Open Thread – Weekend 12 Feb 2022


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Armadillo
Armadillo
February 13, 2022 12:02 am

I’m sensing that Alan Bond and Zulu aren’t going to be the best tinder match up.

It’s just a hunch I’m getting.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 12:04 am

It would appear a fair bit of a certain ex-captain Cheaty McSookums’ income stream has been chopped back.

Smudge Pindick failed to attract a single bid at the IPL auction, despite his agent listing him at the lowest available price – $377K. Also on the ‘earning zero’ list is Matthew Wade.

Warner and Cummins both had their previous year’s winning bids cut by more than half.

Excellent news indeed.

MatrixTransform
February 13, 2022 12:10 am

I used to think ECT was simply about massive electron donation but

fuck me … I missed this bit

electron donation?
like a transfusion?

you idiot

MatrixTransform
February 13, 2022 12:11 am

John H, put down the bong and go rub a balloon on your jumper

John H.
John H.
February 13, 2022 12:14 am

MatrixTransformsays:
February 13, 2022 at 12:00 am
The only way to boost BDNF is exercise.


ECT drives a hormetic response thereby initiating transcription of BDNF

you’re not exactly a bong-dodger are you John H ?

late at night, you shouldn’t try to try and make sense

just sayin’

I told you not to read it. You way too pig ignorant to understand that. If you bothered to read the link I put forward after my post you’d find they agreed with me. Off the top of my head I covered their topic. So there you go you balatron. You’re a little bitch MT. You like insulting people. Try being constructive and for FFS if I write don’t read it assume I have you specifically in mind.

Armadillo
Armadillo
February 13, 2022 12:18 am
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 13, 2022 12:20 am

I’m sensing that Alan Bond and Zulu aren’t going to be the best tinder match up.

Alan Bond cost my family a great deal of money over Bell Resources shares. The best and the brightest of the financial world assured the punters that Bond would only ever control 40% of Bell Group/ Bell Resources, and that the other shareholders would keep him in line.

To add insult to injury, the fat slime wrote in his autobiography that there had been no theft of over a billion dollars from Bell Group/Bell Resources, it was just that the legal system and the courts did not understand the complicated financial dealings that had given the ignorant to believe that “Good Old Bondy” had trousered the odd billion dollars…

Armadillo
Armadillo
February 13, 2022 12:28 am

We won the Americas Cup and Hawkie gave everyone the day off.

I’m seeing no “downside” to it other than his crap taste in art.

Meh. Not my problem.

MatrixTransform
February 13, 2022 12:30 am

John H, you psychopath, your drug addled precis for ECT’s usefulness is less than convincing.

I may be stupid but if you’d just give yourself some ECT and record the results that may help relieve me of my ignorance

PS: when recording the results please try to make some sort of coherent sense

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 13, 2022 12:32 am

We won the Americas Cup and Hawkie gave everyone the day off.

Those of us, serving in the A.D.F. never got the day off.

MatrixTransform
February 13, 2022 12:34 am

I want a forum vote.

should John H have ECT?

Yea or Nay?

Armadillo
Armadillo
February 13, 2022 12:36 am

Zulu, your family could have sold their Bell Resources shares.

It would have taken one phone call to their broker. The ride on the roller coaster was probably fun on the way up. Screaming on the way down, not so much.

MatrixTransform
February 13, 2022 12:39 am

John H’s dilemma:

pack a bong and reply to MT?
or
Reply to MT then pack a bong?

rosie
rosie
February 13, 2022 12:45 am

Noticias de españa
The Dali museum is well worth a visit, probably take an hour and a half, book before you go.
Not surprisingly it’s very popular.
It’s in the guts of an old theatre that was bombed and burnt during the Spanish civil war and Dali was very Gaudi like in supervising everything.
Figueres probably isn’t worth much more than a day otherwise, there’s a castle, a toy museum and a museum of shops? and half an original Gothic church.
The Republicans, rather than set the church on fire, like they did to all the churches of Barcelona decided to demonish it, they destroyed the presbytery, the bell tower and the transept before running out of money.
Got to love socialism.
Missing bits were rebuilt in new Gothic style by 1949.
Luckily no architects from Melbourne were employed or the renovations would probably have been flat roofed with lots of glass.
Zero enforcement of any covid mandates, not even at the museum.
Lunch at an Argentinean restaurant with a glass of slightly rough but tasty red.
I’m very happy to be here.

Armadillo
Armadillo
February 13, 2022 12:46 am

Those of us, serving in the A.D.F. never got the day off.

Your choice to join the ADF. Your families choice to invest in Alan Bond.

Cue violin music. It’s not my problem.

MatrixTransform
February 13, 2022 12:46 am

let’s take 10000 institutionalized nannas and give them ECT.

In this observational study, ECT was associated with lower 1-year all-cause mortality and with short-lived protective effects on suicide risk. These findings support greater consideration of ECT for inpatients with mood disorders at short-term risk of suicide.

one year?

one fucking year?

tell me John H … what duration is considered short-term risk for suicide?

you mental scientismic wanker

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 13, 2022 12:48 am

@ John H.

The human brain is truly a fascinating thing.

While I never looked too hard into the electrophysiology and chemistry beyond what was needed for my work as a Sleep Scientist, one thing I did learn is that we have barely scratched the surface of what goes on in there.

All too often the most apparently paradoxical solutions to pathophysiology are the most effective…

rosie
rosie
February 13, 2022 12:49 am

It’s fascinating how even though Perpignan and Figueres are Catalan and share a language Perpignan is decidedly French and Figueres decidedly Spanish.
And as always the prices are lower on the Spanish side.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 13, 2022 12:52 am

Your choice to join the ADF. Your families choice to invest in Alan Bond.

Yawns. Pours another Limeburners, before retiring for the night.

srr
srr
February 13, 2022 12:55 am

Gee, it really bothers the failed child actress when she can’t instantly attach herself to a bit of old or new news.

Such an intense terror of personal irrelevance would have to be bordering on a dangerous personality disorder, especially coupled with her need to be seen as the most hateful hater of the ‘unpopular’.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 13, 2022 12:55 am

@ Zulu-

Can you hear the horns from the trains in the valley where you are?

If so, I am one of the (apparently) relative few who honks at all the occupational crossings between Bell’s Rapids and Toodyay.

I am due through there again late tomorrow afternoon to early evening.

Keep an ear out- A Cat says ‘Hi…’ 😉

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 13, 2022 12:56 am

Gee, it really bothers the failed child actress when she can’t instantly attach herself to a bit of old or new news.

Fuck off srr and stop projecting.

Remember, you wanted this to be all about you.

Now it is…

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 13, 2022 1:00 am

srr

A bit of advice – check out how Indolent posts his links – no editorial
Saves the personal enmities

Armadillo
Armadillo
February 13, 2022 1:04 am

Yawns. Pours another Limeburners, before retiring for the night.

Pretentious wanker personified. Sleep tight.

srr
srr
February 13, 2022 1:06 am

This is one MASSIVE Crowd!

RitrGrl ?? ? ? Patriot & Deplorable
@RitrGrl
·
1h
AUSTRALIA! ???
https://gettr.com/post/pu2b2116bd

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 1:10 am

Gee, it really bothers the failed child actress when she can’t instantly attach herself to a bit of old or new news.

