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Utterly bizarre. Just look at the slop headlines of Military Show channel. And you want to compare that to AW…
It’s more than that, Humphrey. The idea of competing TV sports rights holders is brand new. Seven gets the free-to-air…
Indeed Roger but the cosiness by him and Henderson to the Uni visa ponzi lobbyists was concerning. Not only that…
Johnson appointed him. He drops cases as prosecutor before the ICC embarrassing to the US, etc….but he’s a Moslem plant.…
exactly what was on my mind all week
now there’s nice chart that shows it.
sweet!
In a sane world this would be a big red alarm going “YOU ARE FUCKING UP” with lights & sirens thrown in.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-17/unions-react-myefo-economic-update-wage-growth-migration/100706990
In 2020-21, roughly 100,000 more people left Australia than moved here due to strict border policies.*
That trend is expected to continue this financial year, even as borders slowly open — with 41,000 more people to depart than arrive.
But in 2022-23, things will start to quickly turn around.
That year is expected to see 180,000 more people arrive than depart, followed by 213,000 the following year, and 235,000 in 2024-25.
To put that number in context, during the last “normal” year (2018-19), that number was 241,000.
And it has been much higher than that in the past — in 2008-09, it fell just short of 300,000.
TL/DR: The government is about to unleash the migration ponzi turned up to 11, the unions have noticed this tends to reduce wages pressures.
But in “Good news” the depreciation in buying power being currently caused by inflation will be over in 2022… according to the same mongs who caused it.
* Imagine misgoverning a continent so badly you have to import replacement populations because you are driving people out.
Lot’s of macho skinny dipping last night with bush lawyer threats being flung around like lip-stick at Mardi Gras. Head prefect offered to Dot unlimited financial support, which is fine except for this:
What I offered Dot, who actually is a very decent person
That is incorrect head prefect. Dot is not decent because he has maligned Viking Steaks. As a man you must recognise this slur on masculinity. If you don’t next thing I suppose you’ll be wearing suspenders and crotch-less panties. It’s a slippery slope.
I expectr Labor to make this a point of difference in the election campaign – their policies will be lower immigration and higher levels of skills & wages for locals.
A report on Biden’s international “Democracy Summit” held last week:
RTWT
The decision to disallow the petroleum exploration lease off the NSW coast is monumental.
Dot, London to a brick most wouldn’t be locals. There are quite a few coal mines in the hinterland round the ‘gong.
I’d love to see Kean unseated by some green left indy… the guy represents all that is wrong with the Liberals.
No doubt immigration will increase GDP but what does it do for inflation adjusted per capita GDP?
Meanwhile, the QLD government has granted Origin Energy c. a dozen leases for fossil fuel exploration in the channel country. Still a couple of hoops to jump through but that’s the main one.
The usual suspects – “traditional owners”, environmentlaists & “Lock the Gate” are up in arms because they allegedly weren’t consulted, which is to say they weren’t granted a veto.
ABC aghast that “fracking” could be used.
Nothing discernable, according to this
However that may be despite of, rather than because of.
It may have been far higher in the absence of this.
Another factor is that Australia’s immigration program has always had an emphasis on skills.
Here are some covid laughs If you need cheering up
Same when they speak of bipartisanship.
“If you do what we want, then we will be working together.”
When in opposition it means throwing every obstacle in the way of the government while calling them blindly partisan. In government it means that the people have spoken and even in policies the public was never informed of beforehand the opposition must ‘hop on board’.
Our Liberal governments have a long history of bipartisanship, always finally coming around to Labor’s and the Green’s position.
That would be a change to modernists’ standard fare.
To what extent? If minimal, what is the net benefit if other measures of quality of life are into account?
Across the board, what percentage of migrants pay more in tax than they receive in benefits, thus ensuring their presence is a net benefit to the host population?
How much do they send out of the country in remittances?
Has any economist probed the assumptions behind Treasury’s recent modelling that underpins the return to 160 000 per year?
So many questions…
this will be only feasable once the Soylent Green conveyors are commissioned.
Why does a canbra shiny bum outfit tasked with taking other people’s money and spending it determine our economic policy and priorities? Fuck ANU canbra Marxist parasites.
*fuck off canbra Marxist anu parasites
Wasn’t that something that Abbott tried to change or actually change only for it to changed back by Trumble – to require people challenging proposed projects to demonstrate that they are in someway affected? People from Melbourne, for example, could not travel to QLD to complain about the Adani mine.
As it is you have morons live in a fantasy world where Gaia is alive and all living things (well, vertebrates and trees) rely upon their benign stewardship so even a tree frog in the Amazon is their urgent, even righteous, concern. And woe to any human who would interfere with a frog!
Looks like Norilsk could use some extra CO2.
It’s precisely because it’s a “historic and holy building” that it needs to be secularised.
The French Revolution is still playing out.
Roger. Prize for the most clueless was a sticker I saw in a mine car park in Queensland. Protesting gas exploration in Channel Country. However this is the generation we deal with, quite a few of my collegues openly hold green left veiws that if I held I couldn’t reconcile with working in a coal mine.
