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Open Thread – New Year 2022
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Another unintended consequence of “niceness”: “good”, responsible folk desex their dogs as all the authorities encourage, consequently the only dogs…
including but not limited to Loreto and St. Micks in the SticksBwah ha ha ha. I had forgotten that. The…
JC at 6:00 :- Dandelion Chocolate started its warning by covering its legal bases, as all California businesses must. But…
“Hardly anybody works in this community, they’ve got nothing else to do than get on Facebook and sling crap at…
I wonder if the mongolids in charge realise they have managed to get to the stage of people despairing enough to set themselves alight in a reasonably prosperous democracy.
Unlike the Middle East where they have had decades of being abused by their governments.
And our media catamites will tell us nothing of the background. Same as the dead lady.
I don’t know if it was them, but there was some technology around a while ago where you sit your expensive bike in a cradle with a resistance wheel to create drag and hook it up to a video and pretend you are doing the Tour de France.
Anyway, one customer does this all winter then takes his bike out on the road.
Frame totally snaps.
Then a few more similar failures pop up.
Massive shitfight between well-heeled (and injured) bike owners, bike-sim company and bike manufacturers ensues.
How would you stop the corrupt, rancid pervert
Legally?
That isn’t The Odd Angry Shot by any chance, is it?
I’ve got Macaulay’s book on the Battle of Coral-Balmoral, and thought it very good.
It’s a crowded field. Maybe time to drop the daks and take a dump in the street after all.
The title was “When the Buffalo Fight”, and it’s based on the 1RAR tour of 1965/66, working with the American 173rd Airborne, based at Bien Hoa. For whatever reason, I had a relative by marriage, who was a veteran of the 173rd Airborne, at that time, and he said that the experience did very little to alter his opinion that all Australians were mad – “Crazy fvcking Australians, going to war in cloth hats…”
Heheh.
The Aussies were looked at like a bunch of big game hunters- Floppy hats and elephant guns…
There’s a veteran of 1RAR lives in this neck of the woods, and he says all the stories of transistor radios in the bush, using tracks to move on, smoking in ambushes are all perfectly true……
Clint Eastwood is Jewish. His real name is Eaststeinberg.
From Wiki
Early life
Main article: Early life and work of Clint Eastwood
Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930, at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, California, to Ruth (née Runner; 1909–2006) and Clinton Eastwood (1906–1970). During her son’s fame, Ruth was known by the surname of her second husband, John Belden Wood (1913–2004), whom she married after the death of Clinton Sr.[26] Eastwood was nicknamed “Samson” by the hospital nurses because he weighed 11 pounds 6 ounces (5.2 kg) at birth.[27][28] He has a younger sister, Jeanne Bernhardt (b. 1934).[29] He is of English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry.[30] He is descended from Mayflower passenger William Bradford, and through this line is the 12th generation born in North America.[31][32][33] His family relocated three times during the 1930s as his father changed occupations,[34][35] residing in Sacramento in 1935, according to census records.[36][37] Contrary to what Eastwood has indicated in media interviews, they did not move between 1940 and 1949.[38][39] Settling in Piedmont, California, the Eastwoods lived in an affluent area of the town, had a swimming pool, belonged to a country club, and each parent drove their own car.[40] Eastwood’s father was a manufacturing executive at Georgia-Pacific for most of his working life.[41] As Clint and Jeanne grew older, Ruth took a clerical job at IBM.[42]
Spiritual beliefs
In 1973, Eastwood told the film critic Gene Siskel, “No, I don’t believe in God”.[365] Eastwood has said that he finds spirituality in nature (as suggested by his Western, Pale Rider, 1985), stating that “I was born during the Depression and I was brought up with no specific church. We moved every four or five months during the first 14 years of my life, so I was sent to a different church depending on wherever we lived. Most of them were Protestant, but I went to other churches because my parents wanted me to try to figure out things for myself. They always said, ‘I just want to expose you to some religious order and see if that’s something you like’. So although my religious training was not really specific, I do feel spiritual things. If I stand on the side of the Grand Canyon and look down, it moves me in some way.”[366]
“Of course, it would be wonderful to talk with my parents again, who are, of course, deceased. It makes the idea of death much less scary. But then again, if you think that nothing happens after you die, maybe it makes you live life better. Maybe you’re supposed to do the best you can by the gift you’re given of life and that alone.”[366]
What the Heck Is New York City Doing?
[New York Has Gone Full Australia]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrN0avu4x8E
Dec 30, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
Fair enough, Sancho. It may seem like that. But I trust in my few comments today I may have interested a few people in going to Canberra or the Central West of NSW for a visit, incidental to wishing Rosie, Arky and others seasonal compliments. Note too that as soon as I came innocuously in last night and still ongoing this morning, the Witchfinder General started up against me with Bespoke following. Ignore, say some. Fight back, say others. You deserve it, say the dickless ones and those who fail to see I am on a hiding to nowhere here. I am more inclined to just reserve my interest here and do other things instead. Currently I comment more at Quadrant Online, a very different place.
Hi Lizzie, I appreciate your comments and generally support them. ?
Yes Quadrant is a very different forum, much more genteel? I do like pgang’s insights.
Oh yeah, anyway, the Govt overlords must have thought long and hard about how to save face as the virus, like all others, mutates (VP Harris didn’t read that bit at school) and tends to become benign to the general population of hosts.
Cynical I may be, but the behaviour of those in so called power beggars belief.
dont make me quote you, witch
Contrary to waiter advice yesterday according to the Italian Minstery of foreign affairs I am eligible to sit inside in restaurants and more importantly to travel on regional trains.
Running late again this morning I thought I would wander up to St Peter’s to go to mass after getting a somewhat better coffee at a bar I have visited before, and should have visited yesterday.
The aftermath of new years eve still being cleared away at 10 am and those witches brooms still do the job (and the street sweeping machines)
Big crowds in St Peter’s square had me puzzled until I noticed the window with a rug hanging out.
A New Year’s Day address by the Pope was only ten minutes away so I waited and watched. Why wouldn’t I?
The queue to get into St Peter’s were very long so I slipped around to the corner to mass at iirc St Spiritu in Sassia, mass in the sacristy due to urgent works in the church.
