Open Thread – Weekend 12 March 2022


The Jägerzeile in Vienna, Rudolf von Alt, 1844

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Delta A
Delta A
March 13, 2022 5:15 pm

Tinta, lovely to see you here; a rare break in your hectic life.

Hope all is well with you.

Dot
Dot
March 13, 2022 5:16 pm

The so called “gay bill” reminds me of the bullshit about the “gay panic defence” being used to repeal provocation.

Let’s call it the women’s sexual violence defence and have it reinstalled.

calli
calli
March 13, 2022 5:20 pm

Looking at a newborn, a normal person’s reaction is immediately, “I must protect this.”. Any newborn, whether yours or someone else’s. Something deep within us kicks in – a desire to defend the defenceless.

This key character trait is missing in some people. Their conscience is so scarred over, whether by past history or present evil thought, that they can’t react in a way most would consider “normal”.

This is why the current movers and shakers are so anxious to redefine what it is to be “normal”. It isn’t because they feel abnormal, it’s because they want us to be just like them.

calli
calli
March 13, 2022 5:22 pm

I once heard Singer deriding the techniques of intensive animal farming. He likened it to concentration camps and death chambers.

Of course, to the warped mind, human beings are far less worthy than chooks and piglets.

Beertruk
Beertruk
March 13, 2022 5:24 pm

Jesus wept.
Now this shit:
Zach Rolfe to be served discipline breach notices by top brass after not guilty verdict
by David Wood | 13Mar 2022
The NT Police executive have notified the union representing police that it intends to issue new disciplinary notices on Constable Zach Rolfe, who was on Friday cleared of murder by a Supreme Court jury, which would officially continue his suspension from service, the NT Independent understands.

The details of the latest disciplinary notices remain unclear, but would be added to a number of notices the executive served on Constable Rolfe after he was first arrested, sources have said.

One well-placed police source said one of the latest breaches was for speaking to the media, particularly an interview with The Australian, where he said the NT Police executive told lies.

He is expected to be formally issued the notices through Police Professional Standards Command, headed up by Assistant Commissioner Bruce Porter, for also speaking to the media without first obtaining permission on the steps of the Supreme Court, shortly after his not guilty verdict – in which he had said he was giving that space to Kumanjayi Walker’s family and community and refrained from any substantial comment.

It’s understood more breaches could also be filed for other matters.

Four police sources have confirmed that he has already been served other disciplinary notices, or what are called Section 79s in the force, pertaining to that part of the Police Administration Act.

Several sources have said police went through every one of his jobs and emails over his NT policing career since 2016, after he was charged with murder for the shooting death of Mr Walker in 2019.

This would include evaluating body-worn camera vision, and talking to people who he arrested about whether he swore or used excessive force.

“Executive are fearful that he wants to return to work with NT Police, and these discipline breaches, which are trivial, are designed to stonewall his return to work,” one source said.

“It is an incredible situation, and grubby from a toxic management culture.”

Another source said there were seven or eight disciplinary notices that had already been served.

“They would be for things like offensive language and excessive force and they would have gone out and interviewed Aborginal people who he arrested and showed them a picture of Zach and asked them if he had been too rough with them,” they said.

“They started after he was arrested, and had fuck-all, but they went through body-worn camera footage.

“This is management trying to save face, ‘we didn’t get him on murder but we did get him on using excessive force’.”

Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker was criticised over his public statement on Friday following the not guilty verdict, in which he failed to effectively communicate with the public and took no questions from the media.

Mr Chalker made no reference to Mr Rolfe, his family, the community of Yuendumu, Mr Walker’s family or anything to do with a Supreme Court murder trial.

There were about four Assistant Commissioners in the police top brass who resigned last year, including Nick Anticich who was central to the criminal charges against Mr Rolfe.

Sources had previously said Assistant Commissioner Narelle Beer quit the force late last year, partly because she felt “used” by the executive when charges were laid against Constable Rolfe.

On Friday, the CLP called for an independent inquiry into the decision to charge Constable Rolfe with murder, stating that Chief Minister Michael Gunner needs to answer “serious questions over the appearance of political interference”.

“The extraordinary circumstances surrounding the decision to charge and bring Constable Rolfe to trial requires nothing less than a full, independent, inquiry,” CLP Leader Lia Finocchiaro said.

Who would want to be a policeman in the NT after this.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 13, 2022 5:25 pm

The NT Police executive have notified the union representing police that it intends to issue new disciplinary notices on Constable Zach Rolfe, who was on Friday cleared of murder by a Supreme Court jury, which would officially continue his suspension from service, the NT Independent understands.

The details of the latest disciplinary notices remain unclear, but would be added to a number of notices the executive served on Constable Rolfe after he was first arrested, sources have said.

The executive notified the union of the new alleged breaches just hours after the verdict was handed down on Friday afternoon.

One well-placed police source said one of the latest breaches was for speaking to the media, particularly an interview with The Australian, where he said the NT Police executive told lies.

He is expected to be formally issued the notices through Police Professional Standards Command, headed up by Assistant Commissioner Bruce Porter, for also speaking to the media without first obtaining permission on the steps of the Supreme Court, shortly after his not guilty verdict – in which he had said he was giving that space to Kumanjayi Walker’s family and community and refrained from any substantial comment.

It’s understood more breaches could also be filed for other matters.

NT Independent

Makka
Makka
March 13, 2022 5:27 pm

It isn’t because they feel abnormal, it’s because they want us to be just like them.

I don’t know calli. I suspect they really do know they are deviant evil scum but because they have the power now, they want to use it to cover their abominations in a legal sense. Also solidify their hold over the “normal” narrative. In any case, I don’t buy the they are sick line. They are just evil deviants with power and they want to attract more of their kind to the cause.

JC
JC
March 13, 2022 5:28 pm

H B Bear says:
March 13, 2022 at 3:45 pm
JC at 1:44 – watch it mate. Us walker users stick together. Except for Harvey Weinstein, what a jerk.

Dude, the landwhale started it .I’m the innocent party.

Winston Smith
March 13, 2022 5:28 pm

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-green-immoralists_4331284.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2022-03-12&utm_medium=email&est=VgmSBIYAhY6I4uWeth8WwmcqJhHUd9v5TxhjvzHAEjvkJP2GfGaSB7TB9QR42%2FxD

Thousands are dying from Russian missiles and bombs in the suburbs of Ukraine.
In response, the Biden administration’s climate-change envoy, multimillionaire and private-jet-owning John Kerry, laments that Russian President Vladimir Putin might no longer remain his partner in reducing global warming.

It does really show the Greens contempt for human life – not everyone’s lives, just the lives of people not in their tribe.

calli
calli
March 13, 2022 5:29 pm

Perhaps, Makka.

What I got from Singer and Ehrlich is righteous fervour.

There may be some with consciences. I hope so.

Delta A
Delta A
March 13, 2022 5:30 pm

A proposed Democrat law in Maryland will allow for babies to be killed within 28 days of being born, says a legal expert from the ACLJ.

If legislated, this vile law will eventually be adopted far and wide, lauded by the progressives. And decent people will lament this slippery slope, warning that the ‘law’ could easily be stretched out to allow for the killing of babies up to three months of age, then six, twelve and… who knows where it would end.

And again, liberals will accuse us of being conspiracy theorists. Until it happens.

Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 5:30 pm

“The NT Police executive have notified the union representing police that it intends to issue new disciplinary notices on Constable Zach Rolfe, who was on Friday cleared of murder by a Supreme Court jury, which would officially continue his suspension from service, the NT Independent understands.”

They know Rolfe was unfairly charged, they know it was bullshit from day one but they’re still determined to destroy him. This is further confirmation that, from the beginning, it was a political hatchet job, charges were laid to appease a left-wing state government, a corrupt MSM and progressives across this country. It failed in the courts but they’ll still persist in their attempts to to destroy the young man. It is like the Pell saga, remember how, shortly after the unanimous HC verdict, Christian Porter* quickly prepared released the RC findings.

* Given what happened to Porter, I wonder if he regrets participating in the Pell lynching?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 13, 2022 5:31 pm

The NT Police executive have notified the union representing police that it intends to issue new disciplinary notices on Constable Zach Rolfe, who was on Friday cleared of murder by a Supreme Court jury, which would officially continue his suspension from service, the NT Independent understands.

Good luck with recruiting for Northern Territory police force after this….

Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 5:34 pm

“Of course, to the warped mind, human beings are far less worthy than chooks and piglets.”

