Open Thread- Mon 24 Jan 2022


The Pioneer, Frederick McCubbin, 1904

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Makka
Makka
January 26, 2022 6:17 pm

FULL COLLAPSE UNDERWAY

We must be in major low territory now, if this is any indication. Almost at March 2021 levels of fear.

Weekly close not here yet, but.

https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 6:18 pm

Tim Ferguson from DAAS.
Christopher Reeves.
Magneto.

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 26, 2022 6:18 pm

A woman died – not from climate change – but from all that water that wasn’t supposed to be capable of filling our dams.
“The tinny was carrying five people when it overturned just after 12:30 on Wednesday.
It’s believed the boat unintentionally went over the Penrith Weir, a man-made ledge in the fast running river.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 26, 2022 6:19 pm

I’m referring to Hypatia, who was murdered by a mob of ignorant savages.

Rachel Weisz is a hot babe.
Not entirely compos mentis, but hot.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Ivan Southall. We had to read “Ash Road” at school.
Didn’t realise until this moment his war service until this moment.
Already obtained a copy of Fly West (ebay), coz I’m a bit of a groupie regards Sunderlands.
Looking forward to swooning when the book arrives in the mail.

Anybody here able to edit wikipedia?
His DFC is not mentioned in the “Honours Received” section of his wikipedia page.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 26, 2022 6:27 pm

Had a little search to see if anything new had [popped up about the bloke who blew himself up.

Nil as far as I can tell.
Media being curiously incurious.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 6:28 pm

We had still essentially had a “white australia policy” until a couple of years ago.

Wrong.
It was scuttled on a Bipartisan basis in 1967 and Repealed in 1973.

Up until 2018 the UK was our number one immigration source despite being just a tiny wee country.

66 million people ain’t a tiny wee Country.
However, i’d be very surprised if U.K. immigrants have even been in the Top 4 Countries since 1973.
Tourist/ work Visas, yeah, Immigrants, No.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 26, 2022 6:29 pm

Tim Ferguson from DAAS.

We need an Anthony Albanese Real Socialist Exposition. Aarse.
And maybe also the Plibersek Inclusive Socialist Stars. Aaarse and Piss.
I miss DAAS, they were fun.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 6:30 pm

Tim Ferguson from DAAS.
Christopher Reeves.
Magneto.

Perry Mason?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 6:33 pm

i’d be very surprised if U.K. immigrants have even been in the Top 4 Countries since 1973.

Ed’s clearly never been to WA, which should be renamed Manchester.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 6:34 pm

Della Street never complained of Workplace Sexual Harassment, that’s for sure!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 6:34 pm

Michael J. Fox.

He’s in a wheelchair. Now.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 6:36 pm

Ed’s clearly never been to WA, which should be renamed Manchester.

No, because I had to draw the line somewhere.
By the way, it’s Snickers he was known as in the Navy, not Sneakers.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 26, 2022 6:36 pm

We had to read “Ash Road” at school.

We got to listen to “Ash Road” as a serial on the A.B.C…..

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 6:38 pm

Knuckle Head, just stop. You know who I’m talking about.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 26, 2022 6:39 pm

AARSE is already taken as a domain.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 26, 2022 6:49 pm

Aarse news.

Anthony Albanese defends snubbing Scott Morrison at Australia Day ceremony (Sky News, 26 Jan)

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese refused to shake Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s hand during the National Flag Raising and Citizenship Ceremony in Canberra.

If Albo had been a righty the MSM would be all over this.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 6:53 pm

Jeez

What a turnaround. The news is reporting that Washington’s basketball team was 35 points down after the first half. They ended up winning by a few points.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 26, 2022 6:54 pm

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese refused to shake Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s hand during the National Flag Raising and Citizenship Ceremony in Canberra.

Am I alone in starting to sense a little overconfidence in the coming election by Albansleazy? Till last week he was low profile, now he has made speeches praising China, the stupid pic with the bint who was AOTY and now this. This is their election to lose and Shorten fell into the same trap, the ALP shouldn’t underestimate Scomo if he gets a sniff he will run with it.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 26, 2022 6:56 pm

Michael J. Fox.
He’s in a wheelchair. Now.

Sad to hear that. Parkinson’s is shitty.

The vaccines may cause it. (Obviously not in Michael Fox’s case.)

MIT scientist points to possible link between COVID vaccine and Parkinson’s (22 Jan)

Makka
Makka
January 26, 2022 6:57 pm

now he has made speeches praising China

Watch the Libs not bash this gimme over the fence.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 6:58 pm

Albo isn’t gonna die wondering.
This is his only shot, NewsCorp will run interference for him right up to Polling day, Fake Polls/PushPolling, Betti9ng Agencie rating the Coaltion at 10/1 against, but refusing to lay any bets, some Bunyip who bet $1,000,000 on Labor, we’ve seen it all before.
Gaslighting, Shock/Horror Scotty atrocities, whatever it takes.
I still say he’s pushing it uphill, Labor’s only chance to get to 36% Primary is to resurrect Kevin Rudd.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 7:00 pm

Watch the Libs not bash this gimme over the fence.

Why?
When your enemy is making a mistake, best not to interrupt him, no?

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 7:00 pm

Crikey! La Gadsby is transitioning into Ted Bullpit.

Tasmanian icon Hannah Gadsby has taken to Instagram to reveal why she has cancelled upcoming shows in Europe due to an unfortunate event in Iceland.

In a video posted to the social media platform, the comedic genius told her followers that she had broken her leg while visiting Reykjavík on her ‘Body of Work’ tour.

Icon, genius, followers. Sure thing.

I need to get out more, developing a perverse taste for the Hobart Mercury.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 26, 2022 7:00 pm

Dot.

Your opinion on Mr Manson please…
Obviously I dont want you to comment on the delicate petals who heard all this/participated in this/ and now seek to make money off this.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/marilyn-manson-abuse-allegations-1256888/

Its not like the poor delicate virgins saw any sort of warning signs at all.
The rest of Warner’s apartment was decorated with blood, swastikas, and clipped photos from porno mags. “There were vaginas everywhere,” says one person who visited the place. Others recall a spray-painted message above his bed reading “AIDS.” The carpets, furniture, and decorations were black, as were the curtains he used to blot the light out of every window nearly 24 hours a day.
…..

Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco alleges that Warner frequently abused her verbally; deprived her of sleep and food; bit, cut, electrocuted, and whipped her without her consent; and raped her during their two years together. Bianco alleges that, in one horrifying episode, Warner wielded an ax and chased her around the apartment smashing holes in the walls after saying she was “crowding him.”

..
Ashley Morgan Smithline, who is suing him for sexual assault and unlawful imprisonment, among other charges, tells Rolling Stone that Warner repeatedly forced her to stay in the space — which was about the size of a department-store dressing room — for hours at a time when they were dating.

Bianco’s body shook and her eyes welled as she recounted that moment to about a half-dozen other women, including Walters, Smithline, actress Evan Rachel Wood, and model Sarah McNeilly*
….
Interviews with and legal filings by Warner’s accusers paint a picture of someone who conditioned women through flattery and dark humor before introducing a pattern of sexual and physical abuse. Accusers allege that he plied them with drugs and alcohol, controlled their eating and sleeping habits, and held them captive emotionally and physically until they submitted to his will. If they wanted to leave him, they say, he’d threaten to kill himself or, worse, them. They describe him as employing a cult-leader mentality that allowed him to hold complete power over them. “It was Brainwashing 101,” Smithline says.
….

Her legal filing states he invited her to his West Hollywood home for a photo session that turned ugly when he allegedly “pushed her onto his bed and pinned down her arms” and “bit her ear while grabbing her hand and placing it in his underwear.”
Walters has said she tried to block out the incident, and that Warner deluged her with adoring text messages soon afterward. That August, she became his personal assistant. At industry events, Walters’ lawsuit alleges, Warner would “offer her up” to his friends, encouraging her to “please his friends in whatever way they desired.”


Doe claims in the suit that Warner once “forced [her] to perform oral sex on him” while she cried. On a subsequent visit to his apartment, Warner “forcibly pushed her to the ground,” the suit says. “With her face down on the carpet, and his hands on top of her, Warner raped Ms. Doe,….

