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The Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1898

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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 22, 2021 5:09 pm

What about the obese and the host of medical issues they get.

Well, what about them?

Study: Moderna, Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines less effective in seniors with chronic health woes (20 Dec)

The Moderna and Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines are less effective at protecting older, less healthy adults against infection than they are for younger, healthier recipients, a study published Monday by the Annals of Internal Medicine found.

Just over 92% of the study participants were men, and most were ages 65 and 79 years and either overweight or severely overweight, or obese, the researchers said.

Roughly one-third of the participants had diabetes, while 12% had chronic kidney disease, 5% had severe heart disease and 15% had chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, the data showed.

When it’s time to go it’s time to go. Make sure you are in good grace before then.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 22, 2021 5:11 pm

The 44-year search for justice for Don MackayJack the InsiderFollow @JacktheInsider

12:17PM December 22, 2021
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In past columns around Christmas time, I have mentioned the empty place at the Christmas dinner table. A sign perhaps of a person missing either by choice or by some grim circumstance.

Imagine then the sorrow of the Mackay family who will mark this Christmas as the 44th without the family patriarch, Donald Mackay.

Mackay was murdered on 15 July 1977. His body has never been found.

Last year Mackay’s eldest son, Paul, died after a short battle with cancer. There are three remaining children and as of 2017, the family still owned property in the Griffith area.

Don Mackay’s murder was a political assassination, probably Australia’s first. He had been a Liberal Party candidate in the 1974 federal election and on three occasions as a Liberal Party candidate for the NSW state seat of Murrumbidgee. He was unsuccessful on each occasion, but in 1974, his preferences were enough to unseat the flamboyant Labor member and Minister for Multiculturalism, Al Grassby. More on him later.

Although he was said to have hated the term, Mackay was an anti-drug activist who posed a serious threat to organised syndicates cultivating marijuana in the Riverina, the so-called Grass Castles set, members of L’Onorata or Honoured Society better known in Calabria as ‘Ndrangheta.

Mackay had provided information to police which led to the seizure of a marijuana crop worth an estimated $60 million (in mid-1970s money) on November 10, 1975. At the subsequent trial of Giuseppe Agresta, Leonardo Gambacorta, Pasquale Agresta, Luigi Pochi and Franco Sergi, NSW Drug Squad detectives were forced to pass on notebooks which detailed Mackay’s role as the informant, leaving him roughly exposed.

Three men have served jail terms in Victoria for conspiring to murder Mackay, including the prime suspect in the murder, James Frederick Bazley, Gianfranco Tizzone and gun shop owner, George Joseph. No charges have been brought in NSW over the infamous cold case.

For what it’s worth, the former painter and docker and associate of Bill ‘Billy the Texan’ Longley, turned hit man, Bazley maintained his innocence in relation to the murder of Mackay.

Melbourne based member of the Calabrian Mafia, Tizzone gave Crown evidence indicating Joseph was the intermediary who put him in contact with Bazley. Robert ‘Aussie Bob’ Trimbole had ordered the contract killing.

Bazley died in Melbourne in November 2018. Tizzoni died in Italy in 1998. The whereabouts of Joseph are unknown.

In a recent conversation with a senior police officer, now retired from Victoria Police, I was informed he held concerns about the prosecution of Bazley. When pressed he became tight lipped. Suffice to say, the cop now in his dotage believes a miscarriage of justice may have occurred.

What has always struck me as odd about Tizzone’s evidence was that Trimbole and the other ‘Grass castle’ families in and around Griffith sent Tizzone to Melbourne to find a contract killer. It’s odd because these men were part of a global crime syndicate where presumably men willing to commit murder for money would not be difficult to find.

The Woodward Royal Commission initiated by the Wran government in 1977 had a broad focus on drug supply in Australia and a much narrower one in relation to Mackay’s disappearance. In 1979, it handed down its findings which included that Mackay had been murdered and his body disposed of by a person working for ‘Ndrangheta members in the Griffith area. The report named six men who were influential members of the syndicate: Francesco Sergi (born 24 January 1935), Domenic Sergi (born 3 March 1939), Antonio Sergi (born 4 February 1950), Antonio Sergi (born 29 October 1935), Francesco Barbaro (born 8 September 1937) and Robert Trimbole (born 19 March 1931).

In 1984, the NSW coroner found that Donald Mackay had died of “wilfully inflicted gunshot wounds”. The six men who were named in Justice Woodward’s report all had strong alibis.

Bazley was convicted of conspiracy to murder Donald Mackay in 1986 and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Three years after Mackay’s death, Al Grassby gave South Australian attorney-general, Chris Sumner a document implying falsely and mischievously that Donald Mackay’s wife, Barbara, their son Paul and family solicitor Paul Salmon had conspired to murder Mackay. Sumner refused to air it in the SA parliament. A day later, Grassby hawked the document to NSW Labor backbencher, Michael Maher but Maher, too, refused to read it into the record in the NSW parliament.

Grassby had been hawking this terrible lie around, doing the dirty work of ‘Ndrangheta. He was later charged with criminal defamation. In 1992, Grassby was acquitted on appeal and awarded $180,000 in costs.

There is no doubt about the motive for Donald Mackay’s murder. He was killed because he had exposed the criminal syndicate in Griffith and his information had helped send men to jail.

But there remain many questions unanswered about Mackay’s murder with the most important being who pulled the trigger in the car park at the Griffith Hotel in the early evening of 15 July, 1977.

If the prevailing view, never tested in court, that Bazley murdered Mackay is not true, then the culprit or culprits remain at large. In that event there would be many suspects, among them former members of the NSW Police Force, including the notoriously corrupt NSW Police detective, Fred Krahe.

By the time of Mackay’s murder, Krahe had left the force and had commenced a one-man crime wave, including extortion tactics and violent offending associated with the Nugan Group, a fruit packing company in Griffith and later the CIA linked Nugan-Hand Bank.

Krahe’s role in Mackay’s murder is speculation of course but the fact remains as of Christmas 2021, Don Mackay’s murder remains unsolved, and his remains have not been recovered.

In 2012, NSW Police announced a reward of $200,000 for information leading to the discovery of Don Mackay’s remains. There is an active cold case murder investigation, but it seems to be going nowhere.

I suggest a starting point would be to raise the reward to a million dollars. The seriousness of the crime demands it. That large sum, combined with the passage of time, may encourage people to overcome their fear and step forward to assist police.

The dreadful reality is Don Mackay’s murder may never be solved but we should do everything we can to bring it to some better conclusion. The family of Donald Mackay deserve justice.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 22, 2021 5:15 pm

biting incidents since Biden took office in January, including a string of eight days in a row in which Major bit a Secret Service agent.

No bad dogs.
Only bad owners.

local oaf
December 22, 2021 5:16 pm

lotocoti says:
December 22, 2021 at 4:56 pm

Why the YT algorithm decided this might be of interest, I don’t know.
But now I am.

YT showed that to me about 30 minutes ago. Some weirdos out there all right. No worse than the folks who don’t believe the moon exists I suppose.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 22, 2021 5:17 pm

rosiesays:
December 22, 2021 at 4:27 pm
Cmfeu Victoria are running ‘gender equality in the building industry’ ads on the radio.
Didn’t hear any gender equality ads from the teachers union though.
Perhaps job swaps might work.

At least the ids might learn something, but on the other hand nothing gets built and costs even more.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 22, 2021 5:22 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
December 22, 2021 at 5:07 pm
Concreters
Potato farmers
Bricklayers
Pro line fishermen

Shearers

Back in the days of manual woolpresses, you never fought the woolpresser or one of the presshands….

