Open Thread- Mon 24 Jan 2022


The Pioneer, Frederick McCubbin, 1904

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Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
January 27, 2022 11:24 am

Garrett and his MO partners hate Australia. I refuse to listen to their music.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 11:25 am

“When we first started making music, Australia was a more egalitarian nation,”

Were we really.

You started heading up Midnight Oil in 1973, when you were 20. Are you seriously saying this country was more egalitarian then than now? There weren’t any pride festivals, indigenous rounds of the footy and none of them goddamn noggies were playing cricket or AFL*.

Local wogs were still having rocks pegged at them in the street.

THEN you got your hands personally on the levers in 2007, courtesy of that pale, flabby hand-wringer Rudd.

How much rent did you pay?
What did you give back?^

Bugger all, You Honour. You became just another party hack who disappeared when your sponsor daddy was given the arse.

Fuck off. You have no standing#.

*Richard Chee Quee and Peter Bell.
^Beds are Burning.
#Couldn’t resist.

Tom
Tom
January 27, 2022 11:27 am

Ms Plibersek said that the majority of Australians had not seen a wage increase for almost a decade, putting additional pressure on families.

The Slovenian Hag left off the PS: Albo will be Joe Biden on steroids.

calli
calli
January 27, 2022 11:27 am

Is Grace Tame available for comment?

The wind hasn’t changed yet.

She’s stuck.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 11:30 am

Also – Garrett is an Essendon supporter.

Says absolutely everything about the man.

lotocoti
lotocoti
January 27, 2022 11:31 am

And do something to bring wages up.

Here’s an idea:
Don’t do any of those preceding things.
That’d be the same as doing something to bring wages up.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 27, 2022 11:36 am

the majority of Australians had not seen a wage increase for almost a decade

Ill run that through the decoder….

“Pubic serpents will have double digit pay rises”….

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 27, 2022 11:37 am

Never forget KRuddy would have been a one term wonder without the help of that poisonous traitor Windsor and his personified historical footnote Oakshott, neither of whom had the courage to face voters at the next election.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 27, 2022 11:40 am

Prince Andrew: Lawyers demand US jury trial in Virginia Giuffre case

A US lawyer called the latest legal filings a “PR move”, saying Ms Giuffre had already asked for a jury trial.

In the court documents, filed on Wednesday, his legal team submitted a number of reasons why they believe the case should be dismissed.

One factor they asked the court to consider was the issue of consent.

The document said: “Assuming, without admitting, that Giuffre has suffered any injury or damage alleged in the complaint, Giuffre’s claims are barred by the doctrine of consent.”

So, the classic ‘I didn’t, but if I did…’ defence, beloved by sprung teenagers everywhere.
HMQ will be comforted by that.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 27, 2022 11:40 am

KD,
When did the pegging rocks at wogs stop?
Asking for a friend.

Cassie of Sydney
January 27, 2022 11:41 am

“H B Bearsays:
January 27, 2022 at 11:37 am
Never forget KRuddy would have been a one term wonder without the help of that poisonous traitor Windsor and his personified historical footnote Oakshott, neither of whom had the courage to face voters at the next election.”

No, Rudd governed in his own right….he won a majority in 2007. It was Gillard who, after the hung parliament after the 2010 election, needed the help of Windsor and Oakshitt.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 27, 2022 11:44 am

I remember the Armenian whore cancelling ANZAC Day.
It’s not just the progressives you have to worry about.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 27, 2022 11:46 am

So, the classic ‘I didn’t, but if I did…’ defence, beloved by sprung teenagers everywhere

Not uncommon in pleadings when you are required to advance a number of arguments.

Roger
Roger
January 27, 2022 11:47 am

Prince Andrew: Lawyers demand US jury trial in Virginia Giuffre case

True to form, he’s doubling down on the stupidity.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 27, 2022 11:47 am

No, Rudd governed in his own right….he won a majority in 2007. It was Gillard who, after the hung parliament after the 2010 election, needed the help of Windsor and Oakshitt.

Quite correct, Cassie.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 27, 2022 11:48 am

Re last nights flying baot discussion:
It appears that all Sandringhams were converted from Sunderlands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sandringham
This outfit looks like it operated RPT until 1978 with flying boats but not only Sandringhams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles_Air_Boats
Following some links from the article.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 27, 2022 11:51 am

Cassie

A minor correction, that should be Windbag and Oakeshitt.

Delta A
Delta A
January 27, 2022 11:52 am

Actually, more to this…

Good point, Mother Lode.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 27, 2022 11:53 am

Albo’s kow tow pays dividends:

[Global Times Warning] New Chinese ambassador to Australia sends ‘goodwill’ to reset bilateral ties

Analysts noted that the new ambassador’s message, which was sent on Australia’s national day, was a gesture of kindness and goodwill to reset and improve relations, which are at their lowest ebb. They stressed that the Morrison administration should correct its wrong China policies.

A super-subtle, almost imperceptible reminder to the incoming Abronese Government that it better prioritise correcting Morrison’s ‘wrong China policies’.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Ms Plibersek said that the majority of Australians had not seen a wage increase for almost a decade, putting additional pressure on families.

And whose fault is that Tanya?
A decade ago I was paying higher wages than I am now.

You want wages to rise?
Simply reinstate Workchoices (final version) & totally scrap the Fair (cough) Work Act.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 27, 2022 11:57 am

So, the classic ‘I didn’t, but if I did…’ defence, beloved by sprung teenagers everywhere.
HMQ will be comforted by that.

Dr F.

Andrews accuser will not have a great time on the stand.
Apparently she assisted in finding new girls for Epstein and it looks like her “boyfriend” was basically her pimp. (not sure on the timeline with the boyfriend)
This is probably aimed at getting her to settle for much, much less than she is asking for.

Roger
Roger
January 27, 2022 11:57 am

A super-subtle, almost imperceptible reminder to the incoming Abronese Government that it better prioritise correcting Morrison’s ‘wrong China policies’.

Waiting for the Left to cry “foreign interference!”

Any moment now…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 12:00 pm

Miss A:

When did the pegging rocks at wogs stop?

About an hour ago, I think. When my arm got sore.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 27, 2022 12:03 pm

Mole – there was an interesting set of police witness statements on The Smoking Gun website regarding the Epstein case. Everybody there knew why they were there.

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 12:07 pm

My soy milk this morning cried out: “Noooo! You have to make Merrick Garland a SCOTUS bench member!”

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 27, 2022 12:11 pm

My soy milk

Gaaaaayyyyyy

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 27, 2022 12:12 pm

Andrews accuser will not have a great time on the stand.
Apparently she assisted in finding new girls for Epstein and it looks like her “boyfriend” was basically her pimp.

This is entirely true – the Daily Mail published the story of one of her recruits a couple of weeks ago.

However the unfortunate truth is that the British Tabloid World will recognise the ‘I never dunnit, but it weren’t my fault’ argument over the technicalities of legal pleading. And that’s where the constitutional risk in this sad saga lies.

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 12:12 pm

The Presidents of The United States play the welcome to country I adore.

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 12:14 pm

Andrews accuser will not have a great time on the stand.
Apparently she assisted in finding new girls for Epstein and it looks like her “boyfriend” was basically her pimp.

To misquote David Allen Coe – throw that c*** in prison.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 27, 2022 12:16 pm

Good day ladies and gentlemen.
Tis a civilized blog today.

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 12:17 pm

“Disgraced former television host Andrew O’Keefe will face court on Thursday after he allegedly attempted to choke a potential business partner.

With his cock?

Roger
Roger
January 27, 2022 12:17 pm

Andrews accuser will not have a great time on the stand.

Neither will Andrew given that trainwreck of a TV interview, which he was rightly advised not to do.

And he has more to lose than her.

The best advice he could – and would – have been given was not to engage in the American civil case, which he was not obliged to do, which would only have resulted in a default judgment at worst. But it seems he’s not one to take advice.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 12:18 pm

No, Rudd governed in his own right….he won a majority in 2007. It was Gillard who, after the hung parliament after the 2010 election, needed the help of Windsor and Oakshitt.

