Gotta start somewhere, even if it is second…
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Am I lucky this morning?
3 down. Australia will probably lose tomorrow. Despite all the bullshit, I still support Australia.
Well spotted Ceres.
At this moment in time, Jasprit Bumrah is playing his 41st Test and is holding a bowling average of 19.94.…
Pay Cash for everything.
Already going back that way but not for any dark motives. The amount of fees electronic payment is starting to attract is the reason why. Problem is what happens when businesses stop accepting legal tender and only cashless. Starting to see that now and for the time being it is easy to avoid.
The States are solely responsible for the Lockdowns and Border Closures.
Solely responsible.
It hasn’t worked and Scotty has called for a halt.
That’s all he can do and all he should be able to do.
Enough people either pay cash or insist on a Cheque and the Big Gov. fans will either cave or shut their doors.
Don’t be afraid to ask for a cashdiscount, it’s up to them if they want to pay GST.
All this is for the benefit of the health system, is it?
This would be the health system that’s had two years to prepare, and which is the most wasteful department at either State or Federal levels by a street. Much worse than the education departments, and that’s saying something.
Health departments, and hospitals by default run on a 24 hour ‘Hail Mary’ cycle, where if nothing significant goes wrong despite overworked staff and cracks being papered over everywhere you look then the cry is ‘Let’s do it all again tomorrow’ under the false god of risk management.
Bloated, festering bureaucracies hovering over the top chock full of ‘executives’ and vanity projects, soaking up the billions that go into it. If this wide brown land got the health portfolio right, then none of this current nonsense would be necessary.
Unless, of course, the said nonsense was being used as an extortion mechanism for free Federal cash.
Never underestimate the capacity of interlocking cash hoovers to keep their jobs and maintain their fiefdoms.
So who kept all Australians and foreigners alike out of Australia for the last 22 months, Grigory?
I know Comrade Sneakers behaves like he is Grand Poobah of his own Sovereign Nation, but even he has a level of sovereignty over and above him…
I used crystallised gypsum, freshly cracked in a nuclear submarine’s reactor chamber.
My transactors know the authenticity of my material by its magnificent blue glow…
Responsible in a we-made-a-decison way, but not responsible in a who-pays way.
The Feds guaranteed funding to the States who locked down. Without Jobkeeper, Disaster payments etc etc the States would never have been so draconian.
From The Australian Government Treasury: The 2021-22 Budget committed an additional $41 billion in direct economic support, bringing total support since the beginning of the pandemic to $291 billion as of May 2021.
The States are solely responsible for the Lockdowns and Border Closures.
And Scummo & the Feds couldn’t have mounted a High Court challenge??
(As well as cut off funding etc)
Scummo is leading the charge on all this shit – the States are providing cover & the muscle.
No, the Labor States tried to bring the Federal Government down.
If people starved, it was heartless Scotty’s fault.
JobKeeper, JobSeeker, drawing up to $20 Grand of Super and other Reief Payments were the greatest single thing any Federal Government has done in my lifetimel
It was enough to give people faith that the Liberals in Canberra wouldn’t leave them for dead.
Rex Anger says:
November 18, 2021 at 10:02 pm
I used crystallised gypsum, freshly cracked in a nuclear submarine’s reactor chamber.
My transactors know the authenticity of my material by its magnificent blue glow…
Rex – in cartoons & movies, radioactive stuff always glows green….
Are you telling me that I have been fooled all these years???
The Federal Government doesn’t have power over the States and it can’t cut off Federal Funds.
If it could,Whitlam woulda done it in 1973.
Good on ya Mater. Hope you do.
A new religious discrimination commissioner tasked with overseeing proposed protections for faith-based groups and individuals would be handed an $11m budget over five years to establish a stand-alone office inside the Australian Human Rights Commission.
This will rapidly morph into the “don’t insult Islam” department. It may do some token protection of other non-Christian faiths but it will mainly be to stop people accurately quoting from the Koran and the Hadiths.
No doubt.
I’ll bet good money on that.
I wasn’t going to go to Saturday’s rally because of scheduled eye surgery today. Which was cancelled at the last minute. Indefinitely. Oh well, the health systems is not stressed at all apparently.
So now I’m free to go but not sure I’ll have company as the Prince is definitely not keen. What advice, Mater, for attending solo?
GreyRanga,
Doing some errands for a mate today and everything went right.
Not too hot in the car for my dog, light traffic with only sane drivers, parks where I needed them, helpful friends behind the counters, just one short stop at the last set of lights before home, and there’s a bloke waiting to cross, with a beautiful pair of perfectly behaved canines, a Scottish Deerhound & Border Terrier!
It made me smile, big, and think of you.
Silly I know, but it felt like a sign – ‘Hang in there, the good, the true & the beautiful still exist!’
How are things going for you workwise rickw?
The company has said nothing more despite the fact that they said the would update me this week.
Tomorrow is the last shred of annual leave I have left. I’m calling them tomorrow to find out WTF is going on. My starting position is that I start working from home on Monday.
I’ve been busting my guts the last few weeks getting the farm shed almost finished and all of the machinery out of the factory in Melbourne. Have been moving one turret mill a day so far, one more to go!
If it really turns to shit then I sell everything in Melbourne and move to the farm.
I can recall singing Me and Bobby McGee in primary school. It might have been part of the ABC Let’s Sing program or it could have been just something done by the the hippy primary school teachers that seemed to be prevalent in regional primary schools at the time. The line “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose” has always stuck with me but I have never thought about it much until now.
Like many others I now face an ultimatum, get vaxxed or give up your job. I have a family to support, we are a single income family. I don’t feel free to not take the vaccine as this will risk being able to provide for the family. Having convinced my sons and daughter to not take the vaccine until long term studies have been done or better options are available, I don’t feel free to take the vaccine. They have had to give up part time jobs and endure the social costs of being unvaccinated, which have been significant for them particularly at the stage in life they are in.
