Open Thread – Tues 1 March 2022


Cain and Abel, Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond, mid-1800s

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feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 11:22 am

UK dropping vaccine mandates for healthcare workers.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 11:22 am

He and Greg Sheridan last night furiously agreed that Ukraine and every other entity in Eastern Europe should have been signed up to NATO years ago.

Won’t be long before he has Hillary Clinton on.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 2, 2022 11:23 am

If Novak was an anti-vax messiah I don’t like the odds for Hitler’s MB.

C.L.
C.L.
March 2, 2022 11:23 am

I heard a report that the SES wouldn’t let people help fill sandbags at one SE QLD location if they weren’t double vaccinated. And everyone had to take a rat test.

It fascinates me that genuinely intelligent people believe that being ‘vaccinated’ = cannot spread virus. This lie was deliberately cultivated by governments, of course, but the persistence of it is really strange. It’s almost like these people have caught a mental bug that they can’t shake. Long hysteria, as it were. Commentators on Sky will declare that of course they believe in choice but – hey – people who work in aged care homes/ schools/ airlines/ surgeries/ restaurants must be ‘vaccinated.’

Really? Why?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 11:24 am

Bolt sure has fallen in love with the Tony Barber of Ukraine.

Hehe, saw a photo this morning of Zelenskyy with his PM and the chairman of the Ukraine Parliament. They tower over him. He is indeed very like Tony Barber both in style and elevation.

On the other hand Tony Barber could probably do at least as good a job as PM here as any we’ve had this century. On the shoulders of giants…

C.L.
C.L.
March 2, 2022 11:25 am

Sheridan was pretty keen on Suharto’s invasion, IIRC.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 2, 2022 11:26 am

Should help the Grampians MB dealership though. Would Hitler be seen dead in a C class?

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 11:27 am

Remember there are garage Nazis everywhere!

The war in Ukraine should deplete their numbers locally somewhat.

Perhaps we’ll flag temporarily waiving the Foreign Incursions Act as the UK has done to encourage their participation.

Jorge
Jorge
March 2, 2022 11:27 am

Biden’s speech is at 1 pm here.
Amongst other things, it will be watched for its effect on the market indices.
Up then down, I’m guessing.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 2, 2022 11:28 am

Sheridan was pretty keen on Suharto’s invasion, IIRC.

Couldn’t get the pom poms off Keating.

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 11:29 am

Struth says:
March 2, 2022 at 7:51 am
[…]
She also likes to delude herself that somehow her actions are causing tears of rage, which is no more than wishful thinking.

In fact, from February 2020, we’ve been able to use her as a prime example of every wrong response to this psych war, something she continues to this day.
She’s virtually certifiable.
[…]

Correct.

It’s like watching a cult member wrestle against acknowledging that their cult will also throw them to wolves if they start costing more than they bring in.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 11:31 am

“flag temporarily waiving”

What a language!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 11:32 am

Living the dreamsays:
March 2, 2022 at 11:08 am

The Littlest Anklebiter goes hard on the deflection and projection once again. It must be feeling its GetUp! dollars this morning.

Now, Littlest Anklebiter, I am intrigued to find you on the Open Thread this morning. Considering that you once declared it full of ‘closed minds’ and took strenuous efforts to confine yourself to trolling anything authored by Steve Kates.

What changed? Did your controllers decide the apparent lack of Narrative compliance here was unacceptable? Or did the lack of smiting on sight when you resurfaced on the NewCat falsely embolden you into trying to spread your anklebiting efforts here?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 11:36 am

It’s like watching a cult member wrestle against acknowledging that their cult will also throw them to wolves if they start costing more than they bring in.

I believe the phrase is It Takes One To Know One, Nuffy…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 11:36 am

Re the photo of Zelenskyy with the other two, the one on the left is Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker of the Ukraine Parliament. Seriously large and ugly. He looks just the sort of guy you’d need to keep order in that august and prestigious chamber. Which famously has regular all-in brawls.

Fistfight Breaks Out In Ukraine’s Parliament, Again (2018)

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 2, 2022 11:37 am

r
Rex I was going to watch the Australian train program on fta about where the train drives straight through the Ken Worth over the tracks, but apparently its on a different night.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 2, 2022 11:38 am

C.L.says:
March 2, 2022 at 11:23 am

CL. I believe the mental process is the same as people insisting on getting their daily fix of updates from Apple, Google and Microsloth, “I have the latest updates and thus I cannot be harmed.”
The enjabbening was sold to the masses in exactly the same manner.
The peasants have been trained to accept this form of poison be decree.

e.g. #1 if you want to connect to this government/corporate network then must have all the OS updates.
If you want this government/corporate service then you must have all the jabs.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 11:41 am

Re the photo of Zelenskyy with the other two, the one on the left is Ruslan Stefanchuk

Is that pronounced “Stefan-shay”?

Razey
Razey
March 2, 2022 11:42 am

So..What this means is that the Sheep who have taken their Pfizzer clot shot have been genetically modified.

Not the Sheep give a shit. Bahaaaaaaa

https://twitter.com/P_McCulloughMD/status/1498722752747954186?cxt=HHwWlICz5eWZxMwpAAAA

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 2, 2022 11:45 am

Oh well. Let me give myself a thumbs up.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 11:45 am

You are, in short a narcissist who spends her time whinging about a world that doesn’t conform to your prejudices.

I know this sounds like Collaborator Bob, but it ain’t.

Collaborator Bob would be wordwalling against Ukraine because of its choice of mass conscription of its population. And reminding us he knows all about it because he was in Vietnam, you know.

This is a GetUp! troll, which originally appeared under the pseudonyms Ellen G and Kim. Known for its wild hatred of Steve Kates, Orange Man Bad (especially after he pardoned the Biden 4. The Anklebiter spent 2 or 3 days screaming about how Donald Trump releases actual WaRr CrImInAlZ!), Putin hard-on (everyone who stymies it or challenges its Narrative is in love with Big Bad Vlad), and tendency to reference people as being agents of fascist policing agencies when it gets publicly called out.

(Still waiting for you to call me an ATO Auditor by the way, anklebiter! Otherwise you aren’t serious…)

Tom
Tom
March 2, 2022 11:49 am

The American left rigged the 2020 presidential election so it could ram through stuff that Americans would never vote for, like open borders and crippling the fossil fuels energy driving the US economy.

