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Sacred and Profane Love, Giovanni Baglione, 1602

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MatrixTransform
December 16, 2021 10:16 pm

Daniel Andrews in quarantine. LOL.

not traveling to Myrtleford then?

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 10:17 pm

Dot

8. Spotify disrupted due to NFT-based digital rights platform

Eyes forward and back straight. This is actually important boomers. It could change online broadcasting and syndication.

How would it work. So if I wanted to listen to music I would use a digital token that may directly go to the artist?

MatrixTransform
December 16, 2021 10:18 pm

Goldfish Archipelago.

Muddy?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 16, 2021 10:18 pm

The ones that generally keep quiet are the ones who are much more interesting.

Cite you the old-timer, who lived in the district, where we “had the farm.” He never spoke of his wartime service…when he passed away, the family discovered he had ridden in the Charge at Bersheeba….

Arky
December 16, 2021 10:19 pm

Dot says:
December 16, 2021 at 10:16 pm
You have done the same to me, moron.

..
I never have, not even by your pseudonym.
I don’t know you.
I however, am identifiable.
Retract.

Arky
December 16, 2021 10:21 pm

I will make this plain to you.
You have accused me of something which is untrue.
I am identifiable via the videos I post here.
I have given you the chance to retract.

John H.
John H.
December 16, 2021 10:21 pm

10. Medical breakthrough extends average life expectancy 25 years

Already happening, John H noted mRNA treatments for ageing cells and the ultra wealthy already eat NADH and NMN by the bucketful.

Virtual Workshop- Exploring Opportunities and Feasibility of Trials on Effects of Increasing NAD+ Levels in Older Adults

https://www.nia.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/2021_workshop_program_nad-levels-older-adults-updated.pdf

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:21 pm

Not now, JC. I have much more childish interests right now.

Apparently I am being sued for telling someone “it takes one to know one”.

“I was only joking, every single time I said that, despite knowing how inflammatory and damaging the comment is against you identifying as that class of person, and that entire class of persons – but what you said, was actionable. But no, not me. I am an angel.”

“You can’t call me a chomo, but you definitely fuck dogs, tee hee”

Hmmm yes.

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 10:23 pm

Just fucking sad. Sad as. Dover, get rid of the worthless c..t. He’s going to ruin your site bigtime.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:24 pm

You have accused me of something which is untrue.

You have accused virtually anyone who identifies as a libertarian of fucking dogs.

“I was joking, tee hee”

You have done this for years on end. YEARS!

Maybe you shouldn’t slander people if you consider yourself a public figure?

“Oh no, people cannot retaliate against me. I’m a not very well known public figure”

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 10:26 pm

Good to see you Armadillo. Your pal hasn’t changed much.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 16, 2021 10:28 pm

Wasn’t it Pamela Page who asked,

“How much is that doggie in the window?

“?

Razey
Razey
December 16, 2021 10:30 pm

Boambee Johnsays:
December 16, 2021 at 10:06 pm
Razeysays:
December 16, 2021 at 9:53 pm
Hmmm, just checked his name again on awm.gov.au. Says he was in the 23 Infantry Battalion – 9 to 12 Reinforcements (February-April 1916). Not sure why it said 1st machine gun company in the Shrine….I need to do more research.

There are two WW I Rolls. The Embarkation Roll lists the original unit. The Nominal Roll lists the final unit (or unit at the date of death. Both are incomplete.

The Embarkation is easily searchable, the Nominal is not. Try them, if you have no joy, publish his name and service number here, and I will give it a go. He might have been transferred at some point.

Or just go to the National Archives, and find his file. Search on name plus number, and category B2455.

Nice one! There are 42 records there. I’m struggling to read all that old school cursive writing, but what I can gather:

24/9/16: Div base – Taken on strength – Belgium 27/9/16 – AQ 7562
9/12/16: C. O. 23rd – Transferred to 6th Machine Gun Battalion – France – AQ12367

unreadable writing, but a whole bunch of stuff.

Discharged in 1919 sometime.

I need to work out how to read hahaha. Great stuff tho.

Gab
Gab
December 16, 2021 10:32 pm

Of course they are going to protestanise Notre Dame Cathedral. Anything But Catholic for the modernists.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:33 pm

Okay Arky I definitely take it back unreservedly and apologise.

I believe you have learnt your lesson in civility.

Arky
December 16, 2021 10:33 pm

There’s a big difference between “Communists are liars”.
And “ This individual person who says he is a communist is lying”.
You know that.
So does everyone reading this.
So stop you nasty little libertarian tactics, I’m well used to them now, and bloody well retract your insinuation.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:35 pm

So stop you nasty little libertarian tactics, I’m well used to them now, and bloody well retract your insinuation.

Do you want to apologise and stop your disgusting slander or does the cry bully want to be taught another brutal lesson?

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 10:35 pm

We don’t make nafing! Nafing I tell ya.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:36 pm

“libertarian tactics”

More slander.

rickw
rickw
December 16, 2021 10:36 pm

I predict a bout of Relevance Deprivation Syndrome after Christmas, which we will all pay for.

Shhhh, don’t upset Big Brother or he’ll torture us more!

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 16, 2021 10:37 pm

From memory, the second line wen t like this:

“The one with the waggg ..e..ly tail”

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 10:37 pm

“libertarian tactics”

It’s like a 1940’s time warp just coming out of the war and there is still food ration stickers.

cohenite
December 16, 2021 10:39 pm

Do you think this is funny? Do you want me to accuse you of a sex crime every time you post here?

Why do you think you should be able to get away with this impunity, you old worthless sack of shit?

Calm down Dot and go and cook yourself a Viking steak. I’m happy to offer some tips about cooking this veritable meat of the gods.

Arky
December 16, 2021 10:39 pm

slander
/?sl??nd?/
Learn to pronounce
nounLAW
noun: slander
the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation

.
A PERSON.
Like you did.
Unlike what I did.
Learn English.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 10:40 pm

Shhhh, don’t upset Big Brother or he’ll torture us more!

Nothing anyone says makes any difference to the egotistical moron.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:41 pm

Calm down Dot and go and cook yourself a Viking steak. I’m happy to offer some tips about cooking this veritable meat of the gods.

