Open Thread – Mon 29 Nov 2021


The Fall of Phaeton, Peter Paul Rubens, 1604

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JC
JC
December 2, 2021 5:09 pm

Mater says:
December 2, 2021 at 5:02 pm

The Bill has passed 20-18.

That’s bloody unfortunate.

All independents are either Greenscum or Liars party goons disguised as independent.

Zipster
Zipster
December 2, 2021 5:10 pm
rickw
rickw
December 2, 2021 5:11 pm

Can there be a Nuremberg 2.0 thread pinned to the top of the cat. Not for debate or discussion. Just names and the reason why.

20 Victorian Parliamentarians just signed themselves onto that list. A clear an unambiguous assault on Freedom and Liberty.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 2, 2021 5:11 pm

Dan you all!
Where is the military coup when you need one?

In Sudan, Inco.

Hmmm, given the unnamed groups of people of no describable ethnicity or religion which famously make Melbourne their home I wonder if they might like to import another of their fun habits?

Gab
Gab
December 2, 2021 5:13 pm

Apparently So, Wikileaks just dumped all of their files online. Yep. Everything from Hillary Clinton’s emails, Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs’ HIV letter, PedoPodesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Bilderberg, CIA agents arrested for rape, WHO pandemic…

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/?fbclid=IwAR2U_Evqah_Qy2wxNY12FMqFC5dAFUcZL5Kl4FIfQuMFMp8ssbM46oHXWMI

I doubt it will be available for very long

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 5:19 pm

Strange indexing, Gab.

If you tab onto Clinton emails you find the following.

C05765907.pdf 01-Jan-1970 00:01 7096

But the trove has nothing to do with 1970, obviously.

Bruce in WA
December 2, 2021 5:20 pm

My Grandfather told me he joined up because he was out of work, needed to feed his family and was pretty sure conscription was coming. Thought it would be better to join up voluntarily rather than be conscripted. He ended up fighting along side the conscripts in PNG and was forever dark on the RSL for they way they treated them after the war.

When my Grandad joined the RAAF in 1939, it was the first full-time employment he had been in since arriving in Australia in 1928. Technically, he was too old, but he “amended” his birth certificate. (I’ve seen it — the recruiter must have left his guide dog home that day!)

Dad OTOH was too young to join up without permission, but he was desperate to get into the RAN, so he nagged his mother until she agreed to give him a permission letter to join. He was still at Flinders, HMAS Cerberus, when peace was declared. He was sent to Darwin, digging up and destroying unexploded ordnance.

Dad and Grandad both joined the RSL — and both quickly left it again.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 2, 2021 5:22 pm

I have always thought the association of the Eureka flag by the union movement to be real theft.

The men in Ballarat were not like unionists. They were small businessmen. Each one working his own claim, using tools he had purchased with his own capital, with the specific purpose of winning wealth for his own use. They weren’t wukkaz who decided their reward should be what they could wring from an employer regardless of how much they contributed to production.

If a guy struck it rich he treated himself. He was able to fling a bit of money to a couple of friends, or to someone to whom he felt in some way indebted, but strictly in accordance with his own judgement, not the demands of others. He would send money to his family, and perhaps quit the goldfields.

At the same time those who were not so fortunate had themselves always to be weighing up whether it was worth them continuing. If hungry they could appeal for charity from friends, but they could not demand food as their right merely for being part of a collective. They would take the risk and reap whatever returns came their way – which could be nothing. But their risk, and their reward.

And then the government stepped in to get their cut of activity that they had up until then showed no interest in. Certainly not helping. Simply demanding payment like a protection racket.

So yes, these small businessmen did band together in order to confront a specific threat. They would not have done it otherwise (collectivism should be spontaneous – if it is an inherent tendency it needs no trigger). They all kept their own goals but shared this one. Their intention was to go back to working their own claims under the same conditions as before. They just wanted to be left alone.

And now the unions are in the government, and they are still looking for ways to bleed small businesses.

Fitzsimian has a cartoonish grasp of history at best. Some opinion based on his scant historical knowledge burbles up from his bowels and he decides to ‘write’ a book. He sends his team of researchers to find what they can on the topic, and starting from the few facts they can uncover that are consistent with his contention he fleshes it out with comic characters. The English are toffs, the Australian wealthy are wannabe toffs, and the heroes are larrikins.

When he wrote about the Eureka Stockade, I wonder what accent he imagined the police to have. Not the officers, ordinary constables. Did he imagine they had the same accents as the rebels? Or did he distinguish the good guys from the bad guys? In his mind he would have had to distinguish – like with football jerseys.

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 5:22 pm

WTF, Steve Jobs tested positive for HIV. Is this correct as I’d never heard of this before?

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twostix
twostix
December 2, 2021 5:23 pm

“The suspicion is these white supremacist groups out of America wouldn’t be unhappy if bad outcomes occurred to the health of Aboriginal people in Australia.

Holy shit lol.

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 5:26 pm

Okay, it appears to be bullshit. Maybe as you really don’t know what the believe with these sorts of stories anymore.

In 2011, when Steve Jobs died, WikiLeaks released the same document. Like we published at the time, the supposed test was not true. As the Gawker website at the time, the laboratory in question would only be founded in 2006 – two years after the supposed tests done by the founder of Apple.

Bluey
Bluey
December 2, 2021 5:27 pm

Someone has been digging through the data the FDA had to release regarding the pfizer shots. It’s bad. Like in the 42,000 test group there was a 1:37 adverse effect of death.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1465992238689923081.html

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 2, 2021 5:30 pm

Apparently American white-supremacists consider what happens in remote (and all too often dysfunctional) Aboriginal communities that very few Australians even know about to be key to their plans for world domination.

Seriously though, this reeks like that story of the Iranian cleric who announced to the world that Mossad had stolen his shoe.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 2, 2021 5:30 pm

Scott Morrison has revealed Education Minister Alan Tudge will step aside following allegations from his former love Rachelle Miller that their affair was abusive.

This from upthread. Wow how could they be so blind, this strategy has been shadow punched and honed for yonks. Recently they have committed muscle to it, Porter, Reynolds staffer, Johnsen, Barnaby’s affair are just a few off the top of my head. How could you miss that escalation unless it is willing. Linda Thorpe this morning, why hasn’t she been censured and suspended from the Senate?

Politician, press gallery and staffers all live in glass houses. However some are feeling the need to throw rocks at only Lib/Nat houses. Someone needs to make a stand and go nuclear, I would bet my eye teeth the cross benches are just as guilty.

As for Tudge, will keep my powder dry till I see the particulars which seem very light on.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 2, 2021 5:32 pm

Like in the 42,000 test group there was a 1:37 adverse effect of death.

Is that a.m., or p.m.?

cohenite
December 2, 2021 5:32 pm

Strange indexing, Gab.

Maybe bullshit. Where is the LA shooting. That is strange gear.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 2, 2021 5:33 pm

If I got jabbed it would definitely be after 8:00 so if I died there might be workers comp.

But before 12:00, ‘cos I will be eff’d if I am dying on my lunch break.

Bluey
Bluey
December 2, 2021 5:34 pm

Is that a.m., or p.m.?

Not sure if you’re pulling my leg, but to be clear that’s 1 in 37 adverse effects was death. Allegedly.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 2, 2021 5:34 pm

WA Premier Mark McGowan has been told white supremacist groups in the US are behind a sinister plot targeting vulnerable Aboriginal communities with misinformation on COVID-19 vaccinations.

