‘unutterable shame ‘ Deane- doesn’t stop him taking his pension. I loathe most lawyers.
Open Thread – Mon 6 Dec 2021
Let’s not forget Dreyfus. Awful.
an armchair theorist with zero idea about the effects of adrenaline How long was the ride in the Jeep back…
In the finest tradition of mUnter on his worst days – Baba, earlier, and at 11.25: She moves easily for…
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Cognitive dissonance is less likely to exist in the lives denoted as white trash than with the malaise that refers to their lives as such.
Rex Anger:
This glow worm?
schoolags
Brilliant!
Pronounced as ‘Smollaying’.
H/T Dave Chapelle
I never understood that cross culture match up.
One is a 40′ ape that can’t handle biplanes, the other a nuclear fire breathing mutant
with an awesome air defence capability.
Jacinda Arden:
She encapsulates the urban bugman class to a tee.
Please do not laugh. My grandson just received his report card from daycare. Now the level of care he gets there is great, every day photos and videos are posted of all the kids doing stuff individually and together. He goes for the social interaction and when he couldn’t during part of the lockdowns got decidedly tichy about having to spend so much time with his parents. His great grandmother is over the moon seeing the posts the daycare provide as never having held him, early next year my daughter hopes to take him to see them. Has also become more important as great grandfather has had a stroke this week. He seems to be ok for the moment. My grandson is 16 months old. I’m sure his report card will provide a suitable standard for entry to ANUsocial programming PHD course. Then of course probably not as he is already an individual (yes), ignoring authority when it interferes with his own ideas. Yes this too was in the report card.
On Jussie Smollett:
As I understand things, Our Jessie’s defence is that he met Chief Attacker at a club, where:
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And then paid him $3500 for ‘health and nutrition advice’.
As you would.
I may be young and naive, but it seems to me a win-win situation for Jussbaby.
Either exoneration and career Viagra.
Or time in the Big House as star attraction for rough men interested in a bit of vigorous Smolletting.
I’d like to see them attempt to implement compulsory vaccination in the Maori community.
Taking health advice from your drug buddy from the bathhouse? What is this NSW?
It looks like Trump’s Truth Social is going to be using Rumble’s infrastructure. This is a good move for both.
Ardern reminds me of this chick.
But with scarier teeth.
TaliDan keeps on making and selling shit sandwiches.
Total days above 1,000 cases.
NSW 29
Vic 60
If you get close enough to the MSM and the ABC you can smell the crap.
It’s 80 years today since the attack on Pearl Harbor….this may be of interest:
Pearl Harbor and the Darwin Raids – a comparison
Pearl Harbor is often compared to the Darwin attack but the similarities are very few. Although both were surprise initial raids on an enemy of the Japanese Empire, the destruction caused in each raid was disproportionate in the extreme.
Some people say Darwin was “bigger” than the Pearl Harbor strike. For example, the chairwoman of the Northern Territory’s Centenary of Federation committee in 2001 said: “’It was bigger than Pearl Harbour…and it’s time the nation knew about this.”
Many say: “More bombs fell on Darwin”, a phrase now common in much of the publicity surrounding the commemoration of the first raids. True enough but it is just used to be sensationalist if used without the correlation that the tonnage of bombs which fell on Pearl Harbor was greater: the Japanese were using smaller bombs in the Darwin raid. It’s a bit like saying the Darwin assaults were more significant than the Nagasaki raid because that attack on Japan only used one bomb.
The following summary figures – drawn from the detailed tables in our book Carrier Strike, by Tom Lewis and Peter Ingman (Avonmore) are:
Number of weapons released in the Pearl Harbor waves:
Total No. bombs: 421
Total tonnage (kgs): 101,420kg
Total weapons released including 40 torpedoes: 461
Bomb tonnage including 40 x 800kg torpedoes: 133,420kg
Port Darwin – Carrier and Land-based strike
Total No. bombs: 681
Total tonnage (kgs): 114,100kg
The comparison is also a rather disingenuous one. A torpedo strike from a Japanese bomber would do far more damage than a bomb from the same aircraft: as air group leader Fuchida discussed in conferences before the attack: “…the torpedoes below the surface would do more effective damage than bombings from the air.” Torpedoes were not used at Darwin but they inflicted massive damage at the American base. To just compare the weapons by their weight is to miss this point.
Some say that more civilians were killed in the Australian raids. Untrue. There were 2,388 lives lost in the Pearl Harbor raids compared to 235 killed in Darwin. It’s generally held 68 civilians were killed at Pearl; 26 were killed in Darwin.
What about the ships sunk? It has been claimed more ships were sunk at Pearl than in Darwin. Eleven ships were sunk in Darwin: nine inside the harbour. The largest warship was a destroyer, the USS Peary, with 88 of her crew killed. At Pearl all eight battleships of the US Pacific Fleet, the most important capital ship at the time, were sunk or badly damaged. The size difference between a destroyer and a battleship is immense. The comparison is similar to that of a car set beside a three-trailer truck. The firepower is commensurately similar.
Three cruisers – again, big, important ships – five destroyers, and seven other ships were also sunk or grounded. Most ships were raised and repaired, although for many wrecks this took years.
The strike at Pearl was a massive loss for American aircraft too, and that raid was far more destructive than Darwin’s. For example, 350 aircraft were destroyed or damaged whereas in the Australian assault 30 were lost.
None of this is to say that the 19 February 1942 strikes were insignificant. They were. The attacks were the first on the Australian landmass, and signaled a new and sometimes desperate stage of the war, which if Australians had not stood alongside Americans and prevailed in New Guinea, may well have seen invasion. The writer Douglas Lockwood called his 1960s book, the first published about the raids, Australia’s Pearl Harbour. It’s a good and deserved title. But the important differences should be emphasized, not minimized, to do historical justice to both of the attacks on Pearl Harbor and Darwin.
There is a woman there going by the name “Danielle” who has declares that there are hardly any unvaxxed left in Auckland and that it was time to stop pandering to them.
She is no more explicit than that, but since all they are doing is insisting on what they do to themselves, and are not asking anything be done to anyone else either directly (such as an injection or denial of an injection they want) or indirectly (the unvaxxed pose no more threat than the vaxxed) it is a very ominous thing she is hinting at.
Another woman on the same thread mocks that the unvaxxed are too stupid to be persuaded by the (supposed) additional risk of death. We can assume that she either thinks there is no threat in the vaccines or that it is much lower than the unvaxxed think, but she seems to be glossing over the fact that it is their decision that does not impact her.
Her Twatter name says she is a grand mother, and normally you would think the elderly who grew up in freer versions of their countries would be more forgiving of people wanting to retain freedoms, but the elderly were especially targeted in propaganda campaigns, and were casually put into elevated risk situations like bottling them in nursing homes and then letting infected people in.
I hate to be persnickety, but their ABC is the mainstream.
The commercials have become CV farms for an ABC career.
Look like the boosters are effectively useless.
Interesting post, Top Ender – thank you.
Could be an interesting contest.
Kiwi Pm vs
Kiwi newspaper breaks ranks.
