Why doesn’t the media push back on all this bullshit. It’s way beyond ridiculous.

I have some nephews/nieces who work in media.
If they are any guide, “thick as bricks” is your answer.

Why doesn’t the media push back on all this bullshit. It’s way beyond ridiculous.

Like everybody else, they’re fond of their cruisey job and don’t wanna throw it away.
Also, they don’t own a Printing Press, they just tell lies for a bloke who does.

The Beer whisperer says:
February 7, 2022 at 4:51 pm
Put Liberals last, but Labor behind them as they plan to license speech, starting with kids.

From that article:
It is a similar concept to how children earn their pen licence to upgrade from writing in pencil.

Can someone please assure me that they are referring to a metaphorical licence???

incoherent rambler says:
February 7, 2022 at 4:56 pm
While I can.

Get Fscked Albo.

incoherent rambler johnson is right !!

Except for the spelling miskate:

GET FUCKED ALBO !!!

Let me quote Fat Tony Johnson:

“GET FUCKED ALBO !!!”

Figuressays:
February 7, 2022 at 5:23 pm
Rex, HIV AIDS doesn’t exist anywhere.

In Africa, normal diseases were rebadged as AIDS. In San Francisco and New York, people who took lots of drugs (poppers or heroin) died because they took lots of, first those drugs, then AZT, Nevirapine etc.

Statistics in Africa on cause of death are practically non-existent so the WHO just said everybody on the continent who died, died of AIDS. Well they did that until they decided it would be better for their narrative to declare all deaths were caused by measles (and then no deaths were caused by measles following the measles vaccine campaign).

You’re welcome.

My mate from Gambia reckons Aids came into Africa from US homosexuals.

A small group of unvaccinated international travellers will be taken by bus to the site, just outside Toowoomba, from Brisbane.

The local tent shooter will be pleased.

Please explain what black spot is on roses or what Newcastle disease is with chickens. Or a rotten gum for a jaguar for example.

Hundreds of thousands if not millions of biologists have identified microbes with repeatability that cause these, along with ways to kill off the microbes.

“Plants have feelings”, okay, L Ron.

“Germ theory doesn’t apply to humans” hmmmmmmmm…..

I suspect Kung Flu deaths are lower — even though it came out of a lab and was designed to kill people.

Flu deaths per year always range between 4 and 5 thousand.
Any major change to that figure must mean that death numbers are being suppressed.

Razey
Everyone knows AIDS comes from monkeys and originated in Africa.
Some dirty bastard sodomised a monkey.

Actually the timing of 3rd was reduced from 6 months to 3 months. That was clearly not “scientific” but related to the panic when Omicrn was starting to multiply in NSW.

I remember the sequence of the decision making and it went like this :
Monday – Federal Health Minister says wants to ask ATAGI to reduce from 6-5 months.
Tuesday – NSW Health Minister says wants reduced from 6 to 4 or even 3 months.
Wednesday – PM says wants 4 months.
Thursday – some female WHO expert attached to one of the Melbourne institutes recommends 2 months.

A few days after that announced 4 months and soon after that said end of January becomes 3 months.

Basically an admission first two did not work against Omicron and confirmed by Pfizer boss around same time.

It can’t be said enough that the Australian press has failed miserably in looking at both sides. Totally lacking in decent investigative and analytical reporting. The Oz has had some good articles but the other News outlets have been pathetic.

“the ‘science’ says 6 months after the 2nd clot shot, there is zero efficacy (probably negative). So a double clot shotted tourist is likely to be equivalent to an unvax’d or worse.”

Burning with enthusiasm to get out of WA? Or into?

Several trucks have burst into flames at a Covid checkpoint at the border crossing from South Australia into Western Australia causing chaos for motorists.

Images from the scene show plumes of smoke emanating from at least four trucks parked just metres from the border checkpoint between the two states.

Daily Mail

My mate from Gambia reckons Aids came into Africa from US homosexuals.

Cool story, bro.

John Brumble says:
February 7, 2022 at 5:03 pm

“When he comes back you deal with him yourself!” snapped Granny loudly. “Teach your children! Don’t trust the cannibal just ‘cos he’s usin’ a knife and fork! and remember that vampires don’t go where they’re not invited!”

– Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

Before he became the novelist we think we know & love anyway, he was a propagandist for the British Nuclear Industry.

“Good Omens” by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman is dedicated to GK Chesterton, as ‘a man who knew what was going on’.

Dr Dick has now become the world authority on HIV/AIDS, having failed completely with US Civil War history, which was his selected subject.

Mother Lode says:
February 7, 2022 at 1:52 pm

, its all mute.

I was watching TV yesterday and wanted to turn the sound down during the opening credits. I searched frantically for the remote control but didn’t find it until the credits had finished, so turns out I was pressing a moot button.

If asked what were the greatest inventions of the C20th, I would include the ‘mute’ button.

It’s decades since I heard a TV advertisement, except by accident. 🙂

Before he became the novelist we think we know & love anyway, he was a propagandist for the British Nuclear Industry.

And?

Sounds like a good job, and a valuable one. I wouldn’t call it “propaganda though”. “Truth” maybe.

His first novel is a SF not fantasy: The Dark Side of the Sun. It’s really good.

Before he became the novelist we think we know & love anyway, he was a propagandist for the British Nuclear Industry.

I just think srr (aka Mrs Faulty) doesn’t like nuclear power because it involves tunnels.

And somebody told her that supervising engineers and plant workers sometimes eat pizza while on-shift.

And that their safety PPE (including boots) are red…

Rex Anger says:
February 7, 2022 at 5:48 pm

My last statement is possibly not true, but I have seen the overalls some poor buggers in the chemical industry have to wear. And they are red.

Before he became the novelist we think we know & love anyway, he was a propagandist for the British Nuclear Industry.

A King among men.

JC: Ex paramour worked as a locations scout in the NYC movie business (she’s listed in the Bronx Tale credits and IMDB). She says there are two — TWO!!! — laneways in Manhattan, both closed off with iron gates. When they needed Manhattan-ish laneways, they shot in Pittsburgh

Great to hear Australia’s No,1 race caller Matt Hill calling the downhill skiing at the Beijing Olympics, but the real interest is in how long the Chinese Communist Party will wait (having bought the Biden family) to invade Taiwan later this year.

Figuressays:
February 7, 2022 at 5:23 pm
Rex, HIV AIDS doesn’t exist anywhere.

In Africa, normal diseases were rebadged as AIDS.

This is Figures’ version of “that wasn’t real socialism”.

Figures is, apparently, able to diagnose the cause of illnesses without ever seeing the patient or having even case notes to find out about symptoms, situational history, lab tests, other diagnostic tools, or in fact anything. He’s the clairvoyant diagnostician.

Rex you wanted an explanation and I gave it.

A simple “thank you” would be appreciated.

not everyone got straight HD

I did, then a straight HR and an HK that, truth be told, had a couple of dents.

Either disband the SAS or STFU. Do not kneecap them.
This expectation of “special behaviour” in a non-Geneva Convention battlefield is deranged and self-defeating at least and treasonous at worst. But that’s the left for you.

Re the Rolfe trial: It seems that the NT DPP or whoever was in charge thought they were dealing with a typical working class kid who joined the cops, when they started breaking the rules.

Unfortuntely for them, he is a scion of the wealthy and influential Rolfe car dealership and other stuff family in Canberra. Much to their surprise, they have already been to the High Court, and that was just a warning shot across the bows.

The NT government deserves the shellacking it is about to get.

Anchor Whatsays:
February 7, 2022 at 6:21 pm
Cancel the masks too.

Didnt wear one in the petrol station today. No one gives a shit.

Focoult died of.
Vanished…

Justin Castros mother.
NSFW

Used to be able to do this on the streets of Melbourne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YyXUzEyR38

New thread so a reminder to chip in to buy this blog’s mine host a coffee or champagne.

Here.

Also, if you’re searching for something on Amazon, go via the link at the top right of the Cat page.

cohenite says:
February 7, 2022 at 6:13 pm
One of biden’s illegal immigrants: FMD:

Wow. Linda Blair has really beefed up.

