Open Thread- Mon 24 Jan 2022


The Pioneer, Frederick McCubbin, 1904

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Roger
Roger
January 24, 2022 8:51 pm

I don’t believe people with young children should go into parliament.

If you’re truly a conservative, put your family first.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 24, 2022 8:55 pm

Just as we tolerate your words here.

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 8:55 pm

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.

rosie
rosie
January 24, 2022 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..

rickw
rickw
January 24, 2022 9:01 pm

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

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 24, 2022 9:03 pm

This one’s for agricultural Cats….I had this bloke as a neighbor “when we had the farm”……

John Nicoletti: Prominent WA farmer’s Bacopak company cops steep fine for illegal clearing
Countryman
Mon, 24 January 2022 12:43PM
Adam Poulsen

A fine imposed on prominent WA farmer John Nicoletti for illegally clearing native vegetation has been increased tenfold to $25,000 after the State’s environmental regulator won a Supreme Court appeal.

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.

He told Department of Water and Environmental Regulation officers the vegetation had “poisoned his sheep and interfered with cropping” on the 1006ha farm, which operates under the name Bacopak Pty Ltd.

Bakopak pleaded guilty in Perth Magistrate’s Court in December 2020 and was fined $2500.

Magistrate Donna Webb also ordered the company to pay the department’s legal costs and place a notice in The West Australian, at its own expense, acknowledging the conviction.

But the Supreme Court last week overruled that sentence, with Justice Jeremy Curthoys finding it was “manifestly inadequate” and “so low as to be negligible”.

“The sensitivity of the environment in which the vegetation was cleared and the commercial nature of the clearing demand a significant penalty that functions as a general deterrent to other corporate entities,” Justice Curthoys said.

“The area cleared by Bacopak was not insignificant although it represented a small proportion of the entire property.

“The location and nature of the clearing aggravated the seriousness of the offending.”

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 9:03 pm

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.

Megan
Megan
January 24, 2022 9:04 pm

Chocolate is a Major Food Group and should not be ignored.

Technically it’s a vegetable. Growing as a bean and all.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 24, 2022 9:07 pm

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

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

I’m still of the opinion Kelly O’Dwyer….

Would this be the “You don’t matter” Kelly O’Dwyer?

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 24, 2022 9:08 pm

Megan,
Surely then it is a legume? Even healthier.

johanna
johanna
January 24, 2022 9:11 pm

feelthebern says:
January 24, 2022 at 8:55 pm

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 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.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 24, 2022 9:12 pm

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!

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 9:12 pm

Kelly O’Dwyer didn’t understand how franking credits worked.
Not a problem…unless you’re assistant treasurer or/and minister for financial services.

johanna
johanna
January 24, 2022 9:14 pm

Miss A – aaargh! 🙁

Flouted, not flaunted.

That word does not mean what you think it means.

No wonder Deadman has disappeared again. 🙂

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

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.

20 acres?
The dingo should be charged for not making it at least 200 acres (or 80ha)

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 24, 2022 9:14 pm

Technically it’s a vegetable. Growing as a bean and all.

A bean is a fruit.
Next thing you’ll be claiming a Vanilla Bean is a vegetable.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 9:15 pm

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.

miltonf
miltonf
January 24, 2022 9:18 pm

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 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.

miltonf
miltonf
January 24, 2022 9:18 pm

Same with the Pelosi mafia filth.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 9:19 pm

I would suggest a minimum age for Parliament (Congress/President/whatever) of 55 and mandatory retirement at 70.

rosie
rosie
January 24, 2022 9:19 pm

I don’t know Sal, I was thinking of I can’t cope flying to Canberra without a nanny Kelly O’Dwyer.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 9:20 pm

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 9:21 pm

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.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 24, 2022 9:23 pm

That can’t be too far from the eastern end of the agricultural area. After that nothing but scrubby eucalypts. Such environmental devastation!

North of Southern Cross – Marginal wheat country, indeed.

rosie
rosie
January 24, 2022 9:23 pm

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 9:23 pm

Aye Nye.
Boomer cons.
Dot, get in here, I need some help.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 24, 2022 9:29 pm

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.

miltonf
miltonf
January 24, 2022 9:30 pm

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.

rosie
rosie
January 24, 2022 9:32 pm

I was joking about Mrs two thousand dollar toaster.

miltonf
miltonf
January 24, 2022 9:33 pm

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.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 24, 2022 9:33 pm

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 9:34 pm

Kelly O’Dwyer supported SS’M’

SSM ?
The soggy sao movement ?

miltonf
miltonf
January 24, 2022 9:37 pm

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.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 24, 2022 9:38 pm

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.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 24, 2022 9:38 pm

“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.

