in the basement, in a cabinet labelled “Beware of the leopard”.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
November 9, 2021 8:04 am

Am off to my sons Year 12 Graduation today in Melburnistan. As my wife is unvaxed she cannot attend. Yes the event will be zoomed. The anger is strong in this one. However I just found out the Year 12 students who are not vaxed also cannot attend. There are a number of kids who will not be there. WTF is going on?

calli
calli
November 9, 2021 8:07 am

Aphids don’t like soap. Instant death.

Getting back to P&P, Elizabeth was always a proto-feminist, Austen’s autobiographical “self”. Outspoken, raw, impulsive, intelligent, valued. The mired gown and flushed face from walking miles across the fields is taken directly from the book, as is the sometimes brittle repartee. No shrinking violet stuff from her.

Jane, on the other hand, comes up for criticism – she is too aloof, too guarded. And that’s why she nearly loses the man she ardently admires – his friend doesn’t really believe she cares for him.

On balance, the 1995 mini-series is pleasant to look at (especially Mr D 😀 ) but the 2005 movie captures the grubby and widely contrasting reality of the times. I also preferred the obsequious Mr Collins too, and Dench’s Lady Catherine.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 9, 2021 8:08 am

The Hun:

Premier Daniel Andrews is alleged to have quipped “do you want to win an election or not?” when colleague Adem Somyurek raised concerns about a “gold standard” rort to boost Labor’s 2014 campaign.

In sensational evidence given under oath to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission yesterday, Mr Somyurek ­detailed the then-opposition leader’s ­rebuff after he questioned the “extraordinary” scam.

I am well aware that this entire exercise is lying liars lying about conversations and activities with other lying liars to a body that will ultimately do nothing about it. If it wasn’t for the gargantuan damage the people involved have deliberately done to Victoria and its people, it would be faintly amusing.

I also note that both Andrews and Somyurek have the same habit (or condition) that apparently requires them to get about with their shoulders drawn up to their earlobes.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2021 8:10 am

Gab:

Just think, the jabbed are donating blood. Red Cross says hey, no problem.

I was unaware of that, mainly because I hadn’t even thought about it.

The worst thing about the whole Pericarditis/Heart failure thing was that apart from adding extra fluid to the system, you didn’t look sick.
I later found out that my friends at the airport at Barcaldine were ready to run out to the plane in case I didn’t manage to make it up the five steps into the aircraft after a 25 meter walk.
Getting out of bed and showering was the limit for the day while my Ejection Fraction was 22%.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2021 8:16 am

rickw:

Hold The Line. Wait Out The Insanity.

It looks like the tide is turning. The media are losing control of the narrative with protests happening all over the western world.

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. “

The other Winston.
🙂

shatterzzz
November 9, 2021 8:17 am

Just think, the jabbed are donating blood. Red Cross says hey, no problem.
I was unaware of that, mainly because I hadn’t even thought about it.

Yep, apparently, 3 weeks after the jab your blood is, once again, considered safe to donate .. why 3 weeks I have no idea ..!
must be the SCIENCE .. LOL!

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 9, 2021 8:17 am

They’re frauds. They may have once had convictions, but have been gobbled up by the world. The worm is almost all bird now.

Beautifully put calli: Titus 1:16 said it well too:
“They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.’

Bons
November 9, 2021 8:23 am

Senex Energy, a QLD based up and coming gas producer which is increasingly successful with expanding cash flow and great potential has been sold out by the Directors at well below fair value to a foreign company.
Of course the deal which is a disaster for national energy sovereignty and which screws over long term shareholders will be approved without scrutiny by the “Flog Off Australia’s Strategic Assets to Foreigners Review Board”.
Just like the sale of QLD Gas to BG who are happily exporting our gas while we face an ‘East Coast gas shortage’.
There are no words adequate to describe our stupidity. Naughty words don’t help.

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 9, 2021 8:33 am

rickw:

Hold The Line. Wait Out The Insanity.

Our strategy also.
2020 the year the world lost its mind
2021 the year the world failed to find it.
2022 still looking.

It will be interesting to see how long a technological society can hang together when vast majorities of people have abandoned science, logic and rationality.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2021 8:40 am

rickw:

Martin Iles / ACL on the current train wreck:

The first ten minutes quite revealing.
Ta.

Gab
Gab
November 9, 2021 8:43 am

Yep, apparently, 3 weeks after the jab your blood is, once again, considered safe to donate .. why 3 weeks I have no idea ..!

