Open Thread – Weekend 15 Jan 2022
1,699 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 15 Jan 2022”
-
How the hell did Italian beer, Peroni make it in the Australian market? I’m guessing that ad with the young kids enjoying summer swimming and drinking on Lake Cuomo must have had a something to do with it. The Cuomo ads were a masterpiece.
-
Don’t expect any support for basic human rights from the courts.
Not unless you can afford to blow half a Million$$$$
and even then it depends whose Ox has been gored,
but that’s always been the case.They were asked to support freedom and chose to support capricious tyranny from government.
They were asked whether the Minister had the Power to revoke the Visa
and answered
Yes.
Huge win for Australia and Australians. -
Of course, collecitivsm as an ideology involves using the state as a force to make everyone belong to it, whether they like it or not. Ergo, anti-vax collectivism would have the power of government behind it.
A positive force is by nature far worse than a negative one. Ergo, bullying and coercing people into taking something potentially bad for them is worse than nagging them not to.
-
WHich leaves the questions…
Why was he granted a visa in the first instance?
Morrison’s attempt to blame Victoria doesn’t wash.
Why wasn’t Novax on the government’s radar, instead of the initial visa decision apparently left to some junior to middling immigration officer? Or was it a manufactured crisis for political gain?
Whatever the case is, there’s a lot of incompetence to go around here.
-
LOL Ed, remains to be seen. I think he will have a press conference when well away from our shores as the media in the NH will be interested in it and whether he goes nuclear or delivers a few well aimed shots remains to be seen.
Personally as I said yesterday his story has more holes in it than a hangar at Kandahar Airport. I expected this outcome, if passionate fingers hadn’t fumbled the first pass it never would have got to the second.
-
Daily Mail
I was sexually assaulted by a transgender rapist in a women’s jail’: Female prisoner, 45, describes ordeal at the hands of sex predator, 56, who molested four inmates during three-month reign of terror
Cheryle Kempton reveals she was one of the victims of sex predator Karen White
White was sent to the jail despite having not had surgery nor hormone treatment
White was a paedophile on remand for grievous bodily harm and multiple rapes
But despite this White was sent to HMP New Hall which houses 360 women -
BJ/Wodger:
Put it this way, BJ, the idealists naively seek perfection, the hard core exploit that to control.
This is why the KGB drew up hit lists of leading idealistic fellow travellers in third world countries in the ’50s & ’60s. When the Marxist revolution came, they’d have to be among the first eliminated because they’d easily become dissatisfied with the true nature of Communism became apparent.
That’s why after every Marxist Revolution, the first thing that happens is The Purge.
And it starts within their own ranks.
It’s something the Idealists never remember. -
WHich leaves the questions…
Why was he granted a visa in the first instance?
Morrison’s attempt to blame Victoria doesn’t wash.
Why wasn’t Novax on the government’s radar, instead of the initial visa decision apparently left to some junior to middling immigration officer? Or was it a manufactured crisis for political gain?
Whatever the case is, there’s a lot of incompetence to go around here.
Exactly and Dan Andrews padding his fingers while saying excellent. His bodies exemption, TA as well and he won’t face a scintilla of scrutiny. Scomo owns it now.
The bolded bit did cross my mind then I looked at the competence shown at all levels through, till the Government Lawyers finally got their act together yesterday. Na don’t think I’ll give the Government that much credit.
-
I actually agree with the court’s decision. I don’t agree with what the government did, but I don’t want a court overriding the minister’s call.
As I wrote yesterday, JC, provided Hawke’s team crossed all their t’s and dotted all their i’s the court would find he acted lawfully. Not necessarily correctly, but lawfully. Still, it will be interesting to read the judgment.
-
As I wrote yesterday, JC, provided Hawke’s team crossed all their t’s and dotted all their i’s the court would find he acted lawfully. Not necessarily correctly, but lawfully. Still, it will be interesting to read the judgment.
Yes, we can see how much the courts have mainlined the “Health” Jenkem.
-
JC – Peroni has been a favourite beer of mine for many decades, the adverts have been a bonus … 🙂
-
Hat tip to Michael Smith News; this is AWESOME.