Arky was spot on when he said that this transfer of risk from the old to the young is disgusting.
Still having something to lose is a blessing, but it can make you feel quite impotent not knowing how to fight for it. It would seem the rest of polite society outside the Cat has moved on quite quickly.
We also have the most treacherous unions in the world. People in the importing industries, no matter large or small, have been telling that their shipping companies are warning them that they are on the verge of stopping shipping to Australia. The problem is the wharves. The unions have very strict limits on how many containers are moved a day and will not budge from that number, no matter what. It includes both off loading and backfilling.
Some might remember a few months ago that the largest container ship ever to enter our waters came empty and only loaded the number of containers allowed at each port all the way down the east coast and then departed to the northern hemisphere.
No one has a clue what is going to happen down the track, except shortages of almost everything that comes by ship.
It is gypsum. Not any of that admittedly cool but rather expensive tritium, radium or polonium stuff.
And kryptonite is far too valuable to trade… 😉
It is also EBA time at the moment, and in rolling industrial action across both the East and West Coasts over this last year, the MUA has been gleefully contributing to everbody’s supply chain difficulties. Farmers were losing export slots at Port Botany back in March, and by October here in WA, farmers were seeing their expensive and long waited-for harvesters and other plant get sent to Adelaide or Melbourne or Sydney instead of Perth due to the go-slows. Currently, the Fremantle folk have locked horns with Ocean Express, the single biggest shipper that comes in here. They have been refusing to offload incoming ONE ships.
HUGE EXCLUSIVE: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò Calls on People of Faith to Unite in a Worldwide Anti-Globalist Alliance to Free Humanity from the Totalitarian Regime (VIDEO)
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/huge-exclusive-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano-calls-people-faith-unite-worldwide-anti-globalist-alliance-free-humanity-totalitarian-regime-video/
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free humanity from totalitarians
https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/1641/free-humanity-totalitarian-regime?page=1&scrollTo=3712
mc, this sucks big time.
There are less and less options to fight back.
One, that is still available, despite what the media and government says, is going overseas. There are countries that accept a negative PCR test for entry. The same is with airlines. We know people who left the country this week. Many countries don’t require a visa for AU citizens.
It’s not for everyone, there are risks involved and there is no guarantee that this madness will pass back home while you’re waiting overseas, but that is one of the last few options left. And I don’t know what other options among these few are. Maybe going bush, but that to me sounds even more difficult than leaving.
The Vortex — Bishops Back Sacrilege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq4iBVuVDTQ
Nov 18, 2021
Church Militant
222 Bishops to 8
Nothing changes. When Centurion tanks were sent to Vietnam, in 1968, they couldn’t be serviced or maintained,when they arrived “in country “because the “wharfies” that loaded them, had stolen all the tools off every tank.
Fast forward, to when the Army changed over to the Leopards. They were shipped from Germany, and the Army wanted to send their drivers down to unload them. The MUA refused – any tanks would only be driven by union labor…the compromise was that a few good union members would go up to “Pucka” for instruction on how to drive a tank.
One of the “bruvvas” got horribly pissed, one night, and wandered into the “snakepit.”
Asked who he was, and what he was doing there, he answered he was a dock worker, sent to learn how to drive a tank.
“You’d be one of the (ladies bits) who stole all the tools of my tank in 1968” said a very angry sergeant…before smashing the wharfie into the next postcode….what goes around….
Deja Vu 1938
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZkdbWcav2E
Nov 19, 2021
Tony Heller
111K subscribers
Originally uploaded to twitter.com/i/status/1460973179799851016 by Gary
Alexander From Austria Says Officials Discussing Forced Vaccination Of Everyone By Christmas t.co/8VMUhDlHuA
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Easy Megan, we’ll meet up beforehand.
They’ve moved on for now, mc. Unless this is stopped, at some point, government overreach will touch a sensitive pressure point of everyone, but it’ll happen piecemeal so resistance will be limited, and manageable from the authorities perspective. As the poem ends:
No one ever said Australians weren’t short sighted.
As for being pressured into the vaccine, yep, it’s coming for everyone. Only individual circumstance changes the timeline. Some may make it long enough to outlast the insanity. If you don’t, you are not alone. Some things are beyond your power to influence, don’t let it destroy you. Protect your kids as long as you can. If taking it means you can provide for them whilst they don’t, well…you know the answer to that one. That’s our job as parents and protectors.
If the insanity doesn’t end before your kids are Shanghaied into it (and that’s coming quickly), never forgive or forget those that facilitated it. I don’t intend to.
Peter Brookes.
Matt Pritchett.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Matt Margolis.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Sorry for the interruption, Tom.
Covid has killed my manners!
Thanks Tom.
Always appreciate your ‘toons, Tom.
Good onya Sheeds!
Champion.
Where’s numberwang!?
I miss him.
Will SpaceX Control Mars Like the British East India Company Controlled the Indian Subcontinent?
Very interesting discussion.
Mater’s Musings #40: Pot calling the kettle…Black?
Don’t know if anyone’s seen this hope the link works ‘cause am in my iphone
https://www.2gb.com/injured-nsw-woman-made-to-walk-across-border-after-being-expelled-from-qld-hospital/
We had to make this choice in the past with Japan and then the US in becoming a client state.
It will come down to how much we believe in owe claimed values.
Ah nothing like taking a swipe and immediately muting a few istandwithdanners first thing in the morning.
‘Everything Dans’s done has been meticulously planned and da science’.
Pig’s arse.
Xi wants free rein to invade Taiwan.
No worries mate.
what a guy
Don’t you just love Labor Premiers?
