Open Thread – Mon 31 Jan 2022


Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1558

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Oh come on
Oh come on
February 3, 2022 9:48 am

When you look at the raw numbers, (215 vaxed and 55 not vaxed) you get 79.6% vaxed and 20.3% unvaxed. That is pretty close to the Australia wide vaccination stats. This would suggest to me either/or;
1. Vaccination does nothing.
2. Unvaxed don’t test and report at the same rate as vaxed. (only when sick

Also, it must be noted that those who are particularly old, frail and have certain co-morbidities – ie. people who are very likely to develop life-threatening Covid symptoms – are also very likely to be unable to tolerate the vaccines due to their weakened immune systems and thus will not have been vaxxed for medical reasons.

Notice that, when we’re told the numbers of unvaxxed who are in hospital, in ICU or have died, we aren’t told *why* they’re unvaxxed. I suspect that if we were provided with that information, if we knew how many of the unvaxxed were medically exempt from the vax, the numbers would be even more damaging to the narrative.

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 9:49 am

Crush up some seed oil at home, run it through filter paper and see what colour it is.

There is actually “raw expeller pressed canola” in Woolies or there used to be, plus a refined sister product.

They are yellow to brown.

Absolutely not grey or black.

Apples are actually blue until we take the cobalt molybdates out of the skin.

We use gypsum as an adsorbent.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 3, 2022 9:49 am

Canadian opposition leader O’Toole booted by his own party for not getting behind the truckers.

Excellent!

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 3, 2022 9:51 am

Beta-carotene mainly. Which is a natural yellow-orangey colour and a Vitamin A precursor. So it’s OK.

No, Bruce. Margarine is not okay. Yeuch.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 3, 2022 9:52 am

Afghan women say they wouldn’t be afforded the same rights as a pregnant NZ journalist under the Taliban

Afghan women are accusing the Taliban of using a pregnant New Zealand journalist as a publicity tool to show the world they can offer women rights.

Shirley not.

When she was unable to go home to New Zealand, she briefly moved to her partner’s native Belgium, but couldn’t stay long because she wasn’t a resident.

As a NZ citizen Mz Bellis is entitled to a visa-free 90 days entry to Belgium. Which can be extended for force majeure reasons, or converted to a residence visa because dependency.

But, obviously, it was far safer and more convenient to return to lovely Afghanistan.

Hopefully a 70-year old Taliban marries her.

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 3, 2022 9:53 am

Crush up some seed oil at home, run it through filter paper and see what colour it is.

Dot, you forgot to take your autism meds again?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 9:58 am

The poverty and the discrimination against Catholics, particularly in Belfast and Londonderry, was horrendous.

The book has accounts of families of fifteen people, in three bedrooms, sharing a kitchen and an outside toilet with two other families…

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 9:58 am

Big caucus revolt among Conservative MPs in Canada over O’Toole’s refusal to back the truckers.

Amen.

Do you hear the truckers sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you join in the trucker’s crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!

Do you hear the truckers sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of Canada!

Do you hear the truckers sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start

Very, very appropriate.

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 3, 2022 9:59 am

Hopefully a 70-year old Taliban marries her.

Hot. Hopefully they start an OnlyFans.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 3, 2022 9:59 am

I’m amused by the conceit that these so-called artists have that they’re cutting edge and avant-garde

In response to people being disgusted by a few of their creations artists coined the justification “Good! Art should shock you. It should be confronting!”

Nonsense of course – what is the point of just shocking someone. You can shock people with any number of things that are pointless. And the shock only works once. The greatest works of art have inspired, or revealed something about human nature or ideas, given form to beliefs, given new perspectives and so on.

Art can confront, like The Shootings of May 3 1808, but that is just the the first moments, not the end.

(If the same painting were to be made today I would expect it to be a piece of canvas with thickly caked cow blood and fragments of bone. The people removed and the context removed because the tragedy need not be tied to just one people of one event. It would be about all violence, all war, all white men, all disasters including climate change and capitalism, about the violence endured by transsexuals, indigenous people, and of non-vegans.)

So they take this clumsy defence (Art is meant to shock), turn it around, and produce their guiding principle: Art is what shocks. No matter how bad it is, if it fills people with revulsion, then it is art. It has affected them, it has made them uncomfortable (shaken them from their mental stupor), it has made them see something they would not have otherwise.

And so art has degenerated into body functions – and the meaning the dullest left wing bromides that are anything but new.

Only something as stupid, as destitute in sensibility, as chaotic, and as easily duped as a government will pay for it, and so it does.

Tom
Tom
February 3, 2022 10:02 am

Are you watching too much CNN? Know the warning signs:

1. You think the pandemic is still going on. If you find yourself saying “When the pandemic is over…” or “the new normal,” you might be watching too much CNN.

2. You still think one of these investigations is going to “get” Trump. The walls are closing in. Any day now.

3. You haven’t left your house in two years. Time to turn off the CNN and go outside, people.

4. You haven’t heard of any of Biden’s foreign or domestic failures. You think the president’s doing a “pretty good job” and haven’t caught wind of any kind of disasters.

5. You still call ivermectin “horse medicine”. Oh no! Your brain has been infected!

6. You walk by a fiery riot and think to yourself, “Ah, what a peaceful protest. Mostly, anyway.” If this is your immediate instinct, check with a medical professional. You may have an oversaturation of CNN.

7. You’re at the airport a lot. This is less a symptom and more a root cause, but if you’re at the airport, you’re probably watching lots of CNN.

8. You drop to the floor and convulse any time you see a MAGA hat. The longer you roll around in the fetal position, the more CNN you probably watch.

9. You watch any CNN at all. Even one second is too much. Just say no.

If these nine signs describe you, don’t suffer alone: get help today. We here at The Babylon Bee are ready to deliver you fake news you can actually trust on a daily basis.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 10:02 am

“The book has accounts of families of fifteen people, in three bedrooms, sharing a kitchen and an outside toilet with two other families…”

Yep…that was common…..Jean McConville, born to a Ulster Protestant family, had met her Catholic husband back in the early 1950s. They married, she converted to Catholicism (and her family cut her off)….she was never particularly welcomed by her husband’s family either. Jean was always pregnant, her husband died and she lived, with her children, in a three room flat in a high rise. The poverty was grueling.

Morsie
Morsie
February 3, 2022 10:04 am

Zucker at CNN had been in a relationship with the fellow employee for years and at several workplaces.
New owners coming in at CNN just clearing teh decks as CNN has lost 90% of its viewers.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 10:04 am

“Tomsays:
February 3, 2022 at 10:02 am”

Can I add one Tom?

10. You think that January 6 2021 was an insurrection.

Speedbox
February 3, 2022 10:05 am

Diogenes says:
February 3, 2022 at 9:16 am
I cannot work with a mask on as my glasses fog up every exhalation.

Then you’re going to love this. 🙂

Many months ago I saw a thing on the web where a couple of serious looking people in white coats explained that to fix that problem, the solution was to place some sticky tape across the top of the mask with half the tape protruding above the mask edge. Place the mask on your face as normal then stick the tape above the mask to your face thereby creating a seal.

In other words, tape it down to your face. Seriously.

Tom
Tom
February 3, 2022 10:06 am

Trudeau Demands Truckers Get Vaccinated Like He Did So They Don’t Catch COVID Like He Did.

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 3, 2022 10:11 am

I’m amused by the conceit that these so-called artists have that they’re cutting edge and avant-garde

In response to people being disgusted by a few of their creations artists coined the justification “Good! Art should shock you. It should be confronting!”

Remember when the country was benighted by the so-called cultural cringe? Ie. when we were more discerning and saw shitty, mediocre art for what it was? Culture warlord Keating changed all that. We ought to be proud of the output of Australia’s countless rubbish artists! So he put them all on the government payroll, and now these grifters churn out endless quantities of ‘art’ ranging from forgettable to unspeakably awful that can’t be given away. Thanks, Keating, you pretentious wanker.

Barry
Barry
February 3, 2022 10:12 am
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 3, 2022 10:14 am

Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest launches criminal proceedings against Facebook over false cryptocurrency advertisements

…Mr Forrest alleges the company repeatedly failed to take down posts by scammers that use his image to promote cryptocurrency investments, which have appeared on the website since March 2019.

Unusually, good on him.

The Soshuls are plagued by glossy ads offering the secrets of how Twiggy/Dick Smith/Matt Damon/etc use crypto to make millions.

Aimed carefully at the Lo-info, who also make $2,000/week working from home, using their own computer, for 2hrs per day.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 3, 2022 10:15 am

JCsays:
February 3, 2022 at 8:54 am
Calli
Of course it’s blowharding. There is nothing an accountant can do for you to lower the tax rate unless it’s dealing with super.

An accountant can only do what you give him as revenue and expenses. That’s it so stop talking crap.

