Open Thread – Mon 31 Jan 2022


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

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Miltonf
Miltonf
February 3, 2022 5:57 pm

Yeah whatever

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 5:57 pm

Question for any Hannity viewers.
Has he been anti any war in Ukraine?
Or not mention it much?

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 3, 2022 5:59 pm

Dot says:
February 3, 2022 at 5:50 pm
Spam pizza, is that really different to a “ham” pizza from a non gourmet shop?

Dot, you have never tried SPAM, have you?

bespoke
bespoke
February 3, 2022 6:00 pm

BBQed spam is nice.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 3, 2022 6:01 pm

JCsays:

February 3, 2022 at 5:18 pm

Bear.
South Melbourne market dimmies are now sold frozen

Huh, I had three the other week. 

Three?
Fuck, they’re huge.
I hope they were steamed.

Delta A
Delta A
February 3, 2022 6:01 pm

Game, Set, Match, Tournament. To Salvatore. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0.

Umm… no.

And I would say the same to JC if he wrote such a silly comment.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 3, 2022 6:02 pm

And Dr. BG, there is only one ‘tiff’ I am concerned about

I never said anything about a tiff, Lizzie. My comment was about feelings and the desirability of not giving a fying fluck.

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 6:02 pm

A self-described scientfic doofus earlier today suggested beta caratene “is Okay” to help make butter go yellower. What nonsense. If an additive is given to a cow on the feeding end to make butter go yellow then it’s less natural then lighter colored butter.

So what?

Butter churns and pots and pans are not natural.

I would say it is added in manufacturing. I wouldn’t worry about it, I’d worry about older antioxidants like TBHQ.

Which is still used in a lot of Asian products, like Taiwanese chips (“Lonely God”, which are delicious).

John H probably knows but look up the Krebs cycle and interestification.

IMO you only need essential proteins and fatty acids, the interaction of various monounsaturated band polyunsaturated fatty acid chains in your body is quite complex. You can have an anti-nutritive effect without knowing.

If you are worried about fatty acid nutrition, consume dairy, milk fat has a very complex fatty acid profile.

Don’t start me on the irrational fear of trans fats or the outdated stuff about seed oil being evil.

If you have English mustard on lamb, you are eating seed oil AND a lot of trans fats.

Dairy, olive oil, meat, moderate seed oil and avoid less safe preservatives.

In other words, eat as your (great?) grandparents did before they got old.

My guilty vegetarian pleasures are dried mango, apple butter and banana chips cooked on sunflower oil and seasoned with pepper.

I am not dead yet. Good BP, pulse, blood sugar. If you bring a”SEED OIL IS A TOOL OF THE GLOBALISTS!” placard to an anti mandate rally, you are not a “King”, you’re an utter tool.

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 6:04 pm

Dot, you have never tried SPAM, have you

Yeah, I have once, it is horrendous.

I like bully beef though…

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 6:05 pm

Cooked breakfasts are very civilised. Not sure about a full English after some of the slop you get in some of the caffs in the old country. Probably draw the line at steak and eggs which was known to happen after we knocked off a killer during my limited station days.

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 6:06 pm

“Hormel” pre packaged TV dinners are an abomination.

bespoke
bespoke
February 3, 2022 6:06 pm

I think my fear of trans fats is very rational.

rickw
rickw
February 3, 2022 6:07 pm

Greeks are bloody awesome. Straight in, seat, no COVID liturgy.

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 6:09 pm

I think my fear of trans fats is very rational.

Not those trans fats.

rickw
rickw
February 3, 2022 6:09 pm

Dot, you have never tried SPAM, have you
Yeah, I have once, it is horrendous.

Spam sushi is an island favourite, great for hangovers to. Best purchased at a service station.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 3, 2022 6:10 pm

Seriously I find the boasting re money, real estate, schools, travel and jobs absolutely grotesque. True gentle folk are modest and don’t self praise.

I have more and bigger of all those things than all of youse.
Get over it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 3, 2022 6:11 pm

Dotsays:
February 3, 2022 at 6:04 pm

I like bully beef though…

Go to France and try some singe.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 3, 2022 6:12 pm

I feel for those who have trusted Hyacinth on a personal basis because she has no compunction about blathering on and on about personal conversations.

JWH you are a fraud. You don’t feel for anyone. Just are just going on again.

Arky has also mentioned here that his wife disliked him blogging. No disclosure there. And Cassie sent me a screen shot of Johanna’s lying; important that I mention that I have it, I think.

Otherwise, I have many had other personal conversations and my lips are absolutely sealed.

As for ‘Hyacinth’, that shows precisely where your opinions have always been, embedded in a very large piece of nonsense and fabrication about me here. I stand by the truth of every event and circumstance I have ever related here as part of a discouse on some matter or other. Years ago I altered the time-frame of it, precisely to turn doxxing obsessives like Johanna off the scent when being doxxed would have killed my husband’s career stone deawd. That is all. How dare you impugn my integrity and truth-telling: people who know me can vouch for it, which is more than can be said for some of the unknowns here who have far more ‘swiss cheese’ about them than I do.

I don’t expect to know everything about everyone on a blog, disclosures are up to individuals, and many do disclose, while others eschew doing so. No-one here knows everything about those who come here, but a certain level of integrity is required and I do have that.

Now I really have to get working on that submission, which will not write itself.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 3, 2022 6:14 pm

apologies for hurried comment, typos are obvious.

JMH
JMH
February 3, 2022 6:14 pm

Spam pizza.
Oh sweet Jesus.

One further addition: If Hyacinth’s little gaggle of friends here actually cared for her state of mental health, then they would be counselling her to cease and desist with her ridiculous, childish behaviour. It has become more than tedious.

There is nothing preventing Hyacinth from starting her own blog where she can post her narcissistic tripe and rage against her so-called ‘haters’ till the cows come home.

I’m certain Dover would add the link.

Roger
Roger
February 3, 2022 6:15 pm

Steak, egg and home made chips was my favourite dinner growing up. The chips were home made and deep fried rather than baked, of course. Frozen vegetables and TV meals were something you only saw on American TV shows.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 3, 2022 6:15 pm

JC, I know you love a nick-name, but I gotta ask.
Where the hell did “Driller” come from?

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 3, 2022 6:17 pm

I usually cook up an English breakfast on Saturday mornings, including sausage and black pudding

God i miss black pudding

Best fishing trip breakfast was – egg in the hole topped with crisp streaky bacon covered with a piece of fried bread.

Christ i get chest pain thinking about it, happy memories

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 3, 2022 6:18 pm

Thanks for the tucker blogging, btw. It is very up-cheering to see others engage in the very thing that I am a ‘rat with a Gold Tooth’ about. It was sausage that nite, if I remember correctly.
Last nite it was a Chinese takeaway. And before that steak.

Fascinating stuff. 🙂

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 3, 2022 6:19 pm

JWH – going on and on again. lol

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Delta A says: February 3, 2022 at 6:01 pm

Game, Set, Match, Tournament. To Salvatore. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0.
Umm… no.

Unless he puts his money where his big mouth is,
then; Yes.
He got called, he failed.

He’s broken.

bespoke
bespoke
February 3, 2022 6:22 pm

Dover, are you getting sponsored by the NDIS?

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 6:22 pm

There is nothing “mere” about “Tucker blogging”, ‘elf Nazis get massive erections about controlling other people and shills see public money like cartoon wolves, dollar signs in both eyes.

JMH
JMH
February 3, 2022 6:23 pm

I repeat – FUCK OFF Hyacinth. Go and start your own blog. pet. There’s a good little girl.

duncanm
duncanm
February 3, 2022 6:25 pm

A quite stunning takedown of Trudeau and his anti-truck rhetoric.

“Workers of the world unite!”
“ok”
“No.. not you!”

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/seizing-the-memes-of-production/comments

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I repeat – FUCK OFF Hyacinth. Go and start your own blog. pet. There’s a good little girl.

For chucks steak JMH, it’s not that serious.
RUOK bloke?

You really do have the option to scroll past.
Many here scroll past some stuff by people they read regularly.

srr
srr
February 3, 2022 6:25 pm

Why won’t they leave Christian schools alone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4v-ptBq2pU
[1:02 minutes]
Feb 3, 2022
ACL – Australian Christian Lobby
98.3K subscribers

Martyn Iles shares that there is a clear opposition to the knowledge of the truth.