Something for Sneakers to reflect upon.
Kokoda Kev went from Mr Seventy-Pussent to “lost our way” in exactly two and a half years.

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 12:18 pm

Funny how the conservative Murdoch papers are now confoorming with boosters for airline consoomers.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 27, 2022 12:19 pm

How do you strangle someone with a rooster?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 12:19 pm

Tis a civilized blog today.

And, on cue:

With his cock?

Heh. The bonhomie’s coming out everyone’s ears.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 27, 2022 12:22 pm

Jolly good KD, I may have spoken too soon.

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 12:23 pm

callisays:
January 27, 2022 at 10:14 am
Hungarians.

My fate in life was to always be surrounded by them. And now they’re family too. ?

Ah, old Mrs de Vere.

Mind if I have some gin in some of your Lord Faultenroy’s Tonic Water?

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 12:24 pm

That’s not bonhomie, Milo.

John H.
John H.
January 27, 2022 12:24 pm

Rogersays:
January 27, 2022 at 12:17 pm
Andrews accuser will not have a great time on the stand.

Neither will Andrew given that trainwreck of a TV interview, which he was rightly advised not to do.

And he has more to lose than her.

The best advice he could – and would – have been given was not to engage in the American civil case, which he was not obliged to do, which would only have resulted in a default judgment at worst. But it seems he’s not one to take advice.

He is going to court as a civilian not a royal. I wonder if that is an attempt to ward off any lawsuits in a civil hearing because they won’t be able to demand money from the poor citizen.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 27, 2022 12:25 pm

If is possible to lower the tone, obviously it is too high.

MatrixTransform
January 27, 2022 12:25 pm

the left’s revolutionary war against free marker capitalism. is now underway with little pretence about the objective.

Correct.
This is a bolshevik revolution

I think its quaint that pundits try to work rationally why destruction and dispossession of everything from small business to the family unit is happening.

people, there’s one simple explanation and it all starts with Marx and Engles
I said so right at the start of 2020 … the commies are making their play

the enemy isnt govt … it is your kids, your colleagues and your neighbours.

John H.
John H.
January 27, 2022 12:27 pm

callisays:
January 27, 2022 at 10:14 am
Hungarians.

My fate in life was to always be surrounded by them. And now they’re family too. ?

So you like aliens.

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 12:29 pm

mole

That Masie Williams thing was funny, but…

Please, no more.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 27, 2022 12:32 pm

I believe the recipe for Hungarian chicken soup starts with ” First, steal a chicken”

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 27, 2022 12:32 pm

If is possible to lower the tone, obviously it is too high.

We need more (virtual) belcing, farting and scratching of the hairy bits! Do we have emojis for these?

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 27, 2022 12:32 pm

I typed belching

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 27, 2022 12:34 pm

Plenty of interesting jurisdictional issues in attempting to sue a member of the crown in a foreign country. That should keep the meter ticking over for a while.

Foreign jurisdictions keep everything interesting. We had a case where a German woman committed suicide in Australia purporting to leave a will in Denmark. The file was about a foot thick and still ongoing when I left after 2 years.

twostix
twostix
January 27, 2022 12:35 pm

Then there’s the ‘conservative’ grifters of The Australian columnist variety who are all “yeah well just change the date what does it matter?”.

If it didn’t matter the entire state apparatus and their paramilitary and propaganda arms wouldn’t be mobilised to order us to abolish it.

Everyone knows why they want to get rid of it. Jan 26 Australia Day is the last solid, tangible link we have to our founding heritage that hasn’t been cut or frayed down to a single thread yet. Once that’s cut we’re “free”, they say to each other, free to be remade into an image of their own likeness, free of the ties and root of our history and tradition and dominant culture and people. And they think that after 30 years of ‘multicultural’ indoctrination and mass immigration of political blocs of millions of people from a couple of profoundly different nations, they’ve got the numbers now to start to make a final assault on the founding legend of the country and everything that makes this country operate in the way it does.

In modern Australia, where do you rights come from? If I asked my grandfather’s generation all the way back they would have said things like: god, being an Australian, British tradition and common law something something, if pushed they may have listed prominent moments in British freedom that we enjoy the fruits of via common law, parliamentary tradition, etc, etc. Culturally the everyman, and the government respected this. How about now? We’re finding out. Try and casually appeal to your rights as given by god, tradition as given to us by our British ancestors, or common law in an simple discussion. Quote our ancestors bitter battles to win and secure us freedoms in the mother country that flow through time to us, their distant sons and daughters. Be met with incredulous response about these kinds of plain-jane statements from people who think Captain Cook arrived with a vast shooting army in a D-Day style landing and quote the UN Human Rights Charter at you. Culturally, and increasingly legally, that concept is completely gone. In the modern Australian mind your ‘rights’ are ‘given’ and taken from you by these mangy federal and state advisory board level ‘parliaments’ under the orders of the head of executive and his lackeys: the head of the ATO, the NSW police commissioner, etc, with the cover of news.com.au, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, etc, and that is that. Courts exist to do as they’re told by the same.

Safety rope #1 cut.

One pointed example of this in operation at the moment. Australian governments unilaterally shutdown and sidelined our parliaments and now operate with power that would make a medieval king blush.

Our forebears fought and endured a nasty civil war in England about parliament vs the government. It was the result of that which gave us the system and traditions around parliament being supreme over the government that we have (had until 2020). Yet who in Australia under the age of 60 knows anything about this? British history is not taught as our history now (or at all), and so we have no idea why things are the way they are. The rot is so deep that some Australians, in an unbelievably childish moment of idiocy, voted for US congress style fixed terms for Westminster parliaments without securing any concessions or protections to prevent four year dictatorships. Under which we’re predictably now enduring.

In this way the ruling establishment now throws away systems and traditions that were built over the course of a thousand years and engages in relentless year zero revolutions at every level of society.

Safety rope #2, cut.

Now they’re busily hacking away at the last fragile thread of our final safety rope, the link we have to our very own history, our eternity, the source of our ideas and traditions and reason for why Australia is what it is, institutionally, culturally, politically, economically, all of it.

John H.
John H.
January 27, 2022 12:37 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 12:39 pm

H B Bearsays:

January 27, 2022 at 12:03 pm

Mole – there was an interesting set of police witness statements on The Smoking Gun website regarding the Epstein case. Everybody there knew why they were there.

Yes, that also occured to me when I saw that promo for the Hugh Hefner “documentary”.
Hefner started Playboy magazine in the early ’50’s.
And he was no mere backroom publisher. He actively promoted himself as the hedonistic playboy. This theme continued on into at least one high profile TV series in the 1960’s, along with an endless string of “public decency” cases and regular mentions by “morals campaigner” politicians.
Any 19 year old girl who turned up at Hefner’s mansion in the 1970’s not knowing that she was in for a sound rogering must have been living under a rock for her entire life.
They went expecting a career boost, or a decent cash bonus at worst.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 27, 2022 12:51 pm

KD,
Well that’s my Saturday afternoon sport stuffed.

Jorge
Jorge
January 27, 2022 12:51 pm

Capt. Cook statue in Melbourne covered in red paint.

Vicpol not worried. ‘We understand.’ etc.

Suppose someone splashed rainbows over the statues of Pastor Sir Doug Nicholson and Lady N near Parliament.

‘Right wing extremists ! Nazis !’

JMH
JMH
January 27, 2022 12:53 pm

I suppose the gigantic truck convoy heading for Canada’s capital is not newsworthy in the eyes our disgraceful MSM who do, from time to time, cover world events – when it suits them. Has anyone seen the Canadian convoy mentioned either in print or radio/TV?

I’ve been following Convoy to Ottawa 2022 and the scenes and reports are amazing. May or may not be true but it has been alleged the convoy stretches for 450 miles. They are due to hit Ottawa on Saturday 29th (their time). Apparently there are heaps of US trucks heading towards Ottawa as well.

