Ummm, OK. I’ll have the bat soup please.
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Vicki November 25, 2024 5:24 pmWhat’s the alternative to surgery that the all wise but non medically trained suggest?…Rosie, I am…
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
Is that a Socialist model?
True dat!
They certainly make setting out ambushes “interesting” bearing in mind the bbda.
Would the same apply if the bloke had chosen to get vaccinated, and had had a serious reaction?
I suggest this Doctor should stay away from the ED. Leaving Druggies to die of an overdose on the ambulance ramp, is frowned upon.
QLD is open to travel for the unvax’d now it seems.
And they have way less mandates than Danistan.
https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/travel-leisure/queensland-ditching-all-domestic-border-restrictions
Why are you mob having a go at smokers?
It has kept me safe from Covid.
So, six of the approximately 442 people who die in Australia every day?
Anna said she’d ditch the mask mandate once the 90% vax target is reached, which should be next week.
Let’s see if she keeps that promise.
She’s clearly desperate to give the tourism sector a shot in the arm after chopping it off at the knees.
Dovetails nicely with Albo’s recent visit promising QLDers low wage jobs for life in the sector.
As a section commander I tried both. I found the smaller guys usually had more endurance. When I was finally qualified to 33 men to their deaths 🙂 , I had my section commanders use the nuggetiest as gunner and the biggest as his no 2. This way we got the best of both worlds.
In Self-inflicted news:
Dan Andrews issues blunt message to Novak Djokovic
Taking the piss.
Albanese:
Taking the piss.
Morrison: soaked.
This via CL’s blog, an Arabic Israeli professor tees off on Covid Crusaders.
Made me remember the second wave – third wave – meme which was used early on to gin up the fear, only to fade away and be eclipsed by new hotness memes like highly virulent new variant.
He’s hardly being honest, Roger.
He no longer wants to report that the fully vaccinated are dying.
I remind you of the greater good, comrades; we must all make sacrifices for the greater good.
The greater good could not be contacted for comment.
Dan Andrews sprinted to the front of the “let’s free up workers” parade!
In second place was Pony Girl. Both will try to use this as evidence that they are not the bogeypersons that they have quite plainly been for some time.
So now QLD & NSW >> Danistan
I don’t read him that way, CL.
Yes, he’s a vaccine booster but he’s also a political naïf whose comments have often contradicted what his southern counterparts have been saying.
I don’t quite understand what benefit, let alone the proposal, for the Republic model for Australia has…
What exactly is it meant to improve?
I wouldn’t say “often.”
He said Omicron was going to work through society, come what may.
That’s about it.
I don’t think they’ve been focussed on that.
Their focus has been coming up with a model that will see them defeat the ACM.
They were deeply wounded by that defeat.
So Fitzfucker says (the new republic model) will:
And:
So, what Fitzfucker really wants is a Head of State (who is currently an Australian) who has no powers different to the current incumbent but can “speak out” for Australians…
So that means a Head of State who is woke.
They’re not fucking smart at all.
He said it was “just another virus”, which contradicts the narrative entirely.
Imagine our current GG giving speeches on climate emergencies, lbgtxyz issues, indigenous nations etc… I think the model of a Head of State who “can speak for all Australians” is fraught with danger. It is interventionist and extremely different to our current GG’s role which is not to interfere in politics.
The Monarchist League responded:
I’m not a monarchist but this is a very important point. Electing someone means that they’d need to have a platform which implies partiality.
The egos of rich leftists who delude themselves that their bank balances, dinner-party circles and salon-acceptsble views make them the true political and religious aristocracy of this nation…
From the Epoch Times:
As the U.S. annual inflation rate climbed to 7 percent in December, the highest level since June 1982, new data show that almost every category was higher in the 12 months ending in December.
My understanding is that the Government of the day has selected the Governor General for some time now – Whitlam selected Kerr – and that Royal approval has only ever been a formality?
Compared with the likes of OzSAGE who are making all sorts of absurd claims and recommendations (“residents in apartments should seal their doors closed with tape”) Gerrard comes across as someone amenable to science and reason. We can be thankful for that, at least.
President Malcolm Turnbull **vomits**
Its an absolute crock of shit. Fitzfucker should know the monarchist league will split the vote once again over Parliament-elect versus people-elect. Unless Labor get in and “carefully” word the referendum. Not surprising this has been announced a few months out from an election. Albo wont commit but likely he will after he becomes PM.
Rosie…
I’m afraid that you are not understanding third-world economics very much at all.
Tourism is not the major driver of those economies. There is effectively zero tourism outside a relatively small number of resorts and big-name environmental attractions.
Lockdowns mean that producers cannot get to market to sell their product, and buyers cannot get to market to make purchases. Industries cannot get raw materials and employees cannot travel to work and do not get paid.
You need to stop looking through the lens of a pampered westerner whose view of travel is that it is primarily done for non-essential purposes and who has the ability to have most of what she wants, delivered.
For large areas of the world, delivery and work-from-home are not an option. Lockdown means no income.
Why is this so hard to understand?
My bad, Albo has already committed to a republic (and a first nations voice in Parliament):
https://anthonyalbanese.com.au/speech-address-to-australian-republic-movement-dinner-canberra-tuesday-26-november-2019
Anyone who disagrees with you, should have another look at the US system.