No-one except the legislature can lower a “tax rate”. An accountant can lower what would otherwise be someone’s tax liability. As a most basic example, a trader can elect to value trading stock at year end at cost, market value or replacement value. A competent accountant would always check which of those will produce the best tax result. Similarly, depreciation can (usually) be claimed on the basis of prime cost or diminishing value, and can (in most cases) be claimed on the Commissioner’s published “effective life” of the asset or the taxpayer’s own estimate. Again, a competent accountant will consider those matters.
Even apart from those statutory elections, there are of course numerous things an accountant might advise on, such as where a trust is involved in the business or asset owning structure and a year end decision needs to be made as to which beneficiary gets the trust distribution.
JC, if your accountant has never lowered your tax bill you’ve probably been seriously ripped off.

Beertruk
February 3, 2022 10:19 am

I hear that margarine is an appetising grey colour before they pour agent orange into it or whatever they put in it to make it look more like butter.

Margarine is one molecule away from plastic.

JC
JC
February 3, 2022 10:20 am

Tim

I am being ripped off but for a different reason. I have two trusts imbedded in a Corp structure. I feel, not that I’ve checked , that a simple Corp structure would have been better. Trusts just eat up fees I think. 🙂

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 3, 2022 10:20 am

In response to people being disgusted by a few of their creations artists coined the justification “Good! Art should shock you. It should be confronting!”

Ah yes, the “public lavatory flasher” school of art, as funded by Australia’s taxpayers for many years.

Perhaps I’m just a hopelessly petit-bourgeoise philistine, but I don’t recall being shocked or confronted gazing upwards in the Sistine Chapel. But then, no doubt, Michelangelo would never have got a taxpayer funded grant in modern Australia.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 3, 2022 10:21 am

Trusts just eat up fees I think. ?

Us tax attorneys have lifestyles to maintain.

JC
JC
February 3, 2022 10:25 am

Tim

Last evening I was reacting to Driller’s narcissistic toppering which he learnt from someone else. He’s always original.

Hohoho look at me , I’ve had four audits in one year, hohohoho

No he hasn’t . At the most he had one and that’s because a former employee sobbed him in… most likely the burnt toast dude. Even then I still suspect he’s lying.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 3, 2022 10:27 am

If you have a subscription to the Oz get over there and comment or tick on the Greg Hunt article. The Coalition is going to lose 10 seats over the 3rd shot issue. But dont worry Hunt will be OK as he is not running again.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 3, 2022 10:33 am

Over the years I’ve had customers pay me large sums in cash and I’ve known they were cheating the system. A great big pile of Not My Problem. Their circus, their monkeys.

Mmmyes.
We knew people who were offered a yuuuge amount of cash as part settlement for a house in St Kilda.
Potential buyers were brothel owners*.
The vendors seemed to think it was a good idea.
As I said to them, “Why swap a tax free asset for someone else’s tax problem? And it would be a risk banking it because it becomes reportable. So then you have to hold the cash and drip-feed it out.”.
But the clincher?
“They are brothel owners. Yes, yes, ‘legit business these days’ but they associate with some dodgy people. Word will leak out and I’ll bet someone will turn up at 2 o’clock one morning wanting the cash.”
The end.

* Mrs Vendor was something of a Hyacinth Bucket. The purchasers were going to live in the property themselves. But Mrs Panzer couldn’t resist … “Actually, it wouldn’t take much to convert it to a brothel”.
Mrs Bucket did not see the funny side.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 10:33 am

Anyone required to read the ITAA for the bulk of their working life deserves whatever they can get paid. Dentists too.

local oaf
February 3, 2022 10:33 am

My glorious contribution to free speech.

Got an appalling piece of hate filled racist propaganda in my feed from Amnesty International Australia concerning Israel/Palestinians, so I thought why not report it? That’s what the lefties do all the time.

Just got Facebook’s reply informing me that they removed the ad. Hopefully thousands of others reported it too.

Now, if only there was a way to remove all the similar crap from “social” media and MSM

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 10:34 am

Perth Airport closes terminals in response to WA border policy

“As the rest of the country gets moving, Perth Airport is closing terminals in response to Premier Mark McGowan’s decision to keep borders shut beyond the promised February 5 reopening date.

No doubt Andrew Forrest and Kerry Stokes, flying in on their private jets, will be granted exemptions.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 10:35 am

“Got an appalling piece of hate filled racist propaganda in my feed from Amnesty International Australia concerning Israel/Palestinians, so I thought why not report it? That’s what the lefties do all the time.

Just got Facebook’s reply informing me that they removed the ad. Hopefully thousands of others reported it too.”

Beautiful…..we can be activists too.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 10:35 am

Hyacinth Bucket

Yellow card. Hate speech.

dopey
dopey
February 3, 2022 10:38 am

Last Tango in Paris. Had something about butter.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 3, 2022 10:41 am

The other issue with the cash for house scheme they didn’t think of was “when are they going to pay the cash?”
The answer came, “On settlement I suppose.”
“Wrong answer. You’ve got a house worth $1.2 meg. They sign a contract for $1 meg with a verbal agreement to pay $200k cash on settlement. Ot has to be verbal otherwise it defeats the money-laundering purpose of the deal. Come settlement and they say, ‘what $200k?’ and snap your house up under the odds. If you do it, the cash has to paid at contract signing.”

“Would they do that?”
FMD.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 3, 2022 10:41 am

We knew people who were offered a yuuuge amount of cash as part settlement for a house in St Kilda

Did the settlement involve pebblecrete replacement at all?

twostix
twostix
February 3, 2022 10:44 am

“In a media statement delivered on Wednesday night, federal Health Minister Greg Hunt introduced strict biosecurity zones preventing travel to and from dozens of remote communities.

“The measure is due to lift on February 17.”

The biosecurity state they created 2010-2020 created one great big feedlot, and we’re all cattle now.

Also I thought the “bad old days” was when we treated abos as “flora and fauna”. Isn’t this literally that?

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 3, 2022 10:47 am

Every day I loathe WEF-make the polluter pay thesis Hunt a bit more.

twostix
twostix
February 3, 2022 10:47 am

It’s not hyperbole by the way. A while ago I linked to a biosecurity policy paper that was signed by both the Chief Health Officer and the Chief Veterinary Officer. It dealt with animals and humans under one umbrella: “biosecurity”, and included disease surveillance, movement controls, vaccination tracking, for humans and animals in the one paper.

What they’ve created for farming they’re essentially now implementing for humans.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 3, 2022 10:48 am

On butter.
Back in the early ’90’s I was travelling for work in the Mid-West USA.
Sitting at the breakfast table I noticed two little ramekins in the centre of the table filled with what looked like pale pink and pale blue paste.
I asked the waiter what it was.
“That’s butter, sir”, looking at me like I had just landed from outer space.
“In that case, I won’t be eating steak here.”
He didn’t get it.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 10:50 am

Unusually, good on him.

Nah, he can go stick his head up his orifice.

Andrew Forrest backs green hydrogen industry as feasible and profitable (DT, 2 Feb)

Not only has the Tele given space to Twiggy to spruik this tax-sucking bullcrud but they’ve even taken down the paywall for his stupid article. Gah.

It is trivial to show green hydrogen is totally uneconomic. It takes 50kWh/kg, which means say $15/kg for a fairly ordinary 30c/kW electricity price. Hydrogen contains 143 MJ/kg, so this translates to 15 x 1000/143 = $105/GJ. AEMO’s current gas price is $10/GJ, and that’s humungous, it should be less than half that. So even with an inflated gas price green hydrogen is still 10 times more expensive. And it’s going to get worse since renewable energy is relentlessly driving up the electricity price.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 3, 2022 10:50 am

The poverty and the discrimination against Catholics, particularly in Belfast and Londonderry, was horrendous.

To be sure, but you never hear of the likes of a BiL’s mam’s Ulster Catholic family.
All country houses and Swiss finishing schools.

Zatara
Zatara
February 3, 2022 10:57 am

Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest launches criminal proceedings against Facebook over false cryptocurrency advertisements

Speaking of Facebook, their stock (Meta) is down 22.85% in aftermarket trading today. Seems they lost over 1 million US and Canadian users in the last quarter.

Censorship and misinformation has its costs.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 3, 2022 10:57 am

Forrest is an odious snowboarder. If he were serious about electrical propulsion with regenerative braking, why not electrify his ore railway at 25-0-25kV ? That would actually work.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 3, 2022 10:59 am

Showboater not snowboarder. Fuck.

twostix
twostix
February 3, 2022 10:59 am

But dont worry Hunt will be OK as he is not running again.