Lishen mate I can come around and cook you a moussaka and teach you how to be a man.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 10:43 pm

JCsays:

December 16, 2021 at 10:35 pm

We don’t make nafing! Nafing I tell ya.

Are you saying we used to make nafing but we don’t make nafing no more?
Or are you saying we never made nafing in the first place?
And, furthermore, who makes our nafing now?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 10:44 pm

And how much would nafing cost if we made nafing for ourselfs?

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:45 pm

Does calling an entire class of people dog lovers slander them?

“No, it doesn’t damage their reputation” [Pro tip: only a literal retard would think this is true].

Wow. That sounds suspiciously like something a dog lover would say.

Now I don’t want to put words in your mouth.

Do you fuck dogs, Arky?

Arky
December 16, 2021 10:45 pm

I retract my joke about beagles.
Although it has been a long standing joke on Catallaxy since well before my time.
However, I think you’ll find that as there are thousands of libertarians worldwide, defamation laws don’t cover that. At all.
You will find that it does cover me and the dirty tactic you used.
You should apologise without the smart arsery, you shit.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 10:46 pm

Actionable!
Faulty lives!

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 10:46 pm

We make nafing, Nafing I tells ya. Yes, we make nafing nomore and we have to make sumfing, but I won’t be making anyfink. because I can’t and want you to.

And, furthermore, who makes our nafing now?

You know. I don’t have to tells ya.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:47 pm

I retract my joke about beagles.

Good. Thank you.

Arky
December 16, 2021 10:49 pm

You have killed a Catallaxy long standing joke because you couldn’t take the one line directed at libertarians in a long humorous piece taking aim at everyone.
Have a think about that.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:50 pm

Yes, I did good. It was complete bullshit, phoney nonsense and I shouldn’t have to sit here and take it.

Arky
December 16, 2021 10:51 pm

And the tactic you decided on in that taking of offence was to accuse me personally of pederasty.
Think about that.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:51 pm

Cry more.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 10:51 pm

You know. I don’t have to tells ya.

Oh.
Them.
I have cleansed my house of everything made by them.
Nothing left but the Baltic pine floorboards, the Glen Iris bricks and the Ballarat roof tiles.
It’s the classically pared back and understated look.
Still, I have saved heaps on contents insurance.

Arky
December 16, 2021 10:52 pm

You’re now in the same category to me as JC.
Never speak to me again.
I don’t find you interesting.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:52 pm

Okay.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 10:53 pm

I used to read Beagle Boy comics.
Did I miss something?

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 10:54 pm

Boomer Catallaxy:

“YoU fUcK dOgS!”

No, I don’t I am sick of that snide remark, go FY.

“yOu’Re NoT iNtErEsTiNg!”

That sounds a lot like something…I leave the reader to draw their own conclusions.

C.L.
C.L.
December 16, 2021 10:55 pm

The lady policemen at the jumping castle tragedy were all photographed crying today.
I don’t hold that against them, of course, but I question whether they’re in the right job.

I’ve never understood why women – who cannot possibly hold their own physically with criminals and rely entirely on male backup – nevertheless want to patrol society armed with Glocks and a 5 ft 3″ frame. What are they trying to prove?

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
December 16, 2021 10:56 pm
JC
JC
December 16, 2021 10:57 pm

Nafing. Nafing at all. We make nafing.

Actually Dot, I was the one who cut the mental case off.

C.L.
C.L.
December 16, 2021 10:58 pm

I invented the beagle. More specifically, the argument from beagles.
It had to do with gay ‘marriage.’ The challenge was for a pro-ss’m’ advocate to explain with intellectual consistency why a legislature could not and should not legalise the marriage of a man to a beagle.
None ever did.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 16, 2021 11:00 pm

I’ve never understood why women – who cannot possibly hold their own physically with criminals and rely entirely on male backup – nevertheless want to patrol society armed with Glocks and a 5 ft 3? frame. What are they trying to prove?

Super.
Early retirement /Compo.
Dick/they’re lesbians.

Razey
Razey
December 16, 2021 11:00 pm

Wow, what a great night, thanks to Boambee John.

Turns out my GGF was in the 6th machine gun company, and there was a bloody BOOK written about them! In Good Company: An Account of the 6th Machine Gun Company, AIF in Search of Peace 1915-1919

Just bought it! I know what I’ll be reading this Christmas.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 11:01 pm

JCsays:

December 16, 2021 at 10:57 pm

Nafing. Nafing at all. We make nafing.

When did we stop making nafing?
I mean, when did we start making nafing?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 11:02 pm

What if the beagle identifies as a mincing poodle.
Does that change anyfink?

Indolent
Indolent
December 16, 2021 11:03 pm

Digital Surveillance — the Real Motive Behind Push to Vaccinate Kids

Further proof that this has been planned for decades.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 11:04 pm

Anonymous internet persona 1 sues anonymous internet persona 2 in the Supreme Court of Pixels.
Should be good.

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 11:08 pm

When did we stop making nafing?
I mean, when did we start making nafing?

You know, it’s funny. He’s telling everyone else to go make sumfink, but I don’t see him with a sweaty forehead unless posting ridiculous threads – nearly all them laced with invective against potential commenters – is making sumfink.

Even the nicest guys around – Tom- told him fuck off from the site. Even Tom had enough of his mental case antics of his stupid threads threatening people.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 11:09 pm

No Sancho we both apologised, then both claimed the high moral ground. We’re all good but I am not getting a Christmas card.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 16, 2021 11:09 pm

I’ve never understood why women – who cannot possibly hold their own physically with criminals and rely entirely on male backup – nevertheless want to patrol society armed with Glocks and a 5 ft 3? frame. What are they trying to prove?

A few years ago, I was told by “a reliable source” that the average service career of a woman in WAPOL was seven years, before they resigned, citing “stress” as the reason.

Razey
Razey
December 16, 2021 11:11 pm

Indolentsays:
December 16, 2021 at 11:03 pm
Digital Surveillance — the Real Motive Behind Push to Vaccinate Kids

Further proof that this has been planned for decades.

What if I don’t have a phone? Is the .gov going to give me one?

If they want to track it, then a faraday cage pouch will put a stop to that.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 16, 2021 11:13 pm

Arky allegedly “made” a Model A.