JC
JC
February 3, 2022 6:27 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
February 3, 2022 at 6:15 pm

JC, I know you love a nick-name, but I gotta ask.
Where the hell did “Driller” come from?

Lol. It came from Driller himself.

There was a discussion on the old blog about the now ex-prince Andrew and where things were headed over the Epstein saga. Not suprisingly, the FNQ wronglogist made what is possibly the worst prediction ever posted on the Cat. He suggested that the Brits would overlook Ex-prince bonking barely legals and or underage gals and in fact applaud him.

The subject then moved onto the moral ethics of say a 50 year old man attempting to leg-over barely legal girls. Driller and Adonis both argued that if the gal is over the age of consent then it’s a green light. Driller suggested it was fine drilling them. Hence Driller since then. I think he doesn’t like it but I’m not sure. 🙂

johanna
johanna
February 3, 2022 6:29 pm

I can only assume that the luvvies at TheirABC have their power bills paid as part of their employment contract. Otherwise, how could they publish this rubbish:

A flood of renewable energy has helped drive down household power prices to their lowest levels in almost a decade, according to a report which suggests Australia has some of the cheapest electricity in the world.

New analysis by the Australian Energy Council (AEC), which represents big power providers, shows typical residential power bills fell over the past three years as a raft of changes put downward pressure on prices.

Using data from the competition watchdog, the AEC said a typical residential bill was $1434 a year in 2020-21, a figure that was 8 per cent — or $128 — lower than 2018-19.

According to the council, Australian households were paying the 10th lowest rate among the world’s advanced economies for every unit of electricity they used.

It said Australian prices were US17.6¢ per kilowatt hour (kWh) when adjusted for purchasing power parity, a measure which tries to equalise the cost of identical goods.

I don’t know where to begin about this pack of lies.

Firstly, while they claim that prices have fallen a few percent in the last three years (I don’t know if that is true) they neglect to mention that they rose up to 50% in the preceding years. It’s just like what they do to temperature data.

Secondly, while we are paying US17.6 cents, they neglect to mention that in red states in the US people are paying less than half of that. A ranking with such a wide range is deceptive unless you include the actual numbers, which they didn’t.

Thirdly, there is no mention of the cost of taxpayer and consumer subsidies to ruinables. As for the opportunity cost of expensive power being prioritised over cheap power in grid management, it is incalculable, so they don’t mention it.

Usually, the lies are annoying but of little consequence in the big picture. These lies are immensely important to the economic future of this country and its people.

Sloppy and dishonest, but good enough for those driving what they imagine is the ‘energy revolution’ with our money.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 3, 2022 6:29 pm

Biggles, you don’t like Arky because you insulted him & he requested a meet with you & I think his intention was to get you to apologise to him or he was going to tear your stupid head off your shoulders.
You reversed quicker than the starship enterprise at warp 9.5 & your fear was palpable to all.

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 6:30 pm

and told to be silent

I gave you that advice albeit, worded differently

the thing is your’e not exactly being told to “be silent” and you bloody well know it
stfu woman means, stop with your whiny manipulative bullshit

and every uptick says the same thing.
just with fewer words

god gave you two ears and one mouth … use them in proportion

JMH
JMH
February 3, 2022 6:32 pm

For chucks steak JMH, it’s not that serious.
RUOK bloke?

You really do have the option to scroll past.
Many here scroll past some stuff by people they read regularly.

No.

Read upthread. The bint brought me into it. I retaliated – as is my right, as Hyacinth claims is her right over and over and over again. I’ve had a complete gutful of her. Just giving back, which is well deserved, that’s all.

Roger
Roger
February 3, 2022 6:34 pm

Best fishing trip breakfast was – egg in the hole topped with crisp streaky bacon covered with a piece of fried bread.

Welsh rarebit – melted cheese with beer, worcestershire sauce and English mustard poured over two slices of hot buttered toast washed & down with a pot of tea. Bacon doesn’t go astray on top but probably not as originally eaten.

srr
srr
February 3, 2022 6:37 pm

manipulative

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 6:38 pm

For Catholic Cats (and anyone else who likes it. 😀 )

DOUBLE TROUBLE AS FOUR SETS OF TWINS START KINDY AT HUNTER SCHOOL (Ncl news, 3 Feb)

No tears and hanging onto mum…they already each have seven other mates.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 3, 2022 6:41 pm

I’ll second the fuck off.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 3, 2022 6:43 pm

Why should anyone here have to accede to some demented demand for a face to face meeting?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 6:44 pm

The best stouches have a Hatfield v McCoy character to them. If you can remember what started them – best to keep scrolling.

JMH, as one of the pilers on, I wouldn’t get too worried about it. Come on Hairy, we’re leaving.

Speedbox
February 3, 2022 6:44 pm

Roger says:
February 3, 2022 at 5:00 pm

And the vegan hamburger patties. Hardly a lamb chop or steak to be seen but the vegan ‘meat’ was plentiful. Possible they had no resupply problems but far more likely the product wasn’t selling.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 3, 2022 6:44 pm

Hyacinth

Show some respect.

Mrs Bucket

srr
srr
February 3, 2022 6:44 pm

It’s fun watching the interwebs atm, with so many not knowing which way to swing, treading water in their own constant dribble about sweet FA … it’s happening everywhere … cat herders not having a clue about the security of their employment or the likelihood of a near future as dim sims …

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 6:45 pm

skip to about 1:00 in

indeed a most excellent documentary on Eastern European dairy products

rosie
rosie
February 3, 2022 6:46 pm

Nearly breakfast time here.
Thought I might get a coffee and croissant at the station.
I’m off to Narbonne on the slow train.
I was going to go to Muceum yesterday, it looks a bit like the Melbourne museum so I was dubious. I wandered around Fort St Jean, why wasn’t the 13th century chapel open? You can go up top and cross a long footbridge over water to get to the new modern museum but the wind was mad and I’m a scaredycat (along the street outside the huge bins had toppled and blown along the footpath) so I thought I’d go round the long way at a lower elevation.
The deportation museum is tucked in at the base of the old fort so I went there as well, by the time I’d done it was too late for the other.
Only a couple of exhibits, some FFI memorabilia, the outfit someone wore home from Ravensbruck, the rest was photos of people and families and their little histories plus photos of the round ups and dynamiting of the quarter. There were little theatres where you could watch survivors tell their stories interposed with historical photos. I think they were all recorded around 2003.
Most of the French rounded up were sent back to Marseilles after being held at an old military camp in Frejus, around 600 were sent to Sachsenhausen, resistance members, prostitutes, homosexuals, vagabonds, those without papers. 100 returned.
The interviewees told of how barricades were erected around their suburb, being loaded into trams, then into cattle cars at the station, of fathers never seen again, of being dispossessed of their homes, of 12,000 French gendarmes who assisted in that dispossession.
But even worse was to come; Jewish men and women in late middle age who just looked so normal and nice and ordinary telling stories of unspeakable horror, about being packed so tightly into cattle cars they had to stand with their arms in the air and the only relief coming because people died, and so much more horror on horror, then coming home to French indifference and often great responsibility. Eighteen year old girls coming home to be heads of households because younger siblings had been hidden and there was no one else.
And they just did it.

Roger
Roger
February 3, 2022 6:46 pm

For Catholic Cats (and anyone else who likes it. ? )

When I was involved with schools the Catholics had (I hope they still do, too!) a policy of never refusing to enrol a child no matter how long it might take the parents to pay off the fees. Some independent Protestant schools may have a similar policy but I could never get Anglicans to adopt it, which was very shortsighted of them.

srr
srr
February 3, 2022 6:46 pm

Daniel Andrews Despised by his own Party?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5wfWsTygvw

Feb 3, 2022
Discernable
32.5K subscribers
Creator of ‘Battleground Melbourne’ Topher Field delivers inside information from inside the ALP on how despised the Victorian premier is within his own party.

‘Rules don’t matter when survival is on the line’ and Topher believes there are many waiting with a sharp knife to seize on the right opportunity to elevate their political position.

Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/wi4EztGVaXk

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 3, 2022 6:49 pm

… many waiting with a sharp knife to seize on the right opportunity to elevate their political position.