‘Attention. Attention. The Victim Express, non-stop to Old Conspiracy Theory Town via several child-filled tunnels is now boarding at Platform 13.’

JC
JC
February 13, 2022 1:36 am

No point in “getting out the popcorn” .

Armadillo
Armadillo
February 13, 2022 1:38 am

Zulu seems to think that everyone here should “bend the knee” to him or something because he served in the military and that his wealthy family got “ripped off” by Alan Bond. Or perhaps that he’s smarter than everyone else because he has a private library or whatever.

Joining the military is a career choice. No one forced you to do it. It’s well paid and probably the best “life training” you can get. Good on you.

Being a pompous arsehat isn’t what taxpayers expect from their hard earned.

Armadillo
Armadillo
February 13, 2022 1:46 am
srr
srr
February 13, 2022 2:03 am

Biden’s Dog Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBmkU908l-g

Feb 12, 2022
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

Tom
Tom
February 13, 2022 4:02 am
Anchor What
Anchor What
February 13, 2022 6:52 am

I would have expected the front page of The Australian online might carry news of the huge crowd that turned out in Canberra yesterday.
But no. Not at this time.

calli
calli
February 13, 2022 7:06 am

Tell me again how you run up an $11k power bill?

Hydroponics?

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 13, 2022 7:08 am

I was going to visit the Dali museum but my watch melted and time got away from me.

calli
calli
February 13, 2022 7:23 am

Bartlett reporting from Ottowa

Ahahaha!

Thanks Tom.

Hard to make comments about the crack pipe fiasco. Words fail.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
February 13, 2022 7:24 am

And yeah, there were a few people in Can-bra today.

Looking at Google Earth, it’s 50 metres wide between the trees and around 140 metres from Queen Victoria Terrace to the State Circle road cutting. The area behind the cutting is another 100 metres to the Parliament House forecourt. The roadways add another 40 metres width. That gives the foreground area a size of around 12-13,000 square metres and the background area around 9,000 square metres. The number of people that can fit per square metre will give you the rough crowd size, given the foreground looks close to 100% capacity and the background around 50% capacity.

calli
calli
February 13, 2022 7:25 am

I missed something. Who is the “failed child star”? Was it a 60 Minutes reporter?

Gabor
Gabor
February 13, 2022 7:28 am

calli says:
February 13, 2022 at 7:06 am

Tell me again how you run up an $11k power bill?

Hydroponics?

Nah, there is a needle trick to that.

calli
calli
February 13, 2022 7:31 am

I’d allow one per m2 full capacity, skier. Outdoor crowds tend to be more widely spaced.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 13, 2022 7:42 am

I read yesterday that the Dept of PM & Cabinet were calling out the marchers use of the apparently sacrosanct national flag as ‘disrespectful’, yet ScoMo routinely wears it as a face mask, coughing and snorting his germs all over it.

Lazy j’ismist at The Oz also had no idea of the provenance of the red flag, ‘usually found on ships’.

Most disappointing was commentary from National RSL honcho and legal beagle, Greg Mellick, who insists that the ANZACs didn’t fight and sacrifice under the flag to see it ‘desecrated’ in this way. POS.

Zatara
Zatara
February 13, 2022 7:48 am

I am embarrassed for my country, if that is the true calibre of the people representing us to potential future international political figures.

Want to truly cringe about something?

Bartlett was a delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998. He was an elected delegate and had contested the poll as an independent candidate.

calli
calli
February 13, 2022 7:51 am

desecrate
treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect.

There must be a new meaning for “desecrate” somewhere.

There’s no excuse for this tawdry and feeble virtue signalling from the RSL. It amounts to stealing valour.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 13, 2022 7:58 am

Unless there are further roll backs, by the end of Feb there will be only 6 US states (plus DC) with indoor mask mandates.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 13, 2022 8:06 am

I hope when the new Congress sits in Jan 2023 it’s different (free speech, anti censorship, section 230 & payment gateway protections).
But people should be wary of what has been passed by a GOP controlled Congress with a DNC president in the past.

Gingrich/Clinton worked together to unwind some pretty major anti trust protections.
Boehner/Obama worked together to further entrench the surveillance state.

Indolent
Indolent
February 13, 2022 8:13 am
rickw
rickw
February 13, 2022 8:18 am

The problem of an only child military:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsXiiZPKFT8

Hugh
Hugh
February 13, 2022 8:19 am

calli says:
February 13, 2022 at 7:31 am
I’d allow one per m2 full capacity, skier. Outdoor crowds tend to be more widely spaced.

The area between Queen Victoria Terrace and State Circle was packed in a lot more tightly than that, especially toward the stage. The clip that srr posted earlier shows that quite well.

Indolent
Indolent
February 13, 2022 8:21 am

A bill to mandate employers to require employees to be vaccinated. Does that sound legal?

California bill would require vaccines for all employees

Indolent
Indolent
February 13, 2022 8:24 am
srr
srr
February 13, 2022 8:32 am

It’s short & direct and scary that it still needs to be said and scarier that so many are still fighting to make it criminal for Doctors to Care For Their Patients –

The People unifier???????
@ThePatriot46
·
5h
Dr Roger Hodkinson calls out individual physicians and medical institutions as co-conspirators to MURDER.
https://gettr.com/post/pu3p7rbf15

Cassie of Sydney
February 13, 2022 8:33 am

Re. Bartlett and other mediocre scum in this country, particularly journalist scum, this country is sadly lacking in quality journalists who are capable of thinking outside the box. Most are intellectual cowards. I’ve often wondered if there’s something in the water here that seems to melt away independent thinking and then along comes Covid and my suspicions are confirmed. Whilst we produce talented people, they close their minds and they sell their souls in order to conform to the prevailing dominant narrative. We are now a nation of conformists and because of this uniform conformity, we have become a very mediocre nation.

I watched the exchange between Lake and Bartlett and I felt utterly embarrassed to be Australian. Sadly, this isn’t the first time, particularly when viewing how our journalists behave…..it’s gotcha journalism. Firstly, did anyone else notice the aggression in his voice? I did. Secondly, there’s his nauseating arrogance and condescension, this Bartlett character assumes that all Americans, particularly Trump supporting Americans like Lake, are “dumb”. This belief that all right-wing voters are dumb is typical of a posturing smug hack like Bartlett. And he isn’t the only journalist here in Oz who behaves and thinks like him. I don’t mind a journalist asking tough questions but that wasn’t Bartlett’s intent……he’s mind is already made up. Bartlett thinks that all Trump supporting American are thick, hick, far-right, racist, white supremacist Nazis.

However he met his match in Lake, she wasn’t going to tolerate his bullshit. She threw it back good and hard.

Bartlett is a classic example of why “journalism” is dead.

Cassie of Sydney
February 13, 2022 8:35 am

“feelthebernsays:
February 13, 2022 at 8:06 am”

I don’t hold out much hope whilst Bitch McConnell remains.

Bluey
Bluey
February 13, 2022 8:36 am

Indolentsays:
February 13, 2022 at 8:21 am
A bill to mandate employers to require employees to be vaccinated. Does that sound legal?

California bill would require vaccines for all employees

Sounds like it’d get struck down the same way Biden’s mandate did.

duncanm
duncanm
February 13, 2022 8:40 am

However he met his match in Lake, she wasn’t going to tolerate his bullshit. She threw it back good and hard.

more importantly, she cornered him. “This is not journalism. You are a partisan hack with an agenda.”

