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Thanks, Tom!
Ben Garrison.
Al Goodwyn.
Makka…that was Babylon Bee.
I know. Hard to differentiate when we are surrounded by idiocracy.
Where are you, Michaelia Cash?
Oh, that’s right…furthering the persecution of Bernard Collaery in the courts under the guise of national security legislation.
Lovely governments we have.
There are several good sources of sea level information which repudiate alarmist hysteria: Berkeley, PSMSL are 2 good ones and here is NOAA for Fort Denison:
I looked up Brian’s reference. Don’t think the reason is geological, looks meteorological or even human error. Typical ABC never let the truth get in the way of a good story…
I just found out that I am unable to go to my local council tip due to resisting the vax. Clown world is real.
That’s ok, cover you number plates and dump it in their fucking driveway at midnight.
Fuck them, total war, do everything you can!
Australia and NSW have suffered under some terrible Attorneys General in the last two decades.
With great power comes great responsibility.
Use your thread-death fu wisely, young grasshopper.
???
From the NYT???
Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion
*This is huge – someone put their foot down and said hey let’s actually do journalism again. I’m thrilled.*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw
It’s woke as. You have the required woke quota of nasty old white blokes, the asians, blacks, lezzos (nuanced but there, with the closet tranny for a partner if you look hard enough), dodgy looking priest etc.
I’m disappointed calli. The perfect setup gone begging.
I gave up on Midsomer Murders when Inspector Barnaby (the new one) went to investigate a murder in a village in the sticks which appeared to be populated entirely with coloured folk.
There’s a limit to how much disbelief you can suspend, after which drama unintentionally becomes comedy.
It seems John Nettles got out of the show just in time.
Like the new “Foundation” series. The only Caucasian characters are the evil masters of the universe. The rest are the downtrodden in shades of brown, mostly wymmens. And of course the heroes are all women of colour.
FDA Released First Batch of Vaccine Authorization Documents Showing Pfizer Vaccine Resulted in 1,223 Fatalities in First Three Months
December 3, 2021 | Sundance
At time of typing, Rukshan is nowhere to be viewed! Topher’s live feed was unwatchable with massive buffering.
I noticed Aussie Cossack with a camera operator. Is he doing anything live?
Is he still being belittled by the schoolmarm he married?
Rukshan’s on the job now. Just heard him say he was late.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=notif&v=438554904500346¬if_id=1638584490511920¬if_t=live_video_explicit
Online applications for iVote have closed for this election event.
Bugger.
Missed it by that much.
Hey Pogria, I saw AC-DC live in about 1978 I think – in Hobart.
Also Cold Chisel back when Jimmy Barnes had some street cred. Was earning a quid at the time taking photos for the uni newspaper and took a few shots from the side of the stage up close. Still have somewhere one of the big B&W prints I did up later.
Another Geodynamics anyone?
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/enormous-geothermal-pool-under-the-latrobe-valley-that-can-give-us-cheap-clean-energy/news-story/8c51e01ebb459bba9415a78130f39630
65 deg is hardly boiling and all the places he is plugging overseas have aquifers about 10 deg warmer and have freezing winters. Also the waters are used almost exclusively for heating not energy production. Seen plenty of fluffed resource estimates in ASX announcements in my time to immediately start doubting this.
Re: not being able to access tip because of vax requirement:
Council tips are becoming impossible in rural areas. One of our local tips in NSW Central Tablelands was closed, another was repurposed only for kitchen garbage, & a major tip further afield charges for tipping general bulky garbage. The only general purpose tip has a camera (as do the others) recording plate numbers to make sure non residents don’t use it! Oh yes & it doesn’t permit building materials.
As a result, campers & travellers leave huge amounts of garbage in the few rest areas on the main road.
So, now you need a vax certificate? Good grief! Not yet in our area. Still, I expect anything these days.
Really, you took that interpretation? I took the emperors to be the good guys and the coloreds to be the badies.
roads were not totally shit when I was a kid
Someone a few years ago told me that under Bob Carr the state government did a deal with local councils in NSW – they were given a sh1t load of money to take on responsibility for all local roads. Unfortunately for them (and us because of their sh1t for brains mentality) the money ran out, but the responsibility remained.
I took the emperors to be the good guys and the coloreds to be the badies.
JC was the kid crying in the cinema when the death star was destroyed….
Because of all of the above ( re council tips ) husband voted informal for our rural council on the way to Sydney this morning. Me? I voted the same in our Sydney LGA.
We have a reasonable garbage service e in Sydney. But, as I said on the earlier thread, I won’t vote when there is only a semblance of democracy left.
I’m enjoying Bettina Arndt’s writing. She brings a forensic analysis to the excesses of feminism and speaks succinctly in defence of men who are wronged by the feminazis.
One example from Bettina’s latest email
…the compliant media runs with her sob story that she (Tudge’s married lover) suffered a “power imbalance”. No one dares point out to the poor pet that’s what happens when you bonk your boss.
Recycling I can support: picture
Marching.
Calli,
there was no faux pas. The song brought my teen years back to me. I thank you for that. Also, as I said earlier, the film clip also showed the delectable and uber elegant Basil Rathbone. Definitely nothing wrong with that!
