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That’s been my opinion for years. The King Is A Snake
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I don’t believe people with young children should go into parliament.
If you’re truly a conservative, put your family first.
That’s mighty big of you, Roger, particularly since I don’t abuse and Gaslight other commenters.
Your tolerance extends to people whose stock in trade is Ad Homs and abuse, though, so it’s not worth much, is it.
How can anyone under the age of 30 add any value as an elected representative?
If they really were a wunderkind they would probably be in business.
I’m still of the opinion Kelly O’Dwyer epitomised the skills and knowledge a young conservative could bring to politics while being an exemplary wife and mother..
When you think about it, big Pharma have really adopted the software manufacturer business model. Shit products with endless updates to make it work. Bill Gates really taught those guys something:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6V8eFpUixw
This one’s for agricultural Cats….I had this bloke as a neighbor “when we had the farm”……
At the other end of the spectrum, in the US (not Australia where border line retards have been doing the job for decades) there should be an age limit on a presidential candidate.
If you are 60 or older on the expected inauguration day, you should be precluded from running.
If you are genuine about serving the people and not your ego, there are 100’s of advisory roles the oldies can fill.
Oldies can no longer be effective 24/7 everyday for 4 let alone 8 years.
And that’s what the modern day president has to be.
Technically it’s a vegetable. Growing as a bean and all.
The Romans had the right idea with minimum ages for certain positions running the place.
Then the rich and powerful flaunted those rules.
I think I see a pattern
Would this be the “You don’t matter” Kelly O’Dwyer?
Megan,
Surely then it is a legume? Even healthier.
I remember when Natasha the Destroyer became a Senator for the Australian Democrats in SA at age 26.
The MSM creamed themselves because she wore Doc Martens and was young and hip. That was the level of the analysis.
If she ever actually achieved anything (apart from very successful self promotion) I am unaware of it.
Mr Nicoletti was busted in 2018 for flattening 8ha of eucalyptus woodland on his farm at Corinthia, 390km east of Perth, to make way for a wheat crop two years earlier.
That can’t be too far from the eastern end of the agricultural area. After that nothing but scrubby eucalypts. Such environmental devastation!
Kelly O’Dwyer didn’t understand how franking credits worked.
Not a problem…unless you’re assistant treasurer or/and minister for financial services.
Miss A – aaargh! 🙁
Flouted, not flaunted.
That word does not mean what you think it means.
No wonder Deadman has disappeared again. 🙂
20 acres?
The dingo should be charged for not making it at least 200 acres (or 80ha)
A bean is a fruit.
Next thing you’ll be claiming a Vanilla Bean is a vegetable.
feelthebern says:
January 24, 2022 at 9:03 pm
….If you are 60 or older on the expected inauguration day, you should be precluded from running.
…Oldies can no longer be effective 24/7 everyday for 4 let alone 8 years.
Depends on the person – there are many a 60+ year old who can run rings around younger people, both physically and mentally.
Reagan and Adenauer did very well. Of course, not only is the old thief senile, he was always, and remains to be, an evil parasitic turd.
there are many a 60+ year old who can run rings around younger people, both physically and mentally.
There sure are.
Until it’s bed time.
Same with the Pelosi mafia filth.
I would suggest a minimum age for Parliament (Congress/President/whatever) of 55 and mandatory retirement at 70.
I don’t know Sal, I was thinking of I can’t cope flying to Canberra without a nanny Kelly O’Dwyer.
feelthebern says:
January 24, 2022 at 9:18 pm
there are many a 60+ year old who can run rings around younger people, both physically and mentally.
There sure are.
Until it’s bed time
Pffttt…..go back and play with your Barbie dolls, Little One.
It’s bad enough you have decrepit senators asking the CEO of google why his iPhone doesn’t work or Zuckerberg why his internet is shitty.
These folks should be extras in a Golden Girls reboot, not with their finger on the button.
North of Southern Cross – Marginal wheat country, indeed.
See Lisa I’m a Westie Wilkinson is copping a pasting on Twitter for holding up New Zealand (again?) as world’s best practice covid management.
As if she wouldn’t use her wealth and status to avoid restrictions if she happened to live there.
Aye Nye.
Boomer cons.
Dot, get in here, I need some help.
Kelly O’Dwyer supported SS’M’, IIRC.
rosie says:
January 24, 2022 at 8:56 pm
I’m still of the opinion Kelly O’Dwyer epitomised the skills and knowledge a young conservative could bring to politics while being an exemplary wife and mother..
She may be but she made my ears bleed.
Someone should have pulled her aside and coached her in the art of brevity.
It’s bad enough you have decrepit senators asking the CEO of google why his iPhone doesn’t work or Zuckerberg why his internet is shitty.
These folks should be extras in a Golden Girls reboot, not with their finger on the button.
