Open Thread – Weekend 19 Feb 2022


The Parc Monceau, Claude Monet, 1876.

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shatterzzz
February 20, 2022 12:51 pm

Should we be listing attractiveness as a covid related morbidity?

I can relate to that unjabbed, healthy and my looks often compared to a coupla, big-time, movie stars, KING KONG & GODZILLA .. LOL!

2dogs
2dogs
February 20, 2022 12:52 pm

This is a thing of beauty.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 20, 2022 12:54 pm

Capt. Savige won his DSO in Azerbaijan whilst fighting Iranians, which rivals Lt. Cutler* who won his VC fighting the French. Interesting how Aussies have ended up in far distant fights at times.

Following the capture of Urmia by the Turks, Savige discovered tens of thousands of fleeing Assyrian refugees. He deployed a small group of volunteers from his own force, along with refugees, to form a rearguard to hold back the Persians and Kurds who were murdering the refugees and carrying off the young girls as slaves.[29][30] Official Historian Charles Bean later wrote that:

The stand made by Savige and his eight companions that evening and during half of the next day against hundreds of the enemy thirsting like wolves to get at the defenceless throng was as fine as any episode known to the present writer in the history of this war.[29]

Savige was subsequently decorated with the Distinguished Service Order for his efforts on this occasion.[31]

Stanley Savige

* My old Rgt. Col. who I got ticked off by for not serving him wine fast enough. I was under orders from my Cpl not to get him more legless than he already was.

JC
JC
February 20, 2022 12:55 pm

lol

132andBush
132andBush
February 20, 2022 12:56 pm

sfw says:
February 20, 2022 at 7:32 am

Re the welding, it’s likely that the PM did weld a little, many years ago before automatic helmets, if that’s so then less experienced welders would start the arc with the helmet raised to ensure they were in the right spot, the drop the visor. The dumb thing is that he tried to do it with the media and cameras around. If you aren’t certain you can pull something off then you shouldn’t try it on national TV. He’s a goose.

Needless to say, it’s the brightest spark he’s been near for a long time.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 20, 2022 12:58 pm

Peters always seemed driven by hatred of others who didn’t see his wonderfulness and acknowledge it.

Winston Peters is an amalgam of Tony Windsor and Jackie Jacqui Lambie.

JC
JC
February 20, 2022 1:01 pm

Are you kidding, Sanchez. Windsor and jackie Jacqui are two of the greatest minds in the history of Australian politics.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 20, 2022 1:02 pm

JCsays:

February 20, 2022 at 12:58 pm

This is what I love about America. You’re at the beach in Miami, having a good time and a chopper just smashes into the water right in front of you. It’s never boring.

Looks like a Robinson plastic fantastic.
If you really must go helicopter, always go the full metal helicopter.

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 1:03 pm

Da na na na

Bunnings Grindhouse!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 20, 2022 1:05 pm

JCsays:

February 20, 2022 at 12:45 pm

Should we be listing attractiveness as a covid related morbidity?

More attractive people have stronger immune systems, study says

Makes me practically bullet-proof!

Indolent
Indolent
February 20, 2022 1:11 pm

AOC comes from big money.

Does she? I thought she was a barista.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 20, 2022 1:14 pm

Fidel Trudeau’s maternal grand daddy.
A cigar for the winner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sinclair_(politician)

Indolent
Indolent
February 20, 2022 1:18 pm
Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 20, 2022 1:20 pm

Bill From the Bush,
GreyRanga,
Razey,

Thanks all for your insights.

In summary, one shouldn’t expect similar P/W ratios because the industrial engines were not optimised for that metric, the long service life at high load was a key difference in design requirements for Cat (etc), and if there were a construction and agriculture equivalent to Jeremy Clarkson he would be pushed back in his seat yelling TORRRRRQUE.

My only quibble/skepticism about the torque requirement was that mostly these machines use hydraulic transmissions, not direct drive like a car, so why would engine torque be important? For hydraulic cylinders it may need high power at a low flow rate, which a swashplate pump can do with a low plate angle and medium torque and high speed. But this quibble was short-lived as I realised I don’t know what flow rate limits they may have in the pipe bends, and the engine may be designed for a variety of uses including direct drive, and so for various possible reasons a high torque may be needed. That requires pistons to be physically further offset from the crank to get a higher crank angle, and have higher travel, so making the whole outline larger.

Indolent
Indolent
February 20, 2022 1:20 pm

The Canadian cops make VicJack Inc look saintly.

Are they, though?

calli
calli
February 20, 2022 1:23 pm

And I held a mirror up to your denialism and you opted for the same excuse.

How is

You think it’s a vast global conspiracy, and it may well be.

“denialism”?

You know what’s pathetic? You using the word “denier” in the same context of every progressive on the face of the globe because I’m not believing everything you want me to believe.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 20, 2022 1:29 pm

Wow there is a Bunnings in Innisfail. I thought it would be too small.

Be interested to see the hue of the 2 involved with saw. Plenty of gronks in regional Qld as well though…

calli
calli
February 20, 2022 1:29 pm

Those saying “we didn’t know how bad the virus was so we can’t be blamed for supporting lockdowns early on” are actually saying that the next time a virus taken from a sick person is sequenced for the first time then it’s ok for the government to put us through this all over again.

No Figures. I wan’t actually saying that.

If that is what I had meant, I would have said it.

I said I didn’t know. I understand that, with 20/20 hindsight, that I was wrong. I am not excusing my wrongness.

I have plenty of company in my wrongology.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 20, 2022 1:30 pm

You know what’s pathetic? You using the word “denier” in the same context of every progressive on the face of the globe because I’m not believing everything you want me to believe.

You’re lucky, Calli.

I got called a laundry list of… Wait.

Errr, Struth darling, what were all those high crimes and misdemeanours you accused me of again?

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 20, 2022 1:32 pm

JCsays:

February 20, 2022 at 12:45 pm

Should we be listing attractiveness as a covid related morbidity?

More attractive people have stronger immune systems, study says

Does that mean every schooner I drink helps protect chicks from covid?

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 1:33 pm

Birthday Bash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mXll5ujV5I

Aug 18, 2021
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107K subscribers
Every bit counts. Thank you. I love you all.

calli
calli
February 20, 2022 1:33 pm

What is it with this place?

A perfectly clear comment is made and is then twisted and manipulated to be something it isn’t.

Has everyone gone progressive while I was out? Stop watching that Liam Bartlett interview. It’s giving some of you too many ideas.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 20, 2022 1:33 pm

No Figures. I wan’t actually saying that.

As far as Chad Thunderbrain is concerned, he will always be right.

Because he believes that viruses and infectious disease are not real.

Everyone who got sick and died, or anyone who gets sick and dies of anything other than catastrophic physical injury, did so because they were manifesting mental trauma.

In other words, they died because they were weak.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 20, 2022 1:33 pm

I look at the size of the whole engine fitting snugly in this standard engine bay, and I can’t help but wonder why the turbo Diesels in large bulldozers with the same nominal power seem to be over 50% larger (and therefore 3.3x+ the mass). To my untrained eye this Ford F6 engine must have had a power/weight ratio of something like 2 kW/kg. Compare this to the specs for a Cat C18 which on paper (barebones, no exhaust treatment included) is 597kW for 1717kg or a mere 0.35kW/kg.

A dozer has a massive amount of torque going to the drives, what most people don’t realise is that (for example) dozers are designed to operate at max revs, the main pedal isn’t to increase revs to the engine it’s to decrease revs, they are designed to go full tilt to push dirt.

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 1:34 pm

Does that mean every schooner I drink helps protect chicks from covid?

You are saving lives, godspeed to you.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 20, 2022 1:36 pm

Does that mean every schooner I drink helps protect chicks from covid?

Well, it can’t hurt, i suggest drinking 4 more to test the theory.

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 1:38 pm

I want Chad Thunderbrain to explain fermentation.