(or words to that effect).

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 8:49 am

I watched the exchange between Lake and Bartlett and I felt utterly embarrassed to be Australian.

yep also the horrid Sydney Grammar boy dissing Trump. Why Trump even gave that deadshit son of privilege the time of day I’ll never know.

srr
srr
February 13, 2022 8:49 am

“The People unifier??????? @ThePatriot46
·5h
Dr Roger Hodkinson calls out individual physicians and medical institutions as co-conspirators to MURDER.
https://gettr.com/post/pu3p7rbf15

Legislative Council Hansard – 24 November 2020
COVID-19 VACCINE
Reverend the Hon. FRED NILE (12:04:24): My question without notice is directed to the Minister for Mental Health, Regional Youth and Women, representing the Minister for Health and Medical Research. Is the Minister aware that comments that were critical of the current manner in which the virus situation has been dealt with made by Dr Roger Hodkinson, a former chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s examination committee in pathology and current medical director of Western Medical Assessments, were removed from social media within minutes of their publication? Is that an acceptable environment in which professionals can debate policy? What does that say about the state of our civil society and the integrity of public debate?

[and the parcel-mouth reply]
https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Hansard/Pages/HansardResult.aspx#/docid/HANSARD-1820781676-84398/link/121

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 8:51 am

Up to sometime in the 80s Fairfax actually had some pretty good investigative journalists. I can’t recall the woman’s name but she did a lot of investigation into Obied.

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 8:53 am

Remember Wran hated the SMH- ‘virtually a journal of the Liberal Party’. So it most have had something going for it back than but those day are long gone.

Rabz
February 13, 2022 8:54 am

On the Bartlett “interview” (if it could be dignified with such a term) like all collectivists he has some serious TDS. I couldn’t help laughing towards the end when he was reduced to repeatedly spluttering “so just like Donald Trump would? That’s what Trump followers think?” or drivel to that effect. If they’d been in the same room, Lake probably would have thumped him – check out her body language towards the end.

Seriously cringeworthy and also revelatory of what many Americans now (not necessarily correctly) think of Australians – that we’re defenceless tyrannized cowards.

Any accurate estimates for yesterday’s Canberra crowd? I see the Oz has absolutely nothing on its webpage about it. Zero, zip, nada.

Rabz
February 13, 2022 8:55 am

Remember Wran hated the SMH

LOL – he also hated the ALPBC post “the Big League”.

srr
srr
February 13, 2022 8:56 am

Zayne Van Bommel
2 hours ago
I heard over 3 million Australians attended the AFP clocked 1 million vehicles entering Canberra

Comment at Real Rukshan’s Video –
Convoy to Canberra – March to Parliament Highlights – 12.02.22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqkq_4ExPyk
Feb 12, 2022
Real Rukshan

calli
calli
February 13, 2022 8:56 am

She threw it back good and hard.

She Thatchered him.

Cassie of Sydney
February 13, 2022 8:57 am

“miltonfsays:
February 13, 2022 at 8:51 am
Up to sometime in the 80s Fairfax actually had some pretty good investigative journalists. I can’t recall the woman’s name but she did a lot of investigation into Obied.”

You mean Kate McClymont? LOL….I’m sure Craig McLachlan, Ben Roberts-Smith and others would disagree.

As for Obeid, McClymont did help expose him. However I don’t think she’s a great investigative journalist, she’s politically selective with most of her targets.

Her

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 8:57 am

60 minutes was just another knock off of a US show. Correct?

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 13, 2022 8:59 am

If a million people protest in Canbra and no politician hears it, did it really happen?

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 8:59 am

Touche Cassie

calli
calli
February 13, 2022 9:01 am

On the “numbers per m2”, I’m just being cautious.

The Oz, apparently, is being extra cautious.

There was no one there at all.

The Oz is now officially Fake News and a propaganda tool. Do not subscribe. Do not buy anything from those advertising on its pages.

calli
calli
February 13, 2022 9:04 am

Unlike the Daily Mail, j’lists at the Oz didn’t even have the wit to spin the use of the various flags flown at the demo.

I suppose they think they can escape the Fake News tag if they don’t report the news at all.

Wrong. Sins of omission and all.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 9:06 am

You mean Kate McClymont? LOL….I’m sure Craig McLachlan, Ben Roberts-Smith and others would disagree.

Perhaps they would?
But most people wouldn’t piss on either of those mentioned even if they were on fire.

As for Obeid, McClymont did help expose him. However I don’t think she’s a great investigative journalist, she’s politically selective with most of her targets.

Garbage comment.

Razey
Razey
February 13, 2022 9:09 am

callisays:
February 13, 2022 at 9:04 am
Unlike the Daily Mail, j’lists at the Oz didn’t even have the wit to spin the use of the various flags flown at the demo.

I suppose they think they can escape the Fake News tag if they don’t report the news at all.

Wrong. Sins of omission and all.

And ignoring a problem does not make it go away.

Cassie of Sydney
February 13, 2022 9:09 am

Thank God for Outsiders.

Cassie of Sydney
February 13, 2022 9:10 am

“callisays:
February 13, 2022 at 9:04 am”

Correct Calli.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 9:12 am

60 minutes was just another knock off of a US show. Correct?

Only the name.
The show was originally sponsored by BHP in 1977 with the slogan
We’re the backbone of the country now,
referring to the Deindustrialisation of Australia that had commenced during the Whitlam Government and picked up speed under Fraser, and the switch to 3rd World resource exploitation type economy.

Makka
Makka
February 13, 2022 9:14 am

this country is sadly lacking in quality journalists who are capable of thinking outside the box. Most are intellectual cowards.

Like all employees, they want to keep their job and also climb the ladder. ALL MSM journos toe the “line”, on air, in print, radio etc. With very few exceptions. The corps that employ them have folded and stay on message handed to them by the Govts. “Keeping us safe.”

It’s all part of the soft fascist state of Australia we now live in.

Tom
Tom
February 13, 2022 9:16 am

The encounter between Kari Lake and “journalist” Liam Bartlett tells us much about the smartarse knowall disease that dominates the Australian news media.

Cassie of Sydney
February 13, 2022 9:16 am

“Garbage comment.”

LOL. So refreshing Dick Ed that you’re now honestly describing your own comments.

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 9:17 am

I suppose they think they can escape the Fake News tag if they don’t report the news at all.

Wrong. Sins of omission and all.

I recall Murdoch saying words to the effect that his power came from what was left on the cutting room floor. This would be when he controlled channel ten.

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 9:18 am

Take it as a complement Cassie

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 9:20 am

compliment sorry

Zatara
Zatara
February 13, 2022 9:23 am

60 minutes was just another knock off of a US show. Correct?

Yep. The name, the format, even the graphics. A direct copy of a formerly respected US news program which had excellent ratings before they went leftist propaganda outlet.

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 9:24 am

even the stupid tick tick ticking stop watch

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 9:24 am

no imagination, no originality

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 9:24 am

Virtually all Journalism is now about electoral Politics and even then the reporting is superficial.
The Australian is okay, but you’ve got to be able to read what isn’t said to get the picture.
ABC isn’t too bad either, when you consider that it’s Charter is to spin the Government line.
Looking back, you get a better product with a Coalition Government/ABC than an ALP Government/ABC, in my opinion.