Zero Hedge is onto the camp video, pity the mainstream media pretends it doesn’t exist. I know many of you despise Palmer but has anyone else spent their own money and doing as much (or anything at all) as him?
The LDP try but are low energy.
PHON is trying to play both sides and failing at both.
The rest are scum.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/watch-disturbing-confrontation-inside-australias-gold-standard-covid-internment-camp
#Remember TheDeathStar
#DeathToTheRebs
#501st
sfw, best not to post about zero hedge until JC has had his afternoon nap.
It angries up the blood.
“Claire Lehmann
– Human lives are precious.”
Yeah, well, every major ideologue in history has killed millions.
Stupid woman.
Sorry, accidentally reported feelthebern at 4:30 am
You sonofabitch.
Fatwa! A fatwa now.
Top Ender,
you were so lucky to see the Akka Dakkas. I am eternally jealous of anyone who has seen them live.
Cold Chisel were one of the best bands around in the 70’s. They went to shit when Barnesy got sober and found woke as a religion. I used to see them at Lidcome Dancers. That was a great venue. You always felt sorry for the warm up band that came on before Chisels. It was almost like the scene in Blues Brothers where they were playing behind the chicken wire at the Country and Western bar.
This morning I was out and about in Annandale & Woollahra.
Went past a polling place in both.
The age of the party workers fell into two categories.
Very very old.
Or very very young.
Nothing in between.
And no matter what colour tshirt the young people were wearing (red, green, blue, other), they all looked the same.
Blokes with beards & stupid oversized glasses.
The girls all had hair on the short side & stupid oversized glasses.
The future is bleak.
Not for optometrists.
Or undertakers.
Re Clive & UAP. I was obsequious enough to write to him to suggest he support Petrovsky financially to get his Covax19 manufactured here.
No answer, of course. But worth a try.
JC,
Trumble’s daughter looks like the garden gnome that is hit by the lawn mower and whipper snipper every weekend. aaargh.
There is only reason anyone found Princess Leia, Han Solo, Luke or Chewbacca (Terrorists and war criminals all) exciting…
Spotted this and thought of Cassie…
Saw them at a pub in Brisbane on a sweltering summer evening c. 1978.
They were certainly very good musically.
As I recall the highlight of the evening was when Ian Moss sang Georgia.
Saw them in 1976, 1981 and 1991
Outstanding live band, i was deaf for days
C’mon man, beards are groovy. Some of us have been wearing them for 50 years+
The awful cruelty of a political shagging for the ladies of perpetual piety.
Grandmothers and teen girls knocked flat on their arse by VicPol, no worries.
rickw, et al:
:
I always aspirated when giving intra muscular injections because that was what I was taught.
But another issue that closely follows this is the position of the deltoid muscle during the process. I don’t know of anyone who correctly identified the central part of the muscle and adjusted the position of the site beforehand.
Get the patient to move their upper arm 90 degrees away from the body under resistance.
The deltoid will be quite prominent in even obese or under exercised patients.
I queried another nurse about their technique and they replied that they were taught not to aspirate and upper/outer sector of the arm was close enough.
*shrug*
Perhaps it is turning out to be not good enough.
Links to the various protests today, both here and in N.Z.
Another Geodynamics anyone?
Dry geothermal is BS. Wet geothermal in places like Iceland, NZ, California, works because the heat is close to the surface. The downside are earthquakes, volcanoes etc. Dry is shit because the heat is so far down that the energy cost of getting the heat up exceeds the energy from the heat. Geodynamics had hot rocks so far down the water which had been sent down and turned into steam re-condensed on the way back up. In addition these processes release more sequestered soil CO2 then is released from the burning of coal.
“Any Taswegians or sea level geeks able to advise?”
Well, you could look here, although a bit old…
http://www.john-daly.com/
Which shows said mark and low tide sea level in 2004.
“Re Omicron:”
Bad spelling. It’s “omni-con”
Has our political class no idea of what’s happening in Europe? They’re in dire straits because of this green nonsense, and people are dying due to the cost and unavailability of heating.
Daily Mail. Is there no end to the horror?
My girls always, always turn out looking like they’ve stepped from the pages of Vogue. Oversized glasses and massive handbags.
I caught one of my sils a while back in brown shoes without socks. Stovepipe pants, natch. *sigh*
Never mind. They are all productive, highly successful dynamos. The Paris Hilton look is a trap for the unwary.
I think that was coined by srr.
Clever. And accurate.
Thanks Brian, especially for citing the late, great John Daly, a giant of the early climate wars. Also to others who have come up with plausible alternative explanations.
Despite its giant Rolodex of ‘experts’, TheirABC has less research capacity (or interest in same) than can be found by throwing out a question on this site.
Dover, you could offer to take over that part of their functions for a snip – say 100m a year?
Chisel, downstairs at French’s in the mid-late 70s, on the same bill with Foreday Riders and, fresh from Adelaide, the Angels. A night to remember — and no price of admission! Today’s young’uns don’t know how unlucky they are: catch Chisel, wander up to the Oxford for Birdman, Pscho Surgeons and all the other Sydney bands that bruiefly usurped Melbourne’s place as pub-rock capital.
Now when i go see a band, any fetching woman is apt to think it’s an old fart come to pick up his granddaughter. Not enough young women have father issues these days. Sigh.