‘Verging on urban terrorism’: McGowan condemns anti-vax protests (18 Nov)
‘We’re not in a lockdown’: Andrews takes another swipe at ‘extremist’ protesters (18 Nov)
Fits well with Mark Knight’s cartoon. Those terrifying little old ladies are worse than Antifa and BLM put together!
Btw the headlines are as they appear on Sky News Oz main page. And thanks to Tom for linking Knight’s cartoon.
see we don’t need no more migrants
Flying in hundreds of plane loads of people from the ME seemed like a good idea at the time.
I wonder if Belarus will have a problem with forced repatriations?
Belarus again
Must be very difficult when you don’t know how many people live in your country.
estimated 4.8 million undocumented migrants in Europe as of 2017
Not weeks, months, at least since June according to USPS page…
Australia
10-5-21
Australia Post advises that operations at its Melbourne offices of exchange (IMPC codes beginning with AUMEL) are currently disrupted owing to government-imposed measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The associated restrictions are having a significant impact on the processing and delivery of inbound and outbound mail items. Australia Post requests that mail destined for the Melbourne offices of exchange be sent to the Sydney offices of exchange (IMPC codes beginning with AUSYD) while these measures remain in place.
9-17-21
Temporary Service Disruption
The Postal Service™ has temporarily suspended international mail acceptance to Australia due to service impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The service disruption affects Priority Mail International® (PMI).
9-3-21
Temporary Service Disruption
The Postal Service™ has temporarily suspended international mail acceptance to Australia due to service impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The service disruption affects First-Class Package International Service® (FCPIS®), Commercial ePacket (CeP), International Priority Airmail® (IPA®) packets, International Priority Airmail® (IPA®) M-Bags, International Surface Air Lift® (ISAL®) packets, International Surface Air Lift® (ISAL®) M-Bags, and Airmail M-Bags.
8-25-21
Australia Post advises that the Sydney office of exchange will be closed for up to 48 hours for reasons relating to COVID-19. This will have a direct impact on processing, delivery and handover of all inbound mail items received in Sydney during this period. Australia Post’s offices of exchange in Brisbane and Melbourne continue to process mail.
7-28-21
Australia Post advises that its daily operations are being affected by government measures aimed at preventing spread of COVID-19. There are impacts to processing and delivery of inbound and outbound mail items. There are border closures and lockdowns in place across the country, including lockdowns in two major states, Victoria and New South Wales, where the processing and delivery of mail items is being significantly impacted.
6-28-21
Australia Post advises of new restrictions in place to minimize the spread of COVID-19. The post is experiencing disruptions to its daily operations due to emergency measures imposed by the government. These measures, which include lockdowns, state border closures, restrictions on movement and self-isolation for affected individuals, have caused disruptions with airlines and other transportation providers. The restrictions are having a direct impact on service quality for inbound international letter post services. Australia Post is therefore declaring a force majeure event for all inbound international letter post services effective June 28.
6-1-21
Australia Post advises that inbound letter-post items are no longer being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is still experiencing issues with other categories of inbound items and all categories of outbound mail.
On shipping containers – a family member has a large business (biggest in its niche in Oz) and has experienced massive increases over the past year in freight costs. Had to write off over 1 million dollars last year due to increases.
A little over a year ago, a container cost around $3k to ship. It is now over $14k.
Get a load of this filthy low life…
Saule Omarova, whom Biden tapped to serve as Comptroller of the Currency, was arrested after she was caught stuffing $214 worth of clothes, shoes, cologne, and belts in her purse at a T.J. Maxx in Madison, Wis., in May 1995. Omarova was 28 years old at the time and studying for her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin.
Omarova is slated to appear before the Senate Banking Committee for her confirmation hearing Thursday. If confirmed, Omarova will oversee regulation of the country’s banking system. The police report, published by the American Accountability Foundation, could get her into further hot water with Senate Republicans who say she supports radical economic policies.
‘Universities’ are an absolute menace.
I think Australia Post is catching up with backlog though Christmas deliveries will be testing.
Pre covid they used to rely on additional capacity in passenger aircraft for economy rate international shipping which was suspended indefinitely in April 2020.
I had outbound parcels trapped in distribution centre for three weeks in October but they did get there, eventually.
The more passenger flights there are, the better.
Small in the scheme of things. I ordered some books in mid Sept directly from the publisher as I did not want to enrich Bozo further, and as it is a niche publisher I would prefer them to make all the profit. I was hoping to have them for the upcoming school holidays. The publisher only ships through USPS and I have offered to pay extra to have them sent by anybody else, but no go. (Angry red face)
Yeah, she’s quite something. Daniel Greenfield has this today:
Biden’s Bank Regulator Lived Out Communist Principles by Stealing Hundreds From T.J. Maxx (18 Nov)
Given the Bureau of Land Management head is an actual ecoterrorist it looks like the guys running Biden are trying to find the most radical most nutty Marxists they can for all the Administration jobs. And McConnell who slow walked Trump’s appointees for years is letting them through.
I heard the same from the horse’s mouth (not the same horse)
My horse has $0.25M stuck at port of origin
got container
got no ship
correction … container(s)
“‘Verging on urban terrorism’: McGowan condemns anti-vax protests (18 Nov)
‘We’re not in a lockdown’: Andrews takes another swipe at ‘extremist’ protesters (18 Nov)”
I suspect Maggot McClown and Marxist Dan are rather unnerved and shocked with the protests. Both of them have completely swallowed the fawning MSM coverage, both have believed themselves to be unassailable and insurmountable hence when confronted with opposition they quickly resort to smearing….and of course the always compliant filthy MSM willingly hops onto the bandwagon of smears to help them with the dirty work. But now many people can see the rank hypocrisy and double standards. Whenever I see and hear ugly Daniel Andrews (and ugly he is…inside and out) I’m reminded of Nicolae Ceausescu. I don’t see much difference between the two. Both are narcissistic low life characters, married to low life women. Both would rather strip bare, trash and completely destroy their respective countries/states than ever admit they were and are wrong. Like Ceausescu, Dan really believes he’s the messiah. I don’t think Victoria can ever recover from this man in much the same way that Romania has never really recovered, economically and socially, from the reign of Ceausescu…..thirty years after Ceausescu the country remains a basket case and I suspect Victoria will be suffering from the legacy of Daniel Andrews long after he’s gone.