This is modern progressivism to a tee……climate change, euthanasia, abortion are all core, sacred tenets of the evil cult of progressivism. Their central tenet is that human beings are destroyers and thus must be destroyed.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 13, 2022 5:34 pm

Ita Buttrose applauds Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins Nick Tabakoff

11 minutes ago March 13, 2022
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ABC chair Ita Buttrose has revealed she is a big fan of Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins, claiming they have given women a voice lost “since the 1960s and 1970s when women’s lib was alive and well”.

Buttrose claims the pair have become crucial “role models”.

“Brave women like Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame have spoken out – they’ve refused to be silenced,” she said in a low-key interview with the Ten Network’s morning show, Studio 10 last week.

“They’ve really been great role models for other women. I think other women are looking at (them) thinking: ‘If they can do it, I can do it.’ And I think that’s been a very big step.”

Her open support came as Tame continued to show no fear about attacking the man who appointed Buttrose as ABC chair: Scott Morrison.

Tame told an Adelaide Writers’ Week panel last week that the Prime Minister was “not authentic, to say the least” and “more concerned with maintaining power and control than running the country”.

The comments came weeks after remarks by the PM’s wife in a 60 Minutes interview. Jenny Morrison said Tame’s behaviour in refusing to smile at an Australian of the Year function in January was “disappointing”, and lacking in “manners and respect”.

But Buttrose has made the case on Studio 10 that the forthright Tame and Higgins had encouraged women to speak up.

“Women have found their voice again,” she said. “And because we’ve found our voice again, I think it will be more encompassing of those women who feel they may have been left behind.”

Buttrose said she had learnt throughout her career that being a woman in a leadership position was all about winning “respect”, rather than popularity for its own sake.

Posted on the Oz website 11 minutes ago – just closed for commenting.

Winston Smith
March 13, 2022 5:34 pm

MiltonF:

I’ve always wondered how anyone in the abortion business can sleep at night. Must be pyschopathic

Psychopathic/Sociopathic – I think the dividing line between the two is so fine as to be indistinguishable.

132andBush
132andBush
March 13, 2022 5:37 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
March 13, 2022 at 2:33 pm
sfwsays:

March 13, 2022 at 1:38 pm

Sancho, if you’re that immature and hot headed …
Really sfw?
At what point did I say I lost my rag?
It was a bit of an eyeroll when he didn’t move over, but not the end of the world.
Yeah, I gave him a toot when I knew he was using his phone. A perfectly legitimate use of the hooter (alerting someone to a road hazard – ie himself).
The hand signal? Merely a wave to attract his attention after I was well forward of him.
As for slowing on a long incline and maintaining a safe distance in front of him, and not impeding other traffic (there was none), how is that dangerous or “being a hot-head”?
Truth is, we were having a giggle at the moron’s antics.
A bit of light entertainment to break up a long trip.

No doubt relying on the “technology “ to bing bong him back into his lane if necessary.

Don’t know what you were worried about.

Beertruk
Beertruk
March 13, 2022 5:37 pm

And again, liberals will accuse us of being conspiracy theorists. Until it happens.

Been happening since the dawn of time.

Delta A
Delta A
March 13, 2022 5:38 pm

callisays:
March 13, 2022 at 5:20 pm

Excellent post, calli.

My thoughts exactly.

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 13, 2022 5:40 pm

Why won’t tired old hangovers from the sexual revolution just go away? Oh because Morrison resurected her.

Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 5:41 pm

“Ita Buttrose applauds Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins Nick Tabakoff”

LOL…Ita Buttrose was Scumbag’s choice. He really thought he was on a winner.

Again I ask, isn’t this prejudicial to the upcoming trial?

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 13, 2022 5:42 pm

I was told a psychopath wants to cause you grief and a sociopath just doesn’t care.

Speedbox
March 13, 2022 5:43 pm

dover0beach says:
March 13, 2022 at 1:28 pm
Watching ‘Ukraine on Fire’ atm. So far so good.

Excellent doco. Everybody needs to see this.

https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html

Winston Smith
March 13, 2022 5:43 pm

Beertruk:

The NT Police executive have notified the union representing police that it intends to issue new disciplinary notices on Constable Zach Rolfe, who was on Friday cleared of murder by a Supreme Court jury, which would officially continue his suspension from service, the NT Independent understands.

Purge the top three layers + the Minister responsible.
I mean that – there must be consequences for this behaviour.

Roger
Roger
March 13, 2022 5:44 pm

“Ita Buttrose applauds Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins Nick Tabakoff

In light of the upcoming trial, I’d suggest Brittany and her boosters need to back off.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 5:45 pm

H B Bearsays:

March 13, 2022 at 3:45 pm

JC at 1:44 – watch it mate. Us walker users stick together. Except for Harvey Weinstein, what a jerk.

Another “Curb Your Enthusiasm” reference.
I have said for ages that Larry’s sidekick in the show (fat Jeff) was a total pisstake of Weinstein.
“Jeff” is an absolute grub, but I guess they had to be careful of litigation in the early days, so didn’t make overt references.
One of the episodes I saw last night must have been filmed after the Fall of Harvey.
Every second character was abusing Jeff, and calling him Harvey Weinstein.
Larry David is the best comedy writer in the USA, daylight second, Dave Schapelle third.

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 13, 2022 5:45 pm

It’s interesting to contemplate what damage Cleo and Dolly may have done to society

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 13, 2022 5:48 pm

As long as the dollars rolled in for the Packers all was good

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 5:50 pm

“Winston Smith says:
March 13, 2022 at 4:51 pm

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/breaking-four-west-point-cadets-overdose-fentanyl-laced-cocaine-vrbo-ft-lauderdale-two-cadets-hospitalized-giving-mouth-mouth/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily

It looks like the Chinese Fentanyl War is working…
________________________-

It can’t be.

We’ve all been loudly reassured that enemy nations don’t use drugs to weaken & kill off those of fighting age in the nations they aim to destroy & enslave.

See, you sell drugs to your enemies to make the money to build & arm an army to take out those of fighting age in the nations you’re already successfully attacking with drugs & the cartels that move them into & destroy every class & neighbourhood …

Yeah I know, it didn’t make sense every other time the, ‘champions of deadly drugs for all who want them’, tried to explain it.

Beertruk
Beertruk
March 13, 2022 5:55 pm

Purge the top three layers + the Minister responsible.
I mean that – there must be consequences for this behaviour.

Winston, yes, it is bloody disgraceful.
Wonder how many of the rank and file will leave knowing that the hierarchy ‘because narrative’ won’t back them up when they have done the right thing. As Zulu said,‘Good luck with recruiting for Northern Territory police force after this….’

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 5:56 pm

Thanks for posting this, it needs to shared & discussed widely, but it’s not something I can give a ‘thumbs up’ to, lest it be taken as approval of the proposed evil.

Winston Smith says:
March 13, 2022 at 4:53 pm

A proposed Democrat law in Maryland will allow for babies to be killed within 28 days of being born, says a legal expert from the ACLJ.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/proposed-maryland-law-allow-babies-killed-within-28-days-birth/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 5:57 pm

Frank’s inability to merge correctly and him slowing down a heavy vehicle going up a hill could be reported as road rage …

Well, reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit is it St Ruth?
Merging incorrectly?
As we came to the merge point and it was apparent he wasn’t moving over I slowed (having already checked there was no-one up my arse coming down the on-ramp) and pulled in a safe distance behind him in the left lane.
Flawless execution of the merge, if I may say so myself.
As for “slowing down a heavy vehicle going up a hill”, once again you have it arse about. He was driving a pretty old shit-box (pre AdBlue by the look of the smoke he was pouring out) and couldn’t make speed going up the rise. I didn’t slow his pace, I just remained 100-150 metres in front to watch his arm waving/light flashing antics in the mirror, and I maintained that distance until speed dropped to 70-75 kmh. That was the point. He was fucking desparate to catch me but didn’t have the horses.
Where does it say in the Laws of The Road that a motorist must maximise speed to get away from a smoke-belching shit-box?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 13, 2022 5:58 pm

Groogs a bit late to the frontier wars.

Delta A
Delta A
March 13, 2022 5:58 pm

It’s interesting to contemplate what damage Cleo and Dolly may have done to society

Those magazines pushed the ‘you go gurrl!’ mentality, convincing the airhead readership that their vapid, one-dimensional witterings were were on par with the musings of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

It hasn’t turned out well.

Rabz
March 13, 2022 5:58 pm

I have said for ages that Larry’s sidekick in the show (fat Jeff) was a total pisstake of Weinstein.

Ahem, Pancho – last series, Jeff gets accosted by a dragon who mistakes him for poor ol’ Harvs. She then gives Larry a blast for being seen in public with him.

Another classic exchange from that season:

Black Hippie Chick: “You’d lie to people to impress them?”
Larry: “How else do you it?”