Tonight, the left’s puppet president will deliver his State of the Union address, in which he will not be allowed to disown all the stuff that’s making him unpopular, like soaring fuel prices caused by the US shutting down fossil fuel supplies and inflation that’s galloping out of control because of the Biden puppeteers’ supercharging of government spending.

So Biden will be forced to all but ignore the war in Europe to wax lyrical about the loony left’s favourite fantasies like climate change – which will make him even more unpopular.

This is what happens when the left is allowed to rig elections.

bons
bons
March 2, 2022 11:49 am

Janet’s attribution of innocent, if nieve, motivations to Merkel is at best bizarre.
Merkel is a globalist barbarian, intent on destroying soverignity and subjugating Europe. Putin’s gas was an imperialist strategy by the Stasi whore. It was in no way nieve.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 11:51 am

Rex I was going to watch the Australian train program on fta about where the train drives straight through the Ken Worth over the tracks, but apparently its on a different night.

Railroad Australia is on Sunday nights on Seven Two. 🙂

Wowfully overegged editing (Was made for Discovery Channel), but perfectly okay as a snapshot into what those debbil-debbil Communist Koalas really get up to in the process of keeping the economy rolling…

Winston Smith
March 2, 2022 11:53 am

Cassie of Sydney:

The unpleasant and unpopular truth is that the US has been using Ukraine as a satellite to destabilise Putin and Russia for over a decade. Zelensky is their puppet. Does anyone reckon that the US would tolerate a similar destabilising regime in…say…..Mexico? I doubt that very much.

+ lots.

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 11:54 am

Remember there are garage Nazis everywhere!

Hitler’s car is literally a Garage Nazi!

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
March 2, 2022 12:00 pm

Hitler’s car is literally a Garage Nazi

A Garaged Nazi

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 2, 2022 12:00 pm

When your distraction squirrel has nukes …

duncanm
duncanm
March 2, 2022 12:03 pm

Rogersays:
March 2, 2022 at 10:38 am
Queensland Cats may not be aware that the state govt is trying to legislate emergency covid powers for a FURTHER TWO YEARS.

Linky, Bushkid?

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-reports-six-more-covid-deaths-as-student-infections-drop-20220221-p59y7s.html

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 2, 2022 12:05 pm

Bins – Merkel might be a little less enthusiastic if ze Germans were not in ze driving seat. The French (as usual) are happy to take the front passenger seat.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 12:10 pm

When your distraction squirrel has nukes …

Biden Says Don’t Worry About Nuclear War, So Start Worrying (28 Feb)

…at a White House event for Black History Month, a reporter had the temerity to ask Biden, “Should Americans be worried about nuclear war?” Old Joe replied with a flat “No,” and experienced Biden watchers know what that means: start worrying.

It’s not a bad rule of thumb to ask “ok what is Biden saying?” then assume the opposite.

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 12:10 pm

🙂

shatterzzz says:
March 2, 2022 at 8:49 am

Yeah, trying to nail “Hitler” to Putin is like all the bullshit the bullshitters here try & miserably fail to nail to me.

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 12:10 pm

“You are, in short a narcissist who spends her time whinging about a world that doesn’t conform to your prejudices.”

LOL. Carry on clown.

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 12:13 pm

“I know this sounds like Collaborator Bob, but it ain’t.”

Ah yes, I’d forgotten about Da Ellen G and Kimmie. However there’s a stench about Killing the dream that reminds me of Vietman.

Winston Smith
March 2, 2022 12:14 pm

Knuckle Dragger:

The column is more than 65 kilometres long and covers the entire road from near Antonov airport outside Kyiv to the town of Prybirsk, US satellite imaging company Maxar said.

I remember years ago someone put the question “What would happen to a convoy of vehicles if an F14 with a Hughes AN/AWG – 9 radar at full power was to fly at mach 1.5 over it at treetop height.”
Anyone care to answer it?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 12:18 pm

Yeah, trying to nail “Hitler” to Putin is like all the bullshit the bullshitters here try & miserably fail to nail to me

I dunno, SRR.

‘Nuffy’ sticks quite well.

And your Red Shoes are most fetching… 🙂

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 12:18 pm

This –

Cassie of Sydney says:
March 2, 2022 at 8:53 am

Everyone “Killing the dream”….aka the mediocre teacher from Toowoomba, has arrived on the OT. Aren’t we lucky!

– was a sign of the beginning of the end of the old cat many moons ago, when women started to gather and fell straight into their Mean Girl role of publicly declaring who was and wasn’t One Of Them, because you know people can’t make their own observations & come to their own conclusions.

Me Tooism! is a deadly disease.
It’s herded millions of innocents to their deaths rather than risk being ostracised by the wrath of the women.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
March 2, 2022 12:19 pm
Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 12:24 pm

“Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews “

The same lightweight who sent Katie Hopkins home mid last year. Once again a Liberal (cough) falling for a progressive leftist campaign to kick Hopkins out of the country. And remember how Barnabus Juice went on Insiders and supported her decision? That was another nail in the coffin for me re. Barnabus. The final nail in the coffin was when he supported Scumbag’s net zero emissions garbage.

Remind me why we voted Liberal? One good thing, I won’t ever again.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 12:25 pm

Karen Andrews

I reckon she’d have a sub 100 IQ.
Maybe even sub 80.

Zipster
March 2, 2022 12:26 pm

Where’s the Ghost of Kyiv when you need him?

digging graves in Kyiv cemetery

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 12:27 pm

I’ve told you before to ignore me as I ignore you but since you’ve quoted me….

This from the resident lunatic is not normal….

srrsays:

March 2, 2022 at 12:18 pm

It’s herded millions of innocents to their deaths rather than risk being ostracised by the wrath of the women.

You are disgusting.

Indolent
Indolent
March 2, 2022 12:27 pm
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 2, 2022 12:28 pm

Communist Koalas

Surely Incendiary Kommunist Koalas Komerade?

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 12:28 pm

Zipster, Jimmy Dore has a video up where he interviews a researcher re long COVID.
The video is one thing, the reports/links are good too.

Indolent
Indolent
March 2, 2022 12:28 pm

There’s now talk of wrapping EVs in fireproof bags for transport.

What about when driving?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 12:28 pm

“What would happen to a convoy of vehicles if an F14 with a Hughes AN/AWG – 9 radar at full power was to fly at mach 1.5 over it at treetop height.”
Anyone care to answer it?

