One of my brothers-in-law says that Colorado used to be a solid red state until inundated by Californians.
Open Thread – Christmas 2021
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Oh, the horrors! How did I ever survive Black Saturday in 2009, when the temperature in Melbourne reached 46.4 C?
The Pope’s Genocide Cowardice – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org a truly evil pope
As of 2012, only 52.8 per cent of Tasmanian men and 46.9 per cent of Tasmanian women possess an OECD…
Fidel wouldn’t be too proud of his boy.
In a way, they’re a bit like the Huns in The Great War parts one and two.
Provided they can walk or drive to the war, they’re monsters.
But if they hit a body of water too big to build a bridge over, they are in trouble.
I suspect the statements in that post were refuted in the subsequent GP link.
I doubt very much that they were Anchor What’s view.
I see absolutely no reason to consider any of these witches brews.
If you haven’t seen your son for three years, missed his wedding and may well miss the birth of a first grandchild for want of a jab, a traditional vax brew might seem less witchy.
Extreme Authoritarian Laws Proposed in New York!
Awaken With JP = Published December 28, 2021
Rumble — These laws would give the governor tyrannical power to detain people suspected of posing a health risk – indefinitely! No trial involved. Luckily this main bill was stricken down on December 22, 2021. These proposed bills are still important to know about because they signify the direction that authoritarian leaders are trying to take society.
https://rumble.com/vrk4ed-extreme-authoritarian-laws-proposed-in-new-york.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=10
Which is why I keep coming back to the point that China knows all too well such a war will be devastating for it. There is no rationale for undertaking such an attack. I think AUKUS is not even about us getting nuke subs to counter the China threat it is about establishing a base of operations for US subs(Perth) to enable blockade in the Indian Ocean. The same is true with the B1B Lancers at Darwin, excellent strike bomber that could threaten Chinese navy ships in the Indian Ocean.
The counterpoint: China has a belt and road all the way to a navy capable port in Pakistan. I doubt it would transport sufficient oil from the Middle East via that route but it is a clever idea on their part because it gives them some leverage in the Gulf. There are also plans to build a canal through the Thailand peninsula. If that happens forget about the Malacca Strait but it is doubtful that canal will accommodate the huge oil container ships.
JC this China threat business which Morrison fallen for hook line sinker is rubbish. China will wait for some of those stan countries to go belly up and occupy on the grounds of maintaining peace and order. That’s the only realistic scenario because that does give them access to some hydrocarbon resources but if IIRC it is only gas not oil.
Yep. They fucked up with their mandates. I wont take any of their fuckn clot shots now.
Careful Rabz – don’t want to be accused of sneering. Are you with us? Here is a little thinking music while you decide,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss
I suspect the statements in that post were refuted in the subsequent GP link.
I doubt very much that they were Anchor What’s view.
I didn’t see the link but he did put this afterwards:
John Sopel, after seven years as BBC correspondent in the USA. No mention of Democrat manoeuverings in the four years plus while Trump was running for and being Pres, or since. Some reservations about Biden’s ability to do the job but no condemnation of him either. No problems with the direction the USA admin and the house/senate are heading.
So it was Sopel saying this BS. My eyes misted up and I didn’t read any further.
-Business Insider.
https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/shipbuilding-Q32021-chinese-shipyards.html
You got it backwards. It is global warming causing freezing. I know this because the Pentagon told us so in 2004.
‘Humiliating’: 2004 Guardian Report Peddling Climate Doom By 2020 Frozen Out (27 Dec)
Maybe the US defense department should stop trying to be woke green prophets.
Yes. Why should electrons be able to freely cross state borders?
US ship building:
– Forbes.
The morning epistles. Thank God.
The MO’s changed to drive-by though (as noted upthread) because the increasingly shrill St. Ruth is becoming less and less willing to engage in ordinary discussion, preferring to go with the lofty excessively-broad statements that don’t age well at all.
Also – ‘target of the MSM’. That’s a cracker.
To paraphrase Dr Seuss – ‘No jobs, what jobs, one job, two jobs’.
Given that America’s generals (not to mention NATO) haven’t won a war against a credible opponent since WWII and, like run of the mill generals throughout history, are inclined to overstate threats out of self-interest, I’d suggest we need as many informed voices in this discussion as possible.
Cassia
Warning!!
Force Nine blah-de-blah this morning.
Latest on Novavax, now approved by WHO and the Euros. From the TGA, however, not a peep.
In the age of Oh!Micron why bother with any of it, let it rip.
Of course they may be the lesser of a multitude of evils?
yesterday I was at another family xmas thing inside the peoples republic of Melbournistan.
Struth, sorry but you have no idea just how complete the brainwashing has been.
Free thinking (apparently) 40yr olds living in stage-managed terror
There is no logic or evidence that will sway them
I saw a middle aged bloke walking a city street on his own and masked like it was oxygen and he was conquering Everest.
they dont give a flying fig whether youre dead, unemployed, or locked up.
They don’t even care if you comply
all they give a shit about is the fictional landscape in between their ears
anything that interrupts their delusions is haram.
No Cog_Diss ever … they will collectively kick the metaphoric outta you and never think twice
I reckon you can’t quite see it from QLD
you cannot fight if your’e dead
Possibly even a Marked Man(tm).
Of shadowy men in dark uniforms with mysterious insignia and bearing black broomsticks.
I can’t post links to ESPN Cricinfo.
What is going on?