The Australian Red Cross site says 1 week.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 9, 2021 8:43 am

Pride and Prejudice-
Maybe- just maybe- it’s simply a bloody good pageturner. With heartbreaking bits and funny bits too.
The plot ducks and dives, and climbs up in moments of redemption. Just about every character has a believeable arc where they are forced to examine themselves and their prejudices, their decisions and choices and opinions.
Some cracking observations, and these are off the top of my head-
Darcy, when explaining his reluctance to get involved with the Bennetts-
“Your father’s complete lack of tact, in exposing your mother to the ridicule of her children, is something up with which I shall not put!” (sic)
Lizzie, simpering in her will to side with the bounder W-
“Besides- there was truth in his looks.”
I think that the filmmaker of the Knightley/McFadden version was looking in the right places when he/she wholly invented the line “Don’t judge me, Lizzie” (sic) spoken by her closest friend who marries the toady pastor bloke.
Knightley played Lizzie on the wrong note though, leading with her chin throughout, and hardly taking a backward step in any contrition.
Dench played DeBurgh as Dench.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 9, 2021 8:46 am

Look, JC, that letter to Sydney Airports board is not bad, but these things really need to go through the Cat form letter approval process.
We need something a bit more like St Ruth’s missive to Senator Stoker.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2021 8:49 am

Gab:

A legal team is looking for Covid Vaccine Injured Patients who are:
1. Willing to share their medical details publicly.
2. Willing to make a Statement as an Affidavit.
3. Willing to appear, if called upon, in a Supreme Court matter on a ZOOM call to confirm their affidavit and present their story.
If so, please contact me on:
[email protected]
…as soon as possible with your complete contact details which will be forwarded to the legal team who will then touch base with you.

Shared to my FB page…

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 9, 2021 8:53 am

Aphids don’t like soap. Instant death.

Hippies of the insect world.

calli
calli
November 9, 2021 8:53 am

Dench played DeBurgh as Dench.

Well, yes. Both Lady Catherine and Mr Collins are caricatures. Pronouncedly so. Most of the subordinate characters are fairly one-dimensional, representing various failures of character/breeding.

The title gives it away. You are invited to place them in either camp. It’s only with the principals that the lines become blurred.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 9, 2021 8:59 am

But we see Mr Collins played very differently in miniseries v movie.

jupes
jupes
November 9, 2021 9:01 am

Hugh Poate has the moral authority of a parent of a son murdered by an Afghan ‘ally’. Seems he has been talking to a few people and doing a bit of research. What he has to say is very interesting, both about the cover up of the inquiry into his sons murder and the disgraceful Brereton inquiry:

Hugh Poate told the Senate hearing on Monday it was hard to view the office as independent when appointed inspector-generals are former army officials who dropped their military titles 24 hours before they took up the position.

Mr Poate also accused the the defence minister of only “rubberstamping” inspector-general appointment as they are required to take into consideration any recommendation by the defence force chief during the nomination process.

“This is hardly consistent with the description of independence,” he said.

He was also critical of the secrecy shrouding defence investigations, saying he was “intimidated” by staff in the Chief of Defence Force’s office after questioning an inquiry into his son’s death.

Mr Poate said the families of the fallen were threatened with action by the attorney-general when calling for a transparent investigation following the incident.

“That is the way families of fallen soldiers were treated by defence at that time,” he said.

“(Defence) seems to be focused on hiding and concealing its mistakes rather than trying to correct them.”

The coronial inquest, held in Brisbane in 2014, was subsequently held at the behest of the aggrieved families who felt the internal process was inadequate.

Deputy Queensland Coroner John Lock said, in his 2015 findings, the three soldiers may not have died if a security warning had been passed down the chain of command.

Mr Lock found six systemic issues, five of which related directly to the August 2012 shooting, including insufficient attention given to insider threats and inadequate communication.

The defence force’s inquiry officer, who conducted the internal review, found no systemic issues or deficiencies.

Mr Poate said defence engaged in “deliberate obfuscation … and contrived secrecy” by classifying information which was gathered from the public domain.

The inquiry officer had the immunity of a High Court judge and could not be called as a witness before the coronial inquest.

So, of the 19 diggers being investigated for murder by the Office of the Special Investigator, NONE are being investigated for murdering an Australian. At least 50 ‘investigators’ are working on their case every working day. Yet the bloke who did murder three Australians is free as bird, while the culpability of ADF officers in the systemic issues that led to his murder, is being covered up by the ADF.

