Open Thread – Weekend 15 Jan 2022
1,699 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 15 Jan 2022”
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1911 Harvester decision, failure of Conscription votes in 1916, attempt to nationalise the Banks, 1948, Vietnam involvement, Malayan Emergency, Menzies, MediBank, 1974, Family Court 1975, Human Rights and EOC, 1975, PAYE Tax, Fraser Govt, GST, 1998, Various Gun Buybacks, Military involvement in Bougainville, Hawke Government, Eat Timor Deployment,Howard Government, Somalia Deployment, Keating, Iraq & Afghanistan, Howard …
There’s plenty there, and don’t forget:The Past is Prologue
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OK.
I am outta here!
Nothing’s gonna stop me!
(Subject to exit visas, pilots dropping dead on short final
– complete with lockjaw of the arm on the stick – being harassed by the media, a being marked man by the Feds)Listen to the excuses.
Fuck, it sounds like pre-schoolers cracking the shits with mum and running away from home.
We’ve done all the “You’re not the boss of me” and “I hate you” and have packed up our Thomas the Tank Engine backpacks and headed off. We are now at the corner of the street, not sure which way to go. The little one says, “I’m hungry. Did you bring something to eat?”. The older one suggests they return home and set out tomorrow after breakfast.
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“mRNA drug development has substantial clinical development and regulatory risks due to limited regulatory experience with mRNA immunotherapies.
To our knowledge, other than our COVID-19 vaccine and MRNA-1273, no mRNA immunotherapies have been approved or received emergency use authorization or conditional marketing authorization to date by the FDA, the EMA or other comparable regulatory authority”.
Tip of the iceberg.
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Anyone who has dealt with the Australian government soon learns representations on the brochure are as reliable as hooker’s promise.
So, are you suggesting that the Great Escape From the Shithole should be postponed indefinitely because some governmental barrier might pop up?
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What is there to refute? You did not present any actual facts, you simply made an unsupported assertion. Please provide links to actual facts.
Hi Dumbo
Your mate made plenty of unsupported allegations:
1. Nina Straight [who?] said something about Gore Vidal
2.One of gaylord William F. Buckley’s sons [who?]said something about a secret dossier which doesn’t exist anymore since he destroyed it
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Speedbox – I’ve previously linked the Royal Society official report on the Krakatoa eruption. I’ll do so again because it is fascinating and shows what can happen with a sea level volcano.
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Good god Quora is full of bullshit artists.
Jo Choto
MA from University of Leeds
Answered Oct 19
I have an IQ of 160. My nephew has an IQ of 40. We are both autistic. We both really like chocolate. We both like going to the movies together. We both really like going out for Indian food. We both like to take short walks. We both like to make funny comments about people on reality TV. We both aren’t bothered by cold weather. We both are kind and care about other people. We both can read words fluently and with ease. We both have a tendency to worry quite a lot. We both play out scenarios in our heads and sometimes out loud. We both have interests about which we are quite passionate. We both like to sit quietly without talking. We both find joy in very small, simple things. We both love our family. We both like to laugh. Sure, we have differences too, but I can’t say that they matter. -
Don’t bother with second hand reports.
Sancho – The Poms hunted up and interviewed all the surviving seafarers they could find. Krakatau is between Sumatra and Java and in 1883 was a sort of naval superhighway. There were dozens of ships. The interview transcripts are seriously scary. Many survived but it would have been like being in Hell. Some ships only stayed afloat because the seamen could shovel volcanic ash off the deck fast enough to stop the sheer weight of rock from sinking them.
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Anyone who has dealt with the Australian government soon learns representations on the brochure are as reliable as hooker’s promise.
So, are you suggesting that the Great Escape From the Shithole should be postponed indefinitely because some governmental barrier might pop up?
Ease off on the sophistry.
However, govt barriers can take some getting around.Eg, scarpering from Ozshithole-o-stan, after Slomo has refused you an “exemption to travel internationally” requires more planning than simply purchasing an air-ticket to Bidenland, you may hafta get out by tunneling under the wall, or rowing a boat to Timor, or something.
Perhaps once WestOz secedes it’ll be easier, just slip over there & the escapee is free to join the wider world.
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I think the Aussie selectors may have to start looking to the future for openers. As good as he has been – and he has been very good (KD), Warner is not the player he was four or five years ago.