Cardinal Pell Has One Question for Cardinal Becciu: ‘Will He Just Tell Us What the Money Was Sent for?’
National Catholic Register-Joan Frawley Desmond-December 16, 2021
The former prefect of the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy sat down for an interview on his three-volume ‘Prison Journal’ touching on his incarceration, Cardinal Becciu and Vatican finances.
I’m not confident of anything with the Vatican trial. I don’t know what’s going on. I’m not even entirely sure that it will go ahead. It might fail for legal reasons.
There’s no doubt that 2,300,000 [Australian dollars] was sent from the Vatican to Australia. Cardinal Becciu acknowledged that.
We just received the available recordings of the [Vatican] trial, and it looks as though Msgr. [Alberto] Perlasca, [the longtime investment manager for the Vatican], said under interrogation that the money was sent to the bishops’ conference in Australia for my legal defense. That’s certainly not true. We’ve asked the bishops’ conference, they received nothing. We certainly received nothing.
So I have one question for Cardinal Becciu: “Will he just tell us what the money was sent for?” And if it’s nothing to do with me or for entirely innocent purposes, good, I would be quite pleased, and we can get on with our lives.
Note that the French government, not the Catholic Church, owns Notre Dame and the rest of France’s cathedrals. The fire has given them the excuse to further vandalise the building with the willing assistance, sadly, of a few leading Catholic iconoclasts in the mould of Vatican II.
Coming from concrete jungles, their embedded carbon footprint is massive.
All that matters is outcomes. Not feelings.
ML. Yes, IMO didn’t go far enough but was a start. Was DOA as Turnbull knifed Abbott.
But the pay is good.
Moral cowardice…a lot of it about these days.
Are irrelevant. What matters is if you are on welfare.
Mask mandate effective in QLD from 1.00am tomorrow.
Round and round we go and when we stop nobody knows.
If my wife and I could be sure they won’t close the borders again or introduce some draconian restrictions on returnees we’d be cancelling our QLD beachside holiday and heading down to Sydney. Still may cancel anyway.
How much do they send out of the country in remittances?
Got mates married to Philo’s & Thai’s. If parents are farmers or retired remittances are the norm. That whole part of the world including the sub continent has a large part of their young population working overseas as mechanics or housekeeping staff.
They just lurve greens in Norilsk. A nickel and cobalt town. Nickel has been around US$20k per tonne and cobalt is a sweet $70k per tonne. All those batteries don’t make themselves.
Science! (TM).
In NSW, you can only catch COVID on a plane…
I understand that and nothing against it, Rockdoctor, but for some countries remittances can account for 5% or more of GDP! There are going to be pros and cons in that situation for the receiving country.
The filthy bush pig is milking the tragedy.
He is Joe Burns brother-in-law. Any other questions?
Pallashay on the new(ish) Qld mask mandate (the CM):
‘‘This is a small price to pay for your freedoms’, she said.’
Steely-eyed plain-talkers from Australia’s last holdout won’t stand for this.
Not necessarily Science!(TM).
Anna, the Mother of All Queenssslanders, might have someone on the inside,
passing on Omicron’s dastardly plans.
The problem for Queensssland tourism in a nutshell.
Uncertainty.
Pony Girl and her advisers still believe their “pilot light” and “snapback” rhetoric.
You don’t reckon our competing markets (Fiji, Bali, Hawaii) aren’t poisoning the wells about Queensssland being high risk.
Totally unexpected. A bolt from the blue. Inconceivable.
Former Wallabies captain David Pocock will run as an independent Senate candidate in the ACT at next year’s federal election on a platform of “bold” climate change action, integrity and a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament.
The former rugby union player who says he currently has “zero dollars” in his campaign account said he would not rule out accepting donations from investor Simon Holmes a Court’s Climate 200 activist group.
A bit sad for a bloke who until very recently was earning $750,000 p.a.
What’s left of it.
Cyclone Anna has wreaked more destruction than Yasi did.
PS: if the idiots will take this up the arse, imagine what else they’ll fall for.
In the shit between leftards’ ears, compliance (giving up your freedom) is freedom.
No wonder she’s barren. Getting her pregnant would be child abuse.
George Megagenius was not up to the job (the first of many).
I’d call Anna a spanner, but she doesn’t make my nuts tighten.
Or he’s just not willing to back himself with his own money.
“I think Brett Finch is a golfer of some kind.” No, that’s Brett Lee.
McGowan Cabinet reshuffle today… Health Minister getting the boot…
Eyriesays:
December 17, 2021 at 10:11 am
No doubt immigration will increase GDP but what does it do for inflation adjusted per capita GDP?
Nothing good.
Anna spins it more than the GOAT.
Phone? Who needs phones?
Will
Another factor is that Australia’s immigration program has always had an emphasis on skills.
As demonstrated by Fraser’s “Lebanese concession”?
Skilled migrants will make up less than 50% of the 2021-22 intake.