Anyone who bends their back to earn a crust.

Roger
Roger
December 22, 2021 5:23 pm

Belief, not evidence. Interesting choice of words by Feynman because he was an expert.

He probably said it off the cuff and might have phrased it better.

He’s stating a philosophical principle of true science.

And, yes, he also drilled it into his students that the person the scientist has to question most is himself.

Bruce in WA
December 22, 2021 5:26 pm

Enjoying Tassie. Have to … McClown has just shut us out of going home. ?

John H.
John H.
December 22, 2021 5:27 pm

Rogersays:
December 22, 2021 at 5:23 pm
Belief, not evidence. Interesting choice of words by Feynman because he was an expert.

He probably said it off the cuff and might have phrased it better.

He’s stating a philosophical principle of true science.

And, yes, he also drilled it into his students that the person the scientist has to question most is himself.

He stated the easiest person to fool is yourself but who he is fooling when most people pay no heed to that?

rosie
rosie
December 22, 2021 5:28 pm

I used to see George Joseph around the way.
Is he still alive?
He has to be pretty old.

Roger
Roger
December 22, 2021 5:28 pm

More Feynman:

‘The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.’

John H.
John H.
December 22, 2021 5:30 pm

THIRD TEST OF THE AIR FORCE’S HYPERSONIC WEAPON HAS FAILED

What we should worry about is that Russia has had hypersonic missiles for decades and China has long claimed to have to the same. I sometimes wonder if the USA military-industrial complex is so full of it they can charge huge sums for aircraft that take too long to be combat ready, stealth ships that will never be put into production, and cost overruns that would have most manufacturers in court for breach of contract.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 22, 2021 5:30 pm

Disagree Dover, belief is based on the flimsiest of evidence. Belief doesn’t let facts get in the way.

Roger
Roger
December 22, 2021 5:32 pm

Snap, John!

Not widely known among epidemiological modellers, I’d bet.

Yet time and again they are shown to have fooled themselves.

Roger
Roger
December 22, 2021 5:34 pm

Yet time and again they are shown to have fooled themselves.

Either that or they are intellectually dishonest.

rosie
rosie
December 22, 2021 5:34 pm

Should men aged between 65 and 79 forgo all medical treatments if they have any of the health issues on that list because covid is going to get them?
And Christians should all always be ready to go, all the time, shouldn’t they?

twostix
twostix
December 22, 2021 5:38 pm

P says:
December 22, 2021 at 1:39 pm

Unvaccinated in NSW could foot the bill for their COVID medical expenses:
https://twitter.com/CraigKellyMP/status/1473480522651209731

I’m more than happy to abolish universal healthcare and go to a user pays system.

Fat old fucks and degenerate urban soy fags may not like it though.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 22, 2021 5:38 pm

Thinner blue line: Police explain the Queensland border enforcement

Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said not every person crossing the road border or entering via airports would be checked by officers, as the state recorded more than 257,000 people entering since Monday.

But he said that could change if Chief Health Officer John Gerrard told police he was concerned about Omicron.

We’ve tried warning these filthy southerners about the snakes and crocodiles and Irukandji jellyfish and Dengue mosquitoes and bird-eating spiders.
Yet still they come.

So time for the big guns: CMO Uncertainty.

Razey
Razey
December 22, 2021 5:42 pm

twostixsays:
December 22, 2021 at 5:38 pm
P says:
December 22, 2021 at 1:39 pm

Unvaccinated in NSW could foot the bill for their COVID medical expenses:
https://twitter.com/CraigKellyMP/status/1473480522651209731

The very fact that this is even being discussed just shows that Australia has fallen.

Roger
Roger
December 22, 2021 5:43 pm

belief is based on the flimsiest of evidence. Belief doesn’t let facts get in the way.

We have to begin with some set of beliefs about the world or we’d simply descend into solipsism.

Those beliefs then have to be tested against “the facts” as they are brought to light.

But, in fact (!), the facts are only probabilities or relative facts. We know very little with absolute certainty.

rickw
rickw
December 22, 2021 5:44 pm

If they keep this up, then pretty soon these will turn into rocks, and from there……

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX4Wfzq6uZg

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 22, 2021 5:44 pm

I hope they are skidmark resistant.
ASX:STP took a 35% hit today.
Only listed a couple of months ago.

Oops. Market must be getting tippy when you start seeing this.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 22, 2021 5:45 pm

*toppy

Aaron
Aaron
December 22, 2021 5:45 pm

“Science is based on the belief that the experts are wrong”.

Science advances because a person believes the experts are wrong.

He then advances science by either proving them right or proving them wrong.

But back to the question.

I have no children, but what is the concensus here of those with skin in the game?

John H.
John H.
December 22, 2021 5:45 pm

Rogersays:
December 22, 2021 at 5:32 pm
Snap, John!

Not widely known among epidemiological modellers, I’d bet.

Yet time and again they are shown to have fooled themselves.

What they don’t admit is that the raw data and experience they have is so tiny it makes modeling extremely problematic. For example, we’ve had over 100 years of aircraft production with thousands of different aircraft designs being tested time and again yet even now we still need test pilots and things go wrong. By comparison the epidemiologists have nuffin data and experience wise upon which to create their predictions about pandemics. Should epidemiology even be a full time discipline?

Winston Smith
December 22, 2021 5:47 pm

Sancho Panzer:

It has no legislative weight.
But it is the hook that an activist judiciary will hang everything on.

Like the National Cabinet?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 22, 2021 5:48 pm

He’s now officially dumber than CNN.

Wear masks indoors whether ‘mandated or not’: Scott Morrison addresses nation following national cabinet (Sky News, 22 Dec)

CNN expert: Cloth masks are useless “face decorations” at this point (Instapundit, 21 Dec)

There’s something about Covid which has an amazing effect on politicians. It turns them into complete imbeciles even if they don’t catch it.

JMH
JMH
December 22, 2021 5:48 pm

What other jobs can be added to the list?

Unloading super phosphate bags! By yourself!

cohenite
December 22, 2021 5:54 pm

Become a candidate for One Nation!

https://www.onenation.org.au/fed-candidate

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 22, 2021 5:54 pm

I’m not sure there is any significant difference since beliefs generally are based on evidence of some kind.

I used to think that. But the evidence is overwhelming that most beliefs are shared among friends and rellies with no evidence needed. Ppl buy a belief because it gives them comfort, and wanting to be in a gang does the rest.

Insisting on observable data is rare.

Roger
Roger
December 22, 2021 5:54 pm

There’s something about Covid which has an amazing effect on politicians. It turns them into complete imbeciles even if they don’t catch it.

Doesn’t help that most of them have had their spines removed upon entering office.

I have no children, but what is the concensus here of those with skin in the game?

Aaron, my children are grown and make their own decisions, but if they were minors I’d be very reluctant to have them vaccinated given what we presently know and don’t know about the possible effects long term.

Barry
Barry
December 22, 2021 5:55 pm

John H. says:
December 22, 2021 at 5:45 pm

Should epidemiology even be a full time discipline?

Like economics, epidemiology can be used to explain as well as forecast.

Explaining is fine, and valuable – but forecasting takes one into the domain of the fortune teller.

Forecasters who rely on models are worse than a fair-ground clairvoyant.

There was a time when fortune-telling was illegal. Maybe it should be again made so, with a capital punishment attached.

John H.
John H.
December 22, 2021 5:57 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
December 22, 2021 at 5:48 pm
He’s now officially dumber than CNN.