He’ll be running straight back to his masters at the WEF.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 11:01 am

Twiggy has always drunk his bath water. Good on him for stopping others.

twostix
twostix
February 3, 2022 11:07 am

In 2016, five years after being “Director of Strategy at the World Economic Forum, Geneva “, Greg Hunt received an award, literally called: “Best Minister in the World”, at the (this is real) “World Government Summit” held in Dubai…

These people are like ridiculous hollywood villians.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 3, 2022 11:07 am

Give me Gina any day. A great woman.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 11:10 am

A guy from school worked with Twiggy at Murrin Murrin. He left and made a literal fortune from a discarded BHP mine in Bangladesh. Haven’t seen him for years. Was in London for decades relieving Poms of their hard earned via the AIM.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 11:11 am

“To be sure, but you never hear of the likes of a BiL’s mam’s Ulster Catholic family.
All country houses and Swiss finishing schools.”

To be sure, but I doubt she was the majority.

Protestants in Ulster also lived in grinding poverty however they didn’t suffer the same marginalisation and stigmatisation, especially when it came to work, that Catholics suffered.

I’m no apologist for the murderous evil garbage that is the IRA and its political wing….Sinn Fein…..and Gerry Adams, without a doubt, was involved in McConville’s murder. Adams, Martin McGuinness and others were murderers however I also think Ian Paisley was utterly evil and he incited pogroms against Catholics. I do understand why Ulster Protestants didn’t and don’t want to be part of a unified Ireland, why would they, to be a marginalised and stigmatised minority?

It’s complicated.

Roger
Roger
February 3, 2022 11:16 am

“Best Minister in the World”

Is that akin to “World’s Most Livable City”?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 11:17 am

It’s complicated.

The British author, Robin Neillands – he wrote on the subject of the “Troubles’- commented to the barman, in a Belfast pub one day, that he could never see the sense of violence in the name of religion, “but. maybe, that’s because I’m an agnostic.”

“To be sure” replied the barman “That wouldn’t work here. You would have to be a Protestant agnostic or a Catholic agnostic.”

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 3, 2022 11:18 am

Last Tango in Paris. Had something about butter.

The great Philip Castle thought so too.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 3, 2022 11:26 am

You want a feeling of impending DOOOOOOMMMM!!!!

Caught the Labourfilths Treasurer on their ABCcess gloating they had a “plan for the economy”….

Speech patters reminiscent of Martin “can I buy a vowel, no, ok I will say it anyway” Ferguson.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 3, 2022 11:26 am

a biosecurity policy paper that was signed by both the Chief Health Officer and the Chief Veterinary Officer. It dealt with animals and humans under one umbrella: “biosecurity”, and included disease surveillance, movement controls, vaccination tracking, for humans and animals in the one paper

Yep.

All of the Public Health Act and similar legislation across the States and Territories was designed (and has been historically used) for animals and the control of stock-borne disease. Movement controls, monitoring and surveillance, the lot.

When this shitfest started, everyone just went to that legislation and scribbled ‘and people’ as well as ‘and covid’ on it in red texta, and here we are.

rickw
rickw
February 3, 2022 11:27 am

What they’ve created for farming they’re essentially now implementing for humans.

Absolutely spot on.

areff
areff
February 3, 2022 11:27 am

I also think Ian Paisley was utterly evil

Why did Paisley lift a bicycle above his head?

He was holding a Raleigh

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 3, 2022 11:30 am

ABC headline: If Russia decides to invade Ukraine, experts suggest it could go one of two ways
How much did we pay these experts to tell us that wars have two main possibles outcomes? What’s incredible is that the two alternatives are not win/loss. Russia attacking and failing is not even suggested as an option. It’s only win a lot or win a bit.

rickw
rickw
February 3, 2022 11:31 am

Someone said to me yesterday “We’re in an Energy Revolution”.

No.

“We’re in an Energy Regulation Revolution”.

The vast majority of projects aren’t driven by some technological advance, they’re driven by regulation.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 3, 2022 11:32 am

Now class, I’m going to show you a short film about the making of margarine.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P-M9i5gbEfM

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 3, 2022 11:32 am

Diogenes,
If you are mandated to wear a mask at work and it makes your glasses fog up you may be entitled to condensation.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 3, 2022 11:35 am

Australian CHO is chuffed to announce the shortening of the time between Covid vaccinations so the teen kiddies can get that booster.
Yay!
He says the teeny boppers are socialising lots and spreading the virus through contact transmission.
How the booster stops transmission is not explained.
Boo!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 11:36 am

Someone said to me yesterday “We’re in an Energy Revolution”.

No.

Yes.
The October Revolution caused 70 years of misery.
This is the same sort of revolution.

rickw
rickw
February 3, 2022 11:37 am

In other words, tape it down to your face. Seriously.

There is now special tape for that job…..

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 3, 2022 11:39 am

rickwsays:
February 3, 2022 at 11:27 am
What they’ve created for farming they’re essentially now implementing for humans.

Absolutely spot on.

I’ve been saying that for a lot longer than Covid has been around. They are farming human beings.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 3, 2022 11:39 am

but I doubt she was the majority.

Aye.
None of that hiding-in-the-bath-tub-when-the-Queen’s-soldiers-were-about
for her family.
Just a nephew shot dead outside his school by the PIRA, because his father, a doctor, refused to provide them with off-the-books medical assistance.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 3, 2022 11:42 am

ABC headline:

If Russia decides to invade Ukraine, experts suggest it could go one of two ways
As the world watches closely for an escalation in tensions between Russia and Ukraine, experts weigh in on what the first signs of an invasion would look like.

How much was this expert paid to tell us that wars have two main possible outcomes? But fair enough the surprising appraisal is that the options are not simple win/loss. Russia attacking and failing is not even considered a possibility. It’s down to win big or win a bit.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 11:42 am

No doubt Andrew Forrest and Kerry Stokes, flying in on their private jets, will be granted exemptions.

They use a seperate terminal altogether.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 11:42 am

The Prof doesn’t seem to be suffering much blowback over the SloMo text. Most j’ismists seem content just to give SloMo another kick.

rickw
rickw
February 3, 2022 11:44 am

“World Government Summit” held in Dubai…

The Arabs just make up some BS meeting with awards out of thin air and of course every arse liking politician in the world turns up…..

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 11:45 am

There’s a lot of independent coverage of the Jan 6th shit show now being promoted on Rumble.
Someone here posted a link to a substack that had links to it.
Apart from Tucker, I haven’t heard anyone in the media calling for the wholesale release of all the January 6th footage.
It would literally be a click click exercise to do so.

rickw
rickw
February 3, 2022 11:47 am

How the booster stops transmission is not explained.

The obvious question that no jisimist will ask.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 11:50 am

Unless you are a Russian hooker or transiting there is no excuse for being in Dubai.

rickw
rickw
February 3, 2022 11:50 am

They use a seperate terminal altogether.

Yep, most airports have separate areas for executive jets and passengers. The immigration wankers drive out and give you a very cursory processing inbound and outbound.

Roger
Roger
February 3, 2022 11:56 am

Most j’ismists seem content just to give SloMo another kick.

They also all rely on leaks for their stories.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 11:56 am

I don’t know how it works in NY state.
Armed robbery will no longer attract felony charges.
So the laws on the books say it’s a felony, but the DA will selectively charge perps with lesser charges.

Now jump across to Virginia.
School kids in certain counties who show up maskless will be charged with trespassing.
Which is a felony in Virginia.

Meaning a crim in NY who commits armed robbery will be able to apply for a gun licence (as long as they have no felony convictions).
But a 16 kid in Virginia who shows up to school sans mask will not be able to apply a gun licence ever.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 11:59 am

In Melbourne they have a new super dooper private terminal for the private jets.
First official flight that used it?
Shark One.
Yep, Sco Mo’s taxpayer funded uber jet.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 12:00 pm

Will PM Albo rename Shark One to Rabbitoh One?
Or Bunny One?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 12:05 pm

When ScoMo called the new taxpayer jet Shark One there was a collective groan from the legacy media, which was justified.
But when Albo renames it, watch the tongue bathing & the photo shoots.

bespoke
bespoke
February 3, 2022 12:06 pm

Mother Lodesays:
February 3, 2022 at 9:59 am

Nonsense of course – what is the point of just shocking someone. You can shock people with any number of things that are pointless. And the shock only works once. The greatest works of art have inspired, or revealed something about human nature or ideas, given form to beliefs, given new perspectives and so on.

And what’s next. Someone jerking off at an art’s festival and soon after doing it at a school assembly.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 12:06 pm

Dover, please put me in the sin bin for mentioning tongue bathing & Albo in the same sentence so close to lunch time.

Gab
Gab
February 3, 2022 12:07 pm

Seconded!

Delta A
Delta A
February 3, 2022 12:10 pm

Farmer Gez @11.32 am:

That reminded me ofthis clever ad.