The irony, it burns.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 16, 2021 11:15 pm

John Cleese accuses BBC of ‘deceptive’ and ‘dishonest’ interview on cancel culture

Monty Python star claims BBC World Asia interviewer tried to portray him as ‘old-fashioned, uncaring and basically harmful’
By Telegraph Reporters 16 December 2021 • 6:34am

John Cleese says he is putting in a formal complaint about the “deception, dishonesty and tone” of a recent BBC interview he had given.

The Monty Python star claimed the interviewer had tried to portray him as “old-fashioned, uncaring and basically harmful” and had not discussed the agreed on topics.

“I just did an interview with BBC World Asia. It was to talk about the shows I’m doing in Singapore and Bangkok,” he wrote in a Twitter thread.

“Instead, the interviewer, whose name was, I think, Karishma, started by asking me questions about Cancel Culture.

“I replied courteously and in full I explained that if parents were over protective, it did not prepare children well when they entered the real and often not-very-nice world.

“She then asked a disjointed question, clearly trying to portray me as old-fashioned, uncaring and basically harmful.”

Cleese said his response had been “totally ignored” by the interviewer, who had then asked him about the ongoing pandemic and Dave Chapelle.

“I removed my headphones, saying. that this was not the interview I had agreed to,” he said.

“So I am formally complaining to the BBC about the deception, dishonesty and tone of this interview. Karishma had no interest in a discussion with me.

“She wanted only the role of prosecutor. The BBC needs to train her again.”

He added: “The media will no doubt report that I ‘stormed out.’ I didn’t. Nor did I lose my temper.

“But I was depressed that this kind of presenter-ego crap is so prevalent now.”

Last month the comedian “blacklisted himself” from the Cambridge Union debating society after a historian who impersonated Adolf Hitler during a society debate was banned.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 16, 2021 11:15 pm

Is that thing even out of the garage yet?

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 16, 2021 11:16 pm

Further proof that this has been planned for decades.

That’s what the Head of German Intelligence said about 9/11.
Anyone ever heard of Claire Lehmann?
Anyway, she’s on the Opinion Page of today’s Oz comparing people who oppose Copmpulsory Vaccination to … Hitler!
Here’s her argument:
According to Table Talk, Hitler told his lackeys not to vaccinate Slavs because they don’t live very long lives anyway, so giving them a vaccine would be a waste

Therefore, Vaccines are DoublePlusGood on Hitler’s say so and if you refuse the Vax yourself, you’re condemning oldies, the Disabled, Aborigines in Remote Areas and Kids, so you are Hitler.
I hope someone can post it in full, it’s a masterpiece of Insane Bullshit and sums up where we’re at now.

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 11:16 pm

Arma

The irony, it burns.

Burns? I wouldn’t use that word.

I can’t be 100% but I think he said yesterday or a few days ago it burned to a cinder. He could have been kidding or I misread what he said.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 11:18 pm

I can’t be 100% but I think he said yesterday or a few days ago it burned to a cinder. He could have been kidding or I misread what he said.

Who knows, he’s clearly not taking lockdowns, mandates and isolation well and is taking it out on people online.

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 11:20 pm

I don’t think so. I think he’s always been like this. Lockdowns hasn’t made him any worse.

Arky
December 16, 2021 11:20 pm

but I am not getting a Christmas card.

..
We’re done.
Be aware that if you take my silence in future as license to take ongoing “free” shots at me in the form of the stalking that another poster is doing, that in Victoria that is a crime with up to ten years jail.
A one sided, months long abusive rant at someone who does not reply is criminal.
I wouldn’t do so, not being the dobbing type.
But it does make one wonder at the stupidity of someone who would open themselves up for such.
That this person would put this blog, and themselves in that kind of peril speaks to something.
It’s an entirely different matter to an online argument where both people are participating.
Be warned. You need to take this as definite statement that I do not wish to talk to you here.

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 11:25 pm

A one sided, months long abusive rant at someone who does not reply is criminal.

Oh fuck off, the false stuff you said about me would look great in a court you worthless turd. Keep making comments against libertarians and you will suffer the consequences each time.

Also, don’t forget the physical threats you made against at least three people. Also would look great, you mental case.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 16, 2021 11:26 pm

“I replied courteously and in full I explained that if parents were over protective, it did not prepare children well when they entered the real and often not-very-nice world”.

“Over Protective” is sometimes a good thing. There are some weirdos in this world. Kids definitely need to be protected until their brain forms properly.

Razey
Razey
December 16, 2021 11:28 pm

Armadillosays:
December 16, 2021 at 11:26 pm
“I replied courteously and in full I explained that if parents were over protective, it did not prepare children well when they entered the real and often not-very-nice world”.

“Over Protective” is sometimes a good thing. There are some weirdos in this world. Kids definitely need to be protected until their brain forms properly.

He is a great man. Unfortunately not many of those types left.

The world is headed into a long period of darkness.

rickw
rickw
December 16, 2021 11:29 pm

Imagine flying against the Luftwaffe in one of these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-fla2i-8yc

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 11:33 pm

Be aware that if you take my silence in future as license to take ongoing “free” shots at me in the form of the stalking that another poster is doing, that in Victoria that is a crime with up to ten years jail.

This after what you said about me and all other libertarians (yet you did have the grace to apologise).

On a public forum you do not own.

You sir, are taking the piss.

If you disagree with me, you will go to gaol for ten years.

You know what, that’s almost worth it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 11:34 pm

Faulty grift 2.0.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 16, 2021 11:37 pm

Imagine flying against the Luftwaffe in one of these:

Did anyone even try?

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 16, 2021 11:37 pm

Popcorn time.

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 11:37 pm

Dot, I’m happy to foot any of your legals.

But be warned if you lose in court for disagreeing with me, you will go to jail for 10 years and 3 months. It’s as bad as a murder rap.

MatrixTransform
December 16, 2021 11:37 pm

the end of The Cat and ‘dillo appears

I just watched Love Actually

… not feeling it

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 11:40 pm

Armadillosays:

December 16, 2021 at 11:15 pm

Is that thing even out of the garage yet?

Yep.
The next restoration project is kicking off.
It’s a De Lorean with a 1.21 gigawatt flux capacitor.
To enable us to travel back to a time when we made all our own nafing and even exported high quality nafing to the rest of the world.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 16, 2021 11:44 pm

Ten years in jail?
That’s practically a life sentence for someone whose life expectancy is somewhere between 18 months and four years.