In Santa Maria in Trastevere the pews are removed and plastic chairs carefully spaced a metre apart but in the sacristy here no such spacing was possible, it was crowded. The priest walked around to distribute holy Communion as Communion lines not possible.
After mass he raised his voice at the young nun taking the collection. I was not impressed. The nuns in this order wear square wimples that overhang their faces, I’ll have to look them up.
Now just a short distance from Piazza Navone squished into my go to in Rome lunch place. Next to me a French couple and next to them two Canadians.
Another peerless day, weather wise.
Onya Rosie! 🙂
Please blow Struth a kiss if you remember… 😉
Phrasing?
deportment
… apparently
Oh I forgot, pizza for lunch.
It is that kind of place.
The Bee: Here is a definitive list of things that will happen in 2022:
January 1 – USPS will deliver your Christmas package
January 6 – Second insurrection attempt canceled
January 20 – Pfizer unveils booster shots 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8
January 21 – Men break every record ever held by women
January 22 – Harvard gender studies professor discovers five new pronouns
January 23 – The Babylon Bee discovers a 3rd conservative joke
January 25 – Obama releases another memoir
January 27 – Mark Zuckerberg finally learns how to smile with his eyes
February 1 – WHO runs out of Greek letters for variants and starts naming them after the Muppets
February 2 – Jan 6th committee finally catches your Grandma
February 26 – China officially annexes United States
March 1 – Bill Clinton plants the flag on brand new Epstein Island
March 3 – Space Force training exercise accidentally blows up Mars
March 10 – Obama releases yet another new memoir
March 25 – Meat is outlawed, replaced with delicious bugs instead
April 1 – AOC red-pilled after reading an economics book
April 19 – Man dressed as woman hailed as first woman to not complain about being cold
May 5 – Hollywood studio announces all-female reboot of Ghostbusters: Afterlife
May 10 – Firefly renewed for 12 new seasons. Unfortunately, it’s written by the writers of the 2nd season of Ted Lasso
June 6 – AOC tweets something dumb
August 15 – The only child to be named “Brandon” for the entire year is born
September 5 – Jen Psaki becomes Ben Psaki
October 8 – Obama releases new memoir
October 11 – Ted Cruz finally gets to spend a week in Cancun
November 17 – Republicans bravely squander control of Congress
December 10th – You still can’t get your hands on a PS5
December 25 – Christmas will occur on this day
December 27 – Obama releases new memoir
December 30 – Ghislaine Maxwell’s black book leaked, will be released in January.
December 31 – Jesus returns.
That’s almost a substitute for WiP. 😀
Week In Pictures.
Dr. Zelenko Goes Head To Head With Australian Politicians
https://tv.gab.com/channel/redvoicemedia/view/dr-zelenko-goes-head-to-head-61c86fd9bc799c172a4c0685
Thanks Tom. I’m thinking of getting the calendar. It makes 2022 look a lot better.
Pfizer Jabs Do More Harm Than Good? – The Info That Got mRNA Tech Patent Holder Banned By Big Tech?
https://tv.gab.com/channel/redvoicemedia/view/pfizer-jabs-do-more-harm-than-61d0770416e564521fa34737
You and your fictitious world, L. I have said nothing about your return and only responded when you stuck ya beak in between me and Arky.
And I made no claim to being kind to Arky, L.
The New Normal.
On the last day of 2021 Paypal banned Gateway Pundit. Google banned them years ago.
Sorry everyone, I accidentally hit the Report Comment button.
Oh you utter moron.
Australia had very little wage regulation prior to WWI and per capita was the wealthiest nation up until 1913.
OMG, I was looking at something on Youtube and this came up. Someone, anyone please shoot me.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+auld+lang+syne&&view=detail&mid=AF6BE233FFD68D892AE7AF6BE233FFD68D892AE7&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dyoutube%2520auld%2520lang%2520syne%26%26FORM%3DVDVVXX
This is when you require SWAT teams to disband the crowd in a very rough manner.
I don’t get the problam JC.
The hair monster.
Seriously… How stupid do these people think we are?
Liars lie.
More than 90 percent of Omicron cases in Denmark are vaccinated, shocking data reveals
Ben Shapiro’s Hilarious Takedown of COVID Lies the Left Walked Back in 2021
Daily Mail
Horror as man sets himself on FIRE in his car while screaming about Dan Andrews’ Covid vaccine mandates – before shocked diners helped police and firefighters extinguish the flames
Went to a service there. Being Anglicans, we could pretty much follow the liturgy including the responses. The congregation was lovely and welcomed us warmly. A little touch of heaven.
COVID is proving to be a very useful disease for the bad guys
No no.
The nurse outfit Daryl Hannah wore in Kill Bill 2.
It must be paired with the eyepatch. It will not work without the eyepatch.
Ed Casesays:
January 1, 2022 at 10:14 pm
Drive wages into the ground Thru Massive Immigration so we’re all living like Coolies, that’s the Liberal Democrat Party way.
Also the Liberal, Labor and Greens way.
In 1913 Australia was still very much a WASP nation. That culture and the values are gone. I very much doubt much from then could be replicated now.
Shocking New Video By Canadian Doctors Shows Massive Fraud In Pfizer’s Clinical Trials For Its Vaccine
World Economic Forum’s “COVID-19 transformation map” transforms society into open air prison, a technocracy
Mater’s Musings #47: YOU’RE risk of dying from Covid-19
I think I’ll pass
Ahahaha!
Thanks Tom!
Mater…naughty, naughty.
Spelling.
Socially yes but when you look at nation building projects like railroads and the Snowy Mountains Scheme the arguments about who built this this place become muddy.
Frozen in time: clock that tells tale of Jewish resistance in wartime Amsterdam
The family artefacts help tell the story of Dutch Jewish resistance to the Nazis, so often overshadowed by the horrific history of the large numbers sent to their death.
About three-quarters of Dutch Jews were murdered during the second world war, the highest death rate in western Europe.
Horror as man sets himself on FIRE in his car while screaming about Dan Andrews’ Covid vaccine mandates – before shocked diners helped police and firefighters extinguish the flames
If it comes to this, don’t take it out on yourself, take it out on THEM.
