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Gilas
Gilas
February 8, 2022 9:07 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
February 8, 2022 at 12:18 am

Whiskey Au Go Go: Nightclub owner grilled over insurance plot claims in fiery inquest proceedings

Events 48 years ago.. perps pushing up the daisies..
Good to see that the Law in this country works in a timely fashion and that justice being seen to be done is a high priority.
.. Bated breaths now anxious for the latest on the Guido Fawkes imbroglio.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
February 8, 2022 9:09 am

Good ob ML.
Also considering Ottawa is an isolated admin city- the Canadian Canberra- you’d expect the population to lean heavily Left, so the local support shows how much the Liberals there are on the nose.

JC
JC
February 8, 2022 9:17 am

Inflation is smashing everything except gold. I wonder why.

Because it isn’t. That’s the only response. People no longer buy it as a hedge. In fact it’s not a fucking hedge for anything – neither deflation nor inflation. Buy it for industrial uses or jewellery.

Real estate appears to be a hedge against inflation at the moment as well as stocks that do well in periods of inflation. These are those with pricing power like the global consumer brands.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 9:19 am

rosiesays:

February 8, 2022 at 5:00 am

Apparently Craig Kelly has committed to investigate the ‘Heffernan claims’ if he gets reelected.

Did he actually say that?
Or was it one of the dimmer bulb UAP candidates chosen as a ballot-paper filler?

Razey
Razey
February 8, 2022 9:22 am

JCsays:
February 8, 2022 at 9:17 am
Inflation is smashing everything except gold. I wonder why.

Because it isn’t. That’s the only response. People no longer buy it as a hedge. In fact it’s not a fucking hedge for anything – neither deflation nor inflation. Buy it for industrial uses or jewellery.

Real estate appears to be a hedge against inflation at the moment as well as stocks that do well in periods of inflation. These are those with pricing power like the global consumer brands.

But surely RE will run out of steam. Interest rates are going up and wages are not keeping up with inflation. Rickw mentioned yesterday that fuel works took a 30% pay cut. Teachers get a 2% pay rise. Not nearly enough.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 9:22 am

bespokesays:

February 8, 2022 at 7:03 am

Are you going to be on the front line Razey, or safely behind a keyboard?

Come on, man!
He can’t be on the frontline when he is in Japan.
Be fair.

Razey
Razey
February 8, 2022 9:24 am

Sancho Panzersays:
February 8, 2022 at 9:22 am
bespokesays:

February 8, 2022 at 7:03 am

Are you going to be on the front line Razey, or safely behind a keyboard?

Come on, man!
He can’t be on the frontline when he is in Japan.
Be fair.

No way. White devils wont be allowed.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 8, 2022 9:25 am

Taliban elite send daughters overseas for ‘good education’
By Joe Wallen
February 8, 2022 — 8.00am

London: Taliban officials are sending their daughters to school despite keeping classrooms closed to female students.

High-ranking officials are sending their children to overseas state schools and universities while depriving schooling to millions of girls within Afghanistan since they seized power, according to a report by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN).

One member of the Taliban’s negotiating team in Doha said they had started to educate their children in school in Qatar: “Since everybody in the neighbourhood was going to school, our children demanded they go to school too.”

The daughter of one current Taliban minister and former member of the group’s leadership council is currently studying medicine at a Qatari university, according to AAN.

Two members of the Taliban’s Qatar office are said to have left their children in Doha when they returned to Kabul so their education would not be disrupted.

“Taliban members and their families who live here [in Qatar] have strong demands for modern education and no one opposes it for either boys or girls – of any age,” a Taliban official, formerly based in Qatar, told the AAN.

Some officials are opting to send their children to schools which combine “Western” learning with religious teaching, known as the Iqra system, in neighbouring Pakistan where many Taliban leaders spent the last two decades exiled.

Other Taliban officials have enrolled their children in private Pakistani-run schools in Qatar, which follow a Pakistani curriculum but still teach lessons in English.

Afghanistan has been ravaged by poverty since the Taliban completed their seizure of power in August last year. Millions of children suffer malnutrition, according to the World Health Organisation, while the United Nations has warned that 97 per cent of Afghans are set to live below the poverty line.

The Taliban has banned girls in Afghanistan from attending school beyond the age of 12 in more than two-thirds of the country’s 34 provinces.

However, some militants are said to be concerned with the impact of school closures in Afghanistan on their children’s futures.

“The Iqra system is very good for Taliban who are looking to educate their boys and girls,” a Taliban official in Pakistan reportedly told the AAN.

“It’s an Islamic educational system that teaches both modern school subjects and madrassah subjects.

“Most of our friends were looking for this kind of mixed system, and after this system was established in some cities like Karachi and Quetta, they were sending their boys and girls to these schools.”

Other Taliban officials in Afghanistan have clandestinely enrolled their daughters in private schools and universities where they take lessons in subjects considered foreign, including English and computer literacy.

Frank
Frank
February 8, 2022 9:32 am

The truth about Adrenochrome
Dot Wordsworth
24 October 2020

QAnon, the conspiracy theorist’s conspiracy theory, teaches that President Donald Trump is in secret warfare with a worldwide network of paedophiles. As an explanatory model it reminds me of the voices that Gilbert Pinfold hears in Evelyn Waugh’s novel bravely describing his own delusions brought on by too much chloral and crème de menthe.

In the QAnon dark world, kidnapped children are, I think, made use of to produce a psychotropic drug and elixir of immortality called adrenochrome. They are no doubt tortured and killed in the process. QAnon did not invent adrenochrome. Aldous Huxley mentions it in The Doors of Perception (1954), which largely explores his experience of mescaline. The book’s title came from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, in which old Billy says: ‘If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.’ Perhaps so, but mashed cactus doesn’t really provide spiritual Windolene. In passing, Huxley wrote: ‘Adrenochrome, which is a product of the decomposition of adrenalin, can produce many of the symptoms observed in mescalin intoxication.’ I don’t think this is true, apart from the bit about the decomposition of adrenalin. Next stop was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972). In the film (1998) of Hunter S. Thompson’s book, Benicio del Toro, playing Dr Gonzo, says of adrenochrome: ‘There’s only one source for this stuff … the adrenaline glands from a living human body.’ That is certainly not true. My husband explained it to me. You just have to oxidise adrenaline.

The OED’s first citation, from 1909, calls it ‘a sulphur compound of the suprarenal gland which is exploited as an internal remedy for the treatment of skin diseases’.

What surprised me was to find adrenochrome in the Lewis detective dramas in 2007. ‘A hedonistic group that aspired to the principles of Dionysus once killed in an attempt to experience the ultimate drug: Adrenochrome,’ says a plot summary. I suppose all this is fair play. Fiction may rely on a mechanism, like H.G. Wells’s literal Time Machine, disbelief in which is suspended. It’s just a pity that people think their children have been kidnapped and killed for a completely impossible reason.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 8, 2022 9:32 am

In Trouble in Paradise https:

‘Completely destroyed’: Athletes fume over Olympics nightmare

German skiing coach Christian Schwaiger said: “The catering is extremely questionable because really it’s not catering at all.

“I’d have expected that the Olympic Committee would be capable of providing hot meals.

“There are no hot meals. There are crisps, some nuts and chocolate and nothing else. This shows a lack of focus on high-performance sport.”

Some others came prepared and Team USA had the foresight to bring along camping food – like bags of pasta – that needed hot water to make a meal.

Oddly, the Chinese English language media isn’t reporting this story.

Cassie of Sydney
February 8, 2022 9:33 am

“The Albanese ALP easing back from 50% to 43%, with 8% undecided.”

I suspect the undecided will fall behind Morrison. I noticed last night on Sky that the Liberal party have began their electoral advertising….it’s very negative against Albanese…..because Albanese is a negative character.. Despite the MSM harping on about what a great easing going bloke “Albo” is, he isn’t liked.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 9:37 am

Come on, man!
He can’t be on the frontline when he is in Japan.
Be fair.

No way. White devils wont be allowed.

So you’re not going to Japan?

Indolent
Indolent
February 8, 2022 9:38 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 9:38 am

Have you chosen somewhere other than Japan, Razey?

Bluey
Bluey
February 8, 2022 9:47 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
February 8, 2022 at 9:33 am
“The Albanese ALP easing back from 50% to 43%, with 8% undecided.”