-
Not so Roger.
This is about seats not opinion polls and not just about this latest fiasco.
I talked from a bloke today who’s helper for that Nats in a safe seat and he said the incumbent is really worried that the independents will be able to swap preferences and take the seat thanks to Scummo’s poor performance during Covid. -
“JCsays:
January 16, 2022 at 6:34 pm
I actually agree with the court’s decision. I don’t agree with what the government did, but I don’t want a court overriding the minister’s call.”I agree with your sentiment JC but I’m pretty sure that courts here in this country have a history overriding ministerial calls.
-
Don’t expect any support for basic human rights from the courts. They were asked to support freedom and chose to support capricious tyranny from government.
Public opinion backs this decision. The nanny state is firmly in control no matter what is observed and proven regarding covid and Omicron. The Mainscum Media will spin this as a victory for our ever watchful, thoughtful, caring Govt. And therefore, us.
-
-
Dot says:
January 16, 2022 at 6:39 pm
Appeal to the High Court? I have no idea when the AO starts.The AO starts tomorrow. I believe that the decision cannot be appealed. Not a lawyer but I read somewhere that a determination by the Minister under this Act, and if confirmed by the Courts, is final.
-
I talked from a bloke today who’s helper for that Nats in a safe seat and he said the incumbent is really worried that the independents will be able to swap preferences and take the seat thanks to Scummo’s poor performance during Covid.
Well if it’s about seats and not polls maybe he should consider his own performance before blaming a prospective loss on Morrison?
-
Still agree with James Newburrie, if it was okay for Djokovic to enter, especially without two weeks hard time,
then all vaccine mandates passports etc for Australian citizens should be abandoned, including having to get an exemption to leave.
By the way it was John of Mel seeking an exemption to leave with his children, which he finally got.
And there is nothing to say unvaccinated can’t leave permanently, one of the thingys is at least three months, I suppose the government is used to people changing their mind about their claims to be leaving long time/permanently, and then putting pressure on the limited number of hotel quarantine places. -
Unfortunately the coppers came back well after closing and arrested the two owners.
And that’s why they needed the fuck beaten out of them….
From what I can see, the police avoided the poor optics of using brute force on a crowd of middle-aged middle-class normals.
…. so they simply made a midnight visit to the homes of the principals & have them in jail until Monday.
It seems the owners never bothered to read any of the books about how if the Gestapo are gunning for you, you never go home & never sleep in the same place twice.
-
The entire Saga was a work of Art by Scotty and his Brains Trust.
Completely blindsided on Friday evening, 7/1/2022, it regrouped,
offered no Defence at the Family Court [FFS] Hearing,
got their ducks lined up over the week, and struck on the following Friday Evening.
See ya later, Djoker, Politics in Australia is a no holds barred game,
unlike [titter]
Tennis. -
JC says:
January 16, 2022 at 6:34 pm
I actually agree with the court’s decision. I don’t agree with what the government did, but I don’t want a court overriding the minister’s call.I sort of expect the minister not to treat a tennis player like an unsuspecting insurrectionist and our judiciary not rule in favour of supposition not fact.
Beware the precedent old boy. -
Now what the country needs is a foreign ‘icon’ who is triple vaxxed to come and spout antivax. That should satisfy Morrison. And that was all dan andrews wanted – get vaccinated. Big difference between being vaccinated and approving of being vaccinated. But who cares. It’s all good, what with Netflix and whatever else.
-
KKK is liberally using the term “anti-vaxxers” on her Twitter thread.
What…does she support coerced “vaccinations”?
And if people upholding the right to choose or refuse a medical treatment are labelled “anti-something ” why are abortionists then labelled “pro-choice”?
How does one obtain a press pass?
-
“Never Ever Use A Vaccine That Cannot Block Transmission, When You Are In The Battlefield” (Example: During A Pandemic)
-
bloody ryobi … I’d get one metre then curse.
pull it apart.
another metre then curseso I bought a new line trimmer yesterday
what a beast!!
-
I would like to make a brief statement to address the outcomes of today’s Court hearing. I will now be taking some time to rest and to recuperate, before making any further comments beyond this.
