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Excellent. Seb Gorka in Trump cabinet.
Zaf, that’s the lame and gay “people of Springfield” tune by some soy douche. This is the original house banger.…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lTF6Jzav8wk Eating the cats.
Roads, rates and rubbish. Or not (the Tele): Clover Moore’s City of Sydney council will donate $22,000 to Rising Tide…
Today in “No Evidence of voting Fraud”:
Pennsylvania court declares huge swathe of dodgy ballots illegitimate.
Trump won two thirds of the election day votes, but floods of “no excuse” absentee ballots kept coming for days afterwards. 40% of the absentee ballots now declared to be inadmissable.
See also the new Dinesh D’Sousa doco on fraudulent use of drop boxes.
Link
You know what’s crazy Anchor?
That case got zero funding from the over $US200mill raised by GOP surrogates as part of the Stop the Steal grifting.
Also, this dude wasn’t Lin Wood, Rudy or Sidney Powell.
People should remember that the next time these three raise their heads out of the trough.
Which is sad in the case of Sidney Powell who had a some decent highlights during her career despite having the odds stacked against her at every turn.
Mater was right, by the way.
The boosters will be the tipping point, not the jabs.
Note the very careful way our betters are tap-dancing around the subject. A year ago they were thumping pulpits, spruiking about how the jabs and only the jabs were a ticket to zero covid.
And didn’t that go well.
Those tunnels don’t clean themselves. A little gratitude next time thank you.
On weight loss, I’ve managed to lose over 5 kg in the past 2 months and keep it off. Like lose another 5 kg at least. Going for major surgery tomorrow, won’t come too soon. Don’t know which is worse, the pain mucking up my thinking or the drugs doing the same thing. I put up with either for a few days alternating so I can have a relatively clear head for a couple of days. Didn’t have to have a covid test.
Don’t forget Remdesivir, just to ensure you don’t recover.
Good luck Ranga.
You’re right – that’s a great article.
Yet another nugget… are we actually having a covid pandemic at all?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17717512/
Does the old thief ever have moments of reflection about his illegitimate junta? About a life as a grifting political parasite? Na. The dirty old corruptocrat contains not one ounce of decency.
The ADL and the ACLU were once credible organisations…..formed to fight prejudice and fight for free speech. Like almost all organisations now, they have now been fully captured by the left. They are compromised and contaminated by far-left ideology. Both organisations need to be cremated and the ashes thrown to the wind.
The left destroy everything.
As I’ve said before what kind of deadshits would vote for the old turd?
Dover:
If you wouldn’t mind, please set the time stamps for ACST. It is marginally difficult to adjust now I’m back in my usual time zone, and I’m finding that when posting and I want to know what time it is I have to look at my watch, as the timestamps are 90 minutes ahead.
This will obviously inconvenience everyone else, but because it’s all naturally about me I’m sure this concept will be applauded by all assembled. Thanks in advance.
/boomer
“Going for major surgery tomorrow, won’t come too soon. Don’t know which is worse, the pain mucking up my thinking or the drugs doing the same thing. “
All the best tomorrow, having had major surgery recently I can attest that it’s an ordeal along with the recovery. I recommend lots of Ken Done initially.
The questions begin in Austria. Bring it on.
“Also, this dude wasn’t Lin Wood, Rudy or Sidney Powell.”
Quite so Bern. Lin Wood has always been a loon and Rudy needs to retire.
Rita had the superb Douglas Murray on last night. He was in fine form demolishing the boy PM of Canada who likes to put on blackface.
Apparently Douglas Murray will be a guest every Monday night.
I’m enjoying Rita’s programme……don’t watch Fatty Murray though.
After yesterday’s “frenzied injectioneering” at American Thinker, today we have a 3 min video of Gina in Canada. Gina emigrated to Canada 25 years ago. She sees the change in Canada from 25 years ago to now.
A woman from a communist country explains liberty to a Canadian reporter
We truly don’t value our freedoms in this country.
Best of luck, Ranga. Hospitals are never pleasant. Hope the surgery brings you the relief you seek.
Why would anyone?
Dead ones, obviously.
For a 24 hours news channel, Sky News Australia doesn’t have much breaking news.
Paul Murray talks about stuff that the Cat has been all over for weeks.
Stale.
In some good news, Whoopi Goldberg is looking at some time on the side lines (at least).
Apparently the holocaust wasn’t about race, according to Whoopi.
FMD, but (Captain Obvious moment) sporting administrations in this country are dickheads.
Arguing from what they think is a position of power, having won the Ashes 4-0 and the T20 champs, which are 70% roll of the dice anyway, Cricket Australia has offered Justin Langer a pissweak, less than half what was expected contract extension. It would seem Langer has not only spoken harshly to players in the past, but also people on the board.
They have failed to take into account that the recently-departed Poms were one of the worst touring sides going around, with even the player mainstays in chaos. Their top order had one and a half planks instead of six, they woefully mismanaged their bowler selections for the Tests and never ever made at total for their poorly-picked bowlers to defend.
Our own top order is a shambles. Makeshift openers, rotating middle order batsmen (the fact that both head and Khawaja tonned up was fortunate rather than expected), ex-skipper Sandy McSookCheat is well on his way out and there’s an outright nuffy that wants Cummins’ job (Labuschagne). If anyone’s expecting Scott Boland to take 6/7 in Islamabad or Dubai they are sorely mistaken.