There’s something definitely weird about going to be tested to find out whether you’re sick or not.
Chinese Islands are sinking so only good for radar and missile umbrellas until, if things turn kinetic, US cruise missiles neutralise that.
https://tfiglobalnews.com/2020/11/09/china-tried-to-game-international-law-with-expensive-artificial-islands-but-they-are-already-sinking/
Apparently their aircraft generally are underpowered and plagued by engine reliability problems. Also one of their mainstay fighters I am informed has no capability to air to air refuel! I have little knowledge of their Navy or Army capabilities but there’s certain to be similar equipment issues there.
That said, the numbers they have even though the equipment may have shortfalls, means I wouldn’t discount the threat they pose. Personally I think they will avoid going kinetic at all costs, they will lose too much money and leverage. That’s not to say there may be an Arch Duke Ferdinand moment or some perceived sleight sends the brainwashed Nationalist population into a frenzy demanding war.
I don’t know where all these cowering compliant types are.
All I am seeing is minimal and grudging compliance at best.
If you have been taking a zinc supplement without copper be warned …
A strong relationship exists between zinc and copper. Too much of one can cause a deficiency in the other. If you take zinc, including zinc in a multivitamin, you should also take copper.
Soon.
and with everything they’ve got.
Voluntarily, yes.
But, as areff says, if you have pressing family needs to jump through the hoop, you do it.
It’s a beast.
And they won’t be capable of doing anything except hiring private consultants to tell them what to do. My wife is in the APS and far enough up the food chain to have some control, spends most of her time stopping people without a clue from doing the wrong thing. She estimates about 2% know what they are doing.
Roger.
We need to talk.
I haven’t been following the numbers closely, but the case numbers seem to be running in the 1500-3000 range in both NSW and Vic, and the deaths can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
As beasts go, this one is a de-fanged poodle.
So now you want to trust experts! The same experts the gave us Afghanistan, Vietnam, the mess of Iraq and Syria. Look, I have great respect for military personnel but here’s the rub: the experts we hear about through the MSM are very often playing the clickbait game. If you are serious about learning from the experts forget about the MSM because it is there for an agenda that in no way reflects the broader views in the military. BTW it is the globalists pushing the China threat and under Biden the USA together with Britain and a few other countries put on a naval display of force in the South China Sea that was far more threatening than anything Trump did.
This is a post on Alex Berenson’s blog. I think it reflects the white hot anger of many of us towards Big Pharma, Big Tech & their government cronies:
Peter Hitchens made a very good point recently. He compared the reaction of the globalists to USSR’s disintegration and surrender from 1989 onwards to China’s brutal repression of dissidents in 1989. The globalists humiliated and ransacked the former Soviet Union even though they deliberately avoided the brutal repression of dissidents [that would have] put out the revolutionary flames flickering on the horizon. While China, which did not flinch in doing so, continued to be awarded with Most Favoured Trading Nation status as the US and globalists mouthed platitudes about their concerns about China’s human rights record.
‘the deaths can be counted on the fingers of one hand.’
And that’s the expirations with, rather than of covid.
The wobbegong of virii.
I agree with this. Only 1 in my whole fukn family is clot shotted.
And everyone else I know who is, says the Hunchback should be fukn strung up by its ball and hot in the head.
The blind obedience and lack of any skerrick of intelligence of the MSM astonishes me (even at this stage in the game) when they can parrot the government’s new edict of 5 days’ quarantine, when up until now 14 days has been the only thing to keep everyone healthy.
And not a whiff or sign of ….whoa….what’s going on here?????
Well, yes, without even looking at co-mordities.
By all means look after the oldies with heart conditions or people on chemo.
As for the rest … meh.
It’s five days now
Regarding election fraud , my understanding is that none of teh cases were actually heard but all were dismissed in grounds of lack of standing or that it was too late.
The substantive issues were never canvassed.
Not to mention is was the VAX’d that brought Moronic into the country!
I hear a lot of bellyaching on Oz twitter about the outrageousness of references to the Nazi regime when discussing the response to COVID. And then you see a headline like this:
Seems rather close to “The Unvaccinated Problem”.
dover … check yr mail
I note there is no questions as to why qld is even bothering with border passes either.
I hear a lot of bellyaching on Oz twitter about the outrageousness of references to the Nazi regime when discussing the response to COVID
And from the same crowd that literally wore the term Nazi out during the Trump presidency. Bastards!!
I wonder if Cricket Australia even use 5 days when they budget for Tests? Of course, next to TV rights it is a rounding error. No wonder the game is dying. BBL crowd shots need to be carefully framed these days too.
John Madden, brown bread.
Rumours circulating that Roger Moore is struggling too.
All of those dodgy views about the 2020 election were what I heard early this morning on the BBC’s OS program featuring their man John Sobel, just back in UK after 7 years in USA.
Like today, had to put on a respectable shirt so I can spend a late and all to short Christmas with the grandgirl. But the tool set and watching Pop jump in puddles was a hit.
Life is good.
PS: Having to spend most weeks actually confronting authorities and meeting with legal advisers to get back what’s rightfully owes wouldn’t be enough for the self-righteous “keyboard resistance”. But I don’t care as they are a minority and others are starting to have enough of the circus clowns.
Not any more, Panzer. The ALPBC has just breathlessly reported that case numbers in NSW have now exceeded five figures (OK, it may be bullshit, given pretty much everything else “reported” by them is).