The Snowy scheme was commenced long after 1913
Socially yes but when you look at nation building projects like railroads and the Snowy Mountains Scheme the arguments about who built this this place become muddy.
It only gets muddy after 1950. The Snowy Mountains Scheme would have been done with or without migrant labour.
“About three-quarters of Dutch Jews were murdered during the second world war, the highest death rate in western Europe.”
Thanks P. I wrote a piece a few months ago here on the Cat as to why the death rate of Dutch Jews was the highest in Europe. Many are shocked to learn these facts. It wasn’t that the Dutch collaborated any more or less that others in Europe….it’s just that the Dutch unintentionally gifted the German occupiers a lot of information as to its Jewish population…thus making it much easier for the Germans to round up Jews.
“Snowy Mountains Scheme”
That was a long time after 1913….after 1945.
Uh.
It would appear a crack about ‘Clint Eaststeinberg’ last night may or may not have reached its intended target, but also caused a bit of unintended collateral damage.
War is hell.
Noted.
Will correct.
Thanks.
“mh says:
January 2, 2022 at 12:56 am
The Sun (UK authoritarian tabloid) has a story showing footballers being read the riot act by their clubs for not controlling what their WAGS post on social media.
I thought women had their own thoughts and opinions.
‘EVERTON “read the riot act” to goalie Jordan Pickford over his wife’s apparent anti-vax messages on social media.
The England keeper is among football stars who have been blasted after loved ones shared conspiracy content around critical jabs.
Fed-up Everton bosses have ordered their players to ensure their relatives “toe the line” on Covid.
Last month Jordan’s wife Megan Davison, 25, shared a photo from a Freedom Rally in London where police faced violence.
It showed a protester with a placard reading: “Even if you’re not conspiracy minded, something in your soul has to say?.?.?.?something is wrong.”
This week Megan, who has a children’s studies degree, posted a second message showing a voodoo doll with dozens of pins in it with the words “just one more booster to freedom”.
After a dressing down at the club, Jordan, 27, contacted Megan, and her message was removed.’”
Done.
Not enough coffee this morning!
From the Bee’s timeline, thoughtfully posted by Tom at 3.21:
‘April 19 – Man dressed as woman hailed as first woman to not complain about being cold’
The latter half of that statement is one of the great truisms of this, or any other time.
44 degrees. Turn fan on. ‘I’m cold.’ Sorry, ladeeees of FlashCat. In the words of the great man – ‘Look inside you. You know this to be true.’
The dog bumped his arm.
At lest back then Immigrants were prepared to endure the condition to build a new life. So unless you can point to locals being turned away in favour of the Immigrants then I doubt it. Same goes for the railroads in the west.
Via Delingpole, her maj shows that she too is a true saxe-coburg tampon-
Then again, none of those could possibly compete with the outrageous raised middle digit to the people of Britain that is Tony Blair’s knighthood. From the needless Iraq War to the dismantling and corruption of Britain’s institutions, from mass immigration to the entrenchment of the Deep State, from the sabotaging of Brexit to the promotion of the Great Reset, there is no living person who has done more to destroy Britain and destroy it utterly than this creepy, goat-eyed servant of Satan.
To add insult to injury, Blair’s award doesn’t actually come from the Prime Minister but is in the personal gift of the Queen. Maybe she was pushed into it. Maybe she was ill-advised. But imagine that as one of your final acts at the end of your long reign: bestowing one of your highest possible honours on the Worst Living Englishman!
Apropos of the WIP – surely, surely nobody got Biden to say ‘Let’s go Brandon’ to the nation?
I agree it’s a noble, aspirational goal. Even for Biden, nobody could lack that much self-awareness.
KD
And yet, it happened.
A few hear would say hold my beer.
Lol.
The people who dreamed up, designed and paid for it built it. That is, Australians.
The scab labour the government imported from ex-fascist countries to break the Australian labour movement are neither here nor there.
Hah.
Watched it last night.
You could cut 40 minutes from the run time without diluting the science-denying-rednecks-would-rather-have-jobs-than-save-the-planet and tech-billionaires-would-rather-make-bucks-than-save-the-planet messages.
Wouldn’t have been made if Hillary! had won.
“Anchor Whatsays:
January 2, 2022 at 6:53 am
The New Normal.
On the last day of 2021 Paypal banned Gateway Pundit. Google banned them years ago.”
And watch this censorship of conservatives and conservative outlets increase in 2022 as the midterms near.
First they came for Alex Jones back in 2018….and many on the right either shrugged their shoulders or laughed.
Nobody is laughing now.
Re Snowy scheme doubt it even had a large American Company in a major role . My late f-in-l was Associate Commissioner , Chief Electrical engineer .
Rand Paul: ‘Unconscionable’ that Biden Administration Withholding Lifesaving Coronavirus Treatment
Rosie.
Try the Roman specialty spaghetti cacio e pepe(?).
Very simple.
Just spaghetti, pecorino cheese and black pepper.
If done right, it is magnificent.
“Then again, none of those could possibly compete with the outrageous raised middle digit to the people of Britain that is Tony Blair’s knighthood. From the needless Iraq War to the dismantling and corruption of Britain’s institutions, from mass immigration to the entrenchment of the Deep State, from the sabotaging of Brexit to the promotion of the Great Reset, there is no living person who has done more to destroy Britain and destroy it utterly than this creepy, goat-eyed servant of Satan.”
Yep….the UK NY knighthoods are no different to our Australia Day honours……totally politicised by the progressive left and totally lacking in any credibility whatsoever.
At lest back then Immigrants were prepared to endure the condition to build a new life. So unless you can point to locals being turned away in favour of the Immigrants then I doubt it. Same goes for the railroads in the west.
Look at all the Snowy footage, who the fuck is driving all the plant and equipment and doing all the surveying and clearing?
My ex father in law was a very decent bloke, Greek. As a result of getting what was in his opinion a shit haircut in Melbourne, he signed up for one of your “nation building” projects in Tasmania. Assign to be the translator because he had the least shit English, the start of the day often went like: What did they tell us to do? No idea! Pick up some tools and look busy!