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 13, 2022 5:59 pm

Boambee Johnsays:
March 13, 2022 at 5:12 pm

Yes what a piece of diabolical work is Peter Singer — he proposes the murder of children up to the age of 5 given that he believes they have no self-awareness — I know only in academia — Peter Singer also used to have fascinating debates with a highly intelligent (certainly more sentient and intelligent than he) and very articulate woman Harriet McBryde Johnson — she used to totally shame him and his vile ideas — what a gal against a most inhuman creature — someone asked him whether he would kill his won child — nothing doing on that score.

Siltstone
Siltstone
March 13, 2022 5:59 pm

Cassie, Figures apologised at 4:58

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 13, 2022 6:02 pm

Yep, not sure I’d be jumping on the Brittany bandwagon till the appeals window closes. You finished those tapes yet Groogs? Chop chop.

Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 6:04 pm

“Siltstonesays:
March 13, 2022 at 5:59 pm
Cassie, Figures apologised at 4:58”

Yes, I saw the retraction. I hadn’t seen it when I posted my comments. We can all post stupid things here on occasion.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 13, 2022 6:05 pm

Delta Asays:
March 13, 2022 at 5:15 pm
Tinta, lovely to see you here; a rare break in your hectic life.

Hope all is well with you.

Thank you Delta A, getting there — family is fine but the floods have been devastating in my hometown and in Lismore where I have many relatives but they are on higher ground, rellies in Coraki and Casino affected. The family home in which we grew up is still owned by the family and in over 100 years it has never had water enter the house, but this time 6 inches of water inside the house. So many friends in my hometown totally devastated, never ever seen anything like this in their lifetimes,. They say it is a bigger flood than in 1880. But the sun will shine again and people will get back to getting back their lives.

Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 6:06 pm

“Those magazines pushed the ‘you go gurrl!’ mentality, convincing the airhead readership that their vapid, one-dimensional witterings were were on par with the musings of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

It hasn’t turned out well.”

No it hasn’t, young girls have been fed lies by such magazines.

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 13, 2022 6:08 pm

As someone posted above, biggles will keep his car/truck adventure going for a day or two & wait until his gang read their emails it will get another boost.
Biggles you have had more adventures than Noddy.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 13, 2022 6:08 pm

It’s interesting to contemplate what damage Cleo and Dolly may have done to society

Only anecdotal (he he) but it seems a lot more women having babies younger. Seems only GenX and Y women of a certain vintage bought that bullshit that they could have it all.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 6:08 pm

No doubt relying on the “technology “ to bing bong him back into his lane if necessary.

Ah, Bush, I don’t think this vehicle would have been fitted with Bing-Bong technology.
It looked like the sort of rig a farmer might have to cart hay and livestock between out-paddocks, not a long-haul interstate rig.
(No disrespect to farmers.
Just horses for courses.
If most farmers have $500k to spend on kit it goes into core stuff like headers and tractors).

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 13, 2022 6:10 pm

Crack open the Woodstock. Runny’s here.

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 6:11 pm

Tintarella di Luna says:
March 13, 2022 at 4:58 pm

A proposed Democrat law in Maryland will allow for babies to be killed within 28 days of being born, says a legal expert from the ACLJ.

Looks like the after-birth abortion is coming to fruition so to speak – who are the unspeakable creatures that dream this evil up and then try to implement it, more interesting still are those who draft the legislation – are they even human?

Peter Singer still tops my list of, ‘The Worst Things Australia Did To The World.’

Oh, I’m sure there are others worse still, but that Singer still gets lauded as a, ‘rightly influential ethicist’, and hasn’t fallen on his face in desperate repentance, means he’s also selling the idea that fame, fortune & respect await those who’ll continue his ‘work’ with the same gusto.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 13, 2022 6:14 pm

Wonder how many of the rank and file will leave knowing that the hierarchy ‘because narrative’ won’t back them up when they have done the right thing.

Round figures?
None.
The guy is a loose cannon.
Sure, he beat a Murder Charge, but he can’t realistically be sent out to police Aborigines again, so that means a Desk Job in Darwin somewhere.
Imagine turning up for work at the Coffee n’ Donut Express
at 7:59 am and finding out who your new workmate is?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 13, 2022 6:17 pm

Peter Singer also used to have fascinating debates with a highly intelligent (certainly more sentient and intelligent than he) and very articulate woman Harriet McBryde Johnson — she used to totally shame him and his vile ideas — what a gal against a most inhuman creature — someone asked him whether he would kill his won child — nothing doing on that score.

Tinta

Singer is also big on “voluntary” assisted dying, for those he regards as too old to be useful. Yet, IIRC, when his own mother required full time support, he did not have her “assisted”, but paid for her care in a nursing home.

Rules for thee, and different rules for he. Hypocrite.

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 6:17 pm

I’d like to know who will be tasked with carrying out the executions, should this proposed law be implemented.

Leaving the babies to dehydrate, freeze, starve etc. is considered ‘nature taking it’s course’, and not at all a cruel, slow, suffering death, as so many babies have suffered after having the fight in them to have survived their abortions.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 13, 2022 6:20 pm

Tinta

PS, Singer is now 75, approaching 76. I wonder at what age he will set his own “voluntary assistance” date?

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 6:21 pm

Miltonfsays:
March 13, 2022 at 5:12 pm

I’ve always wondered how anyone in the abortion business can sleep at night. Must be pyschopathic

Yep, and they aren’t only found in the abortion arm of ‘health care’ & ‘medicine’.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 13, 2022 6:22 pm

John Kerry, laments that Russian President Vladimir Putin might no longer remain his partner in reducing global warming.

Maybe he should swap to backing the Ukrainians.

Time is running out to counteract global climate change (Phys.org, 11 Mar)

The increase in emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is only one of several serious global threats to our continued existence on Earth, and their reduction is at the core of international agreements like the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Together with Ukrainian colleagues, IIASA researchers took a novel approach to further the understanding of the planetary burden and its dynamics caused by emissions from human activity.

In order to better understand the burden of human activity and its dynamics on the planet, specifically as it relates to the effects of the continued increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global warming, researchers from IIASA and the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine, approached the problem from a “stress–strain” perspective.

You’d a thunk the Lviv Polytechnic National University might have something more on their mind right now than Gaia’s unholy flatus.

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 13, 2022 6:23 pm

Pass me one bare brains.

win
win
March 13, 2022 6:24 pm

Funny how the ABC prior to an election comes up with a killer four corners for the Liberal Nationals. Remember the NT elections and Dylan Voller spit hood episode. An Indigenous premier lost government for a distorted mendacious hit job.

Winston Smith
March 13, 2022 6:27 pm

Has anyone heard of this group “Create Abundance”?
I hadn’t heard of it before but apparently they’ve been in Canada for some time.
Somewhat like the Confucius Institutes?

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 13, 2022 6:29 pm

What I got from Singer and Ehrlich is righteous fervour

Will ‘they hate you and want you dead’ suffice?

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 6:31 pm

Good luck with recruiting for Northern Territory police force after this….

Yeah but if you WANT to recruit out of State & out of Country (you know, to do some serious head kicking of locals who still believe they have rights), then action like that is just what you need to claim you’re being ‘forced’ to recruit O/S.

sfw
sfw
March 13, 2022 6:35 pm

When I was in my teens, my Dad an accident investigator for vicpol, told me “There’s two things that most people won’t admit to, being a bad lover and being a bad driver”. I see the evidence today.

Winston Smith
March 13, 2022 6:37 pm

Does anyone know what this means on Facebook?

Account Restricted
Your posts will be moved lower in News Feed for at least 90 days.

It says only I can see this, but I keep getting replies from others.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 6:40 pm

sfw.
But you failed to explain which parts of the story were “bad driving”, apart from the truckie on his mobile.
Can you describe any other parts of my story which would go close to justifying a charge of dangerous or careless driving on my part?
Please cite examples of accidents caused by these types of actions.
Off you go.

Roger
Roger
March 13, 2022 6:40 pm

John Kerry laments that Russian President Vladimir Putin might no longer remain his partner in reducing global warming.

Don’t tell me Putin’s not offsetting the emissions of his invasion?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 13, 2022 6:42 pm

The guy is a loose cannon.
Sure, he beat a Murder Charge, but he can’t realistically be sent out to police Aborigines again, so that means a Desk Job in Darwin somewhere.

The second sentence contradicts your first smooth brain.

If he had been a ‘loose cannon” then he would have been found guilty on one of the 3 charges available against him.
Instead he was found to have acted appropriately and no judicial sanction was imposed.