Is the starch harbouring trauma of childhood sex abuse?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 20, 2022 1:41 pm

A dozer has a massive amount of torque going to the drives, what most people don’t realise is that (for example) dozers are designed to operate at max revs,

Ditto any diesel engine intended for heavy motive power work (e.g. ship engines) or electrical generation (stationary or locomotive purposes).

They are always designed to work under load, and you increase the power output (through torque converters, electrical load meters controlling governors, etc.) relative to the resistance encountered.

Leon L.
Leon L.
February 20, 2022 1:41 pm

I can’t see this has been linked.
Neil Oliver expresses the issues better than anyone.

Neil Oliver: Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you

He has a way of calmly drawing out what is hiding in plain sight.

miltonf
miltonf
February 20, 2022 1:43 pm

Margaret Truedough is a dirty disgusting woman. Her autobiography reads like a porno novel- something Henry Miller could have written.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 20, 2022 1:48 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
February 20, 2022 at 10:09 am
GreyRanga at 930.
Correct.

By the way what brand of makeup do you use? Spak or bondo?

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
February 20, 2022 1:51 pm

Should we be listing attractiveness as a covid related morbidity?

More attractive people have stronger immune systems, study says

From the link:
Researchers found that, on average, women rated men with higher levels of NK (natural killer) cells as more attractive. These cells play a key role in fighting off and killing bacteria.

Men, on the other hand, found women with lower NK cell levels in their blood more attractive.

If true, probably because high NK cell levels make you look like a bloke.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 20, 2022 1:52 pm

Does that mean every schooner I drink helps protect chicks from covid?

No it makes Jackie Jacquie look better if you can drink that much.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 1:54 pm

Synonymous.

Not synonymous at all.
There’s White Russia and there’s the so called White Army of the Civil War period.
Which of the 2 do you claim to be referring to in your comment about “White Russia”?

calli
calli
February 20, 2022 1:54 pm

He has a way of calmly drawing out what is hiding in plain sight.

Clear. Unambiguous. I like his presentations very much.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
February 20, 2022 1:54 pm

Razey says:
February 20, 2022 at 8:09 am

Cut off when question is raised about WEF. Interesting…….

https://twitter.com/_LoveMTB_/status/1495068948861100038

Makes me wonder further about the foreign interference provisions in our Constitution and how they have been interpreted in recent times.

Zero interest in politicians being induced to do the will of foreign actors, 100% interest in whether the honorable member could have a remote chance of claiming or holding joint citizenship with a foreign nation, regardless of how friendly that nation may be.

Was it always a straw man, just with a long run-up?

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 1:59 pm

What’s this business with aspirating needles or not?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 2:00 pm

So this must have been a battery-operated saw?

Some MSM drone wrote that, so it coulda been a Husqvarna petrol driven Cut-Quik saw too.
Remember that even with a 9 inch saw the depth of cut will still be less than 4 inches and it’s a dude’s leg we’re tokkin’ ’bout here.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 2:02 pm

What’s this business with aspirating needles or not?

A distraction squirrel to draw attention away from what’s in the Vaxxes.

Struth
February 20, 2022 2:03 pm

FMD Calli.
Believe whatever you like but there comes a time after two years where the blatantly obvious belting you about the face comes too hard to deny unless you have an ulterior motive for sticking your head in the sand, (like a lefty) or you have psychological issues like choo choo man, who’s now a dribbling mess (and from who’s empty head I’m inside typing this to you).
He’s a dribbling mess because every day his scoffing is being shown for the absolute ignorance and denialism it is. Every day. Now the Canadians and the Kiwis are doing exactly the same as Australian police, the Europeans….. all proven WEF operatives doing it…so you can’t seriously deny this any longer without now expecting to be laughed at yourselves. It’s just that I’m not laughing. I find it a cop out after all this time, because people on this site should know better.
Make no mistake, the denialism here by some has been sickening for a long time, and it’s what I have been about since this started.
And they need to contemplate whether their denialism has in any way made others feel more comfortable in taking the death jab.

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February 20, 2022 2:04 pm

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Top Ender
Top Ender
February 20, 2022 2:07 pm

I think people are missing the point here.

It must have been a battery-operated saw, unless the perp had a very long extension cord, and asked the nearest house owner if he could plug in.

But Bunnings don’t sell battery-operated saws.

How about that, hey. Am I detective or what? So what’s going on here?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 2:10 pm

Sasha Trudeau has the Male Pattern baldness gene too.
That rug is truly comical.
https://factcheck.afp.com/http%253A%252F%252Fdoc.afp.com%252F9LX2YE-1

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 20, 2022 2:11 pm

Elsewhere in the weird world of today:

It seems we have finally passed through the looking glass.

Forget believing six impossible things before breakfast, as the White Queen said to Alice; nowadays we must believe whatever nonsense the woke supremacists want us to believe, no matter how scientifically inaccurate or, for that matter, unfair it may be. Or else suffer the consequences.

On Friday night, Lia Thomas, a transgender woman athlete, set a record for the 200-yard freestyle race in the Ivy League university swimming championships in the US, beating her closest opponent by half a pool length.

Her win was widely praised as a victory for women’s sport as Thomas, who until 2019 was competing – with notably less success – in the male category, took to the podium to claim her prize.

Alongside her, somewhat dwarfed by her broad shoulders and imposing stature, her defeated opponents smiled and applauded in the approved manner, as though the entire thing were completely normal.

No mention of the fact that they had just been bested by someone with an inherent set of physical advantages: muscle mass, speed, size.

No acknowledgement of the fact that, in reality, they never stood a chance against someone such as Thomas.

Just smile and nod and take it on the chin, girls, and don’t you dare complain. And frankly, who can blame them?

In the current climate of terror created by extreme trans activism, what choice do they have? What choice, for that matter, does any of us have?

In the context of trans ideology, this means total and complete acceptance of anyone who self-defines as female, regardless of the impact upon other females around them. Biological sex doesn’t exist, and anyone who dares to question the wisdom of, say, placing vulnerable women in hospitals or prisons alongside individuals who were born males, risks obliteration.

Check out the shoulders on the gal!

Gilas
Gilas
February 20, 2022 2:12 pm

@ Dover

Scroll-wheel slip.. accidental reporting of

Indolent says:
February 20, 2022 at 8:06 am

Please ignore.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 2:15 pm

But Bunnings don’t sell battery-operated saws.

Course they sell them, nobody wants a saw with a lead anymore.
It says a circular saw, but that would be tricky to use on a live leg.
I’m thinking battery operated reciprocating saw would be the safety first option.

cohenite
February 20, 2022 2:16 pm

Margaret Truedough is a dirty disgusting woman. Her autobiography reads like a porno novel- something Henry Miller could have written.

Henry was a great writer. No porn for Henry, just grit.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 20, 2022 2:16 pm

Special Ed makes the Black Knight look like a pessimist. He wakes up every morning after crapping the bed thinking what can I be wrong about today. Goes to bed when its too scary in the dark thinking that was a successful day, I was wrong about everything again.

miltonf
miltonf
February 20, 2022 2:18 pm

Henry was a great writer. No porn for Henry, just grit.

it’s a while since I’ve looked at any of his books I must admit

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
February 20, 2022 2:20 pm

Dot says: February 20, 2022 at 1:59 pm

What’s this business with aspirating needles or not?

Ed Case says: February 20, 2022 at 2:02 pm

A distraction squirrel to draw attention away from what’s in the Vaxxes.

Yeah possibly, but it is a compounding effect. The artificial spike factory wouldn’t do as much damage if it stayed inside the muscle tissue. When you accidentally put it into a blood vessel and send it all over the place, strange and weird side-effects all over the body become more likely.
Accidental vein jabs from poorly trained ring-ins at the mass vaccination jabbatoirs could easily be a big contributing factor to the (relatively) small number of side-effects seen in the medium term thus far.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
February 20, 2022 2:22 pm

Picked up way too late to do anything, she died three weeks ago

Bastards.
All of them.
The politicians who generate the rules and hysteria: the bureaucrats in the hospital system who go along with and expand draconian dictates; and the doctors who bow and acquiesce.