Just drove past a local testing clinic and the queue was incredibly long. Why anyone would willingly do that is beyond me. Everyone outside wearing the face nappies of scientism. What a clown show.
If you had half a dozen Chinese agents with GPS’s on each aircraft carrier why would you need low orbit satellites to track them?
nyet
Is the new matrix a woke piece of crap or worth watching?
And there’s your answer.
Leftoid frothing reaches a new high in Overland’s ‘analysis’ of the recent protests. A sample:
As a rule, the more homemade a sign at these rallies looks, the more deranged it is. Many are bizarrely sexual, perhaps expressing a sadistic desire to see Andrews raped, or inadvertently betray the psycho-sexual roots of the demonstrators’ fear of needles …
It’s 3000 words of the most impressive look-I-have-an-arts-degree wank and piddle you could possibly imagine. Overland, just by the way, is richly supported by the taxpayer via the Australia Council.
https://overland.org.au/2021/12/anti-vaxxers-and-the-far-right/
https://thediplomat.com/2021/05/why-a-taiwan-invasion-would-look-nothing-like-d-day/
Looking to get this does rather prove Struth’s point, however. As it is now perfectly clear that the “vaccines” are useless in terms of infection or spread, the only possible reason to look at getting one is to simplify life by bowing to obviously unreasonable demands. I do understand that in some cases it’s not quite as simple as that, but the end result is accepting defeat. And that doesn’t even take into account the potential health risks of the jab itself.
and wait, there’s more:
Firstly, anti-vaxxers increasingly believe in totalising worldviews whose logic is fictive, and built on a usually unconscious rejection of reason. This is to say, the links they see between phenomena are illusory, and the resulting worldview is structured like a work of fiction. By contrast, the majority of leftist worldviews are committed to reason and evidence. We don’t need to posit conspiracies to explain the evils committed by banks, fossil fuel companies and, yes, pharmaceutical corporations.
Good points, JohnH. 🙂
That’s pretty close to game , set and match.
Oh look, we’re relying on experts again. Surely they must be shills unless, unless they’re experts I’ve chosen in support. FMD. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel with this dunderhead.
JCsays:
December 29, 2021 at 10:54 am
I’ve often read that China could take out US bases in and around the Pacific. That’s true. But wouldn’t the US take out every single Chinese port on the mainland? They could only reach American mainland ports on any scale through nukes. Really? If they did, the Chinese population would end up being no more than a 100 million tops.
Modify the words of Adm Halsey, around 8 or 9 December 1941:
“When that nuclear war is over, the Chinese language would be spoken only in Hell.”
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In principle and within the confines of this blog I agree with you Roger.
My point is that the CCP has many “Wumao” pushing lines, even contradictory lines to reassure people that no action is required.
That some cats pick up and inadvertently repeat those lines is the worry.
But I’m a China pessimist and require the optimist counter view.
Somewhere in between is the realistic view. Without the Bidenesque “We have nothing to fear from China, c’mon man” there’s a discussion to be had.
The time line seems odd, BJ.
The bureaucracy doing its best to fuck over Musk:
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2021/12/28/faa-delays-completion-of-spacex-boca-chica-environmental-assessment-by-two-months/#disqus_thread
The place is a salt water swamp FFS. You’d have got a medal for filling it in 60 years ago.
Bluey
Fair enough, but please explain why would you or anyone else thinks this only applies on one side. I’m not sure who it was, but the commenter suggested that a war would also entail taking out infrastructure by attacking software. Okay, but why would that only apply on one side. Like, the Americans would be incapable of attacking Chinese software and putting them out of action? My guess is that the Americans would really fuck them on this score. We frequently hear about (likely) Chinese and Russian attacks on American software. We’re never going to hear what the US is up though because neither of these countries would fess up to it. Moreover, they likely have no idea what happened to them.
The US aren’t softcocks in this area of war.
Nolte:
‘Matrix Resurrections’ Review: Another Terrible ‘Matrix’ Sequel (23 Dec)
Not helped by a woke version of the Counter Reformation:
‘Matrix Resurrections’ Writer Says Movie will Reclaim ‘Red Pill’ from Political Right (21 Dec)
Amazing how people don’t go and watch woke movies. It’s a mystery.
Someone earlier was whining (yea, I know) about the US no longer makes commercial shipping to any large extent. The US is perfectly capable of building military ships. In fact, the US is incomparable in this department, so the WE MAKE NAFTHINK crap is bullshit again. US manufacture of naval shipping is way above anything anyone else is currently making. FFS, make it stop.
Cassie, here on the northern beaches a swabbing and testing private pathology lab that contracts its services to NSW govt has closed down its swabbing operations for a few days because they are so far behind the pathology testing.
So fewer swabbing stations means bigger queues at public health stations eg hospital.
I only waited for 30 minutes yesterday, but it was Cooma.
The biggest threat from China is cyber and political. They are emulating what the West has been doing for decades. It is a serious threat but on those fronts we are equally a serious threat to them. China is trying to create political alliances but isn’t having much luck and has seriously damaged its reputation with the bug, debt diplomacy, and making all manner of threats that have come to nothing.
After the recent military adventurism fiascos I’m not confident any nation wants to play the command and conquer games anymore. It’s not worth the cost.
A distinct lack of originality and creativity.
Everyone knows what “red pilling” is. It means the willingness and ability to see reality, however unattractive and manipulative it turns out to be.
The leftie clowns are simply adding a layer of lies by attempting to take it back, thus validating the original idea. Dumbos.