So the chap decrying “internet based rumors’ is relying on
So I heard it just now at the meeting from a couple of people*
who checked some of the information**
that have gone via social media through to Aboriginal people,” he said.***

“They said that you check back and you click back and it’s from some white supremacist groups in America.****

* Name names or was it a Negus moment?
** Did a google search
*** Who knew Aboriginals were such avid readers of stormfront?? (is that still a thing)?
**** Underpants gnome garage nazis… the worst kind

Phase 1: Put stuff on the internet about vaccines
Phase 2: ??
Phase 3: Glorious revolution and installation of the 4th riech because Aboriginals.

What a McClown.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 2, 2021 5:34 pm
cohenite
December 2, 2021 5:41 pm

At today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) confronted Dale Ho, nominee to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York over his past statements.

Leftie judicial appointments stay true to leftism. Conservatives do not: Kavanaugh and Barrett

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 2, 2021 5:43 pm

Apparently, as of last night, the outcome of Assange’s appeal against extradition to Biden’s sensitive and extremely nice regime, was “imminent”.

If a big document drop has now been dumped onto the open internet I think I know which way the appeal just went.

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 5:44 pm

At today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) confronted Dale Ho, nominee to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York over his past statements.

Cruz is incredibly good.

Zipster
Zipster
December 2, 2021 5:49 pm

china in focus
01:10 Moderna CEO: Vax less effective for Omicron
03:34 WHO skipped ‘Xi’ in naming new variant Omicron
04:28 Hong Kong’s zero-COVID policy driving out talent
05:47 China to send 1B vaccine doses to Africa
07:08 U.S. Caps off 10-day military drill to deter China
08:42 7 countries aid Taiwan’s submarine project: report
09:47 French parliament backs Taiwan through resolution
10:47 CCP newspaper editor triggers backlash over Taiwan
12:08 Whistleblower: reason for nuclear plant failure
13:50 NBA’s Enes Kanter adds ‘Freedom’ to his name
14:52 MI6 head: China is ‘single greatest priority’
17:00 Australia defense minister warns China threats
19:26 Hong Kong documentary wins Chinese Oscar award
21:29 EU lawmakers talk organ harvesting in China

miltonf
miltonf
December 2, 2021 5:49 pm

I find it genuinely horrifying the way Trump has been abused and betrayed from CNN to Barret, Pence and Kavanaugh. For trying to give opportunities to people of modest means. Not sure if I ever want to go to the US again.

miltonf
miltonf
December 2, 2021 5:50 pm

Agree Cruz is good- his Goldman-Sux connection worried me though.

miltonf
miltonf
December 2, 2021 5:55 pm

Watching the events unfold across 2020 and 2021 culminating in the installation of the dirty old man in Whitehouse reminded me a lot of Bush filth getting his war in Iraq (with the help of hoWARd and bLIAR). Achieving unsavoury outcomes with fraud and lies.

Zipster
Zipster
December 2, 2021 5:56 pm

Jimmy Carr is an Idiot
Paul Joseph Watson

Tom
Tom
December 2, 2021 6:03 pm

Journalists are the laziest professional grifters in Australia. Kung Flu gives them opportunity to recite the daily flu numbers and call it “news”.

The latest celebrity to catch a cold is 85-year-old AFL legend Ron Barrassi, who has triggered media hysteria by confessing to a slight sniffle, which leads tonight’s 6pm Nine news. FMD.

Indolent
Indolent
December 2, 2021 6:03 pm
Makka
Makka
December 2, 2021 6:05 pm

World’s first ‘living robots’ start to reproduce

Scientists say breakthrough using microscopic animal-machine hybrids could lead to self-replicating technology

By
Sarah Knapton,
SCIENCE EDITOR
30 November 2021 • 10:16pm
Scientists filmed the Pac-Man-like parents collecting the cells in their ‘mouths’ before building the ‘offspring’ from the loose cells
Scientists filmed the Pac-Man-like parents collecting the cells in their ‘mouths’ before building the ‘offspring’ from the loose cells CREDIT: Douglas Blackiston and Sam Kriegman
Living robots designed by computer and built from stem cells have started to reproduce in a breakthrough which could lead to self-replicating machines, scientists have said.

In 2020, US researchers programmed a supercomputer to come up with blueprints for entirely new organisms using virtual skin and heart cells, which they then built in real life.

The microscopic animal-machine hybrids, dubbed “xenobots” were able to move on their own, and remain “alive” for weeks powered by their embryonic energy stores.

Now scientists have shown that if the xenobots are placed in a petri dish with embryonic frog stem cells, the bots sweep the cells up into little round piles which morph together into new organisms and also begin to move.

The process, known as kinematic replication, has been seen in molecular machines but never at higher levels of biology. Multicellular organisms typically reproduce by splitting, budding, or giving birth.

After discovering the bots could reproduce, the researchers went back to their computer to design a better shape for reproduction, eventually coming up with an organism resembling Pac-Man, the 1980s arcade game.

The robots are built from living cells using tiny forceps

Scientists videoed the “c-shaped” parents collecting the cells in their “mouths” before building the “offspring” from the loose cells in an entirely new form of biological reproduction different from any animal or plant known to science.

“I was astounded by it,” Professor Michael Levin, of Tufts University, Massachusetts, told the US news site CNN.

“Frogs have a way of reproducing that they normally use but when you … liberate (the cells) from the rest of the embryo and you give them a chance to figure out how to be in a new environment, not only do they figure out a new way to move, but they also figure out apparently a new way to reproduce.”

The robots gather up loose stem cells
The robots gather up loose stem cells CREDIT: Douglas Blackiston and Sam Kriegman
Xenobots are less than a millimetre (0.04 inches wide) and are assembled from cells taken from the African clawed frog – Xenopus laevis – from which they get their name.

Scientists first used the Deep Green supercomputer cluster at the University of Vermont to create an algorithm that assembled a few hundred virtual skin and heart cells into a myriad forms and body shapes, for specific tasks.

Xenobots could help clear arteries
Based on the blueprints, a team of biologists gathered stem cells, harvested from the embryos of the African frogs and used tiny forceps and a miniature electric knife to cut and join the cells under a microscope into a close approximation of the designs specified by the computer.

Once assembled into forms never seen in nature, the cells began to work together. The skin cells formed a “body” while contracting heart muscle cells were repurposed to create a forward motion, allowing the robots to move on their own.

Researchers are hopeful the xenobots could one day be programmed to move through arteries scraping away plaque, or swim through oceans removing toxic microplastic.

And now it is proven they can replicate, they could repair themselves if damaged or torn, scientists hope.

The research was published in the journal PNAS.

Just fkg awesome.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 2, 2021 6:06 pm

Daily Mail.

Australia is officially the DRUNKEST country in the world – as survey finds we get plastered almost twice as much as anyone else on the planet

Aussies got drunk almost twice as much compared to the global average
Global Drug Survey also revealed Australian drank twice a week on average
Australians regret intoxication 24 per cent of occasions, above global average

miltonf
miltonf
December 2, 2021 6:07 pm

Journalists are the laziest professional grifters in Australia. Kung Flu gives them opportunity to recite the daily flu numbers and call it “news”.

The the chairman of the miserable shell of an organisation, the skin suit, must be totally cool with it.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 2, 2021 6:08 pm

On Alan Tudge.

I may well have this all wrong, but I thought Tudge’s affair with Ms Miller and subsequent matters was given headline treatment 12 months ago.