What the fuck else are a bunch of 20 something year old men going to do in a new country with no family other than tour around the joint working on different projects in the middle of nowhere? They were having a bloody adventure!
Built with them, not because of them.
Yeah, they did. Specifically:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/dad-norad-christmas-call-trolls-clueless-biden-saying-go-brandon-video/
Australia has always been a Catholic country. WASP?
Besides the royals being high Anglican and having deathbed recuscancy, our first Emperor, Philip I of the House Cunningham was a (formerly Irish) Catholic.
As if we’d let the Welsh and Jocks run the place.
On the last day of 2021 Paypal banned Gateway Pundit. Google banned them years ago
And the GOP does nothing to ensure payment gateways are protected.
And the retards support Jim Jordan – dont you just love his rolled up sleeves shtick – has blocked every effort since 2016 to ensure legislative protections have even gotten out of the committee stage.
Because he is on the payroll of Big Tech.
Biden has dementia. All the signs of decline were there 18 months ago. It’s obvious now.
How do the Dems navigate their way around this?
“And the GOP does nothing to ensure payment gateways are protected.
And the retards support Jim Jordan – dont you just love his rolled up sleeves shtick – has blocked every effort since 2016 to ensure legislative protections have even gotten out of the committee stage.
Because he is on the payroll of Big Tech.”
All correct Bern.
The factory machines in Melbourne – biscuits, clothes, car parts, tomato sauce, whatever – were staffed by many immigrant women. I doubt that without them the mid century manufacturing industry could have thrived. But I’m not an economist. Perhaps without the immigrants the same level of demand for the goods may not have been there. In any case, the immigrant women were a large part of the factory fodder.
“How do the Dems navigate their way around this?”
He’s just a prop for the Demonrats.
I think I just saw leighe Lowe describe the last 12 months as a “minor wave of antivax sentiment”.
Next he’ll pretend he didn’t spend 18 months hiding in his rural getaway writing tens of thousand of posts mocking and hen pecking people who actually went and protested early on and urged others to do the same, then conveniently disappeared when, after a violent revolt ended up in a standoff at his precious shrine, the largest protests in Australian history broke out.
Oops.
And you know what’s really coming with his UAP concern trolling. By April it’ll be “I masked up, flashed my vaxx passport and voted liberal first because I had no choice…”.
It was inevitable, I suppose.
Nathan Buckley will make an appearance on ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here’ in 2022.
Hopefully he will publicly reflect on his time with the Brisbane Bears, his career of sheepdoggery around packs and his lack of premierships.
Blocking access to payment gateways isn’t the end of it.
The goal is to allow ISP’s to block access to websites.
GOP did nothing when groups were getting kicked off social media.
GOP did nothing when apps were kicked out of the app stores.
GOP is doing nothing to protect access to payment gateways.
GOP will do nothing to stop websites being blocked.
How did my ex father in law end up in Australia?
His favourite thing during WWII was going to the Nazi Propaganda Units and asking for posters. They would give him heaps of posters and he would gratefully take them and go and make kites out of them.
One day after the war, he found some pistol ammo that he reckoned would fit his Uncles much loved revolver. He teamed up with his cousin and they “borrowed” the revolver and took it to the forest for a spot of shooting. The revolver exploded on the first shot (most likely smokeless ammo versus black powder), they gathered up the pieces and put it back in its hiding spot roughly assembled.
Cousin: What the fuck are we going to do now?!
FIL: We’re going to Australia!
And they did!
Rubbish!
Hard Knuckles.
He could kick.
Long and accurate, eye level in front of a leading teammate, if they were good enough.
Salty Cracker
Australia Is Paying $600k to 80,000 People Severely Injured by Coof Shots
Thanks Zatara.
I haven’t seen it all yet, but geez it’s starting to stack up.
I have the feeling nothing will change (just what was intended).
You don’t have to quote me, Matrix, I’ll quote myself, and initially you are right, for I said this, coming in only to point out the descent of a once-better blog, to say that what was happening to Rosie (and btw as the next day unfolded also to Arky) was what also happened to me. Viz:
In the same comment I then went on to comment quite innocuously as I normally do, might as well I thought while I was here, updating friends here on our travels to the Central-West and wishing particular people well in the New Year.
So I entered here specifically at New Years to make my point about pile-ons, not mentioning any individual people at all, added best wishes and a travel comment, and whaddya know? In hops the Witch-Finder General to start another of her ongoing demolition jobs on me through the thread that evening and into the next day. So much for Auld Lang Syne.
Her rools about who can say what must rule? I think not.
I hope the air is now cleared on that. Finito.
I will see you guys around, as they say. Best wishes.
Fabian methodology is well known. It is laid right out in front of you. Australia has already had a serve with hard Left, former Communist typist Gillard as PM. Increasingly I think we are about to get another dose in Albo.
In 2019 the most critical thing in the universe was to vote against Labor to stop some minor tweaks to negative gearing and some franking credit bullshitty bullshit, otherwise Soviet Russia would have marched again.
2022 and after 12 months of actual communist hell…”hmmm you know it wasn’t that bad, just imagine if negative gearing had of been altered, now there’s a nightmare! And just what is the UAP’s policy on franking credits may I ask??”
In any case, the immigrant women were a large part of the factory fodder.
Yep, they worked in existing businesses, expanded to meet the growing demand. FIL worked as a truck driver for Canneries on Geelong Rd taking can bodies and lids to Monbulk and Shepparton. His favourite sport with the aid of his Aussie supervisor was claiming that he was a better truck driver and that this was reflected in his pay packet (he was paid the same as everyone else but got a different tax treatment because he was married). Used to drive the Maltese in particular mental. Supervisor further aided the piss take by having the company sign writer paint “#1 Truck Driver” on the door of his truck.
Buckley’s disposal of the Sherrin was unmatched, Gez. No question. And you’re correct – half his problem was his teammates at the time would struggle to get hold of the lasers he was kicking.
But he undid it all (in my view) by buying into McGuire and Ned Guy’s self-orchestrated shitfight over salary caps and backended contracts, which culminated in him telling one of the best midfielders in the country he wasn’t wanted because his teammates thought he was a flog.