What a fucking disgrace.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 9, 2021 9:03 am

To : David Gonski
From : JC
Re : Sydney Airports takeover
…………………
Dear Mr Gonski David
Get fucked.
Rude letter following.

Kind regards

JC

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2021 9:05 am

Did Dick Ed get booted off somewhere that he now infests this blog like a cockroach?

Groogs is a much loved Cat character. Sort of like Hammy … only stupider.

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2021 9:06 am

Can someone tell me what was the point of voting Liberal in 2019?

No, and I didn’t. Had a few alternatives and put the sitting Liberal member last.

This appears to be the UAP’s strategy headinginto the next election – maximum disruption.

jupes
jupes
November 9, 2021 9:06 am

Rittenhouse trial should be over immediately.

Except we are talking about the ‘justice’ system of the United States.

calli
calli
November 9, 2021 9:12 am

Dench played DeBurgh as Dench.

“M” in a powdered wig.

You fully expect her to tell Lizzie “Say one more word and I’ll have you killed!”

😀

miltonf
miltonf
November 9, 2021 9:13 am

We need something a bit more like St Ruth’s missive to Senator Stoker.

Yes what an obnoxious screed that was.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2021 9:14 am

Aphids don’t like soap. Instant death.

I remember reading an article on how soap killed the Covid virus, reproduced by Bolt I think. The chemistry was quite sophisticated. Left me with new respect for soap. I have never be able to find it again.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 9, 2021 9:16 am

Tintarella di Lunasays:
November 9, 2021 at 8:17 am
They’re frauds. They may have once had convictions, but have been gobbled up by the world. The worm is almost all bird now.

Beautifully put calli: Titus 1:16 said it well too:
“They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.’

The media spin on Perrotet’s “Catholicism” seems to be six kids plus another on the way, goes to Mass, must be a strong Catholic.

Perhaps he just enjoys sex?

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2021 9:17 am

Except we are talking about the ‘justice’ system of the United States.

They haven’t made much progress since the Salem witch trials really.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2021 9:19 am

Perhaps he just enjoys sex?

Or his wife is unorganised?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 9, 2021 9:20 am

Warren Brown today. With those four words she became the most important person in the world. Police doing what they are supposed to be doing instead of supporting Fascist govts. The other 3 in the drawing big noting themselves, pulling everything down around them in the attempt to be in the spotlight. Those four words, “My name is Cleo”, bring a tear to my eye. Did she give up waiting for someone to find her, I think not. Those despicable 3 are no better than the scum that took Cleo. The majority are “Cleo” waiting to be saved by those who would bury us. Imagine what it would be like if Donald John Trump had not become President and exposed true nature of the left and even he did not know the depth of the swamp. We owe him a depth of gratitude similar to Winston Churchill and look where that got him in the next election. In the moment we heard “My name is Cleo” our hearts momentarily lifted to dispel the events of the last 18 months.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2021 9:22 am

Can someone tell me what was the point of voting Liberal in 2019?

Not this old chestnut again?

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 9, 2021 9:24 am

The immortal Les Patterson….

Researching a bit of satire…this is totally unusable and would be also so on TV these days….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULFMp4jKBo&t=190s

Winston Smith
November 9, 2021 9:25 am

Fair Shake:

Am off to my sons Year 12 Graduation today in Melburnistan. As my wife is unvaxed she cannot attend. Yes the event will be zoomed. The anger is strong in this one. However I just found out the Year 12 students who are not vaxed also cannot attend. There are a number of kids who will not be there. WTF is going on?

We are being segregated.
For an example of how propaganda works, I give you Leni Riefenstahl “Triumph of the Will.” Just change the word “Jew” to “Unvaccinated.”

Zatara
Zatara
November 9, 2021 9:31 am

Rittenhouse trial should be over immediately.

It is looking more and more like it will be a directed verdict, as in the Judge blows the whistle and ends the game because the prosecution has totally failed to prove any element of its case.

Antifa and BLM Rioters are now on-call.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2021 9:35 am

Poor old Peanut Head. SloMo is stealing all his policies. Chloe will be pissed.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 9, 2021 9:37 am

As car manufacturers release timelines to end production of conventional vehicles …

Shouldn’t that be As some car manufacturers?

Zatara
Zatara
November 9, 2021 9:38 am

Sorry, that would be ‘Antifa and BLM Rioters Inc.’

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2021 9:39 am

Poor old Peanut Head. SloMo is stealing all his policies. Chloe will be pissed.