Agree both the US Senate and HoR are filled with the most repulsive geriatrics imaginable eg Clyburn, Waters, Nandler and Feinstein and that’s just off the top off my head. Thing is they were repulsive, venal and a threat to the country 20 years or 50 years ago. Rotten, worthless political parasites who don’t even seem to be able to control their bodily functions now. Hanging around so they can continue to leach of the country. Democracy in the US, like here, is so so broken.
I was joking about Mrs two thousand dollar toaster.
But then look at Reagan and Adenauer. Trump was no spring chicken either but then this accomplishments in the real world made the parasite class hate him.
feelthebernsays:
January 24, 2022 at 9:18 pm
there are many a 60+ year old who can run rings around younger people, both physically and mentally.
There sure are.
Until it’s bed time.
Menzies won four elections after the age of 60. I don’t think any of those wins were a negative for Australia.
Kelly O’Dwyer supported SS’M’
SSM ?
The soggy sao movement ?
O’Dwyer was a Costello staffer, Pyne was Vanstone staffer. Parliamentary office is more often than not only available to the connected. If you ran a fish and chips shop, the establishment might imprison you.
I would suggest a minimum age for Parliament (Congress/President/whatever) of 55 and mandatory retirement at 70.
That would have the advantage of making it extremely difficult to use politics as a career.
Except maybe starting as a trade union official. Plenty of troughing to be done there before moving at 55 into Parliament.
“Do they hear what they are saying” episode 245.
AO commentator reflects proudly on Pride Day at the AO.
“Our game is diverse, accepting, and welcomes all”
Except a counter-narrative world no1. He gets arrested, locked in mandatory detention, and forced to leave the country under guard.
A female tennis player is strip searched before deportation.
Yep, a tournament and a country which welcomes all.
Rugby is the worst game even devised. I had to play it every winter (’60’s Sydney western suburbs state high school), and play cricket every summer, another boring game I despise.
We used to play on local council controlled playing fields, they were all gravel pits with some weeds around the edges. I made a habit of never being where the ball was, if you grabbed it and ran with it, some buffoon would take you down with a flying tackle onto the gravel where you would lose 2 and a half inches of skin off your knees and elbows and dislocate a shoulder.
And the scrum, good heavens, can you imagine anything more gay than a rugby scrum.
The Kamala/Epstein photo that I mentioned before has been doing the rounds for months.
Multiple fact checking sites say it’s doctored.
Which is why I am now certain it is real.
It’s tempting to feel sorry for the state lieboral opposition in Vicco but then consider their federal abominations- Hunt, Hume, Henderson, Tehan, Ryan.
feelthebern says:
January 24, 2022 at 9:23 pm
Aye Nye.
Boomer cons.
Dot, get in here, I need some help.
Dot – the first thing you can do is put all ftb’s toys back in his/her/xi pram.
Then change his/her/xi’s nappy &, for fucks sake, feed the little tyke – he’s cranky cos he’s hungry.
And the scrum, good heavens, can you imagine anything more gay than a rugby scrum.
Yeah – two rugby scrums
No no. She was really talented. So talented in fact that Tony Abbott made up a job just for her so he could utilise those talents for Australia’s benefit.
Johanna,
Quite so.
My bad. Or autocorrect.
I could have poof read. But that’s for loosers.
And the scrum, good heavens, can you imagine anything more gay than a rugby scrum.
Followed by the showers after the game.
Tony, I think A Touch of Frost is on the story box.
No no. She was really talented. So talented in fact that Tony Abbott made up a job just for her so he could utilise those talents for Australia’s benefit.
Mike Rann was able to keep his nice ‘job’ too iirc.
Australian government has followed the Biden orders.
All Australians out of the Ukraine now.
FFS, you can see the neo-con boners from here.
Story posted 15min ago.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-offers-ukraine-help-urges-citizens-to-leave-amid-invasion-fears-20220124-p59qu9.html
WA farmer John Nicoletti fined $25K for illegally clearing scrub.
The Nicoletti family would have more that in the petty cash tin.
lots of birds of prey circling here, and I was correct in thinking was red.
‘Until it’s bed time.’
Any time after 4.45 p.m. is a no go then (dinner, aka munchies, then couch snoozing then bed fills the calendar).
‘the story box’
You mean the picture wireless.
Speaking of oldies.
I called the local council today because the street light out the front of my place is busted.
I don’t much care but I’ve got oldies on either side and neither of them have sensor lights.
6 week expected wait time to fix.
Who would have thought a council would be that backed up.
The age of people in politics is not the issue…
The primary issue is the lack of real world awareness, caused by moving from one sheltered position to another your entire life, being spoon fed the whole way.
You have to spend 20+ years making the right connections, sucking up to the right people before you even have the chance to make any changes.
By the time you reach a position of power, you owe too many people…
Age is not representative of a persons value or conviction.
I would trust a young and successful business owner to run the country long before I would trust and aged and professional unionist…
feelthebern says:
January 24, 2022 at 9:43 pm
Tony, I think A Touch of Frost is on the story box.
Never watched that show – I did start watching Doctor Who from the first episodes in December(?) 1963.
Who would have thought a council would be that backed up.