* If only someone could explain how a weedy munter like him managed to fall into such quality gash…..

calli
calli
January 26, 2022 7:01 pm

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese refused to shake Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s hand during the National Flag Raising and Citizenship Ceremony in Canberra.

Avoiding the Curse of Latham.

Baba
Baba
January 26, 2022 7:02 pm

JCsays:
January 26, 2022 at 5:09 pm
Makka

Keep an eye on this dude. He’s pretty decent and I’ve been reading him since the GFC.

JC, this is what you’re good at, so why put so much effort into being an arsehole?

John H.
John H.
January 26, 2022 7:02 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
January 26, 2022 at 6:56 pm
Michael J. Fox.
He’s in a wheelchair. Now.

Sad to hear that. Parkinson’s is shitty.

The vaccines may cause it. (Obviously not in Michael Fox’s case.)

MIT scientist points to possible link between COVID vaccine and Parkinson’s (22 Jan)

Bruce I’m not playing the video because I immediately recognised the face and name of that woman who promoted such ludicrous ideas as vaccines causing most children to be born with ASD cases by some decadal 2o3o or similiar date. “Perfect set up for Parkinson’s” Stupid thing to say given most cases of Parkinson’s are regarded as idiopathic.

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 7:06 pm

“Am I alone in starting to sense a little overconfidence in the coming election by Albansleazy? Till last week he was low profile, now he has made speeches praising China, the stupid pic with the bint who was AOTY and now this. This is their election to lose and Shorten fell into the same trap, the ALP shouldn’t underestimate Scomo if he gets a sniff he will run with it.”

I’m thinking that too.

John H.
John H.
January 26, 2022 7:11 pm

Interviews with and legal filings by Warner’s accusers paint a picture of someone who conditioned women through flattery and dark humor before introducing a pattern of sexual and physical abuse. Accusers allege that he plied them with drugs and alcohol, controlled their eating and sleeping habits, and held them captive emotionally and physically until they submitted to his will. If they wanted to leave him, they say, he’d threaten to kill himself or, worse, them. They describe him as employing a cult-leader mentality that allowed him to hold complete power over them. “It was Brainwashing 101,” Smithline says.

So they walk into a room decorated in some weird pathological way and continued to stay there. Idiots.

1. Never praise women, never offer flattery and humour because you are grooming them.
2. Never offer women drink or drugs because they are incapable of saying No.
3. Never say you will top yourself because that is blackmail.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 7:11 pm

Since 2020 the UK is now officially replaced by India as #1, and China now at #3 for our immigration intake.

It’s going to be several years before many people from developed countries want to immigrate here. People tend to leave authoritarian hell-holes; they don’t move TO them.

Kiwi refugees will be the exception. Australia looks relatively liberal compared to NZ.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 26, 2022 7:12 pm

“Am I alone in starting to sense a little overconfidence in the coming election by Albansleazy?

Any truth in the rumour that the new partner has chosen new curtains, and got a removal firm on retainer?

srr
srr
January 26, 2022 7:13 pm

Australian Lamb: The Lost Country of the Pacific
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck8CO6zGFB0&t=181s
YouTube

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 26, 2022 7:15 pm

Avoiding the Curse of Latham.

He was fun! He managed to display both his virility and his insanity in a single handshake.
Of course JWH is more than 20 years older than he is. Not a good look Mark, torturing oldies.
He’s improved a lot since then, but I still love “a conga line of suckholes”. What a fine spray!

Speedbox
January 26, 2022 7:16 pm

Rockdoctorsays:
January 26, 2022 at 6:54 pm

Am I alone in starting to sense a little overconfidence in the coming election by Albansleazy? This is their election to lose ……. the ALP shouldn’t underestimate Scomo if he gets a sniff he will run with it.

No, you’re not alone. The past few days have been a bad look and he’s playing far too much to the Left. They will vote for him no matter what. He needs to ensure he secures the middle ground and he won’t do that sucking up to China and other dumb stuff. The middle ground look very likely to abandon the LNP and may bleed off to the UAP, One Nation etc and that could be very bad news in the Senate for Labor. If UAP etc gain any seats in the HoR, the problem is amplified.

Also, Morrison and the LNP don’t deserve our votes but you are 100% correct that Morrison is a rat cunning purebred politician – he will exploit every/any mis-step Albo makes.

Speedbox
January 26, 2022 7:29 pm

I withdraw my comment that Morrison is rat cunning. He isn’t. He’s as dumb as a box of rocks (haha Rockdoctor 🙂 ) but as a politician, he will exploit every Albo mis-step.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Sometime in the initial few months of the two weeks to flatten the curve Australians began putting back on the shelf anything marked “Made in China” & paying whatever they had to for a non-chinese substitute.

Australians were prepared to pay more to avoid anything Made in China.
That feeling is dormant, easily rekindled.

Praising the Communist Chinese Economic Miracle may not be the vote winner Albo believes it to be.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 7:31 pm

If UAP etc gain any seats in the HoR, the problem is amplified.

I’d like to see a coalition minority government reliant on UAP MPs that support the government in return for ending any federal Covid-related mandates and restrictions. They could also demand the Commonwealth withhold federal grants to states that impose state mandates and restrictions.

I wouldn’t mind a minority ALP govt on the same basis, but I doubt federal Labor would make that deal.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 7:32 pm

I’ve got it KD.

Milo Kerrigan.

Don’t tell JC.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 26, 2022 7:33 pm

Any political party mentioned removing state of emergency powers from the states??

Or even their own?

They cant give up their precccccioooousssssssss

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

I withdraw my comment that Morrison is rat cunning.

Speedbox, he’s a very good campaigner.
Problematic for him is that he has to avoid being cornered into campaigning on his record.
Albo kneeling before China may be of considerable assistance to Slomo in this regard.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 7:35 pm

Have vaxx mandates been introduced for university students in any state? They don’t seem to have been in WA so far…

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 7:35 pm

He doesn’t have to be cunning, all he needs to do is let Albanese be himself.
That alone will turn off the Female Vote.
And his new Partnuh?
Puh-leeeze, what happnied to his Ol’ Pudnuh?

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 7:36 pm

Walters has said she tried to block out the incident, and that Warner deluged her with adoring text messages soon afterward. That August, she became his personal assistant. At industry events, Walters’ lawsuit alleges, Warner would “offer her up” to his friends, encouraging her to “please his friends in whatever way they desired.”

Can anyone else see two glaring howlers (by omission or not) here?

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 7:38 pm

Have vaxx mandates been introduced for university students in any state? They don’t seem to have been in WA so far…

No, because smart people will still be required in 5 years time.
Sure, not many Uni Students qualify as Smart People, but that little problem can be solved further down The Track.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 7:38 pm

Warner’s accusers paint a picture of someone who conditioned women through flattery and dark humor… before introducing a pattern of sexual and physical abuse.

So wait. It is being asserted that FLATTERY and HUMOUR are used to condition people.

Honestly, how weak willed are the accusers?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 26, 2022 7:39 pm

Albo kneeling before China may be of considerable assistance to Slomo in this regard.

Be too much to ask that ScoMo calls Albo out for druidism.
Which he, or his handlers, are fully into.
Net zero “net zero” now!

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 7:42 pm

Albo kneeling before China may be of considerable assistance to Slomo in this regard.

Should Scotty be dumb enough to take your advice and make Albanese’s KowTowing to Xi an Issue, the howls of Raaaacismmmm!!!! will hound him all the way to defeat.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 7:42 pm

LOL

Imagine if Manson gets cancelled and has no money after copious amounts of cocaine and playing Slaaneshi warbands in Warhamm$$er.

As to Mr Warner and Mr Manson, they’re horrible people, they’re horrible people.

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 7:45 pm

Have vaxx mandates been introduced for university students in any state

Hobart Uni. No vax no access to campus. Masks mandatory.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 7:45 pm

Chinese voters don’t want politics explained to them in words of one syllable, that’s an insult to their intelligence.
Scotty has no reason to humiliate our #1 Trading Partner, so he won’t do that either.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 7:46 pm

“At industry events, Walters’ lawsuit alleges, Warner would “offer her up” to his friends, encouraging her to “please his friends in whatever way they desired.””

This is being proffered as something new in Hollyweird and the muzak industry.