Coming up in the next 18 months are Test series against England, India, South Africa and Pakistan plus a world T20 arrangement. Plus, Langer’s just been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
He’d be justifiably ropable at the poncing mincers at CA deigning to throw him a crumb after he brought some belief back following Smith, Warner and Bancroft (and Lehmann)’s indiscretions in the Bunnings sandpaper aisle.
He should tell them to fuck off. England’s screaming for him, and he can name his price.
As Douglas Murray said last night on Rita, all of these things are connected…the redefinition of racism by scum organisations such as the ADL, the smearing of the Canadian freedom truckers as waaacist anti-vaxxers, the Boy King Trudeau II of Canada running away to hide from a convoy of working class truckers, the attempts by scum such as the Ginger and Whinger to get Spotify to silence Joe Rogan.
As Douglas Murray said, it’s an attempt to stop the general public from even listening to things that are not approved of by our scum elites.
But I particularly liked Douglas’ comments re Neil Young and Spotify…..”as if Neil Young completely mistook his own importance” and “nobody under the age of 60 knows who Neil Young is whilst not many people over the age of 60 know how to operate Spotify”.
Perfect Douglas.
All the best for your surgery Ranga.
As they claim it never happened make sure to find plenty of evidence.
Lots of different times and “experts”.
Fauci says they stop transmission.
GreyRanga:
I used to enjoy (partly) coming out of general anasthaesia. There’s a period when you’re still off your head, and you know you’re off your head. There’s an even smaller window where, recognising this, you can say what you like to anyone and it will be written off on the drugs.
Enjoy.
I tried that, flirting with a nurse, but she also knew that I had very bad short term memory and being given sandwiches and tea got very trippy.
Matrix, and HBBear, no suprises there. And the rest of you can take Fat Tony’s advice and go fuck yourselves.
I have every right to object to sheer vilification.
And Fat Tony, she has been told by me to fuck off in my most stringent terms years ago.
She is insane in her obsession about how I comment here. And a stalker. A fixated person who is greatly encouraged here as a matter of entertainment when she needs treatment. Rather like Ellie. That’s my beef.
As for her own commenting – hello kangaroos, hello flowers, hello trees, hello cockatoos, hello real estate, hello shoppers and taxi man, and more recently, hello stars in the night sky. I could say that is the mind of a thirteen year old girl too had I a mind to. But I don’t. That would be a specious comment and a stupid one to make to a woman in her sixties, let alone to one coming into her eighties.
KD, you tend to babble post op anaesthesia but I always imagined it was a perfect opportunity to spill the beans on all of ones sins. Truth serum for inquisitive family members and assorted enemies looking for ammunition. Beware!
Don’t forget Remdesivir, just to ensure you don’t recover.
Correct spelling is: Rundeathisnear
That out of body experience where you think you sound like Oscar Wilde,
but the absence of a smoking jacket and cravat makes you suspect you don’t.
The ruinables trough is getting larger and larger. This piece at TheirABC admits everything we have been saying for years, but somehow manages not to put it all together:
and they even admit:
In short, it’s a mess, and consumers and taxpayers are footing the bill.
But – Da Planet, right?
Capitalism or Socialism: Which One Is More Democratic?
Indeed Frank.
If I’d known then what I know now, after coming out of one such thing quite some time back I would have said to a now ex-family member: ‘Your sister was better’.*
I know it’s a meme, but memes don’t just appear out of thin air. Another example of wisdom arriving too late for the occasion.
*I didn’t really. Not while we were together, anyway.
That is good news. Didn’t watch Rita last night. Sometimes a whole nite of it is too much and Sky’s putting Rita on after Paul Murray limits the viewing field.
But I will definitely watch on Monday shows just to see Douglas Murray.
SAVE AMERICA
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
JANUARY 31, 2022
PALM BEACH, FL
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
Highly respected Dinesh D’Souza, working together with Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote, just released a trailer to their new movie, “2,000 Mules,” that shows the world exactly how the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged and Stolen. The movie exposes the lies of the Democrats, RINOs, and Fake News who say it was the “most secure election in history.” It was, perhaps, the least secure in history. The ballot box was stuffed, and stuffed like never before—and it’s all on video. Ballots were trafficked and sold in a massive operation in each Swing State. The evidence is so damning, what will the cowards who sat and did nothing about the stolen election say now? The way our votes were taken away is a disgrace to our Nation. It must be fixed.
Lizzie has completely lost it:
I need treatment, because I think she is a vain, silly woman who imagines that we deeply care about every detail of her personal life, including what she eats and when she goes to bed – except she doesn’t, it is a guarantee of further comments. Also because I called out her serial lying.
Tsk, tsk.
Oh, and I have just upticked your comment. You need all the help you can get. 🙂
You cad.
Oh, and now its the usual Hello ABC, butter wouldn’t melt in my mouth.
Well, at least that’s an improvement.
No. You were caught out in your obsessional attempts at doxxing me and my husband.
You go in and out of psychosis about me.
I make fair coment here and you do foul with your lies, meme-making, character assasination and sheer bullying. You are a disgrace, and rather pathetic too. I have a good life and I think you are envious of it.
My uncles were identical twins up until the point one of them needed a tracheotomy which spoiled the illusion. Apparently they used to swap girlfriends which always got laughed off. Sort of a bit rapey too if you think about it.
I am not silly, nor am I vain in any true sense of the word. I enjoy playfulness here but I also write seriously, here and elsewhere.
You don’t know the meaning of the term playfulness for you have no depth of self-reflection.
I actually have a good capacity for self-reflection, as anyone reading my serious commentary here or on Quadrant might actually have picked up on, instead of following along with your nastiness and psychotic ramblings.