I am extremely disappointed with the Court ruling to dismiss my application for judicial review of the Minister’s decision to cancel my visa, which means I cannot stay in Australia and participate in the Australian Open.
I respect the Court’s ruling and I will cooperate with the relevant authorities in relation to my departure from the country.
I am uncomfortable that the focus of the past weeks has been on me and I hope that we can all now focus on the game and tournament I love. I would like to wish the players, tournament officials, staff, volunteers and fans all the best for the tournament.
Finally, I would like to thank my family, friends, team, supporters, fans and my fellow Serbians for your continued support. You have all been a great source of strength to me.
Welcomed back in 2023 by the Albanese-Arsebandit Government.
The Joker plays his politics better than the scrotes, opposite.
-
The AO starts tomorrow. I believe that the decision cannot be appealed. Not a lawyer but I read somewhere that a determination by the Minister under this Act, and if confirmed by the Courts, is final.
Under Chapter III of the constitution, section 73 (ii) (appellate) powers can be varied, but section 75 (v) (original, administrative law) powers cannot.
I guess he could make a “new” run in the High Court, but he’s been ratfucked.
-
Or was it a manufactured crisis for political gain?
Bingo! It came unstuck anyway, and from a standing start Scotty has played the situation like a Stradivarius.
Until a couple of the compliant 2nd stringers come down with wuflu mid tourney, and another ‘fully vaxxer’ collapses on court, clutching his chest…
-
I make my money without robbing people.
So
Owning real estate
Owning what I assume is a pie factory
Selling a cattle farm
Investing money for other people
Making the market on greedy day traders with no patience who can’t afford their gambling habit
Trading the GBP for “Uncle George”is stealing?
Righto Che.
Back to the potato commune for you, comrade.
-
Matrix, I hope your new trimmer lasts, however as someone who mows for a living I’ve always found those sort of things soon stop working as they should. When it goes have a look at something like this – https://www.stihl.com.au/STIHL-Products/Grass-Trimmers-Brushcutters/Professional-Brushcutters/275071-1621/FS-91.aspx
It will last for a lifetime and don’t get an autofeed head, the traditional bump head set up right will work perfectly.
-
Yahoo News:
‘Woolworths has suspended all supply from a meat provider in South Australia which allowed employees to continue working despite being infected with coronavirus.
Teys Australia allowed a number of asymptomatic employees at its Naracoorte facility to work while infected with coronavirus. ‘
Succumbed to the complaints of a chorus of Karens.
I hope they enjoy their meatless Mondays.
-
Custard:
From The Gateway Pundit – a better list of the actions taken in the US after elections of Conservative Governors.
Not sure about a couple of them, but otherwise a good start. -
It was always going to be tough for Djokovic as the courts are going to be loath to second-guess the plenary power of the executivem especially if it displeases the Cathedral. The only way to avoid stuff like this from happening is having good people in these offices, executive and judicial. Even a government of laws is still, at bottom, a government of men.
-
This may be a bit over the top, but who knows?
The ‘Mother of All Supply Chain Shocks’ Is Coming as China Shuts Down Major Ports Due to Pandemic -
DjokerNoleFight
@NoleDjoker
·
6h
Dr Robert Malone quickly shuts down a critic live on fox news ? Dr Malone follows us here on gettr and it is an honour follow @francisc2021 @amaranthine and @noledjoker 3 of my friends which are new on gettr and both do great work in telling the truth and bringing freedom
https://gettr.com/post/pokv6rc4cb -
And there is nothing to say unvaccinated can’t leave permanently, one of the thingys is at least three months
Except for the really annoying fact that on top of being for more than three months, it MUST be for a compelling reason. You know, Government approved (unlike Djokovic’s thinking).
Travel for three months or longer
For unvaccinated Australians and permanent residents seeking exemption from Australia’s outbound travel restrictions on the basis that you are leaving Australia for three months or longer, your proposed travel must be for a compelling reason and you must provide evidence to support your claims. -
awilderone
@awilderone
·
Jan 15
CNN is done….
https://gettr.com/post/poauche60c
img
Posted on 2:44 AM · Jan 15th, 2022 -
Family, in two Western Australian coastal towns, report said towns are both packed – apparently the belief is that sunshine and fresh sea air keep the covid virus at bay….