Are you trying to slither into the 7-Nilligan skin suit for court wrongology again?

calli
calli
March 13, 2022 6:47 pm

We can all post stupid things here on occasion.

And what a rich seam it is!

I hope I have made an adequate contribution.

Rabz
March 13, 2022 6:47 pm

The Ehrlich, 1975: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.” And humanity has lost. In the 1970s, “hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” No matter what people do, “nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.”

Perfesser Dim Flummery, 2007: “Even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems”

Health Hazzard, 2021: “Omicron is going to kill you, your family and your friends, I tells ya*”

Are we detecting a pattern here, Cats?

*Last three words in the quote may not necessarily be word perfect …

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 13, 2022 6:47 pm

Lambie in mea culpa on failure to keep donation disclosure promise after questions raised by The Australian

Exclusive
Matthew Denholm
TASMANIA CORRESPONDENT
@MatthewRDenholm
2 hours ago March 13, 2022

Jacqui Lambie – who promised leading donation disclosure and frequently lambasts other politicians over shoddy transparency – has conceded keeping the detail of her own donations secret for almost two years.

The Tasmanian senator promised she and her party would have “the most transparent donation policy in the country” and to publish “the most detailed breakdown of our donations of any political party”.

This was to include quarterly reports on her website, the first of which she promised would be published on March 31, 2020 – almost two years ago.

As of Friday morning last week, no such details had been provided by Senator Lambie for any quarter, while her Australian Electoral Commission disclosure identified the source of just $5,960 – 1.3 per cent – of her $458,428 declared donations.

After queries from The Australian during last week, however, Senator Lambie suddenly published the missing quarterly reports on her website late on Friday, Tweeting:

“Had a journalist ask about our political donations. We value transparency. So, here’s everything.”

Senator Lambie’s office thanked The Australian for bringing the disclosure failure to night. Release of information late on Friday is a common tactic by politicians looking to “bury” or avoid scrutiny of an announcement or development.

The outspoken senator conceded she had failed to deliver promised transparency but argued the data now released showed her Jacqui Lambie Network party was grassroots.

“We committed to go above and beyond the legislative requirement and regularly publish the most comprehensive donation reports in the country – and we didn‘t,” a JLN spokeswoman conceded.

Median donation is $27

“We think everyone has a right to know who‘s donating and how much. And we’re putting ourselves out there as the first party to do something about it. That’s why we’re publishing all outstanding quarterly disclosures.

“The Jacqui Lambie Network is entirely funded by small donations from people who’ve often never given anything to a political party before. We’re proud our median donation is $27. We don’t rely on funding from millionaires, corporations or unions.”

Senator Lambie stood by her support for tougher donation disclosure laws, which currently only require disclosure of donations above $14,500.

“Donation transparency laws are rubbish,” her spokeswoman said. “They should be fixed. It‘s an embarrassment for the Liberals that they’ve had eight years to fix them.”

Senator Lambie has recently been spending on advertising in the hope of securing the election of her office manager, Tammy Tyrell, to Tasmania’s sixth Senate spot.

Political sources estimate Senator Lambie or the JLN has spent at least $65,000 on Facebook advertising since 2020, in additional to expensive billboard ads.

The data now released by Senator Lambie appears to support her claim to rely on individual donors, with the largest listed donation of $5,005 coming from an Adam Gillett.

Only one other donor is named, a Sarah Ross, who donated $3,848. The otherwise de-identified data suggests total donations ranging from $40,293 to $158,093 per quarter, with the number of donors ranging from 1,114 to 5,458.

The average donation per quarter since the start of 2020 has ranged from $25 to $39, while the median has ranged from $20 to $27.

In the last quarter of 2021, $61,466 came from NSW and the ACT; $45,769 from Victoria; $18,058 from Qld; $12,449 from Tasmania; $10,507 from WA; $8,506 from SA, and; $1,188 from the NT.

A Liberal campaign spokesman said Senator Lambie had been “caught out deceiving Tasmanians”. “This is further proof that we need to look at what Senator Lambie actually does, not what she says,” he said.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 13, 2022 6:51 pm

Perry Mason Alert:

If he had been a ‘loose cannon” then he would have been found guilty on one of the 3 charges available against him.

Ever heard of Jury Nullification?

Instead he was found to have acted appropriately and no judicial sanction was imposed.

Nothing of the sort was determined.
Bottom line:
Obviously no one wants him back, but if he wants to play the victim, it wouldn’t be surprising if a few more interesting details of his Police and Army careers fell off the back of a truck.

Roger
Roger
March 13, 2022 6:55 pm

The Ehrlich, 1975: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.”

Pfft.

Norman Borlaug had already solved that problem.

rickw
rickw
March 13, 2022 6:56 pm

A proposed Democrat law in Maryland will allow for babies to be killed within 28 days of being born, says a legal expert from the ACLJ.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Southpark) perfectly predicted where left wing insanity and sickness end up.

Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 6:56 pm

So the bush pig is a hypocrite.

So surprises there.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 13, 2022 6:58 pm

but he can’t realistically be sent out to police Aborigines again

Why not? He’s hardly likely ever to have someone try and jab a pair of scissors into him.

Rabz
March 13, 2022 6:59 pm

allow for babies to be killed within 28 days of being born

Straight out of the Singer’s playbook.

Collectivist “intellectuals”. Where would we be without them?

Probably in a much better place, although I’d prefer to be on a different planet to them.

Rabz
March 13, 2022 7:00 pm

The Jacqui Jackie Lambie Network

Gifted to you by your taxes, Cats (again).

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 13, 2022 7:06 pm

Why not? He’s hardly likely ever to have someone try and jab a pair of scissors into him.

Nail scissors, he didn’t even need a stitch.
The Arrest was foolhardy and it put his colleagues at significant risk.
No one in their right mind would want to work with him again and the Police hierarchy have a Duty Of Care to other Police as well as the general public.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 13, 2022 7:06 pm

Mole’s post this morning re the Church committee was really good.
The US needs another Church committee.
The problem is the alphabet agencies are too far gone.

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 7:07 pm

RedState @RedState
· 35m
School District Hires ‘Antiracist’ Consultants to Ask Parents if Kids Are Taught Enough About Racism

School District Hires ‘Antiracist’ Consultants to Ask Parents if Kids Are Taught Enough About Racism

Young children are being programmed without the words “critical race theory” even being used.
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2022/03/12/school-district-hires-antiracist-consultants-to-ask-parents-if-kids-are-taught-enough-about-racism-n535276
redstate.com

https://gettr.com/post/pzmosmc1a5
Posted on 6:30 PM · Mar 13th, 2022

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 13, 2022 7:08 pm

“There’s two things that most people won’t admit to, being a bad lover and being a bad driver”

I admit to not being the best driver in the world, so I drive slowly in a sedate car and keep left so the rev heads can pass. Darwin always is lurking. Speaking of which we have a new Pussey.

Two men critical, two others injured after driver alleged to be fleeing a stabbing scene collided with a police van (Sky, 13 Mar)

Inspector Craig White from Moreton Police said two officers and a police recruit – who is due to be sworn in as police officer on March 24 – were involved in the crash.

A male senior constable who was driving the van suffered critical chest, leg and arm injuries, and is undergoing emergency surgery.

A male constable and a female recruit were also taken to hospital – one in a serious but stable condition and one in a stable condition.

Police say it’s too early to confirm whether the man intentionally drove head-on into the police van following the stabbing.

Fortunately he only put three police in hospital. If he’d taken photos he’d be in serious trouble.

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 7:08 pm

A_Solzhenitsyn ?
@A_Solzhenitsyn
·
42m
They tried to kill us all with their poison vaccines. Yet people still want to believe their commie bullshit.

They’ve dumbed down the population to the point where we deserve what’s coming.

sfw
sfw
March 13, 2022 7:09 pm

Sancho, I always read your comments and generally they’re pretty good, you do attack Struth as a man rather than his arguments and that’s disappointing. Now you plainly had a minor case of road rage, any reasonable person would’ve reflected on that, and realised it’s a mugs game and often leads to unwanted consequences. I was a member of vicpol (not HP) and rarely gave a ticket for road offences but in your case I would’ve given a hamburger with the lot, and put the truckies rego in my file for later on.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 13, 2022 7:10 pm

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed his readiness for negotiations with Russia. He requested that the Israeli prime minister convene peace talks in Jerusalem

This is over.
The military contractors will get a couple hundred billion over the next decade from Germany increasing its defence spend to 2% of GDP.
I was reading today that of the $US1.5trill bill passed in the US, $US20bill will get washed through Ukraine.
Now the whole thing can resemble a stalemate now that initial funding is locked in.