Ceausescu was evil and I regard Daniel Andrews as equally evil. Or maybe I’m just too pessimistic and bleak this Friday morning.
Very strange… in the midst of the highest gas and oil price crisis in the US, Biden is drawing down on the strategic petroleum reserve (that Trump fully topped up) and EXPORTING IT TO ASIA!!!
https://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/record-spr-crude-leaves-u-s-gulf-coast-as-biden-mulls-release
That may weaken the US massively isnd may make resisting China over say Taiwan more difficult…
Sneakers urban terrorism is another language crime by the Left. They just can’t move on from Orwell.
I see someone threatened to blow dickhead dan’s brains out.
Scumo: That’s not what Australian’s do, that’s not who we are, we don’t threaten people.
I guess that’s why I’m stood down without pay hey Scumo?
AstraZeneca unveils antibody treatment, preventative shot for those who can’t get vaccinated
Azeem Rafiq is a former English county cricketer who got to play for England once or twice. He is currently in the news because as his career finished, he decided to ‘reveal’ ‘racist’ comments said to have been made by Pom skipper at the time Michael Vaughn twelve years ago (Focks):
Rafiq went directly after the current head coach, director of cricket, chairman and chief executive. In a reverse Rotherham, the public outcry was such that as of now only the head coach remains.
However, the English press uncovered this – from Rafiq himself, eleven years ago:
Which is fine for Rafiq, because his career’s over. Not so fine for the ex-Yorkshire management, whose careers were not over, but it sorta takes the wind out of HMS Rafiq’s sails on its voyage to compo.
The Hertier Lumumba of England.
I have to say if you have read the Herald Sun lately it’s nor exactly Dan Fawning.
I’ve actually seen a random sticker saying
Ban the Herald Sun!
Assuming some danfan has been getting them printed.
No idea that the Herald Sun is popular because it reflects the views of its purchasers.
The only incongruity is the plastic bag being held by the little old lady. Those are verboten and Knight should have drawn it as one of those multi-use Woolies green bags.
Tom, thank you again for the cartoons that make a great start to the day.
Miltonf, the Republicans will have no problem confirming her, they only have problems with their own members who dissent from the uniparty. Republicans, like our own LNP, are ashamed of their voters.
Cassie.
Andrew’s has a chip missing and it’s called integrity.
‘the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles’
Somyurek told us Andrew’s response to his question of legality in their actions.
“You want to win don’t you”
People with integrity don’t say that.
““I am ashamed of this exchange and have now deleted it so as not to cause further offence,” the 30-year-old Pakistan-born cricketer added. “I was 19 at the time and I hope and believe I am a different person today.””
Oh the schadenfreude. Hmm, interesting that he’s claiming youthful stupidity. Imagine if Azeem Rafiq was named Andrew Rafter and he was a white working class lad from Sheffield, would his remarks be forgiven? Would such forgiveness be dispensed to Andrew Rafter if he’d once made similar remarks about “Pakis”. Not on your nelly.
So far as I have read, the extent of the ‘racism’ against Rafiq was to allegedly be called “You lot”, “Paki” and, bizarrely, “Kevin”. Four people have lost their jobs over these unproven claims. I wonder what he called the Jewish person.
Your explanation of the postage problems to/from the US makes perfect sense, rosie. I read something similar some time ago. No passenger jets = no excess hold space at cheap rates.
I’ll be surprised if the businesses I know will ever go back to Oz shipping, even when things get back to “normal”. It may be more trouble than it’s worth. Some of the items simply aren’t available here because low demand, and it’s not worth little businesses stocking small quantities at exorbitant mark-ups to cover shipping.
Indeed.
It will be out there in the swamp somewhere. As it bloats, it will rise and burst and we’ll know.
“I am ashamed of this exchange and have now deleted it so as not to cause further offence,” the 30-year-old Pakistan-born cricketer added. “I was 19 at the time and I hope and believe I am a different person today.””
I don’t believe him. I suspect anti-Semitism was drip fed into him from an early age, beginning with his mother’s milk.
Yes.
That bit didn’t appear in the piece. Maybe it was one of those ‘chosen not to publish’ things, which clearly didn’t apply to the vague unsubstantiated remarks by whitey which were fully reproduced.
I don’t know calli
I was looking at a shipping blog yesterday and noticed that ebay have their own shipping out of the US now, charged by the lb.
They were announcing a temporary rate hike.
Usps international retail shipping has been ludicrously expensive for years, a small box iirc was around $45 usd even in 2015 when I was there last.
As flights ? increase I’m hoping the discount rates return.
I have a contract though ap and get some discounts but would love economy air to come back.
Looks like Belarus wants to stop Malaysia Airlines flying into Poland.
He is an amazing man, capable of encapsulating the current state of world affairs in a short appeal, the transcript of which should be sent to every politician in Australia. Even if they are completely sold out, which most of them are, it would let them know that we’re aware of their perfidy.
Yes.
RNC’s McDaniel Dismisses Christie’s Call to ‘Move Beyond’ Trump (18 Nov)
Christie is sludge. He and the Bushies have been undermining the Republicans and Republican voters for many years.