The purpose is to remain in Ottawa until mandates are lifted. I won’t be wishing Trudeau good luck. He brought this on himself. Canadians like Australians are a pretty placid lot until they aren’t!

Also, it seems something along the same lines might be being planned for Canberra.

rickw
rickw
January 27, 2022 12:54 pm

I remember the Armenian whore cancelling ANZAC Day.
It’s not just the progressives you have to worry about.

That’s the risk of a melting pot. Half the shit that gets put in the pot doesn’t melt.

MatrixTransform
January 27, 2022 12:54 pm

incoherent rambler says:January 27, 2022 at 12:16 pm
Tis a civilized blog today.

and 1 minute later, inco was fake news

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 27, 2022 12:55 pm

Hungarian food. Chicken Paprikash. I do make a rather nice one although not truly authentic. I add more char-grilled red capsicum and onion. Yum.

calli
calli
January 27, 2022 12:56 pm

Ah, old Mrs de Vere.

Ahaha! I loved that show.

calli
calli
January 27, 2022 12:58 pm

I’m less of a Forbes-Hamilton and more of a Frobisher though.

calli
calli
January 27, 2022 1:00 pm

They went expecting a career boost, or a decent cash bonus at worst.

Groupies.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 1:02 pm

From the Oz reporting on Andrew O’Keefe allegedly punching the alleged suitcase out of a lady friend.
Allegedly.

White Ribbon, an anti-domestic violence organisation, said last year it had gone into liquidation in 2019 and that O’Keefe has had no role with the group after it relaunched in 2020.

Makes me wonder why a charity goes into liquidation, then re-starts the following year under the same banner.
Normally charities work a bit hand-to-mouth and cut their spending cloth to match donation/sponsorship income.
No large corporate would sue them for unpaid debts because that would be “enabling violence against women”.
So why liquidate?
Could it be that some unsavoury stuff surfaced about the behaviour of office-bearers, board members and/or ambassadors whilst on White Ribbon business which might have led to embarrassing litigation?
The best way to discourage litigation is to make the cupboard bare.

rickw
rickw
January 27, 2022 1:04 pm

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

Who needs training, they’re Russian!

On the Eastern front one source suggests that the Germans only initiated hand to hand combat 30% of the time.

It seems this was the case because the Russians kept winning when it came to drunk/angry/bar fight mode.

twostix
twostix
January 27, 2022 1:04 pm

Stick a fork in it. After two years pharma love child the WSJ climbs out of the bunker, rubs its eyes, looks around and finds out that there was no nuclear war…

The High Cost of Disparaging Natural Immunity to Covid
Vaccines were wasted on those who didn’t need them, and people who posed no risk lost jobs.

Public-health officials ruined many lives by insisting that workers with natural immunity to Covid-19 be fired if they weren’t fully vaccinated. But after two years of accruing data, the superiority of natural immunity over vaccinated immunity is clear. By firing staff with natural immunity, employers got rid of those least likely to infect others. It’s time to reinstate those employees with an apology.

Yes, with an apology, and a promotion for being awesome.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 27, 2022 1:04 pm

Last nite we watched a good Foxtel program on Governor Macquarie and his emancipation policies which gained the ire of the free settlers. He was an impressive man and his wife ably assisted his ambitions and hopes. He was also the first to institute Australia Day as a day of celebration of the Colony’s arrival on the 26th January, 1788. In my view there can be no other day as a substitute for recognition of how this country originated and formed itself. It stood out in 1816 and it still does.

We also watched Chris Smith News where he had an historian on who offered the usual ‘overflowing British prisons’ reason for the settlement in Botany Bay. Hairy was exploding over that, for I gave him Margaret Cameron-Ash’s ‘Beating France To Botany Bay: The Race to Found Australia’ as his Christmas present and he has been entraced with this detailed analysis of the politics behind the First Fleet. Luckily, Rowan Dean was hosting ‘Inside the News’ that nite and he had Margaret Cameron-Ash on to put this more recent historical view on things. It is a ripper yarn.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 27, 2022 1:05 pm

I thought the de Veres were Slovaks not Hungarians.
Not that I differentiate but I think each would be annoyed to be taken for the other.

Jorge
Jorge
January 27, 2022 1:06 pm

Mysteriously, the name of the Melbourne driver killed while wearing a suicide bomber’s vest after hitting a non existent speed bump has not been reported.

Was it, say, Alf Brown ? Possibly.

Gerhardt von Clausewitz ? I couldn’t possibly comment.

rickw
rickw
January 27, 2022 1:08 pm

Capt. Cook statue in Melbourne covered in red paint.

Vicpol not worried. ‘We understand.’ etc.

Straight out of the playbook that’s being used in the USA.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 27, 2022 1:10 pm

rickw

It seems this was the case because the Russians kept winning when it came to drunk/angry/bar fight mode.

As far back as WW I, the Germans had worked out that a spade sharpened on one edge was far superior to a bayonet on the end of a rifle.

And it was useful for digging trenches as well; less so for opening food cans.

rickw
rickw
January 27, 2022 1:12 pm

The High Cost of Disparaging Natural Immunity to Covid

Link not working!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 27, 2022 1:12 pm

Who needs training, they’re Russian!

I’ve read accounts of the Eastern Front that suggest Stalin didn’t want a too highly trained and professional Army – they might pose a threat to him…

rickw
rickw
January 27, 2022 1:16 pm

I’ve read accounts of the Eastern Front that suggest Stalin didn’t want a too highly trained and professional Army – they might pose a threat to him…

Yep, you only need to look at his relationship with Zhukov.

Roger
Roger
January 27, 2022 1:17 pm

After two years pharma love child the WSJ climbs out of the bunker, rubs its eyes, looks around and finds out that there was no nuclear war…

“Did you hear that?”

“Yes…and it’s getting louder; but what is it?”

“It’s the sound of a paradigm collapsing.”

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 27, 2022 1:24 pm

Sounds like the movie “Enemy at the Gates”. Take mob of peasants, half of whom are armed, get them to run at enemy positions. When the bloke in front with a rifle falls, take rifle and keep running.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 27, 2022 1:30 pm

Take mob of peasants, half of whom are armed, get them to run at enemy positions. When the bloke in front with a rifle falls, take rifle and keep running.

A tactic first developed on the Eastern Front during World War 1

“It is a wide road that leads to war – a narrow path home – but Old Mother Russia has plenty of sons.”

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 27, 2022 1:33 pm

Eyrie,
Same thing happened in Korea.
There is a Russian saying:
The road to War is wide and broad
The path back home is narrow
But Mother Russia has many sons.

zyconoclast
zyconoclast
January 27, 2022 1:33 pm

Where can they possibly get 400k skilled migrants from?

Germany needs to attract about 400,000 foreign workers per year to mitigate the economic impact of its aging society, according to the caucus leader of the country’s FDP party.

“The shortage of skilled workers is now so serious that it is dramatically slowing down our economy,” Christian Duerr said in an interview with WirtschaftsWoche. “We can only get the aging labor market under control with a modern immigration policy.”

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 27, 2022 1:34 pm

Zulu,
One or the other.

srr
srr
January 27, 2022 1:34 pm

Dozens of German homes raided in child pornography probes
26 Jan

The raids targeted 50 properties connected to 55 suspects aged between 18 and 73.

The suspects are accused of obtaining videos showing severe and violent abuse of children, including infants.

Investigators said they had identified 439 suspected paedophiles as part of a probe into a huge child pornography network.

German police have conducted raids across two states in investigations into child pornography with victims as young as infants, local authorities said Wednesday, while 100 suspects have been identified in a third case.

The raids in the southern state of Bavaria took place on Tuesday and targeted 50 properties connected to 55 suspects aged between 18 and 73, the state’s interior minister Joachim Herrmann and justice minister Georg Eisenreich said.

They are accused of obtaining videos showing severe and violent abuse of children, including infants.

In Saxony state, the homes of 36 suspects accused of possessing, buying or distributing child pornography were raided last week in and around the city of Chemnitz, police said.