Wachowski sisters
China an economic powerhouse?
Anybody watching “Midsommer Murders” back in the day was warned.
I watched an old episode last night and a glass blowing factory was closed down because the owner opined “China is the future. In 20 years everything will be made in China”.
Oh how we laughed.
Vicki, I have already heard the supportive message to justify this new position:
“They are learning on the go”.
Blockheads.
Watch Black Rain (Douglas, Garcia – 1993) or Rising Sun (Connery, Snipes – 1989) – two films whose sub-themes are the inevitable domination of America by Japan.
Old School
How would you categorize efficient mining and agricultural sectors? Would that be part of making stuff or it doesn’t count?
Mining in Australia is about 15% of GDP. Raw agriculture is about 5%.
Add 15% plus 5, plus manufacturing (about 12%) and we end up 32%. Australian mining and agri are extremely capital intensive, which means these sectors are very high tech. Australian industry is nothing to sniff at.
Now, you can force feed a sector like manufacturing in Australia, but that would require lots of subsidies, tariffs and quotas with our current labor market regulations and high energy prices. Favoring the sector this way would cause our living standards to falter because capital wouldn’t be allocated to efficient sectors, but actually away from them. Basically, we would be heading back to the (for some loons) nostalgic post war 40s. Is that what you would like to see?
I recall watching American tv in the late 80s with a couple of congresscritters bashing Japanese made tv cassette recorders with a sledge hammers.
Wachowski sisters
Interesting pair of critters those two. The imdb blurb on them is a masterpiece of glossing over the bleeding obvious. “She was born” sticks in the craw for some reason.
The best part of the latest Matrix movie is the video gamer thing where they use it as a sly dig at their own expense. Pretty pedestrian otherwise.
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It would seem reasonable that all of that would mean many making a u- turn on engagement with the CCP.
My thesis is that the opposite is occurring. It will actually accelerate as people won’t face up to being wrong about China liberalisation and instead of facing the threat double down.
As we have seen with covid, it’s easier for governments and individuals to deny reality than to admit mistake. That means acceleration.
I’m not some strategic genius, but I don’t believe it does apply only to one side. The difference is the USA administrations still appear to think they are unmatched. Simply sailing a carrier group somewhere near china isn’t enough, the Chinese are clearly preparing over the entire spectrum. You can see the arrogance in the US, and across the west, by looking at what’s promoted. Warfighters and capability are being punished and woke rules.
Simple things like a recent film about the Korean war revel a lot about the attitude and what they think they can do, they wouldn’t be putting out such a clearly nationalistic and antagonistic toward the US film if they didn’t think they could achieve a victory where it matters. They’ve almost certainly got a lot to learn, but in their own back yard I suspect they’d give a bloody nose.
I don’t reckon they’re too interested in imperial expeditions the way the US has been throwing it’s weight around, they will go in more for soft power like has been seen in Africa. Build a port for the locals, lend the money for it, and seize it when they don’t pay. Payoffs for the local leaders and get left alone to control what matters.
There’s a military theory book that was put out by a couple of Chinese thinkers detailing the approach they look to be taking. Really wish I could remember it. Flyingduk probably would’ve known exactly the one I’m thinking of.
Hmm….hope that’s not too scatterlogical.
Also recall Marty McFly scolding the Doc in 1955 for mocking Japanese-made gear.
“All the best stuff comes from Japan.”
I learnt anything with the title ‘Matrix’ is dodgy.
Harry Reid dead at 82.
Bluey
Say what you like about US/Western ineptitude in the military. But let me say this.. I think I’m right in the approximate number.. the US had around 2,500 military personnel in Afghanistan just prior to Hiden pulling them out. 2,500 troops essentially kept it all together and when they left the place collapsed into the hands of the Taliban.
2,500 military held the place together. That’s pretty fucking amazing.
I seem to remember a certain Road Warrior-Troubador (with a Messiah Complex greater than a certain Avian’s) going completely off his tits at the first suggestion on this blog, after multiple ‘Good Nazi’ wordwalls and gratuitous antagonism and abuse of his host and community here, that he was carrying on like a demoralised and defeated person.
Amazing how quickly one can internalise and project something, eh?
Perhaps he didn’t take Bird calling him a c*** in his own Furniture Store as well as he first proclaimed…
bespoke
The time line seems odd, BJ.
Halsey was at sea with his carrier group when the raid occurred. He returned to re-fuel and re-supply a day or so later. When he steamed in, the hulks on Battleship Row were still smoking, and corpses were still drifting on the tide. His reaction was to state that “When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell”. I modified the comment to match JC’s forecast.
Add to that an increasingly massive proportion of Uncle Mark’s formerly ‘adoring’ voteherds.
After all, as of Jan 31st, practically 75% of the entire working population of WA must go get boostered ASAP if they wish to maintain their place in the Covid-free (Snerk!) Workers’ Paradise (Honk!) of Sandgroperstan (Howling, Bitter Laughter Intensifies)…
Harry Reid dead at 82.
Wow guess that breaks the deadlock in numbers in the Senate. Anyone know how this works in the US, does Nevada just appoint someone else or do they have to go to a vote? Lastly if they have to vote would they wait for the mid terms?
RockDoc
I dunno if you’re just kidding around, but Reid is well retired and has been (has been, get it) for about a decade.
Reid retired from the Senate four years ago.
So fewer swabbing stations means bigger queues at public health stations eg hospital.