JC
JC
December 16, 2021 11:45 pm

It’s actually fucking incredible you know. You get a hate screed from the lunatic . This:

Arky says:
December 16, 2021 at 8:11 pm

I have decided to hate everyone.
Progressive idiots. Stinking green thieving frauds with their transparent rorts. Beagle arse pounding libertarian cock smokers. Conservative tightwad law and order dimwit thickies. Judgement dodging atheists. Smirking sunshine optimist Christians. Old school Laborites who only came to their senses when their Marxist mates came for them with an axe. Vaccinated old biddies offended at being called the idiots they undoubtedly are. Unvaccinated depopulation conspiracy idiots. Conniving rich cunts. Lazy poor cunts. The middle class polite hypocrites. Working class gen X bogan tradie pricks with their Mc Fricking Mansions and tightwad refusal to pass their skills onto the young blokes so that everything now costs a bomb. The young blokes with their effeminate wankery and clueless shitfulness. Fucking boomers- buy every bloody house why don’t you. Whoever’s still living from the silent generation- you know the boomers might not have been so annoying if you had have actually explained the odd thing or two to them. Doctors- didn’t you pricks turn out to be clueless totalitarian fruits. Coppers- ditto. Politicians- just die already you swine. Retailers. Publicans, nurses, teachers, bus drivers and singer song writers. Idiot soldiers who spend the best part of their lives chasing bloody arabs when the pricks to worry about were right here.
Apologies to anyone I’ve missed.

… and he threatens to jail people for 10 years for posssibly taking offense against the bullshit and saying so.

Dot
Dot
December 16, 2021 11:47 pm

Be aware that if you take my silence in future as license

What Would Saint Sir Thomas More Do?

Arky
December 16, 2021 11:56 pm

I want everyone to take careful note at this point.
I specifically stated I would never take legal action or do .
JC just offered to fund legal action against me.
Note this well.
They will now daily accuse me of threatening legal action, when the opposite is the case.

Arky
December 16, 2021 11:57 pm

Or dob, that should read.

Arky
December 16, 2021 11:59 pm

Disgusting tactics.
No more conversation entered into.
Take a bloody look at yourselves.
Discusting.

JC
JC
December 17, 2021 12:00 am

He’s lying or hallucinating. What I offered Dot, who actually is a very decent person, is that if arky ever dared to take legal action against him I would foot Dot’s legal bill. I wasn’t the other way around.

You thick, disgusting idiot, Dot never threatened you with legal action. You did against him.

You’re the most destructive imbecile on Ozblogs. Totally destructive.

JC
JC
December 17, 2021 12:01 am

My my , your English is pretty bad when he’s upset.

JC
JC
December 17, 2021 12:04 am

Hey doofus, remember at the beginning when you implying you kind of controlled the blog. How did that work out? 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 17, 2021 12:05 am

Why is offering to fund a case where you believe in the cause of someone defending an action a “discusting (sic) tactic”?
Is it only “discusting” because it calls a bluff?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 17, 2021 12:06 am

Inglush es a sicond lunguage.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
December 17, 2021 12:07 am

Well that escalated quickly…….
I’m going to bed before someone sues my beagle or sumfink.

I’ll hose the blood out of the site in the morning so please feel free to use knives, broken bottles, star pickets, harsh words etc

(For what it’s worth, I thought that post of Arky’s was done as humour)

JC
JC
December 17, 2021 12:07 am

I am the boss of this blog and you will follows my orders.

In German

Ich bin der Chef dieses Blogs und Sie werden meinen Anweisungen folgen.

Arky
December 17, 2021 12:09 am

Arky says:
December 16, 2021 at 11:20 pm
I wouldn’t do so, not being the dobbing type.

AND…

JC says:
December 16, 2021 at 11:37 pm
Dot, I’m happy to foot any of your legals

..

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 17, 2021 12:12 am

(For what it’s worth, I thought that post of Arky’s was done as humour)

If you play the caustic humour game, best not to have a gossamer-thin skin when the inevitable return of serve comes.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 12:13 am

How did that work out? ?

I got thrown into “moderation”, which Dover quickly reversed.

Arkmeister has totalitarian tendencies. Meh. The warning signs were there.

Too much fermented apricot juice.

Arky needs to repost the Christmas video where he cleans out the grog cabinet. He was much more sensible back then.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 17, 2021 12:15 am

I’ll hose the blood out of the site in the morning so please feel free to use knives, broken bottles, star pickets, harsh words etc

Furniture is all bolted to the floor, anyway, and the cops will be along at midnight to deal with throat chopping, eye gouging and hitting below the belt.

JC
JC
December 17, 2021 12:16 am

Dot, I’m happy to foot any of your legals

Well that’s okay then, but you’re totally untrustworthy as I sadly found out. And it was to provide comfort to Dot, who is a really good guy I’ve known for years and don’t want to see threatened nor roughed up by a aggressive slug.

Also, you’re stupid to even suggest this angle as you were the one making threats throughout the discourse. Not once did Dot threaten legal action against you, you mental case.

Arky
December 17, 2021 12:17 am

I wouldn’t judge libertarians on the nasty pieces of work who come on here.
That Rubin bloke seems like a reasonable human being.

JC
JC
December 17, 2021 12:20 am

I’d judge authoritarian loons as nasty pieces of work.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 17, 2021 12:20 am

Can we blame the kerfuffle on covid or lockdowns?

John H.
John H.
December 17, 2021 12:21 am

JC,

This is on tonight but you can watch it on SBS Ondemand. Very good crime thriller with Sophie Marceau at her best.

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/movie/anthony-zimmer/317329987553

Arky
December 17, 2021 12:21 am

Well that’s okay then, but you’re totally untrustworthy as I sadly found out

..
I’m still keeping things you said and texted to me as personal conversations and to myself. As I would for anyone, friend or not.
Were the same true of you you wouldn’t have thrown my depression about on here as a topic of conversation after I confided in you and you acted sympathetic.
You shit.
We’re done, get it through your head. I not interested in your opinion on anything.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 17, 2021 12:22 am

Oh and any despoiled virgins in the rose garden are the spoils of war of the management.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 12:24 am

Arky, repost the videos of you cutting up your running shoes.

You were in a “much better place” back then.