P
P
February 13, 2022 9:31 am

Canberra Freedom Convoy demands, ‘Sack them all!’
Spectator Australia – 12 February 2022 – 9:33 PM

Despite what the Prime Minister says, vaccines are mandatory unless you want to live on the street.

Why hasn’t Morrison been pressed on this question by reporters with access? Where is the journalistic integrity of ‘trusted’ news organisations who fail – repeatedly – to point out the obvious untruth in the Prime Minister’s words? Indeed, why haven’t they asked the state premiers to justify vaccine mandates when their workforces are full of double-dosed, Covid-infected staff? Australians do not require a medical degree or strings of letters after their names to sense that something has gone amiss.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 9:32 am

Civil society does not exist because 50.1% of the people decide they want something to happen, and force the other 49.9% to do it.

That doesn’t happen though.
At any election in Australia, the issues are unimportant, you vote for your team and the Party that gets the most turncoats from the other team wins.
Have a look at the forthcoming Election:
The biggest issue is which Party will legislate protection for transgender Schoolchildren.
Believe it or not!

Hugh
Hugh
February 13, 2022 9:34 am

calli says:
February 13, 2022 at 9:01 am

The Oz is now officially Fake News and a propaganda tool. Do not subscribe. Do not buy anything from those advertising on its pages.

Agreed. We cancelled our subscriptions to the Oz and the Tele last year. The only thing I miss is the crosswords.

Razey
Razey
February 13, 2022 9:35 am

Ed Casesays:
February 13, 2022 at 9:32 am
Civil society does not exist because 50.1% of the people decide they want something to happen, and force the other 49.9% to do it.

That doesn’t happen though.
At any election in Australia, the issues are unimportant, you vote for your team and the Party that gets the most turncoats from the other team wins.
Have a look at the forthcoming Election:
The biggest issue is which Party will legislate protection for transgender Schoolchildren.
Believe it or not!

I think I’m just going to refuse to vote. I don’t want to participate in this fascist system.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 13, 2022 9:39 am

Forty Useful Concepts For Life

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1492255231169679365.html

Interesting.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 13, 2022 9:41 am

Garbage comment

A ringing endorsement most commenters can only dream of.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 13, 2022 9:41 am

Knuckle Draggersays:

February 12, 2022 at 11:47 pm

The only, and I mean only way for 60 Fuckups to regain its credibility is to hire a dodgy lawyer who’s only just been released from jail as a producer, and then gin up a ‘Where is Peter Falconio’ segment with spooky music and dark hints about people knowing who the real killer is.

It’s been a while.
That “Stunning New Evidence” is sure dragging it’s feet.
Nearly as slow as “Shocking Revelations” which were going to spring baby-killer Kelli Lane from the slot.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 9:42 am

Why hasn’t Morrison been pressed on this question by reporters with access? Where is the journalistic integrity of ‘trusted’ news organisations who fail – repeatedly – to point out the obvious untruth in the Prime Minister’s words?

Here’s your problem:
The Vaccine Industry is bigger than the Coal Industry and if this Vaccine goes down in flames, so do all the rest.
Why?
Because BigPharma’s response to CovidVax injuries has been to say :
All Vaccines have some risk of Injury, but this one is the safest yet”
BigPharma never admitted that before, so they’ve absolutely gotta win this war.
How big is BigPharma?
Put it this way:
Have you ever noticed that it’s very hard to find leather soled shoes that can be resoled?
Whereas 40 years ago even workboots had leather soles.
BigPharma own all the big footwear manufacturers.
Florsheim … the lot.

Razey
Razey
February 13, 2022 9:43 am
Vicki
February 13, 2022 9:49 am

Interesting, Ed. I didn’t know that re Florsheim. But certainly am beginning to realise the degree to which the huge multi nationals have tied up the world economy. Besides Big Pharma & Big Tech, the one that worries me is Blackrock. The latter is buying up suburban realestate in the USA with the intention of converting all to rentals. Confirmed by someone I know deeply connected here – that it will start to happen in Oz as well.

JC
JC
February 13, 2022 9:50 am

I dunno they’re useful, eyrie. Most sound like made up bullshit fillers to make up the numbers.

Seriously, like what the fuck

Mismatch Theory:
Moths evolved to navigate by the moon, a good strategy until the invention of electric lamps, which now lead them astray. Equally, humans evolved to be tribal, a good strategy until the Digital Age, where it now leads us to act like polarized goons online.

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 9:55 am

My conclusions from the events of the last 3 years are
1. the china bug scare was cooked up by the WEF, UN, CCP, DNC and big business (plus many others) to try and kill populism and lift a lot of other peoples’ money
2. with so many WEF ‘young leaders’ infesting governments around the world it explains why responses from Paris to Melbourne to Lansing were so similar

Tom
Tom
February 13, 2022 9:57 am

The only time in get to see leftard ideologues swimming in our hard-earned taxes on Their ABC is when it is replayed on Sky Outsiders. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, not to mention horrifying. Thankfully, the ratings figures tell us only the lunatic fringe is watching.

Rabz
February 13, 2022 10:01 am

Florsheim … the lot.

Gee, thanks eddles. Far more instructive than your posting of excerpts from nazi propaganda leaflets.

I’ve got a pair Florsheim dress shoes I’ve never worn that have leather soles. You can still get RM Williams with leather soles, although I got my elastic sided boots resoled in rubber last time as the leather used to wear out way too quickly.

My other beef with modern shoes is that the rubber used on the heels is this feeble composite material that generally wears out within a couple of months. I’ve got two pairs of suede chelsea boots that I had to have reheeled after just two months (wearing them on average, about once a fortnight), at a cost of $50 per pair. That’s why I love Docs so much, the soles never wear out. I’ve got three pairs of Docs that are over twenty years old, the oldest being some brogues bought (from rebel sport of all places) back in mid 1996.

Tom
Tom
February 13, 2022 10:02 am

Woops. …The only time I get to see…

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 13, 2022 10:02 am

Vickisays:
February 13, 2022 at 9:49 am

Assume that everybody is lying (especially ed) until events can be confirmed or not.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 13, 2022 10:04 am

A mate once calculated the cost per kilometer of walking shoes. Much more expensive than tyres for your car.

cohenite
February 13, 2022 10:04 am

I had to look up this liam bartlett creep; as soon as I saw the photos I knew him to be the condescending, pompous shit I remembered and which infests the meeja. This is the last couple of minutes of his castration by the lady Kari Lake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiMNxFVix1s

Not that he know he was being castrated because that happened long ago.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 10:05 am

Confirmed by someone I know deeply connected here – that it will start to happen in Oz as well.

It wouldn’t take much of an interest rate hike to put many or most mortgagees underwater and being sold up by the Bank.
I don’t think a Coalition Government would let that happen, but it would be off to the races under a Labor Government.

Razey
Razey
February 13, 2022 10:06 am

Eyriesays:
February 13, 2022 at 10:04 am
A mate once calculated the cost per kilometer of walking shoes. Much more expensive than tyres for your car.