Old School Conservativesays:
December 17, 2021 at 11:24 am
The former rugby union player who says he currently has “zero dollars” in his campaign account
A bit sad for a bloke who until very recently was earning $750,000 p.a.
Steady on! Surely you don’t think that he will be using his money?
Mushroom news.
Deadly ‘black fungus’ disease spotted in Americans with COVID-19 (16 Dec)
There you go, the unclean will be colonized by fungus. OTOH given how the MSM so keenly keeps us in the dark and feeds us so much, er, fertilizer, these patients should do very well.
Well it was certainly a boon to the organised crime sector.
Roger
Snap!
B John
Per capita in constant dollars is quite good. In fact it’s one of the highest in the world if not the highest after ignoring the Gulf states. It’s in US dollars which is the only real currency that counts
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYGDPPCAPKDAUS
Ironically, the trend line kept going higher as we reformed the economy.
So much for we make nafink.
No.
Brett Lee has a chain of appliance stores.
Brett Finch is definitely a golfer with the yips and a collection of antique cars.
Red ones.
Mask up or you’ll be locked out and locked down, warns the Ukrainian.
I read that Gillard has received an honorary doctorate in law from RMIT. Not bad for someone who ended their legal career as a junior partner in an exit interview explaining how she jeopardised a major client relationship after being in a relationship with one of their thug employees. Strange world.
We don’t make much nafink, but our nafink is top quality.
World class nafink.
One also needs to kind of ignore or adjust for those smaller European countries which show outsized GDP , such as Switzerland and Luxembourg etc. The reason is that they have lots of foreign workers who live over the border and work in these countries during the day. It creates a problem accounting for GDP because those foreigners work in those places but don’t live there. Therefore GDP per capita is distorted by these fewer people who produce but aren’t counted .
For a place that makes nafink and has experienced very high levels of immigration we’ve done okay. Perhaps it needs to be lowered for social reasons but the economics doesn’t reflect this need as overwhelming.
Pony Girl, “Don’t make me have to do this.” I’m phoning White Ribbon and Andrew O’Keefe.
Re the Cernovich tweet on the side bar, if the vaccines are safe and the adverse effects are rare, why does Pfizer, for instance, require as a matter of necessity for their mass distribution, an indemnity clause? Does Claire Lehmann have any idea?
An interesting view of the coronapanic from a UK perspective.
Did a little rummaging around and Ben Irvine isn’t just some random nutter.
Don’t be Shy, Tories looks interesting.
Australia has a thriving backyard tabbouleh sector and Commodore rebirthing program.
Whoops
Work but don’t live there.
I read that Gillard has received an honorary doctorate in law from RMIT. Not bad for someone who ended their legal career as a junior partner in an exit interview explaining how she jeopardised a major client relationship after being in a relationship with one of their thug employees. Strange world.
Read all about it here. The slapper is living proof there is no justice.
This is an institution that employs Rob Hulls to head up its ‘Centre for Innovative Justice’.
Innovative justice…I suppose that’s one term for what the Victorian courts dish out.
What an open ended question.
Dover
It’s America, as you know you need an escape clause for people talking a slash in a halfway public toilet
There you go, the unclean will be colonized by fungus. OTOH given how the MSM so keenly keeps us in the dark and feeds us so much, er, fertilizer, these patients should do very well.
Ive read this one, Id prefer not to go there.
And shortly thereafter handed in her practising certificate and has not been able to practice law since. Amazing eh?
JC at 12:05.
Are you saying that my Swiss watch might have been made by a Frenchman and my Lindor balls might have been fondled by a German.
Mein Gott and Sacre Bleu!
Goes with the lefty territory.
DC Bar Reinstates Ex-FBI Lawyer Who Admitted Altering Russia Probe Email (16 Dec)
Only class-enemies lose their law licenses.
What’s more amazing is that for c. 7 years she could make laws.
Sure, but that applies to their fully licensed products too and as patients we can refuse them. The fact that they require an indemnity clause in order to distribute the vaxx is instructive.
Yes, the Swiss are just money gnomes in
Zurich. They make nafink. It’s the Germans, frogs, Italians who make sumfink there. 🙂
Gab:
Bloody vandals.
To be fair, Dover, J&J just had a court case upheld against them for squillions.
Supreme Court rejects J&J request to halt talcum powder suit (14 Dec)
That deadly deadly material known as baby powder. Worse than plutonium. If I was Pfizer I’d be writing iron-clad indemnity clauses too.
(All this stuff is complete rubbish. But I’m not the poor CEO making out the cheques to these gold diggers.)
I said the new qld cho is a dangerous ideologue.
So first thing he does is gins up a mob:
But then:
Dangerous man playing with fire.
So there is a fair chance my Swiss Army knife might have been assembled by … gasp! … Italians!
Inconceivable!
So egghead QLD cho has declared masks mandatory in QLD retail until people get vaccinated to the correct number.
Remember when they lifted implemented the previous mask mandates and said at 80% they’d be lifted because 80‰ was the magical reward number?