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 7:10 pm

Tim Gill @Timinator88
· 49m
Pfizer Was Fully Aware That Their ‘Vaccines’ Were Unsafe

Robert Kennedy Jr: “Your chance of dying of a heart attack from that vaccine, according to their own studies, is 500% greater than if you’re unvaccinated, so they knew they were gonna kill a lot of people, and they did it anyway.”

[video clip]
https://gettr.com/post/pzqyq675af
Posted on 6:19 PM · Mar 13th, 2022

Kev
Kev
March 13, 2022 7:13 pm

Obviously no one wants him back, but if he wants to play the victim, it wouldn’t be surprising if a few more interesting details of his Police and Army careers fell off the back of a truck.
How can you be so consistently wrong – the only thing falling off the back of a truck is your logic and rationale. Are you like Numbers, just being contrary to initiate debate?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 13, 2022 7:14 pm

Ever heard of Jury Nullification?

Grigglebot peers deep into the hearts and minds of the jury* and divines their true motivation for the not guilty on all charges verdict.

Nothing of the sort was determined.
Not guilty, all charges.

Obviously no one wants him back, but if he wants to play the victim,

Not guilty.
Free as a bird.
Supported by his union.

it wouldn’t be surprising if a few more interesting details of his Police and Army careers fell off the back of a truck.

In this episode the grigglebot takes the moral high ground against a person who has been found not guilty by approving of the institution which humiliated itself trawling for dirt in unrelated incidents to try and save face.
Its super ineffective.

* If jury is what it calls the floor mirror it squats over when its engaged in deep thoughts. Kind of like a badly wiped eye of Sauron, but with more piles.

Rabz
March 13, 2022 7:15 pm

two things that most men won’t admit to, being a bad lover and being a bad driver

Is this in any way even remotely surprising? 😕

Roger
Roger
March 13, 2022 7:22 pm

Arms shipments are a legitimate military target, Kremlin warns West.

Crossie
Crossie
March 13, 2022 7:23 pm

Who would want to be a policeman in the NT after this.

Or anywhere except Victoria.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 13, 2022 7:23 pm

Larry David is the best comedy writer in the USA, daylight second, Dave Schapelle third.

You’d be surprised how much Colin Quinn & Louis CK have written for others over the last 30 years.
Norm Macdonald got so much credit for his delivery (rightfully so) but so much was written by Colin Quinn.

Crossie
Crossie
March 13, 2022 7:25 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
March 13, 2022 at 5:34 pm
“Of course, to the warped mind, human beings are far less worthy than chooks and piglets.”

This is modern progressivism to a tee……climate change, euthanasia, abortion are all core, sacred tenets of the evil cult of progressivism. Their central tenet is that human beings are destroyers and thus must be destroyed.

Cassie, everyone except for them of course.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 13, 2022 7:26 pm

Kev

Are you like Numbers, just being contrary to initiate debate?

No, it really is that mong in the membranes.

To be fair, life has been hard since the floods made the basement unusable and its had to shift accommodation.
To make ends meet its had to resort to motivational speaking for income

rosie
rosie
March 13, 2022 7:27 pm

Grigless spent weeks arguing that the high court 7 nil didn’t return Cardinal Pell to a state of Innocence either.
At least he’s consistent.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 13, 2022 7:27 pm

Re Rolfe & the NT police going through all his body cam, texts & emails.
They do realise that singling out an employee like this is illegal don’t they?
Or are police exempt from IR laws & legal precedents?
Or just NT police?

rosie
rosie
March 13, 2022 7:28 pm

And driving slowly in the slow lane, there oughta be a law.
I bet Sancho has a caravan he’s not telling us about.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 13, 2022 7:31 pm

Dickless Ed

Nail scissors, he didn’t even need a stitch.

Do try to keep up. Surgical scissors, according to evidence given in court (which you have previously assured us is always accurate).

Possibly stolen during the events which led to the nursing staff being withdrawn. Those events might indeed even have contributed to his death.

Roger
Roger
March 13, 2022 7:32 pm

French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz reported that Vladimir Putin showed no willingness to end the war after a phone call between the leaders (overnight) in which they renewed a call for a ceasefire and negotiations.

If only they’d been as keen to hold Ukraine to the Minsk II Protocol we wouldn’t be here.

If we escape a major war at this point it’ll be by the skin of our teeth.

I don’t think the West has been as poorly served by its leaders and their advisers since the buld up to WWI.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 13, 2022 7:35 pm

Oh, I’m sure there are others worse still, but that Singer still gets lauded as a, ‘rightly influential ethicist’, and hasn’t fallen on his face in desperate repentance, means he’s also selling the idea that fame, fortune & respect await those who’ll continue his ‘work’ with the same gusto.

Is he still lauding the virtues of rooting dogs?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 13, 2022 7:36 pm

rosiesays:
March 13, 2022 at 7:27 pm
Grigless spent weeks arguing that the high court 7 nil didn’t return Cardinal Pell to a state of Innocence either.
At least he’s consistent
ly wrong.

Fixed for you.

Crossie
Crossie
March 13, 2022 7:38 pm

Purge the top three layers + the Minister responsible.
I mean that – there must be consequences for this behaviour.

The same for the bureaucrats and ministers who were in charge of the floods debacle.

Daughter tells me that she has seen engineering types measuring and making notes in one flood area which she presumes will go into a report that will be tabled, filed and ultimately ignored.

Gab
Gab
March 13, 2022 7:38 pm

BREAKING: As many as 12 missiles have been fired toward the U.S. consulate in Iraq’s northern city of Irbil, Iraqi security officials said. A U.S. defense official said missiles had been launched at the city from neighboring Iran.

What the F is going on?

Gab
Gab
March 13, 2022 7:39 pm

US: Missiles fired from Iran hit near US consulate in Iraq
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
43 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (AP) — As many as 12 missiles struck near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Sunday, in what a U.S. defense official and an Iraqi official said was a strike launched from neighboring Iran.

No injuries were reported in the attack, which marked a significant escalation between the U.S. and Iran. Hostility between the longtime foes has often played out in Iraq, whose government is allied with both countries.

The Iraqi official in Baghdad initially said several missiles had hit the U.S. consulate in Irbil and that it was the target of the attack. Later, Lawk Ghafari, the head of Kurdistan’s foreign media office, said none of the missiles had struck the U.S. facility but that areas around the compound had been hit.

For four years the Demrats were baying at the moon saying Trump would start a war.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 13, 2022 7:39 pm

LOL, mole.
Matt Foley.
What a professional Phil Hartman is, not breaking character.
Spade is pissing himself.

Gab
Gab
March 13, 2022 7:42 pm

So while the Yanks are sending troops and munitions to Ukraine, the Iranians start a war on another front.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
March 13, 2022 7:44 pm

Constable Rolfe conducted himself well in a sad and sorry situation.

I’d be proud to serve with him.

Unlike the NT police commissioner.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 13, 2022 7:46 pm

As part of the Vienna negotiations, Iran & Russia are going to have a trade “corridor”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 7:46 pm

I was a member of vicpol (not HP) and rarely gave a ticket for road offences but in your case I would’ve given a hamburger with the lot

Exactly the attitude which has taken VikPol to where they are right now.
Almost universally hated by the public.
As for your “hamburger with the lot” I have the wherewithall to defend that shit in Court and, after my front and rear dash-cam was played in Court, your hamburger would be handed back to you with your arse on a plate.
The days of making shit up are over, with motorists having the ability to provide certifiable evidence of what really happened. You never actually articulated from my account what laws you think had been broken.
And your dad was on the old Accident Appreciation Squad, eh? The blokes who rolled into our town in the ’80’s within four hours of the local Plod crashing into a young blokes car (pissed) and turning him into a quad?
Demanded Plod’s blood test from the night nurse at 4:00 am (listed as “Sergeant Plod’s property” on the dodgy release) and which promptly disappeared. Then fudged the skidmark measures to give a neat estimated speed of 68 in a 75 zone.
And as for “going the man” with St Ruth, give me a break.
He never dishes up personal insults ever, huh?

MatrixTransform
March 13, 2022 7:46 pm

Frank’s inability to merge correctly and …

beautifully verballed … as is sancho’s MO

Merging incorrectly?
As we came to the merge point and it was apparent he wasn’t moving over I slowed …

and relativised spazz chuck in response

bing-fucking-bong

LoL

Beertruk
Beertruk
March 13, 2022 7:48 pm

Round figures?
None.
The guy is a loose cannon.
Sure, he beat a Murder Charge, but he can’t realistically be sent out to police Aborigines again, so that means a Desk Job in Darwin somewhere.
Imagine turning up for work at the Coffee n’ Donut Express
at 7:59 am and finding out who your new workmate is?