He and the Bushies have been undermining the Republicans and Republican voters for many years.
Someone mentioned a couple of days ago George W Bush putting his arm around Creepy Joe at the inauguration, expressing relief that Trump was gone. It reminded me that it was Bush Senior who popularised the phrase New World Order, when he put together the Coalition that expelled Iraq from Kuwait.
Foul family.
It’s not all gloom and doom if we get through this madness. For those interested in space and science this guy’s blog is now on my list.
Australian who used to work for Caltech/JPL/NASA. Casey Handmer.
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/
Read the posts on “Starship is still not Understood” and “Science upside for Starship” in particular.
Unfortunately he seems to be a bit of a global warming/renewable energy enthusiast but one can hope that reality will eventually hit him with the cluebat.
Perhaps she thought it was T.J. Marx.
Did she seriously base her thesis on Das Kapital?
I would guess that one of the sources for the persistent failures of Marxism would have to be that Marx based his understanding of capitalism on the earlier stages of the industrial revolution and in the midst of imperialism, a period of disruption when old ways were lashing out in their desperation to survive, and the new ways had not coalesced and reached equilibrium.
When lefties want to mock conservatives by saying they are fixed on a bygone world of white picket fences it is useful to remember they long for a world order from the mid 1800’s. (The mocking in ‘white picket fences’ is as out of date as their social and economic philosophy. Once something becomes doctrine, no matter how little the idea is unmoored from reality, Marxists cling to the unfounded idea.)
Reading the USPS site, it’s Aussie Post saying please don’t send anything we can’t cope.
Our dear leader uses the racist and terrorist labels interchangeably.
I’d have thought that mail workers would be classed as “essential workers”. The mail used to be sacrosanct to the point that US airline pilots were armed with pistols to protect the mail and all sorts of serious penalties were associated with interfering with the mail. What happened?
You wake up one morning to find that the postal service, along with liberty, after years of torture, has died.
Some extremely clear vision of the wreck of HMAS Sydney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAOHT4do7gE
My article on the identification of the able seaman from the Carley float will be up on Quadrant shortly – will post a link.
Oh Dan you’ve done it again!
Neil Mitchell 3aw taking calls from mothers of twelve year olds who’ll miss their graduations because the school can’t allow them to attend because they’re not double vaxxed. Eleven year olds are just fine and dandy.
Disgusting control freaks preying on children.
This guy is based.
Separate washed from unwashed.
And that’s in Florida. Some corporates are as evil as many politicians.
Since when do 12yo need graduations? Come back when you have achieved something.
Psychopathic cry bully Chairman Dan tries for Day 2 by picking on noted weakling SloMo.
From the Oz, the photos aren’t pleasant, here’s a classic piece of MSM gaslighting…and if you want an example of an autogynephiliac….here it is.
“Former coach Danielle Laidley has stepped out to celebrate the end of North Melbourne’s debt
Danielle Laidley has returned to the North Melbourne Football Club to help celebrate the Kangaroos becoming debt-free after more than a generation of financial pain.
The 1996 premiership player and former senior coach arrived at Arden St on Friday, accompanied by HIS partner, Donna.
Laidley, 54, appeared alongside some of her former teammates at a media conference where the Kangaroos formally announced they have paid off the longstanding debt they have carried since 1987.
HE said HE was delighted to be back at Arden Street, the place HE called home for 99 games across five seasons as a player and 149 games in seven seasons as the coach.
“(I’m) very happy to be here, very proud of the efforts and what has been achieved by everyone to look back now and say the right decision was made (to stay in Melbourne),” Laidley said.
North Melbourne famously rejected a massive financial offer from the AFL in late 2007 to turn its back on Melbourne and relocate to the Gold Coast when Laidley was coach.
Soon after that, the Kangaroos’ debt stretched out to around $9 million, with the crippling interest payments putting extra pressure on the club.
But after working exceptionally hard to pay down the debt over the decade, the club was able to use this year’s profit of $453,189 to pay down the last of it and get the club back in the black again.
Laidley praised the club for the positive impact it had made on HIS life since HIS move from West Coast for the 1993 season.
“The club impacted my life in more ways than one,” HE said. “Every Shinboner supporter should be proud today.”
“It’s great being back at the North Melbourne Football Club for this important announcement of being debt free, also on the back of Transgender awareness week, as I am proud of both of my tribes.”
HE said the decision to turn its back on the AFL inducement and remain a Melbourne-based club had proven a successful one, given the club managed to get itself out of a bleak financial hole and keep its identity.
“It will go down in history as being the right call to stay in Melbourne where the club is based here at Arden Street,” HE said.
“It was a particularly tough period of time for the club, certainly as senior coach, making sure our performances on-field were at a standard that helped the board under (then president) James Brayshaw to make the right decision to stay in Melbourne.”
Laidley said HE would always be grateful for the support HE received from the passionate North Melbourne supporters.
“Personally and on behalf of the club, I would like to acknowledge the playing group, our coaches, football support staff, the club administration, our sponsors and most importantly our supporters who came along to watch us week in week out,” HE said.
“We may not have quite made the last day in September during my time as the senior coach, but we can be very proud of the part every person played in keeping our football here at Arden Street.
“Whenever I drive past, I’m personally over the moon at where our football club is today and the very bright long term future ahead, I’m exceptionally proud as Shinboner #826.”
Laidley, sitting on a panel with former coach Brad Scott and current coach David Noble, said HE still loved North Melbourne almost 30 years on from HIS arrival.
“We can now start at the line with everyone else, not 40 metres behind,” HE said.
Laidley recalled how HE and HIS young son were involved in a minor accident on first day he arrived at the club back in 1993.
HE came to love the old dilapidated facilities back then, but marvelled at the Kangaroos’ incredible facilities of today.
But HE said it was the people who made it so special.