Delta A
Delta A
February 3, 2022 12:12 pm
Roger
Roger
February 3, 2022 12:13 pm

Will PM Albo rename Shark One to Rabbitoh One?
Or Bunny One?

‘The Cardinal and Myrtle’ has a nice ring to it.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 12:14 pm

Now jump across to Virginia.
School kids in certain counties who show up maskless will be charged with trespassing.

Youngkin is going to nuke those schools until they glow.
They’re doing this to spite him and the Republicans.
He’s already shown he will take zero nonsense.
Just remains to be seen what action is taken.

Loudoun County Public Schools Defy Gov. Youngkin’s Order to Lift Mask Mandates (2 Feb)

Recall that it was a Loudon school who allowed a boy fake-tranny to rape two girls in the school toilets and covered it up.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 12:17 pm

Shipwreck confirmed as Captain’s Cook Endeavour, after 22-year search
Nicholas Jensen
Reporter
14 minutes ago February 3, 2022
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A team of marine archaeologists believe they have identified the remains of James Cook’s ship HMS Endeavour off Rhode Island in the US, marking one of the biggest discoveries in Australia’s maritime history.

Australian National Maritime Museum director Kevin Sumption announced on Thursday that the shipwreck of James Cook’s famous vessel, HMS Endeavour, has been positively identified.

Following a two-decade program of fieldwork and research, Mr Sumption said the remains of the Endeavour had been discovered in Newport Harbor off Rhode Island at a site known as RI 2394.

“I am satisfied that this is the final resting place of one of the most important and contentious vessels in Australia’s maritime history,” Mr Sumption said in statement.

“Since 1999, we have been investigating several 18th century shipwrecks in a two square mile area where we believed that Endeavour sank, however, the last pieces of the puzzle had to be confirmed before I felt able to make this call. Based on archival and archaeological evidence, I’m convinced it’s the Endeavour.”

Researchers believe the Endeavour was scuttled there by the British more than 240 years ago, where it lay forgotten in the harbour.

Marine archaeologists who were part of the discovery said they became convinced they had identified the Endeavour after successfully matching structural details with the 18th century plans of the ship.”

Cook famously sailed HMS Endeavour around the South Pacific before landing on the east coast of Australia in 1770.

“It’s an important historical moment, as this vessel’s role in exploration, astronomy and science applies not just to Australia, but also Aotearoa New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States,” said Mr Sumption.

Although only around 15 per cent of the vessel remains, he said the focus of the research team will now turn to what can be done to protect and preserve it.

“The museum continues to work closely with maritime experts in Rhode Island and of course with the Australian, Rhode Island and US Governments to secure the site,” he said.

areff
areff
February 3, 2022 12:17 pm

Meet the grant-fed artist who drinks veggie dye, videos herself extruding and arranges the colourful results as ‘installations’ and wotnots.

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2018/03/arse-arts-sake/

What the Australia Council funds.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 12:20 pm

“lotocotisays:
February 3, 2022 at 11:39 am
but I doubt she was the majority.

Aye.
None of that hiding-in-the-bath-tub-when-the-Queen’s-soldiers-were-about
for her family.
Just a nephew shot dead outside his school by the PIRA, because his father, a doctor, refused to provide them with off-the-books medical assistance.”

Aye…and McConville and others were murdered for the crime of providing assistance to the Queens’ soldiers.

Roger
Roger
February 3, 2022 12:21 pm

“I am satisfied that this is the final resting place of one of the most important and contentious vessels in Australia’s maritime history,” Mr Sumption said in statement.

By “contentious” I take it he’s referring to the Endeavour’s role in the discovery of eastern Australia.

Take off your black armband, mate.

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 12:30 pm

Oh come onsays:
February 3, 2022 at 9:53 am
Crush up some seed oil at home, run it through filter paper and see what colour it is.

Dot, you forgot to take your autism meds again?

You don’t know what you are talking about.

Be quiet.

Frank
Frank
February 3, 2022 12:30 pm

Just got Facebook’s reply informing me that they removed the ad. Hopefully thousands of others reported it too.

I hope you are right but knowing how the socials work they probably just remove it from your personal feed.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 3, 2022 12:31 pm

I also think Ian Paisley was utterly evil

Up until this century, in the Republic of Ireland divorce and contraception were very difficult to obtain and pregnant single women were routinely denied passports in case they were travelling to a country where abortion was legal.
There are plenty of Ulster Catholic women who should be lighting a candle every week at Mass to thank God that Big Ian managed to stave off any control of Ulster from Dublin during those days.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 12:36 pm

Is Scumbag Morrison joking?

“Scott Morrison has backed West Australian Premier Mark McGowan’s decision to keep the state’s borders shut, saying the Labor leader has done an “incredible job”.

Speaking to Perth radio on Thursday morning, the Prime Minister said he believed Mr McGowan had done the right thing by deferring the decision to reopen WA up to the rest of the country, despite his previous promise to remove draconian border restrictions on February 5.

“That’s the Premier’s call. He has to make the decision based on what he thinks the hospital system is ready to absorb,” Mr Morrison told 6PR Perth.

shatterzzz
February 3, 2022 12:39 pm

Amish support for Canadian truckers …..
https://ibb.co/ydNzBS4

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 12:40 pm

I think the Cathedral is looking forward to the FDA approval for 5 year olds to get jabbed.
It will be the strongest, clearest self selection process in US history.
They want to know who they can really, really count on.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 3, 2022 12:41 pm

Is Scumbag Morrison joking?
No he is trying to curry favour with the WA Karens and Darryls.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 12:42 pm

Up until this century, in the Republic of Ireland divorce and contraception were very difficult to obtain

Married women, who were not obviously pregnant, or had not just give birth, were routinely asked, by the local priest, why they were denying “another soul to God..”

It’s Remarkable
It’s Remarkable
February 3, 2022 12:44 pm

Cassie, I do not think Morrison is joking, but he is a fool.
He thinks that by being nice and supportive of McGowan, that the large majority vote McGowan received will all vote for the LNP at the election.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 12:46 pm

University of Wollongong have sent out an email to all staff asking for faculty to provide accommodation for international students.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 3, 2022 12:50 pm

Cassie, I do not think Morrison is joking, but he is a fool.
He thinks that by being nice and supportive of McGowan, that the large majority vote McGowan received will all vote for the LNP at the election.

That’s true, and he fails to realise that statements like that piss off the base even more. He’s not guaranteed to pick up any votes in Perth with statements like that but he’ll lose votes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 3, 2022 12:52 pm

That said, I may post other ‘butter wouldn’t melt in my mouth’ comments on matters of substance if the spirit takes me. After all, that’s the whole reason for my contributions – what other explanation could there be to a narcissist?

Oh, and likening me to poor Ellie is both demeaning to her very real problems and absurd in relation to me.

Not your finest moment, gutter rat with a gold tooth.

Just looked back. Thirty-five upticks

May it stand in infamy as the site goes further downhill. This was once a site where many viewpoints on the right were welcome and friendships were shared. Now one has to have Johanna’s approval before commenting or suffer her mental obsession lightly?

The reasons for this sad and fixated and psychotic person’s attendance here seem to rest largely on waiting for opportunities to attack me, for that is her true narcissism, which has been apparent over many years.

That is my view on the matter and I see nothing here to make me change it.

I am busy and have many other things to do.

C.L.
C.L.
February 3, 2022 12:52 pm

Up until this century, in the Republic of Ireland divorce and contraception were very difficult to obtain and pregnant single women were routinely denied passports in case they were travelling to a country where abortion was legal.

Good.

twostix
twostix
February 3, 2022 12:54 pm

The charming nature of vaxxies.

Apparently this lovely family of girls did a walk by casual abuse of people waiting around for the canberra convoy at a service centre, then someone pulled out their camera, started filming them and u-huh.

Great society. Put your kids in school, hand them over, get vaxxed, be good, and they can turn out just like this, the definitionally perfect specimen of the Young Australian Female.

All mouth, 65 IQ, no self-awareness or self control.

Barry
Barry
February 3, 2022 12:56 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
February 3, 2022 at 12:36 pm

Is Scumbag Morrison joking?

“Scott Morrison has backed West Australian Premier Mark McGowan’s decision to keep the state’s borders shut,…

“That’s the Premier’s call. He has to make the decision based on what he thinks the hospital system is ready to absorb,” Mr Morrison told 6PR Perth.

That’s what all this is about. Not health, not deaths, not cases, but pandering to the Nurses Union. Same as Dan.

Nurses are still getting paid, and basically having 1/3 the workload for the past 2 years due to lockdowns and elective surgery restrictions. Why would they want it to change?

Razey
Razey
February 3, 2022 12:56 pm

rugbyskiersays:
February 3, 2022 at 12:50 pm
Cassie, I do not think Morrison is joking, but he is a fool.
He thinks that by being nice and supportive of McGowan, that the large majority vote McGowan received will all vote for the LNP at the election.

