Ummm, OK. I’ll have the bat soup please.
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Bolt ‘Very un-Australian’: Rabbi discusses rising antisemitism in Australia
35 here in the Hills yesterday, 33 today. How did we ever survive?
Pathetic Kamala Harris spent $1.5 billion — including on bribes to interviewers
I’ve tried for a pic but the flash tends to go off and I get a photo of a screen door with a grey butcherbird-shaped blob behind it. Been trying to coax him onto my hand like Calli’s young one but he’s set in his ways. Not quite as keen as Dr. Zoidberg but he’ll happy carry off a huge lump of mince half his own bodyweight. I’ve seen one take a peewee chick, as big as himself, out of the nest and fly away with it. They’re powerful and very intelligent birdies for their size.
Came across the following true crime channel recently.
Had to click that one.
The video concerns itself with the search for the killer of a woman in Poland who was found skinned, Buffalo Bill style. Notably there was an initial suspect that was found by police dancing naked in his upstairs bedroom wearing his father’s flayed face on his head like a mask; photos included. Apparently the grandfather was talking to his grandson and mistook him for his son since his eyesight was not too good and he was wearing the aforementioned face at the time. Only after going downstairs did he realise that the headless body in the basement was in fact his son (photos of that too) and he called the police.
I don’t think it was meant as a comedy.
It’s a complete shit show. The gist of most twatter comments is that they seem think its the unvax’d that are the problem.
Who brought omricon into the country for fuck sake you dumb cunts! A vaxtard, thats who!
Small dictators tend to be louder and nastier than big dictators. Like little dogs and big dogs.
Right..what’s next…ah, yes…Molotov cocktail workshop on Saturday arvo. See Brian to register.
There’s no Omicron.
The Vax Injury Cases are now Counted as Covid.
The Past is Prologue, The Pandemic is just getting warmed up now.
In 5 months, forget getting a Coffee or going to the Pub, you’ll be lucky to be eating grass.
So what you’re saying is that Oz is like a horny teenager that came too early?
It won’t be long now, once people wake up there’ll be crowds of thousand milling around the Supermarkets at all hours waiting for the truck to arrive.
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I have to give Novak Djokovic a round of applause for absolutely mugging off the Australian federal and state governments.
He’s got the whole world watching as he’s in immigration detention under armed guard.
Because he won’t get jabbed ??????
Novak Djokovic must wait days for deportation decision over Australia COVID rules
Novak Djokovic faces deportation after his visa application was cancelled – having thought he could enter Australia through a medical exemption to avoid COVID vaccination.
news.sky.com
https://gettr.com/post/pmmdrl0271
It’s not world wide Milton, the squeeze is on Europe and those nations founded on European ideals (the Anglosphere). No one else is particularly perturbed, life carries on more or less as normal elsewhere.
Dad reports that Monday’s sheep sale cancelled because most of the abattoirs are shut due to COVID outbreaks.
The Government Mongs are doing their very best to precipitate a societal breakdown.
I bet ‘she’ told you that too, Grigory.
Get your hand off it.
Tens of thousands of people sitting around doing nothing because of sniffles. Collecting sick pay.
It’s a workers paradise!
I have 6 months supply of rice, all good 😉
Remarkable.
A bugman cheering for its own demise.
Do we think this is a random and self-elininating quirk, Cats?
Or are Grigory’s fevered gypsum-dreams a betrayal of our Brahmin classes’ desire to go Full Lemming on us?
If so (to misquote out-of-context a line from Battle of Britain), “Don’t forget your lifejacket…”
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New covid cases continue to skyrocket in Australia, now at over 30x prior record highs—defying the world’s longest and strictest lockdowns, vaccine passes, outdoor mask mandates, banning of protests, strict curfews, military-enforced restrictions and government quarantine camps.
But yeah, let’s blame Djokovic!
https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/…
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https://gettr.com/post/pmim8gd2ec
Tim why didn’t you just say that no matter what, the burden of proof will always be shifted to me because your views aren’t falsifiable?
You’re the one making the absolutist statement that vaccines never work. Of course you have to prove it. And you can’t prove that by mere speculation that there might be something wrong with every single clinical trial that’s ever validated a vaccine plus mere speculation on a different basis that there might be something wrong with every single post-vaxx survey that’s validated a vaxx.
The problem is nothing to do with whether my views are “falsifiable”, though of course they are (in the technical sense). The problem is your absolutism. To justify your assertion the first thing you’ve got to do is prove some ground for believing universal invalidity of both clinical and post-rollout techniques of validation of vaccines. (It’s not my fault that you can’t find such falsifying material.) It’s no use pointing out ways in which some clinical trials might be wrong. If they’re ever right in validating vaccines your theory is shot. Likewise with post-rollout surveys.
The problem for you is that you have made an absolutist statement that vaccines don’t work. There is an abundance of evidence that they do, and all you’ve got with which to argue against that evidence is a series of dubious propositions about how “some” things might go wrong with a clinical trial, and other things “often” (so you assert) go wrong with post-rollout surveys.
It’s the white swan/black swan logic. If there’s good evidence that even one vaccine that works, your proposition is shot. There’s abundant good evidence that many vaccines work. You can’t show any reason to assume that all clinical trials validating vaccines are bogus and you can’t show any reason to assume that all post-rollout surveys are bogus. If any one of either is valid, you’re beclowned. And you certainly can’t explain why we should assume that when both clinical trials and post rollout surveys validate a vaccine we should assume your “some” and [alleged] “often” rationalisations apply to both.