President Kevin Rudd?
Lysandersays:
January 13, 2022 at 1:22 pm
Imagine our current GG giving speeches on climate emergencies, lbgtxyz issues, indigenous nations etc… I think the model of a Head of State who “can speak for all Australians” is fraught with danger. It is interventionist and extremely different to our current GG’s role which is not to interfere in politics.
We’ve already had such a GG, Brennan in the late 1990s.
It has to be President Gillard.
Don’t make me explain.
Re little and big blokes. Check out the vipol SOG, nearly all of them short, at best average height. This is just what the selection process brings. Big blokes are strong and have the same skill levels, however it seems that dragging a 100kgs+ body around takes more of of them than it does for a shortarse carrying the same load.
It would be a Clayton’s election.
I’d rather an appointed President than the same with the veneer of democracy.
Also Dr Gerrard. “You won’t believe how difficult and time consuming it is to check each Covid victim’s vaccination status. We have to look up their Medicare number and everything. “
Been offline for over a week, haven’t been this crook in years. The doctors wouldn’t believe it wasn’t wuflu, I did have a couple of symptoms my main symptoms were unrelated to wuflu. They tested me 5 times, three RAT things and two PCR, all negative. They spent all their time looking for what they hoped to find and didn’t look for much else, didn’t even take blood tests till a couple of days ago (all normal). Anyway, started to feel better last night and hopefully will be close to normal tomorrow.
Dot, I agree. Just change the GG’s name to “President” and have it all happen the same way it does now. But we know Fitz isn’t about that and it’s got nothing to do with having an Australian Head of State.
As Cats have noted; likely candidates: Gillard, Turnbull, Rudd…
They want a mouthpiece.
I feel an episode of Geoffrey Robertson’s “Hypothetical” coming on.
GR : “We have one ICU bed available, currently occupied by an unvaccinated Covid patient.
We have three other patients waiting for an ICU bed. Two with cancer, one with kidney failure and one with liver disease.
Surely they take precedence over the irresponsible unvaccinated Covid patient?”
The panel nods in agreement.
GR : ” … or do they? You see, ladies and gentlemen, one of the cancer patients has lung cancer as a result of being a two pack a day smoker for thirty years. The other has secondary melanomas. Despite having several early stage melanomas removed over the years and being warned repeatedly about sun exposure, refused to use sunscreen or wear sun-smart clothing. They seem to be victims of their own recklessness too, so have no claim on the ICU bed either.”
More nodding.
GR : “So the choice is down to the liver disease patient and the kidney failure patient?”
More nods.
GR : “Except the kidney failure patient is a type 1 diabetic who has lived on Coca Cola and fast food for decades and routinely failed to monitor his blood sugar.
And the liver disease patient is a long term IV drug user who developed hepatitis which lead to his chronic liver disease. How do we decide which of these patients – all of whom have contributed to their own conditions – goes into ICU?”
No more nodding.
Hand goes up.
GR : “Yes, Professor Jones, Professor of Medical Ethics Sydney Umiversity”
Professor Jones: “How about the sickest person with the best chance of recovery gets the bed?”
Audience gasps.
(That should be “four other patients”)
The positive there would be the certain, deep, personal agony caused to both Rudd and Trumble.
The only point of reporting deaths is to terrify the populace.
Now that 90% vaxx is achieved, and there’s no more restrictions, why report them at all, much less try to categorize them
So the Queensland border restrictions will cease at 1am on the 15th January. Why not immediately?
Sounds like the Chook has been hit with the clue by four.
Nicely put, Sancho.
There is growing evidence that the biggest killers in modern society – heart attacks, strokes, cancer, dementia and T2D are primarily or partially diseases of lifestyle.
If nothing matters more than saving lives, when are we going to see lockouts of fast-food outlets, and taping-off of the confectionary aisles at the local supermarket.
Having walked into one such venue to find that clothes were regarded as “non-essential” but the chocolate aisle and the bottle-shop were still open….. I have to ask how being fat, drunk and naked is going to combat Covid.
Oh…. and here is a link to a couple of dozen scientific studies demonstrating the failure of lockdowns.
https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/
To enforce the mandates & never ending ‘boosters’.
I’ll go you one worse… President Louise Milligan.
Weekday Reading #18 out.
A mouthpiece with a right of veto.
Couldn’t Cats nominate George Pell?
LLysander.
If you get into the detail, you find that it there is no such thing as a minimalist Republic. You cannot simply rename the GGand cut the link with the Crown.
It changes a LOT, and the most obvious change in all the the Republican proposals is that it gives more power and less accountability to those who expect to be in charge.
It’s a power grab…. and if you think that those doing the grabbing have our best interests at heart, I have this friend in Nigeria with a wonderful offer!
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
January 13, 2022 at 1:25 pm
My understanding is that the Government of the day has selected the Governor General for some time now – Whitlam selected Kerr – and that Royal approval has only ever been a formality?
Correct. Since the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westminster 1931, all the Commonwealth realms have been Sovereign kingdoms so the Monarch and Governors-General act solely on the advice of the relevant local Prime Minister.
Refusing Royal Assent is unthinkable. Never happened, never will.