Wear masks indoors whether ‘mandated or not’: Scott Morrison addresses nation following national cabinet (Sky News, 22 Dec)

CNN expert: Cloth masks are useless “face decorations” at this point (Instapundit, 21 Dec)

There’s something about Covid which has an amazing effect on politicians. It turns them into complete imbeciles even if they don’t catch it.

With Scomo there was no turning into, he has always been the blunt instrument in the paddock. He is the most cognitively dull PM I’ve seen witnessed since the early 70’s. Albo aint exactly beaming with smarts either mate. Can we at least have some better smarts in our PMs? They don’t have to be well read, they don’t have to be uber smart, but can we at least have PMs and pollies who aren’t so dull that they continuously fool themselves and all too often believe they are experts in so many things?

Roger
Roger
December 22, 2021 5:58 pm

Should epidemiology even be a full time discipline?

I think their “scope of practice” needs looking at.

We’ve had experts in hand washing in hospitals opining on virus mutations for goodness’ sake.

You wouldn’t get that in any specialist field of medicine.

sfw
sfw
December 22, 2021 5:58 pm

Those I put on the list and the others that have been added all have one thing in common, they’ve been ‘work hardened’, they’re the strongest but anyone who has to do a 10 to 12 hour day or more working physically hard is much the same. The occupations I listed are the strongest but farmers, fruit pickers and many many others are made hard through work. They don’t feel the cold or the heat, they care little for creature comforts. Give them enough to eat and drink and the odd fight every now and then and they’ll go until they drop.

I was listening to an interview with a mountaineer the other day and the interviewer (James Delingpole) brought up the subject of clothing. The mountaineer noted that although the early mountain climbers wore mainly wool, it was very heavy and coarse, that along with the fact that most of the early climbers were tough as nails from hard work. He said he takes people who spend months in the gym, they’re ripped and strong but not tough, they can’t understand why they find it so hard.

Plus one other bloke not to pick a fight with – ‘Mad Eyes’ Robbo, I worked with him, he played for Collingwood, was half mad and dangerous. I think Collingwood kept on for his willingness to ‘man up’, top bloke but mad as a cit snake.

Runnybum
Runnybum
December 22, 2021 6:00 pm

Morrison is an arsehole.

John H.
John H.
December 22, 2021 6:01 pm

Barrysays:
December 22, 2021 at 5:55 pm
John H. says:
December 22, 2021 at 5:45 pm

Should epidemiology even be a full time discipline?

Like economics, epidemiology can be used to explain as well as forecast.

Explaining is fine, and valuable – but forecasting takes one into the domain of the fortune teller.

Forecasters who rely on models are worse than a fair-ground clairvoyant.

There was a time when fortune-telling was illegal. Maybe it should be again made so, with a capital punishment attached.

If an explanation doesn’t provide predictive value then be skeptical about the explanation.

“Prophecy is not an activity of science.” Theodore von Karmen

Aaron
Aaron
December 22, 2021 6:02 pm

“My children are grown and make their own decisions, but if they were minors I’d be very reluctant to have them vaccinated given what we presently know and don’t know about the possible effects long term”.

Exactly my opinion.

But with with Israel leading the way and now a fourth shot.

Who knows.

JC
JC
December 22, 2021 6:03 pm

Let’s go Brandon gets some more airplay.

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/f-joe-biden-in-times-square/

Indolent
Indolent
December 22, 2021 6:11 pm
Winston Smith
December 22, 2021 6:12 pm

Wodger:

That’s the result of having an ill-conceived Federation, a Constitution not fit for purpose and no Bill of Rights along with politicians unwilling to address those matters even when they had a majority in both Houses of parliament because they were too jealous of their power.

Here’s the problem:
Would you trust the current population of Australia to write a Bill of Rights?
Would you trust the current State and Federal politicians to write a Bill of Rights?
We would end up with having to choose between two documents that were unfit for purpose, and measurably worse than the current Bill of Rights.*
* Yes – I know we do not have a BoR.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 22, 2021 6:13 pm

Sweden with four thousand cases per day and most Swedes seem reluctant to die of Covid.
Denmark, half the population and double the cases. Deaths at 72 for the week and Sweden 20.
Whatever you do, don’t mention Sweden.

Winston Smith
December 22, 2021 6:19 pm

Arky:

Also go through and tick all the extra stuff you thought didn’t matter before.

Especially fusion.
A family in town here had their claim rejected because when an appliance blew up due to interrupted power supply and they didn’t have fusion covered, their loss of house claim was rejected.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
December 22, 2021 6:21 pm

H B Bearsays:

December 22, 2021 at 5:44 pm

I hope they are skidmark resistant.
ASX:STP took a 35% hit today.
Only listed a couple of months ago.

Oops. Market must be getting tippy when you start seeing this.

No Bear.
Not the entire market.
This was a company which listed in October and has suddenly discovered they have a GST issue.
Oopsie.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 22, 2021 6:22 pm

If an explanation doesn’t provide predictive value then be skeptical about the explanation.

It’s the predictive power that is the whole value of an explanation. The warm sensation of insight was what got Freud and Marx able to pass as scientific when they were nothing of the kind.

rickw
rickw
December 22, 2021 6:24 pm

Would you trust the current population of Australia to write a Bill of Rights?

If forced medical procedures continues at the current pace they might end up with a very clear view on that at least.

Winston Smith
December 22, 2021 6:24 pm

Dover O’Beach:

I can’t believe Morrison is arguing that we got to 90+% vaxx rates irrespective of the mandates.

I can – our political/Brahman Class is utterly incapable of telling the truth, or believing anything that doesn’t conform to their own version of reality, or giving a damn about anything that doesn’t appeal to their ego or wallet.

JC
JC
December 22, 2021 6:25 pm

Life is so damned fleeting. Our good friend was diagnosed with breast cancer that spread to her bones back in 2012. She had surgery then and like every month had a shot of chemo to calm down the monster in her bones. She’s a real trooper with a great attitude if a bit of an inner city leftie.

This week we learned she had brain surgery to remove a nasty cancer. Again, she is as strong and as positive as anyone could be in that situation.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 22, 2021 6:25 pm

This will be the language of the “voice to Parliament..” – “the trauma, the intergenerational trauma, the family domestic trauma..”

Goldfields Gubrun woman appointed in inaugural Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee
Elena MorabitoKalgoorlie Miner
Wed, 22 December 2021 2:00AM

The Department of Justice has appointed Kalgoorlie-Boulder youth justice officer Ella Smith as part of a new committee of Aboriginal people to provide cultural advice and guidance on justice issues in WA

Nine men and women have been chosen from across the State to form the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee.

The committee is tasked with identifying and suggesting improvements to various policies and initiatives brought forward by the Department of Justice to achieve better outcomes for Aboriginal people.

Ms Smith said she put in an expression of interest to become a board meeting member, as she thought it would be a great way to be a voice for the Goldfields.

She said she wanted to be a voice for younger people in remote areas and the challenges they face when entering the justice system.

“I see the injustices our young people face, just with their trauma, working with kids and also, you know, the racial divide in the Goldfields is another prominent issue that we face every day,” Ms Smith said.

She said she connected young people to service providers within the community in her current role, and helped them receive employment and education opportunities.

Ms Smith said the Youth Justice Services worked holistically with the whole family and thought they made “a big difference” the young people’s lives they worked with.

“I think people just say naughty kids, and they don’t see the underlying issues, the trauma, the inter-generational trauma, the family domestic trauma,” she said.

Ms Smith said she was a Gubrun woman, who had strong family ties to the Goldfields and is a mother of three children.