C’mon.
Those anti- climate change banners and diversity & inclusion posters don’t print themselves you know.
Huh? $2,000 toaster?
Even those big conveyor toasters I used in the days BC (Before Covid) didn’t cost that much, inclusive of beyond the black stump freight costs.
William Hartnell.
First Dr Who.
Keep that up your sleeve for pub trivia.
Burned into my brain after answering John Pertwee cost me a linked jackpot at Jacksons on George (back when they had linked trivia nights in the mid 90’s).
Cassie of Sydney says:
January 24, 2022 at 7:33 pm
My two favourite Monroe films…….Some Like it Hot and The Misfits.
You’ll like these then . . .
https://youtu.be/q7FDw0a1xSQ
https://youtu.be/kf0EC5Oych0
Ahh Jacksons on George.
They had a comp there where if you could drink 100 pints in 100 hours you’d get your name on a plaque.
Those were the days.
feelthebern says:
January 24, 2022 at 10:02 pm
William Hartnell.
First Dr Who.
See, if you’d been a bit older and had actually watched the first series, you would’ve known that.
Or was it half pints?
Can’t remember.
Tom Baker & Peter Davidson were the only two I watched growing up.
I’ve watched some of those US Congressional hearings. And some of the Australian ones.
To say that these people are out of their depth is putting it mildly. How the tech witnesses keep a straight face is a wonder.
What bothers me is that the reps are supposed to have all these clued-in staff who understand this stuff. So why are they not being briefed properly? Or are they playing dumb?
In the US, the Masters of the Universe just lie and prevaricate in front of the committees, year in, year out. The GOP huffs and puffs, but does nothing. The tech companies never get called to account for lying.
If you are an umimportant person who lies to the FBI, the full force of the State falls on you. If you are a tech mogul who lies to Congress – meh. See you next year.
The junior teams used all the hot water. Cold showers and cold beers.
Spartan but it a heterosexual way.
The MSM creamed themselves because she wore Doc Martens and was young and hip. That was the level of the analysis.
If she ever actually achieved anything (apart from very successful self promotion) I am unaware of it.
She’s also a dog of a person, a friend of mine was a long term friend of hers. Dumped like a hot potato when Destroyer “made it”.
Q. Gayer than a rugby scrum?
A. The Sydney Swans.
A. The Swans fan base.
Tom Baker was the best of the old ones – he even made a guest appearance in one of the new episodes (ie in the last 10 years)
Prue McSween is a nasty piece of work. There she is on Rita Panahi’s show on Sky insisting that if you are not vaccinated you have no right to be anywhere near her. She claims to be fully vaccinated but fears that you are dangerous to her. She would do really well on the ABC. I have no more time for her.
She claims to be fully vaccinated but fears that you are dangerous to her.
Can’t have too much faith in the Science of “Vaccination”
Wasn’t she one of those demanding the right to bring her children into the Senate?
I watched a couple of the Sylvester McCoy ones & that ended Dr Who for me.
Yes, The Misfits was judged quite harshly when it appeared but it’s a great flick. Arthur Miller wrote it.
DAILY Digital NEWS®???
@Health101
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Over 100,000 people gathered in Brussels to protest against the sanitary measures.
Protesters are trampling everything in front of them, and the police barely escaped alive, fleeing even in the subway.
Helicopters are flying over the city and the situation is on the verge of a real street war
#freedom #gettr #globalnews #warroom
@health101
video – https://gettr.com/post/pq93z9d9cb
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Posted on 9:06 PM · Jan 24th, 2022
Dani Laidley engaged?
rwmalonemd
@rwmalonemd
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WATCH: Dr. Robert Malone addresses tens of thousands at historic Defeat the Mandates march
“The Dark Winter predicted by our President and pushed by fear mongers in the media is failing to materialize.”
Translate post
WATCH: Dr. Robert Malone addresses tens of thousands at historic Defeat the Mandates march
“The Dark Winter predicted by our President and pushed by fear mongers in the media is failing to materialize.”
video – https://gettr.com/post/pq5sj95dd8
thepostmillennial.com
Posted on 8:04 AM · Jan 24th, 2022
Went in there once.
Met a schoolmate who was working nearby in some high tower.
We’d just finished agreeing that it wasn’t the sort of joint to erupt. (He was raised in a pub)
… when a punch-up happened at the next booth. One bloke down, some broken glass.
Sounds good, but it wasn’t a blue that was likely to spread, just a couple of bloke belting each other.
feelthebern says:
January 24, 2022 at 10:24 pm
I watched a couple of the Sylvester McCoy ones & that ended Dr Who for me.
He did it for me too. But the newer series that started in 2005 are really good – worth watching.
Who the buggery is Prue McSween?
StormBear
@StormBear
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??UK Has Begun Staff Withdrawal From Its Embassy in Ukraine. The Queen has also moved out of Central London the Sandringham yesterday.