At the time, Moron bravely defended his minister with a brisk ‘it happened under Turnbull, so nothing to do with me…

So presumably the ‘independent review run by the Prime Minister’s department’ is going to be into Mr Tudge’s bedroom etiquette.

Brilliant tactics. Almost exactly nearly zero chance of this turning into a long-running, Milligan-fanned , he-said-she-said, horror tabloid imbroglio.
All the way to the erection.

Mr Morrison said Mr Tudge welcomed the process and was looking forward to participating in the review.

As in ‘looking forward’ to being ritually disemboweled on the public scaffold.

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 2, 2021 6:09 pm

Australia is officially the DRUNKEST country in the world – as survey finds we get plastered almost twice as much as anyone else on the planet

Aussies got drunk almost twice as much compared to the global average
Global Drug Survey also revealed Australian drank twice a week on average
Australians regret intoxication 24 per cent of occasions, above global average

I don’t think the conclusion is correct. Maybe Australians simply regret about intoxication more than others.

Top Ender
Top Ender
December 2, 2021 6:09 pm

He was sent to Darwin, digging up and destroying unexploded ordnance.

You’d better get him to come back Bruce.

There’s still a lot here…

Indolent
Indolent
December 2, 2021 6:09 pm

Perth, Australie

This was posted today. Not sure what the garments are about about. People who have died? There’s no information with the clip.

bespoke
bespoke
December 2, 2021 6:11 pm

Gabsays:
December 2, 2021 at 4:18 pm
The Bill has passed 20-18. Victorians are well and truly effed.

Commiserations

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 2, 2021 6:11 pm

Australia is officially the DRUNKEST country in the world

Soviet citizens were drunken sots too. Maybe there’s a link…

cohenite
December 2, 2021 6:13 pm

So let me get this straight: Tudge’s girlfriend gets completely snotted and can’t remember crawling into his bed but can remember him kicking her out by shoving her on her legs. And scomo caves to this bullshit. Get used to albo, tits and the fucking greens. We are completely stuffed.

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 2, 2021 6:14 pm

Aussies got drunk almost twice as much compared to the global average

If it’s about the last 20 months, then yes, there was a reason for this.
In fact, I’m thinking of “celebrating” the Dan bill tonight.

Roger
Roger
December 2, 2021 6:17 pm

Soviet citizens were drunken sots too. Maybe there’s a link…

Could be…are the citizens of Moscow on the Yarra the drunkest Australians?

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 2, 2021 6:17 pm

Michael Smith News. Chris Bowen – remember him? – reminding us that 49 years ago, today, Gough Whitlam defeated a dysfunction and divided conservative Government.

If the Liars are going to rely on a 50 year cycle to allow the electorate to forget how fucking hopeless they are they might have a problem finding people for preselection.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
December 2, 2021 6:19 pm

He was sent to Darwin, digging up and destroying unexploded ordnance.

You’d better get him to come back Bruce.

There’s still a lot here…

Lots of WWII ordnance in cities around the world. Yesterday a 250kg bomb exploded near Munich’s main railway station blowing an excavator over on its side and nearly taking the driver’s leg off. They are building a new underground rail line through the city and the bomb was in the tunnel portal being excavated.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 2, 2021 6:20 pm

This was posted today. Not sure what the garments are about about. People who have died? There’s no information with the clip.

It’s a protest on the steps of State Parliament – the clothing represents all those who have lost their jobs for refusing to be vaccinated against the COVID virus.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 2, 2021 6:24 pm

Australia is officially the DRUNKEST country in the world – as survey finds we get plastered almost twice as much as anyone else on the planet

Russia sneers as it pokes the campfire with its dick..

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
December 2, 2021 6:25 pm

Cruz is incredibly good.

Yeah. I don’t know if this was how he was when running for Republican candidate, or whether it is something he discovered in himself when he saw Trump doing it.

But he is in his stride now, and he is relentless.

If Trump does not run then his supporters could easily rally behind Cruz or DeSantis.

Razey
Razey
December 2, 2021 6:25 pm

Why People WILLINGLY Give Up Their Freedoms W/ Prof. Mattias Desmet | Aubrey Marcus Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqPJiM5Ir3A

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 2, 2021 6:26 pm

Russia sneers as it pokes the campfire with its dick..

No regret there, I’m pretty sure.

Dot
Dot
December 2, 2021 6:26 pm

cohenitesays:
December 2, 2021 at 6:13 pm
So let me get this straight: Tudge’s girlfriend gets completely snotted and can’t remember crawling into his bed but can remember him kicking her out by shoving her on her legs. And scomo caves to this bullshit. Get used to albo, tits and the fucking greens. We are completely stuffed.

Dude.

This is mainstream conservativism’s MO.

Get cucked by feminists.

“But I am a good man…!”

That’s the problem. You care what these mentally unstable, nasty cretins think.

Trump, for all of his faults, understood this…but only to a degree.

Dot
Dot
December 2, 2021 6:28 pm

Cruz/de Santis with Rand Paul being groomed in a cabinet position would be fantastic and shore up cranky old libertarians and constitutionalists to boot. Plus the Tea Party and Trump fans will go for it now de Santis is probably running and Trump blooded Ted, Apollo Creed v Rocky style.

Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 6:28 pm

“Someone needs to make a stand and go nuclear,”

Yep…..though it won’t happen until Scumbag Morrison. The Liberals (state and federal) are so flaccid that they’re now officially impotent. Even massive doses of Viagra wouldn’t be able to cure their impotency. They’re either unwilling or incapable of fighting….perhaps both. And to be fair, the Liberal’s spinelessness isn’t a recent phenomenon…..it goes back to 2013……when Abbott started wimping and caving on many things soon after he was elected.

Dot
Dot
December 2, 2021 6:29 pm

Oh god.

Who let Gen X RBA boomers write their own titles for articles?

Research Discussion Paper
30 November 2021
We have issued Research Discussion Paper 2021-11, ‘Smells Like Animal Spirits: The Effect of Corporate Sentiment on Investment’ by Gianni La Cava.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 2, 2021 6:34 pm

Detachable Finances: The Effect of Corporate Sentiment on Investment

Hobo humpin slobo accountant: The Effect of Corporate Sentiment on Investment

WAP (written assets positively): The Effect of Corporate Sentiment on Investment

Dot
Dot
December 2, 2021 6:37 pm

Trump is too old and erred by not abolishing the FBI – the only US Federal law enforcement agencies should really be the US Marshals, US National Park Police, MPs, Secret Service and Capitol Police.

Biden has a plan to expand the Capitol Police nationally, across the States. (Scary stuff).

The FBI cannot arrest every parent opposed to CRT and trans kids rappin’ the other kids.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 2, 2021 6:54 pm

Good Lord, big hands small phone. I’ve just accidentally nuked thefrollickingmole at 6:24 pm.

Please let mole live.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 2, 2021 6:59 pm

The Jussie Smollett trial seems like a lot of fun.

Jussie Smollett trial witness says actor staged attack, wanted to be ‘fake beat up’ (1 Dec)

The man Jussie Smollett allegedly paid to help him stage a hate crime took the stand in the actor’s criminal trial Wednesday, describing how he took part in the hoax because he thought the ‘”Empire” star could help push his own acting career. Abimbola Osundairo, 28, told jurors in Chicago’s criminal court on day three of the trial how Smollett directed nearly every aspect of the alleged fake attack, from the racial and homophobic slurs him and his brother, Olabinjo, were to use down to who should throw the punches.