“So I guess a lot of what I do is driven by the fact that I am a mother of three young Aboriginal kids and I want to see better outcomes to them in the future,” she said.

Pogria
Pogria
December 22, 2021 6:26 pm

I have no children, but what is the concensus here of those with skin in the game?

Aaron, as Roger stated, my son also is grown, so the decision is his. Fortunately, he is as vehemently anti the clot-shot as I am. When he was a child, I made sure he had the Sabin drops and the Triple Antigen. I was a child of the Polio era and remember well children at school with withered legs having to wear the metal frames attached to built up boots. We also had a woman in our area whose life was lived in an Iron Lung. I also remember babies with Whooping Cough, kids at school who almost choked to death from the pus in their throat courtesy of Diptheria. So many of the Anglo kids also had dreadful Scabies on their legs and warts on their hands and knees, something you rarely see these days. My mother was particularly proud that none of us ever had scabies or lice. One of my sisters had a wart.
Sorry for the lengthy screed, but I had no hesitation in having my son immunised as a child for all of the above illnesses. If he were a child now, or had children himself, I would fight tooth and nail to stop him from being stabbed with the clot shot, or his children, if he had any. I can say without a doubt that I would have hidden him if it became law. My parents lived through WWII, and in the mid fifties escaped from the Communist country where they had lived with four children.
I know what it is to have every bit of your life dictated by someone in authority.

I hope this has helped.

rickw
rickw
December 22, 2021 6:31 pm

The occupations I listed are the strongest but farmers, fruit pickers and many many others are made hard through work. They don’t feel the cold or the heat, they care little for creature comforts.

A man I know was in a Soviet concentration camp for Germans at the end of WWII, he said that only the farmers survived.

Anchor What
Anchor What
December 22, 2021 6:32 pm

It’s no wonder that politics attracts too many dim bulbs, at least as a percentage.
Given the way that the left and much of the media (BIRM) treat the game, those with the intellect to do something with their lives will most likely go and do it.
Leaving us with too many rather ordinary types, including some who allegedly share with their staff such gems of observation as “I could do with a good root”.
A couple of reasonably capable ones have been ousted or downgraded recently.
Conspiracy theory: without a left-leaning media that might not have happened.
Best to get rid of the “capables” so the “dregs of the middle class” get a run.
Thanks media. We see what you did in the USA too.

Gab
Gab
December 22, 2021 6:33 pm

Please sign and pass it around. Closes midnight tonight AEDT.
Petition EN3625 – Against the motion of vaccinating children aged 5-12 years

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3625

Anchor What
Anchor What
December 22, 2021 6:33 pm

Good comment Pogs.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 22, 2021 6:35 pm

Already done, Gab.

Razey
Razey
December 22, 2021 6:41 pm

So Called ‘Covid19’ is the only disease we’re not allowed to die from.

Roger
Roger
December 22, 2021 6:42 pm

Here’s the problem:
Would you trust the current population of Australia to write a Bill of Rights?
Would you trust the current State and Federal politicians to write a Bill of Rights?

Winston, the best opportunity was in the ’90s but Howard killed it.

Didn’t want to dilute parliamentary – i.e. politicians’ – power.

I don’t believe a Bill of Rights is a panacea, but it’s better than nothing,* which is what we have atm.

*Assuming it’s well drafted. And we certainly don’t have a surfeit of talent in that area presently.

Razey
Razey
December 22, 2021 6:54 pm

Rogersays:
December 22, 2021 at 6:42 pm
Here’s the problem:
Would you trust the current population of Australia to write a Bill of Rights?
Would you trust the current State and Federal politicians to write a Bill of Rights?

Winston, the best opportunity was in the ’90s but Howard killed it.

Howard put us on the road to destruction. He was the worst PM we ever had.

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 22, 2021 6:58 pm

If they keep this up, then pretty soon these will turn into rocks, and from there……

Apparently throwing snowballs at the police makes the video “age-restricted” on Utube.

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 22, 2021 7:01 pm

My request to visit my father’s grave (died in October) with my kids, and to spend time with their aging grandmothers was denied.
I think they will let me go by myself, but for the kids “family reunions” is not a valid reason to leave Australia. Unless you’re stabbed, that is.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 22, 2021 7:04 pm

Winston, the best opportunity was in the ’90s but Howard killed it.

No, Roger. The US Bill of Rights only worked because the bunch of guys who wrote it distrusted government like it was ebola. Which it mostly is.

In Howard’s time there was a touching allegiance to government, but it’s clear now that the Gramsci march was already pretty complete even in his time. Any Bill of Rights written then would be a boot on a human face, as it would also be if written today.

Indeed at this present moment we would be better served if all “rights” were annulled. At least then everyone would be equal in their slavery to the government.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 22, 2021 7:07 pm

Apparently throwing snowballs at the police makes the video “age-restricted” on Utube.

Yeah, saw that. Cute trick, since I most certainly wasn’t going to log in to watch it.
I am really starting to dislike the Silicon Valley nudge units.

P
P
December 22, 2021 7:12 pm

Pogriasays:
December 22, 2021 at 6:26 pm

An excellent comment. Thank you so much for sharing.

Muddy
Muddy
December 22, 2021 7:13 pm

Stuck in a charming little village called Fahrkno Ware, courtesy of my equally charming and supportive employer, I’ve had time to re-read Medieval Military Combat: Battle Tactics and Fighting Techniques of the Wars of the Roses by Dr. Tom Lewis.

I’m getting more from it the second time around. I would have liked to have read more about the battlefield medicine of the time, but perhaps there is little documentation to work from. I’m not sure the ‘blurb’ at the link does it justice, but the author’s approach has produced a unique study that hopefully others will build on.

mc
mc
December 22, 2021 7:17 pm

My request to visit my father’s grave (died in October) with my kids, and to spend time with their aging grandmothers was denied.

Sorry to hear that John. What sort of country won’t let you leave?

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
December 22, 2021 7:18 pm

Hardest men I ever saw were the hard rock miners working narrow vein air leg (aka jumbo) equipment underground back in the 70’s/ 80’s.

A lot of them came from the former Yugoslavia and naturally well built, but after a few years of hefting heavyweight compressed air drills around they bulked up like Superman.

The mining camp messes were a sight to behold as well for a young Pedro watching these incredible hulks eating four steaks and a dozen eggs at a sitting. Then they would head off to the wet mess and drink 20 beers, chain smoke and usually at least three times a week go outside for a fist fight.

Back on shift the next day and they were all best of friends and fresh as daisies ready for another day of solid hard work underground.

With today’s ‘elf and safety rules they would be sacked and black banned after the first day.

Different times.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 22, 2021 7:20 pm

Six young blokes in the family circle went to the cricket in Adelaide. They returned negative PCR tests to get back in to Fortress Queensland.

Just heard all six are now glowing with diagnosed Covid – having spent several days at various Christmas pissups.

One, feeling a bit shit, was diagnosed Tuesday – the other five, asymptomatic and tested as close contacts, were diagnosed this afternoon.

In safe hands.

John of Mel
John of Mel
December 22, 2021 7:20 pm

Sorry to hear that John. What sort of country won’t let you leave?

Thanks, mc.
I knew one back in the day.

I’ll try to apply again, but this time for longer than three months. From their reports it looks like this category gets more approvals.

JC
JC
December 22, 2021 7:29 pm

Sorry to hear that John. What sort of country won’t let you leave?

East Germany.

sorry to hear that from me too, John.

JC
JC
December 22, 2021 7:39 pm

I know give a shit about gerbil warming as I believe it will be solved through nuclear and fusion will become reachable in the next 20 years and cold fusion reactors will become available in 30 years.