JCsays:
February 7, 2022 at 6:48 pm
Razey says:
February 7, 2022 at 6:36 pm

Used to be able to do this on the streets of Melbourne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YyXUzEyR38

No you couldn’t. You were never allowed to do such a thing and you can tell on people’s faces they were kind of shocked and wary. Just stop. And frankly, why would you feel the need to carry a rifle over your shoulder in Little Collins Street?

Might have been a gunshop there in those days.

Where will you be for Ash Wednesday, rosie?

JC I used to see men on trains (usually weekends) at Flinders St carrying guns and shooting gear, they’d catch a train to country stations and shoot and return the same day with their rabbits or whatever, this was in the early 70’s. Nobody cared at all. It was quite common on Saturdays to see people (mainly Italians) on the tram carrying a few live chooks upside down by their legs, taking them home for the weeks dinners. No one cared.

Was it here I read this?

Australia has spent $373 billion on covid for 4200 deaths. Around $80 mill/death.

We could have had 10 x the death rate and still compensate the family a cool $1mil.

Genius!

Someone said upthread that Mater is fine. I bloody hope so. One of my ‘always read’ contributors. Mater, please come back.

Does omicron mean that delta is no longer an option?

Australia has spent $373 billion on covid for 4200 deaths. Around $80 mill/death.

There is no limit to the amount of our money politicians will spend to avoid being blamed for covid deaths.

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
? Terry Pratchett

Makkasays:
February 7, 2022 at 7:08 pm
Australia has spent $373 billion on covid for 4200 deaths. Around $80 mill/death.

There is no limit to the amount of our money politicians will spend to avoid being blamed for covid deaths.

I’m touch that politicians think my life is worth $80 mil. But at the end of the day, history will show that it wasn’t worth destroying the country over.

One of the few honest things Trump said. They are not sending their best.

All of what Trump said was honest- truth hurts sometimes. You are a twerp.

Makka says:
February 7, 2022 at 7:08 pm
Australia has spent $373 billion on covid for 4200 deaths. Around $80 mill/death.

There is no limit to the amount of our money politicians will spend to avoid being blamed for covid deaths.

The sad thing is, if they’d spent nothing, we’d probably still have had those 4200 deaths.

Wouldn’t a practical military man, who didn’t want to splatter his mates, have opted for a simple pistol?

(apologies for my general innocence about automatic weapons)

The Minimi is not a traditional machine gun that sprays its projectiles into a roughly ovoid ‘beaten zone.’ It is an accurate squad support weapon that is better considered as a belt-fed descendant of the WW2 era Bren Gun- I.E. employed in short and aimed bursts, rather then relied upon to saturate an intended area with suppressing or killing fire.

Nonetheless, you would not be indiscriminately firing one into a group of people to execute a single person- Aside from the inevitable danger of recoil sending it places you don’t want it to go at point-blank range, no trained or disciplined individual fires directly into a group of his mates.

Aside from the fact that you would leave a quantity of disintegrating-belt links and expended cartidges all over the ground as evidence of your actions. And that stuff does not spontaneously disappear upon contact with the ground.

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

– Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

The sad thing is, if they’d spent nothing, we’d probably still have had those 4200 deaths.

Like a braindead lemming, Scummo went all in 30 seconds after the WHO declared a pandemic. Shutting down almost the entire economy. He can’t walk back from that. It would mean admitting he fkd the country and millions of citizen’s lives and livelihoods on a whim. So what better way to justify his idiocy that bury it under billions of $’s of our DEBT?

The question was about the presumed existence of a disease pervading Africa. The question was generic and therefore so was the answer. It wouldn’t have made sense to give an individualized answer.

The point is that whatever deficiencies you may think there are in the official numbers (quite possibly correctly), you’re saying that every single case where death by HIV was diagnosed was wrongly diagnosed.
In every case being a patient you know nothing about.
You’re putting your ludicrous theory, at a distance of thousands of miles and decades of time, ahead of the work of the entire health professions of the whole of Africa, where you’ve got zero information about even a single case you’re talking about.

Good comment, but why aren’t the witnesses giving this “evidence” being asked these questions?