Surprise!
Qld nakedly attempting to ruin Christmas for everyone and linking it to vaccination numbers.
Hoping a mob will form against hold outs.
So obvious.
Chairman Dan’s personality revealed:
Adem Somyurek leaks details of Daniel Andrews cabinet meetings
RACHEL BAXENDALE
VICTORIAN POLITICAL REPORTER
Former Labor powerbroker and Andrews government minister Adem Somyurek has leaked details of cabinet meetings in which he was involved, claiming the Premier begins every meeting by seeking praise for his social media strategy.
Mr Somyurek’s Twitter spray comes after an investigation into branch-stacking allegations against his former ALP faction was used by powerbrokers as a pretext for effectively ending the state political careers of five of his former allies, as well as two other factionally isolated MPs not implicated in the scandal.
“First item on the agenda every Cabinet meeting is the size of Dans (sic) online performance,” Mr Somyurek tweeted on Thursday.
“It is a ritual that bores all ministers and interferes with the business of government. But ministers shut up – lest they offend the mad king. Dans (sic) private office contains a social media unit.”
Mr Somyurek said the Premier would then call on a “senior female adviser” to report on his online performance.
“The adviser reports glowingly about Dans (sic) big reach, comparing the size of Dans (sic) reach with the size of the PMs and other premiers in what is a weekly reach measuring contest.
“As the adviser breaks down every tweet, every Facebook post and proclaims Dan popularity, Dan leans back in his chair with hands clasped behind his head scans the room with pride looking for acknowledgment and praise from ministers of his big reach.”
Mr Somyurek said the Premier would then invite feedback from ministers, with those aligned with his own Socialist Left faction “quick off the block” and “effusive in their praise of their ‘dear leaders’ ‘massive’ reach.”
“Out of fear of being purged Right ministers reluctantly follow. As the adviser returns to her seat, she is often seen rolling her eyes.”
Mr Andrews has more than a million followers on Facebook — more than 200,000 more than Prime Minister Scott Morrison — having spent almost $800,000 of taxpayers’ money in his first five years in power to promote his page on the social media platform.
He has a combined 1.7 million followers across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.
In September, his former social media strategist Eloise Young revealed community engagement on the Premier’s platforms soared up to 451 per cent as the pandemic hit Victoria during the state’s extended 2020 lockdown.
The Premier’s office declined to comment.
Herald-Sun
How stupid is the Ukrainian?
Masks are not required for: bar staff, office staff, kitchen staff.
However, Bottleshop staff do have to wear a mask.
An outdoors job, non-stop exertion, heavy breathing never ends.
You couldn’t make up this level of stupidity.
Perth cathedral to host vaccination clinics
The clinics at St Mary’s Cathedral will operate this weekend and again on January 8 and 9 (The eRecord/WA Government)
Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has approved two pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics to be held at St Mary’s Cathedral, echoing Pope Francis’ call for people to be vaccinated as “an act of love”. Source: The eRecord.
Airport altercation. All this clip lacks is Jack Little and Domenic Denucci. Love the girl who tries to wield the stanchion.
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1471531785917972486
JC
Per capita in constant dollars is quite good. In fact it’s one of the highest in the world if not the highest after ignoring the Gulf states. It’s in US dollars which is the only real currency that counts
Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t welfare payments counted towards GDP? If so, then Fraser’s “Lebanese concession” increased GDP? And bringing in unemployables, and putting them on welfare also does?
Bruce of Newcastle:
You need to see this through the eyes of the sort of person who works in Health Administration, Bruce.
They will be looking at the budget bottom line and saying to themselves “How good will this look in my resume!”
This attitude is the same as the one that sacks senior staff with 20+ years of experience, replaces them with imported nurses with bugger all experience, then complains about the cost of the lawsuits after patients get crippled or die.
When you are travelling by plane and your regular armaments are unavailable, the the steel bollard in the airport terminal can be used with lethal effect.
more and more are noticing the west is in terminal decline
Transfer payments are not.
LOL
Chinese click farms.
Seriously, who actually bought Gladys Berejiklian all of those flowers?
Yep, beloved like Princess Diana.
What is the based Orthodox church’s number?
Hello, based department?
Golly gosh, for a moment there I wondered if she had dropped dead !!!!!!
The UKHSA data actually makes a strong case for vaccination in the 60+ age group – and most certainly for the 70+ cohort.
As Eugippius tells us, the apparent death rate for the 70+ unvaxxed is about 3x that of the vaxxed. For the 60+ unvaxxed it’s about 4x.
Although Eugippius doesn’t appear to have done the calculation, the raw death numbers also reflect this benefit: the unvaxxed make up only ~5% of the 70+ cohort – yet make up 14% of total deaths in that group.
Similarly for the 60 to 69 cohort: unvaxxed ~7%; unvaxxed as proportion of deaths 25%.