I suspect the undecided will fall behind Morrison. I noticed last night on Sky that the Liberal party have began their electoral advertising….it’s very negative against Albanese…..because Albanese is a negative character.. Despite the MSM harping on about what a great easing going bloke “Albo” is, he isn’t liked.

Everything I’ve seen of Albo has all the appeal of a limp lettuce leaf in a soggy sandwitch. Trite statements with no meat behind them, scare tactics, and a constant droning on about his single mum raising him. Then you start getting into him being great mates with Andrews……

Struth
February 8, 2022 9:48 am
Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 9:48 am

BREAKING

ADF personnel to be deployed to childcare centres experiencing staff shortages.

Struth
February 8, 2022 9:49 am
rickw
rickw
February 8, 2022 9:49 am

Taliban officials are sending their daughters to school despite keeping classrooms closed to female students.

They’ll get a Good Governance Award for that! Exactly how The West now does Government.

Frank
Frank
February 8, 2022 9:50 am

Despite the MSM harping on about what a great easing going bloke “Albo” is, he isn’t liked.

What wonders of psychological manipulation would be required to make Albanese into something other than what he is. There is not much to work with and his physicality is the clincher.

Frank
Frank
February 8, 2022 9:52 am

What wonders of psychological manipulation

La Tingle will be on it though, the arch phrase designed to cut through seems to be her stock in trade.

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 9:54 am

Not seeing a lot of publicity for the fact that EIIR has just broken the record by being the first English monarch to rule for 70 years. Not sure what mineral they are using, diamonds, gold etc being already used.

Platinum.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 8, 2022 9:54 am

ADF personnel to be deployed to childcare centres experiencing staff shortages.

Tanks, artillery etc
Drop you nappies and come out with your toys up or we will open fire.

JMH
JMH
February 8, 2022 10:00 am
Top Ender
Top Ender
February 8, 2022 10:01 am

Sacked CIA chief Allen Dulles ‘hired Oswald to kill Kennedy’

By ALISTAIR DAWBER
THE TIMES

President John F. Kennedy was murdered in a CIA plot, according to a forensic pathologist who has been investigating his death for six decades.

Cyril Wecht, 90, claims in a book that Lee Harvey Oswald was probably working under instruction from Allen Dulles, who was the director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961. Dulles was sacked by Kennedy after overseeing the failed Bay of Pigs invasion that had been designed to oust Fidel Castro, the leader of Cuba.

Oswald “had almost certainly been a CIA agent of some kind”, Wecht told the New York Post. His book, The JFK Assassination Dissected, argues that Dulles was angered by his sacking and sought revenge against the president.

Wecht also claims that Dulles was instrumental in what became an official cover-up. The former CIA director was appointed to the Warren Commission, which formally investigated Kennedy’s murder and concluded that ­Oswald had acted alone. “Kennedy had fired Allen Dulles ­because he was really pissed off about what the CIA was doing,” Wecht said. “Then who gets appointed to the Warren Commission? Dulles. It stinks to high ­heaven.”

Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, aged 46, as he and his wife, Jackie, were being driven in an open-top car. Oswald, a former US marine, was arrested later that day and was shot dead by Jack Ruby, a local businessman, two days later.

Ruby died in prison aged 55 in 1967; Dulles died aged 75 in 1969.

“I don’t intend to live for ever, just for a long time,” Wecht said. “I felt I wanted to lay out all the things I’ve experienced and done and the people I’ve met, and it was time. I’ve been working on the book for six years.”

He is angry that the official version of Kennedy’s murder is ­accepted as fact. “Young people are still being taught that the 35th president was murdered by a lone gunman,” he said.

The US continues to be enthralled by the murder and Wecht is by no means the only person who has dedicated much of their life to the incident and arrived at conclusions different to those of the commission. The CIA, the mafia, the Russians and Lyndon B. Johnson, Kennedy’s vice-president who was sworn in as president on the flight back to Washington, have each been blamed. Vincent Bugliosi, a former Los Angeles district attorney, estimated that 42 groups and 214 people had been ­accused of the killing.

The Times

I think Wecht is going to have to do a bit better than produce a possible motive for the assassination. What about some credible evidence?

I had doubts about the possibility of the shots before visiting the site. But going there, and seeing the angles and distances from the Book Depository dispelled them. Any reasonably well-trained rifleman could have made those shots, even with a bolt-action rifle. Oswald had motive, opportunity, and means.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 8, 2022 10:01 am

Interrogation.

“You will tell us where you put the crayons!”

Razey
Razey
February 8, 2022 10:03 am
johanna
johanna
February 8, 2022 10:04 am

calli says:
February 8, 2022 at 8:57 am

Joh, the only way to do it is to leave the big, expensive centres. That is what I’d advise my children to do. Many young ones must have discovered remote working by now. Even so, there are opportunities for enterprising young people here.

I’m considering that, have been for a long time.

Thing is, as an old chook, I need at least a GP and a chemist nearby because my arthritis painkillers need to be redone every month, at huge and pointless expense. There is no possibility that my arthritis will ever get better, but every month I have to engage with a GP who has to phone to get a number for my next month’s prescription.

It is vaguely reminiscent of the guy on a disability pension because he’d lost a leg, being sent forms to renew Those in Power that his leg hadn’t grown back.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 10:04 am

A question for Flyingduk if he is about (or anyone else who might know).
And I didn’t follow everything posted in minute detail, so might have missed something.
I thought duk got drummed out of the ADF over the vax?
But I also thought Commonwealth employees had an exemption.
Was the ADF excluded from this exemption?
Was the exemption only interim and it ran out?
I have read surprisingly little about this exemption of late. It would be interesting to know where it sits.

Razey
Razey
February 8, 2022 10:05 am

johannasays:
February 8, 2022 at 10:04 am
calli says:
February 8, 2022 at 8:57 am

Joh, the only way to do it is to leave the big, expensive centres. That is what I’d advise my children to do. Many young ones must have discovered remote working by now. Even so, there are opportunities for enterprising young people here.

I’m considering that, have been for a long time.

Thing is, as an old chook, I need at least a GP and a chemist nearby because my arthritis painkillers need to be redone every month, at huge and pointless expense. There is no possibility that my arthritis will ever get better, but every month I have to engage with a GP who has to phone to get a number for my next month’s prescription.

It is vaguely reminiscent of the guy on a disability pension because he’d lost a leg, being sent forms to renew Those in Power that his leg hadn’t grown back.

Have you tried CBD oil? I swear by that stuff. I get it from Edoca.

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 10:06 am

Tanks, artillery etc

“Smith…”

“Sir!”

“The toddlers are getting restless. Take them for a run in the Bushie.”

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 8, 2022 10:08 am

London: Taliban officials are sending their daughters to school despite keeping classrooms closed to female students.

Interesting actually.

It would easy to say there is some kind of double standard at play, but in reality a double standard is just the apparent contradiction of a single unspoken standard – someone who applies different standards to friends and to strangers actually has a standard where friendship is a factor.

I assumed that the Taliban were opposed to girls learning anything outside the home since there was nothing there that was their business. It from that you would assume no girls get schooling.

These lot seem to take a different view where their daughters actually are entitled – probably as a reflection of themselves and their importance.

My question is: How different is the current Taliban leadership compared to the old one. The old ones were just psychopathic misanthropic goat-shaggers. These ones, arising not from barren crags like the grim life-despising mutts who mount their camels when they aren’t riding them but instead arising in answer to the presence of coalition troops and a feeble non-fundamentalist state, might be different.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 8, 2022 10:13 am

QAnon, the conspiracy theorist’s conspiracy theory, teaches that President Donald Trump is in secret warfare with a worldwide network of paedophiles.

Creepier than the supposed clandestine societies of elite pedos and their secret machinations to turn the whole world into Michael Jackson’s mansion, is the people who see pedophilia every where.

JMH
JMH
February 8, 2022 10:16 am

A question for Flyingduk if he is about

Read upthread and watch the video I posted around 7.10 am. Dr. duk is in a Canberra jail.