Smith and Labuschagne will be around for a few years you would think. Head looks like a test player now and Green is coming good. Just need a couple of openers.
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Ed relying on his intellect and firm grasp of things that just aren’t so to make an allegation against Buckley.
You’d never heard of William F. Buckley before this afternoon, WHSO Suck.
The only reference a search reveals is from the pedo Ed quoted before, Vidal.
Keep on Gooooglin’, Champ, tho you don’t appear to be much good at it.
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Well, Sal, last week Razey said he had it covered off and was worried they might close the loophole in the future.
His words, not mine.
As I say, a lot of big talk about the Great Escape from the Shithole but we are now at the corner of the street with no muesli bars in the Thomas the Tank Engine backpack and having second thoughts. -
Ed strapping himself in to hunt the Whiiite Vidaaaal!!!
You think the bit about Vidal helping set up NAMBLA might have been a hint…
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Ed makes another link free assertion.
It’s super ineffectual!!!
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No. Not Burnso, but it’s a problem. Pucovski, like it or not can’t be counted on as a long term option.
Makeshift openers, as was realised with Joe (nephew of Ed and son of Neil).
Potential up and comers are Bryce Street and Henry Hunt. They’re both still a ways off I think. I’d like to see James Seymour who’s played a handful of games for Vic get a run. He’s 28 and if he improves as expected over the next year or so he’s a genuine chance for a long term gig.
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44 in first innings ain’t to be sniffed at and he did very well last test.
What I meant was he was dropped on 2 in the first dig, and then played like he needed a bell in the ball for the first hour.
His technique against late swing/cut off the track is not great.
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Another glorious day here.
Ran out of books in Cagliari and being a budget traveller am not shelling out €13 for a recent release I might not even like.
Alternativing between struggling through a children Jules Verne in French two years on holiday? I found in the apartment and Mansfield Park, on line, which is the only Austen I think I haven’t read, which I am loving. -
His technique against late swing/cut off the track is not great.
Sancho, fair dinkum, that’s every Australian Test batsman for half a century.
One of my fun memories is a high school match, I think I was 16. Mate of mine was bowling and he did one which went from leg stump to first slip, which I chased, just reached and nicked. I’d never seen a ball move in the air like that!
Turn around later, was flatting at uni with a guy who was A Grade in the Sydney church comp (so maybe B grade). There was a set of nets just across the road from the house we were renting! Those days I somehow cracked the secret and could bowl inswing and outswing at will. Good practice for him, but his stumps took a pounding. Sadly a few years later the knack left and I couldn’t do it any more. Dunno why.
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miltonfsays:
January 15, 2022 at 9:40 pm
So we can conclude the day by saying Johanna’s early morning post about bitching bellyachers was spot on.
Oooh, yeah.
It drilled a hole in the molar and started to tweak the nerve with ice-cold tweezers.
And not just bitching and bellyaching.
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Jane Halton says the value of Australian restrictions is questionable when Australia (not surprisingly) has (much) higher infection rates than the US and the UK.
Enough!
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Cafe fun. I’ve made a new friend.
Took a while but I worked out that mum is the daughter of regular elderly lady brushtail. Years since daughter has been at the Cafe but she immediately remembered me. And she has a kid who is now my friend! Bread is powerful stuff.
Meanwhile, also lurking was another scion of elderly lady brushtail: this guy. He’s keen. I think he likes his sister. And anything else remotely female. She though told him to F off, which was amusing. At least he got half a carrot for his troubles.
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Wodger:
Another gift from Joe Biden to Americans:
Rents increased 13-18% across the board in 2021 (normal increase is c. 3%).Just curious – do you think this has something to do with large corporations buying up residential property and creating a housing shortage/rental boom? Along with the millions coming across the border?
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‘most embarrassing dismissal in Test cricket.’
By a street. Tried to do a Marnus standard Peter Garrett impersonation of batting, attempted what I think was a BBL ramp shot, knocked his bat onto his own pad trying to do it and fell over.
Langer should have backhanded him all the way back to his hotel room and kept him there.
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We have possums around, Bruce, but since enclosing the terrace they can’t get into our place as their only access previously was coming up the Jacaranda and onto the terrace. They are still active at ground level though and also in the ‘orchard’ garden down the cliff. They seem to do well enough crawling through the netting on the vegetable patches down there.