In terms of severe cases, Eugippius tells us that the unvaxxed make up “only” 48% of the reported patients in UK critical care. However he forgets to mention that the unvaxxed also only make up between ~5% and ~20% of the ‘at risk’ population (ie the over 50’s). So, there’s somewhere between a 2.5x to 10x+ over-representation of the unjabbed in the ICU.
“Negative efficacy” seems to be a user-defined term.
B John
Welfare, like all government transfers are counted once so its “production” is not double counting. It’s distributed and that’s how it would be picked up. Have a look at the GDP equation and just consider “ government” as part of production because government doesn’t produce anything. It just takes from the private sector to satisfy “unmet needs”.
Dot
Welfare transfers are part of government in the GDP equation , no?
Or:
“He gazed up at the enormous bloated face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden in the long dark parabolic shadow under the nose. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down to be dampen the top of his face mask. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Palaszczuk.”
government transfers are NOT counted
Virgin market monetarism vs Chad Austrian school meme intensifies!
Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t welfare payments counted towards GDP?
Transfer payments are not.
I thought Id google for a simple yes/no….
Apparently the answer is NO!? definitely….not?
Lots of people spruiking an increase in welfare payments as a boost to GDP (via spending) though.
Government services to administer transfer payments do count.
LOL
Okay Dot.
Let’s be difficult. Where are welfare payments in the GDP. Is it government or left as part of production?
You’re kidding, right?
You are too kind.
Eugippius didn’t forget, he deliberately forgot to mention that to support his narrative.
I’m not kind. He is a bullshit artist.
You are too kind.
Eugippius didn’t forget, he deliberately forgot to mention that to support his narrative.
I’m not kind. He is a bullshit artist.
Can you please elucidate, John H.?
So far today we’ve turned away Three out of every Four people who’ve wanted to enter the pub.
#vaccinemandate
#itsforyourowngood
#welovePalaszczuk
#Annlovesme
#uncleanunvaxxedlepers
Sounds like Keef talking about Mick’s ‘tiny todger’.
Qld CHO says its “antisocial” to not wear a mask in crowded settings.
Then excludes pubs, clubs, theme parks from mask wearing.
Because Science!(tm)
More grounds for optimism (and less for panic) –HKUMed study indicates Omicron 70 times more infectious and far less severe than Delta.
The laws of Queensland override the laws of science stuff.
The ABC campaigning today for suppression of political dissent, in this case from a pro-life pregnancy support group
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-17/hcscc-investigates-birthline-over-unclear-termination-stance/100708014
And campaigning to loosen the restrictions on granny-killing in Victoria.
Does this mean not getting vaxxed is a sin of omission?
A selfish failure to “act in love” towards my neighbour?
Only if the vaccines actually worked to prevent transmission.
And so the house that Francis built turns out to be based on sand.
But, by all means, continue to curry favour with the authorities, Your Grace.
John H.says:
December 17, 2021 at 1:56 pm
Dont care, cant care.
2 years of government thuggery renders any other measurement or statistics irrelevant,.
In you critique of “a bullshit artist” did you manage to find how many people have been irreversibly damaged by the lockdowns and various restrictions?
Surely thats a burning issue since you care…so…much…
Heres a few places to start.
Child and youth mental health problems have doubled during COVID-19
MELBOURNE VACANCY RATES HIT 20-YEAR HIGH AS DEMAND HITS RECORD LOW
Then theres this mystery, wrapped in an enigma hidden inside a beagle
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/causes-death-australia/latest-release
In 2020:
There was a 23.9% decrease in the age-standardised death rate from respiratory diseases.
Influenza and pneumonia mortality had the highest proportional rate decrease of all respiratory diseases with a drop of 45.8% from 2019.
There were 55 people who died from influenza. This compares to 1,080 in 2019.
Pneumonia is also a common terminal cause of death, especially for older people who have long term chronic conditions. There was a decrease of more than 20% in influenza and pneumonia as an associated cause of death (where it was not the underlying cause of death).
The decrease in the respiratory disease death rate from 2019 is the largest recorded over the last ten years.
its almost like the coof being excluded from the usual cause of death for the elderly migth, just might be the reason for the decrease?
Naaah, lock everything down, 24/7 fear porn and lurch into the 3rd year of a state of emergency granting unlimited powers to the politicians.
Thats bound to make things better.
Causes of death Oz 2020..
COVID-19
Rank: 39th
Median Age: 86.9 years old.
You know who doesn’t want their Christmas ruined? Palawhatever.
The optics of 500 cases a day on Dec 25 flowing over the vaccinated only berlin wall border would really ruin Christmas for her.
So you’ll have to wear masks just to be sure. Oh and look! Five unvaccinated people.
It is PalacechookScience.
Very straightforward. But you do have to pay attention.
The hugest change in Australia since I were a lad is the takeover of all economic activity by government.
Council in the bush town where I grew up used to do roads and that was it. Now they spend their time applying for handouts and keeping up with social programs like mental health for farmers, family violence, women’s sport, and geeing up the tourist trade with money from state and fed govt.
Seriously, there would hardly be a business or organisation in this country that doesn’t depend upon govt patronage, subsidy or approval. It’s the breath of life now, and we’re all effed because of it.