Bluey
Bluey
February 8, 2022 10:18 am

Sancho Panzersays:
February 8, 2022 at 10:04 am
A question for Flyingduk if he is about (or anyone else who might know).
And I didn’t follow everything posted in minute detail, so might have missed something.
I thought duk got drummed out of the ADF over the vax?
But I also thought Commonwealth employees had an exemption.
Was the ADF excluded from this exemption?
Was the exemption only interim and it ran out?
I have read surprisingly little about this exemption of late. It would be interesting to know where it sits.

Just about every military has a long history of imposing poorly tested medicine on troops only to find serious side effects later. Remember the ADF owns you if you join, the choice would be take it or be discharged.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 8, 2022 10:18 am

Any reasonably well-trained rifleman could have made those shots, even with a bolt-action rifle. Oswald had motive, opportunity, and means.

Gerard Posner, writing “Case Closed”, did some research – Oswald was a “”sharpshooter” – the second highest qualification in the United States Marine Corps. From a standing position, he could hit a ten inch bulls – eye, eight times out of ten, at two hundred yards.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 10:24 am

The idea that Albo might save SloMo has some immediate appeal. Certainly PeanutHead helped last time around when people had a pencil in their hand. The problem this time around is that people know what they are going to get with SloMo – and enough of the will say “Fuck it, I just don’t care.” It is more Abbott v Gillard than KRudd v Howard.

Struth
February 8, 2022 10:29 am

The idea that Albo might save SloMo has some immediate appeal.

It really is home to the Liberal party groupies here.

Frank, what have you done?
Feel proud of yourself?

Barry
Barry
February 8, 2022 10:29 am

Bluey says:
February 8, 2022 at 10:18 am

But I also thought Commonwealth employees had an exemption.

Several Commonwealth bodies are ignoring Scotty’s exemption and using OHS risk assessments to force the unjabbed to WFH. They say this is out of “solidarity” with the rest of the community.

Scotty has no power against the swamp.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 10:31 am

ADF personnel to be deployed to childcare centres experiencing staff shortages.

Please tell me that you are taking the piss regarding aged care.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 10:33 am

Comprehension wasn’t your best subject at school, eh struth?

Keep on truckin’.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 8, 2022 10:33 am

These lot seem to take a different view where their daughters actually are entitled

Question asked

Why don’t Muslim women get “72 studs” in heaven?

Struth
February 8, 2022 10:36 am

Not just that comment BBBBBBBBBBBBear, but the resignation that it will be fought out between the big two parties moans it’s way through every thread. It’s all inevitable…….

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 10:39 am

2 party system bothering you?

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 10:41 am

Sorry struth, you’re probably wrong.

Listen to the radio.

Unionists blathering on about Scotty leaving poor aged care wukkas in the lurch and the Liberals praising themselves as the most responsible government evah.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 10:41 am

Thanks Bluey and Barry.
So the ‘exemption’ is rubbery?
The other possibility which occured to me is that he worked for a private defence contractor.
So Flyingduk did get rissoled for refusing the jab then?
And I see JMH saying he is in slot in Canbra.
What for exactly?

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 8, 2022 10:44 am

My bellwether spouse reckons Scott de Clot is worse than Albo.
Never wrong. ALP in a landslide.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 8, 2022 10:46 am

Cyril Wecht, 90, claims in a book that Lee Harvey Oswald was probably working under instruction from Allen Dulles, who was the director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961.

If the CIA was that active in domestic politics sixty years ago just imagine what must be going on now? The recent plague of glowies would just be the smallest of small aspects. And it supports the idea of Hammer and Scorecard.

Speaking of which the Israeli deep state has been sprung using Pegasus software to try and take down Netanyahu. Same old same old lefty capture of organs of state, which Caroline Glick forensically revealed re the fake court cases they have going against him.

Hearing in Netanyahu trial tomorrow cancelled over Pegasus affair (7 Feb)

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 10:48 am

incoherent rambler – variations of this will be played out across the country. There is literally not enough sandbags for the Lieborals to hold on this time.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 8, 2022 10:48 am

State Scientism overrules Federal Scientism.
Except when it doesn’t.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 8, 2022 10:51 am

My bellwether spouse reckons Scott de Clot is worse than Albo.
Never wrong.

She’s wrong. Albo has been playing small target and the MSM are falling over themselves to help him do so. Policy free zone time. Which means once he gets in the green-prog stuff will be huge, Bidenesquely huge. Bandt may even get his ban on coal, oil and gas. For the Planet! It’s an emergency don’tcha know.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 10:54 am

https://www.cato.org/policy-report/september/october-2017/myth-opioid-prescription-crisis

Basically…if we let doctors prescribe morphine more easily, this probably wouldn’t be a problem.

Heroin is about three times more potent than morphine; and methadone, which we give people on methadone maintenance — we’ll get more into that later — is also two and a half to three times more potent than morphine. Dilaudid, which is legal and which we give to patients for whom morphine is not working, is three to four times more potent than heroin. And fentanyl, also legal, is 50 times more potent than morphine

An overwhelming majority of those deaths, however, are people who used mixtures of drugs. In 2013, New York City found that 94 percent of the people who died from heroin or other opioids had mixed drugs in their system. These were not necessarily chronic pain patients. And also, for the first time, this year more people died from heroin overdoses than from prescription opioid overdoses.

THE TRUE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM
Both the CDC and the Texas A&M College of Pharmacy report that what they are seeing, however, is that as pain patients who are physically dependent and are in pain are gradually cut off pain medicine by their doctors, who are getting pressured to stop prescribing, a lot of them go on to seek pain medicine through the illicit drug market. And of course when they go to the illicit drug market, they often buy counterfeit opioids, and they don’t know what they’re laced with. Oftentimes they’re laced with fentanyl. And many of them are buying heroin, because heroin is, according to the CDC, about one??fifth the price of street obtainable prescription opioids.

calli
calli
February 8, 2022 10:55 am

A minor traffic infringement that has morphed miraculously into “reckless driving”.

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 10:59 am

Please tell me that you are taking the piss regarding aged care.

Guilty.

calli
calli
February 8, 2022 10:59 am

DrDuk refused to apply for bail as the conditions had him leaving Canberra. So they kept him in the watch house.

He should have set fire to Old Parliament House. They would have watched and patted him on the back.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 10:59 am

BoN – that may be the result. Won’t stop it happening though.

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 11:01 am

Bandt may even get his ban on coal, oil and gas. For the Planet!

The QLD Labor budget bottom line says that won’t be happening.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 8, 2022 11:02 am

Labor is on 47%, the Coalition on 46%, with 8% of respondents undecided

I suspect the undecided will fall behind Morrison.

Maybe – and this will certainly be in the campaigners political calculus, because the election is shaping up as a close run.

But consider that in 2019 there was a 5.5% informal vote.

With its sample size, the Essential poll should be reflecting that in the ‘Undecided’ column – so there may only be 2.5% of the voteherd earnestly weighing up the competing policies.
The so-called Centre.

If that’s the case, the Moron Government needs to convince over 70% of the non-penis-drawing undecideds to fall over the line.

Let soft bribery and pork run free…

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 8, 2022 11:02 am

Crossiesays:
February 8, 2022 at 7:43 am
Johanna, my methods of determining what a man believes is to look at his significant other. I am not sure though which is the cause and which the effect. Did she influence him to change his philosophy or did he choose her because she fits his philosophy and he lied to the rest of us.

Crossie,
Boris’ first wife seems to have no track record of political activism or public statements of any kind on political matters.
His second wife (to whom he was married for about 25 years) was clearly not a wokester – she publicly criticised the “discrimination” claims industry.
So imply, as johanna seems to be, that Carrie’s left-lunacy was some sort of motivation for Boris to hook up with her is based on one out of three data points, with the other two being at least one contra, and the other at best neutral.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 8, 2022 11:03 am

ADF personnel to be deployed to childcare centres experiencing staff shortages.

They’re going to busy.

Scott Morrison to deploy Australian Defence Force troops to assists aged care sector struggling with COVID and staff shortages (8 Feb)

Defence force ships, planes could be needed as WA supply shortage crisis expected for two months (3 Feb)

Sounds like a great time for China to invade Taiwan.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 8, 2022 11:04 am

The QLD Labor budget bottom line says that won’t be happening.

The CFMEU wouldn’t have it any other way.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 8, 2022 11:04 am

No way. White devils wont be allowed.