Meanwhile, investigators in the western city of Wuppertal said they had identified around 100 suspects as part of a probe into two men accused of sexually abusing children as young as five months.

The two original suspects, aged 22 and 44, are accused of abusing children from 2016 to 2021 as well as photographing and filming the assaults.

The new suspects are accused of obtaining the resulting child pornography, the investigators said on Wednesday.

The children are said to have been between five months and 12 years old.

Germany has been shaken by several serious cases of child sex abuse in recent years.

Investigators said earlier this month they had identified 439 suspected paedophiles as part of a probe into a huge child pornography network linked to the city of Bergisch Gladbach.

In 2020, 11 people were arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing children and filming their actions after videos and photos were seized from the cellar of a 27-year-old man from the city of Muenster.

In an earlier scandal in Luegde, 125 kilometres from Muenster, several men preyed on children at a campsite for years.

The government in 2020 agreed tougher punishments for using and sharing child pornography as part of a crackdown on child abuse.
___________________________

So, they didn’t start cracking down on Child & BABY Raping Groups until 2020, while for years before then every time people cried out for a crackdown, evil arseholes madly went around crying, “Pizza! Conspiracy Nuts!” … as they continue to do to this day.

And that’s only in Germany.
Evil arseholes still continue to blow cover smoke for all the other Baby Raping Networks around the world and, oddly, somehow, manage to sell themselves as ‘good’ characters by never missing a chance to laugh off the International Industry of Child & Baby Rape.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 27, 2022 1:41 pm

For agricultural Cats – all the comments so far are along the lines of “Oh, well the farmers will just have to pay more…”

Shearer shortage sparks call for Aussie youth to take up the job
Mike Foley
By Mike Foley
January 26, 2022 — 7.30pm

Farmers are trying to turn a lack of available shearers into a win for young workers looking to boost their wages as the wool industry grapples with an ageing workforce, demographic shifts and blockages at the international border.

The 500 Kiwi shearers that used to provide surge capacity are no longer crossing the ditch for the busy spring season, due to the risk they’ll be blocked from returning or forced into quarantine.

Meanwhile, Australians are growing more and more reluctant to take on the hard labour and itinerant employment from chasing the clip across Australia’s wool-growing districts. There are about 2000 working shearers in Australia now, down from 10,000 30 years ago.

But with $1500 gross weekly earnings in reach of a shearer with about six months’ experience on the job, the NSW Farmers Association is tuning its pitch to school-leavers by promoting the near-term earning potential for those who want to start saving for their future.

Shearers are paid by the sheep and gun workers can earn more than $100,000 a year.

“It can be hard work, but it’s rewarding and the pay can set the savvy saver up for a great future,” said NSW Farmers Wool Committee Chair Helen Carrigan.

Ms Carrigan, a wool producer from Garah in northern NSW, said the industry in her state is now following the lead of others and setting up an advisory group of shearing trainers to mentor new workers as they make their way in the industry.

“If we can encourage young people to get into the sheds to be trained and mentored we can not only set them up for success but also help solve this worker shortage.”

WoolProducers Australia president Ed Storey “fully endorses” NSW Farmers’ push to promote the opportunities for young Aussies to take up the shears and encouraged producers to get on board.

“Growers and shearing contractors have to ensure we are offering stands to learner shears to ensure we have a steam of young people coming through,” said Mr Storey, who farms at Yass, NSW.

Shearing is a skilled trade, but state training bodies are offering free courses to get qualified.

NSW Farmers president James Jackson said the worker shortage had delayed shearing for some producers, which was eating into their profitability.

“Opportunities are being lost because if you don’t shear animals when they need it can create a break in the wool,” said Mr Jackson, a woolgrower from Guyra on NSW’s Northern Tablelands.

“The fibre can become too long and mills have to adjust their machinery, which means they discount the wool.”

Leaving shearing for too long also increases the risk of ewes becoming cast, or stuck on their backs, with heavy wet fleeces – especially at lambing time.

Australia’s wool industry is recovering with great growing conditions over the past two years, following an intense drought on the eastern seaboard. Producers are rebuilding their flocks and Australia’s wool export markets remain strong.

But Australia no longer rides on the sheep’s back. The national flock peaked at 180 million head in the 1970s but that has fallen about two-thirds to just over 63 million today.

Sheep and wool industries are bouncing back with a focus on farming techniques, animal nutrition, selective breeding and increased fertility nearly doubling the industries’ value over the past 20 years to a combined $9 billion a year.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 27, 2022 1:45 pm

Sheep and wool industries are bouncing back with a focus on farming techniques, animal nutrition, selective breeding and increased fertility nearly doubling the industries’ value over the past 20 years to a combined $9 billion a year.

So the whole sheep and wool industry is worth one Pyne class submarine!

srr
srr
January 27, 2022 1:46 pm

Jesse Watters Details Nancy Pelosi’s Corrupt Stock Trades

https://rumble.com/vtd56n-jesse-watters-details-nancy-pelosis-corrupt-stock-trades.html?mref=5f67r&mc=7xi0y

Brigitte Gabriel – Published January 26, 2022

Rumble — Jesse Watters Details Nancy Pelosi’s Corrupt Stock Trades

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 27, 2022 1:48 pm

So, they didn’t start cracking down on Child & BABY Raping Groups until 2020, while for years before then every time people cried out for a crackdown, evil arseholes madly went around crying, “Pizza! Conspiracy Nuts!” … as they continue to do to this day.

And that’s only in Germany.
Evil arseholes still continue to blow cover smoke for all the other Baby Raping Networks around the world and, oddly, somehow, manage to sell themselves as ‘good’ characters by never missing a chance to laugh off the International Industry of Child & Baby Rape.

So, this post was really all about you rather than some good work being done by them then, Mrs Faulty?

Spack off back into your tunnel and eat your pizza…

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 27, 2022 1:51 pm

By 2050, a quarter of the world’s people will be African – this will shape our future
Depressing. A whole world like Africa today.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 27, 2022 1:53 pm

mole

That Masie Williams thing was funny, but…

Please, no more.

As you wish

Just…one…more…

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 27, 2022 1:55 pm

We had the best Australia Day. Usually we have people round for the harbour show, but after some recent hostings we felt like being lazy: meat pies for lunch, fish for dinner, all too easy.

What we did do that made it the best was we took two wine glasses, some left-over almond bread (thanks, Cassie), and a very cold bottle of Tasmanian Sav Blanc (ideal!) and went down two hours before sunset to Camp Cove where Phillip camped the first night of his exploration trip in three small boats to check out Port Jackson. We now know that Captain Cook had walked overland over the coastal track from Botany Bay and had observed this magnificent harbour and its islands, deciding then for naval strategic reasons to conceal its existence in his maps. We know that Phillip knew this because he is recorded as speaking of ‘islands’ at Port Jackson before he left for Botany Bay. Botany Bay was simply a ruse to put off the French.

We two sat on a bench in front of the nineteenth century clifftop memorial to Phillilp’s arrival in Port Jackson his, commemorating his night on the golden sands spread out below us. Small groups of revellers sat around on the grass enjoying the late afternoon. After three pleasant glasses each we moved down to the beach and paddled our way along the beach to where we thought the three small boats were most likely to have been drawn up. A party beach house had raised high the Australian flag on a flagpole just opposite our chosen spot. The beach wasn’t too crowded by this time. The steep cliffs on each side of the cove probably hadn’t changed much, nor had the aspect over to Middle Head and Manly, which Phillip had just explored and named after the aboriginal men he saw there. The January water was warm and lapping. The afternoon was deepening. The cliffs warming yellow in the low western sun. Yep. I could see the Commodore about to turn Governor getting his feet wet just as we were doing too.

rickw
rickw
January 27, 2022 1:55 pm

Depressing. A whole world like Africa today.