Threatening to sue Cats? FMD.

JC
JC
December 17, 2021 12:24 am

Can we blame the kerfuffle on covid or lockdowns?

You could 10 years for saying something like that, Doc.

It’s a terrific question and we at Stanford medical school have been toying with that for most of the two years. We in the psychiatric dept think there is latent mental instability aggravated by covid lockdown.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 12:29 am

I’m still keeping things you said and texted to me as personal conversations and to myself.

Yep. Everyone does that. Totally sane behaviour.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 17, 2021 12:29 am

Hey JC, if it helps keep the costs down, I could act as the QC’s assistant, pro boner.
I’ve got a bow-tie, and I can brush up on my Latin legal phrases and Roman numerals.
They wouldn’t pick me from the real thing.

Arky
December 17, 2021 12:31 am

And that is why you don’t engage.
Unless you want to be dragged down.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 17, 2021 12:32 am

That’s not ratio decidendi!
It’s obiter rectum!
Suffer in yer jocks!

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 12:33 am

It’s a terrific question and we at Stanford medical school have been toying with that for most of the two years. We in the psychiatric dept think there is latent mental instability aggravated by covid lockdown.

Gravy Trains beat Trucks vs Trains. Hands down.

Gabor
Gabor
December 17, 2021 12:33 am

Anweisungen

Befehle is more appropriate, the other one is just directions you can follow or not.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 17, 2021 12:35 am

That’s not ratio decidendi!
It’s obiter rectum!
Suffer in yer jocks

Good to see you back, Sancho!

JC
JC
December 17, 2021 12:36 am

I’m still keeping things you said and texted to me as personal conversations and to myself. As I would for anyone, friend or not.
Were the same true of you you wouldn’t have thrown my depression about on here as a topic of conversation after I confided in you and you acted sympathetic.
You shit.
We’re done, get it through your head. I not interested in your opinion on anything.

First off, you started it with the personal, so don’t go around bawling when the shit comes hurtling back at you twice as hard. Also, not that it matters one single bit, but you’ve complained about being depressed publicly here or at the other blog so it wasn’t as though this was new.

I’m quite happy to post the entirety of the test conversations. Unfortunately, 90% of them were you texting me.

I don’t care if you want or not want my opinion. If I see you acting aggressively against people who I like, if you post ridiculous clownshow crap against free market economics etc, I will respond. You shouldn’t be here. You’re just not good enough.

Arky
December 17, 2021 12:37 am

Far better to write my pieces, let them stand for themselves and people make up their own minds. Right or wrong, I own what I write here.
Remember there might be three or four on here now at this hour, chipping away, but hundreds more will read this in the morning.
And look at the quality of comments on one’s own threads, compared to the sewer they drag this open thread down to.
Engage? Why?
They’re a tiny and ridiculous minority.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 12:49 am

I don’t care if you want or not want my opinion.

Liberty Quote.

JC
JC
December 17, 2021 12:52 am

Far better to write my pieces, let them stand for themselves and people make up their own minds. Right or wrong, I own what I write here.

Your pieces are stupid and very boring. Frankly I wouldn’t fess to owning any of it and I’d also be very nice to commenters as they could show pity and pretend to like the crap you post. Nothing personal, just business.

Remember there might be three or four on here now at this hour, chipping away, but hundreds more will read this in the morning.

Yep. I hope so and I’m sure they’ll agree with me too.

And look at the quality of comments on one’s own threads, compared to the sewer they drag this open thread down to.

You hypocritical clownshow. All you’ve done is threaten and delete commenters on those dickie threads of yours. Now you’re calling them quality comments? Fuck off with the hypocrisy.

As for the open forum sewer, who wrote this?

Arky says:
December 16, 2021 at 8:11 pm

I have decided to hate everyone.
Progressive idiots. Stinking green thieving frauds with their transparent rorts. Beagle arse pounding libertarian cock smokers. Conservative tightwad law and order dimwit thickies. Judgement dodging atheists. Smirking sunshine optimist Christians. Old school Laborites who only came to their senses when their Marxist mates came for them with an axe. Vaccinated old biddies offended at being called the idiots they undoubtedly are. Unvaccinated depopulation conspiracy idiots. Conniving rich cunts. Lazy poor cunts. The middle class polite hypocrites. Working class gen X bogan tradie pricks with their Mc Fricking Mansions and tightwad refusal to pass their skills onto the young blokes so that everything now costs a bomb. The young blokes with their effeminate wankery and clueless shitfulness. Fucking boomers- buy every bloody house why don’t you. Whoever’s still living from the silent generation- you know the boomers might not have been so annoying if you had have actually explained the odd thing or two to them. Doctors- didn’t you pricks turn out to be clueless totalitarian fruits. Coppers- ditto. Politicians- just die already you swine. Retailers. Publicans, nurses, teachers, bus drivers and singer song writers. Idiot soldiers who spend the best part of their lives chasing bloody arabs when the pricks to worry about were right here.
Apologies to anyone I’ve missed.

Engage? Why?
They’re a tiny and ridiculous minority.

Medic, someone’s hallucinating here.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 17, 2021 1:00 am

Depression is shit. And it can make people manic.

JC
JC
December 17, 2021 1:05 am

Armadillo says:
December 17, 2021 at 12:29 am

I’m still keeping things you said and texted to me as personal conversations and to myself.

Arky, I took a look I’m happy to publish all my texts. Let me know if you are too. I’ll redact a few names for privacy reasons.

JC
JC
December 17, 2021 1:07 am
JC
JC
December 17, 2021 1:09 am

Depression is shit. And it can make people manic.

I think it’s make believe nosnense. You can get the blues, but you just dust yourself and off you go

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 1:27 am

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/breaking-one-difficult-stories-ever-tell-project-veritas-whistleblower-exposes-another-cnn-producers-involvement-underage-girls/

There is something very “human” about this story.

No doubt she will get “cut to pieces” by the media. Just another whore after a payday. But you have to remember that is exactly the way the powerful operate.

She was probably a good kid, with deadbeat parents.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 17, 2021 1:32 am

JC,
World of difference between being depressed and depression.
That sort of macho posturing has probably led to any number of people necking themselves.
I’ve had to deal with people with depression. Why people would think I would make a peer support counsel or I don’t know but it is an illness mor real than the omnicron.
Sometimes dealing with them makes me want to neck them myself. But then that would make me a bad person. There is no justice.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 1:40 am

You can get the blues, but you just dust yourself and off you go

People with depression don’t get that. They think the world is “better off” without them. Selfish bastards generally.

