Open Thread – Weekend 11 Dec 2021


Théodore Gericault, Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct, 1818

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Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
December 11, 2021 12:31 am

Mornin’ all.

Rabz
December 11, 2021 12:31 am

Maintain thy rage, peoples.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 11, 2021 12:32 am

Hello everyone.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 11, 2021 12:33 am

Goeie more aan almal op die Kat….

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
December 11, 2021 12:34 am

Missed the podium.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 11, 2021 12:36 am

Dover,
The Raft of the Medusa would be a more appropriate painting up top given the current state of affairs.

Maniac
Maniac
December 11, 2021 12:39 am

“When the mountain is high,
just look up to the sky.
Ask God to teach you,
then persevere with a smile.”

— Lenny Kravitz, “Dig In”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 11, 2021 12:48 am

Australia Day still open for business, by choice

EXCLUSIVE
Helen Trinca
2 hours ago December 10, 2021

Professional services firm KPMG has given its 9000 employees the option to work on Australia Day and take another leave day in lieu, in a move that reflects growing public debate over the date of the national holiday.

The firm says it is not taking an “active position” on the issue but will keep its offices open for Indigenous and non-Indigenous staff who do not want to celebrate on January 26.

Its rivals, PwC and Deloitte, have similar “floating public holiday” policies in place to allow staff to swap public holidays for other days that better suit their culture, but KPMG national chair Alison Kitchen called out the Australia Day swap this week as the firm launched its latest Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) to build inclusion for Indigenous Australians.

It is not known how many other organisations offer the swap but Reconciliation Australia chief executive Karen Mundine said on Friday that several organisations had looked at floating leave as part of their RAPs. She listed Intrepid Travel, the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation and Environmental Justice Australia as having introduced alternative leave for Australia Day.

Ms Kitchen said her firm was proud of its policy, introduced in July, but did not know how many employees would take the ­option to skip the Australia Day celebrations for a normal day at the office. “A lot of our Indigenous colleagues will come into the office on Australia Day” she said. “We haven’t taken an active position on Australia Day; we think we’re on a journey.”

The firm’s policy is not ­restricted to Australia Day but allows staff to exchange any public holiday “to celebrate cultural or religious days more relevant to their beliefs and traditions”.

When it was announced, KPMG cited the Queen’s Birthday, saying “people may wish to work on that day and instead take a floating public holiday on a day of significant celebration for them”.

The firm will run education sessions in the lead-up and a morning tea for those who come to work on Australia Day in a bid to build awareness. KPMG launched its first RAP in 2009 and is acknowledged as one of the leaders in the area.

Public Service Minister Ben Morton on Friday ruled out any changes to Australia Day ­arrangements for the federal public service.

“Australia Day is our national day and is rightly recognised by the Australian Public Service,” he said. “No other arrangements will be entered into. Celebrating Australia Day on 26 January should bring us together as a nation – one and free, as our anthem has it. It shouldn’t be divisive, but inclusive.”

Top Ender
Top Ender
December 11, 2021 12:54 am
FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
December 11, 2021 1:24 am

ZK2A

KPMG, PwC and Deloitte are heavily invested in China.

Same with major Legal firms.

I doubt it has anything to do with RAP.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 11, 2021 1:48 am

Primary school “graduation”- youngster picked up two book awards, one of which was arguably academic. Well pleased we was.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
December 11, 2021 2:56 am

Well done your child WD.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
December 11, 2021 3:06 am

Eric Burdon & The Animals
Sky Pilot – Long Version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0JMCaKwOUY

Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:17 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:18 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:19 am
Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 4:20 am
Jannie
Jannie
December 11, 2021 4:53 am

You still have the touch Tom. Cheers

Crossie
Crossie
December 11, 2021 6:04 am

Thanks Tom, a great assortment.

Winston Smith
December 11, 2021 6:10 am

Calli:

Also, potted up one of these glorious things in a fancy big pot by the back porch.

Horrid looking thing – it looks like an exploding penis.

Anchor What
Anchor What
December 11, 2021 6:33 am

A local expert in vaccines comes up with a better and probably safer one for the wuhan virus, so he gets sacked!
Full story at Jo Nova.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 11, 2021 6:41 am

Exploding penii- the theme of the weekend, and rightly so.

Anchor What
Anchor What
December 11, 2021 6:46 am

Evidence will continue to be documented about the games played by the demrats re the 2020 election. The audits are ongoing and despite interference have turned up plenty of skullduggery, enough to change the outcome entirely if all states and large counties were properly run.
Some fascinating commentary by one forensic auditor.

rickw
rickw
December 11, 2021 6:53 am

Those NSW cops who flogged those three men of Middle Eastern appearance (who just bought masks in the servo that recorded the assault) should be indicted.

Taskforce Raptor. Full fucking wank. Put them in prison, seize all their property. Same for their commanders. Fully fuck them.

Good on the servo owner for providing the video footage of the complete bastardry.

Anchor What
Anchor What
December 11, 2021 6:54 am

But News kids are happy to print this:
“After his defeat, he repeatedly claimed to have actually won in “a landslide”, arguing Mr Biden’s victory was due to widespread voter fraud.

Mr Trump’s claims were tested in court and went nowhere, with judges often berating the then-president’s lawyers for offering no credible evidence.”

Courts often refused to hear cases at all, and evidence is plentiful.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 11, 2021 6:54 am

Hobart to host the fifth Ashes Test.

In a statement, Cricket Australia said the rationale behind the decision centred around Mark McGowan being a cockhead.

If McGowan had a penis, it would have exploded late yesterday afternoon.

Tom
Tom
December 11, 2021 6:57 am

CHICAGO, IL—People are protesting in the streets today after human rights groups revealed Jussie Smollett will be forced to share a jail cell with his racist attackers.