Carpe, you have 30 minutes to pack your shit and get out.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 8, 2022 11:05 am

Dot says:
February 8, 2022 at 7:25 am
We had a chemist and an engineer argue in favour of PWR nuke over LFTR nuke because of “safety, materials and Chernobyl”.

You anti science retards.

Talking about retards – where did I favour PWR nuke over LFTR nuke??

I was pointing out that the engineering design process is not as straightforward as people may think, and the choice of materials used is not a simple process.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 11:06 am

The ADF is now a State sponsored version of Jim’s Mowing.

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 11:07 am

The CFMEU wouldn’t have it any other way.

Would be fun to see unionists marching on Parliament House to protest a Labour government.

Bluey
Bluey
February 8, 2022 11:11 am

Rogersays:
February 8, 2022 at 11:07 am
The CFMEU wouldn’t have it any other way.

Would be fun to see unionists marching on Parliament House to protest a Labour government.

I imagine it’d be a replay of Victoria. The members might march, but the union will throw them under the bus.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 8, 2022 11:11 am

ADF personnel to be deployed to childcare centres experiencing staff shortages.

Upcoming ADF deployments:

Childcare
Aged care
Centrelink customer service
Bus drivers
Supermarket nightfill
AFL Behavioural Awareness Officers
Fruit picking
Heavy vehicle inspectors
Lifeguards

Wait till they start striking gongs for them.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 8, 2022 11:11 am

My question is: How different is the current Taliban leadership compared to the old one.

Is it possible that the West publicly lost the shooting wars, yet somehow sneakily (or even inadvertently) on the cultural one?

Sounds curiously like what the Marxists did to us in the West in turn. Except theirs was deliberate strategy rather than happy accident…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 8, 2022 11:11 am

Presbyterian Ladies’ College allegedly flouts COVID-19 protocols during school ball.
Joe Spagnolo and Charlotte EltonThe West Australian
Mon, 7 February 2022 4:29PM

One of Perth’s most elite private girls’ schools allegedly flouted COVID protocols during its Year 12 ball on Friday – which came amid a spate of outbreaks which had the education sector on edge.

Details of the alleged breach are recorded in a function report for the Presbyterian Ladies College Year 12 Ball, which was held at Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre on Friday.

The document outlines how a staff member from the school – Western Australia’s most expensive private school – allegedly overruled security as it was requesting proof of vaccination from arriving students.

The same report goes on to claim students ignored multiple requests to wear masks inside the venue.

PLC has insisted that all vaccination requirements were adhered to and that staff reminded students to mask up.

“PLC staff gave constant reminders throughout the night to remain masked up when not eating or drinking,” a spokeswoman from the $30,000-per-year fee school said.

“PLC also employed extra staff who, along with the teachers, patrolled the dance floor to ensure masks remained on.

But the function report – a copy of which was provided to The West – paints a worrying image of the event.

It begins by noting two PCEC staff members had been assigned to request arriving guests provide proof of vaccination.

“1850 – The queues began to grow, and client (PLC) was unhappy with these delays, she advised ‘we didn’t agree to this’ and told students to ignore the staff members and continue to enter the venue,” the document said.

“By 1900 majority of guests were on level 3 entering BR 2 foyer (where the function was held).”

The report said PCEC security, worried about the rule breach – which carries a fine of up to $50,000 for individuals and $250,000 for a corporate entity – escalated their concerns all the way to the PCEC general manager, Nigel Keen.

calli
calli
February 8, 2022 11:12 am

Boris didn’t hook up with Carrie because of her Left Lunacy. He hooked up with her because he was attracted to her.

Now, her attractions may have eclipsed her leftiness in his mind…for a while. The fact that he has stayed with her, indeed married her and fathered a child, means that her leftyness isn’t a deal breaker. Which tells you all you need to know about Boris’ pre existing inclinations and standards.

She hasn’t made him do anything he wasn’t capable of doing from the start. He’s an ambitious hack.

calli
calli
February 8, 2022 11:14 am

The ADF is now a State sponsored version of Jim’s Mowing.

They even have specialist vehicles and uniforms!

Shame they aren’t owner operators.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 11:14 am

In case this has not been covered earlier, Dr. duk is in the pokey in Canberra. This video outlines what’s happened to him. Best of luck, Dr. duk.

Jesus christ man.

WTF did he get arrested for?

SAIF 28 – UPDATE FROM CANBERRA, COVERING THE ARREST OF RET MILITARY DR BRUCE PAIX

https://www.bitchute.com/video/XqGf7mzB8NsJ/

Why do ACT police seem to staffed withy Karens and foreigners?

“We saw you do something, we don’t have any video…”

Seems like they have their idiot toy antifa cockheads disrupting actual protests…glowie or useful idiot?

miltonf
miltonf
February 8, 2022 11:15 am

She hasn’t made him do anything he wasn’t capable of doing from the start. He’s an ambitious hack.

Correct- just another bLIAR-Brown-Cameron-May etc etc

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 11:15 am

I was pointing out that the engineering design process is not as straightforward as people may think, and the choice of materials used is not a simple process.

Yes Tony, I respect you professionally, but it’s called work because it’s hard.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 8, 2022 11:16 am

Would be fun to see unionists marching on Parliament House to protest a Labour government.

It is.
A stake through the heart for the undead Trad.

..**%{message received. out}.*##..

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 11:17 am

The (likely AFP backed) antifa terrorist who attacked Dr Duk was in hi vis – real or fake?

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 11:17 am

For Scotty to win this one he’s going to need Adam Bandt heading a convoy of assorted Melbourne inner city types driving electric vehicles to central Queensland telling coal miners not to worry as their children will have jobs in the Chinese sex tourism industry in the glorious decarbonised future.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 8, 2022 11:19 am

Would be fun to see unionists marching on Parliament House to protest a Labour government.

The ALP has edged Joel out. The Nats have a fun idea they just might win Hunter because their candidate recently rented a large shop in Toronto main street and has erected a huge green sign over it proclaiming “James Thomson For The Nationals”. I find it amusing. (He looks quite wussy, the ALP candidate is much more suitably bogan. Mail linky.)

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 11:22 am

So your still holding on to hope Roger?

Barry
Barry
February 8, 2022 11:22 am

callisays:
February 8, 2022 at 11:14 am
The ADF is now a State sponsored version of Jim’s Mowing.

They even have specialist vehicles and uniforms!

ADF are the new “caring professionals”

VicPigs are now the paramilitary enforcers with full on black shirts and Mil-Spec insurrection suppression firepower.

Will the ADF StandWithDan or with the citizenry?

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 11:22 am

This is the weirdest left wing website I have ever found.

https://thesanghakommune.org/2018/02/07/professor-elena-senyavskaya-dispels-the-myth-of-mass-red-army-rapes-in-germany-1945/

It seems they are using western scepticism as a way in to argue for pro Soviet propaganda, even though that country doesn’t exist anymore.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 8, 2022 11:23 am

Childcare
Aged care
Centrelink customer service
Bus drivers
Supermarket nightfill
AFL Behavioural Awareness Officers
Fruit picking
Heavy vehicle inspectors
Lifeguards

“For some reason, unit morale is at an all time low, and re – engagement rates are non – existent.”

cohenite
February 8, 2022 11:24 am

The point is, I am fed up with this lazy and misogynistic tactic of blaming the other party for what the party of the first part is doing.

So am I. But that doesn’t change the fact that weak men like bojo and hazza are pussy-whipped by harridans. I’m not saying it’s a case of vagina dentata but it certainly is a case of a dominating woman. Look at hazza before he married that z-grade skank: he was a good bloke. Same with blojo but his weak mind has been rooted by a green ratbag.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 8, 2022 11:24 am

Re the assertion that Europeans aren’t allowed to live in Japan, that will come as news to the numerous Aussie friends and acquaintances who live and have businesses in Hakuba, Nozawa Onsen, Myoko Kogen and Niseko.

areff
areff
February 8, 2022 11:26 am

For those who’d like to support the Canada truckers with a few ‘honk, honk, honks’, Canada’s High Commission in Canberra: 02 6270 4000.