Imagine what happens when you type in Infowars.com & it comes up as website blocked due to community safety issues.
It will happen if the fake GOPer’s aren’t primaried out of existence before the 2022 mid terms.
L, memory hole’s her cheering, excusing and participating in ‘pile-ons’ against Rosie over the past few years. This new found solidarity is only tactical.
I mock but Clive Palmer promised a law suit against the QLD government over segregation which I do not see.
Also is Palmer’s resort segregating?
Easy low hanging fruit.
Australia Is Paying $600k to 80,000 People Severely Injured by Coof Shots
Peanuts compared to living the rest of your life severely injured. Not enough money in the world.
Really going this time?
Of that I have no doubt.
“ We have the chance to turn the pages over …”
“And you know what’s really coming with his UAP concern trolling. “
Spare me this sanctimonious bullshit. I agree with Sancho about the UAP. Despite the fact that I like Craig Kelly a lot, despite the fact I hope Craig Kelly wins his seat of Hughes for the UAP, despite the fact I hope the UAP picks up lower house seats, I too have “concerns” about Fatso Palmer. It was Palmer who gifted this country that pig in the senate (and that’s an insult to pigs) named Lambie, it was Palmer who behaved abominably from 2013 to 2016, it was Palmer who allowed himself to be used as a prop by the left, particularly their ABC, to embarrass, ridicule and mock Abbott….and then there was the stunt with Gore, as JC reminded us about yesterday.
Here are some old adages that people should remember about Palmer….
1. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
2. A leopard cannot change its spots. I don’t believe Palmer has changed.
I don’t trust Palmer.
‘#1 Truck Driver’
Efnik truck drivers?
Good God. What next?
“GOP did nothing when groups were getting kicked off social media.
GOP did nothing when apps were kicked out of the app stores.
GOP is doing nothing to protect access to payment gateways.
GOP will do nothing to stop websites being blocked.”
Correct….and nothing will change even if the GOP win back both houses this November.
and nothing will change even if the GOP win back both houses this November.
Not if all the Peter Thiel backed candidates win their primaries & then win their elections.
Ensuring payment gateway access is something they are say they will legislate.
Wrong.
I was talking about the likely UAP vote in the next election.
By “minor” I mean that UAP will attract maybe 10% (15% tops) of the vote based on anti-vax sentiment.
I stand by that although maybe my guess is wrong.
Don’t take the Cat as representative of the broader voting public. And don’t buy into St Ruth’s inept mis-read of government stats telling you that 50% – 60% are unvaxxed.
This is the first sign of group-think.
Surrounding and insulating yourself with 100 people who think the same then assuming they represent the wider world.
On a personal level that it what I was trying to gently tell you for a long time about EM.
When people here were telling you how indispensable you were and how they will be begging you to come back I knew they wouldn’t.
Not because you weren’t a valuable employee but just that no-one is indispensable in EM world (and most other large corporates).
Accept the realism of the wider world.
51% of people aren’t voting UAP because anti-vax.
Fuck, the only time I hear UAP mentioned is people ranting about getting annoying unsolicited texts and calls from Fat Cloive.
My second son has developed less than two weeks post the second Pfizer jab a severe sinovitis in both wrists, one particularly bad, and some signs of similar things in his achilles tendon area. He has never had any injuries or problems there previously. My doc sister (retired down south) says it is clearly an auto-immune reaction to a foreign injection, a reaction of a type she has seen in practice over the years. Proving it though is not going to be easy, as even getting proper treatment with steriods is difficult, let alone anyone diagnosing it as vaxx related. Emergency did an x-ray of the worst wrist (query fracture – which was stupid for a bilateral condition) and sent him away to take Panadol. He is in screamingly bad extreme pain. I’ve given him the hotshot painkillers I didn’t use when discharged from surgery earlier this year. Wouldn’t usually do that, but needs must here.
I want to take him back to Emergency and throw the book at them, but he’s resisting because of leaving his dog even though I’ve said we will care for it. I’ll try another GP for him on Monday.
Sorry.
I just confused twostix for rickw.
The post stands though.
And my take on EM stands too in it’s own way.
I must admit, I thought, “what is rickw thinking. He is normally pretty rational”.
Vote UAP.
They’re not Liberal.
“Not if all the Peter Thiel backed candidates win their primaries & then win their elections.
Ensuring payment gateway access is something they are say they will legislate.”
I hope so Bern.
When I was in the Mongyang CBD the other day it was effectively deserted at 3.00 p.m. Shops and businesses closed and/or empty, everywhere you looked.
Those ratepayers with permanently busted livelihoods must be comforted that the Melbourne City Council is in their corner, backing them and the economy to the hilt.
Oh. Hang on. The Hun:
‘An LBGTIQ club that presents a “digital dance platform” is among dozens of organisations sharing in a $500,000-plus ratepayer-funded splurge by the City of Melbourne.
‘Social equality arts outfit All The Queens Men* has received a $10,000 grant to stage a Coming Back Out concert, and “dance platform to connect the rainbow and allied communities online”.
‘The organisation has been solidly funded by the city council, getting $75,000 in 2018 to hold a second Coming Back Out Ball for “gay elders”.’
*Debatable.
The over-estimation of UAP support out of Queensland is nothing new.
Except for the last 20 years it has been “Pauline will win big. People are totally over the Libs and ALP”.
And it never happens.
Palmer also killed the Newman Government in 2015.
The narrative of course, was that it was Brisbane public servants that turfed Newman out. But their seats have always been ALP except for the 2012 aberration when the ALP was too in the nose even for them, and Newman had done alright as Lord Mayor. The Newman government lost its majority in the regions, where people normally voting LNP optionally preferenced PUP and did not provide preferences. This allowed the ALP to pick up some seats it normally would not have. And even then it was a hung parliament until the Katter Party, as usual, sided with the ALP to give it government.
And why was Palmer in politics in the first place, so eager to bring down the LNP? Because Newman and Seeney would not write special legislation to give his Galilee Basin projects favoured treatment not available to other players, like Adani or Rhinehart. Newman and Seeney said he had to follow the same rules as everyone else. So he formed apolitical party to end them, and he did.