It gets worse, mate; you left his oil storage tanks intact.
headline story in today’s age
So Farmer Gez still thinks the tests are something to report on and compare between the states………after all this time and all this proof.
FMD.
The tests aren’t anything except a propaganda tool and for picking up corona virus, useless.
the English teacher and the nazis, trove of letters in Melbourne reveals network that saved Jews
It gets even worse, mate – In 1943, American shipbuilding yards launched more warships then comprised the strength of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the outbreak of war in 1941…
What is VE?
He pulls no punches except to dance around the assertion that Pfizer has been lying to governments.
No doubt the lawyers were called in on that and decided “bald claim” was as far as they dare go.
VE – Vaccine efficiency.
The tests are Andrews’ metric, not Gez’s.
I am not a devoted Treckie, but I thought the invention of The Borg was brilliant. No Borg was THE Borg. Like a human brain, thought resided in no individual but in the whole alone. How do you understand it, how do you outthink it.
Finally the showrunners had no idea either, and had to create a Queen. but I suppose that is he nature of TV and movies. Same reason we envision ghosts as humans and even demons as faintly anthropomorphic – so the audience can project motivations, feelings, and comprehensible action onto them.
A malign force that just makes people’s hearts stop in their presence would be a dead end (literally and figuratively). It would just be an event. One where there is a physical manifestation – as a spectre or as painting – or even a dark corner of the room to which the camera pivots just before someone else dies, is comprehensible. (The dark corner seems to conceal a form – turn the light on and you imagine it has fled).
And Alice Krige is not entirely hard on the eye. For all her Borgness in the role, she has an eerie alien beauty.
I think Gez knows that, Struth.
He’s just pointing out that Andrews is hoist by his own petard.
Thanks Aaron. I struggle with acronyms, and a search was to no avail.
If I read that right…the Boosters are misnamed.
They are Suppressors.
very proud Grandad! ….. Daughter received this on behalf of my Grandson who starts High school next year ..
Not sur ewhat will happen tho .. It wasn’t expected & they’ve just forked out several hundred dollars on next years school uniform/equipment and it ain’t for Bentleigh …
But whatever happens he is & always has been a very bright kid (with NO musical ability .. LOL!) …….
Congratulations, we wish to extend a placement offer in the 2022 Gifted and Talented program at
Bentleigh Secondary College for Lucas *****. Please note in accepting this position your child will
be participating in the instrumental Music Program in Year 7 to Year 9, as well as other co-curricular
programs.
This offer is based on Edutest, PAT data results, and information from your child’s Primary School
teaching staff.
Yep.
Wish I had learned piano.
But I must content myself with having learned to play Stairway to Heaven on spoons.
“If I read that right…the Boosters are misnamed.
They are Suppressors”.
I do know that what is becoming obvious is there is no way they have passed in any sense a “Clinical trial”.
The fact is, our leaders passed these processes with about as much care as picking out their lunch.
Useless and probably dangerous.
Just like the vaccines.
The Borg was ultimately a robot with human intelligence. I could never work out whether it was a robot that had evolved, or a human wishing to attain immortality by inhabiting a machine with a “flesh” exterior.
And it was insatiable, always seeking to conquer and assimilate other sentient beings. Resistance was futile…she would have you.
The “queen” imagery is apt – at the centre of every hive controlling the drones is a bloated queen. Kill the queen and the hive is lost.
Congratulations Grandad shatterzzz!
Grandchildren are a blessing – particularly early childhood up to teenage years. After that, you lose them a bit to school sport, mates etc. But they always come back eventually, especially if you have been close to them. My grandchildren literally light up my life – even in spite of the intermittent dramas that shake you up.
Which state is this in? Someone can’t go to Bunnings because he hasn’t got a vaxxine passport, is this NSW or Victoria?
At the 26 minute mark here.
Winston, is it this you’re looking for?
https://www.acma.gov.au/stop-getting-spam
There are a bunch of striking public school teachers demonstrating and chanting outside ex Deputy Premier (and soon ex MP) John Barilaro’s office. They are all wearing red T shirts with ‘more than thanks’ written on them.
The source of their outrage is that their payrises are capped at 2.5% per annum, just like the rest of the NSW public sector. They are demanding 7.5%.
At a time when small businesses and self employed people are lucky to keep their heads above water thanks to COVID hysteria, their greedy demands are not going down well. While I was there, a few people were yelling things like ‘get back to work!’ and less polite suggestions from passing cars.
About 80% of them are youngish women, BTW.
Winston.
Stop watching porn on your own computers if you don’t want NSW stuff sent there.
Getting past a firewall was the only thing that kept me working for so long.
The vaccination programs are the “clinical trial”.
Hence the “provisional” approvals.
Pfizer convinced governments to go ahead with a “bald claim” (see above) that the benefits outweighed the risks, which they deemed to be mostly harmless and minimal.
Politicians and their health advisers have failed to exercise due car on behalf of the public.
Will they ever be called to explain themselves? I expect that will depend on just how bad the medical fallout is down the road, leading to the truth coming out regardless of supine oppositions and a complicit media.
The states that want to find covid do.
The ones that don’t, don’t.
This various according to the stage of the gas lighting suppress and release game to send everyone insane.
If Victoria are finding covid cases, Dan Andrews wants them found.
He is not being hoisted by his own petard, so ask yourself why he wants it found, why the WA Premier doesn’t need to find it (while thousands of truckies have been going through the borders every week for the last two years).
That’s the point about the tests…they are bullshit and purely propaganda.
Theatre to keep you looking at NSW compared to Victoria and take your eyes off the bigger picture.
Complete BULLSHIT.
In the end, they know you can’t do anything about any of it, so they are having a larf!
They have the guns.
That’s all that matters.
When we realise this “cases’ stuff, the different variants are only there to frazzle you, to finally, in the end ,not know which way is up, and most importantly, what is truth and what are lies,or whether you are coming or going, so you lose your common sense, powers of deduction and rational thinking, while they have fun turning you into a dribbling mess of lie repeating lunacy, we may realise they are at war with us.
I had two old guys from Russia who had escaped communism and I always remember what they said to me.
The hardest part of living under communism wasn’t the lack of food, the poverty etc, but the constant and never ending assault on your mind.
They Lie. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. BUT THEY NEVER STOP.
They can’t.
When you live under two years of a state of emergency and still talk about a virus and the pros and cons of what to do about it, make no bones about it.
Communists own your mind.
We are at war with our government.
And they started it.
Shatterzzzxzzzz
They’ll have more luck picking kids with natural curiousity and good application and pointing them at complicated instruments and notation, than picking kids with “musical intelligence ” and hoping that discipline will come to them from somewhere.
WA health now running ads on spotify, now recruiting experienced and qualified midwives. Doesn’t take a genius to see the jab mandate- and added trauma of stillbirths- behind the desertion of the field. I would have no compulsion against laying the death of every perinatal child at the feet of Sneakers.
I see the boomer haters are out in their green eyed coveting of my ass.
If you noodle armed fairies were prepared to work three jobs at a time you might have a point.