G Scale progress, grinding to a halt, Bunnings not yet delivered and we ran out of screws. Of course a unperson simply can’t go there and buy screws….
https://imgur.com/gallery/UyzpbDw
Some good news for a change.
Finally, a Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than Absorbed by The Fuel
This is just the UK deaths, from 2020…
The preventable deaths of thousands will not stand in the way of our Great Green Future, comrades.
cohenitesays:
December 4, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Worked along side a driller who did time on their Cooper Basin Project, hence why my BS meter went off this morning reading that article. Also the lack of recent volcanics in eastern Vic, if western Vic I might have given it some credibility though the mantle plume that caused that has moved on. Last eruption about 5K yo vicinity of the Warnambool region.
With Geodynamics or ReNu as it is known now. The depths and pressures were also creating environments where the chemistry was vastly different to what was modelled. In fact from what I heard the engineers hadn’t even envisaged the problems they were having with the downhole infrastructure lasting a fraction of the expected life. That’s after the drilling problems were overcome.
This guys claim that the Geothermal is most cost effective than gas from an established gasfield is laughable. Unless underwritten by the taxpayer like all so called renewables.
After her three-month suspension for violating the Andrews government’s lockdown by attending a party after the insane 9pm Victorian curfew earlier this year, Melbourne’s top jockey in 2020-21 Jamie Kah is back in the winners circle with victory aboard Smokin’ Romans (love the name!), the $3.60 favourite in the $300.000 Pakenham Cup.
FDA Released First Batch of Vaccine Authorization Documents Showing Pfizer Vaccine Resulted in 1,223 Fatalities in First Three Months
Impressive, but not Zyklon B impressive.
@ZK2A:
Fraser was a patrician – statist wannabe.
His performance as Defence Minster was also less than stellar.
However, the “Liberal” party had been subject to “white-anting” for over a decade before Fraser
The baleful influence of the “young lawyers and the “doctors’ wives” did enormous damage.
The official receipts for party membership once had printed on the reverse, “The Principles of Liberalism”, or words to that effect. I’m guessing that the party lawyers got rid of that, partly to save a bit of printing cost, but mainly to avoid prosecution for fraud.
I baled in the early 1980s, because I was a functional “liberal”(i.e. a staunch believer in individual liberty), in a political wilderness, as opposed to a “Party” liberal.
“I gave up on Midsomer Murders when Inspector Barnaby (the new one) went to investigate a murder in a village in the sticks which appeared to be populated entirely with coloured folk.”
I’ve noticed this too and I can’t stand it. I switch off immediately. A few weeks ago the wonderful Peter Whittle of The New Culture Forum interviewed the man behind the Youtube channel “History Debunked”…..it’s a great channel and I heartily recommend his stuff (along with Whittle’s channel too). They were discussing the fabrication, the manipulation and the outright distortion of history to suit the left’s agenda, he described the fact that in the Netflix series Bridgerton (which I refuse to watch) Queen Charlotte (wife of George III) is portrayed by a black woman. He described this as “grotesque”….and he’s right. It is a grotesque. Charlotte was a very white German princess from the northern duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. It’s erasing a real woman in history who suffered greatly due to her husband’s illness and severe mental decline.
But what if the BBC borrowed public money from a black owned bank?
“…you were so lucky to see the Akka Dakkas.”
Two standouts for me were INXS at the Railway Hotel in Fairfield NSW, and a band I don’t even know the name of, but they were on before Joe Camalerie at the Palais in Newcastle.
The guy played “Devil went down to Georgia” on a guitar, and you’d swear he was playing a “fiddle” – both “the devil” and “Johnny”. Un-fucking-believably good. Two months later he was on Hey Hey.
They were discussing the fabrication, the manipulation and the outright distortion of history to suit the left’s agenda
Cassie, even though fiction the Magnificent Seven remake is another. I lasted 20min.
I have no doubt there were blacks in the wild west, apparently made good stockmen but I think they would have been more of the Pale Rider or Unforgiven type. Either lowly workers or outlaws.
Why bother with historical accuracy when you can insult people’s intelligence while assaulting their eyeballs?
I’d like to see a series on the slave ships raiding the Irish and Welsh villages for prey.
That would be most colourful.
Now, now Rockdoctor.
The Sheriff in Blazing Saddles was ahead of his time, almost as if Brookes had anticipated the Age of Woke.
But what if a black owned bank partially funded farming in the San Fernando Valley, then the land was sold off to launch Hollywood and Silicon Valley?
“I’d like to see a series on the slave ships raiding the Irish and Welsh villages for prey.
That would be most colourful.”
Yes…..I’d like to see a film or series about how Berber Muslim pirates, for hundreds of years, raided coastal Christian Europe, as far north as Norway and Iceland. But we must not talk about the enslavement of white European Christians by Northern African Berber Muslims. The left wouldn’t like that…..doesn’t fit in with their adolescent narrative.
Went to Elizabeth Quay for the protest and arrived early. A few hundred there, carrying flags and waving home made placards, and a woman speaking inaudibly into a microphone telling us we were good ppl for resisting gummint authoritarianism. I knew that.