Tell ’em Justin Castrolito sent you.

cohenite
February 8, 2022 11:28 am

For Scotty to win this one he’s going to need Adam Bandt heading a convoy of assorted Melbourne inner city types driving electric vehicles to central Queensland telling coal miners not to worry as their children will have jobs in the Chinese sex tourism industry in the glorious decarbonised future.

If the lnp were smart and tough, which they’re not, they would use the new Kurri Kurri gas plant as the new focus. Rub and tug is passing wind about this and some simple maths would have the same effect as the bob’s convoy of cretins.

Razey
Razey
February 8, 2022 11:29 am

Hmm, why the big drop off in outbound clot shot travel exemption applications Oct 21′ to Nov 21′?
28k down to 2.8k. Surely couldn’t only be to clot shot take up. Doesn’t seem to have recovered either.

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/covid-19/Documents/monthly-travel-exemptions-breakdown.pdf

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 11:30 am

So your still holding on to hope Roger?

Well…Bandt is the AOC of Australian politics, so I suppose it can’t be ruled out.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 8, 2022 11:31 am

I see Bob Carr having a go at Dutton and suggesting he was the texter.

That would be the same Bob Carr who does so much to support China.

That would be the same Peter Dutton who is our Defence Minister.

Got it Bob. Does anybody know if he is still on retainer to that China institute thingy he was connected to?

miltonf
miltonf
February 8, 2022 11:32 am

I’ve loathed Carr ever since he was Wran’s environment minister.

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 11:36 am

It seems they are using western scepticism as a way in to argue for pro Soviet propaganda, even though that country doesn’t exist anymore.

Have you heard Putin speak about the fall of the Soviet Union?

For many Russians, the Soviet Union – notwithstanding all that blighted it – is looked back upon with nationalistic pride, so its reputation needs to be defended.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 8, 2022 11:36 am

Bandt is the AOC of Australian politics

Everyone just wants to have sex with him?

(AOC is very entertaining. The Dems must wince every time she tweets.)

rickw
rickw
February 8, 2022 11:39 am

Worth reposting:

In case this has not been covered earlier, Dr. duk is in the pokey in Canberra. This video outlines what’s happened to him. Best of luck, Dr. duk.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/hSJcXIHxAqK1/

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 11:43 am

This is the weirdest left wing website I have ever found.

What a curious pastime.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 11:47 am

Yeah John H, the evidence for the younger dryas events seems fairly solid.

The nanodiamonds, platinum & iridium, black matt layer and pollen composition chamging seem to be very good evidence.

The biggest lesson seems to be geological change can be very swift, like the scouring of river basins in the western US plain to the Rockies and out to the Pacific NW.

areff
areff
February 8, 2022 11:52 am

Why don’t Muslim women get “72 studs” in heaven?

Because, as far as Muslim women are concerned, not having to endure the attentions of inbred, malodorous, weird beards demanding they role over and pretend to be little boys called Omar is the very definition of Paradise.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 11:55 am

Adam Bandt is definitely an asset. The Greens will always struggle to be anything more than the Mos Eisley cantina of politics.

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 11:56 am

Adam Bandt in 2009, “We have come to be suspicious of emergencies: and rightly so, for much of the last three decades, culminating in the Bush/Howard era, we have been told that our situation is so pressing and unusual that certain basic rights have to be suspended.”

Adam Bandt in 2021, “Declaring a climate emergency means recognising that the climate crisis is the fight of our lives, it puts action on climate change at the centre of all government policy and planning decisions and it begins the whole of government and whole of society mobilisation effort required to protect Australia’s people and ecology.”

Bandt epitomises James Delingpole’s description of Greens as “watermelons”; he is a Marxist who has adopted the Greens a vehicle to revolutionise society along Marxist lines.

Here is is explaining his strategy back in 1995 when he was a university student, “Communists can’t fetishise alternative political parties, but should always make some kind of materially based assessment about the effectiveness of any given strategy come election time”. He later completed a PhD, focusing on Marxist theory of law as it relates to the globalisation of the economy.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 8, 2022 11:57 am

When a lame duck goes squirrel hunting you know the shark has been jumped.

United States to clean up space junk (Sky News, 8 Feb)

The Biden administration is looking to take steps to clean up the significant amount of debris left after years of space exploration. Earth’s orbit has become littered with defunct satellites and rocket bodies, with collisions of pieces of debris creating more junk.

I hope Kamala gets the job of explaining this, her grasp on such things is wonderfully otherworldly.

miltonf
miltonf
February 8, 2022 12:01 pm

I just don’t understand why people are attracted to marxism. Maybe it’s a good cover if you like wrecking things.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 8, 2022 12:05 pm

I just don’t understand why people are attracted to marxism. Maybe it’s a good cover if you like wrecking things.

The people attracted to it do not live in it.

The people who live in it are not attracted to it.

miltonf
miltonf
February 8, 2022 12:07 pm

Gawd Bandt’s PhD supervisor at Monash sounds like Dr Howard Kirk from The History Man.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 12:08 pm

Here is is explaining his strategy back in 1995 when he was a university student, “Communists can’t fetishise alternative political parties, but should always make some kind of materially based assessment about the effectiveness of any given strategy come election time”. He later completed a PhD, focusing on Marxist theory of law as it relates to the globalisation of the economy.

What a stupid, useless arsehole.

“I thought I’d be writing poetry”

DIG THE HOLE, BOURGEOISIE SCUM!

“I thought I’d be writing poetry”

CLICK

Cassie of Sydney
February 8, 2022 12:11 pm

“She hasn’t made him do anything he wasn’t capable of doing from the start. He’s an ambitious hack.”

Yes I agree but she’s also ambitious. However, something has clearly gone awry with Boris Johnson. Once upon a time he was a climate change skeptic…..but now he swallows the green bullshit. Since getting elected back in 2019…in a landslide….he’s clearly gone off the rails. Now whether we can totally blame all of that on Carrie is debatable but given what Cummings and others say, she clearly has some sway over him. And it isn’t “misogynist” to state that.

I wasn’t impressed when Morrison, earlier this year and on the heels of the Brittany Higgins claims, asserted that he’d spoken to “Jenny” about the claims etc. I don’t what to know what Jenny Morrison thinks. Apart from the fact that nobody voted for Jenny Morrison, I don’t give a rat’s arse what she thinks.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 12:14 pm

I wasn’t impressed when Morrison, earlier this year and on the heels of the Brittany Higgins claims, asserted that he’d spoken to “Jenny” about the claims etc

He’s weak. That’s all it proves.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 12:15 pm

Razeysays:

February 8, 2022 at 11:29 am

Hmm, why the big drop off in outbound clot shot travel exemption applications Oct 21? to Nov 21??
28k down to 2.8k. Surely couldn’t only be to clot shot take up.

I think that would be a yuuuge contributor.
Remember, that up until September-October, they were wavering about mandates, and once that came out, there was a surge in vaxxes.
How is your application going?

Cassie of Sydney
February 8, 2022 12:17 pm

“He’s weak. That’s all it proves.”

Clearly…and so is Boris.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 12:18 pm

After John Howard and the other Hyacinth Bucket it is simply naive to underestimate the role of PM’s wives in matters of state. And yes, they never appear on the ballot paper. Maybe that was Peanut Head’s undoing?

Razey
Razey
February 8, 2022 12:20 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
February 8, 2022 at 12:15 pm
Razeysays:

February 8, 2022 at 11:29 am

Hmm, why the big drop off in outbound clot shot travel exemption applications Oct 21? to Nov 21??
28k down to 2.8k. Surely couldn’t only be to clot shot take up.

I think that would be a yuuuge contributor.
Remember, that up until September-October, they were wavering about mandates, and once that came out, there was a surge in vaxxes.
How is your application going?

Bit of a conundrum. Need to travel within 2 months of approval, but need to finish school to mid year, but if the gov changes they may remove the ability to leave vax free. So if the election is in may, should be ok. But if earlier, it may not be possible.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 12:24 pm

I expect SloMo was using his wife as a bit of a sounding board for female opinion. With 70 media advisors or whatever in PM&C he would have people in his ear all day.

Didn’t do much good in the end.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 12:24 pm

We need some quips

Responsibility without authority is slavery.
Freedom isn’t a reward for compliance, that’s how gaol works.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 8, 2022 12:27 pm

This is the weirdest left wing website I have ever found.