Splat one F14. The Russians have invested in AA probably in advance of anyone in the world. That column will have S-400s all around it.

These were the tactics used in the 2014 campaign where MH-17 came a cropper. Deny the enemy any air support, then use your limited air assets with care. It’s a pretty good cost-benefit given the expense of military aircraft.

Incidentally I’ve seen comment that the Russian Air Force has mysteriously vanished from Syrian skies the last couple days, which suggests it may be about to make an appearance further north.

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 12:29 pm

I’ve just got from my hairdresser and she started talking about Ukraine. She said Putin is mad. I responded by saying that Putin is not mad and that the situation was not black and white and that you won’t get the truth from the MSM.

C.L.
C.L.
March 2, 2022 12:29 pm

“The sad truth is that even genuine victims frequently concoct stories.”

– Greg Sheridan after the Santa Cruz Massacre

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 12:30 pm

Indolent…it’s a leg pull.

Check the weather at the bottom.

Almost Bee-worthy.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 12:31 pm

Surely Incendiary Kommunist Koalas Komerade?

Nah. Scomo volunteered them as lethal aid. 😉

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 12:32 pm

There’s now talk of wrapping EVs in fireproof bags for transport.
What about when driving?

Whatever you do, don’t drive with the windows up.

You need an escape route when it turns into a firebomb.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 12:34 pm

was a sign of the beginning of the end of the old cat many moons ago, when women started to gather and fell straight into their Mean Girl role of publicly declaring who was and wasn’t One Of Them, because you know people can’t make their own observations & come to their own conclusions.

Troll confirmed.

SRR’s rushed to defend it, thinking it an exploitable ally.

Was she smote before Collaborator Bob kicked off on the OldCat? I can’t imagine anyone honestly finding his conduct defensible…

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 2, 2022 12:36 pm
Des Deskperson
Des Deskperson
March 2, 2022 12:37 pm

Canberra’s Drill Hall gallery recently hosted an exhibition of Afghanistan war rugs

https://dhg.anu.edu.au/event_post/upcoming-rugs-of-war/

The beautiful, haunting and irreplaceable works then went on tour, and were most recently on show at the Lismore Art gallery.

The Gallery is now flooded to the roof. The curators moved the rugs to an upper floor when the flood began, on the basis that previous floods never reached there. But the waters did!.

The dyes used in the works are vegetable-based. Even if they survive the drenching, mould will ruin them. None of them will saved.

.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 2, 2022 12:38 pm

Hitler’s car is literally a Garage Nazi!

Not a great movie, but this scene made me cack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roJHh2KLggk

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 12:38 pm

“Ms Andrews told The West Australian the Australian Government “absolutely condemns any glorification of Nazi history and neo Nazi extremist activity in Australia” after Perth MP Patrick Gorman wrote to the Minister over the purchase by the billionaire demanding action”

Watch the left start using this to paint Clive and the UAP as “Nazis”. Now I don’t much care for Clive but he ain’t a Nazi and nor is Craig Kelly, someone I’ve met numerous times and who I like enormously.

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 12:39 pm

Lolocoti! Ahahahaha! Just perfect!

Is it real?

Zipster
March 2, 2022 12:39 pm
Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 12:40 pm

@ Locototi-

Why did Twatter say the main post for that video you linked was ‘Age-restricted Adult Content?’

Did the lady say ‘bottom?’

#Heheh…Bottom!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 12:43 pm

“Ms Andrews told The West Australian the Australian Government “absolutely condemns any glorification of Nazi history and neo Nazi extremist activity in Australia” after Perth MP Patrick Gorman wrote to the Minister over the purchase by the billionaire demanding action”

Don’t dare tell the Ministerial Karen about this place.

Soon to have the only running Tiger 1 heavy tank outside Bovington…

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 2, 2022 12:43 pm

There’s now talk of wrapping EVs in fireproof bags for transport.

What about when driving?

Ask Nikki Lauda.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 2, 2022 12:47 pm

Is it real?

Who can tell these days?
In broadcasting, such accidents are covered by the technical term, finger trouble.
The quick cut away to the other reader does lend a sort of panicky truthiness to it.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 2, 2022 12:47 pm

WA for WA Nazis. No Grampian blow-ins thanks.

C.L.
C.L.
March 2, 2022 12:52 pm

Clive collects all sorts of stuff. He has one of the best Kennedy memorabilia collections in the world. He’s obsessed with JFK. Doesn’t make him a Democrat.

Zipster
March 2, 2022 12:57 pm

Researchers have found a highly unusual presence of a proprietary DNA sequence in the spike protein genome. We already know that spike protein is dangerous for our cells and immune system. However, the presence of MSH3 protein can add dangerous outcomes for our cells. Let’s review this hypothesis.

—-
original paper
MSH3 Homology and Potential Recombination Link to SARS-CoV-2 Furin Cleavage Site
Among numerous point mutation differences between the SARS-CoV-2 and the bat RaTG13 coronavirus, only the 12-nucleotide furin cleavage site (FCS) exceeds 3 nucleotides. A BLAST search revealed that a 19 nucleotide portion of the SARS.Cov2 genome encompassing the furing cleavage site is a 100% complementary match to a codon-optimized proprietary sequence that is the reverse complement of the human mutS homolog (MSH3). The reverse complement sequence present in SARS-CoV-2 may occur randomly but other possibilities must be considered. Recombination in an intermediate host is an unlikely explanation. Single stranded RNA viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 utilize negative strand RNA templates in infected cells, which might lead through copy choice recombination with a negative sense SARS-CoV-2 RNA to the integration of the MSH3 negative strand, including the FCS, into the viral genome. In any case, the presence of the 19-nucleotide long RNA sequence including the FCS with 100% identity to the reverse complement of the MSH3 mRNA is highly unusual and requires further investigations.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 2, 2022 1:00 pm

Ask Nikki Lauda.

Who won the world championship?

Real Deal
Real Deal
March 2, 2022 1:06 pm

Ask Nikki Lauda.

Who won the world championship?

Lauda! Who?

Lauda!! Deaf ……!