I have to say, I’m enthralled with this Mercedes EV. Aside from the sports model, it’s the best looking Merc in the market. I’m seriously thinking of buying one. It does 400 K on a charge and it’s incredibly fast on takeoff. The driver’s cabin is amazingly beautiful.

Crossie
Crossie
December 22, 2021 7:40 pm

Chris Smith on Sky continues to disappoint, he feels sympathy for Anthony Fauci. Poor Fauci has been lambasted by the right and may quit soon. Americans can’t be that lucky.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 22, 2021 7:46 pm

They returned negative PCR tests to get back in to Fortress Queensland. Just heard all six are now glowing with diagnosed Covid – having spent several days at various Christmas pissups.

Haha, Castle Palacechook has been breached.

Further restrictions for QLD as state records huge spike in COVID-19 cases (Sky News, 22 Dec)

Once more unto the snot test dear friends!

Anders
Anders
December 22, 2021 7:47 pm

How’s the mandatory vaccination policy working for the AFL:

The Sydney Swans can confirm some members of the football department, including players, have tested positive for Covid-19 during their leave period.

All affected players and staff are double vaccinated and all report to be in good health.

Winston Smith
December 22, 2021 7:52 pm

Interesting.
https://technofog.substack.com/p/its-official-durham-is-investigating
It appears Durham is looking closely at the Clinton campaign and its connection to the Russian collusion theory.

Helen
Helen
December 22, 2021 7:58 pm

Good afternoon, can anyone remember that list of departments and businesses that had made application to access my health data? I remember being quite shocked ages ago, after I had opted out with my records going up there.

If you do and have it handy could you post the link again? it would be interesting to see if any change, permissions have been granted.

Winston Smith
December 22, 2021 8:04 pm

Suddenly CNN is silent after six black men were charged with hate crimes in Bay Area robberies targeting more than 100 Asian women.
The six men were arrested in connection with 170 robberies/attempted robberies targeting Asians.

White Supremacists are targeting Asian women – CNN

Gab
Gab
December 22, 2021 8:09 pm

The vaccines are ”100% safe” which is why BIG Pharma has been indemnified by the Govt.

And why the govt is now paying for funeral costs using taxpayer money:

Deceased COVID-19 vaccine recipient payments and funeral costs
In cases involving death you may be eligible for payment and support for funeral costs. We’ll make this payment to the deceased’s estate.

https://servicesaustralia.gov.au/node/55963?context=55953&fbclid=IwAR2FPIeNIJ8_r2PQG55ITJqBnwmuf8KZbIbpcu0_dsDmDqroEL-0xJgzcG8

Gab
Gab
December 22, 2021 8:09 pm

DOn’t forget your ”booster” shots.

Winston Smith
December 22, 2021 8:23 pm

Patriotic Americans must now recognize that the federal government, as an institution, is hopelessly corrupt, that, even though we have elections, we do not have Congressional representation, and that the country is governed by a two-tiered justice system, not determined by the rule of law, but by one’s power, wealth and political beliefs.

He’s got that right.

Winston Smith
December 22, 2021 8:29 pm

A train-obsessed businessman has spent a whopping 250,000 pounds (approx. US$330,000) and a staggering eight years to painstakingly build Britain’s biggest model railway.
Simon George, 53, funded the 200-foot-long project by selling his share in a supercar driving experience company and created an incredible replica of a train line, set in 1980s Yorkshire, England.

Impressive.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 22, 2021 8:30 pm

Many employers will require Full Vaccination for entry to their sites from January 1.

Baba
Baba
December 22, 2021 8:33 pm

For Queensland cats.

One of my offspring works for a Queensland government-owned corporation in Brisbane. Today the CEO sent all staff an email telling them to take their laptop home over the Christmas New Year break.

A similar email has preceded every previous Covid lock down.

Make of this what you will.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 22, 2021 8:33 pm

It is interesting to watch the trajectory of the fascist left over the past two decades.

Around 20 years ago, they were rioting in the street against globalisation (remember Seattle and Melbourne). Now they are all in favour of it.

About the same time ago, they were adamantly opposed to “Big Business”. Now it, in its various branches, banking, IT, etc, they see it as a major supporter.

For half a century, “Universal, free, healthcare” was a core element of their “narrative”. Now, they are pushing for the unvaxxed to be thrown out of the system. How long before their other pet health hates (smoking, booze, obesity, lack of exercise) also become targets for health discrimination?

Who, twenty years ago, would have predicted all (or even any) of these things?

Rabz
December 22, 2021 8:33 pm

Peoples! 🙂

Winston Smith
December 22, 2021 8:34 pm

It is helpful to remember how slow and short ranged the first modern torpedoes were.
Sure, at the time it would be easy to scoff at the tactical utility of this expensive and mechanically quirky weapon … but that did not consider how technology works. By 1890 they were going 30-knots at much further ranges.

What will Lasers be like in 20 years time?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 22, 2021 8:37 pm

Haha, Castle Palacechook has been breached.

Big time, I would suggest.

If the negative PCR test as entry qualification can fail like that – anecdotal as it is – Elf Authorities have no control over what they think they are doing.

Rabz
December 22, 2021 8:38 pm

It is interesting to watch the trajectory of the fascist left over the past two decades

“Interesting” is not the term I would use, BJ.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 22, 2021 8:42 pm

Rabz

I can live with “appalling”.

Rabz
December 22, 2021 8:47 pm

Castle Palacechook

Bluddeee hell – a rather unfortunate reference given that regrettable incident in Taxmania and the other many kiddees’ deaths that could be directlee attributed to that aforementioned fat stupid upscreeching ukranian imbecile.

Loathsome they are. Why we tolerate this is beyond me.

Then most of us are not an allegedlee “big brained” members of the Nomenklatura we’ve so stupidlee gifted ourselves.

Crossie
Crossie
December 22, 2021 8:48 pm

One of my offspring works for a Queensland government-owned corporation in Brisbane. Today the CEO sent all staff an email telling them to take their laptop home over the Christmas New Year break.

A similar email has preceded every previous Covid lock down.

Make of this what you will.

At my work we have not been advised to take our laptops home though most of us did so. Cynicism was very high among my colleagues that we will see another lockdown soon.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 22, 2021 8:48 pm

Many employers will require Full Vaccination for entry to their sites from January 1.

Catch up, Grigory.

Most of the rest of the world and Australia has already enacted such dictates.

Why do you think so many people are out on the streets.

Go sit in the corner and play with your Gypsum. The adults are talking.

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 22, 2021 8:48 pm

All the new Migrants that are going to save us, they’ll be coming from Africa i guess.
Here’s my question:
Since Africans are more or less immune to COVID, what’s the point of Vaccinating them?

Rabz
December 22, 2021 8:49 pm

BJ – I was thinking “infuriating”.

Always works wonders for the blood pressure, I assures ya! 🙂

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 22, 2021 8:51 pm

The drawbridge has already slammed shut in Sandgroperstan as of Boxing Day, and Uncle Mark, our beloved and strong Comrade Sneakers osnalready dictating we must all be given third injections as soon as we are ‘eligible…’

cohenite
December 22, 2021 8:51 pm

Interesting.
https://technofog.substack.com/p/its-official-durham-is-investigating
It appears Durham is looking closely at the Clinton campaign and its connection to the Russian collusion theory.

Durham can look closely at shrillary’s clacker for all the difference it will make. The demorats own the instruments of power. The revolution has occurred and they won. Durham is a distraction, a sop to keep the Trumpers in place until the last duck is in place: the military.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 22, 2021 8:52 pm

All the new Migrants that are going to save us, they’ll be coming from Africa i guess.