Ed Knob, senior prosecutor.
All the awareness of an omeba.

P
P
March 13, 2022 7:48 pm

Breaking911 @Breaking911 · Mar 12
Pres. Biden on sending offensive equipment to Ukraine:
“Just understand, don’t kid yourself. No matter what you all say. That’s called World War III. OK? Let’s get it straight here guys—that old expression, don’t kid a kidder.”

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1502368923232178177

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 7:49 pm

rosiesays:

March 13, 2022 at 7:28 pm

And driving slowly in the slow lane, there oughta be a law.
I bet Sancho has a caravan he’s not telling us about.

That’s actionable!!

Beertruk
Beertruk
March 13, 2022 7:49 pm

:amoeba.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 7:50 pm

and relativised spazz chuck in response

Quite a vivid imagination.
I was laughing at the dick from the moment he lost his rag until he became a smoke-smudge in my mirror.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 13, 2022 7:51 pm

Grigless spent weeks arguing that the high court 7 nil didn’t return Cardinal Pell to a state of Innocence either.
At least he’s consistent.

Completely different commenter.
He was correct though.
But, since Pell has forgiven those who were indebted to him, why don’t you give it a rest too?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 7:52 pm

Crossiesays:

March 13, 2022 at 7:23 pm

Who would want to be a policeman in the NT after this.

Or anywhere except Victoria.

For all the wrong reasons.

Roger
Roger
March 13, 2022 7:52 pm

So while the Yanks are sending troops and munitions to Ukraine, the Iranians start a war on another front.

Difficult to say who’s responsible atm. It wouldn’t be in the Iranian’s interests to do it as they’re currently negotiating a nuclear deal with the Biden administration. Then again, who can predict what they might do?

Which goes a great way to explaining why the Arabs rebuffed Joe’s request for them to pump more oil. In fact, they wouldn’t even take his phone call this week.

Meanwhile, Japan has just aggressively reasserted its claims to the Kuril Islands, which Russia presently holds.

May you live in interesting times. And have Anthony Blinken as US SoS.

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 7:53 pm

Neil Oliver Outlines Google Moral Relativism and the Media Approved Hatred Against Russians
March 12, 2022 | Sundance | 78 Comments

Neil Oliver takes the opportunity of his weekend monologue to put the context of recent government events into a framework of history. Oliver eloquently reflects on our current condition, yet far too few people can see it.

As he looks from where he is, Oliver can see we are in a new world order kind of place. A place where government, big tech social discussion platforms, and the mindful authorities in charge of directing our focus, have decided in their unilateral magnanimity, to dust off the moral relativism tools, use the fine-tuning mechanism, and target our attention so that we hate the Russians.

Like most of us, Neil Oliver refuses to give the powers that be access to that place in his mind where he determines right from wrong. Instead, knowing how these same moral relativists have just used COVID to create harm, that has yet to be appropriately quantified, Oliver stands firm with the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and says, “fuck off.” But he says it in a nice way for television. WATCH:
[at link below
(more…)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/12/neil-oliver-outlines-google-moral-relativism-and-the-media-approved-hatred-against-russians/

MatrixTransform
March 13, 2022 7:58 pm

What the F is going on?

youse know what’s going on …

chrisl
chrisl
March 13, 2022 8:00 pm

Dean Wallis (ex Essendon footballer) has a heart attack. Age 52. Survived .

MatrixTransform
March 13, 2022 8:01 pm

I was laughing at the dick from the moment he lost his rag until he became a smoke-smudge in my mirror.

and I wonder what yr wife thinks of your ‘driving’

like, ‘do you think my life would have been different if I’d married a better driver?’

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 13, 2022 8:02 pm

So while the Yanks are sending troops and munitions to Ukraine, the Iranians start a war on another front.

The US hasn’t said a word, so either they are still trying to work out who fired it, they know who fired it, or Russia gave them a friendly warning to be nice, who knows?

rosie
rosie
March 13, 2022 8:05 pm

Give what a rest?

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 13, 2022 8:06 pm

Dean Wallis (ex Essendon footballer) has a heart attack. Age 52. Survived .

Peptides.

rosie
rosie
March 13, 2022 8:06 pm

I’ve never once suggested Cardinal Pell seek vengeance against his persecutors.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 13, 2022 8:07 pm

WAPlod imported a bunch of Pommy fuzz years ago. If WA had an Opposition it would be an interesting Parliamentary question to find out the total relocation cost and how many are still in the Force. Talk about queue jumpers.

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 8:08 pm

🙂 …

“candy says:
March 13, 2022 at 6:40 pm

Assuming we are allowed to have conspiracy theories my particular conspiracy theory is that US entities/politicians have been doing “business” with Ukraine government about the bio warfare factories and perhaps other nasty things and doing deals with the Ukraine government, both sides profiting. The Ukrainians are getting money to arm themselves as they have been preparing for this war for years and not just suddenly had weapons and strategies as of 2 weeks ago. It’s been a long time in planning.
Certain Ukrainian entities and certain American entities have been in cahoots for years. Just a theory.”

… 🙂

rosie
rosie
March 13, 2022 8:10 pm

I don’t know Sancho, seems to me there is an emerging picture of a bloke in his mid seventies, five foot three and a half, in Mr Magoo glasses driving an old Holden in a seat that has somehow sunken so he has difficulty seeing over the steering wheel.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Doesn’t take long to get through a page of the Cat when Ed Case posts so much.
Scroll past easily becomes an instinctive reflex.
Ratio of Ed Case dribble posts to sensible is 100:0
Sancho is rapidly heading in the same direction.
Ratio of drivel to sane posts is approaching 20:1

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 13, 2022 8:11 pm

Cowboys played Sweet Caroline too soon.

JC
JC
March 13, 2022 8:12 pm

rosie says:
March 13, 2022 at 8:06 pm

I’ve never once suggested Cardinal Pell seek vengeance against his persecutors.

That’s noble of you, Rosie. I’d go as far as suggesting the worst instigators ought to be facing a capital crime. They tried to destroy his remaining years. In cases like this an eye for an eye is gay. It’s a life for an eye in my opinion.

rosie
rosie
March 13, 2022 8:13 pm

Who puts the car into neutral as he approach red lights to save on petrol.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 8:14 pm

‘bern at 7:23.
Yes, I must admit I don’t religiously tag all writing credits.
I guess I am a fanbois of Larry David and Dave Chappelle for the same reason although they differ in style.
They both call out PC bullshit.
Chappelle hits people right between the eyes with it and leaves no doubt.
David is far more subtle in his parody of LA life. I’ll bet half the people he is having a swipe at don’t even know they are under the spotlight.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 13, 2022 8:15 pm

David is far more subtle in his parody of LA life. I’ll bet half the people he is having a swipe at don’t even know they are under the spotlight.

100% agree.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 13, 2022 8:16 pm

JC – time for some Gimp-style plier wielding n******s for the Victoriastan justice system.

JC
JC
March 13, 2022 8:18 pm

Oh look, it’s driller telling others to scroll but doesn’t appear to practice what he preaches. Mr. Ed is actually better value than Driller and that’s saying a lot. The fucking idiot.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 13, 2022 8:18 pm

Or was it pipe wielding?

Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 8:19 pm

I’ve been contemplating as to why the left in 2022 is pro-war, pro-censorship, pro-establishment and pro-authority, all of which would have been unthinkable two decades ago, and then I realised that it’s because they’ve won the war, they don’t have to hide anymore, they now control virtually all MSM outlets, corporations, bureaucracies, academia, education, entertainment and social media.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Dick Pussy was definitely ahead of the curve regards how to handle VicPlod.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 8:19 pm

rosiesays:

March 13, 2022 at 8:10 pm

I don’t know Sancho, seems to me there is an emerging picture of a bloke in his mid seventies, five foot three and a half, in Mr Magoo glasses driving an old Holden in a seat that has somehow sunken so he has difficulty seeing over the steering wheel.

I’d like to say that’s actionable, but I have to acknowledge that Rosie’s counsel may have a degree of success running a truth defence.

rosie
rosie
March 13, 2022 8:19 pm

I wasn’t being noble JC, I was really just, foolishly I know, responding to griged’s bizarre and irrelevant demand I never mention Cardinal Pell because Cardinal Pell isn’t doing x or y which I never said he should anyhow.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 13, 2022 8:21 pm

So while the Yanks are sending troops and munitions to Ukraine, the Iranians start a war on another front.

Maybe the US can sink half the Iranian fleet in a day.
Oh wait that was Reagan.
Joe will probably give them $100 billion.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 13, 2022 8:21 pm
Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 8:21 pm

“I’ve never once suggested Cardinal Pell seek vengeance against his persecutors.”