Most people would see photos of the LA freight train heist and assume the image was from Africa.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 27, 2022 2:02 pm

Just…one…more…

Glorious.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 27, 2022 2:02 pm

Prue MacSween
@macsween_prue
I love the Aboriginal flag and as its creator, artist Harold Thomas says, he created the flag to unite us. I would like this to become the Aussie flag

No way.
It is a flag without history and it would never unite us.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 27, 2022 2:03 pm

So the whole sheep and wool industry is worth one Pyne class submarine!

You’re mistaking political cost and political value. Trap for young voters.

The cost of one Pyne class submarine is, indeed, the annual output of the sheep and wool industry;

The value of the Pyne class submarine program is immense and nuanced and beyond the ken of little folk – as a politician you could conjure with it for fifty years and never come to an end.

If you were an Oceangoing politician you would know it’s so ‘worth it’.
[See also: NBN; Net Zero]

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 27, 2022 2:06 pm

By 2050, a quarter of the world’s people will be African – this will shape our future

Depressing. A whole world like Africa today.

Unfortunately “like Africa today” will seem a nostalgic dream in the rear view mirror.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 27, 2022 2:07 pm

But I can tell you right now, whoever Biden picks (for the Supreme Court), they sexually assaulted me 25 years ago at a high school party. I can’t remember how I got there or how I got home. So far, the people I know who were present are telling me it didn’t happen. I may have changed my story a few times too. But, hey, look, you can trust me. I have no agenda.

Matt Margolis at PJM.
Too true to history to be funny.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 27, 2022 2:10 pm

It is a flag without history and it would never unite us.

With you on that one, LizzieB – one more exercise in division.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 27, 2022 2:11 pm

You would think that after deaths of men working on the pink bat abomination the Barker boy lawyer would keep his ugly trap shut and just fuck off with his millions.

Cassie of Sydney
January 27, 2022 2:12 pm

“No way.
It is a flag without history and it would never unite us.”

Liberty quote Lizzie.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 2:15 pm

So, they didn’t start cracking down on Child & BABY Raping Groups until 2020, while for years before then every time people cried out for a crackdown, evil arseholes madly went around crying, “Pizza! Conspiracy Nuts!” … as they continue to do to this day.

Fuck off, ussr.
The fact that a few pedos have been arrested somewhere in the world does not validate every batshit crazy accusation ever made by you and your loopy fellow travellers.
Again, why was it you got banned by Sinc?

Roger
Roger
January 27, 2022 2:15 pm

I love the Aboriginal flag and as its creator, artist Harold Thomas says, he created the flag to unite us.

I didn’t know Prue was indigenous.

calli
calli
January 27, 2022 2:17 pm

The rush to adopt the thing is because it has no history.

It’s simply a graphic thought up by a marketer.

It’s corny, but it’s still true.

Our Flag wears the stars that blaze at night,
In our Southern skies of blue,
And a little old flag in the corner,
That’s part of our heritage too.
It’s for the English, the Scots and the Irish,
Who were sent to the ends of the earth,
The rogues and schemers, the doers and dreamers,
Who gave modern Australia its birth.
And you, who are shouting to change it,
You don’t seem to understand,
It’s the flag of our laws and our language,
Not the flag of a faraway land.
Though there are plenty of people who’ll tell you,
How when Europe was plunged into night,
That little old flag in the corner,
Was their symbol of freedom and light.
It doesn’t mean we owe allegiance,
To a forgotten imperial dream,
We’ve the stars to show where we’re going,
And the old flag to show where we’ve been.
It’s only an old piece of bunting,
It’s only an old piece of rag,
But there are thousands who’ve died for its honour,
And shed of their blood for OUR FLAG.

But, hey! That’s all so old hat. And waycist.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 27, 2022 2:26 pm

Our Flag wears the stars that blaze at night,
In our Southern skies of blue,

My great uncle served in North Africa, during World War Two. Returning to Australia after El Alamein, he wrote in his diary about “seeing an old friend – the Southern Cross – in the night sky.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 27, 2022 2:30 pm

Nathan McGuire, who has previously been named a “leading light in the Australian fashion industry and a resounding voice for Indigenous equality” posed in a photo adorning a Clothing the Gaps tee with the caption “ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE, ABORIGINAL LAND

Good luck wearing one of those tees into any rural pub in Australia.

twostix
twostix
January 27, 2022 2:31 pm

Meanwhile back in Jonestown:

Andrews pushes new ‘fully vaxxed’ definition
Daniel Andrews says he hopes state and territory leaders will agree on three doses of a Covid vaccine being the new definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ at today’s national cabinet.

Rubber is about to hit the road double-jabbees, please make your stand now or accept that for all of us, this is the New Normal, and you’re ok with that, forever.

twostix
twostix
January 27, 2022 2:33 pm

In the modern “Australia”, politicians meet in their secret Commonwealth council to determine what drugs you have to take to be allowed into the new society they’re creating.

Delta A
Delta A
January 27, 2022 2:38 pm

The rush to adopt the thing is because it has no history.

Twostix has an excellent post exploring this at 12.35 pm. Highly recommended.

calli
calli
January 27, 2022 2:45 pm

Here is the link to the WSJ mentioned up thread.

The High Cost of Disparaging Natural Immunity to Covid.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 27, 2022 2:47 pm

Time to nuke the NT mcClown…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-27/nt-covid-hospital-numbers-tennant-creek-death/100785252

A man with COVID-19 has died in Tennant Creek and the number of coronavirus patients in Northern Territory hospitals has reached a new record of 95.

NT Health Minister Natasha Fyles said the man, whose age was unknown, died of a cardiac arrest and was in the “early stages of COVID”.

“At this stage, we’re not recording this death as a COVID-19 death,” she said.

“But I did think it was important for the public to be aware that sadly this gentleman has passed away.”

Of the people in hospital, 15 are receiving oxygen and four are in intensive care.

It follows the NT recording 626 new COVID-19 cases in the last reporting period.

Ms Fyles said 278 cases had been added to Wednesday’s case total, bringing the total to 778 – a new daily record case total for the NT.

Crossie
Crossie
January 27, 2022 2:51 pm

Miss Anthropic at 11:44 am, Gladys is a progressive, not a conservative. I twigged to it a couple of of years ago when she said of renewables as things that dreams are made of.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 27, 2022 2:52 pm

Lizzie, much signage around there re the submarine indicator loops and the boom net from WWII? I’m doing a book on the midget submarine attacks on Sydney Harbour for the 80th anniversary – that area was part of both.

There’s is also the Port War signal station around the point to the east there.

JC
JC
January 27, 2022 2:56 pm
Oh come on
Oh come on
January 27, 2022 3:00 pm

Remember alleged woman-basher Andrew O’Keefe white-knighting for feminism when he did that hatchet job on Cassie Jaye?

How many times has he been arrested for assaulting women?

Clown world.

JC
JC
January 27, 2022 3:08 pm

Unfuckingreal.

To kill a classic: school ditches Harper Lee

The United States is grappling with the legacy of one its greatest books over fears its handling of race may make teachers and pupils uncomfortable.

School authorities have pulled To Kill a Mockingbird from a required reading list for children aged 14 to 15 because it was a “difficult book” that raised “thorny subjects”. Harper Lee’s classic 1960 novel about a white lawyer defending a black man wrongly accused of rape in Alabama in the 1930s has long been a staple in schools, as well as the subject of deep controversy. It frequently appears on lists for both America’s greatest novels and its most banned.

A school board in Mukilteo, near Seattle, removed the book from its ninth grade curriculum, claiming it “reflects a time when racism was tolerated”.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 27, 2022 3:12 pm

Oh come onsays:
January 27, 2022 at 3:00 pm

“Havent seen all the movie” = watched the preview and got given a synopsis of questions to parrott.
“Done a lot of reading on Paul..” = Never read anything beyond the selected quotes from when we did a hatchet job interview with him….

hes a prototype urban bugman.

Needs to check his…privilege..

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 27, 2022 3:13 pm

I twigged to it a couple of of years ago when she said of renewables as things that dreams are made of.