That’s true, and he fails to realise that statements like that piss off the base even more. He’s not guaranteed to pick up any votes in Perth with statements like that but he’ll lose votes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Scummo is done.

JMH
JMH
February 3, 2022 1:00 pm

Scummo is done.

I am now holding serious opinion that Scum has no intention of winning the next election. He cares as much for his party as Bernardi did for Aust. Conservatives.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 3, 2022 1:04 pm

Timothy Neilson says:
February 3, 2022 at 12:31 pm
I also think Ian Paisley was utterly evil

Up until this century, in the Republic of Ireland divorce and contraception were very difficult to obtain and pregnant single women were routinely denied passports in case they were travelling to a country where abortion was legal.
There are plenty of Ulster Catholic women who should be lighting a candle every week at Mass to thank God that Big Ian managed to stave off any control of Ulster from Dublin during those days.

Paisley praise is rare and usually unwarranted.
When in Ulster I had a long conversation with a retired parliamentarian, doctor and Protestant.
This gentleman summed up Paisley very succinctly “He’s a just bigot”

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 3, 2022 1:04 pm

contraception were very difficult to obtain

Hence the packed Saturday buses to Belfast for Omo* and frangers.
* The catchall for everything’s cheaper there.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 3, 2022 1:05 pm

“He’s just a bigot”
Stuffed that up and changed the meaning.
I’m running to form.

Barry
Barry
February 3, 2022 1:05 pm

My local Lib member will be whoring himself out at the Bay City Sauna after this election. Safe seat, but I reckon this is gonna be an epic tidal wave.

It’s all building up to a climactic crescendo in May.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 3, 2022 1:05 pm

Johanna is ALWAYS the one who has initiated attacks and who lies and creates memes. Over the years I have done my best to cope with it.

As Ellie was, Johanna is in this regard quite obsessional I have had enough of it.

I still hold the screen shot of her major doxxing of my husband on the site.
She lied about that and she has lied about much else. She cannot leave me alone nor let me be here.
On Monday she gloated after her last unasked for and unwarranted attack that ‘her work here was done’.

To considereable appreciation it seems. I spent a day when I was feeling ill defending myself here and trying to act normally, but it takes its toll.

Perhaps she will now turn her attention to Cassie as I now seek no friendships here.
She’s already started on that, nota bene.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 3, 2022 1:06 pm

C.L.says:
February 3, 2022 at 12:52 pm
Up until this century, in the Republic of Ireland divorce and contraception were very difficult to obtain and pregnant single women were routinely denied passports in case they were travelling to a country where abortion was legal.

Good.

CL, one can be against abortion without being in favour of denying everyone in a category of people rights routinely respected in every other case, just on the off chance that some members of that group may intend to use those rights in an unapproved way.

JMH
JMH
February 3, 2022 1:08 pm

Somebody switch the damn channel. I am sick to death of Days Of Our Lives. Thank you in anticipation.

Tom
Tom
February 3, 2022 1:11 pm

“The Australia Council has a statutory function to uphold and promote freedom of expression in the arts, to promote community participation in the arts, and support Australian arts practice that reflects the diversity of Australia,” the statement read.

… All except for the freedom of expression of anyone who doesn’t subscribe to leftist zombie groupthink and propaganda.

The Australia Council defunded Quadrant in 2015 while maintaining lavish funding for a raft of leftist propaganda rags like New Matilda and Eureka Street. Quadrant’s only income now is donations and subscrfiptions.

shatterzzz
February 3, 2022 1:14 pm

Great goalkeeping .. LOL!
https://t.me/a_moment_before/2049

shatterzzz
February 3, 2022 1:17 pm

February-Darwin Award finalist .. LOL!
https://t.me/a_moment_before/2048

shatterzzz
February 3, 2022 1:19 pm

Always check your weapon, safely, before firing .. LOL!
https://t.me/a_moment_before/2045

calli
calli
February 3, 2022 1:23 pm

This gentleman summed up Paisley very succinctly “He’s a just bigot”

Another leaf in the bigotry forest.

Lysander
Lysander
February 3, 2022 1:24 pm

Crossby, Stills and Nash to withdraw music from Spotify…

Like, who cares.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 3, 2022 1:24 pm

A study by Johns Hopkins in the USA has found that lockdowns don’t work; they reduce mortality by a piddling 0.2% while causing vast damage to people’s mentality, their ability to work and earn, and to the economy as a whole.
Dr. Marty Makary from that institution said that it became evident fairly early on (using Italy as a source of data) that the major impact of COVID-19 was on those over 65 and those with co-morbidities.
Most of us have known these things for a long time as well, but our politicians and our home-grown “health advisers” have failed big time, particularly those in ALP run states.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 3, 2022 1:25 pm

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have failed to “teach the children well”.

calli
calli
February 3, 2022 1:26 pm

The Spotify thing is getting quite funny.

All these rock solid individualists marching in lock step.

Lysander
Lysander
February 3, 2022 1:26 pm

And, according to UK data, re-infection of OmiGod is up 11%.

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 1:26 pm

Crossby, Stills and Nash to withdraw music from Spotify…

Like, who cares.

People who vote for Biden in Wisconsin.

They fought in the Civil War, of course.

Speedbox
February 3, 2022 1:27 pm

Barry says:
February 3, 2022 at 1:05 pm
My local Lib member will be whoring himself out at the Bay City Sauna after this election. Safe seat, but I reckon this is gonna be an epic tidal wave.

Anything under a 8-9% margin is likely to be ‘in play’ and those LNP under about 5% are in serious trouble. Of course the swings will not be uniform but only those north of 9% can continue to be smug – the tide won’t reach that far. If the election result pans out the way many expect (and the polls, for what they’re worth, seem to support), a big issue for the major parties is the loss of first preference votes due to bleed to the minor parties. On a 2PP basis the incumbent can look ok but the actual security of their tenure in the seat could be relatively narrow.

This next election looks like it will be a cracker!

calli
calli
February 3, 2022 1:28 pm

We are has beens , we are fartin’
With are billion-year-old carbon
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the … where was I going again, nurse?

calli
calli
February 3, 2022 1:30 pm

are = a

Can’t even get parody right today.

Lysander
Lysander
February 3, 2022 1:30 pm

This next election looks like it will be a cracker!

Scomo strategy should be to get Albo to speak more.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 1:31 pm

This next election looks like it will be a cracker!

A Labor/ Greens Coalition will make North Korea look like Paradise……

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 1:32 pm

Lizzie, I missed that vicious and despicable comment by Johanna, it was utterly nasty and it is a reflection on her…not you. She’s jealous of you and she behaves like an adolescent school girl in the school yard.

I know you to be a kind, gracious and intelligent woman who is a valued friend to many here, including myself. I (and my other half) count ourselves lucky to have you and Hairy as friends.

I know the upticks add salt to the wound but many here value your input. Having said that, we women are sensitive to some things and I understand your sensitivity about the upticks, I would find it demoralising too. But can you just try to tell her to FUCK OFF. She writes many good comments but when she goes off at you for no reason whatsoever she’s like a rabies infected hyena.

And remember, you have many friends here.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 3, 2022 1:34 pm

Where is that study being reported, Anchor?

If it is being merely reported (if not endorsed) by mainstream left wing sites like CNN or MSNBC then it would be a massive deal.

If just places like Fox, NewsMax, and those blogs that have already been skeptical about Covid measures then it is just another Thursday.

calli
calli
February 3, 2022 1:36 pm

Words of wisdom.

Why, I used them myself just recently. They work you know.

Not nearly as entertaining for the peanut gallery as a fist fight, but we must keep our knuckles nice and trim and slim otherwise our magnificent Argyles won’t fit over them.

😀

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 1:36 pm

Crossby, Stills and Nash to withdraw music from Spotify

Interesting to see if she caves.

Taylor Swift Fans Call for Her to Pull Music From Spotify (2 Feb)

Witch-hunting is big right now. If you’re on Spotify it’s stake time.

twostix
twostix
February 3, 2022 1:38 pm

I am now holding serious opinion that Scum has no intention of winning the next election. He cares as much for his party as Bernardi did for Aust. Conservatives.

This federal liberal gang – those left standing after the massive decade long battle to rid the Liberals of all of the people that were actually put there by the base, Abbott, etc, etc – have done their duty and dissolved Australia and helped us “transition” into the New Normal, and will now scuttle off to their boards and directorships and “international” positions.

calli
calli
February 3, 2022 1:38 pm

Are you, or have you ever been, on Spotify?