Indeed. One tactic I admire of the left is that they never give up trying to pass their laws, institute narratives, change history etc… For years, they pushed SSM knowing it would take decades but they’d get there. I remember, in Ireland, they pushed the vote to join the EU three times! In WA, euthansia bills multiple times till it all became acceptable…
The right (to which I belong, but not proudly) just give up: “Oh well, it’s a law now so let’s move on.” Fuck that, should be a movement calling for the repealment of some of these aberrations!
….. and the chances of getting Pell elected/appointed?
Here is the thing. Those making proposing the changes, firmly intend that it will be their creature on the new throne.
Yes there is and you can. The last one did it perfectly – but the people want to elect the President.
I fact you have to credit the drafters of how they appreciated the political process.
Um
Is the Twitter of the woman euthanising her dog because of the dog getting COVID real or just a meme?
Most vets I know would refuse to do that, but then again we had those terrible people euthanise the dogs in Western NSW…because COVID.
PeterW.
I can extend the list of people outside ICU who might be subject to the “contributory negligence of recklessness” test, apart from slow burn chronic illnesses.
. 1 A cyclist on their way to an Extinction Rebellion demo who falls off their bike sans helmet.
. 2 A drunk driver who puts his car into a power pole.
.3 The man using a ladder to clean his gutters without fall restraint.
.4 The junkie who ODs at the government sponsored safe injecting room.
.5 The guy who got punched out by JC for using a particularly annoying dot-point format.
I reckon that 75% of people in ICU at any one time could be adjudged to have made some contribution to their own predicament.
Only if she discovers an indigenous ancestor, declares her gender is non-binary and converts to Islam.
(There might be a bit of inconsistency with the last two, but when has that ever been a problem for a politician?)
It is like a mechanical governor. It’s like a time delay lock.
And elect them on what basis? A campaign for what? Being the best person to sign an Assent and hold a bible?
In some instances they are the Creature themselves.
Condition of becoming president.
On leaving office, you cease receiving any tax payer funded pension scheme that you previously were entitled to.
That would thin the field somewhat.
TaliDan has thrown the onus onto employers to provide RAT and the high quality face nappies.
All cost and responsibility nicely handed to the private sector as is the habit of the junta.
Where are employers supposed get all these RAT tests?
“I don’t recall”
I reckon that 75% of people in ICU at any one time could be adjudged to have made some contribution to their own predicament.
Know I am guilty of this in visits to emergency a couple of times. Words uttered “my own bloody fault” to the nurse usually lightens the mood (Wonder how many times they hear that). Tetanus shot & some stitches out the door later.
Tim Blair:
If you want to convert something simple into something complicated, just give it to a pack of lefties and leave it with them for a couple of decades.
The push for a republic collapsed in 1999, largely because republicans couldn’t decide if our new head of state should be elected or appointed.
More than 20 years later, this is what they’ve come up with……..
So we’d have up to 11 people campaigning for office despite them not having any power beyond acting on the advice of the government.
What would they campaign about?
And how might this be anything other than a massively expensive and pointless popularity contest, except with the added complexity of preferences – which could give us a head of state with only a minority of support?……..
Former prime minister and leader of the “no” campaign at the 1999 republic referendum, Tony Abbott, warned the proposal would undermine Australia’s democracy.
“A president accountable to the people would be a rival to the prime minister accountable to the parliament and government would become unworkable,” he said……
Status: true.
UPDATE. Why would we sideline our “best and brightest” by putting them in a ceremonial role with no influence? And why would our “best and brightest” seek such a role?
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/its-republican-tangle-time-with-fitzy-and-friends/news-story/221d88a4356f17ae6a5fd3bc7b866b97
Understood, Roger.
However, Gerrard’s ‘triple-vaxxed nine times safer than the unvaccinated’ line yesterday was a disgrace.
Short of resigning on principle unless the mandates are withdrawn, I can’t afford him elevated status as a truth-teller.
Big Tech censorship or restrictive practises again. I watched the trailer this morning with no problems. A couple of hours later I refresh Michael Smith News page and youtube now requires a log in to view with some Age Restricted BS:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/01/topher-fields-new-film-battleground-melbourne.html#comments
Oh it’s rich and amusing.
We’ve recorded more daily cases than the UK by about 20,000.
The Meaning of Morrison.
“A tiger? In Africa?”
For science Cats….
China wants to create a source of near-unlimited clean energy, and it’s well on its way with its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor. The “artificial sun” just set a new world record, superheating a loop of plasma to temperatures five times hotter than the sun for more than 17 minutes.
Temperature-wise, that’s 158 million degrees Fahrenheit – or 70 million degrees Celsius. EAST smashed the previous record set by France’s Tore Supra tokamak in 2003, where plasma in a coiling loop remained at similar temperatures for 390 seconds.
EAST had previously set another record in May 2021 by running for 101 seconds at an unprecedented 216 million F or 120 million C. To put that in context, the core of the actual sun reaches comparatively balmy temperatures of around 27 million ?F, or 15 million ?C.
They just want you to log in so they can establish the identity of those who watched it.
Nothing to worry about.
The meaning of Life Tiger sketch is perhaps the most perfect parody of the lunacy we’re going through.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rObSWkQA7og
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E-bIMxB4zA8&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D
I feel like quitting as well. I lack motivation to work when treated by society as a leper even though I’m healthy.