The BAT FLU drive-in that I bike past, daily, in Fairfield has been closed since Christmas Eve
Sorry JC honestly thought he was still in fray. Wow nice faceplant on my behalf 🙂
JC, there has to be some government intervention in the Australian manufacturing sector. We are competing with countries who impose their own tariffs, subsidies and hidden import costs let alone subsidising their exports.
If we blindly go down the comparative advantage route we would be the only country “playing by the rules”.
It would be in the ordinary Australian’s best interests have slightly reduced living standards if the manufacturing sector expanded to such a position it could supply full employment and also provide a self-sufficient Australia.
Additionally, the assumption that living standards would fall if we protected manufacturing is debatable, particularly if we went back to a cheap and reliable energy policy.
Harry Reid dead at 82.
which is about as newsworthy as Diego Maradona’s brother (52) brown breading it over the weekend ..
I pray for mass non compliance.
Big fat faux-muncher Magda kicking goals.
Repeats of whatever her quiz show is called at 1.30 p.m. on the teev.
Stratospheric.
The only place you will likely see rebellion, is at the ballot box. Otherwise, it will be the same quiet abandonment of masks and QR codes and functionally boycotting anywhere that denies people entry in large numbers as before.
People need to eat, people need to live. In no State anywhere are you going to see a General Strike, like some more militant folk might wish, simply because there is no safety net or alternative networks out there to take in a mass of unfed people with mounting bills and cut-off services, while they try to out-bluff their Governments.
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How many minutes before this gets taken down?
Cheers BJ.
You mean like China, with whom we have a ~A$70 billion trade surplus!
The car industry worked really well for us. At the end, it was costing the taxpayers 50K per job. Magnify that because we currently make nafink and some of us want to make sumfink.
Speak for yourself and not for me or others. Australian made cars were fucking awful. Everything that I recall that was made here under tariffs and quotas was just terrible. It was just expensive crap.
There’s no debate as it would be a fact. Things would cost, more, they would be of poorer quality and choice would be reduced. These are pretty much all the components that dictate the rise and fall of living standards.
It’s just not cheap energy that would help manufacturing.
1. Allow markets to set wages.
2. Reduce regulations in both the goods and labor markets.
3. Eliminate corp taxation or allow 100% deduction of machinery purchases in the first year.
4. Fuck the unions and ensure they’re not allowed within 100 miles of a factory floor.
Dude, that’s no faceplant. No biggie. I wasn’t being a smartarse by asking you. I thought it was either a joke or you didn’t know. It’s fine.
And this might not take the form of a UAP/LDP/PHON/Independent sweeping of Federal/State Parliaments and Upper Houses.
More likely, people like me will do an Arky and ‘informal’ their papers.
Putting the Sitting Member last, Faulty-Style, still means they have been voted for. The AEC will still allocate them some money for their presence on the paper.
The only thing that will potentially frighten any political bugman, is the realisation that no folks like the direction they are taking the country. And in the absence of any other political or legal redress (and no, I will not glowpost about rebellion. Australians as a culture are, in their laid-back and tolerant-to-the-point-of-apparent-apathy nature, nowhere near such a tipping point), this is about the only voice they have. Spike the informal vote percentages, and people will not be taken for granted.
Who can ever forget this. Reid being pummeled by mobsters according to chatter.
The only concern about this is if it was a government mandate
I think they only get public funding for primary votes received, Rex.
Bespoke.
My property, my rules. If I as the owner doesn’t want you inside the factory floor, then you can’t come in. Easy as.
Wasn’t it just a month or so after that that Biden said”We better get moving, man, or China’s gonna eat our lunch.”
Safe pair of hands.
Fair enough.
However, that means the informal vote and voter becomes even more important.
After all, what does a Political type crave even more than power? Money.
And preference distribution means that Lib/Lab/Greens will end up in a numerous (or even majority) position anyway.
So informals deny both subsidiary votes and funding.*
A bigger legal two-finger salute to the system does not exist.
* If you are set up to survive on donations and contributions only, then you will not suffer setback as much as a bigger Party, with all its Cauci, hangers-on and Factional Committees, etc. might…
Reid was a strange one. The pummeled by mobsters thing was pretty soon before he quit. Then there was the whole aliens thing, that was weird.
When we did the count, the scrutineers were very interested in informals, and were keeping a close eye on what was on those votes rather than whether they were or not. I vote informal, marking the minors as my 1, 2 etc, and where the rubber hits the road at the vote for Lib/lab/green leave them blank.
Watched .. DON’T LOOK UP .. with Lenny De Caprio & Meryl Streep plus a host of other familiar names last night .. quite enjoyable way to soak up 2 hours .. Even “our Cate” does a fair job of looking “slippers under the bed” material .. either the make-up job is superb or she is age-ing incredibly well … & sex kitten-ish … LOL!
Word of warning tho .. do NOT switch off early as the final scene (unanounced) follows all the credits
Waiting oh so patiently for my shit shot.
Not having “ fuck off “ money and a young family screws my options.
Having all my money making qualifications/ experience tied up in medical/ mining further fucks me over.
McClown deserves a hand job from Freddy Krueger for his bastardry.
Will be doing the “ I’m not consenting I’m coerced” for the medical records though.
I’ll keep that in mind, Diogenes. 🙂
Oh noes! AFL vaccination program working a treat.
Ok, hands up, which of you sent this turducken of pure wrongness in for an answer?