Doesn’t Director’s Right’s Reserved mean anything? After all, *Gandalf* explained to us small folk what it meant.*

*It meant good rain came at a price. A price no one dare talk about. A few pig farmers however…

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 26, 2022 7:46 pm

Unfortunately for ScoMo he is a known dud this time around. “We’re not Liars” just won’t cut it again without Peanut Head at the helm.

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 7:48 pm

“I’d like to see a coalition minority government reliant on UAP MPs that support the government in return for ending any federal Covid-related mandates and restrictions. They could also demand the Commonwealth withhold federal grants to states that impose state mandates and restrictions.

I wouldn’t mind a minority ALP govt on the same basis, but I doubt federal Labor would make that deal.”

No, federal Labor will just make a deal with the Greens.

And then we’re really stuffed.

a reader
a reader
January 26, 2022 7:49 pm

Let’s see if I can sum up AUstralia Day in the media:
*COVID protests of 50k+ which were reported as 1k. “Invasion Day” protests of maybe 5k reported as in the tens of thousnds
*Some idiot in Melbourne desecrated a statue of Captain Cook who wasn’t even near Australia in 1788.
*White saviours are the ones demanding the date change. Every social post I saw not celebrating Australia was
*Albo snubs the PM and then denies he did it to “be like Grace” instead claiming he won’t shake hands because “health advice” and then poses with Tame for photos with no social distancing or masks
*”Happy Australia Day” is the most offensive thing you can ever say

Meanwhile in the real world, people were out with family and friends

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 26, 2022 7:49 pm

National debt heading towards one trillion dollars doesn’t help. Don’t expect any talk of Beazley Black Holes.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 7:49 pm

Hobart Uni. No vax no access to campus. Masks mandatory

LOL

Very fake and gay. Who decided this? A bunch of oldies staffing the tills in the refectory? Some dudes with all forms of HIV? Marxist law “professors”?

You know the only people against it would be some Chads in commerce…and some reasonable science people in maths, stats, Chem, Phys and bio sciences.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 7:50 pm

Albanese KowTowing to Xi doesn’t hurt him at all, it’s not 1966 anymore, but where’s he going with it?
Probably hoping for a Gotcha on Scotty, C/- the Murdoch Press, so let’s give him some rope rather than react like Bull Connor on a sugar binge

bespoke
bespoke
January 26, 2022 7:51 pm

So wait. It is being asserted that FLATTERY and HUMOUR are used to condition people.

Just because you (think) your immune doesn’t mean it hasn’t been a successful tactic.

Rabz
January 26, 2022 7:52 pm

Sacré bleu! Ozzies in Frogistan in WW1 had an impeccable understanding of the language of lerve, it seems:

“Compree”, (from the French compris) meant “I understand” or “Do you understand?” “Merci bokoo”, obviously, meant thank you (from merci beaucoup). “Finee” meant done, finished (fini) and if you wanted something done right away, it’d be “toot suite” or “on the toot” (tout de suite)

Magnifique. 🙂

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 7:53 pm

Very fake and gay. Who decided this?

Probably this guy. Well schooled in managerial weasel speak and all out king of the kids. The sort of kids that go in for gender studies that is. So yes, fake and gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that of course.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 26, 2022 7:53 pm

Groogs, have you been putting mutton in the bong again?

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 7:54 pm

bespoke, I am not immune, I can’t stop. I’m Mr Farenheit.

Baba
Baba
January 26, 2022 7:55 pm

So wait. It is being asserted that FLATTERY and HUMOUR are used to condition people.

Back in the olden days this was known as ‘wooing’.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 7:56 pm

I was considering buying a Snickers Bar at the checkout today, sort of lumpy, choccy covered, about 3 inches long, but … nah.
Opted for a KitKat.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 7:56 pm

Any political party mentioned removing state of emergency powers from the states??

The Commonwealth ought to be able to pass legislation outlawing state vaxx mandates on the basis that they contravene Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (which prohibits medical experimentation on humans without their free consent), of which Australia is a signatory. S.51(xxix) as currently interpreted should apply.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Be too much to ask that ScoMo calls Albo out for druidism.
Which he, or his handlers, are fully into.
Net zero “net zero” now!

I’m not entirely sure the script for “net zero” wasn’t the price Boris & Biden insisted upon for AUKUS.

(This is not an absolution of Slomo)

Rabz
January 26, 2022 7:57 pm

where’s he going with it?

The only logical place – multiple unexplained millions, Eddles, following the well trodden path of luminaries such as Hawkey, Keato, Richo, Boob Carr and St Jacinda Horseface.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 7:57 pm

That NY Post article on Hefner was just trash.

It noted that a model took cocaine and the “leg spreader” quaaludes.

It never said, she was forced to take them, or that the male guests were sober.

“I took drugs and I was a whore, who can I blame?”

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 7:58 pm

Albanese is going after you with Compulsory Vaccination Squads and Scotty ain’t.
That’s all the information voters need this time around.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
January 26, 2022 7:59 pm

The Commonwealth ought to be able to pass legislation outlawing state vaxx mandates on the basis that they contravene Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (which prohibits medical experimentation on humans without their free consent), of which Australia is a signatory. S.51(xxix) as currently interpreted should apply.

They could and should do this.
However, this would mean they also were admitting two things:
1. They acted illegally to start with.
2. They were wrong

Point 2 is the most important, politicians never admit they were wrong.

Speedbox
January 26, 2022 7:59 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure says:
January 26, 2022 at 7:33 pm
Speedbox, he’s a very good campaigner. Problematic for him is that he has to avoid being cornered into campaigning on his record.

Yes, agreed. That’s why I say that he’s not terribly bright but a good politician. Agree that Albo needs to corner Morrison on his record. Droning on about China and sucking up to the Labor faithful aren’t helpful to secure the disenfranchised LNP voters. The Labor approach should be to capture as many votes as possible from the disenfranchised and minimise bleed to the minor parties. That may be an obvious statement but the opportunity to decimate the LNPs voter base is brim full. Potentially hundreds of thousands of votes up for grabs. Every extra seat in the Senate will be worth its weight in gold – not to mention minimising the potential loss of a seat in the HoR.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:00 pm

Point 2 is the most important, politicians never admit they were wrong.

It is precisely why this nonsense seems to be unending.

Pogria
Pogria
January 26, 2022 8:01 pm

Miranda Devine can blow me.
Hell will freeze over before I forget Miranda was as smarmy and mean spirited as Vinegar Tits.

We “neocons”, have long memories. She just stopped short of using Thrillarys’ “basket of deplorables” against us.

Also, The Goat-Fucking Defence, is NO defence.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 8:02 pm

Change of signage in Shopping Centres today.
MASKS ARE COMPULSORY TO ENTER THIS STORE.
Basically., everyone that was going to fall for Vaxxing is already shot up, so the rest are going to have to wear masks until Bacterial Pneumonia carries them off.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 8:05 pm

No, federal Labor will just make a deal with the Greens.

Yes, we’d need the ALP and the Greens to maintain their numbers, with the UAP pinching a few seats from the coalition to make such an arrangement possible. I suppose it’s possible the UAP could pinch a few suburban/rural Labor seats and strengthen their hand.

A party that opposes Covid mandates and restrictions either in government or holding the balance of power – that’s what I want and I’m a single-issue voter this cycle.

Rabz
January 26, 2022 8:05 pm

quaaludes

Named after the legendary seventies rock god, Quay Lude

See also Andie McDowell’s dóttir, Madge Quaalude. 🙂

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 26, 2022 8:05 pm

Dot says:
January 26, 2022 at 7:49 pm
Hobart Uni. No vax no access to campus. Masks mandatory

Bet they all roll over and get their tummies tickled.

If they had any brains (yeah, I know – Uni students), they would refuse and let the Uni have no students.
I don’t think it would take too long for the Uni dickheads to change that policy.

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 8:06 pm

So over the last few days we’ve had a glimpse of the real Albo, member for Grayndler, the far-left, progressive electorate here in Sydney.

Cosying up to China
Refusing to the condemn the BDS boycott of the Sydney Festival
Refusing to condemn Grubby Tame’s rudeness
Refusing to shake Morrison’s hand today

The reality of PM Albo will not be pretty.