Speedbox, I’ll get interested when it achieves breakeven. To make it viable as a power source about 10 x breakeven to 100x according to a guy I knew who worked on this stuff at TRW back in the 1980’s. One idea if you can’t get breakeven was to blanket the thing with U238 and breed Plutonium 239 for fission reactors which is probably a great idea except can you imagine the political fallout?
So, Chook, how about lifting the mandates, masks, checkins and all restrictions on the unvaxxed?
If Aust. becomes a republic can we West Aussie’s go it alone as a independent country?
‘askin for a premier’…..
I’m sitting at home on forced WFH status watching the bug rip through my 99% vaxxed workplace.
And they’re worried about catching it from the UNvaxxed!!
I’d like to shove it in their face, but I don’t want to tempt fate.
I’ve heard this.
CMO’s aren’t high on my totem either; but is there data to support the proposition?
Been WFH for 2 years. Im sick of it. Sick of the mandates. Sick of the tyrannical governments. Sick of the sheep Australian people. Fuck it.
Nephew tested positive after a two week wait for results.
His parents and two siblings, all together over the holiday break, have had no symptoms nor the lad in question.
My brother reckons Covid should bat for England. Doesn’t stay around for long and can’t score.
Do I have to do everything around here?
Hervey Bay’s finest arrest some poor woman: https://twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1481421512758362113
It was all lies! Struth!
How intelligent can the ARM be if they chose Fitzsimian to be their chair-rag.
What do they think of other Australians? Do they think Aussies will be impressed by him?
Do they think having that serial historico-fabulist and self-beclowing savant would persuade people that they could produce a well thought out and effective change to our constitution.
Pirate Pete is a joke. A hanger on at a cerebrally pretentious rag who time and time again has its sagging rump served to him on a platter: Remember his oracular prophecies regarding the Easy Flowers case, to give but one case of many.
He has never shown himself particularly gifted or intelligent. He has figured significantly in nothing of note. Just coffee table books to be given as Christmas gifts when Dads says they have enough socks. His histories break no new ground – just colouring books where everything crayoned red.
I will give him this. He must be a very busy and active man. Not productive, but flat out. So focussed and frenetic that he has absolutely no moment to pause and reflect “Have I done anything that has mattered?”
My contempt for him knows no bounds.
Perth Trader says:
January 13, 2022 at 2:34 pm
If Aust. becomes a republic can we West Aussie’s go it alone as a independent country?
‘askin for a premier’…..
Please do.
The western Kiwis can then whine amongst themselves.
Not as much contempt that the other wobblies showed when he copped a flogging of the those wonderful Frenchies.
Of course he does. All politicians do. If you’ve conned a bunch of suckers into paying you for doing nothing except bullshit, you would too. And now they’ve found they can frighten the ordinary ppl into wearing masks and giving upwork. Of course they despise us. They are right to do so.
Managers who have a lot of interest in manual handling and endurance know that the nuggets and shorter guys are more durable.
SAS guys are rarely big, you note.
Midland Brick back in the day (late 1970s) would hire nuggety guys to stack the brick pallets. Bitter experience showed that bodybuilders and six-footers would hurt their backs, with all the grief that then follows. Grief for the company, I mean. Workers comp, LTIFR, recruitment… someone else’s sore back is a pain in your arse too.
“My contempt for him knows no bounds.”
Agree….but he’s a package, his wife is equally grotesque.
The fiercely proud independence mighty thewed chisel jawed West Australians however reserve the right to rejoin any time the iron ore price shits itself.
And whinge about it as well.
Just back from Coles.
The only sign of public disorder was depleted cheese shelves. I passed on a pack of “Cheer”.
Being beyond the ken of the urban minibus hordes has its advantages.
WTF was that older lady arrested for?
Eyrie says:
January 13, 2022 at 2:32 pm
Speedbox, I’ll get interested when it achieves breakeven. To make it viable as a power source about 10 x breakeven to 100x according to a guy I knew who worked on this stuff at TRW back in the 1980’s. One idea if you can’t get breakeven was to blanket the thing with U238 and breed Plutonium 239 for fission reactors which is probably a great idea except can you imagine the political fallout?
Thanks for that Eyrie. As a non-scientific Cat what I read was “Speedbox, I’ll get interested when xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx fallout.”
Jolly decent of you to comment though. 🙂
WTF is today? Napoleon’s Birthday?
Eat arsenic, you dysgenic 4’3″ yappers.
Re. the republic, an Albosleazy government will push for a republic and watch the “right” in this country cave….both the Liberals and Nationals. They’ll be missing in action. There won’t be a repeat of 1998/1999 when constitutional monarchists fought hard to push back the republic and they won. You’ll see a repeat of the SSM debate, monarchists and those who are just happy with the present system will be smeared, ridiculed and silenced. It won’t be a pleasant debate.
Coatsworth is a vaccine booster too, although not for children.
Yet his common sense generally has been most welcome.
We can’t expect perfection “in this space”.
In other fake news designed to terrify the male populace:
Covid leads to a reduction in male member dimensions
Henceforth to be known as “Short Covid”
There’s a lot more people wearing masks in cars today.
What the hell is happening to these people’s minds? Even the government spending 50% of its time telling them it’s very mild, so we can’t blame the government necessarily.
I think many people are addicted to the feeling of the ups and downs of a mass ‘crises’.