Antiracist heroes seem to have a big problem finding actual racists to save us all from. Not looking good for our Jussie. I wonder whether he’ll have a pot left to piss in after all the legal fees?

Roger
Roger
December 2, 2021 7:02 pm

ScoMo is the sort of politician who’d hang war veterans out to dry if he thought he would gain a political advantage from it.

Oh wait…he’s already done that.

Razey
Razey
December 2, 2021 7:10 pm

Rogersays:
December 2, 2021 at 7:02 pm
ScoMo is the sort of politician who’d hang war veterans out to dry if he thought he would gain a political advantage from it.

Oh wait…he’s already done that.

The current crop of scumbag rulers is a reflection of the electorate (not necessarily cats tho!). The reason they are all shit is because society is sick.

rickw
rickw
December 2, 2021 7:16 pm

Just fkg awesome.

I’m sure it will end well…

cohenite
December 2, 2021 7:17 pm

LNP senator Hollie Hughes upset about lidia thorpe’s comment that in relation to Hughe’s autistic child that thorpe kept her legs closed. Now thorpe is a green kunt, human scum, treason and poison in equal measures. But here’s the thing: what will the lnp government do; will they raise hell, use every method in parliament to get the foul bitch expelled, have protests, make continuous condemnatory speeches, refer to whatever authority is relevant. No. They’ll do fuck all; and that sums up the gutlessness of conservatism.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
December 2, 2021 7:19 pm

Tudge issued a couple of lettuce-leaf challenges to the National Curriculum and the leftist infiltration of academia.
Suddenly, old accusations get a lurid re-run with graphic descriptions of steamy sex, naked bodies, accusations of abuse, and drunken orgies.

I wonder what they would have thrown at him if he had actually re-written the NC to showcase conservative values and the importance of Christianity along with democracy and capitalism.

His image would have been photoshopped in flagrante delicto with a sheep.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 2, 2021 7:23 pm

The thought of Alan Tudge nude killed my boner.

calli
calli
December 2, 2021 7:25 pm

Just caught up with Lidia Thorpe’s comment and what it related to.

Hard to imagine the type of mind that thinks that way. And then verbalises it.

Why is she still in Parliament?

Roger
Roger
December 2, 2021 7:25 pm

…and that sums up the gutlessness of conservatism.

Here’s the thing, though…the Liberals aren’t conservatives.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
December 2, 2021 7:27 pm

I’m yet to read one word of criticism of Tudge’s married lover whose drunken memory loss suddenly recovered to remember the exact details of his “abuse”.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 2, 2021 7:28 pm

Veterans’ department like ‘an insurance company’, says grieving father
Toby Crockford
By Toby Crockford
December 2, 2021 — 4.16pm

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The father of a young soldier who took his own life almost six years ago has described the Department of Veterans’ Affairs as “a large insurance company looking at protecting its assets” rather than helping.

Peter Jenkins, a former Army Reservist and retired Victorian and Queensland police officer, told the story of his 24-year-old son, Shaun, to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide on Thursday.

The Army signalman and driver ended his life in January 2016 after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of two horrific experiences while deployed in Afghanistan for seven months.

After their son’s death, Peter and wife Sue went searching for answers.

“Sue contacted DVA to try to get a copy of Shaun’s medical records. The first thing they said to her was that she was not entitled to any money or compensation because she was not his partner or child,” Mr Jenkins told the hearing in Brisbane.

“We didn’t want money, we just wanted answers and wanted to find out what had happened to our son. It came across as though DVA was nothing more than a large insurance company looking at protecting its assets, rather than providing any assistance or support.

“DVA needs to stop being an insurance company. Their staff need to be more empathetic and understanding of the situation of the people contacting them.

“The men and women who are making most of the claims just need help. So, we need the DVA to undertake more education and training.”

The family still has not received Shaun’s military medical records, nor his mobile phone, found after he killed himself. They did get a coronial report into his death, and his other possessions.

Shaun was deployed to Kabul in 2014 and his family felt he was never the same after he returned.

“He got hurt in a Bushmaster [military transport vehicle] accident and a number of other people were injured as well,” Mr Jenkins said.

“When I spoke to him, he seemed very upset that other people had been injured … [and] I know he [Shaun] was in hospital and unconscious for a period of time.

“He was [also] quite distraught at one stage because a young girl was killed in front of him just off-base. I think she was about 16.”

Shaun told his father about the mental health assessment he and his fellow soldiers went through as they were leaving Afghanistan.

“Shaun indicated that when he left Afghanistan he, along with everybody else, was asked if they were feeling OK and that after this there was no follow up. There was no appointment or anything like that. Just a conversation,” Mr Jenkins said.

“He said that everyone just said they were ‘fine’. They were concerned that if they were to voice anything different that it would adversely affect their career progression and their ability to deploy at another time.”

Mr Jenkins told the royal commission he believed mental health training should be part of courses for military personnel being promoted, so senior officers can identify if any soldiers under their command are struggling.

He said there also needed to be a register of veterans who had taken their lives, not serving personnel.

The hearings continue

Indolent
Indolent
December 2, 2021 7:30 pm
Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 7:31 pm

“will they raise hell, use every method in parliament to get the foul bitch expelled, “

I have an idea…a great idea….perhaps the LNP could organise a senate motion to censure Thorpe? You know, like the senate motion the LNP happily supported last year against Bettina Arndt.

Oh wait….that would take courage.

Razey
Razey
December 2, 2021 7:31 pm

Hmmmm. Didn’t someone here just mention this?

Yep the media is loving the pandemic. They don’t need to spend huge amounts of money trying to establish and report on news. They know what they’ll be reporting on – COVID. They just simply provide a little update, rinse and repeat until COVID dies down and becomes part of the history books. OPEX is reduced massively in doing this.

https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/ann-excellent-pea-results-for-candelas-project.6455303/page-101

Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 7:33 pm

“Why is she still in Parliament?”

She’s of the left……..that’s why.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 2, 2021 7:35 pm

“Why is she still in Parliament?”

Selected by the Greens to fill the casual vacancy caused when Richard Di Natales resigned – she has yet to face the voters.

Indolent
Indolent
December 2, 2021 7:36 pm
Roger
Roger
December 2, 2021 7:44 pm

Selected by the Greens to fill the casual vacancy caused when Richard Di Natales resigned – she has yet to face the voters.

Just when you thought the Greens couldn’t get any worse.

Why she’s in parliament is a question for Adam Bandt.

Dot
Dot
December 2, 2021 7:46 pm

Tudge’s married lover whose drunken memory loss suddenly recovered to remember the exact details of his “abuse”

LOL

“That’s okay…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z000lJ06t_4

rickw
rickw
December 2, 2021 7:47 pm

“Shaun indicated that when he left Afghanistan he, along with everybody else, was asked if they were feeling OK and that after this there was no follow up. There was no appointment or anything like that. Just a conversation,” Mr Jenkins said.

I think I mentioned this before but the US military rotates their personnel out via Guam. Relatively safe and controlled environment where they can decompress and if they start to do anything really stupid the MP’s can readily nab them.

bespoke
bespoke
December 2, 2021 7:50 pm

Please let mole live.

No!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 2, 2021 7:54 pm

Tudge’s scrubber liked a bit of rough until he didn’t.

miltonf
miltonf
December 2, 2021 8:01 pm

A political party that can make a shallow, leftist, phony, sharp suited, abrasive eastern suburbs lawyer its leader and then inflict him on the country is NOT conservative, nationalist or for everyman. Elitist grifters are what they are. They despise their base- ‘they don’t matter’.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 2, 2021 8:02 pm

Bear think of Sarah Sea Patrol. That’ll fix it.