It’s a “self pity” thingy.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 1:42 am

Sometimes dealing with them makes me want to neck them myself. But then that would make me a bad person. There is no justice.

Exactly.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 1:53 am

You really want to slap the depressed bastards. Hard.

No point talking to them. Woe is me.

Best strategy is to ignore them completely, or to “take the piss” out of them.

I’m looking at you, Arkmeister.

John H.
John H.
December 17, 2021 2:01 am

Armadillosays:
December 17, 2021 at 1:40 am
You can get the blues, but you just dust yourself and off you go

People with depression don’t get that. They think the world is “better off” without them. Selfish bastards generally.

It’s a “self pity” thingy.

If you factor in the health care costs the world would be better off without them.
Depression is not always self-pity and can have a biological and developmental basis. The studies make it clear that adverse early life events seriously increase the risk for depression and result in the shrinkage of the hippocampus blah blah I won’t explain.
If you can explain to me how self pity can causes changes in brain structure I might take your ideas seriously but if all you have is some intuitive and common sense idea I’ve heard it all before so don’t bother. Big Pharma makes a motza out of depression. Probably their biggest money spinner.

Contrariwise it is obvious that so much diagnosed depression these days is just people going through a rough patch that has locked the person into behavior patterns which create a vicious cycle which is why I love:

As long as we live self-consciously we must always fail to cope with the world.

Even the psychic invalid throws away his crutches, in such moments [large external threat]. For him the greatest joy is to realise that there is something more important than himself. All his life he has turned on the spit of his own roasted ego. He made the fire with his own hands.

Miller, Sexus, pp. 337,9

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 2:06 am

Lockdowns/shutdowns give certain people a “woody”.

With Politicians, it’s the power. With workers, it’s the flexibility. With the dole recipients, it’s the pay cheque.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 2:30 am

If you can explain to me how self pity can causes changes in brain structure I might take your ideas seriously but if all you have is some intuitive and common sense idea I’ve heard it all before so don’t bother.

Depression is caused by stress.

Stress can be either self inflicted, or by outside influences.

Address the issue directly. Put it “in a box”. Move on. Problem solved.

People tend to “worry too much”. About nothing. Depression is a disease of the “worriers”. There is a guilt factor there in many cases, they just need to “own up” and stop pretending they are the victims.

Pussys.

John H.
John H.
December 17, 2021 2:46 am

Armadillosays:
December 17, 2021 at 2:30 am
If you can explain to me how self pity can causes changes in brain structure I might take your ideas seriously but if all you have is some intuitive and common sense idea I’ve heard it all before so don’t bother.

Depression is caused by stress.

Stress can be either self inflicted, or by outside influences.

Address the issue directly. Put it “in a box”. Move on. Problem solved.

People tend to “worry too much”. About nothing. Depression is a disease of the “worriers”. There is a guilt factor there in many cases, they just need to “own up” and stop pretending they are the victims.

Pussys.

So all the ruckus about mental health problems arising from the lockdowns is just bunkum from self-pitying fools? Makes sense.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 2:50 am

Your business didn’t go broke for no reason, nor did your missus shag the bloke next door because he mowed the lawn.

Personal responsibility.

I do however feel sympathy for young Sheliahs whose parents absolutely “let them down” by being arsehats and not protecting them.

The first duty of a parent is to protect their child. We can’t always do that after they “leave the nest”. Shouldn’t need to if you trained them correctly.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 2:57 am

So all the ruckus about mental health problems arising from the lockdowns is just bunkum from self-pitying fools? Makes sense.

Government grifters might be your first port of call.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 3:04 am

There will be plenty of calls to “lock it down” again.

Let’s see what happens when the money runs out. Which it will.

Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 3:13 am

…young Sheliahs…

Marvellous word, Thanks, Arma!

Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:03 am
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Tom
December 17, 2021 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:08 am
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Tom
December 17, 2021 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:17 am
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Tom
December 17, 2021 4:18 am
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Tom
December 17, 2021 4:19 am
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Tom
December 17, 2021 4:20 am
Tom
Tom
December 17, 2021 4:21 am
Jannie
Jannie
December 17, 2021 4:57 am

Tom’s cartoon round up is the only source of information on world affairs I can trust these days.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
December 17, 2021 6:37 am

Thank you Tom

will
will
December 17, 2021 6:45 am
calli
calli
December 17, 2021 6:47 am

The Bugman cometh…

Henri Loyrette, heritage curator and former head of the Louvre museum, said: “One cannot imagine a reconstruction of Notre-Dame without an aggiornamento. The question is not, ‘should there be contemporary art?’, but rather, ‘what is a church today?’.

“A strictly identical renovation is a capitulation,” he told Le Monde, which said a fierce battle was underway in the French Catholic Church between “believers in modernity and ecumenism and the guardians of a nostalgic conservatism

Why does it need to be brought up to date, wanker? It is an historic and holy building, not a kitchen.

I think the Mona Lisa should be brought up to date – let’s paint over her!

No, the question isn’t either of those – it is what art should we install that honours God and encourages and fortifies the worshipers.

“Capitulation” to what? Good taste? The faithful? God Himself?

Modernists and ecumaniacs have brought the church undone – apparently this bugman wants more to complete the task.

“Nostalgic conservatism” is actually required of Christians- we are constantly told to remember and preserve.

Dot
Dot
December 17, 2021 6:56 am

No church is complete without a laser show and interpretative signs, plus a mural by youth offenders.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 17, 2021 7:01 am

Dotsays:

December 17, 2021 at 6:56 am

No church is complete without a laser show and interpretative signs, plus a mural by youth offenders.

That’s actionable!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 17, 2021 7:02 am

Queue headlines about the overloaded NSW health system.

Vaccination mandates extended to all primary care and other private sector health care providers (16 Dec)

The NSW government in association with NSW Health has announced an extension of the mandatory vaccination program for health care workers.

As part of the changes mandatory vaccinations will be extended to all primary care and other private sector health service providers across the state.

“The revised Public Health Order will retain the existing coverage of NSW Health staff and staff in public and private hospitals,” a statement from NSW Health read.