Old bloke
Old bloke
January 24, 2022 9:39 pm

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 9:39 pm

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.

miltonf
miltonf
January 24, 2022 9:40 pm

It’s tempting to feel sorry for the state lieboral opposition in Vicco but then consider their federal abominations- Hunt, Hume, Henderson, Tehan, Ryan.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 9:41 pm

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.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 9:42 pm

And the scrum, good heavens, can you imagine anything more gay than a rugby scrum.

Yeah – two rugby scrums

jupes
jupes
January 24, 2022 9:42 pm

If she ever actually achieved anything (apart from very successful self promotion) I am unaware of it.

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.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 24, 2022 9:42 pm

Johanna,
Quite so.
My bad. Or autocorrect.
I could have poof read. But that’s for loosers.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 9:43 pm

And the scrum, good heavens, can you imagine anything more gay than a rugby scrum.

Followed by the showers after the game.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 9:43 pm

Tony, I think A Touch of Frost is on the story box.

miltonf
miltonf
January 24, 2022 9:44 pm

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 9:45 pm

Australian government has followed the Biden orders.
All Australians out of the Ukraine now.
FFS, you can see the neo-con boners from here.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
January 24, 2022 9:46 pm

WA farmer John Nicoletti fined $25K for illegally clearing scrub.

The Nicoletti family would have more that in the petty cash tin.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 24, 2022 9:51 pm

‘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).

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 24, 2022 9:53 pm

‘the story box’

You mean the picture wireless.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 9:54 pm

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.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
January 24, 2022 9:56 pm

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…

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 9:57 pm

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.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 24, 2022 10:00 pm

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.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 10:02 pm

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).

WolfmanOz
January 24, 2022 10:04 pm

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

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 10:05 pm

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.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 10:05 pm

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 10:06 pm

Or was it half pints?
Can’t remember.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 10:08 pm

Tom Baker & Peter Davidson were the only two I watched growing up.

johanna
johanna
January 24, 2022 10:09 pm

feelthebern says:
January 24, 2022 at 9:21 pm

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.

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.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 24, 2022 10:09 pm

The junior teams used all the hot water. Cold showers and cold beers.
Spartan but it a heterosexual way.

rickw
rickw
January 24, 2022 10:09 pm

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”.

Iron Cove
Iron Cove
January 24, 2022 10:13 pm

Q. Gayer than a rugby scrum?

A. The Sydney Swans.
A. The Swans fan base.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 24, 2022 10:13 pm

Dutch tourist fined after ‘joke’ Nazi salute at Auschwitz
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Monday January 24 2022, 9.40am GMT, The Times
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A Dutch tourist has been detained and fined for making a Nazi salute while visiting the former death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, police in Poland said.

The woman, 29, said it was a stupid joke, according to Polish News.

Bartosz Izdebski, the press officer of Ma?opolska police, said that guards at the Auschwitz Museum detained the tourist after she posed while making a fascist salute as her husband, 30, took a photo.

The couple were taken to the police headquarters at Oswiecim, where her husband was questioned as a witness.

Later that afternoon the district prosecutor’s office in Oswiecim fined the woman. Public promotion of fascism is punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment.

Regional police tweeted: “Officers from [the southern city of] O?wi?cim detained a 29-year-old woman from the Netherlands today.

“The tourist had been performing the Hitler salute in front of the ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ [Work Sets You Free] gate. The detainee was charged with engaging in Nazi propaganda. She confessed.”

Nazi Germany built the death camp in Oswiecim after occupying Poland during the Second World War. The Holocaust site has become a symbol of Nazi Germany’s genocide of six million European Jews, more than one million of whom died at the camp between 1940 and 1945 along with more than 100,000 non-Jews, including Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and other nationalities.

In 2013 two students from Turkey were also photographed making a Nazi salute at the gates. They were sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for three years, and fined.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 10:16 pm

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)

Crossie
Crossie
January 24, 2022 10:18 pm

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.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 10:20 pm

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”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 24, 2022 10:22 pm

If she ever actually achieved anything (apart from very successful self promotion) I am unaware of it.