If you worked through University you might have a point.
If you didn’t crave instant gratification you might have a point.
If any of your pointless hip shots were anywhere near the mark you might have a point.
If you served against the proxies of the USSR and Red China you might have a point.
Not your fault. Obviously the fault of your parents.
Now kiss my arse.
It took me three years to learn how to play “London Bridge is Burning Down” on the recorder….
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I worked full job + army reserves + racecourse security for years.
I still think you’re shit.
“which they deemed to be mostly harmless and minimal”.
But they did lie by omission didn’t they?
The full document suggests far more and more serious effects than claimed by the company.
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Drove hungry shifts in a taxi to put myself through uni.
Rode a clapped out bike to pick up the taxi.
I still think you’re shit.
..
Is this an offer to blow me?
I still think you’re shit.
Pfizer convinced governments to go ahead with a “bald claim” (see above) that the benefits outweighed the risks, which they deemed to be mostly harmless and minimal.
3% mortality rate from what Pfizer submitted to the FDA. Which is no doubt the best possible result seeing as Pfizer knew enough about the shitness of their vax to skew participation towards women.
Who the fuck signs off on 3% mortality to “stop” a virus that has 0.27% mortality at worst??!!
That was the genius. Each drone was like a neuron.
Highlights:
‘boomer haters’
‘noodle armed fairies’
‘If any of your pointless hip shots were anywhere near the mark’
‘three jobs at a time’
Hahaaaa. Level 11 squealing kicking off.
Translated: It’s someone else’s fault, and the inheritance was not as I expected.
Given their security it would be at least nice if public service pay rises were based on private sector rates, and it is the private sector that is paying for their pay rises, and a measure of how effective the PS is must be how much they have helped or hindered the private sector – as it is they drive businesses to the wall and expect 10% pay increases in return.
But could you imagine the torturing of arithmetic and economic metrics they would devise to get the numbers they want?
Victoria
132andBush says:
December 7, 2021 at 11:26 am
I think Gez knows that, Struth.
He’s just pointing out that Andrews is hoist by his own petard.
Dan believed his greatness could be measured by numbers.
“We don’t want to end up like Sydney”
“Doughnut day – get the beers”
That’s why the lockdowns were swift and long. The police used to imprison and punish free movement. Regulations that dictated your every move.
The petard of numbers has blown up under his own arse.
When you finally realise Hitler was a socialist, and to call him right wing was the biggest load of bullshit spread by Socialists, that he called himself a socialist, and he acted like a socialist , …..then Dan Andrews makes perfect sense.
It all makes perfect sense.
The lefts hatred of Israel and the Jews to this day, makes perfect sense.
The term is “control the means of production”
Not own it.
And he controlled it.
Divide and conquer, blame a minority. Put fear into the population so they willingly give up their freedoms.
Oh, and like all other tyrants, one of the first things Hitler did when he got into power, was to take away the guns.
No Jimmy Anderson for the first Ashes Test starting tomorrow.
Hooo boy.
Just talking to a friend – apparently in Brisbane the PA Hospital has been designated a “COVID” hospital – so shortly (once borders open) it will be effectively shut down to elective patients, etc, while waiting the tidal wave of infection that we have been assured will roll over us.
Given the size of the hospital that will be non trivial for many people who would otherwise be accessing services there.
Importantly, I have no idea if what I have been told is true – however I’m sure better connected Cats here could provide further information and any necessary context.
Certainly if that is the game plan and it’s being replicated across health districts statewide then some significant public health rationing may await.
And, given the recent news re the transplant program mandate, it sounds like we are moving towards the “unclean” being marked for non-treatment. Queensland hospitals will only be for Queenslanders, and only Queenslanders who have proven loyalty to the state, and their digital papers in order, ready for presentation.
How do they get a box of nails, can they use the “click and collect” parking bay arrangement?
struth says:
December 7, 2021 at 12:48 pm
When you finally realise Hitler was a socialist,
They were national socialists Struth.
Andrews isn’t any sort of nationalist. He believes in the state in a political sense not as a binding social or cultural entity.
What if you thought Dan could not give a shit about the numbers and it was just theatre?
What he is really telling you is…I’m still in power, and you are a dickhead I treat with contempt for taking any of these figures seriously.
If you are that stupid to not realise, after I’ve been bursting at the seems to shoot unarmed protesters with rubber bullets, and show you what sort of a hopeless position you are in against me, that the almighty Dan-ster shall not be challenged, I cannot help you.
But I love the television and my raised profile.
I can tell you anything.
And I will.
I am a superior being to you dumb bastards.
Arky,
Don’t be ungrateful.
I was being helpful.
And obviously some upthread mistook coveting my ass.
The CMF didn’t deploy in my time. It was a drinking club for tour dodgers.
And again, I was pointing out how pointless it was directing your ire against your betters.
You should concentrate on the people doing the nasty things to you.
the davos brigade
A national socialist, once Poland was attacked, is an international socialist.
“Living room”
They all start by telling you they only want so much power, but leftism isn’t varying in degree by the desire of different lefties, it varies in degree by the passing of time.
It is a growing and ever increasing evil cancer.
It will take all that doesn’t destroy it.
Hungry shifts? I a bit of foresight and you would have taken sandwiches to work.
When I were younger, and the days shorter and the moon loomed larger in the sky (yes, it is a geological timescale here) I remember the teaching and other assorted grads from uni.
The teachers were a little intoxicated with their lot while others could only look on with envy.
Good pay, long vacations, and schoolkids had not been turned feral yet. By comparison the rest of us were lowly paid, unimportant, and at the bottom of a vast hierarchy.
As years went on however a lot of the teachers begun to become embittered. The kids were pissing them off, the parents were pissing them off, and they felt like they were at a dead end.
I am sure it is one of the reasons they are so given to politicising and indoctrinating – gives them a mission.
Or, you can vote yourself into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.
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They’re internationalists.
They only believe in Nations in the same way that footy club owners believe in footy clubs.
As in, something you cheer for in a good natured way with the others in the owner’s boxes, something for you to trade, something for you to import personnel into, something that has to exist under a set of rules made by their fellow internationalists. Something that gives you prestige on Grand final day as you copter into town. Above all, their loyalty is to the “comp” or, in other words, in other words, their fellow internationalists.
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Standard shift in a taxi is 12 hours, 5am to 5 pm, or vice versa.
“Going hungry” is when you keep going another six or eight hours, usually on a weekend morning when the day driver is off.
I’d always do a hungry shift from midday Sunday to 5am Monday.
But sometimes the owner would tell you could keep going on a weekday because the regular day driver was off.
They’re roosters. They don’t care what dungheap it is as long as they crow on top of it.
The only point of interest I took from an otherwise unproductive and unstructured meeting of free choice health workers this morning (Sunshine Coast), is that at least two of the nurses who have assumed some type of co-ordination role for the (very loose) group, have been officially warned by Qld. Health (in writing) that their activities might be interpreted as a breach of the Qld. Public Service Code of Conduct (a collection of motherhood statements intentionally broad and ambiguous so as to allow a range of interpretations). I’m unsure of the jab status of the two who received the warning, but obviously they haven’t been terminated yet.