Later a march up Barrack St into the Hay St. Mall. A few thousand, I’d guess. Same sort of ppl as last time, mostly working class and middle classs, if you can talk of such a distinction in Oz. All colours and types you can find. Police guiding them. Entirely peaceful. Serious but friendly ppl. I hope Marx McClown takes notice; they aren’t going to support mandates. Ever.
I feel sorry for young folks today who missed out on the Golden Age of live bands. In Sydney, the problem was deciding which of the desirable options to take up when choosing where to go for a night out.
It was usually relatively cheap, too. Some venues had no cover charge (but possibly more expensive drinks) while others offered cheapish drinks for a cover charge of five to ten bucks – ten being for top shelf bands like Chisel, Dragon, The Church, Hunters and Collectors etc.
Alternatively, you could go and see cult bands like Birdman, Psychosurgeons et al for nothing in run down pubs with public bar drink prices.
Bit of a contrast to the ghastly ‘nightclubs’ with canned music or one DJ, and astronomical prices that are on offer these days. What a waste of youth!
Meanwhile in Melbourne – I thought the Cossack did well with his speech.
Mater – any decent crowd size estimate?
LOL Cali & Dot. I have been doing some research in the last 10min, apparently 25% of the stockmen were black after the civil war. Also apparently very egalitarian on the trail. Once white women were around or in town the old prejudices applied. Being fair, that is something I suppose Hollywood even in the golden era overlooked.
Why I love this place, each day you are propelled to dig and learn something new.
Your current constitution literally says travel and commerce between the states “shall be absolutely free” and here we are.
The Soviet constitution was a freedom manifesto.
Words on paper only matter if the people are willing to get out there and protect the meaning of them from the government, or materially support people who do.
Sacré bleu!
While tidying up the sock drawer this arvo, I unearthed some sacred ol’ t-shirts presumed long dead.
Fat Albert
Sylvester’s Nephew
Ren and Stimpy (can’t post three links, but bought from Canal Jeans in Manhattan in ’93)
Brought back many happy memories. Of nightclubs long gone, destroyed of course, by the Stupid Forking Gliberals.
The demise of Soho hurt the most. At 2:00am on a Sunday morning, the place was about as close to heaven on earth as one could get. 🙂
I understand that was an underlying cause of hostility in the Raj too. While the EIC rand things and the nabobs went native all was relatively well.
In Cooktown, where we’ve just put an exploration camp into storage for the summer.
What a pretty waterfront. The view across the mouth of the Endeavour River is quite stunning – shame it’s saltie central.
Time for 3xS, a power nap, and a few beers.
I’m in two minds about continuing the protests. One hand is saying – keep up the momentum (but understanding crowd numbers will obviously fall due to life and weekend commitments. It’s a big ask to front every Saturday.) On the other – save resources to target the Tennis thing sounds pretty good – with an international press continent present.
Should we just go for the momentum – and thinking of the dwindling crowds – or target major events until the State Election looms?
Charlotte was a very white German princess from the northern duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
She was at least rumoured to have an “African” ancestor, but probably northern rather than Sub- Saharan, and so far back that we’re talking Elizabeth Warren territory.
So they’ve got at least a figleaf for that one, but yes they obviously weren’t interested in accuracy.
JMH – we need to wheel out the protests at a time of our choosing, not theirs.
I don’t have a reference, but I’ve read the same thing.
I hesitate to make a guess. So damned hard to estimate.
The delay and excessive talking in the gardens saw lots of people leave before the March. However, it did still fill Bourke street from Parliament all the way down to Williams St, plus some.
Into the tens of thousands, I’d say. Better than I expected, given the bill has more or less passed.
I went with five less people than last week (don’t stress they are still angry as hell, just busy), and the crowd was still very formidable. Not a good sign for Dan (or Scomo).
The Camp video has just hit 1.8 million views.
This morning it was 400,000.
Now let’s watch the numbers drop as they get adjusted.
That’ll do it every time. The two bob Robespierres need to ping off.
From the Courier Mail.
Some Qld guidelines.
“It’s not known yet whether additional booster shots will be required – however health experts believe the vaccine could end up becoming a yearly requirement like the flu shot”.
Just don’t mention mandates, compulsory, show proof or be asked to leave.
Because the flu shot is nothing like this one.
But they know that.
RFK Jr.: Fauci should be ‘criminally prosecuted,’ investigated alongside Bill Gates
Neither will give a rodent’s backside. Would you*, if you were them?
*Which thankfully, we aren’t.
I talked to a very hardworking decent bloke yesterday who thought NSW had lots more Covid deaths than Vic.
I set him straight.
The media and TaliDan ply their dark arts on the average person with success I’m afraid.
Wasn’t Anne Boleyn (wife of Henry VIII) also portrayed by a black woman?
It was good to catch up with Mater again in Melbourne. The event was much better run today than last week. Speeches were more relevant and to the point. Could perhaps cut it a bit shorter and dispense with the evangelical crowd participation, at least until after the march. Unfortunately I was not able to stay for the march itself as I had committed to leave by 2pm, thinking it would be done by then.
I think drawing a line under the protests for now until a set time in the future (or if there are other changes) is a good idea. A dwindling weekly event will not be a good look and will drain morale.