Roger
Roger
December 2, 2021 8:05 pm

EU President Ursula von der Leyen has called for a “discussion” on compulsory vaccination.

Politicians don’t usually call for such discussions unless they’re sure of the outcome.

Such an outcome would further centralise EU power, as up until now health and vaccinations have remained a national responsibility.

Here’s hoping she’s misreading the mood.

Razey
Razey
December 2, 2021 8:05 pm

“Not for nothing is it just our own epoch that calls for the liberating personality, for the one who distinguishes himself from the inescapable power of collectivity and who lights a hopeful watch fire announcing to others that at least one man has succeeded in escaping from the fateful identity with the group soul.” (Carl Jung)

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 2, 2021 8:07 pm

Someone I knew a long time ago is in the Wikileaks tranch.

Razey
Razey
December 2, 2021 8:07 pm

Rogersays:
December 2, 2021 at 8:05 pm
EU President Ursula von der Leyen has called for a “discussion” on compulsory vaccination.

Politicians don’t usually call for such discussions unless they’re sure of the outcome.

Such an outcome would further centralise EU power, as up until now health and vaccinations have remained a national responsibility.

Here’s hoping she’s misreading the mood.

Well our Fed gov says vax’s are not mandatory, all the while gleefully watching the states medically rape us. Centralising the mandatory vax may or may not yield the desired outcomes.

Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 8:08 pm

You know…the real problem with Green scum like Thorpe, Faruqi, Hanson-Dung and Bandt t isn’t that they’re in federal parliament, the real problem lies with the scum who vote for them. And you won’t find this scum in the struggle streets and suburbs of this country…oh no….this Green voting scum is found in the more affluent parts of our cities…….inner-city electorates full of Green scum who have sinecure in nice well paid jobs in academia, media (especially their ABC) and government departments. It is this scum who have gifted us the Greens.

Razey
Razey
December 2, 2021 8:10 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
December 2, 2021 at 8:08 pm
You know…the real problem with Green scum like Thorpe, Faruqi, Hanson-Dung and Bandt t isn’t that they’re in federal parliament, the real problem lies with the scum who vote for them. And you won’t find this scum in the struggle streets and suburbs of this country…oh no….this Green voting scum is found in the more affluent parts of our cities…….inner-city electorates full of Green scum who have sinecure in nice well paid jobs in academia, media (especially their ABC) and government departments. It is this scum who have gifted us the Greens.

And my guess is that a fair % of the green scum don’t want the clot shot.

Baba
Baba
December 2, 2021 8:16 pm

When I heard of Alan Tudge’s ‘troubles’ my first thought was Alan Todger. Dunno why.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
December 2, 2021 8:17 pm

I am back at Casa Pedro after an overnighter in Perth to pick up some machinery bits and pieces.
Stayed at a rather swish inner city hotel, room equipped with a yuge 65 inch TV, unfortunately only FTA TV available unless you paid a kings ransom for Foxtel etc.

Waiting for brekkie this morning I switched on Channel 7 Sunrise. Gawdalmighty!

Chrome dome Kochie and a couple of unidentified old boilers made up like Kings Cross tarts, giggling soy boys prattling on about something or other, a vacuous bimbo trying to talk about the weather while Kochie cackled in the back ground, interspersed with ads every 30 seconds. FMD.

Who watches this shit?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 2, 2021 8:17 pm

, the real problem lies with the scum who vote for them.

Nobody voted for Lydia Thorpe – in fact, didn’t Victorian voters chuck her out of Victorian Parliament some years ago?

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
December 2, 2021 8:20 pm

Back on the tractor in the morning.

Stick the city up your clacker.

Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 8:20 pm

“Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
December 2, 2021 at 8:17 pm
, the real problem lies with the scum who vote for them.

Nobody voted for Lydia Thorpe – in fact, didn’t Victorian voters chuck her out of Victorian Parliament some years ago?”

She’ll win her senate spot.

Vicki
Vicki
December 2, 2021 8:21 pm

EU President Ursula von der Leyen has called for a “discussion” on compulsory vaccination. Politicians don’t usually call for such discussions unless they’re sure of the outcome.

That is quite genuinely scary. Yes – the EU is not us – but our lot follow soon after. I reckon they are going to “have a go”.

The only thing that may stymy the push are those demonstrations in our capital cities – growing every week. We are coming back to Sydney to (of all things!) vote in the useless local council elections. But it will be also an opportunity to join the rally again if there is another (as I expect there will be) in Hyde Park this Saturday. Might be a bit tight in the timing, but will give it a go.

Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 8:21 pm

Nobody voted for Keneally.

Razey
Razey
December 2, 2021 8:22 pm

Pedro the Loafersays:
December 2, 2021 at 8:17 pm
I am back at Casa Pedro after an overnighter in Perth to pick up some machinery bits and pieces.
Stayed at a rather swish inner city hotel, room equipped with a yuge 65 inch TV, unfortunately only FTA TV available unless you paid a kings ransom for Foxtel etc.

Waiting for brekkie this morning I switched on Channel 7 Sunrise. Gawdalmighty!

Chrome dome Kochie and a couple of unidentified old boilers made up like Kings Cross tarts, giggling soy boys prattling on about something or other, a vacuous bimbo trying to talk about the weather while Kochie cackled in the back ground, interspersed with ads every 30 seconds. FMD.

Who watches this shit?

I have watched FTA for years. The antenna isn’t even connected. LOL

The first step to deprogramming. – Pull the antenna out.

Roger
Roger
December 2, 2021 8:23 pm

Centralising the mandatory vax may or may not yield the desired outcomes.

Yes, she’s going where ScoMo fears to tread.

She may be wrong, terribly, horribly wrong, but she has bigger cojones than him.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 2, 2021 8:24 pm

She’ll win her senate spot.

Interesting piece in the SMH – Lydia Thorpe’s younger sister was one of the founders of the “Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance.”

Razey
Razey
December 2, 2021 8:25 pm

Rogersays:
December 2, 2021 at 8:23 pm
Centralising the mandatory vax may or may not yield the desired outcomes.

Yes, she’s going where ScoMo fears to tread.

She may be wrong, terribly, horribly wrong, but she has bigger cojones than him.

The former eastern block countries will be against it.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 2, 2021 8:26 pm

Hey Pedro, you did. If you think thats bad, watch the rest of the morning. Then ask yourself why do people vote for most politicians and the answer has already revealed itself. Brain dead.

Vicki
Vicki
December 2, 2021 8:27 pm

Back on the tractor in the morning. Stick the city up your clacker.

Same here Pedro. Husband on tractor slashing on our small holding as grass and also Blue Heliotrope is seeding. No time for herbicide before the rain. I was out for hour or so house grounds on ride-on.

However, our family & family home still in city, and requires intermittent return.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 2, 2021 8:29 pm

Couple of paragraphs from Wiki on Thorpe.

Thorpe won the seat of Northcote at the 2017 by-election after receiving 45.22% of the primary vote, giving her a winning distribution of 50.93%, 11% more than the Labor candidate. Thorpe was sworn in as a member of parliament on 28 November 2017 and she delivered her first speech to the Assembly the following day.