Pfft.
Years ago there was one run by a youngish cheesehead commie with a lady penis- image Magrot Kingston without even the slimmest grasp of reality, but testicles.
IIRC, after running in a local election, attracting fewer votes than Informal,
and exhausting the good will of the comrades, tried a career as some sort of dominatrix.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 8, 2022 12:29 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
February 8, 2022 at 11:04 am

No way. White devils wont be allowed.

Carpe, you have 30 minutes to pack your shit and get out.

Oh Bugger

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 12:30 pm

Bit of a conundrum. Need to travel within 2 months of approval, but need to finish school to mid year,

School?
Just tell them you have to finish it remotely or it will be racial discrimination against someone who identifies as Japanese.
You’re not stalling are you?
Come on, man!
If it’s a shithole, why not begone yourself ASAP?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 8, 2022 12:30 pm

“I thought I’d be writing poetry”

CLICK

‘What do you mean – “Why am I not with the partisans?”‘

BANG

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 12:31 pm

Carpe, you have 30 minutes to pack your shit and get out.

Oh Bugger

Or you could do like you do every Saturday night.
Go the full white-face and kimono dress up and pass yourself off as a local.

Razey
Razey
February 8, 2022 12:34 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
February 8, 2022 at 12:30 pm
Bit of a conundrum. Need to travel within 2 months of approval, but need to finish school to mid year,

School?
Just tell them you have to finish it remotely or it will be racial discrimination against someone who identifies as Japanese.
You’re not stalling are you?
Come on, man!
If it’s a shithole, why not begone yourself ASAP?

Your glowing.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 8, 2022 12:35 pm

A warning to any Cats in the Shoalhaven area. My wife is driving, well that’s what she calls it. I call it staying alive barely. Back in Canrtbra on Thursday. Stay away from main roads, not guaranteed to save you.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 12:42 pm

Sit in the back.

Statistically it’s safer.

miltonf
miltonf
February 8, 2022 12:42 pm

Too right it is- DC, Canbra, Ottawa- same shit different toilet

calli
calli
February 8, 2022 12:44 pm

Yes, Dover. It has me worried. It has all the hallmarks of making him An Example.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 8, 2022 12:48 pm

calli, I suspect that the SA Police got in touch with their ACT colleagues beforehand.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
February 8, 2022 12:49 pm

In the Oz. One very sick puppy.

NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant says that Australians are on a “journey” with Covid-19 that will continue for months or even years, with more vaccine doses likely to be necessary.

“We need to keep up to date with our current guidance around vaccinations and we may be recommending in future months additional vaccines according to that ATAGI advice,” she said.

“Rather than seeing it all as just to get here, it will be a fact we have to continue to recalibrate and adapt to changes in our learning, but the vaccines work. They are so incredibly effective.

“So please go out and get your booster and if you have underlying health conditions check if you should be getting four doses and get your vaccines up to date.”

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 12:50 pm

This business involving FlyingDuk is very disturbing.

It is evil and corrupt.

calli
calli
February 8, 2022 12:52 pm

Chant needs to be pensioned off. The silly old bugger is past it.

Hasn’t she read the memo that effectively unvaccinated visitors will be entering the country next month and free ranging around our tourist traps?

Keep up, “Dr” Chant. Or get out.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
February 8, 2022 12:53 pm

What has happened to Dr Duk?

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 12:54 pm

NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant says that Australians are on a “journey” with Covid-19 that will continue for months or even years, with more vaccine doses likely to be necessary.

Like hell we will, you weirdo freak.

calli
calli
February 8, 2022 12:55 pm

Mak, DrDuk is in the go slow on a charge of “reckless driving” at the Canberra protest. He was offered bail, but the conditions, to him, were onerous so he declined. He has had a court hearing and is back at the watch house.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 8, 2022 12:57 pm

They are so incredibly effective.

Incredibly. That’s about right.

She can’t be so clueless not to’ve seen the data. It’s clear as dog balls. The vaccines are good for about 3-4 months at best, have ghastly side effects to lots of people and are completely useless for stopping infections and spread. How can someone in her business not know this?

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 12:58 pm

A glowie Antifa prick in “hi vis” of the wukkin’ class walked up to Dr Duk’s “conveyance” and then after Dr Duk stopped, the left wing thug thumped the bonnet.

Conveniently an AFP ACT communidee police car was nearby with a pin and a Karen and another cop. They “saw” it all and have no video of the event.

Dr Duk was charged with negligent driving, then reckless driving, and offered bailiff he left the ACT.

Totes not corrupt.

Gab
Gab
February 8, 2022 1:00 pm

rickwsays:
February 8, 2022 at 11:39 am
Worth reposting:

In case this has not been covered earlier, Dr. duk is in the pokey in Canberra. This video outlines what’s happened to him. Best of luck, Dr. duk.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/hSJcXIHxAqK1/

Glad you did repost, Rickw, as I hadn’t seen this before. So he refused bail because it meant he wouldn’t be allowed to protest. How very ”democratic Australia 2021”. to impose those conditions. Same thing happened to RDA’s Monica Smit – who was also slimed byt the press.

What I don’t know is why he was arrested in the first place.

P
P
February 8, 2022 1:02 pm

Cabinet minister Linda Reynolds has tested positive for COVID-19 while in Tasmania.
The West Australian senator was expected to attend Tuesday’s formal statement of acknowledgement to parliamentary staffers impacted by abuse, trauma and bullying.
AAP

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 1:02 pm

pin –> pom

Hugh
Hugh
February 8, 2022 1:03 pm

Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 8, 2022 at 12:57 pm
How can someone in her business not know this?

She knows. She is lying.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 8, 2022 1:03 pm

Some spokesmong on the ABCcess this morning saying how they would use technology to make the coof vax once a year ‘the same as the flu shot”…

Welcome to your subscription based citizenship.
Renewable annually.
In perpetuity.

Dr Cerry Khants theme song for the coof.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 8, 2022 1:04 pm

A warning to any Cats in the Shoalhaven area. My wife is driving, well that’s what she calls it

For your sake, I hope your wife doesn’t read the Cat…

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 1:04 pm

Keep in mind the government has openly talked about disruptors.

This is amazing. The lefties were correct. A corporation did take over.

Pfeizer.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 8, 2022 1:05 pm

One very sick puppy.

Yep. There is a sicker puppy in Viktoristan.

Is it rabies messing with the brains?

bespoke
bespoke
February 8, 2022 1:05 pm

If it happened at a protest surly there would be video.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 1:06 pm

offered bail if…

I apologise, this last Android update to spellcheck on my Samsung is totally crazy.

miltonf
miltonf
February 8, 2022 1:10 pm

Dot a lot of stuff lefties told me in the 70s, 80s and 90s did turn out to be correct. Seems like it’s a different kind of leftie now.

calli
calli
February 8, 2022 1:11 pm

I have a sneaky suspicion that nothing happened. From DrDuk’s composed demeanour, he was as surprised as anyone.

Liars and charlatans are usually loud and overbearing in protesting their innocence.

JC
JC
February 8, 2022 1:12 pm

The Duk is a political prisoner? Wow, am I reading this correctly?

areff
areff
February 8, 2022 1:13 pm

If only Duk were a flaming gay boy who tried to blow up the Australian Christian Lobby, Canberra plod would have been much considerate.

P
P
February 8, 2022 1:16 pm

Covid rules out Linda Reynolds from attending major address by Brittany Higgins

Ms Higgins will attend a formal acknowledgement of alleged sexual assaults and harassment in Parliament House on Tuesday.

Then on Wednesday, she will deliver a National Press Club speech alongside Grace Tame.

Senator Reynolds has confirmed she will miss both events after testing positive for Covid-19 in Tasmania.

The minister will miss the entire sitting week.

Senator Reynolds is not the only high profile politician who will miss the press club speech.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he did not have time to watch the major address.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 8, 2022 1:16 pm

Hughsays:
February 8, 2022 at 1:03 pm
Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 8, 2022 at 12:57 pm
How can someone in her business not know this?

She knows. She is lying.

Make her keep talking on the subject. The more she babbles on, the more people will realise her utter incompetence. Eventually, even Health Hazzard will notice.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 8, 2022 1:17 pm

Wonder how the Accused is feeling listening to SlowMo’s apology to Brittany?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 8, 2022 1:19 pm

callisays:
February 8, 2022 at 1:11 pm
I have a sneaky suspicion that nothing happened. From DrDuk’s composed demeanour, he was as surprised as anyone.