“This is an outrage!” said Reverend Jesse Jackson. “Not only was Mr. Smollett attacked by hateful racist bigots who want to tear our country apart, but now he has to share a jail cell with them? This is cruel and unusual punishment. This is the kind of thing that happens in our white supremacist country. Send me money!”

Criminal justice watchdogs also revealed that in addition to sharing a cell with his attackers, he will have to share his toothbrush, his bunk bed, and clothes. They expressed worry that this may lead to Jussie Smollet suffering further racist and homophobic attacks from other attackers named Jussie Smollett while in prison.

When asked for comment, Jussie Smollet angrily yelled “This is MAGA country!” before punching himself in the face.

rickw
rickw
December 11, 2021 6:59 am

By way of update, 2 million doses of our vaccine have now been safely distributed through immunization centres in Iran.

If any one of those Iranians were to travel to Australia, the Australian Mongocracy would accept these individuals as being fully vaccinated. With a vaccine that was developed and manufactured in Australia, but which is effectively banned in Australia.

We’re going to need a Super Mong prison to house all these motherfuckers.

Nuremberg 2.0

rosie
rosie
December 11, 2021 7:12 am
calli
calli
December 11, 2021 7:15 am

Mike Nesmith gone. A prolific songwriter and, of course, a member of the Monkees.

My favourite, performed by Linda Ronstadt.

WolfmanOz (just existing in Melb. now)
WolfmanOz (just existing in Melb. now)
December 11, 2021 7:16 am

Well as a change, the best surprise ending in a film.

Over 40 years old, it is still incredibly powerful – it never fails to impress.

https://youtu.be/18mhzMmtjmQ

calli
calli
December 11, 2021 7:17 am

And stop being rude about my Beschorneria yuccoides, Winston. 😀

rosie
rosie
December 11, 2021 7:22 am

Odd I can’t link to an article about 100 being the new 75.
Oh well.
Apparently in the 1980s there were around 500 centenarians in Australia, now there is around 6000.
One of then is related to me and still smart as a whip.

Dot
Dot
December 11, 2021 7:24 am

Well done to Master Dali.

Two books you say? One was academic?

Let’s see, the Speculum of Princes and a King James Bible?

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 11, 2021 7:26 am

Going around the “news” websites and to their credit the ABC is the only one giving it the coverage it deserves.

rosie
rosie
December 11, 2021 7:27 am

That’s a great song calli.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 11, 2021 7:27 am

The deep state will not be happy until Assange pays for his sins.
The cardinal one being embarrassing Hillary Clinton.

Dot
Dot
December 11, 2021 7:28 am

Did Lord Holy Rod ever visit Epstein’s Island?

rosie
rosie
December 11, 2021 7:30 am

Assange has effectively already had nine years in prison.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 11, 2021 7:33 am

David Hicks should have been shot & never heard of.
But he was turned into a celebrity.
Where are all those cock head Hicks supporters when it comes to Assange.

Dot
Dot
December 11, 2021 7:34 am

It’s totally bizarre, bern.

Aaron
Aaron
December 11, 2021 7:35 am

Presented without comment as it’s one of those ” link from a link” affairs and I haven’t had a real look.

Real and not rare stories of adverse effects.

Figures
Figures
December 11, 2021 7:36 am

Evidence will continue to be documented about the games played by the demrats re the 2020 election.

But what are the Republicans going to do about it?

I mean, if they win the mid-terms and the next presidency then they need to use every bit of power the Democrats have used. Every Democrat voter must be given a syringe full of excrement (for “public health”) every single day if they want to be able to work, vote or eat.

That would of course be two syringes full of excrement for Democrats who work for the government.

And three syringes if they vote work for law enforcement or the military.

Four syringes if they’re a journalist.

Shut off all electricity to New England and California and only turn it back on once every ‘variant’ of communism has been defeated. This would be justified both for “global warming” and for “public health” because communism is infinitely more contagious and dangerous than covid and we can’t even allow one single person anywhere on the planet to hold such thoughts for so much as a second.

calli
calli
December 11, 2021 7:36 am

And then there is the beautiful Joanne, wistful and lovelorn, sung by the writer himself.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 11, 2021 7:36 am

The only decent thing Dick Smith has ever done was genuinely pay back all his outstandings when he went bankrupt.
Amazing how hard he went in support of Hicks.
Equally amazing how Assange/Dick Smith in google yields nothing.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 11, 2021 7:36 am

I think we are at a time when a Teddy Roosevelt type is needed to break up the extreme wealth and influence of financiers, as he did to J.P Morgan.

https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-Encyclopedia/Capitalism-and-Labor/J-P-Morgan

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 11, 2021 7:39 am

But what are the Republicans going to do about it?

The GOP controlled state house in Pennsylvania made vote harvesting legal.
This is why Alito summarily booted one of the Lin Wood or Sydney Powell cases.

calli
calli
December 11, 2021 7:40 am

That’s a great song calli.

Ronstadt had an amazing voice. In the same category as Durham (Seekers) and Slick (Jefferson Airplane).

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 11, 2021 7:42 am

The GOP stiffed Trump.
A Peter Thiel funded loose group of associates is trying to overturn some of these ridiculous voter laws across the US that were abused during the 2020 election.
Genuinely doing something.

Winston Smith
December 11, 2021 7:42 am

Calli:

And stop being rude about my Beschorneria yuccoides, Winston

Hey! I’m not the one putting up pictures of exploding penises!

rickw
rickw
December 11, 2021 7:43 am

Amazing how hard he went in support of Hicks.