Translate post
UK Has Begun Staff Withdrawal From Its Embassy in Ukraine
The tensions around Ukraine have flared up over the past several days, with the US Department of State ordering the evacuation of American diplomats’ families from the country.
https://gettr.com/post/pq8s0pb235
sputniknews.com
Posted on 9:39 PM · Jan 24th, 2022
Terrible news.
Neville Bartos, aka Vince Colosimo has been done yet again for driving whilst tweaked out.
‘There’s no cash here. Here? No cash.’
TheoPrinse
@TheoPrinse
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The Great Reset: Joe Biden And The Rise Of 21st-Century Fascism
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The Great Reset: Joe Biden And The Rise Of 21st-Century Fascism
By: Glenn Beck | BlazeTV The Great Reset is the name of the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held in June 2020. It brought together high-profile business and political leaders,…
https://gettr.com/post/pq8oxo6d94
http://www.trevorloudon.com
Posted on 9:28 PM · Jan 24th, 2022
No linky from here.
Nick Coatsworth has told the Tele that Covid ‘has definitely peaked’ and is at the point where it’s treated as a bad cold or flu.
See what happens.
Nick Coatsworth:
‘There’s no covid here. Here? No Covid.’
“Frightbat…..”
StormBear
@StormBear
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Federal Government tells Australians in Ukraine to “leave.
Australia begins withdrawing family members of Australian Diplomats based in the capital, Kyiv. Australia Raise the travel advice warning on Ukraine to “Do Not Travel” telling Australians to leave the Country now by commercial means and to be aware that flights could change or be suspended at short notice.
“Seems like a Hot War is Pending” ???
Translate post
Australia offers Ukraine help, urges citizens to leave amid invasion fears
Australia’s critical technology ambassador is leading talks with Ukraine officials on ways to defend against cyber attacks while Russia assembles troops on the country’s border.
https://gettr.com/post/pq9paqbcae
http://www.smh.com.au
Posted on 10:34 PM · Jan 24th, 2022
Christopher Ecclestone was pretty good. David Tennant’s run is the one people remember the most- Absolute high watermark of writing and production value. Matt Smith’s tenure was pretty OK (I liked this most because of Karen Gillan and Jenna Coleman). The first Peter Capaldi series is OK, but starting to succumb to wokeness. The latter series got progressively (pun/slur deliberately intended) more preachy and crap. And I gave up before the steaming dumpster fire that has been Jodie Whittaker as the ‘First Female Doctor.’
The BBC went full Red Guard on Doctor Who in the last 2-3 years, and the show we knew and loved (and hid from behind the couch when the Daleks came on) is about as lifeless and dripping as one of Grigory’s skinsuits.
The brand is now trashed. But the revamp of 2005-17 was a good run.
StormBear
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#Qantas Vaccine mandate threats towards employees.
The two-dozen employees, including three who have already been dismissed, filed an application to the Federal Court late on Friday seeking an urgent injunction to stop Qantas firing them.
Qantas workers in last-minute bid to avoid vaccine cull
Qantas has agreed not to sack a group of un-vaccinated employees until a court rules on the legality of its COVID-19 jab mandate.
https://gettr.com/post/pq9pdf424f
http://www.smh.com.au
Posted on 10:28 PM · Jan 24th, 2022
Our movie guru needs to put up a thread about Marilyn Monroe.
Remember the argument a while ago about how they can tell whether someone has been jabbed or not. This clip, put up earlier by srr, explains clearly how they do it.
CAN COVID-19 VACCINES ALTER DNA LUC MONTAGNIER, ROBERT MALONE, PETER MCCULLOUGH, DANIEL NAGASE …
SonofLiberty.357
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FALLING APART: Latest Health Data From Scotland Mirrors the UK – Unvaccinated Have Lower Covid-19 Case, Hospitalization, AND DEATH RATES Than the ‘Fully Vaxxed
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FALLING APART: Latest Health Data From Scotland Mirrors the UK – Unvaccinated Have Lower Covid-
The latest public health data published by the Scottish Government reveals that the COVID-19 “age-standardized case rate” is at its highest among the double-jabbed ‘fully vaccinated’ – and it isn’t particularly close. The update also showed the sharp…
https://gettr.com/post/pq8u3yd153
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com
Posted on 10:08 PM · Jan 24th, 2022
Just checked the teev guide and ABC Kids is screening something called Auschwitz Untold: In Colour.
Hopefully no kids are awake to see this, so why?
Dead and starving people in colour? In the middle of the night?
What kind of sickos are they catering to?
johanna says:
January 24, 2022 at 10:43 pm
Our movie guru needs to put up a thread about Marilyn Monroe.
I’ll add it to my list.
Marilyn Monroe was never one of my favourites but as a cultural movie icon there’s probably been no great film star.
No one is in control at the rotten ABC and the various factions do whatever they feel like.
Rex Anger says:
January 24, 2022 at 10:41 pm
Good summary – I have seen up to the end of the first Peter Capaldi series. Never had the time since then.
You missed a special mention for the Weeping Angels…
Don’t Blink and The Library are my favourite Dr Who stories.
