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An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump, Joseph Wright, 1768

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 15, 2021 8:09 pm

Never argue with an idiot. Stupid onlookers may be unable to distinguish who is who.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, and defeat you with their superior experience.

calli
calli
November 15, 2021 8:11 pm

Speaking of grotesqueries posing as “remakes”, I see “Frequency” has gone woke and is now a series.

The movie, with John Cavaziel and Dennis Quaid was terrific – an exploration of time travel and changing reality in real time over a ham radio.

I shudder to think what the “you go girl” version is like.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 15, 2021 8:13 pm

Will Milli be micturating about this?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-15/qld-journalist-loses-court-appeal-keep-source-secret/100622164

I’d like to hope so, but the Stalinst Hunchback and his political patsies in what passes for a justice system in Yarragrad are sure to protect her.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 15, 2021 8:20 pm

I’m not getting Vaxxed voluntareily, but should the unthinkable happen, i’ll be Fasting
[ hot ware cure], doing Enemas [lukewarm water] and doing nothing in between time.
It’s important to help your body to get rid of the poisons.

bespoke
bespoke
November 15, 2021 8:20 pm

shatterzzzsays:
November 15, 2021 at 7:53 pm
Apologies for recommending the new series of DEXTER the other night .. Episode 1 showed promise but just watched episode 2 … sooo WOKE it’s just boring rubbish .. If 3 continues in this vein then ..
GIVE IT A MISS!

Not surprising. Anything unique has to be assimilated.

rosie
rosie
November 15, 2021 8:23 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 15, 2021 8:25 pm

Did the site just topple over, or was that my imagination?

Yes. I wound up putting a couple comments on Feral Cat. Wasn’t sure if ASIO had arrested Dover or not. Conspiracy theories seem to be turning into reality in only about 3 months these days. See you all in the gulag.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 15, 2021 8:29 pm

Naughty NT public servants:

APPROXIMATELY 700 public servants, including more than 100 from the frontline, have been stood down for failing to receive a Covid-19 vaccination.

Chief Minister Michael Gunner on Monday provided more details on the process of weeding unvaccinated bureaucrats out of the public service.

The stand-downs come as the deadline imposed by the government on public servants to receive mandatory workplace vaccinations expired last week.

As reported in Monday’s NT News, 97 per cent of public servants have had at least one jab, with 98 per cent of frontline public servants having received one vaccination.

In the key services of law and order, health and education, 14 police officers, 65 nurses and 52 teachers had by Monday refused a Covid vaccination.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 15, 2021 8:32 pm

See you all in the gulag.

We’re all seriously lacking in wokeness here. Somebody is sure to notice and complain about it.

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 15, 2021 8:35 pm

APPROXIMATELY 700 public servants, including more than 100 from the frontline, have been stood down for failing to receive a Covid-19 vaccination.

As reported in Monday’s NT News, 97 per cent of public servants have had at least one jab, with 98 per cent of frontline public servants having received one vaccination.

My arithmetic says there are at least 22,600 Public Servants in the Northern Territory [on those figures].

Winston Smith
November 15, 2021 8:40 pm

Calli:

Did the site just topple over, or was that my imagination? The internet here is abysmal.

Yes, it had a spaz attack about an hour ago.
I’d say it was COVID related.
Or maybe just drunk and fell over…
or Martians attacked it.
That was the Earth Sattering “KABOOM” you heard

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 15, 2021 8:42 pm

Didn’t you know that Ed? Darwin is a public circus town.

As to a lesser extent are Katherine, the Alice, and Tennant Creek.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 15, 2021 8:46 pm

I’m not getting Vaxxed voluntareily, but should the unthinkable happen, i’ll be Fasting
[ hot ware cure], doing Enemas [lukewarm water] and doing nothing in between time.
It’s important to help your body to get rid of the poisons.

You’ll have more success and greater overall health if you take gypsum, sunbathe in a nuclear reactor and moon a PORT[ly] policeman at the next big organised protest im Melbourne*

*Baton rounds are very effective at shooting the vaccines out of you…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 15, 2021 8:47 pm

Or maybe just drunk and fell over…

Was there a staircase involved?

Victorians do not seem to have much luck with staircases…

Indolent
Indolent
November 15, 2021 8:50 pm

We have made it through EVERY single pandemic in the past even with few medications.

The issue here isn’t the virus or the medications (of which there are many good ones). The real issue is that the virus is nothing more than excuse to implement world government and impose a level of tyranny never before even imagined. Not to mention using the world population as guinea pigs for new and essentially untested drugs, which is happening right now, quite possibly with sinister intentions. I think that’s enough to be going on with. The problem isn’t the “pandemic”, it’s the use it’s being put to and not too far upthread is a link showing that everything happening now was pre-planned.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 15, 2021 8:51 pm

I’m not getting Vaxxed voluntareily, but should the unthinkable happen, i’ll be Fasting
[ hot ware cure], doing Enemas

Ed.

It’s long been known that enemas help with spelling. Godspeed.

Gabor
Gabor
November 15, 2021 8:54 pm

twostix says:
November 15, 2021 at 6:36 pm

That’s unfair, Beaugy.

A sensible person would say if a persons family jettisons them because they don’t get an injection, well let’s not bandy about the word ‘love’ too much.

Depends, if they are worrying about your well-being, fine, on the other hand denying you visits to grandchildren and husband keeping his distance? I’d think about that but it’s tricky whichever way you look at it.
Leave it to the individual.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 15, 2021 8:58 pm

It’s long been known that enemas help with spelling.

With fronds like these, most definitely… 😉

You can shove your wacky cures up your…

Ed Case
Ed Case
November 15, 2021 8:59 pm

The issue here isn’t the virus or the medications (of which there are many good ones).

The issue is the vaccines.
And there aren’t any good medications.
Most people have Parasites and will feel much better after taking any antiparasite medicine.

JC
JC
November 15, 2021 9:02 pm

JC, I don’t understand why you’re ignoring the trend in 2021 compared with 2020 in the second half of each year.

I’m not sure there’s anything to compare.

Only in Week 35 is 2020 high and only by 50%. The rest has 2021 in second half higher by multiples of 2, 3, or 4 and more. It’s crystal clear.

Dover. In the statistica chart there’s nothing really extraordinary in 2021. I can’t be bothered but I bet if I added all the weeks from week 9 to now and averaged the number , 2021 wouldn’t show anything out of bounds.

Indolent
Indolent
November 15, 2021 9:06 pm

That’s correct, it doesn’t have anything to do with Global Warming.
The threat to financially ruin us is real though, so Scotty has done a good job on behalf of Australia

Are you his PR person? If so, I think you’re wasting your time here.

Cassie of Sydney
November 15, 2021 9:09 pm

My pressure cooker has carked it…..after twenty-seven years. Very upset.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 15, 2021 9:09 pm

@ Indolent-

This is Grigory we are talking about, here.

Just mock him about mutton and nuclear reactors. He’ll scuttle away for a bit, and if we are really lucky, he’ll come up with something new for us to laugh at him about…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 15, 2021 9:10 pm

Most people have Parasites and will feel much better after taking any antiparasite medicine.