Agree – but it must be at maximum revs. Dwindling crowd is not a good look and dwindling crowds there will be because people will either get bored; think there is no value proceeding – or have a life that needs attention. There’s our problem.
“Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
December 4, 2021 at 5:33 pm
he described the fact that in the Netflix series Bridgerton (which I refuse to watch) Queen Charlotte (wife of George III) is portrayed by a black woman.
Wasn’t Anne Boleyn (wife of Henry VIII) also portrayed by a black woman?”
Yep…he said that too was grotesque. And it is grotesque.
Soho at 2:00am on a Sunday morning … 🙂
Thank you Mater. Will be interesting to see what happens when ‘the convoy’ hits Ballarat tomorrow!
Bugger. Accidentally reported ZK2A’s comment above. Please ignore, Dover, it was meant to be a thumbs up.
Coincidence? Three presidents dead after blocking distribution of Covid vaccines
Mater, by my reckoning, that’s as big as the biggest of the anti-Vietnam marches of the 1970s.
It’s astonishing to me that the news media is now playing that down and is now a force for conformity and obedience to the government. It used to be the opposite. It used to take the side of the people.
Bass Reeves. Black. US Marshal from1873.
Washington State University is amplifying claims that farmers markets and food charities are examples of “white supremacy” and “white dominant culture.”
Why be astonished, Tom. MSM has been bought and paid for. It’s all in the good cause of The Agenda!
DrBeauGan says:
December 4, 2021 at 4:58 pm
Sorry, Dr BG, I forgot my promise of last week. But I knew you’d find it anyhow.
I’m confused. Last week I turned up at 12:00 and hung around until the march kicked off at 13:00. A bit annoying to stand around waiting, but all good in the end.
This week, I turned up at 12:30 expecting the same program of events. But everyone was already down at Treasury Gardens by then. No indication that there would be a march later on, so I figured on hanging around for a bit, and then heading off. Now I find that there was a march after all!
If any organisers read the Cat – it would be helpful to have a rough running sheet published, so participants can work out what is the program of events and maximise their participation and impact.
Good idea to lay off the marches in the lead up to Christmas.
Wait for Bozo the Progressive to do something stupid and vindictive for a rallying cause.
Won’t be a long wait.
It’s astonishing to me that the news media is now playing that down and is now a force for conformity and obedience to the government. It used to be the opposite. It used to take the side of the people.
Don’t really agree Tom- it was fully on board when the change from assimilation to multiculturalism was decreed from on high.
John Laws was always a shrill for high immigration too.
Indeed, Pol – because beclowning beauties is an activity we should be in on.
Except when it is not – which would be all the time.
OK – She’s not a deep thinker. She probably never wanted to be an ideological warrior, either.
You don’t send a girl out to do a man’s jerb.
‘migrants work harder than Australians’ (don’t mention bad backs)
Still a good crowd from my perspective, and good natured as usual. The one that sticks in my mind was the dad who kept standing young daughter on city rubbish bins so she could see the crowd. Got to shake David Limbrick’s hand and personally express thanks for his efforts over recent times. LDP people in his entourage said that they have a lot more support now compared to previous times when they haven’t perhaps had as much traction in Victoria. But then, that same has applied to One Nation here also. Would have been nice to let him have a podium moment, but Craig Kelly’s presence may have precluded that. If that both had stood together and had a bit of banter about which party deserves #1 and #2 positions on one’s view in the next election it may have better reinforced the idea of using preferences wisely.
Custard told me about it, BBS.
Except when they don’t, which would be all the time (because Centrelink beckons).
Collectivists – never failing to lay the boot into those they consider inferior to them.
Queen Charlotte (wife of George III) is portrayed by a black woman…
To people who say this sort of thing doesn’t matter in “historical films” I ask them if they would be happy to see Nelson Mandela portrayed as a white bloke. Or a white female.
It silences them.
About to watch Radioactive tonight, about Marie Curie. If it is appalling I will turn over to Better Call Saul. Her Indoors™ liked Breaking Bad, so she is prepared to give this a go.
Mater:
Into the tens of thousands, I’d say. Better than I expected, given the bill has more or less passed
The Rukshan vid showed a really good crowd marching and all very active and engaged and in no way dispirited.
On movies, on Channel 7 at 7pm tonight, is Ford vs Ferrari – a great film if anyone’s interested!
Disagree.
The Moratorium [on Conscription to Vietnam] Marches continued into late 1972 even though Australia had started pulling troops out of Vietnam in mid 1971.
It was just ALP AgitProp and nothing else, certainly not Grassroots.
Well I reckon the who and how of DSPs would make very interesting reading.
In regards to whether the protests should maintain pressure now or hold fire for later, the considerations include:
– Andrews has his bill but may not have decided how to weild it.
– Like RickW, many jobs are in the balance as employers can’t or won’t hold jobs for workers forever. Pressure from within (and interstate initiatives) may force relaxation in this.
– I still wonder if other ALP members are nervous about their futures. Can rumbling be initiated within the party about the leadership?
– Will the momentum low of stopping protests make it harder to start them up again?
Many questions I know. I’m slightly in favour of continuing.
Tell her that at your next Eastern Suburbs Dinner Pardee (TM).
Long, but pump up the volume (except when the hollyweirdos are on screen).