I read Lizzie’s latest embiggening about how they sat at High Table with Sir Toby Belch and so on, but decided that there is a point where reality beats satire.
I mean, snobbery about kids’ schools has got to rate at about snobbery about who your hairdresser is. A deep interest and knowledge about this crap is very revealing of the shallowness of deep.
I watched a few episodes of Dr. Who with Billie Piper in.
Simultaneously the biggest arseholes the Doctor Who team has ever developed as villains, and a great allegory for creeping woke fuckery sneaking up on you and murdering you while your back is turned, yet somehow petrified into stillness whenever your eye is on it. Yet even the most disciplined of humans blink…
Hmm. So it’s getting late … and later. lol.
You knew it had to happen, it was just when was the question.
Beam me up, Scottie.
I am off to bed now. 😀
Biden thinks being a “War President” will improve his prospects.
Might be the end of him instead, with a bit of luck and hopefully not too much collateral damage.
Daily Mail. Would anyone give a rat’s clacker about what Jesinta Franklin thinks, if her husband wasn’t a star footballer?
…hopefully not too much collateral damage.
Problem is this may be their big chance to get their “vaccine” off the front page.
A big distraction squirrel for Europe where the shit’s really hitting the fan at the moment with their “vaccine” mandates & passports. Or “sanitary” problems as happening in Brussells now.
Ah yes, syndicalism, yet another form of socialism that doesn’t work.
Also… why the hell is actor Matt Damon promoting cryptocurrencies and NFTs?
The best argument for crypto was reigning-in fiat inflation. If that didn’t convince you to buy, I don’t think a Hollywood actor will.
Matt Damon.
Worker than a woker in a woke factory.
If that didn’t convince you to buy, I don’t think a Hollywood actor will.
For fuck’s sake, Colonel, wake up to yourself – Hollywood actors are also experts on vaccines, gun control, abortions,immigration policy, CAGW…. everything, except possibly acting.
Yep Dr Who definitely had a late resurgence with the Library- brainy, suspenseful, and with the spanky Billie Piper, who is also ten times the actress that her lippy sister ever was.
Johanna,
Sir Toby Belch.
He was in a play I studied at school.
Can you tell me what it was?
The Wake-up Video
Posted on January 23, 2022 by Guest Author
The link to this video was originally posted in the Open Thread by Steve trickler.
It was posted here.
The Wake-up Video – Uncensored Premiere
by Dr Vernon Coleman
Dr Coleman introduces his video with the following message:
This is the only video you will ever need to convince everyone you know, that Covid-19 is a fraud.
https://catallaxy-files.com/the-wake-up-video/#more-1191
RATS are 5 for €9.90 at the supermarket here.
Loads of stock too.
Meanwhile in the Territory, the NT News reports:
A 10-YEAR-OLD has been arrested in relation to the theft of $2000 worth of cigarettes in Alice Springs.
NT Police allege the child was one of six people involved in the unlawful entry of a store on Bath St, Alice Springs.
Strike Force Viper are working to identify five other offenders involved.
You have to admit, you provide plenty of openings.
Both in content and verbiage.
Noticed the other day, Callie said the same thing in about 5 or 6 words for what you needed about 250.
I don’t mind, make no mistake, keep at it, but don’t complain when you are being needled for it.
John Spooner.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
Steve Bright.
Morten Morland.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Bob Gorrell.
Gary Varvel #2.
Robert Ariail.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
The Train
Bastia to Ajaccio.
It’s a little train, just two carriages, behind a noisy engine on a single line with brief waits at a couple of stations along the way for the trains going the other way.
Turns in from the coast just past Borgo and criss crosses a shallow river til it gets to a larger town called Corte where it starts to climb, and climb, until it hits the snowline at Vizzavona then after a time, descending, before emerging into a wider valley behind Ajaccio and terminating at the ferry port.
Incredible scenery all the way along, crossing narrow valleys over arched stone bridges, through tunnels, mostly short, into occasional broader valleys with farms, many tiny villages high in the mountains too, sometimes felt like a ride at Luna Park, there seemed to be nothing between the train and the edge of very steep drops.
Very clear why Corsica only supports a population of 330,000, many, many mountains.
And Ajaccio is beautiful too with the same clear blue skies and almost no wind with a fine harbour surrendered by more mountains.
Part of my brain thinks the Biden administration turning up Russia rhetoric so he dial it down & be called a peacemaker.
Part of it thinks they are doing this to distract from another Iran deal (read cash wash for deep state parties like last time).
The rest of my brain is in mourning over Tom Brady losing yesterday.
If it was before 9pm you may have a point but parents do have control. No doubt some sicko’s will get off on it like the chicks doing Jeffery Dahmer hens night’s in Milwaukee but for others who are seeking why people sink to such depravity the images and stories are way more useful than just having dates and numbers for talking points.
More bad news about the mRNA vaccines – they are not what we used to understand by the term vaccine, and attempts to call them therapeutics also fail miserably.