( pinched from instapundit)
https://www.queerty.com/want-gay-orgy-30th-birthday-tell-girlfriend-20211227
JC says:
December 29, 2021 at 2:07 pm
Who can ever forget this. Reid being pummeled by mobsters according to chatter.
Weren’t there a few other politicians that had to be reminded in a similar fashion around that time?
JC, there has to be some government intervention in the Australian manufacturing sector.
Power that’s as cheap as our coal reserves are plentiful, unions under control and minimal government red tape would sort it.
The Unions (in their current format) are finished. The one time in my lifetime that the Unions had a chance to do what they were originally designed for, they went missing in action, or were actively hostile towards their own members. Fighting against the No Jab, No Job mandate was the epitome of their ACTUAL role.
After the dust settles with this Covid rubbish, a flensing is due.
Anyone think the CFMEU is ever going to be the same?
I don’t know what’s worse- The Question, the answer, or the pedantically relativist slapfights that erupted in the Comments Section immediately afterwards… 🙁
If only we had a centre-right party to implement these sensible policies.
I didn’t get to the comments.
I’m assuming they were as fabulous as the question?
Got a letter from mine immediately after Sneakers’ first jab dictate came out, saying “Sorry, but legally nothing we can do for any of you.”
Now, public health laws and emergency situations or not, I seem to recall unions in this country historically not giving a cuss and being more or less let alone despite their members wilfully breaking laws and impeding critical activity. Maritime, industrial and construction union barstardry during WW2 and associated legal restrictions on imposed civilian life and activity in an existential crisis well beyond a mere coof spring to mind…
Putin doesn’t fck around:
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1475878806657323013
No. The first person who questioned the logic of blowing up a stable, straight relationship to act out a gay fantasy got slapped down, and another who asked why a bloke calling himself a woman was okay, suddenly found himself piled-on (and not in a good way…) by transapologists and their weasel-wording about how sex is neurological, etc.
And a few negative references to Republicans and bigots in relation to anyone who disagreed or dis-affirmed the questioner and the ‘therapist’ who all but enthusastically cheered him on.
There will be general strikes once inflation really starts to bite as wages will never keep up. Combine this with 4, 5, 6th booster mandates, it could get biblical.
As if their (Labor) lawyers kept on retainer were ever going to advise them differently.
all half-arsed constructions held together by curses
In effect, I was disappointed once more by humanity.
So I reverted to looking at [iron] horses.
Nothing sends a signal like a good old fashioned defenestration.
Yeah. In my cynicism, I could not help but wonder what would have happened here if Sneakers had been a Liberal Premier…
I think you will find “ power too cheap to meter” underpinning an advantage in certain industry sectors ( aluminium) is now a far right position.
Hitler liked cheap electricity.
Don’t be like Hitler.
was so bad I channel surfed trying to find the cricket
There will be general strikes once inflation really starts to bite as wages will never keep up. Combine this with 4, 5, 6th booster mandates, it could get biblical.
It needs to get fucking biblical right now.
oh no … I’m moderated
… bespoke started it !!
I feel a quite strange urge to break out a certain red armband, containing a black (but glow-in-the-dark) radiation emblem within a white circle…
Good stuff, Rex.
Years ago now the son of a family friend flunked out of the science course he’d enrolled in because he somewhat idealistically wanted to find a cure for the disease that took his mother before her time. He was at a loss as to what to do. I’d noted that QR was looking for trainee drivers (I guess the old route from cleaner to fireman to driver is now obsolete) for coal trains and suggested he apply. He did, was accepted and loves it.
Latest from Roy Hill Charter flight, you now have to have a covid test at the airport with negative prior to boarding (everyone vaxxed and boosted as mandated (persondated?) of course).
So you may have >50 in a room waiting results, if there is a positive all in room will be close contacts and probably not allowed on flight, so no shift change for those up there.
I wonder if they have thought this through?
Aluminium’s days as an electricity loss leader are coming to an end.
Snap national cabinet meeting to discuss close contacts
The nation’s leaders will discuss a new definition for COVID-19 close contacts tomorrow, as they seek to ease pressure on health systems and testing facilities around the nation.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called a snap national cabinet meeting for Thursday, to deal with issues arising from the highly transmissible Omicron COVID-19 variant.
The nation’s leaders weren’t due to meet until next year, but will gather tomorrow to discuss the high coronavirus case numbers across the country, and huge queues for PCR tests.
They’ll also canvas a new definition of close COVID contacts, whereby those contacts would only be required to quarantine for seven days, and take a rapid antigen test on day six.
Mr Morrison also announced the Commonwealth would pick up 50 per cent of the cost of the rapid tests procured by the states.
The trouble is OSC, there are people here who want to return to the bloated days of the ’60’s and ’70’s, with subsidies, tariffs and quotas up the yin-yang.
JC is right.
I worked in automotive for a while about 20 years ago.
I was shocked at the featherbedding bullshit that went on.
Management salaries 25% over most other sectors and a cosy union/management cartel chiselling shit out of the gummint left, right and centre.
Example.
We had three (3) shop-stewards (one from each union) employed full-time in HR doing nothing but shit-stir.
That is where the “we make naffink” (h/t JC) bleating lead to.
And McClown persondating boosters.
Twitter feed
If it was anything like the process I’ve been through Roger, the prospective trainee does a 4-6 week ground school to learn the basics of safeworking, company rules and shunting operations, then some time in the yard and on the road, then Engine and Air, then mentored driving time up to final assessment.