I’ve eaten a whole packet of Ivermectin in the last half hour, and you still haven’t gone away, Grigory…

srr
srr
November 15, 2021 9:11 pm

Zipstersays:
November 15, 2021 at 6:49 pm

Covid-19 testing company faces privacy probe over plan to sell swabs carrying customer DNA

the CCP is extremely keen on western DNA as they have stated they are wanting viruses that only target certain races.

Well I glad someone could mention it here without causing a stampede of the highly regarded to rush out and stamp, “racist, Nazi”, onto them.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
November 15, 2021 9:11 pm

Leave it to the individual.

I agree, Gabor. We don’t know enough about other ppls lives to try to run them. And it’s not our business anyway.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 15, 2021 9:11 pm

You sound disappointed by this, SRR…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 15, 2021 9:16 pm

Riots whatever the verdict in Kenosha Adam CreightonFollow @Adam_Creighton

2 hours ago November 15, 2021
3 Comments

Wisconsin ordered 500 of the state’s national guard to head to Kenosha, on the shore of Lake Michigan, over the weekend as the city, and the entire US, braced for riots as the jury for one of one of the most highly political and emotional murder trials in recent US history begins deliberations.

America’s top cable TV networks dumped normal programming last week so tens of millions of Americans could watch the testimony of baby-faced Kyle Rittenhouse, who then aged 17, shot three men, two of them fatally, in August last year during protests that erupted after local police shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old black man.

Rittenhouse, who faces an automatic life sentence if convicted, maintains he attended the Kenosha riots to help protect private property and offer first aid to any injured, bringing with him an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, and acted in self-defence after he was chased and attacked.

The prosecution and defence make their closing arguments on Monday in a case that was guaranteed to capture national attention after Joe Biden, following a presidential debate in September last year, denounced Donald Trump for “failing to disavow’’ white supremacists, posting an image of Rittenhouse, whose fatal scuffles were widely filmed.

The case has stirred fierce debate about the right to self-defence, vigilantism, the right to bear arms, and the rights of citizens to protect property and voluntarily provide security medical care without qualifications.

Senior congressional Democrat Hakeem Jeffries last week tweeted “Lock up Kyle Rittenhouse and throw away the key”. Tulsi Gabbard, a contender for the Democrat presidential nomination last year, said it was “obvious now that he was just a foolish kid who felt he needed to protect people & the community from rioters & arsonists because the government failed to do so.”

Presiding judge Bruce Schroeder has even come under fire for supposedly being biased against the prosecution, whose case appeared to unravel throughout the trial as key prosecution witnesses attested to Rittenhouse’s attempt to defend himself against violet rioters.

“The jury is going to have to look him in the eye and say, ‘Do we believe he was scared?’,” said Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, one of the America’s most renowned lawyers, referring to Rittenhouse’s testimony, where he broke down adamant he would have been killed or seriously injured had he not shot the men.

“Whether you agree disagree with the politics we can’t allow our criminal justice system to become politicised. We can’t have people rooting for an outcome depending on whether the person is right or left,” Dershowitz said.

Even Ben and Jerry’s ice cream chain declared the justice system “racist” last week. “How would this trial be going if he was a black 17-year-old that crossed state lines illegally carrying an AR-15 and shot 3 white protesters?” the company said.

The two victims, Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, held multiple convictions of child sexual assault and domestic violence, respectively, further polarising the public’s reaction.

“The prosecution promised the jury that it would see a vigilante rampaging in utter disregard of human life. Instead, the jury saw a much more confusing, chaotic scene in which Rittenhouse was threatened with a gun, hit repeatedly and chased down a street,” said Jonathan Turley, a law profession at George Washington University.

The case against Derek Chauvin, the policeman who shot and killed George Floyd in June last year, prompting civil unrest across the US, was clear, and the guilty verdict, delivered in June, largely expected.

Experts agree the charges against Rittenhouse are far more complex an the outcome far less certain.

Wisconsin’s laws provide a lower threshold for self-defence than other states. “It was Oliver Wendell Holmes that once said that exquisite rationality is not to be expected in the presence of an uplifted knife,” Dershowitz said.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Re the Liverpool car bombing
(to mark Remembrance Sunday.)

The story is the cabbie realised he had a bomber in the cab & bailed out, locking the bomber in the cab to go up with their own bomb.

Just desserts for the bomber.

Except it is not true.

Not if my CCTV viewing skills are any good.

The cabbie locked the bomber in the cab alright but kept driving.
It was pure chance he was not also blown sky high.

He bailed out of the cab alright – more than ten seconds after the bomb detonated.

PeterW
PeterW
November 15, 2021 9:18 pm

No one has the right to judge others…

I have two words for you…. “Dan Andrews”.

Depends on what you mean by “judge”.
In the Biblical sense, it means that you – personally – are condemning someone to Hell. That is not the same as pointing out that they are behaving wrongly, foolishly or even evilly.

It is not only ok, but a moral duty to point out the moral failings and consequences of such behaviour.

Cassie of Sydney
November 15, 2021 9:18 pm

“The case against Derek Chauvin, the policeman who shot and killed George Floyd in June last year,”

Ahem…Mr Creighton, I’m pretty sure George Floyd wasn’t “shot” by Derek Chauvin.

Journalism 2021.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 15, 2021 9:19 pm

Well well. A Federal quack jumping ship, or so it may seem (the Hun):

A former federal health officer has blamed the Victorian government’s “heavy-handed” approach for recent protests, as demonstrators continued to gather outside parliament on Monday morning.

Dr Nick Coatsworth told the Today Show that Victoria had become “in many ways a divided state”.

“Some of that has to be due to some of the more heavy-handed approaches of government, people pushing back against that,” Australia’s former deputy medical officer said.

“You don’t see it anywhere else in Australia and you have to ask yourself why.

“I mean we’re all Australians; why are Victorians taking the position that they feel the need to protest? I think that the government needs to have a long, hard look at itself as to why that might be.”

Beeee…..cause Andrews is a fuckstick?

Frank
Frank
November 15, 2021 9:20 pm

Test?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 15, 2021 9:24 pm

Test?

Negative?

Come back in the morning, and we’ll try it again?

Frank
Frank
November 15, 2021 9:33 pm

A Federal quack jumping ship

More like the realisation of a life without a security detail among the proles that haunts his dreams.

Helen
Helen
November 15, 2021 9:34 pm

Oh Dear, on the OOT reposting because – gab

gab, I saw reference to a post you put up re warship and diamond princess as perfect petri dishes of experiment for covid. Something to do with if you’ve had a cold before (most people) then very much less likely to get covid.

I have searched but my search skills are wanting. Someone posted a link but it took me to the whole OT 28 Aug and even though I CF the whole thing I couldn’t find it.

If you happen to have it in your archives, I would be grateful if you could post again for me?

For the birdie people, I have a new brolga family, feeling sad for the baby soon to be viciously attacked by mum and dad to leave the nest, ibis glorious in their black tie dinner suits, a junior jabiru in his mottled grey camo, lapwings getting ready for their incessant screeching around their babies, storm birds (the black ones with the yellow lipstick) calling in the trees and my favourite fool the coucal, running madly wherever with his train slipping behind him.