The interesting element is that either Qld. Health is employing staff to scan private social media accounts, or someone they know has informed their employer of what they are doing in their private time (the unjabbed have been placed on compulsory leave). I’d lean towards the latter, but not rule out the former.
Just phoned GPs reception to make an appointment.
Amongst lots of other questions.
r: “Are you double vaxxed?”
me: “What’s it to you bignose?”
r: “Is 4pm thursday ok?
Cannabis shops across the San Francisco Bay Area have been thrown into dire straits as gangs of thieves broke into more than 15 shops throughout November during the series of ‘smash-and-grab’ robberies that are plaguing California.
Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong told reporters that ‘hundreds’ of vehicles targeted marijuana stores in Oakland last month, firing 175 shots and stealing about $5 million worth of products.
Alphonso ‘Tucky’ Blunt, owner of Blunts and Moore, told MJBizDaily that his store lost about $25,000 during a November 22 raid, where more than a dozen burglars ransacked the store.
‘I know 25 or so businesses that got hit … and out of all those, the percentage I know that told me that they may not be able to reopen is about 50 percent. That’s scary,’ Blunt said.
‘I was safer, and had more money, (selling) on the street, illegall
their greedy demands are not going down well.
They are on their ABCcess.
Apparently there were floods of texts from parents supporting the 2 union squealers they had on to say how bad done by they are.
/i cant believe its not astroturf
Premier Daniel Andrews is expected to declare a pandemic, after the State of Emergency expires next week, under new legislation that is now law.
Sky News
Just like we knew he would, after all what else was the point of his permanent pandemic Bill
“Going hungry” is when you keep going another six or eight hours, usually on a weekend morning when the day driver is off.
Big Ron, an old (deceased) mate was a taxi driver.
His idea of “going hungry” was a whole rotisserie chook, a loaf of bread and 2L of coke for lunch, then back to driving.
Is that the same sort of thing?
I am withholding belief in this 3% mortality figure. It is not all credible that it would be signed off at that level – and the mortality of the subsequently enjabbenated (like most of my workmates and me) would be anecdotally clear even if Mr Wolf the Cleaner was polishing away every ‘oopsie’ after the jab.
I think he has been a bit cack-handed here.
Tradition is to refer to ‘enemies of the state’ and ‘the enemy among us’, against whom final victory is always within sight but, in the meantime, the people must endure hardship and sacrifice just a little longer.
How is he going to do show trials with a virus?
This is a very good speech from Senator Malcolm Roberts about the government’s digital identity bill. You can see here why they wanted the universal vaxxine passport system in place to serve as the platform for the next dose of dystopia.
Warning from Senator Malcolm Roberts-LNP/ALP digital identity card on its way
It astounds me that anyone still needs this explained to them.
Just as it does that anyone is still trying to find ‘a free country’ to escape to, as if what little islands of hope exist aren’t also historic reminders of just how horribly hope can be smothered in them i.e. Poland & even America.
One minute they’re fighting off the savage hoards, the next … there is no safe place on earth from the worldly beasts, that’s why He sent us The Helper until His return.
Why are women so shit at womens sports??
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10282301/Transgender-UPenn-swimmer-Lia-Thomas-smashes-records-weekend-meets-14-SECONDS-ahead-rival.html
Transgender UPenn swimmer smashes TWO US records at her latest competition and finishes one race 38 SECONDS ahead of her nearest rival amid growing outrage over ‘unfair’ contests
Lia Thomas, 22, smashed two U.S. swimming records at an Akron, Ohio contest
Thomas won the 1,650 freestyle in a record time of 15:59.71 beating her closest rival Anna Sofia Kalandaze by 38 seconds
She left rivals floundering in a 500 freestyle beating them by 14 seconds
“Who the fuck signs off on 3% mortality to “stop” a virus that has 0.27% mortality at worst”??!!
The doc says (from memory) something like 1200 deaths from approx 160,000 events.
3 percent?
I don’t think even Pfizer are that crazy.
Just like we knew he would, after all what else was the point of his permanent pandemic Bill
The carnival has moved on for TaliDan.
Harsh measures at this stage would alienate more voters. You can’t use VicPlod to barrel into protesters with women and children in the mix.
How this is used for vaccine mandates is another matter. Surly Sutton is sick of Dan’s hand up his butt by now.
Higher education cuts..
Im making a list..
Classic children’s stories like Harry the Dog, Dr Seuss and Disney tales have been slammed by an Australian academic for being ‘outdated, sexist and racist’.
Dr Helen Adam from Western Australia’s Edith Cowan University says many family favourites should be pulled off the shelves and replaced by more inclusive books.
‘The world represented in children’s books reflects predominantly middle class, heterosexual male heroes and characters,’ Dr Adam says in a new study.
She also insists on speaking to the manager.
Andrews no longer needs Sutton to declare a pandemic under this new legislation.
What is interesting with Rukshan’s filming is the number of people who greet him and compliment him on the job he is doing. I’m yet to see footage of anyone commenting negatively on his family background, or telling him that he’s not an Aussie. Maybe one or two might do so, but it just hasn’t been caught on camera? I suspect (and hope) that if such a situation occurred, then others in the crowd would stick up for him.
My point is that from what I’ve seen, Rukshan is a great example that the portrayal by the glossed lips of the elite of working and lower middle class Australians as seething with racial hatred, is utter bollocks.
There was a comma missing in there.
*Sigh*
Deadman would have shuddered at that.
If true it’s monumental incompetence on the part of Palaszczuk, D’Ath & QLD Health.
Throughout this farce the biggest threat to Queenslanders’ health has bneen the mismanagement of the hospital system by the above (+ Steven Miles, who instituted a previous ban on elective surgery when we had virtually nobody ill with covid).
And worse you didn’t get the fast fleet oilers, the ones that could keep the carrier’s at sea.
Yes, there does appear to some legalese going on between “cases” and “events”.
Some must have got co-maybemorbidities.
I don’t think even Pfizer are that crazy.
“It’s the lure of easy money, it’s got a very strong appeal.”
(Miami Vice – Smugglers Blues- Glen Frey)
Does anyone know what Satan’s successor, Dan of the Dead, has in store for us next?
I suspect that merely formalises the previous modus operandi, but yes, it is an astonishing power grab.
When does the apparently useless Dessau rubber stamp the legislation?
bringing coffee
And left the submarine base intact.
That’s what dictators always worry about.
Democratic elections.
Ah…she did so this morning. Good luck, Victorians, the last line of defence of your rights and liberties just sold you out.
I’ve heard Pearl Harbor described as “a tactical victory, but a strategic defeat, for the Japanese.”
DICTATORSHIP DOWN UNDER
by Samuel McCarthy • ChurchMilitant.com • December 6, 2021.
Andrews’ power grab
I reckon that Dan will soon announce the indefinite suspension of elections until the pandemic [1] has passed.
Will the other states follow suit?
1. as defined by Dan
Gabsays:
December 7, 2021 at 1:59 pm
Andrews no longer needs Sutton to declare a pandemic under this new legislation.