You’re missing out. I’m a total tard and loving it. The water is so much warmer at the shallow end of the gene pool.
A lot – meaning everything – might have been different if Pence had not caved. Sure, the SC could have behaved differently, but the betrayal was most egregious in the case of Pence.
I know that feeling.
Did Oscar suffer from splitting headaches next day?
Upticking idiots have already driven away one long-term sharer of his life – Arky.
I am here simply to show that those counting upticks don’t always win.
Have you tick back Johanna. It can join the one your mouth makes when you think of me.
What’s an uptick… (scurries away).
Smurf thumb, bern.
You can collect the whole set.
lol, Frank. Thanks for that. Leavens the atmosphere here and leaves me ready to do battle with attenuated Shingles virus in an hour.
Heh!
Big news.
Maddow taking some time off from MSNBC.
Last show this Friday.
Meaning expect a change in the Biden administration COVID policy soon.
You have to hand it to the Cathedral, looking after their own.
They don’t want one of their biggest boosters being made to look stupid, especially with the mid terms coming.
Young children between the ages of five and 11 considered most at risk of coronavirus will be offered Covid jabs from Monday in England.
Wait.
What?
Ahhh, the Fonzi. Or the hitchhiker.
Do all you lot watching Rita and (sometimes) Murray (and Outsiders) have Foxtel subs?
We gave ours up a few months back. I understand Sky has a free to air but thought it was just news.
Went to the pool with the youngster last night. A last-minute email- Sunday evening- notified the partial reversal of a no jab no entry policy, so now unjabbed proles are allowed around and into the pool (but not the gym or cafe seats- figure that one out), but masks mandates for all over 12-y-o.
I didn’t wear a mask. Just about everyone else did. I was once again stunned by the amount of parents who sit poolside on their screens for an hour, as I hopped in for a lazy 2500.
I was kinda expecting to be chipped by someone, either a free-range Karen, uppity child, or one of the undergraduate lifesaver staff. But no, not even my own eldest kid who is perhaps the most proactive about rolling her eyes remembered, or wanted to fight the disobedience.
Kid says it’s impossible to meet anyone at high school, they’re all masked up. I wonder how soon “behavioural issue” and “delayed learning” feedback will take to hit home. Hopefully before hypoxia or CO2 accumulation damage sets in.
Why is there no downtick?
Sprung!
A naked man who allegedly walked into an eastern suburbs petrol station wearing only sunglasses and thongs will appear in court.
Police paid a visit to the 48-year-old at Bexley North about 1.45pm on Monday and issued him with a court attendance notice for wilful and obscene exposure in a public place.
Wally, do you mean people were meant to wear a mask in the pool?
Or just out of the pool?
Someone shat the bed last night. I can tell.
Johanna, thanks for AEMO post. Good to see that reality is catching up with electricity market.
Pools are a pretty effective means of drenching the sinuses in whatever bug is in solution. Does chlorine work on corona?
Zulu
Oh, and by the way, about the fourteen cents, deposited into my bank account by D.V.A. , I’ll donate it to the Greens..
Give it to them in cash, and demand your change.
Miss Heard?
Does chlorine work on corona?
In Hawaii many years ago & walked past the family pool on the way to the adults only pool (bar & no kids) & there was so much chlorine in the thing it stung my eyes from a couple of meters away.
And that pool cured ebola.
“Top Endersays:
February 1, 2022 at 8:54 am
Do all you lot watching Rita and (sometimes) Murray (and Outsiders) have Foxtel subs?”
Yes.
From the beginning I’ve been wondering about lack of concern from the mental health industry.
Pretty hard not to go all conspiratorial and think it’s seen as boost to future clients.
“Learning Disabilities” in England is code for Downs Syndrome. They’ve been being euthanased vigorously during the pandemic using morphine and benzos to clear places for the non-disabled. Eugenics by stealth.
I feel for the little ones just starting. They may have an established friendship group, but often not. How do they interact as a newbie? They have no cues at all, and are too young to have developed alternatives to processing facial expression.
This thing is eating people’s brains. I wonder what permanent damage it’s doing, and what may take years to recover?
People need company. “It is not good for a man to be alone.” Hermits were considered either odd or driven, the special cultural outliers. I’ve even been offered stitch n’ bitch by Zoom. Seriously.
A splitting headache would’ve been a welcomed distraction.
Remeber when Wuhan Flu forced underequipped doctors to make decisions on which patient lives and which dies?
Now, the poor glossy-eyed darlings are forced to choose who gets treated in a chair with panadol, and who gets lets through the triage tent and into the hospital proper.
Gut-wrenching.
That would be you. Serial upticker of a serial psychotic.
It comes home to grab you sometimes. Go change your sheets.
Miltonfsays:
February 1, 2022 at 7:47 am
As I’ve said before what kind of deadshits would vote for the old turd?
The dead?
An explanation why the vaccines destroy T-cells even as they promote antibody formation:
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein activates human endogenous retroviruses in blood cells (24 Jan, via Instapundit)
If that happens the T lymphocyte is going to be destroyed as an “infected cell” even if the infection was a previously moribund one. So when the vaccine is injected the spike proteins cause destruction of all those particular T lymphocytes in one fell swoop, because of the massive flood of spike proteins produced by the injected vaccine.
By contrast natural immunity is provided by those lymphocytes because an initial infection by the Covid virus at first only affects a few cells, so the existing defending T cells can catch them and kill them before the replication gets too advanced. The T cells are likewise destroyed but substantially fewer of them.