They are! They’re just not what reality is made of.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 27, 2022 9:14 pm

twostixsays:
January 27, 2022 at 12:35 pm
Then there’s the ‘conservative’ grifters of The Australian columnist variety who are all “yeah well just change the date what does it matter?”.

If it didn’t matter the entire state apparatus and their paramilitary and propaganda arms wouldn’t be mobilised to order us to abolish it.

Great rant.

And those who are pushing for the changes that you discuss should be asked on every opportunity (borrowing sentiments from A Man For All Seasons):

“And when that which you seek has come to pass, and we are subject to arbitrary rule, what will you say when the arbitrary rulers come for you? You will have helped to destroy a thousand years to custom and tradition concerning individual rights and the impartial administration of the law, and what will you turn to for recourse? There will be nothing that you can use to defend yourself against arbitrary imprisonment, property confiscation and worse, and you will have swept every possible defence away.”

custard
custard
January 27, 2022 9:16 pm

Whistleblowers Share DOD Medical Data Thar Blows Vaccine Safety Debate Wide Open | Daniel Horowitz The Blaze

Data, transparency, and surveillance. That is what has been missing from the greatest experiment on humans of all time throughout this pandemic. Now, military medical whistleblowers have come forward with what they claim is perhaps the most accurate and revealing data set on vaccine safety one could possibly find.

On Monday, during Sen. Ron Johnson’s five-hour hearing on a “COVID-19: Second Opinion,” Ohio attorney Thomas Renz, who has been representing clients suing the vaccine mandates, presented DOD medical billing data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) that paints a shockingly disturbing picture of the health of our service members in 2021:

• Neurological issues: a 1,000% increase, from a baseline average of 82,000 to 863,000

• Cancer: an almost 300% increase in cancer diagnoses (from a five-year average of 38,700 per year to 114,645 in the first 11 months of 2021)

• Pulmonary embolisms: a 467% increase

• Myocardial infarction: a 269% increase

• Bell’s palsy: a 291% increase

• Miscarriages: a 300% increase in 2021 over the five-year average. The five-year average was 1,499 codes for miscarriages per year. During the first 10 months of 2021, it was 4,182.

• Congenital malformations (for children of military personnel): a 156% increase

• Female infertility: a 471% increase

DMED is quite literally an epidemiological surveillance program designed for the express purpose of detecting surges in illness and injury to make sure the military is combat-ready. It’s about national security even more than public health. Why would the military not have blown the whistle and warned the CDC right away about this data? On the military health system website, the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division (AFHSD) is described as “the central epidemiologic resource for the U.S. Armed Forces, conducting medical surveillance to protect those who serve our nation in uniform and allies who are critical to our national security interests.”

Read more ? The Blaze
Watch ? Senator Johnson Hearing

@LibertyOverwatchChannel

Big if true.

Roger
Roger
January 27, 2022 9:18 pm

You’re back!

Thanks, dover.

calli
calli
January 27, 2022 9:18 pm

Hamsters are go!

😀

Cassie of Sydney
January 27, 2022 9:22 pm

Amen!

Cassie of Sydney
January 27, 2022 9:24 pm

“Oh come onsays:
January 27, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Remember alleged woman-basher Andrew O’Keefe white-knighting for feminism when he did that hatchet job on Cassie Jaye?

How many times has he been arrested for assaulting women?

Clown world.”

Yep…clown world. I’ve never forgotten nor forgiven his abuse of Cassie Jaye. It was pure misogyny. The man is a creep and hypocrite.

Cassie of Sydney
January 27, 2022 9:25 pm

“dover0beachsays:
January 27, 2022 at 9:24 pm
Sorry, ladies and gents. Webhost’s server was treading water. Funnily enough, thunderstorms aplenty here in Danistan so power might be a problem at least for me and a few others.”

Don’t apologise, these things happen.

Cassie of Sydney
January 27, 2022 9:26 pm

I did wonder if it was an ASIO raid!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

My great uncle served in North Africa, during World War Two. Returning to Australia after El Alamein, he wrote in his diary about “seeing an old friend – the Southern Cross – in the night sky.”

That’s one of the most noticeable aspects of being in the northern hemisphere.

The totally different night sky. It’s super weird to look up & see a totally different sky.
The feeling is indescribable.

Super super super duper weird. Reinforces just how far you are from home, & how big the planet is.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 27, 2022 9:27 pm

Aaaargh Jim lad; I’m back me hearties!

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
January 27, 2022 9:28 pm

Is the site glowing now?

All of that lathe code was bound to get the place to spin off its chuck

calli
calli
January 27, 2022 9:30 pm

these things happen.

Yes. Much speculation of skullduggery elsewhere.

I liked mh’s link to a story about China culling hamsters because of Covid. Sounded plausible. 😀

JC
JC
January 27, 2022 9:37 pm

The totally different night sky. It’s super weird to look up & see a totally different sky.
The feeling is indescribable.

Super super super duper weird. Reinforces just how far you are from home, & how big the planet is.

Driller, don’t over egg the omelette. It’s no huge deal and the feeling is NOT indescribable. It’s no biggie and this is from someone who lives in the northern hem for around 16 years. Calm down.

duncanm
duncanm
January 27, 2022 9:38 pm

Oh dear.
The Venn diagram of victimhood is not aligning.. better bury this story.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/giant-withdraws-after-declining-pride-jumper/news-story/48bc8bd392989fcbdf980e63d31f0712

Greater Western Sydney player and practising Muslim Haneen Zreika will not play this weekend after deciding not to wear the team’s pride jumper on religious grounds

Good in this girl for standing up for her religious beliefs, but I do wonder what response would be if she were Catholic.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 9:38 pm

Skullduggery indeed.

Had a quick look at the Furniture Shop to see if they’d been peeking during the hamster siesta, and if so whether they’d attributed it to some insidious centuries-old conspiracy finally raising its head above water.

I was not disappointed on either count. Well done Faulty, well done.

Another Great Prediction come tr – hang on. Wait, wait.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 9:42 pm

Naturally, FlashCat flatbat smashes DashCat.

Some good Cats at DashCat but trashed by the Flash.

Nice work, Doverlord.

Speedbox
January 27, 2022 9:45 pm

rickw says:
January 27, 2022 at 1:04 pm
On the Eastern front one source suggests that the Germans only initiated hand to hand combat 30% of the time. It seems this was the case because the Russians kept winning when it came to drunk/angry/bar fight mode.

Yes, but also they were fighting for the ‘Motherland’. Remember that Stalin phrased it as the Great Patriotic War. In 1941, despite the extraordinary deprivations inflicted by Stalin, Russians were enraged that German troops would desecrate the villages, abuse the Russian women and generally lay waste to their society.

(kind of an irony in some respects considering Stalin but the difference was that he was Russian, well Georgian)

In any case, that mindset largely continues to this day.

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 9:45 pm

A school board in Mukilteo, near Seattle, removed the book from its ninth grade curriculum, claiming it “reflects a time when racism was tolerated”.

That’s the point you idiots, Atticus Finch is a stand up guy.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
January 27, 2022 9:45 pm

Everyone remember the top secret recognition codes?
Edyay isyay ayay ongmay

JC
JC
January 27, 2022 9:47 pm

And so it begins again……

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

It’s no huge deal and the feeling is NOT indescribable.

That would be the case for office johnnies, other sad sacks and the like, who don’t spend any time outdoors.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 9:49 pm

This is what I have to deal with. I am not making this up.

Tinder bio of a 35 year old ladeee in another small town near my own (I want to stress here, not my own):

Hi looking for long term rship mum of three kids they don’t live with me also I am pregnant HMU

I’m not even going to describe the pic associated with this apparent too-good-to-be-true dream scenario.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 27, 2022 9:49 pm

Pharaoh has decreed that all Gods children in the Wheatbelt and the Great Southern shall wear masks…and so it begins…..

JC
JC
January 27, 2022 9:51 pm

That would be the case for office johnnies, other sad sacks and the like, who don’t spend any time outdoors.