For the lizard people. I was astounded at the number of frillies and other lizards that leapt from the safety of the road into the fire to be as we lit up. Yes it is bushfire season, white lightening and we have been letting some of it burn because it needs a good burn and steadying other bits up. But the lizards! Every 50 m another rushed into be fried. Reminds me of wallabies. There is this natural selection theory, right? But thee is no end of wallabies to leap in front of an approaching car because the other side of the road must be where they must be. How long does that selection take, do you reckon. The Model T Ford or even Arkies was probably not fast enough to even roll a roo (although armadillos succumb as I remember) unless it was ancient and blind, (perhaps that explains the armadillo) – is it the advent of fast and even faster cars? Will wallabies learn to win and not jump in front of a speeding car?

Capitan just came in and said we have a few paddocks that dont have fire in them and tomorrow we must get the grader and wrap it up. Enough! The fires are particularly cunning, innocently smoking away in the middle of the paddock and then sneaking along through green pick, no less, to suddenly jump 9 blades in the dark of the night.

We will fix it tomorrow and send the dragon to sleep for another year – or at least until the next dry storm!

2dogs
November 15, 2021 9:43 pm

Heh.

JC
JC
November 15, 2021 9:44 pm

JC, why are the deaths in the last four months of 2021 multiples higher than the same period in 2020?

Dover

The wiggles are not out of the ordinary. Have a look, the first 3 months of 2018 were comparatively elevated too. The numbers for the period in 2021 that you mention are not out of the ordinary.

That’s the period of interest. In 10 out of the last 13 weeks over 1000 excess deaths. Didn’t happen once over same period in 2020, or 2019, 2018. That is extraordinary especially given the vaxx coverage by second half of 2021.

Week 2 to week 12 in 2018 shows an estimated excess death run rate of 1,324 excess deaths per week. There was no COVID then.

2018

week 1 644
2 1,883
3 1,838
4 1,981
5 1,680
6 1,162
7 1,187
8 1,017
9 -183
10 2,062
11 2,014
12 1,624

Bons
November 15, 2021 9:55 pm

This may have been posted. If so, I apologise but I find the irony of this comment to side splitting
“Harvey Weinstein was ahead of his time as a ‘no jab, no job’ employer.

Indolent
Indolent
November 15, 2021 10:08 pm
jupes
jupes
November 15, 2021 10:16 pm

The case against Derek Chauvin, the policeman who shot and killed George Floyd in June last year, prompting civil unrest across the US, was clear, and the guilty verdict, delivered in June, largely expected.

No. It was weak. The jury made a political decision and/or were intimidated.

The case against Rittenhouse is even more weak. No mention in the article about how the prosecution case virtually collapsed or how bad the prosecutors were e.g. trying to convince the jurors that Rittenhouse’s silence when interviewed by police indicated guilt.

Creighton has been captured by the left. Didn’t take long.

MatrixTransform
November 15, 2021 10:22 pm

broad beans
asparagus
shallot
garlic
pancetta
white wine
tarragon
creme fraiche
pasta
just sayin’

cohenite
November 15, 2021 10:23 pm

Chauvin should never have been convicted. He did everything by the book to a scumbag who had a lethal amount of drugs in his useless big body.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 15, 2021 10:29 pm

Beeee…..cause Andrews is a fuckstick?

Unkind to your average fuckstick.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 15, 2021 10:55 pm

Chauvin should never have been convicted. He did everything by the book to a scumbag who had a lethal amount of drugs in his useless big body.

Chauvin was thrown to the wolves to appease the BLM movement.

srr
srr
November 15, 2021 11:00 pm

Should America Just Surrender to China?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHkUNB00Bk8

Nov 15, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 15, 2021 11:30 pm

Geoffrey Blainey’s book “The Story Of Australia’s People” informs the reader that Tasmania was the first colony to introduce income tax. First they gave us income tax, then Bob Brown, then Jacquie Lambie.

Can’t we just have the place leased back to the British Crown as a penal colony?

Helen
Helen
November 15, 2021 11:30 pm

calli FWIIW – I have decided to get the vaccine if I have to to get surgery – but I will wait until novavax. If those who profess to love me shun me then it is their choice, not mine. I wish I could give you a big hug of reassurance. We all do what we do for our own reasons, well thought thorugh for our circumstance. XX

Gab
Gab
November 15, 2021 11:33 pm

Dr Mark Hobart
@realDrMHobart
·
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rickw
rickw
November 15, 2021 11:35 pm

the CCP is extremely keen on western DNA as they have stated they are wanting viruses that only target certain races.

How freaking dumb are the CCP? One of the most homogeneous ethnic groups on the planet wants to start an arms race with these sorts of weapons?

MatrixTransform
November 15, 2021 11:35 pm

where are all the anti-supply-chain- problem mongs now?
heh?

so, struth was wrong that a trucking crisis that would interrupt your supply of Pine Lime Splices
as I’ve heard it said

and while youse laughed and laughed… turns out, you’re wrong too

the widgetry that’s need to pump your water from ground level to level 40?
yah, pretty short supply

like everything else we dont make here

youse artsy wordy types … you better be nice to the engin-nerds

just sayin’

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
November 15, 2021 11:54 pm

so, struth was wrong that a trucking crisis that would interrupt your supply of Pine Lime Splices
as I’ve heard it said

There was a Pine Lime Splice crisis?

srr
srr
November 16, 2021 12:05 am

Peter Hitchens | “I Have Given Up” | #CLIP

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

JC
JC
November 16, 2021 12:10 am

dover0beach says:
November 15, 2021 at 10:09 pm

2018 had the largest excess deaths since 1975.

Okay, but why’s that important. There was no covid in either of those years.

You’re also looking at mid-winter (2018) not summer/autumn (2021).

Yep.

Again, why is this period, summer/autumn so high in comparison to the same period in the previous 3 years at least?

Maybe seasonality is no longer a big issue in the delta strain. It was impacting India – particularly the southern parts quite badly and there’s no real cold season in south India. Dunno, I’m just speculating.

JC
JC
November 16, 2021 12:15 am

Matrix

He really didn’t argue that. It is was one of the lock-downs that appeared to be nationwide from memory, where the states were closing down borders on each other. Lindsay Fox (Struth) reckoned that these lock-downs would cause major food shortages. They didn’t.

Supply chain issues in Australia aren’t domestic issues. Nearly all are related to imported stuff.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

…where the states were closing down borders on each other. Lindsay Fox (Struth) reckoned that these lock-downs would cause major food shortages. They didn’t.

Only because the border closures did not apply to truckies.

Struth assumed (reasonably) that the border closures, with nobody allowed to cross, would apply to all.

It didn’t. Border closures were only for the little people, wanting to see their dad before he died, or to receive cancer treatment, or whatever.
Trucks kept going, all over the country.

Otherwise there’d have been starvation within a few weeks.

JC
JC
November 16, 2021 12:26 am

Only because the border closures did not apply to truckies.