Barry
Barry
January 26, 2022 8:07 pm

Indolent says:
January 26, 2022 at 6:35 pm

Doctors And Professors Rapidly Respond, Warning of “Unintended Risks” When Following NICE Guidance to Treat Covid with Morphine and Midazolam

Murder Most Foul.

It’s just the Liverpool Pathway all over again.

The Brit NHS just wants you to die so they can close the file and give the bed to another possible victim. Anyone in hospital MUST have a trusted relative closely monitoring care if the patient is unable. It’s just so easy to tick “DNR “or “DoubleEuthPlusGood” instead of “Ham Sandwiches for Lunch” on your chart by mistake.

Speedbox
January 26, 2022 8:08 pm

Fat Tony says:
January 26, 2022 at 8:05 pm
If they had any brains (yeah, I know – Uni students), they would refuse and let the Uni have no students.
I don’t think it would take too long for the Uni dickheads to change that policy.

Doubt it. If you are enrolled, the Uni gets the tertiary fee whether you turn up or not.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 8:10 pm

They could and should do this.
However, this would mean they also were admitting two things:
1. They acted illegally to start with.
2. They were wrong

They won’t now, but after an election in which neither side wins a governing majority, anything and everything will be up for negotiation.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 26, 2022 8:15 pm

The reality of PM Albo will not be pretty.

Nothing surer. Gillard on steroids.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 8:16 pm

Hobart Uni. No vax no access to campus.

Is this a state government decision or a decision of the university?

Presumably you have to provide proof of vaxx to enrol or remain enrolled.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:16 pm

This absolute trash gets taught in universities.

https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/the-saga-of-captain-cook-hobbles-danaiyarri

Deborah Rose Bird was an absolute American bullshit artist who projected American guilt about native Americans onto Australia.

Hobbles Danaiyarri was also shitting out nonsense at a prodigious rate.

I have bolded some howlers, read this nonsense if you can stomach it.

———————–

This chapter presents an account of British explorer Captain James Cook’s discovery of Australia as recorded the memory of Hobbles Danaiyarri, an Aboriginal cultural custodian and cattle-station stockman. According to Indigenous oral traditions, the discovery of Australia is depicted as a recurring cycle of destruction, violence, and dispossession where Cook himself reappears across space and time as the mythological symbol of the insensitivity and greed of England. Danaiyarri’s account suggests that history itself is part of Australia’s imperial legacy.

Keywords: James Cook, Hobbles Danaiyarri, Australia, England, imperial legacy, British explorer, geographical discovery

Right. Well, I’m speaking today. I’m named Hobbles Danaiyarri. And I got a bit of troubling. Long way back beginning, I think, right back beginning. (p.28) When him been start, that Captain Cook, still thinking about to get more land. From London and Big England, that’s his country. Lotta man in Big England, and they start there and looking for nother land. And get the sailing boat and get a lotta people and have a look at it: Australia. And when that Captain Cook been come through down to Sydney Harbour, well he’s the one been hit the Sydney Harbour. And lotta people, lotta women, lotta children, they’re owning that city. That’s his country. And he don’t askem, that man. Too frightened. He never look whitefella coming longa his place and start a fight. And he don’t askem for land. He don’t say ‘good day’. No. He say to him, ask him, ‘this your country?’ ‘Yeah, this my country.’ ‘Ah, yeah!’ He didn’t askem really. ‘Pretty country,’ Captain Cook reckoned. ‘It’s a good country. Any more people around here?’ ‘Yeah, plenty people round here in Sydney Harbour!’ That mob still in the bush, looking for a bit of fish and tucker. And lot of food old people getem.

He got a bit of jetty. And putem out those people, takem out them guns, and bullock, and man. And roll up all his swag and a bit of food, everything. Captain Cook been shooting there for, I think, nearly three weeks’ time. Shooting all, all the people. Women get shot, kids been get knocked out. That means Captain Cook getting ready for the country, going to try to take it away. But he’s the one been start up shooting them there now. Three weeks’ time and pack his gear and put it in the sailing boat and keep going right round follow the sea. Every pocket him go in and have a look around on another people. Same thing. Shooting right round like that and every pocket some fellow been running away.

When him got to Darwin, that’s the biggest place. Lot of people been there, another people. He’s belong to Darwin mob. People been born in this country. Whatever building up in Darwin now, he belong to Aboriginal. Darwin only been sit down no house, nothing. There the people been havem lotta food again. Lotta fish and lotta tucker. Getembad [get], people been getembad anything, crocodile, anything. Makembad [make] spear. And Captain Cook come up, see that old fellow sit down makembad spear there, hunting fish. And he don’t ask him. Same thing. Ask him one bit of a story: ‘By Christ, that’s good land here. Your country, it’s big one? Many people around here?’ ‘Oh, lotta people round here. We big mob people here,’ he said. ‘Big big mob Aboriginal people. This we country. We never look whitefella come through here. That’s first time you coming. We can be ready for you. Got a big mob spear. We don’t want whitefella!’ He start to hear that story. Captain Cook been hear that story. ‘Get ready for this, old (p.29) fellow. We might start here!’ [He] Start to put the bullet in the magazine, start to shooting people, same like Sydney. And everything: ‘Really beautiful country,’ Captain Cook reckoned. ‘That’s why I’m cleaning up people, take it away. And after that I’m going to sailing boat, pack up gear, and gone [keep going, enjoy freedom of movement].’ He gone every bit of pocket and leave that sailing boat there and walk around. He might see two or four or six people on that country. Country for that every one of them people. Captain Cook been jealous [envious]. And he clean up and they been come running around.

When him been shooting and going back, straight back. Follow that sea right around again. Right over to Sydney Harbour. Straight back. Captain Cook reckoned, ‘I been want to clean that people right up. That’s good country. I like to put my building there. I like to put my horses there. I like to put my cattle there. I going to take all my book to make a bit of an office in Sydney Harbour.’

All right. When him been start to building Sydney Harbour, that means he get all the books from London, Big England. Bring a lot of man, coming back again and bring lotta horse and lotta man longa big sailing boat. Loading boat. Bring lotta horse and bring lotta rifle, bullock.

‘When that people been settle down, if you can see people little bit cheeky [hostile], you might be hitem them. And if you ready, all right, come up with the horses. Some of them no good, fight for land!’ They been fight for land. No good whitefella come up here, he’ll have to reckon with these blackfellas. And some of those whitefellas been get a spear [killed by it]. That’s one big country longa Northern Territory. They been get a spear. When that old people come up, gotem horse, and that Captain Cook been sendem over. Sendem over here shooting lotta people. Some couldn’t get a man, followem up, and that’s why these Aboriginal people make an army. They been shooting all over, people gotem horse. Horse been galloping all over Australia, hunting all those people. Still, people been running away, still. Can’t catch up. Horse can’t gallop over rough place or them caves. And this country, sandstone country, people been plantem meself [hiding themselves] there.

That’s right. We been ready for whitefellas all right. They don’t wantem come up whitefellas through here. And they been really, really cranky [angry], my people. They been knock some of them whitefellas now straight away. Hitem with spear, killem. They been fight whitefella. Blackfella been fight, and another whitefella been shot the whole lot. Because they been have (p.30) a spear, and whitefella been have a rifle. That been beat him. If whitefella been come up got no bit of a gun, couldn’t been roundem up, killing all the people. They never been give him fair go. I know Captain Cook been little bit wrong for these people. ‘This no more blackfella country. No more. Belong to me fellow [it’s our] country,’ he said. That means, to bring all buildings, houses. They bring all the buildings now. ‘I’m going to put my place. Anywhere I can put him.’ He start to put this station. Him bring lotta book from Big England right here now. They got that book for Captain Cook from England. And that’s his law, book belong Captain Cook, they bring it Sydney Harbour. And lotta government got it in there from Big England.

Gilruth,2 he’s the one been in Darwin, nother government bloke took over from Captain Cook. Lotta man there, man from Big England. Same book he been havem. And that Captain Cook, when them two stations [Darwin and Sydney] been get big enough, that means all belong to Captain Cook.