It has always been about Clive, and as described above, the fruits of his politics are plain to see. Just because the LNP is seen to be drifting too far left does not justify voting for anything associated with Palmer.
If you don’t want o vote LNP for teaching them a lesson, Go LDP if you are free market, ONP if you are agrarian socialist, but please don’t vote for Palmer.
I think he should be in hospital. He can’t wipe his own bum, can’t hold a frying pan, can’t properly control this huge dog for walks, can barely operate his mobile phone, can’t do the telephone call work he has just started after a long period of unemployment, and his face is sorely contorted with constant pain.
His bipolar disorder makes it far more difficult to help him as he refuses Emergency altogether now.
As usual, I am reconciled to the fact that he will fall through all the cracks in a broken system. Others, far more together, will receive compensation and he will get nothing. We will do what we can for him.
Twostix.
Can you put “boomer” in the first paragraph of every post so we know it’s you.
Spot on.
He is an opportunistic selfish grub.
How will I get my colloidal silver supplements or whatever the hell I’ve been swallowing.
We’ll have to see what turns up in Wentworth to allow a proper protest vote vs LNP, but the worry is encouraging the Spender woman there. Might have to hold my nose and vote for Sharma after all.
Vaccinations will be an issue for UAP & PHON to fight over at the next election.
Who knows what their primary vote will be?
Albo will win in a Kevin 07 style win.
Small target campaign, a walk in.
How will I get my colloidal silver supplements or whatever the hell I’ve been swallowing.
& the gay frog updates.
Don’t forget the gay frog updates.
Thankyou for trying Lizzie.
Sancho Panzer is correct regarding no one being indispensable in the work place- the most gold star, valued worker can leave and there maybe wobbles and disruption but somehow the organisation will muddle through.
Big fan of Craig Kelly. Big fan. At this stage.
My only concern is that if you wed yourself to a party for that party’s cash reserves, then you’ve been bought and you are beholden to it. As Orange Hitler used to say, many such cases.
Clive Palmer is demonstrably proficient at suing people. He is not demonstrably proficient at running mining concerns, or for that matter dinosaur-sprinkled golf courses with hotels attached to them.
Therefore (and I am more than happy to be proved wrong) I have what I believe to be reasonable concerns as to his ability to provide a reasonable balance of power when it comes to running the country.
Particularly large corporates.
They will make a point of not going back to a former employee in these circumstances.
Plus the pizza gate and 911 rubbish.
Plenty more that don’t have such baggage to champion. Cranks just make it harder to see though the smoke.
I’ve disagreed with Rosie over the years, Bespoke, but never ‘piled on’, it has been individual disagreement. And Rosie is perfectly well able to handle her own arguments. I’ve also always enjoyed her travel tales. What I dislike intensely is the ‘ganging up’ element in recent times. Mob rule is never pretty. Nor are fabricated accusations. Far too Robespierre for my liking, both.
“It has always been about Clive, and as described above, the fruits of his politics are plain to see. Just because the LNP is seen to be drifting too far left does not justify voting for anything associated with Palmer.
If you don’t want o vote LNP for teaching them a lesson, Go LDP if you are free market, ONP if you are agrarian socialist, but please don’t vote for Palmer.”
I think you’ve said it best Entropy.
or for that matter dinosaur-sprinkled golf courses with hotels attached to them.
That’s a property develop play.
Trying to starve out the other owners.
Similar to what Trump did in the 90’s with the rent controlled property, turning into a crack house to get the last residents out.
If you don’t want o vote LNP for teaching them a lesson, Go LDP if you are free market, ONP if you are agrarian socialist, but please don’t vote for Palmer.
Thing is UAP is the one with the money. Good name too. I don’t trust him either but then I used to trust John Howard. Will def give them my vote in the HoR and I expect UAP will be part of the 12 senators or is it 6 this time? He may be an *hole but if he’s our *hole maybe we can break the marxist establishment.
Is the LDP running candidates in all electorates?
The chances of UAP forming government are incredibly small, so even at best they’ll be a ‘disrupter’. All this scare mongering and pissing one’s pants over what Clive MIGHT do seems a little melodramatic.
If he’s in it to give us back autonomy, good. If he gets payback in the process, I’ll accept that (I’m looking for a little payback myself, so our interests might temporarily align). If he does a 180, and support more of the shit we’ve experienced in the last two years, how is he any different to LNP, ALP or Greens. They have ACTUALLY supported this stuff. It’s a known quantity. At least Clive’s team are bucking the trend.
I have school aged children. I can’t afford the luxury of perfection and 100% certainty when voting for their future.
bespoke, Alex Jones is a performance artist.
Who was the example for deplatforming.
When his website is blocked for “community safety” concerns, it will be the canary in the coal mine.
Or the gay frog in the pizza parlour.
BS! L.
development.
not develop.
bespokesays:
January 2, 2022 at 8:23 am
Railway building started in the 1860s in Australia.
Let me bring you up to speed on building.
It doesn’t matter what nationalities slogged thru the tunnels of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, they didn’t build it, they just worked on it and got paid for their trouble.
WASPs built the Snowy Mountains Scheme and everything else in Australia worth mentioning.
Don’t forget Clive’s antics over QNI’s tailings as well, funny enough he has been mining them for Cobalt lately and shipping the drums full of same tailings out through the port I am reliably told. I’d forgotten the Galilee basin angle.
One thing Townsville City Council would have not suffered Jenny Hill’s mismanagement for 2 elections now, a PUP spoiler has run in both syphoning off about 30% of the non ALP candidate vote to Hill. Hill would have been history last year if Clive kept his nose out of it. I’d say rinse and repeat elsewhere on a State and Federal level.
Won’t rule out looking at PUP but it will be a decision solely candidate based and with eyes wide open who the puppet master is…
Yep. Reasonable concerns indeed. But if he can put any sort of noose on the LNP and net zero then he may serve as a temporary stopgap. Prefer it not to be needed though.
Nat Party guy we spoke to in the Central West is putting his faith (misplaced imo) in Barnaby Joyce holding back the Libs on damages to farming and mining employment. Net Zero will stymie that, we both told him but he thinks backroom deals have been done. Good luck with that.