Baba
Baba
February 20, 2022 2:25 pm

take it on the chin, girls,

Phrasing.

areff
areff
February 20, 2022 2:28 pm

something Henry Miller could have written

Miller is light years better than the Maple-Leafed muff merchant.

Orwell on Miller:

…. When I first opened Tropic of Cancer and saw that it was full of unprintable words, my immediate reaction was a refusal to be impressed. Most people’s would be the same, I believe. Nevertheless, after a lapse of time the atmosphere of the book, besides innumerable details, seemed to linger in my memory in a peculiar way. A year later Miller’s second book, Black Spring, was published. By this time? Tropic of Cancer was much more vividly present in my mind than it had been when I first read it.

My first feeling about Black Spring was that it showed a falling-off, and it is a fact that it has not the same unity as the other book. Yet after another year there were many passages in Black Spring that had also rooted themselves in my memory. Evidently these books are of the sort to leave a flavour behind them—books that ‘create a world of their own’, as the saying goes. The books that do this are not necessarily good books, they may be good bad books like Raffles or the Sherlock Holmes stories, or perverse and morbid books like Wuthering Heights or The House with the Green Shutters. But now and again there appears a novel which opens up a new world not by revealing what is strange, but by revealing what is familiar….

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 20, 2022 2:31 pm

I wouldn’t argue with Groogs about circular saws and amputation. We’re not talking mutton here.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 2:36 pm

Henry was a great writer. No porn for Henry, just grit.

You’re confusing Henry Charles Bukowski with Henry Miller.
Henry Miller wrote dull porno stuff, but he was a leftie so he got puffed as having talent.
Lenny Bruce was another, so was John Steinbeck.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 20, 2022 2:38 pm

Got my stitches out on Friday, 100 mm scar. Nurse couldn’t see with plastic face screen fogging up. She took it off. I said to her I won’t tell anyone I’m not a Karen and besides covid won’t know either. Registrar said I’m doing great and was very impressed with the surgery. 1:7,000,000 worldwide.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 2:39 pm

Orwell was another leftie writer promoted way past his ability.

Old bloke
Old bloke
February 20, 2022 2:40 pm

calli says:
February 20, 2022 at 1:33 pm

What is it with this place?

A perfectly clear comment is made and is then twisted and manipulated to be something it isn’t.

Vaxx induced brain fog.

areff
areff
February 20, 2022 2:46 pm

Sad Case, who would find Enid Blyton challenging, hits the idiot daily double by slagging both Orwell and Miller.

You have to wonder if its congenital.

cohenite
February 20, 2022 2:48 pm

Henry was a great writer. No porn for Henry, just grit.

it’s a while since I’ve looked at any of his books I must admit

Some good movies based on his novels too: from Henry & June to Carnal Knowledge to Betty Blue.

STFU donut.

miltonf
miltonf
February 20, 2022 2:49 pm

Get a load of this- from the Speccie. The deadshit Jimmy Carter involved again…

Conservatives are finally wising up about the legacy media. That’s one takeaway from a revealing recent clash between feisty Trump Republican and media veteran, Kari Lake, who is running for governor of Arizona, and 60 Minutes Australia stalwart Liam Bartlett, which descends into name-calling after some robust jousting about US election fraud, January 6 and Trump himself.

That it redounds to the poised Lake’s credit may be inferred from the fact that, contrary to some reports, the 25 minutes of footage was not leaked, but released by Lake, whose husband taped the interview. Smart move, and a pre-emptive strike against any misleading edits.

A clash of worldviews emerges, when Bartlett insists that there’s no evidence of election fraud in Biden’s 2020 win; he is incredulous at Lake’s claim that there is corruption among election officials, the judicial process and some Republicans. This is a common opinion, with most Australians unable to believe that the US election system might be shot through with chicanery and fraud. People here trust our election machinery, and assume, mistakenly, that the US is similarly fair.

To those of this opinion, I offer two words and an astonishing tale as a corrective: Dickinson Debevoise. He was a racial justice activist and New Jersey judge who in 1982 handed down what became known as the ‘Consent Decree’. Modified, expanded and protected by Debevoise, it barred the Republican National Committee from fighting suspected voter fraud in election day operations across the US for 36 years. Yes, you read that right. For nearly 40 years the RNC and its agents were ‘prohibited by law from helping out with poll watcher efforts or nearly any litigation related to how voting is conducted,’ as Mollie Hemingway says in her book Rigged. Multiple court challenges failed to dislodge the decree, and its influence permeated down through state bodies, effectively paralysing the GOP’s political work on election days. The RNC trained its staff to avoid election day operations, including recounts, for fear of lawsuits.

The case arose out of a 1981 Democrat party lawsuit against GOP officials over alleged black and Hispanic voter intimidation in a New Jersey gubernatorial election, after off-duty sheriffs and police, some with guns, had turned up at polling places. Party officials settled with the consent decree, which limited the GOP’s – but not the Democrats’ – capacity to conduct ‘any ballot security activities… where the racial or ethnic composition… is a factor’. What the Left saw as voter intimidation, the Right deemed voter integrity. If America’s original sin is slavery, race continues to distort the rules of the Republic.

It wasn’t until after Debevoise died in 2015 that the GOP escaped the decree, in 2018. In the final court case in 2017, Trump spokesman and ex-RNC official Sean Spicer testified: ‘It had been abundantly clear for the six years that I worked at the RNC that the RNC and its employees were prohibited from engaging in Election Day activities, including poll watching…’.

Poll watching is what we know as scrutineering. I had always been puzzled by 2020 US election footage showing authorized GOP poll watchers being kept out of tally rooms, or being ejected once in, or being corralled into corners where they could see nothing. How was this allowed to happen? In Australia lawyers are always on hand for instances of election day law breaches, such as bullying by overenthusiastic volunteers, signage violations and destruction, etc. – trivial matters compared with nobbling scrutineers.

The Debevoise decree effectively gave Democrats carte blanche to organise and institutionalise their election day activities, secure in the knowledge their opponent had been cowed. If you think the Left didn’t use this extraordinary and decades-long opportunity to stack the decks electorally then I’ve got a bridge to sell you. This helps explain why, on election day 2020 Democrat operatives ran rings around the GOP who, with no corporate culture or muscle memory, were mere novices trying to play their first polling day role for 36 years.

Such a biased playing field is unthinkable here, and even many Americans are unaware of the powerful institutional advantage the consent decree created – anything that’s been the law for 36 years fades into the background and out of people’s awareness.

Which is not to say that all elections are unfair in the US. There’s enormous state variation, with some, such as Pennsylvania, virtual synonyms for fraud (a PA elections judge pleaded guilty to bribery charges in 2020) and others, such as Florida, spurred by the notorious Bush v. Gore hanging chads election of 2000, now seeming clean and efficient. But if any election involves some fraud, then US elections certainly involve a lot of fraud; some Third World elections are probably cleaner.

Trump is often credited with exposing the rot of US elites, and this includes elections. Grindingly slow efforts are now underway towards voter integrity. In January 2022 the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that 2.5 million ‘no-excuse’ mail-in votes – which cut four to one for Biden – were unconstitutional. Conservative film-maker Dinesh D’Souza’s new film 2000 Mules uses a voter integrity group’s deep dive into commercial geo-tracking cell phone data to follow 2,000 ‘mules’ stuffing bunches of ballots into multiple dropboxes in key states like Georgia. One ‘mule’ made 53 such trips, snapping photos each time to get paid. Arizona GOP Rep. Mark Finchem has introduced a resolution calling for the decertification of results in three counties, in one of which, Maricopa, some 740,000 votes reportedly have no chain of custody and cannot be authenticated. And there’s a raft of GOP initiatives to undo the Covid-linked electoral changes that allowed the trebling of fraud-prone mail-in and absentee ballots between the 2016 and 2020 elections. Nor are the Democrats standing still. A Democrat congressional push to federalise election laws which at present lie with the states failed in January, with two Democrats defecting.