I’m sure they are, but not in an immediately obvious and soundbit-friendly way.

We want blood (metaphorical or otherwise). The good cross-examiner looks to expose one lie. Just one.

Because the whole rotten edifice collapses the instant the ostensibly truthful witness has that honesty amd truthfulness called into question.

Good comment, but why aren’t the witnesses giving this “evidence” being asked these questions?

I’m sure they are, but not in an immediately obvious and soundbit-friendly way.

Quite likely. A cross-examiner will try to get the witness to commit to a whole lot of detail, often repeatedly under different guises, before springing the vital question. If the question is asked straight after the witness has said the porky, the witness may be able to wriggle out by saying “did I say that? I’m terribly sorry, that was misleading – what I really meant was…”. Whereas if the witness had also answered a whole lot of subsequent questions all based on the hidden premise of the witness’s porky, then when they try to wriggle out of the porky they can be asked “but doesn’t that also mean that your answers to A, B, C etc were also wrong?”.

New thread so a reminder to chip in to buy this blog’s mine host a coffee or champagne.

Thanks for the reminder, Gab.

As it happens, I had already made a small contribution earlier today.

In summary, the opening address for the prosecution in the Rolfe case:

1. Conceded the dead career criminal was in fact a career criminal with a significant history of significant violence:
2. Said he was on parole and supposed to be in rehab;
3. Also mentioned he cut his monitoring anklet off and went back to Yuendumu ‘for a funeral’ (which he didn’t attend), but spent his time breaking into the fortified clinic nurses’ houses and threatening to rape them to the point they left town;
4. Said that before he stabbed the jack and got shot for it, he chased out two other coppers from the same house with an axe (the jury were shown the body worn vision, unbelievably);
5. Said he stabbed Rolfe in the shoulder with surgical shears stolen from one of the nurses’ homes;
6. Further said that the first shot fired was reasonable and necessary, but that shots two and three were not (resulting in the murder beef); and
7. Also said that the three shots were fired in three seconds in a dimly-lit corridor with the dead bloke continuing to try and stab the jacks.

I can’t see anything other than…. well, I’m not going to jinx it, but it should be bleedingly obvious.

All the defence needs to do is mention the appalling partisan subservience of the brand new Commish to the government that gave him that job, and align that to the terrible performance of that government and how the indig hated (and still hate) it, and it’s over. Red rover, bend over.

It was a political charge to shore up a tottering government, and as johanna mentioned if the Commish had taken longer than a few days to charge this bloke he would have found out that Rolfe had the almost unlimited resources of both his own family and the NT Police Association – who apparently had been stockpiling member funds (like all jurisdictions) for just this scenario – to contend with, which he had not anticipated at all.

Put it another way, BlowJob is another idiot son of extreme privilege, an arty farty twerp of a journalist who neither knows nor cares about the challenges Joe Average faces.

Rex A

It just seems that culture and morality held them back.

Until now. This speaks eloquently of the calibre of our current politicians.

So speaketh the prophet ED (as usual, offering absolutely no evidence).

Erectile Dysfunction?

Makes sense, as I’ve never seen Ed ever make functional or coherent Case for anything…

Maybe you are just a closeted Polyanna who believes in the goodness of, and righteousness of all voters, and that they otherwise have no agency.

Maybe I’m not. Maybe you’re an insufferable snob.

Rex Angersays:
February 7, 2022 at 7:47 pm
So speaketh the prophet ED (as usual, offering absolutely no evidence).

Makes sense, as I’ve never seen Ed ever make functional or coherent Case for anything…

Typo, finger stayed too long on the Shift key. But the other meaning works also.

Where should I start with his books?

I had a similar view of the Pratchett books, and my then young nephew asked me to read ‘Going Postal’ and ‘The Wee Free Men’ and I was hooked.

There are 41 books in the Discworld series and they can be read in any order. This short discussion has reminded me to read Carpe Jugulum which has been on my to read list since I encountered the real thing on this here blog.

When does open season on politicians and so called health professionals start. Will they form an orderly line to receive their due process or run about wildly with hands in the air screaming it wasn’t my fault I was only following orders.