Right. And my people been start to work around, old people. And really frighten for the white people coming from Big England. They didn’t ask. And they been really, really sad, poor buggers. And when that Gilruth, well Gilruth [had] the same book from the Captain Cook. All right. Anybody sick, anybody sick in the guts or in the head, Captain Cook orders: Don’t give him medicine. ‘Don’t give him medicine. When they getting crook [sick] old people, you killem him first. When they on the job, that’s right, you can have them on the job. But don’t payem him. Let him work for free. While we run that station. Any children come round, you can have the stockman killem him. We’ll still hold that people and don’t letem go. Any man come sick, boy, anything like that, blind man, don’t give him medicine. You take him in a dry gully and knock him [kill him]. And after that, women, women got a bit of a baby, don’t let him grow that baby. Just kill that baby. And whatever man been work, people round there eating tucker, tucker with the kerosene, flour with the kerosene [food placed in discarded kerosene tins]’….

And still that book never finish. He still belong to Gilruth and Gilruth been have that book from Captain Cook. That’s why grow along and building up. And that man, this one Gilruth, said to all the people, Aboriginal: ‘This not your land. This mine. This here my building. Here my cattle and horse. This (p.31) my land.’ Really, belong to him [Aboriginal people], it’s just for Aboriginal. But that book was go new way, coverem over.

Same book. Not only one book, book all over. And he still got it today. Sort of a, cut at one end [truncated]. But still we got it today. But I think that was finished now for the Captain Cook. And belong to Gilruth. That time been gone. It’s finished now. But really, it [the land] belongs to Aboriginal people. Captain Cook and Gilruth, that two fellow been on Darwin, been on Sydney Harbour, all right. I think you two fellow been stealing this country. You, Captain Cook, and Gilruth. They really crook men. Steal it and make it them land. Because why Gilruth didn’t ask them what people been live over to Darwin. And Captain Cook went longa Sydney Harbour and people been live over there. And why didn’t you ask them? You, Captain Cook, when you come through. When that Captain Cook been bring you bit of a man in Darwin, put your manager, company. Because I know you Gilruth, in Darwin. He’s the manager. I think they been take the wrong book. Steal. Kill my people no reason. You, Captain Cook, and Gilruth, you kill my people. You been look around, see the land now. People been here, really got their own culture. All around Australia. Really Australia, because Aboriginal people with different, different language. Different, different language, lot of people.

And right up to Gurindji now we remember for you two fellow Captain Cook and Gilruth. I know. Why didn’t you look after London and Big England? Why didn’t you stop your government, Captain Cook? You’re the one been bring him out now, all your government from Big England. You been bring that law. My law only one. Your law keep changing. I know you keep changing lotta law. You, Captain Cook, you the one been bringing in new lotta man. Why didn’t you give me fair go for my people? Why didn’t you give it me fair go? Should have askem about the story. Same thing, I might go on another place, I must askem. I might stay for couple of days. You know. That’s for the me fellow Aboriginal people. But you, Captain Cook, I know you been stealing country belong to me fellow. Australia, what we call Australia, that’s for Aboriginal people. But him been take it away. You been take that land, you been take the mineral, take the gold, everything. Take it up to this Big England.

Rabz
January 26, 2022 8:16 pm

err, Bazza, I wasn’t aware that the NHS was good for anything other than murdering old people.

It’s what it does best.

World Class! Let’s celebrate it’s unparalleled murderous incompetence in an Olympic opening ceremony and during a schlockdown by banging pots and pans together outside our hovels at 6:00pm every evening*, proles!

*Yes, they really did this – in 2020.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 26, 2022 8:18 pm

Ed Case says:
January 26, 2022 at 7:58 pm
Albanese is going after you with Compulsory Vaccination Squads and Scotty ain’t.
That’s all the information voters need this time around.

Ed, I don’t normally bother with your stuff but, in this case, could you please remove your head from up your own arse and shove it up a cow’s arse (to maintain balance in the Universe).

For the short period that your head is not encased in an arsehole, have a look around and see the 90+%
“vaccinated” around you. A very large proportion of these were not raped, sorry “vaccinated” by choice.

So, for you to claim that Scotty ain’t forcing “vaccination” on the population, shows what a fucked-in-the-head individual you are. Scummo even said originally that these “vaccines” will be as mandatory as is possible – and the canute was correct.

I have not been “vaccinated” and have no intention of doing so.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:18 pm

World Class! Let’s celebrate it’s unparalleled murderous incompetence in an Olympic opening ceremony and during a schlockdown by banging pots and pans together outside our hovels at 6:00pm every evening*, proles!

Amazing that these savages considered Shaka Zulu or the U’Neill as primitives.

Barry
Barry
January 26, 2022 8:20 pm

Rabz says:
January 26, 2022 at 8:16 pm

Sadly, Australian health bureaucracies hold the NHS is high esteem, and adopt many of their initiatives. Queensland ran with the Liverpool Pathway for several years until it began to smell so bad that they were forced to rebrand it.

cohenite
January 26, 2022 8:20 pm

PML was pretty good last night pointing out rub and tug’s energy defects, but tonight he’s got hildebrand on; hildebrand declares in respect of the left’s undermining of Australia Day that he’s not really a rah rah Aussie patriot and PML let him vomit on instead of walking over and smacking the smarmy turd in his fashionably lean, unshaven gob.

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 8:20 pm

Nothing surer. Gillard on steroids.

Wouldn’t surprise me if she turns out to be much smarter and more competent though.

Rabz
January 26, 2022 8:22 pm

Chinese voters don’t want politics explained to them in words of one syllable

Goose Morristeen on wechat (before the regrettable relabelling imbroglio):

“Me not Xi, I tells ya! :)”

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 26, 2022 8:22 pm

Speedbox says:
January 26, 2022 at 8:08 pm
Fat Tony says:
January 26, 2022 at 8:05 pm
If they had any brains (yeah, I know – Uni students), they would refuse and let the Uni have no students.
I don’t think it would take too long for the Uni dickheads to change that policy.

Doubt it. If you are enrolled, the Uni gets the tertiary fee whether you turn up or not.

So they should comply their way out of tyranny??
So give your honest opinion of what would happen if nobody turned up to the University.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:23 pm

LOL

For any truckies, trainies (yes, trainies, not trannies), hard partying trannies, students doing all nighters, people who drink too much Red Bull…other party animals who imbibe sleep liberating stimulants…

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6048360/

Severe Sleep Deprivation Causes Hallucinations and a Gradual Progression Toward Psychosis With Increasing Time Awake

What shocked me is there is no guarantee that waking psychosis will go away with rest and recovery!

Bons
January 26, 2022 8:26 pm

I was just watching the ‘Santos Adelaide Festival of Cycling’ (correct name Eastern States funded festival of cycling held in Adelaide).
I was watching because I enjoy criterion racing.
It’s the middle of the week of racing but they once again trotted out the sparkling white blackfella with a bit of Zinc Cream to play with his sicks and babble on about recently invented cultural heritage for 15 MINUTES.
And. they wonder why……

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 8:26 pm

Is this a state government decision or a decision of the university?

Both probably.

Presumably you have to provide proof of vaxx to enrol or remain enrolled.

Here is the relevant page. They helpfully include a link to upload your status. Presumably the swipe cards will not work until they are associated with a piece of documentation somehow.

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 8:28 pm

The Commonwealth ought to be able to pass legislation outlawing state vaxx mandates on the basis that they contravene Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (which prohibits medical experimentation on humans without their free consent), of which Australia is a signatory. S.51(xxix) as currently interpreted should apply.

ON pretty much put up this legislation and the Liberals didn’t support it.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 26, 2022 8:30 pm

Pogria says:
January 26, 2022 at 8:01 pm

100%

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
January 26, 2022 8:30 pm

Laws are letters to Santa Claus unless they are actually enforced.

A piece of paper only means something if people care to recognise it.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 26, 2022 8:33 pm

I’m curious because, seeing as though I’m currently unemployable due to my vaxx status, I decided to bite the bullet and enrol in the JD course at UWA. I’ve been worried a vaxx mandate might be imposed on students and have been checking the uni’s Covid FAQ for students page, but this doesn’t look like it’s been updated since the end of 2020 (bar the addition of an indoor mask mandate in line with state govt rules).

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
January 26, 2022 8:34 pm

Ed.
What’s the deal with all the Random Capitals in your posts?

Is English your second (or later) language?

Rabz
January 26, 2022 8:34 pm

the smarmy turd and his fashionably lean, unshaven gob

Has his own show on Sky this year as does that monumental blockhead Piers Morgan.

