I think they’re foolish to refuse the vaccines…

Why bother railing against our lunatic Premiers and then describing the unvaccinated as fools?
I don’t get it.

They have got good at this.

Clinical trials? Hold our beer

Big in Melbourne! BIG.

influence Big Pharma has over the medical profession, the courts, and the government.

If we paid them Jizya would they leave us alone?

The amount of pills Americans take is frightening. What are you taking each day? Nothing. Look at you like they just spotted your horse drawn buggy out front.

Sounds like the place to go if you need the goodies pronto.

They had plenty of stock to, no questions asked, but I did wear my cowboy boots for the occasion!

On the move now, west along Bourke Street.

Led of course by a far-right-extremist Jamaican with a bongo and a spliff.

The amount of pills Americans take is frightening. What are you taking each day? Nothing. Look at you like they just spotted your horse drawn buggy out front.

Yeah, they’re good at Gaslighting their clients.
Dentists aren’t bad at it either, try telling them you’re in excruciating pain a few days after a Root Canal.
“But you can’t be, i’ve already removed the nerve in that tooth” sez he.
Inquiries about Cavitations draw a similar respons.

(welcome, PNG, welcome, Solomon Islands!)

If the Wontoks are there and Vikpol try any shit it’s going to get real exciting real fast!!!

AFP were totally out of their depth advising on policing in PNG.

Bit of censorship apparently going on today in regard to rally/protest live-streams. Google even stuffing with searches more than usual. This reminds me of that flawed argument I read the other day about: if nobody looks at it, the moon is not there. Never mind the tides, the winds, the seasons, trees fruiting…the like. Ah the joy of Morrison/Dutton’s cognitively retarded “national security” state!

Ah the joy of Morrison/Dutton’s cognitively retarded “national security” state!

It’s Morrison and Joyce’s baby.
Scotty is losing the Backbenchers with his Trumpian bullshit, so it’s only a matter of time before he joins Tony Abbott on the park bench.

Custard,
The weekend Oz is worth it for Watersons column alone

OK you tight arses here it is

A friend told me from Canberra last week that obedience to Covid regulations in the nation’s capital has all but disappeared, now the ACT has passed the 95 per cent double-vaccinated marker and speeds towards a projected 99 per cent by Christmas.

“Hardly anyone bothers to see if you’ve checked in or bothers to inspect your vaccine certificates,” she said. “It’s almost become an honour system.

“You’d love it,” she laughed, having detected over the past 20 months that I’ve not been the most ardent supporter of our pandemic countermeasures.

But I don’t love it. Like many others, I’ve been hoping for an end to the ill-conceived overreach and cowardly hysteria that has poisoned our lives; but this looks very like the false ending I feared, drawn out like a tone-deaf parody of the last bars of a Beethoven symphony.

I can’t remember when the restrictions were supposed to be lifted. Was it at 70 per cent, or 80? Was it by the end of June, or two weeks after some curve was flattened? Maybe it was when we had enough new hospital beds, when the old and vulnerable were made safe, when the moon was in Sagittarius, or when Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane. The goalposts have been moved so often they should be on castors.

So instead of returning our lives to normal with a clear, decisive ­declaration as sensible nations around the world have done, our QR codes and contact tracing, our emergency powers, our lockdown provisions, our border closures and travel restrictions will gently fade into disuse, where they will fester just below the surface until the next vicious, simple-minded dictator slimes his or her way to power and, fancying a little social engineering, revives them.

They’ll be like the 13th century English laws that could fine you threepence for not practising archery on a Sunday, still on the statute books when I was at school – although not as quaint or useful.

When NSW hits 95 per cent, or on December 15, QR codes, happily, will only be required in “high-risk settings”.

It’s hard to see what risk, of any altitude, exists once almost everyone is fully vaccinated, but don’t question the imaginary science.

That tells us the following venues will remain high-risk: hospitals, aged-care and disability facilities. Oh yes, and gyms, places of worship and at funerals. And beauty parlours, for they are dangerously Coviddy places too.

Anywhere else feel a bit high-risk? Why, pubs and bars, naturally; and registered clubs and nightclubs: better keep the drinkers checking in, just in case caution is not present in sufficient abundance. And severely Coviditious indoor music venues. But that’s it. Otherwise, free as a bird.

And no one will miss those awful masks, will they? Unless they’re on a bus, of course. Or a train. Or sunning themselves on a ferry. Or in an airport, or on a plane, or serving someone in a restaurant while unvaccinated, for the fiendish virus knows where best to lay its ambush. Everywhere else, mask-wearing will merely be “strongly encouraged”, with state-sponsored paranoia outsourced to shopkeepers, restaurateurs and any other businesses, allowed to make up their own rules for admission and continue to demand vaccine certificates.