Does actually.
New study: COVID loses 90% of its ability to infect within 20 minutes of being exhaled (13 Jan)
Other studies show that UV is very efficient at killing the virus. Also the two biggest factors in infection are inside homes containing lots of people and obesity. (I don’t have the link to the latter study saved, and can’t quickly find it by search, but I’ve put it up on the OT a couple times before.)
-
Doc Faustus:
Neither of the Uniparties will want to go with ‘more of the same’ Covid policies while the wheels are falling off around the anglophone world.
They haven’t decided yet which way each Uniparty Branch will go:
.1 Double down – Germany Austria France Gt Britain.
.2 Retreat and save the furniture – Sweden?
.3 Wait and see how the polls go – the rest.
I think Australia will go to #2 – with Victoria and WA being the holdouts, unless the UniParty wakes up and sacks the two lunatics running their respective Free Range Asylums. -
“What Has He Been Right About?” – Jim Jordan Exposes Fauci’s Biggest Lies
https://rumble.com/vsi5gk-what-has-he-been-right-about-jim-jordan-exposes-faucis-biggest-lies.html
BonginoReport – Published January 13, 2022
-
Agree but I would have thought retiring permanently to country x or taking up a job in country y would be compelling enough.
You wanna know what thought thought?
Thought thought he’d farted, but in fact, he’d shit himself.The Government doesn’t care what you think, and up until REALLY recently, it didn’t care what John thought either.
BTW, be careful when claiming that “there is nothing to say unvaccinated can’t leave permanently”, when there clearly is…the Government.
-
Drink, drink, I love drink, I say to Hairy, home again and clutching my second gin and tonic after a solid series of laps in our usual council pool. This lovely mix is a simple gin, Bombay Saphire, no poncey fragrant springtime herbal mix that, just a solid gin, and Schweppes tonic, ably assisted by ice cubes of frozen lime juice stored in the freezer for just such a moment as we sit together on the verandah in the verdant sunset. Alcohol is the pleasurable reward of the years as well as drowning the sorrows of them.
I wax lyrical because I am judging setting a date for giving it up for a month for a diet.
Punishment too extreme to bear? I can make a case for that.
-
Escher Nineeleven
@Escher911
·
Jan 13
Replying to @ianmolony
Funny how quickly they changed their tune when this dropped:
Evidence of premeditated murder by the pharmaceutical manufacturers in the form of lethal dose studies on the general population!Reiner Fuellmich: “New Findings… Enough to Dismantle the Entire (VAX) Industry!”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/M0vmjVc5mkQM/https://odysee.com/@Corona-Investigative-Committee:5/sam-Session-85-en.mp4:3
-
Rabz says:
January 16, 2022 at 6:48 pmWell, I can’t imagine the Djoker heading back here any time soon, unless it’s in a B52
At least we’ve been spared the cringe making shame of watching him booed by the Melbourne crowd.
Remember years ago when they persistently imitated the whistling noise of the machine making the line calls?That made Aussies look like a bunch of retards. Imagine what the crowds booing Djoker would have done to our already rock bottom rep around the world.
-
If tennis players weren’t a bunch of evil amoral mercenary imbeciles, they’d all boycott the z-grade hopelessly compromised non-spectacle commencing tomorrow.
Even soccer players have more integrity and fraternity.
That’s until the latter all turn up at the equally compromised world cup this year – if they haven’t collapsed on the pitch in the next few months and ended up dead, or retired a la Sergio Aguero.
-
Piers Akerman
Peter FitzSimons’ latest plan for Australian republic a laughable dud
In the newspaper business this time of year was historically known as the silly season. Covid has heightened the usual sense of inactivity with businesses pretty much shut down, people on vacation or in hiding from the China virus, it’s the silly season on steroids.