Correct. Take a bow as I think it’s the first time in 20 years you’ve ever said something that was unblemished either by straight out lying or faulty memory,

Struth assumed (reasonably) that the border closures, with nobody allowed to cross, would apply to all.

Lindsay didn’t “assume reasonably” at all because it was a stupid assumption. In fact, I told him he was being an idiot but never listened to me. He kept typing away scaring himself to death.

It didn’t. Border closures were only for the little people, wanting to see their dad before he died, or to receive cancer treatment, or whatever.

Okay

Trucks kept going, all over the country.

Yep

Otherwise there’d have been starvation within a few weeks.

Yep.

JC
JC
November 16, 2021 12:32 am

Anyone watch Yellowstone this evening – the latest episode? Man, this show just gets better and better. It’s the most hard-arsed show on any streaming service. No wonder it’s the most watched series in the US.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 16, 2021 12:46 am

Cassie of Sydney says:
November 15, 2021 at 9:18 pm
“The case against Derek Chauvin, the policeman who shot and killed George Floyd in June last year,”

The Oz have now changed the offending sentence to a correct statement re kneeling on the neck.
No matter how hard I search, I just can’t find the “an error has been corrected” apology.

twostix
twostix
November 16, 2021 12:50 am

This is something.

Old mate in SA sends his MP some irate boomer-tier emails, gets a visit by the police.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 16, 2021 12:53 am

Not correct enough, OSC.
Chauvin used a regulated hold with a knee between shoulderblades, as the vision clearly shows. The Party would have you disbelieve the evidence of your eyes.
Floyd died of barbituate-induced cardiac arrest. That was the coroner’s postmortem, which was disappeared with nary a “page not found”. The Party has sicced Minitrue to push it down the memoryhole.
Shame about Creighton. No excuses, terrible writing.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Lindsay didn’t “assume reasonably” at all because it was a stupid assumption. In fact, I told him he was being an idiot but never listened to me. He kept typing away scaring himself to death.

There’s nothing “stupid” about assuming that a law/regulation will be enforced as publicised.

Struth’s point was that without truckies the country would grind to a halt.
Struth was almost certainly correct.

(You haven’t been right on much, why would you be right on this?)

miltonf
miltonf
November 16, 2021 1:04 am

Apparently St Ruth assumed wrong.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Apparently St Ruth assumed wrong.

He believed politicians – how dumb was Struth? 😛

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

“Yo, Scomo dude, some guy named Struth actually believed something you said – poor foolish bastard”

twostix
twostix
November 16, 2021 1:13 am

No one has the right to judge others…

If boomers wonderful but dopey parents had of judged them all with a 2×4 in 1970 they wouldn’t have ended up locked up and rotting away in african-refugee run prison aged care homes forty years later, and we, their grand and great-grand children wouldn’t be locked up and imprisoned in our homes fifty years later.

But we are not them, we will hold their ratbag generation of children to account for what they did to them, and what they now try and do to us and our children (essentially the same thing: lock us up out of their way, and out of the public space so they can have it all to themselves on their 30 year taxpayer funded holiday).

JC
JC
November 16, 2021 2:08 am

There’s nothing “stupid” about assuming that a law/regulation will be enforced as publicised

It was retardedly stupid because it wasn’t the first lockdown and the idiot just took off into space with that assumption

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

It was retardedly stupid because it wasn’t the first lockdown and the idiot just took off into space with that assumption

Would it be more, or lesser, retardedly stupid than say… a blanket declaration that a particular jury would never be allowed outdoors to be filmed by doxxers, when that exact thing had happened several days beforehand & was public knowledge (i.e. was in the news)?

JC
JC
November 16, 2021 2:32 am

You see, this is where you go off the rails like always.

1. I said it wasn’t a regular situation where US jurors would be so easily caught on camera. I suggested it was low probability event.

2. Newscastle’s chief scientist was linking to a stupid site with zero cred. Team Tucker Carlson! FFS!

When you subsequently linked to Fox News the story then became credible, which is what I said and you still dishonestly deny.

JC
JC
November 16, 2021 2:33 am

Lindsay Fox is a loudmouth idiot.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

twostixsays:
November 16, 2021 at 12:50 am

This is something.
Old mate in SA sends his MP some irate boomer-tier emails, gets a visit by the police.

Old mate, a doctor, sends his MP some emails the MP doesn’t like, so the cops are sooled on for a “random” firearms licencing act inspection.

+ some “friendly advice” on sending emails. (he told the cop to “sod off” re the emails, a touch differently, but just as effectively, as would I have)

Thankfully they sent a fairly genial older cop. In the hands of an officious young smart-arse, that could have gone quite badly (for police PR).

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

1. I said it wasn’t a regular situation where US jurors would be so easily caught on camera. I suggested it was low probability event.

Yet it had already happened.

2. Newscastle’s chief scientist was linking to a stupid site with zero cred. Team Tucker Carlson! FFS!

Yet it was true.
Perhaps you’re just shit at analysing data?

Tom
Tom
November 16, 2021 4:02 am
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Tom
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Tom
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Tom
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Tom
November 16, 2021 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
November 16, 2021 4:11 am
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Tom
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Tom
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Tom
November 16, 2021 4:14 am
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Tom
November 16, 2021 4:15 am
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November 16, 2021 4:17 am
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Tom
November 16, 2021 4:18 am
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Tom
November 16, 2021 4:19 am
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Tom
November 16, 2021 4:20 am
rosie
rosie
November 16, 2021 5:36 am

What will it be today?
Death lettuces?
Dead giraffes?
Arrested Klauses?
WHO conspiracies?
Scary soliders in Bendigo supermarkets?
Oh and if the vaccines cause covid why aren’t the ACT and NSW awash with cases?

rosie
rosie
November 16, 2021 5:37 am

Or perhaps just more rain?

rosie
rosie
November 16, 2021 5:40 am
rosie
rosie
November 16, 2021 5:49 am
Dot
Dot
November 16, 2021 6:28 am

Pia is off today to get her third dose as somebody who’s been on a breast cancer journey. She’s been supported by the PBS as part of that, she’s had wonderful local surgeons and radiotherapy and it’s just great to see her.

Greg. Normal people don’t call cancer a *journey*.

Corpospeak needs to be flushed.

Dot
Dot
November 16, 2021 6:31 am

Our diet, our lifestyles, these can have a huge impact on the rate of attaining diabetes in Australia. It’s a 10 year plan, it’s been developed in conjunction with Diabetes Australia, with the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and also with the amazing James Muecke, our immediate past Australian of the Year. James has contributed many things, but this may be one of his most important.

Don’t. Eat. Sugar.

Sarah. Wilson. Is. Hot. AF.

Put. Down. The. Fork.

Dr. Rudi. Says. Eat. Less.

Dot
Dot
November 16, 2021 6:33 am

And for those who are immunocompromised, it might be with cancer, it might be with other health conditions, or, importantly, for pregnant mums, it is critical to get that third jab. We really want you to do that. It can help protect you and protect those that you love.

Are you sure about that?

Possible long term effects are just being ignored.