Meanwhile this season’s little Currawong fledgie, the one who has stayed close to home, is braving up and comes for a feed along with mum and grandma. So many other birds around here, including a baby kooka (who gets some mince sometimes) and family, but we only regularly feed the Currawongs because they have nested for two seasons within arms reach of us. There is so much natural food around for the birdlife in this neck of the harborside, due to big gardens and national parks, that most species can fend well for themselves, including the myriad of Currawongs. Our few keep me on the hop as it is. Mum’s there, calls Hairy, ensconsed on the open verandah reading his book (he’s enthralled with my Christmas present to him, the Quadrant book about the politics of beating the French to the Great South Land). An hour later, Grandma’s there, he says, and later in the day it’s come quick, fledgie’s crash landed on the ledge and is looking hungry.
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Cohenite:
I’m finding it hard to watch Tucker and Bongino and their appraisal of what the bastard biden and his corrupt lackeys are currently doing to the US; plus the cowardly absence of most of the GOP and even compliance by some of the GOP in the machinations of these left mongrels.
As do I – but we need to continue watching what is happening just so we can bear witness to the reality.
In much the same way that General Eisenhower made Germans walk through the concentration/extermination camps after the war so no one could deny their existence. -
By a street. Tried to do a Marnus standard Peter Garrett impersonation of batting, attempted what I think was a BBL ramp shot …
I have no idea what he was trying to do, but the Russian judge marked him down.
What he did do, though, was become so arrogant that he ‘just knew’ where it was going to be bowled.
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rickw.
The person which was the well deserved main subject of that blister has been quacking on for weeks about leaving.
Been on the agenda for twenty years he says.
Can get citizenship rights in the destination country via his missus, he says.
Better move quick before ScoMo closes the loophole, he says.
Well great.
Do it instead of grandstanding about it.
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I’ve just finished watching back-to-back Escape to the Country on free-to-air Sat’dy nite Ch 7. That’s my sort of ‘escape’, vicarous will do for the moment, from the comfort of my study/TV room with 7kg of Attapuss draped on me as he considers appropriate . Hairy watches the crikit on the big screen with the Foxtel. They’re all the same, says Hairy about my choice of relaxation. Yep, I say, just like the crikit.
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In much the same way that General Eisenhower made Germans walk through the concentration/extermination camps after the war so no one could deny their existence.
During the First World War, British propaganda had been made of claims that the Germans were boiling down the corpses of their soldiers to make soap and fertilizer. The whole exercise backfired rather badly. Eisenhower was making doubly sure that there was to be no repeat.
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Speedbox – I’ve previously linked the Royal Society official report on the Krakatoa eruption.
Sancho:
Don’t bother with second hand reports.
I’m pretty sure Lizzie was there.Nah. I’m not that old. I did blog about being on the top of Yasur Volcano on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu in 2013 when it was having a serious grumble. Was seventy-one then, but very fit, mostly young people doing it. Climbed up the ash pathway to the rim which was unfenced and about 6ft wide. Advice was if you saw a ball of fire coming at you, step sideways not back, or you’d tumble down the ashy slope all the way down to where the adventure wagon in was parked. No safety gear at all then, now some sites say you get a yellow tin hat. Yasur did a big growl causing local damage in 2021 apparently. And when I saw what happened to those cruise ship passengers at the White Island volcano off New Zealand in 2019 I decided no more active volcanos for me. Yasur had already put me off. When Hairy went down inside the core of an ‘extinct’ volcano in Iceland in 2016, I didn’t go. Nothing volcanic in Iceland is extinct, was my view.
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you know most recently, that people came here to escape shit holes.
torn and ravaged by communism or fascism … like there’s a difference between those.watch now as your judiciary are corrupted and cannot stand apart from the executive
enjoy the shit-hole-ification while the nudge units nudge nudge nudge and joketake off your tin-foil Akubra and enjoy the glow of another sunset in a wind-drought.
and shoot the brushies if they go anywhere near your nectarines.
fuckers
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At Christmas 2016 Hairy and I did a four-hour snowshoe return walk across two frozen snowy lakes in Banf in Canada, separated by a wooded hill. Just us and a guide, who carried a little picnic before we tackled the return journey. I’d turned 75 that July. We kept stum about that or the tour company wouldn’t have allowed me on the trip. Under seventies only. Told the guide at the end and he kissed me! But you know that because I’ve brag-blogged that tale here before, so this is for newbies.