No.
Keynesianism is like burying jars of coins as an employment programme.
Pi is exactly three!
It’s okay. There is a bill before Parliament to confirm this fact.
Seriously though naturally and obviously the QLD CHO’s mission is a 95% vaccination rate. That is his primary, perhaps sole mission and everything is to achieve that.
No doubt the previous CHO who spectacularly quit baulked at what he was told was going to be have to be done in the name of Science to achieve the mandated 95%.
So when punters pick up OhMyGosh from a Qld pub or club, full of the unstabbenated, to whom do they turn for redress?
The monkey on the Science! bike can only peddle so fast.
That’s irrational, Dot…
So the story is that 100000 fully vaccinated people are flowing over the border bringing covid into QLD so everyone in qld has to wear masks except in places where there’s only fully vaccinated people with covid.
That would be the enstabbenated.
I can’t even spell my made up words properly.
Omicron is on the loose, most likely out of any control so in 2022 we’ll have everyone who is going to get the coof, get it.
People may start to wonder just what the last nearly two years has been about.
Found out this morning that there’s OhMyGosh lurking everywhere at the Bay. Understandably, lots of frail elderly and immunosuppressed are not wanting to venture old, poor buggers. Some of my elderly friends are masking up if the place is crowded. Their call.
On the up-side a very large turn-out was reported for the Fly Point carols and crackers night – many…many families picnicking on the grassy slopes as well as the designated seating. People are just hungry to be normal again.
Bought a new portable air con (tube perished on the oldie & too old to get a replacement .. LOL!) .. 10 minute install took me 2 hours .. had to redo all the window stuff to fit the exhaust hose .. and how the bloody hell can anyone put a flexible plastic tube onto a thread fitting in a few minutes? .. gotta be a trick to it .. took me a good half hour!.. damn thing just kept unwinding itself .. duuuuuuh!
Bushfire and cyclone recovery are “GDP Boosters”.
So, if I burn my house down smoking in bed, and my insurer builds me a precise replica of the old house, that is a $400k GDP boost.
For no net gain.
It is rounded three depending if there is no dot – no decimal point.
I myself have always been an exponent of natural logarithms.
venture
oldoutThe punters will be mistaken, & have actually picked up the Wuflu from an unvaxxed leper out on the street or somewhere.
It won’t have been anywhere Princess Anastacia has declared to be “safe”
Now they spend their time applying for handouts
The Feraldton council had (and almost certainly still has) 2 people on the payroll whos job it is to apply for government grants.
Id imagine every council in Australia over a certain size has the same.
Thats 2 tax eaters on high 5 figure incomes whos sole job is to write in the tortured dialect of the pubes and beg for money.
Dont believe me…
https://www.seek.com.au/grant-writing-jobs
The poor bastard:
Derek Chauvin Pleads Guilty To Federal Charges In George Floyd Death
Could extend his prison time by several years beyond the state sentence, and might allow him to serve time in federal prison.
Another aspect to explore with QLD’s tame new CHO is that he was second pick.
Imagine “training all your life for this moment”…and only getting the job by default when the other guy refused it.
That’s going to play into his actions in weird and wonderful ways.
In a few weeks, as the heat picks up offers no reprieve even at night, you will be telling yourself it was the second most important thing you have ever done.
Second only to being born.
The Broken Window principle means all those places in the US where they raid shops in gangs and smash things up will be among the wealthiest places in the US.
No, no.
The GDP has simply been relocated from the store to someone’s apartment.
It still exists.
And making all those replacement runners helps the GDP of Shitholistan where Nike have their sweatshops.
Indians cleaning the shit off the street in Bombay is an unexplored GDP bonanza. Import that industry at once!
Why would we do that, we have a bloke sitting in machine contraption on wheels doing it for us. Now that dude could be straight out of Bombay, but he’s not doing the sweeping- the machine is. He’s just driving it around. They’re neat, do you have any in queen’s land. Queen’s land, sounds a little on the gay side, but who am I to judge?
So Chairman Dan is a social media size queen? Anyone surprised?
Nah. All tbose things collect is leaves, chip boxes and sparrow corpses…
Well, they need to show it more actively, not just going on a picnic when government allows them.
But they won’t. They will comply.
I talked to a South African guy yesterday, who is here on a working visa. He’s going back home soon, because he refuses to get stabbed (his company can’t extend his visa because of this). Are there many people with strong convictions like this? I doubt that.
We already know Lord Waffleworth is not bound by the Laws of Physics.
Dotsays:
December 17, 2021 at 1:36 pm
Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t welfare payments counted towards GDP?
Transfer payments are not.
But when the transfer payments are spent?
I expect there are more than the media would want you to believe.
Vaccines in 5-11 Years Caused 8 Cases of Heart Problems – CDC Announces (Dec 16 2021)
JC
Thanks.
I hope so, but the question is – are there enough of them to stop this madness?
Not yet.
Well, that was fun.