Andrea Widburg.
Patrick Moore’s new book and the truth about CO2, which is nowhere near the levels that have pertained through much of the earth’s (and mammalian) history.
link
Dover !
Dr John Campbell the the CDC publication regarding natural immunity.
Light the beacons !
Linky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25-iJKPA1CA
The BBC did a very good movie-length dramatization in 2013 on how Dr Who got going with Bill Hartnell as the first doctor. Well worth watching if you can get it:
An Adventure in Space and Time (wiki)
(A quick DDG search shows it’s on Daily Motion and other sites as pay per view.)
Are they wrong? When it comes to vaccines, Australians are the dumbest of the dumb.
There’ll be plenty of willing takers for the fourth here – a plurality in fact. It will be at least the 5th dose before a large group of Australians start to get suspicious.
Compare this to the US where less than half will get even one booster.
Hartnell, the original and the best, although some of the early scripts leaned too much on portraying alien cultures as archaic robed figures that had escaped from a budget Fall of the Roman Empire set.
More convincing were the ones which time travelled to points in history like the persecution of the Huguenots in France. Daleks made their first appearances in Hartnell’s era (early 1960s), and he knew where their off switch was!
As loath as I am to continue the Dr Who thread this morning, I will say that Weeping Angels was the best small-screen offering in the globe since the 1990 Grand Final.
Haha, this’ll put a disturbance in the force.
Trump-Endorsed Wyo. Candidate Beats Liz Cheney in GOP Straw Poll (23 Jan)
A margin of 59 to 2 eh? Stick that in your elite pipe GOP grandee peoples and smoke it.
Are they wrong? When it comes to vaccines, Australians are the dumbest of the dumb.
A mob of sheep.
A mob of sheep.
Dorpers?
I hear they’re a pretty smart sheep.
Tricked one Cat into making them house pets.
Lisa Wilkinson has been banging on how the UK is crumbling under COVID (& how the same is happening in Australia).
But not saying anything about France.
Wonder why?
UK infections are running at 1500 per mill.
France just under 5000 per mill.
As previously demonstrated, I’m all for criticising the jacks. However:
Five years ago Rebecca Hayward was a 34 year old drug-fucked violent pisswreck who made the lives of everyone she came in contact with a misery, and who’d been in and out of the bin for years for pinching or breaking other people’s stuff. She was also a mother of three kids, and part-indig.
To ‘start fresh‘, she left her kids behind and went to Alice Springs to live with ‘family’. She lasted six hours at the ‘family’ house before it was wrecked, and the rellos booted her. For Alice Springs, that’s really saying something.
She was last seen walking towards the Tanami Road turn off, north of town. A group of (activist) Alice doctors in a car stopped and offered her water. She told them to fuck off, which they did and she was never seen again.
Some weeks later, her brother Eric reported her missing. The jacks went through the standard routine of air and land searches for ten days or so, and spoke to a pile of people in both Alice and Yuendumu, which is three hours down the Tanami road. Nothing.
The coronial finding in 2020 didn’t throw up anyone Eric could squeeze compo out of, so now he’s in the NT News wanting another one and flogging the jacks for not doing more than they did.
Dear Eric. Alice Springs is a joint where (as noted by TE last night) 10 year olds are being pinched for stealing $2000 worth of smokes. The jacks have better things to do than look for your waste of space sister.
Wilkinson is just repeating chatter from her latest luncheon.
Some comments critical of Trump yesterday seemed to imply he had a carte blanche when the GOP controlled the HoR. Consider who the Speakers were then- Boehner and Ryan. Total RINOs.
I’m sure Trump knew the evil party was going to cheat- I was able to watch it happening in almost real time. Counting stopping at 10pm then restarting with the old thief in front this time. etc etc etc
That Trump achieved anything at all is a credit to him considering the snake pit he had to work in. I’m disgusted, no bloody angry, at the way he has been treated but now we know that western ‘democracy’ is not much better (if at all) than the Peoples’ Congress in Peking.
And in the subject of wastes of space, Kallista Mutten is still lying doggo in hospital, and still ‘difficult to approach’.
Tick tock, skank.
“Lisa Wilkinson has been banging on how the UK is crumbling under COVID (& how the same is happening in Australia).”
Lisa Wilkinson is a supreme hypocrite, a hustler of Covid porn, hysteria, lies and misinformation.
It’s a sad indictment of our country that she and her grotesque husband are given any airtime whatsoever.
Some comments critical of Trump yesterday seemed to imply he had a carte blanche when the GOP controlled the HoR. Consider who the Speakers were then- Boehner and Ryan. Total RINOs.
Boehner was long gone when the Donald showed up.
It’s more of a sad in indictment of the meja
“Some comments critical of Trump yesterday seemed to imply he had a carte blanche when the GOP controlled the HoR. Consider who the Speakers were then- Boehner and Ryan. Total RINOs.”