Age is just a number, even if you could remember Krakatoa. Which I can’t.
However, no-one lives forever, so do what you can while you can. Every year extra is limiting, which is why I am pissed off about Covid panics taking some very good years of my later age.
We are off again in late April to the UK for five weeks and will do some narrow-boating, church saving, and may do fell walking in the Scottish highlands with Hairy’s brother. 🙂
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Will you need a visa to leave Australia?
No idea. We’re dual citizens, may make a difference.
More worried that we won’t get back in than getting out.You always need a visa (acronym thingo) for the US, which we’re doing in October.
If necessary we will live in furrin climes till Covid madness ceases.
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By April I’m hoping all you will need is a current passport, a plane ticket and a Thomas the Tank backpack.
Have to see. Following your current progress avidly, Rosie. Hairy’s read your reports and other things and said in May we stay in the UK, lots to do and see there, rather than trying to hassle with Europe’s on and off madness.
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rosiesays:
January 16, 2022 at 12:06 am
By April I’m hoping all you will need is a current passport, a plane ticket and a Thomas the Tank backpack.
The Thomas the Tank Engine backpack was just an illustrative device for telling a story.
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At Christmas 2016 Hairy and I did a four-hour snowshoe return walk across two frozen snowy lakes in Banf in Canada
I refused to believe that any place on God’s green Earth was named “Banff”, until we went there.
Robert Menzies, when the greatest Prime Minister this country has ever had, was flying to Western Australia. He asked the navigator where the aircraft was located,
“Over the town of Mukinbudin.” was the reply.
“I refuse to believe that any town in the Commonwealth of Australia is named “Mukinbudin.” Menzies answered.
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No, no.
Don’t divert.
The sook upthread advanced “pilots having a particular type of seizure in a particular type of aircraft during a precise 20 second flight phase” as a valid reason for someone to be fearful about emigrating.
If that is a genuinely held belief, just maybe a lot of his other beliefs are unadulterated paranoia built on fiction as well.
My point to him was, either just do it or don’t do it and then shut up about it.
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Has anyone else been to the Protestant temple in Noumea? Best service I’ve been to. Couldn’t follow the French so nothing disagreeable was thundered. The singing was worth going for.
The communion wine was excellent. If I hadn’t stood out like a sore thumb I would have gone around a few times.
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Oops, I was meaning to reply to the post saying it’s easy to just pack up and go, I don’t think it’s as simple as that.
No matter how pissed up you are, you still have to prepare your move thoroughly.Admittedly, pilots suddenly go stiff in the arm doesn’t cut it as an excuse, not to go through with it.
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Interesting to see the tsunami hit Aus.
Here’s Port Kembla, the Gold Coast, and Norfolk Island.
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On the subject of packing up and moving (and how easy it is), there’s at least one Cat who has been trying for a very long time.
Managed (relatively recently) to get permission to go alone, but not allowed to take the kids.
Now that may have changed since Christmas, but it’s clear that the government has not been allowing easy emigration from this country, so can we give it a rest and find yet another topic to ride into the ground?
Even if the government is now ‘allowing’ it under certain circumstances, the fact that you need to seek permission from the government, should preclude this as a whacking stick on this blog.
Trump never stopped any of the Lefties from leaving. I can guarantee you, our government did.
End of.
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This is so funny, and so NOT unexpected. LOL
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Well I thought the discussion was in regard to getting away from totalitarian regimes.
Not really, as far as I can tell.
It seemed more like a vehicle to bully anyone who was talking about it as an option.The overwhelming majority of people on this blog are criticising this government, the state of this country and are future direction. However, anyone who had the temerity to that they were thinking of moving away, just had the reticle focused on them.
‘Tedious and boring’ was the charge. Fuck, if we alienated and destroyed every instance of tedious, repetitive and boring on this blog. We’d significantly lighten the load on Dover.
Just another reason the shave off a minority on this blog, and kick the absolute snot out of them, for amusement. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it”, comes to mind.
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A tennis tournament with crowds doesn’t lead to transmission presumably.