I was sitting on a flight to Port Moresby behind Dick. Me and bloke next to me started talking loudly about Hicks and how he should have been executed. Dick decided not to engage! 🙂

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 11, 2021 7:44 am

Teddy Roosevelt was the last great anti trust president.
Ever since then, the deep state has been pushing back.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 11, 2021 7:45 am

Considering all the fucked up shit the US did in Iraq & Afghanistan, shooting Hicks & never hearing about him would have been the least of them.

P
P
December 11, 2021 7:46 am

Craig Kelly MP
@CraigKellyMP
·
15h
See you in Newcastle

• 11am • Sunday 12 Dec •

#ReclaimTheLine

UNITED WE STAND
https://twitter.com/CraigKellyMP/status/1469169490344640513

Aaron
Aaron
December 11, 2021 7:48 am
Aaron
Aaron
December 11, 2021 7:49 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
December 11, 2021 7:50 am

The real goal in the mid terms isn’t for the GOP to take the congress or senate.
It’s to sweep the board in the state houses in places that matter like AZ & PA so the horse shit that went on in 2020 won’t happen in 2024.
If the deep state aligned GOP cucks aren’t primaried out of office, there’s no point turning up in 2024.

Vicki
Vicki
December 11, 2021 7:51 am

Anchor What @6.33am referring to article on Jo Nova’s blog about Sa authorities doing everything they can to block Nicolas Petrovsky’s vaccine getting final approval.

After raising over $700,000 through crowd funding to finance the application for TGA approval & to finance the final clinical trial necessary in Australia, SA government is now denying an exemption from the clot shots to those who have signed up as volunteers for Petrovsky’s Covax19.

It is outrageous. This conventional protein based vax promises to be even safer and as effective as Novavax. It has already been given to 2 million Iranians with no reported ill effects.

Will the real story about the influences behind these decisions of government ever be revealed?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 11, 2021 7:52 am

‘Shooting Hicks’

Tubby little retard. Shooting him would have been fine, but only after kicking him off a ‘small cliff’ first.

rickw
rickw
December 11, 2021 7:52 am

Melbournians, are we protesting today?

Out of isolation and ready to roll!

Mark M
Mark M
December 11, 2021 7:52 am

Vale Mike Nesmith.
You were my favourite Monkee.

Different Drum as recorded by Mike, written before he joined the Monkees.

They wouldn’t let him release it as a Monkees song, so he gave it to Linda Ronstadt.
The rest is history …

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jA5scf8RpCI

P
P
December 11, 2021 7:53 am

Event Locations:

Satrday 11th December – Perth, Elizabeth Quay 10am.

Sunday 12th December – listed here. Click on a location to see flyer.

Winston Smith
December 11, 2021 7:58 am

I still think Pfizer stock should be blocked from trading until they come clean about their ‘vaccine’.
After all, the uncertainty of pricing repercussions due to damage caused by the vaccine must be considered a major earnings factor.

Yeah. It could be put better, but I’m tired – bedtime for Winston.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 11, 2021 8:05 am

Will the real story about the influences behind these decisions of government ever be revealed?

I will reply NO, when I stop laughing.

Rabz
December 11, 2021 8:07 am

Those NSW cops who flogged those three men of Middle Eastern appearance (who just bought masks in the servo that recorded the assault) should be indicted.

Hey, Pol – any chance of posting the footage of (or providing some more context regarding) this regrettable incident, please? The only one I could find was back in September, involved two MONA and was filmed from the street outside the servo.

If those stupid fascist pigs flogged the wrong tribe, the former will be spending the rest of their miserable existences looking over their shoulders. In other words, they will get theirs and rightfully so.

Rabz
December 11, 2021 8:12 am

Assange has effectively already had nine years in prison.

One of the most preposterous incidents of self beclownment in many a moon.

“Man pisses off the US deep state and then spends the next nine years existing in a broom closet in the Colombian embassy in London.”

A true hero of our (staggeringly stupid) times.

shatterzzz
December 11, 2021 8:16 am

Vale Mike Nesmith.
You were my favourite Monkee.

His mother was the inventor of white correction fluid (liquid eraser) …….

shatterzzz
December 11, 2021 8:20 am

Different Drum as recorded by Mike, written before he joined the Monkees.

After listening I can understand why the Monkees said .. NO! .. that was awfie! LOL!
Tho Linda’s rendition is a definite classic .. as is Linda .. LOL!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 11, 2021 8:22 am
Rabz
December 11, 2021 8:26 am

Over 40 years old, it is still incredibly powerful

Riding a horse along a beach with a scantily clad brunette. Something I’ll never get to do. 🙁

Sort of like Lucy Jordan realising she’ll never be driven through Paris in a sports car with the wild wind in her hair.

Rabz
December 11, 2021 8:32 am

In memory of poor ol’ Mikey N

WolfmanOz (just existing in Melb. now)
WolfmanOz (just existing in Melb. now)
December 11, 2021 8:32 am

Rabz says:
December 11, 2021 at 8:26 am
Over 40 years old, it is still incredibly powerful
Riding a horse along a beach with a scantily clad brunette. Something I’ll never get to do. ?

Sort of like Lucy Jordan realising she’ll never be driven through Paris in a sports car with the wild wind in her hair.

Love it !

calli
calli
December 11, 2021 8:33 am

I was driven around the Place de l’etoile in a Merc minibus.

Certainly nothing to throw yourself out a window for.

Diogenes
Diogenes
December 11, 2021 8:35 am

Assange has effectively already had nine years in prison.

No nine years on the run, something completely different.

Mater
December 11, 2021 8:41 am

Assange has effectively already had nine years in prison.

Unless he’s had Bubba working him over in the broom closet for nine years, it doesn’t count.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 11, 2021 8:50 am

From the old thread.

Rex A

If one is going to develop mass herd immunity to Nosferaflu, what better than an endemic version that makes you feel a bit ‘off’ for a few days and that’s it?

Let. It. Rip.