Is this a prelude to telling about spending 40 days and nights in the wilderness, Drills. That’s already been done.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 9:52 pm

I was trying to post this earlier just around the time ASIO commandeered the site.
So, here’s one for ussr who squeals about people laughing at “pizzagate”.
Remember Edgar Madison Welch?
In 2016 he drove 4 1/2 hours from North Carolina armed to the teeth to “rescue the children” held captive in Planet Ping Pong pizza restaurant in Washington DC.
Do you remember the film of his arrest outside?
Where he was asked what he was doing?
His reply, “I came here to rescue the children.”
Well, that was what his words were, but his resigned tone said something else;
“I’ve been totally fucking conned”.
Pizzagate was a total bust.
A lie invented by those oh, so confident sounding innernet slacktivists.
You know the type.
Big microphone, MAGA cap on backwards, “Don’t Tread On Me” posters and Confederate flags in the background and always interviewing “ex law enforcement” and “ex military” types who “know stuff”.
Liars and grifters looking to chisel a few hundred bucks a day out of their innernet profile rather than get a real job.
Liars and grifters who cost Welch four years in the slot and untold terror for fifty innocent pizza shop staff and customers.
Only good luck prevented it resulting in the death of Welch and/or people in the restaurant.
And did these bullshitters do anything to try to repair the damage they had done?
Nup.
Just moved on to the next bullshit conspiracy.
So, ussr, when I laugh at Pizzagate, I do so because it is proven bullshit.
Which makes me wonder why you keep embarrassing yourself with it.
Unless, of course, Welch was a deep state operative sent in to distract attention from …

Speedbox
January 27, 2022 9:52 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
January 27, 2022 at 9:38 pm
Skullduggery indeed.

The cockatoos are overhead. Prepare the mesh.
Repeat: the cockatoos are overhead. Prepare the mesh.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 9:52 pm

FlashCat’s back.

Flurry of activity on the Dash.

Bird is in his home and squawking loudly at the Furniture Shop.

All is right with the world.

duncanm
duncanm
January 27, 2022 9:53 pm

That indescribable night sky is meh.

Seen them both in isolated locations (low light pollution).

Yeh..Whatever.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 27, 2022 9:53 pm

On the Eastern front one source suggests that the Germans only initiated hand to hand combat 30% of the time

Human wave tactics?

It seems this was the case because the Russians kept winning when it came to drunk/angry/bar fight mode.

Got a link for that?
It sounds like wish fulfilment on your part, to me.
One of the many problems the Red Army had at Stalingrad, besides inferior troops, was warrior nationalities like Tartars defecting to the Wehrmacht.

Rabz
January 27, 2022 9:55 pm

err, is this thing on?

JC
JC
January 27, 2022 9:55 pm

USSR

Please respond to Sanchez and no, accusing him of lying isn’t going to work for you.

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 9:56 pm

So, ussr, when I laugh at Pizzagate, I do so because it is proven bullshit.
Which makes me wonder why you keep embarrassing yourself with it.
Unless, of course, Welch was a deep state operative sent in to distract attention from …

Shut up, clown.

That fat, bald, hypertensive English dude said there were 10 millions kids beneath tunnels here in shameful Australia!

Rabz
January 27, 2022 9:57 pm

Veitman goin’ down! ?????

rickw
rickw
January 27, 2022 9:57 pm

All of that lathe code was bound to get the place to spin off its chuck

A nice turning of phrase!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 9:58 pm

srssrsrs has the firm belief FlashCat died because the globalists realised that she and she alone could derail their plans for tunnel-inspired world domination.

Seriously. It’s like an episode of Pinky and the Brain, every time.

JC
JC
January 27, 2022 9:58 pm

That fat, bald, hypertensive English dude said there were 10 millions kids beneath tunnels here in shameful Australia!

I heard it was 25 million, but keep it under your hat as USSR whispered to me.

I’ve told her a ton of times to stop worrying about the kids , get into a kitchen and concoct something really nice.

Rabz
January 27, 2022 9:59 pm

Emojis failing to function (again) 😡

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
January 27, 2022 9:59 pm

KD

See if she will pay for your petrol money.

It might be Christen Nixons daughter ready to make sexy sexy walrus noises for you.
And remember, it might not be an std it might only be whisker rash.

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 10:01 pm

It’s not an STI until it’s terminal.

John H.
John H.
January 27, 2022 10:02 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
January 27, 2022 at 9:42 pm
Naturally, FlashCat flatbat smashes DashCat.

Some good Cats at DashCat but trashed by the Flash.

Nice work, Doverlord.

Hmmm … to sound conspiratorial. This outage parallels Microsoft Edge reporting that Currency Lad’s site is reported as containing “misleading content”. That only happens if you click through to a post, not the landing page. Chrome reports no issues.

MatrixTransform
January 27, 2022 10:02 pm

I like ssr

and watching you mongs bad mouthing is well, interesting

local oaf
January 27, 2022 10:03 pm

No problems with CL’s blog from Firefox

Rabz
January 27, 2022 10:03 pm

Schlockeroos! 🙂

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 10:04 pm

I like ssr

That’s nice.

We have to be nice, remember the stupid, Conroy worthy “anti trolling” Act.

Remember when you vote and put the Liberals, Greens and Labor last.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 10:05 pm

See if she will pay for your petrol money.

Danger money, more like it.

There’s no humidity out here. Normally it’s in single figures.

Obviously, this means that the gel burns out on the latex, and the friction coefficient’s just explosive. I mean – I’m crazy brave, but come on, man.

As John C. McGinley said in Platoon – I got a real bad feeling about this one, Bob.

JC
JC
January 27, 2022 10:07 pm

Matrix

Well I like Liz – though not always- and how does it go

and watching you mongs bad mouthing is well, interesting

Although I never have said this until you did.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
January 27, 2022 10:07 pm

It would be 35 years or so since I had my first genuine person telling me about Australia being Criss crossed with secret tunnels.

It’s a lot more of an issue when it’s your 1 of a 3 hour drive to a remote property…

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 27, 2022 10:08 pm

That fat, bald, hypertensive English dude said there were 10 millions kids beneath tunnels here in shameful Australia!

Whatever.
Remember about 35 years ago, some kids at a Child Minding Centre nin America claimed that there were secret tunnels nunderneath the Centre and horrible things had happened there?
The Cops sprang into action, arrested the operators, they were found guilty and jailed.
Then a few years later a new investigation found that the kids weren’t reliable witnesses and the couple were freed
All done and dusted by about 1995.
The ChildCare Centre never reopened, it was demolished about 10 years ago.
Guess what the demolishers found?

rickw
rickw
January 27, 2022 10:08 pm

Ed, US Army assessment of small unit actions on the Eastern Front in WWII, well worth the read:

https://history.army.mil/html/books/104/104-22-1/CMH_Pub_104-22-1.pdf

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 27, 2022 10:10 pm

That’s the point you idiots, Atticus Finch is a stand up guy.

That’s why they don’t like it. It shows a brave man standing up against a bigoted mob. If you’re a bigoted mob, you won’t approve that sort of thing.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
January 27, 2022 10:11 pm

KD

Rookie mistake, that’s what the kiddies inflatable pool full of flavoured jello is for.
Plus it is handy for the post passion snack

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 10:11 pm

I was not disappointed on either count. Well done Faulty, well done.

Another Great Prediction come tr – hang on. Wait, wait.

I couldn’t resist having a look.

There is a lot more to this story, but I’m waiting for an email address from Struth before I go any further.

Yes.
Oh yeesss, indeed.
My wordy, Lordy, yeeessss.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 10:11 pm

Guess what the demolishers found?

Gysum?
Salt?
Corflutes?
Nazi traffic control paddles?
The HMAS Sydney?
Frozen mutton?
Spooks?
Poison?

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 27, 2022 10:12 pm

Take mob of peasants, half of whom are armed, get them to run at enemy positions. When the bloke in front with a rifle falls, take rifle and keep running.

TIK has posted videos on this thoroughly debunking it.
Total myth.