You’re a better person than I am. I won’t mention names (we all know who they are) however I feel strongly that they should all be publicly hanged, drawn and quartered.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 8:22 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:

March 13, 2022 at 8:19 pm

Dick Pussy was definitely ahead of the curve regards how to handle VicPlod.

You mean by refusing to take “a hamburger with the lot” charge sheet from some jerk in jodhpurs and jackboots?

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 13, 2022 8:26 pm

Or was it pipe wielding?

You coulda been The Gimp, Bear.
I reckon you woulda been a better Gimp.

rosie
rosie
March 13, 2022 8:27 pm

No, just trying to be realistic re age and lack of financial resources to do what should have been done.

Megan
Megan
March 13, 2022 8:28 pm

I hope I have made an adequate contribution.

We are an equal opportunity contributor of stupid at the Cat. Some more than others.

Yes, DickEd, I mean you. The utter tosh you are spewing about Zac Rolfe is world championship standard. Keep it up, I’m sure you can do much better with a bit more training.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 13, 2022 8:29 pm

Pell has forgiven these people.
Try to take a leaf out of his book.

JC
JC
March 13, 2022 8:30 pm

Matt Ridley , former Economist Editor is always great value.

The Queen has suffered ‘mild, cold-like symptoms’ from her Covid-19 infection, according to Buckingham Palace. The wording reminds us that, except in the very vulnerable, the common cold is always and everywhere a mild disease. There are 200 kinds of virus that cause colds and they hardly ever debilitate healthy people, let alone kill them. Yet we were recently told by the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) that ‘it is a common misconception that “viruses mutate to cause less severe disease”’. If that is the case, how did all common colds become mild — and why would Covid not do the same?

As somebody with a background in evolutionary biology, I knew that Nervtag’s claim (which bizarrely cited myxomatosis, a flea-borne disease of rabbits, to support its argument) was misleading. Surely they were aware that, mostly due to the work of Professor Paul Ewald, the dominant belief in evolutionary theory about disease virulence is that it depends on the mode of transmission? Though sometimes lethal at first, respiratory diseases do evolve to become milder, while sexually transmitted, waterborne or insect-borne diseases (such as myxomatosis) don’t.

And ‘evolve’ is the right word, not ‘mutate’. The way medical scientists talk about evolution is sometimes alarmingly naive, as if random mutation is what drives it. No, no, a thousand times no: it’s selection. For example, I took a train this week, putting me at risk of catching Covid from a fellow passenger. But if two other people had been planning to travel on the same train, one with mild omicron and the other with severe delta, the latter would have been more likely to change their mind and stay home because of feeling unwell. That’s selection. The fiercest enemy of a virus is another virus. Omicron ousted delta at least partly because people with mild symptoms were more likely to go to work or parties (or not notice they were ill) than people with severe ones.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/breathe-easy-how-respiratory-viruses-evolve-to-become-milder

rosie
rosie
March 13, 2022 8:30 pm

I agree Cassie, quite a few that I’d have been pleased to see have the experience of a few years in maximum security, a complete loss of financial resources and public reputation.

JC
JC
March 13, 2022 8:31 pm

Ed Case says:
March 13, 2022 at 8:29 pm

Pell has forgiven these people.
Try to take a leaf out of his book.

Only God forgives, Mr. Ed. Watch the movie.

Zipster
Zipster
March 13, 2022 8:31 pm

Maybe the US can sink half the Iranian fleet in a day.
Oh wait that was Reagan.
Joe will probably give them $100 billion.

remember 10% for the big guy

rosie
rosie
March 13, 2022 8:32 pm

Ed doesn’t believe actions should have consequences.

JC
JC
March 13, 2022 8:34 pm

Ridley.
Wow, I never knew there were 100 types of “the cold”.

There are four coronaviruses that cause common colds and all are mild. About half of all colds are caused by rhinoviruses, of which there are around 100 types. None is lethal. That cannot be a coincidence. If mutation can make a disease more dangerous, why have rhinoviruses never turned into killers? As Niall Shanks and Rebecca Pyles put it in a 2007 paper titled ‘Evolution and medicine: the long reach of “Dr Darwin”’: ‘The rhinovirus works its evolutionary mischief by keeping its host mobile — and hence typically in contact with other susceptible persons.’ It achieves this by, for example, staying in the nasal mucosa, and not invading the bloodstream.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 13, 2022 8:34 pm

Only God forgives

You’re a bit confused on that one, that’s assuming you’re a Christian.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 13, 2022 8:34 pm

We are an equal opportunity contributor of stupid at the Cat. Some more than others.

It takes a village to raise an idiot.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 13, 2022 8:36 pm

Ed doesn’t believe actions should have consequences.

Ed believes that everyone ought to mind their own business.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 13, 2022 8:38 pm

Gabsays:
March 13, 2022 at 7:42 pm
So while the Yanks are sending troops and munitions to Ukraine, the Iranians start a war on another front.

Is it coincidence that at present, Russia (Russia!!!!) is representing the US in negotiations about the Iranian nuclear program, and Russia will benefit from diverting the attention of the US? I doubt it.

Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 8:38 pm

Before forgiveness there must be justice…and a public hanging. Then I might forgive what was done to Cardinal George Pell and Zachary Rolfe.

P
P
March 13, 2022 8:40 pm

A couple of days ago the Gospel Reading at Mass was Matthew 6:9-14.
It made me think at the time how easy it is to read or recite the ‘Our Father’ or ‘Lord’s Prayer’, yet how difficult it is to really pray it.

JC
JC
March 13, 2022 8:40 pm

I am animist, with certain qualifiers, Mr. Ed.

Stop annoying everyone one.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 13, 2022 8:42 pm

I heard a funny story about XXX, an eight year old boy, son of my cleaning lady’s brother. He was coming home with his dad, very upset, and shouting that it was his body and he wasn’t going to have anybody doing anything to it. He’s done some sort of sex ed course at school, and he shouted out all the words he’d learnt. At full volume, so the neighbours could hear.

Turns out he didn’t want his toenails cut.

JC
JC
March 13, 2022 8:42 pm

Very true.

@mattwridley
A virus has won when it essentially harmless but ultimate contagious.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 13, 2022 8:47 pm

They do realise that singling out an employee like this is illegal don’t they?
Or are police exempt from IR laws & legal precedents?

Public Service Departments tend to have provisions within their governing legislation and regulations, that permit their appointed investigating officers carte blanche to take any action they so please in relation to any internal disciplinary complaint. So long as they can demonstrate they followed all the as-written requirements for ‘due process.’

In simple terms, if they can prove that their paperwork is in order and they followed the procedures, they can do what they like and the respondent has no recourse or method of redress within the system.

If someone in power picks sides against the respondent despite being unable to substantiate the charges against them, as happened to a younger Rex in the WA Health Department some years ago, you have little option but to leave and either make the rubble bounce (my abusers and their supporting Executive Director were sanctioned after my resignation when my OHS complaints about their bullying were finally processed), or pursue them via legal action or through the appropriate Ombudsman/Tribunal.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 13, 2022 8:48 pm

Ed believes that everyone ought to mind their own business.

A pity he doesn’t practice what he preaches.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 13, 2022 8:49 pm

Ed believes that everyone ought to mind their own business.

Ed needs to practice what he preaches more often, then…

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 13, 2022 8:49 pm

The Arrest was foolhardy and it put his colleagues at significant risk.

Arresting someone who attacks police with an axe is “foolhardy”?

How did the arrest put his colleagues “at significant risk”?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 13, 2022 8:49 pm

Snap!

rosie
rosie
March 13, 2022 8:50 pm

Question
If you were a younger person with a mortgage would you be opting for fixed or variable interest rates right now?

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 13, 2022 8:57 pm

I accidentally saw half time at a super rugby match.

It seems that have replaced the ‘bad’ pretty girls in short skirts with ‘good’ obese inlander men in grass skirts.

We have reached another civilisational low.

JC
JC
March 13, 2022 8:59 pm

Busy Friday afternoon in Jeddda’s public square after lunchtime prayers.

Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day in largest mass execution in decades

What do they do with all the spare heads?

Frank
Frank
March 13, 2022 9:00 pm

Or was it pipe wielding?

I thought they had blow torches.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 13, 2022 9:00 pm

Ed believes that everyone ought to mind their own business.