An oldie but a goodie.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 2, 2022 1:07 pm

In a war of pretty well baddies vs baddies (including but not limited to Islamic State) the gruinaid decides to let bygones be bygones and support the head hackers because frosty man bad.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/02/our-fates-are-united-syrians-rally-behind-ukraine-after-years-of-russian-torment

Must be nice to be able to flick a switch and erase the past to keep todays folk enemy at the forefront…

https://www.cfr.org/article/syrias-civil-war
The country has descended into an ever more complex civil war: jihadis promoting a Sunni theocracy have eclipsed opposition forces fighting for a democratic and pluralistic Syria, and regional powers have backed various local forces to advance their geopolitical interests on Syrian battlefields. The United States is at the forefront of a coalition conducting air strikes on the self-proclaimed Islamic State, though it abruptly pulled back some of its forces in 2019 ahead of an invasion of northern Syria by Turkey, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally. The Turks have pushed Kurdish forces, the United States’ main local partner in the fight against the Islamic State, from border areas. Russia, too, has carried out air strikes in Syria, coming to the Assad regime’s defense, while Iranian forces and their Hezbollah allies have done the same on the ground.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 2, 2022 1:07 pm

So no one wants to play.

1. Who won the world championship?
2. Lauda.
3. In a louder voice, go to 1.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 2, 2022 1:09 pm

Real Deal!

Jorge
Jorge
March 2, 2022 1:15 pm

Evil Snowball ! We’re coming for you !

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 1:17 pm

Doesn’t a project that ties together Germany and Russia economically benefit the security situation in Europe?

Yes, but if you expand NATO eastwards all bets are off.

Ask the Germans; a “special relationship” that tied Russia & Germany together economically – Wandel durch Handel/Change through trade – has been the basis of their Russia policy for two decades. In the meantime they became dependent on Russian gas and stripped their armed forces of effectiveness as a deterrent.

The conceit of Western elites is imagining everyone is a mirror image of themselves: liberal internationalists who play by the rules they’ve drawn up.

Jorge
Jorge
March 2, 2022 1:17 pm

It’s a full on hate session.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:17 pm

Is anyone else watching Biden stumble and slur his way through the SOTU? It’s just started and it’s been all Putin all the time so far.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
March 2, 2022 1:19 pm

State of the Union all about the state of the Soviet Union. Weird.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:19 pm

SOTU update: a pound of the Ukrainian people are going to fight the Russians

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 1:20 pm

WATCH LIVE: President Joe Biden’s 2022 State of the Union address | PBS NewsHour Special Coverage

I’d rather watch grass grow.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:22 pm

SOTU update: a story about Biden’s Dad doing something in Scranton has been raised

areff
areff
March 2, 2022 1:24 pm

Somehow, I don’t think this alleged rapist will get anywhere near the attention devoted to celebrity victim Brittany’s alleged Hun of a purported attacker:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-01/alexander-matters-committed-to-rape-trial-act-supreme-court/100871520

Notice the URL, which is supposed to be feature search-friendly words in order to draw traffic.

Who has ever heard of alexander matters?

But ‘Labor staffer rape charges’, well we can assume the ABC website editor/producer just couldn’t get the fingers to tap the right keys.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
March 2, 2022 1:24 pm

Biden’s going to release the oil reserves. I presume ours will be included.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:24 pm

SOTU uodate: Biden’s Dad gave someone or something a little bit of breathing room. Similarly, Biden gave America a little bit of breathing room from all of the inflation which came from somewhere

Winston Smith
March 2, 2022 1:25 pm

Bruce O’Newk:

Splat one F14. The Russians have invested in AA probably in advance of anyone in the world. That column will have S-400s all around it.

The question was what would happen to the convoy, Bruce. Focus.
Ignore birdstrike, flying into the ground (Cumulogranite Transition) and powerlines.
Yes, I agree the Russian air defence system would make mincemeat of the pilot and RIO, but would the wind blast knock vehicles off the road, would the radar cook men in trucks or marching? Would it make Ivans Vodka in his water bottle boil and explode?

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:26 pm

SOTU update: there’s going to be an infrastructure decade. 500k electric car chargers to be installed

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
March 2, 2022 1:26 pm

Bloody hell. 500,000 E V charging stations are on the way.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:28 pm

SOTU update: “we’ll buy America”

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 1:28 pm

Biden’s going to release the oil reserves. I presume ours will be included.

It was announced last night.
Oil was already up.
Post the news, it popped another $US5/b.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 1:29 pm

Winston – I will not answer, as I’m in enough trouble with Cats already, but I recall another highway in an older war.

Real Deal
Real Deal
March 2, 2022 1:30 pm

Real Deal!

Well, someone had to get it, Rambler!
I remember this joke from the old John “Stonie” Stoneham cartoons in Auto Action in the late 70s and 80s.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 1:31 pm

Yes, I agree the Russian air defence system would make mincemeat of the pilot and RIO, but would the wind blast knock vehicles off the road, would the radar cook men in trucks or marching? Would it make Ivans Vodka in his water bottle boil and explode?

Probably a helluva lot of consternation, some collisions and a few suddenly rearranged tarpaulins on the softskin vehicles.

Much hate for all the SAM and AA crews in the column caught napping by its sudden arrival

And even more hate from the Quartermaster when he gets the massed requests for laundering and/or replacement of several hundred (or thousand) pairs of trousers…

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:31 pm

SOTU update: travel somewhere in Ohio to some empty land and a field of dreams will be seen. A factory will be built that makes microchips small enough to fit on your fingertip – Biden’s targeting the 80s tech retro market, smart

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
March 2, 2022 1:31 pm

I’m not sure I understand this. What did the oldies (or their family) want for them? Is this a crack at the private hospital system, or something else? Go home, or if you’re sick enough go to hospital. What else is there?

Another question I feel should be asked:

What are their co-morbidities, given their age?

KD, co-morbidities are not an issue. They are both fine, after a few days felling a bit off.

I’m not sure anyone wanted anything necessarily (other than treatment for a debilitating back issue!), but I find it passing strange that you can be turned away from any hospital on the grounds that you are sick, which was exactly what happened. If Dad had had the flu, not the couff, there would have been no problem, and his back issues could have been addressed in a timely manner.

Even if he was admitted to a public hospital, he would have been in a COVID ward, and his docs would still have been unable to treat him.

It certainly wasn’t a crack at anything, just a puzzled shake of the head at where we have come to.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 1:32 pm

Is anyone else watching Biden stumble and slur his way through the SOTU?

I’d rather have a tooth pulled.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 1:35 pm

So with 300 million cars in the USA if all were electric those charging stations would be serving 600 cars each. Huuuge. Take a ticket and wait in line for a week greenies.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:35 pm

SOTU update: Biden has an idea for corporate America: “I have a better way to fight inflation – lower your costs, not wages” then demands they return manufacturing to the US

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 1:37 pm

I understood what you we saying Mark of Melb.