Stairfall ?
Danfall ?

Let it be so.

calli
calli
February 3, 2022 6:52 pm

Thanks Bruce. Great story. And a journalist who uses “pupils”!

My little granddaughter started today. Phoned and asked the usual questions. She was full of news, including one new friend. And she informed me that her daddy had made her the best and yummiest lunch in Australia.

One more to go, and we’re all out of “first days”.

sfw
sfw
February 3, 2022 6:52 pm

There’s a few here who really need to have a Bex and a lie down and reflect on themselves. I normally scroll past the abuse and madness but there’s so much that it takes up huge slabs of the page. There’s no need for it, if you don’t like or aren’t interested in what someone says just ignore it.

I’ve accused people on other sites of TDS but there’s a sort of derangement here that I don’t understand. It’s getting to the point where I’m about to bail. Dover’s done a great job but the constant invective and sniping just makes coming worth less everyday. Unless you insulting, narcissistic, obsessives get control over your emotions the site will be reduced to a few of you throwing shit at each other, like monkeys in a cage.

So go ahead, hang shit on me, insult me, I don’t care but it’s sad to see what could have been a wonderful site, turned into a place where simians hurl their shit at each other.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 3, 2022 6:52 pm

French butter, unsalted, is the best.

Huh?
Belgian unsalted butter is the Duck’s Nuts..
Sold here as Eco-Farms Absolute Organic [Product of Belgium].

JMH
JMH
February 3, 2022 6:53 pm

JMH, as one of the pilers on, I wouldn’t get too worried about it. Come on Hairy, we’re leaving.

We await with bated breath for the BIG announcement, Bear. LOL.

bespoke
bespoke
February 3, 2022 6:54 pm

It’s bad enough with declining grammar standards but please use paragraph’s.

Word walls are so last year.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 3, 2022 6:55 pm

So go ahead, hang shit on me, insult me, …

The Dominatrix site is the next one on the left.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 6:57 pm

A flood of renewable energy has helped drive down household power prices to their lowest levels in almost a decade, according to a report which suggests Australia has some of the cheapest electricity in the world.

Could’ve fooled me.

(Link will take a while to load, it’s on the Wayback Machine. Electricity prices are still in line with it, mine is currently 36c/kWh from memory. Germany is now well over 50 c/kWh.)

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 3, 2022 6:57 pm

So go ahead, hang shit on me, insult me, I don’t care but it’s sad to see what could have been a wonderful site, turned into a place where simians hurl their shit at each other.

Don’t take yourself so seriously, Sherlock.
To make that a little easier, I’ll let you in on a secret.
Salvatore, Struth, srr, Bundyrum, Twostix, and probably a half dozen others, are wacky creations of Sancho’s.
Keep it under your hat, pal.

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 6:57 pm

Spam pizza.

with pineapple

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 6:58 pm

Groogs, butter war is over. Fuck off.

It’s Remarkable
It’s Remarkable
February 3, 2022 6:58 pm

Sfw:
Amen to that.
I hope to get a variety of views on matters of politics, energy, climate, covid, history, technology and more from a centre/right POV, in a mature, adult manner. Been lurking and rarely commenting for ages to that end.
Some of the invective is very childish and repulsive. I expect better of those who can mount a strong argument or debate yet resort to cheap personal abuse.

calli
calli
February 3, 2022 6:59 pm

So go ahead, hang shit on me, insult me,

I’d rather not, if it’s okay with you.

Perhaps if you tendered out?

rosie
rosie
February 3, 2022 6:59 pm

Henrietta Cohen, she knew the Gestapo was after her so she hid her little daughters aged 3 and 14 months, along with her mother, on a farm.
She got picked up with her mother in law (her husband avoided deportation) mother in law went straight to the chambers.
After the war she was reunited with her family and she had four more children. At the time of her death she also had 33 grandchildren.

That’s how to do it.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 3, 2022 7:00 pm

36c/kWh

I can remember complaining when I was paying 18c per kwh. Not that long ago. 5 years.

bespoke
bespoke
February 3, 2022 7:00 pm

Spam and pineapple cooked on a BBQ, Matrix.

Give it a go.

Roger
Roger
February 3, 2022 7:01 pm

A flood of renewable energy has helped drive down household power prices to their lowest levels in almost a decade…

You see what they did there?

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 3, 2022 7:03 pm

14c per kWh on the early 2000s iirc.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 7:04 pm

“sfwsays:
February 3, 2022 at 6:52 pm”

I think you’ve said it best.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 7:05 pm

“That’s how to do it.”

Absolutely. Thanks for that story Rosie.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 3, 2022 7:06 pm

I suspect household elec rates are kept artificially low and small businesses are screwed.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 3, 2022 7:08 pm

The unit cost for power consumed is one thing. As a single person household in the West, what you notice is the fixed costs before you even hit the switch. That ALPBC piece was so bad even The Ponds Institute wouldn’t put their name to it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 7:09 pm

There’s a few here who really need to have a Bex and a lie down and reflect on themselves

DMT baby, DMT.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 3, 2022 7:10 pm

Well that’s it. I’ve had enough. I’m outta here.
Goodbye cruel blog.

I shall never return.
Or at least not until tomorrow, when you can enjoy my charm, intelligence, wit and very large penis.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 3, 2022 7:10 pm

JC at 6:27.

There was a discussion on the old blog about the now ex-prince Andrew and where things were headed over the Epstein saga.
….
He suggested that the Brits would overlook Ex-prince bonking barely legals and or underage gals and in fact applaud him.

OK.
Right.
Well, it appears that was off the mark.
I have always thought “age of consent” thing wouldn’t play into public opinion in the UK.
Even if she was over the legal age by a few months, the general attitude would be, “FMD, he lives off the public purse and he is running around rooting girls younger than his daughters”.
In the minds of the public it is a moral and ethical argument rather than a legal one.
Anyway, the tribe has spoken.
Including his mum and big brother.
He will spend the rest of his days minding the deer herd and counting the Royal Rocks on Balmoral Estate.

Speedbox
February 3, 2022 7:11 pm

Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 3, 2022 at 6:57 pm
…..mine is currently 36c/kWh from memory.

Received my account just a few days ago. Two rates and top one is 18.98c/kWh. Lower one is 15.88c.

Via Red Energy. I’m in Brisbane metro.

JC
JC
February 3, 2022 7:11 pm

I know, I know. Let’s not have anymore blog stoushes for the rest of the evening. I’m swearing off for evening.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 7:11 pm

It’s the 3rd of Feb & Skynews has not been on for a single second in my house during 2022.
Tis good to expunge it.

JC
JC
February 3, 2022 7:12 pm

Bear, Is the Ponds Institute related to Pond’s Cream?

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 3, 2022 7:19 pm

15.88 cents is very good

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 7:20 pm

Or at least not until tomorrow, when you can enjoy my charm, intelligence, wit and very large penis.

Probably old but only heard it the other day from filthy NY comic Aaron Berg:
You know how I got my penis to be 7 inches long ?
How?
I folded it in half.

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 7:20 pm

all the spam talk is making my mouth water.

as a teenager we always had a can of spam in the cupboard

spam sanger is an awesome thing

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 7:21 pm

If Rita says anything good it’s tweeted so why waste hours getting through all the filler.

Speedbox
February 3, 2022 7:24 pm

Miltonf says:
February 3, 2022 at 7:19 pm

Plus Qantas points ($1=1 point) if I pay on time.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 3, 2022 7:25 pm

It’s Remarkablesays:

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.