Novak Djokovic’s dilemma has added an element of international scandal to the usual sporting coverage which would normally be focusing on Tasmania’s first Ashes Test and the Australian Open. Then along came Bozo, Peter FitzSimons, whose inchoate ramblings appear in a rival newspaper as he offers his ill-informed opinions on religion and the law and the lifestyles of the rich and famous he and his TV celebrity wife, Lisa Wilkinson, rub shoulders with in their multimillion dollar North Shore haven.
After two years of being told by experts how to screw up our lives and give up personal freedoms and tear up the Constitution to give bureaucrats a free rein, FitzSimons has unveiled a model for an Australian republic to replace our current and enviably functional constitutional monarchy. (At least it would be better functioning if Labor premiers believed we were all in this together and upheld the free passage and free trade elements of the Constitution which saw state borders all but disappear.)
This new so-called hybrid model would see each state and territory parliament nominate an individual, with the federal parliament selecting three, with the names to be put to a national election with the winner serving a five-year term. That’s eleven names on a ballot for the Australia’s head of state, when currently the governor-general is selected after due consideration by the prime minister of the day.
If you think this is nuts, you’re not alone. The plan might have been designed by former Labor shadow minister Barry Jones who produced an extraordinary flow chart depicting more than 20 interconnected bubbles which together formed the basis for Opposition leader Kim Beazley’s Knowledge Nation policy.
Noodle Nation is today an Asian food franchise and the spaghetti diagram has long been binned. In announcing his fantasy, FitzSimons, the chair (maybe missing a few legs now) of the Australian Republican Movement (ARM) told the Herald, for which he writes, “this is a model ready to go that’s got the finest legal minds in the country behind it”.
That should have been a warning to all. FitzSimons hasn’t a clue about the law as he repeatedly revealed with his abominable remarks as he encouraged his followers to pursue a witch hunt throughout the course of Cardinal George Pell’s scandalous ordeal at the hands of the Victoria Police, the Victorian DPP and the Victorian Appeal Court – all of whom FitzSimons lauded until the High Court delivered its scathing opinion on the verdict.
Not one of the usual anti-British, anti-Australian black armband cheer leaders for a republic has yet voiced full hearted support for the FitzSimons disaster with even his fellow veteran of the cause Thomas Keneally and founding chairman of ARM offering a sort of Yes Minister-like murmur “I’m delighted they’re trying though”.
Former Labor PM Paul Keating shredded the proposal and highlighted the massive shift in power it would represent.
“With the power of a popular mandate, a new president would render subordinate all other officers of state, including the current office of prime minister and that of cabinet,” he told the Herald, which moved the story from its place of page one prominence on Thursday back to page 7 by Friday.
As a failed model, FitzSimons’ humbug is on a par with the Edsel, a brand of car Ford notoriously marketed between 1958 and 1960, a total dud described as overhyped, unattractive and low quality (which might describe FitzSimons’ effort) before junking it at a cost of US$2.19 billion in 2020 currency.
Liberal Party voters, who support the current system in the main, should be asking why Mackellar MP Jason Falinski, who chairs Parliamentary Friends for an Australian Republic, and apparently was a part of a two-year consultation, just didn’t pull the chain on this garbage and leave FitzSimons and his woke warriors to their arrant silliness.
-
I used to coach a junior boys’ cricket team once, when I was living in Townsville and not long before I travelled further afield for work.
There was a tennis court about 50 metres away from the oval we were training at. About ten minutes before training started some of the boys who rocked up were watching some ladeeees on the court.
Because most of the boys were already on the ground, and also because I was in no mood that day I called out to them: ‘OI! Stop watching that and get over here – tennis is for women, and poofs!’ Unbelievably, some giggling from a small gaggle of mums ensued so I quit while I was ahead.
I can only hope that advice stuck with those young men into their adult years.
-
Hearts of Oak
@HeartsofOak
·
4m
From Dr. Eli David…
Wow, Israel’s largest hospital directly attacks Ministry of Health from official account!* Omicron poses minimal risk
* No Covid patients on ventilators
* Most “Covid hospitalizations” are not because of Covid
* Mass tests and quarantines are insanehttps://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/stat…
LIKE??SUBSCRIBE??SHARE
https://gettr.com/post/pololx074f -
Until a couple of the compliant 2nd stringers come down with wuflu mid tourney, and another ‘fully vaxxer’ collapses on court, clutching his chest…
It’s not going to happen.