It’s not all T cells that are destroyed by the vaccine, just those ones with the specific receptors for the spike protein. And it’s certain those cells would be replaced eventually with time – but the unending multiple doses just keep on clearing them out again over and over.
Of course the paper is all about Covid itself and makes no mention of the vaccines. But the spike protein is common to both, and it neatly explains the data from Sweden and Israel about negative effectiveness after about 6 months, plus the higher infection rates seen in vaccinated people in the NHS data.
Anaesthetic doesn’t affect me at all. Anxiety does usually but not this time. I get ken done 60 at a time. My doc knows I only take them when I can’t take much more. Can’t sleep when dosed up. Last time I was awake all night. Thanks to all the best wishes. Being the 20th op I am getting to know the nursing staff quite well.
Megan at 0759
Snap!
True, Calli, we are social beings. Even on here.
My dance classes on Zoom equivalent were a life-saver during lockdown, not just for exercise but for social interaction, as we were able to chat and laugh together online afterwards about our shared experiences of skiving off on the tough bits and sometimes doing it in our slippers and nighties.
Over the back fence conversations with neighbours or social distancing in the park were great too.
GreyRanga, all the best for your op. Hope you come out feeling a lot better and ready to roll.
Much of what is covered has already been covered on the Cat. Which can leave you with a choice. Ignore the Cat (worth doing some days for me when Madame Psychosis is prowling) and watch Sky After Dark, or find yourself rather bored with the repetition on Sky After Dark (including Sunday Outsiders).
It’s only peaceful when we do it.
We’ve been watching a few shows on SBS lately, doco’s and such. Often Hairy’s pre-recorded them and at the end they may contain an overrun bit of SBS news. We’ve been surprised at how much international news there is in comparison to other sites on Teev. Yes, it’s skewed left of course, but it is still good to see some news reporting not quite as insular as most local offerings.
TE
I listen to SkyNews for free using the IHeart app.
And a good day to you Miss Bear.
Sorry, for you, that AEMO’s failings upset you so much.
i really worry about my twelve year old autistic grandson, starting normal high school this year and desperately wanting to fit in with the other kids. How he’s going to go, masked up and made anxious about this, is anyone’s guess. Grandma has fingers crossed for him and sends all her love.
“I had my patience tested. I’m negative.”
Reminds me of my old business partner. I reckoned he never lost his patience – because you can’t lose something you don’t have!
Nup. Off a duck’s back. I don’t do acronyms.
*Slaps hands together.*
I think my work here is done, for today.
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.
Oh dear. It seems like I’m in trouble again.
I don’t even know anymore.
https://medium.com/illumination/what-i-learned-from-dating-an-incel-2ac4b8dceb58
He’s banging this chick and he’s an incel?
I think she meant soy boy.
If that’s me, my maiden name nor either of my married names is Beare.
Oh, and its Mrs not Miss.
Australian Energy Market Operator
They had a screen of it operating at the Snowy Info Centre. It was fascinating watching it operating in real time. And it gave me an opportunity to ask the engineer who was showing us around a few pertinent questions, which he answered ruefully and truthfully, but very carefully.
Walls having ears and all. 😀
Mrs. Hairy Ape will do very well for addressing me here. 🙂
Dot, for Lent you should stop reading your guilty pleasure, Medium.
In fact, if Cats are down that way, it’s a really good display with some great models of the system and how it works.
Including models of the turbines and other gizmos, plus terrain tables that light up showing all the tunnel routes. Next time, I hope to take the eldest grandson who has hopes of an engineering future. Although, to be honest, I will probably steer him towards geotech rather than civil.
Some fan mail for you, says Keith Windschuttle, as he does when passing on anything arrives for me at Quadrant.
‘Who is Elizabeth Beare?’ said the last piece that arrived. Just that.
Who indeed. ‘Elizabeth Beare lives and writes in Sydney’ says my brief bio piece.
That’s who.
Yow. Running late for my chicken-pox top up.
One day we will look back with fond memories of the Great Upticking Wars.
We will.
Yes, the alienating effect of rags over faces.
And if an inability to read facial expressions is a condition of autism, then pity the children who are denied the opportunity of experiencing the face of another child, and of experiencing unmediated voices, and of experiencing the altogether sense of presence that is other children with faces.
It is no mere complaint, for as someone like Levinas (Shoa survivor and a favourite of John Paul 2) would have it, without seeing the face of the other, there is no commandment to say, ‘thou shalt not kill’.
So what are we doing to the children.
And where are the parents.
I’m reminded of that apocalyptic scene in The Terminator.
Just pray that Upticking doesn’t become self-aware as well as hostile.
Whatever happened to Ellie?
If he’d gone in fully masked and paid with cash, they’d never have identified him.
Unless they got someone to admit that they knew his naked body well enough to recognise it! 😉
Wally Dalí at 8:54 – assume you are not in WA Wally. I am banned by the pool run by my LGA and could not do my hydrotherapy session. Back to my unit before going to the cafe where I am also banned to pick up my takeaway coffee.
Snapshots from Sneakers Hermit Kingdom. It’s hardly Gulag Archipelago but should be recorded for others.
McCarthy: Are you or have you ever been…an upticker?
Future lockdowns should be ‘rejected out of hand’, new international report says
Well done Adam Creighton in the Oz.
His hanging out with independent media types in the US is having an impact.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/future-lockdowns-should-be-rejected-out-of-hand-new-international-report-says/news-story/2ee3a4d8f46cd043c7f3feee7c2d8192
Bullshit.
FFS, give it away.