“What I found was North Melbourne’s greatest asset is his people.”
Laidley and HIS partner Donna have been lifelong friends since meeting in Grade 1 at a primary school in Perth.
The pair reconnected in 2017 and have been a couple for the past five months.
Laidley praised the club for the positive impact it had on HIS life since moving across from West Coast.
Former president James Brayshaw paid great credit to Laidley for HIS work in keeping North Melbourne competitive during HIS coaching years, despite having the “worst funded football department.”
“We need to pay special tribute to Danielle Laidley and the team around HIM back then,” Brayshaw said.
“We were fighting City Hall (the AFL) abs we had the worst funded football department” in the AFL.
“Danielle and the team kept us competitive.”
North Melbourne president Ben Buckley, who played one season with Laidley in 1993, said this was a momentous day for the footy club.
“This is a great day for the club,” Buckley said.
“We are so proud of where we are and the way we’ve gone about eradicating this debt. It’s a ‘whole of club’ achievement and we are very grateful for everyone who played a role in getting us to this position.
“This result gives the North Melbourne Kangaroos an opportunity to look forward to a future of growth and unity and proving ourselves to be a destination club for players, members and fans.””
So, instead of allowing myself to be gaslighted by this article, I’ve replaced the “her” & “she” with THE TRUTH….which is HE, HIS & HIM.
Dani Laidley is not a female. Dani Laidley is not a woman.
Look forward to it. Thanks.
HMAS Sydney’s Unknown Sailor finally identified
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Top Ender, why do you think the captain of HMAS Sydney closed with Kormoran that day?
Dean and Donna, two mentally disturbed people.
The only good thing you can say about Dean Laidley is that he’s not as fucked up as most other men with gender dysphoria.
Most of them are poofters. But Dean has some sort of mummy issues going on that make him wish he was a girl while still being attracted to females.
Because the psychiatric profession is as intimidated by language fascism (a.k.a. political correctness) as everyone else, Laidley has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting real help that gives him a path to happiness and fulfilment.
Men with gender dysphoria are sad creatures indeed, but they’re now just cannon fodder in the left’s war against the family — which has become official government policy.
From A Class Act Expelled From School at Quadrant On-Line.
I have always been very careful about what I let into my body. I don’t drink alcohol. I eat a plant-based diet and rarely eat cooked food. I avoid fast foods at all costs. I don’t drink coffee, although I don’t mind a cup of tea. I avoid processed foods. Also, I keep myself reasonably fit, starting off most days of the year with a two-hour, fairly high intensity, physical workout. I sleep pretty well, and I don’t get too stressed about anything at all. Many say I am lucky, and maybe I am, but a lot of it has to do with the choices I have made with respect to my health.
The COVID virus, in the main, afflicts people with health issues. Many of these issues are self-inflicted, such as smoking-induced illness, consuming foods too high in fats and sugars, poor exercise, getting overweight, leading to Type 2 diabetes, drinking too much alcohol, and so on.
Not exactly a Garage Nasty? Or maybe he/she/xe is, given that H1tler was a vegetarian who opposed smoking and alcohol.
Do Vik govt daily rules regarding vvaxxening status and records of vvaxxenening override any existing contract?
Zulu
Top Ender, why do you think the captain of HMAS Sydney closed with Kormoran that day?
The captain of an RN cruiser had recently been criticised for standing off to sink another merchant raider, as he was considered to have used too much ammunition for the task.
The politest term would be “enemy of Islam”.
Kafir is reserved for Hindus.
America’s number two general says China’s hypersonic missile test shows it could one day be able to launch a surprise nuclear strike on the United States.
“They look like a first-use weapon. That’s what those weapons look like to me,” General John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in an interview with CBS News.
Mr Hyten revealed new details of the China’s orbital weapons tests earlier this year, which sent a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile around the world before landing close to its target.
“They launched a long-range missile,” he said.
“It went around the world, dropped off a hypersonic glide vehicle that glided all the way back to China, that impacted a target in China.”
Asked if it hit the target, Mr Hyten replied, “Close enough.”
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Children who have had Covid should wait three months to get vaccine
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk…
based on the emerging evidence from the UK and other countries,
which suggests that leaving a longer interval between infection and vaccination may further reduce
the already small risk of myocarditis in younger age groups
If younger people experience any of the following symptoms after receiving their vaccination, they should call 111 or see their GP:
• pain and/or tightness in the chest which may spread across the body
• pain in the neck that may spread across the shoulders and/or arms
• shortness of breath when lightly exercising or walking
• difficulty breathing when resting or feeling light-headed
• flu-like symptoms such as a high temperature, tiredness and fatigue
• palpitations or an abnormal heart rhythm
• feeling like you need to be sick
Hoist with his own petard.
Dan in danger of losing his preciousssss.?
The Coalition has vowed to repeal the bill if elected next year.
If no version of the bill is passed by 15 December, the state of emergency will lapse, potentially placing the government in a situation where they won’t be able to enforce public health orders like mask-wearing and quarantine.
Oh no, does that mean they have to adhere to lawful normal powers instead of a blank cheque and whatever fantasy passed though the bat eared Mongs dreams the night before?
That all the restrictions on businesses and individuals would become null and void?
Struggling to find a downside here.
Would that be a core promise or is it negotiable?
If the Vic Libs really wanted some fun theyd appoint Solmunek (?) as a grand poobah to investigate branch stacking & corruption…
Thank you.
Similarly, one of the players traumatised by the racist appellation Paki.
If they really wanted some fun, they would appoint Solmunek (?) as a grand poohbah to investigate the allegations made against Bill Shorten and Julia Gilliard.
That would explain the run of panicked arse covering emails from govt depts that have contracts with work.