Went shopping with one of my T shirts on, emblem displayed on left breast.
Refused service in 3 pubs.
Allowed into IGA.
Allowed into Chemist.
Allowed into Butchers.
(Didn’t particularly like doing it to the publicans, but the stand has to be made.)
H B Bearsays:
December 17, 2021 at 3:16 pm
The laws of Queensland override the laws of science stuff.
We already know Lord Waffleworth is not bound by the Laws of Physics.
IIRC, it was the laws of mathematics in his case.
What was the emblem, Winston?
Weimar currency.
An interesting experiment has just commenced. Barbados ditched QE2 as head of state as was widely reported. What hasn’t been widely reported is they’ve also gone full woke progressive socialist.
Barbados primed for huge shake-up of tax system after breaking from Royal Family (14 Dec)
Yay! Sit down money for everyone. And free education in wokery! Barbados soon will be like a utopia only better.
Not at all. He’s someone who’s always struck me as Vox Day’s gamma in the sociosexual hierarchy. Seeing Adem Somuyrek’s posts about him only reinforced it. The clown is all about how he’s a great alpha dog leader type, without any of the qualities an alpha actually brings. Would not surprise me if his wife is actually very unhappy.
Alphas do play the game, but generally they don’t need to blackmail or threaten people into following them. Everything I’ve read about Danny’s history is he’s a vile little game player who badly needs to get punched in the face, but it never happened.
Sadly its a case study on letting someone who should never be near any sort of power landing in that position. It’s all about making his image into what he fantasizes, but he will never be that. The only way for him to realise it is for his world to be utterly shattered, but that’s never happened.
So all of victoria cops it. Damn it.
Hey Cassie, is it you that likes Patrick Coffin? If so, here’s his latest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TemZ_GhOl9E&t=392s
Amber-Jade Sanderson, who has served as Environment Minister since March, was announced as Mr Cook’s replacement.
…
Before the March election, Ms Sanderson received praise from the Premier for her role in delivering Western Australia’s Voluntary Assisted Dying laws.
ABC News
If only party members were as capable at standing up to Dan as certain stairs.
HBBear:
Damn straight, O Pantsless One.
Gab:
The one in my current Gravatar, Gab.
Jacinda in NZ can, as we all know, be woke as. But when she set up a child abuse royal commission, it did its job properly and investigated government institutions as well as the churches
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/457987/will-abuse-in-care-inquiry-s-interim-report-spur-reformation-of-political-culture
– which, as we also know, the Gillard-McClellan leftist political sham here deliberately failed to do.
Gab – the bit outside of the 6 point star is the same colour as the T shirt.
It stands out more.
It’s all about the patronage.
I’m taking the horror! stories about Notre Dame with a shovel of salt.
The cathedral barely survived the French revolution and as noted the side altars are dark and dull with 19th century stuff.
I made a commitment now to regular visits when it is reopened to the public in 2024. 🙂
I have photos of the exterior renovations I took when I was there in February 2020.
I’d forgotten about the fire and had wandered down there hoping to attend mass.
Has anyone noticed how many ‘stories’ at Their ABC are couched in terms of: here is a piece of what should be good news for the vast majority. But, not everyone agrees . Or, but ‘experts’ say there may be unforseen consequences. Or, indigenous groups/environmentalists/LGBT alphabet groups etc claim that there has not been enough consultation.
It seems that the post-modernist version of balanced reporting is to dredge up everyone who disagrees with anything, especially if they are members of the Progressive Privilege hierarchy, and air their complaints uncritically, at length and in detail.
I was about to comment on a report where, despite “overwhelming” opposition, something greenies didn’t like got through. However, it seems there is one remaining person there who knows the meaning of “overwhelming” and the report was changed before I posted.
Poor sod.
This is what a woke judiciary delivers.
“We Are In Different Times:” As Crime Continues to Surge, California Residents Resort to Leaving Their Cars Parked With the Trunk Open In Desperate Attempt To Deter Looters From Smashing The Windows
Seems like the vaccines are doing a pretty good job of keeping older people out of hospital in the UK.
Their ABCess with Benny Law and his fag hag.
“My favourite meme for the year was the ship stuck in the Suez with the little excavator digging on the bow… the ship labelled “ structural racism” and the little digger as “ my employers anti discrimination policies”
Radio off…
Winston Smithsays: December 17, 2021 at 3:29 pm
Good work Winston.
Keep it up. Every day.
Rosie.
That would be the virus strain which has had one person die “ with” it?
Just phoning in the talking points now
And them people may start to demand a reckoning of the authorities.
Heard that refrain this morning as the ABC reported that “traditional owners” & environmentalists objected to the granting of fossil fuel exploration leases in QLD’s channel country which might lead to the use of fracking.
Not enough “consultation” – translates as “we didn’t get a right to veto the proposal.”
Funny how any notion of the common good disappears from view whenever certain minorities are claiming special privileges over the rest of us.
Never underestimate the utter stupidity of the chattering classes Roger.
Katie Hopkins wins the internet…
Where there’s laughter, there’s still hope.