HB, this in that email from Swimming WA-
Swimming WA has just been informed by the WA State Government and Health Authorities that new directions released on Saturday, January 29th overturn their initial announcement and our previous communications.
For the time being, this means swimmers, volunteers, officials and attendees DO NOT have to show proof of double vaccination at event venues that do not impose mandatory double vaccinations on entry. Swimming WA will comply with all venues that do have these vaccination requirements however.
This decision was based on the chief health officer’s advice, as pools are still used for therapy purposes and provide a wide range of health benefits, therefore are not captured under the proof of vaccination requirements.
Maybe put in a call to your venue?
LOL. There is going to be lots of RAT tests for sale on Gumtree soon.
(message from the kids school)
Rapid Antigen Testing
The Victorian Government has strongly recommended that all staff and students complete twice-weekly RATs at home prior to attending school for at least the first four weeks of Term 1, 2022.
If your child receives a positive RAT result, Parents, Guardians and Carers must:
1. Advise the College via XXXXXXXXXX
2. Register the positive result on the COVID-19 Positive Rapid Antigen Test Self-Reporting Form available on the Coronavirus Victoria website http://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au as soon as possible
3. Follow the Department of Health’s isolation instructions
Further information in relation to the collection of RAT kits will be made available to families once the College has received its supply from the Victorian Government.
Remember when TheirABC was not allowed to promote products? Well, apart from their blatant book promotions for Friends, and their recent promotion of various elixirs to ward of Death from Covid, how about this?
Well, that saved them a few hundred grand in advertising.
Michael Smith has a good write up on how bovver boy PVO folded on his Vinegar Tits critique.
God he’s a pussy. PVO, not Michael.
Lizzie couldn’t afford the interest payments
Kneelsays:
February 1, 2022 at 9:33 am
“I had my patience tested. I’m negative.”
Reminds me of my old business partner. I reckoned he never lost his patience – because you can’t lose something you don’t have!
Reminds also of Admiral Ernest King, head of the US Navy during WW II. His daughter once described him as the most even tempered man she knew, he was always in a towering rage.
Yep. It’s what she lives for. Abuse of me; self-justification of her psychosis.
Quad erat demonstrandum.
Cheers Wally Are you able to forward the email via Dover and I will raise some trouble. Better than hydro in July.
With rates soon to rise, and if Labor gets in inflation about to run rampant, I’d be more concerned about my kids with mortgages getting burnt than with any payments I may have to make anywhere, Matrix.
Breaking news: Pope Franky adds another Station of the Cross.
On his way to Calvary, Jesus posted at a blog & didn’t get enough upticks.
Pogria
No need to ask whether the Prof wants soy.
King was described as loving himself, the United States Navy, and the wives of his junior officers, and despising all civilians to the point where he said “Tell them nothing when the war is going on, when it’s over, tell them who won.”
With no downtick option we cannot compare the ratios.
Thank you for your contributions, Johanna. I always appreciate your input.
Why a growing number of Americans are choosing to worship in virtual reality
Disturbing.
On many levels.
lotocoti says:
February 1, 2022 at 8:53 am
Young children between the ages of five and 11 considered most at risk of coronavirus will be offered Covid jabs from Monday in England.
Eligible children include those with learning disabilities …
Wait.
What?
Probably thought the optics of loading the kids on to steel shuttered buses and driving them round for an hour or so weren’t too good.
It depends what you mean by uptick.
A good firm upright uptick is very different compared to drooping soft uptick.
And then there is the old wrinkled sagging uptick and the deliciously moist uptick.
Of course, there are many other types of uptick, too numerous to mention here.
H B Bearsays:
February 1, 2022 at 10:06 am
Pogria
Michael Smith has a good write up on how bovver boy PVO folded on his Vinegar Tits critique.
No need to ask whether the Prof wants soy.
Spot on. As an aside, I so loathe the labelling of soy and nut fluids as “milk”. From now on I will only refer to them as “juice”. Soy juice, Nut juice etc. It also makes it extra funny when you can state that some pussy such as PVO is the way he is because of his daily dose of “Nut juice”.
I so love a good dose of Karma.
I don’t really have a problem with it (not the book promotions from maaaates, especially at Christmas). The selective recognition of the Charter leads to some absurd radio, especially during gardening segments. “Anti fungal spray, sounds like …”
On Dickless Upticking:
Labor to unveil support for taxpayer-funded construction of gas-fired power station in the Hunter Valley, but it comes with a caveat
Segue into using two power stations worth of electricity to produce hydrogen for a power station.
A glimpse of how Zero Emissions works in practice.
I don’t read it, Dr Frank Gilroy, MD PhD reads it.
Grill was Bourke’s right hand man. His memoir should sit well alongside those of Turnbull and KRudd.
Shorter review: “I done nuffink wrong.”
Bourke and anyone associated with him were a blight on WA.
I thought Dr Frank had his licence revoked for refusing to wear pants during consults ?
That should not be taken as a defence of the CCC, which is best thought of as a necessary evil.
Something really disturbing about tell-all books by journalist and positions is the fact they withheld information that could have changed events and profit from lack of integrity.
Pressure mounts on WA border as more executives flee east
And Richard Goyder:
No upticks for you, McClown.
There is so much good stuff at Watts Up With That, please have a look. A recent example was about how The Splitters won the Taxonomy Wars. What it means is that every population of a species is considered to be separate if it is in a discrete area, and maybe has a feather or a spot that is not common elsewhere. The opponents took the view that these minor variants were unimportant. Guess who won? Guess who got more ‘species’ declared ‘endangered.’ Guess who got more and more land put off limits for productive use?