Not as pissed as she’ll be if Albo lands in The Lodge next year.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
November 9, 2021 9:40 am

In Climate Target news:

Barack Obama tells COP26 the world is ‘nowhere near’ climate targets, takes aim at Russia, China

“Everyone knows what is to be done,” said Kenya’s Environment Minister Keriako Tobiko.

“There have been too much and too many workshops, retreats and conferences. And it is always ‘the time is now’ ‘the time has come’. Actually there’s no more time, let’s put the money on the table.”

Actually you can see why China and Russia aren’t on the piss in Glasgow.

Figures
Figures
November 9, 2021 9:46 am

I am glad my eighteen year old grandson chose the AZ. He’s had no problems.

The choice of vaccine is irrelevant. With all three brands the biggest problem is the same – quality control. It doesn’t even seem to make much of a difference as to the types of injuries that the different brands cause. If you get a vaccine from a “good” batch then you will probably be ok (long term effects are still unknown of course). If you get a vaccine from a “hot lot” then you almost certainly *will* get a non-trivial injury of some kind. And “hot lots” appear to account for around 10-20 per cent of the vaccines.

Karl Denninger’s analysis on his Market Ticker is extremely instructive. The quality control doesn’t appear to be improving and is essentially as bad for all three brands which suggests that there is something intrinsic to the making of spike protein vaccines that doesn’t allow consistency of product (the fact that heart problems are appearing consistently for all three brands backs this up). Of course, quality control or not, all vaccines are useless but if you’re going to get one, you should hope that yours is just saline.

johanna
johanna
November 9, 2021 9:47 am

TheirABC has found one farmer who is worried about climate change – so of course this is the headline for their story about storms in SA:

Storms have devastated more crops in South Australia’s mid north, with one farmer concerned about the role climate change could be playing.
Key points:

An SA farmer is fed up with climate change denial after his property incurred significant crop damage
Climate researcher Professor Roger Stone says La Niña is the main cause of recent severe weather
But he said its extreme events are amplified by climate change

“I think it’s just demonstrating that our climate is just changing before our eyes and we need to start doing things better so these weather patterns are not so severe so frequently,” said Caltowie farmer Ben Lehmann, who lost his barley and wheat crop to Saturday’s storms.

“I think it’s just another sign that we’re living in a very cranky climate at the moment.”

Mr Lehmann said neither he nor his father had seen a storm this intense before.

“We have to accept that many things are out of our control … but today has been the hardest day of farming in my short career,” he said.

“Dad in his 60 years has not seen a storm like it.”

Well, that settles it then.

Between TheirABC and its ability to find a person who agrees with their predetermined views, the chances of boring fact ever appearing in a headline are very slim indeed.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2021 9:47 am

Not as pissed as she’ll be if Albo lands in The Lodge next year.

I don’t think she’s got anything to worry about. Australia’s run of crap government looks set to continue.

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 9, 2021 9:49 am

Actually there’s no more time, let’s put the money on the table.

Says the man who was so afeared of rising sea levels, he put money on the table for waterfront property.

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2021 9:50 am

Morrison’s approval in QLD has fallen from 60% to 46% according to polling taken while he was in Glasgow.

Spruiking electric vehicles will go down about as well as his net-zero conversion in Australia’s most decentralised state.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2021 9:51 am

Not sure what’s going on here, but the government/FBI interest sure looks dodgy.

Rabz
November 9, 2021 9:54 am

The way I feel I may never bother with doctors at all in future

Agreed Gab. I avoid them like the plague. Arks’ piece last week about quacks was spot on.

Rorschach – my sympathies and good to hear your son is somewhat better.

Hold The Line. Wait Out The Insanity.

Been waiting twenty months so far, so what’s another ten or so (hopefully less, but most likely more).

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2021 9:54 am

An SA farmer is fed up with climate change denial after his property incurred significant crop damage

Perhaps he should give up farming and “rewild” his property then.

That’s the plan, isn’t it?

RacerX
RacerX
November 9, 2021 9:57 am

It seems the federal government is planning more electric car subsidies.

These vehicles are already subsidised by not paying road tax by not paying fuel excise. Plus the electricity to charge them is subsidised through subsidised rooftop solar, subsidised renewable energy and/or the subsidies to coal fired power I keep reading about.