Wasn’t she one of those demanding the right to bring her children into the Senate?

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 10:24 pm

I watched a couple of the Sylvester McCoy ones & that ended Dr Who for me.

Jorge
Jorge
January 24, 2022 10:27 pm

Yes, The Misfits was judged quite harshly when it appeared but it’s a great flick. Arthur Miller wrote it.

srr
srr
January 24, 2022 10:27 pm

DAILY Digital NEWS®???
@Health101
·
1h
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

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 24, 2022 10:28 pm

Dani Laidley engaged?

srr
srr
January 24, 2022 10:30 pm

rwmalonemd
@rwmalonemd
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14h
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.”
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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.”

video – https://gettr.com/post/pq5sj95dd8
thepostmillennial.com
Posted on 8:04 AM · Jan 24th, 2022

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Jacksons on George

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.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 10:31 pm

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.

miltonf
miltonf
January 24, 2022 10:32 pm

Who the buggery is Prue McSween?

srr
srr
January 24, 2022 10:32 pm

StormBear
@StormBear
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52m
??UK Has Begun Staff Withdrawal From Its Embassy in Ukraine. The Queen has also moved out of Central London the Sandringham yesterday.
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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

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 24, 2022 10:33 pm

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.’

srr
srr
January 24, 2022 10:35 pm

TheoPrinse
@TheoPrinse
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1h
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,…

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http://www.trevorloudon.com
Posted on 9:28 PM · Jan 24th, 2022

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 24, 2022 10:36 pm

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.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 24, 2022 10:37 pm

Nick Coatsworth:

‘There’s no covid here. Here? No Covid.’

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 24, 2022 10:39 pm

Who the buggery is Prue McSween?

“Frightbat…..”

srr
srr
January 24, 2022 10:39 pm

StormBear
@StormBear
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3m
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

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 24, 2022 10:41 pm

He did it for me too. But the newer series that started in 2005 are really good – worth watching.

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.

srr
srr
January 24, 2022 10:42 pm

StormBear
@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

johanna
johanna
January 24, 2022 10:43 pm

Our movie guru needs to put up a thread about Marilyn Monroe.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 24, 2022 10:45 pm

$20m deal frees Aboriginal flag for all

Greg Brown
National Correspondent
7 minutes ago January 24, 2022
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Australians can freely use the Aboriginal flag design at sporting events, on clothing and for art after the federal government bought its copyright from Luritja artist Harold Thomas.

Mr Thomas, who designed the flag more than 50 years ago and launched it at the National Aborigines Day march in Adelaide in 1971, has vowed to use $2m of the proceeds to help establish a charity for Indigenous Australians.

“I am grateful that my art is appreciated by so many, and that it has come to represent something so powerful to so many,” he said.

“The Aboriginal flag design is my Dreaming, intertwined with my wife’s family and mine, our ancestral belonging.

“The land, and the landscape, is indelible in my make-up; it courses through my consciousness and subconsciousness.

“The flag represents the timeless history of our land and our people’s time on it.

“It is an introspection and appreciation of who we are. It draws from the history of our ancestors, our land, and our identity and will honour these well into the future.”

The flag was raised at Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972 and given formal national status by the Keating government in 1995. Mr Thomas was legally recognised as its designer two years later, with the flag protected by copyright law.

Under the $20m deal struck with licensees of the flag design, all commonwealth royalties from sales will be put towards the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee.

The government will also provide $100,000 a year worth of scholarships for Indigenous students in Mr Thomas’s honour.

Indolent
Indolent
January 24, 2022 10:45 pm

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 …

srr
srr
January 24, 2022 10:51 pm

SonofLiberty.357
@SonofLiberty357
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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…

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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com
Posted on 10:08 PM · Jan 24th, 2022

johanna
johanna
January 24, 2022 10:54 pm

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?

WolfmanOz
January 24, 2022 11:02 pm

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.

miltonf
miltonf
January 24, 2022 11:03 pm

No one is in control at the rotten ABC and the various factions do whatever they feel like.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 11:04 pm

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…

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 24, 2022 11:05 pm

Don’t Blink and The Library are my favourite Dr Who stories.

johanna
johanna
January 24, 2022 11:08 pm

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.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 24, 2022 11:28 pm

I watched a few episodes of Dr. Who with Billie Piper in.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 24, 2022 11:33 pm

You missed a special mention for the Weeping Angels…

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…

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 24, 2022 11:33 pm

I read Lizzie’s latest embiggening …..