I wouldn’t be so sure, Grigory.

And besides, why are you not in the corner with your Gypsum?

Rabz
December 22, 2021 8:56 pm
John H.
John H.
December 22, 2021 8:57 pm
Ed Case
Ed Case
December 22, 2021 9:00 pm

Makes sense really.
Since Africans can’t get COVID, what we need is many more of them.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 22, 2021 9:01 pm

A train-obsessed businessman has spent a whopping 250,000 pounds (approx. US$330,000) and a staggering eight years to painstakingly build Britain’s biggest model railway.

Spending half a mil is the easy bit.
Working on it day in day out for 8 years is far harder.
Respect.

(Checking net I see 9″ of Bachmann HO gauge is about five bucks Aussie. So half a mill would only buy you 23 km of track. Not that much! Railways are expensive critters.)

mc
mc
December 22, 2021 9:04 pm

A boy with a thorn in ‘is side

..Really?

Has to be countered with this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhl5OU7MahQ

Frank
Frank
December 22, 2021 9:05 pm

Get a Maybach JC, much more imposing, in an understated sort of way. The convertible versions were better though.

Rabz
December 22, 2021 9:06 pm

err, Arks and Dovers – any chance of obtaining a recurring Friday Night (or even better, a weekend) “radio show” post on this esteemed blogue?

It will keep myself and those many other music fans* off the weekend open threads (err, hopefully 🙂 ).

Music and a corresponding film clip only, with comments strictly limited to the aforementioned.

*alleged to be music obsessives, they could be … :

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
December 22, 2021 9:08 pm

Comrade Sneakers is already dictating we must all be given third injections as soon as we are ‘eligible…’

And the crowd cheered mightily and added another glittering jewel to Sneaker’s massive codpiece.

McGowan could strangle a fluffy kitten on live TV and still win an election in a landslide.

Baba
Baba
December 22, 2021 9:09 pm

twostixsays:
December 22, 2021 at 12:57 pm
From one interview with the big brained mind of “gray connolly”

Please, stix. Big is not a synonym for smooth.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 22, 2021 9:13 pm

McGowan could strangle a fluffy kitten on live TV and still win an election in a landslide.

Is there any such thing as an Opposition in the Wild West these days?

Baba
Baba
December 22, 2021 9:15 pm

Rogersays:
December 22, 2021 at 1:49 pm
QLD covid update:

447 active cases

Of 79 people being treated in hospital only one is experiencing COVID symptoms.

I can only presume the other 78 are being monitored because they have other serious health problems.

Or they acquired Covid in hospital.

Old bloke
Old bloke
December 22, 2021 9:16 pm

Gab says:
December 22, 2021 at 8:09 pm

The vaccines are ”100% safe” which is why BIG Pharma has been indemnified by the Govt.

And why the govt is now paying for funeral costs using taxpayer money:

Deceased COVID-19 vaccine recipient payments and funeral costs
In cases involving death you may be eligible for payment and support for funeral costs. We’ll make this payment to the deceased’s estate.

https://servicesaustralia.gov.au/node/55963?context=55953&fbclid=IwAR2FPIeNIJ8_r2PQG55ITJqBnwmuf8KZbIbpcu0_dsDmDqroEL-0xJgzcG8

That’s great news Gab, if I take the devil juice, I’ll get a free funeral. Great inducement.

Is the Government admitting themselves to be liable? Can families of the 600 – 700 vaxx deaths now start suing the Government for damage’s payments?

How much is this colossal schemozzle going to cost us?

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 22, 2021 9:16 pm

Is there any such thing as an Opposition in the Wild West these days?

They can make a pair for Bridge.

Rabz
December 22, 2021 9:18 pm

Has to be countered with this

And then this. If there’s a more signal example of Ozzies unrepentantly taking the piss out of the global sheitgeist*, then I’d like to see or hear it.

*Including Hollyweirdoes, en masse, as they were, before we tried, regrettably (again) to be part of it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 22, 2021 9:19 pm

Rabzsays:
December 22, 2021 at 8:49 pm
BJ – I was thinking “infuriating”.

Always works wonders for the blood pressure, I assures ya! ?

I can go with that (but “interesting” is better for the blud pressure).

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 22, 2021 9:20 pm

Ok, Rabz, I’m off to bed but I put up this one in awe of Elon and SpaceX, who nailed their 100th booster rocket landing today.

Air – Surfing On A Rocket (2004)

As a doubler the Frogs (Air being froggy) are due to launch NASA’s James Webb space telescope on Christmas Eve via an Ariane V. Fly well little telescope!

rickw
rickw
December 22, 2021 9:21 pm

I can’t help but like these, taking the piss out of The Bat Eared Mong:

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

Pat the Hermit
Pat the Hermit
December 22, 2021 9:27 pm

TO THOSE WHO CARE, or not.

I have it from a mate who is a nurse in qld health that the ho in the premier’s office is gonna lock down the state next week after Christmas.

I now therefore change my nom de keyboard to Pat the Hermit.

Not as flash as Tinta’s, I know.

Baba
Baba
December 22, 2021 9:29 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
December 22, 2021 at 3:06 pm
Arkysays:

December 22, 2021 at 2:50 pm

Another example. Those doors. 28 of them including cupboards and robes.

In Queensland we call that a hut.

Rabz
December 22, 2021 9:31 pm

BoN – Air – well observed, Squire.

Bluddee hell, peoples – forgot to include a trigger warning for that photo of the monstrous Crate Blandchcick.

These things happen 😕

Rabz
December 22, 2021 9:34 pm

That monstrous grotesque deformed jug eared imbecile, ordering peons around, again … 😕

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
December 22, 2021 9:39 pm

Bad Santa is a better Christmas flick than Die Hard.

Arky
December 22, 2021 9:39 pm

Rabz says:
December 22, 2021 at 9:06 pm
err, Arks and Dovers – any chance of obtaining a recurring Friday Night (or even better, a weekend) “radio show” post on this esteemed blogue?

..
DB.
Could you throw Rabz the keys to host such a thing whenever he likes?

Rabz
December 22, 2021 9:40 pm

Yo – thanks, Arks 🙂

Rabz
December 22, 2021 9:44 pm

On the break for the next three and a half weeks, peoples. 🙂

Worst year of my life.

What 2022 has in store for us, I’d rather not even attempt to contemplate.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 22, 2021 9:47 pm

(Checking net I see 9? of Bachmann HO gauge is about five bucks Aussie. So half a mill would only buy you 23 km of track. Not that much! Railways are expensive critters.)

You can buy metre lengths of flextrack for $6-7, depending on your scale, rail height and so on. Turnouts, diamond crossings and other specific appliances etc. are costlier. Some bonkers folk I know lay their own rail and sleepers and build their own turnouts and pointwork.

So, track is relatively cheap. It is the models, materials and other goodies that are expensive.

I just did my numbers,* and old mate has modelled the exact equivalent of 1.5 scale miles of 4-track mainline and a major station in OO (1:76 scale, or 4mm/ft). It will be a bit longer once the return loops and fiddle/staging yards are added in.

*(1.5miles = 7920ft. 7920/ (1/76) = 601920mm scale distance).

cohenite
December 22, 2021 9:48 pm

FMD an electric Merc. That’s a contradiction in terms, a perversion. This is a car.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
December 22, 2021 9:51 pm

Via St Johns ambo email.

McClown has announced 3 vaccines as mandatory.

There wasn’t ever a non violent way out of this use of wartime powers in peacetime was there?