😀

No one does a good purge like the Left.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 1:40 pm

‘I know what I saw’: SAS soldier doubles down on Roberts-Smith claims
Michaela Whitbourn
By Michaela Whitbourn
February 3, 2022 — 12.11pm

An elite soldier who has alleged war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith was involved in the execution of two Afghan detainees has denied lying about the incidents, and admitted that he drank from a prosthetic leg that he was told had been taken from one of the men’s bodies.

A serving SAS soldier, known as Person 41, started giving evidence in the Federal Court in Sydney on Wednesday in Mr Roberts-Smith’s defamation case against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times over a series of articles in 2018.

He told the court on Wednesday that he witnessed Mr Roberts-Smith “frog-marching” an Afghan man, throwing him to the ground and firing “three to five rounds” into his back during an SAS mission on Easter Sunday, 2009.

He said he also witnessed Mr Roberts-Smith telling another soldier, known as Person 4, to shoot a second Afghan detainee on the same day. Mr Roberts-Smith has previously given evidence denying all wrongdoing.

Person 41 admitted on Thursday that he drank on numerous occasions from a prosthetic leg he was told had been taken from the body of the Afghan man he alleged was executed by Mr Roberts-Smith. The leg was taken back to Australia, he said.

“It’s not exactly appropriate, but in those situations it was just a bit of black humour,” Person 41 said of using the leg as a drinking vessel. “Everyone was all in it together.”

Asked by Mr Roberts-Smith’s barrister, Arthur Moses, SC, if he was ashamed of doing so, he replied: “Yes, now.”

“What, today is the first time you feel shame?” Mr Moses said.

“No. When the [news] reports started coming out, I realised that it [wasn’t appropriate]. It’s something I shouldn’t have done.”

The Age, the Herald and The Canberra Times have previously reported that members of the SAS had used an artificial limb from an Afghan man as a drinking vessel.

Person 41 said on Wednesday that he claimed to have seen nothing when asked by another soldier what had happened to the Afghan men because “I just wanted to keep quiet about the whole thing”. It was his first trip with the SAS, he said, and there was an “unwritten rule” that “you just go along with whatever happens”.

“I know what I saw, sir.”
SAS witness, Person 41

“The unwritten rule that you referred to in your evidence yesterday – did somebody tell you about this unwritten rule?” Mr Moses asked during his cross-examination on Thursday. “No, sir,” Person 41 replied.

“It’s not something Mr Roberts-Smith told you, correct?” Mr Moses pressed. “No,” Person 41 said.

He said he was “afraid that if I had’ve brought [the alleged killings] up … I would have been seen as someone who wasn’t willing to conduct the tasks of an SAS trooper” and potentially would have been “deemed unsuitable to be operating within that troop” and sent home.

Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case against The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age continued on Wednesday.

Mr Moses put it to Person 41 that the reason he didn’t report the alleged events to his patrol commander in 2009 was that they “didn’t happen”.

“That’s incorrect. I know what I saw,” Person 41 replied.

“Is it the case that you think you know what you saw?” Mr Moses said.

“I know what I saw, sir,” the SAS soldier said.

He denied that he had no memory of the events on the day in question, or that he had lied about specific recollections.

Mr Moses asked if the events that he claimed to have witnessed on April 12, 2009, had caused him guilt.

“To a certain degree, yes,” Person 41 replied. He agreed he also felt shame, but denied that he felt like a coward.

“Not a coward, sir. I was happy just to put that in the back of my memory and carry on with the rest of my life,” Person 41 said. He would “think about it occasionally”, every few months or “a couple of times a year”.

Mr Roberts-Smith is suing for defamation over a series of reports in 2018 that he says portray him as a war criminal. The defamation trial resumed in the Federal Court in Sydney on Wednesday after a six-month break.

The Age and the Herald, which are owned by Nine, and The Canberra Times, now under separate ownership, are seeking to rely on a defence of truth. They allege Mr Roberts-Smith committed or was involved in six murders of Afghans under the control of Australian troops, when they cannot be killed under the rules of engagement.

The former SAS soldier maintains any killings in Afghanistan were carried out lawfully in the heat of battle.

Bruce McClintock, SC, one of a team of barristers acting for Mr Roberts-Smith, said during his opening address to the court last year that Mr Roberts-Smith’s reputation had been destroyed by a campaign led by “bitter people” in the Special Air Service who were “aided by credulous journalists”.

Person 41 has said he believed some SAS soldiers did harbour a dislike of Mr Roberts-Smith, but in 2009 he had considered him a good and brave soldier who could be relied upon to have his comrades’ back.

He said on Thursday that he believed that two other soldiers, Person 6 and Person 7, “may have gone to the media [about Mr Roberts-Smith]. I didn’t agree, that’s just my personal opinion.”

“I didn’t agree how some people were going about their dislike for RS,” he said.

The hearing continues.

I know a bloke wot knows a bloke, and he says the main witnesses against Ben Robert Smith are those with their noses out of joint because B R S was awarded a medal, and they weren’t..

“Common enough attitude, young fella, even in Special Air Service Regiment..”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 1:42 pm

The Spotify thing is so awesome.

They know, like really know, if they take down Rogan that about 30 million subscribers will walk.

Yet the Karens and the wokerati are after them bigly.

Oh for more popcorn, but the harvest has been bad this year.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 3, 2022 1:46 pm

Morriswine doesnt think “Youve had 2 years to build hospital capacity, you are sitting on a 6 Billion dollar surplus and all you have done is actually cancel some hospital expansions” would cut through?

The Liberal party spin team in action ladies and gentlemen.

Barry
Barry
February 3, 2022 1:48 pm

Speedbox says:
This next election looks like it will be a cracker!

I think also that a lot of people will only be deciding once they’re standing in the booth.

People will be highly negatively motivated by what they don’t want, rather than coming in with a clear positive intention.

Informal and Mr Dick N. Balls will do well.

So polls ain’t worth Jack.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 3, 2022 1:55 pm

Taylor Swift Fans Call for Her to Pull Music From Spotify (2 Feb)

Witch-hunting is big right now. If you’re on Spotify it’s stake time.

Rogan, sitting on his $100,000,000 would be like “oh no, please dont cancel me from one platform so i have to negotiate a new contract with another provider, while keeping all the dough…

Spotify paid Rogan a reported $100 million for exclusive rights to his podcast

rickw
rickw
February 3, 2022 1:55 pm

But when Albo renames it, watch the tongue bathing & the photo shoots.

Alarming turn of phrase!

Whatever Albo calls it, everyone will know it as R&T.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 3, 2022 1:55 pm

“Scott Morrison has backed West Australian Premier Mark McGowan’s decision to keep the state’s borders shut, saying the Labor leader has done an “incredible job”.

Makes sense if you assume Scummo is the one driving the destruction of Australia for his puppeteers.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 1:57 pm

Makes sense if you assume Scummo is the one driving the destruction of Australia for his puppeteers.

I don’t normally go in for conspiracy theories, but that’s entirely feasible.

local oaf
February 3, 2022 1:57 pm

Frank says:
February 3, 2022 at 12:30 pm
Just got Facebook’s reply informing me that they removed the ad. Hopefully thousands of others reported it too.
I hope you are right but knowing how the socials work they probably just remove it from your personal feed.

Yeah, I wondered about that too.

Beats me why fakebook showed me the Amnesty thing in the first place. I never look at any political stuff, belong to any political groups. Just use it for messenger chat.

Mind you, I did send a link to one of Pauline Hanson’s cartoons in messenger.
Fakebook probably thinks Pauline Hanson is right wing and therefore anti-semetic, so I’d like to see more hate!

Franx
Franx
February 3, 2022 1:59 pm

The goading on Spotify to join the ranks of the oh so daring is not a patch on the art of upticking.

rickw
rickw
February 3, 2022 1:59 pm

Makes sense if you assume Scummo is the one driving the destruction of Australia for his puppeteers.

Only explanation, he can’t be this fucking stupid and still breath unaided.

Speedbox
February 3, 2022 2:06 pm

Lysander says:
February 3, 2022 at 1:30 pm
Scomo strategy should be to get Albo to speak more.

Yeah, Albo speaking is not a good thing. He has an annoying (nasal?) voice. The problem for Labor is that they need to ‘promote’ him as a viable alternative PM which means he has to be seen and heard. IMO he needs to take a step, even a very small one, to the Right. He needs to capture the LNP middle class undecided voter who may be unsettled if they perceive Labor as just too far to the Left. In that case the vote is lost to Labor as the voter may either reaffirm their LNP position (holding their nose) or move across to the independents.

If the ALP take a small step to the Right, more approaching the middle ground, that may capture some of the disaffected/swing LNP and simultaneously choke off a portion of the bleed to the independents.