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. 😀

Barry
Barry
January 24, 2022 11:36 pm

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.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 24, 2022 11:42 pm

Daily Mail. Would anyone give a rat’s clacker about what Jesinta Franklin thinks, if her husband wasn’t a star footballer?

Buddy Franklin’s wife Jesinta says ‘the justice system in this country is broken’ as she promotes documentary about Indigenous deaths in custody

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 24, 2022 11:42 pm

…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.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 24, 2022 11:43 pm

Pharmacy Guild’s RAT finder suffers tech difficulties ‘under huge amount of pressure’

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.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 25, 2022 12:03 am

Matt Damon.
Worker than a woker in a woke factory.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 25, 2022 12:06 am

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.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 25, 2022 12:27 am

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.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 25, 2022 12:41 am

Johanna,
Sir Toby Belch.
He was in a play I studied at school.
Can you tell me what it was?

srr
srr
January 25, 2022 2:01 am

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

rosie
rosie
January 25, 2022 2:58 am

RATS are 5 for €9.90 at the supermarket here.
Loads of stock too.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 25, 2022 3:19 am

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.

Gabor
Gabor
January 25, 2022 3:54 am

You knew it had to happen, it was just when was the question.

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.

Tom
Tom
January 25, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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rosie
rosie
January 25, 2022 4:50 am

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 25, 2022 5:24 am

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.

bespoke
bespoke
January 25, 2022 6:00 am

johannasays:
January 24, 2022 at 10:54 pm

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.

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 25, 2022 6:10 am

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.

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 25, 2022 6:35 am

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

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 25, 2022 6:41 am

Dover !
Dr John Campbell the the CDC publication regarding natural immunity.
Light the beacons !

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 25, 2022 6:42 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 25, 2022 6:46 am

William Hartnell.
First Dr Who.
Keep that up your sleeve for pub trivia.

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.)

Figures
Figures
January 25, 2022 6:53 am

This shit is crazy, they really think everyone in this country are a bunch of stupid rubes trapped in the room

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.

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 25, 2022 6:55 am

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!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 25, 2022 6:58 am

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.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 25, 2022 7:01 am

Haha, this’ll put a disturbance in the force.

Trump-Endorsed Wyo. Candidate Beats Liz Cheney in GOP Straw Poll (23 Jan)

A House candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump, Harriet Hageman, handily defeated Rep. Liz Cheney in a Republican Party straw poll in Wyoming on Saturday, according to the New York Post.

Hageman was awarded 59 votes from the secret ballot of party activists who took part in the Wyoming Republican State Central Committee poll. Cheney and state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, R-Cheyenne, were awarded two, and Denton Knapp one.

A margin of 59 to 2 eh? Stick that in your elite pipe GOP grandee peoples and smoke it.

rickw
rickw
January 25, 2022 7:05 am

Are they wrong? When it comes to vaccines, Australians are the dumbest of the dumb.

A mob of sheep.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 25, 2022 7:09 am

A mob of sheep.

Dorpers?
I hear they’re a pretty smart sheep.
Tricked one Cat into making them house pets.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 25, 2022 7:17 am

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.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 25, 2022 7:22 am

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.

Entropy
Entropy
January 25, 2022 7:23 am

Wilkinson is just repeating chatter from her latest luncheon.

miltonf
miltonf
January 25, 2022 7:30 am

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.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 25, 2022 7:32 am

And in the subject of wastes of space, Kallista Mutten is still lying doggo in hospital, and still ‘difficult to approach’.

Tick tock, skank.

Cassie of Sydney
January 25, 2022 7:34 am

“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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 25, 2022 7:34 am

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.

miltonf
miltonf
January 25, 2022 7:38 am

It’s more of a sad in indictment of the meja

Cassie of Sydney
January 25, 2022 7:39 am

“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.

Pogria
Pogria
January 25, 2022 7:39 am

Good Censor’ Google Claims Australian Court Ruling Would Force It to ‘Censor’ the Internet

Here’s hoping Australia sticks to its ruling.

Cassie of Sydney
January 25, 2022 7:39 am

“Boehner was long gone when the Donald showed up.”

Correct.

calli
calli
January 25, 2022 7:41 am

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.