Of course they will; that’s their raison d’être as the outer faction of the Uniparty in modern Australia – to delay but finally ratify the agenda of the inner faction.
However, David Flint suggests the ACM are well armed and well organised and prepared for a fight.
But the biggest problem for the ACM remains the Windsors.
Big uptick on enquires on my Gumtree for sale list. I think a few people are taking advantage of the Omricon madness. Good for me, sold a few items.
132andbush:
And that can’t be repeated too often – far too many Australians who depend on these part time jobs have been hard done by because of these loopholes.
VicPol, at it again:
https://twitter.com/TheCynicalHun/status/1481175374679912455
The right needs to go feral.
– Direct election (it works in Ireland)
– Let the States choose their own system, most senior former State governor gets the job automatically.
– Just let the PM choose and the House and then Senate approve.
– Any of the above but recall elections.
– Abolish the HOS position. Share powers between PM, Cabinet, High Court, the Houses of Parliament and its officers separately and jointly. That actually covers the definition of a republic.
It is all kryptonite to the ARM.
Might be worthwhile bringing up actual republican ideas, just to spam the ARM.
Jury nullification
Recall elections
Term limits
Stix, calm down. I’d bet 99% of the people wearing masks in a car are
1. Uber drivers/delivery like UberEats
2. People like me. We have gone to a store and then forgotten to take it off. I’ve done that lot’s of times and when I remember I take the stupid thing off immediately. Don’t always be the hysterical teenage gal and try to think through things. People forget. They aren’t trying be be safer except maybe for the odd Karen.
For a queen’s lander, you do posses an annoying tone of superiority and it’s not a good look.
“The right needs to go feral.”
Yes, it’s time we did.
His head has been at the bottom of one-too-many rucks.
“Jury nullification”
Recall elections
Term limits”
Yes
Yes
Yes
Calli:
The whole Boris Johnson party things is bewildering.
You missed the most important reason, Calli – and shame on you – it should have been the first thing you thought of:
– a lying sack of shit who did it for the publicity.
Remember this is a bloke who refuses to get a proper haircut because it jerks the heartstrings of middle aged dowagers who think he’s just an innocent little boy.
That’s him.
Sancho:
I realise you’re being sarcastic but it will be interesting to see the % of people who get Omnicon.
Of course we’ll never know the exact number but if it runs to ~20% it’s consistent with the Diamond Princess data. If this holds we can expect a rapid drop in cases sooner than later.
My eldest sons girlfriend has had it and been pretty crook for a week*, he’s tested negative and still no symptoms even though they live together.
*All the things you associate with a bad cold/mild flu.
Good one from Spectator.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/01/four-conspiracy-theories-that-came-true/
I wouldn’t have any moral problem with him being bashed.
Zero.
Chairman Dan needs to be careful. A few unopened Acme packages still lying around. “Immigration is a Commonwealth matter.” Smile. And leave.
Either no mask or no vaccine passport. Someone mumbles something about a vaccine passport at one point. So I would assume she went coffee clubbing without it and some Hervey Bay Karen called the cops.
It would be someone like Tim Costello as GG if the lefties get there way.
A sainted person seemingly beyond criticism like shooting Bambi.
UPDATE. Why would we sideline our “best and brightest” by putting them in a ceremonial role with no influence? And why would our “best and brightest” seek such a role?
Only the likes of KRudd, Turdball and Fitzsimian would ever regard themselves as the “best and brightest”.
Meanwhile the vax’d are spraying omricon all over the place.
Makes sense.
Chief health officer Dr John Gerrard two of the deaths were people in their 70s, three were in their 80s and one in their 90s.
Batting average still 85?
So the average age of Peking pox deaths is still higher than the English side openers batting averages?
If you think Australia is scraping the bottom of the barrel, perhaps we are.
We’re scraping at the bottom of our little barrel, but little did we know, there are barrels beneath this one to be scraped.
“everyone five years and older who are working, staying or visiting our facilities “
Sorry, Roger – we’ll have to agree to disagree, my friend.
Gerrard is free to call off the state’s lunatic vaxx mandates and he is free to stop lying about the danger of Omicron to the ‘unvaccinated’ (the definition of which he is deliberately fudging on a daily basis).
No more low bars.
What a fucking retard.
Also, he wasn’t wearing his mask.
The release of various Governors-General correspondence with the Queen shows the branch office isn’t quite the passive, ribbon cutting affair most understand the model to be. Fortunately most correspondence is met with a polite, “Go away and sort it out.”
It’s good to see Canada take back “most embarassing nation”.
The ball’s in your court, Mr. Hawke.
So the ‘fully vax’d’ are free to spray Omricon all over the sick kids.
Makes sense.
No worries, CL. I suppose I’m taking a more philosophical view. I’m pretty much out of it -the fray, that is – these days, which affords me that luxury I suppose.
Bad cop, good cop.
Ex QLD cop fights back over vaccine mandates.
In the former State of Western Australia substitute Fiona Stanley.
Feelthebern:
Whatever happens, the Health Nazis will be using it as an excuse to further their agenda.
I initially said the Brahmin Class would look at the two alternatives:
1. Admit defeat, save what they can and relax the tyranny, or
2. Refuse to admit defeat and double down.
So far, most governments around the world are doubling down. Winds/whirlwinds/reaping comes to mind.
Just remember – they chose this path.