Psychosis.
You actually argued that if I can’t read the mind of every doctor in history then that is proof that vaccines work.
That’s bullshit. I never argued any such thing. The evidence that vaccines work is the clinical trial/post-rollout survey validation of vaccines. Whether it’s “proof” is beside the point here – you’re the one making the absolutist assertion that vaccines never work, and you’re the one who needs to prove that. If, as a starting point in proving your assertion, you wish to impugn the evidence, go ahead. Your problem is that you’ve got no good arguments whatsoever that the clinical trial/post-rollout survey validation of vaccines is always bogus. And if the validation isn’t always bogus, your attempt to prove that vaccines never work falls at the first hurdle. Sure, if you could “read the mind of every doctor in history” and found that they were biassed enough in diagnosis of every disease for which there’s a vaccine to invalidate every post-rollout survey of every vaccine, you’d be halfway to the starting gate. But unless you could invalidate every clinical trial as well, you wouldn’t be there.
But all of this is your problem. I’m not the one telling you you have to “read the mind of every doctor in history”. You’ve mired yourself in the bog of that kind of unprovable issue by the very fact of your absolutist rejection of a proposition (“some vaccines work”) for which there’s such an abundance of evidence. Every single scrap of that evidence would have to be disproved before your assertion can even be considered. And you’re nowhere near it.
Hasn’t gotten the coverage of the Aussie Cossack chap, but the red bearded chap who owns/runs Rashays kebabbles seems to have been put through the wringer by NSW Plod over the past 12 months.
The bias towards idolatry is strong in all of us.
There is no us.
Complete shit show, then.
Most government urging is now based on ‘ the vaxx will keep you out of hospital and the morgue’. Has been for a couple of months.
The Science no longer pretends that vaccination stops you catching or spreading WuPox, or helps ‘stop the spread’.
Nor does the data.
TIL I learned that 2022 will be a huge year for music becoming public domain.
A lot of estates that have lived off royalties will have to find another way to pay their property taxes in the US.
What’s Margaret Court’s role in all this ?
Louis CK said that one of the worst things producing his shows for HBO was them pushing for him to use music from their stable.
It pissed him off so much that at one stage he sat in front of a keyboard & composed some absolute shite & included it meaning that he would get a royalty in perpetuity.
The way these studios monetise everything is fascinating.
Breakdown or crackdown.
A comment earlier raised the prospect of military/ police on the streets. Imagine the clampdown if an anti mandater took out someone in the political caste.
The gist of most twatter comments is that they seem think its the unvax’d that are the problem.
I think there would be a surprisingly high proportion of the population who thinks that this is the case.
I blame the churches considering the way they’re treating their alleged flocks.
Breakdown or crackdown.
First the former.
Then the latter.
LoL. Maybe too many black-pills but in my mind, there was never any question.
we can vanquish your champion
and we will crush you too.
… now eat the bugs
Figures
Can I ask you a simple question. Smallpox used to be a very serious scourge in the world. There is a decent argument made that a smallpox outbreak in he Roman Empire greatly contributed to its demise.
A smallpox vaccine was invented by Edward Jenner or at least he greatly helped in its introduction. Since the vaccine, smallpox has basically been eradicated. Are you suggesting that the correlation of smallpoxe’s demise and the vaccine is coincidental and there was some other reason it disappeared as a scourge (other than the vaccine)? Seriously, whatever happened to smallpox.
whoops… smallpox’s
If Sharri Markson wasn’t a being used as a conduit by Steve Bannon & his War Room organisation, she would have faded into irrelevance over the past year or so.
Where’s Bannon on the covid vaccines?
Seriously, whatever happened to smallpox.
Something, something…the Jews. h/t srr. lol.
Natalie Winters has done more work to reveal the Wuhan CCP link with Fauci and others than Sharri.
Where’s Bannon on the covid vaccines?
Anti mandate.
Bannon has said he is vaccine hesitant.
custard, she’s National Pulse? I’ve got a mate in one of my WhatsApp groups who floods the group with their stuff.
Mater at 8:02.
It is a totally valid comparison.
The fundamental question is whether one should consider the impacts of your personal medical treatments on others.
On the one hand Twostix says teenage boys should not factor in the potential health benefits for future sexual partners in deciding whether or not to have the HPV vax.
On the other hand he bleats about the Covid vaxxed creating unfair pressure on the unvaxxed minority (a very tenuous link, by the way).
Can’t have it both ways.
The Brits – those magnificent bastards in their heyday – invented vaccinology. FMD, they have saved billions upon billions of lives since the advent of the science. We wouldn’t even be close to 7.5 billion fuckers if they hadn’t done this.
Sometimes, they’re fucking arseholes as I believe for instance the Limey intel services and the limey swamp were responsible for wussiagate along with their buddies in the US. They did it in order to keep the US at loggerheads with Russia. At least that’s what I believe. All is forgiven though for the huge number of lives their predecessors have saved.
Sharri got all her Wuhan reporting from Bannon.
& her access to Trump via him too.
I don’t get it why Bannon’s motives aren’t questioned more.
He hasn’t been deplatformed or demonetised.