Please note this is in (relatively) relaxed NSW, whose stupidity shines like a beacon of tolerance and wisdom amid the moronic cruelty that has infected the rest of the country.

Elsewhere, our politicians demonstrate the adroitness of stage conjurers, misdirecting their audience, twisting words and turning meaning upside-down while patting themselves on the back. It’s “cases”, though, not any human agency, that lead to restrictions and lockdowns, as though the dolts who issue the orders have no choice, no role, no responsibility.

They then offer their patronising thanks for “all your hard work”, or for “doing the right thing”, which for many amounts to dodging their draconian fines, then trudging into the nearest pharmacy to be vaccinated against losing your job.

As we reclassify as pariahs the few who have refused the vaccine (but who, like almost everyone else in Australia, are also uninfected), the vitriol is warmed up.

Never mind that they are a risk primarily to themselves; our putative superiors demonise them as moronic conspirators lapping up deranged theories spawned in the darkest corners of the internet.

I think they’re foolish to refuse the vaccines, but the real derangement is displayed by the authorities, whose spiteful campaign long ago crossed the boundaries of human decency.

In Victoria, as vaccination levels increased, so did the impositions on those who remain unvaccinated, and on business owners, who have been ordered to check customers’ vaccine status. The Premier, who has covered himself from head to toe in whatever is the opposite of glory, bragged triumphantly that he would bar the unvaccinated from all but essential shopping venues “for the entirety of 2022”.

“Whether it’s a bookshop, a shoe shop, a pub, cafe, a restaurant, the MCG, the list goes on and on,” Daniel Andrews said.

“You will not be able to participate like a fully vaccinated person, because you’re not a fully vaccinated person.” So there!

His counterpart in Queensland has decided the fun will end for the lepers on December 17, regardless of the state’s vaccination rate. QR check-in, judging by the state government’s Covid website, looks set to continue forever. In the other states – oh, who cares.

Even the has-beens with no political currency slither out to spew their bile upon the sinners. Former NSW premier Bob Carr suggests the unvaccinated should be charged for their medical expenses should they catch Covid and require treatment: “You pay for your wilful stupidity,” the nasty pseudo-intellectual said, “not the rest of us.” Who’d be next? Cancer sufferers who used to smoke? Drinkers with swollen livers? Paralysed motorcyclists who took that last corner too fast?

Human folly must indeed be hard to fathom when you believe yourself incapable of error.

On the national canvas, mysteriously, any criticism of the states’ conduct throughout the pandemic has been muted, at best.

How could anyone with any kind of voice stay silent as Australian police officers battered the citizens they are supposed to serve and protect? How could they watch the shutters come down on so many livelihoods without seeking a better solution? How could they see the light of ambition and enthusiasm fade in the eyes of our young people and think throwing more pretend money at them would preserve their self-­respect?

We’ve waited for a denunciation of this insanity from our federal leaders, hoping they might urge some decency on their worthless state counterparts.

But from the PM down, those elected to enunciate and promote the values of the nation, to inspire and guide us, to stiffen our resolve in difficult times, have virtually abandoned their posts, if not their prime positions at the bubbler of public funds.

We know you don’t hold hoses or anything else of value, but you could and should have been loudly and regularly damning the criminal fragmentation of our society.

Do our national representatives endorse the premiers’ and their health bureaucrats’ savage blundering, or do they fear the electoral consequences of speaking out against them?

Either way, they are unfit to call themselves “leaders”, as devalued as that term already was. You’d search in vain for a sense of shame.

So while the elderly tremble in their care homes as the vultures circle over and around them, our politicians have overseen another assisted dying program for the businesses and dreams of thousands of Australians, fuelled by a winning combination of incompetence, greed and spite.

It’s a stain on our history that all their crocodile tears will never wash out.

Cotton Tree. Hard to estimate the crowd because I can’t get to a commanding position. Just doing a walk-through & scan for anyone who stands out.

Cotton Tree, Sunshine Coast. Good turnout. Rain holding off. A bit hard to hear the speakers though, and I’m only about 70 metres away. Two plain clothes just walked up. No bodycams though, so there must be others here filming.

A bird attacking a drone overhead.

My guess for the crowd is between 2,000 & 2, 750.

Whiskey tourism

The 275-plus whisky selection makes Stock & Barrel a must-see.

Yet another reason to look forward to our freedoms being restored.

Snap, Tiges.

No worries, amazing scenes in Melbourne.

some scuffles in Sydney, unclear why

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aO_EQ1R_qbQ

Rick, I feel for you. Just stop and take a deep breath.