Probably what happened, which is what frightens me the most.
Dot..l
The last republic proposal was so “perfect” that the people rejected it because the proposed President was to be a representative of the Politicians, not the people.
That’s the perfect model of a government by oligarchy, but not one by democracy.
Sancho…
You are assuming that someone who can not only argue better than JC, but who also understands the laws pertaining to self-defence…. would come off worse in the engagement.
The worst thing about shopping in Coles and Woolies is standing inline with a sarong wearing , overweight , middle aged person and being transfixed by tattoos on their backs and cleavage….ohhh, the ‘inhumanity’.
Ah, wut?
A bit vague?
Support as determined by who?
Why not be explicit and say “loss of support, as evidenced by at least two votes of no confidence on the floor of the HoR, separated by at least seven days.”
A BandanaMan GG might call an election on the basis of a Julia Banks footstamp, as evidence of loss of support.
Also, the next step would surely be to establish if another person could take the role of PM with the support of the House.
Theoretically, under that model, if the ruling party votes for a spill, the GG could call an election without waiting for the party room to vote on a successor.
After 23 years of licking their wounds, that is the best they can do?
Anyone got a really solid article from an authoritative source about just how bad this shit is? Not going to stop me getting it (as I have to) but at least I can share some reverse fear porn…
Lysander, search out the numbers of sick/dead people. There are many examples. This morning I read of a case of the death of a 26 year old from myocarditis after having his third Pfizer shot. He died 4 days later.
“When they first did the preliminaries they couldn’t find anything — his heart looked normal,” Cayleen [his mother] said. But “the pathologist said he was going to do 22 different slides to see what he could find.” “When the pathologist looked at the 22 segments of Joseph’s heart, it showed the vaccine inflamed and attacked his entire heart. There was so much damage … to the heart. It was full multi-focal myocarditis, and it wasn’t just affecting one part of his heart, it was attacking his whole septum and ventricles.”
Cayleen thinks her son developed so much inflammation from the booster that his heart developed a fatal arrhythmia that killed him instantly. She spoke with several cardiologists who were surprised her son never experienced any type of chest pain
(I can’t link; why, I don’t know).
I think I just saw JC admit to being a car masker.
What happened to you man?
and being transfixed by tattoos on their backs and cleavage
But surely you can only get cleavage on the front?
unless.
OH GOD NO!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRhR8sXrqcI
Not only, It’s the fixation on the quick fix solutions, pointing fingers and lists many lists. Myself included. But I’m not the brains of the outfits.
Do the job you put your hands up for nerds!!.
She had a Coles 15c bag, so assume she went to the supermarket. Maybe she didn’t wear a mask, or QR in. Vaxx is not required for grocery shopping. She may have inadvertently “browsed” at a forbidden shop. There was a lot of “I’ll give you my name and address” so perhaps she initially withheld it, or it may be that she had nothing with her.
Clearly someone, somewhere, has gone full metal Karen and called the Police plus a “Liaison Officer”, which suggests she is either known to Police or she may be a minority.
On the whole, and excellent job by the Qld constabulary – keeping the streets and shops safe from dangerous criminals. I had to smile when the cheeky young man upbraided them for not attending his recent house break-in in such numbers.
Burglary – Old and Busted
Grannies Without Papers – New Hotness
One thing though – it pleases me to see Boomer Grannies arcing up.
We’re not all sheep. Some of us are real cows.
Female: “You are worse than Djokovic!”
FitzSimons used to stick his ugly head between the props arse and the hookers arse. That’s where it belongs and he should have left it there.
On the other hand, I tried going to the movies in the new Karrinyup shopping temple.
Once I used to laugh about all the mother-daughter shopping teams patrolling the place.
Now… summer dress season in Perth… FMD! Now I know where all the hotness that used to work as receptionists in the City or West Perth have gone. You don’t see the like in the expensive suburbs’ shops, I guess because because many young people can’t afford to live there.
The city on Saturdays seems to be crowded with the children of the tattooed fire twirlers; the class acts are clearly at Karrinyup these days.
VicPol, at it again
What a fucking retard.
With a gun.
Do you think you would get a firearm license if there was video footage like that of you losing your shit?
Government going to make COVID rule allowances for airport workers……next week.
Hump will probably be over by then…..
On a lighter note, who knew that tasing someone that has too much aftershave on sets them on fire?
Can I make one prediction that’s based on nothing more than a hunch because of the evilness of the American left.
In the not too distant future, Jizz Lane will come out with an accusation that Trump was frequently with Epstein at his NY home ( much easier so the accusation can’t be traced) molesting underage girls. In turn she will get a deal like getting two extra sheets of toilet paper a week. This is coming around the corner, just watch.
I see what you did there, Frank. Nice.
Oh and there will be silence on Bill Clinton, otherwise she’s dead.
Yer livin’ dangerously JC.
Bruce of Newcastle:
The decision by the Afghani peoples to not defend themselves against the Taliban and instead rely on the West to do its fighting for it, has had consequences.
Who would have guessed?
Calling a tatted up regional qld cop “filth” while filming him and his gaggle of ducks. Pretty brave guy.
So, the Australian Open draw announcement has been delayed, presumably ’cause the Djoker’s fate is unannounced.
Bugman-depth must be approaching 100% in this wide, brown land.