This crap happens all the time here. The public are being told on TV that koalas are on the verge of extinction, which is nonsense. The guaranteed way to stop any development is to plant a specimen of an obscure species there, miraculously found by a completely impartial environmentalist.
I’ve previously ranted about how the re-classifiers turn previously knowledgeable people (like me) into know-nothings in the case of orchids.
Classification wars are very ugly indeed.
Not following it closely but the Pony Club seems to be having a few problems with it corruption watchdog chewing the furniture. Or rather not being allowed to chew the furniture.
Fun chemistry factoid: one litre of methane gas is roughly equal in combustion energy to four litres of hydrogen gas. So you’d need a pipeline four times the capacity for the same amount of energy.
That’s on top of the insane H2 production inefficiencies.
Sane people could not do this.
Surprising Wesfarmers has lasted as long as it has in WA. Unfortunately sheer weight of population means most businesses eventually go East. We did a consulting job for Foodland who were swallowed by Metcash a couple of years later. The company I ended up working for was itself swallowed by a Brisbane based true multinational.
It’s definitely tougher operating on WST.
Aided and stimulated by lefty anti-Christian governments being bastards.
Here under NSW regulations we still have to sing in masks, social distance and QR for every service despite this no longer being required for many other gatherings. And when some poor soul is a “close contact” it’s back to wretched Zoom services. At least if you are at home on a Zoom church service you can sing hymns without a ghastly mask. The vibration of the things on my nose whilst singing always makes me want to sneeze, which is something you REALLY DON’T WANT TO DO in a gathering right now.
Vic Jurskis:
Everyone loves koalas, so the weekend’s announcement that $50 million has been earmarked by the federal government to save them was never likely to spawn a raging controversy. It should, though, as koalas don’t need saving. Indeed, they are in much higher numbers across a much wider area today than when Europeans arrived in Australia. Back then they were so rare that it was all of 15 years before the first specimen was found and displayed in Sydney…….
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/01/the-great-koala-extinction-that-never-happens/
Koalas are an evolutionary dead end.
Koalas and panda bears. Evolutionary French Bulldogs. Only around now because they are cute.
Compare the honey badger.
Anyone accusing Red states of gerrymandering who don’t also call out the NY changes to their 12th Congressional district can go get fucked.
I’ll leave it to Cats to google it.
It’s farken hilarious how they’ve redrawn it.
When the Cathedral starts to address it, look for them to make excuses for why it makes perfect sense.
It’s actually quite funny.
Yeah, yeah. That’s what they said about dodos.
https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1488034588413001729
This modish insistence on saving the cute ones. Phooey I say! Save the tasty ones.
“James O’Keefe: “I’m sick of the whining!””
His is a story that is beyond unbelievable.
Veritas/O’Keefe hasn’t lost a court case yet.
Sued the New York Slimes for defamation.
FBI raids his house at dawn, potentially ignoring his 1st amendment protections as a journalist.
NYT knows about it while he is still sitting outside in handcuffs and his PJ’s.
NYT gets his privileged communications with his lawyer regarding the on-going case.
They publish parts of it.
NYT are NOT raided by the FBI, nor even apparently investigated.
Apparently NO investigation into how and who “leaked” these docs to NYT!
Apparently NO investigation into how and why the FBI could obtain his privileged communications with his lawyer, nor how they managed to get a warrant to obtain his information in apparent disregard for his 1st amendment protections.
He is taking flak and is definitely over the target… Which he knows. And he won’t give up or give in.
MSM on this? <crickets>
Hmmmm. Trucks. Suspicious.
Add moles and armadillos to the list.
Been thinking about memory, notoriously unreliable when it comes to events. But, OTOH, it can be extraordinary when it comes to concrete stuff.
For example, my old man for many years had a business which involved driving all over the Sydney metro area. He had the Gregorys in his head, as did the taxi drivers of the day. When you think about it, that is a lot of complex information.
Turning to music, not only can I pick many popular songs and classical pieces from the first few seconds, I know every note afterwards. That is a lot of compressed information.
When it comes to literature, I’m a dunce. I know people who can recite Shakespeare and poetry and all that word for word. I am in awe. A few bits and pieces is my limit.
I am particularly interested in people who have the vast spatial roadmap in their memory, like truckdrivers and cabbies. Widely regarded as stupid, clearly they are far from it, at least when it comes to survival.
Bern – Here.
Oh wait that’s the 10th Congressional district.
I hate to think what the 12th looks like.
Some strange reptile I suspect.
Bruce, that’s the district but on the map I’ve seen it says it’s the 12th.
If taxi drivers aren’t stupid why do they listen to 6PR, Neil Mitchell and Ray Hadley?
Enough is enough.
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.
I am starting an Upticker’s Convoy.
Music memory is a thing.
It seems that you either have it or you don’t.
Then there is music reading.
I have known people who could read orchestral sheet music, once, and it was in their memory forever.
Moderna vaccine gets full approval from FDA
This is just part of a headline news type page. Apparently, Moderna’s Spikevax has been granted full approval by the FDA for over 18 year olds in the U.S.
If used, this will be the first Covid vaccine ever administered under full FDA approval which, I understand, involves some level of liability. Pfizer has had full approval for Comodity(?) but not one dose has been given. All their vaccines are still administered
under the emergency approval, with full protection against harm caused.
One of step dads was a taxi driver. Very well read and knowledgeable but super dumb when it come to the complexity of life.