‘what Trump did in the 90s’
Fair enough bern. But Trump ran for office 20 years later, when this sort of thing wasn’t in the public eye as much.
Clive’s doing it now, and although he will probably try and draw parallels with 45 he is most certainly not a Trump.
Tommy Robinson is releasing a video called The Rape of Britain on January 29th
https://gettr.com/post/plcvkt3934
Sancho;
He is rational. It was a rational decision.
How the hell anyone can come to another decision, re being forced to do something to their body, is beyond me.
As to whether it was pragmatic?
For a lot of people, pragmatism has unfortunately had to win the day.
If you don’t want o vote LNP for teaching them a lesson, Go LDP if you are free market, ONP if you are agrarian socialist, but please don’t vote for Palmer.
Thing is UAP is the one with the money. Good name too. I don’t trust him either but then I used to trust John Howard. Will def give them my vote in the HoR and I expect UAP will be part of the 12 senators or is it 6 this time? He may be an *hole but if he’s our *hole maybe we can break the marxist establishment.
I have school aged children. I can’t afford the luxury of perfection and 100% certainty when voting for their future.
correct
NB: The last couple of comments are not, say again NOT ads for voting for the current crop of groupthinking self-centred cowards.
Great to see some stimulating arguments here- great posts. Sure beats the bitching and bellyaching from north of the Tweed yesterday.
Am I correct in understanding that there is now some loose alliance between UAP-LDP-RD?
Sancho Panzer is correct regarding no one being indispensable in the work place- the most gold star, valued worker can leave and there maybe wobbles and disruption but somehow the organisation will muddle through.
Agree, I wasn’t surprised that they did it, but was a little surprised at the speed, particularly given carrying 80 over days of long service, but this sort of speed wasn’t impossible either with a new country manager.
For me, Cloive is leading the pack.
He is the one most likely to cause great pain to the unipardy.
Scorched-earth. Leave them nothing.
Hey Bush
What are the crops like south of Horsham.
They never miss usually.
Rick I’m not having a shot at you. I’ve experienced it myself.
Am I correct in understanding that there is now some loose alliance between UAP-LDP-RD?
I was under the impression that UAP had done a solid deal with RDA? Haven’t heard about LDP but it wouldn’t surprise me.
They need to focus on what they can readily agree on and leave anything else for later.
He is the one most likely to cause great pain to the unipardy.
yes and they deserve it, bigly
Nah. You’re wrong.
All Lizzies’ arguments with Rosie have been one on one and for very specific reasons, one of them being Rosies habit of strawman construction.
One could even say (ahem) “they will be riding a minor wave of anti-vax sentiment”?
Rick I’m not having a shot at you. I’ve experienced it myself.
I know you weren’t having a shot at me. I went into it with my eyes open.
Gez,
5t + on the wheat.
Did one paddock of barley (Planet) which went 7.2t
Didn’t get down in time for the canola at this place but it went a solid 2.5t @ 46+ oil
Hopefully finish wheat today then 60ha of lupins tomorrow morning and I’m off to near Winchelsea.
I always factor in my personal bias so I am as sure as you are about what transpired, Bush.
Am I correct in understanding that there is now some loose alliance between UAP-LDP-RD?
Sure looks like it in Queensland and wow. Strange bedfellows…
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/uap-leader-clive-palmer-and-liberal-democrat-campbell-newman-announce-preference-deal/news-story/acc8d02945ea0715ac16c8b3f4b43567
Does Big Fat Cloive stand for anything other than Big Fat Cloive?
So who is worse, or better
Clive
Scotty
Albo
Barnaby
Green Guy
Did one paddock of barley (Planet) which went 7.2t
I don’t have Planet but the blokes that did got great yield but it all fell through the screens. Feed 4-5
I don’t like Palmer and I remember the secret dinner he had with Trumble and that cold, soul less, humourless Parkinson. But I’ll still vote UAP in HoR.
Who cares?
A potential side effect of Big Fat Cloive is to give the ALP and LNP the pineapple treatment.
This is what is wrong with Australia-
Parkinson graduated with honours from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Economics. He completed his master’s degree in economics at the Australian National University in 1983 and his Master of Arts in 1900, also at the Australian National University.[5] He completed his Ph.D in 1990 at Princeton University.
Parkinson has previously served as the inaugural secretary of the Department of Climate Change, deputy secretary of the Department of the Treasury, an International Monetary Fund official, and an advisor to former Australian Treasurer, John Dawkins.[when?][citation needed]
Between 2011 and 2015, Parkinson was secretary of the Department of the Treasury.[6]
In late October 2019, Parkinson was elected chancellor at Macquarie University.[7]
Support the least worst candidate no other choice.
I did argue with Lizzie, I don’t recall creating any strawmen though, perhaps that’s just someone’s personal prejudice shoeing . Nor do I intend to rehash.
And so what, not all of us hold perpetual grudges against individuals, let alone entire classes of people.
I’m sorry I spotted my being mentioned.
I’ve generally been using ‘find in page’ to read comments of people who haven’t lost the plot.
I was really looking to ask a question
I’m getting the general impression, other than qld no-one is tightening the lockdown screws in Oz, amirite?
There is no alternative to Scotty, and he’s done the bright thing with the $600 grand for Vaccine Injuries and paying for the Funerals.
Recall the last time Albanese was in Government:
Wouldn’t apologise for 4 deaths and 300 Houses burnt down due to his Pink Batts Scheme, let along pay compensation.
Spikey end last. And good luck with the extraction.
The horror.
This stuff only failed on protein. The variance between tests of the same sample between receival sites is a subject best left alone!
A lot of frost damage around as well, all with those farmers who have a burning desire to sow as early as possible.
“And so what, not all of us hold perpetual grudges against individuals, let alone entire classes of people.”
Well said.
great, I’ll break out the Glen40 to get the smell outta the carpet
I wasn’t.
I can imagine all those regional global Zoom meetings with their KPI traffic lights and the #1 agenda item is “covid conpliance”.
…
Regional CEO : “OK. Excellent. I see we are hitting our marks on workplace covid plans, covid marshall training and covid reporting to government. But we are still showing amber on vaccination compliance in Australia Southern region … any comment?”