The sort of irrelevant infuriating shit that finally leads to long term subscriptions being renounced in disgust.

Talk about giving your rapidly diminishing audience exactly what they don’t want, FFS.

The Mudrock kiddies seem to possess about the same level of mass meeja smarts as good ol’ “you only get one in your life”* Bondy.

*Those familiar with the life and times of the Goanna will recognise the quotelet.

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 8:34 pm

Severe Sleep Deprivation Causes Hallucinations and a Gradual Progression Toward Psychosis With Increasing Time Awake

Clearly the solution is over the counter Modafinil, problem solved. Makes pod living more palatable too due to not needing a bedroom.

And two, why the fuck did a psychiatry journal publish something so much in the realm of “No Shit Sherlock”.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 26, 2022 8:35 pm

Liberals didn’t support it.

Shows what a shitshow the Libs are – hanging is too good for these scum (Labour as well).
My preference is crucifixion, preferably in winter so they can hang around for another day or so.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 26, 2022 8:37 pm

Plasmamortar says:
January 26, 2022 at 8:30 pm
Laws are letters to Santa Claus unless they are actually enforced.

A piece of paper only means something if people care to recognise it.

You talking about the Australian Constitution?

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:37 pm

And two, why the fuck did a psychiatry journal publish something so much in the realm of “No Shit Sherlock”

Citation needed! (Derp).

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 8:37 pm

“Pogriasays:
January 26, 2022 at 8:01 pm”

All correct Pogria.

I shouldn’t be so forgiving….I’m not usually!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 26, 2022 8:38 pm

Hobbles Danaiyarri was also shitting out nonsense at a prodigious rate.

Hobbles Danaiyarri was telling the touching tale about how Ned Kelly was never hanged, but had gone to the Northern Territory to teach the Aborigines how to make tea and damper, and how John Kennedy’s spirit had gone to the same place to “teach the blackfella’s about their rights.”

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 8:38 pm

but as a politician, he will exploit every Albo mis-step.

Essentially whichever of these Mongs out-missteps the other Mong loses the crown to Mong Island.

Rabz
January 26, 2022 8:39 pm

Hitem with spear, killem. They been fight whitefella. Blackfella been fight and another whitefella been shot the whole lot. Because they been have a spear and whitefella been have a rifle. That been beat him. If whitefella been come up got no bit of a gun, couldn’t been roundem up, killing all the people.

Then we sittem down and feastem on some tasty Blackfella roadsidem wombat, we tellsa ya. Takem that, big fella England!

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 8:40 pm

“cohenitesays:
January 26, 2022 at 8:20 pm
PML was pretty good last night pointing out rub and tug’s energy defects, but tonight he’s got hildebrand on; hildebrand declares in respect of the left’s undermining of Australia Day that he’s not really a rah rah Aussie patriot and PML let him vomit on instead of walking over and smacking the smarmy turd in his fashionably lean, unshaven gob.”

Why do you watch Fatty Paul?

As for Hildebrand, I think he’s a secret conservative. He won’t come out of the closet because he’s a chicken.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:41 pm

“We partem big olympic dam tribe. You can takem that to the bank, big england merchant banker…”

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 8:42 pm

As for Hildebrand, I think he’s a secret conservative. He won’t come out of the closet because he’s a chicken.

Not really secret. Ever see him on the witches coven on Channel Ten?

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 8:44 pm

“Not really secret. Ever see him on the witches coven on Channel Ten?”

I’ve seen snippets.

I don’t mind Joe….apparently he’s been good on 2GB. The thing is, Joe can think outside the box.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 8:45 pm

Ed, I don’t normally bother with your stuff but, …

Ha ha, course you do.
Here’s another example of your “Work”:

Shows what a shitshow the Libs are – hanging is too good for these scum (Labour as well).
My preference is crucifixion, preferably in winter so they can hang around for another day or so.

That’s #GarageNazi/London Taxi Driver level stuff.
Sure you’re not a FedPoster, Tony?

Rabz
January 26, 2022 8:45 pm

he’s a secret conservative

And I’m a secret Swahili Chieftain. 😕

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 8:45 pm

Citation needed! (Derp).

Them tweakers man, they do funny shit after a few months. Seen it happen. Nasty business.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 26, 2022 8:46 pm

A long and detailed tour of the myths and realities involving Hypatia can be found here. The site is also worth bookmarking.

The sillier myths are exposed, as is entirely desirable. The basic story is confirmed, with reports by the admittedly partisan ppl on the spot. And the decline of Alexandria, as a centre of what was as close to science as Greek thought got, closely matched the rise of Christianity. It was a contest between faith and reason, and reason lost. Politics also had a lot to do with it, and was not on the side of reason. It never is.

To be fair, the Christians subsequently did lay some stress on reason, but not for centuries.

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 8:48 pm

“And I’m a secret Swahili Chieftain. ?”

Well you can identify as one.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 8:50 pm

Hypatia never existed.
The entire story makes no sense.
In the 1600 years since then, how many female Astronomers/Physicists/Philosophers/ Polymaths have shown up?
I’ll tell you:
None.
And Hypatia never showed up either.

Rabz
January 26, 2022 8:52 pm

Cass, indeed I do, usually on Tuesdays and Thursdays when my chances of seeing anyone I know are pretty much zero.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
January 26, 2022 8:54 pm

You talking about the Australian Constitution?

Kind of, I thought they used that during the toilet paper shortage though?

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 8:55 pm

The Kiwi’s, flying Short Sunderland flying boats, p!ssed it in….

The Germans called the Sunderland “the flying porcupine”, very difficult to shoot down with plenty of defensive armament. I believe the difficulty in shooting down came from most projectiles simply passing through the thing and doing no apparent damage. Plenty of action reports detail beaching Sunderlands “with a hull that looked like a colander”.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 8:59 pm

Doc

To be fair, the Christians subsequently did lay some stress on reason, but not for centuries.

Hasn’t that been a constant human failing which may or may not have much to do with religion? If lack of religion was the key to advancement then over the 70 plus years of its existence, the Soviet Union should have been a scientific and economic powerhouse.

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 8:59 pm

Don’t think there is a Swahili tribe, just the language.

/apostrophe man

rickw
rickw
January 26, 2022 9:02 pm

Danger Dan’s Australian’s of the year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-C5_btZOqw

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 9:02 pm

And as always, whenever apostrophe man gets off the short leash the probability of making a mistake approaches one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_people

The Swahili people (Swahili: WaSwahili) are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting East Africa.

Speedbox
January 26, 2022 9:02 pm

So give your honest opinion of what would happen if nobody turned up to the University.

You mean like during the assorted lockdowns when people weren’t allowed to go? In that case, same as before, online learning and fees will still be payable.

Alternatively, if you mean that people refuse to attend Uni, drop out and go fruit picking as a permanent career, then I think you’re on drugs. Never happen.

Seeing as you mentioned Hobart Uni, it is relevant that 84.7% of adults aged 20-24 are double vaxxed in Tasmania. Bear in mind that not ‘everyone’ attends Uni (about 60% do) and, the 20-24 age group would be typical of those who do attend, so restrictions on non-vaxxed will have little impact.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 9:04 pm

… the Soviet Union should have been a scientific and economic powerhouse.

It was a scientific Powerhouse and it built an incredible number of planes and tanks during the Secret Rearmament 1925 to 1941, but in the end The Battle of Stalingrad killed the USSR, it just took 45 years to die.

Rabz
January 26, 2022 9:06 pm

Bluddee hell – I’d never seen or heard of these things before – a Short Sunderland flying boat.

Nowhere near as aesthetically pleasing as a good ol’ P51, though. 🙂

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:06 pm

Mr Ed, Remain silent.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
January 26, 2022 9:07 pm

BANGKOK! Jan 25 (Reuters) – Thailand’s narcotics board on Tuesday said it would remove cannabis from its drugs list, paving the way for households to grow the plant.

Thailand became the first Southeast Asian country to legalise marijuana in 2018 for medical use and research.

Under the new rule, people can grow cannabis plants at home after notifying their local government, but the cannabis cannot be used for commercial purposes without further licenses, Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters.