The doctors here appear to be running some sort of “training” racket at the local medical centre. Seem to have a lot of fly by nighters doing a three month stint and nicking off, so no permanent doctor who knows the patient individually. Apparently the place was bought by a company that runs a lot of centres.

All care and no responsibility. Well, not even care.

Any docs on the Cat know what’s going on? Has hospital training now outsourced to medical centres? No doubt for a ticket clip, natch.

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 1:39 pm

Is anyone else watching Biden stumble and slur his way through the SOTU?

I’m depending on the kindness of others for the lowlights.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:39 pm

SOTU update: we’re going to do all of the things somehow, lower prescription drugs prices, energy and childcare costs

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:40 pm

SOTU update: oh, there’s a plan to do these things. And the wealthy have to start paying their fair share of taxes

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:43 pm

SOTU update: “let’s get this done, we all know we have to make changes” energy, prescription drugs and energy prices will fall if we say they will. Not hard to fix these problems!

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 1:46 pm

And the wealthy have to start paying their fair share of taxes

That’s why he wants to give them a $US50k tax cut by getting rid on the Trump SALT laws.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:46 pm

SOTU update: a LOT of things are going to happen because Biden says they are

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:46 pm

SOTU update: Biden’s declaring victory over Covid…

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 1:47 pm

lower prescription drugs prices

That’s why one of his EO’s on day one was getting rid of Trumps EO on limiting PBM rorting.
Which is why diabetics now pay 600 bucks for insulin not 30 bucks.

Zipster
March 2, 2022 1:47 pm

Researchers have found a highly unusual presence of a proprietary DNA sequence in the spike protein genome. We already know that spike protein is dangerous for our cells and immune system. However, the presence of MSH3 protein can add dangerous outcomes for our cells. Let’s review this hypothesis.

So more evidence of the advanced design of this bioweapon: the presence of a human modified DNA sequence involved in DNA repair found in spike protein. This not the normal sequence found in human cells it is a modified version to make it more stable.

covid-19 codes for this lab modified version of MHS3. over expression of this protein (as occurs during viral infection) inside cells leads to increased duration and severity of covid illness by interfering with cellular repair.

Long term this can lead to cancer.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 1:48 pm

Biden’s declaring victory over Covid…

Which is why more people died from/with COVID in the US in Feb 2022 than they did in Feb 2021.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 1:48 pm

In truth, in a convoy that large, I’d be quietly hoping the Ukrainians did not have any Grad, Uragan or Smerch MLRS units in range, and a few quick-witted folks with binos, a working radio and a well set out range card with a multitude of pre-arranged TRPs.

Even the odd battery of D-30 howitzers could make a terrible mess…

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 2, 2022 1:49 pm

500,000 charging points. Think of the cabling. Buy copper shares now.

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 1:49 pm

To those of you who are watching the Sniffer of the Free World (I don’t have the strength), does everyone feel secure and safe with him at the helm?

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 1:49 pm

You have to hand it to Joe.
He is the gaslighter-in-chief.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:49 pm

SOTU update: “we’ll never give up on vaccinating all Americans”, the “Pfizer pill” is name-checked and will be provided to all at no cost. Pfizer isn’t charging $500 for a course now, I guess!

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 2, 2022 1:51 pm

Thanks Real deal.

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
March 2, 2022 1:51 pm

after Perth MP Patrick Gorman wrote to the Minister over the purchase by the billionaire demanding action

Hysterical female liberal polly does God’s work for Labor polly…

FFS, they are retarded.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 1:52 pm

Has hospital training now outsourced to medical centres?

I believe first year grads can opt to do a stint in general practice as part of their internship.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:52 pm

SOTU update: we’re going to keep vaccinate the world! There isn’t a wall high enough to keep the vaccines out

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 1:54 pm

Hysterical female liberal polly does God’s work for Labor polly…

The Uniparty in action.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:55 pm

SOTU update: we need to use proven tactics to reduce violence like giving people hope. Everyone agrees we need to fund the police, not defund them! Fund them with resources.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 1:55 pm

Any docs on the Cat know what’s going on? Has hospital training now outsourced to medical centres? No doubt for a ticket clip, natch.

Better pay at medical centres, less shit conditions and abuse by senior medicos. The work is also simple and mostly straightforward (standardised employment medical assessments, compo claims and so forth), so a vastly different environment to primary medical care and GP clinics.

Having very recently had a medical exam at one of these sort of centres, I found the docs and nurses alike to be quite professional and OK to work with.

Dot
Dot
March 2, 2022 1:56 pm

If you wanted Russia to be an ally of the West, aren’t projects like Nord Stream 2 precisely the sort of thing to aid in that purpose? Doesn’t a project that ties together Germany and Russia economically benefit the security situation in Europe?

LOL

It’s as though Syriana was written about NordStream II.

Zipster
March 2, 2022 1:58 pm

So They DO Run The World
Russell Brand

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 1:59 pm

SOTU update: ban assault weaponshhhundred round magazines whaa the deerish wear kevlar imagine if we treated tobacco companies like gun manufacturers

(his talking pills are wearing off)

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 2:01 pm

To those of you who are watching the Sniffer of the Free World (I don’t have the strength), does everyone feel secure and safe with him at the helm?

I know it’s mocking a Hillary ad, but it’s still highly appropriate…

#Muppets

#GotTheYip-Yips?

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 2:01 pm

SOTU update: shout out to my trans homies

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 2:02 pm

500,000 charging points. Think of the cabling.

I was. 😀

New Tesla Supercharger Station Vandalized: Every Cable Cut, Stolen (8 Feb)

Copper, yum.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 2:02 pm

(his talking pills are wearing off)

More likely the denture glue.

At his age there’s probably not enough bone density for implants.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 2:02 pm

SOTU update: Truinernashabadaprshzrrrr?

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
March 2, 2022 2:02 pm

SOTU comment: The man is deluded and making impossible promises for pie in the sky dreams which will never eventuate.