Then on his own head be it.
I’ve also read that the Japs didn’t prioritise these obviously strategic targets at Pearl because they thought their war was going to be short and victorious and therefore they weren’t worth the extra risk & cost in planes and airmen. The goal was simply to sufficiently hamper the US naval response to their drive down into SE Asia.
Virus “enablers”, otherwise known as the unvaxxed will be the stand-ins.
Pearl Harbour saved Britain and Europe.
The US would not have had public support for the war except for Pearl.
Calli:
I was going to tell you it was ‘Victory in Europe’ Day, but context has some part to play, perhaps.
The Victorian Constitution states that the governor must issue writs for an election on the day on which the current Legislative Assembly expires. So he would need parliament to amend the Constitution significantly to change that. A bridge too far even for Dan, I would think. Just imagine what the cross-benchers would ask for in return for their support.
Considering that the class in question is largely populated by migrants, it isn’t just bollocks, it’s stupid.
But when did the Great and the Good ever take the time or trouble to talk to the tradies clearing their loo chokes or weeding their gardens?
There was also a lot of “buck fever” among the pilots. Much sexier to torpedo or bomb an already sinking battleship than go after oilers and drydock gates. This buck fever was also evident at Midway when the fighter pilots preferred to dogfight with the US fighters rather than going after the bombers.
A few horse heads and puppy bodies, then the crossbench won’t even ask.
The goal was simply to sufficiently hamper the US naval response to their drive down into SE Asia.
Their plan was great.
Smash the US attack capability for at least 2 years which would enable all of those little islands (especially Midway) to become so costly to take back that a negotiated peace could be done allowing the Japanese to keep most of what they wanted.
Another certain country is repeating the strategy now.
Few things went wrong;
1: Sneak attack, a DOW before might have seen the US a lot less implacable and resolute.
2: The aforementioned carriers/subs & refueling facilities.
3: No one would have guessed at the sheer amount of material the US was able to repair/make in such a short time.
Nelson Kidd-Players:
Yes, that’s it – thank you.
Does anyone know what restrictions are being lifted in NSW come December 15? I think we were originally led to believe that QR log-ins and masks would go and that the unclean would be allowed back into civilised society, but it all seems to have gone very quiet. ‘We’re looking at it’ seems to be the standard comment now. Surely they’re not going to keep it all going; or are they?
There’s an account in Bruce Catton’s book “The WarLords of Washington”, where the Secretary of the Navy assured the high level guests at some bun fight or other “Every man is at his post. It will be a Navy War – it will probably last six months or so. We’ve been planning and training for twenty years.”
Three days before Pearl Harbor….
CCP infested and curious Victoria has led the dissolution of the Australian nation state into individual dictator run people’s republics.
Now Andrews is gloating that the Commonwealth is essentially dead and we’re a continent of states now.
Isn’t that what the Soviet Union used to do? Get sympathetic provincial politicians to white ant the broader nation states they belonged to?
Can we get a Prime Minister who will stand up for his bloody country against an obvious CCP sympathiser / traitor??
Public opinion in the United States was bitterly opposed to going to war to save Britain and Dutch colonial empires in South East Asia.
Imagine that all this is happening, and Australia as a concept is teetering on the edge of an abyss because mumbling cuck Scott Morrison feels bullied by Dan Andrews on national cabinet Zoom meetings.
The Allies’s submarines would go for Japanese logistic fleet.
The Japanese went for Allied warships.
The Allies won.
A good read on the massive resurgence of ISIS in Afghanistan:
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-taliban-are-losing-the-fight-against-islamic-state/
Looking back to the night Morrison prevailed and my feeling of buoyancy and triumph. Chuckling to myself about Clothilde’s shelved Lodge curtain measurements.
What would Shorten have done, how would he have handled the whole shebang? Would he have gone full retard and given the Premiers their heads or kept them under control? I know it’s idle speculation, but would he have been better?
yep. All power in the Feds hands. He would have used it.
If your customer is on their knees, prostrate, begging you to sell them a potion, and also legally indemnifies you , then why would you not supply as much as humanly possible?
Biden finds a culprit for America’s crime wave: Covid-19
GERARD BAKER
After a thorough investigation, the sleuths in the Biden administration have identified a suspect in the smash-and-grab shoplifting spree that has besieged California retailers and terrorized residents of late.
The likely villain is two years old, travels at will across the country, and has a vicious spike protein that has caused pain and suffering to millions of people.
That’s right. It’s the coronavirus.Asked last week at a press briefing whether the pandemic was to blame for the surge in crime, as President Biden has suggested, the White House press secretary Jen Psaki declared that, yes, the virus is “a root cause in a lot of communities.”
There it is. That old progressive standby: the “root cause,” the all-encompassing absolution that simultaneously strips criminals of agency and Democratic politicians of responsibility for the consequences of their policies.“It was the virus that made me do it, your honor. I was an honest, law-abiding citizen, doing my part to fight systemic racism and climate injustice, when all of a sudden I developed a high fever and lost my sense of smell.
Next thing I knew, I was pulling $25,000 Louis Vuitton purses out of display cases downtown. I can’t make bail but if you’ll let me go free, I’ll do my best to hunt down this vicious virus and help make our streets safe again.”It’s easy to ridicule the mindset that seems unable or unwilling to understand the distinction between proper redress of our various social pathologies and the legal and moral obligations of personal responsibility. But this latest manifestation of the grip it has on our ruling class is a disturbing reminder of how far progressive ideology has propelled the country toward social disintegration.It’s not only about the Democrats who run big cities (and, currently, the federal government) seeking to deflect any responsibility for the surge in crime—the one whose existence they and their friends in the media spent much of last year denying. It is that this eagerness to find anyone to blame for crime other than the people committing it is a central feature of the nihilism eating away at the American identity—the idea that the country is so flawed that miscreants bear less responsibility for their actions than do the institutions that have supposedly oppressed them.
Specific Democratic policies have clearly played a significant part in the retreat from what had been perhaps the most important social advance of the past 50 years—an unprecedented decline in almost all categories of crime.Defunding the police—or the threat to defund the police—has yielded sharp declines in law-enforcement capabilities in major cities.Bail “reform”—applied not selectively in the least dangerous cases, but willy-nilly—has resulted in the inevitable horror we witnessed in Waukesha, Wis., last month. Its close relative, mild sentencing and lax supervisory arrangements, produces terror like we saw in New York City last week.
Only a really committed progressive or an idiot—but I repeat myself—could believe it’s a good idea that men charged with committing violent crimes should go back out on the streets and reoffend until they take their savage ambitions to their logical and tragic conclusion.
But it’s the thinking behind the “it’s the pandemic that’s to blame” that is doing most to foster the climate of lawlessness. The idea that criminals are the victims—of circumstances, their upbringing, the cruel society that nurtured them—is a very old one. It seems to come in cycles. Each time, we have to learn the hard way that denial of individual responsibility is the quickest route to social disorder.