M0nty and his enduring obsession with killing nannas be damned…

If munty wants to kill his nanna with her fourth booster, that’s his problem. Why should sensible people follow him?

Delta A
Delta A
December 11, 2021 8:59 am

And stop being rude about my Beschorneria yuccoides, Winston

Sorry, calli, but I agree with Winnie… although I probably would have used a different analogy.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 11, 2021 9:06 am

Shooting Hicks’

Tubby little retard. Shooting him would have been fine, but only after kicking him off a ‘small cliff’ first.

There was a protest supporting David Hicks in Melbourne several years ago. I took great delight in pointing out to the protestors that, David Hicks, entitled to no protection under the Geneva Convention or international law, could have quite lawfully been shot, out of hand, by the Northern Alliance troops who captured him in the first place…”But that’s not fair” was the wail…”Big boys game, big boys rules” was my reply.

lotocoti
lotocoti
December 11, 2021 9:07 am

Close, but no SMOD.
4660 Nereus won’t be bringing sweet relief.

will
will
December 11, 2021 9:10 am
Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
December 11, 2021 9:11 am

When at the Sydney protests there were so many police officers including little women about 5 foot tall all wearing RAPTOR vests — because of course the 50,000-70,000 citizens protesting were all part of criminal gangs.

The story of the police officers attacking MOMEAAs is one of overreach and of course their head honcho would say they were acting within the law, especially when they’ve been allowed to think the NSW police are a law unto themselves, but sadly there actually the LAW.

In this scandemic the police force has been weaponised against the citizens it is supposed to serve. Looks like all those years and the Wood Royal Commission was a complete and utter waste of taxpayers’ money.
Here’s another that the poor taxpayer will be paying for :

Indolent
Indolent
December 11, 2021 9:12 am

(POLL) Most worry about Covid-19 vaccine side effects

One of the comments under the item –

By now, most people probably have experienced these side effects themselves, know someone who has, or read about them in the news. The frenzy to mandate vaccination, punish the unvaccinated, and suppress/censor negative stories about the vaccines seems to parallel the slow seepage of the vaccines’ hazards into public awareness. The more people know about the hazards, the greater the pressure to force vaccination.

Here in Washington State, the State’s PSAs clearly target groups deemed to be vaccine skeptics: religious people (they hired a female Presbyterian minister for one ad), pregnant women (they hired one for an ad), blacks (they hired one for an ad), and parents with children – some ads feature children’s voices clambering to be vaccinated because of how cool it is.

Crossie
Crossie
December 11, 2021 9:13 am

Mark M says:
December 11, 2021 at 7:52 am
Vale Mike Nesmith.
You were my favourite Monkee.

I like best the songs Mickey Dolenz sang.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
December 11, 2021 9:18 am

Remember Assaaaange only ducked into the Ecuadorian Embassy for a few years because he thought that George Bush was going to rappel onto his aeroplane and extradite him for psychohypnotic rndition, if he was forced to travel to Sweden to face sexual assault charges.
He worked on his IT tan until the limitations period expired.
Don’t hear Geoffrey Robinson tweeting about that manouevre, do you?

jupes
jupes
December 11, 2021 9:21 am

David Hicks should have been shot & never heard of.

So should have Assange.

Chris
Chris
December 11, 2021 9:31 am

David Hicks should have been shot & never heard of.

So should have Assange.

Morning all. Can I recommend Snowden to be considered too?

Chris
Chris
December 11, 2021 9:33 am

And that stunning and brave whatsitsface. I think President Nobel Prize pardoned xim. xer.

local oaf
December 11, 2021 9:33 am

feelthebern says:
December 11, 2021 at 7:33 am

David Hicks should have been shot & never heard of.
But he was turned into a celebrity.

After he was brought back here, the South Australian LABOR state government put him in a prison cell of identical size to his Gitmo cell and gave him far less exercise time and leisure facilities.

Zero protest from the mob of retards who’d pleaded his case for years. He was no more use as a tool to attack the federal government of the day.

Where are all those cock head Hicks supporters when it comes to Assange.

Assange is of no use the deep state worshipping cockheads. Now if Trump had won in 2020 …….

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 11, 2021 9:54 am

97.8 percent of vaxxed young patients suffering myocarditis received mRNA shot within 30 days, American Heart Association study finds

American heart association president,
Tomorrow morning, colourised

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 10:08 am

Different Drum as recorded by Mike, written before he joined the Monkees.

Different Drum is a great song recorded by many artists.

Nesmith also wrote ‘Mary, Mary’, which was recorded by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band on their pioneering blues rock album ‘East-West’ a year or two before The Monkees did it.

Vale Mike.

P
P
December 11, 2021 10:10 am

Al Unser dead at 82. Legend.

He was a four-time Indianapolis 500 winner and an INDYCAR icon on and off the track for generations.

1987

P
P
December 11, 2021 10:12 am

Another legend singing Back Home Again in Indiana (1987 Indianapolis 500)

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 11, 2021 10:12 am

WaPo says EVs are racist:

“If residents of the city cannot participate equitably in the EV market, that would be a failure,” said Stefan Schaffer, a strategist for the American Cities Climate Challenge at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “You want to make sure all communities can participate in the economy of the future.”

It’s a question, he said, of “mobility justice.”

But without easily accessible charging stations in Black and Latino communities, advocates in Chicago and across the country say, it will be hard to make progress.

Mobility justice now!! I wonder how long the chargers would last before they were vandalized?

WaPo warns: Come and see the systemic racism of electric vehicles (9 Dec, via Instapundit)

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
December 11, 2021 10:13 am

Primary school “graduation”- youngster picked up two book awards, one of which was arguably academic. Well pleased we was.

Congrats Wally. Every reason to be well pleased with the kid.
Also to be well pleased that they’re still teaching at least something “arguably academic” in an Australian school.