Winston – I was expecting that to be a link to the Bee.
Lately satire is reality that hasn’t quite arrived yet.
The Stuart MacGill of public health.
Was that in regard to Omicron or fracking, Gez…or perhaps both! [laughing face]
Rosie,
Out of hospital but into the mortuary.
All good.
Miss, I just saw the comment and didn’t have time to comment earlier. I’ve been busy and caught up with “GDPing”.
20% of Americans are on some form of mind altering drug. I’d assume that same number or very similar applies here too. There just aren’t that many people suffering depression and anxiety to such an extreme.
Also, the “science” behind psychiatry is quackery.
I really don’t have much sympathy for people that take their own lives because they’re down and therefore I don’t care. These days, it maybe considered a callous attitude, but again I just don’t give a shit. In fact those that snuff themselves are a nice example to others as I also believe in hard consequences.
For those interested in history, I have never heard of this bloke.
Holbein…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGvPjNPo1U
“This anti-bear spray is doing a good job.”
“Yep. Haven’t seen one all day.”
Of course, I do not condone the use of anti-bear spray.
Go, Katie, go! Perfect.
😀
‘The Stuart MacGill of public health.’
Yeah baby.
Does that mean he’s going to be abducted, stripped naked and whacked with a cricket bat?
I saw a electioneering poster for this “independent” in Tim Wilson’s seat today. I wondered if it was a person with the same name coming out of the same loon asylum. It wasn’t as it’s actually her.. the one and only Zoe Daniel.
Lord Almighty.
Seems as though Roger Cook has been moved out of Health to protect him. The OMG variant is coming to WA, and soon – don’t see how it can be kept out for long if it is as infectious as it currently seems. Guess who now isn’t going to cop the blame?
The ABC Party fields another candidate.
Reasonably confronting to stroll down the road in the Brisbane CBD and see signs up telling me that I’m banned from nearly every shop.
Weird moment.
Well looky what we have here.
The Commonwealth is paying “home care providers” to lean on their staff to get vaccinated and to dob on the ones who aren’t.
commit to reporting staff vaccination status weekly through the My Aged Care portal.
Another day has passed since “they will get back to me” on Colesworth selling illegal products.
https://www.wa.gov.au/system/files/2021-09/Prohibition-on-the-use-of-Rapid-Antigen-Testing-No2.pdf
I would just like to say for the record i did not shoot myself in the back of the head twice while throwing myself into that shark tank. Tomorrow.
Wow, just wow.
https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1471534405088792578
Listen to the report. He stabbed a 59 year old woman 20 plus times.
One female juror was threatened.
Too.
Stupid.
To
Survive.
Faulty Chinese aluminium adds to Navy boat delays, costing extra $44 million
The Royal Australian Navy expects its new Evolved Cape Class patrol boats could now be delayed by up to nine months, while an extra $44 million will need to be spent keeping its old fleet in the water, after poor-quality aluminium was imported from China.
Lets put that through the old-timeynator….
The Royal Navy expects its new dreadnought Battleships could now be delayed by up to nine months, while an extra 4 million Pounds will need to be spent keeping its old fleet in the water, after poor-quality Steel was imported from Imperial Germany.
Pauline’s latest classroom video (2 minutes); excellent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Ct9dg-0cc
Wow, just wow.
Yep; but it’s not the blacks who are doing this (although they rank with the orientals for the title as the worst racist group on this rock), it’s the white lefties.
Cronkers
Are these cartoons takes on old silent movies you are so fond of? If so, how do the silent characters communicate?
Really, so they’re destroying criminal justice. Just unreal.
Ruled by mongoloids.
Indigenous leaders, conservationists* to repatriate Safety Beach whale shark carcass on country
The decision was made to euthanise the animal yesterday morning on Safety Beach, north of Coffs Harbour, because of its ailing condition and after multiple, failed attempts to release it back into the ocean.
Garby knowledge holder*, Tony Dootson, said he was disappointed to hear the initial plan had been to repatriate the animal’s heart on country** and then bury most of the carcass at the local rubbish tip.
“Just to throw our animal, as beautiful it is, straight to the tip. That’s not an option,” he said.
“We have other options, and that should have been looked at prior to thinking, even once about throwing it in the tip.”
He said burying the carcass back on country is an important cultural practice.***
“Garby Elders are the land of the sea people,” Mr Dooston said.
* B- Ark residents
** I know how to scam some money out of these silly buggers…
*** With chips and gravy?
**** Leaving deposits “on country” after eating something is not “burying the carcass”
Wow, Dr Doofy is with anna pileofit’s kiss of death is lurching from one stuff up to the next. Mate in Cairns visiting has cut his stay short. Back down the coast tomorrow. Says he aint risking it. Accom apparently understanding as well as those he was seeing.
Queensland beautiful one day, bankrupt the next…
If so, how do the silent characters communicate?
Hip thrusting, lip smacking and eye rolls.
LOl.
Never again let it be said North Korea is a hermit state.