For someone who is supposedly the devil, he’s still tolerated and allowed to make a decent living via Big Tech.
National Pulse is run by Raheem Kassam who was formerly Nigel Farages communications dude…
Bern
I thought he was removed from YouTube, no?
What Bannon motives trouble you bern?
Germany: Double Vaccinated No Longer Allowed into Restaurants Without Taking Tests – Only Triple Vaxxed Allowed Inside
Our future, if we let it happen.
Do you think he is the devil too?
Haven’t eaten out in a hellva long time, can’t remember actually but wouldn’t be surprised if is as far back as near the start. Over year since I have been in a pub as well. We used to have regular outings to a licenced establishment sometimes once a week. Check ins killed that, was about to get back into it after this Vax Pass went by the wayside. I’d hate to be running a pub or restaurant at the moment…
During the Trump transition in late 2016, Bannon sided with Reince Priebus & the GOP on almost all decisions, in direct opposition to the recommendations that Thiel & his part of the transition team put together.
Bannon wasn’t fighting with the GOP, contrary to what he’s said.
I thought he was removed from YouTube, no?
Yes, but you can still access his show via a most platforms.
And he still has access to the payment Gateways.
Compare that to Infowars, which unless you type that address, he’s been cut off.
feelthebern
Agree about the churches. And some of the synagogues. Not sure where the mosques are in all this.
Problem is that the leaders of the various faiths have on the whole aligned themselves, explicitly, with the civic leaders and their white coat masters. A pity, because otherwise the COVID stupidly would not be succeeding.
Most of them are gonsky at least in Melbourne. They’re closing because
1. They can’t find staff
2 The staff they have are demanding exorbitant wages
3. Numbers are now regulated.
It’s over for most of them.
Trump let some very bad actors into his inner circle.
Absolute deep state swamp things.
More than anything, it demonstrated his inexperience.
Figures earlier:
It never occured to me why anyone would engage with this person.
(Other than to quiz xer about aether, the Law of Conservation of Mass, or miasma theory.)
Seriously, whatever happened to smallpox.
JC, Figures will tell you that smallpox is raging round the world as virulently as ever, wreaking slaughter and mayhem, but it’s been re-named something other than “smallpox”.
I can’t remember if he’s ever told us what this new name is.
He’s not just a monomanically obsessive mental dwarf, he’s utterly delusional.
The landlord at my local told the staff “No vaccination, no job.” There’s a “Help wanted” sign out the front…
Do you think he is the devil too?
No Custard.
But he definitely has grifter-like attributes.
I was asking mums hubby how his son was going running a pub as far as council fuckeration went.
He replied not a problem since some security footage showed a certain council individual engaged in illegal acts in the place.
Once the individual was informed of the footage they have been very accomodating.
Times that by 1000 and you have an explanation for many… many government decisions.
I can only imagine how handy some security footage from Canberra pubs and clubs must be.
The latest wave of mass hysteria will be the the death knell of Oz tourism & hospitality.
And we have massive economic headwinds now.
2022 is going to be the ultimate cluster fuck.
You would be right if the vaxx was only a personal medical decision. Once the vaxx became mandatory, even your personal medical reasons for getting vaxxed were dragooned by the government, thus politicized, and used to undermine the personal medical decisions of those forgoing vaxxination and as justification for the measures deployed against them.
It’s the pleats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_jqmT4vVus
Neilsen on Figures:-
Harsh.
But fair.
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New CHY-NA virus rules for Australia’s northern territories.
Basically it’s statewide house arrest
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Posted on 9:55 PM · Jan 6th, 2022
After the stolen election was verified on January 2o 2021 three US citizens were banned by the CCP forever to enter China.
Bannon, Pompeo and Navarro.
And Bannon is a grifter?
Nup.
The latest wave of mass hysteria will be the the death knell of Oz tourism & hospitality.
That & the footage of robber crabs snapping golf clubs.
Rockdoctor says: January 6, 2022 at 9:50 pm
Thanks RD.
It is a touch on the quiet side these past coupla weeks.
It’s impossible to find staff, totally impossible. Just as well as there’s very few clientele.
One beneficial side effect of the no-vaxx = no-entry mandate; those who’re suspected drug dealers haven’t been seen since.
Alas we’re not seeing many others either.
The election was stolen because Bannon told Trump to not worry about what the GOP controlled state houses in Arizona & Pennsylvania were approving regarding mail in votes.
Mollie Hemingway wrote a decent book on the 2021 elections.
A lot of it is silly, but she gets into what the tech oligarchs got up to in Wisconsin, Minnesota & to a lesser extent in Michigan.
I think that’s a simplistic view Bern.
The fraud was much more wide spread.
It doesn’t matter at the moment. It’ll all come out. The fuckers have all been caught.
Anyone who doesn’t understand that, hasn’t been paying attention.
Can you summarise what she says about this.
I’ve read Navarro book called “Trump Time “
I’ve also just had delivered Trumps coffee table book of pictures.
Navarro is at the table with Trump and Xi .
Custard.
Making the coffee table great again.
Because doctors are gentlemen they do not need to wash their hands – parasitic elitism – never changes
Australian Open is a Djoke
mole,
In my humble view, your earlier memes and gif deserved much more dickupticking than they received.
This business. It’s a fucking tightrope.
Can you summarise what she says about this.
Complicated, deliberately so.