P
P
December 11, 2021 10:16 am

Wrong link.
Al Unser dead at 82. Legend.
1987 -Al Unser Wins his 4th Indy 500

Top Ender
Top Ender
December 11, 2021 10:18 am

From memory, David Hicks is a landscape gardener these days in Adelaide.

Be rather strange recognising him while he’s on the job.

rickw
rickw
December 11, 2021 10:19 am
rickw
rickw
December 11, 2021 10:20 am

Primary school “graduation”- youngster picked up two book awards, one of which was arguably academic. Well pleased we was.

I got Famous Naval Battles, still have it, little Bloke loves it, now non-pc!

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
December 11, 2021 10:27 am

In memory of poor ol’ Mikey N …

“It’s only a whimsical notion”
They don’t write lyrics like that anymore.

rickw
rickw
December 11, 2021 10:30 am

…. how non-pc.

Just remember that the generation that made auto-fuck up also made your vaccine!

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 10:31 am

And this gorgeous ballad:

1970, Mike Nesmith & the First National Band, Joanne.

At times like this nostalgia has a lot going for it.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 11, 2021 10:31 am

Bereft of ideas past “population Ponzi”

The Morrison government will steadily increase permanent ­migration back to about 160,000 a year to energise economic growth and address skills shortages, with the mid-year budget update to ­estimate net overseas migration to be 120,000 higher than expected over the next two years.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.theaustralian.com.au%252Fnation%252Fpolitics%252Fmigrants-to-power-economy-in-myefo-update%252Fnews-story%252F23312cb67f74360a6e1890d3ec8ac8cd%26memtype%3Danonymous%26mode%3Dpremium

The Treasurer noted that the increase in permanent migration includes about 200,000 places for students*, tourists and skilled workers to return to Australia to address skills shortages previously announced.

“We have been very successful in managing our population in that we’ve been welcoming to ­refugees, focused on the needs of family reunion and skilled ­labour,” Mr Frydenberg said. “One of the great strengths of Australia is its multiculturalism, its diversity, and that has been provided by immigration.”**

* Uniponzi is go!!
** Nonsense statement about as factual as genuflecting towards a stone idol

Mater
December 11, 2021 10:32 am

Rickw,
Protest is at 12:00 tomorrow.

rickw
rickw
December 11, 2021 10:34 am

focused on the needs of family reunion and skilled ­labour

You can’t take good care of the families that already live in Australia, and last time I checked goat herding wasn’t a skill we needed.

rickw
rickw
December 11, 2021 10:34 am

Rickw,
Protest is at 12:00 tomorrow.

See you there!

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 11, 2021 10:37 am

Janets balls have dropped.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/cruel-covid-regulations-killed-my-love-of-the-law/news-story/f98bcca9ecc41cc8335124811a668d12
My first line of defence for disrespecting many of the cruel and silly Covid laws rests on one fundamental premise: the democratic legitimacy of laws was dead, buried, cremated during Covid. At the state and federal levels, the country was run by unelected bureaucrats. It took until early October this year for a politician to say the bleeding obvious. “We’re the elected officials,” said newly installed NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet when explaining why he was opening the state, despite some health officials pushing for a longer lockdown.

Further damaging the legitimacy of law, restrictions were often enforced in a ham-fisted and arbitrary way. They still are. This week, when Rebel Wilson ­arrived in Australia for an awards night, she was not required to isolate for 72 hours, unlike everyone else. Special treatment for someone who reads a script to make a living. Just like those footy players, and their wives and girlfriends, who could cross the closed Queensland border.

But the double-vaccinated son of a dying woman was denied entry to care for his mum.

Indolent
Indolent
December 11, 2021 10:39 am

PM of Australia

This is going around the world. I can’t disagree with the sentiment.

local oaf
December 11, 2021 10:39 am

Tintarella di Luna says:
December 11, 2021 at 9:11 am

In this scandemic the police force has been weaponised against the citizens it is supposed to serve. Looks like all those years and the Wood Royal Commission was a complete and utter waste of taxpayers’ money.
Here’s another that the poor taxpayer will be paying for :

After being tasered twice, she got away from them – they had to pepper spray, kick and handcuff her before they could wrongly arrest her.

Well done that woman, give her a medal for skill, guts and determination!

miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 10:39 am

When you hear rubbish like Fraudenburg sounding off and look at the actions and comments of Hunt, it’s not hard to understand why the lieborals don’t deserve government in Vicco. In fact they were actually given a go 10 years ago.

I also heard that repulsive little twerp Keen attacking Mark Latham recently. Uniparty indeed.

rickw
rickw
December 11, 2021 10:43 am

What’s everyone’s recent experience with Bunnings? Are they over having the Stasi check for vax?

miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 10:46 am

It’s been an extraordinary revelation seeing our political class expose their true rottenness over the last five years. Essentially agents for the UN and multinational corporations.

calli
calli
December 11, 2021 10:46 am

Listening to Johnny Rotten didn’t turn the teenage me into an ­anarchist, but Covid has turned my adult respect for the law into contempt.

Not the virus itself, of course. The wreckers are the leaders – meaning most politicians in this country – who used disproportionate powers to manage the virus for far too long.

I notice her qualification – tugging the forelock to “the virus”. But it’s a good start.

A while ago someone here compared us to “livestock”. I thought it was a bit OTT at the time. Not any more. Just listen to Morrison calling us “sheep” to be “got through the gate”.

Words cannot express the disgust I feel for this criminal posing as PM.

calli
calli
December 11, 2021 10:47 am

Rickw, they don’t ask in NSW. It must be a Victorian thing.

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 10:48 am

The Morrison government will steadily increase permanent ­migration back to about 160,000 a year to energise economic growth and address skills shortages…

Death to the Liberal Party.