JC
JC
January 27, 2022 10:14 pm

Mr Ed, Tell us what they found?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 27, 2022 10:14 pm

that’s what the kiddies inflatable pool full of flavoured jello is for.

Are you mad?

There’ll be kelpies involved!

132andBush
132andBush
January 27, 2022 10:15 pm

Driller, don’t over egg the omelette. It’s no huge deal and the feeling is NOT indescribable. It’s no biggie and this is from someone who lives in the northern hem for around 16 years. Calm down.

JC,
What you saw were aircraft landing lights.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 27, 2022 10:19 pm

Guess what the demolishers found?
Jimmy Hoffa?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 10:19 pm

MatrixTransformsays:

January 27, 2022 at 10:02 pm

I like ssr

I don’t find that at all surprising.
Do you share ussr’s belief that children were imprisoned under Ping Pong Pizza in Washington DC and used as the sexual playthings of the politicians and public servants?
I will take any attempt at deflection as a solid “No”.

MatrixTransform
January 27, 2022 10:21 pm

Do you share ussr’s belief …

do you talk anything but shit, sancho?

MatrixTransform
January 27, 2022 10:22 pm

is it your first or second language ?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 10:22 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

January 27, 2022 at 10:11 pm

Guess what the demolishers found?

Gysum?
Salt?
Corflutes?
Nazi traffic control paddles?
The HMAS Sydney?
Frozen mutton?
Spooks?
Poison?

The Beaumont children?
Peter Moore’s grand final runners-up medal?

JC
JC
January 27, 2022 10:22 pm

Bush

Come on, I’m a little smarter than that. Landing lights means you look down, night sky and you look up, no?

I think Drills was just having a very deep existential moment and his significance in this wonderful, huge universe. It was a beautiful moment he shared with all of us.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 10:22 pm

That’s a firm “No” then.

Barry
Barry
January 27, 2022 10:23 pm

Here we go (from the Oz)

Covid election ‘most complex’ in history

Health ­restrictions are likely to cause delays at federal election polling booths, as QR-code check-ins, Covid-safe measures, and social-distancing adds to voting times.

Prepare to be disenfranchised

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 10:23 pm

Bwah ha ha ha ha.
Ed Googlery has joined the “children in tunnels” camp.
That is awkward.

MatrixTransform
January 27, 2022 10:24 pm

you’re a dumb fuck sancho … it won’t work on me

just sayin’

132andBush
132andBush
January 27, 2022 10:25 pm

The lights on the actual aircraft, JC 🙂

Dot
Dot
January 27, 2022 10:26 pm

Prepare to be disenfranchised

Yep.

We called this out on that Cat last year.

JC
JC
January 27, 2022 10:26 pm

Bwah ha ha ha ha.
Ed Googlery has joined the “children in tunnels” camp.
That is awkward.

Mr Ed is trying out those silly page turners on the web. You know the typical story… a dude buys a house does a reno and finds an underground compartment… and then… and then…. and then.. for about 30 stupid pages.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 10:26 pm

Faulty is right.
There is new legislation in play governing on-line publication.
And ussr represents the greatest risk to this site.
Just sayin’.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 27, 2022 10:27 pm

Was just looking at some NSW statistics.

The other day I heard Ray Hadley talking about the numbers of Covid deaths in NSW. He mentioned 600 odd had died pre 15 December 21 (ie. when Hadley’s Public Enemy No 1, the Premier, reduced restrictions on the unvaxxed etc). He said since then 300 odd had died. Obviously that is very significant due to the much shorter time frame.

However today there was this in an article at The Australian online under the NSW article :

“Infectious diseases paediatrician Robert Booy says that a quarter of NSW’s population may have contracted Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, after the state surpassed one million total infections.

“Yes, it’s a very large number. It’s about 12 per cent or so of the population,” he told Channel 7’s Sunrise this morning.
“The true number is probably over two million because there’s a lot of milder cases and a lot of cases that just weren’t tested who are moderate.

I just checked the latest official total running number of cases in NSW and it is 1,033,364 but Booy thinks it is more like 2 million. Population of NSW about 8 million. So Booy reckons about 25% have had Covid (note : Qld CHO was quoted in last Sunday Mail as saying he thought Qld cases probably 1 million which is 20% of population). I could only find total NSW deaths for 2020 and it was 52,425 or 144 per day for all causes. 25% of that is 36 which is the number we would expect dying “with” Covid per day. Even half that (ie. 12.5% based on 1 million cases) gets you 18 per day.

NSW Health web page shows their daily media releases. I looked at 16 December 2021 figures and then 27 January totals and this is what you get
16 Dec – total deaths 645 – total Covid cases 90,144 or about 1 death per 140 cases.
27 Jan – total deaths 1198 – total Covid cases 1,033,364 or about 1 death per 862 cases.
Subtract numbers pre 16 Dec and you get :
16 Dec -27 Jan total deaths 553 – total Covid cases 943,220 or about 1 death per 1705 cases.
16 Dec to 27 Jan is 42 days so at 553 deaths you get an average of 13.1 deaths per day (ie. less than 18 per day).

Should remember most deaths pre 16 Dec would be pre Omicron and the post 16 DEC reflects the wider spread of Omicron.

Go back to the 52,425 total NSW deaths in 2020 where 144 died per day. 13.1 deaths per day since 16 Dec is not even 10% of the of daily deaths of 2020 so the Covid deaths are way below their representation regarding the spread in the population. If you take Booys estimation of 2 million cases then the numbers are even more interesting and diluted.

Unfortunately NSW dont show individual death ages but as with other states say 3 in 60’s, 6, in 70’s, 6 in 80’s etc. However I am guessing age is still over the the normal average age death of 82. Plus bear in mind they are counting all cases “with” Covid no matter the serious underlying medical issues and their ages.

I made a similar post about Qld in the How many in England died from Covid thread 6 days ago. That thread showed the real number of purely Covid deaths in UK was 17,000 compared to over 150,000 “with” Covid. So just over 10%. That would be around 130 out of the 1198 NSW Covid deaths.

As with all statistics it is how you use them. Hadley and Mark Levy just use the total number of deaths when on a rant about NSW Premier but always forget to put in context with the ages and co-morbidities. Kudos to Joe Hildebrand as when I heard him mentioning the stats one day he did put them in their proper context.

VIC would probably come out worse but their numbers are in my mind also not a genuine reflection as distorted by the deaths in the ages care homes in 2020. Would need a good analysis of their ages and co-morbidities to properly assess.

Then you have the younger deaths, many of which do have serious underlying issues. For example 2 month old in NSW and 2 year old in SA where they dont even tell you if were in hospital undergoing treatment for something or even if parents had Covid.

Maths was never my subject so happy to be fact checked.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 10:28 pm

Must be tough for ussr since her main white-knight crashed off his pony a while back.

MatrixTransform
January 27, 2022 10:29 pm

And ussr represents the greatest risk to this site.

you trying that schtick on again Mr Blog Saviour?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 10:32 pm

Just sayin’.
I wouldn’t precipitate it of course, but plenty would.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 27, 2022 10:33 pm

So.
Kids in tunnels under the pizza shop?
Yes or no, MT?

Indolent
Indolent
January 27, 2022 10:33 pm
duncanm
duncanm
January 27, 2022 10:33 pm

Bourne1879, check out the NSW covid weekly report: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/weekly-reports.aspx

Page 1:
Deaths 26Nov’21 to 8Jan’22 is 98 (from 380k known infections)
Jan’20 to 25Nov’21 is 640.

Hadley is talking out of his arse.

duncanm
duncanm
January 27, 2022 10:34 pm

.. there’s also a breakdown of ‘severe outcomes’ (death or ICU) by age and vax status.

MatrixTransform
January 27, 2022 10:35 pm
MatrixTransform
January 27, 2022 10:35 pm

Yes or no, MT?

idiot

duncanm
duncanm
January 27, 2022 10:36 pm

.. page 9 gives you deaths by age since Nov’26.

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