Zuckerberg & Hoffman & Omidyar used their massively fund fake NFP’s to effectively take over state run voting programs.
The first time you read it, it resembles the crazy guy in a movie in front of a wall of clippings with red strings attached to each other.
People are starting to get seriously pissed off with the Australian Fuckheadocracy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCy9Xk_oIFs
Fickle upticking is a yuuuge problem here.
Aus Open officials now harassing fans expressing support for Djokovic.
Fuck off Grigory you moron.
The fraud was much more wide spread.
The “fraud” was simple.
Arizona & Pennsylvania, change the voting laws to make vote harvesting legal. So that wasn’t illegal.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, use the state apparatus to fund vote harvesting programs.
Georgia, first time around, genuine issues re the voting machines, but not the second time around.
That’s 2020 in a nutshell.
and Bannon is a grifter?
Doc Faustus:
Who is ‘they’?
Is this another round of the date roll wars?
Hey, he saw his opportunity & took it.
Plus he got a pardon.
Plus he’s not deplatformed, despite what he says about all tech oligarchs.
If that doesn’t make you at least make you think twice, it means it’s a religion to you.
Arizona & Pennsylvania, change the voting laws to make vote harvesting legal. So that wasn’t illegal.
If these laws were not enacted by the legislature, they were illegal. That’s my understanding.
I’d be happy to compare notes at the end Bern.
I think you’re wrong. Let’s see what happens.
If these laws were not enacted by the legislature, they were illegal. That’s my understanding.
Absentee voting laws were voted on.
That’s why when the Penn case went before Alito he said there was zero basis to hear it.
That’s why the audit in AZ is fake resistance.
All designed to drag out the cases forever.
That’s why Blake Masters & Thiel are spending so much in AZ to fortify the state house & run the table in 2022.
And yet, I know for a personal fact that pretty much every State bar Victoria’s tourist and heritage railway sector reported 2021 as being their biggest years in terms of patronage and turnover on record.
Beware the sweeping generalisations- Internal tourism is not as dead as the bugmen nor the totally demoralised would have you believe…*
* Certain groups like Puffing Billy leverage their relatively massive public presence and historic image to attract foreign tourists. Practically everyone else relies on locals (i.e. generally from the nearest Capital City or regional centre. or sometimes from interstate) coming to ride their trains or take a tour every so often. For some folks, it is a very regular thing to take the kids for a train ride.
Word on the street is mass cancellations from European travelers to the Oz open.
How’s Dan’s vax economy going? LOL. Suck it up you bat-eared c*nt.
Why you need an UZI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0YXct22Q20
Rubbish. We were in lockdown for most of the year. And we will be for most of this year.
Billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group has purchased two battery-powered trains to carry iron ore to the port in the latest sign of the resources industry’s push for cleaner ways to fuel Australia’s hugely carbon-intensive mining operations.
Fortescue’s new eight-axle locomotives with an energy capacity of 14.5 megawatt-hours would be manufactured in Sete Lagoas, Brazil, the company said.
Jorge:
If an anti WZVVaxxer were to do something nasty to one of the Brahmin Class, what thanks would they get?
I certainly wouldn’t lift a finger to get these idiots to stop digging the hole they are in – they’ve already discussed openly how people like myself need to be locked up in camps to keep themselves safe from the Evil Unvaxxed.
Here is the Mollie Hemingway book.
If you have a kindle & search on it, it brings up a kindle unlimited version which looks like its free.
https://www.amazon.com/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections/dp/168451259X
It wasn’t free when I got it.
I might only be free for amazon prime members.
Some chapters are easy reading.
Some chapters are really technical and hard going.
Angle grinder.
This is what I’ll be doing when I run out of money thanks to Dan’s vax economy.
Suck it up Dan, you c*nt!
You did read the bit where I said ‘bar Victoria,’ correct?
Or is Victoria Australia now?
The key issue is, the mid-terms & all other elections held in Nov 2022 are just so critical when it comes to free speech & censorship.
Wiki has a decent summary of what’s up for grabs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_elections
If the mid terms don’t go the right way, there’s no point turning up in 2024 & the US will resemble China within a decade.
So let me get this straight. For years we have banned athletes who take drugs. Now we are banning one because he refuses to take drugs. Clown world is real.
I can see the Serbian community buying every Red Star Belgrade shirt in the country & turning up to the tennis wearing them.
The GOP’s biggest problem immediately is their ham fisted approach to redistricting.
This happens once every decade. The republicans should gain about 12 seats if they handle the negotiations effectively. At this stage it’s looking like, two!
RINO’s are the problem.
For people thinking about rebelling against our Betters:
Don’t forget Scummo has passed legislation to allow foreign “peace-keepers” (CCP troops) operate on Australian soil.
I think they are just going to keep squeezing until someone snaps – then the jackboots will come down very hard indeed. (This will probably happen when enough people finally work out their families are dead from the “vaccines” and not from the “unvaccinated” )
Rex Anger says:
January 6, 2022 at 10:55 pm
…Or is Victoria Australia now?
Rex – very shortly, Australia will be Victoria
Here we go again.
Some prick in a caravan just pulled at my local (country WA) IGA and tried to buy up 30 (!) rolls of toilet paper. Told to piss off by the manager.
NSW rego.
“We’re all in this together” FMD.
Interesting.
Gina purchased two of Wabtec’s battery demonstrators a few months back, which should have arrived by now.