It’s back again, this time under the guise of “racial reckoning.” It began in earnest during the Black Lives Matter protests and accompanying riots. We were told that whatever violence was being committed then was justified, and that looting businesses was a kind of postmodern form of reparations for centuries of oppression.
“What Kind of Society Values Property Over Black Lives?” read a headline in the New York Times. These are luxury beliefs. The tenured professors, media commentators, entertainers and Democratic politicians who hold them live for the most part immune from the consequences of their ideological self-indulgence. The irony is apparently lost on them that most of the victims of their obtuse vanity are poor, innocent black people who can’t afford to believe such dangerous nonsense.
Still, anxious citizens will be reassured to know that the crime stoppers at Mr. Biden’s Justice Department are hunting down the real criminals menacing our way of life: anxious parents across the country who want to stop teachers from indoctrinating their children with this ruinous ideology, and who are brave enough to speak out against it.
Oz.
Reminds me of the bloke I know who argued that property crime is “the redistribution of wealth”. He kept it up for years until his Audi was stolen and his house broken into, and not only ransacked but also trashed. Then he went very quiet.
hate to say it but yes, Bullshitten is not as stupid as Scummoro.
I suspect Victoria and Queensland might have been trying to end the “crisis” in order to make Shorten look good, rather than trying to drag it out as long as possible. Maybe playing down the number of cases and trying to open up earlier than the liberal baddies in NSW.
Even blind freddie can see that they’re trying to extend the horror as long as possible to destroy Morrison and seize power for labor federally.
Maybe we would have been slightly better off if almost the whole country had been labor ruled – no-one worth destroying for them. (Other than us of course)
Always hard to make too sweeping predictions about history – too easy to miss how nations might respond.
I remember years ago seeing a program about some of the weapons the Japanese were planning on using to attack the American homeland. The narrator forebodingly invited speculation as to how powerless America would have been against the threat had it materialised.
Except America wouldn’t have just sat there. They would have reacted.
I remember when I heard about the Me-262 and the predictions of how much damage the Germans could have done if they had begun producing them earlier or with more urgency. Again, assumes the allies would not have done anything except be shot at.
Only later did I learn the Brits had their Meteors flying during the war (six months after the Me-262), and had made the decision to keep them only within Britain to go after V-1’s and V-2s. (Well, mostly V-1’s I should think.) They had made a strategic decision. If needed they would have had them sooner, in larger numbers. They already had better materials, and the US would have loved to get a foot in on the program as the British jet program was ahead of theirs.
“If your customer is on their knees, prostrate, begging you to sell them a potion, and also legally indemnifies you , then why would you not supply as much as humanly possible”?
Well. Nobody enjoys being too scared to leave the house and let’s face it, the strike rate is pretty similar either way.
Pocket full of dough and most people are happy to believe that things are better.
That may change if kids start turning purple in six months.
@3 percent it would be pretty spectacular by now.
Labor hate the federation and hate the states, there is no way they would have allowed the states to grab this power after a century of being the ones who took it away from them.
On the other hand you might have had an overt and vicious national vaccine mandate campaign by now with Labor – see Biden.
Just to divert the thread away from covid and vaccine. 🙂 I had a jam doughnut this morning and now did a calorie check. It contains 280 calories! Fuuucckkk!
Naaaa, ya think so, Stix? Impossible .Would never happen under the Liars Pardy.
My copy of Little Black Sambo would give her a nasty turn I reckon!
Labor read the population’s heart correctly and have ridden the low point in the Commonwealth’s power and influence in the people, and the drift back to the origin of the country: the colonies – now states, to absolute continent ruling, medieval levels of power glory.
If anyone in Canberra still cares about Australia / the Commonwealth as it was 1901 – 2004ish, they better get their boots on and purge the place and work their arses off to make it the heart of the nation again.
Whatever Canberra was doing culturally in 1960, 1970, and 1980 – tall ships, bicentinials, flags, green and gold, Australia made, colonial celebration, proud kinship with the mother country, do that again. .
With coffee?
I am sure you can burn a lot of energy shaking uncontrollably from a lot of caffeine.
I went to buy some bread this morning – bought an espresso when I got to the bus stop, a double espresso at the shops, and a flat white to bring home because I bought a couple of macarons.
I swear all day water has tasted sweet.
Medic!
Someone on aisle three is having convulsions and mouth foaming.
Rambles, What odds are you offering and bet limit?
Woops. Thunderstorm coming across from the west of Sydney. Lovely breeze ahead of it.
it will probably last six months or so.
After six months, after Midway, the IJN was effectively out of the long range strike business. The rest to quote Churchill (???) was simply “the proper application of overwhelming force”.
You can see Australia’s decline physically manifested in the capital.
It used to be the most beautiful town in Australia, not just the middle, but the entire place, the public spaces, right down to the gardens and lawns in the out suburbs.
Then in the late 1990’s an ugliness crept in, the lawns died, the gardens were replaced with tanbark, the median strips became weedy, dirt patches started showing and increasing in size until the place looked generally uncared about. Violent crime increased until at one point it was the second most violent state or territory in Australia.
You can draw a perfect correlation in the decline of the aesthetics of Canberra and the decline in the Commonwealth.
Muddysays: December 7, 2021 at 2:00 pm
It’s happened, both verbal and physical. It was caught on camera. It was much more than just one or two. The others in the crowd did not stick up for him.
Refer to Rukshan’s video feed from his (brief) attendance & coverage of the anti-racism protest of the 20th of November.
Jake Lever collapses on field yesterday.
Demons say he fainted but he was clearly conscious.
Adelaide Crows player (unnamed) suffering pericarditis from jab. No announcement from the club but 7 news Adelaide had the story. There’s a rumour there might be even more players from the Crows but I think this might be a misunderstanding of a Cory Bernardi tweet.
No. It must have been an orgasm.
Miss A
The Allies’s submarines would go for Japanese logistic fleet.
Previously, FDR had spoken vociferously against unrestricted submarine warfare. Within 24 hours of the Pearl Harbor attack, he ordered the USN to conduct unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan. We saw some of the effects of that order a couple of days ago, when someone posted some colour footage from the Pacific.
When needs must, harsh things will be done.
Our very own Greg Hunt.
Speaking of psychopaths… here’s another one by the looks of it.
Where are the men in white coats with butterfly nets?
Aisle B
Back
Woops. Thunderstorm coming across from the west of Sydney. Lovely breeze ahead of it.
Lotza bleckness and noise over Fairfield but HUGHIE hasn’t joined the party .. LOL!
Indeed!
But Morrison has abdicated his duty to the electors, hiding behind the National Cabinet (which should be dissolved immediately), allowing the states to order jabs for all – including five year olds – and sacking dissenters, then handing their jobs to immigrants.
He thinks he’ll come out squeaky clean after all this. He couldn’t be more wrong.
And Pearl Harbor was not much of a tactical victory in the end, as much of that slow battleship flotilla they had so spectacularly sunk was again afloat, refitted and slinging 16-inch projectiles the size of Volkswagen beetles at increasingly beleagured Japanese island garrisons by mid-1944.