Africa has solved this problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-BiHXot4TU

Indolent
Indolent
February 13, 2022 10:07 am

This is here in Australia. From Channel 7 News (putting the best possible spin on it, of course) via Catturd in the U.S.

50 MILLION doses of ‘vaccine recalled as they triggered ‘false positives’ in HIV tests.

Rabz
February 13, 2022 10:08 am

Wonderful – just what is needed on a relaxing Sunday morning – some lengthy footage of Standartenführer Schwab expounding on the Grate Reset and capitalism’s need for a good dose of marxism (see Mark Steyn’s theory on what happens when you mix ice cream and dogshit).

Barry
Barry
February 13, 2022 10:09 am

Maybe, just maybe, the tyrants are starting to have second thoughts.

Stephane Bancel, the billionaire chief executive of Moderna, has deleted his Twitter account.

Is he worried about the evidence of wrongdoing, wrong statements (“Safe and Effective”, anybody), or just looking to eject before the share price implodes when the evidence comes out?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 10:15 am

Despite what the Prime Minister says, vaccines are mandatory unless you want to live on the street.

Yup.

This stunningly incompetent gratitude-seeker, looking to please everyone and thus pleasing no-one, seems to be reveling in – if not facilitating – the breakdown of this country into a Holy Roman Empire-esque conglomeration of nation states, counties, duchies and principalities.

Unfortunately for Morrison, he is no Bismarck. Therefore he cannot repair what he has done.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 10:17 am

As Turnbull’s successor, Morrison had the sweetest rails run of all time.

He’s had to really try so far to cock it up this badly.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 13, 2022 10:19 am

A mate once calculated the cost per kilometer of walking shoes.

Depends on the shoes. The shoes I walk in do for about a thousand km or so, maybe fifteen hundred. They cost $3.50 a pair new from Kmart, although I use sports inserts as well – they get transferred each time the old shoes fall to bits.

I wouldn’t use them for hiking though, that’s a different kettle of fish.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 10:20 am

Scotty intentionally botched the Vaccine rollout, saving an uncountable number of lives.
If you took the Vaccine voluntarily, you got only yourself to blame and for people in Care Homes, well, a Nurse gave them the shot and very likely got a kickback from BigPharma for every shot she gave.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 13, 2022 10:22 am

Razey, look up “Ho Chi Minh” sandals. The top models have radial plies.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 13, 2022 10:23 am

BoN, he was serious bushwalker.

Rabz
February 13, 2022 10:23 am

This is a must watch Cats, via the Currency Lad. Gideon Rozner goes nuclear on the Goose Morristeen clown show goat rodeo.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 13, 2022 10:26 am

Yes I tend to be a stinge, but after much trial and error those particular shoes turned out to be the best for walking in, even compared to decent sports shoes. Better than every other pair of any price: comfortable, no blisters, no wearing in period. But have to have the inserts, they were the magic find.

custard
custard
February 13, 2022 10:27 am

From techno-fog (missing links sorry)

The Michael Sussmann case is heating up.

On February 11, 2022, Durham filed the Government’s Motion to Inquire into Potential Conflicts of Interest in the Michael Sussmann case. Read it here. As you might recall, Sussmann was charged with giving false statements to then-FBI General Counsel James Baker regarding the interests he was representing in pushing to the FBI the Alfa Bank/Trump Organization hoax. More background information on the Sussmann indictment can be found here.

The basis for the motion is that Sussmann’s current counsel, Latham & Watkins LLP (Latham) might have a conflict of interest because Latham previously represented Perkins Coie and Mark Elias “in this investigation.” It is alleged that Latham “likely possesses confidential knowledge about Perkins Coie’s role in, and views concerning, Sussmann’s past activities.” (Cleaned up.)

There might also be a conflict because Latham was representing both the Clinton Campaign and Hillary for America in the Special Counsel’s investigation. Durham observes that Latham’s duties to these former clients “might cause its interests to diverge from those of [Sussmann].”

Why might there be a conflict?

Because Durham might offer evidence at trial he obtained from the Clinton Campaign and Hillary for America.

We previously discussed how Rodney Joffe (identified as Tech Executive-1 in the Sussmann indictment and in the latest filing discussing the conflict) exploited proprietary – and perhaps classified – data provided by DARPA to further their own political attacks, and how that might result in charges. It was later confirmed that two former DARPA employees have given grand jury testimony.

I provide that background because of what we just learned. Durham also divulged, to an extent, that contractors and tech experts – those same people involved in the Alfa Bank hoax – essentially spied on President Trump.

According to Durham, Joffe and his associates exploited internet data from “the Executive Office of the President of the United States.” They had come to possess this data as part of a “sensitive arrangement” with the U.S. government. As Durham explains:

Joffe and his associates used this data to further a conspiracy theory that Trump and those in Trump’s orbit were continuing their secret backchannels with the Russians. This was repackaged with the Alfa Bank hoax and given to Sussmann, who then laundered it to the CIA on February 9, 2017.

One can’t help ask why Joffe (via Sussmann) risked legal exposure to continue to push false Trump-Russia allegations before and after the 2016 election. First to the FBI then to the CIA. It seems that Joffe was desperate, and his desperation only increased after Trump’s election.

The source of Joffe’s desperation? It’s speculation at this point, but perhaps it goes to the origins of the purported Russia/DNC hack. If anything, it seems likely that we will see an indictment of Rodney Joffe.

Dot
Dot
February 13, 2022 10:28 am

Unfortunately for Morrison, he is no Bismarck.

That’s almost stupid because it is such an understated insult.

“Josef Mengele was no Alfred Schweitzer…”

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 13, 2022 10:28 am

This is here in Australia. From Channel 7 News (putting the best possible spin on it, of course) via Catturd in the U.S.

50 MILLION doses of ‘vaccine recalled as they triggered ‘false positives’ in HIV tests.

Covid: Australian vaccine abandoned over false HIV response
11 December 2020

A promising Australian candidate for a coronavirus vaccine has been abandoned after trial participants returned false HIV positive results.

Australia had previously agreed to buy 51 million doses of the vaccine being developed by Australian firm CSL and the University of Queensland (UQ).

The government said orders of other vaccines would now fill the shortfall.

So, 14 month old news, zero doses made and recalled.

There are reasons that the MSM feels free to dismiss protests about vaccine mandates as the work of misinformed, swivel-eyed loons.

Cat Turd is one of them.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 13, 2022 10:29 am

BoN, he was serious bushwalker.

Yeah, true, I just do paths and well worn dry tracks. Very different. If I got the urge to go bush I’d have to find something like my old GPs.

JMH
JMH
February 13, 2022 10:32 am

Speaking of investigative journalists, does anyone know what has happened to Hedley Thomas?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 13, 2022 10:34 am

Perhaps they would?
But most people wouldn’t piss on either of those mentioned even if they were on fire.

Dick Ed seems to have a prostate problem?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 10:35 am

Rabz,

That clip was delightful. Gideon Rozner, the LNP member since 16 years of age, goes absolutely postal on the current shitfight carefully disguised as a Federal Government. And he’s right on all counts.