Arky
December 22, 2021 9:52 pm

Yo – thanks, Arks ?

..
I hope Dover concurs.

cohenite
December 22, 2021 9:53 pm

Iran going gangbusters with its nuclear weapons program while the traitor biden restricts weapons to israel. Iran nuclear in a year.

jupes
jupes
December 22, 2021 9:55 pm

What are the scariest words known in Australia?

Scott Morrison has called a meeting of the National Cabinet.

Rabz
December 22, 2021 9:56 pm

Miss Ellie in excelsis* – despite what certain ol’ Eastern Suburbs personages might allege – when you see a rock ‘n’ roll chick that looks like her, irregardless of alleged truth bermbs like this, – “Oh, she’s not that beautiful, R”, you disagree, with every fibre of your being. 🙂

*The performance of 2021. This is romance. 😕

Baba
Baba
December 22, 2021 9:59 pm

jupessays:
December 22, 2021 at 9:55 pm
What are the scariest words known in Australia?

Scott Morrison has called a meeting of the National Cabinet.

So that means ultimate responsibility rests with him. Amiright?

John H.
John H.
December 22, 2021 10:01 pm

jupessays:
December 22, 2021 at 9:55 pm
What are the scariest words known in Australia?

How good is Scott Morrison!

Rabz
December 22, 2021 10:02 pm

Wow, Lovin’ this new Fleetwood Mac single

duncanm
duncanm
December 22, 2021 10:02 pm

Rabzsays:
December 22, 2021 at 9:18 pm
Has to be countered with this

And then this. If there’s a more signal example of Ozzies unrepentantly taking the piss out of the global sheitgeist*, then I’d like to see or hear it.

I was always partial to the Greek acoustic version

rickw
rickw
December 22, 2021 10:15 pm
Rabz
December 22, 2021 10:26 pm

Peoples – err, I have to make a confession. Several months ago, during the height of the NSW schlockdown, I posted many comments here denouncing my fellow Ozzies and this country.

Incessantly. “Mosquebourne”, “Sydneystan” and most damning of all (as I so vainly thought at the time), “This Stupid, Stupid Country”.

However, one morning, I “woke” up, so to speak.

A voice said to me:

Hey, you preposterous cardboard cut out – “You are of them – you were born here, so were both your parents and three of your great grandparents”. Your father was a war hero.

You loved this country when you were growing up in the 70s, despite it being the most monstrous period in human history.

You don’t get to pretend that you no longer have any stake in what goes on here.

What is happening now is almost beyond comprehension to a soft, narcissistic ‘everything will come to me’ decadent western wallee.

“Get off your increasingly soft backside and try to do something right in your life, you joke.”

However, for all those offended by my abuse of this continent and the peoples residing on it, I don’t give a rodent’s backside. Time to treat the threats to this country in the same way that Sir Les Patterson treated the Yaartz.

As a receptacle of our mighty love. 🙂

MatrixTransform
December 22, 2021 10:34 pm

As a receptacle of our mighty love. ?

…that’s one bleak smiley

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 22, 2021 10:36 pm

How good is Scott Morrison!

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would have to be up there, somewhere?

Franx
Franx
December 22, 2021 10:38 pm

A stupid stupid country.

MatrixTransform
December 22, 2021 10:43 pm

had a loverly experience today
went for the obligatory xmas feast with closest allies
which usually consists of a chicken parmy and 2 schooners

checked into club (yes we have them in Melb) where I’m not a member but the biz partner is.
put on the mask and did some QR Kabuki
dredged up the vax cert which was waved away with a flippant, ‘yah … cool’

my other wife (business partner) confirmed with the door-bitch …
do we need to wear a mask?
nup she says… you don’t, only we do.

then he explained how it works
they keep yr data on file
they’ve seen yr pox-pass and now also on file
hence-forth, scan in and no questions asked.

I like these people … they seem to stick doggedly to the rules

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 22, 2021 10:47 pm

I like these people … they seem to stick doggedly to the rules

Wasn’t it Douglas Bader who said that regulations were for the guidance of wise men, and the blind obedience of fools?

Rabz
December 22, 2021 10:48 pm

It’s enough to make you start stomping down the High St … 🙂

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
December 22, 2021 10:51 pm

The ABC is taking the piss big time even as Ita is begging for more cash. FMD

Michael Smith just posted this on his blog.
Have a go at this lot:

ABC’s Aboriginal Advisory Board

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 22, 2021 10:55 pm

The ABC is taking the piss big time even as Ita is begging for more cash. FMD

Ita knows the A.B.C. is untouchable!

Rabz
December 22, 2021 10:55 pm

I must be feeling alone,
I talked to god in a phone box on my way home,

I tells ya … 😕

MatrixTransform
December 22, 2021 11:03 pm

Em George Performs ‘The In Between’
Sydney grrl … I like it … produced version is better but this is good too

Rabz
December 22, 2021 11:05 pm

The ALPBThee, the Ita and the irredeemable imbeciles in the Goose Morristeen “government”:

“We paid record amountth in taxpayerth’ lost litigaython, I tellth ya! We need more taxpayerth’ money, you large fathitht hitleriths!

Alan Sludge: Yeah well we’ll do whatevah ya want, just don’t report me to the senate sexual harrassment kommittee, I beseecheth ya! 😕

Break out the following t-shirts en masse … 🙂

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 22, 2021 11:17 pm

Sorry Pedro, I got distracted by his post from 2/14 Light Horse’s mounted parade…

#Blackhats

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 22, 2021 11:18 pm

Farmer Gez says:
December 22, 2021 at 6:13 pm
Sweden with four thousand cases per day and most Swedes seem reluctant to die of Covid.
Denmark, half the population and double the cases. Deaths at 72 for the week and Sweden 20.
Whatever you do, don’t mention Sweden.

So many weekly reports that are now into their 18 month have dropped Sweden from their chart sets, this week.
I’ve emailed a group in London this morning asking them why.
Yet to hear back.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 22, 2021 11:20 pm

Dog monster sleeps at the end of the bed.
Geez a weimaraner can snore.

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 22, 2021 11:24 pm

Is it really an Aboriginal advisory board without Bruce Pascoe? Looks more like a dusky Friends of the ALPBC self help group.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
December 22, 2021 11:25 pm

Wasn’t it Douglas Bader who said that regulations were for the guidance of wise men, and the blind obedience of fools?

Hey finallly a comment I have relevance today… my UK origin father a painter by trade emigrated to NZ mid 1950s . At a community meeting in Auckland met Sir Douglas Bader. SDB said that my Dar was needed back in UK to rebuild Britain. My Dar told him out here he needed as well but is treated as an equal and it feels good and right so get lost.
Ee ad no time for SDB. Eey uup.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 22, 2021 11:27 pm

Is it really an Aboriginal advisory board without Bruce Pascoe?

Bruce Pascoe’s booked his seat on “The Voice to Parliament.” He’ll be sitting next to Lidia Thorpe.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

sfw says: December 22, 2021 at 4:23 pm

Talk about getting strong doing paving.
Never pick a fight with the following.
Paving stone layers
Reblockers
Those who deliver and stack firewood
Brickies labourers
What other jobs can be added to the list?

Once had a 21-yo Rugby League star frequenting the pub.
Full of oats & hubris, his party trick at the time was to take on nightclub doormen & put them in hospital.

As I had no doormen, he decided he’d take on a 45-yo exhibition woodchopper in the front bar.
He weighed the scales heavily in his favour by king-hitting from behind.