I predict a fresh wave of Tik-Tok dances and a corresponding rise in complaints about lack of overtime…
The storm will be nice enough this arvo (since I am inside) but will just add to the humidity tomorrow.
Entire charities are dedicated to the pains and the vicissitudes of famine victims, child soldiers, the stateless etc. Nothing for me.
Life sucks!
Raining cats & dogs in Glebe. Wash away my sins Lord. I didn’t vote for Clover.
Dr Helen Adam from Western Australia’s Edith Cowan University says many family favourites should be pulled off the shelves and replaced by more inclusive books.
Dr Helen Adam.
Another mad kunt. Teachers rival the msm as an enemy of the West. This bitch’s idea is that because we have so many kids from diverse backgrounds it is wrong to have a standardised syllabus and texts. That is the paradigm right there which impowers muslims, commies, BLM and every other freak. Tudge was the minister looking at unis. He’s been taken out by a reptile so this other reptile and others like her are untethered.
London to a brick she’s a leso.
A doco last night narrated by Tom Selleck telling the stories of individuals at Pearl claimed many of those civilian casualties were caused by “friendly fire” – sinking battleships firing wildly.
Newt Gingrich is currently living in a parallel universe. He’s confident Bunter Hiden will be investigated at the highest levels of the US government.
Republican former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is calling on lawmakers in Congress to launch an investigation into Hunter Biden’s shady foreign dealings.
Speaking in an op-ed for Fox News, Gingrich said the probe must also extend to those who are “protecting” Democrat Joe Biden’s son.
However, Gingrich is confident that congressional leaders will hear his calls and take action.
“Hunter Biden is going to end up being investigated – and the impact on President Joe Biden, his administration, and his legacy is going to be enormous,” Gingrich insists.
https://neonnettle.com/news/17636-newt-gingrich-calls-on-congress-to-investigate-hunter-biden-those-protecting-him-
hahahahahhahahahahaha
Fat chance.
..
It’s worse than that.
The skunk is positioning himself to go to the next election as the “Whoah, all this tyrannical government intervention in people’s lives, us Liberals are against all that. The Australian people have done all they’ve been asked and deserve their freedom”.
As if the last two years had nothing to do with him.
Rex A
much of that slow battleship flotilla they had so spectacularly sunk was again afloat, refitted and slinging 16-inch projectiles the size of Volkswagen beetles at increasingly beleagured Japanese island garrisons by mid-1944.
And participating in the last ever clash of the line of battle, “Crossing the T” of the Japanese battleships at Surigao Strait in October 1944.
Whoops missed quotes.
What should be done with Dan’s turtles when the revolution is over?
I saw on some program or other (which is a polite way of admitting that I am not a historian and can hardly even claim the creds of a dilettante) the claim that one of the factors much in America’s favour at Midway was that the sailors were so highly trained at damage control. (You would expect the ships to have been designed with the same priorities in mind.)
I believe there were at least two cases where the Japanese would have thought a carrier was effectively out of action but the sailors quickly contained leaking fuel, removed wreckage, and simply battled flame like firemen. The Japanese were not trained to do that and had no idea that a damaged ship could be brought back into action.
Their own ships did not fare so well.
I also heard the reason the kamikaze were more effective against American ships than British ones was that the British used metal decks while the Americans used wood. TE might know if that is true – about the decks and about the kamikaze efficacy.
I had a dim recollection there was a naval battle involving the old Standard Battleships, but had got this mentally mixed up with the actions at Samar and the Leyte Gulf.
Thanks, Boambee John. 🙂
I was just discussing Dan with someone and we both agreed that if Dan were taken out, whoever replaced him would not repeal the legislation. I said “the second replacement would enact the repeal”. The first could be considered a coincidence, the second is when the message hits home.
Dan is Hiroshima, number two needs to be Nagasaki. Only then would Victoria have peace.
Check the bingo wings.
BoM has a hailstorm warning up just now, so keep an eye on the rain radar. Seems mainly to be around Gosford though.
Aaaaand the rain starts.
There’s also another untold story of the capital, until ~2009 it was a heavily working class town.
Public servants were neighbours with builders and mechanics and painters. I had a girlfriend in school whose dad was very high up in the ATO. A neighbour on one side whose public servant dad used to go on secretive trips overseas and come back with gadgets from Asia, and on the other side of us who was a drug fucked bikie and we used to punch on with his deadshit kids. The non public servants use to tease the shit out of the pubes. The gap between public servants and us was negligible. They didn’t worry about their jobs, our working class dads did, but roughly got paid the same as them so it all balanced out. Everyone gave the Boys Grammar poofs shit.
Then in 2008 onwards the great purge began. Government wages nearly doubled, and their numbers ballooned as Rudd went on his great hiring spree. Anyone not working for the government was squeezed out of entering the housing market, thousands of people were forced to move over the border and kids of the working class who hadn’t gotten onto the property ladder by 2004 and didn’t go into the APS couldn’t afford a house anywhere in Canberra. My old suburb is now chock full of childless pubes. With the exodus of the aspirational working classes the bunker mentality accelerated and Canberra and the Commonwealth’s descent into navel gazing middle class professional idiocy rapidly followed.
Demographics is everything.
Oh, and Bingo Wings academic.
@ Motherlode-
Not quite- The IJN relied on dedicated Damage Control Teams on their carriers, rather than considering it a basic seamanship skill. As such, while they could do the job extremely well, they were easily overwhelmed if the damage sustained was greater than their capacity to respond. The RN (and RAN) and USN trained all hands at basic Damage Control.
In the 60s, the USN had progressively adopted the specialised Damage Control teams idea, thinking this was better suited to the demands of fleet operations in the relatively less hostile environment of the Cold War. This very nearly cost them the USS Forrestal in 1967. The inquest made a particular point of the old WW2 methods still having merit, and the basic skills training was resumed.
Miss Anthropist:
I don’t watch porn, MA.
This is all frocks and Innovations crud etc from an old email address I just resuscitated.
8,864 emails from 2012.
Makes ya think of how much data there must be floating around out there…
I may just try to find other old addresses.
Anyone who gets brained by a hailstone, or whose car careens off the road and hits a tree, will tomorrow be lying up on a bed in an airconditioned room with more painkillers and opiates than you can get in a whole public school yard. But if I want to get some proper coffee I will have to walk up the street in the humidity.
It is a warped society where I can’t be a victim too.
Amateur Naval Historian par excellence Drachinifel is your friend! 😀
This is his treatise on the matter of armoured vs unarmoured carriers here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_dHdGHP8hCg
And his Damage Control video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iC6LN3U5ELk
Could you pratfall over a misaligned concrete paver and sue your local council for negligence?
Or have they tightened up on all that, now?
Thanks, Rex.
That was why went to such lengths to declare my lack of credentials.
Figures,
One more Australian basketballer with rare condition…
From
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Whoah, whoah, whoah.
Extinguish that negativity there Aaron.
They are actually pretty good keeping the pavements safe – which is another word for tight-arse.
But they don’t like to trim the trees so their branches – which seem more like fronds when it rains – hang low, more so when weighed down by rainwater.