Can you die of stupidity?Immigration Minister saying that “as a high profile un-vaccinated individual … Mr Djokovic’s ongoing presence in Australia may lead to an increase in anti-vaccination sentiment in the Australian community, potentially leading to an increase in civil unrest of the kind previously experienced in Australia with rallies and protests which may themselves be a source of community transmission”.
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So now we’ve established that if you’re unlucky enough to be a Catholic priest, a British royal, a right-wing/conservative/Liberal/National white male politician, you will now be declared “guilty until proven innocent”. A thousand years of common law has been flushed down the toilet…all to appease the left, your guilt is presumed because of your sex, your politics and on your station in life. Innocent until proven guilty is now only reserved for progressives and leftists…like Bill Shorten. So, you will be stripped of your titles, you will be smeared and shamed and your name and your guilt, even before a trial, will be trumpeted by the world’s MSM, social media sewers and public opinion as “guilty, guilty, guilty”.
But what if, as in the case of Cardinal George Pell, you’re found innocent, which is what happened on 7 April 2020 when the High Court of Australia quashed his convictions – 7-0. Will the MSM, social media sewers and public opinion right a wrong, will they scream “innocence” with the same passion and furore that they went about when proclaiming this person’s guilt? Will the titles, the perks and the public dignity be reinstated?
Remember how Cardinal Pell was dumped from Qantas’ Chairman’s Lounge? Has his membership been reinstated?
Remember how Cardinal Pell was unceremoniously dumped by Richmond Football Club (a club he once played for and a club he loved) as Vice Patron and ambassador? Has this been reinstated?
The answer to both is no.
So if Prince Andrew is cleared of all wrongdoing, will his titles be reinstated?
The answer will be no.
Great world we live in.
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I don’t like my country being called a shithole- it’s a wonderful place built on hard work and innovation (not the empty the empty canbra slogan)
Was a wonderful place. Now people have a chill run down their spine when they see the police, and are forced to show a certificate of compliance at a cafe. Nothings permanent, despite the laudable work of our forefathers. Anything can be destroyed. Much has been.
yeah well I’ve thought of moving away too but I don’t hold Australia or Australians or Victorians in contempt as some here do.
Oh, I 100% agree with you, but that didn’t enter into the criteria for who got slaughtered yesterday, just those looking at options who haven’t managed to action any.
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Was a wonderful place. Now people have a chill run down their spine when they see the police, and are forced to show a certificate of compliance at a cafe. Nothings permanent, despite the laudable work of our forefathers. Anything can be destroyed. Much has been.
Still lots of great people out there (still a lot of deadshits and morons too unfortunately), still wonderful to take a drive out through Ararat and Stawell- like the garden of Eden. Worth fighting for- not sure if we can vote our way out of this. People seem to be waking up, I hope enough do. I can’t tell you how much I hate the meja for the evil they have been an accomplice to.
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Mater, I saw two types of “get me out of here types” yesterday.
Repetitive showboaters and those who sincerely want to explore their options. The response from the former was so disgraceful and hysterical it had to be removed.
I don’t think any of the criticism was aimed at the latter. I is difficult to up stakes and move countries especially with a family. I’ve done it, and it was hard enough in good times and with company help.
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Still lots of great people out there (still a lot of deadshits and morons too unfortunately), still wonderful to take a drive out through Ararat and Stawell- like the garden of Eden.
Milton, this is not a direct go at your comment (which I agree with BTW), more an apropos of nothing.
I went out and about like this the other day, and stopped in at some places to get some (takeaway) food and have a look around. Do you know the feeling I had? One of walking around in enemy territory. It was completely unconscious, and very reminiscent of my time in Fallujah, Ramadi, Khowst, Kabul…
The sensation of being ultra vigilant, looking around at each and every individual and asking myself;
“Who’s going to approach me about putting a mask on?”.
“Who’s going to ask me for a Vax Certificate?”
“Who’s scowling at me?”
“Who’s likely to ring the police and report me?”
“Do all these people unnecessarily wearing a mask outside see me as their enemy?”
“Where/who is the risk coming from?”No such thoughts have ever been in my mind since leaving the military, especially in Australia.
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Thanks Tom. There were some excellent ones in there, hard to choose only two.
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Matersays:
January 16, 2022 at 7:30 am
Well I thought the discussion was in regard to getting away from totalitarian regimes.Not really, as far as I can tell.