So why not embrace the term and thus defuse it, as Greeks and Italians here did with “wog”?
Or is it that there is lucre and status to be had by playing the victim nowadays?
Why is this necessary? The mRNA vaccines are already beaut.
Chant for tomorrow?
Works on multiple levels.
Remember when Pfizer was touted as 90% effective?
I dare say complementary medicines have stricter criteria to meet in regard to claims of efficacy.
They are having a fucking lend.
I don’t have words to describe the craven arseholes who sacked four men because of this fake scandal.
10% for the big guy?
FMD. Pakis invented the term. Give yourself an uppercut, you race-baiting grifter.
Scientists have discovered a way to make mRNA Covid-19 vaccines potentially more effective and limit side effects in a discovery that could transform the formulation of Pfizer and Moderna jabs.
So the sort of stuff discovered and ironed out during the normal development process of a vaccine which has followed the normal regulatory channels then?
Would that be A Turret at its arc limit?
Human testing is coming along well.
The beagles say thanks.
LIBERTY QUOTE
Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The beagles say thanks.
Well they would, but their vocal cords have been excised.
Russell Hill strikes again
But Dean has some sort of mummy issues going on that make him wish he was a girl while still being attracted to females.
She’s a male lesbian or a same sex attracted trans woman.
You work it out.
Sweet!
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Nice to see a little of the old disrespect of authority still exists in computer science departments and corporations. OTOH anyone who worked on this project is going to be instantly inserted into the deep state’s shit list. No cushy public sector jerbs for you, nor at Goolag or Spacechook. And I suggest you don’t ever visit China either.
I dont care if the the jabbers start shitting gold nuggets with their new magic potion.
NO MANDATES, NO COERCION
why do you think the captain of HMAS Sydney closed with Kormoran that day?
I don’t think so much as being concerned about saving ammunition – just not being aggressive enough.
If it had been Waller, or Collins, or Howden in command, for example, I reckon they’d have:
a) had the aircraft flying and inspecting
b) fired a shot across the bow to make the target (Kormoran) heave to, to allow better inspection, and
c) approached from behind the German’s stern
At the slightest hint of treachery they’d have engaged. For example, any movement of Kormoran to expose her side – to allow for a broadside – would have seen fire directed at the target.
Burnett in the end has to take the blame. He might not have been on the bridge, but it was his standing orders as to how to approach which were in force.
Sad, but not aggressive enough. Although in the end his ship’s company fought well.
Ban animal testing – test it on your baby instead.
They had a little bit on a mining radio show this morning about a little aussie bleeder of a company doing very well.
Was a one cent stock a little while ago, now at $.15.
https://www.loscerros.com.au/site/content/
Quite nice to hear a good news story, not the sort of thing the ABCcess would produce.
Im only posting this really to tease another penny dreadful stockholder here waiting for his “to the moon” moment.
BoN thanks for that link!
Quadrant article on the Sydney and her sailor:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/in-memoriam/2021/11/the-dying-moments-of-hmas-sydney/
bemusedsays:
November 19, 2021 at 12:06 pm
Why ever not?
It’s started.
Booster tables appearing on the Covid tally sites.
Printing money is easy when you own a supermarket chain! .. shopping at, local, Woolworths this morning and bought a box of Home Brand tissues for a $1.35 (everyday low price sticker) up until last week and for the past 6 months the same box has been $0.95 …..
Eyes are upon us:
🙂
Okay, that was a fail. It’s not Dover’s tweet so much as Rita retweeting it.
Hi Rita!
gov junkies
wife bought a box of I dont know what, complained there used to be 3 packets of 3 sticks and now 2 packets of 4 sticks, same price.
isn’t it dover retweeting rita?
Got asked for proof of vaccine by a retail assistant this morning.
I said it was an invasion and walked.
Second place asked if I was and got a truthful answer.
No certification shown.
I don’t think I’ll be doing much shopping for a while if I’m going to be bailed up every time.
This is the chance for spineless, cowardly and the weak to stand up to Tyranny.
SAY NO TO BOOSTERS!
If no version of the bill is passed by 15 December, the state of emergency will lapse, potentially placing the government in a situation where they won’t be able to enforce public health orders like mask-wearing and quarantine.
Maximum Leader could easily, if he wished, ask for a 3 month extension of the existing Act (by legislation if need be) while he works out a non-totalitarian replacement. After all, we’re now at no restrictions for the vaxxed so presumably there’s no dire emergency on the horizon.
But he won’t. Politically he’ll claim that there’s no other choice but to hand him absolute power, or after 15 December EVERYONE’S GONNA DIE!!!!!
Fine article in the quadrant on HMAS Sydney’s last battle, Top Ender.
As a side issue, is the bullet ridden Carley float on display at Canberra’s War Museum the one that washed up on Christmas Island?
Rita retweeted Dover commenting on her tweet.
Only until they force the boosters onto the dumb fuck jabbers.
Australians are weak, pathetic cowards.
How ever will we survive if state premiers don’t have more power than medieval kings for ever.
How long do dumb shits in the media and population think this is an “state of emergency” for? It’s not just the government that loves power, a significant portion of the population loves the government having that power. It makes them feel safe and looked after.
We’re talking about grown men here. Really weird stuff.
From the Oz:
This will make Cassie smile.
Pandemic of the elderly
Pandemic of the unvaccinated
Pandemic of 12-15 year olds
Parents need to push back against these bureaucratic child abusers.
Gosh how terrible that totalitarian repression which doesn’t work would no longer be allowed. It’s a catastrophe!
Who would have thought medical rape was immoral.
Pandemic of the mandates
From memory, Pedro, the Christmas Island Carley float disappeared. A piece of it was taken to Fremantle IIRR.
There was a second float recovered – that’s the one in the War Memorial. It is also thought to be from HMAS Sydney.