Dot
Dot
November 16, 2021 6:36 am

At this stage, leaning slightly towards the fact that for now, the booster, the third shot, would be what’s required for the general population. But not ruling out that there may be, subsequently, whether it’s annual or now, that possibility is receded for the general population on his advice and that’s the same as our Australian medical advice, to something which may be every few years if another shot’s required at all. So, the history of the future vaccines is to be written, but we’re prepared for all the contingencies.

Stupid twat.

rosie
rosie
November 16, 2021 6:36 am

No it isn’t dot.

Dot
Dot
November 16, 2021 6:38 am

subsequent approvals, we’re expecting an application from Novavax in the very near future. I was speaking with their representative in Australia recently. They are committed to bringing forward that application.

He said this on 14 Nov.

He’s drunk or high.

Dot
Dot
November 16, 2021 6:42 am

I dare anyone to talk to an immediate family member of someone in palliative care and refer to their illness as a “journey”.

I know one person who talks like that and they are a greaseball and a weasel.

Turns out they’re a HR manager. ?

jupes
jupes
November 16, 2021 6:50 am

… and that’s the same as our Australian medical advice, to something which may be every few years if another shot’s required at all.

He’s lying. He knows we will ‘require’ a third shot. He’s already bought them.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2021 6:50 am

What will it be today?
Death lettuces?
Dead giraffes?
Arrested Klauses?

Yesterday it was dead cats, if that helps Rosie.

3 snow leopards with COVID-19 die at Lincoln Children’s Zoo (14 Nov)

Poor things. In the wild they’d not have much contact with each other so wouldn’t catch the virus, and they’d also get to eat the kiddies rather than be taunted by them.

shatterzzz
November 16, 2021 6:50 am

Another poll, another BRADBURY loss .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/Phzjbvp

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 16, 2021 7:08 am

TaliDan waters down tyranny bill and the truly stupid are happy.

Replying to
@theheraldsun
Isn’t that what happens with bills presented to Parliament.Nearly all bills presented to Parliament ask for more than they want, the opposition/cross bench ask for amendments, an agreement is reached, the bill passes, everybody’s happy, a WIN-WIN, they get paid, voters happy

Sheesh

Dot
Dot
November 16, 2021 7:28 am

voters happy

PRGuy17 must have wrote this.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 16, 2021 7:30 am

I dare anyone to talk to an immediate family member of someone in palliative care and refer to their illness as a “journey”.

If someone wants to refer to their own illnesses or whatever as a journey, fine.

Talking about someone else in that manner sounds both trite and dismissive.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2021 7:30 am

Aaand it’s the RoP*. Again.

Liverpool terror LIVE: Attacker unmasked – police issue urgent plea after new explosion (15 Nov)

POLICE have identified the man who was killed in the explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital yesterday as 32-year-old Emad al Swealmeen and have urged anyone who has any information that could be of use to come forward.

This news comes after a controlled explosion was carried out by police in Sefton Park earlier on Monday after a second device was found.

I had thought he might’ve been a Real IRA guy since the Article 16 stuff suggests the provos’ strategy of using the EU to get a united Ireland is likely to go right back to square one.

* The article does not say he was muslim, but it seems a pretty fair bet given his name, which isn’t what you’d call culturally Irish.

shatterzzz
November 16, 2021 7:32 am

Anyone watch Yellowstone this evening
I watched the 1st two seasons, mainly because I like Costner, but couldn’t really get into it .. too much family-wealthy-do-as-you-like Americana for me .. maybe its improved but I’m not quite tempted to re-visit …..

Dot
Dot
November 16, 2021 7:36 am

A Mad ‘ole Sweaty Meenahan.

Very Irish!

MatrixTransform
November 16, 2021 7:40 am

is it bird?
is it a plane?

no it’s a duk

anybody seen this bloke?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 16, 2021 7:54 am

Dot, as a side comment, I recall an Aussie CEO of a Yank company years ago when he took over moved his office from the top floor to the second floor as he wasn’t having staff wasting the company’s time waiting for lifts to come to see him. He also sacked the HR dept. Can’t remember his name.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2021 7:55 am

All the burning buses that are falling after me
All the lonely feelings and the burning memories
Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door
Burning buses lost forevermore

Apologies to the Mike Curb Congregation.

Infrastructure Bill Will Help Boost Number of Electric School Buses (15 Nov)

Electric fried school kiddies, yum.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 16, 2021 8:01 am

Mark Steyn cautiously writes what no-one in the media will ever approach regarding the Hunter Biden lap top:

Joe Biden, a man who has become enormously wealthy despite half-a-century on a government salary, has troubling and potentially disqualifying relations with foreign business partners about which he should be questioned. I’m putting it at the very minimum here.

We are in turgid times when most of the press have moved on from accidental mistakes to outright lying to protect one of theirs.

John H.
John H.
November 16, 2021 8:03 am

MatrixTransformsays:
November 16, 2021 at 7:40 am
is it bird?
is it a plane?

no it’s a duk

anybody seen this bloke?

GPs refuse to follow the script at their own peril. Throwing away several years of training and years of experience is not an easy thing to do.

Yesterday I was watching an interview with Professor Nutt in Britain. He stated that government control over medicine was bad before COVID and has only become worse. Governments are dictating to doctors what is an acceptable treatment. Public or private doesn’t matter because the AMA is just another enforcement arm of the government and it will come hunting if the doctor doesn’t behave.

calli
calli
November 16, 2021 8:04 am

Interesting, Matrix. The police officer clearly didn’t want to be there.

The old days of being jostled and egged and it’s part of being a politician are long gone. Now vaguely mean emails get you a visit from the coppers.

calli
calli
November 16, 2021 8:09 am

In addition, what a loss to medicine in Australia. A highly qualified and experienced doctor forced out only to be replaced (if he ever is) by a compliant, know-nothing drone.

Circling the drain.

Mater
November 16, 2021 8:09 am

Now vaguely mean emails get you a visit from the coppers.

Worse still, using unrelated legislation to intimidate despite there not being any physical threat involved.

The Cop admitted that nothing in the emails was actionable, therefore it should have stopped at the station, and gone no further.

The ridiculous powers within the firearms legislation is being abused (much like the SOE’s) for unrelated purposes. The admission in the video should drive disciplinary action all the way up the chain…but it won’t.

calli
calli
November 16, 2021 8:13 am

jostled and egged

And that was in a time when firearms were littered all through the community. Yet our politicians didn’t walk about with a phalanx of goons keeping them “safe”. Even after Arthur Caldwell was shot at Mosman (of all places).

Silly, soft-handed invertebrates govern us.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 16, 2021 8:18 am

If you want to look at the perils of occupational licensing and funding think about GPs and their Medicare provider number. More dependent than the worst Franga houso.

When was the last time a GP hung out their own shingle? They are owned 100%.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 16, 2021 8:20 am

According to vaccination data for LGA’s in Victoria it’s the Labor/Green municipalities that have the lowest and slowest rates.
Darebin, Yarra, Port Phillip, Melbourne etc.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 16, 2021 8:26 am

Aaand it’s the RoP*. Again.
ABC AM managed to report the whole incident without mentioning it once.
“The most trusted news source”

Razey
Razey
November 16, 2021 8:28 am

To put it bluntly. The whole ‘west’ is fucked in the head.