It seemed more like a vehicle to bully anyone who was talking about it as an option.The overwhelming majority of people on this blog are criticising this government, the state of this country and are future direction. However, anyone who had the temerity to that they were thinking of moving away, just had the reticle focused on them.
‘Tedious and boring’ was the charge. Fuck, if we alienated and destroyed every instance of tedious, repetitive and boring on this blog. We’d significantly lighten the load on Dover.
Just another reason the shave off a minority on this blog, and kick the absolute snot out of them, for amusement. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it”, comes to mind.
This is exactly why the left side of politics wins. Generally they achieve power before purity spiraling, “conservatives” constantly do it and even when they have power are pathetically limp wristed in exercising it. How many things can be pointed to where conservatives had opportunity and did nothing, or have flat out done the work of the left? Gay marriage springs to mind for example.
Still lots of great people out there (still a lot of deadshits and morons too unfortunately), still wonderful to take a drive out through Ararat and Stawell- like the garden of Eden. Worth fighting for- not sure if we can vote our way out of this. People seem to be waking up, I hope enough do. I can’t tell you how much I hate the meja for the evil they have been an accomplice to.
You know that area now has the blessings of diversity like Nigerian organised crime? It is absolutely not the quiet country town of 20 or 30 years ago. It’s still got a lot of the old problems, but added new ones without much in the way of opportunity or development for anyone living there.
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Immigration Minister saying that
“as a high profile un-vaccinated individual … Mr Djokovic’s ongoing presence in Australia may lead to an increase in anti-vaccination sentiment in the Australian community, potentially leading to an increase in civil unrest of the kind previously experienced in Australia with rallies and protests which may themselves be a source of community transmission”.
Yeah, it’s really funny since he’s unlikely to be vaccinated himself and neither are the Judges hearing the matter.
But the Bottom Line always remains:
Scotty won the Politics, and Labor’s fucked for another 3 years
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“The sensation of being ultra vigilant, looking around at each and every individual and asking myself;
“Who’s going to approach me about putting a mask on?”.
“Who’s going to ask me for a Vax Certificate?”
“Who’s scowling at me?”
“Who’s likely to ring the police and report me?”
“Do all these people unnecessarily wearing a mask outside see me as their enemy?”
“Where/who is the risk coming from?””I’m reminded of an incident last July, at the height of the lockdown here in Sydney, when I was on a bus going into the office (I had a special dispensation to work in the office). I had got onto the bus and my mask was under my nose, I was struggling to breathe. Anyway this young women sitting near me got up to get off the bus and she stood before me and told me to put my mask on properly.
I told her to get fucked.
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““conservatives” constantly do it and even when they have power are pathetically limp wristed in exercising it. How many things can be pointed to where conservatives had opportunity and did nothing, or have flat out done the work of the left? Gay marriage springs to mind for example.”
Well said Bluey. Back in 2014, Abbott (always the nice guy) and the Liberals decided to stay shtum re. Shorten and the “allegation”. As far as I’m concerned that a huge mistake. Until the right learn to fight back and yes…fight dirty…nothing will change.
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People seem to forget that when Abbott became health minister he described the abortion rates as a ‘national tragedy’. He was given ‘the treatment’. It’s instructive to consider episodes where a politician is courageous and honest and how he is brought into line. The meja is main player in such episodes.
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Back in 2014, Abbott (always the nice guy) and the Liberals decided to stay shtum re. Shorten and the “allegation”. As far as I’m concerned that a huge mistake.
Abbott made a Statement to the House to the effect that he wouldn’t be pursuing it.
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Head Case is wrong, as usual.
We’ve got to where we are by tolerating shit people because they are the shit people on “OUR” side.
It is no different from institutions tolerating pedos because outing them would be bad for their organisation.
We need to get rid of ALL the scum… and hiding/tolerating/protecting frauds and predators is NOT nice.
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The sensation of being ultra vigilant, looking around at each and every individual and asking myself;
“Who’s going to approach me about putting a mask on?”.
“Who’s going to ask me for a Vax Certificate?”
“Who’s scowling at me?”
“Who’s likely to ring the police and report me?”
“Do all these people unnecessarily wearing a mask outside see me as their enemy?”
“Where/who is the risk coming from?”Why the need to vigilant? just go about your business until something happens otherwise you end up in the rabbit hole.
A call to have some perspective isn’t a bad thing in a place with people turning the dial up for entertainment.
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