The traditional Left base are going to vote for him anyway except the lunatic Left who will vote Green – whose preferences will flow to Labor.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 3, 2022 2:07 pm

Will Mr. Rubantug make it to election day without his dick messing things up?
I’m tipping that the ALP will install a replacement before May.

rosie
rosie
February 3, 2022 2:08 pm

Saw on twitter that Morrison privately supports mandates.
#libspill

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 3, 2022 2:09 pm

I am now holding serious opinion that Scum has no intention of winning the next election.
Trumble’s pick. Probably a Liars plant.

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 3, 2022 2:11 pm

Crossby, Stills and Nash to withdraw music from Spotify…

I said 3 things when Neil Young & Joni Mitchell made their announcements –
“Who?” and when I worked out it* “Shit are they STILL alive?” then when looking at footage “Christ they have got old”.

I am going to say the 3 things again.

* Although I just made the 50’s I never got into the music playing on the wireless when I was growing up or a teen or young adult, or middle age or now old age

shatterzzz
February 3, 2022 2:12 pm

Ain’t life wonderful when you get to spend other peoples money without accountability .. FFS!
Let’s remember tho .. WE IS ALL IN THIS TOGETHER (as long as you kept your “job” .. LOL!)
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/nsw-had-to-bin-more-than-dollar700million-worth-of-covid-19-protective-gear/ar-AATpT6U?li=AAgfLCP

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 2:13 pm

Cafe Bruce news – Seduced newest kooka kid (ex penthouse) to sit on my hand for food this morning! His dad and older brother do too, but not mum, who won’t let me come nearer than about 3m.

Also a male peewee has just started tentatively to do likewise since yesterday. Mince, yum! He’s probably a previous Cafe customer since he was accepting food from my hand within a day or so of arriving a couple weeks ago.

I’ll try for some one-handed photos once they’re more acclimatized.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 3, 2022 2:13 pm

What right should we not deny people on the off chance they choose to exercise in an unapproved manner?

A passport.

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 2:14 pm

Oh for more popcorn, but the harvest has been bad this year.

I believe one of those lagrange point asteroids is made almost entirely of popping corn.

shatterzzz
February 3, 2022 2:18 pm

Will Mr. Rubantug make it to election day without his dick messing things up?
I’m tipping that the ALP will install a replacement before May.

No idea who advised him to have the visual make-over (whether real or photo-shop) but it, definitely, ain’t any improvement over the “old” image … LOL!

rosie
rosie
February 3, 2022 2:24 pm

Australia and New Zealand are stand outs for the most draconian measures in the West
perhaps in inverse proportion to the effect covid has had on the population.
Here
I couldn’t get a coffee in Rome without a pass, Corsica I could but not a meal or entry to a museum.
Marseille only asked at museums, which means authorities are not checking if private businesses are checking, no doubt more important things to do.

bespoke
bespoke
February 3, 2022 2:24 pm

Timothy Neilsonsays:
February 3, 2022 at 1:06 pm
CL, one can be against abortion without being in favour of denying everyone in a category of people rights routinely respected in every other case, just on the off chance that some members of that group may intend to use those rights in an unapproved way.

Indeed, And how do they prove intent.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 3, 2022 2:27 pm

This is literally all that is keeping McClowns dictatorship and associated decrees lawful..

5 lines of text.
https://www.wa.gov.au/system/files/2022-01/220124-1700-D86-10-Extension-to-PH-SoE-V1-Final-240122.pdf

Yet somehow the WA prisoners are exempt from mandatory vaccinations. But not their visitors.
Still.

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 3, 2022 2:30 pm

In other words, tape it down to your face. Seriously.

In 90+% humidity in Qld? Seriously?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

In 90+% humidity in Qld? Seriously?

Diog, she was 42 deg here yesterday. Dunno how some shop staff were coping with spending the day enmeshed in the dog muzzle.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 2:37 pm

Is Scumbag Morrison joking?

No, just trying to keep his job. He will say anything at this point. Being a squishy soft-left fraud devoid of any underlying political philosophy helps.

chrisl
chrisl
February 3, 2022 2:38 pm

Margarine is one of those things you don’t want to see made.
See also Sims,dim

JMH
JMH
February 3, 2022 2:45 pm
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 3, 2022 2:45 pm

Spell this out. What right should we not deny people on the off chance they choose to exercise it in an unapproved manner?

Dover, your enthusiasm for imposing your principles on others is matched only by the wokerati.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 2:46 pm

Who cares what’s in a dim sim. They’re delicious. Although I used to get a spring roll (well 2) at the South Melbourne markets.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 3, 2022 2:49 pm

In 90+% humidity in Qld? Seriously?

Because I am a sensitive little petal, my complaint about masks is the fibre in the mask.
I haven’t looked at one with a microscope but, I can wear a mask for about 20 or so minutes and then I feel like I’m choking on the fibre in the mask.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 2:50 pm

Is Scumbag Morrison joking?

No, just trying to keep his job. He will say anything at this point. Being a squishy soft-left fraud devoid of any underlying political philosophy helps.

He hasn’t worked out that lefties won’t ever vote for him and righties won’t vote for a squishy soft-left fraud devoid of any underlying political philosophy. ( 😀 )

Trying to sit in the centre where there’s no one just makes you be Scott-No-Friends.

I’m sad that we’ll have to somehow survive the next decade of Albo Greenocracy. But God gives sinners over to their own idolatry, and the present Australian population has to taught painfully not to believe idolaters.

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 3, 2022 2:51 pm

Diog, she was 42 deg here yesterday. Dunno how some shop staff were coping with spending the day

Sal,
I know and I feel for them. My skin hasn’t been dry enough to try the tape trick for a few weeks now.
Our staff that were on supervising (we were rostered for short periods) towards the end of the day were complaining kids were well and truly over wearing them, as were they.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 2:53 pm

“Tomsays:
February 3, 2022 at 1:11 pm
“The Australia Council has a statutory function to uphold and promote freedom of expression in the arts, to promote community participation in the arts, and support Australian arts practice that reflects the diversity of Australia,” the statement read.

… All except for the freedom of expression of anyone who doesn’t subscribe to leftist zombie groupthink and propaganda.

The Australia Council defunded Quadrant in 2015 while maintaining lavish funding for a raft of leftist propaganda rags like New Matilda and Eureka Street. Quadrant’s only income now is donations and subscriptions”

Yep…which is why I go out of my way to subscribe to Quadrant and the Speccie, Sky News Australia and other things. And remember, this Quadrant defunding happened under a Liberal (cough) government.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 3, 2022 2:54 pm

If the ALP take a small step to the Right, more approaching the middle ground, that may capture some of the disaffected/swing LNP and simultaneously choke off a portion of the bleed to the independents.

That would be the sensible thing to do. So it won’t happen.

Jorge
Jorge
February 3, 2022 2:58 pm

There are plenty of Ulster Catholic women who should be lighting a candle every week at Mass to thank God that Big Ian managed to stave off any control of Ulster from Dublin during those days.

The unborn weren’t consulted but yes, they’ve got their wish now. Modern compassion for those poor pregnant women. Ireland has caught up. Ain’t it grand.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 2:59 pm

“If the ALP take a small step to the Right, more approaching the middle ground, that may capture some of the disaffected/swing LNP and simultaneously choke off a portion of the bleed to the independents.”

I wouldn’t believe them even if they tried the “small step to the right”…..I have a long memory and they tried that trick back in 2007. They deliberately tricked ordinary Australians.

rickw
rickw
February 3, 2022 3:01 pm

Ain’t life wonderful when you get to spend other peoples money without accountability .. FFS!

The incompetence of the Australian Bureaucracy is incredible. $700 million worth of dumped PPE is just the tip of the iceberg.

bespoke
bespoke
February 3, 2022 3:02 pm

Well they aren’t going to declare the intent for abortion so the only way is ban all single women from traveling. But hang on, some marred women have an abortions so ban all women that can have children from traveling.

Slippery slope.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 3, 2022 3:03 pm

Oh no!
Ben Roberts-Smith may have killed a Taliban bomb maker in cold blood.
How will I get to sleep tonight?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 3:04 pm

The Labor right is perfectly capable of providing good government. The problem in the last 20 years is they form government with too many IOUs to their union paymasters and insufficient power against the Left faction. Each way Albo won’t help with either of these problems.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Up until this century, in the Republic of Ireland divorce and contraception were very difficult to obtain and pregnant single women were routinely denied passports in case they were travelling to a country where abortion was legal.

That’s but one example in many, of the draconian overreach & church control of public & personal life in Ireland.
Result: Ireland got a gay ethnic PM who set about the church in a culture war that (considering the starting point) makes some other western culture wars look tame.

For Ireland is a democracy.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 3:10 pm

… I have a long memory and they tried that trick back in 2007.