Firstly, I’m not aware of anyone yesterday implying that Trump had “carte blanche” in 2017 and 2018. He didn’t. However, the inconvenient truth is that he made mistakes when POTUS.
Good Censor’ Google Claims Australian Court Ruling Would Force It to ‘Censor’ the Internet
Here’s hoping Australia sticks to its ruling.
“Boehner was long gone when the Donald showed up.”
Correct.
Sorry, Joh. I was just “commenting on a comment” about elite private schools and networking.
If you’re paying upwards of $30k a year you tend to acquire a deep interest in such things, particularly what crap to avoid like the plague. There is value in shelling out, but it doesn’t appear in all its glory until school is over. It’s also a product of home training and nurturing (rather than “best friending”), but if that meshes with values and structure instilled at school you end up with a fairly acceptable result.
But then I would say that, wouldn’t I? 😀
Lol. Just caught the tail end of a Koch pontification before The Beloved hastily switched it off.
“Covid has peaked. It’s ending.” was the pronouncement.
The Kingmaker has spoken.
Ok Boehner was replaced by Ryan in 2015
Amanda Stoker on Sky’s Rita Panahi last night trying to appeal to right of centre voters not to desert the LNP and vote for UAP, LIb Dems and PHON.
I tried not to laugh. Memo to Stoker, you reap what you sow. Tis too late. She also tried to say that the splitting of the conservative vote will deliver the senate third spot to the Greens. I doubt that. She’s desperate to keep her senate job.
Who’s performed better in the senate – Hanson or Stoker? I think Hanson…by a mile.
Trump’s achievements outshone his mistakes. To expect any leader not to make mistakes is unrealistic. I think he was def wrong about ‘vaccines’ but then the whole covid fraud was to destabilize him anyway.
From Tom’s comix, it looks like our word for today is:
PEAKED
‘“Covid has peaked. It’s ending.’”
Se7en are actually using this in past tense. ‘How we dealt with Covid’, and so on.
Better not be.
Klaus Schwab and the WHO and the WEF and the Rothschilds and the Lizard People and the red shoe makers and the Stonecutters and the UN and Armalite and the WWF and the concentration camp builders and the secret-yet-hiding-in-plain-sight NWO will be spewing.
yup – there’s more to that story than ‘the boyfriend did it’.
Note to private school fanbois. Your child may still be a total fuck up, regardless of which school they attended.
very clever – and on the money.
Boris in more trouble. Good.
Boris Johnson had birthday bash during lockdown, ITV News understands
Yes indeed duncanm.
Stein’s mummy probably sat at the Cranbrook High Table.
milton, I posted his wins the other day.
Yes, he had a long list of them.
But it’s ok to be critical.
Example, I think his Kavanaugh appointment will be John Roberts all over again (even though Kav is a mental pygmy when compared to Roberts, which makes the Roberts situation all the more diabolical).
milton, I posted his wins the other day.
Disclaimer: what I called wins, others might not.
“Note to private school fanbois. Your child may still be a total fuck up, regardless of which school they attended.”
I’m not aware that anyone here said otherwise.
Whatever the strategy is, it is not Biden making it.
His puppet-masters are looking out for their own interests.
If the rest of the world, and America, is lucky then their interests will not directly conflict with Biden’s masters’. If they do, you know whose interests will be sacrificed.
No backtracking here.
Video: Fauci Declares It “Entirely Conceivable” That A FOURTH Booster Vaccine Will Be Needed
Moderna’s stock price & a booster rate of 25% of US adults says that Fauci is done.
Put a fork in him.
Mark Dice
The Tech Revolution No One Is Talking About
Out and about today.
Shine on, you crazy diamonds.
Peaked.
Good news.
The piqued monsters in retreat, though, seem to have every intention to lay waste by harming the children.
I made that point yesterday, duncanm.
What’s with the “fanbois” pejorative? I came across a lot of reverse snobbery when the children were at school. It was as silly as the pretentiousness and social climbing that I observed there. Maybe the trades background kept my feet well and truly on the ground. It definitely helped the kids.
The Kavanaugh situation was a no win ether way. Not letting the frightbats feed on more blood was the lesser of the two.
What’s a high table?
Is it related to a high chair?
I gave you a thumbs up anyway – I agree and saw some train wrecks over the years.
If I sound cranky, blame lack of carbs. It’s day four, and haze is descending.
calli, yesterday I completed a 24 hour fast.
8pm to 8pm.
fanbois was not meant as a pejorative.
“What’s with the “fanbois” pejorative?”
Quite so Calli. My nephews attended a boys only GPS school…my sister and brother-in-law made great sacrifices to send them to the school, they eschewed yearly overseas trips etc. My sister chose the school not just for its “academic” record but also because of the ethos…..character building, sport and so on.
” I agree and saw some train wrecks over the years.”
You can get train wrecks at any school…private or government.
Agree it’s ok to be critical. What I marvel at was how he managed to do anything at all and for that he deserves fulsome praise. I visited Michigan in 2019 and it just purred. Agree the two big things the lifted the quality of life for ordinary Americans were cut off the supply of cheap labor and cut taxes. Quite simple.