I don’t see why electric cars need more subsidies. If a buyer thinks they are cleaner for the environment and want to go that way then they shouldn’t expect handouts. Fuel vehicles never required government funded fuel stations if electric vehicles are the future supply will meet demand.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2021 9:58 am

This School Board is looking more and more dysfunctional.
Hell, it looks like they ALL need to be investigated!

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2021 10:04 am

Fuel vehicles never required government funded fuel stations if electric vehicles are the future supply will meet demand.

If only it were about economics, Racer.

Crossie
Crossie
November 9, 2021 10:06 am

Hold The Line. Wait Out The Insanity.
Been waiting twenty months so far, so what’s another ten or so (hopefully less, but most likely more).

I heard last night on one of the Sky talk shows that the end is nigh, so to speak. I don’t know if it was wishful thinking or they actually had some other knowledge.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2021 10:06 am

The Biden regime is threatening to shut down another gas pipeline as winter approaches, this time in Michigan. This means that Americans may be without heat this winter.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 9, 2021 10:08 am

Rogersays:
November 9, 2021 at 9:54 am
An SA farmer is fed up with climate change denial after his property incurred significant crop damage

Perhaps he should give up farming and “rewild” his property then.

He could always convert it into a solar or wind farm, and harvest the subsidies?

Zatara
Zatara
November 9, 2021 10:10 am

Except we are talking about the ‘justice’ system of the United States.

They haven’t made much progress since the Salem witch trials really.

“And next on our show, calling from an undisclosed location, is a Mr. Pell who suggest he has some insight into legal systems, pots, kettles, and blackness.”

Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2021 10:18 am

The Hon. Greg Hunt MP, Minister for Health: No, no, it’s private. It’s your- it’s your medical record and it’s nobody else’s.

bullshit. you can’t even get access to your own medical records on mygov. of the 109 documents, only 2 are accessible to me.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2021 10:18 am

For months, in the aftermath of Biden’s Afghanistan DISASTER, Poland and many other European countries have been bombarded by thousands of Muslim migrants who are illegally crossing their borders into Europe.

Dot
Dot
November 9, 2021 10:25 am

An SA farmer is fed up with climate change denial after his property incurred significant crop damage

Sounds like he is shit at farming.

P
P
November 9, 2021 10:31 am

The Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica – 9th November 2021

Winston Smith
November 9, 2021 10:31 am

It’s a simple fact of life for the commercial trucking industry: Without replacement parts, the big semis stop rolling.
And when the trucks stop rolling, store shelves across the United States won’t be refilled with products.
Not looking real good.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 9, 2021 10:33 am

Getting back to P&P, Elizabeth was always a proto-feminist, Austen’s autobiographical “self”. Outspoken, raw, impulsive, intelligent, valued. The mired gown and flushed face from walking miles across the fields is taken directly from the book, as is the sometimes brittle repartee. No shrinking violet stuff from her.

Calli, I think Knightley overdid it with the ‘independent you-go-girl’ stuff, which is what I meant by proto-feminist, so it depends what you mean by the term. Her Elizabeth comes across as someone who could happily inhabit a millenials’ book club and did not strike me at all as true to the period, too chirpy and too arch. There is an element of caution in Austin’s Elizabeth, and a reflective nature Knightley did not convey as well as a genuine independence of spirit – the long walks alone as the motif for that.

Elizabeth played by Jennifer Ehle to Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy was much more the independent thinking gentleman’s daughter of the Regency period, very concerned with proprieties and not willing to give way to her own attraction until she was satisfied Darcy was indeed an honest man. That she was also a young woman trying to sort out her own life given the cards handed out to her by fate in a time when women were expected to marry or remain ‘old maids’, well, tell me about it. We can certainly read Austin’s own desire for freedom of thought writ large in her Elizabeth. Tell me about it. Recall that I left school at the end of 1956 in rural area where an independent woman knew to take due care if, under-age especially, she was flouting any of the multitude of conventions of that time. You-go-girls didn’t get far then.

Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2021 10:36 am
Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2021 10:38 am

An SA farmer is fed up with climate change denial after his property incurred significant crop damage

toss another virgin into the volcano

Crossie
Crossie
November 9, 2021 10:43 am

I remember Bill Shorten spruiking similar nonsense before May 2019. So why is Scumbag Morrison doing the same? Can someone tell me what was the point of voting Liberal in 2019?

Cassie, it’s like we have to vote for them to find out what’s in them, courtesy of Nancy Pelosi.

srr
srr
November 9, 2021 10:44 am

“Don’t use or accept the Moronic Language changes.