Thorpe lost her seat to Labor candidate Kat Theophanous at the 2018 Victorian state election. She told ABC Radio Melbourne that “We need to have a good look at ourselves and have a review of what this election has done to our party, losing quite a considerable amount of Greens members”. She said Labor ran a “dirty campaign” against her but conceded that negative coverage due to internal scandals had also contributed to her defeat.

Yup, got in on preferences and sooked when the ALP predictably counterattacked in force with Theo’s daughter. Race stuff aside, seems to be a theme with her that it is always someone elses fault.

Indolent
Indolent
December 2, 2021 8:29 pm

This may have been posted before. An outstanding speech by Malcolm Roberts on 25th November.

Australia is at War with Government

Vicki
Vicki
December 2, 2021 8:32 pm

a vacuous bimbo trying to talk about the weather while Kochie cackled in the back ground, interspersed with ads every 30 seconds. FMD.
Who watches this shit?

My husband does. It drives me bonkers. I just read Pedro’s commentary on Ch7 Breakfast show to him, & he replied that he timed 13 minutes of ads in a half hour slot!

Indolent
Indolent
December 2, 2021 8:32 pm

EU President Ursula von der Leyen has called for a “discussion” on compulsory vaccination. Politicians don’t usually call for such discussions unless they’re sure of the outcome.

She also raised revisiting the Nuremberg Code. Obviously, it’s in their way. They want to roll right over us, laws and common decency bedamned.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 2, 2021 8:36 pm

Race stuff aside, seems to be a theme with her that it is always someone elses fault.

Isn’t Thorpe’s claim to Aboriginal status based on the fact that her grandmother was Indigenous?

Anchor What
Anchor What
December 2, 2021 8:41 pm

Brazilian variant up next.
A pandemic of the unwaxed?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 2, 2021 8:42 pm

Someone I knew a long time ago is in the Wikileaks tranch.
“knew” in the biblical sense, Grey Ranga?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 2, 2021 8:43 pm

Brazilian variant up next.
A pandemic of the unwaxed?

Hi Graeme! Nice opener.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 2, 2021 8:46 pm

BTW, am I the only one who remember the Brazilian wax being the landing strip, not the all-off p#do version that’s properly called the New Yorker?

Crossie
Crossie
December 2, 2021 8:48 pm

My husband does. It drives me bonkers. I just read Pedro’s commentary on Ch7 Breakfast show to him, & he replied that he timed 13 minutes of ads in a half hour slot!

As little as that? I thought it was mostly ads with a few minutes of vacuous dialogue every now and then.

Zipster
Zipster
December 2, 2021 8:51 pm

Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the legitimacy of the Supreme Court would endure if it overturned abortion rights during a landmark hearing on a Mississippi law restricting the procedure.

“Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?” Sotomayor said during oral arguments Wednesday morning. “I don’t see how it is possible.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Stayed at a rather swish inner city hotel, room equipped with a yuge 65 inch TV, unfortunately only FTA TV available unless you paid a kings ransom for Foxtel etc.

Pedro, an essential part of a modern gentleman’s travel kit;

HDMI cable, or something, to link your laptop (or other device) to the hotel room TV & then watch your own streaming via your phone’s hotspot.
(You may need a bit of kit, bluetooth USB etc, coz some hotel TV sets are difficult to get to)

I picked up on this a while ago when we noticed nobody gave a stuff anymore about Austar/Foxtel to the rooms.

bespoke
bespoke
December 2, 2021 8:54 pm

Zipstersays:
December 2, 2021 at 8:43 pm
Waukesha Christmas parade alleged killer’s mom blames lack of mental health services on tragedy

As they do with a few exceptions.

Zipster
Zipster
December 2, 2021 8:55 pm

BTW, am I the only one who remember the Brazilian wax being the landing strip, not the all-off p#do version that’s properly called the New Yorker?

yes you are

Frank
Frank
December 2, 2021 8:58 pm

Who watches this shit?

People that can’t run away or reach the button. Centrelink, surgeries and hospitals mainly.

Frank
Frank
December 2, 2021 9:02 pm

Who watches this shit?

Furthermore… one wonders what sort of psychological strategies Kochie employs in order to be able to look at himself in the mirror.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 2, 2021 9:02 pm

Jest as ye may, Zipster, but it was once thus.
A… good friend was a stripper in the 90’s, and the club had contractual insistence on a minimum Brazilian strip wider than 3/4 inch, no smaller.

Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 9:06 pm

“Who watches this shit?”

I’ve never watched morning television in my life just like I’ve never drunk a can or bottle of coke in my life.

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 9:08 pm

Cassie

You’ve never drunk Coke in your life?

Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 9:13 pm

Just watched an except of Tudge’s accuser holding court this morning….it is quite obvious she’s been deliberately groomed for today’s allegations. This is a political hit….and Scumbag Morrison has fallen for it hook line and sinker…..YET AGAIN.

Oh and in attendance at her “briefing”…..was Hanson-Dung and Skanky Steggall. Hmmmmmmmm.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 2, 2021 9:14 pm

Back on the tractor in the morning.
Stick the city up your clacker.

Yep had to spend a few days in Brissie last week. Nuke from orbit and start again. Actually, not too sure about start again.

miltonf
miltonf
December 2, 2021 9:14 pm

Worst inventions of the 20th century- gas wagon, sopher forceps, TV.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 2, 2021 9:14 pm

Coke is shit.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 2, 2021 9:16 pm

But pay attention. Arbitrary changes to language- which always miff me when they sweep through minds like coal dust- usually serve an agenda. The wrongology within is part of Solzenytsin’s observation that apparatus of the soviet propaganda was to destabilize and humiliate.
“Consensus”- no such thing, but say no to fossil fuels and yes to Tesla tax.
“First Nations”- neither nations nor first
“Mask mandate”- blow me, I can’t remember any party taking a mask policy through an election
“Brazilian wax”- suddenly, content-lite infotainers were all giggles about anything from the fifth biggest country in the world, and pre-pubescent nude ‘nads were normalised.

miltonf
miltonf
December 2, 2021 9:16 pm

Sugary, tooth rotting, fattening muck.

local oaf
December 2, 2021 9:18 pm

The first step to deprogramming. – Pull the antenna out.

Disconnected from TV more than 10 years ago. All subsequent viewing comprises bittorrent, downloaded Youtube videos and similar.

Much happiness.

cohenite
December 2, 2021 9:18 pm

I’ll have a sip of the sugar free version; surrounded by rum.

Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 9:18 pm

“You’ve never drunk Coke in your life?”

I had a sip once and detested it.

I grew up in a family where soft drinks were forbidden….we were allowed a glass of cordial once a week at my grandparents……and that was it. My mother would occasionally make homemade lemonade (delicious) and that was a treat too. As children, if we were thirsty, we were told that there’s a tap in the kitchen with lots of water flowing from it!

So no, I’ve never drunk a glass or can or bottle of coke or cola in my life. Occasionally, in summer, I do like a good ginger beer.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 2, 2021 9:19 pm

ZK2A both grandmother and mother on what is on the public record are legit. However Thorpes grandmother looks to have done some good. Marjorie (Mother) & Lidia (Thorpes birthname) sound like prize ratbags. IMO, today’s slur proves what a grub this woman is, regardless of identified ethnicity.

Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 9:20 pm

Morning television rots your brain and drinking coke rots your teeth.

Miltonf
Miltonf
December 2, 2021 9:22 pm

60 plus years of tv in Australia has been a net negative.