It’s a guess but I reckon a ‘liason officer’ is accompanying police to many of these calls in tourist places in QLD.
The QLD police are under strict orders to be as nice as pie about this stuff. No bad PR for the state in holiday season!
No bull sharks in the Noosa river in holiday season.
Not nearly as much as you are Rambles: what with what you’re putting in your mouth.
And what is that JC?
Tennis Australia are fucking idiots.
The tournament starts Monday.
How long do they delay?
Sunday night?
Monday morning?
Put Djoker in the second leg of the draw and wait until Tuesday?
FMD.
Do the draw with him in and let ScoMo decide to boot him or not.
If he goes, his opponent in the first round gets a walkover result.
No big deal.
But delaying it is playing up to the political grandstanders.
And Scotty from Marketing, at his post Nation Cabinet presser, has just explained that no decision had been made and shut up.
The AO draw is going ahead.
The ultimate theatre of the deranged would be a walk on court arrest .
Don’t think that Scott the Evangelist isn’t dumb enough to pull this stunt.
Chris – my fashion advice to the missus when following her around clothes shopping is “good enough for the Dog Swamp Shopping centre” “not suitable for the Claremont Quarters shops.” “looks like my Mum’s (checkered) table cloth”. Says I whilst wearing t-shirt shorts and thongs.
For the rail and WA history buffs, someone just posted a thread at a shooting forum where I go, about having got some ANR rolling stock. The best bit was his story:
Some good photos too. Also some rail motors in the thread… guys with hobbies eh?
How did that retard make the cut for VicPol?
He looked like he should have been running a death trap at side show alley.
not suitable for the Claremont Quarters shops
Is Claremont still full of plastically enhanced and botoxed Pelosi lookalikes?
Haha!
I found I got great interaction with shop staff if I went to Claremont Quarter in Hi-Vis. Dress like that and you are separated from the status competition that drives the retail crowd. People be real.
Yes.
And the shop windows nearby have adverts for cosmetic surgeons.
For the rail and WA history buffs,
What about the truck & WA history buffs?
Don’t forget about them.
You’ve got the new variant, the Invisible Covid-19.
But while we might sneer at the ladies of that botoxed set, they, their mothers, neighbours and classmates are often awesome.
Whaddya mean? He has strange resemblance to an ex-commissioner.
Is it true the QLD is opening the border?
So we’ll have a situation where unvaccinated people can go to NSW, go to the pub then go back to their movement control order?
A vikpol sniper in the crowd would beat that.
Yah, Winston. I was thinking of this story yesterday (which will annoy Rosie 😀 ).
Pope Francis: We Cannot Hide from Migrants ‘Behind Walls and Barbed Wires’ (10 Jan)
The fun being that the Vatican Wall is quite formidable, and was designed to keep out muslim migrants at the time.
What I was meditating about was that neither the Afghan Government nor the Taliban ever wanted the people to be able to defend themselves, because of course if they could they might do so. Which would not be a desirable thing for the Afghan Government or the Taliban.
I’ve long said that the best thing the Americans could’ve done was to build a 10 m high reinforced concrete wall around every town and village in the country. Mass produced bits of wall like the Israelis used. Cheap compared to the dosh they sank into the place. Then give each headman a few hundred AKs, some grenades and ammo and stand back. With a RPG resistant concrete wall, and with a bit of sentry duty the village could make it much more difficult for the Taliban to sneak in after dark and behead anyone who had done business with the US Army that day.
Of course a wall that keeps the Taliban out would also keep the Afghan Government out, and for that matter keep the US Army out. Which is probably why none of them were especially interested in giving the people the actual means to defend themselves.
Chris,
that railway story was a great find. I enjoy reading pieces like that. Thanks for sharing.
Yeah. The good old days of piggybacking are sadly long gone.
Now the box itself just goes from road to rail to road and back.
AN did experiment with Roadrailers in the 90s, where the trailer itself was fitted with a bogie and connected to a string of similar ones. But they were found to be too fragile for Australian conditions and had no braking power.
Horseface’s squeeze has been demanding favours with the old “don’t you know who I’m porking?”, routine.
What about the zeppelin & WA history buffs?
Don’t forget about them, either!
Baba:
Excellent rant!
Oh the humanity.
I can’t believe its not the WuFlu? Where can I get some? Does it come in differing colours. The Duktors probably thought they had discovered a new/old variant and were going to be famous.
Hard to feel sorry for the Afghan shit hole.
40mill hillbillies.
Good luck with that.
The fibreglass-bodied kit-car buffs hate being ignored too. But ignore them I shall.
Also, the roller blade & WA history buffs?
What have they done to be forsaken?
The ‘Real Republic’ organisation, the alternative to the ARM gounded and funded by former Brisbane mayor Clem Jones, will publish its outline for a republc within months. It is said to be based on Ireland as a model of a Westminster system that operates with a directly elected head of state.
No mandates, no lockdowns, pillow biters and wokesters chucked off the nearest tall building.
Hard not to like.
Grader operators don’t give a stuff. They just know who is the best.
I love watching them bench out a site. Poetry in motion.
It was fashionable once for doctors to test things out on themselves when engaged in the search for fame and scientific immortality, not so much these days.
The other ones are crane operators. Magic.
They never look at the project economics. And rarely the power generation aspects: you know like extracting heat, boiling water and then running steam through a turbine. None of which is simple if you compare the fast breeder experience.