The idea is one of these replaces one of the 3-4 locos FMG/Roy Hill use to get their trains over the Chichesters. The battery gets used to provide tractive effort for the relativd short and hard shove uphill from the mine loader, then recharges itself via regenerative braking when the diesel locos go into dynamic on the downhill to port. They then (hopefully) use less stored electricity powering the lighter empties back to the mine.
This is a gag that all the big Rail Equipment Manufacturers are frantically trying to sell into general linehaul markets in the US. But most of their big and small players alike aren’t biting. They will probably be looking to WA to see how things go.
As a green bet-hedging exercise for Twiggy, the battery loco makes sense- He has 2 retired Dash-8s in town at present, being converted to run on hydrogen. I am personally unconvinced how successful they will be other than subsidy-milking gimmicks, as each loco will still only make 4000HP or so, but each will need to haul a very large tank of *something containing combustible hydrogen* behind it. Dieso still wins on grounds of transportability, energy density and materials safety.
If the battery locos stand up to 4-5 years or more of heavy service in the tropics, you may see more of them in heavy haul operations worldwide. Or, simple economics will overtake them the way they do every technological gimmick, dead-end or orphan. And they’ll end up in the siding roads where all old and busted mining railway equipment goes to die
Another way of saying “Trump will be even better next time around”.
My initial instincts about her were right. She’s just a leftist show-pony.
When all this first began, some oaf in a country supermarket was getting very abusive to the checkout girl, who was trying to limit him to so many rolls.
The bloke waiting behind him, in the queue tapped him on the shoulder.
“Listen mate, you go on talking like that to my younger sister, and I’ll take you outside and give you a hiding you’ll remember all your days…”
I personally think you are 12 months too late to make that statement, and you are still drawing a comically large bow about Chicom soldiers being allowed into Australia as ‘peacekeepers.’
But we will see come next January. I personally suspect this fire is out (no matter how many spazzos in our media, Karen, bugman and political classes keep running round with flaming heads).
Sneakers is your new barometer. Forget ScoMo, Palacechook, Stairman Dan or anything the slobs of Davos say.
Winston: Nothing particularly organised. Sadly, I’m getting the impression that the past two years has energised shite behaviour.
RINO’s are the problem.
There are no such things as RINOS.
They are just regular Republicans.
e.g.
Tucker Carlson slams Ted Cruz for branding Capitol riot a ‘violent terrorist attack’ and accuses GOP senator of ‘repeating the talking points that Merrick Garland has written for him’
WA is certainly having Batflu fizzogs in some consistently high-traffic situations.
Dirty Pierre was clubbin’, shoppin’, museuming his way across half the landscape. Never came to waves of death, but had a lockdown anyway.
There was the Uber driver who was even hot-bunking with seven other gig economy blokes in a house- did that even get to lockdown reaction? Anyway, miraculously no death stalking the streets.
Now, a security guard at a Perth hotel has got the Wuhan wobblies. I know that tourism is bleeding out a bit, but a security guard! If he’s not at the door being even more look-see-ID than normal, he’d be in one of those enclosed situation rooms with CCTV and buttons everywhere. Now they’d be a labour to deep-clean. Superspreader event, anyone?
Is it feasible to create a “Dad’s Army” of seniors and pensioners who are each willing to work one or two shifts a week?
Instead of one staff member doing six shifts, 3 or 4 oldies could share the 6 shifts.
I see several problems but it might be better than having no-one.
and now zooming off…
Travel tale.
I appear to be staying in the part of Cagliari that was once a fortress city.
My building has a thingy on the front with a crown over the top and my apartment appears to be a former grand salon, very modern and comfortable.
Another private palazzo with a tunnel/public road/stair running through, a street down, was bombed in world war two is still as found, and a couple of other sites in the area are in a similar state for the same reason.
One commands magnificent views to the bay and mountains on the other side, you’d think it might have been replaced though there are renovations happening to a number of other buildings, there is no shortage of abandoned three four story buildings, some appear to have been on the market for some time.
No chance anyhow that anyone could claim airbnb is chasing out locals.
Last night I thought I’d pop over for 6 pm mass at the cathedral conveniently located on the other side of the piazza, midweek typically run for around half an hour, so I didn’t bother with a coat. I quickly realised it was the rosary but decided to stick it out, took me a while to work out the rhythm, close to the end someone came out of the sacristy with this long contraption to light all the very tall candles, mass after all.
Then there was a formal procession of five clergy, the archbishop? in a beretta, but no it wasn’t mass but a benediction service with incense organ music and loud church bells.
After that there was a sung mass, and my half hour had been two hours.
I loved it, though I was freezing by the end.
The cathedral itself is all baroque marbleness inside but the four lions at the front of altar on on the corners looked Gothic, I gave one of them a pat when I walked around the chapels earlier, nice lion.
The altar and the huge tabernacle are both completely covered in silver artwork, not close enough to see details.
This morning I visited the palazzo perpendicular to the cathedral, was the home of the civil government til not so long ago, now an art space, current exhibition is Gastone Biggi.
I liked the picture called the deportees but most of the rest was abstract, including dot paintings.
Still I did a cultural activity and that is a good thing.