MatrixTransform
December 2, 2021 9:26 pm
Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 2, 2021 9:26 pm

I won’t drink coke. Unless it has rum in it.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Cassie of Sydneysays:
December 2, 2021 at 9:06 pm

I’ve never watched morning television in my life

Then you’d have missed the ABC’s morning segment a few days ago….

… informing viewers that normies in punterland are not entirely happy with Lab/Lib parties & this has led to polling revealing that several smaller parties & independents are likely to get lotsa lotsa votes.

Those who expected to see a mention of Clive Palmer/Pauline Hanson et al were in for a rude shock.
It was pretty much an advertorial for Zoe Daniel. She was the most rightward-leaning “start-up” candidate mentioned.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 2, 2021 9:27 pm

I feel a lot more mellow since I ordered a couple of fascist trash tshirts on the net.

John H.
John H.
December 2, 2021 9:28 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
December 2, 2021 at 9:13 pm
Just watched an except of Tudge’s accuser holding court this morning….it is quite obvious she’s been deliberately groomed for today’s allegations. This is a political hit….and Scumbag Morrison has fallen for it hook line and sinker…..YET AGAIN.

Oh and in attendance at her “briefing”…..was Hanson-Dung and Skanky Steggall. Hmmmmmmmm.

The timing is perfect. Just after that report, with Hunt and Porter gone, and not one talking head prepared to challenge the accuser of why she changed her story just now.

I’m fed up with this crap. Ministers should be punished what goes wrong in their ministry but that doesn’t happen anymore. Now their careers are thrown into disarray by individuals making claims that can neither be proved or falsified. It’s great for the media, so much clickbait potential, but I hope there is an emergent trend in the public that demands higher standards of public debate about issues of policy rather than Pavlovian like responses to clickbait issues that can never be resolved.

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 9:29 pm

cohenite says:
December 2, 2021 at 9:18 pm

I’ll have a sip of the sugar free version; surrounded by rum.

The no sugar version is nicer, in my opinion than the Classic version.
The one thing I could never comprehend was when when working in NYC people would actually drink a can of the stuff in the morning like coffee. I felt like dry retching. Still a Coke is a nice drink with lots of ice.
They say, one of the reasons people like Coke is because our brains cannot recall the exact taste as it’s very complex for our taste buds.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 2, 2021 9:31 pm

A… good friend was a stripper in the 90’s, and the club had contractual insistence on a minimum Brazilian strip wider than 3/4 inch, no smaller.

Who had the job of checking?

Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 9:32 pm

“I’m fed up with this crap. Ministers should be punished what goes wrong in their ministry but that doesn’t happen anymore. Now their careers are thrown into disarray by individuals making claims that can neither be proved or falsified. It’s great for the media, so much clickbait potential, but I hope there is an emergent trend in the public that demands higher standards of public debate about issues of policy rather than Pavlovian like responses to clickbait issues that can never be resolved.””

Well said.

local oaf
December 2, 2021 9:33 pm

“You’ve never drunk Coke in your life?”

An admirable achievement, keep up the good work.

My mum lived to 95 and never tasted tea.

Said she was so ticked off by everyone pushing her to drink it when she was young, she decided she wanted nothing to do with it.

Cassie of Sydney
December 2, 2021 9:34 pm

“Then you’d have missed the ABC’s morning segment a few days ago….

… informing viewers that normies in punterland are not entirely happy with Lab/Lib parties & this has led to polling revealing that several smaller parties & independents are likely to get lotsa lotsa votes.

Those who expected to see a mention of Clive Palmer/Pauline Hanson et al were in for a rude shock.
It was pretty much an advertorial for Zoe Daniel. She was the most rightward-leaning “start-up” candidate mentioned.”

Geez….what will they say about Allegra Spender?

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 9:36 pm

Jeez

OBITUARY: CHRISTIAN KERR
‘Creative political genius’ dies

Political journalist Christian Kerr, who penned popular columns for The Australian, Crikey, and The Spectator Australia, has died aged 56.

cohenite
December 2, 2021 9:38 pm

They say, one of the reasons people like Coke is because our brains cannot recall the exact taste as it’s very complex for our taste buds.

I can remember because I have complex taste buds. In fact every thing about me is complex.

MatrixTransform
December 2, 2021 9:39 pm
JC
JC
December 2, 2021 9:40 pm

I can remember because I have complex taste buds. In fact every thing about me is complex.

Really, here I was thinking you’re a simple creature.

cohenite
December 2, 2021 9:42 pm

Really, here I was thinking you’re a simple creature.

That just means my complex strategy is working.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 2, 2021 9:42 pm

Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the legitimacy of the Supreme Court would endure if it overturned abortion rights during a landmark hearing on a Mississippi law restricting the procedure.

I’m intrigued current-year leftwits even still hold to the idea of treating anything that is politically exploitable as having ‘legitimacy.’

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
December 2, 2021 9:45 pm

Geez. I love Coca Cola.

The bloke who invented it should be made a saint.

I doubt I would have survived some of the horrendous hangovers of my yoof without gurgling down a couple of litres of the stuff the morning after.

Fish and chips is not a proper meal without a Coke to wash it down. All the good food groups, fat and sugar combined.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 2, 2021 9:49 pm

The Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse

A donation to BLM would be in order, surely?

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 9:49 pm

Fish and chips is not a proper meal without a Coke to wash it down.

Of course, and pizza. You can’t eat a pizza without washing down the grease accumulated down your gullet. It’s a de-dreaser.

No kidding, I can’t understand how anyone could eat a meal of Fish&chips or a pizza without washing the crap down with a Coke. Pepsi is gay too.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 2, 2021 9:51 pm

Sugary, tooth rotting, fattening muck.

Are we talkin brazilians or coke?

Important to know.

Dot
Dot
December 2, 2021 9:54 pm

Coke is literally (water), phosphoric & carbonic acid with sugar and dissolved carbon dioxide – some citrus, caramel & kola nut to taste.

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 9:54 pm

The link gets more obvious without mentioning the reason especially now that she’s deadsky

No underlying condition. Okay.

Melbourne emergency department nurse and mother-of-three … has become the first healthcare worker in the country to die of Covid-19 following thousands of infections acquired by doctors and nurses in Victorian hospitals.

Medical groups have expressed shock and sadness at the loss of the respected and hardworking nurse, who died in Box Hill Hospital’s ICU unit.

Ms…., who worked at the Angliss Hospital in Melbourne’s east, was fully vaccinated and did not have underlying health conditions, making her an extremely rare case of a death in a fully vaccinated individual. It is believed Ms …… acquired her infection while at work.

Dot
Dot
December 2, 2021 9:55 pm

I like my coke in 44 gal. drums with cement powder & petrol.

Frank
Frank
December 2, 2021 9:56 pm

All the good food groups, fat and sugar combined.

You forgot salt, caffeine and nicotine. The big five.

Dot
Dot
December 2, 2021 9:56 pm

Clive Palmer’s long lost sister.

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 9:56 pm

I like my coke in 44 gal. drums with cement powder & petrol.

Dot, you snort that combo? FMD.

cohenite
December 2, 2021 9:57 pm

Are we talkin brazilians or coke?

And don’t forget Brazilians come in a greater variety of flavours.

Frank
Frank
December 2, 2021 10:00 pm

Nick Cater was talking about running into Clive Palmer recently at a bar. Apparently his shirt was a Jackson Pollock inspired affair with a full Chinese buffet spilled down the front.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
December 2, 2021 10:02 pm

If you want to shock, stun and see revulsion on a millennials face just mention you like a big woolly bush on a lady.
Then top it off by making references to dental floss.