“It will also extend vaccination requirements to health practitioners working in private and community settings, such as doctors, nurses and pharmacists, speech pathologists, dieticians and naturopaths. It will also cover support staff working in these practices.”

The health care workers affected must be fully vaccinated by January 31 next year with NSW Health stating the changes are consistent with vaccine mandates in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.

Stupid people. It’s hard enough to get nurses and GPs now. Once 31 Jan rolls around that will become much worse. And it will make approximately zero difference to Covid infections, plus add many more to the vax injury list.

Top Ender
Top Ender
December 17, 2021 7:07 am

Ok, Tom, where are you?

calli
calli
December 17, 2021 7:14 am

Gab I don’t think they want to “Protestantise” Notre Dame.

They want to “nothing” it.

P
P
December 17, 2021 7:14 am

FRANCE APPROVES NOTRE-DAME ‘WRECKOVATION’
Panel votes to ‘Disneyfy’ world’s most iconic medieval Gothic cathedral

Writing in the wake of the Notre-Dame conflagration, conservative Jewish author and talk show host Dennis Prager observed, “It is as if God Himself wanted to warn us in the most unmistakable way that Western Christianity is burning — and with it, Western civilization.”

calli
calli
December 17, 2021 7:15 am

Just scrolled back.

“Caustic humour” is much underrated, but like other corrosives, must be used sparingly.

Otherwise you get splashback.

Dot
Dot
December 17, 2021 7:18 am

speech pathologists, dieticians and naturopaths

This is just about killing off alternative therapies (some of it is woo) and direct competition.

Brad Hazzard though. That Nobel prize winner ranks along with VC and bar (Uganda) recipient, David Elliot.

calli
calli
December 17, 2021 7:21 am

Ahahaha! Just checked. The array of medals is still on Elliott’s Wiki page. Well done!

Dot
Dot
December 17, 2021 7:27 am

That might be a genuine mistake, it wasn’t me.

The Liberal hacks deleted any snarky edits.

Razey
Razey
December 17, 2021 7:28 am

Psays:
December 17, 2021 at 7:14 am
FRANCE APPROVES NOTRE-DAME ‘WRECKOVATION’
Panel votes to ‘Disneyfy’ world’s most iconic medieval Gothic cathedral

Writing in the wake of the Notre-Dame conflagration, conservative Jewish author and talk show host Dennis Prager observed, “It is as if God Himself wanted to warn us in the most unmistakable way that Western Christianity is burning — and with it, Western civilization.”

LOL. Can just imagine a statue of Jesus with blinking LED lights around the crown of thorns.

Dot
Dot
December 17, 2021 7:30 am

The decision to disallow the petroleum exploration lease off the NSW coast is monumental.

I am so sick of this “community” BS.

If that was true, it would go to a plebiscite.

I reckon most of the poorer parts of Western Sydney would vote for jobs.

Rich kids selling drugs living on the beach in their parents investment property may not ( I used to walk past a house like this every day to go to the beach at Dee Why).

P
P
December 17, 2021 7:34 am

European Environmentalists Have New Plan For Cargo Ships Based on Paris Climate Agreement Compliance
December 16, 2021 | Sundance

Folks, this story is not from The Onion or any version of sarcastic media. This is very real.

To meet the compliance standards of the Paris Climate Accords and the subsequent treaty that all EU nations agreed to, they must reduce carbon emissions in freight and transit systems. They have spent thousands of hours pouring over possible solutions and will begin the test phase next month.

Razey
Razey
December 17, 2021 7:37 am

Psays:
December 17, 2021 at 7:34 am
European Environmentalists Have New Plan For Cargo Ships Based on Paris Climate Agreement Compliance
December 16, 2021 | Sundance

Folks, this story is not from The Onion or any version of sarcastic media. This is very real.

To meet the compliance standards of the Paris Climate Accords and the subsequent treaty that all EU nations agreed to, they must reduce carbon emissions in freight and transit systems. They have spent thousands of hours pouring over possible solutions and will begin the test phase next month.

LOL. Only a Millennial could come up with something so ridiculous.

Razey
Razey
December 17, 2021 7:51 am

All jokes aside. If they were actually serious about removing ‘carbon’ then there is no reason these ships couldn’t be run on nuclear power. The tech is well established.

calli
calli
December 17, 2021 7:52 am

They’re Ben Roberts-Smith’s medals on Elliott’s page.

Someone has been very subtle.

Also, the Liberal hacks scanning the page are useless as usual. I bet if you stuck them onto Shorten’s page they’d be disappeared quick as lightning.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 17, 2021 8:01 am

Excellent punch on last night.

Good clean fun.

P
P
December 17, 2021 8:03 am

(AP) – US health advisers recommend Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines over J&J shot because of rare but serious side effect.

This is a breaking news update. AP’s earlier story follows:

(AP) – A government advisory panel is meeting Thursday to determine if any restrictions are needed for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine because of rare but serious blood clots.

A strange clotting problem prompted the U.S. to temporarily halt the single-dose J&J shots last April while scientists investigated. Eventually regulators decided the benefits of a one-and-done vaccine outweighed what was considered a very rare risk — as long as recipients were warned.
RTWT

Vicki
Vicki
December 17, 2021 8:06 am

Bruce of Newcastle @7.02am – re new mandate extending to alternate health practitioners et al:

What maggots they are in the medical bureaucracy advising NSW government! My daughter has an excellent alternate health practitioner who has steered her teenage daughter (my granddaughter) out of the depths of depression a couple of years ago. He has refused to have the vaccination as he argues that his immune system is in top condition. Very probably he also has private misgivings about the dangers of the vax that he doesn’t advertise for obvious reasons.

Just when you think there is light at the end of the tunnel you are reminded that these bureaucrats are vicious and go out after the dissidents with a vengeance – literally.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 17, 2021 8:11 am

Razey

9/12/16: C. O. 23rd – Transferred to 6th Machine Gun Battalion – France – AQ12367

The 6th MG Battalion would have been intended for the (never completely raised) 6th Division. When it became painfully clear that there would not be enough reinforcements to complete the division, it was broken up and the men re-distributed as individual reinforcements. (There were never enough reinforcements for five divisions, but that is another story.) That is probably how he ended up in a low numbered MG company.