Had he instead taken on Mike Tyson by king hitting him, nothing about the incident would have happened any differently.
Not the time frame to completion (well under one second from king-hit to lights-out).
Not the indifference to being king-hit.
Not the express-train-like brutality of the response.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
December 22, 2021 11:54 pm

Sal’s post reminds me of the Slav hard rock miners I mentioned above.

Wouldn’t know what a gym looked like and never had a boxing lesson in their life, but knew every dirty street fighting trick in the book and their muscles came from years of seriously hard work swinging an air leg drill. Great friends but fearsome enemies.

Some of these pretty boy gym junkies wouldn’t have lasted ten seconds with these blokes.

John H.
John H.
December 22, 2021 11:55 pm

In Sweden, a vaccine passport on a microchip implant

What is the fuss about Sweden? 15,206 deaths, new restrictions coming into force tomorrow, rising infection rate.

Rabz
December 23, 2021 12:00 am

Bluddee hell – a study in contrasts …

She’s: Beautifulee unconventional

Then she’s expounding Yuk foo

OK. Time for a mini dissertation. Both young women are equally legitimate. I’d posit that both li’l personas could be fulfilling their desires to be fabulous li’l actresses, which Miss Ellie effortlessly both is 😕

Fifty years ago, young women as aesthetically pleasing as Miss Ellie could look forward to a career in the typing pool.

To paraphrase the late Andrew Peacock, “It’s not right, is it?”. 😕

Rabz
December 23, 2021 12:13 am

Err, Pol – this does not mean that I reject your preposterous Bill Cosbee inspired “poundsand&metoo#” movement, as obscure as its alleged aims evidentlee might appear to be. If that’s any consolation.

Unknowing we mime … 😕

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

There’s plenty of occupations that make a bloke strong/fit.
Underground hard rock driller would have to be an odds-on contender for the title.

Rabz
December 23, 2021 1:07 am

Hey, England – Lift yourselves, or another 5-0 is unsurprisingly on the cards.

Time to shake up the 8 ball and invoke the spirit of Mark E Smith.

Stop trying to envision a peak and just get out there and make it happen, FFS …

“We’re actually not very fucking noice” – then get out and prove it, you hapless jokes … 😕

Rabz
December 23, 2021 1:25 am

Guten abendt, Hauptmann Waldheim … 🙁

You’re all men of straw. If you weren’t, we wouldn’t be existing through this hitlerist insanity.

Cats, our so called “leaders” are the worst.

Ever. 🙁

John H.
John H.
December 23, 2021 2:09 am

We May Be Prescribing Antidepressants Wrong, Claims Concerning New Review

Big Pharma wins again. The early trials of Prozac were so obviously rigged to produce the desired profit. There has always been controversy around antidepressants, especially since most are prescribed by GPs many of whom prescribe antidepressants all too quickly. Exactly what Big Pharma wants. Depression is a real condition and requires treatment but most diagnoses of depression these days are just people going through a bad patch. However depression is not self pity as some here have argued, it is often the very opposite of that, sometimes it clearly has a biological component, but far too often our society is scripting people to think the blues they are experiencing is a disease when it is typically just a maladaptive response to the exigencies of life which leave them feeling overwhelmed because they haven’t been taught or learnt an adaptive response that pulls them through the travails. Try stoicism.

Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:06 am

Peter Broelman is hysterical.

Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 4:17 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
December 23, 2021 4:21 am

Thanks, Tom. Broelman really has caught the hysteria.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 23, 2021 5:48 am

Via Iowahawk.

Illinois population drops 113k.
At this rate they’ll lose a congressional seat by the time the 2024 elections roll around.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 23, 2021 6:12 am

It’s not a surprise, but the selective reporting of COVID cases is really poor “journalism”.
100k new cases in the UK (meaning it’s at least double that).
But the death rate is hardly moving & it’s a month into this one.

New York & California numbers get passing coverage at best.
Texas & Florida numbers are jumped on.

Anchor What
Anchor What
December 23, 2021 6:24 am

Is Brett Baier of Fox much better than Chris Wallace? You might recall he was on duty on 3rd November 2020 and called Arizona for Biden rather early.

“ Baier interviewed NIH Director Francis Collins on Collin’s last day in office this past Sunday. Baier did a poor job, letting Collins disparage the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration as “fringe epidemiologists” without providing any notion of their professional prominence, the substance of the debate, or their sapience on the issues, for that matter. “
Poweline

Ed Case
Ed Case
December 23, 2021 6:24 am

but far too often our society is scripting people to think the blues they are experiencing is a disease when it is typically just a maladaptive response to the exigencies of life

Depression is a disease.
Caused by a combination of Sugar, Carbohydrates, lack of sunlight, poor sleep.
You can’t rationalise your way out of depression, that’s silly.

Anchor What
Anchor What
December 23, 2021 6:29 am

“As Democrats continue to trash Joe Manchin, we learn that they have succeeded in confirming the highest number of federal judges in the first year of a presidency in four decades. The Senate has confirmed 40 judges this year. That’s more than twice the number in Donald Trump’s first year.

This couldn’t have happened without Joe Manchin. Without Manchin, the West Virginia seat he holds would be occupied by a Republican. Of this, there can be no doubt. West Virginia is a solidly Red state.”
Powerline

Vicki
Vicki
December 23, 2021 6:30 am

Anyone noticed the work done on Albo’s appearance for the upcoming election? My husband reckons he’s like a second hand car “detailed” for the car lot. But when you start it up, it’s still mis-firing.

Anchor What
Anchor What
December 23, 2021 6:43 am

How stuffed is America?
USAF goes full retard on gender and pronouns.
No wonder that the Russians and Chinese are not quaking in they/them boots.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 23, 2021 6:45 am

Manchin is the latest on the villain rotation cycle.

will
will
December 23, 2021 6:45 am
rosie
rosie
December 23, 2021 6:48 am
rosie
rosie
December 23, 2021 6:52 am
rosie
rosie
December 23, 2021 6:57 am
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 23, 2021 6:58 am

Good description Vicki.

rosie
rosie
December 23, 2021 6:58 am
miltonf
miltonf
December 23, 2021 7:34 am

god that caro thing is ugly

miltonf
miltonf
December 23, 2021 7:53 am

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is blaming grocery stores for the explosion in food prices.

has this wealthy old slag ever had a real job?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
December 23, 2021 8:00 am

Rabz, darling, your Lady Ellie is very bootiful. Enjoy.
You just showed me a not-so-good fone foto the other day.
Even fifty years ago she would have escaped the typing pool.
Just coming in here to reassure you of that. 🙂

Indolent
Indolent
December 23, 2021 8:12 am

Dr. Charles Hoffe Delivers A Dose Of Reality

Dr. Hoffe is from Canada. This is truly a firsthand account and covers pretty much all the issues. It’s enough to make you furious.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 23, 2021 8:15 am

Lizzie hope you come back on a more permanent basis. The only people that can insult you are your family and those that know you well. The rest don’t matter.

Tom
Tom
December 23, 2021 8:17 am

Is Brett Baier of Fox much better than Chris Wallace? You might recall he was on duty on 3rd November 2020 and called Arizona for Biden rather early.

It wasn’t Brett Baier who called Arizona for Biden but a piece of journalistic shit named Chris Stirewalt, the Fox News editor fired shortly after the infamy he brought on the organisation.

NB: As in Australia, 90%+ of journalists are Democrat (ALP-GRN) voters. They are the worst possible people to be deciding what is “news”.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 23, 2021 8:18 am

It wasn’t Brett Baier who called Arizona for Biden

Brett Baier did & will continue to do whatever the voice in the ear piece says.

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