These players are on TV around the World, no way will Big Pharma want them going into Anaphylactic Shock live on court with a billion people watching.
It’s a certainty that they all got innocuous injections and Djoker is just a stooge. -
Even soccer players have more integrity and fraternity.
Tennis has never been a sport for gentle people. It is one of only two sports in which you cannot get a draw or sit back and defend an apparent winning lead. Completely cutthroat
Soccer is filled with wannabe actors and over the top divas. Fraternity and integrity run far behind. But I take your point.
-
srr:
Rumble — The effective sealing of documents related to over a thousand others Maxwell and Epstein trafficked to is a much bigger story than one civil case involving a lesser noble: https://archive.ph/1Kw1U
There was a movie in the 80’s where corruption was running riot and the protagonist managed to make a bargain with the nasty people. As they are leaving he asks the top crooked cop “Just how high does this go?”
“You’ll be able to tell by the loose threads being snipped.”
As they fly away, the crooked cop gets into his car and it blows up.If Randy Andy is being snipped and probably encouraged to get a bottle of Whiskey and the Webley to the library… “Just how high does this go?”
-
I agree, I dont think the sheeple have hurt near enough yet
They’re starting to. Pro vaxxers that aren’t card carrying socialists are getting back of it. Every successive jab will meet more resistance. The lefty loonies who will inevitably hate the very experts they referred to for not being loony enough will ultimately become a noisy minority ignored by the silent majority. I know the because I actively talk to people who aren’t political. I value their opinion because they are the ones who ultimately hold the balance of power.
-
Winston Smith says:
January 16, 2022 at 7:59 pmThey haven’t decided yet which way each Uniparty Branch will go:
I’m pretty sure that’s true.
But the basic parameters coming out of the international mist are:
•1 Vaccination doesn’t stop transmission;
•2 Vaccination offers protection to the elderly – pretty much nobody else.
•3 There is an end to jabbing as a control strategy.
Those parameters seem to be (nearly) fixed.
Consequently the ‘The Science’ basis for most of the government overreach in terms of mandates, passports, jabbing children, and so on, falls into a hole.
Hard to see the Coalition going for anything other than ‘We’ve held off the plague until the vaccine was rolled out to save the ‘vulnerable’’ – so, Victory, and Freedom and Vote For Us.
Equally hard to see Labor going with an alternate ‘We’re Doomed unless we continue a-jabbing and a-lockdowning for evermore’ as a winning strategy.
Particularly with Fat Clive spending $80m on ‘Freedom’.
As a P50 case, I see a brisk return to nearly normal, each step a ‘gift’ from Wise Government, with the proles being satisficed by calls to Australian exceptionalism.
(Bit of a simplified rant.)
-
some of the boys who rocked up were watching some ladeeees on the court
If the latter were aesthetically pleasing and clad in suitable ladeeees tennis attire, I could understand them doing so.
Megs – professional soccer players get on far better with each other off the pitch than tennis players, who are self obsessed misfit weirdos that spend every second of their free time happily planning and imagining another Jim Jonestown style imbroglio/contretemps/regrettable incident with themselves magnanimously allocating the Kool Aid to their annoying unpleasant but (unfortunately) necessary supplicants.
Among the latter, imagine Bruce McAveny, but with a larger emptier skull and even fewer useful attributes (if that’s possible) …
-
I was talking about in general, not specific.
You misled this blog with your erroneous certainty. Your posts very clearly intimated that the only barrier to unvaccinated from leaving the country was to tick a three month box.
It doesn’t matter a damn what John’s particular situation was, or happens to be now, the government website is clear on the issue. It’s a government decision, not the individual.
Perhaps instead of tap dancing around, throwing out assumptions and guesses like rose petals, you could just admit that you’ve posted incorrect information and we can move on, better informed.