It is a happy tell that reporters like Bartlett, operating from the security of a much better run Australia, cannot comprehend the degree of rot within the US, nor the bare-knuckle ferocity and winner-takes-all approach. But that doesn’t excuse his rude and patronising questions, nor evident assumption that he knows better than concerned locals.

custard
custard
February 20, 2022 2:52 pm

From Professor David Clements via telegram

Research for your consideration and verification. Are each of the following statements true?

1. Gregg Kirchhoefer, Mary Fanning’s husband, is part of Kirkland & Ellis in their Technology & IP department.

2. Kirkland & Ellis oversaw the acquisition of Dominion Voting for Staple Street Capital in 2018.

3. During this time, William Barr was working as Counsel for Kirkland & Ellis; before taking his position as AG.

4. Staple Street Capital is a private equity firm founded in 2009 based in New York. The co-founders Stephen D. Owens and Hootan Yaghoobzadeh are veterans of The Carlyle Group and Cerberus Capital Management, also the Board members of Dominion Voting.

5. Cerberus Capital Management owned, at one point, the AT&T Building that was bombed in Nashville.

6. The Carlyle Group is an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation, with more than $203 billion in assets under management across 126 funds and 139 fund of funds vehicles.

7. In April 2003, it was reported that the Carlyle Group is managed by a team of former US Government personnel including its president Frank Carlucci, former deputy director of the CIA before becoming Defense Secretary.

His deputy is James Baker III, who was US Secretary of State under George Bush Senior.

8. The financial assets of the Saudi Binladen Corporation (SBC) are also managed by the Carlyle Group.

9. The Bin Laden family liquidated its holdings in Carlyle’s funds in October 2001, just after the September 11 attacks, when the connection of their family name to the Carlyle Group’s name became impolitic.

10. Many influential characters have worked for or invested in the group:

• John Major, former UK Prime Minister;

• Fidel Ramos, former Philippines President;

• Park Tae Joon, former South Korean Prime Minister;

• Saudi Prince Al-Walid;

• Colin Powell, former Secretary of State;

• James Baker III, former Secretary of State;

• Caspar Weinberger, former Defense Secretary;

• Richard Darman, former White House Budget Director;

• George Soros, and some Bin Laden family members.

• Alice Albright, daughter of Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State;

• Arthur Lewitt, former SEC head;

• William Kennard, former head of the FCC.

Finally, add in the Europeans:

• Karl Otto Pöhl, former Bundesbank president;

• Henri Martre, former president of Aerospatiale;

• Bilderberg steering committee member Etienne Davignon.

11. William Kennard who is an Executive Board Member of Staple Street was nominated as ambassador to the EU by Barack Obama in 2009.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 20, 2022 2:55 pm

callisays:

February 20, 2022 at 1:33 pm

What is it with this place?

A perfectly clear comment is made and is then twisted and manipulated to be something it isn’t.

So, obviously you believe they are using 5G as a sonic LARD weapon?

cohenite
February 20, 2022 3:00 pm

miltonfsays:
February 20, 2022 at 2:49 pm
Get a load of this- from the Speccie. The deadshit Jimmy Carter involved again…

Good article. The link is:

https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/02/media-misfire-on-the-big-lie/

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 3:00 pm

Sebastian Gorka DrG
@SebGorka
·
Feb 19
Durham’s not backing down and he just upped the ante.

Durham Comes Out Swinging, Responds to Clinton Campaign Lawyer’s Motion to Dismiss

Photo of Jon Dougherty Jon Dougherty – February 18, 2022
https://conservativebrief.com/durham-60203/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=SG

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 20, 2022 3:06 pm

I don’t have a problem with this:

It’s the biggest question in modern email etiquette. Should you add your pronouns – he/him, she/her, they/them; ze/hir or one of an increasing number of expressions of gender identity – beside your name in your email signature, indicating how you wish to be referred to by colleagues or clients? And is this a move towards greater inclusivity, or one that excludes people with different views?

My title is Obersturmführer, which can of course be any gender. It’s surprising though, how many people don’t like it.

dopey
dopey
February 20, 2022 3:10 pm

Henry Miller wrote True Grit! I never knew.

Frank
Frank
February 20, 2022 3:11 pm

My title is Obersturmführer, which can of course be any gender.

I put Your Excellency in the box when the request came round for pronouns from management, they removed Mr by way of consolation.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 3:15 pm

Ancestral Vices.
Tom Sharpe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBJ4fTnSoKI&t=2460s

Read by Griff Rhys Jones

miltonf
miltonf
February 20, 2022 3:15 pm

I should add that Dickinson Debevoise was appointed by Carter. Says a lot about Carter that he’s reappeared on the scene after the theft of the Presidency in 2021.

P
P
February 20, 2022 3:18 pm
cohenite
February 20, 2022 3:19 pm

Henry Miller wrote True Grit! I never knew.

Imagine the movie version where Wayne ends up with the young autistic lady, Mattie Ross. Or maybe La Boeuf.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
February 20, 2022 3:21 pm

Mate of mine his wife has been in cancer remission for the last four years. Due to covid her regular checkups and tests have been postponed and delayed, around four months ago cancer back. Picked up way too late to do anything, she died three weeks ago.

Friend of ours wife was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer two and a half years ago and given three months to live. As of this weekend she starts final chemo round hoping to stay alive long enough for birth second grandchild in mid-April. Managed to get all three adult children with their partners out of Victoria to rural NSW, all living very close to share her care. Amazing she is still alive given the times.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 3:23 pm

James O’Keefe joins Sean Hannity to discuss
new #ExposeFDA bombshell report by Project Veritas

https://rumble.com/embed/vskibj/?pub=5f67r

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 20, 2022 3:27 pm

True Grit – there was a great spoof from MAD magazine.
John Wayne with no teeth. From holding the reins between the teeth.

Vicki
February 20, 2022 3:36 pm

Got my stitches out on Friday, 100 mm scar. Nurse couldn’t see with plastic face screen fogging up. She took it off. I said to her I won’t tell anyone I’m not a Karen and besides covid won’t know either. Registrar said I’m doing great and was very impressed with the surgery. 1:7,000,000 worldwide.

Wonderful news, GreyRanga.
Don’t want to lose anyone here.

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 3:39 pm

Sebastian Gorka seems very sensible but has citizenship in how many countries?

Seems a bit odd to be the mouthpiece of a nationalist like Trump.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 3:41 pm

Jean-Luc Brunel, held on suspicion of supplying girls to Epstein, found hanged

Former model agency boss accused of rape and suspected of trafficking underage girls has died in prison
[…]
His legal team said in a statement: “His distress was that of a man of 75 years old caught up in a media-legal system that we should be questioning. Jean-Luc Brunel never stopped claiming his innocence and had made many efforts to prove it. His decision [to end his life] was not driven by guilt but by a deep sense of injustice.”
[…]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/19/jean-luc-brunel-held-on-suspicion-of-supplying-girls-to-epstein-found-hanged
http://www.theguardian.com

cohenite
February 20, 2022 3:43 pm

True Grit – there was a great spoof from MAD magazine.
John Wayne with no teeth. From holding the reins between the teeth.

Mort Drucker is one of the greatest cartoon satirists and caricaturists.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 20, 2022 3:43 pm

This crowd seems to be a bit too close together.
Let’s just start up the circular saw. Hop along now!

Vicki
February 20, 2022 3:47 pm

Accidental vein jabs from poorly trained ring-ins at the mass vaccination jabbatoirs could easily be a big contributing factor to the (relatively) small number of side-effects seen in the medium term thus far.

Interesting observation, Colonel. I have thought the same thing – out of my daughter’s family, my granddaughter was the only one to have an reaction (bleeding in upper gastro tract). Her mother took her (inexplicably) to the mass jab centre at the stadium in Homebush. The rest of the family were attended to in their GP’s surgery.

Even so, you have probably seen the studies in which specific batches have been traced to severe reactions.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 20, 2022 3:48 pm

Did anyone see the first leg at Launceston today?

Tom
Tom
February 20, 2022 3:56 pm

In my youth, I threw a Henry Miller novel, which I had bought to pass travel time – I believe it was called Tropic of Cancer — out of the window of a New Zealand train because it was poorly written literary trash.