Pedro, for some reason there seems to be a run on toilet paper again. In the last week I have seen it twice. Now we are hearing of buying limits being reimposed at Coles. Doc F above and now you. A mate with a Thai wife is saying pork a staple has become hard to find in Thailand as well. Something is stewing and I have a hunch that Xi’s pig herds being decimated is probably driving some of the behaviour.
Was mulling however getting meat through the post without spoiling till I thought that after the face mask and toilet paper raids the daigou chains have probably consolidated a little and if they have access to frozen storage it wouldn’t be hard. We saw large Chinese companies involved the last time round.
When even the biggest separatist in Australia admits defeat (albeit by spinning in a different direction and continuing to feign Churchillian brilliance), then it will be finally over.
Between early and mid-March at the earliest, probably July at the very latest.
Green passes demands have been spotty and I haven’t seen any queues for covid tests while the migrant mix is as much evident here as in other parts of Italy.
Sal discovers, the hard way, that 3 or 4 oldies have spent an enjoyable evening, drinking and telling dirty stories at his expense…Customers? What customers?
Rex, saw your Ffestiniog post the other day. Wonderful.
I’m no train buff but I rode behind that engine a while back on the 150th(?) anniversary of the line.
Different carriages than the vid you posted. We sat back to back facing sideways in the workman’s carriages on that maybe 24 inch gauge. Seemed like we were travelling too fast coming back out of the hills, but trust.
What is it with steam buffs? The train was filled with autistic blokes in costume who spoke in a language no regular person could understand.
Old School Conservative says: January 6, 2022 at 11:17 pm
Do uou mean like some sort of Dad’s Army of willing oldies who FIFO around the nation from the Big Smoke? That’s more than I can imagine either Slomo or Josh Recessionberg understanding, never mind being able to get it off the ground.
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Rex Anger says:
January 6, 2022 at 11:12 pm
Rex – very shortly, Australia will be Victoria
I personally think you are 12 months too late to make that statement, and you are still drawing a comically large bow about Chicom soldiers being allowed into Australia as ‘peacekeepers.’
Ok then – why put that legislation in place if there is no intention to use it? Look at all the Health legislation that has been enacted in the past 5+ years – this is allowing the CHOs & Premiers to do what they are doing now.
Under what circumstance would it be desirable to have foreign troops on Australian soil? For any natural emergency, we have sufficient police in the country as well as the Army. It would have to be an emergency that affects the whole country & we couldn’t handle it in-house.
Suggestions please…
But we will see come next January. I personally suspect this fire is out (no matter how many spazzos in our media, Karen, bugman and political classes keep running round with flaming heads).Sneakers is your new barometer. Forget ScoMo, Palacechook, Stairman Dan or anything the slobs of Davos say.
I certainly hope you’re correct in this, but I haven’t seen anything to convince me otherwise.
Iron Cove says:
January 6, 2022 at 11:31 pm
Simple, steam engines come as close to be alive as any inanimate object can be, nothing comes close.
Sails on trains.
You know it makes sense.
True Gabor, but like a 2 year old child.
Constantly needing to be feed, leaking fluids from every orifice and frequently wailing for effect.
‘Sails on trains.’
I like the cut of your jib.
SlugGate:
It would appear that Shane Patton has accepted the recommendation of his select group of tame detectives that no criminal charges be laid against the slug-dropper, Dandenong City Council or anyone in Health.
As if it needed to be said, they’re not event trying to hide it any more.
The Hun has the piece. Can’t link for the moment.
Johannes Leak.
Peter Broelman.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
Aussie cartoonists weak today, according to them it’s the Djoker’s fault.
Ramirez’s and Benson’s anti-Trump shit is pretty rancid.
Accidently ticked the dry cleaning cartoon and cant untick it. Thanks Tom for presenting them for us to enjoy.
Anyone see the verdict in the UK with the Colston 4?
The UK plod are similar to the FBI.
That is, go nuts on who they perceive as their political foes (Tommy Robinson).
Then either run dead or appear to purposely try the wrong case against people you want to get off (the Colston 4).
Effectively the precedent now has been set that it’s ok to destroy public property that you disagree with.
Joe Biden went to the “sacred” Capitol and gave an outrageous rant about da Big Bad Wolf aka Donald Trump.
The bad wolf huffed and puffed on January 6 last year and “held a knife to the throat of democracy”. That bad wolf he no like the Constitution.
Actually, the wolf blew down a couple of piggy houses, those made of fake concern environmental brikkie wikkies, and those made of fake concern for blacks and minorities. The one he couldn’t blow down however, was made from indefatigable leftist perfidy. Not yet, anyway.
The election fraud bricks held strong against the buffeting from right wing critics. “No evidence” remains the brand stamped on them, while the media continue to ignore all the instances involving votes of sufficient quantity to have turned the result the other way.
Returning ,sorry circling back to yesterdays vaccinated unvaccinated theme . Calli and any one who is interested I have a negative PCR result but the three young vaccinated Carers are positive and one who stood for 10 hours in a hospital queue still awaiting his results.
The Gold Coast seems have a particularly nasty variant not 24 hour flu type but , temperature 3 days ,vomiting, body aches and general malaise.
They can’t help themselves.
New South Wales considers new restrictions (7 Jan)
Hence the run on loo paper and whatnot I expect. Panicked Karens can never have too much toilet paper.
Where did the funny cartoonists go?
Who are these guys and what have they done with them?
Makes sense. They’re full of sh*t.