The person who thumped the car bonnet wasn’t even smart enough to imitate the soccer dive done by the bloke in Canadia.

Cassie of Sydney
February 8, 2022 1:21 pm

“H B Bearsays:
February 8, 2022 at 1:17 pm
Wonder how the Accused is feeling listening to SlowMo’s apology to Brittany?”

Faaaaaaaaark. Scumbag is a disgrace. Just remember he did this to Pell weeks before the “guilty” verdict back in 2018. This is prejudicial. The accused cannot receive a fair trial.

zyconoclast
zyconoclast
February 8, 2022 1:27 pm

Crackers and Fish…the lunch of champions.

The 2019 clip, which was recently posted on YouTube, showed Mr. Adams giving a speech in a small auditorium and saying, “I mean every day in the police department, I kicked those crackers’ ass.”

Eric Adams, a self-proclaimed vegan, confessed under duress Monday evening that he sometimes eats fish, just hours after refusing to reveal his dietary habits at a morning news conference in Brooklyn.

“Let me be clear: Changing to a plant-based diet saved my life, and I aspire to be plant-based 100 percent of the time,” Adams said.

C.L.
C.L.
February 8, 2022 1:27 pm

Incredible:

Canadian police arrest and assault ultra frail octogenarian:

https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1490819892169383941

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 8, 2022 1:29 pm

The person who thumped the car bonnet wasn’t even smart enough to imitate the soccer dive done by the bloke in Canadia.

Remember the horse puncher in Mongyang that wasn’t? Much media ensued, including pressers from the brass and various pollies condemning the evil garage Nazi that stooped so low to uppercut Phar Lap.

Except, like Lisa Wilkinson’s entre recent memoir, it didn’t happen like that. And when it got out that it was not as reported, world records were set in identifying squirrels on the other side of the park.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 8, 2022 1:30 pm

Wonder how the Accused is feeling listening to SlowMo’s apology to Brittany?

‘I see you. I hear you. I believe you.’

Chris
Chris
February 8, 2022 1:30 pm

If only Duk were a flaming gay boy who tried to blow up the Australian Christian Lobby, Canberra plod would have been much considerate.

Given that said screaming pouffe was in fact burned at the time the Plod were dealing with him and did eventually die of his burns I feel the Plod are not to be faulted for a little consideration.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 8, 2022 1:32 pm

KD

I think the horse puncher was in Sinney.

bespoke
bespoke
February 8, 2022 1:32 pm

miltonfsays:
February 8, 2022 at 1:10 pm
Dot a lot of stuff lefties told me in the 70s, 80s and 90s did turn out to be correct. Seems like it’s a different kind of leftie now.

Did they confess to infiltration of the institutions was the plan.

Self-fulfilling proficies should not be confused with the criticisms some have about capitalism today.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 8, 2022 1:34 pm

Covid rules out Linda Reynolds from attending major address by Brittany Higgins

I feel for Ms Reynolds, that is such a terrible loss.

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 1:34 pm

Given that said screaming pouffe was in fact burned at the time the Plod were dealing with him and did eventually die of his burns I feel the Plod are not to be faulted for a little consideration.

But for the fact that the commander responsible declared the incident a nothing burger before the chap had even been interviewed.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 8, 2022 1:37 pm

I think the horse puncher was in Sinney.

Well perhaps, Boambee.

But feelings. I feel like it could have been in Melbourne. That’s all that matters. Stop bringing the downers, man.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 1:37 pm

The person who thumped the car bonnet wasn’t even smart enough to imitate the soccer dive done by the bloke in Canadia.

That guy, the AFP and so on all need to be openly investigated under oath.

areff
areff
February 8, 2022 1:39 pm

Canberra’s singed sodomite topped himself after recovering from his burns. Before that, the capital’s Keystone Kops released no details whatsoever for 14 months, all requests for information about the ACL and investigation rejected out of hand.

calli
calli
February 8, 2022 1:41 pm

Was he well connected areff?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 8, 2022 1:44 pm

I aspire to be plant-based 100 percent of the time,” Adams said.

He seems like a plant to me.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams apologizes for using racial slur (5 Feb)

Speaking to a Harlem business group, Adams said “Every day in the police department, I kicked those crackers’ ass, man! I was unbelievable in the police department with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement.” The line drew applause.

Although maybe he was high on cheese when he said that.

Eric Adams Compares Cheese to Heroin While Touting Plant Based Diet (7 Feb)

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
February 8, 2022 1:45 pm

Just saw a comment in the Oz calling Germans ‘dummkopfs’.

Does this translate in English to dumb c@&ts?

If so what a pack of kopfs in ….(select your preferred seat of government)!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 8, 2022 1:48 pm

Does this translate in English to dumb c@&ts?

Mildly gentler than that.

The literal translation is ‘stupid head,’ ‘heads’ if the word ends in -kopfen.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 8, 2022 1:48 pm

Does this translate in English to dumb c@&ts?

‘Kopf’ means ‘head’.

‘Dumm’ translates to ‘dick’.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 8, 2022 1:51 pm

Just saw a comment in the Oz calling Germans ‘dummkopfs’.

Does this translate in English to dumb c@&ts?

If so what a pack of kopfs in ….(select your preferred seat of government)!

Kopf is ‘head’ in English. ‘Dummkopf’ is a mid insult similar to ‘idiot’. ‘Arschloch’ is so much better – you can probably guess the meaning – golf courses are signposted as 9 or 18 loch.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 8, 2022 1:51 pm

If you send your kid to an all-girls school, and one of those girls turns bloke, what then?

Single-sex schools may discriminate against trans pupils

Single-sex schools will still be allowed to discriminate against transgender students under the government’s amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act, amid concerns that boys’ and girls’ schools would be ill-equipped to cater to the needs of the opposite sex.

Attorney-General Michaelia Cash has referred the matter, along with exemptions to discriminate against staff, to the Australian Law Reform Commission which is reviewing all religious exemptions in anti-discrimination law.

In a situation where a student transitions while enrolled at a single-sex college, a religious school would need to address issues including uniforms, bathrooms and the wishes of other parents to send their children to a single-sex school.

“If subsection 38(3) of the Sex Discrimination Act were amended to remove the exemption for religious schools to discriminate against a student on the basis of their gender identity, it could have the potential to effectively nullify the intention and ethos of religious single-sex schools,” Senator Cash said.

“Striking the balance between any individuals right to want to change their sexual identity and other parents’ and childrens’ wishes to go to a single sex-sex school must be sensitively managed.

“For example, if a current student transitioned whilst enrolled at a single-sex school, a religious single-sex school would not be adequately equipped to cater to the needs of the opposite sex. Matters such as uniforms, bathrooms, as well as the wishes of other parents to send their children to a single-sex schools would need to be addressed.”

Senator Cash said the ALRC would carefully consider changes to the SDA to “allow for these issues to managed and addressed correctly”.

“This is an important and crucial step that cannot be rushed. Let me be very clear, the government believes that discrimination against students is unacceptable,” she said.

LGBTI groups have raised concerns about whether transgender children would be included in an amendment to the SDA, prohibiting religious schools from discriminating against gay students.

Swimming legend Ian Thorpe, who is in Canberra campaigning against the reform, on Tuesday said transgender children would be further marginalised by the bill.

“This is a group of people that should be protecting,” Mr Thorpe said.

“When it comes to the biggest killer of people that are in their youth, it is suicide. And then, it is exponentially increased if you happen to be gay. And it’s even worse when we look at the statistics of someone who is part of a trans community.

“With this bill, we want to see it disappear. What this is, it becomes state sanctioned discrimination.”

Manager of opposition business Tony Burke on Tuesday said “the Prime Minister said he would end discrimination for all students”.

“He said he would end it for all students, that that’s what he said, full stop, and he should be true to his word,” Mr Burke told the ABC.

The Australian understands Labor’s major issue with the religious discrimination bill, which is separate to the SDA amendment, relates to constitutional issues around the overriding of state and territory laws, which the Victorian Labor government opposes.