The older guys call such trainees ‘Microwave Drivers’ because of the compressed time period- Instead of 5-10+ years to qualify, the plan is to sit your final assessment and pass out in about 15-18 months. I agree with their contentions about the old system granting its graduees more experience before taking responsibility for a train, but when you need staff, a slow pipeline that takes in and produces only a small, fixed number of trainees per year is unworkable. And the post-privatisation Railway Companies have traditionally liked to keep their old guys working and avoid or minimise training new ones.
I am about 1/4 of the way through my final driving training, logging hours. I hope to be fully qualified come March/April, all going well.
Of course not!
#GovernMeHarder,StateDaddy!
#WApesTogevvaStrunk!
Aka making it up as they go along.
Roger:
It’s almost as if there’s a law of nature somewhere.
Saw a vid yesterday about bitcoin miners occupying an abandoned aluminum plant in Texas. Lots of cheap power and a grid to match. I can’t see how those miners offer any economic benefit to the State but economics is not my thing.
Mr Anger, you do not appear to be stroking the codpiece. Please move to the side so someone else can take your place.
I now feel a very uncomfortable urge to bathe in a tub of hand sanitiser…
🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
Arguably a larger (predominantly industrial) base load provided some benefits where you had large centralised coal generated electricity and a transmission system, poles and wires designed around that. Any benefit provided is diminished the further you move away from that model.
It’s official! Dirty bastard:
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver are OFFICIALLY DIVORCED over 10 years after separating following revelation he fathered a child outside marriage
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10350911/Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Maria-Shriver-OFFICIALLY-DIVORCED-10-years-separating.html
10 years! I hope the lawyers were on an hourly retainer.
as they seek to ease pressure on health systems and testing facilities around the nation.
What a fucking embarrassment public servants are. This has all been about easing pressure, two fucking years of easing pressure! Pathetic.
That’s more like it.
And unicorns. Don’t forget the unicorns.
I’ve heard some shockers about union goings on in everything from the Ford plant before it closed to the desalination plant. The current unions have completely lost sight of their purpose, and will find their lunch being eaten by mobs like red union.
Although I suppose the current purpose of the unions is as a feeder to the ALP rather than looking after their members.
Agree Roger.
No third dividend.
No second dividend either.
Pay for the win only.
Anyone peddling this retarded nonsense is a feeder to the ALP. Lets not pretend otherwise.
Re: the long lines for covid tests, I had my test on Thursday and only today got the text message advising that it was negative. Six days! Particularly when they are only good for 72 hours after the test is taken.
Just as well I didn’t need it, my mother’s nursing home was administering the rapid antigen test to all visitors. Sadly I was turned away yesterday, they are in lockdown now as two residents tested positive, not my mother though.
All the covid changes are because sheer numbers make the old ways impossible.
Good.
Why did you go? Apparently, there were long queues on Christmas Day! What early explanation is there?
Quick roll through the MSM sewer and still see these stories still prominently. 2 months rain in 3 days allegedly along the north tropical coast of Queensland. From the BOM who had inflated upper ranges as well in their forecasts:
Cooktown: 28th – 32mm 29th – 5mm
Daintree Village: 28th – 33mm 29th – 54mm
Cairns: 28th – 20.2mm 29th – 26.0mm
Innisfail: 28th – 28mm 29th – 17mm
Tully: 28th – 22mm 29th – 15mm
Cardwell: 28th – 27mm 29th – 18mm
Ingham: 28th – 5mm 28th – 11mm
Townsville: 28th – 3.4mm 29th – 4.3mm
Ayr DPI: 28th – 7.6mm 29th – 4mm
Yup, they got one part right 2 months rain for a typical dry season month…
These are the same dudes both scientists and j’ism grads who try to tell you with a straight face that they can predict accurately the temperature 10, 20 even 100 years due to atmospheric CO2 concentration rises.
Wind: Sown
Whirlwind Harvest Projection: Bumper.
Solution: PANIC
Amidst all the doom and gloom, some heart-warming news.
Bugger it removed my spaces to make that data graph like in format. Apologies for the word slab.
No. It’s because Australia is highly vaxxed and boosters work as promised.
srr:
The analysis fails to record the major issue with 2021 – the utter incompetency of all levels of government and bureaucracy who have turned everything they touched into a disaster.
We can get over politicians over reacting to a normal flu season – we can’t get over the crisis of confidence of a police force that assaults the citizenry who merely want to get on with their lives without the heavy hand of government.
We can get over a recession that happens when outside forces trash our economy, but we can’t get over a ruined economic base that has happened because inflamed egos have decreed that only they can solve a problem, getting it wrong and then doubling down on their error because fragile ego.
In essence we can’t get over incompetent government that is run by the bureaucracy.
Excellent news Baba. My name would be on some of the Historical hole data for that place especially vicinity of Labona outstation and south of the Carmichael R. I’d love to see it now.
Well there is that too baba, because no doubt severity is being reduced.
qld used to hospitalise every one with a positive test.
And as many people know lots of people getting free tests are waiting 4 5 days for results. Makes the 72 hour thing ridiculous.
Because Heatstroke is for wimps and pooftah-pansies… 😉
So if you need to get a negative test to get on a flight, what’s the point of proving you’ve had the 100% ineffective clot shot?
This dude reckons Bitcoin is worth… wait for it… Zero!
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.14204.pdf
SIGN THE PETITION TO SAY NO TO SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION
I’m all for leftards killing their offspring.