“Anti Vax” now (in dictionaries) includes people that support Vaccines, and oppose Vaccine Mandates.
And lets not discuss “Gain of Function”.”

Loki the Cat
1 hour ago

How the Left Weaponises Language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E10yv6LLlY&t=715s

Nov 9, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

This is a refreshing & edifying refresher for everyone wading through the cat/s these days and wondering why some spend most of their time attacking those who dare mention any of Govts many overreaches.

You shall know them by the venom they spit at the messengers & excuses they make for the dictators.

johanna
johanna
November 9, 2021 10:45 am

And that’s it from me for tonight. Sleep tight.

(12.01 am)

Lizzie is like that annoying guest at a party who announces that they are leaving and then keeps the host(s) talking at the door or outside the car for the next half hour.

Sure enough, half an hour later:

Hairy and I discussed how to approach the issue of Vaxxes with the parents of our four grandchildren under 12.

1. Nobody cares at what time you go to bed. Plus, you lie about it, every time.
2. As someone else said, what is this, your personal diary? I don’t give a rat’s what you did or didn’t discuss with your henpecked spouse.

I note that the not-very-subtle attempts to garner sympathy for your medical woes have fallen on stony ground. Perhaps it is because, over the years, many contributors have had much worse problems. (RIP Rudiau and others)

You are a comparatively rich old woman with medical problems.

Hold the front page!

How’s the book coming? You know, the one you have been talking about for years and years to prove that you are an interlecsual.

P.S. – I got 100/100 in third class for arithmetic in the 1960s, and have the school report to prove it. I am sure that you will agree that this information is immensely relevant. 🙂

I will never let up, you flash rat with a gold tooth.

Zatara
Zatara
November 9, 2021 10:51 am

DeSantis to Unveil New Legislation Banning Employers From Requiring Vaccination ‘As Soon as the End of Today’

During a Nov. 8 press teleconference, DeSantis’ Chief of Staff James Uthmeier said drafts of the legislation should be released by tomorrow morning at the latest and “as soon as the end of today.”

A State govt protecting its people from tyrannical, unconstitutional, unscientific and dangerous edicts, what a wild concept. Only a Florida man could come up with something that crazy.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 9, 2021 10:51 am

ps. I didn’t much like Judy Dench’s portrayal of Lady Catherine de Burgh. It was too much like Judy Dench’s Queen Elizabeth and other grandees. Dench often fails to depict the essence of her characters, never getting inside their heads; it’s mostly outward buff and style. Barbara Leigh-Hunt’s interpretation in the TV series with Colin Firth was much more believable to my mind – a rat-faced haughty woman excessively sharp in her own opinions and making claims for social worth based purely on position, dismissive of Elizabeth’s right to stand up to her, and even in the terms of the day, thoroughly ridiculous in her assumption of superiority.

In favour of the later movie though, the dynamics of the Bennet household were more closely examined than in either Austin’s rendition of Mr and Mrs Bennet and of the other teenage girls.
And you could almost smell the living standards, a smell which would have been pervasive in most places.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 9, 2021 10:55 am

I will never let up, you flash rat with a gold tooth.

You’ve been at it for years. Serious mental derangement. I had thought you improved, but not so.

Missing sleep, or missed your tablets?

Crossie
Crossie
November 9, 2021 10:55 am

sfw says:
November 9, 2021 at 7:10 am
So all the existing infrastructure for fueling vehicles was installed and is maintained by private resources, yet the gov wants me to pay for the installation and maintenance etc of charging stations for other peoples electric cars? I’m being ripped off again.

If that was the only thing it wouldn’t be so bad, we’ve paid enormously for other stupidities in the past. What this presages is that ICE cars will be illegal by 2030 except for the elite and the police.

Who knew Mad Max movies were prophetic?

Zatara
Zatara
November 9, 2021 10:57 am

Biden encourages businesses to violate vaccine court order

The White House on Monday urged businesses to move forward with implementing rules for coronavirus vaccines in violation of a federal court which stayed President Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate for private companies.

‘The three-judge panel on the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cited “grave statutory and constitutional issues” with Biden’s rule in issuing the stay on Saturday.’

struth
struth
November 9, 2021 10:58 am

Tinta, if at all possible, don’t let your son near the jab.

Sounds like his instincts are kicking in.

Don’t come on here telling people what to do and screaming like a banshee going all Bird on us.
Ask the bedwetters.
It’s a personal decision that should not be influenced by anyone else.
(unless it is the government).