The Liars are banking on most people having forgotten by now. They are probably correct. Albo, like Gillard, is another Left faction stalwart being given the media soft soap treatment (no pun intended) in the run up to the election.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 3, 2022 3:11 pm

JMHsays:
February 3, 2022 at 1:08 pm
Somebody switch the damn channel. I am sick to death of Days Of Our Lives. Thank you in anticipation.

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And I sick to the utter death of you and your ilk, JWH. You have always been a prime hater of me, supporting a lunatic fixated and abusive woman who is turning this blog into a hate-fest. I have every right to defend myself against someone who initiated her recent attack, and has continued twice with the epithet of my being ‘a rat with a gold tooth’. This from someone who has a history her of lying about me and doxxing my husband. I will make any comment I like about gratuitous attacks when necessary if I am around (which is unlikely as I have better things to do).

The light-hearted and yet quality intellectual life that once was part of this place is diminished by haters, not by my occasional friendly comments on everyday matters as well as on history, health, media or politics. My general comments tend to be sporadic, as is my in and out attendance here. They should not disturb the aether too much They are of the sort which my female attacker makes with impugnity about herself, her impressions of her life and her own feelings. That in my view is the gross hypocrisy underlying her years-long and repetitive harrassment of me.

I am not personally resubscribing my own funds to be abused here. As with other media, if I get abused and told to be silent, then why pay for it?

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 3, 2022 3:12 pm

Imagine if this total beta was your father:

COVID has taken all the joy out of parenting (again)

It was December, at the start of the Omicron wave… My wife and I lived in fear, not so much for ourselves, but for the health of older family members we were planning to see over Christmas and our two-and-a-half-year-old son who’s too young to get a vaccine…there’s no end in sight for this pandemic. And it just feels overwhelming.

At least he can use his kid’s nappies when he runs out of his. I’m sure they fit fairly well, too.

My son is a sweet, beautiful soul…but he’s also a toddler. So sometimes he’ll whack me hard over the head.

Sometimes he’ll throw things across the room for no apparent reason or tell me he doesn’t like me and that I should go away.

And the tantrums — his moods flipping back and forth, triggered by things as minor as a broken cookie or us running out of superhero band-aids.

Holy crap, that is terrible! Who knew toddlers behaved in such monstrous ways? It’s incredible this guy is still alive. I guess he’s managed to survive the toddler’s wrath due to his highly sensitive fear response and has been able to flee when shit gets heavy. I fear that soon his luck will run out and he’ll take a fatal blow to the head from a thrown dummy or something similarly brutal.

Every night, dinner is a pot luck of whatever mood my son decides to bring to the table.

“I didn’t ask for spaghetti!” he’ll yell one night, as though he were a dissatisfied customer at a restaurant, before propelling the offending pasta against the wall.

On other nights, he might decide he loves spaghetti and proceeds to perform for us a happy food dance on his chair, while shoving fistfuls of bolognaise down his gob.

This toddler’s behaviour is erratic and unreasonable. He has some serious growing up to do. If only parents could do things to modify their child’s behaviour!

All my usual outlets are gone

A toddler can be a lot of fun…but the daily grind of living with a toddler is relentless, it never stops, and it never cares how you’re feeling.

Well, it sounds like this guy just got unlucky with his. All of my children were/are incredible listeners when they were toddlers. I could tell them all of my problems, and they always provided a sympathetic ear and offered constructive advice that helped me develop as a person. In fact, my 1yo is my psycho-analyst. She’s helping me work through a lot of my childhood trauma that came from my parents expecting me to always be sensitive to their feel-feels when I was a baby.

It’s tough at the best of times, but the pandemic has taken away every release valve I would normally have.

We’re trying to dodge COVID, so when we go out, it’s only outside. We go to parks, the beach, maybe an outdoor cafe on a weekend. That’s about it. We’ve barely seen our friends, and when we do, it’s mostly (again) at parks. I don’t do social sports anymore. Shopping centre visits have become covert missions — locate, extract, exit.

Late night grocery shopping has become one of my few remaining escapes.

Daycare does give us a break. But it’s also a ticking COVID time bomb.

Can you imagine living like this? Being in constant, pants-shitting terror of a not-particularly-serious virus, as well as anyone or thing that might infect you with it? Imagine being this pathetic and not realising how pathetic you are, to the extent that you publish your utterly pathetic struggles for everyone to read.

We took him out of daycare for five weeks last year (on the government’s recommendation) and took turns looking after him. And it was fun spending half-days with him at the beach or playing shops in the teepee in the backyard. But the late nights and weekends working to make up for lost time just wasn’t sustainable.

Yes, no wonder the human race has died out, because looking after one toddler is impossible. No one has figured out how to do it.

My “home office” is our bedroom. There’s no room for a desk so it’s just me sitting in bed with a laptop. I can hear him playing on the other side of the door.

There’s little separation between work and life.

Why doesn’t the 2 year old realise you live in a small place and you’ve decided to hermetically seal you and your family inside so you don’t catch the Covid? If he did, surely he would behave more appropriately. Why doesn’t he see that you have needs, too? Intolerably selfish child! You didn’t sign up for this! Who could have foreseen that having a kid would make such an impact on your lifestyle? And what, are we all going to pretend that you didn’t have to cut yourself off from the rest of the world because of your totally rational fear of Covid? You had no choice! It’s about time the toddler starts appreciating the sacrifices you’ve made.

I feel profoundly exhausted all the time, despite doing very little physical activity these days…when I play with him, sometimes I’m so exhausted that all I can muster is to lie on my back and become a ride-on vehicle for him

It’s such a mystery. How could spending every waking moment in a state of terror, barricaded in a tiny apartment and constantly tormented by the fear of catching Covid, be tiring? How could living with a mentality that you are trapped in an abusive relationship with a tyrannical, bullying 2 year old be tiring?

How is this person still alive. I seriously don’t know.

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 3:14 pm

My “home office” is our bedroom. There’s no room for a desk so it’s just me sitting in bed with a laptop. I can hear him playing on the other side of the door.

There’s little separation between work and life.

Sounds like a really tough job, you know, like being a high tension linesman in equatorial, dessert Africa.

Roger
Roger
February 3, 2022 3:15 pm

I wouldn’t believe them even if they tried the “small step to the right”…..I have a long memory and they tried that trick back in 2007. They deliberately tricked ordinary Australians.

Correct.

Now just watch Albo do it again.

He’s already making appropriate noises like “no new taxes” (except on multinationals) and supporting the “aspirational voter” while courting faith groups in Sydney’s western suburbs with a specially appointed envoy.

The centre-right Australian voter is like a long-suffering woman who’s just been jilted.

So along comes Albo with a bunch of roses and a box of chocolates.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 3, 2022 3:17 pm

I will be able to put it up later but today’s Covid story in Courier Mail is a cracker. They did a street survey in Good Coast and huge majority who they tested did not even have symptoms or know they were postive. CHO saying he thinks 1/3 had it. Plus today’s death figures include 3 over 100.

Bring on the boosters now !

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 3:20 pm

Life is too short to read ALPBC Life.

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 3, 2022 3:20 pm

Imagine if this total beta was your father:

Love the commentary.

twostix
twostix
February 3, 2022 3:21 pm

Sometimes he’ll throw things across the room for no apparent reason or tell me he doesn’t like me and that I should go away.

And the tantrums — his moods flipping back and forth, triggered by things as minor as a broken cookie or us running out of superhero band-aids.

My children were never that bad as toddlers.

A really lovely time of life when there’s a toddler in the house.

twostix
twostix
February 3, 2022 3:22 pm

And the tantrums — his moods flipping back and forth

iPad / Netflix toddler. Guarantee it.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 3, 2022 3:22 pm

The unvvaxxened are all gunna die from the plague, so why can’t we just shoot em all now?

(CHO Ilogic)

Speedbox
February 3, 2022 3:23 pm

Diogenes says:
February 3, 2022 at 2:30 pm
In 90+% humidity in Qld? Seriously?

Yeah, I know. The stern doctor types dispensing this absurdity are terminally stupid.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 3:24 pm

Correct.
Now just watch Albo do it again.

They are going to have to change their modus operandi if they plan to be in government once every 12 years.

bespoke
bespoke
February 3, 2022 3:26 pm

A really lovely time of life when there’s a toddler in the house.

Me too, Fun and challenging.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 3, 2022 3:26 pm

I just saw your comment, Cass, and the fifteen others who agree with you, and it is heartening to have friends here still. I appreciate your support, but you should not have to come in to recommend me in order for friends to appear. Nor shoud I be the only one to tell Johanna she is out of order. I’ve done that countless times already, but fixated psychotic people gotta fixate. Till they seek help.

I think that there is so much unpleasantness around that like Arky I can’t enjoy being here much.

Good luck to those who still work to make this place what it once was; a fine place to be.
I have quite an important submission to write for my ‘church saving’ so will take some leave now.

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