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 2:02 pm

SOTU update: 4 things we can do together. End the opioid crisis. Stop doctors from prescribe…treatments

(oh man the talking pills are def wearing off)

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 2:03 pm

after Perth MP Patrick Gorman wrote to the Minister over the purchase by the billionaire demanding action

Hysterical female liberal polly does God’s work for Labor polly…

FFS, they are retarded.

uniparty working together- rubbish people. Parasites have always been with us but these ones have become so malign that they start to destroy the host. I’m thinking of their actions regarding immigration and energy.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 2, 2022 2:05 pm

SOTU update: can I have my cocoa and nap now?

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 2:05 pm

SOTU update: second thing some stuff about mental health, third thing is support veterans, veterans are awesome we love veterans yay. Being a soldier is dangerous. You breathe in smoke from burn pits in Iraq. Bad. My son died of brain cancer, probably because of the pits but who knows lol. Did I mention my son was a veteran?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 2, 2022 2:05 pm

Timing is everything: Local news has the perfect lead-in to President Biden’s SOTU address

This is just something you have to watch — over and over. A local newscast out of Pittsburgh pulled up a graphic of President Joe Biden at just the right moment. Sometimes something just rings true, and this is better than Biden’s story about kids playing with his leg hair in the pool.

13 secs

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 2:07 pm

SOTU update: look, a veteran! Also, her husband died in a burn pit or something, let’s declare war on burn pits

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 2:08 pm

The thing is that all this stuff has been written by Ron Klain and his merry yxes.
Joe is just trying to recite it.
Who is more off the planet, Joe or the guys who wrote Joe’s words?

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 2:08 pm

SOTU update: fourth. Remember I promised to cure cancer? I’m going to cure cancer. Congress should let me. Our forces will wage war with more clarity. You know it makes sense.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 2, 2022 2:09 pm

And the whinge about being called the GayBC:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-02/riverina-drag-king-challenges-gender-stereotypes/100870912

But…drag queens are just another stereotype. And perhaps more justifiably than most others.

I suspect that there is less diversity of opinion among drag queens (political, intellectual, cultural, psychological, etc) than among straights and whites.

If you form an expectation of a drag queen from a ‘stereotype’ you are more likely to be right than they are forming expectations from a stereotype of a white hetero.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
March 2, 2022 2:09 pm

Let’s cure cancer and save democracy !

Oh come on
Oh come on
March 2, 2022 2:13 pm

SOTU update: I’m finishing up, in this moment we’re going to do all of the things, nothing is beyond our camaskitty. We are stronger than evah! We’ll be stronger next year! This is our moment! God bless our troops! Go get ’em! (he actually finished with those last two sentences in that order – go get ’em? God, please protect the troops from Biden)

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 2:14 pm

So is the foul witch going to tear up the speech again? To think such disgusting behaivour is not only tolerated but celebrated. America is fucked.

Real Deal
Real Deal
March 2, 2022 2:19 pm

Thanks Real deal.

Cheers, Rambler.

P
P
March 2, 2022 2:23 pm
miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 2:24 pm

yes thanks to those who endured the dishonest old fraud

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 2:25 pm

You guys are troupers!

Has he had an accident yet?

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 2:26 pm

Oh. It’s over. That was quick.

The SOTU was done in the same time it took me to compose some magazine copy.

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 2:28 pm

SOTU- dismal

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 2, 2022 2:29 pm

That Brand clip is quite good.

Why dont people believe what the WEF knobs say?
They want you to own nothing and be happy about it.
They are currently putting in place tools to make it possible to implement.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 2:34 pm

The man is deluded and making impossible promises for pie in the sky dreams which will never eventuate.

That’s OK because he won’t be around to accept responsibility.

All that matters is the mid-terms.

Winston Smith
March 2, 2022 2:39 pm

Bruce O’Newk:

Winston – I will not answer, as I’m in enough trouble with Cats already, but I recall another highway in an older war.

Huh?
Who have you annoyed with the facts now?

pete of perth
pete of perth
March 2, 2022 2:45 pm

brandon, pelosi & kerry now retire to the greenroom for an octagenarian threesome. News at 11

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 2, 2022 2:46 pm

brandon, pelosi & kerry now retire to the greenroom for an octagenarian threesome.

The human denturepede…

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 2:50 pm

brandon, pelosi & kerry now retire to the greenroom for an octagenarian threesome. News at 11

hideous, fiendish monsters

P
P
March 2, 2022 2:51 pm

Best part of watching the SOTU was seeing the look on the faces of many known well to us, particularly:
Nancy, Kamala, Lindsey, Mitch, Brett, Amy, Elizabeth ( 1/1024) + many others.

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 2:53 pm

I don’t have a punchable TV P

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 2:54 pm

Actually when I used to watch TV back in the CRT days, I’d throw a copy of wheels (I don’t bother with that any more either) at it. Less damaging than a brick

P
P
March 2, 2022 2:55 pm

And a good shot of AOC, looking different and older.

sfw
sfw
March 2, 2022 2:56 pm

Re the 500,000 chargers, when petrol cars first became common did the government build mass numbers of petrol stations to keep them going? Nope the market took care of that. Don’t these experts have any idea of how a market and economy operates?

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
March 2, 2022 2:56 pm

And a good shot of AOC, looking different and older.

….but definitely not wiser.

twostix
twostix
March 2, 2022 2:56 pm

Attendance on the Queensland Parliament precinct – COVID vaccination information and restrictions

All invited guests and visitors to the Queensland Parliament precinct will need to provide proof of vaccination, via their Check-in Queensland app with a ‘green tick’.

Attendee’s status will be checked by Parliamentary Security as they pass through security screening on arrival to the Parliamentary Annexe. If any guest or visitor is unable to provide this they will need to produce one of the approved documents, as outlined in the Speaker’s directive accessible on the Queensland Parliament COVID 19 Response webpage.

In summary:

No person can enter the parliamentary precinct unless they are fully vaccinated or exempt. This does not apply to young people under the age of 16.
All visitors are required to check-in and prove their vaccination status via the ‘Check-in Queensland’ app or other accepted means.
Persons exempt from vaccination are required to wear a mask and cannot visit any food or beverage service on the precinct.

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 2:57 pm

Don’t these experts have any idea of how a market and economy operates?

They don’t want a market economy.

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 2:59 pm

Substitute “fully vaccinated” for “white”.

Looks good doesn’t it? Disgusting devils.

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 3:00 pm

Re the 500,000 chargers, when petrol cars first became common did the government build mass numbers of petrol stations to keep them going? Nope the market took care of that. Don’t these experts have any idea of how a market and economy operates?