Compared with a lunatic like Hunter S. Thompson, Henry Miller was a writer of no consequence.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 4:00 pm

Dot says:
February 20, 2022 at 3:39 pm
Sebastian Gorka seems very sensible but has citizenship in how many countries?

Seems a bit odd to be the mouthpiece of a nationalist like Trump.

On the contrary.

WORLD Economic Forum
WORLD Health Organisation
UNITED Nations
et-bloody-cetera are EVERY Nation’s Enemy.

Trump didn’t end wars & bring peace to the middle east by being as the enemy painted him & idiots believed.

America isn’t safe when the world is unstable.
The world isn’t safe when America’s unstable.

Unelected Cabals of Tyrannical Dictators aren’t the only Globalists.

Heroes walk amongst them to and sadly like so many great heroes many will die unknown or even wrongly hated as traitors.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 4:02 pm

Does she? I thought she was a barista.

Ha ha, didya?

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 4:07 pm

Sebastian Gorka DrG
@SebGorka
·
1h
Top Democrats want heads to roll at the White House.

Democrats Want Changes At The White House, Including Getting Rid Of Top Staffers, Report
https://conservativebrief.com/democrats-changes-60237/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=SG

The administration of President Joe Biden has been doing such a dismal job apparently even Democrats want to see changes.

They want to either see a new plan of action by this White House or they want to see new staffers around the president, considering the lack of accomplishments of the administration, Breitbart reported.

[WARNING! Swallow anything you’re eating or drinking before reading the following.]

Biden’s the star quarterback, and you can’t fire the star quarterback, so you start looking at the head coach and the offensive coordinator and the defensive coordinator,” the congressperson said. “Fairly or unfairly in a situation like this, you start looking at the person who is in the chief of staff position.”
_______________________

Crazy people, the lot of them.

custard
custard
February 20, 2022 4:07 pm

miltonf thanks for sharing the article about election watching in the USA

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 4:13 pm

Donna_Hawkins @Donna_Hawkins
·48m
“We’re coming for the medical boards too…just like the school boards.”
WarRoom @WarRoom
·9h
“Continue to bring groups like us in to speak to them, so that people that are sitting in fear will not be in fear anymore once they actually see the real science and not the narrative governmental science.” -Dr. Ryan Cole, Dermatopathologist, CEO/Lab Director at Cole Diagnostics
[video] https://gettr.com/post/pvl80h198c

P
P
February 20, 2022 4:14 pm

True Grit (2010) – Iris Dement: Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anhPfU3WGXk

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 4:14 pm

Some good movies based on his novels too: from Henry & June to Carnal Knowledge to Betty Blue.

All rubbish.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 4:17 pm

… the congressperson said. “

In other words, Nany Pelosi.
Brandon needs to nominate Anita Hill soon, bound to create another SCOTUS vacancy.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 4:18 pm

PumpedPatriot @PumpedPatriot
· 1h
As many as 9000 Americans were left in Afghanistan! Please share the shit out of this!!

We Now Know How Many Americans Biden Left Behind in Afghanistan

Well, if there’s one thing you can count on from Joe Biden, it’s that when the going gets tough—he’ll just abandon thousands of American citizens. Like the rest of liberal

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/02/04/we-now-know-how-many-americans-biden-left-behind-in-afghanistan-n2602809
townhall.com

46 = 13 [+9000]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_T54wg9KI
Samson

Davey Boy
Davey Boy
February 20, 2022 4:19 pm

pronouns to include in email:
pull/my/finger

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 4:24 pm

Luke Geisler
@McUkes
·
6m
The Pantomime Continues – Kamala Harris Meets With Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Munich and Delivers Cringeworthy Remarks – Zelenskyy Proclaims Someone is Lying
previewImg
The Pantomime Continues – Kamala Harris Meets With Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Munich and Delivers Cringeworthy Remarks – Zelenskyy Proclaims Someone is Lying – The Last Refuge

Zelensky Says “Someone is Lying.” The events unfolding inside Ukraine are being manipulated by the United States intelligence community and U.S. State Department.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/19/the-pantomime-continues-kamala-harris-meets-with-volodymyr-zelenskyy-in-munich-and-delivers-cringeworthy-remarks-zelensky-proclaims-someone-is-lying/
theconservativetreehouse.com
https://gettr.com/post/pvnpft22ab

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 4:26 pm

So to fight the UN, which the US funds and hosts, the US needed a British dual citizen with Hungarian ancestry – who is against birth right citizenship in the US? To fight “the globalists”. Bear in mind the rules of Presidential qualification are based on (but are independent of) birth right citizenship.

You cannot make this up.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 20, 2022 4:32 pm
Perth Trader
Perth Trader
February 20, 2022 4:33 pm

We went food shopping yesterday at our local coles….FMD. Talk about empty…At least I can still buy coffee and smokes.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 20, 2022 4:34 pm

Edgar Allen Poe was weird.

On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home

What kind of chick had hyacinth hair? Some early version of a blue rinse? Or was she a ginger?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 20, 2022 4:39 pm

Dick Ed

White Russia is a region in Belarus, which is next door to Ukraine.

In Australian elections, parties can suggest where preferences might go, but the voter decides what goes on the ballot paper.

You idiot.

cohenite
February 20, 2022 4:39 pm

In my youth, I threw a Henry Miller novel, which I had bought to pass travel time – I believe it was called Tropic of Cancer — out of the window of a New Zealand train because it was poorly written literary trash.

Pity if it was a first edition from Paris. Could be worth over $6 grand US depending on condition.

STFU donut.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 4:40 pm

“Dot says:
February 20, 2022 at 4:26 pm
So to fight the UN, which the US funds and hosts, the US needed a British dual citizen with Hungarian ancestry – who is against birth right citizenship in the US? To fight “the globalists”. Bear in mind the rules of Presidential qualification are based on (but are independent of) birth right citizenship.

You cannot make this up.
____________________

You’re right, I can’t make any of that shit up, but you can, you always do, rather than ever address what your targets actually say.

Lawyer alright; you haven’t met a word, a meaning or fact you can’t twist.
I suppose it’s lucky for you poor honest folk can’t afford lawyers anymore.

miltonf
miltonf
February 20, 2022 4:40 pm

In my youth, I threw a Henry Miller novel, which I had bought to pass travel time – I believe it was called Tropic of Cancer — out of the window of a New Zealand train because it was poorly written literary trash.

Compared with a lunatic like Hunter S. Thompson, Henry Miller was a writer of no consequence.

Ha ha- my Mum said it was disgusting and boring.

Figures
Figures
February 20, 2022 4:42 pm

Calli I wasn’t singling you out. You got it wrong and admitted it and that’s fine with me.

But those who think that “we didn’t know how bad the virus was” is a valid excuse are wrong.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 4:43 pm

You can always tell when things aren’t going well for the little dictators.

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 4:44 pm

The US could end the UN tomorrow with an agreement between Congress and the White House.

“Sorry, your budget is now $0”

They won’t. The UN is a US mouthpiece and mainstream US politics has been left of centre since JFK’s brain exploded. Trump and Reagan; and the 2010 and 1994 Congresses are the exceptions.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 4:44 pm

White Russia is a region in Belarus,

Wrong.

which is next door to Ukraine.

What, like 22 Elm St is next door to 24 Elm St,. SpongeBob?

Vicki
February 20, 2022 4:44 pm

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Just love today’s Liberty Quotation. Ain’t it so?

Oh Canada!

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 4:45 pm

You can always tell when things aren’t going well for the little dictators.

What on earth are you talking about?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Looks like a Robinson plastic fantastic.
If you really must go helicopter, always go the full metal helicopter.

Bullshit on both those counts.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 4:47 pm

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Invoked Emergency Act to Charge Leaders of Protest Group with “Mischief”
February 20, 2022 | sundance | 18 Comments [& image]
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/20/canadian-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-invoked-emergency-act-to-charge-leaders-of-protest-group-with-mischief/

The need for control is a reaction to fear. What does the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fear so much that he invoked the first ever declaration of the Emergency War Measures Act? A group of middle class Canadians who challenged him. That’s it. That’s the sum total of the Trudeau justification.