You mischievous monkee 😕
Mater, FYI, the government’s chief mouthpiece, Seven news, is reporting in its 6pm bulletin that police estimate today’s crowd at 8-10,000 people — “about half “of the previous week’s attendance.
LOL
“Ed” actually argued that the bastard Liberals had to be stopped by Gough, then conscription ended.
He said this within the last 30 days.
Grigory, you fucking idiot troll.
Saw ACDC as a 12 year old … thanks to an uncle
Also Mario Milano and the Tiger Bros cage match at Festival Hall.
Same uncle
Growing up on the peninsula and later living at one end of Brunswick St in Melb’s musical heyday had its perks. Plenty of musical highlights and memories for me
Icehouse/Flowers at Rosebud Carnival
Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls at The Continental in Sorrento
The Pogues at the Conti as well
Southern Culture on the Skids at the Punter’s Club
Midnight Oil in a Dandenong pub.
The pub was so small the Garrett’s sweat was hitting us in the mosh
The Continental in Prahran in the ’90s was a haze of Fri,Sat, Sun sabbaticals … Ian Moss … lost track … too much ouzo
The Espy in St Kilda was a constant stream.
All of it fucking brilliant
wish I could remember it
Worked at Ch10 studios while they were doing an Aussie music thing
Died Pretty and contemporaries week after week.
That was pretty good.
They shot Neighbours there as well and we’d all sit in the canteen. The Helicopter guy, the maintenance staff and the old bloke actors from Neighbors … Delta Goodrem wouldnt talk to us.
I even stood on Bert Newton’s desk to adjust the airflow in his office. Nice bloke
The missus had similar
Knew Michael Hutchence
One of her friends is the sister of somebody from Spiderbait
Her other mate shagged Evan Dando’s drummer (The Lemonheads)
etc
lol … I can hear her.
she’s on the phone to the Dando-Shagger as I type this.
funny old world
I reckon they have this down pat.
Ch 7. aims at Gen X and families.
Ch 9. scares the crap out of boomers.
Ch 10. is the commercial arm (culturally) of state broadcasting; they aim to subvert the yoof.
Indolentsays:
December 4, 2021 at 5:41 pm
Coincidence? Three presidents dead after blocking distribution of Covid vaccines
Silver or lead?
Ian Moss and Mark Lizotte are national treasures.
CH7,9 or 10 and the ABC?
The only people who tell me they watch them are over 80.
Many questions I know. I’m slightly in favour of continuing
Nelson,
It’s easy for politicians to forget the public. So on that: out of sight, out of mind.
I rooted a girl, whom rooted a guy, whom rooted a girl, whom rooted a guy, whom rooted a girl, whom rooted Shane Crawford.
lol
forgot about birdman …
free gig on the green near Rosebud Pier
Paul Kelly*
*The second least obnoxious one**, belting out a rock ‘n’ roll classic …
** Four of them at last count – they breed like bunnies
Bullshit! The Third Moratorium march – the last – was held 30th June, 1971.
Tomsays:
December 4, 2021 at 6:13 pm
Mater, FYI, the government’s chief mouthpiece, Seven news, is reporting in its 6pm bulletin that police estimate today’s crowd at 8-10,000 people — “about half “of the previous week’s attendance.
The “about half” might possibly be correct, the total almost certainly isn’t (and deliberately so).
Location?
and now just tie the ends together to make a circle
The best Fleetwood Mac song, never.
“to live in fear, is not to live at all”
Agree that protests would work with a line drawn say, after about 2 hours. A few strong speeches, yes, and relevant information perhaps- in brief – at the start and maybe somewhere in the middle. It doesn’t work to start marching after a stint of entertainment. Gets straggly, unfocused. In fact I would say we don’t need entertainment at a protest. Rather, the trumpeters, the whistlers and megaphoners, the drummers, and those reciting the rosary while marching showed how it’s done. It’s numbers of people that matter more than duration, especially since there have been so many young families at the rallies, often with babies in prams, for whom time is a serious constraint in many respects. Clearly there was some complex planning for today, and that was welcome and helpful.
The issue of boosters seems to have predominated, so perhaps this issue can become more focal while not sidelining all others -boosters as symptomatic of power gone amok.
That 20,000 figure for last week still makes me chuckle.
That can make it up, but those made up figures don’t vote (outside of the US).
Dan can’t out lie the reality.
They said right at the start that they didn’t know where they were going to March, so after a couple of speeches, they’d stroll down to the gardens, have some more short* speeches and go on the March from there.
Given you need police permission and escort to do this, I get the feeling that they were being fucked around by the cops in regards to routes and timings. Just part of the disruption tactics, which displaced a lot of would be protesters. A lot of people missed out, including our very own Megan, who joined the March on the far side of the Mall after ringing me to find out what the hell was going on.
* Their definition of ‘short’ differs from mind, but I suspect they were filling in time to comply with police guidance. Just my suspicions.
There’s a fair bit of it around.
Princess Marina had a black Ancestor, she was a looker too [Princess Marina, though the Black Ancestor was kidnapped from the Seraglio, so she may have been easy on the eye as well …] .
Like yourself, I only know other people who were star-fuckers.
Once at the Espy, I kinda got picked up by some pretty young country girl singer star.