They’re trying to bludgeon the economy into a form acceptable to them (the new establishment). My suspicion is they want to restrict private motor vehicle to the nomenklatura anyway.

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 3:11 pm

“Don’t these experts have any idea of how a market and economy operates?

They don’t want a market economy.”

Correct…this is all part of the Great Reset.

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 3:13 pm

Struth says:
March 2, 2022 at 9:00 am
Now KD.
You were desperate to get to your relatives interstate so you took the jab.
I understand that.
What the government did to you is to stand at an internal checkpoint and bar you access to your family and laughed in your face while they handed you a gun to point at your head and told you to pull the trigger Russian Roulette style, if you wanted to get to your family.
That is exactly what happened.
I didn’t do it.
Who should you be taking your anger out on?
How much anger should be taken out?
Hey, what’s done is done, I suppose.
If only Struth would shut up about it.
_______________________

Here at the cat the sympathy is with the, ‘if the jab kills the kids it can kill me to’, characters.

‘At least we died together.’, is not a humanity sustaining mindset, yet generations of Hollywood & TV drama’s, super boosted with ‘social media influencers’ making fake life look real, has made the romantic notion of, ‘laying eyes upon the grandchild’, something ‘worth dying for’, something ‘good people’ must do.

Staying alive & healthy where you are so you may be of some real life saving benefit in the future (like when Jabs make orphans of grandchildren), just isn’t sexy enough in this, ‘follow my treks across risky borders and tell me how wonderful I am’, age.

Kids won’t die if you don’t see them.
Ending up in State ‘Care’ because there’s no living & fit family left to care for them, does put them on a more likely road to an early death they with had come earlier still.

Winston Smith
March 2, 2022 3:15 pm

From Net Zero:
What we’ve been telling them to do for the last twenty years.

Razey
Razey
March 2, 2022 3:15 pm

Putins response to Biden speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Zatara
Zatara
March 2, 2022 3:18 pm

Everyone agrees we need to fund the police, not defund them! Fund them with resources.

Everyone Joe? Really? Have you told your party?

Play the tape Joe.

Zatara
Zatara
March 2, 2022 3:26 pm

Britain needs to ratchet up domestic gas production if it wants to win the war

Price of UK natural gas is up 600% in 10 months. I’m not sure they quite grasp the concept.

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 3:27 pm

Government by cadaver

Helen
Helen
March 2, 2022 3:30 pm

Those guys stealing the leads off the Tesla charging stations, has to be the Indians, they like the copper for their arrow heads.

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 3:30 pm

Old School Conservative says:
March 2, 2022 at 10:07 am

It appears that a global paedophile ring with account holders in Australia and NZ has been busted by NZ police.
The Australian, NZHerald, and StuffNZ are reporting large numbers of arrests and rescues of children.
Some of the abuse allegations are beyond distressing – barbaric is too kind a term.

Reading the details of the ages of the kids and the acts of depravity inflicted on them made me think of the death penalty.

If you are faint of heart, do not read the articles.

Remember when Trump shared similar opinions –

“Got to do something about these missing children grabbed by the perverts. Too many incidents–fast trial, death penalty.”
Donald Trump, Twitter · Oct 8, 2012

Remember what the filth did?

They tried to accuse him of what they were doing and/or invested in.

It’s SOP for such filth.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 3:32 pm

I can’t believe I am only hearing about this today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggCBSAzm23A

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 2, 2022 3:35 pm

The red shoes are in the tunnel.
I repeat.
The red shoes are in the tunnel.

Helen
Helen
March 2, 2022 3:37 pm

brandon, pelosi & kerry now retire to the greenroom for an octagenarian threesome. News at 11

the only things up will be Nance’s eyebrows and tits.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 2, 2022 3:45 pm

WATCH LIVE: President Joe Biden’s 2022 State of the Union address | PBS NewsHour Special Coverage
I’d rather watch grass grow.

It might be your last chance.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 2, 2022 3:46 pm

The next one might be in Chinese. How’s your Chinese?

Jorge
Jorge
March 2, 2022 3:46 pm

Joe’s idea of a SOTU is a half time address from the coach.

Seemingly at random he hardens his voice and ups the volume. Supposed to convey resolve and purpose but it sounds so fake.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 2, 2022 3:49 pm

Oh come onsays:
March 2, 2022 at 1:35 pm
SOTU update: Biden has an idea for corporate America: “I have a better way to fight inflation – lower your costs, not wages”

Would reducing the regulatory burden be too much to ask?

dopey
dopey
March 2, 2022 3:49 pm

Pelosi seemed to enjoy the speech.

pete of perth
pete of perth
March 2, 2022 3:50 pm

Joe’s Ukraine advisers. “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbour? Hell no” Future Senator Blutarsky
h/t SDA

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 3:53 pm

twostix says:
March 2, 2022 at 10:57 am

Firstly, the silence about the 2014 US-led coup and subsequent events.

Any “analysis” of current events in Ukraine that doesn’t deal heavily with the coup is just propaganda from the deep state for lickspittles of the deep state.

Yep, which is why I’ve been sharing these around the Net for years, including here and just recently at that, when certain quarters were trying to whitewash the Globalist Blood Money Laundry that’s been ‘Ukraine’ Govts for longer than eight years.

8 Months in Ukraine (Euromaidan – MH17)
5 hrs 09 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSx8HJfBl7U

True story of Ukraine Civil War (from the people of Donbass)
50 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Jme77Dfc4

Ukrainian agony – The concealed war
1 hr 42 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkFVNRZv2eM#t=5.52229

If you at least click & read the introductory information you’ll understand why some of us didn’t buy the, ‘poor little Ukraine’, stories instantly being pump out by the Pro-Hillary, Biden & Co MSM.

Better yet, download & save them for the education of your children.

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 3:57 pm

Joe’s idea of a SOTU is a half time address from the coach.

Seemingly at random he hardens his voice and ups the volume. Supposed to convey resolve and purpose but it sounds so fake.

the whole show just reeks of theft and illegitimacy, of corruption and decadence- a once great country being feasted on by criminals and wreckers

P
P
March 2, 2022 3:58 pm

Pelosi seemed to enjoy the speech.

Her best performance was when he spoke of ‘child care’.
She become excited and kept licking here lips every time he mentioned the words.
Strange.

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 2, 2022 3:58 pm

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has warned billionaire Clive Palmer he will face the full face of the law if he breaches Australian import, customs and sanctions laws through attempting to import a vintage Mercedes, once owned by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews is, as head of the Australian Federal Police, responsible for her police microwaving the protest crowd outside Parliament House.