Get a grip.
By praising Snickers Scotty has made it harder for McGowan to campaign against him in the West.
Remember, Snickers just won 90% of the Seats on a He Kept Us Safe slogan.
The last thing Liberal Federal MPs in the West want is Scotty attacking Snickers over the Lockdowns.

srr
srr
February 3, 2022 7:26 pm

DOH Whistleblower Says Covid Inflated for Profit ‘He went for gunshot wounds and was coded as COVID’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx2FFPhbNIY

Feb 3, 2022
Project Veritas
1.46M subscribers

COVID Cases Inflated for Profit: ‘The Guy Went in for Multiple Gunshot Wounds and he was Coded as COVID’
• Jeanne Stagg, a whistleblower who worked in Inpatient Utilization Management, approached Project Veritas after seeing cases coded as COVID-19 that she says should not have COVID-19 listed as the “primary diagnosis.”
• Stagg: “I’ve tried to raise awareness to my leadership and even with the Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Department, and it just kind of fell on deaf ears.”
• The Chief Medical Officer for United Healthcare of Louisiana (Medicaid) opined in a recorded phone conversation that the Medicaid rate for reimbursement of COVID-19 patients, which is faster and significantly higher, could be the motivation for the improper “primary diagnosis” codes.
• “Oh, yes. Yeah. I would think that there’s some motivation that it’s driving higher rates of reimbursement or quicker reimbursement, or something, because otherwise there’s no reason to put, you know, something like that as a leading diagnosis in an asymptom– basically asymptomatic patients,” said Dr. Morial, Chief Medical Officer for United Healthcare of Louisiana.
• The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has suspended utilization review which is the process of determining whether health care is medically necessary for a patient or an insured individual. The whistleblower says this could be a major contributing factor to spikes in COVID numbers, which then influence public health decisions.

[Baton Rouge, La. – Feb. 2, 2022] A source who works for United Healthcare of Louisiana’s Inpatient Utilization Management Department is blowing the whistle on COVID-19 cases possibly being inflated for financial incentive. The brazen instance of such potential abuse was a patient who had multiple gunshot wounds with his primary diagnosis listed as COVID-19.

United Healthcare of Louisiana is the states’ Medicaid arm, and as the whistleblower Jeanne Stagg points out in a conversation with the Chief Medical Officer of United Healthcare of Louisiana, Dr. Julie Morial, there are several financial incentives for hospitals to prefer to code patients as COVID-19 hospitalizations.

“Well maybe that’s… maybe that’s driving some of the motivation,” said Dr. Morial before stating that the Medicaid rate for reimbursement of COVID-19 patients is both higher and faster.

Project Veritas also published footage of a leadership call within United Healthcare of Louisiana wherein the whistleblower’s attempt to discuss the improper primary diagnoses she is seeing was dismissed.

A major element of this story is the fact that recent actions by public officials have allowed the problem to persist, and the whistleblower believes erroneous codes could be the cause of COVID-19 spikes which influence major public health decisions.

A health plan advisory, which announced that all utilization management for all medical hospitalizations [including but not limited to initial service authorization and concurrent reviews], must be suspended was the action taken — which is in question.

“Now, this is not specific to COVID-19. This is every single hospital admission. We’re not allowed to do medical necessity review. So, it gives the hospitals free reign to admit anything they want. Code it however they want,” says the whistleblower, Jeanne Stagg.

United Healthcare of Louisiana’s Dr. Morial was contacted for comment on this story and said, “When I see a patient, and if a patient is presenting other symptoms that aren’t suggestive of a COVID infection, even though they may test positive for COVID, that’s not my primary diagnosis.”

JMH
JMH
February 3, 2022 7:26 pm

Speedboxsays:
February 3, 2022 at 7:11 pm
Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 3, 2022 at 6:57 pm
…..mine is currently 36c/kWh from memory.

Received my account just a few days ago. Two rates and top one is 18.98c/kWh. Lower one is 15.88c.

Via Red Energy. I’m in Brisbane metro.

Damn! I’m with Red and paying 32.23 and 19.65. But I am in Victoria!

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 7:26 pm

More supply chain issues.
My Coles delivery later this evening.
They are out of the Ginger Ninja juice to be replaced with Raspberry Beret juice.
What the hell is that?

Tom
Tom
February 3, 2022 7:26 pm

As a llow-IQ Ieftard simpleton who believes in every passing political fad from global warmening to BLM’s use of “equity” to end 50 years of racial equality in America, Test captain Pat Cummins appears to be the main wagger of the tail of the dog at Cricket Australia who wants truth-telling banned so everyone can get a prize and team excellence is abolished.

Because CA, like Australia, has zero leadership, Cummins looks set to get Justin Langer sacked to suck the dicks of the millenials in the team who don’t like the dominance that won the hit-and-giggle world cup and the Ashes.

What a clown show!

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 7:27 pm

I know for a fact that there are many hi-rise in Melbourne that pay nowhere near retail for energy.

like $0.1 /kWh

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 3, 2022 7:27 pm

I’m with red energy in vicco. Think it’s 25 c per kWh

johanna
johanna
February 3, 2022 7:29 pm

I am now holding serious opinion that Scum has no intention of winning the next election.

I usually let the nuttier conspiracist comments go through to the keeper, but as this one has apparently been agreed with by some commenters, it’s time for a reality check.

No elected politician who has spent his whole adult life climbing the greasy pole, and got to the top, is ever going to intentionally lose an election.

Anyone who claims otherwise needs to get back to charting contrails, as they have missed the real threat that we are facing..

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 3, 2022 7:31 pm

Miltonf, biggles didn’t accede to a face meeting but Arky did have the right to ask.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 3, 2022 7:31 pm

Tom, there have been a range of former Patriots players complaining about Belichick disciplinarian ways.
Young players don’t realise that structure and discipline are the only things separating 99% of the cattle playing professional sport.

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 7:32 pm

hmmm
spam, cheese and pickles in a lightly toasted sanger with whole egg mayo.

chipotle cucumber

shatterzzz
February 3, 2022 7:34 pm

Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 3, 2022 at 6:57 pm
…..mine is currently 36c/kWh from memory.

My quarterly bill from AGL came in yesterday .. 27.6 cents/kWh .. (all hours same rate)
+ $77.41 supply charge for 90 days(86.01/day)

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 3, 2022 7:35 pm

Justin Langer is a dud.
Have a look at the bowlers he’s got.
If Don Bradman hadda had bowlers like Cummins, Starc and Hazlewood in the 1930s, he woulda averaged 180.

Dragnet
Dragnet
February 3, 2022 7:35 pm

This is something as spooky as spooky can be:
In the last 15 minutes on my Facebook feed I have received unsolicited posts concerning Spam and Poilus, neither subject of which I have ever googled or discussed on-line anywhere anytime, except that both topics have been touched on this here Open Thread in the last hour or two.
WTF ?

dopey
dopey
February 3, 2022 7:35 pm

Well, at least there was no mention of peanut butter.

JMH
JMH
February 3, 2022 7:36 pm

No elected politician who has spent his whole adult life climbing the greasy pole, and got to the top, is ever going to intentionally lose an election.

Anyone who claims otherwise needs to get back to charting contrails, as they have missed the real threat that we are facing..

We will see, Johanna. Right now, Scummo is handing the election to Albo on a silver platter. I very much doubt Morrison will lift his game between now and May (if that happens to be the month of doom!)

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 7:38 pm

“Dragnetsays:
February 3, 2022 at 7:35 pm”

Spooky Wooky

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 3, 2022 7:39 pm

God i miss black pudding

as that the weapon of choice in Ecky-thump?

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 3, 2022 7:40 pm

If Don Bradman hadda had bowlers like Cummins, Starc and Hazlewood in the 1930s, he woulda averaged 180.

How would the identity of the bowlers have affected Bradman’s own batting average?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 7:40 pm

US army to discharge soldiers who refuse jab
AFP

The US army announced will begin discharging soldiers who refuse to comply with a mandatory Covid-19 vaccination rule.

“Unvaccinated Soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardise readiness,” Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth said.

“We will begin involuntary separation proceedings for soldiers who refuse the vaccine order and are not pending a final decision on an exemption.”

More than 3000 soldiers could be discharged, according to the statement. The army had 482,000 active duty personnel at the end of last year.

As of January 26, six high-ranking officers — including two battalion commanders — had been removed from their posts for refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

The army has issued written “reprimands” to 3073 soldiers who have also refused to get vaccinated.

The US navy announced in mid-October that personnel who declined vaccination against Covid-19 would be expelled from the force.

It has been particularly sensitive to the pandemic because of the risk that a single Covid-19 case could infect an entire ship or submarine at sea, forcing it out of action.

The navy said about 8000 active duty and reserve service members remained unvaccinated, and that to date, 118 people had been dismissed for refusing the vaccine.

The Marine Corps previously said it had discharged more than 300. About 97 per cent of the approximately 1.4 million active-duty US military personnel have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine, according to the Pentagon.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 3, 2022 7:41 pm

God i miss black pudding

Was that the weapon of choice in Ecky-thump?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 3, 2022 7:42 pm

Young players don’t realise that structure and discipline are the only things separating 99% of the cattle playing professional sport.