Need proof? Well, here’s the lead organizer of the Trucker rebellion, Tamara Lich, who triggered the declaration of a national emergency and invocation of the federal Emergency Act. What heinous crime against the state was she charged with? “Counseling to Commit the Offense of Mischief“.

Think about it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 20, 2022 4:47 pm

Dickless Ed

Australian Troops were part of that, they were sent to Archangel, tho they did no fighting.

So what did two of them receive VCs for?

miltonf
miltonf
February 20, 2022 4:47 pm

@Custard- no worries. It just keeps getting worse and worse. Good it’s being addressed after all these years.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 20, 2022 4:48 pm

Sal!
Hey there!
What year was it that you had the four tax audits again?
🙂

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 20, 2022 4:49 pm

I have no doubt Vic Pol whats app groups would have had the same tone last year. Pity no one leaked them…

https://www.rebelnews.com/leaked_rcmp_messages_time_for_the_protesters_to_hear_our_jackboots_on_the_ground

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 4:49 pm

Pity if it was a first edition from Paris. Could be worth over $6 grand US depending on condition.

Some guy on a train in 1967 buys a Henry Miller first edition dated 1927 at a Railway kiosk in New Zealand?
If you’ve ever been to New Zealand, then you might agree it’s possible.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 20, 2022 4:51 pm

ussr.
What is the latest on the DIY Grand Jury?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 4:52 pm

Link thanks, SpongeBob, or you’re makin’ shit up agin.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

What year was it that you had the four tax audits again?

Are you betting on it?
Or squibbing, like the other little poodle did?

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 4:59 pm

No “Mischief” here though ….

Catholic school board asks young kids to select gender identity in survey hidden from parents

The Waterloo (Ontario) Catholic District School Board (WCDSB), which made headlines for flying an LGBTQ pride flag outside its headquarters last year, announced the launch of its “School Climate Survey” for children in grades 4 through 12 on its website.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-school-board-asks-young-kids-to-select-gender-identity-in-survey-hidden-from-parents/

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 4:59 pm

Look.

All I can say I am glad I never had a tax audit.

I believe I am squeaky clean, but the stress and literal arse pounding by ATO moles who look like Danger Mouse’s Penfold terrifies me.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
February 20, 2022 4:59 pm

Top Ender’s link to the Daily Mail article about “burly swimmer Lia Thomas” contains a lot of excellent argument against trans athletes in sport and the social pressure making it happen.
BUT the author keeps using ‘her” to describe the swimmer.
Another example of how pervasive the pressure to conform is.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 20, 2022 4:59 pm

Cannon-Brookes making a move on AGL. Taylor needs to act to stop that weasel closing the Hunter Valley plants early cause that cockroach Kean will let it all happen…

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/brookfield-cannon-brookes-launch-bid-for-agl-to-accelerate-coal-exit-20220220-p59y25.html

Hugh
Hugh
February 20, 2022 5:00 pm

Song by Jordan B Peterson: Wake Up

Not bad. Somewhat reminiscent of early Pink Floyd.

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 5:02 pm

Modern problems require modern solutions.

Taylor should offer Cannon Brookes no taxation of himself or his businesses for say, 20-30 years if he coinvested 50/50 with the Commonwealth in 20-30 nuke power plants to replace most if not all of our baseload power.

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 5:03 pm

WUT?

If Jordan Peterson is a singer now, then Sam Hyde should host a studio talk show on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

calli
calli
February 20, 2022 5:03 pm

Or was she a ginger?

Blood red.

The original was a “he” of course. A verrrrrry flamboyant one too.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 20, 2022 5:08 pm

Closest I ever got to an audit was when the accounts forgot to include my per diem allowances in my group certificate one year. After my return was submitted the ATO were on it like flies to the proverbial.

Office accounts, my accountant and ATO all conversing explaining the mistake. My accountant was a polite older Indian guy and I’ll never forget his expression when I showed him the letter, “oh this velly bad, velly bad…” As the allowance is tax free and we with the client had it well below the amount to attract attention with receipt keeping it all went away fairly rapidly once they realised it wasn’t worth anything to them.

cohenite
February 20, 2022 5:08 pm

Rockdoctorsays:
February 20, 2022 at 4:59 pm
Cannon-Brookes making a move on AGL. Taylor needs to act to stop that weasel closing the Hunter Valley plants early cause that cockroach Kean will let it all happen…

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/brookfield-cannon-brookes-launch-bid-for-agl-to-accelerate-coal-exit-20220220-p59y25.html

If rub and tug wins the commonwealth will finance the hirsute bastard.

JMH
JMH
February 20, 2022 5:09 pm

Does a battery-operated circular saw actually work in real life? I suppose one and a half minutes at full throttle is possibly long enough to sever a leg but what would I know?

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 5:10 pm

Learnt from VicPol?

BREAKING: Conservative reporters beaten and shot by Ottawa police with gas canister gun
Rebel News is suing Ottawa police after a female reporter said she was beaten with police clubs and shot with a tear gas canister.

FREEDOM, POLITICS – CANADA
JOHN-HENRY WESTEN • FEB 19, 2022

OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Rebel News director Ezra Levant tweeted this morning with video evidence that a female reporter from the conservative news outlet on the ground in Ottawa was “assaulted by Trudeau’s police.” Video evidence shows Alexa Lavoie wailing in pain after she reports being beaten by police clubs and shot in the leg with a tear gas canister at point-blank range. The firing of the canister at close range was caught by photographers.
[…]
Levant reports, “Alexa says she was specifically targeted by a cop who saw her camera. She says he came up to her and beat her and pushed her down. She says he tried to knock the phone out of her hands, to stop her from filming.”
— Ezra Levant (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022

The officer aimed right at Alexa’s leg and discharging the weapon at the 1:03:42 mark of her live feed. pic.twitter.com/BnSS9qmQhF
[…]
[more plus more videos at] https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-conservative-reporters-beaten-and-shot-by-police-with-gas-canister-gun/?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=usa

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 20, 2022 5:10 pm

Ed Casesays:
February 20, 2022 at 4:44 pm
White Russia is a region in Belarus,

Wrong.

You keep on doubling down on your stupidity, Dickless Ed. Do you enjoy the taste of the sh1t you are swallowing?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 20, 2022 5:11 pm

Be interesting proposition Dot. We would certainly see if he was really committed to the green religion or as I suspect like a lot of these guys looking to get wealthy of a guaranteed income stream underwritten by Government subsidies…

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 20, 2022 5:14 pm

Ed Casesays:
February 20, 2022 at 4:52 pm
Link thanks, SpongeBob, or you’re makin’ shit up agin.

I realise that you lurrrve swallowing shit, so I will just say that if you can’t find it yourself, you are so monumentally stupid you must live in an iron lung, as you are too stupid to remember to breathe.

PS, to help you, and as an act of charity, there were two of them.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 5:16 pm

John Durham ?
@John_Durham__
·
Feb 19
Wait until you see which foreign governments and assets were involved. YOU WILL BE SHOCKED!

Hugh
Hugh
February 20, 2022 5:17 pm

The violence perpetrated against Alexa Lavoie is sickening.

P
P
February 20, 2022 5:23 pm
Hugh
Hugh
February 20, 2022 5:25 pm
Helen
Helen
February 20, 2022 5:27 pm

Top Ender

Albo trumped everyone else by exaggerating the number of Japanese aircraft in the first two raids. He claimed 260 – much better than anyone else. One went for 245; another 250.

We watched it live, I was going to ask you if I had heard him right, he said that the rest of Australia knew the pounding Darwin was getting and admired their resolve … then Kon (Lord Mayor and ex ALP pollie) got up and said no-one down South knew about it because government wanted to keep it a secret from the southern cities so no panic or some such.

I laughed. Albo, red handed LIAR! Don’ t they do any fact checking, lols.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 20, 2022 5:31 pm

Or was she a ginger?