MatrixTransform
December 11, 2021 10:49 am

Equally amazing how Assange/Dick Smith in google yields nothing.

both Google and DDG are totally curated
It’s become noticeably worse this year
Disturbing

Try making the same search in MS Edge using Bing

be amazed

Top Ender
Top Ender
December 11, 2021 10:50 am

Bunnings in Darwin have a QR code by the side of the door. Most people ignore it.

They also state on their telephone system that masks have to be worn. No-one does.

lotocoti
lotocoti
December 11, 2021 10:51 am

Well done that woman, give her a medal for skill, guts and determination!

Really showed some balls.
🙂

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 10:53 am

Rickw, they don’t ask in NSW. It must be a Victorian thing.

Nor in QLD, although this week we’ve had a government minister (small business) urging essential businesses (which Bunnings is deemed to be) to “opt in” to the state’s vaccine passport system.

To his credit, the Woolworths CEO said they won’t be doing that as they believe the unvaxxed are entitled to enter their stores & buy their own groceries.

This is certainly sorting the sheep from the goats.

Chris
Chris
December 11, 2021 10:55 am

I am very cynical about the assumption that migration adds GDP. A poorly-targeted program creates more welfare class, more drains on the productive people’s taxes.
I am ambivalent about the university students. I find it typical that they fund the university sector by driving Uber, and allow the student to save something either to take home on ‘graduation’ or to build a family here as a moderately-skilled migrant if they get PR.
Little argument with the hard-working raising a family and minding their own business. Thats great.
But the university sector deserves none of their (or our) hard-earned; its become a giant exploitative parasite wasting our young people’s lives and exploiting their labour.
That image of a Wall Street firm as a vampire squid jamming its blood funnel into the throats of the citizens, is far truer of the higher education sector.

calli
calli
December 11, 2021 10:56 am

Well done that woman, give her a medal for skill, guts and determination!

Bradford is a bloke in a dress, but he didn’t do too badly.

If it was a woman they probably would have hospitalised her.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
December 11, 2021 10:56 am

Are they over having the Stasi check for vax?

My local (Sydney, northern beaches) – yes. Made it seem like a Christmas present to us. Lots of confusion in the queue lined up to get in, so the policy must have been new.

calli
calli
December 11, 2021 10:57 am

What is the name of the government minister who wants to starve the unvaxxed?

It should be published here for future reference.

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 10:57 am

Further damaging the legitimacy of law, restrictions were often enforced in a ham-fisted and arbitrary way.

Shane Warne has apparently been coming and going between here and the UK, where he was coaching a London based cricket, for the last 12 months.

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 10:58 am

London based cricket team

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 10:59 am

What is the name of the government minister who wants to starve the unvaxxed?

It should be published here for future reference.

Di Farmer.

From her wiki bio:

Farmer was born in Brisbane, and received a Bachelor of Speech Therapy from the University of Queensland and a Postgraduate Diploma of Administrative Studies from Kedron Park College of Advanced Education. She was a public servant and Labor Party organiser prior to her election.

MatrixTransform
December 11, 2021 11:01 am

Bradford is a bloke in a dress, but he didn’t do too badly.

Women’s penises can explode too.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 11, 2021 11:03 am

Thirteen dead today in Vic and forty nine for the week. With the numbers in hospital this is an appalling toll.
What the hell are they doing in these hospitals?
Is anyone allowed to ask the question?

shatterzzz
December 11, 2021 11:03 am

Last month, a worldwide telephonic survey was conducted by the UN
The only question asked was: “Would you please give your honest opinion about possible solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”The survey was a complete failure because:
In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant.
In Western Europe they didn’t know what “shortage” meant.
In Africa they didn’t know what “food” meant.
In China they didn’t know what “opinion” meant.
In the Middle East they didn’t know what “solution” meant.
In South America they didn’t know what “please” meant.
In the USA they didn’t know what “the rest of the world” meant.
And in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Great Britain everyone hung up as soon as they heard the Indian accent.

calli
calli
December 11, 2021 11:06 am

She reminds me of Ellie Haddington from Foyle’s War.

JC
JC
December 11, 2021 11:09 am
miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 11:10 am

Yes Unis have become predatory institutions. Bachelor of this, bachelor of that. It would be quite pathetic it it wasn’t so destructive. As for LLBs- what a scandal, churning out hundreds of these parasites every year looking something to do. Masters (quite sexist – new name needed) degrees seem to for sale.

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 11:10 am

She reminds me of Ellie Haddington from Foyle’s War.

Well she reminds me of the freakin’ Nazis.

Aaron
Aaron
December 11, 2021 11:12 am

After rolling out vaccines with a two dose protection rate of 90+,. I can only presume those taking a booster are part of the ongoing trials.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
December 11, 2021 11:14 am

I note the latern-jawed fake Chriatian creep visited my local pharmacy yesterday. I was in there a couple of hours before His Oleanginous Spinelessness arrived. The owners kept it very quiet I’m sure they didn’t want a scene because the Aussie Cossack lives in the area. I’ll have to ask the owners if they’ve had the place fumigated? Lest we catch Liar’s disease

miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 11:14 am

Take away- Murray Report an absolute disaster for Australia then amplified by Dawkins and made even worse by Kemp or whoever it was.

Baba
Baba
December 11, 2021 11:18 am

Paul Joseph Watson
@PrisonPlanet
·
4h
Someone explain to me, given that Omicron has killed zero people in the world & experts say it’s “very mild,” why allowing Omicron to circulate & replace Delta (which is more deadly) is a bad thing?

And why are we panicking over a variant that killed 0 people?

Genuine question.

To ask the question is to answer it.

Goanna
Goanna
December 11, 2021 11:20 am

rickw

What’s everyone’s recent experience with Bunnings? Are they over having the Stasi check for vax?