More twaddle.
Anyone getting to the NFL has 1 in 200,000 skills.
Treat them like cattle and they’ll act like cattle.
One of the reasons The Patriots is the most hated team in the NFL.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 3, 2022 7:42 pm

Don’t take yourself so seriously, Sherlock.
To make that a little easier, I’ll let you in on a secret.
Salvatore, Struth, srr, Bundyrum, Twostix, and probably a half dozen others, are wacky creations of Sancho’s.
Keep it under your hat, pal.

Dick Ed was a failed attempt to set up a troll-bot. We ended up with a troll-clot instead.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 3, 2022 7:45 pm

incoherent ramblersays:
February 3, 2022 at 7:10 pm
Well that’s it. I’ve had enough. I’m outta here.
Goodbye cruel blog.

I shall never return.
Or at least not until tomorrow, when you can enjoy my charm, intelligence, wit and very large penis.

Hang on, I thought you were a woman!

Twostix
Twostix
February 3, 2022 7:45 pm

To make that a little easier, I’ll let you in on a secret.
Salvatore, Struth, srr, Bundyrum, Twostix, and probably a half dozen others, are wacky creations of Sancho’s.

Ed, you’re my favorite poster and I’m always nice to you, but again with the attacks.

I’m happy that you like my funny comment the other day about rosie being leigh lowe, but I’d prefer you didn’t steal my material and use it against me. If you don’t mind.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 3, 2022 7:47 pm

Coffee and a smoke is the breakfast of heterosexual champions.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 3, 2022 7:49 pm

Dick Ed

By praising Snickers Scotty has made it harder for McGowan to campaign against him in the West.

You seem to have remarkably little insight into the ALP and its methods.

Perhaps read some Sun Tzu? Know thine enemy?

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 3, 2022 7:52 pm

Place on Bondi Road does breakfasts. Proper Breakfast. Liver, black pudding, whatever. No kidney though.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 3, 2022 7:53 pm

it’s butter for us. Western Star is excellent and funny enough it’s cheaper than the Foodworks home brand at our local supermarket.

MurrayGoulburn’s Leongatha butter factory used to have 42 wrapper designs I was once told. I doubt they had 42 recipes. It’s all in the marketing.

local oaf
February 3, 2022 7:55 pm

Dragnet says:
February 3, 2022 at 7:35 pm

This is something as spooky as spooky can be:
In the last 15 minutes on my Facebook feed I have received unsolicited posts concerning Spam and Poilus, neither subject of which I have ever googled or discussed on-line anywhere anytime, except that both topics have been touched on this here Open Thread in the last hour or two.
WTF ?

Facebook’s cookies are pretty aggressive. There are applications designed especially to prevent Facebook from tracking your movements around the net.
How well those apps work is anyone’s guess, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook’s algorithms aren’t reading every word we write and read on this blog and every other website we visit.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 3, 2022 7:56 pm

Was using Pacific Hydro in Victoria when I renovated my house for power, 18c a KW and off peak 9c. Bills were very cheap, even when the central gas heating was used with the fans going constantly in winter. Used Click for the gas but they turned out to be very dodgy with undisclosed fees they try on till you used their T&C’s against them, avoid them at all costs. Wonder how many just pay without scrutinising bills?

NSW we used Red Energy when living there 25c/kw and 15c/KW off peak. Was still a third less than Ergon and we used reverse cycle air con on heat a lot from May to September.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 3, 2022 7:58 pm

Never open any links from Hormel Foods.
It’s bound to be SPAM.

Allergy
Allergy
February 3, 2022 8:04 pm

Picked out an old electricity bill from 2010 to compare with the latest one from 2021. It is difficult to do a direct comparison because of changes to supply charges and different rate changes for domestic, commercial and controlled load (hot water).

Overall cost in 2010 was 18.34c/kWh.
Overall cost in 2021 was 29.52c/kWh.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 8:05 pm

Had to go find an electricity bill to confirm, which required disengaging VPN since Goolag Mail goes into conniptions if I have it on when accessing their server. They’re utterly anal. (My electricity bill isn’t attached to a Goolag email, but my email software does all my emails at once, which then causes Gmail to go berko if the VPN is active. None of the other email servers care. Another reason to detest Goolag.)

Ah, here we go. Actual Cafe Bruce rate is $0.34859/kWh plus $0.17666/kWh for off peak HWS. Add $0.97273/day supply charge. If you prorate the supply charge onto the per kWh rate it is 31.5% more, at least for me.

They then discount by 30% because I pay my bill on time, so technically you could reduce those numbers accordingly.

After swings and roundabouts, yes I get charged about 36c/kWh except for the off peak hot water. Thanks Greenies.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
February 3, 2022 8:07 pm

Have I ever mentioned we don’t pay anything for power where I live?

/ in the middle of nowhere

duncanm
duncanm
February 3, 2022 8:08 pm

Best fishing trip breakfast was – egg in the hole topped with crisp streaky bacon covered with a piece of fried bread.

Greased cupcake tin.
Line each pit with bacon, crack an egg inside, garnish with cheese of whatever if you’re fancy.
Bake.

Awesome hot or cold out of the alfoil wrapper a few days later.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 8:16 pm

Never open any links from Hormel Foods.
It’s bound to be SPAM.

How do you spell “excruciating?”

Roger
Roger
February 3, 2022 8:16 pm

Awesome hot or cold out of the alfoil wrapper a few days later.

Very handy for anyone doing keto…calli, you about?

Gilas
Gilas
February 3, 2022 8:23 pm

Since we’re all cuddly, sweety, kissy and wanting to reveal our most intimate secrets…

I’m paying 19.657c general, and 12.848c for controlled-load-1 electrickery in metro Sydney.
The real killer is the supply charge, 80c daily, before using the first microwatt.

The lesson I learnt after habitual ripping-offery is to shop around, and often.
Just like telcos, electicity providers cannibalise the small players and quietly jack up prices, in classic, u-beaut, ozzy-matey oligopoly fashion.
IMO, AGL, Origin and Red are to be avoided at all costs, plenty of much cheaper alternatives.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 3, 2022 8:24 pm

Updated Standard 11 again this week. There is a lot of fluff in the course caught by site inductions but the first aid component is a particular waste of time, all sites I know of need of a separate stand alone senior first aid course. Seems the biggest issues in the industry now seem to be Gen snowflake, LOL. Stories of others taking offence for allegedly those trespassed were abundant. SSE’s job is already difficult now he has to deal with managing through his Supers this stuff.

Looking at my Site Supervisor course, I do that before April and it is only a refresher. Will hear more then I suppose.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
February 3, 2022 8:27 pm

“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.

Where did he learn that attitude from?!

custard
custard
February 3, 2022 8:33 pm

Gates divorced
Bezos divorced
Jack Dorsey resigned
Zucker sacked
Maddow taking a break
Cuomo bros train wreck

You could name heaps more.

Not a single one of these things you would expect of the people who most people would believe that they control the narrative, they realise that they no longer control the narrative.

And I’d hazard a guess that a lot more is about to come out too!

rosie
rosie
February 3, 2022 8:35 pm

Good point nkp

I think one of my children had a ‘two year old tantrum’ once.
I love two year olds, my favourite age, everything is new and wonderful and they can tell you all about it .

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 3, 2022 8:37 pm

Sad but stupid:

Texas mother regrets vote for Biden after teen daughter killed by illegal immigrant: ‘I want to know why’

I can tell her why. Because biden wants the illegal immigrant’s vote, to make up for losing your daughter’s.

Twostix
Twostix
February 3, 2022 8:38 pm

Living in one of the couple of king maker electoral seats, last election I was absolutely swarmed with polls on my phone. Back then I hung up on them all.

Here we go again. But nearly three years later boy aren’t things different. I’ve grown so much!

To start with, to my surprise as I responded to my first ever phone poll, I now identify as a 30 year old woman, with a high school education, working full time but making less than 60k a year who utterly loathes social housing but lean toward voting labor.

I’m going to enjoy this.