A Queensland government corruption scandal has displaced covid from the header of my newsfeed.
Happy days are here again!
“Tell them you want a written receipt, by snail mail”
14 separate 1c donations, written receipt for all please…
Spelling is important. I’m caught up with a bunch of updickers.
For example, my old man for many years had a business which involved driving all over the Sydney metro area. He had the Gregorys in his head, as did the taxi drivers of the day.
It used to be compulsory in London. I believe that there was an analysis done that showed actual physiological changes in the brain of a taxi driver who had acquired “the knowledge”.
Different to here where I once got a taxi driver at Sydney airport who didn’t know where, or even what, Randwick was. He had been in Australia for two weeks and was driving his brother’s cab.
Can’t say UK Civil Servants have entirely lost their sense of humour:
Lt. Colonel Robert Maclaren retired from the British Army in 2001 after a long fulfilling career. On the day that he retired he received a letter from the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Defence setting out details of his pension and, in particular, the tax-free ‘lump sum’ award, (based upon completed years of service), that he would receive in addition to his monthly pension.
The letter read …
“Dear Lt. Colonel Maclaren,
We write to confirm that you retired from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on 1st March 2001 at the rank of Lt Colonel, having been commissioned into the British Army at Edinburgh Castle as a 2nd Lieutenant on 1st February 1366. Accordingly your lump sum payment, based on years served, has been calculated as £68,500. You will receive a cheque for this amount in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Army Paymaster”
.
Col Maclaren replied;
“Dear Paymaster,
Thank you for your recent letter confirming that I served as an officer in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards between 1st February 1366 and 1st March 2001 – a total period of 635 years and 1 month. I note however that you have calculated my lump sum to be £68, 500, which seems to be considerably less than it should be bearing in mind my length of service since I received my commission from King Edward III.
By my calculation, allowing for interest payments and currency fluctuations, my lump sum should actually be £6, 427, 586, 619. 47p.
I look forward to receiving a cheque for this amount in due course.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Maclaren (Lt Col Ret)”
A month passed by and then in early April, a stout manila envelope from the Ministry of Defence in Edinburgh dropped through Col Maclaren’s letter box, it read:
“Dear Lt Colonel Maclaren,
We have reviewed the circumstances of your case as outlined in your recent letter to us dated 8th March inst. We do indeed confirm that you were commissioned into the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards by King Edward III at Edinburgh Castle on 1st February 1366, and that you served continuously for the following 635 years and 1 month. We have re-calculated your pension and have pleasure in confirming that the lump sum payment due to you is indeed £6, 427, 586, 619. 47p.
However,
We also note that according to our records you are the only surviving officer who had command responsibility during the following campaigns and battles; The Wars of the Roses 1455 -1485 (Including the battles of Bosworth Field, Barnet and Towton) The Civil War 1642 -1651 (Including the battles Edge Hill, Naseby and the conquest of Ireland) The Napoleonic War 1803 – 1815 (including the battle of Waterloo and the Peninsular War) The Crimean War (1853 – 1856) (including the battle of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade) The Boer War (1899 -1902).
We would therefore wish to know what happened to the following, which do not appear to have been returned to Stores by you on completion of operations:
.
9765 Cannon
26,785 Swords
12,889 Pikes
127,345 Rifles (with bayonets)
28,987 horses (fully kitted)
.
Plus three complete marching bands with instruments and banners.
WE have calculated the total cost of these items and they amount to £6,427,518.119.47p. WE have therefore subtracted this sum from your lump sum, leaving a residual amount of £68,500, for which you will receive a cheque in due course.
.
Yours sincerely . . . .”
“Don’t forget Remdesivir, just to ensure you don’t recover.”
Or fizzer’s “new” drug that allegedly causes the virus to mutate so badly it can’t survive.
What could go wrong, eh?
Already studies showing it affects peoples cells the same way.
Don’t worry though, it’s FDA approved! (after Biden ordered several million doses)
The guaranteed way to stop any development is to plant a specimen of an obscure species there, miraculously found by a completely impartial environmentalist.
Vic greenies have been doing this with leadbeater’s possum, sending teams of spotters into the mountains where — miracle ! — they report finding them in logging coupes etc. The irony is that leadbeaters aren’t that rare.
It’s an old tradition, here and overseas. The ‘lynx fur’ scam in the US takes the cake. The allegedly endangered wild lynx, whose presence demanded the forest be closed off to all but ‘expert researchers’, was actually living happily in a zoo, as a DNA scan exposed.
There were in fact no lynx in the area, not one. Just ‘experts’ attempting to steal a huge plot of forest for themselves alone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/science/7-biologists-put-lynx-fur-in-forests-congressmen-want-inquiry.html
As are gum trees (hey, maybe there’s a link there?).
A fact testified to by early settler accounts and landscape paintings.
I once told a greenie this and he almost had a stroke, poor fellow.
Building material shortages, up to the mid 80’s a lot of wreckers/salvage yards used to sell second hand timber, it was denailed, graded and usually good value. When wages boomed timber became relatively cheap and it wasn’t worth the effort to denail it etc. Well just saw a bloke in Albury who has started salvaging framing timber, he’s making good money, well worth his time to do what has to be done, including demolition.
Just in time for the NEW IMPROVED
patent medicinevaccine for OMICRON666.Moderna begins second stage of trials for Omicron-specific vaccine (28 Jan)
So if they’re trumpeting their new vaccine for Omicron does that mean the now fully-approved original vaccine doesn’t work on Omicron? Is a conundrum wrapped in a mystery.