-
At last. OMG’s out in Perth, and – assuming its spread isn’t radically different from OMG spread everywhere else – it can’t be contained. Note Herr McGowan’s response to 5 cases of community transmission is reintroducing indoor mask mandates. No outdoor mask mandate, let alone a lockdown. Previously, he locked us down over a single case. He knows this is different this time. They know. It’s not that serious.
Western Australians are finally going to meet Covid, up close and personal. And most of them will be underwhelmed. This could be the beginning of the end of the madness. It’ll take some time, maybe a few months, but McGowan can’t keep us at Defcon 1 indefinitely if the circumstances clearly don’t warrant it.
-
Dr Faustussays:
January 16, 2022 at 8:46 pm
Winston Smith says:
January 16, 2022 at 7:59 pmThey haven’t decided yet which way each Uniparty Branch will go:
I’m pretty sure that’s true.
But the basic parameters coming out of the international mist are:
•1 Vaccination doesn’t stop transmission;
•2 Vaccination offers protection to the elderly – pretty much nobody else.
•3 There is an end to jabbing as a control strategy.
Those parameters seem to be (nearly) fixed.
Consequently the ‘The Science’ basis for most of the government overreach in terms of mandates, passports, jabbing children, and so on, falls into a hole.
Hard to see the Coalition going for anything other than ‘We’ve held off the plague until the vaccine was rolled out to save the ‘vulnerable’’ – so, Victory, and Freedom and Vote For Us.
Equally hard to see Labor going with an alternate ‘We’re Doomed unless we continue a-jabbing and a-lockdowning for evermore’ as a winning strategy.
Particularly with Fat Clive spending $80m on ‘Freedom’.
As a P50 case, I see a brisk return to nearly normal, each step a ‘gift’ from Wise Government, with the proles being satisficed by calls to Australian exceptionalism.
(Bit of a simplified rant.)
Don’t reckon you’re too far off. I wonder just how pissed off the middle are with LNP claiming the jabs aren’t mandatory when it’s obviously BS, and there’s the question of underestimating the LNP capability to stand on their dicks.
Then again, Albo may find his close relationship with Andrews isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement. Certainly going to be an interesting federal election. -
Local towns are running out of staff in the supermarkets as the youngsters all get the coof.
Walking around the Brisbane CBD this weekend I was surprised by the fact the nearly every eatery had a “help wanted” sign in the window, and several other retail shops had the same.
Less surprised that food courts (Myer centre, PO Square and Wintergarden and the one under David Jones) were like ghost towns with many shops shuttered.
-
Teen firefighter accused of lighting multiple bushfires, including Wooroloo
Bethany Hiatt
The West Australian
Sun, 16 January 2022 12:32PMA 19-year-old volunteer firefighter has been accused of lighting nine bushfires across Perth’s hills.
Officers from police bushfire investigation group Strike Force Vulcan have charged the man with lighting the fires between December 23 and Saturday, January 15 — including a blaze that destroyed a Wooroloo home less than a year after a devastating blaze razed 86 homes in the area
The accused arsonist, from Wooroloo, is a volunteer firefighter who responded to eight of the nine bush fires he is alleged to have lit.
His fire brigade was unable to attend the ninth fire because it was already busy fighting another of the blazes he allegedly lit.
The fires the man allegedly started include a bushfire on Old Northam Road, Wooroloo, on December 23, two bushfires on Christmas Day on Old Northam Road in Beechina and in Wooroloo, and another in Wooroloo on Boxing Day that destroyed a house, several sheds, vehicles and farming machinery.
They also include fires near Breeze Road, Gidgegannup, on December 30 and January 1, and blazes in Beechina, Wooroloo and Wundowie on January 3, 9 and 15.
Arrested by investigators in Wundowie on Saturday, the man has been charged with nine counts of wilfully lighting a fire likely to injure or damage.
He was refused bail and was due to appear in Perth Magistrate’s Court on Sunday.
If convicted, he could face a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail.
-
Firmer Gez:
Scummo is so far gone you can’t even see the dust.
As the Turnbull revenge plot on the Liberal Party engineered.