Need to get out of here ASAP.

calli
calli
November 16, 2021 8:31 am

Thanks, Tom. A reminder to visit the Bee more often.

They must be having difficulty manufacturing “fake” news these days, it so closely resembles the genuine article.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 16, 2021 8:41 am

is it bird?
is it a plane?

no it’s a duk

anybody seen this bloke?

The duck lives 😉

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 16, 2021 8:42 am

Calli

Silly, soft-handed invertebrates govern us.

I don’t wish to be unduly pedantic, but they don’t “govern” us, they (attempt to) rule us, sending down commandments from on high.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 16, 2021 8:46 am

Facebooking Cats…
What email server would anyone recommend, for ease of operation and freedom from creeping compliance for access, phone relay codes, retina scans and the like?

calli
calli
November 16, 2021 8:47 am

Does the duck smoke delicious cuts of meat? I think I spotted the beginnings of something interesting in the culinary line. And the burning question – does beer play a part in the ritual? 😀

P
P
November 16, 2021 8:47 am
P
P
November 16, 2021 8:58 am

Craig Kelly MP @CraigKellyMP · 50m
European Medicines Agency says it’s assessing reports of new ‘rare’ blood condition after Moderna called capillary leak syndrome

https://twitter.com/CraigKellyMP/status/1460353184115822594

MatrixTransform
November 16, 2021 9:02 am

The duck lives

the duck ROCKS !!

…nice ad for Coopers btw

Mater
November 16, 2021 9:02 am

What email server would anyone recommend, for ease of operation and freedom from creeping compliance for access, phone relay codes, retina scans and the like?

Currently transitioning (phrasing) to ProtonMail.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 16, 2021 9:04 am

Why are you avoiding the most plausible conclusion, the vaxxes are not achieving a decline in excess deaths?

Because he has been jabbed.
Bought a rolex, Ford, Apple …
Some people justify and defend their choices irrespective of the evidence before them.
I previously chose sumfink, so sumfink is the bestest choice.
That’s fine. Just don’t employ these people as problem solvers.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2021 9:04 am

Boris overnight admitted boosters every 6 months for 14-49 year olds now encouraged.

For certain meanings of “encouraged”.

Britons will need booster jab for international travel in major change to holidays (15 Nov)

Let me just “encourage” you a little with this baseball bat.

shatterzzz
November 16, 2021 9:07 am

Who is WILLIAM TYRELL related too, that keeps him in the news? .. When you consider the number of kids/folk who go missing in NSW and only ever occupy the 3 days news cycle before being forgotten why does WT keep recurring?
Woman, 28, went missing 28 October around Artarmon, they’ve found her bag & mobile yet no headlines just a coupla mid-page paragraphs since then …
And not forgetting that RoP kiddie from Leumeah, a few years ago now .. middle of the night .. open window, too high for her to have managed! .. and nuttin’ since .. NO, ongoing, HUE & CRY for her …!

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 16, 2021 9:09 am

Does the duck smoke delicious cuts of meat? I think I spotted the beginnings of something interesting in the culinary line. And the burning question – does beer play a part in the ritual?

Yep, the visit was unexpected – so there may have been some ‘opsec’ articles on the barrel – like about a thousand empty cases….

Pogria
Pogria
November 16, 2021 9:10 am

Hi Mater,
the tip you gave Dali regarding Protonmail, I also want to change my email, so will look into it.
I have also been researching Starlink which you talked about in an earlier thread. I am moving before Christmas to the wilds of outer Goulburnia so obviously want a reliable internet service. So far, it looks good. Any other tips re Starlink and Protonmail? Thanks.

Bons
November 16, 2021 9:14 am

The repulsive fat Ukrainian Kapo in charge of camp QLD is working hard at once again preventing us from visiting our kids for Christmas.
“It’s personal now zhinka”!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2021 9:18 am

Pogria – Just be aware that the Starlink setup may take a while. The manufacturing rate for the dishes seems inadequate to the demand. Also be aware that hot days may cause your service to break down as the dishes have a fairly low temperature trip setting.

That’s what I’ve read some months ago. May be better now, but it would pay to check carefully.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 16, 2021 9:21 am

Thanks Mater, Pog- I’ll investigate.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 16, 2021 9:22 am
John H.
John H.
November 16, 2021 9:25 am

Psays:
November 16, 2021 at 8:58 am
Craig Kelly MP @CraigKellyMP · 50m
European Medicines Agency says it’s assessing reports of new ‘rare’ blood condition after Moderna called capillary leak syndrome
https://twitter.com/CraigKellyMP/status/1460353184115822594

These six cases are out of over 61.6 million doses of the Moderna vaccine administered

Before latching onto these numbers try and track down the base rate for these conditions. It is extremely rare, one report stated less than 500 cases reported in the literature since 1960. It is a very serious and life threatening condition. Some cancer treatments can induce it. COVID does induce it. 500 is not a realistic figure because capillary leak syndrome is a significant problem with cancer therapy so the actual number is much higher. Also remember that not all cases will be reported in the literature. Given its association with cancer therapies which involve pushing the immune system into overdrive it suggests that Moderna is doing the same in those 6 cases. Those 6 cases shouldn’t exist, a vaccine shouldn’t be over activating the immune system that much and certainly shouldn’t be causing CLS.

Indolent
Indolent
November 16, 2021 9:29 am
Mater
November 16, 2021 9:29 am

Any other tips re Starlink and Protonmail?

Starling is opening up by areas in Australia, so the area you’re interested in may not yet be available. They seem to be concentrating on area less likely to be well serviced by NBN (I only pay for it, getting serviced by it is optional…their option).
Starlink comes with a great ground mount tripod, but to mount on roof you’ll need to also purchase a pole adaptor for a standard dish roof bracket, or fabricate something yourself (this is what I did). If needing pole adaptor, be sure to order at the same time as dish. You don’t want to be waiting another month or two to mount it. Demand (and Covid) means there can be a reasonable wait for it all to ship from the US, but ours came surprisingly quickly.

As for ProtonMail, it seems to focus on privacy. Based in Switzerland and encrypted. You can get free accounts, but limitations apply. Eg. Only one account can be serviced by the App and storage limitations. Not really an issue if you are running only one account. Costs for upgunned versions are a little pricey for email, but they have some good features. I’d like them to have a family plan, but they don’t yet.

Really all I can offer. Hope it helps. Others might be able to value add.

Indolent
Indolent
November 16, 2021 9:31 am

LIBERAL GOVERNOR TRIED TO PUMP COVID NUMBERS TO JUSTIFY SHUTDOWN

A whistleblower has leaked an email exchange dating to October 2020, in which the Chief of Staff to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz tells the state’s Department of Health that the Department’s numbers on how covid was spreading were “less useful than what I expected” because “these numbers are small.” The Commissioner of Health said, in turn, that “people look at the primary case numbers and think those are small impacts that don’t justify the dial backs we propose.” She urges her staff to engage in “creative thinking.”

The path was set. They were just looking for the excuse to pursue it.

jupes
jupes
November 16, 2021 9:31 am

Nick Kyrgios has sensationally claimed the 2022 Australian Open should not go ahead, declaring it is “morally wrong to force someone to be vaccinated”.