The rule must be published in the official Royal Gazette and 120 days must pass before home cannabis plants will become legal.

Rabz
January 26, 2022 9:09 pm

The Battle of Stalingrad killed the USSR

How so, Eddles?

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 9:11 pm

A comforting thought, the older elements of the millennials have started hitting 40. Wonder how the ethos copes with middle age.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 26, 2022 9:12 pm

The moral to be drawn from the rise of Christianity is that you need the ignorant mob on your side because they’ve got the numbers, but you can’t let them be in charge because they are ignorant and stupid.

Wokism hasn’t yet evolved to the second insight.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 9:12 pm

Yep. The Russians built tanks in 1925 that were not obsolete in 1941. Apparently.

Also, they built so many tanks and believed in the concept of combined mobile operations so, so much that they executed its chief proponent, Marshal Tuchayevsky.

And Stalingrad was the end of ‘the USSR’ (which didn’t even exist at the time), not the beginning of the end for Germany. Well I never.

Ed. How many Russian tanks were exported to the Queensland jacks?

Hint: Bert Ironmonger is not part of the answer.

Speedbox
January 26, 2022 9:13 pm

Ed Case says:
January 26, 2022 at 9:04 pm
The Battle of Stalingrad killed the USSR, it just took 45 years to die.

Nonsense.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 9:14 pm

JC:

I can’t work it out. I can give you more wheelchair dude names, but – unlike my previous suggestions – any more would just be silly.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
January 26, 2022 9:14 pm

A man who held up a bank to withdraw his own money has been hailed as a hero by Lebanese furious at being prevented from accessing their savings amid a financial collapse.

Abdallah Assaii is accused of holding seven staff hostage at a bank in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley last week, dousing them in petrol and threatening to set them alight unless they gave him $US50,000 cash ($70,000) from his account.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:15 pm

Speedbox says:
January 26, 2022 at 9:13 pm

Ed Case says:
January 26, 2022 at 9:04 pm
The Battle of Stalingrad killed the USSR, it just took 45 years to die.

Nonsense.

You reckon that’s going to stop him?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 26, 2022 9:17 pm

If lack of religion was the key to advancement then over the 70 plus years of its existence, the Soviet Union should have been a scientific and economic powerhouse.

Lysenko? The soviet union did have a religion. Marxism.

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 9:19 pm

“The Battle of Stalingrad killed the USSR, it just took 45 years to die.”

LOL. That’s a corker.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:20 pm

Lysenko is exactly my point. We on the Right love to refer to Marxism is a religion, but in reality its an ideology. The green left is religious though.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 26, 2022 9:20 pm

The soviet union did have a religion. Marxism.

And the religion mutated with the fall of the soviet union, but it’s still with us and taking over the West.

Speedbox
January 26, 2022 9:20 pm

Probably not JC but I’m thinking of calling it a night (go and watch the tennis) and can’t be bothered writing a long dissertation on why its ‘nonsense’. Maybe I’ll write a guest post about it another day. I sent one in today discussing Ukraine/Russia so that may appear in the next day or so.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:21 pm

knuckle head… This guy.. yes him.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 26, 2022 9:21 pm

We on the Right love to refer to Marxism is a religion, but in reality its an ideology. The green left is religious though.

The green left are Marxist.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
January 26, 2022 9:22 pm

Tim James has been chosen by Party Members as the Liberal candidate for the Willoughby by-election.

Tim has a strong blend of private and public sector experience, he is the Executive General Manager at the Menzies Research Centre and former CEO of the national medicines peak body, and has worked at KPMG, law firm Allens, and served as an in-house counsel and strategic policy manager for Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 9:23 pm

“Speedboxsays:
January 26, 2022 at 9:20 pm
Probably not JC but I’m thinking of calling it a night (go and watch the tennis) and can’t be bothered writing a long dissertation on why its ‘nonsense’. Maybe I’ll write a guest post about it another day. I sent one in today discussing Ukraine/Russia so that may appear in the next day or so.”

I look forward to reading them Speedbox.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:24 pm

The green left are Marxist.

I’m not so sure. Marxism was always for massive increases in industrial production and economic advancement. The Green left to me appear to resemble the green wing of the nazi party. Same house but different rooms as Dover once nicely suggested.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 9:25 pm

I said Alcott! He was on the list!

You were right. Looking at the pics, Alcott is certainly an interior designer if he’s ditched that ladeeee.

An Elton John relationship homage.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 26, 2022 9:25 pm

An ideology is just a religion without a God. It might be benevolent, like Buddhism or not, like Marxism.

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 9:27 pm

Chantelle Otten, sexologist.

How big is the wheelchair tennis scene anyway?

Cassie of Sydney
January 26, 2022 9:28 pm

I wonder where Mater and Sancho are? I hope they’re okay.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 26, 2022 9:29 pm

I’m not so sure. Marxism was always for massive increases in industrial production and economic advancement.

They were for industrial production in Russia, but not in the West. They’ve bitterly opposed nuclear power in the West while supporting it in the soviet union.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 26, 2022 9:29 pm

Way more to Science in the USSR than Lysenko.
The Abiotic Theory of Oil, for example, means that Russia’s only problems were overproduction.
Rabz:
Stalingrad was the key to starving the Red Army of fuel.
Sure, they won in the end, but at what cost?
3 million Trained Soldiers?
Where were they going to get their replacements from?
Answer,
Nowhere, it was Game Over for the SU in 1943, it just struggled after that.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 26, 2022 9:30 pm

Tim has a strong blend of private and public sector experience

Another swamp creature?

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:30 pm

Knuckle head stop mentioning his name. That’s why I didn’t post it.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:34 pm

Looking forward to reading your post, Speedbox.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 26, 2022 9:36 pm

3 million Trained Soldiers?

Bullshit. Less then half that number.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:37 pm

Lol

The Tesla of biotech… I’m sure it’s going to upset some people here. 🙂

BofA on Moderna: upgrading to ‘neutral’ on the ‘Tesla of biotech’

Bank of America (BAC) upgraded its rating on pharma and biotech company Moderna (MRNA) from Underperform to Neutral along giving it a new price target of $180 (up from $135), according to a recent BofA Global Research report. BofA cited a “more reasonable valuation” that has come about as being the main reason for the upgrade.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 9:38 pm

The Russians lost about 1.1 million men in Stalingrad, of which 13,000 were executed by themselves. They had a population of about 104 million in 1943, down to 98 million in 1946.

In 1945 they had over 400 fully equipped divisions, which is over 5 million fighting men.

Guess they just magicked them up.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 26, 2022 9:40 pm

It’s very demoralising on Australia Day to witness people holding their phones up to QR at a takeaway or a service station.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:42 pm

It’s very demoralising on Australia Day to witness people holding their phones up to QR at a takeaway or a service station.

Sad huh.

Gez, hope your harvest went well. Also hope it wasn’t wheat, the silent killer. 🙂

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 26, 2022 9:42 pm

Gibbon rated the rise of Christianity as a factor in the fall of Rome. I think he was wrong about that. No doubt in centuries to come historians will ascribe the fall of the West to the rise of wokism. They’ll be wrong too.

When the dominant paradigm starts to fall apart, usually from corruption, alternative superstitions rise.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:47 pm

But really doc, did the Roman Empire really fall? Sure, leadership in Europe has been held by several players and for the past 100 odd years by the US. These are the children of the Roman Empire. The British Empire for instance was a modern remake. There were all the others that preceded it too.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 9:49 pm

Gibbon rated the rise of Christianity as a factor in the fall of Rome.

Of course he was wrong, the “barbarians” were often Christian anyway and the East reconquered a lot of the Empire (which it admittedly lost again quickly). It took over 250 years at least for the empire to truly decline after Constantine. Diocletian faced a lot of problems and solved not enough of them.

An ideology is just a religion without a God.

It helps if you use the same definitions as everyone else. Etymology is instructive.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 26, 2022 9:49 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 26, 2022 at 9:36 pm
3 million Trained Soldiers?

Bullshit. Less then half that number.

And the Soviet definition of a “trained soldier” was rather more relaxed than the western definition at that time.

local oaf
January 26, 2022 9:51 pm

Guess they just magicked them up.

Didn’t they offer amnesty to all the non political Gulag prisoners if they joined the army?