Finance Minister Simon Birmingham said the government was not, at this time, removing exemptions in the Sex Discrimination Act allowing educational institutions to discriminate against transgender students because it could undermine their ability to run single sex schools.

He said this was why the government had referred broader changes to the Sex Discrimination Act to the Australian Law Reform Commission.

“I understand the proposal that is put forward is to repeal the exemption as it relates to students who are being exempted from the Sex Discrimination Act on the basis of their sexual orientation,” Mr Birmingham told the ABC.

“Now it doesn’t go further than that. Those other matters, as I understand it, would still be subject to a relatively quick, within 12 month, review by the Australian Law Reform Commission to try to address the best way to be able to enact any other changes without undermining certain issues around same sex schools or other matters that are there.”

University of Notre Dame adjunct associate professor Mark Fowler said the government’s proposal to “remove the ability to expel a gay student would be consistent with what peak bodies have said – no school seeks a right to expel a student because they are gay”.

Mr Fowler said significant “complexity arises when this apparently simple proposition is placed within the framework of the Sex Discrimination Act”.

“This is why the referral to the Australian Law Reform Commission was a reasonable way to address this issue. What if a group of students within a school starts a media campaign requesting that the school discard its traditional view of marriage,” Mr Fowler said.

“Would the school be prevented from refusing that request because its actions were on the basis not only of the students’ actions, but also their orientation? If the proposal does not take account of these issues, the amendment may undermine the ability of religious schools to maintain their distinct ethos.”

Oz with comments open – what’s the bet soon closed?

zyconoclast
zyconoclast
February 8, 2022 1:54 pm

Scottish Government estimates ventilation in 2,000 classrooms is ‘problematic’
SNP plans £4.3 million to improve air flow – including spending £300,000 cutting the bottoms off of classroom doors trying to stop the spread of Covid

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 8, 2022 1:56 pm

Incredible:

Canadian police arrest and assault ultra frail octogenarian:

Nope. Tis the new normal.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 8, 2022 1:57 pm

dover0beachsays:
February 8, 2022 at 1:53 pm

Caused by marginalisation of LGBTQ’s
See:
Top Endersays:
February 8, 2022 at 1:51 pm

Barry
Barry
February 8, 2022 1:58 pm

Personal favourite is Arschgesicht
Gesicht being face and arsch relating to bottom.

Comes from working at a boxhead company.

bespoke
bespoke
February 8, 2022 2:00 pm

Ghobe’, Hom Ha’DIbaH. y’nt yalagochukof.

Aaron
Aaron
February 8, 2022 2:08 pm
P
P
February 8, 2022 2:09 pm

Canadian police arrest and assault ultra frail octogenarian

theconservativetreehouse heading:

Ottawa Police Go Full Australia on 80-Year-Old Horn Honker, The Police Beatings Will Continue Until Canadian Compliance Improves

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 8, 2022 2:10 pm

Comes from working at a boxhead company.

For such a pedantic and hyper-precise language, the Germans do have a wicked sense of humour. They love their double-entendres and puns.

Ghobe’, Hom Ha’DIbaH. y’nt yalagochukof.

Stop being a smartarse, bespoke. Just because you have operated a grader to prove you are on the level and can speak Swäbische doesn’t mean you have to flaunt it…

#Qapla’

Speedbox
February 8, 2022 2:11 pm

zyconoclast says:
February 8, 2022 at 1:54 pm
……cutting the bottoms off of classroom doors trying to stop the spread of Covid.

Excellent idea. Until winter. I understand that winters can be a bit chilly in Scotland. But, as an added measure, remove the window glass.

Megan
Megan
February 8, 2022 2:13 pm

Furious at what has happened to our very own Dr Duke. Furious but totally unsurprised.

The entire Western world is on the same totalitarian pathway and you would have to be an utter moron not to see it.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 2:15 pm

Where’s the eigenschmeigenhnnnnnnngasnkleideraumklossetpopoieschooper???

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 2:15 pm

callisays:

February 8, 2022 at 1:41 pm

Was he well connected areff?

Sort of.
From memory he was well known in the Flamboyant Community in Canbra.
He seemed to be the main squeeze of a Foreign Affairies type and who scored some juicy overseas postings, which were the subject of a few LookAtMe soshul media posts.
It appeared that relationship came – as the Flamboyants are want to say – a sticky end.
Obviously a nut-job whose life would have been way better had he been free to marry.
Did he have supporters?
Mmm.
More likely he was just someone they would rather not have talking to the media about the excesses of DFAT postings.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 8, 2022 2:15 pm

SNP plans £4.3 million to improve air flow – including spending £300,000 cutting the bottoms off of classroom doors trying to stop the spread of Covid

For some reason, I misread this as floors.

And assumed then, that an accidental falls fatality rate of 2-5% amongst the school populations of Scotland might be considered an acceptable loss ratio in future?*

* I assume falls, as we all know Scots are too dour and too hardy to ever succumb to frostbite or damp…

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 2:18 pm

The Qld CHO sure says strange things.

Bound to happen when you put an actual clinician in that position.

Megan
Megan
February 8, 2022 2:18 pm

Dr duk. What Dot said about Android spellchecker goes double from me

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 2:18 pm

More likely he was just someone they would rather not have talking to the media about the excesses of DFAT postings.

WHERE THE FUCK IS MY SILK KIMONO? WHERE IS THAT LITTLE BASTARD SUPACHAI? I WAS MEANT TO HAVE STEAMED FOIE GRAS DUMPLINGS AT 5:55 PM, IT’S FUCKING 5:57 PM!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 2:19 pm

I assume Duk has a lawyer.
I have a relative in Canbra who does a bit of Court stuff.
He’s not a Robert Richter but he isn’t a Denis Denuto either.
Which court is the matter scheduled for, and when?
Does anyone know?
I mean, he’s the sort of bloke who would take a 15 minute brief and do a short bail hearing without needing to take out a second mortgage.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 8, 2022 2:20 pm

Barry, you’ll like the joke “How much do German barbers charge for haircuts?” “2 Euros for each corner.”

I learned the ‘arschloch’ insult when I was visiting my friend who lives near Munich. We were in the car with his parents and passed a farmer on a tractor with whom his mother had gone to school. She did a polite acknowledgment but muttered “arschloch” under her breath. It became a long standing joke between us, where the neighbour was referred to as “Herr Arschloch” as one should be polite and use formal names. Sadly Herr Arschloch passed away a few years ago and now the farm is run by ‘Son of Arschloch’ (or Arschlochsohn in German) who has a tendency to perfume the village with cow poo fertiliser.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 8, 2022 2:24 pm

Dot.
A bit of that, but I am more thinking along the lines of what happened in the People’s Republic of Yarra on Straya Day.
A “citizenship ceremony” behind closed doors which cost a shitload and apparently had one certificate issued.
Let’s say we organise an all expenses paid reception for the second assistant deputy trade commissioner for Trashcanistan to the USA, the venue being a private room at our favourite Doof-Doof nightclub.

P
P
February 8, 2022 2:25 pm

Vaccine protesters admitted to parliament

Government senator Gerard Rennick was among those protesting outside Parliament House.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 2:31 pm

United Australia Party MP Craig Kelly, who has been a vocal advocate against vaccines

No, this is a lie.

He is against mask mandates, lockdowns and compulsory vaccinations.

Dot
Dot
February 8, 2022 2:32 pm

A correspondent notes…

I have been getting long long dated Oil

Got
1x Dec 2022 Oil Fut at 78
1 x Dec 2023 OIl Fut at 72
1 x Dec 2025 Oil Fut at 65

10 c Dec 20222 100 – 110 Call Spread
1 x Dec 20220 95 Call

They are all $1000 USD per tick

If Oil is at 110 in December ill be laughing my arse off

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 8, 2022 2:33 pm

Handy translations, courtesy of teh webs:

Deine Oma masturbiert im Stehen!

Your grandma masturbates standing up!

Du hast einen Vogel im Kopf

You’re insane (literally ‘you have a bird in the head’) [Hi Graeme]

Deine Mutter schwitzt beim Kacken
Your mother sweats when she takes a sh**.

Roger
Roger
February 8, 2022 2:33 pm

Looks like the Libs may not get their promised religious discrimination Bill passed due to internal dissent.

Just call it a non-core promise and move on to the next disaster, Scotty.

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