Gee! some are very defensive today. Have a snickers!
What about those ungrateful millennials?
Agree the two big things the lifted the quality of life for ordinary Americans were cut off the supply of cheap labor and cut taxes. Quite simple.
and no more wars
You fiend! Like the hungry lion in Madagascar hallucinating, I’m see you as a yellow M&M.
I can’t even write a sentence properly. I must have been really hooked.
Gabor, I enjoy writing. And like many ‘columnists’ (other people who enjoy writing), I write about what I know and what I have experienced. Sufficiently so that some of it gets published, and commended, in real publications, not just on the Cat. That is also, btw, what many other people here who enjoying putting words out do too. Not everyone does this, but it is part of this place and always has been. Scroll if you are in a hurry or just don’t understand some things.
On the Cat we hear about their lives from such as Pedro, Struth, RickW, Calli, Rosie, JC and yes, from Johanna too we often receive a distillation of that quintessence of Queanbeyan which adds its soupcon to the variety of impressions we can read or scroll.
The point I made at the start of my experiential reminiscence is one that clearly quite a few people on the Cat are unable to grasp. Class envy is alive and well in Australia and you can hardly write about contrasting social environments here without generating ire aplenty. Go tell that to the Real Life writers in The Spectator – which is one of the most well-read sections of that rather good magazine.
Private schooling is a part of life in Australia – get used to it. Especially historically, across class lines, which is where I came in. It is also worth examining in context, the good and the bad of it. Parents tend to do what they think is best for their children. There is plenty of both good and bad in private schooling and those who have experience of it can add more grist to that mill. My nephew went to Cranbrook but ended up a heroin addict. Life is not simple though some here uptick as though it was.
Chinese businessman reveals why he bought Scott Morrison’s WeChat account
It turns out that a Chinese businessman ‘bought’ ScoMo’s WeChat account from Mr Ji, the Chinese National who was the notional account owner, because:
And WeChat platform owner Tencent’s hands are tied. Terms of service, y’know.
All legit. No CCP involvement. At all.
Strangely, Abronese’s WeChat account hasn’t been bought. Leaving him with a clear run to directly message Chinese Australians. Which he would like to continue to use, unless forced not to.
So, unless the ALP drops WeChat, the politics seem quite straightforward.
One of China’s 14 Dot Points of Outrage was: “• foreign interference legislation, viewed as targeting China and in the absence of any justification”.
Albo should be forced to explain which of the other 13 Demands of Xi Labor intends to surrender on.
Love you writings Elizabeth !
In terms of publications, I should add, of twelve of mine on Quadrant only two have been experiential memoirs of life in an earlier Australia – ‘On Becoming Elizabeth’ and recently ‘Dirty Rotten Love’ . My major publication there (10 pages) was original work on the origins of the Arthurian legendary corpus. Other publications have been reviews of TV shows, books, theatre etc.
“fanbois was not meant as a pejorative.”
You could have fooled me.
Mark Dice
The Tech Revolution No One Is Talking About
All solid platinum BS!
Profusely garnished by simplistic, undergraduate-level CGI.
None of this will come to pass in the foreseeable centuries. Just like Tokamaks and quantum computers. Techo-dreams nourished by blind, overwhelming arrogance.
The old psychopaths peddling this crap will putresce in their graves, just like everyone else… a deeply comforting thought.
Struth
If you are lurking, go to http://www.smalldeadanimals.com, and look at the item headed “The average age of a trucker is 58”. Canadia seems (if possible) to be worse off than Australia as far as the trucking business id concerned.
On verbiage, some of us are just good at barking orders and expecting instant obedience.
I had a look, Gilas.
Here
Same old b/s in new clothes.
With regard to ScoMo’s WeChat account, how is that the only way for him to communicate with Chinese-Australians? I thought we had the media for that, those people with makeup and interesting haircuts on TV. If the Chinese-Australians don’t understand English then how did they become Australian?
These are the questions that interest me and not the shenanigans with WeChat which is a given and extraordinarily foolish for an Australian prime minister to be a part of. Besides, aren’t we paying billions for the ABC and SBS to do this and not communist Chinese apps?
Hahaha. Infographic — how to spot a libertarian.
A California mother is taking legal action against a school district, claiming that two teachers secretly manipulated her 11-year-old daughter into believing she was a transgender boy.
Jessica Konen filed a legal claim against Spreckels Union School District last Wednesday – with that claim a likely precursor to a lawsuit. She alleges that Buena Vista Middle School teachers Lori Caldeira and Kelly Baraki ‘planted a seed’ in her daughter’s head that she was bisexual, then went on to convince the youngster that she was actually a transgender boy.
Konen also claims that Caldeira and Baraki – who ran the school’s ‘You Be You’ equality club – provided information for her daughter on how to bind her breasts to stop them developing. She says the school kept her in the dark about what was going on until a December 2019 meeting.
Daily Mail