(I think from the extensive analysis done as to the first one ending up on Christmas Island there is a general perception that a) it is still exists, and b) it is in the AWM.)
Snap, Delta. From the Paywallian, here comes some more rich Greenfilth trash if you live and work in Wentworth:
It’s amazing that the people who’ve most benefited from the free market hate it the most — the mental illness of our times.
On Oz Post and delivery times .. they really are having a lend of us & don’t mind thumbing their noses do they.. !
I received emails from Oz Post this morning advising that 2 certified items addressed to me are in Sydney sorting depots and due for delivery on December 1 .. Soooo the parcels are with Oz Post Sydney & I’m in Sydney but I’m not to expect them for at least 12 days .. I think I might have preferred not to know !.. Duuuh!
Interesting point Rosie.
If you say you are double vaxxed then that should be good enough for a shop assistant.
If you aren’t truthful then you have misrepresented yourself and that’s not the store keeper’s problem but law enforcement.
To ask you to show documentation is enforcement and I don’t think the shops have a right to demand compliance without any qualification or licence to do so. Security guards must be trained and ticketed.
There’s an article, by one of Burnett’s sons -retired pusser (!) – published by the Naval Historical Society, that says Burnett may have been overconfident in his ability to deal with any situation.
TaliDan and his junta are now segregating 12-15 year olds from normal society.
He calls the protesters extremists.
Defend they ABC.
I’ve never been asked if I was vaxxed by anyone. If I am asked by anyone running a shop, my plan is to say that I’ll answer that after they have given me the HIV status of all their workers.
Mark McGowan flees from protestors at Manjimup, a small town about 300 kms south of Perth.
Rorscharch:
I spoke of this earlier this year. The O’Biden/Harris Regime is about destroying the US industrial base so it cannot beat China.
The rundown of the strategic oil reserve is in line with this goal.
I’m betting he will start reducing the copper and silver stockpiles as well. (Both being essential war material.)
The Great Dissembler now has a lead of 14,662 Covid cases over NSW for the Winter/Spring outbreaks.
He’s four weeks away from overtaking NSW in the deaths in the same event as the weekly tally has 40+ extra deaths in Vic.
“We don’t want to end up like NSW”
Anyone know where this comes from? I would like to understand it better.
I’ve been visiting someone every day in a private hospital, not once have I been
asked to provide proof of vaxx!
The other day I went into a chain store without my phone as usual, offered to sign a book, security guy just waved me through.
Anyone who says anything about science or safety is going to be asked what changed at midnight on the 18th of November.
That sounds like hindsight viewing the normal state of someone making stuff happen.
Try A Short History of Ethics, 2nd ed.
Does the incontinent old thief really believe in critical race theory or whatever it’s called? Or is it just more pay to play?
All those IOUs he wrote in the election campaign have to be honoured.
This is a move to influence OPEC, which is meeting early next month to discuss an increase to production, which Joe desperately needs to bring inflation down. A problem of his own making. Those darned IOUs again.
Top Ender:
I hope measures have been taken to prevent the Asian scrap metal merchants from stripping the wreck? Or is it too deep?
Goofy or toe-curling embarrassing? As has been her habit, Meghan Markle has fiercely divided opinion in her latest quest seeking privacy in the United States.
On Thursday the Duchess of Sussex indulged her friend and California neighbour Ellen DeGeneres with an appearance on her US television show before taking part in a prank which saw her call herself “mommy”, drink milk from a baby bottle and eat like a chipmunk.
So, basically, acting like she does at home!
Cassie of Sydney:
Correct.
Dan Laidley is a male – an emotionally unwell male.
Speaking of oil, inflation and national decline…
Aris Roussinos traces the beginning of the current slow motion collapse of Western societies to the economic crisis of the mid-70s, which was a driver of our deindustrialisation and the subsequent globalisation of supply chains, which system is now teetering on the brink of collapse. There’s a bigger picture, but there’s a lot to be said for this view.
No, Winston – too deep for scrap salvage ops.
About 2500 metres down – not as far as the Titanic, but very difficult to operate scrap equipment at those depths and pressures.
The daughter of John Spender, a former Gliberal party grandee and parliamentary contemporary of preposterous wallies such as Peacock and Howard.
State of emergency powers must be ammended so that any government that uses them automatically dissolves after nine months.
It’s literally the only way to control them.
“Allegra Spender, the daughter of late fashion icon and businesswoman Carla Zampatti, appears set to make her political debut in the deep blue Sydney seat held by Liberal”
UNFUCKING BELIEVABLE. Allegra Spender….Ascham educated, child of immense privilege. I doubt whether Spender has ever ventured further than Strathfield….and even that suburb might be too far west for her comfort.
Oh yes…Allegra Spender understands the struggles of the middle and working Australia.
Seriously, I need a bucket.
The spin on this is interesting… the claim is that during the Great Toilet Paper Stampedes of ’20 & ’21 factories had to go to three shifts, gazillions of dollars overtime paid out as a result – then the almost immediate lack of demand as people started to draw down on their stocks with factories almost sitting idle, with gazillions being paid to underutilised workers. Now that supply and demand have returned to equilibrium those distortions are now being paid for.
Here’s a revolutionary idea.
Tell them it’s none of their fukn business. If they dont want your money, then tell them to get fucked.
For godsake.
These people are peers of the realm and royalty.
We would be better having a President chosen by the shortest straw.
Top Ender:
OK.
Deeper than I’ve ever dived without scuba gear…
🙂
Winston Smith says:
November 19, 2021 at 2:19 pm
Top Ender:
About 2500 metres down
OK.
Deeper than I’ve ever dived without scuba gear…
?
Winston – easily fixed with some lead weights tied to your ankles…..
Tim Paine resigns over sexting scandal