Blood red.

Close enough. And rather implausible in Poe’s day. Henna isn’t the same.

Altogether, it’s rotten poetry. Although the next two lines are memorable.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 5:32 pm

WarRoom @WarRoom
·9h
“Come and bring us the science to show why you must have mandates. You have no science; and this now is about power. This is about control and this is about cover-up of the wrong things they’ve done.” -Dr. Paul Alexander

video –
https://gettr.com/post/pvlf3q5985
Posted on 7:35 AM · Feb 20th, 2022

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 20, 2022 5:33 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
February 20, 2022 at 4:54 pm
What year was it that you had the four tax audits again?

Are you betting on it?

Wut?
Why would I bet on what could effectively be a random number?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 20, 2022 5:33 pm

Thought I’d never see the day.

rrsrsrs at 3.41:

“His decision [to end his life] was not driven by guilt but by a deep sense of injustice.”

Reporting people’s sympathy for accused and alleged child bass players.

A massive reversal of form.

Zatara
Zatara
February 20, 2022 5:33 pm

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the term “White Russian” described ethnic Russians living in the area between Russia and Poland (today this includes Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia and Moldova).

However, by the 1920s the term was more commonly used for Russians who’d opposed the Bolshevik Revolution and supported the imperial government. More specifically, it meant those who fought against the Soviet Red Army in the Russian Civil War.

Thus from the 1920’s on a White Russian was a political refugee from the former Russia. In other words, the opposite of a Red Russian.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Wut?

You’re stating a Robinson helicopter is made of plastic.
Wow.

calli
calli
February 20, 2022 5:34 pm

DrBeau, I assumed that because Hyacinthus was hit on the head by a discus thrown by his lover Apollo. He died and his blood was used by the god to make the flower.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 20, 2022 5:35 pm

Word on the grapevine.

The bloke in Quenthland who had his leg sawn off wouldn’t spill the beans on where the AKs were.

calli
calli
February 20, 2022 5:36 pm

I saw that about the missing leg.

Sure it wasn’t a tiger?

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 20, 2022 5:38 pm

Hey biggles, how about one of your hilarious posts about Razey & Japan again?
Fkn dickhead.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 20, 2022 5:40 pm

Sure it wasn’t a tiger?

calli. Please.

Tigers – as cool as they are – don’t have opposable thumbs.

There’s no way a tiger could operate a circular saw.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 5:40 pm

Dr. David Martin Exposes Why Trudeau Won’t Back Down
[…]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, where he stated “Normality as it was before will not come back full-on until we get a vaccine for this.”

With no evidence that a vaccine has ever been successful since Pfizer’s first Coronavirus spike protein vaccine patented in 1990, this statement was unfounded. What Trudeau didn’t tell his Canadian constituents or the world was that Canada controlled the mRNA vaccine platform and was destined to become enriched by both Moderna and Pfizer’s partnership with BioNTech.

Trudeau knew that the gene therapy being promoted as a “vaccine” was an economic win for Canada and therefore Trudeau’s Canada had the monopoly on the world’s adoption of mRNA gene therapy shots. He wasn’t promoting science, he was promoting the Canadian economic interest in the gene therapy illegally promoted as a vaccine.

“Canada has a bad history of this,” Dr. David Martin told Stew Peters. “We’ve had our Kent States, and we’ve had our situations when the legal and then military actions taken against citizens end very badly.”
[…]
https://principia-scientific.com/dr-david-martin-exposes-why-trudeau-wont-back-down/

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 20, 2022 5:41 pm

Wow just took a look at the Australian. 12ft not enough to climb their paywall regrettably. However Paul Kelly engaging in wrongology again by the looks. He reckons the National Security thrust by the Libs is a huge tactical mistake, nope they need to go harder as the ALP is way more compromised than the Libs are. Also should be starting to hammer the ALP on illegal migration especially with their record and weasel words.

However I digress from the snippet I saw. Andrews office embroiled in another investigation. This time for bullying. Is this the start of crumbling walls? I hope so…

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 5:44 pm

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the term “White Russian” described ethnic Russians living in the area between Russia and Poland

More rot.
White Russia is the english translation of Byelorussia.
It refers to a specific area, namely Byelorussia.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 20, 2022 5:44 pm

Just a reminder of Dick Ed’s initial position on White Russia.

Perhaps, but White Russia is nowhere near Ukraine

In case (Ho, ho) he tries to do a side ways shuffle, and claim he was always discussing the opposition to the Bolsheviks.

PS, Ed, found those Australian VC from Russia yet, or has your Google Fu (unexpectedly) deserted you?

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 5:45 pm

Neil Oliver, People Should Not Fear Government – Do Not Forget WHY the Canadian Truckers Were Protesting, Justin Trudeau Wants You to Forget
February 19, 2022 | sundance | 203 Comments

Neil Oliver delivers his remarks this weekend against the background of oppressive government on display in Canada.

The issues around the vaccines that Oliver notes are at the heart of what the Canadian truckers were protesting. Yet, those original grievances have been lost, intentionally lost and buried by the government of Justin Trudeau, because the Canadian government finds it less of a risk to trigger a national emergency act declaration than discuss the issues around forced vaccination. Think about that carefully.

As common in his monologues, Oliver outlines the baseline issue, lost in the shadows of the national emergency declaration, and eloquently drags it back into the spotlight. This is exceptionally well done. I appreciate the way Oliver can eloquently frame his argument, build it to the key takeaway – the central point, and then hit it hard at the end. WATCH:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/19/neil-oliver-people-should-not-fear-government-do-not-forget-why-the-canadian-truckers-were-protesting-justin-trudeau-wants-you-to-forget/

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 20, 2022 5:46 pm

He died and his blood was used by the god to make the flower.

All the hyacinths I’ve seen were blue. I’ve seen pictures ranging from pink to black. Perhaps the poor bugger had blue blood.

Indolent
Indolent
February 20, 2022 5:46 pm
Boambee John
Boambee John
February 20, 2022 5:47 pm

Dick Ed

It refers to a specific area, namely Byelorussia.

Or, in modern parlance, Belarus. You know, right next door to Ukraine.

calli
calli
February 20, 2022 5:50 pm

Perhaps the poor bugger had blue blood.

Chuckle. Much later useage I’m afraid. Refers to the rare purple dye.

The blood was red enough and came copiously from his head wound. If you applied the same thinking, poor old Narcissus would be bright yellow. Perhaps a jaundice from gazing at himself for too long?

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 5:52 pm

Dr. Vladimir Zev Zelenko @DrZevZelenko
· 2h

Flu stats 2015-2020 according to CDC

Average cases per year 34,400,000

Average flu deaths per year 35,600

Average flu shot effectiveness per year 38.8%

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burde

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-wo

We can do better with proper nutritional and immune support.

Z-Flu over the counter is coming

Vladimir Zev Zelenko MD

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 5:56 pm

“Hugh says:
February 20, 2022 at 5:25 pm

Graham Hood on Outsiders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-kwycJnJaw
_________________________________

Thanks for this timely interview.
Too many have been running away with the, ‘They’re all loopy’, narrative to try to shut down continuing protests until we earn our freedoms back and this is a great antidote to that spirit zapping poison.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 6:02 pm

Paul Kelly … reckons the National Security thrust by the Libs is a huge tactical mistake,

Could be, since people from Mainland China have their first loyalty to China, irrespective of the Government there.
While the ALP own the heavily Chinese seats, there are a few pick ups to be had.
The problem Labor has is they take their Aussie Seats for granted and chase after the Coalition of The Fringes, while Scotty works with what he’s got.
And what he’s got is Aussie voters seeing the serial fuckup the CFMEU Governments in Qld, Victoria and Western Australia have made and thinking to themselves

We’re not voting for you to do that to Australia

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 20, 2022 6:02 pm

White Russia. The bit covered in powdered gypsum.

srr
srr
February 20, 2022 6:03 pm

Rena @ROHLL5
· Feb 19
Panic is settling in for Hillary Clinton & the Democrats!
@ROHLL5
https://gettr.com/post/pvdj3u0213

Posted on 7:07 AM · Feb 19th, 2022

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 20, 2022 6:09 pm

Wow just took a look at the Australian. 12ft not enough to climb their paywall regrettably. However Paul Kelly engaging in wrongology again by the looks.