That man will carry a grudge as he descends into the 6th Circle of Hell.-In the sixth circle, Fraser and Turnbull wander to a kind of
graveyard, filled with the fiery tombs that hold the Heretics.-Fraser is stopped by a voice calling from one of the tombs. It is
a political leader of Turnbulls time, Scott Morrison, addressing him as an Australian,
based on his regional accent.
“G’day, mate!” -
Western Australians are finally going to meet Covid, up close and personal. And most of them will be underwhelmed. This could be the beginning of the end of the madness. It’ll take some time, maybe a few months, but McGowan can’t keep us at Defcon 1 indefinitely if the circumstances clearly don’t warrant it.
One could argue that the entire point of lockdowns was to avoid the public actually experiencing covid and deciding it was just a routine virus. That it is now rampant is a godsend, that people will now see the rampant overreach for what it is.
-
-
Because I know you’re just hanging out for them, an update on the Radio Shows.
They’ll be held from 7:00pm (Ozzie Eastern Standard Times*) on the first Saturday evening of each month.
They will have a distinct theme. The theme for next Month’s (Feb 5, 2022) Radio Show will be “Ozzie Classics”.
Here’s a taster … 🙂
*OEST
-
JCsays:
January 16, 2022 at 6:34 pm
I actually agree with the court’s decision. I don’t agree with what the government did, but I don’t want a court overriding the minister’s call.
You’re right.
As much as I would like Hawke to have the tennis racquet shoved up his arse, the worry was that it would have been the end of ministerial discretion and broader immigration policy would have been weakened. -
The closest example I can recall [to the Joker Saga] was circa 2014 when the Government of Pakistan refused entry to a load of 100,000+ Aussie Sheep on the grounds of having some Disease nobody ever heard of.
Bingo, it’s front page news.
And the Abbott Government are to blame!
Anyway, Dubai, U.AR., Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Ceylon, Serendipity, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Italian Somaliland all refused entry to the ship and something like 1% of the Top Aussie Sheep were dying every day.
Animals Australia were on the case, PeanutHead was having kittens, the Murdoch Press were in Full Rage Mode, the ship is just floating in the Indian Ocean half full of dead sheep.Anyway, Eritrea finally agreed to take the sheep for nothing, plus feed, plus a few Million$$$$$, plus a few 10s of Millions for the Middlemen in the deal.
In other words, every fucking cunt of a country in the world ganged up to embarrass a Coalition Government, with the Traitorous Murdoch Press and the Labor Party cheering them on.
Same thing just happened with Djokovic, but the Morrison Government got on the front foot early and knocked it on the head. -
I am a little confused, perhaps someone can help me out. I was under the impression that Morrison was against vaccine mandates. Federal employees are exempt from the mandates in Victoria.
Has he stated that he is now in favour of mandates? If not, why should they cancel a visa because of vaccine stance, and why restrict unvaccinated leaving?
-
Latest BOM adjustments to its official ACORN temperature record adds another 0.06C to the temperature trend!
http://www.waclimate.net/acorn2/index.html
Every adjustment the BOM has made to the temperature trend has increased it.
-
As much as I would like Hawke to have the tennis racquet shoved up his arse, the worry was that it would have been the end of ministerial discretion and broader immigration policy would have been weakened.
Does this mean Muzzo and Tamil Tiger reffos will now be chucked out 72 hours after the minister’s decision?
-
Custard:
Linky not working.
Try this one, O Great Dealer of Palaces on Wheels. -
I am a little confused, perhaps someone can help me out. I was under the impression that Morrison was against vaccine mandates.
Here’s all you need to know:
Anthony Albanese has consistently said that everybody must be fully vaccinated against Covid, no exceptions
That means being up to date with Boosters.
The only way that is going to happen is if well meaning but stupid people vote for Independents and Albanese becomes Prime Minister.
The only way he’s going to enforce his Vaccine Mandate is with Einsatzgruppen.
So, think carefully before casting your vote. -
-
Sorry Ed, what you are describing is already happening to me under Morrison. Rewarding the valueless empty suit is not right. Things are not going to get better without some hard times. Those hard times might involve a labor fed government. Best we can hope for is a difficult senate. The liberal gov can not be reformed in power. Report comment
Leave a Reply