Ed doesn’t understand the difference between private forgiveness, which is Pell’s business and no-one else’s, and a citizen’s right (and one might say duty) to call out stinking rotten corruption in the institutions of the jurisdiction of which the citizen is, as of right, a political participant.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 13, 2022 9:03 pm

Someone needs to tell Cameron Green that his role in the test team is a no 6 batsman who bowls a bit, not a no 5 bowler who bats a bit.

srr
srr
March 13, 2022 9:06 pm

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Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The Premier of NSW should sack this person, right now.
Commissioner of the SES – she refused defence force offers to help, & repositioned (a fancy word used by the ponytail caste instead of “moved”) rescue gear & stuff away from Lismore just before the town went under.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The Premier of NSW should also sack, tonight, this rooster.
Commissioner of “Resilience NSW” (whatever that means) apparently some super-dept with a massive budget, which is supposed to anticipate natural disasters & so on.

They’re paid the big bucks to help the people of NSW, not to stuff everybody’s lives.

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 13, 2022 9:18 pm

dover0beach says:
March 13, 2022 at 1:28 pm

Watching ‘Ukraine on Fire’ atm. So far so good.

That’s a very informative documentary, the depraved depths of the political machinations is staggering.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 13, 2022 9:22 pm

The latest official figures from the UK Health Security Agency show that triple vaccinated people aged 30-70 have now lost at least 70% of their immune system

The figures are about case rates.
They’re utterly unimportant.
If the figures for hospitalisation from covid, ICU admissions from covid and deaths from covid look similar, then it will be time for the vaxxed to worry.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 9:24 pm

Cassie, I mentioned I had the misfortune to visit the electorate of Wankworth over the last couple of weeks.
One particular night we were sitting around with six other alleged conservatives when one of them went the “Pell is as guilty as sin” line.
As soon as I pointed out that there were seven High Court who disagreed they attempted to do a subject change without double-clutching.
Fuck it, I thought.
You don’t just drop glib libel like that and get to walk away.
So I gave them chapter and verse about how the HC basically said not only was the verdict unsound beyond reasonable doubt, but that the events as described by the prosecution were practically impossible, and also that the Victorian DPP attempted to change the original timeline presented at two trials and a Victorian Supreme Court appeal to salvage a result.
Two at the table were lawyers and they started to drop their heads at that point.
Furthermore, the HC said they didn’t have to form a view on the truthfulness of Witness J – think about what they are really saying there.
I asked how many knew the erstwhile unemployable Witness J had landed a non-descript job for a Melbourne council which had Simon Overland as CEO.
The pathetic responses followed.
“Oh what about the boys in the pool”.
What? The DPP didn’t even take that to committal. Why? Because the two involved in that were convicted drug dealers and wife beaters respectively and have been trying every shakedown in Ballarat for twenty years. Richter was going to eat them for breakfast. So they got benched.
They then raised the cover-ups.
Oh, you mean the ones signed off by Ronnie Mulkearns, the oh, so progressive and left leaning Bishop of Ballarat at the time?
The parting shot.
“Ooooh. But he’s arrogantly and not very nice.”
Yeah, right. Maybe so. Firstly that is not a crime. And secondly he has never accused an innocent man of a crime he did not commit. For good measure I threw in the one about the multiple civil suits which were “imminent” two years ago.
Apparently I fucked up a nice dinner party. This summarises inner city Liberals perfectly.
I surprised myself how easily I rattled off indisputable facts for ten minutes straight.
How could I do that?
h/t C.L. (and others here) and the likes of Gerard Henderson and Keith Windshuttle for their clear concise writings on the subject.

miltonf
miltonf
March 13, 2022 9:31 pm

Great post Sancho- the Eastern Suburbs is so Michael Trumble

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 13, 2022 9:32 pm

The latest official figures from the UK Health Security Agency show that triple vaccinated people aged 30-70 have now lost at least 70% of their immune system

Although to be fair, showing that the case numbers are like this shows that Dan Andrews’ petty-vindictive psychopathic viciousness against the unvaxxed is anti-scientific voodoo-ridden superstitious nonsense, and totalitarian thuggery of the type that has led to other brutal tyrants doing the piano wire dance.
NADT

Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 9:41 pm

“Sancho Panzersays:
March 13, 2022 at 9:24 pm”

Kol hakavod SP.

“The parting shot.
“Ooooh. But he’s arrogantly and not very nice.””

Oh yes, always the desperate last shot of the “hate Pell” lynch mobs. How many times have I heard similar. One I’ve frequently hear when cretins are losing the Pell argument with me….they then drop the “he’s aloof” line and then they cop my unpleasant reaction to that dribble, which is me raising my voice, clearing my throat and stating very clearly that being aloof is not a fucking crime and being aloof doesn’t mean you’re guilty of a fucking crime and if being aloof is a fucking crime then let’s start by arresting every fucking aloof person on the planet. That usually ends the conversation.

Nothing gets me worked up like the Pell saga, because from day one I knew it was a lynching…the stench was nauseating. It is Australia’s Affaire Dreyfus.

Dot
Dot
March 13, 2022 9:43 pm

He is expected to be formally issued the notices through Police Professional Standards Command, headed up by Assistant Commissioner Bruce Porter, for also speaking to the media without first obtaining permission on the steps of the Supreme Court, shortly after his not guilty verdict – in which he had said he was giving that space to Kumanjayi …

Oh do fuck off – as bern says, this is victimisation.

If what Rolfe said is a disciplinary offence, then you basically can’t say *hello, no comment, have a nice day*.

Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 9:43 pm

” with six other alleged conservatives”

I bet some will vote for Allegra Da Big Spender. The Liberal party, if it has any future, needs to walk away from this shallow electorate.

Dot
Dot
March 13, 2022 9:44 pm

It looks like the Chinese Fentanyl War is working…”

Ah yes. Who are China allied to?

Russia.

Russia supports the Chinese Fentanyl War.

Dot
Dot
March 13, 2022 9:44 pm

feelthebernsays:
March 13, 2022 at 7:23 pm
Larry David is the best comedy writer in the USA, daylight second, Dave Schapelle third.

You’d be surprised how much Colin Quinn & Louis CK have written for others over the last 30 years.
Norm Macdonald got so much credit for his delivery (rightfully so) but so much was written by Colin Quinn.

WHO WRITES THESE JOKES???!

Cassie of Sydney
March 13, 2022 9:46 pm

” because from day one I knew it was a lynching…the stench was nauseating”

I should also add that the stench was nauseating around the Rolfe charges and trial in the NT.

And the stench is nauseating around an upcoming trial in the ACT.

Dot
Dot
March 13, 2022 9:47 pm

rosiesays:
March 13, 2022 at 8:13 pm
Who puts the car into neutral as he approach red lights to save on petrol.

The B Ec degree instilled enlightenment era rationality and Scottish miserliness (thanks, Mr Smith).

Look up hypermiling on you tube.

More than 5.5 l/100 km in a 2 litre car pisses me off. The Prado, it’s a write off though. Will be driving the TDI People’s Car for a while.

Dot
Dot
March 13, 2022 9:48 pm

two things that most men won’t admit to, being a bad lover and being a bad driver

Oh baby, I knew, I just didn’t care.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 13, 2022 9:48 pm

You won’t be getting another invite Thancho.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 13, 2022 9:50 pm

miltonfsays:
March 13, 2022 at 9:31 pm
Great post Sancho- the Eastern Suburbs is so Michael Trumble

And for that reason, any future party claiming to be conservative should ignore them. Look to the solid tradies and rural classes for the support that will give at least the opportunity for a national resurgence.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 13, 2022 9:51 pm

Cassie and miltonf.
What is funny (but sad) is that one of them was having a sook about his good mate Alan Tudge being stitched up (I think the report exonerating him came out that week).
I asked him later why he and his wife were so keen to put the boots into Pell when Tudge had copped a much milder stitch up with less dire results.
I think I might have got through to him.
But, seriously, if they are a cross-section of “conservatives” in that part of town, I can see how sludge like Turnbull and Sharma rise through the party, and how the likes of Allegra Big Spender and the downhill skier get a look in.

Dot
Dot
March 13, 2022 9:51 pm

That’s noble of you, Rosie. I’d go as far as suggesting the worst instigators ought to be facing a capital crime. They tried to destroy his remaining years. In cases like this an eye for an eye is gay. It’s a life for an eye in my opinion.

I am quite serious when I say we need to punish calumniators, as well as false accusers.

In Roman times, a failed prosecutor could have a capital “K” for “KALUMINATOR” scarified and permanently pigmented onto their forehead.

I believe in toleration and mercy.

Just sack them, disbar them, take their benefits and pension.

Dot
Dot
March 13, 2022 9:52 pm

JCsays:
March 13, 2022 at 8:34 pm
Ridley.
Wow, I never knew there were 100 types of “the cold”.

Ergo, another 200 years to flatten the curve.

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