That made my day, cheers.
Joanna – the brain is just so hugely complex I’m not sure what progress they are making on understanding it. We did a 10 week course here to try and help people with memory, problem solving and planning – stuff most people do without even thinking (maybe that’s the clue).
Spacial knowledge has always been recognised as a particular form of brain function.
Even before Google Maps they had to get out the Melways for the last few hundred meters if you lived on an obscure little street.
As the Australian Open proved, after 10,000 hours most people can do most things.
Timothy N
Different to here where I once got a taxi driver at Sydney airport who didn’t know where, or even what, Randwick was. He had been in Australia for two weeks and was driving his brother’s cab.
Some years ago, we got one who had problems getting from the Airport to Maroubra, even with a GPS!
Don’t be too certain.
There was some rescue joint which had a Koala that developed a taste for apples.
The SASR might’ve been called in.
There is an agreeable four parter on youtube about acquiring ‘the knowledge’ . In the end it was just another barrier to entry and gypsy cabs and Uber nuscled in.
If taxi drivers aren’t stupid why do they listen to 6PR, Neil Mitchell and Ray Hadley?
Why is it that all the people who know how to rung the country are driving taxis and cutting hair?
😀 Nice to see someone in admin has a sense of humour, although clearly also with too much time on his hands!
Noticed a truck laden with good 2/h timber in town yesterday, sfw.
Joe Rogan tweeting about ivermectin.
run
On the new Omicron vax…who cares?
Omicron won’t kill you. It won’t even make you seriously sick, unless you have a raft of pre-existing conditions, and then it might not.
This is all bullshit on stilts. Why are they still persisting in selling panic?
No joking, if these invisible “experts” conjured by our increasingly Jim Jones like premiers ordered everyone to bark like a dog five times a day 10% of the population would do it.
If they said children have to do before going to the
babysitter“school”, easily 60% of Gen-X / Gen-Y ‘parents’ in the population would make their kids do it.Because there’s money in it.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Oy! what about them gready boomers?
So they’re not trying to cull the population, just impoverish it?
Good to know.
shatterzzzsays:
February 1, 2022 at 11:25 am
That made my day, cheers.
Mine too. Will be giggling about that all day. Have also copied it to show friends.
Thanks again.
Neo-feudalism
It’s a shakedown of government.
Just work up a panic in the population, apply the pressure, and gummint must “do something”.
Cf. corporate shill Greta Thunberg.
You know why, Calli. Panicked populations are easier to control, with the added benefit that they help politicians win elections.
Pogria,
Enough about nut juice.
This is not that sort of blog.
Can’t beat economics at the end of the day.
But all it takes to stuff it up is a politician advised by an economist.
Add economist to the list of evolutionary dead ends.
I watched a documentary last night called “Zombeaver”, where beaver become Zombies.
Interesting show, which also mentions “beaver fever”.
Koalas can do the same.
Fear the Zomkoala.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/game-changer-us-military-data-shows-shockingly-high-vaccination-injuries/
johanna says:
February 1, 2022 at 11:07 am
Timothy Neilson says:
February 1, 2022 at 11:17 am
On my first trip to London back in 1985 I took a taxi from the airport to particular address of a friend. Told the guy the address and off we went. He didn’t look at a road map, just drove directly to that address. I was stunned. HTF did he know where this nondescript street was? All part of ‘the knowledge’.
Yet similar experience to you when travelling by taxi from airport in Adelaide years later. Told taxi bloke the address and he had no idea. Expanded it to include broader metro district, then local Council area…..nothing. Told him to head south from airport along one of the largest arterial roads in Adelaide……blank look. Ended up directing him from the airport exit gate.
Someone shat the bed last night. I can tell.
Amber Heard comments here!!!
If you had a kid not bright enough for general practice, but not a complete mong then Id advise Speech Pathology
I loathe the masks.
I lipread a lot to help with my deafness. Between the mumble effect and not seeing faces properly its a real curse.
I thought I was pretty good at reading maps till I got hold of a London A to Z.
Interesting data. The first divergence neatly matches the date of emergence of climate crap, and the second is of course due to the covid scam.
Survey: Trust in science is becoming more polarized (Phys.org, 31 Jan)
Interesting that both frauds are accompanied by stupendous amounts of money, whereas previously science has never participated in such largess. I suppose that says scientists are human too, and as prone to evil as anyone. But only now has the opportunity arisen to scam the plebs at such a magnitude.
“So they’re not trying to cull the population, just impoverish it?”
Create so much public debt that it “legitimises” the “Great Reset”. AND it takes away your human rights, so they can lock you up for disagreeing with Big Brother – even when your are quoting BB from 2 years ago.
You’ll own nothing, and THEY’LL be happy.
You can’t continue using fossil fuels if we’re running out – how will the elite be able to fly about the place from mansion to mansion telling you to cut back to “save the planet” if the plebs used all the fuel?
You can’t continue to put grandma at risk of getting a disease so deadly you need a test to know you’ve got it – vaxes, masks, socialist distancing for you. But not for the elite and the media, they need people to be able to see them, so they get all that non-verbal communications, see?
Cynical? Me?
ABC radio news sombrely leads a bulletin with death of 3o y o with batflu. Some expert says it underlines the importance of the third jab, because he had received only two clot shots.
FMD. Does the msm really believe that anyone swallows this shite?
ACT taxi’s used to be the most the protected industries in Australia. And the drivers took full advantage of the captured audience.
Might’ve been shown that fillum before a run ashore.
It will take a very long time for science to recover.