Can’t beat the Tele though. Boy have they plummeted leftwards or what? This article has been on the main page for several days now:

Why taxing unearned wealth is not a bad thing (DT, paywalled)

Neither side of politics appears to have a plan to pay off the mountain of debt run up over the past two years so slugging unearned wealth might be a good place to start if we are serious about fixing our budget, writes James Campbell.

I have no idea who James Campbell is but he seems to like the idea of stealing money from the thrifty.

I hope Albo doesn’t bring in an unrealized capital gains tax. I like living here and I’d hate to have to flee to somewhere less fascist. But for the supposedly righty Tele to carry a lump of verbal swill of this festering magnitude is pretty gross.

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 6:10 pm

LOL

Sam Hyde on Boomer Investing Advice

Jul 12, 2021

Boomer Mark Cuban tells families to “buy in bulk” as an investment strategy

(It gets good – Sam talks about IPO underwriting being somewhat rigged in favour of “sophisticated” investors).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2hvXk3bLC8

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 6:12 pm

Does a battery-operated circular saw actually work in real life?

Yeah, that’s all shopfitters and most carpenters, apart from formworkers cutting sheets of ply, use anymore.
Nowhere near the power of a saw run off the mains, but unless you’re cutting hardwood all day, that much power isn’t necessary.
They make up to 12 Amp batteries now, those things have a lot of guts

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 20, 2022 6:14 pm

I’m watching a couple of NRL trial games on Fox.
If you thought hair cuts would be less rude since the lockdowns ended you’d be wrong.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 6:17 pm

NewsCorp are desperate to remove Scotty, so they’ll try every trick they’ve got to drag down his Polling, which must be pretty good or they wouldn’t be getting hysterical 3 months out from the Election.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 20, 2022 6:20 pm

Dick Ed seems to have lost interest in White Russia and Australians in North Russia after WW I.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 20, 2022 6:23 pm

Dr. David Martin Exposes Why Trudeau Won’t Back Down
[…]
Trudeau knew that the gene therapy being promoted as a “vaccine” was an economic win for Canada and therefore Trudeau’s Canada had the monopoly on the world’s adoption of mRNA gene therapy shots. He wasn’t promoting science, he was promoting the Canadian economic interest in the gene therapy illegally promoted as a vaccine.

Yeah… Nah.

Much like our very own resident Tin Hero, the Almighty Speaker of Struth, Justin Trudeau is all about the Front and the Swagger. It’s all he has as a person and as a political identity.

He can never back down from, compromise with or even entertain the presence of anyone he has decided (and repeatedly publicly declared) is beneath him. That would suggest he got something wrong, and he is never wrong. Not on nuffink!

So, evermore ridiculously hubristic and impossible positions and labels will be applied to his ever-growing list of ‘targets’ and ‘enemies,’ while approaching an inevitable point of irrecoverable public collapse and humiliation.

This is the fate of all such Stunning and Brave public behaviour. It would be pitiable if it were not utterly contemptible.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 20, 2022 6:27 pm

“His decision [to end his life] was not driven by guilt but by a deep sense of injustice.”

Reporting people’s sympathy for accused and alleged child bass players.

A massive reversal of form.

Yes.
Amazing.
Yesterday two guys in a basement in Minnesota formed their own Grand Jury, that got a big tick.
Jean-Luc Brunel, on the other hand, had been through preliminary hearings in the French system and was found to have a case to answer.
Hence the reason he was in jail, no bail.
And let’s not get wound about Arkancide.
The fucker had zero connection with the Crimtons.
More likely he was a 75 year old used to Dom Perignon and 1000 count Egyptian cotton sheets and decided he didn’t want to spend the rest of his days sharing a cell with mangy rats and a stainless steel dunny.

rosie
rosie
February 20, 2022 6:29 pm

This morning I looked for reports about the Canadian protest deaths.
Couldn’t find anything on google.
Anyone got a source, because presumably deaths in custody would rate an official statement?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 20, 2022 6:30 pm

Dick Ed seems to have lost interest in White Russia and Australians in North Russia after WW I.

That’s a terrible shame, as the actions of the UK and Commonwealth troops around Murmansk is little-known yet incredible. Not helped by the terrible lack of co-ordination amongst the White Russian military forces and the Bolsheviks’ fanatical determination.

I once told the story on this Cat of a dear gentleman I had the pleasure of meeting as a young man, whose father had been the Surgeon of a Royal Naval Air Service armoured car squadron.

During the course of their campaign, the supply situation became so serious that all the Officers were directed to sharpen their dress swords, as ammunition was about to run out and the fighting get personal.

He inherited that sword from his father, and gave his dress uniform tailor tbe shock of his life some forty years later when he nearly cut his fingers to the bone while inspecting it.

That blade still had its edge another fifty years after that.

Roger
Roger
February 20, 2022 6:34 pm

So…I come back six hours later and we’re still on White Russians.

rosie
rosie
February 20, 2022 6:34 pm
calli
calli
February 20, 2022 6:35 pm

I understand Sara Carter from Fox has “walked back” her story about the horse trampling death.

I’m so tired of liars.

On both sides.

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 6:36 pm

SIR THE TRANS UNIT IS REPORTING 40% CASUALTIES”

“WE HAVENT DEPLOYED YET”

“SHUT UP AND KISS ME SIR”

calli
calli
February 20, 2022 6:37 pm

It’s cocktail hour, Roger.

😀

Roger
Roger
February 20, 2022 6:37 pm

I’m so tired of liars.

On both sides.

Might want to give Ukraine v. Russia a miss then.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 6:38 pm

White Russia is a place, a White Russian is a drink and the White Army was something else again.
Bruce got it all mixed up, which is normal, but a few of the Usual Suspects can’t let it go.
I’m talking about you, SpongeBob.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 20, 2022 6:38 pm

Indolentsays:

February 20, 2022 at 5:46 pm

Please – listen before you sneer.

OK.
Now I am sneering.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 20, 2022 6:39 pm

Isn’t White Russia a drink?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 20, 2022 6:39 pm

So…I come back six hours later and we’re still on White Russians.

I used to smoke black russians. On and off.

Don’t suppose it’s relevant to anything, but WTF.

Roger
Roger
February 20, 2022 6:39 pm

It’s cocktail hour, Roger.

Indeed; I just made myself a Kentucky Mule.

?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 6:40 pm

What’s the latest Official story, was she in the process of having a fatal heart attack when the horse stood on her head?

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 6:41 pm
calli
calli
February 20, 2022 6:41 pm

I’m about to pour a G&T…without the G. Oh, be joyful!

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
February 20, 2022 6:42 pm

No deaths Rosie, I am getting all my coverage from SDA and Rebel. If there was you can bet they would be all over it. However the poor old lady had a dislocated shoulder, not good when Ottawa Police are still running the lie someone threw a bicycle at the horses.

Roger
Roger
February 20, 2022 6:42 pm

…a White Russian is a drink

Not when I was growing up in Brisbane.

But that was well before The Big Lebowski made the cocktail popular.

Dot
Dot
February 20, 2022 6:42 pm

OK.
Now I am sneering.

SNEED.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 20, 2022 6:42 pm

Daily Sancho:
That horse must have the Presumption Of Innocence!

rosie
rosie
February 20, 2022 6:44 pm

There’s a lot of liars out there.
It’s why ‘fact checking’ is a thing, and always has been.

rosie
rosie
February 20, 2022 6:46 pm

Thanks Rockdoctor.
I thought someone here claimed this morning, not just an elderly lady but two more deaths in custody.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 20, 2022 6:46 pm

fox news contributor Sara Carter admits claim woman was trampled was false

Who do I believe? The MSM or my lying eyes? She may not’ve died (I really hope not) but you can see her under the horses hooves and the walker nearby.

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