The Red army that swept into Eastern and Central Europe was stuffed to the gills with rapist, murderers and other scumbags.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 9:51 pm

No JC, Rome lived on through the English, French and Germans (of all people). Their kingly lines go back to succession over the Empire.

Over 50% of English words have latin roots.

We’re all Romans. More so the eastern Christians or Romanoi.

Dot
Dot
January 26, 2022 9:52 pm

Knuckles.

It’s not who you think.

Hint:

A delicious malted beverage.

A family suing for just compensation.

Shaun Micallef.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:53 pm

Dot

That’s my point. The Roman Empire lived on and continues to. It’s buckling in the outer reaches – the US- but hopefully it will come back.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 26, 2022 9:53 pm

Big harvest thanks JC.
Lentils were the winner. Record yields and top prices.
What’s the going rate for a Range Rover these days? I might get one and swan around Sorrento for a week or two.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 26, 2022 9:54 pm

Ed Case says:
January 26, 2022 at 8:45 pm
That’s #GarageNazi/London Taxi Driver level stuff.
Sure you’re not a FedPoster, Tony?

Damn it Ed – you’re too good for me. There is no shame being outed/doxxed by such a clever chap.
Now go fuck yourself and don’t bother me again.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 26, 2022 9:55 pm

Franksays:
January 26, 2022 at 7:53 pm
Very fake and gay. Who decided this?

Probably this guy.

Maybe, but you clearly don’t know him. Yes, he’s a middle class pinko, but he’s actually an inspirational leader and very competent administrator. If he was our worst problem among the “progressives” we’d have little if anything to fear from politics.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 9:57 pm

What’s the going rate for a Range Rover these days? I might get one and swan around Sorrento for a week or two.

I dunno, but I’m sure you’ll be able to afford both. Let me know if you’re “swanning” around there. 🙂

That reminds me of an amusing story I read some time ago Back in the 50’s Australia was Christian Dior’s largest export market. I’m pretty sure it had a lot to do with the wool cheque during that era.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 10:01 pm

Dot

We just need to get eastern empire back, which is Turkey and the Levant (except Israel). We should be fine then.

Rabz
January 26, 2022 10:05 pm

Stalingrad was the key to starving the Red Army of fuel. Sure, they won in the end, but at what cost? 3 million Trained Soldiers? Where were they going to get their replacements from?
Answer, Nowhere, it was Game Over for the SU in 1943, it just struggled after that.

Eddles – I’m not a fan of counterfactuals.

Stalingrad killed the krauts stone cold dead. Have you not heard of Bagration? It was an even bigger humiliation than Stalingrad. Army Group Centre finally making it to Moscow, although not as they would have liked.

Yes, Russia was on its knees at the end of WW2, yet there was no one at the time willing to take them on (Patton having had a mysterious fatal accident and all that).

The West’s cowardice in mid ’45 was both understandable and unforgivable.

No one was going to take on the Red Dragon from the West again, in any kind of hurry, even if they had the most advanced military on the planet at the time (which the Anglo-Americans had).

Not to mention the fact that the Japs still hadn’t been subdued in the East.

Waiting many, many decades for communism to collapse was wrong and condemned millions to serfdom and early deaths. However, MAD* had its own unique logic.

Yet here we are and collectivism remains as hideous a threat to humanity as it has since 1917.

It just still hasn’t been implemented correctly, it seems, although the chinamen are doing their very best to implement IngSoc “with Chinese characteristics”.

*No, not that one.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 26, 2022 10:06 pm

We’ve got family in the Portsea area JC.
Unfortunately they’re buried at the Quarantine Station.

JC
JC
January 26, 2022 10:11 pm

We’ve got family in the Portsea area JC.
Unfortunately they’re buried at the Quarantine Station.

Really, we go for a power walk around there and I’ve seen the old graves. Can you disclose a name as I’ll look for it. Some of then are very sad as it was kids about 5 to 10 years of age.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 26, 2022 10:11 pm

. Have you not heard of Bagration? It was an even bigger humiliation than Stalingrad.

Don’t have a reference, but I’ve seen “Bagration” cited as the greatest defeat in German military history – just under half a million German casualties.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 26, 2022 10:14 pm

Just came across Jordan Petersen’s Twitter account. From there saw he just appeared on Joe Rogan. Broke the record at 4hrs and 13 mins ! Not listened to it yet.

Frank
Frank
January 26, 2022 10:17 pm

Timothy Neilsonsays:
January 26, 2022 at 9:55 pm

No, clearly I don’t know him. I have however gotten to know enough of his administrative style. Inspirational leadership is not a phrase that seems applicable either but the I don’t get enthused by the standard boilerplate and motherhood statements he is known for, those emails he continuously spams people with. Siccing the students onto the anti gay marriage people that had the audacity book a seminar room does not speak highly of the mans character, particularly when he chose to use the “some of my best friends are black but how about those darkies” formulation. Pretty weaselly in fact for an adult to do that in his official capacity, almost childish you might say.

custard
custard
January 26, 2022 10:19 pm
MatrixTransform
January 26, 2022 10:19 pm

Meanwhile in the real world, people were out with family and friends

me and Pete did a 12 hour day today.

might not be a real person but, I’m real tired

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 26, 2022 10:20 pm

JC
Both migrant parents gone and siblings with two little boys alone on the dock.
Ticonderoga – look under H.

Speedbox
January 26, 2022 10:23 pm

Dropped in to see what’s happening.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
January 26, 2022 at 10:11 pm

From Wiki:

This was by far the greatest Soviet victory in numerical terms. The Red Army recaptured a vast amount of Soviet territory and occupied some Baltic and Polish territories whose population had suffered greatly under the German occupation. The advancing Soviets found cities destroyed, villages depopulated, and much of the population killed or deported by the occupiers. To show the outside world the magnitude of the victory, some 57,000 German prisoners, taken from the encirclement east of Minsk, were paraded through Moscow: even marching quickly and twenty abreast, they took 90 minutes to pass.

The German army never recovered from the materiel and manpower losses sustained during this time, having lost about a quarter of its Eastern Front manpower, exceeding even the percentage of loss at Stalingrad (about 17 full divisions). These losses included many experienced soldiers, NCOs and commissioned officers, which at this stage of the war the Wehrmacht could not replace. An indication of the completeness of the Soviet victory is that 31 of the 47 German divisional or corps commanders involved were killed or captured.

Links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bagration

and/or

http://ww2history.com/key_moments/Eastern/Operation_Bagration

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 26, 2022 10:25 pm

A delicious malted beverage.

Aha!

Old bloke
Old bloke
January 26, 2022 10:28 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
January 26, 2022 at 6:33 pm

i’d be very surprised if U.K. immigrants have even been in the Top 4 Countries since 1973.

Ed’s clearly never been to WA, which should be renamed Manchester.

Fact Check: True.

There are many northern beach suburbs where you can’t buy real estate unless you have a British passport. I have a daughter living amongst them and they are OK though some have strange habits, I’ve been shopping there and it’s not unusual to see their womenfolk pushing their shopping trolleys around the suburban supermarkets wearing their bikinis.

That’s just an observation, not a complaint.

Indolent
Indolent
January 26, 2022 10:31 pm

Change of signage in Shopping Centres today.
MASKS ARE COMPULSORY TO ENTER THIS STORE.

Which state?

MatrixTransform
January 26, 2022 10:31 pm

You talking about the Australian Constitution?

I think he means a Vaccination Certificate

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 26, 2022 10:32 pm

Up to the early seventies Sunderlands flew out of Rose Bay to Norfolk Island.
Or Lord Howe.
One or the other.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 26, 2022 10:35 pm

Every day a school day. I always thought, up until now, that bagration were those horrible Devon sandwiches you had on day one of an exercise.

MatrixTransform
January 26, 2022 10:36 pm

I bought one of Lisa Simpson’s Tiger -Repelling rocks.
Then I got bitten by a tiger anyway.

just as well I had the rock.
…the bite woulda been much worserer without it.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
January 26, 2022 10:43 pm

Awful people awful people
Something something it’s the size of their steeple….

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 26, 2022 10:43 pm

A long and detailed tour of the myths and realities involving Hypatia

Thanks for posting DB.
Fascinating how so many cultures recorded their history.
The ones that didn’t were very backward.

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