I reckon Rozner also happens to be Cat lurker btw, judging by some of his commentary.

srr
srr
February 13, 2022 10:35 am

Clinton Campaign Paid to ‘Infiltrate’ Trump Tower, White House Servers to Link Trump to Russia Special Counsel John Durham Says in Filing
February 12, 2022
https://thedcpatriot.com/clinton-campaign-paid-to-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers-to-link-trump-to-russia-special-counsel-john-durham-says-in-filing/
[…]
Nothing to see here America, just the mainstream media and the Democrats trying to cover up the fact that the Hillary Clinton Campaign hired people to spy on the President of the United States, The Office of the President of the United States, and then used this information to start a fake Russian Collusion investigation by the alphabet agencies. Again, nothing to see here, just keep listening to the media.”

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 13, 2022 10:35 am

I’ve got two pairs of suede chelsea boots that I had to have reheeled after just two months

Rabz, how long did you keep this proclivity from your wife?
And is she comfortable with your alternative lifestyle?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 10:36 am

Parrothead has already congratulated some Labor Drone for winning Bega when his own candidate hasn’t conceded:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-13/nsw-by-elections-liberal-candidate-will-not-concede-bega/100825242
If you thought Baird and Gladys were bad, just watch ParrotHead go!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 13, 2022 10:37 am

50 MILLION doses of ‘vaccine recalled as they triggered ‘false positives’ in HIV tests.

That was the UQ vaccine, and it bombed very early on. I don’t know when Mark Riley did that story but it’s very old news.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 10:40 am

Rozner, on the potential Federal election winner:

‘It doesn’t matter any more.’ Goes on to mention that there is nothing Albanese can’t do to the country to fuck it up that Morrison hasn’t already done. Then makes accurate Coke v Pepsi analogies.

And he’s right.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 10:42 am

That was the UQ vaccine, and it bombed very early on. I don’t know when Mark Riley did that story but it’s very old news.

Didn’t stop a couple of the screechier people here screeching ‘vaccines cause AIDS!!!111! Population control1!’ though.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 10:43 am

“Josef Mengele was no Alfred Schweitzer…”

Huh?
Listen, pard …
Googlin’ gets a bad rap here, for good reason, but in your case an exception needs to be made.

P
P
February 13, 2022 10:43 am

Speaking of investigative journalists, does anyone know what has happened to Hedley Thomas?

Hedley Thomas last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtHEFkSwKQ

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 13, 2022 10:44 am

there is nothing Albanese can’t do to the country to fuck it up that Morrison hasn’t already done.

Umm err umm I wonder what this big red button does?

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
February 13, 2022 10:44 am
Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 10:45 am

You’d be the Screechiest person here, Knuckle Dragger.
Even Rosie & Dottie could take lessons offa you.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
February 13, 2022 10:46 am

Sight not site.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 10:46 am

Googlin’ gets a bad rap here

One thing’s for sure.

Mengele was no Bert Ironmonger.

JC
JC
February 13, 2022 10:47 am

Eyriesays:
February 13, 2022 at 10:04 am
A mate once calculated the cost per kilometer of walking shoes. Much more expensive than tyres for your car.

That’s a really stupid comparison, eyrie. It’s an example of why I often clobber you over your stupid head.

The average travel distance for a car in oz is about 12k per year. That’s half way around the world and it’s nowhere close to average for a walking human being . According to the discourse about the Apple app that measures steps, on average humans do about 3,500 steps a day or three kilometers. That is about 1300 k a year. You can’t compare and for a host of reasons.

Cassie of Sydney
February 13, 2022 10:49 am

“Rozner, on the potential Federal election winner:

‘It doesn’t matter any more.’ Goes on to mention that there is nothing Albanese can’t do to the country to fuck it up that Morrison hasn’t already done. Then makes accurate Coke v Pepsi analogies.

And he’s right.”

Yep…..I watched Rozner say this and more on Friday night. You can see Rozner is done with the Liberal party. Rozner needs to join the LDP.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 10:50 am

You’d be the Screechiest person here, Knuckle Dragger.

I’d answer this in detail, but I have to do a Teams meeting with my tunnel supervisors. One of them’s started branding up the red shoes and the others want royalties.

Frigging adrenochrome as well. It’s be the death of me.

Give these pricks an inch and they’ll take a mile. Eyes must stay firmly on the big picture.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 13, 2022 10:50 am

Thoughts?

Razey – The key to democracy is the “loyal opposition”. The tacit agreement is that the opposition will behave civilly and the government will do likewise.

Once you have a disloyal opposition democracy becomes unsustainable, since as soon as the opposition gets power they become a tyranny. That’s why it doesn’t work in majority muslim nations due to the religious imperative. And that’s why it is failing in the West, because the Left has gotten old time religion too, a similar jihadist-style religion. They have come to the point where they think only they can save humanity and they must force everyone else to do what they think has to be done Since it’s religious there’s no way to dissuade them otherwise.

miltonf
miltonf
February 13, 2022 10:50 am

America the great?? I would say America the end is in site.

full on marxism now- celebrate perversions; crush ordinary workers. I hate marx

Delta A
Delta A
February 13, 2022 10:50 am

Any accurate estimates for yesterday’s Canberra crowd? I see the Oz has absolutely nothing on its webpage about it.

Be fair, Rabz.

The Oz is tackling the really tough issues: Should you be cooking for your dog? Cutting edge jornalism.

custard
custard
February 13, 2022 10:51 am

NEW!

President Donald J. Trump:

“The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection… to Russia. This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution. In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death. In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this.”

Bar Beach Swimmer
February 13, 2022 10:53 am

Razey says:
February 13, 2022 at 10:06 am

That’s not new. When I was a kid I had a pair of treads; the bottom was made of the tyre tread, just like those ones, but the top was made of suede cut into a nice design; mine were blue. My sister’s were orange.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 13, 2022 10:53 am

ABC isn’t too bad either, when you consider that it’s Charter is to spin the Government line.
Looking back, you get a better product with a Coalition Government/ABC than an ALP Government/ABC, in my opinion.

Dick Ed, put down the crack pipe, you are off your bonce. Your opinion is less than worthless.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 13, 2022 10:55 am

Father, 43, who died when he detonated the explosive vest he was wearing as he left his ex-partner’s Melbourne home ‘was kicked out of the army after bashing a superior who RAPED him’

A friend of Clent Wilson, 43, believes the ex-soldier’s suicide was preventable
He revealed a traumatic event during Mr Wilson’s service may have been trigger
The father of three, had served in 2nd Cavalry Regiment based at Darwin
Mr Wilson died last month in Melbourne wearing an explosive vest he made

Daily Mail.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 11:00 am

Hard to find any relevant information on Gideon Rozner, but his dad, Leo Rozner was a Plastic Surgeon who lived until 2015.
Interestingly, Leo Rozner served in Vietnam in 1963 as a surgeon for USAID, which is heavily infiltrated by Spooks.
The Keating Government awarded him a Medal in 1994, even though he was working for USAID.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/USAID
So, prolly a Spook. Does Spookery run in families?
Put it this way, anything Gideon Rozner says about Scott Morrison isn’t worth a pitcher fulla warm piss.

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 13, 2022 11:00 am

Your Sunday morning LOL:

Joe Biden remembers Justin Trudeau

This guy does the best Biden impression out there.

JMH
JMH
February 13, 2022 11:01 am

Hedley Thomas last week:

Thank you P. Good to know he’s still active.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 13, 2022 11:10 am

She smells yummy.