Champion.

Mater
November 16, 2021 9:36 am

“morally wrong repugnant to force someone to be vaccinated”

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 16, 2021 9:40 am

Anyone watch Yellowstone this evening?

Always on the lookout for a good new TV series.

Managed to get Mrs TE to watch Breaking Bad, which I have seen, but is worth watching again. We are in Series 3. Several years ago she only managed the first three episodes. I am plotting to get her to watch Better Call Saul with me – will not let on I watched it OTQ once. Apparently a new and final series of it is being aired next year.

We started Damages – about 15 years old, with Glenn Close, but it was too unnecessarily convoluted in a “look at us we’re clever” way.

Did several episodes of Mr Inbetween but Herself thought too violent. Fisherman’s Friends was harmless. The Chair was absolutely appalling woke rubbish.

Indolent
Indolent
November 16, 2021 9:43 am

Why are you avoiding the most plausible conclusion, the vaxxes are not achieving a decline in excess deaths?

If that’s all they don’t achieve, it’s the best possible outcome.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 16, 2021 9:47 am
Pogria
Pogria
November 16, 2021 9:48 am

Bruce of Newcastle,
thanks very much for the tip. After reading mater’s post in the last thread, I started to do some research, then it rained, and my internet was out for three days!!! hahahahah. Where I live now is considered the limit of the Sydney Metro area even though it is rural. Thank God we haven’t been forced onto the NBN as yet.

Mater,
what you have written so far has been good value. The tip for the pole is excellent! I have a very high roof on the new/very old house so the pole will be a great idea. I was told that mobile reception is not great, but my little Telstra phone has been working great when I am down there. Am still considering a mobile booster when I finally move in. These two things, plus a CB radio, and I should be able to stay connected.
Also, thanks for the heads up vis a vis Protonmail. It looks pretty good.

local oaf
November 16, 2021 9:49 am

The duck lives

Well done on getting the footage out there. No luck with Avi or Rukshan?

John of Mel
John of Mel
November 16, 2021 9:54 am

We started Damages – about 15 years old,

Have you watched Justified? It’s one of the best ones out there, imho. It’s also not new (2010).
Squid Games was not bad. Especially if you watch in Korean with English subtitles. Could be a bit violent though.

calli
calli
November 16, 2021 9:55 am

Mh over at DashCat has an excellent link to Infowars and an article about the Rittenhouse prosecutor pointing a weapon at the courtroom – with his finger on the trigger.

The guy should be sacked.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 16, 2021 9:56 am

Nick Kyrgios has sensationally claimed the 2022 Australian Open should not go ahead, declaring it is “morally wrong to force someone to be vaccinated”.

Champion.

I have a bit a love-hate relationship with Kyrgios. But he doesn’t mind telling the right people to get fucked.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 16, 2021 10:11 am

Le Bureau SBS on demand is a good series Apparently shown to the DGSE to rave reviews. One particular episode, not saying which, has a scene right on the edge that nothing happens. Worth a look.

John H.
John H.
November 16, 2021 10:12 am

H B Bearsays:
November 16, 2021 at 9:56 am
Nick Kyrgios has sensationally claimed the 2022 Australian Open should not go ahead, declaring it is “morally wrong to force someone to be vaccinated”.

Champion.

I have a bit a love-hate relationship with Kyrgios. But he doesn’t mind telling the right people to get fucked.

I didn’t like him early in his career but he has matured and become a much more likeable person.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 16, 2021 10:14 am

Think how good Kyrgios could have been if he hadn’t believed his own bullshit. He had all the skills and energy but nothing in the head.

JC
JC
November 16, 2021 10:15 am

An oldie but a goodie

If Britain were a U.S. state, it would be the second-poorest, behind Alabama and before Mississippi

The entire EU would be at the bottom.

It’s old, but the dynamics haven’t changed .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/08/26/if-the-uk-was-a-u-s-state-it-would-be-the-second-poorest-behind-alabama-and-before-mississippi/

Roger
Roger
November 16, 2021 10:26 am

When was the last time a GP hung out their own shingle? They are owned 100%.

As I said the other day, Medicare is our NHS.

It seemed like a good idea at the time, has overwhelming public support, but it is not doing us any good.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 16, 2021 10:33 am

The prosecutor in the Kyle Rittenhouse case is so stupid it is obvious he’s headed to become State Attorney General. He literally couldn’t tie his own shoelaces so must what the future holds.

Roger
Roger
November 16, 2021 10:37 am

The prosecutor in the Kyle Rittenhouse case is so stupid it is obvious he’s headed to become State Attorney General.

With his campaign funded by Soros’s Foundation.

Mater
November 16, 2021 10:47 am

As I said the other day, Medicare is our NHS.

It seemed like a good idea at the time, has overwhelming public support, but it is not doing us any good.

Socialist policies always beget more socialist policies.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 16, 2021 10:52 am

Ernie Dingo to undergo Federal Government-funded tour of WA in bid to boost Indigenous vaccination rates
Lanai Scarr
The West Australian
Tue, 16 November 2021 2:00AM
Comments

Ernie Dingo will front a Federal Government-funded $200,000 two-month tour across northern WA in a bid to boost flailing Indigenous vaccination rates.

Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt will on Tuesday announce the plan with the vaccination rate of Indigenous Australians lagging behind the rest of Australia — particularly in WA, where just 32.6 per cent have had both jabs.

In Port Hedland and the surrounding region, only about 33 per cent of the Indigenous population aged 12 and over have had one dose, with a significant proportion of the community reportedly scared about getting the vaccine.

In the Northern Territory 51 per cent of Indigenous Australians are fully vaccinated while in NSW the figure sits as 78 per cent.

Gab
Gab
November 16, 2021 10:53 am

Zoom Livestream Details
DATE: Tuesday, 16 November 2021 02:30pm
CASE: Hobart v Crawford (S ECI 2021 04250)

Link to View Hearing: https://vimeo.com/event/1513223
Password to View Hearing: U6aSuHYEs*!*

Dr Mark Hobart in court today.

Roger
Roger
November 16, 2021 10:56 am

Socialist policies always beget more socialist policies.

Thus they become entrenched and the people become dependant upon them.

And the only thing Tories/Liberals/RINOs dare do is fiddle at the edges.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
November 16, 2021 11:01 am

We started Damages – about 15 years old,

If you haven’t watched ‘Godless’ on Netflix its a must-see. A western with a bit of a difference and a bit brutal in parts. Wife loved it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 16, 2021 11:02 am

And the only thing Tories/Liberals/RINOs dare do is fiddle at the edges.

The Lieborals are placeholders until people forget how bad the Liars are in government.

local oaf
November 16, 2021 11:04 am

The prosecutor in the Kyle Rittenhouse case is so stupid it is obvious he’s headed to become State Attorney General.

It’s a wonder he’s not actually related to the current DA.

The Mayor, lead detective on the case and the DA are all relatives I believe?