Near your loved ones. 🙂

Between China being China, the IOC being the IOC (trans eligibility), and covid being covid, who’d want to compete at the winter Olympics this time around?

Well that was my first ever protest, way more ppl than I expected. crowd very mixed.

Paul Joseph Watson – New COVID Mutation Has Only Produced “Very Mild Cases”

South Africa’s Chief Health Officer will probably be looking for a new job come Monday.

I question Alec Baldwins involvement is this.

Georgia webcam model, 27, accidentally shoots herself in genitals with 9mm handgun in ‘pornographic video gone horribly wrong’

MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040

Who would have thought….Cassie taking the knee.

Thank you to all taking part in marches today, well done. Let’s hope the message is getting across.
I suspect the problem for Cassie is that if she could” take the knee” she couldn’t get up again! Happens to me in the garden sometimes.
I recall it being said that children in school have to be educated for jobs that didn’t exist yet. Becoming a Georgia webcam model is truly aspirational – NOT.

hzhousewifesays:
November 27, 2021 at 3:26 pm

Becoming a Georgia webcam model is truly aspirational – NOT.

There is an opening there, possibly 2 now, for a bright lass.

Mater says:
November 27, 2021 at 2:26 pm
Quite a few Cats sitting here under a tree in Fitzroy Gardens.

Good representation.

Hope to there next week !

Herald-Sun “reporting” 10,000 at the Melbourne protest rally.

I’m guessing you would have to add at least another zero to that number ?

Humphrey B Bear:

Starting WW III over a virus name would be a bad look.

We try to placate China and the gang of criminals running it far too much.
First it was about the Wuhan Virus, then it was this – The X1 Variant.
When will our leaders learn to stand up for us?
This is encouraging their demands for special treatment – just like the Muslims.

Rukshan link now seems to be down. Is Face Chook playing silly buggers?

Craig Kelly in Sydney
https://twitter.com/CraigKellyMP/status/1464447574992035842

Via Rukshan (and Jerry) I was there in spirit.

Muddy’s estimate of about two and a half thousand at Cotton Tree seems about right.
Truly crazy place for an event, difficult access, insane parking. You could believe the crowd would double if the location was more accessable.
Observations (Muddy feel free to correct me).
70% families:
Middle aged not many zoomers:
Big health professional, Govt staff, transport, hospitality and small business representation:
Speakers surprisingly non-political – just ‘them’:
No apparent representation from the minor Parties (bizarre):
Very few hippies, tats or man buns.
Anna from Kiev not crucified, amazingly.
Couple of attacks on main stream unions for lack of support.
The white black fellas were painful but not too bad.
Overall the theme was “it’s my body, leave me alone”.
Usual Sunny Coast allocation of stunning …… OOPS, sorry, it’s a family blog.
In summary, very well organised, could do with a little less love and a bit more mongrel.
Funny bunch of “extremists” though.
Next one needs to be at a footy field.

Dr BG,
Were you at Elizabeth Quay?

No, is that where it was?

My favourite slogan was written on a balloon – things are so bad even the introverts are here!

The Duktor is in

electromagnetic pollution got the blame due to Wagga’s odd topography.

I would like to know more.

Do The Pixies play in your head?

I would like to know more.

How?
You can’t even process the information you’ve been given already.

Denmark: ‘Men in Black’ hold anti-COVID restrix demo in Copenhagen

Saagar Enjeti: Youtube PUNISHES Breaking Points For Covering Chinese Tennis Star Rape Accusation

If there’s one on next week, I’ll let you know where beforehand.

Thanks, BBS.

Rabz,

So glad that the protest for you today was invigorating. It’s easy to feel discouraged when you are surrounded by compliant sheep who look at you askance for daring to think for yourself.

I didn’t get to Perth’s protest today as I was called into work. The joys of being on a salary. But I would gladly meet up with any Cats who might be attending Perth protests in the future.

I have remembered another sign from last week that I particularly enjoyed:

“The Great Resist – they will own nobody and they will be unhappy”.

now he looks like Al Jolson

Cohenite – The original story is “50 Shades of Grant” by Zanetti. Unfortunately the original link to it on his blog no longer works. The article itself is around, and the graphic, but not together that I can find. Here’s the graphic.

John Cleese talks creativity, freedom of speech and blacklisting himself from Cambridge University

things are so bad even the introverts are here!

Reminiscent of this meme..

areff

How can chairman Peter Costello sleep at night with what Nine is doing?

All that lurrrrvely government advertising money helps.

I’m obviously more tired than I thought. Block quote fail for the second time in a week.

*slinks off, ashamed*