Razey
Razey
February 3, 2022 8:41 pm

cohenitesays:
February 3, 2022 at 8:30 pm
Sad but stupid:

Texas mother regrets vote for Biden after teen daughter killed by illegal immigrant: ‘I want to know why’

These LWNJ’s cant even make simple calculations about the impact on the future from their idiotic decisions they make based on ‘mah feelings’. It’s not until they are personally impacted that they realise, by which time it’s too late. LWNJs should be banned from any decision making.

P
P
February 3, 2022 8:42 pm
Top Ender
Top Ender
February 3, 2022 8:42 pm

Last telephone poll I was a Green female voter who didn’t like the Labor Party, or strangely, the Greens.

Hopefully caused confusion up at Cosmic Central.

rosie
rosie
February 3, 2022 8:45 pm

As an aside, the French are very adept at distancing themselves from the evil that was done in world war two, it was the Nazis, it was the Vichy Government.
No it was many of your parents and grandparents, that joined the gendarmes, that thought clearing out the scum from the ports and blowing up their homes so they couldn’t come back was a good idea, who wrote letters informing that x is a member of the marquis, y is a Jew.
One of the unanswered questions from the demolition of the old port homes was who made the big bucks from the redevelopment (mentioned in a vid at the museum) .

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 3, 2022 8:46 pm

duncanmsays:
February 3, 2022 at 8:08 pm
Best fishing trip breakfast was – egg in the hole topped with crisp streaky bacon covered with a piece of fried bread.

Greased cupcake tin.
Line each pit with bacon, crack an egg inside, garnish with cheese of whatever if you’re fancy.
Bake.

Awesome hot or cold out of the alfoil wrapper a few days later.

Egg and bacon pie. Line the pie tin with pastry, fill with raw eggs and diced bacon mixed together, bake. Great cold with lashings of tomato sauce.

Razey
Razey
February 3, 2022 8:48 pm

The last pole call I got, I was a gay trans female majoring in Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks.

Yep.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/dog-park-study-rape-culture-portland-ungendering-research-initiative/

Vicki
February 3, 2022 8:48 pm

We have a 10kw solar panel setup on the farm. AGL pays us $0.20 a kw for excess energy our system has, & we pay them $0.39 a kw for what we buy back overnight & when the sun doesn’t shine. We understand from others that this is quite a good deal!

It annoys me that we still suffer “blackouts” during the day when the lines are under repair, since our solar energy is apparently dangerous to the workers on the line. I believe that this can be overcome, but our system is quite old & it’s probably expensive to correct.

We are not unhappy with our set up, but it is clear that the energy companies set things up to suit themselves.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 8:52 pm

Last telephone poll I was a Green female voter who didn’t like the Labor Party, or strangely, the Greens.

Last telephone poll I got, I was a twenty something Arts graduate who’d never voted anything other then Green in my life.

Twostix
Twostix
February 3, 2022 8:53 pm

It was a little challenging as the questions rolled in to quickly think of the best possible answers that would help corrupt the poll in the best possible way.

In a way, on consideration, responding to these polls is more powerful than my vote. Just a few thousand of us are chosen to respond to the polls, compared to hundreds of thousands who vote. And the poll responses dictate much of what the election will be fought about. Isn’t that weird?

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 3, 2022 8:53 pm

People above have ,entiomed ration packs and their contents.
Kindly desist.
This isn’t that sort of blog.
I had to eat snake, monkeys, large lizards and other stuff.
Probably why I am so virile. And modest.
Anything except bum nuts. There is a line.

bespoke
bespoke
February 3, 2022 8:54 pm

rosie
My granddaughter is two and is a bundle of giggles, mischief and curiosity. Plus looks like her granny. .

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 3, 2022 8:55 pm

kW is a measure of power. kWh is a measure of energy- 1000W of power over an hour.

Energy is what they sell you

Frank
Frank
February 3, 2022 9:05 pm

Great cold with lashings of tomato sauce.

Care of Mr Thompson.
Sup Ye At The Teats Of Art
Count the blinks.

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 9:06 pm

everything is new and wonderful and they can tell you all about it

and then there was so much dog poo in Marseilles
and it was sunny
and then we went on a boat
wait! … no, a ferry
and then it was windy
and all the poor people got kicked out
which was nice
and I had coffee

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 9:12 pm

Nice story from The Daily Telegraph…

“Cardinal George Pell blesses former PM Tony Abbott’s new CBD offices

Liberal luminaries including John Howard and Dominic Perrottet joined together in prayer as Cardinal George Pell blessed Tony Abbott’s new digs.

James Morrow

Alright, so it wasn’t quite American fire and brimstone preacher Billy Graham sitting down for a deep and meaningful with Roman Catholic pontiff Pope John Paul II.

But a blessing by Cardinal George Pell upon the new CBD digs of former prime minister Tony Abbott and all who work within its walls did perhaps more to bridge the old Catholic-Protestant divide in Australian public life since James Scullin was sent to the Lodge.

Midway through the evening, a jovial affair that saw fellow former PM John Howard pop in as well as current NSW Premier Dom Perrottet and a number of other Liberal luminaries, His Eminence asked those assembled to pause and bow their heads.

After a few words of wisdom and a reading from St Paul essentially urging everyone to get to work and stick to their knitting – good advice for people of all faiths, or none, really – guests were asked to join in saying those familiar words, “Our Father, who art in heaven …”.

But while the room’s Catholic faction stopped at “and deliver us from evil”, the Anglicans continued, as is their tradition: “ … for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever …”.

Predictable ecumenical hilarity ensued, with both camps having such a laugh at the old tribal divide rearing its head that the Cardinal had to settle the crowd like an unruly classroom before getting a unanimous “Amen”.

P
P
February 3, 2022 9:16 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
February 3, 2022 at 9:12 pm

Thank you Cassie.

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 9:18 pm

Liberal luminaries including John Howard and Dominic Perrottet joined together in prayer as Cardinal George Pell blessed Tony Abbott’s new digs.

Couldn’t care less. What happened to Pell was abysmal, at last he got a rigged trial, the national cabinet has stolen billions of hours of freedom without due process, just fear and political theatre.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 3, 2022 9:18 pm

People are a bit snarky on here tonight.
I was going to share some extremely hilarious stories of me projectile vomiting after eating eggs.
Perhaps some other time.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 3, 2022 9:21 pm

Dot,
I’m surprised there wasn’t a biblical cataclysmic event with those people there.
Shakes one’s faith a bit.

P
P
February 3, 2022 9:22 pm

It Doesn’t Matter Anymore,” written by Paul Anka, was recorded by Buddy Holly on October 21, 1958 in the same session as “True Love Ways, ” “Raining in My Heart,” and “Moondreams” with Dick Jacobs’ orchestra. Released on January 5, 1959 on the Coral label, backed with “Raining In My Heart” it became a hit shortly after Holly died in a plane crash on February 3

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 9:23 pm

“Dotsays:
February 3, 2022 at 9:18 pm
Liberal luminaries including John Howard and Dominic Perrottet joined together in prayer as Cardinal George Pell blessed Tony Abbott’s new digs.

Couldn’t care less. What happened to Pell was abysmal, at last he got a rigged trial, the national cabinet has stolen billions of hours of freedom without due process, just fear and political theatre.”

Geez…I’m trying to upload some uplifting stuff to make people feel good.

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 9:24 pm

Sev says …

Anyway, that’s the reason Leftists discovered Postmodernism. As Stephen R.C. Hicks puts it in his Explaining Postmodernism — a very useful book — Postmodernism is the only way the intelligentsia could acknowledge Marxism’s failure without losing faith in Socialism.

Speedbox
February 3, 2022 9:26 pm

Electrickery rates quoted by other Cats are a bit scary.

I went back and checked my previous bill with Origin from 12 months ago. Previous rate was 19.87c/kWh and daily supply charge of 92.5c whereas my top rate with Red Energy is 18.98c and daily charge of 85c.

In the grand scheme I didn’t save a lot by changing but holy crap, the rates are a lot better than some. Commiserations.

srr
srr
February 3, 2022 9:27 pm

custard says:
February 3, 2022 at 8:33 pm

Gates divorced
Bezos divorced
Jack Dorsey resigned
Zucker sacked
Maddow taking a break
Cuomo bros train wreck

You could name heaps more.

Not a single one of these things you would expect of the people who most people would believe that they control the narrative, they realise that they no longer control the narrative.