PeterW
PeterW
November 16, 2021 11:08 am

Just ordered MAP for next year’s cropping program. The price is double that of last year. That, and the projected cost of chemical and fuel is so high that it is doubtful that I will grow wheat at all, next year.

For those who don’t know, MAP is Mono-Ammonium Phospate, one of the most common Nitrogen/Phosphorus fertilisers. The N portion is primarily derived for a process using hydrocarbons as a raw material. So every increase in the price of oil and gas drives it up… as does the cost of fuel for mining and transport. Couple that with the disruption to the supply chain due to C19 restrictions, and the results are inevitable.

The next time someone complains about the price of food, remind that that the twin panics over C19 and Global Warming are responsible.

Zipster
November 16, 2021 11:08 am

Sarah. Wilson. Is. Hot. AF.

yeah….nah

Franx
Franx
November 16, 2021 11:11 am

That SA police officer who visited the doctor looked perfectly happy in the service. Disgraceful, really, especially in it banality of undeclared intimidation.

Bar Beach Swimmer
November 16, 2021 11:14 am

MT,
from last night. That meal sounds delicious (if you’re interested I had a roast, or as it’s called up this way, a baked dinner).
But if you’re going to gloat about what you’re eating, you need to send out invitations so we can evaluate.
That is all…?

(there’s an emoji there, if it doesn’t show up).

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 16, 2021 11:15 am

John of Mel says: Have you watched Justified…

Started it but didn’t finish episode 1….given your recommendation will try again.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 16, 2021 11:22 am

The N portion is primarily derived for a process using hydrocarbons as a raw material. So every increase in the price of oil and gas drives it up

Which in turn is due to renewable energy and Green (anti) resource extraction policies. Both drive up the cost of gas, and overwhelmingly ammonia is produced by steam reforming methane.

I was amused by this headline:

Obama economist Larry Summers slams Biden on inflation, ‘doesn’t look so transitory.’ (14 Nov)

I’m amused because of this quote:

FLASHBACK: Obama Promised Electricity Costs Would Skyrocket (2014)

House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) posted a flashback video Monday morning reminding people of President Obama’s “promise” that under his energy plan, “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gases,” Obama said. “Coal power plants, natural gas, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money onto consumers.”

And guess what? And now the Left is panicking because the proles are unhappy about energy costs causing inflation? Amazing.

PeterW
PeterW
November 16, 2021 11:25 am

Governments are dictating to doctors what is an acceptable treatment. Public or private doesn’t matter because the AMA is just another enforcement arm of the government and it will come hunting if the doctor doesn’t behave.

Keep saying it.

Centralised decision-making applied to agriculture starved up to 100 million people last century.

Centralised decision-making in production and distribution kept a Billion people in poverty.

How is centralised decision-making in medicine going to work any better?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 16, 2021 11:27 am

Sarah Wilson more fun than a fat girl in a wardrobe.

Gab
Gab
November 16, 2021 11:27 am

Wonder what medical procedure will be forced on the population next year after seeing how easy it was to force people this year to take experimental jabs using fear and intimidation?

Roger
Roger
November 16, 2021 11:27 am

And now the Left is panicking because the proles are unhappy about energy costs causing inflation? Amazing.

Biden wrote a lot of blank cheques to gain power.

His first priority in power has been honouring them.

Voters are way down on his list of priorities.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 16, 2021 11:29 am

Centralised decision-making

When you’re at the centre of the known universe everything revolves around you.

Razey
Razey
November 16, 2021 11:29 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
November 16, 2021 at 10:52 am
Ernie Dingo to undergo Federal Government-funded tour of WA in bid to boost Indigenous vaccination rates
Lanai Scarr
The West Australian
Tue, 16 November 2021 2:00AM
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Ernie Dingo will front a Federal Government-funded $200,000 two-month tour across northern WA in a bid to boost flailing Indigenous vaccination rates.

Ernie Dingo aint black – Joe poopy-pants Biden

Mater
November 16, 2021 11:32 am

More than 10,000 Australians have filed coronavirus vaccine injury claims

They’ll dismiss this as small compared to the number of doses administered.
Let’s put some perspective around it:

“521 Australians died during the Vietnam War and around 3000 were wounded.”

lotocoti
lotocoti
November 16, 2021 11:34 am

Currently up to series five in The Wire revisit.
If anything, the festering wounds under the scabs picked at by the show 18 years ago
are even worse these days.
Generation Kill, by the same crew is next up.
Coincidently, the actor playing the fake news peddler in the final series won an Oscar for Spotlight.

Zipster
November 16, 2021 11:40 am

And the only thing Tories/Liberals/RINOs dare do is fiddle at the edges.

the entrenched socialism becomes the very thing they try to conserve

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 16, 2021 11:44 am

TV reccommends.

Taboo
“Everyone will get what they deserve” as a combo threat/morale builder/judgement from God in a single line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDV8tXLLOmg

Rorschach
Rorschach
November 16, 2021 11:49 am

Binger describes the mob in Kenosha that was burning the city as a “crowd full of heroes” who tried to stop an “active shooter” in Kyle Rittenhouse.

This prosecutor really is a scumbag.

I really can not understand how ANYONE can find acceptable that a PUBLIC prosecutor is bending the law, obfuscating fact, concealing evidence and using other (usually politically motivated) shenanigans.

Whilst you kind of expect that defence would do this … you just CAN NOT have prosecution do this. The law is not about justice – I accept that – but at least it can still be about law itself!!! It won’t be long before the courts are held in less respect than media, politicians and the other institutions.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
November 16, 2021 11:53 am

Look at these Stasi shits.

Got a certain moistness being able to stop people making a living.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-16/unvaccinated-call-for-harvest-work-in-wa/100622300

As vaccine mandates edge closer for many West Australian workers, a number of people have posted on Esperance social media pages declaring their vaccine-free status and asking for work.

Although farm workers are not required to be vaccinated, the WA government has included them in the list of workers who will not be able to work during a lockdown.

Grower Mic Fels said employers could face penalties of up to $100,000 if unvaccinated staff were found breaking those rules.

“Anybody who is recruiting now, they certainly should be asking people if they’re vaccinated or if they intend to get vaccinated,” he said.

Esperance restaurant owner Jane Coole will have to ensure all her workers are fully vaccinated by the end of January in order to comply with the government’s regulations.

For that reason, she recently refused jobs to three unvaccinated applicants, despite predicting she would be down 50 per cent on staff this summer.

She believes some are leaving the hospitality industry specifically to look for harvest work.

Good german alert.

But farmer and state Labor MP Darren West believed it was entirely reasonable that agricultural workers be required to get vaccinated to work during a lockdown.

He dismissed claims the advice should have come earlier, particularly given the well-known worker shortages in the sector, and said employers should think about their duty of care to other employees.

“If people don’t want to get vaccinated, quite frankly, I don’t think you want them on your farm,” he told the ABC.
He also called on WA Farmers to “show leadership” when it came to vaccination.

“I think they need to get around this and make it mandatory that everyone who works on a farm or at a CBH receival site this year is vaccinated,” he said.

cohenite
November 16, 2021 11:57 am
  1. Yes, thank you for confirming that in the UN scenario the ratio of global industrial production is 4:1 in China’s…

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