Shepparton and Seymour policing the green tick.

Will dump some Wesfarmers insurance.

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 11:20 am

…and made even worse by Kemp or whoever it was.

David Kemp.

A disaster for the Australian people in whichever portfolio he was given, especially Education and Envrionment.

Has spent his retirement writing the definitive conservative history of Australia.

I don’t know whether he’s atoning for his political sins or taking the piss out of us.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
December 11, 2021 11:20 am

“Thirteen dead today in Vic and forty nine for the week. With the numbers in hospital this is an appalling toll.
What the hell are they doing in these hospitals?
Is anyone allowed to ask the question?” They give them NO TREATMENT THEY JUST LET THEM DIE ! that’s why I’ve told my family and my doctor if I get the Cofefe I am not going to hospital I have made arrangements for treatment at home

JC
JC
December 11, 2021 11:20 am

@ShellenbergerMD

For over 30 years, progressives, myself included, promoted defunding the police, de-incarceration, and gun control.

The results are now clear, and increasingly undeniable: less policing, more crime, and a 10x increase in gun permits.

@ShellenbergerMD

According to LA County Sheriff Alejandro Villanueva, the department has received 8,105 concealed carry weapon applications and approved 2,102 of them since he took office in December 2018, compared to his predecessor having issued 194 permits in four years.

Look what’s going on.

As violence arrives in rich neighborhoods, and progressives deny crime wave, liberals are buying guns, organizing neighborhood watch committees, and mobilizing to get rid of progressive district attorneys

My scoop from the frontlines of Beverly Hills

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/as-violence-

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 11, 2021 11:22 am

Riding a horse along a beach with a scantily clad brunette. Something I’ll never get to do. ?

But why? Think of the chafe, man!

Sort of like Lucy Jordan realising she’ll never be driven through Paris in a sports car with the wild wind in her hair.

I don’t think you’d be able to do much with that in Paris. Down in Southern Feance’s wine and lavender country, though…

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
December 11, 2021 11:23 am

Am at the moment sitting in tge car while hubby has some powers if attorney and wills signed for some friends Their adult children have requested I not be present because I am not vaccinated and the children won’t stay for lunch because I am invited – highly educated idiots are everywhere

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 11, 2021 11:23 am

Close, but no SMOD.
4660 Nereus won’t be bringing sweet relief.

This day in 65,997,979 BC, in the afternoon, around wine o’clock:

A groundbreaking study led by researchers at Florida Atlantic University and an international team of scientists conclusively confirms the time year of the catastrophic Chicxulub asteroid, responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on Earth 66 million years ago. … Comparing this to known modern spawning seasons enabled them to deduce what seasonal range was represented by the deposit at Tanis—spring to summer, just as indicated by the bones.

This spring/summer period at Cafe Bruce is cold, wet and miserable. More like winter this morning. Not as bad as the dinosaurs had that day but. My bunch of flying dinosaurs currently are very hungry with the cold and wet.

Study pinpoints timing of Chicxulub asteroid impact (Phys.org, 10 Dec)

miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 11:24 am

Ha ha, remember this?

62 year KPMG partert Stavros Economides appeared in Manly Local Court today for sentencing after his earlier guilty plea on charges arising from stabbing a Tony Abbott election volunteer with a corkscrew.

Fucking old PoS

jupes
jupes
December 11, 2021 11:24 am

This week, when Rebel Wilson ­arrived in Australia for an awards night, she was not required to isolate for 72 hours, unlike everyone else. Special treatment for someone who reads a script to make a living.

They are spitting in our face.

C.L.
C.L.
December 11, 2021 11:25 am
P
P
December 11, 2021 11:26 am

DISCRIMINATING AGAINST CATHOLICS
by Samuel McCarthy • ChurchMilitant.com • December 10, 2021
Victoria laws target the faithful

shatterzzz
December 11, 2021 11:26 am

In this scandemic the police force has been weaponised against the citizens it is supposed to serve. Looks like all those years and the Wood Royal Commission was a complete and utter waste of taxpayers’ money.
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-police-officer-sent-to-prison-for-lying-in-court/
Wow! one officer gets suspended on full pay for over a year before being found guilty and the other gets to keep his job .. no consequences, apparently!
And we wonder why plod gets to behave like thugs against the public ….. BECAUSE THEY CAN!
Let’s remember folks .. WE IS ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, except! …….FFS!

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 11:30 am

They give them NO TREATMENT THEY JUST LET THEM DIE !

If that is Victorian government policy – and you would need the relevant documents to prove it – and it is being enacted systematically by doctors it must come close to being a crime against humanity. The only problem would be that the numbers involved would not reach the legal threshold to be deemed as such under international law.

miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 11:32 am

Roger it happens everyday in abortion clinics.

Rabz
December 11, 2021 11:33 am

otter attack

Who needs giraffes when you have trusty li’l otters.

miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 11:34 am

Speaking of the political class, it was many years after he ceased being PM that I concluded John Howard was a phony.

Baba
Baba
December 11, 2021 11:34 am

They give them NO TREATMENT THEY JUST LET THEM DIE !

I don’t think that is correct. Treatment is only withheld until ventilation is required. 🙂

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 11:36 am

Roger it happens everyday in abortion clinics.

And for that those responsible may escape justice in this life but not in the next, milton.

But you’re right – Art. 3, Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

We’ve regressed, not progressed, since 1948 – many of the rights recognised in that document, which was an outcome of the Allied victory in WWII, we don’t even aspire to any more.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 11, 2021 11:37 am

Yes Unis have become predatory institutions. Bachelor of this, bachelor of that.

Surprisingly the woke haven’t yet complained about the misogynist naming of bachelor degrees.