She is every bit a totalitarian as Adolph Hitler, maybe she believes his car should be hers.

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 2, 2022 4:00 pm

Who wrote Joe’s State of the Union speech?
Psaki?

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 4:01 pm

“She become excited and kept licking here lips every time he mentioned the words.”

I thought Nancy only became excited and licked her lips about ice cream.

Helen
Helen
March 2, 2022 4:06 pm

She become excited and kept licking here lips every time he mentioned the words.

That is a very reptilian action …

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 2, 2022 4:06 pm

I recall another highway in an older war.
That Iranian (hat tip Joe) … sorry, Russian convoy in the Ukraine, is a long line of sitting ducks for anyone having a few Warthog ground attack planes or ground attack Helos.

Jorge
Jorge
March 2, 2022 4:10 pm

She was very smiley.

Prepped with a double martini which explains licking the lips.

Barry
Barry
March 2, 2022 4:16 pm

ATAGI seems to be lining up the ducks in preparation for revoking mRNA vaccine authorisation.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration is currently considering an application for whole of population use of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine as a booster following a two-dose course of either the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccine or the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Here’s my prediction: within 3 months the Provisional Determination for mRNA vaccines will be revoked, and all further vaccinations will be Novavax. There’s just too much swirling background data that points to mRNA vaccines not being safe enough, outside an Emergency situation. And clearly the emergency has passed, overtaken by events in Eastern Europe.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 2, 2022 4:16 pm

Ben Roberts-Smith’s accuser risked his life in Taliban battle but ‘politics’ robbed him of top medal, court hears

Perry Duffin
Senior Court Reporter
@perryduffin1
NCA NewsWire
35 minutes ago March 2, 2022

The SAS soldier, who accused Ben Roberts-Smith of kicking an unarmed Afghan off a cliff, has testified he risked his life in the ferocious moments that earned the decorated soldier a Victoria Cross, but never received the same award.

The unnamed SAS soldier said he was passed over for the military’s top accolade because Mr Roberts-Smith’s role in the battle had been “politicised”.

Mr Roberts-Smith is suing Nine newspapers and journalists over a series of articles claiming he killed six unarmed Afghans while deployed.

The SAS veteran denies every allegation — including Nine’s centrepiece claim that he kicked unarmed farmer Ali Jan down a sandy cliff in the village of Darwan in 2012.

Person 4, an anonymised SAS soldier, told the court this week that he saw Mr Roberts-Smith kick Mr Jan in the chest, catapulting him down the slope into a rock which “exploded” the teeth from the farmer’s head.

The unnamed SAS soldier told the court he and a third soldier dragged the injured farmer across a dry creek bed before the third soldier shot Mr Jan dead in front of Mr Roberts-Smith.

He denies being a source for Nine and now suffers from a range of mental health issues, including flashbacks about his time in Afghanistan.

The Federal Court, on Wednesday, heard emotional testimony from Person 4 about a mission in the town of Tizak in 2010.

Person 4 told the court his SAS patrol was pinned down by “sustained and accurate” two Taliban machine guns.

“I remember laying there and looking toward Roberts-Smith — he was ashen in face — and I looked toward Person 18 and he was ashen faced,” Person 4 said, his voice breaking.

“I remember distinctly I would have looked the same — I had a feeling of absolute dread and fear.”

Person 4 told the court he and Mr Roberts-Smith advanced toward the machine guns, flanking the Taliban while covering each other.

“I identified two muzzles from machine guns firing directly at us. A signature of gases, exhaust gases coming out of the barrels,” Person 4 said.

“As Roberts-Smith cleared the window he screamed at me ‘one dead enemy!’”

Person 4 said he exposed himself as Mr Roberts-Smith threw a grenade, and again when Mr Roberts-Smith downed the second gunner.

The soldier was seconds behind Mr Roberts-Smith, he told the court, and “100 per cent” believed he shot one of the gunners dead.

Two machine gunners would normally warrant an attack from 100 soldiers, Person 4 told the court, but it was only himself, Mr Roberts-Smith and later a third SAS soldier facing the muzzles.

“That action, for me, was the highlight of my professional career purely because — excuse me,” he said as his words caught in his throat.

“I didn’t let them down. We both supported each other. We overcame overwhelming odds together … There were only two of us that day, plus Person 32, that were able to overcome those odds.”

Person 4 told the court, within days, he heard he would receive the Victoria Cross but then the story became that Mr Roberts-Smith would be awarded the top medal instead.

Mr Roberts-Smith was awarded the Victoria Cross for Tizak in January 2011 and it would not be until 2013 that Person 4’s heroism was recognised with the Medal for Gallantry.

“I was upset that something as outstanding as what both (Mr Roberts-Smith) and myself did was politicised,” he told the court.

“They could have accepted the fact both of us did as much as each other that day.”

Person 4 told the court that 2010 was “the most violent year” in Afghanistan that claimed many lives and the government and military leaders needed a “good news story” so turned to Mr Roberts-Smith’s bravery at Tizak.

The SAS soldier said he felt Mr Roberts-Smith deserved the Victoria Cross, and said he never wanted to laud himself out of a sense of humility — but the award was used for political benefit.

He told the court it upset him.

Mr Roberts-Smith has told the court the Victoria Cross made his squadmates jealous and put a target on his back.

Last year, he said he felt the award was a recognition of the entire SAS troop’s efforts at Tizak.

“I will maintain until the day I die the Victoria Cross is for what we achieved, because you cannot go into battle alone. You have to do it together,” he said in evidence.

Mr Roberts-Smith’s barrister Arthur Moses SC has spent days grilling Person 4 over inconsistencies in his allegations and probing his mental health, including the SAS soldier’s memory issues.

But on Wednesday, Mr Moses championed Person 4 as someone who had shown “great acts of bravery” at Tizak.

Nine has claimed Mr Roberts-Smith in a 2009 raid ordered Person 4 to murder an unarmed Taliban fighter so he could be “blooded”.

Mr Roberts-Smith has totally denied that allegation and Person 4 refused to answer questions about the allegation on the grounds of “self-incrimination”.

The court has heard immunity certificates, handed to SAS soldiers testifying in the case, do not protect them from investigation or prosecution in international courts and offer only limited protections in Australia.

The trial continues.

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