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? 😀

calli
calli
January 25, 2022 7:43 am

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.

miltonf
miltonf
January 25, 2022 7:44 am

Ok Boehner was replaced by Ryan in 2015

Cassie of Sydney
January 25, 2022 7:45 am

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.

miltonf
miltonf
January 25, 2022 7:49 am

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.

calli
calli
January 25, 2022 7:50 am

From Tom’s comix, it looks like our word for today is:

PEAKED

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 25, 2022 7:53 am

‘“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.

duncanm
duncanm
January 25, 2022 7:54 am

Knuckle Draggersays:
January 25, 2022 at 7:32 am
And in the subject of wastes of space, Kallista Mutten is still lying doggo in hospital, and still ‘difficult to approach’.

Tick tock, skank.

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.

duncanm
duncanm
January 25, 2022 7:56 am

Tomsays:
January 25, 2022 at 4:05 am
Morten Morland.

very clever – and on the money.

Indolent
Indolent
January 25, 2022 7:57 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 25, 2022 7:57 am

Yes indeed duncanm.

Stein’s mummy probably sat at the Cranbrook High Table.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 25, 2022 7:59 am

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).

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 25, 2022 8:05 am

milton, I posted his wins the other day.

Disclaimer: what I called wins, others might not.

Cassie of Sydney
January 25, 2022 8:05 am

“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.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 25, 2022 8:06 am

Part of my brain thinks the Biden administration turning up Russia rhetoric so he dial it down & be called a peacemaker.

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.

Indolent
Indolent
January 25, 2022 8:07 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
January 25, 2022 8:08 am

Moderna’s stock price & a booster rate of 25% of US adults says that Fauci is done.
Put a fork in him.

Indolent
Indolent
January 25, 2022 8:11 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 25, 2022 8:13 am

Out and about today.

Shine on, you crazy diamonds.

Franx
Franx
January 25, 2022 8:15 am

Peaked.
Good news.
The piqued monsters in retreat, though, seem to have every intention to lay waste by harming the children.

calli
calli
January 25, 2022 8:15 am

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.

bespoke
bespoke
January 25, 2022 8:16 am

The Kavanaugh situation was a no win ether way. Not letting the frightbats feed on more blood was the lesser of the two.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 25, 2022 8:16 am

What’s a high table?
Is it related to a high chair?

calli
calli
January 25, 2022 8:18 am

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.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 25, 2022 8:21 am

calli, yesterday I completed a 24 hour fast.
8pm to 8pm.

duncanm
duncanm
January 25, 2022 8:21 am

fanbois was not meant as a pejorative.

Cassie of Sydney
January 25, 2022 8:24 am

“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.

Cassie of Sydney
January 25, 2022 8:25 am

” I agree and saw some train wrecks over the years.”

You can get train wrecks at any school…private or government.

miltonf
miltonf
January 25, 2022 8:29 am

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.

bespoke
bespoke
January 25, 2022 8:29 am

Gee! some are very defensive today. Have a snickers!

What about those ungrateful millennials?

miltonf
miltonf
January 25, 2022 8:35 am

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

calli
calli
January 25, 2022 8:36 am

Have a snickers!

You fiend! Like the hungry lion in Madagascar hallucinating, I’m see you as a yellow M&M.

calli
calli
January 25, 2022 8:37 am

I can’t even write a sentence properly. I must have been really hooked.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 25, 2022 8:37 am

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.

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.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 25, 2022 8:42 am

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:

I don’t even know who [Scott] Morrison is, I saw the account has a lot of followers, so we bought it.

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.

WolfmanOz
WolfmanOz
January 25, 2022 8:42 am

Love you writings Elizabeth !

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 25, 2022 8:47 am

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.

Cassie of Sydney
January 25, 2022 8:48 am

“fanbois was not meant as a pejorative.”

You could have fooled me.

Gilas
Gilas
January 25, 2022 8:49 am

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.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 25, 2022 8:50 am

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.

calli
calli
January 25, 2022 8:52 am

On verbiage, some of us are just good at barking orders and expecting instant obedience.

calli
calli
January 25, 2022 8:58 am

I had a look, Gilas.

Here

Same old b/s in new clothes.

Crossie
Crossie
January 25, 2022 8:58 am

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?

Tom
Tom
January 25, 2022 8:59 am
Top Ender
Top Ender
January 25, 2022 8:59 am

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

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