So you take an umbrella to keep an upper portion of yourself dry, then have to duck low below the branches, which have over aeons developed so as to drop water on your back. So you are wet, trapped in humidity, and trying to see where you are going through your polyvinyl canopy.
I will bet that is why velociraptors were so cranky.
Darwin Awards in bulk.
The Climate Crazies Have Terrified A Generation Into Not Wanting Kids (29 Nov)
Maybe it’s a good thing that government workers aren’t breeding.
Reporters will never leave him alone. Baldwin’s problem is that he’s walking into Woody Allen’s house in NYC.
Here’s the reporter terrorizing him.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/118+E+70th+St,+New+York,+NY+10021,+USA/@40.7694423,-73.9639402,3a,76.1y,180.82h,95.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s5g7qybelpybcora7_nFJNQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c258eb98e37679:0xe895171ee5e983e!8m2!3d40.769285!4d-73.9640833
Apparently the vaccines are playing havoc with soccer players in Europe. I gather than they each of them collapse two or three times a game.
Whoops
Last link to the reporter is here:
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ny-post-reporter-finds-alec-baldwin-and-and-wife-on-upper-east-side/
No, it doesn’t quite explain everything.
Not their obsession with absolutely having to have a tram running through Gungahlin, anyway.
$675 million and counting, Cats. And that’s just Stage One.
And they had (and still have) a perfectly good and very efficient and Gaia-approved bus system running through the place.
Thank heavens nobody told them about monorails…
You sure that’s not just Diving?
Mother Lode
I also heard the reason the kamikaze were more effective against American ships than British ones was that the British used metal decks while the Americans used wood. TE might know if that is true – about the decks and about the kamikaze efficacy.
The US did use wooden flight decks. On the bad side, they were easier to penetrate than steel decks, and burned. On the other hand, they were easier to repair. Cut out the damaged beams, bring up new ones from store, back in business without a large scale welding operation.
“Apparently the vaccines are playing havoc with soccer players in Europe. I gather than they each of them collapse two or three times a game”.
Yeah. But they used to get up again…
Hopefully it doesn’t shake itself to bits like Gladys’s battery operated toys.
Amused they want her in Wentworth, doctors’ wives don’t travel on battery trams.
This also plays merry hell with signal sighting and fire mitigation along rail reserves. Once upon a time, trees, scrub and grass were all but denuded anywhere within spark-throwing distance of a running line.
And in about the same timeframe as ‘Stix describes, this general attitude of ‘Nah, She’ll Be Foine!’ has crept into other public (and then privatised) utilities.
It’s not fun playing Guess-The-Colour coming around a tree-blinded curve when you know you have not taken the track circuit yet.
Especially when you are relying on the circuit’s complicated network of switches and relays to clear that signal ahead of you in time, and your job is on the line if you sail past that Red…
Keith Forwheels:
Bear with me – I’m trying to do a bruce here with access to photos via Gravatar.
Now, where were we?
In celebration of the “Day of Freedom” 15/12/21, I have ordered from Vistaprint a few shirts with my Bio Safety + Magen David emblem.
I shall wear it on the day.
Never forget.
Bruce
Just asking, do you have kids as I don’t think you do. What frightened you, or possibly did you finally figure out a plastic female-looking doll can’t get pregnant? 🙂
Just kidding ya, Brucie 🙂
What’s being reported at Team Tucker Carlson today as I haven’t looked.
It’s funny you say that, Bruce.
The Gungahlin Gewgaw is operated by the same model of tram, from the same manufacturer. Hopefully, it runs in straighter lines than the Newy ones do- They tend not to shake themselves to bits if they don’t go around corners…
Rex A
Not quite- The IJN relied on dedicated Damage Control Teams on their carriers, rather than considering it a basic seamanship skill. As such, while they could do the job extremely well, they were easily overwhelmed if the damage sustained was greater than their capacity to respond. The RN (and RAN) and USN trained all hands at basic Damage Control.
There is a school of thought that the USS Yorktown would not have been last at Midway had damage control been of the standard later in the war. Look at the cases of the USS Franklin and Bunker Hill at Okinawa. Both were hit badly, Bunker Hill lost around 400 men dead, Franklin around 800 (plus very many burns cases, both had huge fires on board).
After emergency repairs, both returned to the US under their own power. Bunker Hill was repaired, Franklin was effectively written off – the war was over, and the US had man carriers, and was cancelling orders for new ones.
Yet in June 1944, Taiho, a new Japanese carrier with an armoured flight deck, was damaged by a torpedo during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, aka the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. Aviation fuel fumes spread throughout the ship from damaged fuel lines, and an inexperienced damage control officer apparently turned on electric fans to clear them. Inevitably, a spark set of a fuel-air explosion. Taiho sank with the loss of around 1650 men (around 500 of the crew survived).
As soon as enemy attack became possible, the USN purged their fuel lines with nitrogen, the IJN did not.
I don’t quite get how this technology leapfrogs over existing delivery system and why its such a huge deal. China may strike first, but after that it’s devastation time.
Isn’t a nuclear tipped ICBM raining down on a target super fast too. If so what is the big deal about a hypersonic based weapon delivery system?
Yorktown would not have been lost at Midway
Winston – Vale Larry and his big black strap ons!
Not linking as your Gravatar ID is visible in the url.
No it was clean and organized but not very inspiring. Designed by a committee not history.
According to this report, the Caledonian Hotel in Singleton, which allowed in the vaxxed and unvaxxed alike, won their court case last week. The hotel was fined $15,000 for allowing the unvaxxed onto their premises, and for not maintaining QR checks, etc.
The case was dismissed last week, no fines levied.
That being the case, there’s no reason why any licensed premises, or any other business for that matter, can’t allow any customer onto their premises now.
Old Bloke:
Remember me saying that the Virus was the prequel to every Dystopian SF novel you’ve ever read?
Well, I was right.
Of course.
So stock up on cash because it’s the only way you will be allowed to buy stuff beyond your rationed limit.
Next prediction? A currency reform that issues new banknotes with an expiry date.
Blind Freddy can see that Australia is lost. You’re fighting over a corpse.
It is presently (allegedly) capable of outrunning supersonic interceptor missiles and Close-In Weapon Systems (e.g. Phalanx radar-guided miniguns).
Much like the sea-skimming subsonic Cruise Missile was the horror scenario of the late 1970s and 1980s (viz the Falklands War and the Argentines’ use of them to seriously threaten, and indeed mess up the Brits’ amphibious lodgement efforts) and supersonic air- and land-launched cruise missiles before that (The F-14 came into being to kill Soviet Backfire and Blinder missile carriers safely beyond the ranges they could saturate and sink every ship in a Carrier Group) the hypersonic missile is the new ‘thing’ that might grant an unanswerable tactical edge to its wielders. For a time, anyway.
Like everyone said anti-tank missiles and smart bombs would render the tank an obsolete death trap in the 70s.
Yet, all 3 weapons systems still share the same battlespace, and all have tactics to counter and enhance each other.
The smart money is always going to be on who develops the countermeasures first, JC…
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