There’s a good article mover at Adam’s cat for those brave enough to venture over, but if not here it is .
https://catallaxy-files.com/compliance-is-not-a-virtue/
But compliance is not a virtue; it isn’t neutral, and it certainly isn’t harmless.

PS.
It’s good to see I live rent free in Choo choo man’s head.
Hey Choo choo man, show me one bird like comment I made!
Fuckwit.

Crossie
Crossie
November 9, 2021 11:04 am

Fair Shake says:
November 9, 2021 at 8:04 am
Am off to my sons Year 12 Graduation today in Melburnistan. As my wife is unvaxed she cannot attend. Yes the event will be zoomed. The anger is strong in this one. However I just found out the Year 12 students who are not vaxed also cannot attend. There are a number of kids who will not be there. WTF is going on?

It’s one way to make kids hate their society and turn them into dissidents.

It also shows how a lot of people who are tasked with teaching children should never be allowed near them.

I thought teachers had to take courses in child psychology yet they demonstrate that they have learned nothing from them.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2021 11:05 am

Time for a Bex and a lie down.

Rabz
November 9, 2021 11:07 am

What this presages is that ICE cars will be illegal by 2030

This is so bloody typical of these incompetent, evil and infuriating imbeciles. Force the replacement of something that works perfectly well, with something that is useless, dangerous and horrendously expensive.

Of course the real agenda is simply to stop the proles being able to drive and ruthlessly restricting their freedom of movement.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 9, 2021 11:07 am

johanna says:
November 9, 2021 at 9:47 am
TheirABC has found one farmer who is worried about climate change – so of course this is the headline for their story about storms in SA:

He has a storm pass through with hail which is a crop insurance claim for prudent farmers.
SA farmers have had a dream run of seasons over the last five years, so are hardly in a position to complain about the weather.
He’s had one storm this bad in sixty years which is hardly an indicator of increased frequency resulting from extreme climate change. I’ve seen strip storm damage that threw trees metres away in one part of the farm but no damage elsewhere.
Silly article by silly people.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 9, 2021 11:10 am

Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Lady Catherine de Burgh also managed to convey very well the underlying fear that this appalling woman had of things going wrong for her plans for Darcy. Lady Catherine emerges from this interpretation as both foiled and made to look both foolish and desperate by Elizabeth’s initially calm but increasingly pointed delivery of a few home truths to this silly aristocrat.

jupes
jupes
November 9, 2021 11:16 am

Barack Obama tells COP26 the world is ‘nowhere near’ climate targets, takes aim at Russia, China

The very same Barack Obama who sat next to President Xi prior to them both signing the Paris climate agreement. In Obama’s case, he vowed to ruin the US economy by making energy more expensive and in Xi’s case, to improve China’s economy by vowing to stop increasing CO2 emissions in about 30 years time.

Seriously. Obama thought that was a good deal.

Crossie
Crossie
November 9, 2021 11:16 am

Our strategy also.
2020 the year the world lost its mind
2021 the year the world failed to find it.
2022 still looking.

It will be interesting to see how long a technological society can hang together when vast majorities of people have abandoned science, logic and rationality.

Eyre, I put my faith in the Israelis getting it right after trying everything along the way. The others are too arrogant to admit they were wrong.

jupes
jupes
November 9, 2021 11:18 am

Of course the real agenda is simply to stop the proles being able to drive and ruthlessly restricting their freedom of movement.

Yep. No one can doubt this now.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2021 11:19 am

Morrison’s approval in QLD has fallen from 60% to 46% according to polling taken while he was in Glasgow.

I expect SloMo has the appeal of a Lets Go Brandon in a lift. That is not really the end of it. He is a good campaigner (works after lunch) and Albo has the electoral appeal of sludge. It will be close.

Forget Western Sydney, Queensland is where Federal elections are won and lost.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 9, 2021 11:22 am

Farmer Gezsays:
November 9, 2021 at 11:07 am

Some really well off farmers I know do a few essential things during the good years.
Improvements.
Salt away a few quid in shares (easy to sell if you need them)
Usually a bunch of investment houses to rent out…

Also a mix that works ok when the old man dies, theres enough ‘not farm” to pay out the kids who wont get it.

If they have had 6 good years and this dork is saying ” well all be ruined”.. well, hes a mediocre farmer or on marginal sized/fertility property.

Crossie
Crossie
November 9, 2021 11:25 am

jupes says:
November 9, 2021 at 9:06 am
Rittenhouse trial should be over immediately.
Except we are talking about the ‘justice’ system of the United States.