And I’d hazard a guess that a lot more is about to come out too!

Yep.

As I was saying –

It’s fun watching the interwebs atm, with so many not knowing which way to swing, treading water in their own constant dribble about sweet FA … it’s happening everywhere … cat herders not having a clue about the security of their employment or the likelihood of a near future as dim sims …

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 9:30 pm

I’m trying to upload some uplifting stuff to make people feel good

cocktail recipes might help

Beertruk
February 3, 2022 9:31 pm

Matrix, I’ll see your chipotle cucumber and raise you with chilli pickled onions.

Which reminds me, I need to go and get some more pickled onions tomorrow.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 9:34 pm

“cocktail recipes might help”

Hmm…don’t have any cocktail recipes….have lots of butter recipes.

srr
srr
February 3, 2022 9:34 pm

David Vance ???
@DavidVance
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Twitter stock performance last 6 months!
Facebook stock performance last 24 hours!
Enjoy!
The sooner Silicon Valley is financially razed to the ground the better.
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Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 9:34 pm

Last telephone poll I was a Green female voter

Hehe, last phone poll I got took me about ten minutes of questions before I worked out it was a Lib push poll. And I’m fairly switched on. Eventually the questions were big on cash cards for Centrelinkers and abos. Nope, totally unimportant towards next election according to this voter. Maybe ask about something meaningful next time like net zero or country shoppers.

They obviously have to camouflage their polls to seduce the punter to actually answer. It’s that bad.

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 9:36 pm

“Thank you Cassie.”

Pleasure P….tis nice to see Cardinal Pell being given the honour he deserves. Having just finished Gerard Henderson’s book on the persecution of Pell, it gives me comfort.

srr
srr
February 3, 2022 9:36 pm

David Vance ???
@DavidVance
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No one should be surprised that Facebook would behave like this. Silicon Valley is the enemy of freedom loving people.
? GETTR News ?
@DailyNews
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15h

US truckers slam Facebook for removing page organizing DC freedom convoy: ‘Censorship at its finest’

Jeremy Johnson, an admin for the ‘Convoy to D.C. 2022’ Facebook page, said he is being silenced and has reached out to a civil rights attorney to discuss possible next steps.

http://www.foxnews.com

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 3, 2022 9:37 pm

Beertruk,
Those Chil Pickled Onions.
Who stocks them?

srr
srr
February 3, 2022 9:38 pm

Lagud??
@Lagud_1
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I would choose Putin over Trudeau any day of the week.

Putin Bans Mandatory Vaccinations in Russia: ‘We Are a Free Country’ – Soren Dreier

No one should be forced to get a jab. Pressure, where people may lose their jobs, is NOT acceptable,” Putin said during a recent speech. Arabnews.com reports: Putin said Wednesday…

sorendreier.com

P
P
February 3, 2022 9:38 pm
Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 3, 2022 9:38 pm

Bloody Mary made with V8 hot and spicy is superb.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 9:40 pm

I’ll see your chipotle cucumber and raise you with chilli pickled onions.

Fehlbergs are awesome. The jalapenos are crunchy and the chilli cucumbers are very tasty.
I have no idea who they are except what they say on their webpage. Aussies apparently.
Good on them.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 3, 2022 9:43 pm

Miss Anthropist says:
February 3, 2022 at 9:18 pm
People are a bit snarky on here tonight.
I was going to share some extremely hilarious stories of me projectile vomiting after eating eggs.
Perhaps some other time.

Yeah – you can add the bit about “bum nuts ” at that time.

Bruce in WA
February 3, 2022 9:43 pm

Anything except bum nuts. There is a line.

Waiter: Would madame care for some freshly sliced tongue in aspic?

Madame: Good God, no! I could never eat anything that came out of an animal’s mouth! … Just give me one of those hard-boiled eggs instead.

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 9:45 pm
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

How is refusing passports to an entire cohort of adult women, coz they may intend to travel to procure an abortion, different to refusing to allow girls to leave the country if it is suspected their parents are taking them overseas to have their private parts hacked off?

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 3, 2022 9:46 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
February 3, 2022 at 9:23 pm
“Dotsays:
February 3, 2022 at 9:18 pm
Couldn’t care less. What happened to Pell was abysmal, at last he got a rigged trial, the national cabinet has stolen billions of hours of freedom without due process, just fear and political theatre.”

Geez…I’m trying to upload some uplifting stuff to make people feel good.

Try some funny cat videos instead – add funny dog ones too or you’ll start another internecine war…

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 3, 2022 9:47 pm

This Courier Mail article today is one I am keeping and think might be of interest. My rejected comment below.

3 FEB Covid Qld: Latest case numbers amid major booster change
Queensland has recorded 8643 Covid-19 cases and nine more deaths, as a Gold Coast study has revealed just how widespread unknown community transmission is, with figures showing nine out of 10 positive cases didn’t even know they had the virus.
Queensland has recorded 8643 new cases of Covid-19 and nine deaths as a two-day study which involved randomly testing people showed just how widespread unknown community transmission was.
Four of the deaths were in aged care and all were over 60 years old, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has revealed.
Of the nine deaths, one person was in their 60s, two in the 70s, three in the 80s, one in 90s and two over the age of 100. Three people were unvaccinated, one had one dose, four were double vaccinated and one person was triple vaccinated.
Chief Health officer Dr John Gerrard said a study on the Gold Coast to “get a better idea of what is really happening” with Covid-19 revealed that on January 22, when the virus was peaking on the coast, 117 randomised households were visited and tests performed on an individual.
Of those 117 people tested, 20 came back positive – one in six. Only four of the 20 reported having any symptoms, Dr Gerrard said.
“There were people walking around the Gold Coast who had no idea they had Covid-19,” he said.
Dr Gerrard said two among the 20 knew they were positive, meaning 18 did not know they were positive.
“To recap, four out of five had no symptoms and nine out of 10 did not know they were positive,”
he said.
“It is quite extraordinary.
“There are people walking around the Gold Coast who had no idea they were infected.
“A lot of people that have been infected are completely unaware they were infected. That number is significant.”
He said that cemented the reason masks were so important.
Dr Gerrard said authorities were still “planning for the worst” in preparing for potential future waves, especially in winter.
“Clearly the virus is much more widespread than the collected data has suggested,” he said.
“At this stage we still don’t know the total number of people in Queensland and on the Gold Coast who have been infected.”
He tipped one third of the state had been infected.
He said a repeated study of 143 households repeated a week later found that 11 people were positive and six had symptoms. Only two already knew they had Covid.
He said it indicated the pandemic peak had passed on the Gold Coast.
Dr Gerrard said it was therefore likely there was a significant number of the population who had already been infected but didn’t know it.
Health Minister Yvette D’Ath said the state now had a much better understanding of the prevalence of Covid in the community.
It is expected one in 13 people on the Gold Coast are positive.
Ms D’Ath urged people to get tested if they had symptoms, and that testing lines were no longer as bad as they were earlier last month.
She said she was concerned that there were people in the study who had been symptomatic, but who hadn’t been tested.
There are 749 people in public hospitals and 47 in intensive care.
There are 89.71 per cent of people with two doses of the vaccine and 34 per cent of children aged 5-11 have one dose.
It comes as hundreds of thousands of Australians aged 16 and 17 have been given the green light to get their Covid-19 booster three months after their second dose.
Almost 90 per cent of teenagers in this group have already received their second dose of the vaccine, with at least two-thirds to be eligible for their booster from Tuesday.
Ms D’Ath said vaccinations would be available from state clinics from today.
She hit out at the Commonwealth’s establishment of an aged care taskforce, declaring it knew what the problems were.
“We’ve had a Royal Commission, the recommendations are there and the Commonwealth knows what needs to be done,” she said.
However, Ms D’Ath said the taskforce would be welcomed if it was able to urgently fix problems in the sector’s Covid-19 response.
My Rejected comment :
Plus remember about 90% double jabbed and a lot triple jabbed. Those dying with Covid based on today’s article are average mid 80,’s and as we know with co-morbidities. CHO says probably 1 in 3 had it which means the number of deaths, ICU and hospitalisations are even less concerning per million. Can we get back to normal now and remove restrictions designed to coerce vaccination when they have clearly not stopped the spread. To think people have lost their jobs and freedom of movement over this is ridiculous. “To recap, four out of five had no symptoms and nine out of 10 did not know they were positive”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 3, 2022 9:48 pm

Who stocks them?