Forgot her name
She dropped me quick-smart when she worked out I was a talent-less pretty-boy
The missus stepsister used to be a gogo dancer for Johnny Farnham, and was dating Marty Rhone. Her arse is supposed to have been the inspiration for “Mean Pair of Jeans”.
martin luther king must be portrayed as a white woman
Cool – now that the shouteeness has commenced – they’re all going to gaol, I tells ya! 🙂
is it just me, or has there been a slide in the mean-ness of jeans lately?
Everywhere I go all I see is chubby little fuckers
For poor l’il ol’ erstwhile Tails –My ’98 … 🙂
Lockdown cheer.
Wait until it, and Christmas cheer, meet.
Okay.
Okay.
Disagree there.
Fraser was white anting Menzies, one of the reasons he quit.
Holt put him in the Ministry and he white anted Holt
Fraser then white anted Gorton, McMahon and Snedden to get his chance.
In Government he implemented Whitlam’s big programs and squeezed Taxpayers until the pips squeaked.
I’m such a dinobore I can remember furious denunciations of the sweet li’l goils who used to rock them big time. Sprayed on, as the saying went. Mainly 501s, as nature would have wanted it.
Nowadays their daughters wear cut offs, which it could be asserted are even more provocative.
Err, not that I’ve noticed. 😕
South Australia you legends!
My company has pulled an order for a small job in Adelaide.
A couple of weeks ago when they opened there was a flurry of emails and SMS … all go, go, go.
now it’s all no, no, no
Where’s football woman?
Pfizer Documents Reveal Over 1,200 Vaccine Deaths Over 90-Day Trial Period
This is what they gave emergency use approval to. Any other drug in history with this test result would have been junked.
Martin Luther King must be played as a Korean or Hmong Buddhist girl, A Bug’s Life gal with an econ major and maths minor, also a Rooftopian.
MatrixTransform says:
December 4, 2021 at 6:40 pm
Should have been at the march. Plenty of examples of jeans and leggings being worn in a manner worthy of appreciation! Less good when one’s eye catches a distracting sight at the same time one’s feet find a fallen branch in Treasury Gardens… (Insert speak-no-evil emoji here.)
Makka:
These deaths are not the obstructions they appear to be.
They are a successful part of the project.
+1
Andre 3000, – he’d never objectify women …
Mater says:
December 4, 2021 at 6:32 pm
Yeah I thought the route did not match what Simeon or the MC announced (didn’t they say direct down Flinders Street from Treasury Gardens?) and while Bourke Street was okay, looping as far as William Street rather than chucking a left at Swanson (a mall nowadays, anyway!) felt designed to stretch weary legs, even at the expense of inconveniencing even more Melbourne traffic. It didn’t work as the crowd remained in good spirits all the way to the clocks!
Got proof or sources for any of these assertions, Grigory?
Or have you been into the Crystalline [Bath]Salts again?
Redhead … Punter’s Club … Mandy … still haunted
I love the way you move, baybee …
Slept for 16 of the last 24 hours.
Felt absolutely shattered.
Coming good again now.
Which is good, because have some critical days coming up next week.
MT – nice to see you are on board. There’s nothing like a sprayed on pair of 501s.
Slightly faded.
That’s what I’m talking about!
Do your own research, Grogs. You’ve got a burr in your pants about what I post, that’s not my problem.
Redhead … Punter’s Club … Mandy … still haunted
Moments before this post was made…
Model A up for rego? 😀
JMH:
One big demo is more effective than several small ones.
People can schedule for the Tennis one, but several small demos can lose momentum.
And next time, when the coppers do their ‘moving along thing’, sit down and link arms.
Also don’t let the head of the march string out the tail. It can give the papers lots of strung out pictures that can be framed to look like nobody was interested.
Your opiion seems to be on the money as I heard a police barricade blocked the march from continuing down Swanston Street.
*opinion* FFS.
Chuckle. There is wailing and gnashing of teeth (faithfully reported by TheirABC) among lefties about Twitter’s new policy about publishing photos of private citizens without their permission.
Since lefties are constantly using Twitter to dox people they don’t like, to their dismay the new policy is rebounding on them:
I suppose lefties never thought the rules would apply to them. And, it’s likely that suitable ‘adjustments’ will be made in due course to reinstate them. But in the meantime, loving the Alinsky tactics by US righties – hold them to their own roolz!
7Mate has an excellent Holden documentary/road trip in WA. Featuring old panel vans and utes. Really old.
I remember my Tech Drawing and Woodwork teacher wore the Moratorium ribbon to work, after there had been a fuss and threats of teachers being sacked over same.
As far as I could tell all he got was respect.
FWIW I dont believe it was all for Labor agitation, because I had Communist agitation for Moratorium in the family. Had some cool pamphlets to show for it.
Let me tell you, the heat maps published this week showing the locations of last week’s rally attendees would indicate the numbers involved. Were they disclosed? If not, why not?
The one on the right is the new Dr Who.
No I am not joking.
A large black lady.
Not sure whether she is a temp or a permanent, as another guy called Romesh Ranganathan seems also in the running. One wonders which way the transmogrification will turn out. I suspect the Doctor’s genes are getting a little tired.