Idaho Potato Commission releases limited-edition potato perfume (10 Feb, via Instapundit)

Feb. 10 (UPI) — The Idaho Potato Commission announced it is celebrating Valentine’s Day and the state’s signature crop with a limited-edition product: potato perfume.

The IPC said the fragrance, Frites by Idaho, is made from distilled Idaho potatoes and essential oils and is designed to smell like a fresh plate of French fries.

Someone once said a way to a man’s heart was through his stomach. Now add his nose.

HD
HD
February 13, 2022 11:11 am

Knuckle Dragger says:
February 13, 2022 at 10:15 am

This stunningly incompetent gratitude-seeker, looking to please everyone and thus pleasing no-one, seems to be reveling in – if not facilitating – the breakdown of this country into a Holy Roman Empire-esque conglomeration of nation states, counties, duchies and principalities.

Though really can Morrison be blamed? The silification within States and Territories of in particular branches of the public service into fiefdoms ( State Departments) under the local Barons ( Senior management/ DGs) has been the case for some decades. Most glaringly and unapologetically obvious from around the tine that twit Keneally last attempted to defraud the public into voting her Premier.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 13, 2022 11:14 am

Googlin’ gets a bad rap here

Googlin’ is only as good as the Googler, eh Groogs?

Oh come on
Oh come on
February 13, 2022 11:15 am

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will reportedly reenter the political sphere by speaking at the New York state Democrat Convention in late February.

Great! Let her have another spin at the game. It’s definitely her turn this time.

Roger
Roger
February 13, 2022 11:17 am

Albanese weighs in on the Ukrainian situation: Russia! Russia! Russia!

Nobody asked him why Ukraine, for its part, hasn’t implemented the Minsk II Protocol which was agreed to in 2015 to bring the conflict in eastern Ukraine to an end through the withdrawal of military forces.

He’s probably never heard of it, like most Australian journalists.

Can’t wait for his wisdom on peace in the ME.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 11:17 am

We’ve now got a situation where Minister Hunt is saying Unvaccinated People have no excuses and Scotty saying the Vaccine isn’t mandatory.
All hell will break loose if he fires Hunt, but he might as well since it’s only gonna get worse anyway.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 13, 2022 11:18 am

The average travel distance for a car in oz is about 12k per year. That’s half way around the world

Dunno which world that would be, but it sure isn’t Earth.

custard
custard
February 13, 2022 11:20 am
Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 11:20 am

Albanese weighs in on the Ukrainian situation: Russia! Russia! Russia!

Q. What’s the difference between Albanese and some warmongerin’ NeoCon?
Ans. There isn’t any difference.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 11:21 am

Bear, apropos of the Cat Fondler:

Googlin’ is only as good as the Googler

Yep. It’s like computers. Put shit in. Get shit out.

Roger
Roger
February 13, 2022 11:25 am

‘It doesn’t matter any more.’ Goes on to mention that there is nothing Albanese can’t do to the country to fuck it up that Morrison hasn’t already done.

Labor reportedly has plans for the reform of Border Force based on concerns about the securitisation of immigration.

Sounds like Ruddspeak for relaxing border security.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 13, 2022 11:31 am

Put it this way, anything Gideon Rozner says about Scott Morrison isn’t worth a pitcher fulla warm piss.

Sneakers Ed returns to his first lurrrve, “Scotty”.

PS< Is there anyone who doesn't agree with everything that spews out of Ed's mouth, whom he has not denounced as a spook?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 13, 2022 11:37 am

Brilliant article by Adam Creighton over at The Oz. Extract below :

“Restricting people’s access to work, education, public transport, and social life based on COVID-19 vaccination status impinges on human rights, promotes stigma and social polarisation, and adversely affects health and wellbeing.”

The scientists said governments had systematically overplayed the effectiveness of the vaccines, underplayed the risks, ignored natural immunity, and mislead populations by not following through with promises to ease restrictions once targets had been reached, fuelling anger that might not quickly subside.

“They have become a source for collective rage and anger, notably for those who have been fired from their jobs or isolated and barred from social life,” they said, suggesting mandates were fuelling extremism on both sides of the debate and did little to lift vaccination rates among vulnerable who most needed to be vaccinated”.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 11:44 am

did little to lift vaccination rates among vulnerable who most needed to be vaccinated”.

Code for Nursing Home Patients and Aborigines.
If healthy people are dropping dead after being Vaxxed, what hope have sick people got?
BigPharma are furious over how Scotty intentionally botched the Rollout and are using their Media pets to blast him outta the HotSeat.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 13, 2022 11:52 am

Durham will have to keep his investigation running until there’s a change of government.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 13, 2022 11:55 am

You can still get RM Williams with leather soles, although I got my elastic sided boots resoled in rubber last time as the leather used to wear out way too quickly.

Good move Rabz.
Because, once the leather soles wear a bit and there is a slight drizzle, you find yourself doing an unintentional impression of Tonya Harding down Pitt St.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 13, 2022 11:56 am

Whopper of the week.

I want to ‘unite the country’: Anthony Albanese makes pitch for PM (Sky News, 13 Feb)

I suppose if you’re going to tell a porkie it may as well be the size of an elephant.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 13, 2022 11:59 am

JMHsays:

February 13, 2022 at 10:32 am

Speaking of investigative journalists, does anyone know what has happened to Hedley Thomas?

Dunno.
Probably under Chris Dawson’s patio.

Roger
Roger
February 13, 2022 12:05 pm

I want to ‘unite the country’: Anthony Albanese makes pitch for PM

Ah, so that’s why he backed McClown’s extended border closure last month.

And told Canberra protesters to “go home” yesterday rather than acknowledging their right to protest.

Good start, Albo.

Bar Beach Swimmer
February 13, 2022 12:06 pm

HD says:
February 13, 2022 at 11:11 am
Knuckle Dragger says:
February 13, 2022 at 10:15 am

Though really can Morrison be blamed? The silification within States and Territories of in particular branches of the public service into fiefdoms ( State Departments) under the local Barons ( Senior management/ DGs) has been the case for some decades. Most glaringly and unapologetically obvious from around the tine that twit Keneally last attempted to defraud the public into voting her Premier

What are leaders for, in that case? Why have elections if the fiefdoms of the public service have control and are allowed to stay in control?

Perhaps we should all just concede now; it’ll save us all a lot of time and money.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 13, 2022 12:08 pm

What is a patio?

areff
areff
February 13, 2022 12:08 pm

At 11.17, Sad Case actually said something sensible. Amazing!

Pogria
Pogria
February 13, 2022 12:10 pm

Because it’s Sunday;

for all dog lovers, the greatest Man and Dog video of all time.

Bar Beach Swimmer
February 13, 2022 12:10 pm

areff,
I had to go back to check and realised I gave him a tick for that.

Roger
Roger
February 13, 2022 12:16 pm

The silification within States and Territories of in particular branches of the public service into fiefdoms ( State Departments) under the local Barons ( Senior management/ DGs) has been the case for some decades.

‘Yes, Minister’ could almost have been a fly on the wall documentary.

JC
JC
February 13, 2022 12:17 pm

Yeah, good catch weyrie. It’s 25,000 miles around earth – not k.

You still haven’t acknowledged that a shoe sole is a pad and not a fucking wheel.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 13, 2022 12:20 pm

Just checked the Daily Telegraph to see what they have covering the Canberra protests.
Wow, have they sold their souls or what?