Local Aldi manager can’t get shelf packers. None. Even though it’s school holidays and you’d think kids would be hungry for a little spending money.
He’s trying to keep up with it himself. (Don’t kniw how Colesworths is travelling – they take the stuff out of the boxes. Also, not getting deliveries of many staples.
Is it because many in the chain are isolating because covid, or they just don’t want to work?
argh! I have to let the chooks out and it’s pouring outside.
Dilbert
Dilbert 2
There was no insurrection, but there certainly was a coup.
Read it all!
Vince Coyner.
Is that a metaphor Pogria?
Calli,
a lot of the packers are told to stay at home and isolate as soon as someone they work with or live near, tests positive. Building sites are almost shut down because of these ridiculous rules. One of the reasons they dropped Quarantine from 14 days to 7, then to 3.
Farmer Gez,
I wish! It’s real life.
No, no, no…I won’t have it!
That there, is pure science.
Great! New restrictions to be imposed just when omicron is doing a superior job of inducing immunity.
We are governed by idiots.
It should be a metaphor Pogria.
Chooks are Karens in a pandemic and create a crappy mess wherever they go.
To celebrate a big harvest I’m buying myself a new rider mower.
A zero turn rear discharge Huski should do the trick. I’m sick of side discharge mowers throwing crap on you if the wind is not just right.
From Anchor’s AT link:
Not even enough to wear out a single photocopier.
Like the Death Star, the in-built weakness in a mighty structure that the founding fathers could not anticipate, even though they were well versed in the wickedness of men.
Struck me that some kind of metaphor could be had and what would be the name benevolent ruler. Hillary or Julia.
A timely reprise of a video outlining exactly the methodology used to fudge the votes back in November 2020.
The Drop & Roll is explained. First dump a large corrective number of Biden votes in the early hours, then add votes in a proportionate manner to maintain the lead.
This video has been difficult to watch on the Big Tech site, so it’s now on Rumble.
Gateway Pundit
Jack Posobiec ??
@JackPosobiec
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4m
5 years ago. In January 2017. This never happened.
https://gettr.com/post/pmqdib3d6b
Understanding Ayn Rand
It should be a metaphor Pogria.
Chooks are Karens in a pandemic and create a crappy mess wherever they go.
Absolutely right Farmer Gez.
I will be in the market for a new ride on soon also. Will look up your Huski. I currently have a Cub Cadet. Not a bad little machine, but not handling the regrowth because of all the rain. I will have to get someone to slash the place soon.
The ABC news said ten people died as a result of Jan 6.
Suicides or health conditions thrown in for effect. No data on the deaths among protestors of course.
Actual fatalities Jan 6 – One dead unarmed woman shot at point blank range by Capital Security without any legal case brought against the shooter.
The ABC is an institutional disinformation service run by political operatives from the progressive left and entirely without journalistic standards to fetter their divisive narrative.
The commercial guys up here use Toros, and I’ve seen a couple of Kubotas around the place.
Traded our John Deere tractor style for a Honda when we downsized. Doesn’t miss a beat, though the Beloved has the sh*ts with me because I said no to self-propelled. He needed the exercise!
I think democracy doesn’t work where there is a fanatic millenarian religion and a large proportion of people who believe in it. Doesn’t work in muslim majority nations (possible exception: Indonesia), and it doesn’t work where green-progressive end-of-the-world types make up half the population. The fanatics shoulder their way into control of government to save the unbelievers from themselves. And then since the millenarian religion is evil the nation collapses into ramshackle misery.
The omicron stuff feeds right into this, since as well as thermageddon now the green-progressives can point to a legion of invisible devils stalking the land everywhere, that will get you if you are insufficiently observant.
Mater’s Mischief #6: This raises some interesting questions
Calli,
We also traded in our tractor style John Deere ride on mower for a zero turn mower . I do all the garden grounds &found it too heavy to turn for my aging back. But we bought a Jonserad. I have regretted it ever since. The damn thing is unforgiving & I have severed countless irrigation lines throughout the grounds. It also doesn’t handle the thick tussocks when I go off-road into the paddocks to mow down a fence line. Should have bought a new John Deere – a zero turn but a better quality unit.
January 7, 2022 at 7:23 am
The commercial guys up here use Toros, and I’ve seen a couple of Kubotas around the place.
All good gear Calli but I’ll support the young local lad who has set up a Husqvana dealership in town.
I like my Toro, and they even do a rear discharge model or two (not mine)
Easier to get parts than a Husky. Very ubiquitous.
I wouldn’t know too much about that- I just operate the things… 😉
And I also see that Iron Cove and Gabor are folks of culture…
https://www.mendotraintony.com/wind-powered-rail-boat-spooners-boat/
(It must be noted that Spooner’s ‘Boat’ operated when the Ffestiniog Railway had no tunnels. The Ddualt spiral and Moelwyn tunnel are artefacts of the FR’s reconstruction post-1970s, as part of the original gravity route had been swallowed up by the Moelwyn Reservoir. I imagine the modern one needs a bit of manpower to get it up that bit…)
Mater says:
January 7, 2022 at 7:41 am
I like my Toro, and they even do a rear discharge model or two (not mine)
Easier to get parts than a Husky. Very ubiquitous.
Funny that.
The lad who has the dealership worked in a big Bendigo business with quite a few brands and reckoned Husqvana was the best company to access prompt and correct parts. I don’t know if they had Toro.