Miss A – They’re a Coles stock item. Along with currawong mince and cockie bread. Because of the rain this week the latter were extremely keen at Cafe Bruce all day, which was a problem since I was running out. Plus all the noisy miners came for refueling too, they’ve been elsewhere lately, until today. Got to go stock up tomorrow at the Coles bird food emporium.

Beertruk
February 3, 2022 9:48 pm

Cassie of Sydney:
February 3, 2022 at 9:12 pm

Cheers Cassie.
+1

Razey
Razey
February 3, 2022 9:49 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
February 3, 2022 at 9:23 pm
“Dotsays:
February 3, 2022 at 9:18 pm
Liberal luminaries including John Howard and Dominic Perrottet joined together in prayer as Cardinal George Pell blessed Tony Abbott’s new digs.

Couldn’t care less. What happened to Pell was abysmal, at last he got a rigged trial, the national cabinet has stolen billions of hours of freedom without due process, just fear and political theatre.”

Geez…I’m trying to upload some uplifting stuff to make people feel good.

Can fascist, mandate loving trash actually be Christian?

Dot
Dot
February 3, 2022 9:49 pm

The relative risk of coronary heart disease associated with an absolute increase of 2 percent in the intake of trans fatty acids was… 1.93 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.43 to 2.61) in the Nurses’ Health Study.

This is my favorite study of the bunch. Check out its results.

It reports no statistically significant association between total fat intake and risk of cornary heart disease.
It reports no statistically significant association between animal fat intake and risk of cornary heart disease.
It reports no statistically significant association between saturated fat intake and risk of cornary heart disease.
It reports no statistically significant association between cholesterol intake and risk of cornary heart disease.
The reported association between trans fat and coronary heart disease is only statistically significant for the highest consumption of trans fats — but it’s still a very weak statistical association (relative risk = 1.53).

This study basically reports that all we’ve been told about the association between fat consumption and heart disease is not supported by data collected from 90,000 nurses over a period of 20 years. So either the study data is wrong or the public health establishment has been wrong about fat consumption being associated with heart disease risk. If the study data is wrong, then I doubt the trans fat result. If the public health establishment is wrong then why should we believe it about trans fat when it has been generally wrong about fat consumption for the last two or three decades?

Old bloke
Old bloke
February 3, 2022 9:50 pm

P says:
February 3, 2022 at 9:22 pm

P, we shouldn’t forget the others who died that fateful day, the day that the music died.

Ritche Valens

Big Bopper

Bruce in WA
February 3, 2022 9:50 pm

Fehlbergs also make “Sandwich Stackers”, which are pickled cubes sliced lengthwise, and a couple of millimetres thick and about 10 cm long. As the name suggests, they are great, tangy and crunchy, in sandwiches or burgers.

I also love their chili pickled onions, though I sometimes make my own. Hardly worth the effort, though.

Woolies stock Fehlbergs products, at least here in Perth they do.

Bruce in WA
February 3, 2022 9:52 pm

cukes, not bloody cubes

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 9:53 pm
Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 9:54 pm

“Can fascist, mandate loving trash actually be Christian?”

What trash? Are you referring to Pell, Abbott, Howard and Perrottet? No, none of them are trash. But I tell what you what they are…they’re far more Christian and decent than you.

Oh and how’s your move to Japan going?

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 3, 2022 9:55 pm

Thank you Bruce Of Newcastle.
You are a treasure.

MatrixTransform
February 3, 2022 9:57 pm

Fehlbergs are awesome

+11

Beertruk’s recommended pickle onions I’ve be eyeing off for a while.

Our local IGA has them … I think Wollies does too

Cassie of Sydney
February 3, 2022 9:58 pm

“Cheers Cassie.
+1”

Thanks, I comforted that Cardinal Pell is out and about.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 3, 2022 10:00 pm

Razey says:
February 3, 2022 at 9:49 pm
Can fascist, mandate loving trash actually be Christian?

No – they are doing the work of the Evil One.
Servants of Satan.

They have the old saying “Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven”.
Thing is, they won’t be ruling in Hell.

Razey
Razey
February 3, 2022 10:01 pm

Fat Tonysays:
February 3, 2022 at 10:00 pm
Razey says:
February 3, 2022 at 9:49 pm
Can fascist, mandate loving trash actually be Christian?

No – they are doing the work of the Evil One.
Servants of Satan.

They have the old saying “Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven”.
Thing is, they won’t be ruling in Hell.

Yep. Abbott, Howard and Perrottet will rot in hell for what they did to us.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 10:02 pm

P, we shouldn’t forget the others who died that fateful day, the day that the music died.

Ritche Valens

Big Bopper

Waylon Jennings was supposed to have been on that aircraft, but he gave up his seat to someone else…

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 3, 2022 10:07 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
February 3, 2022 at 9:54 pm

I wasn’t aware that Cardinal Pell was “fascist, mandate loving trash ” so please don’t lump him in with the rest.

The rest of that group are – if they weren’t, they would be coming out strongly and publicly against the mandates.

Beertruk
February 3, 2022 10:09 pm

Beertruk,
Those Chil Pickled Onions.
Who stocks them?

Coles and/or Woolies. If the Fehlburgs are out of stock I’ll get the Three 3s brand.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 3, 2022 10:12 pm

Yep. Abbott, Howard and Perrottet will rot in hell for what they did to us.

Howard disarmed this country – allowing the scum to take over. The greatest traitor this country has ever known.
Parrottet should have hit all the mandates etc on the head – instead he is pussying his way out of doing it.
Abbott’s history is coulda, shoulda but didn’t.

Tell me how this Triumvirate should be admired and not condemned as Servants of Satan.

custard
custard
February 3, 2022 10:13 pm

Staff member today was massively sick because booster shot yesterday, so much so had to be picked up, couldn’t possibly drive, and she’s been getting migraines which largely she hadn’t had prior to the first jab.

What’s happening is disgraceful.

Razey
Razey
February 3, 2022 10:13 pm

Australia will never recover from this.

chrisl
chrisl
February 3, 2022 10:13 pm

Rosie in Narbonne…
Narbonne facts
It is on the Canal du midi ( linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic)
It has a Roman road running through it
It has a food market that shits all over The Queen Victoria market in Melbourne

John H.
John H.
February 3, 2022 10:15 pm

Dotsays:
February 3, 2022 at 9:49 pm
The relative risk of coronary heart disease associated with an absolute increase of 2 percent in the intake of trans fatty acids was… 1.93 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.43 to 2.61) in the Nurses’ Health Study.

Yes DOT, a friend put me onto that Framingham contradiction long ago. It is conveniently ignored. Ancel Keys needs to be exhumed and hung.

There is a fat in dairy, Conjugated linoleic acid, a trans fat, that has been shown to be cardioprotective and possibly has other health benefits. Bodybuilders like it but the data on hypertrophy is very limited. Low fat diary is one of the most ridiculous, stupid, dangerous ideas ever promoted by governments and medicine. They took out the fat and threw in the sugar. FMD.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 3, 2022 10:17 pm

Howard disarmed this country – allowing the scum to take over.

Never disarmed me – two high powered rifles- one a .303 – , a .22, and a 12 gauge shotgun, all quite legal.

John H.
John H.
February 3, 2022 10:17 pm

custardsays:
February 3, 2022 at 10:13 pm
Staff member today was massively sick because booster shot yesterday, so much so had to be picked up, couldn’t possibly drive, and she’s been getting migraines which largely she hadn’t had prior to the first jab.

What’s happening is disgraceful.

I had my second jab on Friday. Saturday felt like crap, very bad headache. Rang a mate, he had a remedy handy. Worked a treat.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

we shouldn’t forget the others who died that fateful day, the day that the music died.
Ritche Valens
Big Bopper

* ahem * and: Roger Peterson.

Razey
Razey
February 3, 2022 10:20 pm

Razeysays:
February 3, 2022 at 10:19 pm
Australia has fallen.. 1 year and 3 year old children refused hospital care due to mother being unvaccinated.!

And Cassies Liberal mates support McClown.

Fuck you.

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