Yo -the full version … 🙂
We had a schoolteacher who was fairly active in the anti – war movement. A couple of days after one of the more major battles that the Australian Task Force was involved in, the father of one of the men who had been killed there, stormed into the classroom, and smashed said teacher into the next postcode with one punch..
Well, I recall a Moratorium March in Sydney on 19/11/1972, 13 days before Whitlam was Elected.
Unless there was another somewhere on the following weekend, that was the last Moratorium March.
No Moratorium Marches after 02/12/1972, that’s for sure.
Funny, eh?
Enjoyed the Levis501 conversation.
In ancient times, before the advent of lycra and spandex, a pair of jeans was bought a size smaller than humanly comfortable. The zip was done up lying prone. A hot bath drawn and the wearer would sit in the bath as the jeans moulded to the body. As the water cooled, out of the bath and allow the beastly things to dry on the body. Hopefully the denim would “remember” its new shape.
And it did!
Oh boy, I get the shits with Fox sometimes then some great folk like Rachel and Sean Duffy appear with Pete Hegseth and discuss values and the current SC case about Roe v Wade and all is forgiven. Since Roe was decided there have been 62 million abortions in the US, disproportionally in the black community. As much as any cause vomited by the left abortion manifests the bastardry and hypocrisy of the left. Planned parenthood and the teachers union, the main contributors to the demorats, are the main financial beneficiaries of this despicable industry. So naturally demorat scum are threatening the SC.
Yeah was going to stay out of this but Shane Crawford, had a relative at ACK same time he was there though a few years senior. She said he even at High School was as what you saw on TV, a bit of a larrikin and the girls used to swoon over him.
In my younger days met quite a few celebrities at Crown Cas when down south and when in NQ quite a few footballers in bars in round Townsville. Mostly tried to to intrude but found almost all very open to conversation with the public, especially Gordon Tallis.
Sorry ACK = Assumption College Kilmore
Bear Necessities says:
December 4, 2021 at 7:01 pm
I rooted a girl, whom rooted a guy, whom rooted a girl, whom rooted a guy, whom rooted a girl, whom rooted Shane Crawford.
Alan Tudge lament.
I once rooted a girl
or should I say
she’s rooted me.
I want a goil with a short skirt and a long jacket, God, I beseeches Ya! 🙂
God: Tough titties, Rabz – they no longer reside on your pathetic li’l planet. They’ve gone off to find some men who don’t fall into a heap at the first sign of incipient fascism.
Rabz: Yeah, but, but, but I’m not happy, I tells ya!
God: Tell it to someone who gives a shit, Squire.
Calli:
To gain extra leverage, the zipper was threaded with a wire coat hanger…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/georgia-governor-releases-memo-confirming-citizen-groups-findings-render-results-2020-hand-recount-worthless/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily
As I would have hoped, Squirette.
cohenite
Since Roe was decided there have been 62 million abortions in the US, disproportionally in the black community.
Didn’t the US Supreme Court, at the instigation of lefties, “discover” an issue with racism if the effect was a “disparate impact”? Based on that, abortion in the US clearly has a Waaasissst element, and should be declared unconstitutional.
Yeah, I think a Taj Mahal is out of the question now.
Pretty darn cold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UDYFt_8ycw
Fraser under attack at Gorton memorial service
“Gorton would have been one of our greatest prime ministers ever had he not been cut down by the forces of evil.”
They must have been 505s.
The 501s have a button fly.
LOL
Such a massive transfer of mortality from the aged to those in the prime of their life will end up exceeding Korea + Vietnam + Afghaniston, if not more.
Ed Case says:
December 4, 2021 at 7:21 pm
Like how BLM riots seemed to stop once it was clear Biden was going to assume the presidency?
Mission accomplished at that point.
Have given up Foxtel.
Took most of a week.
Of course you can’t cancel online. You have to speak to someone.
Then begins the several phone calls from them trying to get you to stay. In the end I had to be quite blunt with them. Told them their business model was wrong. No way do we want to pay $50 a month for lots of channels we don’t need. How about $20 a month, was my suggestion, for say 10 channels we choose?
Eventually they gave up. Posted their box back to them this morning. Was the best part of the deal – took about two minutes. You print out an A4 page they send you with all the addresses and codes. Local Aus Post shop packed it and sent it – all free. Lady behind the counter said they’re getting a steady flow of Foxtel boxes being returned.
A pair of 501s.
The ballad of the li’l Tin Soldier – one of human history’s great love stories …
Which one? This one is pretty cool.
Taj Mahal – Queen Bee – Bloody Sunday Sessions (2015)
That’s a cruising New Orleans on a horse & cart while playing the blues level of pretty cool.
Thanks for the historical record, P.
But one must always assume that Grigory is posting out its arse anytime it logs in and you hear its keyboard start to wail…
Strawman – you’re out there – lurking in a convenient Kampuchean jungle.
How arreff did not like this epic long time is beyond me. Forget about the lyrics and listen to those three mighty chords, I asks ya.
And FFS, turn it up – it’s a Saturday Night, after all … 🙂
A good friend of mine was at John Gorton’s funeral. She was also a guest at his 90th birthday celebrations.
Speaking of those great love stories – Romeo had Juliette …
He looked a lot like Che Guevara …