Calli,
a nursery I worked at for many years had a Kubota front-end loader to do all the grunt work. Scooping potting mix and loading onto the work table or into the potting machine, pulling loaded trailers etc. That little thing was the hardest working tractor I have ever used. Nothing seemed to stop it. On one of its rare breakdowns, you literally held it together with wire and duct tape and kept using it until the mechanic came to repair it.
The boss bought a brand new Ford 5000 one year and everybody hated it. We all kept fighting over the old Kubota. When the time comes for me to buy a small tractor for my new farm, I will be looking at Kubota.
What I don’t understand if they have fooled themselves into thinking they are freedom fighters or know exactly what the end goal is – utopia by the barrel of a gun.
How exactly is lying about Jan 6, ignoring the Kavanaugh protests or supporting health mandates in any way a liberty movement?
Now if you’re talking chainsaws then it’s a Husky all the way.
Not just shelf packers. The looming problem is getting something to pack:
Food distributors hit by ‘disastrous’ COVID staff shortages, forcing some restaurants to close
It’s almost as though nobody knew there was some sort of a process to get food and stuff out of farms and factories and into the shops.
Luckily, someone is onto the case:
Although I do suspect the “we” means Cabinet.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said “we need drivers to keep on trucking”.
Could someone put that slogan flog out of our misery.
On the Toros, probably because they do the full range of gear for the course, from the big boom machines down to the automated irrigation – makes sense to have a purchase/maintenance contract with the same company for everything. And the quality is there to back it up.
The Huskys are around the traps too – the guys who do our street mowing use them.
Because we’re on sand, we never use the catcher, just let the clippings add to the soil profile as they disintegrate. Fortunately I chose a non-thatching buffalo – the Beloved did an extra close cut a few weeks ago just prior to fertilising. It was like pushing the thing through a canefield. Would recommend a Honda for small domestic – they are unstoppable.
This is so funny!
Also, not a single person walking or driving past took any notice.
Re ride ons.
Just don’t buy one that doesn’t have a stubbie holder.
Timothy N
I can’t remember if he’s ever told us what this new name is.
Monkey Pox?
In Human Rights news:
Novak Djokovic’s mum Dijana Djokovic and his family slams Australia
The horror.
Pro Tip: The food is indeed truly terrible in hotel quarantine. But you can get outside food/supplies brought in – with minimum fuss.
If this is not happening, Djokovic’s entourage must hate him.
Dot – They want to save the planet and believe totalitarianism is the only way to do it.
“Our Pride is a Prisoner of These Idiots”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3lTsrZ_hM4
132andBush says:
January 7, 2022 at 8:06 am
Re ride ons.
Just don’t buy one that doesn’t have a stubbie holder.
About as useful as an ashtray on a motor bike. I prefer my beer in the bottle.
So.
Not sick of chopping crops yet.
Will it have a fire extinguisher and a Corona fridge?
The jerk had a his little kid waiting for him on the scooter.
Sick!
It’s an ancient and ongoing fight, but for my small farm (which comes with a small dog) my compact John Deere tractor punches way above it’s weight. It’s an incredible machine. My neighbour has the equivalent Kubota, and whilst it’s a very good machine, I wouldn’t exchange them.
The tool free, quick release loader is a must if you are going use it for multiple purposes such as mowing, moving mulch, etc.
I know it’s an advert, but the lifting capability differences in this video reflect what we’ve found on the ground.
https://youtu.be/6Fm7TxFVLNw
The bucket on the John Deere is outrageously big compared to the equivalent Kubota, but you can fill it to capacity with wet mud, and it’ll lift and shift it, with no questions asked.
Just my testimonial.
It’s clearly an adverti
I’m staring to think you’re not a real Mexicano Sancho.
The tread on the rear tyres of my Honda self-propelled is gone and it is now fish-tailing around corners (I mow fast).
Tried to rotate the fronts but they are different (no self propel cog).
Your “lawns” must be a sight!
Mexicano?
Spit!
I am Españolo.
Queensland COVID-19 testing data getting ‘weaker every day’, will impact hospital services
You know the bucket is too big Mater when the back wheels come off the ground.
We’ve done that quite a bit on far bigger gear. Interesting at the time but you still have two points on contact with the ground. Don’t add an incline into the picture though.
Your “lawns” must be a sight!
Who said anything about lawns Bush.
I have a wife to mow those.
Not just domestic: I’ve pushed a Honda for my brother, who has run a very successful mowing/home maintenance business for 40 years and has used Hondas alongside his ride-ons for the past 20 years.
For domestic, go for a Honda with the power drive function which means it pushes itself and is therefore easy on the legs.
As Calli says, the Hondas are unstoppable — very sturdy and easy to maintain.
Tool time.
My old Ryobi line trimmer just blew up.
It’s got a lot of interchangeable heads (pole saw, brush cutter, hedge trimmer) but I really only need line trimmer and hedge trimmer (medium).
Recommendations?
Dr Faustus says:
January 7, 2022 at 8:06 am
If I read your posts right, you are quite a fan of the vax, and everything our overlords are doing to us.
Yep, the ballast box is a must.
Like most things American, it’s over engineered to buggery. Otherwise, the front diff would’ve collapsed ages ago.
Stihl KombiSystem
Buy right, buy once.