In the end, religion will win.
Cronkite
It’s a silly petition. If a sheila wants to kill a kid in the womb, but won’t be allowed to if the petition succeeds she will simply change the reason why she wants the kid hoovered. She can simply turn to the hooverist and say the kid gives her migraines. That’s it, and then the hoover comes out.
He was looking pretty good a few weeks back when I saw him on the box.
And throw money at it. And panic some more. And find someone, anyone to blame. And panic.
Vulgar, pointless hysterics.
I’m all for leftards killing their offspring.
In the end, religion will win.
And
It’s a silly petition.
The world can’t have enough tits; real ones, not the trannie plastic balloon crap. I never thought of you as being a misogynist head prefect, penis envy sure, but not a woman hater. Give yourself an uppercut.
So over the course of the Christmas break Victorians accepted 8 year old children being forced into masks and Australians accepted, nay begged for the always-scheduled introduction of mass rapid antigen testing in this country, and immediately on the back of that we’re about to get formalised permanent national “close contact” regime.
We don’t accept honest mistakes on the Cat, go back, double down, call names then flounce. That’s the way we do it, money for nothing insults for free.
Doctor Grand daughter in O&G had a pregnant woman and family all of whom had tested negative in home testing found to be Covid + . Nose sampling dependent on nasal passage not being dry if so won’t register . So how many false Covid negative ? New testing via mouth more reliable but how much the cost?
Dealing with mistakes on the Cat –
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5xLJlfX-Iis
Don’t know if you’re tuned in Bush but the lentils are going 4.5 – 5 t/h.
Astounding!
That’s what 550mm of rain will do for you. The skill of a farmer is directly proportional to the contents of his rain gauge.
Why are we testing for something no worse than the flu?
This is all just about keeping the BS narrative alive and nothing more.
All the testing is pointless. The labs can’t keep up with it, for starters.
Testing has provided a convenient outlet for the fearful and the attention seekers, while giving a semblance of “control” for our idiotic governments. And also reasons to rob the population in general of freedom.
Someone is making bucketloads of money out of this, governments are foolishly relying on being seen to do something, anything, that will have them returned to power. It might have worked in Queensland and WA early in the piece, but may be less certain into next year.
Like that foul creature in the WH, they are hungry for death to justify their actions, but covid is proving uncooperative.
Not sure why it would be more expensive.
I understand they used to perform a lobotomy up the nose with a huge cotton bud.
I had to have a test recently and it was a single swab.
Inside the left cheek near lower gums.
Then right.
Then both nostrils.
But a really slender thing which they just inserted maybe 1″ ( 1.5″ absolute tops) into the nose.
No discomfort and only a single swab so I imagine the test cost wouldn’t change.
I don’t get why you’ve said this as it doesn’t make sense. Explain yourself, Cronkite.
I was walking past a barbershop the other day and a dude had a hair cutting cape on (or whatever they’re called) with the word UPPERCUT written across. I thought it was so witty I stuck my scone in and congratulated the barber.
Areff:
Thanks RF – just made my day.
And has been since this preposterous nightmarish hilerist idiocy was foisted on us.
At the risk of sounding like a certain militant truck driver, never forget and never ever forgive.
Which is especially easy to say when you’re not a Christian.
Shortage of Nano-wrigglers…
Rabz,
A Christian forgives. A fool forgets.
‘itlerist, FFS …
Anthro, I have a memory that puts pachyderms to shame.
So long as you don’t develop a Messiah-complex and ban people because they called you a c***.
The contrast between your usual happy-go-lucky persona, superb taste in wymmins and (only marginally less) excellent taste in music would be terribly jarring… 😉
Evil pussy cats!
Interesting mathematical deducations:
Nationwide, every day three million mammals, two million reptiles and one million marsupials are dying from feral and pet cat attacks. Now authorities around the country are rolling out restrictions in a bid to combat the cat carnage.
Daily Mail
Best jingle tagline ever for this guy:*
This program is brought to you by Upper-Cut.
“Go on, Give Yourself An… /
[Barbershop Quartet] Upper-Cuuuuuuut!
“On the corner of Cue Boulevard and Mullet Lane. Open by Appointment Only.”
* Voiced in whatever cheerful baritone liquid sunshine-voiced radio announcer (that leaves the laydeees all terribly confused) you may listen to in you Capital City. I was initially thinking John Laws, but your mileage may vary…
Deductions!
from the ‘mole at 2.23pm.
I was back in my old stomping ground of Kalgoorlie Boulder over Christmas for a few days.
Most of the young’uns especially are in the same boat. None of the major miners insist on employees providing vaxx proof to retain their jobs.
In typical Goldfields laissez-faire attitude, many don’t care, they just go along with it, but a very significant number that I spoke with are caught up in the “no jab, no job” dilemma and are very unhappy about it.
The more senior blokes (geos, engineers tehies etc.) seem less concerned, they will just go elsewhere in the mining game if they are forced into vaxxing.
Sneaker’s closed border is very, very popular with the blue collar blokes, they have been screwing the companies for increased pay and bonuses due to the critical shortages of skilled mine workers.
Every cloud . . . .
Gesundheit!
TFM:
It sure as shit weren’t me.
FFS Delete “None of the major miners>>>” insert “All of the major miners….”.
42C here. Global warming did it.
Indeed. Hehe. Along with their 100 + genders. LOL. Leftards are living in Lala land.