Ours is no better than theirs, see Cardinal Pell trial and appeal.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2021 11:25 am

KRudd’s policy of requiring 75% (or whatever) to change leaders could cost the Liars another election. Maybe you could argue for it where the incumbent had won a general election, in Opposition it’s madness.

Chris
Chris
November 9, 2021 11:29 am

An entirely unconfirmed rumour told me at the club on Sunday:
Mark McGowan’s Department of Sport and Recreation offered a $10,000 grant to the Smallbore shooting club.
On condition 50% of BOARD POSITIONS ARE HELD BY FEMALES.

Gab
Gab
November 9, 2021 11:31 am

On condition 50% of BOARD POSITIONS ARE HELD BY FEMALES.

Fine. As qualifications and experience for the position are not regarded, then where do I apply? I am female so I should be the best candidate.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2021 11:34 am

Given that the WA Heath Department cancelled a sponsorship because a play contained a smoking scene -entirely plausible. They are relentless.

Chris
Chris
November 9, 2021 11:35 am

You’re in Gab.
AGM follows the Christmas fun shoot, when novelty targets of white male historic figures will be spattered with blueberries by shooters wearing high heels for a running race.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 9, 2021 11:35 am

Hey Johanna and your ridiculous uptickers, here are just a few of the women here who comment about their own lives and experiences as part of the general discourse in no significant way different from the way in which I do:

Calli, Cassie, Tinta, Vicki, Rosie, Min, and others on the Old Cat, oh, and you yourself.

Have a go at them for a change or do some self-examination. You are a fraud. Tell us again about your geraniums. And your house sale. And your marvellous one-time management of the whole of Jervis Bay Naval Station. And your work in Premiers in NSW… all of which I actually don’t object to, in spite of some of its hyperbole, but I do object when you have the hide to disparage me on a pathetically regular basis for no real reason except that I exist and comment here.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 9, 2021 11:37 am

Some really well off farmers I know do a few essential things during the good years.
Improvements.
Salt away a few quid in shares (easy to sell if you need them)

“If you have a good year, invest off farm, in something that’s nothing to do with farming.”

Worked for three generations of the clan….

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 9, 2021 11:38 am

It’s good to see I live rent free in Choo choo man’s head.
Hey Choo choo man, show me one bird like comment I made!
Fuckwit.

That was one right there…

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t273/karasu_1400/implied-facepalm-1.jpg

Gab
Gab
November 9, 2021 11:39 am

SOme pics and videos of the Melbourne protest last Saturday.

The video showing the reception the mainstream media got was priceless. ”Tell the truth, you maggots”.

https://www.fromrome.info/2021/11/08/australia-massive-protest-in-melbourne-against-the-sanitary-dictatorship/

Crossie
Crossie
November 9, 2021 11:41 am

Zatara says:
November 9, 2021 at 9:31 am
Rittenhouse trial should be over immediately.
It is looking more and more like it will be a directed verdict, as in the Judge blows the whistle and ends the game because the prosecution has totally failed to prove any element of its case.

Antifa and BLM Rioters are now on-call.

Directed verdict is the only way to protect jurors who have already been threatened if they don’t deliver a guilty verdict but I don’t think the judge will do it.

calli
calli
November 9, 2021 11:44 am

Rittenhouse is a political prisoner of a corrupt regime.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 9, 2021 11:44 am

And anyway Struth, what is up with the Hurr Durr, choo choo man gag?

Did your Mummy not let you have a train set when you were little?

Mine did.

Maybe that’s why you’re such an angry, incoherent and bitter cuss and I’m not?

#BuyYourKidsATrainset*

[Totally not a pre-Christmas plug. Nor an attempt at recruiting children. Totally not… :)]

John of Mel
John of Mel
November 9, 2021 11:47 am

Some pics and videos of the Melbourne protest last Saturday.

This Saturday 12pm at State Library.
It’s on. I’m even making my own sign this time.

Crossie
Crossie
November 9, 2021 11:48 am

Of course the real agenda is simply to stop the proles being able to drive and ruthlessly restricting their freedom of movement.

I agree Rabz, that’s all this is about. Our prosperity of the last 50 years has democratised the world and made the elites almost irrelevant, this is their way of fighting back. The hoi polloi were able to afford international travel and holidays in previously exclusive destinations and spoiled the experience for the elite.

Those 400 private jets said everything that needed to be said about COP26, once again the elites can travel where they please while the common herds are penned up at home.

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