The looks on their faces are awesome.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
December 2, 2021 10:06 pm

We are going top shelf at casa mole.
BBQ chicken and pineapple pizza with a can of coke each.

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 10:07 pm

Dot says:
December 2, 2021 at 9:54 pm

Coke is literally (water), phosphoric & carbonic acid with sugar and dissolved carbon dioxide – some citrus, caramel & kola nut to taste.

You don’t know that. It’s a secret formula.

Coke is or was one of Buffet main investments since the mid sixties. It traded at around 40 cents in the mid sixties and now trading at US$52.60. It’s had a couple of splits and dividends have been consistent.

Without accounting for the splits or dividends, the stock has returned just under 10% for 55 years on price growth alone. Taking splits and divs into account, it’s probably close to 13%. Fucccckkkk

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 10:08 pm

whoops

returned just under 10% p.a

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 10:15 pm

4 Stocks Billionaires Are Buying Hand Over Fist

Nov 30, 2021 at 5:51AM

Jim Simons (Renaissance Technologies): Coca-Cola

For a highly diversified fund known for its love of innovation, the shock of the quarter might just be that billionaire Jim Simons was buying beverage giant Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) hand over fist. All told, Renaissance Technologies added a little over 6 million shares of Coke in the third quarter, which more than tripled its stake as of the end of June.

With the benchmark S&P 500 taking less than 17 months to double from its coronavirus bear-market bottom, Simons’ substantially increased stake in Coke might be a means of playing it safe and hedging his funds’ bets. Since Coca-Cola has a presence in all but two countries worldwide (Cuba and North Korea), and its portfolio sports more than 20 brands generating at least $1 billion in annual sales, it’s a safe bet to generate modest returns — or at worst hold up much better than the broader market if a crash or correction strikes.

Coca-Cola is also a relatively smart inflation play. The company is parsing out a hearty 3.1% yield, has raised its base annual dividend for 59 consecutive years, and its well-known brand makes it easy for the company to pass along higher costs to its customers.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 2, 2021 10:17 pm

What did Kerr die of ?

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 2, 2021 10:18 pm
Gab
Gab
December 2, 2021 10:19 pm

OBITUARY: CHRISTIAN KERR
‘Creative political genius’ dies

Political journalist Christian Kerr, who penned popular columns for The Australian, Crikey, and The Spectator Australia, has died aged 56.

That’s sad, may his soul rest in peace.

After how many jabs?

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 10:19 pm

Bern

Doesn’t say.

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 10:21 pm

The British Medical Journal says masks work.

Newcastles chief scientist says they don’t butt.

John H.
John H.
December 2, 2021 10:22 pm

Thefrollickingmolesays:
December 2, 2021 at 10:02 pm
If you want to shock, stun and see revulsion on a millennials face just mention you like a big woolly bush on a lady.
Then top it off by making references to dental floss.

The looks on their faces are awesome.

I was at a party with many millennials present. They were talking about TV and some mentioned The West Wing. I stated that program is a left winger’s wet dream. Crickets … . Left the table, mission unintentionally accomplished.

Dot
Dot
December 2, 2021 10:24 pm

The British Medical Journal says masks work.

Newcastles chief scientist says they don’t butt.

There is a study from the 1980s where they conclude that they do nothing during surgery (the data says they make things worse) – from the Lancet.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 2, 2021 10:28 pm

What did Kerr die of ?

If they don’t say, it’s either AIDS, suicide or Covid Vaccination.
Can’t recall ever hearing of him, he musta been quiet for a long time.

John H.
John H.
December 2, 2021 10:28 pm

Dotsays:
December 2, 2021 at 10:24 pm
The British Medical Journal says masks work.

Newcastles chief scientist says they don’t butt.

There is a study from the 1980s where they conclude that they do nothing during surgery (the data says they make things worse) – from the Lancet.

I posted those studies here months ago. Very surprising results from those studies.

JC
JC
December 2, 2021 10:30 pm

Dot

There’s no scientific way of testing their efficacy. You can’t.

There’s risk management however as they may work in particular environments. The idea of wearing them outside though is laughable.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 2, 2021 10:37 pm

Wally, his secretary.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 2, 2021 10:38 pm
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 2, 2021 10:42 pm

FiL just sold a rental property he’s had for 20 years, got 10 times the price he paid after the area got rezoned by the council.

Indolent
Indolent
December 2, 2021 10:43 pm

My mum lived to 95 and never tasted tea.

Said she was so ticked off by everyone pushing her to drink it when she was young, she decided she wanted nothing to do with it.

She was a groundbreaker for everyone now refusing to have a jab pushed on them. I can just imagine how she would have reacted to that.

Gab
Gab
December 2, 2021 10:43 pm

Please just donate $5. Every bit helps. Dr Hobart was the GP in Melbourne who refused to give his patient files to the VIC health nazis. He’s now fighting his de-registration by AHPRA.

https://givesendgo.com/drhobart

https://twitter.com/realDrMHobart/status/1466289537735221248

Indolent
Indolent
December 2, 2021 10:49 pm

Coke is literally (water), phosphoric & carbonic acid with sugar and dissolved carbon dioxide – some citrus, caramel & kola nut to taste.

And very good for the digestion. Mine at least. Except in America where they found a way to ruin it by switching to corn syrup instead of sugar when they reverted to Classic Coke. Undrinkable.

custard
custard
December 2, 2021 10:49 pm

Someone over here in the West just picked up $80m

Nice.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 2, 2021 11:10 pm

Someone over here in the West just picked up $80m

Not you, I take it, custard?

Winston Smith
December 2, 2021 11:10 pm

rickw:

I think I mentioned this before but the US military rotates their personnel out via Guam. Relatively safe and controlled environment where they can decompress and if they start to do anything really stupid the MP’s can readily nab them.

Troops coming back from WW2 generally arrived in troopships. They may have had the same experience – time to decompress in a safer environment.
IIRC, most Vietnam troops flew back.
Perhaps it’s time to bring back our blokes on troopships. There must be plenty of cruise liners surplus to trade atm.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 2, 2021 11:12 pm

Custard,
Thanks for that news. I can now happily leave my phone on do not disturb.

MatrixTransform
December 2, 2021 11:13 pm

But I am a good man…!

nothing shits me more than that particular appeal

no
I’m not a good man
you just met me on a good day

Arky
December 2, 2021 11:19 pm

Won’t drink TEA?
Bloody barbarism.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 2, 2021 11:22 pm

IIRC, most Vietnam troops flew back.

Two sides to that story – the former aircraft carrier, HMAS Sydney – the “Vung Tau Ferry” did regular runs, but I’ve read accounts of soldiers “in the J ” of Phouc Tuy, in the morning, and on the streets of Kings Cross that evening..

custard
custard
December 2, 2021 11:24 pm

missed out on this occasion ZK2A

MatrixTransform
December 2, 2021 11:29 pm

Gypsum goes better with Coke

Winston Smith
December 2, 2021 11:29 pm

Cassie:

Just watched an except of Tudge’s accuser holding court this morning….it is quite obvious she’s been deliberately groomed for today’s allegations. This is a political hit….and Scumbag Morrison has fallen for it hook line and sinker…..YET AGAIN.

Cassie, he’s not there just for the hunting.
He’s keeping a close eye out on the Positions Vacant – Directorships after the next election when Labor wins.

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