Cops arrest anti-vaxxers; weird symbols appear at protests (13 Feb, paywalled)

Anti-vaccine mandate protesters have been arrested as some of them used bizarre symbols during a massive rally in Canberra.

That’s the only story on the main page and it is spun like a top. Amazing. The Murdoch kiddies really have them on a tight leash it looks like.

P
P
February 13, 2022 12:25 pm

And told Canberra protesters to “go home” yesterday rather than acknowledging their right to protest.

I cannot get out of my mind the look on his face when he said ‘go home’.

I knew then that I would have to vote Greens last then Labor second last even though I do not want to see Libs rewarded for the way they have performed.

Aaron
Aaron
February 13, 2022 12:25 pm

Albo.

Hilarious.

After his old man and his missus left, he should try uniting his family before attempting a country.

cohenite
February 13, 2022 12:25 pm

Put it this way, anything Gideon Rozner says about Scott Morrison isn’t worth a pitcher fulla warm piss.

Warm piss is what you drink with your donuts, donut. Gideon is ok.

local oaf
February 13, 2022 12:27 pm

Anti-vaccine mandate protesters have been arrested as some of them used bizarre symbols during a massive rally in Canberra.

Hmmm, so they actually admit the protest was massive!

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 13, 2022 12:29 pm

A mate once calculated the cost per kilometer of walking shoes. Much more expensive than tyres for your car.
Another comprehension fail.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 13, 2022 12:31 pm

Sad Case actually said something sensible. Amazing!

Amazing?
That’s the eighth seal of the apocalypse.
Time to move to the bunker under the front patio.

Cassie of Sydney
February 13, 2022 12:34 pm

“Rogersays:
February 13, 2022 at 11:17 am
Albanese weighs in on the Ukrainian situation: Russia! Russia! Russia!”

They’re shilling for war.

JC
JC
February 13, 2022 12:34 pm

You mutton head eyrie. The real measure are the pads ( the bottom of a shoe) vs wheels and the cost of a rubber pad is negligible compared to a wheel – and even that isn’t a good comparison. You’re just not that bright. Just stop talking ffs.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 13, 2022 12:44 pm

And told Canberra protesters to “go home” yesterday rather than acknowledging their right to protest.

I cannot get out of my mind the look on his face when he said ‘go home’.

Yes, it looked very personal.

Albo will be desperately hoping that Covid is still in Beelzebub’s Pandemic From Hell maximum panic mode when he takes over at the end of May.

He so wants his turn at a blame-free, uninterrupted tug of the big levers.

Followed by the happy ending of claiming Victory when the Premiers abandon their Canute acts a couple of months later.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 13, 2022 12:46 pm

hoho.
The flickering fluorescent tube that perpetually annoys accuses another of not being bright!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 13, 2022 12:46 pm

Dr Faustussays:
February 13, 2022 at 12:44 pm

Double-entendres all intentional, yes? 🙂

Roger
Roger
February 13, 2022 12:46 pm

They’re shilling for war.

The alacrity with which Western politicians stick their noses into regions of the world they clearly have little understanding of borders on the criminal. You’d think that after Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya & Syria they’d have learned something. Concluding that they are shills for vested interests who benefit from war is not unreasonable.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 13, 2022 12:46 pm

Anti-vaccine mandate protesters have been arrested as some of them used bizarre symbols during a massive rally in Canberra.

Glacially slow steps towards competent journalism?

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 13, 2022 12:52 pm

There will be some great comedy sketches and cartoons for PM Albo.
His aides will, no doubt, tug him in the right direction.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 12:54 pm

Again, yet again, covid becomes a cover for internal political handbaggery (the NT News):

The Sunday Territorian can reveal the CLP will make a push for all communities in the so-called ‘biosecurity zones’ to have their movement limited.

The Northern Land Council have indicated they would support such a proposal, saying a lack of Rapid Antigen Tests and high movement between remote communities was seeing the virus seeded across the NT.

The Country Liberal Party is, for all the incompetence and thuggery of incumbent Labor cockheads, barely an oppositional force. The ‘push’ here has got zero to do with covid, but further restrictions and active measures of this type will set on fire an already broken health system by sending more staff into remote Central Australia, as well as levelling any remaining police capability to do police things, rather than policy enforcement.

It’s about resources, and creating talking points in Parliament. That’s all. The Land Council said they would be ‘broadly supportive’ because that brings with it additional (Federal) funding for the council executive’s jetskis and Gold Coast investments.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 13, 2022 12:54 pm

Rogersays:
February 13, 2022 at 11:17 am
Albanese weighs in on the Ukrainian situation: Russia! Russia! Russia!

Preservation mode.

If Putin starts the next European war on Wednesday, Albo will want to be inoculated against finger pointing about his socialist mates and fellow Tory-fighting travellers.

There an election riding on this.

srr
srr
February 13, 2022 12:56 pm

The Great Reset | Why Did Rice Develop Self-Assembling Graphene Oxide Using Nano-Technology?

By Clay Clark, 07 February, 2022

April 14th 2016 – Why Did Rice University Develop Self-Assembling Graphene Oxide Using Nano-Technology?

Watch the Original Video Posted by Rice University:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1d0Lg6wuvc

Watch Klaus Schwab Explain How the Fourth Industrial Is About Changing YOU Through Gene Editing:
https://charlierose.com/videos/23789

Carbon nanotubes in a dish assemble themselves into a nanowire in seconds under the influence of a custom-built Tesla coil created by scientists at Rice University.

But the scientists don’t limit their aspirations for the phenomenon they call Teslaphoresis to simple nanowires.

The team led by Rice research scientist Paul Cherukuri sees its invention as setting a path toward the assembly of matter from the bottom up on nano and macro scales.

There are even hints of a tractor beam effect in watching an assembled nanowire being pulled toward the coil.
[Link for that video & even more horrifying plans for Hacking & “de-souling” humanity]
https://frankspeech.com/video/great-reset-why-did-rice-develop-self-assembling-graphene-oxide-using-nano-technology

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 13, 2022 12:58 pm

Double-entendres all intentional, yes? ?

It’s a curse for those brought up on Benny Hill, Dick Emery, and Frankie Howerd.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 12:59 pm

As an aside, tomorrow is of course Valentine’s Day.

I intend to spend the entirety of the day itself asking every male associate I know whether they’d like to come down the pub that night.

The comedy value will be intense.

Roger
Roger
February 13, 2022 1:01 pm

Preservation mode.

More ‘Look at me, I’m a statesman’ mode, I should think.

Every aspiring anglosphere leader feels the need to channel Churchill.

Another funny because true feature of the aforementioned ‘Yes, Prime Minister.’

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 13, 2022 1:01 pm

He so wants his turn at a blame-free, uninterrupted tug of the big levers.
Aye, there’s the rub. [H/t W. Shakespeare]

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 13, 2022 1:02 pm

Why Did Rice Develop Self-Assembling Graphene Oxide Using Nano-Technology?

Why wouldn’t you?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 13, 2022 1:06 pm

PM Albo just isn’t going to happen.
BigPharma is blasting Scotty out and installing someone more compliant.
The problem for BigPharma is that it’s telt so many fucking lies it can’t afford to have a competent Party on the Opposition Bench.

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