Local Manager : “Ah, well, we are finding it difficult to work through the issues with Melbourne Airport staff and …”
CEO : “We have some excellent cultural change people here in Singapore we could send down to help if …”
Local Manager : (knowing what will happen if ‘cultural change’ people turn up) “No, no. We are close to a resolution.”
CEO : “So we can put that down for close-out by next meeting? Good.”
No understanding of Kanly.
Italy doesn’t qr code everywhere, I think in restaurants they might scan people’s green passes, though I didn’t see much of that but the Australian international vaccine passport isn’t compatible with their system so they can’t scan me in anyhow.
Lines for testing and vaccinations are short, though their numbers are high I dare say their system will become clearer over time.
“I’m getting the general impression, other than qld no-one is tightening the lockdown screws in Oz, amirite?”
I think Maggot McClown is tightening the screws as I write.
horribly realistic SP
It might be just me, but our noble and selfless cabal of CHOs appear to be conspicuously absent during the latest outbreak of Four Horsemen riding rampant through the country.
I think I’ve seen Kerry Chant, aka Chesty Bond once in the last week and that’s it.
Reversion to the usual practice of pollies’ inertia while wetting their fingers and seeing which way the wind’s blowing appears to have occurred.
The country around the Central West in our tween-the-years 4 day drive-and-stay in good weather from Nowra to Canberra to Forbes via Yass, Boorowa and Cowra, then home via Parkes, Orange, Bathurst was verdant and beautiful, looking at times like some dream of Tuscany, with yellow waving grasslands and rolling hillsides. Such wide open spaces under endless blue skies with a few high white cotton-ball cloud islands punctuating the vision above just as the small homesteads did for the landscape below.
We should be the envy of the world if only we managed our waterways properly with innovative infrastructure and mined our mineral resources with solid value add. Greenies are killing Australia.
Another local bushfire, deliberately lit….
Wouldn’t surprise me if the Establishment told Madge snubbing Bliar for 14 years was long enough.
And the future King Chuck would never have enough goodwill in the bank to make the call.
So Bettina started a go fund me to help defray out of pockets for a young uni grad and tutor who has been kangaroo courted and drummed off the uni at Christmas for drum roll sexual harassment
Yes a young woman had designs on him which he studiously avoided, report3d etc but to no avail, spurned shevr3venged and he was not allowed to defend himself or call witnesses.
Of course this was no5 a bona fide arraignment, merely an outside investigation
So I donated because this sort of thing needs strong kegal response and this morning told by gofuckyou that my donation is being refunded.
Bettina gave her personal site to reinstate but is there not another fundraising site that is not woke.
Please let me or Bettina know asap so we can get this out there
Has Parkinson published anything in an academic journal? All of these PhDs from top US schools usually have at least one publication in the Top 4 economics journals.
Same Q for Philip Lowe.
Sneakers is having to share the limelight with Omicron. His is strictly a one man show.
Animatronics with soft gauze over the camera lens, photos of the great man in full vigour swimming across the Chesapeake. Deep fakes. It is about all they have left at this point short of admitting the obvious and replacing him with one of Xi’s cronies.
It’s come to sending none descript check in the mail. Cutting out the middle man has it’s positives.
Called into my local supermarket yesterday and whilst quiet during hangover time, the conforming sheeple were 100% compliant. I literally was the only one unmasked.
The mass formation psychosis has worked beautifully here in McGowanStan.
Not if you’re sane. Doesn’t stop wariness though, which is a different thing altogether.
If I get bitten by a derg, I don’t go running a stick along the fence in the assumption that the gate is bolted.
Interesting stuff about QR entry. If a close contact is now a household member, why bother? We were all. Uzzled up in church again this morning. The wicked virus attacks seated Christians.
It just knows.
Leak on the news last night.
The Hunchback government ignored CHO Dreamy Brett’s advice for more stringent restrictions.
My only question is, where did the leak come from?
Was it Dreamy Brett trying to wrest back control?
Or are Dan’s focus groups telling him people are jack of it?
all muzzled
Although it felt uzzled. I could hardly breathe as it was hot.
The CHOs, now their moment of glory has passed.
Time to disappear with dignity before the pikes arrive.
My oldest stuck his under a fence and got bitten by dog. Did it again the next week not even the wife showed the same sympathy.
I have been reflecting on the situation here and why it seems so different overseas. A lot has been said about how supine Australians are and how easily they have been led into compliance. Someone mentioned “mass formation” up thread.
In 2019 and into 2020 the place was burning down. People were traumatised, some with genuine fear, others with the overabundance of horror stories every night on the news. In a way, we were already “softened up”.
I wonder if the shock and destruction and loss of life had some part to play. There was basically no time to regroup and recover before the whole covid nightmare descended.
Sorry Calli I accidentally reported your comment.
Damn my fat fingers.
Can we have pineapple on the pike?
Hawaiian Pike
That’s okay. I do it all the time, then slink away in shame. 😀
Nearly time for the CHOs to disappear into well deserved obscurity and resume work on that sugar tax.
We had been softened up for years, calli, with the worlds gonna end gerbil warmening.
Our defences were low and we were ripe for panic driven takeover.
Unless the live telecast was doctored, then yes, someone did achieve that very outcome.
Give that man beer!
Sancho
He is an opportunistic selfish grub.
Short worder: politician.
Wow just checked the Queensland road conditions starting to plan our move back north when border controls are dropped (I’d say looking at moves around the country vicinity of Australia Day). Inland south and Central Queensland get a bit of rain lately? Both my primary route Carnarvon Developmental rd and my usual alternate Leichardt Hwy heavily damaged from flooding or still under water in stretches.
Gawd I hate that coast road and getting around Brisbane.
calli at 11:36
Despite what many here would say, by and large Australians have been reasonably well served by their governments. Chairman Dan took that to new lows. I think people have been less willing to take the media at face value since Trump came along with his fake news.
No. But it was the MSM narrative. Covid diverted the media’s attention away from imminent climageddon.
At the start of all this rubbish, my church of about 15 years would not let my family attend unless we downloaded the government app and signed in, no paper option. We have never been back. Found a small church where about 50% of congregation over 90. No app check in, no masks and morning tea every week.