I really don’t see brute force fusion being economic within hundreds of years. We have plenty of coal, uranium and thorium to tide us over in that time though. The joker is the alternative fusion approaches like aneutronic fusion and other light isotope ideas. For example lithium could well be much more useful as a fusion energy source than a battery material.
Hard to feel sorry for the Afghan shit hole.
40mill hillbillies.
Whose idea of a foreign policy is to lie behind rocks and shoot at foreigners. If no foreigners available, each other.
TFM:
Here.
Dr Ranjana Srivastava, OAM, Walkely Award Winner.
Works at Monash Health and writes for the Guardian.
Hmmm…
BoN, the aneutronic stuff is MUCH harder to get going in a Tokamak. Essentially impossible I’d say. There are other approaches and a Sydney group is working on Inertial Electrostatic Confinement. The late Robert W. Bussard was working on that before his death. Some say it cannot work, others that it can be made to work. High school kids have made neutron sources that way (way below breakeven energy wise) and IIRC you can buy commercial neutron sources using this principle.
It’s what we have now.
You seem to have trouble understanding that the way the model operated would be practically the same as what we have now.
Here’s a comparison that is easy to understand. Who voted for Quinten Bryce? Who did she represent? (Also, what oversight or how much approval even within legal circles let alone the community was there was French was made CJ…?) Let alone Brennan or Hollingworth.
If you want to be a pedant about it, we didn’t vote for it, the whole Federation thing barely got enough votes as it was; as well the Imperial Parliament changed a few things here and there.
Did you vote for the Australia Acts?
As for oligarchy:
The PM is effectively the only person who can propose a constitutional amendment.
Can we have a recall vote on the PM?
He also has a never used but explicit power through royal prerogative to repeal laws that are less than 1 year old (s 59 of the Constitution).*
How many people know the unelected (appointed by the PM) governor general has a power under s 58 to veto laws with no limit on the veto? He could theoretically do it indefinitely.*
*I think these are good things.
Thanks Winston.
The taxpayer paid for her to study Medicine at Monash. Now she wants to differentiate between taxpayers because “bile” at the unvaxxed.
Just shows that for all the honours and awards and courses and accolades, she is an ethical vacuum.
Says she won a Fulbright fellowship and did medical ethics at Chicago.
I’m a bit sick of the constant refrain Peterw
All I am/ was saying is in the face of a pandemic people’s behaviour changes irrespective of government imposed lockdowns.
The poor were always going to be hardest hit when that happened.
Those dependent on servicing the international tourist industry is just one example.
And what did you and Tony do to ameliorate that suffering, other than yesterday demand western governments do that and this?
I don’t do third world travel btw.
Driving around Mongyang today, I endured two muppets on SEN going on for 40 minutes about how everyone hates Djokovic.
I think one of them may have been Simon O’Donnell, but I’m not sure.
They did a great job of convincing each other of Djokosatan’s evilness. The audience, probably not so much.
I only shop in places that have free parking . I dont have enough money to pay for parking in Claremont .
” I consider my global upbringing, innate curiosity, empathy and commitment to public service to be my best assets.”
Empathy stops with the unvaxxed, evidently.
Saw that, Roger.
I reckon a class or ten was skipped.
Certainly has all the buzz words though.
“The world is falling into a new type of tyranny that has been in development for decades, and which uses high-tech and corporate monopoly to instill a system of total social control.
With COVID-19 and the pandemic, this form of social control has only accelerated with governments across the world implementing harsh policies in the name of “public health.”
This is tied to the “technocracy” movement of the early 1900s, which is now being pushed by some of the world’s most powerful institutions, according to author and leading expert on technocracy Patrick M. Wood. To learn more about this, we sat down for a discussion.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/technocrats-are-using-covid-19-to-realize-a-totalitarian-high-tech-agenda-patrick-wood_4191232.html?utm_source=etv_vids_rec&utm_medium=a_bottom_below_ai
Brucie
With undue respect, a few years ago you told us that battery technology had reached its pinnacle and in your (fabulous) scientific opinion you told us that all that toing and froing in battery technology was going to lead to shit. At the time, Tesla was operating a battery that achieved approximately 200 miles before charge, according to the company’s data at the time.
Today, Tesla’s Model S is published to achieve 348 miles before charge. See here: https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/
Here’s your problem. If you’re suggesting they they’re lying , I’d expect they were lying at both ends , ie when the claimed 200 miles (a few years ago) and 348 miles now. Either way the range has almost doubled. Seeing there’s battery acid all over your face over this one, why would anyone believe any of your “scientific” assertions about fusion when fucked up royally on the more simple battery prediction?
In my humble, non-scientist opinion, you know shit about nothing and you ought to stop making foolish claims you know nothing about – particualrly fusion. Brucie, STFU as there are grownups working on it.
At the very least, let us see how the 35 country consortium does in 1924, when its expected the first fusion reactor will fire up in Europe.
Just have that and have the election at a every second or third Federal election (must be at a general election), the term is at least six but no longer than seven years and no more than two terms.
Bam. Done.
Now onto MORE IMPORTANT general things like a bill of rights, recall elections and term limits – but also important, specific issues like ending the lockdowns, restoring our civil liberties and destroying this digital ID nonsense.