Maybe the ladies can have spinster degrees, since no male in their right mind would actually marry a female gender studies graduate.

But no, spinster degrees would also be sexist. And “degree” is elitist. So they will just have to receive a page of beige paper with nothing written on it, which they can frame on their wall. Worthless, textless and sexless.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 11, 2021 11:38 am
cohenite
December 11, 2021 11:39 am

latern-jawed fake Chriatian creep

Could you be more specific, that description fits a number of pollies.

rickw
rickw
December 11, 2021 11:41 am

What the hell are they doing in these hospitals?

#NotIvermectin

The narrative cannot be damaged no matter what. Imagine fully vaxxed, infected, ICU, on deaths door, and they shove you full of Ivermectin and in 5 days you walk out.

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 11:42 am

….it was many years after he ceased being PM that I concluded John Howard was a phony.

Suburban solicitors tend to be transactional types focused on processes and outcomes rather than principles and virtues based thereon.

John Howard to a tee.

There was no conservative principle that was off the negotiating table for him if a politically desirable outcome could be attained.

miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 11:44 am

Stuart Robert come to mind.

miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 11:49 am

Roger you almost suspect with IPA types like Kemp that it’s all about writing and saying conservative stuff (and drawing a nice salary) with actual outcomes being irrelevant.

Dot
Dot
December 11, 2021 11:50 am

Morning all. Can I recommend Snowden to be considered too?

How much shit do you want the Clintons to get away with?

The State is not your friend.

Aaron
Aaron
December 11, 2021 11:50 am
miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 11:51 am

Mrs Thatcher was very silly in regard to globull warming but she was spot when she warned about the evils of big government.

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 11:53 am

Roger you almost suspect with IPA types like Kemp that it’s all about writing and saying conservative stuff (and drawing a nice salary) with actual outcomes being irrelevant.

Howard & Kemp are both trying to redeem their reputations with conservatives before they shuffle off this mortal coil.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 11, 2021 11:55 am

Little argument with the hard-working raising a family and minding their own business. Thats great.
But the university sector deserves none of their (or our) hard-earned; its become a giant exploitative parasite wasting our young people’s lives and exploiting their labour.
That image of a Wall Street firm as a vampire squid jamming its blood funnel into the throats of the citizens, is far truer of the higher education sector.

Indeed. Add to that the steady decline in university standards (to “ensure” that the foreign students are not disadvantaged, and the diversity, equity et al commissars to “protect” them from waaayyysist Skippies, and they have destroyed themselves, but still demand buckets of taxpayer funds.

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 11:55 am

Mrs Thatcher was very silly in regard to globull warming…

She did go cold on the subject after c. 1990, milton.

She criticised Gor, for e.g.

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 11:55 am

Gore

miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 11:56 am

All I’ve heard Howard talk about is Afghan ‘interpreters’. Nothing about the destruction of small business and liberty in Australia.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 11, 2021 11:57 am

Howard and Thatcher were both taken in by the climate scam. Thatcher finally realized that is what it is, and said so in her book in 2006.

Howard has always been much too trusting of the bureaucratic elites, who had quietly ditched their impartial professionalism long ago. The current Libs are exactly the same: they haven’t yet worked out they’re in a war to the knife with the Left, with no compromise and no mercy.

Aaron
Aaron
December 11, 2021 11:57 am

Oh and by the way, remember your booster. Two shots don’t work that well
We think.
Unless it’s serious, in which case it’s better than nothing.
But in mild cases, it’s not.
We think.
Well, anyway, whatever just do as I say.
Not as I do.

Win
Win
December 11, 2021 11:57 am

John Howard saw Joh Bjelkie Petersens tilt for Canberra off.A booming Queensland and Joh who had all ready out witted Whitlam and the coal contracts was a direct threat not only to Labor but the Liberals as well. So along comes Fitzgerald to bury him for good . It should be remembered that the Nats were jailed but Labor equally guilty “had enough blood shed “ we were informed by the Couruer Mail and continued in parliament.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 11, 2021 11:59 am

Thirteen dead today in Vic and forty nine for the week. With the numbers in hospital this is an appalling toll.
What the hell are they doing in these hospitals?
Is anyone allowed to ask the question?

Posting this for a fiend.

He was admitted to a Melbourne hospital via ambulance for an obviously non-covid issue.
It took 8 hours to clear his covid status, so that a specialist could be authorized to attend.
Specialist says: “I’m sending you home with a collection of drugs which should make things manageable for a week or two. We can review the situation again in a couple of weeks. At the moment I think it is a greater risk to your health, and life, to remain in hospital.”

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 11, 2021 12:01 pm

IPA? I like a hoppy beer from time to time. Or do you meet something else? Are all of us here supposed to know?

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 11, 2021 12:04 pm

Close brackets after Skippies!

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 11, 2021 12:06 pm

Rabz,
Riding along a beach, particularly bareback, has little to recommend it, no matter how gorgeous your companion. I can tell you why but there are people on here who would sooner not know.
Horses are high maintenance. Particularly the glossy one.

Roger
Roger
December 11, 2021 12:06 pm

IPA.

Institute of Public Affairs.

The Voice for Freedom since 1943.

Running through their inheritance for quite a few years now.

calli
calli
December 11, 2021 12:08 pm

Nothing about the destruction of small business and liberty in Australia.

They Don’t Matter

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 11, 2021 12:09 pm

Day night Test in Hobart.

Be still my beating heart. Would be a shame if the series is still alive at this point.

miltonf
miltonf
December 11, 2021 12:10 pm

In my mind, Joh Bjelke-Petersen was the last of the jobs n growth premiers. Bolte, Askin, Playford and Court. Possibly I should add Robin Gray to that list. A line was crossed when little filth and biggles stopped the Franklin Dam.

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