Original members of the MG companies could often be identified by their low (for 1916) numbers. As a reinforcement for the 23rd Battalion, he would have had a relatively high number. (Perhaps in the 3000s or 4000s?)

Actually, look again record. Was it the 6th MG Company, which was the company belonging to the 6th Brigade, to which the 23rd Battalion belonged? It might be a clerical error, in which case my babbling about the 6th Division becomes irrelevant.

Armadillo
Armadillo
December 17, 2021 8:12 am

If they were actually serious about removing ‘carbon’ then there is no reason these ships couldn’t be run on nuclear power.

The Taliban could flog off a few black hawk helicopters and get into the freight game.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 17, 2021 8:17 am

Razeysays:
December 16, 2021 at 11:00 pm
Wow, what a great night, thanks to Boambee John.

Turns out my GGF was in the 6th machine gun company, and there was a bloody BOOK written about them! In Good Company: An Account of the 6th Machine Gun Company, AIF in Search of Peace 1915-1919

Just bought it! I know what I’ll be reading this Christmas.

Caught up with this after posting my earlier comment. The 6th MG Company it was ! Happy reading, glad to help.

Indolent
Indolent
December 17, 2021 8:19 am

The behemoth jerks the strings.

BlackRock adds diversity target for U.S. boardrooms

On climate matters, BlackRock previously had pressed companies to report their emissions and other factors under the SASB standards of the Value Reporting Foundation. BlackRock said on Tuesday that companies may use other standards, noting the work of a new international board announced at the United Nations climate summit in Scotland last month. read more

BlackRock also said it would encourage companies to show how their business plans would be resilient amid efforts to limit global warming, and noted the opportunities offered by new energy sources.

Indolent
Indolent
December 17, 2021 8:25 am

Victor Davis Hanson making a lot of sense. “Democracy” for the left is getting their own way.

Why Is the Left Suddenly Worried About the End of Democracy?

P
P
December 17, 2021 8:26 am
Indolent
Indolent
December 17, 2021 8:33 am

Is Omicron Another Lab Creation?

As noted by Malone, the latest media hype actually began with reports of Africa having far lower case rates than the rest of the world, despite its comparatively low COVID jab rate. That was followed by reports in the local press that South Africa was asking Pfizer to halt its shipments of the shots, as they still had plenty and most adults were refusing to take it.

The very next day, “we suddenly had this huge kerfuffle about this new virus strain, and the press was announcing it was coming out of South Africa,” Malone says. The U.K. almost immediately responded by shutting its borders to most of South Africa.

There could be a serious discussion on whether or not Pfizer runs the world.

Gab
Gab
December 17, 2021 8:53 am

Calli, they’ve been protestanising churches since Vatican II.

Indolent
Indolent
December 17, 2021 8:54 am

Reuters

Refugees lack COVID shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits – documents

In effect, the drug pushers will only operate under total indemnity terms. Do you think they know that their product is dangerous? In a normal world with any real justice, this would be enough to sue them to extinction.

Top Ender
Top Ender
December 17, 2021 8:55 am

Only in the Territory:

Best letter today in the NT News is from an “Eric John Roberts”. He tells the world, in rather stilted language, that he is wearing “two face masks” wherever he goes.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 17, 2021 8:57 am

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
December 17, 2021 at 7:02 am
Queue headlines about the overloaded NSW health system.

Vaccination mandates extended to all primary care and other private sector health care providers (16 Dec)

The NSW government in association with NSW Health has announced an extension of the mandatory vaccination program for health care workers.

Look back at Cassie’s tale of woe yesterday, and my comment bout bureaucrats bleating about overloaded hospitals. Extend that now to GP and specialist practices.

Zipster
December 17, 2021 9:16 am

Wuhan Lab Leak “More Likely” Origin Of COVID-19, Says Researcher

leak my arse, it was deliberate.

P
P
December 17, 2021 9:19 am

That’s some quick thinking.
Totally worth $5 a gallon.

ttps://twitter.com/MHurabiell/status/1471356501470154754
h/t TheLastRefuge

Woolfe
Woolfe
December 17, 2021 9:20 am

Currently contracting on a small gold mine in WA with 180 employees.

50 haven’t had their second clot shot that you need to return in 2022.

P
P
December 17, 2021 9:20 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 17, 2021 9:22 am

I don’t know who Brett Finch is, but not everyone likes being mentioned in the same sentence as him for some reason.
Is he a nember of the Liberal Party?

Indolent
Indolent
December 17, 2021 9:25 am

Look back at Cassie’s tale of woe yesterday, and my comment bout bureaucrats bleating about overloaded hospitals. Extend that now to GP and specialist practices.

I must be very naive. I thought that the reason doctors studied so long to become doctors was to be able to make medical decisions for themselves and their patients. Obviously, bureaucrats know better.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 17, 2021 9:25 am

BlackRock adds diversity target for U.S. boardrooms

When are they going to change their racist name?
How about NoparticularcolorRock or WokeRock.
That’s $400k consultancy fee, you’re welcome.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 17, 2021 9:26 am

Local takeaways now serving the unmasked and uncoded without comment.
Everyone is over this shit and it shows.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
December 17, 2021 9:28 am

I think Brett Finch is a golfer of some kind.

Indolent
Indolent
December 17, 2021 9:30 am
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 17, 2021 9:30 am

“A strictly identical renovation is a capitulation,” he told Le Monde, which said a fierce battle was underway in the French Catholic Church between “believers in modernity and ecumenism and the guardians of a nostalgic conservatism

Imagine the levels of retardation needed to look at Notre Dame, and thinking “This needs the front paving painted green and some cement shitting lions on Plinths to really jazz it up and give it some class.

For the video show perhaps they could go the full ‘come to daddy” experience?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 17, 2021 9:34 am

Indolentsays:
December 17, 2021 at 8:54 am
Reuters

Refugees lack COVID shots because drugmakers fear lawsuits – documents

Prisoners in Australia as well.
The people the government are 100% responsible for.
Passing strange isnt it?

Indolent
Indolent
December 17, 2021 9:35 am

This may have been posted before. It’s an adverse events report prepared by Pfizer which would have been one of the documents released under court order.

CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT
REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021

  1. Presidential election final – Trump 312; And the popular vote, he’s won a thumping victory.

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